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Iran War Signals, Hormuz Tensions & Missouri Power Struggles Explained · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  I'm Samuel Trap. I've had a a rather
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  interesting all the way to midweek,
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  right? I suppose we're here at the very
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  beginning of the old hump day, the old
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  midweek.
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  Uh
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  let's see. Oh, we have uh we have uh too
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  much news on the screen, too many things
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  going on in the world, especially here
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  in mid Missouri. Uh we've got some So we
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  we we track legislation. Uh does uh
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  international flavor as does Civic
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  Outlaws. So Fridays I try to focus on
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  Civic Outlaws and Civic Outlaws is the
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  program every Friday, but sometimes it
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  kind of bleeds over into the other
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  programs because there's so much stuff
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  going on. um told you a little bit
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  yesterday about uh some of the success
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  stories we've had with our articles and
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  with the stuff that we're putting out.
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  We have uh basically three
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  three
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  I suppose corresponding
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  sorts of activities that are going on.
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  The first well I suppose you could say
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  four if you count international flavor
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  here because international flavor I I
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  you know talk like I talk. I tell you
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  things uh the way I believe them to be
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  true. Tell you a little bit about uh
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  varying perspectives upon the world and
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  the uh drama that unfolds here uh well
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  around the planet. Um
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  and I've been paying attention to it.
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  I'm real interested to see uh who's
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  lying and who's who's speaking the truth
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  again. Uh and because they cannot be
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  mutually exclusive. My thought is uh so
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  so so so allegedly the Marines are
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  showing up today. they they show up uh
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  that have been traveling from the u uh
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  Japan area uh Indonesia somewhere over
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  there and uh it's taking them a while to
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  get to the uh
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  streets of Hormuz. Still got the talk
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  that uh we're taking over the island,
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  Car Island, and that's going to occur.
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  Um I think that's a bad problem,
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  a bad idea all around. Um, we have that
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  going on. The, uh, 82nd Airborne guys
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  are supposed to show up a little later.
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  Uh, they're airborne. They should be
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  there in an in a 12-hour flight to take
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  a flight and get over there. You don't
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  need to, but they bring all their
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  equipment. I'm I'm giving you a hard
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  time there. Do you know uh when I was in
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  the military way back in the dark ages
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  uh and and we would go to uh we we'd
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  have these
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  uh rather large uh operations uh
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  training exercises. And so I was
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  stationed when I was in tactical units I
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  was stationed at uh Fort Hood, Texas.
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  Um, at the time we were always told it
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  was the largest uh military base on the
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  planet. I'm not sure that's the case
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  anymore. I don't know. Really haven't
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  paid any attention, but I know it was
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  freaking huge and um
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  it's like 300 square miles or something.
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  It's pretty big and um you know, mini
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  state.
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  Pick a state, you know, Rhode Island or
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  something. Washington DC, it's it's
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  bigger than that, you know. And uh uh at
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  any rate um
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  we would transport equipment and it was
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  a an exercise, you know. Um
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  you'd have to get all your uh poop in a
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  group and get ready to go and tra and
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  and get get uh everything loaded. We we
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  would do two different versions. Okay.
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  first was uh you would
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  load up trains, train cars in uh Fort
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  Hood and go across to
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  if you were going to the National
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  Training Center in u
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  uh Arizona or Nevada, I mean uh
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  California, you know. Uh what is the
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  name of that little town there? Little
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  little crappy town. Uh Barstow. Barstow.
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  And it's not a crappy town. Just tiny
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  little tiny little nothing there except
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  a military b or entrance to a military
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  base training training place and and a
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  train yard. And so all of your u
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  equipment would show up there and it was
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  quite the process to get everything
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  there. same thing uh when we went to
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  something I don't know what they do you
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  know they different names you come up
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  with these great names for your uh
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  operations that make you sound like you
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  know you're taking over the planet right
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  and uh uh operation uh uh reforger was
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  what we went to every year in Germany
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  and so Fort Hood second armor division
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  third corps uh first calav those three
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  units would either be combined or one at
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  a time going across the planet to get to
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  Germany and do some some uh training and
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  you'd send over, you know, 10,000
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  soldiers to uh Germany or more, you
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  know, and it it was quite a logistics
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  feat.
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  So sending over 5,000 Marines from U
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  Japan, that's a big deal. And and
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  getting all their stuff together, you
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  can understand uh that that it gets
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  there. I mean, that that's one of the
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  reasons that leads me to believe that uh
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  the administration didn't plan
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  appropriately and they thought these
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  decapitation strikes were just going to
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  be the be all end all and it was all
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  going to be over, right? and oh gee,
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  they're going to capitulate and that'll
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  be that. And I I believe they
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  miscalculated. And then I that's why I
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  also believe the uh the 5day delay isn't
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  a fiveday I've agreed, you know, I've
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  said I'm going to ceasefire
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  unilaterally. It's uh um
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  uh it's a planning tactic until you get
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  your guys over there. you know, on the
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  best day, you're not going to get 5,000
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  troops over uh relocated
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  um in five days. you know, in your best
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  activities, you're going to take, you
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  know, if you have 5,000 guys um in
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  airplanes with rucks sacks, that's one
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  thing, but 5,000 guys with all their
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  equipment um
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  armored personnel carriers, um
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  uh BMP style, uh Bradley fighting
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  vehicles or whatever. Uh that's a
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  operation that takes some time you know
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  that's that's takes some time to put
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  together and they've got to come from
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  somewhere around the world and
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  so at any rate that is why I believe the
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  way that I do and I also believe that it
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  was an effort to do two things and uh
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  one is lower the price of gas u make
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  sure that a lot of people make a lot of
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  money on the uh stock options or the uh
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  uh futures markets
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  and uh and to give time to get to that
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  side of the planet. That's what I
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  believe. And everything else is just
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  what they call in the legal parliament
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  uh puffery. You are allowed to puff a
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  contract. That's only puffing. That is
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  not uh the term of the contract. you
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  know, little old lady drove this car
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  and, you know, just back and forth to
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  church every Sunday. That's puffery. You
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  know, that's not that's not a
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  contractual term when you find out that
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  really, uh, you know, she drove it 120
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  miles a day. Everybody knows that would
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  be just puffery. And so therefore, uh,
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  you know, that doesn't count. Well,
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  that's Trump. He's he's a puffery
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  puffery god. Everything he says,
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  according to most people, is
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  positioning. He's not uh he's not
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  telling you the truth. He's puffing the
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  terms of uh whatever deal he hopes to
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  make out and he's just trying to get a
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  reaction. That's called negotiation.
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  And uh you know or or if you're in the
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  uh put it into police work, that is
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  good police work, right? Good police
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  work includes a hell of a lot of lying
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  because the police can lie to you all
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  day long to get you talking. That's good
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  police work. But god forbid you lie
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  back. They come in and say, "Oh yeah, I
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  got a a truckload of drugs coming in on
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  on this day and we're going to figure
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  something out." And you go, "Yeah, I got
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  one coming in, too." You know, you know,
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  if we're going to talk about who's got
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  what going on, I got some, too. Well,
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  and if it turns out you're lying, you go
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  to jail for lying to a cop. But the cop,
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  he that's good police work. That's what
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  he's supposed to do, right? Is get you
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  to talk. And so that's Trump and the
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  police are uh uh of an equal equal
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  caliber in this regard. Um not telling
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  the truth about what's going on straight
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  to Hormuz. So allegedly um as I as I
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  indicated yesterday, now there are
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  complete more stories about it. Um Iran
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  allowing non-hostile ships
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  through the straits.
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  uh US and Israeli vessels as well as
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  those that support the aggressors
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  are not welcome.
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  So uh despite that that message you know
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  they you know and they have to be
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  coordinated
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  uh Middle East tensions uh show don't
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  show any sign of uh
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  abatement as they call it and the
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  Pentagon has issued orders for 2,000
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  2,82nd AR air airborne troops to deploy
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  to within striking distance from Iran as
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  well as 2500 Marines from um uh that are
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  supposed to arrive later this week. I
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  had uh heard something this morning that
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  they're showing up today and uh Trump
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  says that Iran has made major
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  concessions now. I I I don't know what
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  to believe, you know, not at all. and
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  senior Iranian advisor
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  uh Ali uh Ahmad Ahmadian uh dared US
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  soldiers to come closer
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  said that Iranian armed forces have
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  trained in asymmetrical warfare for
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  decades. Uh US President Trump is
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  seeking an off-ramp from the war with a
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  list of 15 peace proposals. Here's the
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  latest development.
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  Trump claimed the US has already won,
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  you know, and he has ongoing uh
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  diplomatic talks with Iran and he
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  postponed these military strikes, which
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  we told you about yesterday, for 5 days.
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  Israeli Channel 12 reports that Trump's
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  15point proposal demands that Israel
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  dismantle its nuclear and missile
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  programs and abandon any regional proxy
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  network.
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  H
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  Yeah, that's going to that's going to
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  happen. Um, and open up the straight to
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  Hormuz to unrestricted maritime passage.
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  Or, you know, hell, maybe the US could
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  take it over and charge if the US took
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  it over, you know, damn well they'd
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  charge Iran to get through the straits
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  of Hormuz. Um and in exchange uh in
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  exchange tan re receives a full lifting
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  of international sanctions assistance
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  with its civilian nuclear program and
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  removal of uh the snapback sanction
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  mechanism. Okay, now those are big gives
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  if they're actually going to give that
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  up. I I I wouldn't trust them. They've
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  been saying, you know, similar crap for
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  uh several years now. And uh nothing
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  couldn't be further from the truth. Uh
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  Pete Hgs says, "We negotiate with
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  bombs." That's
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  right. We're going to send over the
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  varsity team here any day and we're
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  going to negotiate with bombs. And they,
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  you know, tan denies that talks with the
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  US are even taking place. And Iran's
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  parliamentary speaker says that such
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  claims are fake news and are being used
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  to manipulate financial and oil markets.
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  Must be listening to what I'm saying.
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  Oil prices fell 5% on Wednesday. Okay,
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  so we still have it. Um,
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  uh, a reporter by the name of Marina
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  Kosaria
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  has looked into Israeli tactics, uh,
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  regarding decapitation strikes. um which
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  critics say disregard civilian losses
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  and lead to families being wiped out.
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  And u apparently she came the same
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  conclusion I did. That's why I'm
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  sharing. The more they kill and the more
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  they kill families, the more people want
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  revenge. And so the circle
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  uh between Iran and uh uh Israel just
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  continues to get to get uh further. Iran
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  has set a high bar for entering peace
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  talks. says the Wall Street Journal.
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  According to newspaper sources, Tron's
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  primary demands include closure of all
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  military bases American in the Persian
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  Gulf. And that's been the same statement
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  for the last couple of weeks at least.
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  Uh new rules for shipping through
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  Hormuse that would allow the Iranian
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  authorities to collect payments from
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  vessels.
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  the lifting of uh sanctions against
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  Iran, guarantees from Washington that it
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  won't resume military action. Why would
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  anybody believe that? Uh that's uh
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  that's flatout lie. You say that they
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  they uh cessation of talks on Israel
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  against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Exclusion
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  of the issue of Iranian ballistic
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  missile program from the agenda of
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  future negotiations. Spanish Prime
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  Minister Pedro Sanchez calls uh the
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  USIsraeli war against Iran an absolute
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  disaster
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  and it was launched to feed the
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  interests of the usual suspects and all
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  for what? He says to undermine
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  international law, destabilize the
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  Middle East, reignite conflict with Iraq
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  and Lebanon and bury Gaza under the
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  rubble of oblivion and indifference is
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  what he told his parliament. The
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  conflict is an absurd and illegal war, a
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  cruel one that sets us back from
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  achieving our economic, social,
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  environmental goals, said the prime
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  minister. Sanchez suggested that Israeli
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  Prime Minister Netanyahu seeks to
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  inflict the same level of damage and
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  destruction in Lebanon as the IDF did on
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  Gaza during the conflict with Hamas.
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  Iranian media released a video of what
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  they call a cruise missile launch aimed
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  at the Abraham Lincoln. The US has not
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  reported any damage. Trump claimed that
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  Tran had launched a 100 missiles at the
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  Abraham Lincoln, but that every single
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  one of them was knocked down. Iranian
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  authorities have claimed to have
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  arrested 39 mercenaries working for
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  terrorist groups and the Zionist regime
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  saying that they confiscated 49 homemade
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  bombs to Kalishnikov
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  guns as well as other weaponry and
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  ammunition. Russia is sending a delivery
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  of humanitarian assistance to Iran. 300
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  tons of medical supplies emergency
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  ministry has announced saying that it
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  will be transferred via Azerbaijan.
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  Uh Pirin uh Koulivand head of Iran's Red
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  Crescent society confirms these plans
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  said that several other countries like
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  China, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan are also
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  stepping up.
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  Speaker of Iranian Parliament Muhammad
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  Berbuff has said that tyran tan is
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  watching redeployment of troops closely
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  from the US warning that uh what
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  generals uh break soldiers can't fix. Um
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  well what generals have already broken
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  that you know soldiers on the ground
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  aren't going to be able to fix and say
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  that they will also fall victim to
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  Netanyahu's delusions. The US and Israel
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  have plans for another two to three week
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  war against Thrron. Uh even if talks
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  with Thrron take place, says Axios.
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  Uh Turkey is passing messages between uh
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  the US and Iran. Uh, Israel Electric
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  Corporation has dismissed early reports
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  of damage to the country's power grid
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  from Iranian strikes.
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  So,
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  lots of news to keep track of on this uh
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  lovely Wednesday.
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  Um,
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  let's see. I'm going to switch to this
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  side of the planet uh here and tell you
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  a little bit about
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  Hungary
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  no longer delivering gas to Ukraine.
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  So, up until about a year and a half
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  ago,
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  uh August of uh 2024
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  when uh the Ukrainians were in getting
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  involved in uh you know, going into
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  Belgared, going into Kursk, uh the the
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  Russian
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  uh regions right across the border from
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  Ukraine.
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  Uh before that time there were rather
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  large
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  uh gas and oil pipelines
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  through the
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  uh
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  entire country of Ukraine into the uh
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  Eastern European countries
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  and into Hungary for sure.
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  So
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  they went, you know, the the the fuel
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  and the oil would go one direction uh
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  into Europe and it was that's how they
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  got cheap uh you know very lowcost uh
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  Russian
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  um
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  oil and gas but it's the reverse now. So
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  electricity
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  uh other forms of energy supply come
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  back through Drewgeba and through uh
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  come up south I forget the name of the
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  other one Turk stream and uh they come
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  around through Greece and and then up
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  into u Hungary and region Serbia that
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  area and then uh or around through
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  Malddova and back into Ukraine. So
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  Ukraine is getting uh supplies that way.
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  But Hungary is saying that now they're
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  going to halt natural gas deliveries to
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  Ukraine until Kiev restores the flow of
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  Russian oil through the Drewgeba
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  pipeline. In a video posted to his
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  Facebook page Wednesday, Orban said that
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  Ukraine has been blocking the operation
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  of the oil pipeline for 30 days. Um, and
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  as long as Ukraine does not provide oil
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  to Hungary, it will not receive gas from
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  Hungary. Orbin states that gas that
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  would have been sent to Ukraine will
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  instead be stored in Hungary and says
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  the move is necessary considering that
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  Ukraine is also attacking the southern
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  gas pipelines that supply Hungary,
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  referring to Turkstream that brings
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  Russian gas to Hungary via Turkey and
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  the Balkans.
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  We will defend Hungary's energy
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  security, the protected petrol price,
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  and the reduced gas prices or been
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  declared. He said the country has so far
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  been able to successfully defend against
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  Ukrainian blackmail thanks to the
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  protected price screen price scheme that
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  Hungarians pay, the lowest price at gas
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  stations in all of Europe.
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  Hm.
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  Uh, let's see.
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  Orbin's announcement come a minute. It's
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  a longunning dispute. It's been going on
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  for a couple of months now. Um, between
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  Budapest and Kiev because Ukraine halted
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  oil shipments through Duja in January
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  and uh said that u supposedly the lines
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  were damaged by the Russians. It's
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  always the Russians that have done it.
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  Moscow denies the accusation in Hungary
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  and Slovakia who are reliant on the
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  pipeline. Also, doubt gives excuses.
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  They're trying to wait until after the
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  elections so that Orban hopefully gets
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  thrown out. You get somebody far more
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  pro- Ukraine, pro- EU instead of Orbin
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  who is not pro- Ukraine by any stretch.
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  Um,
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  uh, Peter, uh, Zajarto, foreign minister
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  of Hungary, says that the satellite
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  imagery says that the a fully
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  operational pipeline does exist and that
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  Kiev is refusing to allow a joint
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  inspection,
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  which proves the decision is only
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  political.
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  And uh Budapest is also retaliating by
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  vetoing the $90 billion that uh Ukraine
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  was supposed to get in the form of a
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  alleged loan which they never have to
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  repay. Um and they blocked a new round
• 22:42
  of sanctions against Russia. What is it
• 22:44
  the 21st 22nd 22nd uh wave of u package
• 22:53
  of sanctions, right?
• 22:55
  and they oppose Gibbs's EU membership
• 22:59
  and Orbin said that Budapest is not
• 23:01
  going to back down unless and until the
• 23:05
  pipeline starts back up. So, same old
• 23:09
  problem. You could fast forward a month
• 23:11
  and you'd still have the uh the same uh
• 23:14
  the same incidents, right?
• 23:17
  Um,
• 23:19
  tell you what, I am going to uh
• 23:24
  take a a small break here and in the
• 23:28
  meantime, I believe we're going to
• 23:30
  listen to some jazz.
• 23:34
  Let's see. And I'll be back with you in
• 23:36
  just a minute.
• 23:47
  Moonlight spills on quiet shoes.
• 23:54
  Every step removes the blues.
• 24:01
  I follow shadows loose and free
• 24:07
  letting rhythm
• 24:10
  carry me.
• 24:14
  Gravity loosens worries move
• 24:20
  subtle groove moon
• 24:23
  smooth and wide pulls the dark and
• 24:27
  gentle tide not too bright
• 24:32
  just the night
• 24:40
  I danced alone. through crowded bars.
• 24:47
  Never felt the beat of stars.
• 24:52
  >> Your time in lands like lunar
• 25:00
  got in motion
• 25:03
  calming heart.
• 25:07
  The sky close, the floor grease. Every
• 25:12
  movement finds its ease. Moon let slow
• 25:17
  ignition turning silence into mission.
• 25:22
  No command, no demand, just the way we
• 25:28
  understand. If clouds erase the silver
• 25:31
  hue, the rhythm still will pull us
• 25:36
  through.
• 25:39
  Brushes whisper, feet align. Time drifts
• 25:43
  off out of line.
• 25:54
  Moon lit groove deep and true. Every
• 25:58
  step returns to you. Held between the
• 26:03
  dark and blue. Forever moving. Moon it
• 26:08
  grew. Base fades low. Night exhale.
• 26:12
  Stars retreat behind the veil.
• 26:36
  and I return. Uh sorry for that little
• 26:39
  break there. Had to uh uh go and uh take
• 26:43
  care of something in the office. Um let
• 26:47
  us see.
• 26:50
  I wanted to share with you. I couldn't
• 26:52
  find the story yesterday. Um and there's
• 26:55
  a couple of one of them I find to be a
• 26:58
  little bit amusing
• 27:00
  that u again still about Ukraine right
• 27:08
  uh Ukranska Pravda newspaper
• 27:13
  uh in Ukraine
• 27:15
  let's see Washington that they say that
• 27:19
  Washington is offering Kiev
• 27:23
  economic IC benefits
• 27:25
  if well and security exchanges in
• 27:29
  exchange for a full withdrawal from
• 27:32
  whatever is remaining of the uh uh
• 27:35
  Ukrainian occupied uh Donbass region
• 27:39
  which is mostly uh
• 27:42
  Detsk Lugansk um Detsk is basically 96
• 27:48
  98%
• 27:50
  uh Russian occupied right now and uh
• 27:54
  Lugansk is about 85 90 and Russia is
• 28:00
  still pushing. There's been a little bit
• 28:02
  of counteratt attacks going on in the
• 28:04
  last uh couple of months. And so
• 28:08
  allegedly, according to Ukrineska
• 28:10
  Pravda, the US is trying to convince
• 28:14
  Ukraine to withdraw from the Dawnbass
• 28:17
  and reach peace with Moscow while
• 28:20
  promising Kiev security guarantees and
• 28:23
  sweeping economic benefits in return.
• 28:26
  Now, you aren't hearing anything but
• 28:28
  Iran, Iran, Iran in the United States,
• 28:30
  right? Um,
• 28:33
  uh, this is reported on Tuesday and, uh,
• 28:36
  Kiev has refused the offer so far and
• 28:39
  Ukrainian officials, you know, probably
• 28:42
  trying to, you know, line their own
• 28:43
  pockets first
• 28:46
  trying to divert US attention away from
• 28:48
  this issue even as Washington is
• 28:51
  allegedly running out of patience.
• 28:56
  H
• 28:58
  several Russian officials told the
• 29:00
  newspaper that the issue of Donbass,
• 29:03
  which joined the Russian Republic in
• 29:05
  2022 in referenda, but remains partially
• 29:09
  under Kiev's control, is one of the key
• 29:11
  obstacles toward peace. Kiev has
• 29:15
  consistently refused to pull back from
• 29:17
  what remains of its uh occupation of
• 29:20
  part of the region. and Moscow says this
• 29:23
  is a key prerequisite for peace. Um,
• 29:28
  the Americans do not see how we can
• 29:31
  reach an agreement on the main issue,
• 29:34
  said an unnamed Ukrainian official,
• 29:36
  saying that the US would eventually
• 29:38
  decide to walk out of the settlement
• 29:40
  talks to focus on Iran and its own
• 29:43
  domestic agenda.
• 29:45
  and uh and uh you know uh officials
• 29:51
  noted that the US is even ready to offer
• 29:55
  real security guarantees if we withdraw
• 29:58
  from Donbass. Second source says that US
• 30:01
  Ukraine talks feel like there are three
• 30:03
  sides present at the meeting and Ukraine
• 30:06
  has to constantly argue with the
• 30:08
  Americans over the anchorage framework
• 30:11
  reached during Putin and Trump Alaska
• 30:13
  summit last summer. Leave the Dawnbass,
• 30:17
  we'll build you a paradise as agreed in
• 30:19
  Alaska, said a source describing US
• 30:24
  stance. With US pressure mounting,
• 30:27
  Ukrainian officials are spending a lot
• 30:29
  of time trying to divert Americans from
• 30:31
  the idea of withdrawal
• 30:34
  and instead toward the creation of some
• 30:36
  economic zone or something else. But at
• 30:39
  some point everything is thrown aside
• 30:41
  and we again hear you just have to leave
• 30:43
  from the Americans.
• 30:45
  And so it goes in circles. Zalinski
• 30:49
  acknowledged US pressure last month and
• 30:52
  insists
• 30:53
  that Kiev is not losing the war even
• 30:57
  while it loses the war.
• 31:01
  The latest round of US Ukraine talks uh
• 31:04
  took place last weekend and Ukrainian
• 31:06
  officials said they were focusing on
• 31:08
  security guarantees and prisoner
• 31:10
  exchanges. Well, okay. You're not
• 31:13
  getting any security guarantees till you
• 31:14
  leave the Dawnbass. And uh you know, you
• 31:16
  exchange your your 1,00 to 2526
• 31:21
  one. And this is what happens. every
• 31:24
  every
• 31:25
  death exchange and prisoner exchange is
• 31:28
  like a 100 10 to 15 to one uh amount in
• 31:33
  favor of those being given away by the
• 31:36
  Ukrainians because the Russians have far
• 31:39
  fewer well well far fewer dead dead
• 31:42
  bodies and the Ukrainians have far fewer
• 31:45
  Russian um
• 31:48
  soldiers. So the the Russians aren't
• 31:50
  seeking the return of dead bodies and
• 31:52
  Ukraine doesn't have them, but Russia
• 31:54
  has collected thousands of uh of
• 31:57
  Ukrainian bodies from the battlefield.
• 32:00
  So the latest round of US Ukrainian
• 32:02
  talks took place last weekend. However,
• 32:05
  trilateral talks involving Russia are on
• 32:08
  ice amid the Iran war, says Dimmitri
• 32:12
  Peskov, the uh spokesman from the
• 32:18
  Kremlin.
• 32:20
  and uh they're on situational pause for
• 32:23
  obvious reasons, he says. And we'll
• 32:26
  resume once schedules align um with
• 32:30
  those that American uh
• 32:33
  uh negotiators. So that was
• 32:36
  entertaining. Um I wanted to point out
• 32:39
  to you the another interesting story.
• 32:44
  Where is it? I told you a little bit
• 32:47
  about it yesterday, but I was able to
• 32:49
  find the article. So,
• 32:53
  Musk and Starlink have been criticized
• 32:55
  all over Africa and criticized uh all
• 32:58
  over Russia and and countries in in that
• 33:02
  area for they are basically according to
• 33:06
  them, you know, from that area of the
• 33:08
  world, they're just an arm of the
• 33:10
  Pentagon. and uh
• 33:14
  Musk is allowed to make uh billions off
• 33:17
  of the Pentagon and the Pentagon doesn't
• 33:20
  have to worry about it and then they
• 33:22
  provide Starlink for free to Ukraine.
• 33:25
  Allegedly, when the war first started
• 33:28
  over there, Starlink couldn't be used
• 33:30
  for strikes into
• 33:33
  Russia, but but that has been
• 33:38
  not discussed recently. Uh the the
• 33:41
  belief is that it's been some time that
• 33:43
  the Pentagon and uh Musk have been
• 33:46
  supplying free uh
• 33:51
  Starlink access to Ukraine.
• 33:54
  Well, Russia as of
• 33:58
  yesterday, well, published yesterday
• 34:00
  with video, full video, Russian private
• 34:04
  space company has successfully placed
• 34:07
  into orbit the first 16
• 34:11
  satellites of their planned broadband
• 34:14
  internet network intended as the
• 34:17
  domestic alternative to Starlink.
• 34:21
  Uh on Tuesday, the developer uh Bureau
• 34:24
  1440
• 34:26
  released footage showing Raset uh which
• 34:30
  means Dawn satellites separating from
• 34:33
  their launch rockets. According to the
• 34:35
  company, all units are functioning
• 34:37
  properly properly and will maneuver into
• 34:41
  their assigned orbits after completing
• 34:44
  system checks. Bureau 1440 carried out
• 34:48
  test launches uh last year and uh
• 34:52
  deployed the initial three of each
• 34:54
  prototype satellites uh twice last year.
• 34:58
  The company says technology is since u
• 35:00
  uh fully developed. First phase of the
• 35:03
  project has more than 250
• 35:07
  satellites
• 35:08
  uh to be sent into orbit. Equipped the
• 35:11
  laser transponders for inorbit
• 35:14
  communications by mid to late 2027
• 35:19
  and plans to expand the constellation to
• 35:22
  around 900 satellites total by 2035.
• 35:28
  Starlink, which be began commercial
• 35:31
  service in 2020, is viewed very
• 35:35
  skeptically by Russia
• 35:41
  and they describe it as the Pentagon
• 35:43
  communications
• 35:44
  system. So, um that's that's what they
• 35:49
  call it. So, this is
• 35:52
  uh Russian satellite internet project
• 35:54
  launched in 2020.
• 35:57
  Initially funded by mobile phone
• 35:59
  operator Megaphone before being
• 36:02
  transferred to X holding a domestic uh
• 36:06
  major domestic IT group Bureau 1440 it
• 36:09
  gets government's port relies on launch
• 36:12
  services from the Russian National Space
• 36:16
  Agency Roscosmos
• 36:19
  and uh so
• 36:23
  uh during its demonstrations in the last
• 36:26
  couple Deputy Prime Minister Dimmitri
• 36:29
  Cherenko showcased technology by
• 36:32
  conducting video calls with officials
• 36:35
  located on Mount Fish, a remote site,
• 36:39
  1300 kilometers away. company's main
• 36:42
  goal is to expand connectivity in remote
• 36:45
  regions with undeveloped
• 36:48
  underdeveloped ground infrastructure and
• 36:51
  uh they wish to ensure internet access
• 36:54
  uh for long-d distanceance transport for
• 36:56
  trains and aircraft.
• 37:00
  Um on the similar topic,
• 37:04
  where is that?
• 37:06
  Darn it. What have I done?
• 37:11
  Hm.
• 37:13
  The US
• 37:15
  is now accused of smuggling Starlink
• 37:18
  into Iran amid the riots. So, you
• 37:22
  administration of President Trump
• 37:24
  covertly smuggled around 6,000 satellite
• 37:28
  terminals into Iran
• 37:31
  earlier this year, says the Wall Street
• 37:34
  Journal. and uh they substantiate uh
• 37:37
  Thran's claim of uh foreign interference
• 37:40
  uh in the riots that occurred earlier.
• 37:43
  The operation, which senior officials
• 37:45
  say involved State Department funding,
• 37:48
  of course, uh comes after Iranian
• 37:51
  authorities imposed a sweeping internet
• 37:53
  blockout in January. Trump was aware of
• 37:55
  the deliveries, officials told the Wall
• 37:58
  Street Journal, although it remains
• 38:00
  unclear whether he personally approved
• 38:02
  the plan. Iranian officials accuse
• 38:05
  Washington Tel Aviv of fueling unrest.
• 38:08
  Uh blah blah blah blah. At the height of
• 38:11
  the unrest, Trump encourages the
• 38:14
  peaceful Iranian protesters to post his
• 38:17
  post on truth say uh social Iranian
• 38:20
  patriots keep protesting. Take over your
• 38:24
  public institutions if possible.
• 38:27
  He also promised that help is on the way
• 38:30
  and he's going to deploy deploy a
• 38:33
  beautiful armada to the region. And uh
• 38:37
  jeez, how exciting for them back in
• 38:39
  January, wasn't it? And look where we
• 38:41
  are now. Uh oh my god, a two pilots
• 38:46
  killed in a Lawardia
• 38:49
  airport runway collision. Collision
• 38:51
  shows an Air Canada uh Air Canada plane.
• 38:56
  Can't see the other one, but uh so
• 38:59
  LaGuardia, two pilots killed. That's no
• 39:02
  good. Um crashing two planes.
• 39:07
  Crazy sauce.
• 39:09
  Um, so sticking with the internet for a
• 39:13
  little bit
• 39:15
  on Musk,
• 39:17
  the
• 39:19
  Starlink has been blocked from operating
• 39:23
  in Namibia. Namibia is refusing to grant
• 39:26
  Starlink a license amid mounting push
• 39:29
  back against a US satellite internet
• 39:32
  provider. Communication Regulatory
• 39:35
  Authority of Namibia announced a move
• 39:38
  Monday. said it had rejected the
• 39:40
  company's application for service. The
• 39:43
  authority resolved to decline the award
• 39:46
  of class comprehensiveness
• 39:47
  telecommunication service license for
• 39:50
  Starlink. The regulator did not provide
• 39:53
  a detailed reason for the move, but
• 39:55
  noted that Starlink's Namibian
• 39:58
  subsidiary
• 39:59
  lacks local ownership and added the
• 40:02
  decision was taken in accordance with
• 40:05
  applicable licensing regulations.
• 40:08
  Uh the regulator said it could
• 40:11
  reconsider its decision on its own or on
• 40:14
  a petition filed by an agrieved party
• 40:16
  within 90 days. The bid faces hurdles
• 40:19
  over Namibia's local ownership law which
• 40:22
  typically requires 51% majority domestic
• 40:26
  shareholding with Starlink and um
• 40:29
  seeking an exemption as a wholly owned
• 40:32
  foreign company.
• 40:34
  Nobody nobody gets to own anything if
• 40:36
  you're in Namibia. Uh Russia starts uh
• 40:39
  blah blah blah blah blah. Sorry, wrong
• 40:41
  line. In 2024, Starlink uh was issued a
• 40:44
  cease and desist and instructed to halt
• 40:46
  all operation in the country. They
• 40:48
  warned the public against using Starly
• 40:50
  equipment or subscribing to its
• 40:52
  services, saying that such use is
• 40:54
  illegal under Namibian law. So the old
• 40:57
  uh Musk has been breaking the law.
• 41:01
  Breaking the law. Breaking the law. Uh
• 41:03
  Cameron, let's see. Um
• 41:07
  uh Cameroon, sorry, took action against
• 41:09
  a company in 2024, uh banning the import
• 41:12
  of Starling kits, suspending services,
• 41:15
  seizing satellite internet equipment
• 41:17
  over licensing violations. South Africa.
• 41:20
  Musk's country of birth hasn't approved
• 41:23
  the services also amid dispute over
• 41:26
  black ownership law that require telecom
• 41:29
  license holders to have at least 30%
• 41:32
  local ownership by historically
• 41:35
  disadvantaged groups as well as broad
• 41:38
  regulatory commissions. Starlink has not
• 41:42
  yet commented.
• 41:44
  H.
• 41:47
  Yeah.
• 41:49
  Let's see.
• 41:51
  We're going to head back to Ukraine here
• 41:55
  because it's so interesting. Yes. Claims
• 41:59
  of reclaimed
• 42:01
  territory prove hollow
• 42:04
  as Russians consolidate their positions
• 42:08
  from Sunumi to Zaparisia.
• 42:12
  And uh
• 42:15
  Russian army has considerably reduced
• 42:18
  its combat activity this spring as is
• 42:21
  usual this time of year. Typically at
• 42:24
  the end of winter and in early spring,
• 42:26
  Russian forces take time to prepare for
• 42:29
  a new military campaign. But just like
• 42:32
  last year, uh the offensives do not come
• 42:35
  to a complete stop. They just uh slow
• 42:38
  down a little bit. Um in Sumi the uh
• 42:42
  expanding buffer zone is there remember
• 42:44
  uh Trump up in Sumi it's on the northern
• 42:46
  side uh between Belgid and Sunumi area
• 42:51
  of Ukraine. So the Russians are trying
• 42:53
  to get in there and take a
• 42:56
  20 30 kilometer wide
• 42:59
  border position uh all the way across
• 43:02
  the northern parts of Sunumi.
• 43:06
  Uh let's see.
• 43:10
  Uh at the end of last year, the northern
• 43:13
  group of forces opened a new front in
• 43:15
  Sunumi and they um have uh made
• 43:19
  reasonably good progress in that side uh
• 43:23
  on the way toward the the state or I'm
• 43:26
  sorry the u city of Sunumi
• 43:30
  which is capital of the uh territory of
• 43:35
  Sunumi region the region and in savor K,
• 43:38
  which was captured on December 11, is an
• 43:41
  important but intermediate stop on the
• 43:43
  key area of the Donbass. The Slavanskurk
• 43:47
  urban conglomeration,
• 43:49
  and that's a pretty big conglomeration.
• 43:52
  The southern group of forces needs to
• 43:54
  cover a 25 to 30 kilometer um stretch to
• 43:59
  reach Slavanskin chromators can overcome
• 44:02
  a significant elevation along the way.
• 44:06
  Uh where else are they going? If you
• 44:08
  watch the the supply lines, it's uh the
• 44:12
  same old same old. They cut off access
• 44:16
  to railway. They cut off access to major
• 44:19
  roadways. They encircle
• 44:22
  particular cities and then end up uh
• 44:26
  taking it over.
• 44:28
  And that is the way that it goes. So
• 44:32
  that's kind of the catch up. and we may
• 44:35
  come back to it. Um, see if there's
• 44:38
  anything else uh on world news that I
• 44:40
  wanted to talk about the uh
• 44:44
  the
• 44:48
  uh Bangladesh
• 44:51
  jet fuel prices
• 44:53
  are up 80%.
• 44:58
  80%.
• 45:00
  So in just in the last uh in in the last
• 45:03
  week um let's see if we can find this
• 45:10
  Bangladesh has an 80% hike in jet fuel
• 45:13
  prices the second upward revision uh in
• 45:17
  in March says the national regulator the
• 45:20
  Bangladeshi uh regulatory commission
• 45:24
  said that we had to adjust jet fuel
• 45:26
  price for the jet fuel price for the
• 45:28
  second time this
• 45:30
  because uh the international fuel prices
• 45:33
  just keep going up. Jet fuel has been
• 45:37
  set at $132 per liter.
• 45:41
  That's over five bucks a gallon uh for
• 45:44
  international flights. The revised rates
• 45:47
  apply to local and foreign carriers. Uh
• 45:50
  pricing tiers may vary depending on, you
• 45:53
  know, how much you buy, operational
• 45:55
  category, that type stuff. And um that
• 45:59
  that that remember me telling you
• 46:01
  yesterday about the Bangladeshies really
• 46:03
  having trouble uh and they they quite a
• 46:06
  few countries Pakistan also uh
• 46:09
  cancelling
• 46:11
  um cancelling
• 46:14
  crowds
• 46:16
  at sporting events can't do it and uh so
• 46:21
  that's not permitted. Let's see.
• 46:25
  Other South Asian nations have al
• 46:28
  nations have also been there. Pet uh
• 46:30
  Pakistan has kept petrol and high-speed
• 46:32
  diesel prices unchanged. But jet fuel
• 46:35
  and kerosene have been uh seriously
• 46:39
  uh increased. India and Nepal uh are are
• 46:43
  experiencing problems like I told you on
• 46:45
  cooking oil and stuff like that
• 46:46
  yesterday.
• 46:48
  Okay. Well, all that as the backdrop, I
• 46:52
  really do hope um
• 46:56
  the that cooler heads prevail and war
• 47:01
  gets uh
• 47:05
  somehow discussed and minimized. So far,
• 47:08
  it's not happening and uh we shall see
• 47:11
  uh what shall be seen. But um this
• 47:16
  I see I see personally uh a much longer
• 47:20
  war footing. I don't see this is going
• 47:23
  away anytime soon. We still got all our
• 47:25
  cheerleaders out there pushing for more.
• 47:29
  And um you know the same old standard
• 47:32
  folks are being uh uh
• 47:37
  are being the cheerleaders here, right?
• 47:41
  Um, I wanted to switch and talk about I
• 47:45
  was reading. So, I get kind of an
• 47:47
  intelligence report, an an up an update
• 47:51
  basically daily. And I get uh I I try to
• 47:56
  get an international one, a uh
• 48:01
  national focused one, and then I get a
• 48:04
  um a Missouri
• 48:06
  looking at what's going on in Missouri.
• 48:08
  And uh told you yesterday a little bit
• 48:11
  about my discussion with um I was very
• 48:15
  encouraged uh had a good conversation
• 48:19
  with uh representative uh Cook who I
• 48:25
  basically thought uh from my article
• 48:29
  that I shared last Friday uh when I'm
• 48:32
  going to talk in more detail about this
• 48:34
  Friday
• 48:36
  what thought that he was being played.
• 48:38
  Okay.
• 48:40
  And or not being told everything when uh
• 48:45
  uh the the sunshine documents that I've
• 48:48
  picked up and that I've received in
• 48:50
  response to what they uh have been doing
• 48:55
  uh from the ATC side
• 48:58
  uh
• 49:00
  are are are
• 49:02
  telling. They're very telling that ATC
• 49:06
  after a hearing in December immediately
• 49:10
  started pushing for arrest authority
• 49:15
  uh and inside of the um through the
• 49:20
  legislature, right? So, they're trying
• 49:22
  to get it these things pushed through
• 49:25
  the legislature.
• 49:26
  And I told you a little bit in that
• 49:29
  report about how they're trying to
• 49:31
  mirror some
• 49:34
  they're trying to mirror some language
• 49:36
  that come come about through cannabis
• 49:38
  legislation if you remember me talking
• 49:40
  about that. And so
• 49:45
  a Missouri appeals court recently
• 49:49
  ordered regulators. I told you about how
• 49:52
  many licenses
• 49:55
  20ish licenses that uh were issued for
• 49:59
  for various types of cannabis. And of
• 50:03
  those 36 37 of them had already been
• 50:06
  revoked. And so they're they're looking
• 50:09
  to put more impact on this and some of
• 50:13
  the changes that were part of uh 3154,
• 50:16
  House Bill, and House Bill 2378, which
• 50:21
  both have been withdrawn at least as far
• 50:23
  as they uh well, according to
• 50:25
  Representative Cook anyway, he says that
• 50:28
  those two are are dead uh further this
• 50:31
  year. Uh they, you know, they're not
• 50:34
  going to go on and they'll have to
• 50:35
  revisit it. But he told me they were
• 50:37
  pulled. That's what he said. And uh he
• 50:40
  called me, I offered to uh uh speak with
• 50:43
  him, have him, you know, on the program,
• 50:45
  something like that. And he uh
• 50:49
  uh said that when he contacted me, sent
• 50:52
  me an email, uh contacted me. I sent him
• 50:55
  my cell phone number. called me and um
• 51:01
  he says that 3154 and 2378
• 51:05
  at least the ATC portions there of are
• 51:09
  dead and uh has to do with the uh the
• 51:12
  the
• 51:15
  efforts you know and the discussions
• 51:17
  we've taken. We've sent out several
• 51:19
  different articles to each and every
• 51:21
  member of the of the house. I've written
• 51:23
  six by now and you can find those out at
• 51:26
  civicoutlaws.com
• 51:28
  and you can go out and have a look at
• 51:29
  these articles and uh for me what was
• 51:33
  important at least in last Friday's and
• 51:36
  uh if you really want a kind of a tell
• 51:39
  all about what really happened just go
• 51:41
  back to last Friday's program and listen
• 51:43
  to the uh the story
• 51:47
  um about the hearing that took place in
• 51:50
  Cole County on December 3rd and then the
• 51:52
  immediate immediate activities of the uh
• 51:54
  state regulatory agency to create for
• 52:00
  themselves arrest power. Uh we had
• 52:03
  talked before about how they uh claim
• 52:05
  they're a police department. They deny
• 52:07
  it, but then all their their their
• 52:10
  investigation reports are there. They
• 52:12
  have they have licensing agents going
• 52:15
  undercover.
• 52:17
  And what in the hell is that? Since when
• 52:19
  is a licensing regulatory agency
• 52:23
  authorized to go undercover to
• 52:26
  investigate a liquor license?
• 52:29
  Undercover. No, I'm I'll be doing a a
• 52:32
  complete uh investigation and report
• 52:36
  into that. Who says they can do it and
• 52:38
  analyze the law regarding it? And uh we
• 52:42
  could have a discussion about that. But
• 52:46
  the initial thought is what in the world
• 52:49
  kind of nutty world do you have to live
• 52:51
  in where a licensing agent who isn't
• 52:54
  even a police officer but they're
• 52:56
  postcertified? You can't figure I can't
• 52:58
  figure out just a couple of things for a
• 53:01
  Why aren't we uh why aren't we going
• 53:04
  undercover in uh um
• 53:08
  licensing agents going undercover? Why
• 53:10
  Why aren't they going undercover?
• 53:12
  Licensed agents at a a doctor's office
• 53:15
  or chiropractor's office, right? Why
• 53:18
  don't we do that? Have them go
• 53:20
  undercover. If you're going to go
• 53:22
  undercover, get a police department to
• 53:24
  do it. And alcohol tobacco aren't
• 53:27
  police. They aren't authorized to.
• 53:28
  They're postcertified. They carry
• 53:30
  weapons, which is stupid and foolish. I
• 53:33
  don't understand why that's occurring.
• 53:35
  That makes no sense at all. Um, you have
• 53:37
  to do that. You have to carry a weapon
• 53:40
  and then the guys go undercover. Oh, I'm
• 53:43
  going to leave my weapon and my badge
• 53:44
  out in the car and I'm going to go in
• 53:46
  and investigate.
• 53:48
  Great.
• 53:50
  You got to go
• 53:52
  you How about you uh a pharmacy has to
• 53:55
  have a license, right? You can't just go
• 53:58
  be a pharmacist. Well, why aren't we
• 53:59
  going undercover at the pharmacy? And if
• 54:02
  you did go undercover, you'd either have
• 54:04
  to have a uh an approved uh activity or
• 54:07
  a warrant. Not so if you're
• 54:09
  investigating on behalf of alcohol
• 54:12
  tobacco control. Those guys, we don't
• 54:15
  need no stinking badges. We will leave
• 54:17
  them out in the leave them in the car
• 54:19
  and we'll leave some backup people out
• 54:21
  there in case they got to rush in and
• 54:24
  take a license down, you know, and or
• 54:26
  they got to rush in and um I don't know
• 54:28
  what. Uh see how see how much alcohol
• 54:31
  content is in the uh is in the bottle of
• 54:34
  wine hanging over there. Uh whole
• 54:38
  thing's uh you know I hate to be too
• 54:39
  facitious and joking about it but it's
• 54:42
  nuts. It's uh it's uh crazy. Let's see.
• 54:48
  I am
• 54:50
  looking at some u pretty cool stuff. Um,
• 54:58
  this is awesome. I I'm I just got a text
• 55:01
  on some of the There's uh some people um
• 55:06
  uh let's I'm just going to say yes to
• 55:08
  this. Sorry, I'm I never This is one of
• 55:10
  the reasons I never read my text
• 55:12
  messages, but uh one of the things I
• 55:15
  want to read to you or tell you about is
• 55:17
  uh uh
• 55:20
  it's on my phone and uh I can't pull it
• 55:22
  up on there. So, now I've gotten text
• 55:24
  messages that are showing up out there.
• 55:27
  And uh I didn't sleep last night again,
• 55:29
  just in case you're wondering because of
• 55:31
  the uh uh
• 55:35
  uh because uh
• 55:38
  I don't know. I never sleep, but I had a
• 55:40
  dog again in the house. He's he's a a
• 55:42
  friend. He he is a friendly dog that's
• 55:45
  hanging out with me in the evenings. And
• 55:47
  uh um you know I heard him yipping in
• 55:50
  the other room whilst uh one point at
• 55:53
  night there doesn't like sitting in
• 55:55
  there you got to get up in the middle of
• 55:57
  night and hey come out and when I wake
• 55:59
  up middle night
• 56:02
  sleep does not reoccur for quite some
• 56:05
  time which is uh highly frustrating. Um
• 56:08
  I also and I'm kind of all over the map
• 56:11
  again. Next week I'm uh uh off to uh
• 56:13
  Kentucky. Going to see some uh harsh
• 56:16
  races. We're going to go out and do some
• 56:19
  uh uh uh tourism in Kentucky. Now
• 56:22
  Kentucky is a very beautiful uh state.
• 56:24
  Um plenty to plenty to see and do there.
• 56:28
  And we're going to go to uh blueg grass
• 56:30
  uh bluegrass stakes, I think it's
• 56:33
  called. and uh um
• 56:36
  take some some uh horse tours, stuff
• 56:39
  like that. Um so uh next Wednesday, next
• 56:42
  Thursday
• 56:44
  uh you and unless I happen to uh record
• 56:47
  one early, there will not be a program
• 56:51
  and uh Friday, I do still plan on doing
• 56:54
  or pre-recording um for next Friday.
• 56:56
  we're talking about now. Um, a civic
• 57:01
  outlaws, but that one will be
• 57:04
  pre-recorded.
• 57:06
  Okay. Um, but I want to go have a look
• 57:10
  at a Missouri Court of Appeals decision
• 57:13
  that has ordered regulators to uh
• 57:19
  to
• 57:22
  uh re to issue licenses to 13
• 57:27
  facility license to Hippos LLC
• 57:31
  after a finding that the 2019 scoring
• 57:35
  process
• 57:36
  was inconsistent and performed by
• 57:39
  graders whose qualifications were never
• 57:43
  established. This ruling implicates
• 57:45
  potentially hundreds of decisions
• 57:49
  and nearly 850
• 57:53
  pending appeals, a systemic integrity
• 57:56
  crisis for the division of cannabis
• 58:01
  regulation. Now, I've told you before on
• 58:04
  this channel that I am not a
• 58:09
  smoker. Um,
• 58:13
  I I have never, you know, engaged in
• 58:16
  drug use. I'm just not one of those. I I
• 58:19
  don't support it. I don't give a crap if
• 58:21
  other people do, but leave me out of it.
• 58:24
  Okay? And uh I don't want anything to do
• 58:28
  with it, but I don't care.
• 58:31
  Um,
• 58:34
  I'm I'm trying to get to the actual
• 58:36
  ruling itself
• 58:38
  and get a uh appellet court
• 58:46
  uh decision. See what it says. So, the
• 58:49
  court orders Missouri to issue 13
• 58:53
  licenses.
• 58:55
  Um,
• 58:56
  this was and they conducted an audit.
• 58:59
  And so this was a Missouri Western Court
• 59:01
  of Appeals case that came up. And so we
• 59:05
  do keep track of this because we're
• 59:07
  starting a uh an organization called the
• 59:10
  Missouri
• 59:12
  uh License Protection Association.
• 59:15
  That'll be a 501c6
• 59:21
  uh
• 59:23
  organization. 501c3. That's our civic
• 59:26
  outlaws uh um operation.
• 59:31
  501c6 allows uh you know banding
• 59:35
  together for kind of a common cause and
• 59:39
  uh providing defenses to each other. So
• 59:42
  we're starting that. And so this
• 59:46
  decision that just uh came out five six
• 59:49
  days ago
• 59:52
  says that
• 59:54
  the Missouri appeals court
• 59:57
  rebuked the state's marijuana licensing
• 1:00:00
  process.
• 1:00:02
  This isn't This is not Unfortunately,
• 1:00:06
  the more I look into the more licensing
• 1:00:09
  that we go further on here, the worse it
• 1:00:14
  gets.
• 1:00:17
  It's It's not just ATC. I have been ATC
• 1:00:21
  has made it quite easy, you know, to go
• 1:00:24
  after them. I mean, they're I don't say
• 1:00:26
  they're run poorly. I don't really care.
• 1:00:28
  But they're taking authority that
• 1:00:30
  doesn't belong to them. hasn't been
• 1:00:32
  given to them and they're trying to
• 1:00:34
  expand it. I mean, that much is clear.
• 1:00:36
  Okay. And now the court has uh beat up
• 1:00:41
  upon the um regulatory agency for
• 1:00:49
  marijuana. And uh uh so the unanimous
• 1:00:54
  ruling came after a scathing state audit
• 1:00:59
  found flaws, erratic scoring, poor
• 1:01:03
  documentation,
• 1:01:05
  and a process so opaque that it cast
• 1:01:09
  doubt on the integrity of results.
• 1:01:12
  Welcome to bureaucracy Allah, Missouri.
• 1:01:16
  The decision issued last week by the
• 1:01:18
  Missouri Court of Appeals Southern
• 1:01:20
  District does more than revive Hippo's
• 1:01:23
  long-running challenge over denied
• 1:01:25
  cultivation, manufacturing, and
• 1:01:28
  dispensary license it undercuts the
• 1:01:31
  methodology the Missouri Administrative
• 1:01:34
  Hearing Commission uses to resolve
• 1:01:37
  licensing disputes and raises new
• 1:01:40
  questions about hundreds of rulings
• 1:01:43
  issued in nearly 800
• 1:01:46
  50 appeals filed by unsuccessful
• 1:01:49
  applicants. So Lisa Cox, who's a
• 1:01:52
  spokeswoman for the Missouri Department
• 1:01:54
  of Health and Senior Services, uh, which
• 1:01:57
  oversees cannabis, said the agency is
• 1:01:59
  developing options in terms of appealing
• 1:02:03
  the decision that would go to the
• 1:02:05
  Missouri Supreme Court. HIPPO's
• 1:02:07
  officials, they never got a hold of to
• 1:02:09
  for comment. When the Missouri
• 1:02:10
  Department of Health was working in 2019
• 1:02:13
  to build the framework for the state's
• 1:02:15
  now multibillion dollar industry,
• 1:02:20
  it hired a Nevadaabbased company, Wise
• 1:02:24
  Health Solutions, to score 2,000
• 1:02:27
  applications.
• 1:02:30
  But in each of Hippo's applications,
• 1:02:32
  there were instances in which identical
• 1:02:35
  answers to the same question received
• 1:02:38
  inconsistent stores scores, said Judge
• 1:02:41
  Jeffrey Bates. That should never have
• 1:02:44
  occurred if Wise's scorers followed the
• 1:02:47
  instructions they were given. Neither
• 1:02:49
  the department nor Wise did anything to
• 1:02:52
  correct the situation. and Hippo's
• 1:02:54
  lawsuit challenges the department's
• 1:02:57
  denial applications for two
• 1:02:58
  cultivations, six manufacturing, and
• 1:03:01
  five dispensary licenses. Their first
• 1:03:03
  stop for appealing the denied
• 1:03:05
  application was the administrative
• 1:03:08
  hearing commission, which is where you
• 1:03:09
  go after your license gets removed for
• 1:03:12
  every license in the state except for
• 1:03:14
  the practice of law. I know, you know,
• 1:03:16
  I've spo spoken on that uh ridiculous
• 1:03:20
  and uh
• 1:03:22
  interesting process for how you uh how
• 1:03:25
  you get scored as a law license holder.
• 1:03:28
  Uh that and or or as it sits out there
• 1:03:31
  for two and a half years before they
• 1:03:35
  have to do anything with your
• 1:03:37
  application. You can just leave it sit
• 1:03:40
  and that is a typical bureaucratic move.
• 1:03:43
  You leave the license sit. You don't
• 1:03:45
  have to deny it, you just don't take
• 1:03:48
  action on it. And at some point, that's
• 1:03:50
  that's an unreasonable delay, right? So,
• 1:03:54
  uh, the three appellet judges who heard
• 1:03:57
  this felt that the commission's approach
• 1:03:59
  to rescoring was completely flawed. The
• 1:04:04
  raw scores provide no evidence of the
• 1:04:07
  scorer's intent because there are no
• 1:04:09
  notes explaining why the score was
• 1:04:11
  given. So basically rate this on a scale
• 1:04:14
  of 1 to 10. Um, okay. Well, I say four.
• 1:04:18
  Next guy goes, "Okay, well I see eight."
• 1:04:21
  But you don't have to say why, right?
• 1:04:24
  Just like the Missouri Bar and the
• 1:04:26
  Supreme Court of Missouri when talking
• 1:04:29
  about lawyers that apply for a license.
• 1:04:32
  You don't have to say why. It's just yes
• 1:04:35
  or no. How can you get nine supreme?
• 1:04:38
  Now, now these are judges beatating up
• 1:04:40
  on the administrative or I'm sorry,
• 1:04:42
  beatating up on the licensing process
• 1:04:44
  for for cannabis
• 1:04:48
  just a scoring here. They they can't
• 1:04:50
  score without giving a reason for the
• 1:04:53
  score. But if you're a lawyer seeking a
• 1:04:56
  license and the Supreme Court can just
• 1:04:58
  say no. But they don't have to say why.
• 1:05:02
  Just no. That's it. And that's how the
• 1:05:06
  practice of law is determined in
• 1:05:07
  Missouri. If you piss off the right
• 1:05:09
  people, right? You just don't get a
• 1:05:11
  license. That's that. And uh but you
• 1:05:13
  don't get to go, well, wait a minute.
• 1:05:15
  Why? Well, because I said no. That's it.
• 1:05:18
  And this is what they were doing. And
• 1:05:20
  this is the court beaten up on that type
• 1:05:24
  of scoring
• 1:05:27
  in regulatory agencies. And they write
• 1:05:29
  these uh you know raw scores. Uh, there
• 1:05:32
  are no notes that explain why the score
• 1:05:34
  is given. Okay. Well, then why can the
• 1:05:37
  Supreme Court say, "No, you can't have a
• 1:05:40
  license, but we don't have to tell you
• 1:05:41
  why." Well, we're the Supreme Court. The
• 1:05:44
  hell?
• 1:05:46
  We know why, but we don't have to tell
• 1:05:48
  you. Or we don't even know why. There's
• 1:05:51
  nine of us, but we've decided no, but we
• 1:05:53
  haven't or seven of us, and we haven't
• 1:05:54
  figured out why. You know, we haven't
• 1:05:56
  figured out which way we're going to
• 1:05:58
  which way we're going to go depending on
• 1:05:59
  the court. him. At any rate, uh, judges
• 1:06:01
  agree with hippos that the commission
• 1:06:03
  decisions affirming the state denial of
• 1:06:05
  the company applications were arbitrary,
• 1:06:08
  capriccious, and unreasonable, and these
• 1:06:10
  decisions are not supported by competent
• 1:06:13
  and substantial evidence on the whole
• 1:06:15
  record. Now, that's a standard
• 1:06:18
  arbitrary, capricious, unreasonable.
• 1:06:20
  That's that's what you have to allege.
• 1:06:22
  And you can go sue them for damages on
• 1:06:24
  those regards and uh in federal court
• 1:06:26
  sometimes. That's fun. Uh they remanded
• 1:06:29
  the case back to the circuit court with
• 1:06:30
  the direction that the lower court order
• 1:06:33
  the department to grant hippos the
• 1:06:35
  cultivation manufacturing and dispensary
• 1:06:39
  uh facility licenses for which they
• 1:06:42
  applied and there was no rebuttal. A
• 1:06:44
  major blow to the state's defense. The
• 1:06:47
  judges ruled is that Hippos provided two
• 1:06:49
  credible witnesses who testified that
• 1:06:53
  the application should have received
• 1:06:54
  higher scores. And the judges felt that
• 1:06:57
  the state didn't even fight back. The
• 1:06:59
  experts were cannabis consultants who
• 1:07:02
  collectively prepared 83 applications in
• 1:07:04
  Missouri and more than half of their
• 1:07:07
  clients applications successfully
• 1:07:09
  received licenses. But the department
• 1:07:11
  offered no rebuttal of hippos expert
• 1:07:14
  testimony and prevented no testimony
• 1:07:16
  showing why hippos should not be given
• 1:07:19
  the higher score about which the uh
• 1:07:21
  experts testified. So you don't have to
• 1:07:24
  say why
• 1:07:26
  or or they're telling the uh the
• 1:07:30
  cannabis regulators that you have to say
• 1:07:32
  why. But they won't tell the Supreme
• 1:07:35
  Court that. No, no, no. those
• 1:07:39
  some licenses are more important than
• 1:07:41
  others. But we can destroy a person's
• 1:07:43
  ability to have a job, you know, um as a
• 1:07:46
  lawyer, although they've paid for the
• 1:07:48
  education of it, without saying yes or
• 1:07:50
  no, without saying why. We just say no.
• 1:07:54
  And uh uh and that's that's okay. But
• 1:07:57
  not if you want a cannabis license. Gez,
• 1:07:59
  you want a cannabis license? You want to
• 1:08:01
  sell cannabis? By God, you better uh you
• 1:08:05
  better tell them why they can't sell
• 1:08:07
  cannabis if you're going to deny them a
• 1:08:08
  license. In the department's response to
• 1:08:11
  state auditor Scott Fitzpatrick's report
• 1:08:14
  that was released last month auditing
• 1:08:17
  the uh the uh regulation process. It
• 1:08:20
  argued the commission did a thorough
• 1:08:23
  review of the scoring evidence and heard
• 1:08:25
  from many experts during hundreds of
• 1:08:27
  appeals. But Cox said the hippo's case
• 1:08:30
  was among the first the commission heard
• 1:08:32
  in the process of reviewing the
• 1:08:34
  department's licensing decisions. The
• 1:08:37
  information in the southern divist
• 1:08:39
  division southern district is seeking
• 1:08:42
  which is expert testimony regarding the
• 1:08:45
  department's position has been provided
• 1:08:48
  in all subsequent cases and supports the
• 1:08:51
  AHC's determination in Hippo's case. she
• 1:08:54
  said in an email.
• 1:08:56
  But the department's audit response
• 1:08:59
  listed several cases where the
• 1:09:01
  commission ruled in favor of the
• 1:09:03
  department. And in at least one of the
• 1:09:06
  cases, the commission used the same
• 1:09:08
  methodology that the appeals court last
• 1:09:11
  week determined was flawed. No notes, no
• 1:09:15
  evidence. Hippos challenged the scores
• 1:09:17
  given on several questions in the
• 1:09:19
  application. The court found it
• 1:09:22
  difficult to justify scores without
• 1:09:25
  seeing any notes on why the greater made
• 1:09:28
  them. After the commission concluded
• 1:09:30
  that it was required to rescore Hippo's
• 1:09:33
  applications due to the noted
• 1:09:35
  inconsistency, the commission stated
• 1:09:37
  that it was searching for any evidence
• 1:09:40
  reflecting the score's subjective
• 1:09:42
  evaluation. Obviously, any notes from a
• 1:09:45
  scorer about his or her reasons for
• 1:09:47
  giving a particular score would be
• 1:09:49
  helpful to show consistency.
• 1:09:53
  H sounds reasonable to me.
• 1:09:57
  Why doesn't the Supreme Court have to do
• 1:10:00
  the same? So, it's this is uh uh ongoing
• 1:10:06
  stories. Okay. I wanted to talk about
• 1:10:09
  something else because this is something
• 1:10:12
  well there are several topics but the
• 1:10:14
  first one I want to talk about cuz ATC
• 1:10:17
  they they have more news they're getting
• 1:10:19
  beat up on not just by me not just by me
• 1:10:23
  other people are too. So, get this. They
• 1:10:26
  have this uh uh
• 1:10:30
  they have a a an outdated
• 1:10:33
  um what do you call them? The uh AS400
• 1:10:38
  computer systems. Do you remember those?
• 1:10:39
  I used those in the in the army a 100red
• 1:10:42
  years ago. You know, in the early 90s
• 1:10:45
  and and 2000s, you'd use the AS400. And
• 1:10:49
  basically, it's a data entry terminal.
• 1:10:52
  And if you go into state offices or
• 1:10:54
  anywhere else, you see these old crappy
• 1:10:56
  um uh beige beige crappy plastic colored
• 1:11:01
  uh terminals, right? And uh in them they
• 1:11:05
  have u
• 1:11:08
  uh the green the green uh
• 1:11:12
  uh matrix style uh text across the the
• 1:11:17
  border. That's an AS400. Okay. And the
• 1:11:21
  AS400 is still being used by uh ATC and
• 1:11:26
  many other agencies to track your stuff.
• 1:11:28
  And it's crap. All it is is an old
• 1:11:30
  database from 100 years ago. And I can't
• 1:11:34
  imagine that it's cheaper to keep her
• 1:11:36
  cheaper to keep AS400 and work on that
• 1:11:40
  than to improve and get new data. And uh
• 1:11:44
  our sunshine requests have gone out on
• 1:11:46
  this topic of uh uh trying to find
• 1:11:49
  records and they cannot manipulate the
• 1:11:51
  records. They have to have an AS400
• 1:11:53
  expert, most of which do not exist
• 1:11:56
  anymore trying except in state agencies.
• 1:11:59
  They got to go find these guys and go
• 1:12:01
  train them and send them to ancient
• 1:12:03
  schools on AS400 because that's what
• 1:12:06
  they use and been industries aren't
• 1:12:08
  using that crap anymore. Um and so they
• 1:12:12
  have stayed they have selected ATC has
• 1:12:16
  selected Posi ABC as a new enterprise
• 1:12:21
  licensing system. So, they're starting
• 1:12:23
  to uh require now people to submit their
• 1:12:28
  licensing to get an alcohol license or
• 1:12:31
  tobacco license uh through a new system.
• 1:12:34
  And they selected Posi ABC from
• 1:12:37
  Computronics as a new enterprise
• 1:12:40
  software system to replace the outdated
• 1:12:43
  platform for managing alcohol licenses
• 1:12:46
  and law enforcement data. The fully
• 1:12:48
  integrated web-based system will
• 1:12:51
  modernize how the division tracks
• 1:12:54
  licenses and enforcement actions.
• 1:12:59
  Now, now why are we focusing on
• 1:13:02
  enforcement and not regulation? What?
• 1:13:04
  What in the world? Because enforcement I
• 1:13:06
  I've said this for years. Law
• 1:13:08
  enforcement. Why can't you be a police
• 1:13:10
  officer? What's wrong with that? Or a
• 1:13:13
  peace officer when you're focused on
• 1:13:15
  peace. No, no, no. We need to enforce.
• 1:13:19
  We got to wear SWAT gear and we got to
• 1:13:21
  drive a tank down the streets. You know,
• 1:13:24
  we got to at least a Bradley. Give us a
• 1:13:26
  Bradley fighting vehicle at least. And
• 1:13:29
  um that could be, you know, better
• 1:13:31
  suited for you. And we need to carry
• 1:13:33
  weapons to investigate licenses. You
• 1:13:36
  know, that's nuts.
• 1:13:40
  I made myself a very nice mint tea here.
• 1:13:43
  And sorry, it's I'm I'm drinking it up.
• 1:13:45
  It's a little bit on the not quite cool
• 1:13:48
  side, but certainly not warm any longer.
• 1:13:52
  So, they have uh this new LA licensing
• 1:13:56
  database will affect how you can search
• 1:13:59
  public record requests and how they're
• 1:14:02
  going to be structured and fulfilled,
• 1:14:04
  right? They don't have to prevent
• 1:14:06
  provide documents in Sunshine if they
• 1:14:08
  and they don't have to create them. They
• 1:14:10
  don't have to go out and do it. Now,
• 1:14:13
  there's a lot of activities going on in
• 1:14:15
  Sunshine uh enforcement as well. There's
• 1:14:18
  some bill tracking that I want to
• 1:14:20
  discuss about that on uh uh
• 1:14:24
  on Friday in Civic Outlaws. Um
• 1:14:28
  let's see, the Show Me ID, you know,
• 1:14:32
  there's an enforcement gap in that.
• 1:14:34
  their mobile app that ATC uses. Um, it's
• 1:14:39
  discontinued and has been removed from
• 1:14:41
  the app store. So, they get out and they
• 1:14:43
  say, "Okay, everybody, you can verify
• 1:14:45
  somebody's real ID, but you can't verify
• 1:14:48
  it anymore. The developer contract with
• 1:14:50
  ATC expired September 30th of 2025, and
• 1:14:55
  the app is no longer reliable for IDs
• 1:14:59
  issued after October 2024."
• 1:15:02
  and uh Kristen Templeton, acting state
• 1:15:05
  supervisor, said the loss and uh
• 1:15:10
  you know of this software
• 1:15:14
  is you know a kind of a big deal and
• 1:15:16
  said that ATC is exploring replacement
• 1:15:18
  options with state partners but no
• 1:15:22
  timeline right.
• 1:15:24
  This is going to create a real world
• 1:15:26
  enforcement gap raising questions about
• 1:15:28
  how ATC is uh conducting underage sales
• 1:15:32
  checks and tobacco compliance
• 1:15:34
  inspections. Um you know you have you
• 1:15:38
  ever gone into any of these places and
• 1:15:39
  they want a copy of your license? I am
• 1:15:42
  so offended by this. I'm like 90. Okay.
• 1:15:45
  I I go into some place and I'm going to
• 1:15:47
  here come in hobbling in, you know, with
• 1:15:50
  my walker and uh these guys want to know
• 1:15:53
  if I'm over 18 and I got to provide an
• 1:15:55
  ID uh to buy certain things. Nonsense. I
• 1:15:59
  mean, all you got to do is take a look
• 1:16:01
  at at me and know that I am. I don't
• 1:16:03
  look under 40, you know, and there no
• 1:16:06
  way. And uh I and now you can't use you
• 1:16:10
  can't use the real ID for anything that
• 1:16:13
  it's supposed to because ATC can't get a
• 1:16:15
  new uh a new uh uh vendor for this.
• 1:16:20
  Right.
• 1:16:22
  H why am I bitching? Maybe because
• 1:16:25
  that's what I do. There was another one.
• 1:16:27
  Where is this? This I wanted to get to.
• 1:16:32
  Uh so a recent state. Uh let's see. No
• 1:16:36
  party did that one. Verified dispensary.
• 1:16:39
  Okay. Okay. Here it is. The joint
• 1:16:43
  resolution
• 1:16:45
  Missouri plan judicial selection reform.
• 1:16:49
  Now get this judicial reform. And I
• 1:16:53
  follow this on my own. Okay. So, um,
• 1:16:58
  HJR19,
• 1:17:01
  get this, re proposes removing. I'm for
• 1:17:06
  this. Absolutely. I am totally against
• 1:17:09
  this uh, nonpartisan Missouri plan BS
• 1:17:14
  that they've been pumping uh, you know,
• 1:17:16
  up your rear end for for years, saying
• 1:17:20
  that it's, "Oh, gee, it's nonpartisan.
• 1:17:22
  my ass. It is not non-partisan.
• 1:17:26
  And so now there's actually an effort to
• 1:17:29
  do something about it. HJR119
• 1:17:32
  proposes removing constitutional
• 1:17:34
  mandates for the Missouri plan,
• 1:17:36
  nonpartisan judicial selection is what
• 1:17:39
  the bar likes to call it, and returning
• 1:17:41
  two voters.
• 1:17:44
  Wow, what a concept. the authority to
• 1:17:47
  determine whether their circuit uses the
• 1:17:50
  Missouri plan, which is BS, or an
• 1:17:53
  alternative method established by law.
• 1:17:57
  Yeah.
• 1:17:59
  Instead of this ridiculous Missouri plan
• 1:18:01
  that they're trying to codify anyway or
• 1:18:03
  constitutionalize, but they want to get
• 1:18:05
  rid of it. Now, proponents argue that
• 1:18:08
  and including Samuel, that's me, propose
• 1:18:12
  uh uh argue that this will restore
• 1:18:15
  democratic accountability
• 1:18:17
  to judicial selection processes
• 1:18:22
  currently dominated by unelected
• 1:18:25
  commissions. If you're unfamiliar with
• 1:18:28
  how we pick appellet judges and how we
• 1:18:31
  pick uh many counties, Green County uses
• 1:18:35
  it, um St. Louis County uses it, I can't
• 1:18:39
  remember the there's a there and more
• 1:18:41
  and more counties are going this way to
• 1:18:43
  have not not citizens pick who gets
• 1:18:47
  selected as. So, I've I've explained
• 1:18:50
  this before, but it bears repeating,
• 1:18:52
  okay? because it's a BS system no matter
• 1:18:55
  how you slice it. And the way they sell
• 1:18:57
  it is they say, "Oh, gee, back in the
• 1:19:00
  back in the 30s, there was corruption in
• 1:19:03
  the form of uh uh uh you know, mafia
• 1:19:07
  sort of guys, uh union bosses, people
• 1:19:10
  running, you know, boss so and so ran
• 1:19:12
  St. Louis and boss uh so and so other so
• 1:19:15
  and so ran Kansas City." And uh the the
• 1:19:19
  court the Supreme Court is uh located in
• 1:19:22
  Jeff City and that's run by you know
• 1:19:25
  boss Jeff City you know five families
• 1:19:27
  same five families for generations
• 1:19:31
  to run Jeff City and get to pick who who
• 1:19:34
  gets to be in charge of whatever there
• 1:19:37
  and everybody knows it you know it's the
• 1:19:39
  the smallest state capital uh in the
• 1:19:42
  nation and it's it's uh run similarly.
• 1:19:46
  Okay. And uh so this is how judges get
• 1:19:50
  picked. You you put people into uh and
• 1:19:54
  the Missouri bar is deeply involved in
• 1:19:56
  this. Okay. Especially for judicial
• 1:19:58
  selection because get this, the majority
• 1:20:01
  of actors, right? Let's say there's a uh
• 1:20:05
  for the judicial plan for electing or or
• 1:20:08
  for appointing a Supreme Court judge.
• 1:20:11
  This is BS completely. is is uh it goes
• 1:20:16
  like this. Three
• 1:20:18
  three people members of the bar
• 1:20:22
  appointed by the board of governors for
• 1:20:26
  the bar. So So if you kiss the ass of
• 1:20:29
  the bar, you have a chance of being uh
• 1:20:32
  uh picked as a judge at the appellet or
• 1:20:35
  the Supreme Court level. But if you
• 1:20:37
  don't kiss the ass of the bar, you have
• 1:20:39
  zero chance of getting uh appointed to
• 1:20:42
  any of those jobs. And it's gone on for
• 1:20:44
  years, okay, since the 40s. You know,
• 1:20:46
  Missouri was the first to create one of
• 1:20:48
  these uh rather uh uh interesting plans
• 1:20:52
  that uh gives the authority to the
• 1:20:54
  Missouri Bar. And they say it doesn't,
• 1:20:56
  but but get how this works. Three
• 1:20:59
  lawyers appointed by the Missouri Bar
• 1:21:01
  get to pick
• 1:21:03
  candidates and they get to send out, you
• 1:21:06
  know, they get to have people apply. You
• 1:21:08
  know, I I remember me sending out um
• 1:21:11
  sunshine requests on this. I'm going to
• 1:21:13
  revive all this cuz I'm going to do it
• 1:21:15
  again cuz uh the the once I'm finished
• 1:21:18
  attacking or going after or uh doing
• 1:21:21
  some um research as it were with the uh
• 1:21:25
  um
• 1:21:27
  with the alcohol tobacco control. I'm
• 1:21:30
  going back to the Missouri bar. They
• 1:21:32
  didn't even bother to answer. The
• 1:21:33
  governor answered, the Supreme Court
• 1:21:35
  answered. Missouri Park, not so much.
• 1:21:38
  They they didn't answer. And I'm sure
• 1:21:40
  that the reason they claim they don't
• 1:21:42
  have to answer. They didn't they didn't
• 1:21:43
  even say why they weren't answering.
• 1:21:45
  They just didn't answer. And at the
• 1:21:47
  time, I was involved in something else,
• 1:21:48
  you know, and a couple of things
• 1:21:50
  beginning on the ATC process and doing
• 1:21:52
  some other some other issues. But I'm
• 1:21:54
  going to reopen those. They're they're
• 1:21:56
  they're definitely coming back and and
• 1:21:59
  and we're going to we're going to hear
• 1:22:00
  about those again. And um
• 1:22:06
  Oh, here we go. Hey, hey, pay attention.
• 1:22:09
  Mark Leavvin blows up at Joe Kent. Now,
• 1:22:12
  Mark Levvin's been pumping war. You
• 1:22:14
  know, he's he's just as bad.
• 1:22:17
  He's he's one of the cheerleaders of
• 1:22:19
  war. You want some cheerleaders for war?
• 1:22:21
  Levvin's one of them. Um you know, you
• 1:22:24
  just take and and I like Levvin
• 1:22:26
  generally. I like listening to him, but
• 1:22:27
  don't go claiming he is not a uh he is
• 1:22:30
  not a cheerleader for war. He uh you
• 1:22:33
  know, he's he's uh far more pro- Israel
• 1:22:37
  than he is anti-war. That's let's just
• 1:22:40
  call it like it is. Anyway, I intend to
• 1:22:43
  get further into the uh how the the
• 1:22:46
  Missouri bar things and the and the
• 1:22:48
  Supreme Court of Missouri and Civic
• 1:22:50
  Outlaws is going to take a view into
• 1:22:52
  some of that stuff and try to remain uh
• 1:22:55
  calm and reasonable about it. But I'm
• 1:22:57
  also right uh just like and you know if
• 1:23:01
  if somebody wants to come on and discuss
• 1:23:03
  it, I'd be happy to do that too. Just
• 1:23:05
  like I keep offering to ATC, I've I
• 1:23:09
  offered it to uh uh Representative uh uh
• 1:23:12
  Cook to see if he wanted to come and uh
• 1:23:15
  and and chat about some of this stuff. I
• 1:23:17
  send emails, say, "Anybody wants to come
• 1:23:19
  and talk, you want to talk about some of
• 1:23:21
  your uh reasons behind issues, I'm happy
• 1:23:23
  to learn why I'm wrong, come on in.
• 1:23:26
  It'll be fun." and uh we can talk about
• 1:23:29
  it and you can teach me why I'm wrong
• 1:23:31
  and uh we can we can hear
• 1:23:34
  you know if you say I'm wrong perhaps
• 1:23:37
  you can give your version of correct and
• 1:23:40
  tell me why any member of the Supreme
• 1:23:43
  Court any member of the Missouri bar any
• 1:23:46
  well board of governors or any of these
• 1:23:48
  idiot committees that they get appointed
• 1:23:51
  you know like uh long as you um suck up
• 1:23:54
  to the right folks you know you can get
• 1:23:56
  appointed to these these committees to
• 1:23:58
  pick judges. And how it works is three
• 1:24:01
  members of the bar
• 1:24:05
  picked by the board of governors, three
• 1:24:08
  citizen members picked by the governor
• 1:24:13
  get in a room and uh they figure out
• 1:24:16
  who's going to be the uh candidates that
• 1:24:20
  are submitted to the governor of which
• 1:24:24
  he must approve. one of the three. Like
• 1:24:28
  he can't provide his own. He's got to uh
• 1:24:32
  he's got to accept ones that are sent to
• 1:24:34
  him. He don't get to pick anybody. Come
• 1:24:37
  on. And that's nuts. Why would you get
• 1:24:40
  to pick anybody? And why would the
• 1:24:42
  voters get any say at all? These three
• 1:24:44
  citizens are appointed by the governor.
• 1:24:46
  Okay. What good does that do to the
• 1:24:48
  citizen? the only thing the citizen can
• 1:24:51
  do is vote against or or vote in a
• 1:24:54
  retention
• 1:24:56
  uh cycle during the next election. So,
• 1:24:59
  you get to stay around for your first
• 1:25:01
  term and perhaps later you get to say uh
• 1:25:04
  uh you know somebody will say put on the
• 1:25:08
  ballot a retention uh vote whether or
• 1:25:12
  not you're going to be retained. So they
• 1:25:15
  have to v vote to get rid of you, not
• 1:25:17
  vote to elect you in the first place. So
• 1:25:20
  you're appointed through some scam
• 1:25:22
  process. Uh
• 1:25:25
  very lopsided process. And by the way,
• 1:25:28
  so you have six members. Those are even.
• 1:25:30
  Guess where the next member comes from?
• 1:25:34
  The court itself. So if the uh uh
• 1:25:38
  appellet court is looking for somebody,
• 1:25:40
  the uh chief justice or the uh uh what
• 1:25:43
  do you presiding uh judge of that court
• 1:25:47
  is vote number seven. So you got four
• 1:25:49
  lawyers,
• 1:25:52
  three citizens, you know, could be
• 1:25:54
  anybody. Who do you think controls the
• 1:25:56
  room during the uh process?
• 1:26:00
  Just curious who who who controls the
• 1:26:03
  room? Is it one of the lawyers or
• 1:26:06
  perhaps the the judge? Or is it one of
• 1:26:10
  these three citizens appointed by the
• 1:26:12
  governor who has very little to do with
• 1:26:16
  uh uh selections by the public? Well,
• 1:26:20
  that has come under question even now in
• 1:26:24
  saying that in this house uh uh
• 1:26:28
  document, you know what they're trying
• 1:26:29
  to say, HJR, what was the number again?
• 1:26:32
  We're definitely going to keep an eye on
• 1:26:33
  this. I doubt it'll get anywhere uh
• 1:26:36
  because uh the bar is all powerful,
• 1:26:39
  right? I I say the most uh uh
• 1:26:44
  most powerful or organization in the
• 1:26:48
  state of Missouri and HJR19.
• 1:26:53
  Pay attention to that because it
• 1:26:55
  proposes removing the constitutional
• 1:26:58
  mandate
• 1:26:59
  and returning to voters the authority to
• 1:27:03
  determine whether the circuits use the
• 1:27:05
  Missouri plan or an alternative method.
• 1:27:07
  Now, I haven't read it yet to see
• 1:27:10
  whether or not it applies at the
• 1:27:12
  appellet levels either, you know, and I
• 1:27:14
  hope it does because the whole system is
• 1:27:16
  crap. And uh perhaps somebody is finally
• 1:27:20
  going to pay attention to uh to this uh
• 1:27:24
  ridiculous selection process that has
• 1:27:28
  Oh, yeah. It's the way you keep out
• 1:27:30
  politics. Oh, yeah. The bar is not
• 1:27:33
  politic. A prior appointed judge
• 1:27:36
  certainly isn't polit political. No, no,
• 1:27:39
  no. Of course not. How can you think
• 1:27:42
  that? They're judges. There no politics
• 1:27:44
  among judges.
• 1:27:46
  Certainly not in Missouri. Maybe at the
• 1:27:49
  maybe in other states, maybe at the
• 1:27:50
  federal level, but not in Missouri.
• 1:27:53
  We'll talk some more about that on
• 1:27:54
  Friday. So, I appreciate you listening
• 1:27:56
  international flavor. Today we got a
• 1:27:58
  little bit more local in nature because
• 1:28:01
  there are a couple of things that came
• 1:28:02
  up that I want to talk about and that
• 1:28:04
  I'm still keeping an eye on for us. And
• 1:28:08
  uh Friday during Civic Outlaws, new time
• 1:28:11
  for Civic Outlaws for the second week in
• 1:28:13
  a row, we're going to be 7 a.m. to um
• 1:28:17
  8:30
• 1:28:19
  uh on Civic Outlaws. And uh you can
• 1:28:22
  listen to all those. go back and listen
• 1:28:23
  to all the old shows at
• 1:28:24
  civicoutlaws.commpodcast.
• 1:28:28
  Uh our la we've only done six of them
• 1:28:31
  and the last six are out there talking
• 1:28:33
  about uh uh
• 1:28:36
  issues in the state of Missouri and
• 1:28:40
  regulation to follow. I am Samuel Trap.
• 1:28:45
  appreciate you being here on this
• 1:28:46
  beautiful Wednesday, the biggest day in
• 1:28:49
  radio history in mid Missouri. And I
• 1:28:53
  hope you join us every day uh at
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  damradio.com
• 1:28:58
  all day today. We have uh wonderful talk
• 1:29:02
  uh content for you. You can listen to
• 1:29:05
  internationalflavor.com.
• 1:29:08
  Uh all the prior is episodes of the show
• 1:29:12
  are out there for your listening
• 1:29:15
  pleasure. Uh thank you so very much and
• 1:29:18
  have a beautiful