Tim, batten clean up.

Yeah.

[chuckles] So, um, I mean, I probably like a bunch of people, as I learned more and more about kind of what was on offer, um, I spent most of Friday texting and emailing and calling whoever I could to say, "Oh my God, we can't do this." Um, and I think, uh, a-and, you know, credit to the, to the Prime Minister and the government for, you know, um, making the right decision.

I think...

As I think about it, it's weighed across a bunch of categories.

So I think there was, you know, any negotiation around the common rules across two nations has a sovereignty impact, uh, to some degree.

There also is, you know, what is the scope for industrial policy that you have as an independent nation, and that.

So did the Americans actually want these talks to fail? Ian.

And I would love to get your thoughts on, is it true that people think that there's a lot of narcissists in Washington, D.C.? And what is the psychology of power?

Oh.

Books can be written on each one.

First of all, let's understand narcissism.

Sometimes it can be a tremendous self-absorption that one is the whole center of the universe.

Everything matters in terms of what I think, not anything else, in the most extreme version, almost sociopathic and solipsistic.

Everybody is here to please me.

He became the fable.

Yeah

... kind of devolves to a pox-on-all-your-houses approach to it, frankly.

Um, so but I, but I...

The government hasn't really said, "Judge us on healthcare." So in a sense, that's not surprising.

Um, uh, you know, I agree with Brian.

They've, they've said, "One of the things we're going to do is get a lot of big things going." Um, and those are both private sector-led initiatives to reduce the regulatory time, to get foreign investment, to, you know, mines and critical minerals and trade corridors and energy and transmission, all very big things.

Um, and the challenge, as you know, is if I'm reducing, you know, a mine in this country historically has taken 17 years from finding the, you know, stuff in the ground to actually getting it into market.

It tends to err on the side of the outrage, but yeah.

I know that wasn't part of this year, it just happened, but it is for the part of the next two years, If you can just briefly, before I kind of get into it, if you could just briefly give me your thinking in the context of what we've just spoken about for that thinking and that decision.

Yeah, so I suppose, Tony, like if you compare the Munster hurling to the Munster football, you obviously have a way more competition in the hurling because you've... five counties that in any given year you know could beat one another in in in football unfortunately that is not the case um you've you've carry kind of well ahead of of of most of the counties and corkton would be would be coming in number two so like as as a concept going back to my earlier point like what i firmly believe in is that whether it's football or whether it's hurling you should progress based on your merits and based on your capacity on the field to compete and win games.

And overall, I suppose, what we passed last year was exactly as you've described, a seeded-based championship, which is based in the league.

I think it's different this year to win other... attempts were made previously simply because the advent of the um the talton cup has in my view completely changed the landscape um from 2026 to maybe even 10 years ago to 2016. so like the talton it's obviously the the a league-based system as well as to who participates in that So for me, the logical extension to that was to in a province like ours where you've got such an imbalance between counties in football that we had to make some intervention.

And to me, the fairest way of doing that was a league based system.

We put that to the council and the council approved that.

And notwithstanding the fact that it didn't come in in 2026, again, it's important to say that we did engage a lot with all the counties in the province.

outside coaches and stuff.

It's coming back to those who have served and as we honor those who gave the full measure of devotion.

That's right.

You know, there's people who don't.

really understand military service and what it takes to do that.

I mean, if you're going to take an oath and you're to protect and defend the constitution of the United States, that's not talk, that's action.

To protect and defend means we have to be willing to put our life in line.

And that is whether one is a frontline infantry or whether one's a yeoman on a ship or someone's a flipping burgers in the chow hall, everybody at some point gets called upon to do something there.

What's happening, Tim? What needs to be done from your perspective?

You and Danny, you show up the next day?

Right.

We, we showed up the next day, so our involvement was after the scene had been processed already.

So it was a matter of going over the evidence that was collected, checking interviews that were a ... had already been completed by, uh, prior shift detectives.

Um, and, and just from that point, just trying to go back and re-interview people that, uh, determine if it was g- uh, what gang.

We knew it was gang related, uh, uh, just from the area that it was at, it involved in in the city.

Um, and, and the, the father of the, uh, uh, the little boy was heavily involved in gangs, so we knew there was a gang aspect to it.

got.Why'd you have to get a wire for inside the jail? Aren't all r- calls recorded, Timmy?

So can we talk a little bit about that? Like, how's that all playing out, and what's gonna be the, the net benefit for the Republican or the Democratic Party?

Yeah, it's, it's a race to the bottom, but it's not, uh, a very even race.

So typically, you know, maps are redrawn by state legislatures after the census.

Um, sometimes they're redrawn several times as, as a result of court challenges, but as, as you mentioned, what happened last year was something that I have not seen, uh, before, which was Donald Trump just telling Texas, "Give me five seats," and Texas coming up with a kind of a fake, you know, uh, legalistic argument for why they needed to.

You know, that got the ball rolling.

California responded with, um, its own maps.

Now, one of the interesting distinctions here is that Republican legislatures are, are just doing this.

So that leads me to ask you, like, i-i- is the MAGA base actually splintering, uh, because of these foreign wars, uh, because of, of the prices of everything going up, President Trump not sticking to, you know, what he said on the campaign trail?

Yeah

... massive facilities.

What type of jobs are created for these communities once they're built? It's really striking, uh, you know, in, in the, take this co- community in Louisiana where Hyperion is being built.

It's one of the largest data centers ever built.

I think there's, you know, something like 11 buildings and, and two power plants and, and whatnot.

Requires a lot of engineering and, and, and will take years to kind of come o- come online.

So there will be thousands of construction workers over successive waves, and so you'll have different groups of thousands.

Right

Did you have a study done or do you know more about the cost of all this and how it affects everyone?

An organization which I'm a board member for called Schizophrenia and Psychosis Action Alliance, we did a study a couple of years ago and we're repeating it now.

Here is what we believe the cost of schizophrenia, that's 1% of the population, but this is the cost.

If you take direct medical care, psychiatric care for the disease itself, schizophrenia, if you take the fact that 75% of people with schizophrenia have at least one chronic illness, 50% have at least two, and 30% have at least three, this is everything from cancer, bone disease, gum disease, skin diseases, whatever else it is, all those cost money.

You look at lost revenue because they're not working.

You look at families have to pick up the cost of this because there's other medical bills that Medicaid or insurance may not pay for.

You have the whole justice system, where about 40% or 50% of people in jail have a mental illness, about 20% to 30% have a severe mental illness.

So in closing, what would you like to tell the listeners that you think is just so important that they need to hear to better understand what the legislators are trying to do and to better understand in what they need to do to work with these people that can help them?

Just explain what that law does.

Well, you're right.

It was passed in nineteen-ninety, the same year of the death of Ryan White, the heroic little boy with AIDS that the, um, the bill was named for.

And, um, this is what's called a payer of last resort for people with HIV in the US who have no access to other, um, health coverage, you know, whether it's through a job or whether it's through Medicaid or Medicare because they're not old enough or, um, they make a little too much money for Medicaid.

So it, it's a really important program because, like you said, it covers about twenty-five percent of people living with HIV in the US, which is probably somewhere in the realm of, like, three hundred thousand people.

Um, there's about a little over a million people living with HIV in the US.

Um, and it's a really well-designed program because, um, it provides core services like meds and treatment, but it provides also a lot of what's called wraparound services, which are services that a lot of folks that use the program who are low income really need.

Why are various states looking to cut funding related to that program now?

It's driving people crazy.

Absolutely.

And it's so intense.

And once people continue to state their point of view, they have to defend their point of view.

You know, the psychological concept of cognitive dissonance.

We don't want to pay attention to anything that challenges our point of view, and we will ignore anything that could change our point of view.

So people double down and triple down on these things.

And Tim, I want you to comment a little bit more maybe on Iranian warfare strategy, how they go about and what you anticipate as we look to the days ahead.

Tim, there's a lot of work to do.

It's amazing.

So in Israel, it is a country – I remember being there in the past and asking some of their military leaders about their PTSD rate.

And they said at the time it was low.

This was long before this happened.

They said it was low because the whole nation has to serve in the military, and they're constantly innovating.

They really are the petri dish of looking at what can be done with trauma reactions.

But Tim, just your take on what's happening in the country and this kind of rising rage that we're seeing.