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  Speaker 1: A lot of fundamental principals of lat self interest and
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  Speaker 1: an individual ONTs. This is the show. Oh right, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to your One Book Show on this Saturday, January third.
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  Speaker 1: I was expecting to do a completely different topic. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Movie views are still in I promise those they will happen.
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  Speaker 1: But I woke up this morning and and this news
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  Speaker 1: on Venezuela, and many of you went, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: on Twitter and online and said you're on. You have
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  Speaker 1: to comment. You have to comment because today was a
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  Speaker 1: non newsday. It was supposed to be a something else. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: when the news happens, Uh, you know, I have to comment.
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  Speaker 1: And it seems like you guys are particularly interested in
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  Speaker 1: my view use on war. I mean, a lot can happen, markets,
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  Speaker 1: stuff happens all the time.
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  Speaker 2: But if there's a war.
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  Speaker 1: Going on, everybody tunes into the One Book Show, which
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  Speaker 1: is great. Thank you, and hopefully you benefit from and
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the commentary. Today.
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  Speaker 2: It's as I'm sure.
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  Speaker 1: You all know, uh, Nicolo Maduro was being arrested, arrested
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  Speaker 1: to a military operation in Venezuela. We'll get into the
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  Speaker 1: details in a minute, and is currently on the way
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  Speaker 1: to New York, where he will either in New York.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to be indicted in New York, but he
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  Speaker 1: will he will face federal charges of the detailed in
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  Speaker 1: a just released grand jury indictment for criminal activity related
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  Speaker 1: to drugs and a drug cartel. He will face a
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  Speaker 1: trial by Jewy either in New York or in Miami
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  Speaker 1: in I guess the months to come, but he will
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  Speaker 1: be indicted. He will be arrested formerly on US soil
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  Speaker 1: in New York later today. He is currently probably an
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  Speaker 1: aircraft carrier somewhere and then will be transported by airplane
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  Speaker 1: to New York. All this transpired last night, starting just
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  Speaker 1: before midnight, US planes from bases around the Caribbean and
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  Speaker 1: from US bases and so bases, I mean aircraft carriers
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  Speaker 1: around the Caribbean. But also I have no incident information,
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  Speaker 1: but my expectation is that some of the F thirty
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  Speaker 1: five's came and some of the other airplanes might have
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  Speaker 1: come from the Force base here in Puerto Rico. About
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty air planes mostly participated in this
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  Speaker 1: F thirty five, F twenty two's, F eighteens, F eighteens
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  Speaker 1: A Navy, so they would have come from the aircraft carrier.
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  Speaker 1: If thirty fives could be either from the air Force
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  Speaker 1: base here or from or from an aircraft carrier. You
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  Speaker 1: also had planes in the air, a variety of different
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  Speaker 1: you know, planes commanding control, planes, refueling planes, and of
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  Speaker 1: course planes to gather intelligence and information. Overall one hundred,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, one hundred and fifty planes. And and
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  Speaker 1: it seems like priority number one was Priority number one
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  Speaker 1: of all these airplanes in the air was basically to
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  Speaker 1: take out the air defense system that the Venetzuelans had. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Venezuelans had what military experts and you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you followed me, you know what I think of military experts.
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  Speaker 1: But this this is from the Financial Times this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I think this morning, yes, this morning, Financial Times this
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  Speaker 1: morning say experts had warned experts. Military experts had warn
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  Speaker 1: the Venezuela's layered air defense network could complicate US operations,
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  Speaker 1: but it apparently presented little or no resist since the
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  Speaker 1: United States strike that captured President Kilis Maduo. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: US took out the Venezuelan's air defense system in the
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  Speaker 1: first hour. This fest system, the multi layered air defense system,
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  Speaker 1: was comprised primarily of Russian air defense air defense batteries
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  Speaker 1: with the S three hundred as the you know, long
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  Speaker 1: distance one, and a variety of different others for short
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  Speaker 1: termed medium term distance.
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  Speaker 2: As Israel has shown.
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  Speaker 1: Over and over and over and over and over again
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  Speaker 1: over the last forty years or so, Russian weapons suck.
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  Speaker 1: As Israeli Air force has shown over and over and
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  Speaker 1: over again, Russian air defense systems cannot deal with a modern,
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  Speaker 1: electronically advanced and stealthy air force. Israel did that, in Syria,
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  Speaker 1: did it in of course in Iran is the classic
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  Speaker 1: case where Uranian skies Israeli. Well, the American Air Force
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  Speaker 1: has just shown the same thing in Venezuela. Russian air
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  Speaker 1: defense systems suck. I mean, even Turki is trying to
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  Speaker 1: return the S four hundred batteries that they purchased from
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  Speaker 1: the Russians a few years ago. They were turning them
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  Speaker 1: partially because it's a condition for receiving F thirty five
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  Speaker 1: from the US and partially because Russian air defense systems suck.
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  Speaker 2: So don't rely on it.
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  Speaker 1: If you're building a country and you want to defend
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  Speaker 1: against Western weapons systems, primarily US UH built airplane, don't
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  Speaker 1: buy Russian air defense system anyway, So, uh, those airplanes
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  Speaker 1: basically as far as we know, again, fog of war
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  Speaker 1: and all of that. And I have no zero zilch,
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  Speaker 1: you know, knowledge that goes beyond what I'm reading. And
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  Speaker 1: I listened to the Trump's press conference a little while ago,
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  Speaker 1: so beyond what has been said publicly, I know nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so I'm just I'm just basically reaffirming what I have,
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  Speaker 1: what I've heard, and again from what I've heard, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: they you know, they took out their defense system, and
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  Speaker 1: that a lot helicopters, helicopters man by Special Forces teams
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  Speaker 1: including Delta Forces and uh, what do you call it,
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  Speaker 1: Seal Team I think Seale Team six. They may that
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  Speaker 1: it was the same among the Special Forces group with
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  Speaker 1: the same team that took out Bin Ladin. It's different soldiers,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a different generation. But Sel Team six
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  Speaker 1: and addition to Delta Forces in helicopters off of carriers
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  Speaker 1: off the coast of Venezuela could safely basically coming to Caracas.
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  Speaker 1: US had very precise, very accurate information about the location
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  Speaker 1: of Maduro. They knew where he was in this compound,
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  Speaker 1: where he was and Supposedly, again I don't know, but
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  Speaker 1: supposedly there was a source high inside the Maduro regime
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  Speaker 1: that was providing the CIA with information. But if you
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  Speaker 1: take into account the NSA and satellites and drones and
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  Speaker 1: just the sheer quantity of US intelligence resources that have
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  Speaker 1: been built up, I'm sure in Vinezula over decades they
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  Speaker 1: knew they knew of Madua's whereabouts. They always know where
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  Speaker 1: Madua's whereabouts are also, and you know, so anyway, a
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  Speaker 1: Special Force teams helicoptered into the compound. They faced some
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  Speaker 1: resistance from the ground. One of the helicopters was hit,
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  Speaker 1: but did not crash and continue flying and actually returned home.
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  Speaker 1: The the troops were were uh landed inside the compound,
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  Speaker 1: they knew exactly where Maduro was. Supposely Madu was trying
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  Speaker 1: to enter kind of a secure safe room when he
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  Speaker 1: was surrounded by US troops, gave himself up and he
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  Speaker 1: and his wife were taking into US custody, boarded onto
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  Speaker 1: onto the helicopters and flown out of Caracas and as
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  Speaker 1: I said, onto some kind of aircraft carrier or helicopter
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  Speaker 1: carrier in the Caribbean Sea, and from there he will
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  Speaker 1: be he will be moved to the US, to New York.
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  Speaker 1: This is an operation, highly complex, difficult to pull off.
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  Speaker 1: A few militaries in the world called pull this off.
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  Speaker 1: Let's remember, you should remember that the Russians try to
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  Speaker 1: pull off similar operations. In February of twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: was it when they try to assassinate Zelenski. They had
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  Speaker 1: special forces land at the airport's very close right outside
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  Speaker 1: Kiev with the idea of entering Kiev and eliminating Zelenski.
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  Speaker 1: And they failed. They failed. They were stopped there by
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  Speaker 1: Ukrainian forces. Even though it was a surprise attack and
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  Speaker 1: Russians had overwhelming force and all of that. They made
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  Speaker 1: the attempt to do what the United States did in Caracas,
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  Speaker 1: they try to do in Ukraine. And arguably, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine is no better armed, was not better armed when
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  Speaker 1: Russia invaded than Venezuela's. Ukraine too had mostly Russian weapons systems,
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  Speaker 1: and it had some Americans primarily some Western.
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  Speaker 2: Primarily anti tach weapons.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, Ukraine, Ukraine managed to resist us here.
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  Speaker 1: There was no possibility that the Venezuelans could resist us.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the only other military that has done stuff
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  Speaker 1: like this and I think could easily pull this off.
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  Speaker 2: Is the Israeli military.
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  Speaker 1: Arguably some militaries in Europe could probably pull this off.
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  Speaker 1: But that's and maybe China. Although China is a completely
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  Speaker 1: unproven entity. We have no clue what China can account.
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  Speaker 1: I do. They haven't fought any war since a war
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  Speaker 1: with Vietnam in the early nineteen eighties or was it
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  Speaker 1: the late seventies anyway, early nineteen eighties under Nick Champagne.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't fought a modern war. We have no idea
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  Speaker 1: what the capabilities are other than what their capabilities on paper,
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  Speaker 1: and that doesn't count. So really, there are only a
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  Speaker 1: few militaries in the world who could pull this off.
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  Speaker 1: European militaries, maybe Israel, Israeli military for sure. In the US, Russia, no,
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  Speaker 1: we know because they tried it in Ukraine and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe China again, China is the only one that's a maybe,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe Europe, But the United States and Israel are
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  Speaker 1: the two that certainly could do this. Of course Israe
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do it because they don't have ecrack carriers. They
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  Speaker 1: couldn't do it in this distance, but they proved with
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  Speaker 1: Iran that they can travel vast distances, all right, So
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  Speaker 1: amazing operation by the United States pulled it off. And
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  Speaker 1: and the thing that I am most relieved of and
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  Speaker 1: and most happy about is that the US to no casualties.
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  Speaker 1: That is, uh, we might have some injured Special Forces
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  Speaker 1: team members sadly and injury. We don't know how severe
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  Speaker 1: the injuries are, but it doesn't sound like it's serious.
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  Speaker 1: But it sounds like nobody was killed. And and that's
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  Speaker 1: good because priority in war should always be placed on
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  Speaker 1: secondary to winning, should be placed on preserving your own
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  Speaker 1: soldiers' lives. So I'm happy that nobody died for the
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  Speaker 1: sake of deposing the dictator of Venezuela. Uh. So again,
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  Speaker 1: a well executed mission, a complicated mission. Uh the US
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  Speaker 1: military performed, you know, brilliantly and uh and and and
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  Speaker 1: died in and succeeded in in what in its mission.
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  Speaker 1: You could compare this to what happened in Panama in
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  Speaker 1: the early nineties under George Bush Senior. But there it
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  Speaker 1: was literally an invading and occupying force that moved into Panama.
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  Speaker 1: Panama also didn't have kind of the air defense systems
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  Speaker 1: that Venezuela has had. But if you remember new Yega,
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  Speaker 1: who was the president of Panama, who was also indicted
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  Speaker 1: for drug chargers, and the invasion was justified as trying
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  Speaker 1: to arrest new Yega, just like trying to duo for
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  Speaker 1: drug chargers. He was escaped into a into the Vatican's embassy,
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  Speaker 1: and the US troops didn't enter the embassy. It's Vatican's territory.
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  Speaker 1: But what they did, and people, you know, I forgot this.
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  Speaker 1: I read about it this morning. What they did was
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  Speaker 1: they they they, And I remember once I read it,
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  Speaker 1: I remembered it. They blasted music into the Vatican embassy
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  Speaker 1: for twenty four hours straight, for eleven days. They blasted
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  Speaker 1: heavy metal, heavy metal into the embassy. And I guess
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  Speaker 1: the the priests representing the Vatican at some point said, okay, Noriega,
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  Speaker 1: there's only so much ac DC we can stand. Out
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  Speaker 1: you go, you know, out you go, and he surrendered
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  Speaker 1: his forces. So it was an example where heavy metal
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  Speaker 1: and heavy rock one, you know, one a military diplomatic,
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  Speaker 1: diplomatic victory. But that's a very similar or the administration
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  Speaker 1: is certainly trying to position it very similar.
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  Speaker 2: George Bush.
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  Speaker 1: The invasion of Panama did not ask for authorization from Congress,
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  Speaker 1: which is going to be important for how the Trumpet
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  Speaker 1: administration will position this. This They've already positioned this. This
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  Speaker 1: was a police action, not a militi reaction. Bush presented
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  Speaker 1: the same way in Panama. It was a police action
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  Speaker 1: on a military action. Reagan invaded Grenada. I can't even
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  Speaker 1: remember why he invaded grenad but anyway, invade Grenada. He
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  Speaker 1: did not ask for congressional approval. So you know, the
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  Speaker 1: fact that there was no congressional approval here will be
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  Speaker 1: justified in terms of precedence that that are related, that
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  Speaker 1: are related. You know, there was no urgency here with
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  Speaker 1: the guy to Maduro. Certainly it could have received congressional
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  Speaker 1: approval in a general sense deposing moduo or resume change
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  Speaker 1: in Venezuela without giving specifics. Uh. But Trump is not
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  Speaker 1: going to do that. That that that's not what Trump does,
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  Speaker 1: and and indeed he is. He is quite the opposite.
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  Speaker 1: Could have been done months ago with the build up
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  Speaker 1: of the Caribbean Sea. They could have gotten congressional approval.
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  Speaker 1: But again, it does not seem like modern presidents have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, taken Congress seriously when it comes to the
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  Speaker 1: deployment of US military force. Overseas. This goes back to Vietnam.
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  Speaker 1: Uh and uh, and maybe even before that, but certainly
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  Speaker 1: since Vietnam. All right, so I from a military respective,
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  Speaker 1: this was an achievement. Uh. Let's see now the question
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  Speaker 1: of course, so legally, I don't think they're going to
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  Speaker 1: face much problems because again this is this precedent for this.
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  Speaker 1: Why did they do this? Why did they do this? So?
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  Speaker 1: What is uh? What? What? What is it?
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  Speaker 2: What is the stated arguments for this?
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  Speaker 1: And we'll get into what I think the strategic consequence
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  Speaker 1: of this as well. Uh, Rubio. If you ask Rubio
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  Speaker 1: why they did this, he says, well, there was a dictator.
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  Speaker 1: He was oppressing his peak pau being democracy to Latin America.
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  Speaker 1: If you ask heg Seth why this was done, Hexus
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  Speaker 1: sets It's about drugs. You know, they were smuggling drugs
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  Speaker 1: into the United States America. First, we need to stop
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  Speaker 1: drug flow into the United States, and we can discuss
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  Speaker 1: whether that makes any sense, but we did it for
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  Speaker 1: the drugs. And indeed, the legal justification for what was
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  Speaker 1: done is the indictment that has been brought against him,
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  Speaker 1: a federal indictment, a federal grand jury has indicted him
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  Speaker 1: and his wife and his son over drugs. So that's
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  Speaker 1: the official reason, and Trump, you know, gives the Trumpian reason.
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  Speaker 1: And Trump is very clear about why he thinks this
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  Speaker 1: was done and why he wanted to do this. Oil.
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  Speaker 2: It's about oil. It's it's all about oil.
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  Speaker 1: And again we're talking a little bit about legitimacy or
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  Speaker 1: illegitimacy of that as a motivation. So we're getting different
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  Speaker 1: stories and different people. One thing the administration also in
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  Speaker 1: terms of legitimacy, is emphasizing and talking a lot about,
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  Speaker 1: is the fact that Madua was the illegitimate was an
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  Speaker 1: illegitimate president of Venezuela. That is that he had actually
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  Speaker 1: lost the election in twenty twenty four and therefore he
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  Speaker 1: was not the legitimate president. So this was not about
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  Speaker 1: a regime change in that sense. This was about arresting
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  Speaker 1: a fake president somebody who was an illegitimate position. This
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  Speaker 1: does not violate international whatever law and so on. This
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  Speaker 1: is kind of the argument that they're making. The trump
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  Speaker 1: Domstation clearly is saying, and I'm quoting, Madua is not
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  Speaker 1: the president of Venezuela. Madua is the head of the
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  Speaker 1: Cattel de los soelesse A Naco terror organization which has
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  Speaker 1: taken possession of a country. He is under indictment for
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  Speaker 1: pushing drugs into the United States. That is the official
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  Speaker 1: reason for what happened last night. All right, now, before
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  Speaker 1: we get into well, one other thing, one thing I
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  Speaker 1: want to I want to say A big question now
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  Speaker 1: is and and this will really determine I think the
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  Speaker 1: meaning of all of this. The big question is going
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  Speaker 1: to be what happens now? What happens now? Uh? Does
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  Speaker 1: this mean the Madua regime is over? You know, as
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  Speaker 1: last we heard, his vice president, his handbig vice president
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  Speaker 1: has been sworn in as president of Venezuela. Not the opposition,
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  Speaker 1: not the so called the legitimate that people won the election,
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  Speaker 1: but Madua's vice president. Trump in his past conference mentioned
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  Speaker 1: a number of times that now the United States runs Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: They control Venezuela, they run Venezuela. This is this is
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  Speaker 1: a US territory. The way he was talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: He was asked several times in the press conference to
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  Speaker 1: clarify that statement, and he really couldn't. He just repeated
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. We control Venezuela. We will now allow
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  Speaker 1: American ore companies into Venezuela. We will control the revenue
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  Speaker 1: flow that comes from the oil. Venezuela will get some
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  Speaker 1: of that oil. The drunk, the the the ore companies
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  Speaker 1: will get some of that that some of that revenue
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  Speaker 1: and and and he even will compensate Venezuela and migrants
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  Speaker 1: in the United States or some of that money. And
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  Speaker 1: some of them might even stay in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: MAGA can't be happy about that statement by Trump about
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  Speaker 1: some of the Venezuelans staying in the US. They want
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  Speaker 1: to kick one hundred million people out of the US,
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  Speaker 1: including the Venezuelans. So, uh, you know, he's basically saying,
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  Speaker 1: we will control Venezuela, we will determine its fate. He
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  Speaker 1: said that Marco, we had already talked to the new
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  Speaker 1: president of Venezuela. The vice president was sworn in, and
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  Speaker 1: she's willing to cooperate with America and do whatever we want.
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  Speaker 1: You know, who knows what that means and who knows
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  Speaker 1: if that's even true. When asked about Mercado, the woman
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  Speaker 1: who just won the Nobel Peace Prize instead of Trump,
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  Speaker 1: Trump wanted it, she won it, whether she would be
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  Speaker 1: the next president of Venezuela, she had just praised this.
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  Speaker 1: She'd praised Trump. She said this was amazing that you know,
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  Speaker 1: Madua had been opposed. She looked forward to you know,
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  Speaker 1: Venezuela be free and all of this, and Trump this
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  Speaker 1: classic Trump. Trump basically said, no, I don't think she's
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  Speaker 1: going to be the president of Venezuela. You know, she's
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  Speaker 1: not very popular in Venezuela. She's not really people don't
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  Speaker 1: really like her, which to me, to me reads and
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  Speaker 1: I know you're gonna say it's just Trump do age
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  Speaker 1: with Synroom, but that's okay. To me, that reads as
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  Speaker 1: she won the Nobel Peace Prize instead of me. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna give her Venezuela. There's no way she's getting Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: She got my peace price. I get to get Venezuela instead.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so, you know, again, how to say how to
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  Speaker 1: say exactly who is going to govern Venezuela. The opposition
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  Speaker 1: in Venezuela. I suppose he's in the streets and intends
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  Speaker 1: to take control. But look, taking out Maduro does not
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  Speaker 1: take out the entire higherarchy of the Maduro and Chavez regimes,
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  Speaker 1: which are basically based on the military, the military, the police,
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  Speaker 1: the armed people in Venezuela are regime affiliated. If it was,
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  Speaker 1: if it had been so easy to overturn this regime,
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  Speaker 1: then the opposition would have done it long time ago.
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  Speaker 1: It turned out it's not that easy. Now, Will the
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  Speaker 1: United States require our zela to hold real elections and
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  Speaker 1: and and see where real legit elections, whether they acquire
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  Speaker 1: it tomorrow or in a few years.
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  Speaker 2: What exactly happens?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think anybody knows other than somebody asked Trump
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  Speaker 1: who is going to run Venezuela? And he says that
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: people standing behind me, which is basically Marco Rubio and
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth are going to run Venezuela. How does that work?
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Does that mean ground forces into Venezuela in order to
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: secure the ability of Marco Rubio to go in and
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: run Venezuela. Do they run it from a fall with
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the existing government? Do they run it from a fall
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: with a new opposition government? All of that is up
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: in there. How do how do how do you actually
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: manifest the ability to take over the oil fields of Venezuela?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Hard to tell, but there's no question. Look, what just
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: happened is a clear signal to the Venezuela is the
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Trump is serious and that they batters straight now and
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: that they better behave themselves. So I am sure that
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the vice president, even though she's from the Doist party,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: is not going to behave herself and gonna be a
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: lot friendlier to Trump and a lot more open to
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: doing what Trump tells them to do. So that I
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: think that is clear. But is this the beginning of
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: liberty and freedom and the end of dictatorship in Venezuela.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Not clear.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, it could be that the United States manages Venezuela,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: controls Venezuela through the existing dictatorial regime. Who is now
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: open to working with the United States? Don't know, And
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: it's hard to tell what's happening in Venezuela right now.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I see a lot of people pictures of people celebrating
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Maduro's arrest, but how to tell if those pictures are
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: coming from Venezuela or they're coming from other countries where
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Venezuelans have emigrated to. So, for example, I saw some
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: pictures of people celebrating. Turned out it was Madrid. I'm
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: sure in Miami you've got a lot of celebrations. Uh,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting to see the extent of
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: which this actually prompts the uh, the opposition and the
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: people of Venezuela to go out into the streets and
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: demand the replacement of the regime in totality, not just
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: of Maduro, but the regime in totality. Okay, pause there
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: for a second, and what we're gonna do is what
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I want to do is cover a little bit of
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: let me see if I can find this ihad it
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: here open, Yeah, of the history. We'll do this quickly,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: of the history of Venezuela. I want to give you
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: some context about what's going you know, what happened in
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Venezuela over the years, and and how we got to
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: where we are today. Uh. And then from there I
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: want to go to kind of what's the teaching importance
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: does this have? Because I think it does have. I
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: think anytime America asserts itself in the world, there are
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: real consequences. Even when administration is confused, like this administration
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: is confused about what the strategy is. I think the
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: real strategic outcomes of this weather explicit or implicit. So
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: they're going to be, you know, significant implications for this
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: and most of them I have to admit a positive
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: but let's quickly review the history of Venezuela, I mean Venezuela.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: It was granted independence in eighteen ten and it declaring
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: sorry declaring in dependents in eighteen eleven after years of
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: brutal war. In spite of that declaration, led by Simon Boulevard,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: independence was secured in eighteen twenty one, and I Venezuela
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: briefly joined a Bolivard federation called Grand Columbia, which was
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: a whole of kind of Northern Latin America South America,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: but it left in eighteen thirty to become a separate republic,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: constant instability, like a lot of South American countries, chronic
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: political instability, regional strongman civil wars, as a big federal
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: war eighteen fifteen nineteen eighteen sixty three, and institutions and
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: country institutions were crushed and the country generally suffered from
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: extreme poverty. This was a poor country, a bad governance,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: and badly run, as many Latin American countries indeed were.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Some of has changed in the early twentieth century. Basically,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: in the early twentieth century, oil was discovered in Venezuela
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: and ultimately off the coast of Venezuela what ultimately turned
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: out to be the largest oil reserves in the world.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: This oil was the revenue from this oil started funding
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: a big infrastructure projects, organization and really an economy. There
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: was single source. Like so many countries that have discovered oil,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: it became the primary revenue source for the government. You know,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: there was an early part of the century was dictatorship.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: There was a civilian democratic government in nineteen fifty eight
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: that ruled until nineteen ninety eight and relatively stable democratic
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: governments for forty years.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Stand up living were rising.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: This is a period in which Venezuela was on a
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: GDP per capital basis the richest country in Latin America.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: So oil oil, you know, resulted in in in a
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: lot of wealth. However, it was a very corrupt system.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: That is, this is not capitalism. This was a system
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: of the equivalent of oligogs, a system of coneyism, a
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: corrupt system that will allied on one industry to provide
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: all Now I say in one industry, other industries existed.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: For example, Venezuela a robust agricultural industry that not only
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: fed itself but allowed it to export food. Will get
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: to that the decline of that in a minute. But
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: there was a there was a significant there was significant
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: resentment within Venezuela among primarily among the poor, to the
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: fact that people were getting super rich off of oil,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: but primarily because of corruption. Most of the technology, the
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: ability to extract the oil and to exploit the oil.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: That knowledge that capital came in from the United States,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: from American old companies. We'll get to the American old
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: companies in a minute. And you know, but Venezuelan's officials
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: and variety of alagogs. Again, we're getting super rich from
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: this oil. Let's see. In nineteen ninety nine, who got
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Chavez launched the Boulevarian Revolution. I think Simont Bouliva would
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: be horrified by Chavez. Chaves was a socialist, a committed socialist,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: explicit socialist. This program basically involved a state ownership of
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: the means of production, redistribution, massive redistribution of wealth, and
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: a huge anti US, anti US rhetoric and sentiment. Hugo
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Chavis aligned himself with UH, Cuba and UH and in
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: other anti American regimes in the area, and of course
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: with Russia and and in the long run on the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Maduro with China, during Hogo Chavez's term. We'll get to
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: oil in a minute, but one of the things that
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: happened is agriculture, for example, was nationalized, was was socialized,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Was was owned by the government, or really by by
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: the military. Indeed, the military was granted basically most of
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: the industry, most of the businesses in Venezuela were handed
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: over to military officials, the and which made the military officials,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the generals, the kernels, the majors. It made them relatively rich.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: It made them want to make sure the resumes sustained
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: itself because they were directly benefiting from it. As we'll
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: see in the two thousands, Chavez also nationalized the oil industry,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: and as a consequence, what you saw is a dramatic
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: decline in oil production. By the time Chavez had died
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, people were hungry in Venezuela. Venezuela could
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: not produce enough food to feed itself. It had a
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: massive refugee problem, that is, refugees were leaving Venezuela and
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: settling in refugee camps in Colombia.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: And you know, there was there was.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Mass poverty, again, huge corruption, primarily the beneficiaries of being
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: people within the military and within the Chavez regime. As
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: socialism always does Chaves as socialism produced death, destruction, poverty, starvation,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: and massive corruption, massive corruption. Twenty thirteen, Nicholas Maduro replaced
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: when Chavis died. He was his vice presidentcy he took over.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: He provided he presided over continued economic collapse, ultimately hyperinflation,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: mass emigration out of Venezuela, and a increasing authoritarianism. Indeed,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: in the last election, in the last election in Venezuela,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Madua clearly lost. Pretty much everybody who looked at it
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: knew that he had lost. And yet he maintained power
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: and ruled even though he wasn't recognized really by by anybody. Okay,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: quickly oil nationalization between two thousand and six, in two
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: thousand and seven, there was now there'd be some nationalization
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: before this. I don't want to make it out, you know,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: since from the beginning of Chavez's rise to power, small
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: scale nationalization and taking over contracts of us OL companies
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: had been had been pursued by in two thousand and six,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, this happened.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: On large scale.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Venezuela ordered all phone oil companies operating in the Orinoco
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: heavy oil belt and will get to heavy oil and
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: its importance in a minute. They ordered them all to
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: accept a minority steak of forty or more by government
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: entities or leave the country. Companies refused the offer of
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: a minority stake of forty percent or more, and the
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: state oil company PDVSA seized the assets. The two major
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: US companies affected were x On Mobile and Conico Phillips.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Both of them their assets were seized and they exited Venezuela.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Chevron stayed. It actually accepted Venezuelan state ownership, and Chevron
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: actually stayed and it is still functioning in Venezuela under
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: some significant accommodation of the State of Venezuela. Between twenty
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: seven and twenty nineteen, the Venezuelan government claimed that they
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: had paid fake compensation for the assets that they confiscated.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: You know, but an international arbitration ruled that Venezuela owed
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Excellent Mobile one point six billion dollars and that they
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: that they owed conicoat about eight billion dollars.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Venezuela failed to pay for both of.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Those, and as a consequence, the assets of Vellezuelan government
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: was seized abroad, Caribbean refineries, Old Vine Venezuela oil shipments
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: were seized in order to claw back these funds from Venezuela.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: In again, during the same period of time twenty two
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: thousand and nine to twenty twelve, other assets owned by
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: oil companies were seized. Oil service companies, refineries, storage facilities,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: power and infrastructure assets tyed to energy. All of these
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: affected American and European firms. And you know, they basically
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: were seized by government. And of course the consequence of
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: that are not only did these companies lost revenue and
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: lost their property rights, but beyond that, beyond that, their efficiency,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: their productivity, their ability to produce oil, refine oil, produce power,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: and electricity all declined substantially dramatically as a as a consequence.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: So Venezuela did steal American oil, and to Trump's credit,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: he uses that as justification for going after the Venezuelan regime.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Now imagine if if Eisenhower or Kennedy or Johnson or
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: had used that as or in this case, who was
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: President George Bush Jr. If they had used.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: The Caesar the seizure.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Of American oil assets as an excuse to replace the
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Venezuelan regime, the Ranian regime, the the Saudi regime and
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: so on to replace them when those countries confiscated oil
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: assets of US companies back then, they did not, and
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: that's partially what in boldened the Venezuelans and other countries
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: to do so. Indeed, it was Eisenhower that forced the
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: French and the British back when they try to Reclaim's Canal,
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: which Nasso had nationalized and confiscated from the British and
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: French private company that had built the canal and owned
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: the canal, and ran the canal and it was taken
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: over by the Egyptians. All right, what else do we
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: need to know in terms of in terms of history, Yes,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, just comment on drugs. I think it's worth Yeah. Well,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: let's shift basically to discussing the strategic importance of what happened,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: and we'll start with the context of drugs. Before that,
• 38:48
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about drugs, which is.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: You know, the the nominal excuse for all of this,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: I mean this all have no impact on drugs, zero zilch, nada. Uh.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: You know, drugs coming into the United States, almost very
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: few of them come from Venezuela. Uh. Venezuela is a
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: massive UH has a massive industry of exporting drugs from Colombia,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: but it's not to the United States. Almost all the
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: drugs that the Venezuelan's export go to Europe. They go
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: first to Africa and they use indeed they use Islamist
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: militants h Islam Islamists in Venezuela, but then in North Africa.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: The smuggle drugs across the Atlantic to Africa and then
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: from Africa to Europe. Uh. The consumption of cocaine has
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: gone way up in Europe over the last few years.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: And UH and UH all of that cocaine comes from
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Latin America, and it is the Maduru regime that has
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: been funneling those drugs to Europe. But the reality is,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: the reality is this is not going to you don't
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: take up the top of the pyramid, and somehow this stops,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: he will be replaced. There's just too much money to
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: be involved. It's not even clear how important Maduro Kuama
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Dua was to the drug trade. Even if the United
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: States clamps down on drug trading in Venezuela. Again, there's
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: too much money to ignore here. They will find other roots.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: There is no way to win the war on drugs.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: The one drugs is a bogus idea bogus mission, a
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: bogus war, a bogus attempt.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: And indeed, all these.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Indictments around drugs, you know, and the Trump's not serious
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: about drugs. He doesn't care about drugs. The fact is
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: that he pardoned the Hondura's former Honduran president, who was
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: indicted for drugs into the United States and from honduas
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: they do, indeed come to the United States, they travel
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: through Central America all the way north to the United States.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: But he, you know, he pardoned him. He doesn't care
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: about drugs. Drugs have no relevance to Trump. He doesn't
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: care when aoda about them. So the fact that there's
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: that Majoria is indicted about. This is irrelevant, It doesn't
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: matter strategically, it makes no difference. Drugs will continue to
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: flow no matter what the United States does. The demand
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: for drugs is so large, it's so intense. The profit
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: from drug trade is so enormous that no way is
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: anything in the United States. You remember the one drugs
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: when we bombed fields in Colombia that that stop the
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: amount of cocaine coming into the country. And the reality
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: is that most of the overdose deaths in the United States,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: the overwhelming number of over those deaths in the United States,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: are the consequence of fentanol. Fentanol is not a drug
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: coming from Colombia or Venezuela. It is a drug that
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: is produced with chemicals from China in Mexico and smuggled
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: across the US Vota. The only way to stop fentanyl,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: and you can't. You never will. They'll always find ways in.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: But if you want to, if you want to pretend
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: that that's what you were doing, you would go after
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Mexican cartels, not after you know, not after Venezuela. So
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: this has nothing to do with drugs. It doesn't matter
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: to the drug trade. You know, most cocaine is still
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: grown in Colombia. In spite of what you know. The
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: One Drugs has been going on since early in nineteen
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: seventies when Nixon declared it. It has made zero dents
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: in the flow of drugs. All the One Drugs does
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: is it makes drugs more expensive and therefore more of
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: a profit opportunity, and they're for more violence and more
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: murder and more drugs flowing into the United States. So
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: you want to solve the drugs, you want to do
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: a way with over those deaths. The only way to
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: do that is to legalize drugs, not just decriminalize them,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: but legalize them, legalize them completely one hundred percent, and
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: then drugs will be safe. The profit margin will drop
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: to basically zero because they're just commodity. Nobody will have
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: an incentive to kill anybody over drugs anymore. Violence will
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: decline dramatically in Latin America and in the United States.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: And you know, overall, that is a solution of drugs.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: So this idea that drugs and drugs coming into the
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: United States or some kind of strategic importance is absurd
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: and ridiculous. Again, We've been fighting a war on drugs
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: for fifty fifty five years with no success, zero zilch.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: And this will have no impact on it. It doesn't matter.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: It's completely bogus. So that you know, gives Trump legal
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: cover for what he's done, but has no strategic value
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: for the United States in and of itself, really no
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: strategic value for the United States.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Now, Trump hass said.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: And and you know, the one thing that this is
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: intended to do visa vise drugs and might have an
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: effect is he has said, a president of Columbia, you're next, right.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: He needs to he said, he needs to watch his back.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: It might be possible as a consequence of that, It
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: might be possible as a consequence of that that you know,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: some of these political leaders will be a little bit
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: more cautious. But it's not going to change the dynamics.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: It's not going to change the fundamental flow of drugs.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Drugs have been flowing out of Colombia for decades and
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who the president is there, it doesn't
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: matter what they do. You could have a war against
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: drugs in Colombia. Columbia is too big of a country,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: too many jungles, too ungovernable uh in in in what
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: they grow to be able to stop the production of cocaine,
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: So it's irrelevant. And of course maybe this is a
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: warning sign to the Mexican cartels that the you know,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: the US can fly into any one of them there, uh,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: you know strongholds and and take the leadership. I mean
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: that's true. And and and maybe maybe the cartels will
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: now live in greater fear. Will that stop them from
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: smuggling drugs into the United States? Does that stop them
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: from smuggling drugs into the United States? Absolutely not, by
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: the way. You know, in terms of legalizing drugs, you know,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: fentanyl is used in in in.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: In medicine in the United States.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: Every day, right, you know, you go in to get
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: ah a procedure like I don't know, in endoscopy or
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: colonoscopy or something like that. What do they give you
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: to knock you out? Fentanyl? But it's high quality phentanol
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: that is uh reviewed as a as a medical thing. Uh.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: If drugs are legalized, you wouldn't have fentanyl laced cocaine.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: You wouldn't have phentoyl laced heroin. U to all might
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: be so might be sold as a drug, but it
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: would be solved in high quality. There would be just
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: like in any market, there would be you know, there
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: would be a market regulation of the quality of the product.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Customers would not buy from producer who produced and sold
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: bad products. I mean, imagine markets applying to drugs, and
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: you get much higher safety, better quality, use truth in advertising,
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: and retailers who are selling the drugs a stand behind
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: the product. You just don't get the kind of stuff
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: where somebody's smoking a joint and it lands up being
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: laced or taking a xanic and it lands up being
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: laced with fentanyl. That would not happen if it was legalized.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: All right, back to strategy. So drugs, I think is
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: a bogus issue. The solution again is legalization, complete legalization.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: It's not delusional. You know, there are plenty of products
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: out there that are not killing you, that could be
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: killing you, and if you made them illegal, would kill you.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: The quality of the alcohol you drink is far superior
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: in a free market then it was in prohibition, far superior.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: And the quality of the drugs that you would take
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: would be far superior under legalization than otherwise. But anyway,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: we're not this is not a show today about legalizing drugs.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Maybe we can do that another time. My point is
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: no effect on drugs because Mexican cartel is why. While
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: they might live in fear now more than they did before,
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: the profit margin is too large to stop this. They're
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: just going to continue and if one cartel stops, another
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: cartail will pick it up. No way is this going away.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Drug will always continue, always continue. Somebody says on the
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: chat the highest estimated weekly income for cocaine cartel was
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: four hundred and twe million per week. There's no way
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: they're stopping that, right, that is going to continue. Nothing
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Trump has done and stuff that. Okay, So the second
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: argument was about bringing freedom to Venezuela and being freedom
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: to Latin America and standing up for freedom. I don't
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: for one second believe that that is a motivation. I
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: don't believe Trump cares about freedom anybody's freedom. I don't
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: think that's a motivation, and it's yet to be seen
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: what actually happens in terms of freedom. Indeed, this was
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: the whole argument of America. First, we shouldn't be bringing
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: freedom to the peoples of the world. We shouldn't be
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: imposing freedom on countries. We shouldn't be engaging in Operation
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: freedom to country X.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: This is the basis on.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Which the whole agenda of MAGA is based. They don't
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: want to bring freedom to the world. They're not interested
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: in bring freedom to the world. Now again, it's I think,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: I think Marco Rubio's instincts are in this direction. His
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: emotions lead in there. He is a pro freedom kind
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: of guy. He comes from ammonial conservative background and he's
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: inclined out. But Trump doesn't care about freedom in Venezuela.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: And we yet to see what the political outcome in
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: Venezuela is actually going to be. Is there going to
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: be more freedom in Venezuela? Is that what Trump is
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: seeking is their regime change? And if there is regime
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: change to what still unclear, And it's not clear that
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: taking out of Venezuela is going to bring freedom to
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: other places. Now you would say that the rulers in
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: Cuba are going to be worried. Now, on the other hand,
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: Cuba has no oil and Cuba has no drugs. It's
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: not a source of drug thing. So it's not clear
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: what the US would use as an excuse to go
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: after the Cuban regime. Maybe they will anyway, one can
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: hope but I'm doubtful that it will happen. This is,
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: though strategically, clearly an expression of US asserting power in
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: the region. This is the United States embracing something like
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: them mon Road doctrine. We are going to pursue our
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: interests in Latin America. Uh, this is ow this is
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: our region. Stay out. We'll get to China in a minute.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Stay out. We are going to do what we want
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: in this region. We don't really care about what anybody thinks.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: This is ours. And this is the first time in Monroe.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: Doctrine has really been a certain in many, many years
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: post Vietnam, really, you know, the US has not been
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: very assertive except in the Middle East. We did get
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Granada and we did get Panama, but those are small,
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: you know, Venezuela might turned out to be small as well.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: We'll see, maybe it'll be more substantial in a military presence.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: But this is definite an assertion of American power in
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: the region in particular. This is also this is also
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: a statement about oil. Oil is crucial to the United
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: States strategically. It is it is something that the United States,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: for a variety of reasons, oil is going to play
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: a huge strategic role throughout the world. The kind of
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: oil that venetz Oila produces is a heavy oil. Now,
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: don't ask me what that actually means. I don't know.
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: All I know is it's a particular type of oil.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: It's called heavy oil that the United States doesn't produce itself.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: The United States produces light oil, not heavy oil. And
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: yet many of our refineries in the South were built
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: to handle heavy oil. There are basically three sources of
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: heavy oil that I know of, large sources of heavy
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: oil in the world, Venezuela, Canada, and Russia. Heavy all
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: from Canada. The idea was that we would build a
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: pipeline you remember the XL pipeline KO what was it
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: called Keystone pipeline that was going to come in from
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: Canada down to the south where the refineries are to
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: pansport heavy oil to the refineries. Alas, that was never
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: built because of the Obama administration, because the Biden administration
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: because of a variety of environmentalist groups stopping it, and
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: Trump is not really resurrected that and not being able
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: to get that completed. He didn't manage to get it
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: complete in his first term, and he hasn't been able
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: to complete it now. The the other source of heavy
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: oil is, of course Russia.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: We're trying not to buy all from Russia, the bad guys.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: And then Venezuela, where we basically place an embargo on
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: heavy off of Venezuela in response to the shops and
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Maduas's actions a A an Imbogo I was never supportive of.
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• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: So heavy oil so the only real source for heavy
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: oil that the United States can get is Venezuela.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: And it's a big deal.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: A big portion of our productive capacity into refineries is
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: is related to heavy oil and and uh you know,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: so you know, if we did this, we did it
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: probably because of oil. But here's the thing. This has
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: your political implications because of the oil, but also because
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: it makes a statement. China has been has has real
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: ambitions in the Latin America, in the South American area.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: It wants resources, whether those are different minerals. It wants
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: oil in the China buys a lot of oil from Venezuela,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: often sanctioned oil. And China, you know, after Trump came
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: out with his new uh you know latest uh what
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: do you call it? A security strategy, which I critiqued
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: on the show a few weeks ago. Uh, you know,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: he basically announcing kind of a human road doctrine. China
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: basically came out with his own statement two days ago, no,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: December thirty first or four days ago, came out with
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: its own statement and basically said that China is not
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: going to give an inch to the United States and
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: Latin America. China is going to maintain its influence in
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: Latin America is going to fight for it, is going
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: to keep it, not fight for military, but it's going
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: to keep try to keep its influence in Latin America. Well,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: I think what you what China. The message China got
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: today was forget it that you're not going to be
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: able to dominate Latin America. We've got Latin America. Latin
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: America is now, so stay out of stay out of here.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: If America really does get control over Venezuela and oil fields,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: then America indirectly has control of basically all the.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: Oil reserves in the world.
• 1:02:19
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• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: If the United States gains the oil, and this is
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: the I think this is the most important point of
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: all of this. If the United States gains control of
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: the oil in Venezuela, Venezuela has the largest oil reserves
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: in the world, greater than Saudi Arabia, then the United
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: States directly and indirectly will have leverage over the entire
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: supply of oil in the world with two exceptions, exceptions
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: of Russia and Iran. In other words, China, China, which
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: depends on oil to run its economy and natural gas
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: to run its economy, will have nobody to buy or
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: a farm. I mean, they can buy from Russia, and
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: they can buy from Iran, but there's only so much
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: they can buy from those countries. Iran might be experiencing
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: regime change soon and might be under great American influence soon,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: and then China only has Russia. Imagine what happens if
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: China invades Taiwan and the United States Alliance puts an
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: oil embargo on China. No oil from Venezuela. No oil
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: from the United States, which is a producer, No oil
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: for Guyana, which is right next to Venezuela and has
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: huge oil reserves. No oil from the Middle East because
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: the United States has a lot of leverage in Saudi Arabia,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: Kuwait and the other Middle East countries. China is in trouble.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: China is in deep, deep trouble. So you know, this
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: is a in terms of if this is really about oil,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: and if the United States does control the oil coming out,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: this is massive, massive, and it now makes Iran even
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: more important because Uan stays the one last source of
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: oil for China, with the exception of Russia, which is limited.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: And if ran falls, China is isolated in terms of
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: its access to world energy markets. It can still buy,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: but if it ever goes to war, if it's ever sanctioned,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: it could be really squeezed. I think that if the
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: United States gains control of the Venezuela and oil, the
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: probability of China invading Taiwan goes down. If the Ranian
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: regime falls, I think the probably of China invading.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: Taiwan goes to zero.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: China cannot afford it. I mean, I mean where they
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: get the fuel for their ships for any kind of
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: prolonged rule right now, you know, all prices you know
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: might go down. They might not. You know, if even
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: if Venezuela, it will take a few years. Venezuela oil
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: is in is in the is in the sea. Mostly
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: it's hard to reach, it's expensive to exploit, it's not easy.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: Massive capital investment will have to go into there. We're
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: talking about a few years before you actually see the
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: fruits in terms of oil flowing out day in quantity,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: ring the price of oil.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: But you know, Saudi Araba.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: Could clamp down an amount of oil it produces and
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: or to drive prices up again. So it's it's all
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: prices are a function of a supplying demand and supply
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: is not fixed. Supply can change. One country can increase,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: another country can decrease. Uh, it's hard to tell where
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: all prices are going to go in the future, though
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: it's likely they're going to go down in the in
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: the in the near tomb, or at least when Venezuela
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: oil comes into production. But it's not for certain because
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: other countries could could reduce the amount of oil they produce. Guyana,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: that country next to Venezuela, which has a lot of oil,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: It's oil is not being produced, so it now is
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: is pumping more oily too the world markets. It's one
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: of the reasons all prices have come down. Now, that's
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: the other aspect of this. All prices going down is
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: bad for which country? Well, it's bad for OPEC, but
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: you know, the United States supposedly is allied with OPEK.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: Who's it really bad for. It's really bad for Russia. Indeed,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: I've seen online many Russians panicking pro puts in Russians panicking.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: Russia's war is basically being funded by oil sales.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: If global oil.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: Prices go down dramatically, which they could over the next
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: few years, if the United States takes control of the
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: Veneta and overserves, then Russia is going to be squeezed.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: So in terms of strategy, I think all the benefits
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: around oil, all the benefits around oil reverberate to our
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: relationship with China and with Russia. We don't need oil.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: The United States has plenty of oil itself, but being
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: able to control indirectly, even indirectly the majority of the
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: oil being produced in the world gives the United States
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: massive leverage over China. And driving the price of oil
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: down gives the United States massive leverage over Russia. And
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: this helps. This is again the largest oil reserves in
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: the world. The United States taking it back and basically
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: returning it into the hands of American old companies. That
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: is a positive move. And if that is the motivation,
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  Speaker 1: is that, if that's what's going to happen out of this,
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  Speaker 1: if that's the ultimate outcome, if this is really about oil,
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  Speaker 1: then I'm all for it.
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  Speaker 2: See, you know, I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't believe the United States should go out and be
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  Speaker 1: the policeman of the world. I don't think the United
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: States should be out there engaging in a war on drugs.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe the United States should be out there
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  Speaker 1: even bringing freedom to the world. It's you know, people
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  Speaker 1: need to fight for their own freedom. But I do
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: believe we should help people fight for freedom to the
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  Speaker 1: extent that we can. And I do believe that when
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  Speaker 1: you know, governments steal nationalize assets of US companies on
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  Speaker 1: scale as Venezuela did, the United States governments has step
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  Speaker 1: in to protect them.
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  Speaker 2: And since we didn't.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: Protect them back in the mid two thousands, not a
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: bad idea to do it now. Now. Trump has mentioned
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: this as a reason for what he's done, and to
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: that I give him credit.
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  Speaker 2: He's the first president.
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  Speaker 1: He's the first president ever that I know of that
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  Speaker 1: has actually made a big deal out and a big
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  Speaker 1: deal in a sense of the United States being willing
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  Speaker 1: to go out there and actually protect property rights in
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: this sense. I don't think he thinks of it property rights,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: but doesn't matter. He's the first president I know of
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  Speaker 1: has actually made been willing to state that and make
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: that statement that you know, I given credit, even though
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: I know it comes from a very shallow, superficial, you know,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: narcissistic place, and not from a real respect for property
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: rights or real respect for the protection of American real
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: national interest or any kind of meaningful national interests. Finally, yeah,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: we talked about Cuba that is now white. I want
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: to say, so I want to cover one other topic.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: I want to cover a little bit the response to
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: this from various parts of what do you call the
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: political landscape, which I find really fascinating and really interesting.
• 1:10:42
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  Speaker 1: Mariela pan is, of course, the leader of the far right,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: a political movement in a political party in France. This
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: is what she writes. There were a thousand reasons to condemned,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: condemn the regime of Nicholas Madua, communist, oligarchic authoritarian it
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: had imposed on its people for far too many years,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: a suffocating yoke that plunged millions of Venezuelans into misery
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: when it did not force them into exile. But there
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: is one fundamental reason to oppose the regime change that
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: the United States has brought about in Venezuela. Guess what
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: that is. The sovereignty of states is never negotiable, regardless
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: of their size, their power, or their continent. It is
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  Speaker 1: invulable and sacred. To announce this principle today for Venezuela,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: for any state, would be an accept our own enslavement tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: It would thus be a mortal peril at a time
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  Speaker 1: when the twenty first century is already the stage of
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: made a major political upheaval that casts over humanity the
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: constant threat of war and chaos. All that remained for
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: us is to hope, in the face of this situation,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: that a voice be given as soon as possible to
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: the Venezuelan people. It is for them to reclaim the
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: power to define sovereignty and sovereignly and freely the future
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: they wish to forge this a nation. Now here's the
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: thing about this. This is powerful statement sovereignty, The sovereignty
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  Speaker 1: of states is never negotiable. This is the nationalist perspective.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: This is the nationalist conservative perspective. This is the perspective
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: that no state has a right to intervene in another state,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: that all sovereignty is sacred and finite, and that one
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: should One has no right, even in face of a dictator,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: to unseat the dictator. Now, this is the exact opposite
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: of the position that iron Rand held. Iron Rand held
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: that sovereignty comes from the protection of rights, from the
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: protection of individual rights. That is, that a regime that
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: is dictatorial is not sovereign. A regime this authoritarian is
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: not sovereign. Now it's not. That does not mean that
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: other countries should depose the leader, but it does mean
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  Speaker 1: that it's one hundred percent moral from the perspective of
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: the country that's being deposed, that they need to be deposed.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: That is, the United States owes nothing to Venezuela and
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: knows nothing to their sovereignty because they're not sovereign because
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: they're ruled by dictator. If the only purpose of governan
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: is to protection of rights, then states that do not
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: protect rights are not sovereign states. In that sense, Iraq
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: was not sovereign, Iran is not sovereign. Venezuela is not sovereign.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: Russia today is not sovereign and assassinating the leaders replacing
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: the regime is completely moral.
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  Speaker 2: It's completely okay.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: It's only a question of your own interest in doing so.
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  Speaker 1: Sovereignty comes from the people. It does not come from
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: the leader. It does not come from drawing lines on
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: a map, it does not come from force. Sovereignty comes
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: from the people, the individual. The only thing that sovereign
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: is the individual. So individuals can elect a government and
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: give it sovereignty. Otherwise all governments are illegitimate and less.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: They are protecting the rights of individuals.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: That's what gives them sovereignty, not some artificial I'm the
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: dictator because I have a big gun. I have a
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: big gun. So while I man was not for democracy
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: absolute democracy. The sovereignty has to be gained through protection
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: of rights and authoritarians. Dictators are never sovereign because they
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: violate rights. Now you can imagine a authoritarian state that
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: did protect rights. Singapore is is the one is an exception.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: It mostly protects rights. You would argue that that is
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: a sovereign state because it protects the rights of individuals
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: in the state. But almost no authoritarians protect individual rights
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: at any level. So Venezuela is not sovereign. The US
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: is still sovereign. Yes, it's still for the most part
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: protect triits. But you can imagine the United States becoming
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: non sovereign when it stops protecting those rights, if it
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: becomes an authoritarian.
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  Speaker 2: I know, controversial view.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: But a true view, a right view, Iman's view. Okay,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: that opposite of the nationalist view, which is sovereignty because
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: of history, because of tradition, because of I don't know why,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: it's what, what makes it? What makes it sovereign? Who?
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know? Who? You? Who? You mean? All right,
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: let's see what else did I want? That was? That was?
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: Here's here's senec. Then now this is not about this.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: This is about uh, you know, the other bombing in
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: Venezuela a few days ago. But it's it, you know it.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: I assume it applies the same way SENEC rights. I
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: agree with Steve Bannon. There you go. You get the
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: left agreeing with the right. I agree with Steve Bannon.
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: The Trump is acting like Hillary Crilinton at her neo
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: con peak, bombing all over the planet, Nigeria, Somalia, Venezuela,
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: and going back into Iran for regime change. It's completely
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: neo kron establishment behavior. Now note this, Why do we
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 1: have to fight all of Israel's wars. One thing that's
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 1: common about the responses, particularly from the far right and
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: the far left, is the blaming Israel for it. All right,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: I don't see is there a I don't see him
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: on my uh oh, I can't block him. Somebody, do
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: we have somebody who can? I can't block him because
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: I can't see him. He's not in my feed. This
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: thing Scotty too haughty? Can somebody block him? Miroslav, are
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: you there or maybe action Action injection if Christian, if
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: you're there, can you block this? Uh, Scotty too haughty?
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: For some reason, I can't do it. It's at Scotty
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: too haughty. He's been he's been commenting NonStop. Now. I
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: don't know why I can't see him in my feed,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: but I see him. I see him, Mislav, I see him. Yes,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: I'll block him. Okay, all right, you guys got him? Good?
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, appreciate it. I for some reason,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: I could see him. This is a miss love. I
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: could see him in the super chat track of I
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: couldn't see him in my YouTube feed. Which is weird.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: Usually I see all the comments in both weird. Anyway,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: Israel's war was all right. Let's take Tucker Carson. This
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: is again from before, but I assume it applies to today.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: Maduvo whatever's many faults, and I wouldn't hire him as
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: an economists. He has the most socially conservative country, probably
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: in the hemisphere. Venezuela's band pornography, band abortion, band game marriage,
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: band sex change, and band usury. This is TUCKA. Tucker
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: would band usury, among many things. So you know, there
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: you go. It's they like Maduo. Tucker likes Maduo, kind
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: of likes Maduo. Let's see. Nick Fouyantes originally was against
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: military action in Venezuela. Just three months ago. He warned
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: that an invasion could activate domestic terror cells and plunge
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: America into an insurgency where these hysterical nutcases and really
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: pretty stupid people get the stuff from. I don't know,
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: but as of this morning he has changed his tune.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: And this morning he said, I've literally never said no
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: more foreign conflicts. I support you as empire, I support
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: them on a doctrine. I support hemispheric defense. I always
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: have says Nick Foynters. Anyway, now he's saying. And then
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: a little later, he said, a little late in the
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: morning today, he said, initially seemed like a solid operation
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: to cleanly, bloodlessly and quickly remove Madua from power last night,
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: but this new policy of running Venezuela with US soldiers
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: sounds like a massive overcommitment. I have zero confidence in
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: nation building. Big a mistake. Representative Marjorie Taylor Green very unhappy.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: I've served on Homeland Security Committee for the past three
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: years on one hundred percent for strong safe, secure borders
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: and strong narco terrorists and cartels, you know, and stopping
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: narco terrorists and cartels from trafficking deadly, deadly drugs. Mislav
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: We've got he's come back under different names, so please
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: block him or Action Jackson. You guys take care of
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: whoever you know. They keep coming back in different, different names. Anyway,
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: so she's also stopping the cartels. And then she said,
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: fentanyl is responsible for over seventy percent of US drug
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: over those desks, and fentanyl comes from Mexican cartels made
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: with chemical precursors from China and trafficed traffic across the
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: US Mexican border. Mexican cartels are primarily and overwhelmingly responsible
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: for killing Americans with deadly drugs. If used military action
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: and regime change in Venezuela was really about saving American
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: lives from deadly drugs, then why hasn't the Trump administration
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: taken action against Mexican cartels? And if persecuting narco terrorists
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: as a high priority, then why did President Trump pardon
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: the former Honduan president who was convicted and sentenced for
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: forty five years for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: into America. Ironically, cocaine is the same drug that Venezuela
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: primarily traffics into the United States. The next obvious observation
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: is that by removing a Maduro, this is a clear
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: move for control over Venezuelan or supplies that will ensure
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: stability for the next obvious regime change war in Iran.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: So you know, Marjorie Tellergreen representing a certain wing of
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: MEGA is very wrong, very anti this she goes Americans
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: discussed with our own governments. Never ending military aggression and
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: support of foreign wars is justified because we are forced
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: to pay for it, and parties Republican and Democrats always
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: keep the Washington military machine funded in going. This is
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: why many MAGA thought they voted to end. Boy were
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: we wrong? As the baby boomers slip away both in
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: votes and power, the electro future will be decided for
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: candidates that focus on American economic populism and promising prosperity
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: for Americans only.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: Let's see who else?
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: This guy? Ian Malcolm, Ian Malcolm and some antisemitic guy
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: On Twitter. A few months ago he wrote this is
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: actually a year ago, a year and a half ago.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: In July of twenty twenty four, he wrote, some aduro
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: a Jew maintains power in Venezuela, while Jews in Israel
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: escalate conflict with Lemanon, having already set up a conflict
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: with Iran, while the UK's new Prime minister, another Jew,
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: launches the Kiostarma era of politics. Why are Jews all
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: over the global political whatever? What the hell? And then
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: he goes then today he writes, right today, he writes,
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: So the MAGA peace president to promise non new wars
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: is just blowing up anyone Jews ask him to? Is that?
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: It is this not treason? So Jews asked him to
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: blow up? The duo, the anti Seimi's never start. By
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: the way, I don't I thought I had it. Yeah,
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: there's Candace Owen saying basically the same thing. Candas saying,
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: here's the suite. Yeah. Uh well, Venezuela's being liberated like
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: siriaf Gunistan in New York were liberated. In quotation marks,
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: the CIA staged another hostile takeof of a country on
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: the behest of the global globalist psychopaths. Guess who those are.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: That's what is happening always everywhere, And here is the key.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: Zionists cheer every regime change. There's never been a single
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: regime change that Zionists have not applauded because it means
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: they get to steal land, oil and other resources. Hope
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: this helps. So again, even this is Zionists and Jews.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: They're responsible for everything. And finally, the Katari government is upset.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: The Katari government does not like this. The State of
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: Qatar expresses it's a deep concern over the common developments
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, calling in this context
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: for restraint, de escalation and adoption of dialogue as the
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: appropriate measure to address all outstanding issues. So we know
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: that Katari is upset. Maybe Trump will back. We know
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: therefore what what what's his name? Tucker's position will be
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: as the official representative of Katari in the United States.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: We know that he will be upset as well.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: All right, there you have it.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: My take on this, It makes overall great you know,
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: performance or military If if indeed, uh, the opposition gets
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: the control uh and and you get actual elections in
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 1: in Venezuela, this will turn out to be ultimately a
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: good thing. We could also uh, if the United States,
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: through that through a a an actual an actual what
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: do you call it? Actual proper government in a legitimate
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: government in Venezuela actually gets to control of the oil,
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: this will be a huge geopolitical victory for the United
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: States in a sense of both restraining China and maybe
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: putting Russia into a real problem. Okay, now we have
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: this guy, this guy, I can I can stop. Let's see,
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: uh remove all right, either I got him or Christian
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: got him. Somebody got him. No, Millis Love got him,
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Mars Love. Mills Love got him. Oh I
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: was trying. Yes, there plenty of plenty of tolls out there.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: Trying to trying to disrupt the show. Okay, that is
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: what I have to say about about this invasion. I'm
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: happy to take questions about this topic right now. If
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 1: you want to ask a question, don't do it in
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: the chat, don't do it in your own head. Actually
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: put it together on a super Chat and send it over.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: We are way behind on our goals for today, so
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: please consider making supporting the show so I can do
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: these these shows as events happen. They have to be profitable,
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: they have to make sense. The Iran shows that I
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: did and the Israel shows that I did, we got
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: massive super Chat support, So I'm not sure why Venezuela
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: show should should be any less profitable for the Iran
• 1:28:48
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  Speaker 1: you want me to continue these, show me some love,
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: all right? That all right? I'll get to Andrew's question later.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Dan, what are the risks of the only
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: effective uses of US military in decades being associated to
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: someone like Trump? I mean, it's horrible, and this is
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: maybe what makes this overwhelmingly negative. Even when Trump does
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: something good, only bad can come of it because he
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: is such a horrible human being and such a in
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: a global sense, such a horrible president president. So when
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: Trump does something good and that good gets associated with
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: Trump and Trump's views and Trump's attitude and Trump's action
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: that is right, that is does not bode well for
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  Speaker 1: the future because people will start associating that kind of
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: action with all his irrationality, and it elevates Trump one
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: which is bad, but it elevates a relationship between his
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: you know, his just grossness, his immaturity, his bumbast, his
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: irrationality with somehow a competent military. I mean, I would
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: say that the military is competent in spite of Trump.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: Trump has luckily nothing to do with the military. They
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: are competent in spite of him, not because of him. So, yes,
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: they bombed you on and that was good, that was
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: one of the good things he did.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: This might turn out to be good.
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 1: There's some things that he did, but to the extent
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: like moving the embassy to Jerusalem his first term, to
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: the extent that those actions get associated with trump attitude
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: within deep trouble. So even when he does something good
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: semi good, it's not good for the country long term.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: And now I know the accusations of TDS will implode.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: N M says, maybe sometimes Trump has a strategy. I
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: don't think he has really a strategy now that people
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: around him who have a strategy, whether it's good or
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: not is a question.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Trump himself has strategy.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: Some of the people. Again, I think Rubio has a strategy,
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: and Ruby has been advocating.
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  Speaker 2: For doing this for a while.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: He's been anti Venezuela and regime changing Venezuela for a while.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: They might be people to defend this department that understand
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: how this affects China and how this affects Russia. I
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: don't get any sense from the news conference and from
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: other times that Trump has talked about this stuff that
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: he is you know that he is in any way
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: any way strate about these issues. UM, all right, all right, Neil,
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  Speaker 1: seems like the UAE and Saudi Is are awesome conflict
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: in the oh. I'm gonna answer that afterwards.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to answer this stuff.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: There's a bunch on real. Spocks says, well, Mom, Donny
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: given a duo. He was welcome in New York City. No,
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: I don't expect though, so although I'm sure Mom Donnie
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  Speaker 1: will condemn the operation and what the US did, just
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: as Bernie Sanders was well and oec will John says
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  Speaker 1: Trump twenty twenty eight. God help us if that happens.
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: Call says, blasting the music to get your opponent to change.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: See Sopranos episode where Tony wanted to get out of
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: a deal. Good story about blasting the Vatican embassy. Yeah,
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: it is a good story, and they did that action.
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 1: Jackson says, what should be done to or about Venezuela? Now,
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 1: what should be done to Madua and his wife? Well,
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: I'm doing His wife will will face a court of
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: law based on the drug laws that we have in
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  Speaker 1: the United States, and I'm fine with that. That's that's
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: the law. They should face the consequence of the law.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: You know, they might be they might be pardoned ultimately
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: by Trump, who knows. But for now, they will face grant,
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: they will face a jury, a judge and a jury.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: In terms of what should be done with Venezuela, it
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: should be handed you know, what the United States should
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: insist is that this that that should be handed over
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: to the opposition party that won the election. Uh, and
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: then the opposition party should basically organize an election as
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: soon as feasible within.
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  Speaker 2: Months, I guess, uh.
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  Speaker 1: And and you know, return Venezuela to a kind of
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: a democratic state. As part of that, the United States
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: should you should insist on the privatization of Venezuela and
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: oil venezullial oil assets. And you know that everybody should
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: be able to bid for American companies, European companies, Venezuelan companies,
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: anybody should be able to bid for I think the
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: Americans would win or the Europeans would win. But it
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: should be an open bidding unless unless you can tie
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: some of it to compensate the two companies Connoco and
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: what was the other one. It wasn't a shell anyway, anyway,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: I compensate them, mobile, compensate them for the asset for
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: the opposite theft that happened a couple of decades ago.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: So some process needs to be with the oil assets
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: not held by the government at all anymore. So that
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: has to happen as part of the process. And hopefully
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: that's what will happen. We'll see that's what should happen,
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: cook says, been looking forward to your reaction to this.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for swift show.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: Now you guys need to come through in terms of
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: trading with me for the Swift show. You guys cooked it,
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: but everybody else needs to as well. All Catherine says,
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  Speaker 1: do you think Canada, Greenland and Panama could be the
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: next goals of the US administration? Do you think they
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: are busy with Venezuela, Ewan and US itself.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't be surprised. I don't know what they
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 2: do they might go.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: I don't think they'll do anything about Canada, that's far fetched,
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: but Greenland is certainly possible. And I certainly think that
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: if China maintains ownership of the ports in Panama, the
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: Panama as possible, and I also think the cubas possible.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: Marco Rubio in the press conference this morning, indicated that
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: Cuba would be next be surprised if some kind of
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: operation happened in Cuba to try to overthrow the regime. Again,
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: I don't think Trump is super motivated because there's no oil,
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: there's nothing for him to immediately benefit from it.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 2: But who knows.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, Rubio will be pushing, and maybe Rubia has
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: bought some credibility with a venezuela and thing, and he'll
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: he'll be able to get a Cuba thing. Greenland is
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: of course the trickiest one because it means going to
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: war with an ally, not a very long war because
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: I mean it's not like Denmark would actually fight America.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: Bet it would shake up global politics in a way
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: that I'm not sure that Trump an administration wants to engage in.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, that would be the opposite of Venezuela. That
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: would be a massive strategic era. That would be a massive,
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: massive handing me a gift, a gift to Russia and China.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: And you can ask me about why. But if the
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: United States tried to take or took Greenland. But it's possible,
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: let's see. Yeah, Andrew says, is not good terrorism an
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: anti concept. Terrorism does not denote victims who choose to
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: risk their lives. Yeah, I mean not good terrorism is
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, look, terror anybody can terrorize, so terrorizing is possible.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: But terrorism has come to mean a political uh, you know,
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: a political goal. So you're terrorizing people with a political goal.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: And narco cartels are not about a political goal. They're
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 1: about a monetary goal. They're about a financial goal. They're
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: about the ability to sell drugs and continue to continue
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: to to sell those drugs. So yeah, no, I think
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: it's an anti concept. You know, terrorism is a is
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: a political issue. Narcotics are not a political issue. They're
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: a crime issue because they be thegal Somebody says the
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: European Union would fight on the side of Denmark. It's
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: not going to happen, guys. I mean, Europe is not
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 1: going to go to war with the United States. It's
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: just it's just it ain't happening. I mean, basically, what
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: will happen is Denmark and the EU will be super
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: upset with the United States. They'll do they'll yell, they'll shout,
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: they'll they'll they'll make accusations, they'll I don't know, boycotts something,
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: they'll condemn Trump, they'll have a UN resolution and all
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: of that. But that'll be it. I mean, the US
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: were basically a next Greenland could in next Greenland and
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: nothing would happen.
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  Speaker 2: Uh Uh.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: What is the constitutional legality of removing Maduo? I mean, Vicks,
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 1: I don't know. From what I understand. There's a there's
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 1: a warrant for his arrest. It's a police action backed
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: up by the military in order to facilitate it, in
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: order to serve a Now I don't know how US
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: law treats the issue of serving warrants outside the United States.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know, so I don't know how you would
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: how you would think about this from a constitutional basis,
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: you know, to the extent this is who Congress has
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 1: to prove it. All I'm saying is it's got the
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: same constitutionality as No Yega, and as Grenada, and as
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: a bunch of things the United States has already done.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: There's nothing new here to litigate, and nothing was made
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: of those. I don't expect anything to be made of
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: this WCZN. I think Bannon at al miss reed, Americans
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: they don't hate wars, they hate losing wars.
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 2: I think that's right. I think you're right.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: Of course, they don't want to enter into wars because
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: they're convinced they're going to lose them. But you're right,
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: once they in them, Americans will come around to support them.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: Action Jackson said, I like Venezuela and shows because I
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: really like history segments. Thank you, Let's see real. Spock
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  Speaker 1: says Christians wanted peace in early century a D. Theyt
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: so civilization survives if people expect one another. It's absolute nonsense.
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: It's absolutely nonsense. I mean, you know, what's his name,
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: God the first, the first Christian emperor, first Christian Empire,
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: was a man of war, and he used Christianity to
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: motivate his troops and the cross. You know, when the
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: cross became popular in Christianity, when the cross really was
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: brought out and started to be a symbol of Christianity,
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: it was under Constantine. Constantine, Constantine, not Charlotte. And Constantine
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: used the cross to motivate his troops to go fight
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: and slaughter and kill. And this whole so called conversion
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: of Christianity, if it ever happened, happened because he claimed
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: to have seen across in the sky God was on
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: his side in being victorious over the other army. There
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: was nothing about wanting peace in Christianity. You need, Augustine
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: writes and writes about justifying war in the name of
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: Christianity and the name of converting people to Christianity. Violence
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: is okay if you're doing it for a good cause.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: So Christians did not want peace. Maybe pre Constantine Christians,
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: but they were meaning less and got overruled very quickly
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: by Constantine, by Augustine, by the fathers of Christianity. They
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 1: came after them. They're the ones who shaped Christianity. Christianity
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: is not nowhere near a religion of peace. It is
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: a religion of war. It always has been a religion
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: of war. Just ask the victims of Charlemagne. Asked the
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: victims of Constantine, as the victims of all the you know,
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: the various constantly legalized Christianity. Not in two hundred and
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: three hundreds. Yes, he legalized Christianity and became emperor and
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: fought in the name of Christianity. In Augustine justified is
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: just war theory justifies fighting in the name of Christianity
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: to kill people. And the Crusades were not exactly peaceful
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: anyway in the world anyway, that's a whole other topic.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: Daniel says, notably, absent was advanced from the press conference.
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: Do you think he's trying to placate the libertarian twits? No,
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: I think I think it's just it wasn't appropriate. We'll
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: see what he says in his statements in the days
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: to come. We'll see how all this evolves in the
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: days to come. But I wouldn't read too much into
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: his not being there. M Yeah, before World War two,
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: US tried to restrict Japan access to oil and steal
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: and lost an attack while they will still had supplies
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: any way, China does the same. I mean there is,
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: but I think China is going to look at Japan
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: as an example of the problems in doing that and
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: the reality of that the world might respond not by
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: defeating Taiwan but by placing an oil and ballgo on
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: them after the fact. And do they really want to
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: have an oil and ballgo on themselves? Probably not. That's
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: probably problematic for China, and I think they can look
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: ahead enough to be able to not want that.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 2: All right, Let's see James as a vet.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: How do you see military disability for vets who receive
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: long term damage from the military. Is it justified to
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: see payments for life when your injuries never improve? Why
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 1: are New York Times and use outlets targeting vets? So,
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't seen the New York Times
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: and other outlets targeting vets. I've missed that. I don't
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: doubt that they are. I just don't know what the
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: context is for that to read that. But look, yeah, absolutely,
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: I think that if you get injured in the military,
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: the military then should compensate you for the rest of
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: your life for the injury that you take. Now, I
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: don't believe that there should be a veterans department veterans
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: affairs department in a government. What I think it should
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: be a monetary compensation. The government should guarantee you to
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: buy you an insurance policy that you can then in
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: private markets that covers your pre existing conditions, or an
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: expense of insurance policy that covers your existing conditions. And
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: you should be treated in hospitals by normal doctors under
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: such an insurance policy.
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 2: But that should be.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: Something the government provides you with in compensation for the
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: fact that you got hurt. It should be part of
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: the contract that you sign when you sign up for
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: the military. When you sign up for the military. Japan
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: partially came close to winning World War Two because it
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: managed to capture militarily oil in some oil I can't
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: remember Malaysia, whoever it was, there was some oil, there
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: was some there's some oil wells there and they could
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: access them, but that also caused them to be over extended,
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: which arguably caused them to collapse. I mean the Nazis.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: If you study history, one of the reasons the Nazis
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: invade Russia, and what are they attempting to go to
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: they want and invade North Africa is that they want oil.
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: They want the oil in Saudi Arabia, they want the
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: oil in Azerbaijan. They are driving through to get to
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: the oil. Oil is a strategic asset and you could
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: argue that that's one of the fundamental mistakes that both
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: the Nazis and the Japanese made, is they the supplies chain,
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: supply lines got too extended. They couldn't reach the oil supplies,
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: and that's what killed them. And one would expect a
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: country like China to figure that out. That's my response.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: We all spoke. They were killed by lions and the
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: arena for a very short period of time. The persecution
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: of Christians by the Roman Empire lasted a very short
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: period of time. It is overblown and over represented in
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: Hollywood movies, but the reality of history is that Christians
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: were persecuted under Roman Empire, under one ere emperor, and
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: again it became an official religion under Constantine and official
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: religion one of the religions, and then it became the
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 1: official religion.
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 2: Under Destinian. I think, so, you know.
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: Early Christians promoted peace the very early Christians because they
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: were weak. That's the only reason. As soon as Christianity
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: gained political power, they advocated for violence. As soon as
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: they gained political power, they advocated for violence. Christianity as
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: a successful religion, which is what it ultimately was a
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: successful religion. Christianity as a successful religion was a very
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: violent religion, as violent as Islam. So yeah, all right,
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: We've got a few more questions. But those questions I
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: have to wait until after my movie reviews. They've got
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: movie reviews to do, and we're going to cover those,
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: and then we'll take the questions. You do have more
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: time to ascend in a sticker or do a or
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: do a super chat. I will answer questions after these
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: movie reviews, so please consider doing that. Again. I remind
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: you these shows cost money. My time is money. You
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: are trading with me value for value. If you get
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: value from the show. If you got value from this show,
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: please consider doing a quick sticker or something or super
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: chat super chat. The advantage super chat is you get to
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: ask a question, you get to determine what I'll talk about,
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: you get to shape the show in someway. All right,
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: two movie reviews today, unrelated completely to Venezuela. The first
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 1: one is Ford Versus Ferrari, Ford versus Ferrari. This this
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: movie is streaming online. I'm trying to remember where. I
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: think it's on Netflix, but don't don't. I'm not committed
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: to that. I watched it recently. I've watched it twice. Now.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: This is a movie with with Matt Demon Christian Bale.
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: Those are those are the main two actors in the movie. Uh.
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: It's directed by James Mangold. We'll get to that in
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: a minute. I really like this movie. I think it's
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: really well done. Uh. It's a movie based on the
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: true story of the development of the Ford Shelby GT.
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  Speaker 1: This was for the G forty, which was developed in
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  Speaker 1: order to beat Ferrari at Leman Lamon's and to try
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  Speaker 1: to this is during the nineteen sixties, to right try
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  Speaker 1: to change Ford's image from a state comfortable, boring kind
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  Speaker 1: of middle class auto company to a more sporty image
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  Speaker 1: and to generate sales for cars like the Mustang and
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  Speaker 1: so it's it's basically.
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  Speaker 2: The movie focuses not a Ferrari.
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  Speaker 1: It focuses completely on forward and on Ford's attempt to
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  Speaker 1: build a supercar, to build a car that can compete
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  Speaker 1: with Ferrari. It covers the period between nineteen sixty two
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  Speaker 1: and nineteen sixty six, and the goal is to beat
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  Speaker 1: them at Lamon's. Lamon's is a race track in France.
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  Speaker 1: It's a race that is you know, is rased over
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  Speaker 1: twenty four hours with a I guess a format and
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  Speaker 1: team that take turns driving the car, with pit stops
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  Speaker 1: and driving the car. A very very difficult race, uh
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  Speaker 1: to engage in. Uh. But but it's uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: very prestigious to win. And Ferrari was dominated Lamar's. It
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  Speaker 1: was just dominating, winning every time, winning all of it.
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  Speaker 1: And uh the uh uh LEA Coca, the marketing director
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  Speaker 1: at Ford who later went on to be the CEO,
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  Speaker 1: the famous CEO of Krysler, the guy who kind of
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  Speaker 1: saved Chrysler from bankruptcy, really Reagan safe prizelide of bankruptcy
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  Speaker 1: and by inventing the minivan. So I Coca who brought
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  Speaker 1: us a minivan, also brought us a sporty Ford. He
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  Speaker 1: his whole marketing employee was we need to we need
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  Speaker 1: to make Ford more youthful. We need to make Ford
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  Speaker 1: more exciting UH and UH and John Ford, the second
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  Speaker 1: I was CEO of Ford Motors, brought into the vision
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  Speaker 1: and they hired they hired a car designer, automobile designer
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  Speaker 1: and UH racer by the name of Carols Shelby UH
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  Speaker 1: to design the car. UH. And I won't tell you
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  Speaker 1: how it ends. You can be in suspense, but Shelby
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  Speaker 1: designs the car. Shellby is uh, you know, quite uh
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  Speaker 1: uh famous and Uh Shelby designs the car. He brings
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  Speaker 1: in a British race car driver, Ken Miles uh to
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  Speaker 1: to drive the car, even though Ken Miles is hated
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  Speaker 1: by almost everybody, And throughout the movie UH Shelby and Miles,
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  Speaker 1: primarily Shelby really fighting the Ford bureaucracy. This is very
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  Speaker 1: much a movie about the entrepreneurial spirit. This is very
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  Speaker 1: much a movie about UH, the the advantage of small, flexible,
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  Speaker 1: quick decision making, decision making on the fly versus kind
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  Speaker 1: of the the bureaucratic, the bureaucracy of a large corporation.
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  Speaker 1: This is a theme in American business. This is true
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  Speaker 1: in American business. You know, when when IBM decided to
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  Speaker 1: build a PC, they realized they couldn't do it under
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  Speaker 1: their existing structure, they created a small entrepreneurial independent group
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  Speaker 1: that were put it directly to the president of IBM
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  Speaker 1: in order to develop the PC. The same thing here
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  Speaker 1: happens in order to develop the GT forty, they had
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  Speaker 1: to create this unit that will put it.
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  Speaker 2: Directly to the president of Ford.
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  Speaker 1: So it really depicts that effectively and efficiently. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's really interesting the political dynamics within Ford. It's really
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  Speaker 1: interesting to see the entrepreneurs spirit really concretized in a
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  Speaker 1: movie made real in a movie. And as I said,
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  Speaker 1: the movie is very well made. I mean the driving scenes.
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  Speaker 1: If you could watch this on a big screen television
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  Speaker 1: with good sound, they're super dramatic and you really feel it.
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  Speaker 1: You really feel it. So it's a really exciting movie.
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  Speaker 1: That is that is worth watching. You can still get well.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if they still make the full GT
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  Speaker 1: for a while. For GT was one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars car a few years ago was still being
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  Speaker 1: made faster than a Ferrari. They will also Shelby was made,
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  Speaker 1: taking Mustangs and changing them and they were selling them
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  Speaker 1: under the Shelby band. Souped up, souped Up Mustangs and
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  Speaker 1: that existed until about ten fifteen years ago. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know the full history. Anyway, the movie itself really good.
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  Speaker 1: I highly recommend it again, well directed, well acted, particularly
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  Speaker 1: Christian Bale does a great job as Ken Miles, who's
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  Speaker 1: quite a character in the movie. Mad Damon, and I
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  Speaker 1: like the call the costumes. I liked generally the movie
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  Speaker 1: as a whole. What else does James Mangold directed? He
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: directed Three ten to Yuma, which was a good movie,
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  Speaker 1: not as good as the original, but again you had
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  Speaker 1: that sense of suspense. He's very good at creating drama
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  Speaker 1: and suspense. He's good at that. He did the Bob
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  Speaker 1: Dylan biography, which I haven't seen yet. That's that's on
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  Speaker 1: my list to go watch. He also directed one of
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  Speaker 1: the Indiana Jones movies and one of the Wolverine movies.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I highly recommend Ford versus Ferrari. He also
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  Speaker 1: did Logan, which I don't know anything about. Not the
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  Speaker 1: kind of movie I watch, but Ford Versus Ferrari thumbs
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  Speaker 1: up thumbs up from from the Iran Brooks Show. I
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  Speaker 1: really enjoyed it and a good both acting, directing and
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  Speaker 1: a great story sty You should know because it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of I think, I thinking it really is an ode
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  Speaker 1: to American entrepreneurial, entrepreneurial spirit in many many ways. All right,
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: second movie, and that Washo who wanted me to review that,
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: I think that was shaw'sbot. John wanted me to review
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  Speaker 1: the movie better Man. Better Man is a movie. It's
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  Speaker 1: a weird movie. It's a movie about a pop singer,
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  Speaker 1: a boy band pop singer who is incredibly successful, hugely successful.
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  Speaker 2: But unbelievably miserable.
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  Speaker 1: Drugs, alcohol, sleeping around can maintain relationships really horrible, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not I'm going to give away the ending, but that's fine,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to the point of almost committing suicide and
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  Speaker 1: then finding redemption and cleaning.
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  Speaker 2: Up his life and happy ending.
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  Speaker 1: Right. So the movie is very much, in many respects
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  Speaker 1: a standard, a standard movie about pop stars.
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  Speaker 2: In this case, it's a true story.
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  Speaker 1: It's based on a true story of Robbie Williams, who
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: was a British pop star. I never heard of him,
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: neverhood of his music, neverhood of him. But he was
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: a big deal in I guess the nineties. In the
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: in the nineties was a big deal as a pop
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  Speaker 1: star during that era. It was is considered one of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest entertainments of all time. Robbie Williams basically narrates
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  Speaker 1: the movie. So it's a movie about his life and
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: he's narrating it. The gimmick of the movie the thing
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 1: that makes the movie different. I mean, it's well made,
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  Speaker 1: even with a gimmick, but the gimmick the different change.
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  Speaker 1: This from all the other movies about rock stars that
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  Speaker 1: succeed andenormously and then you know, but but but I'm
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 1: never happy because of drugs and alcohol and sex and whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the that the character of Robbie Williams is
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  Speaker 1: actually portrayed by a c G I monkey, A c
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  Speaker 1: G I monkey. From the beginning, Robbie Williams character is
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  Speaker 1: a monkey. He's a monkey as a child because it
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  Speaker 1: deals with the with the with the with his childhood,
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: and it's a monkey throughout the movie, which is jarring
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: and weird. Now it's supposedly be a metaphor for his
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  Speaker 1: for his for who he is, what kind of a
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  Speaker 1: human being he is? He's not human, He's a he's
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  Speaker 1: he is. We'll talk about what what what philosophy drives
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  Speaker 1: him and what's bad about it? But it's supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be a metaphor for that. I don't know that it
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  Speaker 1: really works. It's more gimmick than anything else in my view.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's a chin besis, a monkey, which is
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  Speaker 1: his character, his soul, his soul is the soul of
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  Speaker 1: a monkey. But it doesn't really work because when he
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  Speaker 1: redeems himself, when he becomes human, he doesn't turn into
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  Speaker 1: a human in the movie, which you would think if
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  Speaker 1: you want to play the metaphor all the way through,
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  Speaker 1: you would at the end of the movie, a human
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  Speaker 1: being should have you know, you should evolve into a
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  Speaker 1: human being, which he doesn't. It didn't really Once you
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: get used to it, it doesn't really bother you. But
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  Speaker 1: I still think of it as a gimmick rather than
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  Speaker 1: anything else. Generally, though, the movie is very well made.
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  Speaker 1: The CGI, by the way, Monkey you can't really tell
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  Speaker 1: I mean you can in a few places in a
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  Speaker 1: movie you can tell CGI, but mostly you can't really
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  Speaker 1: tell it CGI. So it's it's very well technically that
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  Speaker 1: it's well directed.
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  Speaker 2: The story is a good story.
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  Speaker 1: So the basic issue is and this is the problem
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  Speaker 1: I have with the with it, it's a problem I
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  Speaker 1: have with the movie. We'll get to in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: But basically the issue is that Robbie Williams Thumb when
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  Speaker 1: he's a young child is a complete secondhander. All he
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  Speaker 1: wants to do is please others. Fundamentally, he wants to
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  Speaker 1: please his father, so it's got a kind of a
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  Speaker 1: forty enth thing. He wants to please his father. His
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  Speaker 1: whole life is about pleasing his father. But then his
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  Speaker 1: whole life is an artist, is about pleasing the public.
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: It's about pleasing his audience. Even when he gets real
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 1: and he gets you know, he starts writing his own lyrics,
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: and the Relics lyrics actually not bad. He only does
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: that when he's pushed to do it by his producer.
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  Speaker 2: He just wants to sing stupid.
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  Speaker 1: Stuff that will please the public. He doesn't want to
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  Speaker 1: reveal his soul, which is monkey like, and in that
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  Speaker 1: sense he's monkey right. He's just playing to the audience.
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  Speaker 1: He's and because he's secondhanded, and this is the movie
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  Speaker 1: does very well in showing because he's secondhanded, his soul
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  Speaker 1: is empty. He is miserable, he is unhappy, he's depressed,
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 1: and he uses drugs and alcohol and sex as an escape,
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  Speaker 1: which is exactly the fate, exactly the fate of soulless
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  Speaker 1: second handed people. Second handedness. Second handedness leads to that
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  Speaker 1: emptiness and to that nothing to live for, no reason
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  Speaker 1: to live, no values, because what's the reason to live values?
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: But you have no values. Everything is about other people,
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: Everything is about their values, everything about what they want,
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  Speaker 1: what they desire you or nothing. And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: happens to every second handed person. They become so less
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  Speaker 1: miserable and happy depressed. So it's a good theme, it's
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  Speaker 1: well made, it's entertaining. The one downside I'd say is
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: it's it's unconvincing in his change at the end, Like
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: it's sounds like he identifies his nature secondhanded and commits
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: to personal values. Now there's something about him committing to
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: different values. He seems to become a different type of entertainer.
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  Speaker 1: He seems to be singing songs that he really cares
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  Speaker 1: about rather than trying to please. Maybe, but the transformation,
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: where does it come from? Is not well presented in
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: the movie. It's as if he reads such a low
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  Speaker 1: depth then he comes to some realization that changes him.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. So the transformation into a first handed person,
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  Speaker 1: person with values and which the movie ends on that
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  Speaker 1: transformation is unconvincing.
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  Speaker 2: It's a clear way it comes.
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  Speaker 1: From, and clearly it happened, because this is a true
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  Speaker 1: story about the life of Robby Williams. But I'm curious
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: if Robby Williams can introspect can identify what actually caused
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  Speaker 1: it and how the change was achieved, that would have
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  Speaker 1: been really, really interesting. But anyway, another movie I gives
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  Speaker 1: a thumb I give a thumbs up in spite of
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: the gimmick because I think it was well made, entertaining,
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: and the second handedness. Second handed means everything is about
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  Speaker 1: the other, everybody. You're living through the experience of others.
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  Speaker 1: You're only trying to please them. It's their reaction to you.
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  Speaker 1: It's narcissism. Secondhanded is the fundamental nature of a narcissistic being.
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: And again, alcohol and drugs and sex is an escape
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: to try to regain some feeling, to try to get
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 1: a sense of self, try to get a sense of self.
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: But of course it's not a good way to get
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: a sense of self. It's an impossible way to get
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: a sense of self. And therefore it goes no way.
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  Speaker 1: It is, it is not successful. Director of this is
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  Speaker 1: a guy named Michael Gracie. So he did a good job.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's made other movies all around music. So
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  Speaker 1: he did Rocketman, which I think is most famous movie.
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: He did a movie of a pink. He did the
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: greatest show man Rocketman was Elton John. I enjoyed that movie.
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: I liked his movie about about Elton John. Uh, this
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: one Elton John. Of course I know I like Elton John.
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  Speaker 1: This one was about somebody I didn't know. And again
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  Speaker 1: it had this gimmick which I don't think it needed
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I really don't think
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  Speaker 1: it needed.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, those are the two movie reviews.
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  Speaker 1: Next week i'll be reviewing Write the Taigaba Ivola, which
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 1: is a nonfiction book, and uh, a philosophy book, if
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 1: you could, if you could say so, if you could
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  Speaker 1: argue that. And a week after that we'll finish up
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: the Folks in the Road. All Right, We've got a
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  Speaker 1: few remaining which had questions. We'll go through these and
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: we'll call it a day. And again, I hope you
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  Speaker 1: with Andrew monk Levin thinks the essence of political ideological
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  Speaker 1: enemy in America is Marxism Islamism. What do you think
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  Speaker 1: of that?
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  Speaker 2: What would you name.
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  Speaker 1: As the political concept that represents the current main threat
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  Speaker 1: in America? Yeah, I suddenly would include Islamism. While Islamism
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: is a threat, it's not the political ideological enemy. It's
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 1: an external enemy. Islamism is coming from the outside. Its
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: impact internally inside the United States is minimal. It really
• 2:05:28
  Speaker 1: is minimal. There are very few Muslims here, and there
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: are very few Islamists, and they don't represent a significant
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: significant threat. You know, I would say left. You know,
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 1: I would say that the ideological threat is too pronged.
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: It's leftism, which is primarily today postmodernism. So a postmodern
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: left which is all the woke and intersectionality and all
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 1: that which is not particularly Marxist in its nature. So
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  Speaker 1: I think it's it's it's postmodern leftism and right wing
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  Speaker 1: religious nationalism or religion and nationalism, the combination of the two,
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  Speaker 1: but even the two separates. So it's it's a it's
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: a it's it's a you know, on the left, and
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: and there's not just one enemy. That's one thing I
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: disagree with Mark Levin on. This is why he can
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: be in a coalition on the right, because there's one
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: big enemy. I think the enemy is uh postmodern leftism
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: and and nationalism and religiosity on the right, those I
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  Speaker 1: think are the two enemies uh elimana elem Be radical
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  Speaker 1: in principle and absolute in will. Accept no borrowed reality
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  Speaker 1: of life, give yourself without calculation, become what the bourgeois
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  Speaker 1: call an extremist. Let live so they will cannot contain you.
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 1: Never abandoned strong go that all sounds like Evola? Is
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: that Evola? I disagree with every single sentence in there,
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: every single sentence. Be radical and in principle, and absolute
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  Speaker 1: in will. What does will mean? I agree with radical
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 1: in principle, but you should be radical period. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like the whole terminology of the will, which comes from Nietzsche.
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's more ancient than that, but it's a
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: very destructive, very destructive terminology except no borrowed reality of life.
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: There is no borrowed reality of life. There's just reality,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's life within reality. See Evola is privacy
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  Speaker 1: of consciousness, So reality of life is something created, it's
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  Speaker 1: not something in existence. Give yourself without calculation. No, you
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  Speaker 1: absolutely should calculate. This is pure emotionalism. This is pure
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  Speaker 1: giving into the again, the primary see of consciousness. You
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  Speaker 1: want to calculate. One thing you won't find any Vola
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  Speaker 1: is discussion of reason and rationality. Not in a positive
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  Speaker 1: way anyway, But he almost doesn't discuss it at all.
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  Speaker 1: If he does discuss it, it's negative. Become what the
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  Speaker 1: bourgeoisie calls an extremist. Well, yeah, but a particularly kind
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  Speaker 1: of extremist. An extremists of reality, extremist of reason, of life,
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  Speaker 1: of rationality, lives so the world cannot contain you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if you properly understand what that means. And again I
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  Speaker 1: don't think Evola does never abandoned struggle. Why there's no
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  Speaker 1: there's no value in the end of struggle. That's only
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  Speaker 1: a value in a world that requires struggle. Dara, how
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 1: you on it's a Dabo. We met at how the
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: Light Gets In. I was with my face, who is
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: also a big fan. I really like a live I
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 1: rarely get to a live show. Thank for everyone who
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 1: makes the show possible financially. Thank you, though, I really
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: appreciate that Andrew, You're on a roll. What is up
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 1: with you? I think Andrew won the lottery or something.
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's God the number of super chests he's
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: doing with the amounts. I am thank you. Wow, I
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: got to raise. He won the lottery, don't I don't
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: know anyway, I'm thankful. Thoughts on Christian implication one should
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  Speaker 1: love and pity the poor who are in misery. Pity
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  Speaker 1: is a rare intense empathy in camaraderie with a loved
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  Speaker 1: one's serious loss. I'm not sure that's what it really means.
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  Speaker 1: Since the poor always exists, one should live in misery
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  Speaker 1: for the sake of their existence. Yeah, I think that's
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: absolutely right. The meeks will inherit the earth. The poor
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  Speaker 1: are the standar of everything you should as a Christian,
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 1: As a good Christian, you should love the poor. You
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 1: should sacrifice for the poor. You should live in misery
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 1: for the poor. That's what pity means, you know, rare
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 1: intense empathy. You should have empathy, constant empathy for the poor.
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: You should feel like a in camaraderie with the poor.
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 1: And of course you should sacrifice for the poor.
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  Speaker 2: That is a pathetic life.
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: That is a horrible life, that is a life of
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: complete self sacrifice and inability to live a good life.
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 1: And that's what Christianity explicitly demands. Very few Christians live
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  Speaker 1: up to that because it's so painful, it's so go
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 1: against human nature, so go against human inclination and nature
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 1: and so on. So very few Christians live up to it.
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 1: But that's what Christianity demands. That's the evil of Christianity.
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 1: That's what we must rebel against. We must rebel against Christianity.
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 1: I'll give this to Ivola is anti christian He's definitely
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 1: rebelling against Christianity, just like Nietzsche does. But his alternative
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 1: to Christianity is in many regards worse than Christianity, if
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 1: you can imagine that. But but yes, we should not
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  Speaker 1: pity the poor. I mean, you should feel sorry for
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 1: the undeserving poor, but not to the point of dominating
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  Speaker 1: your life in any kind of way. It should be
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  Speaker 1: a temporary, temporary emotion, not a state of being, which
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 1: is what Christianity demands. All right, let me thank some
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: of the stick of people, because we've got a bunch
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 1: of stickers. Jeffrey, thank you, Jeffrey Miller, thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see who else I saw West here. I'm pretty
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 1: sure Wes was here. All right. There is RMK, Thank you,
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 1: really appreciate the support. Pete Forrest, Thank you, Paul. There's
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: Wes g Jeffrey, thank you, Wes, thank you for the
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: fifty dollars. And then this shows being a long show,
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 1: a long show. Let me go to the top. See
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: if I can capture the people at the top who
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 1: gave stickers. Yeah, Andrew, thank you, and to think it's
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 1: a different Andrew and and X say something. Mary Eleen
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 1: thank you, and John thank you, and Mary Aleen again,
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 1: and Barry thank you, and whoops, there it goes again. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I think I've caught almost everybody, so I really appreciate
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 1: anybody who gave a stick up. Thank you, thank you,
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: thank you, really appreciate it. We really made up the gap.
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: We're going to go through these last few questions pretty quickly,
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 1: and then I'm off to dinner.
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 2: I like numbers.
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 1: You accept Islamism once EU domination, but you think it's
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: unrelated to Amdanni calling to globalizing into FADA, that it's
• 2:13:13
  Speaker 1: just a hipster talk. Yes, I do, I really do.
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: I don't think Mom donnie has a real vested interest
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 1: in Islam, or islam Mism in particular. I think it's
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 1: like all those kids yelling globalizing into fada on campuses.
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: Very few of them understand what they're yelling and hold
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 1: what they're yelling. It's it's more of a of a
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 1: statement about hatred of Israel and wanting to see Israel.
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 1: And I think mcdonnie is hostile to the West and
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: would like to see the West replaced by a with
• 2:13:51
  Speaker 1: a socialist utopia. But I don't think his socialist utopia
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 1: is Islamist. I just don't think is. I don't think
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 1: he's the trojan horse of Islam. I think he's fundamentally secular.
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, I might be wrong. I think the same
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 1: about the Mayor of London. I don't think the Mayor
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: of London is particularly islam Is. He is a Muslim
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 1: who is a socialist. He is terrible because he's a
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: horrible leftist. You don't have to double up any sympathetic
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 1: to Muslims. But he's not any Slamist. His goal is
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 1: not Sharia law. His goal is the egalitarian horrors of socialism.
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 1: Neo seems like the Yue and Saudi are also in
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 1: conflicting Yemen. Anything you know about that, Yeah, I mean
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 1: they're both they each supporting different groups of that oppose
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: the Houties.
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 2: That are in conflict put to one another.
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 1: Exactly why they can't unite and defeat the Hooties is
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: beyond me. Why they're attacking each other is beyond me.
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 1: You'd think the Saudis and the ue would be united.
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 1: Uh So, I don't know the details of it. I'd
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 1: have to I'd have to research it more. But I
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 1: did notice that that that suddenly you know, they're in
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 1: dispute and Saudi Arabia actually bombed a UEE ally in Yemen.
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 1: Doesn't make any real sense. But you know that part
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 1: of the world doesn't make sense. It's very tribal and
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 1: and uh and and horrific, all right, equal to reality.
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 1: What is the best way to filter out all the
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 1: nonsense that the world throws at us so you can
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 1: force on your own values. I mean, the best way
• 2:15:42
  Speaker 1: is just to focus on your own values. Is to
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 1: center yourself, not on the news, not on the world,
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 1: not on Trump, not as what is going on anywhere
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 1: in the world, but focus spend real time and energy
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 1: on your own values, identifying them, striving to achieve them,
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: embrace them, enjoying them. That's what your whole life should
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 1: be sended about. And then for the news, listening to
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 1: you on book show and getting it out of your
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 1: system and then going on and pursuing your values. But
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 1: it's really organizing all your effort, all your concentration, all
• 2:16:16
  Speaker 1: your time. What are my values? What I love, what
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 1: I want to do, what I want to create? That's
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 1: what you should be focused on. What is the best
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 1: Puerto Rican food item terms of Puerto Rican food item,
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 1: probably sweet plantains, but you know, I don't know. I mean,
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 1: my favorite Puerto Rican dish is is a egg plant
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: and lamb dish at at a restaurant here in terms
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 1: of Puerto Rican food. That is my favorite, my favorite food.
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 1: It's it's, you know, incredibly flavorful and it's got eggplant
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 1: and lamb, min slam Bradley.
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 2: What's stopping lawn bezos etc.
• 2:17:02
  Speaker 1: From embracing rand They've already out shrugged and resonate with it.
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 1: Are they just closet objectivists? No? I mean they obviously
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 1: reject objectivism. A lawn is too much of a subjectivist
• 2:17:13
  Speaker 1: and an emotionalist to embrace kind of their rationality and
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 1: reason based morality of Rand. He's rational and goes by
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 1: reason in his business side and in his personal side,
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 1: and his political side, and is just his cultural side.
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 1: He's a complete subjectivist and emotionalist visus. I don't know
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 1: well enough, but many of them still embrace elements of altruism.
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 2: Many of them just don't.
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 1: Get what's so important about philosophy and are not interested
• 2:17:45
  Speaker 1: in philosophy coaw philosophy. They've succeeded in life without one.
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 1: Why do they need one?
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 2: I think each one has their own reasons.
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 1: But I don't think any of them are closet objectivist,
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: not a single one of them. Daniel. You gave Trump
• 2:18:02
  Speaker 1: credit for mentioning oil, maybe, but I interpreted his statement
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 1: more as an imperialistic and collectivistic champion, not an act
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 1: of justice to all companies. He keeps mentioning the all companies,
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 1: he keeps mentioning compensating him. He keeps being that up.
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 1: Somebody has whispered that in his ear, and he keeps
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 1: bringing it up. So I get what you're where you're
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 1: coming from. But he does say it explicitly. I'm not
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 1: putting woods in his mouth. He actually says it, so
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 1: somebody's whispered that to him. I don't know who it is.
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 1: It's like the only people who've ever talked about it
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: are objectivists.
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's Alex.
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's somebody who's heard Alex talk about it.
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 1: But the only people that I ever talk about nationalization
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 1: is a bad thing, and stealing and military action is
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 1: justified in the face of nationalization objectivists. I don't know
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 1: anybody else who've talked that way. So maybe maybe an
• 2:19:00
  Speaker 1: objective's got to him, or got to somebody in his
• 2:19:03
  Speaker 1: universe and whispered in his ear. I don't know, Steve O.
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 1: How important is freedom of speech? Under what circumstances may
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 1: the government prohibit lying? Read LA Police Protective League versus LA,
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 1: or US versus Alpharez. I haven't read any of those,
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 1: but free speeches massively important. It's one of the most
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 1: important rights that we have. And the government can only
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: prohibit lying when that lying is used to gain a value,
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 1: that is, to gain a material object, and that it's
• 2:19:41
  Speaker 1: called fraud. And there's the clear definitions about what fraud is,
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 1: So you can prohibit lying in order to get money,
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 1: you can you can prohibit lying. If the purpose of
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 1: lying is to overturn an election, that is fraud. What
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 1: Trump did in twenty twenty is fraud is the use
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 1: of a of a lie in order to gain a
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: material value or or or change in behavior that has
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 1: material consequences.
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 2: And then you can you can sue for frauds.
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 1: So the government prohibits fraud, of course, of prohibits threats
• 2:20:18
  Speaker 1: an incitement, and defining incitement is not easy. You need
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 1: to really think that through. But yeah, so I haven't
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 1: read those But other than that, you can lie, but
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 1: you have to suffer the consequences of lies. And again,
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 1: if the lies are lies that actually you you you
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 1: know you get something for it, you you, that is
• 2:20:45
  Speaker 1: not allowed. That's faut. You cannot commit fraud. Again, you
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 1: have to ask a lawyer in terms of technical definition
• 2:20:50
  Speaker 1: of fraud. Steve or do you like friendship sandwiches? Not particularly?
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 2: Do you like better Philippe or Cole's both in Los Angeles?
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: Never eaten at either one of those? Which one invented
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 1: the sandwich? I have no idea, Thank you, STEVEO. Cobb.
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 1: Why do you think brutalist is not objectivist. Well, I
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 1: haven't seen the movie yet. When I see it, I'll
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 1: give you a definitive answer, because the objectives architecture is
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 1: not brutalist, and from my understanding, the understanding not firsthand,
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 1: second hand, the hero of the brutalist does not represent
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 1: objectivist values, objectivist aesthetics, or objectivist values. So but i'll
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 1: tell you once I watched the movie, which I will watch.
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: What's your view of the Hudson River School. Was there
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: any great American art movement in history? I guess the
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 1: Arts and Movement School is the closest it comes to
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 1: a great American.
• 2:21:52
  Speaker 2: Visual arts.
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, jazz is a great art American arts, But
• 2:21:58
  Speaker 1: other than that, I'm trying to think think movies, cinema
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 1: is a great American art. But in terms of the
• 2:22:04
  Speaker 1: visuals of painting, sculpture, there's some good artists, but nothing
• 2:22:09
  Speaker 1: on a world level. I mean, Sergeant is probably the
• 2:22:11
  Speaker 1: best painter who is American, but he did most of
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 1: his work in Europe and studied in Europe. But they
• 2:22:17
  Speaker 1: just weren't. There are other American, good American painters, but
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 1: there just wasn't a great American movement, you know, the
• 2:22:23
  Speaker 1: Hudson River school was good. It's primarily what do you
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 1: call it, landscapes. Some of those landscapes are truly magnificent.
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 1: One of the most beautiful landscapes I've ever seen come
• 2:22:34
  Speaker 1: from the painters in the Hudson River School. So I
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 1: like their work. I think they're dramatic and beautiful, h
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 1: and worthy. But do they match up to the great
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 1: European schools of art. Maybe that's in Valley School. Maybe
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 1: a few artists here and there, but there wasn't There
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 1: weren't great visual art movements in the United States. Sadly.
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 1: Will you watch The Artisty Definitely, I'll definitely want to see.
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 1: That's the new movie by Christopher Nolan. Have you ever
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 1: played romy Cube? What do you think of it? Do
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 1: you think people can learn anything from playing cards? I
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: played Rummy Cube a long long time ago in my youth.
• 2:23:15
  Speaker 1: I can't remember much about it. Uh I. The only
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 1: card game I really loved and and really I thought
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 1: was really really good was Bridge. Bridge is a phenomenal game,
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 1: uh And you can learn you can learn strategy, thinking skills,
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: memory from playing Bridge Bridges, and communication skills. It really
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 1: teaches you communication skills. It's a it's a it's an
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 1: it's really a thrilling game. It's it's the best, one
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 1: of the best games ever a bridge, and it's a
• 2:23:44
  Speaker 1: hard game. You really really requires thought. Hey, we somebody
• 2:23:49
  Speaker 1: did a.
• 2:23:52
  Speaker 2: Name munch.
• 2:23:55
  Speaker 1: That was a stick of from Bosnian Hegovina is Andrew again, Okay,
• 2:24:01
  Speaker 1: let's finish these centeric I could Drump be pivoted from
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 1: militarization of cities to protecting military power towards election victories. No,
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 1: I don't, well, militarization projecting military power is not necessarily
• 2:24:16
  Speaker 1: good towards election victories. No, I don't think so. I
• 2:24:20
  Speaker 1: think that the cities is too important to him, too
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: much of his ego is tied up in what happens
• 2:24:25
  Speaker 1: in America. Andrew, I would think the objective's attitude towards
• 2:24:30
  Speaker 1: monks would be decidedly negative. You would think in every aspect,
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 1: the socialists they really communists, and and and they believe
• 2:24:41
  Speaker 1: in a god and devoting your life to something that
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 1: doesn't exist, horrible existence. If you in control, this is John,
• 2:24:48
  Speaker 1: if you in control of the US military, who would
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 1: you take out first? Iran?
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 2: No question about Iran?
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 1: A long time ago, and that that would have been
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: my number one priority taking that out. That regimail should
• 2:25:04
  Speaker 1: have been done thirty years ago, better late than never.
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 1: And other than that, I wouldn't do much. I mean
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 1: maybe something like what we just did to Maduro. Not
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 1: much if you could do it without shedding blood, take
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 1: out the Cuban regime. I would work to do those things,
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 1: but would not want to risk the lives of soldiers
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 1: for it. So do it without risking soldiers' lives. I
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 1: would take out the Cuban regime. But other than that,
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 1: you have to really monitor North Korea and worry about
• 2:25:35
  Speaker 1: North Korea and make sure you can defend yourself against
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 1: any kind of launch from them. All right, last two questions,
• 2:25:44
  Speaker 1: Andrew fifty dollars. My contributions will slow down in the
• 2:25:47
  Speaker 1: new year as I have to refocus on Korea more Still,
• 2:25:52
  Speaker 1: I'm happy to be generous to the show. Over the
• 2:25:55
  Speaker 1: last two weeks. You've had the second most effect on
• 2:25:58
  Speaker 1: helping change my psychopis after Rand. Thank you, and I
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 1: really really appreciate that. Sorry, you'll have to slow down,
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 1: but I completely understand, and hopefully we'll find others to
• 2:26:09
  Speaker 1: take your place and to ramp up in your place.
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 1: And I really appreciated the last two weeks. Yeah, I
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 1: mean it's been a lot of money. I haven't added
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 1: it up, but I guess you have. What is your
• 2:26:23
  Speaker 1: view on the digital ID nonsense and age verification sweeping
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 1: across the world. Seems like government and coote to being
• 2:26:32
  Speaker 1: about global censorship. I mean, yes, I think government's won control.
• 2:26:38
  Speaker 1: We know that, and they're looking for ways to control you. Now. Granted,
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: there is some issue around pornography and what you do
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 1: about it. We're children, and but that should be that
• 2:26:54
  Speaker 1: should be primarily the parents responsibility in terms of how
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 1: kind of blockers they put on their computers at home
• 2:27:02
  Speaker 1: and on the phones and all of that. But yes,
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 1: there's no question that governments around the world are going
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 1: to use technology that is evolving to try to to
• 2:27:18
  Speaker 1: try to control us and to try to influence us,
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 1: and to try to to try to try to gain
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 1: more power over our lives. That is what governments do.
• 2:27:29
  Speaker 1: All right, this is the last one. Please, Why did
• 2:27:32
  Speaker 1: I men say in any of you with Tom Snyder
• 2:27:34
  Speaker 1: that she wouldn't like her philosophy to attract as many
• 2:27:37
  Speaker 1: people as religions do. I don't remember saying that, but
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 1: my guess is that she would She didn't want that
• 2:27:45
  Speaker 1: kind of attraction. It's not so much about the numbers,
• 2:27:49
  Speaker 1: it's about the kind of attraction, the attraction of accepting
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 1: things on faith, which I think is the only way
• 2:27:55
  Speaker 1: you would gain that kind of following in a short
• 2:27:58
  Speaker 1: period of time is people just embrace you out of faith.
• 2:28:02
  Speaker 1: She wanted a thinking She wanted adherents to philosophy who
• 2:28:07
  Speaker 1: are real, actual thinkers. And she didn't think that the
• 2:28:11
  Speaker 1: masses were actually that, so I think she didn't want
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 1: mindless followers. That's a good way to put it. All right,
• 2:28:20
  Speaker 1: Thank you guys, really appreciate it. I'm going to go
• 2:28:23
  Speaker 1: to dinner. I hope you enjoyed the show. Don't forget
• 2:28:27
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• 2:28:35
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• 2:28:37
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