WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.799 --> 00:00:07.320 Well whiskey, come and take my pain, honey all right? 2 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:12.000 Oh don't why think alone when you can drink it 3 00:00:12.039 --> 00:00:16.359 all In with Ricochet's Three Whiskey Happy Hour, Join your bartenders, 4 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:21.399 Steve Hayward, John You, and the International Woman of Mystery, Lucretia. 5 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:28.280 Where the laps napp It'll live it ain't you easy 6 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:31.960 on the should taps, got a givvy and let that 7 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:32.920 whiskey bloone. 8 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:39.719 Welcome everybody to another episode of the Three Whiskey Happy Hour, 9 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:46.840 recorded before a live studio audience. I don't know where 10 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:49.600 those people will speed from because when the kresha is 11 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:52.520 on the podcast, usually you're crying a baby. 12 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:57.159 Laws you too, though it's not the audience. The audience 13 00:00:57.240 --> 00:00:59.000 is cheering gets YouTube that are crying. 14 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:11.400 You may have noticed Steve Hayward got a boy, Steve 15 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:14.719 whole that thing up. I love all right, Command Console 16 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:17.959 the US Enterprise. It's original series. 17 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:21.840 It's a Roadie two. Oh yeah, well it's got all 18 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:25.120 the sliders. I can you know, be myself somewhere and yeah, 19 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:28.519 so it's and it's got all these crazy things that 20 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:28.959 does you know? 21 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:34.040 Like, can I just say that we have unleashed a 22 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:36.280 terror onto the podcast world. 23 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:41.480 Can I saying I'm actually in the only room in 24 00:01:41.519 --> 00:01:44.560 my house that is not torn up? Uh, just the 25 00:01:44.799 --> 00:01:48.359 secondary this This is mister Lucretia's office. If you look, 26 00:01:48.439 --> 00:01:50.560 you can see his I can't do it with that. 27 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:53.239 I have a stationar camera. You can see all of 28 00:01:53.319 --> 00:01:57.959 his military stuff surround to get helmets and uh anyway, 29 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:00.719 that sort of thing. But I want to say that 30 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:03.079 the disappointing thing to me I had to listen to 31 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:06.640 some technology somebody talked the other day about how we 32 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:12.960 have actually turned into permanent parts of our technology all 33 00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:15.919 of the sci fi things that we watched as kids, 34 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:18.800 you know, and and I want to know why it 35 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:20.680 is that out of all the things we got out 36 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:23.120 of Star Trek, we never got that thing that that 37 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:26.960 Scotty carried around was at Scotty doc what sorry, it's 38 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:27.400 been years. 39 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.520 Bones, that was his name, Bones, And you know that 40 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:35.599 he could just do this and and and diagnosed whatever 41 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:37.439 was wrong with someone. That's what we need. 42 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:39.439 We don't need all that other crack. We need that 43 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:42.639 that thing that diagnoses people. And that's the end of 44 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:45.840 my technology discussion for today, Steve. 45 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:48.000 I believe it's called the medical tricorder. 46 00:02:49.159 --> 00:02:51.240 But you know what, we have one of those. 47 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:53.599 We're pretty close to having it, actually. 48 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:55.400 Working on it. 49 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:00.120 Yeah maybe, I mean, I don't I think, Lucas, you're 50 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:03.919 we're drinking. I'm drinking an Obon fourteen to I the Highland, 51 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:07.240 which would be more acceptable to light. And she's got 52 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:08.080 some red wine. 53 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:11.400 So and I know my whiskey's packed other than a 54 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:16.520 bottle of jet. No, it's a wild turkey honey that 55 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:19.639 I use for my uh my hot toddies when I 56 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:26.159 have a cold. But mmmm, it's sweet. But I am 57 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:33.759 drinking a San Filipo the Devil Brunaldo di Monticino. That's 58 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:36.719 my translation from the Italian, which is from the lovely 59 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:39.080 place of Siena that the three of us visited and 60 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:40.000 had a wonderful time. 61 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:46.000 Right, so great, very good. And I'm in La and 62 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:49.039 I'm going to be participating in a debate tomorrow at 63 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:54.479 the Federal Society on on Birthright Citizenship at the Federal 64 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:59.960 Society Western Chapters meeting at the Reagan Library, Riot. Well, 65 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:01.919 I hope a great experience. 66 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:04.120 Yeah, I mean, I'm sorry you have to lose that 67 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:06.039 debate tomorrow, John, but it's just the way it is 68 00:04:07.319 --> 00:04:08.680 when you went at the Supreme Court. 69 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:12.560 Who cares? But I'll be debating Elon Morman, a young professor. 70 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:15.240 Oh yeah, so you're more from the University of Minnesota 71 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:20.240 who has an article out arguing defending Trump's executive order 72 00:04:20.279 --> 00:04:22.639 from an originalist perspective. So it'll be a good debate. 73 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:26.160 I'm sure it'll be on the Federal Society webs right. 74 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:30.160 And then your little litery eyed from being back doing 75 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.519 out numbered on Fox yesterday? Was that just yesterday? 76 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:35.959 Yes, I was out numbered yesterday in New York. I 77 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:38.240 got off the plane just a few little bit ago. 78 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:42.399 And the fun part of it was that President Trump 79 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:46.160 was having cabinet meeting right before. In fact, he came 80 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:49.279 you know, went partially into our time, but that meant 81 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:52.439 we gave the you know, immediate color feedback. It was 82 00:04:52.519 --> 00:04:55.680 like being a color commentator at a baseball game. Now, 83 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:58.959 where did you commenting on it? Right after? Go ahead? 84 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:03.160 Well, where did you fly on this morning? Philadelphia or Newark? 85 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:05.120 And you know how many people are ahead of me 86 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:10.240 in those terrible tsa lines, Oh zero zero, I went 87 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:15.319 at nine. I showed up around ten am for twelve 88 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:17.879 noon flakes. I didn't believe there were going to be lines, 89 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:22.480 and I highly recommend is. I got tsa pre checked touchless. 90 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:24.920 Did you know about this? Yes? Yeah, yes, they had 91 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:28.519 their own lines and nobody's using them. So I just 92 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:30.800 walked right up. There was literally no one in line. 93 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:33.839 I walked right up to directly from getting onto Uber. 94 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:39.600 I walked unstopped till I got to the X ray machine. 95 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:42.240 When I got repeatedly stopped and harassed, it was like 96 00:05:42.319 --> 00:05:46.600 Bill Clinton was working the machine, kneeling everybody up. Oh, 97 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:49.680 it was outrageous. Well now, anyway, so that was my 98 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:50.600 fun this morning. 99 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:52.879 Well maybe I should take that up first, John, instead 100 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:56.079 of stead of the war for this reason is yes, okay, 101 00:05:56.319 --> 00:05:58.160 I mean what I heard this morning. First thing is 102 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:00.879 that San Diego was a nightmare today. You know, lots 103 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:03.160 of people calling in sick, super long lines. And then 104 00:06:03.199 --> 00:06:06.040 so you head Atlanta has been a nightmare. Other places 105 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:11.199 in Houston, in New Orleans, but not Newark, not the 106 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:14.600 Washington airports, although a curious thing. You know, Delta announced 107 00:06:14.639 --> 00:06:18.720 publicly that they were pulling there. There's special access desk 108 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:20.639 for members of Congress, which I thought was a nice 109 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:21.160 little touch. 110 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:23.800 I might have to say, I've been flying all around 111 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:27.759 this week, And so I did fly from Austin, same experience, 112 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:32.600 walked directly from the car straight through to Thissa, touchless 113 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:35.000 line and never I never signed it, but I had 114 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:40.240 no line there. Flew into Baltimore Washington Airport, nobody was there, 115 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:43.519 and then out of Newark it was fine, completely fine. 116 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:47.160 Well, this is what's making me suspicious is you would think, 117 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:50.680 I think we would think that the number of people 118 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:54.519 calling in sick or quitting would be pretty evenly distributed 119 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:57.600 around the country. Instead, you're seeing you might call it hotspots. 120 00:06:58.079 --> 00:07:01.199 TSA is unionized. I am wondering if some of the 121 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:05.720 sickouts are deliberately coordinated to put pressure on certain places 122 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:07.600 but not other places. I mean, the last place they're 123 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:10.000 gonna boycott is going to be Washington because it'll make 124 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:14.639 the politicians inconvenienced. But the other thing is, I mean, 125 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:17.079 you know this, John, There's been no lines in San Francisco. 126 00:07:17.560 --> 00:07:20.319 Why because well you must know this, John, because you 127 00:07:21.639 --> 00:07:24.759 they have private they have privates. You have advertised every 128 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:27.920 airport has the option to bypass the government TSA and 129 00:07:28.079 --> 00:07:30.519 hire a private contractor. They wear the same uniforms to 130 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:33.959 do the same training and all the same procedures, but 131 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:36.800 it's a private company. And I'm sitting here thinking, if 132 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:39.839 they really wanted to do a work stoppage slow down 133 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:42.639 throughout the whole country, then Trump might pull a Ronald 134 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:44.959 Reagan with the air traffic controllers and say, fine, I 135 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:47.600 want all the airports to you know, forget these people 136 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:50.959 don't come to work, sign up private contractors tomorrow, and 137 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:56.800 that would be an ex signing up now. 138 00:07:57.639 --> 00:07:59.959 No, no, no, no, Here's there's two things that First 139 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:04.120 of all, can you honestly blame people who? I mean, 140 00:08:04.199 --> 00:08:07.480 they don't have huge bank accounts to rely on these 141 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:11.120 TSA workers just so for a moment, Let's not pretend 142 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:13.879 that they're doing something wrong when they call out, I'm 143 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:17.759 sorry they worked for weeks, et cetera, et cetera. 144 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:21.600 I'm refusing. My experience is flying quite a bit. 145 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:24.000 Last week was I met up with one sort of 146 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:29.920 surly TSA agent and who you know, pushed my bag 147 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:33.600 in for a secondary thing. But after a poor woman 148 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:37.679 with a little, tiny baby, he spent fifteen minutes feeling 149 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:41.320 up the baby carrier for I don't God only knows what, 150 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:44.120 but anyway, but that was it. Otherwise they were pleasant 151 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:46.320 they were wonderful. I had no just like John, no 152 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:49.080 problems with lines, but I wanted to say something about 153 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:52.759 those private security people. Back to your comment about the union. 154 00:08:53.159 --> 00:08:57.000 The head of the union for TSA, I guess whatever 155 00:08:57.080 --> 00:09:00.440 that means, said that when they had and they started 156 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:05.039 doing articles about the private security forces, the civilian those 157 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:08.399 not part of the government. He said, it's just terrible 158 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:12.759 that they do this because these TSA agents are spend 159 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:17.159 months and months and months in training, and after all, 160 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:22.080 security is only a government function and only the government. 161 00:09:21.799 --> 00:09:22.399 Can do it well. 162 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:23.840 And he just went on and on and on, and 163 00:09:23.840 --> 00:09:24.840 it was so stupid. 164 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:27.559 I thought, well, let this guy open his mouth, because 165 00:09:27.759 --> 00:09:30.679 everything he said made me think what I've always thought, 166 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:33.200 which is we should get rid of TSA and you know, 167 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:36.240 make them all private contractors. But anyway, and they're still 168 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:38.960 getting paid because the contracts have already been paid. But 169 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:41.039 what I don't understand, and what I want you guys 170 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:46.960 to explain to me, is TSA, me go, ice and 171 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:51.120 border patrol were funded in the big beautiful Bill. None 172 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:56.320 of this performative nonsense by the Democrats has any impact 173 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:59.799 whatsoever on ice funding or border patrol. 174 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.960 And even today this is what I don't understand. Even today. 175 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:10.519 They didn't fund ice and border patrol in the what 176 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:14.600 the Senate put forward, but they don't need it, so 177 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:18.399 I'm not I just don't get it. Somebody explain it 178 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:21.440 to me. I can don't get it. Maybe there's somebody else's. 179 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:24.399 I don't get it either. And I was wondering if 180 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:28.679 we had an especially craven example of Republicans in the 181 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:31.200 Senate caving and say, oh, let's kick the can down 182 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:34.879 the road and we will limit current funding to the 183 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:37.039 next sixty days, because that's apparently just a sixty d 184 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:39.679 o'clock on what the Senate passed, and in other words, 185 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:42.039 that there may have been I can't figure it out either. 186 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:44.200 I haven't read the bill, because who knows, it's probably 187 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:46.759 not available. I haven't read the bill, but it sounded 188 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:48.960 like nobody has. It sounded like there was a cave 189 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:51.519 into the Democrats on the part of the Republicans and 190 00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:53.679 then they all left town, right. I don't know. 191 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:54.000 So. 192 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:56.240 Speaker Johnson, if you saw him, I caught a bit 193 00:10:56.279 --> 00:10:59.519 of him. He was really exercised about this, and he's 194 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:02.279 normally very calm, cool and collected, and no, he was 195 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:05.080 mad and he's really mad at the Senate and Senate Republicans, 196 00:11:06.159 --> 00:11:07.080 So good for him, I think. 197 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:10.120 So let's let's talk a little bit more about that, 198 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:13.919 because that all just happened today. Last early this morning. 199 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:17.679 The Senate did pass a bill to try to restore 200 00:11:17.759 --> 00:11:21.440 funding to the rest of the apartment, I think, except 201 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:26.240 for ice and border patrol, though, as Lucasia just point out, 202 00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:30.519 those are already funded. And so that made it through 203 00:11:30.519 --> 00:11:33.960 the Senate, and then the Freedom Caucus I believe blocked 204 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:36.559 it in the House and so it didn't pass. So 205 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:39.440 that's one development. But then the second one that just 206 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:43.320 occurred is that President Trump has declared an emergency and 207 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:49.960 has is re well I mean is I guess the 208 00:11:50.200 --> 00:11:53.919 official term, legal term is usually called something like reprogramming 209 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:56.840 the fund, so he's moving it from one account to 210 00:11:57.120 --> 00:12:01.080 the TSA employee account to pay them, and that just 211 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:06.879 happened today. So, actually, does it make sense for Trump 212 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:09.480 to want to engage in these maneuvers to try to 213 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:14.159 keep TSA agents on the job. Doesn't this actually get 214 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:17.720 him involved and get some of the blame now for 215 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:23.039 the longer and longer TSA lines rather than the Democrats 216 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:24.559 in Congress, where it belongs. 217 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:29.279 I have no idea. I mean, my question is, if 218 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:30.960 if he could do that all along, why didn't he 219 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:34.720 do it two three weeks ago to blunt the democrats leverage. 220 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:39.320 And the only one possibility, not the only one possibility, 221 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:41.879 is is he actually can't do this right? You know, 222 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:44.720 it's all the budget restrictions and the way the money's regulated. 223 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:45.480 And I have no idea. 224 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:48.039 That'd be an omb question, and so maybe he won't 225 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:50.360 get away with this. But and then you know, Musk 226 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:54.240 offered to pay their salaries for a period, and the 227 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:56.679 Frump administration as well, Actually you can't do that. We 228 00:12:56.759 --> 00:13:00.440 can't for whatever reason. I mean, so I don't understand 229 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:02.519 what's going on. It seems very confusing and chaotic. 230 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:08.159 There's some kind of poison pill that's and I can't Unfortunately, 231 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:13.559 having just my laptop, I can't open seventeen different windows 232 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:15.679 to look for what I saw earlier as a kind 233 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:19.559 of poison pill that just said something like ICE and 234 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:23.879 DHS excuse me, Ice and Border Patrol are prevented from 235 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:27.480 engaging in any activities. It wasn't quite that strong, but 236 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:29.759 it was something similar to that, and I apologize, I 237 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:35.080 can't find it. So that may be part of the 238 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:37.720 reason why at least the Freedom Caucus said we're not 239 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:38.639 going to go along with this. 240 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:41.279 But I I don't know. I agree. 241 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:44.559 I think that the President is arguing that it's gone 242 00:13:44.600 --> 00:13:46.440 on for so long and things have gotten so bad 243 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:49.559 that it isn't indeed a national emergency, which gives him 244 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:52.519 the authority under the National Emergency Act to use other 245 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:54.240 funds to pay those people. 246 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:56.720 That's my understanding of the legal argument there. 247 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:01.159 That's yeah, well, it's not the Maxtional Emergencies Act that 248 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:03.799 gives the power. It has to be some statute within 249 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:10.000 the appropriating statutes appropriating funds for the agency. But usually 250 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:13.799 these agencies have this kind of reprogramming statute in the 251 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:15.879 case of emergency. You might remember in the first term 252 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:20.720 President Trump, after Congress refused to build the wall, he 253 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:24.919 moved money from base construction within the Department of Defense's 254 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:28.559 budget to wall construction. And I wrote a piece because 255 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:31.279 I looked at the reprogramming statute that applies to DoD 256 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:34.000 and it did say that you can move money between 257 00:14:34.039 --> 00:14:37.759 military construction accounts. It was perfectly within the statute. I thought, 258 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:41.159 if you declared a national emergency, okay, well, we are 259 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:44.159 coming up on our first ad break, so please take 260 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:48.799 a listen to our lawyer supporters. Maybe you'll even hear 261 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:53.120 an ad for the Arch Deluxe when we come back. 262 00:14:59.279 --> 00:15:04.200 So I Stephen Linda the picture of me having the 263 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:08.879 Arch de Luxe in a Union station in Washington. I 264 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:11.559 thought it wasn't bad. I mean, I didn't really see 265 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:15.879 the difference between that and taking two double quarter pounders 266 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:19.360 of cheese. I guess taking the bread off the top 267 00:15:19.480 --> 00:15:21.120 of one in the bottom of the other and just 268 00:15:21.480 --> 00:15:24.120 laughing two together to make it a sandwich, which I 269 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:28.120 have done to the Sausagejagg McMuffin many times for breakfast. 270 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:31.320 I wonder if you had one too. 271 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:33.240 I had one. I had one. 272 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:34.879 I had them take the sauce off. 273 00:15:35.080 --> 00:15:38.240 Of course I would in a thousand years eat some 274 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:42.600 nasty sauce like that on anything. But it was still 275 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:49.279 so just slimy, and it had these fried onion things 276 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:52.600 on it that were just disgusting and ugh. 277 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:55.000 I ate maybe I was starving. 278 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:57.240 I had not eaten it was like two o'clock in 279 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:00.000 the afternoon, and not eaten since six o'clock the day before. 280 00:16:00.039 --> 00:16:02.080 For I was starving, I said, okay, I'll give it 281 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:05.279 a try. I can discuss you with John. It was awful, 282 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:07.200 Clearly it was good. 283 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:08.519 I will tell you the meat was good. 284 00:16:09.080 --> 00:16:09.679 It was good. 285 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:14.679 Lucretia, you are like your Claremont brad theren and sisters 286 00:16:14.879 --> 00:16:19.399 and your snobby food elitism. I can't stand it. You're 287 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:23.480 just insulting the United States of America. What about you? 288 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:26.279 And I still have no I haven't had. I'll have 289 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:29.360 one this week because I usually again at McDonald's stop 290 00:16:29.399 --> 00:16:31.240 at least once on my way back and forth down 291 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:35.000 to Malibu. But you know, speaking of we've never told 292 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:38.360 you John about what was the the burger for claire 293 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:42.039 monsters in Claremont. It was the stuffed burger at Walters. 294 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:45.159 And when you think about it's perfect Straussian burger because 295 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:49.039 it had the cheese and grilled mushrooms cooked inside the 296 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:56.039 center of the patty, so you see it's hidden from view. Oh, 297 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:57.960 it's a fantastic burger. John. 298 00:16:58.279 --> 00:16:59.200 I'm not a snob. 299 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:02.440 I'll eat I'll eat a fish sandwich with no tartar sauce. 300 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:07.319 Al eat a cheeseburger, just a cheeseburger because they don't 301 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:09.599 put mayonnaise or they just put those little onions on 302 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:10.440 it and the pickles. 303 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:11.279 And I'm fine with that. 304 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:12.240 I just that. 305 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:16.920 Disgusting sort of gooey greasy. No, no, it's not for me, 306 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:18.720 it's not snobbish. 307 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:24.960 Let me also say that a friend of the podcast, Janiyardborough, 308 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:31.960 an excellent political scientist Bowden. Yes, yes, who has written 309 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:35.079 some very interesting books on Polko theory. I believe what 310 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:38.319 you call her as Chaussian. Two guys, Is she part 311 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:40.720 of the Secret Decoder Ring Club? Yes? 312 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:44.240 Well, she actually studied with Hannah Rant at the New 313 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:45.640 School for Social Research. 314 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:51.759 Oh wow, Yeah, has been emailing. Yeah, she's been emailing 315 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:54.640 with us about how she cooks a burger. So I 316 00:17:55.279 --> 00:18:01.240 propose that we have a Lucretia versus jean Yarborough off, okay, 317 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:06.000 because she says she cooks a mean burger. And yeah, 318 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:08.000 and we will. We will see which one is the 319 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:12.839 most Straussian of them all. Very good. So let's turn 320 00:18:12.920 --> 00:18:15.400 now for our next topic, which is, of course, the 321 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:19.039 Iran War. A lot of developments in the Iran War. 322 00:18:20.039 --> 00:18:20.240 One. 323 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:24.960 President Trump has sent I believe, a fifteen point piece 324 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:30.440 plan proposal to Tehran. Tehran claims that they're not negotiating 325 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:34.920 with the United States on the other hand, President Trump 326 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:37.920 said in a cabinet meeting on the record that the 327 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:42.920 Iranians gave the United States ten ten tankers filled with 328 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:46.440 oil to show their good faith in the negotiations and 329 00:18:46.519 --> 00:18:51.559 that they could actually keep their promises. Nonetheless, President Trump, 330 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:55.559 there doesn't seem to be any sign of genuine movement 331 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:59.519 in their positions, and President Trump make clear in the 332 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:03.359 Habinet meeting two days ago, the United States is demanding 333 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:06.319 the end of the ballistic missile program, the end of 334 00:19:06.359 --> 00:19:09.960 support for terrorist groups, end of the nuclear weapons program, 335 00:19:10.960 --> 00:19:15.079 and the attacks continue. The United States and Israel are 336 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:18.519 still heavily bombing the nice is one thing I thought 337 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:21.400 was significant, and then I'll ask you both about this. 338 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:26.160 The Secretary Headseth said that the United States is flying 339 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:32.079 the A ten ground attack aircraft and A patches at 340 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:35.640 will over Iran without any threat of being shot down. 341 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:39.160 That A ten is a is a I believe it 342 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:46.559 is propelled by propellers, flies really low, right, yeah, flies 343 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:49.359 really low, and it's just designed to destroy, you know, 344 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:52.960 shoot things with you know, with bullets, all right, Like 345 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:56.119 it uses a rotary gun on the front nose of it, 346 00:19:56.279 --> 00:19:58.640 and it's you know, has a lot of armor in 347 00:19:58.680 --> 00:20:01.160 the bottom, but you would it would be easily shot 348 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:03.720 down if you had an effective air defense. And so 349 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:06.720 he was telling you an example of just how much 350 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:10.880 air superiority exists over Rod and that the Iranian air 351 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:15.480 defenses and air force are no more. Nevertheless, do not 352 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:18.079 know this from the coverage and the little liberal media. 353 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:22.240 Steve had a post earlier this week on Substack of 354 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:24.839 how the economists is saying the United States is losing 355 00:20:24.920 --> 00:20:28.559 the war. Yeah, and you've seen similar accounts in the 356 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:30.920 New York Times, in the Washington Post and the Wall 357 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:34.480 Street Journal if the war does not go well. So Steve, 358 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:38.240 why is this happening? Why does first do you think 359 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:40.880 the war is going well? And then two, why is 360 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:47.440 the liberal media seeming to suppress the genuine facts about 361 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:48.319 how the war's going? 362 00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:51.640 So look, I figured this out a week ago. I 363 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:53.640 think I said it last week that you can tell 364 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:55.599 that we're winning this war because the media says we're 365 00:20:55.640 --> 00:20:58.680 losing it. Right, it's a quagmire, right, you know, the 366 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:01.799 default of the media is it's always Vietnam all over again. 367 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:05.240 And you remember the Iraq War. The first three weeks 368 00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:08.519 it was terrible. Things are going badly, and then Bagdad 369 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:10.799 fell very quickly. It was afterwards things went wrong, and 370 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:14.359 that's another story for another day. So they love that narrative, 371 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:16.880 and so whatever the media is reporting, you can pretty 372 00:21:16.920 --> 00:21:19.480 much assume that the opposite is true. Now. I think 373 00:21:19.559 --> 00:21:22.119 Trump is giving off all these mixed signals, partly because 374 00:21:22.160 --> 00:21:24.880 that's his mo, but partly we've already seen him run 375 00:21:24.920 --> 00:21:27.720 this drill once. The fact that we're sending so many 376 00:21:27.799 --> 00:21:31.000 ground troops to the area means he's serious about seeing 377 00:21:31.079 --> 00:21:35.039 it through. And that might mean, you know, occupying carg Island, 378 00:21:35.079 --> 00:21:37.359 which I think is checkmate for the Iranians. You won't 379 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:39.599 have to take out their electrical grid and bomb their 380 00:21:39.599 --> 00:21:42.079 oil facilities. Although you know he's got done his hip 381 00:21:42.119 --> 00:21:45.319 pocket if he wants to. Ah, I will end with 382 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:48.160 this historical analogy just to annoy Lucretia, because I have to. 383 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:50.920 It's part of my job description, right. A lot of 384 00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:51.480 people are. 385 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:55.200 Drawing historical analogies, are annoying Lucretia, you. 386 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:59.279 Know, well, you know it's my favorite way. It's a 387 00:22:00.200 --> 00:22:01.960 so look a lot of people. I didn't think of this. 388 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:04.200 I'm just following other people saying this is kind of 389 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:08.759 a reverse of course, this is a reverse reversal of 390 00:22:08.839 --> 00:22:12.200 the Suez Crisis of nineteen fifty six, right where remember. 391 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:14.200 That I've seen that analogy ludicrous. 392 00:22:14.519 --> 00:22:16.319 I don't think so. Well, no, here's why. Let me 393 00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:18.440 let me play it out for you, John. In that 394 00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:22.519 case you had France, Britain and Israel. There was once 395 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:24.759 a time in living memory when Israel and France would 396 00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:29.039 lie with Israel to attack, in that case, Egypt over 397 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:31.680 the Suez Canal, which they had an international right to do. 398 00:22:31.839 --> 00:22:35.319 So this was not a Nobody made the argument. They were, 399 00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:37.640 as they do about Trump now, that they were violating 400 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:41.559 international law. And who stopped them? Well, our president Eisenhower. 401 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:43.680