WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:08.839 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to another edition 2 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:11.640 of The Cajun Night Live. I am the Caju Night 3 00:00:11.679 --> 00:00:14.759 your host Jacob Mook, and uh I got a couple 4 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:16.519 of ideas as far as what I'm gonna call this 5 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:19.480 little community that we're building for ourselves, the Cajun Nights 6 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:23.039 of the Roundtable. You know, I think that might work out. 7 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:26.600 I've heard a couple of different things get thrown out. 8 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:29.120 I check the comments on the Spotify and on things, 9 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:32.039 so you know, I don't know, We'll we'll figure something out, 10 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:33.920 but at this moment, like the Nights of the Roundtable 11 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.079 meeting for their Wednesday Night meet up, like, hey, I 12 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:39.240 kind of dig that, but you know, we'll figure it 13 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:44.320 all out here. Uhse Alex shut up Jesus Alex h. 14 00:00:44.439 --> 00:00:46.479 For anybody who's curious and would like to be a 15 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:48.960 part of this conversation, then please come check out The 16 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:51.960 Cajun Night on Patreon. Link is in the description below, 17 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:55.119 And there's only one tier to entry, and we're just 18 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:57.520 trying to grow this to be a community that talks 19 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:00.000 about more current events, what's going on in the world. 20 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:03.799 Sometimes it's religious based, sometimes it's geopolitic based, sometimes it's 21 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:07.239 science based. Sometimes it's all the above. But uh yeah, 22 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:11.120 I'm enjoying the hell out of our Wednesday night conversations everybody. 23 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:14.159 So thank y'all everybody for being a part of this 24 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:18.200 with me. So all right, we got some things to discuss, 25 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:21.640 all right. I got a lot of geopolitical articles pulled 26 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:25.400 up here. This is it's yes, I know, I'm not 27 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:27.560 gonna say it's a wild time to be alive, although 28 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:31.719 it is. But you know what, let's start off local, right, 29 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:34.599 Let's start off Neil a little closer to home here. 30 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:39.519 So apparently this is from a city news everywhere, Edmonton, 31 00:01:40.719 --> 00:01:45.319 The Times, Edmonton, if I'm not mistaken. Alberta introduces a 32 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:48.239 bill that would make it easier to separate from Canada. 33 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:51.200 They are not alone in this, by the way, I 34 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:55.000 know for sure, Saskatchewan and God, what's the one right 35 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:56.840 next to them. There's three of them in the center 36 00:01:57.280 --> 00:02:00.599 that are all trying to push forward legislation to make 37 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:03.480 it easier for them to just straight up seceee from Canada. 38 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:08.879 And it's not even about America turning them into the 39 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:12.560 fifty first state, fifty second state, fifty third state, they're 40 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:16.080 at this point begging, like we're not trying to force 41 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:18.800 multiply shit. They are coming at us and begging to 42 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:22.000 be a part of this grand experiment that we call 43 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:25.360 the democracy in the American way, which I love. I 44 00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:28.039 love that. But anyway, let's read in here. This was 45 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:31.719 posted on April twenty ninth of this year, a day 46 00:02:31.759 --> 00:02:36.560 after Canada's Liberals won a fourth consecutive mandate. Alberta's government 47 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:38.360 has introduced a bill that would make it easier to 48 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:42.639 start a referendum, including one separating from Canada. And I 49 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:44.639 know I talked about that. I'm not sure if it 50 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:48.560 was on this show or on the Cult, but so yeah, 51 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:53.039 Trudeau is stepping down eventually at some point this year. 52 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:55.360 I keep hearing different times in different dates as far 53 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:57.759 as when his final day will be. But whatever, right, 54 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:03.240 the Liberal Party still so handily won the election. Overall, 55 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:06.560 there was these three provinces that want nothing to do 56 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:10.039 with this, and they would like to separate themselves from 57 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:13.000 what they see as the burning ship. They're not trying 58 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:15.800 to go down with it. Never mind the fact that 59 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:17.599 these three are the only ones that have any kind 60 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:22.159 of real agriculture or real industry. That could support itself. 61 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:25.360 It's it's kind of like that conversation whenever they talk 62 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:28.439 about how Texas could secede from America any point, like 63 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:31.080 per the paperwork, they could. I don't think they ever 64 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:35.919 actually would, but if they did, hypothetically they would instantly 65 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:39.159 have the world's tenth largest army and the world's fourth 66 00:03:39.240 --> 00:03:42.800 largest economy. Like turn of a switch, the nation of 67 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:47.960 Texas would hold that kind of clout instantly. Alberta is 68 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:50.879 not to that level, of course, but they are essentially 69 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:54.479 Canada's Texas, and if they were to seceed, they could 70 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:59.039 sustain themselves pretty handily without any kind of outside help 71 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:01.520 or interventions. So I like that. I like that kind 72 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:06.240 of can't do attitude. But yeah, so the Liberal Party one, 73 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:09.280 and the guy who is about to take over is 74 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:17.199 essentially a Trudeau junior, but he's a little older, a 75 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:22.639 little more, a little more seasoned, an old geezer, and 76 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:27.360 I don't with Trudeau's mindset and his ideologies and his 77 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:30.560 economic policies. And it's a bad time. It's just not 78 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:33.959 gonna be a good time. So anyway, with that being said, 79 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:37.920 in the Liberal Party winning for a fourth consecutive term, Uh, 80 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:41.199 these provinces have decided that they're just they're gonna get 81 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:43.399 ready to be done and wash their hands of this 82 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:47.040 whole thing. As a direct quote here from the Alberta Premier, 83 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:50.600 Danielle Smith, we are going to introduce it regardless of 84 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:53.800 what the outcome was. It just so happens that this 85 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:56.319 is the timing now that we're back from a week 86 00:04:56.439 --> 00:05:00.360 of constituency break. Okay, So they're saying they were gonna 87 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:03.959 do it regardless the timing was really good, but they 88 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:07.279 were gonna push it forward anyway. Right. Bill fifty four 89 00:05:07.319 --> 00:05:10.680 proposes many changes to Alberta's election rules. Among them is 90 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:14.439 lowering the threshold for a citizen or a citizen led 91 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:18.079 referendum to ten percent of people who voted in the 92 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:22.759 last election. It would currently take twenty percent of eligible voters. Okay, 93 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:25.160 so they're talking about taking the number and cutting that 94 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:26.759 in half of how many it would take to have 95 00:05:26.839 --> 00:05:29.800 like a real sit down talk about what happened. 96 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:30.000 Right. 97 00:05:30.319 --> 00:05:32.319 The bill would also allow one hundred and twenty days 98 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:35.839 to gather those signatures, a boost from the ninety days. 99 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:40.360 Alberta's premier says Pierre Poislavier could be wrong with that. 100 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:44.680 One should stay on as Conservative leader despite losing his seat. 101 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:47.920 She does not have any regrets over any influence she 102 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:51.319 may have had on the results. That's from Sean a motto. 103 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:54.560 Don't really know who that is, but yeah, I served 104 00:05:54.560 --> 00:05:57.240 as a dude in basic. It was a motto anyway, 105 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:01.879 she says. While the premier openly wanted Pierre's Conservatives to win, 106 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:06.560 she says she's still not a separatist after Mark Carney's victory. 107 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:12.639 I believe in Alberta's sovereignty within a United Canada. Smith said, However, 108 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:17.279 there is a citizen's referendum process that if citizens want 109 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:19.720 to put a question on a ballot and get enough 110 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:23.240 of the fellow citizens to sign that petition, then those 111 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:25.759 questions would be put forward. Again, I don't want to 112 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:31.800 prejudge what that question might be, so okay, and not 113 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:33.839 to dig any deeper on this one. They're saying that 114 00:06:33.879 --> 00:06:37.959 it would make it easier to secede from Canada. That 115 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:43.600 might be a bit presumptuous. I understand that. However, I 116 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:48.560 can't say that I don't like the intentions here. Alberta 117 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:53.680 has made multiple mentions about seceding before. Aside from Trump, right, 118 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:56.079 this isn't a Trump conversation. This is talking about Canada 119 00:06:56.199 --> 00:07:00.560 being pissed about Canadian elections. Cool things. Trump talk shit, 120 00:07:00.920 --> 00:07:03.560 That's what he does. He's a shit talker. But we're 121 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:05.519 talking about the people that actually live in that land 122 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:08.439 not wanting to be associated with that land anymore. And 123 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:11.120 this person is saying, no, we don't want to secede. 124 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:14.959 The people that I know that live in Alberta have 125 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:19.759 said way differently. They would love to be flying the red, 126 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:23.600 white and blue rather than the silver maple leaf. But 127 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:29.879 time will tell. Time will tell. Anyway, onto the next topic. 128 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:32.560 We're still sticking on this side of the globe. Yes, 129 00:07:32.759 --> 00:07:38.160 the globe, everybody, it's not a flat. So apparently the 130 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:44.319 Mexican military does not know how to operate a GPS. 131 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:47.839 Either that or they simply don't have them issued to them. 132 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:52.720 So long story short, you got this couple, a man 133 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:56.639 and a woman, and they're chilling in the southern east 134 00:07:56.879 --> 00:08:00.399 portion of the state of New Mexico right now. What 135 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:03.079 were they doing there, you might add, ask, excuse me, 136 00:08:04.079 --> 00:08:06.040 They were trying to help illegals that made it across 137 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:08.319 the border. Now I don't like that, and they should 138 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:08.920 be thrown in jail. 139 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:09.160 For that. 140 00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:14.120 Fine, fine, But as they're out there essentially camping, right 141 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:20.279 and they were American citizens, the Mexican military, the Mexican 142 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:25.879 Army rolls up, guns strapped and all these things, and uh, 143 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:28.199 they actually kind of come up on them. I was like, hey, 144 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:30.279 what are y'all doing in Mexico. Y'all are supposed to 145 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:31.560 be on this side of the border. And they're like, 146 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:36.679 you're a good ways into the American country at this time, 147 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:39.519 Like you cross the border a few miles back, like 148 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.240 a lot of miles back. They're like, gay okay, and 149 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:45.159 they're like no, no, no, here' She pulls up her 150 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:47.759 phone and shows them, like home boy, you are a 151 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:51.159 good ways into New Mexico right now. Apparently the Mexican 152 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:56.000 military doesn't either A have maps. B if they have them, 153 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:58.519 they don't know how to use them. Apparently they slept 154 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:03.519 during their land nav course, which is preposterous. Or see 155 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:06.919 they don't have GPS's or d they have GPS's but 156 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:08.600 just don't know how to use them. I don't know, 157 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:12.320 I don't know. It's this sounds ridiculous. But of course, 158 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:15.759 when it was discovered by them that they were in 159 00:09:15.799 --> 00:09:18.320 the wrong, they took off in high tailed back home. 160 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:20.519 But let's talk about it. Let's talk about it here. 161 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:25.320 This is from what is the source, kget dot com. 162 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:29.919 It's a NBC new subsidiary. Gun toting Mexican soldiers allegedly 163 00:09:30.039 --> 00:09:34.360 enter US soil surrounding couple in New Mexico. Woman uses 164 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:39.639 cell phone GPS app to convince sodados excuse me, they 165 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:42.879 are looking for gun runners drug mules on the wrong 166 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:46.720 side of the border. El Paso, Texas reported on this 167 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:51.440 A heavily armed eighteen man Mexican Army patrol allegedly crossed 168 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:55.240 into the US soil this week surrounded two Americans exploring 169 00:09:55.279 --> 00:10:00.799 a trail in the booth field of New Mexico. Booth field. 170 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:03.840 I don't know if that's a geographical description or if 171 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:07.279 that's like a region of New Mexico. Booth heel, boot heel. 172 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:13.639 That's boot heel, the boot heel of New Mexico. Good God, Almighty, 173 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:16.799 this is gonna be a phone. Abby Carpenter and James 174 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:19.600 Holman used a camera and a cell phone to record 175 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:24.039 the Monday encounter south of Hashida, New Mexico, and shared 176 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:27.240 photos and videos with Border Report. The two members of 177 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:30.240 the Battalion Search and Rescue, a group of volunteers that 178 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:33.120 look for lost migrants in the southern New Mexico Desert, 179 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:36.559 said these soldiers thought they were still in Mexico until 180 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:41.440 shown a GPS locator map proving otherwise. Now, like, listen, 181 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:44.840 when I was in the Marines, I was a shit bag. 182 00:10:45.159 --> 00:10:47.399 I'll be the first to acknowledge this. When we did 183 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:50.440 land nap courses. Yes I can use my protractor and 184 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:53.600 my compass. Yes I can plot my grids and shoot 185 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:56.919 a asthmyth. But you know what's easier than that? Carrying 186 00:10:56.960 --> 00:11:01.279 your cell phone and using GPS to show that one 187 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:04.080 hundred and fifty seven satellites tell me that I'm at 188 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:07.600 the right Latin law courdin It's right now. That's so 189 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:09.799 much easier. So here telling me that none of these 190 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:13.639 Mexican soldiers had their cell phones on them and didn't 191 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:17.080 realize that they had crossed the border. That's pretty crazy, 192 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:20.240 but I you know, I guess this is an imperfect world. 193 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:24.799 A lot of accidents can happen. Eighteen eighteen of these 194 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:27.480 dudes couldn't check their phone to realize, like, oh bro, 195 00:11:27.639 --> 00:11:30.679 we're a little too far north, but okay, okay, whatever, 196 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:35.159 she says. I never felt threatened. When I got nervous. 197 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:38.840 I got nervous was when I showed them that they 198 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:41.159 were in the United States and had my phone out 199 00:11:41.200 --> 00:11:45.799 and they were documenting that they were where they shouldn't be. Yeah, 200 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:48.440 this girl does not know how to speak English. Carpenter said, 201 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:51.120 That's when I got nervous, like, oh, we shouldn't have 202 00:11:51.159 --> 00:11:56.399 our phones out taking pictures of them in US soil. Yeah, 203 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:59.799 that okay. It makes sense that that's the type of 204 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:04.559 girls that looks for lost illegal aliens. She probably didn't 205 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:06.799 go to school for very long. One of the video 206 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:09.840 shows a Mexican Army truck approaching the pair's vehicles and 207 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:13.879 soldiers getting off and approaching carrying rifles. A photograph shows 208 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:17.679 a white Mexican National Guard pickup with soldiers keeping watch 209 00:12:17.799 --> 00:12:21.720 of their surroundings. So, yeah, these are the trucks. Homeboys 210 00:12:21.799 --> 00:12:24.159 just rolled on up. And it's not even like they're 211 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:26.120 plotting a course, they're not out here he compasses. They're 212 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:28.440 not doing a little land a of course, they're out 213 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:34.080 there patrolling and just missed the border. Just just drove 214 00:12:34.120 --> 00:12:36.600 straight on through a hole in the fence somewhere I guess. 215 00:12:37.480 --> 00:12:40.600 Holman said the soldiers told him they were looking for 216 00:12:40.679 --> 00:12:43.600 drug traffickers and gun runners and asked him what he 217 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:46.840 was doing in Mexico. Holman said he and Carpenter earlier 218 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:50.639 had seen two shot up vehicles with Mexican license plate 219 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:54.320 at another trail near the Mexican border. Carpenter said she 220 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:56.679 showed the soldiers through a locator app on her phone 221 00:12:56.720 --> 00:12:59.159 that they were not in Mexico, but we're in the US. 222 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:04.399 The soldiers turn their vehicles around it headed back south. Yeah. Yeah, 223 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:08.679 we were like, haha, take a picture with me, blah blah. 224 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:11.080 But that's because we knew we were in the US. 225 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:13.240 If we had encountered them in Mexico, it would have 226 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:18.159 been a whole different thing, Holman said, threatened, I would 227 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:21.559 say that just because of our American thinking being on 228 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:28.080 US soil. Nervous. Yeah, bro, we were definitely nervous. Jesus 229 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:33.600 Christ liberals are yeah, okay, Sameway anyway, anyway, not a 230 00:13:33.720 --> 00:13:37.960 dog on the couple. But yeah, So Mexican soldiers just 231 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:42.960 so happened to accidentally meander themselves into the US and 232 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:48.279 it's no big deal. International crisis was averted. Nobody was harmed, 233 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:51.799 no equipment was damaged. It's all good, It's all good. 234 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:56.039 But I still I question, right. I know that, like 235 00:13:56.120 --> 00:13:59.559 a lot of military members in Mexico end up working 236 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:02.279 for the car tells because they pay better and they 237 00:14:02.279 --> 00:14:05.919 have better weapons and they live better. And I get 238 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:09.480 that one hundred percent get that, But like, is this 239 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:14.639 the level of mental capacity that is currently operating in 240 00:14:14.679 --> 00:14:15.960 the Mexican Army? 241 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:17.720 Uh? 242 00:14:18.200 --> 00:14:22.679 Like, you know, if I was to be patrolling, even 243 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:26.279 in the United States, and I had made my way 244 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:30.279 into another state, I'm pretty sure I could tell that, 245 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:35.039 you know, pretty easily. These dudes apparently had no idea 246 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:38.600 they were in a whole other sovereign nation. Tony, please 247 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:39.399 step in, brother. 248 00:14:40.440 --> 00:14:40.639 Yeah. 249 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:43.399 I just speculate maybe they were looking for some cartel 250 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:46.080 members who hang out right in that border region. But 251 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:49.399 if something like this were to happen, they would deny 252 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:51.960 it and just say, oh, sorry, we didn't realize we 253 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:54.679 were over here. That's what I would do if I 254 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:57.559 were in their situation. And I think intelligence agencies work 255 00:14:57.639 --> 00:14:59.840 like that all the time. They're constantly going to the 256 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:03.519 you know, overstepping a border and going oops, I didn't 257 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:07.960 mean to. And this happens, especially often at sea, especially 258 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:10.000 near the straight of Horror moves. You always hear oh, 259 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:14.159 such and such ship was, you know, allegedly three hundred 260 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:16.960 feet on the wrong side of the line somewhere, and 261 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:18.759 I run says you shouldn't be here, and then the 262 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:21.080 US says no, that the line's in a different place. 263 00:15:21.840 --> 00:15:23.519 So stuff like this happens all the time. 264 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:26.159 And like I said, it was no harm, no foul, right, 265 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:28.320 it was no big deal, no need for some air 266 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:32.200 national crisis or anything like that. But dude, their response 267 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:34.440 to the couple was what are you doing in Mexico? 268 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:41.360 And they're like, bro, what like that? That's that's embarrassing, honestly, 269 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:44.879 And I agree with you. There probably on the trail 270 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:47.759 of a group or following a lead somewhere and just 271 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:52.159 didn't realize they had wandered that far. But like, still, 272 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:54.519 that's that's a bit of a it's a big shwing 273 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:57.000 and a miss for the for the Mexican Army. 274 00:15:57.759 --> 00:16:02.039 But I speculated that's part of their part of the 275 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:04.120 way they would try to come off as sincere as 276 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:07.840 possible by initiating the claim that you're in Mexico right 277 00:16:07.879 --> 00:16:12.279 now and then going oh, oops, man, we really didn't know. Sorry, Yeah, 278 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:16.159 that just makes it sound a little more incredible. Yeah, 279 00:16:16.200 --> 00:16:18.919 I think it's plausible they would take a line like that. 280 00:16:20.759 --> 00:16:22.639 I could see that, and that's what I'm saying, Like, 281 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:24.799 as soon as they realize that they were in America, like, 282 00:16:24.840 --> 00:16:27.399 there's a way to like play that off, you know, 283 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:30.120 play a little play a little game of words and 284 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:34.080 be like, oh, yeah, we're waiting on our American liaison 285 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:37.200 to meet us here. My mistake, I misspoke, Like, there's 286 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.600 a way. No, they looked at the app and was like, 287 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:42.159 oh and I teled it back, so like, yeah, it's 288 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:44.000 all good. It's all good, but a little bit of 289 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:48.399 a oopsie daisy there before I continue reading, Let's go 290 00:16:48.519 --> 00:16:54.039 check out the chat here. That's a British Columbia. No, 291 00:16:54.159 --> 00:17:01.679 it wasn't BC Manitoba, that's the one. So it's Alberta, Saskatchewan, 292 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:04.920 and Manitoba. They apparently all three want to secede and 293 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:10.319 become a part of the United States. I'm here for it, honestly, 294 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:15.039 that would be dope. Our boy Royce has showing us 295 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:20.200 some of his industrial artwork of these industrial manoras, which 296 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:24.119 bro that Honkah is gonna go hard, Like I don't 297 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:26.319 know if there's music all owed to he played during Honkah, 298 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:29.559 but with these things that better be industrial metal, Jewish music, 299 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:37.119 the metal clarinet going ham dude, that fantastic. I think 300 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:40.799 that should be a thing, right, let's see nerdy. Yeah, 301 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:43.240 for sure, for sure, Oregon wants to cut in half 302 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:46.319 to Yeah, Raven, I remember you telling me about this 303 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:49.319 a while back. Oregon wants to cut in half and 304 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:52.720 basically separate East from West to become two different states 305 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:57.039 for voting principles. I support that one hundred percent because 306 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:01.480 if I'm not mistaken, West Oregon is like the liberal 307 00:18:01.640 --> 00:18:06.079 extremists that are like missing portions of their brain, and 308 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:12.279 Eastern Oregon is like the lumber you know, the loggers, 309 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:16.279 the working hands, the farmers, these these types of people, 310 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:18.119 good folk, good decent folk. 311 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:24.160 They if you actually watched like the map during the election, 312 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:28.839 they you can see where the hubs are, like there's 313 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:31.839 not a lot of red actually, like during the election. 314 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:35.680 It's just that they own the big cities. 315 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:39.720 So Eugene and Portland have the most population, and those 316 00:18:39.839 --> 00:18:43.000 happen to be the most liberal hot spots, and so 317 00:18:43.440 --> 00:18:45.799 there was a proposal and they passed it along. So 318 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:48.000 I'm not really sure where it's at now, but it's 319 00:18:48.039 --> 00:18:49.240 been a few years. 320 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:50.799 Like COVID is when it really kicked off. 321 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:54.119 But pretty much they want to go down the Cascades 322 00:18:54.119 --> 00:18:57.200 and take half of Oregon and pretty much make it 323 00:18:57.240 --> 00:18:59.960 into Idaho, make Idaho bigger so they get more electrical 324 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:04.519 votes and then that way they can actually change kind 325 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:06.559 of what's going on. But there is a lot of 326 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:09.559 people that are Republican or mostly in the middle kind 327 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:13.599 of like you know, not either side. But then if 328 00:19:13.640 --> 00:19:15.799 you go into like Portland or Eugene, it's you know, 329 00:19:16.319 --> 00:19:17.119 it's the crazies. 330 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:21.279 Yeah, big cities on mass just seem to be very 331 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:26.039 bloom even in Texas like Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, 332 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:31.279 very big hub of liberal screaming heads, even though Texas 333 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:34.880 itself is like a red state, And like, I get 334 00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:37.599 that one hundred percent, although I feel like, like you said, 335 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:42.039 it'd be more centrists as far as your average Oregonian goes, 336 00:19:42.599 --> 00:19:45.839 even the ones that I'm sure there's pockets of like 337 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:51.759 far right minded people in Oregon for sure. I would think, 338 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:56.839 especially these days, that the majority would call themselves centrist, 339 00:19:57.079 --> 00:20:00.839 left of center, right of center, but overall centrist as 340 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:03.640 a whole. But would it be wiser for them to 341 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:06.119 become a part of Idaho or to just become their 342 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:06.839 own state. 343 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:10.240 You know, it would be better if they got if 344 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:13.720 they went into Idaho, I said, I said read with 345 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:14.599 the Democrats earlier. 346 00:20:14.640 --> 00:20:15.920 My brain's kind of not working. 347 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:18.519 You know, they would be better if they went in 348 00:20:18.640 --> 00:20:22.119 because that way they would get more votes towards the 349 00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:23.240 Republican Party. 350 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:27.079 And they like did a whole bunch of stuff about it. 351 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:29.480 There's like articles about it that you can read and 352 00:20:29.519 --> 00:20:31.640 how it like shift the tides and all this stuff, 353 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:33.759 and so it be. It would be one of those 354 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:36.160 scenes where like each place would get their own set 355 00:20:36.160 --> 00:20:38.880 of votes, but they would like pretty much be absorbed 356 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:40.279 into Idaho itself. 357 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:41.359 Gotcha. 358 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:42.440 I don't know what they would call it. 359 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:44.079 I don't know if they would just expand it and 360 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:48.920 say this is Idaho or what. But there's been it 361 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:51.720 has past bills to happen. I don't know where it's 362 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:53.960 at now, but it'd be nice. 363 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:57.079 Yeah, I've heard of this too. They would call it 364 00:20:57.200 --> 00:20:59.880 Greater Idaho. That's what the movement is called right now. 365 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:02.599 Okay, that's what I thought. I was like something, Yeah, 366 00:21:03.079 --> 00:21:03.880 Greater Idaho. 367 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:06.599 Not to one up names or anything. There's Idaho and 368 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:10.480 then there's Greater Idaho. Like yeah, I'll bet the Oregonians 369 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:12.200 would say some shit anyway. 370 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:15.960 Anyway, Yeah, let's keep going on this. As of July 371 00:21:16.240 --> 00:21:19.039 last year, thirteen counties in Oregon had approved ballot measures 372 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:23.319 in favor Greater Idaho. Baker Cook, Grant, Parney, Jefferson, Klamath, 373 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:27.480 Lake Malure. You might remember there was something called the 374 00:21:27.559 --> 00:21:31.119 Mallure Wildlife Refuge where a bunch of right wingers took 375 00:21:31.160 --> 00:21:34.359 over a building back about five or ten years ago. 376 00:21:34.880 --> 00:21:38.279 It was related to the Bundy standoff. Yeah, so they're 377 00:21:38.319 --> 00:21:39.000 part of this too. 378 00:21:39.799 --> 00:21:43.599 Okay. Now, are those like the sovereign citizen types or 379 00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:48.519 those just like second you know two AA, like I 380 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:51.359 want to say extremists, but like per the letter of 381 00:21:51.400 --> 00:21:55.599 the law, two way supporter type people, because especially whenever 382 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:58.119 we're talking about like a standoff or like them taking 383 00:21:58.160 --> 00:22:01.319 over a building or a county or something like that 384 00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:04.640 can get really dangerous and slippery slope as far as 385 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:05.160 that goes. 386 00:22:05.839 --> 00:22:08.920 Yeah, one guy died in that thing. I think they 387 00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:11.400 might have been sovereign citizens. I don't remember that word 388 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:14.599 or that term coming up. Yeah, the Bundy standoff was 389 00:22:14.640 --> 00:22:17.160 a year before that, and nobody died in that one, 390 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:20.960 and Bundy got his cows back or his land back. Yeah, 391 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:21.920 like ten years ago. 392 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:23.039 Was that Montana? 393 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:26.000 I think it was Nevada. 394 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:30.240 Ah, yeah, that was that was an interesting one. That 395 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:32.720 wasn't even sovereign citizen movement. That was straight up a 396 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:36.000 farmer that was getting screwed over by the government and 397 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:39.559 all of the farmers decided like, nah, we draw the 398 00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:44.759 line here, and they showed up like trigger fingers ready 399 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:48.759 and the Feds had to step down, which was beautiful, 400 00:22:48.920 --> 00:22:51.200 I might add, yeah, go ahead, zombie. 401 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:55.839 So I was just thinking about like the boats and stuff. 402 00:22:55.920 --> 00:23:00.920 So Oregon does the mail in ballot still, And what's 403 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:04.599 interesting is, like the a lot of people that are Republican, 404 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:07.200 they took a long time getting their ballots this year 405 00:23:07.960 --> 00:23:10.559 and they were having like a lot of trouble or 406 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:12.359 last year, excuse me, they had a lot of trouble 407 00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:13.200 getting their stuff. 408 00:23:13.240 --> 00:23:17.359 But Oregon likes to hide in the literature, Like the very. 409 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:19.680 Last line of like all those PaperWorks that you have 410 00:23:19.720 --> 00:23:24.119 to read, they'll add in like extra taxes and stuff, 411 00:23:24.119 --> 00:23:28.799 and they'll give money away to like liberal ideology programs 412 00:23:28.960 --> 00:23:31.559 inside supposed to just like you know, hey, we're trying 413 00:23:31.559 --> 00:23:32.519 to help out our people. 414 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:35.960 My mom has read me a whole bunch of them, 415 00:23:35.960 --> 00:23:36.480 and it's. 416 00:23:36.359 --> 00:23:39.240 Like, yeah, all of this sounds great until the very 417 00:23:39.319 --> 00:23:42.279 last line of this fifteen page thing that you just read. 418 00:23:43.519 --> 00:23:45.480 So I found that to be really interesting because like, 419 00:23:45.559 --> 00:23:48.559 even their news is completely different from our news, Like 420 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:51.400 we've watched it at the same time, my mom and me, 421 00:23:51.799 --> 00:23:54.960 and their news is projecting a liberal mindset of like 422 00:23:55.079 --> 00:23:57.839 you know, fear mongoling and all that, while our news 423 00:23:57.920 --> 00:24:01.720 is completely different and speaking on the same topics, but 424 00:24:01.880 --> 00:24:02.720 totally different. 425 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:04.680 And I've tried to explain it to other people and 426 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:05.400 they're like, no, it's not. 427 00:24:05.599 --> 00:24:08.160 I was like, no, really, we've we've watched it at 428 00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:10.400 the same time and watched exactly what was being said, 429 00:24:10.440 --> 00:24:14.799 and it's it's definitely more of pushing those ideologies up 430 00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:18.119 there and like skewing what's actually happening, and people just 431 00:24:18.200 --> 00:24:19.680 a lot of people buy into it. 432 00:24:21.559 --> 00:24:25.839 I could see that, honestly, And yeah, we make that. 433 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:28.160 We talk about that a lot with what goes on 434 00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:30.759 in DC, right some bill is trying to get past. 435 00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:35.680 It's like three hundred pages long with like nine thousand 436 00:24:35.759 --> 00:24:38.839 different things within it, and if you disagree with one 437 00:24:38.839 --> 00:24:41.039 of the nine thousand, then you negate the other things, 438 00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:42.799 and this, that and the other. But I mean that 439 00:24:42.839 --> 00:24:45.319 definitely happens on the state and local level as well, 440 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:49.519 So I fully believe that one hundred percent. I hope 441 00:24:49.519 --> 00:24:53.559 that Oregon does split. And if they do join Idaho, 442 00:24:55.039 --> 00:24:58.000 that kind of makes me happy because Idaho would then 443 00:24:58.079 --> 00:25:02.160 look like a double headed act and or Muleneer, which 444 00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:05.359 I think is cool. That makes me happy. On the 445 00:25:05.400 --> 00:25:08.359 other side of Oregon splits into two separate states, that 446 00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:11.319 also makes me happy because that's more electoral College votes 447 00:25:11.359 --> 00:25:14.640 towards the presidency when the time comes, and you know, 448 00:25:14.799 --> 00:25:17.440 but that would be that would be a swing state 449 00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:21.240 at that point that could you know, those things can 450 00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:24.119 go either way, but who knows, who knows what the 451 00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:27.119 future holds. We'll keep everybody posted on the things and 452 00:25:27.160 --> 00:25:29.880 the stuff as time goes on. But now getting back 453 00:25:29.960 --> 00:25:36.119 to the American news in general, this isn't necessarily world 454 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:39.160 or geopolitical news, but this makes me happy because as 455 00:25:39.240 --> 00:25:42.440 a Marine Corps veteran, I like when Marines get new 456 00:25:42.759 --> 00:25:47.480 tech things, we typically get the worst equipment handed down 457 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:49.279 to us, so we have to buy it second hand 458 00:25:49.279 --> 00:25:51.440 off of the Air Force or the Navy, or the Army, 459 00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:55.559 or whatever the case is. But apparently the Marines are 460 00:25:55.640 --> 00:25:58.960 getting their first high power microwave weapon for taking down 461 00:25:59.079 --> 00:26:01.759 drone swarms. I've heard the joke be made a few 462 00:26:01.759 --> 00:26:04.519 times that, like, yes, this device is able to take 463 00:26:04.519 --> 00:26:07.160 down like one hundred drones at once, and that's sick. 464 00:26:07.880 --> 00:26:10.039 But don't get mad when the Marines try to eat 465 00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:14.400 them after the fact. We cannot control that. Okay, that's 466 00:26:14.519 --> 00:26:16.240 just gonna be a part of it. We're gonna try 467 00:26:16.279 --> 00:26:20.920 to eat them or impregnate them. Something bad is gonna 468 00:26:20.920 --> 00:26:22.960 happen to the drones want to hit the ground. Okay, 469 00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:26.720 that's what Marines do. But again, I like it. I 470 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:29.400 like it. We're getting new shit. The US Marine Corps 471 00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:34.440 has taken delivery of the Expeditionary Directed Energy Counter Swarm 472 00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:40.079 or x DEX weapon. It's maker, Epirus, announced today that 473 00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:44.799 to coincide with the Modern Day Marine Conference in Washington, DC, 474 00:26:45.559 --> 00:26:47.960 x DECKS will allow the Corps to start experiments with 475 00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:52.359 high power microwave technology in the increasingly critical low altitude 476 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:55.240 air defense role. This kind of counter drone system is 477 00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:58.559 increasingly seen as a critical air enforced protection and something 478 00:26:58.559 --> 00:27:02.200 that is urgently needed to hants current and future ground 479 00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:06.480 based air defense capabilities. So, long story short, they're wanting 480 00:27:06.680 --> 00:27:10.359 to use this for like amphib assaults, which is what 481 00:27:10.640 --> 00:27:12.720 that's like supposed to be the Marines bread and butter. 482 00:27:13.400 --> 00:27:16.839 It's not necessarily, but we do have that capability more 483 00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:19.720 than the other branches. It's not like an arguable point. 484 00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:22.759 That's kind of the name of the game. And they're 485 00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:26.680 essentially saying that when the Amphibs roll up, instead of 486 00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:28.839 having drones trying to shoot them down and have a 487 00:27:28.920 --> 00:27:32.559 modern day Beaches of Normandy situation, bro, you could have 488 00:27:32.920 --> 00:27:36.359 a few of these on the amphib crafts themselves and 489 00:27:36.519 --> 00:27:39.119 or on the ship that they launched from and just 490 00:27:39.240 --> 00:27:43.720 knock out the entire swoon of droms, of entire swarm 491 00:27:43.839 --> 00:27:50.000 of drones, excuse me, with directed energy blasts. I love this. 492 00:27:50.279 --> 00:27:52.880 I love this. The XX is a derivative of the 493 00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:56.839 Leonidas HPM energy based counter drone system developed by Appiis, 494 00:27:57.119 --> 00:28:00.240 whose products we will revisit soon in a very in 495 00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:03.440 depth story. The company delivered its first x DEX system 496 00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:07.480 to the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dalgren Division in Virginia 497 00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:11.400 earlier this year, where it completed government acceptance testing ahead 498 00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:16.759 of planned test program. Now, little R two fu over here, right. 499 00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:19.440 I like this guy. He looks like he's ready to 500 00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:22.680 ruin somebody's day. You know. It's kind of innocuous looking, 501 00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:26.279 looking like a whole electrical box, if you will, very 502 00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:31.200 angry electrical box. The Mobile Solid State HPM system has 503 00:28:31.240 --> 00:28:34.359 been developed as part of a contract awarded by the 504 00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:39.200 US Naval Office of Naval Research ONR in September twenty 505 00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:42.599 twenty four. The ONR awarded appeirs an additional follow on 506 00:28:42.680 --> 00:28:45.440 contract to support further testing and evaluation of the system 507 00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:48.519 as part of the preliminary evaluation of ground based anti 508 00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:54.240 swarm UAS system's Pegasus program. This is a direct quote here. 509 00:28:54.880 --> 00:28:58.359 It says drome warfare is changing the fight. Fast systems 510 00:28:58.440 --> 00:29:01.559 like x DEX gives a marine a decisive advantage by 511 00:29:01.599 --> 00:29:05.599 neutralizing multiple electronic threats at once with a single system, 512 00:29:05.960 --> 00:29:09.960 what we call a one too mini capability. That's Andy Lowry, 513 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:13.200 the CEO of appearance. This delivery is a critical step 514 00:29:13.240 --> 00:29:18.079 towards fielding non kinetic counterswarm solutions that enhance the mobility, survivability, 515 00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:22.920 and lethality of our marine forces. So they did just 516 00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:29.119 develop a shotgun specifically for shooting down drones and in 517 00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:32.759 basic training now they are starting to introduce skeet shooting 518 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:36.759 as a portion of the weapons qualifications. Not in all branches. 519 00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:38.960 Not in all branches. As a matter of fact, the 520 00:29:39.079 --> 00:29:41.480 United States Air Force is trying to take away all 521 00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:46.079 weapons qualifications from their basic training currently as we speak. 522 00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:51.720 The argument here is that unless you are in an 523 00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:56.440 MP role military police role, or a specops role or 524 00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:01.880 pj's or something like that, you, as an Air forceman 525 00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:06.559 airmen excuse me, are never going to hold a weapon. 526 00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:11.839 So they see it as a unnecessary expense to have 527 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:14.839 weapons and AMMO and all these things go it to 528 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:18.480 basic training in the Air Force when most airmen never 529 00:30:18.559 --> 00:30:23.119 touch a weapon. Now, I personally don't like that, although 530 00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:26.240 I will say the jokes right themselves, I are grunt. 531 00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:28.440 I don't understand how and why you would be in 532 00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:31.799 the military without using weapons, or at least qualifying with 533 00:30:31.839 --> 00:30:34.720 them on a regular basis. I don't. I don't understand that, right, 534 00:30:35.200 --> 00:30:37.680 same time. As I say that, Yo, I want to 535 00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:41.319 know what weapons the Space Force is currently qualifying with 536 00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:43.880 at basic training. And I'm sure they're going to be 537 00:30:43.880 --> 00:30:47.880 the US, the the IR, the six I get it, 538 00:30:47.960 --> 00:30:51.359 I get it. I want there to be ray guns 539 00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:56.160 or like you know, it was the rail guns they got, 540 00:30:56.200 --> 00:30:59.680 they got the electric rifles. I want that. Let the 541 00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:05.279 Space Force recruits trainees, Cadre, whatever the hell they're calling 542 00:31:05.319 --> 00:31:08.480 their trainee people, let them train with some advanced weapons. 543 00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:10.960 I'm here for that smoke, right, But the Air Force 544 00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:13.799 High Command is now saying that they just want to 545 00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:17.160 remove pretty much all weapons training from their entire boot 546 00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:19.880 camp line. You'll get the weapons training once you get 547 00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:25.960 to MP school or a pj's school or whatever specop school. Meanwhile, 548 00:31:26.359 --> 00:31:29.440 while the Air Force is trying to disarm themselves, the 549 00:31:29.559 --> 00:31:33.359 Marines are getting new energy weapons to fight drone swarms. 550 00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:36.160 This is a crazy time, y'all. Like I cannot express 551 00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:41.359 in words the wildness that this actually is. Out loud Ravens, 552 00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:42.240 please speak on it. 553 00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:47.400 I well, this doesn't surprise me that the little Chair 554 00:31:47.440 --> 00:31:50.359 Force wants to take weapons away because they're pansies. 555 00:31:50.640 --> 00:31:51.319 I get it, But. 556 00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:55.759 Is there some Is there an Air Force person in there. 557 00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:58.559 A resident Jewish correspondent is an airman. 558 00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:00.759 Oh well, now I. 559 00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:02.480 Just know we actually want to talk shit. 560 00:32:03.440 --> 00:32:09.319 Ye fantastic, I'll tell you keeps getting stack harder against you. Royce. 561 00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:14.240 Oh my god, yeah, you're jus and godless gross. 562 00:32:14.759 --> 00:32:20.720 I'm joking, no, but uh, I think it's really interesting. 563 00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:23.759 I wonder what type of like if they're gonna make 564 00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:27.400 its own MOS or if they're gonna like have like 565 00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:29.759 who's gonna be is calm gonna be in charge of 566 00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:30.960 like teaching. 567 00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:31.359 This to people? 568 00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:35.640 Like I'm I'm wondering because like because we did you know, 569 00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:38.359 we do satellites and we do all of that stuff, 570 00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:41.759 so and it's mixed with intel. So I'm wondering, like 571 00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:45.960 who would actually be teaching this and like which MOS 572 00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:47.319 would be in charge of this? 573 00:32:48.319 --> 00:32:51.359 So and I don't know. The article really doesn't break 574 00:32:51.400 --> 00:32:56.319 that portion down. But so the way the modern Marine 575 00:32:56.319 --> 00:33:01.039 Corps infantry squad is comprised, it acts, actually it actually 576 00:33:01.079 --> 00:33:05.440 infuriates me. It makes me upset, Okay, And I know 577 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:08.720 people are gonna have a little bit of flat towards 578 00:33:08.759 --> 00:33:12.359 this for whatever reason. So the Marine Corps that I 579 00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:17.559 served in Okay, there was a twelve man rifle squad 580 00:33:18.359 --> 00:33:20.640 and that was what that was. And yes, I understand 581 00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:24.440 situation dictates and like there's things and there's stuff and whatever, 582 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:28.200 but they have because of the draw down and because 583 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:32.200 of the peacetime military, they basically now have it to 584 00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:35.359 where if you're a squad leader, you're a sergeant, if 585 00:33:35.400 --> 00:33:38.200 you're a team leader, you're a corporal for anybody. And 586 00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:40.759 this is not gonna go into the the finer points 587 00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:42.799 of this, but let me just break this down. A 588 00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:46.279 fire team is a four man group. Okay. You used 589 00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:50.960 to have a point man, a team leader, a squad 590 00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:54.880 automatic weapon operator, and an a gunner. Okay, these were 591 00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:57.960 your four dudes. And sometimes your point man would be 592 00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:01.119 your team leader and you'd have a another rifleman in 593 00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:04.799 the mix or something along those lines. Fine, depended, right, 594 00:34:05.319 --> 00:34:07.440 Every team would have a two zero three, which is 595 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:09.519 that forty milimeter grenade launcher that'd be attached to the 596 00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:11.480 bottom of a weapon. Okay, then they came out with 597 00:34:11.519 --> 00:34:13.679 the M thirty two M, which is that six cylinder 598 00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:16.760 of grenade launcher, and like you would have one of those, 599 00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:20.599 a grenade launcher of some type per fire team Now, 600 00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:24.440 when I had a team, I preferred to have the 601 00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:27.960 grenade launcher on my weapons system, and I also preferred 602 00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:30.159 to have a mag strictly full of tracer rounds to 603 00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:32.079 where I could direct fire from my team. If I 604 00:34:32.119 --> 00:34:34.639 wanted them to, you know, focus more fire towards the 605 00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:36.880 left towards the right, I would drop that REDMG in 606 00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:38.559 and just clack clock clock and they could follow the 607 00:34:38.559 --> 00:34:42.079 tracers and adjust fire. I also was really good with 608 00:34:42.119 --> 00:34:44.840 the forty mic mic, so I liked having that on me. 609 00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:47.400 That's just me. Every team is different. If you had 610 00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:49.719 a guy in your team that was like a gangster 611 00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:52.239 with a with a grenade launcher, you would make sure 612 00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:55.719 he has it right anyway anyway, So you would have 613 00:34:55.760 --> 00:34:59.239 three teams and a squad. Okay, that would make twelve dudes, 614 00:34:59.280 --> 00:35:01.480 and then you would have a there'll be a thirteenth guy. 615 00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:04.960 Sometimes a squad leader would also be first team leader. 616 00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:09.159 That it's whatever situation dictates. But the squad leader's job 617 00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:12.679 wasn't necessarily to do the fighting. It was to direct 618 00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:16.599 his fire teams to do maneuvers and close with the enemy. 619 00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:19.599 That was the entire goal. On top of that, you 620 00:35:19.599 --> 00:35:22.480 would have a platoon leader right now, that yeah, a 621 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:26.360 guide on't usually a platoon sergeant, right, that's your guy. 622 00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:30.280 The title platoon sergeant would indicate that it was a 623 00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:34.039 sergeant rank, and typically it was. Right. They now have 624 00:35:34.119 --> 00:35:36.400 it to where to be a platoon sergeant you must 625 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:39.039 be a staff sergeant, and they're getting to a point 626 00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:40.559 to where they don't want you to be a squad 627 00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:43.639 leader unless you're a staff sergeant. Now in the Army 628 00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:46.039 this makes more sense because they have more money, they 629 00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:49.000 have more bodies, they have more logistics, more numbers, and 630 00:35:49.039 --> 00:35:52.000 so it like, okay, you could make that happen because 631 00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:54.639 achieving the rank of a corporal or an E four 632 00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:57.599 I should say specialist in the Army, that's like a 633 00:35:57.639 --> 00:35:59.840 time and grade type of situation. That is not the 634 00:35:59.840 --> 00:36:02.280 case in the Marine Corps. We are smaller brands with 635 00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:06.920 less money, less funding, less advancement opportunities, so you have 636 00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:09.639 to fight and claw your way to whatever you earn. Right, 637 00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:13.320 they do give it out in some of the pogue 638 00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:16.920 moss and I don't mean that term with hatred. I don't. 639 00:36:17.239 --> 00:36:19.840 I used to say these things derogatorily. I do not. 640 00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:23.679 But my point is the pogues being positions other than grunts. 641 00:36:23.719 --> 00:36:26.559 By the way, like your admin, your supply, your comms. 642 00:36:27.320 --> 00:36:29.559 It would be easier for you to achieve corporal or 643 00:36:29.639 --> 00:36:32.920 sergeant in these ranks rather than or this MOS, rather 644 00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:35.320 than in the infantry. Because the infantry is the largest 645 00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:37.800 group in the Marine Corps, which means that there is 646 00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:41.119 you would think it's larger, there's more money to go around, 647 00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:44.320 not the way the Marine Corps does their infantry tax. 648 00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:48.440 But anyway, anyway, neither here nor there. So now now 649 00:36:48.480 --> 00:36:52.679 instead of having that type of squad, you have a 650 00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:56.159 thirteen man squad. And I'm not going to break down 651 00:36:56.440 --> 00:36:59.199 the finer points of it because it pisses me off. Honestly, 652 00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:03.280 every marine now has an iar, which is a way 653 00:37:03.320 --> 00:37:07.239 too heavy, fully automatic five to five six weapon. There's 654 00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:10.280 no belt feds. They have taken away the saw. They've 655 00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:13.599 taken away the belt fed machine guns, which hurts my soul. Okay, 656 00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:15.719 the saw was my baby. I loved her. She was 657 00:37:15.760 --> 00:37:18.400 a whore would she was not a good one, but 658 00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:20.960 she was also a road dog. Neither here nor there, 659 00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:25.599 but that being said, every single one of them now 660 00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:29.480 has a fully automatic weapon. So now rather than having 661 00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:31.960 a machine gunner, that would be good for laying down 662 00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:33.760 suppressive fire so the rest of your team or the 663 00:37:33.800 --> 00:37:36.199 rest of your squad could maneuver and close with the enemy. 664 00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:39.199 You now have to teach an entire group of nineteen 665 00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:41.639 year olds to have trigger discipline and not dump their 666 00:37:41.679 --> 00:37:46.400 load instantly and run out of ammunition too soon. That's 667 00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:48.480 a lot harder than people want to give it credit for. 668 00:37:48.559 --> 00:37:50.440 But neither here nor there, right, We're gonna move on 669 00:37:50.440 --> 00:37:53.559 on that. One. One of the marines in this squad 670 00:37:53.719 --> 00:37:57.920 is known as the tech marine. His job is to 671 00:37:57.960 --> 00:38:02.920 carry drones and a tablet and a computer and GPS 672 00:38:03.039 --> 00:38:05.280 and all the batteries, and that's his whole job is 673 00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:07.119 to shoot could be tech and no, no, I know 674 00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:09.159 what you're about to ask, Raven. This is an O 675 00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:12.599 three to MS. He is an infantry marine who is 676 00:38:12.679 --> 00:38:14.920 tasked out with being the tech marine for the squad. 677 00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:17.559 Comm dogs are still there, well, you know all the things. 678 00:38:18.119 --> 00:38:20.599 But this guy's whole job is to just carry the 679 00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:23.880 new age tech that goes with the modern Marine Corps squad. 680 00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:27.239 I don't even know what to say about that. 681 00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:31.079 It hurt me. 682 00:38:31.880 --> 00:38:35.159 I'm so confused because it would make sense for like 683 00:38:35.239 --> 00:38:37.760 a com marine to carry it because we have the 684 00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:42.280 satphones have, we carry everything, we have incinerio your needs, 685 00:38:42.400 --> 00:38:46.559 we carry the keys. Like I mean, I don't understand why. 686 00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:50.719 I mean, unless it's just so much extra work that 687 00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:53.679 they need two people, because it makes sense because you'd 688 00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:56.719 be on calm and you'd need to have eyes on 689 00:38:56.760 --> 00:38:58.480 the drone and be able to communicate. 690 00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:02.159 I guess, Like, I mean, I could see how they 691 00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:02.760 would need it. 692 00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:08.119 But that's interesting that that's like a whole new MOS. 693 00:39:08.679 --> 00:39:11.960 It's it's not even a new MOS. It's not even 694 00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:14.000 like a b billet the same way that like you'd 695 00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:16.840 have an three eleven that's carrying the saw even though 696 00:39:16.920 --> 00:39:19.400 yes you have a machine gun or MOS, but those 697 00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:21.920 types of machine guns that usually be like mounted, right 698 00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:25.599 that that'd be like the Mark nineteens or the well 699 00:39:25.639 --> 00:39:27.480 I would say the two forties, but I know plenty 700 00:39:27.519 --> 00:39:29.360 of elevens have got some time in on the two forties, 701 00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:31.480 but neither here nor there like the fifties. Right, the 702 00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:34.559 mall deuce you do you'd have the machine gun or mos. 703 00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:36.960 Is the thirty ones that would have that. These are 704 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:40.760 elevens basic infantry riflemans, and one of them is going 705 00:39:40.840 --> 00:39:44.679 to be designated as the tech guy. And that's been 706 00:39:44.679 --> 00:39:47.760 going on for a few years now. Now, this was 707 00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:51.079 also before drones were used as heavily on the battlefield 708 00:39:51.199 --> 00:39:54.679 like we see fielded in Ukraine. So this is this 709 00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:59.320 was done before it was understood that drones are the 710 00:39:59.679 --> 00:40:03.559 real life boogeyman of the battlefield. It's no longer IED's, 711 00:40:03.599 --> 00:40:07.079 although they're still there too, it's not even like that. 712 00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:09.679 By the time you hear the drone flying overhead, he's 713 00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:11.719 probably already dropped his load and you have a mortar 714 00:40:11.719 --> 00:40:13.559 that's about to hit you in the next half second. 715 00:40:14.039 --> 00:40:16.320 That's from all the combat footage I see from going 716 00:40:16.360 --> 00:40:19.840 on in Ukraine. That seems to be the going standard 717 00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:22.360 of the day. But again, we could talk about that 718 00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:25.719 all day now. Who is going to be operating this 719 00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:33.519 the X Did I mispronounced that just now? The the 720 00:40:33.719 --> 00:40:36.679 X dex Excuse me. I don't think it's going to 721 00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:40.039 be a comerine. If I had to guess, it'd be 722 00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:43.960 probably something as far as like maybe I don't think arties. 723 00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:50.039 I don't think arties. Maybe the radar guys, maybe the 724 00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:52.519 calm dogs. I don't see why they would. And at 725 00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:55.280 this point it's just another certification, but they would only 726 00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:57.480 it's not like you just fire this thing. It deploys 727 00:40:57.480 --> 00:41:00.320 whenever it sees a threat. So it's kind of like 728 00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:05.320 the failing system on naval ships, the R two FU right, 729 00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:07.679 the thing that can fire like three thousand rounds a minute, 730 00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:10.039 and it's like a lead curtain that anything gets close 731 00:41:10.119 --> 00:41:14.519 enough to the boats. It's like that for amphib craft. 732 00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:18.039 And all it does is just send out a invisible, 733 00:41:18.559 --> 00:41:23.519 silent pulse energy wave to knock out. It was tested 734 00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:26.559 Nick successfully knocked out all one hundred out of one 735 00:41:26.639 --> 00:41:31.400 hundred drones that were swarming a target, like completely incapacitate 736 00:41:31.519 --> 00:41:36.039 them and fry their circuits. So again, I like the 737 00:41:36.280 --> 00:41:38.760 x DEX. I hope that we keep it. I hope 738 00:41:38.760 --> 00:41:41.360 the Marines get to use it. You know, I'm not 739 00:41:41.360 --> 00:41:43.639 saying I'm trying to be a warmonger here, but like, 740 00:41:43.719 --> 00:41:46.280 if we're gonna do it, then let's let's just match 741 00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:48.559 fire with fire. They're using drones. We have the thing 742 00:41:48.559 --> 00:41:51.840 that kills drones. I like this, But that also being said, 743 00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:55.000 I said earlier that they are talking about bringing skeet 744 00:41:55.079 --> 00:41:59.880 shooting into basic training. Now, the Navy does shotgun train 745 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:03.920 in basic right. If you ever see the Navy's ribbon stacks, 746 00:42:03.960 --> 00:42:06.760 you'll see like the three blue ribbons at the bottom, 747 00:42:06.760 --> 00:42:09.039 and they'll have like a letter signifier on it. That's 748 00:42:09.119 --> 00:42:12.599 like their marksmanship badges, like we got so you. One 749 00:42:12.599 --> 00:42:14.840 of them's for pistol, one of them is for I 750 00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:17.519 think the M four, and one of them is for shotgun. 751 00:42:18.920 --> 00:42:22.320 At one point in time, they were talking about removing 752 00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:26.320 weapons training from naval boot camp as well, because most 753 00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:28.639 of the guys on a ship are not carrying a 754 00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:32.400 weapon because if the enemy has bordered your boat, so 755 00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:34.920 many things have gone wrong at that point that like, 756 00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:39.039 what good is shotgun's gonna do? That's that's the mindset 757 00:42:39.079 --> 00:42:42.000 to it. Now that was shut down because the Navy, 758 00:42:42.519 --> 00:42:45.480 for all of their things, I know, all the jokes, haha, 759 00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:50.000 but but they liked a gun. They liked a gun. 760 00:42:50.280 --> 00:42:52.280 The Air Force is saying that they would like to 761 00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:57.880 no longer gun because it is a unnecessary expenditure. So 762 00:42:59.159 --> 00:43:02.639 that being said, the Army and the Marine Corps is 763 00:43:02.679 --> 00:43:07.000 talking about introducing drone style skeet shooting and basic training 764 00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:10.280 because what has been shown in Ukraine and Russia is 765 00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:15.920 that shotguns, oddly enough, do pretty well at drone deterrence, 766 00:43:16.519 --> 00:43:18.639 and they have already developed a couple of new shotgun 767 00:43:18.719 --> 00:43:22.360 rounds that are you know what a bolo is For 768 00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:25.079 anybody who doesn't know, it's like think of the Australian 769 00:43:25.159 --> 00:43:29.320 hunting thing that's got like three balls and it's all 770 00:43:29.320 --> 00:43:31.079 connected by ropes and you sling it over your head 771 00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:32.360 and you sling it out of an animal and it 772 00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:36.079 like wraps around their ankles and trips them. This shotgun 773 00:43:36.119 --> 00:43:40.880 shell is essentially three weights connected by steel cables that 774 00:43:41.079 --> 00:43:44.280 fans out and bolow's a drone and they have that 775 00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:48.079 in twelve gage. So they're talking about introducing this more 776 00:43:48.159 --> 00:43:52.159 at Marine Corps and Army boot camp and I support this, 777 00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:54.880 I really do. I like that. That makes me happy. 778 00:43:55.039 --> 00:44:00.199 But the battlefield is changing drastically more and more every day. 779 00:44:00.880 --> 00:44:03.159 I'm very happy to see that the Marine Corps is 780 00:44:03.280 --> 00:44:07.119 changing with it. Okay, so before I go to the 781 00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:11.400 next article, let's check out the chat here. How did 782 00:44:11.480 --> 00:44:14.000 they get into America that far? You know, I don't 783 00:44:14.039 --> 00:44:17.119 know with the Mexican Army stepping into American soil that far, 784 00:44:17.199 --> 00:44:19.960 I don't know how they accidentally went that far north 785 00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:24.719 without ever realizing Yeah, there's holes in the fence. I 786 00:44:24.800 --> 00:44:28.480 get that the hole in the fence was so big 787 00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:33.239 and so wide that the Mexican military couldn't acknowledge that 788 00:44:33.320 --> 00:44:36.920 it was there. I have a hard time believing it. 789 00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:40.400 But again, I've never I've never seen the entire expanse 790 00:44:40.440 --> 00:44:42.960 of the of the border. I don't know how secure 791 00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:47.440 it actually is. I know we've have issues towards that regard, 792 00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:49.400 and that's why Trump is trying so hard to build 793 00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:51.519 a better wall, and he was trying in his first term. 794 00:44:51.559 --> 00:44:53.159 And like, I don't know, I don't know, maybe that 795 00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:58.400 was a section that Biden sold I could be Let's see, 796 00:44:58.400 --> 00:45:01.679 these areas have a lot of empty space, and Haikita 797 00:45:01.880 --> 00:45:04.480 has something like one hundred people and is about ten 798 00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:06.320 miles from the border. Yeah, it's one of those small 799 00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:09.519 desert towns that like is barely a town. I feel that. 800 00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:12.199 So I bet there was no street signs anywhere where 801 00:45:12.239 --> 00:45:14.760 this encounter took place. Ever been in Nevada or New 802 00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:18.000 Mexico or other desert places. Lots of empty flat area 803 00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:20.440 with no signs. Yeah. The only time I've really spent 804 00:45:20.519 --> 00:45:23.480 in the Western desert would be when I was in Yuma, 805 00:45:23.519 --> 00:45:26.280 Arizona at the Marine Corps air station there. Now to 806 00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:29.119 that point, that's pretty close to the border. A lot 807 00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:32.239 of wide open desert, a lot of wide open desert. 808 00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:34.119 And I still stand by the statement that was the 809 00:45:34.119 --> 00:45:36.599 best Mexican food I've ever had in my life. I'm 810 00:45:36.639 --> 00:45:40.800 sure there's better to my experiences currently today, that was 811 00:45:40.840 --> 00:45:43.719 the best I've ever had. All Right, let's see here 812 00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:47.679 another heavy metal minora. I dig it, I dig it, 813 00:45:48.840 --> 00:45:52.239 let's see. Might as well share my art to just 814 00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:55.159 for the hell of it while I'm drugged up. Yeah, Alex, 815 00:45:55.280 --> 00:45:58.719 how are you doing after your surgery? How did everything go? 816 00:45:58.840 --> 00:45:59.000 Man? 817 00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:01.519 I was praying for you. I hope that everything's good 818 00:46:01.519 --> 00:46:07.000 and that you have a fast recovery. Bacon pieces, oh Jesus. 819 00:46:06.760 --> 00:46:11.639 Christ hospital for at least the next two days. 820 00:46:12.840 --> 00:46:16.039 Okay, that was it? Surgery successful? I don't want to 821 00:46:16.039 --> 00:46:16.840 like overly. 822 00:46:16.599 --> 00:46:22.039 Share you think so. Yeah, I'm not sure the doctors 823 00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:23.199 are saying. 824 00:46:22.880 --> 00:46:27.679 A lot okay? Is that typically the type of surgery 825 00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:29.639 that it's like, well, wait and see kind of game 826 00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:31.239 or no news is good news. 827 00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:39.360 That's just how up mc its eat or drink anything yet. 828 00:46:40.320 --> 00:46:46.599 So it's just waiting until two days from now pretty 829 00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:48.280 much got you. 830 00:46:48.920 --> 00:46:51.639 Well, you are going to stay in my prayers and 831 00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:54.519 I hope that do you have a speedy recovery and 832 00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:57.320 that you're back in action as soon as possible. Man, 833 00:46:57.559 --> 00:46:58.440 So thank you. 834 00:46:58.480 --> 00:46:59.639 I appreciate you. 835 00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:05.079 You Alex. Let's see here, Merlin, what up nerds do? 836 00:47:05.840 --> 00:47:10.079 Piece suns all the way around Ice nine Kills? 837 00:47:10.360 --> 00:47:10.639 Yep? 838 00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:13.559 I do love Ice nine Kills. I do love their music. 839 00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:16.679 That one album where they basically just made a whole 840 00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:18.679 horror album. And then they did one where it was 841 00:47:18.679 --> 00:47:22.320 all about Disney because Disney made a rule where they 842 00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:24.719 couldn't perform at House of Blues, I think because the 843 00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:26.880 one in particular was owned by Disney. So they made 844 00:47:26.880 --> 00:47:29.480 a whole album giving the middle finger to Disney. That 845 00:47:29.559 --> 00:47:34.360 makes me happy anyway. Let's see here. My body is 846 00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:38.079 a machine where here's my Sarah Connor. Ah, I dig it. 847 00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:41.280 I still have a hard time, don't. I still have 848 00:47:41.320 --> 00:47:43.519 a hard time not dumping my load and wasting all 849 00:47:43.639 --> 00:47:49.440 my ammo? Okay, Merlin, I feel that I do. And 850 00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:52.199 you know they say that as soon as you get 851 00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:54.360 in your first firefight, you get tunnel vision in and 852 00:47:54.400 --> 00:47:55.880 all of your training goes out the window and it 853 00:47:55.880 --> 00:47:57.760 takes you a while to adapt to the environment. I 854 00:47:57.800 --> 00:48:01.960 get that, I do. I am just still of the 855 00:48:01.960 --> 00:48:05.239 belief that we should not have the entire squad full 856 00:48:05.639 --> 00:48:09.280 of automatic weapons, especially if your marines are only going 857 00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:13.639 out on patrol with six to eight mags max. And like, 858 00:48:13.719 --> 00:48:16.360 I've talked to other branches about this, and they think 859 00:48:16.360 --> 00:48:19.639 that's crazy. Like you're only going out with like eight mags. 860 00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:22.239 What happens if you run out? I'm like, then you're 861 00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:25.039 out and you have to call for a resupply or 862 00:48:25.079 --> 00:48:26.920 you have to like conserve your AMMO, and like maybe 863 00:48:26.960 --> 00:48:29.159 you have a couple more boxes in your bag or something, 864 00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:33.159 but like you don't just dump. And like that's the 865 00:48:33.199 --> 00:48:37.039 thing fire superiority that in and of itself is a 866 00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:42.000 statement or a sentiment that different branches believe different things about. 867 00:48:42.239 --> 00:48:47.039 Some branches believe that that means that you're putting more 868 00:48:47.119 --> 00:48:50.440 lead down range than they are at you. Marines think 869 00:48:50.519 --> 00:48:53.320 that this means that you're getting accurate effects on target, 870 00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:56.599 meaning that their head is staying down and it doesn't 871 00:48:56.639 --> 00:48:58.719 necessarily mean you're getting a kill for every shot. But 872 00:48:58.840 --> 00:49:01.920 it's not clock cock cock cock cock cock. I'm reloading 873 00:49:02.239 --> 00:49:04.760 clock cock cock cock cock cock like bro, no, stop 874 00:49:04.800 --> 00:49:08.360 all that foolishness. Anyway, Anyway, I'm sure that was an 875 00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:12.079 inn window. But still with that being said, go ahead. 876 00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:17.719 Merlin, and for sure was an inn window. Okay, another 877 00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:19.320 one that got me six kids? 878 00:49:20.360 --> 00:49:21.880 You have six kids? 879 00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:24.719 Yeah? I have four boys and two girls. 880 00:49:25.760 --> 00:49:26.199 Damn it. 881 00:49:26.559 --> 00:49:28.920 It is a fourteen and nine. 882 00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:31.320 Oh my god. 883 00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:33.360 Yeah, four baby mamas will do that to you. 884 00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:39.559 Heard that hurt? Right, babe? Five years my boy? 885 00:49:40.519 --> 00:49:44.519 All right, that work done, son. 886 00:49:44.719 --> 00:49:48.360 You got it done? Yeah, I promise your child support hurts. 887 00:49:49.039 --> 00:49:52.440 Oh it does. I'm a fabricator. I'm a fabrication welder. 888 00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:55.840 I make pretty good money and uh I only take 889 00:49:55.840 --> 00:49:57.280 home about five hundred every week. 890 00:49:57.960 --> 00:50:01.159 Mmmm. But but did you make that good money when 891 00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:07.079 you was h reproducing in this manner? No, so your 892 00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:09.159 child support is based off the income you made at 893 00:50:09.199 --> 00:50:09.519 the time. 894 00:50:10.280 --> 00:50:12.639 Nope, they keep every time I get a new job, 895 00:50:12.679 --> 00:50:13.719 they readjust it. 896 00:50:14.679 --> 00:50:15.400 No. 897 00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:17.320 No, yeah, my baby mom too. 898 00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:19.880 Of my baby mama's are really good about every time 899 00:50:19.920 --> 00:50:21.480 I get a raised, just knowing it. 900 00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:24.480 And so they'll be like, hey, we need to readjust this. 901 00:50:24.599 --> 00:50:28.400 So I'm like, no, you don't. You can leave that alone. Please, damn. 902 00:50:29.639 --> 00:50:33.119 I feel for you in my heart and in my soul. Merlin. 903 00:50:33.599 --> 00:50:35.920 Good, I did the job. 904 00:50:36.239 --> 00:50:37.639 I do the time, right, you know what I mean, 905 00:50:38.119 --> 00:50:40.400 I'd be like that, but I mean you also seem 906 00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:43.000 like the type that's a pretty active father, So I 907 00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:45.239 don't do the ship bag that like never sees your 908 00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:45.880 kids either. 909 00:50:46.039 --> 00:50:50.079 So especially me and two of my sons start streaming 910 00:50:50.079 --> 00:50:51.320 together on video games. 911 00:50:51.599 --> 00:50:52.360 Oh that's like it. 912 00:50:53.599 --> 00:50:54.519 Yeah, it's pretty. 913 00:50:54.320 --> 00:50:57.000 Fun because there's that whole father son dynamic while playing 914 00:50:57.039 --> 00:50:58.599 video games, Like they'll try to talk. 915 00:50:58.440 --> 00:50:59.679 Shit to me. I'm like, you know, I know where 916 00:50:59.679 --> 00:51:00.519 you sleep, right. 917 00:51:01.000 --> 00:51:05.760 Yo, you're like screaming and like putting it out as content. Yeah, dude, 918 00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:06.920 where at plug the shit. 919 00:51:08.199 --> 00:51:11.480 It's Magical Musician five on TikTok and YouTube. 920 00:51:12.360 --> 00:51:15.679 Magical Musician five. Everybody listening, please go check him out. 921 00:51:15.679 --> 00:51:18.320 Give them the follows, the subscribes, all the things, all 922 00:51:18.360 --> 00:51:24.239 the stuff. Absolutely Merlin. Hell yeah dude, Okay, we're back 923 00:51:24.239 --> 00:51:26.119 in the chat over here. Still have a hard time. 924 00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:30.599 One thing, did you hear the ambuls coming out with 925 00:51:30.760 --> 00:51:33.599 AI that helps soldiers in the field. 926 00:51:35.159 --> 00:51:38.559 It doesn't shock me that it sounds. 927 00:51:39.119 --> 00:51:40.039 It sounds awesome. 928 00:51:40.400 --> 00:51:43.760 The way they put it, because like say you got 929 00:51:44.480 --> 00:51:47.760 recon on top of the hill, what he is seeing 930 00:51:48.559 --> 00:51:51.280 is what the guys down in the town we'll see too, 931 00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:54.239 Like if there's an enemy behind a corner two blocks down, 932 00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:58.519 the guy who is two blocks away from that, we'll 933 00:51:58.559 --> 00:52:00.159 see like through the wall, be. 934 00:52:00.119 --> 00:52:02.320 Able to see the objective. 935 00:52:03.079 --> 00:52:08.199 So to say, I know that AI has that capability 936 00:52:08.280 --> 00:52:11.719 of being amazing and to be used as a tool 937 00:52:11.840 --> 00:52:15.639 to help us. I fully get that, Man, I still 938 00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:18.920 just don't trust it to my core. If we're gonna 939 00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:21.079 use it, then let's use it to protect our guys 940 00:52:21.119 --> 00:52:24.360 on the front lines. For one hundred percent with you, dude, 941 00:52:25.280 --> 00:52:27.840 it's a slippery slope. It is such a. 942 00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:31.519 Really, it really is. But if they limit it, I 943 00:52:31.559 --> 00:52:35.960 feel like it could save so many lives. 944 00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:37.880 And as much hatred as I give to AI, I 945 00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:42.119 don't know for one hundred percent certainty that there is 946 00:52:42.199 --> 00:52:44.760 no way to limit it. I don't know, Like I 947 00:52:44.840 --> 00:52:47.400 think that there's probably like, yeah, we give it another 948 00:52:47.440 --> 00:52:50.039 ten years and it will be limitless. I don't know 949 00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:53.079 that for a fact. There may be safeties and things 950 00:52:53.079 --> 00:52:55.559 that could be put into it to prevent it from 951 00:52:56.000 --> 00:52:58.679 taking over the world. In the worst case scenario. I'm 952 00:52:58.719 --> 00:53:02.360 sure that that's a thing. But man, if it's got 953 00:53:02.360 --> 00:53:05.559 electricity to it, that means it's hackable. And that's my 954 00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:07.760 one problem with it. Could you imagine if the do 955 00:53:07.880 --> 00:53:12.719 O d's AI systems were hacked by character Like it's 956 00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:15.800 at that point we just handed over our entire defense 957 00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:18.440 structure on a silver platter to whoever. 958 00:53:19.480 --> 00:53:22.800 Drones, aircraft, all of it. Yep. 959 00:53:25.480 --> 00:53:27.400 I see it with a lot of potential for great 960 00:53:27.440 --> 00:53:29.960 things in the future. I just boil boy. I have 961 00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:33.599 a hard time trusting it. I still call myself new Ajamish. 962 00:53:33.800 --> 00:53:41.039 I draw the line of electricity. I'll draw the line, yeah, man, 963 00:53:43.159 --> 00:53:44.800 And I mean to be honest with you. I've even 964 00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:47.440 had that conversation before. Like, dude, maybe the Amish had 965 00:53:47.480 --> 00:53:51.079 it right. Electricity only leads to evil and like out loud, 966 00:53:51.119 --> 00:53:52.800 that's stupid. Right. We have lights, and we have this. 967 00:53:53.159 --> 00:53:56.599 We also have the Internet, and that's led to a 968 00:53:56.639 --> 00:54:00.000 whole lot of dark, dark dark places, the dark way 969 00:54:00.280 --> 00:54:03.719 even and all these things. And it's like, you know, 970 00:54:03.800 --> 00:54:06.320 I like my air conditioning. But maybe the Amish weren't 971 00:54:06.360 --> 00:54:10.119 too far off base. I don't know, and I should 972 00:54:10.159 --> 00:54:12.239 on them a good bit too, But like I hope 973 00:54:12.239 --> 00:54:13.360 people tough. 974 00:54:14.840 --> 00:54:16.000 Let's play with the Amish guy. 975 00:54:16.760 --> 00:54:19.760 No, no, but they're a different type of strong dude. 976 00:54:21.559 --> 00:54:27.559 Yeah yeah, But like I hope people understand it's jokes, 977 00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:30.159 you know, the same way I should on the Mountain Jews. 978 00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:34.000 It's jokes. The Mormons are fine. You know. I may 979 00:54:34.000 --> 00:54:36.159 disagree with the way they live their lives, but I 980 00:54:36.199 --> 00:54:38.679 don't have hatred towards them. You know, I don't have 981 00:54:38.719 --> 00:54:43.199 hatred towards the Amish or the Gypsies, because that's good God. 982 00:54:43.280 --> 00:54:45.159 For a while there, I was just pretty much talking 983 00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:47.039 about how the Gypsies were trying to take over the world, 984 00:54:47.079 --> 00:54:50.000 and I may I might continue that bit. It's funny enough, 985 00:54:50.039 --> 00:54:52.920 but I didn't realize it would actually piss off real 986 00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:56.400 Gypsies because, like I thought they didn't care about that 987 00:54:56.440 --> 00:54:59.199 type of shit. I thought that they could take a joke. 988 00:55:00.119 --> 00:55:03.480 But apparently people mistake the Internet for a dick and 989 00:55:03.519 --> 00:55:05.880 they decide they want to take it too hard. I guess, 990 00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:10.679 I don't know. Let's see here, moving on into the chat. 991 00:55:11.320 --> 00:55:14.920 Just followed your TikTok. Hell yeah, hell yeah, Raven, Everybody 992 00:55:14.960 --> 00:55:17.239 go check him out on TikTok. Let's let's keep this 993 00:55:17.280 --> 00:55:21.639 community supporting itself, you know, all right now going back 994 00:55:21.679 --> 00:55:25.800 to sharing the screen again now as we're still talking 995 00:55:25.800 --> 00:55:29.039 about the US and military things. The US is from 996 00:55:29.079 --> 00:55:32.159 ABC News, by the way, strikes on a yemen Y 997 00:55:32.840 --> 00:55:37.400 Yemeni fuck Yemen oil reserves okay a port, killing seventy 998 00:55:37.400 --> 00:55:40.440 four people. The Houthi say it's the deadliest attack of 999 00:55:40.719 --> 00:55:45.079 Trump campaign. This is from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. 1000 00:55:45.400 --> 00:55:49.440 The US airstrikes targeting an oil port near Yemen's Hoothy 1001 00:55:49.519 --> 00:55:52.400 Rebels killed seventy four people and wounded one hundred and 1002 00:55:52.480 --> 00:55:55.559 seventy one others, the group said Friday, in the deadliest 1003 00:55:55.559 --> 00:55:59.079 known attack under President Donald Trump's new military campaign against 1004 00:55:59.079 --> 00:56:03.639 the Iranian back faction. The strike on ras Isa Port, 1005 00:56:03.960 --> 00:56:07.000 which sent massive fireball shooting into the night sky, represented 1006 00:56:07.039 --> 00:56:10.360 a major escalation in the American effort by hitting oil 1007 00:56:10.440 --> 00:56:14.679 facilities for the first time. Assessing the toll of Trump's campaign, 1008 00:56:14.719 --> 00:56:17.760 which began March fifteenth, has been difficult, as the US 1009 00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:22.320 Military Center Command hasn't released any information including its attacks, targets, 1010 00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:25.920 and how many people have been killed. The Hoothis, meanwhile, 1011 00:56:26.360 --> 00:56:30.559 strictly control access to attacked areas and don't publish complete 1012 00:56:30.559 --> 00:56:33.639 information on the strikes, many of which likely have targeted 1013 00:56:33.880 --> 00:56:37.119 military and security sites. Well, I mean, that's not a shocker. 1014 00:56:37.159 --> 00:56:39.079 Of course, the Houthies, you're not going to tell us 1015 00:56:39.320 --> 00:56:41.840 how successful the attack was. They're going to a skew 1016 00:56:41.880 --> 00:56:46.119 the numbers, of course, right. In a statement, Central Command 1017 00:56:46.199 --> 00:56:49.440 said US forces took action to eliminate this source of 1018 00:56:49.519 --> 00:56:53.320 fuel for the Iran backs Hoothy terrorists and deprive them 1019 00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:56.119 of illegal revenue that has funded hoo the efforts to 1020 00:56:56.239 --> 00:56:59.639 terrorize the entire region for over ten years. This strike 1021 00:56:59.760 --> 00:57:01.920 was not intended to harm the people of Yemen, who 1022 00:57:02.360 --> 00:57:05.639 rightly want to throw off the yoke of Hoothy subjugation 1023 00:57:05.880 --> 00:57:09.079 and live peacefully. It added. It did not acknowledge any 1024 00:57:09.119 --> 00:57:13.159 casualties from the attack or offer any damage assessment. Hours 1025 00:57:13.199 --> 00:57:16.119 after the strike that Houthi's launched a missile towards Israel 1026 00:57:16.239 --> 00:57:22.239 that was intercepted. Obviously, the Israeli military said sirens sounded 1027 00:57:22.280 --> 00:57:25.679 in Tel Aviv and elsewhere. Yemen civil war mean while 1028 00:57:25.760 --> 00:57:30.199 further internationalized as the US allegations and Chinese satellite company 1029 00:57:30.360 --> 00:57:36.000 was directly supporting Hoo, they attacks, they claim Beijing declined 1030 00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:39.840 to directly comment on, and a second round of negotiations 1031 00:57:39.880 --> 00:57:44.000 between Iran and the US over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear programs, 1032 00:57:44.239 --> 00:57:47.880 which America has linked to the Yemen campaign, is due 1033 00:57:47.920 --> 00:57:51.519 to happen Saturday in Rome. So as far as the 1034 00:57:51.519 --> 00:57:56.280 whole Iran nuclear situation goes, I don't know what the 1035 00:57:56.440 --> 00:57:58.519 current talking point is because I don't know if they've 1036 00:57:58.559 --> 00:58:01.280 actually reached an agreement. The last I heard was that 1037 00:58:01.400 --> 00:58:04.920 Iran was willing to negotiate and said that they wouldn't 1038 00:58:05.639 --> 00:58:09.639 enrich the uranium past and it was like sixty percent 1039 00:58:10.440 --> 00:58:13.440 or sixty five percent something like that to where essentially, 1040 00:58:13.480 --> 00:58:17.719 And I'm not like an all knower of nuclear things, Tony, 1041 00:58:17.760 --> 00:58:20.599 you actually know more about this than I probably ever will. 1042 00:58:21.159 --> 00:58:23.800 But if I'm not mistaken, uranium that is enriched to 1043 00:58:23.840 --> 00:58:26.679 sixty or sixty five percent or something can't be deemed 1044 00:58:26.760 --> 00:58:31.039 weapons grade. It can be used for nuclear power, however, 1045 00:58:31.119 --> 00:58:33.760 which is like what this whole thing was about. Iran 1046 00:58:33.800 --> 00:58:37.280 wants nuclear power, dope, Iran wants nukes. Yeah, we gotta 1047 00:58:37.280 --> 00:58:39.559 shut that shit down. I don't know. 1048 00:58:41.159 --> 00:58:45.199 Right if I can chime in Iran has had nuclear 1049 00:58:45.239 --> 00:58:48.400 power for a couple of decades now. You only need 1050 00:58:48.760 --> 00:58:54.199 about three percent enriched uranium to have nuclear power. And 1051 00:58:54.480 --> 00:58:56.920 to get into the nitty gritty details of this, what 1052 00:58:56.960 --> 00:59:00.199 that means is that uranium basically comes out out of 1053 00:59:00.199 --> 00:59:03.440 the Earth and two isotopes. One is two thirty five, 1054 00:59:03.960 --> 00:59:06.960 which is more unstable than the other is two thirty eight. 1055 00:59:07.480 --> 00:59:10.800 Two thirty eight is ninety nine point three percent of 1056 00:59:10.840 --> 00:59:14.320 what's naturally abundant, and two thirty five is only zero 1057 00:59:14.400 --> 00:59:17.199 point seven percent of it. But you can use a 1058 00:59:17.239 --> 00:59:23.119 centerfuge to purify it and get the two thirty five 1059 00:59:23.159 --> 00:59:26.960 percentage up higher and higher and higher. And the most 1060 00:59:27.000 --> 00:59:29.960 pure two thirty five stuff ever made was ninety seven 1061 00:59:30.039 --> 00:59:33.360 percent pure, and the threshold for a nuclear weapon is 1062 00:59:33.400 --> 00:59:36.599 something like sixty percent. Maybe I don't know, but something 1063 00:59:36.679 --> 00:59:39.280 like what you were saying. There's also medical uses for 1064 00:59:39.360 --> 00:59:43.840 twenty percent enriched uranium, and you only need about three 1065 00:59:43.880 --> 00:59:49.400 percent to run a nuclear reactor, and going down lower 1066 00:59:49.440 --> 00:59:52.400 than zero point seven percent, the byproduct of enrichment is 1067 00:59:52.440 --> 00:59:55.800 called depleted uranium, and it's about zero point two percent 1068 00:59:56.239 --> 00:59:59.199 U two thirty five, and that's the super heavy stuff 1069 00:59:59.280 --> 01:00:03.639 used in weapons. But it's still somewhat radioactive. So that's 1070 01:00:03.760 --> 01:00:05.840 kind of the whole story on uranium. And we could 1071 01:00:05.840 --> 01:00:09.760 talk about thorium too. Thorium is a similar it's element 1072 01:00:09.840 --> 01:00:13.800 number ninety uranium's number ninety two. In China just built 1073 01:00:13.800 --> 01:00:16.280 a thorium reactor kind of recently, and that was in 1074 01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:20.320 the news that I meant to bring up later. We 1075 01:00:20.360 --> 01:00:24.320 could do that later. My whole take on who Thy's 1076 01:00:24.360 --> 01:00:29.199 and stuff is, well, I'm not super against them, and 1077 01:00:29.840 --> 01:00:32.639 I think Israel should end it's blockade of Gaza because 1078 01:00:33.199 --> 01:00:37.480 the World Food Program had a bunch of has warehouses 1079 01:00:37.519 --> 01:00:40.039 of flower in Gaza and they just ran out of flower, 1080 01:00:40.519 --> 01:00:42.679 just ran out of all their food a little earlier 1081 01:00:42.679 --> 01:00:45.519 this week. So food prices are going way up and 1082 01:00:45.559 --> 01:00:49.639 people are going to starve if nothing changes. So I've 1083 01:00:49.679 --> 01:00:52.400 been praying for the people at Gaza, but it seems 1084 01:00:52.400 --> 01:00:54.599 like there's a good chance that huge numbers of them 1085 01:00:54.639 --> 01:00:56.840 are going to die soon and there's nothing we can 1086 01:00:56.880 --> 01:00:57.440 do about it. 1087 01:00:58.199 --> 01:01:02.760 So the Israel situation is the Israe situation, no doubts. 1088 01:01:02.800 --> 01:01:05.880 But why are you not necessarily against the Huthis? They 1089 01:01:05.920 --> 01:01:08.719 have shot at American ships multiple times now? Of course, 1090 01:01:08.760 --> 01:01:12.480 it hasn't landed because they obviously and I've seen like 1091 01:01:12.559 --> 01:01:14.920 how far they were from hitting the ships, like they 1092 01:01:15.039 --> 01:01:17.920 literally couldn't hit the broadside of a barn. But why 1093 01:01:17.920 --> 01:01:21.239 are you not against the Houthi rebels. 1094 01:01:21.920 --> 01:01:26.400 Well, they're acting on behalf of the Gazans, and Israel's 1095 01:01:26.400 --> 01:01:31.719 shut down trade to Gaza. So the Houthy response is 1096 01:01:31.880 --> 01:01:33.840 kind of a tit for tat. It's just saying that 1097 01:01:33.960 --> 01:01:35.880 you're going to shut down trade to this place. Well, 1098 01:01:35.920 --> 01:01:39.159 We're going to shut down trade to that place. It's 1099 01:01:39.199 --> 01:01:40.159 basically the same thing. 1100 01:01:40.719 --> 01:01:43.559 But are they supporting Gaza? Are they supporting Iran? 1101 01:01:44.840 --> 01:01:47.480 Mostly Gaza? In my opinion, most. 1102 01:01:47.280 --> 01:01:49.880 Of their weapons have come from Iran? How can that be? Yeah, 1103 01:01:49.920 --> 01:01:52.519 I understand like what they say. They say they're doing 1104 01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:55.119 this in solidarity with their Muslim brothers in Gaza. I 1105 01:01:55.480 --> 01:01:58.880 get the narrative, But most of what they have done 1106 01:01:58.880 --> 01:02:01.159 has come from Iran. So the missiles they've shot at 1107 01:02:01.159 --> 01:02:03.400 American ships, as a matter of fact, have come from Iran. 1108 01:02:06.679 --> 01:02:09.280 Right, I guess that's just the way the geopolitics has 1109 01:02:09.320 --> 01:02:12.039 lined up. They weren't initially on Iran's side fifteen or 1110 01:02:12.079 --> 01:02:14.880 back in twenty fifteen. Iran told them not to take 1111 01:02:15.079 --> 01:02:19.559 over the capital, and they did anyway, And I guess 1112 01:02:19.599 --> 01:02:22.719 sometime between then and now they've become more tight with 1113 01:02:22.800 --> 01:02:24.840 Iran because they have no other allies in the world, 1114 01:02:24.920 --> 01:02:26.599 and that's just kind of the way it's shaken out. 1115 01:02:27.440 --> 01:02:31.639 But I don't really have much against Iran or the Houthies. 1116 01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:36.239 Well that's another one of those things where I think 1117 01:02:36.280 --> 01:02:40.039 you and I kind of differ on opinions. But I mean, 1118 01:02:41.199 --> 01:02:42.920 it's not like the people of Yemen are ever going 1119 01:02:42.960 --> 01:02:45.800 to actually attack the US mainland. I don't want them 1120 01:02:45.800 --> 01:02:48.199 to attack US ships. If you have an issue with Israel, 1121 01:02:48.280 --> 01:02:50.920 have an issue with Israel, stop trying to touch America's 1122 01:02:50.960 --> 01:02:54.559 boats and speaking on that. As a matter of fact, 1123 01:02:55.639 --> 01:02:57.400 I didn't pull up an article on this one because 1124 01:02:57.400 --> 01:03:00.679 there was really wasn't a need for one. But we 1125 01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:05.079 lost another F eighteen, and for a crazy hot second 1126 01:03:05.159 --> 01:03:10.280 there the conversation about bombing the absolute hell out of 1127 01:03:10.320 --> 01:03:13.800 the hoo Thies came into conversation, but it it's it 1128 01:03:13.880 --> 01:03:19.840 wasn't that apparently, So this would make three that we've 1129 01:03:19.880 --> 01:03:23.840 lost in the last like two months. The first two 1130 01:03:24.360 --> 01:03:28.400 were shot down by American missiles from an American boat 1131 01:03:28.519 --> 01:03:31.920 because they somehow didn't see the call sign and the 1132 01:03:31.960 --> 01:03:36.119 trackers on these planes and shot them down. And that 1133 01:03:36.239 --> 01:03:39.519 was massively embarrassing. And like it was, it was a 1134 01:03:39.519 --> 01:03:42.440 whole thing. The commander just got relieved of command. And 1135 01:03:42.800 --> 01:03:46.199 it's in the Navy. That's kind of a big deal, right, 1136 01:03:48.000 --> 01:03:52.320 So this one wasn't that level of incompetence, but it 1137 01:03:52.360 --> 01:03:56.960 was incompetence still, long story short, the F eighteen was 1138 01:03:57.000 --> 01:04:00.400 on top of the flight deck and they had to 1139 01:04:00.440 --> 01:04:03.880 make a hard turn and no one strapped down the 1140 01:04:04.000 --> 01:04:08.920 F eighteen and it slid off the boat and is 1141 01:04:08.960 --> 01:04:12.000 now at the bottom of the sea. So that day 1142 01:04:12.280 --> 01:04:15.400 we've lost another one and that's not a good look. 1143 01:04:15.599 --> 01:04:18.639 That's quite embarrassing for our United States Navy. But you 1144 01:04:18.800 --> 01:04:23.119 know the yeah, yeah, the joke trite themselves. That's all 1145 01:04:23.159 --> 01:04:25.400 I'm gonna say on that anyway. All right, all right, 1146 01:04:25.440 --> 01:04:27.920 so moving on the US bomb. Are you hoot the 1147 01:04:28.000 --> 01:04:32.880 controlled oil reserve killed a bunch of people. That's a thing. 1148 01:04:33.760 --> 01:04:36.800 I thought I just exit out of this one. Yeah, Oh, 1149 01:04:36.840 --> 01:04:41.440 maybe accidentally pulled it up twice. My bad. Now, speaking 1150 01:04:41.519 --> 01:04:45.679 on the Middle East, let's talk about this now, Pakistan 1151 01:04:45.880 --> 01:04:50.800 and Indian forces exchange fire along the Cashmir border. Now, 1152 01:04:50.880 --> 01:04:53.760 for anybody who doesn't know, this border has been contested 1153 01:04:54.000 --> 01:04:56.400 and there has been struggling strife over it. This is 1154 01:04:56.440 --> 01:04:58.280 not a new thing. It has been going on for 1155 01:04:58.360 --> 01:05:02.000 years and years and years and years, but here recently 1156 01:05:02.039 --> 01:05:05.679 it has taken more of a step up as far 1157 01:05:05.719 --> 01:05:10.039 as a potential war breaking out over it. Pakistani and 1158 01:05:10.039 --> 01:05:13.880 Indian forces exchanged fire along the disputed Kashmir border overnight, 1159 01:05:13.920 --> 01:05:17.119 with both sides blaming the other for starting the armed confrontation. 1160 01:05:17.960 --> 01:05:22.519 As we would expect. Obviously, who shot first, babe babe bebe, 1161 01:05:22.559 --> 01:05:25.960 doesn't matter the both shooting now. This clash the latest 1162 01:05:25.960 --> 01:05:28.639 in a series of gunfire exchanges since last week's attack 1163 01:05:28.760 --> 01:05:33.000 in Indian Administer's Kashmir. Occurred between Tuesday and Wednesday night. 1164 01:05:33.079 --> 01:05:36.400 No casualties were reported. In a statement, the Indian Army 1165 01:05:36.440 --> 01:05:38.639 said during the night of April twenty nine to thirtieth, 1166 01:05:38.840 --> 01:05:43.480 twenty twenty five Pakistani Army posts initiated unprovoked small arms 1167 01:05:43.480 --> 01:05:48.039 fire across the line of control in the Nashera, Sunderbanni 1168 01:05:48.280 --> 01:05:54.159 and Akhnur sections of Jamu and Kashmir. Gotta hope I 1169 01:05:54.159 --> 01:05:57.960 got those right. The Indian military swiftly responded in a 1170 01:05:58.039 --> 01:06:01.360 proportional manner. Now I don't I think they mean proportional 1171 01:06:01.440 --> 01:06:06.840 in the same sense that America means proportional. We proportional 1172 01:06:06.880 --> 01:06:09.320 to us as usually playing the one up game. I 1173 01:06:09.360 --> 01:06:13.000 think they actually might mean like the true definition of proportional. 1174 01:06:13.840 --> 01:06:16.880 The Indian Army also reported unprovoked small arms fire near 1175 01:06:16.920 --> 01:06:22.199 the Pakistani posts in Baramula and Kapwara districts, as well 1176 01:06:22.239 --> 01:06:26.199 as along the international border in the Pargwaal sector, with 1177 01:06:26.280 --> 01:06:31.159 the Indian forces responding accordingly. On the other hand, Pakistan 1178 01:06:31.320 --> 01:06:35.280 accused the Indian Army of opening fire unprovoked quote unquote, 1179 01:06:35.320 --> 01:06:38.079 both all the unprovoked by the way or quote unquote 1180 01:06:38.119 --> 01:06:42.599 here in the Kiyani Mandal sector on Tuesday night, which 1181 01:06:42.760 --> 01:06:48.360 was met quote unquote proportionally, according to state run Pakistan Television, 1182 01:06:48.719 --> 01:06:52.760 citing security sources. Pakistan also claimed that at least one 1183 01:06:52.840 --> 01:06:56.920 Indian Army outpost was destroyed during the exchange. Yeah, that's 1184 01:06:57.000 --> 01:06:58.960 kind of what led me to this article. I had 1185 01:06:59.000 --> 01:07:03.000 heard that an Indian outpost was destroyed, and that was like, wait, 1186 01:07:03.800 --> 01:07:06.480 that's not something you do accidentally. That's not something that 1187 01:07:06.480 --> 01:07:09.519 can happen from small arms fire. So things are absolutely 1188 01:07:09.679 --> 01:07:12.719 escalating as far as it's a concern amid the Cross 1189 01:07:12.840 --> 01:07:19.599 loc Exchange, the Yeah Cross LLC Exchange. The Director's General 1190 01:07:19.639 --> 01:07:22.679 of Military Operations from both sides held a phone call 1191 01:07:22.719 --> 01:07:26.039 on Tuesday to discuss the situation. Tensions between the two 1192 01:07:26.119 --> 01:07:30.199 nations have been escalating since April twenty second, when unidentified 1193 01:07:30.239 --> 01:07:34.639 gunmen killed twenty six people at the Pahalgam tourist resort 1194 01:07:34.719 --> 01:07:39.400 in Indian Administered Kashmir. Meanwhile, on Wednesday evening, India barred 1195 01:07:39.400 --> 01:07:43.039 Pakistani airlines from using its airspace. According to the Press 1196 01:07:43.039 --> 01:07:48.280 Trust of India, a notice to airmen not tom no tam, 1197 01:07:48.679 --> 01:07:53.280 I don't know was issued restricting Pakistani's Pakistan's airlines from 1198 01:07:53.400 --> 01:07:57.719 entering Indian airspace. The newd Agency reported last week Pakistan 1199 01:07:57.719 --> 01:08:00.559 had closed the airspace to all Indian owned or operated 1200 01:08:00.599 --> 01:08:04.599 airlines after India suspended Pakistani visas and shut the only 1201 01:08:04.679 --> 01:08:09.000 land border between the two countries. Additionally, Islamabad halted trade 1202 01:08:09.039 --> 01:08:13.920 with India, including through third party countries. Now, Tony, you 1203 01:08:13.960 --> 01:08:16.800 had brought up something in the chat earlier talking about 1204 01:08:16.840 --> 01:08:18.960 what was going on in Pakistan and India. If you 1205 01:08:19.039 --> 01:08:22.560 have some more knowledge on this, please, Well. 1206 01:08:22.800 --> 01:08:26.000 It's just I heard all the same things that you read, 1207 01:08:26.399 --> 01:08:31.159 and this seems like people are saying that there's a 1208 01:08:31.199 --> 01:08:33.560 high chance it's gonna boil over this time into a 1209 01:08:33.600 --> 01:08:36.520 bigger war. I remember a similar thing going on back 1210 01:08:36.560 --> 01:08:39.840 in twenty nineteen. And have you ever known any Indians 1211 01:08:39.920 --> 01:08:43.319 or Pakistanis in real life. I used to know quite 1212 01:08:43.319 --> 01:08:46.439 a few, especially Indians in California, and most of them 1213 01:08:46.439 --> 01:08:52.159 are highly, highly opinionated about the other country, highly opinionated. 1214 01:08:53.039 --> 01:08:56.239 My coworker Ikram like he wouldn't get passionate about very much, 1215 01:08:56.279 --> 01:08:58.840 but when he'd start talking about India because he was 1216 01:08:58.840 --> 01:09:02.279 from Pakistan, accent would get thicker. He would close his 1217 01:09:02.359 --> 01:09:05.960 eyes and just get very angry. And most of the 1218 01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:09.960 Indians same thing. So there's a pretty good chance. It's 1219 01:09:10.039 --> 01:09:13.119 impossible to assess the probability, but I'm really praying for 1220 01:09:13.159 --> 01:09:15.960 peace here. I guess one good thing about this conflict 1221 01:09:16.079 --> 01:09:18.600 is I don't think it's going to draw in other 1222 01:09:18.960 --> 01:09:22.479 countries that much, because I think most other countries, including 1223 01:09:22.520 --> 01:09:25.840 the US, don't see an interest in intervening here except 1224 01:09:25.840 --> 01:09:31.600 to just encourage both sides to tamp down the escalation. 1225 01:09:32.680 --> 01:09:35.000 So I'm glad. I'm glad you covered it though. 1226 01:09:35.239 --> 01:09:39.159 Yeah. So I first of all, yes, one hundred percent. 1227 01:09:39.239 --> 01:09:42.439 I have buddies from Pakistan who currently live there now, 1228 01:09:43.359 --> 01:09:45.359 and I have a lot of Indian friends of mine 1229 01:09:45.439 --> 01:09:48.880 from my childhood, and I'll meet Indian like of Indian descent, 1230 01:09:48.960 --> 01:09:51.560 like no, no, no, first generation Indians that I grew 1231 01:09:51.640 --> 01:09:55.960 up around. As far as that goes, India being the 1232 01:09:56.159 --> 01:10:00.159 massive subcontinent that they are, there's so many different and 1233 01:10:00.199 --> 01:10:04.520 cultures throughout, but almost unanimously doesn't matter if it's in 1234 01:10:04.640 --> 01:10:09.600 Northern India, in Delhi, in the South, whatever, they all 1235 01:10:10.239 --> 01:10:15.199 have an opinion on Pakistan. Like it's a very like 1236 01:10:15.239 --> 01:10:21.000 you said, a very loud, very strongly felt opinion. I 1237 01:10:21.079 --> 01:10:25.279 might add. Now, my Pakistani buddies that I have, one 1238 01:10:25.279 --> 01:10:29.760 of them couldn't care less about international things. He's one 1239 01:10:29.800 --> 01:10:33.960 of the two percent Christian minority in the nation of Pakistan, 1240 01:10:34.039 --> 01:10:36.840 so when it comes to international things a lot of that, 1241 01:10:36.920 --> 01:10:38.319 he doesn't even feel like he has a dog in 1242 01:10:38.359 --> 01:10:42.439 that fight. The other Pakistani buddies that I have, they 1243 01:10:43.359 --> 01:10:48.039 hate and I don't mean just like dislike India, you know. Oh, 1244 01:10:48.079 --> 01:10:52.399 they call them derogatory terms. No, it's like I would 1245 01:10:52.920 --> 01:10:57.079 venture to say, possibly even a genocidal hatred of Indians. 1246 01:10:57.479 --> 01:11:01.920 It's a thing. It is a thing. So I'm with 1247 01:11:02.000 --> 01:11:04.239 you on this. I think that this will probably boil 1248 01:11:04.279 --> 01:11:12.079 over into a larger scaled conflict. However, no Western power 1249 01:11:12.439 --> 01:11:18.319 at all, America, Britain, the EU, NAT, nobody has decided 1250 01:11:18.359 --> 01:11:20.039 that they want to weigh in on this one in 1251 01:11:20.119 --> 01:11:22.960 like aid one side or the other. India has an 1252 01:11:23.000 --> 01:11:29.319 extremely capable military. Pakistan does not not even close to 1253 01:11:29.479 --> 01:11:32.760 a respectable military. They have a few units that are 1254 01:11:32.800 --> 01:11:36.199 like they're special forces quote unquote and like, yay, fine, 1255 01:11:36.359 --> 01:11:40.560 I'm not trying to say they're god awful. I'm saying 1256 01:11:40.600 --> 01:11:45.399 that this is a very lopsided fight. What I do 1257 01:11:45.560 --> 01:11:51.000 foresee is that Pakistan and India would start buying more weapons, 1258 01:11:51.079 --> 01:11:55.199 more jets, more rounds, more everything, and it would be 1259 01:11:55.279 --> 01:11:58.840 a big money making scheme for the military industrial complex. 1260 01:11:59.000 --> 01:12:01.319 And I don't just mean the Orkan military dustrial complex, 1261 01:12:01.359 --> 01:12:04.840 I mean the global one. So the same way that everybody, 1262 01:12:05.199 --> 01:12:08.279 although they might say out loud that they want the 1263 01:12:08.319 --> 01:12:12.760 Russia and Ukraine conflict to come to an end Lockeed 1264 01:12:12.800 --> 01:12:17.079 and Boeing, they really don't like at all. They're making 1265 01:12:17.079 --> 01:12:20.600 a killing RTX formerly Raytheon. They are cool with this 1266 01:12:20.720 --> 01:12:23.920 going on for as long as needed. Iran and Iran, 1267 01:12:23.960 --> 01:12:29.079 excuse me, India and Pakistan or Pakistan around how people 1268 01:12:29.159 --> 01:12:33.159 pronounce it, same thing. They would really like for this 1269 01:12:33.239 --> 01:12:37.319 to go into a more larger armed conflict that they 1270 01:12:37.359 --> 01:12:40.079 can make more bank on, because India does have money 1271 01:12:40.119 --> 01:12:43.359 to spend. I don't think Pakistan has as much, but 1272 01:12:44.000 --> 01:12:46.840 the Belton Roade initiative did push through there, so China 1273 01:12:47.000 --> 01:12:50.079 is at least paying somebody something in Pakistan, and they 1274 01:12:50.079 --> 01:12:51.520 may have a little bit of money to blow for 1275 01:12:51.640 --> 01:12:53.479 some new weapons. I don't know. 1276 01:12:53.520 --> 01:12:57.119 Yeah, China seems pretty close with Pakistan, and the US 1277 01:12:57.239 --> 01:12:59.920 used to be because India used to be close for 1278 01:12:59.920 --> 01:13:02.760 the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But there's been 1279 01:13:02.760 --> 01:13:06.439 a realignment there over the last thirty years, so America's 1280 01:13:06.439 --> 01:13:09.399 gotten closer to India a little farther away from Pakistan, 1281 01:13:09.960 --> 01:13:13.680 and Pakistan's gotten closer to China. I don't know if 1282 01:13:13.760 --> 01:13:16.680 Russia really feels much of an interest in either of 1283 01:13:16.760 --> 01:13:19.680 those two countries right now, but I'd say it's very 1284 01:13:19.720 --> 01:13:23.640 ethno nationalists on both sides, and it goes back at 1285 01:13:23.720 --> 01:13:28.760 least in nineteen forty seven, because, for example, in Europe, 1286 01:13:29.000 --> 01:13:32.800 Eastern Europe was very ethnically mixed before World War Two. 1287 01:13:32.880 --> 01:13:36.520 There were lots of Germans living there, and the Germans 1288 01:13:36.600 --> 01:13:38.439 wanted to take over the whole place, but they ended 1289 01:13:38.479 --> 01:13:43.079 up getting completely kicked out of Eastern Europe, and Poles 1290 01:13:43.119 --> 01:13:46.439 got kicked out of southeastern Poland. There were lots of genocides. 1291 01:13:46.760 --> 01:13:49.520 And around the same time, it was nineteen forty seven 1292 01:13:49.680 --> 01:13:52.880 when the partition of India happened, and a very similar 1293 01:13:52.960 --> 01:13:55.960 ethnic cleansing happened on both sides of the line. And 1294 01:13:56.039 --> 01:13:59.920 I think the Muslims and the Hindus both feel very 1295 01:14:00.279 --> 01:14:03.680 ethnonationalist about their group, and wherever they had a majority, 1296 01:14:03.680 --> 01:14:07.279 they were kicking the other group out. And people tend 1297 01:14:07.359 --> 01:14:10.800 to remember being victimized like that. It's far more than 1298 01:14:10.840 --> 01:14:14.199 they remember any culpability for their own people doing it 1299 01:14:14.239 --> 01:14:16.479 to the other group. For sure, that's just kind of 1300 01:14:16.560 --> 01:14:22.479 natural psychology, but it survived this long. And yeah, they 1301 01:14:22.560 --> 01:14:25.880 might actually have this genocidal intent toward each other, like 1302 01:14:25.920 --> 01:14:28.560 you mentioned, I just hope that that can be tamped 1303 01:14:28.600 --> 01:14:32.560 down somehow. They both have nukes too, and India and 1304 01:14:32.560 --> 01:14:36.439 Pakistan do not sign the Non Proliferation Agreement. They're one 1305 01:14:36.439 --> 01:14:39.159 of only maybe like five or six or seven countries 1306 01:14:39.159 --> 01:14:42.760 including Israel, North Korea, South Sudan, and maybe like one 1307 01:14:42.840 --> 01:14:46.199 other one somewhere. So they both have nukes. They both 1308 01:14:46.199 --> 01:14:48.560 have about one hundred and thirty warheads according to what 1309 01:14:48.600 --> 01:14:49.399 I just looked up. 1310 01:14:50.279 --> 01:14:53.359 Yeah, and I really hope that it doesn't go to 1311 01:14:53.399 --> 01:14:56.439 a nuclear war because that would mean that everybody dies 1312 01:14:56.680 --> 01:14:59.640 and that's not good for anybody. But to your point, 1313 01:15:00.039 --> 01:15:02.560 as far as how would Russia weigh in on this one, 1314 01:15:03.359 --> 01:15:05.800 I don't think Russia has any love for either nation. 1315 01:15:06.399 --> 01:15:10.920 That being said Mody, the PM or president, I'm not 1316 01:15:10.960 --> 01:15:14.640 sure which title of India did just sign a contract 1317 01:15:14.680 --> 01:15:18.000 to buy some SU thirty five's or thirty sevens, whatever 1318 01:15:18.039 --> 01:15:24.359 the new Russian fighter is. There was a contract put 1319 01:15:24.399 --> 01:15:26.680 out and it was about to They basically had a 1320 01:15:26.680 --> 01:15:29.119 showdown between the American I think it was the F 1321 01:15:29.159 --> 01:15:31.880 thirty five and the Sioux fifty seven or whatever the 1322 01:15:31.880 --> 01:15:35.279 case is, and last minute America pulled out of it 1323 01:15:35.359 --> 01:15:38.359 and Russia just kind of won the contract. So I 1324 01:15:38.359 --> 01:15:40.079 don't think that Russia is going to have a dog 1325 01:15:40.119 --> 01:15:42.680 in the fight. As far as the actual war is concerned, 1326 01:15:42.680 --> 01:15:45.920 They've got bigger fish to fry in other locations. That 1327 01:15:46.039 --> 01:15:50.479 being said, Russia is always looking for more ways to 1328 01:15:50.520 --> 01:15:54.279 earn a dolla, and if they have jets that they 1329 01:15:54.319 --> 01:15:57.840 could sell to India to make some money, yeah, I 1330 01:15:57.840 --> 01:15:59.479 could see him doing that now. I don't know what 1331 01:15:59.560 --> 01:16:04.680 Pakistan and air forces are looking like these days, but again, 1332 01:16:04.760 --> 01:16:07.920 like just looking at the size and the population density 1333 01:16:08.079 --> 01:16:11.600 of these two, that's if it was to go to 1334 01:16:11.760 --> 01:16:14.880 a true war rather than a couple of skirmishes or 1335 01:16:14.920 --> 01:16:18.399 something like that, if it was to be a legitimate 1336 01:16:18.479 --> 01:16:22.319 declaration of war that spawns because of this, I feel 1337 01:16:22.319 --> 01:16:25.600 like India is about to dog walk Pakistan. But that 1338 01:16:25.760 --> 01:16:30.239 being said, India does have a pretty sizable Muslim population 1339 01:16:30.359 --> 01:16:33.000 living within them. Yes, they are primarily a Hindu and 1340 01:16:33.039 --> 01:16:37.119 Sikh nation for sure, but they do have a pretty 1341 01:16:37.239 --> 01:16:39.960 large Muslim population that lives there. And you might have 1342 01:16:40.039 --> 01:16:44.920 your own version of homegrown terrorism slash freedom fighters that 1343 01:16:45.119 --> 01:16:48.680 would start doing homegrown attacks in India, And I don't 1344 01:16:48.680 --> 01:16:50.720 think they really want to feel that problem either. So 1345 01:16:50.760 --> 01:16:54.680 it's I'm with you. I hope that it gets situated 1346 01:16:54.760 --> 01:16:57.760 and tamped down with as little loss of life and 1347 01:16:57.800 --> 01:17:01.520 limb as possible. But let's be honest, these two countries 1348 01:17:01.520 --> 01:17:03.880 have been looking for an excuse to really take it 1349 01:17:03.880 --> 01:17:09.600 to the next level. This very well may be that excuse. Yeah. 1350 01:17:09.600 --> 01:17:12.079 I just read and I'm kind of surprised by this, 1351 01:17:12.199 --> 01:17:14.880 but Russia seems to be taking India's side in the 1352 01:17:14.920 --> 01:17:20.359 recent last week. That surprises me because the US is 1353 01:17:20.399 --> 01:17:23.560 also more on India's side than Pakistans, so I could 1354 01:17:23.560 --> 01:17:27.720 see it this alignment works out. Yeah, it is mysterious. 1355 01:17:27.960 --> 01:17:29.840 I could see it for the business acumen of it, 1356 01:17:30.159 --> 01:17:32.800 you know what I mean, and I mean Russia. I'm 1357 01:17:32.800 --> 01:17:35.600 not saying like getting in bed with India by any means, 1358 01:17:35.600 --> 01:17:40.239 but selling India arms for sure. China hooking up with 1359 01:17:40.319 --> 01:17:42.720 Pakistan to kind of not even sell them arms, although 1360 01:17:42.800 --> 01:17:45.920 possibly just to protect their Belt and Road initiative, to 1361 01:17:45.920 --> 01:17:50.640 protect China's interests in a foreign nation. Absolutely. Now, does 1362 01:17:50.720 --> 01:17:53.159 this mean that China and Russia will find themselves at 1363 01:17:53.159 --> 01:17:57.399 odds with each other? I highly doubt that, highly doubt that. 1364 01:17:58.039 --> 01:18:00.600 But at the same time, this is kind of how 1365 01:18:00.600 --> 01:18:04.840 the chips are falling as far as who's aligning themselves 1366 01:18:04.840 --> 01:18:08.640 with who so or whom I should say, so, Yeah, 1367 01:18:08.880 --> 01:18:11.319 I don't know what to expect. We will. I will 1368 01:18:11.399 --> 01:18:14.520 keep everybody posted on this as it plays out. This 1369 01:18:14.600 --> 01:18:17.479 week has had a lot of wild things happen, so 1370 01:18:17.680 --> 01:18:20.680 I honestly didn't expect this one. I mean, India's got 1371 01:18:20.680 --> 01:18:23.560 a border crisis going on with China as we speak anyway, 1372 01:18:23.600 --> 01:18:26.479 in their northern section, which for anybody who doesn't know, 1373 01:18:26.520 --> 01:18:29.119 we've talked about it before. They basically have a rule 1374 01:18:29.159 --> 01:18:31.520 that no firearms are to be used. But when Chinese 1375 01:18:31.560 --> 01:18:34.640 forces and Indian forces meet up, it's like hand to 1376 01:18:34.680 --> 01:18:40.079 hand combat and axes and chains and two by fours 1377 01:18:40.079 --> 01:18:45.079 and clubs and shit. No firearms. But there are deaths 1378 01:18:45.079 --> 01:18:48.600 that have happened between Chinese soldiers and Indian soldiers on 1379 01:18:48.640 --> 01:18:51.840 that border. So maybe that's another kind of reason why 1380 01:18:51.920 --> 01:18:55.039 China's aligning themselves a Pakistan over India on this one. 1381 01:18:55.840 --> 01:18:58.640 I could see that being a portion of the issue 1382 01:18:58.680 --> 01:19:00.840 as well. Enemy of my tony type of thing. I 1383 01:19:00.840 --> 01:19:01.159 don't know. 1384 01:19:02.000 --> 01:19:04.680 Yeah, I've read the exact same story about how there 1385 01:19:04.680 --> 01:19:07.199 have been fistfights there where guys have died up in 1386 01:19:07.199 --> 01:19:10.680 the Himalayas, and that's been going on since many years ago. 1387 01:19:10.880 --> 01:19:13.159 I did read a news story a couple of months 1388 01:19:13.159 --> 01:19:16.079 ago saying that China and India patched a lot of 1389 01:19:16.119 --> 01:19:19.119 that up. But then I saw things after that that said, no, 1390 01:19:19.199 --> 01:19:21.960 not really, and it could break out again. So I 1391 01:19:22.000 --> 01:19:24.520 don't know what to believe there. But maybe it's it's 1392 01:19:24.520 --> 01:19:26.399 not as big as some people make it out to be, 1393 01:19:26.520 --> 01:19:28.079 and maybe it is. 1394 01:19:28.359 --> 01:19:32.600 Asia be doing Asia things for sure. But you know, 1395 01:19:32.760 --> 01:19:35.159 with that being said, as we are kind of on 1396 01:19:35.239 --> 01:19:39.279 the Asian continent, let's talk a little bit about China. Now. 1397 01:19:39.760 --> 01:19:43.000 I'm gonna go ahead and share the screen again again 1398 01:19:43.079 --> 01:19:46.000 for anybody who is listening to this at any point 1399 01:19:46.039 --> 01:19:47.560 this week and would like to be a part of 1400 01:19:47.560 --> 01:19:50.920 this conversation or see what we're talking about here. Cage 1401 01:19:51.039 --> 01:19:54.199 Night on patreon dot com. Link is in the description below. 1402 01:19:54.359 --> 01:19:58.000 Only one tier for entry now, it depends on the 1403 01:19:58.039 --> 01:20:01.119 new source you read on this one. I literally saw 1404 01:20:01.479 --> 01:20:05.800 last week there was multiple articles saying why Apple will 1405 01:20:05.920 --> 01:20:09.960 never leave China, why Apple is so connected to China, 1406 01:20:10.079 --> 01:20:16.199 all these things. Now, Apple's iPhone factory shift has left 1407 01:20:16.239 --> 01:20:19.760 a ghost town behind in China. So fox Con, and 1408 01:20:19.800 --> 01:20:22.039 for anybody who doesn't know, fox Conn is a Chinese 1409 01:20:22.079 --> 01:20:25.840 company that has a massive portion of the iPhone manufacturing 1410 01:20:26.359 --> 01:20:31.680 contracts is closing factories in China as iPhone production moves 1411 01:20:31.800 --> 01:20:36.119 elsewhere and impacts beyond industry have made crystal clear in 1412 01:20:36.199 --> 01:20:40.119 a new video, Apple has long operators production in China, 1413 01:20:40.159 --> 01:20:42.840 but in recent years it has been shifting away. Production 1414 01:20:42.960 --> 01:20:46.640 in India and Vietnam is growing with fewer products being 1415 01:20:46.720 --> 01:20:50.119 shipped out of China. This was happening before Trump put 1416 01:20:50.119 --> 01:20:52.840 on the high tariffs. This is before the tariff war 1417 01:20:52.960 --> 01:20:58.399 even started. Now that that's happening. Yeah, fox Con as 1418 01:20:58.399 --> 01:21:02.039 well as other not just that, Amazon is also moving 1419 01:21:02.079 --> 01:21:04.800 things out of We're gonna talk about it here. Apple 1420 01:21:04.880 --> 01:21:09.199 has long said I'm sorry. In a China Observer report 1421 01:21:09.720 --> 01:21:12.960 released on Monday, footage of a fox Con industrial park 1422 01:21:13.039 --> 01:21:17.000 in Nanning, Nonning I don't know is shown to be deserted. 1423 01:21:17.279 --> 01:21:21.079 Once employing fifty thousand people, it's now practically an empty shell. 1424 01:21:21.880 --> 01:21:26.159 Apple Insider has learned that as Apple's operations have moved elsewhere, 1425 01:21:26.279 --> 01:21:30.399 manufacturing capacity was freed elsewhere in China, leading to this 1426 01:21:30.560 --> 01:21:33.760 plant's closure. A local man told the report the plant 1427 01:21:33.760 --> 01:21:37.119 required massive resources to go with its fifty thousand employees. 1428 01:21:37.399 --> 01:21:41.720 This included sixty tons of rice per day, as well 1429 01:21:41.760 --> 01:21:46.119 as two hundred and eighty pigs, one point two million eggs, 1430 01:21:46.199 --> 01:21:50.239 and eighty thousand chickens. That is all now gone and 1431 01:21:50.279 --> 01:21:53.880 freed up now that those resources could go to other locations, 1432 01:21:53.880 --> 01:21:57.000 which is good. China has starving people there, so like 1433 01:21:57.079 --> 01:22:00.680 maybe that food can go you know, other places, more mouths, 1434 01:22:00.720 --> 01:22:03.560 all good things. But those fifty thousand employees, it's not 1435 01:22:03.600 --> 01:22:05.760 like they move them to another facility. They just have 1436 01:22:05.880 --> 01:22:09.000 no job now. As well as the ghost town footage 1437 01:22:09.000 --> 01:22:12.359 of the facility itself, the effects of China's exodus affected 1438 01:22:12.399 --> 01:22:16.199 other nearby areas. Nearby skyscrapers built to house workers for 1439 01:22:16.279 --> 01:22:19.319 the facility are struggling to make sales even with these 1440 01:22:19.319 --> 01:22:22.840 steep discounts, which I mean, that's nothing new there. China's 1441 01:22:22.840 --> 01:22:26.680 had a housing crisis for the last fifteen years. There 1442 01:22:26.720 --> 01:22:29.359 is much hope to locals that Foxcom will be using 1443 01:22:29.399 --> 01:22:33.159 the operation again anytime soon. As signs have been taken down, 1444 01:22:33.560 --> 01:22:35.680 it is believed that only a few buildings are being 1445 01:22:35.760 --> 01:22:38.520 actively used by fox Con, with the vast majority either 1446 01:22:38.600 --> 01:22:42.359 vacant or rented out. The facility rot and abandonment is 1447 01:22:42.399 --> 01:22:44.800 certainly a sign that fox con made changes to its 1448 01:22:44.840 --> 01:22:48.439 overall operations, especially since Apple is keen to shift products 1449 01:22:48.479 --> 01:22:53.159 away from China centric systems to one more distribution. Some 1450 01:22:53.199 --> 01:22:56.680 of the overseas operations have been fitted from disclosure report. 1451 01:22:56.800 --> 01:23:00.319 Sources say equipment from the facilities were taken to soimilar 1452 01:23:00.319 --> 01:23:04.199 factories in Vietnam for local communities. The closure demonstrates how 1453 01:23:04.239 --> 01:23:07.239 much wealth Apple's products can bring to an area. It 1454 01:23:07.359 --> 01:23:09.760 also shows how quickly it can go away and without 1455 01:23:09.800 --> 01:23:12.880 any other backup industries, how damaging the movement can be. 1456 01:23:13.479 --> 01:23:17.199 That was updated just yesterday, if I'm not mistaken, So 1457 01:23:18.079 --> 01:23:23.359 Apple is moving out of China. Not just Apple. Amazon 1458 01:23:23.479 --> 01:23:28.119 also is shutting down a few pretty massive manufacturing facilities 1459 01:23:28.159 --> 01:23:31.199 in China. Now, I think the Amazon thing might be 1460 01:23:31.279 --> 01:23:35.359 more connected to the tariff war, but the iPhone and 1461 01:23:35.479 --> 01:23:40.760 other tech industries, and yes, the semiconductor war has been 1462 01:23:40.760 --> 01:23:44.039 going on for a few years now. But the fact 1463 01:23:44.079 --> 01:23:48.159 that they're moving this to India. I'm not the only 1464 01:23:48.199 --> 01:23:50.159 one that's been saying this. A lot of people have 1465 01:23:50.239 --> 01:23:52.840 been saying that India is going to become the worldwide 1466 01:23:52.880 --> 01:23:57.000 manufacturing hub. They have the manpower, they have the need, 1467 01:23:57.560 --> 01:24:00.840 They the majority of that country is really poor and 1468 01:24:00.880 --> 01:24:04.720 would not mind working in a sweatshop condition somewhere. Does 1469 01:24:04.760 --> 01:24:06.960 that mean that the iPhone might become a little more 1470 01:24:07.000 --> 01:24:11.359 expensive because Indian workers require a little more than Chinese workers. Sure? 1471 01:24:12.279 --> 01:24:15.479 Does that mean that they're gonna stop it from happening, No, 1472 01:24:16.079 --> 01:24:20.760 not at all. I realistically could see a world where 1473 01:24:20.760 --> 01:24:24.359 in the next five years, most of our maide in China. 1474 01:24:24.560 --> 01:24:28.319 Logos read made in India, or made in Vietnam, or 1475 01:24:28.359 --> 01:24:32.239 made in Taiwan or the Philippines or something like that. 1476 01:24:32.520 --> 01:24:35.399 These other Asian countries are definitely trying to fill the 1477 01:24:36.000 --> 01:24:39.079 void that is about to be left by China. And 1478 01:24:39.119 --> 01:24:42.119 that's before you even account for the fact that China's 1479 01:24:42.159 --> 01:24:44.399 workforce is not going to be there in the next 1480 01:24:44.399 --> 01:24:48.840 ten years, fifteen years, twenty years. They tried doing a 1481 01:24:48.840 --> 01:24:52.319 lot in the way of advancements with robotics and technology 1482 01:24:52.399 --> 01:24:55.960 to replace the sweatshop workers, but that only goes so far. 1483 01:24:56.199 --> 01:24:58.880 The advancements aren't there enough to replace that need at 1484 01:24:58.920 --> 01:25:01.319 this moment. Now, who knows what those advancements will look 1485 01:25:01.359 --> 01:25:03.199 like in the next five to ten years. I get that, 1486 01:25:04.560 --> 01:25:06.600 but they're also not waiting five or ten years to 1487 01:25:06.600 --> 01:25:10.119 find out. Fox con I think is not. I think 1488 01:25:10.119 --> 01:25:12.520 it's more of a sign of the times one hundred 1489 01:25:12.520 --> 01:25:17.560 percent here, so aligning that with the tariff warb that 1490 01:25:17.640 --> 01:25:23.880 Trump has going with China currently and China having open 1491 01:25:23.920 --> 01:25:29.560 revolts in multiple cities right now, and I think it's 1492 01:25:30.039 --> 01:25:34.199 somewhere around What was the ratio I just saw? Was 1493 01:25:34.199 --> 01:25:38.680 it like twenty five to thirty percent of China want 1494 01:25:38.920 --> 01:25:42.000 g to be removed from power, and they're tired with 1495 01:25:42.479 --> 01:25:46.800 anything CCP related. They are their words, not mine. They 1496 01:25:46.840 --> 01:25:51.920 are screaming for democracy. It only takes eleven percent of 1497 01:25:51.960 --> 01:25:55.439 a population to enact a revolution that can be successful. 1498 01:25:57.199 --> 01:25:59.760 Let that one marinate as long as y'all need to. Now, 1499 01:26:00.319 --> 01:26:04.159 I understand that this has the realistic capability of looking 1500 01:26:04.199 --> 01:26:08.399 like a Tianman Square two point zero, and it probably will, 1501 01:26:08.920 --> 01:26:11.960 probably will, but we're not going to hear about that. 1502 01:26:12.399 --> 01:26:14.239 We're never gonna hear about it the same way we 1503 01:26:14.319 --> 01:26:16.920 only heard what was it? I just saw an article 1504 01:26:16.960 --> 01:26:19.720 about Tianman Square. Apparently it was only two hundred and 1505 01:26:19.760 --> 01:26:24.119 eighty people that showed up, and all of them were 1506 01:26:24.680 --> 01:26:28.720 listed as terrorists, and it's like, no, they weren't. Those 1507 01:26:28.720 --> 01:26:31.560 were college kids, and you mowed them down, and there 1508 01:26:31.600 --> 01:26:34.079 was way more than two hundred and eighty. But how 1509 01:26:34.159 --> 01:26:36.159 much of that story can we believe because we only 1510 01:26:36.199 --> 01:26:39.079 got fractions of it years after the fact. 1511 01:26:39.920 --> 01:26:42.680 Yeah, well you want to hear my take on that, please. 1512 01:26:42.800 --> 01:26:46.159 Nobody died in Tieneman Square. It was a student protest 1513 01:26:46.199 --> 01:26:50.760 that took place from April to June. People did die 1514 01:26:50.800 --> 01:26:54.079 a few miles away from there. They were rioters and 1515 01:26:54.119 --> 01:26:57.479 they were not students. If anyone can show me any 1516 01:26:57.560 --> 01:27:02.279 students who died, I'd love to see it. But I 1517 01:27:02.359 --> 01:27:03.960 have not seen anything like that. 1518 01:27:04.359 --> 01:27:08.439 You haven't seen the pile of bodies with with tank 1519 01:27:08.560 --> 01:27:10.560 treads ran through them? 1520 01:27:11.560 --> 01:27:15.199 No, not from China Brothers right now? 1521 01:27:16.199 --> 01:27:18.680 Oh man, Okay, I'm gonna have to i'ma have to 1522 01:27:18.680 --> 01:27:20.800 get with you later on and send you some of these, Like, 1523 01:27:20.880 --> 01:27:23.840 it's gruesome what happened. 1524 01:27:23.840 --> 01:27:27.000 And there was way eight So what I what I 1525 01:27:27.079 --> 01:27:30.439 have seen in terms of pictures was a couple of 1526 01:27:30.479 --> 01:27:33.319 buses and cars that were burned to a crisp. There 1527 01:27:33.399 --> 01:27:38.520 were some police who were lynched. There's uh, let's see. 1528 01:27:38.560 --> 01:27:42.359 I haven't seen tanks running over people or anything. And 1529 01:27:42.399 --> 01:27:46.479 the tank man did not get run over. But nobody 1530 01:27:46.520 --> 01:27:49.319 died in Tianamen Square. Some people died a few miles away. 1531 01:27:49.760 --> 01:27:52.199 So that's my take on that, and I could be wrong, 1532 01:27:52.319 --> 01:27:55.520 but yeah, please let me know. You can tell me 1533 01:27:55.600 --> 01:27:56.439 offline if you want. 1534 01:27:56.680 --> 01:27:58.960 I think you might be the first person I've ever 1535 01:27:59.039 --> 01:28:01.720 heard say this, and I do conspiracies for a living 1536 01:28:01.760 --> 01:28:05.199 bro like that. This sounds wild, but. 1537 01:28:06.640 --> 01:28:09.600 Okay, well I'm glad to up a little bit. You 1538 01:28:09.720 --> 01:28:11.359 absolutely job here. 1539 01:28:11.399 --> 01:28:13.960 Grab your wooden spoon, dog you over here, just stirring 1540 01:28:14.039 --> 01:28:20.159 the pot man. Okay, all right, so hot take on 1541 01:28:20.199 --> 01:28:21.640 the Taman Square situation. 1542 01:28:22.359 --> 01:28:24.319 Yeah, and I don't think she Jenking is going to 1543 01:28:24.359 --> 01:28:26.960 be overthrown. I don't see any revolts, but if you 1544 01:28:27.079 --> 01:28:29.520 can point me in the direction of any evidence of that, 1545 01:28:29.680 --> 01:28:31.439 I would gladly look at it. 1546 01:28:31.800 --> 01:28:33.560 I was gonna pull up articles on that, but then 1547 01:28:33.600 --> 01:28:35.880 I also saw them last week, and I mean I 1548 01:28:35.920 --> 01:28:37.880 didn't pull them up because I thought it would probably 1549 01:28:37.880 --> 01:28:41.319 be in bad taste because China has a way of 1550 01:28:41.399 --> 01:28:44.520 dealing with political dissonance, and not just Taman Square. There's 1551 01:28:44.600 --> 01:28:49.439 multiple examples of them. Like you don't hear about uprisings 1552 01:28:49.840 --> 01:28:53.159 because I mean, granted, we only hear what makes it 1553 01:28:53.239 --> 01:28:55.439 out of China, and they handle a lot of things 1554 01:28:55.479 --> 01:29:00.640 in house communisms like that. But uh yeah, I heard 1555 01:29:00.640 --> 01:29:02.600 about it last week that there was a couple of cities. 1556 01:29:02.640 --> 01:29:05.520 It wasn't like cities on fire kind of things, but 1557 01:29:05.560 --> 01:29:09.800 there was like rather large protests that were starting to 1558 01:29:09.840 --> 01:29:13.359 form in certain Chinese cities. I let that one go 1559 01:29:13.439 --> 01:29:15.079 because I was thinking that it might be time and 1560 01:29:15.159 --> 01:29:17.720 place right, that might be more of a local thing 1561 01:29:17.800 --> 01:29:20.880 based off of like local politics or something like that. 1562 01:29:20.960 --> 01:29:24.000 And I, you know whatever, most of what I saw 1563 01:29:24.039 --> 01:29:29.680 today is directed at Xi himself, and I'm seeing some 1564 01:29:29.960 --> 01:29:32.439 like I said, it was like our thirty percent of 1565 01:29:32.520 --> 01:29:38.720 people want him removed. And again, can we trust the source? 1566 01:29:39.319 --> 01:29:41.920 Can we trust the word that's coming out of China. 1567 01:29:42.000 --> 01:29:45.079 Of course, we're in America. We're only gonna get whatever 1568 01:29:45.079 --> 01:29:48.119 the Chinese algorithm allows us to see on TikTok or 1569 01:29:48.119 --> 01:29:50.159 on that red book app or whatever the case is, 1570 01:29:50.439 --> 01:29:53.119 so we're never gonna hear about this. I also know 1571 01:29:53.199 --> 01:29:55.479 that every single post that gets made that's even slightly 1572 01:29:55.520 --> 01:29:59.079 critical to China, even from American sources, gets flooded by 1573 01:29:59.159 --> 01:30:01.439 Chinese bots and they do everything they can to get 1574 01:30:01.439 --> 01:30:05.840 it removed. That's nothing new. That's been happening for years now, 1575 01:30:06.640 --> 01:30:09.720 but especially when it comes to the current uprisings in China. 1576 01:30:09.800 --> 01:30:12.600 So I might actually pull up some of those articles 1577 01:30:12.600 --> 01:30:18.520 for next week if the rioters haven't all been mass graved. 1578 01:30:19.359 --> 01:30:21.159 But yeah, yeah, you know, no, matter of fact, I 1579 01:30:21.159 --> 01:30:21.960 wanna make a note of that. 1580 01:30:22.439 --> 01:30:24.199 So, yeah, there would be tons of evidence of it 1581 01:30:24.239 --> 01:30:27.399 because everyone's got a smartphone these days, including in China, 1582 01:30:27.560 --> 01:30:30.880 and I can guarantee that the Chinese diaspora in Taiwan 1583 01:30:30.920 --> 01:30:34.199 and Hong Kong would be blaring all of this, and 1584 01:30:34.560 --> 01:30:36.960 they have a huge incentive to do so. Another thing 1585 01:30:37.039 --> 01:30:40.800 is I can guarantee that if you asked Americans do 1586 01:30:40.840 --> 01:30:42.840 you want the president to be removed? You would always 1587 01:30:42.840 --> 01:30:45.399 get at least thirty percent of people saying yes, no 1588 01:30:45.439 --> 01:30:49.720 matter which party has the presidency. In my opinion, I 1589 01:30:49.760 --> 01:30:52.399 have not looked it up, but I think that's plausible. 1590 01:30:52.720 --> 01:30:55.920 That's fair. But the American presidency changes every four years. 1591 01:30:55.920 --> 01:30:58.760 That is not how the CCP does it. She has 1592 01:30:58.800 --> 01:31:01.640 been in power for a lot longer than an American 1593 01:31:01.680 --> 01:31:03.279 presidential term, and. 1594 01:31:03.319 --> 01:31:06.000 Yeah, it's about twenty twelve. I think since he he's 1595 01:31:06.000 --> 01:31:08.039 been in there, right, I could be wrong about that. 1596 01:31:08.079 --> 01:31:11.199 But it's been since around there, and I means she 1597 01:31:11.279 --> 01:31:13.439 used to live in America. By the way, Yeah, he 1598 01:31:13.880 --> 01:31:17.760 went to school in Ohio and San Francisco. There's a 1599 01:31:17.800 --> 01:31:19.960 picture of him standing next to the Golden Gate Bridge 1600 01:31:19.960 --> 01:31:24.159 in the eighties. I don't think of him as a 1601 01:31:24.199 --> 01:31:27.000 super anti American guy. I could be wrong. 1602 01:31:27.600 --> 01:31:31.920 I don't think that she is anti American. He's definitely 1603 01:31:31.920 --> 01:31:35.840 anti Trump fair, he was very pro Biden. I mean 1604 01:31:36.159 --> 01:31:40.520 it's he's not anti American because America is their number 1605 01:31:40.560 --> 01:31:44.000 one buyer of all their goods. They're a manufacturing nation. 1606 01:31:44.119 --> 01:31:48.079 We are a consumer nation. That makes sense. But he 1607 01:31:48.279 --> 01:31:51.920 does not like how the American current politics are shaking 1608 01:31:51.960 --> 01:31:56.319 out in his regard, and as far as that goes, 1609 01:31:56.359 --> 01:31:59.880 he also and I know this is when I say 1610 01:31:59.920 --> 01:32:02.279 that this out loud, it's gonna be like, well, no shit, Sherlock. 1611 01:32:02.439 --> 01:32:08.600 I get that he, along with name a political figure 1612 01:32:08.640 --> 01:32:10.640 that has been in power in their nation for over 1613 01:32:10.680 --> 01:32:14.560 a decade. They develop a cult of personality around themselves 1614 01:32:14.760 --> 01:32:17.520 of nothing but yes men that never give them bad news, 1615 01:32:17.880 --> 01:32:21.800 who never step out of line, who never anything to 1616 01:32:21.920 --> 01:32:24.119 tell them that what they're doing is a bad idea, 1617 01:32:24.239 --> 01:32:27.520 or even sounds like a bad idea. She is surrounded 1618 01:32:27.520 --> 01:32:30.840 by yes men to that point, I mean, even it wasn't. 1619 01:32:31.119 --> 01:32:33.279 I think it was actually the CEO of Fox Con 1620 01:32:33.479 --> 01:32:38.600 last year who tried releasing some things on an algorithm 1621 01:32:38.640 --> 01:32:41.600 about how like the truth of China, the truth about 1622 01:32:41.640 --> 01:32:45.199 the CCP. He stepped down and then he was found 1623 01:32:45.279 --> 01:32:49.760 dead like two days later, and everything he posted was removed. Yeah, 1624 01:32:49.800 --> 01:32:52.560 they have smartphones in China, but everything they do is 1625 01:32:52.600 --> 01:32:56.640 so heavily regulated by their social credit system, by everything 1626 01:32:56.680 --> 01:32:59.520 they do is owned by the CCP. They don't have 1627 01:32:59.840 --> 01:33:03.199 free speech, they don't have free internet, they don't have 1628 01:33:03.319 --> 01:33:06.239 freedom in a lot of regards. So even if you 1629 01:33:06.319 --> 01:33:09.319 had rioters that were posting videos live streamed, it would 1630 01:33:09.319 --> 01:33:12.520 instantaneously get taken down by the Chinese algorithm to where 1631 01:33:12.520 --> 01:33:15.439 it would never actually get onto the Internet. And I 1632 01:33:15.479 --> 01:33:18.520 mean to say that like, yeah, the Chinese diaspora and 1633 01:33:18.680 --> 01:33:22.680 like Taiwan, Taiwan has no love for China as far 1634 01:33:22.680 --> 01:33:25.000 as that's concerned, and they have been talking about this 1635 01:33:25.079 --> 01:33:28.199 for a good long while. But at this point that's 1636 01:33:28.199 --> 01:33:32.239 more like it's white noise because in the global political 1637 01:33:32.279 --> 01:33:36.279 climate of Taiwan versus China, right, now, Taiwan is making 1638 01:33:36.359 --> 01:33:40.720 every single possible accusation against China make them seem like satanists, 1639 01:33:41.199 --> 01:33:43.279 and China is doing everything in their power to make 1640 01:33:43.319 --> 01:33:45.840 Taiwan look like, well, you're our land anyway, So what 1641 01:33:45.880 --> 01:33:47.520 are you talking about? It's you know what I mean? 1642 01:33:47.600 --> 01:33:50.800 Those clashing together like that, that's just white noise. They're 1643 01:33:50.840 --> 01:33:53.680 gonna say all the stuff, and how much of that 1644 01:33:53.720 --> 01:33:57.079 can you actually take seriously given the current political climate. 1645 01:33:57.399 --> 01:33:58.960 So I get that one as well. 1646 01:34:00.239 --> 01:34:03.119 Well, Yeah, I will be talking about this next week. 1647 01:34:03.159 --> 01:34:07.079 I have a feeling absolutely now unless unless, if the 1648 01:34:07.279 --> 01:34:09.199 if the riots get shut down and we really have 1649 01:34:09.279 --> 01:34:11.319 nothing to talk about, then it is what it is. 1650 01:34:11.359 --> 01:34:15.000 If I can't find anything on it, but we shall see, 1651 01:34:15.159 --> 01:34:20.399 we shall see. But sticking onto the Asian continent, I 1652 01:34:20.439 --> 01:34:23.159 did want to talk about this one as well. So 1653 01:34:24.199 --> 01:34:27.520 as we were talking about AI earlier and my distrust 1654 01:34:27.520 --> 01:34:32.279 of them, it then that it things. Yeah, So Thailand 1655 01:34:32.399 --> 01:34:37.079 unveils its AI police cyborg one point zero smart robot 1656 01:34:37.159 --> 01:34:43.399 officer joins force to enhance song cran safety. This is 1657 01:34:44.000 --> 01:34:48.880 not a joke, This is not a a sci fi flick, 1658 01:34:49.680 --> 01:34:55.039 This is real life. Thailand has a complete AI powered 1659 01:34:55.600 --> 01:35:01.079 RoboCop that is currently doing his job. It's job in 1660 01:35:01.720 --> 01:35:05.680 Thailand police colonel. Yeah, I'm not even gonna try to 1661 01:35:05.680 --> 01:35:09.359 pronounce that name. And that's the robot's name, by the way, 1662 01:35:10.000 --> 01:35:16.279 has been deployed at Songkran Venue in Nakhon Platom pat 1663 01:35:16.319 --> 01:35:20.199 Tom Yet Province to enhance public safety. The Royal Thai 1664 01:35:20.319 --> 01:35:23.279 Police on Wednesday shared photos of the country's first AI 1665 01:35:23.479 --> 01:35:28.319 police robot deployed in that province during the Songkrome festival. 1666 01:35:29.520 --> 01:35:32.239 That long name that I couldn't in, which translates to 1667 01:35:32.800 --> 01:35:38.600 Nakhom Patom is safe. That's the name of this Ai RoboCop. 1668 01:35:38.800 --> 01:35:42.920 It's the place is safe. Has been deployed to Son 1669 01:35:43.000 --> 01:35:47.239 Chron which a venue on Thomson Road in Muang District, 1670 01:35:47.319 --> 01:35:52.039 to enhance public safety, the RTP said in a Facebook post. 1671 01:35:52.520 --> 01:35:55.840 The robot, dubbed AI Police Cyborg one point zero, is 1672 01:35:55.880 --> 01:35:59.039 a RoboCop styled robot officer equipped with smart three to 1673 01:35:59.079 --> 01:36:02.119 sixty degree AI cameras. It is jointly developed with the 1674 01:36:02.159 --> 01:36:09.159 Provincial Police Region seven and in the Nakampathom Municipality. And 1675 01:36:09.359 --> 01:36:12.560 for anybody who's in Thailand, if I am just mispronouncing 1676 01:36:12.760 --> 01:36:15.359 these words, I'm sorry. I don't speak your language. I 1677 01:36:15.439 --> 01:36:17.600 love your food, I love your martial arts style, I 1678 01:36:17.720 --> 01:36:22.439 cannot understand your language. The AI Police Cyborg integrates live 1679 01:36:22.479 --> 01:36:26.600 footage from CCTV cameras in and around the event area, 1680 01:36:26.680 --> 01:36:30.560 as well as from drone surveillance, and processes them using 1681 01:36:30.600 --> 01:36:34.319 AI technology built into the cyborg system. The cyborg's own 1682 01:36:34.399 --> 01:36:38.680 cameras are enhanced with video analytics capabilities and linked directly 1683 01:36:38.760 --> 01:36:41.960 to the province's command and control center to effectively manage 1684 01:36:42.039 --> 01:36:45.239 public safety during public events. I mean, look at this 1685 01:36:45.439 --> 01:36:50.640 thing that is that personally terrifies me. This is I 1686 01:36:50.880 --> 01:36:54.880 robot the movie with Will Smith in real life, and 1687 01:36:55.239 --> 01:36:57.520 Thailand of course was the first to roll with it. 1688 01:36:57.600 --> 01:37:01.800 That blows my mind. Now, what can the AI Police 1689 01:37:01.840 --> 01:37:06.840 Cyborg do? Facial recognition and blacklist alerts It identifies individuals 1690 01:37:06.920 --> 01:37:11.119 and notifies officers if wanted or high risk individuals are detected. 1691 01:37:11.800 --> 01:37:15.560 Suspect tracking it monitors and tracks suspects across the event 1692 01:37:15.680 --> 01:37:20.479 based on facial recognition advanced search capabilities. It searches for 1693 01:37:20.560 --> 01:37:25.560 individuals using facial features, clothing, body type, and gender. Weapon 1694 01:37:25.640 --> 01:37:31.199 detection it identifies potential weapons excluding water guns, including knives, 1695 01:37:31.279 --> 01:37:37.359 wooden sticks, and objects resembling weapons. So a wooden stick 1696 01:37:37.560 --> 01:37:39.960 it's gonna take as a weapon, but a water gun 1697 01:37:40.239 --> 01:37:45.640 it knows the difference. Okay, I don't see that going 1698 01:37:45.720 --> 01:37:48.800 poorly at all, but sure, especially at this event where 1699 01:37:48.800 --> 01:37:52.800 everybody is soapd down and has water guns spraying and everything. Yep, yep, totally. 1700 01:37:54.399 --> 01:37:56.840 I mean, with that being said, I don't know what 1701 01:37:57.119 --> 01:37:59.359 Highlands gun laws are like, so I don't know if 1702 01:37:59.359 --> 01:38:02.600 it even knows like look for guns as far as 1703 01:38:02.640 --> 01:38:06.720 that's concerned, I don't know. Behavior monitoring it detects potential 1704 01:38:06.840 --> 01:38:10.800 violent or disruptive behaviors such as fighting or physical assaults. 1705 01:38:11.439 --> 01:38:14.239 So this thing is just scanning the crowd the entire time, 1706 01:38:14.399 --> 01:38:16.960 using all of its three sixty cameras, and it's ai 1707 01:38:17.479 --> 01:38:21.159 to determine if there is a threat or anything. Y'all, 1708 01:38:21.439 --> 01:38:25.000 the future is now, and I personally don't want RoboCop 1709 01:38:25.279 --> 01:38:30.520 coming after me. That terrifies the hell out of me. Yeah. 1710 01:38:31.159 --> 01:38:36.039 I don't trust it, not even a little bit. I wow. Okay, 1711 01:38:36.560 --> 01:38:40.640 Now moving on to the European continent. I'm not going 1712 01:38:40.680 --> 01:38:42.840 to bring up Africa or Australia in this episode, but 1713 01:38:42.920 --> 01:38:45.560 we're hitting all the other ones basically uh oh in 1714 01:38:45.680 --> 01:38:47.840 South America. I suppose I didn't really bring them up either, 1715 01:38:48.039 --> 01:38:51.760 but okay, whatever anyway, So for anybody who didn't hear, 1716 01:38:52.359 --> 01:38:58.520 Spain and Portugal, the entire countries had massive power outages 1717 01:38:58.960 --> 01:39:01.159 this week. All right, This is from Al Jazeera. As 1718 01:39:01.159 --> 01:39:04.920 a matter of fact, power outages hit Spain and Portugal. 1719 01:39:05.039 --> 01:39:08.720 What happened and what was effected? A blackout paralyzed large 1720 01:39:08.760 --> 01:39:11.239 portions of Spain and Portugal on Monday. Here is what 1721 01:39:11.479 --> 01:39:14.840 we know. Major power outages across large areas of Spain 1722 01:39:14.880 --> 01:39:17.439 and Portugal, as well as parts of southern France, knocked 1723 01:39:17.479 --> 01:39:21.600 out traffic lights and disrupted public transportation and airport operations 1724 01:39:21.680 --> 01:39:24.880 on Monday. Officials did not say what caused the outages, 1725 01:39:24.920 --> 01:39:31.119 but several denied any foul play. I as a former electrician, 1726 01:39:32.000 --> 01:39:36.159 I get that this is an imperfect world. Substations have accidents, happen, 1727 01:39:36.840 --> 01:39:40.319 things blow from time to time. I get that I do. 1728 01:39:42.119 --> 01:39:46.039 To have two nations power grids brought down and a 1729 01:39:46.119 --> 01:39:49.479 portion of a third, and you're not saying there was 1730 01:39:49.520 --> 01:39:52.800 any foul play. I feel like that's a bold statement 1731 01:39:52.920 --> 01:39:57.119 to make at this time. I don't know, maybe I'm 1732 01:39:57.159 --> 01:39:59.479 talking out of my ass here. But boy, that just 1733 01:39:59.560 --> 01:40:02.880 sounds faris to me. There's a direct quote here the 1734 01:40:02.920 --> 01:40:07.560 President of the European Council, Antonio Costa. Grid operators in 1735 01:40:07.680 --> 01:40:10.920 both countries, Spain and Portugal are working on finding the 1736 01:40:11.039 --> 01:40:17.079 cause and on restoring electrical electricity supply. Antonio Costa was 1737 01:40:17.159 --> 01:40:20.039 his name. He wrote that post on X. Costa was 1738 01:40:20.159 --> 01:40:23.039 the Prime Minister of Portugal between twenty fifteen and twenty 1739 01:40:23.159 --> 01:40:26.159 twenty four. At this point there is no indications of 1740 01:40:26.319 --> 01:40:32.439 any cyber attack, he said, you know that already. Yeah, okay, 1741 01:40:32.560 --> 01:40:35.039 So anyway, here's what we know. What happened in Europe 1742 01:40:35.119 --> 01:40:37.760 and when power out just swept across much of the 1743 01:40:37.840 --> 01:40:42.720 Iberian peninsula around ten thirty GMT to twelve thirty pm 1744 01:40:42.880 --> 01:40:46.199 local time in Spain and eleven thirty am in Portugal. 1745 01:40:46.640 --> 01:40:49.199 Parts of southern France were also briefly effected, but the 1746 01:40:49.279 --> 01:40:53.680 service was quickly restored. Critical infrastructure was heavily impacted. Metro 1747 01:40:53.800 --> 01:40:57.239 systems in Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon were shut down, while 1748 01:40:57.319 --> 01:41:02.239 major airports such as Madrid, Barajas and Lisbon's Humberto Delgado 1749 01:41:02.439 --> 01:41:06.640 face significant delays and partial closures. According to Spanish newspaper 1750 01:41:06.920 --> 01:41:11.800 lpay the outage set Spain back to the nineteenth century. 1751 01:41:13.600 --> 01:41:16.159 They mean the eighteen hundreds. The way he said that 1752 01:41:16.279 --> 01:41:19.039 made it sound way further back. Okay, yeah, set them 1753 01:41:19.079 --> 01:41:22.199 back to the nineteenth century. Trains are not operating and 1754 01:41:22.279 --> 01:41:25.600 traffic lights are down, causing chaos. Many cities are completely dark. 1755 01:41:25.680 --> 01:41:30.760 Al Jazeero step Vsin Basin said, reporting from Valencia Airport 1756 01:41:30.840 --> 01:41:33.560 in Spain. Authorities have stated that it is the first 1757 01:41:33.600 --> 01:41:36.399 time in history such a large scale blackout has occurred. 1758 01:41:36.439 --> 01:41:40.279 She added, this is a post in Spanish, I don't 1759 01:41:40.399 --> 01:41:44.840 read so anyway. Translation says real time electricity demand data 1760 01:41:45.000 --> 01:41:48.600 from Red Electrica. This is how things are now seven 1761 01:41:48.680 --> 01:41:52.119 hours after the blackout. Slow recovery but still far from normal. 1762 01:41:52.560 --> 01:41:56.520 The graphs shows that electricity use dropped from about twenty 1763 01:41:56.640 --> 01:41:59.920 six thousand megawatts to just twelve thousand in a few minutes. 1764 01:42:00.960 --> 01:42:03.680 I mean that's yeah, So that's like the pay meter 1765 01:42:04.000 --> 01:42:06.920 showing like how hard it was hit. But it also 1766 01:42:07.000 --> 01:42:09.640 doesn't look like one thing blue and just shut everything down. 1767 01:42:09.720 --> 01:42:12.079 It looks like it was a slow, progressive shut debt. Well, 1768 01:42:12.119 --> 01:42:15.479 I say slows a few minutes, yes, but you know 1769 01:42:17.039 --> 01:42:20.039 that doesn't read to me like it wasn't foul play 1770 01:42:21.159 --> 01:42:23.479 at all. If anything that, I don't know. I don't 1771 01:42:23.479 --> 01:42:25.399 want to speak out of turn here, but it seems 1772 01:42:25.479 --> 01:42:27.560 like there was foul play, so let's check it out here. 1773 01:42:27.640 --> 01:42:31.079 Spain and Portugal, home to around sixty million people together, 1774 01:42:31.279 --> 01:42:33.920 were the worst affected. But it didn't just hit there. 1775 01:42:34.039 --> 01:42:37.560 There's four nations that were talked about here. Spain. Major 1776 01:42:37.720 --> 01:42:46.479 urban centers such as a Villa, Madrid, Murcia, Galicia, Alia, Alecante, Zargoza, Barcelona, 1777 01:42:46.640 --> 01:42:52.079 Seville reported widespread disruptions. The Canaries and Balaric Islands were 1778 01:42:52.159 --> 01:42:55.840 not affected. And yes, I probably butchered some of those pronunciations. 1779 01:42:56.239 --> 01:42:56.680 My bad. 1780 01:42:57.319 --> 01:43:02.000 Portugal, Lisbon and Porto experience can parable challenges. Southern France, 1781 01:43:02.119 --> 01:43:05.720 parts of the French Basque County our country saw brief 1782 01:43:05.760 --> 01:43:09.520 power outages, but officials from the French Electricity transmission network 1783 01:43:09.560 --> 01:43:13.800 said the interruptions lasted only a few minutes. Morocco, some 1784 01:43:14.039 --> 01:43:18.399 reports suggested that the internet provided providers in Morocco also 1785 01:43:18.479 --> 01:43:21.720 struggled to keep their services up briefly because of network 1786 01:43:21.720 --> 01:43:25.840 connections with France and the outages there. Okay, now, what 1787 01:43:25.960 --> 01:43:30.880 else was affected? The Madrid Open tennis tournament was suspended 1788 01:43:30.920 --> 01:43:35.680 for the day. Oh No organizers said there would be 1789 01:43:35.760 --> 01:43:39.319 no more action on Monday. In order to guarantee general safety, 1790 01:43:39.840 --> 01:43:43.680 Madrid's firefighters carried out more than two hundred elevator interventions 1791 01:43:43.720 --> 01:43:46.960 across the city, while health services carried out one hundred 1792 01:43:47.000 --> 01:43:50.840 and sixty seven interventions, most for respiratory issues and anxiety 1793 01:43:50.880 --> 01:43:56.439 attacks YEP. Meanwhile, in Lizbon, according to local media reports, 1794 01:43:56.479 --> 01:43:59.079 people rushed to grocery stores to stock up on water 1795 01:43:59.199 --> 01:44:02.760 and non paarish goods. That is expected whenever the power 1796 01:44:02.840 --> 01:44:05.680 goes out living in Louisiana when a hurricane hits, that 1797 01:44:05.840 --> 01:44:09.600 is typically how things go. What caused the power outage, 1798 01:44:09.960 --> 01:44:14.039 Portugal's Prime Minister Luise Montenegro said that everything points to 1799 01:44:14.199 --> 01:44:18.079 major blackouts starting in Spain. The exact cause is still unclear, 1800 01:44:18.159 --> 01:44:20.319 and while there's no evidence yet of a cyber attack. 1801 01:44:20.399 --> 01:44:25.640 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and jokes Right themselves said 1802 01:44:25.680 --> 01:44:29.239 he isn't ruling anything out. He warned against speculation, but 1803 01:44:29.359 --> 01:44:33.319 said no cause can be discredited at this point. The 1804 01:44:33.399 --> 01:44:38.640 European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, the block's cyber security arm, 1805 01:44:39.199 --> 01:44:45.039 said at current evidence points to a cable fault. So 1806 01:44:45.439 --> 01:44:50.560 the Cybersecurity Agency said that it was a cable fault. Okay, 1807 01:44:51.079 --> 01:44:54.359 But experts have also in recent weeks warned that an 1808 01:44:54.439 --> 01:45:00.319 excess of solar power generation in the grid could trigger blackouts. Ooh, okay, 1809 01:45:00.479 --> 01:45:04.159 I'm gonna reread that one, because boy, that's gonna make 1810 01:45:04.199 --> 01:45:07.720 a lot of green people very upset. Experts have also 1811 01:45:08.039 --> 01:45:11.439 in recent weeks warned that an excess of solar power 1812 01:45:11.600 --> 01:45:16.399 generation in the grid could trigger blackouts. In early April, 1813 01:45:16.479 --> 01:45:21.079 Belgium's electrical grid operator caution that too many electricity generation, 1814 01:45:21.640 --> 01:45:28.680 too much electrical electricity generation, could destabilize the grid. I've 1815 01:45:28.760 --> 01:45:33.880 never heard that, but it makes sense. You know, you 1816 01:45:34.000 --> 01:45:36.680 can only put so much voltage and so much wattage 1817 01:45:36.720 --> 01:45:39.520 and so much amperage into these systems, into these wires 1818 01:45:39.960 --> 01:45:42.079 if you have it coming from source A going to 1819 01:45:42.159 --> 01:45:45.960 point B. But point B also is producing its own electricity. 1820 01:45:47.560 --> 01:45:51.720 Something's gonna give eventually. I have never heard of solar 1821 01:45:51.800 --> 01:45:55.920 panels being the cause of blackouts, but the math checks 1822 01:45:56.000 --> 01:45:59.960 out here, so okay. According to a report by Bloomberg, 1823 01:46:00.560 --> 01:46:03.319 Spain has been seen a record number of hours with 1824 01:46:03.479 --> 01:46:06.920 negative power prices in recent months, as more solar and 1825 01:46:07.039 --> 01:46:11.319 wind energy has been fed into the grid. However, until 1826 01:46:11.520 --> 01:46:16.560 now the oversupply hadn't led to blackouts. So what is 1827 01:46:16.680 --> 01:46:20.199 the latest on the ground. Electricity has returned to parts 1828 01:46:20.239 --> 01:46:24.760 of northern, southern, and western Spain, the grid operator said 1829 01:46:24.840 --> 01:46:29.920 on Monday. Spain's Transportation Minister Oscar Puente said medium and 1830 01:46:30.039 --> 01:46:34.279 long distance train services are unlikely to resume before tomorrow. Meanwhile, 1831 01:46:34.479 --> 01:46:38.680 lead Red Electrica has estimated that full restoration could take 1832 01:46:38.800 --> 01:46:42.840 six to ten hours. Okay, that's not the worst I've 1833 01:46:42.840 --> 01:46:45.920 ever heard of here. Power has now been restored to 1834 01:46:46.119 --> 01:46:52.119 parts of Catalonia, Catalonia, Aragon and the Basque country Galatia, 1835 01:46:52.520 --> 01:47:00.239 are Asturia's Navarre, Castile, Leone, Extremada. Yeah all these plays, says, 1836 01:47:00.680 --> 01:47:04.319 I suck it speaking the Spanish language. My apologies. Yeah, 1837 01:47:04.399 --> 01:47:07.640 so power has been restored. According to Spanish news agency 1838 01:47:07.760 --> 01:47:11.520 ef E, electricity consumption in Spain has reached over fifty 1839 01:47:11.560 --> 01:47:14.680 percent of the usual level by four thirty pm local time. 1840 01:47:15.079 --> 01:47:19.560 Portugal's grid operator ARIN said that the production the production 1841 01:47:19.720 --> 01:47:24.680 has resumed at the Castellero de Baad hydro electric plant 1842 01:47:24.840 --> 01:47:31.600 and the Tapata do Areno Sure thermoelectric facilities. So all right, 1843 01:47:31.760 --> 01:47:34.560 they got power restored, or they're getting the power restored. 1844 01:47:35.479 --> 01:47:38.840 But still I am not of the belief that this 1845 01:47:39.279 --> 01:47:45.039 had no foul play. I hadn't heard that it was 1846 01:47:45.119 --> 01:47:49.720 solar panels and wind turbines that were front loading the 1847 01:47:49.840 --> 01:47:54.520 power so heavily that it would cause nationwide blackouts. That's 1848 01:47:54.560 --> 01:47:59.159 pretty crazy to me, but I guess that's a possibility. 1849 01:48:00.479 --> 01:48:04.520 I don't know. I'm hoping that the investigation, when it 1850 01:48:04.680 --> 01:48:07.479 is concluded, will give a good answer and that it 1851 01:48:07.640 --> 01:48:11.479 wasn't like a terrorist plot or something like that. Although 1852 01:48:12.680 --> 01:48:15.560 I could see that very much being the case. I 1853 01:48:15.680 --> 01:48:19.279 hope it's not. I hope it's not. But anyway, all right, 1854 01:48:20.399 --> 01:48:23.319 so the last story we are gonna get to on 1855 01:48:23.520 --> 01:48:27.079 this one at this time, and we don't really need 1856 01:48:27.199 --> 01:48:29.720 to spend a whole lot of time on it. But 1857 01:48:29.840 --> 01:48:33.479 at the same time, Russia has launched an offensive in 1858 01:48:33.680 --> 01:48:37.880 Sumi and Kharkiv region, Ukraine's top commander confirms, and this 1859 01:48:38.000 --> 01:48:41.319 is from the Moscow Times in case anybody is curious. 1860 01:48:42.640 --> 01:48:44.880 Long story short, and I don't really need to read 1861 01:48:45.000 --> 01:48:48.920 all of it, but Russian forces launched an offensive into 1862 01:48:49.000 --> 01:48:53.199 the northeastern Ukraines Sumi and Kharkiv regions several days ago, 1863 01:48:53.640 --> 01:48:56.800 Ukraine's commander in chief said in an interview published on Wednesday. 1864 01:48:57.680 --> 01:49:01.439 Comments come nearly a month after you, Krainian President Zelenski 1865 01:49:01.520 --> 01:49:03.880 claimed that Russia was ready a new attack in the 1866 01:49:03.880 --> 01:49:08.159 Assumi region, which borders Russia's Kursk region. They do bring 1867 01:49:08.279 --> 01:49:11.720 up the numbers here in a little bit about how 1868 01:49:11.800 --> 01:49:15.119 much of that Kursk region they currently have, which as 1869 01:49:15.199 --> 01:49:17.600 compared to what they took at the height of the 1870 01:49:17.920 --> 01:49:23.079 Ukrainian invasion into Russia goes. But yeah, for the most part, 1871 01:49:23.199 --> 01:49:26.640 they don't hold much of that region at all anymore. 1872 01:49:26.680 --> 01:49:30.840 They have been beaten back pretty much to the farthest 1873 01:49:30.880 --> 01:49:33.319 extent of it. Oh no, it doesn't say it on 1874 01:49:33.399 --> 01:49:35.119 this one. Okay, I had a couple of articles pulled up, 1875 01:49:35.119 --> 01:49:36.640 but I didn't pull that one up. Long story store. 1876 01:49:36.640 --> 01:49:39.680 I think they hold like they at one point held 1877 01:49:39.800 --> 01:49:44.439 like two hundred and seventy some odd square kilometers. Right 1878 01:49:44.560 --> 01:49:48.960 now they hold like thirty square kilometers of the Kursk region. 1879 01:49:49.439 --> 01:49:52.239 They're about to lose it. The spring is here, the 1880 01:49:52.600 --> 01:49:55.960 temperature has warmed up in that region. Russia is launching 1881 01:49:56.000 --> 01:49:59.840 their spring offensive. They're about to retake Kursk and apparently 1882 01:50:00.119 --> 01:50:03.079 coming into the Sumi region now Tony we had talked 1883 01:50:03.079 --> 01:50:05.840 a couple of weeks ago. I cannot remember if you 1884 01:50:06.000 --> 01:50:08.319 said that Sumi was going to be one of the 1885 01:50:08.399 --> 01:50:12.399 regions that Russia claimed as like their rightful territory or 1886 01:50:12.560 --> 01:50:14.640 is this them also trying to stack the deck in 1887 01:50:14.680 --> 01:50:18.920 their favor for a more favorable peace negotiation. What do 1888 01:50:19.000 --> 01:50:19.319 you think? 1889 01:50:20.000 --> 01:50:21.920 Yeah, I think it's the latter. They're just trying to 1890 01:50:22.000 --> 01:50:25.439 stack the deck for a more favorable peace negotiation. And 1891 01:50:25.720 --> 01:50:28.039 I think the more Russian part of Ukraine would be 1892 01:50:28.119 --> 01:50:34.640 Pharkaw or Harkiv as they spell it. So, but Russians 1893 01:50:34.680 --> 01:50:37.680 are just grabbing whatever they can get as they can 1894 01:50:37.760 --> 01:50:40.920 get it. So I haven't actually been paying super close 1895 01:50:40.960 --> 01:50:46.239 attention to this recently, and I'm still predicting that the 1896 01:50:46.760 --> 01:50:49.880 peace will come in about March of twenty twenty six, 1897 01:50:50.000 --> 01:50:52.279 because remember we had we had a little bit of 1898 01:50:52.319 --> 01:50:54.720 a bet on that. I'm still sticking with that it's 1899 01:50:54.720 --> 01:50:56.920 probably going to take that long, because it's taken this 1900 01:50:57.079 --> 01:50:57.680 long so far. 1901 01:50:58.479 --> 01:51:03.039 Yeah, Yeah, I don't know. I'm hoping, like I'm with you, 1902 01:51:03.159 --> 01:51:06.560 I hope that this comes to a quick conclusion, I 1903 01:51:06.680 --> 01:51:08.960 see Russia grabbing up as much territory as they can, 1904 01:51:09.159 --> 01:51:11.800 especially if they are expecting that Western powers are going 1905 01:51:11.880 --> 01:51:17.239 to be helping Ukraine even more. I'm hearing reports, and 1906 01:51:17.319 --> 01:51:20.119 I don't know how valid they are, but I'm hearing 1907 01:51:20.199 --> 01:51:26.079 reports that apparently Chinese soldiers are now fighting alongside Russian 1908 01:51:26.239 --> 01:51:31.680 soldiers in Ukraine, not North Korean Chinese. China has denied 1909 01:51:31.720 --> 01:51:37.399 the allegations. Russia has denied the allegations, but some are 1910 01:51:37.560 --> 01:51:42.079 saying that these are they're speaking clearly Chinese and they 1911 01:51:42.119 --> 01:51:46.079 don't look Russian, because China and Russia don't really look 1912 01:51:46.359 --> 01:51:50.199 similar to each other, like, you know, racially and ethnically speaking. 1913 01:51:51.079 --> 01:51:54.319 I don't know. I don't I can't envision that China 1914 01:51:54.439 --> 01:51:57.039 has taken that type of a stance in this regard 1915 01:51:57.239 --> 01:51:59.680 that would screw them over on the world stage even 1916 01:51:59.800 --> 01:52:02.760 further than they already are. I don't know. Have you 1917 01:52:02.840 --> 01:52:04.159 heard anything in that regard. 1918 01:52:04.560 --> 01:52:06.680 You know, I did see on a telegram channel that 1919 01:52:06.920 --> 01:52:11.159 some Chinese troops were captured by Ukraine. They were probably 1920 01:52:11.239 --> 01:52:14.840 these volunteer mercenary types, because the Chinese government doesn't have 1921 01:52:14.840 --> 01:52:17.720 an agreement with the Russian government like the North Korean 1922 01:52:17.800 --> 01:52:20.560 government does, so there's a lot of North Koreans there, 1923 01:52:20.600 --> 01:52:23.000 and we've talked about them. I didn't see though, that 1924 01:52:23.319 --> 01:52:26.600 China sent a huge, well a pretty large group of 1925 01:52:26.720 --> 01:52:29.520 soldiers to Moscow for the Victory Day parade that's going 1926 01:52:29.560 --> 01:52:32.279 to happen on May ninth, and they're already there, just 1927 01:52:32.640 --> 01:52:36.600 practicing to march down the street. But that's all I've 1928 01:52:36.640 --> 01:52:41.119 really seen from China. In Russia right now. In other news, 1929 01:52:42.319 --> 01:52:47.439 Russia claims that they killed seventy six thousand Ukrainians in Kursk. 1930 01:52:48.239 --> 01:52:52.239 Maybe that's inflated, but that would still be that's like 1931 01:52:52.359 --> 01:52:54.840 ten times more than the US lost in the Terror War, 1932 01:52:55.479 --> 01:52:59.319 and about a similar body count as the Vietnam War 1933 01:52:59.399 --> 01:53:02.520 to the US. And that's just in the Curse region. 1934 01:53:04.079 --> 01:53:05.439 So maybe it's right, maybe it's wrong. 1935 01:53:05.800 --> 01:53:08.720 I feel you those numbers might be inflated, But at 1936 01:53:08.760 --> 01:53:11.000 the same time, all of the numbers are inflated in 1937 01:53:11.119 --> 01:53:14.800 this one. I'm hearing reports saying that Russia has lost 1938 01:53:14.960 --> 01:53:17.760 quote unquote, maybe not dead, but like no longer on 1939 01:53:17.800 --> 01:53:20.960 the battlefield somewhere around like six hundred thousand, and Ukraine 1940 01:53:21.000 --> 01:53:25.039 has lost something like three hundred thousand. I don't actually 1941 01:53:25.159 --> 01:53:28.159 believe those numbers, but it really depends on the source 1942 01:53:28.199 --> 01:53:31.079 you read. So seventy three thousand in the Curse region, 1943 01:53:32.039 --> 01:53:34.000 I find that hard to believe, seeing is how the 1944 01:53:34.239 --> 01:53:38.760 entire Russian Spring Offensive was comprised of sixty seven thousand, 1945 01:53:39.199 --> 01:53:41.680 and Russia has a larger military than Ukraine does, so 1946 01:53:41.760 --> 01:53:45.119 it's you know what I mean. I believe it's thousands, 1947 01:53:45.720 --> 01:53:48.239 you know, I mean even in the upper thousands, but 1948 01:53:48.439 --> 01:53:50.079 seventy that sounds a bit much. 1949 01:53:51.039 --> 01:53:55.439 Well, Ukraine they have had, in a sense a numerical 1950 01:53:55.479 --> 01:53:58.600 advantage this whole time, because even though they're population is lower, 1951 01:53:58.760 --> 01:54:04.239 they've done the conscription and Russia has just been relying 1952 01:54:04.319 --> 01:54:08.079 on people enlisting kind of the way it normally goes 1953 01:54:08.119 --> 01:54:09.920 in the US, kind of the way it is when 1954 01:54:09.960 --> 01:54:14.079 there isn't a draft. So even though Russia has got 1955 01:54:14.079 --> 01:54:18.560 a bigger population, the actual fielded strength is pretty similar 1956 01:54:18.640 --> 01:54:22.800 on both sides. At least that's my opinion about it. 1957 01:54:23.399 --> 01:54:26.760 I don't know. I'm not saying that Russia has been conscripting. 1958 01:54:27.359 --> 01:54:30.720 They did lose two million military aged men who fled 1959 01:54:30.800 --> 01:54:33.840 the country as soon as the initiative kicked off because 1960 01:54:33.880 --> 01:54:36.920 they didn't want to be conscripted. I feel like they 1961 01:54:36.960 --> 01:54:38.960 wouldn't have just left if there was no risk of it. 1962 01:54:40.359 --> 01:54:42.760 Yeah, I think those men felt like there was a risk. 1963 01:54:42.880 --> 01:54:44.720 But the way it works is kind of like here, 1964 01:54:44.840 --> 01:54:49.479 where there's a certain percentage of the male population that 1965 01:54:49.560 --> 01:54:54.199 joins the military and then they kind of retire and 1966 01:54:54.279 --> 01:54:57.640 go into reserve status, and then those reserves can be 1967 01:54:57.760 --> 01:55:00.600 called up. And it was the reservists who being called 1968 01:55:00.640 --> 01:55:02.720 and some of them got scared and ran away and 1969 01:55:02.800 --> 01:55:05.239 left the country. And Russia's also got a pretty high 1970 01:55:06.560 --> 01:55:09.199 rate of enlistment. They're kind of like the United States 1971 01:55:09.239 --> 01:55:11.279 in that respect. A lot of people join up for 1972 01:55:11.800 --> 01:55:15.760 education and other reasons. So out of their one hundred 1973 01:55:15.760 --> 01:55:18.039 and thirty five million population, I wish I knew the 1974 01:55:18.119 --> 01:55:20.640 numbers a little better, but they have probably a similar 1975 01:55:20.920 --> 01:55:22.119 enlistment rate to what we have. 1976 01:55:22.680 --> 01:55:25.680 I could believe that. I mean, Russia does have some 1977 01:55:26.359 --> 01:55:30.520 like possibilities for like future advancement, and the military would 1978 01:55:30.520 --> 01:55:31.840 be a good way to start that. I mean, hell 1979 01:55:31.960 --> 01:55:34.880 didn't like one in every ten Russian households don't have 1980 01:55:34.960 --> 01:55:37.159 running water, So I mean like, yeah, if you're just 1981 01:55:37.239 --> 01:55:41.239 some random guy from any old place Russia, yeah, joined 1982 01:55:41.239 --> 01:55:44.640 the military and serving a term of enlistment would probably 1983 01:55:44.680 --> 01:55:46.399 give you a leg up as far as finding a 1984 01:55:46.520 --> 01:55:48.960 job or a future for yourself. Goes the same in America, 1985 01:55:49.479 --> 01:55:52.600 you know, I could see that being a way to 1986 01:55:52.760 --> 01:55:57.039 advance your social status and your opportunities for sure. 1987 01:55:57.840 --> 01:56:00.079 Yeah, in the Western world, it's been a ladder of 1988 01:56:00.159 --> 01:56:03.319 social mobility for people for well over one hundred years. 1989 01:56:03.359 --> 01:56:06.039 And I've read that this even goes back to ancient Greece, 1990 01:56:06.279 --> 01:56:10.600 where poorer people would volunteer to join a military expedition 1991 01:56:10.720 --> 01:56:13.000 and mix kind of mingle with the kids of more 1992 01:56:13.119 --> 01:56:16.920 upper class men who are also in the same unit. 1993 01:56:17.479 --> 01:56:20.720 And Britain didn't need a draft in World War One 1994 01:56:20.800 --> 01:56:23.760 until the very end because so many men were just 1995 01:56:23.920 --> 01:56:28.439 volunteering for status and everything. That's something that's on every 1996 01:56:28.520 --> 01:56:32.359 man's mind, not just well, this is scary and exciting 1997 01:56:32.479 --> 01:56:34.479 to be in combat, but also what is this going 1998 01:56:34.560 --> 01:56:38.560 to do for my prospects to marry a nice girl 1999 01:56:38.600 --> 01:56:41.399 when I get home? And how much will people respect 2000 01:56:41.479 --> 01:56:45.119 me in the workforce if everyone's asking for the next 2001 01:56:45.199 --> 01:56:47.159 twenty years. So what did you do during the war? 2002 01:56:48.239 --> 01:56:50.279 And Paton said in his speech, you won't have to 2003 01:56:50.319 --> 01:56:52.039 say I shoveled shit in Louisiana. 2004 01:56:52.479 --> 01:56:56.399 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I used to be a fan of Patent, 2005 01:56:56.479 --> 01:56:59.640 but now that I've learned more about him as a general, 2006 01:57:00.520 --> 01:57:04.119 I gotta say I have a lot less respect for him. Also, 2007 01:57:04.239 --> 01:57:06.840 MacArthur was a bitch and I'll die on that hill. 2008 01:57:08.640 --> 01:57:11.000 Yeah, there's a lot the movie left out about Patton. 2009 01:57:11.039 --> 01:57:14.079 It's amazing that he became such a hero, especially with 2010 01:57:14.600 --> 01:57:17.439 all the anti Semitism, just as the most obvious thing. 2011 01:57:17.720 --> 01:57:20.880 Oh my god, sorry, but that also, like racism in 2012 01:57:20.960 --> 01:57:23.840 that day and age was very normal. It was like 2013 01:57:24.000 --> 01:57:27.880 expected almost of that, especially somebody of. 2014 01:57:27.880 --> 01:57:30.479 That any Anglo American on average. 2015 01:57:30.880 --> 01:57:33.479 Right, But when I found out more about how he 2016 01:57:33.600 --> 01:57:37.359 screwed over other more successful generals, God, what was it? 2017 01:57:37.520 --> 01:57:40.000 Terrible Terry. As a matter of fact, if anybody wants 2018 01:57:40.000 --> 01:57:42.720 to look into his story, Fat Electrician just did a 2019 01:57:42.800 --> 01:57:48.239 whole expose on him. Basically, he was so successful that Patton, 2020 01:57:48.359 --> 01:57:51.800 and who was his little bitch, his little buddy that 2021 01:57:51.960 --> 01:57:55.439 was like always at his right hand. They maybe that's 2022 01:57:55.560 --> 01:57:58.840 the one Bradley. Yeah, So they hated Terry so much 2023 01:57:59.399 --> 01:58:02.680 that they he kicked him from the war. He goes 2024 01:58:02.800 --> 01:58:05.600 back home. He actually was really good friends with FDR 2025 01:58:06.159 --> 01:58:09.239 and then got sent back to the war. Patton and 2026 01:58:09.319 --> 01:58:12.680 Bradley had an eighteen month head start to get to Germany, 2027 01:58:12.800 --> 01:58:16.039 and Terry still beat them there by three months, starting 2028 01:58:16.079 --> 01:58:18.760 from France with like a unit that he pretty much 2029 01:58:18.760 --> 01:58:20.439 had to train from the ground up. I think it 2030 01:58:20.560 --> 01:58:23.399 was the Timberwolves was the unit that he trained up, 2031 01:58:23.479 --> 01:58:26.359 and like, yeah, it's it's crazy. The more I learned 2032 01:58:26.359 --> 01:58:29.119 about Patton and his tactics, everybody wants to act like 2033 01:58:29.479 --> 01:58:31.960 the Battle of the Bulge was like, oh, like, yues, fine, 2034 01:58:32.000 --> 01:58:33.920 it was a turning point. I get that, but even 2035 01:58:34.079 --> 01:58:36.840 arguably not so much. The Nazis were on the ropes 2036 01:58:36.920 --> 01:58:38.560 or they were getting ready to be on the ropes 2037 01:58:38.640 --> 01:58:39.800 before the Battle of the Bulge. 2038 01:58:39.960 --> 01:58:41.319 Yeah, absolutely, but. 2039 01:58:43.199 --> 01:58:47.760 Yeah, yeah, like that was psychotic to to be one 2040 01:58:47.800 --> 01:58:50.079 of the guys invading the beaches of Normandy. But like, 2041 01:58:50.880 --> 01:58:53.560 you gotta understand Germany. Yeah, they were still on the 2042 01:58:53.720 --> 01:58:57.319 offensive when we landed in Normandy, but dude, they would 2043 01:58:57.319 --> 01:59:00.760 have gotten I don't think so. They were still making 2044 01:59:00.800 --> 01:59:04.520 advancements into Soviet Russia. They had stopped at a couple 2045 01:59:04.600 --> 01:59:07.800 of places like Stalingrad and Leningrad, had become like Stalemates. 2046 01:59:08.600 --> 01:59:11.720 They had pretty much been kicked out of Africa by 2047 01:59:11.760 --> 01:59:15.039 that point, but they were still making advancements into Asia, 2048 01:59:15.199 --> 01:59:17.920 and they were still doing like you know, they were 2049 01:59:17.960 --> 01:59:20.520 still on the uptick at that moment. 2050 01:59:21.760 --> 01:59:24.560 There is okay, I agree to disagree on that, but okay, 2051 01:59:24.680 --> 01:59:25.359 let's keep going. 2052 01:59:25.720 --> 01:59:28.199 There are certain historians that say that give them five 2053 01:59:28.319 --> 01:59:31.039 years and they would have come to their natural stopping point. Anyway. 2054 01:59:31.439 --> 01:59:33.600 There are certain historians that say that if Hitler would 2055 01:59:33.600 --> 01:59:36.039 have waited two more years to invade Poland, that the 2056 01:59:36.239 --> 01:59:37.840 entire world would be speaking Germany. 2057 01:59:37.920 --> 01:59:38.079 Now. 2058 01:59:38.600 --> 01:59:44.079 It depends on the source, honestly, and armchair historians ourselves included. 2059 01:59:45.279 --> 01:59:48.359 There's levels and nuances that we don't see, and I 2060 01:59:48.479 --> 01:59:54.600 acknowledge that I don't know. But speaking of Raven, is 2061 01:59:54.640 --> 01:59:58.960 that you holding a Bangalore torpedo. I'm looking at the 2062 01:59:59.000 --> 02:00:05.359 picture you posted in the chat here Raven. I don't 2063 02:00:05.359 --> 02:00:07.600 know if she could speak right now anyway. 2064 02:00:08.159 --> 02:00:10.840 Hey, I want to defend Churchill on something real quick. 2065 02:00:11.119 --> 02:00:13.520 Of course I don't like Churchill, as you can imagine, 2066 02:00:13.560 --> 02:00:16.840 but he was against the Normandy invasion. He wanted to 2067 02:00:16.920 --> 02:00:22.800 focus on Europe's soft underbelly and take Hungary, Romania, and 2068 02:00:23.000 --> 02:00:26.279 maybe Austria away from the Soviets. I guess the Soviets 2069 02:00:26.279 --> 02:00:28.199 didn't end up with Austria. But he thought that the 2070 02:00:28.319 --> 02:00:32.359 Normandy idea was a distraction. I think he was probably right, actually, 2071 02:00:32.920 --> 02:00:35.079 but history turned out the way it did. I think 2072 02:00:35.159 --> 02:00:37.640 even if the Allies had lost at Normandy, they still 2073 02:00:37.680 --> 02:00:39.880 would have won eventually. It would have just taken a 2074 02:00:39.920 --> 02:00:46.399 few more months, months or years, oh months, Yeah, I 2075 02:00:46.439 --> 02:00:49.680 think Russia at that point would have won no matter what. 2076 02:00:50.119 --> 02:00:52.119 After mid nineteen forty four. 2077 02:00:52.560 --> 02:00:56.640 Yeah, I mean Hitler made the saint well, not Hitler himself. 2078 02:00:56.720 --> 02:00:59.039 He wasn't a general, he was a furer. But like 2079 02:00:59.359 --> 02:01:02.119 his general made the same mistake that Napoleon made that 2080 02:01:02.279 --> 02:01:04.720 so many other people made. Don't fight Russia in the winter. 2081 02:01:05.560 --> 02:01:07.880 It's not going to go well for you. It's never 2082 02:01:08.000 --> 02:01:11.319 gone well for anyone in human history. And he he's 2083 02:01:11.359 --> 02:01:13.520 shown enough, rolled the dice on that and he found 2084 02:01:13.560 --> 02:01:18.279 out the hard way. But yeah, the Soviets were about 2085 02:01:18.319 --> 02:01:20.920 to turn that tide. And but that's the deal. It 2086 02:01:20.960 --> 02:01:24.359 would Oh and even talking about going from the soft underbelly, 2087 02:01:24.399 --> 02:01:26.359 like you're talking about coming through Austria, Hungary and all 2088 02:01:26.479 --> 02:01:31.560 that I've heard that proposed that it would have taken 2089 02:01:31.840 --> 02:01:35.359 more loss of life, more men would have died in 2090 02:01:35.560 --> 02:01:39.359 the slow invasion from Southern Europe to get to Berlin 2091 02:01:40.000 --> 02:01:42.279 as opposed to them jumping into France and getting to 2092 02:01:42.359 --> 02:01:45.319 Berlin that way. I don't know that to be a fact. 2093 02:01:45.800 --> 02:01:48.920 I don't actually know the statistics and the numbers on that, 2094 02:01:49.119 --> 02:01:51.680 but that is allegedly what led them to go for 2095 02:01:51.880 --> 02:01:55.239 the short version rather than the long version. But even still, 2096 02:01:55.359 --> 02:01:58.600 like losing what was twenty thousand guys before noon that 2097 02:01:58.960 --> 02:02:02.760 first day on Normandy beaches like that, you talk about 2098 02:02:02.760 --> 02:02:03.520 a loss of life. 2099 02:02:04.359 --> 02:02:07.199 Yeah, I think that's accurate. I agree, But the way 2100 02:02:07.239 --> 02:02:11.640 I see it geopolitically was that invading Normandy was more 2101 02:02:11.680 --> 02:02:16.039 of a gift to the Soviets rather than taking away 2102 02:02:16.319 --> 02:02:20.199 much of Southern Europe from the Soviets, and that was 2103 02:02:20.600 --> 02:02:25.199 why FDR's advisors really wanted Normandy rather than the Southern 2104 02:02:25.239 --> 02:02:28.920 Europe option, and George Marshall also pushed for it really hard. 2105 02:02:28.960 --> 02:02:31.319 I don't think he was a Communist sympathizer, but maybe 2106 02:02:31.359 --> 02:02:33.640 he had his own reasons for doing it. I read 2107 02:02:33.680 --> 02:02:37.520 that he was upset that the air forces were overshadowing 2108 02:02:38.000 --> 02:02:41.319 the army at that time, so he wanted to do 2109 02:02:41.560 --> 02:02:46.039 something more army focused rather than air Force focused. And 2110 02:02:46.359 --> 02:02:49.560 the air Force has spent a lot of time bombarding 2111 02:02:49.680 --> 02:02:53.079 France just to soften it up for the Normandy as 2112 02:02:53.079 --> 02:02:55.600 opposed to bombing Germany as they've been doing in nineteen 2113 02:02:55.680 --> 02:02:59.600 forty three, So that was kind of a distraction for 2114 02:02:59.680 --> 02:03:00.640 the air forces too. 2115 02:03:01.479 --> 02:03:06.680 Yeah, yeah, that's very true. Yeah, that's I've noticed this too. 2116 02:03:07.039 --> 02:03:09.920 Like men, when they get to a certain age, apparently 2117 02:03:10.039 --> 02:03:14.319 there's like a few like sub genres of categories that 2118 02:03:14.399 --> 02:03:15.319 we all get into. 2119 02:03:15.840 --> 02:03:16.000 Right. 2120 02:03:16.359 --> 02:03:20.560 Some of them it's like slow cooked meats that seems 2121 02:03:20.560 --> 02:03:23.760 to be a thing. Some of them it's history, right, 2122 02:03:24.039 --> 02:03:27.840 And of the history, you've got like two big ones 2123 02:03:28.000 --> 02:03:29.640 every now and then you get like the Civil War, 2124 02:03:29.720 --> 02:03:31.720 which is like a third kind of in the middle there, 2125 02:03:32.159 --> 02:03:35.039 but usually it goes to the Roman Empire or World 2126 02:03:35.039 --> 02:03:38.600 War Two. It just seems to go that way. I 2127 02:03:38.960 --> 02:03:41.159 keep hearing a lot of people these days talk about 2128 02:03:41.239 --> 02:03:45.319 the the ifs and the what ifs about World War Two, 2129 02:03:46.239 --> 02:03:49.000 more prevalent in the past few months. Honestly, I don't know. 2130 02:03:49.039 --> 02:03:51.159 Maybe that's just the way my algorithm has been pushing it. 2131 02:03:51.279 --> 02:03:55.720 But yeah, no, I agree with you. Though Churchill was 2132 02:03:55.920 --> 02:03:59.960 kind of a piece of shit, I now that I 2133 02:04:00.199 --> 02:04:04.079 learned as much as I've learned about MacArthur, he also 2134 02:04:05.119 --> 02:04:08.479 was a bitch. And the entire reason why the Marines 2135 02:04:08.479 --> 02:04:13.079 were stuck at the Frozen Chosen was because he circumvented 2136 02:04:13.159 --> 02:04:15.319 them and screwed them over and hung them out to dry. 2137 02:04:16.680 --> 02:04:20.119 That whole I will return when it was convenient for you. 2138 02:04:20.800 --> 02:04:24.680 You returned, Yeah, Paton, was he a motivator? 2139 02:04:25.039 --> 02:04:25.279 Yeah? 2140 02:04:25.960 --> 02:04:28.119 Was he some brilliant military tactician? 2141 02:04:29.279 --> 02:04:29.319 No? 2142 02:04:30.840 --> 02:04:36.079 Not really? Yeah, yeah, but I guess it's easy to 2143 02:04:36.159 --> 02:04:39.680 say sitting here as a chair historian or armchair general 2144 02:04:40.359 --> 02:04:42.880 decades after the fact, you know whatever. 2145 02:04:45.800 --> 02:04:48.439 But yeah, I'm in agreement with you overall, and I 2146 02:04:48.640 --> 02:04:49.640 like this whole subject. 2147 02:04:50.119 --> 02:04:53.439 No, all right, everybody, So I think that is going 2148 02:04:53.520 --> 02:04:56.880 to wrap up this episode of The Cajun Night. Didn't 2149 02:04:56.920 --> 02:04:59.640 exactly mean for its end on a historical conversation, but 2150 02:04:59.800 --> 02:05:01.640 you you know, I do love it when that happens. 2151 02:05:01.960 --> 02:05:04.000 I love history. You know, if you listen to the 2152 02:05:04.079 --> 02:05:06.119 Cult of Conspiracy, you will hear me say that a lot. 2153 02:05:07.479 --> 02:05:10.439 So for anybody who is listening to this the following day, 2154 02:05:10.520 --> 02:05:13.359 the following week, whatever the case may be. If you 2155 02:05:13.399 --> 02:05:16.119 would like to be a part of the conversation every 2156 02:05:16.159 --> 02:05:18.840 Wednesday night at nine pm Central, then come check out 2157 02:05:19.000 --> 02:05:21.920 again the Cajun Night on Patreon. The link is in 2158 02:05:21.960 --> 02:05:24.520 the description below. There is only one tier for admittance. 2159 02:05:24.920 --> 02:05:27.880 We do this, we post it on the Patreon for 2160 02:05:27.960 --> 02:05:30.239 the video. The audio comes out on the Cult of 2161 02:05:30.279 --> 02:05:33.319 Conspiracy channel, and I'm thinking possibly putting this on the 2162 02:05:33.399 --> 02:05:37.479 Cajun Night YouTube channel the lives that we do. Maybe. 2163 02:05:37.760 --> 02:05:41.079 I don't know. I don't know if this would transverse 2164 02:05:41.359 --> 02:05:43.600 well into the video side of things or if this 2165 02:05:43.680 --> 02:05:46.399 would be more of a keep it audio based thing 2166 02:05:46.600 --> 02:05:48.439 kind of way. Of my options on that right now, 2167 02:05:48.600 --> 02:05:51.119 but either way it goes. If you would like to 2168 02:05:51.319 --> 02:05:54.560 join in the conversation next week Cajun Night on Patreon. 2169 02:05:55.039 --> 02:05:56.960 I want to thank all of you for coming and 2170 02:05:57.079 --> 02:05:59.640 joining me on this journey. This evening, as we talked 2171 02:05:59.640 --> 02:06:02.359 about everything going on in the world today, we had 2172 02:06:02.439 --> 02:06:07.079 some pros, some cons some funny things, some agreements, some disagreements, 2173 02:06:07.119 --> 02:06:09.079 and that's what I love. I love the combining of 2174 02:06:09.159 --> 02:06:11.000 the mind, y'all. We're gonna figure this whole thing out 2175 02:06:11.039 --> 02:06:14.479 before it's all said and done again, I am the 2176 02:06:14.520 --> 02:06:17.159 Cajun Knight, and as always, God bless