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Speaker 1: all right. I got a lot of geopolitical articles pulled
Speaker 1: up here. This is it's yes, I know, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say it's a wild time to be alive, although
Speaker 1: it is. But you know what, let's start off local, right,
Speaker 1: Let's start off Neil a little closer to home here.
Speaker 1: So apparently this is from a city news everywhere, Edmonton,
Speaker 1: The Times, Edmonton, if I'm not mistaken. Alberta introduces a
Speaker 1: bill that would make it easier to separate from Canada.
Speaker 1: They are not alone in this, by the way, I
Speaker 1: know for sure, Saskatchewan and God, what's the one right
Speaker 1: next to them. There's three of them in the center
Speaker 1: that are all trying to push forward legislation to make
Speaker 1: it easier for them to just straight up seceee from Canada.
Speaker 1: And it's not even about America turning them into the
Speaker 1: fifty first state, fifty second state, fifty third state, they're
Speaker 1: at this point begging, like we're not trying to force
Speaker 1: multiply shit. They are coming at us and begging to
Speaker 1: be a part of this grand experiment that we call
Speaker 1: the democracy in the American way, which I love. I
Speaker 1: love that. But anyway, let's read in here. This was
Speaker 1: posted on April twenty ninth of this year, a day
Speaker 1: after Canada's Liberals won a fourth consecutive mandate. Alberta's government
Speaker 1: has introduced a bill that would make it easier to
Speaker 1: start a referendum, including one separating from Canada. And I
Speaker 1: know I talked about that. I'm not sure if it
Speaker 1: was on this show or on the Cult, but so yeah,
Speaker 1: Trudeau is stepping down eventually at some point this year.
Speaker 1: I keep hearing different times in different dates as far
Speaker 1: as when his final day will be. But whatever, right,
Speaker 1: the Liberal Party still so handily won the election. Overall,
Speaker 1: there was these three provinces that want nothing to do
Speaker 1: with this, and they would like to separate themselves from
Speaker 1: what they see as the burning ship. They're not trying
Speaker 1: to go down with it. Never mind the fact that
Speaker 1: these three are the only ones that have any kind
Speaker 1: of real agriculture or real industry. That could support itself.
Speaker 1: It's it's kind of like that conversation whenever they talk
Speaker 1: about how Texas could secede from America any point, like
Speaker 1: per the paperwork, they could. I don't think they ever
Speaker 1: actually would, but if they did, hypothetically they would instantly
Speaker 1: have the world's tenth largest army and the world's fourth
Speaker 1: largest economy. Like turn of a switch, the nation of
Speaker 1: Texas would hold that kind of clout instantly. Alberta is
Speaker 1: not to that level, of course, but they are essentially
Speaker 1: Canada's Texas, and if they were to seceed, they could
Speaker 1: sustain themselves pretty handily without any kind of outside help
Speaker 1: or interventions. So I like that. I like that kind
Speaker 1: of can't do attitude. But yeah, so the Liberal Party one,
Speaker 1: and the guy who is about to take over is
Speaker 1: essentially a Trudeau junior, but he's a little older, a
Speaker 1: little more, a little more seasoned, an old geezer, and
Speaker 1: I don't with Trudeau's mindset and his ideologies and his
Speaker 1: economic policies. And it's a bad time. It's just not
Speaker 1: gonna be a good time. So anyway, with that being said,
Speaker 1: in the Liberal Party winning for a fourth consecutive term, Uh,
Speaker 1: these provinces have decided that they're just they're gonna get
Speaker 1: ready to be done and wash their hands of this
Speaker 1: whole thing. As a direct quote here from the Alberta Premier,
Speaker 1: Danielle Smith, we are going to introduce it regardless of
Speaker 1: what the outcome was. It just so happens that this
Speaker 1: is the timing now that we're back from a week
Speaker 1: of constituency break. Okay, So they're saying they were gonna
Speaker 1: do it regardless the timing was really good, but they
Speaker 1: were gonna push it forward anyway. Right. Bill fifty four
Speaker 1: proposes many changes to Alberta's election rules. Among them is
Speaker 1: lowering the threshold for a citizen or a citizen led
Speaker 1: referendum to ten percent of people who voted in the
Speaker 1: last election. It would currently take twenty percent of eligible voters. Okay,
Speaker 1: so they're talking about taking the number and cutting that
Speaker 1: in half of how many it would take to have
Speaker 1: like a real sit down talk about what happened.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: The bill would also allow one hundred and twenty days
Speaker 1: to gather those signatures, a boost from the ninety days.
Speaker 1: Alberta's premier says Pierre Poislavier could be wrong with that.
Speaker 1: One should stay on as Conservative leader despite losing his seat.
Speaker 1: She does not have any regrets over any influence she
Speaker 1: may have had on the results. That's from Sean a motto.
Speaker 1: Don't really know who that is, but yeah, I served
Speaker 1: as a dude in basic. It was a motto anyway,
Speaker 1: she says. While the premier openly wanted Pierre's Conservatives to win,
Speaker 1: she says she's still not a separatist after Mark Carney's victory.
Speaker 1: I believe in Alberta's sovereignty within a United Canada. Smith said, However,
Speaker 1: there is a citizen's referendum process that if citizens want
Speaker 1: to put a question on a ballot and get enough
Speaker 1: of the fellow citizens to sign that petition, then those
Speaker 1: questions would be put forward. Again, I don't want to
Speaker 1: prejudge what that question might be, so okay, and not
Speaker 1: to dig any deeper on this one. They're saying that
Speaker 1: it would make it easier to secede from Canada. That
Speaker 1: might be a bit presumptuous. I understand that. However, I
Speaker 1: can't say that I don't like the intentions here. Alberta
Speaker 1: has made multiple mentions about seceding before. Aside from Trump, right,
Speaker 1: this isn't a Trump conversation. This is talking about Canada
Speaker 1: being pissed about Canadian elections. Cool things. Trump talk shit,
Speaker 1: That's what he does. He's a shit talker. But we're
Speaker 1: talking about the people that actually live in that land
Speaker 1: not wanting to be associated with that land anymore. And
Speaker 1: this person is saying, no, we don't want to secede.
Speaker 1: The people that I know that live in Alberta have
Speaker 1: said way differently. They would love to be flying the red,
Speaker 1: white and blue rather than the silver maple leaf. But
Speaker 1: time will tell. Time will tell. Anyway, onto the next topic.
Speaker 1: We're still sticking on this side of the globe. Yes,
Speaker 1: the globe, everybody, it's not a flat. So apparently the
Speaker 1: Mexican military does not know how to operate a GPS.
Speaker 1: Either that or they simply don't have them issued to them.
Speaker 1: So long story short, you got this couple, a man
Speaker 1: and a woman, and they're chilling in the southern east
Speaker 1: portion of the state of New Mexico right now. What
Speaker 1: were they doing there, you might add, ask, excuse me,
Speaker 1: They were trying to help illegals that made it across
Speaker 1: the border. Now I don't like that, and they should
Speaker 1: be thrown in jail.
Speaker 3: For that.
Speaker 1: Fine, fine, But as they're out there essentially camping, right
Speaker 1: and they were American citizens, the Mexican military, the Mexican
Speaker 1: Army rolls up, guns strapped and all these things, and uh,
Speaker 1: they actually kind of come up on them. I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: what are y'all doing in Mexico. Y'all are supposed to
Speaker 1: be on this side of the border. And they're like,
Speaker 1: you're a good ways into the American country at this time,
Speaker 1: Like you cross the border a few miles back, like
Speaker 1: a lot of miles back. They're like, gay okay, and
Speaker 1: they're like no, no, no, here' She pulls up her
Speaker 1: phone and shows them, like home boy, you are a
Speaker 1: good ways into New Mexico right now. Apparently the Mexican
Speaker 1: military doesn't either A have maps. B if they have them,
Speaker 1: they don't know how to use them. Apparently they slept
Speaker 1: during their land nav course, which is preposterous. Or see
Speaker 1: they don't have GPS's or d they have GPS's but
Speaker 1: just don't know how to use them. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's this sounds ridiculous. But of course,
Speaker 1: when it was discovered by them that they were in
Speaker 1: the wrong, they took off in high tailed back home.
Speaker 1: But let's talk about it. Let's talk about it here.
Speaker 1: This is from what is the source, kget dot com.
Speaker 1: It's a NBC new subsidiary. Gun toting Mexican soldiers allegedly
Speaker 1: enter US soil surrounding couple in New Mexico. Woman uses
Speaker 1: cell phone GPS app to convince sodados excuse me, they
Speaker 1: are looking for gun runners drug mules on the wrong
Speaker 1: side of the border. El Paso, Texas reported on this
Speaker 1: A heavily armed eighteen man Mexican Army patrol allegedly crossed
Speaker 1: into the US soil this week surrounded two Americans exploring
Speaker 1: a trail in the booth field of New Mexico. Booth field.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a geographical description or if
Speaker 1: that's like a region of New Mexico. Booth heel, boot heel.
Speaker 1: That's boot heel, the boot heel of New Mexico. Good God, Almighty,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a phone. Abby Carpenter and James
Speaker 1: Holman used a camera and a cell phone to record
Speaker 1: the Monday encounter south of Hashida, New Mexico, and shared
Speaker 1: photos and videos with Border Report. The two members of
Speaker 1: the Battalion Search and Rescue, a group of volunteers that
Speaker 1: look for lost migrants in the southern New Mexico Desert,
Speaker 1: said these soldiers thought they were still in Mexico until
Speaker 1: shown a GPS locator map proving otherwise. Now, like, listen,
Speaker 1: when I was in the Marines, I was a shit bag.
Speaker 1: I'll be the first to acknowledge this. When we did
Speaker 1: land nap courses. Yes I can use my protractor and
Speaker 1: my compass. Yes I can plot my grids and shoot
Speaker 1: a asthmyth. But you know what's easier than that? Carrying
Speaker 1: your cell phone and using GPS to show that one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty seven satellites tell me that I'm at
Speaker 1: the right Latin law courdin It's right now. That's so
Speaker 1: much easier. So here telling me that none of these
Speaker 1: Mexican soldiers had their cell phones on them and didn't
Speaker 1: realize that they had crossed the border. That's pretty crazy,
Speaker 1: but I you know, I guess this is an imperfect world.
Speaker 1: A lot of accidents can happen. Eighteen eighteen of these
Speaker 1: dudes couldn't check their phone to realize, like, oh bro,
Speaker 1: we're a little too far north, but okay, okay, whatever,
Speaker 1: she says. I never felt threatened. When I got nervous.
Speaker 1: I got nervous was when I showed them that they
Speaker 1: were in the United States and had my phone out
Speaker 1: and they were documenting that they were where they shouldn't be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this girl does not know how to speak English. Carpenter said,
Speaker 1: That's when I got nervous, like, oh, we shouldn't have
Speaker 1: our phones out taking pictures of them in US soil. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that okay. It makes sense that that's the type of
Speaker 1: girls that looks for lost illegal aliens. She probably didn't
Speaker 1: go to school for very long. One of the video
Speaker 1: shows a Mexican Army truck approaching the pair's vehicles and
Speaker 1: soldiers getting off and approaching carrying rifles. A photograph shows
Speaker 1: a white Mexican National Guard pickup with soldiers keeping watch
Speaker 1: of their surroundings. So, yeah, these are the trucks. Homeboys
Speaker 1: just rolled on up. And it's not even like they're
Speaker 1: plotting a course, they're not out here he compasses. They're
Speaker 1: not doing a little land a of course, they're out
Speaker 1: there patrolling and just missed the border. Just just drove
Speaker 1: straight on through a hole in the fence somewhere I guess.
Speaker 1: Holman said the soldiers told him they were looking for
Speaker 1: drug traffickers and gun runners and asked him what he
Speaker 1: was doing in Mexico. Holman said he and Carpenter earlier
Speaker 1: had seen two shot up vehicles with Mexican license plate
Speaker 1: at another trail near the Mexican border. Carpenter said she
Speaker 1: showed the soldiers through a locator app on her phone
Speaker 1: that they were not in Mexico, but we're in the US.
Speaker 1: The soldiers turn their vehicles around it headed back south. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were like, haha, take a picture with me, blah blah.
Speaker 1: But that's because we knew we were in the US.
Speaker 1: If we had encountered them in Mexico, it would have
Speaker 1: been a whole different thing, Holman said, threatened, I would
Speaker 1: say that just because of our American thinking being on
Speaker 1: US soil. Nervous. Yeah, bro, we were definitely nervous. Jesus
Speaker 1: Christ liberals are yeah, okay, Sameway anyway, anyway, not a
Speaker 1: dog on the couple. But yeah, So Mexican soldiers just
Speaker 1: so happened to accidentally meander themselves into the US and
Speaker 1: it's no big deal. International crisis was averted. Nobody was harmed,
Speaker 1: no equipment was damaged. It's all good, It's all good.
Speaker 1: But I still I question, right. I know that, like
Speaker 1: a lot of military members in Mexico end up working
Speaker 1: for the car tells because they pay better and they
Speaker 1: have better weapons and they live better. And I get
Speaker 1: that one hundred percent get that, But like, is this
Speaker 1: the level of mental capacity that is currently operating in
Speaker 1: the Mexican Army?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Like, you know, if I was to be patrolling, even
Speaker 1: in the United States, and I had made my way
Speaker 1: into another state, I'm pretty sure I could tell that,
Speaker 1: you know, pretty easily. These dudes apparently had no idea
Speaker 1: they were in a whole other sovereign nation. Tony, please
Speaker 1: step in, brother.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just speculate maybe they were looking for some cartel
Speaker 4: members who hang out right in that border region. But
Speaker 4: if something like this were to happen, they would deny
Speaker 4: it and just say, oh, sorry, we didn't realize we
Speaker 4: were over here. That's what I would do if I
Speaker 4: were in their situation. And I think intelligence agencies work
Speaker 4: like that all the time. They're constantly going to the
Speaker 4: you know, overstepping a border and going oops, I didn't
Speaker 4: mean to. And this happens, especially often at sea, especially
Speaker 4: near the straight of Horror moves. You always hear oh,
Speaker 4: such and such ship was, you know, allegedly three hundred
Speaker 4: feet on the wrong side of the line somewhere, and
Speaker 4: I run says you shouldn't be here, and then the
Speaker 4: US says no, that the line's in a different place.
Speaker 4: So stuff like this happens all the time.
Speaker 1: And like I said, it was no harm, no foul, right,
Speaker 1: it was no big deal, no need for some air
Speaker 1: national crisis or anything like that. But dude, their response
Speaker 1: to the couple was what are you doing in Mexico?
Speaker 1: And they're like, bro, what like that? That's that's embarrassing, honestly,
Speaker 1: And I agree with you. There probably on the trail
Speaker 1: of a group or following a lead somewhere and just
Speaker 1: didn't realize they had wandered that far. But like, still,
Speaker 1: that's that's a bit of a it's a big shwing
Speaker 1: and a miss for the for the Mexican Army.
Speaker 4: But I speculated that's part of their part of the
Speaker 4: way they would try to come off as sincere as
Speaker 4: possible by initiating the claim that you're in Mexico right
Speaker 4: now and then going oh, oops, man, we really didn't know. Sorry, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that just makes it sound a little more incredible. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think it's plausible they would take a line like that.
Speaker 1: I could see that, and that's what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: as soon as they realize that they were in America, like,
Speaker 1: there's a way to like play that off, you know,
Speaker 1: play a little play a little game of words and
Speaker 1: be like, oh, yeah, we're waiting on our American liaison
Speaker 1: to meet us here. My mistake, I misspoke, Like, there's
Speaker 1: a way. No, they looked at the app and was like,
Speaker 1: oh and I teled it back, so like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: all good. It's all good, but a little bit of
Speaker 1: a oopsie daisy there before I continue reading, Let's go
Speaker 1: check out the chat here. That's a British Columbia. No,
Speaker 1: it wasn't BC Manitoba, that's the one. So it's Alberta, Saskatchewan,
Speaker 1: and Manitoba. They apparently all three want to secede and
Speaker 1: become a part of the United States. I'm here for it, honestly,
Speaker 1: that would be dope. Our boy Royce has showing us
Speaker 1: some of his industrial artwork of these industrial manoras, which
Speaker 1: bro that Honkah is gonna go hard, Like I don't
Speaker 1: know if there's music all owed to he played during Honkah,
Speaker 1: but with these things that better be industrial metal, Jewish music,
Speaker 1: the metal clarinet going ham dude, that fantastic. I think
Speaker 1: that should be a thing, right, let's see nerdy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, for sure, Oregon wants to cut in half
Speaker 1: to Yeah, Raven, I remember you telling me about this
Speaker 1: a while back. Oregon wants to cut in half and
Speaker 1: basically separate East from West to become two different states
Speaker 1: for voting principles. I support that one hundred percent because
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, West Oregon is like the liberal
Speaker 1: extremists that are like missing portions of their brain, and
Speaker 1: Eastern Oregon is like the lumber you know, the loggers,
Speaker 1: the working hands, the farmers, these these types of people,
Speaker 1: good folk, good decent folk.
Speaker 3: They if you actually watched like the map during the election,
Speaker 3: they you can see where the hubs are, like there's
Speaker 3: not a lot of red actually, like during the election.
Speaker 5: It's just that they own the big cities.
Speaker 3: So Eugene and Portland have the most population, and those
Speaker 3: happen to be the most liberal hot spots, and so
Speaker 3: there was a proposal and they passed it along. So
Speaker 3: I'm not really sure where it's at now, but it's
Speaker 3: been a few years.
Speaker 5: Like COVID is when it really kicked off.
Speaker 3: But pretty much they want to go down the Cascades
Speaker 3: and take half of Oregon and pretty much make it
Speaker 3: into Idaho, make Idaho bigger so they get more electrical
Speaker 3: votes and then that way they can actually change kind
Speaker 3: of what's going on. But there is a lot of
Speaker 3: people that are Republican or mostly in the middle kind
Speaker 3: of like you know, not either side. But then if
Speaker 3: you go into like Portland or Eugene, it's you know,
Speaker 3: it's the crazies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, big cities on mass just seem to be very
Speaker 1: bloom even in Texas like Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas,
Speaker 1: very big hub of liberal screaming heads, even though Texas
Speaker 1: itself is like a red state, And like, I get
Speaker 1: that one hundred percent, although I feel like, like you said,
Speaker 1: it'd be more centrists as far as your average Oregonian goes,
Speaker 1: even the ones that I'm sure there's pockets of like
Speaker 1: far right minded people in Oregon for sure. I would think,
Speaker 1: especially these days, that the majority would call themselves centrist,
Speaker 1: left of center, right of center, but overall centrist as
Speaker 1: a whole. But would it be wiser for them to
Speaker 1: become a part of Idaho or to just become their
Speaker 1: own state.
Speaker 3: You know, it would be better if they got if
Speaker 3: they went into Idaho, I said, I said read with
Speaker 3: the Democrats earlier.
Speaker 5: My brain's kind of not working.
Speaker 3: You know, they would be better if they went in
Speaker 3: because that way they would get more votes towards the
Speaker 3: Republican Party.
Speaker 5: And they like did a whole bunch of stuff about it.
Speaker 3: There's like articles about it that you can read and
Speaker 3: how it like shift the tides and all this stuff,
Speaker 3: and so it be. It would be one of those
Speaker 3: scenes where like each place would get their own set
Speaker 3: of votes, but they would like pretty much be absorbed
Speaker 3: into Idaho itself.
Speaker 1: Gotcha.
Speaker 5: I don't know what they would call it.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they would just expand it and
Speaker 3: say this is Idaho or what. But there's been it
Speaker 3: has past bills to happen. I don't know where it's
Speaker 3: at now, but it'd be nice.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've heard of this too. They would call it
Speaker 4: Greater Idaho. That's what the movement is called right now.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's what I thought. I was like something, Yeah,
Speaker 5: Greater Idaho.
Speaker 1: Not to one up names or anything. There's Idaho and
Speaker 1: then there's Greater Idaho. Like yeah, I'll bet the Oregonians
Speaker 1: would say some shit anyway.
Speaker 4: Anyway, Yeah, let's keep going on this. As of July
Speaker 4: last year, thirteen counties in Oregon had approved ballot measures
Speaker 4: in favor Greater Idaho. Baker Cook, Grant, Parney, Jefferson, Klamath,
Speaker 4: Lake Malure. You might remember there was something called the
Speaker 4: Mallure Wildlife Refuge where a bunch of right wingers took
Speaker 4: over a building back about five or ten years ago.
Speaker 4: It was related to the Bundy standoff. Yeah, so they're
Speaker 4: part of this too.
Speaker 1: Okay. Now, are those like the sovereign citizen types or
Speaker 1: those just like second you know two AA, like I
Speaker 1: want to say extremists, but like per the letter of
Speaker 1: the law, two way supporter type people, because especially whenever
Speaker 1: we're talking about like a standoff or like them taking
Speaker 1: over a building or a county or something like that
Speaker 1: can get really dangerous and slippery slope as far as
Speaker 1: that goes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, one guy died in that thing. I think they
Speaker 4: might have been sovereign citizens. I don't remember that word
Speaker 4: or that term coming up. Yeah, the Bundy standoff was
Speaker 4: a year before that, and nobody died in that one,
Speaker 4: and Bundy got his cows back or his land back. Yeah,
Speaker 4: like ten years ago.
Speaker 1: Was that Montana?
Speaker 4: I think it was Nevada.
Speaker 1: Ah, yeah, that was that was an interesting one. That
Speaker 1: wasn't even sovereign citizen movement. That was straight up a
Speaker 1: farmer that was getting screwed over by the government and
Speaker 1: all of the farmers decided like, nah, we draw the
Speaker 1: line here, and they showed up like trigger fingers ready
Speaker 1: and the Feds had to step down, which was beautiful,
Speaker 1: I might add, yeah, go ahead, zombie.
Speaker 3: So I was just thinking about like the boats and stuff.
Speaker 3: So Oregon does the mail in ballot still, And what's
Speaker 3: interesting is, like the a lot of people that are Republican,
Speaker 3: they took a long time getting their ballots this year
Speaker 3: and they were having like a lot of trouble or
Speaker 3: last year, excuse me, they had a lot of trouble
Speaker 3: getting their stuff.
Speaker 5: But Oregon likes to hide in the literature, Like the very.
Speaker 3: Last line of like all those PaperWorks that you have
Speaker 3: to read, they'll add in like extra taxes and stuff,
Speaker 3: and they'll give money away to like liberal ideology programs
Speaker 3: inside supposed to just like you know, hey, we're trying
Speaker 3: to help out our people.
Speaker 5: My mom has read me a whole bunch of them,
Speaker 5: and it's.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, all of this sounds great until the very
Speaker 3: last line of this fifteen page thing that you just read.
Speaker 3: So I found that to be really interesting because like,
Speaker 3: even their news is completely different from our news, Like
Speaker 3: we've watched it at the same time, my mom and me,
Speaker 3: and their news is projecting a liberal mindset of like
Speaker 3: you know, fear mongoling and all that, while our news
Speaker 3: is completely different and speaking on the same topics, but
Speaker 3: totally different.
Speaker 5: And I've tried to explain it to other people and
Speaker 5: they're like, no, it's not.
Speaker 3: I was like, no, really, we've we've watched it at
Speaker 3: the same time and watched exactly what was being said,
Speaker 3: and it's it's definitely more of pushing those ideologies up
Speaker 3: there and like skewing what's actually happening, and people just
Speaker 3: a lot of people buy into it.
Speaker 1: I could see that, honestly, And yeah, we make that.
Speaker 1: We talk about that a lot with what goes on
Speaker 1: in DC, right some bill is trying to get past.
Speaker 1: It's like three hundred pages long with like nine thousand
Speaker 1: different things within it, and if you disagree with one
Speaker 1: of the nine thousand, then you negate the other things,
Speaker 1: and this, that and the other. But I mean that
Speaker 1: definitely happens on the state and local level as well,
Speaker 1: So I fully believe that one hundred percent. I hope
Speaker 1: that Oregon does split. And if they do join Idaho,
Speaker 1: that kind of makes me happy because Idaho would then
Speaker 1: look like a double headed act and or Muleneer, which
Speaker 1: I think is cool. That makes me happy. On the
Speaker 1: other side of Oregon splits into two separate states, that
Speaker 1: also makes me happy because that's more electoral College votes
Speaker 1: towards the presidency when the time comes, and you know,
Speaker 1: but that would be that would be a swing state
Speaker 1: at that point that could you know, those things can
Speaker 1: go either way, but who knows, who knows what the
Speaker 1: future holds. We'll keep everybody posted on the things and
Speaker 1: the stuff as time goes on. But now getting back
Speaker 1: to the American news in general, this isn't necessarily world
Speaker 1: or geopolitical news, but this makes me happy because as
Speaker 1: a Marine Corps veteran, I like when Marines get new
Speaker 1: tech things, we typically get the worst equipment handed down
Speaker 1: to us, so we have to buy it second hand
Speaker 1: off of the Air Force or the Navy, or the Army,
Speaker 1: or whatever the case is. But apparently the Marines are
Speaker 1: getting their first high power microwave weapon for taking down
Speaker 1: drone swarms. I've heard the joke be made a few
Speaker 1: times that, like, yes, this device is able to take
Speaker 1: down like one hundred drones at once, and that's sick.
Speaker 1: But don't get mad when the Marines try to eat
Speaker 1: them after the fact. We cannot control that. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: just gonna be a part of it. We're gonna try
Speaker 1: to eat them or impregnate them. Something bad is gonna
Speaker 1: happen to the drones want to hit the ground. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's what Marines do. But again, I like it. I
Speaker 1: like it. We're getting new shit. The US Marine Corps
Speaker 1: has taken delivery of the Expeditionary Directed Energy Counter Swarm
Speaker 1: or x DEX weapon. It's maker, Epirus, announced today that
Speaker 1: to coincide with the Modern Day Marine Conference in Washington, DC,
Speaker 1: x DECKS will allow the Corps to start experiments with
Speaker 1: high power microwave technology in the increasingly critical low altitude
Speaker 1: air defense role. This kind of counter drone system is
Speaker 1: increasingly seen as a critical air enforced protection and something
Speaker 1: that is urgently needed to hants current and future ground
Speaker 1: based air defense capabilities. So, long story short, they're wanting
Speaker 1: to use this for like amphib assaults, which is what
Speaker 1: that's like supposed to be the Marines bread and butter.
Speaker 1: It's not necessarily, but we do have that capability more
Speaker 1: than the other branches. It's not like an arguable point.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the name of the game. And they're
Speaker 1: essentially saying that when the Amphibs roll up, instead of
Speaker 1: having drones trying to shoot them down and have a
Speaker 1: modern day Beaches of Normandy situation, bro, you could have
Speaker 1: a few of these on the amphib crafts themselves and
Speaker 1: or on the ship that they launched from and just
Speaker 1: knock out the entire swoon of droms, of entire swarm
Speaker 1: of drones, excuse me, with directed energy blasts. I love this.
Speaker 1: I love this. The XX is a derivative of the
Speaker 1: Leonidas HPM energy based counter drone system developed by Appiis,
Speaker 1: whose products we will revisit soon in a very in
Speaker 1: depth story. The company delivered its first x DEX system
Speaker 1: to the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dalgren Division in Virginia
Speaker 1: earlier this year, where it completed government acceptance testing ahead
Speaker 1: of planned test program. Now, little R two fu over here, right.
Speaker 1: I like this guy. He looks like he's ready to
Speaker 1: ruin somebody's day. You know. It's kind of innocuous looking,
Speaker 1: looking like a whole electrical box, if you will, very
Speaker 1: angry electrical box. The Mobile Solid State HPM system has
Speaker 1: been developed as part of a contract awarded by the
Speaker 1: US Naval Office of Naval Research ONR in September twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. The ONR awarded appeirs an additional follow on
Speaker 1: contract to support further testing and evaluation of the system
Speaker 1: as part of the preliminary evaluation of ground based anti
Speaker 1: swarm UAS system's Pegasus program. This is a direct quote here.
Speaker 1: It says drome warfare is changing the fight. Fast systems
Speaker 1: like x DEX gives a marine a decisive advantage by
Speaker 1: neutralizing multiple electronic threats at once with a single system,
Speaker 1: what we call a one too mini capability. That's Andy Lowry,
Speaker 1: the CEO of appearance. This delivery is a critical step
Speaker 1: towards fielding non kinetic counterswarm solutions that enhance the mobility, survivability,
Speaker 1: and lethality of our marine forces. So they did just
Speaker 1: develop a shotgun specifically for shooting down drones and in
Speaker 1: basic training now they are starting to introduce skeet shooting
Speaker 1: as a portion of the weapons qualifications. Not in all branches.
Speaker 1: Not in all branches. As a matter of fact, the
Speaker 1: United States Air Force is trying to take away all
Speaker 1: weapons qualifications from their basic training currently as we speak.
Speaker 1: The argument here is that unless you are in an
Speaker 1: MP role military police role, or a specops role or
Speaker 1: pj's or something like that, you, as an Air forceman
Speaker 1: airmen excuse me, are never going to hold a weapon.
Speaker 1: So they see it as a unnecessary expense to have
Speaker 1: weapons and AMMO and all these things go it to
Speaker 1: basic training in the Air Force when most airmen never
Speaker 1: touch a weapon. Now, I personally don't like that, although
Speaker 1: I will say the jokes right themselves, I are grunt.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how and why you would be in
Speaker 1: the military without using weapons, or at least qualifying with
Speaker 1: them on a regular basis. I don't. I don't understand that, right,
Speaker 1: same time. As I say that, Yo, I want to
Speaker 1: know what weapons the Space Force is currently qualifying with
Speaker 1: at basic training. And I'm sure they're going to be
Speaker 1: the US, the the IR, the six I get it,
Speaker 1: I get it. I want there to be ray guns
Speaker 1: or like you know, it was the rail guns they got,
Speaker 1: they got the electric rifles. I want that. Let the
Speaker 1: Space Force recruits trainees, Cadre, whatever the hell they're calling
Speaker 1: their trainee people, let them train with some advanced weapons.
Speaker 1: I'm here for that smoke, right, But the Air Force
Speaker 1: High Command is now saying that they just want to
Speaker 1: remove pretty much all weapons training from their entire boot
Speaker 1: camp line. You'll get the weapons training once you get
Speaker 1: to MP school or a pj's school or whatever specop school. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: while the Air Force is trying to disarm themselves, the
Speaker 1: Marines are getting new energy weapons to fight drone swarms.
Speaker 1: This is a crazy time, y'all. Like I cannot express
Speaker 1: in words the wildness that this actually is. Out loud Ravens,
Speaker 1: please speak on it.
Speaker 3: I well, this doesn't surprise me that the little Chair
Speaker 3: Force wants to take weapons away because they're pansies.
Speaker 1: I get it, But.
Speaker 5: Is there some Is there an Air Force person in there.
Speaker 1: A resident Jewish correspondent is an airman.
Speaker 2: Oh well, now I.
Speaker 5: Just know we actually want to talk shit.
Speaker 1: Ye fantastic, I'll tell you keeps getting stack harder against you. Royce.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, yeah, you're jus and godless gross.
Speaker 1: I'm joking, no, but uh, I think it's really interesting.
Speaker 3: I wonder what type of like if they're gonna make
Speaker 3: its own MOS or if they're gonna like have like
Speaker 3: who's gonna be is calm gonna be in charge of
Speaker 3: like teaching.
Speaker 5: This to people?
Speaker 3: Like I'm I'm wondering because like because we did you know,
Speaker 3: we do satellites and we do all of that stuff,
Speaker 3: so and it's mixed with intel. So I'm wondering, like
Speaker 3: who would actually be teaching this and like which MOS
Speaker 3: would be in charge of this?
Speaker 1: So and I don't know. The article really doesn't break
Speaker 1: that portion down. But so the way the modern Marine
Speaker 1: Corps infantry squad is comprised, it acts, actually it actually
Speaker 1: infuriates me. It makes me upset, Okay, And I know
Speaker 1: people are gonna have a little bit of flat towards
Speaker 1: this for whatever reason. So the Marine Corps that I
Speaker 1: served in Okay, there was a twelve man rifle squad
Speaker 1: and that was what that was. And yes, I understand
Speaker 1: situation dictates and like there's things and there's stuff and whatever,
Speaker 1: but they have because of the draw down and because
Speaker 1: of the peacetime military, they basically now have it to
Speaker 1: where if you're a squad leader, you're a sergeant, if
Speaker 1: you're a team leader, you're a corporal for anybody. And
Speaker 1: this is not gonna go into the the finer points
Speaker 1: of this, but let me just break this down. A
Speaker 1: fire team is a four man group. Okay. You used
Speaker 1: to have a point man, a team leader, a squad
Speaker 1: automatic weapon operator, and an a gunner. Okay, these were
Speaker 1: your four dudes. And sometimes your point man would be
Speaker 1: your team leader and you'd have a another rifleman in
Speaker 1: the mix or something along those lines. Fine, depended, right,
Speaker 1: Every team would have a two zero three, which is
Speaker 1: that forty milimeter grenade launcher that'd be attached to the
Speaker 1: bottom of a weapon. Okay, then they came out with
Speaker 1: the M thirty two M, which is that six cylinder
Speaker 1: of grenade launcher, and like you would have one of those,
Speaker 1: a grenade launcher of some type per fire team Now,
Speaker 1: when I had a team, I preferred to have the
Speaker 1: grenade launcher on my weapons system, and I also preferred
Speaker 1: to have a mag strictly full of tracer rounds to
Speaker 1: where I could direct fire from my team. If I
Speaker 1: wanted them to, you know, focus more fire towards the
Speaker 1: left towards the right, I would drop that REDMG in
Speaker 1: and just clack clock clock and they could follow the
Speaker 1: tracers and adjust fire. I also was really good with
Speaker 1: the forty mic mic, so I liked having that on me.
Speaker 1: That's just me. Every team is different. If you had
Speaker 1: a guy in your team that was like a gangster
Speaker 1: with a with a grenade launcher, you would make sure
Speaker 1: he has it right anyway anyway, So you would have
Speaker 1: three teams and a squad. Okay, that would make twelve dudes,
Speaker 1: and then you would have a there'll be a thirteenth guy.
Speaker 1: Sometimes a squad leader would also be first team leader.
Speaker 1: That it's whatever situation dictates. But the squad leader's job
Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily to do the fighting. It was to direct
Speaker 1: his fire teams to do maneuvers and close with the enemy.
Speaker 1: That was the entire goal. On top of that, you
Speaker 1: would have a platoon leader right now, that yeah, a
Speaker 1: guide on't usually a platoon sergeant, right, that's your guy.
Speaker 1: The title platoon sergeant would indicate that it was a
Speaker 1: sergeant rank, and typically it was. Right. They now have
Speaker 1: it to where to be a platoon sergeant you must
Speaker 1: be a staff sergeant, and they're getting to a point
Speaker 1: to where they don't want you to be a squad
Speaker 1: leader unless you're a staff sergeant. Now in the Army
Speaker 1: this makes more sense because they have more money, they
Speaker 1: have more bodies, they have more logistics, more numbers, and
Speaker 1: so it like, okay, you could make that happen because
Speaker 1: achieving the rank of a corporal or an E four
Speaker 1: I should say specialist in the Army, that's like a
Speaker 1: time and grade type of situation. That is not the
Speaker 1: case in the Marine Corps. We are smaller brands with
Speaker 1: less money, less funding, less advancement opportunities, so you have
Speaker 1: to fight and claw your way to whatever you earn. Right,
Speaker 1: they do give it out in some of the pogue
Speaker 1: moss and I don't mean that term with hatred. I don't.
Speaker 1: I used to say these things derogatorily. I do not.
Speaker 1: But my point is the pogues being positions other than grunts.
Speaker 1: By the way, like your admin, your supply, your comms.
Speaker 1: It would be easier for you to achieve corporal or
Speaker 1: sergeant in these ranks rather than or this MOS, rather
Speaker 1: than in the infantry. Because the infantry is the largest
Speaker 1: group in the Marine Corps, which means that there is
Speaker 1: you would think it's larger, there's more money to go around,
Speaker 1: not the way the Marine Corps does their infantry tax.
Speaker 1: But anyway, anyway, neither here nor there. So now now
Speaker 1: instead of having that type of squad, you have a
Speaker 1: thirteen man squad. And I'm not going to break down
Speaker 1: the finer points of it because it pisses me off. Honestly,
Speaker 1: every marine now has an iar, which is a way
Speaker 1: too heavy, fully automatic five to five six weapon. There's
Speaker 1: no belt feds. They have taken away the saw. They've
Speaker 1: taken away the belt fed machine guns, which hurts my soul. Okay,
Speaker 1: the saw was my baby. I loved her. She was
Speaker 1: a whore would she was not a good one, but
Speaker 1: she was also a road dog. Neither here nor there,
Speaker 1: but that being said, every single one of them now
Speaker 1: has a fully automatic weapon. So now rather than having
Speaker 1: a machine gunner, that would be good for laying down
Speaker 1: suppressive fire so the rest of your team or the
Speaker 1: rest of your squad could maneuver and close with the enemy.
Speaker 1: You now have to teach an entire group of nineteen
Speaker 1: year olds to have trigger discipline and not dump their
Speaker 1: load instantly and run out of ammunition too soon. That's
Speaker 1: a lot harder than people want to give it credit for.
Speaker 1: But neither here nor there, right, We're gonna move on
Speaker 1: on that. One. One of the marines in this squad
Speaker 1: is known as the tech marine. His job is to
Speaker 1: carry drones and a tablet and a computer and GPS
Speaker 1: and all the batteries, and that's his whole job is
Speaker 1: to shoot could be tech and no, no, I know
Speaker 1: what you're about to ask, Raven. This is an O
Speaker 1: three to MS. He is an infantry marine who is
Speaker 1: tasked out with being the tech marine for the squad.
Speaker 1: Comm dogs are still there, well, you know all the things.
Speaker 1: But this guy's whole job is to just carry the
Speaker 1: new age tech that goes with the modern Marine Corps squad.
Speaker 5: I don't even know what to say about that.
Speaker 1: It hurt me.
Speaker 3: I'm so confused because it would make sense for like
Speaker 3: a com marine to carry it because we have the
Speaker 3: satphones have, we carry everything, we have incinerio your needs,
Speaker 3: we carry the keys. Like I mean, I don't understand why.
Speaker 3: I mean, unless it's just so much extra work that
Speaker 3: they need two people, because it makes sense because you'd
Speaker 3: be on calm and you'd need to have eyes on
Speaker 3: the drone and be able to communicate.
Speaker 5: I guess, Like, I mean, I could see how they
Speaker 5: would need it.
Speaker 3: But that's interesting that that's like a whole new MOS.
Speaker 1: It's it's not even a new MOS. It's not even
Speaker 1: like a b billet the same way that like you'd
Speaker 1: have an three eleven that's carrying the saw even though
Speaker 1: yes you have a machine gun or MOS, but those
Speaker 1: types of machine guns that usually be like mounted, right
Speaker 1: that that'd be like the Mark nineteens or the well
Speaker 1: I would say the two forties, but I know plenty
Speaker 1: of elevens have got some time in on the two forties,
Speaker 1: but neither here nor there like the fifties. Right, the
Speaker 1: mall deuce you do you'd have the machine gun or mos.
Speaker 1: Is the thirty ones that would have that. These are
Speaker 1: elevens basic infantry riflemans, and one of them is going
Speaker 1: to be designated as the tech guy. And that's been
Speaker 1: going on for a few years now. Now, this was
Speaker 1: also before drones were used as heavily on the battlefield
Speaker 1: like we see fielded in Ukraine. So this is this
Speaker 1: was done before it was understood that drones are the
Speaker 1: real life boogeyman of the battlefield. It's no longer IED's,
Speaker 1: although they're still there too, it's not even like that.
Speaker 1: By the time you hear the drone flying overhead, he's
Speaker 1: probably already dropped his load and you have a mortar
Speaker 1: that's about to hit you in the next half second.
Speaker 1: That's from all the combat footage I see from going
Speaker 1: on in Ukraine. That seems to be the going standard
Speaker 1: of the day. But again, we could talk about that
Speaker 1: all day now. Who is going to be operating this
Speaker 1: the X Did I mispronounced that just now? The the
Speaker 1: X dex Excuse me. I don't think it's going to
Speaker 1: be a comerine. If I had to guess, it'd be
Speaker 1: probably something as far as like maybe I don't think arties.
Speaker 1: I don't think arties. Maybe the radar guys, maybe the
Speaker 1: calm dogs. I don't see why they would. And at
Speaker 1: this point it's just another certification, but they would only
Speaker 1: it's not like you just fire this thing. It deploys
Speaker 1: whenever it sees a threat. So it's kind of like
Speaker 1: the failing system on naval ships, the R two FU right,
Speaker 1: the thing that can fire like three thousand rounds a minute,
Speaker 1: and it's like a lead curtain that anything gets close
Speaker 1: enough to the boats. It's like that for amphib craft.
Speaker 1: And all it does is just send out a invisible,
Speaker 1: silent pulse energy wave to knock out. It was tested
Speaker 1: Nick successfully knocked out all one hundred out of one
Speaker 1: hundred drones that were swarming a target, like completely incapacitate
Speaker 1: them and fry their circuits. So again, I like the
Speaker 1: x DEX. I hope that we keep it. I hope
Speaker 1: the Marines get to use it. You know, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying I'm trying to be a warmonger here, but like,
Speaker 1: if we're gonna do it, then let's let's just match
Speaker 1: fire with fire. They're using drones. We have the thing
Speaker 1: that kills drones. I like this, But that also being said,
Speaker 1: I said earlier that they are talking about bringing skeet
Speaker 1: shooting into basic training. Now, the Navy does shotgun train
Speaker 1: in basic right. If you ever see the Navy's ribbon stacks,
Speaker 1: you'll see like the three blue ribbons at the bottom,
Speaker 1: and they'll have like a letter signifier on it. That's
Speaker 1: like their marksmanship badges, like we got so you. One
Speaker 1: of them's for pistol, one of them is for I
Speaker 1: think the M four, and one of them is for shotgun.
Speaker 1: At one point in time, they were talking about removing
Speaker 1: weapons training from naval boot camp as well, because most
Speaker 1: of the guys on a ship are not carrying a
Speaker 1: weapon because if the enemy has bordered your boat, so
Speaker 1: many things have gone wrong at that point that like,
Speaker 1: what good is shotgun's gonna do? That's that's the mindset
Speaker 1: to it. Now that was shut down because the Navy,
Speaker 1: for all of their things, I know, all the jokes, haha,
Speaker 1: but but they liked a gun. They liked a gun.
Speaker 1: The Air Force is saying that they would like to
Speaker 1: no longer gun because it is a unnecessary expenditure. So
Speaker 1: that being said, the Army and the Marine Corps is
Speaker 1: talking about introducing drone style skeet shooting and basic training
Speaker 1: because what has been shown in Ukraine and Russia is
Speaker 1: that shotguns, oddly enough, do pretty well at drone deterrence,
Speaker 1: and they have already developed a couple of new shotgun
Speaker 1: rounds that are you know what a bolo is For
Speaker 1: anybody who doesn't know, it's like think of the Australian
Speaker 1: hunting thing that's got like three balls and it's all
Speaker 1: connected by ropes and you sling it over your head
Speaker 1: and you sling it out of an animal and it
Speaker 1: like wraps around their ankles and trips them. This shotgun
Speaker 1: shell is essentially three weights connected by steel cables that
Speaker 1: fans out and bolow's a drone and they have that
Speaker 1: in twelve gage. So they're talking about introducing this more
Speaker 1: at Marine Corps and Army boot camp and I support this,
Speaker 1: I really do. I like that. That makes me happy.
Speaker 1: But the battlefield is changing drastically more and more every day.
Speaker 1: I'm very happy to see that the Marine Corps is
Speaker 1: changing with it. Okay, so before I go to the
Speaker 1: next article, let's check out the chat here. How did
Speaker 1: they get into America that far? You know, I don't
Speaker 1: know with the Mexican Army stepping into American soil that far,
Speaker 1: I don't know how they accidentally went that far north
Speaker 1: without ever realizing Yeah, there's holes in the fence. I
Speaker 1: get that the hole in the fence was so big
Speaker 1: and so wide that the Mexican military couldn't acknowledge that
Speaker 1: it was there. I have a hard time believing it.
Speaker 1: But again, I've never I've never seen the entire expanse
Speaker 1: of the of the border. I don't know how secure
Speaker 1: it actually is. I know we've have issues towards that regard,
Speaker 1: and that's why Trump is trying so hard to build
Speaker 1: a better wall, and he was trying in his first term.
Speaker 1: And like, I don't know, I don't know, maybe that
Speaker 1: was a section that Biden sold I could be Let's see,
Speaker 1: these areas have a lot of empty space, and Haikita
Speaker 1: has something like one hundred people and is about ten
Speaker 1: miles from the border. Yeah, it's one of those small
Speaker 1: desert towns that like is barely a town. I feel that.
Speaker 1: So I bet there was no street signs anywhere where
Speaker 1: this encounter took place. Ever been in Nevada or New
Speaker 1: Mexico or other desert places. Lots of empty flat area
Speaker 1: with no signs. Yeah. The only time I've really spent
Speaker 1: in the Western desert would be when I was in Yuma,
Speaker 1: Arizona at the Marine Corps air station there. Now to
Speaker 1: that point, that's pretty close to the border. A lot
Speaker 1: of wide open desert, a lot of wide open desert.
Speaker 1: And I still stand by the statement that was the
Speaker 1: best Mexican food I've ever had in my life. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's better to my experiences currently today, that was
Speaker 1: the best I've ever had. All Right, let's see here
Speaker 1: another heavy metal minora. I dig it, I dig it,
Speaker 1: let's see. Might as well share my art to just
Speaker 1: for the hell of it while I'm drugged up. Yeah, Alex,
Speaker 1: how are you doing after your surgery? How did everything go?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: I was praying for you. I hope that everything's good
Speaker 1: and that you have a fast recovery. Bacon pieces, oh Jesus.
Speaker 6: Christ hospital for at least the next two days.
Speaker 1: Okay, that was it? Surgery successful? I don't want to
Speaker 1: like overly.
Speaker 6: Share you think so. Yeah, I'm not sure the doctors
Speaker 6: are saying.
Speaker 1: A lot okay? Is that typically the type of surgery
Speaker 1: that it's like, well, wait and see kind of game
Speaker 1: or no news is good news.
Speaker 6: That's just how up mc its eat or drink anything yet.
Speaker 6: So it's just waiting until two days from now pretty
Speaker 6: much got you.
Speaker 1: Well, you are going to stay in my prayers and
Speaker 1: I hope that do you have a speedy recovery and
Speaker 1: that you're back in action as soon as possible. Man,
Speaker 1: So thank you.
Speaker 6: I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: You Alex. Let's see here, Merlin, what up nerds do?
Speaker 1: Piece suns all the way around Ice nine Kills?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 1: I do love Ice nine Kills. I do love their music.
Speaker 1: That one album where they basically just made a whole
Speaker 1: horror album. And then they did one where it was
Speaker 1: all about Disney because Disney made a rule where they
Speaker 1: couldn't perform at House of Blues, I think because the
Speaker 1: one in particular was owned by Disney. So they made
Speaker 1: a whole album giving the middle finger to Disney. That
Speaker 1: makes me happy anyway. Let's see here. My body is
Speaker 1: a machine where here's my Sarah Connor. Ah, I dig it.
Speaker 1: I still have a hard time, don't. I still have
Speaker 1: a hard time not dumping my load and wasting all
Speaker 1: my ammo? Okay, Merlin, I feel that I do. And
Speaker 1: you know they say that as soon as you get
Speaker 1: in your first firefight, you get tunnel vision in and
Speaker 1: all of your training goes out the window and it
Speaker 1: takes you a while to adapt to the environment. I
Speaker 1: get that, I do. I am just still of the
Speaker 1: belief that we should not have the entire squad full
Speaker 1: of automatic weapons, especially if your marines are only going
Speaker 1: out on patrol with six to eight mags max. And like,
Speaker 1: I've talked to other branches about this, and they think
Speaker 1: that's crazy. Like you're only going out with like eight mags.
Speaker 1: What happens if you run out? I'm like, then you're
Speaker 1: out and you have to call for a resupply or
Speaker 1: you have to like conserve your AMMO, and like maybe
Speaker 1: you have a couple more boxes in your bag or something,
Speaker 1: but like you don't just dump. And like that's the
Speaker 1: thing fire superiority that in and of itself is a
Speaker 1: statement or a sentiment that different branches believe different things about.
Speaker 1: Some branches believe that that means that you're putting more
Speaker 1: lead down range than they are at you. Marines think
Speaker 1: that this means that you're getting accurate effects on target,
Speaker 1: meaning that their head is staying down and it doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily mean you're getting a kill for every shot. But
Speaker 1: it's not clock cock cock cock cock cock. I'm reloading
Speaker 1: clock cock cock cock cock cock like bro, no, stop
Speaker 1: all that foolishness. Anyway, Anyway, I'm sure that was an
Speaker 1: inn window. But still with that being said, go ahead.
Speaker 2: Merlin, and for sure was an inn window. Okay, another
Speaker 2: one that got me six kids?
Speaker 1: You have six kids?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I have four boys and two girls.
Speaker 1: Damn it.
Speaker 2: It is a fourteen and nine.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, four baby mamas will do that to you.
Speaker 1: Heard that hurt? Right, babe? Five years my boy?
Speaker 2: All right, that work done, son.
Speaker 1: You got it done? Yeah, I promise your child support hurts.
Speaker 2: Oh it does. I'm a fabricator. I'm a fabrication welder.
Speaker 7: I make pretty good money and uh I only take
Speaker 7: home about five hundred every week.
Speaker 1: Mmmm. But but did you make that good money when
Speaker 1: you was h reproducing in this manner? No, so your
Speaker 1: child support is based off the income you made at
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 2: Nope, they keep every time I get a new job,
Speaker 2: they readjust it.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, my baby mom too.
Speaker 7: Of my baby mama's are really good about every time
Speaker 7: I get a raised, just knowing it.
Speaker 2: And so they'll be like, hey, we need to readjust this.
Speaker 2: So I'm like, no, you don't. You can leave that alone. Please, damn.
Speaker 1: I feel for you in my heart and in my soul. Merlin.
Speaker 2: Good, I did the job.
Speaker 1: I do the time, right, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: I'd be like that, but I mean you also seem
Speaker 1: like the type that's a pretty active father, So I
Speaker 1: don't do the ship bag that like never sees your
Speaker 1: kids either.
Speaker 7: So especially me and two of my sons start streaming
Speaker 7: together on video games.
Speaker 1: Oh that's like it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty.
Speaker 7: Fun because there's that whole father son dynamic while playing
Speaker 7: video games, Like they'll try to talk.
Speaker 2: Shit to me. I'm like, you know, I know where
Speaker 2: you sleep, right.
Speaker 1: Yo, you're like screaming and like putting it out as content. Yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: where at plug the shit.
Speaker 2: It's Magical Musician five on TikTok and YouTube.
Speaker 1: Magical Musician five. Everybody listening, please go check him out.
Speaker 1: Give them the follows, the subscribes, all the things, all
Speaker 1: the stuff. Absolutely Merlin. Hell yeah dude, Okay, we're back
Speaker 1: in the chat over here. Still have a hard time.
Speaker 8: One thing, did you hear the ambuls coming out with
Speaker 8: AI that helps soldiers in the field.
Speaker 1: It doesn't shock me that it sounds.
Speaker 2: It sounds awesome.
Speaker 8: The way they put it, because like say you got
Speaker 8: recon on top of the hill, what he is seeing
Speaker 8: is what the guys down in the town we'll see too,
Speaker 8: Like if there's an enemy behind a corner two blocks down,
Speaker 8: the guy who is two blocks away from that, we'll
Speaker 8: see like through the wall, be.
Speaker 2: Able to see the objective.
Speaker 1: So to say, I know that AI has that capability
Speaker 1: of being amazing and to be used as a tool
Speaker 1: to help us. I fully get that, Man, I still
Speaker 1: just don't trust it to my core. If we're gonna
Speaker 1: use it, then let's use it to protect our guys
Speaker 1: on the front lines. For one hundred percent with you, dude,
Speaker 1: it's a slippery slope. It is such a.
Speaker 7: Really, it really is. But if they limit it, I
Speaker 7: feel like it could save so many lives.
Speaker 1: And as much hatred as I give to AI, I
Speaker 1: don't know for one hundred percent certainty that there is
Speaker 1: no way to limit it. I don't know, Like I
Speaker 1: think that there's probably like, yeah, we give it another
Speaker 1: ten years and it will be limitless. I don't know
Speaker 1: that for a fact. There may be safeties and things
Speaker 1: that could be put into it to prevent it from
Speaker 1: taking over the world. In the worst case scenario. I'm
Speaker 1: sure that that's a thing. But man, if it's got
Speaker 1: electricity to it, that means it's hackable. And that's my
Speaker 1: one problem with it. Could you imagine if the do
Speaker 1: O d's AI systems were hacked by character Like it's
Speaker 1: at that point we just handed over our entire defense
Speaker 1: structure on a silver platter to whoever.
Speaker 2: Drones, aircraft, all of it. Yep.
Speaker 1: I see it with a lot of potential for great
Speaker 1: things in the future. I just boil boy. I have
Speaker 1: a hard time trusting it. I still call myself new Ajamish.
Speaker 1: I draw the line of electricity. I'll draw the line, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: And I mean to be honest with you. I've even
Speaker 1: had that conversation before. Like, dude, maybe the Amish had
Speaker 1: it right. Electricity only leads to evil and like out loud,
Speaker 1: that's stupid. Right. We have lights, and we have this.
Speaker 1: We also have the Internet, and that's led to a
Speaker 1: whole lot of dark, dark dark places, the dark way
Speaker 1: even and all these things. And it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I like my air conditioning. But maybe the Amish weren't
Speaker 1: too far off base. I don't know, and I should
Speaker 1: on them a good bit too, But like I hope
Speaker 1: people tough.
Speaker 2: Let's play with the Amish guy.
Speaker 1: No, no, but they're a different type of strong dude.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, But like I hope people understand it's jokes,
Speaker 1: you know, the same way I should on the Mountain Jews.
Speaker 1: It's jokes. The Mormons are fine. You know. I may
Speaker 1: disagree with the way they live their lives, but I
Speaker 1: don't have hatred towards them. You know, I don't have
Speaker 1: hatred towards the Amish or the Gypsies, because that's good God.
Speaker 1: For a while there, I was just pretty much talking
Speaker 1: about how the Gypsies were trying to take over the world,
Speaker 1: and I may I might continue that bit. It's funny enough,
Speaker 1: but I didn't realize it would actually piss off real
Speaker 1: Gypsies because, like I thought they didn't care about that
Speaker 1: type of shit. I thought that they could take a joke.
Speaker 1: But apparently people mistake the Internet for a dick and
Speaker 1: they decide they want to take it too hard. I guess,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's see here, moving on into the chat.
Speaker 1: Just followed your TikTok. Hell yeah, hell yeah, Raven, Everybody
Speaker 1: go check him out on TikTok. Let's let's keep this
Speaker 1: community supporting itself, you know, all right now going back
Speaker 1: to sharing the screen again now as we're still talking
Speaker 1: about the US and military things. The US is from
Speaker 1: ABC News, by the way, strikes on a yemen Y
Speaker 1: Yemeni fuck Yemen oil reserves okay a port, killing seventy
Speaker 1: four people. The Houthi say it's the deadliest attack of
Speaker 1: Trump campaign. This is from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
Speaker 1: The US airstrikes targeting an oil port near Yemen's Hoothy
Speaker 1: Rebels killed seventy four people and wounded one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy one others, the group said Friday, in the deadliest
Speaker 1: known attack under President Donald Trump's new military campaign against
Speaker 1: the Iranian back faction. The strike on ras Isa Port,
Speaker 1: which sent massive fireball shooting into the night sky, represented
Speaker 1: a major escalation in the American effort by hitting oil
Speaker 1: facilities for the first time. Assessing the toll of Trump's campaign,
Speaker 1: which began March fifteenth, has been difficult, as the US
Speaker 1: Military Center Command hasn't released any information including its attacks, targets,
Speaker 1: and how many people have been killed. The Hoothis, meanwhile,
Speaker 1: strictly control access to attacked areas and don't publish complete
Speaker 1: information on the strikes, many of which likely have targeted
Speaker 1: military and security sites. Well, I mean, that's not a shocker.
Speaker 1: Of course, the Houthies, you're not going to tell us
Speaker 1: how successful the attack was. They're going to a skew
Speaker 1: the numbers, of course, right. In a statement, Central Command
Speaker 1: said US forces took action to eliminate this source of
Speaker 1: fuel for the Iran backs Hoothy terrorists and deprive them
Speaker 1: of illegal revenue that has funded hoo the efforts to
Speaker 1: terrorize the entire region for over ten years. This strike
Speaker 1: was not intended to harm the people of Yemen, who
Speaker 1: rightly want to throw off the yoke of Hoothy subjugation
Speaker 1: and live peacefully. It added. It did not acknowledge any
Speaker 1: casualties from the attack or offer any damage assessment. Hours
Speaker 1: after the strike that Houthi's launched a missile towards Israel
Speaker 1: that was intercepted. Obviously, the Israeli military said sirens sounded
Speaker 1: in Tel Aviv and elsewhere. Yemen civil war mean while
Speaker 1: further internationalized as the US allegations and Chinese satellite company
Speaker 1: was directly supporting Hoo, they attacks, they claim Beijing declined
Speaker 1: to directly comment on, and a second round of negotiations
Speaker 1: between Iran and the US over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear programs,
Speaker 1: which America has linked to the Yemen campaign, is due
Speaker 1: to happen Saturday in Rome. So as far as the
Speaker 1: whole Iran nuclear situation goes, I don't know what the
Speaker 1: current talking point is because I don't know if they've
Speaker 1: actually reached an agreement. The last I heard was that
Speaker 1: Iran was willing to negotiate and said that they wouldn't
Speaker 1: enrich the uranium past and it was like sixty percent
Speaker 1: or sixty five percent something like that to where essentially,
Speaker 1: And I'm not like an all knower of nuclear things, Tony,
Speaker 1: you actually know more about this than I probably ever will.
Speaker 1: But if I'm not mistaken, uranium that is enriched to
Speaker 1: sixty or sixty five percent or something can't be deemed
Speaker 1: weapons grade. It can be used for nuclear power, however,
Speaker 1: which is like what this whole thing was about. Iran
Speaker 1: wants nuclear power, dope, Iran wants nukes. Yeah, we gotta
Speaker 1: shut that shit down. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Right if I can chime in Iran has had nuclear
Speaker 4: power for a couple of decades now. You only need
Speaker 4: about three percent enriched uranium to have nuclear power. And
Speaker 4: to get into the nitty gritty details of this, what
Speaker 4: that means is that uranium basically comes out out of
Speaker 4: the Earth and two isotopes. One is two thirty five,
Speaker 4: which is more unstable than the other is two thirty eight.
Speaker 4: Two thirty eight is ninety nine point three percent of
Speaker 4: what's naturally abundant, and two thirty five is only zero
Speaker 4: point seven percent of it. But you can use a
Speaker 4: centerfuge to purify it and get the two thirty five
Speaker 4: percentage up higher and higher and higher. And the most
Speaker 4: pure two thirty five stuff ever made was ninety seven
Speaker 4: percent pure, and the threshold for a nuclear weapon is
Speaker 4: something like sixty percent. Maybe I don't know, but something
Speaker 4: like what you were saying. There's also medical uses for
Speaker 4: twenty percent enriched uranium, and you only need about three
Speaker 4: percent to run a nuclear reactor, and going down lower
Speaker 4: than zero point seven percent, the byproduct of enrichment is
Speaker 4: called depleted uranium, and it's about zero point two percent
Speaker 4: U two thirty five, and that's the super heavy stuff
Speaker 4: used in weapons. But it's still somewhat radioactive. So that's
Speaker 4: kind of the whole story on uranium. And we could
Speaker 4: talk about thorium too. Thorium is a similar it's element
Speaker 4: number ninety uranium's number ninety two. In China just built
Speaker 4: a thorium reactor kind of recently, and that was in
Speaker 4: the news that I meant to bring up later. We
Speaker 4: could do that later. My whole take on who Thy's
Speaker 4: and stuff is, well, I'm not super against them, and
Speaker 4: I think Israel should end it's blockade of Gaza because
Speaker 4: the World Food Program had a bunch of has warehouses
Speaker 4: of flower in Gaza and they just ran out of flower,
Speaker 4: just ran out of all their food a little earlier
Speaker 4: this week. So food prices are going way up and
Speaker 4: people are going to starve if nothing changes. So I've
Speaker 4: been praying for the people at Gaza, but it seems
Speaker 4: like there's a good chance that huge numbers of them
Speaker 4: are going to die soon and there's nothing we can
Speaker 4: do about it.
Speaker 1: So the Israel situation is the Israe situation, no doubts.
Speaker 1: But why are you not necessarily against the Huthis? They
Speaker 1: have shot at American ships multiple times now? Of course,
Speaker 1: it hasn't landed because they obviously and I've seen like
Speaker 1: how far they were from hitting the ships, like they
Speaker 1: literally couldn't hit the broadside of a barn. But why
Speaker 1: are you not against the Houthi rebels.
Speaker 4: Well, they're acting on behalf of the Gazans, and Israel's
Speaker 4: shut down trade to Gaza. So the Houthy response is
Speaker 4: kind of a tit for tat. It's just saying that
Speaker 4: you're going to shut down trade to this place. Well,
Speaker 4: We're going to shut down trade to that place. It's
Speaker 4: basically the same thing.
Speaker 1: But are they supporting Gaza? Are they supporting Iran?
Speaker 4: Mostly Gaza? In my opinion, most.
Speaker 1: Of their weapons have come from Iran? How can that be? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I understand like what they say. They say they're doing
Speaker 1: this in solidarity with their Muslim brothers in Gaza. I
Speaker 1: get the narrative, But most of what they have done
Speaker 1: has come from Iran. So the missiles they've shot at
Speaker 1: American ships, as a matter of fact, have come from Iran.
Speaker 4: Right, I guess that's just the way the geopolitics has
Speaker 4: lined up. They weren't initially on Iran's side fifteen or
Speaker 4: back in twenty fifteen. Iran told them not to take
Speaker 4: over the capital, and they did anyway, And I guess
Speaker 4: sometime between then and now they've become more tight with
Speaker 4: Iran because they have no other allies in the world,
Speaker 4: and that's just kind of the way it's shaken out.
Speaker 4: But I don't really have much against Iran or the Houthies.
Speaker 1: Well that's another one of those things where I think
Speaker 1: you and I kind of differ on opinions. But I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not like the people of Yemen are ever going
Speaker 1: to actually attack the US mainland. I don't want them
Speaker 1: to attack US ships. If you have an issue with Israel,
Speaker 1: have an issue with Israel, stop trying to touch America's
Speaker 1: boats and speaking on that. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: I didn't pull up an article on this one because
Speaker 1: there was really wasn't a need for one. But we
Speaker 1: lost another F eighteen, and for a crazy hot second
Speaker 1: there the conversation about bombing the absolute hell out of
Speaker 1: the hoo Thies came into conversation, but it it's it
Speaker 1: wasn't that apparently, So this would make three that we've
Speaker 1: lost in the last like two months. The first two
Speaker 1: were shot down by American missiles from an American boat
Speaker 1: because they somehow didn't see the call sign and the
Speaker 1: trackers on these planes and shot them down. And that
Speaker 1: was massively embarrassing. And like it was, it was a
Speaker 1: whole thing. The commander just got relieved of command. And
Speaker 1: it's in the Navy. That's kind of a big deal, right,
Speaker 1: So this one wasn't that level of incompetence, but it
Speaker 1: was incompetence still, long story short, the F eighteen was
Speaker 1: on top of the flight deck and they had to
Speaker 1: make a hard turn and no one strapped down the
Speaker 1: F eighteen and it slid off the boat and is
Speaker 1: now at the bottom of the sea. So that day
Speaker 1: we've lost another one and that's not a good look.
Speaker 1: That's quite embarrassing for our United States Navy. But you
Speaker 1: know the yeah, yeah, the joke trite themselves. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say on that anyway. All right, all right,
Speaker 1: so moving on the US bomb. Are you hoot the
Speaker 1: controlled oil reserve killed a bunch of people. That's a thing.
Speaker 1: I thought I just exit out of this one. Yeah, Oh,
Speaker 1: maybe accidentally pulled it up twice. My bad. Now, speaking
Speaker 1: on the Middle East, let's talk about this now, Pakistan
Speaker 1: and Indian forces exchange fire along the Cashmir border. Now,
Speaker 1: for anybody who doesn't know, this border has been contested
Speaker 1: and there has been struggling strife over it. This is
Speaker 1: not a new thing. It has been going on for
Speaker 1: years and years and years and years, but here recently
Speaker 1: it has taken more of a step up as far
Speaker 1: as a potential war breaking out over it. Pakistani and
Speaker 1: Indian forces exchanged fire along the disputed Kashmir border overnight,
Speaker 1: with both sides blaming the other for starting the armed confrontation.
Speaker 1: As we would expect. Obviously, who shot first, babe babe bebe,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter the both shooting now. This clash the latest
Speaker 1: in a series of gunfire exchanges since last week's attack
Speaker 1: in Indian Administer's Kashmir. Occurred between Tuesday and Wednesday night.
Speaker 1: No casualties were reported. In a statement, the Indian Army
Speaker 1: said during the night of April twenty nine to thirtieth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Pakistani Army posts initiated unprovoked small arms
Speaker 1: fire across the line of control in the Nashera, Sunderbanni
Speaker 1: and Akhnur sections of Jamu and Kashmir. Gotta hope I
Speaker 1: got those right. The Indian military swiftly responded in a
Speaker 1: proportional manner. Now I don't I think they mean proportional
Speaker 1: in the same sense that America means proportional. We proportional
Speaker 1: to us as usually playing the one up game. I
Speaker 1: think they actually might mean like the true definition of proportional.
Speaker 1: The Indian Army also reported unprovoked small arms fire near
Speaker 1: the Pakistani posts in Baramula and Kapwara districts, as well
Speaker 1: as along the international border in the Pargwaal sector, with
Speaker 1: the Indian forces responding accordingly. On the other hand, Pakistan
Speaker 1: accused the Indian Army of opening fire unprovoked quote unquote,
Speaker 1: both all the unprovoked by the way or quote unquote
Speaker 1: here in the Kiyani Mandal sector on Tuesday night, which
Speaker 1: was met quote unquote proportionally, according to state run Pakistan Television,
Speaker 1: citing security sources. Pakistan also claimed that at least one
Speaker 1: Indian Army outpost was destroyed during the exchange. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: kind of what led me to this article. I had
Speaker 1: heard that an Indian outpost was destroyed, and that was like, wait,
Speaker 1: that's not something you do accidentally. That's not something that
Speaker 1: can happen from small arms fire. So things are absolutely
Speaker 1: escalating as far as it's a concern amid the Cross
Speaker 1: loc Exchange, the Yeah Cross LLC Exchange. The Director's General
Speaker 1: of Military Operations from both sides held a phone call
Speaker 1: on Tuesday to discuss the situation. Tensions between the two
Speaker 1: nations have been escalating since April twenty second, when unidentified
Speaker 1: gunmen killed twenty six people at the Pahalgam tourist resort
Speaker 1: in Indian Administered Kashmir. Meanwhile, on Wednesday evening, India barred
Speaker 1: Pakistani airlines from using its airspace. According to the Press
Speaker 1: Trust of India, a notice to airmen not tom no tam,
Speaker 1: I don't know was issued restricting Pakistani's Pakistan's airlines from
Speaker 1: entering Indian airspace. The newd Agency reported last week Pakistan
Speaker 1: had closed the airspace to all Indian owned or operated
Speaker 1: airlines after India suspended Pakistani visas and shut the only
Speaker 1: land border between the two countries. Additionally, Islamabad halted trade
Speaker 1: with India, including through third party countries. Now, Tony, you
Speaker 1: had brought up something in the chat earlier talking about
Speaker 1: what was going on in Pakistan and India. If you
Speaker 1: have some more knowledge on this, please, Well.
Speaker 4: It's just I heard all the same things that you read,
Speaker 4: and this seems like people are saying that there's a
Speaker 4: high chance it's gonna boil over this time into a
Speaker 4: bigger war. I remember a similar thing going on back
Speaker 4: in twenty nineteen. And have you ever known any Indians
Speaker 4: or Pakistanis in real life. I used to know quite
Speaker 4: a few, especially Indians in California, and most of them
Speaker 4: are highly, highly opinionated about the other country, highly opinionated.
Speaker 4: My coworker Ikram like he wouldn't get passionate about very much,
Speaker 4: but when he'd start talking about India because he was
Speaker 4: from Pakistan, accent would get thicker. He would close his
Speaker 4: eyes and just get very angry. And most of the
Speaker 4: Indians same thing. So there's a pretty good chance. It's
Speaker 4: impossible to assess the probability, but I'm really praying for
Speaker 4: peace here. I guess one good thing about this conflict
Speaker 4: is I don't think it's going to draw in other
Speaker 4: countries that much, because I think most other countries, including
Speaker 4: the US, don't see an interest in intervening here except
Speaker 4: to just encourage both sides to tamp down the escalation.
Speaker 4: So I'm glad. I'm glad you covered it though.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I first of all, yes, one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: I have buddies from Pakistan who currently live there now,
Speaker 1: and I have a lot of Indian friends of mine
Speaker 1: from my childhood, and I'll meet Indian like of Indian descent,
Speaker 1: like no, no, no, first generation Indians that I grew
Speaker 1: up around. As far as that goes, India being the
Speaker 1: massive subcontinent that they are, there's so many different and
Speaker 1: cultures throughout, but almost unanimously doesn't matter if it's in
Speaker 1: Northern India, in Delhi, in the South, whatever, they all
Speaker 1: have an opinion on Pakistan. Like it's a very like
Speaker 1: you said, a very loud, very strongly felt opinion. I
Speaker 1: might add. Now, my Pakistani buddies that I have, one
Speaker 1: of them couldn't care less about international things. He's one
Speaker 1: of the two percent Christian minority in the nation of Pakistan,
Speaker 1: so when it comes to international things a lot of that,
Speaker 1: he doesn't even feel like he has a dog in
Speaker 1: that fight. The other Pakistani buddies that I have, they
Speaker 1: hate and I don't mean just like dislike India, you know. Oh,
Speaker 1: they call them derogatory terms. No, it's like I would
Speaker 1: venture to say, possibly even a genocidal hatred of Indians.
Speaker 1: It's a thing. It is a thing. So I'm with
Speaker 1: you on this. I think that this will probably boil
Speaker 1: over into a larger scaled conflict. However, no Western power
Speaker 1: at all, America, Britain, the EU, NAT, nobody has decided
Speaker 1: that they want to weigh in on this one in
Speaker 1: like aid one side or the other. India has an
Speaker 1: extremely capable military. Pakistan does not not even close to
Speaker 1: a respectable military. They have a few units that are
Speaker 1: like they're special forces quote unquote and like, yay, fine,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to say they're god awful. I'm saying
Speaker 1: that this is a very lopsided fight. What I do
Speaker 1: foresee is that Pakistan and India would start buying more weapons,
Speaker 1: more jets, more rounds, more everything, and it would be
Speaker 1: a big money making scheme for the military industrial complex.
Speaker 1: And I don't just mean the Orkan military dustrial complex,
Speaker 1: I mean the global one. So the same way that everybody,
Speaker 1: although they might say out loud that they want the
Speaker 1: Russia and Ukraine conflict to come to an end Lockeed
Speaker 1: and Boeing, they really don't like at all. They're making
Speaker 1: a killing RTX formerly Raytheon. They are cool with this
Speaker 1: going on for as long as needed. Iran and Iran,
Speaker 1: excuse me, India and Pakistan or Pakistan around how people
Speaker 1: pronounce it, same thing. They would really like for this
Speaker 1: to go into a more larger armed conflict that they
Speaker 1: can make more bank on, because India does have money
Speaker 1: to spend. I don't think Pakistan has as much, but
Speaker 1: the Belton Roade initiative did push through there, so China
Speaker 1: is at least paying somebody something in Pakistan, and they
Speaker 1: may have a little bit of money to blow for
Speaker 1: some new weapons. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, China seems pretty close with Pakistan, and the US
Speaker 4: used to be because India used to be close for
Speaker 4: the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But there's been
Speaker 4: a realignment there over the last thirty years, so America's
Speaker 4: gotten closer to India a little farther away from Pakistan,
Speaker 4: and Pakistan's gotten closer to China. I don't know if
Speaker 4: Russia really feels much of an interest in either of
Speaker 4: those two countries right now, but I'd say it's very
Speaker 4: ethno nationalists on both sides, and it goes back at
Speaker 4: least in nineteen forty seven, because, for example, in Europe,
Speaker 4: Eastern Europe was very ethnically mixed before World War Two.
Speaker 4: There were lots of Germans living there, and the Germans
Speaker 4: wanted to take over the whole place, but they ended
Speaker 4: up getting completely kicked out of Eastern Europe, and Poles
Speaker 4: got kicked out of southeastern Poland. There were lots of genocides.
Speaker 4: And around the same time, it was nineteen forty seven
Speaker 4: when the partition of India happened, and a very similar
Speaker 4: ethnic cleansing happened on both sides of the line. And
Speaker 4: I think the Muslims and the Hindus both feel very
Speaker 4: ethnonationalist about their group, and wherever they had a majority,
Speaker 4: they were kicking the other group out. And people tend
Speaker 4: to remember being victimized like that. It's far more than
Speaker 4: they remember any culpability for their own people doing it
Speaker 4: to the other group. For sure, that's just kind of
Speaker 4: natural psychology, but it survived this long. And yeah, they
Speaker 4: might actually have this genocidal intent toward each other, like
Speaker 4: you mentioned, I just hope that that can be tamped
Speaker 4: down somehow. They both have nukes too, and India and
Speaker 4: Pakistan do not sign the Non Proliferation Agreement. They're one
Speaker 4: of only maybe like five or six or seven countries
Speaker 4: including Israel, North Korea, South Sudan, and maybe like one
Speaker 4: other one somewhere. So they both have nukes. They both
Speaker 4: have about one hundred and thirty warheads according to what
Speaker 4: I just looked up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I really hope that it doesn't go to
Speaker 1: a nuclear war because that would mean that everybody dies
Speaker 1: and that's not good for anybody. But to your point,
Speaker 1: as far as how would Russia weigh in on this one,
Speaker 1: I don't think Russia has any love for either nation.
Speaker 1: That being said Mody, the PM or president, I'm not
Speaker 1: sure which title of India did just sign a contract
Speaker 1: to buy some SU thirty five's or thirty sevens, whatever
Speaker 1: the new Russian fighter is. There was a contract put
Speaker 1: out and it was about to They basically had a
Speaker 1: showdown between the American I think it was the F
Speaker 1: thirty five and the Sioux fifty seven or whatever the
Speaker 1: case is, and last minute America pulled out of it
Speaker 1: and Russia just kind of won the contract. So I
Speaker 1: don't think that Russia is going to have a dog
Speaker 1: in the fight. As far as the actual war is concerned,
Speaker 1: They've got bigger fish to fry in other locations. That
Speaker 1: being said, Russia is always looking for more ways to
Speaker 1: earn a dolla, and if they have jets that they
Speaker 1: could sell to India to make some money, yeah, I
Speaker 1: could see him doing that now. I don't know what
Speaker 1: Pakistan and air forces are looking like these days, but again,
Speaker 1: like just looking at the size and the population density
Speaker 1: of these two, that's if it was to go to
Speaker 1: a true war rather than a couple of skirmishes or
Speaker 1: something like that, if it was to be a legitimate
Speaker 1: declaration of war that spawns because of this, I feel
Speaker 1: like India is about to dog walk Pakistan. But that
Speaker 1: being said, India does have a pretty sizable Muslim population
Speaker 1: living within them. Yes, they are primarily a Hindu and
Speaker 1: Sikh nation for sure, but they do have a pretty
Speaker 1: large Muslim population that lives there. And you might have
Speaker 1: your own version of homegrown terrorism slash freedom fighters that
Speaker 1: would start doing homegrown attacks in India, And I don't
Speaker 1: think they really want to feel that problem either. So
Speaker 1: it's I'm with you. I hope that it gets situated
Speaker 1: and tamped down with as little loss of life and
Speaker 1: limb as possible. But let's be honest, these two countries
Speaker 1: have been looking for an excuse to really take it
Speaker 1: to the next level. This very well may be that excuse. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just read and I'm kind of surprised by this,
Speaker 4: but Russia seems to be taking India's side in the
Speaker 4: recent last week. That surprises me because the US is
Speaker 4: also more on India's side than Pakistans, so I could
Speaker 4: see it this alignment works out. Yeah, it is mysterious.
Speaker 1: I could see it for the business acumen of it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and I mean Russia. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying like getting in bed with India by any means,
Speaker 1: but selling India arms for sure. China hooking up with
Speaker 1: Pakistan to kind of not even sell them arms, although
Speaker 1: possibly just to protect their Belt and Road initiative, to
Speaker 1: protect China's interests in a foreign nation. Absolutely. Now, does
Speaker 1: this mean that China and Russia will find themselves at
Speaker 1: odds with each other? I highly doubt that, highly doubt that.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, this is kind of how
Speaker 1: the chips are falling as far as who's aligning themselves
Speaker 1: with who so or whom I should say, so, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to expect. We will. I will
Speaker 1: keep everybody posted on this as it plays out. This
Speaker 1: week has had a lot of wild things happen, so
Speaker 1: I honestly didn't expect this one. I mean, India's got
Speaker 1: a border crisis going on with China as we speak anyway,
Speaker 1: in their northern section, which for anybody who doesn't know,
Speaker 1: we've talked about it before. They basically have a rule
Speaker 1: that no firearms are to be used. But when Chinese
Speaker 1: forces and Indian forces meet up, it's like hand to
Speaker 1: hand combat and axes and chains and two by fours
Speaker 1: and clubs and shit. No firearms. But there are deaths
Speaker 1: that have happened between Chinese soldiers and Indian soldiers on
Speaker 1: that border. So maybe that's another kind of reason why
Speaker 1: China's aligning themselves a Pakistan over India on this one.
Speaker 1: I could see that being a portion of the issue
Speaker 1: as well. Enemy of my tony type of thing. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've read the exact same story about how there
Speaker 4: have been fistfights there where guys have died up in
Speaker 4: the Himalayas, and that's been going on since many years ago.
Speaker 4: I did read a news story a couple of months
Speaker 4: ago saying that China and India patched a lot of
Speaker 4: that up. But then I saw things after that that said, no,
Speaker 4: not really, and it could break out again. So I
Speaker 4: don't know what to believe there. But maybe it's it's
Speaker 4: not as big as some people make it out to be,
Speaker 4: and maybe it is.
Speaker 1: Asia be doing Asia things for sure. But you know,
Speaker 1: with that being said, as we are kind of on
Speaker 1: the Asian continent, let's talk a little bit about China. Now.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and share the screen again again
Speaker 1: for anybody who is listening to this at any point
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Speaker 1: Only one tier for entry now, it depends on the
Speaker 1: new source you read on this one. I literally saw
Speaker 1: last week there was multiple articles saying why Apple will
Speaker 1: never leave China, why Apple is so connected to China,
Speaker 1: all these things. Now, Apple's iPhone factory shift has left
Speaker 1: a ghost town behind in China. So fox Con, and
Speaker 1: for anybody who doesn't know, fox Conn is a Chinese
Speaker 1: company that has a massive portion of the iPhone manufacturing
Speaker 1: contracts is closing factories in China as iPhone production moves
Speaker 1: elsewhere and impacts beyond industry have made crystal clear in
Speaker 1: a new video, Apple has long operators production in China,
Speaker 1: but in recent years it has been shifting away. Production
Speaker 1: in India and Vietnam is growing with fewer products being
Speaker 1: shipped out of China. This was happening before Trump put
Speaker 1: on the high tariffs. This is before the tariff war
Speaker 1: even started. Now that that's happening. Yeah, fox Con as
Speaker 1: well as other not just that, Amazon is also moving
Speaker 1: things out of We're gonna talk about it here. Apple
Speaker 1: has long said I'm sorry. In a China Observer report
Speaker 1: released on Monday, footage of a fox Con industrial park
Speaker 1: in Nanning, Nonning I don't know is shown to be deserted.
Speaker 1: Once employing fifty thousand people, it's now practically an empty shell.
Speaker 1: Apple Insider has learned that as Apple's operations have moved elsewhere,
Speaker 1: manufacturing capacity was freed elsewhere in China, leading to this
Speaker 1: plant's closure. A local man told the report the plant
Speaker 1: required massive resources to go with its fifty thousand employees.
Speaker 1: This included sixty tons of rice per day, as well
Speaker 1: as two hundred and eighty pigs, one point two million eggs,
Speaker 1: and eighty thousand chickens. That is all now gone and
Speaker 1: freed up now that those resources could go to other locations,
Speaker 1: which is good. China has starving people there, so like
Speaker 1: maybe that food can go you know, other places, more mouths,
Speaker 1: all good things. But those fifty thousand employees, it's not
Speaker 1: like they move them to another facility. They just have
Speaker 1: no job now. As well as the ghost town footage
Speaker 1: of the facility itself, the effects of China's exodus affected
Speaker 1: other nearby areas. Nearby skyscrapers built to house workers for
Speaker 1: the facility are struggling to make sales even with these
Speaker 1: steep discounts, which I mean, that's nothing new there. China's
Speaker 1: had a housing crisis for the last fifteen years. There
Speaker 1: is much hope to locals that Foxcom will be using
Speaker 1: the operation again anytime soon. As signs have been taken down,
Speaker 1: it is believed that only a few buildings are being
Speaker 1: actively used by fox Con, with the vast majority either
Speaker 1: vacant or rented out. The facility rot and abandonment is
Speaker 1: certainly a sign that fox con made changes to its
Speaker 1: overall operations, especially since Apple is keen to shift products
Speaker 1: away from China centric systems to one more distribution. Some
Speaker 1: of the overseas operations have been fitted from disclosure report.
Speaker 1: Sources say equipment from the facilities were taken to soimilar
Speaker 1: factories in Vietnam for local communities. The closure demonstrates how
Speaker 1: much wealth Apple's products can bring to an area. It
Speaker 1: also shows how quickly it can go away and without
Speaker 1: any other backup industries, how damaging the movement can be.
Speaker 1: That was updated just yesterday, if I'm not mistaken, So
Speaker 1: Apple is moving out of China. Not just Apple. Amazon
Speaker 1: also is shutting down a few pretty massive manufacturing facilities
Speaker 1: in China. Now, I think the Amazon thing might be
Speaker 1: more connected to the tariff war, but the iPhone and
Speaker 1: other tech industries, and yes, the semiconductor war has been
Speaker 1: going on for a few years now. But the fact
Speaker 1: that they're moving this to India. I'm not the only
Speaker 1: one that's been saying this. A lot of people have
Speaker 1: been saying that India is going to become the worldwide
Speaker 1: manufacturing hub. They have the manpower, they have the need,
Speaker 1: They the majority of that country is really poor and
Speaker 1: would not mind working in a sweatshop condition somewhere. Does
Speaker 1: that mean that the iPhone might become a little more
Speaker 1: expensive because Indian workers require a little more than Chinese workers. Sure?
Speaker 1: Does that mean that they're gonna stop it from happening, No,
Speaker 1: not at all. I realistically could see a world where
Speaker 1: in the next five years, most of our maide in China.
Speaker 1: Logos read made in India, or made in Vietnam, or
Speaker 1: made in Taiwan or the Philippines or something like that.
Speaker 1: These other Asian countries are definitely trying to fill the
Speaker 1: void that is about to be left by China. And
Speaker 1: that's before you even account for the fact that China's
Speaker 1: workforce is not going to be there in the next
Speaker 1: ten years, fifteen years, twenty years. They tried doing a
Speaker 1: lot in the way of advancements with robotics and technology
Speaker 1: to replace the sweatshop workers, but that only goes so far.
Speaker 1: The advancements aren't there enough to replace that need at
Speaker 1: this moment. Now, who knows what those advancements will look
Speaker 1: like in the next five to ten years. I get that,
Speaker 1: but they're also not waiting five or ten years to
Speaker 1: find out. Fox con I think is not. I think
Speaker 1: it's more of a sign of the times one hundred
Speaker 1: percent here, so aligning that with the tariff warb that
Speaker 1: Trump has going with China currently and China having open
Speaker 1: revolts in multiple cities right now, and I think it's
Speaker 1: somewhere around What was the ratio I just saw? Was
Speaker 1: it like twenty five to thirty percent of China want
Speaker 1: g to be removed from power, and they're tired with
Speaker 1: anything CCP related. They are their words, not mine. They
Speaker 1: are screaming for democracy. It only takes eleven percent of
Speaker 1: a population to enact a revolution that can be successful.
Speaker 1: Let that one marinate as long as y'all need to. Now,
Speaker 1: I understand that this has the realistic capability of looking
Speaker 1: like a Tianman Square two point zero, and it probably will,
Speaker 1: probably will, but we're not going to hear about that.
Speaker 1: We're never gonna hear about it the same way we
Speaker 1: only heard what was it? I just saw an article
Speaker 1: about Tianman Square. Apparently it was only two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty people that showed up, and all of them were
Speaker 1: listed as terrorists, and it's like, no, they weren't. Those
Speaker 1: were college kids, and you mowed them down, and there
Speaker 1: was way more than two hundred and eighty. But how
Speaker 1: much of that story can we believe because we only
Speaker 1: got fractions of it years after the fact.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you want to hear my take on that, please.
Speaker 4: Nobody died in Tieneman Square. It was a student protest
Speaker 4: that took place from April to June. People did die
Speaker 4: a few miles away from there. They were rioters and
Speaker 4: they were not students. If anyone can show me any
Speaker 4: students who died, I'd love to see it. But I
Speaker 4: have not seen anything like that.
Speaker 1: You haven't seen the pile of bodies with with tank
Speaker 1: treads ran through them?
Speaker 4: No, not from China Brothers right now?
Speaker 1: Oh man, Okay, I'm gonna have to i'ma have to
Speaker 1: get with you later on and send you some of these, Like,
Speaker 1: it's gruesome what happened.
Speaker 4: And there was way eight So what I what I
Speaker 4: have seen in terms of pictures was a couple of
Speaker 4: buses and cars that were burned to a crisp. There
Speaker 4: were some police who were lynched. There's uh, let's see.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen tanks running over people or anything. And
Speaker 4: the tank man did not get run over. But nobody
Speaker 4: died in Tianamen Square. Some people died a few miles away.
Speaker 4: So that's my take on that, and I could be wrong,
Speaker 4: but yeah, please let me know. You can tell me
Speaker 4: offline if you want.
Speaker 1: I think you might be the first person I've ever
Speaker 1: heard say this, and I do conspiracies for a living
Speaker 1: bro like that. This sounds wild, but.
Speaker 4: Okay, well I'm glad to up a little bit. You
Speaker 4: absolutely job here.
Speaker 1: Grab your wooden spoon, dog you over here, just stirring
Speaker 1: the pot man. Okay, all right, so hot take on
Speaker 1: the Taman Square situation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I don't think she Jenking is going to
Speaker 4: be overthrown. I don't see any revolts, but if you
Speaker 4: can point me in the direction of any evidence of that,
Speaker 4: I would gladly look at it.
Speaker 1: I was gonna pull up articles on that, but then
Speaker 1: I also saw them last week, and I mean I
Speaker 1: didn't pull them up because I thought it would probably
Speaker 1: be in bad taste because China has a way of
Speaker 1: dealing with political dissonance, and not just Taman Square. There's
Speaker 1: multiple examples of them. Like you don't hear about uprisings
Speaker 1: because I mean, granted, we only hear what makes it
Speaker 1: out of China, and they handle a lot of things
Speaker 1: in house communisms like that. But uh yeah, I heard
Speaker 1: about it last week that there was a couple of cities.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like cities on fire kind of things, but
Speaker 1: there was like rather large protests that were starting to
Speaker 1: form in certain Chinese cities. I let that one go
Speaker 1: because I was thinking that it might be time and
Speaker 1: place right, that might be more of a local thing
Speaker 1: based off of like local politics or something like that.
Speaker 1: And I, you know whatever, most of what I saw
Speaker 1: today is directed at Xi himself, and I'm seeing some
Speaker 1: like I said, it was like our thirty percent of
Speaker 1: people want him removed. And again, can we trust the source?
Speaker 1: Can we trust the word that's coming out of China.
Speaker 1: Of course, we're in America. We're only gonna get whatever
Speaker 1: the Chinese algorithm allows us to see on TikTok or
Speaker 1: on that red book app or whatever the case is,
Speaker 1: so we're never gonna hear about this. I also know
Speaker 1: that every single post that gets made that's even slightly
Speaker 1: critical to China, even from American sources, gets flooded by
Speaker 1: Chinese bots and they do everything they can to get
Speaker 1: it removed. That's nothing new. That's been happening for years now,
Speaker 1: but especially when it comes to the current uprisings in China.
Speaker 1: So I might actually pull up some of those articles
Speaker 1: for next week if the rioters haven't all been mass graved.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, you know, no, matter of fact, I
Speaker 1: wanna make a note of that.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, there would be tons of evidence of it
Speaker 4: because everyone's got a smartphone these days, including in China,
Speaker 4: and I can guarantee that the Chinese diaspora in Taiwan
Speaker 4: and Hong Kong would be blaring all of this, and
Speaker 4: they have a huge incentive to do so. Another thing
Speaker 4: is I can guarantee that if you asked Americans do
Speaker 4: you want the president to be removed? You would always
Speaker 4: get at least thirty percent of people saying yes, no
Speaker 4: matter which party has the presidency. In my opinion, I
Speaker 4: have not looked it up, but I think that's plausible.
Speaker 1: That's fair. But the American presidency changes every four years.
Speaker 1: That is not how the CCP does it. She has
Speaker 1: been in power for a lot longer than an American
Speaker 1: presidential term, and.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's about twenty twelve. I think since he he's
Speaker 4: been in there, right, I could be wrong about that.
Speaker 4: But it's been since around there, and I means she
Speaker 4: used to live in America. By the way, Yeah, he
Speaker 4: went to school in Ohio and San Francisco. There's a
Speaker 4: picture of him standing next to the Golden Gate Bridge
Speaker 4: in the eighties. I don't think of him as a
Speaker 4: super anti American guy. I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: I don't think that she is anti American. He's definitely
Speaker 1: anti Trump fair, he was very pro Biden. I mean
Speaker 1: it's he's not anti American because America is their number
Speaker 1: one buyer of all their goods. They're a manufacturing nation.
Speaker 1: We are a consumer nation. That makes sense. But he
Speaker 1: does not like how the American current politics are shaking
Speaker 1: out in his regard, and as far as that goes,
Speaker 1: he also and I know this is when I say
Speaker 1: that this out loud, it's gonna be like, well, no shit, Sherlock.
Speaker 1: I get that he, along with name a political figure
Speaker 1: that has been in power in their nation for over
Speaker 1: a decade. They develop a cult of personality around themselves
Speaker 1: of nothing but yes men that never give them bad news,
Speaker 1: who never step out of line, who never anything to
Speaker 1: tell them that what they're doing is a bad idea,
Speaker 1: or even sounds like a bad idea. She is surrounded
Speaker 1: by yes men to that point, I mean, even it wasn't.
Speaker 1: I think it was actually the CEO of Fox Con
Speaker 1: last year who tried releasing some things on an algorithm
Speaker 1: about how like the truth of China, the truth about
Speaker 1: the CCP. He stepped down and then he was found
Speaker 1: dead like two days later, and everything he posted was removed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have smartphones in China, but everything they do is
Speaker 1: so heavily regulated by their social credit system, by everything
Speaker 1: they do is owned by the CCP. They don't have
Speaker 1: free speech, they don't have free internet, they don't have
Speaker 1: freedom in a lot of regards. So even if you
Speaker 1: had rioters that were posting videos live streamed, it would
Speaker 1: instantaneously get taken down by the Chinese algorithm to where
Speaker 1: it would never actually get onto the Internet. And I
Speaker 1: mean to say that like, yeah, the Chinese diaspora and
Speaker 1: like Taiwan, Taiwan has no love for China as far
Speaker 1: as that's concerned, and they have been talking about this
Speaker 1: for a good long while. But at this point that's
Speaker 1: more like it's white noise because in the global political
Speaker 1: climate of Taiwan versus China, right, now, Taiwan is making
Speaker 1: every single possible accusation against China make them seem like satanists,
Speaker 1: and China is doing everything in their power to make
Speaker 1: Taiwan look like, well, you're our land anyway, So what
Speaker 1: are you talking about? It's you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Those clashing together like that, that's just white noise. They're
Speaker 1: gonna say all the stuff, and how much of that
Speaker 1: can you actually take seriously given the current political climate.
Speaker 1: So I get that one as well.
Speaker 4: Well, Yeah, I will be talking about this next week.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling absolutely now unless unless, if the
Speaker 1: if the riots get shut down and we really have
Speaker 1: nothing to talk about, then it is what it is.
Speaker 1: If I can't find anything on it, but we shall see,
Speaker 1: we shall see. But sticking onto the Asian continent, I
Speaker 1: did want to talk about this one as well. So
Speaker 1: as we were talking about AI earlier and my distrust
Speaker 1: of them, it then that it things. Yeah, So Thailand
Speaker 1: unveils its AI police cyborg one point zero smart robot
Speaker 1: officer joins force to enhance song cran safety. This is
Speaker 1: not a joke, This is not a a sci fi flick,
Speaker 1: This is real life. Thailand has a complete AI powered
Speaker 1: RoboCop that is currently doing his job. It's job in
Speaker 1: Thailand police colonel. Yeah, I'm not even gonna try to
Speaker 1: pronounce that name. And that's the robot's name, by the way,
Speaker 1: has been deployed at Songkran Venue in Nakhon Platom pat
Speaker 1: Tom Yet Province to enhance public safety. The Royal Thai
Speaker 1: Police on Wednesday shared photos of the country's first AI
Speaker 1: police robot deployed in that province during the Songkrome festival.
Speaker 1: That long name that I couldn't in, which translates to
Speaker 1: Nakhom Patom is safe. That's the name of this Ai RoboCop.
Speaker 1: It's the place is safe. Has been deployed to Son
Speaker 1: Chron which a venue on Thomson Road in Muang District,
Speaker 1: to enhance public safety, the RTP said in a Facebook post.
Speaker 1: The robot, dubbed AI Police Cyborg one point zero, is
Speaker 1: a RoboCop styled robot officer equipped with smart three to
Speaker 1: sixty degree AI cameras. It is jointly developed with the
Speaker 1: Provincial Police Region seven and in the Nakampathom Municipality. And
Speaker 1: for anybody who's in Thailand, if I am just mispronouncing
Speaker 1: these words, I'm sorry. I don't speak your language. I
Speaker 1: love your food, I love your martial arts style, I
Speaker 1: cannot understand your language. The AI Police Cyborg integrates live
Speaker 1: footage from CCTV cameras in and around the event area,
Speaker 1: as well as from drone surveillance, and processes them using
Speaker 1: AI technology built into the cyborg system. The cyborg's own
Speaker 1: cameras are enhanced with video analytics capabilities and linked directly
Speaker 1: to the province's command and control center to effectively manage
Speaker 1: public safety during public events. I mean, look at this
Speaker 1: thing that is that personally terrifies me. This is I
Speaker 1: robot the movie with Will Smith in real life, and
Speaker 1: Thailand of course was the first to roll with it.
Speaker 1: That blows my mind. Now, what can the AI Police
Speaker 1: Cyborg do? Facial recognition and blacklist alerts It identifies individuals
Speaker 1: and notifies officers if wanted or high risk individuals are detected.
Speaker 1: Suspect tracking it monitors and tracks suspects across the event
Speaker 1: based on facial recognition advanced search capabilities. It searches for
Speaker 1: individuals using facial features, clothing, body type, and gender. Weapon
Speaker 1: detection it identifies potential weapons excluding water guns, including knives,
Speaker 1: wooden sticks, and objects resembling weapons. So a wooden stick
Speaker 1: it's gonna take as a weapon, but a water gun
Speaker 1: it knows the difference. Okay, I don't see that going
Speaker 1: poorly at all, but sure, especially at this event where
Speaker 1: everybody is soapd down and has water guns spraying and everything. Yep, yep, totally.
Speaker 1: I mean, with that being said, I don't know what
Speaker 1: Highlands gun laws are like, so I don't know if
Speaker 1: it even knows like look for guns as far as
Speaker 1: that's concerned, I don't know. Behavior monitoring it detects potential
Speaker 1: violent or disruptive behaviors such as fighting or physical assaults.
Speaker 1: So this thing is just scanning the crowd the entire time,
Speaker 1: using all of its three sixty cameras, and it's ai
Speaker 1: to determine if there is a threat or anything. Y'all,
Speaker 1: the future is now, and I personally don't want RoboCop
Speaker 1: coming after me. That terrifies the hell out of me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't trust it, not even a little bit. I wow. Okay,
Speaker 1: Now moving on to the European continent. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to bring up Africa or Australia in this episode, but
Speaker 1: we're hitting all the other ones basically uh oh in
Speaker 1: South America. I suppose I didn't really bring them up either,
Speaker 1: but okay, whatever anyway, So for anybody who didn't hear,
Speaker 1: Spain and Portugal, the entire countries had massive power outages
Speaker 1: this week. All right, This is from Al Jazeera. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, power outages hit Spain and Portugal.
Speaker 1: What happened and what was effected? A blackout paralyzed large
Speaker 1: portions of Spain and Portugal on Monday. Here is what
Speaker 1: we know. Major power outages across large areas of Spain
Speaker 1: and Portugal, as well as parts of southern France, knocked
Speaker 1: out traffic lights and disrupted public transportation and airport operations
Speaker 1: on Monday. Officials did not say what caused the outages,
Speaker 1: but several denied any foul play. I as a former electrician,
Speaker 1: I get that this is an imperfect world. Substations have accidents, happen,
Speaker 1: things blow from time to time. I get that I do.
Speaker 1: To have two nations power grids brought down and a
Speaker 1: portion of a third, and you're not saying there was
Speaker 1: any foul play. I feel like that's a bold statement
Speaker 1: to make at this time. I don't know, maybe I'm
Speaker 1: talking out of my ass here. But boy, that just
Speaker 1: sounds faris to me. There's a direct quote here the
Speaker 1: President of the European Council, Antonio Costa. Grid operators in
Speaker 1: both countries, Spain and Portugal are working on finding the
Speaker 1: cause and on restoring electrical electricity supply. Antonio Costa was
Speaker 1: his name. He wrote that post on X. Costa was
Speaker 1: the Prime Minister of Portugal between twenty fifteen and twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. At this point there is no indications of
Speaker 1: any cyber attack, he said, you know that already. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: So anyway, here's what we know. What happened in Europe
Speaker 1: and when power out just swept across much of the
Speaker 1: Iberian peninsula around ten thirty GMT to twelve thirty pm
Speaker 1: local time in Spain and eleven thirty am in Portugal.
Speaker 1: Parts of southern France were also briefly effected, but the
Speaker 1: service was quickly restored. Critical infrastructure was heavily impacted. Metro
Speaker 1: systems in Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon were shut down, while
Speaker 1: major airports such as Madrid, Barajas and Lisbon's Humberto Delgado
Speaker 1: face significant delays and partial closures. According to Spanish newspaper
Speaker 1: lpay the outage set Spain back to the nineteenth century.
Speaker 1: They mean the eighteen hundreds. The way he said that
Speaker 1: made it sound way further back. Okay, yeah, set them
Speaker 1: back to the nineteenth century. Trains are not operating and
Speaker 1: traffic lights are down, causing chaos. Many cities are completely dark.
Speaker 1: Al Jazeero step Vsin Basin said, reporting from Valencia Airport
Speaker 1: in Spain. Authorities have stated that it is the first
Speaker 1: time in history such a large scale blackout has occurred.
Speaker 1: She added, this is a post in Spanish, I don't
Speaker 1: read so anyway. Translation says real time electricity demand data
Speaker 1: from Red Electrica. This is how things are now seven
Speaker 1: hours after the blackout. Slow recovery but still far from normal.
Speaker 1: The graphs shows that electricity use dropped from about twenty
Speaker 1: six thousand megawatts to just twelve thousand in a few minutes.
Speaker 1: I mean that's yeah, So that's like the pay meter
Speaker 1: showing like how hard it was hit. But it also
Speaker 1: doesn't look like one thing blue and just shut everything down.
Speaker 1: It looks like it was a slow, progressive shut debt. Well,
Speaker 1: I say slows a few minutes, yes, but you know
Speaker 1: that doesn't read to me like it wasn't foul play
Speaker 1: at all. If anything that, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: want to speak out of turn here, but it seems
Speaker 1: like there was foul play, so let's check it out here.
Speaker 1: Spain and Portugal, home to around sixty million people together,
Speaker 1: were the worst affected. But it didn't just hit there.
Speaker 1: There's four nations that were talked about here. Spain. Major
Speaker 1: urban centers such as a Villa, Madrid, Murcia, Galicia, Alia, Alecante, Zargoza, Barcelona,
Speaker 1: Seville reported widespread disruptions. The Canaries and Balaric Islands were
Speaker 1: not affected. And yes, I probably butchered some of those pronunciations.
Speaker 3: My bad.
Speaker 1: Portugal, Lisbon and Porto experience can parable challenges. Southern France,
Speaker 1: parts of the French Basque County our country saw brief
Speaker 1: power outages, but officials from the French Electricity transmission network
Speaker 1: said the interruptions lasted only a few minutes. Morocco, some
Speaker 1: reports suggested that the internet provided providers in Morocco also
Speaker 1: struggled to keep their services up briefly because of network
Speaker 1: connections with France and the outages there. Okay, now, what
Speaker 1: else was affected? The Madrid Open tennis tournament was suspended
Speaker 1: for the day. Oh No organizers said there would be
Speaker 1: no more action on Monday. In order to guarantee general safety,
Speaker 1: Madrid's firefighters carried out more than two hundred elevator interventions
Speaker 1: across the city, while health services carried out one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty seven interventions, most for respiratory issues and anxiety
Speaker 1: attacks YEP. Meanwhile, in Lizbon, according to local media reports,
Speaker 1: people rushed to grocery stores to stock up on water
Speaker 1: and non paarish goods. That is expected whenever the power
Speaker 1: goes out living in Louisiana when a hurricane hits, that
Speaker 1: is typically how things go. What caused the power outage,
Speaker 1: Portugal's Prime Minister Luise Montenegro said that everything points to
Speaker 1: major blackouts starting in Spain. The exact cause is still unclear,
Speaker 1: and while there's no evidence yet of a cyber attack.
Speaker 1: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and jokes Right themselves said
Speaker 1: he isn't ruling anything out. He warned against speculation, but
Speaker 1: said no cause can be discredited at this point. The
Speaker 1: European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, the block's cyber security arm,
Speaker 1: said at current evidence points to a cable fault. So
Speaker 1: the Cybersecurity Agency said that it was a cable fault. Okay,
Speaker 1: But experts have also in recent weeks warned that an
Speaker 1: excess of solar power generation in the grid could trigger blackouts. Ooh, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna reread that one, because boy, that's gonna make
Speaker 1: a lot of green people very upset. Experts have also
Speaker 1: in recent weeks warned that an excess of solar power
Speaker 1: generation in the grid could trigger blackouts. In early April,
Speaker 1: Belgium's electrical grid operator caution that too many electricity generation,
Speaker 1: too much electrical electricity generation, could destabilize the grid. I've
Speaker 1: never heard that, but it makes sense. You know, you
Speaker 1: can only put so much voltage and so much wattage
Speaker 1: and so much amperage into these systems, into these wires
Speaker 1: if you have it coming from source A going to
Speaker 1: point B. But point B also is producing its own electricity.
Speaker 1: Something's gonna give eventually. I have never heard of solar
Speaker 1: panels being the cause of blackouts, but the math checks
Speaker 1: out here, so okay. According to a report by Bloomberg,
Speaker 1: Spain has been seen a record number of hours with
Speaker 1: negative power prices in recent months, as more solar and
Speaker 1: wind energy has been fed into the grid. However, until
Speaker 1: now the oversupply hadn't led to blackouts. So what is
Speaker 1: the latest on the ground. Electricity has returned to parts
Speaker 1: of northern, southern, and western Spain, the grid operator said
Speaker 1: on Monday. Spain's Transportation Minister Oscar Puente said medium and
Speaker 1: long distance train services are unlikely to resume before tomorrow. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: lead Red Electrica has estimated that full restoration could take
Speaker 1: six to ten hours. Okay, that's not the worst I've
Speaker 1: ever heard of here. Power has now been restored to
Speaker 1: parts of Catalonia, Catalonia, Aragon and the Basque country Galatia,
Speaker 1: are Asturia's Navarre, Castile, Leone, Extremada. Yeah all these plays, says,
Speaker 1: I suck it speaking the Spanish language. My apologies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so power has been restored. According to Spanish news agency
Speaker 1: ef E, electricity consumption in Spain has reached over fifty
Speaker 1: percent of the usual level by four thirty pm local time.
Speaker 1: Portugal's grid operator ARIN said that the production the production
Speaker 1: has resumed at the Castellero de Baad hydro electric plant
Speaker 1: and the Tapata do Areno Sure thermoelectric facilities. So all right,
Speaker 1: they got power restored, or they're getting the power restored.
Speaker 1: But still I am not of the belief that this
Speaker 1: had no foul play. I hadn't heard that it was
Speaker 1: solar panels and wind turbines that were front loading the
Speaker 1: power so heavily that it would cause nationwide blackouts. That's
Speaker 1: pretty crazy to me, but I guess that's a possibility.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm hoping that the investigation, when it
Speaker 1: is concluded, will give a good answer and that it
Speaker 1: wasn't like a terrorist plot or something like that. Although
Speaker 1: I could see that very much being the case. I
Speaker 1: hope it's not. I hope it's not. But anyway, all right,
Speaker 1: so the last story we are gonna get to on
Speaker 1: this one at this time, and we don't really need
Speaker 1: to spend a whole lot of time on it. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, Russia has launched an offensive in
Speaker 1: Sumi and Kharkiv region, Ukraine's top commander confirms, and this
Speaker 1: is from the Moscow Times in case anybody is curious.
Speaker 1: Long story short, and I don't really need to read
Speaker 1: all of it, but Russian forces launched an offensive into
Speaker 1: the northeastern Ukraines Sumi and Kharkiv regions several days ago,
Speaker 1: Ukraine's commander in chief said in an interview published on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Comments come nearly a month after you, Krainian President Zelenski
Speaker 1: claimed that Russia was ready a new attack in the
Speaker 1: Assumi region, which borders Russia's Kursk region. They do bring
Speaker 1: up the numbers here in a little bit about how
Speaker 1: much of that Kursk region they currently have, which as
Speaker 1: compared to what they took at the height of the
Speaker 1: Ukrainian invasion into Russia goes. But yeah, for the most part,
Speaker 1: they don't hold much of that region at all anymore.
Speaker 1: They have been beaten back pretty much to the farthest
Speaker 1: extent of it. Oh no, it doesn't say it on
Speaker 1: this one. Okay, I had a couple of articles pulled up,
Speaker 1: but I didn't pull that one up. Long story store.
Speaker 1: I think they hold like they at one point held
Speaker 1: like two hundred and seventy some odd square kilometers. Right
Speaker 1: now they hold like thirty square kilometers of the Kursk region.
Speaker 1: They're about to lose it. The spring is here, the
Speaker 1: temperature has warmed up in that region. Russia is launching
Speaker 1: their spring offensive. They're about to retake Kursk and apparently
Speaker 1: coming into the Sumi region now Tony we had talked
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. I cannot remember if you
Speaker 1: said that Sumi was going to be one of the
Speaker 1: regions that Russia claimed as like their rightful territory or
Speaker 1: is this them also trying to stack the deck in
Speaker 1: their favor for a more favorable peace negotiation. What do
Speaker 1: you think?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's the latter. They're just trying to
Speaker 4: stack the deck for a more favorable peace negotiation. And
Speaker 4: I think the more Russian part of Ukraine would be
Speaker 4: Pharkaw or Harkiv as they spell it. So, but Russians
Speaker 4: are just grabbing whatever they can get as they can
Speaker 4: get it. So I haven't actually been paying super close
Speaker 4: attention to this recently, and I'm still predicting that the
Speaker 4: peace will come in about March of twenty twenty six,
Speaker 4: because remember we had we had a little bit of
Speaker 4: a bet on that. I'm still sticking with that it's
Speaker 4: probably going to take that long, because it's taken this
Speaker 4: long so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I don't know. I'm hoping, like I'm with you,
Speaker 1: I hope that this comes to a quick conclusion, I
Speaker 1: see Russia grabbing up as much territory as they can,
Speaker 1: especially if they are expecting that Western powers are going
Speaker 1: to be helping Ukraine even more. I'm hearing reports, and
Speaker 1: I don't know how valid they are, but I'm hearing
Speaker 1: reports that apparently Chinese soldiers are now fighting alongside Russian
Speaker 1: soldiers in Ukraine, not North Korean Chinese. China has denied
Speaker 1: the allegations. Russia has denied the allegations, but some are
Speaker 1: saying that these are they're speaking clearly Chinese and they
Speaker 1: don't look Russian, because China and Russia don't really look
Speaker 1: similar to each other, like, you know, racially and ethnically speaking.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't I can't envision that China
Speaker 1: has taken that type of a stance in this regard
Speaker 1: that would screw them over on the world stage even
Speaker 1: further than they already are. I don't know. Have you
Speaker 1: heard anything in that regard.
Speaker 4: You know, I did see on a telegram channel that
Speaker 4: some Chinese troops were captured by Ukraine. They were probably
Speaker 4: these volunteer mercenary types, because the Chinese government doesn't have
Speaker 4: an agreement with the Russian government like the North Korean
Speaker 4: government does, so there's a lot of North Koreans there,
Speaker 4: and we've talked about them. I didn't see though, that
Speaker 4: China sent a huge, well a pretty large group of
Speaker 4: soldiers to Moscow for the Victory Day parade that's going
Speaker 4: to happen on May ninth, and they're already there, just
Speaker 4: practicing to march down the street. But that's all I've
Speaker 4: really seen from China. In Russia right now. In other news,
Speaker 4: Russia claims that they killed seventy six thousand Ukrainians in Kursk.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's inflated, but that would still be that's like
Speaker 4: ten times more than the US lost in the Terror War,
Speaker 4: and about a similar body count as the Vietnam War
Speaker 4: to the US. And that's just in the Curse region.
Speaker 4: So maybe it's right, maybe it's wrong.
Speaker 1: I feel you those numbers might be inflated, But at
Speaker 1: the same time, all of the numbers are inflated in
Speaker 1: this one. I'm hearing reports saying that Russia has lost
Speaker 1: quote unquote, maybe not dead, but like no longer on
Speaker 1: the battlefield somewhere around like six hundred thousand, and Ukraine
Speaker 1: has lost something like three hundred thousand. I don't actually
Speaker 1: believe those numbers, but it really depends on the source
Speaker 1: you read. So seventy three thousand in the Curse region,
Speaker 1: I find that hard to believe, seeing is how the
Speaker 1: entire Russian Spring Offensive was comprised of sixty seven thousand,
Speaker 1: and Russia has a larger military than Ukraine does, so
Speaker 1: it's you know what I mean. I believe it's thousands,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean even in the upper thousands, but
Speaker 1: seventy that sounds a bit much.
Speaker 4: Well, Ukraine they have had, in a sense a numerical
Speaker 4: advantage this whole time, because even though they're population is lower,
Speaker 4: they've done the conscription and Russia has just been relying
Speaker 4: on people enlisting kind of the way it normally goes
Speaker 4: in the US, kind of the way it is when
Speaker 4: there isn't a draft. So even though Russia has got
Speaker 4: a bigger population, the actual fielded strength is pretty similar
Speaker 4: on both sides. At least that's my opinion about it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not saying that Russia has been conscripting.
Speaker 1: They did lose two million military aged men who fled
Speaker 1: the country as soon as the initiative kicked off because
Speaker 1: they didn't want to be conscripted. I feel like they
Speaker 1: wouldn't have just left if there was no risk of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think those men felt like there was a risk.
Speaker 4: But the way it works is kind of like here,
Speaker 4: where there's a certain percentage of the male population that
Speaker 4: joins the military and then they kind of retire and
Speaker 4: go into reserve status, and then those reserves can be
Speaker 4: called up. And it was the reservists who being called
Speaker 4: and some of them got scared and ran away and
Speaker 4: left the country. And Russia's also got a pretty high
Speaker 4: rate of enlistment. They're kind of like the United States
Speaker 4: in that respect. A lot of people join up for
Speaker 4: education and other reasons. So out of their one hundred
Speaker 4: and thirty five million population, I wish I knew the
Speaker 4: numbers a little better, but they have probably a similar
Speaker 4: enlistment rate to what we have.
Speaker 1: I could believe that. I mean, Russia does have some
Speaker 1: like possibilities for like future advancement, and the military would
Speaker 1: be a good way to start that. I mean, hell
Speaker 1: didn't like one in every ten Russian households don't have
Speaker 1: running water, So I mean like, yeah, if you're just
Speaker 1: some random guy from any old place Russia, yeah, joined
Speaker 1: the military and serving a term of enlistment would probably
Speaker 1: give you a leg up as far as finding a
Speaker 1: job or a future for yourself. Goes the same in America,
Speaker 1: you know, I could see that being a way to
Speaker 1: advance your social status and your opportunities for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in the Western world, it's been a ladder of
Speaker 4: social mobility for people for well over one hundred years.
Speaker 4: And I've read that this even goes back to ancient Greece,
Speaker 4: where poorer people would volunteer to join a military expedition
Speaker 4: and mix kind of mingle with the kids of more
Speaker 4: upper class men who are also in the same unit.
Speaker 4: And Britain didn't need a draft in World War One
Speaker 4: until the very end because so many men were just
Speaker 4: volunteering for status and everything. That's something that's on every
Speaker 4: man's mind, not just well, this is scary and exciting
Speaker 4: to be in combat, but also what is this going
Speaker 4: to do for my prospects to marry a nice girl
Speaker 4: when I get home? And how much will people respect
Speaker 4: me in the workforce if everyone's asking for the next
Speaker 4: twenty years. So what did you do during the war?
Speaker 4: And Paton said in his speech, you won't have to
Speaker 4: say I shoveled shit in Louisiana.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I used to be a fan of Patent,
Speaker 1: but now that I've learned more about him as a general,
Speaker 1: I gotta say I have a lot less respect for him. Also,
Speaker 1: MacArthur was a bitch and I'll die on that hill.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot the movie left out about Patton.
Speaker 4: It's amazing that he became such a hero, especially with
Speaker 4: all the anti Semitism, just as the most obvious thing.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, sorry, but that also, like racism in
Speaker 1: that day and age was very normal. It was like
Speaker 1: expected almost of that, especially somebody of.
Speaker 4: That any Anglo American on average.
Speaker 1: Right, But when I found out more about how he
Speaker 1: screwed over other more successful generals, God, what was it?
Speaker 1: Terrible Terry. As a matter of fact, if anybody wants
Speaker 1: to look into his story, Fat Electrician just did a
Speaker 1: whole expose on him. Basically, he was so successful that Patton,
Speaker 1: and who was his little bitch, his little buddy that
Speaker 1: was like always at his right hand. They maybe that's
Speaker 1: the one Bradley. Yeah, So they hated Terry so much
Speaker 1: that they he kicked him from the war. He goes
Speaker 1: back home. He actually was really good friends with FDR
Speaker 1: and then got sent back to the war. Patton and
Speaker 1: Bradley had an eighteen month head start to get to Germany,
Speaker 1: and Terry still beat them there by three months, starting
Speaker 1: from France with like a unit that he pretty much
Speaker 1: had to train from the ground up. I think it
Speaker 1: was the Timberwolves was the unit that he trained up,
Speaker 1: and like, yeah, it's it's crazy. The more I learned
Speaker 1: about Patton and his tactics, everybody wants to act like
Speaker 1: the Battle of the Bulge was like, oh, like, yues, fine,
Speaker 1: it was a turning point. I get that, but even
Speaker 1: arguably not so much. The Nazis were on the ropes
Speaker 1: or they were getting ready to be on the ropes
Speaker 1: before the Battle of the Bulge.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, like that was psychotic to to be one
Speaker 1: of the guys invading the beaches of Normandy. But like,
Speaker 1: you gotta understand Germany. Yeah, they were still on the
Speaker 1: offensive when we landed in Normandy, but dude, they would
Speaker 1: have gotten I don't think so. They were still making
Speaker 1: advancements into Soviet Russia. They had stopped at a couple
Speaker 1: of places like Stalingrad and Leningrad, had become like Stalemates.
Speaker 1: They had pretty much been kicked out of Africa by
Speaker 1: that point, but they were still making advancements into Asia,
Speaker 1: and they were still doing like you know, they were
Speaker 1: still on the uptick at that moment.
Speaker 4: There is okay, I agree to disagree on that, but okay,
Speaker 4: let's keep going.
Speaker 1: There are certain historians that say that give them five
Speaker 1: years and they would have come to their natural stopping point. Anyway.
Speaker 1: There are certain historians that say that if Hitler would
Speaker 1: have waited two more years to invade Poland, that the
Speaker 1: entire world would be speaking Germany.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: It depends on the source, honestly, and armchair historians ourselves included.
Speaker 1: There's levels and nuances that we don't see, and I
Speaker 1: acknowledge that I don't know. But speaking of Raven, is
Speaker 1: that you holding a Bangalore torpedo. I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: picture you posted in the chat here Raven. I don't
Speaker 1: know if she could speak right now anyway.
Speaker 4: Hey, I want to defend Churchill on something real quick.
Speaker 4: Of course I don't like Churchill, as you can imagine,
Speaker 4: but he was against the Normandy invasion. He wanted to
Speaker 4: focus on Europe's soft underbelly and take Hungary, Romania, and
Speaker 4: maybe Austria away from the Soviets. I guess the Soviets
Speaker 4: didn't end up with Austria. But he thought that the
Speaker 4: Normandy idea was a distraction. I think he was probably right, actually,
Speaker 4: but history turned out the way it did. I think
Speaker 4: even if the Allies had lost at Normandy, they still
Speaker 4: would have won eventually. It would have just taken a
Speaker 4: few more months, months or years, oh months, Yeah, I
Speaker 4: think Russia at that point would have won no matter what.
Speaker 4: After mid nineteen forty four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Hitler made the saint well, not Hitler himself.
Speaker 1: He wasn't a general, he was a furer. But like
Speaker 1: his general made the same mistake that Napoleon made that
Speaker 1: so many other people made. Don't fight Russia in the winter.
Speaker 1: It's not going to go well for you. It's never
Speaker 1: gone well for anyone in human history. And he he's
Speaker 1: shown enough, rolled the dice on that and he found
Speaker 1: out the hard way. But yeah, the Soviets were about
Speaker 1: to turn that tide. And but that's the deal. It
Speaker 1: would Oh and even talking about going from the soft underbelly,
Speaker 1: like you're talking about coming through Austria, Hungary and all
Speaker 1: that I've heard that proposed that it would have taken
Speaker 1: more loss of life, more men would have died in
Speaker 1: the slow invasion from Southern Europe to get to Berlin
Speaker 1: as opposed to them jumping into France and getting to
Speaker 1: Berlin that way. I don't know that to be a fact.
Speaker 1: I don't actually know the statistics and the numbers on that,
Speaker 1: but that is allegedly what led them to go for
Speaker 1: the short version rather than the long version. But even still,
Speaker 1: like losing what was twenty thousand guys before noon that
Speaker 1: first day on Normandy beaches like that, you talk about
Speaker 1: a loss of life.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's accurate. I agree, But the way
Speaker 4: I see it geopolitically was that invading Normandy was more
Speaker 4: of a gift to the Soviets rather than taking away
Speaker 4: much of Southern Europe from the Soviets, and that was
Speaker 4: why FDR's advisors really wanted Normandy rather than the Southern
Speaker 4: Europe option, and George Marshall also pushed for it really hard.
Speaker 4: I don't think he was a Communist sympathizer, but maybe
Speaker 4: he had his own reasons for doing it. I read
Speaker 4: that he was upset that the air forces were overshadowing
Speaker 4: the army at that time, so he wanted to do
Speaker 4: something more army focused rather than air Force focused. And
Speaker 4: the air Force has spent a lot of time bombarding
Speaker 4: France just to soften it up for the Normandy as
Speaker 4: opposed to bombing Germany as they've been doing in nineteen
Speaker 4: forty three, So that was kind of a distraction for
Speaker 4: the air forces too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's very true. Yeah, that's I've noticed this too.
Speaker 1: Like men, when they get to a certain age, apparently
Speaker 1: there's like a few like sub genres of categories that
Speaker 1: we all get into.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 1: Some of them it's like slow cooked meats that seems
Speaker 1: to be a thing. Some of them it's history, right,
Speaker 1: And of the history, you've got like two big ones
Speaker 1: every now and then you get like the Civil War,
Speaker 1: which is like a third kind of in the middle there,
Speaker 1: but usually it goes to the Roman Empire or World
Speaker 1: War Two. It just seems to go that way. I
Speaker 1: keep hearing a lot of people these days talk about
Speaker 1: the the ifs and the what ifs about World War Two,
Speaker 1: more prevalent in the past few months. Honestly, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's just the way my algorithm has been pushing it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, I agree with you. Though Churchill was
Speaker 1: kind of a piece of shit, I now that I
Speaker 1: learned as much as I've learned about MacArthur, he also
Speaker 1: was a bitch. And the entire reason why the Marines
Speaker 1: were stuck at the Frozen Chosen was because he circumvented
Speaker 1: them and screwed them over and hung them out to dry.
Speaker 1: That whole I will return when it was convenient for you.
Speaker 1: You returned, Yeah, Paton, was he a motivator?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Was he some brilliant military tactician?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Not really? Yeah, yeah, but I guess it's easy to
Speaker 1: say sitting here as a chair historian or armchair general
Speaker 1: decades after the fact, you know whatever.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm in agreement with you overall, and I
Speaker 4: like this whole subject.
Speaker 1: No, all right, everybody, So I think that is going
Speaker 1: to wrap up this episode of The Cajun Night. Didn't
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