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Who Owns the Sky? Satellites, Cloaking, Star Trek & the Fight Over Truth · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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Life is good. So, I got to thinking, and
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I know that's a scary concept. And what
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was I thinking about? I was thinking
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about Star Trek. I was thinking about um
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of course Star Trek. I mean, what else
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would you think about in your spare
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time, but Star Trek? And the the fact is
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that Star Trek is upon us in many ways.
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We got robots. Do you remember when um I
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don't know if you're a Star Trek fan or
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not, but I like Star Trek up. I like the
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old ones, but somehow I'm a next
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generation dude. I got all the next
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generations, you know. I like to, you
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know, watch them time and time and time
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and time time. But I especially, well,
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there's a number of favorite characters,
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but probably one of my favorites is the
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Commander Data, who in 10 years never
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got promoted. I don't understand that.
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But uh he he was commander data doing
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all of his stuff and he was an android.
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Okay. And didn't want to I don't
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remember if it was season number one or
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season number two.
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Uh
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he had sex with a woman. He said that
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she was he was fully functional and uh
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certainly functional. So we're even
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there these days. I think it's the
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reverse, you know, but people have been
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buying toys for 100 years. I don't at
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least I'm I think so. I don't know. I'm
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not out purchasing toys, but if I bought
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one, it'd be a damn robot.
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And apparently that's a big deal. So,
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technology is upon us. But I didn't
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bring you on the show to talk about sex
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robots. I brought you on because
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technology is getting us. and uh
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technology
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uh you know there's a I reported a few
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days ago maybe it was last week I don't
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know on a uh story coming to us from uh
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Canada from France from
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uh several other countries and and
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Poland I think um Germany for sure they
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are
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reinvigorating
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restructuring their satellite programs
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because the US is curtailing the use of
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data. I said something to you about this
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the other day. They're curtailing the
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use of uh intelligence. So way back when
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when I was a young man in uh in the
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military, I had a uh I I had access to
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satellite data to seeing pictures,
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images of the ground, uh you know, in
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foreign countries from our satellites
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because we were sending out satellites,
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right?
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and all of the pictures that we were
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taking were pretty much secret. Well,
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now anybody can get on Google Earth just
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about anywhere in the world and go and
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take some things. And there are ways to
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buy
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um
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live feed and see what's going on live
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at particular places. It's private data.
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private companies own a lot of these uh
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a lot of these
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apparatus, you know, a lot of these
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satellites. Elon Musk has a [ __ ] pot of
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them up there in the atmosphere passing
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out internet to people and uh the
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Russians are catching up. The Chinese
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been doing it for a long time. There's
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talk about lasers being up there and and
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I got to pondering and pondering what a
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wonderful thing it is. We sit and we
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ponder. I was like, you know,
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if you go back to your Star Trek, even
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the the the first iter Well, not the f
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well, I suppose it was the first with uh
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uh Captain Kirk,
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he uh uh you know, James Tiberious
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variety. He had
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uh engagements, he fights uh with the
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Klingons, right? and the Romulons. And
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both the Klingons and the Romulons had
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cloaking technology. Now, it was pretty
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funny when they started making the
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movies with the young kid who was doing
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all the new the new Captain Kirk, who's
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actually did an awesome job. I like
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those movies as well. Those uh showed a
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new guy and those people had all sorts
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of technology that Captain Kirk never
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had. And uh or maybe they did have it
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and they just couldn't show it cuz our
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technology was limited. maybe they
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aren't really from Earth, but they say
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they're from Earth where they began. And
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so the, you know, the Vulcans first
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discovered the um
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and well that was in a different
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episode. That was one of the movies
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where they discovered uh Earth and they,
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you know, they had to go back in time
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and save it from the Borg. I mean, that
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was important. And uh the technology
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maybe that was it. I don't know. I still
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can't figure it out in the logical frame
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of mind and how you walk walk through
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these very important uh things that you
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need to know about a non-existent world.
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Okay. Uh but at any rate, the technology
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existed to cloak and cloaking something
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means you make it invisible. I mean,
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Harry Potter's got an invisibility
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cloak. You can have a cloak of
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invisibility and uh you know, I don't
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have one. And
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but the US can make
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invisible
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the
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visual waves. They can they can do that.
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Um because they just shut off the
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satellites. And what they do is they say
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uh these satellites uh you can't cuz I I
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reported to you last week that there was
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some some time limit they were putting
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on it where you couldn't get it
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automatically. you could only get um
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whatever it was 10 20 hours away, right?
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You could get that and uh then you now
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the US is saying that you can only get
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it um
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several days later and they've they've
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engaged in regulation and said that this
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is uh uh critical that they can't we
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can't follow troops even 10 20 hours
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later. They want to make it several days
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to give them a window to get out because
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you're helping the enemy. Okay? But
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understand that there are efforts the
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other direction. Everybody's doing it
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and people are up in arms because uh
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Russia and China are selling Iran data.
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Um I don't see anything wrong with that.
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That's the world. We sell all our stuff
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to uh uh Israel. We sell it all to all
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over Europe. But the Europeans don't
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like it because Donald Trump is unstable
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in a lot of people's views. And so he's
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blocking it excessive.
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Interesting fellow. And they they who
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knows what they're going to do next. You
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know, a we're going to Greenland.
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Get on our helmets and off we go. So
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anyway, I'm thinking about, you know,
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the these sort of who controls this guy?
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I mean, Elon Musk gets to tell Russia uh
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you know, I'm not going to give you any
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um
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any I don't know what any access to the
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internet. So, Russia sends up their own
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sat their own internet satellites. China
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sends up their own. It's the technology
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helps and whoever limits it also helps.
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But whoever controls the sky controls
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the truth. Okay? And and that's the part
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that uh you know the control of the
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truth. We we only see all the good stuff
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over here that the stuff well according
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to us the good stuff but you know oh gez
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we blew up Russian blah blah blah an oil
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thing we blew up Iranian this we we
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killed a train or a bridge a train a
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bridge for a train in Iran you know we
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blocked them off and now we've got the
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uh I don't know what the um um the Kurds
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coming in to to to fight that battle for
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us because now we fought off uh or we've
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separated the two parts of uh of Iran.
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And by the way, there is no ceasefire.
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It was a joke anyway. And um
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an hour later, Israel's bombing the crap
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out of stuff. UAE, somebody bombed
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something else. And and uh is and and
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and you think of the play on this. This
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is actually a good idea from the from
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from Donald Trump. It's a this if you
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I've been accusing the guy of having no
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strategy. Heg Seth zero strategy. Well,
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then they didn't think about the or
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maybe they just didn't believe and they
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were too dumb to to believe the right
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people. I don't know. But uh they didn't
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anticipate the result of the closing of
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Ormuz. Now they're saying they want to
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create a new company. Donald Trump make
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a nickel off of anything, right? We're
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going to create a new company. The US
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with Iran will control it. and then
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we'll split the money. You know, the
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only reason to do that is to keep it in
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dollars and not in yuan. That's it. And
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uh uh and well, and for the US to take
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the money, although we don't even need
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the straits of hormuz according to
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Donald Trump. We don't need it. It's not
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for us. It's for everybody else. He
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wants to make money off the Europeans,
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right? And so I'm not so sure. Um
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let's let's see here. I want to get back
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to where I was going. So on April 5th,
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Reuters said that Planet Labs would
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indefinitely withhold imagery of Iran in
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surrounding conflict areas after the US
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government requested it. Okay. Well,
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then why am I seeing them on TV all the
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time?
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Reuters also reported that this followed
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earlier restrictions, including a 14day
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delay, and that Planet would move to a
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managed distribution model, releasing
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imagery only in limited cases. Reuters
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reported on March 10th that Planet
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already expanded its delay from 4 days
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to 14 for the Middle East to keep
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adversaries from exploiting it. Okay? So
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only the US can control it. that gives
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uh you know everyone a little bit of
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pause to think well this is all great
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you know we want to blow up all these
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people this is what we want to do we
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can't have people seeing the effects of
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the nastiness of war we can't have that
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it and trust me this isn't for uh
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targeting they all got that anyway and
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uh and and they're getting that from
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different sources so this isn't for
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targeting this is the effects this is
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why you can't have it immediately it's
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not the you know that stuff Maybe that
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botched operation where they actually
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turned it into the success. I don't
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believe that they would send over three
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C130s and several Blackhawks to go and
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rescue one man. You know, they wouldn't
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do that. And that there's something else
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that that was a result of there. That's
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idiotic. You know, an air insertion team
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is a isn't a Blackhawk. I've done it.
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You can go and and be insert only in
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training, by the I never never actually
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got to do it in in wartime situation. I
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was a Russian interpreter. What the hell
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are we going to do? And uh but at any
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rate, uh I did get to do it in in be
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inserted. You're inserted that way. Or
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you're inserted through a UH1 and you
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can jump out of that helicopter on a uh
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uh you know, drop 3 400 ft. It's about
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it on a repelling line. And I've done
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that repeatedly. That was a lot of fun.
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And in fact, I fell out of one one time.
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Saved myself. But I should be dead on
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numerous occasions and that was
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definitely one of them. But uh uh the
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insertion team would have been a hell of
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a lot smaller than three C130s that
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could carry upwards of 200 men. BS.
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There's something else going on. And uh
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that failed is is my thought. And
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there's a lot of speculation that
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whatever it was was that the we're going
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to go steal their uranium. Remember I
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was having questions about that a few
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days ago. Anyway, the the visibility of
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all of this is only government used to
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have the God's eye view. I was part of
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it. You know, we could we the the
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satellite imagery, you you couldn't even
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talk about it. You couldn't even talk
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about what you saw on the satellite
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imagery. Nowadays, gez, everybody's got
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it. You got it in the palm of your hand.
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And but way back then, that's what it
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was. Way back then, sending a text
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message, you wouldn't believe it. the
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very I was involved in the very first
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text messages where oh my god we don't
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have to speak all we got to do is send a
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little piece of encrypted data and you
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had these little
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they were about an inch and a half thick
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but they were a solid flat uh cathode
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ray tube or whatever they were just
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green like and and and and a uh and a
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and a blinking green light up on the top
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and I forget what they called but uh we
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were experimenting with those they'd go
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put us behind enemy lines at the
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National Training Center and play around
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with those things and say, "Uh, we can
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text you stuff. You can stay radio
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silent
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because all we're doing is sending
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encrypted data, you know, text message
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style. Here it is." And you spent
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billions on that crap. And uh it's like
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somebody send you a text message, where
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are you? And I'd send one back going,
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I'm over here. When's breakfast coming?
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I'm kidding. But uh uh you know you
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could it was the first text messaging
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was in the form of these it was before
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pagers were really prevalent. Remember
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people in their damn pagers. Oh, a phone
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number showed up. I got to run.
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Everybody's all busy. Now uh uh but the
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government is the one who was in charge
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of all that and kept all that stuff and
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took the technology first. Now
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technology is available to anybody. I'm
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truly thinking that since uh Russia has
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double the number of engineers we do,
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China has like 10 times as many now,
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India has so many. In the United States,
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we put out somewhere in the neighborhood
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of 100 of of 30,000 a year, and there's
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a steady uh uh not production, a solid
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number of those job positions in America
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that are only in the number of 150,000.
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I I read you something about this uh a
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couple of months ago where where we were
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looking at the engineering uh go out and
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find one of those cuz on YouTube or on
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any of those places. Make sure you
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believe the sources but there's a lot of
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international sources of engineering
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and they are in America. You know our
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schools are crappier our it's we're like
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number 30 way down in where the
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engineering comes from. Everybody wants
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they don't want our engineers. I mean
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they do but they want engineer. They
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want the better trained ones are China,
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India and Russia and uh Iran too. Iran
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was pretty high up there. Tell you what,
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the rest of the world's progressing.
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Anyway, I say all of that because the uh
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exploitation of the satellite imagery is
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now
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um much more difficult because France is
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going to start sending up their own
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because the US doesn't want to share. Uh
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Ukraine wants to send up their own
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Poland. Think about it. All of these
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people because it's an un uneven playing
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field and they got to kiss the rear end
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of Pete Hegath to get anything and they
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don't want to do that. They don't want
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to work with Donald Trump. Donald Trump
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in the minds of many many many
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international people uh go from being
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unstable which uh to being completely
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erratic. Now I will unstable is a bad
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connotation. Erratic I'm all over that.
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That guy is erratic as hell. One day
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we're going to war, the next day it's,
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you know, I'm praising Allah. What the
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hell is that?
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Something. He's off internationally for
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sure. And there's something strange
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going on. So, uh, if the government is
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who's in charge of the telescopes, you
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know, so they're try Washington is
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trying to put a lid on it until they can
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can destroy a civilization in Iran,
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right? And they're also trying to do it
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in other places, but they want to share
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it with Ukraine so that Ukraine can um
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um
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you know bomb Russia, you know, on our
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behalf. That's how it works. So
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government, you know, private companies
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sold the heavens. You know, Elon Musk is
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selling the heavens by a subscription,
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you know. So here's your subscription.
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You can have the internet and you know
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you're going to pay me what's the little
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uh device you buy and you can put on
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your RV 500 bucks cost you 3,000 if it's
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for a business and then you pay like
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$100 $150 a month the rest of your life
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and you got internet everywhere as long
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as Elon Musk keeps it turned on or you
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don't live in Russia.
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If you live somewhere where he don't
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like you then he just h I'm turning it
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off there. And what he's actually doing
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is the reverse too. He's giving it to
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people that the government doesn't want
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them to have it to and he's allowing
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them to so several countries in uh uh
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Africa. You can't you uh have to have
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you can't buy an Elon Musk uh receiver.
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You can't use one. You can't have one
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because the government won't allow it.
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Um you know, North Korea, you know,
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places like that. And so what we're, you
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know, it's a selective who gets to see
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what. And the same thing is going on
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with satellite imagery. So, um I'm
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saying we're not living in Star Trek
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yet, but we're kind of a prequel, too.
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You know, we're watching um um
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uh we're watching them these things,
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these technologies come to bear right
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now. And so, you know, we don't have any
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cloaking devices for the uh Klingan. We
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don't have any Federation hollow decks
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where you can get on and uh create a uh
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an environment that you can go wander in
19:08
since you're stuck on a starship for 5
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years mission. Then you could go on this
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hollow deck and create some woods that
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you can walk through with your, you
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know, little significant other that you
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found on the Leo deck or wherever you
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went to. Uh but we do have commercial
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eyes in orbit that we have. We have AI
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assisted image analysis which is often
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wrong. We have immersive projection
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systems, humanoid robots, and an
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intensifying global race over who gets
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sovereign their own access to
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space-based intelligence. We're even
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talking about aliens being some some US
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senator was talking about uh um
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talking about having some aliens that we
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already know about it. They're among us.
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And so that's the news today. Um you
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know, the science fiction props are
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definitely, you know, are fake, but the
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underlying political struggle is is
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pretty real. commercial hologram systems
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already do exist for entertainment, for
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advertising, but all they are display
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technologies. Like what if Okay, so we
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talk about here on damn radio several
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people talk about flock cameras, the
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cameras that they put up to detect you.
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Uh the speeding camera, the this camera,
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the that. So the for several years there
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was uh and they still are, they still
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exist. They're marginal uh whether they
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work or not. Never have all completely
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wiped it out. But you could either spray
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your license plate with some substance
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that made it invisible to cameras. That
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doesn't work anymore because camera
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technology doesn't go the way it used to
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when it was a flash technology. No
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problem at all because the flash would
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turn it into a white spot and there's no
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way you could get around it. And so you
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could that might work. And they have
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those covers that uh uh you see on these
21:07
really low rider cars that uh uh well
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you see it on a lot of cars, but that
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that cover the license plate in some
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like blue like a blue background or a
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green background so that you don't get
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an image of it. Uh but there's no such
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thing. There's AI generated imagery that
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you could potentially shine onto the top
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of your house. I suppose, you know,
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camouflage systems exist that cover
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entire buildings, you know, but they're
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a physical piece of uh equipment like a
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military camouflage net and people are
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camouflaging those things. They're going
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underground. They're going into caverns.
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They're doing something else. And uh
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you know, how do you I mean, will there
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ever be a cloaking device? With AI, are
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we able to share those things or shine
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those things onto the uh um
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top of our house and have people able to
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uh see them.
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And you know it's
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let's see it's an interesting world in
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which we live and sorry I got a text
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about something and I was making sure
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that it's uh that all is well. So at any
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rate, the the technology does exist for
22:40
creating AI imagery or creating
22:45
um
22:48
camouflage sorts of co covers cuz what
22:51
they're doing is they're generating so
22:54
there's all kinds of big things that
22:57
actually work. So, you know, it's not
22:59
not like we're going to buy a cloaking
23:01
device at Walmart for our car or our
23:03
license plate or, you know, or anything
23:05
like that. But in Star Trek, who's gets
23:08
the advantage of superior sensors,
23:12
you know, what they're regulating or
23:14
what they're attempting to regulate is
23:18
access to the data at all. the amount of
23:22
um the amount of
23:27
information that is available and how
23:30
accurate it is to what degree. Like um
23:34
uh arguably they say that you can get a
23:37
pixel size that on the pixels that you
23:39
go down to when you go to pixel size it
23:42
will be as small as uh uh 30 30 um
23:51
millimeters. I mean it's a small amount
23:54
and so you can get some very serious
23:57
detail with cameras today. I mean, I
24:00
remember the technology that we had when
24:01
I was serving in the military. They
24:03
alleged that you could read the date off
24:05
a dime from the orbit of a satellite.
24:09
So, a dime laying in the street, you
24:10
could read the date off it is is is what
24:13
they were and and it's advanced
24:15
astronomically since that time. And uh
24:19
so
24:21
I mean, you know, this are we able to
24:24
buy cloaking devices? I don't know. But
24:27
there's all kinds of stuff. delayed
24:29
image publication, camouflage,
24:32
deception, putting something else out
24:34
there, radar signature management,
24:36
thermal suppression, cuz remember you
24:38
can do a thermal camera, too. Jamming,
24:41
spoofing, creating fake uh tanks and
24:44
putting them out there having a
24:45
cardboard tank, you know,
24:48
and legal restrictions on who gets the
24:51
data. So Reuters saying that Planet uh
24:54
you know was restricting all this on
24:56
behalf of the Trump administration you
24:58
know is kind of proof of this. The
25:00
battlefield edge is not only who can see
25:02
it, it's who can keep others from seeing
25:04
it. And so that's important. Who owns
25:08
the sky in all seriousness. The oldest
25:11
model was pretty straightforward. Major
25:13
states own spy satellites.
25:17
Nobody else did. Everybody else had to
25:19
guess. The new model is a hell of a lot
25:21
messier. You know, the the frontier is
25:24
the sky. Commercial firms sell detailed
25:29
imagery. And that means journalists,
25:32
analysts, hedge funds, militaries, and
25:34
hostile actors can all be looking at the
25:37
same patch of earth. That
25:40
democratization, if you want to call it
25:42
that, of overhead imagery is what is now
25:45
being curtailed by the Democratic
25:47
states, you know, by by the Trump
25:50
administration. And I don't know. I I've
25:53
always been one of those people. I want
25:55
a level playing field, whether it
25:56
happens, you know, in T-ball or whether
25:59
it happens uh, you know, in global
26:02
thermonuclear war, you know, with Ferris
26:06
Beller. you know, I or well, he wasn't
26:09
really Ferris Buer in that one. He was
26:11
another guy, but same kid.
26:13
But at any rate, I I always want a level
26:16
playing field. I suppose I'm completely
26:20
wrong in that, but I think that hugely
26:23
unfair wars are crap. You know, there
26:27
are a lot of people on the planet,
26:30
including me, that say that you are that
26:33
you should
26:35
honor the sovereignty of other nations.
26:40
You just because you're bigger doesn't
26:42
give you the right to uh destroy, you
26:47
know, just that's not how it works and
26:50
not how it should work anyway. And
26:54
I'm Let's see.
26:57
I'm wondering here what we have going
27:00
on. I'm I'm feeling like
27:03
JR should call me if if you're listening
27:06
or even if you're not if this is not
27:09
working. Um cuz I'm not positive it's
27:13
transmitting. I think it is but what the
27:15
hell do I know?
27:17
Um let's see here. Yeah. Okay. Well, I
27:21
guess we are. Um but there you go. So,
27:25
who trusts Washington to give them
27:27
either accurate data or allow them
27:31
access to data in a timely fashion?
27:35
Nobody. Even our allies don't trust us.
27:39
Well, except Israel. They get it first.
27:41
You know, if anything, you know, they
27:42
get it first. And so,
27:47
I'm I'm sorry that I'm reading a Trump a
27:50
Trumpism right now. is uh his true
27:53
social advertising platform. Um at any
27:57
rate, the you know, everybody owned it
28:00
before, but now hostile actors can or if
28:04
you want to call them that, you know,
28:05
who's the hostile actor depends on
28:08
what's happening and who you believe.
28:10
And uh I'm I'm a disbeliever. But the
28:14
playing field is level only until it
28:17
matters. the state leans on the company
28:20
that I if the state doesn't want them to
28:23
that's regulation. So, but who owns the
28:26
sky above? Used to be that if you for
28:30
example uh so many I don't know what the
28:32
law says anymore. I really don't. But it
28:34
used to be that uh you know the your
28:38
property is your property which means
28:42
the
28:46
stratosphere above your property. You
28:49
know, if you could take a straight line
28:51
from the uh from your
28:56
property line and go straight up in the
28:58
air a million miles, anything inside of
29:02
that million that of your property lines
29:04
all the way up is still your property.
29:07
It's true going down to the center of
29:09
the earth as well, but that depends on
29:12
the country where you live because some
29:14
people say it has nothing to do with it.
29:16
You know, you can't stop somebody from
29:19
flying a
29:21
drone over your property. Or can you?
29:25
What if I wanted to drone your house and
29:27
see if you had hidden oil reserves
29:31
underneath with my drone so that I could
29:33
uh go and steal them or say, "Hey, you
29:37
know, I wonder if they got that that uh
29:40
that car they stole from my garage. I
29:43
believe he stole it. Why don't I just
29:45
fly over his house with this little uh
29:47
drone thing I have and we'll fly on over
29:50
there and we'll catch a view of my car
29:53
in his yard or not cuz it's under the
29:57
ground or it's in a garage or it's
29:59
whatever. But who owns the land above or
30:02
the sky above your house? Who owns the
30:04
dirt below? Well, if you drill for oil,
30:06
you own the oil below, too. But what if
30:09
it's a huge pool of oil? This created
30:11
all kinds of cool stuff in property uh
30:13
law in uh law school
30:16
because sometimes you have these huge
30:19
aquafers of water and people are
30:21
fighting for the water, but one guy
30:23
builds a well and starts selling it to
30:25
everybody else and they're going, "But
30:27
wait, the aquafer goes under my
30:29
property, too. I own the water beneath
30:31
as well." Yeah, but you didn't build a
30:34
well. You know, I built the well and I
30:36
can charge you for the water coming out
30:39
of my well because once it hits my well,
30:42
it's my water. You want water, build
30:44
your own well
30:46
and otherwise pay me. And it depends on
30:49
the state, depends on the country,
30:50
depends on a lot of stuff. And so, at
30:53
any rate, this uh uh these
30:58
nobody trusts their neighbor anymore to
31:00
provide them water for free even though
31:02
they own part of it. Certainly, it's
31:04
even 10 times worse if it happens to be
31:06
oil or some valuable mineral that
31:08
everybody has access to. You know what?
31:11
If I go underground and discover a a
31:14
stream of gold that runs from my, you
31:17
know, underneath I dig a dig a mine in
31:20
my house, but then I keep going under
31:22
yours and there's plenty of gold under
31:25
yours. Well, you own the gold below your
31:28
house, but I ain't going to tell you cuz
31:30
I'm I'm down in my own mind. build your
31:33
own damn mind. And so what if I'm under
31:34
your house? Well, it matters a lot if
31:36
the house falls in, but it doesn't
31:38
matter so much if not and all I'm doing
31:40
is stealing your gold. So, at any rate,
31:43
it's if if Washington all these laws
31:46
develop over time, and let's let's talk
31:48
about for something that is so foolish,
31:52
but it could be fun. Uh, cling on cloaks
31:55
are definitely fiction, you know, the
31:56
cloaking device. Uh, but real cloaking
31:59
is bureaucracy. It's electromagnetic.
32:02
Uh, you know, they can stop you from
32:05
seeing it through collection, jamming. I
32:07
worked in a collection and jamming
32:08
platform. So, collection would be we
32:10
would listen to opposing uh, you know,
32:12
alleged enemies. We would listen to
32:14
their traffic on the radio set of
32:16
headphones. You listen to what they're
32:18
saying. Jamming would be we would
32:20
prevent them from talking to each other
32:22
by jamming their signal,
32:25
overpowering their signal so much with
32:28
this big buzz
32:30
and it go like that. Seriously,
32:32
and when and we could push a button and
32:34
and leave it on, you know, walk away and
32:37
fry their radios because they were that
32:40
powerful. You know, there's a story at
32:42
Fort Hood of uh way back when when we
32:45
were doing it. And uh Fort Hood is
32:48
outside of Colleen, Texas. And there's
32:50
story that allegedly was in our unit,
32:53
although I certainly don't recall it. I
32:55
know we got chastised once or twice for
32:57
it for the because we had these big
33:00
jammers that would uh that seriously we
33:03
had 20 times the power of a local radio
33:05
station in a local I mean we blew them
33:09
off the air. Not I mean intentionally
33:12
not intentionally whatever but but they
33:15
uh they were gone and it would fry their
33:17
transmitters. Now, I don't know the the
33:20
actual stuff, but I do know that there
33:22
were times when they would come down and
33:24
say, "Are you guys jamming again?
33:27
Are you on the because they would have
33:30
frequency bleed and it would take out
33:32
certainly the AM's and the FMs, too."
33:34
And I learned a little bit about how
33:36
that worked and it was like, "Wow, these
33:38
people, you know, just the fact that,
33:40
you know, that uh there are straight
33:42
line modulation and then there's up and
33:44
down modulation." And I hell if I knew
33:46
the difference. All I knew is if we push
33:48
the button,
33:50
some we could knock people off the air.
33:52
And so this technology stuff, you know,
33:56
radar is still a big deal. Everybody
33:58
wants their radar saying, but everybody
34:01
is decoying camouflage, object
34:04
detection, evasion systems. Um, but they
34:07
don't have true invisibility yet. Uh but
34:10
you can make machines hesitate,
34:13
misclassify,
34:15
misread, not see the same. And so the
34:18
the radar you NASA explains that
34:21
synthetic aperture radar is designed to
34:25
generate fine resolution imagery from
34:28
radar while orbiting. An industry
34:32
emphasizes the practical consequence of
34:34
this. Um these systems synthetic
34:38
aperture radar sir work at night through
34:41
the clouds through the smoke. Uh Saab
34:44
discussing the satellite threat from a
34:47
defense perspective talks about
34:49
camouflage solutions aimed at defeating
34:53
Satellites.
34:55
This tells you two things at once. The
34:56
threat is real, but nobody seriously
34:59
believes a simple visual trick is enough
35:02
anymore. They're trying to figure out
35:04
how to jam a satellite. Okay. Now,
35:06
allegedly there's going to be satellite
35:08
warfare. I read an article a little bit
35:10
you know maybe I don't know within the
35:13
last year I read this that allegedly the
35:16
uh the Russians and Chinese have laser
35:21
uh style
35:24
satellites
35:25
that can fire a laser from orbit either
35:28
to hit another uh another satellite
35:32
orbiting take it out or to uh take out
35:36
something on the ground with a laser.
35:40
Now, I've seen and I don't you don't
35:42
know if it's um
35:44
AI generated or what. You really don't
35:47
know that.
35:49
But I've seen some drones that allegedly
35:54
can
35:56
destroy another drone or a piece of
36:00
equipment with laser. and uh that I saw
36:03
some on on YouTube or on Telegram or
36:06
something that were that would fly up
36:08
and in Ukraine use this laser to hit
36:11
something. Well, a laser,
36:14
correct me if I'm wrong, I'm no I'm no
36:16
technical guru when it comes to this,
36:18
but if if if a laser is shot, that laser
36:22
line continues forever, does it not? It
36:26
may weaken over time, but if you're able
36:28
to target something with a laser and you
36:32
hit hit the the
36:36
drone or whatever it is you're taking
36:38
out, wouldn't the laser continue after
36:41
that
36:42
and and you know, you hit that? What if
36:46
what if that is,
36:49
you know, a a
36:52
what if there's a house behind the drone
36:54
and you know there's a baby sleeping in
36:56
a bed and your laser takes out the
36:58
drone. Woo! And then goes through the
37:00
window or through the house, it's a
37:02
laser, burns a straight line and there
37:04
it goes like in the science fiction
37:06
movies. Is that what we're talking
37:08
about? And uh what if I assume that in a
37:12
straight line in space that a laser is
37:15
not going to go around the curvature of
37:17
the earth? I would presume that it can't
37:19
that it's going to go straight forever.
37:22
So would that laser then hit uh you know
37:24
another planet some so some so far away?
37:27
Who knows? So I don't understand all
37:29
those things about laser technology
37:31
obviously. But uh I I've seen some of
37:35
this stuff out and technology is really
37:37
getting us. So, we cannot buy any hollow
37:39
deck emitters that'll hide our ranch
37:41
house from orbit. We still can dig a
37:44
huge underground um bunker that we can
37:47
live in. Uh but militaries and engineers
37:50
are working on ways even now, and some
37:53
of them already exist, to confuse,
37:55
degrade, or outsmart what satellites
37:58
andor the algorithms that run them can
38:01
effectively see.
38:04
So, I'm I'm I don't know. I was just
38:07
interested in this because of the of the
38:10
ability to uh
38:13
block people from,
38:17
you know, taking things. We have
38:19
increasingly sophisticated immersive
38:22
projection,
38:23
holograph style display, and mixed
38:27
reality. I mean, everybody's buying
38:29
these glasses, you know. There was a
38:30
pair of glasses. I forget what it's
38:32
called. Uh Google glasses. Google
38:35
something. Maybe it wasn't Google, but
38:37
there are these glasses that you can buy
38:39
for 300 bucks and is is the ones I saw.
38:44
And and who knows? I assume that the
38:46
more money you spend, the better. But it
38:49
is an AI pair of glasses. Now, get this.
38:53
the AI glasses. Uh, one of the shows
38:57
that they were not shows, one of the
38:58
commercials they were having was that a
39:01
guy
39:02
with his Google glasses was riding a
39:06
bicycle and as he was riding his
39:08
bicycle, and now imagine this, I like
39:10
riding the Katy Trail. I'm thinking of
39:12
doing it this weekend, you know, going
39:13
up and and plugging away. I really want
39:17
to buy a new bicycle and I might make
39:19
the plunge. But, uh, anyway, uh, if this
39:22
guy's riding his bicycle down a a trail
39:25
or, you know, and as he's going down the
39:29
trail,
39:32
the
39:33
AI is identifying, for example, oh, look
39:37
at that tree on the left hand side
39:39
there. That's a uh an elm tree, you
39:42
know, and and you can tell the
39:44
distinctive lights. And this thing is
39:46
giving you as you go uh information. You
39:50
know, if you listen to your AI on your
39:52
um satellite uh radio anymore in your
39:56
car or or you're using Google Maps or
39:59
whatever, uh you will get police are
40:01
reported up ahead. There's an object in
40:03
the highway. There's a guy pulled over.
40:05
Avoid this route. You know, go through
40:07
all of these things and those are
40:09
instant access to information. And I
40:12
always It says, "Is the policeman still
40:13
there?" and you know click yes or you
40:15
know cuz it's on your screen right and
40:18
or no he's gone you know click that or
40:20
there's an accident is it cleared out
40:22
you know so people are having sort of
40:24
real time uh data like this and
40:30
all of these things are no longer well
40:33
first of all they're no longer
40:35
government I mean way back when you know
40:36
Sam and his text messaging device in the
40:39
in the late 80s or mid 80s was uh you
40:43
very novel and having the ability to do
40:47
that where it was more than just a phone
40:49
number that was entered in or a you know
40:52
beep beep beep would didn't tell you
40:54
what you had to you just knew you had to
40:56
call the person who sent you the beep
40:58
you know and before telephones and uh or
41:02
check your messages you know call in and
41:04
and have your messenger but now
41:06
everybody's involved so there's a place
41:10
you know these virtual production
41:12
environments where they're creating ing
41:13
fake, I don't know, missiles and showing
41:16
them all over the place. Um, and you
41:19
fool the technology or maybe you can
41:22
fool the technology. It's uh uh you know
41:25
all these holographic style displays for
41:27
3D depth effects. There's something
41:30
called hypervision markets. They have a
41:32
large format 3D display system and a
41:36
projectionmapped immersive environment
41:38
already routine in the entertainment
41:40
industry. And that's not the USS
41:43
Enterprise, but it's the same human
41:45
impulse. Build a convincing synthetic
41:48
environment and let people step inside
41:50
of it. I've been having a a a you know,
41:53
there's a desire I have, but I haven't
41:55
been able to pull the pull the trigger.
41:57
I might because I still want I still
42:00
want one. you know, I'm I'm going to
42:01
build a sauna first, but I think I want,
42:04
in fact, I know I want one of those
42:06
Pelaton
42:08
um bicycles that has the huge screen on
42:11
it. There was one that I used years ago
42:14
on a regular basis in some uh workout
42:17
facility or other that you could pick a
42:20
trail that the bike uh the tensions
42:22
would adjust as you rode and it was
42:25
really pretty cool. So, you could go on
42:27
a bike ride without leaving your house.
42:30
And uh you know that's I don't remember
42:32
what they cost was 67,000 bucks. I think
42:35
they've come down since then. But you
42:37
know the equal uh equal um use of time
42:42
and money was like no not 7,000. Would I
42:47
spend 2500? Maybe. But you know that
42:51
that depends on how long it lasts. But
42:53
that kind of crap never lasts or the
42:56
technology is, you know, totally
42:58
different in a couple years and you no
43:00
longer want it, you know. So I just
43:02
still have my regular old exercise bike
43:04
and that's it with nothing cool on it.
43:06
But alleg
43:09
a screen on your tablet or your phone
43:12
and create the same effect without and
43:16
some of them connect to your like you
43:18
connect your iPad to your bicycle
43:20
machine. And you know, Schwin makes a
43:22
bunch of those and uh so do other
43:24
people, but um I've researched them a
43:26
little bit. But anyway, we're nowhere
43:28
near a Zoom, a scale of interactivity,
43:32
anything like that to build a convincing
43:35
synthetic environment that is totally
43:38
real that could generate full physical
43:41
trails, detective stories, you know,
43:44
like Shakespeare, you remember on Star
43:46
Trek when Data fought
43:48
Professor Morerti? That was a lot of
43:50
fun. And uh but we are already in the
43:54
world of synthetic uh presence. We are
43:57
there. We are in the world of data and
44:01
sexual robots, you know. We don't have
44:03
data yet, you know, who's going to live,
44:06
you know. But you wonder about these
44:07
robots, these uh I want to go to uh
44:10
China. I'm trying to get to India this
44:12
year for the bricks conference um coming
44:15
up. It's in October. And uh I'm very
44:18
much interested in that because um this
44:21
is the third time that India's hosted
44:22
the conference. Their web pages are
44:24
looking pretty good. I'm going trying to
44:26
figure out the approval processes even
44:28
now. And I've never been to India. I
44:32
think next year it's in China and I and
44:34
I and I'm you know looking forward to
44:36
that. But uh I I'm going to keep track
44:39
of the bricks. I never got to Brazil
44:41
last year and it still pisses me off.
44:43
There was I forget what was going on but
44:45
it but the timing was off. Family issue
44:47
of some sort but uh it it was pain in
44:50
the ass but we have the first drafts
44:52
robots are there. You know there's uh
44:56
you know I don't know about wisdom. I
44:59
don't know if D has the brains of data,
45:02
but uh allegedly uh you know, men in
45:05
China and Japan are buying these uh
45:07
these uh female robots and avoiding the
45:11
uh relationship altogether. You know,
45:14
you just find yourself a yeswoman and
45:16
move on. And uh that's what they're
45:19
doing. So, who can tell? So, the Planet
45:23
Labs place uh the heavens are no longer
45:25
fully open to the public because of
45:27
wartime. Um, Star Trek, you know, we got
45:31
50 years of scient fiction that told us
45:33
whoever controls the the sensors and
45:36
cloaking devices controls the
45:38
battlefield, right? So, we knew that
45:40
already because I served in that area of
45:43
of training and I and I know about it.
45:45
But today countries are building their
45:48
own sovereign
45:50
constellations of satellites because
45:54
they don't depend they won't can't uh
45:58
you know refuse to depend on
46:00
Washington's goodwill any longer.
46:03
Private firms are leaned on by the US
46:06
government and real cloaking race isn't
46:10
fake. You know, it's not magic
46:12
invisibility, but hiding from optical
46:14
sensors, from radar, and from AI. So
46:18
whether or not the future belongs to
46:20
those who can see everything or those
46:22
who can hide everything or those who
46:24
decide who gets to see everything or the
46:27
things that they have hidden, every one
46:29
of these is is a current report. You
46:33
know, remember satellite imagery felt
46:35
like u only the CIA and a handful of
46:39
people like me with the right clearance
46:41
could see it. Well, that world is gone.
46:44
Commercial companies have the sky, you
46:47
know, for sale, you know, for they're
46:51
selling you the sky. Well, why do they
46:53
own the sky? That's another, you know,
46:55
why? Because they took the chance to
46:58
harness the sky. We have people planning
47:00
to go to the moon and harness the moon
47:02
and steal all the crap up there before
47:03
the rest of us get a chance. Well, maybe
47:05
that's something we all need to be uh uh
47:08
you know very um appreciative is of. But
47:12
what the hell? Is it going to be a
47:14
private company? Is it going to be some
47:16
kind on behalf of the world or just on
47:18
behalf of uh a few? It's always going to
47:21
be just a few who have the most money.
47:25
Let's see here.
47:28
Well, let's see. I have a caller online.
47:32
Would you have something to add?
47:35
>> Hey. Uh, yeah. Um, do you suppose the
47:39
straight is open?
47:41
>> No, that's it's it it won't be open to
47:45
any of the people uh bombing the crap
47:47
out of uh Lebanon or Hezbollah like
47:51
Israel. They're not going to get out.
47:52
And if the UAE is still in there and um
47:57
uh still bombing, which they were
47:59
yesterday, uh because yesterday, right
48:01
after the um the alleged ceasefire
48:06
between the US and Iran, Israel said,
48:08
"Well, it doesn't count for us. We're
48:11
bombing everybody anyway." And then all
48:13
the other people in the area started
48:15
bombing back and forth and uh
48:17
everybody's still burning. So, uh, are
48:20
we I never took it seriously yesterday.
48:24
I But maybe maybe my thought on this is
48:28
that maybe this is Donald Trump's exit
48:32
and he can say, "Well, I tried, you
48:34
know, and we're no longer involved and
48:36
the US is out." No, I don't believe
48:38
that. Not yet. But if he's going to get
48:41
out, it's the only reasonable way to get
48:43
out would be to have all these allies
48:45
and people and have the US go, "No, no,
48:47
we're the reasonable ones. We stepped
48:49
away and they still hate Iran, so
48:51
they're still bombing them with our
48:52
stuff, just like Ukraine is bombing
48:54
Russia with our stuff."
48:59
>> Yeah. I don't I don't understand how you
49:00
can claim a victory when
49:03
when everybody's still shooting but us.
49:06
>> Well, but the worst part of it is is is
49:08
not this. You you you you start a war
49:11
when the straight was already open
49:14
knowing that these people could close a
49:17
straight or if you didn't know, you
49:19
should have known. And then you say,
49:21
"Yeah, hey, we opened the Straits of
49:23
Hormuz. Woohoo! Aren't we great?" No,
49:25
you're not. You're a bunch of morons
49:27
because it was already open until you
49:30
started a war.
49:33
Do have you ever have you ever watched
49:35
those um uh I guess he's just a
49:38
spokesman for the IRCG that that that
49:41
real militant dude.
49:42
>> Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They have they have
49:44
those translated into English and
49:46
they're they're pretty funny because
49:47
every every third sentence is uh praise
49:50
be to God. But but you know what? I have
49:52
met um Arabic people who do talk that
49:56
way and they talk you know they they not
49:59
not
50:01
they do praise God a lot. Let's put
50:02
that. But I've met Americans who do the
50:04
same thing. You know, every every, you
50:06
know, tenth sentence is something about,
50:09
you know, uh, God says this and, you
50:10
know, all of that. And I, more power to
50:13
him. You know, you have your beliefs, I
50:14
have mine. And I and I would never
50:16
dictate what yours should be. But I have
50:19
watched that guy and and uh he's he's
50:21
the head of the IRCG at this point.
50:24
Right.
50:25
>> What I was going to say is uh he he'll
50:28
tell you exactly what they're going to
50:29
do. I I uh you know, you was talking
50:32
about you should know the straight's
50:33
going to close. Uh it the the the man
50:37
the man spells out their game plan. Uh
50:40
he you know, he he says it it's it's
50:43
starting in 24 hours if if they keep if
50:46
they keep on and then you know then they
50:48
start up they're they're on wave it's
50:50
day 40 or 41 and uh
50:54
>> No, it's more than that. I forget the
50:55
day. Here we are on on day um on on day
51:00
because it was February 28th when it
51:02
started. Well, whatever it is, doesn't
51:04
matter. It's here's the day and here's
51:06
what we're sending out.
51:07
>> Yeah.
51:09
>> Anyway, uh they uh
51:13
when the treaty was supposed to or the
51:15
ceasefire was supposed to be happening,
51:17
uh they they they were on wave 100 and
51:21
they and they uh they hit the uh Saudi
51:24
Arabia facility. They had 13 uh oil oil
51:28
facilities for in in in the area. They
51:32
they they went to they they've been
51:34
threatening uh going to hit oil
51:36
infrastructure and uh and they did.
51:40
>> Yeah, I know. And and and they they keep
51:43
telling them um they say they're doing
51:46
it so that get your civilians, get your
51:48
workers, get out of this factory cuz we
51:51
are coming. And they're pretty they're
51:53
pretty standard about it. and they say
51:55
what they're doing and frankly nobody
51:57
can stop them. They've they've they
51:59
they've gone after our if anything and
52:03
and I've always been, you know, a
52:04
patriot. I believe in America. I believe
52:06
in all that stuff. Um I also believe the
52:09
lies um like everybody else did that our
52:13
patriots and our air defense are
52:16
superior to anyone else's and can stop
52:19
all of these missiles. They can't
52:21
anymore. And and when you're spending a
52:24
million5 or whatever it is to fire a
52:26
Patriot at at uh 10 $5,000 drones, you
52:32
got a million and a half versus uh you
52:34
know 50,000. Who the hell's going to
52:36
win? And and which one does the Patriot
52:40
missile have to pick out to blow up? And
52:43
so just the sheer volume of these are
52:45
defeating this so-called Iron Dome. all
52:49
of these other things. The technology
52:51
doesn't exist to stop them all. You may
52:54
get a majority of them, but there's the
52:56
numbers that I've been following since
52:59
the Ukraine war start well started in
53:02
earnest in 2022 where they where they
53:05
were actually Russia defending the
53:06
people that Ukraine's been bombing since
53:09
2014. they um those I've been following
53:14
and it's about 8 to 10% of all missiles,
53:18
all drones that I if not more, but at
53:22
least that many go through. And every
53:24
day, Russia is firing 2,000. So 20 of
53:28
them are getting through every day. I'm
53:30
sorry, 200. And every day, uh Ukraine is
53:34
firing back 150, 200 themselves. And
53:37
it's just you your air defense can't
53:40
keep up with it. It just can't.
53:44
>> Well, uh with with your um
53:48
talk about the the radar and the
53:50
deception and stuff. U
53:53
you um it it's crazy how how's anybody
53:56
going to trust our leader when when
53:58
they're on there saying, "Oh, we we got
54:00
them pretty much wrapped up." and um
54:02
Hifa. They pretty much left the people
54:05
of Hifa on their own.
54:07
>> Yeah, I know. And and I I've seen all of
54:09
those. And And don't accuse me of trust
54:12
in our government. I do not. And I don't
54:15
believe I I believe maybe just like the
54:19
drones, I believe about 10% of what is
54:22
being put out about the Middle East
54:24
right now. I wouldn't want to be there
54:26
right now, but I'm telling you, I don't
54:29
believe anything.
54:30
>> Do I What? Do you think it's good pol do
54:33
you think it's good policy for our
54:34
president and the war secretary to come
54:37
on the air and go, "Oh yeah, we're we're
54:40
killing them when when people are going
54:43
to find out." You know, like you like
54:45
you said about that botched mission for
54:48
the uranium. You know,
54:50
>> there's a lot of people saying that
54:52
>> uh
54:53
that that uh u that weapons systems
54:57
officer
54:59
um made it a 100 miles all [ __ ] up
55:02
through the desert.
55:04
>> Mhm.
55:05
>> And climbed the mountain, right?
55:07
>> In a day,
55:08
>> right?
55:10
>> Yeah. I can go 100 miles in a day on my
55:13
bicycle, but uh uh you know the rest of
55:16
it uh I doubt I'm riding a bicycle
55:19
through the mountains of Iran. Let's put
55:21
it that way.
55:22
>> Well, they need to tell better stories.
55:24
I mean, it's embarrassing that that they
55:26
come out and say, "Uh, we're smoking
55:27
them." It's like, man, get a damn TV,
55:30
dude. You know, uh uh Jr. believes it. I
55:34
I tried to call him yesterday and and he
55:36
wouldn't take a phone call cuz he knew I
55:38
was going to tell him to
55:39
>> Yeah. But but but but Jim, you bring
55:41
some of that upon yourself though. And
55:43
uh uh and and I I will, you know, you
55:45
you remain calm, remain nice, and don't
55:48
beat up on everybody and call them,
55:50
>> you know, and and an be offensive, I'll
55:54
keep talking to you. No problem.
55:56
And you know, if you if you took that
55:59
approach more than just getting on and
56:01
calling everybody stupid, you know that.
56:03
And I'm not saying you do that anymore,
56:04
but you're not you know, I I don't I
56:06
don't always take your call. You know
56:08
that.
56:11
Yeah. Well, I I just think it's it's a
56:14
that's one thing for him to I mean
56:17
>> Well, I think he's wrong, too. He and I
56:19
argue about it all the time. He J.R. and
56:21
I argue about this. I enjoy arguing with
56:23
JR about this because he is he is solid.
56:26
He believes it all. I don't I don't
56:28
believe 10% of it. You know, most of it
56:30
is just crap.
56:31
>> He doesn't believe it all either or he
56:32
would have looked it up yesterday when I
56:36
>> Well, he doesn't believe it all anyway.
56:38
I've exaggerated that a little bit, but
56:40
he he he leans toward belief and and
56:44
believes towards a a larger picture that
56:47
someone is in charge of and keeping
56:49
track of. I do not I think it's the
56:51
blind leading the blind, especially in
56:54
Iran. That's what I, you know, in the
56:57
war, you know, whatever they're doing
56:58
there. And they made some huge mistakes
57:00
in the very beginning. I believe along
57:02
the lines of multiple professional
57:06
uh political and very worldsavvy people.
57:10
I don't bo I don't believe the so-called
57:13
experts in the Pentagon because I've
57:15
been there. Those people say what
57:17
they're paid to say. They justify
57:20
anything. So because they get paid to
57:22
justify it. I could hire an expert to
57:25
say anything. I've done it as a lawyer.
57:27
You could you could if I need an expert
57:30
to say that you were injured because mom
57:32
dropped you on your head when you were
57:34
two, then I'll find an expert to say,
57:36
"Yeah, that's pretty likely." Or I'll
57:38
find another one and say, "Oh, no, no,
57:39
no. That was something else. It would
57:41
never happen because of that." And then
57:42
you have the war of the experts. It's
57:44
the exact same damn thing in the
57:45
Pentagon. They just pay people to say
57:47
what they want them to say so that they
57:48
can tell the public that this is what
57:50
what it is. And it's all [ __ ] It's
57:52
not right.
57:53
>> They Well, they tried to tried to purge
57:55
the experts pretty much. is all Fox
57:58
hosts now.
57:58
>> Well, but they're not experts anyway. If
58:00
they're if they're paid for their
58:03
opinion,
58:05
then they c they cannot be I mean they
58:08
they have to you have to get somebody
58:10
who has the education to say something.
58:12
The problem is the people that they're
58:15
relying on do not have that background
58:18
and they do not understand the world
58:20
except from a a a transactional sphere.
58:24
And fine, I' I wouldn't want to go
58:26
against them in a in a in a meeting to
58:28
buy a power plant, but in a meeting to
58:31
uh sit or or to build a building, but to
58:34
sit down with these yahoos and try to
58:36
negotiate the terms of a of an agreement
58:38
between Iraq, between Iran, between
58:42
Israel, anybody. Pick it. Ukraine and
58:45
Russia. These people are morons. We've
58:47
seen who's been running this. And it's
58:49
all the stupidest people that that have
58:52
no idea what they are talking about,
58:55
including the Lindsey Grahams of the
58:57
world who are so twisted that all they
59:00
are is selling more and more weapons and
59:04
more and more war and you know might
59:06
makes right. That's it. It's a bad world
59:10
we live in.
59:10
>> Hey, let me let me get one more in. Uh
59:14
what
59:16
what what do you think about a state
59:17
university? When I listen to all these
59:19
shows, people go, "Oh, you don't know
59:20
who to trust. You you can't trust them.
59:22
You can't trust medicine. You can't
59:24
trust science." Wouldn't Wouldn't it be
59:26
nice to have a state state-run
59:28
universities where where you had had
59:31
research labs and and kids that were
59:33
smart enough to know a little bit about
59:36
something,
59:37
>> everything's politicized when you do
59:39
that. Now, and by the way, so so one of
59:41
the things that I what I've loved to do
59:45
and and and Russia has one. I've talked
59:47
about it on this show before. They have
59:50
a politically guided and it's all about
59:53
politics and it's all about the whole
59:56
school is the school of international
59:59
affairs and we have similar programs
1:00:02
like you know I could name some you know
1:00:05
whatever institute inside the university
1:00:07
of whatever inside Harvard University
1:00:09
has an international program or whatever
1:00:12
and you can find these but these are
1:00:14
sponsored by the government.
1:00:17
Well, right. They're all lunatics. They
1:00:19
all depend and the people who run them
1:00:23
are guided by the exact same thing. They
1:00:25
have to have the right philosophy or the
1:00:28
board of curators of whatever university
1:00:30
will boot them out and go, "Nope, you're
1:00:32
teaching you're not teaching, you know,
1:00:34
gay rights. You got to go." Or vice
1:00:36
versa.
1:00:38
>> If if you have 50 states, you have 50
1:00:41
different
1:00:44
50 different universities.
1:00:45
>> Well, I you know what? I'm not a
1:00:47
federalist. I I I like the state part
1:00:49
except when it comes to education
1:00:52
history to uh licensing in fact I
1:00:55
believe that licensing in just a state
1:00:57
like if you go to Russia, Russia is a
1:00:59
lot bigger than us and and you get a
1:01:01
license to I don't know sell fertilizer
1:01:04
that license you can sell fertilizer
1:01:06
anywhere inside of Russia. Here in
1:01:08
America your fertilizer you can sell it
1:01:10
only in the and I'm making that one up
1:01:12
you know I don't but I'm I'm just
1:01:13
picking a license. Um, you can like I
1:01:16
have to be a real estate um broker. I'm
1:01:19
a broker in Missouri and I'm a broker in
1:01:21
Florida. Why if I'm a m a property
1:01:24
broker, why can't I do it? Do you know
1:01:26
what I did in law school? I took a class
1:01:28
on property and and I understand the
1:01:31
issues in property because of I had a
1:01:34
law license. Now, the trouble is you can
1:01:38
only get a law license in one state and
1:01:40
Missouri right now is is refusing. Now,
1:01:43
I can't get a license in any other state
1:01:45
because Missouri screwed me. But that
1:01:48
doesn't mean I can go to another state
1:01:49
and get one. And that's crazy. It makes
1:01:52
no sense to me at all because here
1:01:55
they're corrupt. They're wrong. And then
1:01:57
they have a system that is backwards and
1:01:59
screwed up. And I talk about it all the
1:02:01
time and it but I'm but I'm right. But
1:02:05
then why can't I then go somewhere else
1:02:07
and uh and get a license? It's complete
1:02:09
crap. because I have a couple of
1:02:11
bureaucrats who hate me. That's it.
1:02:14
You're echoing in your in your thing
1:02:16
here.
1:02:17
>> Well, all right, ma'am. I appreciate
1:02:18
your time. I'm going to let you go.
1:02:19
You're on that.
1:02:20
>> I'm on a roll, huh?
1:02:22
>> Yep. Yep. Yep. I'll see you later.
1:02:25
>> All right. Well, that was a nice caller.
1:02:27
Thank you for being kind and uh uh and
1:02:30
not just beating up on people. I like
1:02:32
that. So, I will I will take your calls
1:02:35
more often if you like.
1:02:37
Well, Star Trek gave us cloaking
1:02:39
devices.
1:02:41
Washington gives us delayed imagery
1:02:43
release a customer service email, you
1:02:46
know, to complain, you know, if you'd
1:02:48
like to to uh whoever, you know, the
1:02:51
CIA, whoever you want. The playing field
1:02:53
is level only until it gets serious.
1:02:57
Only until we want to steal your oil.
1:03:00
We're going to Iran. We're going to
1:03:01
steal your oil. Uh Trump's going to take
1:03:04
over the Straits of Hormuz and call it
1:03:06
the Straits of Trump, but they'll spell
1:03:07
it with a G and an H, which is crazy.
1:03:10
And uh uh you know, you know, you can't
1:03:13
hide your cousin in the shed in orbit uh
1:03:16
you know, with a holographic projector,
1:03:18
you know, from from uh Amazon or Teimu.
1:03:21
You can't do that, unfortunately. So,
1:03:25
uh, you know, and even if he does hide
1:03:27
in your shed, they're going to see him
1:03:29
from above anyway because they have, uh,
1:03:31
heat sensors and they can show that your
1:03:33
cousin is in there. Well, not exactly
1:03:36
your cousin, but pretty soon we'll have
1:03:38
uh, chips in us that can identify where
1:03:40
we are on the planet anyway, right? So,
1:03:44
the holiday doesn't exist yet, but you
1:03:47
can buy a pair of glasses that you can
1:03:49
uh pretend that you know, you see those
1:03:51
v those videos you can watch on YouTube
1:03:53
or wherever on Telegram and you can see
1:03:56
these people, you know, that start
1:03:58
boxing. You remember getting the the
1:04:00
boxing thing with your Wii way back when
1:04:02
and you were doing boxing with these
1:04:04
things, people beating up their TV with
1:04:07
these glasses on because they don't know
1:04:09
where they are cuz the glasses lead them
1:04:12
lead them astray. and they're that's
1:04:14
where they live. And um I don't know um
1:04:19
I'm not sure I want to go too far into
1:04:21
the Israel and Iran and the air defense
1:04:23
and the Straits of Hormuz because um
1:04:28
it it's
1:04:31
what they're doing on these satellites
1:04:32
and AI detection and everything like
1:04:34
that. You know, I told you about the uh
1:04:36
the the submarines underneath the um the
1:04:40
mini subs that Iran has and whatever
1:04:42
number it was, 10, 20 of them, can't
1:04:44
remember. Wasn't a huge amount, but uh
1:04:47
those aren't gone. Apparently, they
1:04:49
can't be tracked. And so those little
1:04:50
mini subs are still cruising around in
1:04:52
the Straits of Hormuz. Uh and they're
1:04:55
they're mine layers. They can lay these
1:04:57
mines. And so if they have a map of
1:05:00
where they are, then you know, and
1:05:03
people find out where th those are, you
1:05:05
know,
1:05:07
I'm I'm interested in these intelligent
1:05:09
sorts of things and how they hide stuff
1:05:11
and where I still would prefer a level
1:05:13
playing field. I'm anti-war in general.
1:05:16
This is all a bunch of, you know, you
1:05:18
realize the people dying aren't the
1:05:20
people that should be. People dying
1:05:23
ought to be the ones declaring war in
1:05:25
the first place. Those are the people
1:05:26
that ought to be there. If you want to
1:05:28
fight, do it yourself. You know, quit
1:05:31
sending other people to die for your
1:05:33
false ideology crap. You know,
1:05:36
democracy. We got to put democracy on my
1:05:39
ass. We don't have democracy. We have
1:05:42
bureaucracy. That's what we have. And
1:05:44
so,
1:05:46
it's uh uh irritating to me. But that
1:05:50
was pretty much uh where where I wanted
1:05:52
to go. That was I thought that was a fun
1:05:54
topic. Uh when I woke up in the middle
1:05:57
of the night, I was looking at something
1:05:58
like one of these restrictive things
1:06:01
going, "Who in the hell's in charge of
1:06:02
that?" You know, this is nuts. How come
1:06:05
how come Elon Musk gets to decide that I
1:06:08
get internet or I don't? And if Trump
1:06:11
says no, you're not going to get it. But
1:06:12
he'll give it to Ukraine who are a bunch
1:06:14
of, you know, they're murderous of
1:06:16
Russians. Well, what's what difference
1:06:19
does it make if you're going to murder
1:06:20
people? Have a have a have a a level
1:06:22
playing field. you know, let everybody
1:06:24
murder each other. You know, you make it
1:06:27
fair killing at least.
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Let's have a fair killing, fair war,
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right? That's what the uh uh Geneva
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Convention is supposed to give. You
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know, war crimes include blowing up
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infrastructure and bridges for the just
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to blow up infrastructure and bridges,
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blowing up salinization plants, blowing
1:06:46
up or desalinization and blowing up uh
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uh oil fields, blowing up um picket
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energy facilities so that people we're
1:06:57
going to blast you back in the stone
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age. That is a war crime. That's what
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we're going to do. And we just flat out
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say it and and it doesn't, you know,
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like my Nubenzia discussion yesterday.
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We're openly saying we're going to
1:07:11
destroy a culture. We're going to
1:07:15
destroy it. We don't like your culture.
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Therefore, we're going to destroy it.
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But the other part of the culture, you
1:07:22
know, who who uh you know,
1:07:25
do what we say, kiss our rear ends in
1:07:28
the Middle East, those people, you know,
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we'll decide that their culture, which
1:07:32
is basically the same as your culture,
1:07:35
that's a religion. Yours is not a
1:07:37
religion. Nonsense. And uh uh and by the
1:07:40
way, that there's a dispute on that as
1:07:43
well. You think there aren't extremists
1:07:44
on all sides, there just are. There are
1:07:46
Christian extremists.
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You know, I disagree with poly polygamy.
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I disagree with it. However, I'd never
1:07:53
tell anybody that if there if that was
1:07:55
their uh desire. I mean, I'm totally
1:07:58
against it. I think it's BS. Hell, I
1:08:00
could barely put up with one and let
1:08:03
alone a million of them or a pile of
1:08:07
them. had I'll tell you the story but uh
1:08:09
but I won't um cuz something interesting
1:08:11
on that regard happened whilst I was in
1:08:13
Qatar and uh it was a very interesting
1:08:17
period of time uh working with that
1:08:20
gentleman.
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Now I have to tell you no it it had to
1:08:23
do with polygamy and getting another
1:08:25
wife and and what uh what what um they
1:08:28
were going to do and the political
1:08:30
ramifications thereof inside of Qatar
1:08:32
and stuff like that. It was entertaining
1:08:35
uh if nothing else and a a good learning
1:08:37
experience but not for sharing on a mass
1:08:40
level except uh you know that's what it
1:08:42
was. So I wanted to also you know talk a
1:08:48
little bit about this um
1:08:51
alleged pause
1:08:54
in
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um
1:08:59
warfare. Yeah, right.
1:09:02
Let's see.
1:09:04
The rhetoric of Donald Trump who
1:09:07
threatens a whole civilization is going
1:09:09
to die tonight is suddenly deescaliza
1:09:13
deescalation.
1:09:15
By the end of uh the 7th, it was
1:09:18
announced that the US and Iran had
1:09:20
agreed to a two-week ceasefire. Shortly
1:09:23
afterward, Israel said it would join.
1:09:26
Over those two weeks, starting this
1:09:27
Friday, negotiations toward a permanent
1:09:31
peace dealer deal will be held in
1:09:33
Pakistan with or held, I'm sorry, with
1:09:36
Pakistan acting as the mediator.
1:09:39
This is exactly the scenario
1:09:43
that you know was listed as being the
1:09:45
most likely from the very beginning of
1:09:48
the conflict.
1:09:50
And this was uh grinding stalemate
1:09:56
strategic failure. You know the strategy
1:09:59
mirrors America's earlier operation in
1:10:02
Venezuela. Eliminate the country's
1:10:04
leadership
1:10:06
there. it was through theft uh uh
1:10:08
stealing, abduction of the leader or
1:10:11
direct assassination in Iran, you know,
1:10:14
and then effectively the surrender of
1:10:16
the new regime which is forced to accept
1:10:19
terms set by the attackers. So, it's
1:10:22
uncertain how long Iran could hold out,
1:10:25
but the plan failed. Despite the hints,
1:10:27
Washington's new leadership also refused
1:10:30
to engage in negotiation. Iran withtood
1:10:33
the initial blow. uh they have external
1:10:36
support from China and Russia. There
1:10:39
have been no public statements uh but it
1:10:41
something is happening. Um so those
1:10:46
things all did occur and but the war
1:10:50
will resume. Hell it already has you
1:10:52
know it didn't last 2 hours the the
1:10:54
ceasefire
1:10:56
but they are moving toward a reality
1:10:58
where the Gulf is becoming uh more
1:11:02
Persian. uh Iran effectively controls
1:11:05
the shipping in the Gulf and holds the
1:11:08
Arab oil monarchies at risk and the US
1:11:12
seems to be accepting that. Now the
1:11:14
people who are not are the UAE and
1:11:17
certainly not Israel because they won't
1:11:19
let it stop. Let's assume that even if
1:11:22
the hostilities last months or years
1:11:26
even if no formal deal materializes the
1:11:29
ceasefire will just be extended over and
1:11:31
over again. And I talked to you before
1:11:33
about ceasefires are complete crap
1:11:35
anyway. And uh um it's
1:11:40
just
1:11:44
it never ends and it will never end.
1:11:47
Even if it does end, they're going to uh
1:11:50
um have it um
1:11:55
let's say it does end. It'll be they'll
1:11:57
wait another year and do the exact same
1:11:59
thing. This is what's going to happen.
1:12:01
So the Arab states are going to be
1:12:03
building a new generation of air defense
1:12:05
for sure. And so the blueprint is rely
1:12:08
on cheap mass-produced interceptors
1:12:11
such as Russia's penser or air launched.
1:12:14
Both Arab states and Israel will focus
1:12:16
on this because they got the crap kicked
1:12:18
out of them by Iranian missiles. Um the
1:12:22
second priority is going to be
1:12:23
diversification of logistics. New
1:12:26
pipelines to the Red Sea to find
1:12:28
alternatives to the Gulf shipping
1:12:30
routes. the goal break free of the
1:12:32
straits of Hornum M chokold and reduce
1:12:35
Iran's leverage. So for countries like
1:12:37
Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq, pipelines
1:12:42
across the Arabian Peninsula would mean
1:12:45
dependence on another regional power,
1:12:47
Saudi Arabia and transit fees cuz Saudi
1:12:51
Arabia certainly wouldn't do it for
1:12:53
free, right? But none of this solves the
1:12:56
core problem. The geography in the Gulf
1:12:58
makes full protection impossible.
1:13:00
There's more than 500 nautical miles uh
1:13:03
out of an old, you know, think about it.
1:13:07
It's narrow. It's a like an old arcade
1:13:09
game. Imagine Galaga. Every shipping
1:13:12
lane within Iran's reach along the
1:13:15
coastline, ports, factories,
1:13:16
desalization plants, oil storage
1:13:18
facilities, data centers, hotels,
1:13:21
skyscrapers are exposed targets.
1:13:23
defending all of that from the sea is
1:13:25
extremely difficult. And right now, the
1:13:27
Arab states are going to choose to pay
1:13:30
for safe passage. So, at the end of the
1:13:32
day, they don't really care who provides
1:13:34
the security. They used to pay the US. I
1:13:37
mean, what difference does it make if
1:13:39
they pay Iran? They're paying the US to
1:13:41
secure them, right? But the US isn't
1:13:44
securing them, right? These are things
1:13:46
to think about. The price isn't even
1:13:48
steep. about two million bucks per super
1:13:51
tanker, which is only two to 3% of the
1:13:54
value of the oil on board. Anyway, the
1:13:57
buyers who are buying it are going to be
1:13:58
the ones who fit the foot the bill in
1:14:00
the first place. So, I don't know. The
1:14:03
second scenario,
1:14:05
new escalation. It's already happening.
1:14:07
Or low-level clashes under Iranian
1:14:10
control of Hormuz. You'll still have
1:14:12
those, I think, and we may go further
1:14:14
into that. Um, so we shall see. I hope
1:14:20
you've enjoyed the show. It's a little
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short today, but that's all right. Um,
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