WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.980 Join us on Now We Consume. Take in the knowledge. 00:00:04.120 --> 00:00:07.280 Take in the laughs. Indulge in the topics with 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:10.859 us. The Now We Consume podcast will take you 00:00:10.859 --> 00:00:13.179 through the parts of your day you normally dread. 00:00:13.939 --> 00:00:16.559 Why suffer through the existential crisis of 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:20.160 life alone when you can do it with us? And now 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:23.179 we consume. This is not meant to be a conspiracy 00:00:23.179 --> 00:00:25.239 episode or podcast, but we make over some topics 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:26.500 that dance that line like a toddler dances on 00:00:26.500 --> 00:00:28.820 their mother's last nerve. This podcast is rated 00:00:28.820 --> 00:00:32.140 I. For immature audiences only. Welcome to the 00:00:32.140 --> 00:00:34.439 Now We Consume podcast, everybody. I'm your host, 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:39.100 Pip. Tonight, here with me is my co -host, Gibbs. 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:46.079 Hi! Gibbles is off tonight. He's taking a little 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:51.179 bit of a breather. And before we get too far 00:00:51.179 --> 00:00:54.240 into this, I wanted to kind of bring something 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:58.850 up. Have you had a chance to... Do any of the 00:00:58.850 --> 00:01:04.010 AI -guided health measures? Like, have you used 00:01:04.010 --> 00:01:07.109 chat GPT to kind of get health advice? What? 00:01:07.209 --> 00:01:10.430 No. What? Huh? Okay, so this is something that's 00:01:10.430 --> 00:01:12.950 becoming kind of popular with rising medical 00:01:12.950 --> 00:01:17.129 care costs and everything. So here's the situation. 00:01:17.349 --> 00:01:19.230 I wasn't really feeling that great earlier in 00:01:19.230 --> 00:01:22.569 the week, and my doctor was out on vacation, 00:01:22.689 --> 00:01:26.689 so I couldn't do a telehealth appointment. Here's 00:01:26.689 --> 00:01:29.819 the issue, though. Um, we talk about AI a lot 00:01:29.819 --> 00:01:33.939 on this show and I, I was kind of hesitant about 00:01:33.939 --> 00:01:37.040 this, but I decided to use one of the new chat 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:41.859 GPT based medical advisor apps. So I described 00:01:41.859 --> 00:01:45.379 all my symptoms and everything and the advice 00:01:45.379 --> 00:01:53.219 it gave me put garlic in my butt. Well, now I 00:01:53.219 --> 00:01:56.019 was a little leery at first, but I figured, you 00:01:56.019 --> 00:01:59.040 know what? This AI has the collective knowledge 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:02.519 of all of mankind. There's no way that this is 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:06.739 bad advice, right? So here I am. It's a few days 00:02:06.739 --> 00:02:09.340 out. I don't really feel all that much better. 00:02:09.520 --> 00:02:13.120 I smell terrible. My butthole hurts and it smells 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:15.699 like an Italian kitchen when I fart. However, 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:18.479 I don't think I need to worry about any gay vampires 00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:33.180 anytime soon. So there is that. How do I do a 00:02:33.180 --> 00:02:35.500 vampire accent for, oh, that's a cave. I can't 00:02:35.500 --> 00:02:40.699 go in. No, I do not want to enter your cave of 00:02:40.699 --> 00:02:45.819 wonders. Wow. I am allergic. Why is it spicy? 00:02:47.620 --> 00:02:52.520 Why is it spicy? I gotta give you credit. That's 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:55.819 probably, I was just as confused from start to 00:02:55.819 --> 00:02:58.330 end on that one. That was good. Awesome. That's 00:02:58.330 --> 00:03:01.449 my goal. I could not have guessed where you were 00:03:01.449 --> 00:03:04.050 going. You could have given me a six -month lead 00:03:04.050 --> 00:03:11.430 on that one. No clue. No clue. Oh, my Lord. Shoot 00:03:11.430 --> 00:03:13.229 for the moon and aim for the face, right, buddy? 00:03:13.930 --> 00:03:16.689 But welcome to the show, everybody. Tonight, 00:03:16.930 --> 00:03:20.009 we're going to go down some of the world events 00:03:20.009 --> 00:03:23.729 topics. We know the world's kind of catching 00:03:23.729 --> 00:03:26.300 fire a little bit again. So we're going to talk 00:03:26.300 --> 00:03:28.879 about some of the issues going on there and about. 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:34.280 Right now, you look around and the world's kind 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:36.400 of unrecognizable compared to just a few weeks 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:40.199 ago. We have our military forces forward deployed 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:43.580 in active combat once again. We've got some state 00:03:43.580 --> 00:03:45.819 primaries that are in the books. And for the 00:03:45.819 --> 00:03:49.120 first time in decades, there are now no limits 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:52.099 on the world's nuclear arsenals. That's kind 00:03:52.099 --> 00:03:55.849 of a terrifying thought. We're not going to sit 00:03:55.849 --> 00:03:59.330 here and give you the left versus right diatribe. 00:03:59.810 --> 00:04:01.530 We're going to sit here and look at what's going 00:04:01.530 --> 00:04:06.430 on behind the scenes a little bit. Kind of reminds 00:04:06.430 --> 00:04:09.110 you of the early 2000s with a lot of the rhetoric 00:04:09.110 --> 00:04:12.310 getting tossed around immediately post 9 -11 00:04:12.310 --> 00:04:18.029 with some of the immediate feel. I hate to say 00:04:18.029 --> 00:04:19.730 it, but it feels like it's out of the same playbook 00:04:19.730 --> 00:04:25.519 we've been using since Korea. Yeah. Before we 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:28.519 go too far into the notes, there were some things 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:31.000 that we were talking about, and I do want to 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:34.120 bring this stuff up early, just because it's 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:35.620 going to tie into some of the stuff we're going 00:04:35.620 --> 00:04:40.399 to talk about later. As of yesterday, we're recording 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:44.660 this on Sunday the 22nd, so as of yesterday, 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:48.339 the president has threatened Iran's power grid 00:04:48.339 --> 00:04:54.519 if they don't open up the Strait of Hormuz. the 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:58.459 president from his post on Truth Social. If Iran 00:04:58.459 --> 00:05:01.259 doesn't fully open without threat the Strait 00:05:01.259 --> 00:05:03.860 of Hormuz within 48 hours from this exact point 00:05:03.860 --> 00:05:06.579 in time, the United States of America will hit 00:05:06.579 --> 00:05:09.339 and obliterate their various power plants, starting 00:05:09.339 --> 00:05:13.199 with the biggest one first. And that was written 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:17.379 on Truth Social on Saturday night. So Iran would 00:05:17.379 --> 00:05:22.339 have another, what, 24 to 36 -ish hours as of 00:05:22.339 --> 00:05:26.720 right now from time of recording. So I do want 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:29.000 to point out that under the Geneva checklists, 00:05:29.100 --> 00:05:32.800 attacks on objects indispensable to the survival 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:36.019 of the civilian population are technically prohibited. 00:05:37.139 --> 00:05:40.579 And you had made a very valid point, if you want 00:05:40.579 --> 00:05:45.319 to redo that. Yeah, so if you want to read between 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:48.519 the lines here, it's the destruction of something 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:50.579 like that, of infrastructure like that, is technically 00:05:50.579 --> 00:05:52.910 against the Geneva Convention. My thought would 00:05:52.910 --> 00:05:54.709 be, don't destroy the power plant, you just destroy 00:05:54.709 --> 00:05:57.269 the lines coming off of it. They could say, I 00:05:57.269 --> 00:05:59.490 didn't destroy anything that's illegal, I just 00:05:59.490 --> 00:06:01.029 destroyed the lines. They're not maintaining 00:06:01.029 --> 00:06:02.850 their lines or not, whatever. You can read between 00:06:02.850 --> 00:06:07.689 the lines if you want. I guess my point is, we're 00:06:07.689 --> 00:06:10.230 in kind of the situation where, unfortunately, 00:06:10.269 --> 00:06:13.370 we're kind of committed to this. Our foot's in 00:06:13.370 --> 00:06:16.589 the door. And unfortunately, just like we saw 00:06:16.589 --> 00:06:19.250 with Afghanistan, we saw with Iraq, we saw with 00:06:19.250 --> 00:06:21.620 everything else. We're committed to kind of seeing 00:06:21.620 --> 00:06:23.560 this thing through now. Regardless of left, right, 00:06:23.660 --> 00:06:26.319 we agree or disagree. So with this case, he could 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:28.660 definitely start attacking power infrastructure 00:06:28.660 --> 00:06:30.240 and that would quickly shut things down. The 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:34.079 catch is, oh man, the international backlash 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:35.759 is going to be huge on that. If you just start 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:38.740 dropping bombs on power, immediately people are 00:06:38.740 --> 00:06:40.899 going to say, oh my God, you're costing the lives 00:06:40.899 --> 00:06:42.540 of millions of innocent people. You're affecting 00:06:42.540 --> 00:06:45.399 people, affecting economies jobs. So it's one 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:47.750 of those things where. He needs to be careful 00:06:47.750 --> 00:06:50.370 how he does this. If it just harms the immediate 00:06:50.370 --> 00:06:52.089 infrastructure and leaves the power station intact, 00:06:52.410 --> 00:06:53.850 then it says, hey, you're going to go without 00:06:53.850 --> 00:06:56.110 power for a few days or a week. This is a warning. 00:06:56.310 --> 00:06:59.069 And I will just keep doing this. So, like, knock 00:06:59.069 --> 00:07:01.529 it off. That would be one thing. But if he just 00:07:01.529 --> 00:07:03.709 completely destroys the power station, rebuilding 00:07:03.709 --> 00:07:06.149 infrastructure like that takes months, if not 00:07:06.149 --> 00:07:08.829 sometimes years. Because really, there's a supply 00:07:08.829 --> 00:07:11.509 shortage, really, globally for a lot of that 00:07:11.509 --> 00:07:14.769 heavy -duty power infrastructure. So, and especially... 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:16.579 no one's exactly going to prioritize shipping 00:07:16.579 --> 00:07:19.899 it to Iran. Right. You know, let's face it. So 00:07:19.899 --> 00:07:22.720 I hope that they're just being careful and understand 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:26.160 that there are options more than just, you know, 00:07:26.180 --> 00:07:28.160 going with the big, the biggest button, just 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:30.360 be like, ah, destroy it all. Let's, let's, you 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:32.139 know, use a scalpel. Let's have a little bit 00:07:32.139 --> 00:07:34.720 of subtlety here. You know, there are other options. 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:37.860 Yeah. But speaking of the biggest button, I do 00:07:37.860 --> 00:07:40.639 want to reiterate that nukes have actually been 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:44.339 threatened at this point. Yeah. It came more 00:07:44.339 --> 00:07:48.319 or less after the gas field attacks when Israel 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:51.040 kind of went after Iran's gas fields. And then 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:54.439 Iran, what was it? They retaliated against Qatar. 00:07:55.100 --> 00:07:57.759 Yeah. But didn't Trump also say that like he 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:01.180 was annoyed with Israel? Yeah. Doing those strikes 00:08:01.180 --> 00:08:04.579 as well. So it's kind of it's this cluster of 00:08:04.579 --> 00:08:06.459 like people doing stuff without having any sort 00:08:06.459 --> 00:08:08.740 of organization. And they really got to kind 00:08:08.740 --> 00:08:10.079 of talk the stuff through. Like if we're going 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:12.430 to be working with them hand in hand. You know, 00:08:12.449 --> 00:08:14.110 you guys got to really kind of communicate hand 00:08:14.110 --> 00:08:16.410 in hand before you just go start willingly bombing 00:08:16.410 --> 00:08:21.269 shit. Yeah. He had made the comment that Netanyahu 00:08:21.269 --> 00:08:24.170 doesn't care how the midterms turn out for him 00:08:24.170 --> 00:08:27.790 because he's not the one in them. Yeah. So the 00:08:27.790 --> 00:08:29.829 president obviously does care about the midterms. 00:08:29.870 --> 00:08:33.230 So and, you know, we're going to talk about the 00:08:33.230 --> 00:08:35.909 whole war versus the elections and everything. 00:08:36.129 --> 00:08:40.230 So. In fact, that's the first section of our 00:08:40.230 --> 00:08:43.360 notes here. The midterm madness with the 2026 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:46.159 shift. Can I do a quick shout out before we get 00:08:46.159 --> 00:08:49.019 too deep? Absolutely. I want to say congratulations 00:08:49.019 --> 00:08:52.679 to Brandon Herrera for winning Texas. He's going 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:54.019 to be winning that. Now, granted, it has to go 00:08:54.019 --> 00:08:56.960 to the official vote. But if anyone wants to 00:08:56.960 --> 00:08:58.879 look up the horrible story about Tony Gonzalez, 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:02.919 his opponent, look that up because holy crap. 00:09:03.740 --> 00:09:05.679 I have never seen somebody implode their own 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:07.659 campaign as quickly by being an absolute POS. 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:11.500 So bad for him. Good for Brandon Herrera. He's 00:09:11.500 --> 00:09:14.299 a big YouTuber, a big Second Amendment guy, but 00:09:14.299 --> 00:09:16.039 also someone that's just very level -headed, 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:17.960 which I think is something we kind of need because 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:20.659 it seems like everybody's absolutely insane who's 00:09:20.659 --> 00:09:23.019 in Congress. It's like, are you insane and old? 00:09:23.100 --> 00:09:25.659 Yes, put him in Congress. It's like, great. On 00:09:25.659 --> 00:09:30.220 that, insane and in Congress, I can't believe 00:09:30.220 --> 00:09:31.820 these words are going to come out of my mouth. 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:36.279 And suddenly his name just Zoidberg'd off my 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:39.139 head. The bald guy out of Pennsylvania that everyone 00:09:39.139 --> 00:09:41.620 thought was Dutz always wearing tracksuits. Oh, 00:09:41.779 --> 00:09:46.759 Fetterman. Fetterman, yes. I cannot believe the 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:49.100 level of level -headedness and logic that is 00:09:49.100 --> 00:09:51.940 coming out of that man. I will be the one that 00:09:51.940 --> 00:09:53.840 has to say it. He's the most logical Democrat 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:57.740 I've seen, and he has brain damage. The fact 00:09:57.740 --> 00:10:00.639 that Fetterman is now the voice of reason in 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:04.100 Congress is terrifying, but it also confirms 00:10:05.340 --> 00:10:09.899 We are on the idiocracy timeline. Yeah. Because 00:10:09.899 --> 00:10:13.799 holy shit. He's the only one that's calling out 00:10:13.799 --> 00:10:15.840 both sides and not being tribal about it. I guess 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:18.899 that's like a slight aside. I think that's what 00:10:18.899 --> 00:10:21.519 a lot of people especially, I think under the 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:23.440 age of like 45 or 50, a lot of us that have been 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:25.279 around enough that have been like, for instance, 00:10:25.320 --> 00:10:26.840 in my lifetime, we've always been at war in the 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:29.080 Middle East. And it gets to a point where it's 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:31.379 like, we're all just fucking sick of it. We're 00:10:31.379 --> 00:10:34.659 all over this. Well, there's almost no justification. 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:39.460 And I'm not saying I'm not saying Iran doesn't 00:10:39.460 --> 00:10:42.460 deserve it because they do a lot, a lot of really, 00:10:42.519 --> 00:10:44.419 really bad stuff. They funded national terrorism. 00:10:44.580 --> 00:10:46.840 Yeah, they do a lot of things that are horrific. 00:10:47.299 --> 00:10:50.659 But it's sitting here looking, going, God damn, 00:10:50.779 --> 00:10:53.059 there's another stupid war for another stupid 00:10:53.059 --> 00:10:55.740 reason. More of my tax dollars. It's like it's 00:10:55.740 --> 00:10:57.779 like that infamous meme from the Ukrainian war 00:10:57.779 --> 00:11:00.059 of like. My tax dollars from the enemy missiles 00:11:00.059 --> 00:11:02.299 and somehow my tax dollars that are also from 00:11:02.299 --> 00:11:03.480 our missiles. It's like at the end of the day, 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:05.539 we keep paying for it. Yeah. At the end of the 00:11:05.539 --> 00:11:10.159 day, we're the ones that lose. Yeah. I don't 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:14.360 think that Trump wants to see this conflict go 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:18.659 for very long, which is both good and bad because 00:11:18.659 --> 00:11:21.259 good. I don't think he wants to see an expensive 00:11:21.259 --> 00:11:24.659 extended commitment. True. Bad because I don't 00:11:24.659 --> 00:11:26.919 think he'll pull punches to see it ended quickly. 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:30.779 And the other problem, too, is like we're not 00:11:30.779 --> 00:11:32.360 going to win the culture war. So the problem 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:35.519 is we might win militarily in terms of destroying 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:39.519 and or incapacitating their military. But culturally, 00:11:39.700 --> 00:11:42.440 the problem is, are we just going to do the same 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:44.940 thing like Iraq and Afghanistan, where we just 00:11:44.940 --> 00:11:47.919 create more terrorists, more rebels that are 00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:49.320 going to view us as the enemy in the Western 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:51.120 world again? The problem is, are we just going 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:53.639 to be again doing the same thing that the CIA 00:11:53.639 --> 00:11:56.179 did in the 80s where they armed? You know, the 00:11:56.179 --> 00:11:59.679 Afghanis and in the Middle East in the 80s and 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:02.399 then in the early to mid 90s, we had to invade 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:05.200 and clear them out. Is the same thing going to 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:09.659 happen again is my big question. So don't be 00:12:09.659 --> 00:12:12.720 surprised if in a few presidents they say, well, 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:14.600 you know, Iran is really unstable and there's 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:16.100 all these different fighting factions and then 00:12:16.100 --> 00:12:18.600 they invade again. And we're back in we're back 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:20.779 in the sandbox. We're back in this boat, you 00:12:20.779 --> 00:12:24.440 know, so it's possible. I don't think he's really 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:26.139 going to actually solve anything, unfortunately, 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:28.980 because there's really no pressure to, you know, 00:12:28.980 --> 00:12:30.659 because think about this, what, what pressure 00:12:30.659 --> 00:12:33.639 after we leave, no one's going to hold anything 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:35.299 accountable. Nobody's, nobody's going to say 00:12:35.299 --> 00:12:37.200 this, this has to happen or that has to happen. 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:41.919 So I think the biggest thing that they're wanting 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:45.159 to come out of this is they want to remove the 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:50.419 oppressive leadership and all of the, well, yeah. 00:12:50.500 --> 00:12:52.539 And all of the people that support that regime. 00:12:53.049 --> 00:12:55.450 And let the people of Iran kind of put it back 00:12:55.450 --> 00:12:57.450 to how it was and the direction it was going 00:12:57.450 --> 00:13:01.889 back in the 70s. But I guess the catch is, will 00:13:01.889 --> 00:13:04.389 those people win? Because we've failed. We're 00:13:04.389 --> 00:13:06.750 like 0 for 5 in the Middle East right now. Yeah. 00:13:07.250 --> 00:13:10.490 Because we've absolutely fucked over Libya. We 00:13:10.490 --> 00:13:12.710 absolutely fucked over Afghanistan. We absolutely 00:13:12.710 --> 00:13:18.429 fucked over Iraq. Yeah. We've not been successful 00:13:18.429 --> 00:13:21.220 at this. I know you're not old enough, and I'm 00:13:21.220 --> 00:13:23.879 barely old enough to really remember reading 00:13:23.879 --> 00:13:27.720 about Iran back in the 70s, but it was a place 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:33.259 that was very much up and coming. It was going 00:13:33.259 --> 00:13:38.879 the route of Dubai without the threat and oppression 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:41.460 of Islam. That's exactly where I was going to 00:13:41.460 --> 00:13:43.740 go with that. Before the overtake of Islam in 00:13:43.740 --> 00:13:45.820 the government, it was wildly considered one 00:13:45.820 --> 00:13:47.679 of the most prosperous and really... one of the 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:50.759 wealthiest countries in the Middle East. So it 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:54.960 had a lot going for it, but unfortunately, once 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:56.460 a religion took over the government, it started 00:13:56.460 --> 00:13:59.340 going to a more oppressive regime, and that's 00:13:59.340 --> 00:14:01.019 the direction they chose. So I agree with you. 00:14:01.019 --> 00:14:03.100 Hopefully it can go back to that. The question 00:14:03.100 --> 00:14:06.179 is, will it? Because, again, you're not changing 00:14:06.179 --> 00:14:09.279 the culture of the country, and you're also not 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:10.940 putting America in a very good light. It would 00:14:10.940 --> 00:14:15.320 be one thing if we were doing... I guess it's 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:17.840 a... bit of a problem with semantics too of like 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:21.159 how do you necessarily change that country without 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:24.299 causing the people that live there undue harm 00:14:24.299 --> 00:14:26.860 and inconvenience yeah and then the problem is 00:14:26.860 --> 00:14:29.460 in order for us to make it better to spread western 00:14:29.460 --> 00:14:31.559 influence that would mean a boatload of money 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:34.519 that even i can't guarantee it goes to the people 00:14:34.519 --> 00:14:36.059 it could just go back to the government to fund 00:14:36.059 --> 00:14:39.460 more terrorists so it's like how how do you actually 00:14:39.460 --> 00:14:41.440 you really have to have this all this stuff in 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:43.799 order like for the next 10 years yeah before 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:45.980 you do it and i i hate to say it i don't know 00:14:45.980 --> 00:14:48.220 if they really thought this through i wonder 00:14:48.220 --> 00:14:50.200 if it was a knee -jerk reaction like well i guess 00:14:50.200 --> 00:14:52.840 we got to do this and they did it and it's going 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:55.200 well it's going i'd rather at least be in and 00:14:55.200 --> 00:14:57.059 out rather than another 10 or 15 year war where 00:14:57.059 --> 00:14:59.580 we lose you know trillions of dollars and tens 00:14:59.580 --> 00:15:02.440 of thousands of lives i take this as the alternative 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:05.139 but it's like hopefully they've thought this 00:15:05.139 --> 00:15:09.580 through yeah i think if they are able to secure 00:15:09.580 --> 00:15:13.059 a military victory like quickly they would then 00:15:13.059 --> 00:15:22.519 have to install a set of leadership authorities 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:26.200 to help the people get things up and running 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:30.519 quickly to the point where they could get people 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:33.899 pulled out quickly and just leave support infrastructure 00:15:33.899 --> 00:15:36.840 and communications so that the people that are 00:15:36.840 --> 00:15:38.460 taking over and getting things up and running 00:15:38.460 --> 00:15:41.850 can still get help when and if needed. I wonder 00:15:41.850 --> 00:15:44.889 if here's my question to you is I don't know. 00:15:44.909 --> 00:15:46.370 I haven't done as much traveling as you have. 00:15:46.470 --> 00:15:48.970 I'm not quite aware of some things. What if we 00:15:48.970 --> 00:15:53.009 just made it a territory? Kind of like Guam. 00:15:53.350 --> 00:15:57.009 Yeah. Because that could establish us as a permanent 00:15:57.009 --> 00:16:00.470 presence of the Middle East. That gives us a 00:16:00.470 --> 00:16:03.250 lot more control. Also access to oil with us 00:16:03.250 --> 00:16:04.769 having control of Venezuela as well as there 00:16:04.769 --> 00:16:07.490 as well as Alaska. That puts us on the global 00:16:07.490 --> 00:16:09.009 stage better because one of the biggest problems 00:16:09.009 --> 00:16:11.679 we hit we've had. The reason for that invasion 00:16:11.679 --> 00:16:14.960 in Venezuela as well with Iran here is the fact 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:17.960 of if China had influence over those countries 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:19.559 and had control over the oil, same with Russia, 00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:21.740 they could have crippled our economy. So really, 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:22.960 unfortunately, this whole war has been about 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:25.179 the control of oil and natural resources, as 00:16:25.179 --> 00:16:27.759 it usually is. You know, America, we smell oil. 00:16:27.860 --> 00:16:30.480 We're there in five minutes or less. We could 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:32.240 take over your oil quicker than we could deliver 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:34.580 a pizza. We are efficient at that. Oh, yeah. 00:16:35.249 --> 00:16:37.350 But because that's where that's coming from, 00:16:37.389 --> 00:16:39.830 I wonder as long as we maintain that control 00:16:39.830 --> 00:16:42.629 over those resources, if there's a way of making 00:16:42.629 --> 00:16:44.509 it a territory or at least a much closer ally, 00:16:44.730 --> 00:16:47.590 that might help stabilize the region. But I do 00:16:47.590 --> 00:16:49.990 not know enough to know how we could do that. 00:16:50.850 --> 00:16:53.610 Yeah, that's a little outside of my realm, but 00:16:53.610 --> 00:16:59.649 we should look into that because that is like 00:16:59.649 --> 00:17:04.640 not the worst idea, maybe. Um, or here's my other 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:06.960 alternative. How expensive would it be to buy 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:10.599 a property there right now? Very, very cheap. 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:13.220 Cause hear me out. What if Americans just got 00:17:13.220 --> 00:17:15.359 together, bought literally entire cities over 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:17.819 there and kicked everyone out and just moved 00:17:17.819 --> 00:17:21.619 in and be like, you know, America didn't take 00:17:21.619 --> 00:17:25.200 it over, but like we're here. So like we're bringing 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:28.900 KFC and McDonald's and I'm sorry. I don't think 00:17:28.900 --> 00:17:30.619 they're going to say no. Yeah. They were like, 00:17:30.660 --> 00:17:32.200 Oh, well, you know, that's cool. They're weird. 00:17:32.860 --> 00:17:34.539 You know, Americanized stuff. They're bringing 00:17:34.539 --> 00:17:37.640 the Western world, you know? Yeah. To be fair, 00:17:37.700 --> 00:17:39.460 vacationing in Iran would be a little weird, 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:43.480 but you know. Yeah. I'd give it a try. Maybe. 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:47.259 Yeah. I guess it'd be pretty pro -2A over there. 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:52.799 You would think. Once everything is settled down, 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:56.299 yeah. And maybe not for nothing, maybe a bunch 00:17:56.299 --> 00:17:58.019 of Americans moving over there that are pro -2A, 00:17:58.039 --> 00:17:59.680 that are very structured or rigid, maybe that 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:02.839 would really shape things really quick. Yeah. 00:18:04.180 --> 00:18:07.559 Oh, I do want to get into the notes, but I did 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:10.960 want to ask you. No, no, that's fine. Mark Wayne 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:18.819 Mullen. What are your thoughts on him? Because 00:18:18.819 --> 00:18:24.359 he's got that spunk and spirit that a lot of 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:27.480 people like. Because he was ready to throw hands 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:30.319 with that one senator, but. or congressperson 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:34.339 whatever i like the passion uh -huh i just i 00:18:34.339 --> 00:18:38.880 don't know the voting record well enough to have 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:41.420 a firm opinion i just i'm always very concerned 00:18:41.420 --> 00:18:43.880 i guess with it if there's any senator representative 00:18:43.880 --> 00:18:47.019 anyone in office that has that much passion i 00:18:47.019 --> 00:18:50.359 appreciate it but i hate to say it i don't trust 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:51.799 what they say i trust what they do and what they 00:18:51.799 --> 00:18:54.859 vote on absolutely and i do not know i have not 00:18:54.859 --> 00:18:57.319 done enough research to know exactly and from 00:18:57.319 --> 00:19:00.119 what i've heard most of the voting record i would 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:02.819 probably agree with but i'm that i'm that nerd 00:19:02.819 --> 00:19:05.319 that actually watches c -span so i would want 00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:09.079 to kind of look through and see what if uh if 00:19:09.079 --> 00:19:11.180 he gets confirmed i he's going to be one that 00:19:11.180 --> 00:19:15.019 a lot of people are going to be watching it very 00:19:15.019 --> 00:19:19.059 closely it's a chance so but we'll have to see 00:19:19.059 --> 00:19:20.720 we'll have to see because who who the hell knows 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:23.019 oh yeah with the way with the way things are 00:19:23.019 --> 00:19:27.329 right now yeah but uh To get into the information 00:19:27.329 --> 00:19:31.309 here, the primary results from the March 3rd 00:19:31.309 --> 00:19:38.170 primary in Texas was a GOP runoff between Senator 00:19:38.170 --> 00:19:41.430 John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton. 00:19:42.049 --> 00:19:45.509 And on the Democratic side, the consensus candidate, 00:19:45.730 --> 00:19:51.029 James Tallarico, did beat out the opponent, Jasmine 00:19:51.029 --> 00:19:55.680 Crockett. That was a... Kind of a funny thing. 00:19:55.779 --> 00:19:58.819 She went off the handle. Well, so do you know 00:19:58.819 --> 00:20:00.220 some of the story behind that? I actually happen 00:20:00.220 --> 00:20:02.599 to know a bit about this one. Please. So local 00:20:02.599 --> 00:20:05.200 news. So I don't know if you know that there's 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:07.220 an actually interesting law that says that if 00:20:07.220 --> 00:20:10.539 you interview or give airtime to a candidate, 00:20:10.619 --> 00:20:12.880 you have to give airtime equivalent to their 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:15.700 opponent. Right. It's per the law. Well, fun 00:20:15.700 --> 00:20:20.160 fact, James and Jasmine, they're both Democrats. 00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:22.400 So what they did is they gave all the airtime 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:24.480 to him. And then to her and they said, well, 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:26.200 it doesn't violate any FCC guidelines because 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:27.559 they're not opponents. They're just both in the 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:31.000 same party. So what was funny is there were all 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:32.599 these interviews with him. They never mentioned 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:35.900 Jasmine Crockett and her her ratings tanked because 00:20:35.900 --> 00:20:38.759 everybody forgot she was there. Oh, wow. So it 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:42.000 was this kind of weird thing where. James Tarika 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:43.799 was almost kind of installed by the Democratic 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:46.059 Party just to get her the hell up because she's 00:20:46.059 --> 00:20:47.980 such a controversial person. And to be fair. 00:20:48.490 --> 00:20:51.710 Duly noted, if you want to see some absolutely 00:20:51.710 --> 00:20:55.990 crooked bull crap, look up some of the stuff 00:20:55.990 --> 00:20:58.150 that she's done. She's one of the most despicable 00:20:58.150 --> 00:21:02.289 people. I think the entire Democratic squad is 00:21:02.289 --> 00:21:06.390 gone. I think they're all gone now. Well, I know 00:21:06.390 --> 00:21:09.470 there's stuff. Omar might be getting hit with 00:21:09.470 --> 00:21:13.390 some fraud charges here soon. What a shock. She 00:21:13.390 --> 00:21:15.009 just got caught trying to launder some money. 00:21:15.089 --> 00:21:19.740 I think that was a blurb I saw. how do i say 00:21:19.740 --> 00:21:21.579 this politely there's many things you should 00:21:21.579 --> 00:21:24.099 probably be tried on so yeah it's only a matter 00:21:24.099 --> 00:21:28.920 of time yeah yeah um i i don't believe it was 00:21:28.920 --> 00:21:33.099 uh bananas and rice either uh but had nothing 00:21:33.099 --> 00:21:39.960 to do with her brother huh okay no so um i i 00:21:39.960 --> 00:21:44.579 don't know if the people that voted uh against 00:21:44.579 --> 00:21:48.339 jasmine crockett were just looking for better 00:21:48.339 --> 00:21:51.279 values or if they were looking for someone that 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:53.420 was more palatable, you know, or anything like 00:21:53.420 --> 00:21:57.720 that. But we've also got things coming out of 00:21:57.720 --> 00:22:03.480 the SCOTUS. There's a ruling pending on the viability 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:08.240 of mail -in ballots. I know I'm very on the fence 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:12.059 about mail -in ballots because I use those. Going 00:22:12.059 --> 00:22:14.900 to the public polls on voting day absolutely 00:22:14.900 --> 00:22:19.519 freaks the shit out of me. Public masses, crowds, 00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:23.000 I have a hard time with that. So mail -in ballots 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:27.180 for me are the absolute way to go. They're changing 00:22:27.180 --> 00:22:32.240 the early voting rules for a lot of states. So 00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:36.420 that's going to be an issue as well. So it's 00:22:36.420 --> 00:22:41.759 going to be an issue for a lot of people. I'm 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:44.059 hoping they keep some mail -in ballot options 00:22:44.059 --> 00:22:47.329 available. But I understand why they're trying 00:22:47.329 --> 00:22:50.609 to rein it in. Well, it's always the catch of, 00:22:50.609 --> 00:22:52.910 you know, understanding the people that are voting 00:22:52.910 --> 00:22:55.109 are actually people that are mailing it in. You 00:22:55.109 --> 00:22:57.630 know, there's always been a problem of ballot 00:22:57.630 --> 00:22:59.089 harvesting. I don't know if you know what that 00:22:59.089 --> 00:23:01.789 is. Oh, yeah. They've had people caught on video 00:23:01.789 --> 00:23:05.289 pulling up to drop boxes and just stuffing them 00:23:05.289 --> 00:23:09.470 with boxes and boxes and boxes of ballots the 00:23:09.470 --> 00:23:11.849 night after the election. I mean, it happens 00:23:11.849 --> 00:23:14.700 every freaking election. Not only that, but so 00:23:14.700 --> 00:23:17.539 in the process of what's called ballot harvesting, 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:20.720 the other thing they'll do is they'll send representatives. 00:23:21.019 --> 00:23:23.460 Usually what happens is usually Democrat representatives, 00:23:23.700 --> 00:23:25.799 and they'll go to large apartment complexes, 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:29.400 very urban areas, and say, hey, you know, voting's 00:23:29.400 --> 00:23:30.819 coming up soon. If you want, I can fill out this 00:23:30.819 --> 00:23:33.539 information for you from the party that we can 00:23:33.539 --> 00:23:36.059 put your ballot in for you. And it says, oh, 00:23:36.180 --> 00:23:38.380 great, awesome. And then they just verbally fill 00:23:38.380 --> 00:23:40.880 it out with the person and then close it up and 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:42.539 submit it for them. However, one of the problems 00:23:42.539 --> 00:23:45.980 is there's no guarantee necessarily that that 00:23:45.980 --> 00:23:49.319 ballot is submitted correctly or that that vote 00:23:49.319 --> 00:23:52.519 is properly counted for. So what happens is they 00:23:52.519 --> 00:23:55.359 will go to usually urban left -leaning areas 00:23:55.359 --> 00:23:58.380 and they will, now granted this part, this is 00:23:58.380 --> 00:24:01.059 the alleged part, because I can't say this officially, 00:24:01.299 --> 00:24:03.220 but effectively they will pick and choose which 00:24:03.220 --> 00:24:06.619 ballots go in. Oh, yeah. So there's been a couple 00:24:06.619 --> 00:24:08.819 things that have been confirmed. Some of the 00:24:08.819 --> 00:24:12.079 envelopes that they send those in with, If you 00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:15.619 put everything in the correct way, you can see 00:24:15.619 --> 00:24:18.720 the choice. Yeah, which is ridiculous. That should 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:20.940 be illegal. That should be illegal completely. 00:24:21.579 --> 00:24:25.680 Also, there have now been on video recordings 00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:29.160 of people purchasing signatures and information 00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:33.259 to get people registered to vote. That is completely 00:24:33.259 --> 00:24:35.539 illegal. I don't care what side of the aisle 00:24:35.539 --> 00:24:38.420 you're on. If you're doing that, 100 % illegal. 00:24:38.990 --> 00:24:41.369 should go to jail all signatures harvested should 00:24:41.369 --> 00:24:43.930 be invalidated they're really because they're 00:24:43.930 --> 00:24:46.309 doing it to the homeless well that that's part 00:24:46.309 --> 00:24:48.549 of the problem is they're taking advantage of 00:24:48.549 --> 00:24:51.670 people and they're not letting them exercise 00:24:51.670 --> 00:24:53.589 their constitutional rights number one number 00:24:53.589 --> 00:24:55.309 two the problem is that there needs to be a system 00:24:55.309 --> 00:24:58.670 in place for a verification of not only identification 00:24:58.670 --> 00:25:01.789 but of also of your vote but there's no easy 00:25:01.789 --> 00:25:06.569 way of doing it without without making it i guess 00:25:06.569 --> 00:25:12.599 um an undue burden to the average person unless 00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:15.339 unless we make it an official holiday which i 00:25:15.339 --> 00:25:18.000 really feel like it needs to be it should be 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:19.819 a two -day federal holiday it's really what it 00:25:19.819 --> 00:25:23.980 should be in my opinion but i mean at least one 00:25:23.980 --> 00:25:27.359 day and things like um bus services taxi services 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:30.980 uber lyft whatever should all be just free if 00:25:30.980 --> 00:25:36.200 you're going to vote yeah but then The company 00:25:36.200 --> 00:25:38.039 uses it as a tax write -off. What I would do 00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:39.579 is basically say that anybody who uses that for 00:25:39.579 --> 00:25:41.920 that, a company like Uber or Lyft, they get to 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:44.640 write that off in their taxes, so therefore it 00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:49.380 offsets it, basically. When you vote, in other 00:25:49.380 --> 00:25:52.839 countries, it's big in the Middle East, when 00:25:52.839 --> 00:25:56.559 you vote, you show your ID, and then they fingerprint 00:25:56.559 --> 00:26:01.259 you with indelible ink, so it cannot be easily 00:26:01.259 --> 00:26:07.910 removed. you've got that ink print and it's on 00:26:07.910 --> 00:26:13.430 your ballot as well so why we're not doing fingerprints 00:26:13.430 --> 00:26:16.650 on our ballots i i don't know that seems like 00:26:16.650 --> 00:26:20.150 a fairly simple thing oh no a fingerprint registry 00:26:20.150 --> 00:26:23.250 that means people could get caught when they 00:26:23.250 --> 00:26:27.109 commit crimes oh no anybody that has a firearm 00:26:27.109 --> 00:26:28.950 you know you have your fingerprints on the registry 00:26:28.950 --> 00:26:31.920 anyway exactly if i if i have to put my fingerprint 00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:33.759 in a registry especially someone i used to teach 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:35.980 at a school so i got fingerprinted for that and 00:26:35.980 --> 00:26:38.940 firearm owner i got fingerprinted for that it 00:26:38.940 --> 00:26:41.259 doesn't i i don't care fingerprint me every time 00:26:41.259 --> 00:26:43.019 i vote i don't give a i'm already in the system 00:26:43.019 --> 00:26:45.099 number one but also number two if i have you 00:26:45.099 --> 00:26:47.720 fingerprinted to express my constitutional rights 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:51.240 then to have a firearm then there's no problem 00:26:51.240 --> 00:26:54.740 for me doing it to vote yeah no problem and in 00:26:54.740 --> 00:26:57.779 the rare In the God forbid rare situation that 00:26:57.779 --> 00:26:59.420 someone has a problem with that, there should 00:26:59.420 --> 00:27:02.299 be an alternative. But I would have the opinion 00:27:02.299 --> 00:27:04.200 of unless it's like a medical reason you can't 00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:06.720 do it, you should be able to do it. But if we 00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:08.539 just had it as a holiday, it wouldn't be a big 00:27:08.539 --> 00:27:11.420 deal. Everyone could go vote. It would not be 00:27:11.420 --> 00:27:13.539 hard. But unfortunately, it placed some people 00:27:13.539 --> 00:27:16.599 that can't take the time off. And there's some 00:27:16.599 --> 00:27:19.960 people that work jobs like if you work 100 % 00:27:19.960 --> 00:27:22.519 of the day during it. what can you do you can't 00:27:22.519 --> 00:27:24.420 do anything and there unfortunately are some 00:27:24.420 --> 00:27:26.259 cases where some employers will give you a lot 00:27:26.259 --> 00:27:28.700 of shit or calling out you know leaving earlier 00:27:28.700 --> 00:27:30.759 coming in later doing whatever because i have 00:27:30.759 --> 00:27:32.859 to go vote it's like i've seen it unfortunately 00:27:32.859 --> 00:27:34.599 yes it's illegal for them to give you shit for 00:27:34.599 --> 00:27:38.299 it but it's like they still do it yeah and people 00:27:38.299 --> 00:27:42.920 are too afraid to turn them in so or sometimes 00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:44.559 it's what are you going to do it's he said she 00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:50.569 said you know oh yeah but uh so yeah the uh the 00:27:50.569 --> 00:27:57.170 mail -in ballot stuff, if that restricts access 00:27:57.170 --> 00:28:00.650 with everything starting to ramp up and get near 00:28:00.650 --> 00:28:03.750 the midterms, that could kind of create a perfect 00:28:03.750 --> 00:28:07.269 storm for low turnout in the midterms. Low turnout 00:28:07.269 --> 00:28:14.130 typically favors Republicans. True. So we'll 00:28:14.130 --> 00:28:19.730 see if this turns out that way. Also, midterms, 00:28:20.109 --> 00:28:25.450 generally tend to favor the opposition. Just, 00:28:25.670 --> 00:28:27.769 you know, kind of how things go. You get two 00:28:27.769 --> 00:28:29.210 years to see how the administration is doing. 00:28:29.250 --> 00:28:31.289 Everyone gets pissed off and goes, Oh, we don't 00:28:31.289 --> 00:28:33.690 like this guy. So they want the other people 00:28:33.690 --> 00:28:35.789 back in office. And then it's two years of stalemate. 00:28:35.829 --> 00:28:43.549 So we'll see if this is a case of anger and change, 00:28:43.650 --> 00:28:46.849 or if it's a case of low turnout and historical 00:28:46.849 --> 00:28:50.250 repetition. It'll be the bigger case of we will 00:28:50.250 --> 00:28:53.089 see if Democrats choose to be more on the moderate 00:28:53.089 --> 00:28:55.289 side, I feel like they could sweep it in the 00:28:55.289 --> 00:28:57.710 midterms. But if they decide to be more progressive 00:28:57.710 --> 00:29:00.529 or more extreme, they won't. Yeah. Because there's 00:29:00.529 --> 00:29:02.569 a lot of people that are moderates, I'll raise 00:29:02.569 --> 00:29:05.849 my hand on that one, that are sick of both extremes 00:29:05.849 --> 00:29:09.309 and sides. So, you know, just give me someone 00:29:09.309 --> 00:29:12.450 that's fucking reasonable. Yeah. And like I said, 00:29:12.509 --> 00:29:15.289 I can't believe that Fetterman is sounding like 00:29:15.289 --> 00:29:17.289 the voice of reason out of the Democrat Party. 00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:25.960 So with the Iran escalation, Operation Epic Fury. 00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:30.559 I love how these things always have these ridiculous 00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:35.759 names. We are now, what, 21 days into this thing? 00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:39.940 Yeah. The Pentagon has reported well over 1 ,000 00:29:39.940 --> 00:29:44.079 deaths. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth called 00:29:44.079 --> 00:29:47.519 last Sunday the most intense day of strikes yet. 00:29:49.230 --> 00:29:52.430 We did manage a double -tap strike on an Iranian 00:29:52.430 --> 00:29:58.470 school that killed 170 -plus schoolgirls, which 00:29:58.470 --> 00:30:01.109 the U .S. claimed was being used as a human shield 00:30:01.109 --> 00:30:06.269 by the IRGC. We still, a week now, we still have 00:30:06.269 --> 00:30:08.150 not been able to confirm any side of that story. 00:30:10.450 --> 00:30:14.390 The START treaty, the Strategic Arms Reduction 00:30:14.390 --> 00:30:20.180 Treaty, expired on February 5th. And U .S. and 00:30:20.180 --> 00:30:25.039 Russia did not re -up their agreements to that, 00:30:25.180 --> 00:30:29.579 which means we are officially in an era where 00:30:29.579 --> 00:30:33.279 the U .S. and Russia have no binding nuclear 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:38.440 limits. Cold War II, let's go! It'd be World 00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:41.220 War III now, but, you know, the spicy World War 00:30:41.220 --> 00:30:47.220 III. So I do want to kind of reiterate that. 00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:52.000 The two largest nuclear powers in the world have 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:55.400 no agreed on cap to their weapons stockpiles. 00:30:58.940 --> 00:31:03.240 This with the earlier mentioned that nuclear 00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:07.839 weapons have been threatened and the talk of 00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:12.339 taking out the gas fields with like a level of 00:31:12.339 --> 00:31:17.150 devastation not yet seen. I am personally concerned 00:31:17.150 --> 00:31:20.369 that even low -yield nuclear weapons could be 00:31:20.369 --> 00:31:22.750 used in an operational strike like that, a strategic 00:31:22.750 --> 00:31:26.950 strike. I personally would rather see us deplete 00:31:26.950 --> 00:31:30.630 our entire stockpile of MOABs before we start 00:31:30.630 --> 00:31:34.130 looking at nukes. Especially in a war like this, 00:31:34.130 --> 00:31:36.210 nukes are really not necessary. This is not... 00:31:36.210 --> 00:31:39.910 Yeah, they're not. I mean, yes, we could probably 00:31:39.910 --> 00:31:43.490 drill through the glass, but at the same time... 00:31:44.979 --> 00:31:47.640 The MOABs and all of our other heavy ordnance 00:31:47.640 --> 00:31:50.099 would be just fine. I thought Pete Hegseth just 00:31:50.099 --> 00:31:53.200 wanted another $200 billion to restock what we 00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:57.480 spent anyway. So it's like, number one, we don't 00:31:57.480 --> 00:31:58.900 need nuclear weapons for something like this. 00:31:58.980 --> 00:32:03.299 Also, number two, I don't really worry about 00:32:03.299 --> 00:32:06.480 necessarily the US and Russia having no limit 00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:08.420 to nuclear weapons because we already have enough 00:32:08.420 --> 00:32:10.960 to blow up the world 20, 30 times over. Even 00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:12.440 if they double, triple, quadruple, it doesn't 00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:14.430 matter. At this point, the numbers really don't 00:32:14.430 --> 00:32:17.089 mean anything. I hate to say it, but if they're 00:32:17.089 --> 00:32:19.789 going to blow up the world, they already have 00:32:19.789 --> 00:32:21.369 the power to do it. And no one's going to be 00:32:21.369 --> 00:32:23.190 honest. Nothing's ever going to change with that. 00:32:23.730 --> 00:32:28.569 The issue I guess I have is I'm always concerned 00:32:28.569 --> 00:32:31.569 about nuclear proliferation in the case of other 00:32:31.569 --> 00:32:33.329 countries getting access to it. Because America 00:32:33.329 --> 00:32:34.869 and Russia have the understanding with the MAD 00:32:34.869 --> 00:32:37.690 program of mutual destruction. If anybody launches, 00:32:37.829 --> 00:32:42.009 we all go kaboom. But... There are some countries 00:32:42.009 --> 00:32:45.809 that are dumb enough or brave enough, whichever 00:32:45.809 --> 00:32:47.369 way you want to look at it. Determined enough. 00:32:47.589 --> 00:32:50.789 Yes. They will just do it because they can. So 00:32:50.789 --> 00:32:53.009 the only reason this concerns me is not the U 00:32:53.009 --> 00:32:54.789 .S. Russia having them, but other countries getting 00:32:54.789 --> 00:32:58.529 them. Yeah. And I look at this whole Iran situation 00:32:58.529 --> 00:33:03.410 as a situation where if they are pushed up against 00:33:03.410 --> 00:33:06.670 the wall far enough or hard enough and they have 00:33:06.670 --> 00:33:10.710 access to even one. I feel like they will use 00:33:10.710 --> 00:33:14.529 it just as a last -ditch effort. If they know 00:33:14.529 --> 00:33:17.910 they are going to go down, I worry that they 00:33:17.910 --> 00:33:21.670 are going to fire it off just because they don't 00:33:21.670 --> 00:33:27.829 care. And then what? Because they're not an ally 00:33:27.829 --> 00:33:31.549 with many people. I know China kind of supports 00:33:31.549 --> 00:33:34.190 them. They have people that are sort of allied 00:33:34.190 --> 00:33:38.959 with them that are also allied with China. I 00:33:38.959 --> 00:33:40.599 don't know how that's going to turn out, because 00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:43.980 especially if it's a rogue kind of situation, 00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:49.299 even if it's like the Houthis, or Iran tries 00:33:49.299 --> 00:33:52.720 to push the blame onto the Houthis. Well, then 00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:55.920 what? It's just, oh, they managed to get a hold 00:33:55.920 --> 00:33:57.839 of a nuclear weapon, and now it's a tragic situation, 00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:00.700 and we just go after the people in the caves 00:34:00.700 --> 00:34:04.599 again. Oh, yay. We're going to circle back to 00:34:04.599 --> 00:34:09.889 the same thing we've been doing. Exactly. Before 00:34:09.889 --> 00:34:14.329 we move on, I did want to ask this. Do you feel 00:34:14.329 --> 00:34:18.650 that changing to Department of War and the renaming 00:34:18.650 --> 00:34:21.170 of the Secretary of War away from the defense 00:34:21.170 --> 00:34:24.929 names was a pivot to a more aggressive posture? 00:34:26.230 --> 00:34:29.670 So, yes, it is a more aggressive posture, but 00:34:29.670 --> 00:34:33.110 the problem is I almost feel like maybe it's 00:34:33.110 --> 00:34:35.510 because of my reading of dystopic books when 00:34:35.510 --> 00:34:38.599 I was growing up. jesus christ does this feel 00:34:38.599 --> 00:34:42.739 like a um uh not super troopers a space trooper 00:34:42.739 --> 00:34:44.940 or whatever it was the starship troopers starship 00:34:44.940 --> 00:34:48.159 troopers yeah where it's like the department 00:34:48.159 --> 00:34:50.119 of war it's like all right it's two on the nose 00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:54.059 at this point and i guess my other issue is with 00:34:54.059 --> 00:34:57.079 with the way we are perceived around the world 00:34:57.079 --> 00:34:59.639 it makes us seem much more like the aggressor 00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:02.659 rather than being on the defensive and i know 00:35:02.659 --> 00:35:05.900 it probably doesn't change what we're doing militarily 00:35:05.900 --> 00:35:09.780 but It looks like, or it has the perception of 00:35:09.780 --> 00:35:11.900 us being far more of the aggressors and far more 00:35:11.900 --> 00:35:15.019 aggressive as a country. I think overall internally, 00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:19.300 it's not a bad idea, but externally to everyone 00:35:19.300 --> 00:35:20.579 else outside the country, I feel like that's 00:35:20.579 --> 00:35:24.420 really stupid. You should always downplay, you 00:35:24.420 --> 00:35:26.360 know, what you have rather than overplay it. 00:35:26.599 --> 00:35:29.760 And Trump as, you know, per his nature is the 00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:34.039 exact opposite. So I get their reasoning for 00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:36.579 it. I just disagree with it. And I think it unfortunately 00:35:36.579 --> 00:35:40.199 kind of promotes a far too aggressive posture. 00:35:40.739 --> 00:35:43.300 I look at at least this is just my two cents. 00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:46.199 I look at modern militaries far less like a hammer, 00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:49.519 far more like a scalpel, where the idea I would 00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:53.559 much rather be a country that, you know, we will 00:35:53.559 --> 00:35:56.360 avoid war if at all possible. But if it happens, 00:35:56.519 --> 00:35:59.360 it will be overnight over a weekend. Everything 00:35:59.360 --> 00:36:02.639 will be gone. You won't hear anything, see anything. 00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:06.000 It just it's done. And that's it. And that's 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:07.500 the scope where only take out military targets, 00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:08.980 only take out what has to happen. There were 00:36:08.980 --> 00:36:10.780 troops on the ground overnight. All of a sudden, 00:36:10.780 --> 00:36:14.360 snap of your finger. It's all done because we're 00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:15.760 the only country in the world that can do it. 00:36:15.780 --> 00:36:18.059 And after what we saw in Venezuela, you know, 00:36:18.179 --> 00:36:22.280 we can do it. It's just the catch of, do we actually 00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:24.800 commit enough to do it? And unfortunately, I 00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:29.079 hate to say this. He's committed with that name 00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:33.510 to being aggressive, but. not as decisive as 00:36:33.510 --> 00:36:34.869 I would have thought. I would have thought if 00:36:34.869 --> 00:36:36.789 he named it Department of War, it would have 00:36:36.789 --> 00:36:38.989 been like in Venezuela where over a weekend, 00:36:39.210 --> 00:36:41.590 we would have been done. Everything would have 00:36:41.590 --> 00:36:45.289 been gone. Every single aircraft, tank, ship, 00:36:45.469 --> 00:36:47.090 everything. It would have just been completely 00:36:47.090 --> 00:36:50.130 gone. You know, tens of thousands of bombs dropped 00:36:50.130 --> 00:36:52.309 and hundreds and hundreds of stories. And all 00:36:52.309 --> 00:36:54.510 of a sudden, it's done. That's it. They have 00:36:54.510 --> 00:36:58.750 nothing. Well, their entire Navy is now gone 00:36:58.750 --> 00:37:02.519 or mostly gone right now. We'd have changed ownership 00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:06.260 of the waters with them at this point. We have 00:37:06.260 --> 00:37:07.920 the top half of the water. They all have the 00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:11.400 bottom half of the water. So. Congratulations, 00:37:11.519 --> 00:37:16.079 you've been upgraded to submarines. But I guess 00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:19.619 that's my thing. To loop it back in thing. It's 00:37:19.619 --> 00:37:21.639 stupid to rename it. I understand why they did 00:37:21.639 --> 00:37:26.340 it, but I think it's kind of dumb. Yeah. So with 00:37:26.340 --> 00:37:28.639 everything going on, and you mentioned this. 00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:33.219 strategic aspect iran is not necessarily being 00:37:33.219 --> 00:37:36.039 as strategic or if they are they're just being 00:37:36.039 --> 00:37:38.739 extremely careless with their attacks because 00:37:38.739 --> 00:37:41.179 they're hitting population centers and they're 00:37:41.179 --> 00:37:43.219 even threatening now to go after tourist centers 00:37:43.219 --> 00:37:48.599 and destinations so how do we combat that because 00:37:48.599 --> 00:37:53.360 that's not our doctrine well it's it's a matter 00:37:53.360 --> 00:37:57.219 of perception i really feel like and what Okay, 00:37:57.280 --> 00:37:59.099 so the problem that I have seen, at least this 00:37:59.099 --> 00:38:03.360 whole thing, is Trump and the Ministry of War, 00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:05.739 Secretary of War, has not been proactive in terms 00:38:05.739 --> 00:38:08.280 of the media and in terms of what the demands 00:38:08.280 --> 00:38:09.699 are, what's going on, as much as they should. 00:38:09.900 --> 00:38:11.900 We're hearing about stuff way too late after. 00:38:12.019 --> 00:38:14.039 What they should be saying is, hey, we are asking 00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:16.360 for Iran for an immediate surrender. Here's our 00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:18.840 conditions. Here's what we expect. Here's what's 00:38:18.840 --> 00:38:21.360 going on. They are trying to target these centers. 00:38:21.420 --> 00:38:23.460 They are trying to kill civilians. We are specifically. 00:38:24.510 --> 00:38:26.449 only targeting military assets, and we're going 00:38:26.449 --> 00:38:28.670 to great lengths to make sure we limit civilian 00:38:28.670 --> 00:38:31.710 casualties as much as humanly possible. If they 00:38:31.710 --> 00:38:34.130 were to be way more out front with this and frame 00:38:34.130 --> 00:38:37.070 it correctly, I feel like this is something that 00:38:37.070 --> 00:38:39.090 wouldn't be as big of an issue. The problem is, 00:38:39.190 --> 00:38:41.789 and I understand OPSEC or operational security 00:38:41.789 --> 00:38:45.389 is very important, but at the same point, we 00:38:45.389 --> 00:38:48.409 have taken out so much of what Iran has that 00:38:48.409 --> 00:38:50.389 they're not really that much of a threat to us 00:38:50.389 --> 00:38:55.300 at this point for a lot of things. On that. what 00:38:55.300 --> 00:38:59.019 was just a day or two ago they demonstrated potential 00:38:59.019 --> 00:39:02.900 capability and i'm i'm saying that very guarded 00:39:02.900 --> 00:39:06.800 uh potential capability for longer range missiles 00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:09.639 or missile strikes than previously thought by 00:39:09.639 --> 00:39:11.739 launching a couple missiles towards diego garcia 00:39:11.739 --> 00:39:15.019 now neither missile made it anywhere near where 00:39:15.019 --> 00:39:18.079 it was supposed to but it did confirm that they 00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:21.829 have farther capability than we had thought but 00:39:21.829 --> 00:39:23.750 they still had access to at this point in things 00:39:23.750 --> 00:39:26.989 especially. But I would like to point out that 00:39:26.989 --> 00:39:29.989 given what is stationed and held at Diego Garcia, 00:39:30.170 --> 00:39:34.150 if they really want to poke that hornet's nest, 00:39:34.369 --> 00:39:37.469 then they are going to get exactly what comes 00:39:37.469 --> 00:39:41.150 their way. I don't know if they know exactly 00:39:41.150 --> 00:39:44.289 what's at Diego Garcia, but it is one of our 00:39:44.289 --> 00:39:50.230 most important forward bases in that region. 00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:54.820 The fact that they just shot something at it 00:39:54.820 --> 00:40:00.079 is very akin to the USS, what was it, the Iowa 00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:04.599 that took a hit and damaged or scuffed the deck 00:40:04.599 --> 00:40:09.539 of the ship and it turned full broadside in World 00:40:09.539 --> 00:40:12.840 War II and got very upset and unleashed hell 00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:21.019 and tried to delete a grid square. Are you talking 00:40:21.019 --> 00:40:24.460 about during the Korean War? Yeah, yeah, it was. 00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:27.559 I think it might have been the USS Texas. Maybe, 00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:29.820 yeah. I think it is, but is that the one where 00:40:29.820 --> 00:40:32.199 they purposely flooded one side of the ship to 00:40:32.199 --> 00:40:34.900 get more? Yes. I think that's it. I could be 00:40:34.900 --> 00:40:36.480 wrong, because I don't remember everything, but 00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:38.980 I think that's the USS Texas. Another ship actually 00:40:38.980 --> 00:40:42.159 responded, temper, temper, was their response, 00:40:42.340 --> 00:40:45.760 because it was literally like someone hit them, 00:40:45.820 --> 00:40:49.030 and it was like a scuff. And it was the equivalent 00:40:49.030 --> 00:40:51.710 of them looking at the ship like, that's our 00:40:51.710 --> 00:40:56.929 boat. Fuck you! You would think after what we 00:40:56.929 --> 00:41:00.150 did to Japan that they would learn, don't touch 00:41:00.150 --> 00:41:03.329 the boats. Do not touch the boats. Like HLC says, 00:41:03.610 --> 00:41:09.489 don't touch the boats. But it is definitely the 00:41:09.489 --> 00:41:13.710 case of, I understand they still have some weapons 00:41:13.710 --> 00:41:16.199 and some capability. But we should be focusing 00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:17.980 on shutting down things like the internet, shutting 00:41:17.980 --> 00:41:20.000 down their access to the power grid, shutting 00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:22.199 down literally everything we can, putting as 00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:26.260 many... And I know people are going to disagree 00:41:26.260 --> 00:41:28.199 with me on this, but I feel like we need special 00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:31.780 forces on the ground to deal with certain areas, 00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:34.559 certain avenues, certain military targets, disrupt 00:41:34.559 --> 00:41:37.260 all communication as much as you can, make it 00:41:37.260 --> 00:41:40.219 so that they effectively cannot function anything 00:41:40.219 --> 00:41:43.000 else other than just small terror cells. And 00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:46.119 at that point, once we have some control, what 00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:48.000 we really need to do is call in the UN and NATO 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:50.159 at that point to have them take over and be like, 00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:52.480 hey, this is a peacekeeping operation. Offset 00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:54.280 it to them. I mean, hell, we already fund half 00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:56.300 a NATO anyway. Might as well offset some of that 00:41:56.300 --> 00:41:58.800 cost. My money's already there anyway. Didn't 00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:02.599 we stop paying? We still pay into it. I don't 00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:06.260 think we pulled 100 % of our funding. Okay. What 00:42:06.260 --> 00:42:08.159 we did is we pulled it back to proportional funding. 00:42:08.739 --> 00:42:10.880 Oh, okay. Because we used to be paying 50 % of 00:42:10.880 --> 00:42:13.150 the entire bill. but we pulled it back to being 00:42:13.150 --> 00:42:15.650 proportional because for like, for a while, I 00:42:15.650 --> 00:42:17.570 think it was like Denmark or Sweden or something 00:42:17.570 --> 00:42:20.929 like that had like 0 .02 % of their budget fund, 00:42:21.010 --> 00:42:23.269 like putting it towards like, come on, come on 00:42:23.269 --> 00:42:25.170 guys. You know, you gotta, you gotta foot the 00:42:25.170 --> 00:42:27.809 bill at some point. Yeah. But I don't think we're 00:42:27.809 --> 00:42:29.289 officially out of NATO. But that being said, 00:42:29.369 --> 00:42:32.130 even if we are, you know, if they're going to 00:42:32.130 --> 00:42:34.010 start attacking bases where there are NATO soldiers 00:42:34.010 --> 00:42:35.809 that somehow are deployed there, they're attacked, 00:42:36.030 --> 00:42:38.250 you know, I'm not saying to set it up, but it's 00:42:38.250 --> 00:42:40.829 like, you're going to have to at some point get 00:42:40.829 --> 00:42:42.730 other people involved because if it's just us 00:42:42.730 --> 00:42:46.190 we always look like the bad guy yeah and we're 00:42:46.190 --> 00:42:48.909 the most capable but still we shouldn't be doing 00:42:48.909 --> 00:42:50.949 everything by ourselves when other people use 00:42:50.949 --> 00:42:53.809 the areas that we're trying to keep open as well 00:42:53.809 --> 00:42:55.849 like the streets well that's what i'm saying 00:42:55.849 --> 00:42:57.670 it involves everybody you know that that involves 00:42:57.670 --> 00:42:59.809 literally every western country i can think of 00:42:59.809 --> 00:43:03.829 yeah so so while we've got uh all this going 00:43:03.829 --> 00:43:08.079 on the stock markets are going ape shit um The 00:43:08.079 --> 00:43:11.000 president is out golfing as usual and hinting 00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:13.519 at a regime change in the Middle East. Do you 00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:16.219 think that this is more of a strategic show of 00:43:16.219 --> 00:43:20.059 business as usual, or is it sort of a terrifying 00:43:20.059 --> 00:43:22.599 disconnect from a world on the brink of major 00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:29.639 war? I guess, again, as someone that grew up 00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:33.039 watching the politics of the 2000s, it's kind 00:43:33.039 --> 00:43:36.639 of infuriating watching that. Again, another 00:43:36.639 --> 00:43:39.239 president that's too busy doing other things, 00:43:39.380 --> 00:43:41.679 all of a sudden leading another war, watching 00:43:41.679 --> 00:43:44.760 the stock market go all over the place. I see 00:43:44.760 --> 00:43:47.280 a lot of people that are very stressed about 00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:49.880 it because as soon as it was announced that oil 00:43:49.880 --> 00:43:51.900 might hit $200 a barrel, then it went way down, 00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:53.739 then it went way up. The markets have been all 00:43:53.739 --> 00:43:54.900 over the place. There's a lot of uncertainty. 00:43:55.719 --> 00:43:59.179 It's the problem of it's very hard to support 00:43:59.179 --> 00:44:05.139 a... presidency when there's this much instability 00:44:05.139 --> 00:44:09.099 and this, this much against what his first, you 00:44:09.099 --> 00:44:10.820 know, presidency was, you know, at the end of 00:44:10.820 --> 00:44:12.320 it, at the end of Donald Trump's first presidency, 00:44:12.460 --> 00:44:15.340 he signed several historic peace deals. The economy 00:44:15.340 --> 00:44:16.820 was doing great. A lot of people I knew were 00:44:16.820 --> 00:44:19.420 doing, aside from the COVID stuff, a lot of people 00:44:19.420 --> 00:44:21.679 I knew were doing really well. I'm like things, 00:44:21.739 --> 00:44:23.579 at least you might disagree socially, but at 00:44:23.579 --> 00:44:26.659 least economically, it was really good. Now I, 00:44:26.699 --> 00:44:29.400 under that, this is not helping us in any way. 00:44:29.460 --> 00:44:32.159 Like this is not. at least with venezuela with 00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:34.300 all the extra oil if he at least chilled out 00:44:34.300 --> 00:44:35.699 for a little while let that kind of come into 00:44:35.699 --> 00:44:38.099 the country let us get a couple refineries going 00:44:38.099 --> 00:44:41.079 drop that price let the goods come down use that 00:44:41.079 --> 00:44:42.900 to prop up the economy for a year or two and 00:44:42.900 --> 00:44:45.480 then did this maybe a different story maybe we 00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:47.420 had more time to get more gather more intel get 00:44:47.420 --> 00:44:49.619 more agents involved you know really be able 00:44:49.619 --> 00:44:52.099 to do it so by the time he did get involved it 00:44:52.099 --> 00:44:54.159 could be a lot smoother but it just seemed like 00:44:54.159 --> 00:44:55.840 for some reason there was a time crunch where 00:44:56.429 --> 00:44:58.230 We took over Venezuela and quick. We got, we 00:44:58.230 --> 00:44:59.750 got to move. I don't know if there's another 00:44:59.750 --> 00:45:02.230 external factor we're unaware of that. Maybe 00:45:02.230 --> 00:45:03.449 there's something else going on in the background 00:45:03.449 --> 00:45:04.849 where there's a ticking time bomb. There's a 00:45:04.849 --> 00:45:08.469 ticking clock. I don't know, but that's the kind 00:45:08.469 --> 00:45:11.269 of sense of urgency. I, at least from somebody 00:45:11.269 --> 00:45:14.989 that's completely uninvolved with military intelligence, 00:45:15.250 --> 00:45:18.010 that's the kind of vibe I get, or it's the catch 00:45:18.010 --> 00:45:20.690 of they're using this war to prop up the economy, 00:45:20.829 --> 00:45:22.469 get enough moving around to where it kind of 00:45:22.469 --> 00:45:25.949 masks did align issues that we're having, which, 00:45:26.550 --> 00:45:30.070 It's possible. So while you were doing that, 00:45:30.130 --> 00:45:32.170 I went ahead and looked up the price of oil right 00:45:32.170 --> 00:45:36.269 now. At this moment, and I'm looking at the United 00:45:36.269 --> 00:45:42.409 States Oil Fund, the ETF on the markets, the 00:45:42.409 --> 00:45:47.889 USO ticker is sitting at $122 .70. Three months 00:45:47.889 --> 00:45:56.590 ago, it was at $80. So it's not terrible. We've 00:45:56.590 --> 00:46:02.949 had worse, but the crude oil futures sitting 00:46:02.949 --> 00:46:14.349 on the New York exchange is 98 .52. I guess what 00:46:14.349 --> 00:46:15.670 concerns me is we're heading into the summer, 00:46:15.750 --> 00:46:19.250 where usually oil prices go up somewhat considerably. 00:46:19.590 --> 00:46:21.570 Home heating oil, I don't know about anybody 00:46:21.570 --> 00:46:25.760 else, but... I just paid $540 the other day for 00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:31.380 100 gallons. So like, yeah, yeah, trust me, the 00:46:31.380 --> 00:46:35.920 depression. So it's one of those things where 00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:40.960 if this continues and this becomes a long -term 00:46:40.960 --> 00:46:44.280 engagement, a long -term problem, a lot of Americans 00:46:44.280 --> 00:46:46.940 could be hurt by the economy from this. So he's 00:46:46.940 --> 00:46:49.679 got to put some other things in place. Like we 00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:52.659 have to open up channels. deliver oil from Venezuela. 00:46:53.159 --> 00:46:55.179 We have to push for more refineries. We have 00:46:55.179 --> 00:46:57.440 to push for more drilling just to keep the economy 00:46:57.440 --> 00:46:58.900 rolling because there's so many other things 00:46:58.900 --> 00:47:00.500 that are really compressing the middle and poor 00:47:00.500 --> 00:47:03.320 that if he doesn't open that up economically, 00:47:03.659 --> 00:47:05.940 a lot of people are going to get crushed by this 00:47:05.940 --> 00:47:08.699 because this could get a lot worse. Well, so 00:47:08.699 --> 00:47:11.159 the issue in Venezuela is not the oil itself. 00:47:11.260 --> 00:47:14.539 It's the lack of infrastructure to get the oil. 00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:19.079 A lot of that was suppressed and dismantled by 00:47:19.079 --> 00:47:22.559 Maduro. Yeah. So for some people to know, there's 00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:24.360 a little bit of background history here. We actually 00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:27.000 invested in Venezuela back in the 80s. There's 00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:30.119 a lot of oil rigs that our tax dollars and our 00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:33.000 American companies paid to have built there because 00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:35.880 back then that was the jewel of South America. 00:47:36.019 --> 00:47:38.340 That was the wealthiest country. But once it 00:47:38.340 --> 00:47:39.619 became socialist and they took it over, they 00:47:39.619 --> 00:47:41.139 actually stole it from us in the early to mid 00:47:41.139 --> 00:47:44.599 -2000s. So we lost all that money, all that tax 00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:45.860 revenue, all those companies' money that was 00:47:45.860 --> 00:47:48.480 put into those. And now that we're there... They 00:47:48.480 --> 00:47:50.280 are not running as efficiently as some of them, 00:47:50.300 --> 00:47:53.519 not even operational at all, simply because it 00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:56.519 was socialist, communist takeover. That's kind 00:47:56.519 --> 00:48:00.139 of how that happens. So hopefully we can get 00:48:00.139 --> 00:48:01.960 that going, but that needs to be a priority. 00:48:02.940 --> 00:48:05.320 I wonder, are we going to turn Venezuela into 00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:07.300 a territory or something like that? Are we going 00:48:07.300 --> 00:48:09.820 to end up doing something with that? I feel like 00:48:09.820 --> 00:48:15.239 if that happened, it would probably be more. 00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:21.059 uh likely or more positive than iran oh yeah 00:48:21.059 --> 00:48:27.039 so i don't know but so uh we have all this stuff 00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:29.139 going on and if you want to take this section 00:48:29.139 --> 00:48:32.139 uh you you're more than welcome to oh sure section 00:48:32.139 --> 00:48:37.380 three so there is so this section is called the 00:48:37.380 --> 00:48:39.380 narrative filter basically who who owns the story 00:48:39.380 --> 00:48:41.179 who owns what's going on here who is controlling 00:48:41.179 --> 00:48:43.280 the information that's getting out what's being 00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:44.760 said and what's being disseminated to people 00:48:45.420 --> 00:48:47.519 Now, before I get into the notes, the issue that 00:48:47.519 --> 00:48:49.900 we're seeing, this has been a problem really 00:48:49.900 --> 00:48:51.920 since the Ukrainian war, definitely a problem 00:48:51.920 --> 00:48:53.699 in Venezuela, but really a problem with the Iranian 00:48:53.699 --> 00:48:57.619 war right now is the lack of transparent media 00:48:57.619 --> 00:49:00.099 information. And it's gotten bad, especially 00:49:00.099 --> 00:49:03.019 with the proliferation of AI. It's gotten even 00:49:03.019 --> 00:49:06.840 worse. And holy fuck, did we not call this shit? 00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:12.360 It's almost like we listen and we learn and we 00:49:12.360 --> 00:49:16.719 talk about things. I say this again. We are apparently 00:49:16.719 --> 00:49:21.980 fucking prophets because we said last season, 00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:26.039 the next big conflict with the proliferation 00:49:26.039 --> 00:49:29.719 of AI, there's going to be so much false information 00:49:29.719 --> 00:49:32.380 and generated videos. It's going to be impossible 00:49:32.380 --> 00:49:37.639 to say what's real and fucking look around. I've 00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:39.860 seen some very convincing videos of like bombs 00:49:39.860 --> 00:49:43.269 being dropped. Supposedly. on us fobs forward 00:49:43.269 --> 00:49:45.750 operating bases and it looked like at first it 00:49:45.750 --> 00:49:47.170 made me do a triple take and i'm somebody that's 00:49:47.170 --> 00:49:49.730 pretty well versed in ai stuff i even had to 00:49:49.730 --> 00:49:51.469 do a triple take it was like wait a minute that 00:49:51.469 --> 00:49:53.650 looked real but once i saw that like people would 00:49:53.650 --> 00:49:55.670 suddenly disappear or clothing would change or 00:49:55.670 --> 00:49:58.329 like little small details you realize oh that's 00:49:58.329 --> 00:50:01.969 ai but jesus christ was it convincing especially 00:50:01.969 --> 00:50:03.610 if i was just scrolling through tiktok or like 00:50:03.610 --> 00:50:06.170 threads or something yeah like it's so easy to 00:50:06.170 --> 00:50:10.510 control the narrative so the ai videos of net 00:50:10.510 --> 00:50:14.940 and yahoo When the whole theory of him may be 00:50:14.940 --> 00:50:18.619 dead, the man had six fingers on his hands at 00:50:18.619 --> 00:50:21.280 one point. His teeth were disappearing. In another 00:50:21.280 --> 00:50:23.420 video, he had a ring on his hand that was coming 00:50:23.420 --> 00:50:27.659 and going. Why are they putting these videos 00:50:27.659 --> 00:50:31.980 out if he's not dead? I don't even know if he's 00:50:31.980 --> 00:50:34.099 done a live interview. I actually heard the official 00:50:34.099 --> 00:50:35.539 sources on that. It's because they were using 00:50:35.539 --> 00:50:38.320 it to edit. He is still alive and he's still 00:50:38.320 --> 00:50:40.820 out there. But apparently they were using it 00:50:40.820 --> 00:50:44.559 to edit and, like, piece a couple of different 00:50:44.559 --> 00:50:46.920 interviews together for different parts. So, 00:50:46.960 --> 00:50:49.900 like, according to what I've heard from official 00:50:49.900 --> 00:50:52.840 sources, he's still around. It's an AI video, 00:50:52.940 --> 00:50:56.619 but it's a poorly edited one. Okay, so why aren't 00:50:56.619 --> 00:51:00.219 they putting him in front of a camera? I think 00:51:00.219 --> 00:51:03.039 it's all optics right now at this point. I think 00:51:03.039 --> 00:51:05.039 they want him out of the spotlight because they 00:51:05.039 --> 00:51:09.000 know... I have to tread on these words carefully, 00:51:09.119 --> 00:51:11.260 but there's a lot of anti -Israeli sentiment 00:51:11.260 --> 00:51:15.039 right now. So from what I have heard from people, 00:51:15.139 --> 00:51:16.440 they're just trying to keep him out of the spotlight. 00:51:16.900 --> 00:51:19.900 Now, granted, is it possible that something happened? 00:51:20.099 --> 00:51:25.500 Maybe. But I guess I would assume that if something 00:51:25.500 --> 00:51:29.239 happened to him, that would be not world -ending 00:51:29.239 --> 00:51:32.920 news, but it would be darn near. That would be 00:51:32.920 --> 00:51:36.480 probably the biggest story. in the last 20 years. 00:51:36.780 --> 00:51:39.880 Well, I know there was an image circulating earlier 00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:43.340 in this week of him being dragged out of some 00:51:43.340 --> 00:51:47.380 rubble. Now, it was obviously AI generated. You 00:51:47.380 --> 00:51:50.099 couldn't fucking tell first glance, even second 00:51:50.099 --> 00:51:54.019 glance. You had to really look. Like, people 00:51:54.019 --> 00:51:56.000 had to start running it through an AI detection 00:51:56.000 --> 00:51:58.380 software. And even then, it's getting to the 00:51:58.380 --> 00:51:59.960 point where sometimes those don't always work. 00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:03.559 Yeah. So keep that in mind. Everybody at home, 00:52:03.619 --> 00:52:05.920 like... you really, my best advice would be to 00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:07.599 talk to people that are, that are involved in 00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:08.940 this kind of stuff and that really watch it. 00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:11.679 Um, and feel free as well. And either in our 00:52:11.679 --> 00:52:14.059 discord or comment section or anything like send 00:52:14.059 --> 00:52:15.719 stuff to us and be like, Hey, have you guys heard 00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:18.340 this? Because I'm somebody just so you guys know, 00:52:18.440 --> 00:52:21.719 I, I listened to several different like, um, 00:52:21.860 --> 00:52:25.219 independent journalists almost every night. So 00:52:25.219 --> 00:52:26.800 for me, it's, I don't listen to mainstream. I 00:52:26.800 --> 00:52:29.000 listen to independent people and they actually 00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:31.949 can, you know, source. You know, that cite their 00:52:31.949 --> 00:52:33.690 sources, cite their people, cite their contacts. 00:52:34.269 --> 00:52:36.230 Not saying that I know everything that I know 00:52:36.230 --> 00:52:39.230 perfectly, but I'm pretty well informed for the 00:52:39.230 --> 00:52:41.170 most part for a lot of things. And I know so 00:52:41.170 --> 00:52:43.610 is Pip. So, I mean, generally we will answer 00:52:43.610 --> 00:52:45.429 either. Yeah, that's real. That's not. Or like, 00:52:45.530 --> 00:52:47.030 hey, wow, we don't know. Maybe we should all 00:52:47.030 --> 00:52:49.949 look into it just because. And right now we have 00:52:49.949 --> 00:52:51.889 to all work together to see what's real or not, 00:52:51.969 --> 00:52:55.170 because Jesus Christ, you can do. I have even 00:52:55.170 --> 00:52:57.250 a couple of times been fooled and woke up the 00:52:57.250 --> 00:52:59.250 next morning going, wait a minute. I'm an idiot. 00:52:59.309 --> 00:53:02.840 Let me look at that. Be like, oh, crap. I mean, 00:53:02.860 --> 00:53:05.079 it goes all the way back to when Charlie Kirk 00:53:05.079 --> 00:53:07.500 was murdered. And we still don't know what's 00:53:07.500 --> 00:53:08.719 going on with that. And there's more and more 00:53:08.719 --> 00:53:11.179 coming out about that whole situation. And I 00:53:11.179 --> 00:53:12.599 believe we're going to be doing an episode on 00:53:12.599 --> 00:53:17.039 that soon. I am going to sound like Alex Jones 00:53:17.039 --> 00:53:20.059 on that episode. I'm going to lose my shit on 00:53:20.059 --> 00:53:23.820 that one. There was an AI video of that within 00:53:23.820 --> 00:53:28.960 30 minutes that was circulating around. So, I 00:53:28.960 --> 00:53:32.130 mean, there's... That level of bullshit going 00:53:32.130 --> 00:53:37.489 on. But anyways, let's look. I had something 00:53:37.489 --> 00:53:40.750 when you were saying all that. No shit. I lost 00:53:40.750 --> 00:53:44.510 it. It was important to. Oh, this is not a sponsored 00:53:44.510 --> 00:53:50.530 section, but ground news. If you want to get 00:53:50.530 --> 00:53:54.210 as clear and uncut and unbiased news information 00:53:54.210 --> 00:53:57.329 as you can. I finally decided to check them out. 00:53:57.349 --> 00:53:59.630 I'm not paying for it. They are not paying me 00:53:59.630 --> 00:54:02.769 or us or anything in any way. This is me giving 00:54:02.769 --> 00:54:06.769 my own feedback. Ground news will show you where 00:54:06.769 --> 00:54:08.789 the articles are coming from and if they're biased 00:54:08.789 --> 00:54:10.969 one way or the other. And from there, you can 00:54:10.969 --> 00:54:14.090 make your own choices. I like them as well as 00:54:14.090 --> 00:54:16.010 straight error news. That's another one as well 00:54:16.010 --> 00:54:20.789 that I like. Yes. So this is not like Raid Shadow 00:54:20.789 --> 00:54:25.309 Legends. No one is sponsoring us. Ground News, 00:54:25.469 --> 00:54:27.789 give them a look and see if it's something that 00:54:27.789 --> 00:54:31.670 you like. They cover the same stories. They just 00:54:31.670 --> 00:54:36.150 remove the bias filters. Do they show you? Because 00:54:36.150 --> 00:54:38.349 I use Straight Arrow News more than Ground News. 00:54:38.409 --> 00:54:41.170 Does Ground News show the biases and different 00:54:41.170 --> 00:54:43.610 ones, like how many different, like the right 00:54:43.610 --> 00:54:45.389 covers this topic, the left covers that topic, 00:54:45.489 --> 00:54:48.530 here's the middle ground? Yeah, like they have 00:54:48.530 --> 00:54:50.789 one right here. U .S. economy, rising gas prices, 00:54:50.889 --> 00:54:54.659 may offset larger 2026 tax refunds. 84 sources, 00:54:54.760 --> 00:54:58.199 and it's got a Democrat or liberal bias to it. 00:54:58.400 --> 00:55:03.280 Okay. So more left -leaning sources are covering 00:55:03.280 --> 00:55:06.820 it than right, but it is still getting covered, 00:55:06.880 --> 00:55:09.139 and they show things from both sources, from 00:55:09.139 --> 00:55:13.579 both sides. That's good. So, yeah, check them 00:55:13.579 --> 00:55:17.780 out. It's your cup of tea. Yeah, don't let yourself 00:55:17.780 --> 00:55:21.139 be misled by biased sources because it's difficult 00:55:21.139 --> 00:55:24.179 nowadays. It is. Very difficult. But anyways. 00:55:24.639 --> 00:55:27.360 Yeah, keep going. No worries. So I know the media 00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:29.539 outlets have been very divided on what's been 00:55:29.539 --> 00:55:34.099 going on, you know, in this war. There was some 00:55:34.099 --> 00:55:36.380 quote -unquote Tomahawk missile footage of a 00:55:36.380 --> 00:55:38.800 drone strike, a school strike, while other people 00:55:38.800 --> 00:55:40.940 have been focusing on Iranian drone carrier that 00:55:40.940 --> 00:55:43.619 the U .S. Navy just sank. The problem has been, 00:55:43.800 --> 00:55:46.260 again, like we previously discussed, is the footage 00:55:46.260 --> 00:55:49.460 real? Has it been edited? Is it AI? Anything 00:55:49.460 --> 00:55:52.519 like that? It seems like there's kind of a... 00:55:53.210 --> 00:55:57.090 a tale of two, two wars going on where, you know, 00:55:57.090 --> 00:55:59.369 you have kind of the, the moderate to moderate, 00:55:59.489 --> 00:56:02.190 right. Looking to find a ways to justify it. 00:56:02.250 --> 00:56:04.809 And you have the moderate to moderate left looking 00:56:04.809 --> 00:56:08.190 for ways to denounce it. And I think it was both 00:56:08.190 --> 00:56:09.550 kind of, it's kind of a middle ground thing. 00:56:09.610 --> 00:56:11.849 It's not necessarily a hundred percent rights 00:56:11.849 --> 00:56:13.789 on a hundred percent wrong. You know, there's 00:56:13.789 --> 00:56:16.590 a lot more nuance to it than just, you know, 00:56:16.590 --> 00:56:20.190 good or bad. Yeah. This is a point in time where. 00:56:20.650 --> 00:56:22.989 If you've never seen the movie called Wag the 00:56:22.989 --> 00:56:25.510 Dog, I think that's what it is, Wag the Dog or 00:56:25.510 --> 00:56:28.789 Wag the Tail. Yeah, I think it's Wag the Dog. 00:56:29.170 --> 00:56:33.789 This is a time to go watch that movie. It's about 00:56:33.789 --> 00:56:37.190 a small film production crew that literally makes 00:56:37.190 --> 00:56:42.469 up a war via film and sells it to the American 00:56:42.469 --> 00:56:45.809 public. How have you never mentioned this to 00:56:45.809 --> 00:56:49.420 me before? Cause I just kind of thought you had 00:56:49.420 --> 00:56:52.840 seen it. It's one of those. Oh, okay. That looks, 00:56:52.860 --> 00:56:55.820 that looks, that I, I know what I'm doing tonight. 00:56:55.860 --> 00:56:59.480 Hold on. I literally was looking for a movie 00:56:59.480 --> 00:57:01.179 to watch today. Cause I just got done watching, 00:57:01.260 --> 00:57:06.280 uh, end game and, um, infinity war. And now every, 00:57:06.340 --> 00:57:09.380 the Marvel movie disappoints me. So, yeah, but 00:57:09.380 --> 00:57:11.780 yeah, it's, it's from the nineties, but, uh, 00:57:11.800 --> 00:57:15.840 really? Okay. Yeah. It's a, it's a De Niro movie 00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:19.320 and it's De Niro and Hoffman. Oh, wow. Prime 00:57:19.320 --> 00:57:23.340 De Niro. Okay. All right. Wow. Yeah, it was good. 00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:27.500 And I think even some of the older movies like 00:57:27.500 --> 00:57:32.119 that can harken to current events in ways that 00:57:32.119 --> 00:57:37.099 people never imagined. Good point. Good point. 00:57:38.099 --> 00:57:41.019 Anyways, so there is a phenomenon happening right 00:57:41.019 --> 00:57:42.820 now. It's called addictive information loops. 00:57:43.429 --> 00:57:45.130 Basically, we're being fed specific versions 00:57:45.130 --> 00:57:48.130 of the war, specific information, data, statistics, 00:57:48.389 --> 00:57:53.329 even true and or false video images, depending 00:57:53.329 --> 00:57:55.309 on, I guess, kind of your political leanings, 00:57:55.309 --> 00:57:56.409 depending on which state you live in, or even 00:57:56.409 --> 00:57:59.070 possibly whichever country you live in. I've 00:57:59.070 --> 00:58:00.630 heard a lot of rumors that different countries 00:58:00.630 --> 00:58:02.670 have been reporting wildly different things about 00:58:02.670 --> 00:58:07.070 the war. This one was weird to me. I went down 00:58:07.070 --> 00:58:08.809 this rabbit hole the other day. that there was 00:58:08.809 --> 00:58:10.329 one country i think it was in germany that were 00:58:10.329 --> 00:58:12.289 they were reporting like there was a mass casualty 00:58:12.289 --> 00:58:14.510 on american soil but they were shipping soldiers 00:58:14.510 --> 00:58:16.429 over to germany like massive hospitals they were 00:58:16.429 --> 00:58:18.010 bringing in thousands of americans i was like 00:58:18.010 --> 00:58:23.309 you know american soldiers are pretty transparent 00:58:23.309 --> 00:58:25.190 about posts and stuff online i'm pretty sure 00:58:25.190 --> 00:58:26.429 if something like that happened we would know 00:58:26.429 --> 00:58:29.349 but it was weird that other countries were reporting 00:58:29.349 --> 00:58:32.969 on stuff like that so keep it in mind now granted 00:58:32.969 --> 00:58:34.730 it could have been all ai who knows at this point 00:58:34.730 --> 00:58:37.750 right So if you start hearing shit like that, 00:58:37.849 --> 00:58:41.090 then I would say get a VPN and start moving your 00:58:41.090 --> 00:58:43.750 location around the world and looking up local 00:58:43.750 --> 00:58:49.969 news sites. That's a good point. I never thought 00:58:49.969 --> 00:58:51.949 about... VPNs are still accessible right now. 00:58:52.190 --> 00:58:56.489 Or now. Yeah, they better not go away. Yeah. 00:58:57.349 --> 00:59:00.269 I never thought about... I wonder how the news 00:59:00.269 --> 00:59:02.690 would be in Switzerland or something like that, 00:59:02.730 --> 00:59:04.170 a country that's completely neutral and something 00:59:04.170 --> 00:59:06.559 like this. I might have to look that up later. 00:59:06.880 --> 00:59:09.659 I didn't think about that. Enjoy your rabbit 00:59:09.659 --> 00:59:13.780 hole. That's my problem. I'm that person that's 00:59:13.780 --> 00:59:15.840 up until 2 a .m. going, you know, nothing matters. 00:59:16.360 --> 00:59:19.619 You know, just absolutely tinfoil hatting. Do 00:59:19.619 --> 00:59:21.159 me a favor. When you break out the corkboard 00:59:21.159 --> 00:59:23.800 and red string, send me a picture. I will. I 00:59:23.800 --> 00:59:26.960 have a fresh wall that's ready for it. Nice. 00:59:28.079 --> 00:59:32.519 I do eventually, a little side note, I have... 00:59:32.889 --> 00:59:35.409 a wall that's purposely free now that i have 00:59:35.409 --> 00:59:37.789 because i rearranged my entire office i eventually 00:59:37.789 --> 00:59:41.309 want to have one where i can put like photos 00:59:41.309 --> 00:59:43.090 and different stuff from the podcast to make 00:59:43.090 --> 00:59:44.570 like a collage of all the stuff we've talked 00:59:44.570 --> 00:59:47.849 about specifically so in some videos i could 00:59:47.849 --> 00:59:49.309 do you know the alex jones like the turn of the 00:59:49.309 --> 00:59:51.210 frogs gay i wanted to be able to do like a gif 00:59:51.210 --> 00:59:53.989 thing like it's all a conspiracy and it just 00:59:53.989 --> 00:59:57.179 shows a peanut butter thing what You want to 00:59:57.179 --> 00:59:58.400 do something with peanut butter? No, I said, 00:59:58.420 --> 01:00:00.639 you know, like the Alex Jones, like the viral 01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:02.139 clip of like the term. Well, you said with a 01:00:02.139 --> 01:00:03.760 gif thing and gif is peanut butter. Oh my God. 01:00:03.780 --> 01:00:11.320 Stop. So a gif thing. Yeah. But, but you, you 01:00:11.320 --> 01:00:12.699 know what I mean? Like how like that, like reaction 01:00:12.699 --> 01:00:15.219 video. Yeah. Cause I think there's so many times 01:00:15.219 --> 01:00:17.380 in this show, I'm just like conspiracy theory 01:00:17.380 --> 01:00:21.760 going nuts. But anyways, I'm sick and tired of 01:00:21.760 --> 01:00:23.000 putting the shit in the water and turn to the 01:00:23.000 --> 01:00:25.880 fricking frogs. Gay. You know what's crazy? I 01:00:25.880 --> 01:00:29.860 would love to... If only he didn't do the Sandy 01:00:29.860 --> 01:00:33.300 Hook thing, he would still be around and doing 01:00:33.300 --> 01:00:37.980 stuff. He is still around. It's just nobody cares. 01:00:38.320 --> 01:00:40.460 You can't find his stuff, too. You have to go 01:00:40.460 --> 01:00:42.579 to Rumble. I do like Rumble as a platform, but 01:00:42.579 --> 01:00:45.920 it's a shame that you can't hear people anymore. 01:00:46.199 --> 01:00:48.119 So many people have been un -person on the internet. 01:00:48.900 --> 01:00:55.510 Yeah. Anyways. The World Trade Center. Sorry, 01:00:55.590 --> 01:00:58.550 what? World Trade Organization. World Trade Organization. 01:00:59.050 --> 01:01:02.409 Yes. I lost my track. Yep, there we go. While 01:01:02.409 --> 01:01:03.929 we were distracted by the airstrikes, the World 01:01:03.929 --> 01:01:06.670 Trade Organization is preparing for its minstrel 01:01:06.670 --> 01:01:11.630 conference in Cameroon from March 26th to the 01:01:11.630 --> 01:01:15.210 29th. I don't really know much about what's going 01:01:15.210 --> 01:01:16.429 on with that meeting, to be honest with you. 01:01:16.449 --> 01:01:19.369 I don't know if you know any details. It's a 01:01:19.369 --> 01:01:22.750 very big conference that the WTO puts on every 01:01:22.750 --> 01:01:26.969 year. They discuss a lot of, like, world finance 01:01:26.969 --> 01:01:31.789 things. So we have all this big war shit going 01:01:31.789 --> 01:01:33.309 on, and they're going to go and sit there and 01:01:33.309 --> 01:01:37.670 sip tea, eat rare cheeses and bullshit, and just 01:01:37.670 --> 01:01:40.070 be rich assholes and talk about how they're going 01:01:40.070 --> 01:01:42.489 to put everybody else down. Oh, it's like the 01:01:42.489 --> 01:01:46.489 Davos thing. Yeah, basically. You know what? 01:01:46.570 --> 01:01:48.730 I guess as I've gotten older, the amount of rich 01:01:48.730 --> 01:01:51.260 people that go to things like conferences. Talk 01:01:51.260 --> 01:01:53.079 about stupid things and then they go home and 01:01:53.079 --> 01:01:58.940 do nothing. It's unreal. So weird. Anyways, the 01:01:58.940 --> 01:02:01.760 WTO meeting is where the real long -term roles 01:02:01.760 --> 01:02:03.820 for e -commerce and agriculture will be written. 01:02:04.300 --> 01:02:06.519 Likely while the world is busy watching for the 01:02:06.519 --> 01:02:12.699 bombs fall on Tehran. Now, it is kind of a weird 01:02:12.699 --> 01:02:15.909 point that they all meet up and discuss. Oh, 01:02:15.909 --> 01:02:19.010 yeah, so we have to put a 5 % import tax on this 01:02:19.010 --> 01:02:21.050 and move this economy around and do these things 01:02:21.050 --> 01:02:23.829 and that. That way we can... But it's like, it's 01:02:23.829 --> 01:02:24.989 just a bunch of people trying to find ways to 01:02:24.989 --> 01:02:27.510 get rich and do things that benefit themselves, 01:02:27.710 --> 01:02:30.409 you know. Oh, yes, indubitably. We must have 01:02:30.409 --> 01:02:33.750 the import tariff on this other item. Yes, exactly. 01:02:35.710 --> 01:02:40.190 All stupid. Yeah. It's all rich shit that us 01:02:40.190 --> 01:02:43.349 poors are never going to be worried about. No. 01:02:44.400 --> 01:02:46.699 I don't have a yacht to park, so I'm not invited. 01:02:46.760 --> 01:02:52.179 No. The only yacht I park is spongy and bruised. 01:02:52.860 --> 01:02:57.860 I mean, the Spirit's still willing. We're moving 01:02:57.860 --> 01:02:59.900 on from that one. I'm not addressing it. Nope. 01:03:01.559 --> 01:03:07.480 Nope. Uh -uh. Nope. Not here. Nope. So we have 01:03:07.480 --> 01:03:11.059 a widening budget fracture in the ever -growing 01:03:11.059 --> 01:03:15.900 issue of The Wallet vs. The War. We have state 01:03:15.900 --> 01:03:19.059 revenues rapidly declining. Many are cutting 01:03:19.059 --> 01:03:22.059 taxes to win midterm votes. While at the same 01:03:22.059 --> 01:03:24.119 time, the war is driving up military spending 01:03:24.119 --> 01:03:28.139 and energy costs. Mr. Hegseth just last week 01:03:28.139 --> 01:03:32.380 requisitioned $200 billion to continue paying 01:03:32.380 --> 01:03:38.099 for things. In the grand scheme of things, $200 01:03:38.099 --> 01:03:40.780 billion for war effort is not a lot of money. 01:03:42.039 --> 01:03:45.599 that's a resupply is what that is. At the same 01:03:45.599 --> 01:03:48.440 point, though, you keep talking, I'm going to 01:03:48.440 --> 01:03:53.119 look at what the GDP of Iran is. Okay. So, $200 01:03:53.119 --> 01:03:56.260 billion to continue funding for the war effort 01:03:56.260 --> 01:04:01.260 and the combat stuff. Yeah, go ahead. Dude, Iran's 01:04:01.260 --> 01:04:06.099 GDP is $350 to $430. So, like, we have literally 01:04:06.099 --> 01:04:07.880 spent... A million or a billion? A billion. So, 01:04:07.900 --> 01:04:10.780 we have spent... we have spent half of their 01:04:10.780 --> 01:04:16.179 gdp blow it up some of it i think here's here's 01:04:16.179 --> 01:04:18.719 the problem i see is in terms of a deal this 01:04:18.719 --> 01:04:21.820 is not a good deal that's a shit ton of money 01:04:21.820 --> 01:04:23.300 we've spent also not for nothing we have not 01:04:23.300 --> 01:04:26.179 dropped 200 billion dollars worth of bombs or 01:04:26.179 --> 01:04:28.519 ordinance no but you have to think about uh running 01:04:28.519 --> 01:04:31.139 expenses like funding the ships paying the military 01:04:31.139 --> 01:04:34.880 even yes but we spent what was it like 10 trillion 01:04:35.769 --> 01:04:38.269 for the middle east and that was for what 20 01:04:38.269 --> 01:04:41.829 years 25 years of yeah and we've spent 200 billion 01:04:41.829 --> 01:04:45.809 in 21 fucking days like i know inflation's bad 01:04:45.809 --> 01:04:49.710 but fuck yeah christ almighty i think is i think 01:04:49.710 --> 01:04:51.349 inflation is maybe worse than people realize 01:04:51.349 --> 01:04:53.670 but dude also that's like basically a trillion 01:04:53.670 --> 01:04:55.590 that'd be like three trillion dollars a year 01:04:55.590 --> 01:05:01.250 yeah that's about right like we literally can't 01:05:01.250 --> 01:05:03.389 afford it like we just straight up like that's 01:05:04.179 --> 01:05:05.659 We don't have to worry about affording it. We'll 01:05:05.659 --> 01:05:09.500 just print the money. It's okay. We've talked 01:05:09.500 --> 01:05:12.079 about this. It's okay. We already solved that 01:05:12.079 --> 01:05:13.840 problem on the podcast. Unfortunately, the government 01:05:13.840 --> 01:05:17.519 is not listening to us on that one. We still 01:05:17.519 --> 01:05:20.239 need to go on Truth Social, post our episodes 01:05:20.239 --> 01:05:26.739 there, and just at the president. It boggles 01:05:26.739 --> 01:05:30.179 me that we're spending way more than what we 01:05:30.179 --> 01:05:33.840 should for bombing them. Oh, yeah. 200 billion? 01:05:34.940 --> 01:05:43.519 Yep. It's a lot. So, yeah, the war is driving 01:05:43.519 --> 01:05:47.900 up military spending and energy costs. Speaking 01:05:47.900 --> 01:05:51.219 of energy costs, this is just a very random Zoidberg 01:05:51.219 --> 01:05:54.139 thought. The largest data center in the world 01:05:54.139 --> 01:05:57.579 is due to be built here in Ohio at a cost of 01:05:57.579 --> 01:06:04.420 $40 billion. 3 ,700 acres. and will use 10 gigawatts 01:06:04.420 --> 01:06:06.539 of power, which is a third of the Ohio power 01:06:06.539 --> 01:06:12.860 grid. Jesus! Are they getting their own nuclear 01:06:12.860 --> 01:06:15.000 power reactor or something like that? I think 01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:16.739 they're supposed to, because I think that was 01:06:16.739 --> 01:06:19.159 mandated recently, that new data centers have 01:06:19.159 --> 01:06:24.000 to have their own power. But I just saw that 01:06:24.000 --> 01:06:26.659 today, and that just kind of hit me. Can your 01:06:26.659 --> 01:06:31.500 water supply support that? They may have to just 01:06:31.500 --> 01:06:35.059 drain Lake Erie or something. I don't know. That's 01:06:35.059 --> 01:06:36.300 a problem. And it might just be the Erie Basin. 01:06:37.719 --> 01:06:39.840 That's going to be a fucking problem because 01:06:39.840 --> 01:06:41.840 a lot of places are reporting water issues with 01:06:41.840 --> 01:06:45.760 those data centers. Yeah, I know. Also, it's 01:06:45.760 --> 01:06:47.260 going to be really weird in 10 years' time when 01:06:47.260 --> 01:06:50.940 AI becomes like a 100th of the draw once quantum 01:06:50.940 --> 01:06:52.119 computing comes out and there's going to be these 01:06:52.119 --> 01:06:55.460 empty warehouses that were data centers. Yeah, 01:06:55.480 --> 01:06:57.099 well, we can just turn them into 3D printing 01:06:57.099 --> 01:07:02.900 warehouses and... just print single -use items 01:07:02.900 --> 01:07:07.260 for the war effort. Absolutely. Did you see what 01:07:07.260 --> 01:07:09.360 I shared the other day? We'll talk about it off 01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:13.920 -stream. Okay. I don't want to get in trouble. 01:07:14.719 --> 01:07:20.280 Yeah, I know. I know my limits. I know. So the 01:07:20.280 --> 01:07:25.360 average person is going to get hit by the ancillary 01:07:25.360 --> 01:07:30.420 ripples. of all the rising costs. It's going 01:07:30.420 --> 01:07:33.119 to be all the non -government organizations that 01:07:33.119 --> 01:07:35.320 are going to be supporting the various war efforts 01:07:35.320 --> 01:07:40.000 because as oil goes up, shipping costs go up, 01:07:40.059 --> 01:07:43.300 which is going to be groceries and living expenses 01:07:43.300 --> 01:07:46.159 are going to be going up. And that's just going 01:07:46.159 --> 01:07:49.300 to trickle down into higher rents, higher taxes 01:07:49.300 --> 01:07:51.579 on things like property taxes. If you live in 01:07:51.579 --> 01:07:54.579 states that have personal property taxes, like 01:07:54.579 --> 01:07:57.880 on your cars and such, Fuck those assholes. They 01:07:57.880 --> 01:08:00.880 will increase those to help cover things as well. 01:08:01.059 --> 01:08:04.260 So this is going to trickle down and hit literally 01:08:04.260 --> 01:08:06.860 everybody that it can in some way or another. 01:08:09.239 --> 01:08:14.079 So the private sector is starting to sound the 01:08:14.079 --> 01:08:17.140 alarm on the looming humanitarian crisis for 01:08:17.140 --> 01:08:21.460 all of this. And even in places like Colombia, 01:08:21.640 --> 01:08:26.340 they had an election back on March 8th. It was 01:08:26.340 --> 01:08:29.920 completely ignored news -wise, I believe, because 01:08:29.920 --> 01:08:36.199 of Iran. So we have the government is starting 01:08:36.199 --> 01:08:39.600 to target tax cuts to win a seat in the House 01:08:39.600 --> 01:08:43.180 of Representatives, but gas in some areas is 01:08:43.180 --> 01:08:45.699 starting to spiral up towards six, seven bucks 01:08:45.699 --> 01:08:49.100 a gallon, California, because of the Persian 01:08:49.100 --> 01:08:52.439 Gulf blockade. So in that case, who's really 01:08:52.439 --> 01:08:59.170 winning? Nobody. for somebody who cannot realistically 01:08:59.170 --> 01:09:01.729 do anything about the cost of living increase 01:09:01.729 --> 01:09:05.050 when it's just the market responding to the conditions. 01:09:05.670 --> 01:09:09.609 No sitting president or congressperson or senator 01:09:09.609 --> 01:09:13.689 can realistically affect real change for those 01:09:13.689 --> 01:09:17.529 prices. That's the market. Not immediately and 01:09:17.529 --> 01:09:21.350 not directly. Now, we can do things like institute 01:09:21.350 --> 01:09:25.239 more drilling, institute... other technologies 01:09:25.239 --> 01:09:29.039 to do things like biofuels and uh ethanol type 01:09:29.039 --> 01:09:32.399 stuff i know there was a thing with uh corn and 01:09:32.399 --> 01:09:35.000 and well knowing that i want to point out that 01:09:35.000 --> 01:09:37.460 in formula one currently they're using 100 man 01:09:37.460 --> 01:09:40.520 -made fuel for all the cars oh that's cool so 01:09:40.520 --> 01:09:42.699 i know at some point there will be the case we 01:09:42.699 --> 01:09:46.319 can make fuels that we can just synthesize that 01:09:46.319 --> 01:09:49.880 we can make yeah or 100 renewable we already 01:09:49.880 --> 01:09:52.880 can but i mean look at the kid down from georgia 01:09:52.880 --> 01:09:55.829 he's he's proving that with his plastiline. The 01:09:55.829 --> 01:09:58.409 catch is it'll be cost -effective at some point, 01:09:58.470 --> 01:09:59.989 I guess what I'm getting at. Yes. We're already 01:09:59.989 --> 01:10:02.090 there. If Trump was smart, by the way, before 01:10:02.090 --> 01:10:04.510 he did this whole Iran and Venezuela thing, so 01:10:04.510 --> 01:10:05.670 people don't realize that the U .S. government 01:10:05.670 --> 01:10:07.810 is the one that actually approves drilling and 01:10:07.810 --> 01:10:09.890 approves fracking and everything else for oil. 01:10:10.449 --> 01:10:13.250 We only have a handful of refineries. Why the 01:10:13.250 --> 01:10:15.729 fuck didn't they greenlight more refineries being 01:10:15.729 --> 01:10:18.369 built and more drilling that way to offset all 01:10:18.369 --> 01:10:20.500 of this? I guess that's the part that kind of 01:10:20.500 --> 01:10:21.699 pissed me off. Like, it seems like it's very 01:10:21.699 --> 01:10:23.159 short sighted. It's like, if you know, you're 01:10:23.159 --> 01:10:24.779 going to do this or, you know, this is what's 01:10:24.779 --> 01:10:27.479 going to happen. You're greenlight all this before 01:10:27.479 --> 01:10:30.199 then. That way you can also undercut those countries 01:10:30.199 --> 01:10:33.159 while we're doing it. So you can lower the amount 01:10:33.159 --> 01:10:34.760 of money they have an income they have. So it 01:10:34.760 --> 01:10:37.439 makes their defenses even worse. And especially 01:10:37.439 --> 01:10:40.779 countries like Iran and Venezuela, who like 70 01:10:40.779 --> 01:10:44.140 to 80 % of their export is oil. You can bankrupt 01:10:44.140 --> 01:10:46.220 them and say, oh yeah, by the way, now you don't 01:10:46.220 --> 01:10:48.270 have soldiers to pay. So it makes this whole 01:10:48.270 --> 01:10:50.090 thing a lot fucking easier. Granted, I'm just 01:10:50.090 --> 01:10:54.850 an idiot. But, you know, come on. Rub the brain 01:10:54.850 --> 01:10:57.989 cells together here, guys. If Rick Sanchez can 01:10:57.989 --> 01:11:00.710 collapse a galactic economy by setting a one 01:11:00.710 --> 01:11:05.130 to a zero, we can sure as hell defeat a sand 01:11:05.130 --> 01:11:09.289 people economy by running their oil out. I mean, 01:11:09.329 --> 01:11:12.149 come on. My favorite meme I saw the other day 01:11:12.149 --> 01:11:14.489 was like, it just is literally a rad. It just 01:11:14.489 --> 01:11:16.250 is a Tusken Raider instead of the gun. It's just 01:11:16.250 --> 01:11:23.340 a barrel of oil. I saw that one. I hate to say 01:11:23.340 --> 01:11:27.140 it's true, but you would think, though, that 01:11:27.140 --> 01:11:28.699 the U .S. government would have had enough. Now, 01:11:28.699 --> 01:11:30.899 granted, I know what I'm saying is a joke here, 01:11:30.979 --> 01:11:32.760 but you think they would have had enough foresight 01:11:32.760 --> 01:11:34.079 to say, if we're going to be seeing this through 01:11:34.079 --> 01:11:36.739 in the next few years, let's make preparation. 01:11:37.300 --> 01:11:40.520 Because right now, nobody, I'll be real, nobody 01:11:40.520 --> 01:11:43.520 I know is happy with the current administration 01:11:43.520 --> 01:11:46.500 for all this. Not even the people that voted. 01:11:46.970 --> 01:11:49.630 No, I have not found a single person that's like, 01:11:49.689 --> 01:11:51.750 yes, I support this. Yes, I'm happy with the 01:11:51.750 --> 01:11:54.090 outcome. Because at the end of the day, everyone's 01:11:54.090 --> 01:11:56.850 already struggling. I don't know anybody that's 01:11:56.850 --> 01:11:58.590 not being hit by the economy right now that's 01:11:58.590 --> 01:12:00.829 like bitching about it all the fucking time. 01:12:01.930 --> 01:12:05.869 Everyone I know. Shit's expensive, man. People 01:12:05.869 --> 01:12:08.689 are having to like pool their collective resources. 01:12:09.569 --> 01:12:11.630 We've talked about it on the show before. I just 01:12:11.630 --> 01:12:13.289 hit myself in the face with my mic. We've talked 01:12:13.289 --> 01:12:15.720 about it on the show that. People are combining 01:12:15.720 --> 01:12:19.720 households because they have to. And it's just 01:12:19.720 --> 01:12:22.960 going to get worse. So this is just going to 01:12:22.960 --> 01:12:27.279 make it an even more emphasized point. And unfortunately, 01:12:27.380 --> 01:12:31.079 with the loss of the American dream, people aren't 01:12:31.079 --> 01:12:34.119 going to be voting for people like Trump if they 01:12:34.119 --> 01:12:38.060 can't afford to do basic shit. Yeah. Another 01:12:38.060 --> 01:12:40.560 Zoidberg thought, did you see that they're trying 01:12:40.560 --> 01:12:42.159 to, and I don't know if this is just a troll 01:12:42.159 --> 01:12:45.159 or something, but. They're trying to put forth 01:12:45.159 --> 01:12:48.159 a new amendment that a president can serve more 01:12:48.159 --> 01:12:51.199 than two terms as long as the three terms are 01:12:51.199 --> 01:12:52.880 not done consecutively. Oh, that'd be stupid. 01:12:52.979 --> 01:12:57.060 I disagree with that. Yeah. As it is, there should 01:12:57.060 --> 01:12:59.079 be term limits for people in Congress. All of 01:12:59.079 --> 01:12:59.899 them. The fact that we have people that serve 01:12:59.899 --> 01:13:03.100 for 30 fucking years I think is insulting. So 01:13:03.100 --> 01:13:05.340 what it should be? It should be two years for 01:13:05.340 --> 01:13:06.619 a senator. That way, because there's six years, 01:13:06.699 --> 01:13:08.819 so it's 12 years total. It should be three terms 01:13:08.819 --> 01:13:10.939 for a representative. That would be six years. 01:13:11.680 --> 01:13:13.939 That way it offsets. That way you have two and 01:13:13.939 --> 01:13:15.180 the other one's three, but that way it kind of 01:13:15.180 --> 01:13:18.260 rotates. So that way you don't get the same groups 01:13:18.260 --> 01:13:20.460 switching all the time, like all Democrat, then 01:13:20.460 --> 01:13:21.680 all Republican, then all Democrat. It would be 01:13:21.680 --> 01:13:25.600 mixed. But it should be that. That simple. But 01:13:25.600 --> 01:13:36.039 no. Yeah. Term limits would be great, but I don't 01:13:36.039 --> 01:13:37.760 know that anyone's going to vote themselves out 01:13:37.760 --> 01:13:41.779 of a job. It'll take something big. It'll take 01:13:41.779 --> 01:13:46.500 a citizen effort, I think. Or somebody on their 01:13:46.500 --> 01:13:48.060 way out of office. I was going to say Trump literally 01:13:48.060 --> 01:13:50.000 should be, you know what you should do? He should 01:13:50.000 --> 01:13:52.920 do a, basically an executive order where the 01:13:52.920 --> 01:13:54.800 next budget bill can't pass unless that has it 01:13:54.800 --> 01:13:57.300 in it. Just sign that, dot it, there you go. 01:13:57.380 --> 01:13:59.899 Have a nice day. Or something stupid like that. 01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:03.600 Because quite frankly, it's ridiculous. No one's 01:14:03.600 --> 01:14:05.680 job should ever be to be a senator for 40 years. 01:14:06.500 --> 01:14:09.439 Fuck that. The fact that somebody like Pelosi 01:14:09.439 --> 01:14:11.399 was in office longer than I've been alive, come 01:14:11.399 --> 01:14:14.539 on. Yeah. I'm 44 fucking years old, and she's 01:14:14.539 --> 01:14:16.640 been in politics longer than I've been alive. 01:14:17.100 --> 01:14:21.659 Yeah. She's not the only one. There are many 01:14:21.659 --> 01:14:24.180 of them. Oh, yeah, no. Schumer and all those 01:14:24.180 --> 01:14:29.260 other asshats. And I mean, what, cocaine Mitch 01:14:29.260 --> 01:14:33.880 McConnell? Oh, God. He's just as bad. God. he 01:14:33.880 --> 01:14:35.840 looks like he is befuddled everywhere he goes 01:14:35.840 --> 01:14:39.279 now he is so old it's like oh it's just everything's 01:14:39.279 --> 01:14:41.260 a new experience to him like in a way it's kind 01:14:41.260 --> 01:14:43.600 of endearing it is because he it it is because 01:14:43.600 --> 01:14:45.399 he can't remember anything yeah exactly that's 01:14:45.399 --> 01:14:48.579 you know oh god he just looks like a turtle that 01:14:48.579 --> 01:14:52.739 lost his shell years ago and just i mean he kind 01:14:52.739 --> 01:14:58.220 of did i i just can't it's i i guess congress 01:14:58.220 --> 01:15:00.239 is now the new retirement plan for americans 01:15:01.020 --> 01:15:03.140 We can't afford to retire, so we just go into 01:15:03.140 --> 01:15:07.600 public service and work there. I feel like I'm 01:15:07.600 --> 01:15:09.920 at the point where almost Vermin Supreme is seeming 01:15:09.920 --> 01:15:12.560 like an actually good candidate. If anyone who 01:15:12.560 --> 01:15:15.039 doesn't know who Vermin Supreme is, look him 01:15:15.039 --> 01:15:19.979 up. Is he still wearing the boot on his head? 01:15:20.020 --> 01:15:22.079 I hope he is. If not, I'll buy him another one. 01:15:22.239 --> 01:15:24.439 I will get him one. Don't you worry. I'll give 01:15:24.439 --> 01:15:26.020 him a saddle, too. I got like five of them out 01:15:26.020 --> 01:15:32.529 in the barn. Good old Verbon Supreme. The only 01:15:32.529 --> 01:15:36.630 serious candidate we have left. That's terrifying. 01:15:37.550 --> 01:15:39.689 Because I can't wait to do an episode about the 01:15:39.689 --> 01:15:42.609 upcoming election, because good luck figuring 01:15:42.609 --> 01:15:45.010 out who's going to win on this one. Good luck. 01:15:45.250 --> 01:15:47.210 All the debates are going to be fun, though. 01:15:48.050 --> 01:15:53.989 I will say. Yeah, I have to cover the governor 01:15:53.989 --> 01:16:00.270 debates and elections very closely. Because we 01:16:00.270 --> 01:16:02.310 have the lady that shut down the state during 01:16:02.310 --> 01:16:08.029 the pandemic. And probably Vivek Ramaswamy, who 01:16:08.029 --> 01:16:12.729 ran for president. Yeah, he's controversial for 01:16:12.729 --> 01:16:15.970 some good, some bad. Yeah. But I wouldn't necessarily 01:16:15.970 --> 01:16:19.569 vote for her either. I don't know. She's a raging 01:16:19.569 --> 01:16:25.970 lunatic. Oh, that bad? Yeah. If she gets into 01:16:25.970 --> 01:16:29.960 office. Ohio will probably turn into one of the 01:16:29.960 --> 01:16:35.260 more restrictive two -way states very quickly. 01:16:36.699 --> 01:16:39.060 That'll be fun. You'll be a suburb of Illinois, 01:16:39.199 --> 01:16:41.399 basically, at that point. Yeah, because gun violence 01:16:41.399 --> 01:16:44.260 is a health crisis, by the way. Not in Ohio. 01:16:45.520 --> 01:16:48.119 Oh, no, everywhere. But she'll be in a position 01:16:48.119 --> 01:16:51.619 to do something about it. All right. How do I 01:16:51.619 --> 01:16:54.439 say this without pissing people off? It's only 01:16:54.439 --> 01:16:58.689 a problem in areas with... certain demographics 01:16:58.689 --> 01:17:07.350 so like in 90 of ohio you're fine so yeah well 01:17:07.350 --> 01:17:11.310 but that's uh that's what we're dealing with 01:17:11.310 --> 01:17:16.069 so yeah well you uh you want to take the last 01:17:16.069 --> 01:17:19.909 section close this out oh sure uh the u .s china 01:17:19.909 --> 01:17:23.260 trade negotiations are set for july Russia is 01:17:23.260 --> 01:17:25.579 marking another anniversary of the Ukraine invasion. 01:17:25.779 --> 01:17:27.020 Oh my God. How many years have we been in Ukraine? 01:17:27.100 --> 01:17:30.140 What? Three years now? Three or four. Yeah. God 01:17:30.140 --> 01:17:34.800 damn. If the midterms flip the house of the opposition, 01:17:34.899 --> 01:17:37.319 does it actually cool off the war or does it 01:17:37.319 --> 01:17:39.800 trigger an insurrection act? Given the president 01:17:39.800 --> 01:17:41.579 emergency powers to stabilize the country during 01:17:41.579 --> 01:17:45.739 a conflict. So there's been actually a bit of 01:17:45.739 --> 01:17:47.399 an update with, with some of this information. 01:17:48.279 --> 01:17:50.699 So I don't know if you know this. But there are 01:17:50.699 --> 01:17:52.560 many prominent Democrats that are talking about 01:17:52.560 --> 01:17:55.220 if the House is flipped, they want to indict 01:17:55.220 --> 01:17:57.739 anybody that's currently in the Trump presidency 01:17:57.739 --> 01:18:02.920 or did work with him. The issue I see is if everything 01:18:02.920 --> 01:18:06.439 flips, you're going to have a government that 01:18:06.439 --> 01:18:09.020 is plagued with the inability to do anything. 01:18:09.699 --> 01:18:11.380 And then people are going to get more and more 01:18:11.380 --> 01:18:13.279 mad at the situation. I think the problem that's 01:18:13.279 --> 01:18:15.399 going to happen is you're going to have bureaucratic 01:18:15.399 --> 01:18:18.430 lockdowns basically where. Everybody, both sides 01:18:18.430 --> 01:18:20.710 are so mad to lose any sort of power, any sort 01:18:20.710 --> 01:18:23.229 of control, that effectively they're all just 01:18:23.229 --> 01:18:24.350 going to be sitting there saying, no, you should 01:18:24.350 --> 01:18:25.789 be arrested. You should be arrested. You should 01:18:25.789 --> 01:18:27.510 be indicted. Rather than actually do anything 01:18:27.510 --> 01:18:29.390 to help people, it's going to be the case of 01:18:29.390 --> 01:18:31.270 you did it, he did it, he did it, just placing 01:18:31.270 --> 01:18:34.329 blame everywhere else. And the bad thing is we 01:18:34.329 --> 01:18:36.829 already saw that towards the end of Trump's first 01:18:36.829 --> 01:18:40.449 term. And people forget. Yeah, except now it's 01:18:40.449 --> 01:18:42.390 going to be way worse because now that he won't 01:18:42.390 --> 01:18:44.369 be able to be back in, and I think a lot of the 01:18:44.369 --> 01:18:46.939 people that supported him. are leaving like so 01:18:46.939 --> 01:18:48.439 here's some breaking news i don't know if you 01:18:48.439 --> 01:18:51.180 know this but um he just had one person resign 01:18:51.180 --> 01:18:54.279 um in his administration and tulsi gabbard oh 01:18:54.279 --> 01:18:56.819 yeah because uh and they they didn't support 01:18:56.819 --> 01:19:00.060 the iran stuff and tulsi gabbard i guess is her 01:19:00.060 --> 01:19:01.659 next the next person leaving in the next few 01:19:01.659 --> 01:19:05.199 days oh okay yeah i didn't know that yes but 01:19:05.199 --> 01:19:08.479 she was a huge big win for moderates like myself 01:19:08.479 --> 01:19:11.420 so one of the problems that's going to happen 01:19:11.420 --> 01:19:13.819 i think is a lot of people that are more moderates 01:19:13.819 --> 01:19:17.039 are jumping ship and you're going to get this 01:19:17.039 --> 01:19:18.920 problem of near the end of his presidency, he's 01:19:18.920 --> 01:19:20.819 going to come under fire from both the left and 01:19:20.819 --> 01:19:25.800 the moderates. And the consequences of his administration, 01:19:26.000 --> 01:19:29.840 as much as I do not feel warrant being arrested, 01:19:30.140 --> 01:19:32.359 I think unfortunately it's going to further this 01:19:32.359 --> 01:19:36.159 political divide, and it's going to be much worse. 01:19:36.239 --> 01:19:38.479 I think especially when it comes to depending 01:19:38.479 --> 01:19:40.600 on who the Democratic candidate is and who the 01:19:40.600 --> 01:19:45.800 Republican candidate is, I'm hoping that... Tulsi 01:19:45.800 --> 01:19:49.180 Gabbard takes this chance and maybe runs as a 01:19:49.180 --> 01:19:52.100 moderate or independent and can maybe be the 01:19:52.100 --> 01:19:53.840 level -headed solution. Because I don't agree 01:19:53.840 --> 01:19:55.220 with everything she does, but at least she's 01:19:55.220 --> 01:19:57.680 far more moderate and willing to work with people. 01:19:58.420 --> 01:20:04.500 But if that doesn't happen, we might be close 01:20:04.500 --> 01:20:06.720 to the Bolshevik type of revolution where they 01:20:06.720 --> 01:20:10.600 just jail the entire previous presidency and 01:20:10.600 --> 01:20:14.239 nothing. It stays the way that we're used to. 01:20:14.659 --> 01:20:17.579 It could upturn everything. And I know everybody 01:20:17.579 --> 01:20:19.140 says, oh, this is the most important election. 01:20:19.420 --> 01:20:21.119 Well, unfortunately, what happens is every year 01:20:21.119 --> 01:20:23.699 it seems like the pendulum swings worse and worse 01:20:23.699 --> 01:20:25.720 and worse to the point where eventually it's 01:20:25.720 --> 01:20:28.600 going to knock over the whole machine. So just 01:20:28.600 --> 01:20:32.720 keep it in mind that, you know, watch the debates, 01:20:32.920 --> 01:20:36.000 pay attention to what's going on, and listen 01:20:36.000 --> 01:20:37.739 to the things that people in power are actually 01:20:37.739 --> 01:20:40.600 saying because... It's getting to a point where 01:20:40.600 --> 01:20:43.039 it's not just political differences. It's literally 01:20:43.039 --> 01:20:47.739 like cutthroat. They want to not just win their 01:20:47.739 --> 01:20:49.399 election, but they want to remove the person 01:20:49.399 --> 01:20:53.979 they're working against. Yeah. And as things 01:20:53.979 --> 01:20:58.460 start to ramp up, be wary because the supporters 01:20:58.460 --> 01:21:04.020 are getting more and more rabid on both sides. 01:21:04.279 --> 01:21:06.579 And I worry that we're going to see more and 01:21:06.579 --> 01:21:09.670 more political violence going forward. Oh, yeah. 01:21:09.989 --> 01:21:12.069 So I think the problem we're going to see is 01:21:12.069 --> 01:21:13.510 going to be way worse than like the George Floyd 01:21:13.510 --> 01:21:15.789 riots. And the other problem we're going to have 01:21:15.789 --> 01:21:17.869 is false flags where because of AI generated 01:21:17.869 --> 01:21:19.970 media and everything else, you're not going to 01:21:19.970 --> 01:21:21.670 know what to believe. And there will be entire 01:21:21.670 --> 01:21:23.270 riots spawned with things that never happened. 01:21:23.649 --> 01:21:29.050 So we will be entering the era of political strife 01:21:29.050 --> 01:21:32.630 where unless you physically see it in person, 01:21:32.770 --> 01:21:36.180 you don't know what to believe. Yeah. So just 01:21:36.180 --> 01:21:38.220 keep that in mind. I think things are going to 01:21:38.220 --> 01:21:42.300 be getting a lot crazier. Don't get spicy. Well, 01:21:42.380 --> 01:21:45.619 I just advise people on a serious note, listen 01:21:45.619 --> 01:21:49.039 to a lot of people, ask questions, talk to people, 01:21:49.180 --> 01:21:51.600 and make sure you're communicating effectively 01:21:51.600 --> 01:21:53.579 and not just taking people at their words. I 01:21:53.579 --> 01:21:55.260 hate to say it. I don't care who they are, whether 01:21:55.260 --> 01:21:58.479 they're the president or a journalist or your 01:21:58.479 --> 01:22:01.039 best friend or whoever it is. It's going to be 01:22:01.039 --> 01:22:02.399 very hard to know what's real and what's not 01:22:02.399 --> 01:22:04.100 going forward. It's only going to get worse. 01:22:04.699 --> 01:22:08.560 And people will use this stuff to justify their 01:22:08.560 --> 01:22:12.819 beliefs. Or their actions. Exactly. And it might 01:22:12.819 --> 01:22:17.460 get way worse than what you think. Yeah. Especially 01:22:17.460 --> 01:22:19.220 if you're talking about, like, president emergency 01:22:19.220 --> 01:22:23.399 powers. I guess my concern is going to be, what 01:22:23.399 --> 01:22:28.060 if, you know, shit hits the fan, and then now 01:22:28.060 --> 01:22:30.579 you truly enter an era where the next president 01:22:30.579 --> 01:22:34.260 never leaves? You know, what if? nothing has 01:22:34.260 --> 01:22:36.880 to be believed what if history is rewritten yeah 01:22:36.880 --> 01:22:39.060 so my other bit of advice to people right now 01:22:39.060 --> 01:22:41.140 is for any history that you have that you know 01:22:41.140 --> 01:22:43.899 um you know if you happen to see old history 01:22:43.899 --> 01:22:46.460 books or if you happen to see it's a printed 01:22:46.460 --> 01:22:48.500 media i'm not one to collect books i have some 01:22:48.500 --> 01:22:50.140 i have like a small collection of history books 01:22:50.140 --> 01:22:52.119 like maybe 20 just from different countries that 01:22:52.119 --> 01:22:54.979 i thought was kind of cool but this really might 01:22:54.979 --> 01:22:58.159 be the time to start writing things down saving 01:22:58.159 --> 01:23:00.220 documents on your computer from wikipedia saving 01:23:00.220 --> 01:23:03.740 down entire encyclopedias and libraries because 01:23:03.740 --> 01:23:06.220 I have a bad feeling that the next incoming administration, 01:23:06.479 --> 01:23:09.800 no matter who it is, from here on out, facts 01:23:09.800 --> 01:23:12.560 are going to be very subjective. History could 01:23:12.560 --> 01:23:15.380 become fluid very quickly. That's a good way 01:23:15.380 --> 01:23:21.220 of putting it. That is not a good thing. Yeah. 01:23:21.880 --> 01:23:25.159 This is the Orwellian hellscape that I never 01:23:25.159 --> 01:23:29.279 thought would come to pass. That's why we really 01:23:29.279 --> 01:23:33.239 should ban AI. We should ban AI from generating 01:23:33.239 --> 01:23:36.840 media. It's one thing to do text documents or 01:23:36.840 --> 01:23:38.600 data, but I think media is something that we 01:23:38.600 --> 01:23:46.220 got to get rid of. Or it has to be under an approved 01:23:46.220 --> 01:23:50.300 media creation company that's paramount or something 01:23:50.300 --> 01:23:53.880 like that for movies or entertainment. Didn't 01:23:53.880 --> 01:23:57.199 they try that with the Department of Truth? I 01:23:57.199 --> 01:24:05.539 know, right? Oh, that's terrifying. But yeah, 01:24:05.720 --> 01:24:09.619 on that happy, uplifting thought, I think that 01:24:09.619 --> 01:24:15.319 wraps us up for tonight. Yeah. So, you know, 01:24:15.340 --> 01:24:19.359 hold your history books tight and keep your buttholes 01:24:19.359 --> 01:24:25.180 puckered because these next, I think, 24 months 01:24:25.180 --> 01:24:29.359 are going to be interesting. Oh, yeah. Up until 01:24:29.359 --> 01:24:32.189 the next election, it's going to be wild. Yeah, 01:24:32.210 --> 01:24:34.390 I think interesting is really putting it mild. 01:24:35.130 --> 01:24:38.130 I want to be wrong about a lot of the things 01:24:38.130 --> 01:24:45.350 that I feel and hope and wonder about. But I 01:24:45.350 --> 01:24:50.649 worry that I'm right. Yeah, we're just kind of. 01:24:52.210 --> 01:24:54.810 Our podcast is kind of Nostradamus was overweight. 01:24:55.210 --> 01:24:57.329 Like we're right way more than we should be. 01:24:57.829 --> 01:25:01.890 That's kind of unfortunate. Because I'd much 01:25:01.890 --> 01:25:04.310 rather be wrong on a lot of this. But so far, 01:25:04.329 --> 01:25:07.090 we're damn near batting 1 ,000. I mean, I don't 01:25:07.090 --> 01:25:08.850 know if there's anything we've predicted that's 01:25:08.850 --> 01:25:14.510 been 100 % false. Yeah, no. That'd be great for 01:25:14.510 --> 01:25:18.250 the listeners to go back and, you know, check 01:25:18.250 --> 01:25:24.329 us on. Yeah. There's not a lot. I can't think 01:25:24.329 --> 01:25:26.340 of anything off the top of my head. of our heads 01:25:26.340 --> 01:25:28.560 that we were like oh we were like way off outside 01:25:28.560 --> 01:25:32.760 of the uh the singularity stuff uh but i mean 01:25:32.760 --> 01:25:35.420 we were going off of news articles and everything 01:25:35.420 --> 01:25:36.859 else that we had at the time we're not that far 01:25:36.859 --> 01:25:39.479 off from it though we're really not we still 01:25:39.479 --> 01:25:44.560 have i think another year yeah um and it's spiraling 01:25:44.560 --> 01:25:46.159 at us because we were talking about like end 01:25:46.159 --> 01:25:49.699 of 2027 yeah or singularity stuff i mean if we 01:25:49.699 --> 01:25:51.199 don't see it till 2030 then i will admit hey 01:25:51.199 --> 01:25:55.960 we're wrong but I want to be wrong on that. I'm 01:25:55.960 --> 01:25:57.579 okay if we are. Well, I don't know what that, 01:25:57.619 --> 01:25:59.359 what that, what that data center coming up in 01:25:59.359 --> 01:26:02.039 Ohio, who the hell knows that might be the, uh, 01:26:02.260 --> 01:26:05.739 that might be ground zero, buddy. That, that 01:26:05.739 --> 01:26:08.680 could be Skynet's, uh, mainframe. Yeah. That, 01:26:08.739 --> 01:26:11.039 that Ohio could be grounds. All the internet 01:26:11.039 --> 01:26:14.899 memes are right about Ohio. Ohio will be our 01:26:14.899 --> 01:26:18.970 downfall. Yeah. I mean, Anduril did secure the 01:26:18.970 --> 01:26:21.390 contracts for the military and the AI stuff. 01:26:21.630 --> 01:26:23.810 Did you? They are building. Holy shit. Did you 01:26:23.810 --> 01:26:26.470 see the new stuff that Anduril's doing? Uh -huh. 01:26:26.470 --> 01:26:30.689 Yes. Anduril has a facility near me, okay? It's 01:26:30.689 --> 01:26:34.170 not that far away. I have to keep an eye on Anduril. 01:26:34.270 --> 01:26:37.289 So for viewers and listeners to understand, they 01:26:37.289 --> 01:26:40.270 ended up with an AI -integrated surveillance 01:26:40.270 --> 01:26:43.170 system that can look at people and then pull 01:26:43.170 --> 01:26:45.109 up the license plate number, pull up the person. 01:26:45.630 --> 01:26:47.189 pull up social media information where they're 01:26:47.189 --> 01:26:49.670 going, establish patterns, establish tracking, 01:26:49.789 --> 01:26:51.369 and you can just click it to monitor without 01:26:51.369 --> 01:26:54.850 human observation. It will fucking monitor that 01:26:54.850 --> 01:26:59.750 person. Anduril is quickly becoming a very black 01:26:59.750 --> 01:27:06.109 mirror company. And I wanted to pursue employment 01:27:06.109 --> 01:27:10.350 with Anduril until I started seeing all this. 01:27:10.529 --> 01:27:15.609 To be fair, if they pay enough... It's one of 01:27:15.609 --> 01:27:17.670 the few places that I could go to that would 01:27:17.670 --> 01:27:21.210 be a pay increase for me. Because with my line 01:27:21.210 --> 01:27:24.289 of work, there's not a lot of... Because I don't 01:27:24.289 --> 01:27:28.329 have a college degree. And with the way things 01:27:28.329 --> 01:27:31.609 have panned out, I've been very lucky and fortunate 01:27:31.609 --> 01:27:35.350 to get where I am and with what I've got. But 01:27:35.350 --> 01:27:39.729 Enderil, if I was lucky enough to get hired there, 01:27:39.810 --> 01:27:42.369 it would be potentially a pay raise. It could 01:27:42.369 --> 01:27:46.279 be lateral, but I don't know. With all the shit 01:27:46.279 --> 01:27:49.520 they're doing, I don't think I could justify 01:27:49.520 --> 01:27:53.819 literally working for the Terminators and Skynet 01:27:53.819 --> 01:27:56.579 or what's equivalent to Skynet. Maybe Legion 01:27:56.579 --> 01:28:03.479 on the new timeline. I know. It's horrifying 01:28:03.479 --> 01:28:05.859 if you look at all the stuff that they're doing. 01:28:07.460 --> 01:28:11.829 They've got contracts with OpenAI. Well, imagine 01:28:11.829 --> 01:28:13.909 a private company that's able to track you wherever 01:28:13.909 --> 01:28:20.430 you go on the planet. Yeah. We have done far 01:28:20.430 --> 01:28:23.329 too many episodes about that type of shit. And 01:28:23.329 --> 01:28:25.189 it's just like, okay, this is starting to come 01:28:25.189 --> 01:28:32.770 true. And it's just getting worse. So I can't 01:28:32.770 --> 01:28:35.430 do it. Especially there's no government oversight, 01:28:35.609 --> 01:28:38.069 no government overreach. There's no permission. 01:28:38.750 --> 01:28:41.130 It's, hey, they spot somebody they want to track, 01:28:41.189 --> 01:28:43.350 they can track them. It's that simple. Oh, it's 01:28:43.350 --> 01:28:45.510 worse because they actually have contracts with 01:28:45.510 --> 01:28:50.050 the government now. Yeah. So they don't need 01:28:50.050 --> 01:28:55.310 oversight. They have government backing. God. 01:28:56.130 --> 01:28:59.569 So no oversight needed. On a side note, if we 01:28:59.569 --> 01:29:01.409 could get a Blackwater group to work with them 01:29:01.409 --> 01:29:02.710 and kind of hunt terrorists internationally, 01:29:03.109 --> 01:29:05.250 you know, get a little side gig going. Well, 01:29:05.250 --> 01:29:07.420 then it'd be okay. Then they could just let loose 01:29:07.420 --> 01:29:09.880 the robot dogs of war, and this whole Iran situation 01:29:09.880 --> 01:29:11.640 would be over in like five minutes. Yeah, I'm 01:29:11.640 --> 01:29:18.779 saying. Or just drones. No. No. Gibbs, I just, 01:29:18.899 --> 01:29:24.819 oh my God. Like, mental nuclear bomb. They make 01:29:24.819 --> 01:29:30.539 goat drones. They make drones that look like 01:29:30.539 --> 01:29:33.140 goats, and they send them over to the Middle 01:29:33.140 --> 01:29:40.060 East. And the problem will solve itself. I don't 01:29:40.060 --> 01:29:41.720 know if I can make this joke on stream, but. 01:29:44.859 --> 01:29:48.319 Oh, my God. Do it. Oh, my God. I just read the 01:29:48.319 --> 01:29:50.720 headline of, you know, mass amounts of Islamic 01:29:50.720 --> 01:29:53.520 men missing their genitalia in the Middle East 01:29:53.520 --> 01:29:57.239 because of the goat drones blowing up. Oh, yeah. 01:29:57.819 --> 01:30:01.789 Oh, man. But. but no seriously if andrew were 01:30:01.789 --> 01:30:04.789 to combine with another like drone company it's 01:30:04.789 --> 01:30:06.550 well they make their own drones so it doesn't 01:30:06.550 --> 01:30:09.850 matter oh yeah but like i'm saying even now like 01:30:09.850 --> 01:30:12.310 you they could yeah they could topple entire 01:30:12.310 --> 01:30:18.470 governments in a matter of hours so yeah so i 01:30:18.470 --> 01:30:22.510 mean the the the goat drone thing works because 01:30:22.510 --> 01:30:25.390 drones don't have hr departments so there's nothing 01:30:25.390 --> 01:30:29.699 to worry about Take me to your HR department. 01:30:31.000 --> 01:30:38.479 I'd like to file a complaint. Oh, man. That would 01:30:38.479 --> 01:30:40.340 be hilarious if you called him a wireback and 01:30:40.340 --> 01:30:45.119 then you get fucking sent to robot HR. We don't 01:30:45.119 --> 01:30:53.380 appreciate your tone. Oh, shit. Oh, my God. I'd 01:30:53.380 --> 01:30:57.380 have a good laugh. Yeah. But then this is all 01:30:57.380 --> 01:30:59.439 going to become a flip thing when they officially 01:30:59.439 --> 01:31:04.100 label sentient robots as people. We have a limited 01:31:04.100 --> 01:31:06.000 window to send these suicide drones, and after 01:31:06.000 --> 01:31:11.539 that, they're done. Yeah. Because at that point, 01:31:11.600 --> 01:31:14.340 we can't make drones that detonate on impact 01:31:14.340 --> 01:31:21.399 because that's murder. Double murder, I guess. 01:31:22.180 --> 01:31:25.300 You know. It all depends if abortion is still 01:31:25.300 --> 01:31:28.020 legal. That's going to be kind of a... Wouldn't 01:31:28.020 --> 01:31:29.960 that be funny? If you're in a state where abortion 01:31:29.960 --> 01:31:32.140 is legal, like Colorado, up until the last day, 01:31:32.159 --> 01:31:37.739 using drones isn't. Or vice versa. Using drones 01:31:37.739 --> 01:31:40.439 is, but the other ones not. We live in a weird 01:31:40.439 --> 01:31:44.159 world. America's a silly country. Yes, it is. 01:31:45.560 --> 01:31:48.199 And with that, I think that's going to wrap us 01:31:48.199 --> 01:31:51.420 up for tonight. Thank you all for listening. 01:31:51.579 --> 01:31:54.319 I hope you guys enjoyed the show. I know this 01:31:54.319 --> 01:31:59.239 kind of material tends to get a little dry. We 01:31:59.239 --> 01:32:02.220 try to keep it nice and moist and ready to play. 01:32:02.960 --> 01:32:06.199 But, you know, it is what it is. So don't look 01:32:06.199 --> 01:32:08.380 at me in that tone of voice. You know what it 01:32:08.380 --> 01:32:09.640 does. This is the only tone I have to look at 01:32:09.640 --> 01:32:20.920 you with. Oh, boy. Yes. No. But anyways, we hope 01:32:20.920 --> 01:32:24.020 you guys enjoyed the show and will join us next 01:32:24.020 --> 01:32:27.699 week. 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