Hello, friends, and happy Thursday. I'll be hosting a hangout tonight at 8 p.m. If you are listening on June 4th, I hope to see you tonight at 8 p.m. If you're a paid subscriber, you will be getting a link emailed to you. If you're not getting an email for any reason, email me. Stand up with pete at gmail.com, and I will get it done taking care of somewhere or another. You are invited to hang out with us tonight at 8 p.m. It's always fun, rejuvenating, inspiring, funny, enlightening, and informative. So much more. And so I hope to see you tonight at 8 p.m. Also, I should be live with the great Celeste Headley today around 10 a.m. East, you can thank our friend Tina Winsett for recommending

I get her on this week. So we should be live on YouTube and Substack at Stand Up with Pete around 10

a.m. East today. Joining me on today's show, a legend for me, one of my favorite authors, a journalist

and author now of 11 books, including the New York Times bestseller, Last Child in

the Woods, which changed my life and the life of my family, especially my two amazing daughters.

He's the co-founder of the Child Nature Network. He is, my friend, he is Richard Louvre. He has a new

book. It's called Noticing Intimate Encounters with the Natural World,

and you should go buy it. And the rest of his books, if you want to skip to my interview with

Rich Louvre right now, it begins at about 28 minutes in. But like every day, I've got your

headlines. I've got your clip show. Let's get to it. Let's start with the fact that the

House of Representatives voted to end

the Iran war, is the short version. A little longer. Four House Republicans sided with Democrats

yesterday to direct General Fatton to halt U.S. engagement in Iran and require permission from

Congress to continue operations in the Middle East. The vote, New York Times writes, was a remarkable rebuke of Trump and his handling of the war.

The adopted resolution, which now heads to the Senate, was the latest sign of divisions between the White House and Republicans on Capitol Hill.

In a vote last month to move forward with a similar measure, a handful of GOP senators also broke ranks.

But if the measure were to pass the upper chamber, the ability of Congress to force a president to withdraw troops remains a contested legal question.

So I don't think that's going to make a big difference in the actual war funding or ongoing as it stands.

Maybe I'm wrong, but getting that vote on the record is pretty important.

And we can then interpret the contested legal question.

And also in the Middle East, Iran fired a barrage of missiles and drones at Kuwait,

killing a civilian, injuring dozens of others at the country's only international airport.

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