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Candidate Forums, Constitutional Drift, and Trump’s Iran Escalation: Local Politics Meets a Wider War Path · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Good morning, happy Tuesday to you.
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  It is Tuesday, right?
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  Yep, it is.
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  Latest news, US is bombing the crap out
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  of Garg Island.
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  Yippee skippy for them.
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  Oh boy, now we got it going on,
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  right?
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  Means victory.
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  I'm Samuel Trapp.
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  Anyway, this here station in their entirety, anytime
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  you feel like it.
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  Now, if you're discriminating and you only like
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  me now, why would you do that?
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  You have to like everyone equally.
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  You know, I had a drill sergeant, you
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  know, he said, he said, he said, I
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  don't discriminate against any of you.
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  I hate every one of you equally only
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  instead of every one of you throw in
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  your favorite swear word there.
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  Mofo would, are you allowed to say that
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  on the air?
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  Mofo?
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  He was a mofo.
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  Well, um, you know, I hate all you
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  mofos equally, right?
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  We don't discriminate.
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  Um, I'm actually going to play a little
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  beat of music for you this morning as
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  well, just because I heard part of it
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  on the way.
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  And what if I want to hear it
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  myself?
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  It's a great song.
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  I like it.
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  So I'm going to play it.
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  And then, uh, I've got some, some discussion
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  points for you.
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  It was a really nice, uh, evening last
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  night.
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  I attended, uh, Nadine's candidate forum.
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  That was, uh, enlightening.
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  Um, saw some old acquaintances, people that I've
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  known for a long time, uh, get to
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  see where they're going in life, met some
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  of the candidates, heard some of the things
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  that were going on.
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  And I found it interesting.
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  I found it enlightening.
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  And, uh, you know, I think we should
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  do some more of that.
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  The, I'm gonna, I may invite, um, someone
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  on my program.
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  You know what I got to thinking?
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  I got to thinking that doing, and I
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  don't think they've done it yet.
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  I remember there was some talk years ago
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  about this, but, you have to, you have
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  to equally.
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  So if you own a radio station, a
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  TV station, you have to equally provide opportunities
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  for various points of view, which is ridiculous
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  in today's world because the horror story points
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  of view are coming from the stations themselves,
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  but it's the horror story.
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  You know, you'd only invite the idiots that
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  you like on and the idiots that you
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  don't like you leave out.
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  And so, uh, they may have either relaxed
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  them, but it used to be during elections,
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  every candidate had to have an equal sort
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  of, uh, opportunity to present his opinion to
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  the public.
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  You know, there used to be some kind
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  of a, uh, uh, rule that said you
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  couldn't just, you know, I want Sam to
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  be the, you know, God emperor of the
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  planet.
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  And so therefore the next time the God
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  emperor of the planet position is open, I'm
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  only going to invite Sam on.
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  I'm not going to invite the other candidates.
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  They wouldn't win anyway.
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  And so I'm only going to invite Sam.
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  Um, allegedly the government was going to look
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  out for us and make sure that, uh,
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  that such tilting of opinion did not occur
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  that you couldn't just put on the person
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  you wanted to win as the candidate.
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  Now, I think all that crap went out
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  the window with, uh, uh, YouTube podcasts, all
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  that stuff, you know, they don't, they don't
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  wreck it, regulate what you do in your
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  own home with your, with your, you know,
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  15,000 listeners from Russia, you know, that's
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  not what they do.
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  And, uh, or no, they don't care.
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  Cause your listeners going to be coming from
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  all over the place.
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  It's, it's actually just an opinion, a point
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  of view.
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  And I don't know, I haven't kept track
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  of that, that, that law, uh, or those
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  laws, uh, because if, you know, if there's
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  one law, that's good by God, 500 of
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  them would be far better, right?
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  More law, more.
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  At any rate, uh, I, I think that
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  the forum last night was pretty interesting.
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  Two judges.
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  I happen to know them both, uh, people
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  running for judge anyway.
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  Cause John Colton Brown, who also knew is,
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  uh, uh, what do you call it?
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  Retiring.
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  And, uh, he was good.
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  I did.
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  I didn't practice in front of him that
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  much.
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  I've been fricking gone for so long that
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  I didn't practice in front of him, but
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  I knew him, knew him pretty well.
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  Like, uh, like Colton Brown, I always said,
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  he's a good dude.
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  And, uh, uh, the, the, you know, if
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  he's retiring, wonder if he's going back into
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  private practice.
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  Uh, but what I was talking to, cause
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  there were several lawyers in there and, uh,
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  Kevin Shelton, uh, actually was in the same
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  building as me twice, uh, rented space from
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  me down on the strip when, uh, uh,
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  I had a, a law firm down there
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  on the strip down in that remember, uh,
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  beavers at the dam down there.
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  And I was one of the owners in
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  that.
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  And then when we got bought out, I
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  had rented the building next door to be
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  from some guy in St. Louis, really good
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  guy.
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  Um, he, um, rented, I rented that building
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  and I put my ice shop in there.
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  Cause I owned Zesto's up in Jeff city.
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  And then, uh, I tried to open it
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  down here.
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  And, uh, uh, that's right when they started
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  targeting me for destruction from, uh, uh, Sam
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  Phillips and company at the OCDC tar started
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  attacking me and, uh, uh, it was right
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  around that time.
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  And before that, uh, Shelton was opening a,
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  uh, zipline place.
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  And, uh, you know, he looks good.
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  Been here a long time.
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  You know, the interlopers are people like me,
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  but, uh, either one of those, you know,
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  are, are, are longterm, uh, long time employees.
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  And I always remember at the lake, aside
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  from a few horror stories that are very,
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  and you know, who they are yourselves without,
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  without me mentioning it, but the lake, there's
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  a couple of, uh, you know, the glorious
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  who are far better than anybody else, uh,
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  that are practicing the lawn that, uh, uh,
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  I frankly believe participated in, in, uh, helping
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  the bar go after me.
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  Um, but you know, I don't have proof
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  for that, but everybody, everybody knows the, the
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  names of who you're supposed to, uh, uh,
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  you know, honor gloriously at the lake.
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  And, uh, but in general at the lake,
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  they're really, really good and very interesting and
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  decent lawyers.
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  Um, they never got that.
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  I can't tell you how many times that
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  people would come into my office to, uh,
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  hire me or they're looking for an attorney,
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  whether it's me or somebody else.
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  And, uh, and one of the things that
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  people do is they, especially in like divorce
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  or something like that is they go and
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  shop around to 10 different lawyers so that
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  they can make sure the most they, and
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  basically they hit up on the most expensive
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  ones.
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  You know, they go down the line and
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  they get their free consult that they don't
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  have to pay for, and then don't retain
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  the attorney.
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  And, uh, that way they can, uh, exclude
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  their spouse or significant other from using that
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  attorney because lawyers don't screw with a conflict.
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  And so there were, excuse me, there were
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  many people, uh, you know, that understood that
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  rule or did that rule and they would
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  just come and meet with you.
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  So a lot of lawyers quit charging free,
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  uh, or quit giving free, um, consultations because
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  of that.
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  And they would charge for an hour of
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  their time.
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  Uh, what I started doing and I thought,
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  and this is kind of what we do
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  with, um, civic outlaws.
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  We, we put these together for law firms.
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  So we have lawyers.
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  Uh, so I'm involved in two projects.
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  One is civic outlaws.
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  Well, I'm involved in actually several projects in,
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  and I sell real estate in Missouri and
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  in Florida, but you know, I rarely do,
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  gotta tell you.
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  But, um, the, um, uh, fact is that
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  I'm part of civic outlaws and we do
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  that on Friday, right?
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  And Fridays is, uh, you know, coming, coming
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  up this Friday, I want to talk a
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  little bit about, uh, the candidate forum, a
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  little bit about some discussions I had with
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  some people about, uh, what is going on
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  and how the people in the legislature do
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  not know what is going on.
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  And that is freaking scary.
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  Okay.
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  Um, over the last, however long I've been
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  doing civic outlaws, I think I've only done
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  like two months worth of episodes and you
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  know, we're going to start doing them every
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  Friday.
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  Uh, it has become apparent to me and
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  I understand it.
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  I get it.
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  Okay.
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  And it came from some of the questions
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  asked at this forum last night is so
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  at the, at the forum last night, some
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  of the questions were like, uh, you know,
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  there were some decent questions and they had
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  a standard set of pattern questions, uh, that
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  Nadine was given to the, to the, uh,
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  to the candidates that they would answer.
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  And then, and then, uh, our fearless leader
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  got up and, uh, and gave a, a,
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  a question, um, based on, uh, constitutionality and
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  what do you do if you're confronted with
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  constitutionality in your job as a, uh, state
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  rep and, and, how do I want to
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  say this?
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  I don't really intend to at all be
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  condescending to anyone.
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  Cause I don't, I'm never that way.
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  Or I try hard not to be, it's
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  just, you know, I'll never come into your
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  car shop and that, you know, tell you
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  how to fix a car because that's why
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  my car is in such crap shape.
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  You know, I can't, I gotta pay somebody
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  thousands of bucks to fix it.
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  But you, you, you get somebody who's familiar
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  with what they're doing.
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  Well, the practice of politics or getting into
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  politics, this is why a lot of lawyers
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  gravitate there because they're more likely to understand
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  the systems, the limitations, the constitutionality.
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  And they also don't want to sit around
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  and argue about it all the time because
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  there's some misconceptions about how it's supposed to
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  work or nuances that maybe just aren't quite
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  there.
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  And so when you're hiring somebody like I'm
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  hiring a, you know, I want somebody to
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  be an administrative assistant slash paralegal, you know,
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  I'm hiring somebody right now.
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  We are hiring somebody for a civic outlaws
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  and for a modern law ecosystem to work
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  together with us and, you know, part full
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  -time we haven't decided yet.
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  And so if you know anybody out there,
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  send me their name there.
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  I've got a couple of them.
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  I think it's great.
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  And I hope that more people do this
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  as be an easy way to hopefully find
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  somebody.
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  Anyway, when you're looking for somebody, you're looking
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  for somebody that matches your hiring requirements.
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  So I was an HR director for years
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  too.
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  And what you do is you put together
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  like if I was trying to hire an
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  engineer, okay, and I wanted to hire a
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  particular engineer, you can't just hire an engineer.
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  You might end up with a guy that
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  runs the train.
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  And you're not looking for a guy that
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  runs a train.
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  You're looking for a guy that, you know,
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  I don't know, can build the bridge that
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  the train crosses and would understand the physics.
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  That is not me, never would be.
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  Now, had I pursued, you know, some prior
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  path in life, maybe so.
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  I'm not saying I couldn't.
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  I'm saying I don't.
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  And so the difference with politics and what
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  you see fairly often is people who are
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  good people or people who are not good
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  people.
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  I know a couple of, you know, people
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  that I know one in particular who stole
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  from me.
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  And I know another one who I paid
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  for some shady activities with him.
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  You know, he owed me a bunch of
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  money for gambling when he left office.
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  So there's colorful people in every walk of
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  life.
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  Okay.
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  And they seem to gravitate toward there.
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  So you have two types that want to
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  run for office.
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  You have those who want an easy cushy
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  job.
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  And you have those who think they can
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  help somehow.
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  They think they can put it together.
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  But never is it, is he qualified or
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  is he whatever?
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  I mean, you might not even have opponents.
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  And it happens all the time in county
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  and in local.
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  There aren't any opponents.
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  You know, nobody wants to do the job.
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  You're not getting enough candidates.
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  And so that's a shame if it goes
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  to the state level without opposition, in my
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  opinion.
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  Now, we had some healthy opposition at the
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  state level yesterday and some obviously very nice
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  people and very good candidates and very qualified.
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  And nothing I'm about to say relates to
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  any of them.
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  But it's more the misconception of us as
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  the people that are electing them.
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  Or how do you make sure yourself that
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  you are selecting someone that you would want?
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  If you're going to go pick a brain,
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  you know, if you need brain surgery, you're
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  not going to go to your mechanic because
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  he understands electrical wiring in your car.
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  You're going to go to find somebody who
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  understands the blood flow through the vessels of
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  the brain.
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  And the problem is none of those necessarily
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  mean that you can be an administrator, an
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  elector, somebody who's going to understand.
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  I mean, everybody knows that if you get
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  elected into the state house or if you
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  go up to the U.S. house, you're
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  going to learn procedure as you go.
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  I mean, when you go to law school,
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  they don't teach you anything.
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  They teach you basically how to think.
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  I'm not saying, but they don't teach you
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  how to practice law.
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  They don't have a frigging clue.
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  They haven't been practicing law.
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  Most of the professors are people who went
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  straight from law school into teaching and they
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  haven't practiced law.
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  They don't have a clue.
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  And so you have to learn how to
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  become a lawyer.
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  And there's a certain curve, I suppose you
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  would call it, in becoming a legislator as
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  well.
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  So you could spend the first year and
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  a half, two years figuring out what the
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  hell's going on.
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  And it's as and we as the electorate
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  have to understand that these people are joining
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  a large organization that's already slanted in the
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  old dogs that are sitting there forever.
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  You know, the old bull on the hill,
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  you know, is sitting up there and now
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  he's the leader of the house or the
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  speaker of this or the committee chair of
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  that or whatever.
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  And you're just a new flunky trying to
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  not look like an idiot in front of
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  your new constituents.
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  But the fact is, some of these people
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  have never understood constitutionality, have never understood what
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  it takes to make something constitutional or not
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  constitutional.
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  And more importantly, what the process is to
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  determine it.
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  And constitutionality isn't something you just pick up
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  and say, I read the constitution and therefore
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  I know what constitutionality is.
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  Now there's some absolutes, you know, you at
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  least in America, I have the right to
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  bear arms.
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  What does that mean?
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  Well, trust me, that's been pared down over
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  the centuries that we've been around.
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  And, you know, I still am one of
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  those people and I don't own weapons.
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  You know, I was in the military.
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  I know how to use them.
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  And I really have considered several times in
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  life getting one, but I'm not a big
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  gun dude.
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  I like the competition of it all, you
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  know, as an expert with an M-16,
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  as an expert with a 50 Cal out
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  of a helicopter only once, you know, and
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  I could do a grenade launcher with the
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  best of them.
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  But I wanted to go learn those things.
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  So I had more badges hanging on my
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  uniform.
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  He can do this.
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  He can do that.
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  And I did it.
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  I didn't do it.
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  So I go kill people, you know?
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  And anyway, the fact is, I believe that
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  constitutionality is one of the, is one of
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  the easier ones.
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  Oh yeah.
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  We have the right to bear arms.
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  Okay.
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  But what does that mean?
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  How many weapons, how is it an automatic
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  count?
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  Did they intend to automate?
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  Automatics didn't exist way back then.
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  What do we know?
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  Can I have a bazooka?
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  Am I allowed to take that grenade launcher?
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  And you know, after I get out of
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  the military and have it leaning against my
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  bed.
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  So, you know, in case the government comes
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  hiking in, am I allowed to park a
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  tank out in my front yard if I
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  want?
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  You know, why can't I have my own
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  army?
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  I'm just going to build my own army.
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  And so if I can have a weapon,
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  you know, they arrested one of the charges
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  for Maduro, by the way, on that topic.
• 18:44
  And I realized I'm straying, but one of
• 18:47
  the, one of the charges for Maduro is
• 18:49
  possession of a machine gun, possession of a
• 18:54
  machine gun.
• 18:54
  What'd they do?
• 18:55
  Throw it in his lap when he came
• 18:57
  to America.
• 18:57
  It's like, Hey, you're on this plane here
• 19:00
  and we got to find something to charge
• 19:01
  you with.
• 19:01
  So why don't we throw this machine gun
• 19:04
  at you?
• 19:05
  Maybe your wife's got one too hidden in
• 19:07
  her bodice there.
• 19:09
  Toss her a AK-47 and say, you
• 19:13
  know, you jerks, you got that from the
• 19:16
  Russian side of the planet.
• 19:17
  That's even worse.
• 19:18
  Not only is it a machine gun, it's
• 19:20
  a machine gun you didn't buy from us.
• 19:23
  But it's actually one of the military guys
• 19:26
  just threw it in their lap and that's
• 19:28
  the way it works.
• 19:29
  Well, anyway, that's that constitutionality of having, I
• 19:34
  mean, what's the constitutionality of arresting a foreign
• 19:37
  leader?
• 19:38
  I mean, seriously, let's say China comes in
• 19:40
  and arrests Donald Trump, drags him to some
• 19:43
  prison in China.
• 19:47
  Silence.
• 19:48
  Hmm.
• 19:49
  Well, at least think about that.
• 19:51
  I mean, just go arresting the leader of
• 19:54
  another country.
• 19:55
  Where's the constitution on that?
• 19:58
  Yeah.
• 19:59
  Oh, we're protecting America.
• 20:01
  Really?
• 20:01
  Protecting America by stealing other people's resources.
• 20:05
  That's it.
• 20:06
  It's, uh, you know, you'd be good at
• 20:08
  the game of, uh, of risk, you know,
• 20:11
  just roll those dice and take your chances.
• 20:13
  Um, at any rate, I digress.
• 20:17
  I wanted to play this song for you
• 20:18
  anyway.
• 20:19
  So I think I'm going to take this
• 20:21
  opportunity even now to take a break.
• 20:24
  And I like this song and it is,
• 20:27
  um, where'd it go?
• 20:30
  Oh, let's make sure we have it.
• 20:32
  Right.
• 20:32
  Ready?
• 20:35
  All righty.
• 20:55
  All goods to me, traveling shoes, drive your
• 21:00
  problems from here.
• 21:03
  All good people read good books.
• 21:07
  Now your conscience is clear.
• 21:10
  I hear you talk, girl.
• 21:12
  Now your conscience is clear.
• 21:15
  In the morning when I wipe my brow,
• 21:20
  wipe the miles away.
• 21:24
  I like to think I can be so
• 21:27
  willed and never do what you say.
• 21:31
  I'll never hear you and never do what
• 21:34
  you say.
• 21:37
  Look, my eyes are just holograms.
• 21:42
  Look, your love has drawn me from my
• 21:45
  hands, from my hands.
• 21:47
  And though you'll never be more than twist
• 21:52
  in my sobriety, more than twist in my
• 21:56
  sobriety.
• 22:06
  We just picked a little empty pie for
• 22:11
  the fun that people had at night.
• 22:14
  Late at night don't need hostility.
• 22:18
  Timid smile and pause to free.
• 22:23
  I don't care about their different thoughts.
• 22:27
  Different thoughts are good for me.
• 22:31
  Up in arms and chasing hope.
• 22:36
  All good children took their toll.
• 22:40
  Look, my eyes are just holograms.
• 22:45
  Look, your love has drawn me from my
• 22:48
  hands, from my hands.
• 22:50
  And though you'll never be more than twist
• 22:54
  in my sobriety, more than twist in my
• 22:59
  sobriety.
• 23:17
  Cup of tea, take time to think.
• 23:21
  Yeah, time to risk a life, a life,
• 23:25
  a life.
• 23:26
  Sweet and handsome, soft and pokey.
• 23:30
  You're big until you've seen the light.
• 23:34
  Big until you've seen the light.
• 23:36
  Look, my eyes are just holograms.
• 23:43
  Look, your love has drawn red from my
• 23:46
  hands, from my hands.
• 23:49
  And though you'll never be more than twist
• 23:53
  in my sobriety, more than twist in my
• 23:58
  sobriety.
• 24:29
  Friends and Neighbors was Tanita Takaram from Twist
• 24:38
  in My Sobriety.
• 24:41
  And that actually came out in like the
• 24:44
  late 80s when I first heard it.
• 24:47
  What was that album?
• 24:48
  I think I found it.
• 24:51
  I, you know, did my traveling.
• 24:54
  Everybody's got traveling shoes.
• 24:58
  Oh, look what else is playing.
• 24:59
  Oh, we got to hear this.
• 25:01
  Just because.
• 25:01
  Ready?
• 25:03
  No, that's not it.
• 25:06
  Thought we were going to hear some Clint
• 25:08
  Eastwood from Good to Bad and the Ugly.
• 25:12
  But we did not.
• 25:13
  And that came from a 1988 debut album
• 25:18
  called Ancient Hearts.
• 25:20
  Do you remember that?
• 25:21
  The album cover was pretty interesting.
• 25:24
  And so at any rate, that is not
• 25:25
  what I wish to talk about.
• 25:26
  I wanted to finish my thought process on
• 25:30
  constitutionality and understanding it, because when you hire
• 25:33
  somebody into a new position, you know, as
• 25:37
  an HR director, you want to go in
• 25:39
  and get everybody's requirements.
• 25:41
  What are your requirements?
• 25:42
  What do you need?
• 25:43
  I need an engineer.
• 25:44
  Well, OK, what kind of engineer?
• 25:46
  I need a guy that understands, I don't
• 25:48
  know, the process of chemical vapor deposition with
• 25:52
  hydrogen carbide on graphite.
• 25:58
  And they use these to stretch crystal to
• 26:03
  turn it into a silicon chip.
• 26:06
  And so this.
• 26:08
  Tube has to be made of graphite because
• 26:11
  graphite, despite being black, is one of the
• 26:15
  most, in fact, the most pure form of
• 26:18
  carbon on the planet.
• 26:21
  And so this is a very pure substance.
• 26:23
  You're not going to get any germs.
• 26:25
  You're not going to destroy anything.
• 26:26
  And if you coat it with silicon carbide,
• 26:28
  then you can create a chamber where you
• 26:30
  can grow this crystal that was silicon that
• 26:33
  we're going to slice into wafers and we're
• 26:35
  going to put in computers.
• 26:36
  OK, and that process is extremely expensive.
• 26:40
  And so we need somebody who understands that.
• 26:42
  Where the hell are you going to find
• 26:43
  it?
• 26:44
  Where are you going to find that guy?
• 26:46
  Would you want I mean, you have to
• 26:47
  find somebody.
• 26:48
  Well, such is not true.
• 26:50
  Such is absolutely not true.
• 26:53
  If Samuel Trapp or Joe Blow wants to
• 26:57
  be a an elected official, what you need
• 27:01
  there is popularity.
• 27:04
  Do you remember Mitch McConnell's book when it
• 27:07
  came out and he's running around doing what
• 27:14
  do you call it?
• 27:14
  All these guys go write a book, right?
• 27:16
  They all go write a book and talk
• 27:18
  about how, oh, geez, look how wonderful I
• 27:20
  am.
• 27:20
  I'm Mitch McConnell and I've been wonderful ever
• 27:23
  since high school.
• 27:24
  And what do you know what he did
• 27:25
  in high school?
• 27:25
  So here he was in high school.
• 27:27
  He's a senior and he decides that he
• 27:31
  wants to be class president.
• 27:32
  He's joking around with some buddies and some
• 27:34
  friends and his dad and his dad goes,
• 27:37
  you'll be class president.
• 27:39
  And you know, yeah, his dad taught him
• 27:40
  a valuable lesson.
• 27:41
  His dad had a party at the house,
• 27:43
  invited everybody over for pizza, bought out, you
• 27:46
  know, bought them.
• 27:48
  And this is how politics worked.
• 27:51
  If you're Mitch McConnell, he got elected.
• 27:54
  Well, he learned a valuable lesson right there.
• 27:56
  Pizza gets you votes and promises get you
• 28:01
  votes.
• 28:02
  And that guy's been, you know, he might
• 28:04
  have had good intentions in the beginning.
• 28:07
  Once you become a fixture, you no longer
• 28:10
  have good intentions.
• 28:11
  You're acting on your own behalf.
• 28:13
  And that's that.
• 28:14
  And the biggest thing, I think it should
• 28:17
  be term limits.
• 28:21
  You know, in Missouri, we have them and
• 28:23
  I think they're too long here even, you
• 28:25
  know, because you still have the old bull
• 28:27
  and the young bull or forget it.
• 28:29
  Just let the administrative bureaucrat run the show
• 28:32
  because they try to anyway.
• 28:34
  And the point of asking a person whether
• 28:37
  or not, you know, what will you do
• 28:41
  if it's purely hypothetical anyway, and it's to
• 28:45
  use for gotchas the next time around when
• 28:48
  you find out that they really didn't support,
• 28:50
  you know, whatever project it is for you.
• 28:53
  And I still had a hard time keeping
• 28:55
  my mouth shut during this event last night,
• 29:00
  which I'm very glad it went on.
• 29:01
  It was really cool.
• 29:03
  And I'm glad I did it.
• 29:05
  And I've done them before.
• 29:07
  I mean, obviously, it's not the first time
• 29:09
  I've done something like that, but I might
• 29:14
  do some more.
• 29:15
  I like them.
• 29:15
  And I like listening to what people have
• 29:18
  to say, but I also take it with
• 29:21
  a grain of salt because, you know, hypotheticals,
• 29:24
  gee, Sam, what would you do if somebody
• 29:25
  dropped a million bucks in your lap?
• 29:27
  Well, I'd figure out how to hide the
• 29:31
  taxes.
• 29:33
  First, get a million dollars.
• 29:35
  And then two words in the English language.
• 29:38
  I forgot.
• 29:40
  I forgot that paying taxes was or not
• 29:43
  paying your taxes was against the law.
• 29:46
  And that's me.
• 29:47
  So I have the bag of cash that
• 29:49
  you could just take my bag of cash
• 29:50
  when I find the million dollars hidden in
• 29:53
  a bunker somewhere under somebody's house that I
• 29:56
  just happened to slip into.
• 29:58
  And I find this unguarded bag of a
• 30:01
  million bucks.
• 30:02
  First of all, you don't want to pay
• 30:03
  taxes on that.
• 30:04
  You just want to wander away and take
• 30:06
  your bag.
• 30:07
  But it's all hypothetical, because the fact is,
• 30:09
  I've never found a bag with a million
• 30:11
  bucks in someone else's basement or not.
• 30:15
  If it came up, it'd be different.
• 30:17
  How come I'm not the guy winning the
• 30:19
  lottery?
• 30:19
  I always said that if I go to
• 30:21
  win the lottery and make my millions in
• 30:25
  the lottery, like many of us, that's our
• 30:28
  retirement plan.
• 30:29
  And you say, my retirement plan is I'm
• 30:31
  going to win the lottery.
• 30:32
  We're going to make it.
• 30:33
  And I would not win that lottery.
• 30:37
  But the one where you get dropped in
• 30:40
  the ocean and the one in a billion
• 30:44
  that gets eaten by a shark, well, that
• 30:48
  one, I'd rise to the top of the
• 30:50
  list.
• 30:50
  So this we understand.
• 30:52
  That's all facetious, by the way.
• 30:55
  And so I advise everybody to get to
• 30:58
  know their candidates, to get to know what
• 30:59
  the issues are.
• 31:01
  My issues are a little bit different than
• 31:03
  anybody else's issues.
• 31:05
  I'm very much interested.
• 31:08
  So I wanted to get up.
• 31:09
  Ike was there for the Senate position.
• 31:14
  And I'm glad he's running.
• 31:16
  I'm glad Ike's running.
• 31:17
  I like Ike.
• 31:18
  But I don't dislike any of the other
• 31:20
  two.
• 31:21
  And I'm still registered in Florida anyway.
• 31:24
  But I may register here.
• 31:26
  I haven't decided yet.
• 31:28
  But so far, I still think of Florida
• 31:30
  as the residents because I hate Missouri tax.
• 31:34
  And I have a place down there.
• 31:35
  I don't pay this tax.
• 31:38
  And what the hell was that?
• 31:40
  And it's I have disagreements, you know, and
• 31:43
  I have a history here in Missouri.
• 31:47
  I strongly object to the way their legal
• 31:50
  system is structured here.
• 31:51
  So at any rate, my what do you
• 31:55
  call it?
• 31:55
  Focus is a little bit different.
• 31:56
  But when I stood up, I want to
• 31:58
  jump up and go, hey, man, what are
• 32:00
  you going to do about those assholes to
• 32:02
  put the cameras up in your county?
• 32:05
  You're going to you're going to take care
• 32:07
  of that.
• 32:07
  I hope you do because these guys are
• 32:09
  pricks and they've been doing this.
• 32:11
  This is wrong what they did to him
• 32:14
  and what they did to Ike is just
• 32:16
  downright wrong.
• 32:17
  OK, and targeting him.
• 32:20
  That's you know, you know, I hate targeting
• 32:23
  and prosecutors also as witnesses and then soliciting
• 32:29
  the police to go attack another elected official.
• 32:32
  That is BS.
• 32:34
  And those people, you know, shouldn't be honored.
• 32:38
  They should be ostracized.
• 32:40
  That's what I say.
• 32:42
  And that is, you know.
• 32:45
  You're still people.
• 32:46
  Great.
• 32:47
  But you shouldn't be in that position.
• 32:48
  And it's not like dislike.
• 32:51
  It's nothing for me.
• 32:52
  That's a right or wrong event.
• 32:54
  You know, just like, you know, some lone
• 32:58
  OCDC dude who dislikes another one, another lawyer
• 33:03
  and goes after that guy targets him because
• 33:07
  he won't have help him go after another
• 33:09
  lawyer.
• 33:10
  That's that's BS, too.
• 33:12
  But that is the nature of bureaucracy and
• 33:15
  of government.
• 33:15
  You can't always control it.
• 33:17
  And so recycling.
• 33:22
  People and candidates into the government is about
• 33:25
  the only thing we have more positive than
• 33:28
  everybody else.
• 33:28
  It's not democracy, OK?
• 33:31
  It isn't democracy.
• 33:32
  What we have isn't.
• 33:35
  It's a great theory, but shit, communism was
• 33:39
  a great theory.
• 33:40
  Communism is a fantastic theory.
• 33:42
  A lot of places in the communal types,
• 33:45
  like religious types.
• 33:46
  Think about this.
• 33:47
  The church takes in all of the resources.
• 33:51
  Everybody donates to the church.
• 33:53
  And why?
• 33:54
  Because the church is going to provide for
• 33:56
  those in need that are also in the
• 33:58
  congregation so that people don't have to come
• 34:01
  and beg to you if they are, you
• 34:04
  know, if they know you're the rich dude.
• 34:06
  So people put a portion of their money
• 34:09
  in to provide for the general welfare of
• 34:12
  the public.
• 34:12
  That's a good and noble thing.
• 34:16
  And it's a good and noble thing to
• 34:19
  do it on a large scale.
• 34:22
  Trouble is you can't, you know, because people
• 34:25
  are people and somebody might take advantage of
• 34:30
  that system and go in every week and
• 34:33
  say, you know, father, so and so bishop,
• 34:35
  so and so pastor, so and so, I
• 34:39
  can't make it again.
• 34:41
  Well, you're really out, you know, drinking on
• 34:43
  the weekend.
• 34:43
  You don't have enough money to pay your
• 34:45
  rent or take care of your kids.
• 34:46
  There are people that will abuse the generosity
• 34:50
  of others.
• 34:51
  That is why the communist theory did not
• 34:54
  work.
• 34:55
  In theory, it's great.
• 34:57
  Everybody's equal.
• 34:58
  Everybody gets the same thing in practice.
• 35:00
  It just won't happen because you have the
• 35:03
  same exact thing you have in democracy.
• 35:07
  Rules for thee, but not for me.
• 35:11
  They all get up there and they all
• 35:13
  are subject to it on one level or
• 35:16
  the other.
• 35:16
  And it happens the very first time you
• 35:19
  got to sell yourself out to get something
• 35:22
  else you want.
• 35:23
  And you have to take the greater good
• 35:26
  instead of what's right or what's wrong.
• 35:29
  Or the greater not so good so that
• 35:31
  you get something that's far more important to
• 35:34
  you.
• 35:35
  And so politics is a crappy old business
• 35:38
  and you have to take what you can
• 35:42
  get.
• 35:43
  And the worst part is you got to
• 35:44
  deal with all the bureaucrats once you get
• 35:46
  in.
• 35:46
  My big questions are, are we going to
• 35:48
  take care of this bureaucratic BS?
• 35:51
  Are we going to get rid of these
• 35:52
  power mongers?
• 35:54
  All I care about is maximizing individual liberties
• 35:59
  while minimizing overreach of government and getting rid
• 36:03
  of those who engage in it or changing
• 36:06
  that sort of system.
• 36:08
  That's it.
• 36:08
  All I want is limited government.
• 36:10
  I'm not running for office, but I mean,
• 36:11
  all I want is limited government.
• 36:13
  I want government as limited as it should
• 36:15
  only be a government that provides for the
• 36:22
  common defense.
• 36:23
  That's on the national level.
• 36:25
  On the state level, I suppose you could
• 36:27
  have your militia and you could have your
• 36:29
  you know, Army Reserve National Guard guys or
• 36:32
  whatever that serve at the pleasure of the
• 36:36
  president if ever, or the governor if ever
• 36:38
  necessary.
• 36:40
  But generally, you know, what is the government
• 36:44
  supposed to do?
• 36:46
  The government is supposed to regulate the points
• 36:49
  of contact between citizens, businesses, regulators.
• 36:57
  It's supposed to create a fair playing field.
• 37:00
  That's it.
• 37:01
  Fair playing field.
• 37:03
  And when you're a judge, your portion of
• 37:04
  the fair playing field is sitting in the
• 37:06
  court and deciding and doing easy things.
• 37:09
  I like what Kevin said about reorganizing some
• 37:15
  things in the Miller County.
• 37:17
  I like to hear that, you know, because
• 37:19
  when I was practicing, I loved Judge Oswald.
• 37:22
  I thought he was funny.
• 37:23
  And I had to take him to get
• 37:26
  rid of prohibition, rid of mandamus.
• 37:29
  I can't remember which one, but I had
• 37:31
  to take him up a level or two
• 37:34
  once or twice.
• 37:35
  And I think I won one and lost
• 37:36
  one.
• 37:37
  I really don't remember.
• 37:37
  It's not important.
• 37:38
  But either way, he was a good long
• 37:42
  -term judge and fair.
• 37:44
  You didn't go sit in front of that
• 37:45
  judge and think, Jesus, I'm the wrong lawyer
• 37:49
  for this guy.
• 37:50
  You know, he's going to screw this guy
• 37:51
  like you do did in Lebanon.
• 37:54
  Go down.
• 37:56
  I've mentioned that a whole before that I'm
• 38:00
  going to drag in somebody from the state
• 38:01
  of California who got a speeding ticket.
• 38:04
  We're going to make him appear.
• 38:05
  What a crock of shit.
• 38:07
  I mean, that's nonsense.
• 38:09
  And so this you know, I really shouldn't
• 38:11
  talk like that.
• 38:12
  And I usually don't.
• 38:13
  But sometimes I just get on a roll.
• 38:16
  I apologize.
• 38:17
  I'll try to do a better job.
• 38:19
  But you know, this judge was dragging people
• 38:23
  in.
• 38:24
  Guy flew in on his private plane, rented
• 38:27
  a car, drove to court for a $150
• 38:29
  ticket.
• 38:30
  And so the judge could lecture him.
• 38:32
  He's 50 something.
• 38:33
  And the judge is going to lecture him
• 38:35
  by, you know, speeding through my county, you
• 38:38
  might kill one of my constituency.
• 38:41
  What the hell is this guy?
• 38:43
  You gotta be kidding me.
• 38:45
  Really?
• 38:45
  This is what you're doing?
• 38:47
  That's what he's doing.
• 38:48
  He's doing it today.
• 38:49
  Only now he's in federal court by God.
• 38:52
  I wonder what speeches he's given there.
• 38:54
  Anyway, dude's nuts.
• 38:57
  But that's how he thought.
• 38:59
  And maybe that's what got him promoted to
• 39:01
  the, maybe that's what licked the right rear
• 39:03
  end to get him to the federal court.
• 39:05
  We don't know.
• 39:07
  But some people like that.
• 39:09
  Some people want to do that.
• 39:11
  And so I don't know.
• 39:12
  There's so many variables to all of this
• 39:15
  stuff.
• 39:15
  And asking people hypothetical questions is very, very
• 39:22
  difficult because you never know until you get
• 39:25
  hit there anyway.
• 39:27
  And I apologize for jumping on that topic
• 39:30
  this morning.
• 39:31
  But I really think it was a a
• 39:34
  valuable meet and greet, a valuable event for
• 39:41
  people to to participate in.
• 39:46
  And I hope that you participate in some
• 39:51
  more before you have to make the choice
• 39:53
  on who to vote for in your particular
• 39:55
  area.
• 39:57
  Now, don't get too depressed over it.
• 39:59
  Government is still government.
• 40:01
  And we've got the, it's the best.
• 40:05
  It's the only thing that we know as
• 40:08
  a public.
• 40:09
  And get somebody who is, the whole point
• 40:13
  is that you want somebody who thinks the
• 40:16
  most like you.
• 40:18
  You want somebody who's gonna represent.
• 40:23
  Remember, these are representatives.
• 40:25
  They're going to represent your point of view,
• 40:31
  allegedly.
• 40:32
  Or the majority point of view.
• 40:33
  How they come to that decision, nobody knows.
• 40:36
  But the only voice you have is one
• 40:38
  day in a booth, pulling a handle, punching
• 40:41
  a hole, you know, touching a screen, whatever,
• 40:45
  when you do your election.
• 40:49
  And only reason I say that is because
• 40:52
  if you don't get involved, you'll never know.
• 40:56
  And you'll do what, sadly, far too many
• 40:59
  do, is hear only the headlines and not
• 41:02
  know anything about the folks involved.
• 41:07
  So I hope you do a little searching,
• 41:11
  both in your soul and online, for what
• 41:14
  you think should be the correct moves.
• 41:18
  Yes?
• 41:19
  And let's see what, you know what we're
• 41:22
  gonna do?
• 41:23
  We're going to do it one more time.
• 41:27
  Do that to me one more time.
• 41:29
  No, let's not do that.
• 41:32
  We are gonna find the correct, because now
• 41:38
  we have another favorite.
• 41:39
  Are you ready?
• 41:44
  Now we're gonna play what I really think
• 41:46
  everyone should listen to, and I listen to.
• 41:49
  And I remember I would force my children
• 41:51
  to listen to this and to, you want
• 41:54
  a little history lesson?
• 41:56
  You could go back to the abuse I
• 41:58
  leveled upon my own children, just like my
• 42:01
  father before me, of watching every Father's Day.
• 42:06
  And my birthday is on Father's Day a
• 42:08
  lot of times.
• 42:09
  I wonder what day it is this year.
• 42:10
  What day is Father's Day?
• 42:12
  Anybody know?
• 42:13
  We're gonna find out.
• 42:15
  But in the meantime, I'm gonna make you,
• 42:17
  not make you, I'm gonna offer you the
• 42:21
  opportunity to listen to the, the, the, the
• 42:29
  good, the bad, and the ugly.
• 42:37
  That is what we're gonna do.
• 45:59
  Awesome sauce.
• 46:01
  Now, that's the part where he's running around
• 46:04
  in the graveyard is the ugly.
• 46:07
  He's running around in the graveyard looking for
• 46:09
  the grave of the person.
• 46:12
  So what would happen would be I'd put
• 46:14
  on that movie, force my children to watch
• 46:17
  it on Father's Day, wouldn't let him go
• 46:18
  anywhere.
• 46:21
  And then I would lay on the couch,
• 46:22
  fall asleep and wake up right at that
• 46:24
  point, right at the point.
• 46:28
  You sleep through the whole movie.
• 46:29
  And then at the end, when you're getting
• 46:31
  ready to run through this scene at the
• 46:33
  graveyard, that's when old pops would wake up
• 46:36
  and the kids go, you did it again.
• 46:38
  You know, it was a lot of fun,
• 46:39
  but I guarantee you my three sons are
• 46:42
  probably making their kids do the same thing,
• 46:44
  which is my, my father always did.
• 46:47
  And, uh, you know, it was difficult because
• 46:51
  back then it was VCR.
• 46:53
  Jesus.
• 46:53
  There's some bad stuff.
• 46:55
  When I was a teenager, we had to
• 46:56
  put up with VCR.
• 46:57
  Remember the Betamax.
• 46:58
  And then everybody was going to buy the
• 47:00
  video disc.
• 47:02
  Remember those great big record looking things, but
• 47:04
  they were video discs and you put them
• 47:07
  in some little laser machine.
• 47:09
  And, uh, those were high dollar.
• 47:14
  And I have like a thousand DVDs, right?
• 47:17
  And so what I did is I copied
• 47:19
  them all into a hard drive, but a
• 47:21
  10 terabyte hard drive, and you can take
• 47:24
  your hard drive and plug it into your
• 47:26
  TV and you can log into any of
• 47:29
  them anytime.
• 47:30
  And you down and it downloads the album
• 47:33
  cover.
• 47:34
  It takes your entire DVD collection and turns
• 47:38
  it into a playable DVD.
• 47:41
  So I did all of that.
• 47:43
  And I swear to God, it lasted about
• 47:45
  four months and I ended up getting rid
• 47:47
  of most of the, uh, DVDs.
• 47:52
  Then the damn DVD or the, uh, hard
• 47:55
  drive quit working and it was a brand
• 47:57
  new hard drive.
• 47:59
  So now I had to buy another 10
• 48:04
  terabyte hard drive.
• 48:05
  And why do you, why am I telling
• 48:07
  this story?
• 48:07
  That is not what I intend to talk
• 48:08
  about today.
• 48:09
  My story, me and my damn stories.
• 48:11
  Uh, let's see how I got screwed today.
• 48:14
  You know, I got screwed at all my
• 48:16
  moves and you know what Apple wants you
• 48:18
  to pay for those anyway.
• 48:19
  It's really stupid.
• 48:20
  So you go in and you try to
• 48:22
  upload your movies, your own freaking movies into,
• 48:25
  uh, Apple.
• 48:27
  Hey, try to make you pay for them.
• 48:29
  You gotta pay to put them on the
• 48:32
  little platform.
• 48:33
  So don't do it.
• 48:34
  Screw them.
• 48:34
  You should go get your hard drives, put
• 48:36
  them in there, download all your Apple movies,
• 48:38
  which I also did because I have another
• 48:41
  thousand Apple movies over the years and download
• 48:44
  those onto the video in a different format.
• 48:47
  Uh, instead of MP4, you do it in
• 48:49
  something else.
• 48:50
  I forget how it goes.
• 48:51
  And then, um, you watch them on your
• 48:55
  own, but then you're on your own if
• 48:56
  they die.
• 48:57
  So you got to learn how to save
• 48:58
  them in the cloud.
• 48:58
  And that's the next step in this, uh,
• 49:02
  long-term process.
• 49:03
  Uh, at any rate, that is not the
• 49:05
  story of today, how to get away with,
• 49:09
  uh, um, movies that you already own, uploading
• 49:14
  them into the cloud so you can watch
• 49:17
  them at your leisure.
• 49:18
  Um, let's see a guy named Scaramucci.
• 49:23
  Okay.
• 49:25
  Slams Trump's war council of one.
• 49:29
  So I'm reading on the TV screens here
• 49:31
  right now.
• 49:32
  The, um, we're destroying, we're destroying a civilization
• 49:36
  tonight.
• 49:41
  Crazy.
• 49:43
  Just, just crazy.
• 49:44
  Yep.
• 49:45
  You're making friends around the world.
• 49:47
  You're just making friends everywhere you go.
• 49:51
  U S president Trump's war with Iran.
• 49:54
  See, and now they're finally saying it right.
• 49:56
  This is, this is the way that they
• 49:58
  have talked about Trump's, uh, war of aggression
• 50:01
  again, or not Trump Putin's war of aggression
• 50:04
  against Ukraine, blah, blah, blah.
• 50:05
  Well, now they can say Trump's war of
• 50:07
  aggression, uh, against Iran on behalf of Israel
• 50:11
  has been driven by a council of one
• 50:15
  style of decision-making that could have serious
• 50:19
  repercussions for the U S says former white
• 50:22
  house communication director, Anthony Scaramucci, the U S
• 50:28
  Israel war against the Islamic Republic is in
• 50:32
  its sixth week has inflicted widespread destruction across
• 50:37
  the region and mass displacement and mounting economic
• 50:42
  strain.
• 50:43
  Civilian casualties continue to rise in Iran and
• 50:47
  across the region as strikes intensify.
• 50:50
  Trump has claims that Washington is in deep
• 50:53
  negotiations.
• 50:54
  Now everybody denies this by the way, and
• 50:57
  says that, uh, there there's one of more
• 51:02
  or less truthful, uh, set of documents that
• 51:08
  went to Trump and back to Iran through
• 51:14
  Pakistan, but they're not in behalf of anybody
• 51:17
  else except Pakistan, which is suffering dramatically as
• 51:22
  is India, because they have no fertilizer.
• 51:25
  They can't get it through the or hormones,
• 51:28
  but they're not pro Trump at all.
• 51:32
  They think that just, just needs to go
• 51:35
  away and it needs to end.
• 51:37
  And, uh, Trump can't lose.
• 51:39
  If he loses, he's going to look like
• 51:42
  a, uh, a bigger dipshit.
• 51:45
  You know, it's, it's, it's not for him.
• 51:47
  This is not good.
• 51:49
  He started something that he didn't foresee that
• 51:53
  he didn't plan for.
• 51:54
  And the economic strain is kicking the crap
• 51:57
  out of everybody, but he cannot back down,
• 52:02
  which means you only have escalation.
• 52:05
  I can't remember who it was.
• 52:07
  I was watching the other day.
• 52:08
  Um, I think it was, uh, Alex Christoforou
• 52:11
  and, uh, Alex Mark, Mark.
• 52:16
  I can't remember his name.
• 52:17
  The two there they're on the Duran, the
• 52:19
  Duran show.
• 52:20
  It's a, it's a decent, it's really good.
• 52:22
  Actually.
• 52:22
  One's from England and the other guy, I
• 52:24
  think, I know he lives in site while
• 52:26
  Cyprus in Greece, he's from that area, but
• 52:29
  his English is really good.
• 52:30
  I think he was educated in the U
• 52:31
  S and he knows us movies and all
• 52:34
  that.
• 52:34
  So I'm assuming he's, uh, he's, uh, you
• 52:37
  know, from the Homeland here, but they, they
• 52:39
  were interviewing, uh, John Mearsheimer a couple of
• 52:43
  days ago about this.
• 52:45
  And so I watched that one.
• 52:46
  That was a really good one.
• 52:47
  If you get a chance to watch it.
• 52:49
  Um, um, and the guy says, uh, professor
• 52:55
  Mearsheimer who's university Chicago, I think.
• 52:58
  And he, he's very, very smart and very
• 52:59
  well educated on these, these topics.
• 53:03
  And, uh, uh, he said something similar.
• 53:06
  He said that there's no, there's no way
• 53:08
  out, unfortunately for Trump.
• 53:12
  And, uh, the, the, and, and, and I
• 53:14
  don't know that I totally agree with what
• 53:16
  he says, but I, it certainly makes sense
• 53:18
  that, uh, it makes far more sense than,
• 53:21
  Oh, gee, Iran's losing.
• 53:22
  Um, and this, this truly for me, it's
• 53:26
  much more, it's worse than that because I
• 53:30
  don't like this and haven't liked it from
• 53:32
  the beginning.
• 53:32
  I haven't liked what was going on in,
• 53:34
  uh, uh, uh, Venezuela.
• 53:38
  I don't like this power only I'm more
• 53:42
  powerful than you.
• 53:43
  And, you know, I, I, I, I'm highly
• 53:45
  offended that this, this, uh, typical war scenario
• 53:49
  is the exact same scenario all over again,
• 53:52
  do what I say because I'm Papa Trump
• 53:55
  and that's that and the rest of the
• 53:57
  world, you better fall in line and, you
• 54:00
  know, uh, lick the rear ends of the
• 54:03
  United States because that's the only acceptable outcome.
• 54:08
  And I, I think he's, even if he
• 54:14
  wins, okay, let's say that Iran capitulates today,
• 54:18
  the consolidation of, I mean, we're just stealing
• 54:23
  other people's resources, right?
• 54:26
  You're not doing this on behalf of Qatar.
• 54:29
  You're not doing it on behalf of any,
• 54:31
  and now you're blowing up Carg Island and
• 54:33
  then you're going to blow up all the
• 54:35
  electrical power stations.
• 54:36
  I've been talking about the war of infrastructure
• 54:39
  for a long time and what they're going
• 54:42
  to do.
• 54:43
  You know, when he said, we're going to
• 54:44
  bomb you back to the stone age, that's
• 54:45
  not what he meant.
• 54:46
  He meant we're going to bomb you back
• 54:48
  to the U S where the U S
• 54:50
  is because we are the weakest infrastructure link
• 54:54
  on the planet.
• 54:55
  We can't even build a railroad across the
• 54:59
  country.
• 54:59
  We have no high speed rail.
• 55:02
  They're there.
• 55:03
  China's got tons of them.
• 55:04
  Where the hell is our infrastructure?
• 55:06
  We're not getting China's investment.
• 55:08
  Why?
• 55:08
  Because they're building infrastructure around the planet and
• 55:11
  Donald Trump is stealing it.
• 55:14
  That's what he's doing.
• 55:15
  Well, okay.
• 55:16
  You can build that.
• 55:17
  You got all the money.
• 55:18
  You won't give it to us.
• 55:19
  If you give it to us, it'll go
• 55:20
  in the pockets of a few anyway, and
• 55:22
  no infrastructure will be built because that's how
• 55:25
  our system is.
• 55:27
  And you know, look in California, you got
• 55:30
  a train going 15 miles from Bakersfield to
• 55:32
  wherever of the high speed rail, if that,
• 55:36
  and the high speed rail doesn't work, it's
• 55:38
  a hundred million over budget and no, no
• 55:41
  end in sight, no train either.
• 55:44
  We got nothing.
• 55:45
  And he can't even call it high speed
• 55:47
  rail because it doesn't go anywhere.
• 55:49
  And so you've got nothing or even some
• 55:53
  regular rail would be fine.
• 55:56
  You know, maybe we don't go as fast,
• 55:58
  but we don't build infrastructure.
• 56:01
  We destroy.
• 56:02
  So what does Trump say?
• 56:03
  We're going to destroy it and steal all
• 56:05
  your oil.
• 56:05
  That's my oil.
• 56:06
  He made that.
• 56:07
  He said that yesterday.
• 56:09
  We're going to take the oil.
• 56:11
  I'll, I'll take the oil.
• 56:12
  Well, of course you will.
• 56:14
  That's what, at least he's open about it.
• 56:17
  We're still in the oil.
• 56:18
  You know, it looks like, it looks like
• 56:22
  we're winning again or we're going to win
• 56:25
  so much.
• 56:25
  You're going to be sick of it.
• 56:26
  I'm be sick of killing people.
• 56:29
  This is BS, you know, and all the
• 56:31
  people out there who are going, Oh gee,
• 56:33
  Iran, they really want to be free.
• 56:35
  They would, they have a culture and the
• 56:38
  culture is not yours.
• 56:40
  The culture is not yours and you can't
• 56:43
  claim to understand it.
• 56:45
  And so I don't know, I get offended
• 56:47
  over that sort of stuff.
• 56:49
  At any rate, this Scaramucci guy says, now
• 56:53
  we're in the sixth week, civilian casualties.
• 56:56
  Trump is claiming that Washington's is in negotiation,
• 56:59
  but they're not well warning that he's going
• 57:01
  to blow up everything.
• 57:03
  If no deal is reached, he's already doing
• 57:04
  that.
• 57:05
  Speaking on the show, going underground over the
• 57:10
  weekend, Scaramucci said he opposed the conflict from
• 57:13
  the outset, adding that lots of our Gulf
• 57:16
  allies would have probably agreed with that.
• 57:20
  One thing that's going on that somebody like
• 57:23
  me wouldn't like is that the decision-making
• 57:25
  is being made by a council of one.
• 57:29
  He said, arguing that US presidents historically operate
• 57:33
  with a broader consultation.
• 57:37
  Trump is surrounded by a team of yes
• 57:40
  men.
• 57:41
  Well, that's true.
• 57:42
  Hegseth is for sure, you know, got his
• 57:47
  helmet ready.
• 57:47
  Come on.
• 57:48
  He's ready.
• 57:48
  He's ready to be put in.
• 57:50
  Scaramucci claimed this contrasting with earlier administration.
• 57:55
  Scaramucci said he does not believe, however, that
• 58:00
  prime minister Netanyahu is pulling Trump around by
• 58:04
  the nose.
• 58:05
  Now, I think he was in the beginning,
• 58:07
  but I think now he just wound him
• 58:09
  up and he gets to let him go
• 58:10
  because it's going in his favor.
• 58:13
  He doesn't have to do anything anymore.
• 58:15
  He started it.
• 58:17
  Neither one of them had an out.
• 58:19
  This Mearsheimer guy was talking about, oh, no,
• 58:24
  no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 58:24
  You know who this was?
• 58:25
  This was Scott Ritter.
• 58:28
  Scott Ritter was saying that there's a guy,
• 58:33
  Israeli guy, who has basically been camping out
• 58:39
  in the White House selling these dreams of
• 58:42
  of.
• 58:45
  Taking over Iran and telling them in that
• 58:49
  the initial the initial strikes on the 28th
• 58:53
  of February, the initial ones that if you
• 58:57
  that he's been pushing this in Israel and
• 58:59
  in the US through the lobbyists, the horribly
• 59:01
  powerful lobbyists, that this lobby is extremely powerful.
• 59:06
  And he's been pushing this, that if you
• 59:09
  bomb them, the people will do the rest
• 59:12
  for you in Iran.
• 59:14
  Trump's still pumping that shit out yesterday saying,
• 59:17
  oh, yeah, they just want to be free.
• 59:20
  They want to be free of you.
• 59:22
  They want to be free of the US.
• 59:25
  They want to be free of conflict in
• 59:28
  their own neighborhood created by the US.
• 59:31
  That's what they want.
• 59:32
  And he warned of this.
• 59:35
  Scaramucci warned of unintended consequences if Washington escalates
• 59:40
  further.
• 59:40
  By the way, all reasonable experts are saying
• 59:44
  that my guess is they're going to they
• 59:47
  are going to shut down the oil.
• 59:50
  And Trump has set his deadline, you know,
• 59:53
  eight hours away.
• 59:54
  He's probably blowing the crap out of him.
• 59:56
  Now, there's been all kinds of people saying
• 59:58
  that this rescue of one guy sending in
• 1:00:01
  all these planes is really a failed attempt
• 1:00:05
  to grab the uranium, because why else would
• 1:00:07
  you have to see one thirties in there?
• 1:00:10
  And Scott Ritter went through all of that.
• 1:00:12
  That was interesting.
• 1:00:13
  If you get a chance to watch that,
• 1:00:14
  who was he on with?
• 1:00:16
  That was let me see if I can
• 1:00:18
  find that for you in my history, because
• 1:00:20
  that was well worth the the listen, as
• 1:00:27
  was the good, the bad and the ugly,
• 1:00:29
  which is in my my path there.
• 1:00:33
  Where is it?
• 1:00:40
  The desperate and dangerous one was pretty good.
• 1:00:43
  That's with John Mearsheimer.
• 1:00:44
  And check that one out.
• 1:00:47
  And then you have the what really happened.
• 1:00:52
  This is a four man panel.
• 1:00:54
  And this was where Scott Ritter was.
• 1:00:56
  And he's was Larry Johnson, Scott Ritter.
• 1:01:00
  Sarah from D.D. geopolitics and Christopher Halali
• 1:01:05
  from he's I've only seen him once or
• 1:01:10
  twice before, but Scott Ritter had some very
• 1:01:12
  good things to add into this about his
• 1:01:15
  analysis and Larry Johnson as well.
• 1:01:17
  And he was former CIA intel analyst.
• 1:01:20
  And those two gave a very good description
• 1:01:24
  of what went on in Iran that wasn't
• 1:01:27
  about rescuing this this pilot, that that was
• 1:01:32
  a side benefit.
• 1:01:34
  But what they said is they've now either
• 1:01:37
  destroyed their own op, which was going to
• 1:01:42
  be chasing the uranium.
• 1:01:45
  We're going to go steal it.
• 1:01:46
  We're going to take a few planes and
• 1:01:48
  go steal all the uranium.
• 1:01:49
  So it could be a failed attempt at
• 1:01:51
  that or.
• 1:01:53
  It could be a.
• 1:01:58
  Some some something else to take over an
• 1:02:00
  airfield in there, because the Israelis were saying
• 1:02:03
  that air to airfield could be taken over.
• 1:02:05
  Right.
• 1:02:06
  And so what what Ritter especially was saying
• 1:02:11
  is that if you.
• 1:02:14
  You know what, maybe I will play him
• 1:02:15
  for you if I can find it, because
• 1:02:17
  it was really a where Scott.
• 1:02:20
  I might have to get him on my
• 1:02:22
  show again.
• 1:02:24
  And maybe have him come through that.
• 1:02:27
  Is he playing or 75th squadron or something
• 1:02:33
  of that nature?
• 1:02:33
  And they fly with a C295W or something
• 1:02:39
  of this nature.
• 1:02:40
  It's a it's a commercial airline converted, but
• 1:02:42
  these aircraft exist to do clandestine infiltrations and
• 1:02:47
  extractions of U.S. special operations, CIA, paramilitaries,
• 1:02:50
  et cetera.
• 1:02:51
  And they fly three of those in.
• 1:02:53
  They pick up the people on the ground,
• 1:02:55
  including the pilot.
• 1:02:56
  And then the tier one guys on the
• 1:02:59
  way out, thermite the hell out of out
• 1:03:02
  of the C-130s and the H-64s.
• 1:03:06
  And you have, you know, three short takeoff
• 1:03:08
  and landing aircraft pull out and get people
• 1:03:12
  out.
• 1:03:13
  That appears to be the the what what
• 1:03:16
  I believe happened.
• 1:03:19
  I don't know if we left the body
• 1:03:21
  on the ground.
• 1:03:21
  I mean, that would be stupid to deny
• 1:03:23
  it and then and then have the body
• 1:03:24
  show up.
• 1:03:25
  I I know what the bodies look like
• 1:03:28
  in Desert One, and that's not what they
• 1:03:32
  look like.
• 1:03:32
  But so I don't know if that's just
• 1:03:35
  melting steel that came down in the form
• 1:03:37
  of a, you know, that looked like a
• 1:03:38
  skull or whatever.
• 1:03:39
  Who knows?
• 1:03:40
  I'm not there yet.
• 1:03:43
  Well, you can't really listen to it without
• 1:03:45
  listening to the whole thing, but it was
• 1:03:47
  a very good look at this.
• 1:03:49
  It's called if you can find it, Scott
• 1:03:52
  Ritter, Larry Johnson, what really happened during the
• 1:03:56
  U.S. search and rescue inside Iran.
• 1:03:59
  And well worth a listen or a view.
• 1:04:02
  Now, I don't know who Sarah is from
• 1:04:04
  D.D. Geopolitics or Christopher Halali, but they
• 1:04:07
  were the two interviewers interviewing Johnson and Ritter
• 1:04:10
  and worth it.
• 1:04:12
  I'm going to try to I'm going to
• 1:04:13
  send Ritter an email, see if I can
• 1:04:16
  get him back on my program, maybe do
• 1:04:18
  something similar and get his thought process on
• 1:04:21
  that, because it was wow, you know, and
• 1:04:26
  he was a weapons inspector at the time.
• 1:04:29
  I was a weapons inspector and escort, but
• 1:04:32
  I was in the escort division.
• 1:04:33
  He was in the inspection division.
• 1:04:35
  And so then he got picked up.
• 1:04:37
  And if you go back in the history
• 1:04:40
  on my YouTube channel or whatever, you can
• 1:04:42
  find his interview about how he ended up
• 1:04:46
  in Iraq and the FBI chasing him around
• 1:04:49
  and stealing his passport and shit like that.
• 1:04:52
  And so I like the guy.
• 1:04:55
  And I also think he's very knowledgeable.
• 1:04:58
  And, you know, it's kind of funny because
• 1:05:00
  it's the people that get targeted.
• 1:05:04
  And this could be a little self-serving,
• 1:05:06
  but the people that are get targeted and
• 1:05:09
  destroyed like he has been by the by
• 1:05:12
  the government, they get chased around, they get
• 1:05:14
  harassed, that get like like the guy that
• 1:05:18
  Joe Kent or whatever his name was, that
• 1:05:21
  suddenly he's persona non grata everywhere he went.
• 1:05:25
  But he was the, you know, everything but,
• 1:05:27
  you know, the best invention since sliced bread,
• 1:05:30
  you know, when when he took the job
• 1:05:34
  and then suddenly he's the Antichrist, you know,
• 1:05:37
  it's nonsense.
• 1:05:38
  And so I say listen to more people
• 1:05:42
  that are torn apart by the system, not
• 1:05:46
  less.
• 1:05:47
  And I mean, and what's really funny is
• 1:05:49
  the system tore apart Donald Trump, right?
• 1:05:54
  The Democrat system, the Republican system is doing
• 1:05:58
  just the same on the other side, if
• 1:06:00
  you have a point of view that that
• 1:06:02
  doesn't jibe with, you know, all Trump all
• 1:06:05
  the time.
• 1:06:07
  And I'm not all Trump all the time.
• 1:06:09
  I think this is an extremely foolish war
• 1:06:13
  scenario.
• 1:06:14
  I try to remain open to other ideas.
• 1:06:21
  But I'm telling you what, only time will
• 1:06:23
  tell.
• 1:06:25
  You know, I remember, you know, being beat
• 1:06:29
  up upon verbally by by all kinds of
• 1:06:33
  people when the Ukraine war just started.
• 1:06:36
  But I've been right about that since day
• 1:06:38
  one.
• 1:06:39
  And Ritter, right about that since day one.
• 1:06:44
  Mearsheimer, right about that.
• 1:06:46
  Johnson, right about that.
• 1:06:48
  And people that understand geopolitical relationships and understand
• 1:06:53
  what we're doing, the good ones, the ones
• 1:06:59
  who are far more right than wrong, you
• 1:07:01
  know, all the experts on the Democratic side,
• 1:07:04
  the party side, the deep state side, if
• 1:07:06
  you want to call it that, they're always
• 1:07:08
  wrong.
• 1:07:09
  They're paid to be wrong.
• 1:07:10
  They're paid to sell a narrative.
• 1:07:12
  They're not paid to be right.
• 1:07:14
  And so they make 10 times more money
• 1:07:16
  for being wrong than these people make for
• 1:07:19
  being right.
• 1:07:20
  And so if it was all about money,
• 1:07:22
  it better be the other guys.
• 1:07:24
  If money makes right, if might makes right,
• 1:07:27
  you know, if any of that is right,
• 1:07:30
  well, you know, stick with your Donald Trumps
• 1:07:32
  of the world and your Democratic expert groups
• 1:07:37
  from NGOs and people that are lifetime bureaucrats
• 1:07:42
  that are acting in their own interests and
• 1:07:45
  the interest of their cronies because they all
• 1:07:47
  rub each other's backs.
• 1:07:49
  That's the way it goes.
• 1:07:51
  And but if you want the people who
• 1:07:53
  will tell you the truth, people like Larry
• 1:07:55
  Johnson, Scott Ritter, Professor Mearsheimer, Professor Sachs, Samuel
• 1:08:03
  Trapp, you know, pick those people.
• 1:08:07
  There's a possibility they might understand and maybe
• 1:08:13
  they'd be worthy of a good listen.
• 1:08:16
  Scaramucci, I don't know, barely know the name.
• 1:08:22
  This is interesting.
• 1:08:24
  You act like we're the only or you
• 1:08:26
  want to think that we're the only people
• 1:08:28
  with a shitty government.
• 1:08:29
  We're not.
• 1:08:30
  The UK has paid over $1 billion in
• 1:08:34
  benefits to dead people, according to the Telegraph.
• 1:08:38
  The Department for Work and Pensions wasted millions
• 1:08:41
  of pounds due to delayed health notification administrative
• 1:08:44
  error.
• 1:08:45
  So, you know, there's a rather large deal
• 1:08:52
  in America where, and you see this all
• 1:08:56
  the time, fairly frequently, where some kids living
• 1:09:00
  in his mom's basement and mom passes away
• 1:09:03
  at age whatever, 70, but she remains in
• 1:09:07
  the house, in the bed, dead so that
• 1:09:11
  the son can collect the money.
• 1:09:14
  Well, apparently that's going on in other countries,
• 1:09:16
  too.
• 1:09:16
  And the Welfare Department has paid out over
• 1:09:19
  $1.1 billion to dead people over the
• 1:09:23
  past four years in a government blunder, according
• 1:09:26
  to the Telegraph.
• 1:09:27
  Since 2021, work and pensions made approximately 2
• 1:09:31
  .6 million erroneous payments to dead claimants.
• 1:09:37
  The errors reported stem from death notifications arriving
• 1:09:40
  too late to stop payouts or being processed
• 1:09:43
  as payment was about to...
• 1:09:45
  The official figures show that total benefit overpayments
• 1:09:49
  in 2025 alone were $12.6 billion, with
• 1:09:54
  the vast majority being due to fraud or
• 1:09:58
  claim mistakes.
• 1:09:59
  The newly revealed $850 million figure represents official
• 1:10:03
  administrative error related specifically to deceased recipients.
• 1:10:08
  Less than half of the sum has been
• 1:10:10
  recovered, adding to the UK's spiraling welfare bill,
• 1:10:17
  which already sets British taxpayers back roughly 300
• 1:10:21
  billion or a pound or $398 billion every
• 1:10:26
  year.
• 1:10:27
  The Telegraph noted the cost of recovering the
• 1:10:30
  money exceeds the amount overpaid, which typically runs
• 1:10:34
  into just a few hundred pounds per claim.
• 1:10:39
  Aw, it's only a few hundred pounds.
• 1:10:41
  The DWP said it will only pursue recovery
• 1:10:44
  when it is reasonable and cost effective.
• 1:10:48
  The scandal has sparked sharp criticism from opposition
• 1:10:52
  politicians and taxpayer associates.
• 1:10:55
  Lee Anderson from Reform UK calls it an
• 1:10:59
  absolutely appalling scandal that proves that both Labour
• 1:11:03
  and the Conservatives cannot be trusted with the
• 1:11:06
  public's money.
• 1:11:07
  Doesn't that sound familiar?
• 1:11:10
  We gotta trust these jokers with our money,
• 1:11:14
  and they don't watch it, neither on the
• 1:11:16
  administrative side, the bureaucrat side, or the legislative
• 1:11:20
  side.
• 1:11:21
  Um, anyway, the figures do show that the
• 1:11:25
  department has lost all grip on basic administration.
• 1:11:29
  Um, all that sounds familiar.
• 1:11:34
  Ah, bureaucracy.
• 1:11:36
  Ah, bureaucracy.
• 1:11:38
  Two officers have been injured and three suspects
• 1:11:41
  neutralized in a gunfight near the Israeli consulate
• 1:11:47
  in Istanbul.
• 1:11:50
  Crazy.
• 1:11:51
  Firefight broke out between the police and several
• 1:11:54
  gunmen near the Israeli consulate in Turkey.
• 1:12:00
  The, well, Istanbul, which is Turkey.
• 1:12:04
  The building has been closed for months and
• 1:12:07
  is said to be unstaffed.
• 1:12:08
  It is unclear if it was the target.
• 1:12:10
  According to reports, numerous police teams were dispatched
• 1:12:13
  to the consulate 12-15, because I can't
• 1:12:17
  remember if they booted them out.
• 1:12:18
  I think they booted them out.
• 1:12:19
  Um, but I can't remember.
• 1:12:21
  Uh, they may have left voluntarily.
• 1:12:23
  One of the attackers, who was armed with
• 1:12:25
  long barrel weapons, was killed and two others
• 1:12:27
  were captured after being wounded, said CNN's Turkish
• 1:12:31
  language outlet.
• 1:12:34
  Mm-hmm.
• 1:12:34
  There's a video of it, too, if you
• 1:12:36
  want to watch it.
• 1:12:37
  You know, those, those Turks.
• 1:12:39
  And the German military is all excited now.
• 1:12:42
  They're, uh, the Germans' continued military buildup will,
• 1:12:45
  uh, will lead to another tragedy on a
• 1:12:48
  global scale.
• 1:12:49
  If you remember my Maria Zakharova warning from
• 1:12:52
  last week, um, but the media last week
• 1:12:55
  in Germany reported that male citizens, get this,
• 1:12:59
  here's Germany, male citizens who remain abroad for
• 1:13:04
  more than three months without prior approval from
• 1:13:08
  the government of Germany could face penalties in
• 1:13:12
  line with a new requirement under the Military
• 1:13:15
  Service Modernization Act.
• 1:13:18
  The rule, which came into force on January
• 1:13:21
  1, 2026, obliges German males between the age
• 1:13:25
  of 17 and 45 to obtain permission before
• 1:13:30
  leaving the country for an extended period.
• 1:13:33
  The defense ministry said the measure is intended
• 1:13:36
  to maintain a reliable registry of individuals eligible
• 1:13:41
  for military service.
• 1:13:43
  In a post on Telegram on Monday, Zakharova
• 1:13:47
  noted that previously German men were required to
• 1:13:52
  register before going abroad only during a state
• 1:13:56
  of tension or state of defense, but that
• 1:13:58
  the measure is now being expanded to peacetime
• 1:14:02
  as part of Merch's strategy to militarize Germany.
• 1:14:07
  Germany moved to reintroduce lottery-based conscription, says
• 1:14:13
  since Berlin is looking to increase the number
• 1:14:16
  of active troops from 180,000 to more
• 1:14:19
  than 260,000 by 2035.
• 1:14:25
  The heat of militaristic frenzy, Germany has completely
• 1:14:30
  forgotten the lessons of history.
• 1:14:33
  The last time the German political elites set
• 1:14:37
  out to make their country the main military
• 1:14:40
  power in Europe, which is by the way,
• 1:14:43
  that's what Friedrich Merz said, it ended in
• 1:14:46
  a tragedy for all humankind, said Zakharova, referring
• 1:14:51
  to the great patriotic war, wherein 60 to
• 1:14:56
  65 million people were estimated to have been
• 1:15:00
  killed.
• 1:15:02
  Following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in
• 1:15:05
  2022, Germany has launched a massive military buildup
• 1:15:09
  with reported plans of spending at least 500
• 1:15:13
  billion euro, which is about 580 billion dollars,
• 1:15:17
  on defense by 2029.
• 1:15:19
  According to officials in Berlin, the armed forces
• 1:15:23
  must be war ready by that date for
• 1:15:27
  potential conflict with Russia.
• 1:15:34
  Economically, Russian crude is now being supplied to
• 1:15:39
  where?
• 1:15:40
  Sri Lanka.
• 1:15:42
  Sri Lanka will purchase crude oil from Russia
• 1:15:45
  after reaching an agreement with Moscow.
• 1:15:47
  Are we going to boycott them now, Mr.
• 1:15:50
  Trump?
• 1:15:51
  Amid the energy crisis spurred by the Middle
• 1:15:54
  East conflict, said the island's transport minister, Bimal
• 1:16:00
  Ratnayake.
• 1:16:02
  I took my son to Sri Lanka back
• 1:16:04
  in 2015.
• 1:16:07
  It was a lot of fun.
• 1:16:08
  We got to ride around a little tuk
• 1:16:10
  -tuk and they have motorized ones and people,
• 1:16:14
  they even have people running them, but most
• 1:16:16
  times a tuk-tuk is a little tiny
• 1:16:18
  engine in the front.
• 1:16:19
  It's a little three-seater, little bubble that
• 1:16:22
  you ride in.
• 1:16:22
  It's kind of cool.
• 1:16:24
  Anyway, Sri Lanka is cool.
• 1:16:26
  Lots of great tea factories, had some factories
• 1:16:28
  built in Dutch East Indian companies back in
• 1:16:31
  the 1400s and stuff.
• 1:16:32
  There's some real history there and a pretty
• 1:16:35
  cool island.
• 1:16:37
  I saw it went to a museum there.
• 1:16:40
  This is certainly sidelined, but I went to
• 1:16:42
  a museum over there and it was the
• 1:16:44
  Dutch East Indies Trading Company.
• 1:16:47
  It used to be a port for the
• 1:16:52
  Chinese Navy.
• 1:16:55
  I forget the years, I want to say
• 1:16:56
  1800s or something.
• 1:16:58
  It was certainly around the time that the
• 1:17:01
  Dutch East Indies, which is what, 1400s, 1500s,
• 1:17:05
  1600s, those times is what I recall, maybe
• 1:17:08
  even 1700s.
• 1:17:10
  I'm no expert on this, but the museum
• 1:17:14
  was freaking amazing.
• 1:17:16
  You know what it had in there?
• 1:17:17
  This is the biggest thing that I remember.
• 1:17:20
  It showed that at the time that the
• 1:17:24
  Dutch East Indies Trading Company had 30 fleet,
• 1:17:32
  those great big schooner style with the great
• 1:17:38
  big massive sails on the top.
• 1:17:41
  They had 30 of them and they were
• 1:17:45
  considered by everybody in the West, the most
• 1:17:48
  powerful in the world.
• 1:17:50
  The most powerful was that the Chinese at
• 1:17:57
  the exact same time of that time period
• 1:18:01
  on the same fort area and that they
• 1:18:05
  occupied that fort, they had 300 ships and
• 1:18:11
  their ships were like five times the size.
• 1:18:16
  They had models of them built on this
• 1:18:18
  thing and they'd give you like a huge
• 1:18:20
  ship in a bottle, like something you'd buy
• 1:18:22
  and put together when you're a kid or
• 1:18:25
  something, but it was really nice.
• 1:18:27
  They had one sitting side by side to
• 1:18:30
  show the scale of the sizes from, and
• 1:18:32
  they're like four or five times larger that
• 1:18:35
  the Chinese boats were.
• 1:18:36
  China had 300 of them at the time
• 1:18:40
  when the Dutch East Indies Company and the
• 1:18:43
  navies of France and Britain and all those
• 1:18:48
  places were considered the kings of the sea.
• 1:18:51
  It was really China and unbelievable.
• 1:18:55
  It was a hell of an excursion off
• 1:18:58
  to Sri Lanka, seeing some of their history
• 1:19:02
  and they had really good food and excellent
• 1:19:05
  tea and coffee plantations.
• 1:19:08
  So anyway, Monday, the energy deal, energy is
• 1:19:14
  the priority for almost everybody in the Southeast
• 1:19:17
  Asia lands, because obviously the US triggered war
• 1:19:22
  and Iran is destroying everyone's ability to survive.
• 1:19:25
  Pakistan, there's limitations.
• 1:19:28
  India, all over limitations.
• 1:19:32
  Australia can't get oil right now because of
• 1:19:35
  what's going on.
• 1:19:36
  They're having crunches.
• 1:19:39
  Russia's deputy energy ministry, Andrei Rudenko, visited Sri
• 1:19:43
  Lanka a few days ago.
• 1:19:44
  Deputy foreign minister also visited along that time.
• 1:19:47
  They reached an agreement on oil supplies to
• 1:19:50
  the country.
• 1:19:52
  Technical work is underway at the company level
• 1:19:55
  and financial issues are being discussed, how to
• 1:19:57
  conduct the transactions, because Russia wants to be
• 1:20:00
  paid either in yuan, rupee, ruble, Sri Lankan
• 1:20:05
  money.
• 1:20:06
  They can even do that as long as
• 1:20:07
  they can trade it to whatever.
• 1:20:08
  They don't want to be paid in dollars.
• 1:20:10
  Mayura Nithi, oh, I can't say that name,
• 1:20:13
  top petroleum officials, they say there are two
• 1:20:16
  places where it can be unloaded.
• 1:20:18
  Gee, wonder if Trump's going to bomb that
• 1:20:19
  too.
• 1:20:20
  Why don't we bomb them?
• 1:20:21
  Russia's delivering oil to somebody.
• 1:20:23
  Bomb them, right?
• 1:20:25
  That's the answer to everything these days is
• 1:20:28
  throw a bomb.
• 1:20:29
  I'm bigger than you, so there you go.
• 1:20:32
  Massive explosion rocks a bridge in Panama, shows
• 1:20:36
  a blaze that engulfs vehicles passing over the
• 1:20:42
  bridge of the Americas.
• 1:20:43
  A huge fireball.
• 1:20:45
  You got to see this video.
• 1:20:46
  You can't see it, but it's wow.
• 1:20:52
  Something blew up down there.
• 1:20:57
  Columns of black smoke over the bridge, dramatic
• 1:21:01
  videos on social media.
• 1:21:03
  The blast was caused by a tanker truck
• 1:21:07
  explosion and forced to shut down of traffic
• 1:21:10
  on the bridge, one of the country's most
• 1:21:12
  important transport links.
• 1:21:14
  While the explosion did not occur directly on
• 1:21:16
  the bridge, flames billowing beneath the crossing fueled
• 1:21:21
  concern over structural integrity.
• 1:21:24
  It happened right below it.
• 1:21:25
  It's really weird.
• 1:21:27
  So it blew up, but it was a
• 1:21:29
  hell of a video and they suspended the
• 1:21:33
  transit.
• 1:21:34
  And what about the moon flyby?
• 1:21:36
  So the Artemis 2 is performing flybys of
• 1:21:40
  the moon, right?
• 1:21:41
  Amid the communication loss.
• 1:21:43
  Four astronauts of the NASA mission have gone
• 1:21:47
  further from earth than any human before them.
• 1:21:50
  NASA's Orion spacecraft carrying four astronauts did a
• 1:21:56
  lunar flyby coming within 4,070 miles of
• 1:22:03
  the lunar surface and entered the moon's gravitational
• 1:22:06
  sphere.
• 1:22:08
  In a planned journey, mission control in Houston
• 1:22:12
  lost contact with the crew at 643 p
• 1:22:15
  .m. for approximately 40 minutes.
• 1:22:19
  The communication blackout occurred when the moon blocked
• 1:22:22
  radio and laser signals between the earth-based
• 1:22:26
  deep space network and the Orion spacecraft.
• 1:22:31
  While out of contact, NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman,
• 1:22:37
  Victor Glover, Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space
• 1:22:41
  Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, focused on their scientific
• 1:22:46
  objectives, photographing and observing the lunar side, including
• 1:22:52
  the 600-mile-wide Oriental basin.
• 1:22:57
  The mission's defining moment also saw the crew
• 1:23:01
  break a 56-year-old record, surpassing the
• 1:23:06
  248,655-mile mark set by Apollo 13
• 1:23:13
  in 1970.
• 1:23:16
  So, there you have it.
• 1:23:18
  On the far side of the moon, 252
• 1:23:22
  ,756 miles away, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy
• 1:23:27
  have now traveled further from earth than any
• 1:23:29
  human in history and now begin their journey
• 1:23:32
  home, said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman in a
• 1:23:36
  statement on X.
• 1:23:37
  It's great to hear from earth again.
• 1:23:40
  Koch said upon re-establishing communication with the
• 1:23:44
  mission control, we will visit again, we will
• 1:23:48
  construct science outposts, we will drive rovers, we
• 1:23:52
  will do radio astronomy, we will found companies,
• 1:23:55
  we will bolster industry, we will inspire, but
• 1:23:59
  ultimately we will always choose earth.
• 1:24:04
  The flyby marks a crucial test for NASA
• 1:24:07
  as the agency prepares for future lunar landings,
• 1:24:12
  with the capsule now on a four-day
• 1:24:14
  return trajectory.
• 1:24:19
  So, Trump is threatening to jail journalists over
• 1:24:23
  Iran rescue raid leak.
• 1:24:26
  The U.S. President did not name the
• 1:24:28
  outlet or the reporter he called a sick
• 1:24:30
  person.
• 1:24:31
  U.S. President Trump has threatened to jail
• 1:24:33
  the journalists who first reported the details of
• 1:24:36
  a rescue mission for the two crew members
• 1:24:38
  of the U.S. F-15 Strike Eagle,
• 1:24:40
  which was shot down over Iran last week.
• 1:24:43
  Now, in another thing that happened here, Trump
• 1:24:46
  has also had the intelligence shut down.
• 1:24:50
  So, the intelligence network, which is owned by
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  a private company that can take satellite video
• 1:24:55
  from everywhere around the world, and they have
• 1:24:57
  the most satellites of everybody, I forget the
• 1:24:59
  name of the company, but Trump has, they
• 1:25:02
  have shut down.
• 1:25:03
  It was public yesterday.
• 1:25:04
  They went public with it and said that
• 1:25:06
  no longer will they provide the flyovers so
• 1:25:11
  you can get damage estimates and see stuff
• 1:25:15
  that's going on, because Trump told them not
• 1:25:18
  to.
• 1:25:20
  And so, nobody, Europe, anybody.
• 1:25:23
  So, Europe is creating their own fields now
• 1:25:24
  because they aren't sharing.
• 1:25:27
  Now, this is a private company too, though.
• 1:25:29
  So, you know, whatever that means, I mean,
• 1:25:33
  why couldn't they move to, I don't know,
• 1:25:35
  if it's a private company, why don't they
• 1:25:36
  relocate?
• 1:25:37
  Or they could relocate, but they're not, they
• 1:25:40
  don't want to screw with Trump.
• 1:25:41
  And so, what the point is, is that
• 1:25:44
  these flyovers that you can see where the
• 1:25:47
  damage is done, where it used to be
• 1:25:51
  sent out some number of hours, I don't
• 1:25:53
  remember, eight hours, 14 hours, something like that,
• 1:25:56
  now it's four days.
• 1:25:58
  So, Trump got them to do it and
• 1:25:59
  now you can't have them for four days.
• 1:26:01
  So, anyway, speaking at the White House press
• 1:26:03
  conference alongside top defense officials, Trump said the
• 1:26:07
  pilot was recovered within hours while the weapons
• 1:26:10
  officer, badly injured and hiding in a mountain
• 1:26:13
  crevice, was rescued Sunday after a complex mission
• 1:26:16
  involving more than 150 aircraft.
• 1:26:18
  Trump said the government had hoped to keep
• 1:26:21
  the second airman's disappearance secret to prevent Iranian
• 1:26:24
  forces from capturing him.
• 1:26:26
  But after multiple news outlets reported that one
• 1:26:28
  crew member was still missing, Trump alleged the
• 1:26:31
  leaks, alerted Iran's military, put the service members
• 1:26:34
  life in danger.
• 1:26:35
  We were going to go to the media
• 1:26:38
  company that released it and we're going to
• 1:26:40
  say, we are going.
• 1:26:42
  And national security, give it up, give up
• 1:26:45
  the source or go to jail, Trump told
• 1:26:47
  reporters.
• 1:26:48
  The person that did the story will go
• 1:26:50
  to jail if he doesn't say.
• 1:26:53
  It became a much more difficult operation because
• 1:26:56
  a leaker leaked.
• 1:26:57
  All of a sudden, the entire country of
• 1:27:00
  Iran knew that there was a plot that
• 1:27:02
  was somewhere on their land, a pilot, I'm
• 1:27:06
  sorry, that was fighting for his life.
• 1:27:08
  Rescue mission involved an immense armada.
• 1:27:11
  Now, this is where I disbelieve.
• 1:27:13
  I'm on the Scott Ritter side of this
• 1:27:15
  one.
• 1:27:17
  You don't send out, get this.
• 1:27:20
  Rescue mission involved an immense armada of 155
• 1:27:25
  U.S. aircraft, four bombers, 64 fighter jets,
• 1:27:30
  48 refueling tankers, and 13 specialized rescue craft.
• 1:27:35
  The operation involved hundreds of special operation troops,
• 1:27:39
  including Navy SEAL team, six commandos who were
• 1:27:41
  inserted to extract the stranded airmen.
• 1:27:45
  Now that's what I, I wasn't a SEAL
• 1:27:47
  member.
• 1:27:48
  I got, I got, well, it doesn't matter,
• 1:27:50
  but I did the air insertion on helicopter.
• 1:27:53
  Oh, that was fun.
• 1:27:54
  That was some good stuff.
• 1:27:55
  Despite the mission success and never in wartime,
• 1:27:59
  by the way, I don't want to claim
• 1:28:00
  something I didn't do.
• 1:28:01
  Despite the mission success, no American lives lost.
• 1:28:04
  The U.S. suffered significant material losses.
• 1:28:07
  At least two transport planes were disabled at
• 1:28:11
  a remote Iranian airbase during the extraction and
• 1:28:14
  were deliberately destroyed by the U.S. commandos
• 1:28:17
  to prevent them from falling into enemy hands.
• 1:28:19
  Additionally, two U.S. Blackhawk helicopters, which I
• 1:28:22
  flew in frequently, were also struck.
• 1:28:25
  So actually the country, Iran, put out a
• 1:28:28
  major notice, you all saw it, offering a
• 1:28:30
  big reward for anybody captured a pilot, blah,
• 1:28:32
  blah, blah, more about Trump.
• 1:28:33
  Anyway, he wants to take care of the
• 1:28:36
  guy.
• 1:28:36
  And that's going to be it for today.
• 1:28:37
  We're going to wrap it up actually.
• 1:28:39
  So I won't be able to finish that
• 1:28:41
  story.
• 1:28:41
  Trump used the briefing to issue his new
• 1:28:43
  ultimatum to Iran, threatening to destroy all country's
• 1:28:47
  civilian infrastructure unless Tehran agrees to reopen the
• 1:28:51
  Straits of Hormuz by Tuesday evening.
• 1:28:54
  Well, I don't know.
• 1:28:55
  I don't know who really is holding the
• 1:28:57
  stronger cards, but blowing people up is not
• 1:29:00
  going to help.
• 1:29:02
  Mr. Trump is what I say.
• 1:29:04
  And I think you're pushing buttons that you
• 1:29:06
  shouldn't be pushing.
• 1:29:07
  But that's me.
• 1:29:08
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