Speaker 1: Good evening, everybody, and welcome to another edition of the
Speaker 1: Cajun Night Live. I am your host, the Cajun Night
Speaker 1: Jacob Mook. We're gonna start off talking about some intergalactic things,
Speaker 1: then we're gonna move into some foreign affairs. Then we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about some American homeland. A lot of things,
Speaker 1: a lot of things on pack right now, So I'm
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Speaker 1: the hand and let's open dialogue this thing. Now. To
Speaker 1: start off, we're gonna go to ABC News here. Apparently
Speaker 1: the Atlas object, so I'm not even sure if we
Speaker 1: can call it a comet or a meteor or a
Speaker 1: spaceship or whatever. Okay, Apparently they lost sight of it
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago because of some sort of
Speaker 1: a I don't want to say a solar flare, but
Speaker 1: some sort of a galactic flare or something made it
Speaker 1: go invisible to our instrumentation and our equipment. Now, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden they have caught a glimpse of it
Speaker 1: as it passed by Mars, and they are speculating here,
Speaker 1: of course, if it's gonna hit Earth. Now, before I
Speaker 1: play the video that is attached to this article, no
Speaker 1: expert believes that it's going to strike Earth. But yes,
Speaker 1: there is a greater than zero percent chance that anything
Speaker 1: ever can happen. So they're gonna do that for the clickbait.
Speaker 1: And I get that they're calling it the city killer asteroid,
Speaker 1: and yes they are talking about the three I Atlas.
Speaker 1: But apparently it went out of sight for a bit.
Speaker 1: And now they just caught a glimpse of it as
Speaker 1: it passed by Mars, so they know for sure that
Speaker 1: it is still inbound and they're gonna be able to
Speaker 1: get a really good look at it the closer it
Speaker 1: gets to Earth without further ado. Let's listen to the
Speaker 1: ABC News cast talk about it.
Speaker 2: We turned out to the asteroid being called a city killer.
Speaker 2: There's a chance it could hit Earth.
Speaker 1: It's happened before.
Speaker 2: An asteroid hitting Earth, this one in Russia in twenty thirteen,
Speaker 2: injuring more than one thousand people. Now, scientists say an
Speaker 2: asteroid discovered in December has a chance of striking our planet.
Speaker 2: It was named twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Why are four?
Speaker 2: So I'm calling it a potential city killer. It could
Speaker 2: hit in late twenty thirty two.
Speaker 3: Looking at about a three percent chance that it hits
Speaker 3: the Earth. If it hit a city, it would have
Speaker 3: completely obliterate a very large city.
Speaker 2: It's up to three hundred feet wide, the size of
Speaker 2: a large building.
Speaker 3: If it was to hit, it would have an energy
Speaker 3: of between about five mega tons of TNT and about
Speaker 3: fifteen mega tons of TNT, which is a very big range.
Speaker 3: This thing is probably in the range of call it
Speaker 3: a thousand times five hundred two, one thousand times larger
Speaker 3: than the bomb dropped over Hiroshima.
Speaker 2: Astronomers have only a limited time to observe the asteroid
Speaker 2: before it fades from view next.
Speaker 4: Month, and then maybe the James Webb Space Telescope will
Speaker 4: take its shot at looking at this object. We'll get
Speaker 4: a much better idea of its size. Those observations will
Speaker 4: really pin down its orbit.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty eight is when it comes back closer
Speaker 3: to the Earth. That will be our chance to more
Speaker 3: than likely say for sure whether or not it's going
Speaker 3: to hit the Earth.
Speaker 2: NASA recently had success using a spacecraft to knock an
Speaker 2: asteroid off course during a test. Such a mission would
Speaker 2: need to be done years in advance of a potential impact.
Speaker 2: For now, scientists don't seem too worried.
Speaker 3: It's a pretty good.
Speaker 4: Chance that it's going to hit in the ocean or
Speaker 4: someplace uninhabited in which case we just get to see a.
Speaker 2: Great light show, the potential impact would likely be somewhere
Speaker 2: in South America or the Middle East.
Speaker 1: Okay, so all of that to be said, three hundred
Speaker 1: foot wide, most of that would get burned up in
Speaker 1: the atmosphere before it actually hit the ground. So I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know, but we should be on
Speaker 1: the lookout for that one in twenty thirty two, you know,
Speaker 1: if we're all still alive by that point. But I
Speaker 1: guess we'll find out anyway. Here we go. Astronomers just
Speaker 1: caught a rare glimpse of an interstellar comet as it
Speaker 1: zoomed past Mars. Images of the object, dubbed three I
Speaker 1: at lists, were captured by two of the European Space
Speaker 1: Agency Mars orbiters XO Mars and Mars Express, which we're
Speaker 1: able to record the comment as an approached the red
Speaker 1: planet on octob According to the ESA, both cameras are
Speaker 1: designed to photograph the bright surface of Mars, which lies
Speaker 1: fewer than two hundred miles below. Scientists were unsure what
Speaker 1: to expect from the observations of a relatively dim target
Speaker 1: so far away. The space agency said, so this is
Speaker 1: the image right it is this bright light. Right here
Speaker 1: is the image of Atlas as it passed in front
Speaker 1: of Mars' surface. So although they kind of lost sight
Speaker 1: of it, we know for sure it is still inbound.
Speaker 1: So at least we have that going. The observation of
Speaker 1: three I Atlas was very challenging for the camera because
Speaker 1: the comet is about ten thousand to one hundred thousand
Speaker 1: times fainter than their usual targets, said Nick Thomas, the
Speaker 1: principal investigator at the Cassis camera, in a statement. The
Speaker 1: comment was about eighteen point six million miles away from
Speaker 1: the orbiters when the image was taken. According to the ESA,
Speaker 1: the cameras were able to capture the center of the comet,
Speaker 1: which is comprised of an icy rocky nucleus and is
Speaker 1: surrounded by a comma, which is the fuzzy halo of
Speaker 1: gas and that forms around its nucleus. The comet is
Speaker 1: one of the one of only three interstellar objects ever
Speaker 1: recorded entering our Solar system. Going on it says it
Speaker 1: was first spotted on July first by the Asteroid Terrestrial
Speaker 1: Impact Last Alert System in Rio Hurtado, Chili. Astronomer's hypothesized
Speaker 1: that it could be the oldest comet ever observed, a
Speaker 1: core estimating its age at three billion years older than
Speaker 1: the Solar System. That's pretty insane out loud, but yeah.
Speaker 1: Scientists announced last month that the comet is much larger
Speaker 1: than previously thought, likely weighing more than thirty three billion tons,
Speaker 1: with the nucleus mostly comprised of carbon dioxide, gas and
Speaker 1: water ice. I don't know why they would just say
Speaker 1: like water ice. Well, I guess in space a lot
Speaker 1: of different things can freeze, so I guess you'd have
Speaker 1: to get that nomenclature. Heat and radiation from the Sun
Speaker 1: is bringing the comet to life, causing the object to
Speaker 1: release gas and dust that form the comet's comma. It's
Speaker 1: spelled like coma, but I think it is pronounced comma,
Speaker 1: The Space Agency said in November. ESA astronomers will observe
Speaker 1: three i at lists through its Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer
Speaker 1: aka Juice, which that's that's kind of cool, as it
Speaker 1: makes its closest approach to the Sun. Scientists will continue
Speaker 1: to analyze data from the ESA orbiters to determine exactly
Speaker 1: what the comet is made of, though our Mars orbiters
Speaker 1: continue to make impressive contribution to Mars science. It's always
Speaker 1: extra exciting to see them responding to an unexpected situation
Speaker 1: like this one, said Colin Wilson, Mars Express and Exo
Speaker 1: Mars Project scientists at ESA, in a statement, I look
Speaker 1: forward to seeing what the data reveals following further analysis.
Speaker 1: So again, there's nothing to worry about with the three
Speaker 1: I Atlas comet or object or whatever. People are saying
Speaker 1: that it's going to be, but it is getting closer
Speaker 1: to Earth and it will be really cool whenever it
Speaker 1: gets close enough for us to get a good look
Speaker 1: at it later this month, if I'm not mistaken, they
Speaker 1: were saying that it was going to be sometime around
Speaker 1: end of October beginning of November. Whenever it makes its
Speaker 1: way around the Sun and shoots off the other direction,
Speaker 1: that will actually be able to get a decent look
Speaker 1: at it. And I'm excited just for the you know,
Speaker 1: I know some people that listen to the cult of
Speaker 1: conspiracy are of the belief that space is not a
Speaker 1: real thing, not here to have that conversation on the
Speaker 1: cage to night for my own personal beliefs, I am
Speaker 1: really excited to see this. I think it's cool, you know, Anyway,
Speaker 1: moving on to the next topic of discussion, still sticking,
Speaker 1: and we're going to start with the international side of things.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many people have been paying attention
Speaker 1: to celebrity news. Myself. I don't particularly care about it
Speaker 1: that much, you know. It's just it's one of those
Speaker 1: things that the celebrities and what they have going on
Speaker 1: to their day to day life very rarely ever actually
Speaker 1: affect my thought process. Ever, however, Katie Perry and Justin
Speaker 1: True are dating. I don't know if anybody was aware
Speaker 1: of that. But this isn't a tabloid news although this
Speaker 1: one's from Cosmopolitan, there are multiple news sources that are
Speaker 1: talking about their relationship. So in this Cosmopolitan article, we're
Speaker 1: not gonna read the whole thing because, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, I feel brain cells dying as I was
Speaker 1: even reading it to do research for this. But we're
Speaker 1: gonna hit the cliff notes of it real quick. Right
Speaker 1: August twenty or August third of tw twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: Justin and his wife Sophie announced their separation after eighteen
Speaker 1: years of marriage. All right, cool. Moving On July third,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, after weeks of rumors Katie and Orlando
Speaker 1: Bloom confirmed their relationship is over. Okay, so they gave
Speaker 1: a statement to US Weekly. On this July twenty eighth
Speaker 1: of this year, Katie and Justin are spotted on a
Speaker 1: dinner date in Canada. July twenty ninth, TMZ drops more
Speaker 1: picks of Justin and Katie, only this time they're in
Speaker 1: different outfits. Okay, so that means it's not that pictures
Speaker 1: of the same dinner outing. It's obviously of a different outing.
Speaker 1: So at least twice they went out for dinner. July
Speaker 1: twenty ninth, The Sun manages to get a hold of
Speaker 1: not one, not two, but of Justin Trude's close associates,
Speaker 1: who are more than happy to spill and there's things
Speaker 1: that they learned about. Long story short, there's a list.
Speaker 1: There is a eighteen or i'm sorry, sixteen point list
Speaker 1: of what the homies of Justin Trudeau are saying about
Speaker 1: this and long story short, they really are into each other. Shocker.
Speaker 1: July thirtieth, Justin has spotted watching Katie perform and sings
Speaker 1: along with Fireworks. We're not going to play the video
Speaker 1: because we all know the song. But there's Justin Trudeau
Speaker 1: out of Katy Perry concert July thirty. First Insider says
Speaker 1: Katie's friends are worried about her dating Justin. So even
Speaker 1: Katie's friends are like, yo, you sure you want to
Speaker 1: date that guy? August eighteenth, Long story short, long story short.
Speaker 1: They go on September fifteenth, October fourth. They're keeping their
Speaker 1: relationship quiet as of this moment. But it's also worth
Speaker 1: mentioning that, yes, Justin Trudeau and Katie Perry, the bastard
Speaker 1: son of Fidel Castro and the quote unquote first woman
Speaker 1: to ever sing a song in space, which that's a
Speaker 1: whole conversation in and of itself, are now making moves
Speaker 1: to become a couple. I think that's hilarious. And you know,
Speaker 1: just one of those things. Now, as we're sticking on
Speaker 1: the topic of the celebrities, actors, singers and things of
Speaker 1: that nature, how many of you have heard of the
Speaker 1: AI actor Tillie Norwood. If you haven't, let me tell
Speaker 1: you about her. Tilly Norwood is an actress that is
Speaker 1: going to start making more and more appearances and movies
Speaker 1: and TV shows. Here's the little thing about her. She's
Speaker 1: not a real person. She is an AI generated actress.
Speaker 1: And she it AI has been getting some very decent
Speaker 1: contracts for some upcoming motion pictures and actors and actresses
Speaker 1: are pissed about it. I know, shocker, And in one sense,
Speaker 1: I couldn't care less about these overprivileged actors getting upset
Speaker 1: that AI is about to take their job. We all
Speaker 1: saw it coming a mile away, right, I mean, even
Speaker 1: though was it last year or the year before the
Speaker 1: Hollywood writers strike happened and all of these movie companies
Speaker 1: decided to just use AI models, and they came out
Speaker 1: with really good scripts, arguably better than what the overprivileged
Speaker 1: Writer's Guild of Hollywood was able to produce. And then
Speaker 1: they realized, man, we're striking to make more money, but
Speaker 1: we are very replaceable by a chatbot. And then they
Speaker 1: shut down the strike and a lot of these movie
Speaker 1: companies decided, you know, we might hire you back. But honestly,
Speaker 1: we have seen the light and AI is just cheaper
Speaker 1: and doesn't require X amount of dollars, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: require off days. And if we tell it to change things,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna bitch and moan about it. It's just
Speaker 1: gonna change it and do what we want. So we
Speaker 1: already saw the writing on the walls that AI was
Speaker 1: going to be taking over a lot of the entertainment space.
Speaker 1: Now we absolutely have an AI actress and the thing
Speaker 1: is going by the name Tilly Norwood. There's a BBC
Speaker 1: article before I read it. Go ahead, Royce, what is
Speaker 1: your thoughts?
Speaker 5: So there is a lot of traction about that. And
Speaker 5: by the way, so I just sent an article a few.
Speaker 6: Minutes ago about a nice AI robot that is very,
Speaker 6: very realistic and should probably get people in nightmares. So
Speaker 6: after you read that, so it'll be fun to read
Speaker 6: that article and watch that small clip.
Speaker 7: Of the video.
Speaker 1: Okay, matter of fact, before I do that, let me
Speaker 1: go ahead and pull up that clip so I can
Speaker 1: get it all cued up and ready to go. Let's see. Yep,
Speaker 1: got it, and uh redirect notice Oh times India. Oh no,
Speaker 1: not the Kung Fu robot. Oh yeah, okay, yep. No,
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about what a time to be alive.
Speaker 1: Good ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 7: This is.
Speaker 1: Unprecedented times that we are living in. It's not like
Speaker 1: there was movies made about this for you know, years
Speaker 1: or anything. Go ahead, Sam, everybody was Kung Fu five time.
Speaker 8: No, but fuck Sky in it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's it's coming more and more every day.
Speaker 1: And for some reason people still think AI is like
Speaker 1: so great, it's mind blowing to me.
Speaker 7: So would it be a felony if I did an
Speaker 7: e MP and like if I if I tasted a
Speaker 7: fucking clanker in nineteen years? Oh wait, I can't say that.
Speaker 7: That's a show to the auto official bullshit.
Speaker 1: Na listen, bro, the gearbacks are not sentient, allegedly, and
Speaker 1: there wasn't that case. There was that case in Florida.
Speaker 1: That kid, that high school kid was talking to the
Speaker 1: AI chat boy and it pretty much told him to
Speaker 1: offer himself. So he did.
Speaker 7: He gave how to do it painlessly, and so the
Speaker 7: parents tried to sue the company and the company.
Speaker 1: The AI company tried saying no, that wasn't us. The
Speaker 1: AI is sentient. It's its own thing and it has
Speaker 1: its own First Amendment rights that's separate from the company.
Speaker 1: And the state government of Florida said no, no, it's
Speaker 1: not sentient. It's a robot that you program. You're on
Speaker 1: the hook for this kid's death. So to answer your question,
Speaker 1: no EMP attack on an AI bod. I'm here for it.
Speaker 8: I personally think what. I think they fucked up.
Speaker 7: We they let loose Pandora's box and there ain't no
Speaker 7: going back.
Speaker 1: So no, it's it's because of the ease of it, right,
Speaker 1: So many humans are willing to take the easy way
Speaker 1: out any given time. So AI is scene is just
Speaker 1: like the easiest thing, So why wouldn't we use it more?
Speaker 1: And so many people can't understand that this is leading
Speaker 1: to their own demise. It's it's it's impressive and sad.
Speaker 7: People were glad people gave you up their entire body
Speaker 7: anatomy uh for COVID, But they would sit there and say,
Speaker 7: my body, my choice, except when it comes to COVID
Speaker 7: and they're like, you have to do this. What happened
Speaker 7: to body?
Speaker 8: Uh? An?
Speaker 1: And I got you? Uh wait yeah, I see your Royce.
Speaker 1: You were about to say something to you. Oh no nothing, okay,
Speaker 1: yeah body autonomy? Is that what you were saying, Raven?
Speaker 8: Yes, body autonomy.
Speaker 1: I thought he was saying anonymity, like like anonymous you know, like.
Speaker 7: When you you you have control of your own bodies autonomy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Whenever I think that, I think of automaton, which is
Speaker 7: another word for a robot.
Speaker 1: Give it we're gonna be talking about that one next.
Speaker 1: Royce just sent us the link for that one, but
Speaker 1: put a pin in that one. Let's get into this
Speaker 1: one first. So again, this is a BBC article. Emily
Speaker 1: Blunt is among the Hollywood stars outraged over the AI
Speaker 1: actor Tillie Norwood. It's great. An AI actor named Tilly
Speaker 1: Norwood has been causing a stir after its Dutch creator
Speaker 1: said the synthetic performer is in talks with talent agencies. Yes,
Speaker 1: that is correct. The AI bot, the automated, not real thing,
Speaker 1: is now being sought after by talent agencies above actual
Speaker 1: flesh and blood actors and actresses. We're at that point, y'all.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty five is a weird year. Norwood could be
Speaker 1: mistaken for a young, aspiring actress when one glances at
Speaker 1: its social media. Yeah, the AI bought as a social
Speaker 1: media presence. By the way, the brunette poses for photos
Speaker 1: and show cases a fully AI generated generated comedy sketch
Speaker 1: where it is described as having girl next door vibes.
Speaker 1: Because that's not creepy. I may be AI, but I'm
Speaker 1: feeling very real emotions right now, Tilly's creator wrote on
Speaker 1: her page I'm so excited for what's coming next. That's
Speaker 1: a quote. Hollywood is not rolling out the red carpet.
Speaker 1: It's powerful Actors Union IS has condemned the creation, along
Speaker 1: with a list stars like Emily Blunt, Natasha Leone, and
Speaker 1: Whoopy Goldberg. Which I'm sorry, Whoopy, you haven't been relevant
Speaker 1: for years. You weighing in on this one is something
Speaker 1: that literally no one, negative, anyone actually asked for. And
Speaker 1: you haven't been an actor since maybe we could say
Speaker 1: Roger and Hammerstein's Cinderella. You were a voice actor for
Speaker 1: the Lion King movies, you know, sister Mary Clarence, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, It's it's very yeah. Anyway, Norwood is
Speaker 1: not an actor. It's a character generated by a computer
Speaker 1: program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers.
Speaker 1: The Screen Actors guilled. American Federation of Television and Radio
Speaker 1: Artists or SAG said in a statement, it has no
Speaker 1: life experience to draw from, no emotion, and from what
Speaker 1: we've seen, audiences aren't interested in watching computer generated content
Speaker 1: untethered from the human experience. The union said, I would
Speaker 1: have to respectfully disagree. There is billions of people that
Speaker 1: are watching AI generated YouTube videos on mass and those
Speaker 1: are getting millions of views. So again, moving on. The
Speaker 1: AI actor was created by Dutch actor and comedian Aleen
Speaker 1: vander Velden. Well that's a mouthful, who reportedly said she
Speaker 1: wanted Norwood to become the next Scarlett Johansson. The BBC
Speaker 1: has reached out to vander Velden and her company, Particle six.
Speaker 1: Norwood's Instagram page includes headshots from faux filming tests and
Speaker 1: an advertisement spoofing programs on the BBC, including being superimposed
Speaker 1: on the often star studed couch on BBC's The Graham
Speaker 1: Norton Show. Amid the anger and backlash in Hollywood, the
Speaker 1: Dutch creator posted on Tilly's Instagram page to say that
Speaker 1: the creation is quote not a replacement for a human being,
Speaker 1: but a creative work, a piece of art. Creating Tilly
Speaker 1: has been for me an active imagination and craftsmanship, not
Speaker 1: unlike drawing a character, writing a role, or shaping a performance,
Speaker 1: vander Velden wrote, adding such creations should be judged as
Speaker 1: part of their own genre rather than compared to the
Speaker 1: human race. So here we see a list of people
Speaker 1: in Hollywood who are on strike, and that's the Writer's
Speaker 1: Guild strike. Remember no to AI all these things, and
Speaker 1: then they had to back off because you know that
Speaker 1: was a really dumb idea. Anyway, AI has been hotly
Speaker 1: contested technology in Hollywood and was a key sticking point
Speaker 1: during the labor strikes that shut down the industry two
Speaker 1: years ago, as writers and actors demanded protections from the technology.
Speaker 1: In this statement on Norwood, SAG reminded agencies and studios
Speaker 1: that using Norwood in projects could pose issues for contractual
Speaker 1: protections they secured after the twenty twenty three strike. It
Speaker 1: doesn't solve any problem. It creates the problem of using
Speaker 1: stolen performances to put actors out of work, jeopardizing performer
Speaker 1: livelihoods and devaluing human artistry, the union said. Actress and
Speaker 1: filmmaker Natasha Leone, known for her leading role in Poker Face,
Speaker 1: Orange is the New Black and Russian Doll, said anyone
Speaker 1: who works with Norwood should be boycotted. I'm sorry, this
Speaker 1: is great, this is great. So you're telling me the
Speaker 1: AI chatbot is gonna make hundreds of millions, that's our money. No,
Speaker 1: not if you can be replaced by an AI bot.
Speaker 1: Sounds like you need to get a better craft anyway,
Speaker 1: Moving on, any talent agency in this that engages in
Speaker 1: this should be boycotted by all guilds. Leone who is
Speaker 1: currently working with Ethical AI to create a feature film
Speaker 1: that stars real actors. So she's using AI while shitting
Speaker 1: on AI because I understand one of the chat bot
Speaker 1: one's a image. AI is AI is AI. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: If you're using it for one thing, it's only a
Speaker 1: matter of time before it gets used for other things too.
Speaker 1: So she's just mad that she is getting cut out
Speaker 1: and that human actors and actresses are gonna get cut
Speaker 1: out of the deal. That's all they're pissed about. That
Speaker 1: they're gonna lose out all money and acting opportunities, and
Speaker 1: this is just kind of the way the future is
Speaker 1: gonna shake out. So, I mean, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: She says, it is deeply misguided and totally disturbed again
Speaker 1: as she is using AI for writing when she was
Speaker 1: a part of the screen guilder's boycotting that was almost
Speaker 1: replaced completely by AI. But you know, hey, what do
Speaker 1: I know? Fellow actress Emily Blunt, speaking on a podcast
Speaker 1: with Varieties, said the creation was terrifying. That's an Ai.
Speaker 1: Good lord, we're screwed. And this is a Nomina Oscar
Speaker 1: nominated actress, and she said this when she was shown
Speaker 1: a video of Norwood that is really really scary. Come on, agencies,
Speaker 1: don't do that. Please stop, please stop taking away our
Speaker 1: human connection. Most actors and actresses have no human connection.
Speaker 1: They are so detached from what the rest of the
Speaker 1: human race actually is experiencing in their day to day lives.
Speaker 1: Not all, not all. There are some that truly keep
Speaker 1: themselves grounded. I'm not just taking this opportunity to shit
Speaker 1: on every single person that makes their money in front
Speaker 1: of a camera and rehearsing lines and things, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say that ninety nine percent of them are completely
Speaker 1: detached from reality. Honestly, look at uh what was named Jervas.
Speaker 1: Look at Jervas's speech when he was hosting the Oscars
Speaker 1: two years ago, maybe three. That is a truth. And
Speaker 1: that is why when he made these stabs at all
Speaker 1: these actors, there was only a handful of them that
Speaker 1: were laughing at it, and the rest of them were like,
Speaker 1: ooh oh, And He's like, I don't care, I'm not
Speaker 1: doing this again, screw you. So I mean, I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm throwing it out on the US chat show The
Speaker 1: View comedian and actress. Barely either of those things are accurate.
Speaker 1: When discussing will be, Goldberg said audiences can tell the
Speaker 1: difference between humans and synthetic performers. She was skeptical over
Speaker 1: concerns that AI creations would steal jobs for human actors
Speaker 1: because they moved differently. Our faces moved differently, our bodies
Speaker 1: move differently. Yeah A, now, given another two years of ingenuity,
Speaker 1: and you're not gonna be able to tell the difference. Hell,
Speaker 1: you could barely tell the difference anymore these days. While
Speaker 1: Norwood's Instagram has been active for months, her existence gained
Speaker 1: notoriety in Hollywood this week after trade publication Deadline reported
Speaker 1: on a summit her creator presented at in a Zurich
Speaker 1: over the weekend. Vandervelden discussed her AI production studio and
Speaker 1: her new AI talent agency x Koya probably mispronounced that
Speaker 1: on Saturday, according to Deadline, and suggested that Hollywood studios
Speaker 1: and agencies were embracing AI under the radar, which they are.
Speaker 1: She told the crowd they should expect public announcements about
Speaker 1: high profile projects using the technology in the coming months. Yes,
Speaker 1: this is accurate, this is real life. Sam, your handile
Speaker 1: was raised first, Go ahead, well, speaking about the AI
Speaker 1: and all that, Okay, So it's.
Speaker 9: An episode, not an episode, but a short.
Speaker 7: I was watching because I watched JD Delay and there's
Speaker 7: ay he's been taking pictures of dead kids like off
Speaker 7: of Facebook, like infants and all, and been making child
Speaker 7: porn of them and blackmailing the parents and said if
Speaker 7: you don't give me money, I'm not gonna take it down.
Speaker 7: And apparently JD's the one who uh reported him to
Speaker 7: the FBI, but I can't remember the guy's name. Just
Speaker 7: be aware that AI. While yes, it can be easy,
Speaker 7: it's also Lily Satan's fucking play pin oh.
Speaker 1: And not even going towards the worst of humanity as
Speaker 1: far as like child porn is concerned, people using AI
Speaker 1: just to make porn. There's there's tons name any Disney princess.
Speaker 1: There is AI porn of that Disney princess right now,
Speaker 1: and it looks very real. People are watching that on
Speaker 1: mass more than they're watching regular shit. It's bro It
Speaker 1: is a very very distorted Johnny Catch time to be alive.
Speaker 7: So elevon South Korea Johnny Somali is facing life in
Speaker 7: prison because he was so Korea they are very strict
Speaker 7: on AI and they're very strict on uh, indecent exposure,
Speaker 7: porn and all because the Asian While yes, Asians they
Speaker 7: do with ship with with Octopi and all, Yes, granted,
Speaker 7: but no, Johnny Simony made a deep fakes of one
Speaker 7: of the Korea's like top stars and he is facing
Speaker 7: uh a lot of years for it, and personally I
Speaker 7: kind of hope he does get the book thrown at him.
Speaker 1: Oh no, And like you're saying, this is just the
Speaker 1: dark side of AI, just off the rip, not even
Speaker 1: talking about what it could do as far as replacing actors,
Speaker 1: actresses even of the of the regular Hollywood star variety. Right,
Speaker 1: It's one leads to the other here.
Speaker 7: I don't remember what Eastern like, it's an Eastern country
Speaker 7: once they Poland, I think maybe, but they are They
Speaker 7: just made an AI prime minister.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, it's Albania and uh, this is the
Speaker 1: Minister of Procurement. So yes, Albania currently basically for lack
Speaker 1: of better words, purchasing logistics things like that for the country.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean like uh, I mean some in
Speaker 1: certain cases. I suppose it could be weapons and things
Speaker 1: like that. But you know, any big organization that makes
Speaker 1: a lot of purchases is going to have a procurement head.
Speaker 1: In this country, we have secretary of dot dot dot.
Speaker 1: In a lot of other countries they have Minister of
Speaker 1: dot dot dot. So yes, currently secretary of war. Now
Speaker 1: that is the new title. Secretary of defense is antiquated.
Speaker 1: Now we have Pete Hegseth our secretary of war. Uh,
Speaker 1: this is the war Department, not the Defense department. It's excellent.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy about this, but it's out the point.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's how they do it over there.
Speaker 1: And currently Albania has an AI overlord over at least
Speaker 1: their procurement. And if it does well, uh, it will that.
Speaker 1: I could imagine a world where we have AI prime
Speaker 1: ministers and Hugh, it's a it's scary, it's just it's dystopic.
Speaker 7: It does, so I think we should see in Albania
Speaker 7: like every fucking trans not transformers. Jesus stat that'd give
Speaker 7: them wide is no sky in it. Give them the
Speaker 7: Terminator movies, make them watch that well.
Speaker 1: So and we talked about this on the Cajun night
Speaker 1: a couple. I don't know if it was last week
Speaker 1: or the week before, honestly, but they are doing this
Speaker 1: because Albania has been riddled with corruption for years. Like
Speaker 1: this is not a recent thing, for decades. Albania has
Speaker 1: been seriously.
Speaker 7: Corrupt, especially their people.
Speaker 1: Well, but that's the thing. Their theory is that AI
Speaker 1: because it can't be allegedly quote unquote, it can't be
Speaker 1: swayed on public opinion or based off of who its
Speaker 1: uncle is or who what family ties that has to
Speaker 1: this mafia or whatever the case is, so it will
Speaker 1: be a neutral source on all these things. Backside to that,
Speaker 1: AI can be programmed to do whatever you want, and
Speaker 1: if the programmer was corrupt, the AI will be corrupt.
Speaker 1: But they're gonna find that out on their own there.
Speaker 1: We're gonna just watch from this side of the pond
Speaker 1: and see how it plays out. I don't see it
Speaker 1: going well.
Speaker 7: Also, Poland just in stated Jesus Christ as the king
Speaker 7: of Poland.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's a movie. Poland really is the European Texas,
Speaker 1: and I am.
Speaker 7: Here for them, little European Texas. Indeed, so you watch
Speaker 7: an habitual line cross for USA.
Speaker 1: I love HLC. He is He's amazing. Ethan is an
Speaker 1: amazing guy.
Speaker 7: Which plane is your favorite? I give you two guesses,
Speaker 7: which one's my favorite?
Speaker 1: Uh? The Kid and Grandpa.
Speaker 7: Buff Yes, those are my favorite by far.
Speaker 1: All right, So Tony, I saw your hand rais and
Speaker 1: I saw Royce's hand raised, but then both y'all put
Speaker 1: it down. Which everyone wants to weigh in first? Go
Speaker 1: for it.
Speaker 10: I just thought Johnny Somali was going to prison for
Speaker 10: being one of these shock jocks who to harass people
Speaker 10: on the street. I didn't realized that he got in
Speaker 10: trouble for ai fake.
Speaker 7: So the shock jock stuff is true. But to the
Speaker 7: point there was, uh he got there was a group
Speaker 7: of care of South Koreans. They tracked him down like
Speaker 7: based off of the environment, like his life's tracked him down,
Speaker 7: found out where he was because they got sick and
Speaker 7: tired of They beat the dog shit out that boy. Hmmm. So,
Speaker 7: and know what, like the community, like none of the
Speaker 7: police officers press charges against the the other Koreans and everything.
Speaker 7: And you gotta keep in mind, Korea, like most Asian countries,
Speaker 7: are very honor bound to like community and everything, and
Speaker 7: going there as a as a foreigner, especially to one
Speaker 7: of the extracted countries, and to pretty much be a
Speaker 7: dick to society. I'm surprised they didn't bag him and
Speaker 7: tag him and take his ass to a black site.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Korea doesn't really play around with outsiders coming there
Speaker 1: breaking the loll as. For sure.
Speaker 7: They should toss his ass over the line to North
Speaker 7: Korean and just give him to them. Let let let
Speaker 7: him go, or.
Speaker 1: They'll they'll throw him back. They'll absolutely throw him back.
Speaker 11: Royce, what you got, brother, No, So the so, going
Speaker 11: back in a few minutes ago when we were talking
Speaker 11: about this new AI quote unquote actress or whatever, so,
Speaker 11: I do agree with you that most actors slash actresses
Speaker 11: have absolutely zero concept.
Speaker 5: Of what the quote unquote real world is.
Speaker 12: I think what they were talking about is the ability
Speaker 12: to h they emotion right, Like, I'm sure there's some
Speaker 12: some movies that you've seen where like there's some scene
Speaker 12: that just it hits hard, whether it's whether it's the background,
Speaker 12: whether it's the actor. So I think that's what they're
Speaker 12: talking about that. Eventually, I'm sure that the AI will
Speaker 12: be able to mimic that, but right now, that's something
Speaker 12: that probably more people and civic people who have been
Speaker 12: trained in the art of that. Now, should that be
Speaker 12: something that these people make millions upon millions of dollars
Speaker 12: per day or per episode. Absolutely not right, But it
Speaker 12: definitely is a talent and is a skill.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna knock that right. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that acting is not an art form in
Speaker 1: and of itself. I one hundred percent agree with that.
Speaker 1: But also think about this from a director's standpoint, Right,
Speaker 1: You're trying to get this scene just right, and you
Speaker 1: wanted to carry the amount of weight right, real gravity
Speaker 1: to this scene, whether it be a big crying scene
Speaker 1: or a big reveal scene or whatever the case is.
Speaker 1: Instead of having to all right, cut, all right, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need you to be just more more emotion,
Speaker 1: cry more, just complete breakdown and action, and then you cut.
Speaker 1: I need more. I need more out of you on
Speaker 1: this one. Okay, we go just all the way through.
Speaker 1: Instead of going back and forth and back and forth,
Speaker 1: wasting everybody's time and film and resources and all this,
Speaker 1: you could just play it through the AI model and
Speaker 1: then be like, actually, can we make her cry a
Speaker 1: little bit more? Da da da boom, It's done. Okay,
Speaker 1: a little bit less da da da boom. Okay, can
Speaker 1: we have a little lip quiver at this point ba
Speaker 1: ba bap. It would take a matter of an hour
Speaker 1: to get right a scene that in otherwise would have
Speaker 1: taken days. So I hear what you're saying as far
Speaker 1: as the human connection, as far as like bringing real
Speaker 1: emotion to it. But also I agree with the other
Speaker 1: point that you made that give it a little bit
Speaker 1: of time and a little bit of tweaking. Tillie nor would,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, is just the tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 1: I could see this going way way deep into our
Speaker 1: entertainment industry as a whole. Let's not even talk about
Speaker 1: AI musicians or singers or anything else that we have
Speaker 1: going on here. It's only starting here, you know.
Speaker 5: And they also never age, so you know, a bit
Speaker 5: major problem if you have a sitcom that is call
Speaker 5: it a family Well, guess what you know, kids grow up,
Speaker 5: adults get older, adults die.
Speaker 6: I mean and the move Adam Sandler have the Gilmore two, right,
Speaker 6: So many actors died, right, So there was a lot
Speaker 6: of like flashbacks and you know a lot of cameos
Speaker 6: as it were, but like you would not have that
Speaker 6: at all with AI exactly.
Speaker 1: And think about that too. If you have a cutback scene,
Speaker 1: a backstory or something, you don't have to get a
Speaker 1: child actor that looks really really close to the main actor.
Speaker 1: You could just program the AI to look like that
Speaker 1: thing as nine years old or something, or as five
Speaker 1: or whatever the case, and it will look like it's
Speaker 1: supposed to all the way through.
Speaker 5: The Karate Kid had that. Yeah, the New Karate Kid with.
Speaker 6: Jackie Chan actually had a good cutback scene with both
Speaker 6: Danielson and mister Miagi, and.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was pretty n good, pretty close.
Speaker 1: This is what I'm saying, dude. I see this as
Speaker 1: a sign of the times. And although I am not
Speaker 1: the biggest fan of actors as people, I am not
Speaker 1: happy about them being replaced by AI. It's it's a
Speaker 1: crazy shift that we very well may be watching in
Speaker 1: real time. With that being said, let's move on to
Speaker 1: the article that Royce sent in Tesla's Optimist robot shows
Speaker 1: off kung fu skills on Jared Leto at Disney event.
Speaker 1: Bro What okay, let's got it?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: When was this posted? Hold on? This was October seventh.
Speaker 1: Oh god, yesterday. All right, let's check it out here.
Speaker 1: Elon musk led Tesla's humanoid robot Optimist, recently made an
Speaker 1: appearance on the red carpet at the tron Aries World
Speaker 1: premiere in Los Angeles. Of course, he would use that
Speaker 1: to premiere his new tech. Right at the event, the
Speaker 1: robot post in a kung fu stance opposite actor Jared Leto.
Speaker 1: A video shared on social media platform ex quickly went
Speaker 1: viral was showing the robot performing kung fu moves in
Speaker 1: a playful face off with the actor. I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: I am. I used to be a fan of Jared
Speaker 1: Leto as an actor, but I have heard and seen
Speaker 1: too many things about him as a person to where
Speaker 1: I can't separate art from artists on this one. He's
Speaker 1: kind of a raging piece of shit as a human being. Well.
Speaker 1: A person that I know, a content creator who's like
Speaker 1: a friend of a friend, has a lady friend that
Speaker 1: basically her and Leto were in a hotel room together
Speaker 1: and in the middle of it, she decided that she
Speaker 1: wasn't as down with it as she was, and they
Speaker 1: were having drinks earlier, so he literally threw her out
Speaker 1: of the hotel room without any of her clothes and
Speaker 1: locked the door, and like, that's not the first and
Speaker 1: only time he's done similar things. So yeah, Jared Leto's
Speaker 1: kind of a raging piece of shit. But all right,
Speaker 1: hold on, Sam, I see her. Him Sharing the clip,
Speaker 1: which drew widespread attention within hours, Tesla's official x account
Speaker 1: for Optimus rote tried to start a fight with try
Speaker 1: to start a fight at the tron Aris premiere. The
Speaker 1: public display was reportedly part of an effort involving Tesla's
Speaker 1: Disney and Elon Musk's AI platform XAI, designed to connect
Speaker 1: Hollywood events with advanced robotics technology. Yeah, that's the other
Speaker 1: way this cookie's gonna crumble in it. It's not just
Speaker 1: the AI model on the screen. They're gonna have robotics
Speaker 1: to play certain portions of movies. Why not. In the
Speaker 1: viral clip, which has already garnered over twenty eight million views,
Speaker 1: and this was yesterday, it was posting, I guarantee it's
Speaker 1: more than that. Now, Optimus is seen playfully facing off
Speaker 1: against Jared Leto, showing off a series of choreographed Kung
Speaker 1: Fu style moves. Leto stays in character during the lighthearted moments,
Speaker 1: striking a playful kung fu pose of his own and
Speaker 1: smiling as the robot continues its routine. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and play this man. Let's check it out. He didn't
Speaker 1: get into a kung fu stance. He got into a
Speaker 1: basics fighter stance, like basically a boxing pose. But all right,
Speaker 1: and I mean, yes, granted, there was obviously robotic in movement.
Speaker 1: I get that. Yo, give that thing about five more
Speaker 1: years and let musk really work on the fine motor
Speaker 1: skills of that thing and then throw a skin suit
Speaker 1: over the top of it. Will you be able to
Speaker 1: tell the difference? I mean, honestly, go ahead, sam U.
Speaker 7: Two things. One again, they missed the chance of having it, say,
Speaker 7: everybody was cang flud fighting Stelo Guen song. But the
Speaker 7: second thing, jay Letto has a Messiah complex. Not even
Speaker 7: a god complex, but a Messiah complex complex.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's literally like the second coming of fucking Charles Manson.
Speaker 7: I'm calling it now. Dude is Larry or fucking David Koresh.
Speaker 7: He is literally having a fucking sex cult. Makes them
Speaker 7: come to his eyeland. They pay him like forty fucking
Speaker 7: grand and the dude does probably isn't even that great
Speaker 7: of a lover and he I can I could actually
Speaker 7: see him get going down the David Koresh path and.
Speaker 9: Trying to fuck the little kids. I totally see that
Speaker 9: shit coming.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that he is or is not a pedal, right,
Speaker 1: but I will say that he absolutely is leading his
Speaker 1: own brand of a cult right now. And even before
Speaker 1: I heard about that, just hearing about uh things that
Speaker 1: former I don't want to use and partners. Uh, basically
Speaker 1: he is shitty to people and it's yeah.
Speaker 13: He's not.
Speaker 9: He's a classic naoist.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I grew up in my dad's an egotistical narcissist,
Speaker 7: so it's easy to fucking point out. And he checks
Speaker 7: off every fucking uh. He checks off every box of
Speaker 7: the best of may. The dude is should be like
Speaker 7: you should open up the the n D five and
Speaker 7: look for narcissus and there's his picture.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah he is. All right. So now getting off
Speaker 1: of the Hollywood actors and the Dutch AI model, but
Speaker 1: while we're still talking about the Dutch, uh, well yeah
Speaker 1: kind of. Danish Prime minister calls for strong answer from
Speaker 1: EU leaders to Russia's hybrid attacks. This is from the
Speaker 1: BBC Long Story short which we're gonna read the article,
Speaker 1: of course, but Denmark has grounded all the drones, even
Speaker 1: civilian own drones. They just put out this massive nationwide
Speaker 1: proclamation saying basically, if you have a drone and you're
Speaker 1: flying in the air, expect us to assume you're doing
Speaker 1: terroristic shit and we're gonna shoot it down and you're
Speaker 1: gonna be arrested. Now, why would they do that? Let's
Speaker 1: read in here. EU leaders have met in Copenhagen under
Speaker 1: pressure to boost European defense after a series of Russians
Speaker 1: incursions into the EU airspace and days after drones targeted
Speaker 1: Danish airports. That is correct, Danish Prime Minister met Fredrickson,
Speaker 1: the most Danish last name on Earth. Toll reporters that
Speaker 1: from a European perspective, there is only one country willing
Speaker 1: to threaten us, and that is Russia, and therefore we
Speaker 1: need a very strong answer back. The incursions have become
Speaker 1: most accurate, or excuse me, most acute for countries on
Speaker 1: the EU on their eastern flanks, such as Poland and Estonium.
Speaker 1: Sorry I'm kind of bumbling through this one. A number
Speaker 1: of member states have already backed plans for a multi
Speaker 1: layered drone ball to quickly detect and then track and
Speaker 1: then destroy RU drones. We meet at a time when
Speaker 1: Russia has intensified their attacks in Ukraine, where we have
Speaker 1: seen Russian airspace violations and unwanted drone activity in several
Speaker 1: European countries, Fredrickson told a news conference after the talks
Speaker 1: had concluded. They are threatening us, and they are testing us,
Speaker 1: and they will not stop. She said, oh, she wait
Speaker 1: a minute, Fredrickson met okay, I honestly thought there was
Speaker 1: a dude. I don't know traditional Danish names, so apparently
Speaker 1: met is a female name. My apologies for the assumption.
Speaker 1: She said. The next steps would include stepping up military
Speaker 1: and financial support for Ukraine, rearming European countries, and strengthening
Speaker 1: the production of drones and anti drone technology, which if
Speaker 1: they would to buy America's new I think it's called
Speaker 1: the Spartan Wave. Basically, out of fifty drones, it was
Speaker 1: able to take down forty one of them in one shot.
Speaker 1: Just sending radio waves to fry the computers was beautiful.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and this is how it's gonna go. Drone
Speaker 1: technology is the way that people are gonna fight warfare
Speaker 1: until something else counteracts it, and then something else is
Speaker 1: gonna counteract that counteract, and then something else is gonna
Speaker 1: It's this is how this goes. It's spy versus spy.
Speaker 1: That's that's the way that warfare goes. Right. We must
Speaker 1: provide the strongest of deterrence at a scale and speed.
Speaker 1: European Commissioner President Ursula Vonderley and said Denmark beefed up
Speaker 1: security for the summit, banning all civilian drone flights until
Speaker 1: Friday and placing heavy restrictions on traffic and Copenhagen. Every
Speaker 1: time I know that Copenhagen is their capital city, but
Speaker 1: every time I read it, all I can think is
Speaker 1: the country song copern Your Sorry. Denmark is also hosting
Speaker 1: a broader European Political Community summit on Thursday, and international
Speaker 1: allies have lent support to ensure both events pass without incident.
Speaker 1: Copenhagen airport, followed by several Danish airports and military sites
Speaker 1: on the Jutland peninsula fail least drone disruption disruption rather
Speaker 1: last week. Ten allies are providing anti drone and surveillance support.
Speaker 1: According to Denmark's military, which has highlighted an increased presence
Speaker 1: of foreign troops and equipment. Among the countries contributing are
Speaker 1: Poland obviously, the UK, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, and the US.
Speaker 1: A German frigate has also docked in Copenhagen. The Germans
Speaker 1: are the Germans really are stepping up to become the
Speaker 1: military powerhouse that they once were, and honestly I'm here
Speaker 1: for it. As hosts to dozens of European leaders over
Speaker 1: two days, Denmark will want to fend off any more
Speaker 1: unwelcome surprises in its airspace. Danish police have not found
Speaker 1: any evidence that Russia was behind last week's drone disruption,
Speaker 1: but Frederickson linked it explicitly to other hybrid attacks, such
Speaker 1: as Russia's drone incursions over Poland. It was part of
Speaker 1: a pattern that had to be viewed from a European perspective.
Speaker 1: She told reporters on Wednesday. The war in Ukraine is
Speaker 1: very serious and when I look at Europe today, I
Speaker 1: think we are in the most difficult and dangerous situation
Speaker 1: since the end of the Second World War, not the
Speaker 1: Cold War anymore. Okay, fair enough, but again there's no
Speaker 1: proof that the drone incursions over the Danish airports were
Speaker 1: Russian drones. I think that that does need to be
Speaker 1: restated here. They are assuming, and they may have some
Speaker 1: credence to that assumption. Fine, but there is no proof.
Speaker 1: Just so we're clear. Sweden has loaned powerful radar systems
Speaker 1: to its neighbor for the week, and Ukraine's Zelenski has
Speaker 1: said Kiev was sending a mission to Denmark for joint
Speaker 1: exercises to provide Ukrainian experience to drone defense. Good Lord
Speaker 1: German Chancellor Frederick Murrs said ahead of the summit that
Speaker 1: airspace incursions were getting worse and that it was reasonable
Speaker 1: to assume the drones are coming from Russia. Again, that's
Speaker 1: a reasonable assumption. It's not guaranteed and understood. Just what
Speaker 1: it's saying. Drones have been seen in recent days over
Speaker 1: Germany's northern state of Schlaswig Holston, all right, and flights
Speaker 1: have been delayed in the past week in Vilnius Airport
Speaker 1: in Lithuania and at Oslo Airport, Norway because of drone activity.
Speaker 1: We are not at war, but we are no longer
Speaker 1: at peace either. We must do much more for our
Speaker 1: own security. Maris told an event in Dusseldorf. This week,
Speaker 1: Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskoff said it was obvious Germany had
Speaker 1: long been indirectly involved in the war in Ukraine and
Speaker 1: rejected unfounded accusations of Russian involvement in the last week's
Speaker 1: disruption in Denmark. Europe would be better off seeking dialogue
Speaker 1: on security issues rather than looking to build a divisive
Speaker 1: drone wall, he said on Tuesday. Uh huh. Such is
Speaker 1: the concern at Russian activity on Europe's eastern flank that
Speaker 1: NATO met for consultations twice in September under Article four
Speaker 1: of its treaty, first after drones violated Polish air space,
Speaker 1: then when Russian MiG thirty one warplanes entered Estonian airspace
Speaker 1: for twelve minutes. We have to keep our sky safe,
Speaker 1: said NATO Secretary General Mark Root, who met Ursula vonder
Speaker 1: Layan in Brussels on the eve of the Copenhagen summit.
Speaker 1: The idea of a drone wall was raised a month
Speaker 1: ago by vonder Lahyam, and Root said it was timely
Speaker 1: and necessary because in the end we cannot spend millions
Speaker 1: of euros or dollars on missiles to take out drones
Speaker 1: which are only costing a couple of thousand dollars. It's
Speaker 1: very true, very accurate. A senior EU diplomat told the
Speaker 1: BBC that there were still questions over financing the plan
Speaker 1: and about command and control, but Europe's response to Russia's
Speaker 1: drone violations in Poland had led to some serious soul searching.
Speaker 1: We have to be more agile and find better tools. Again,
Speaker 1: I feel like they're looking at it the wrong way.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't be shooting down drones with missiles. There's way
Speaker 1: easier and more cost effective ways. But anyway, a former
Speaker 1: brigadier general in the Danish military, all Kavarno Kaverno, told
Speaker 1: the BBC that the drone wall was a political, very
Speaker 1: generic concept at the moment, but that last week's drone
Speaker 1: activity over his country had been a wake up call
Speaker 1: for the authorities and the broader Danish population. Anyway. The
Speaker 1: article goes on for a little bit longer, but I
Speaker 1: think we've got the overall gist of it here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody's worried about russia incursion over their airspace. Drones are
Speaker 1: becoming more of a frontline asset as far as the
Speaker 1: war is concerned. So every European country is watching the
Speaker 1: skies for a little bit more than just jets at
Speaker 1: this time. And yeah, here we have it. We're moving
Speaker 1: on to the next topic, talking about foreign assets in
Speaker 1: the sky. However, let's go on to this next article.
Speaker 1: This is from Army Recognition dot com. Chinese fighter jets
Speaker 1: simulated constructive kills on British carrier strike group. There's only
Speaker 1: a couple of days ago. Let's get into it here.
Speaker 1: Actually know what I'm going to zoom into where I
Speaker 1: could read that better, because I'm getting older and my
Speaker 1: eyes are getting shittier as the day is long. Chinese
Speaker 1: fighter jets executed constructive kill attacks profiles against HMS Richmond
Speaker 1: as the UK's carrier group, led by HMS Prince of Wales,
Speaker 1: was tracked and harassed near the Spratlee Islands. According to
Speaker 1: the British officers cited by The Independent on September thirtieth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, the incident's underscore rising risks around freedom
Speaker 1: of navigation operations in the South China Sea and Taiwan
Speaker 1: straight routes critical to the US trade and Allied security.
Speaker 1: The Independent reported on Tuesday that the Chinese aircraft flew
Speaker 1: the same trajectories they would use to strike Royal Navy
Speaker 1: vessels before breaking off, described by officers as quote unquote
Speaker 1: constructive kills, while Chinese ships shadowed the UK carrier HMS
Speaker 1: Prince of Wales and the frigate HMS Richmond near the
Speaker 1: Spratley Islands. The update ads that the HMS Richmond also
Speaker 1: faced simulated attack runs during a Taiwan straight transit. These
Speaker 1: maneuvers increased the chance of miscalculation in one of the
Speaker 1: world's busiest sea lanes and test Allied commitments to open navigation.
Speaker 1: So this in the picture here is the HMS Prince
Speaker 1: of Wales. That's a massive aircraft carrier. And you know,
Speaker 1: I know that every country does their thing different. The
Speaker 1: British have this ramp at the very end of their
Speaker 1: aircraft carriers. Americans don't have that. We have a straight
Speaker 1: runway and we have the oh hell, what's it called,
Speaker 1: the thing that basically launches off the ship. If you've
Speaker 1: ever seen top gun, it's the thing that they use
Speaker 1: to kick the football at the front of the ship.
Speaker 1: I forget what it's called. I want to say shuttle cock.
Speaker 1: Is that the technical term for it.
Speaker 7: I'm not exactly shuret if you want to can text
Speaker 7: my step daddy was in the Navy.
Speaker 1: I want to say it's a shuttle or something like that,
Speaker 1: but now I'm thinking it might I'm thinking shuttle cock
Speaker 1: like the bad Minton catapult. Maybe maybe something like that,
Speaker 1: but either way you want to look at it. We
Speaker 1: have that and it's sending it with so much force
Speaker 1: and the pilots are able to pick up speed to
Speaker 1: where they can just take off with it. The British
Speaker 1: Royal Navy and Royal Air Sir servis I should say,
Speaker 1: they use this ramp at the end of their ships.
Speaker 1: I think it's silly, but at the same time it's
Speaker 1: kind of cool. I don't want to knock it too hard,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's how you can tell a British aircraft
Speaker 1: carrier if you see the ramp at the front.
Speaker 7: Honestly, according to Google, it is called a catapult.
Speaker 1: There we are all right. Tony is on it as usual,
Speaker 1: my dad. The episode forms part of the sequence that
Speaker 1: began with HMS Richmond's transit to the Taiwan Straight on
Speaker 1: the twelfth of September, alongside the USS or US deshoer
Speaker 1: USS Higgins Beijing denounced a provocation quote unquote and deployed
Speaker 1: air and naval assets to shadow the two ships, while
Speaker 1: London and Washington described a routine passage in the air
Speaker 1: National waters HMS Prince of Wales which they go into
Speaker 1: the nomenclature of operates F thirty five B short takeoff
Speaker 1: and vertical landing aircraft and Merlin helicopters for airborne early
Speaker 1: warning and anti submarine warfare, enabling an air SA protective
Speaker 1: bubble extending hundreds of miles. Its Stovl deck which they
Speaker 1: probably pronounced stoval but I don't know, Just moving on
Speaker 1: and mission architecture allows sustained, sustained SORTI generation in a
Speaker 1: contested environment while providing a useful command and control volume
Speaker 1: for allied operations. HMS ription Richmond a type twenty three
Speaker 1: frigate optimized for anti submarine warfare fields, a whole sonar
Speaker 1: and towed array CAMC sceptor missile missiles for a local
Speaker 1: area air defense, and a hangar for Merlin or Wildcats,
Speaker 1: making it a frontline sensor and early warning picket for
Speaker 1: strike groups. The USS Higgins is an AEGIS equipped rle
Speaker 1: Burke Flight two a destroyer. It combines SPY one, radar,
Speaker 1: SM two or SM six, surface to air missiles, and
Speaker 1: precision strike options, providing layered defense and an expanded air
Speaker 1: defense umbrella within the Allied formation. The constructive kill maneuver
Speaker 1: func shud as signaling pilots climb, place themselves within a
Speaker 1: plausible weapons envelope, simulate an attack solution, then to disengage. Basically,
Speaker 1: if I'm understanding here, it's the same way that pilots
Speaker 1: will play war games against each other and do mock dogfights. Essentially,
Speaker 1: if you could lock onto them, then that's seen as
Speaker 1: a constructive kill, so to speak. So the Chinese air
Speaker 1: assets were essentially doing this mock. Of course, they weren't
Speaker 1: actually locking on They weren't actually about to pull the
Speaker 1: trigger and send weapon or missiles or anything to these ships,
Speaker 1: because that would be crazy of them to try that.
Speaker 1: But essentially they were going through the motions as if
Speaker 1: that's what they were about to do for their quote
Speaker 1: unquote constructive kills. On the British side, officers describe an
Speaker 1: information warfare intent designed to make clear that the aircrafts
Speaker 1: are targeting them while keeping a safe more margin. On
Speaker 1: the Chinese side, the fighters use these scenarios are multi
Speaker 1: roll platforms with long range profiles able to carry beyond
Speaker 1: visual range air to air missiles and anti shiploads. The
Speaker 1: latest version mounts an AESA radars, allowing realistic approach parameters
Speaker 1: even without firing. British reports describe this to and FRO
Speaker 1: in detail, visible on called consoles and suitable for post
Speaker 1: mission analysis. They get more into the nomenclature of the
Speaker 1: British ships, in which, like flagships, are what on station
Speaker 1: around the sprat les. Chinese platforms alternated tracking close approaches
Speaker 1: and shows of presence all round allied units modulating intensity
Speaker 1: above or below contested thresholds. British crews describe four or
Speaker 1: five Chinese ships seeking to close with the Prince of
Speaker 1: Wales to test reactions, which is exactly what this was for.
Speaker 1: The surface units involved in these situations combined surveillance radars,
Speaker 1: long range optics and robust communications, often with coastguard support,
Speaker 1: enabling tight contact and exploitation of legal gray areas in
Speaker 1: the air. The simulated trajectories remained readdible readable Jesus readable
Speaker 1: on shipborn radar and electro optics. Altogether, the sequence generated
Speaker 1: data useful for refining rules of engagement, alert procedures, and
Speaker 1: close in defense drills. The Taiwan Strait, which is a
Speaker 1: narrow waterway, carries specific legal and political weight. Beijing regularly
Speaker 1: presents the strait as internal waters, whereas Western navies point
Speaker 1: to the freedom of the navigation under unclos Essentially, China
Speaker 1: is the only one that recognizes this as a part
Speaker 1: of China. Everyone else on Earth and their allies. China
Speaker 1: and their allies see it as a part of the
Speaker 1: Sea of China. Everyone else sees it as international waters.
Speaker 1: So you know there's some contention there. In practice, each
Speaker 1: routine transit triggers public statements, coordinated aircs showing imaginary capture
Speaker 1: or imagery capture, and then a return to calm. In
Speaker 1: this case, the combined presence of the US AGIS destroyer
Speaker 1: and a British anti submarine escort under the umbrella of
Speaker 1: a carrier capable of operating the F thirty five B
Speaker 1: with few sensors and secure data links reduced the coercive
Speaker 1: value of the opposing aerial delays or displays. So it
Speaker 1: gets more into the technicalities of it all. But yes,
Speaker 1: this is absolutely a source of contention. These Chinese fighters
Speaker 1: essentially were simulating a kill shot on these naval assets
Speaker 1: of the US and the British while they were in
Speaker 1: the Taiwan Strait. Not a good look, but also they
Speaker 1: got to test their abilities as pilots, and our navy
Speaker 1: got a good look at what they'd be willing to
Speaker 1: do if and when that time came. So all right now,
Speaker 1: as we are still talking about international things, I don't
Speaker 1: know how many people listening to the Cajunier gamers. I know.
Speaker 1: I like to play a video game from time, you know,
Speaker 1: every now and again. I can't tell you the last
Speaker 1: time I really sat and played any real video game
Speaker 1: for any real extended amount of time, except for Minecraft
Speaker 1: with my kids. And oh I should give this adendum
Speaker 1: Double seven's Golden eye for any of the old school
Speaker 1: gamers out there that remember the first first person shooter
Speaker 1: video game ever on Nintendo sixty four. I just downloaded
Speaker 1: it for my Xbox and I was playing it earlier.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about, immediately send you back to
Speaker 1: ninety eight when you and your homies were all huddled
Speaker 1: around one Box TV and the Nintendo sixty four with
Speaker 1: four remotes coming off with that mug. It is insane,
Speaker 1: and I'm playing this showing my children that this is
Speaker 1: what first person shooter games used to look like. This
Speaker 1: was cutting edge, y'all. The animation that we used to
Speaker 1: geek out over it's so realistic. Looking back at it
Speaker 1: now is crazy, like actually crazy. But it was really
Speaker 1: really nostalgic and really cool. With all of that being said,
Speaker 1: the Saudis have now bought EA Games, Yes, the whole
Speaker 1: EA Sports It's in the game that is now owned
Speaker 1: by the Saudis, And there's a lot of things to
Speaker 1: be said about this. Some are hoping, myself included, that
Speaker 1: perhaps EA will actually produce a good game now, because I,
Speaker 1: in my humble opinion, think that EA has not produced
Speaker 1: a good game aside from like sporting games. Fine, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about like actual in depth games. They haven't produced
Speaker 1: a good one of note in ten years, fifteen years.
Speaker 1: Maybe so because they've been trying to give what they
Speaker 1: think the people want. The Saudis, depending on what day
Speaker 1: you catch them, could be very much willing to work
Speaker 1: with the public, or they're completely unhinged and they're just
Speaker 1: gonna do what the hell they want anyway, So I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that this will lead to hopefully some revamping of
Speaker 1: games that we wanted and this never received, or perhaps
Speaker 1: they will release video games that we're seen as like
Speaker 1: the second tier or third tier of some of these
Speaker 1: older video games that we were waiting on. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I could see it as a very
Speaker 1: net positive thing. But let's read in here. It says
Speaker 1: on September twenty ninth of twenty twenty five, Saudi Arabia's
Speaker 1: public investment fund equity company silver Lake and investment firm
Speaker 1: Affinity Partners, the latter of which is led by Jerry Kushner. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I let that one's sink in announce their intention to
Speaker 1: acquire EA for fifty five billion dollars US. Once complete,
Speaker 1: the acquisition would take the company private and another high
Speaker 1: profile video game publisher to the PIF's portfolio and put
Speaker 1: one of the biggest video game publishers under owners with
Speaker 1: close personal ties to the US government. If you're worried
Speaker 1: about EA's future, you're in good company. The acquisition is
Speaker 1: unprecedented on many levels and throws the future of EA
Speaker 1: Studios and some of its biggest franchises, including BioWare, the Sims, Apex, Legends,
Speaker 1: and battlefield into doubt. Industry analysis have varying predictions about
Speaker 1: what could come next. However, there are a few contestants,
Speaker 1: namely that EA will or constants rather namely that EA
Speaker 1: will likely implement large scale spending reductions and sell off
Speaker 1: its less profitable studios. I gotta say, I don't see
Speaker 1: that as a possibility. The Saudis are very comfortable throwing
Speaker 1: large amounts of money at anything for the hell of it.
Speaker 1: They've shown that how many they have their own golfing league,
Speaker 1: They have their own They're starting entire whole sports franchises
Speaker 1: and leagues with Saudi money just to do it. It's
Speaker 1: mind blowing. So I don't see this as them doing
Speaker 1: this to trim the fat by any stretch of the imagination.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I don't know that for a fact.
Speaker 1: Go ahead there, Sam.
Speaker 8: Bomb.
Speaker 7: Yeah. So the EA Games, you gotta uh, I know
Speaker 7: that it's EA Games. Uh challenge everything, and you don't
Speaker 7: play volunteer personally. The challenge everything is my favorite because
Speaker 7: the Medal of Honor.
Speaker 1: But no, you gotta keep.
Speaker 7: In mind the reason why the EA Games shelled Medal
Speaker 7: of Honor because they got in a fix that they
Speaker 7: got in a controversy because in War Fighter you could
Speaker 7: either play as the Allies, the Americans, or you could
Speaker 7: play as the Taliban. Yeah, and I can't help. But
Speaker 7: also Saudi's they're making moves to ingrain themselves even more
Speaker 7: into American entertainment, not just the EA Games aspect, but
Speaker 7: now it is the unprecedented. It started with just Saudi
Speaker 7: Arabia Crown Jewel for WWE, which is now only ever
Speaker 7: done in Saudi Arabia. Now they're about to have the
Speaker 7: first WrestleMania in Saudia and they're try they for I
Speaker 7: love wrestling, I love all the gimmicks, I love the characters,
Speaker 7: and all I do not like the fact that they're
Speaker 7: they're making the women go in like from neck down
Speaker 7: in leather suits or they're even trying to make them
Speaker 7: wear burke is now and if they don't, they won't
Speaker 7: be able to come back.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine seeing like the WWE divas wearing burkas
Speaker 1: is their body slamming each other. Well, that's the most hilarious.
Speaker 7: Oh, by the way, they're not called divas anymore. That's controversial.
Speaker 7: They're called up. They're just called superstars like the guys
Speaker 7: though personally one of my favorite belts. I have all
Speaker 7: pretty much. I have two K twenty five. I have
Speaker 7: real Bloody Ripley. I have her with the Divas Championship
Speaker 7: right now because I don't like any of the females
Speaker 7: like Morning I grew up in like I grew up
Speaker 7: right after the attitude there. But I love attitude there. Uh,
Speaker 7: trist Stratus will oh be the goat to me.
Speaker 1: I don't know much about wrestling. I only know a
Speaker 1: few names. Brother, I'm gonna be real with you. But
Speaker 1: to your point, Saudi Arabia is making big purchases as
Speaker 1: far as entertainment is concerned, whether that's WWE, whether that's sports,
Speaker 1: whether that's movies, whatever the case is. And now video
Speaker 1: games are and EA is not a small company by
Speaker 1: any means. Now, I will say this, as far as
Speaker 1: the video game market is concerned, aside from the big ones,
Speaker 1: the Call of Duty's and the you know these types
Speaker 1: of things, the indie market has been killing it as
Speaker 1: far as video games are concerned. Right. EA has been
Speaker 1: losing money, whether they really want to acknowledge it or not,
Speaker 1: for a few years now. Perhaps perhaps the Saudi's throwing
Speaker 1: this type of money at it and basically saying like, hey,
Speaker 1: no idea is a dumb idea. Of the people want it,
Speaker 1: the people can get it. Perhaps we might see some
Speaker 1: decent video games come out of it. But anyway, not
Speaker 1: gonna spend too much time on this article. But I
Speaker 1: did want to make a mention of the fact that yes,
Speaker 1: Ea games are now owned by the Saudis. So the
Speaker 1: next time you're playing Battlefield or Fifa or BioWare or
Speaker 1: any of these bigger games, you are now helping to
Speaker 1: fund the Saudi royal family. It's worth mentioning. Now we
Speaker 1: should make a mention of this. It is possible while
Speaker 1: we are sticking as of this moment on the international news,
Speaker 1: then we're gonna make our way to national news for
Speaker 1: the United States. Anyway. Trump just announced only a few
Speaker 1: hours ago as of time recording, that there may in
Speaker 1: fact be an Israel Hamas deal in the works as
Speaker 1: we speak. I got a quick video of it. Trump
Speaker 1: gets a note from Rubio before announcing that Israel and
Speaker 1: Hamas have struck a deal. Let's watch.
Speaker 14: I was just dealing with people from the Middle East,
Speaker 14: our people and other people on the potential peace deal
Speaker 14: for the Middle East. Piece for the Middle East. So
Speaker 14: it's a beautiful phrase and we hope it's going to
Speaker 14: come true. But it's very close and they're doing very well.
Speaker 14: We have a great team over there, great negotiators, and
Speaker 14: they're unfortunately great negotiators on the other side also. But
Speaker 14: it's something I think that will happen, got a good
Speaker 14: chance of happening. I may go there sometime towards the
Speaker 14: end of the week, maybe on Sunday actually, and we'll see.
Speaker 14: But there's a very good chance that negotiations are going
Speaker 14: along very well. We're dealing with Hamas and many of
Speaker 14: the countries, as you know, we have Muslim All of
Speaker 14: the Muslim countries are included, all of the Arab countries
Speaker 14: are included, very rich countries and some that are not
Speaker 14: so rich, but just about everybody's included. It's never happened before.
Speaker 14: Nothing like that has happened before. In our final negotiation,
Speaker 14: as you know, is with Amas and it seems to
Speaker 14: be going well. So we'll let you know if that's
Speaker 14: the case. We'll be leaving probably on Sunday, maybe Saturday,
Speaker 14: maybe a little a little later than Saturday evening, but
Speaker 14: that seems to be our schedule. That's why they shouldn't
Speaker 14: be reported.
Speaker 1: Which job is he here for today?
Speaker 14: Anything we should know about the Middle East.
Speaker 1: So we're hoping to talk to you about here, mister President.
Speaker 14: He's not a good job.
Speaker 15: Well, they're smart, but they're not smart enough. They oh,
Speaker 15: my microphone's broken. They're smart, but they're not smart enough.
Speaker 15: They have been covered by these liberal cities for so
Speaker 15: many years. And that's why we're all working with Treasury,
Speaker 15: with all these different departments to find the criminal conspiracy.
Speaker 14: I'm just giving.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 14: I was just given a note by the Secretary of
Speaker 14: State saying that we're very close to a deal in
Speaker 14: the Middle East, and they'll gonna need me pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: Okay, now, let's talk more about it here. This is
Speaker 1: from CBS News only a few hours ago. Israel and
Speaker 1: Hamas reach deal to release all hostages and partially withdraw
Speaker 1: Israeli troops. Trump says, let's get into it here. Israel
Speaker 1: and Jamas have struck a deal for Hamas to release
Speaker 1: all remaining hostages. Oh what is this little thing? Popped
Speaker 1: up Jesus, and for Israel to withdraw its forces to
Speaker 1: an agreed uponline President Trump announced Wednesday, in what could
Speaker 1: be called the first phase of a peace deal to
Speaker 1: end the two year long war. This is a great
Speaker 1: day for the Arab and Muslim world, Israel, all surrounding nations,
Speaker 1: and the United States of America. Blessed are the Peacemakers
Speaker 1: is a direct quote from his truth Social post. Two
Speaker 1: regional sources told CBS News there is an agreement on
Speaker 1: all sides in principle on a hostage release, but procedural
Speaker 1: issues remain. Once those details are handled, it will be
Speaker 1: forty eight hours before any release starts, the sources say.
Speaker 1: A senior White House official told the said the hostages
Speaker 1: could be released on Monday. The deal will go to
Speaker 1: Israel's cabinet for approval on Thursday, and if votes yes,
Speaker 1: the Israeli military will need to withdraw to an agree
Speaker 1: uponline in the Gaza strip, which should take under twenty
Speaker 1: four hours. Then Hamas will have seventy two hours to
Speaker 1: release the hostages, the official said. In an interview Wednesday
Speaker 1: night with Fox News Sean Hannity, Trump suggested that other
Speaker 1: parts of the Israeli Hamas peace plan he laid out
Speaker 1: last week, including a committee to oversee governance in Gaza,
Speaker 1: could be forthcoming. Direct quote here it says, I think
Speaker 1: you're going to see people getting along and you'll see
Speaker 1: Gaza being rebuilt. The President said, that is. That is
Speaker 1: wishful thinking from my layman's perspective. But all right, let's
Speaker 1: keep going. People are going to be taken care of.
Speaker 1: It's going to be a different world. Wow. Yep, that is.
Speaker 1: That is one of the most statements that's ever been made.
Speaker 1: Magid all I'm sorry. An advisor to Qatari Prime Minister
Speaker 1: Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman al Taini. Jesus these names.
Speaker 1: Homeboy has six names and it starts with Prime Minister
Speaker 1: at eight. Okay also confirmed that the deal on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: writing on x that an agreement was reached on the
Speaker 1: first phase of the Gaza cease Fire Agreement, which will
Speaker 1: lead to ending the war, the release of Israeli hostages
Speaker 1: and Palestinian prisoners, and the entry of aid. Israeli Prime
Speaker 1: Minister net Nyahu also released a short statement on the
Speaker 1: hostages that read, with God's help, we will bring them
Speaker 1: all home. In a follow up statement, net Nyahu said
Speaker 1: it was a big day for Israel and that he
Speaker 1: would convene the government to approve the agreement. And bring
Speaker 1: all our dear hostages home. Net, Yahoo and Trump spoke Wednesday,
Speaker 1: which the Israeli government described as very emotional and warm conversation.
Speaker 1: Hamas also confirmed in a statement that it had reached
Speaker 1: an agreement. The terrorist group praised Katari, Egyptian and Turkish
Speaker 1: mediators in helping broker a deal, and specifically thank Trump
Speaker 1: for his efforts quote unquote efforts. It also called on
Speaker 1: the President to ensure that Israel fully complies with the
Speaker 1: terms of the agreement. I don't know how Trump's gonna
Speaker 1: make Net and Yahoo do anything but all right cool.
Speaker 1: In his earlier truth social post, Trump wrote, all parties
Speaker 1: will be treated fairly. The announcement came just hours after
Speaker 1: Trump said that he may travel to the Middle East
Speaker 1: this weekend and was open to potentially traveling to the
Speaker 1: Gaza Strip. I seriously doubt Trump's gonna be making a
Speaker 1: trip to the Gaza Strip that that would be sure.
Speaker 1: During an unrelated event at the White House on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: Trump read a note that was passed to him. We
Speaker 1: just watched the video of that taking place. A little
Speaker 1: over a week ago, Trump unveiled a twenty point piece
Speaker 1: plan at a White House meeting with net Yahoo, who
Speaker 1: expressed his full support for the proposal. The current round
Speaker 1: of indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas began on October
Speaker 1: sixth in Egypt, with Egyptian and Katari officials acting as intermediaries.
Speaker 1: US Envoy Steve Whitkoff and Trump's son in law Jared
Speaker 1: Kushner have been expected to join the talks on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: days after NETANYAHUO confirmed that he had sent a delegation
Speaker 1: quote to close the technical details of the release of
Speaker 1: our hostages end quote. The war in Gaza, which has
Speaker 1: royal the Middle East has sparked, was sparked by Maas.
Speaker 1: We are the October seventh attack. We know this Israel's
Speaker 1: RETALIATORYA war in Gaza against Amas, which the US and
Speaker 1: Israel consider a terrorist organization, has killed more than sixty
Speaker 1: seven thousand people, according to Hamas run Gaza Ministry of Health. Yes,
Speaker 1: I understand there is going to be people that are
Speaker 1: saying those numbers are conflated. There's going to be some
Speaker 1: people that are saying that number is way too high
Speaker 1: to be accurate. There's gonna be people saying that number
Speaker 1: is way too low to be accurate. Not here to
Speaker 1: squabble over the details. They have killed way more people
Speaker 1: than what was necessary if you're just trying to take
Speaker 1: out Amas. There's been far too many innocent civilian casualties
Speaker 1: on this entire situation, and I think everybody can agree
Speaker 1: on that. Moving on, it says yeah, it says the
Speaker 1: sixty seven thousand people ran the Hamas ran Gaza Ministry
Speaker 1: of Health, which does not distinguish between civilian and combatant casualties.
Speaker 1: Of the two hundred and fifty one hostages who were
Speaker 1: taken into Gaza, one hundred and forty eight were either
Speaker 1: freed as part of previous ceasefire agreements or rescued by
Speaker 1: Israeli forces. According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Speaker 1: the bodies of a number fIF of another fifty seven
Speaker 1: hostages were returned or recovered. The ministry says Trump's peace
Speaker 1: plan had called for Hamas to release all forty eight
Speaker 1: remaining hostages. Israel believes twenty of them are still alive.
Speaker 1: In return, Israel would release two hundred and fifty Palestinians
Speaker 1: serving life sentences, along with approximately seventeen hundred other Gazans
Speaker 1: detained since the start of the war. Hamas said on
Speaker 1: October fourth, it agreed to key portions of mister Trump's
Speaker 1: original proposal, including the release of hostages in exchant for
Speaker 1: Palestinian prisoners hail by Israel and relinquishing its governance of Gaza,
Speaker 1: but the group had said other parts of the plant
Speaker 1: needed to be further negotiated. So apparently whatever further negotiations
Speaker 1: needed to happen have taken place. Hopefully, I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know, but hopefully this is accurate. Hopefully this will
Speaker 1: be step one, whether it's a three point plan or
Speaker 1: a twenty point plan, or whatever the case is. I
Speaker 1: think everybody, regardless of what side of the aisle you're
Speaker 1: currently sitting on, or whatever religious deity you worship, I
Speaker 1: think we can all agree that we just want that
Speaker 1: whole situation to stop. I think we're on the same
Speaker 1: page here.
Speaker 8: I do have a question, Jacob, go ahead.
Speaker 7: So Hamas is saying that Isael is committing a genocide
Speaker 7: against him, I just I still don't understand why they
Speaker 7: would say that when they their tenant of their deaths
Speaker 7: go is to kill every Jew from the river to
Speaker 7: the sea, and to kill all Americans. So if they
Speaker 7: want to commit a genocide, why are they saying, Oh,
Speaker 7: they're killing all of us, Shame on them.
Speaker 1: So now we're getting into the tricky portion of the
Speaker 1: conflict in this region, right because Hamas is representing the
Speaker 1: side that says that Israelis are occupiers, illegally occupying what
Speaker 1: was once their land. On the other side, the Israelis
Speaker 1: are saying, the Gazans and the Palestinians should be grateful
Speaker 1: that we're giving them this land to live on. It's
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to weigh in on either side,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, because to do so would
Speaker 1: be getting into the messy situation of the founding of
Speaker 1: the nation in the first place. Then we continue on
Speaker 1: to the religious and moral dogmas of either side of
Speaker 1: this conversation. It gets messier and messier the more you
Speaker 1: look into it, as far as a genocide on one
Speaker 1: side of the other and same thing there. There's an
Speaker 1: argument that could be said to say that if Hamas
Speaker 1: would just put down their guns, then this conflict would
Speaker 1: have been over months ago. But if Israelis would have
Speaker 1: put down their guns, would the conflict also have been
Speaker 1: done months ago? Or would Hamas have taken that as
Speaker 1: a sign of weakness and made a counter offensive. And
Speaker 1: this is what I'm saying. It's it's all up in
Speaker 1: the air of the what ifs and the how ziffs
Speaker 1: and the who ziffs, and it's just there is no
Speaker 1: clear cut answer. There are no good guys, no matter
Speaker 1: which way you slice this one. Who started the conversation
Speaker 1: and who shot the first shot. Yes, Hamas did do
Speaker 1: their attack on October seventh. Nobody's denying that that took place. However,
Speaker 1: who funded that? If you really want to go up
Speaker 1: the chain far enough, Biden did because Biden gave Iran
Speaker 1: six billion dollars. Those six billion dollars were used in
Speaker 1: military aid that was sent to Hamas to give them
Speaker 1: the push that they needed to make their attack into Israel.
Speaker 1: And let's not negate the fact that that allegedly Gaza
Speaker 1: is an open air prison and they're under strict surveillance
Speaker 1: and all these things for years and years and years.
Speaker 1: Yet somehow Mussad, the world's greatest intelligence organization ever period ever,
Speaker 1: missed the amassing of weapons and troops and all these things.
Speaker 1: For the weeks leading up to the attack. Mussad just
Speaker 1: kind of didn't look at the cameras on their prison
Speaker 1: Like I said, the more you dig into this, the
Speaker 1: messier it gets. And not even trying to go conspiratorial
Speaker 1: with it, but you kind of can't.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm just gonna say I blame Sayah because she
Speaker 7: didn't have faith in the Lord. If she she should
Speaker 7: have just had faith in the Lord. And I told
Speaker 7: Abraham to fuck your safe and then none of this
Speaker 7: shit would be happening. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Again, like, the deeper you get into it, the more
Speaker 1: that the religious dogmas and stories come into play, and
Speaker 1: it's it gets messier the more you look.
Speaker 7: The tribe of Israel and the tribe of Ishmael forever
Speaker 7: brother tribes forever in a fucking blood death snatch, the
Speaker 7: like the hat Fild and the Coois of the desert.
Speaker 1: So geopolitics don't really care about the stories of the
Speaker 1: Old Testament. But at the same time, you can't remove
Speaker 1: those from the situation that has led to the geopolitics
Speaker 1: of today. It's the two are innerlocked for all time.
Speaker 1: So it is what it is, Tony, I see you,
Speaker 1: unmuted brother, go ahead.
Speaker 10: Okay, Yeah, I got a lot here. I think the Abraham,
Speaker 10: Ishmael and Isaac probably were not real people, but they
Speaker 10: might as well have been because I think these tribes
Speaker 10: have been at war with each other for a long
Speaker 10: time and they kind of made up the story of
Speaker 10: Isaac and Ishmael as a backstory to explain why they're
Speaker 10: doing what they're doing. And this has happened in other
Speaker 10: societies too, like the Gypsies with the story of stealing
Speaker 10: some nails or something. They probably never happened, but they
Speaker 10: just feel like they need a backstory.
Speaker 1: Have you heard of that that the Gypsy stole the
Speaker 1: nails that were used to crucify Christ and all these things.
Speaker 10: That's their story. I don't believe it's actually true, but
Speaker 10: I believe they made it up.
Speaker 16: Bro.
Speaker 1: Have you heard it?
Speaker 10: Similar stories wander the Earth?
Speaker 1: Yeah, same story with the Cagos. Have you heard of them?
Speaker 10: No, never heard of them.
Speaker 1: I'm going to do an episode on them on the
Speaker 1: Cult here soon. But basically, they are a group that
Speaker 1: some claim or the carpenters that built the cross that
Speaker 1: Jesus was nailed to and it's it's so crazy, it's
Speaker 1: so anyway detracting. Continue with your thoughts.
Speaker 10: On Okay, Well, Gaza and Palestine have just been screwed
Speaker 10: since the forties, and Gaza in particular since two thousand
Speaker 10: and five had it had had Israeli settlements inside it.
Speaker 10: But in two thousand and five the Israeli government decided
Speaker 10: that all the Israeli settlers need to leave Gaza, so
Speaker 10: they pulled them out, and they pulled it had been
Speaker 10: under kind of a military occupation where soldiers could just
Speaker 10: go in and go anywhere they wanted. But and they pulled
Speaker 10: all the soldiers to the perimeter. And in my opinion,
Speaker 10: it really was a prison. It didn't have an airport,
Speaker 10: didn't have a seaport. They were not allowed to fish beyond,
Speaker 10: you know, a few hundred feet from the shore. In fact,
Speaker 10: this brings up one thing about that flotilla. The flotilla
Speaker 10: actually distracted the Israeli navy so much that the gozen's
Speaker 10: actually got the fish. Last week they got to catch
Speaker 10: big nets full of fish for the first time in
Speaker 10: a long time.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 10: And they filmed it and posted it like, yeah, we
Speaker 10: haven't gotten to do this in a couple of years.
Speaker 10: But I don't think that it's true that the Palestinians
Speaker 10: really want to kill all the Jews. I think that's
Speaker 10: exaggerated propaganda. They really just want the land that they're
Speaker 10: living on. They want to be able to collect the
Speaker 10: water that rains down on them. They want to have
Speaker 10: the right to, you know, all the stuff that goes
Speaker 10: with that land. They want to have electricity, they want
Speaker 10: to have all this. They want to have a state.
Speaker 10: They don't have a state right now.
Speaker 1: That's when you say that, when you say the Palestinians
Speaker 1: want this, you are not talking about Hamas. You're talking
Speaker 1: about the average family that's living in Gaza at this time.
Speaker 10: Correct, because about non Hamas, but I think it probably
Speaker 10: relates to Hamas too. I would have to read their charter.
Speaker 10: I think they don't recognize the right of Israel to
Speaker 10: exist as a state. I does want to say kill
Speaker 10: all the Jews. I don't think that's what they're after.
Speaker 1: Genocide, dude. Hamas has been on that kick for quite
Speaker 1: some time.
Speaker 10: They want to they want to kill all the Jews
Speaker 10: in the world, or just all the Jews in Israel.
Speaker 1: Only israelis not Jewish people, not the religion. Hamas didn't
Speaker 1: worried about them, although they because they're Muslim, they probably
Speaker 1: have their own opinion on that one. But no, the
Speaker 1: just in general, Hamas wants a genocide of all Israelis,
Speaker 1: that is for sure.
Speaker 10: If you say so, I don't really believe it, but
Speaker 10: I'll try to look it up.
Speaker 17: There, like Iman, of the fucking natives of each Muslim
Speaker 17: fucking world, they're all saying to globalize the Dafada, a
Speaker 17: holy walk.
Speaker 8: Kill every Jew.
Speaker 7: And the first fucking tenant of Hamas and Hezbollah is
Speaker 7: death to the.
Speaker 8: Jews and death to America.
Speaker 7: They don't say death to Israel, they say death to
Speaker 7: the Jews.
Speaker 1: And I mean it depends on what country you go to.
Speaker 1: Some countries are more extreme than others as far as
Speaker 1: their beliefs of the Hadith and certain factions of the
Speaker 1: Islamic religion. That is for sure. There's more liberal Muslims
Speaker 1: on earth. And by liberal, I don't mean like democrat.
Speaker 1: I mean as far as that goes. They might observe
Speaker 1: the Qur'an, but they're also not trying to start a
Speaker 1: jihad either. You know, there's more of them on earth
Speaker 1: than there are radical Muslims. That is a fact that
Speaker 1: being said. I mean, even we just did an episode
Speaker 1: on the Cult talking about the Christian genocide going on
Speaker 1: around the world. In Nigeria, thousands of Christians have been
Speaker 1: murdered and crucified. Also, thousands of liberal Muslims have been
Speaker 1: murdered by the Muslim extremists, so there's infighting within the
Speaker 1: religion as well.
Speaker 7: They're also killing Jewss. You can't forget about the Jews.
Speaker 7: And which is funny because I even bought that up
Speaker 7: because I CoA because I talking shit. Stand while all
Speaker 7: the Jews are killing the Muslims and they ain't did shit.
Speaker 7: Hamasas should all misunderstood. I'm like you doualize that Hamas
Speaker 7: is killing their own people, using them as human meat shields,
Speaker 7: and they're killing not just the Jews, of killing cushions
Speaker 7: and their own people.
Speaker 1: And I'll say that I haven't seen or heard any
Speaker 1: reports of Hamas fighters using Palestinians as human shields. Now,
Speaker 1: there are other examples of other Muslim countries doing that. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: that was happening in Afghanistan. There are a few cases
Speaker 1: of that happening in Iraq. I haven't physically, with my
Speaker 1: own eyeballs, seen any example of that going on. As
Speaker 1: far as this particular scuffle is concerned, I should say.
Speaker 8: That, Okay, Jacob, what do you call it?
Speaker 7: When they knowingly hide in a fucking church filled with people.
Speaker 7: What do you call it when they hide in in
Speaker 7: a children's hospital, knowing.
Speaker 10: Hidden in the church. I'm not aware of any not
Speaker 10: a church.
Speaker 1: They never hidden the church, but they were using that
Speaker 1: hospital as a weapons cash and that was discovered later.
Speaker 1: So to your point, that's been confirmed by multiple non
Speaker 1: Israeli sources.
Speaker 10: They I don't believe that Al Shifa, we would that, yeah,
Speaker 10: al Shifa hospital with the Israeli ideaf going around pointing
Speaker 10: to stuff like, look, this is a US. Look that's
Speaker 10: some of us. And he's pointing to like a random
Speaker 10: calendar or something. Look at all this Arabic writing.
Speaker 1: No, no, not that I have seen videos of that.
Speaker 7: True, But yeah, I think that the Middle East will
Speaker 7: never have peace. I think it's aesthetical to both of them,
Speaker 7: because they both say, well, this is our promise said,
Speaker 7: even though that the con says that Israel belongs to
Speaker 7: the Jews. So and I have led the Koran and
Speaker 7: I am still currently reading it, and the more I
Speaker 7: read it.
Speaker 8: The more and more pissed off I become.
Speaker 1: Because it's not a good read. I should mention that.
Speaker 8: I dare say it is about this.
Speaker 7: I put it on the lines of about the same
Speaker 7: as mine.
Speaker 8: Comp useless.
Speaker 1: Now, I will say this if you're if anybody listening
Speaker 1: wants to check out the Quran for themselves and you
Speaker 1: are of the American variety, there is a version of
Speaker 1: the Quran where they are put in sequential order. The
Speaker 1: regular Quran does not have them in like historicity order.
Speaker 1: They go from order of largest book to smallest book
Speaker 1: or vice versa, and you have to jump book to
Speaker 1: book to find the order of precedence. There are versions
Speaker 1: that you can find of them going A, B, C,
Speaker 1: D E all the way through. So just so you're clear,
Speaker 1: if you're jumping through and you're just reading it cover
Speaker 1: to cover and you don't know that, you'll get a
Speaker 1: little lost in the trans I'll throw that out.
Speaker 7: Also, I have a fund who is Scout, who was
Speaker 7: from Egypt and all he was he's a Muslim. Uh
Speaker 7: would be nice dude, but he pretty much ran away.
Speaker 7: He joined the Marine Corps and everything his there there's
Speaker 7: a controversy around his father's death and uh yeah he is.
Speaker 7: Uh his father got was found head head taken off
Speaker 7: because he was raping, uh my buddy's little sister.
Speaker 8: So them, Yeah.
Speaker 7: Uh, the I can't remember what saint it was, but
Speaker 7: the Catholic saint that what is the patron saint of
Speaker 7: say of New Orleans. Uh, the one that had his
Speaker 7: head that he carried his head in his own hands.
Speaker 1: Damn it. I was just looking at the story of
Speaker 1: that guy. That is crazy. He would be headed and
Speaker 1: carried his head in his hands, still preaching as he
Speaker 1: walked for seven miles before he collapsed insanate.
Speaker 7: His death is also referenced in h Red Dead Redemption
Speaker 7: uh two, which by far is better than out of
Speaker 7: those two games. But no, uh, my buddy, I'm not
Speaker 7: gonna say his name, but yeah he uh, well, we
Speaker 7: got drunk together and all, and he said that the
Speaker 7: it was the happiest day of his life. The bating
Speaker 7: stopped and he was just happy his sister's safe. But
Speaker 7: he went out of the community and he joined the
Speaker 7: Marine Corps.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so that would be Dennis of Paris, Saint
Speaker 1: Dennis and his companions Roostus and Luthrius.
Speaker 7: Okay, St Denis because in Red Dead Redmson, Uh, the
Speaker 7: town of New Orleans is named after him, and it's
Speaker 7: pronounced San Denis.
Speaker 8: Well, not in French.
Speaker 1: It yeah, in French that would be Denis. In English,
Speaker 1: that'd be Dennis, because in French you don't pronounce the
Speaker 1: last letter, and the eye makes the e noise, not
Speaker 1: he is in the letter like he is in the
Speaker 1: mouth sound, So that would be Saint Denis. His martyrdom.
Speaker 1: After being arrested, the three men were executed by beheading
Speaker 1: on the highest hill in Paris known as the montmart
Speaker 1: or Mountain of Martyrs.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: Following his decapitation, Dennis's body is said to have picked
Speaker 1: up his own head and he walked for several I
Speaker 1: said seven several miles, all while preaching a sermon on repentance. Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 1: His final place is at the Basilica of Saint Denis,
Speaker 1: a church that became the burial place for the Kings
Speaker 1: of France. So yeah, that's a wild story.
Speaker 7: Keep in mind that he's not the only person who
Speaker 7: is to be said that has been decapitated and the
Speaker 7: body still walks and does everything. Hell Edward, thatch or teacher, whichever,
Speaker 7: what pronunciation you want to call a good old blackbeard
Speaker 7: got shot, stabbed and got his head cut off, and
Speaker 7: yet he swam around the Queen Anne's revenge for seven laps.
Speaker 1: That's crazy.
Speaker 7: Dude, howld legend goes, and then you have a resputin
Speaker 7: he got shot, stabbed, castrated, poisoned, bludgeoned, drown and that
Speaker 7: they thought he killed him and what actually killed him
Speaker 7: was he drowned to death. Also, the communist puck is
Speaker 7: actually on display in a pickled jar.
Speaker 8: Yeahquck is on display.
Speaker 1: All right. Yeah, so we kind of way detracted from you, Tony,
Speaker 1: So go ahead. We were talking about the Hamas Israel situation,
Speaker 1: and I agree with you. I don't think that this
Speaker 1: is gonna meet a neat end, but I really hope
Speaker 1: it does well.
Speaker 10: I was also researching a little bit about the Hamas
Speaker 10: Charter in nineteen eighty eight. Their charter did quote a
Speaker 10: hadith saying there will be a final battle between Muslims
Speaker 10: and Jews, but their twenty seventeen charter softened that a lot,
Speaker 10: and it specifically said that their struggles against Zionism and
Speaker 10: not against Jews and not against the Jewish religion. So
Speaker 10: they tried to soften it right there. Definitely, And if
Speaker 10: you want to complain about the Hajeths, really not any
Speaker 10: garcier than the Old Testament in my opinion, So anyone
Speaker 10: quoting ancient literature like this is definitely going to run
Speaker 10: into embarrassing stuff. So I think that the way Hamas
Speaker 10: is and the way Palestinian terrorism is in Islamic's terrorism
Speaker 10: is in general, it's mostly like ninety nine percent a
Speaker 10: result of the Israeli occupation of the land that they
Speaker 10: used to live on. And you know, of course they're
Speaker 10: pissed off about that.
Speaker 1: I have to push back a little bit on you here, dude.
Speaker 1: I think that their extremism, as far as this goes,
Speaker 1: predates the nation state of Israel by centuries. I mean,
Speaker 1: we could even look to not even talking about the
Speaker 1: Caliphates and the Crusades or any of these things. We
Speaker 1: could even look at the Barbary Pirates. The reason why
Speaker 1: the Marine Corps was sent to Tripoli, right, was because
Speaker 1: there was a ship that ran aground and the captors
Speaker 1: were beheaded because they would not convert to Islam. Thomas Jefferson,
Speaker 1: who was the president at the time, could not understand
Speaker 1: why they would behead the prisoners, like because they wouldn't
Speaker 1: convert to a religious idea ideation, Why wouldn't they ransom
Speaker 1: them or something along these lines. So Thomas Jefferson read
Speaker 1: the Quran and read these books and realized like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is a part of their religion, like forced conversion.
Speaker 1: At sword points he was like, got you, So we're
Speaker 1: just going to handle that, and that led to the
Speaker 1: Barbary Wars. So as far as Islam being a religion
Speaker 1: of peace, I have to say that is completely anti
Speaker 1: antithetical to what the warlord known as Mohammad the prophet
Speaker 1: quote unquote was actually about what he actually preached what
Speaker 1: he was also a pedophile, Yeah, yeah, for sure, he
Speaker 1: was a pedophile.
Speaker 10: I thought, well, well, Palestine before the nineteen forties it
Speaker 10: had a pretty large, very large Muslim population is probably
Speaker 10: like split on here, like sixty percent Muslim, thirty Christian,
Speaker 10: and ten percent Jewish, that's my guess. And Jerusalem in
Speaker 10: particular had a pretty large Jewish population for sure, even
Speaker 10: as far back as the eighteen hundreds. So it seems
Speaker 10: like under Ottoman rule episodically there might have been some violence,
Speaker 10: but broadly speaking, most of the time people got along
Speaker 10: better and there was more religious diversity than there is today. Now.
Speaker 10: It seems like Israel really wants to rule the place
Speaker 10: and the other people just do not get political rights.
Speaker 10: They don't get statehood, and that's a problem.
Speaker 1: Jerusalem has going been a weird case study. There was
Speaker 1: actually a book written, I think it's called nine hundred
Speaker 1: Years of History of Jerusalem, and that city alone, not Israel,
Speaker 1: not Judea, not Palestine, not the land mass itself. The
Speaker 1: city of Jerusalem has been a peaceful melting pot for
Speaker 1: the vast majority of the last two millennia. We're really
Speaker 1: going to look at it here because not only do
Speaker 1: the Christian, not only do the Jews, but includingly the
Speaker 1: Muslims see it as a holy city with holy sites.
Speaker 1: There is examples, as a matter of fact, when the
Speaker 1: Knights Templars ran or that city for a portion of time,
Speaker 1: they allowed Muslims to come in and worship at the
Speaker 1: Dome of the Rock. Now not massive armies, of course,
Speaker 1: it was case by case, but there's examples of the
Speaker 1: Muslims doing very similar things for the Jews and for
Speaker 1: the Christians at different points in time. So Jerusalem is
Speaker 1: the outlier, it is not the rule. It is the exception. Now,
Speaker 1: if we look at the land surrounding it, and we
Speaker 1: look at all of Palestine, Judea, Israel, all these things,
Speaker 1: that land has been under a lot of contention for
Speaker 1: thousands of thousands of years. So I mean, yeah, I
Speaker 1: see what you're saying. There are exceptions historically speaking, but
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, it's one of those things, man. And
Speaker 1: a lot of the the Islamic tradition is based off
Speaker 1: of warlord style tactics. Most of the book is written
Speaker 1: about warring with quote unquote enemy tribes. Some of them
Speaker 1: were true enemies, some of them were conquest versus conquistador
Speaker 1: style things. It just, yeah, it's not a it's not
Speaker 1: a clean it's not a clean history. But then again,
Speaker 1: most history is not clean, So go ahead, Sam, Look
Speaker 1: you are like dying over here.
Speaker 7: So also Mohammad allegedly Mohammad of he had a unicorn
Speaker 7: of black but if you look at it, it isn't
Speaker 7: a unicorn. It's it's despicted as a white steed with wings,
Speaker 7: and the closest thing to that would be a pegasus
Speaker 7: Greek mythology, and it just goes it.
Speaker 1: But haven't heard of that. All I heard was that
Speaker 1: he had a dream where he wrote a donkey to Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: I I don't know.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: It also said that when he did it, he rose
Speaker 7: up and that's how he was ordained by God, and
Speaker 7: God told him how to play five times a day
Speaker 7: and everything. But it's just weird because if before it
Speaker 7: was Palestine, it was is one. And the only reason
Speaker 7: why the name of Palestine or Palestine was given was
Speaker 7: because of the Romans being a fucking dick, well, because
Speaker 7: they were afraid of the Jews having a second uprising.
Speaker 1: They know they did have a second uprising, which is
Speaker 1: why they were expelled from the land and why they
Speaker 1: said that this will no longer be called Judea and
Speaker 1: they changed it to Palestine for sure, wasn't it.
Speaker 7: Like Syria Palestine? The technical tone.
Speaker 1: Of it, I think, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 10: This would have been around one hundred and thirty five AD,
Speaker 10: if I'm not mistaken. But the name of Palestine also
Speaker 10: goes back to Herodotus, which would have been about five
Speaker 10: hundred years earlier, for sixty BC. So these competing names
Speaker 10: existed even way back then.
Speaker 7: Do you mean the man that that was it or
Speaker 7: was it a plutarl So.
Speaker 10: I thought I heard you say Plutarch. I don't know
Speaker 10: anything about Plutarch.
Speaker 9: Really, I don't know what Plutarch, but I was my
Speaker 9: I said Plato.
Speaker 7: I met Plato, not because Pluto is the Roman version
Speaker 7: of Hades.
Speaker 1: Uh, Plato, Pluto was the Greek equivalent or the Roman
Speaker 1: equivalent of it.
Speaker 7: That's what I'm saying. Was a philosopher, That's what I
Speaker 7: was trying to say. I can't remember which one was
Speaker 7: also the one that that was depicting, Uh.
Speaker 16: The.
Speaker 7: Atlantis past, the straight the Strait of Gibraltar, which was
Speaker 7: known as the Pillars of Heracles, not Hercules, because that's
Speaker 7: the Roman variation. His name in Greece would have been Heracles,
Speaker 7: named after his stepmother, which she tried to kill him
Speaker 7: because she's a royal fucking toun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that Plato made the claims about Atlantis and
Speaker 1: things like that. Now, Plutarch was also a historian, but
Speaker 1: that's a conversation for a whole whole different epic. But
Speaker 1: he's worth the looking, He's worth the Google. I will
Speaker 1: say that Plutarch is worth the Google, Yes, as well
Speaker 1: as Herodotus, just so we're all clear here. But yeah,
Speaker 1: these are multiple historical sources that a lot of people
Speaker 1: will look at as sometimes I witness, sometimes not. But
Speaker 1: they're closer to the events that took place than we are.
Speaker 1: So I mean a lot of people use them as sources,
Speaker 1: and yes, some of their things that they wrote about
Speaker 1: are subject to interpretation. I want to say it was
Speaker 1: Plenty the Elder who or maybe was Plenty of the Younger. No, no, no, no, Plutarch,
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken. Damn it not, damn it. Now you
Speaker 1: got me all turned upside down. I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: of which one wrote the first encyclopedia. I want to
Speaker 1: say it was Plenty of the Elder.
Speaker 7: Which one was the one that wrote about and everybody said, oh,
Speaker 7: that's just mythical until we actually found the fucking uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: He also wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey correct.
Speaker 1: Yes, which is the only time where Troy was actually
Speaker 1: mentioned by anything. Yeah, it was Plenty of the Elder
Speaker 1: hit in natural history, that's the word. That's the book
Speaker 1: that I'm thinking of. And I mean, even he is
Speaker 1: seen as a source for so much history, but even
Speaker 1: then he goes on some racist tangents and I don't
Speaker 1: mean that, and like what we think of is racist
Speaker 1: about sub Saharan Africa and about certain places like in
Speaker 1: Indian and things. It's it's it's bad. He compares them
Speaker 1: to literal animals, and that was seen as like the
Speaker 1: historical figure for the first century a d for the
Speaker 1: Roman Empire.
Speaker 7: So I know the Romans saw the Germanic people as savages.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, to be fair, Rome had some asseembilance
Speaker 1: of civilization. Then you had the the Gauls, who were
Speaker 1: scalping dudes, even though the Romans did some very heinous
Speaker 1: shit as well. But yeah, if you're looking at the
Speaker 1: the way that they would fight like, they would go
Speaker 1: into battle naked half the time, and the Romans were
Speaker 1: wearing like iron armors, so like to them, they'd see
Speaker 1: this as a barbarian horde. In reality, it was like
Speaker 1: a test of their manhood that they didn't even need
Speaker 1: armor because they were so bad ass. And there's cultural interpretations,
Speaker 1: I think is what we can take on this one.
Speaker 7: You would think that Romans, since they were a quote
Speaker 7: unquote global fucking empower, which for the record, they were. Oh,
Speaker 7: you would think that they'd actually evolve past the failings
Speaker 7: after fighting so long against motherfuckers, were aos that actually
Speaker 7: figure out how to counteract them.
Speaker 1: Oh, they did. But the Romans, that was their biggest attribute.
Speaker 1: They that's when they formed up the turtle rather than
Speaker 1: the Phalanx. Right in the earlier days of the Roman Empire,
Speaker 1: they fought with the Philings, but then when trajectory weapons
Speaker 1: aka arrows became more prevalent, that's when they formed up
Speaker 1: into the turtle into the manner pull battle formations.
Speaker 7: Which is really good because I actually used that one
Speaker 7: time doing ah. I used to live actionable play. I'm
Speaker 7: not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: I liked were you were you a part of s
Speaker 1: c A.
Speaker 7: I don't know what that one is, but I uh know,
Speaker 7: so I had the guys throw shields up and everything,
Speaker 7: and we actually took it.
Speaker 9: But I was talking about more of like the.
Speaker 7: The horseback Archers. Yeah, because I'm I know, I learned
Speaker 7: a lot through like YouTube and everything. I really love
Speaker 7: unhinged history. History unhinged they were talking about like how
Speaker 7: they the Romans were like when they went up against
Speaker 7: the Mongols. I want to say, like the horse archeries.
Speaker 7: They had a hard time.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, no, no, no, that's correct. So that was all right.
Speaker 1: So We're getting way off into the history conversation here,
Speaker 1: but I'm good with it. I do love history. So
Speaker 1: the Mongols and the Huns in general, the Golden Horde,
Speaker 1: their biggest attribute was that they were excellent horsemen. And
Speaker 1: the problem is that even yes, with all the armor
Speaker 1: and all of the the formations and all of this,
Speaker 1: no one on earth really had a strong defense against
Speaker 1: horse archers like this. Everybody was more into the line
Speaker 1: versus line formation. Yeah you had some calvary units, absolutely,
Speaker 1: but usually those cavalry units were using lances and axes
Speaker 1: and swords and things like this, more handheld weapons. And
Speaker 1: being on a horse, yeah, you could charge through a formation,
Speaker 1: break up a battle line, whatever the case. And it
Speaker 1: was basically seen as far as battlefield tactics go, that
Speaker 1: one dude on a horse was essentially worth ten guys
Speaker 1: on the ground. As far as lethality on the battlefield.
Speaker 1: Cut to the horse archers that were able to basically
Speaker 1: run laps and just fire constant arrows at the front line.
Speaker 1: Eventually you're gonna find a gap in the armor. And
Speaker 1: as somebody who fights in armor, I promise you there
Speaker 1: is no way that you can have completely gapless armor.
Speaker 1: So eventually arrows are gonna find their gaps, and eventually
Speaker 1: the lines are gonna fall. And if you've got dudes
Speaker 1: on horses that are not gonna get tired, especially with
Speaker 1: the Mongols because they were using shortened arrows. Right, the
Speaker 1: long bow was seen as the ship for the longest time.
Speaker 1: The Mongol shortened bow was something that you couldn't nobody
Speaker 1: could really fight against it, and they pretty much ran
Speaker 1: the reins on them figuratively speaking and literally on that
Speaker 1: kind of technology for centuries.
Speaker 7: What you also gotta take in mine. I can't remember
Speaker 7: what general he told them, Just hold up your shield
Speaker 7: will outlast their arrows.
Speaker 1: That's the.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we're gonna have We're gonna have guys bring us
Speaker 7: small arrows. They holded arrows. They had a steady fucking
Speaker 7: line and when the first body got done, those guys
Speaker 7: would run back. The other guys would do it, and
Speaker 7: they were just encircling it, which I find just fan
Speaker 7: fucking tasting, dude.
Speaker 1: That's essentially what happened. Every time that the.
Speaker 9: Scourge he put a switch onto both.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but every time the quote unquote scorged from the
Speaker 1: East a Ka, the Huns made their way across the
Speaker 1: Eurasian step. The only reason that they stopped was because
Speaker 1: in fighting happened and whatever warlord was leading the charge
Speaker 1: now wanting to make it back to the base that
Speaker 1: he can make his claim for the for the what's
Speaker 1: the term khan the khan.
Speaker 7: Yes, because you had Genghis Khan, which is actually which
Speaker 7: is nots but if you're gonna do it, it's Gengus,
Speaker 7: then you also had which he he was a master
Speaker 7: of politician too, because uh, if he would give his
Speaker 7: wives to like his daughters to be wives.
Speaker 9: He had stuff with who the whoever he gives his.
Speaker 7: Daughter to, they had to divorce their wife and there
Speaker 7: and when he died, their wives took over. So that's
Speaker 7: how he built his dynasty and everything there. And also
Speaker 7: the Chinese, as I say Chinese, it wasn't just them,
Speaker 7: but the how helms worked in China versus the Middle
Speaker 7: East is completely different. In China, it's all political. In
Speaker 7: the Middle East it was all sexual. And when the
Speaker 7: also to one up when the new cafiat would rise up,
Speaker 7: part of that it was to one up the old man.
Speaker 9: He had to beat his father's concubines.
Speaker 1: Yeah that was a thing also, yeah, yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: I hear you. But so the Romans met their demise
Speaker 1: also because they got too big and they couldn't cover
Speaker 1: all their bases that way. I actually just watched this. Uh.
Speaker 1: I forget what the name of the Persian ruler was,
Speaker 1: but essentially there's only one Roman emperor to ever get
Speaker 1: captured in battle, and that was Valerian. Okay, and you
Speaker 1: know what happened when he was captured by this Persian ruler.
Speaker 1: He and his two legions were the ones that were
Speaker 1: capturing with that weren't killed, were brought back and they
Speaker 1: founded two cities and they were put to use. Because
Speaker 1: keep in mind, all Roman soldiers were also engineers, right,
Speaker 1: they were told to build a city and then build
Speaker 1: a miniature city right next to it, and because they
Speaker 1: only know one style of architecture, they built these cities
Speaker 1: to be Roman essentially. And once it was all said
Speaker 1: and done, the Persian leader said, okay, cool, you and
Speaker 1: your boys get to live here now. He also had
Speaker 1: them build a palace in this city, and he told Valaria,
Speaker 1: and you'll live in this palace now, right, and your
Speaker 1: boys can live in the city. He's like, what are
Speaker 1: we supposed to do? He's like, you built bakeries, you
Speaker 1: built blacksmithing shops, all this. Take up a profession, live
Speaker 1: your life here. Now, you're you're cool. Take Persian wives.
Speaker 1: The whole nine. He's like, okay, He's like, you can
Speaker 1: never leave, just so you know you are still prisoners,
Speaker 1: but feel free to live your Roman life here. Now,
Speaker 1: here's what he did. He built because it was there
Speaker 1: was hills that overlooked this Roman city. He built trails
Speaker 1: going around the Roman city, and he turned the two
Speaker 1: captured Roman legions, including the Roman Emperor, into a tourist attraction,
Speaker 1: so where all these Persians could could now come and
Speaker 1: see a Roman city with a Roman emperor and pay
Speaker 1: a fucking entrance fee to come see it for themselves.
Speaker 9: So they were essentially the first open aired prison.
Speaker 7: Huh.
Speaker 1: No, they were a human zoo. They were an attraction.
Speaker 9: Technically, we still have a human zoo. U.
Speaker 7: Technically, the North Centinal Island is technically a human zoo
Speaker 7: because you can't have anything go over there.
Speaker 1: Oh we can't go there and observe him. Though we can't.
Speaker 1: We can't pay an emission fee to go see him.
Speaker 1: The Persians were paying an emission fee to come. Oh
Speaker 1: look that's the Roman emperor. And it wasn't like a
Speaker 1: mock Roman emperor, it was Valerian himself.
Speaker 7: Uh. The blanc Zoo was technically a human zoo here
Speaker 7: in America. For they had a pigmies like human pigmies
Speaker 7: in exhibits they did. And they also p t. Bonham
Speaker 7: was a fleet show. You could also say that was
Speaker 7: a human zooono type because you had to pay a mission.
Speaker 7: You had the bearded ladies, you had the guy that
Speaker 7: the penguin Danny DeVito's Penguins mode after with the posterns.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was a genetic trait. His dad had
Speaker 1: it and then his son was born with it too.
Speaker 1: It was a It was a mess.
Speaker 7: He also he died alone. He was an alcoholic, He
Speaker 7: beat the shit out of his wife and everything.
Speaker 9: So fuck him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I've seen the I've seen the documentary on
Speaker 1: him as well. But all right, all right, So now
Speaker 1: we have had a good little tangent about history and things. Tony,
Speaker 1: you're still I mute. If you want to weigh in
Speaker 1: on any more, please do so, sir.
Speaker 10: Well, I was trying to find out what the flag
Speaker 10: of Hamas actually says, because I don't read any Arabic,
Speaker 10: but one result says it has something called the Shahada,
Speaker 10: which says there is no God but God. Muhammad is
Speaker 10: the messenger of God. I see additional text on it,
Speaker 10: and I don't know how to translate it. I'm just
Speaker 10: curious to see if it says death to America or
Speaker 10: anything like that, but I kind of doubt it.
Speaker 1: No, I doubt'll say that on its flag. But I
Speaker 1: could see that being like a part of their mission statement.
Speaker 1: I could because America being such staunch supporters of the
Speaker 1: Israeli state, which they are again, so I could see
Speaker 1: that too.
Speaker 7: But it's not on Hamas. I believe it's on the
Speaker 7: hes blah. And the reason why is because Instagram. Yeah,
Speaker 7: but it was on that it was showing them and everything.
Speaker 7: And I took a snapchot and I used the AI
Speaker 7: on my phone to scan it and it and translated
Speaker 7: and it does say death issue and death to America.
Speaker 1: And keep in mind Hesbala and Hamas are two completely
Speaker 1: different organizations.
Speaker 7: I understand that.
Speaker 1: Like it's like saying the Bloods and the Crips, they
Speaker 1: might do similar ship, but they're completely different organizations.
Speaker 7: But they were created to be partners in the beginning.
Speaker 7: What set them off was a female.
Speaker 10: Of course, But that's interesting.
Speaker 7: What is still wings of the ship?
Speaker 1: Penny? What's interesting, Tommy.
Speaker 10: Yeah, found I just googled the Hesbala flag words and
Speaker 10: it says the top line says Coronic verse five fifty six,
Speaker 10: which says, surely the party of God are they that
Speaker 10: shall be triumphant? And the bottom line reads the Islamic
Speaker 10: Resistance in Lebanon. So I don't know. Yeah, I wish
Speaker 10: I could read Arabic, but it seems pretty hard.
Speaker 1: From what I could tell. If you're looking at the
Speaker 1: THEMS versus THEMS, as far as the Middle East conflict,
Speaker 1: it's concerned. And I'm quoting Anger Cops here. It's the
Speaker 1: squiggle people versus the geometry people. And I think it
Speaker 1: can all be tied down to that. And by that,
Speaker 1: I mean look at their flags. One group loves squiggle
Speaker 1: lines on their flag and they call that some sort
Speaker 1: of language, and the other side likes straight lines and
Speaker 1: geometric patterns on their flags. It's the squiggles versus the
Speaker 1: geometry people. And if you want to take it even
Speaker 1: further than that, the six pointed star also has precedents
Speaker 1: in the Vedic traditions, and the Hindus and the Muslims
Speaker 1: are not friends with each other. So once again, it's
Speaker 1: the squiggle people versus the geometry people, That's all I
Speaker 1: can figure here. But anyway, anyway, all right, let's let's
Speaker 1: go ahead, Royce, please, resident getrude.
Speaker 5: Actually, what I was gonna say is, as far as
Speaker 5: the calligraphy Arabic is very very beautiful, oh yeah, just
Speaker 5: in and of itself.
Speaker 1: No, I can agree with that for sure. It's it's
Speaker 1: just a joke. Just so we're all clear.
Speaker 8: I'm right there with you.
Speaker 5: So anyway, a good things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. All right, all right,
Speaker 1: now that we have discussed foreign affairs to a very
Speaker 1: very deep degree, let's get back into the current events
Speaker 1: of the day. This is from Breaking Defense Lockheed, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is from them, Lockheed Martin. Pentagon finalizes the deal
Speaker 1: for two hundred and ninety six f thirty fives. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, I don't know why that was
Speaker 1: the number. Why didn't they round it up three hundred?
Speaker 1: I wish I had an answer for anybody. Two ninety
Speaker 1: six is the number they agreed upon. And the number
Speaker 1: they agreed upon was two ninety six, not two ninety five,
Speaker 1: not three hundred. It was that that was a very
Speaker 1: specific part of the deal. Don't know why. And For
Speaker 1: the record, these are not for sale for other countries.
Speaker 1: This is for America. I don't understand, but here it is.
Speaker 1: The twenty four point three billion dollar deal covers one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty eight aircraft each in production lots eighteen
Speaker 1: and nineteen. Closing out negotiations that have stretched since twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, the Pentagon's Joint Program Office and manufacturer Lockey
Speaker 1: Martin have finalized a deal for roughly twenty four point
Speaker 1: three billion dollars that covers nearly three hundred nearly three hundred,
Speaker 1: but two ninety six again F thirty five stealth fighters
Speaker 1: and two parties. Announced Monday evening. The agreement provides for
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty eight airframes each in production Lats
Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen, according to the Pentagon contract announcement, concluding negotiations
Speaker 1: again that stretched for roughly two years. The deal includes
Speaker 1: jets for the US government as well as foreign buyers,
Speaker 1: and deliveries are expected to begin twenty twenty six. But
Speaker 1: the US government's one that mandated the two ninety six number.
Speaker 1: Again I don't know why. The F thirty five Lot
Speaker 1: eighteen nineteen contract represents continued confidence in the most affordable
Speaker 1: and capable fighter aircraft in production today. Chauncey Macintosh, who
Speaker 1: is the Lackey Vice President and general manager of the
Speaker 1: F thirty five program, said in a press release, we
Speaker 1: are proud to support our customers and further solid solidify
Speaker 1: the F thirty five's role in enabling peace through strength.
Speaker 1: A spokesperson for the F thirty five JPO did not
Speaker 1: immediately have a breakdown available of the cost per aircraft
Speaker 1: of the trivarian Stealth Fighter. Comment from the Marine Corps
Speaker 1: Lieutenant General Greg mss Sale Massalio miss Cilo, miss Cilo whatever,
Speaker 1: who recently took the reins after the JPO, was also
Speaker 1: not available. The finalized F thirty five contract follows an
Speaker 1: unde undefinitized Jesus Contract Action or UCA, awarded to Lockheed
Speaker 1: in December to kickstart production for Lot eighteen. The agreement,
Speaker 1: announced Monday evening, covers just the airframes of the Stealth Fighter,
Speaker 1: whose engines are produced by RTX, which formerly rate theon
Speaker 1: subsidiary Pratt and Whitney. The engines are awarded separately by
Speaker 1: the JPO as government furnished equipment, which are in turn
Speaker 1: provided to Lockheed. The Pentagon awarded Pratt a nearly two
Speaker 1: point nine billion dollar UCA in August to begin production
Speaker 1: on Lot eighteen engines, and after this report was published,
Speaker 1: a JPO spokesperson told Breaking Defense that the Pentagon plans
Speaker 1: to define a tize or definitize okay, Lot eighteen and
Speaker 1: award the Lot nineteen contract for engines in the spring
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Once the Lot eighteen engine UCA is
Speaker 1: finalized or definatized, they keep you god a flyaway cost
Speaker 1: for the aircraft and approximate an approximation of price tag
Speaker 1: for a plane that's sitting on a runway ready to go.
Speaker 1: Should become clear, the average flyaway cost for an F
Speaker 1: thirty five A across Lots fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen is
Speaker 1: eighty two point five million. In a press release announced
Speaker 1: on the Lot eighteen and nineteen deal, Lockheed said the
Speaker 1: increase in price per jet in Lot eighteen and nineteen
Speaker 1: from previous years was less than the rate of inflation. Okay,
Speaker 1: I guess that's something to be said, So it should
Speaker 1: be somewhere around. I'm hoping eighty five mil per plane,
Speaker 1: give or take, but I guess we shall see. But anyway,
Speaker 1: just wanted to bring that up. Apparently the military industrial
Speaker 1: complex is booming and thriving, So anybody around the world
Speaker 1: be on the lookout for new F thirty fives to
Speaker 1: be bought by your nation's military. I know Poland is
Speaker 1: a decided to get their hands on some. All right,
Speaker 1: moving more towards American things going on, We're not gonna
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time on this. I don't know
Speaker 1: how many people actually watch the WNBA. I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 1: I have tried really hard to make it through a
Speaker 1: game and I just can't. Right, hold on, Sam, I
Speaker 1: know you have your hand raise for everything I say,
Speaker 1: Just hold on, brother. I don't know who's actually watching
Speaker 1: the WNBA like this, but apparently the chief, Kathyl Engelbert,
Speaker 1: she made a comment about Caitlin Clark and how she
Speaker 1: should be grateful for the money that she is making
Speaker 1: with the WNBA. The WNBA players are saying that they're
Speaker 1: not making enough. That's a that's a theme that we
Speaker 1: have heard for years and years and years. Unfortunately, they're
Speaker 1: only gonna get paid based off of how entertaining their
Speaker 1: sport is to watch, because advertisers are not going to
Speaker 1: pay more money. You're not gonna get sponsorships deals if
Speaker 1: your sport is boring as hell. What I mean by
Speaker 1: that is the US curling team only makes its way
Speaker 1: or even is known about, during the Olympics. They train
Speaker 1: every year, I'm sure of it. Why don't they have
Speaker 1: crazy sponsorship deals because no one's watching curling except for
Speaker 1: when it happens to be on when the Winter Olympics
Speaker 1: are running. That's just the way this goes. So for
Speaker 1: the WNBA players to be bitching that they're not making
Speaker 1: as much money as their male counterparts, there's reasons for that,
Speaker 1: and it's not because society is so sexist. Is because
Speaker 1: one is entertaining to watch and one is seen as
Speaker 1: more of a novelty for a lot of people. That
Speaker 1: being said, the chief of the WNBA had made some
Speaker 1: comments that she then had to go back on later on.
Speaker 1: Got a quick clip that's attached to the article, and
Speaker 1: it will do a decent job of breaking this down
Speaker 1: because apparentlyn Fisa Collier has made some claims that the
Speaker 1: chief had to make a claim about. In response, let's
Speaker 1: listen in.
Speaker 18: In a scathing exit interview mifi's the Collier claimed that
Speaker 18: WNBA Commissioner Kathy Engilbert told her.
Speaker 19: I also asked how she plan to fix the fact
Speaker 19: that players like Caitlin Angel and Page, who are clearly
Speaker 19: driving massive revenue for the league, are making so little
Speaker 19: for their first four years. Her response was, Caitlyn should
Speaker 19: be grateful she makes sixty million off the court, because
Speaker 19: without the platform that the WBA gives her, she wouldn't
Speaker 19: make anything.
Speaker 18: Collier added, Engilbert even said.
Speaker 19: And in that same conversation, she told me players should
Speaker 19: be on their knees thanking their lucky stars for the
Speaker 19: media rite seal that I got them.
Speaker 18: The remarks set off backlash, as fans pointed out Caitlin
Speaker 18: Clark already had endorsements before joining the league. The interview
Speaker 18: spread quickly. NBA Today's Malika Andrews said it was worth
Speaker 18: listening to every word, while Pacers starred Therese Halliburton reacted
Speaker 18: with just one word, Hugh. The WNBA later responded, calling
Speaker 18: Collier's characterization disheart.
Speaker 1: Okay, disheartening, that's fair enough, all right, but uh anyway,
Speaker 1: so yeah, that is a statement that was made and Ingelbert,
Speaker 1: I remember I saw a clip of her speaking to
Speaker 1: some sort of a talking head about situations and things.
Speaker 1: She basically made the claim that Caitlyn Clark is making
Speaker 1: around five hundred K a year, which I don't know
Speaker 1: how she thinks that she knows what is going on
Speaker 1: unless she's pocket watching, which.
Speaker 16: She may be.
Speaker 1: She may very well be. But if you're the chief
Speaker 1: of an entire league, perhaps you shouldn't be worried about
Speaker 1: what your players are making off the court. Keep in mind,
Speaker 1: Kaitlyn Clark had a lot of endorsement deals before she
Speaker 1: left college. So yeah, anyway, for anybody who cares, the
Speaker 1: WNBA is in some sort of a turmoil right now
Speaker 1: because of some of the things that have been going
Speaker 1: on with money. And again, if the sport was more
Speaker 1: entertained to watch, the players will be making insane amounts anyway,
Speaker 1: and it wouldn't even be worth talking about. But anyway,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Sam, Yeah.
Speaker 8: I was just gonna make a joke.
Speaker 7: But isn't this also where they played basketball and the
Speaker 7: dildo range? It is?
Speaker 1: Indeed, it is, indeed, sir, Which that's so.
Speaker 7: I think it'd be a lot funnier if they're playing
Speaker 7: basketball but also like that and dodgeball at the same time,
Speaker 7: but instead of it being dodgeballs, like you can have
Speaker 7: the basketball, right, but you have two defenders and instead
Speaker 7: of them trying to like tackle whatever they do to
Speaker 7: like block, they can hit them with the dodgeball. But
Speaker 7: instead of being a dodgeball, it can be a big
Speaker 7: purple going the dark deal though, And that would make this,
Speaker 7: that would make the game a whole lot more interesting,
Speaker 7: And that would be like, hey, this is different from
Speaker 7: the men's side, and it would make it more interesting
Speaker 7: to see, Hey, what I wonder which one is gonna
Speaker 7: get hit hit and if and hey two points if
Speaker 7: it's a head shot, three points, if it it hits
Speaker 7: him in the titty. It'd be fun.
Speaker 1: Okay, But aside from trying to overly sexualize the sport
Speaker 1: or female athletes, right, same with softball. Why don't they
Speaker 1: have a professional softball league? Because there's hardly, ever, ever,
Speaker 1: ever a home run hit in softball? Why don't people
Speaker 1: want to watch the WNBA because nobody wants to watch
Speaker 1: a game of nothing but layups. I'm sorry, that's just
Speaker 1: it's not worth it's not entertaining to watch that.
Speaker 8: Are they not dunk?
Speaker 1: There was? I think Lisa Leslie kind of was somebody
Speaker 1: who could dunk in the WNBA but that's a rarity
Speaker 1: for a woman to be able to jump that high.
Speaker 8: Isn't she the one that got caught smuggling a dad
Speaker 8: pin into.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, Lisa Leslie was big in the nineties, dude, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you're thinking of old Britney Griner.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but we left in the United States minion to
Speaker 8: get home.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know that's a whole mess in and of itself.
Speaker 1: But anyway, like I said, didn't want to spend too
Speaker 1: much time on THENBA debacle, but I thought it was
Speaker 1: worth mentioning because it is something that is considered news
Speaker 1: to some people. So there we have it. Moving on here, Komy,
Speaker 1: we talked about him.
Speaker 17: He is.
Speaker 1: They were trying to figure out they could get him indicted,
Speaker 1: or if the statute of limitations was about to run
Speaker 1: out or what well statute limitations. They got it in time,
Speaker 1: and now he has pled not guilty as lawyer's signal
Speaker 1: intent to argue Trump's faue case is politically motivated. This
Speaker 1: is a quick clip from a local news Let's listen in.
Speaker 20: Former FBI director James Comy appeared in federal court today
Speaker 20: to fight criminal charges brought by the Trump administration. Comy
Speaker 20: has charged with one count of obstruction of a congressional
Speaker 20: proceeding and one count of making false statements related to
Speaker 20: five year old Senate testimony during which he denied authorizing
Speaker 20: leaks to the media. Komy, who has ousted during the
Speaker 20: first Trump administration, has often clashed with the President, prompting
Speaker 20: critics to call it political retribution. Comy's attorney says he
Speaker 20: will file three motions in voting vindictive and unlawful prosecution.
Speaker 21: Essentially, he's going to argue, among other things, in his
Speaker 21: first motions that this is a vindictive prosecution, and unlike
Speaker 21: most other cases, he has.
Speaker 1: Quite a load of evidence to bring.
Speaker 22: To the court.
Speaker 20: Leading the case against Komy, President Trump's former personal attorney
Speaker 20: Lindsay Halligan, who was appointed as the interim US Attorney
Speaker 20: for the Eastern District of Virginia after her predecessor was
Speaker 20: forced out by the White House.
Speaker 1: All right, now, we will see what comes out of
Speaker 1: this whole James Comy indictment situation. I if he is guilty,
Speaker 1: I hope that they find the truth out. But again
Speaker 1: we'll get to all of that in due time. Continuing
Speaker 1: on with legal issues, let's jump over here, Jack smith
Speaker 1: investigation into January six obtained phone records of GOP lawmaker's.
Speaker 1: Republicans say this is CNM. Senate Republicans announced on Monday
Speaker 1: that the Monday, the FBI, as part of a Special
Speaker 1: Council Jack Smith's January sixth investigations, used court orders in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three to obtain the phone records of nine
Speaker 1: GOP lawmakers and move senators. Called political and weaponization, it's
Speaker 1: unclear what exactly investigators are seeking to determine by pulling
Speaker 1: the records, and there's no indication that these senators were
Speaker 1: targets of Smith's investigation, so they're not targets, but it's
Speaker 1: worth mentioning, I guess as they're trying to throw Republicans
Speaker 1: under the bus as much as they can. But here
Speaker 1: we go. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley released the FBI
Speaker 1: record at a news conference Monday, where Republicans emphasize that
Speaker 1: the phone records were obtained through a grand jury, a
Speaker 1: lawful process for federal investigators to obtain such documents. The
Speaker 1: phone records of some lawmakers were seized in the probe
Speaker 1: has long been known since the Justice Department fought a
Speaker 1: legal battle over the limits of constitutions speech or debate
Speaker 1: clause in order to add access lawmakers communications. This is
Speaker 1: a direct quote here from Grassley. There's no predicate that
Speaker 1: we can find for the solicitation of these telephone records,
Speaker 1: which I think emphasizes the political weaponization that was behind
Speaker 1: all this effort. And we're still getting more information. The
Speaker 1: lawmakers said that FBI Director Cash Bettel turned over information
Speaker 1: on the subpoenas which sought the toll records, which show
Speaker 1: the phone numbers called in time and duration of calls,
Speaker 1: but not content. Pattel, in a post on X say,
Speaker 1: we recently uncovered proof that the phone records of US
Speaker 1: lawmakers receives for political purposes. That abuse of power ends. Now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's really trying anything to seem like he's some sort
Speaker 1: of a guy in charge. It's silly. The lawmakers were
Speaker 1: Senator Lindsey Graham, Bill Haggerty, Josh Hawley, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tubberville,
Speaker 1: Ron Johnson, Cynthia Loomis, and Marsha Blackburn, as well as
Speaker 1: Representative Mike Kelly. Now that's the end of the CNN article.
Speaker 1: There's another article here from Wyoming Public Media and it
Speaker 1: basically gives a breakdown the exact same thing. But I
Speaker 1: did want to give this list just for those that
Speaker 1: don't know who these people are. Loomis, who we talked
Speaker 1: about a moment ago, and she is She is a
Speaker 1: Senator from Wyoming. But continuing here, Lindsey Graham, who's a
Speaker 1: Republican from South Carolina. He's a senator. Representative Mike Kelly,
Speaker 1: Republican from Pennsylvania. Senator Bill Haggerty who is a Republican
Speaker 1: from Tennessee, Senator Josh Howley who is a Republican from Missouri,
Speaker 1: Senator Dan Sullivan, a Republican from Arkansas, Senator Tommy Tupperville
Speaker 1: who's a Republican from Alabama, and Senator Ron Johnson who
Speaker 1: is a Republican from Wisconsin. And Senator Marsha Blackburn, a
Speaker 1: Republican from ten A se So anyway, I didn't want
Speaker 1: to give that distinction and give these people at least
Speaker 1: their proper des a nation of what state they represent.
Speaker 1: But nine Republican lawmakers have been apparently had their phone
Speaker 1: records shown in this investigation, which we'll see what comes
Speaker 1: of that. Honestly, the whole, the whole thing about the
Speaker 1: January sixth, quote unquote riot, the January sixth insurrection, or
Speaker 1: whatever you want to say that the liberal media is
Speaker 1: saying that that was the peaceful protest where they stormed
Speaker 1: the capitol. In reality, they were let in, again confirmed
Speaker 1: by multiple sources that are not Republican or Democrat, just eyewitnesses. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was That was a whole lot of people trying
Speaker 1: to turn this into something to make it look like
Speaker 1: the riots that were happening all over the country. Right,
Speaker 1: this is this is all a part of See the
Speaker 1: Republicans riot it too. It's not just Democrat it's but
Speaker 1: let's look at the the actual weight behind them, right,
Speaker 1: Let's look at the the fallout of the Portland riots
Speaker 1: and the shit Cargo riots and all these other places LA,
Speaker 1: and then let's look at jan six One of these
Speaker 1: had or a bunch of these had cop cars being torched,
Speaker 1: buildings being looted and broken into, violencing occurred, And the
Speaker 1: other one had no barely barely any damage done to
Speaker 1: any private or public property. And one person was killed,
Speaker 1: and that was a horrible tragedy, and it wasn't in
Speaker 1: the same way that the violence was done on these
Speaker 1: other sides. So I feel like trying to call the
Speaker 1: Jan six a riot slash insurrection. Uh is that's just
Speaker 1: liberal media trying to turn a mole in a mole
Speaker 1: hill into a mountain. But anyway, moving on, let's talk
Speaker 1: more about the government and Washington DC. I don't know
Speaker 1: how many people are paying attention, but the government is
Speaker 1: currently a shutdown, and I honestly think at this point
Speaker 1: we could start making that a federal holiday, the annual
Speaker 1: government shut down. Here we go and they only have
Speaker 1: one month to get it together, and maybe they will,
Speaker 1: maybe they won't. There's a couple of different things behind
Speaker 1: what has caused this one, and you know what, let's
Speaker 1: just play this year. Marjorie Taylor Green gives her two
Speaker 1: cents about what is going on with the government shut down.
Speaker 1: We shall see. This is from NBC News.
Speaker 23: My own family suffers from this situation, my friends, and
Speaker 23: my neighbors.
Speaker 13: For Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green, the conflict behind the
Speaker 13: government shutdown is personal. Typically a MAGA loyalist, she's broken
Speaker 13: with the GOP over concerns that her children's healthcare premiums
Speaker 13: will double next year.
Speaker 23: Two out of the three have aged out of being
Speaker 23: on my insurance, and so you're seeing me being a
Speaker 23: mom who's frankly really pissed off at a lot of
Speaker 23: the failures that I think come from decades of both parties.
Speaker 13: She's getting at the core point. Democrats have been making
Speaker 13: ACA marketplace subsidies expire at the end of the year.
Speaker 13: Krats want to negotiate extensions before they'll vote to reopen
Speaker 13: the government. As many as twenty two million Americans could
Speaker 13: see their premiums spike by an average one hundred and
Speaker 13: fourteen percent without an extension of the subsidies put in
Speaker 13: place during the Biden administration. If they expire at the
Speaker 13: end of the year, what happens to your health insurance premiums?
Speaker 21: They will double.
Speaker 13: It looks like Leanne Safford and her husband now pay
Speaker 13: two hundred seventy eight dollars a month for their healthcare
Speaker 13: premiums through the Affordable Care Act marketplace. Their plight common.
Speaker 13: According to one analysis, for an individual making thirty five
Speaker 13: thousand dollars a year, the annual premium would jump by
Speaker 13: more than fifteen hundred dollars. A family of four making
Speaker 13: seventy five thousand, their increase would be more than thirty
Speaker 13: three hundred. What kind of ripple effect is that going
Speaker 13: to have in your life?
Speaker 21: We would need to budget for those changes.
Speaker 7: We would need to scale back.
Speaker 18: Our child is thirteen, so you know, we may need
Speaker 18: to reassess when braces might.
Speaker 13: Be happening for LeAnn and millions of others. Sticker shock
Speaker 13: is now setting in as note come out this month
Speaker 13: outlining what next year's premiums will be. Christine Romans, NBC News,
Speaker 13: New York.
Speaker 1: All right, so let's continue talking about this this shutdown
Speaker 1: that's going on here, because not only is this a
Speaker 1: portion of it, but congress erupts over Trump's shutdown back
Speaker 1: pay threat. Yes, this is correct. He is basically saying
Speaker 1: that he the article is not pulling up. It pulled
Speaker 1: up on my phone, but of course it is not
Speaker 1: going to pull up on my computer because that would
Speaker 1: be crazy. Essentially, Trump is saying that he is not
Speaker 1: going to back pay the quote unquote furloughed politicians who
Speaker 1: are not showing up to work to solve the problem,
Speaker 1: which people have opinions on. Some people say that's a
Speaker 1: great thing, some people say this is tyrannical. I got
Speaker 1: a quick little video that's going to talk about it more.
Speaker 1: Trump administration threatens no back pay for federal workers in shutdown.
Speaker 24: This is from ABC, but hand is the Government Fair
Speaker 24: Treatment Diact of twenty nineineteen. It was signed into law
Speaker 24: after a thirty five day long shutdown during President Donald
Speaker 24: Trump's first term. The law guarantees federal workers will get
Speaker 24: back pay after a shutdown, but in a draft memo
Speaker 24: reported on by Axios, the White House suggests a different interpretation,
Speaker 24: stating furloughed workers will receive back pay quote subject to
Speaker 24: the enactment of appropriations Acts ending the lapse.
Speaker 21: They do have a sort of novel interpretation of it,
Speaker 21: but there's plenty of stuff in the record, you know,
Speaker 21: from way back from twenty nineteen when the law was passed,
Speaker 21: that that indicates this was intended to be sort of
Speaker 21: a permanent fixture of things.
Speaker 24: Tim Cox, a furloughed employee, believes this is just rhetoric
Speaker 24: and he'll ultimately get paid.
Speaker 22: It's not something I'm worried about, but I know that
Speaker 22: there's a lot of a sentiment behind people aren't who
Speaker 22: aren't working getting paid. At the same time, this kind
Speaker 22: of stuff is way beyond our control.
Speaker 24: Omar al jazeeras vice president of AFGE Local twenty three
Speaker 24: ninety one and a furloughed employee with a Department of
Speaker 24: Labor sees it has another attack on federal workers.
Speaker 16: This is part of a larger pattern of bullying and
Speaker 16: harassment against the federal workforce workers who serve their country,
Speaker 16: where professionalism are being treated as political enemies yet again
Speaker 16: and the constant attacks threat to withhold pay.
Speaker 24: On Wednesday, the IRS issued new guidance citing the twenty
Speaker 24: nineteen law that directly contradicts the White House draft memo.
Speaker 21: It said very clearly that furloughed employees will be paid
Speaker 21: when the shutdown ends, so given back pay. So it's
Speaker 21: diametrically opposed. And what it says to me is and
Speaker 21: this is a broader issue. I think there's been a
Speaker 21: little bit of tension within the Trump administration over this.
Speaker 24: According to the Congressional Research Service, there are just over
Speaker 24: thirty four thousand federal employees in Arizona. Been Brown, ABC
Speaker 24: fifteen Arizona.
Speaker 1: All right, so that's from an Arizona news source. But
Speaker 1: so some people are saying that, okay, this might be
Speaker 1: what is needed, right to keep these politicians from deciding
Speaker 1: they're not gonna show up to work anymore and preventing
Speaker 1: a government shut down from happening. They don't need to
Speaker 1: see a government shut down as a possibility. If they
Speaker 1: know that they won't get paid and no government employees
Speaker 1: will get paid, perhaps they'll just do their job and
Speaker 1: figure it out. I'm not saying that I believe this.
Speaker 1: I am saying that there is a side that is
Speaker 1: saying that this is what Trump is trying to do.
Speaker 1: There's another side that is saying that this is him
Speaker 1: continuing to overreach and all these other things. I don't know, Sam,
Speaker 1: what is your thoughts.
Speaker 7: I believe that the government shut down as a joke
Speaker 7: in the sorry own having a bit of trouble with
Speaker 7: my assidy flux.
Speaker 8: I think it's a bit of a joke because it's
Speaker 8: just go up posturing.
Speaker 7: And the fact of the matter is, I've looked into
Speaker 7: what positive the Democrats want to continue saying three million
Speaker 7: dollars to uh. I want to say it's Zimbabwe for
Speaker 7: vasectomy and a circumcision.
Speaker 8: That's a part of it. But I don't.
Speaker 7: Did you hear about Ted Cruz what he said over
Speaker 7: the last week. I have, Yeah, he was like, we
Speaker 7: need to stop attacking people, but he was given like
Speaker 7: things that, yeah, that would make sense. Then he said,
Speaker 7: and I think we can all agree we need to
Speaker 7: stop attacking pedophiles. And I'm like, no, that honestly, that's
Speaker 7: what we should attack more of, really, Ted Cruz, And yeah,
Speaker 7: look what I saw for him was JD.
Speaker 8: Delay. I watched a lot of JD.
Speaker 1: Delay.
Speaker 17: I love.
Speaker 7: You. I'm actually gonna try and see if I can
Speaker 7: get him on on the Web of Mysteries.
Speaker 1: Good luck. He is a very in demand, uh social figure,
Speaker 1: So I mean, I hope you can get him.
Speaker 8: I because I would like to learn. I'd like to
Speaker 8: have him on. He's a really cool guy.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I know, Ted Cruz Junior said stop tacking pedophiles.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, he legitimately said this. Okay, let's.
Speaker 7: He also said he wanted to get in touch with
Speaker 7: the younger kids, so he got Backstreet Boys tattooed on
Speaker 7: his back. I'm like, I am twenty seven, not twenty seven.
Speaker 7: I am twenty six by to be twenty seven in June.
Speaker 7: The Backstreets boys will popping When I was born, dog,
Speaker 7: No young kid's gonna really listen to him. They might,
Speaker 7: but that that and you're saying you want to get
Speaker 7: in touch with the younger kids, and you just said
Speaker 7: stop attacking pedophiles.
Speaker 8: My boy, that's some bad pr.
Speaker 1: All right, let's let's play the clip. Let's let the
Speaker 1: man speak for himself on this one. This is wild.
Speaker 1: Of course, there's gonna be an ad to play during it.
Speaker 1: There was a short that was like nineteen seconds long.
Speaker 1: This is from Forbes and it's a minute long. So
Speaker 1: I hope that we get the greater context on this one.
Speaker 1: Viral gaff ted cru says stop attacking pedophiles while discussing
Speaker 1: fighting crime. Let's listen in now.
Speaker 25: Senator Booker also said we should have bipartisan agreement. I
Speaker 25: think that's a great idea. We should have bipartisan agreement.
Speaker 25: How about we all come together and say let's stop murders.
Speaker 25: How about we all come together and say let's stop rape.
Speaker 25: How about we all come together and say let's stop
Speaker 25: attacking pedophiles. I want you to look at what happened
Speaker 25: when the National Guard went to d C. Robbery fell
Speaker 25: by fifty seven percent, homicide fell by fifty eight percent,
Speaker 25: sex abuse fell by forty percent. Those are real results,
Speaker 25: and Detective Pemberton if you would tell this committee what
Speaker 25: was the effect of the twenty twenty two Comprehensive Policing
Speaker 25: and Justice Reform Law, and what would the benefit be
Speaker 25: for the people of d C. If Congress passes my
Speaker 25: Clean DC Act.
Speaker 26: Thank you, Senator Cruisin, thank you for introducing the Clean
Speaker 26: DC Act, which repeals the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Acted.
Speaker 26: Is unquestionably one of the worst pieces of legislation public
Speaker 26: safety legislation I've ever seen, and it has completely dismantled
Speaker 26: and destroyed the Metropolitan Police Department.
Speaker 1: Okay, one more time, we're gonna play his direct quote,
Speaker 1: because he sure just just went on through that and
Speaker 1: talked about federal troops and how the crime went down.
Speaker 1: But uh, okay, let's once again now.
Speaker 25: Senator Booker also said we should have bipartisan agreement. I
Speaker 25: think that's a great idea. We should have bipartisan agreement.
Speaker 25: How about we all come together and say let's stop murders.
Speaker 25: How about we all come together and say let's stop rape.
Speaker 25: How about we all come together and say let's stop
Speaker 25: attacking pedophiles. I want you to look at what happened
Speaker 25: when the National Guard went.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that he meant, let's stop pedophilic attacks, because boy,
Speaker 1: that is that's not a good look at all. Wow,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that that was a for I excuse the
Speaker 1: pun or the distasteful turn of phrase here, I'm hoping
Speaker 1: that was a slip of the tongue and not actually
Speaker 1: what he meant to say, but a Freudian slip there.
Speaker 1: That's better. That's a better use of the words. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that that was a Freudian slip and not him
Speaker 1: actually saying that people need to leave pedophiles alone, because boy,
Speaker 1: that's not good at all.
Speaker 7: I think that we all know the cure for u pedophilia.
Speaker 7: It's called pedicinin uh, it's that nine milimeter.
Speaker 1: It does come in multiple different sizes as well. You know,
Speaker 1: I got a couple of the two two three, I
Speaker 1: got a seven six two. I got a thirty out
Speaker 1: six in my hand, like all these.
Speaker 7: Things with the cue can also be a fucking a
Speaker 7: tree in a rope that works too.
Speaker 1: So all right, expect Ted Cruz's kind of off his.
Speaker 8: Computer is his computer.
Speaker 1: Speaking of crazy people. My god, y'all, Florida man struck again,
Speaker 1: and apparently this is the guy who started the Palisades
Speaker 1: fire then tried to cover his track his tracks rather, Yes,
Speaker 1: that is correct, Florida man is the one that did this.
Speaker 1: This is from the La Times. All right, let's get
Speaker 1: into it here. Authorities have arrested a suspect in the
Speaker 1: Palisades fire after a nine month investigation into the blaze
Speaker 1: that killed twelve people. The devastating fire that destroyed thousands
Speaker 1: of homes appeared to have been rekindled of an earlier
Speaker 1: New Year's Day fire. The most destructive inferno in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles history, which charred a devastating path through the Pacific
Speaker 1: Palisades and Malibu early January, was a flare up of
Speaker 1: a fire that an uber driver had intentionally set days earlier.
Speaker 1: Federal prosecutors edged Wednesday Jonathan render rinderkneck Yeay, his last
Speaker 1: name is weird of course. He is twenty nine years old,
Speaker 1: is accused of starting the initial fire on New Year's
Speaker 1: Day that rekindled to become the Palisades Fire later. He
Speaker 1: was arrested Wednesday in Florida and charged with destruction of
Speaker 1: property by means of fire, which carries a minimum of
Speaker 1: five years in federal prison. Among the evidence collected from
Speaker 1: his digital devices was a dystopian image he generated on
Speaker 1: Chad gpt Ai makes his entrance. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: depicting a burning city with people trying to flee, said
Speaker 1: Bill Asali, acting you as attorney for the Central District
Speaker 1: of California, at a news conference on Wednesday. This is
Speaker 1: the guy. This, This is the Florida man that did it.
Speaker 1: I swear the guy called nine to one one to
Speaker 1: report the fire, then offered to help firefighters battle the blaze.
Speaker 1: According to an affidavit by an agent with the Bureau
Speaker 1: with the ATF, prosecutors accused render Connect of lying about
Speaker 1: where he was when he made his first nine to
Speaker 1: one one call. We cannot undo the damage and destruction
Speaker 1: that was done. We hope this arrest and the charges
Speaker 1: against him brings some measure of justice to the victims
Speaker 1: of this horrific tragedy. Yeah, five years is really going
Speaker 1: to bring justice to it. The federal prosecution affirms a
Speaker 1: long suspected theory among fire experts, and comes after a
Speaker 1: nine month pro into the cause of the Palisades fire,
Speaker 1: which charged twenty three thousand, four hundred acres and leveled
Speaker 1: more than sixty eight hundred structures, including many homes, and
Speaker 1: of course twelve people did die in the blaze, So.
Speaker 9: That died a child, not a roth Stein, was it.
Speaker 9: It was one of the lots that died in one
Speaker 9: of the thousand, who was like a hundred something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a Rothschild that died. Now I don't
Speaker 1: know how connected to the Rothschild global banking family that
Speaker 1: person was, but yes, that is that is a true statement.
Speaker 7: I find it funny as name's lost child and if
Speaker 7: he wouldn't be one of the money gloving bastards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 7: How common is the last name lost child?
Speaker 1: I mean, I would assume not very, but I don't
Speaker 1: know that for a fact.
Speaker 9: Isn't it a very ancestuous clan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, as far as the banking clan goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not allowed to marry outside of second cousins. They
Speaker 1: do that to make sure that the financial wealth of
Speaker 1: the family stays with the family, so like there's no
Speaker 1: outsiders allowed into that clique. So yeah, there's things, there's
Speaker 1: things and stuff with all of that. But anyway, I
Speaker 1: did want to bring it up as far as the
Speaker 1: Palisades fires, and we talked about it on the colts.
Speaker 1: They have a man in custody and it was, in fact,
Speaker 1: a Florida man. It's you know, Florida man be striking. Now,
Speaker 1: let's continue with some conversations about Trump and the situation
Speaker 1: is going on some big cities in America right now.
Speaker 1: I don't know which side of the aisle most people
Speaker 1: get their news from, and I'm not judging one way
Speaker 1: or another. What I am saying is that I have
Speaker 1: watched hours and hours and hours of eyewitness boots on
Speaker 1: the ground in the trenches type of reporting that has
Speaker 1: been going on in regards to Portland, in regards to Chicago,
Speaker 1: in regards to any of these big cities where they
Speaker 1: have riots and barricades around ice buildings and federal agents
Speaker 1: are being attacked, and all of these things is all
Speaker 1: going on, and people are asking why hasn't Trump invoked
Speaker 1: the Insurrection Act yet? So let's talk about it. This
Speaker 1: is from Politico. President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection
Speaker 1: Act if federal courts bar him from sending National Guard
Speaker 1: troops to Portland, Oregon. It's a tactic that the President
Speaker 1: has been anxious to use. But several key allies and
Speaker 1: White House officials don't think he'll need it, at least
Speaker 1: for now, they are confident that the Trump administration will
Speaker 1: prevail in court after a federal judge twice blocked the
Speaker 1: White House's efforts to send troops into Oregon because she
Speaker 1: ruled that the president's moved lacked legal basis. Again, it
Speaker 1: doesn't take you very much effort to look on YouTube
Speaker 1: and find videos of not even press release reporters affiliated
Speaker 1: with some sort of a MSM, talking about just a
Speaker 1: YouTuber who is just talking to people on the street
Speaker 1: to see what it's about, including the governor who was
Speaker 1: walking with this group. Should add that the governor of
Speaker 1: Oregon and the mayor of Portland were walking with the
Speaker 1: protests that turned into riots, and this dude was attacked,
Speaker 1: he was hit, people were getting pepper spray, people were
Speaker 1: getting arrested, all these things around him. If these were
Speaker 1: peaceful protests, why would you be taking a swing at
Speaker 1: ice agents. That's not what's happening here. So they're asking
Speaker 1: why doesn't he instill the Insurrection Act. Let's read in
Speaker 1: more here. Anyway, the administration has appealed to the ninth
Speaker 1: US Circuit Court of Appeals and would almost certainly take
Speaker 1: the case of the Supreme Court if needed. Is a
Speaker 1: direct quote here to be frank, if somebody wants twenty
Speaker 1: to one odds that this temporary restraining order would survive
Speaker 1: Supreme Court review, I'd give it to them, said Will Chamberlin,
Speaker 1: senior counsel at the Article IREI Project, a Trump aligned
Speaker 1: legal organization founded in twenty nineteen. That's how strongly I
Speaker 1: think this is doomed to be reversed. But even as
Speaker 1: the White House insists that the President is on firm
Speaker 1: legal ground, Trump has made clear he has a plan
Speaker 1: b the Insurrection Act in eighteen oh seven, law that
Speaker 1: gives the president emergency powers to deployed troops on US
Speaker 1: soil to quell what the president deems an insurrection. This
Speaker 1: is from Trump. If I had to enact it, I'd
Speaker 1: do it. If people were being killed and the courts
Speaker 1: were holding us up, or governors or mayors is holding
Speaker 1: us up, I'd use it. Trump declined to invoke the
Speaker 1: Insurrection Act earlier this year in the context of the
Speaker 1: emergency at the southern border, after Defense Secretary War Secretary
Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome recommended against it,
Speaker 1: but in recent weeks, the White House has been increasingly
Speaker 1: building the case to use the move to blue cities,
Speaker 1: with Trump repeatedly calling rioters in Portland insurrectionists. Its invocation
Speaker 1: would fulfill a long term desire of the president. He'd
Speaker 1: views it as the epitome of presidential power and considered
Speaker 1: invoking it to quell unrest during the George Floyd protests
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. Aid suggests it again after he lost
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election, and he talked about it extensively
Speaker 1: during the twenty twenty four campaign, and allies discussed it
Speaker 1: in the context of the twenty twenty four election, concerned
Speaker 1: that Trump's victory would spark violent protest movements, which I
Speaker 1: mean the did we or do we not? Just see
Speaker 1: a No King's Day but anyway, which was done in
Speaker 1: response to the military parade that Trump put on for
Speaker 1: his birthday, when in reality it was the United States
Speaker 1: Armies two hundred and fiftieth birthday and that was the
Speaker 1: reason for the parade. Hell, I'm going to Philadelphia November
Speaker 1: to celebrate the Marine Corps two hundred and fiftieth birthday.
Speaker 1: It had nothing to do with Trump having an ego trip.
Speaker 1: It was weird timing that his birthday and the Army's
Speaker 1: birthday happened to be aligned in such a way, but
Speaker 1: that wasn't by design, but you know whatever, it would
Speaker 1: mark major intensification in the president's crackdown on crime, immigration,
Speaker 1: and riots, making his promises to use the military for
Speaker 1: domestic law enforcement on the campaign trail a reality. So
Speaker 1: just so we're clear here, I'm not going to read
Speaker 1: the whole article. There has been other times throughout the
Speaker 1: US history where a president has invoked the Insurrection Act
Speaker 1: to further their means. Famously, Dwight D. Eisenhower famously JFK JFK.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, when they were trying to
Speaker 1: integrate the school system, the National Guard troops that were
Speaker 1: deployed to make sure that the little black children were
Speaker 1: able to go to school without being attacked by white parents,
Speaker 1: those National Guard troops were deployed under the Insurrection Act.
Speaker 1: Just so we're clear, this is not like he's just
Speaker 1: doing this as as an ego trip and he's way
Speaker 1: too powerful. No, No, there is real problems that are
Speaker 1: going on in major US cities right now to stop
Speaker 1: ICE agents from detaining illegal immigrants, which is something that
Speaker 1: we have talked about on mass People that think that
Speaker 1: borders are suggestions and not real things have no idea
Speaker 1: how history works. That's never how any group of people
Speaker 1: throughout the course of human history have ever seen things.
Speaker 1: Including the Native Americans. They understood lines, they understood hunting grounds,
Speaker 1: and if this tribe was in their hunting grounds, they
Speaker 1: would go to actual war over that. Lines and divisions
Speaker 1: and barriers and borders have always been a thing since
Speaker 1: the ancient times. So to say that America's border is
Speaker 1: unlawful and there's no such thing as illegal persons, that's
Speaker 1: just ridiculous historically speaking and in our modern day speaking.
Speaker 1: So I, for one, kind of hope that he does
Speaker 1: use the Insurrection Act to get these troops where they
Speaker 1: are needed, because Chicago has kicked off right now and
Speaker 1: they have deployed National Guard troops and Marines. If I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, I see Portland is needing the exact same treatment,
Speaker 1: as well as multiple major cities across the country right now.
Speaker 1: Sam with your thoughts.
Speaker 7: Okay, so two things. So again, the governor newsom or
Speaker 7: is it news to come? I don't know how to
Speaker 7: pronounce the bitch's name. But anyway, uh dude lud tried
Speaker 7: to signing a bill in that pro that prohibits federal agents.
Speaker 9: Ic DA and every and everything from wearing a face mask.
Speaker 7: Well even though that it's it's known that uh Antifa
Speaker 7: has been docsing a ICE agents and there's even people saying,
Speaker 7: don't just kill the ICE agents, kill their families. So
Speaker 7: that is legitimate terroristic. That is terrorists.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's because.
Speaker 7: They're using violence to to uh persuade a political uh statement,
Speaker 7: which is a textbook definition. Also, the second thing in
Speaker 7: Portland there was there was a journalist who got attacked
Speaker 7: and the cops who showed up and everything arrested him,
Speaker 7: didn't even arrest the Antifa member that attacked him and everything. Uh,
Speaker 7: So Portland is getting fucked, which they need to fucked
Speaker 7: him in the ass because the guy that got detained everything,
Speaker 7: he made a call to uh the uh general Attorney,
Speaker 7: uh the the like top lawyer of the fucking nation.
Speaker 7: I can't remember her name, which then she called and
Speaker 7: she gave it like anyway that the the yeah he
Speaker 7: called Pambondi. Yeah, so that entire police station is under investigation. Also,
Speaker 7: I was listening to the police calls of Portland, there
Speaker 7: was actual uh uh. Dispatchers were telling cops who stand down,
Speaker 7: do not intervene, slap ship play out, do not help
Speaker 7: the ICE agents that are being barricaded in and are
Speaker 7: being attacked, don't help them.
Speaker 9: So at that point in time, that's committing treason.
Speaker 7: And every police officer and uh active military uh personnel,
Speaker 7: they all make they they make an oath to the constitution.
Speaker 7: UH for the military, it's both for an and domestic
Speaker 7: for the police. That it's just domestic. I have I
Speaker 7: have an uncle who's a sheriff, and I have my
Speaker 7: best friend. His dad is with tired knine. Uh. He
Speaker 7: was a major. But I know how, I know how
Speaker 7: clew up police stations are from within.
Speaker 1: Sure, I've seen it.
Speaker 7: It's just kind of pissing me off out there that
Speaker 7: it's so deep rooted that even that there's even like
Speaker 7: people that took an oath, and that oath doesn't mean
Speaker 7: shit to them.
Speaker 9: Man is only as good as his word, and if
Speaker 9: his ward isn't good, neither is he. No.
Speaker 1: I can agree with that one hundred percent. And to
Speaker 1: that point, there are multiple cases of Antifa members dosing
Speaker 1: these agents and attacking their families. Like, that's not a hypothetical,
Speaker 1: that's not just something you've seen on the airnet for clickbait.
Speaker 1: That is really happening in multiple places. So, and Antifa
Speaker 1: is a designated terrorist group, right, And it's not just
Speaker 1: because they are aligned with the opposition of the current administration.
Speaker 1: It's like you said, they are trying to invoke violence
Speaker 1: to further their political goals. That is textbook definition of
Speaker 1: what a terrorist is.
Speaker 7: So I've mentioned it before. Hassan says. He put out
Speaker 7: a thing a couple of days ago, said that hey,
Speaker 7: y'all should which was him just re uploading a sound
Speaker 7: clip of him saying that what America needs and this
Speaker 7: is his quotes, not mine, because that what they need
Speaker 7: to do is bring an IRA style sale here. And
Speaker 7: I'm not yet the right pull call bombings and shit.
Speaker 1: So the IRA work or Catholic Catholic So, Hassan Piker,
Speaker 1: he shows his ideocracy every time he opens his mouth.
Speaker 9: He's a product of vicesse just like his uncle Chank.
Speaker 1: Very true, very true.
Speaker 7: And dude doesn't even consider himself American. He like he
Speaker 7: posted with him with an Otoman sword, said it's a
Speaker 7: great thing to be an Ottoman, which he counts itself
Speaker 7: as one of them. Like if you hate America, why
Speaker 7: are you here? And it's funny how you say you're
Speaker 7: a communist and everything, but you ask at the Gucci bag.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he should really just move to Turkey, where his
Speaker 1: ancestors are from.
Speaker 7: I have no problem with that, but you know, I
Speaker 7: think he should get tossed in a laugh and get
Speaker 7: shipped off with nothing but the clothes on his back
Speaker 7: back to Turkey.
Speaker 1: Very true. All right, now, I did want to play
Speaker 1: this clip from CBS Chicago. Five hundred members of Texas
Speaker 1: and Illinois National Guard have been deployed to Chicago. This
Speaker 1: is from six hours ago as of time recording. Let's watch.
Speaker 23: Hundreds of troops from the Texas and Illinois National Guard
Speaker 23: are now positioned to deploy across the Chicago area.
Speaker 1: When will we see them on the street.
Speaker 10: That's a question that could be decided by a judge tomorrow.
Speaker 20: Are Sarah Makia is live in Elwood, where some Guard
Speaker 20: members arrived yesterday.
Speaker 10: Any movement today, Sarah.
Speaker 27: Well, guys, we do have just a handful of protesters
Speaker 27: out here right now, but we have seen very little
Speaker 27: movement otherwise, and that might be because leaders are waiting
Speaker 27: to see what we hear from the court. We have
Speaker 27: seen mostly supplies going in, very few if any people
Speaker 27: coming out, But we do have some new numbers. We
Speaker 27: now know that there are two hundred troops here from Texas,
Speaker 27: another three hundred for the state of Illinois, and they
Speaker 27: are told that they will at least be spending sixty
Speaker 27: days on this deployment. Our cameras were rolling as crews
Speaker 27: put up privacy screens along the interier of the existing
Speaker 27: fence line at the Army Reserve training facility southwest of Chicago.
Speaker 27: One of the few signs of the National Guard members
Speaker 27: now staging inside while they wait to hear from a
Speaker 27: federal judge. The city, county and state of Illinois trying
Speaker 27: to block their deployment.
Speaker 28: It details why this is a motion for temporary restraining
Speaker 28: orders should be granted as a practical matter, because it
Speaker 28: talks about the problems that things are being caused by
Speaker 28: witnesses not coming to court, defendants not showing up for
Speaker 28: court dates, domestic violence victims being scared to go to court.
Speaker 27: Our legal analyst RV. Miller says it is likely the
Speaker 27: troops have not been stationed around Chicago yet while they
Speaker 27: wait on the judge's decision.
Speaker 29: Absolutely, I mean, the judge didn't explicitly state that they
Speaker 29: couldn't come into the city, but I think if you
Speaker 29: read between the lines as to what she was saying,
Speaker 29: that it probably would be a good idea if everybody
Speaker 29: waited till she made the decision on Thursday to decide
Speaker 29: what they're going to actually do.
Speaker 27: Miller tells US any decision will likely be appealed to
Speaker 27: a higher court, though, President Trump suggesting, regardless of the decision,
Speaker 27: he may send in the troops invoking the Insurrection Act,
Speaker 27: sending them to guard federal properties, some of which have
Speaker 27: been the sites of recent protests.
Speaker 30: President Trump invoking the Insurrection Act would be terrible. It
Speaker 30: would be illegal and unconstitutional because there is no basis
Speaker 30: in law for his invasion with these troops from Texas
Speaker 30: and to the state of Illinois. Is not making life
Speaker 30: any better for our state, and he's not making it
Speaker 30: any safer.
Speaker 27: This is the biggest group of demonstrators we have seen
Speaker 27: thus far. We have seen people on both sides of
Speaker 27: this issue come out at different points. We could expect
Speaker 27: to hear from the judge as early as tomorrow morning
Speaker 27: from Elwood c Hermachy CBS New Chicago.
Speaker 1: Okay, so, just to break this down, and we talked
Speaker 1: about this last week, the troops are going only to
Speaker 1: guard federal buildings because those federal buildings are being besieged
Speaker 1: by the ANTIFA members and protesters and things like this.
Speaker 1: Here's why that's important. Up until this point, the police
Speaker 1: have been out there to break up the protesters and
Speaker 1: the besiegers and things. That means that these are more
Speaker 1: police that are not out in the city doing their
Speaker 1: jobs that now have to be designated. Here. If you
Speaker 1: send troops to guard these buildings, now the police for
Speaker 1: that local city can go out and effectively do their jobs.
Speaker 1: You're freeing up more resources for the city so that
Speaker 1: they can handle their own internal problems. And the reason
Speaker 1: why this is needed is because there are multiple federal buildings,
Speaker 1: mostly ice detention agencies or buildings and things that have
Speaker 1: been shot up and had things thrown at them and
Speaker 1: damage done to the building itself. So to say, there's
Speaker 1: no legal precedence for this and there's no reason for this. Again,
Speaker 1: all evidence to the contrary, but yeah, this is the
Speaker 1: status of America. Right now. We have a government shut down,
Speaker 1: we have insurrections going on in certain cities, and no
Speaker 1: matter which way you go, the president tries to make
Speaker 1: something happen, and the leader of that area, especially if
Speaker 1: they're a part of the opposition, says, no way, man,
Speaker 1: not up in here. Meanwhile, if it's a state like Louisiana,
Speaker 1: where he talked about sending troops to New Orleans, the
Speaker 1: Louisiana governor was like, please come on in. We could
Speaker 1: use all the help we need. They are over politicizing
Speaker 1: something that should be right off the scene as a
Speaker 1: net positive. But of course this is what you can
Speaker 1: expect from these groups of people anyway. All right, so
Speaker 1: before we head out, I do want to check out
Speaker 1: the chat and see what else has been said in here.
Speaker 1: Do Let's see Germany. Uh oh, the Prime Minister of
Speaker 1: Germany is talking about bringing back the draft. Unfortunately I
Speaker 1: got it in German, but I can translate just like
Speaker 1: twenty or thirties. So okay, all right, So Tony, do
Speaker 1: you want me to pull this one up? We could
Speaker 1: talk about it. You're muted still, brother.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, let's play it. It'll be pretty quick, all right.
Speaker 1: This is an ex post. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: let me pull it up. Oh hold on, let me
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I'll talk over him if that that's okay?
Speaker 1: Okay? Do you want me to keep it low or
Speaker 1: keep it off?
Speaker 10: Keep it low?
Speaker 1: All right? Keeping it low? All right, Let's listen to
Speaker 1: a German Asian guy that's like, that's not something you
Speaker 1: see very often. All right, let's check it out. Shut
Speaker 1: us a video again.
Speaker 10: He just says, look at this video. Meritz says, the
Speaker 10: money is not the problem. What we have is we
Speaker 10: don't have enough qualified personnel in our military. And what
Speaker 10: are we going to do about that. We need bigger reserves,
Speaker 10: and we probably can't pump up those numbers with people
Speaker 10: who just voluntarily enlist, So we just need more people.
Speaker 10: And the Asian guy says, let me translate this for you.
Speaker 10: He says, we have plenty of money from Black Rock,
Speaker 10: we have weapons from the USA. We just need one
Speaker 10: more thing. We need your kids. And that's about all
Speaker 10: I wanted to show you. So Meritz is part of
Speaker 10: the Conservative coalition, he's a prime minister, he wants and
Speaker 10: Germany's had a draft law on the books forever, but
Speaker 10: they have not invoked it to my knowledge, since World
Speaker 10: War Two. And anyway, the SPD Social Democrats, they're the
Speaker 10: main liberal party. They're also in favor of drafting people
Speaker 10: and it's basically for Ukraine. The AfD is now the
Speaker 10: biggest party. They are okay with the idea of a
Speaker 10: draft and principle, but they say zero German forces abroad,
Speaker 10: nobody for Ukraine, and I think that's the way to go.
Speaker 10: They seem to be the most popular right now.
Speaker 1: They're the Germany first party, if I'm not mistaken, right.
Speaker 10: Yeah, AfD they're kind of like MEGA. It stands for
Speaker 10: Altera Natifa fjer Deutschland, their right wing. They're actually most
Speaker 10: popular in the East. Yeah, formerly East Germany, Russia alligned
Speaker 10: Warsaw pack.
Speaker 1: Part interesting, although I have to disagree with what the
Speaker 1: Asian guy was saying. We have funding from black Rock. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: so does everybody. We have weapons from the US. Germany
Speaker 1: has been developing their own weapons for quite some time.
Speaker 1: Their new line of tanks that they have come out
Speaker 1: with are solid Heckler and cocker. H and K make
Speaker 1: the weapons that go into the German military. That's a
Speaker 1: German weapons manufacturer. That's not American weapons. If you're gonna say,
Speaker 1: like hi, Mars and things like that, fine, sure they're
Speaker 1: buying some missiles from America. I'm not gonna negate that.
Speaker 1: But Germany is very capable of arming their own military
Speaker 1: without the help of the United States and him saying
Speaker 1: all we need is your children, You mean all that
Speaker 1: Germany needs is German people to defend Germany. That's I
Speaker 1: know that might sound mind blowing, but like that's like
Speaker 1: saying all America needs is American people to defend America
Speaker 1: and not go to foreign wars. Okay, I can at
Speaker 1: least get behind that. If you're talking about a Germany first,
Speaker 1: don't deploy them to other places. We just need a
Speaker 1: man up to purt German borders and the German crisises
Speaker 1: that are happening inside of Germany. I don't see a
Speaker 1: negative here.
Speaker 10: Well, they want to draft people, there's not enough volunteers,
Speaker 10: and I really think that Meritz does want to have
Speaker 10: enough that he could send some to Ukraine as advisors
Speaker 10: or some kind of deniable forces like that. I think
Speaker 10: they got plenty of plenty of volunteers. My speculation is
Speaker 10: the same as Stormy Waters, who believes that's a pseudonym
Speaker 10: for some guy I don't know his real name, but
Speaker 10: he thinks that the European countries are trying to distract
Speaker 10: people from domestic problems, especially monetary problems, and also demographic problems.
Speaker 10: Too many old people, not enough young people, and too
Speaker 10: many immigrants.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I mean, I'll say this, when it comes
Speaker 1: to conscriptions or drafts or anything like that, pros and
Speaker 1: cons to this pros, you will get your numbers up,
Speaker 1: and you will get some people that will excel in
Speaker 1: the military that would have never joined otherwise. And that
Speaker 1: is a thing cool. Downside, you will get the dregs
Speaker 1: of society. You will get the ship bags that you
Speaker 1: don't want anywhere near your military, and that is that's
Speaker 1: a real thing, right. Any country that has forced conscription
Speaker 1: faces these problems where you basically get the short termers
Speaker 1: that are only there for their two years of service
Speaker 1: or four years or whatever their country designates, and the
Speaker 1: ones that are there to just do their job and
Speaker 1: get out solid. They do fine. The ones that are
Speaker 1: diametrically opposed to the military or to any kind of
Speaker 1: war fighting whatsoever, they tend to bring down the entire unit.
Speaker 1: And there's only so many places where you could stick
Speaker 1: them to where they're away from people, where they also
Speaker 1: won't go out of their way to be shitty at
Speaker 1: their jobs as their own personal form of protests. And
Speaker 1: it's been done successfully a few places, but that's for
Speaker 1: places that have culture of military service and of defense
Speaker 1: and things like that, like South Korea or Israel. Right,
Speaker 1: these people have a culture of defending their land and
Speaker 1: being an active conflict. So like they all for the
Speaker 1: most part want to do their part and then get
Speaker 1: out when the time comes. There's some exceptions, of course,
Speaker 1: there's some nuance, but by and large they accept it
Speaker 1: because it's had a long precedence. Trying to force that
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. It's not going to be very popular
Speaker 1: at all, and it's not going to be popular for
Speaker 1: them in the next election cycle either, I should say that.
Speaker 10: Yeah. One other thing. Germany's suffering from a lot of
Speaker 10: collapse in industrial production. They're not making steel anymore, they're
Speaker 10: closing a lot of car plants. They just can't make
Speaker 10: anything anymore. China seems to be stepping in in that regregard.
Speaker 10: They can. They're making something like half the electric cars
Speaker 10: in the world now, China is. And they just built
Speaker 10: a really impressive bridge that they finished last week that
Speaker 10: took three years. There's a lot of people were posting
Speaker 10: about that on Twitter, mostly to the effect that why
Speaker 10: can't we build stuff that impressive and quickly anymore? It's
Speaker 10: a record like elevation bridge six hundred meters tall.
Speaker 1: I think, are you talking about the one in China.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, they's a new bridge that just went up
Speaker 10: in China.
Speaker 1: Apparently it's the bridge on Earth now. It broke all
Speaker 1: records and all of these things, which is dope. That's
Speaker 1: a cool statement, But I mean, why can't we do
Speaker 1: these kinds of things as far as like Germany is concerned.
Speaker 1: Is that what they're saying, Oh, just.
Speaker 10: In the West in general, doesn't really build anything new anymore.
Speaker 10: We can't get a high speed rail system here. I
Speaker 10: think we totally could. We have the ability, we have
Speaker 10: the competency, but we have too much bureaucracy or something,
Speaker 10: and oh we just don't have the energy to do
Speaker 10: it anymore.
Speaker 1: I have my personal take on why we don't do
Speaker 1: anything cool like that anymore is because the boomers are
Speaker 1: still in charge. And the Boomers, since they have been
Speaker 1: in charge of things, they outsource everything, They third party everything.
Speaker 1: So why can't America do that? Because I mean, we
Speaker 1: could just hire some foreign people to do it for
Speaker 1: way cheaper. And why would we do it here when
Speaker 1: we could do it there and we could just keep
Speaker 1: the system that we've always had here. It's Boomer logic
Speaker 1: and I can't fucking stand it. I'm gonna be honest
Speaker 1: with you.
Speaker 10: Not really, because California has been trying to build high
Speaker 10: speed rail since two thousand and eight, and Chinese companies
Speaker 10: offered to step in and out and California told them no.
Speaker 1: But also California in and of itself, I mean, look
Speaker 1: at that they can't get water to the places that
Speaker 1: need it, you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean.
Speaker 1: They've got their own inherent problems. But even to say,
Speaker 1: if we had a high speed rail system to go
Speaker 1: from coast to coast, we have the infrastructure to do this,
Speaker 1: we have the manpower to do this. You could throw
Speaker 1: tax dollars behind it, whole government projects, and we could
Speaker 1: get this built, I would say in probably twenty years.
Speaker 1: Real shit, will they do that? Of course not, because
Speaker 1: why would we hire Americans to do that? We could
Speaker 1: outsource it, we could do Why why do you want
Speaker 1: a high speed rail system? Are you're saying our interstate
Speaker 1: system is not good enough? And that's that they start
Speaker 1: this whole thing where it becomes politicized. Now one side
Speaker 1: says this, the other side says this, and like it's
Speaker 1: it's boomers fighting about boomers.
Speaker 3: Shit.
Speaker 8: I can't stand it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, damn one second. I drove from El Paso to
Speaker 10: Denver today. I would I would do anything to be
Speaker 10: able to do that trip a lot faster. You're six
Speaker 10: hundred miles. I would love to hop on a train.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I mean, don't get wrong, there are trains
Speaker 1: that you could take to certain places. Not all over obviously,
Speaker 1: but yeah, you could travel by train. I have never
Speaker 1: actually ridden on a train. Of metros and subways and
Speaker 1: things like that, yes, but actually train travel. It's all
Speaker 1: my bucket list of things I want to do. But
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's also not the most Uh, it's
Speaker 1: not the most convenient. Let's leave it at that, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, unless you're going from a place that has
Speaker 1: a train station to a place that has a train
Speaker 1: station that doesn't just do cargo, does passenger as well,
Speaker 1: then like by all means get after. But it's still
Speaker 1: gonna take you days to make a trip that you
Speaker 1: could have driven in like half the time. And it's
Speaker 1: it's it has its own inherent problems. It depends on
Speaker 1: where you're going and things like that. But now, I
Speaker 1: for one, would love a high speed rail system. And
Speaker 1: they have been talking about making a high speed rail
Speaker 1: system to connect the entire West Coast for years and
Speaker 1: years and years, and every time they try to get
Speaker 1: the construction underway, it gets hit with so many problems
Speaker 1: and restrictions and government interference that they can never really
Speaker 1: get it off the ground. And it's it's like you said,
Speaker 1: it's bureaucracy and it's annoying as hell. Sam, go ahead.
Speaker 7: I was gonna say about the reason why the boomers
Speaker 7: are so odd the way they are is because a
Speaker 7: lot of them, that a lot of them at that time,
Speaker 7: well even before they go up in that they go
Speaker 7: up doing the Great Depression.
Speaker 8: You have to pull yourself up by the bootstraps.
Speaker 1: A lot boomers were born in the fifties and sixties. Brother,
Speaker 1: they weren't in the Great Depression. That was that's the
Speaker 1: greatest generation, Yes, the boomers.
Speaker 7: That they saw how their family, like their parents went
Speaker 7: through that and then that and the great times.
Speaker 8: They had it great.
Speaker 7: They could buy a fucking house for five thousand dollars,
Speaker 7: you know what I mean. And they didn't have to
Speaker 7: pay all the fucking taxes that we have to do
Speaker 7: down And they said, well, at your age, I already
Speaker 7: had two families and six ten kids.
Speaker 8: Well, I'm sorry their grandpa just ship don't look like
Speaker 8: that no more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not just trying to ship on the older generation.
Speaker 1: My parents are boomers and I love them dearly. But
Speaker 1: it's uh, the way that boomer politicians have been doing
Speaker 1: business for the last few decades have gotten us to
Speaker 1: the position that we're in now. I don't think that
Speaker 1: more of the same as what we need right now.
Speaker 8: They went from good times and they made it bad times.
Speaker 7: Uh, Like the Great Dusty Road said, they might wait,
Speaker 7: you know what I meant even gonna I ain't even
Speaker 7: gonna busher it.
Speaker 8: But what he was saying is that you got the
Speaker 8: good times, make the make make hard times.
Speaker 7: The hard times will make the men because good man,
Speaker 7: and how the cycle repeats and everything, and you should.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'll send you the promo of it later.
Speaker 7: But mhm, it's just like we gotta pick ourselves up
Speaker 7: and what happened to the the the American spirit of
Speaker 7: fuck it? That's kid or done with the American blood,
Speaker 7: sweat and steel.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 7: I grew up by my papa. I've talked about him
Speaker 7: multiple times. I've told you some of the stuff he
Speaker 7: that I.
Speaker 8: Grew up with.
Speaker 7: He always said, son, you're American. Yes you're Southern, but
Speaker 7: you're an American. You would love the American And I
Speaker 7: love my country because of my papa and my uncle
Speaker 7: doing all my family members that were either the family
Speaker 7: thing was either you go in the military or you
Speaker 7: become a convict.
Speaker 8: Is about how it went, and sometimes you did both.
Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, it's just it's kind of sad that
Speaker 7: how people are going, like, let's not even give us
Speaker 7: shit about our own country. Let's talk shit by our flag,
Speaker 7: and but let's throw up other countries flags and say
Speaker 7: we stand with them, when you wouldn't even help the
Speaker 7: American bleeding light next to you, but you want to
Speaker 7: run to people that don't give a fuck value.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just saying that we have the resources,
Speaker 1: we have the money, we have the manpower, we have
Speaker 1: the engineering capabilities to do incredible things in this country.
Speaker 1: That's why so many countries around the world have suffered
Speaker 1: massive brain drains and all of their you know, best
Speaker 1: and brightest have come to America. Right and now America
Speaker 1: has suffered brain drains in certain regards. Yes, but we
Speaker 1: still have a solid platform to build off of and
Speaker 1: re instill an American Golden Age as far as engineering, architecture, science, medicine,
Speaker 1: all these things America can do that we can spearhead
Speaker 1: that I wish we would. I wish we would. And
Speaker 1: it's not going to be because of a certain president,
Speaker 1: a certain administration, a certain political party. If that is
Speaker 1: going to take place, it is going to be a
Speaker 1: cultural shift within America. I for one, hope that we
Speaker 1: can see that cultural shift happen within our lifetime. I
Speaker 1: hope that we don't suffer the other part of that
Speaker 1: adage where weak men create hard times and then hard
Speaker 1: times create hard men. I'm hoping that possibly we could
Speaker 1: break that chain, right, And I know I'm getting high
Speaker 1: as hell on hopium on this one because I also
Speaker 1: don't have much faith in humanity. But if we are
Speaker 1: to not repeat the faults of the past, then we
Speaker 1: must be the ones to make that change. Unfortunately, I
Speaker 1: think most Americans', most Americans of both parties, of all
Speaker 1: backgrounds and everything, are so wrapped up in their own
Speaker 1: shit that they can't see the bigger picture. It's a
Speaker 1: perspective thing, and I get that of it from time
Speaker 1: to time as well. So I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: all right, all these things being said, I just got
Speaker 1: through the chat and uh yeah, I think we are
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