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Who Owns the Sky? Satellite Control, Star Trek Cloaking, and the Global Fight Over Truth and Visibility · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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Hello, good morning, welcome.
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It is Wednesday.
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Isn't that what we're led to understand?
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It's certainly what I am.
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Somebody's a little loud in my ear.
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Oh, it's me.
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Let's see.
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We're going to do thusly.
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Life is good.
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So I got to thinking, and I know
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that's a scary concept.
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And what was I thinking about?
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I was thinking about Star Trek.
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I was thinking about, of course, Star Trek.
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I mean, what else would you think about
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in your spare time but Star Trek?
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And the fact is that Star Trek is
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upon us in many ways.
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We got robots.
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Do you remember when, I don't know if
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you're a Star Trek fan or not, but
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I like Star Trek.
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I like the old ones, but somehow I'm
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a next generation dude.
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I got all the next generations.
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I like to watch them time and time
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and time and time and time.
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But I especially well, there's a number of
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favorite characters, but probably one of my favorites
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is the Commander Data, who in 10 years
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never got promoted.
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I don't understand that.
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But he was Commander Data doing all of
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his stuff.
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And he was an android.
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Okay.
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And didn't want it.
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I don't remember if it was season number
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one or season number two.
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He had sex with a woman.
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He said that he was fully functional and
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certainly functional.
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So we're even there these days.
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I think it's to reverse, but people have
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been buying toys for 100 years.
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At least I think so.
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I don't know.
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I'm not out purchasing toys, but if I
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bought one, it'd be a damn robot.
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And apparently that's a big deal.
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So technology's upon us.
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But anyway, bring you on the show to
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talk about sex robots.
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I brought you on because technology is getting
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us and technology.
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I reported a few days ago.
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Maybe it was last week.
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I don't know.
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On a story coming to us from Canada,
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from France, from several other countries.
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And Poland, I think.
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Germany, for sure.
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They are reinvigorating, restructuring their satellite programs because
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the US is curtailing the use of data.
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I said something to you about this the
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other day.
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They're curtailing the use of intelligence.
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So way back when I was a young
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man in the military, I had access to
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satellite data, to seeing pictures, images of the
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ground in foreign countries from our satellites because
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we were sending out satellites.
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And all of the pictures that we were
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taking were pretty much secret.
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Well, now anybody can get on Google Earth,
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just about anywhere in the world and go
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and take some things.
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And there are ways to buy live feed
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and see what's going on live at particular
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places.
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It's private data.
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Private companies own a lot of these apparatus,
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a lot of these satellites.
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Elon Musk has a shit pod of them
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up there in the atmosphere, passing out internet
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to people.
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And the Russians are catching up.
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The Chinese have been doing it for a
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long time.
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There's talk about lasers being up there.
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And I got to pondering and pondering what
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a wonderful thing it is.
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We sit and we ponder.
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I was like, you know, if you go
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back to your Star Trek, even the first
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iter, well, not the first, well, I suppose
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it was the first with Captain Kirk, he,
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you know, James Tiberius variety, he had engagements,
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he fights with the Klingons, right?
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And the Romulans, and both the Klingons and
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the Romulans had cloaking technology.
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Now it was pretty funny when they started
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making the movies with the young kid who
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was doing all the new, the new Captain
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Kirk, who's actually an awesome job.
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I like those movies as well.
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Those showed a new guy and those people
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had all sorts of technology that Captain Kirk
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never had.
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And, or maybe they did have it and
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they just couldn't show it because our technology
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was limited.
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Maybe they aren't really from earth, but they
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say they're from earth where they began.
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And so, you know, the Vulcans first discovered
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the, and when I was in a different
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episode, that was one of the movies where
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they discovered earth and they, you know, they
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had to go back in time and save
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it from the Borg.
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I mean, that was important.
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And the technology, maybe that was it.
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I don't know.
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I still can't figure it out in the
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logical frame of mind and how you walk,
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walk through these very important things that you
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need to know about a non-existent world.
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Okay.
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But at any rate, the technology existed to
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cloak and cloaking something means you make it
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invisible.
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I mean, Harry Potter's got an invisibility cloak.
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You can have a cloak of invisibility and
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you know, I don't have one.
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And, but the U S can make invisible
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the visual waves.
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They can, they can do that because they
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just shut off the satellites.
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And what they do is they say these
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satellites, you can't, because I reported to you
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last week that there was some, some time
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limit they were putting on it where you
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couldn't get it automatically.
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You could only get whatever it was 10,
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20 hours away, right?
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You could get that.
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And then you, now the U S is
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saying that you can only get it several
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days later.
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And they've, they've engaged in regulation and said
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that this is a critical that they can't,
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we can't follow troops, even 10, 20 hours
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later, they want to make it several days
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to give them a window to get out
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because you're helping the enemy.
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Okay.
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But understand that their efforts, the other direction,
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everybody's doing it.
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And people are up in arms because Russia
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and China are selling Iran data.
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I don't see anything wrong with that.
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That's the world.
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We sell all our stuff to Israel.
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We sell it all to all over Europe,
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but the Europeans don't like it because Donald
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Trump is unstable in a lot of people's
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views.
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And so he's blocking it.
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Hegg says, interesting fellow.
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And they, they, who knows what they're going
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to do next?
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You know, ah, we're going to Greenland, get
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on our helmets.
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Off we go.
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So anyway, I'm thinking about, you know, the,
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these sort of who controls the sky.
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I mean, Elon Musk gets to tell Russia,
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you know, I'm not going to give you
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any, um, any, I don't know what any
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access to the internet.
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So Russia sends up their own side, their
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own internet satellites.
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China sends up their own.
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It's the technology helps and whoever limits it
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also helps, but whoever controls the sky controls
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the truth.
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Okay.
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And, and that's the part that, uh, you
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know, the control of the truth.
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We, we only see all the good stuff
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over here that this stuff, well, according to
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us to good stuff, but you know, Oh,
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geez, we blew up Russia and blah, blah,
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blah, an oil thing.
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We blew up by Iranian.
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This, we, we killed the train or a
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bridge, a train, a bridge for a train
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in Iran.
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You know, we blocked them off and now
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we've got the, uh, I don't know what
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the, um, um, the Kurds coming in to,
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to, to fight that battle for us because
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now we fought off or we've separated the
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two parts of, uh, of Iran.
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And by the way, there is no ceasefire.
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It was a joke anyway.
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And, um, an hour later, Israel's bombing the
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crap out of stuff of UAE.
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Somebody bombed something else.
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And, and, uh, is, and, and, and you
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think of the play on this, this is
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actually a good idea from the, from, from
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Donald Trump.
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It says this, if you, I've been accusing
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the guy of having no strategy, Hegseth zero
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strategy.
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Well, then they didn't think about the, or
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maybe they just didn't believe.
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And they were too dumb to, to believe
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the right people.
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I don't know, but, uh, they didn't anticipate
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the result of the closing of or moves.
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Now they're saying they want to create a
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new company.
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Donald Trump make a nickel off anything, right?
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We're going to create a new company.
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The U S with Iran will control it.
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And then we'll split the money.
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You know, the only reason to do that
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is to keep it in dollars and not
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in Yuan.
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That's it.
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And, uh, and, and, well, and for the
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U S to take the money, although we
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don't even need the straights of horror moves,
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according to Donald Trump, we don't need it.
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It's not for us.
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It's for everybody else.
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He wants to make money off the Europeans,
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right?
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So I'm not so sure.
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Um, let's, let's see here.
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I want to get back to where I
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was going.
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So on April 5th, Reuters said that planet
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labs would indefinitely withhold imagery of Iran and
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surrounding conflict areas after the U S government
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requested it.
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Okay.
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Well, then why am I seeing them on
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TV all the time?
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Reuters also reported that this followed earlier restrictions,
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including a 14 day delay and that planet
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would move to a managed distribution model, releasing
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imagery only in limited cases.
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Reuters reported on March 10th, that planet already
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expanded its delay from four days to 14
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for the middle East to keep adversaries from
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exploiting it.
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Okay.
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So only the U S can control it.
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That gives, uh, you know, everyone a little
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bit of pause to think, well, this is
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all great.
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You know, we want to blow up all
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these people.
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This is what we want to do.
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We can't have people seeing the effects of
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the nastiness of war.
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We can't have that.
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It, and trust me, this isn't for, uh,
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targeting.
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They all got that anyway.
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And, uh, and, and they're getting that from
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different sources.
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So this isn't for targeting.
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This is the effects.
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This is why you can't have it immediately.
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It's not that, you know, that stuff, maybe
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that botched operation where they actually turned it
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into the success.
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I don't believe that they would send over
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three C one thirties and several black Hawks
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to go and rescue one man.
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You know, they wouldn't do that.
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And, uh, that there's something else that that
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was a result of there.
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That's idiotic.
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You know, an air insertion team is a,
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isn't a black Hawk.
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I've done it.
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You can go and, and be inserted only
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in training, by the way, I never, never
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actually got to do it in, in a
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wartime situation.
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I was a Russian interpreter.
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What the hell are we going to do?
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And, uh, but at any rate, uh, I
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did get to do it in, in be
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inserted.
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You're inserted that way, or you're inserted through
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a U H one and you can jump
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out of that helicopter on a, uh, you
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know, drop three, 400 feet.
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It's about it on a, a repelling line.
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And I've done that repeatedly.
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That was a lot of fun.
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And in fact, I fell out of one,
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one time saved myself, but I should be
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dead on numerous occasions.
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And that was definitely one of them.
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But, uh, uh, the insertion team would have
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been a hell of a lot smaller than
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three C one thirties that could carry upwards
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of 200 men BS.
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There's something else going on.
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And, uh, that failed is, is my thought.
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And, uh, there's a lot of speculation that
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whatever it was, was that the we're going
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to go steal their uranium member.
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I was having questions about that two days
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ago.
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Anyway, the, the visibility of all of this
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is only government used to have the God's
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eye view.
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I was part of it.
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You know, we could, we, the, the satellite
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imagery, you, you couldn't even talk about it.
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You couldn't even talk about what you saw
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on the satellite imagery nowadays.
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Jeez, everybody's got it.
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You got it in the palm of your
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hand.
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And, uh, but way back then, that's what
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it was way back then sending a text
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message.
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You wouldn't believe it.
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The very, I was involved in the very
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first text messages where, Oh my God, we
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don't have to speak.
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All we got to do is send a
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little piece of encrypted data.
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And you had these little, they were about
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an inch and a half thick, but they
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were a solid flat, uh, cathode ray tube
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or whatever.
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They were just green and, and, and, and
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a, uh, and a, and a blinking green
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light up on the top.
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And I forget what they were called, but,
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uh, we, we were experimenting with those.
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They'd go put us behind enemy lines at
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the national training center and play around with
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those things and say, uh, we can text
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you stuff.
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You can stay radio silent because all we're
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doing is sending encrypted data, you know, text
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message dial here.
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It is.
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And have you spent billions on that crap?
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And, uh, it's like somebody to send you
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a text message.
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Where are you?
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Send one back going, I'm over here.
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When's breakfast coming?
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That's that I'm kidding.
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But, uh, you know, you could, it was
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the first text messaging was in the form
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of these, it was before pagers were really
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prevalent member people in their damn pagers.
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Oh, phone number showed up.
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I've got to run.
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Everybody's all busy now.
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Uh, but the government is the one who
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was in charge of all that and kept
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all that stuff and took the technology first.
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Now technology is available to anybody.
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I'm truly thinking that since, uh, Russia has
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double the number of engineers, we do.
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China has like 10 times as many now
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India has so many in the United States,
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we put out somewhere in the neighborhood of
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a hundred of, of 30,000 a year.
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And there's a steady, uh, uh, not production,
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a solid number of those job positions in
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America that are only in the number of
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150,000.
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I read you something about this a couple
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of months ago where, where we were looking
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at the engineering, uh, go out, go out
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and find one of those.
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Cause on YouTube or on any of those
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are placed to make sure you believe the
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sources, but there's a lot of international sources
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of engineering and they aren't America.
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You know, our schools are crappier.
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Our it's, we're like number 30 down and
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where the engineering comes from.
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Everybody wants, they don't want our engineers.
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I mean they do, but they want engineer,
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they want the better trained ones are China,
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India, and Russia and Iran too.
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Iran was pretty high up there.
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Tell you what the rest of the world's
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progressing.
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Anyway, I say all of that because the,
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uh, exploitation of the satellite imagery is now,
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um, much more difficult because France is going
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to start sending up their own because the
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U S doesn't want to share.
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Uh, Ukraine wants to send up their own
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Poland.
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Think about it.
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All of these people, because it's an uneven
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playing field and they got to kiss the
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rear end of Pete Hegseth to get anything.
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And they don't want to do that.
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They don't want to work with Donald Trump,
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Donald Trump in the minds of many, many,
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many international people, uh, go from being unstable,
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which, uh, to being completely erratic.
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Now I will unstable is a bad connotation,
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erratic.
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I'm all over that.
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That guy's erratic as hell.
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One day we're going to war the next
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day.
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It's a, you know, I'm praising Allah.
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What the hell is that?
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He's off internationally for sure.
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And there's something strange going on.
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So, uh, the government is who's in charge
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of the telescopes, you know, so they're trying
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to, Washington is trying to put a lid
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on it until they can, can destroy a
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civilization in Iran.
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Right.
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And they're also trying to do it in
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other places, but they want to share it
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with Ukraine so that Ukraine can, um, um,
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you know, bomb Russia, you know, the, on
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our behalf, that's how it works.
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So government, you know, private companies sold the
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heavens, you know, Elon Musk is selling the
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heavens by a subscription, you know, so here's
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your subscription.
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You can have the internet and you know,
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you're going to pay me.
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What's the little device you buy and you
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can put on your RV, 500 bucks cost
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you 3000 if it's for a business.
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And then you pay like a hundred, $150
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a month, the rest of your life.
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And you got internet everywhere.
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As long as Elon Musk keeps it turned
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on or you don't live in Russia, if
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you live somewhere where he don't like you,
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then he just, I'm turning it off there.
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And what he's actually doing is the reverse
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too.
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He's giving it to people that the government
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doesn't want them to have it to, and
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he's allowing them to.
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So several countries in Africa, you can't, you
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have to have, you can't buy an Elon
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Musk receiver.
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You can't use one.
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You can't have one because the government won't
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allow it.
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Um, you know, North Korea, you know, other
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places like that.
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And so what we're, you know, it's a
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selective who gets to see what, and the
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same thing is going on with satellite imagery.
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So, um, I'm saying we're not living in
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star Trek yet, but we're kind of a
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prequel to, you know, we're watching, um, um,
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uh, we're watching them, these things, these technologies
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come to bear right now.
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And so, you know, we don't have any
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cloaking devices for the Klingon.
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We don't have any federation hollow decks where
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you can get on and create a, uh,
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an environment that you can go wander in.
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Since you're stuck on a starship for five
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years mission, then you could go on this
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hollow deck and create some woods that you
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can walk through with your, you know, little
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significant other that you found on the Lido
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deck or wherever you went to.
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Uh, but we do have commercial eyes in
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orbit that we have.
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We have AI assisted image analysis, which is
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often wrong.
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We have immersive projection systems, humanoid robots, and
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an intensifying global race over who gets sovereign
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their own access to space-based intelligence.
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We're even talking about aliens being some, some,
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uh, US Senator was talking about, um, um,
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talking about having some aliens that we already
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know about it.
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They're among us.
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And so that's the news today.
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Um, you know, the science fiction props are
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definitely, you know, are fake, but the underlying
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political struggle is pretty real.
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Commercial hologram systems already do exist for entertainment,
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for advertising, but all they are display technologies
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like what if, okay.
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So we talk about here on damn radio,
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several people talk about flock cameras, the cameras
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that they put up to detect you, uh,
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the speeding camera, the, this camera, the, that,
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so the, for several years there was a,
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and there still are, they still exist.
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They're marginal, uh, whether they work or not,
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never have all completely wiped it out, but
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you could either spray your license plate with
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some substance that made it invisible to cameras.
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It doesn't work anymore because camera technology doesn't
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go the way it used to.
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When it was a flash technology, no problem
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at all because the flash would turn it
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into a white spot and there's no way
21:00
you could get around it.
21:01
And so you could, that might work.
21:03
And they have those covers that, uh, uh,
21:06
you see on these really low rider cars
21:08
that, uh, uh, well, you see it on
21:11
a lot of cars, but that, that cover
21:14
the license plate in some like blue, like
21:19
a blue background or a green background so
21:22
that you don't get a, an image of
21:24
it.
21:25
Uh, but there's no such thing.
21:27
There's AI generated imagery that you could potentially
21:31
shine onto the top of your house.
21:34
I suppose, you know, camouflage systems exist that
21:38
cover entire buildings, you know, but they're a
21:41
physical piece of, uh, equipment like a military
21:45
camouflage net and people are camouflaging those things.
21:48
They're going underground, they're going into caverns, they're
21:52
doing something else.
21:53
And, uh, you know, how do you, I
21:59
mean, will there ever be a cloaking device
22:01
with AI?
22:02
Are we able to share those things or
22:04
shine those things onto the, uh, um, top
22:11
of our house and have people able to,
22:15
uh, see them?
22:18
And, you know, it's, let's see, it's an
22:25
interesting world in which we live.
22:28
And I'm sorry, I got a text about
22:31
something and I was making sure that it's,
22:34
uh, that all is well.
22:35
So at any rate, the, the technology does
22:39
exist for creating AI imagery or creating, um,
22:48
camouflage sorts of covers, because what they're doing
22:52
is they're generating, so there's all kinds of
22:55
big things that actually work.
22:57
So, you know, it's not, not like we're
23:00
going to buy a cloaking device at Walmart
23:01
for our car or our license plate, or,
23:04
you know, or anything like that.
23:06
But in Star Trek, who's gets the advantage
23:09
of superior sensors, you know, what they're regulating
23:13
or what they're attempting to regulate is access
23:18
to the data at all.
23:20
The amount of, um, the amount of information
23:27
that is available and how accurate it is
23:31
to what degree, like, um, arguably they say
23:35
that you can get a pixel size that
23:38
on the pixels that you go down to
23:40
when you go to pixel size, it will
23:42
be as small as, uh, uh, 30, 30,
23:48
um, millimeters.
23:52
I mean, it's a small amount.
23:54
And so you can get some very serious
23:57
detail with cameras today.
23:59
I mean, I remember the technology that we
24:01
had when I was serving the military, they
24:03
alleged that you could read the date off
24:05
a dime from the orbit of a satellite.
24:08
So a dime lane in the street, you
24:10
could read the date off it is, is,
24:12
is what they were in.
24:13
And it's advanced astronomically since that time.
24:18
And, uh, so I mean, you know, this,
24:23
are we able to buy cloaking devices?
24:25
I don't know, but there's all kinds of
24:28
stuff, delayed image, publication, camouflage, deception, putting something
24:33
else out there, radar signature management, thermal suppression,
24:38
because remember you can do a thermal camera
24:39
to jamming, spoofing, creating fake, uh, tanks and
24:44
putting them out there, having a cardboard tank,
24:46
you know, and legal restrictions on who gets
24:51
the data.
24:51
So Reuters saying that planet, uh, you know,
24:55
was restricting all this on behalf of the
24:57
Trump administration, you know, is kind of proof
24:59
of this to battlefield edge is not only
25:02
who can see it, it's who can keep
25:03
others from seeing it.
25:05
And so that's important.
25:07
Who owns the sky in all seriousness, the
25:10
oldest model was pretty straightforward.
25:12
Major States owned spy satellites.
25:16
Nobody else did.
25:18
Everybody else had to guess.
25:19
The new model is a hell of a
25:21
lot messier.
25:22
You know, the, the frontier is the sky
25:25
commercial firms sell detailed imagery.
25:30
And that means journalists, analysts, hedge funds, militaries,
25:34
and hostile actors can all be looking at
25:36
the same patch of earth that democratization.
25:41
If you want to call it that of
25:43
overhead imagery is what is now being curtailed
25:46
by the democratic States, you know, by, by
25:49
the Trump administration.
25:51
And I don't know, I I've always been
25:53
one of those people.
25:54
I want to level playing field, whether it
25:56
happens, you know, in T-ball or whether
25:58
it happens, uh, you know, in global thermonuclear
26:02
war, you know, with, uh, Ferris Bueller, you
26:07
know, I, or, or, well, he wasn't really
26:09
Ferris Bueller now when he was another same
26:11
kid.
26:13
But at any rate, I, I always want
26:16
a level playing field.
26:17
I suppose I'm completely wrong in that, but
26:20
I think that hugely unfair wars are crap.
26:26
You know, there are a lot of people
26:28
on the planet, including me that say that
26:32
you are, that you should honor the sovereignty
26:37
of other nations.
26:40
You've just, because you're bigger, doesn't give you
26:43
the right to, uh, destroy, you know, just
26:47
that's not how it works and not how
26:50
it should work anyway.
26:52
And I'm, let's see, I'm wondering here what
26:59
we have going on.
27:00
I'm, I'm feeling like a Jr should call
27:04
me if you're, if, if you're listening or
27:06
even if you're not, if this is not
27:09
working, um, cause I'm not positive it's transmitting.
27:13
I think it is, but what the hell
27:15
do I know?
27:17
Um, let's see here.
27:20
Yeah.
27:21
Okay.
27:21
Well, I guess we are.
27:22
Um, but there you go.
27:24
So who trusts Washington to give them either
27:28
accurate data or allow them access to data
27:33
in a timely fashion?
27:35
Nobody, even our allies don't trust us.
27:38
Well, except Israel, they get it first, you
27:41
know, if anything, you know, they get it
27:42
first.
27:43
And so I'm, I'm, I'm sorry that I'm
27:49
reading a Trump Trumpism right now, his, uh,
27:53
his true social, uh, advertising platform.
27:56
Um, at any rate, the, you know, everybody
27:59
owned it before, but now hostile actors can,
28:03
or if you want to call them that,
28:05
you know, who's the hostile actor depends on
28:07
what's happening and who you believe.
28:10
And, uh, I'm, I'm a disbeliever, but the
28:14
playing field is level only until it matters.
28:17
The state leans on the company that if
28:21
the state doesn't want them, that's regulation.
28:24
So, but who owns the sky above used
28:28
to be that if you, for example, uh,
28:31
so many, I don't know what the law
28:32
says anymore.
28:33
I really don't, but it used to be
28:35
that, uh, you know, the, your property is
28:39
your property, which means the, the stratosphere above
28:47
your property.
28:49
You know, if you could take a straight
28:50
line from the, uh, from your property line
28:56
and go straight up in the air, a
28:59
million miles, anything inside of that million of
29:03
your property lines all the way up is
29:05
still your property.
29:07
It's true going down to the center of
29:09
the earth as well, but that depends on
29:12
the country where you live, because some people
29:14
say it has nothing to do with it.
29:16
You know, you can't stop somebody from flying
29:19
a drone over your property, or can you
29:24
do it?
29:25
If I wanted to drone your house and
29:27
see if you had hidden oil reserves underneath
29:31
with my drone so that I could, uh,
29:34
go and steal them or say, Hey, you
29:37
know, I wonder if they got that, that,
29:39
uh, that car they stole from my garage.
29:43
I believe he stole it.
29:44
Why don't I just fly over his house
29:46
with this little, uh, drone thing I have
29:48
and we'll fly on over there and we'll
29:50
catch a view of my car in his
29:54
yard or not because it's under the ground
29:57
or it's in a garage or whatever, but
30:00
who owns the land above or the sky
30:02
above your house?
30:03
Who owns the dirt below?
30:04
Well, if you drill for oil, you own
30:06
the oil below too.
30:08
But what if it's a huge pool of
30:10
oil?
30:10
This created all kinds of cool stuff in
30:12
property law in law school, because sometimes you
30:17
have these huge aquifers of water and people
30:21
are fighting for the water, but one guy
30:23
builds a well and starts selling it to
30:25
everybody else.
30:26
And they're going, but wait, the aquifer goes
30:28
under my property too.
30:30
I own the water beneath as well.
30:32
You have a, you didn't build well, you
30:34
know, I built the well and I can
30:36
charge you for the water coming out of
30:39
my well, because once it hits my well,
30:41
it's my water.
30:42
You want water, build your own well and
30:45
otherwise pay me.
30:48
And it depends on the state, depends on
30:50
the country, depends on a lot of stuff.
30:52
And so at any rate, this, these, nobody
30:58
trusts their neighbor anymore to provide them water
31:01
for free, even though they own part of
31:03
it.
31:03
Certainly it's even 10 times worse if it
31:05
happens to be oil or some valuable mineral
31:08
that everybody has access to.
31:10
You know, what if I go underground and
31:13
discover a stream of gold that runs from
31:16
my, you know, underneath, I dig a mine
31:20
in my house, but then I keep going
31:22
under yours.
31:24
And there's plenty of gold under yours.
31:26
Well, you own the gold below your house,
31:28
but I ain't going to tell you because
31:29
I'm down in my own mine.
31:32
Build your own damn mine.
31:33
And so what if I'm under your house?
31:35
Well, it matters a lot if the house
31:36
falls in, but it doesn't matter so much
31:38
if not, and all I'm doing is stealing
31:40
your gold.
31:41
So at any rate, that's if, if Washington,
31:44
all these laws develop over time and let's,
31:48
let's talk about for something that is so
31:51
foolish, but it could be fun.
31:53
Klingon cloaks are definitely fiction, you know, the
31:56
cloaking device.
31:57
But real cloaking is bureaucracy.
32:00
It's electromagnetic.
32:02
You know, they can stop you from seeing
32:05
it through collection jamming.
32:07
I worked in a collection and jamming platform.
32:09
So collection would be, we would listen to
32:11
opposing, uh, you know, alleged enemies.
32:13
We would listen to their traffic on the
32:15
radio set of headphones.
32:17
You listen to what they're saying.
32:18
Jamming would be, we would prevent them from
32:21
talking to each other by jamming their signal,
32:25
overpowering their signal so much with this big
32:28
buzz and it'd go like that seriously.
32:31
And when we could push a button and
32:34
leave it on, you know, walk away and
32:37
fry their radios because they were that powerful.
32:41
You know, there's a story at Fort hood
32:42
of a way back when, when we were
32:45
doing it and a Fort hood is outside
32:48
of Killeen, Texas.
32:49
And there's a story that allegedly was in
32:52
our unit.
32:53
Although I certainly don't recall it.
32:54
I know we got chastised once or twice
32:57
for it for the, because we had these
32:58
big jammers that would, uh, that seriously, we
33:03
had 20 times the power of a local
33:05
radio station in a local radio.
33:07
I mean, we blew them off the air,
33:10
not, I mean, intentionally, not intentionally, whatever, but,
33:14
but they, uh, they were gone and it
33:16
would fry their transmitters.
33:18
Now I don't know the, the actual stuff,
33:21
but I do know that there were times
33:22
when they would come down and say, are
33:24
you guys jamming?
33:27
Are you on the, because they would have
33:29
frequency bleed and it would take out certainly
33:32
the AMs and the FMs too.
33:34
And I learned a little bit about how
33:35
that worked and it was like, wow, these
33:38
people, you know, just the fact that, you
33:40
know, that, uh, there are straight line modulation
33:43
and then there's up and down modulation.
33:45
And I'm hell if I knew the difference,
33:47
all I knew was if we pushed the
33:48
button, we could knock people off the air.
33:52
And so this technology stuff, you know, radar,
33:56
it's still a big deal.
33:58
Everybody wants their radar thing, but everybody is
34:01
decoying camouflage, object detection, evasion systems.
34:06
Um, but they don't have true invisibility yet.
34:09
Uh, but you can make machines hesitate, misclassify,
34:14
misread, not see the same.
34:17
And so the, the radar NASA explains that
34:21
synthetic aperture radar is designed to generate fine
34:25
resolution imagery from radar while orbiting an industry
34:31
emphasizes the practical consequence of this.
34:35
Um, these systems, synthetic aperture radar, SAR work
34:40
at night through the clouds, through the smoke,
34:43
uh, sob discussing the satellite threat from a
34:47
defense perspective, talks about camouflage solutions aimed at
34:52
defeating SAR satellites.
34:54
This tells you two things at once the
34:56
threat is real, but nobody seriously believes a
35:00
simple visual trick is enough anymore.
35:02
They're trying to figure out how to jam
35:04
a satellite.
35:05
Okay.
35:06
Now, allegedly there's going to be satellite warfare.
35:09
I read an article a little bit, you
35:10
know, you know, um, maybe, I don't know,
35:12
within the last year I read this, that
35:15
allegedly the, uh, the Russians and Chinese have
35:19
laser, uh, style satellites that can fire a
35:26
laser from orbit, either to hit another, uh,
35:30
another satellite orbiting, take it out or to,
35:35
uh, take out something on the ground with
35:38
a laser.
35:39
Now I've seen, and I don't, you don't
35:42
know if it's, um, AI generated or what
35:46
you really don't know that, but I've seen
35:50
some drones that allegedly can destroy another drone
35:58
or a piece of equipment with laser.
36:02
And, uh, there, I saw some on, on
36:04
YouTube or on telegram or something that were,
36:08
that would fly up and in Ukraine, use
36:10
this laser to hit something.
36:11
Well, a laser correct me if I'm wrong.
36:15
I'm no, I'm no technical guru when it
36:17
comes to this, but if, if, if a
36:19
laser is shot, that laser line continues forever,
36:24
does it not?
36:25
It may weaken over time, but if you're
36:28
able to target something with a laser and
36:31
you hit, hit the, the drone or whatever
36:37
it is, you're taking out, wouldn't the laser
36:39
continue after that?
36:42
And, and, you know, you hit that.
36:45
What, what if, what if that is, you
36:49
know, a, a, what if there's a house
36:53
behind the drone and, you know, there's a
36:55
baby sleeping in a bed and your laser
36:58
takes out the drone and then goes through
37:00
the window or through the house.
37:02
It's a laser burns a straight line.
37:04
And there it goes.
37:05
Like in the science fiction movies is that
37:07
we're talking about.
37:08
And what if I assume that in a
37:12
straight line in space, that a laser is
37:14
not going to go around the curvature of
37:17
the earth.
37:17
I would presume that it can't, that it's
37:20
going to go straight forever.
37:21
So would that laser then hit, uh, you
37:24
know, another planet so far away, who knows?
37:27
So I don't understand all those things about
37:29
a laser technology, obviously, but, uh, I S
37:33
I've seen some of this stuff out and
37:36
technology is really getting us.
37:38
So we cannot buy any hollow deck emitters
37:40
that will hide our ranch house from orbit.
37:43
We still can dig a huge underground, um,
37:46
bunker that we can live in.
37:48
Uh, but militaries and engineers are working on
37:51
ways even now.
37:52
And some of them already exist to confuse
37:54
degrade or outsmart what satellites and, or the
37:59
algorithms that run them can effectively see.
38:04
So I'm, I'm, I don't know.
38:06
I was just interested in this because of
38:08
the, of the ability to, uh, block people
38:14
from, you know, taking things we have increasingly
38:19
sophisticated, immersive projection, holograph style display, and mixed
38:27
reality.
38:28
I mean, everybody's buying these glasses, you know,
38:30
there was a pair of glasses.
38:31
I forget what it's called.
38:33
Uh, Google glasses, Google something.
38:36
Maybe it wasn't Google, but there are these
38:38
glasses that you can buy for 300 bucks
38:40
and is, is the ones I saw.
38:44
And, and who knows, I assume that the
38:46
more money you spend, the better, but it
38:48
is an AI pair of glasses.
38:52
Now get this, the AI glasses, uh, one
38:56
of the shows that they were not shows,
38:58
one of the commercials they were having was
39:00
that a guy with his Google glasses was
39:05
riding a bicycle.
39:07
And as he was riding his bicycle, and
39:09
now imagine this, I like riding the Katie
39:11
trail.
39:11
I'm thinking of doing it this weekend, you
39:13
know, going up and, and plugging away.
39:16
I really want to buy a new bicycle
39:18
and I might make the plunge.
39:20
But, uh, anyway, uh, if this guy's riding
39:23
his bicycle down a trail or, you know,
39:26
and as he's going down the trail, the
39:32
AI is identifying, for example, Oh, look at
39:37
that tree on the left-hand side there.
39:39
That's a, uh, an Elm tree, you know,
39:42
and, and you can tell the distinctive lights.
39:45
And this thing is giving you, as you
39:47
go, uh, information, you know, if you listen
39:51
to your AI on your, um, satellite, uh,
39:54
radio anymore in your car, or, or you're
39:57
using Google maps or whatever, uh, you will
40:00
get police are reported up ahead.
40:02
There's an object in the highway.
40:04
There's a guy pulled over avoid this route,
40:06
you know, go through all of these things.
40:08
And those are instant access to information.
40:11
And I always, it says, is the policeman
40:13
still there?
40:14
And, you know, click yes, or, you know,
40:15
cause it's on your screen, right.
40:17
And, uh, or no, he's gone, you know,
40:20
click that, or there's an accident as it
40:22
cleared out, you know, so people are having
40:24
sort of real time, uh, data like this.
40:28
And all of these things are no longer,
40:33
well, first of all, they're no longer government.
40:35
I mean, way back when, you know, Sam
40:37
and his text messaging device in the, in
40:39
the late eighties or mid eighties was, uh,
40:43
you know, very novel and having the ability
40:47
to do that, where it was more than
40:48
just a phone number that was entered in
40:50
or, uh, you know, beep, beep, beep.
40:53
We didn't tell you what you had to
40:55
just knew you had to call the person
40:57
who sent you the beep, you know, before
41:00
telephones and, uh, or check your messages, you
41:03
don't call in and have your messenger, but
41:05
now everybody's involved.
41:07
So there's a place, you know, these virtual
41:11
production environments where they're creating fake, I dunno,
41:15
missiles and showing them all over the place.
41:18
Um, and you fool the technology, or maybe
41:21
you can fool the technology.
41:23
It's, uh, you know, all these holographic style
41:26
displays for 3d depth effects.
41:29
There's something called hyper vision markets.
41:31
I have a large format, 3d display system
41:34
and a projection mapped immersive environment already routine
41:39
in the entertainment industry.
41:40
And that's not the USS enterprise, but it's
41:44
the same human impulse, build a convincing synthetic
41:48
environment and let people step inside of it.
41:51
I've been having a, uh, uh, you know,
41:53
there's a desire I have, but I haven't
41:55
been able to pull the, pull the trigger.
41:57
I might, because I still want, I still
41:59
want one, you know, I'm, I'm going to
42:01
build a sauna first, but I think I
42:04
want, in fact, I know I want one
42:06
of those Peloton, um, bicycles that has the
42:10
huge screen on it.
42:11
There was one that I used years ago
42:13
on a regular basis in some, uh, uh,
42:16
workout facility or other that you could pick
42:20
a trail that the bike, uh, the tensions
42:22
would adjust as you rode.
42:24
And it was really pretty cool.
42:26
So you could go on a bike ride
42:28
without leaving your house.
42:30
And, uh, you know, that's, I don't remember
42:32
what they cost is six, 7,000 bucks.
42:34
I think they've come down since then, but
42:37
you know, uh, the equal, uh, equal, um,
42:41
use of time and money was like, no,
42:45
not, not 7,000.
42:46
Would I spend 2,500?
42:48
Maybe, but you know, that, that depends on
42:52
how long it lasts, but that kind of
42:53
crap never lasts or the technology is, you
42:57
know, totally different in a couple of years
43:00
and you no longer want it, you know?
43:01
So I just still have my regular old
43:03
exercise bike and that's it with nothing cool
43:06
on it, but alleged, but you can also
43:08
take your, uh, uh, screen on your tablet
43:11
or your phone and create the same effect
43:14
with that.
43:15
And some of them connect to your, like
43:18
you connect your iPad to your bicycle machine,
43:21
you know, Schwinn makes a bunch of those
43:22
and, uh, so do other people, but, um,
43:25
I've researched them a little bit, but anyway,
43:27
we're nowhere near a zoom, a scale of
43:31
interactivity, anything like that to build a convincing
43:34
synthetic environment that is totally real, that could
43:39
generate full physical trails, detective stories, you know,
43:43
like Shakespeare, remember on Star Trek when data
43:46
fought, uh, uh, Professor Moriarty, that was a
43:50
lot of fun.
43:51
And, uh, but we are already in the
43:54
world of synthetic, uh, presence.
43:57
We are there where in the world of
43:59
data and sexual robots, you know, we don't
44:03
have data yet, you know, who's going to
44:05
live, you know, but you wonder about these
44:07
robots, these, uh, I want to go to
44:10
China.
44:11
I'm trying to get to India this year
44:12
for the BRICS conference, um, coming up, it's
44:15
in October.
44:16
And, uh, I'm very much interested in that
44:19
because, um, this is the third time that
44:22
India has hosted the conference.
44:23
Their web pages are looking pretty good.
44:25
I'm going, trying to figure out the approval
44:27
processes even now.
44:29
And I've never been to India.
44:31
I think next year it's in China and
44:33
I, and I, and I'm, you know, looking
44:35
forward to that, but, uh, I'm going to
44:38
keep track of the BRICS.
44:39
I'd never got to Brazil last year and
44:41
it still pisses me off.
44:43
There was, I forget what was going on,
44:44
but it, but the timing was off family
44:47
issue of some sort, but, uh, it, it
44:49
was pain in the ass, but we have
44:51
the first drafts robots are there, you know,
44:54
there's, uh, you know, I don't know about
44:57
wisdom.
44:58
I don't know if day as the brains
45:01
of data, but, uh, allegedly, uh, you know,
45:04
men in China and Japan are buying these,
45:07
uh, these, uh, female robots and avoiding the,
45:11
uh, relationship altogether.
45:14
You know, you just find yourself a woman
45:16
and move on.
45:17
And, uh, that's what they're doing.
45:20
So who could tell?
45:21
So the planet labs place, uh, the heavens
45:25
are no longer fully open to the public
45:27
because of wartime, um, Star Trek, you know,
45:30
we got 50 years of science fiction that
45:33
told us whoever controls the sensors and cloaking
45:36
devices controls the battlefield.
45:38
Right.
45:39
So we knew that already because I served
45:42
in that area of training and I, and
45:45
I know about it, but today countries are
45:47
building their own sovereign constellations of satellites because
45:54
they don't depend or they won't can't, uh,
45:58
you know, refuse to depend on Washington's goodwill
46:02
any longer private firms are leaned on by
46:05
the U S government and real cloaking race
46:08
isn't fake.
46:11
You know, it's not magic invisibility, but hiding
46:13
from optical sensors from radar and from AI.
46:18
So whether or not the future belongs to
46:20
those who can see everything or those who
46:22
can hide everything, or those who decide who
46:25
gets to see everything or the things that
46:28
they have hidden.
46:28
Every one of these is, is a current
46:31
report.
46:32
You know, remember satellite imagery felt like, uh,
46:36
only the CIA and a handful of people
46:39
like me with the right clearance could see
46:41
it.
46:42
Well, that world is gone.
46:44
Commercial companies have this guy, you know, for
46:48
sale, you know, for, they're selling you this
46:52
guy.
46:52
Well, why do they own this guy?
46:54
That's another, you know, why?
46:55
Because they took the chance to harness the
46:59
sky.
46:59
We have people planning to go to the
47:01
moon and harness the moon and steal all
47:02
the crap up there before the rest of
47:04
us get a chance.
47:05
Well, maybe that's something we all need to
47:06
be, uh, uh, you know, very, um, appreciative
47:10
is of, but what the hell is it
47:13
going to be a private company?
47:14
Is it going to be some kind on
47:16
behalf of the world or just on behalf
47:18
of, uh, a few, it's always going to
47:21
be just a few who have the most
47:23
money.
47:25
Let's see here.
47:28
Well, let's see.
47:30
I have a caller online.
47:31
Would you have something to add?
47:35
Hey, uh, yeah.
47:37
Um, do you suppose the straight is open?
47:41
No, that's it.
47:43
It won't be open to any of the
47:45
people, uh, bombing the crap out of, uh,
47:48
Lebanon or, uh, Hezbollah like Israel.
47:55
They're um, uh, still bombing, which they were
47:59
yesterday.
47:59
Uh, because yesterday right after the, um, the
48:03
alleged ceasefire between the U S and Iran,
48:07
Israel said, well, it doesn't count for us.
48:11
Everybody anyway.
48:12
And then all the other people in the
48:14
area started bombing back and forth and, uh,
48:17
everybody's still burning.
48:19
So, uh, are we, I never took it
48:22
seriously yesterday, but maybe maybe my thought on
48:27
this is that maybe this is Donald Trump's
48:31
exit and he can say, well, I tried,
48:34
you know, and we're no longer involved in
48:36
the U S is out.
48:37
No, I don't believe that not yet, but
48:40
if he's going to get out, it's the
48:42
only reasonable way to get out would be
48:44
to have all these allies and people and
48:46
have the U S go, no, no, we're
48:48
the reasonable ones.
48:49
We stepped away and they still hate Iran.
48:51
So they're still bombing them with our stuff.
48:53
Just like Ukraine is bombing Russia with our
48:55
stuff.
48:58
Yeah.
48:59
I don't, I don't understand how you can
49:00
claim a victory when, uh, when, when everybody's
49:04
still shooting, but us, well, but the worst
49:07
part of it is, is, is not this.
49:08
You, you, you, you start a war when
49:12
the straight was already open, knowing that these
49:16
people could close a straight, or if you
49:18
didn't know you should have known.
49:20
And then you say, yay, we opened the
49:22
straight to whore moves.
49:23
Woo.
49:24
Aren't we great?
49:25
No, you're not.
49:26
You're a bunch of morons because it was
49:27
already open until you started a war.
49:33
Do you, have you ever, have you ever
49:35
watched those?
49:36
Uh, uh, I guess he's just a spokesman
49:39
for the IRCG that, that, that real militant
49:42
dude.
49:42
Oh yeah.
49:43
Yeah.
49:43
They have, they have those translated into English
49:45
and they're, they're pretty funny because every, every
49:48
third sentence is a praise be to God.
49:51
But, but you know what?
49:51
I have met, um, Arabic people who do
49:55
talk that way and they talk, you know,
49:58
they, they not, not, they do praise God
50:02
a lot.
50:02
Let's put that.
50:03
But I've met Americans who do the same
50:04
thing.
50:04
You know, every, every, every, you know, 10th
50:07
sentence is something about, you know, God says
50:10
this and you know, all of that.
50:11
And I'm more power to them.
50:13
You know, you have your beliefs, I have
50:14
mine and I, and I would never dictate
50:16
what yours should be, but I have watched
50:19
that guy and, and, uh, he's, he's the
50:21
head of the IRCG at this point, right?
50:25
What I was going to say is, uh,
50:27
he'll tell you exactly what they're going to
50:29
do.
50:30
Uh, uh, you know, you was talking about,
50:32
you should know the straight's going to close.
50:34
Uh, the, the, the man, the man spells
50:38
out their game plan.
50:39
Uh, he, you know, he says it's, it's
50:43
starting in 24 hours if, if they keep,
50:45
if they keep on and then, you know,
50:47
then they start up there, they're on wave.
50:49
It's day 40 or 41.
50:53
And, uh, no, it's more than that.
50:54
I forget the day here we are on,
50:56
on day, um, on, on day because it
51:00
was February 28th when it started.
51:02
Well, whatever it is, doesn't matter.
51:04
It's, uh, here's the day and here's what
51:06
we're sending out.
51:07
Yeah.
51:07
Uh, anyway, uh, they, uh, when the treaty
51:13
was supposed to, or the ceasefire was supposed
51:16
to be happening, uh, they, they were on
51:19
wave 100 and they, and they, uh, they
51:22
hit that, uh, Saudi Arabia facility.
51:25
They hit 13, uh, oil oil facilities in,
51:30
in, in the area.
51:31
They, they, they went to, they'd been threatening,
51:35
uh, going to hit oil infrastructure and, uh,
51:38
and they did.
51:40
Yeah, I know.
51:40
And, and, and they, they keep telling them,
51:43
um, they say they're doing it so that
51:46
get your civilians, get your workers, get out
51:49
of this factory because we are coming.
51:52
And they're pretty, they're pretty standard about it.
51:54
And they say what they're doing.
51:56
And frankly, nobody can stop them.
51:58
They've, they've, they've, they've gone after our, if
52:02
anything.
52:02
And, and I've always been, you know, a
52:04
Patriot.
52:05
I believe in America.
52:06
I believe in all that stuff.
52:07
Um, I also believe the lies, um, like
52:10
everybody else did that our Patriots and our
52:14
air defense are superior to anyone else's and
52:18
can stop all of these missiles.
52:20
They can't anymore.
52:22
And when you're spending a million five or
52:25
whatever it is to fire a Patriot at
52:27
a 10, $5,000 drones, you got a
52:32
million and a half versus, uh, you know,
52:34
50,000, who the hell's going to win
52:36
and, and which one does the Patriot missile
52:40
have to pick out to blow up.
52:42
And so just the sheer volume of these
52:45
are defeating this so called iron dome.
52:48
All of these are the things, the technology
52:50
doesn't exist to stop them all.
52:53
You may get a majority of them, but
52:55
there's the numbers that I've been following since
52:58
the Ukraine war star well started in earnest
53:02
in 2022, where they were, they were actually
53:05
Russia defending the people that Ukraine's been bombing
53:08
since 2014.
53:10
They, um, those I've been following and it's
53:14
about eight to 10% of all missiles,
53:18
all drones that if not more, but at
53:22
least that many go through.
53:24
And every day Russia is firing 2000.
53:27
So 20 of them are getting through every
53:29
day.
53:30
I'm sorry, 200.
53:31
And every day, uh, Ukraine is firing back
53:34
150, 200 themselves.
53:36
And it's just your air defense can't keep
53:40
up with it.
53:41
You just can't.
53:44
Well, uh, with, with your, um, talk about
53:49
the radar and the deception and stuff of,
53:52
um, it's crazy.
53:55
How, how's anybody going to trust our leader?
53:57
When, when they're on there saying, oh, we
53:59
got them pretty much wrapped up and, um,
54:02
Haifa, they pretty much left the people of
54:05
Haifa on their own.
54:07
Yeah, I know.
54:07
And I've seen all of those and, and
54:10
don't accuse me of trust in our government.
54:13
I do not.
54:14
And I don't believe, I believe maybe just
54:19
like the drones, I believe about 10%
54:21
of what is being put out about the
54:23
middle East right now.
54:25
I wouldn't want to be there right now,
54:27
but I'm telling you, I don't believe it.
54:30
Do I, what do you think is a
54:32
good policy?
54:32
Do you think it's good policy for our
54:34
president and the war secretary to come on
54:37
the air and go, oh yeah, we're, we're,
54:40
we're killing them when, when, when people are
54:42
going to find out, you know, like you,
54:45
like you said about that botched mission for
54:48
the uranium, you know, there's a lot of
54:50
people saying that, that, that, uh, um, that
54:56
weapons systems officer, um, made it a hundred
55:00
miles, all fucked up through the desert and
55:05
climbed the mountain in a day.
55:08
Right.
55:10
Yeah.
55:11
I can go a hundred miles in a
55:12
day on my bicycle, but, uh, uh, you
55:15
know, the rest of it, I doubt I'm
55:18
riding a bicycle through the mountains of Iran.
55:20
Let's put it that way.
55:22
Well, they need to tell better stories.
55:24
I mean, it's embarrassing that they come out
55:26
and say, oh, we're smoking them.
55:28
It's like, man, get a damn TV dude.
55:31
You know, uh, uh, J.R. believes I
55:34
tried to call him yesterday and he wouldn't
55:36
take a phone call because he knew I
55:38
was going to tell him that.
55:39
Yeah.
55:39
But, but, but, but Jim, you bring some
55:41
of that upon yourself though.
55:43
And, uh, uh, and, and I will, you
55:45
know, you, you remain calm, remain nice and
55:47
don't beat up on everybody and call them,
55:50
you know, be offensive.
55:53
I'll keep talking to you.
55:54
No problem.
55:56
And, you know, if you, if you took
55:58
that approach more than just getting on and
56:00
calling everybody stupid, you know, that, and I'm
56:03
not saying you do that anymore, but you're
56:04
not, you know, I, I don't, I don't
56:06
always take your call.
56:08
You know that.
56:11
Yeah.
56:11
Well, I, I just think it's, it's a,
56:14
that's one thing for him to, I mean,
56:17
well, I think he's wrong too.
56:18
He and I argue about it all the
56:19
time.
56:20
He, J.R. and I argue about this.
56:22
I enjoy arguing with J.R. about this
56:24
because he is, he is solid.
56:26
He believes it all.
56:27
I don't, I don't believe 10% of
56:29
it.
56:29
You know, most of it is just crap.
56:31
He doesn't believe it all either.
56:32
Or he would have looked it up yesterday
56:33
when I...
56:35
Well, he doesn't believe it all anyway.
56:38
I've exaggerated that a little bit, but he,
56:40
he, he leans toward belief and, and believes
56:44
towards a larger picture that someone is in
56:48
charge of and keeping track of.
56:49
I do not.
56:50
I think it's the blind leading the blind,
56:53
especially in Iran.
56:55
That's what I, you know, in the war,
56:57
you know, whatever they're doing there.
56:58
And they made some huge mistakes in the
57:00
very beginning.
57:01
I believe along the lines of multiple professional,
57:06
political and very world savvy people.
57:10
I don't, I don't believe the so-called
57:13
experts in the Pentagon because I've been there.
57:16
Those people say what they're paid to say.
57:19
They justify anything.
57:20
So because they get paid to justify it.
57:23
I can hire an expert to say anything.
57:25
I've done it as a lawyer.
57:27
You can, you could, if I need an
57:29
expert to say that you were injured because
57:31
mom dropped you on your head when you
57:33
were two, then I'll find an expert to
57:36
say, yeah, that's pretty likely.
57:37
Or I'll find another one and say, ah,
57:39
no, no, no.
57:39
That was something else that would never happen
57:41
because of that.
57:42
And then you have the war of the
57:43
experts.
57:43
It's the exact same damn thing in the
57:45
Pentagon.
57:45
They just pay people to say what they
57:47
want them to say so that they can
57:48
tell the public that this is what, what
57:50
it is.
57:50
And it's all bullshit.
57:51
It's not right.
57:53
Well, they tried to, tried to purge the
57:55
experts.
57:56
Pretty much.
57:56
It's all Fox hosts now, but they're not
57:59
experts anyway.
58:00
If they're, if they're paid for their opinion,
58:03
then they can, they cannot be, I mean,
58:08
they can, they have to, you have to
58:09
get somebody who has the education to say
58:12
something.
58:12
The problem is the people that they're relying
58:15
on do not have that background and they
58:18
do not understand the world except from a
58:21
transactional sphere.
58:24
And fine, I wouldn't want to go against
58:26
them in a, in a, in a meeting
58:28
to buy a power plant, but in a
58:30
meeting to sit or, or to build a
58:33
building, but to sit down with these yahoos
58:35
and try to negotiate the terms of a,
58:37
of an agreement between Iraq, between Iran, between
58:42
Israel, anybody pick it Ukraine and Russia.
58:45
These people are morons.
58:47
We've seen who's been running this and it's
58:49
all the stupidest people that have no idea
58:53
what they are talking about, including the Lindsey
58:56
Graham's of the world who are so twisted
58:58
that all they are is selling more and
59:03
more weapons and more and more war and,
59:05
you know, might makes right.
59:07
That's it.
59:09
It's a bad world we live in.
59:11
Let me get one more in.
59:14
What do you think about a state university?
59:18
When I listen to all these shows, people
59:19
go, Oh, you don't know who to trust.
59:21
You can't trust them.
59:22
You can't trust medicine.
59:23
You can't trust science.
59:25
Wouldn't it be nice to have a state,
59:27
state run universities where, where you had, had
59:30
research labs and kids that were smart enough
59:34
to know a little bit about something.
59:37
Everything's politicized when you do that now.
59:39
And by the way, so, so one of
59:41
the things that I would have loved to
59:44
do, and Russia has one, I've talked about
59:47
it on this show before.
59:48
They have a politically guided, and it's all
59:53
about politics and it's all about the whole
59:55
school is the school of international affairs.
59:59
And we have similar programs like, you know,
1:00:03
I could name some, you know, whatever Institute
1:00:05
inside the university of whatever inside Harvard university
1:00:09
has an international program or whatever.
1:00:11
And you can find these, but these are
1:00:13
sponsored by the government.
1:00:17
Well, right.
1:00:18
They're all lunatics.
1:00:19
They all depend in the people who run
1:00:21
them are guided by the exact same thing.
1:00:25
They have to have the right philosophy or
1:00:27
the board of curators of whatever university will
1:00:30
boot them out and go, Nope, you're teaching.
1:00:33
You're not teaching, you know, gay rights.
1:00:35
You got to go or vice versa.
1:00:38
If you have 50 States, you have 50
1:00:40
different 50 different universities.
1:00:45
Well, you know what?
1:00:46
I'm not a federalist.
1:00:48
I like this state part, except when it
1:00:50
comes to education, history, to licensing.
1:00:54
In fact, I believe that licensing in just
1:00:57
a state, like if you go to Russia,
1:00:58
Russia is a lot bigger than us.
1:01:00
And you get a license to, I don't
1:01:02
know, sell fertilizer that license.
1:01:05
You can sell fertilizer anywhere inside of Russia
1:01:07
here in America, your fertilizer, you can sell
1:01:10
it only in the making that one up,
1:01:12
you know, I don't, but I'm just picking
1:01:13
a license.
1:01:15
You can like, I have to be a
1:01:16
real estate broker.
1:01:19
I'm a broker in Missouri and I'm a
1:01:21
broker in Florida.
1:01:22
Why if I'm a property broker, why can't
1:01:25
I do it?
1:01:26
Do you know what I did in law
1:01:27
school?
1:01:27
I took a class on property and, and
1:01:29
I understand the issues in property because of,
1:01:34
uh, I had a law license.
1:01:35
Now the trouble is you can only get
1:01:38
a law license in one state in Missouri
1:01:40
right now is, is refusing.
1:01:42
And now I can't get a license in
1:01:44
any other state because Missouri screwed me, but
1:01:47
that doesn't mean I can go to another
1:01:49
state and get one.
1:01:50
And that's crazy.
1:01:52
It makes no sense to me at all
1:01:54
because here they're corrupt.
1:01:56
They're wrong.
1:01:57
Then they have a system that is backwards
1:01:58
and screwed up.
1:01:59
And I talk about it all the time
1:02:01
and it, but I'm, but I'm right.
1:02:04
But then why can't I go somewhere else
1:02:07
and, uh, and get a license?
1:02:09
It's complete crap because I have a couple
1:02:11
of bureaucrats who hate me.
1:02:13
That's it.
1:02:14
You're echoing in your, in your thing here.
1:02:17
All right, ma'am.
1:02:18
I appreciate your time.
1:02:19
I'm gonna let you go.
1:02:19
You're on that.
1:02:20
I'm on a roll, huh?
1:02:22
Yep.
1:02:22
Yep.
1:02:23
Yep.
1:02:23
I'll see you later.
1:02:25
All right.
1:02:26
Well, that was a nice caller.
1:02:27
Thank you for being kind and, uh, uh,
1:02:30
and not just beating up on people.
1:02:31
I like that.
1:02:32
So I will, I will take your calls
1:02:34
more often if you like.
1:02:37
Well, Star Trek gave us cloaking devices.
1:02:41
Washington gives us delayed imagery, release a customer
1:02:45
service email, you know, to complain, you know,
1:02:47
if you'd like to, to, uh, whoever, you
1:02:50
know, the CIA, whoever you want to playing
1:02:53
field is level only until it gets serious
1:02:56
until we want to steal your oil.
1:03:00
We're going to Iran.
1:03:01
We're going to steal your oil.
1:03:02
Uh, Trump's going to take over the Straits
1:03:04
of Hormuz and call it the Straits of
1:03:06
Trump, but they'll spell it with a G
1:03:08
and an H, which is crazy.
1:03:10
And, uh, uh, you know, you know, you
1:03:13
can't hide your cousin in the shed in
1:03:15
orbit, uh, you know, with a holographic projector,
1:03:18
you know, from, from, uh, Amazon or Timu,
1:03:21
you can't do that, unfortunately.
1:03:24
So, uh, you know, and even if he
1:03:26
does hide in your shed, they're going to
1:03:28
see him from above anyway, because they have,
1:03:31
uh, heat sensors and they can show that
1:03:33
your cousin is in there.
1:03:34
Well, not exactly your cousin, but pretty soon
1:03:37
we'll have, uh, chips in this that can
1:03:39
identify where we are on the planet anyway.
1:03:42
Right.
1:03:43
So the holodeck doesn't exist yet, but you
1:03:47
can buy a pair of glasses that you
1:03:48
can pretend that you, you know, you'd see
1:03:50
those, those videos you can watch on YouTube
1:03:53
or wherever on telegram.
1:03:55
And you can see these people, you know,
1:03:57
the start of boxing.
1:03:58
You remember getting the, the boxing thing with
1:04:01
your Wii way back when, and you were
1:04:03
doing boxing with these people beating up their
1:04:06
TV with these glasses on because they don't
1:04:09
know where they are because the glasses lead
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them, lead them astray and they're lit.
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That's where they live.
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And, um, I don't know.
1:04:17
Um, I'm not sure I want to go
1:04:20
too far into the Israel and Iran and
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the air defense and the Straits of Hormuz
1:04:24
because, um, it's what they're doing on these
1:04:32
satellites and AI detection and everything like that.
1:04:34
You know, I told you about the, uh,
1:04:36
the, the submarines underneath the, um, the mini
1:04:40
subs that I ran has and whatever number
1:04:42
it was, 10, 20 of them.
1:04:44
Can't remember.
1:04:44
Wasn't a huge amount, but, uh, those aren't
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gone.
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Apparently they can't be tracked.
1:04:49
And so those little mini subs are still
1:04:51
cruising around in the Straits of Hormuz, uh,
1:04:54
and they're, they're mine layers.
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They can lay these mines.
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And so if they have a map of
1:05:00
where they are, then, you know, and people
1:05:03
find out where the, those are, you know,
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uh, I'm, I'm interested in these intelligent sorts
1:05:09
of things and how they hide stuff and
1:05:11
where I still would prefer a level playing
1:05:13
field.
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I'm anti-war in general.
1:05:16
This is all a bunch of, you know,
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you realize the people dying, aren't the people
1:05:21
that should be people dying, ought to be
1:05:23
the ones declaring war in the first place.
1:05:25
Those are the people that ought to be
1:05:27
there.
1:05:27
If you want to fight, do it yourself.
1:05:30
You know, quit sending other people to die
1:05:32
for your false ideology crap.
1:05:36
You know, democracy, we got to put democracy
1:05:39
on my ass and we don't have democracy.
1:05:41
We have bureaucracy.
1:05:43
That's what we have.
1:05:44
And so it's, it's, uh, uh, irritating to
1:05:48
me, but that was pretty much, uh, where,
1:05:52
where I wanted to go with that was,
1:05:53
I thought that was a fun topic.
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Uh, when I woke up in the middle
1:05:57
of the night, I was looking at something
1:05:58
like one of these restrictive things going, when
1:06:01
the hell's in charge of that?
1:06:03
This is nuts.
1:06:04
How come, how come Elon Musk gets to
1:06:07
decide that I get internet or I don't.
1:06:10
And if Trump says, no, you're not going
1:06:12
to get it, but he'll give it to
1:06:13
Ukraine who are a bunch of, you know,
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uh, they're murderous of Russians.
1:06:18
Well, what's, what difference does it make if
1:06:20
you're going to murder people, have a, have
1:06:21
a, have a level playing field, you know,
1:06:23
let everybody murder each other.
1:06:25
You know, you make it fair killing at
1:06:28
least let's have a fair killing, fair war,
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right?
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That's what the, uh, uh, Geneva convention is
1:06:35
supposed to give, you know, war crimes include
1:06:38
blowing up infrastructure and bridges for the just
1:06:41
to blow up infrastructure and bridges, blowing up
1:06:44
salinization plants, blowing up or desalinization and blowing
1:06:49
up, uh, uh, oil fields, blowing up, um,
1:06:53
picket energy facilities.
1:06:55
So the people who are going to blast
1:06:57
you back in the stone age, that is
1:06:59
a war crime.
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That's what we're going to do.
1:07:02
And we just flat out say it.
1:07:05
And, and it doesn't, you know, like my
1:07:07
New Benzia discussion yesterday, we're openly saying, we're
1:07:11
going to destroy a culture.
1:07:13
We're going to destroy it.
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We don't like your culture.
1:07:17
Therefore we're going to destroy it.
1:07:19
But the other part of the culture, you
1:07:21
know, who, who, uh, you know, do what
1:07:26
we say, kiss our rear ends in the
1:07:28
middle East.
1:07:28
Those people, you know, we'll decide that their
1:07:31
culture, which is basically the same as your
1:07:33
culture, that's a religion.
1:07:36
Yours is not a religion nonsense.
1:07:39
And, uh, uh, and by the way, that
1:07:41
there's a dispute on that as well.
1:07:43
You think there aren't extremists on all sides.
1:07:45
They're just are, they're Christian extremists.
1:07:48
You know, I disagree with poly polygamy.
1:07:51
I disagree with it.
1:07:52
However, I'd never tell anybody that they were,
1:07:55
that was their, uh, desire.
1:07:57
I mean, I'm totally against it.
1:07:59
I think it's BS.
1:08:00
Hell, I could barely put up with one,
1:08:02
uh, let alone a million of them or
1:08:06
a pile of them had, uh, I'd tell
1:08:08
you a story about that, but I won't,
1:08:09
um, cause something interesting on that regard happened
1:08:12
whilst I was in Qatar.
1:08:14
And, uh, it was a very interesting period
1:08:18
of time, uh, working with that gentleman.
1:08:21
Now I have to tell you, no, it
1:08:23
had to do with polygamy and getting another
1:08:25
wife and what, uh, what, what, uh, they
1:08:28
were going to do in the political ramifications
1:08:31
thereof inside of Qatar and stuff like that.
1:08:33
It was entertaining, uh, if nothing else and
1:08:36
a good learning experience, but not for sharing
1:08:39
on a mass level, except, uh, you know,
1:08:41
that's what it was.
1:08:42
So I wanted to also, you know, talk
1:08:47
a little bit about this, um, alleged pause
1:08:52
in, um, warfare.
1:08:59
Yeah, right.
1:09:02
Let's see the rhetoric of Donald Trump who
1:09:07
threatens a whole civilization is going to die
1:09:10
tonight is suddenly de-escalate, de-escalation.
1:09:15
By the end of the seventh, it was
1:09:17
announced that the U S and Iran had
1:09:19
agreed to a two week ceasefire.
1:09:22
Shortly afterward, Israel said it would join over
1:09:26
those two weeks starting this Friday negotiations toward
1:09:30
a permanent peace deal deal will be held
1:09:33
in Pakistan with her held.
1:09:35
I'm sorry, with Pakistan acting as the mediator.
1:09:39
This is exactly the scenario that, you know,
1:09:44
was listed as being the most likely from
1:09:46
the very beginning of the conflict.
1:09:50
And this was, uh, grinding stalemate strategic failure
1:09:57
that, you know, the strategy mirrors America's earlier
1:10:01
operation in Venezuela, eliminate the country's leadership.
1:10:05
Uh, there it was through theft, uh, stealing
1:10:09
abduction of the leader or direct assassination in
1:10:13
Iran, you know, and then effectively the surrender
1:10:16
of the new regime, which is forced to
1:10:18
accept terms set by the attackers.
1:10:20
So it's uncertain how long Iran could hold
1:10:24
out, but the plan failed despite the hints,
1:10:27
Washington's new leadership also refused to engage in
1:10:30
negotiation.
1:10:32
Iran withstood the initial blow.
1:10:35
Uh, they have external support from China and
1:10:38
Russia.
1:10:38
There've been no public statements, uh, but it,
1:10:41
something is happening.
1:10:43
Um, so those things all did occur and,
1:10:49
but the war will resume hell.
1:10:51
It already has, you know, it didn't last
1:10:53
two hours, the ceasefire, but they are moving
1:10:57
toward a reality where the Gulf is becoming
1:11:00
a more Persian.
1:11:03
Uh, Iran effectively controls the shipping in the
1:11:06
Gulf and holds the Arab oil monarchies at
1:11:10
risk.
1:11:11
And the U S seems to be accepting
1:11:13
that.
1:11:13
Now, the people who are not are the
1:11:15
UAE and stuff are certainly not Israel because
1:11:18
they won't let it stop.
1:11:20
Let's assume that even if the hostilities last
1:11:23
months or years, even if no formal deal
1:11:27
materializes, the ceasefire will just be extended over
1:11:31
and over again.
1:11:32
I talked to you before about ceasefires are
1:11:34
complete crap anyway.
1:11:36
And, uh, um, it's just, it never ends
1:11:45
and it will never end.
1:11:47
Even if it does end, they're going to,
1:11:49
uh, um, have it, um, let's say it
1:11:55
does end.
1:11:56
It'll be, they'll wait another year and do
1:11:58
the exact same thing.
1:11:59
This is what's going to happen.
1:12:01
So the Arab States are going to be
1:12:03
building a new generation of air defense for
1:12:05
sure.
1:12:06
And so the blueprint is rely on cheap
1:12:08
mass produced interceptors such as Russia's panzer or
1:12:13
air launched both Arab States and Israel will
1:12:16
focus on this because they got the crap
1:12:18
kicked out of them by Iranian missiles.
1:12:21
Um, the second priority is going to be
1:12:23
diversification of logistics, new pipelines to the red
1:12:27
sea to find alternatives to the Gulf shipping
1:12:29
routes to goal, break free of the Straits
1:12:32
of Hormuz chokehold and reduce Iran's leverage.
1:12:36
So for countries like Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Iraq,
1:12:41
pipelines across the Arabian peninsula would mean dependence
1:12:45
on another regional power, Saudi Arabia and transit
1:12:49
fees because Saudi Arabia certainly wouldn't do it
1:12:53
for free.
1:12:54
Right.
1:12:54
But none of this solves the core problem.
1:12:56
The geography in the Gulf makes full protection
1:12:59
impossible.
1:13:00
There's more than 500 nautical miles, uh, out
1:13:03
of an old, you know, think about it.
1:13:07
It's narrow.
1:13:07
It's like an old arcade game.
1:13:09
Imagine Galaga, every shipping lane within Iran's reach
1:13:14
along the coastline ports, factories, desalination plants, oil
1:13:18
storage facilities, data centers, hotels, skyscrapers are exposed
1:13:22
targets.
1:13:23
Defending all of that from the sea is
1:13:25
extremely difficult.
1:13:26
And right now the Arab States are going
1:13:28
to choose to pay for safe passage.
1:13:31
So at the end of the day, they
1:13:32
don't really care who provides the security they
1:13:35
used to pay the U S I mean,
1:13:37
what difference does it make if they pay
1:13:39
our rent that they're paying the U S
1:13:41
to secure them.
1:13:42
Right.
1:13:43
But the U S isn't securing them.
1:13:45
Right.
1:13:46
These are things to think about.
1:13:47
The price isn't even steep about 2 million
1:13:50
bucks per super tanker, which is only two
1:13:52
to 3% of the value of the
1:13:54
oil on board.
1:13:56
Anyway, the buyers who are buying it are
1:13:58
going to be the ones who fit the
1:13:59
foot, the bill in the first place.
1:14:01
So I don't know the second scenario, new
1:14:05
escalation it's already happening or low level clashes
1:14:08
under Iranian control of Hormuz.
1:14:11
You'll still have those, I think.
1:14:13
And we may go further into that.
1:14:17
So we shall see.
1:14:19
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1:14:22
right.
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