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Black Hawk Down, More Failed Assassination Attempts? | HBR News 488 · Honey Badger Radio

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Speaker 1: This is EHBR News number four eighty eight, black Hawk down,
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Speaker 1: more failed assassination attempts, or we discussed the news of
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Speaker 1: the week and give it a Badger treatment. Hello everyone,
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Speaker 1: and welcome to Honey Badger Radio. I hope you guys
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Speaker 1: are doing well this week and you're laughing at all
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Speaker 1: of this winning so that you are not consumed by it.
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Speaker 1: I am your host, Brian. I'm joined by doctor Randamer Cam.
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Speaker 1: Hannah Wollen is not available as she is very sick,
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Speaker 1: so let us, you know, keep her in your thoughts
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Speaker 1: because she is not going to be able to make
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Speaker 1: it into the show. She has a stomach flu. It's
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Speaker 1: a little bit scary, to be honest, because it's like
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Speaker 1: it is un known territory we are entering. We're entering
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Speaker 1: unknown waters. But for a man of my particular let's say,
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Speaker 1: uh personality, I find it exciting. It's like adventurous. So Mike, oh, Mike, Oh,
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Speaker 1: that's right, Mike doesn't have audio because I didn't. Hold
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Speaker 1: on a second. Let me just add Mike's audio. I
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Speaker 1: forgot to do that to the talking panda. My bad.
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Speaker 1: Hold on a second. I'm a little out of sorts
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Speaker 1: and okay, so now Mike should be able to talk. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you were saying about.
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Speaker 2: The winning I cannot remember what.
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Speaker 1: You said that you can't take it anymore.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm in this wed blind spot between the black
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Speaker 2: pills and the white pills because everything's going so well
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Speaker 2: for America, but it's going so terribly for my own country.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know what aland it's the yin yang
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Speaker 2: in all of this. I'm in the gray area. Mm hmmmmm.
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Speaker 2: Like I'm delighted about how well everything is sorry going
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Speaker 2: for America. Well, everything is going so terribly for my
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Speaker 2: own country, and I don't know how I'm going to
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Speaker 2: get through this.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I hope I'm gonna.
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Speaker 2: I hope I'm going to land in America during its
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Speaker 2: golden age rather than ending up in.
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Speaker 1: A cell in a.
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Speaker 2: UK prison on account of having said something wrong.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Where I'm going or what I'm doing. All I know
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Speaker 2: is I'm hiccupping from being so drunk. So are you
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Speaker 2: gonna let Brian talk for a while while I killed
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Speaker 2: my hiccups? Brian, do something?
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Speaker 1: Water? Drink water? Okay, so yeah, do that. We have
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Speaker 1: a great showed line up for you guys. This week,
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Speaker 1: so please be sure to continue the conversations in the
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Speaker 1: chat as well as the comment section. On this week's
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Speaker 1: HBr News. We're going to be discussing the recent unfortunate
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Speaker 1: tragedy involving the attack helicopter and I don't mean that
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Speaker 1: in a identify as kind of way, and a passenger
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Speaker 1: plane another would be assassin is thwarted, and the United
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Speaker 1: Nations medals in Japanese tradition with hilarious consequences and potentially
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Speaker 1: more so. Stick around, it's going to be a good
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Speaker 1: Patron Only show. So you're probably looking at this image
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Speaker 1: that I'm displaying on the screen that features a smiling
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Speaker 1: woman with a smiling baby in her belly, and it
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Speaker 1: says nine minutes, well, I learned thing really interesting and
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Speaker 1: I thought I would make it the topic for the
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Speaker 1: Patron Show. So you probably know that there's all of
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Speaker 1: this talk about us AID, or as the Left is
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Speaker 1: calling it, USAID, which is being it's being audited, audited,
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Speaker 1: and they're looking at where the money is going, and
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Speaker 1: us AID is essentially a place where you can embezzle
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Speaker 1: millions of taxpayer dollars on really stupid things, and because
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Speaker 1: it's taxpayer dollars, there's absolutely no reason for you to
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Speaker 1: give a shit about how you spend it. Well, on
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Speaker 1: an end, it's also a one of the many ways
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Speaker 1: that intelligence agencies like the CIA can perform ops on
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Speaker 1: the population of our country as well as foreign countries
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Speaker 1: and foreign governments as well. And one of the things
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Speaker 1: that I learned about us AID or us AI D
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Speaker 1: is that they've invested a tremendous amount of money into
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Speaker 1: gaming content, which is interesting because what I do on
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Speaker 1: the side, or you know, as well as this show,
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Speaker 1: as I talk about games and culture and the importance
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Speaker 1: of a healthy cultural gaming space to tell, you know,
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Speaker 1: good stories and have entertainment that is good for people
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Speaker 1: as opposed to essentially propaganda. And this game is a
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Speaker 1: mobile game. Mobile games are one of the biggest places
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Speaker 1: where USAID has invested. This is a mobile game called
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Speaker 1: nine minutes and it is This is for children, aimed
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Speaker 1: at children, and it says the description of it is,
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Speaker 1: players experience the adventures of nine months of pregnancy in
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Speaker 1: just nine minutes. The game aims to introduce players to
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Speaker 1: the key dues and don'ts of pregnancy by presenting players
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Speaker 1: with a series of life choices, physical, medical, and social
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Speaker 1: against the clock in a simple, iconic format. The player's
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Speaker 1: choices determine the health and well being of both the
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Speaker 1: mother and the baby. Hopefully step one is abort. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they're obviously for that, but they that's not the only
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Speaker 1: thing that they do. They have other games like Worm Attack,
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Speaker 1: which aims to keep girls and boys healthy by defeating
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Speaker 1: one called Half the Sky. I'm not going to go
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Speaker 1: in the description. I'll let you guys suss that one out.
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Speaker 1: So I thought we would go into what in what
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Speaker 1: all right. So I just want to say before I
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Speaker 1: get into this one, this investigation is still ongoing and
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Speaker 1: information may change from minute to minute, So I'm just
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Speaker 1: talking about things as I know them right now, and
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to make any determinations. But I do
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Speaker 1: think there are many factors to consider that a lot
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Speaker 1: of people might not be considering. And it's actually kind
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Speaker 1: of unfortunate that Hannah couldn't make it, because I guarantee
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Speaker 1: you she would have a lot to say about this
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Speaker 1: particular event. So in case you guys are living under
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Speaker 1: a rock. On January twenty ninth, twenty twenty five, a
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Speaker 1: tragic mid air collision took place near Reagan National Airport,
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Speaker 1: involving an American Airlines Regional jet from Wichita, Kansas and
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Speaker 1: a US Army Blackhawk helicopter on a training mission for
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Speaker 1: a Continuity of Government exercise. The incident claimed the lives
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Speaker 1: of all sixty four people on the plane and the
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Speaker 1: three soldiers in the helicopter, marking it as the deadliest
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Speaker 1: US aviation disaster in years. The Blackhawk, piloted by Chief
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Speaker 1: Warrant Officer to Andrew Eves and Captain Rebecca Lobach pictured here,
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Speaker 1: was possibly flying above its permitted attitude I'm sorry altitude,
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Speaker 1: according to preliminary NTSB findings, though this was still under investigation.
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Speaker 1: Air traffic Control had made attempts to coordinate the separation
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Speaker 1: of the two aircraft, but the exact reason for this
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Speaker 1: collision has not yet been determined. The crash sparked immediate speculation,
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Speaker 1: with some, including President Trump, suggesting that diversity hiring practices
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Speaker 1: that date back to the Obama administration might have contributed
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Speaker 1: to the disaster. Though these assertions don't they lack direct
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Speaker 1: evidence at this time. The broader implications of this incident
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Speaker 1: include questions about aviation safety, military training protocols, and the
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Speaker 1: management of complex airspaces like Washington DC. The recovery of
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Speaker 1: the black boxes provided hope for further insights, but at
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Speaker 1: this point, the event underscored the critical need for precise
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Speaker 1: coordination between civilian and military aviation operations. And since the
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Speaker 1: write up that I did that I learned there there
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Speaker 1: was a third person in the helicopter, which is another man.
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Speaker 1: I don't have the name right now, but I can
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Speaker 1: certainly dig it up. But one of the things that
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Speaker 1: I thought was interesting is that during the Obama administration
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Speaker 1: there were some changes made to let's see, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: find it here. In the early twenty tens, the Obama
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Speaker 1: administration sought to diversify the FAA's workforce, which included air
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Speaker 1: traffic controllers. This was in response to find that suggested
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Speaker 1: the FAA's hiring practices might disadvantage certain groups, particularly radic
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Speaker 1: racial minorities and women, and they were looking to address that. Now,
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Speaker 1: the FAA is the Federal Aviation Administration. In case you
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Speaker 1: guys don't know, I think that you guys do. So
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Speaker 1: what I'm basically getting at here is that when these
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Speaker 1: policies were put in place, when these initiatives were started,
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Speaker 1: we didn't have a word for it back then. This
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Speaker 1: is like the early twenty tens. I think it was
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Speaker 1: like twenty twelve or something like that, when Obama was
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Speaker 1: in office during his second term. And people are right
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Speaker 1: now they're trying to say, oh, you know, you can't
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Speaker 1: call this DEI because DEI didn't exist or whatever. But
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Speaker 1: it did. It just wasn't called that. I mean, like
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Speaker 1: you know, they're always changing terms around and playing these
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Speaker 1: word games, but it was. It was affirmative action, whatever
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Speaker 1: you want to call it. Okay, these things have existed,
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Speaker 1: and this is something that Obama put through. And here's
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Speaker 1: one of the ways that they did it was using
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Speaker 1: a biographical questionnaire. In twenty thirteen, the FAA introduced a
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Speaker 1: biographical questionnaire as part of the hiring process for air
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Speaker 1: traffic controllers. This questionnaire was intended to assess candidates based
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Speaker 1: on a broader set of criteria beyond just their cognitive ability,
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Speaker 1: Aiming to include more diverse candidates. The BQ included questions
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Speaker 1: about personal background, socioeconomic status, and experience, with which some
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Speaker 1: critics argued could be used to favor applicants from certain backgrounds.
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Speaker 1: The Obama era FAA replaced a previous merit based selection
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Speaker 1: system with one that critics claimed prioritized diversity over pure
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Speaker 1: skill or test performance. This assessment did not directly ask
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Speaker 1: about race, but was said to indirectly benefit minority applicants
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Speaker 1: through questions about so economic background or life experiences. Now,
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Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting that this was caused by that, because
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Speaker 1: we don't know. But what I will say is when
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Speaker 1: you introduce anything other than a merit based system in
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Speaker 1: order to find the most qualified people, and you don't
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Speaker 1: prioritize that, then you will have problems of some kind.
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Speaker 1: Where the failure appears to have been in this case
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Speaker 1: might not be air traffic control, although that's possible. What
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Speaker 1: it seems to me, or what it seems to be,
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Speaker 1: is that the Blackhawk helicopter was not at the correct
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Speaker 1: altitude and what's and so it is likely the fault
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Speaker 1: of the of the helicopter. When they were flying at
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Speaker 1: the helicopter was in contact with air traffic control, and
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Speaker 1: the air traffic control asked the helicopter crew if they
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Speaker 1: saw the passenger plane or the passenger or jet or whatever,
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Speaker 1: and they claimed that they did. But what people are
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Speaker 1: saying is is that there was another plane that because
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Speaker 1: this is like a busy airport, and there was another
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Speaker 1: plane that was taking off, and that the Blackhawk might
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Speaker 1: have mistakenly been, you know, thinking that that was the
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Speaker 1: plane they were talking about, and so they didn't see it.
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Speaker 1: But nonetheless, the lights are hard to miss, the altitude
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Speaker 1: was wrong. There was clearly an error. Now, this could
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Speaker 1: just be a fluke and just an unfortunate tragedy as
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Speaker 1: a result of that. But I think that when Trump,
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Speaker 1: because the what this comes down to is that Trump
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Speaker 1: had criticisms of the not merit based system that was
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Speaker 1: used to hire these people, I think that that's that
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Speaker 1: is not a like, I guess, like a radical thing
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Speaker 1: to say. It's not irrational to say that maybe you
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Speaker 1: don't have the best people and when you're working with
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Speaker 1: extremely you know, sensitive equipment and has to be very
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Speaker 1: precise and you have to operate at the highest level
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Speaker 1: and it's very stressful, and you know, so it's not
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Speaker 1: it's like I couldn't do that, you know, no, no
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Speaker 1: one that does our show could to could fly a
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Speaker 1: black Hawk helicopter. Like, we're just probably not cut out
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Speaker 1: for that, And that doesn't mean anything except that I'm
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Speaker 1: just not that's just not what I'm good for. So
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Speaker 1: when he says that it's it's probably you know, DEI
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Speaker 1: could be a factor, which is what he said. All
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Speaker 1: of the you know, Democrats, activists, feminists, they all got
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Speaker 1: like their panties and a twist over it. They thought, oh,
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Speaker 1: this is the worst thing ever, right, how do you know?
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Speaker 1: Or whatever. But the truth is is that it's entirely
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Speaker 1: possible that even if you found like the reason for
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Speaker 1: the crash, there those reasons which could just be technical
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Speaker 1: for whatever reason. There could be a problem with the equipment.
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Speaker 1: It could be a problem with the communication, it could
15:46
Speaker 1: be a problem with you know, the controls or whatever
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Speaker 1: it is. But some of those may be effects that
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Speaker 1: are downstreamed from some affirmative action HighRes, some DEI hires
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Speaker 1: that happened way back in Obama's time, and it could
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Speaker 1: and there are probably other effects that we either never
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Speaker 1: learned about or have yet to discover, that we may
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Speaker 1: not find until there's another tragedy or some incident. So
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Speaker 1: it's just about like you know, I wouldn't necessarily say
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Speaker 1: that the pilot is a DEI higher, but that this
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Speaker 1: could be a product of that. And the other thing
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Speaker 1: that I'll say, well, obviously a bunch of children were
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Speaker 1: killed in the crash, and that is absolutely devastating and terrible.
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Speaker 1: But the other thing that was really strange about this
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Speaker 1: is that sixty four people died, by the way, on
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Speaker 1: the plane and three soldiers in the helicopter. The other
16:45
Speaker 1: thing I'll say about that is that the helicopter, from
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Speaker 1: what I'm hearing as of now, is was on a
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Speaker 1: exercise or like a training exercise that was supposed to
16:58
Speaker 1: be rehearsing an escape, like if like let's say that,
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Speaker 1: and literally they said this that it's basically a training
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Speaker 1: exercise to extract the president should he should he find
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Speaker 1: himself in some kind of danger and in need of extraction.
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Speaker 1: That was the team that was supposed to get him out.
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Speaker 1: That's like they were training for that. So that's kind
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Speaker 1: of weird. I mean, what so anyway, h I think that? Yeah, So,
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Speaker 1: like I mentioned before, preliminary report, the black Hawk might
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Speaker 1: have been flying above its permitted altitude. It was too high,
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Speaker 1: it should have been lower. I think so anyway, that's
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Speaker 1: my thoughts on that. Mike. If you are still with us,
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Speaker 1: what are you? What are your thoughts?
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Speaker 2: I am still with you. Lauren is still with us now,
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Speaker 2: so oh, Lauren, Lauren, I know you.
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Speaker 1: That's Lauren. You should also talk because.
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Speaker 2: In the absence of a Hannah, we really need someone.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can just you can just talk through Mike's
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Speaker 1: mike and it'll just be the pan will be.
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Speaker 2: She has her own device.
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Speaker 1: Okay, no, no, we're not. We're not have to give
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Speaker 1: her the video Ninja link forgot? I can?
18:14
Speaker 2: I can?
18:14
Speaker 1: I can do that. Do you know how to use
18:16
Speaker 1: You don't know how to use this?
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Speaker 2: It doesn't it doesn't matter. That's gonna take too long.
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Speaker 1: All right, all right, to just talk through Mike's mike.
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Speaker 1: Just sit next to him, get close, guys.
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Speaker 2: I just need to think of how to talk about
18:27
Speaker 2: these things. And yes, I suppose there there have been
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Speaker 2: some conspiracy theories about how this this this must have
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Speaker 2: been preordained in some way, like it seems unlikely that
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Speaker 2: a helicopter could collide with an airplane like pretty much anywhere,
18:58
Speaker 2: like the whole the whole point of even having air
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Speaker 2: traffic control is to make sure that that these things
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Speaker 2: don't happen. And that's just among airplanes, Like there's a
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Speaker 2: whole different air traffic control system going on when it
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Speaker 2: comes to military helicopters.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a poll in while you're talking, okay, And.
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Speaker 2: This is why people are so skeptical, Like military helicopters
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Speaker 2: are supposed to have that their own air traffic control,
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Speaker 2: right that it is supposed to be a whole different
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Speaker 2: thing from what goes on at airports.
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Speaker 1: M h.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, and and so people have begun to wander
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Speaker 2: how the fuck this could happen with military air traffic
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Speaker 2: control going on, And so people have been attributed to
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Speaker 2: this to malice, and I guess rightfully so, because there
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Speaker 2: was Yeah, it seems all so improbable to a passenger
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Speaker 2: passage jet.
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Speaker 1: And I was gonna say that I meant to bring
20:28
Speaker 1: this up because I wasn't sure what the ranks mean,
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Speaker 1: and I apologize for not doing my due diligence to
20:34
Speaker 1: find that out. But it sounded like, uh see, with
20:38
Speaker 1: the people who died, the woman was higher ranked even
20:41
Speaker 1: though she was supposedly the co pilot and neither and
20:44
Speaker 1: and the other guy who was supposedly piloting wasn't that experience?
20:48
Speaker 1: Final Midnight said the flight was a certification flight. The
20:52
Speaker 1: pilot was both inexperienced about six hundred hours over five years,
20:56
Speaker 1: and the senior ranking officer on the flight. Oh, she
20:59
Speaker 1: outranked then who was certifying her. The rumors say that
21:04
Speaker 1: she was notoriously touchy. Being around her was like walking
21:06
Speaker 1: on eggshells. She was also highly politically connected. Ooh, now
21:11
Speaker 1: that's interesting.
21:13
Speaker 3: Here's my theory on this whole thing. This my tinfoil hat.
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Speaker 1: Okay, put it on. You know, you know.
21:21
Speaker 3: How electric cars can be controlled by outside acts.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
21:28
Speaker 3: I think something like that happened here.
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Speaker 1: There was they were asked, people asked about whether or
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Speaker 1: not somebody was actually flying the plane or the helicopter.
21:36
Speaker 1: I mean, but then why would you fly it into
21:39
Speaker 1: that jet unless there was somebody on that jet they
21:42
Speaker 1: were trying to get and they were willing to kill
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Speaker 1: like sixty people, many of whom were teenage boys and girls.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, it could it could have been.
21:52
Speaker 3: It might not have been a person that they were targeting.
21:55
Speaker 3: It could have been something on board. It could have
21:57
Speaker 3: been a package that make it to wherever it was
22:01
Speaker 3: supposed to go. But either way, there's no way you
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Speaker 3: can tell me that it was just the oops. This
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Speaker 3: happened on purpose, and there was somebody either on that
22:10
Speaker 3: plane or the helicopter or both that were the real
22:15
Speaker 3: reason that this happened, you know what I mean? So,
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Speaker 3: and I don't think we'll ever know.
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Speaker 1: It's probably air traffic control was short staffed too, from
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Speaker 1: what I'm told, and I think they were trying their best.
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Speaker 1: I don't I where my suspicions lie are purely on
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Speaker 1: the black Hawk crew because they appeared to be flying
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Speaker 1: at the wrong altitude. And I don't think the passenger
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Speaker 1: plane is responsible. I think that you know that the uh,
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Speaker 1: the responsibility falls on the feet of the of the
22:47
Speaker 1: pilots of the helicopter. I would agree with that, That's
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Speaker 1: what I think.
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Speaker 2: I saw a post on Twitter that someone else reposted
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Speaker 2: that apparently military helicopters are largely autonomous and they take
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Speaker 2: at least like three military operators to operate, but they
23:10
Speaker 2: can fly autonomously, and that it's apparently quite common for
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Speaker 2: all three passion passengers slash pilots to be looking away
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Speaker 2: from what the hell is going on in the viewfinder
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Speaker 2: of where the fuck that military helicopter is going, and
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Speaker 2: the the account given by that tweeter was that, yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's it's it's apparently quite normal for military helicopters two
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Speaker 2: to go astray like this on account of all three
23:50
Speaker 2: pilots not quite paying attention to where the fuck the
23:55
Speaker 2: thing is going. And I'm not sure.
23:58
Speaker 1: And the thing is, I think that black black hawks
24:02
Speaker 1: are really they're pretty agile, I think, right, like compared
24:05
Speaker 1: to a jet like they can certainly change course and
24:08
Speaker 1: alter their altitude without too much issue. That's kind of
24:10
Speaker 1: the point of helicopters. Again, I don't know. I mean,
24:14
Speaker 1: I watch helicopters on TV and movies. I saw air Wolf,
24:19
Speaker 1: But I mean that's what I think.
24:20
Speaker 2: You know, do you know how long autopilot has been available.
24:25
Speaker 1: For since since the movie Airplane.
24:30
Speaker 2: It's like a hundred years ago. You'd be amazed. It
24:34
Speaker 2: just involves what's that? What's that thing that that rights itself?
24:45
Speaker 2: It's the autopilot thing. It's a sort of it just
24:50
Speaker 2: itself according to gravity. Yeah, that's that's been.
24:56
Speaker 1: Around for like a gyroscope? Is that what it is?
25:00
Speaker 2: One hundred it's been around for like one hundred years,
25:03
Speaker 2: and like so many technologies, if it's available to the
25:08
Speaker 2: general public, it's already been available to the government. Yeah,
25:13
Speaker 2: like sure, for sure, it goes to the AI, it
25:17
Speaker 2: goes for autopilot, Yeah, goes for whatever it is that's
25:21
Speaker 2: controlling these helicopters. And I don't want to get all
25:26
Speaker 2: fucking terminator too on you all, but.
25:30
Speaker 1: Well, I don't want to laugh very insteader of the
25:33
Speaker 1: idea that a Tesla.
25:35
Speaker 2: Can be can be driven remotely up to the Trump Tower,
25:39
Speaker 2: we can consider the idea that a black helicopter can
25:44
Speaker 2: be driven by I mean.
25:47
Speaker 1: We can do it now.
25:49
Speaker 2: The government's been able to do it since thirty years ago.
25:53
Speaker 2: So I don't want to I don't want to be
25:57
Speaker 2: a big old Alex Jones about all this. But at
25:59
Speaker 2: the same time, because.
26:01
Speaker 3: It's been right, I think jar is pretty full by that.
26:07
Speaker 2: And I'm not even saying I'm right, I'm saying I'm
26:09
Speaker 2: in the realm of not necessarily wrong.
26:13
Speaker 1: Well, the fact that people get up in arms because
26:17
Speaker 1: Trump cast suspicion on it is like, I think that's
26:20
Speaker 1: cause enough to be like, why are you guys like
26:22
Speaker 1: not willing to accept that this could be at the
26:25
Speaker 1: very least an issue of people that are unqualified. But
26:29
Speaker 1: I'm not. I see there are some people in the
26:32
Speaker 1: chat that seem to understand more of the mechanics of
26:36
Speaker 1: this than I do. Obviously, I could even fly the
26:39
Speaker 1: helicopter in grant the thought of four. So why don't
26:42
Speaker 1: you guys, just if you have something, you could send
26:45
Speaker 1: us a super chat or a super chower and I'll
26:46
Speaker 1: be sure to read it on air. I think that
26:49
Speaker 1: you know, you guys probably have more to offer than me.
26:51
Speaker 1: But I wanted to cover this anyway because I do
26:54
Speaker 1: think that at the very least, the the meddling in
26:58
Speaker 1: the way and way the FAA HighRes people regardless of
27:04
Speaker 1: like where the fault is at, I think that that
27:07
Speaker 1: is where the potential for catastrophic failure begins. It's like
27:13
Speaker 1: the small things, right, It's like hiring somebody slightly less qualified,
27:17
Speaker 1: using somebody that's less experienced, and using them for the
27:20
Speaker 1: wrong reasons like we need more diverse voices or whatever
27:22
Speaker 1: it is. That's how you create these problems. And again
27:26
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's a direct correlation, because I don't
27:29
Speaker 1: know for sure, but if there could be several layers
27:33
Speaker 1: or steps of small failures that led to this, this
27:39
Speaker 1: large failure. So anyway, send us a message if you
27:43
Speaker 1: guys have something to contribute, maybe something that I overlooked
27:45
Speaker 1: or did not bring up. And again, this is you know,
27:48
Speaker 1: it is tragic, and it is also very strange and suspicious.
27:52
Speaker 1: There's definitely avoidable stuff that could have things that happened
27:56
Speaker 1: here that probably could have been avoided. But I want
27:59
Speaker 1: to know what you guys think.
28:00
Speaker 2: But we won't know for another sixty years. We may, right,
28:04
Speaker 2: someone only just opened the JFK files and no one's
28:08
Speaker 2: even talking about that now. We don't even know what's
28:10
Speaker 2: going on with that. So maybe sixty years from now
28:12
Speaker 2: we'll finally figure out what the fuck happened with that
28:14
Speaker 2: black hole. Yeah. Yeah, maybe we'll all be dead by then,
28:18
Speaker 2: so I won't even about it.
28:21
Speaker 1: All right, Uh, well, we're gonna move on to the
28:23
Speaker 1: next story. Let's Lauren, you wanted to say anything else
28:26
Speaker 1: before I do that? Okay, all right, let's move on
28:29
Speaker 1: to the next story. So yet another foil assassination plot
28:34
Speaker 1: on the Trump administration. A man at the US Capitol
28:36
Speaker 1: was arrested a week ago on Monday after confessing to
28:39
Speaker 1: police that he was armed and was planning to kill
28:42
Speaker 1: members of President Trump's administration before we continue. If you've
28:46
Speaker 1: previously heard about a nearly identical story but with a
28:49
Speaker 1: woman confessing to the police about an upcoming assassination plot,
28:52
Speaker 1: you aren't misremembering things. Contradictory information on this story emerged
28:57
Speaker 1: from all sides of the mainstream media as they tripped
29:00
Speaker 1: over themselves to use the correct pronouns for this would
29:03
Speaker 1: be assassin to eliminate any confusion. The arrested individual's birth
29:07
Speaker 1: name is Ryan Michael English and is biologically male back,
29:11
Speaker 1: but goes by Riley English and identifies as female. English
29:16
Speaker 1: was initially arrested on weapons charges after he was found
29:19
Speaker 1: to be in possession of two makeshift Molotov cocktails, a lighter,
29:23
Speaker 1: and a folding knife. Imagine I'm gonna go to the
29:26
Speaker 1: White House with this, okay. English was very open about
29:30
Speaker 1: his motives and shared them freely with investigators. English, who
29:34
Speaker 1: claims to have a congenital heart defect and not much
29:37
Speaker 1: time left to live, stated to investigators, I wonder where
29:40
Speaker 1: the heart defect came from. By the way, I wanted
29:43
Speaker 1: to do something before I go. English also claims he
29:46
Speaker 1: was inspired by the healthcare CEO murderer Luigi Mangioni, stating quote,
29:51
Speaker 1: don't I didn't have a plan. In my mind. I
29:54
Speaker 1: felt like I had to do this. I felt like
29:56
Speaker 1: I was on a mission. Maybe I told myself to
29:58
Speaker 1: have faith and just see what this goes. And I
30:01
Speaker 1: had been thinking about this for a while because of
30:03
Speaker 1: Luigi Mangioni. I pushed that away because I was thinking, like,
30:08
Speaker 1: that is so stupid. That accomplishes nothing. That poor kid
30:11
Speaker 1: just threw his life away for like a minute of
30:13
Speaker 1: vengeance end quote. English decided to set his sites higher,
30:18
Speaker 1: hoping to assassinate President Trump's Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, whom
30:22
Speaker 1: he referred to as a Nazi, or to kill Republican
30:26
Speaker 1: House Speaker Mike Johnson, who I guess he doesn't think
30:29
Speaker 1: of as a Nazi but Nazi adjacent. English also considered
30:32
Speaker 1: firebombing the Washington, DC based Heritage Foundation, a conservative think
30:37
Speaker 1: tank whose members authored the Project twenty twenty five proposal,
30:40
Speaker 1: which Trump disavowed multiple times and said he has no
30:43
Speaker 1: interest in. But hell. However, as English traveled from his
30:47
Speaker 1: residence in Massachusetts to Washington, DC, he began the second
30:51
Speaker 1: guest and question his plan. His intention shifted and his
30:55
Speaker 1: new goal was to kill billionaire investor Scott Bessant, who
30:58
Speaker 1: was sent to be confirm as President Trump's Treasury secretary.
31:03
Speaker 1: According to the arrest affidavit, quote, English's thoughts were to
31:07
Speaker 1: use the small bottles of vodka to start fires and
31:10
Speaker 1: later to wrap them in rags soaked in alcohol, light
31:13
Speaker 1: them and throw them at Besson's feet end quote. And
31:17
Speaker 1: should this not work or should he get the chance?
31:19
Speaker 1: He planned on stabbing Bessent, That's why he had a
31:22
Speaker 1: pocket knife. Aside from the weapons, letters and messages were
31:26
Speaker 1: found on English's person, some of which contained pre written
31:29
Speaker 1: apologies for his planned actions, including one in which he
31:33
Speaker 1: calculated that he may have to kill three or more
31:35
Speaker 1: police officers to get a clear chance to kill Bessant.
31:39
Speaker 1: The arrest affidavit also shows he was prepared to die,
31:42
Speaker 1: stating that he quote expressed acceptance and content with the
31:45
Speaker 1: possibility of suicide by cop end quote. English's defense attorney,
31:49
Speaker 1: Maria Jacob called his actions quote a cry for help
31:53
Speaker 1: end quote, and further stated quote, he was not aggressive
31:56
Speaker 1: when he approached the Capitol police officers. He never brandished
31:59
Speaker 1: any of the items as weapons and assisted police to
32:01
Speaker 1: retrieve the items on his person immediately. End quote. The
32:05
Speaker 1: prosecutors disagree with Gay Jacob on English's state of mind,
32:09
Speaker 1: stating quote, the criminal conduct for which he is before
32:11
Speaker 1: the court is not a momentary lapse in judgment. Rather,
32:14
Speaker 1: it was a premeditated and calculated attempt to commit violence.
32:18
Speaker 1: End quote. If convicted, English could face a maximum sentence
32:21
Speaker 1: of ten years in prison on the unlawful possession charge
32:24
Speaker 1: and up to five years for the possession count. So
32:31
Speaker 1: I just wanted to say that life is stranger than fiction,
32:36
Speaker 1: and just with these two stories alone, Like I know
32:39
Speaker 1: Hollywood is, and I'm not trying to make light of this,
32:41
Speaker 1: but I know Hollywood is struggling to tell a good story.
32:44
Speaker 1: They used to draw from, you know, like things that
32:47
Speaker 1: happen in the world, or maybe like really well written books,
32:50
Speaker 1: you know, like I don't know, like those those those
32:55
Speaker 1: Harrison Ford movies like Patriot Games and stuff like that, right,
32:58
Speaker 1: and because they would have like really weird plots, but
33:02
Speaker 1: then they they seem to be something that could be real.
33:05
Speaker 1: When I see hear this kind of stuff, I think
33:08
Speaker 1: this could be like a movie, Like they could make
33:10
Speaker 1: a movie with a cult of transgender assassins which exists,
33:16
Speaker 1: and I I Andy Know we did. We covered it
33:18
Speaker 1: last week. We covered like the trans like murder cult
33:22
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, the rationalist cult that are that
33:25
Speaker 1: are trying to kill people, And Andy Know did a
33:28
Speaker 1: follow up video recently that you know, sort of expanded
33:31
Speaker 1: on that, like this is a thing, Like I don't
33:33
Speaker 1: know if this person's a member or maybe they're trying
33:36
Speaker 1: to join, but it seems like transgender murderers are like
33:42
Speaker 1: starting to pop up everywhere, and I'm just wondering, like,
33:45
Speaker 1: isn't that just really like ripe sort of material to adapt?
33:50
Speaker 1: So I know Hollywood would never do it because it
33:52
Speaker 1: would make their their people look bad, but I think
33:55
Speaker 1: that's there's some there's something there that could really be like,
33:58
Speaker 1: you know, utilized. But other than that, I mean, you know,
34:03
Speaker 1: I guess I'm glad he got caught, but I have
34:06
Speaker 1: to wonder, like, is this MK ultra? Is that where
34:08
Speaker 1: we're at now?
34:10
Speaker 2: You know, maybe a whole bunch of movies made about
34:13
Speaker 2: this period of history, but they're not going to be
34:17
Speaker 2: made for another fifty years. Yeah, You think about how
34:20
Speaker 2: many Western movies were made about Western times when they
34:26
Speaker 2: weren't particularly interesting to I guess they were generally established
34:36
Speaker 2: American rule over the once wild West. So wonder how
34:41
Speaker 2: many Well there have been movies made about Lincoln and
34:46
Speaker 2: Washington and Jefferson and all these sorts of things. There's
34:50
Speaker 2: obviously going to be movies made about the Trump administration.
34:55
Speaker 1: And well, they already made one called The Apprentice. I
34:59
Speaker 1: nobody watched. But yeah, but.
35:01
Speaker 2: Yet, hundreds hundreds of years from now, people are going
35:05
Speaker 2: to make the futuristic equivalent of movies about Trump, and
35:11
Speaker 2: we can only hope that they're gonna present anything resembling
35:15
Speaker 2: the truth.
35:16
Speaker 1: I think they're yeah, go ahead, sorry, yeah.
35:20
Speaker 2: No, I it's anyone anyone with a with a understandable
35:30
Speaker 2: sense of anxiety worries about the truth and how they're
35:34
Speaker 2: going to portray these times, Like they're going to say, yeah, look,
35:40
Speaker 2: COVID really was the worst thing since the Spanish flu,
35:45
Speaker 2: and and and the injection has really saved.
35:49
Speaker 1: Us from this.
35:50
Speaker 2: And Trump really was a dictator, and Biden really was
35:55
Speaker 2: the pioneer who tried to save us from the dictator.
35:59
Speaker 2: Now this sounds absurd to us, but you have to
36:04
Speaker 2: wonder who's who's going to win the war.
36:08
Speaker 1: Who's going to tell the story the history right.
36:10
Speaker 2: The War of attrition, the war of information. And it
36:14
Speaker 2: makes you wonder how much of what we think of
36:18
Speaker 2: historical truth is absolutely bollocks most of it. Yeah, it's
36:27
Speaker 2: like like Napoleon said, history is a series of lies
36:31
Speaker 2: agreed upon and I you know, I'm no fan of Napoleon.
36:35
Speaker 2: He was an absolute count, but may have touched upon
36:41
Speaker 2: a true thing there. I mean, he wasn't short. It
36:45
Speaker 2: was British propaganda who made everyone think he was shot. Yeah,
36:50
Speaker 2: he was five for.
36:53
Speaker 4: Average the time. Yeah, he's told than I forgot the
37:01
Speaker 4: British guy Nelson.
37:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna be cheeky and.
37:10
Speaker 1: Carls like my height.
37:12
Speaker 2: Yeah. But yeah, it's for anyone, for anyone who's having
37:18
Speaker 2: anxiety as to what if anyone's going to remember them
37:22
Speaker 2: or their legacy. No, no, probably not. Everyone's probably gonna
37:26
Speaker 2: remember an absolute lie about history.
37:29
Speaker 1: And but that's that's why we should make the movie
37:32
Speaker 1: about the trans cult of assassins like the And they
37:37
Speaker 1: don't have to beat people with actual gen dysphoria, because
37:39
Speaker 1: I think most of these people they have something else,
37:42
Speaker 1: like a weird fetish or their auto kindophiliacs or something.
37:45
Speaker 1: And they're and they wear women's clothing. It's like Buffalo Bill,
37:49
Speaker 1: you know, which they explained in Silence of the Lambs,
37:52
Speaker 1: like what is it? Hannibal Lecter says, he's not transgender,
37:56
Speaker 1: He's he's got you know, auto glenophilia. And I think
38:01
Speaker 1: a lot of these people do. And I but I
38:03
Speaker 1: also think they do a lot of drugs. And I
38:05
Speaker 1: think that there could be some MK Ultra fucking activate
38:09
Speaker 1: activate the Truon killer, the Trouon Machine, the Truminator, and
38:13
Speaker 1: send them after the President, our enemies. I'm serious, like this,
38:16
Speaker 1: this happens too much for it to be a coincidence,
38:20
Speaker 1: like Truon's flipping out and shooting up schools or trying
38:24
Speaker 1: to kill you know, rich people or politicians. That is
38:27
Speaker 1: that is a movie plot. And the fact that Donald
38:31
Speaker 1: Trump made Mel Gibson, John Voyd and Sylvester salloone the
38:35
Speaker 1: ambassadors to to make Hollywood great again, I could guarantee
38:39
Speaker 1: you Mel Gibson's gonna make a movie about MK Ultra
38:42
Speaker 1: activated Truon assassins and and it's gonna be like Grindhouse,
38:47
Speaker 1: you know, but yeah, it's it's gonna be Yeah, like
38:52
Speaker 1: the Attack of the Transformers and that I will. I
38:57
Speaker 1: will go to that movie. I will. That is Matt
38:59
Speaker 1: and A for me like absolute. You know, I'm just
39:03
Speaker 1: saying like there is something we're going on for real.
39:06
Speaker 2: But and people will make movies about Trump for centuries
39:10
Speaker 2: to come, and we we we don't even know the
39:13
Speaker 2: name of the historical actors who will play that part.
39:16
Speaker 2: That it will be decided by future generations. Yeah, in
39:23
Speaker 2: the same way people are doing with Lincoln and Washington nowadays.
39:27
Speaker 2: I I know the lives are going to go.
39:29
Speaker 1: No.
39:29
Speaker 2: No, we want Trump completely forgotten by history. We we
39:33
Speaker 2: we only want him remembered as a name like a
39:38
Speaker 2: Manual Goldstein. We just want people to shake their fists
39:42
Speaker 2: and yell about the evil Orange Man, but not remember
39:45
Speaker 2: about his actual policies.
39:48
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
39:48
Speaker 2: That's you know, that's that's the history we're trying to avoid.
39:53
Speaker 2: And I really hope we do overcome it.
39:58
Speaker 1: I hope so too, Lauren. You want to say anything
40:00
Speaker 1: about this, No, all right, I got some super super
40:06
Speaker 1: Child's just like to go to to look up Andy
40:10
Speaker 1: Know's video about the like murderous Tranny cult. I'm telling you,
40:16
Speaker 1: they're like rationalists that go back to like the days
40:20
Speaker 1: of like atheism plus and they're all they're all just
40:24
Speaker 1: absolutely bonkers. Richard Pierre.
40:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead, I'm gonna say I do think that,
40:30
Speaker 3: you know it, there really needs to be a serious
40:34
Speaker 3: investigation into this because as long as this keeps happening there,
40:39
Speaker 3: First off, they're always going to blame straight white men, right, it's.
40:42
Speaker 1: Always going to be white men. Yeah, who are the.
40:45
Speaker 3: Scapegoat for this? And you know, well, I mean essentially
40:49
Speaker 3: the MtFs or yeah, MtFs, they are men, you know,
40:54
Speaker 3: not necessarily all white, but you know it, Yeah, that
40:59
Speaker 3: narrative really.
40:59
Speaker 1: Needs well, no, but a lot but also a lot
41:01
Speaker 1: of them are biological females that think they're men, and
41:04
Speaker 1: they they don't kill as many people because women can't
41:07
Speaker 1: shoot for shit, but they do try so you know, sorry,
41:12
Speaker 1: but the biological reality comes out. No, no, uh, you know,
41:18
Speaker 1: four twentypes for trans men. So anyway, Richard Bier gives
41:23
Speaker 1: us five dollars on a super channel and says, getting
41:25
Speaker 1: flashbacks of that recruiting campaign the CIA was running trying
41:28
Speaker 1: to get the barisas of the rainbow alphabet alphabet Wi
41:31
Speaker 1: FI password persuasion to join the agency again. I, you know,
41:36
Speaker 1: I think that they're people who are confused about their
41:40
Speaker 1: gender and their identity and stuff, especially young people. They
41:42
Speaker 1: are vulnerable to manipulation. And I think women in particular
41:46
Speaker 1: are vulnerable to propaganda as well. And there's a lot
41:50
Speaker 1: of data that bears that out. Meredith G gives us
41:55
Speaker 1: five dollars. Thank you, Meredith the top G, and says
41:59
Speaker 1: Hbarre News for eighty eight, more of a G than
42:02
Speaker 1: Andrew Tait, who is not the top G. She he
42:04
Speaker 1: is the second G. She is the top G. All right. Anyway,
42:08
Speaker 1: HBr News number forty eight for five dollars. I'm coming
42:10
Speaker 1: into the into to the end of the Blackhawk crash.
42:14
Speaker 1: There are four questions. One, what the hell was going
42:16
Speaker 1: on in the tower? I believe they were understaffed and
42:20
Speaker 1: the guy was doing his best, but it was like
42:21
Speaker 1: one person in there, which is kind of a shame.
42:23
Speaker 1: They're trying to blame Trump for that because they, you know,
42:26
Speaker 1: he cut the budget in places, but this is not
42:29
Speaker 1: that those those things had not taken effect at that point. Two,
42:32
Speaker 1: what the hell was going on with the pilots in
42:35
Speaker 1: the helicopter? Yeah, I don't know, but somebody else in
42:38
Speaker 1: the chat mentioned that the woman who was the I
42:41
Speaker 1: think she was the highest ranking person. She is difficult
42:45
Speaker 1: to work with, so you know, take that, go with
42:49
Speaker 1: that wherever you wish. Three, what was going on with
42:52
Speaker 1: the pilots in the plane? I think I don't know
42:55
Speaker 1: about that? Uh? And four? Who was the idiot who
42:59
Speaker 1: ordered a training extra size using night vision into an
43:02
Speaker 1: area with high amounts of ambient light and lots of
43:05
Speaker 1: air traffic? What we know the Yeah, that's a good question.
43:08
Speaker 1: What we know the one of the air traffic controls
43:11
Speaker 1: walked off that day? There, we probably walked off because
43:14
Speaker 1: Trump is in the White House. I'm leaving because of
43:16
Speaker 1: the Orange Man. There were two near misses with military
43:19
Speaker 1: helicopters and planes prior to the accident, and the elevation
43:23
Speaker 1: measurements were significantly off in the systems. So yes, DEI
43:27
Speaker 1: is likely and exacerbating factor. Yes, But when you have
43:31
Speaker 1: that much incompetence, it feels intentional, right, So it sometimes.
43:36
Speaker 1: One thing that I think that we could also account
43:39
Speaker 1: for is that when you want to destroy something, sometimes
43:44
Speaker 1: you don't really have to actively stabotage. You can just
43:48
Speaker 1: hire unqualified people and disguise it as we're just you know,
43:52
Speaker 1: trying to give these people that you've never historically given
43:55
Speaker 1: a chance a chance, and then you just step back
43:57
Speaker 1: and let things unfold as they would. You know. It's
44:01
Speaker 1: like the Clintons kill them, yeah, or or that in
44:05
Speaker 1: good time. Anyway, thank you for the super childs, Meredith
44:11
Speaker 1: and Richard Bierre. We're gonna move on to the next story.
44:15
Speaker 1: Let us know what you guys think about this one
44:16
Speaker 1: in the comment. Okay, so next week, got oh, I'm
44:21
Speaker 1: already on the third story, which is the last one,
44:23
Speaker 1: but my favorite, my favorite. Okay, So, Japan has Foes
44:33
Speaker 1: has froze funding that it provided in it previously and
44:37
Speaker 1: voluntarily to a United Nations women's rights panel that was
44:41
Speaker 1: calling for Japan to abolish the male only succession law.
44:46
Speaker 1: In Japan, the imperial monarch succession is absolute agnatic, meaning
44:51
Speaker 1: that only male members of the family can inherit the
44:54
Speaker 1: imperial Japanese throne. Yes, they still have an emperor. I
44:58
Speaker 1: did not know that. I thought they had a president,
45:01
Speaker 1: So I don't know if that's sort of like the
45:03
Speaker 1: way they do it in the UK where we have
45:05
Speaker 1: a king. But you know, the Prime Minister calls the shots.
45:08
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not sure because you know, I'm American,
45:11
Speaker 1: so we got our we got our president. But anyway,
45:15
Speaker 1: the imperial monarch secession in Japan is absolute agnatic, meaning
45:20
Speaker 1: that only male members of the family can inherit the
45:22
Speaker 1: Imperial Japanese throne. The funding freeze is in response to
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Speaker 1: a report published by the Committee on the Elimination of
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Speaker 1: Discrimination against Women or Shida. Sheida urged Japan to revise
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Speaker 1: the Japanese succession law in order to allow a potential
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Speaker 1: female to take the Imperial Japanese throne. The Imperial the
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Speaker 1: official Imperial Japanese family is rather small compared to its
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Speaker 1: European counterparts. Of the sixteen members of the Japanese Imperial
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Speaker 1: Royal Family, only four a male. The youngest male member
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Speaker 1: is Prince He's such He'sahito, who is the current heir apparent.
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Speaker 1: Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayasi called the report regrettable,
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Speaker 1: which is it's a really really like polite way of
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Speaker 1: saying it and inappropriate. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Toshihiro Kita Mura
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Speaker 1: said that the imperial succession laws are not part of
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Speaker 1: basic rights and that the only the male only succession
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Speaker 1: does not violate basic rights to women. So so the
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Speaker 1: UN uh overstep as usual. You know, the UN is
46:31
Speaker 1: a and I'm not saying this, I'm not being hyperbolic,
46:35
Speaker 1: but they're like a well, they're like a they're like
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Speaker 1: a magical cult, like they believe in these kind of
46:42
Speaker 1: like what's the word I'm looking for. They're they're they're weirdos.
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Speaker 1: They're not just like a government body, or at least
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Speaker 1: like I'm not even sure that that's a government body.
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Speaker 1: It's like a group of activists that like represent different countries.
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Speaker 1: And they were trying to essentially apply guilt muscle on
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Speaker 1: Japan and say, hey, you know that thing that you
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Speaker 1: guys have been doing for thousands of years, change it
47:03
Speaker 1: because women and Japan was like nah, so anyway, and
47:09
Speaker 1: then they took their money away. They're like, you know what,
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Speaker 1: this is regrettable and inappropriate. So anyway, I don't know
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Speaker 1: what you guys think about this.
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Speaker 2: It it's easy to look at Japan as like the
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Speaker 2: opposite of Cuba, Like Japan isn't a couple of islands
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Speaker 2: of capitalism nestled in the middle of a sea of communism,
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Speaker 2: such as China and Korea, particularly North Korea, but also
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Speaker 2: it's kind of South Korea. Yeah, but Japan's problem isn't capitalism.
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Speaker 2: Japan's problem is it did adopt some of the sensibilities
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Speaker 2: of the West after it was defeated in World War two,
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Speaker 2: and and one of them is women are better than men.
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Speaker 2: Japan seems to have. Japan and Korea, particularly South Korea,
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Speaker 2: seem to have taken this idea that women are better
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Speaker 2: than men and men should aspire to be women. And
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Speaker 2: they've taken this idea and gone warp speed with it,
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Speaker 2: particularly Korea, because the whole k pop thing where men
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Speaker 2: and women should be the same thing and they should
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Speaker 2: both aspire to the fashion of women.
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Speaker 1: Is that what the cap thing is in Korea? Is
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Speaker 1: that why those guys look like that?
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Speaker 2: I think, I mean, I mean when you look.
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Speaker 1: At I just thought, you know, Asian guys are a
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Speaker 1: little softer.
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Speaker 2: When when you look at what's been happening with men
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Speaker 2: and women in the West for a long time, it's
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Speaker 2: it's been very They like to say that they're creating
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Speaker 2: equality by abolishing gender, but for the most part, they've
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Speaker 2: been encouraging men to be more like women and encouraging
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Speaker 2: women to be more like women so as to manipulate
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Speaker 2: the men. And it's been much the same way in
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Speaker 2: Japan and in South Korea. And it's difficult to track
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Speaker 2: their progress through what we would call progressive politics compared
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Speaker 2: with our progress through what we would call progressive politics.
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Speaker 2: And it's bizarre because Japan is very good.
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Speaker 1: At being Japanese.
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Speaker 2: They don't have the immigration problems that Europe and America
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Speaker 2: have had in in the last few years, but they
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Speaker 2: have had they have received the Western problem of ginocrism
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Speaker 2: if you if, if you will, and I don't know
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Speaker 2: how prevalent it was before they lost a war to
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Speaker 2: the West, but yeah, they've they've really got on board
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Speaker 2: with it. They really want to feminize everyone, and then
50:28
Speaker 2: get to the point where this isn't even feminizing. This
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Speaker 2: is just people wearing makeup and elaborate clothes. This has
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Speaker 2: nothing to do with narcissism or kind of centrism. This
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Speaker 2: is just this is just perfectly normal, and that's that's
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Speaker 2: the way it's gone. And I I guess they haven't
50:48
Speaker 2: had many wars with each other since the Korean War,
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Speaker 2: and I don't know what kind of testament that is
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Speaker 2: to anything. I but it's it feels like it's gonna
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Speaker 2: blow up one day. Like the West has been has
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Speaker 2: been pushing this kind of centric feminization on everyone, saying like,
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Speaker 2: you're not gonna have any wars as long as you're
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Speaker 2: being or womanly about everything. But I mean, even ancient
51:23
Speaker 2: Europe can tell you that's not exactly the case. Even
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Speaker 2: recent recent European history can tell you that's not the case.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, the Far East has only recently been drawn
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Speaker 2: into this whole. The women are perfect, men are evil.
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Speaker 2: Men should be like women and then everything will be fine.
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Speaker 2: But they're kind, they're going to counter a rude awakening quite.
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Speaker 1: So, Yeah, well they're they're definitely speed they're definitely speed
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Speaker 1: running it in a couple of ways and what and
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Speaker 1: so like. But that all being said, and I think
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Speaker 1: that's all that's true. Why then would the UN find
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Speaker 1: it so important that they change that? And I think
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Speaker 1: it's really because it's a it's a destruction of something
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Speaker 1: symbolic that is very important to them. So the historical
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Speaker 1: context of this of the succession in Japan, this tradition
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Speaker 1: was formalized during the Meiji period in eighteen eighty nine
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Speaker 1: with the Imperial Household Law, which was maintained in the
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Speaker 1: post World War II Constitution of nineteen forty seven. But
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Speaker 1: they were doing this in the Meiji period. Before that,
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Speaker 1: there were instances of female empresses in ancient Japan, but
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Speaker 1: contemporary law only allows male heirs from the paternal line
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Speaker 1: to succeed. Under the current system, only males of the
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Speaker 1: paternal line of the emperor can inherit the chrysanthemum throne.
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Speaker 1: This has led to concerns about the continuity of the
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Speaker 1: monarchy given the limited number of male heirs. But the
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Speaker 1: other thing too, is that the role of emperor is
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Speaker 1: largely symbolic and ceremonial. They don't really have power, I
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Speaker 1: guess you know. That is for their prime minister or
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Speaker 1: president or whatever. The emperor serves as the symbol of
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Speaker 1: the state and the unity of the Japanese people. This
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Speaker 1: role is devoid of political power, emphasizing his position as
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Speaker 1: a figurehead. He performs ceremonial duties, you know, officiating at
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Speaker 1: national ceremonies like the opening of the National Diet which
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Speaker 1: is the Parliament, attending state funerals, memorial services at other
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Speaker 1: national events, presenting honors and awards, such as the Order
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Speaker 1: of the Chrysanthemum or the Order of Culture. They also
53:36
Speaker 1: have an important cultural role. The emperor has responsibilities and
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Speaker 1: religious ceremonies related to Shinto, particularly at the est A
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Speaker 1: Grand Shrine and during the annual New Year's greeting at
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Speaker 1: the Imperial Palace. He also plays a significant role in
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Speaker 1: cultural preservation, supporting traditional arts and crafts. While not involved
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Speaker 1: in the actual formulation of foreign policy, the Emperor often
53:57
Speaker 1: receives foreign dignitaries and symbolizing Japan's international relations. He might
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Speaker 1: also make state visits abroad, although these are tightly controlled
54:07
Speaker 1: to avoid any perception of political involvement. And it so then, okay,
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Speaker 1: I think I understand why Japan does it. It might
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Speaker 1: be and I don't pretend to know, but it might
54:19
Speaker 1: be in the similar sense the reason why you guys
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Speaker 1: have you know, a king, right, there is something about
54:29
Speaker 1: that that preserves the identity of England, and I think
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Speaker 1: in this case it preserves that identity of Japan as
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Speaker 1: something greater than simply a country with a government. And
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Speaker 1: I think the people of Japan they take that very seriously.
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Speaker 1: I think that it might be connected to their Shinto beliefs,
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Speaker 1: and I think that that's why it's important to maintain
54:52
Speaker 1: as it is. It says it's something very important to
54:55
Speaker 1: the Japanese people, even if it isn't something that you know,
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Speaker 1: like has any power or on paper, there's something important
55:02
Speaker 1: about it as an identity. And I think that's what
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Speaker 1: the UN wants to change. I mean, that's what they
55:08
Speaker 1: do everywhere, because the UN is basically like a Satanic
55:12
Speaker 1: cabal of people that meddle in other people's business. They
55:16
Speaker 1: want to take away the identities of other countries ultimately,
55:19
Speaker 1: and they use women. They call it. Yeah, and they
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Speaker 1: call it democracy exactly. So that's what I That's what
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Speaker 1: I think.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
55:29
Speaker 1: And and I think that Gary Thomas is from what
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Speaker 1: I understand, Japan sees their emperor as a father figure
55:34
Speaker 1: and they can survive anything as long as they have
55:36
Speaker 1: their emperor. Yeah. I think that's right. I think that's
55:39
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. It's like a it's like an
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Speaker 1: image of masculinity at its center, even if it's only symbolic,
55:47
Speaker 1: I think it does a lot for the Japanese people.
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Speaker 1: And I think, I mean, why else would the UN
55:52
Speaker 1: want to meddle in that if that person doesn't actually
55:55
Speaker 1: hold any real power other than to destroy it as
55:58
Speaker 1: a symbol. So I I think my point is fuck
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Speaker 1: the un That's basically my point. You know, go Japan,
56:06
Speaker 1: do what you want, right. But yeah, like, no, Gabriel says,
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Speaker 1: as mentioned, the emperor is literally a descendant, I think,
56:16
Speaker 1: is what you meant to say of a Shinto sun
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Speaker 1: goddess Amoratas. Yes, uh A'moratas, which is the goddess of
56:23
Speaker 1: the sun, also the main character in Okami. But anyway, so,
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Speaker 1: uh yeah, that that's basically that story.
56:33
Speaker 2: I don't like the idea of letting King Charles rule
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Speaker 2: the country, but it's far preferable to letting Kiss rule
56:40
Speaker 2: the country.
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Speaker 1: That's right. Well, I think that some people are are
56:46
Speaker 1: really hopeful that King Charles, I don't know, like has
56:51
Speaker 1: some kind of I don't know what people's feelings on
56:53
Speaker 1: are different skin.
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Speaker 2: Of people.
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Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen. Well, who in the royal family
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Speaker 1: do you like? Nobody from it. They're all people who
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Speaker 1: point yeah, all right, uh let me see. Uh yeah,
57:20
Speaker 1: I know I'm spelling it. I said it wrong. I'm sorry. Okay,
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Speaker 1: all right, Well that's all the stories I got really,
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Speaker 1: so we're we we did good. We did this in
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57:33
Speaker 2: Difficult to make it this far without Hannah. She kills
57:37
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Speaker 2: that's that's mean.
57:42
Speaker 1: You know, she talks a lot.
57:44
Speaker 2: She she she does, she does some nice beef and
57:47
Speaker 2: some and some seafood as well.
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