WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:09.640 Good evening, and welcome to another edition of The Cajun 2 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:13.439 Knight Live. I am your host, the Cajun Night Jacob Mook. 3 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:16.160 We're gonna start off talking about some things going on 4 00:00:16.239 --> 00:00:18.960 in old Washington, d C. But before we do that, 5 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:21.960 we're actually gonna talk a little bit about AI and 6 00:00:22.079 --> 00:00:25.519 why your electric bill might be higher this winter season 7 00:00:25.839 --> 00:00:29.000 than ever before because of AI. Some people are not 8 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:31.519 gonna feel this. Some people are absolutely not gonna see 9 00:00:31.559 --> 00:00:34.719 any real difference or change in their electricity bill. That's fine, 10 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:38.240 But if you live around somewhere that's got a AI 11 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:41.200 data center, it's very possible that you're gonna see an 12 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:44.159 increase in your electric bill through something that you had 13 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:46.000 nothing to do with, and that's just the way it 14 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:48.719 shakes out. Then we're gonna talk about the bill that 15 00:00:48.799 --> 00:00:52.759 was just passed in Washington, DC. And of course there's 16 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:55.520 things going on around Trump right now. There always is. 17 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:58.799 There just always seems to be things going on around Trump. 18 00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:01.240 And I'm not even saying that that's necessarily a bad thing. 19 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:03.920 Some of this he has brought on to himself full tilt. 20 00:01:04.439 --> 00:01:07.519 Some of it is just people talking just to talk, 21 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:10.760 and it's Trump derangement. Syndrome on both sides. I'm not 22 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:13.879 a huge fan on that topic of how he mentioned 23 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:19.480 that Rob Reiner Rip was suffering from Trump derangement syndrome 24 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:23.200 and then refer Trump referred to Trump's self in the 25 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:26.560 third person in a press conference with that, And I 26 00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:28.640 don't know if he thought he was being funny or what. 27 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:33.040 In my opinion, it was in poor taste, you know, 28 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:34.840 seeing is how he and his wife are just brutally 29 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:38.120 murdered allegedly by their son or whatever. It's a mess. 30 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:40.560 It's a mess. We're gonna talk about some things with 31 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:42.640 the US gov. We're gonna talk about some things of 32 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:45.439 what's going down in Venezuela. Then we're probably gonna talk 33 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:50.519 about the Russia Ukraine conversation because apparently Russian diplomats are 34 00:01:50.519 --> 00:01:54.040 making their way to Miami this weekend to discuss possible 35 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:57.319 ceasefire terms. We'll see how that shakes out. There's a 36 00:01:57.319 --> 00:01:59.319 lot of time between now and then, but we'll see 37 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:02.439 how it goes. But uh, you know, get into it here, y'all. 38 00:02:02.519 --> 00:02:05.079 Let's see if you uh listening to the Cajun Night 39 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:08.400 would like to join in the conversation Whereinia goes Patreon 40 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:11.159 dot com slash. The Cajun Night Link is in the 41 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:14.039 description below and joining on the conversation every Wednesday night 42 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:16.319 at nine pm Central. There's only one tier for entry. 43 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:18.240 We're trying to grow this thing to be its own 44 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:23.240 independent information sharing group, gathering every week. I know we 45 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:25.800 all thoroughly enjoyed. I know, I sure do. All right, 46 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:28.479 let's get into it here. So this is from Bloomberg. 47 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:34.400 That's basically saying AI data centers are sending power bills soaring. 48 00:02:34.840 --> 00:02:37.639 Wholesale electricity costs as much as two hundred and sixty 49 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:40.199 seven percent more than it did five years ago in 50 00:02:40.360 --> 00:02:43.919 areas near data centers. That's being passed on to customers 51 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:46.360 because of course it is. And again this is not 52 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:48.879 for everybody. If you happen to live somewhere around a 53 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:51.960 data center, you're you're gonna you're gonna eat some of 54 00:02:51.960 --> 00:02:54.759 this cost, you know, And this works two ways. We 55 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:57.000 talked about this on the cult I think a while back, 56 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:01.680 actually probably two years ago. So around my area, we 57 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:03.560 have a lot of heavy industry. We have a lot 58 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:06.719 of chemical plants or refineries, all these things, and a 59 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:11.000 lot of these places produce their own electricity, right, they 60 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:15.599 have their own cogin units, and whatever electricity they make 61 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:18.680 that they don't use, they will actually sell back to 62 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:21.360 the city that they have found themselves in, and that 63 00:03:21.400 --> 00:03:25.000 goes a long way, especially whenever you know, these types 64 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:29.159 of facilities have the potential for leaks and explosions and 65 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:32.120 whatever else. It doesn't happen often, but it absolutely is 66 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:34.319 a thing that does happen from time to time, and 67 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:37.919 it goes over a long way to smooth over relations 68 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:42.159 with the local population if you're helping them with their 69 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:45.199 bills in multiple ways, or helping them with infrastructure. Right, 70 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:48.439 if some new highway gets poured and it was a 71 00:03:48.479 --> 00:03:51.680 collection of four or five plants that compile money together 72 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:54.400 to pour this new road, the local city is a 73 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:57.599 lot more forgiving when things go sideways, because boy, they 74 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:01.719 will eventually go sideways. So instead of these data centers, 75 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:05.520 they're actually drawing more power rather than producing their own. 76 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:09.319 So this is making a lot of certain areas that 77 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:12.639 have higher electricity bills. Let's get into it here. Data 78 00:04:12.639 --> 00:04:16.759 centers are proliferating in Virginia in a blind A blind 79 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:20.360 man in Baltimore suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills, 80 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:22.160 don't know where the blind guy comes from. But let's 81 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:24.439 get into it here. The Maryland city is well over 82 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:27.319 an hour's drive from the northern Virginia region known as 83 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:30.680 Data center Alley. But Kevin Stanley, a fifty seven year 84 00:04:30.680 --> 00:04:33.879 old who survives on disability payments, says his energy bills 85 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:36.720 are about eighty percent higher than they were about three 86 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:39.040 years ago. They're going up and up, he said. You 87 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:43.600 wonder what is your breaking point? It's an increasingly dramatic 88 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:46.519 ripple effect of the AI boom, as energy hungry data 89 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:49.519 centers and send power costs to records in much of 90 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:52.920 the US, pulling everyday households into paying for the digital economy. 91 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:56.759 The power needs of the massive complexes are rapidly driving 92 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:02.040 up electricity bills, piling onto rising food. Rising prices for food, housing, 93 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:06.319 and other essentials already straining consumers. That's starting to have 94 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:10.600 economic and political reverberations across the country as utilities and 95 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:13.839 local officials wrestle over how to divvy up the costs. 96 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:18.040 Yet those same facilities are a lynchpin of US leadership 97 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:22.199 in the global AI race. Yeah, that's the big thing 98 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:25.279 right now. We've talked about that before. A Bloomberg News 99 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:28.519 analysis of wholesale electricity prices for tens of thousands of 100 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:31.079 locations across the country revealed the effect of the AI 101 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:36.759 boom on the power market with unprecedented granularity. Okay, the 102 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:41.160 locations and prices were tracked and aggregated monthly by grid status. 103 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:45.000 An energy data analytics platform, Bloomberg analyzes data in relation 104 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:48.040 to data center locations from dc Byte and found that 105 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:50.839 electricity now costs as much as two hundred and sixty 106 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:53.920 seven percent more for a single month than it did 107 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:57.399 five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity. 108 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:00.360 About two thirds of the power grade consumer in the 109 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:04.240 US runs off of state or regional grid where the 110 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:09.240 system operators manages to the trading of energy. These wholesale 111 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:13.120 commodity costs are passed onto households and businesses on their 112 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:16.879 utility bills, which then include other charges to maintain and 113 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:20.160 expand the network that can affect even customers who aren't 114 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:23.600 in close proximity to data centers, since their energy relies 115 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:26.879 on the same grid every day. Wholesale electricity prices are 116 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:31.000 measured in real time by location's marginal pricing points on 117 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:34.879 the power grid called nodes. LMPs are primarily made up 118 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:38.879 of the cost to produce the energy and congestion. Analyzing 119 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:42.120 data from twenty five thousand nodes used by seven regional 120 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:47.319 transmission authorities, Bloomberg News estimated how much wholesale prices in 121 00:06:47.360 --> 00:06:50.959 the lower forty eight states have changed since twenty twenty. So, 122 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:54.160 I mean, looking at the graph here, you could see 123 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:58.519 how it's just gone up overall in every area where 124 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:00.879 you see a yellow dot. And if you're not watching 125 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:04.040 this right now, you need to go to Cajun Knight 126 00:07:04.120 --> 00:07:08.519 on Patreon. But essentially all of these areas are going 127 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:12.160 to see rises in their electricity bill, especially as we 128 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:14.199 are getting into the winter months when you're expecting to 129 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:17.480 do so anyway, So I thought that was a little 130 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:21.639 interesting tidbit that was worth talking about because now, as 131 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:23.680 of a couple of months ago, they were talking about 132 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:26.879 how AI demand is driving up energy costs for everyday Americans. 133 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:29.399 Let's talk about it over here as well. Let's listen. 134 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:32.560 In the digital age ramps up, the cost to keep 135 00:07:32.600 --> 00:07:36.319 our electric life running is also on the rise. Demand 136 00:07:36.319 --> 00:07:40.439 for artificial intelligence, among other products, means massive data centers 137 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:43.920 are growing in certain parts of the country. In areas 138 00:07:44.040 --> 00:07:47.160 near those data centers. A new analysis from Bloomberg News 139 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:52.279 found wholesale electricity costs more than doubled over the last 140 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:56.040 five years, and the bill is being passed on to 141 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:59.079 every day Americans like you and I. So let's bring 142 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:03.759 in Leonardo Galletti, and investigative data and data visualization reporter 143 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:07.079 at Bloomberg News. Leonardo, thank you so much for joining us. 144 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:10.519 You made maps to show not only the increase, but 145 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:14.600 where those price jumps are really happening across the country. 146 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:16.879 Walk us through what we're seeing here. I want to 147 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:22.879 pull up one of those maps, Hi. 148 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:25.839 So thank you for having me so, as you can 149 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:28.680 see in this map, you know, wholesale prices more than 150 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:33.919 doubled since twenty twenty. In some markets, the increases have 151 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:37.679 been very different depending on you know, which area we're 152 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:41.159 talking about. And so that's really the question we wanted 153 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:43.960 to ask ourselves for this story, is to what extent 154 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:47.720 is AI impacting the power market and the prices that 155 00:08:47.759 --> 00:08:51.639 people pay for electricity every month across the country. 156 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:56.639 And I'm looking at almost solid yellow there towards the 157 00:08:56.679 --> 00:08:59.480 east coast, and then again a lot of yellow on 158 00:08:59.559 --> 00:09:01.720 the west coast, and then a lot kind of in 159 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:04.440 the middle of the country, especially by Texas. This is 160 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:07.639 an incredible amount of data to break down. How did 161 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:08.720 you go about doing this? 162 00:09:10.879 --> 00:09:16.120 Yeah, so, you know, we actually used very granular data 163 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:21.320 on both locations of data centers across the country and 164 00:09:22.080 --> 00:09:25.759 wholesale electricity prices that are measured in real time for 165 00:09:25.919 --> 00:09:30.120 tens of thousands of locations. These are called nodes that 166 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:34.519 are located across the country, and so you know, by 167 00:09:34.519 --> 00:09:38.320 putting these two data sets together, our analysis was able 168 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:44.320 to show that essentially, the closer and area is to 169 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:50.879 major data center activity, the much more likely price increases 170 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:51.720 are to happen. 171 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:55.240 And that's so frustrating for people who live in those 172 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:57.559 areas because they didn't sign up for these data centers 173 00:09:57.639 --> 00:10:00.720 to come into their backyard, yet they're paying for It's 174 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:03.240 interesting because you were also the photographer for the team 175 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:06.000 and went into some of these communities that were impacted 176 00:10:06.039 --> 00:10:09.799 in Baltimore specifically, what did they tell you about how 177 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:12.200 these hikes are impacting their lives. 178 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:19.759 So, you know, Baltimore, as we found in the data analysis, 179 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:22.919 is one of the areas that is most affected across 180 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:27.960 the country, even though it's not necessarily the closest to 181 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:32.519 data centers, So it's close to Northern Virginia, which is 182 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:36.360 a major data center hotspot, and it happens to be 183 00:10:36.399 --> 00:10:39.840 on the same grid as you know, the areas with 184 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:44.879 you know, data center Alley, which created a ripple effect 185 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:50.559 where now people in Baltimore are experiencing extremely high price increases, 186 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:55.440 sometimes double what they were paying in twenty twenty. And so, 187 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:58.759 you know, we spoke to people and photograph people from 188 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:02.480 very different demographic and different walks of life, and they 189 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:07.879 all express the same concern and frustration for the prices 190 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:10.799 that they were paying every month. But what I think 191 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:14.639 is interesting is that even though prices increased for everybody 192 00:11:14.759 --> 00:11:20.120 in that area, some of those people are more affected 193 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:23.799 than others. They're more now faced with much bigger strain 194 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:27.799 and having to make significant sacrifices like, for example, choosing 195 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:31.879 between buying food or basic necessities or paying their power bill. 196 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:38.080 So, like I said, the AI market has actually gone 197 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:41.679 into the negative impact on American pocket books. Now, I'm 198 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:44.679 not saying that every single person in America is going 199 00:11:44.720 --> 00:11:48.080 to notice these spikes. I am saying that a sizable 200 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:52.080 chunk will, and hopefully it's not that bad. Right, hopefully 201 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:56.879 it's an extra twenty or thirty. However, uh over two 202 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:59.600 hundred percent is that's a bit much. I think we 203 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:04.159 can all acknowledge that. And the only real I mean 204 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:06.240 even close to this that I have. So we got 205 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:09.840 hit with a hurricane couple years ago, right Hurricane fran scene, 206 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:12.879 if I'm not mistaken, and I actually put that on 207 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:17.279 the Cajun Night YouTube channel. This hurricane wrecked the area 208 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:19.799 of the plant that I was working at at the time, 209 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:25.000 and they had to send power company individual workers from 210 00:12:25.240 --> 00:12:27.639 different states to try to get in here and redo 211 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:30.879 these The problem is that these power lines and these 212 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:33.720 poles were set up in the middle of bayous, like 213 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:36.679 legitimate bayous, and they had to get special equipment just 214 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:38.960 to get out to it to make the repairs to 215 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:42.120 the poles, to get power back to these people. A 216 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:43.840 buddy of mine that I worked with, who was a 217 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:49.320 local his house, his personal electricity bill was eight hundred 218 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:52.600 dollars a month for like six months because the power 219 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:56.799 company started charging the locals extra to cover the cost 220 00:12:56.879 --> 00:13:01.159 of all that excess work that was done. That's an 221 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:04.600 extenuating circumstance, and I get that, but that's that's still wrong, right, 222 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:10.679 that's fucked. Now cut to AI that so many people love, 223 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:12.639 and so many people would say, oh, I'm willing to 224 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:15.000 pay that for the AI. So many people are not. 225 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:18.000 So many people are not. I know, I'm not so 226 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:20.720 I yeah. Anyway, I thought it was interesting, so of 227 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:22.639 course I saw that we need to bring it up. 228 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:27.919 Now let's get into some politicken. Today the House passes 229 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:32.399 GOP healthcare bill without ACA extensions. So here's what we 230 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:34.879 need to know about this, all right. The House has 231 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:37.679 passed the GOP backed healthcare bill that does not include 232 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:41.440 an extension of expiring tax credits that help millions of 233 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:45.360 Americans pay for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. 234 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:48.480 The bill faces an unclear future in the Senate, where 235 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:52.159 it would need support from several Democrats to pass. GOOP 236 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:55.919 leaders unveil the bill, known as the Lower Healthcare Premiums 237 00:13:55.960 --> 00:14:00.360 for All Americans Act. The way they name these bits 238 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:04.440 of legislation, it's a bit on the nose, you know. Anyway, 239 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:09.000 Last week it would expand association health plans with lower 240 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:11.879 premiums for some Affordable Care Act and rollees, and in 241 00:14:11.960 --> 00:14:16.799 act reforms aimed at decreasing drug costs. But the exclusion 242 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:19.960 of an extension of the Affordable Care Act tax credits 243 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:23.399 sparked a revolt by a handful of moderate Republicans earlier 244 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:26.799 in the day, none of whom ultimately voted against the bill. 245 00:14:27.200 --> 00:14:30.879 Four GOP members signed a Democratic Discharge petition to force 246 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:34.399 a vote on extending the subsidies for three years, seeing 247 00:14:34.519 --> 00:14:37.279 up a final vote early in the new year. The 248 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:40.679 moderates have argued that letting the subsidies expire on January 249 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:43.440 first will lead to price hikes for millions of Americans 250 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:47.200 and give Democrats a potential political issue heading into next 251 00:14:47.240 --> 00:14:52.879 year's midterm elections. Yeah, the midterms. I keep going back 252 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:55.879 and forth. If I actually care about the mid terms, 253 00:14:56.240 --> 00:15:00.440 they seem nominal rights. It's the pendulum swinging to whatever 254 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:04.720 opposite and sometimes the same direction as whatever the executive 255 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:08.039 branch has going on. I don't think that it's as 256 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:10.720 big of a deal as the politicians always make it 257 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:12.840 out to be. It is for them, some of them 258 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:15.919 might get primaried and lose their seats, but like other 259 00:15:15.960 --> 00:15:18.639 than that, it's not a big deal at least not 260 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:21.320 from what I can tell. But sure it's gonna give 261 00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:25.720 some party leverage in the midterms. Sure anyway, The successful 262 00:15:25.720 --> 00:15:29.320 discharge petition was a direct rebuke of House Speaker Mike Johnson, 263 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:32.279 who has refused to bring an extension up for a vote. 264 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:34.399 He insisted earlier in the day that he has not 265 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:39.039 lost control of the House. Yeah, he's he's holding on 266 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:42.279 to that as of this moment. As of this moment, 267 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:46.279 Johnson says Democrats a discharge petition will get a vote 268 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:49.799 in January. House Speaker Mike Johnson said it's inevitable that 269 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:53.159 the Democrats discharge petition on three year extension will be 270 00:15:53.320 --> 00:15:56.440 considered on the floor when lawmakers return in January. It 271 00:15:56.480 --> 00:15:58.559 will be on the floor that first week of January 272 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:00.960 when we returned. Johnson's a report Wednesday night a bit 273 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:04.799 repetitive here. We also said Republicans plan to hold additional 274 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:08.120 votes on their health care policies when they return, and 275 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:12.799 then he literally just said that again. House cancels Friday votes. 276 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:17.000 House Republican leadership announced that Friday's votes have been canceled. 277 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:20.639 Thursday is the House's last day in session for the year. Okay, 278 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:22.639 so they're all taking a little Christmas break. How about 279 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:26.559 that House passes GP healthcare plan. We already talked about this. 280 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:29.840 In a two sixteen to two eleven vote, the House 281 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:31.960 approved to build that the Republicans say, well, lower health 282 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:36.000 insurance premiums for one hundred of Americans, but will not 283 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:40.360 include an extension of expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits. 284 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:44.360 I'm on board with this as of this moments, as 285 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:48.440 of the way I'm reading this, YO, lower premiums for everybody. 286 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:50.960 That sounds dope. I mean, it doesn't take somebody with 287 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:55.519 a lot of wherewithal to know that our healthcare system 288 00:16:55.559 --> 00:17:00.840 is drastically overpriced. So lower premiums, hopefully lower costs in 289 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:06.440 the medical field overall, sounds guccy. Sounds good on the surface. However, 290 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:08.640 I'm sure there's a drawback to it that we're just 291 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:12.000 not seeing yet. You know. Representative Thomas Massey of Kentucky 292 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:14.880 was the sole Republican to vote against it. YO, Massy 293 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:18.279 just be out here. Massey is just out there doing 294 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:22.319 his damn thing. I'm not calling him a rhino a 295 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:24.000 lot of I've seen a lot of people start to 296 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:28.200 call Massi a rhino. I think he's more libertarian than 297 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:31.920 a rhino, and sometimes libertarians can take the form of 298 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:34.240 something a little more liberal. Than people feel comfortable with, 299 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:37.319 and in some cases a little more conservative than people 300 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:40.200 are comfortable with. And I get that. But Massey is 301 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:42.799 just out here doing his own thing, inn't he. GOP 302 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:45.519 leadership unveiled the plan less than a week ago as 303 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:48.079 they've faced increasing pressure for moderates in their party to 304 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:50.920 hold a vote on extending the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits, 305 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:54.319 which lapse on December thirty. First, the tax credits help 306 00:17:54.359 --> 00:17:58.599 eligible people cover premiums for their health insurance purchases through 307 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:02.920 the Affordable Care Act marketplace, but House Speaker Mike Johnson 308 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:05.799 refused to put their bipartisan legislation on the floor to 309 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:09.559 extend the subsidies with reforms like income limits, and Republicans 310 00:18:09.559 --> 00:18:12.240 on the House Rules Committee blocked their last ditch effort 311 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:15.799 to amend the bill. In response, for modern Republicans signed 312 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:18.319 onto a Democratic discharge petition. All right, we already kind 313 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:21.640 of talked about that, So now let's hear from old 314 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:24.519 Mike Johnson himself to give us a little bit more 315 00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:25.960 insight into the situation. 316 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:26.200 Here. 317 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:28.319 This is from Live Now Fox dropped a couple of 318 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:30.480 hours ago as of time for recording. So let's see 319 00:18:30.480 --> 00:18:31.880 how this goes out right. 320 00:18:31.799 --> 00:18:33.480 Everyone you were watching live now and from Fox. 321 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:34.960 Let's continue on Capitol Hill. 322 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:38.400 We have Speaker Johnson speaking to reporters right now. 323 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:41.519 Healthcare bill that will bring down the cost of healthcare, 324 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:44.559 the Lower Premiums for All Americans Act does exactly what 325 00:18:44.599 --> 00:18:48.640 the title suggests. It will reduce premiums for all Americans 326 00:18:48.680 --> 00:18:51.559 by on average at least eleven percent overall. 327 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:52.640 And that's just the beginning. 328 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:54.960 There will be much more to come, more ideas in 329 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:57.119 the first part of next year to bring down the 330 00:18:57.160 --> 00:18:59.839 cost of healthcare. And what the bill did in addition 331 00:18:59.880 --> 00:19:02.839 to the that tonight is it increases the quality of care, 332 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:08.000 access to care. It gives persons more options, more flexibility 333 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:09.000 in their health care. 334 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:10.599 And also it adds transparency. 335 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:14.920 We had the PBM Pharmacy Benefit Manager transparency piece to 336 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:18.319 it as well. Now contrasts that with the Democrats covid 337 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:21.920 Era subsidy that they wanted to extend that would only 338 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:25.000 have impact seven percent of Americans. The bill we just 339 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:29.000 passed impacts one hundred percent of Americans. Their version would 340 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:31.519 impact seven percent of Americans, and it would cost taxpayers 341 00:19:31.519 --> 00:19:34.000 three hundred and fifty billion dollars. That is not the 342 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:36.680 way to reduce the cost of health care. The Democrats 343 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:39.319 do not want a solution. They just demonstrated because they 344 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:42.000 voted against this bill. They want an issue for the election. 345 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:45.440 It is based on a false narrative. The Democrats broke 346 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:48.640 America's health care system when they gave us the ACA, 347 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:51.920 the Unaffordable Care Act, fifteen years ago. They promised that 348 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:54.519 premiums would come down, that access would increase, in quality 349 00:19:54.519 --> 00:19:55.559 of health care would increase. 350 00:19:55.880 --> 00:19:58.319 None of that happen because it's a flawed system. 351 00:19:58.519 --> 00:20:01.119 Their response right now is to toize and continue to 352 00:20:01.160 --> 00:20:03.319 shovel taxpayer dollars onto a broken system. 353 00:20:03.599 --> 00:20:04.759 We say enough is enough. 354 00:20:05.039 --> 00:20:07.279 The Republican Party is the party that is bringing the 355 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:10.039 ideas forward to fix this crisis and fix this problem 356 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:10.559 for everyone. 357 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:13.119 It is a serious problem. We took a big step 358 00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:13.759 tonight to do that. 359 00:20:13.799 --> 00:20:15.440 We hope that this gets signed in the law quickly 360 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:17.400 because it will have the desired effect. We hope the 361 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:20.519 Senate and can get this done in short order. We'll 362 00:20:20.519 --> 00:20:22.400 be back in January to do much more of this, 363 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:26.039 more policies, more ideas ahead, policy changes to fix the 364 00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:30.400 broken healthcare system again that was broken by the Democrats. 365 00:20:30.400 --> 00:20:33.519 So I'm glad the Republicans stood together tonight. Big night 366 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:36.480 for us. We'll have another day on the legislative floor 367 00:20:36.519 --> 00:20:39.640 tomorrow and then we will probably wind up the year. 368 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:41.279 So I wanted you to have that update. 369 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:42.319 So you will let the subsidy? 370 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:45.039 Will you let the subsidies expire? Prepared to let the 371 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:45.759 House come home and. 372 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:46.359 Let the subject. 373 00:20:46.559 --> 00:20:48.960 They got a sufficient number of signatures on a discharge 374 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:52.319 petition for that subsidy, which is not good policy, as 375 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:55.400 I've just explained, but it's inevitable that it comes to 376 00:20:55.400 --> 00:20:59.079 the floor for consideration. I think that seven legislative days 377 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:01.039 have to toll. That's the rule. There's no way around that, 378 00:21:01.119 --> 00:21:03.240 and so it would be on the floor that first 379 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:05.279 week of January when we return and bring it. 380 00:21:05.920 --> 00:21:07.160 It's not possible to do so. 381 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:10.119 The discharge petition has a rule that cannot be broken. 382 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:13.559 Seven legislative days must expire before it's considered on the floor. 383 00:21:13.880 --> 00:21:16.799 They could go by way of a rule to bring 384 00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:18.880 it to the floor in regular order, but that rule 385 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:21.240 is not going to pass because again it's terrible policy. 386 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:23.519 And that's what the Republican Party understands, and I think 387 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:26.039 the American people understand when they get past the false 388 00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:29.200 narrative that the Democrats have tried to create. Chuck Schumer 389 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:31.400 and Hakeem Jeffries and the other Democrats are going to 390 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:34.480 try to say, by some stretch of the imagination, that 391 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:38.079 the Republicans are responsible for the failed healthcare system when 392 00:21:38.119 --> 00:21:41.480 Republicans have not voted for that system for fifteen years. 393 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:42.839 This is the Democrats creation. 394 00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:45.279 We have to fix it, and that's where we're going 395 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:46.960 to do now, and we'll continue to do in the 396 00:21:46.960 --> 00:21:47.319 new year. 397 00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:50.279 Real quick. I'm not a big fan of the pointing 398 00:21:50.319 --> 00:21:53.079 of the finger like the politicians do all the time, 399 00:21:53.559 --> 00:21:55.640 but I will die on the hill of fuck Hakeem 400 00:21:55.720 --> 00:21:59.079 Jeffries and Chuck Schumer. Both of them are just dog 401 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:03.400 shit human beings. Anyway, continuing work on the discharge petition. 402 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:06.799 Does this active defiance from four of your own members who. 403 00:22:06.680 --> 00:22:09.440 Said this is a critical issue your mind, It's not 404 00:22:09.480 --> 00:22:10.400 an active defiance. 405 00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:11.880 I understand what they're doing. 406 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:14.960 I understand that every member has a different district with 407 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:19.440 different dynamics and and and and different demographics, and some 408 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:21.079 of them felt like it was a really important thing 409 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:23.680 to have a vote on the floor. I tried very hard, 410 00:22:23.720 --> 00:22:25.359 and they will all tell you that I tried very 411 00:22:25.359 --> 00:22:27.960 hard over the last several weeks and even through the 412 00:22:27.960 --> 00:22:31.680 weekend and as late as yesterday, trying to engineer away 413 00:22:31.680 --> 00:22:33.039 for them to have a vote on the floor so 414 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:37.160 they could show that priority. But it was not to be. 415 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:39.119 You know there, you've you've heard all the machinations of 416 00:22:39.160 --> 00:22:42.359 how it came about. There's no ill will here, there's not. 417 00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:44.799 This is not a challenge to the Speaker's leadership. It's 418 00:22:44.839 --> 00:22:48.920 a uh it's they're they're using the rules. Here's the reality, everybody. 419 00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:51.680 We have a small majority. We have a razor thin majority, 420 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:56.160 a record small majority, and so things operate differently when 421 00:22:56.200 --> 00:22:57.160 you have a small majority. 422 00:22:57.519 --> 00:22:57.680 Uh. 423 00:22:57.759 --> 00:23:00.119 In the old days, a discharge petition would never be 424 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:03.039 used by the majority party or anybody in it because 425 00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:06.319 the Speaker had a had a long stick that he 426 00:23:06.359 --> 00:23:08.599 would uh he would administer punishment for that. 427 00:23:08.680 --> 00:23:11.400 Okay, I don't have that because we have a small margin. 428 00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:12.359 So uh. 429 00:23:12.680 --> 00:23:15.079 Look, I love all these guys and and ladies that 430 00:23:15.119 --> 00:23:18.359 I worked with. I understand uh what their concerns are. 431 00:23:18.440 --> 00:23:20.240 We talked about it at length, that was in those 432 00:23:20.319 --> 00:23:22.160 rooms with them, and we had, as we say in 433 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:24.920 the Deep South, here alas some intense fellowship, but it's 434 00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:29.440 all good. Everybody's in good spirits now and everybody understands 435 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:31.079 what's happening. I don't know if you just saw that 436 00:23:31.119 --> 00:23:34.279 on the floor, there's there's great collegiality and and uh 437 00:23:34.400 --> 00:23:36.640 and in partnership and friendship on the floor and that continues. 438 00:23:36.799 --> 00:23:37.920 Did say did you mishandled? 439 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:39.519 Did you handle mishandle this issue? 440 00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:42.240 I don't know. If you're a Republican college boy day well, 441 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:44.880 I think two of them said as much. 442 00:23:44.920 --> 00:23:47.519 But I think if you talk to everybody across the conference, 443 00:23:47.559 --> 00:23:48.920 they'll say, I'm not sure how it could have been 444 00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:52.319 handled any differently or any better. It's a very delicate situation. 445 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:56.160 Let's look at the reality. Healthcare is a very complicated issue. 446 00:23:56.200 --> 00:23:59.240 Healthcare and immigration are probably two most complicated areas of 447 00:23:59.240 --> 00:24:00.160 public policy. 448 00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:01.839 It's very difficult to get. 449 00:24:01.799 --> 00:24:07.240 Unanimous consensus, unanimous consent on a solution. We effectively have 450 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:10.039 to have that unanimity think of it. It's a very 451 00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:13.039 very difficult thing, a very big challenge, and people get 452 00:24:13.240 --> 00:24:16.680 sometimes excited and emotional about these things because the stakes 453 00:24:16.680 --> 00:24:19.119 are very high for their constituents, mine as well, all 454 00:24:19.160 --> 00:24:22.000 of our constituents. What I'm promising to you all is 455 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:24.559 that we will continue to do what we did tonight, 456 00:24:24.599 --> 00:24:27.960 and that is lower the premiums for everybody, all Americans. 457 00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:29.960 You're going to see that demonstrator. You're going to see 458 00:24:29.960 --> 00:24:31.799 that we'll continue and everybody will be working together. 459 00:24:31.839 --> 00:24:32.759 Thank you all. Have a bunch for. 460 00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:39.599 Okay, So before we get to the next topic of conversation, 461 00:24:39.960 --> 00:24:41.799 I see Royce has his hand raised and we're going 462 00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:43.440 to get to the chat after that. If anybody has 463 00:24:43.440 --> 00:24:45.400 anything they want to jump in on and ask, go 464 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:47.240 for it, Royce, go ahead, brother. 465 00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:51.640 So this is probably going obviously you're going to fall 466 00:24:51.720 --> 00:24:55.440 in dead here is unfortunately, but I think one of 467 00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:59.519 the reasons why all of these things that these politicians 468 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:03.839 do fail it's because they don't give a shit honestly 469 00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:07.160 about us, because it doesn't really affect them because they 470 00:25:07.240 --> 00:25:11.240 have so much money to do everything they want to. 471 00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:18.039 Whether it's through ill begotten gains or not, I don't 472 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:21.759 know if they're so connected with the American people. So 473 00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:24.359 if it would be nice if we get into something 474 00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:28.079 to where all right, well, these people who are in 475 00:25:28.119 --> 00:25:32.200 politics and power need to for one month out of 476 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:35.119 the year try to survive off of the lowest income. 477 00:25:36.559 --> 00:25:41.359 That way, Hey, maybe we are screw over the people. 478 00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:45.640 Maybe we need to give people more money or better 479 00:25:46.079 --> 00:25:51.440 benefits or better medical you know, they're just they have 480 00:25:51.559 --> 00:25:55.519 no skin in the game. Like they can talk all 481 00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:58.720 they want about Okay, well we're gonna do this for 482 00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:01.000 you guys, what we're to do for you guys. Well, 483 00:26:01.839 --> 00:26:03.640 I mean, since it doesn't affect them one way or 484 00:26:03.640 --> 00:26:05.720 the other, they can do what they did before and 485 00:26:05.839 --> 00:26:08.359 you know, and have like the Democrats that they'll walk 486 00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:10.680 out and then do their job for a number of 487 00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:14.799 weeks because they've gotten no skin in the game, like 488 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:18.799 they give put some skin in the game, Like, let's 489 00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:21.200 circumcise this fuckers like you know. 490 00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:25.079 Now, no, I know what you're saying here. I'm assuming 491 00:26:25.160 --> 00:26:28.519 you didn't mean that to be let's wify them, right, 492 00:26:29.559 --> 00:26:30.079 I mean. 493 00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:32.720 Well, I mean I am the the Israeli handler, so 494 00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:33.599 you know. 495 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:38.359 Just clearly Israeli handler. Yeah, from all the way from 496 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:43.160 the deep state of Colorado, you know. But but uh no, 497 00:26:43.279 --> 00:26:45.759 I see what you're saying here, and I agree. The 498 00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:49.960 politicians are trying to be the well they were elected 499 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:53.960 to be the mouthpiece and the legislative arm of the people. 500 00:26:54.759 --> 00:26:57.359 I would say ninety five to ninety nine percent of 501 00:26:57.400 --> 00:27:01.359 them have completely lost touch with their constituents from the 502 00:27:01.400 --> 00:27:04.759 word go. They are completely detached from anything that any 503 00:27:05.599 --> 00:27:10.880 you know, random citizen in Anywheresville, USA, actually is dealing with. 504 00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:14.319 So for them, it's all about the policy itself. It's 505 00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:16.519 all about who's back you're scratching, and what they can 506 00:27:16.559 --> 00:27:18.720 do to make the next election cycle better for them, 507 00:27:18.759 --> 00:27:23.559 and what kickbacks they're gonna get. It's yeah, I agree. 508 00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:26.599 I don't know if if this is true and the 509 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:29.759 premiums go down for everybody, cool, I'm in favor of that. 510 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:32.960 Don't really know what that's gonna do. As far as 511 00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:36.440 the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare or whatever else. I 512 00:27:36.440 --> 00:27:38.480 don't know what that's gonna do in regard to people 513 00:27:38.519 --> 00:27:41.240 that are in that kind of a situation. But yeah, 514 00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:44.839 I don't necessarily see this going positively for everybody overall. 515 00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:47.119 I might be wrong. I might be wrong, and this 516 00:27:47.200 --> 00:27:50.960 is the blessing in disguise to undo, like he said, 517 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:53.720 fifteen years worth of damage that we have been dealing 518 00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:57.000 with this whole time. It's possible, But again, like he 519 00:27:57.240 --> 00:27:59.640 just heard him say, if the Democrats are so hardcore 520 00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:02.480 against and the Republicans are so hardcore for it, then 521 00:28:02.599 --> 00:28:04.279 at the end of the vote, everybody was cool with 522 00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:06.039 each other. Everybody was very like he said, there was 523 00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:09.960 collegiate you know, all everybody was cool. Everybody was having 524 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:13.680 good time here. Whatever, it's all in act. It's all 525 00:28:13.720 --> 00:28:15.880 in act. There's a few of them that really are 526 00:28:16.200 --> 00:28:19.759 as shitty as they portray. Hakeem Jefferies is one of them. 527 00:28:20.039 --> 00:28:22.119 He is a shit human being that calls for the 528 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:26.680 murder of his colleagues and has openly done so. But 529 00:28:27.440 --> 00:28:29.799 aside from like the ones in two and there's Republicans 530 00:28:29.799 --> 00:28:31.799 that are just as bad. Dan Crenshaw as one of them. 531 00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:35.440 Can't stand him, you know, for many reasons, but whatever. 532 00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:39.279 But aside from the ones that are more prolific in 533 00:28:39.319 --> 00:28:42.079 the dumb shit, the majority of them, it's a stage, 534 00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:45.599 it's an act, you know it. That's how this goes down. 535 00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:47.920 So I don't know. I guess we'll have to wait 536 00:28:47.960 --> 00:28:50.440 and see how this shakes out. And again, what is 537 00:28:50.480 --> 00:28:53.000 this going to do for the situation in January? Because 538 00:28:53.000 --> 00:28:56.720 the government shut down, all that went away until January, 539 00:28:57.160 --> 00:28:59.519 So it's very possible We're gonna see yet another government 540 00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:01.440 shut down take place in the middle of January, and 541 00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:03.759 that one might last some new record length and whatever. 542 00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:05.839 I don't know. Maybe this will be the lynchpin on 543 00:29:05.839 --> 00:29:08.599 that one. Maybe this will cool some of the tensions 544 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:14.200 on that one. I who's to say? Anyway, Sam, I 545 00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:16.640 am glad to see you in here. Bro. How you feeling. 546 00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:21.519 I'm in I'm in a lot of pain. But good 547 00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:23.920 news is I found my glasses so I can see better. 548 00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:28.680 I was just gonna ask, isn't Crenshaw the one that 549 00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:30.599 fucked over his seal buddies. 550 00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:34.200 We're not gonna spend the entire episode on this, but 551 00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:37.480 I'll absolutely take a minute to explain my disdain for 552 00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:41.599 Dan Crenshaw. So, Dan, and now he's coming after Sean Ryan. 553 00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:48.400 So yeah, another fed a seal coming after another Seal. 554 00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:52.039 Again, that's not the first time. 555 00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:55.240 It's not because he tried screwing over Eddie Gallagher. So 556 00:29:55.319 --> 00:29:58.160 all right, here's the backstory to this. Dan Crenshaw at 557 00:29:58.160 --> 00:30:01.000 one point in time was a Seal. I'd be lying 558 00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:02.720 if I told you which team he was a part of. 559 00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:05.680 I've heard Seal Team six, I've heard you know, second 560 00:30:05.720 --> 00:30:07.640 Team I don't know. All I know is that yes 561 00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:09.799 he did. In fact, where he tried it on his chest, 562 00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:12.799 he lost his eye. He's the Republican out of Texas 563 00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:14.759 that has an eye patch all the things. And I 564 00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:17.480 gotta tell you, when he first took office, I liked him. 565 00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:19.279 I thought that was that's the kind of guy you 566 00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:24.359 want in these positions. It's dope cut two. Eddie Gallagher 567 00:30:25.079 --> 00:30:29.160 is a sailor, a Navy seal, who fell into a 568 00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:31.799 situation where they were trying to fry him for war crimes, 569 00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:35.720 even though all of the evidence was stacked showing he 570 00:30:35.839 --> 00:30:39.039 did nothing wrong. He played everything by the book. He 571 00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:41.599 didn't even step outside of the line of what could 572 00:30:41.640 --> 00:30:44.519 be considered acceptable behavior in a war zone, nothing like that. 573 00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:48.839 But because we so wait, wait, wait, wait, so because 574 00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:53.079 of somebody getting word that they didn't necessarily get the 575 00:30:53.079 --> 00:30:56.079 whole context to and ran with this story, Eddie Gallagher 576 00:30:56.079 --> 00:30:58.240 was about to get fried for war crimes that he 577 00:30:58.319 --> 00:31:01.960 did not commit. He reached out to Dan Crenshaw, his 578 00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:06.240 seal brother. Right, the seals are a very very small community. 579 00:31:06.279 --> 00:31:07.839 I think at any given time there might only be 580 00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:10.680 ten thousand of them period in the United States. Right, 581 00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:14.839 and so he reached out to Dan offline and was like, hey, bro, 582 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:16.960 I know we've never really met each other whatever, but 583 00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:20.640 I am a seal in need. Here's the situation, here's 584 00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:22.519 the truth of the matter. They're trying to fry me. 585 00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:24.359 You go into bat for me would help me a 586 00:31:24.359 --> 00:31:28.160 lot right now. Instead of having his boys back, Dan 587 00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:33.440 Crenshaw led the charge to fry Eddie Gallagher alive, knowing 588 00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:38.279 the entire context. Yeah, so he had all the full story, 589 00:31:38.279 --> 00:31:41.039 He had all the context and still decided, you know what, Nah, 590 00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:44.000 screw that dude for no reason whatsoever. It didn't help 591 00:31:44.039 --> 00:31:48.599 him politically whatever. Cut two. Sean Ryan made a comment 592 00:31:49.160 --> 00:31:52.480 just a couple of weeks ago about how, you know, 593 00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:56.039 you have these politicians that get super rich out of nowhere, 594 00:31:56.359 --> 00:31:59.880 and it's because of their dealings with stock trading and 595 00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:02.759 all these things. And you know, they'll all invest in 596 00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:06.559 a certain company right before there's new legislation pass to 597 00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:09.440 help a certain industry, and so all those investments they 598 00:32:09.519 --> 00:32:12.519 just made just skyrocket, almost like they knew something was up. 599 00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:17.240 That's nothing new. Well, Pelosi has been the most prolific, 600 00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:18.000 but all the. 601 00:32:17.920 --> 00:32:22.119 Politicians that no the Act to criminaliza is called the 602 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:23.240 Pelosi Act. 603 00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:26.599 Well, as this moment, yeah, as of this moment, it's 604 00:32:26.599 --> 00:32:29.519 not technically illegal, and there's ways around it. It's not you, 605 00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:32.480 it's your spouse that invested in all these it's there's ways, 606 00:32:32.559 --> 00:32:36.319 right whatever. So Sean Ryan, who was a Seal at 607 00:32:36.359 --> 00:32:38.680 one time then became a CIA asset for a bit 608 00:32:38.799 --> 00:32:41.920 cool cool, he had made this comment and he didn't 609 00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:46.319 name drop Dan Crenshaw outright, but he did say, you know, 610 00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:48.680 then you'll have these guys that are dropping like four 611 00:32:48.759 --> 00:32:51.519 hundred million dollars on these extravagant birthday parties and all 612 00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:54.160 these things. And it's like, how can you justify that 613 00:32:54.200 --> 00:32:56.799 when there's so many Americans that are in need, Like 614 00:32:56.839 --> 00:32:59.519 there's there's nonprofits for veterans that you could be given 615 00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:02.400 this money, especially you know, these types of politicians and 616 00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:05.480 our veterans. Whatever. So he didn't name Dan Crenshaw, but 617 00:33:05.559 --> 00:33:09.200 it's pretty obvious he was talking about Crenshaw. So Crenshaw 618 00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:13.160 then decides to DM Sean Ryan and said, hey, man, 619 00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:16.160 I've got some of my boys in Sealed Team six 620 00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:19.000 that said, you've been talking shit. I would appreciate if 621 00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:20.359 you kept my name out of your mouth and it 622 00:33:20.400 --> 00:33:23.519 wasn't threatening, but it also was a bit ominous, I'll 623 00:33:23.559 --> 00:33:27.799 give you that. So then they slapped Sean Ryan with 624 00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:31.079 legal paperwork, basically giving him a cease and assist to 625 00:33:31.119 --> 00:33:34.119 stop talking about this shit. So last week, Sean Ryan 626 00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:36.559 led out a statement to YouTube. It's like an eight 627 00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:40.119 minute monologue where he's basically, here's what happens, start to finish, 628 00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:43.359 here's my response, here's what Dan said. So basically, what 629 00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:46.160 I'm gonna tell you is, fuck you. I have the 630 00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:48.559 freedom of speech and I'm gonna continue saying whatever the 631 00:33:48.599 --> 00:33:50.480 hell I'm gonna say. And if you feel some type 632 00:33:50.519 --> 00:33:53.400 of way about that, then, like I guess I'll see 633 00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:56.359 you in court because I don't think you really want 634 00:33:56.359 --> 00:33:58.240 to go to court whenever. These things that I'm talking 635 00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:03.079 about are really damn against you. So yeah, anyway, yeah, 636 00:34:03.079 --> 00:34:05.480 I'm not a big fan of Crenshaw for multiple reasons. 637 00:34:05.480 --> 00:34:08.119 And then Crenshaw released a statement after that which made 638 00:34:08.199 --> 00:34:10.639 him look like a bitch. It's not that he released 639 00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:18.880 the statement. What up, Royce. I'm sorry, all good dude, 640 00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:21.599 But anyway, so I'm not a I'm not a massive 641 00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:25.159 fan of Dan Crenshaw anymore. But yeah, yeah, that's that's 642 00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:29.480 that's that one anyway. Yeah, weird tangent on that, And 643 00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:30.880 like I said, I want to make the whole episode 644 00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:34.079 about it, although we really could. Just that's the the 645 00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:36.360 over under on it. All right, So let's see, uh 646 00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:38.199 get into the chat here. Before we get to the 647 00:34:38.239 --> 00:34:41.440 next topic of discussion. Tony says he can't stay long 648 00:34:41.800 --> 00:34:45.199 early flight Tomorrow's kids are watching Harry Potter, so I'm muted. Yeah, 649 00:34:45.239 --> 00:34:48.480 that sucks. He also talked about he got his finger crush. Yeah, Royce, 650 00:34:48.679 --> 00:34:50.960 uh got his finger crush. For anybody who wasn't there 651 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:55.840 for the pre show conversation anyway. Uh oh, that's another 652 00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:58.559 good one. I forgot to bring up. Bongino has stepped down. 653 00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:00.559 All right, all right, we're gonna bring that. We are 654 00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:04.920 absolutely gonna talk about that one. Hold on, continue bepep 655 00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:06.800 you and you know what, as a matter of fact, 656 00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:10.280 we're gonna talk about that one. Yeah, we're gonna talk 657 00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:11.960 about that one next as a matter of fact, because 658 00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:13.800 the next one that have after that is talking about 659 00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:16.679 how fentanyl is now classified as weapon of mass destruction, 660 00:35:16.760 --> 00:35:19.039 and that's gonna take into a whole other side tangent. 661 00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:21.239 But anyway, all right, So we're gonna talk about Bongino next. 662 00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:24.199 Trump wants to say in character, even when that character 663 00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:27.480 is repulsive. Yeah, he really does. Tony said it, and 664 00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:29.920 I have to agree. Like, listen, I understand that we 665 00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:32.599 all voted him in because he's an asshole and that 666 00:35:32.639 --> 00:35:35.159 made us feel good. You know, in a certain regard. 667 00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:37.079 We like the pettiness and we like that he is 668 00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:39.840 so like, what you see is what you get, and 669 00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:41.960 if you don't like it, then tough titty. It is 670 00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:44.920 what it is. And there's something to be said for that. 671 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:48.920 I get it. However, there's a part where committing to 672 00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:52.800 the bit can work to your detriment. And especially when 673 00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:55.920 we're talking about Rob Reiner and his wife, rip to 674 00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:58.840 both of them. And granted maybe they weren't the biggest 675 00:35:58.840 --> 00:36:03.719 fans of Trump. Ooh ah, somebody in Hollywood that's not 676 00:36:03.800 --> 00:36:08.920 a fan of Trump. That color me shocked, right, And 677 00:36:08.960 --> 00:36:11.559 then in a press he made some statement, he put 678 00:36:11.559 --> 00:36:13.800 a post on X or on truth social or whatever. 679 00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:18.039 It was basically saying that you know, yeah, he died, 680 00:36:18.079 --> 00:36:21.199 but he was also suffering from a long standing mental 681 00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:24.320 illness of Trump derangement syndrome. And it's like that's that's 682 00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:26.559 there's a time and place for you to make dark, 683 00:36:26.639 --> 00:36:30.679 humorous jokes. Maybe not the week that these individuals were 684 00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:34.599 brutally murdered allegedly by their son. Maybe now's not the time, 685 00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:38.400 right cut too. In a press conference, Trump basically just 686 00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:43.800 tripled down on the assholeness. And it's like, again, I 687 00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:46.320 see what you're trying to do here. There's a time 688 00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:50.639 and place and you're making yourself look atrocious right now, 689 00:36:51.159 --> 00:36:53.360 and it's it's yeah, it's not a good look, Sam, 690 00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:53.760 go ahead. 691 00:36:53.760 --> 00:37:02.039 Brother Rob is also he was a fantastic director. Uh. 692 00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:05.639 He actually directed my favorite movie, The Princess Spot and 693 00:37:05.679 --> 00:37:08.079 if I'm not mistaken, he also directed stand By Me, 694 00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:14.280 which are two which are two very outstanding movies. But 695 00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:17.360 he'll be he was seventy eight years old. He and 696 00:37:17.639 --> 00:37:19.239 I didn't know it was a son, but when I 697 00:37:19.239 --> 00:37:21.440 first heard it, I immediately knew it had to be somebody 698 00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:24.880 that he felt comfortable with because both him and his 699 00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:25.840 wife were murdered. 700 00:37:27.239 --> 00:37:29.239 Yeah, and it's not we don't know if it was 701 00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:31.719 his son. As of now, all evidence is pointing to that, 702 00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:33.599 and he's the one that's been taken into custody. So 703 00:37:33.639 --> 00:37:34.039 we'll see. 704 00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:39.000 So with all all of all evidence and everything, I'm 705 00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:44.400 just gonna say, fine, fuck it. Allegedly his son or whatever. Yeah, 706 00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:49.000 I just I feel like at that point the the 707 00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:54.440 the killer shouldn't get life or anything. It should if 708 00:37:54.480 --> 00:37:57.199 you kill your parents, it should automatically be death penalty. 709 00:37:57.920 --> 00:38:01.320 But if he can get a psych case out of it, right, 710 00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:05.599 and I don't know the backstory, I'm sure, so why don't. 711 00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:07.320 We execute the criminally insane? 712 00:38:08.400 --> 00:38:11.599 Because these poor people are dealing with a lot of 713 00:38:11.639 --> 00:38:14.360 mental issues and some of it may not be their faults. 714 00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:17.639 And I'm not saying that this is my personal justification. 715 00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:20.840 This is I'm playing Devil's advocate on this. I'm I'm 716 00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:23.039 it depends case by case. There are some people that 717 00:38:23.079 --> 00:38:26.320 I think criminally insane and like dangerously criminally insane. Yeah, 718 00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:27.679 they don't need to be a part of the human 719 00:38:27.719 --> 00:38:28.719 population anymore. 720 00:38:29.199 --> 00:38:33.239 Some of these people do what I say, case in point, 721 00:38:33.480 --> 00:38:38.679 uh Dahmer, Yeah, John Wyn Gacy, like you know that 722 00:38:39.639 --> 00:38:42.800 the Son of Sam, all the Serio kiders, they will 723 00:38:42.800 --> 00:38:45.320 all a lot of them get engaged and made while 724 00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:48.679 in prison to females. Do you know what the demographic 725 00:38:48.719 --> 00:38:52.400 of women fucking white love letters to the psychopathic sons 726 00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:52.800 of bitches. 727 00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:53.559 It's a lot. 728 00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:57.599 It's a lot, like it is the the the liberal 729 00:38:57.639 --> 00:38:58.239 of white women. 730 00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:01.239 Dude. So I had a neighbor. I had a neighbor 731 00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:06.760 who was dating two different prison inmates that are serving 732 00:39:06.920 --> 00:39:10.039 at different prisons, and she was like writing letters and 733 00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:12.639 she would be taking trips out to see them and 734 00:39:12.679 --> 00:39:15.719 all these things, and like one of them was like 735 00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:18.599 about to get out, and I was like, so are 736 00:39:18.639 --> 00:39:20.760 you trying to like be with this dude? Like what's 737 00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:23.480 the deal? And then right before he gets out they 738 00:39:23.480 --> 00:39:24.840 break it off and all this, and I'm like, you 739 00:39:24.920 --> 00:39:27.239 realize this dude has your address. You've been mailing with 740 00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:30.400 him correspondence for a while, Like how first of all, 741 00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:34.320 how the fuck did you meet this guy? Yeah? 742 00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:38.960 Programs and everything. Yeah, but like my school, we got 743 00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:42.199 to do pin pal systems with the soldiers and all. 744 00:39:42.599 --> 00:39:43.760 I don't know if they still. 745 00:39:43.559 --> 00:39:48.119 Do that anymore, but boyd, but yeah. 746 00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:51.840 We did that throughout Eleminu school. In middle school, I 747 00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:55.519 actually had a pen pal I actually corresponded up to 748 00:39:55.639 --> 00:39:58.280 like ten years in all, until he had a fatal 749 00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:01.840 h crashed with his plane because he was also a 750 00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:07.119 private pilot and all really cool, dude, But that's actually 751 00:40:07.159 --> 00:40:08.159 why I will never get in. 752 00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:09.880 A plane because of that. 753 00:40:10.920 --> 00:40:13.039 Well, there's more planes in the ocean there are boats 754 00:40:13.039 --> 00:40:17.719 in the sky, is all I'm saying. All a landing 755 00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:19.519 is is a controlled crash. 756 00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:23.360 That bitch ain't Oh my god, Sam, I've never heard 757 00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:27.679 that justification. But I mean, am I long? 758 00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:30.559 Planes are supposed to be in the sky, not at 759 00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:32.199 the bottom of the fucking ocean. 760 00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:34.440 Of space. 761 00:40:35.639 --> 00:40:38.159 There's more planes in the ocean than boats in the sky. 762 00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:40.559 So does that mean you're okay to take a cruise 763 00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:41.920 but not a plane ride. 764 00:40:43.159 --> 00:40:44.880 I mean, get me liquid up enough. 765 00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:45.559 I can look. 766 00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:47.840 I can float on the water. I can trace shoot pool, 767 00:40:47.880 --> 00:40:50.440 I can float on that bitch in the position of attention, 768 00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:54.119 I can float. Oh my god, I cannot fly. If 769 00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:55.719 God wanted me to fly, he would have put wings 770 00:40:55.719 --> 00:40:57.360 on my back, on my feet. And last time I checked, 771 00:40:57.400 --> 00:40:59.960 I ain't an angel and my name ain't Homies dude. 772 00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:01.880 I'm pretty sure there's more boats at the bottom of 773 00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:05.000 the ocean than planes. Like statistical planes are the safest 774 00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:07.559 way to travel, like, it's exponentially safer than cars. 775 00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:11.119 Okay, and the Titanic's pool is still full of water. 776 00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:11.840 What's your point? 777 00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:21.039 Okay, Sam? You you truly are just the spirit animal 778 00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:22.960 you know God? Yes? 779 00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:26.440 And also I love you? And now activating Agian mode. 780 00:41:26.599 --> 00:41:29.840 No, no, no, no, I gotta say that your eyes 781 00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:31.880 don't squint as much whenever you put the glasses on, 782 00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:34.280 So if anything, that's when you activate your American mode. 783 00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:37.840 Probably, But then again, this eye is my lazy eye, 784 00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:41.920 and but that's due to me getting dropped a lot, so. 785 00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:44.639 It'd be like that. Yeah, I'm pretty sure my left 786 00:41:44.639 --> 00:41:46.000 eye is my lazy eye, but that's because of the 787 00:41:46.039 --> 00:41:49.159 metal from the explosion, so I don't I don't know that. 788 00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:52.239 And I have a stigmatism, and yeah, not very good 789 00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:54.599 depth for session. But even without the glasses, I shot 790 00:41:54.679 --> 00:41:57.199 better than my drill instructors who on the the Morin 791 00:41:57.280 --> 00:41:58.800 Core Rifle team. 792 00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:02.119 So super Asian a stigmatism, death perception, the whole nine. 793 00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:07.559 Yeah, I blame my I blame my Japanese queen Flapino grandfather. 794 00:42:08.199 --> 00:42:12.679 Yeah I bet so. Uh all right, let's continue on here. 795 00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:15.400 Roy shared a meme of the Santa Let's see here. 796 00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:20.639 Oh fine, I'll release the Nautilust just gonna check it twice. 797 00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:26.159 Here you go. What's it's all readacted? Ah, I love it. 798 00:42:26.199 --> 00:42:26.639 I love it. 799 00:42:26.639 --> 00:42:28.440 That's great. 800 00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:29.639 Yeah. 801 00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:33.519 Hell uh midnight Kong. Glad to see you here, bro, 802 00:42:33.599 --> 00:42:35.880 he says. Here in Indiana, they keep trying to snag 803 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:38.360 land for data centers, but the people aren't having it, 804 00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:41.199 thank god, thank god. The people are actually, you know, 805 00:42:41.280 --> 00:42:44.760 thinking critically and logically about this. They just did one 806 00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:47.440 in Louisiana, and I'm like, y'all, y'all are so dumb. 807 00:42:47.719 --> 00:42:50.079 Y'all are so dumb. They the same ship that went 808 00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:52.559 down whenever they were trying to build a Tesla battery 809 00:42:52.639 --> 00:42:56.000 manufacturing facility in the parish that I live. And it's like, 810 00:42:56.719 --> 00:42:59.559 you know, on the surface, Oh, it's a green entity 811 00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:01.400 and it does this and this, it's so good for us. 812 00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:04.119 I'm like, have any of you ever looked at what 813 00:43:04.519 --> 00:43:09.159 a battery manufacturing facility does to the local environment. I'm 814 00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:11.599 not even a big hippie by any means, but like, 815 00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:14.159 it's a quick Google search away to see that that's 816 00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:16.920 a really bad idea. Data centers are the same way. 817 00:43:16.960 --> 00:43:19.000 It doesn't it's not bad for the environment, but it 818 00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:22.639 draws power it believe or not draws water for cooling 819 00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:28.440 and gives nothing back, nothing that's actually tangible or usable. 820 00:43:28.760 --> 00:43:31.679 It's so dumb. So yeah, at least people like you 821 00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:34.840 said in Indiana are actually thinking critically good things. Uh. 822 00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:38.360 Moving on, Daryl Cooper believes a quid pro quote between 823 00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:41.679 the US and Russia has already been reached. US gets 824 00:43:41.719 --> 00:43:45.079 regime change in Venezuela, Russia gets victory and possibly regime 825 00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:48.320 change in Ukraine. Okay, we're gonna be talking about the 826 00:43:48.360 --> 00:43:50.800 Russia Ukraine situation near and Venezuela here in a moment 827 00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:54.719 as well. Tony says, I've been opting out of getting 828 00:43:54.760 --> 00:43:57.920 photographed at the airport. It's super easy and totally works, 829 00:43:58.039 --> 00:44:01.760 just so you know. Okay, so everybody keep that in 830 00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:06.639 your toolbox. Absolutely yellow on the West coast, welcome. I 831 00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:09.719 don't know what that was about. Yellow on the West coast. 832 00:44:09.719 --> 00:44:11.400 I don't exactly know what that was about. But all right, 833 00:44:11.440 --> 00:44:14.239 oh oh the yellow for the map on the west coast. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 834 00:44:14.360 --> 00:44:17.239 data centers are big on the west coast. Absolutely. So 835 00:44:17.320 --> 00:44:19.840 you saw that map, you saw it was the upper 836 00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:21.079 the northeast. 837 00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:23.920 All I heard was yellow on the west coast, and 838 00:44:23.960 --> 00:44:26.239 my mind went to the oh no. 839 00:44:26.760 --> 00:44:31.480 Oh wow wow, no, no, no, So anywhere there's data centers. 840 00:44:31.480 --> 00:44:33.159 And you saw the map earlier as we looked at 841 00:44:33.159 --> 00:44:37.199 the continental US, the northeast New England area super dense, 842 00:44:37.719 --> 00:44:40.360 the far West Coast super dense, and then pretty much 843 00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:43.880 up and down the Mississippi River super dense. So I 844 00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:46.599 mean there's there's areas that are sporadically higher from place 845 00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:48.159 to place, but those are the big ones as far 846 00:44:48.199 --> 00:44:49.840 as the power grid goes, and people that are going 847 00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:51.039 to see an increase in price. 848 00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:53.559 I do not see the map. That's why I was 849 00:44:53.599 --> 00:45:00.239 like yellow West Coast with sco Bay was the my 850 00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:01.400 line of stought. 851 00:45:02.960 --> 00:45:07.800 I see you, Sam, I absolutely see you anyway. All right, 852 00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:10.000 let's see here. How is everyone today? But Babba, I 853 00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:12.239 missed some of the stuff about Massy, but he is 854 00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:15.679 my favorite congressman. And there was a vote on military 855 00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:19.119 action for Venezuela that barely failed today twenty or two 856 00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:21.760 eleven to two thirteen. We are gonna be talking about 857 00:45:21.800 --> 00:45:24.079 Venezuela here in a bit. And I'm not I am 858 00:45:24.079 --> 00:45:28.519 not necessarily pro or anti Massy. I see him as 859 00:45:28.599 --> 00:45:31.960 the chaotic neutral as of this moment. Same way with Musk. 860 00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:34.280 I still feel the same way about Musk. I don't 861 00:45:34.280 --> 00:45:36.840 see him as an inherent evil or an inherent good. 862 00:45:37.239 --> 00:45:39.519 I see him as a chaotic neutral that's one step 863 00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:42.840 away from becoming a superhero and also equally one step 864 00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:45.760 away from becoming a super villain. Massy, as far as 865 00:45:45.800 --> 00:45:48.800 the political spectrum is concerned, he's listed as a Republican. 866 00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:51.920 He's just as liable to vote for a Democratic policy 867 00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:54.679 as hardcore as he is to vote for a Republican policy, 868 00:45:54.920 --> 00:45:57.079 Like there's really nothing standing in the way of him 869 00:45:57.119 --> 00:45:59.519 just doing whatever the hell he wants. But I think 870 00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:02.280 that that's the people of Kentucky love him is because 871 00:46:02.280 --> 00:46:06.679 he at least he seems to be very authentic, and 872 00:46:06.760 --> 00:46:09.199 I think the people are like craving authenticity in their 873 00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:12.199 politicians right now. So yeah, I'll take I'll take Massy 874 00:46:12.280 --> 00:46:17.079 for being what he is. Let's see female anime characters. 875 00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:21.320 What in the hell did Samson that Dwang and him? 876 00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:27.320 I don't know. With that oh, with that dog in him, 877 00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:29.440 I'm sorry, made the glass make to where I can't 878 00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:32.400 be reading the female anime Catchers with that dog in him. 879 00:46:32.440 --> 00:46:34.320 The one that I was making fun of is the 880 00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:37.440 one at the in the middle of the fall White 881 00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:41.960 Side is uh Tina, Uh, I highly recommend you watch 882 00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:43.239 Full Metal Alchemist. 883 00:46:42.920 --> 00:46:45.719 Brotherhood so you get the joke, Jacob. 884 00:46:46.440 --> 00:46:50.239 Oh oh wait, yeah, yeah, she got that dog in 885 00:46:50.280 --> 00:46:53.119 her for sure, really fucked up how she has that 886 00:46:53.159 --> 00:46:55.679 dog in her But you know, hey, whatever is it bad? 887 00:46:55.719 --> 00:46:57.880 But that to me, that that was the That was 888 00:46:57.960 --> 00:47:01.599 not the darkest part of that anime. It. I laughed 889 00:47:01.639 --> 00:47:03.039 my ass off, but I. 890 00:47:02.960 --> 00:47:05.880 Was like, so for anybody who doesn't get this joke, 891 00:47:06.480 --> 00:47:09.599 long story short, this girl and her dog, her pet 892 00:47:09.960 --> 00:47:13.079 are like super super close and then through a wild 893 00:47:13.159 --> 00:47:15.960 chain of events, their souls in their. 894 00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:21.079 Yeah, they were transmutated into a camera, which, if you 895 00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:24.639 funny enough, Japan is making actual cameras today. 896 00:47:25.119 --> 00:47:25.320 Yeah. 897 00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:30.480 Though I've said that multiple times. So, uh the female 898 00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:33.000 that wrote for Male Alchemists, which it was a lady 899 00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:34.920 who wrote it. Some of the best animals are actually 900 00:47:34.920 --> 00:47:36.320 written by females, believe. 901 00:47:36.119 --> 00:47:38.280 It or not. Yeah, it's weird how that works out. 902 00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:41.079 And a lot of times there's a lot of the 903 00:47:41.320 --> 00:47:48.760 female writers a lot more pushing the agenda in certain aspects. 904 00:47:48.800 --> 00:47:54.760 As you expect, the sigils and the alchemical symbols that 905 00:47:54.840 --> 00:47:58.239 she has in that show are actual alchemical symbols. 906 00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:01.280 Yeah, they're accurate, but uh yes, So the joke about 907 00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:04.239 that is that if they try to separate them, then 908 00:48:04.280 --> 00:48:07.760 they both die. So it's it's a whole that's bad 909 00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:08.679 man as far as it goes. 910 00:48:09.239 --> 00:48:11.719 It was one of the taboos because you're not supposed 911 00:48:11.760 --> 00:48:14.639 to be human transmutation, which is why the boys lost 912 00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:19.079 their bodies. But the is it when they did that, 913 00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:21.880 he committed it a taboo and he that's why he 914 00:48:21.960 --> 00:48:26.719 got his first a citation of beating an alchemy the 915 00:48:26.840 --> 00:48:32.599 state state done out the state sponsored alchemy his pocket watch, 916 00:48:33.239 --> 00:48:35.360 because that's what he did to his wife, and you 917 00:48:35.440 --> 00:48:37.519 only n that's what he did after you see what 918 00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:38.440 he did to his daughter. 919 00:48:39.280 --> 00:48:41.719 Yeah, for anybody who's not into anime, I get it. 920 00:48:42.480 --> 00:48:45.159 But for those that are into it, it's it's an art. 921 00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:49.559 For him, it absolutely is moving it can be. Yes, 922 00:48:50.159 --> 00:48:53.800 Elon is a super villain. Okay again, I'm not saying 923 00:48:53.840 --> 00:48:56.559 he is. I'm not saying he isn't. I'm saying that 924 00:48:56.840 --> 00:48:59.320 the the pumps are primed for that to go either way, 925 00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:02.440 literally out of misnotice. It's all I'm gonna say as 926 00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:05.760 far as Elon goes, not in the anime at all, 927 00:49:05.960 --> 00:49:07.960 just never been in my jam. I get it. I 928 00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:10.360 absolutely get it. To some people. Anime is ridiculous to 929 00:49:10.360 --> 00:49:13.000 some people. Anime as a source, I'm in the middle. 930 00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:15.639 I'm not like a super huge anime nerd, but I 931 00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:17.920 know enough about enough of them to where I can, 932 00:49:18.000 --> 00:49:22.400 like semi speak intelligently on it. So there's that anyway. 933 00:49:22.400 --> 00:49:26.199 All right, now, let's get back to the conversation at large, 934 00:49:26.519 --> 00:49:31.199 shall we. So Dan Bongino is leaving his post as 935 00:49:31.360 --> 00:49:34.719 FBI Deputy Director next month. This dropped just today. We 936 00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:38.239 were we were talking about it earlier today. Apparently there 937 00:49:38.280 --> 00:49:41.039 was some things about Dan Bongino's staff all quitting from 938 00:49:41.079 --> 00:49:43.239 out from under him or something along those lines. We 939 00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:46.760 didn't really know. I was doing research for the Kwansa 940 00:49:46.800 --> 00:49:48.960 episode that we're gonna shooting tomorrow, and like cool cool, 941 00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:53.280 cool cut too, Nah, dan Bongino quit and he apparently, 942 00:49:53.360 --> 00:49:55.719 according to what Trump said, he wants to go back 943 00:49:55.719 --> 00:49:58.320 to podcasting. He wants to go back to his show. 944 00:49:59.199 --> 00:50:02.960 I got a hard believing unless he starts talking about 945 00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:06.159 all the ill shit that they were doing. I got 946 00:50:06.159 --> 00:50:08.280 a hard time believing that he's gonna have a loyal 947 00:50:08.400 --> 00:50:11.559 listener base. But hey, I could be wrong. Let's read 948 00:50:11.639 --> 00:50:14.320 into it here. CBS News. Dan Bongino leaving his post 949 00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:18.519 as FBI Deputy Director next month. He will be leaving 950 00:50:18.519 --> 00:50:21.239 his role in January. He announced it on a social 951 00:50:21.239 --> 00:50:24.119 media post on Wednesday and direct quote, I want to 952 00:50:24.119 --> 00:50:27.000 thank President Trump, ag Bondi, and Director Portel for the 953 00:50:27.039 --> 00:50:29.960 opportunity to serve with purpose, he wrote on a post 954 00:50:29.960 --> 00:50:32.280 on x Most importantly, I want to thank you, my 955 00:50:32.360 --> 00:50:35.960 fellow Americans, for the privilege to serve you. Nobody asked 956 00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:39.280 you to take that position, None of the American people 957 00:50:40.159 --> 00:50:43.079 like although I will say whenever he and Cash Pttell 958 00:50:43.199 --> 00:50:46.079 took that spot like or they were offered it, and 959 00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:49.039 then when they were appointed to this position. I was 960 00:50:49.079 --> 00:50:50.880 one of the ones that was very excited about that 961 00:50:51.559 --> 00:50:54.440 right because both of them were conspiracy theorists. Both of 962 00:50:54.480 --> 00:50:58.199 them were very hard chargers as far as releasing the files, 963 00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:01.519 complete transparency, the government corruptions got to stop. And it 964 00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:03.760 wasn't just Epstein. They talked about a lot of different 965 00:51:03.760 --> 00:51:07.679 things on the conspiratorial take that I was hoping that 966 00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:10.440 they would push through with their positions in the FBI. 967 00:51:11.480 --> 00:51:13.880 To watch them turncoat as hard as they did, as 968 00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:17.320 fast as they did, was a slap in the face 969 00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:21.599 to the American people, honestly. But sure, yeah, Dan, You're 970 00:51:21.639 --> 00:51:23.920 welcome on behalf of the American people for the position 971 00:51:23.960 --> 00:51:26.000 that none of us actually asked you to take, but 972 00:51:26.079 --> 00:51:29.159 had a lot of high hopes, and you dashed them 973 00:51:29.199 --> 00:51:34.400 all against the rock. Anyway. President Trump appeared to confirm 974 00:51:34.679 --> 00:51:38.199 Bongino's exit earlier Wednesday, telling reporters Dan did a great job. 975 00:51:38.239 --> 00:51:39.719 I think he wants to go back to a show. 976 00:51:40.360 --> 00:51:44.199 FBI director Cash Hotel called Dan Bongino the best partner 977 00:51:44.239 --> 00:51:46.519 I could have asked for in helping restore the FBI. 978 00:51:47.280 --> 00:51:50.559 You didn't restore the FBI. Neither of you restored the 979 00:51:50.639 --> 00:51:56.519 FBI like at all. If anything, you showed how incompetent 980 00:51:57.159 --> 00:52:00.239 y'all are, and also how incompetent the FBI as a 981 00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:03.639 whole is. So I guess thank you for that. Sure 982 00:52:04.880 --> 00:52:08.400 writing on X not only completed his mission, he far 983 00:52:08.480 --> 00:52:12.679 exceeded it, Yo, What metrics are you using to make 984 00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:17.320 these statements? Cash, mister Patel, director Patel, whatever the fuck 985 00:52:17.400 --> 00:52:20.119 monikers you want to put on him with, what standard 986 00:52:20.159 --> 00:52:24.000 and metrics are you using to say that he completed 987 00:52:24.039 --> 00:52:28.119 his mission one year, not even one full year after 988 00:52:28.159 --> 00:52:32.360 taking that position, but also exceeded it. I would love 989 00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:32.920 to know. 990 00:52:33.599 --> 00:52:34.840 He did a great job of lying. 991 00:52:34.840 --> 00:52:35.760 What are you talking about? 992 00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:40.000 He exceeded everybody's expectations of complete and out bullshit. 993 00:52:41.239 --> 00:52:43.480 You know what, Royce, you might be onto something here. 994 00:52:43.599 --> 00:52:46.039 Maybe that is exactly what he's talking about. You know what. 995 00:52:46.639 --> 00:52:50.039 If that's the case, then yeah, he excelled at the job. 996 00:52:50.320 --> 00:52:54.159 For sure, we will miss him, but I'm thankful he 997 00:52:54.239 --> 00:52:56.920 accepted the call to serve. Our country is better and 998 00:52:57.000 --> 00:53:00.719 safer for it. Patel wrote again, by what metrics are 999 00:53:00.760 --> 00:53:04.360 you making such a statement? But okay? Attorney in general. 1000 00:53:04.400 --> 00:53:08.039 Pambondi also thank Bonzino, writing on social media, Americans are 1001 00:53:08.079 --> 00:53:12.519 safer because of a service? Again, in what realm do 1002 00:53:12.599 --> 00:53:15.039 you believe that Americans are safer now than they were 1003 00:53:15.159 --> 00:53:20.079 last year? I would love to know, because what we 1004 00:53:20.159 --> 00:53:27.360 haven't had a car careening down Bourbon Street since we 1005 00:53:27.400 --> 00:53:31.280 didn't have the Trump Tower shooting and car bombing situation. 1006 00:53:32.679 --> 00:53:37.039 But we've had shootings, we've had fraud, we've had terrorist plots, 1007 00:53:37.079 --> 00:53:39.960 we've had all these things. I just heard recently that 1008 00:53:39.960 --> 00:53:44.760 they foiled a alleged terrorist plot that was supposed to 1009 00:53:44.800 --> 00:53:47.599 go down New Year's Eve or New Year's time frame 1010 00:53:47.760 --> 00:53:50.159 or something like that, and everybody's saying, see Candae, soone 1011 00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:52.519 said there'd be a nine to eleven style event, and 1012 00:53:52.559 --> 00:53:54.679 then the event that they're talking about is the thing 1013 00:53:54.719 --> 00:53:59.320 in Australia, which I'm just gonna be the one to 1014 00:53:59.360 --> 00:54:06.559 say it. Comparing the shooting on Bondai Beach to nine 1015 00:54:06.599 --> 00:54:11.679 to eleven, I don't understand the actual logic is being 1016 00:54:11.679 --> 00:54:15.039 applied to somebody who's making those connections. Gonna be honest, 1017 00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:19.159 two gunmen that killed eleven people versus allegedly we all 1018 00:54:19.199 --> 00:54:20.800 know nine to eleven was an inside job. I get that, 1019 00:54:20.840 --> 00:54:23.880 but per the official narrative versus what was like five 1020 00:54:24.079 --> 00:54:29.199 seven terrorists that killed thousands, I don't. I personally don't 1021 00:54:29.239 --> 00:54:35.559 see the connection at all, But all right, sure, totally. So, yeah, 1022 00:54:35.599 --> 00:54:38.719 apparently there was another terrorist attack that was supposed to 1023 00:54:38.760 --> 00:54:44.000 take place, super alleged, super up in the air. If 1024 00:54:44.039 --> 00:54:46.800 you start taking the sources away and start looking at 1025 00:54:46.840 --> 00:54:50.920 it critically, I'm not really sure if it's exactly what 1026 00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:53.519 they're making it out to be. But thank god we 1027 00:54:53.599 --> 00:54:56.480 had Dan Bongino and cash betelling the FBI to foil 1028 00:54:56.840 --> 00:54:59.920 this heinous plot. I don't know. I don't know, Royce, 1029 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:00.360 go ahead. 1030 00:55:01.840 --> 00:55:02.719 I'm just curious. 1031 00:55:03.639 --> 00:55:06.239 Think of this could be the first rat jumping ship. 1032 00:55:08.239 --> 00:55:12.719 Possibly he since he's you know, on the inside of things, 1033 00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:17.800 and you know, we don't know what he knows, but 1034 00:55:18.199 --> 00:55:22.079 he definitely has more information. So it could he just 1035 00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:27.800 try to preemptively bere like I've got to go over 1036 00:55:27.960 --> 00:55:28.519 here now. 1037 00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:32.679 Maybe, But at the same time, like once you're in 1038 00:55:32.760 --> 00:55:35.840 the click and once you know the information, they're not 1039 00:55:35.880 --> 00:55:38.400 just gonna let you quit, so you don't. You don't 1040 00:55:38.440 --> 00:55:41.159 walk away from something like this is like the mafia. 1041 00:55:41.760 --> 00:55:44.159 Just because you decide you're done, doesn't mean they decided 1042 00:55:44.159 --> 00:55:48.119 that you're done. And I don't, I don't know. I 1043 00:55:48.840 --> 00:55:50.559 everybody seems to be giving him the thumbs up in 1044 00:55:50.599 --> 00:55:54.119 the approval to go. It also wouldn't shock me on 1045 00:55:54.199 --> 00:55:57.519 a conspiratorial take. I understand that let me take off 1046 00:55:57.559 --> 00:56:00.199 my Cajun Knight hat and put on my kid cult 1047 00:56:00.239 --> 00:56:02.800 to conspiracy have for just a second here, It would 1048 00:56:02.840 --> 00:56:06.239 shock me if Dan Bongino is dead within six months 1049 00:56:06.280 --> 00:56:10.679 from some plane crash or or a random car accident 1050 00:56:11.000 --> 00:56:13.400 or whatever the case would be, or oh, my goodness, 1051 00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:15.559 he randomly suffered a heart attack the stress of the 1052 00:56:15.639 --> 00:56:17.960 job was too much for him and he couldn't hack 1053 00:56:18.039 --> 00:56:21.679 it or whatever. I could see that going down very heavily, 1054 00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:24.679 especially if he's trying to go back to being a 1055 00:56:24.719 --> 00:56:28.400 podcaster calling out government corruption when he was the former 1056 00:56:29.079 --> 00:56:34.480 underboss to the FBI, Like, that's that's gonna be a 1057 00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:38.519 hard transition. It's gonna be a very hard transition if 1058 00:56:38.519 --> 00:56:42.000 this is true. If he did all of a sudden 1059 00:56:42.159 --> 00:56:45.119 redevelop a backbone and decide that he can't be a 1060 00:56:45.159 --> 00:56:48.840 part of this this malarkey anymore. I got a hard 1061 00:56:48.880 --> 00:56:51.119 time seeing him making it back to the civilian sector 1062 00:56:51.159 --> 00:56:52.440 and picking up where he left off. 1063 00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:55.760 I agree, man, I don't think he can go back 1064 00:56:55.800 --> 00:56:57.880 to being a podcast because he's gonna be his base, 1065 00:56:58.440 --> 00:57:01.760 because a lot of his base it was very supportive 1066 00:57:01.800 --> 00:57:03.920 of him, and I know that I wasn't and I 1067 00:57:03.960 --> 00:57:09.360 know my aunt for sure is like no faith anymore, 1068 00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:12.639 especially after the whole you know, Fstein, you know he 1069 00:57:12.719 --> 00:57:15.440 definitely killed himself. Definitely, he definitely killed himself. 1070 00:57:15.719 --> 00:57:21.559 It's like you're lying, like everybody knows you're lying, bold, dying. 1071 00:57:22.079 --> 00:57:27.239 So anybody who believed him before, they're like, why would 1072 00:57:27.239 --> 00:57:30.519 we listen to you and support you when you were 1073 00:57:30.559 --> 00:57:35.280 put into this position where you should have tried to 1074 00:57:35.320 --> 00:57:38.159 do something about it and all and all you did 1075 00:57:38.199 --> 00:57:41.159 instaid was all right, well we're going to I'm going 1076 00:57:41.239 --> 00:57:44.599 to going to continue with the narrative, and why do you. 1077 00:57:46.440 --> 00:57:49.960 Maybe he'll pick up like a murder mystery podcast. Maybe 1078 00:57:49.960 --> 00:57:54.440 maybe that'll be his new stick or cryptids ooh, he might. 1079 00:57:54.519 --> 00:57:57.719 He might get real popular in the cryptic community. Right, 1080 00:57:57.840 --> 00:58:00.679 but my god, for him to even speak on anything 1081 00:58:00.679 --> 00:58:04.480 political from this point forward, it's gonna be a tough sale. 1082 00:58:04.559 --> 00:58:09.119 It's gonna be a very hard, hard, tough sale. We'll 1083 00:58:09.119 --> 00:58:12.800 see how it shakes out, Sam, whatch you got? Yeah? 1084 00:58:12.920 --> 00:58:15.840 I don't see him being ever being able to get 1085 00:58:15.840 --> 00:58:19.079 back in the conspiracy thing because everything he'll say will 1086 00:58:19.079 --> 00:58:22.840 be look askewed and he's been he was a part 1087 00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:26.400 of the system, and you can't trust somebody like that. 1088 00:58:26.519 --> 00:58:29.119 And you're right, it's a lot like the mafia. Hilder. 1089 00:58:29.480 --> 00:58:31.880 I personal believe it was the mafia that killed JFK, 1090 00:58:34.199 --> 00:58:37.639 but with the hands in with the Secret Service, just 1091 00:58:37.679 --> 00:58:41.639 because the mafia even had shit on Hoover and nine 1092 00:58:41.639 --> 00:58:43.519 times of ten, the only way you leave the mafia 1093 00:58:43.599 --> 00:58:46.320 is with a bullet and cement shoes. I can only 1094 00:58:46.360 --> 00:58:48.679 tell you two people that I know of that gut 1095 00:58:48.760 --> 00:58:53.559 away from the mafia and still alive. That Sammy and Michael. 1096 00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:56.719 Yeah, Samy the Bull and Michael Franciso is the only 1097 00:58:56.800 --> 00:58:58.880 two that I could think of. And I mean of 1098 00:58:58.920 --> 00:59:01.800 the golden era of the mafia, not the not the 1099 00:59:01.840 --> 00:59:04.000 ship that's happening today today. 1100 00:59:04.119 --> 00:59:07.280 The mafia is still like, they still have backbone and all. 1101 00:59:07.760 --> 00:59:11.679 But there there was a Southern mafia, like a Dixie 1102 00:59:11.760 --> 00:59:15.280 mafia that they they are completely utterly destroyed. There is 1103 00:59:15.320 --> 00:59:16.800 no more Dixie Mafia down here. 1104 00:59:16.880 --> 00:59:18.960 Well, no, no, no. When we say like the mafia, 1105 00:59:19.000 --> 00:59:20.719 I don't mean like the Jewish mafia, I don't mean 1106 00:59:20.760 --> 00:59:21.480 the Russian mafia. 1107 00:59:21.480 --> 00:59:24.400 I mean the Jewish mafia and the Italian mafia are 1108 00:59:24.440 --> 00:59:26.519 really one and the same because Bugsy, because all of 1109 00:59:26.599 --> 00:59:30.679 murder Ink were all Jews and Bugsy Siegell. 1110 00:59:31.400 --> 00:59:34.360 And Myer Landski and like yeah, yeah, but they also 1111 00:59:34.440 --> 00:59:38.639 operated separate but equally right they you can't bring up 1112 00:59:38.639 --> 00:59:40.440 one without bringing up the other. But at the same time, 1113 00:59:40.480 --> 00:59:44.320 like the Irish mafia you're talking about. Uh what was 1114 00:59:44.320 --> 00:59:46.000 his name? Why do you know? 1115 00:59:47.480 --> 00:59:50.239 He was an FBI inf mean, everything he did was 1116 00:59:50.280 --> 00:59:54.559 for the FBI and uh, the guy, uh, the leader 1117 00:59:54.599 --> 00:59:58.559 of murder inc. What was his name? He ended up 1118 00:59:58.599 --> 01:00:03.360 working for the FBI when five Italians were found killed 1119 01:00:03.400 --> 01:00:05.559 down here, which is why there was commbus day now 1120 01:00:06.599 --> 01:00:08.840 that the FBI went to a healm and said, hey, 1121 01:00:08.880 --> 01:00:10.519 we don't know where the bodies are, can you please 1122 01:00:10.559 --> 01:00:13.159 find them? He had the guy I can't think of 1123 01:00:13.199 --> 01:00:15.239 his name. I feel bad because I know his name, 1124 01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:18.519 I just can't place it. He actually tortured, beaten and 1125 01:00:18.639 --> 01:00:21.039 killed two of the k K members and took the 1126 01:00:21.079 --> 01:00:23.599 third one, and it had the third guy lead him 1127 01:00:23.599 --> 01:00:24.239 to the bodies. 1128 01:00:24.519 --> 01:00:24.639 Bro. 1129 01:00:24.760 --> 01:00:28.719 It was like within twenty four hours too. Yeah, oh yeah, 1130 01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:30.960 I remember. I can't remember this dude's name. He was 1131 01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:33.920 a comedian who was like he thinks that we should 1132 01:00:33.960 --> 01:00:37.039 have an Italian American from Jersey be the president. This 1133 01:00:37.119 --> 01:00:40.159 whole thing with O'sollovan lauden Bro two Sicilians would have 1134 01:00:40.199 --> 01:00:42.360 been there and back in twenty four hours with a body. 1135 01:00:42.360 --> 01:00:45.800 That's how that would have gone down if as president. 1136 01:00:46.320 --> 01:00:48.639 Listen I'm not saying I do this comedian whenever he 1137 01:00:48.679 --> 01:00:52.119 made this case, though, real shit, I get it. I 1138 01:00:52.199 --> 01:00:55.199 get it. Like the twin towers go down, everybody, the army, 1139 01:00:55.199 --> 01:00:57.199 the Marine Corps, everybody deploys and gets up in arm 1140 01:00:57.320 --> 01:01:00.440 to find one guy. One guy. Nah, dude, if a 1141 01:01:00.440 --> 01:01:03.360 Sicilian would have been in office, two Sicilians from Jersey 1142 01:01:03.400 --> 01:01:05.119 would have been there and back in twenty four hours 1143 01:01:05.119 --> 01:01:06.880 they had done just like a hit found him in 1144 01:01:06.920 --> 01:01:08.880 his cave with a baseball bat. That would have been it. 1145 01:01:08.920 --> 01:01:12.559 And it's like, you know, okay, all right, can we 1146 01:01:12.639 --> 01:01:15.280 get all Sylvester Stallone as president? 1147 01:01:15.559 --> 01:01:19.840 Oh no, I do not want Italian Stallion to be 1148 01:01:19.880 --> 01:01:21.880 the president. First of all, I could barely understand him 1149 01:01:21.880 --> 01:01:22.800 when he speaks. 1150 01:01:23.159 --> 01:01:26.480 Hey, now, I'm so you gotta get drunk. That's the 1151 01:01:26.480 --> 01:01:29.639 way you can understand the slowing. Okay, But dude, of 1152 01:01:29.719 --> 01:01:32.480 the jog, I fucking love Sylvestrich. 1153 01:01:32.760 --> 01:01:34.800 I don't know what his political leanings are. That's the 1154 01:01:34.800 --> 01:01:37.559 thing I heard somebody, Duwayne the Rock Johnson at one 1155 01:01:37.639 --> 01:01:39.840 point in time was like making mention that he might 1156 01:01:39.880 --> 01:01:42.159 go for a political run or something like that. And 1157 01:01:42.199 --> 01:01:44.480 it's like, I'm not inherently against you. I do know 1158 01:01:44.480 --> 01:01:46.840 you're a Democrat, and this is before the Hawaii fires 1159 01:01:46.840 --> 01:01:49.000 and before the Blue roofs and all this stuff. And 1160 01:01:49.039 --> 01:01:50.960 it was like, I don't know what your policies are, 1161 01:01:52.079 --> 01:01:54.880 but you know, we're getting closer and closer to idiocracy 1162 01:01:54.920 --> 01:01:56.639 by the day. I'll say that much. 1163 01:01:56.840 --> 01:02:01.679 Oh then again, I voted for Affelman, so oh my god. 1164 01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:04.760 Yeah, I saw this last election, Kanye West was on 1165 01:02:04.800 --> 01:02:07.519 the ballot under the Birthday Party, and believe it or not, 1166 01:02:07.559 --> 01:02:10.000 he got like nine thousand votes in the state of Louisiana. 1167 01:02:10.039 --> 01:02:12.400 And it's like that, that's surprising. I thought he would 1168 01:02:12.400 --> 01:02:14.480 have gone for the National Workers Party. 1169 01:02:15.079 --> 01:02:17.440 Yeah, believe it or not, he's not a socialist, although 1170 01:02:17.800 --> 01:02:20.599 his song where he's talking about the funny mustache man 1171 01:02:20.639 --> 01:02:26.199 would lead people to say otherwise, No, apparently not apparently. Yeah, 1172 01:02:26.199 --> 01:02:30.000 the Australian Painter Party, if you will, failed art student, 1173 01:02:30.480 --> 01:02:33.239 some might say. And also, yeah, I got I read 1174 01:02:33.239 --> 01:02:36.880 a comment it was like, dude, go ahead. 1175 01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:39.360 Bike, I do not like the guy. Well, I will 1176 01:02:39.400 --> 01:02:42.199 say I have looked at his paintings. I had to 1177 01:02:42.199 --> 01:02:46.519 do a whole report over him before my history class, which, 1178 01:02:46.800 --> 01:02:51.840 funny enough, my history teacher was a Jewish man and like, dude, 1179 01:02:52.000 --> 01:02:54.719 kind of glazed it. Man. I was like, that's kind 1180 01:02:54.719 --> 01:02:55.320 of weird. 1181 01:02:56.039 --> 01:02:59.000 Look, I'm not saying that he couldn't paint. I'm saying 1182 01:02:59.000 --> 01:03:01.360 that he failed out of art school, which is why. 1183 01:03:01.400 --> 01:03:02.960 I mean, he's a failed art student for one, and 1184 01:03:03.000 --> 01:03:05.719 for two, it's not like his and I looked it up. 1185 01:03:05.840 --> 01:03:08.719 There's like twenty two very famous paintings that Hitler did. 1186 01:03:09.480 --> 01:03:14.960 They're not they're not incredible, They're good. They're they're they're 1187 01:03:15.079 --> 01:03:15.519 very good. 1188 01:03:15.599 --> 01:03:17.559 He should have been more of a land surveyor and 1189 01:03:17.719 --> 01:03:20.480 like a Paennis of the landscape. 1190 01:03:22.239 --> 01:03:24.480 He ended up going into architecture at one point in 1191 01:03:24.599 --> 01:03:27.760 time and doing that type of art, which, okay, straight lines, 1192 01:03:28.360 --> 01:03:31.400 especially with the brutalist architecture style, which is very straight 1193 01:03:31.440 --> 01:03:35.920 lines and no artistic flair whatsoever. Sure, that's your jam. 1194 01:03:36.119 --> 01:03:40.679 His paintings were not anything like groundbreaking by any means. Mean, 1195 01:03:40.760 --> 01:03:44.119 fuck did the artists in the Renaissance were able to 1196 01:03:44.119 --> 01:03:47.280 do things that made him look like a kindergartener with 1197 01:03:47.360 --> 01:03:48.400 finger paint And it's like. 1198 01:03:48.360 --> 01:03:53.880 Okay, at fourteen year old Leonardo da Vinci took a painting, 1199 01:03:54.039 --> 01:03:57.480 made a painting of the gorgan Medusa, which in the 1200 01:03:57.480 --> 01:04:01.519 Greek mythology she was always a Gorgan, the gorvan, the 1201 01:04:02.000 --> 01:04:08.039 herbie and uh a maiden in in Iphidity's uh uh 1202 01:04:08.320 --> 01:04:12.719 not ye into Athena's priesthood and everything I actually comes 1203 01:04:12.719 --> 01:04:17.000 from the Roman myth But no, he actually made He 1204 01:04:17.039 --> 01:04:19.480 actually did a painting and it looked so lifelike that 1205 01:04:19.599 --> 01:04:21.320 his father fled in fear. 1206 01:04:22.280 --> 01:04:25.920 But that's and a guy. Again we're talking about da Vinci, right, 1207 01:04:25.960 --> 01:04:29.719 We're talking about like literally a legendary person both in 1208 01:04:29.760 --> 01:04:32.440 the art world, all these things, right, right, right, But 1209 01:04:32.519 --> 01:04:36.599 aside from him, there was also multiple artists from the 1210 01:04:36.639 --> 01:04:40.599 Renaissance that that some people probably wouldn't even know, that 1211 01:04:40.679 --> 01:04:44.000 were able to do things with way lesser techniques than Adolf. 1212 01:04:44.039 --> 01:04:48.199 It's not only he was like a uh just a groundbreaking, 1213 01:04:48.639 --> 01:04:51.840 mind blowing prodigy of art. He was an art student. 1214 01:04:52.320 --> 01:04:55.719 He could paint ooh he still failed out. Still was 1215 01:04:55.760 --> 01:04:58.920 a corporal in the in the you know, the the 1216 01:04:58.960 --> 01:05:00.800 World War War, So. 1217 01:05:02.440 --> 01:05:05.519 There there was a British soldier that actually had. 1218 01:05:07.519 --> 01:05:09.880 Yeah I've read the reports, bro he he let him 1219 01:05:09.880 --> 01:05:11.840 live and that was the whole thing. But I've heard 1220 01:05:11.840 --> 01:05:13.880 so many people say, oh, that's why Hitler was a 1221 01:05:13.960 --> 01:05:16.159 general in World War One. It's like, no, the fuck 1222 01:05:16.239 --> 01:05:18.559 he wasn't. He was a corporal and he also wasn't 1223 01:05:18.559 --> 01:05:21.440 a very good soldier at that I thought he. 1224 01:05:21.480 --> 01:05:23.880 Was like their version of Alliance Schop. I didn't realize 1225 01:05:23.920 --> 01:05:25.280 he was an n CEO. 1226 01:05:25.800 --> 01:05:28.559 I don't know if corporal is an n CEO in 1227 01:05:28.639 --> 01:05:31.960 the in the German military as of that time. I 1228 01:05:32.039 --> 01:05:34.719 could be wrong, but like he My point is though 1229 01:05:34.719 --> 01:05:37.599 he wasn't exactly like a leader of the troops by 1230 01:05:37.639 --> 01:05:41.360 any means, and he wasn't a exceptional soldier. He was adequate, 1231 01:05:41.960 --> 01:05:44.639 but like, yeah, he anyway, Anyway, we're not gonna we're 1232 01:05:44.639 --> 01:05:47.880 not taking the whole episode to Adolf Hitler conversation, but yeah, 1233 01:05:47.920 --> 01:05:52.119 it's I'm sorry, I love you too, Sam. Anyway, moving 1234 01:05:52.159 --> 01:05:54.719 on here, don't know how Dan Bongino is gonna make 1235 01:05:54.760 --> 01:05:58.119 it back into the civilian sector again. It's very possible 1236 01:05:58.320 --> 01:06:01.039 that he gets scot here in the next few months. 1237 01:06:01.360 --> 01:06:04.519 Continuing on, it says from Bongino, the biggest lifestyle change 1238 01:06:04.559 --> 01:06:06.840 is family wise. It was a lot and it's been 1239 01:06:06.880 --> 01:06:08.960 tough on the family. People ask all the time, do 1240 01:06:09.000 --> 01:06:11.719 you like it? No, I don't. At another time during 1241 01:06:11.719 --> 01:06:14.320 the interview, Bongino said, I gave up everything for this. 1242 01:06:14.519 --> 01:06:17.840 Yeah you did. You lost your entire show, your listener base, 1243 01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:22.320 your fandom, your everything, and you've lost all credibility by 1244 01:06:22.360 --> 01:06:26.360 the masses. So yeah. Over the summer, Bongino clashed with 1245 01:06:26.559 --> 01:06:30.239 other Trump administration staffers over a Justice Department and FBI 1246 01:06:30.280 --> 01:06:34.119 review of the Epstein investigation. As a political pundit, Bongino 1247 01:06:34.159 --> 01:06:36.760 had pushed the government to release more evidence on Epstein 1248 01:06:36.840 --> 01:06:39.599 and suggested to cover up was afoot, but during this 1249 01:06:39.679 --> 01:06:42.920 time atop the FBI, the agency's review found that Epstein 1250 01:06:42.960 --> 01:06:46.639 had quote no client list, and there was no evidence 1251 01:06:46.639 --> 01:06:50.719 to support changes or charges against others, finding that frustrated 1252 01:06:50.760 --> 01:06:54.679 some Trump allies, y'all think, sources told CBS News at 1253 01:06:54.719 --> 01:06:57.000 the time. Bongino attended a White House meeting in July 1254 01:06:57.079 --> 01:06:59.960 with Attorney General Bondi and White House Chief of Staff 1255 01:07:00.159 --> 01:07:03.920 Susie Wiles, which god Susie Wiles is also in hot 1256 01:07:03.920 --> 01:07:07.159 water right now, basically saying today, I've seen so many 1257 01:07:07.159 --> 01:07:10.920 reports saying that she claims that Trump speaks with the 1258 01:07:11.079 --> 01:07:14.239 arrogance of a drunkard. I might be paraphrasing a bit, 1259 01:07:14.360 --> 01:07:17.320 but you know, I don't disagree with her. But also 1260 01:07:17.440 --> 01:07:19.840 if you're working in the White House in that regard, 1261 01:07:20.440 --> 01:07:24.119 maybe don't shit on your boss. You know, I don't know, 1262 01:07:24.239 --> 01:07:27.079 I don't know Susie Wiles is. She's a person. She 1263 01:07:27.199 --> 01:07:30.320 is a person. Focusing on the fallout of the review, 1264 01:07:30.480 --> 01:07:34.039 That discussion resulted in a confrontation with Bondi. At the time, 1265 01:07:34.440 --> 01:07:36.880 fan Gino was weighing whether to resign from his role. 1266 01:07:37.000 --> 01:07:41.000 Weeks later, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey was tapped by 1267 01:07:41.079 --> 01:07:43.920 mister Trump to share the role of co deputy director 1268 01:07:44.039 --> 01:07:48.400 with Bongino. Typically, the FBI Deputy director role has been 1269 01:07:48.440 --> 01:07:51.119 a career staffer at the bureau, but neither of the 1270 01:07:51.159 --> 01:07:54.440 Trump administration's selections for the role had a history with 1271 01:07:54.480 --> 01:07:58.199 the FBI before being appointed, which was the point. Right. 1272 01:07:58.920 --> 01:08:00.800 In his role at the FBI, I bon Gino led 1273 01:08:00.840 --> 01:08:05.920 a charge to re examine unsolved high profile cases, including 1274 01:08:06.360 --> 01:08:09.679 the twenty twenty one DC pipe bombings, which, come to 1275 01:08:09.679 --> 01:08:13.920 find out, was placed by a cop. But of course 1276 01:08:13.960 --> 01:08:16.520 it was because of the jan sixers, and it was 1277 01:08:16.960 --> 01:08:20.840 the violent insurrection, and except for the only person that 1278 01:08:20.960 --> 01:08:26.439 was killed was a horrible, horrible accident and the pipe 1279 01:08:26.439 --> 01:08:29.640 bomb that was found was actually planted by a badged 1280 01:08:29.760 --> 01:08:36.159 DC police officer. What that's crazy, Like I said, moving 1281 01:08:36.199 --> 01:08:39.960 on here. Earlier this month, the FBI arrested the man 1282 01:08:39.960 --> 01:08:42.319 suspected of planting the pipe bombs outside of the Republican 1283 01:08:42.399 --> 01:08:46.680 National Committee and Democratic National Committee headquarters on January fifth, 1284 01:08:46.840 --> 01:08:50.600 twenty twenty one. Investigators have not revealed a potential motive yet, 1285 01:08:50.680 --> 01:08:53.960 and core proceedings in the case have just begun. Could 1286 01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:56.159 it be because it was an inside job and it 1287 01:08:56.199 --> 01:08:58.560 was only put there to be found to further a 1288 01:08:58.560 --> 01:09:02.399 certain narrative. I know, I'm just conspiracy theorist, but all right, Well, 1289 01:09:02.760 --> 01:09:05.680 for years Bongino spread a conspiracy theory that the act 1290 01:09:05.760 --> 01:09:08.159 may have been an inside job and that the bombs 1291 01:09:08.159 --> 01:09:13.520 are planted by federal law enforcement, and that was later confirmed. Again, 1292 01:09:13.800 --> 01:09:17.720 It's very possible that Bongino has just gotten sickened by 1293 01:09:17.720 --> 01:09:20.560 the whole order of the day and has decided to 1294 01:09:20.600 --> 01:09:25.039 go back and re establish his morals and re establish 1295 01:09:25.119 --> 01:09:27.960 his backbone, and he's leaving because he sees this operation 1296 01:09:28.039 --> 01:09:31.319 for what it is. It's possible, but the fact that 1297 01:09:31.319 --> 01:09:33.800 you lean so heavily into it for months and months 1298 01:09:33.840 --> 01:09:36.720 and months months, and now you're developing a spine like no, 1299 01:09:36.840 --> 01:09:40.800 the time to be forthright and honest has passed. I 1300 01:09:41.039 --> 01:09:43.560 don't know. It's who knows. He might have an insane 1301 01:09:43.640 --> 01:09:46.119 comeback arc that's about to start for him. We can 1302 01:09:46.159 --> 01:09:49.399 only hope him pray. You know, we will keep everybody 1303 01:09:49.479 --> 01:09:52.199 posted as the Dan Bongino thing plays out here soon 1304 01:09:52.279 --> 01:09:54.880 and hey, I'll be on the lookout to see what 1305 01:09:54.960 --> 01:09:58.119 his career, what kind of turns his career takes next. 1306 01:09:58.720 --> 01:10:03.079 But anyway, all right, the next course of action, just 1307 01:10:03.159 --> 01:10:07.560 one pill, all it takes. Columbus Recovery Community praises Trump's 1308 01:10:07.720 --> 01:10:12.840 order classifying fentanyl or fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. 1309 01:10:13.720 --> 01:10:15.600 That is a thing, that is the thing that just 1310 01:10:15.640 --> 01:10:19.640 happened here. Trump has now declared a certain drug to 1311 01:10:19.720 --> 01:10:23.880 be a weapon of mass destruction. Depending on who you ask, 1312 01:10:24.399 --> 01:10:26.479 this could be because he is trying to come after 1313 01:10:26.560 --> 01:10:29.079 Maduro in Venezuela, and he is saying that fentanyl is 1314 01:10:29.079 --> 01:10:35.039 coming into our country from China via Venezuela. I gotta 1315 01:10:35.079 --> 01:10:39.439 be honest with you, that doesn't seem to be accurate 1316 01:10:39.840 --> 01:10:43.399 from my layman's perspective. Most of the drugs that are 1317 01:10:43.479 --> 01:10:47.159 leaving Venezuela are actually headed to Africa and Europe. Yes, 1318 01:10:47.199 --> 01:10:49.119 there are some boats that are absolutely on their way 1319 01:10:49.159 --> 01:10:51.359 to America, and those have been getting the shit blown 1320 01:10:51.399 --> 01:10:56.119 out of them, for sure, for sure. But Maduro himself, 1321 01:10:56.680 --> 01:10:59.439 especially now that Trump has gone at it in this way, 1322 01:11:00.680 --> 01:11:02.720 most of his shipments were supposed to be going to 1323 01:11:02.800 --> 01:11:05.359 Africa and Europe. And if we're looking at where the 1324 01:11:05.359 --> 01:11:08.079 fentanyl is coming from, we need to look at the 1325 01:11:08.239 --> 01:11:13.520 JNNGC cartel or the Sinaloa cartel. They're the ones that 1326 01:11:13.560 --> 01:11:16.479 are getting these shipments from China and cutting drugs with 1327 01:11:16.560 --> 01:11:20.079 them to get better bang for buck on their profit margins. 1328 01:11:20.479 --> 01:11:23.239 I can't really find much about Venezuela in this, but 1329 01:11:23.479 --> 01:11:27.920 we're gonna talk about how fentanyl could could be used 1330 01:11:27.920 --> 01:11:30.319 as a weapon of mass destruction. There was an incident 1331 01:11:30.399 --> 01:11:36.479 where Russian special forces pumped an entire theater full of 1332 01:11:36.800 --> 01:11:40.039 fentanyl powder or fentanyl gas for lack of better words, 1333 01:11:40.640 --> 01:11:43.680 not exactly gas, but like powdered form, drop of point. 1334 01:11:43.720 --> 01:11:46.479 It's not like saying sarin gas. It's not actually a gas. 1335 01:11:46.560 --> 01:11:48.760 It's the same thing with the fentanyl thing. And instead 1336 01:11:48.800 --> 01:11:51.520 of trying to negotiate with the terrorists that were holding 1337 01:11:51.560 --> 01:11:53.520 these people hostage in the theater. They just said, we'll 1338 01:11:53.560 --> 01:11:55.840 kill everybody with fentanyl. We'll talk about that here in 1339 01:11:55.880 --> 01:11:58.399 a minute. So I don't know, but uh yeah, Trump 1340 01:11:58.399 --> 01:12:00.760 has now classified fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. 1341 01:12:01.119 --> 01:12:03.199 Before we play this clip and read the article, Sam, 1342 01:12:03.239 --> 01:12:05.359 what you got a lot. 1343 01:12:05.199 --> 01:12:09.399 Of the facts we use fat in our medical field 1344 01:12:09.439 --> 01:12:14.600 and everything. I don't know how I know that our 1345 01:12:14.680 --> 01:12:18.880 hospitals use it or like for surgeries and all. Oh 1346 01:12:19.079 --> 01:12:22.960 as a they'll use a bit of it for anesthesia. 1347 01:12:23.560 --> 01:12:25.640 And I know that because I was talking to the 1348 01:12:25.720 --> 01:12:29.199 nurses today about it every time I'm at the hospital, 1349 01:12:29.560 --> 01:12:32.600 or I knew things about medical. 1350 01:12:33.039 --> 01:12:37.520 For cocaine, they'll use cocaine as a lookal topical aesthetic. 1351 01:12:38.039 --> 01:12:40.000 Do you know what the do you know who the 1352 01:12:40.039 --> 01:12:45.399 biggest buyer of the of the cocaine in America? And 1353 01:12:45.399 --> 01:12:48.920 when I say cocaine, I mean like the plant and everything. 1354 01:12:48.960 --> 01:12:50.399 Coca Cola, isn't it. 1355 01:12:50.399 --> 01:12:51.319 It's Coca cola. 1356 01:12:51.600 --> 01:12:53.479 Yeah, it's Coca cola. 1357 01:12:53.520 --> 01:12:57.560 They actually so that's why they legally can say they're 1358 01:12:57.640 --> 01:13:01.840 using original taste for coke for coca coat because they 1359 01:13:01.840 --> 01:13:06.199 don't use the don't because in the beginning they did 1360 01:13:06.359 --> 01:13:08.920 use cocaine. Hell, we had cocaine gums old in general 1361 01:13:09.279 --> 01:13:13.199 and everything. But no, so see now they take the 1362 01:13:13.279 --> 01:13:15.560 plants that they will take, they will pick the leaves 1363 01:13:15.560 --> 01:13:17.840 off of the stems and everything. They will put the 1364 01:13:17.960 --> 01:13:18.960 well on the patching. 1365 01:13:19.039 --> 01:13:22.800 They will have their bro You driving through a rough 1366 01:13:23.159 --> 01:13:24.560 because you're drinking everything. 1367 01:13:28.319 --> 01:13:31.319 Yes, sir, I didn't realize that it was a bad area. 1368 01:13:31.680 --> 01:13:33.840 But they will filter the coat. They'll filter it through 1369 01:13:33.880 --> 01:13:37.359 the leaves and that's why they you you do get 1370 01:13:37.399 --> 01:13:40.039 traces amount of the That's why you get a lot 1371 01:13:40.039 --> 01:13:41.720 of the balls and everything. Not really a buzz, but 1372 01:13:41.760 --> 01:13:45.039 that's why the flavors. What I mean, not from what 1373 01:13:45.079 --> 01:13:47.520 I've done with my research fantastic. 1374 01:13:48.039 --> 01:13:51.319 It's basically like decaf coffee, Like, yeah, it's still coffee beans, 1375 01:13:51.319 --> 01:13:53.399 but there's no caffeine for these. It's like, yeah, it's 1376 01:13:53.399 --> 01:13:55.039 coca leaves, but there's no cocaine. 1377 01:13:55.439 --> 01:13:58.760 Yeah, it's like teasing. It's like to tease to all 1378 01:13:58.800 --> 01:13:59.359 the cocaines. 1379 01:14:00.880 --> 01:14:05.600 Basically, oh, my uncle, like he's not my actual uncle, 1380 01:14:05.680 --> 01:14:07.479 but I go up with him as a fang phone. 1381 01:14:07.520 --> 01:14:10.880 He actually got off of cocaine by drinking a ungually 1382 01:14:10.920 --> 01:14:13.039 amount of coca cola. 1383 01:14:13.920 --> 01:14:16.279 I mean, that's if it works for you, you know, 1384 01:14:16.359 --> 01:14:19.479 But anyway, anyway, So, but cocaine is used in the 1385 01:14:19.520 --> 01:14:22.079 medical industry, so are a lot of opiates, right, And 1386 01:14:22.119 --> 01:14:24.520 this is all designated and classified and all the things. 1387 01:14:24.520 --> 01:14:27.880 It's restricted, it's taxed, all the shit. Finnanyl will still 1388 01:14:27.880 --> 01:14:30.640 be used in these regards, but as far as the 1389 01:14:30.720 --> 01:14:32.800 street drug of fentanyl yet now it's a weapon of 1390 01:14:32.800 --> 01:14:35.359 mass destruction. So we're gonna read about this now. This 1391 01:14:35.520 --> 01:14:38.920 is from a local news station here, and we're gonna 1392 01:14:38.920 --> 01:14:40.760 play this little clip about it first, and we're gonna 1393 01:14:40.760 --> 01:14:43.399 read about it. Let's learn together. And Donald Trump signed 1394 01:14:43.439 --> 01:14:47.199 a sweeping executive order Monday declaring fentanyl a weapon of 1395 01:14:47.319 --> 01:14:51.000 mass destruction. This is an unprecedented move here. It's designed 1396 01:14:51.000 --> 01:14:54.439 to treat the synthetic opioid crisis as a national security 1397 01:14:54.439 --> 01:14:56.600 threat rather than a public health issue. 1398 01:14:56.680 --> 01:14:59.479 And it is a move that Columbus recovery community is 1399 01:14:59.640 --> 01:15:03.439 pre tonight as they hope it leads to more lives saved. 1400 01:15:03.680 --> 01:15:06.640 Ten TV's Brin Caswell shares the emotional story of a 1401 01:15:06.680 --> 01:15:10.279 Columbus woman who has been deeply affected by the drug. 1402 01:15:10.439 --> 01:15:11.760 Mister Devan and then Zach. 1403 01:15:12.199 --> 01:15:15.960 Grief never goes away, but as time passes it changes, 1404 01:15:16.239 --> 01:15:18.159 some days sting more than others. 1405 01:15:18.239 --> 01:15:20.640 Well needs to be on FaceTime, like every night. 1406 01:15:20.640 --> 01:15:23.600 For Alex Gold. Today is one of those days. 1407 01:15:23.720 --> 01:15:26.439 My brother passed away a little over five years ago 1408 01:15:26.720 --> 01:15:31.199 from an overdose. It was a percocet laced with fetanel 1409 01:15:31.439 --> 01:15:34.119 and it was just one pill and that's all it takes. 1410 01:15:34.199 --> 01:15:36.960 Today is what would have been Zach's thirtieth birthday. 1411 01:15:37.039 --> 01:15:41.119 It's Russian roulette, you know, every time, every time you 1412 01:15:41.159 --> 01:15:42.920 pick it up, you might not even know you're picking 1413 01:15:42.920 --> 01:15:43.199 it up. 1414 01:15:43.399 --> 01:15:47.239 Zach was battling addiction before overdosing at twenty four. He 1415 01:15:47.359 --> 01:15:49.079 battle Alex knows personally. 1416 01:15:49.359 --> 01:15:55.079 I started using heroin when I was fifteen. I did 1417 01:15:55.159 --> 01:15:57.479 use fetanol, it wasn't the choice, but after I was 1418 01:15:57.479 --> 01:15:59.800 addicted to heroin, I was using that daily. 1419 01:16:00.159 --> 01:16:04.039 Monday, President Trump signing an unprecedented executive order. 1420 01:16:04.000 --> 01:16:08.760 Were formerly classifying fentyl as a weapon of mass destruction. 1421 01:16:08.479 --> 01:16:11.640 A declaration Alex believes will save lives. 1422 01:16:11.479 --> 01:16:14.079 And I think that it absolutely is a weapon of 1423 01:16:14.119 --> 01:16:18.600 mass destruction. It doesn't matter what the circumstances are fetanyl 1424 01:16:18.600 --> 01:16:19.680 will take people's lives. 1425 01:16:19.760 --> 01:16:22.520 The White House says. The move targets the fetanyl crisis, 1426 01:16:22.680 --> 01:16:27.560 killing tens of thousands nationwide, largely driven by cartels. It 1427 01:16:27.560 --> 01:16:31.319 expands federal power, allowing military and intelligence tools to be 1428 01:16:31.399 --> 01:16:35.640 used against traffickers. Just last week, the deacs one hundred 1429 01:16:35.680 --> 01:16:38.279 thousand counterfeit fetanyl pills in central Ohio. 1430 01:16:38.439 --> 01:16:42.159 We're talking about our kids, our families, our neighbors, like 1431 01:16:42.159 --> 01:16:44.399 we're talking about our lives. 1432 01:16:44.640 --> 01:16:49.600 As Alex's life continues, addiction doesn't define her days, he does. 1433 01:16:51.439 --> 01:16:54.840 So you know, a PSA for anybody who's never heard it, 1434 01:16:55.319 --> 01:16:59.640 drugs are bad. Okay, just don't do just don't do 1435 01:17:00.119 --> 01:17:02.560 especially these days, because you don't know what is and 1436 01:17:02.680 --> 01:17:05.000 is not going to be laced with something. Even if 1437 01:17:05.000 --> 01:17:07.479 the person you're getting it from somebody you trust, you 1438 01:17:07.520 --> 01:17:10.079 don't know where they got it from. So as far 1439 01:17:10.079 --> 01:17:11.960 as that goes, like, look, just just don't do it. 1440 01:17:12.159 --> 01:17:15.880 Just don't do it. So simple. So this article kind 1441 01:17:15.880 --> 01:17:17.319 of goes more in depth with it and kind of 1442 01:17:17.359 --> 01:17:20.960 reiterates what was just said. But let's let in the 1443 01:17:21.000 --> 01:17:24.960 world to remove. Okay, that just went that scared the 1444 01:17:25.079 --> 01:17:26.239 Jesus out of me. I didn't know that was going 1445 01:17:26.319 --> 01:17:29.399 to play. So now let's read into the White House 1446 01:17:29.800 --> 01:17:33.760 presidential press release. Here. This is the Presidential Action Executive 1447 01:17:33.920 --> 01:17:38.079 Order Designate Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction by 1448 01:17:38.119 --> 01:17:40.880 the authority invested in me a President, by the Constitution. 1449 01:17:40.920 --> 01:17:42.359 In the Laws of the United States of America. It 1450 01:17:42.399 --> 01:17:46.239 is hereby ordered Section one, Purpose and Policy elicit. Fentanyl 1451 01:17:46.359 --> 01:17:49.840 is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic Two 1452 01:17:50.119 --> 01:17:53.840 milligrams an almost undetectable trace amount is equivalent to ten 1453 01:17:53.880 --> 01:17:57.680 to fifteen grains of table salt, constitutes a lethal dose. 1454 01:17:58.119 --> 01:18:02.159 Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died from fentonyl overdoses. Yeah, 1455 01:18:02.159 --> 01:18:04.039 I saw was something saying it was like four hundred 1456 01:18:04.079 --> 01:18:08.520 thousand just in the last few years. It's it's pretty insane. 1457 01:18:08.560 --> 01:18:10.680 And I don't even know if that was a verified source. 1458 01:18:11.279 --> 01:18:13.439 I just do you hear these crazy stories? How. I 1459 01:18:13.439 --> 01:18:15.640 have a buddy I served with who died from an 1460 01:18:15.640 --> 01:18:19.000 accidental fentanyl overdose very similar to the story we just heard, 1461 01:18:19.239 --> 01:18:21.880 and that was in Ohio. My boys in Indiana, like 1462 01:18:22.199 --> 01:18:23.840 it's a thing. I went to his funeral. It was. 1463 01:18:23.880 --> 01:18:27.800 It was horrible. And his parents were cops. Like his funeral, 1464 01:18:27.960 --> 01:18:33.680 the reception was hailed at the local Fraternal Order of 1465 01:18:33.680 --> 01:18:38.159 Police you know house in Indiana. His dad was a cop, 1466 01:18:38.239 --> 01:18:40.359 his mom had worked for the police department. It wasn't like, 1467 01:18:40.720 --> 01:18:43.039 you know, these were there's a family that was all 1468 01:18:43.079 --> 01:18:45.520 broken up about like, no, these are good people, and 1469 01:18:45.600 --> 01:18:48.479 he was a good person. I don't know if he 1470 01:18:48.600 --> 01:18:51.720 started like experimenting with drugs recreationally. I don't know if 1471 01:18:51.920 --> 01:18:53.680 he was out one night and just decided to take 1472 01:18:53.720 --> 01:18:55.119 like a little hit off a joint and didn't know 1473 01:18:55.119 --> 01:18:57.720 what was I don't know the full extent, but I 1474 01:18:57.760 --> 01:19:01.159 do know that it was an accidental o d from fentanyl. 1475 01:19:01.600 --> 01:19:04.560 So yeah, I absolutely can resonate with this one. The 1476 01:19:04.600 --> 01:19:09.720 manufacturing distribution of fentanyl, primarily performed by organized crime networks, 1477 01:19:09.800 --> 01:19:12.479 threatens our national security and fuel when in the world 1478 01:19:12.560 --> 01:19:16.880 is this red thing on my screen and fuels lawlessness 1479 01:19:16.880 --> 01:19:20.079 in our hemisphere and at our borders. The production and 1480 01:19:20.239 --> 01:19:23.439 sale of fentanyl by foreign terrorists, organizations, and cartels fund 1481 01:19:23.479 --> 01:19:28.399 these entities operations which include assassinations, terrorist attacks, and insurgencies 1482 01:19:28.399 --> 01:19:30.960 around the world, and allow these entities to erode our 1483 01:19:31.000 --> 01:19:34.399 domestic security and the well being of our nation. The 1484 01:19:34.439 --> 01:19:37.479 two cartels that are predominantly responsible for the distribution of 1485 01:19:37.520 --> 01:19:40.159 fentanyl in the United States engage in armed conflicts over 1486 01:19:40.279 --> 01:19:44.319 territory and to protect their operations. Further, the potential for 1487 01:19:44.359 --> 01:19:47.439 fentanyl to be weaponized for the concentrated, large scale terror 1488 01:19:47.439 --> 01:19:50.079 attacks by organized adversaries is a serious threat to the 1489 01:19:50.199 --> 01:19:53.159 United States. As President of the United States, my highest 1490 01:19:53.199 --> 01:19:57.039 duty is the defense of our country and its citizens. Accordingly, 1491 01:19:57.079 --> 01:20:00.640 I hereby designate illicit fentanyl and its core pre cursors 1492 01:20:01.000 --> 01:20:04.960 chemicals as weapons of mass destruction. Section two the implementation. 1493 01:20:05.359 --> 01:20:09.079 The heads of relevant executive or executive departments and agencies 1494 01:20:09.439 --> 01:20:12.920 shall take appropriate actions to implement this order and eliminate 1495 01:20:12.960 --> 01:20:16.239 the threat of illicit fitanyl and its core precursor chemicals 1496 01:20:16.279 --> 01:20:20.560 to the United States. This includes the following actions. Attorney 1497 01:20:20.640 --> 01:20:24.640 General shall immediately pursue investigations and prosecutions into fentanyl trafficking, 1498 01:20:25.000 --> 01:20:31.159 including through criminal charges, as appropriate, sentencing enhancements, and sentencing variances. 1499 01:20:31.560 --> 01:20:35.119 The Secretary of State and the State Treasury shall pursue 1500 01:20:35.159 --> 01:20:39.319 appropriate actions against relevant assets and financial institutions in accordance 1501 01:20:39.319 --> 01:20:44.039 with applicable laws. For those involved in or supporting the manufacturer, distribution, 1502 01:20:44.119 --> 01:20:46.720 and sale of illicit fitnyl and its corporate cursor chemicals. 1503 01:20:46.960 --> 01:20:50.359 The Secretary of War and Attorney General shall determine whether 1504 01:20:50.399 --> 01:20:52.800 the threats posed by illicit fentanyl and its impact on 1505 01:20:52.840 --> 01:20:55.640 the United States warrant the provision of resources from the 1506 01:20:55.640 --> 01:20:58.319 Department of War and the Department of Justice to aid 1507 01:20:58.399 --> 01:21:01.239 in the enforcement of Title eighteen by the United States Code. 1508 01:21:01.279 --> 01:21:05.159 As consistent with ten USC two eight two. The Secretary 1509 01:21:05.159 --> 01:21:08.399 of War, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security, 1510 01:21:08.640 --> 01:21:12.640 shall update all directives regarding armed Forces response to chemical 1511 01:21:12.680 --> 01:21:16.039 indict or incidents in the homeland to include the threat 1512 01:21:16.039 --> 01:21:19.359 of illicit fentanyl and to ensure the United States use 1513 01:21:19.399 --> 01:21:22.840 the full array of appropriate counter fentanyl tools. The Secretary 1514 01:21:22.880 --> 01:21:25.840 of Homeland Security, as consistent with applicable laws, and in 1515 01:21:25.880 --> 01:21:28.960 coordination with the head of relevant Agencies as appropriate, shall 1516 01:21:29.000 --> 01:21:33.039 identify threat networks related to fentanyl smuggling, using weapons of 1517 01:21:33.039 --> 01:21:37.840 mass destruction and non proliferation related threats intelligence to support 1518 01:21:37.840 --> 01:21:42.199 the full spectrum of counter fentanyl operations. Okay, so it 1519 01:21:42.239 --> 01:21:44.239 goes into some of the definitions of what it means 1520 01:21:44.279 --> 01:21:47.960 by elici fentanyl. It means fentanyl that is manufactured, distributed, 1521 01:21:48.079 --> 01:21:52.119 or dispensed, or possessed with intent to manufacture, distribute, or 1522 01:21:52.520 --> 01:21:55.439 dispense in violation with Section four oh one and four 1523 01:21:55.439 --> 01:22:00.560 oh six of the Controlled Substance Act. The core precursor 1524 01:22:00.640 --> 01:22:03.399 chemicals means the core chemicals that create alica finnyl in 1525 01:22:03.399 --> 01:22:07.520 its analogs such as pie peradone or the other PI 1526 01:22:07.600 --> 01:22:13.600 paradon based substances. General provisions is Section four doesn't really 1527 01:22:14.960 --> 01:22:17.000 The general provisions is pretty much give the backstory to 1528 01:22:17.000 --> 01:22:21.039 all of the other kind of conversational pieces here, go ahead, 1529 01:22:21.119 --> 01:22:24.039 raven So. 1530 01:22:24.520 --> 01:22:29.039 I actually my cousin's husband died of a fentanyl overdose easily. 1531 01:22:29.279 --> 01:22:34.039 He took one hit of heroin, which obviously I don't condone, 1532 01:22:34.079 --> 01:22:38.359 but he was a recovering attic and he, I guess, 1533 01:22:38.439 --> 01:22:42.479 bought some heroin from somebody that he knew, and it 1534 01:22:42.520 --> 01:22:45.520 was a small, like super small dose, but it had 1535 01:22:45.720 --> 01:22:48.840 he was overweight and he had like medical conditions. He 1536 01:22:48.920 --> 01:22:53.119 died like right right away. Also, like two buddies of 1537 01:22:53.119 --> 01:22:55.720 mine from the Marine Corps had issues where shit was 1538 01:22:55.800 --> 01:22:59.359 laced and they died. Also, fentanyl is definitely one of 1539 01:22:59.399 --> 01:23:01.399 those things that killing off people. I think it was 1540 01:23:01.479 --> 01:23:05.880 introduced for the sole reason to kill off the drug population. 1541 01:23:06.399 --> 01:23:09.279 That way, it just lowers numbers and just be like, oh, well, 1542 01:23:09.520 --> 01:23:10.640 just is kind of happening. 1543 01:23:11.039 --> 01:23:14.760 Yeah, I fully agree. Honestly, we talked about the second 1544 01:23:14.840 --> 01:23:18.199 Kingsman movie, The Golden Circle. I think fentanyl is the 1545 01:23:18.239 --> 01:23:21.199 thing that instead of poisoning people and putting them into 1546 01:23:21.239 --> 01:23:24.279 like basically a coma and poisoning in that way, it's 1547 01:23:24.319 --> 01:23:26.520 it's literally something that can be laced into I've even 1548 01:23:26.600 --> 01:23:29.399 heard reports of it being laced into weed, and it's 1549 01:23:29.479 --> 01:23:32.279 it's even the smallest amounts that you wouldn't know about 1550 01:23:32.359 --> 01:23:33.439 until it's too late. 1551 01:23:33.920 --> 01:23:37.119 And it has. So they used fentanyl as in the 1552 01:23:37.119 --> 01:23:40.119 hospitals to help with when you have like extreme nausea 1553 01:23:40.600 --> 01:23:44.359 and vomiting. I actually am highly allergic to it and 1554 01:23:44.520 --> 01:23:48.640 had a really serious life threatening reaction to it, and 1555 01:23:48.680 --> 01:23:52.199 it was a small dose, and it's it's one of 1556 01:23:52.239 --> 01:23:54.640 those scenes that if you're not going to know you're 1557 01:23:54.640 --> 01:23:56.880 allergic to it until you have it, and once you 1558 01:23:56.960 --> 01:23:58.640 have it, it's like a life or death kind of 1559 01:23:58.640 --> 01:24:01.439 a situation. So I do agree with you. I think 1560 01:24:01.479 --> 01:24:04.319 it's something that was introduced to be able to help 1561 01:24:05.039 --> 01:24:08.399 manage the population. And it's a big issue. I mean, 1562 01:24:08.439 --> 01:24:10.600 it's killing people off left and right. Kids are the 1563 01:24:10.600 --> 01:24:13.560 ones that it's getting the most of. Yeah, children are 1564 01:24:13.600 --> 01:24:15.239 the ones that are experimenting. I don't know if you 1565 01:24:15.279 --> 01:24:17.039 ever heard a couple of those stories that came out 1566 01:24:17.039 --> 01:24:20.880 the last few years of the girls that one of 1567 01:24:20.880 --> 01:24:23.560 her friends gave her a pill and she thought it 1568 01:24:23.600 --> 01:24:26.520 was like a tunnel or something like that, and I 1569 01:24:26.560 --> 01:24:29.039 think it was like a half of a oxyar or 1570 01:24:30.000 --> 01:24:32.600 an adderall or ecstasy or something like that, and it 1571 01:24:32.680 --> 01:24:35.319 was laced with fentanyl and it killed her pretty much 1572 01:24:35.399 --> 01:24:39.800 right then and there. Yeah, lots of children have died 1573 01:24:39.800 --> 01:24:40.159 from it. 1574 01:24:40.960 --> 01:24:45.319 That is absolutely horrible. So I am in agreement that 1575 01:24:45.359 --> 01:24:48.640 this should be listed as a WMD. And just so 1576 01:24:48.680 --> 01:24:53.479 we're all clear, there is at least a case of 1577 01:24:53.520 --> 01:24:58.199 it being used as a weapon fentanyl itself. So let's 1578 01:24:58.239 --> 01:25:01.159 talk about this here. This is the Arms Can Association 1579 01:25:02.159 --> 01:25:08.000 arms IS and Weapons Russia uses opiate based gas on militants. 1580 01:25:08.920 --> 01:25:12.600 When they say opiate base, that's not exactly accurate. It 1581 01:25:12.840 --> 01:25:16.960 was fitting on gas. Let's read this here. So this 1582 01:25:17.000 --> 01:25:19.640 is from two thousand and two. If I'm not mistaken, 1583 01:25:20.159 --> 01:25:25.560 Russian law enforcement authorities stored a Moscow theater October twenty sixth. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 1584 01:25:25.560 --> 01:25:28.279 this is This was posted November one, two thousand and two. 1585 01:25:28.680 --> 01:25:32.600 So October twenty sixth, two thousand and two. After pumping 1586 01:25:32.680 --> 01:25:35.960 gas into the building where Chessian militants were holding more 1587 01:25:36.000 --> 01:25:40.479 than seven hundred people hostage, many hostages rescued, but one 1588 01:25:40.560 --> 01:25:43.560 hundred and fifteen to one hundred and seventeen hostages died 1589 01:25:43.560 --> 01:25:47.600 from the effects of the gas, according to the media reports. 1590 01:25:47.720 --> 01:25:55.159 So there was give or take like twenty I'm I 1591 01:25:55.199 --> 01:25:57.319 don't remember all the details on this one, but later 1592 01:25:57.399 --> 01:26:00.760 there was like twenty gunmen that were holding these people hostage, 1593 01:26:00.760 --> 01:26:05.640 seven hundred of them, and it killed a seventh of 1594 01:26:05.680 --> 01:26:08.399 the people that were there. One out of every seven 1595 01:26:08.399 --> 01:26:13.119 people died from some sort of a fentanyl overdose. Oopsie, Daisy. 1596 01:26:13.199 --> 01:26:15.880 I mean, Russia's never been like one to really care 1597 01:26:15.920 --> 01:26:18.359 about their civilian population. Look what's going on in Ukraine. 1598 01:26:18.359 --> 01:26:20.840 But we'll get to that in a bit. Anyway. Despite 1599 01:26:20.880 --> 01:26:25.800 Russia's early reluctance to name the gas, help Minister Yuri Schevchenko, 1600 01:26:26.720 --> 01:26:28.600 I think I killed that one set in a press 1601 01:26:28.600 --> 01:26:31.439 conference on October thirtieth, that it was based on the 1602 01:26:31.479 --> 01:26:35.880 opiate fentanyl. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1603 01:26:35.960 --> 01:26:41.159 listed fentanyl as an incapacitating chemical agent. The death toll 1604 01:26:41.239 --> 01:26:44.720 in Russia's early reluctance to identify the gas have raised 1605 01:26:44.760 --> 01:26:47.359 concerns that the use of the substance might violate the 1606 01:26:47.479 --> 01:26:52.319 Chemical Weapons Convention. So even if you're using this chemical 1607 01:26:52.560 --> 01:26:54.560 that is just all up and down the streets in 1608 01:26:54.600 --> 01:26:57.560 America right now, if you're using it as a weapon, 1609 01:26:58.079 --> 01:27:03.319 it very well might go against international war crime law, 1610 01:27:04.119 --> 01:27:08.079 same as like using mustard gas that's fun, which Russia 1611 01:27:08.239 --> 01:27:12.840 ratified in nineteen ninety seven. Chevchenko said, no chemical substances 1612 01:27:12.880 --> 01:27:16.239 that could fall within the International Weapons Convention were used 1613 01:27:16.279 --> 01:27:19.439 in the course of this operation. It wasn't like a 1614 01:27:19.520 --> 01:27:26.479 horrible weapon. It was fentanyl. So now come around twenty 1615 01:27:26.520 --> 01:27:29.640 four years later, twenty three give or take, we now 1616 01:27:29.640 --> 01:27:32.880 are listing fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, and 1617 01:27:32.960 --> 01:27:36.960 I'm all for it. The CWC does not prohibit riot 1618 01:27:37.000 --> 01:27:41.720 control agents define as chemicals that can produce rapid excuse 1619 01:27:41.760 --> 01:27:45.039 me this, I'm direct quote this one. A riot control 1620 01:27:45.119 --> 01:27:49.640 agent is defined as chemicals that quote can produce rapidly 1621 01:27:49.880 --> 01:27:55.079 inhuman sensory irritation or disabling physical effects which disappear within 1622 01:27:55.119 --> 01:28:00.000 a short time following termination of exposure end quote. Although 1623 01:28:00.000 --> 01:28:02.199 so it bans the use of such agents in warfare. 1624 01:28:02.520 --> 01:28:05.079 Some analysis expressed concern that the gas used in the 1625 01:28:05.079 --> 01:28:09.880 theater might violate the CWC because of the fatalities it caused. Yeah, 1626 01:28:09.920 --> 01:28:12.399 I would agree if this gas that is seen as 1627 01:28:12.439 --> 01:28:15.920 non lethal killed one out of every seven exposed more 1628 01:28:16.000 --> 01:28:19.479 than yeah, Yeah, I'd say it's a it's probably a 1629 01:28:19.479 --> 01:28:23.359 little more detrimental than what they led on to. It 1630 01:28:23.399 --> 01:28:27.000 is unclear whether the CWC member states, including the United States, 1631 01:28:27.039 --> 01:28:30.880 which has its own non lethal chemical agent program, will 1632 01:28:30.920 --> 01:28:34.039 decide to challenge Russell's use of the gas under the convention. 1633 01:28:34.439 --> 01:28:36.279 Now that was again, this is back in two thousand 1634 01:28:36.279 --> 01:28:38.119 and two, right, this is right after nine to eleven 1635 01:28:38.159 --> 01:28:40.039 took place. We had bigger fish to fry at that moment. 1636 01:28:40.359 --> 01:28:44.119 But when we talk about fentanyl being a weapon of 1637 01:28:44.119 --> 01:28:47.439 mass destruction, we yes, we do need to talk about 1638 01:28:47.439 --> 01:28:50.199 it in the street drug sense a one hundred percent. 1639 01:28:50.920 --> 01:28:55.159 But even as a chemical agent itself, there is precedence 1640 01:28:55.159 --> 01:28:58.520 for it being used as a weapon. And yeah, I 1641 01:28:58.560 --> 01:29:01.079 would argue to say that if it's able to kill 1642 01:29:01.199 --> 01:29:03.600 over one out of every seven people exposed to it 1643 01:29:03.640 --> 01:29:05.760 in this way, I don't think it's a crazy thing 1644 01:29:05.800 --> 01:29:10.279 to classify it as a WMD. I support this even 1645 01:29:10.319 --> 01:29:15.279 further now, all right, So with all of that, it's said, 1646 01:29:15.680 --> 01:29:20.840 releases being it's being spun in the narrative of trying 1647 01:29:20.840 --> 01:29:25.119 to hurt Venezuela because that's the situation here. It's about 1648 01:29:25.159 --> 01:29:30.159 hurting the Venezuelan cartels because that's where the fentanyl's coming from. Again, 1649 01:29:30.279 --> 01:29:32.680 that's not exactly accurate, but it depends on which new 1650 01:29:32.760 --> 01:29:36.600 source you're going to. There is such a push towards 1651 01:29:36.760 --> 01:29:39.520 what I still as of this moment and very subject 1652 01:29:39.600 --> 01:29:42.520 to change. As of this moment, I believe that American 1653 01:29:42.560 --> 01:29:46.239 military is gearing up for a full scale invasion, if 1654 01:29:46.279 --> 01:29:50.000 not some sort of a kinetic war in Venezuela. We 1655 01:29:50.159 --> 01:29:54.600 have bob multiple boats, we commandeered an oil tanker, and 1656 01:29:54.760 --> 01:29:59.239 now we had an almost outrageous mid air collision between 1657 01:29:59.359 --> 01:30:03.760 Jet Blue plane and a military jet. Let's talk about 1658 01:30:03.800 --> 01:30:08.439 it here, so the key points here. A Jet Blue 1659 01:30:08.479 --> 01:30:11.479 flight reported a near mid air collision with a US 1660 01:30:11.560 --> 01:30:15.000 military tanker over the Caribbean Sea. The Jet Blue pilot 1661 01:30:15.039 --> 01:30:17.960 stated the military aircraft did not have its transponder turned on, 1662 01:30:19.319 --> 01:30:21.760 which you only do that if you're flying some sort 1663 01:30:21.800 --> 01:30:25.039 of a combat mission. That goes against a lot of 1664 01:30:25.119 --> 01:30:28.079 international aviation laws. For you to not have your that's 1665 01:30:28.119 --> 01:30:31.680 basically driving without a license plate. That's against the law everywhere, 1666 01:30:32.000 --> 01:30:33.920 unless you're on like your own private land or something 1667 01:30:33.960 --> 01:30:37.199 like that. In the air, nah, if you don't have 1668 01:30:37.239 --> 01:30:40.159 your transponder on, pretty much every country with a standing 1669 01:30:40.239 --> 01:30:42.840 air force is going to declare you a threat. So 1670 01:30:43.199 --> 01:30:46.640 to say that a US military tanker didn't have their 1671 01:30:46.680 --> 01:30:51.159 transponder on, that would lead some myself included, to say 1672 01:30:51.159 --> 01:30:53.239 that it was probably flying some sort of a covert 1673 01:30:53.279 --> 01:30:57.000 military operation. The US Air Force has confirmed it is 1674 01:30:57.039 --> 01:30:59.199 aware of the report and is reviewing the matter. Oh 1675 01:30:59.239 --> 01:31:02.079 I'll bet they are. The Jet Blue flight nearly collided 1676 01:31:02.079 --> 01:31:04.760 with the US military tanker over the Caribbean c on Friday. 1677 01:31:04.800 --> 01:31:07.840 According to air traffic control audio from the incident, the 1678 01:31:07.880 --> 01:31:12.039 plane had just taken off from willem Stead, Carassal, which 1679 01:31:12.119 --> 01:31:15.720 is the capital city of Venezuela, en route to JFK 1680 01:31:15.920 --> 01:31:18.560 International Airport in New York when pilots reported that an 1681 01:31:18.600 --> 01:31:22.920 Air Force tanker jet headed off into Venezuelan airspace, passed 1682 01:31:22.960 --> 01:31:25.600 directly in front of the commercial flight, possibly at a 1683 01:31:25.640 --> 01:31:29.560 distance as close as two miles. That may not sound 1684 01:31:29.600 --> 01:31:31.720 like it's that crazy as far as a midair collision goes, 1685 01:31:31.760 --> 01:31:33.199 but you got to keep in mind how fast these 1686 01:31:33.239 --> 01:31:36.640 planes are moving. That's pretty damn close. That's not full 1687 01:31:36.720 --> 01:31:38.920 on plane chicken with a plane, but that's close enough 1688 01:31:38.920 --> 01:31:42.399 to get your hackles raised, for sure. The Air Force 1689 01:31:42.439 --> 01:31:46.399 said it was investigating. We are aware of the recent 1690 01:31:46.479 --> 01:31:50.880 reports regarding US military aircraft operations in the Caribbean and 1691 01:31:50.960 --> 01:31:54.439 are currently reviewing the matter. Military aircrews are highly trained 1692 01:31:54.439 --> 01:31:58.359 professionals who operate in accordance with established procedures and applicable 1693 01:31:58.439 --> 01:32:03.680 airspace requirements. Colonel Emanuel l Ortiz, the public affairs chief 1694 01:32:03.720 --> 01:32:06.199 at the US Southern Command, told USA Today in a statement. 1695 01:32:06.560 --> 01:32:09.239 Safety remains a top priority and we are working through 1696 01:32:09.279 --> 01:32:12.680 the appropriate channels to access the facts surrounding the situation. 1697 01:32:13.279 --> 01:32:16.640 Jet Blue confirmed its reports to or It reported the 1698 01:32:16.680 --> 01:32:19.960 incident to the government. Safety is our top priority. Our 1699 01:32:19.960 --> 01:32:22.439 crew members are trained on proper procedures of various flight 1700 01:32:22.479 --> 01:32:25.119 situations and We appreciate our crew for promptly reporting the 1701 01:32:25.159 --> 01:32:28.319 situation to our leadership team. We have reported this incident 1702 01:32:28.359 --> 01:32:31.520 to federal authorities and will participate in any investigation. As 1703 01:32:31.520 --> 01:32:34.199 with Jet Blue told their government and the statement to 1704 01:32:34.279 --> 01:32:38.439 USA today. Communication between the military and the civilian aircraft 1705 01:32:38.680 --> 01:32:41.640 has been a central issue in aviation safety since the 1706 01:32:41.640 --> 01:32:44.079 start of the year. A mid air collision between an 1707 01:32:44.119 --> 01:32:48.359 American Airlines regional jet and an Army Blackhaw helicopter has 1708 01:32:48.399 --> 01:32:51.479 been blamed in part on the helicopter flying without broadcasting 1709 01:32:51.520 --> 01:32:54.239 its location to surrounding aircraft. That was the one that 1710 01:32:54.279 --> 01:32:57.920 took place in DC. Everybody remembers that right right around 1711 01:32:58.119 --> 01:33:02.680 Reagan International Apparently they were flying some night mission in 1712 01:33:02.680 --> 01:33:05.720 and around DC is a training operation, and they just 1713 01:33:05.760 --> 01:33:08.159 so happened to hit the plane that was about to 1714 01:33:08.199 --> 01:33:11.479 come down. It was a mess. It was a whole mess. 1715 01:33:11.800 --> 01:33:15.039 And it's also we played a video of this on 1716 01:33:15.119 --> 01:33:17.239 the Cult of Conspiracy to say that that black Hawk 1717 01:33:17.680 --> 01:33:19.840 there was really nothing they could do. They couldn't evade 1718 01:33:19.840 --> 01:33:23.079 it too. There are air shows where black Hawks are 1719 01:33:23.119 --> 01:33:27.560 cutting triple backflips and all these things that Blackhawk pilot 1720 01:33:27.760 --> 01:33:31.159 seeing this plane coming could have dropped, could have barrel roll, 1721 01:33:31.199 --> 01:33:33.119 could have done anything to get out of there, and 1722 01:33:33.520 --> 01:33:41.000 didn't because the pilot, in my opinion, was lacking But whatever. So, yeah, 1723 01:33:41.239 --> 01:33:43.960 it's not a good look. This whole situation with the 1724 01:33:44.000 --> 01:33:46.520 plane almost hitting. Yeah, this is the one in DC. 1725 01:33:46.600 --> 01:33:48.199 There's a picture of it on the screen right now. 1726 01:33:49.359 --> 01:33:55.199 This situation of a military fuel tanker almost hitting a 1727 01:33:55.319 --> 01:33:59.720 plane going in around Venezuela and airspace ties in I 1728 01:33:59.800 --> 01:34:03.960 think to the situation of fentanyl being classified as a WMD. 1729 01:34:04.199 --> 01:34:07.199 So with that, this is from Al Jazeera. I understand 1730 01:34:07.239 --> 01:34:09.039 you have to test your source. I get that, but 1731 01:34:09.560 --> 01:34:12.800 let's talk about this now. Venezuela a not so covert 1732 01:34:12.880 --> 01:34:17.159 CIA disaster in the making. A few weeks ago slash 1733 01:34:17.199 --> 01:34:21.079 months ago, Trump acknowledged that there are now CIA assets 1734 01:34:21.279 --> 01:34:26.840 in Venezuela doing something. He didn't exactly acknowledge what. But 1735 01:34:26.920 --> 01:34:28.520 if we're going to go off of the track record 1736 01:34:28.520 --> 01:34:30.800 of what it looks like whenever a coup takes place 1737 01:34:30.880 --> 01:34:33.560 in South America, it's pretty obvious what the CIA is 1738 01:34:33.600 --> 01:34:36.520 trying to do there right now. They're absolutely trying to 1739 01:34:36.720 --> 01:34:42.079 start a rebellion against Maduro in various ways. I don't 1740 01:34:42.119 --> 01:34:44.880 know if that's gonna go over that well, because Maduro 1741 01:34:44.920 --> 01:34:47.319 has been at least strategic in a few regards. One 1742 01:34:47.359 --> 01:34:50.600 of them would be any civilian that is capable of 1743 01:34:50.640 --> 01:34:54.079 carrying a weapon is now a member of for lack 1744 01:34:54.119 --> 01:34:56.680 of better words, let's call it, the Venezuela National Guard. 1745 01:34:57.079 --> 01:34:59.720 And they're not like you know, the weekend warrior types 1746 01:34:59.760 --> 01:35:02.079 that we we have with the American National Guard. It's 1747 01:35:02.079 --> 01:35:03.720 more like they get two weeks of training in a 1748 01:35:03.840 --> 01:35:06.800 uniform and a weapon, and like they're now a part 1749 01:35:06.840 --> 01:35:09.399 of it, and that's it. And you will see these 1750 01:35:09.439 --> 01:35:13.680 parades of people walking down these streets for Maduro and it's, uh, 1751 01:35:14.880 --> 01:35:18.359 it's not good. It's if these if again, I said this, 1752 01:35:18.520 --> 01:35:21.159 I think last night on The Cult Live, if we 1753 01:35:21.159 --> 01:35:23.560 were to get into an actual boots on the ground 1754 01:35:23.600 --> 01:35:29.039 kinetic war in Venezuela, this would be an absolute blood bath. 1755 01:35:29.479 --> 01:35:31.399 And I don't mean that it's like a cool thing, 1756 01:35:31.439 --> 01:35:33.720 like yeah, we go fuck them up. No, no, no, 1757 01:35:34.439 --> 01:35:39.000 that wouldn't be good at all. This would be to 1758 01:35:39.079 --> 01:35:42.239 try to put it into a fair comparison here, this 1759 01:35:42.359 --> 01:35:49.680 would be an NFL team playing a junior flag football league. 1760 01:35:49.840 --> 01:35:52.720 There's there's no way this is gonna go well for them, 1761 01:35:52.760 --> 01:35:57.479 and it's gonna be bad for all involved, honestly, so 1762 01:35:57.600 --> 01:36:01.199 I'm yeah. But as we get closer, let's read into 1763 01:36:01.279 --> 01:36:05.479 it here. Venezuela doesn't even produce fentanyl, but Washington is 1764 01:36:05.520 --> 01:36:08.199 still going forward with a regime change efforts in Caracas 1765 01:36:08.239 --> 01:36:11.119 as part of its war on drugs. Yes, they don't 1766 01:36:11.119 --> 01:36:13.439 produce fentanyl, but the reports are basically saying that it's 1767 01:36:13.479 --> 01:36:16.760 being used as a hub to ship fentanyl. But let's go. 1768 01:36:17.279 --> 01:36:20.479 On Saturday, the Routers news agency published an exclusive report 1769 01:36:20.520 --> 01:36:23.039 claiming that the United States is poised to launch a 1770 01:36:23.119 --> 01:36:26.399 new phase of Venezuelan related operations in the coming days. 1771 01:36:26.760 --> 01:36:29.960 The report cited four US officials who spoke on condition 1772 01:36:30.479 --> 01:36:34.319 of anonymity. Two of the officials said covert operations would 1773 01:36:34.399 --> 01:36:36.880 likely be the first step in this new action against 1774 01:36:36.960 --> 01:36:40.640 Venezuelan President Maduro. This was less shocking than news, given 1775 01:36:40.720 --> 01:36:44.039 that more than a month ago, US President Trump himself 1776 01:36:44.079 --> 01:36:46.920 announced that he had authorized the CIA to conduct covert 1777 01:36:46.960 --> 01:36:50.760 operations in Venezuela, a rather unique approach, since one does 1778 01:36:50.800 --> 01:36:54.880 not normally broadcast actions that are supposed to be secret. 1779 01:36:55.119 --> 01:36:57.640 Yet I have to agree with that one hundred percent 1780 01:36:57.800 --> 01:37:01.640 usually don't like tell the world old that you're doing 1781 01:37:01.720 --> 01:37:04.880 secret spy shit in a country. While you're doing secret 1782 01:37:04.880 --> 01:37:08.199 spy shit in a country. I thought that was very odd. Anyway, 1783 01:37:08.239 --> 01:37:10.239 It's no secret that the US has been overseeing a 1784 01:37:10.239 --> 01:37:13.119 massive military build up in the region, with about fifteen 1785 01:37:13.159 --> 01:37:15.840 thousand US troops currently stationed there under the guise of 1786 01:37:15.880 --> 01:37:19.159 fighting narco terrorism. I don't necessarily think it's a guy's 1787 01:37:19.760 --> 01:37:22.199 but I think they're also gear enough for what happens next. 1788 01:37:22.520 --> 01:37:29.119 They're kind of using the narco terrorism as a it's 1789 01:37:29.159 --> 01:37:31.159 to get everybody where it needs to be, you know, 1790 01:37:31.479 --> 01:37:35.199 it's the reason for the stage. Since early September, Trump 1791 01:37:35.199 --> 01:37:40.000 has also presided over wanton extra judicial executions in the Caribbean, 1792 01:37:40.079 --> 01:37:42.520 c repeatedly ordering the bombing of what he claims are 1793 01:37:42.560 --> 01:37:47.239 drug trafficking boats. Again, I wouldn't call these executions, but 1794 01:37:47.960 --> 01:37:50.199 you know, you have to look at the source. Is 1795 01:37:50.199 --> 01:37:52.199 it confirmed that these boats were carrying drugs in the 1796 01:37:52.199 --> 01:37:56.359 first place. Jacob doesn't know this. I don't know that 1797 01:37:56.439 --> 01:37:58.479 for a fact. I'm going off with the reports of 1798 01:37:58.600 --> 01:38:02.960 other people here. But you know, every one of these boats, 1799 01:38:03.359 --> 01:38:06.279 none of the families of these poor fishermen, if they 1800 01:38:06.279 --> 01:38:08.960 are fishing boats, have come forward in some sort of 1801 01:38:08.960 --> 01:38:13.119 a big press release to show how evil America is. 1802 01:38:14.079 --> 01:38:18.359 If anyway, if anything, trende' Irawa and Cartel de Soul 1803 01:38:18.680 --> 01:38:21.119 have both mentioned that, like damn it, we've lost a 1804 01:38:21.159 --> 01:38:25.479 shipmentt so like yeah, yeah, I would say these are 1805 01:38:25.520 --> 01:38:28.520 drug boats. But all right, in addition to violating both 1806 01:38:28.520 --> 01:38:31.439 air national and US law, that's not true. The strikes 1807 01:38:31.439 --> 01:38:34.960 have produced little to show them for themselves beyond terrorizing 1808 01:38:34.960 --> 01:38:38.279 local fishermen. That's the very incorrect statement. Start to finish again, 1809 01:38:38.560 --> 01:38:41.000 we have to test the source, and this is Al Jazeera, 1810 01:38:41.399 --> 01:38:45.399 a Katari news outlet owned by the Qatar royal family. 1811 01:38:46.119 --> 01:38:48.760 Take that with the grand of salt. To be sure. 1812 01:38:48.800 --> 01:38:51.920 The US has never met a quote war on drugs. 1813 01:38:52.000 --> 01:38:56.399 It didn't love. That's accurate, given the convenient opportunities the 1814 01:38:56.439 --> 01:39:00.560 whole drug war narrative offers for wreaking havoc world wide, 1815 01:39:00.680 --> 01:39:05.159 the militarization in the Western hemisphere, the criminalization are criminalizing 1816 01:39:05.199 --> 01:39:09.119 poor Americans and all sorts of other good stuff. That's accurate. 1817 01:39:09.680 --> 01:39:13.079 That's accurate. Never mind that US financial institutions have for 1818 01:39:13.159 --> 01:39:17.119 decades reap profits from the international drug trade, or that 1819 01:39:17.319 --> 01:39:20.560 the CIA drug connection is as old as the agency. 1820 01:39:20.920 --> 01:39:24.000 As an article on the New York Times website puts it, again, 1821 01:39:24.399 --> 01:39:28.039 very accurate, very accurate. It come as no surprise by 1822 01:39:28.079 --> 01:39:30.479 now that the president, who campaigned on keeping the US 1823 01:39:30.520 --> 01:39:33.239 out of wars and then promptly bombed Iran, has now 1824 01:39:33.279 --> 01:39:36.279 found another conflict in which to embroil the country. And 1825 01:39:36.560 --> 01:39:38.600 as is part of the course in the US imperial 1826 01:39:38.640 --> 01:39:43.960 but belligerents, the rational for aggression against Venezuela doesn't hold 1827 01:39:44.000 --> 01:39:48.680 water kind of but not really, not really. 1828 01:39:48.960 --> 01:39:49.159 You know. 1829 01:39:50.199 --> 01:39:52.640 For example, the Trump administration has strived to pin the 1830 01:39:52.680 --> 01:39:56.239 blame for the fentanyl crisis in the US on Maduro. 1831 01:39:56.720 --> 01:39:59.399 But there's a slight problem, which is that Venezuela doesn't 1832 01:39:59.399 --> 01:40:02.760 even produce the synthetic opioid in question. Now it comes 1833 01:40:02.800 --> 01:40:06.760 from China. We know that for a fact. But China 1834 01:40:06.800 --> 01:40:10.000 and the US just signed an end to the tariff war, 1835 01:40:10.319 --> 01:40:13.079 so we can't like get after them on this regard. 1836 01:40:13.119 --> 01:40:15.960 We gotta find Someboddy. That's how this goes. You gotta 1837 01:40:15.960 --> 01:40:19.800 have a boogeyman. Nevertheless, one November thirteenth, US Secretary of 1838 01:40:19.840 --> 01:40:23.279 War Pete Hegseth, Pardon, they fucked up, and they're trying 1839 01:40:23.279 --> 01:40:25.880 to make it pithy. The US Secretary of Defense Pardon. 1840 01:40:26.159 --> 01:40:31.000 US Secretary of War, as per administration rebranding, which I support, 1841 01:40:31.520 --> 01:40:34.239 took two x to assure his audience that the massive 1842 01:40:34.319 --> 01:40:37.159 US military build up off the Venezuelan coast is a 1843 01:40:37.279 --> 01:40:41.880 mission that defends our homeland, removes narco terrorists from our hemisphere, 1844 01:40:41.920 --> 01:40:44.720 and secures our homeland from the drugs that are killing 1845 01:40:44.800 --> 01:40:49.000 our people. Again, I'm not saying that's an incorrect statement 1846 01:40:49.000 --> 01:40:53.159 from Hegseeth. What I am saying is that there's been 1847 01:40:53.239 --> 01:40:56.720 nothing done towards the other cartels that are moving way 1848 01:40:56.760 --> 01:41:00.119 more product into our country. And if it has been on, 1849 01:41:00.680 --> 01:41:03.760 it's been so negligible that it hasn't even made headlines. 1850 01:41:04.600 --> 01:41:06.600 You see what I'm saying here, And I understand they're 1851 01:41:06.600 --> 01:41:10.319 pushing a narrative. Mainstream media is spinning this up to 1852 01:41:10.359 --> 01:41:13.920 get people very invested in freeing the poor Venezuelan people 1853 01:41:13.920 --> 01:41:16.720 from this evil dictator that's trying to kill American civilians. 1854 01:41:16.760 --> 01:41:20.840 I get it. I get their plan. But also if 1855 01:41:21.000 --> 01:41:23.399 it's the war on drugs and the cartels are all 1856 01:41:23.439 --> 01:41:30.479 listed as terrorist groups. The Texas border has had multiple gunfights. 1857 01:41:30.760 --> 01:41:33.239 We're not even talking about those anymore because it's all 1858 01:41:33.239 --> 01:41:37.479 about Venezuela. Anyway. This is the same administration, of course, 1859 01:41:37.520 --> 01:41:41.039 that was just threatening to starve improverished Americans by withholding 1860 01:41:41.119 --> 01:41:46.319 essential food assistance. That's yeah, that wasn't the Trump administration. 1861 01:41:46.479 --> 01:41:52.720 That was. That was the government shut down, and that's oh, 1862 01:41:52.720 --> 01:41:54.600 we're not gonna start pointing the finger at which side 1863 01:41:54.600 --> 01:41:56.720 of the aisle did that, because everybody just needed to 1864 01:41:56.720 --> 01:41:58.640 collectively pull their head out of their ass on that one. 1865 01:41:58.680 --> 01:42:02.359 But anyway, consider also the fact that Trump slash federal 1866 01:42:02.359 --> 01:42:05.439 funding for gun violence prevention programs in a country where 1867 01:42:05.439 --> 01:42:08.000 mass shootings have become a way of life. I don't 1868 01:42:08.039 --> 01:42:10.359 think that's accurate, and if anything, I think we should 1869 01:42:10.359 --> 01:42:13.039 be carrying more guns. That's how you stop a mass shooting. 1870 01:42:13.199 --> 01:42:19.279 Look at Australia. If the civilian population was armed, how 1871 01:42:19.359 --> 01:42:22.359 bad do you think that Bondai Beach situation would have been. 1872 01:42:23.359 --> 01:42:25.279 I don't know this for a fact, but I got 1873 01:42:25.279 --> 01:42:27.359 a hard time believing that it would have been made 1874 01:42:27.399 --> 01:42:30.920 worse by more people armed and ready for something to 1875 01:42:30.960 --> 01:42:34.920 take place. Food for thought, hard pillal swallow for some 1876 01:42:36.000 --> 01:42:38.560 Poverty itself is a major killer in America, as is 1877 01:42:38.600 --> 01:42:42.640 the domestic pharmaceutical industry speaking of opioids. However, none of 1878 01:42:42.680 --> 01:42:47.039 these full blown crisis has merited a remotely gung ho 1879 01:42:47.159 --> 01:42:51.279 response from the valiant defenders of the homeland. According to 1880 01:42:51.319 --> 01:42:55.079 Rory's report on impending Venezuela related operations, two of the 1881 01:42:55.199 --> 01:42:58.640 US officials consulting or consulted told the news agency that 1882 01:42:58.680 --> 01:43:03.800 the options under considered included attempting to overthrow Maduro. That 1883 01:43:03.840 --> 01:43:06.039 would be why the CIA is there right now. I'm 1884 01:43:06.159 --> 01:43:09.319 fully in belief of this. If the plan succeeds, Rubio 1885 01:43:09.359 --> 01:43:12.479 would join the leafy roster of US politicians who have 1886 01:43:13.399 --> 01:43:17.399 propagated deadly havoc abroad in the interest of political gains 1887 01:43:17.439 --> 01:43:22.680 at home. Yeah. Absolutely, and I honestly think that that's 1888 01:43:23.199 --> 01:43:25.760 what's going down here. I don't know this for a fact, 1889 01:43:25.800 --> 01:43:27.960 but they got to use something to be the false flag, 1890 01:43:28.359 --> 01:43:30.720 and it's who knows. They may even have some sort 1891 01:43:30.720 --> 01:43:34.359 of a false flag terrorist attack happened here where quote 1892 01:43:34.479 --> 01:43:39.279 unquote Venezuelan nationals were found to be the perpetrators of 1893 01:43:39.319 --> 01:43:42.840 these heinous acts on the American citizenry. That's very possible 1894 01:43:42.880 --> 01:43:44.880 that that is coming down the pipe here in the 1895 01:43:44.920 --> 01:43:47.840 next few months. I think it's a lot more likely 1896 01:43:48.359 --> 01:43:51.199 that the CIA is going to try to overthrow a 1897 01:43:51.279 --> 01:43:55.640 Dua by some means or assassinate him, either way that goes. 1898 01:43:57.520 --> 01:44:01.479 If they don't do this right, then there will be 1899 01:44:01.520 --> 01:44:06.720 a color color revolution on our hands of Venezuela, which 1900 01:44:07.479 --> 01:44:11.000 military industrial complex will be happy about. But that doesn't 1901 01:44:11.039 --> 01:44:13.960 necessarily mean that the American military will get involved. It 1902 01:44:14.000 --> 01:44:18.680 doesn't not mean that either. I don't know's there's like 1903 01:44:18.760 --> 01:44:23.039 four or five options of what might happen next. None 1904 01:44:23.079 --> 01:44:28.039 of them are really positive. Some are less shitty than others, 1905 01:44:28.520 --> 01:44:33.359 but it's yeah. So anyway, we are going to move on, 1906 01:44:33.560 --> 01:44:35.359 but I am going to continue to report on the 1907 01:44:35.439 --> 01:44:38.880 Venezuelan situation as time goes on. But again, with fentanyl 1908 01:44:38.920 --> 01:44:42.439 being declared a weapon of mass destruction, I could see 1909 01:44:42.439 --> 01:44:46.000 this also being a key thing. Or keep in mind, 1910 01:44:46.039 --> 01:44:49.960 we invaded Iraq because they clearly had weapons of mass destruction. 1911 01:44:50.079 --> 01:44:53.199 They didn't they didn't know they had seren gas bombs 1912 01:44:53.239 --> 01:44:56.800 that America sold them sh but we won't to talk 1913 01:44:56.800 --> 01:44:59.239 about that, right So, now that they keep saying that 1914 01:44:59.359 --> 01:45:03.399 Venezuela producing fentanyl, which they're not shit. We don't talk 1915 01:45:03.399 --> 01:45:07.439 about that. We're gonna say that they have manufacturing facilities 1916 01:45:07.600 --> 01:45:11.399 making weapons of mass destruction in the way of fentanyl, 1917 01:45:11.520 --> 01:45:14.960 and that might be the push that's needed to actually 1918 01:45:14.960 --> 01:45:17.239 get some boots on the ground of Venezuela. I don't 1919 01:45:17.239 --> 01:45:19.560 know this for a fact, but I could see the 1920 01:45:19.560 --> 01:45:23.159 writing on the walls and it doesn't exactly look good anyway. 1921 01:45:23.319 --> 01:45:26.039 Talking about writing on the walls here, let's talk about 1922 01:45:26.039 --> 01:45:30.680 the UN reporting on the aid agencies warn Gaza response 1923 01:45:30.760 --> 01:45:34.560 at breaking point as Israel urged to lift new restrictions. 1924 01:45:35.079 --> 01:45:37.479 So this is a fairly recent report. It's from the 1925 01:45:37.479 --> 01:45:41.199 seventeenth of December, actually from today as a time of recording. 1926 01:45:42.319 --> 01:45:45.560 In a sharply worded statement issued on Tuesday, the Humanitarian 1927 01:45:45.720 --> 01:45:49.000 Country Team, which brings together senior UN officials in more 1928 01:45:49.039 --> 01:45:52.359 than two hundred local and international aid groups, called on 1929 01:45:52.399 --> 01:45:56.039 the international community to press Israeli authorities to reverse measures 1930 01:45:56.079 --> 01:45:59.600 that are choking humanitarian work, particularly in the Gaza strip. 1931 01:46:00.079 --> 01:46:02.479 At the center of concern is a new registration system 1932 01:46:02.479 --> 01:46:07.560 for international non governmental organizations introduced earlier this year. So 1933 01:46:07.800 --> 01:46:10.880 eight groups say that the process is vague politicized and 1934 01:46:10.920 --> 01:46:15.000 impossible to meet without breaching humanitarian principles. Under the current rules, 1935 01:46:15.279 --> 01:46:19.520 dozens of organizations face de registration by the end of December, 1936 01:46:19.840 --> 01:46:23.359 followed by the forced closure of their operations within a week. 1937 01:46:23.680 --> 01:46:27.439 These organizations are not optional extras, the statement said. If 1938 01:46:27.439 --> 01:46:30.000 they are pushed out, the humanitarian response will not survive. 1939 01:46:30.600 --> 01:46:35.000 International NGOs, working alongside UN agencies and Palestinian partners, deliver 1940 01:46:35.159 --> 01:46:38.319 around one billion dollars worth of assistance each year across 1941 01:46:38.359 --> 01:46:41.640 the territory. Yet millions of dollars worth of food, medicines, 1942 01:46:41.760 --> 01:46:45.680 hygiene supplies and shelter materials are now stuck outside of Gaza, 1943 01:46:46.000 --> 01:46:48.720 unable to reach families in need. So I gotta tell 1944 01:46:48.720 --> 01:46:52.560 you all, when I found this publication, I was actually 1945 01:46:52.600 --> 01:46:54.880 looking for an update on what was going on in 1946 01:46:55.039 --> 01:46:59.479 the Gaza situation. And of course there's a few skirmishes 1947 01:46:59.520 --> 01:47:02.520 here and there. There's still some some strikes that are happening, 1948 01:47:02.560 --> 01:47:05.119 not major though. I think it was like, I saw 1949 01:47:05.199 --> 01:47:09.000 one report saying two people killed in Gaza from IDF. 1950 01:47:09.119 --> 01:47:12.560 I saw something saying that eleven IDF soldiers were killed 1951 01:47:12.640 --> 01:47:16.279 from Gaza fighters. I don't know. I don't know what 1952 01:47:16.399 --> 01:47:19.159 to believe because the narrative has been spun to such 1953 01:47:19.159 --> 01:47:21.439 a level where you honestly don't even know what source 1954 01:47:21.479 --> 01:47:24.720 is credible anymore. So that's fair. But what I am 1955 01:47:24.800 --> 01:47:28.920 saying is that for the civilian population in Gaza that 1956 01:47:28.960 --> 01:47:32.000 have been struggling for this long, they are now saying 1957 01:47:32.039 --> 01:47:35.239 that they need to lift the restrictions on the aid 1958 01:47:35.359 --> 01:47:38.239 that can get to them. Otherwise these people, it's they 1959 01:47:38.239 --> 01:47:40.640 are going to starve, they are going to be They're 1960 01:47:40.640 --> 01:47:44.159 gonna die from exposure, whatever the case is. And I 1961 01:47:44.159 --> 01:47:46.960 think that's always been net Yahu's plan in one way 1962 01:47:47.039 --> 01:47:48.479 or another. And I don't think that's like a hot 1963 01:47:48.479 --> 01:47:51.319 take either. But it's still the point where even the 1964 01:47:51.439 --> 01:47:54.800 UN is recognizing the situation and telling Israel that they 1965 01:47:54.840 --> 01:47:57.359 need to like let up a bit, they need it, 1966 01:47:57.399 --> 01:48:00.840 they need to calm down. So as we're going on, 1967 01:48:01.000 --> 01:48:02.359 I didn't want to give at least somewhat of an 1968 01:48:02.439 --> 01:48:06.640 update on the Israel Goaza situation. Now, as we talked 1969 01:48:06.640 --> 01:48:10.600 about earlier, US and Russia are supposed to hold talks 1970 01:48:10.640 --> 01:48:16.079 on Ukraine war in Miami this weekend. In Miami. Let's 1971 01:48:16.079 --> 01:48:19.159 get into it here. US and Russian officials are expected 1972 01:48:19.159 --> 01:48:21.119 to meet in Miami this weekend as part of Trump's 1973 01:48:21.119 --> 01:48:24.399 administration's pushed to bring an into nearly four years of 1974 01:48:24.399 --> 01:48:27.359 war between Kiev and Moscow. According to two people familiar 1975 01:48:27.399 --> 01:48:29.920 with the matter, as President Trump's efforts to end the 1976 01:48:29.960 --> 01:48:32.479 fighting have faltered, the US has ratchet up pressure on 1977 01:48:32.560 --> 01:48:35.399 Ukraine to make concessions that would end the war. The 1978 01:48:35.399 --> 01:48:38.119 plan remains in flux, but if they go ahead this weekend, 1979 01:48:38.359 --> 01:48:41.720 the administration will present the outcome of most recent round 1980 01:48:41.840 --> 01:48:45.399 of discussion to Russian officials, who have not shifted much 1981 01:48:45.439 --> 01:48:49.199 on their demands. Yeah, every time that Trump has made 1982 01:48:49.239 --> 01:48:51.479 some sort of a deal that he said, this is 1983 01:48:51.479 --> 01:48:54.119 gonna be the one, it's gonna be great. We're gonna 1984 01:48:54.119 --> 01:48:57.600 make Russia come to the table, Zelenski has conceded more 1985 01:48:57.720 --> 01:49:00.479 and more and more and more and more. And feel 1986 01:49:00.520 --> 01:49:03.359 whatever way you want about Zelensky, I get it. But 1987 01:49:04.199 --> 01:49:06.319 at first he was as stubborn and hard headed as 1988 01:49:06.399 --> 01:49:08.600 Russia was like, no, we're not gonna make a concession. 1989 01:49:09.119 --> 01:49:11.720 It's gonna be you're gonna leave Ukraine or we're gonna 1990 01:49:11.800 --> 01:49:14.399 keep fighting. Then it was okay, fine, we will give 1991 01:49:14.399 --> 01:49:16.840 you somewhat of the lamb, but not all that you've taken, 1992 01:49:16.880 --> 01:49:19.760 you're given some of it back. It's gone on and on, 1993 01:49:19.840 --> 01:49:21.880 and Zelensky has finally been like, look, whatever the fuck 1994 01:49:21.920 --> 01:49:24.479 it takes to end this shit, Like, okay, can can 1995 01:49:24.520 --> 01:49:27.079 we stop fighting now? Russia, on the other hand, has 1996 01:49:27.079 --> 01:49:31.039 been like, nah, we're not gonna stop until we decide 1997 01:49:31.039 --> 01:49:36.159 we're done. And depending on who you ask, some make 1998 01:49:36.239 --> 01:49:38.720 it seem like they want the entirety of Ukraine. Some 1999 01:49:38.800 --> 01:49:40.600 make it seem like they pretty much just want to 2000 01:49:40.600 --> 01:49:43.840 take the territories they've taken and put up a DMZ 2001 01:49:44.600 --> 01:49:47.399 type of situation. I don't know, let's read in here. 2002 01:49:48.600 --> 01:49:51.000 The Russian delegation is expected to include the head of 2003 01:49:51.079 --> 01:49:56.520 Russia's Sovereign Wealth Fund, kill Dmitriev. I don't know if 2004 01:49:56.560 --> 01:49:58.640 that's how you pronounce it or not. According to one 2005 01:49:58.640 --> 01:50:01.039 of the people familiar with the matter, both people were 2006 01:50:01.039 --> 01:50:04.880 granted anonymity to discuss plans for next rounds of sensitive talks. 2007 01:50:04.920 --> 01:50:08.520 Trump Administration Special Envoy Steve Witkoff there's a guy you 2008 01:50:08.560 --> 01:50:11.880 need to pay attention to, and Trump's son in law, 2009 01:50:11.960 --> 01:50:17.840 Jared Kushner are expected to represent the US side. That's 2010 01:50:18.640 --> 01:50:21.479 that's a bit of a red flag on the play 2011 01:50:21.520 --> 01:50:26.680 for me personally. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are gonna 2012 01:50:26.720 --> 01:50:36.760 be the let's call them mediators. Okay, sure, right. The 2013 01:50:36.760 --> 01:50:40.479 White House did not immediately respond to your request for comment. Shocker. 2014 01:50:41.079 --> 01:50:44.520 Wikoff and Kushner earlier this week held marathon talks in 2015 01:50:44.600 --> 01:50:48.199 Berlin with Ukrainian and European officials to agree on US 2016 01:50:48.239 --> 01:50:52.319 security guarantees for Kiev, territorial concessions and other matters. As 2017 01:50:52.399 --> 01:50:54.920 Washington continued to pressure Kiev in it's pushed to in 2018 01:50:54.960 --> 01:50:57.880 the war, the US has offered a mutual defense promise 2019 01:50:58.159 --> 01:51:00.720 similar to the pledge it made to NAY members. While 2020 01:51:00.840 --> 01:51:04.039 Ukraine had backed off its demand to immediately join the 2021 01:51:04.119 --> 01:51:08.920 Transatlantic Alliance, Trump administration officials believe Russia will accept Western 2022 01:51:09.319 --> 01:51:13.560 security guarantees and Ukraine's EU membership in a final deal. 2023 01:51:14.199 --> 01:51:16.800 I don't know how they think that that's gonna go down, 2024 01:51:17.119 --> 01:51:20.720 but okay. But Russian President Putin on Wednesday gave no 2025 01:51:20.880 --> 01:51:23.079 signs that he had backed away from his desire to 2026 01:51:23.279 --> 01:51:26.560 all but in Ukraine's existence as a sovereign state. There 2027 01:51:26.600 --> 01:51:30.680 it is, there's the Vladimir we love there. He is 2028 01:51:30.840 --> 01:51:34.520 just going at it because Ukraine is obviously Russian. This 2029 01:51:34.600 --> 01:51:38.000 is a that we are forced into this. They made 2030 01:51:38.119 --> 01:51:40.399 us invade them and attack them and killed them and 2031 01:51:40.439 --> 01:51:43.079 all these they did this to us. We Yeah, sure, 2032 01:51:43.119 --> 01:51:46.960 bro sure. Speaking of senior defense officials in Moscow, he 2033 01:51:46.960 --> 01:51:49.239 said Russia would not back down from its mission to 2034 01:51:49.840 --> 01:51:55.319 liberate its historic lens and predicted the European swine back 2035 01:51:55.359 --> 01:52:01.039 in Kiev would ultimately lose power. Yeah, you're liberating the 2036 01:52:01.039 --> 01:52:05.119 people of a country that clearly did not want to 2037 01:52:05.119 --> 01:52:09.119 be Russian by all metrics and standards. I know people 2038 01:52:09.119 --> 01:52:12.199 that live in Ukraine. None of them wanted to be Russian. 2039 01:52:12.840 --> 01:52:15.439 None of them have ever wanted to be Russian. Hell, 2040 01:52:15.560 --> 01:52:18.159 half of them remember what happened or what it looked 2041 01:52:18.239 --> 01:52:20.760 like before the Soviet Union fell, when they would have 2042 01:52:20.800 --> 01:52:23.760 to wait in line all day for half of a 2043 01:52:23.840 --> 01:52:26.600 loaf of moldy bread and that was the only food 2044 01:52:26.640 --> 01:52:28.119 that the government was going to be given them for 2045 01:52:28.159 --> 01:52:29.840 the week, and they had to bring that to their 2046 01:52:29.920 --> 01:52:31.439 families and say this is what we got. We got 2047 01:52:31.479 --> 01:52:34.159 to make it work. And I understand that Russia right 2048 01:52:34.199 --> 01:52:37.039 now is not the Soviet Union. I get that, but 2049 01:52:37.199 --> 01:52:41.039 people who lived through communism don't forget it very quickly. See, 2050 01:52:41.039 --> 01:52:44.479 Americans have a very short memory. The people in Ukraine 2051 01:52:44.479 --> 01:52:48.000 do not. They do not anyway. And I understand the 2052 01:52:48.039 --> 01:52:51.159 government's super corrupt, and yes, I'm not denying that at all, 2053 01:52:51.920 --> 01:52:54.680 but the people would rather live in a corrupt Ukrainian 2054 01:52:54.720 --> 01:52:58.279 government rather than a Russian dystopian government. That's like not 2055 01:52:58.359 --> 01:53:02.119 even a hot take, but anyway. The US has said 2056 01:53:02.159 --> 01:53:05.279 it expects to soon convene a group of Ukraine supporting 2057 01:53:05.319 --> 01:53:08.239 military officials in the US to further hammer out technical 2058 01:53:08.279 --> 01:53:11.880 details on security and territory. The US Russia talks in 2059 01:53:11.880 --> 01:53:15.560 Miami appeared to be a separate effort. Ukrainian National Security 2060 01:53:15.600 --> 01:53:19.840 Advisor rustam Umarov Sure is also expected to meet with 2061 01:53:19.880 --> 01:53:23.319 the American delegation in advance of the US Russia sit down, 2062 01:53:23.720 --> 01:53:27.319 said the first person familiar with the matter, added or 2063 01:53:27.359 --> 01:53:31.119 adding that plans remained fluid. Yeah, they better be. European 2064 01:53:31.159 --> 01:53:33.159 leaders have spent much of the past two weeks huddling 2065 01:53:33.199 --> 01:53:36.479 to try and iron out specific plans for security guarantees 2066 01:53:36.520 --> 01:53:39.840 for Kiev, including a demilitarized zone along the current front 2067 01:53:39.880 --> 01:53:43.640 lines and troop pledges for training Ukrainian forces and monitoring 2068 01:53:43.720 --> 01:53:48.399 any ceasefire. Yeah, I'm expecting a DMZ realistically even that, 2069 01:53:48.560 --> 01:53:51.319 or they're just gonna keep going until one side finally 2070 01:53:51.319 --> 01:53:54.199 decides enough's enough. And I don't think either side's gonna 2071 01:53:54.560 --> 01:53:58.800 decide that anytime soon. One European official, also granted ananemity 2072 01:53:58.920 --> 01:54:03.119 to discuss sensitive plomacy, said that the coalition troops would 2073 01:54:03.159 --> 01:54:06.439 likely be tasked with operating aircraft and drones to survey 2074 01:54:06.479 --> 01:54:08.840 the front lines, while some troops would be stationed in 2075 01:54:08.880 --> 01:54:12.800 western Ukraine to help rebuild Ukrainian forces, not to serve 2076 01:54:12.840 --> 01:54:16.000 on the front line. Okay, there it is. So that 2077 01:54:16.079 --> 01:54:20.239 was from Politico, And again it's a lot to take in, 2078 01:54:20.479 --> 01:54:23.000 and I get that. What is really to be said 2079 01:54:23.000 --> 01:54:27.239 about the Ukraine Russia conversation as of now, same thing 2080 01:54:27.239 --> 01:54:31.640 that they've been saying for the past year two three. 2081 01:54:32.279 --> 01:54:36.000 This two week special military operation is about to hit 2082 01:54:36.079 --> 01:54:40.000 its four year anniversary. Both sides have lost way more 2083 01:54:40.000 --> 01:54:43.279 men in resources than they actually wanted. But again, I 2084 01:54:43.319 --> 01:54:45.560 am at least grateful for the fact that Russia got 2085 01:54:45.760 --> 01:54:48.760 seen as the paper tiger that it is, so the 2086 01:54:48.800 --> 01:54:51.800 world could stop thinking that Russia's like the big bad 2087 01:54:51.840 --> 01:54:54.199 guy of the world. It's not. It's not, and also 2088 01:54:54.319 --> 01:54:58.760 China's military ain't neither. But you know anyway, all right, 2089 01:54:58.800 --> 01:55:00.880 before we wrap up, go ahead and get to the 2090 01:55:00.960 --> 01:55:05.760 chat and see if there was anything that I missed here. Anyway, 2091 01:55:05.760 --> 01:55:08.359 I'm off to bed the year he took off, Love you, Royce, 2092 01:55:08.399 --> 01:55:11.760 thanks for coming in here. Trump threw hands on Vince. 2093 01:55:13.520 --> 01:55:14.800 I don't know what that means? Do you tell me? 2094 01:55:14.880 --> 01:55:16.600 In the WWE Sam. 2095 01:55:16.840 --> 01:55:19.560 I was talking about in the w w E. I'm 2096 01:55:19.800 --> 01:55:23.079 currently playing the game of my cousin right now, but 2097 01:55:24.399 --> 01:55:27.720 I was gonna say that with Trump. I think Trump 2098 01:55:27.800 --> 01:55:31.199 that is kind of buying into his own hype. I 2099 01:55:31.279 --> 01:55:33.279 still like him a whole lot more than the whore. 2100 01:55:34.279 --> 01:55:36.640 Yeah, I agree, I agree for sure. 2101 01:55:37.239 --> 01:55:42.319 But I just want to say again to thank you 2102 01:55:42.479 --> 01:55:45.479 and thank you to miss Lady Raven and Voice and 2103 01:55:45.560 --> 01:55:48.279 everybody else, because I'm very grateful. 2104 01:55:48.760 --> 01:55:51.359 Oh absolutely, bro. I mean, and look, we're trying to 2105 01:55:51.399 --> 01:55:54.600 help you in any way we can. And as a podcast, 2106 01:55:54.600 --> 01:55:58.279 it's not like we have unlimited resources to help people. Fuck. 2107 01:55:58.359 --> 01:56:00.479 I hope we get to that point some at some 2108 01:56:00.600 --> 01:56:03.000 juncture that we are just like we got stacks and 2109 01:56:03.039 --> 01:56:05.279 stacks like when one of our people fall in hard 2110 01:56:05.319 --> 01:56:08.439 times we're able to drop some stacks and be a blessing. 2111 01:56:09.199 --> 01:56:11.319 But what we can do is at least put the 2112 01:56:11.359 --> 01:56:14.800 word out and hopefully our cult members will be generous. 2113 01:56:14.840 --> 01:56:19.079 And for anybody listening right now, the GoFundMe is still up. 2114 01:56:19.199 --> 01:56:21.880 We have the QR code on our Instagram. There is 2115 01:56:21.960 --> 01:56:24.479 links in the show notes on the cult to conspiracy. 2116 01:56:25.079 --> 01:56:27.399 So if you would like to help the Spirit Animal 2117 01:56:27.439 --> 01:56:29.439 get through some tough times he has found himself in 2118 01:56:29.600 --> 01:56:32.960 because of the surgeries, including today he had a surgery, 2119 01:56:33.359 --> 01:56:35.840 like the man has had so many surgeries back to 2120 01:56:35.920 --> 01:56:38.279 back to back. Because of that, he has lost time 2121 01:56:38.319 --> 01:56:41.319 at work and the bills keep coming regardless of if 2122 01:56:41.319 --> 01:56:43.159 you keep going to work. So we are trying to 2123 01:56:43.199 --> 01:56:45.960 help one of our more devout cult members get through 2124 01:56:46.000 --> 01:56:47.840 these tough times. And I hope that we are able 2125 01:56:47.880 --> 01:56:49.760 to do this with all the cult members that find 2126 01:56:49.800 --> 01:56:51.039 themselves in tough times. 2127 01:56:51.319 --> 01:56:54.960 Absolutely, I do have good news. So I am down 2128 01:56:55.000 --> 01:56:59.159 to the last stone and everything. But it was fourteen 2129 01:56:59.159 --> 01:57:03.880 millimeters time. But because that the I didn't get it 2130 01:57:03.880 --> 01:57:08.000 past all the fragments, Distant has cut me and it 2131 01:57:08.079 --> 01:57:11.680 has pretty much congeled all the fragments back into one piece. 2132 01:57:11.720 --> 01:57:18.079 So it's really he had to rebust it up. Hey yeah, 2133 01:57:18.119 --> 01:57:22.640 so yeah, life sucks, but God, God has a sense 2134 01:57:22.680 --> 01:57:23.119 of humor. 2135 01:57:23.880 --> 01:57:27.000 He does. But also the power of prayer is real, 2136 01:57:27.319 --> 01:57:30.000 and we are praying for you and your quick recovery. 2137 01:57:30.079 --> 01:57:32.239 I play you every night, and I just want to 2138 01:57:32.279 --> 01:57:35.720 say thank you to everybody, and from my bottom of 2139 01:57:35.760 --> 01:57:37.399 my heart, Marry Christmas and God. 2140 01:57:37.199 --> 01:57:41.720 Bless absolutely absolutely. And on that note, I think it's 2141 01:57:41.720 --> 01:57:43.960 a good time to wrap once again. If you would 2142 01:57:43.960 --> 01:57:46.319 like to join The Cajun Night Live every Wednesday night, 2143 01:57:46.439 --> 01:57:48.119 nine pm Central, then go to the link in the 2144 01:57:48.119 --> 01:57:51.039 description below to patreon dot com slash Cajun Night. Like 2145 01:57:51.079 --> 01:57:53.119 I said earlier, there's only one tier for entry. We're 2146 01:57:53.119 --> 01:57:55.439 trying to grow this to be a once a week 2147 01:57:55.600 --> 01:57:59.640 gathering where we share information, share opinions, talk some geopolitics, talk, 2148 01:57:59.720 --> 01:58:01.960 some legion from time to time, whatever the case would be, 2149 01:58:02.439 --> 01:58:05.359 and just kind of let this be a learning situation 2150 01:58:05.399 --> 01:58:07.439 for everybody involved. I know I have learned a lot 2151 01:58:07.479 --> 01:58:09.720 from doing this. I would like to think that everybody 2152 01:58:09.720 --> 01:58:11.640 listening has as well. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know. 2153 01:58:11.920 --> 01:58:13.560 Let me know what you think about it. Hit us 2154 01:58:13.560 --> 01:58:16.079 in the comments under the Cajun Night. This episode will 2155 01:58:16.119 --> 01:58:18.439 be dropping on the Cajun or the Cult, the Conspiracy 2156 01:58:18.479 --> 01:58:22.760 Podcast obviously boost the algorithm. Let's see some comments. Let 2157 01:58:22.800 --> 01:58:24.680 me know what things y'all would like me to report 2158 01:58:24.720 --> 01:58:26.880 on next. Is there a section of the world that 2159 01:58:26.960 --> 01:58:29.000 I haven't covered that you wish that I would more. 2160 01:58:29.119 --> 01:58:31.760 Is there things that you think are more pertinent information 2161 01:58:31.840 --> 01:58:34.600 that I need to pay more attention to. I want 2162 01:58:34.600 --> 01:58:36.159 to know. Let me know what you think about in 2163 01:58:36.199 --> 01:58:39.000 the comments. But again, everybody, thank you so much for 2164 01:58:39.039 --> 01:58:41.800 joining me this evening. I am the Cajun Night and 2165 01:58:41.920 --> 01:59:13.640 as always, God bless