1 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:22,760 Speaker 1: And here we go. 2 00:00:23,039 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Big Podcast. 3 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: We've got a lot to cover today, Thank you for 4 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,039 coming by. We've got the war, of course, and the 5 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:38,799 update on what's happening there. We've got some finance issues 6 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:42,840 to go over, and also some of your phone calls. 7 00:00:43,039 --> 00:00:44,679 We're going to get a lot of phone calls in 8 00:00:44,759 --> 00:00:50,439 hopefully today. But with the war, I mean yesterday, forgive 9 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,240 me I while I was recording the podcast, right in 10 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,479 the middle of the recording came the news flash that 11 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:01,679 Donald Trump had was going to start bombing. Actually he 12 00:01:01,799 --> 00:01:03,759 was supposed to be last night, then he extended it 13 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:08,680 to tonight. And then in the middle of the podcast recording, 14 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:15,120 the word came from the President that he was just 15 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:20,480 delaying the bombing, wasn't and was going to extend the ceasefire, 16 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:23,920 but it never said for how long. So this morning 17 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:30,120 we get word that the President has given run three 18 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:35,040 to five days. Yeah, a new timeline. And the problem 19 00:01:35,079 --> 00:01:38,439 with this is he always gives these timelines and never 20 00:01:38,599 --> 00:01:42,400 keeps them. And so sure enough, shortly after that, the 21 00:01:42,439 --> 00:01:45,079 White House came out and said that is fake news. 22 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,200 The President never gave them three to five days for 23 00:01:49,519 --> 00:01:54,959 to sit down and meet. Instead, it's open ended. Yep, 24 00:01:56,079 --> 00:02:02,680 just open ended. So on top of that, uh, the 25 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:07,000 the Iranians are mad because of the fact of the blockade. 26 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:12,439 And as soon as the President said we're not going 27 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:19,759 to start bombing, the Iranians went out and captured two 28 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:25,280 oil tankers and shot up another one or two, it 29 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:30,039 depends upon the reporting, but two were hit by I 30 00:02:30,199 --> 00:02:34,240 RGC gunboats. They shot up the bridge of two of 31 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:37,439 the of the of the ships. People are are okay, 32 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:41,599 nobody was killed. But this idea about a ceasefire is 33 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:46,479 limited three to five days. It's just it's just the 34 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,039 White House is now saying it's not new. I just 35 00:02:49,039 --> 00:02:50,919 want to play this for you because I did. I 36 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:55,080 came out of my shoes yesterday. I was so upset 37 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:57,599 by the fact that he drew a line in the 38 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:00,599 sand and he didn't keep it. It goes back to 39 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:04,479 the Obama saw the red line in the sand about 40 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:08,599 Syria and poisoning their people. He didn't keep it. This 41 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:15,479 is the president yesterday morning. Yesterday morning, he was on CNBC. 42 00:03:15,719 --> 00:03:18,319 It was about eight o'clock in the morning, and this 43 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:19,199 is what he said. 44 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 3: But the deadline for the cease fires tomorrow, if it 45 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:28,879 looks like things are progressing. Will you not necessarily extend 46 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,599 it to a definitive amount of time, but will you 47 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,439 let it keep going if there's a progress in the 48 00:03:34,479 --> 00:03:37,000 talks before taking. 49 00:03:37,039 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: Well, I don't want to do that because you're. 50 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 3: Saying that you need a at least the prospects for 51 00:03:43,719 --> 00:03:48,000 a sign deal today and tomorrow, or else you would 52 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:50,360 resume bombing. 53 00:03:51,319 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 4: Ran I expect to be bombing because I think that's 54 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,479 a better attitude to go in with. But we're ready 55 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:57,800 to go. 56 00:03:58,039 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 5: I mean, the military is. 57 00:03:59,400 --> 00:03:59,879 Speaker 2: Rare in the go. 58 00:04:02,319 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: Well, like I said, that was yesterday morning, and by 59 00:04:05,199 --> 00:04:11,639 yesterday afternoon, all of a sudden, we've extended the ceasefire indefinitely. 60 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,160 There's no particular point on it. By the way, today 61 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,240 is also Earth Day, and there's a bunch of climate 62 00:04:18,319 --> 00:04:21,839 protesters out on Fifth Avenue here in New York, in 63 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:26,399 front of the Trump Tower, and there's a I don't know, 64 00:04:26,879 --> 00:04:32,360 there's thirty of them. I don't mean to laugh. They 65 00:04:32,399 --> 00:04:34,160 just look silly. They're out there in the middle of 66 00:04:34,199 --> 00:04:37,360 Fifth Avenue trying to make life miserable for people. But 67 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:40,319 back to the war, So we've got we've got the 68 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:44,680 ships have been attacked two that have been hit with gunfire. 69 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:50,920 Joe Bassino, he is the former sent Coom spokesman, and 70 00:04:50,959 --> 00:04:52,360 this is what he had to say. 71 00:04:52,439 --> 00:04:54,959 Speaker 6: I think that it demonstrates they're not ready. Ron is 72 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,839 not ready to negotiate, and they may not even be 73 00:04:57,319 --> 00:04:59,519 in a position to negotiat. They may not have the 74 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:04,279 console vation of power across the Parliament, the IRGC and 75 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,920 the MULAS to get into some kind of negotiation. I'm 76 00:05:07,959 --> 00:05:11,199 also not sure that President Trubb is one hundred percent 77 00:05:11,519 --> 00:05:15,319 accurate in saying that these new leaders are more rational. 78 00:05:15,399 --> 00:05:20,800 I think most Tabocomane Bahiti, the new IRGC commander, these 79 00:05:20,879 --> 00:05:24,360 are our hardliners. They may not be as rational as 80 00:05:24,399 --> 00:05:28,120 we're thinking they are. You know, more than fifteen ships there, 81 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,199 we've got more than ten thousand soldiers, and you've got 82 00:05:31,399 --> 00:05:34,920 sonar radar that's under the water. We've also got radar 83 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,360 on the surface of the water, and we've got radar 84 00:05:37,439 --> 00:05:41,040 in the skies, and we've got satellites in low Earth orbit. 85 00:05:41,519 --> 00:05:46,000 So we're scanning across every domain. We're watching across every domain, 86 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,079 and we've got you know, really cutting edge high tech 87 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:53,399 capabilities that are imposing this blockade and securing the blockade 88 00:05:53,439 --> 00:05:56,000 and giving us eyes across everything in the Arabian Gulf 89 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:57,000 and the Straight of Horn moves. 90 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: So the military, our military is uping bombs, but they're busy. 91 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:05,959 You heard him, with fifteen ships and ten thousands troops 92 00:06:05,959 --> 00:06:10,759 and satellites below the water, above the water. One guy 93 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:15,800 who has impeccable credentials, Admiral mccraven. He's the guy who 94 00:06:16,439 --> 00:06:19,959 used to be the admiral in charge of sealed teams, 95 00:06:20,199 --> 00:06:23,800 Sealed Team six he led. He was the officer, the 96 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:28,040 commander of the raid to get ben Laden And they 97 00:06:28,079 --> 00:06:32,160 asked him, Okay, what do we do now? Where we 98 00:06:32,199 --> 00:06:32,639 are now? 99 00:06:33,319 --> 00:06:35,480 Speaker 2: You know, we're at an impasse at the end of 100 00:06:35,519 --> 00:06:35,879 the day. 101 00:06:36,399 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 7: The Iranians don't want to come to the negotiating table 102 00:06:38,439 --> 00:06:41,360 until we lift the blockade. But the blockade for us 103 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:43,759 is a pressure point on Iran. Continuing to bomb them 104 00:06:43,759 --> 00:06:47,199 probably isn't going to work. You know, lift the lift 105 00:06:47,199 --> 00:06:50,000 the blockade for a period of the ceasefire, and the 106 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:52,720 blockade is a Swiss and you lift the blockade and 107 00:06:52,759 --> 00:06:54,720 if they don't comply, you just put the blockade back 108 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:56,600 in place. I mean, this is not something that takes 109 00:06:56,639 --> 00:06:58,120 a lot of massinations to happen. 110 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:01,759 Speaker 1: So what does Joe Casino think about what the admiral 111 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:02,519 had to say. 112 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 6: It's realistic. The problem is if we lift the blockade 113 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:09,000 while Iran is keeping the straight of horm mooves closed, 114 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,759 they've got leverage, or certainly they feel like they've got leverage. 115 00:07:12,879 --> 00:07:17,040 I think with the blockade, we've got multiple pressure points. 116 00:07:17,079 --> 00:07:20,319 We're compounding multiple pieces of pressure here on top of Iran. 117 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,160 Obviously the pressure with the bombing campaign, with Phase one 118 00:07:24,199 --> 00:07:27,800 of the war, we've knocked out fifty years more than 119 00:07:27,839 --> 00:07:33,079 fifty years of military equipment inside of Iran. Then we've 120 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:36,720 got the economic pressure with the blockade. Then we've got 121 00:07:36,759 --> 00:07:41,199 the diplomatic pressure with the ceasefire delay that's eventually going 122 00:07:41,279 --> 00:07:44,399 to end, and eventually we're going to start presumably phase 123 00:07:44,439 --> 00:07:46,399 two of the war if we don't get to a 124 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:50,160 negotiation with regard to Uranian Richmond, I think the problem 125 00:07:50,319 --> 00:07:54,120 is lifting the blockade on our end while Iran keeps 126 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:57,480 the straight hoh hoorror mooves closed on their end, gives them, 127 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:02,680 gives them leverage, allows them to put pressure on President Trump. 128 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: All right, One guy that I find myself nodding in 129 00:08:06,639 --> 00:08:09,519 agreement with most of what he has to say is 130 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:15,600 General Keith Kellogg. General Kellogg was asked about his advice 131 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:17,199 on what we should do here. 132 00:08:18,199 --> 00:08:20,879 Speaker 8: Well, yeah, in the IRGC has gotten so does the army. 133 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:24,079 And the army separate from the IRGC is actually twice 134 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:26,560 the size of the RGC. But you want to make 135 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,319 it so hard on them that they have to make 136 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,879 hard decisions and they're fractured really badly. When you look 137 00:08:32,879 --> 00:08:35,919 at people like their president, Posesskeon, he's a moderate, he 138 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:38,080 who tries to be you know, of course that's kind 139 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:41,519 of stretching the word moderate, but the fact is they've 140 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,120 kind of sidelined him. The real guy in charge is 141 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:47,159 that picture up there, the Vehiti. He's running the RGC. 142 00:08:47,399 --> 00:08:50,039 But they distributed command and control. They call it the 143 00:08:50,039 --> 00:08:53,399 Mosaic Defense. They've done this over years because they were 144 00:08:53,399 --> 00:08:56,679 always afraid of fighting the United States. So they've distributed 145 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:59,639 to command of thirty one regional commands, the besieges, one 146 00:08:59,639 --> 00:09:02,559 of those keeping the population down. Just create a create 147 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:04,120 a problem for them. The only way you're going to 148 00:09:04,159 --> 00:09:06,000 break their back, and that's what you need to do 149 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:09,159 is break their back. You have to understand that we 150 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:13,320 are fighting a theocratic or religious zealous. The disease are 151 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,840 theocratic thugs and we need to address that. It's no more, 152 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,120 as the President says, no more, mister nice guy, We'll 153 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:20,919 just go after it and say we're not going to 154 00:09:20,919 --> 00:09:24,360 negotiate anymore. We're just going to keep tearing apart, tearing 155 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:26,840 apart a ran economically, and if that means going to 156 00:09:26,919 --> 00:09:29,360 the home base of carg Island or places like that, 157 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,440 that's what we're gonna do. And you keep the embargo 158 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:35,559 in place, which was being brilliantly done and lead, but 159 00:09:35,639 --> 00:09:37,440 you will attack them and you want to make sure 160 00:09:37,759 --> 00:09:40,679 that sooner or later they break. And you're actually looking 161 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,399 forward to mestic revolt, Yeah, you are, because that's the 162 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,919 only way that the ream is going to fall or 163 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:47,960 it's going to not cause this problems. As long as 164 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,240 the Ranian Revolutionary Guards is in control, they're going to 165 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,240 keep chanting death to America is real death that anybody 166 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:54,960 doesn't like them. 167 00:09:55,039 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that makes sense. Is to keep the 168 00:09:57,399 --> 00:10:01,159 pressure on economically, just keep it. The problem with that, 169 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:04,039 the pressure is going to be on the President and 170 00:10:04,159 --> 00:10:07,240 the White House because it will keep gas prices and 171 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:12,360 energy prices in all the downhill flow of higher prices 172 00:10:12,399 --> 00:10:16,919 inflation across the globe. But if you want to win 173 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,360 this war, you've got to break them, as General Kellogg said. 174 00:10:20,919 --> 00:10:25,120 Michael Allen, former National Security advisor to George W. Bush, 175 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:25,879 said this. 176 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:29,799 Speaker 9: Well, I think this is the best card we have, 177 00:10:29,919 --> 00:10:33,879 and we have to keep the pressure on economically. The 178 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:38,320 blockade of Iranian ports was a great move by President Trump. 179 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:41,799 We have to figure out a way to condition the 180 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:45,759 Iranians to reopen the straight unconditionally. 181 00:10:46,159 --> 00:10:47,399 Speaker 2: Not that they have to check. 182 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 9: We have to check with the Iranian military or pay 183 00:10:50,519 --> 00:10:55,000 a toll. It's got to be free and open and unimpeded. 184 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:58,759 And I think the blockade of Iranian ports is the 185 00:10:58,799 --> 00:11:01,080 best way to go up it. And we need to 186 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,320 keep doing it and signal that we're willing to do 187 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:07,919 it into the future. Because the Secretary is talking about 188 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,879 a key vulnerability, an economic vulnerability that the iraudience have, 189 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,279 which is what are they going to do with the 190 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:14,840 oil that they're pumping? 191 00:11:14,879 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: Where are they going to put it? Made that come about? 192 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:20,519 You're right, So if they can't ship their oil then 193 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:24,840 Cargiland in all those places, they have to load it 194 00:11:24,879 --> 00:11:27,519 onto tankers. And if they can't do that. What are 195 00:11:27,519 --> 00:11:29,000 they going to do. They're going to have to shut 196 00:11:29,039 --> 00:11:33,840 down their oil production, which would be imminent, I would think. 197 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,399 Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I definitely think that what we've learned 198 00:11:38,399 --> 00:11:41,600 from the Russia Ukraine war is it pertains to drones 199 00:11:41,879 --> 00:11:46,279 and autonomous robots and the rest is really the future 200 00:11:46,279 --> 00:11:49,879 of warfare. I do think the Chinese are studying this 201 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,200 conflict in addition to the one in the Russia in Ukraine, 202 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:56,559 and I thought the admiral there was making the correct point. 203 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:01,679 We need to take our own asymmetric advancetages and learn 204 00:12:01,759 --> 00:12:04,840 how to do this just in case China does something 205 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:09,720 against Taiwan down the road. While we're all focused, appropriately 206 00:12:09,799 --> 00:12:11,919 so on other theaters as well. 207 00:12:12,519 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: So about the talks, it will there be talks. They 208 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,240 were supposed to be talks in three to five days, 209 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,120 but again the White House said that was fake news. 210 00:12:20,159 --> 00:12:23,799 But this afternoon, this is what I'm dealing with. As 211 00:12:23,799 --> 00:12:27,440 I'm going through the day, the facts keep changing. Now 212 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:31,600 the word as a president has given around thirty six 213 00:12:32,159 --> 00:12:38,399 to seventy two hours to sit down at a ceasefire meeting. Yeah, 214 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:39,519 I think it's possible. 215 00:12:39,639 --> 00:12:41,799 Speaker 9: I think that we are trying to prevail upon the 216 00:12:41,799 --> 00:12:46,159 Pakistani's to talk the Iranians into coming. What the Iranians 217 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,080 need to do, however, is abandon this apparent demand that 218 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:52,759 they have, which is that we need to cease the 219 00:12:52,799 --> 00:12:56,639 blockade in order to even get them to show up 220 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:59,399 in Pakistan. I don't think that's going to work. We 221 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,399 just talked about how it's our best card to play. 222 00:13:02,519 --> 00:13:05,519 It's the most economic leverage that we have over them. 223 00:13:06,039 --> 00:13:08,279 But there could be something else going on within Iran. 224 00:13:09,039 --> 00:13:11,720 It's said it's a new group of leaders. They may 225 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,279 not have figured out yet how to make decisions, how 226 00:13:15,279 --> 00:13:19,159 to incorporate differing views and come out with the bottom 227 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:21,919 line that they're going to seek in negotiations. So I 228 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,600 bet our intelligence community is watching this closely as the 229 00:13:25,639 --> 00:13:30,600 Iranians debate among themselves what their negotiating posture will be. 230 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:33,279 So we might just need a few more days for 231 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:36,440 this to shake out. And I wouldn't rule out talks 232 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:41,159 at all as well. Still not jazzed about the idea 233 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:46,480 of talks. Just keep the stranglehold on, and keep keep 234 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:50,799 that stranglehold on until their economy absolutely collapses, and then 235 00:13:50,879 --> 00:13:53,879 take over step in take over the country to where 236 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:58,039 the people can then elect their next leaders. So another 237 00:13:58,039 --> 00:14:01,080 big news item from yesterday was last night the state 238 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:05,399 of Virginia had their ballot measure to decide whether or 239 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:10,759 not to redistrict. They had a balance of five Republicans 240 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:14,879 six Democrats for the state of Virginia representing the people 241 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:19,480 in Congress, so it was pretty balanced until last night, 242 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:23,320 and it was very very close. The let me look 243 00:14:23,399 --> 00:14:27,960 up the numbers here, Fifty one point five voted yes 244 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:33,720 to redistrict, forty eight point five said no. So it 245 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:39,519 was a very narrow win. It was much narrower than 246 00:14:39,679 --> 00:14:44,919 the twenty twenty four election. Kamala Harris wanted much bigger spread, 247 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:49,000 so this was this was a good debate for the 248 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:51,840 people of Virginia. What that does is it gives Virginia 249 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:57,519 it'll be ten Democrats and one Republican. And this is 250 00:14:57,559 --> 00:15:00,360 a state that Donald Trump won forty six percent of 251 00:15:00,399 --> 00:15:04,120 the state. And this is what's wrong with redistricting. 252 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: Is that instead of the people, you and me going 253 00:15:08,039 --> 00:15:11,960 to the battle box and choosing our politicians, this is 254 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:17,320 the politicians choosing which voters they want voting for them. 255 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:22,159 That's all it is. And it doesn't really represent fair 256 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:26,519 and equal representation. I mean, we're never going to have 257 00:15:26,639 --> 00:15:31,360 equal but it'd be fair representation. So the Democrats have 258 00:15:31,639 --> 00:15:35,679 a win. It will probably give them enough seats to 259 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,840 take the control of the House in November, but maybe 260 00:15:39,879 --> 00:15:43,799 not because it started with Texas and it's gone around 261 00:15:43,799 --> 00:15:46,879 to a number of states, and there's one more watching 262 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:52,679 what happened in Virginia last night, and that's Florida. And Florida, well, 263 00:15:52,759 --> 00:15:56,360 they have a problem. Governor DeSantis is apparently going to 264 00:15:56,399 --> 00:15:59,720 call a special session of the legislature in Tallahassee to 265 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:02,399 figure out how to put a new map up for 266 00:16:02,519 --> 00:16:05,080 the people to vote on, and if so, it would 267 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:10,159 bring at maybe five more Democrats. So they're they're canceling 268 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,639 each other out. In California, the people they are going 269 00:16:13,679 --> 00:16:16,480 to vote on their redistricting in June, so they keep 270 00:16:16,559 --> 00:16:19,600 canceling themselves out. The politicians who study this stuff say 271 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:21,919 it's probably going to be pretty close to a wash. 272 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:25,679 Maybe the Democrats will win one or two extra seats, 273 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:29,480 and since it's so narrow, it may in fact tilt 274 00:16:29,519 --> 00:16:31,679 it to where the Democrats get control of the House. 275 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:35,960 It's a long way between now and that taking place. 276 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:42,120 The real message out of this is that people are 277 00:16:42,279 --> 00:16:47,600 sick and tired of the political games between the Republicans 278 00:16:47,639 --> 00:16:51,480 and the Democrats. And that's what this is. That's all 279 00:16:51,559 --> 00:16:54,600 this is. They're trying to get one hand up on 280 00:16:54,639 --> 00:16:59,080 the other on the other team. Harry Anton, the data 281 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:03,519 guy on CNN, went through the numbers about just how 282 00:17:03,759 --> 00:17:06,000 much Congress is hated. 283 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 10: Say to Congress, stand up and applaud. You're usually hated, 284 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:12,400 but usually not this hated. You're reaching or at least 285 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:17,759 tying record highs in terms of disapproval. Hello, eighty six percent. 286 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:22,039 Eighty six percent of Americans disapprove of Congress. That is 287 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:26,720 tied with November of twenty thirteen for the all time high. 288 00:17:26,759 --> 00:17:30,799 As I said, Congress usually hated, but usually not this hated. 289 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,480 Speaker 2: You're actually managing to tie records. 290 00:17:33,599 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 10: Just ten percent, just ten percent of Americans approve of 291 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:42,359 the job that Congress is doing. So therefore, as I said, 292 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,359 stand up and give yourselves a round the plague, you 293 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:46,079 managed to do it. 294 00:17:46,079 --> 00:17:49,279 Speaker 1: Congratulations. Yes, they used to say give themselves the clap. 295 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:53,680 I mean, it's just it's out of control. This is 296 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:58,359 a political game for these nerdy people who are really 297 00:17:58,559 --> 00:18:02,039 deep into politics, and how you can get the other 298 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:05,039 side and your team beat the other's team. But no, 299 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:09,319 we're an American team. We have two divisions, no question 300 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,759 about it. And it's good to have a debate between 301 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:16,920 people that see things differently. But man, there is a huge, 302 00:18:17,319 --> 00:18:21,279 huge disagreement on them and this that's why this and 303 00:18:21,599 --> 00:18:27,039 Abigail Spanberger, she came into office just in November, and 304 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:31,599 she promised that she would not do redistricting. The first 305 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:36,200 day in office in January, she signed a law to 306 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:38,920 put it for the voters redistricting. Now, the voters did vote, 307 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:43,119 I'll give you that, but this is not a popular move. 308 00:18:43,319 --> 00:18:48,880 Mark short who was Pence's's chief of staff, he's a 309 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:53,240 Republican and he's looking at the Republicans didn't lift a 310 00:18:53,279 --> 00:18:56,559 little even a little finger to help out to try 311 00:18:56,559 --> 00:18:58,680 to get this proposition in their favor. 312 00:18:59,039 --> 00:19:01,680 Speaker 11: Well, I think it's I think it was an incredibly 313 00:19:01,799 --> 00:19:07,160 disingenuous and dishonest campaign from Governor Spamberger, who just last 314 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:09,759 fall campaigned on a pledge to say she had no 315 00:19:09,799 --> 00:19:14,319 plans to redistrict. The referendum itself was dishonest and saying 316 00:19:14,319 --> 00:19:17,680 this is merely temporary and it restores fairness. You will 317 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:20,559 actually have if this goes through and it's not stopped 318 00:19:20,599 --> 00:19:24,079 by the courts, she'll actually have residents in Virginia will 319 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:27,440 be represented by members in the northern Virginia suburbs who 320 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,119 those members will live close to the New Jersey state line, 321 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,880 and the constituents they represent either in Tidewater or Southwest Virginia, 322 00:19:33,960 --> 00:19:37,720 And so it is incredibly disenfranchised in the voters. Having 323 00:19:37,759 --> 00:19:39,799 said that, I also think it is an incredible political 324 00:19:39,839 --> 00:19:43,000 malpractice by the political team in the White House that 325 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:46,279 at the same time they were not spending resources here 326 00:19:46,319 --> 00:19:48,400 in Virginia in a vote that was only lost by 327 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,559 three points, which was a tighter margin than obviously the 328 00:19:51,599 --> 00:19:55,359 elections last fall, significantly tighter and could have benefited from 329 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:58,720 more resources. By the same time, they're spending those same 330 00:19:58,799 --> 00:20:03,759 resources attack King conservative Republican state centers in Indiana who 331 00:20:03,839 --> 00:20:07,599 opposed redistricting there. So they're spending dollars attacking Republicans but 332 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:11,519 wouldn't support actually efforts here to stop redistricting in Virginia. 333 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:13,400 So I think it's I think it's both. I think 334 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,759 there's Democrats on a pure political sense. One. I don't 335 00:20:16,799 --> 00:20:19,720 think it helps Spamberger long term. In fact, the first 336 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:22,000 after the first eighty days in office, she has a 337 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,920 lower approval ry than any previous governor in modern history 338 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:28,079 in Virginia because she's no longer that moderate she pretended 339 00:20:28,079 --> 00:20:31,400 to be. But I also think it's a big loss 340 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:33,640 for Republicans and hurts their midterm chances. 341 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:37,480 Speaker 1: Very puzzling why somebody like Abigail Spaanberger would pretend that 342 00:20:37,559 --> 00:20:40,400 she's somebody else, knowing that once if she gets elected, 343 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,119 she's going to do just the opposite. I mean, that 344 00:20:43,599 --> 00:20:48,720 is worse than used car salesman, just just bait and switch. Well, 345 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:52,079 here she is the governor of Virginia, Abigail Spanberger. 346 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 12: The individual voters in the Commonwealth of Virginia ultimately voted 347 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:59,720 on this referendum and passed it. Really, this all began 348 00:21:00,079 --> 00:21:02,920 and President Trump said that he believed he was entitled 349 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:05,920 to congressional seats and that the legislature at the time 350 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:10,720 in Texas responded responded by redistricting without the input of 351 00:21:10,759 --> 00:21:14,359 the people to ensure that he got what he wanted. 352 00:21:14,519 --> 00:21:18,119 Virginia created a plan that was wholly responsive to the 353 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:21,440 actions of other states and temporary in nature. 354 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 1: I would love it. In Texas and in Virginia and 355 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,640 in all the other states that are doing redistricting, you 356 00:21:28,799 --> 00:21:32,440 still get to choose who you vote for. But if 357 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,359 your representatives are all of a sudden, you don't live 358 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,480 in the district where you're the representative you wanted that 359 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:42,960 used to represent you, well you don't have a choice. 360 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:47,039 So they are literally choosing the voters that they want 361 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:51,039 rather than the voters choosing the members of Congress that 362 00:21:51,079 --> 00:21:56,279 they want. It's a dirty politics. And I hope and 363 00:21:56,319 --> 00:22:00,200 pray that this this backlashes and that a lot of 364 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:03,599 these redistricting efforts don't turn out to be the way 365 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:07,599 they thought they would be. But it was Republicans who 366 00:22:07,599 --> 00:22:11,759 were far outspent by Democrats. Republicans did not lift a finger. 367 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:15,000 But again, it's just it's rotten politics, and it was 368 00:22:15,039 --> 00:22:18,279 on display in Virginia last night. So now we wait 369 00:22:18,319 --> 00:22:21,200 to see about the state of Florida, because it's not 370 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,200 just the governor calling a special session of the legislature. 371 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:31,640 There's also some law in Florida that prohibits them changing 372 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:37,079 the redistricting in between census years. So we'll see if 373 00:22:37,079 --> 00:22:38,920 they can figure a way to get around that. If 374 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,400 they're going to do that or not. But again, the 375 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,240 pointy heads that study all this, when all of a 376 00:22:45,279 --> 00:22:50,000 sudden done this takes Texas is going to add five Republicans, 377 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,200 Virginia is going to add four Democrats, and you go 378 00:22:53,279 --> 00:22:55,839 back and forth and you wind up with basically a 379 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:04,160 wash crazy got by name of Paul Reikhoff. I forget 380 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:10,480 the name of his organization. He's basically an independent and 381 00:23:10,519 --> 00:23:14,000 he says the majority of people now are leaving the 382 00:23:14,039 --> 00:23:17,799 Republican Democrat parties and becoming part of the registring ism 383 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:23,319 independent and he's promoting all that he can about people 384 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:28,359 who are independents like me. So here's Paul Reikoff. 385 00:23:28,759 --> 00:23:31,440 Speaker 13: Yeah, it is a totally broken system. 386 00:23:31,839 --> 00:23:32,319 Speaker 2: This is hard. 387 00:23:33,039 --> 00:23:35,400 Speaker 13: This is what a rigged political system looks like. And 388 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:37,480 the Republicans tried to rig it first, and now the 389 00:23:37,559 --> 00:23:41,319 Democrats are responding, and we've got mutual annihilation for our democracy. 390 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,640 And who's really losing here are the voters. What's really 391 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:47,480 losing is democracy. I talk a lot with and four independents. 392 00:23:47,519 --> 00:23:50,119 We're forty five percent of the country and growing because 393 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:52,759 of incidents like this. You've got the Democrats who actually 394 00:23:52,759 --> 00:23:56,039 only represent about twenty seven percent Republicans about twenty seven percent. 395 00:23:56,079 --> 00:23:58,319 Most of us are somewhere in between or none of 396 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,480 the above, and this is what all partisan warfare looks like. 397 00:24:01,519 --> 00:24:04,240 And the real solution we need is congressional action to 398 00:24:04,279 --> 00:24:07,799 create independent, congressionally redrawn maps that aren't. 399 00:24:07,559 --> 00:24:08,759 Speaker 2: Decided by partisans. 400 00:24:08,799 --> 00:24:10,759 Speaker 13: Because what you've got now is the players are also 401 00:24:10,799 --> 00:24:13,480 the umpires, and that's why this whole game is broken 402 00:24:13,519 --> 00:24:16,480 and not working, and American democracy is ultimately what's suffering. 403 00:24:16,519 --> 00:24:19,160 I think there's another choice, which which is don't engage 404 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,559 in this and actually reform the system to make it fair. 405 00:24:21,559 --> 00:24:23,240 And I think especially when you're trying to buy for 406 00:24:23,279 --> 00:24:25,480 independent votes, voters will respond to that. 407 00:24:25,559 --> 00:24:26,599 Speaker 2: They will see that you're. 408 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,319 Speaker 13: Doing the right thing for our democracy and not just 409 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,400 figure side. Obama's the guy used to say, you know, 410 00:24:30,599 --> 00:24:32,519 when they go low, we go high. This is we 411 00:24:32,599 --> 00:24:34,880 go low, they go low. Everybody goes low, and our 412 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:37,559 democracy goes down. And that's what's happening here. It would 413 00:24:37,559 --> 00:24:40,240 be a loss for Democrats and a win for Republicans, 414 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,279 but I think they're also on the losing side here. 415 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,880 Speaker 2: I mean, when you push for changing you know. 416 00:24:44,799 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 13: Ahead of schedule, off schedule, against the Constitution and in 417 00:24:48,759 --> 00:24:51,200 a partisan way. I think no matter who you are, 418 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,200 the Yes is going to lose here more often than not, 419 00:24:53,319 --> 00:24:55,839 especially in a more independent minded state like Virginia. 420 00:24:55,839 --> 00:24:58,440 Speaker 2: You got folks who are around the capitol. They're pretty 421 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,079 well educated. Right. Yeah, Try this in New Hampshire. Try 422 00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:01,839 this in Alaska. 423 00:25:02,039 --> 00:25:03,880 Speaker 13: I think you're going to see even higher numbers because 424 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,160 people understand that there should be a process and most importantly, 425 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:08,039 that it should be independent. 426 00:25:08,079 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 2: They see through this, They see. 427 00:25:09,319 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 13: This as Democrats and Republicans doing exactly what they do. 428 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,920 And this is why ten thousand people are leaving the 429 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,599 Democratic and Republican Party every single week, and almost sixty 430 00:25:17,599 --> 00:25:19,960 percent of young people are unaffiliated and independent. They don't 431 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,759 want any of it. They want total structural reform. That's harder, 432 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,720 that takes longer, but that's what's best. 433 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 1: That is what's best, and that's ideal, and I would 434 00:25:28,759 --> 00:25:31,200 love to see it. I will hold my breath, though 435 00:25:31,279 --> 00:25:33,319 not too long, because I don't think this is going 436 00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:35,880 to happen anytime soon. But I like the fact that 437 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:40,759 mister Raikoff is out there preaching for making things more 438 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,240 independent and instead of these clubs, the Republican Club and 439 00:25:44,279 --> 00:25:48,640 the Democrat Club telling you exactly who you can vote for, 440 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:53,279 rather than you telling the politicians who you're going to 441 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:57,240 vote for. And speaking of Florida, what's his name, Mike 442 00:25:57,359 --> 00:26:00,519 Hart Atopolis something like that. He as a congressman Florida. 443 00:26:01,759 --> 00:26:06,480 He is out jumping up and down about more money 444 00:26:06,519 --> 00:26:11,960 for space for Artemis three. And they're already running into 445 00:26:12,039 --> 00:26:15,599 problems about Artemis three, and they can't figure out how 446 00:26:15,599 --> 00:26:19,759 they're going to launch this next spaceship and land people 447 00:26:19,839 --> 00:26:26,720 on the moon. And I'm thinking, I know, now this 448 00:26:26,799 --> 00:26:29,759 really dates the whole thing, But it was nineteen sixty 449 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,000 nine when we landed men on the moon and they 450 00:26:33,039 --> 00:26:35,000 walked around on the moon, and they got back in 451 00:26:35,039 --> 00:26:37,160 their lander and went back up to the spaceship and 452 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:41,119 came home. Why don't they go to their file cabinets, 453 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,480 remember those things. Yeah, there's a file cabinet in NASA. 454 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,880 If they open it up and look at nineteen sixty 455 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:54,119 nine Apollo, just follow what they did. They got there successfully. 456 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,599 I'm not quite sure what's going on with this, but 457 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,279 listen to this con from Florida. It's all about we 458 00:27:02,319 --> 00:27:03,119 need more money. 459 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,440 Speaker 14: I think there are some legitimate concerns about the Science 460 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,839 Mission as well. We know how important it is for 461 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:12,599 technological advancement and also for weather patterns from states like 462 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,640 Florida dealing with hurricanes and so much like we did 463 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,319 last year when we kind of closed that gap between 464 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,279 the president's initial budget and the final budget, I. 465 00:27:21,279 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 1: Think we're going to do much the same here. 466 00:27:23,559 --> 00:27:24,359 Speaker 2: So it's all. 467 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,599 Speaker 1: About the money. That's what That's what it comes down to. 468 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,559 All right, let's get some phone calls in and we'll 469 00:27:29,559 --> 00:27:33,000 start with Sharon, our public health nurse in Tennessee. 470 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 15: Hey, Tom, it's your public health their Sharon from beautiful 471 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:37,200 Eastern Tennessee. 472 00:27:38,839 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 16: I heard you talking, I think it. 473 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:45,440 Speaker 15: Was Friday, about these six scientists that have been killed 474 00:27:45,559 --> 00:27:51,480 or died suspiciously and then six that are missing quote unquote, 475 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,400 and I'm just blown away by that that there is 476 00:27:54,519 --> 00:27:58,680 absolutely cricket when it comes to any other media talking 477 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,519 about this, and so I was curious if you have 478 00:28:01,559 --> 00:28:02,759 any update about that. 479 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 17: I know you're probably pressed for today's show, so it 480 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,000 might not make it on today's show, but curious what 481 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,000 more information you have on that, because I can't find 482 00:28:12,039 --> 00:28:15,799 anything on it, and I'm really really interested in this. 483 00:28:16,079 --> 00:28:22,359 I think it's very very alarming, and no one seems 484 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,400 to be banging the drum on it. If this is 485 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:29,680 true and verified that this is happening, holy cow. I 486 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:33,319 feel like China or the Russians or somebody is moving 487 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:38,000 along out there doing things that they shouldn't. And if 488 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,920 I was a scientist working for high level of government, 489 00:28:41,559 --> 00:28:46,160 I would be watching my back and maybe have some 490 00:28:46,279 --> 00:28:52,359 security because that's really alarming. I hope you're having a 491 00:28:52,359 --> 00:28:55,279 good day and enjoy listening to the podcast. I really 492 00:28:55,279 --> 00:28:58,880 wish it was longer. Okay, take care by. 493 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,359 Speaker 1: It is alarming, and it's moved its way into Washington. 494 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,759 This story about the scientists that are dying or disappearing 495 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:13,559 has reached Congress. James Comer, the Oversight Committee chairman, is 496 00:29:13,759 --> 00:29:17,000 about to have hearings to find out what has happened. 497 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:21,400 The FBI yesterday announced that they are opening an investigation 498 00:29:21,559 --> 00:29:25,960 into it. Three of the scientists had ties to JPL, 499 00:29:26,039 --> 00:29:31,839 the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A suspect has been charged in 500 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:37,119 the murder of the fatal shooting of a cal Tech astrophysicist, 501 00:29:37,799 --> 00:29:43,039 Carl Grillmar, one of the scientists that died. Remember the 502 00:29:43,519 --> 00:29:45,519 guy who went in and shot up a classroom at 503 00:29:45,559 --> 00:29:50,599 Brown University, and then before another day went by, he 504 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:56,400 went up to another university in the Providence area and 505 00:29:56,559 --> 00:29:59,480 found an old colleague of his and shot and killed 506 00:29:59,519 --> 00:30:01,359 him while he It was one of the scientists that 507 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:06,559 have been listed as murdered. So the FBI is spearheading 508 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:11,799 the investigation. Google Google a share, you'll find there's lots 509 00:30:11,839 --> 00:30:14,119 of stories picking up on this, but there's just there's 510 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,720 not a lot of answers. But Comer is on this, 511 00:30:18,039 --> 00:30:22,680 and they are saying that they are concerned about national 512 00:30:22,759 --> 00:30:25,640 security because of the fact that these people that are 513 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:30,200 missing or died with not a good explanation, had access 514 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:35,559 to scientific secrets. I mean, one of them like to 515 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,759 hike off in the mountains. Maybe he fell. Another one 516 00:30:40,279 --> 00:30:44,319 there was a I don't know, forty year old sixty 517 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,839 year old scientists and a forty year old woman. They 518 00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,880 both worked at the same facility. Maybe they ran off together. 519 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,880 I don't know. You don't know, but it's enough to 520 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:58,640 where it has caught the attention of even the President 521 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,440 talked about it the other day. So google it, Sharon'll 522 00:31:02,599 --> 00:31:07,759 you'll see. Here's Dino in Saginaw, Michigan. Let's see what 523 00:31:07,839 --> 00:31:09,279 he wants to talk about. 524 00:31:10,519 --> 00:31:16,480 Speaker 5: Hey, Thomas Dino and saganaw Michigan, we spoke a few times. Hey, 525 00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:21,119 I gotta tell you, I'm really disappointed with Americans if 526 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:27,039 what the media is reporting is true. Here in my 527 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:32,240 little that he which is very small town, I'm paying 528 00:31:32,279 --> 00:31:37,319 three point fifty nine a gallon for guests. It was 529 00:31:37,359 --> 00:31:41,599 a lot more than that under the Biden administration. I 530 00:31:41,599 --> 00:31:47,000 didn't remember anybody freaking out that, And quite honest with you, 531 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:47,319 you know. 532 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:49,400 Speaker 18: Nobody. 533 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 5: I'm sixty one years old and I enjoy history, and 534 00:31:55,640 --> 00:32:00,279 I'm pretty happy that nobody issued. 535 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,000 Speaker 18: Me a dan tard. 536 00:32:04,119 --> 00:32:09,119 Speaker 5: I'm not being rationed on whether my wife can buy nylons. 537 00:32:10,559 --> 00:32:12,599 I'm not getting rationed on whether or not I can 538 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:17,279 buy new tires from my bihicle. We made some major 539 00:32:17,319 --> 00:32:23,400 sacrifices in World War Two, the fighter animes, and if 540 00:32:23,519 --> 00:32:26,880 we're gonna cut and run because gas hit four dollars 541 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:31,119 a gallon, then as a country we're in a lot 542 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:31,599 of trouble. 543 00:32:32,039 --> 00:32:37,480 Speaker 1: I feel the same thing. I'm telling you. Yes they did. 544 00:32:37,519 --> 00:32:40,400 They ration tires and women's nylons and things like that. 545 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:44,039 During World War Two. People are complaining, people are hurting 546 00:32:44,079 --> 00:32:50,240 financially I understand that, but I hope that doesn't stop 547 00:32:50,319 --> 00:32:55,039 us from pursuing the evildoers that are running the country 548 00:32:55,079 --> 00:32:59,839 of Iran. Look who's here, Salty is checking in from Virginia. 549 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:04,559 Speaker 16: Well, Hollo, Paul, it's Salty Henderson. I hope you're doing well, 550 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:05,079 my friend. 551 00:33:05,599 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 4: Uh. 552 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,359 Speaker 16: I just felt like I could should call you because 553 00:33:08,359 --> 00:33:11,160 I called you a few weeks ago and talked about 554 00:33:11,519 --> 00:33:15,880 how during COVID some of these their beer companies turned 555 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:19,240 their places into you know, making all that hand sanny 556 00:33:19,279 --> 00:33:22,200 and stuff, and how the maybe the government could get 557 00:33:22,359 --> 00:33:25,240 some some of these companies to make some the help 558 00:33:25,279 --> 00:33:28,279 in the war. And then sure enough on Uh, you know, 559 00:33:28,359 --> 00:33:30,680 I found a new show in the morning when I'm 560 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:34,160 with my buddy's got that their XM radio and uh, 561 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:39,559 he's got the Old Mornings with Marina Barner Jova. Yeah. 562 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:44,440 She reminds me of of Oh, who is that sassy 563 00:33:44,519 --> 00:33:50,039 little Italian actress Bridget Bardo. I think she's easy on 564 00:33:50,119 --> 00:33:53,960 the eyes now, uh for sure, But you know, Salty, 565 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:58,559 he's not politically correct or incorrect, but I'm correct on 566 00:33:58,599 --> 00:34:02,559 this one, Tom. She the fine ladies, the smart smartest 567 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:06,400 with but uh, anyway, she talked about that a little 568 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,039 bit to maybe the car industry. Uh who would switch 569 00:34:10,119 --> 00:34:14,199 over and do a little manufacturing for some weapons. So uh, 570 00:34:14,559 --> 00:34:16,840 lets d like solf. You wasn't too far off on 571 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,239 that one. Uh you know, even it broke tlalk is 572 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:24,119 right twice a day tom So that's that's about how 573 00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,559 it is with Salty. But anyways, buddy, I sure miss you, 574 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:31,320 and uh I know we're in the seventh inning. Uh 575 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,320 you know the seventh inning stretch right now with the war. 576 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:38,159 Uh let's finishing his last two innings. It ain't over, 577 00:34:38,639 --> 00:34:42,679 you know until the can I say the fat lady, 578 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,000 I don't know, you might have to edit this house. 579 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,159 It ain't over till the fat Lady sings and gets 580 00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:50,920 on the gets on that shipping heads back to the 581 00:34:51,039 --> 00:34:55,400 US to day. So uh, let's not uh stall right now. 582 00:34:55,519 --> 00:34:57,960 Let's do what's gotta be done. This is once in 583 00:34:58,079 --> 00:35:02,400 a lifetime chance to do what I really believe for 584 00:35:02,519 --> 00:35:07,480 you know, our grandchildren and their children. All right, Love you, buddy, 585 00:35:07,599 --> 00:35:08,679 and will we see you later. 586 00:35:09,679 --> 00:35:13,480 Speaker 1: Okay, I'd be better if we had a regular live conversation. 587 00:35:13,559 --> 00:35:18,360 But I know Maria Barbaromo and she is a fine lady. 588 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,440 I've known her for a long time. What you were 589 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,880 thinking about salty? A lot of people have said this 590 00:35:25,079 --> 00:35:33,039 about her. Bridget Bardoux was in France. But Maria looks 591 00:35:33,079 --> 00:35:37,960 a lot like Sophia Loren, very similar look, if that 592 00:35:38,039 --> 00:35:40,679 helps you out. And as far as fat Lady singing, 593 00:35:41,119 --> 00:35:44,440 that was I think made popular by dandy Don Meredith 594 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:48,840 during Monday night football. One team was so far ahead 595 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,920 of the other team that the other team couldn't come back, 596 00:35:51,559 --> 00:35:55,159 he would starts singing when the fat Lady sings. I 597 00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:59,840 know it's not politically correct, hold on, Salty, called back 598 00:36:00,119 --> 00:36:02,079 got He's got some other things to say. 599 00:36:02,559 --> 00:36:06,239 Speaker 16: Oh my gosh, Tom, I'm sorry. It's part three. I 600 00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:09,719 promise he's my last one. I meant to tell you 601 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:14,280 and all of our Virginia listeners. Vote no on Tuesday. 602 00:36:15,159 --> 00:36:19,519 Vote no on Tuesday. If you want to tend to 603 00:36:19,559 --> 00:36:27,199 one Democrat you know option didn't vote yes. But if 604 00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,679 you want to keep it about like it is five 605 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:33,480 and six Republican and Democrat, which a pretty good split, 606 00:36:34,639 --> 00:36:38,440 you know, yeah, you better vote no, that's for sure. 607 00:36:38,679 --> 00:36:39,320 Speaker 5: So vote no. 608 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:43,679 Speaker 16: This one time negative is positive? All right, Okay, I'm 609 00:36:43,679 --> 00:36:44,880 really doing this time. 610 00:36:45,159 --> 00:36:48,719 Speaker 1: Oh by now, I'm sure salty is looking his wounds. Yeah, 611 00:36:49,159 --> 00:36:52,679 the the yes vote prevailed, but it was very narrow. 612 00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:56,280 But still you're going to have ten Democrats and one 613 00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:00,800 Republican representing the state of Virginia to California. 614 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:01,039 Speaker 19: We go. 615 00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:05,159 Speaker 1: John Barker wants to weigh in on some legislation. 616 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:11,360 Speaker 19: Ah, this is John Vogner, Florida, just thinking that it's next. 617 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,559 Shirley Bill is kind of send her to the ones 618 00:37:13,559 --> 00:37:17,360 where they were well thieves to steal up to one 619 00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:21,239 thousand dollars worth of merchandise. That's a similar bill. It's 620 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:25,480 just allowing more ciminals criminality. Hey, that's all I wanted 621 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:25,800 to say. 622 00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:31,800 Speaker 1: The Ancelot, I'm not sure what you're talking about. John, 623 00:37:32,599 --> 00:37:35,880 the nick Shirley Bill, I'm not familiar with. It must 624 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,880 be a local issue for you because I've never heard 625 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:45,000 of it. Yeah, California has a history of putting bad 626 00:37:45,079 --> 00:37:49,159 law on the books. Lawrence weighs in. Let's see what 627 00:37:49,199 --> 00:37:49,679 he says. 628 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:51,920 Speaker 4: Hey, calm, this is Lawrence antline. I want to make 629 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,880 this real quick. I got cut off last time. Actually, 630 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:56,800 I've heard myself, but what happens on my ethnic background? 631 00:37:56,840 --> 00:38:00,599 I tend to ramble on. But anyway, I think a 632 00:38:00,639 --> 00:38:05,199 good suggestion would be for your listeners to call Trump 633 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,960 a number or phone number to tell him he could 634 00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,440 have finished this guy job. And I rams he's going 635 00:38:10,519 --> 00:38:12,239 to cut and run. And I tell you what if 636 00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,159 this guy cuts and run, I'm done. I'll never vote 637 00:38:15,159 --> 00:38:16,800 for another Republic loans and not. 638 00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:17,559 Speaker 5: This ain't andew. 639 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:19,519 Speaker 18: But what do you need to put that out. 640 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:20,079 Speaker 5: For your people? 641 00:38:20,119 --> 00:38:22,599 Speaker 4: We support him. He needs to bomb the living kaka 642 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:24,880 out or block it. So the only thing that a 643 00:38:25,119 --> 00:38:26,320 member of mind. I'm not going to go into my 644 00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:30,000 attutives there, but anyway, that's it. Thank you, I appreciate 645 00:38:30,039 --> 00:38:32,159 it all. I have a great I love your show man. 646 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:33,719 That's good. That's good, thank you. 647 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,719 Speaker 1: We're on the same page. I'm very nervous about the 648 00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:39,000 fact that we're not getting the job done, that we're 649 00:38:39,039 --> 00:38:42,400 going to stop short. I'm very concerned about that. I 650 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,880 think the latest is a better way to do it 651 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:49,920 is economic strangulation. I'm all for that, and tell they 652 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:56,119 absolutely are finished. We cannot negotiate with these I mean, 653 00:38:56,199 --> 00:38:58,599 they keep talking about these people more moderate, and the 654 00:38:58,599 --> 00:39:02,519 people who know the parties involved say they're not moderate 655 00:39:02,559 --> 00:39:08,519 at all. They're hard, hard, hardcore h terrorist. So I'm 656 00:39:08,559 --> 00:39:12,320 with you Lawrence one thousand percent. And finally Eric, who 657 00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:17,159 grew up in Russia. He brings a little history to 658 00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:18,400 the show today. 659 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:25,920 Speaker 18: How you can gushi with Iran? If Schumer is propagandist 660 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:31,960 for Iran, he's sending this propaganda for Iran that the 661 00:39:32,119 --> 00:39:38,960 USA lost in that war. So he's for Iran in 662 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:45,480 these negotiations. It's unbelievable. The Hexit is right. He said 663 00:39:45,519 --> 00:39:49,280 that Democrats they're on the Iranian side, They're not on 664 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:54,480 the American national interest site. They just they will be 665 00:39:54,559 --> 00:39:58,920 happy if we will just like lose all the planes 666 00:39:59,039 --> 00:40:02,079 and all the ships there, they will be happy. Be 667 00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:05,320 with me. I know these people, they will be happy. 668 00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:12,119 It's just unbelievable. Those Coummies, they don't have honor, they 669 00:40:12,119 --> 00:40:15,320 don't they don't what they do first in Moscow, what 670 00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:19,719 they did in nineteen eighteen, one year after the revolution, 671 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:25,039 there was no food in Moscow, and all the labor 672 00:40:26,039 --> 00:40:31,880 recall their jeputies to the Bolsheviks, to those coummists, and 673 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:38,599 the Bolsheviks starve all those labor. They starved the whole country. 674 00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,480 They couldn't run the country. The only way they could 675 00:40:41,519 --> 00:40:46,679 hold the power to by starving the people. They starved 676 00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:51,559 millions of people, tens of millions of people to keep 677 00:40:51,639 --> 00:40:55,519 their power, and they did it for seventy years. That 678 00:40:55,800 --> 00:41:00,320 is the horrible cummist thing Schumer wants for the United Eats. 679 00:41:01,159 --> 00:41:02,079 That's my point. 680 00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:06,239 Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Eric, I mean it is if you 681 00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:12,199 look at history, there is an unbelievable lowbrow to the 682 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:16,000 humankind that we will find evil people out there in 683 00:41:16,039 --> 00:41:19,119 the world. And they have always existed and they probably 684 00:41:19,199 --> 00:41:22,800 always will. But we need to deal with these evil people. 685 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:24,800 They are evil people. We need to deal with them 686 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:29,519 with a tough hand. Wall Street today, let's wrap this up. 687 00:41:29,639 --> 00:41:30,960 Let's see what the market did. 688 00:41:31,159 --> 00:41:31,400 Speaker 2: Well. 689 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:36,360 Speaker 1: It finished, It looked pretty good. The market despite all 690 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:40,519 of the problems that the world is facing. Corporate earnings 691 00:41:40,559 --> 00:41:43,039 is what Wall Street's all about. That's all it is. 692 00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:47,280 How are the earnings doing. The earnings are doing phenomenal. 693 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,480 So the Dow up three hundred and forty today finish 694 00:41:51,559 --> 00:41:55,119 at forty nine thousand and four ninety s and p 695 00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,920 UP seventy three. I believe that's a new record, and 696 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:01,320 the NASDAC up three one hundred and ninety seven to 697 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,960 a new record. Gold up thirty nine dollars to four 698 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,440 thousand and seven point fifty eight, and oil up a 699 00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:12,760 little today, still much higher than it was pre war, 700 00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,400 but up another three dollars. Were at ninety three dollars 701 00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:19,880 now for one barrel of oil. That's it for today. 702 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:22,480 Thank you for coming by. We will be back again 703 00:42:22,519 --> 00:42:24,280 tomorrow and I hope to see you then