Speaker 1: Yeah, what up, guys. I hope, I hope we are alive.
Speaker 1: Let me just check make sure we're all right. Cease
Speaker 1: fire just announced two weeks. We'll see how long that lasts.
Speaker 1: It says with Gucci, it says excellent. Does that mean good?
Speaker 1: Last time I checked it? Does there? We are all right.
Speaker 1: I just sent out the link to the boys, so
Speaker 1: they should be trickling in at some point. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot more fluid, like we won't just have
Speaker 1: like a straight up show like one hour, uh Potter.
Speaker 1: It'll just be people coming in and out and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, So we might not even have the full crew.
Speaker 1: Whatever we're gonna be, we're gonna have fun. We're gonna
Speaker 1: be cute and fun. What's up, guys, what's up? How
Speaker 1: are you guys? I'm trying to see How does it look?
Speaker 1: How does it sound? Talk to me, look at me,
Speaker 1: shoot this over to Yeah, it looks like, uh, the
Speaker 1: Pakistani's were in it. They were doing like a lot
Speaker 1: of the mediating and stuff. Grace period sounds clear, sounds good,
Speaker 1: but good, awesome, good, Love to hear it, love to
Speaker 1: hear it. Nice. Maybe if he's doing a speech at eight,
Speaker 1: maybe we'll watch that and goof and gaff on it.
Speaker 1: I mean you saw that, like there was like the
Speaker 1: last few hours, people were all over Twitter saying that,
Speaker 1: you know, they're working on a late two week ceasefire
Speaker 1: through the Pakistanis and all this, so you kind of
Speaker 1: like the writing was kind of on the wall, and
Speaker 1: once Oxio starts reporting it, you know, it's like, all right, yeah,
Speaker 1: the White House's stenographers are reporting, reporting what they wanted
Speaker 1: to say. Yeah, so we'll see where this goes. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: in the last few hours you show like a real
Speaker 1: big uptick of like bombing in Tehran and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So it was kind of they were trying to get
Speaker 1: it in before they called the ceasefire. See Mark P's coming,
Speaker 1: All right, enough enough chatting in the signal chat are
Speaker 1: signal chat is a wild one. I'll be honest. Well,
Speaker 1: I think Israel is like the idea for is really
Speaker 1: pounding Tehran as well. Uh, pretty tough, pretty hard over
Speaker 1: the last few hours as well, because I think they
Speaker 1: saw the riding was on the wall. I did also
Speaker 1: see that like somewhere it was like one tweet, So
Speaker 1: I don't know if I believe it until like a
Speaker 1: bunch of people are starting to talk about it, like,
Speaker 1: uh that Lebanon was also part of this, which I
Speaker 1: don't believe. I don't believe because my guess is Israel
Speaker 1: is probably pushing for these guys to uh not through
Speaker 1: the seas far are we doing it?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: So annoying? I can't even sign into x bro. All right, whatever,
Speaker 1: what do you guys think? You guys think it's gonna last? Also,
Speaker 1: like what comes after? Right?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: What does it even look like? Like an actual lasting
Speaker 1: kind of piece. I feel like it's not gonna be.
Speaker 1: The jizz is out of the tube, as they say
Speaker 1: in the business. You know it's out and you can't
Speaker 1: get it back in. I wonder what Israel thinks about
Speaker 1: this or they want to stop. I think Israel definitely
Speaker 1: doesn't want to stop. I think they want to keep
Speaker 1: going for as long as they could possibly go. Hell, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got Jason Lines.
Speaker 3: Yo.
Speaker 1: What's up, bro? We're live? Just FYI? Yeah, let me
Speaker 1: turn on your echo? Okay, Oh I can't. We're recording.
Speaker 1: It's okay, Can I do it? Yeah? If you can?
Speaker 1: Because I've seen a little bit of an echo and
Speaker 1: now it's actually gone. I mean, who knows it comes
Speaker 1: and goes. Yeah, it's not even let me do it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't sweat. Yeah. I think it's because we're already live.
Speaker 1: Where are my fifty four people watching? Yo? Smash that
Speaker 1: like button guys smash it. They say that in the
Speaker 1: biz too. Yeah, and share this, share this stream too,
Speaker 1: Tell your tell your friends. Yeah, this one's gonna be
Speaker 1: a little bit more uh like fluid, like you know,
Speaker 1: people are gonna up and jump out. I feel like.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I can only stay for maybe an hour
Speaker 4: or so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're good.
Speaker 4: It's been a minute.
Speaker 1: I know, Bro, what's up?
Speaker 4: No, same old work, family, getting ready for this wedding.
Speaker 1: But yeah, excited.
Speaker 4: Yeah absolutely. I mean it's not like I haven't done
Speaker 4: the stance before.
Speaker 1: But right this is it. I'm done last one.
Speaker 4: Yeah. How about you?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: How you been chilling? Bro? I'm hanging. I'm looking at
Speaker 1: that chat. That's why I'm staring.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's of course this hits right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was. They were kind of like
Speaker 1: like whatever, watering the soil a little bit because for
Speaker 1: the last few hours saying, you know, it looks like
Speaker 1: there might be a two week cease fire through the
Speaker 1: Pakistanis and stuff like that. I mean, nose, I think Trump,
Speaker 1: I mean Trump fucking lost it this morning. I mean
Speaker 1: he's b lost it for a while now, but uh
Speaker 1: with the whole like I'm gonna wipe out a civilization stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, absolutely nuts. Yeah. My kids were texting me
Speaker 4: like screenshots of that, and uh, you know, they're like,
Speaker 4: is he being serious? Are we talking nuclear weapons? I
Speaker 4: was like, well, what's calm down? But then again, how
Speaker 4: do we put anything past then?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's uh, it's just a wild He's
Speaker 1: just a freaking wild card, dude. And I read that
Speaker 1: you should read that New York Times article about like
Speaker 1: the decision making leading up to it, like or like yeah,
Speaker 1: and Yahoo rolled up at like on like early early February,
Speaker 1: February eleventh, with like him, the head of Mussad and
Speaker 1: a bunch of other people, and they basically pitched like
Speaker 1: it was fucking shark tank.
Speaker 4: Yeah, uh.
Speaker 1: Hitting Iran, like going hard on Iran? Yeah, and what
Speaker 1: was it? Decapitation strike, take out all the leadership, missiles
Speaker 1: and drones and then it was like stoke some kind
Speaker 1: of resistance and stuff like that, and then regime change.
Speaker 1: It's like broh, yeah, I want to be six foot
Speaker 1: four and have like a nine inch hammer, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. It's never gonna happen.
Speaker 4: Exactly, Yeah, it never happens the way it's it's pitched.
Speaker 1: Yeah, ever, Yeah, it's just incredible. And also the other
Speaker 1: the way it read too, like they were in the
Speaker 1: situation room talking about this just without the Israeli's, just them,
Speaker 1: and how no one has the balls to tell this
Speaker 1: guy like no, this is a fucking terrible idea and
Speaker 1: it's gonna backfire like they think that, like the Iranians
Speaker 1: are just gonna turtle like yeah, after they after we smoke,
Speaker 1: even if we just smoked the Aitola, yeah right, like
Speaker 1: forget the forty or fifty guys that we killed. They
Speaker 1: she'd be like, oh, we're sorry, Like yeah, we love
Speaker 1: democracy now, like we love it. And they played Trump
Speaker 1: of the Israeli's played Trump of video like a trailer
Speaker 1: or I guess, like a hype video about who could
Speaker 1: really lead Iran after and like they put the Shaw's
Speaker 1: son in there. They put all like, oh, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a secular democracy, Like are we are we serious here?
Speaker 1: Have we not heard this story before?
Speaker 4: It's like an episode of the Bachelor, for God's sake.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's forty three and lives on the Riviera.
Speaker 1: He'd be yeah, yeah, be on top of this Taco
Speaker 1: Tuesday te Yeah, that's funny. Trump always chickens out Tuesday.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get that statement about taco, like Trump
Speaker 1: always chickens out, But it's like the guy fucking has
Speaker 1: been bombing the shit out of Tehrant and you know,
Speaker 1: basically throwing dynamite into like the global economy, uh, for
Speaker 1: the last three weeks so or month.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think in myion that he, yes, he does taco,
Speaker 4: but I think it depends on what it is, and
Speaker 4: it depends on who's like whispering in his ear. If
Speaker 4: it's you know, you're doing great, this is awesome, which
Speaker 4: it seems like his entire cabinet does, and it makes
Speaker 4: him look tough. He's gonna keep doing it, you know,
Speaker 4: all the way up to the brink. And I think
Speaker 4: it would also take reverse psychology to get him to stop.
Speaker 4: You know, like you've accomplished what you want. You know,
Speaker 4: you've you've done it, You've done a great service for
Speaker 4: the Iranian people, And that would get him to stop.
Speaker 4: You know more less than this is screwed up. We
Speaker 4: have no plan here.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny reverse psychology, like he's a like
Speaker 1: he's a toddler, Yeah, exactly, Yeah, but he's got the
Speaker 1: nuclear codes. Yeah, Millbourne, Andy, what's up, dude, We're alive?
Speaker 1: Just that way?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 3: And oh cool?
Speaker 1: Okay, So no oberrating, no berating the US Navy and
Speaker 1: the aircraft carriers. Actually you'll do that on the show.
Speaker 1: So we're talking.
Speaker 3: About we're doing quick summary of what we know.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Sure, we talked about it a little bit like
Speaker 1: cease fire for two weeks. Is there any like details
Speaker 1: in terms of what's in the cease fire? Is the
Speaker 1: straight open up?
Speaker 2: Like? What?
Speaker 3: Yeah? The straight was a central point. My understanding was
Speaker 3: that for what whatever that means, I mean, obviously what
Speaker 3: it means is the Uranians have agreed not to disrupt
Speaker 3: shipping or not to threaten shipping anymore, and Fans is
Speaker 3: going to lead negotiations is what the Xios article says,
Speaker 3: which is a definite improvement I think right from whitcom
Speaker 3: for the Yeah, the two who got us into this
Speaker 3: into this mess, Natanya, who's not happy, Lindsey Graham's probably
Speaker 3: not happy. They were. They wanted to hold out the
Speaker 3: president's declaring victory based on military objectives already achieved. I've
Speaker 3: gone from being pessimistic to optimistic. Maybe because it's two
Speaker 3: o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1: Here, man, you're still up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well I was up because the water was cut off,
Speaker 3: I think in anticipation of World War three, and I'm
Speaker 3: hoping now there's a ceasefire, they'll turn it on.
Speaker 1: Take a shower.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, man, I'm a marine, of coursewer
Speaker 3: three or four times a day. I can't go to sleep.
Speaker 3: Discusy oh, what so what happened in the uh as
Speaker 3: someone was saying that Tehran was getting then the United
Speaker 3: State was striking Tehran.
Speaker 1: I think the I d F and and US we
Speaker 1: were pounding them the last few hours because I think
Speaker 1: that the ceasefire was on the on the cards. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: all suck says, if Graham and BB are upset, then
Speaker 1: that's a good that's a good thing for America in
Speaker 1: the world. I agree with you who said that one
Speaker 1: of the chatters in the chat because we're live, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: if Graham and BB are upset, it's probably a good
Speaker 1: thing for America in the world.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think so. I think you know, Lindsey.
Speaker 1: Graham, what's up, bro, We're live, We're live, just.
Speaker 3: Right now, all right, Yeah, thank you. And you know,
Speaker 3: everyone thought that the Pakistanis didn't have any leverage with anyone,
Speaker 3: but they were. The media is of this, not Odowan
Speaker 3: not you know, so kudos to them.
Speaker 2: Huh. They are in nuclear armed countries. They do have
Speaker 2: that over the other options that we're in there.
Speaker 3: That is true. Yeah. What was the name of that
Speaker 3: guy who was the father of the nuclear program, Khan
Speaker 3: akh Aq. Yeah, that's quite a story, isn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's a he's a national hero man. And you know,
Speaker 3: I cannot blame the Pakistanis for me Kingdom a national
Speaker 3: hero because it's certainly changes the dynamics, doesn't it. Once
Speaker 3: you were in nuclear power, just as King Jong.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I've got the Samson option right here, which is actually
Speaker 2: the story about how Israel got the bomb through aq
Speaker 2: kN in contrast to that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I love to read that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't get it from you actually had it.
Speaker 1: We actually had Jim Jim Lawler, former CIA guy who
Speaker 1: was like big into the you know, played a big
Speaker 1: hand in taking down that network. I mean, but they
Speaker 1: still got the bomb, right, so it's not like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and actually there's centrifews. The level one centrifuge they
Speaker 2: had and I think it was nineteen eighty eight or
Speaker 2: eighty nine. It's the base model that Iran used in
Speaker 2: their centrifuges. And now Iran's like seven generations beyond that
Speaker 2: first generation that they got from Pakistan.
Speaker 1: Three marines someone said, I know, well not yeah, three marines.
Speaker 3: Yeah what three marines?
Speaker 2: One?
Speaker 1: Somebody said that in the chat with an exclamation point,
Speaker 1: very excited.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I don't know if Mercy's.
Speaker 1: Gonna join us. He's big time now after.
Speaker 3: So I'm getting skepticism from my Israeli friends, and yes
Speaker 3: I still have Israeli friends. Ved writing that article. Uh,
Speaker 3: sirens are going in Tel Aviv now, I mean like
Speaker 3: right now, course that doesn't necessarily mean they're being hit.
Speaker 3: Maybe it was just to cease far with the United States.
Speaker 3: I mean, we did we do a tourney on yet another.
Speaker 4: Don't worry about them, just yeah.
Speaker 3: Don't yeah, don't tell these readies. BB's not happy anyway.
Speaker 3: I'm not laughing.
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 1: The ceasefire starts, right, now like right.
Speaker 3: It would be just like us. That would be full
Speaker 3: d chest.
Speaker 1: So the ceasefire is like right, it's happened immediately, right.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look at the markets already. The future is shooting up.
Speaker 3: Oil is uh, oil is down down. You know. You
Speaker 3: know a lot of people in the no made money
Speaker 3: on this, right.
Speaker 1: Of course, the barakra v just tweeted Unit eighty two
Speaker 1: hundred news. A senior White House official tells me Israel
Speaker 1: has a Grito ceasefire and will also suspend its attacks
Speaker 1: for two weeks. The ceasefire will take effect when Iran
Speaker 1: opens the Straight of hor Moves.
Speaker 3: Oh so, you know, but that's It's not like they
Speaker 3: have a barrier across the Straits of Hole Moves. They're
Speaker 3: closing the straits by disrupting ships through the threat of
Speaker 3: missiles and groans. So how do you open the straits
Speaker 3: and thus trigger the seas fire? It doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3: Who just wait, wait, did you read that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think that's barackraved. Yeah, but as can be your wide.
Speaker 1: I've seen your white ass official told in that. Suppose listen,
Speaker 1: I get it. I think I said just say hey,
Speaker 1: it's open. Now. I don't know put out a press release.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be a ribbon cutting.
Speaker 1: Yeah. There was some talk too that Lebanon was was
Speaker 1: also part of the ceasefire, but I don't believe that, Like,
Speaker 1: is there also a ceasefire in Lebanon as well? In
Speaker 1: no way with Israel Lebanon.
Speaker 3: There would be good news for Lebanon for sure.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the one thing that's getting swept under
Speaker 1: the rug a little bit and not talked about as
Speaker 1: well as Gaza. Lebanon is getting pounded by Israel.
Speaker 3: Damn it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it's all.
Speaker 3: Jack is he is he sleeping sleeping off his celibrity status.
Speaker 1: I don't know where he is. I think he said
Speaker 1: he was getting a tattoo, and like he gets these
Speaker 1: huge tattoos out like take six hours. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's jumping on. He has been snarky
Speaker 1: in the in our group chat.
Speaker 3: Though, just now you know he's beyond us now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he wrote guessing it goes as well as the
Speaker 1: Gaza sees fires. So Jack is very optimistic on this.
Speaker 3: Is that what he said?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, I mean there's there's see no one really had
Speaker 3: an incentive in the Gaza seas fire. That's the difference.
Speaker 3: Everyone has an incentive in this one, except perhaps for
Speaker 3: the Israelis, right, but they're not gonna unilaterally start shooting
Speaker 3: missiles at Iran.
Speaker 2: It's interesting the president of your own Pizeshkian, who's got
Speaker 2: no power currently obviously. He says that fourteen million Iranians
Speaker 2: will die for the country right now that are willing
Speaker 2: to sacrifice their lives, which is actually double the number
Speaker 2: that another Rigian official said. So that's between seven to
Speaker 2: fifteen percent of the country might support them based on
Speaker 2: their own rhetoric.
Speaker 3: Which ission problem is when we start threatening to destroy civilizations,
Speaker 3: we are uniting a population of the country behind the regime, right,
Speaker 3: and I mean an entirely foreseeable consequence that was not
Speaker 3: for scene.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Didn't someone say in our chat that some that some
Speaker 4: of the citizens were like lining up on bridges or
Speaker 4: something like that. Yeah, yeah, parents, Yeah, in Israel, like.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, m I think, is your two
Speaker 1: over the last couple of days like blew up like
Speaker 1: eight eight bridges over the last forty eight hours or so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, bridges are the most understandable with dual
Speaker 3: purpose infrastructure, right, I mean, bridges are not a war crime.
Speaker 3: But when you start going after electrical grids and and
Speaker 3: and energy infrastructure, then you're kind of following the Russian model.
Speaker 3: And that's why we're on thin ice. Having lambasted the
Speaker 3: Russians quite rightly for what they're doing in Ukraine. Of course,
Speaker 3: it's not like minus twenty fucking degrees here in the
Speaker 3: Middle East. So but nevertheless, what we were threatening to
Speaker 3: do is what's putting us on on thin ice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, that's today from Trump was insane. Imagine
Speaker 1: somebody else posts that, like another world leader, you know,
Speaker 1: putin talking about Ukraine or I mean er do.
Speaker 5: But then normally, you know, the the heads of places
Speaker 5: like North Korea or Iran, right, yeah, Well.
Speaker 1: My point is like, how would we react, how would
Speaker 1: the American you know, America react?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, how have we been reacting? They've been
Speaker 4: screaming death to America for forty something years and you know,
Speaker 4: this is the really, this is the reason for it.
Speaker 4: But now he's saying the exact same thing.
Speaker 3: The problem is that that in their pronouncements once the
Speaker 3: war started, the Iranians actually, I listen, I do you know,
Speaker 3: I'm a US marine at heart. But the Iranians were
Speaker 3: quite circumspect. I mean they said, hey, we're going to
Speaker 3: continue with the war, but they had an eye on
Speaker 3: stratcom messaging. I mean, I'll shut up in a moment
Speaker 3: because John's far smarter than me. But it but globally,
Speaker 3: and I'm outside the United States right now, Globally, we
Speaker 3: didn't win the strat com battle in this wall. Does
Speaker 3: a matter how many targets we destroyed. You're talking about
Speaker 3: our global audience, and not just countries we don't give
Speaker 3: a shit about, but countries that we may well rely on.
Speaker 3: We haven't come out looking very good that in this
Speaker 3: strategic communication piece, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think we do very bad with even just syops generally.
Speaker 2: Like back in twenty fourteen, when Isis and Dash came
Speaker 2: up and declared the caliphate and they had these high
Speaker 2: production value videos of the violence that we're doing and
Speaker 2: their training videos and all that, we started to kind
Speaker 2: of get after it, especially with Gallant Phoenix and other
Speaker 2: programs we were using to try to exploit media associate
Speaker 2: with that, but we never got ahead of that and
Speaker 2: it was kind of a catchup at all. And even
Speaker 2: now if you look on Twitter, all these high production
Speaker 2: value Iran regime produced videos of like legos and all
Speaker 2: this stuff with the US and all the AI videos of.
Speaker 3: Try cool soundtracks too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, they know how the audience is going
Speaker 2: to respond to that, and they're doing a really good
Speaker 2: job of producing things that they know people will reshare
Speaker 2: even if they don't like intrinsically support what the message is.
Speaker 2: It looks cool, it's fun to watch, and they're doing
Speaker 2: a good.
Speaker 1: Job with that.
Speaker 3: We've re shared them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's far out paced the Trump
Speaker 4: dropping shit on a crowd of protesters video, you know,
Speaker 4: that little AI thing, far outpace that, So we have
Speaker 4: that going for us.
Speaker 1: Also, it's kind of interesting watching like Scent Coom like
Speaker 1: tweet out like fact checks and stuff like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I've never I don't remember that ever being a thing.
Speaker 2: And we have potentia set are trained in making these
Speaker 2: videos and doing this production and actually can do it
Speaker 2: in the military, not just CIA which also can do it,
Speaker 2: but like in Scent Coom, you could have sent Coom
Speaker 2: producing counter narrative at the same production value level. You know,
Speaker 2: we have combat camera whatever we call it now, STRAC
Speaker 2: strategic communications. Now I guess we call it their comstrap
Speaker 2: can still do that and we're not doing it. It's like,
Speaker 2: what this is a domain? The information domain is a domain,
Speaker 2: you know, and we need to be our war fighting
Speaker 2: functions need to be touching that domain, just like we're
Speaker 2: touching the actual physical space.
Speaker 1: John, let me ask you, like, is there uh, because
Speaker 1: Iran's most of Iran's Internet's out, is there? Is it
Speaker 1: difficult for us to reach the Iranian pop population with
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: It's actually interesting you mentioned because I was think about
Speaker 2: that earlier about Trump's threat. I wonder how many Iranians
Speaker 2: actually were able to see that threat because they don't
Speaker 2: have the Internet. So I wonder if that was more
Speaker 2: a domestic consumption statement that he I know he doesn't
Speaker 2: think that clearly sometimes, but maybe that was more for
Speaker 2: the US side or for the Pakistani's or something like that.
Speaker 2: But in Iran. I mean, this is my thought from
Speaker 2: the very beginning. If you want regime change, the best
Speaker 2: way to do that is to let the people do
Speaker 2: the regime change. Let the people be in the street.
Speaker 2: And if you do that, we have low earth orbit satellites,
Speaker 2: we have mesh networks, we can get stuff launched up
Speaker 2: there real quick. Yes, there's already starlink, but you could
Speaker 2: create one that's proprietary or Iran that's over there doing
Speaker 2: direct to sell communications from February twenty eight till till
Speaker 2: now and not saying it would solve the problem one
Speaker 2: hundred percent, but it would give the people the space
Speaker 2: to actually get out there and communicate and coordinate, find out, Hey,
Speaker 2: is there food and water in this next village over
Speaker 2: so I can go get some because they can't even
Speaker 2: do that right now. And so if you set that up,
Speaker 2: the people can now actually get outside and guess what,
Speaker 2: then you can use all that air power that we're
Speaker 2: using that is very good to protect those people. So
Speaker 2: when they actually go out in the street and you
Speaker 2: see a group of bus SIGs coming to them, well,
Speaker 2: through that Reaper or that great Eagle, you could just
Speaker 2: destroy the bus seges coming up to them, and pretty
Speaker 2: quick they'd stop trying to stop the people or they'd
Speaker 2: run out of people, you know. And it just kind
Speaker 2: of baffles me, why was that not part of the plan.
Speaker 2: That would have been a very cheap, relatively cheap part
Speaker 2: of this operation to dramatically increase like force multiply across
Speaker 2: all the domains that are involved in this right now,
Speaker 2: if you just get those people out there.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah. In my opinion, the the people are the
Speaker 4: the facto boots on the ground, you know, but they
Speaker 4: can't get out there on the ground because they're too
Speaker 4: busy taking shelter. You know. It's like I'm not saying
Speaker 4: we completely stop dropping iron, you know, dropping steel, but
Speaker 4: we've there's got to be some kind of coordination between
Speaker 4: that and, like you said, getting the message to the
Speaker 4: people so that they can do their part.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And we had something similar like that in Iraq
Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen twenty seventeen when we turned the war
Speaker 2: around against ISIS. You know, we're doing a lot of
Speaker 2: precision strikes. We did something like thirty thousand strikes in
Speaker 2: three or six months something like that. Precision, I mean,
Speaker 2: we had human trigger strikes all over the place. We
Speaker 2: had dynamic targeting. We had deliberate targeting, beautifully mapped across
Speaker 2: and coordinated. Not just US side. That was with indigenous
Speaker 2: people inside behind enemy lines, inside muscle occupied areas, providing
Speaker 2: information using repeaters and other kind of information that we
Speaker 2: were able to set up with them to talk back
Speaker 2: to us so that we could talk to them outside
Speaker 2: of the denight area and then we'd have targets hit
Speaker 2: within minutes of that information. We can do it, and
Speaker 2: we have done it, and we can do it on
Speaker 2: a large scale, and I just could again baffles me
Speaker 2: that we do not doing it now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, extending Internet into denied areas. Mind you, we had
Speaker 3: some major fuck ups basically before we figured out how
Speaker 3: to do that right now, we spent a lot of
Speaker 3: money on an extent with contractors who screwed us over bastards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't understand. Why wouldn't they do that for this.
Speaker 2: You could even put reps on thrones and do like
Speaker 2: a source repeater network that would be able to provide
Speaker 2: direct to sell communications people using outside So for example
Speaker 2: it tests a lot or Corek, which is the one
Speaker 2: in Kurdistan. You could do a correc repeater around the
Speaker 2: border areas and actually get people communicating.
Speaker 1: But they're not doing it at all none, now.
Speaker 2: That I've seen, I know that there's some Star Wars
Speaker 2: that's being assisted in the area. But it's problem with
Speaker 2: starlink because it's a giant target on your back. You
Speaker 2: have a Starlink terminal. You know, you need to have
Speaker 2: such widespread diluted access that it's impossible to actually stop it.
Speaker 3: I fell as, good news. My water is on, it's
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Speaker 1: But that's all right. You've had that's fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, take a sunshower.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so who knows? I wake up to a world
Speaker 3: at peace.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, everything's going to be great. Everything'sna fine once you
Speaker 1: wake up, all.
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Speaker 6: To our British friends across the pond on on British radio.
Speaker 6: So I managed to throwing Taco Tuesday on that. So
Speaker 6: that was kind of fun.
Speaker 3: They're probably like what.
Speaker 1: People people in the chat are saying, Taco Tuesday too.
Speaker 6: You just I mean, you served this up, no pun intended.
Speaker 3: They have like Vinderloo Friday in.
Speaker 6: The UK, by the way, just it was on LBC.
Speaker 6: It was, you know, a pretty big British uh uh station,
Speaker 6: and just withering criticism of Trump that he caved on this.
Speaker 6: I think that they probably are analysis. Is it certainly
Speaker 6: going to be shared by the people on the right
Speaker 6: or the in the FDD, the Freedom and Defensive Democracy's crowd,
Speaker 6: We're going to be insufferable, as Andy knows. Uh, but
Speaker 6: withering criticism on this that he definitely caved.
Speaker 1: So did he accept the like the uh the ten
Speaker 1: point plan that or like at least hinted towards accepting
Speaker 1: it for the ceasfire, the ten point plane that Iran
Speaker 1: sent back countering our fifteen point d.
Speaker 6: We're gonna I mean again what we're we're at a
Speaker 6: disadvantage here. We're actually talking about diplomacy and really important
Speaker 6: things on a true social post. And so you know,
Speaker 6: so Trump claimed that he also wasn't sure, we weren't
Speaker 6: sure if the Iran running is actually accepted to opening
Speaker 6: a reopening the straight or for our moves. So, you know,
Speaker 6: who knows what the hell this is. I think he
Speaker 6: was just looking for a way out and they're really next.
Speaker 6: I ran, yeah, I mean, I mean, you know and so,
Speaker 6: but this is going to be this is going to
Speaker 6: test my patience. I probably have to get off of
Speaker 6: social media because this is going to be really couched
Speaker 6: from the kind of these The pro is real right again,
Speaker 6: freedom defensive democracy strives us all crazy as a massive
Speaker 6: Trump victory in some fashion. And I already got a
Speaker 6: note from a former Massade officer who I worked very
Speaker 6: closely with, not happy the.
Speaker 1: Nope.
Speaker 3: I've been on the phone with someone in Tel Aviv.
Speaker 3: It says sirens are going there.
Speaker 7: Now, Well, this is this is bullshit natural, I don't know, right,
Speaker 7: you didn't let us in on this.
Speaker 6: Trump is also going to absolutely kind of bludgeon and
Speaker 6: Yahoo to accept this, and so you know that's gonna
Speaker 6: be fun, how BB You know, there's going to be
Speaker 6: a lot of so and you know, again who knows
Speaker 6: what happens, But you know, look for Barack review to
Speaker 6: tell us all the great you know points of this agreement.
Speaker 2: In the FARSI media, it says Trump's humiliating retreat from
Speaker 2: anti Iran rhetoric. That's how the Iranian media is painting it,
Speaker 2: which is accurate.
Speaker 3: Well, it would be interesting to see what the pack
Speaker 3: Sani media is saying, because we'd probably get the real
Speaker 3: truth from from you know, what the president of Pakistan
Speaker 3: is saying. That's that's you know, that's what I just say.
Speaker 6: See this, this is going to trigger me all over
Speaker 6: the place, you know, so because you know, when it
Speaker 6: comes to the government of Pakistan, a lot of us
Speaker 6: have memories of Afghanistan and I'm sitting on the border
Speaker 6: and getting, you know, eating one hundred and seven milimeters
Speaker 6: rockets fired from Pakistani military positions at US firefights with
Speaker 6: the Pakistani military. I've talked about it on the teamhouse
Speaker 6: with you all. So the idea that somehow Pakistan is
Speaker 6: back on our good graces is going to be tough
Speaker 6: for me personally to swallow. But you know this is
Speaker 6: it's a fellow autocrat. So Trump loves these folks.
Speaker 3: Might you let Byganes be by Gonest. It's just there's
Speaker 3: just too many groups of people to hate in the world.
Speaker 6: I'm Greek. He knows this. I don't forgive anybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no one ever.
Speaker 3: I'm I. I'm the opposite end of the spectrum. I'm
Speaker 3: ultrafic giving.
Speaker 6: You're a lover, you're a lover.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't forgive d for pouring whiskey down my
Speaker 3: throat on those Yeah, even and insisting that I take
Speaker 3: off my clothes.
Speaker 1: Yep, that was me. You're right. It sounds like a
Speaker 1: ridd we had. We had ladies in the We had
Speaker 1: ladies in the room and they were they were egging
Speaker 1: on Andy. And once Andy heard the ladies scream and
Speaker 1: he started taking he started disrobing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I found out they're actually screaming for Jack.
Speaker 6: All right, Jonathan, question question to you in terms of
Speaker 6: uh uh and this is just that kind of think
Speaker 6: back and actually all you guys Jason, Andy two, if
Speaker 6: you're on the mew right now, if you're on the float,
Speaker 6: just sitting there, and you get this news, like, what's
Speaker 6: the what are the emotions of the of the marines
Speaker 6: who probably thought, as we were softening up carg Island
Speaker 6: over the last you know, twelve hours, that that might
Speaker 6: have been in preparation for some kind of uh you know,
Speaker 6: a movement of ground forces. What do you think they're
Speaker 6: thinking right now?
Speaker 3: Well, it'stensibly externally. There's a lot of outward disappointment. I
Speaker 3: think though for individual marines a huge amount of relief.
Speaker 2: There's all would have been weight feeling where it's like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we already probably got told to go and get back
Speaker 2: and go and get back multiple times before the new
Speaker 2: even got there, because I'm sure when they were in
Speaker 2: California and Japan they were told like six times they're going.
Speaker 3: And not going.
Speaker 2: I remember a buddy of mine that was on the
Speaker 2: fast team that was going into Libya back when the
Speaker 2: twenty eleven kicked off or twenty twelve September, and they
Speaker 2: told me to get on and off the airplane like
Speaker 2: seven times before they actually flew out of Italy over there,
Speaker 2: you know, and they told them to like change their clothes.
Speaker 2: They couldn't be in civilian clothes. They got to put
Speaker 2: it on camis and then back and forth again, same thing.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure that's been going on. The rumor mill
Speaker 2: on that ship has probably been out of control, like
Speaker 2: you mentioned a few weeks ago, Andy, like the roommant
Speaker 2: on there, like you don't even know what's true until you're.
Speaker 3: Actually on the end.
Speaker 2: Pine.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what the I guarantee. The one of
Speaker 3: the main rumors that's running through all the vog's right
Speaker 3: now is we're stopping in Australia. It always happens. That's
Speaker 3: always the rum or. It's like, ah, ship, we're not
Speaker 3: going to a wall, but we're going to Australia. Someone
Speaker 3: starts that and it spreads like wildfire because to marines,
Speaker 3: Australia is the land of milk and honey. Ye Mark,
Speaker 3: I don't know why, you know, I'm a bread that's
Speaker 3: we shipped our convicts.
Speaker 4: Then I think too that it also depends on to
Speaker 4: answer your question, the rank and age of the these
Speaker 4: marines because as you know, the younger ones are probably
Speaker 4: like shit, you know, I wanted to go get some
Speaker 4: the g watt. That's probably the staff sergeants and above
Speaker 4: or like, you know, we're not doing this shit again,
Speaker 4: thank God. And the older are probably thinking the same thing.
Speaker 4: But now have to you know, control the rumor mill.
Speaker 4: So I think that has a lot to do with it.
Speaker 2: And plus the guys that are outside the ships that
Speaker 2: are doing its force operations and doing preparation of the
Speaker 2: environment stuff. They're like out there that are probably kind
Speaker 2: of pissed because they just built a bunch of structures
Speaker 2: to put in place to move a lot of people,
Speaker 2: and either those things aren't being validated, or they're falling apart,
Speaker 2: or they're on hold. And that's that's a pain in
Speaker 2: the ass.
Speaker 6: So there's there's there's some interesting stuff coming up. So
Speaker 6: they said. A senior White House official says, Israel has
Speaker 6: agreed to the ceasefire and will suspend its attacks for
Speaker 6: two weeks. But the ceasefire takes effect only when Iran
Speaker 6: opens the Straight. Yeah, and there is minireless well, and
Speaker 6: so so now the Iranians are saying they just announced
Speaker 6: for a period of two weeks, safe passage through the
Speaker 6: Straight will be possible. Vir coordination with Iran's armed forces. Interesting,
Speaker 6: but they're obliterated.
Speaker 2: Can they coordination?
Speaker 6: Yeahs do consideration of technical limitations. And so that's a
Speaker 6: little bit different than what Trump wrote and his truth
Speaker 6: social post complete immediate and safe opening of the Strait,
Speaker 6: And so you know, there's a lot that's.
Speaker 3: Gonna his issue that we're talking about. There's no such
Speaker 3: thing as opening the strain, right, it is full bearing
Speaker 3: from shooting ships that are trying to get through this strait,
Speaker 3: and the only way to test that out is to
Speaker 3: drive the ship through the strait, right with Jared Kushner remoard.
Speaker 3: So I mean, I'll forget a test of the validity
Speaker 3: of the ceasefire.
Speaker 2: Right. I'm getting from somebody the New York.
Speaker 3: Times that it's not a it's not a ribbon cutting,
Speaker 3: it's you know, how do you It's an open question,
Speaker 3: no one can answer it. But it's not as though
Speaker 3: there's a physical barrier across the strait that they are
Speaker 3: pulling open.
Speaker 2: Apparently it was China that made a last minute intervention
Speaker 2: that pushed the agreement.
Speaker 6: So yeah, and we'll see. And then you know, you
Speaker 6: think back and you know, at least it wasn't Russia. Right,
Speaker 6: That's that's true. But you know, this is the same
Speaker 6: kind of adage that you know, I got to think
Speaker 6: about the things to kind of think of to say
Speaker 6: about this, and this is, you know, we're going to
Speaker 6: go back to the mowing the lawn. If these Raelities
Speaker 6: will accept this, because Trump's to beat them over the
Speaker 6: head with it, but they're going to go back if
Speaker 6: they have to. And so if the old adage in
Speaker 6: the Middle East, there's no such thing as when war's end.
Speaker 6: They just kind of, you know, it's R and R
Speaker 6: until you get ready for the next one. And I
Speaker 6: think that's probably accurate. And so, you know, I think
Speaker 6: that you know, this is all super preliminary, but maybe
Speaker 6: a discussion just for a couple of minutes would be, is, okay,
Speaker 6: you know what look in the in the US perspective,
Speaker 6: what war objectives have been achieved? I think that maybe
Speaker 6: that's a good point in discussion. Jason, what do you think?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, obviously we've hit a lot of targets,
Speaker 4: so I don't know what the target that looked like.
Speaker 4: I don't know, you know, what the broad strategic plan
Speaker 4: look like on paper. But I think militarily they can
Speaker 4: say we hit the targets we said we were going
Speaker 4: to hit, and that's that is Kudos to the air crews,
Speaker 4: the you know, the crew the ground crews, things like that,
Speaker 4: and you know whoever we have on the ground processing
Speaker 4: these targets. But I don't know if we're talking regime
Speaker 4: chains that's being thrown out there or willy nilly, I
Speaker 4: I don't see it, you know, from my little five
Speaker 4: foot uh you know view, but I guess they're gonna
Speaker 4: I think, much like the rescue of the Wizzo, They're
Speaker 4: just going to keep parading out these military achievements. These
Speaker 4: are tactical military achievements. I don't see a strategic victory
Speaker 4: in my opinion.
Speaker 6: Jonathan, what about the new program.
Speaker 2: Well, we don't see any new developments in that that
Speaker 2: are public at least, But to me, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: thinking about denied degrade, disrupt like these are the kind
Speaker 2: of things that we can say that have happened in
Speaker 2: some degree, you know, different ways, but those are not defeat.
Speaker 2: They're not obliterate. So like if we're looking at lines
Speaker 2: of effort on the campaign plan, they're like if if
Speaker 2: defeat Iran was on there, that is not achieved, right.
Speaker 2: So the problem is when the war started we were
Speaker 2: not given discretebjectives. Those objectives were kind of assembled along
Speaker 2: the way and kind of repackaged as things progressed, not
Speaker 2: according to plan if there was such a plan, And
Speaker 2: like you said, Jason, I think there's a lot of
Speaker 2: tactical and operational successes that are being repackaged as strategic
Speaker 2: outcomes and it doesn't work like that. You can't work
Speaker 2: backwards from what you've done and just explain it as
Speaker 2: if that was your idea the whole time.
Speaker 6: Andy, what do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think I think we've achieved as
Speaker 3: best if we kept our objectives sane, which was, you know,
Speaker 3: exactly what Jonathan said that like D. D. Cube. Then yes,
Speaker 3: we've been We've probably been as successful as we could
Speaker 3: hope for. I mean, but the thing is that chief
Speaker 3: among our previously when when we before this even kicked off,
Speaker 3: right when the campaign was being designed, you know, and
Speaker 3: it was on the shelf, what did we say Our
Speaker 3: main objective was john a number one objective the nukes.
Speaker 3: The nukes, right, So you know it's kind of a
Speaker 3: war of it, wasn't. I mean, listen, I spent just
Speaker 3: like you guys, most of my lot of my career
Speaker 3: planning against the Iranians. The only casualties I took as
Speaker 3: a battalion commander were caused by Iranians. I've got no
Speaker 3: reason to love the regime, but this was you know,
Speaker 3: it's a war of choice, and the objectives that we
Speaker 3: achieved were really Israel subjectives. Our main objective had to
Speaker 3: do with the nuclear program at least that's always what
Speaker 3: we have said, and effect on that is unknown, but
Speaker 3: it's unlikely to have been obliterated. But you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: I understand we can take a win if we've set
Speaker 3: around back. But our main goal was was always the
Speaker 3: nuclear weapon. Number two was support for proxies always right,
Speaker 3: I mean, because that was what was destabilizing the Middle East,
Speaker 3: the threat of new clear you know, I mean, they
Speaker 3: a policy of non proliferation and then regional stability in
Speaker 3: the Middle East, and Ron was a threat to both
Speaker 3: of those, and that is why we selected those objectives.
Speaker 3: What effect unclear what effect we've had on those two.
Speaker 6: Do your favorite subject the New York Times article about
Speaker 6: the Israeli pressure.
Speaker 1: We talked about it a little bit before. You got
Speaker 1: a right, no, no, no, continue please, I want your kid.
Speaker 6: I want to hear your rant on this.
Speaker 1: This is a well, I mean, frankly like having fucking
Speaker 1: Jared Kushner or Steve Wikoff anywhere near the fucking situation
Speaker 1: room is out of control. The guy couldn't get a clearance,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, he's in the pocket of
Speaker 1: Katar and Saudi, Like, what are we doing the guys?
Speaker 1: And obviously Israel. The guy is obviously a liability. We
Speaker 1: have a strip mall developer as a special envoy. It's
Speaker 1: like the whole thing is fucking batshit, Like, if we're
Speaker 1: being honest here, you guys are all professionals in this world,
Speaker 1: and you know it too. You don't have to say it.
Speaker 1: I'll say I'll be the guy. I'll be the bad guy.
Speaker 1: It's fine. Uh yeah, it's And when they were making
Speaker 1: that final decision before uh you know, before he gave
Speaker 1: the final go ahead, they're sitting there with five or
Speaker 1: six people and nobody can give any fucking dissent, not
Speaker 1: even jd Vance, Like nobody.
Speaker 6: Must have leaked all this stuff. I mean that was
Speaker 6: like that was a defendant, you know, I know Jonathan Swan,
Speaker 6: I mean I know these these reporters and so they're
Speaker 6: and they're doing their job, but to me, it was
Speaker 6: it's incredible, you know, covering your ass on this thing.
Speaker 6: Jd Vance is the one who seemingly is the one
Speaker 6: who reached it. Looks the best in this whole thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, he looks like the only one that's actually
Speaker 1: has like a working, working brain, to be honest, even
Speaker 1: though he kind of he kind of pushed out to right.
Speaker 1: He he's his whole mo for their long time while
Speaker 1: he was running and you know, while he was bringing
Speaker 1: brought up is like the groom does the VP was
Speaker 1: getting out of these wars right and America first and
Speaker 1: that bullshit. So where is that exactly? While we're spending
Speaker 1: you know, we've spent probably twenty upwards of twenty billion
Speaker 1: dollars plus so far. Yeah, it's just the dynamics that
Speaker 1: go on in there where it's everyone's scared to say anything.
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't know what the decision should be,
Speaker 1: but I know your decision would be right. Somebody said that, like,
Speaker 1: are you fucking kidding me? You're a professional, You're supposedly
Speaker 1: a professional. So it was mind boggling.
Speaker 6: I gotta raise on this because so and then of
Speaker 6: course Ratcliffe is in there kind of trying to be
Speaker 6: the one again. He came out looking fairly okay on
Speaker 6: this because he's showing dissent, although you can you then
Speaker 6: contrast that, which is why I questioned that. You know,
Speaker 6: this is like the old Bob Woodward books. It's and
Speaker 6: it's a narrative, it's an account, there's an agenda there,
Speaker 6: but you take a look at that CIA video that
Speaker 6: they put out of Ratcliffe. Crazy said, you guys, which
Speaker 6: would I mean, the reaction I got from people inside
Speaker 6: was freaking hilarious. But you know, it's just like licking
Speaker 6: his boots. But yet in the background he was showing
Speaker 6: some reservations about this. You can't really have it both ways.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry. Hey, one quick thing for Jonathan. I'm just
Speaker 6: reading something here now, and again this is as we
Speaker 6: kind of this is all live with a ten point plan.
Speaker 6: One of the pieces of the ten point plan is
Speaker 6: full sanctions relief Unran. Well, holy shit, frankly, if that's
Speaker 6: something that the US has agreed to, you know, that
Speaker 6: is pretty extraordinary. And so that's why I think that,
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, I mean talk about that because
Speaker 6: the maximum maximum pressure campaign had so much to do
Speaker 6: with that. If if you know, if Trump agreed to
Speaker 6: that just to get the straight of Hormus open.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: The thing is with with sanctions, you can't just turn
Speaker 2: them off so you can stop enforcing them. That's true,
Speaker 2: But you know, in the in the corporate world, the
Speaker 2: market drives everything. And if the market it doesn't trust,
Speaker 2: like the collective market does not trust that these will
Speaker 2: remain unenforced, there will not be interaction, like people won't
Speaker 2: go and do business in Iran. And actually, remember back
Speaker 2: in the Clinton ministration in the nineteen nineties, there was
Speaker 2: a brief relief on sanctions in Iran and Clinton allowed carpets, pistachios, saffron,
Speaker 2: and a couple of other products to be sold inside
Speaker 2: United States directly. And companies didn't want to do it
Speaker 2: because they were afraid that when Clinton's out of office,
Speaker 2: They're going to have to close their businesses down and leave.
Speaker 2: And this is kind of a similar issue with the tariffs,
Speaker 2: where there was this idea that, okay, we do these
Speaker 2: tariff things and suddenly people can bring industry to United States,
Speaker 2: and some companies did that. Then the tariffs were enjoined
Speaker 2: by the courts, which meant that there was no financial
Speaker 2: incentive and these companies are left to dry and like,
Speaker 2: I just invested one hundred million dollars here and I'm
Speaker 2: out and nobody's helping me. And it's the same inverse
Speaker 2: in Iran. If you say, like, suddenly you can do
Speaker 2: business in Iran, and Iran can join the Swift bank
Speaker 2: network again, which they were kicked out of in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: People aren't. The market's not going to leave that, right,
Speaker 2: Like there's the short term changes when you look at
Speaker 2: like oil futures, Like right now it's nineteen percent drop
Speaker 2: in two hours on oil futures, which is insane. That's
Speaker 2: oil futures. That's just a symbol, a little small thing.
Speaker 2: That's not people moving manufacturing industry into Iran, which would
Speaker 2: be fantastic if they did. So it's like the market
Speaker 2: has to believe this. So it's kind of like we
Speaker 2: were talking about the straits of four moves. You can
Speaker 2: say they're open, but is Marek going to get insurance
Speaker 2: that's as cheap as it was before to move loyalty there?
Speaker 6: But just said there. I mean, so the whole, the
Speaker 6: whole idea of this was that Ron wants to walk
Speaker 6: away as the as the toll booth operator in the agreement.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's two million for doing we're two million, and
Speaker 1: they chop it with Oman right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So you know again, I think, you know, as we
Speaker 6: kind of decipher this that happened just a couple of
Speaker 6: minutes ago, there's gonna be some things where you're kind
Speaker 6: of scratching your head, you know what has you know,
Speaker 6: how much has Trump actually capitulated on this? Uh, because
Speaker 6: he was he was looking for a way out. It's
Speaker 6: going to be it's gonna be fascinating. Now we can't
Speaker 6: have it both ways in one way and that you know, Jason,
Speaker 6: we've been like, we've been hammering this crazy ass president
Speaker 6: for you know, for all the things. But now there's
Speaker 6: a ceaspire. He backed down, So now we're gonna hammer
Speaker 6: him for being a big pussy. I mean, you know.
Speaker 6: So it's kind of funny. And so there's already some
Speaker 6: criticism of seeing social media for people like us, like, well,
Speaker 6: hold on a second. You guys were saying he's a
Speaker 6: crazy man causing World War three, Yet now he's not
Speaker 6: going to do it, and now you're making fun of
Speaker 6: him for back and down. So yeah, I mean there's
Speaker 6: a little bit of some truth in that. Maybe I
Speaker 6: certainly have a little trunk arrangement syndrome. I know d does.
Speaker 1: I'm not really shitting on him because he backed out
Speaker 1: because he made the ceasefire. I mean, frankly, I'm shitting
Speaker 1: on him because a month ago or a little bit
Speaker 1: over a month ago, the deal that was on the
Speaker 1: table diplomatically far exceeded whatever this can ever create ever
Speaker 1: get to. And we didn't have to lose thirteen guys
Speaker 1: and four hundred plus people get injured, and you know,
Speaker 1: really fucked the world economy too, right, Like we didn't
Speaker 1: have to do all that, and we still could have
Speaker 1: got a better deal diplomatically. But Steve wick I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go back to them because they're the fucking worst. Steve
Speaker 1: Wikoff and Jared Cushion don't have a technical expert in
Speaker 1: the room with them while they're doing nuclear negotiations, like
Speaker 1: if they were buying a strip mall or leasing something,
Speaker 1: I have them in the fucking room. But it's a joke.
Speaker 1: We're a fucking joke. So I mean, I'm happy that
Speaker 1: the like bombing is gonna stop, obviously, Yeah we did,
Speaker 1: we get fucking bent over by Iran. Yeah it looks
Speaker 1: like it right now, especially deal point whiy Like you
Speaker 1: know what, what where I end up getting like are
Speaker 1: they still gonna keep their nuclear weapons? Are their uranium
Speaker 1: not their nuclear weapons? Yeah, it's a big question mark
Speaker 1: right now. And what happens in two weeks. Israel doesn't
Speaker 1: love this, What are they gonna do to like kind
Speaker 1: of cock block this whole thing.
Speaker 6: Especially if they're getting hit right now with ballistic missiles. Yeah,
Speaker 6: kind of kind of interesting. I'm reading some I'm just
Speaker 6: getting some some messages from folks, and this is from
Speaker 6: someone who has access inside the White House, and even
Speaker 6: it was quoting a White House officials saying it's a
Speaker 6: it's a weird agreement. And so, I mean, I think
Speaker 6: it probably took some creative diplomacy and there's gonna be
Speaker 6: some parts in this that we're all gonna be shaking.
Speaker 6: I mean, look, Trump just wanted to stop, Yeah, and
Speaker 6: so you know, that's it. And then the other part
Speaker 6: of it that I think if you look at the
Speaker 6: history of just US diplomacy, usually we have really experienced,
Speaker 6: you know, negotiators steeped in Iranian history, culture, language. The
Speaker 6: Iranians are very experienced negotiators. But on our side, I
Speaker 6: don't even know who was doing this. Maybe it was
Speaker 6: Jared and Steve Wikoff and JD. Vance, although he's running
Speaker 6: around Hungary humiliating the United States to know end today,
Speaker 6: but I think they were just they probably the Iranians
Speaker 6: knew that we were going to come up with something weird,
Speaker 6: and we're just going to accept anything just to have
Speaker 6: this thing stop for a bit because Trump was just
Speaker 6: getting pumbled. I mean, this was such a bad day
Speaker 6: public relations wise for the United States. I mean, if
Speaker 6: it's set the Pentagon almost on fire in terms of,
Speaker 6: holy shit, we're going to be asked to commit war crimes.
Speaker 6: Probably not a bad thing that everyone kind of stood
Speaker 6: back from the brink.
Speaker 1: God, what's why net? What's the media source? Why Net?
Speaker 2: It's Russian.
Speaker 1: Saying because it says cease fire announced by Trump includes
Speaker 1: Lebanon's hasble in Israel, So you're correct.
Speaker 2: Actually, that's that's point number war does It says complete
Speaker 2: cessation of the war in Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen, and
Speaker 2: then further down, which is even crazier, full reparations will
Speaker 2: be paid to Iran. This tells me that this is
Speaker 2: like not a legit agree, this.
Speaker 6: Is gonna be fun. Actually, so yeah, that is fun
Speaker 6: because now it's not going to be we're whining that
Speaker 6: we wanted the war to continue. It's just gonna be
Speaker 6: fun making fun of this agreement just to see how
Speaker 6: much Trump.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's I mean, guys.
Speaker 2: Like point number ending all conflicts in the region in
Speaker 2: their entirety. He's in the Middle East. That's the plan.
Speaker 6: Well number four, the Boston Red Sox are gonna win
Speaker 6: one hundred games.
Speaker 1: And all right, bro oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: And it's a complete and permanent cessation of the war
Speaker 2: in Iran with no time limit.
Speaker 6: Yeah. So again, you know, that's the beauty of doing
Speaker 6: stuff live, you know, the initial stuff, and I mean
Speaker 6: we should know better that, you know, Trump's bravado when
Speaker 6: you kind of have to dive into the details. And
Speaker 6: so I guess I'm gonna have some fun with this
Speaker 6: just because and you know, I watched you know, Andy
Speaker 6: get into kind of some war with with some of
Speaker 6: the kind of the pro Israel crazy types in his
Speaker 6: little spat when he was writing on More on the Rocks.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be fun seeing how people get try to
Speaker 6: still even seeing this terrible, if it's a terrible agreement,
Speaker 6: how they're gonna still try to say somehow this is
Speaker 6: a win. And then in the language they use, I
Speaker 6: already saw it. I mean, not to pick on names,
Speaker 6: but you know, we're all kind of mildly obsessive about
Speaker 6: these crazy people.
Speaker 2: Well for Iran, it's like as long as they outlast
Speaker 2: the US people want.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it right there, and that's what it's always
Speaker 4: been for them, as long as they can outlast. It's
Speaker 4: because they have how many examples in our history of
Speaker 4: those who have said all we need to do is
Speaker 4: outlast and from Vietnam to now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So so I'm guessing that like going into the war,
Speaker 1: Trump was assuming that we would completely take out their
Speaker 1: missile program and like keep them completely defenseless, and like
Speaker 1: they still have half their missiles and half their drawns,
Speaker 1: and it's proven to be very difficult to like you know,
Speaker 1: take stuff out because it's mobile and you know, on
Speaker 1: theerground outside of smoking the leader and the forty other
Speaker 1: ones behind him, I mean, what have we achieved outside
Speaker 1: of high gas prices and like you know, squeezing the
Speaker 1: global economy and you know, how can how can fucking cutter?
Speaker 1: How can any of our those GCC countries trust us? Ever?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't said. The best thing is some of
Speaker 6: the you know, Fox News is going to go into
Speaker 6: kind of orgasmically about the brilliance of the president.
Speaker 1: So well, like you talked like we were on the
Speaker 1: group chap before Mark and you mentioned like turning on
Speaker 1: Fox News. So I turned it on and they're like
Speaker 1: they did a whole segment with a panel like of
Speaker 1: six people talking about like Solomani's daughter that got arrested
Speaker 1: and the other one that was the the one of
Speaker 1: the hostage takers, the woman, Yeah, what's her? Like, what's
Speaker 1: the nickname they gave her? Screaming something like yell, there's
Speaker 1: some nickname she's got. Anyway, her son lives in LA
Speaker 1: and like they're just talking about these like like guys,
Speaker 1: what do we care about like these like diletant kids
Speaker 1: living in like who gets you shit, It's just like
Speaker 1: this constant just propaganda of like they're living in our country.
Speaker 1: You have to take them out. Like what the you're
Speaker 1: wasting airtime on this ship? You're like a major news them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So like Mark told me that I did it. I
Speaker 1: turned it on. I got triggered. I was like, I
Speaker 1: can't believe this is Like there's a program director or
Speaker 1: producer saying like this is a this is a great segment.
Speaker 1: We should do this segment killer.
Speaker 4: Because if they didn't put these filler stories in there,
Speaker 4: they'd have to actually talk about what's really happening, you
Speaker 4: know there. So this is what they do. You know,
Speaker 4: it's like, and I'm sure I'm gonna trigger somebody with this.
Speaker 4: It's like with these uh ice stories. You know, a
Speaker 4: US citizen get killed, but it's like, oh, you know,
Speaker 4: but this guy killed this girl and he's an illegal.
Speaker 4: You know, he's illegal. Okay, that's true, But does that
Speaker 4: mean that all murders are done by illegals? But it
Speaker 4: you know, they've got to kind of counter, They've got
Speaker 4: to fill that space. So that's what they're doing here.
Speaker 6: Fun, all right, fellas, I gotta I gotta.
Speaker 1: Roll right, get out of here. Mark, good to see you,
Speaker 1: Thanks for coming.
Speaker 6: That was fun, and we'll do it again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll be back on Sunday, regular, regular schedule program.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's gonna be a ton of shit to
Speaker 1: talk about then too, like right, like, because this doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like an actual like they agreed, we agreed to
Speaker 1: this ship like we didn't agree to this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that ten point plan was actually sent by Jonathan.
Speaker 6: Go where Jonathan and I are going to go back
Speaker 6: on Israeli TV just to annoy d Yeah, without coordinating it.
Speaker 1: No, go on it. Just make sure you plug eyes on.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with it. I don't give a ship, take care,
Speaker 1: I don't care, go on Irany and TV, I don't care,
Speaker 1: go on the fars, just plug us. What were you saying, John?
Speaker 2: That ten point plan that I was mentioning was was
Speaker 2: the Iranian plan that was shared to the US that
Speaker 2: the US has said is a good starting point for negotiations,
Speaker 2: which is crazy because I mean, the thing is like
Speaker 2: the starting point is the most extreme list and it's
Speaker 2: also not an agreed on plan, So like, what is
Speaker 2: the actual.
Speaker 1: Ceaspire who said that was a good starting Trump?
Speaker 2: He said, I believe it is a workable basis on
Speaker 2: which to negotiate.
Speaker 1: We surprised, what the bro bro? This is like elder
Speaker 1: abuse at this point, right, Like he's just like an
Speaker 1: old dotty guy and like Lindsey Graham's got him from behind,
Speaker 1: like like I don't know what's going on here, dude,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. I guess he got freaked out by like
Speaker 1: the Maga hardcores. Tucker Carlson called him the Antichrist, yeah
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, and Alex Jones too was freaking out
Speaker 1: about him too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Alex Jones is talking about the twenty fifth.
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Speaker 4: them in the street. So just for farently for years,
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Speaker 4: came through my job. So apparently this guy. For years
Speaker 4: people have been complaining about explosions and what they sound
Speaker 4: like explosions and the cops come out and not find
Speaker 4: anything or whatever. So one day, I think it was
Speaker 4: last week or whatever, apparently this guy sets something off
Speaker 4: and so they called the cops. Cops pull up just
Speaker 4: as the guy walks outside and he's like powder burns,
Speaker 4: blue stuff all over his face and everything. And it
Speaker 4: made me think of that guy. That was it a
Speaker 4: video you sent us of somebody in your neighborhood like
Speaker 4: lighting something.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, my neighbor was my neighbor. He lives
Speaker 1: like four houses down. He went a little quickly, he
Speaker 1: was off his mads to something. He's a nice guy,
Speaker 1: he's a cromudgeon. He's an old guy. He's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a curmudgeon. So he just came out the
Speaker 1: crypt out of the house. Like it was snow everywhere too.
Speaker 1: So this must have been in January. Just popping off
Speaker 1: rounds at like some random car. But it turns out
Speaker 1: it was a starter pill, so he's not getting in trouble,
Speaker 1: of course. Crazy. It was crazy. Yeah, that video was.
Speaker 1: I got the video like right away too, like the
Speaker 1: neighbors are talking sending that video around. Yeah, it was wild.
Speaker 1: It was. It was wild.
Speaker 4: So he's back home.
Speaker 1: I saw him today. Yeah, I was like, Yo, what's up, bro,
Speaker 1: how you doing. It seems better, which is good. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he seems better though. I think I think because he
Speaker 1: was in the he was in like a like a
Speaker 1: psychiatric facility for like a month.
Speaker 4: Damn. That sucks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, something I could happen to anybody, I guess, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: just start shooting your starter pistol over the street at
Speaker 1: a random fucking car.
Speaker 4: Pretty sure if I did that, I would not be
Speaker 4: on the next podcast.
Speaker 1: No, you'd be shot. You be shot by cops. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. So I don't know if you guys saw
Speaker 1: what Mark p just sent that tweet like breaking down
Speaker 1: good summer of the problems with the agreement. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: this agreement is gonn get like dissected because it sounds
Speaker 1: like it's batshit insane. John what do you think what
Speaker 1: should we like look for in the next few days.
Speaker 2: It's preached or not, especially from the Israeli side, because
Speaker 2: this happens with Israel versus Lebanon a lot of times,
Speaker 2: where they'll come to a seasfire and then during the seaspire,
Speaker 2: Israel continues striking because they claim the other side is
Speaker 2: violated somehow. So I'm curious since it sounds like Israel
Speaker 2: is told by the US that there was a ceasfire
Speaker 2: that Israel must now follow, which I don't think usually
Speaker 2: happens in that direction. I think it's the other way
Speaker 2: around usually, So I'm curious to see what level of actual,
Speaker 2: you know, discretion is going to go on there about
Speaker 2: how they can actually sustain that or not. And if
Speaker 2: Iran continues firing missiles that they might claim like oh whoops,
Speaker 2: we already fired that it was too late, you know,
Speaker 2: is that can be a pretext that Israel uses. Plus
Speaker 2: the houthies again are kind of on their own. They
Speaker 2: do sometimes follow the regime but also sometimes operate independently,
Speaker 2: so they might not be ready to stop harassing people.
Speaker 2: So it might be that the regime doesn't have the
Speaker 2: kind of control that it needs to actually keep the
Speaker 2: lid on violence and also should be looking for how
Speaker 2: does the regime treat the running people in these two weeks.
Speaker 2: Are they going to start because they're not firing out board?
Speaker 2: Are they going to turn their weapons in board and
Speaker 2: start looking for people that have been collaborating over the
Speaker 2: past two months. You know, I'm sure there's been quite
Speaker 2: a few people working with different intelligence community entities over
Speaker 2: the past two months, and the regime is going to
Speaker 2: be looking for them. So now they'll have the space
Speaker 2: to do that. And the question is will the US
Speaker 2: help behind the scenes to not let them do that.
Speaker 2: You know, this is also a great opportunity for again
Speaker 2: the US to give the Internet to the Iranian people
Speaker 2: in these two weeks, because if they do that and
Speaker 2: Iran is now pressured to not retally it as strongly,
Speaker 2: that could also help those people get out on the
Speaker 2: street and then start taking the government as well.
Speaker 4: From an intelligence perspective too, all the talking that's been done,
Speaker 4: you know, all of the quote unquote weeks or whatever
Speaker 4: about going back to that the rescue of the extraction
Speaker 4: of the Wizzo, you know, sources and methods and things
Speaker 4: like that. While they weren't necessarily specifically named, Like we're
Speaker 4: talking around things that IRGC and others, you know, they're
Speaker 4: going to focus on that. They're going to hone on that.
Speaker 4: So because if we if this thing doesn't hold and
Speaker 4: you know, air strikes continue, the chances are that another
Speaker 4: aircraft is going to go down. So is it gonna
Speaker 4: you know, thing's gonna happen the exact same way based
Speaker 4: on everything that's been put out there, you know, So
Speaker 4: I'm sure that's something that hopefully somebody is thinking about.
Speaker 2: Another good point too is the Kurds. So the Kurds
Speaker 2: have been making videos about holding M four's for example,
Speaker 2: and saying that they want to do stuff because they
Speaker 2: had the cover of air support at the time making
Speaker 2: those statements. Well, if there's a two week ceasefire, the
Speaker 2: regime might head west into Irani and Kurdistan and start
Speaker 2: being pretty violent against those people that made those videos,
Speaker 2: which they've done in the past. So they have already
Speaker 2: demonstrated they're willing to do that.
Speaker 1: When the courage stuff started popping up in the media
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, didn't they start They shot like
Speaker 1: a couple of missiles and drones over over there too.
Speaker 2: Right, they fired into Reveal, actually around Reveal and the
Speaker 2: eastern eastern Kurdistan inside I rock at a couple of
Speaker 2: bases and inside of Iran.
Speaker 1: It feels like, oh yeah, no, it's come to like
Speaker 1: a we're pausing. It does not seem like it seems
Speaker 1: like this is going to be pretty bad. I want
Speaker 1: to know what's going on in Lindsey Graham's brain right now.
Speaker 1: He's got to be losing it. Yeah, anything else, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to I'm like, I have so many screens
Speaker 1: open right now, I'm like dizzy.
Speaker 2: The one screen I'm watching is the oil futures, because
Speaker 2: that's the market like absorbing the news and reacting to it,
Speaker 2: which is a very interesting thing to look at.
Speaker 1: Where's it at now? Did it go on there one hundred?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's ninety five oh seven, so it's down sixteen
Speaker 2: percent roughly.
Speaker 1: Wow. I mean you got to assume that's like the
Speaker 1: main reason we did this. It's not like Trump's worried
Speaker 1: about the Iranian civilians or are even our serviceman. It's
Speaker 1: just like, oh fuck.
Speaker 2: And you notice climbing again. It was after hours after
Speaker 2: trading closed again. Yeah, every single time it's been after
Speaker 2: hours trading.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were also pushing it yesterday to last night
Speaker 1: before I'm sorry, early this morning or late last night,
Speaker 1: talking about possible ceasefire and stuff like that to kind
Speaker 1: of try and quiet the markets a little. Ah Man Again,
Speaker 1: I don't know what stage capitalism this is, but it's
Speaker 1: a fucking weird one.
Speaker 2: But honest, if you look at like after I was
Speaker 2: trading in Nasdaq, SMP and Dow, they're all up over
Speaker 2: two percent right now right now, which is like the
Speaker 2: biggest movement they've had upwards since.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, frankly, like I know, the Iranians are
Speaker 1: taking this as a win like the regime right now
Speaker 1: or like they're crowing like they're spinning too, spinning like
Speaker 1: crazy right now. But what I mean, do they really
Speaker 1: they can't trust us right after what we've done the
Speaker 1: last couple of times with negotiations, like we had a
Speaker 1: killer deal or close to it. And in that back
Speaker 1: again to that New York Times article, Wick, Coffin and
Speaker 1: Cushioners were saying like, oh, to get an actual deal
Speaker 1: is going to take months. Yeah, no shit, guys, It's
Speaker 1: a nuclear deal, not a fucking lease for a deli
Speaker 1: at one of your buildings, you dumb fucks. You know
Speaker 1: it's of course it's gonna take months. How long did
Speaker 1: the jcp A wait take right negotiation? There you go?
Speaker 1: I mean, like these are serious issues that like have
Speaker 1: huge ramifications. It's not going to be like you're buying
Speaker 1: a new ship, mall and you can bang it out
Speaker 1: with your lawyers in a couple of days. Like unbelievab
Speaker 1: to me, Like the level of fuck this guy, kushnerd Man,
Speaker 1: you are a liability. You can't get out of clearance.
Speaker 1: And he's sitting in the situation room, like how is
Speaker 1: that allowed in this in this in our government?
Speaker 2: Well in that situation where talk you're you're discussing, which
Speaker 2: is like earlier before the war started, if you read
Speaker 2: who was in there? The ODE and I director was
Speaker 2: not in there, and there were a couple of other
Speaker 2: individuals that you would think from the cabinet that should
Speaker 2: be in there, Like Treasury secretary was not in there. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Scott Beston wasn't in there.
Speaker 1: So but was the energy guy too? They mentioned, but who.
Speaker 2: Was Caroline Leave?
Speaker 1: It wasn't there the there like the Press secretary.
Speaker 2: So the actual decision makers weren't in there, but the
Speaker 2: the mediate people were in.
Speaker 1: There, right, yeah, yeah, And I the comms director was
Speaker 1: in there too, right I think. And I think they
Speaker 1: had the like the general counsel, which is like, I
Speaker 1: don't even know why that positions even filled with this
Speaker 1: administration if we're being honest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well they're just writing legal opinions that are exactly
Speaker 2: what they're told.
Speaker 4: To write, right, I mean, And if I'm the Pentagon,
Speaker 4: someone has to be thinking, like, what's our pivot point here?
Speaker 4: How long do we keep these marines, soldiers, sailors and
Speaker 4: airmen on station there? And if something pops off on
Speaker 4: the other side of the world, how quickly can we pivot?
Speaker 4: You know, like we've done the whole boys and their toys.
Speaker 4: Look what we got, Look what we can do there.
Speaker 4: And now we've got this pause, So hopefully someone has
Speaker 4: taken a beat and saying, Okay, what is our pivot point?
Speaker 4: How long are we going to keep these kids on
Speaker 4: station trying to you know, to hold this down. Yes,
Speaker 4: we have to keep somebody there just in case, you know,
Speaker 4: this whole thing breaks, but that doesn't mean that something's
Speaker 4: not going to pop off on the other side of
Speaker 4: the world, so hopefully somebody's thinking about that.
Speaker 2: Plus, you got to carry a strikerup. It's been deployed.
Speaker 2: I think eleven months now at sea. Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: I think are they they're heading back home? Right? They
Speaker 1: had the big fire in the in the laundery room.
Speaker 2: I think they're in suic Bay in or suit A
Speaker 2: Bay in crete getting repaired. Okay, and they let the
Speaker 2: guys go on Liberty, which is nice that they got
Speaker 2: to go on Liberty, but like they're still deployed. They're
Speaker 2: not home yet, and they weren't told they'd go on
Speaker 2: eleven month deployment. They were told they going to six
Speaker 2: month deployment. So you know, like they got spouses and
Speaker 2: kids back home, some of them with their kids being
Speaker 2: born while they're out of the boat. You know, you
Speaker 2: got that's thousands of people deployed without any clue about
Speaker 2: what's coming next for them in their life.
Speaker 1: Now they're in crete getting cretean girls knocked up, you know,
Speaker 1: just waiting around for the laundroom to get fixed.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, so they can use it.
Speaker 1: And didn't they say yeah, didn't they say that it's
Speaker 1: going to take like almost two years to fix the
Speaker 1: actually fix the carrier.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they had like a range. It was
Speaker 1: like twelve to thirty six months to get it back.
Speaker 1: It's like my, oh my, I'm trying to get Jack
Speaker 1: to come on and he just sends something a screenshot
Speaker 1: from his phone. Uh, he's getting Ah, the area is
Speaker 1: under hostile aerial threat. Please remain calm, stay indoors or
Speaker 1: a safe place away from the windows and doors, and
Speaker 1: follow the instructions of civil defense And me too. What
Speaker 1: happened the first two million dollar toll check bounced?
Speaker 2: Probably they couldn't get into the bank account because it's
Speaker 2: still sanctioned.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: Well I'm gonna drop off, guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I gotta take off too, all right, get out
Speaker 4: of here, guys.
Speaker 1: I'll wrap it up on my solo. Don't worry about it.
Speaker 1: I'll keep chatting with the chatters a little bit, all right, folks,
Speaker 1: and and continue to ruin our reputation.
Speaker 4: Yes, burn the whole thing down.
Speaker 2: Somebody's gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, take care, take care of John. That was the boys.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get Murphy on, m Murphy on, but
Speaker 1: he's playing coy. I think I don't think he's home.
Speaker 1: It's pretty awesome. I get to do the show with
Speaker 1: these guys, right, like some jerk off like me. It's sick. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to catch up on the chats guys. My bad. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So there's that ceasefire piece in our time guys. And
Speaker 1: it's so annoying too, because this thing, it's just so many,
Speaker 1: so many screens. What else we got anything? I think
Speaker 1: we might wrap it up. I got nothing else to say.
Speaker 1: I'm spent creating question mark a Cretan girl from Crete
Speaker 1: because the aircraft carriers in Crete on leave while it's
Speaker 1: getting repaired. So they're so people from Crete. We call
Speaker 1: him Cretans. Yeah, I have friends from Crete. They're they're
Speaker 1: little cuckoo. They're definitely the cuckoo ones. Question for d
Speaker 1: If thousands of Marines are there on station, does that
Speaker 1: mean they will de deployed? Isn't it? Isn't it true
Speaker 1: that the US forces are on station they get used. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't know. They're gonna probably stay, you know,
Speaker 1: sit around wherever they are. My guess is they're probably
Speaker 1: in the Gulf of Aman the MW. They're not in
Speaker 1: the Persian Gulf. In no way, they're gonna be sitting
Speaker 1: around for a couple of weeks to see this thing,
Speaker 1: whether it falls apart or not. I mean, but yeah,
Speaker 1: we you know there's a for the most part, Trump
Speaker 1: whenever he builds up like a military forces summer, he
Speaker 1: kind of uses them. So frankly, I hope they don't
Speaker 1: do it. I hope they don't go after carg Island
Speaker 1: or anywhere else because think about it. If they're gonna
Speaker 1: go take carg Island to try and let's say this ship,
Speaker 1: let's say this ship broke apart, they try going and
Speaker 1: you know, they we go back to fighting. They go
Speaker 1: back to Carr Island, they go take carg Island. They're
Speaker 1: sitting there for weeks, probably just taking incoming fire. Like,
Speaker 1: how is that good versus the PMF in Iraq? Do
Speaker 1: you think there will be they will have a ground
Speaker 1: operation versus the PMF and Iraq. If anything, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be special offs and maybe CIA. Like, I don't think
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Speaker 1: what I mean, do what you gotta do for the calls,
Speaker 1: because I got like five experts on every weekend. They're
Speaker 1: not cheap guys, They're not cheap. Okay, they're divas. Don't
Speaker 1: tell them I said that. I hope my man Andy's
Speaker 1: good to go. Yeah, do us a solid Oh. Also Murphy,
Speaker 1: Jack Murphy, He's got a new book coming out in June.
Speaker 1: It's a fiction book. It's really cool. It's about our
Speaker 1: Army Ranger RRC guy who gets kidnapped and gets gets
Speaker 1: hunted for sport. Really good book. Read it. I read
Speaker 1: one of the first early drafts. Really it's it's fun.
Speaker 1: Check that out. The link is in the description high
Speaker 1: Side for Jack too, his news outlet which Sean Naylor.
Speaker 1: They do great work, worked at like the New York Times.
Speaker 1: I watched it, posts, wish they fucking did and all that.
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Speaker 1: about the Earth major sinking? I don't know what that is? Sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm stupid. A diner's basically like a like you get eggs,
Speaker 1: you can get a burger. I mean diners in New
Speaker 1: York and I'm sure a lot of places like in
Speaker 1: America are. It's just like a seven page menu and
Speaker 1: you can get anything from like two eggs breakfast to
Speaker 1: like you want to filet a soul. They have a
Speaker 1: filet of soul for some reason, that's what a diner is.
Speaker 1: At least here, it's like a coffee shop. Plus in Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: Now in New York, we don't really have those big
Speaker 1: ass diners as much anymore. It's like a small regular store,
Speaker 1: like in a retail area. That's just like a coffee
Speaker 1: shop diner. Like, we don't have those big ones with
Speaker 1: a big parking lots and stuff like that. We have
Speaker 1: one left in my neighborhood. But the ones that we
Speaker 1: at least have three, all diners are just Cisco slop.
Speaker 1: You're not wrong about that, bro, You're not wrong about that.
Speaker 1: Don't get me going with the restaurant business, worst business
Speaker 1: in the hum in human history. Also, Cisco just bought
Speaker 1: Restaurant Depot, which is like a place where like a
Speaker 1: lot of most a lot of restaurants in Brooklyn and
Speaker 1: anywhere go and buy stuff. So it's just like Cisco
Speaker 1: is just gobbling up everything and they're like the fucking
Speaker 1: worst guys. Don't get me crazy, you're as bringing up
Speaker 1: traumatic stuff for my past when I used to own restaurants. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not cool. Yeah, it's basically like a yeah food place, yeah,
Speaker 1: cafe and you're It's funny too, because some coffee shop
Speaker 1: dineer places call themselves, you know, Jimmy's Cafe and stuff,
Speaker 1: and it's basically like just diner food. Maybe some of
Speaker 1: them will do like uh, some of the will do
Speaker 1: like desserts and stuff like that too. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of like different places that are like amalgamations. Jack's
Speaker 1: at a bar, all right, Jack's out. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: thanks for hanging out for the live. Really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll try and start doing a little bit of
Speaker 1: a couple more lives. Keep it like nice and loose maybe, okay,
Speaker 1: basis Yeah right, Jason's in here. Jason. Also, diners stay
Speaker 1: open later, sometimes twenty four hours. Yeah, what happened here
Speaker 1: in New York especially? I mean sure there's still some
Speaker 1: twenty four hour diners, but a lot of the twenty
Speaker 1: four hour diners around me when COVID hit, they stopped
Speaker 1: being twenty four and they never really came back as
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. My local Greek diner burned their diner
Speaker 1: down for insurance money to cover the debt on the
Speaker 1: bar they opened up. Yeah, that sounds like a totally
Speaker 1: plausible reason to do that. Would I be lying to
Speaker 1: you if I told you when I own restaurants, I
Speaker 1: fantasize about burning them down and taking the money. Uh
Speaker 1: yeah I did. I didn't burn it down or anything
Speaker 1: I should have. All right, guys, thanks again, really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to fucking turn the stream off.
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Speaker 1: how fucking smart is John Hackett? By the way, can
Speaker 1: we be honest Jesus Christ. I was enlisted. He was
Speaker 1: an enlisted marine. He wasn't even an officer. Guy's a
Speaker 1: fucking genius. Well everyone's smart on this except for me.
Speaker 1: I just run my mouth off. All right, boys and
Speaker 1: two girls, see you next time. We'll see you Sunday
Speaker 1: for sure. Actually, no new eyes On is coming out tomorrow. Actually,
Speaker 1: we recorded something with Mick Molroy's partner Eric Olrich and
Speaker 1: Scott Canino, both you know SMU guys, talking about the
Speaker 1: future of warfare. So that's coming out. Me and John
Speaker 1: Hackett did an interview with them last week, So that's
Speaker 1: coming out. Check out for that. I actually gotta edit
Speaker 1: that right now. Fuck me just reminding myself. New Teamhouse
Speaker 1: coming out. We're recording it tomorrow, so if you sign
Speaker 1: up on Patreon you can watch it live as we
Speaker 1: record it. Really cool one with a guy named Sean
Speaker 1: Weisswis Weisswesser. He wrote a book about Russian espionage. Really
Speaker 1: cool one. Jack just said, I'm at a bar reading
Speaker 1: the rest of it right now, so jacklin to come prepared.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we're pumping out stuff all the time, so
Speaker 1: we might I think I might want to do this
Speaker 1: live shit a little bit more. Maybe get some reaction
Speaker 1: videos too. Dave in days in the Caribbean, working a
Speaker 1: working a security gig. All right, I'm really done now.
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