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1:01the Democratic Party agenda is more important than their self-interest or even their survival. And Virginia cops and other government officials drop the hammer on a mom for letting her five-year-old son take a walk alone. And in our Chaser of the Week, actor Ryan Reynolds disparages the 1980s. And no, we're not going to let that one stand. But we begin with a great defensive capitalism. In the face of leftists like Texas Senate candidate James Talleriko trying to tie it to white supremacy. Jim, we kind of pick up with our good Martini today, where we left off with our crazy Martini yesterday. Yesterday, there was that clip from about six years ago where James Talleriko was saying in order to fight climate change, we've got a dismantle capitalism. And then his campaign put out a statement going, oh no, I was off. I'm a capitalist now, and I love oil and gas and all that nonsense. You know, he really doesn't, but he's trying to win in Texas. But the issue still came up on Newsnight with Abby Philip and her panel of mostly lefties, but there's always at least one, sometimes two Republicans on there.

2:04So Camille Foster was one of the conservatives. And this issue came up about somehow capitalism being inextricably linked to white supremacy. And he dismantles it very, very well. Most of all, extoling the greatness of capitalism. But as Jamal Hill, who used to be with ESPN and found every racial or gender or LGBT problem in sports, that was her whole thing. She's now a political columnist, which is what she's always really wanted to be, I think, over at the Atlantic. And she's trying to make him prove that they're not inextricably linked. He's not having any of it. This one thing to not think capitalism is working ideally. It's another thing entirely to insist that it is oppressive, that it is bound up with white supremacy. I've always preferred Adam Smith's description of capitalism as the natural system of liberty, the idea that people can own property, that they can exchange it freely with one another for profit, that they can find ways to put their resources to good use, those private property,

3:05and profit in a way that is actually beneficial to everyone else, that there can be gains from trade that are mutually beneficial. These are foundational ideas that have created more wealth than any other system in human history. That is what capitalism is. That is not white supremacy. It's not white supremacy. It's not white supremacy. I've just described the actual, I've actually just described the basic facts of the beyond. We can get the facts about it. We can get the facts about it. That's how we always work. We can get the facts about it. So, it's a great way to say that. It's a great way to say that. It's a great way to say that.

4:07And then, the capitalism by Camel Foster and he's not taking her bait of trying to have him prove that it's not tied to white supremacy. He's like, no, no, if you want to say that it is linked, you have to explain to me why that is the case. So, great job by him and, of course, she had no answer. I was just saying, Greg yesterday's episode we kind of closed on this notion of the omni cause, the idea in the end, all causes of progressivism, all causes on the left, start to blur together, and also they insist that they are all interconnected. is a blank issue, right? And in this case, basically, the argument from Jamal Hill is overturning and getting rid of capitalism is a white supremacy issue and things like that. Well, I want is that what comes out of that discussion is I'd really like to hear more of the people who, the high number of young people who tell pollsters that they feel negatively about capitalism. They don't support capitalism, they oppose capitalism. I really like to get people to say, what do you mean by capitalism? And I get that they probably mean it as the status quo. Folks like you and I would say is that

5:07what the United States has isn't really capitalism. In fact, Greg, true capitalism has never been tried. I say that kind of tongue in cheek, but we have, you know, this is not an unregulated true free market economy by any stretch of the imagination. And I have the speaking suspicion that if you ask people, what really bothers you about there are system of trading goods and services and prices and things like that, they'd probably say things like, oh, well, you know, higher education is too expensive. Okay, that's highly regulated by the government. And we've said for a long time that the more the government keeps saying, oh, we're going to give you bigger student loans. We're going to give you more student loans. We're going to, you know, like there's a great deal of market distortion in that. Because there's no downward pressure on prices from on the part of universities because the government has always come and saying, don't worry, we'll give you even bigger loans. There's no sense of like, oh, if we don't lower prices, we won't be competitive. Students aren't going to want to come here. By the way, the, I was actually the Washington Post today. There are now 15 schools in the United States

6:08where tuition, room and board, all that kind of stuff, it adds up to more than $100,000 per year. My older one does not go to those 15. Last year, by the way, it was two. So just kind of an indication that even when people say, oh, inflation doesn't quite as bad, in, you know, the rate of increase in tuition and room and board and all the costs associated with higher education is always gone up higher than the rate of inflation. High inflation, like we had during the Biden years, particularly 2022, does not do anything to mitigate this cost anyway. But you will say, oh, healthcare is too expensive. Okay, healthcare again is not free market economics by the administration of the imagination. When's the last time you went in for any type of medical service and you saw the prices listed? Generalist, well, the insurance company's paying. I pay my premiums, maybe I have a deductible. Oh, there's no clarity in pricing. The one area where you do have clarity in pricing is Lasik eye surgery, which is because it's not covered by most insurance plants. So doctors compete for patients, and then they have to list their prices and say, hey, I have lower prices in the next guy. They're talking about housing.

7:09Hey, you know, the rent is too darn high as that famous gubernatorial candidate said. You go down the list, you know, if you had fewer regulations that allowed people to build housing wherever they wanted, you would increase the supply of housing and all of a sudden with a lot of different options, there'd be competitions for prices and there'd be more out, like so every time somebody's complaining about capitalism. They're usually complaining about a part of the economy that is heavily regulated by the state, and that you don't really have this free exchange and negotiation of prices and things like that. Again, this is probably not something that Jamel Hill wants to hear, but good for seeing this on CNN in the 10 PM hour for dozens of viewers, good to see. CNN is a fine, fine network, and I might be on it later today. Yeah, so as usual, the left is good at slogans. They're not very good at actually backing that up with facts and history and good logic, but nonetheless good for Camel Foster for laying that out and not taking the bait

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9:11That is incogni.com slash 3 ml promo code 3 ml backed by a risk-free 30 day money back guarantee. Dave Roberts here. There you are surrounded by fans, sharing wings, sharing drinks, high-fiving random strangers. Everybody remembers the game. Nobody remembers the guy coughing behind you until a few days later at 2 a.m. You wake up with the fever and your throats on fire. Now what, urgent care, close, ER, slam, telehealth, maybe, but the pharmacies close. You needed a medical emergency kit. These aren't first aid kits. They contain essential prescriptions used for over 30 common conditions. Sinus and ear infection, UTI, stomach bug, travelers diarrhea, and more. On hand before you need them. Use your doctor-developed guidebook to select the right prescription or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. It's like an urgent care and drugstore at home. When you're sick, traveling, or stranded, you'll wish you ordered a medical emergency kit. Order online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say $45 with my promo code blue

10:14at urgentcarekit.com slash blue. That's promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue. Jim, we head to Michigan. We'll be back there for our chaser as well, but for this one, this is a doozy. Just a couple of weeks ago, the Democratic Attorney General in Michigan, Dana Nestle, announced she is not going to the Democratic convention. And why? Because she doesn't feel safe there, because she's Jewish. And there are just too many hostile faces and voices. And who knows what they would do at the Democratic convention there in Michigan. However, yesterday, she gave a speech to Jewish organizations in Michigan. And let's just say her tone has oddly shifted here. I mean, she never actually said don't vote for up to, I'll say anything like that. I mean, she's a hardcore lefty. But this is a bizarre way of telling Jewish people how to vote. The stories from the Jewish telegraphic agency.

11:16And it says in her own speech, because the main focus of the story is on Abdul Al-Sayed, seeming to apologize, but not really about his comments about the terrorist attack against the Jewish school in Bloomfield. But in her own speech, it says, Nestle acknowledged that Jews were being forced into a stark choice thanks to members of her own party who seek the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state and place the Jewish diaspora in jeopardy. Yet the Attorney General stressed that the election was bigger than Israel and invoking perms queen Esther urged Jewish voters to put their own feelings of personal safety aside. Quote, we have a moral imperative to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest. And yes, even our own survival, she told the crowd. Nestle said that other societal concerns, climate change, artificial intelligence, the threat of nuclear war, loom larger than support for Israel alone and what worsened under continued GOP rule. Quote, what is defending the historic homeland of our ancestors and demanding that candidates acknowledge that it's right to exist if the planet upon which it rests

12:16is no longer inhabitable. And she said later to that news organization JTA, I think it's so easy for people to lash out at what they perceive our direct attacks on their faith on their cultural beliefs, on their historical ancestry. It's very easy for people to be mad and to say, I reject that. I just hope people will consider that there are many other factors at play. So Jim, first of all, she completely misunderstands the story of Queen Esther who worked to save the Jewish people, a person of us to herself. But nonetheless, no one was asking the entirety of the Jewish people to sacrifice themselves here. But the idea that the democratic agenda is more important than your survival. This is definitely a bad martini, but there's a lot of crazy here too. I was gonna say, it feels like, look, there's only gonna be a certain number of lifeboats. And all of some of you are not gonna make the cut, it appears. I'm glad you, because I saw a really intense argument amongst Jewish leaders, theologians, and commentators about whether she was appropriately interpreting

13:18the Queen Esther one. And I, I know, I'm not Jewish, I won't get into that. I'll just kind of observe. When you're saying to people, we have this political priority. And it's higher, it's more important to us than your survival. You really can't be shocked that people are not quick to sign on the dotted line. That's really not the sales bitch that's gonna work most effectively for you, particularly if you are a Jewish democratic leader saying to other Jewish Democrats, for our agenda to be enacted, we might have to die. That, no, no, that's not, cause I, there's like, I imagine this is the context of climate change, right? Now here's the thing, Greg, in the interest of bipartisanship and the interest of building bridges, I am willing to work with the environmentalists. I would really love to see a direct action to reduce the carbon emissions coming from Islamist terrorist groups. And on that list, I will throw on the Iranian mollas. Yeah, a lot of them have assumed room temperature and have reduced at or no longer contributing

14:19to global warming. Drug cartels, you know, I don't know exactly how many carbon emissions are produced by Coke. I suppose I guess, oh no, their cocoa plants give off chlorophyll, they help the environment, they absorb, so maybe they're pro cocaine and all that stuff. There are some operatives of Russia, China, you know, North Korea. We know, some might say this is harsh, but like if Kim Jong-un succumbing to cholesterol, is the kind of thing we need to have happen to reduce carbon emissions, that's a sacrifice of willing to make. And here's where Nestle's argument really gets ridiculous, like, as you mentioned, she was not willing to go to the Democratic state convention, cause she didn't feel safe there. And I remember thinking, you're the state attorney general, right? Your job is to enforce the law. Your job is to protect everybody else's rights. If you won't stand up for your own rights, why should anyone trust you to stand up for theirs? This is like almost the point of self-parity. And I think there is this, I imagine, if you're a Jewish Democrat in Michigan, you're probably going through some sort of identity crisis right now.

15:20You're probably going through some sort of like, oh my god, my party's gone nuts. They nominated a guy who not so subtly hates me, who sees everything through the lens of Israel. By the way, remember when they said young people didn't care about foreign policy? Well, all of a sudden they care in the sense of like Israel's the root of all evil. But I think the obvious answer, look, if I were a Jewish Democrat in the state of Michigan, I'd be like, you know, Mike Rogers doesn't look so bad right now. He's not some, you know, yeah, it was like, I don't see Mike Rogers campaigning around with Nick Fuentes. Okay, like you don't, like there is a real difference there between the anti-SMI and the right who I think are appropriately or maybe even insufficient. I'd like to see even more widespread condemnation, but you don't see Republican candidates running around with their nut job, you know, their nut job folks. Hassan Piker, you know, when Abdul-Auths, they had invited him to campaign with him on several college campuses. And you still see anybody who's in a sufficiently safe blue seat in the house is sitting down and doing interviews with Hassan Piker. So it's like, again, if your argument is,

16:21some of us have to die, you've lost the plot, particularly when you're a state attorney general, protect you, like, isn't that part of your duties there? So yeah, she's term limited, am I correct, Greg? She is, yes, can't get rid of her soon enough. Yeah, exactly. We have a moral imperative to place the needs of the world above even our own self-interest. If she had stopped there, it would be a terrible argument. Why would I vote for people who don't share my interests and would not be promoting policies that are good for me? But when you throw in even their own survival, you've just completely lost the plot. Now Rogers has two challenges here. One is to get people to move away from Syed and then two is take that extra step to actually vote for him and make it really a two vote swing if they normally vote Democrat and then go for him. So the polls are still tight. Detroit Free Press just had LCIED up. So even though this, I think right now, Rogers is succeeding in making this campaign about LCIED instead of LCIED succeeding and making it about Trump, it's still gonna be tough and there's a long way to go here.

17:22Yeah, I was gonna say on the one hand, I've heard people making the argument that the polling is over sampling Democrats and you look at them and else, you know, in fact, I recently heard the argument that if you're a Democrat in Michigan, you may not want to admit to a pollster, you're not gonna vote for LCIED. I hope that's the case, but if you're a Republican, you cannot act on that assumption. You have to assume that the polls are accurate and that you're behind in campaign really hard. So good luck, Mike Rogers. Dave Roberts here, there you are, surrounded by fans, sharing wings, sharing drinks, high-fiving random strangers. Everybody remembers the game. Nobody remembers the guy coughing behind you until a few days later at 2 a.m., you wake up with a fever and your throats on fire. Now what, urgent care, close, ER, slam, telehealth, maybe, but the pharmacies close, you needed a medical emergency kit. These aren't first aid kits, they contain essential prescriptions used for over 30 common conditions, sinus and ear infection, UTIs, stomach bug, travelers diarrhea, and more,

18:23on hand before you need them. Use your doctor-developed guidebook to select the right prescription or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. It's like an urgent care and drugstore at home. When you're sick, traveling, or stranded, you'll wish you ordered a medical emergency kit. Order online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say $45 with my promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue. I started ornod in 2013 and we make bike apparel. The best part of Shopify for me is our ability to run the business as essentially non-technical people. We're able to admin everything on the back end, front end, and sell things online easily. If Shopify were a bike accessory, I think it would actually be the bicycle. It's the thing that you do the thing on. We run the business on Shopify. Start your free trial on Shopify.com.

19:24All right, Jim, next, the insanity that's happening not that far away from us in Virginia. It's down on the Williamsburg area, which is about two to two and a half hours away, depending on traffic sometimes three. But a mother of five was convicted last week of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Her offense, this is according to Reason Magazine, her reason.com, allowing her five-year-old son to walk about half a mile by himself in their gated community. Until recently, Carrie Ann Parkinson lived in Leefe Williamsburg, Virginia. She and her husband Dallan moved there from Utah so Parkinson could attend William and Mary Law School. In June, when she was preparing for the bar and also happened to be eight months pregnant with her fifth child, she and her then-youngest Sam went for a bike ride as they often do. They stopped for her son's favorite activity, collecting goose feathers from the path near their community pond. When they got home, he asked if he could walk back and get some more. Parkinson said, yes, it's a short walk, along a sidewalk separated from the street by 10 feet of grass. Sam would have to cross two streets with cross walks,

20:25which he'd seen him do safely hundreds of times, including six times that morning. Off he went, she made lunch. A passerby saw Sam in alerted security. One of the community's security guards escorted the boy back and gave Parkinson an earful. Pretty soon, there were three cop cars, just as many cops, a security vehicle and two child protective services workers at Parkinson's door. CPS ended up investigating her for abuse and neglect. The cops, meanwhile, charged her with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. CPS found the allegations substantiated and placed Parkinson on the state's child abuse and neglect registry, where she will remain for seven years. The ordeal reached its nadir last week when a judge convicted Parkinson of the delinquency of a minor charge, a first degree misdemeanor. This comes with a sixth month jail sentence. The judge did suspend that pending good behavior and compliance with CPS's conditions. Parkinson assumes this means she will not be able to volunteer in her kids' schools, which might actually be benefit. But she fears it could also mean she will not get her law license.

21:26And so Jim, we've had five year old kids, our kids are significantly older than that. Now I would not probably let them walk alone half a mile at five years old, but when we were growing up, our parents told us to go ride your bike, hang out with your friends, especially in the summertime, be back for dinner, that kind of thing. So I don't necessarily agree with the decision she made, but the idea that CPS and the cops had to get involved here, this is way too much nanny status. Three cars, three police cars responding to this, making me suggest this is a quiet day in that community. Again, I have been accused of being a Vulcan in my lack of emotional response to news stories that are often hyped in a way to generate this. I would like to have asked the prosecutors what was the delinquency? Because it's contributing to the delinquency. What, how was this five year old harmed? How are they delinquent? How are they going astray in society? All they were doing was walking home, right? Now, I think you and I would create five strikes

22:28this is along the young side. And it's one of those things where I think if you and I were in law enforcement, you know, why is this five year old kid? You'd probably talk to the mom. You might say to the mom, hey, you know, five year old is a bit young to have your kid walking around the neighborhood unattended, you know, just be careful or something like that. I've noticed in our often political debates, there are two settings when someone is accused of a crime. No one is above the law. This is what you say when someone you don't like has been accused of a crime and is convicted. Or this is a police state. This is a witch hunt. This is, you know, clearly law enforcement and prosecutors are being unreasonable in this. And the no one is above the law kind of makes this argument that the law must be applied. And if you break the law, if you violate the law, any kind of circumstances, you must face the full consequences of it. There can be no recognition of any extenuating circumstances. There can be no understanding of the context. The law must be applied, right? Now people say like, you know, if we have a speed limit,

23:30it is conceivable that maybe I drive faster than the posted speed limit. That, you know, but it's questions like so people, there's a question when you get pulled over, the cop has the opportunity to decide, is this someone I want to write a ticket for or can I let them off of the warning? Now, if the cop is systemically saying, I'm going to write tickets for everyone, but if it's pretty girl, I'm going to let her off of the warning, that does make us feel a little bit like there's an inappropriate standard being applied. If you were, you know, all of one race was getting one treatment, all of another race was getting another treatment, then you'd kind of say, okay, there's something in violation of the spirit of the law going on here. But we give cops discretion about whether or not they're going to charge someone or let them off of the warning. Prosecutors all the time, I get to you, present it with cases and they have to decide, is this a case that we can convince a jury, beyond a reasonable doubt that a crime was committed here? And can we sustain that conviction upon appeal? Or are there evidence missing? Are there cases where the defendant is very sympathetic? And, you know, let's say you're a president

24:32and your testimonies just blatantly false in a whole bunch of ways, but you're getting up into your 80s and the jury is going to say, oh, this is a person with memory issues, as the case with Joe Biden. Prosecutors are entirely reasonable to say, you know what? I think a crime got committed here, but I have a real tough time proving it, or I can't prove it, you know, if the jury's going to be sympathetic to the defendant, I'm not going to bring charges. In this case, it is just very hard to believe that Carrie and Power Consider is some sort of menace to society. And that she belongs on the child abuse registry list, and that she possibly doesn't get her law degree and all of that stuff. Her five year old walked around her neighborhood alone. Yeah, you and I could argue about the wisdom of this. Kid was not hit by a car, kid was not abducted, kid was not, oh no, the kid did not go on a terrible crime spree. The five year old did not rob a liquor store. Again, I'm looking for that delinquency here and I'm not seeing it. So this just seems utterly ridiculous. And, you know, there are days I have my disagreements with the libertarians, but a reason magazine does a really good job is spot-winding cases like this, of which, you know, the police state has kind of gone

25:34absolutely out of control. Hopefully the attention will increase pressure for a better outcome for her and her family, but just deeply frustrating a multiple levels Greg. Just a good thing that geese aren't some protected species. Or else the feathers would lead to some sort of kicking down the door in the rate of the house. Green police, the EPA, you know. That's exactly where you're at. You know what I say when someone says we should protect the geese? Boo hiss. Because by the way, geese poop everywhere. Which to observe that when you're every sporting field, every school ground playground, geese, I feel like they have this amazing capacity to generate waste. So almost like the federal government. Dave Roberts here, there you are surrounded by fans, sharing wings, sharing drinks, high-fiving random strangers. Everybody remembers the game. Nobody remembers the guy coughing behind you until a few days later at 2 a.m. you wake up with the fever and your throats on fire. Now what, urgent care, close. ER, slam, telehealth, maybe. But the pharmacy's closed. You needed a medical emergency kit.

26:36These aren't first aid kits. They contain essential prescriptions used for over 30 common conditions. Sinus and ear infection, UTIs, stomach bug, travelers diaria and more. On hand before you need them. Use your doctor-developed guidebook to select the right prescription or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. It's like an urgent care and drugstore at home. When you're sick, traveling or stranded, you'll wish you ordered a medical emergency kit. Order online in minutes and it's shipped to your door and say $45 with my promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue. That's promo code blue at urgentcarekit.com slash blue. I started ornod in 2013 and we make bike apparel. The best part of Shopify for me is our ability to run the business as essentially non-technical people. We're able to admin everything on the back end, front end and sell things online easily. If Shopify were a bike accessory, I think it would actually be the bicycle.

27:36It's the thing that you do the thing on. We run the business on Shopify. Start your free trial on Shopify.com. Alright Jim onto the chaser now and Ryan Reynolds. He is gonna be in a new movie called Mayday on Apple TV. He stars as a US Navy pilot who builds a friendship with an eccentric XKGB agent obsessed with 80s American culture, this according to variety. And so on the red carpet, Ryan Reynolds has asked about that time of the 80s and oh, the nostalgia has blurred the lines of how awful it is. And just like Dan Osborne, Ryan Reynolds can't keep the F bomb out of his comments. And the 80s was a brutal, brutal time for people. It was a f***ness. And like, you know, people forget that it was like, that was a tremendous strike, political tensions everywhere. You know, we're still like pretty fresh off like a Cuban missile crisis,

28:37which is only like 15, 20 years before. So, you know, it's a tumultuous period, but you look back at it now and you're like, oh yeah, top gun, cocaine. Like, no, it was like a really scary. Yeah, cocaine wasn't a good thing about the 80s. Ryan Reynolds, I think that tells us a little bit of a window into your world. But, you know, the 80s had its challenges, of course, Jim, the Soviets were still, you know, pretty strong. They were terrorism. We had the Iranian hostage crisis bleeding into the early 80s. There were definitely challenges, but compared to the tumultuousness of the 70s, you know, the eight years of Ronald Reagan creating mourning in America, the pub culture was awesome. The music was awesome. Like we said, there was so much freedom as a kid. And none of it ended up on social media. It was awesome. So, I've enjoyed a great deal of Ryan Reynolds' work. So, I'm a little disappointed to hear this. I also point out though that like a lot of Hollywood celebrities, sometimes they're very open about their politics. Sometimes they're less outspoken. And I think up until now, Ryan Reynolds hasn't been

29:37particularly outspoken in his political views. But I kind of noticed that, you know, when you ask the question on the red carpet, some, you know, celebrities are very good at deflecting and not taking the bait. Others not so much. But when Reynolds says this was time of great violence and great strife, we should point out that March 12, 1988, 2 a.m. someone kicked in a door at a home grabbed another man by the throat and punched him in a dispute over a girlfriend. The perpetrator of that, of course, was Troy Jackson, who we talked about the previous martini. And the woman in question that they were fighting over was his cousin. And I understand the man who was attacked was Ryan Reynolds. So all of a sudden, this all fits together. It makes sense that why Ryan Reynolds would think of the 80s, but it was not Ryan Reynolds. But the first two parts of that are true. Look, you know, is a portion of the reason you and I have such great nostalgia for the 80s, the fact that we were kids and teens then. And yeah, like that, you know, like, you know,

30:38we didn't have to pay more than just then. We didn't, you know, like life was simpler and easier other than like maybe bullies and stuff like that. You know, was there probably, you know, were there problems in the 80s? Sure, you know, this was the era as he mentions cocaine. This was when you know, cocaine was turning into crack. This is when there was a much higher crime rates compared to that, even with the COVID surge. Sure, the 80s had their problems. But there was a reason, the interesting is like, you look back at the overwhelming tone in the pop culture of that era. Was remarkably positive, was remarkably churri optimistic. I don't know if you want to say that was a Reagan effect or other things, economic boom, whatever it was that was going on, Americans feeling pretty good about themselves. And I think it says something that you see this wave of 80s nostalgia, stranger things, things like that. Did it kind of this sense of like, I feel like there's a sense that we have lost that. It was also with the internet coming along in the, you know, mid 90s or so, it was one of the last areas of the monoculture. One of the last time Reagan was able to keep up with what was going on because he was watching prime time television and saying, where's the beef referring to different strokes

31:40and Nancy Reagan was able to do those things. Like being in tune with the same thing that everybody else was watching was kind of an interesting power that I think is just you don't, you can't do it because we no longer have the monoculture. And everyone's watching a million things at once. This is much longer than we usually do in our chaser segments, so I'll wrap it up. But there's possibility we could do some sort of like entirely 80s focused episode of this. Just talking about the legacy of the 80s and why Rinal Reynolds is not remembering it all that accurately. No, well, he's from Canada too. So keep in mind the 80s in Canada, I might not have been that great under Pierre Trudeau. Maybe it was a nightmareish, terrible time back then. Yes, no doubt. But yeah, pop culture back then, you had movies that were unabashedly anti-communist and very much pro-American. You had high school kids, Wolverines fending off the Russian invasion in Red Dawn. You had Rocky single-handedly starting the beginning of the end of the Cold War by knocking out of Vondraggo. And of course, the Bears were world champions

32:41right in the middle of the decade. So I mean, what's not to love? Well, I was gonna observe that you could say, oh, well, if it's militarism and this excitement of American, aren't you learning to trust the state? Aren't you just saying that the military industrial complex is a good thing? But Greg, I'm gonna observe that let's say your father gets taken hostage in some generic Middle Eastern country. Iron Eagle taught us that as long as you have Louis Gossett Jr. as your mentor, you can just steal a US combat plane and do it yourself. And that's the American spirit. We're not gonna wait for the government to save hostages. We're gonna steal planes and do it ourselves. It's individual responsibility. And that was the message of the 1980s. That's the last call of the week for the 3-MAR Teenie Lunch. A reminder to please subscribe to the 3-MAR Teenie Lunch Monday through Friday. And get your friends to join us as well. We'd love to have them listening. Thanks also for your five star ratings and your kind reviews. Please keep those coming. They're a huge help to us. You can also get us on those home devices. All you have to say is play 3-MAR Teenie Lunch podcast. Follow us both on X.

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