WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.400 The Downbeat on ninety seven to one the Freak. All right, thirty minutes 2 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:12.480 away, you Chube ready for Astros. Rangers need some nuggets that you can 3 00:00:12.519 --> 00:00:18.960 take to your water cooler at work. You can impress Janna. You've been 4 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:23.359 thinking about Jana a lot lately, haven't you. You know you have Rick 5 00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:29.960 or maybe your boss Luke, maybe you need to maybe you impress him. 6 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:35.159 Maybe he's not a sports nutting maybe you're not either. But you can go 7 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:38.399 up to your boss Luke and be like, hey, all right, this 8 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:41.880 is gonna be wild and tell you and you get act like you don't even 9 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:44.159 have to say that you heard it with us. That's cool if you do 10 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:47.000 want to spread the word about us, but you can just act like you 11 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:50.560 came up with it, yeah, instead of staying at the water cooler and 12 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:53.320 just you know it's awkward, Like that's getting cool out there. You know. 13 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:56.079 Whatever, the same stuff you do, We're gonna give you something good, 14 00:00:56.320 --> 00:00:59.960 have something interesting, have something to offer, have something to give Luke, 15 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:03.920 and then guess what Luke might give you that big promotion over Janna. 16 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:18.040 I feel like we've laid out She's a bitch. Mike Soroy that's an old 17 00:01:18.120 --> 00:01:23.879 Dan McDowell trick. I heard once that worked. Yeah, we're sewing the 18 00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:27.319 seeds of love today for you, or sewing the seeds of promotion. Yeah, 19 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:34.000 so use that. No more bad small talk, everyone weathered. Okay, 20 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:40.200 great, up your small talk. Just listen to Downbeat and then Yeah, 21 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:49.079 you'll have everything you need and more. You have a lot that you 22 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:53.480 don't need to tons. We're giving you what you need every morning from six 23 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.719 to ten. You just have to weed through a bunch of stuff that you 24 00:01:57.120 --> 00:02:00.959 that is completely useful, and we're sorry about that wasn't the case. Guess 25 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:05.319 what we're doing. Winging it. We're winging it. Absolutely, everyone is 26 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:08.599 winging it. We're doing our best. And so do I look like a 27 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:12.439 man that's winging it? Yes? I do, Yes, you do. 28 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:19.560 Some people that are successful they're winging it too, They just don't look like 29 00:02:19.599 --> 00:02:23.719 they're winging it all the time. You look like a sports academy. Look 30 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:28.240 at this Rangers hat cowboys. You know. I happened to go to Towny's 31 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:31.360 Small with Malki yesterday because we had to go pick up some Baby Jordan's for 32 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:38.080 him, and I strolled by the uh the popular outlet lids. You scored 33 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:43.319 that, I scored me a damn Rangers cab. Okay, that just a 34 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:47.159 Ranger's logo. That's on the other side. Nothing over here. Your hat 35 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:52.000 games, dude, coming a long way in the last two weeks. I'm 36 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:57.039 look, I'm supporting I'm Ranger ready. Yeah, yeah, my Texas, 37 00:02:57.080 --> 00:03:02.479 My Rangers. That the twenty one slow that is really good from fifteen years 38 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:07.800 ago. Hey, Danny, it's time and you have a tea hat on 39 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:14.599 too. Green. Yes, noticed that I'm supporting the mean Green. I'll 40 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:16.479 have a big game against Temple tomorrow that you can hear live here on night. 41 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:20.599 That's a Texas That's not a Texas Rangers hat. Oh, it's a 42 00:03:20.639 --> 00:03:23.039 Texas Rangers, North Texas. Yeah, yeah, that's what I thought. 43 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:29.560 Yes, it's beautiful. Can I admit when I moved here in like six 44 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:34.280 I got here and you know, started listening to radio whatever, and I 45 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:39.400 just respectfully say that I actively know that that's the first time I heard that 46 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:46.919 University of North Texas existed. M h. I mean it's fun. I 47 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:49.680 mean, I'm sure that you know there's some college in Florida that you were 48 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:53.120 you know, he did they dominated Florida International in Florida Atlantic. For all 49 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:58.240 those years, I barely know those two existed. So I'm just saying you 50 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:04.039 haven't made your mark who me or the schools both, And now you consider 51 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:10.800 it's weird to just start taking shots at our partners now, But now I've 52 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:15.000 learned how big they are and how influential and important areasity of North Texas is, 53 00:04:15.040 --> 00:04:18.560 and we are proud to carry their games every Saturday here on night won 54 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:24.519 the freak well one of the top jazz programs in the entire world. Of 55 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:30.399 course, I've learned that featuring great people like Nora Jones, Roy Orbison and 56 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:35.879 Dave Matthew's Ben saxophonist Jeff Coffin. So we'll see you guys out there tomorrow, 57 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:40.399 you and t I'm not gonna be there, but I hope they get 58 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:44.720 the big win against Temple. Let's buckle up here. The most important thing 59 00:04:44.720 --> 00:05:20.879 in the world, Mike, Mike. Here's Mike, Well, normally the 60 00:05:20.920 --> 00:05:25.319 most important thing in the world. We bounce back and forth, big mine, 61 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:29.399 and we wanted to make it. I guess when we came up with 62 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:32.319 it. Yeah, whatever, the big story is right, and then sometimes 63 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:36.319 we you know, make that a joke, and it's just something local that 64 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:40.439 you know, But sometimes if it's a big natural disaster, then it is, 65 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:43.160 you know, it's we bounce back and forth. Sometimes it's a waterslide 66 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:48.000 wedgie, Yeah, the world's biggest wedgie that that can fall into this place. 67 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:51.360 But the truth is, for long, over a week, it's been 68 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:56.759 this situation in the Middle East is by far the most important thing in the 69 00:05:56.759 --> 00:06:00.199 world, and we've not really touched upon it. We we discuss why we 70 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:03.600 hadn't because we're stupid. Yeah, because we're stupid, And we could even 71 00:06:03.639 --> 00:06:09.040 begin to do the situation justice by talking about it. But I kind of 72 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:11.439 want to take an angle on it because I will, you know, every 73 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:14.920 night I read about it, and I wake up this morning and that's all 74 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:19.399 I read about. And to ignore it is not exactly a service either, 75 00:06:19.399 --> 00:06:23.959 even to like regular people, you know, like us. And it's sort 76 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:27.639 of the question of is it okay to not really understand it? Is it 77 00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:30.480 okay to have the knowledge of it that we currently have, I think, 78 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:33.839 and I think the answer is yes, Like I think it's okay not to 79 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:39.519 fully understand it. And our current world it's weird because everyone on Twitter, 80 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:44.519 which can be a whole different conversation about how they pass information onto us. 81 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:46.439 And maybe it was a better source of information a couple of years ago, 82 00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:50.600 and you know, or maybe they're refining it perfectly. I don't really know 83 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:56.600 that answer either, but it the way we get our news makes it difficult 84 00:06:56.600 --> 00:07:00.160 to fully understand something as complex as this what's going on, and I do 85 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:04.560 not at all understand it. But when you see, like this morning, 86 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:10.160 the latest news is Israel is telling one point one million people to leave northern 87 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:15.759 Gaza because we're coming. And this is one point one people, many of 88 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:18.319 which are you know, families and children. And I saw something about the 89 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:24.759 percentage of children in the Gaza strip being incredibly high. Boy, what what 90 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:29.600 maybe thirty or forty percent or something versus the world average which is eighteen percent 91 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:30.920 something like that. I don't have the numbers right in front of me. 92 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:35.120 And Israel is so mad they're saying move out of this northern area. We 93 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:39.279 are coming, and they're amassing tanks at the border. Now I'm not in 94 00:07:39.319 --> 00:07:44.519 any position to take, you know, explain any of this, but that's 95 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:47.800 what kind of hit me, is the guilt of the security that we have 96 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:56.040 or the luxury we have of not being educated on these conflicts, and is 97 00:07:56.040 --> 00:08:03.519 that okay? And I think you're also in a unique position at what you 98 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:09.839 do for a living that we are not a political show, we're not a 99 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:13.279 political station. We are here to entertain, maybe to provide some local news 100 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:18.959 stuff like that sports, funny stuff, and to provide an alternative time. 101 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:22.879 Absolutely, because there's real stuff of which you can get in many many places 102 00:08:22.920 --> 00:08:26.759 and people you know, Like you said, news is very different than it 103 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:33.840 was when we were kids. It's quite fragmented these days, and people have 104 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:35.759 many options when it comes to where they get their news, and if they 105 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:39.759 want to hear some nuts and bolt stuff about this this conflict, this war, 106 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:46.320 then they they're probably not looking to us for that information. So by 107 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:54.240 proxy of that, it's not incumbent upon us to spend our time gaining knowledge 108 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:58.879 and understanding about this because we still have a job to do every day, 109 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:03.000 and our job is not that So there's only enough disk space in your brain 110 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:05.960 and only enough hours in the day to consume the stuff that you need to 111 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:11.039 do to effectively do your job. Now, the conundrum, if you will, 112 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:16.600 is we probably need to know a little bit about this because it's pretty 113 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:22.759 damn big. Yeah, and we could be at the tipping point of involvement 114 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:28.799 where this country it does become local news. I've got a story that's coming 115 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:31.600 up in ding New's morning news. It has a very local connection to what's 116 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:37.039 going on over there that'll blow your mind. So it's a balance, man, 117 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:43.080 And I just don't know how much of this stuff is for our own 118 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:46.679 personal understanding or how much we need to even investigate more of it to talk 119 00:09:46.720 --> 00:09:50.000 about on the air. I just don't know, because I don't think that's 120 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:52.039 really what our job is. No. I agree, but you're right when 121 00:09:52.039 --> 00:09:56.200 it gets as big as this is, and it was huge from the minute 122 00:09:56.200 --> 00:09:58.840 it started. But then they experts on this would argue, this has been 123 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:03.879 huge for decades and decades, and this has been what have you been looking 124 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:07.120 at in effect thousands of years? Yeah you know, yeah, I mean 125 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:13.639 this stuff goes back multiple centuries. I have a handful of Jewish friends in 126 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:20.200 Dallas, but in Miami I have a ton and this I mean either directly 127 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:26.480 impacts them or directly impacts one degree of separation their family that lives there, 128 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:30.559 you know, lives in Israel, and it feels like a bit of a 129 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:35.120 disservice to just completely ignore it because it's such a polarizing and incredibly important topic. 130 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:41.159 And look, this has happened. We've seen it happen on our soil. 131 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:50.360 We've seen debate and conflict over interpretation of religion and God and the extreme 132 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:58.000 levels that some people will do to I don't know, to make to hammer 133 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:03.200 their point home to defend that belief. The extremes that that certain groups and 134 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:09.200 certain people will go to is out of this world. It's unfathomable. But 135 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:13.440 we're dealing with here are people, you know, it's not necessarily. Look, 136 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:16.960 the collateral damage in this really doesn't have to do with the religious aspect 137 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:24.399 of it. It's about Palestinians and israelis not about Jewish people and Muslims talking 138 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:28.440 about human beings. And that's the thing to me that I find most tragic, 139 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:31.960 Like I just want to push the whole God thing out of it and 140 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:35.759 just look at this as a humanitarian situation. Well it's such and dude, 141 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:41.759 there's no you can't win because innocence are going to die. Innocence have died, 142 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:46.000 Innocence are dying every day. And now that Israel is making this push, 143 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:50.320 this retaliation push. Innocence are going to die. On the other side, 144 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:54.559 other nationalities are going to perish, and a lot of them will be 145 00:11:54.679 --> 00:11:58.759 children. Yes, it does matter us too, because there are Americans over 146 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:01.360 there too as well. Yes, look at it that way, Yeah, 147 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:05.320 because that is very easy to go. Well, it's not us, so 148 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:07.799 it doesn't matter. There are a lot of Americans over there too well. 149 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:11.759 And now I feel guilt for that. For man, but what what if 150 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:16.159 I spend every hour of this weekend educating myself on this conflict? What really 151 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:20.559 changes other than maybe in this job, I could provide a little more context 152 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:24.279 for information, but don't learn the language of it. A bit sure in 153 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:28.600 the history, and I'd like to be educated on things, but this is 154 00:12:28.679 --> 00:12:33.519 so complex that I feel like it's almost an impossible thing to jump into. 155 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:39.120 And really, plus we have all the instant experts on social media, yeah, 156 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:41.759 you know, who act like they've they've been all over this for so 157 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:43.600 long. So that's why the angle wanted to take is like, is it 158 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:50.120 okay not to be I mean, or even pretend to be educated on this 159 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:54.279 or god forbid an expert on it? Well, so that's a very interesting 160 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:58.039 because there's easy people and you can pick and choose information they find online and 161 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:03.879 go with it. I talked to when the Russian Ukraine War started, which 162 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:05.919 we feel like you know a little bit about it now, But back when 163 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:09.480 that started, dude, there was so much that I did not know. 164 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:13.919 There's still a lot I don't know about it. But I was doing podcasts 165 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:20.279 at the time, and I just got this professor on who's studied that region 166 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:24.840 so knew all about the conflict there, and talked to him for thirty minutes, 167 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:26.600 and by the end of it, I went, Okay, he spelled 168 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:30.000 that out for me pretty good. I'm glad I took the time to do 169 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:33.840 this, and I almost want to do this here, okay, because it's 170 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:41.039 like you need a briefing. The distinction is, though this did happen to 171 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:43.720 us in two thousand and one, and if this happened to us now, 172 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:52.120 if a militant group, a fringe militant group fired missiles into major cities of 173 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:56.000 the United States, it's all we would be talking about right now. Every 174 00:13:56.120 --> 00:14:01.080 segment would be dedicated to that. We would be getting on X to discuss 175 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:05.279 the history of their views, how they arrived to these viewpoints, how they 176 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:09.480 assembled, you know, and were able to clandestinely put this whole operation together. 177 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:15.039 We would be dissecting this every day. We would likely spend Look, 178 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:16.320 we've been through it, man. I was there in two thousand and one 179 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:20.799 at the other station when those towers fell, and for two weeks, Mikey 180 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:26.200 number one, for a week we went commercial free. We didn't even air 181 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:30.480 spots at all. It was wall to wall. I was a producer. 182 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:35.440 I'm on the phone with not knowing my ass from my elbow at that job, 183 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:41.159 calling people from universities and trying to get you know, Middle East experts 184 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:45.600 on and terrorism experts on, to just get some context. That's what we'd 185 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:48.000 be doing if it wasn't America. But because it's so far away, we 186 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:54.919 feel somewhat I don't know, I don't know, distant from it. I 187 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:58.120 guess, yeah, insulated. Yeah, well yeah, And you're right, 188 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:01.960 absolutely right, but it's not that far and there are Americans involved, and 189 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:05.840 but for why should that really be the dip tipping point? Oh, there's 190 00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:09.720 Americans there. Now I care because you're right that it's a humanitarian issue. 191 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:13.480 There's nothing quite like planes crashing into a building. Yeah, and that's insane. 192 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:18.200 But I mean, if you just take what happened last week, and 193 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:24.039 you know, if al Qaeda swooped down on paragliders into acl into Austin city 194 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:28.200 limits, I just started kidnapping and killing. I mean, I hate to 195 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:33.720 be such an idiot, but the music festival angle, really it reminded you 196 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:37.159 that because to a lot of people listening, I think most people listening are 197 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:39.759 sort of in the same category as we are. I think where you admit 198 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:41.279 that, look, I'm interested in this, I do care about this. 199 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:46.399 I'm not educated on it. I want to know more, but for lack 200 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:48.919 of a better term, it's kind of a whipping to try to educate yourself 201 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:52.440 on something that's so complex. But when you simplify it to these people are 202 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:56.600 at a music festival, well, that's something that's real normal, and they're 203 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:00.639 dancing and in the distance of a video you can see paragliders coming down. 204 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:04.919 I watched a video on how those paragliders work. That's yeah, so wild 205 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:12.399 as well. And I think unfortunately this thing with Israel telling them to clear 206 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:18.679 out of the northern portion of the Gaza Strip and Israel is zero effing around 207 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:23.679 right now. This is about to getting way way uglier and way way worse. 208 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:29.039 Now, whether that's warranted, I am not in a position to say, 209 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:33.000 but I just think we need to acknowledge this and prepare to have uh, 210 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:38.080 you know, a college professor on or somebody on next week unfortunately to 211 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:41.919 discuss it. Oh joh, I don't know. This might be too heavy, 212 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:44.759 so I don't know, but whatever, I'm gonna do it because I 213 00:16:44.759 --> 00:16:48.919 have a friend who has family and the Gaza strip and just some text messages 214 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:53.480 that happened. Okay, so they're no words to describe what's happening. We 215 00:16:53.519 --> 00:17:00.679 won't get out alive. This is what I'm sure of. This is there's 216 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:03.079 a ring of fire everywhere. Even if we told the whole world this, 217 00:17:03.400 --> 00:17:07.559 words will not describe what's happening. No one would imagine this. Gaza has 218 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:11.880 been without electricity since two o'clock in the afternoon. This is two days ago. 219 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:15.519 Of course, electricity was cut off from hospitals as well. The entire 220 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:18.839 city has been paralyzed. I mean, that is what's happening, and that 221 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:23.799 is from you know, from it from a text to a friend here. 222 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:27.119 Yeah, yeah, you know who has family there That is nuts to me, 223 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:30.720 and there are and that's what I mean. That don't make you care 224 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:33.680 about it a little bit. It does. War sucks. We all know 225 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:38.960 war sucks, and this is But imagine not supporting Hamas and being somewhere in 226 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:45.079 northern Gaza Strip as a Palestinian and you know, Israel has all the military 227 00:17:45.200 --> 00:17:49.319 might of the region and the backing of us are one of their closest allies, 228 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:53.759 which again I think is a good thing. But you're there, and 229 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:57.079 where do you go? You have nowhere to go, and there Israel saying 230 00:17:57.119 --> 00:18:00.200 we're coming, We're gonna come. Flat in the entire northern half of the 231 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:04.000 Gaza Strip. I saw you have nowhere to go, no roads, no 232 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:08.960 hospitals, no infrastructure, no electricity, no communication. I someone you know, 233 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:15.680 expert who's covering this was basically saying, even if they're trying to destroy 234 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:21.960 Hamas, the amount of civilians there makes it really easy for Hamas to hide 235 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:26.160 right as well. So it's almost like, if you're choosing to do this, 236 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:29.759 you're choosing to do something that's going to take a long time and is 237 00:18:29.799 --> 00:18:33.119 going to kill so many innocents. And did they know that? And they 238 00:18:33.119 --> 00:18:37.160 may have known that maybe they don't care and why would Hamas do this thousands 239 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:40.720 of rockets and paragladder attack on Israel. I know, why be their beliefs, 240 00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:42.480 and they have a divine right to do it, to take back their 241 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:48.440 land. But they know they're outgunned by Israel. Yeah, And does some 242 00:18:48.599 --> 00:18:52.759 us know that they have the backing of you know, the Ran or Hesbala 243 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:56.240 and all this stuff. Maybe, and they also know the optics of it 244 00:18:56.279 --> 00:18:59.400 and the cause and effect of it that they are going to lob these missiles 245 00:18:59.400 --> 00:19:03.160 in there. They know that retaliation is inevitable, and retaliation is going to 246 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:11.839 involve innocent people, children being massacred by a counter attack, and they will 247 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:15.039 champion that. Look what Israel, did you know? Yeah? The children? 248 00:19:15.319 --> 00:19:22.039 Yes, yes, good God. It's a it's a media war, 249 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:25.359 it's a political war, it's a religious war. It's a mess. It's 250 00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:30.680 a damn mess. And we are so insulated from that from that stuff. 251 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:34.200 And most people, you know, and and a lot of our citizens, 252 00:19:34.440 --> 00:19:40.400 our society in the last fifteen years has kind of been trained a good portion 253 00:19:40.519 --> 00:19:45.480 of them to look at news what is being reported on television as fake, 254 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:52.799 as a lie, as not credible and they're getting their news sources on social 255 00:19:52.839 --> 00:20:00.240 media from kind of fringe accounts that are showing maybe not the most accurate rail 256 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:03.359 of what's actually going on. So you can't win in this because the world 257 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:10.079 that we live in is so fragmented and so full of conjecture and misinformation that 258 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:12.039 you just it's like, yeah, let's just talk about Taylor Swift. It's 259 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:17.759 just easier as Americans to just talk about Travis Kelcey, which goes back to 260 00:20:17.759 --> 00:20:21.400 the question of is it okay not to fully understand this because of exactly what 261 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:25.519 you just said, because it's too hard. It's too hard. Well, 262 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:29.519 yeah, but that's two texts on two text with people. One guess is 263 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:32.400 totally agree. I had to look up what has palacedine yesterday and I have 264 00:20:32.440 --> 00:20:34.680 two college degrees, but this is this is one text I think is right, 265 00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:37.240 and this is how I try to think about things. Sometimes says the 266 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:41.279 important thing is not to know it all, but don't run away because it's 267 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:45.720 overwhelming, And one hundred percent agree with that that it is so easy to 268 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:48.079 run away from it, for sure, and I don't want to run away 269 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:51.599 from especially when we have a job that we do get to discuss things, 270 00:20:51.640 --> 00:20:55.279 and we can honestly discuss the fact that we're discussing it because we don't understand 271 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:56.880 it. And I do. Like I said, I think most of the 272 00:20:56.920 --> 00:21:00.480 people hearing this right now fall some We're into that category. Something I was 273 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:06.160 thinking about last night when I'm walking around Town East Mall with my little two 274 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:10.279 and a half year old, and we have just such a false sense of 275 00:21:10.279 --> 00:21:14.559 security about what day to day life is. You know, you're in an 276 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:18.279 air conditioned mall, There's hundreds of people walking past you at any given moment. 277 00:21:18.400 --> 00:21:22.079 Everything's safe. It was fine, we had a great time, walked 278 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:26.000 to the car, drove home, no accident, we got home alive, 279 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:30.240 went to bed, everything was great. To knock that completely off balance, 280 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:36.400 can you imagine at the time I'm at Lids buying a Ranger cap for thirty 281 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:42.000 five dollars to how American to support my baseball team. A missile comes crashing 282 00:21:42.039 --> 00:21:47.720 through that mall and we see, you know, hundreds of people just cut 283 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:51.880 in half. That's a wake up call. The people that live over there 284 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:56.720 are on edge dealing with that every day of their lives, no matter where 285 00:21:56.720 --> 00:22:00.079 they live. We just don't get it over here. Until you experience that, 286 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:04.519 until you were maybe at ground zero and saw those planes, you don't 287 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:08.599 fully have a real understanding of what that feels like and what that actually means. 288 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:12.359 So I'm one of those people. I haven't experienced a tragedy like that. 289 00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:18.720 No, it's fascinating and perhaps for the first time ever, we actually 290 00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:22.599 discussed the most important thing in the world. Congratulations, good job, down 291 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:26.160 Beat, you did it, Mike, you did it. Magic, We 292 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:27.519 did it, and we can do it all together. We can do it 293 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:33.119 all together and counting up next. Come on, everyone's really thinking about Rangers 294 00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:38.599 and astros. I mean, it's what it is, and actually I found 295 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:41.839 a ton of crap about it. And if I would have dove into this 296 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:45.279 conflict in the Middle East, I could have a ton of crap on that, 297 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:49.759 But I decided to go the baseball route. Tons of fun stuff about 298 00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:53.119 Rangers and astros. Everyone needs to know that. You can take to your 299 00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:56.160 water cooler next. I'm ninety seven to one. The freak