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Earth Shakes, Law Breaks: Quakes, Medvedev, Trump, and the Housing Fight · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Hello, good morning, welcome. I am Samuel Trapp. This is International Flavor. You are listening
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  to DAM Radio. I'm damn glad to have you. Let's see here. I suppose the biggest problems that we got
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  these days are the world's ending. I don't know if you're aware of this, but the world is coming to
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  an end and this is horrifying. We're all going to die. We should all run around like chicken little
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  even now and talk about the notable earthquakes taking over the planet this morning. 7.5,
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  23 kilometers southeast of Yuma, Venezuela, 7.5 at 15.05 Pacific time at the universal time
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  coordinates of 22.05. That's a Greenwich mean for those of you, a major shallow earthquake,
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  10 kilometers down is all. That's depressing. So we got Venezuela, Japan, we got Northern California,
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  you know, when, by the way, are we all going to die because Yellowstone erupts, one of the largest
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  volcanoes on the planet that is overdue by about 100,000 years. So these are things to lay awake
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  at night and think about as the lava rolls over you, baking you instantly to a crisp. 164 dead
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  outside of Yuma, Venezuela, and I was just planning on going there on vacation.
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  Jeez, how frustrating is that? Can't go there. 7.2, it occurred almost immediately before the 7.5
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  event also in Venezuela. This one, 24 kilometers northeast of San Felipe,
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  just like minutes before, a whole minute before. So this is not good. Another one, 6.9 on the old
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  scale of Richter. Wonder who that guy was. We should find pictures of him and throw stuff at
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  him because he's stressing us out. 30 kilometers east northeast of Fuji, Japan at 6.9 at probably
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  a half an hour after the Venezuela strong offshore near coastal Japan event. So what does that mean?
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  It means another one occurred in California. This was a 5.6, 11 kilometers north of Redwood
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  Valley, California. That's a pretty area up there. Don't be earthquake Venezuela
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  destroying our redwoods up there. That's a pretty spot. You can go drive through the one tree,
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  you can drive right through it. And it's very pretty. Redwoods are a very beautiful tree.
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  And that one occurred. Yesterday, 8.10 a.m. Pacific time and probably about
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  six, seven hours before the Venezuela, northern California, Mendocino County,
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  not San Francisco or L.A., but, you know, still a California quake. Another one, 4 on the scale of
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  Richter, remaining seismically active in Papua New Guinea and Cocopo area. Another several get this
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  normal ring of fire. They call this normal, normal ring of fire activity. Wonder if Johnny Cash is
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  a spinning and singing in his grave when they stole his music and called that the ring of fire.
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  Peru, Mexico, Chile, Greece, Philippines, Indonesia, Alaska, Hawaii and Oregon offshore.
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  The Venezuela situation, of course, is the most serious of all this stuff. Current reporting says
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  Venezuela declared an emergency after the 7.24 shock and 7.5 main shock with substantial casualties
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  and damage reported around Caracas, La Garia. Wait, I said that wrong. La Guaira and the Caribbean
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  coast. Those casualty numbers, of course, are going to change through the day. They say like 164 or
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  something like that, whatever I said a few minutes ago. California quake is northern California near
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  Redwood Valley. 5.6, enough to knock stuff off the shelf. So when I lived in California, I was going
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  to the Defense Language Institute. First time, no, it was the second time out.
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  With lived in a in a kind of a cool house. A it was an apartment, really. And I was over. So it
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  was an apartment building with like four apartments in it. And underneath, because we were pretty
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  close to the water on the ocean, there there was our house was on stilts. And so you parked
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  underneath it like a carport. So there was a little garage area down below. And then your
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  carport. And I was driving a seventy nine Chevy Blazer at time, big old truck. And it was parked
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  underneath. So it was parked under the house. You'd walk upstairs to get up to your little apartment
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  and had a shower, you know, had a three bedroom, two bath, two bedroom, two bath. Don't remember.
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  But but it had a separate shower. So I wasn't in the master bath. You know, I was getting ready to
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  go to work in the morning and. I'd already done done, you know, the run and crap like that, and
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  excuse me, and I'm in the shower and the shower had one of those glass doors, you know, that
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  is in the little track that, you know, the cheap glass doors that are in the little
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  crappy track. And all of a sudden it started. The thing starts rattling, you know, it starts shaking
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  and rattling. And I start yelling at my wife is like, look, if you're getting in the shower,
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  get it. Quit screwing around. Let's get the show on the road, you know. But no, that wasn't that
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  was only in my my greatest of dreams. And the fact is, I was experiencing an earthquake. She did
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  come running in and she's like, oh, my God, the whole house is shaking. Everything's going.
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  And all I could think of is here. I stand there naked with a bottle of shampoo. And all I could
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  think of is, damn it, you know, I'm going to die naked in a shower and I'm going to be laying on
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  top of my damn seventy nine blazer in a tub dead. That's going to be great. So much for good ways
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  to go. And that's all I could think is I'm dead. But it was it turns out that that was merely the
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  first one that I experienced. I experienced a couple other ones that the first time I had moved
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  to California, the first time in. I lived in. Place called Salinas, big city a little ways away,
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  and then the second time I lived in Seaside and it was really cool place and I was, you know,
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  right on the ocean, it was great. And but both times I bicycled back and forth to work and it
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  you kind of when the very first time I was there was immediately after the one in San Francisco
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  where the the the bridge collapsed and there were sections of the bridge that fell in and collapsed
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  on top of some other cars and whatnot. And that had just occurred. And so I've always been like,
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  geez, you know, if it's I'll never win the lottery, you know, that'd be too much. But if I but if I'm
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  going to die in my bathtub on a on top of my seventy nine blazer, that lottery I will win
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  if I'm swimming on the Great Barrier Reef, which I was, I will find a shark to chew my leg off.
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  You know, that'll be there. And of course, that occurred on not my leg. I was able to avoid that.
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  But, you know, I was not entertained with the shark next door. You know, that was not entertaining.
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  So so I'm a I'm a person who stresses about these type of things. I don't like it. And at any rate,
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  the the skeptical analysis of all this is what's the doom? Here's the doom coming for you, right?
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  Let's talk about Sam's doom, saying three continents had significant seismic activities
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  last yesterday. OK, in a tight window, Venezuela, major pair of shallow earthquakes, Japan,
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  strong earthquake, California, shaking Pacific Rim active. You know, the Earth is like,
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  here we go, sending us warnings. Somebody is ringing a bell. But then again, I suppose you
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  could argue that earthquakes are common globally daily. There's a cool USGS list. So I have two
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  things on my phone, one that I got in Grand Cayman. I figured out there's a shark watch
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  program and you can download a program that'll help you make sure you don't get eaten by sharks.
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  Of course, if you're looking at your phone and you're in the ocean, you're already dead.
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  So that's not good. But you have a shark tracker, shark tracking by some I don't remember what
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  shark tracker dot dot org. I think it is. I don't remember. But the next one is the United States
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  Geological Services, and they have a website where you can go out to their website and download
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  an app that will tell you every time. So when Yellowstone does go, you'll be prepared. And
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  who warned you? Old Sammy did. I warned you. Download those two things. Keep track. Watch
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  your phones, you know, for when you got to build a bunker. And then, you know, the trouble is,
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  I'll start building the bunker while the lava is rolling toward me. You know, that's no good.
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  You should have the bunker already in place. People with your supplies of MREs,
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  meals ready to eat that are packed in there. You know, I have some that after Ian got the
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  hurricane down in Florida, somebody left at my house a box of MREs. So the government was mailing
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  them all around. They're mailing all these boxes of MREs around. I've got a crate, one of them,
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  I don't know, Menards, Home Depot tubs, you know, that are black with the yellow lid or black with
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  a red lid, whatever. And I got one full of MREs. There's my survival gear. And everybody says I
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  need to buy a gun, but so far I haven't. For when everybody comes to steal my survival box of food,
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  you know, we're going to have that. My sister's got all kinds of stuff in her garage if she's
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  listening. She should probably call me. My brother cans food. And he's always canning stuff. And it's
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  like, Jesus, when are you going to eat this stuff? Quit canning it and eat it. These are fresh
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  vegetables and fruits. I'm a fresh fruit type of guy. But earthquakes aren't really rare. So
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  the unimportant part is that, you know, probably, probably, if I told you once, I told you a thousand
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  times never to exaggerate. And I'm probably exaggerating tiniest of bits. But Yellowstone
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  is listed by the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory at normal. First thing I did, check on that. Make
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  sure the Yellowstone's not going. And has a green aviation color code, which means you can fly over
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  it. Right. So the update from June the 1st said Yellowstone, the caldera activity is at background
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  level. Forty-five located earthquakes in May. The largest was only in the scale of 2.0. So we can
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  talk about Yellowstone as the American doomsday threat that'll take out 500 miles around it and
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  puts us right on the edge. Great. Thanks a lot. But the factual line should be for us that perhaps,
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  you know, several generations from now, but there's no current official sign. Yeah,
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  official. They're all hiding themselves in the bunkers and leaving us to fry.
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  That Yellowstone is moving toward eruption. Missouri is pretty far from Yellowstone,
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  but not beyond consequences in a super eruption scenario. Historic Yellowstone ash beds, by the
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  way, reached across the continent. And regional ash fall models are exactly why Yellowstone is
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  terrifying to some of us. Some of us. But according to the USGS, I mean, there's a government
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  organization that we should all trust, right? Status is normal. Situation normal. Everything
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  under control. Nothing to see here, sir. Yes. Thank you. Move along. Move along. You know,
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  go die in peace. We're going to the bunker. So Yellowstone is a great anxiety button for America
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  and for Sam. And there it sits. Hundred thousand years sitting there quietly doing nothing.
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  Every time the earth shakes somewhere else, you know, we all ask the forbidden question.
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  Are we supposed to be focused on our death? Is this a prelude? Is it coming? Yeah. People
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  thought that when Mount St. Helens went off. Remember that? Mm hmm. I was at the volcanoes
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  on the Big Island in Hawaii, and I stayed on the Big Island the whole time, although most people
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  prefer to go to Honolulu or Oahu or one of the other places and hit all the beaches and stuff
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  like that. And we flew from the Big Island to Honolulu one day and did, you know, the Elvis
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  tour, wander around that place, check things out. And it was pretty cool, but very crowded.
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  And I didn't really care for it. But I went back to the I was only there one day, but I went back
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  to the Big Island and spent a week on the Big Island chasing volcanoes. And there's it's Jesus.
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  The island's not very big. I mean, I don't remember specifically, but I don't I don't think
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  it's any larger than a place like Bermuda, you know, 22, 23 miles across. I don't remember.
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  But I don't remember. I know we drove it, you know, several times and went from one end to the
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  other, checking out the volcanoes in the cool tropical stuff and took a helicopter flight over
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  over them to the extent that you could. But you couldn't because those you could not excuse me,
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  could not fly over because they were active. And so I very much I mean, we rented a car,
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  drove all over there's tea plantations, coffee plantations, whatever alcohol they made over
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  there. I can't remember. And they had a very nice little not crowded restaurants. You want
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  a tourism spot that was beautiful. And we got a place for, you know, my standard is I get a
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  three bedroom condo with two baths and, you know, even if there's only two of us going, you get it
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  and you can rent these places on Airbnb style sort of things. And I've been doing that for years
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  because I like to travel that way. And but it was well worth the tour. But as a doomsday story
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  from Samuel for today. Civilization is built on the assumption that we're still going to be here
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  tomorrow. And if all these damn things go off, we'll be recreating a new G. Wonder what happened
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  doomsday. And we're all focused on doomsday. All the movies are doomsday. Everything's doomsday
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  these days. And, you know, we got war, rumors of war, gnashing of teeth, weeping and wailing.
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  What it was that I said it yesterday, I think cats and dogs living together. There's all kinds of
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  troubles going on in the world. But that is it. So the second thing I wanted to play for you,
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  because do you guys are we have any Jethro Tull fans out there? So my oldest brother,
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  Clifford Michael, the third trap, he passed away several years ago at the age of 64. He was my
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  oldest brother and depressing. And one of the smartest people on the damn planet. He's one of
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  those guys that walk around and bump into walls. He was so smart. You know what I mean? And but he
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  was extremely interesting. And he passed away during COVID. And, you know, that's so it's about
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  a five years that he's been been gone. And he when we were kids, he's about nine, 10 years older than
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  me, I think. And he, he was a huge flute player. And he played I remember him, you know, playing
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  the flute and we were kids. And, and he would play Jethro Tull all the time. Hang on, we're
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  gonna have to take this. Hello, caller, what do you have to say for yourself this morning?
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  Morning, Sam. Guten Morgen.
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  So I only have a minute. Yes, I heard you. Of course, I would call in you issued a challenge,
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  I believe. Did I? I've spoken since then. What happened? Are you dying? Is the world going?
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  What's happening? Well, you've already told us the major events. Yes, we're on our way out
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  as we speak. And of course, I being closer to Yellowstone than you, I'll probably go first.
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  So I'll issue this warning. It's not going to do you any good to have a bunker because you're
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  going to be covered by millions of tons of hot lava. No, but I'm far enough away. I'll get his
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  ash. Oh, no, no. What if I go to Florida? Is that going to help me at all? If the big one goes off,
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  we're all screwed. Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. I saw I have those doomsday things that I
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  I downloaded two years ago, and I still watch them some kind of death series on unnatural events.
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  And I have like 30 or 40 of these on my on my Apple iTunes. And every once in a while, I'll go
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  back through the threat matrixes and go, you could die by a bug swarm, you know, and they have
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  this bug swarm show that goes on for an hour and you got my God, we're going to die of bugs. This
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  is crap. And the good news is, what's the big one goes off up in Yellowstone. You don't have to
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  worry about being prepared anymore. We'd no longer have to worry about having a two party system,
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  would we? What two party system, Democrats, Republicans? That that's a one party system.
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  Well, yeah, but we call it a two party system, but we wouldn't have to worry about whether it's
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  one or two that would be gone. But that's that's a name only. It's like calling, you know, a 50
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  cent piece, a half dollar. It's still the same. True that. True that. Well, are you going to try
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  I know what you're doing. You're trying to come and share my meals ready to eat.
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  I got a box of like 12 of them. And, you know, that'll last me 12 days.
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  I think I'll pass on those. I've got to step up from that. I've got all my garden stuff that I
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  can just like David. Yeah. But I also have four patriots in a real emergency if I'm really
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  starving, then I can have the four patriots freeze dry. How do you have missiles in your
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  house? Patriot missiles. What are you worried about? The big one coming for for Patriot food
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  supply. You know, the commercials. Oh, you're you're you're you're purchasing people stuff.
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  And what do you get there? Is that like some big crate? Let's advertise for them. Is it worthwhile?
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  Yeah, you get it. Well, I don't know what to do for your water. What do you got to do?
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  You have to add water to all of it. That's why I like my my homemade can, because you can have all
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  your veggie tables that are already in water. I see them. And then you have some salty water
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  to add everything to. Well, you know, along the lines of being prepared, you know, the LDS Church
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  put out 10 million pounds of I'm sure you've seen that all over YouTube. The sad truth about that
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  is that that's what 10 million pounds of what? What are they doing? A food, a food that they
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  send to food banks all over the US. They just send away food. No, they send it all to food.
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  Why aren't they sending it to me? That's some crap. You know, they send it out to these food
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  banks. I don't want to go to a food bank. Well, they should just mail it to my house.
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  Well, they probably could. They do have an online store, you know.
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  I see. You know what I was doing yesterday? I was using A.I. It's a damn good thing that
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  somebody we know educated me that A.I. actually exists. I mean, I'm our own family member that's
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  on the cutting edge. Oh, he knows everything about A.I. If you had any questions of the art.
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  Indeed. You must. The fact that it's I didn't even know how to spell A.I. and look at me now.
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  I used it last night to go back in and I was just curious because I wanted to
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  to do my own form of genealogy. Right. Oh, and and you can go on A.I. and so Lana,
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  a couple of years ago, I may have told you this. She she she got her DNA done.
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  And when we went to Russia and oh, she said so she's Tatar, first of all. But she's also
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  she has stuff that came from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. It puts every part of her European
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  heritage together and where where she came from and all that. And then it gives you a list of
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  your living current relatives. And she was sitting there and I was like, what are you doing? And she
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  starts communicating these people all over the world. She's getting invited to people's houses.
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  She's in Egypt. And right now, as you know, and she's getting invited to people's houses.
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  We went to Moscow and while we were in the train station in Moscow, going to take a trip
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  off somewhere and we were going to be there for five hours waiting for the the leg to take us
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  to the next spot. And one of her relatives who showed up brought her gifts, brought her stuff.
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  I mean, they acted like they'd known each other for years and they get together. We went into
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  the restaurant next door. I bought the woman lunch and we just sat. I mean, what a great way to meet
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  people. And she's meeting family all over the world. She's got like a list of like 200 relatives
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  that are currently living. And she just going down the list and picking them out and just
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  calling them out of the blue and they give you their contact. It's frigging nuts. Yes. Twelve
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  hundred relatives recently uploaded their information. Third, fourth, fifth, six cousins.
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  Do you know who is in the list of our famous ancestors? The king of Portugal. It's me. King
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  of Wales. I am the most famous. Didn't you realize that John Wayne? Me. Great me. Me. Great
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  me. You the link because ancestry dot com. We just found it over the weekend and we are related to
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  presidents, probably about 20 something presidents. Well, I'm supposed to be the next one, but so far
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  it's not going very well. You know, I had a I had a deadline. Yeah, I had a deadline for when it was
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  going to happen, but so far I got nothing. Yeah, no one else got the memo on. No,
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  but but what I thought I would do last night, I started I said, you know, I'm going to go backward
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  and I went backward all the way to Peter something trap who was born in Reading, Ohio. It was
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  actually Peter actually. Well, well, I don't know about that, but because I haven't found that part
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  yet. Peter Trapp in the eighteen hundred eighteen seventeen born in Cincinnati, Reading, Ohio.
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  Yeah, that's Peter Trapp. Yeah. Yeah. And he was he was eighteen seventeen in Reading. Now
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  that they're I'm on a mission here because I want to put together father to son, father to son to
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  give to my own kids. Right. And go back and find out where these holes came from. And so far we're
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  all in. And I know mom's got most of this stuff, but but I feel like I have it. Well, cool. Then
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  you should give it to me. But I feel like I want to do it myself anyway, because when I find out
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  who came over first, I'm going to go over to Germany, Austria or wherever and go to the church
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  where they're done and find their records in there. And I want to do it in person. That's what
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  I want to do. A couple of those have burned down even prior to World War Two. However, however,
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  I have a lot of interesting material and I will send you the link. Well, let us chat about that
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  later. I actually have two other topics I need to speak about. I very much appreciate you calling
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  in. And I have to I have to I was just talking about Jethro Tull and our dearly departed and
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  esteemed oldest brother, Clifford Michael, the third him on occasion and his and his you know,
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  he's a flat earther, right? Yeah, I know. And he was in his. Well, I don't blame him. I think
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  the world's flat, too. Yeah. And well, lean in that direction. But I want to know what he knew
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  stuff. Talk about what's going on in Antarctica. He knew that stuff. Well, I don't know enough
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  about that, but I'm going there. So Lana and I were supposed to take a cruise down there. So you
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  go down to something to Fuego or something Isles de Fuego and you can take a cruise and go to
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  Antarctica. And it's true. We've actually looked into. Yeah, yeah. We looked into it, too. And I
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  was like, you know what I'd rather do? I'd rather pay. You can spend this sixteen thousand dollars
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  and take a six month world cruise for sixteen thousand dollars. Now, think about that. Six
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  months. That's two thousand dollars a month. You can't live on that in paying for freaking
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  mid Missouri, for God's sake. Yeah, you can't do it. Sixteen grand. So no wonder I haven't. I know
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  I have an acquaintance, a guy who there are actual people that actually do live on. This guy lives
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  three weeks out of four, at least on the cruise ship, and they pay him to gamble. And so he goes
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  and he plays, you know, Texas Hold'em and plays in boat tournaments, gets on different boat every
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  week. And, you know, he's not he's not like, you know, if he pays more, he can get up to the top,
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  but he could stay for free. Just go gamble. I think I'm changing my evil ways. And if you have
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  Internet, you can work from anywhere. Yeah, that's true. And most people do anymore. And I'm going
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  to get eaten by a shark anyway, so I might as well get on a ship. And, you know, the shark attacks
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  are up as well. So they must know something. Oh, they know something. I'm telling you. And I'm
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  anti shark still. But I have a shark suit and I won't even get in the ocean. And I still have a
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  shark suit from Maui. I stayed on the beach while Matthew swam. And I Matthew said, what are you
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  doing over there? Come in the water. I said he said, come on. What are you doing? I said I'm just
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  looking for all the shark attacks on Maui. Yeah. Do you know what this you know what caused this
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  for us? I'll tell you what. It's it's being at the it's Jaws, the freaking movie at the drive in,
• 29:16
  laying on top of our station wagons. You remember that? I was freaking scared to death laying on
• 29:23
  top of the freaking car. Well, I did. I've done I've done it at the Great Barrier Reef and I've
• 29:29
  done it in Grand Cayman and a couple other places. Oh, I did it in Bermuda during Hurricane Andrew.
• 29:34
  That was freaking crazy. No, no. Yeah, I actually paddle boarded over a shark down in
• 29:43
  where was it was off of Baja. I don't know, but I remain uninterested in in being eaten by shark
• 29:50
  while alive. I've instructed my children that when I kick the bucket, when I shuffle off the
• 29:54
  molten coil, when I join the bleeding choir invisible, then I wish to be baked in an oven,
• 30:01
  turned into ash and distributed to the sharks. You know, you can go out in your little paddle
• 30:07
  boat, get on a paddle board, go out. You don't have to go too far. Just don't get your own leg
• 30:11
  eaten off in the meantime and just deposit me there. My ashes all over Montana. So the wolves
• 30:19
  can get me and the bears. Well, I'm anti that. I don't want them to get me while I'm alive.
• 30:25
  That's just too icky. No wonder I'm jeez. I have paranoia issues. Anyway, I'm going to get back to
• 30:31
  Jethro Tull and I'm going to play him. And it's a good thing I figured out how to spell a I if I
• 30:38
  learned it since since I suddenly learned how to spell our younger brother for that and our older
• 30:43
  brother for being a genius. He was a bit weird, but he was a genius. Very strange. Very, very
• 30:51
  cool. At any rate, his I went and saw. Well, I shall let you go. How about that? OK, have a good
• 30:58
  day. See you. And there she goes. Well, that was that was nice. You know, my leg hasn't been eaten
• 31:05
  by a shark yet. And I've had three opportunities and so far not. I'm doing pretty well. But
• 31:11
  my brother was a huge Jethro fan, Jethro Tull fan. And I remember him playing his guitar,
• 31:18
  dancing around the room and doing stuff like that. He gave me my love of Jethro Tull when I
• 31:26
  several years ago. My children got me for my birthday, a concert tickets for two,
• 31:33
  and I took some little country Western girl. It's pretty funny. I took a country Western girl to the
• 31:40
  Fox Theater in St. Louis. Very nice. I like to go there on Christmas time. I'm going to look,
• 31:46
  you know, I like to go see Christmas Carol and get all dressed up and go down there and have
• 31:52
  dinner on the hill, stuff like that. That's a fun Christmas event. And then I also like to go
• 31:58
  spend the weekend and one day do the Botanical Garden Christmas deal and whatnot. That's kind
• 32:02
  of fun to wander around, get a spicy eggnog and glue vine and drink in your glue vine. I love
• 32:11
  that stuff. And anyway, I've been to the Fox Theater quite a few times, generally Christmas
• 32:16
  time. But this was the Jethro Tull 50th anniversary concert. Dude was in his 70s. I want to say
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  75 when he was playing and it was good stuff. Well, for our break today, we're going to take
• 32:30
  a tiny bit of a break. And there's an appropriate Jethro Tull song that's titled P-I-B-R-O-C-H.
• 32:42
  And this, I believe, came from the Songs from the Wood album. It's possible. But he played it at
• 32:49
  everyone and he would pronounce it a little bit differently than they would call it. And my
• 33:00
  brother explained it to me because I just didn't know the history of Jethro Tull. And of course,
• 33:05
  he did and could play every bit of flute on every song that was Jethro Tull. And he did it very,
• 33:11
  very well. And he could even do the dancing around like some sprite and do that, which he often did.
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  Those are the things I remember the most about my brother, who was quite a bit older than me
• 33:21
  from when I was a little kid. And I just used to love to watch it and to listen to it. But he was
• 33:26
  always a bit on the odd side. And he taught me that the song, which is P-B-R-C-H in hand,
• 33:36
  spelled P-I-B-R-O-C-H, is actually pronounced P-B-R-E-C, P-B-R-E-C, because they take it for
• 33:46
  the P-Break. It's a song that allows them all to go and take their P-Break in the middle of the
• 33:54
  concert. And so that is how they play it. And we're gonna do something similar right here,
• 34:00
  but I have a coffee fix. I'm going to go take care of during our P-Break. P-B-R-C-H 2003
• 34:08
  remastered version here for you at International Flava, if I can ever get it to pull up
• 34:16
  appropriately and not be a crappy version. We want it all to be just perfect for us.
• 36:11
  P-B-B-R-C-H
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  P-B-R-C-H
• 42:37
  P-B-R-C-H
• 42:38
  Where it went. So that was Jethro Tull, of course, the great, the fabulous Jethro Tull.
• 43:02
  And the song was P-Break, Cap in Hand. Put my cap on my head. I turn and walk away.
• 43:15
  Strange, strange boots by the fire that cause you to walk away too. Everybody needs a good
• 43:23
  P-Break then, don't they? Yep. When that occurs, you definitely need a P-Break. P-Break brought
• 43:29
  to you by me and by damn radio. There it is. Let's see. Now let us begin in the middle,
• 43:37
  because we already began at the beginning. And I actually watched a Medvedev. And I like watching
• 43:47
  Medvedev. He's a great guy. And Dmitry, he's pretty damn,
• 44:00
  he's a pretty blunt dude. And I like, he was president one term. Let's see, was it,
• 44:06
  so Putin was president for like from 2000 to 2005. And then Medvedev was president for a term. And
• 44:15
  Putin's been one ever since. And he's, if you think you're getting somebody better,
• 44:19
  when you take the younger Medvedev, who has every likelihood of being the next one.
• 44:26
  Um, I suppose that's, uh, perhaps you should get to know him because if you think things are going
• 44:33
  to change, forget it. If you think, uh, and by the way, no matter who it is, Russia is Russia.
• 44:39
  And the government is one thing, the people are another, and the government is going to continue
• 44:47
  just much like Iran has joined, has, uh, continued.
• 44:54
  See that during pee break, I was able to go and brew myself a fresh coffee from the old, uh,
• 44:59
  Keurig machine, throw a couple of fake creamers in there. And, uh, there you go. Medvedev is a
• 45:06
  useful guy to listen to though, because he removes diplomacy. Lavrov is a legal, the one week we
• 45:14
  followed him yesterday. He talks about, uh, things from a diplomatic and from a legal perspective.
• 45:22
  Um, Medvedev is nice to watch cause he's like a battering ram. He's a, he's, uh, you know,
• 45:27
  just somebody that tells you the warnings tells you, well, you know, fine. Quit being,
• 45:32
  quit being a-holes and you wouldn't have to do this. So Medvedev is deliberately, in my opinion,
• 45:38
  inflammatory. His rhetoric is often designed to pressure Western people like me, the public,
• 45:48
  rather than describe actual Russian decision-making processes. Those decisions are made slowly,
• 45:54
  deliberately with the Lavrov's and Putin's of the world. They don't, they don't act quickly.
• 45:59
  They just don't. And, uh, so Western policy repeatedly goes in the wrong direction
• 46:07
  and in, in, in, in a direction that creates an enemy that doesn't exist in Russia. And I believe
• 46:13
  this too, from a personal, from a political, from an individual level, when you go to Russia,
• 46:19
  the people are fantastic. They don't have any horrors. They don't hate America. They wonder
• 46:23
  why we hate them. But, uh, and they wonder why everybody hates them. They shouldn't. We should
• 46:29
  envy them. They've got, they've got a great country, great, uh, great, uh, clean cities.
• 46:35
  Um, it's, uh, it's a very good country and, uh, they're, I don't know. They have, they have,
• 46:44
  everybody has their issues. You know what I mean? Everybody does. You know, if you found
• 46:48
  Mr. Perfection, he's actually my brother. It's not me. You know, uh, it, well, there's only one
• 46:54
  perfect person on the planet. He actually speaks to God apparently. And, uh, God speaks back. That's
• 47:00
  the scary part. He's only talking to my brother. This is loony. And, uh, uh, at any rate, all the
• 47:09
  perfect people are, are dead ages and ages ago. You know, biblical times, those good ones are,
• 47:14
  are done. And the, uh, uh, fact is there's only one perfect soul left on the planet. And, uh,
• 47:21
  he happens to be related to me. Uh, but the, everybody has their problems. Um, Western policy
• 47:33
  continually is against Russia. And that's basically, he was reiterating a lot of the
• 47:41
  same things that, uh, uh, Lavrov said in his speeches yesterday, both about, um, um,
• 47:54
  what do you call it? His approach to things in Belarus, his approach to things in Ukraine.
• 48:02
  It's, uh, it's interesting because the, the world is waking up to this. There's a,
• 48:10
  there's a story that came out yesterday about Russia and ASEAN, uh, countries should deepen
• 48:20
  cooperation, especially amid U.S. sanctions. And this came from Indonesia, from a, uh,
• 48:27
  an Indonesian professor who, who wrote this article. And it's, it's, if we don't start
• 48:38
  paying attention to other sections of the world that, that get to talk, I think we're going to be,
• 48:43
  we are in danger of being somewhat left behind. Um, I, I know several people who believe that
• 48:52
  the finances of the United States are collapsing. And I've spoken to a couple of, uh, and, and I
• 48:58
  mean, seriously collapsing, even as we speak that the 40 trillion is actually a, a
• 49:07
  a bridge too far. It's, you can, and I've been thinking about this for a while, but
• 49:13
  I've always thought that, well, okay, debt is an important thing. And our GDP isn't even
• 49:20
  40 trillion dollars a year. You know what I mean? It's, it's nonsense. Our debt is larger than our
• 49:28
  GDP. It's the interest that you can't pay it. This is unsustainable. And people really are
• 49:35
  bailing from buying more us debt. Somebody needed to stop us ages ago. And they never did.
• 49:41
  They never did. And our politicians just keep on trucking with it. And so other countries
• 49:50
  are seeking alternatives, bricks, ACN and others, you know, Moscow says Southeast Asia,
• 49:57
  the Southeast Asian nations, uh, association of Southeast Asian nations is what that means by the
• 50:03
  And this Indonesian professor is like, you know, we're the fastest growing place on the planet.
• 50:10
  And that's true. And, uh, I'm not quite sure how the fact is the world's changed. No matter
• 50:21
  how you look at it, the world is changing and AI is changing it even faster. And so there's
• 50:28
  all kinds of, nobody wants their eggs in one basket anymore. And then you see what's going on
• 50:35
  with Trump and company doing what he thinks is a smart thing to do,
• 50:39
  seize all the means of production, especially of energy and oil and AI. And, uh, uh, but it's not
• 50:48
  going as planned, unfortunately. And so there's, there's much to talk about. I'm going to suggest
• 50:54
  that you have a look at this article. If you can, this article came out, it's called Russia
• 51:01
  and ACN should deepen cooperation. The, uh, what's the professor's name? He is, uh, Tiku Reza Shah.
• 51:14
  He argues that many of the group's members are questioning Washington and its ability to support
• 51:20
  regional growth. And they've maintained ties in those areas, Russia, China, India, the other ACN
• 51:29
  countries, Iran, Afghanistan, all of those places over there, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,
• 51:38
  all of them. They are all part of this association and they're all growing quickly astronomically
• 51:46
  and not controlled by the United States. And the fact that now 96% or more of the trade between
• 51:53
  Russia and China is done in the Yuan or the ruble and some 50, it's, it's, it's a large percent.
• 52:02
  It's, it's, uh, uh, I don't think it's quite 50 just yet, but the, the trade between India and
• 52:09
  Russia is going on in the rupee and the ruble is also a huge deal. And I think, uh, I'd like to
• 52:16
  share this story. It was published today. It's, uh, uh, this professor, uh, spell his name. R E Z
• 52:23
  A S Y A H is how you spell his name. Uh, and there's plenty more to go through today. And so
• 52:30
  I wanted to kind of speed up a little, but, uh, that talks about, uh, especially amid the sanctions
• 52:36
  because that's how you eliminate the effect of the sanctions is you work outside of the
• 52:40
  sanction system. It's happening anyway. It's coming Russia, Iran, others, Venezuela have
• 52:50
  been doing it forever already. And, uh, you know, the, the globalists still think they're in charge,
• 52:56
  but let's talk about some speaking of globalists. Let's go to Von der Leyen. Here's,
• 53:01
  here's your global. She's she's unelected. Okay. Let's let's talk about this. She's being
• 53:07
  investigated now over her secret group chat with Zelensky. Okay. The communications include
• 53:15
  chancellor merits, French president, McCrone, uh, Italian PM Maloney and the outgoing UK prime
• 53:23
  minister Starmer, an EU watchdog is investigating European commission, president Ursula von der
• 53:31
  Leyen over a secret group chat with Zelensky and several other European leaders, according to the
• 53:37
  Dutch outlet called follow the money FTM. That's a pretty cool website. By the way,
• 53:45
  the probe follows a complaint by FTM after the European commission refused to release
• 53:51
  messages from a private group chat reportedly, including chancellor Friedrich merits,
• 53:58
  French president, Emmanuel McCrone, prime minister, Georgia Maloney, who wanted a photo with,
• 54:04
  Trump, please take a selfie with me, Mr. Trump, allegedly. And Kirstein,
• 54:10
  outgoing genius of, uh, of, uh, great Britain. What's that? What's Alex Christopher will call
• 54:16
  him double Oh eight. He's double Oh eight. The commission reportedly argued that disclosure of
• 54:22
  these texts could harm the EU's relations with third countries. Wonder if they're talking about
• 54:28
  the old Trumpster in a letter sent to the commission last week and cited by the outlet on Wednesday,
• 54:34
  European ombudsman, Teresa and Gino reported that she had opened an inquiry into the refusal to
• 54:40
  grant access to the communication. And Gino said the probe would examine whether the commission
• 54:46
  complied with the EU transparency rules when it rejected the request. She also asked to meet
• 54:51
  commission representatives by mid July said FTM. The group chat dubbed the Washington group was
• 54:59
  first reported on by Politico in January, citing people familiar with the matter though. That's
• 55:04
  always a good one. People familiar with the matter. Well, I'm familiar with the matter.
• 55:08
  This is nonsense. You're going to have me telling you about it. Politico wrote at the time that
• 55:13
  participants had spent the previous year exchanging messages whenever president Trump
• 55:18
  did what they viewed as something wild and potentially damaging. According to media reports,
• 55:25
  the group was originally set up in response to the Ukraine conflict. There's a surprise.
• 55:31
  The reported inquiry is the latest in a series of controversies involving von der Leyen and the
• 55:36
  commission's handling of official records. Last year, the EU's general court ruled that the
• 55:43
  commission had improperly handled the request by the New York Times seeking access to text messages
• 55:50
  exchanged between von der Leyen and Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla during negotiations over the
• 55:57
  bloc's COVID-19 vaccine contracts. The commission later pledged to review its record keeping
• 56:02
  practices. Oh, really? Earlier this month, Angino criticized the deletion of a text message sent by
• 56:09
  Macron regarding the EU's proposed trade agreement with South America's Mercosur bloc.
• 56:16
  The commission declined to release the message in response to a freedom of information request
• 56:22
  saying it had been auto deleted. Following a complaint by FTM follow the money, the ombudsman
• 56:32
  concluded the message had been deleted unlawfully and called on the commission to improve the
• 56:36
  preservation and archiving of official communications, including text messages.
• 56:45
  Jeez, they're hiding stuff, people. They're hiding stuff from us. Oh, no. Sluggo,
• 56:53
  what are we going to do? Oh, boy. Germany, meanwhile, has did they sank it or they sunk it?
• 57:04
  It has been sunk. It has the the the project is sunk. But the way they say it, Germany sinks.
• 57:13
  Fanterlein's $18 billion pet warship project. Is that warship or warship?
• 57:22
  The procurement of six F-126 warships was terminated due to significant delay,
• 57:30
  an enormous cost increase, said the defense ministry. Germany has pulled the plug on its
• 57:37
  largest naval shipbuilding project since the end of World War Two.
• 57:47
  Militarization of Germany proceeds at a record pace, says Samuel. But the largest project since
• 57:54
  the end of World War Two scrapped plans for a fleet of six F-126 frigates first ordered
• 57:59
  under then defense minister of Germany, Ursula von der Leyen. The plans to axe the project were
• 58:07
  first reported by Der Spiegel on Tuesday, which said the program had long been plagued by numerous
• 58:13
  issues, kind of like high speed rail in California. Hmm. Curious. The government's doing it. Therefore,
• 58:21
  you know it's cocked up, right? The ministry confirmed the move the next day, saying it was
• 58:28
  due to significant delay, enormous cost increase and incalculable risk.
• 58:35
  Risk can always be calculated. It's oh, I usually turn off the phone, but I have people phoning me,
• 58:42
  but I'm doing a program. We cannot speak to them whilst we are. They can call in on the show. How
• 58:48
  about them apples, friends and neighbors? It is also completing six F-126s.
• 58:57
  That it notes that these would have driven the total cost above the 18 billion set aside for it
• 59:05
  to 20.3 billion compared to the initial estimate of 5.27 billion for four such vessels. This is
• 59:14
  criminal. It's like how do how do these people get away with it? Oh, it's just a budget overrun.
• 59:22
  Give us another several billion. You know, Trump's asking for eighty one more. Eighty
• 59:27
  eight billion. There's another huge billions they need for war in Iran. Isn't that crazy?
• 59:34
  Oh, launched in 2020 under father line, the F-126 program was the largest warship
• 59:40
  project in modern German Navy history, displacing ten thousand five hundred tons and stretching
• 59:47
  one hundred and sixty six meters, big enough to stay at sea for two years.
• 59:52
  The vessel was designed to be highly versatile, capable of roles ranging from submarine
• 59:57
  hunting to supporting special forces and drone operations. The contract was initially awarded
• 1:00:04
  to the Dutch Damanschild Naval Shipping Yard, but the project quickly stalled as the company
• 1:00:09
  struggled to transfer ship design data to the production system used by the German shipyards
• 1:00:14
  and suppliers due to incompatible software. You don't check that shit out first, you bunch
• 1:00:23
  of loonies. Costs already started ballooning, which they do in government projects as early as
• 1:00:29
  twenty nineteen, even before the contract went to DSNS with then left party MP Matthias Hohn
• 1:00:35
  calling the project a money pit. They ever seen that movie? Tom Hanks, Money Pit and what's her
• 1:00:41
  name? Shelley something. Around the same time, the ministry's tendering process drew its own
• 1:00:46
  controversy. Oh, my God. Their funding, their tender process was flawed. Hmm. Funderlein's
• 1:00:54
  office came under accusation of tolerating nepotism, cronyism. You always have to throw in
• 1:01:02
  rascalism if you have seen Oh, brother, where art thou? When you hear words like that, cronyism
• 1:01:09
  giving lucrative, largely uncompetitive contracts to the McKinsey consultancy.
• 1:01:16
  Critics point to the fact that Catherine Souter, then state secretary of the Defense Ministry,
• 1:01:22
  was herself a veteran McKinsey employee. A later federal audit found that in most cases,
• 1:01:29
  the ministry failed to justify why external consultants were even necessary.
• 1:01:36
  That's what you do. You just call it a consulting fee. Throw yourself a consultant in there,
• 1:01:41
  pay him a billion bucks, and suddenly your project gets to go underwater. The consultant
• 1:01:45
  ends up wealthy and he passes the money back to you. That's how it works. Determination of the
• 1:01:52
  project is a severe blow to Ryan Metal, with shares plunging 17 percent in the stock's worst
• 1:01:59
  single day fall in years. Time to put money into it now, right? The first four frigates would have
• 1:02:06
  cost around 6.3 billion, with an option for four more, around 5.3 billion if exercised by the end
• 1:02:12
  of 2026. Pending approval from the Bundestag's budget committee. The termination of the
• 1:02:19
  controversial project comes as Germany carries out its largest militarization campaign in decades
• 1:02:26
  with the 2026 defense budget at 108 billion euro. Germany and other nations have cited the supposed
• 1:02:37
  Russian threat to justify this build-up. Moscow dismisses this speculation that it plans to attack
• 1:02:43
  NATO as nonsense. You know the word for nonsense, Podroski? It is chepukha. Chepukha is nonsense.
• 1:02:52
  Nonsense. Oh, chepukha. Nonsense. There you go. Anyway, that was a fun little story with Ursula
• 1:03:00
  von der Leyen taking a beating yet again. Poor her. You know, why do people attack her so much?
• 1:03:08
  I don't know. Maybe it's because she's an unelected empress. She has created herself as the empress
• 1:03:14
  of the EU. She is in charge by God. And don't you forget about it. Don't you forget about me.
• 1:03:22
  I had one more story. This one's a little more local.
• 1:03:27
  U.S., you know, here we are in international flavor. I give you an international perspective. But
• 1:03:34
  there's, I'm watching this unfold on our news channels and places like that,
• 1:03:40
  that there was a new housing bill that has been passed by the legislature and Trump put
• 1:03:46
  off signing it. And it'd be interesting to know why. But I have a hard time because halftime,
• 1:03:54
  I think he's making it up as he goes along. And it's whatever. He doesn't make any decision until
• 1:04:00
  he makes the decision. There's no planning involved, in my opinion. It's just whatever,
• 1:04:05
  whatever floats his boat on that particular day. And there's flexibility in that. That's
• 1:04:11
  an entrepreneurial spirit. So it's a, I don't claim it is always a bad thing, but in politics,
• 1:04:17
  it might be. I think that, you know, four years isn't long enough to get an agenda done anyway
• 1:04:24
  in America. Eight years is rarely enough. And that a president's term should be longer than four
• 1:04:32
  years. Now you could argue that you need that flexibility on the executive branches, but it
• 1:04:40
  doesn't change the GS level employees that all sit there and bake their entire career there that
• 1:04:48
  really run the government. Okay. Same thing in Missouri, by the way. And we'll talk about some
• 1:04:54
  of that tomorrow on civic outlaws. Hopefully some interesting news and it should be going in
• 1:05:04
  today. But I've been impatient about it. And I've been watching it for like a week now. And I've
• 1:05:09
  got, for months actually. But you know how you're at the end and you want to push it over the cliff
• 1:05:15
  and go, okay, now it's gone. Well, we've been on that brink for just a little while. So anyway,
• 1:05:21
  we're going to talk about that. But so as a US housing bill is called the 21st century road
• 1:05:28
  to housing act, official Senate information says the Senate passed it by 85 to five and describes
• 1:05:36
  it as a major housing affordability package aimed at expanding the supply, cutting red tape,
• 1:05:42
  protecting taxpayers and empowering local communities to build more homes.
• 1:05:48
  The house financial services committee described the bill as bipartisan and reported an earlier
• 1:05:55
  house passage by 396 to 13. So these are extremely popular among the reps and senators. I mean,
• 1:06:08
  that number just in itself, getting them to agree on anything is crazy. And that's why
• 1:06:13
  you should be suspicious. If they all want it, that means the scam pays off for everybody.
• 1:06:20
  You know, they all get their money. Somehow everybody's making out like a fat cat, except
• 1:06:26
  I would assume the middle class. And those of us who actually are affected by all these laws,
• 1:06:31
  somebody is getting rich somewhere. And it appears that everybody's getting rich somewhere.
• 1:06:35
  If you're the cynical cuss that I am. And so that's what I believe is that there's something
• 1:06:42
  crazy. So the political drama is that this morning Trump canceled or delayed the signing,
• 1:06:49
  the bill, because he wants movement first on his save America act, a voter ID proof of citizenship
• 1:06:58
  election bill. Now, frankly, I can't imagine why we've not had that anyway. You have to have
• 1:07:08
  a real ID to travel somewhere, right? And you don't have to, there are exceptions. I get that.
• 1:07:13
  You don't need to call and shoot me out over that. But you're supposed, if you've seen your
• 1:07:20
  new passport, you got to see the damn thing, the page where they put your chip in it. They're
• 1:07:25
  tracking your passport. If they aren't tracking you, that thing, the brand new one I just got,
• 1:07:30
  of course, it's in the hands of the Russians right now. I still haven't gotten it back.
• 1:07:34
  They say I'll have it by the end of the month, but man, I've got, I need to make some plans here. And
• 1:07:40
  I'm still missing my visa for Russia, mother Russia. But I should have, they say everything
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  is in the works and it should be just fine. But this citizenship bill is important. Axios,
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  New York Post, Times of India and others are reporting the same standoff,
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  a rare bipartisan housing legislation is being held up by Trump over an unrelated voting bill.
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  And I think that's interesting and I'm not saying I'm necessarily against it, but we shall see.
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  Hello, caller. What may I do for you this morning?
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  Something's going on again. That's not going to work. You're going to have to
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  fix whatever it is you got going on and call back or go to a different phone line.
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  Just ain't working. At any rate, there you have it. So what the bill does, allegedly,
• 1:08:37
  says it does, and I haven't downloaded the whole thing yet and getting a... You know what's the
• 1:08:42
  beautiful part of AI anymore? If you haven't started using it, you can use it to take
• 1:08:46
  massive quantities of data and assess it for you or give you a quick rundown of what it really is.
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  And I haven't taken in the whole bill yet. And I want to because I'm a real estate broker in
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  Florida and in Missouri, and I do a lot of the business sorts of things and discuss people on
• 1:09:09
  their business and commercial sorts of property or investment property, stuff like that. And by the
• 1:09:17
  way, CE, continuing education, you got to do so many hours a year and mine rotate. So every two
• 1:09:24
  years, you have to do however many hours you got to do. And it's pretty cool because my Florida
• 1:09:29
  ones are due in odd years and my Missouri ones are due in even years. Happens to be an even year.
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  And so I have one more class to do. And I was going to do it last night and I got started on
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  it and then the cat distracted me and so I use it as an excuse to not do it. So here I am last
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  minute, got another class to do. But this housing bill is part of that. Well, not part of the new
• 1:09:56
  stuff because it hasn't been passed yet. But I certainly want to know because anybody with real
• 1:10:00
  estate should definitely know what it does anyway. What it reportedly does is it's a broad housing
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  affordability reform package. And the major themes of it are to expand the housing supply, to ease
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  the regulatory barriers to building houses, to improve access to mortgage and community bank
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  lending, to limit institutional private equity acquisition of single family homes. Now that
• 1:10:30
  I want to research more on its face. It sounds positive, you know, because what they're trying
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  to do is allow children, well, like my children, our children, but you know, my daughter's 41,
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  I think. And then we keep on going down the line, I guess, and it's 26. And buying a house for them
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  isn't like it was when I was a kid. You know, I mean, it was different. I bought my first house
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  when I got out of the military in Dallas and well, a suburb of Dallas called Cedar Hill. And
• 1:11:06
  it was a pretty simple process. Of course, I'm a veteran, you know, I had a VA process to go
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  through. It might have made it easier for it. But if you don't have eligibility for any of those
• 1:11:20
  things, buying a house today and getting notes today and the way people make money is different
• 1:11:26
  and the way they get paid is different. And a lot of people work for themselves and they can never
• 1:11:31
  they can't show the income necessary to buy a house or they don't have enough to put something
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  down. So, if you can limit the institutional and private equity acquisition of single family homes,
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  I'm not, as a principal, against it immediately. But I don't want to see those places where they
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  come in and they build cookie cutter houses that go on for miles and all look the same
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  and they're packed together. You look out your window and into the bedroom of your neighbor.
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  It's nonsense. And there ought to be certain rules that go along. Anyway, I'm very interested
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  in finding out what this does, but I'm more interested in the jockeying for position
• 1:12:13
  that's going on. So, the other part of the bill, it reforms or extends certain federal housing and
• 1:12:22
  disaster recovery programs. Well, this is where they hide money. And that's why all these people
• 1:12:29
  are for it, would be my initial cynical take of it. And I'm not saying I'm against it. We don't
• 1:12:35
  have any control over any of this stuff anyway. Those guys, you might think you do, but you don't.
• 1:12:42
  You don't control any of this. It is done by people way out of your league and saying things
• 1:12:49
  doesn't necessarily, well, very rarely help. But the real political story is that Trump had
• 1:12:57
  a bipartisan win and he's got it. And instead of taking that win, he wants to use that win for his
• 1:13:04
  constant art of the deal. Well, strategically, frankly, I'm not against that. I think if he
• 1:13:13
  wants this voter ID, whether you support it or not, the strategic question for Trump is does
• 1:13:19
  linking an unrelated bill make him look strong? Or does it make him look unserious about passing
• 1:13:26
  the law? Well, I have mixed opinion about that. I think, but it's because in part of it that I
• 1:13:34
  support a voter ID and always have. I think it's a ludicrous and idiotic argument to claim,
• 1:13:42
  oh gee, those inner city poor folk, the Brown people can't afford a $10 ID. They have ID.
• 1:13:51
  They got to open a bank account for God's sake. Even the lowest of low earning potential have to
• 1:14:00
  show an ID to get into places. They have to show ID to buy their alcohol. You're saying that
• 1:14:08
  if you believe what you believe about the inner city, you think they don't drink there
• 1:14:14
  and they can't afford it? So, oh geez, we can't require them to provide. It's the biggest scam
• 1:14:20
  going on forever. And all of us know it. The Democrats know it too. They just sell it to you
• 1:14:27
  in the way of saying it's disadvantageous to people of color. And they can't let people,
• 1:14:34
  what it really means is people who aren't allowed to vote cannot vote.
• 1:14:41
  And what about a national election registry? What about that? Hell, they're going to start
• 1:14:46
  tracking you on your phone anyway. They're already trying to get Android and Apple,
• 1:14:50
  which they already do, to have you log in into their phone and then they know exactly where you
• 1:14:55
  are. So it's not really going to save you much anyway, if you still have a phone. Unless you
• 1:15:00
  buy a Huawei, which I've owned one and I'm thinking of buying another one. But the Android
• 1:15:06
  update, that doesn't matter. Old story. But think about this. Let's be a skeptic for a minute.
• 1:15:13
  Housing really is a crisis for younger people especially. If Congress actually passed a
• 1:15:21
  bipartisan bill, one of very, very few in recent years, holding that bill hostage for an unrelated
• 1:15:38
  voter ID demand might look a little bit reckless or a performance. It's a show. But what else do
• 1:15:45
  you expect from Trump? He's a showman. And he's the greatest show on earth. And he doesn't even
• 1:15:53
  have to have a flying trapeze. But Trump believes election integrity is a foundation, frankly.
• 1:16:01
  If you believe in democracy, it should be a foundation. But he could see the Save America
• 1:16:09
  Act as more important than an ordinary domestic housing bill. It'll take a while for that bill
• 1:16:15
  to take effect anyway. Or to assist the people that actually need it. If it's really for that
• 1:16:20
  and not for screwing them further and passing out money to the rich in another form, which is
• 1:16:28
  constant anyway. So if you take that point of view, using this as leverage, it doesn't create
• 1:16:35
  chaos. It's playing hardball. And if you believe that Trump is the art of the deal master, well,
• 1:16:42
  it's not a bad position to take. Taking a position, when you have them with something they
• 1:16:52
  want, why not hold it over their head? I'm not saying I would do it. But it's not unreasonable
• 1:16:58
  to take that position. A lot of lawyers play that way, for sure. So the political mismatch is this.
• 1:17:06
  A lot of voters understand housing costs immediately. And fights over voter ID are
• 1:17:12
  far more ideological and a split down the middle. Everybody gets housing cost. It's like
• 1:17:18
  the cost at the pump for your gasoline. Everybody gets that. And that's why if Trump doesn't solve
• 1:17:28
  or figure out something about the war he and Netanyahu started in Iran, that it's such a
• 1:17:33
  pain for the rest of us, because Jesus, back in February, we were paying $250 a gallon for gas.
• 1:17:39
  And so people understand housing and not being able to get a home. Trust me, they get that.
• 1:17:46
  Where voter ID, they might not give a crap, because you can't change anything with your
• 1:17:52
  one little vote anyway. And many people believe that way. So delayed housing relief is going to
• 1:18:00
  be hard to defend to families that are priced out of homes or the ability to buy them.
• 1:18:04
  So Democrats are going to say he had a bipartisan win on a housing deal,
• 1:18:11
  and he turned it into another loyalty test, right? This is Trump 2.0. This is how he
• 1:18:21
  acts as president, especially in the second term. Anyway, so I don't know. I haven't
• 1:18:28
  put too much thought process into there. It's an interesting thought process. When it comes,
• 1:18:44
  when it gets signed, we will certainly pay attention to it and keep track of this over
• 1:18:51
  the next little bit. I had, and it's toward the end of the show, and I'm going to play it because
• 1:18:57
  it's a very short song, Anyhoo. And I wanted to play this for you. And it basically is
• 1:19:11
  among my favorites. And I have, no, you know what? I'm not going to be able to play it. I can't find
• 1:19:18
  it quick enough. And we're going to try to find it, I suppose, and then play that one song for
• 1:19:31
  you. And it's pretty short. It's not even, not even three minutes. And so we'll go ahead and play
• 1:19:37
  it and see what you get. It's a love song and it's not Ruskin. And so we're going to have fun
• 1:19:45
  just because it's my show and I can.
• 1:21:24
  I don't want a different fate, I don't want to change anything,
• 1:21:39
  that factory passageway that led me to people.
• 1:21:54
  I don't want a different fate, I don't want to change anything,
• 1:22:08
  that factory passageway that led me to people.
• 1:22:12
  I don't want a different fate, I don't want to change anything,
• 1:22:19
  that factory passageway that led me to people.
• 1:22:30
  Когда весна придет, не знаю.
• 1:22:34
  I don't know when spring will be coming. A love song from a movie of the same name.
• 1:22:44
  And one of my favorites. We had a caller, but the noise is, I don't know what's going on with
• 1:22:51
  his phone. But we got nothing. If you want to try again, please do. But I got nothing.
• 1:22:58
  And except some kind of a weird stuff in the background. And so whatever's happening.
• 1:23:04
  Try it again. There's only a few minutes left of the old program. Anywho, but I will pick up
• 1:23:10
  and let you finish it out if you would like. Let's see here. There were a couple other
• 1:23:16
  interesting. There was a French teenager killed by a migrant gang, sparking national outrage.
• 1:23:25
  Five suspects were tracked down after they filmed the attack. And the kid was fighting for his life
• 1:23:35
  for days. The brutal beating to death of a 17-year-old boy in France by a group of teenagers
• 1:23:40
  described as a migrant gang has sparked public outrage across country. The attack,
• 1:23:46
  which authorities have called an ambush, took place last Friday at a construction site in the
• 1:23:51
  southern city of Narbonne. Let's try this one more time. You only got a few minutes.
• 1:23:59
  That's okay. Can you hear me? I can now, yes. Awesome. What's the big deal about
• 1:24:09
  voter registration if there's minimal fraud and election fraud and Trump's got it in the bag
• 1:24:17
  anyways? I don't think he's got it in the bag. I think he's in for a rude awakening come November,
• 1:24:25
  is what I think. But I could be wrong. I don't follow that as much as I ought to. But I also
• 1:24:31
  don't spout off that victory's here, victory's not. I have my own theory, and I just gave it to
• 1:24:38
  you. And I don't think he is seen as positively now as he was two years ago. Exactly. A lot of
• 1:24:49
  voters didn't turn out because they were upset with Kamala about her pro-Israel stance. Well,
• 1:24:56
  she wasn't... In my view, she was a non-choice. I can't imagine choosing that type of person.
• 1:25:07
  No, that. I mean, I don't care. The fact that she's a woman doesn't bother me. The fact she's
• 1:25:12
  black doesn't bother me remotely. But the fact that she's not too bright, that bothers me.
• 1:25:19
  And how do you think she's not too bright because Trump says it?
• 1:25:24
  No, because I watch her and I followed her too. I take that choice pretty seriously. And I watch
• 1:25:31
  and I try to listen. Put together something for me that makes me understand what you think you
• 1:25:38
  would do for the country. And she had nothing. Listen to her now, allegedly running in California.
• 1:25:45
  Just pull her up now. And if you can articulate a real plan for anything other than I'm a black
• 1:25:52
  lawyer, woman, vote for me, that's all that there is. And there was no profile of hers that would
• 1:26:01
  be anything except I got the support of the Hollywood elite. I got the support of the
• 1:26:06
  Democratic elite. And all the elite support me because I'm pliable to them. I can be controlled
• 1:26:13
  by them. That's what I believe. I'll let you have the last word, but I only got a couple of minutes.
• 1:26:19
  Only got a couple of minutes. Well, it just seems like it's going to be a wash to me.
• 1:26:29
  There's not a wash. It's going to be they're going to get run over. There's no way that
• 1:26:35
  Trump is going to. People have caught him in his lies and
• 1:26:43
  less people just following him blindly, I think. Well, the question is whether or not you feel
• 1:26:49
  positive about the direction we're going or negative. That's the usual, in my opinion,
• 1:26:54
  in a midterm. And I think most people see what's going on in a negative light.
• 1:27:01
  Do you know what a rhino liner is, bed liner in a pickup truck? I do. I have it in my pickup truck.
• 1:27:09
  Does it stay on your pickup bed? It did for pretty good. I put it on. It lasted about five,
• 1:27:15
  six years. I've given that truck to my son and it still, for the most part,
• 1:27:20
  but on the tailgate, it chips off quite a bit.
• 1:27:24
  What I'm getting at is nobody's buying his vandalism with the pool. The man will just
• 1:27:32
  stand up and outright lie. He's still saying the Iran war was won the first week.
• 1:27:43
  Yeah, that's not a victory.
• 1:27:47
  There's only a limited number of people that's going to accept that.
• 1:27:53
  It's a very limited number of people because the facts are against him.
• 1:27:59
  Yeah. And it's funny to me that JR has a positive spin every year.
• 1:28:09
  But JR's a positive dude. And I love JR and I think he's very positive. But sadly,
• 1:28:14
  we have literally 20 seconds and I got to close it out. So I appreciate you. Thanks for the call.
• 1:28:20
  Goodbye.
• 1:28:21
  Bye-bye. And that is it for today on International Flavor. Thanks for joining us. Join us again
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  tomorrow morning from 7 to 830 for Civic Outlaws. It's coming to you hopefully with some big news.
• 1:28:34
  Have a very great mid-Missouri day. See you tomorrow.