Speaker 1: And here we go.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Big Podcast.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot to cover today, Thank you for
coming by. We've got the war, of course, and the
update on what's happening there. We've got some finance issues
to go over, and also some of your phone calls.
We're going to get a lot of phone calls in
hopefully today. But with the war, I mean yesterday, forgive
me I while I was recording the podcast, right in
the middle of the recording came the news flash that
Donald Trump had was going to start bombing. Actually he
was supposed to be last night, then he extended it
to tonight. And then in the middle of the podcast recording,
the word came from the President that he was just
delaying the bombing, wasn't and was going to extend the ceasefire,
but it never said for how long. So this morning
we get word that the President has given run three
to five days. Yeah, a new timeline. And the problem
with this is he always gives these timelines and never
keeps them. And so sure enough, shortly after that, the
White House came out and said that is fake news.
The President never gave them three to five days for
to sit down and meet. Instead, it's open ended. Yep,
just open ended. So on top of that, uh, the
the Iranians are mad because of the fact of the blockade.
And as soon as the President said we're not going
to start bombing, the Iranians went out and captured two
oil tankers and shot up another one or two, it
depends upon the reporting, but two were hit by I
RGC gunboats. They shot up the bridge of two of
the of the of the ships. People are are okay,
nobody was killed. But this idea about a ceasefire is
limited three to five days. It's just it's just the
White House is now saying it's not new. I just
want to play this for you because I did. I
came out of my shoes yesterday. I was so upset
by the fact that he drew a line in the
sand and he didn't keep it. It goes back to
the Obama saw the red line in the sand about
Syria and poisoning their people. He didn't keep it. This
is the president yesterday morning. Yesterday morning, he was on CNBC.
It was about eight o'clock in the morning, and this
is what he said.
Speaker 3: But the deadline for the cease fires tomorrow, if it
looks like things are progressing. Will you not necessarily extend
it to a definitive amount of time, but will you
let it keep going if there's a progress in the
talks before taking.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't want to do that because you're.
Speaker 3: Saying that you need a at least the prospects for
a sign deal today and tomorrow, or else you would
resume bombing.
Speaker 4: Ran I expect to be bombing because I think that's
a better attitude to go in with. But we're ready
to go.
Speaker 5: I mean, the military is.
Speaker 2: Rare in the go.
Speaker 1: Well, like I said, that was yesterday morning, and by
yesterday afternoon, all of a sudden, we've extended the ceasefire indefinitely.
There's no particular point on it. By the way, today
is also Earth Day, and there's a bunch of climate
protesters out on Fifth Avenue here in New York, in
front of the Trump Tower, and there's a I don't know,
there's thirty of them. I don't mean to laugh. They
just look silly. They're out there in the middle of
Fifth Avenue trying to make life miserable for people. But
back to the war, So we've got we've got the
ships have been attacked two that have been hit with gunfire.
Joe Bassino, he is the former sent Coom spokesman, and
this is what he had to say.
Speaker 6: I think that it demonstrates they're not ready. Ron is
not ready to negotiate, and they may not even be
in a position to negotiat. They may not have the
console vation of power across the Parliament, the IRGC and
the MULAS to get into some kind of negotiation. I'm
also not sure that President Trubb is one hundred percent
accurate in saying that these new leaders are more rational.
I think most Tabocomane Bahiti, the new IRGC commander, these
are our hardliners. They may not be as rational as
we're thinking they are. You know, more than fifteen ships there,
we've got more than ten thousand soldiers, and you've got
sonar radar that's under the water. We've also got radar
on the surface of the water, and we've got radar
in the skies, and we've got satellites in low Earth orbit.
So we're scanning across every domain. We're watching across every domain,
and we've got you know, really cutting edge high tech
capabilities that are imposing this blockade and securing the blockade
and giving us eyes across everything in the Arabian Gulf
and the Straight of Horn moves.
Speaker 1: So the military, our military is uping bombs, but they're busy.
You heard him, with fifteen ships and ten thousands troops
and satellites below the water, above the water. One guy
who has impeccable credentials, Admiral mccraven. He's the guy who
used to be the admiral in charge of sealed teams,
Sealed Team six he led. He was the officer, the
commander of the raid to get ben Laden And they
asked him, Okay, what do we do now? Where we
are now?
Speaker 2: You know, we're at an impasse at the end of
the day.
Speaker 7: The Iranians don't want to come to the negotiating table
until we lift the blockade. But the blockade for us
is a pressure point on Iran. Continuing to bomb them
probably isn't going to work. You know, lift the lift
the blockade for a period of the ceasefire, and the
blockade is a Swiss and you lift the blockade and
if they don't comply, you just put the blockade back
in place. I mean, this is not something that takes
a lot of massinations to happen.
Speaker 1: So what does Joe Casino think about what the admiral
had to say.
Speaker 6: It's realistic. The problem is if we lift the blockade
while Iran is keeping the straight of horm mooves closed,
they've got leverage, or certainly they feel like they've got leverage.
I think with the blockade, we've got multiple pressure points.
We're compounding multiple pieces of pressure here on top of Iran.
Obviously the pressure with the bombing campaign, with Phase one
of the war, we've knocked out fifty years more than
fifty years of military equipment inside of Iran. Then we've
got the economic pressure with the blockade. Then we've got
the diplomatic pressure with the ceasefire delay that's eventually going
to end, and eventually we're going to start presumably phase
two of the war if we don't get to a
negotiation with regard to Uranian Richmond, I think the problem
is lifting the blockade on our end while Iran keeps
the straight hoh hoorror mooves closed on their end, gives them,
gives them leverage, allows them to put pressure on President Trump.
Speaker 1: All right, One guy that I find myself nodding in
agreement with most of what he has to say is
General Keith Kellogg. General Kellogg was asked about his advice
on what we should do here.
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, in the IRGC has gotten so does the army.
And the army separate from the IRGC is actually twice
the size of the RGC. But you want to make
it so hard on them that they have to make
hard decisions and they're fractured really badly. When you look
at people like their president, Posesskeon, he's a moderate, he
who tries to be you know, of course that's kind
of stretching the word moderate, but the fact is they've
kind of sidelined him. The real guy in charge is
that picture up there, the Vehiti. He's running the RGC.
But they distributed command and control. They call it the
Mosaic Defense. They've done this over years because they were
always afraid of fighting the United States. So they've distributed
to command of thirty one regional commands, the besieges, one
of those keeping the population down. Just create a create
a problem for them. The only way you're going to
break their back, and that's what you need to do
is break their back. You have to understand that we
are fighting a theocratic or religious zealous. The disease are
theocratic thugs and we need to address that. It's no more,
as the President says, no more, mister nice guy, We'll
just go after it and say we're not going to
negotiate anymore. We're just going to keep tearing apart, tearing
apart a ran economically, and if that means going to
the home base of carg Island or places like that,
that's what we're gonna do. And you keep the embargo
in place, which was being brilliantly done and lead, but
you will attack them and you want to make sure
that sooner or later they break. And you're actually looking
forward to mestic revolt, Yeah, you are, because that's the
only way that the ream is going to fall or
it's going to not cause this problems. As long as
the Ranian Revolutionary Guards is in control, they're going to
keep chanting death to America is real death that anybody
doesn't like them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that makes sense. Is to keep the
pressure on economically, just keep it. The problem with that,
the pressure is going to be on the President and
the White House because it will keep gas prices and
energy prices in all the downhill flow of higher prices
inflation across the globe. But if you want to win
this war, you've got to break them, as General Kellogg said.
Michael Allen, former National Security advisor to George W. Bush,
said this.
Speaker 9: Well, I think this is the best card we have,
and we have to keep the pressure on economically. The
blockade of Iranian ports was a great move by President Trump.
We have to figure out a way to condition the
Iranians to reopen the straight unconditionally.
Speaker 2: Not that they have to check.
Speaker 9: We have to check with the Iranian military or pay
a toll. It's got to be free and open and unimpeded.
And I think the blockade of Iranian ports is the
best way to go up it. And we need to
keep doing it and signal that we're willing to do
it into the future. Because the Secretary is talking about
a key vulnerability, an economic vulnerability that the iraudience have,
which is what are they going to do with the
oil that they're pumping?
Speaker 1: Where are they going to put it? Made that come about?
You're right, So if they can't ship their oil then
Cargiland in all those places, they have to load it
onto tankers. And if they can't do that. What are
they going to do. They're going to have to shut
down their oil production, which would be imminent, I would think.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I definitely think that what we've learned
from the Russia Ukraine war is it pertains to drones
and autonomous robots and the rest is really the future
of warfare. I do think the Chinese are studying this
conflict in addition to the one in the Russia in Ukraine,
and I thought the admiral there was making the correct point.
We need to take our own asymmetric advancetages and learn
how to do this just in case China does something
against Taiwan down the road. While we're all focused, appropriately
so on other theaters as well.
Speaker 1: So about the talks, it will there be talks. They
were supposed to be talks in three to five days,
but again the White House said that was fake news.
But this afternoon, this is what I'm dealing with. As
I'm going through the day, the facts keep changing. Now
the word as a president has given around thirty six
to seventy two hours to sit down at a ceasefire meeting. Yeah,
I think it's possible.
Speaker 9: I think that we are trying to prevail upon the
Pakistani's to talk the Iranians into coming. What the Iranians
need to do, however, is abandon this apparent demand that
they have, which is that we need to cease the
blockade in order to even get them to show up
in Pakistan. I don't think that's going to work. We
just talked about how it's our best card to play.
It's the most economic leverage that we have over them.
But there could be something else going on within Iran.
It's said it's a new group of leaders. They may
not have figured out yet how to make decisions, how
to incorporate differing views and come out with the bottom
line that they're going to seek in negotiations. So I
bet our intelligence community is watching this closely as the
Iranians debate among themselves what their negotiating posture will be.
So we might just need a few more days for
this to shake out. And I wouldn't rule out talks
at all as well. Still not jazzed about the idea
of talks. Just keep the stranglehold on, and keep keep
that stranglehold on until their economy absolutely collapses, and then
take over step in take over the country to where
the people can then elect their next leaders. So another
big news item from yesterday was last night the state
of Virginia had their ballot measure to decide whether or
not to redistrict. They had a balance of five Republicans
six Democrats for the state of Virginia representing the people
in Congress, so it was pretty balanced until last night,
and it was very very close. The let me look
up the numbers here, Fifty one point five voted yes
to redistrict, forty eight point five said no. So it
was a very narrow win. It was much narrower than
the twenty twenty four election. Kamala Harris wanted much bigger spread,
so this was this was a good debate for the
people of Virginia. What that does is it gives Virginia
it'll be ten Democrats and one Republican. And this is
a state that Donald Trump won forty six percent of
the state. And this is what's wrong with redistricting.
Speaker 1: Is that instead of the people, you and me going
to the battle box and choosing our politicians, this is
the politicians choosing which voters they want voting for them.
That's all it is. And it doesn't really represent fair
and equal representation. I mean, we're never going to have
equal but it'd be fair representation. So the Democrats have
a win. It will probably give them enough seats to
take the control of the House in November, but maybe
not because it started with Texas and it's gone around
to a number of states, and there's one more watching
what happened in Virginia last night, and that's Florida. And Florida, well,
they have a problem. Governor DeSantis is apparently going to
call a special session of the legislature in Tallahassee to
figure out how to put a new map up for
the people to vote on, and if so, it would
bring at maybe five more Democrats. So they're they're canceling
each other out. In California, the people they are going
to vote on their redistricting in June, so they keep
canceling themselves out. The politicians who study this stuff say
it's probably going to be pretty close to a wash.
Maybe the Democrats will win one or two extra seats,
and since it's so narrow, it may in fact tilt
it to where the Democrats get control of the House.
It's a long way between now and that taking place.
The real message out of this is that people are
sick and tired of the political games between the Republicans
and the Democrats. And that's what this is. That's all
this is. They're trying to get one hand up on
the other on the other team. Harry Anton, the data
guy on CNN, went through the numbers about just how
much Congress is hated.
Speaker 10: Say to Congress, stand up and applaud. You're usually hated,
but usually not this hated. You're reaching or at least
tying record highs in terms of disapproval. Hello, eighty six percent.
Eighty six percent of Americans disapprove of Congress. That is
tied with November of twenty thirteen for the all time high.
As I said, Congress usually hated, but usually not this hated.
Speaker 2: You're actually managing to tie records.
Speaker 10: Just ten percent, just ten percent of Americans approve of
the job that Congress is doing. So therefore, as I said,
stand up and give yourselves a round the plague, you
managed to do it.
Speaker 1: Congratulations. Yes, they used to say give themselves the clap.
I mean, it's just it's out of control. This is
a political game for these nerdy people who are really
deep into politics, and how you can get the other
side and your team beat the other's team. But no,
we're an American team. We have two divisions, no question
about it. And it's good to have a debate between
people that see things differently. But man, there is a huge,
huge disagreement on them and this that's why this and
Abigail Spanberger, she came into office just in November, and
she promised that she would not do redistricting. The first
day in office in January, she signed a law to
put it for the voters redistricting. Now, the voters did vote,
I'll give you that, but this is not a popular move.
Mark short who was Pence's's chief of staff, he's a
Republican and he's looking at the Republicans didn't lift a
little even a little finger to help out to try
to get this proposition in their favor.
Speaker 11: Well, I think it's I think it was an incredibly
disingenuous and dishonest campaign from Governor Spamberger, who just last
fall campaigned on a pledge to say she had no
plans to redistrict. The referendum itself was dishonest and saying
this is merely temporary and it restores fairness. You will
actually have if this goes through and it's not stopped
by the courts, she'll actually have residents in Virginia will
be represented by members in the northern Virginia suburbs who
those members will live close to the New Jersey state line,
and the constituents they represent either in Tidewater or Southwest Virginia,
And so it is incredibly disenfranchised in the voters. Having
said that, I also think it is an incredible political
malpractice by the political team in the White House that
at the same time they were not spending resources here
in Virginia in a vote that was only lost by
three points, which was a tighter margin than obviously the
elections last fall, significantly tighter and could have benefited from
more resources. By the same time, they're spending those same
resources attack King conservative Republican state centers in Indiana who
opposed redistricting there. So they're spending dollars attacking Republicans but
wouldn't support actually efforts here to stop redistricting in Virginia.
So I think it's I think it's both. I think
there's Democrats on a pure political sense. One. I don't
think it helps Spamberger long term. In fact, the first
after the first eighty days in office, she has a
lower approval ry than any previous governor in modern history
in Virginia because she's no longer that moderate she pretended
to be. But I also think it's a big loss
for Republicans and hurts their midterm chances.
Speaker 1: Very puzzling why somebody like Abigail Spaanberger would pretend that
she's somebody else, knowing that once if she gets elected,
she's going to do just the opposite. I mean, that
is worse than used car salesman, just just bait and switch. Well,
here she is the governor of Virginia, Abigail Spanberger.
Speaker 12: The individual voters in the Commonwealth of Virginia ultimately voted
on this referendum and passed it. Really, this all began
and President Trump said that he believed he was entitled
to congressional seats and that the legislature at the time
in Texas responded responded by redistricting without the input of
the people to ensure that he got what he wanted.
Virginia created a plan that was wholly responsive to the
actions of other states and temporary in nature.
Speaker 1: I would love it. In Texas and in Virginia and
in all the other states that are doing redistricting, you
still get to choose who you vote for. But if
your representatives are all of a sudden, you don't live
in the district where you're the representative you wanted that
used to represent you, well you don't have a choice.
So they are literally choosing the voters that they want
rather than the voters choosing the members of Congress that
they want. It's a dirty politics. And I hope and
pray that this this backlashes and that a lot of
these redistricting efforts don't turn out to be the way
they thought they would be. But it was Republicans who
were far outspent by Democrats. Republicans did not lift a finger.
But again, it's just it's rotten politics, and it was
on display in Virginia last night. So now we wait
to see about the state of Florida, because it's not
just the governor calling a special session of the legislature.
There's also some law in Florida that prohibits them changing
the redistricting in between census years. So we'll see if
they can figure a way to get around that. If
they're going to do that or not. But again, the
pointy heads that study all this, when all of a
sudden done this takes Texas is going to add five Republicans,
Virginia is going to add four Democrats, and you go
back and forth and you wind up with basically a
wash crazy got by name of Paul Reikhoff. I forget
the name of his organization. He's basically an independent and
he says the majority of people now are leaving the
Republican Democrat parties and becoming part of the registring ism
independent and he's promoting all that he can about people
who are independents like me. So here's Paul Reikoff.
Speaker 13: Yeah, it is a totally broken system.
Speaker 2: This is hard.
Speaker 13: This is what a rigged political system looks like. And
the Republicans tried to rig it first, and now the
Democrats are responding, and we've got mutual annihilation for our democracy.
And who's really losing here are the voters. What's really
losing is democracy. I talk a lot with and four independents.
We're forty five percent of the country and growing because
of incidents like this. You've got the Democrats who actually
only represent about twenty seven percent Republicans about twenty seven percent.
Most of us are somewhere in between or none of
the above, and this is what all partisan warfare looks like.
And the real solution we need is congressional action to
create independent, congressionally redrawn maps that aren't.
Speaker 2: Decided by partisans.
Speaker 13: Because what you've got now is the players are also
the umpires, and that's why this whole game is broken
and not working, and American democracy is ultimately what's suffering.
I think there's another choice, which which is don't engage
in this and actually reform the system to make it fair.
And I think especially when you're trying to buy for
independent votes, voters will respond to that.
Speaker 2: They will see that you're.
Speaker 13: Doing the right thing for our democracy and not just
figure side. Obama's the guy used to say, you know,
when they go low, we go high. This is we
go low, they go low. Everybody goes low, and our
democracy goes down. And that's what's happening here. It would
be a loss for Democrats and a win for Republicans,
but I think they're also on the losing side here.
Speaker 2: I mean, when you push for changing you know.
Speaker 13: Ahead of schedule, off schedule, against the Constitution and in
a partisan way. I think no matter who you are,
the Yes is going to lose here more often than not,
especially in a more independent minded state like Virginia.
Speaker 2: You got folks who are around the capitol. They're pretty
well educated. Right. Yeah, Try this in New Hampshire. Try
this in Alaska.
Speaker 13: I think you're going to see even higher numbers because
people understand that there should be a process and most importantly,
that it should be independent.
Speaker 2: They see through this, They see.
Speaker 13: This as Democrats and Republicans doing exactly what they do.
And this is why ten thousand people are leaving the
Democratic and Republican Party every single week, and almost sixty
percent of young people are unaffiliated and independent. They don't
want any of it. They want total structural reform. That's harder,
that takes longer, but that's what's best.
Speaker 1: That is what's best, and that's ideal, and I would
love to see it. I will hold my breath, though
not too long, because I don't think this is going
to happen anytime soon. But I like the fact that
mister Raikoff is out there preaching for making things more
independent and instead of these clubs, the Republican Club and
the Democrat Club telling you exactly who you can vote for,
rather than you telling the politicians who you're going to
vote for. And speaking of Florida, what's his name, Mike
Hart Atopolis something like that. He as a congressman Florida.
He is out jumping up and down about more money
for space for Artemis three. And they're already running into
problems about Artemis three, and they can't figure out how
they're going to launch this next spaceship and land people
on the moon. And I'm thinking, I know, now this
really dates the whole thing, But it was nineteen sixty
nine when we landed men on the moon and they
walked around on the moon, and they got back in
their lander and went back up to the spaceship and
came home. Why don't they go to their file cabinets,
remember those things. Yeah, there's a file cabinet in NASA.
If they open it up and look at nineteen sixty
nine Apollo, just follow what they did. They got there successfully.
I'm not quite sure what's going on with this, but
listen to this con from Florida. It's all about we
need more money.
Speaker 14: I think there are some legitimate concerns about the Science
Mission as well. We know how important it is for
technological advancement and also for weather patterns from states like
Florida dealing with hurricanes and so much like we did
last year when we kind of closed that gap between
the president's initial budget and the final budget, I.
Speaker 1: Think we're going to do much the same here.
Speaker 2: So it's all.
Speaker 1: About the money. That's what That's what it comes down to.
All right, let's get some phone calls in and we'll
start with Sharon, our public health nurse in Tennessee.
Speaker 15: Hey, Tom, it's your public health their Sharon from beautiful
Eastern Tennessee.
Speaker 16: I heard you talking, I think it.
Speaker 15: Was Friday, about these six scientists that have been killed
or died suspiciously and then six that are missing quote unquote,
and I'm just blown away by that that there is
absolutely cricket when it comes to any other media talking
about this, and so I was curious if you have
any update about that.
Speaker 17: I know you're probably pressed for today's show, so it
might not make it on today's show, but curious what
more information you have on that, because I can't find
anything on it, and I'm really really interested in this.
I think it's very very alarming, and no one seems
to be banging the drum on it. If this is
true and verified that this is happening, holy cow. I
feel like China or the Russians or somebody is moving
along out there doing things that they shouldn't. And if
I was a scientist working for high level of government,
I would be watching my back and maybe have some
security because that's really alarming. I hope you're having a
good day and enjoy listening to the podcast. I really
wish it was longer. Okay, take care by.
Speaker 1: It is alarming, and it's moved its way into Washington.
This story about the scientists that are dying or disappearing
has reached Congress. James Comer, the Oversight Committee chairman, is
about to have hearings to find out what has happened.
The FBI yesterday announced that they are opening an investigation
into it. Three of the scientists had ties to JPL,
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A suspect has been charged in
the murder of the fatal shooting of a cal Tech astrophysicist,
Carl Grillmar, one of the scientists that died. Remember the
guy who went in and shot up a classroom at
Brown University, and then before another day went by, he
went up to another university in the Providence area and
found an old colleague of his and shot and killed
him while he It was one of the scientists that
have been listed as murdered. So the FBI is spearheading
the investigation. Google Google a share, you'll find there's lots
of stories picking up on this, but there's just there's
not a lot of answers. But Comer is on this,
and they are saying that they are concerned about national
security because of the fact that these people that are
missing or died with not a good explanation, had access
to scientific secrets. I mean, one of them like to
hike off in the mountains. Maybe he fell. Another one
there was a I don't know, forty year old sixty
year old scientists and a forty year old woman. They
both worked at the same facility. Maybe they ran off together.
I don't know. You don't know, but it's enough to
where it has caught the attention of even the President
talked about it the other day. So google it, Sharon'll
you'll see. Here's Dino in Saginaw, Michigan. Let's see what
he wants to talk about.
Speaker 5: Hey, Thomas Dino and saganaw Michigan, we spoke a few times. Hey,
I gotta tell you, I'm really disappointed with Americans if
what the media is reporting is true. Here in my
little that he which is very small town, I'm paying
three point fifty nine a gallon for guests. It was
a lot more than that under the Biden administration. I
didn't remember anybody freaking out that, And quite honest with you,
you know.
Speaker 18: Nobody.
Speaker 5: I'm sixty one years old and I enjoy history, and
I'm pretty happy that nobody issued.
Speaker 18: Me a dan tard.
Speaker 5: I'm not being rationed on whether my wife can buy nylons.
I'm not getting rationed on whether or not I can
buy new tires from my bihicle. We made some major
sacrifices in World War Two, the fighter animes, and if
we're gonna cut and run because gas hit four dollars
a gallon, then as a country we're in a lot
of trouble.
Speaker 1: I feel the same thing. I'm telling you. Yes they did.
They ration tires and women's nylons and things like that.
During World War Two. People are complaining, people are hurting
financially I understand that, but I hope that doesn't stop
us from pursuing the evildoers that are running the country
of Iran. Look who's here, Salty is checking in from Virginia.
Speaker 16: Well, Hollo, Paul, it's Salty Henderson. I hope you're doing well,
my friend.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 16: I just felt like I could should call you because
I called you a few weeks ago and talked about
how during COVID some of these their beer companies turned
their places into you know, making all that hand sanny
and stuff, and how the maybe the government could get
some some of these companies to make some the help
in the war. And then sure enough on Uh, you know,
I found a new show in the morning when I'm
with my buddy's got that their XM radio and uh,
he's got the Old Mornings with Marina Barner Jova. Yeah.
She reminds me of of Oh, who is that sassy
little Italian actress Bridget Bardo. I think she's easy on
the eyes now, uh for sure, But you know, Salty,
he's not politically correct or incorrect, but I'm correct on
this one, Tom. She the fine ladies, the smart smartest
with but uh, anyway, she talked about that a little
bit to maybe the car industry. Uh who would switch
over and do a little manufacturing for some weapons. So uh,
lets d like solf. You wasn't too far off on
that one. Uh you know, even it broke tlalk is
right twice a day tom So that's that's about how
it is with Salty. But anyways, buddy, I sure miss you,
and uh I know we're in the seventh inning. Uh
you know the seventh inning stretch right now with the war.
Uh let's finishing his last two innings. It ain't over,
you know until the can I say the fat lady,
I don't know, you might have to edit this house.
It ain't over till the fat Lady sings and gets
on the gets on that shipping heads back to the
US to day. So uh, let's not uh stall right now.
Let's do what's gotta be done. This is once in
a lifetime chance to do what I really believe for
you know, our grandchildren and their children. All right, Love you, buddy,
and will we see you later.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'd be better if we had a regular live conversation.
But I know Maria Barbaromo and she is a fine lady.
I've known her for a long time. What you were
thinking about salty? A lot of people have said this
about her. Bridget Bardoux was in France. But Maria looks
a lot like Sophia Loren, very similar look, if that
helps you out. And as far as fat Lady singing,
that was I think made popular by dandy Don Meredith
during Monday night football. One team was so far ahead
of the other team that the other team couldn't come back,
he would starts singing when the fat Lady sings. I
know it's not politically correct, hold on, Salty, called back
got He's got some other things to say.
Speaker 16: Oh my gosh, Tom, I'm sorry. It's part three. I
promise he's my last one. I meant to tell you
and all of our Virginia listeners. Vote no on Tuesday.
Vote no on Tuesday. If you want to tend to
one Democrat you know option didn't vote yes. But if
you want to keep it about like it is five
and six Republican and Democrat, which a pretty good split,
you know, yeah, you better vote no, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: So vote no.
Speaker 16: This one time negative is positive? All right, Okay, I'm
really doing this time.
Speaker 1: Oh by now, I'm sure salty is looking his wounds. Yeah,
the the yes vote prevailed, but it was very narrow.
But still you're going to have ten Democrats and one
Republican representing the state of Virginia to California.
Speaker 19: We go.
Speaker 1: John Barker wants to weigh in on some legislation.
Speaker 19: Ah, this is John Vogner, Florida, just thinking that it's next.
Shirley Bill is kind of send her to the ones
where they were well thieves to steal up to one
thousand dollars worth of merchandise. That's a similar bill. It's
just allowing more ciminals criminality. Hey, that's all I wanted
to say.
Speaker 1: The Ancelot, I'm not sure what you're talking about. John,
the nick Shirley Bill, I'm not familiar with. It must
be a local issue for you because I've never heard
of it. Yeah, California has a history of putting bad
law on the books. Lawrence weighs in. Let's see what
he says.
Speaker 4: Hey, calm, this is Lawrence antline. I want to make
this real quick. I got cut off last time. Actually,
I've heard myself, but what happens on my ethnic background?
I tend to ramble on. But anyway, I think a
good suggestion would be for your listeners to call Trump
a number or phone number to tell him he could
have finished this guy job. And I rams he's going
to cut and run. And I tell you what if
this guy cuts and run, I'm done. I'll never vote
for another Republic loans and not.
Speaker 5: This ain't andew.
Speaker 18: But what do you need to put that out.
Speaker 5: For your people?
Speaker 4: We support him. He needs to bomb the living kaka
out or block it. So the only thing that a
member of mind. I'm not going to go into my
attutives there, but anyway, that's it. Thank you, I appreciate
it all. I have a great I love your show man.
That's good. That's good, thank you.
Speaker 1: We're on the same page. I'm very nervous about the
fact that we're not getting the job done, that we're
going to stop short. I'm very concerned about that. I
think the latest is a better way to do it
is economic strangulation. I'm all for that, and tell they
absolutely are finished. We cannot negotiate with these I mean,
they keep talking about these people more moderate, and the
people who know the parties involved say they're not moderate
at all. They're hard, hard, hardcore h terrorist. So I'm
with you Lawrence one thousand percent. And finally Eric, who
grew up in Russia. He brings a little history to
the show today.
Speaker 18: How you can gushi with Iran? If Schumer is propagandist
for Iran, he's sending this propaganda for Iran that the
USA lost in that war. So he's for Iran in
these negotiations. It's unbelievable. The Hexit is right. He said
that Democrats they're on the Iranian side, They're not on
the American national interest site. They just they will be
happy if we will just like lose all the planes
and all the ships there, they will be happy. Be
with me. I know these people, they will be happy.
It's just unbelievable. Those Coummies, they don't have honor, they
don't they don't what they do first in Moscow, what
they did in nineteen eighteen, one year after the revolution,
there was no food in Moscow, and all the labor
recall their jeputies to the Bolsheviks, to those coummists, and
the Bolsheviks starve all those labor. They starved the whole country.
They couldn't run the country. The only way they could
hold the power to by starving the people. They starved
millions of people, tens of millions of people to keep
their power, and they did it for seventy years. That
is the horrible cummist thing Schumer wants for the United Eats.
That's my point.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Eric, I mean it is if you
look at history, there is an unbelievable lowbrow to the
humankind that we will find evil people out there in
the world. And they have always existed and they probably
always will. But we need to deal with these evil people.
They are evil people. We need to deal with them
with a tough hand. Wall Street today, let's wrap this up.
Let's see what the market did.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: It finished, It looked pretty good. The market despite all
of the problems that the world is facing. Corporate earnings
is what Wall Street's all about. That's all it is.
How are the earnings doing. The earnings are doing phenomenal.
So the Dow up three hundred and forty today finish
at forty nine thousand and four ninety s and p
UP seventy three. I believe that's a new record, and
the NASDAC up three one hundred and ninety seven to
a new record. Gold up thirty nine dollars to four
thousand and seven point fifty eight, and oil up a
little today, still much higher than it was pre war,
but up another three dollars. Were at ninety three dollars
now for one barrel of oil. That's it for today.
Thank you for coming by. We will be back again
tomorrow and I hope to see you then