1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,719 my daily show prep with all of the links, become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to dpeakclendarshow dot com, make sure you 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,920 hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:28,679 much for your support. 10 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:30,559 Speaker 2: For anyone who's listening to me for franden length of 11 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:32,960 the time. Once in a while, I will comment to this, 12 00:00:33,079 --> 00:00:38,320 which is that but for that piece of paper at 13 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:40,640 the National Archives that has a bunch of signatures on 14 00:00:40,679 --> 00:00:47,240 it describing our rights endowed by our creator that are 15 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,960 limits on what government can do if at a certain point, 16 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:54,840 and I don't know where that threshold is, but if 17 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:58,880 we ever lose the respect for that, then we don't 18 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:00,920 have a country. Many people would say, you don't really, 19 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:02,719 if you don't have a border, you don't have a country. 20 00:01:02,759 --> 00:01:05,400 I mean, if you become indistinguishable from Mexico. If we 21 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:07,120 were to just get rid of the border and let 22 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:09,280 it just be a free for all, you've kind of 23 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:12,400 surrendered the country, because where do you decide what are 24 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,560 laws in Mexico? What are laws here? And do they matter? 25 00:01:14,599 --> 00:01:17,120 Which laws do you pick? Because the Constitution would be 26 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,680 a relevant decoration of independence would be a historical document. 27 00:01:19,799 --> 00:01:21,040 You just don't have a country if you don't have 28 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,680 a border. But take it a step further and say, 29 00:01:23,799 --> 00:01:30,480 if we really lose respect for that document, if we 30 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,280 lose respect for the US Constitution and it just doesn't 31 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:37,000 matter anymore, then you don't have a country either. So 32 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:40,359 why every country ultimately has just about every country on 33 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,040 the planet has failed over time. This is an experiment. 34 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,719 Is this is a kind of a renewal if you 35 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:51,040 would every July fourth, we kind of renew our lease 36 00:01:51,879 --> 00:01:54,640 on the country being a free home of the brave. 37 00:01:54,719 --> 00:01:56,840 All that we kind of renew that lease for another year. 38 00:01:56,879 --> 00:02:01,920 And we're reaching we're starting. As of Saturday, we've started 39 00:02:01,959 --> 00:02:05,640 our two hundred and fiftieth year, which is a good 40 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,400 long run. Now, most people, as Franklin's aid, are a 41 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,639 republic if you can keep it. We're trying to hold on. 42 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:14,520 But we have one party right now. And again I'm 43 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:16,639 not going to castigate the Democrats. I think the Democrats 44 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,400 are authoring their own demise. It's not me doing it. 45 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,840 It's that we have one party where two thirds of 46 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,159 the people in that party are not proud to be Americans, 47 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,560 not even a majority of them, two thirds are not. 48 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,560 And that's problematic because you have to wonder if I 49 00:02:32,599 --> 00:02:36,479 were interviewing them, I would say, what is it that 50 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:39,560 you would be proud of in America? That if we 51 00:02:39,599 --> 00:02:42,199 had everybody dependent on the federal government, if you could 52 00:02:42,199 --> 00:02:47,479 confiscate all of the wealth created by wealthier people or entrepreneurs, 53 00:02:47,479 --> 00:02:50,159 I don't know, confiscate their wealth, would you be happier 54 00:02:50,199 --> 00:02:52,080 if you just tore the border down? What would you 55 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,560 be happier? If I don't know, we had boots on 56 00:02:54,599 --> 00:02:57,520 the ground in Ukraine, or we didn't support Israel. I mean, 57 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,560 what would make you think that this is a great country? 58 00:03:01,439 --> 00:03:05,280 Maybe if you diversity, equity, inclusion across the board, if 59 00:03:05,319 --> 00:03:08,560 you let more men compete in women's sports. I don't know. 60 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,159 I would love to know what it is I get 61 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:14,840 not liking Trump. I understand when I hate Trump or 62 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:16,800 where they get triggered by him. He speaks and his 63 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,280 speech pattern drives him up a wall. But even sometimes 64 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,159 when he does things that you agree with. You should 65 00:03:21,199 --> 00:03:25,759 agree with him. Oh, I just hate him because he's Trump. Okay, 66 00:03:26,199 --> 00:03:28,919 what are you know? You would think there would be 67 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,039 some common ground. You would think that Democrats would go, 68 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:34,680 you know what kind of dig in what they did? 69 00:03:34,719 --> 00:03:36,800 And I ran right now. I actually had a few 70 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,439 of my Democrats but grudgingly admit even Fetterman said, hey, 71 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:43,759 well done. You know, even Ram Emmanuel from Chicago, you know, 72 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,120 the guy who wants to be president next for the Democrats, 73 00:03:46,159 --> 00:03:48,800 He's like, hey, give him credit where credits due. I 74 00:03:48,879 --> 00:03:52,479 disagree with his policies, but hey, that Iranian tactical strike. 75 00:03:53,159 --> 00:03:55,879 No American lives lost, no Americans on the ground there. 76 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:01,639 Well done. But generly speaking, the party right now on 77 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:04,719 the left doesn't have a leader. It's very listless. They're 78 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,520 fighting amongst themselves because they don't want AOC to be 79 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:10,400 their leader. They don't want Jasmine Crockett. There are a 80 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,039 lot of people to say those are the new leaders. 81 00:04:12,080 --> 00:04:15,280 Know they're not. You know, you've got Rob Emmanuel and 82 00:04:15,319 --> 00:04:18,199 Gavin Newsom kind of duking it out. Josh Shapiro, the 83 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:20,279 three white guys on the Democrat left trying to be 84 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:25,519 the next the next guy, so to speak, guy boy, 85 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:27,959 I used that term. What maybe they don't consider them men. 86 00:04:28,079 --> 00:04:30,959 I don't know the Democrats in the whole who's the guy, 87 00:04:30,959 --> 00:04:32,879 who's a girl? I don't think they've decided that they 88 00:04:32,879 --> 00:04:36,120 can't seem to define it, So good luck. But you 89 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:37,839 know they can't go with Kamala again. That would be 90 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:39,839 a nightmare. You know, we would have to have a 91 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,839 buffet of word salad. We just have to open it up, 92 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:45,199 the Kamala word salad buffet. It would be hilarious, put 93 00:04:45,199 --> 00:04:49,199 it on billboards. But the Democrats find themselves in a 94 00:04:49,399 --> 00:04:53,040 in a valley of just being the anti Trump party 95 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:56,439 rather than being a party that cares about the issues. 96 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:00,360 What issue I mean, if you were to and not 97 00:05:00,439 --> 00:05:03,519 you define the entire party. But it sounds so Unamerican 98 00:05:03,519 --> 00:05:05,360 to say, well, they're against the border. I mean, they're 99 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,480 against having a tough border. I don't know, so I 100 00:05:08,519 --> 00:05:11,439 search for this. So I'm looking. There's a really a 101 00:05:11,519 --> 00:05:14,600 really good piece over at USA today. Now I consider 102 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:16,680 the peace left leaning, and I will talk about that. 103 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:20,120 And it said, is America is ready to celebrate its 104 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:24,480 two hundred and fiftieth birthday, But are Americans ready. There's 105 00:05:24,519 --> 00:05:26,360 my bias right here's right there in the headline. But 106 00:05:26,639 --> 00:05:30,759 is America, well, are Americans ready for this? We who 107 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,639 call the US home are preparing to celebrate the country's 108 00:05:33,759 --> 00:05:40,279 star spangled semi quins semi quin centennial next year. Get 109 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:42,240 used to that word, because that's what it is, but 110 00:05:42,319 --> 00:05:44,519 not just with flags and fireworks, but with also with 111 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:46,720 serious conversations about history and what it means to be 112 00:05:46,759 --> 00:05:50,639 an American. Among the celebrations a massive fireworks display at 113 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,319 Mount Rushmore on July third of next year and what 114 00:05:53,519 --> 00:05:57,600 organizers hope will be the largest flag waving celebration in history, 115 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,879 and Trump only third announced he's also planning to host 116 00:06:01,959 --> 00:06:04,600 an Ultimate Fighting Championship at the White House. By the way, 117 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,480 I don't know how they do that, are where, because 118 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:08,879 that'd be tens of thousands people want to go. Trump 119 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,240 formally kicked off the year long celebration on July third 120 00:06:11,279 --> 00:06:14,560 with a rally at the Iowa State Fairground Fairgrounds. He 121 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,560 campaigned on an America First platform, and he's long invoked 122 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,360 symbols of patriotism during his rallies, including having Lee Greenwood, 123 00:06:21,439 --> 00:06:24,720 seeing his God bless the USA, and literally embracing old Glory. 124 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,439 The fourth of July. Our magnificent destiny is closer than 125 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:30,839 ever before. We are one people, one family, in one 126 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,160 United American nation, he said to cheers. We will five 127 00:06:33,199 --> 00:06:35,839 five fight you remember that one. We will win, win, win, 128 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:37,879 because we are Americans in our hearts bleed, red, white 129 00:06:37,879 --> 00:06:41,040 and blue. That's very Trumpian, by the way. Trump also 130 00:06:41,079 --> 00:06:43,560 reaffirmed his plans to hold a Great American State Fair 131 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:46,120 with exhibits from all fifty states that will begin in 132 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,560 Iowa along with other national stations. And while there will 133 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:52,759 be parties parades of plenty for the nation's two fiftieth anniversary, 134 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:58,240 some scholars we must go to. The scholars are urging 135 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:02,319 Americans to spend time thinking deeply. Why I'm a scholar. 136 00:07:02,439 --> 00:07:04,560 I need to think deeply. You need to think more 137 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:08,439 deeply about what the country's passed in the future, would be, 138 00:07:08,959 --> 00:07:11,160 it has been, will be. The anniversary comes at a 139 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,040 time of deep partisan divisions, because we've never had those before, 140 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:18,160 particularly about the role of immigrants in this nation. Trump 141 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:23,199 directly addressed the divide facing the nation during his Iowa appearance, 142 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,279 criticizing Democrats, who he says hate America and offering the 143 00:07:26,279 --> 00:07:29,319 same sentiment. In return. Trump made the comments in connection 144 00:07:29,399 --> 00:07:32,160 with the final passage of the Big Beautiful Bill, which 145 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:36,399 implements tax and medicaid cuts while dramatically expanding immigration enforcement 146 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:41,800 unanimously opposed by Democrats. Polls show, and this is where 147 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,079 in fact, I'm gonna try to get so. Polls show 148 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:49,839 that Americans are less patriotic today than ever before recorded. Now, 149 00:07:49,879 --> 00:07:52,759 these are polls, and I'm not saying you shouldn't believe them. 150 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:54,759 I think there are different times, and I don't know 151 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,639 that we really have really good polling like pre nineteen 152 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:00,480 sixty five about how we felt about it our country. 153 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,480 But nonetheless, a new Gallup poll found fifty eight percent 154 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:05,920 of US adults say they're either extremely or very proud 155 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,720 to be an American, a record low compared to almost 156 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:12,000 total unity after we were attacked twenty four years ago 157 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,199 in nine to eleven. 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Visit creativideo dot com. 178 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 2: Looking through the way Americans kind of see themselves, or 179 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:28,799 at least the best we can tell via polling, it's 180 00:09:28,879 --> 00:09:34,600 bothersome at best. At best, it's bothersome. So we were 181 00:09:34,639 --> 00:09:36,799 talking about that next year is going to be our 182 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:40,639 two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, and how do we Americans 183 00:09:40,679 --> 00:09:45,480 see ourselves moving forward. So Gallup is the poll that 184 00:09:45,519 --> 00:09:48,120 you're seeing everyone talk about or tweet about, or social 185 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,919 media itself infinite twisting. A new Gallup poll found that 186 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:54,759 fifty eight percent of US adults say they are either 187 00:09:54,799 --> 00:09:57,000 extremely or very proud to be an American, a record 188 00:09:57,039 --> 00:10:00,919 low compared to almost total unity after the nine eleven attacks. 189 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:03,120 I think that that's a little bit of an unfair comparison, 190 00:10:03,159 --> 00:10:06,080 because you're right, we were attacked. If we were attacked today, 191 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:08,320 god forbid, I hope we are not, it would do 192 00:10:08,399 --> 00:10:12,639 It would have the same unifying effect that disasters and 193 00:10:12,759 --> 00:10:15,279 attacks like that Pearl Harbord nine to eleven, or a 194 00:10:15,519 --> 00:10:19,519 horrific disaster tends to unite Americans. I was looking at 195 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:23,519 WOS a few breaks back in this radio broadcast out 196 00:10:23,519 --> 00:10:27,720 of Ashville, and they were showing, you know, people in Ashville, 197 00:10:27,799 --> 00:10:30,480 the people who have been ravaged by Helene last year, 198 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:35,000 that are putting together palettes and trucks full of supplies 199 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:39,360 to send a Carville, Texas. That's I mean, it almost 200 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,159 brings a tierny. Rather, some of the people that were 201 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:45,320 most impacted by a natural disaster that are still recovering 202 00:10:45,639 --> 00:10:51,600 are putting together supplies for Texas that's going through horrible flooding. 203 00:10:51,639 --> 00:10:53,240 And I said this earlier in the broadcast. We are 204 00:10:53,279 --> 00:10:56,720 the most generous nation. Our citizens weak care, we reach out, 205 00:10:56,759 --> 00:11:00,559 we extend that hand to help our fellow Americans. We do. 206 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:03,639 That's just the way we're wired. It's part of the 207 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:07,320 fabric of who we are. At a genetic level. I 208 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:09,960 would say, we're that way, and that's a great thing. 209 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,039 That's a that's a beautiful thing to see. So when 210 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:15,679 when Poles say that we're we're not happy about if 211 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:18,559 you're not proud to be an American something, I mean 212 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:21,080 you could be proud, not be proud of you know, 213 00:11:21,159 --> 00:11:24,960 this is more of a reflection of politics than it 214 00:11:25,039 --> 00:11:26,960 is America. I think. I think the poll doesn't make 215 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:28,799 that distinction. You're proud to be American. Oh I hate 216 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:32,399 Trump right now? I don't know. And that's that's very 217 00:11:32,399 --> 00:11:34,240 short sighted. If you if you don't like the country 218 00:11:34,279 --> 00:11:36,679 because of us in office, something's really really wrong with you. 219 00:11:37,279 --> 00:11:39,399 Even through the Obama years, I love this country, even 220 00:11:39,399 --> 00:11:42,159 to the Clinton years, I love this country. It would 221 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,919 take something, you know, devastating for me to you know, 222 00:11:46,399 --> 00:11:48,759 if it just decided to go bankrupt and default on 223 00:11:48,799 --> 00:11:51,399 its debts and open the borders, and there's a couple 224 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:53,440 of things that once we're no longer this country, I 225 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,919 wouldn't like it, obviously. But fifty eight percent of adults 226 00:11:56,919 --> 00:11:58,879 say they're either extremely very proud to be an American, 227 00:11:58,919 --> 00:12:01,480 a record low. Strikingly, the poll found that younger Americans 228 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:04,399 far less likely to be patriotic. Only forty one percent 229 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,480 of Gen Z is extremely very proud of be an 230 00:12:06,519 --> 00:12:09,360 American compared to seventy five percent of baby boomers. Now, 231 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,799 think about that from a tech standpoint, if you're twenty 232 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:14,639 four years of age or younger, you were born after 233 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,120 nine to eleven. Nine to eleven is a figment. I mean, 234 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:20,279 it's just it's something you see and read about that 235 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:24,960 other people experienced. They've had no there's been no real 236 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,480 challenges to and their knowledge is all tech based. It's 237 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:31,639 tech based, web based stuff. It's Snapchat and one thousand 238 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:34,559 other you know, TikTok videos and everything else. It's not 239 00:12:34,879 --> 00:12:37,240 why would they have a basis in what means to 240 00:12:37,279 --> 00:12:39,480 be an American other than what they got in school 241 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:41,679 and from their friends and their TikTok buddies. I'm not 242 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:45,080 putting them down, but were they raised to have a 243 00:12:45,159 --> 00:12:47,919 love of the country. Did schools of K twelve schools 244 00:12:47,919 --> 00:12:50,080 in the past twenty years, I mean through COVID. Think 245 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:52,320 about what they experienced. They didn't get to have high 246 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,360 school graduations, you know, their sports careers, were into the 247 00:12:55,399 --> 00:12:57,159 government telling them what to do. Turns out the government 248 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:59,200 was wrong about a lot of stuff. The trust in 249 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:02,519 the Trust a world health organization, their trusting government, and 250 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:04,159 an all time low. Why would they be proud to 251 00:13:04,159 --> 00:13:06,519 be an American? You said it was about freedom, pal, 252 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,200 we didn't have a whole lot of freedom. He kind 253 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:10,679 of took that away from us and said it was 254 00:13:10,679 --> 00:13:15,120 in the name of public health. But so that that 255 00:13:15,159 --> 00:13:17,480 makes sense, doesn't it a little bit about the way 256 00:13:17,519 --> 00:13:20,000 they've been treated and how they've been educated. You take 257 00:13:20,039 --> 00:13:22,639 it a step further, you go to Democrats. The poll 258 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:25,759 also found that Democrats are the source of the drop 259 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:30,720 across all ages. Thirty six percent are either I extremely 260 00:13:30,879 --> 00:13:34,279 or very proud. They were at sixty two percent last year, 261 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:37,480 but I mean that's right before the fall from Biden 262 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:41,080 not knowing what he said. Independence also showed a loss 263 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:43,639 fall into a record low fifty three percent, still a majority, 264 00:13:43,759 --> 00:13:47,559 but the only group that only a third of them 265 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,519 are remotely proud to be Americans are Democrats, So two 266 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:53,279 third of Americans are not proud, and so I would 267 00:13:53,279 --> 00:13:56,000 think that would be a golden opportunity to ask what 268 00:13:56,039 --> 00:13:58,200 would make you proud to be an American? What would 269 00:13:58,279 --> 00:14:01,360 make a Democrat? Since two thirds of them are not 270 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:07,639 proud at all, what would make them proud? Giving away 271 00:14:07,639 --> 00:14:09,480 more money spending? I don't know. I don't know what 272 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:12,159 the magic getting rid of Trump? If Trump got shot maybe, 273 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:15,279 I don't know. It's a very strange thing to me 274 00:14:15,399 --> 00:14:17,399 that you would say, well, just because I don't like 275 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:20,519 the guy there, I hate the country. Ninety two percent 276 00:14:20,519 --> 00:14:22,960 of Republicans say there are proud or extremely proud. So 277 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:27,360 Republican solid love the country. Patriotism is now polarized. No, 278 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:31,240 it's not patriotism is patriotism? I love this stuff to 279 00:14:31,279 --> 00:14:33,919 some degree. It depends on whoever is the president, and 280 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,440 that hasn't always been the case, said John Pitney Junior, 281 00:14:36,519 --> 00:14:41,279 a conservative author, former RNC staffer, and a government professor. 282 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:45,039 A government professor at California clairemart McKenna College. People in 283 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:48,360 the other party are just just mistaken, but are not 284 00:14:48,399 --> 00:14:51,080 just mistaken but their enemies. But Pitney said, the real 285 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:53,840 American patriotism is alive and well. Everyone who volunteers to 286 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,080 serve in the military, local fire department, who helps out 287 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:59,519 a food bank, ties to the local church, help making 288 00:14:59,519 --> 00:15:01,720 good on them promise of America, the promise of America. Again, 289 00:15:01,759 --> 00:15:04,159 I talked about that WLS. When we reach out that 290 00:15:04,279 --> 00:15:06,879 hand to help our fellow Americans, that is the greatest 291 00:15:06,919 --> 00:15:10,720 show of patriotism. That is that makes all the efforts 292 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:13,000 for those who committed their lives to this country or 293 00:15:13,159 --> 00:15:16,559 died defending it. It makes it worth it when we 294 00:15:16,799 --> 00:15:21,039 are trying to save, help assist, make better the lives 295 00:15:21,039 --> 00:15:23,720 of our fellow Americans. When we value the lives of 296 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:27,080 our fellow Americans, even when we reach out to other countries, 297 00:15:27,759 --> 00:15:30,519 that Judeo Christian ethic that does weave its way through 298 00:15:30,519 --> 00:15:34,399 the fabric of this great nation is made better when 299 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:37,919 we lift up others. It's not about what we get, 300 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:42,000 It's about what we give. Even Kennedy knows that not 301 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:43,840 what your country can do for you, what well you 302 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:47,080 can do for your country's right. Parades are great and 303 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:49,879 celebrations are terrific, but that's not really what patriotism is 304 00:15:49,919 --> 00:15:52,759 all about. It's certainly possible to take a criticism of 305 00:15:52,759 --> 00:15:55,360 the country too far. The trouble with Trump's plans is 306 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:58,919 that they sound awfully superficial. His patriotism doesn't run any 307 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:02,000 deeper than the cloth of the flag, which is what 308 00:16:02,159 --> 00:16:05,840 this John Pitney individual, and of course USA today uses 309 00:16:05,879 --> 00:16:08,960 that individual because they can use a Republican to attack 310 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:15,399 a Republican. In conjunction with the anniversary, Trump has ordered 311 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:17,480 the creation of a thirty four million dollar National Guarden 312 00:16:17,519 --> 00:16:20,720 of American Heroes, featuring life size statues of notable figures 313 00:16:20,759 --> 00:16:25,799 like John Adams, Clara Barton, Orville Wilbur Wright, Martin Luther 314 00:16:25,919 --> 00:16:31,720 King Junior, Christa mccauliffe, Reagan. People like that only American 315 00:16:31,759 --> 00:16:35,559 citizens are eligible to create the statues. Again, why is 316 00:16:35,559 --> 00:16:39,399 that a bad thing? America owes its present greatness to 317 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,000 its past sacrifices because the past is always a risk 318 00:16:42,039 --> 00:16:44,320 of being forgotten. I think anyone who says Trump's love 319 00:16:44,399 --> 00:16:47,080 the country is superficial or shallow, he hasn't. He is 320 00:16:47,159 --> 00:16:50,759 always If you saw interviews with him back in the 321 00:16:50,759 --> 00:16:54,480 eighties that Rona Barrett did, or interviews he's been consistently 322 00:16:55,519 --> 00:16:57,600 this way, whether you love him or hat him, He's 323 00:16:57,639 --> 00:17:01,639 been consistently the same way through out his adult life 324 00:17:01,679 --> 00:17:06,039 and into being president. 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Right 353 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:39,000 now that that Pambondy and Cash Btel have essentially said 354 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:41,640 there's nothing, there's nothing to see here with respect to 355 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:46,920 the Epstein situation. Now, Pambondy, the Attorney General for the 356 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,640 United States, on multiple occasions has said she's releasing the 357 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:53,599 client list as on multiple occasions said there's there's there, 358 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,960 there there's fire. There's not just smoke, there's fire. She 359 00:18:57,079 --> 00:18:59,759 finds herself in the precarious crosshairs of the political right 360 00:18:59,839 --> 00:19:03,319 right now. A lot of the bays that Trump loyal 361 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:07,119 are very upset with the situation because if you tell 362 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:08,880 someone there's fire and then you say, oh, there's really 363 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,480 nothing to see here, it's going to cause a great 364 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,839 deal of consternation. So I don't know how far reaching 365 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:16,440 that's going to be, but just something to keep an 366 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:18,279 eye on. Over the next twenty four hours. Tomorrow we 367 00:19:18,279 --> 00:19:20,759 will probably have a lot more information about that. But 368 00:19:20,799 --> 00:19:23,880 the Pam Bondi cash battel and to a lesser extent, 369 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:27,359 Dan Bongino, who's the deputy director of the FBI under 370 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,400 Cash pattel, it's going to be interesting because a lot 371 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:32,680 of people are very upset because the same people that 372 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,240 said there's something to see here, instead they were going 373 00:19:35,279 --> 00:19:37,559 to release everything. We're now in July and they're trying 374 00:19:37,559 --> 00:19:41,799 to say nothing really to see here. So if it 375 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:45,359 was a conspiracy, then what happened to it? And if 376 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:48,440 it's not a conspiracy logging in and saying it was 377 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:50,279 for the past three or four years, and then you're 378 00:19:50,319 --> 00:19:54,039 the person that was in charge of dissuading that, I 379 00:19:54,079 --> 00:19:56,559 don't know how they navigate those waters. I guess they 380 00:19:56,599 --> 00:19:59,119 need to release more information to validate what they're telling 381 00:19:59,160 --> 00:20:01,240 the American public. But you can't lead them down a 382 00:20:01,319 --> 00:20:03,839 path of saying there's there there and then just out 383 00:20:03,839 --> 00:20:06,240 of the blues say well, there's really nothing there. There's 384 00:20:06,279 --> 00:20:11,079 nothing there to see, there's nothing nothing to see. So 385 00:20:11,319 --> 00:20:16,000 I think that's not going to that's not going to 386 00:20:16,039 --> 00:20:19,640 go away. So we will see what happens now, So 387 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:22,920 the textas situation, we'll have a lot more information there. 388 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,480 I do want to get back to the article before 389 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:26,160 I go to a couple of science related stories. But 390 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,519 the article about is America kind of ready for his 391 00:20:29,559 --> 00:20:32,359 two hundred and fiftieth is are we worse off? I'd 392 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,759 say in many ways we're better off than we were. 393 00:20:34,799 --> 00:20:36,640 We made it through COVID. There's a lot to be 394 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,559 optimistic about in this country. Do we have problems? Absolutely? 395 00:20:39,559 --> 00:20:42,240 Have we eradicated all of them? Not even close? Are 396 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:43,960 we going to continue to face new challenge that we 397 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,200 haven't seen before? I mean, right now, the situation with 398 00:20:46,279 --> 00:20:50,359 your kids and technology, the role of technology and how 399 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:54,000 addictive it is, your infinite ability to go get entertained, 400 00:20:55,079 --> 00:20:57,839 These are all challenged. I think another challenge is Americans 401 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:01,480 to believe that they're all of a sudden subject matter 402 00:21:01,519 --> 00:21:04,480 experts across the board on everything we're not I I'm 403 00:21:04,519 --> 00:21:06,640 not going to pretend to be like discussions, I think, 404 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:10,000 but we start to in social media and in tech 405 00:21:10,039 --> 00:21:14,359 we begin to put forth things as if we're writing. 406 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,759 When people disagree with we get angry, and then that 407 00:21:16,799 --> 00:21:19,839 anger turns to violence, and then you get this righteous 408 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,160 indignation across the board. One of the people in the 409 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:26,559 article name is Tamika Middleton. She's forty one years old. 410 00:21:26,599 --> 00:21:30,759 She's the leader of the March, the March for Women, 411 00:21:31,279 --> 00:21:34,480 kind of the Women's March. You know, they're looking at 412 00:21:34,519 --> 00:21:36,839 how they're going to deal with this, and I think 413 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,039 her comments are getting to the heart of a lot 414 00:21:40,079 --> 00:21:43,000 of what we've talked about on the show today, and 415 00:21:43,079 --> 00:21:46,720 it is that if you lean left, you tend to 416 00:21:46,759 --> 00:21:51,400 believe that all of these problems can be left at 417 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:55,759 the feet of government, and that some agency they have 418 00:21:55,799 --> 00:21:59,039 a responsibility because America's job is to take care of 419 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:01,960 all these things. God not you as an individual or 420 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:03,960 you and your community. Are you working with a bunch 421 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,119 of volunteers or starting a new business or creating a 422 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,799 new enterprise that somehow government should create a program and 423 00:22:10,839 --> 00:22:13,519 it deals with that. It makes it all better. And 424 00:22:13,559 --> 00:22:16,519 this particular person, her names Amika Middleton. She's with Women's March, 425 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,839 and she I think summarizes best what many on the 426 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:25,440 left say on a regular basis. She sees freedom. It's 427 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:28,839 kind of interesting. She organized the Free America counter protests 428 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,119 against Trump, the Women's March against Trump. They had it 429 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,960 called free America. Free it from what. We're not in 430 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,839 bondage anymore. We are not. We're in a really a 431 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,839 post racial society, except for those who make money from 432 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,880 making you believe we're not. We're much better. So she 433 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,000 said these things. She said, what good is life, liberty 434 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,480 and pursuit of happiness without healthcare? Now I want you 435 00:22:51,519 --> 00:22:53,519 to think about that statement for a second. What good 436 00:22:53,599 --> 00:22:56,119 is life, liberty and pursuit of happiness without healthcare? That 437 00:22:57,279 --> 00:23:01,440 statement is really a call for government to run cradle 438 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:05,079 to grave healthcare. That's not what life, liberty and pursuit 439 00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:08,119 of happiness was ever intended to be, not what it 440 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,279 should be. Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness is a 441 00:23:13,039 --> 00:23:17,960 list of responsibilities that you have. You have the ability 442 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,640 to pursue your life, your liberty, and your pursuit of happiness. 443 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,119 That doesn't mean it's government's job to make it for you. 444 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,279 She alsa said, what good is life in liberty and 445 00:23:28,319 --> 00:23:30,960 the pursuit of happiness without housing? Again, her call is 446 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:33,599 for government to create the housing for all, cradle to 447 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,440 grave housing. That is not what life. You have the 448 00:23:36,519 --> 00:23:38,680 right in life to pursue this. The best of your 449 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,839 ability is working with other people to pursue that life, 450 00:23:41,839 --> 00:23:47,599 to pursue liberty, to pursue happiness. You have a right 451 00:23:47,799 --> 00:23:49,880 to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. It is not 452 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,000 the government's job to give you health care. It's not 453 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,839 the government's job to give you housing. Now, if a 454 00:23:54,839 --> 00:23:57,240 community wants to get to get together and help folks out, 455 00:23:57,279 --> 00:23:59,640 that's what really we should be doing. But we've turned 456 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:02,079 it all over to government. We've made ourselves very callous 457 00:24:02,279 --> 00:24:06,079 toward the needs of our fellow Americans. Nobody's free. Tell 458 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,599 everybody's free. What do you mean people are free? What 459 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,720 are you talking about? I would love for people to 460 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:12,960 be thinking about how to bring all of that to 461 00:24:13,039 --> 00:24:17,079 fruition to make sure we're all free. What does it 462 00:24:17,279 --> 00:24:19,640 require every day, the kind of depth, to kind of accountability, 463 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:23,880 to kind of unity, unity unity's code word for socialism, 464 00:24:24,519 --> 00:24:26,599 and when we're socialists, the only people that have power 465 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:30,279 the people in government. It never works. It never has work. Now, 466 00:24:30,319 --> 00:24:35,119 the number of people that have executed socialism successfully, you know, 467 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:36,960 they can fit on the head of a pen because 468 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:37,799 it's never happened. 469 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,799 Speaker 1: All right, If you're listening to this show, you know 470 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:41,839 I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, 471 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:43,960 and I know you do too, And you've probably heard 472 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:48,039 me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, 473 00:24:48,079 --> 00:24:50,799 because it's how you detect media bias, which is why 474 00:24:50,839 --> 00:24:54,039 I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app 475 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,440 and it's a website and it combines news from around 476 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,039 the world in one place so you can compare coverage 477 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,839 and verify information. You can check it out at check 478 00:25:03,079 --> 00:25:07,319 dot ground, dot news slash Pete. I put the link 479 00:25:07,319 --> 00:25:10,440 in the podcast description too. I started using ground News 480 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,200 a few months ago and more recently chose to work 481 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:15,240 with them as an affiliate because it lets me see 482 00:25:15,279 --> 00:25:19,119 clearly how stories get covered and by whom. The blind 483 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,920 spot feature shows you which stories get ignored by the 484 00:25:22,039 --> 00:25:25,720 left and the right. See for yourself. Check dot ground, 485 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:29,599 dot news slash Pete subscribe through that link and you'll 486 00:25:29,599 --> 00:25:32,799 get fifteen percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage 487 00:25:32,799 --> 00:25:36,279 plan to get unlimited access to every feature your subscription. 488 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,079 Then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports 489 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,400 ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. 490 00:25:43,079 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 2: If you want to look of your fellow Americans, those 491 00:25:46,799 --> 00:25:49,920 most likely to contribute a conservative more than liberal out 492 00:25:49,920 --> 00:25:52,759 of the pocket. And that makes sense. If you lean 493 00:25:52,839 --> 00:25:55,240 left and you believe government is the answer to things, 494 00:25:55,279 --> 00:25:57,559 then you believe the government should give more money, not you. 495 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,519 But if you are more conservative, you want less government 496 00:26:01,519 --> 00:26:03,240 in your life, so you tend to be more charitable 497 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,119 on your own. Now, if you were to break that 498 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:09,119 into a sub section and look at which group is 499 00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:12,519 the most likely in American culture, it's Christians, and more specifically, 500 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,359 church going Christians are much more likely to donate the 501 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:20,000 charity than non Christians. That's not an indictment, that's just 502 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,200 you can do your own research. It's out there. I 503 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:25,599 feel very comfortable that's been the case for many years. 504 00:26:25,599 --> 00:26:27,519 It's not new, it's not novel, and I didn't make 505 00:26:27,559 --> 00:26:29,799 it up. I didn't create it. It's the reality of 506 00:26:29,799 --> 00:26:33,799 where we find ourselves. Also, one little thing to mention 507 00:26:34,839 --> 00:26:38,680 because as people begin predicting doom and gloom with this big, 508 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,559 beautiful villain, it's going to unwind undo destroy the country. 509 00:26:41,559 --> 00:26:44,960 It's a very static way because it's the pretense that 510 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:47,680 we as humans don't change. It's the pretense that we act. 511 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,440 You know, if you knew a tidle way was coming, 512 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:53,279 or tsunami for lack of it's not title, it's earthquake 513 00:26:53,279 --> 00:26:56,160 true anyway, if you knew and you just stayed there. 514 00:26:56,519 --> 00:26:58,599 So if a tsunami hit the East coast, millions of 515 00:26:58,599 --> 00:27:01,319 people would die. Yes, the death rate would be a 516 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:05,200 lot lower if they had a chance to evacuate because 517 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,720 we would dynamically react to that. So, in other words, 518 00:27:08,759 --> 00:27:11,759 if I were to increase taxes, I don't get all 519 00:27:11,799 --> 00:27:13,279 of the money that I think I'm going to get 520 00:27:13,319 --> 00:27:17,599 because people will act differently. They will find a different way, 521 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,680 or they will act differently or make less or whatever. 522 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,720 There's a dynamic way in which we respond to things. Now. 523 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:30,359 I say that because Argentina Argentina, Argentina's president Malay, when 524 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:35,839 he assumed office, economists from all across the spectrum had 525 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,119 warned that it would spill devastation for Argentina. Now he's 526 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,640 a very libertarian, probably the most libertarian leader of a 527 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,440 country anywhere in the world. More than one hundred economists, 528 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:49,880 including Tom Piketty and Jahati Ghosh, published open letter ahead 529 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,519 of the country's nineteen November election. Now Malay got elected. 530 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,319 What's happened since Because the predictions were doomed bloom end 531 00:27:56,359 --> 00:28:00,720 of the world. They've lowered their monthly inflame rate from 532 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,839 twenty six percent down to one point five percent. The 533 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,680 economy grew seven point six percent in the second quarter 534 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,480 of this year year over year, So that's remarkable. Those 535 00:28:11,519 --> 00:28:14,200 are great. Now, does that mean that everything's fixed magically 536 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:16,319 and they don't have poverty and they eradicated all their 537 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:19,079 social problems. No, But it means that the opportunity to 538 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:22,319 get ahead, the opportunity to make the country stronger, better, 539 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,200 And you did it by because they were just spending 540 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,720 themselves into oblivion. You had to stop it. So we 541 00:28:27,799 --> 00:28:31,400 did these austerity measures, these very painful changes. But the 542 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:36,000 country has reacted and it's lifted the country. And that's 543 00:28:36,079 --> 00:28:37,640 I believe what we're going to see here. We have 544 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:41,359 to make some difficult choices. We're making those and that's 545 00:28:41,359 --> 00:28:43,200 where we find ourselves. Now, a little bit of good 546 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,720 news out there. If I were to ask you, if 547 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,160 I were to if you were to own a dog's 548 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,720 completely switching gears here, own a dog or a cat? 549 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:55,319 Would it you know? We know that we generally are 550 00:28:55,319 --> 00:28:57,519 happier people when we pet our dogs or cats. But 551 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:02,119 it could it make your pain different as you age 552 00:29:03,319 --> 00:29:05,559 owning a dog or cat? Does that make your brain 553 00:29:06,119 --> 00:29:08,960 better as you get older? Now? They did a couple 554 00:29:09,039 --> 00:29:12,200 studies on these now, fish and bird ownership. You own 555 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:14,559 a fish, you own a bird, there's no significant link 556 00:29:14,599 --> 00:29:18,319 to slower cognitive decline as you get older. But dogs 557 00:29:18,319 --> 00:29:23,319 and cats, as global population ages and dementsiuration ration rates climb, 558 00:29:23,359 --> 00:29:26,960 scientists may have found an unexpected ally. Cats and dogs 559 00:29:27,279 --> 00:29:30,240 may be exercising more than just your patients. They could 560 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,160 be keeping parts of your brain ticking and a potential 561 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,359 breakthrough for preventive health. Researchers have found that owning a 562 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:39,720 four palled friend is linked to slower cognitive decline by 563 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:44,200 potentially preserving specific brain functions as we grow older. Interestingly, 564 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:48,240 the associations differ depending on the animal. Dog owners were 565 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:52,640 found to retain sharper memory both immediate and delayed, while 566 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:57,039 cat owners showed slower decline in verbal fluency. So if 567 00:29:57,079 --> 00:30:00,079 you want to keep that edge too, you can tell 568 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:01,720 the way I stammered through that I must be a 569 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,440 dog owner, right, I'm kidding, but that's true when it 570 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,880 comes to slower cognitive decline in their owners. However, it 571 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,720 seems that not all pets are created equal fishbirds, while 572 00:30:09,799 --> 00:30:14,240 charming showed no help to you whatsoever. So if you 573 00:30:14,319 --> 00:30:17,680 want to stave off some of that, some cognitive decline 574 00:30:17,759 --> 00:30:19,920 just happens. But if you have a dog or a cat, 575 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:24,759 apparently much better for you. So as you look around 576 00:30:24,799 --> 00:30:27,240 at your little furry friends, you may think, now, remember, 577 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:36,400 dog owners sharper memory both immediate and delayed, while cat 578 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:41,799 owners showed slower decline in verbal fluency. So you have 579 00:30:41,839 --> 00:30:43,599 better memories, but you can talk about it better with 580 00:30:43,599 --> 00:30:46,599 a cat. If you have a cat in your life, 581 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,039 I don't know what if you have a dog and 582 00:30:48,079 --> 00:30:50,000 a cat. I didn't see that in the studies. I'm 583 00:30:50,039 --> 00:30:52,480 looking through the details of the study. I'm thinking to myself, 584 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,119 you know the longarity of cat owners. May that means 585 00:30:56,119 --> 00:30:58,480 I can talk like get into my nineties. I speak better, 586 00:30:58,519 --> 00:31:01,680 but you know, overall better with a dog, and again 587 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,559 read it for yourself. It's just out there. Now. Another thing, 588 00:31:04,799 --> 00:31:07,519 the weird headline of the day. Now, if you are 589 00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:10,359 prone to believe that AI and tech is problematic for 590 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:13,079 us as a society moving forward, if you believe that 591 00:31:13,079 --> 00:31:17,079 that whole terminator cyberdine AI stuff is dangerous, this one's 592 00:31:17,119 --> 00:31:18,720 gonna make you quick a little bit. So it's one 593 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,359 thing to have unmanned drones and have self driving cars 594 00:31:22,359 --> 00:31:24,880 and all of this other stuff impacting you daily and 595 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,319 your device is listening to you all the time. And 596 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,799 they do. And that's a that's not a conspiracy. They do. 597 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:35,400 Lab quest to create vible human sex cells in lab 598 00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:39,839 progressing lab grown sperm and eggs just a few years away. 599 00:31:40,599 --> 00:31:43,640 Scientists are just a few years from creating viable human 600 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,240 cells in the lab, according to an internationally renowned pioneer 601 00:31:46,279 --> 00:31:48,480 in the field, who says the advance could open up 602 00:31:48,559 --> 00:31:52,720 biology defined possibilities for reproduction. In other words, when the 603 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:57,319 machines take over, they might not need us. They could 604 00:31:57,359 --> 00:32:00,440 just make us. They could just make versions of us. 605 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:07,039 According to this the professor Haksuhiko Hayashi Developmental Genesis at 606 00:32:07,039 --> 00:32:10,079 the University of Osaka said rapid progress is being made 607 00:32:10,079 --> 00:32:12,799 toward being able to transform adult skin or blood cells 608 00:32:12,799 --> 00:32:16,319 into eggs and sperm, a feat of genetic conjury known 609 00:32:16,359 --> 00:32:19,920 as in vitro gamut to genesis. His own lab is 610 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:23,240 about seven years away from that, milest Milestoney predicts. Other 611 00:32:23,279 --> 00:32:25,759 front runners include a team of University of Kyoto and 612 00:32:25,799 --> 00:32:30,599 a California based startup conception bioscienceist. Now that's one thing 613 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:35,119 to be able to do that. It's another entirely to 614 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:43,000 just make just just make people beings, Just make it 615 00:32:43,039 --> 00:32:44,680 so if the machines take over that you need a 616 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,960 few skin cells, it just harvests a couple of people, 617 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,160 just make them, and all of a sudden we're serving 618 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:55,279 the machines instead the other way around. It's very brave 619 00:32:55,359 --> 00:32:58,319 new world. Alvius Huxley, you know, kind of way of 620 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,319 Stanley Kubrick. I guess I could throw a bunch of 621 00:33:00,319 --> 00:33:03,559 other things in there, Isaac Asimo, But folks have a 622 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,079 fantastic day. We are an amazing patriotic mission. I'll be 623 00:33:07,119 --> 00:33:09,319 here all week looking forward to tuning in tomorrow. 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