WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:08.000 Good evening, and welcome to another edition of the Cajun 2 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:11.039 Night Live. I am your host, the Cajun Knight, Jacob Mook, 3 00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:14.599 and welcome everybody to another group. We've got a lot 4 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:16.600 of things to discuss this evening. We're gonna start off 5 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:21.760 primarily talking about some of the interesting and controversial things 6 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:24.039 going on in the good old us of A. Then 7 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:25.640 I've got some things that we're gonna talk about on 8 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:30.000 the international stage, some Europeans things, some Russian, Ukrainian things, 9 00:00:30.359 --> 00:00:33.200 maybe some Israel Gaza things. We're gonna jump all over 10 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:35.320 the place. 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So I didn't know this, But 21 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:06.159 did y'all know that AOL dial up is still a thing? 22 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:11.400 It was, but it is about to go offline. This 23 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:14.120 is from ABC News. AOL is set to pull the 24 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:18.200 plug on the iconic dial up internet service, y'all. I 25 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:21.959 honestly didn't know that this was even still offered. I 26 00:01:22.079 --> 00:01:24.519 you know, this is about as crazy to me as 27 00:01:24.519 --> 00:01:26.560 to say, well, I guess we're gonna take down the 28 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:29.760 old telegraph lines. People ain't really using it no more 29 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:33.239 Like I genuinely thought that this went by the wayside 30 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:36.640 and somewhere in the mid two thousands. But here we are, 31 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:38.959 and they are finally about to pull the plug. They 32 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:41.439 got a little video on this article that we could 33 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:43.040 just play, and then we're gonna talk a little bit 34 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:52.920 more about it. Let's go, oh that iconic sound. 35 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:03.000 Time now for our last call we love and remember 36 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:06.200 that classic Tom Hanks med Ryan film rom com. You've 37 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:09.639 got mail? But do you remember hearing that dial up sound? 38 00:02:09.639 --> 00:02:11.879 Well we literally put it in the show in case 39 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:14.400 you are under thirty and don't remember. 40 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:14.560 Well. 41 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:18.240 Now America Online or AOL, is now announcing that it's 42 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:21.240 pulling the plug on the long time dial up service 43 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:23.360 this September thirty. So we're gonna bring back the panel. 44 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:25.599 And first, everybody quick raise your hands. Do you remember 45 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:27.520 dial up? Did you ever have it in your house? 46 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:30.159 And while everyone's putting their hands up, Mike, where the 47 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:32.800 heck is Bike's hands? Okay, thank you, Mike, you are 48 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:36.280 our resident tech expert. I'm going to you bring us 49 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:38.800 back to those early days of dial up. 50 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:39.919 You have ten. 51 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:44.280 Seconds, really quickly. The fact that one hundred and seventy five, 52 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:46.479 two hundred and fifty thousand Americans in twenty twenty five 53 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:48.879 to rely on dial up gives me an indication, as 54 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:50.919 class cold water of me that there still is a 55 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:53.159 problem in access with brough up in infrastructure, and we 56 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:55.960 still need so much digital literacy in a way that 57 00:02:55.960 --> 00:02:58.599 we're heading toward the AI future that we're in right now. 58 00:02:58.919 --> 00:02:59.479 I love you. 59 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:02.800 That was so succinct and so well said. Mike, took 60 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:04.800 up all the time. Everybody else gets one word, Heidi, 61 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:07.120 how do you feel about dial up going away? One word? 62 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:09.879 Who's surprised? 63 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:10.000 Not? 64 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:11.400 That's okay? 65 00:03:11.759 --> 00:03:13.759 That was that was a couple of words. That's okay. Meheck, 66 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:15.879 how do you feel about dial up going away? 67 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:19.400 I'm with Mike on this one, one hundred percent agree 68 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:19.759 with him. 69 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:22.360 We have one minute left. 70 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:24.840 I was told to move quickly through this segment, but 71 00:03:24.919 --> 00:03:27.000 we have a minute left, which is an hour in 72 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:30.400 television PREA you get the rest of the time. How 73 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:32.360 do you feel about dial up going away? 74 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:36.080 Well, in all fairness, I did grow up on the 75 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:39.439 tail end of dial up before everybody else got regular Internet. 76 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:41.879 But I will say it does make me sad. It's 77 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:45.240 just one another piece that gen Z gets to claw 78 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:46.400 away from this millennial. 79 00:03:47.240 --> 00:03:49.560 That is pretty funny that gen Z are never going 80 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:53.240 to understand dial up or even know what that tone is. 81 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:56.400 But neither here nor there. I did like the point 82 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:59.680 that was made by Mike Muse. As we are entering 83 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:03.879 the AI generation, we still have over one hundred and 84 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:06.719 fifty thousand people that are still using dial up as 85 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:11.400 of time of recording. That's pretty insane to me. I 86 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:15.960 genuinely thought that that was a foregone technology. But you'll 87 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:18.480 learn something new every day. Let's get after it here. 88 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:22.199 It's the end of an era for AOL. After more 89 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:24.360 than thirty years of connecting people to the Internet through 90 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:27.480 the dial up, AOL is hanging up its iconic service. 91 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:32.240 AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided 92 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:35.399 to discontinue dial up Internet to the company's website states 93 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:39.160 this service will no longer be available on AOL plans. 94 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:43.439 The change will not affect any other benefits for your AOL. 95 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:47.519 The company stated the service and dialer software will be 96 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:52.040 discontinued as of September thirtieth, twenty twenty five. The distinctive, 97 00:04:52.079 --> 00:04:54.879 high pitched dial tone, humming and worrying may sound like 98 00:04:54.959 --> 00:04:57.240 a distant memory of an early Internet days for some, 99 00:04:57.800 --> 00:05:01.160 especially with the advent of wireless model connections that have 100 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:05.319 replaced the conventional phone line technology. America Online is the 101 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:08.560 Internet pioneer of the early nineteen nineties, changed its name 102 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:12.199 to AOL in two thousand and six. Maybe that's why 103 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:14.879 I thought it went away when it changed, like officially 104 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:17.439 the name change. Maybe I thought that they also did 105 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:19.920 away with dial up altogether at that time. I don't know. 106 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:22.959 I was. I was still a child in six I 107 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:26.160 who knows, well I say that, yeah, freshman hight, Yeah, 108 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:28.279 I was a kid. I was a kid anyone. In 109 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:33.680 twenty seventeen, it shut down the popular instant messenger service AIM. Wow. 110 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:35.920 I didn't know that aim was still up and operating 111 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:39.759 in twenty seventeen. That's crazy. And there's also some iconic 112 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:42.240 sounds that come to memory with that, the door closing, 113 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:46.079 the door opening, anyone, anyone. And the company was sold 114 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:49.079 to Apollo Global Management in twenty twenty one, becoming the 115 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:50.800 new Yahoo, Inc. 116 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:52.120 Wow. 117 00:05:52.519 --> 00:05:56.920 So yeah, just kind of starting off with a lighthearted conversation, right, 118 00:05:57.040 --> 00:05:59.800 this is the end of an era, a legitimate end 119 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:02.720 of era. Not mad at it, not sad about it. 120 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:04.920 And I'm like, oh man, that's one. It's it is 121 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:08.199 a thing that we everybody that we're actually using the 122 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:11.879 internet during this timeframe will be able to remember, and 123 00:06:12.040 --> 00:06:16.680 pretty much everybody born from I mean, honestly, I would 124 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:20.360 say probably two thousand and six onward, but realistically there 125 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:23.360 may still be some small remnants of it, one hundred 126 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:25.879 and fifty thousand people in America that will be able 127 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:29.920 to speak with actual clarity on the dial up tone, 128 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:34.439 that legendary signature sound. But it's also pretty interesting to 129 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:38.040 see how technology is traversed and is moving forward as 130 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:41.639 fast as it is. Moving on to the next topic, 131 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:45.480 the urban vertical Farming project. So I don't know if 132 00:06:45.480 --> 00:06:48.360 anybody's heard this, but this actually makes sense to me, 133 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:52.800 so quick breakdown before we get into the article. I 134 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:56.639 know that in my area of the country there are 135 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:01.519 two big super mals, right, big malls that used to 136 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:05.279 be like the pop and spot. There was one called 137 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:08.360 ball Marche and it was the mall like when you 138 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:10.040 and your friends would go to the mall that was 139 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:14.360 the spot. Then the mall at Cortana was built, and 140 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:16.680 anybody in and around Baton Rouge will understand some of 141 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:19.240 these terms. Everybody else will think I'm just making up terms. 142 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:21.920 It doesn't matter. Just bear with me here. Ball Marche 143 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:27.519 became the rougher place to go shop and Cortana was 144 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:31.160 like the spot. Then the Mall of Louisiana was built 145 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:34.759 right by the Interstate. Then the Cortana Mall became kind 146 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:37.680 of the rundown section and nobody really shot there. There 147 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:39.639 was only a few stores that would even remain open. 148 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:43.639 But these buildings are still in place. These buildings have 149 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:47.920 a lot of skylights and direct sunlight, and they're indoor. 150 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:52.000 They're close proximity to big highways, they have big parking lots. 151 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:55.000 The infrastructure is still there to do something with these buildings, 152 00:07:55.800 --> 00:07:58.439 but it's not a lot of people that are opening 153 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:02.319 up stores anymore, especially with Amazon and all kinds of 154 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:06.399 online shopping, and then things being delivered straight to your door. 155 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:09.519 You no longer have to go to like try on 156 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:11.759 shoes at this point, you can just have them delivered 157 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:16.439 straight to your door. So big mall complexes are starting 158 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:19.560 to be more and more phased out. That being said, 159 00:08:20.120 --> 00:08:23.480 there is a group that is currently working at using 160 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:27.279 these buildings in these locations for more effective and productive means, 161 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:31.279 So let's talk about it here. Time magazine once described 162 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:36.080 malls as pleasure domes with parking malls in general. Strip 163 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:40.799 malls in particular, are ubiquitous in suburban areas or suburban America. Rather, 164 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:44.039 built in the nineteen fifties, sixties, and seventies during rapid 165 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:47.759 suburban expansion and rapidly increasing car usage. For better or worse, 166 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:50.840 they were once a sign of progress. Now a major 167 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:53.519 enclosed mall hasn't been built in the United States since 168 00:08:53.559 --> 00:08:57.559 two thousand and six, and many are completely abandoned. According 169 00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:01.000 to Don Wood, the CEO of the Federal Yet Reality 170 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:04.679 Investment Trust, even the process of knocking down or converting 171 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:07.399 a mall could take as long as two decades. And 172 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:10.519 I can understand that too, tearing down that large of 173 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:14.200 a structure and hauling off the rubble, rezoning it if 174 00:09:14.200 --> 00:09:16.679 it's listed as commercial, if you're trying to rezone it 175 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:19.799 for apartment complexes to residential. It's not like it's an 176 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:22.879 impossible feat. It takes time and it takes money, and 177 00:09:22.879 --> 00:09:25.799 I don't mean a little money, I mean deep, deep 178 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:29.120 pockets to make that kind of big change happen. So 179 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:33.799 it's a thing. So the structures may be here to stay, 180 00:09:34.080 --> 00:09:37.279 but they don't have to just be a homage to 181 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:40.559 what once was abandoned malls and strip malls could be 182 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:45.360 easily and efficiently converted into vertical farms. So where are 183 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:48.360 strip malls headed in the short term? Why we should 184 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:51.759 grow food in mixed use structures and think more about 185 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:54.960 their impact on the local economies. And doesn't make sense 186 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:58.519 to convert a strip mall to a vertical farm. Let's 187 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:02.759 break this down. So, so their present abandonment actually has 188 00:10:02.799 --> 00:10:04.639 a lot to do with the success they had in 189 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:07.960 their early days. At that time, it was almost unimaginable 190 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:11.519 a strip mall would be torn down, worthless or avoided. 191 00:10:11.919 --> 00:10:14.720 As a result, leases were signed, sometimes for more than 192 00:10:14.759 --> 00:10:20.320 fifty years. However, those leases had one important omission, an 193 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:24.840 option to terminate that actually made a little sense back then, 194 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:29.200 But now communities pay for developer and realature strong sightedness 195 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:31.960 or short sightedness rather, though, you can't be too hard 196 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:34.399 on them for failing to predict the Internet and online 197 00:10:34.440 --> 00:10:37.840 shopping with these awful structures, right, But what if we 198 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:41.639 could put them to good use? As The New Yorker noted, 199 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:46.639 in some cases the buildings have been converted into community colleges, 200 00:10:46.759 --> 00:10:51.120 corporate headquarters, or churches. But what about vertical farms? They're 201 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:54.679 definitely possible. But let's look at the conventional wisdom about 202 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:58.320 strip mall's first and what they that industry looks like 203 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:01.960 in the short term, strip malls in the short term 204 00:11:03.159 --> 00:11:07.320 in terms of symbolism, excuse me, symbolism. There's actually a 205 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:13.720 website called deadmalls dot com. That's just a gallery of failure. Wow, okay, 206 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:17.000 that's that's kind of funny. I didn't know there was 207 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:21.279 a website strictly devoted to taking pictures of the ruins 208 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:24.840 of what was once shopping malls. That's that's pretty funny. Okay. 209 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:28.279 The Internet just be Internet, and doesn't it The primary 210 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:30.639 reason for these failings is that the anchor stores think 211 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:32.440 about like the big stores that are usually at the 212 00:11:32.440 --> 00:11:35.120 perimeter of the mall, think of your Dillards, your Sears, 213 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:38.440 you know, these types of things have lost so much 214 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:42.279 ground to online shopping. These were the stores that drove 215 00:11:42.320 --> 00:11:44.399 traffic to malls in the first place and allowed these 216 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:48.279 smaller retailers with less of an advertising budget to bring 217 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:53.120 people to their doors. Wow. Yeah, that's just the nature's 218 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:56.159 starting to overtake what was once the mall. That's crazy. 219 00:11:57.200 --> 00:11:59.159 Even more shutdowns are on the way. According to an 220 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:03.559 industry study reported on the Wall Street Journal, in order 221 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:06.759 to regain past levels of profit, department stores will have 222 00:12:06.840 --> 00:12:11.399 to close over eight hundred locations. Mall owners will struggle 223 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:14.799 to fill spaces of that size, often resorting to discount 224 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:18.039 retailers like TJ Max and Marshals, or converting the spaces 225 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:20.759 to moviet theaters, which is also something that's going by 226 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:23.840 the wayside because of all the streaming surfaces. So anyway, 227 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:27.120 this leads to decreased traffic for the entire mall environment, 228 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:31.440 meaning even more closures will follow in an increasingly vicious cycle. 229 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:33.799 So let's jump ahead here. To where it talks about 230 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:37.720 growing food in mixed use spaces. Mixed use first to 231 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:42.279 the development that combines residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial uses 232 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:45.600 in a way where it is physically and functionally cenergetic 233 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:51.080 and that facilitates foot traffic. I personally hate the words 234 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:55.799 synergy and synergetic, but I know it's going to be 235 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:58.519 used in this good bit. Let's just get after him anyway. 236 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:01.759 Let's look at Jane for a quick example. Jane is 237 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:04.039 an accountant at a local firm across the street from 238 00:13:04.039 --> 00:13:06.200 an apartment where she lives. On a typical day, she 239 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:07.919 packs your lunch and heads across the street for a 240 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:12.919 pleasant nine to five on of her clients. That thing 241 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:14.519 is supposed to be. One of her clients is the 242 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:17.360 local grocer, which is the first floor in the same 243 00:13:17.399 --> 00:13:20.120 building as her apartment on the sixth. She works on 244 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:23.159 her account until closing, when she meets some friends for 245 00:13:23.200 --> 00:13:25.799 a happy hour a restaurant downstairs from the office. Jane 246 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:28.360 orders a beer, which the restaurant bruise itself. Not only 247 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:30.639 does it sell the beer at its own bar, but 248 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:33.080 it also sells it at the grocery store next door. 249 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:35.639 Jane also orders a salad at a restaurant. Some of 250 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:39.000 the produce comes from the same grocery store, which has 251 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:41.559 worked out in a wholesale deal with the restaurants they 252 00:13:41.559 --> 00:13:45.639 both save on shipping, but a large portion of that 253 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:49.879 salad is greens, and the greens come from hydroponics farmed 254 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:52.360 on the top floor of the building that Jane lives in, 255 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:56.000 where can harness sunlight and HVAC exhaust from the apartments 256 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:59.639 and turn it into energy. The hydroponic farm supplies both 257 00:13:59.679 --> 00:14:03.519 restaurl and grocer and also gets its taxes done with Jane. 258 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:07.440 That actually sounds like a pretty solid setup, which, if 259 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:09.600 I'm not mistaken, is also something that they're trying to 260 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:13.799 do with the line in Dubai. It's a very all 261 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:20.919 enclosed ecosystem of human living. But anyway, this synergy is 262 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.120 extremely important, and when looking at the economic impact of 263 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:27.159 local businesses, it becomes something even more exciting to encourage. 264 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:30.320 Local businesses account for half of the private economy, largely 265 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:37.759 due to multiplate multiplier multiplier effects Jesus for communities. Essentially, 266 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:40.360 the multiplier effect means local businesses are more likely to 267 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:43.360 spend money with other local businesses, so much so that 268 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:45.480 for every dollar that moves from being spent at a 269 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:48.279 non local to a local business, the community will see 270 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:52.440 a two to four greater income boost, job creation rate, 271 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:56.799 and return on local taxes. So the overarching idea is 272 00:14:56.840 --> 00:14:59.440 that they are going to start trying to use these old, 273 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:05.799 abandoned and strip malls to be hydroponic vertical gardens. I 274 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:10.679 myself am a huge proponent of vertical gardens and hydroponics 275 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:12.919 and aquaponics. I might add I find it to be 276 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:16.759 just a way more efficient way to do things. And 277 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:19.480 if they could actually start using these for that purpose 278 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:21.960 at least a section of them. Right, And you think 279 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:24.879 of your big malls that you have, maybe not all 280 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:27.759 the little department stores on the side, but the main 281 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:31.559 strip of the mall is typically lit by sunlight in 282 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:35.360 a atrium style skylight that has direct sunlight in it. 283 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:39.519 If you were to plant a very long strip of 284 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:42.639 a vertical garden on the inside of this mall, and 285 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:46.320 it's an enclosed system and you can maintain the temperature, 286 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:48.399 you get a couple of people to maintain what the 287 00:15:48.480 --> 00:15:51.480 water nitrate levels are and all these things, then you 288 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:54.919 could sell that at a i'll talk a cut rate 289 00:15:55.399 --> 00:15:59.279 to give local good, healthy produce to the local communities. 290 00:15:59.879 --> 00:16:03.600 And most of these malls are now you know, surrounded 291 00:16:03.600 --> 00:16:08.759 by let's just call it low income communities. That's just 292 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:12.360 a double hit of good things to come. Go ahead, 293 00:16:12.440 --> 00:16:13.679 Raven Lee, I see your hand raised. 294 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:18.200 I do agree with you. I think that there's a 295 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:21.200 lot of conversations I've been having about how they can 296 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:25.159 supply all the different people. You know, there's so many 297 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:27.840 groups that aren't having enough. I dropped a link in 298 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:31.480 the chat that's actually a group that is working with 299 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:34.279 malls and and pretty much is talking about doing vertical 300 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:38.480 gardens in malls and museums to try to help like 301 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:44.000 promote the environment and promote different stuff like that. But 302 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:47.000 with vertical gardening and that kind of empty space is 303 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:50.639 using the abandoned buildings repurposing them is a huge thing, 304 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:53.960 and that that would be able kind of the same 305 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:58.399 conversation of making community gardens. They can utilize this as 306 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:02.279 a community garden, just on a scale, and that shows 307 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:06.000 lots of benefits actually for supporting lower crime in the community, 308 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:10.920 for uplifting and actually lowering depression and anxiety within the community. 309 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:15.400 There's out of Detroit and Chicago, they did two studies 310 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:20.079 and it shows the benefits of even doing a small 311 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:22.599 little community garden, what it does and the impact it 312 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:25.279 does in the community. So it could be that they 313 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:30.279 these locations could feed potentially large amounts of people and 314 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:33.279 would help reduce a lot of the crime in the 315 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:34.160 area as well. 316 00:17:35.160 --> 00:17:37.799 Oh, I could believe that one hundred percent. So the 317 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:45.759 link that you shared is from Botanic Botanics Bota ni KKs. 318 00:17:46.200 --> 00:17:49.200 Yeah, it's a group that they they've done it to 319 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:54.599 like for locations, they've added in vertical gardens of different 320 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:59.680 varieties to specialize locations like the Art Museum and Life 321 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:02.319 and Stufience Museum and stuff like that around like Beijing, 322 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:05.680 Malaysia and a couple other places, and kind of like 323 00:18:05.720 --> 00:18:08.759 they do down in specific parts in South America where 324 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:11.920 they're adding in the concrete jungle where they add in 325 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:15.880 the bushes now and they're covering those places to try 326 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:18.440 to help with the air quality and to be able 327 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:21.480 to keep the air pollutants down. It's all a part 328 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:24.240 of it. But now the conversation, they just did the 329 00:18:24.279 --> 00:18:30.440 first decomposition of a body regenerated in fungus in mushroom, 330 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:33.519 and so they're like they're all kind of intertwined with 331 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:37.599 trying to help the environment, feed the people, reduce pollution, 332 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:42.079 and be able to kind of reuse and recycle what 333 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:43.279 we have going on right now. 334 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:47.559 Hold on, just to clarify something, you said, the decomposition 335 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:50.640 of a body, you mean a human body and they 336 00:18:50.720 --> 00:18:52.400 turn that into mushrooms. 337 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:55.839 Yes, I'll have to look for the article. I just 338 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:57.839 saw it the other day because I follow a couple 339 00:18:58.559 --> 00:19:03.079 of the California They have the pods in the wall 340 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:06.799 where you put the bodies in the wall and it's 341 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:09.039 like a circular it looks like a little hobbit door 342 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:12.559 and they put them in there and then what they 343 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:15.640 do is they decompose over a certain amount of days 344 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:18.920 and they have like a bacterial composition that they've figured 345 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:22.160 out how to quickly get rid of the body in 346 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:26.400 like a fertilizing soil, and they're using that to help 347 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:31.079 refertilize other things as that. As you know in nature, 348 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:33.799 they also have the ones where you're trees, and they're 349 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:36.200 the ones that where your different types of plants where 350 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:39.400 your body gets planted underneath it. Now they're trying, because 351 00:19:39.400 --> 00:19:42.920 they're trying to figure out ways to use human bodies 352 00:19:43.240 --> 00:19:47.799 that are deceased to be able to fertilize and help 353 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:51.079 restore the nutrients in the ground because we've ran out 354 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:53.839 of space for all the bodies while we're running out 355 00:19:53.880 --> 00:19:59.119 of space and so the crematoriums are running NonStop pretty much. 356 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:03.039 But that causes pollution and stuff like that, and so 357 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:06.079 many people are trying to say, you know, is there 358 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:10.119 a way that we could use human bodies to regenerate 359 00:20:10.279 --> 00:20:12.119 the land that is destroyed? 360 00:20:12.599 --> 00:20:17.000 So wow, I mean, I'm not necessarily against that. I mean, 361 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:21.240 I've seen these pods where you know, you can have 362 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:23.400 your remains be put in a pod and then like 363 00:20:23.440 --> 00:20:25.440 a tree will grow from it, and it's like your 364 00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:28.640 body will be like the initial nutrients for the tree's growth, 365 00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:31.119 and that's, you know, that's a cool thing. I'm not. 366 00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:33.359 I don't judge people based off of what they want 367 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:35.519 to do with their bodily remains. I for one, want 368 00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:38.039 to be cremated and put into fireworks. That's just me. 369 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:40.960 Some people want to be buried in a plot, some 370 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:43.519 family plot, next to their loved ones, and like that's 371 00:20:43.559 --> 00:20:45.559 you know, everybody's got their own thing. I'm not. I'm 372 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:48.359 not throwing shade one way or another. But to say 373 00:20:48.400 --> 00:20:50.400 that you're going to have mushrooms be grown from a 374 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:54.000 human body, I'm, for the love of all that is holy, 375 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:57.359 I am praying that it is not of the psychedelic variety, 376 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:00.240 because I know quite a few people that would who's 377 00:21:00.279 --> 00:21:03.079 their mind if they found out that they were ingesting 378 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:07.799 psychedelic mushrooms that were grown from a corpse. I can 379 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:11.200 already hear some very dear friends of mine going off 380 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:13.839 talking about the crazy things that they would experience off 381 00:21:13.880 --> 00:21:17.440 of that. But yeah, let's just hope that it's like Portobellos, 382 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:20.680 you know. But yeah, yeah, I mean I could see 383 00:21:20.680 --> 00:21:24.119 that being a possibility as well, using humor remains and 384 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:28.000 just remains in general of dead plants and everything else 385 00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:32.480 to make better fertilizers. So absolutely, I don't want to 386 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:34.079 read a little bit from this article that you sent 387 00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:37.079 from botanics or botanis. I'm not sure how which one 388 00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:39.839 you pronounce it, as it talks about the benefits of 389 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:44.079 vertical gardening in malls. It will improve air quality. Indoor 390 00:21:44.119 --> 00:21:47.279 air quality is crucial and pollutants can negatively affect human health. 391 00:21:47.319 --> 00:21:49.640 I agree with that one hundred percent. Plants are literally 392 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:54.440 filtration systems for this enhanced esthetics one hundred percent. Who 393 00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:58.759 doesn't love nature? Right, No more empty walls. I know 394 00:21:58.880 --> 00:22:01.279 quite a few people that have a like serious issue 395 00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:03.880 with looking at bare walls. So that would improve. That 396 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:08.519 creates a healthier environment, multiple levels of it. Creating a 397 00:22:08.519 --> 00:22:15.039 healthier environment, good things. Increase in visitors possibly possibly, yes, 398 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:17.839 maybe no, but I mean that's you don't need visitors 399 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:20.359 in order for the plants to grow and for them 400 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:23.440 to be sold or donated or whatever. But okay, it 401 00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:27.680 could absolutely and reduce energy costs. Vertical gardens can also 402 00:22:27.720 --> 00:22:30.119 help with temperature control in the space. They act as 403 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:32.839 a natural insulator, which can lead to a decrease in 404 00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:35.359 energy cost for heating and cooling in the area. Now, 405 00:22:35.400 --> 00:22:39.599 that's a good idea. Designing and implementing a vertical garden 406 00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:41.880 in a mall. You got to choose the right location 407 00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:44.359 that makes sense. You got to choose a spot that 408 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:47.160 gets good natural light. That's ideal for a vertical garden. 409 00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:49.880 You should also consider the traffic flow in the area. Ideally, 410 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:51.880 you want your garden to be visible and accessible to 411 00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:55.000 as many people as possible. Okay, fair enough, consider the 412 00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:58.559 size and shape of the wall. Very true, that you 413 00:22:58.559 --> 00:23:02.640 know makes sense led to the right plants. Very important, 414 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:06.680 very important. I know somebody who had an aquaponic system 415 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:09.680 and he chose the wrong type of fish for the 416 00:23:09.720 --> 00:23:12.519 aqua part, and he chose the wrong type of plants 417 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:16.319 for the plant based part, and one good cold snap 418 00:23:16.440 --> 00:23:19.839 killed his entire crop of fish and plants. So got 419 00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:22.880 to make sure you're doing your research on which which 420 00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:25.880 plants would do the best for that environment, and which 421 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:29.160 plants would be easier sold in your area. Like, if 422 00:23:29.160 --> 00:23:32.559 you're living in a spot that really gets down with kale, 423 00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:35.400 then like maybe you would grow kale. That's good things. 424 00:23:36.039 --> 00:23:40.279 If you're in an area that really prefers, you know, cucumbers, 425 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:42.319 then I'm just saying you have to do your research, 426 00:23:42.359 --> 00:23:46.599 but very good things. Thinking about irrigation, your vertical garden 427 00:23:46.599 --> 00:23:49.720 will require a special irrigation system to ensure that the 428 00:23:49.720 --> 00:23:52.960 plants receive enough water and nutrients. Drip irrigation systems are 429 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:56.079 often used to water vertical gardens. I don't think that 430 00:23:56.079 --> 00:23:58.279 that's really a problem because most of these malls have 431 00:23:58.640 --> 00:24:02.720 fire systems that are already built into them, So honestly, 432 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:06.039 you could just you know, repurpose some of those or 433 00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:08.200 even just do it like not a tie in. Those 434 00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:10.319 systems have to be completely separate from the other water 435 00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:12.920 lines in the building, and I understand that. My point 436 00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:16.039 is though, like the infrastructure, the banisters that have the 437 00:24:16.119 --> 00:24:19.960 railings for pipes to be built onto, you just have 438 00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:21.960 to kind of build off of that. On the other side, 439 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:27.519 it's it really wouldn't take much doing and seek professional help. Well, 440 00:24:27.559 --> 00:24:30.400 I mean, hey, who couldn't benefit from seeing a little 441 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:34.559 more professional help maintenance and care. It's really not much 442 00:24:34.599 --> 00:24:38.279 to maintain a hydroponic system. It sounds like it's crazy. 443 00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:41.200 The legwork is in the beginning of it. Once it's 444 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:43.559 up and running, you really just have to do some 445 00:24:43.680 --> 00:24:47.720 daily checks, like maybe once, if not twice a day, 446 00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:50.759 come by and check the pH check the nitrate levels, 447 00:24:51.039 --> 00:24:53.279 make sure that you don't have like an insect problem. 448 00:24:53.319 --> 00:24:55.920 And like that's what I'm saying. You could hire one 449 00:24:55.960 --> 00:25:01.039 to two people to maintain an entire strip malls worth 450 00:25:01.240 --> 00:25:06.799 of a hydroponic garden. That's okay, fair enough, watering the 451 00:25:06.839 --> 00:25:11.960 plants regularly, proper lighting, prune the plants very true, fertilize 452 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:13.960 the plants. Like I said, you gotta check the nitrate 453 00:25:14.039 --> 00:25:17.359 levels pest control, yes, indeed, air circulation one hundred percent 454 00:25:17.359 --> 00:25:19.599 and monitor plants health. And that's what I'm saying. It 455 00:25:19.599 --> 00:25:22.400 depends on the scale, right, depends on the size of 456 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:25.160 the vertical garden that you're talking about here, but it 457 00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:29.759 really the juice is absolutely worth the squeeze pun intended. 458 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:30.799 Go ahead, Raven. 459 00:25:33.079 --> 00:25:35.720 Just to touch on the how many states legal by 460 00:25:35.720 --> 00:25:39.359 the way, that human composting is legal is thirteen states 461 00:25:39.799 --> 00:25:45.119 and fifteen more pinning the legislation right now, so fifteen 462 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:49.559 states are one hundred percent you can do human comp Wow. 463 00:25:50.960 --> 00:25:53.839 And yes, there's a really cool YouTube video on vertical 464 00:25:53.839 --> 00:25:57.240 gardening the people that actually are doing the massive warehouses 465 00:25:57.240 --> 00:26:00.319 of them, and it breaks it down like all to 466 00:26:00.319 --> 00:26:05.160 the cellular level. It's a fascinating documentary about it. 467 00:26:05.160 --> 00:26:08.559 It's really good, absolutely and I'm as I said, I 468 00:26:08.599 --> 00:26:12.079 am a huge proponent of it. My parents' greenhouse is 469 00:26:12.319 --> 00:26:17.920 nothing but vertical gardens, and their square footage of their 470 00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:21.440 land versus the yield that they're getting from their plants 471 00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:24.359 is I've never seen anything like it in my life. 472 00:26:24.519 --> 00:26:26.359 It's insane. It's not even like they have a big, 473 00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:31.039 massive setup. It's a forty foot greenhouse. And the amount 474 00:26:31.079 --> 00:26:33.759 of just handover fist production they're getting out of their 475 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:39.079 plants is mind blowing. Okay, very good thing, so possibly 476 00:26:39.119 --> 00:26:43.640 coming to them all near you vertical gardens. All right, now, 477 00:26:43.720 --> 00:26:47.599 let's move on to more political conversation here. This is 478 00:26:47.640 --> 00:26:52.240 actually an article from Al Jazeera Trump. Does Trump brokered 479 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:56.400 deal squeeze Russia and Iran out of the South Caucuses. 480 00:26:57.480 --> 00:26:59.440 I'm not exactly sure if it does or does not. 481 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:03.480 But for anybody who didn't hear a transit corridor pack 482 00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:07.400 signed by Azerbaijohn and Armenia could be game changing, according 483 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:12.559 to several experts. So for anybody who didn't know, Azerbaijohn 484 00:27:12.759 --> 00:27:16.599 and Armenia have been in let's just call it conflict 485 00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:19.720 for somewhere around like thirty five years, give or take, 486 00:27:20.279 --> 00:27:23.000 and Trump just kind of brokeer the deal that made 487 00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:26.319 them come to the negotiation table together. Now, a lot 488 00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:29.480 of people in America do not know about this, because 489 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:33.039 most people in America that I've talked to don't even 490 00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:37.480 know that Azerbaijohn is its own country. That's a true statement, sadly, 491 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:39.480 but it is what it is, and honestly, the only 492 00:27:39.519 --> 00:27:42.400 reason why most Americans know about Armenia is because of 493 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:45.319 the Armenian genocide that took place in you know, just 494 00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:48.759 a couple of decades ago. So it's unless it's done 495 00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:51.599 something crazy to be in the headlines. Most Americans don't 496 00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:55.480 really know about it, but let's talk. Azerbai John's president 497 00:27:55.799 --> 00:27:59.640 Ilham Aliev probably mispronounced it, and his late father im 498 00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:03.759 predes Haidar Aliev and some of their closest political allies 499 00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:08.640 hail from Nakchevin. Yeah, that's the spot. The name of 500 00:28:08.680 --> 00:28:13.480 this tiny mountainous and underdeveloped Azari area sandwich between Armenia 501 00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:17.319 Iran Turkey sounds unfamiliar to those outside of the strategic 502 00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:24.480 South Caucasus region, but Nakhchievan Knakchevan's name and geopolitical significance 503 00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:27.240 resurfaced after the United States President Donald Trump hosted a 504 00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:30.480 White House summit between Azari and Armenian leaders. On Friday, 505 00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:34.519 Azerbaijan's Prime minister and the Armenian Prime Minister signed a 506 00:28:34.559 --> 00:28:38.279 preliminary peace deal to indy decades long conflict over the 507 00:28:38.359 --> 00:28:43.200 Neigorno Karabak region. In the early nineteen nineties, ethnic Armenians 508 00:28:43.279 --> 00:28:47.240 in the Nigardo Khannabak Kara back rather region broke away 509 00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:49.880 from the oil rich Azerbaijohn after a war that killed 510 00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:53.640 thousands and displaced hundreds of thousands. Moscow broke her to 511 00:28:53.640 --> 00:28:56.799 truce in nineteen ninety four, maintaining two military bases in 512 00:28:56.920 --> 00:29:00.920 resource poor Armenia supplying with cheap energy selling arms to 513 00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:03.799 Azerbaijan sounds like a win win, to be honest with you, 514 00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:07.319 Even though the conflict did not involve Nakchavan. It cut 515 00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:11.319 off the zengiir Corridor, a forty kilometer or twenty five 516 00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:16.559 mile logistics unbiblical cord to Azeri mainland that consists of 517 00:29:16.920 --> 00:29:21.799 a derelict road and paralleled rusty railroad tracks, air travel 518 00:29:21.960 --> 00:29:27.240 and hours long bumpy transit through Iran's. Iran's remained the 519 00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:31.240 only way to reach the exclave, whose authorities ruled it 520 00:29:31.319 --> 00:29:34.640 like a personal fiefdom with lulls and ways of life 521 00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:38.279 often contradicting those of the mainland. After winning the twenty 522 00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:41.920 twenty war over the Nigorno car back and restoring control 523 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:45.839 over three years later, Baku has been eager to receive 524 00:29:46.039 --> 00:29:49.880 or revive the corridor, demanding its extra territorially and even 525 00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:54.079 pondering the use of military force. A new reality in 526 00:29:54.119 --> 00:29:56.480 the region. On the other hand, the reasons go far 527 00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:00.240 beyond restoring access to Aliev's ancestral land. The cor or 528 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:04.400 could become a namoth trans transport hub between Turkey, Azerbaijan 529 00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:07.880 and Central Asia. I feel like the Belton Rode initiative 530 00:30:08.160 --> 00:30:10.960 might have also had some precedents to kind of lead 531 00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:13.640 into this area. I don't know. It may increase the 532 00:30:13.640 --> 00:30:18.480 flow of Central Asian hydrocarbons to Turkey and further to Europe, 533 00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:21.440 boost the regional economy, and up end Russia's two centuries 534 00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:25.720 of domination in the region that also includes Georgia. Armenia 535 00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:29.400 was reluctant to allow Azari access to the corridor, fearing 536 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:33.720 that the emboldened Turkish Azari's tandem might jeopardize its security. 537 00:30:34.039 --> 00:30:38.519 But Trump cut through the Gordian knot on Friday, and 538 00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:42.000 his role essentially cements a new reality in the region. 539 00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:47.599 According to Emil Mustefeyev, the Baku based chief editor of 540 00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:52.880 the menval Politica online magazine, this is a serious shift 541 00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:56.440 in the security architecture and transport logistics of the South Caucuses. 542 00:30:57.079 --> 00:31:00.920 While in the White House, Aliev and pash On God 543 00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:04.960 I'm butchering these names, lavish Trump with praise and nominated 544 00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:10.319 him for a Nobel Peace Prize. Wow. We will see 545 00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:13.960 if that gets pushed forward. It's very possible that old 546 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:17.640 Don and T will become a Nobel Laureate's that's a 547 00:31:17.680 --> 00:31:20.880 reality that we might see. Okay, what cracked me up 548 00:31:20.920 --> 00:31:23.519 in this is that they didn't lose their way about 549 00:31:23.599 --> 00:31:27.759 how one has to communicate in Washington. An expert in 550 00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:31.240 the region told Al Jazeera. They also flattered Trump by 551 00:31:31.279 --> 00:31:34.920 naming the corridor the Trump Route for International Peace and 552 00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:41.279 Prosperity or Trip Tripp Wow, and leasing it to Washington 553 00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:45.240 for up to ninety nine years with exclusive development rights. 554 00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:48.880 And there is the sweetener of the deal. What looks 555 00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:52.079 like one of Trump's favorite real estate deals actually heralds 556 00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:55.960 a tectonic shift. Trump's administration has indeed been quick to 557 00:31:55.960 --> 00:32:00.599 find its way toward the long do geopolitical pivot. China, 558 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:03.319 which has been promoting its Belt and Road initiative in 559 00:32:03.359 --> 00:32:06.839 Asia and Eastern Europe, may remain neutral to it. In Russia, 560 00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:09.920 which has two military bases in Armenia, might ignore it, 561 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:12.680 at least publicly, he said. But for Iran it's a 562 00:32:12.680 --> 00:32:16.079 real blow. So this is a boost to Washington's cloud 563 00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:21.440 To guard the trip, Washington may use private military companies 564 00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:25.200 and eventually build a military base that nominally safeguards Armenia 565 00:32:25.240 --> 00:32:29.200 but actually keeps an eye on Iran with said Ukrainian 566 00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:36.680 political analysis analyst Aleski Kutsch Couch, sure it means more 567 00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:40.079 potential pressure on Iran and a boost of Washington's clout 568 00:32:40.119 --> 00:32:43.799 in the resource rich Caspian region, where US oil companies 569 00:32:44.119 --> 00:32:48.119 made sizable investments in the nineteen nineties and Moscow is 570 00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:52.119 also about to lose a lot. No matter how paradoxical 571 00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:55.079 it sounds, it's Moscow that has been and still is 572 00:32:55.240 --> 00:32:58.880 a decisive factor in the peace settlements between Armenia and Azerbaijan, 573 00:32:59.319 --> 00:33:05.880 and in sault having the latter's problems of accessing Nakchavan. Dude, 574 00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:09.079 I'm sure I've pronounced it right one of those times, 575 00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:14.599 said the head of Central Asia's Due Diligence and think 576 00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:17.640 tank in London. One of the main motives for the 577 00:33:17.839 --> 00:33:20.519 reproachment of both sides is there push to get rid 578 00:33:20.559 --> 00:33:24.480 of Moscow's influence of peacekeeper's roles that it had imposed 579 00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:28.640 on them. The new deal only highlights how fictitious Moscow's 580 00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:31.599 role as a peacekeeper in the Middle East is in 581 00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:35.799 peace settlements in South Caucasus, really is. However, the deal 582 00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:38.480 is not yet set in stone, and the Trump hosted 583 00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:46.599 summit sparked premature optimism, said the University of Exeter in 584 00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:51.599 the United Kingdoms, a dude named kevork Auscinian. All Right, 585 00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:55.680 this optimism should be tempered by realism and historical precedent, 586 00:33:55.839 --> 00:34:00.720 as many peace processes have failed despite promising starts. So, 587 00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:03.039 like they said, the deal is not done yet, but 588 00:34:03.119 --> 00:34:06.920 at least it's a good start. Now, let's just look 589 00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:09.880 at this. Is it more likely that Trump is doing 590 00:34:10.199 --> 00:34:13.920 this brokering of this peace deal because he genuinely cares 591 00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:17.760 about the people of Armenia and azerbai John, you be 592 00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:20.519 the judge. I think that it is more likely that 593 00:34:20.559 --> 00:34:22.960 he's doing this. So that, like they said, they could 594 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:28.159 put some American infrastructure in the area, possibly throw a PMC, 595 00:34:28.360 --> 00:34:31.280 a private military contractor out in that area to kind 596 00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:33.840 of keep an overwatch over it until they can build 597 00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:38.199 yet another foreign military base for the United States. That's 598 00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:40.719 kind of our jam. We don't do the whole imperialism thing, 599 00:34:41.159 --> 00:34:44.320 but we set up a military base there, and that 600 00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:48.679 acts as a outpost, right, it acts like one of 601 00:34:48.719 --> 00:34:51.440 the tentacles of the octopus. And if we could get 602 00:34:51.480 --> 00:34:54.519 something that close to Iran, yeah, I could see that 603 00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:57.159 being more of the motive behind Trump wanting to broker 604 00:34:57.199 --> 00:34:59.880 a peace deal between the two countries. We will see 605 00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:03.760 how it shakes out. But anyway, let's move on here. 606 00:35:04.519 --> 00:35:09.440 Let's talk about the Texas Democrat situation. We talked about 607 00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:11.400 this last week a little bit. They are trying to 608 00:35:11.480 --> 00:35:17.239 read district the state of Texas for better voting numbers right, 609 00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:21.079 to make it quote unquote more fair and balanced. And 610 00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:24.280 the Democrats in their offices in the state of Texas 611 00:35:24.360 --> 00:35:27.599 know that they're about to lose this rezoning vote, so 612 00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:30.199 they just took off. They left to go to other 613 00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:33.000 states and things. The downside of that is there was 614 00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:35.039 other things on the dock that needed to be voted on. 615 00:35:35.519 --> 00:35:39.960 Some of that was the flood relief and for all 616 00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:42.519 these people that were affected by the Texas floods. So 617 00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:46.320 now the Democrats are being blamed for some of the 618 00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:50.679 relief to that didn't get to the victims. And meanwhile 619 00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:53.719 they're blaming the Republicans for them leaving the state in 620 00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:56.159 the first place, which delayed the relief to get to 621 00:35:56.199 --> 00:35:58.400 who it was. So the Democrats and Republicans are pointing 622 00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:00.679 the finger at each other for well, why didn't you 623 00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:02.920 send the flood relief? Well, why didn't you? And it's 624 00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:05.440 a mess and all this really stems from the Democrats 625 00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:07.800 not showing up to work to do the thing that 626 00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:11.519 they were elected to do, which is crazy. But let's 627 00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:13.519 go ahead and watch this quick little news clip about it. 628 00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:14.840 Then we're going to talk about it some more. 629 00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:18.039 Hi, I'm Dylan McKim here in Kirk County, Texas, where 630 00:36:18.079 --> 00:36:22.079 about two hours north in Austin, political feeder is playing out. 631 00:36:22.159 --> 00:36:25.039 Texas Democrats have vowed to kill the first special session 632 00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:28.320 in order to temporarily block an effort by Republicans to 633 00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:32.760 redraw congressional maps, but in doing so, they've also blocked 634 00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:36.440 efforts to provide relief for the victims of those deadly 635 00:36:36.519 --> 00:36:40.159 floods in central Texas. Both Republicans and Democrats are putting 636 00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:44.360 fingers at each other, saying who's to blame for these delays. Meanwhile, 637 00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:47.840 here in Kirk County, residents are trying to rebuild. 638 00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:50.440 Three inches a mid and everything. 639 00:36:50.599 --> 00:36:53.760 Nathan Rich rents this shop for his diesel repair business. 640 00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:58.199 On July fourth, the Guadalupe River came pouring in, damaging 641 00:36:58.280 --> 00:37:01.719 electrical equipment and rusting his tools. A month later, his 642 00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:04.679 business is somewhat back to normal, but the house he 643 00:37:04.760 --> 00:37:07.039 rents next door is completely gutted. 644 00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:09.159 It's hard to shell out one hundred thousand dollars to 645 00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:09.840 rebuild a house. 646 00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:13.039 Rich received thirty thousand dollars in grants for his business, 647 00:37:13.239 --> 00:37:16.559 but grants for his home and personal belongings are limited. 648 00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:21.320 All the stuff that we've built together just gone. 649 00:37:21.599 --> 00:37:25.400 This is his wife, Audrey. She works across the street 650 00:37:25.480 --> 00:37:27.960 at the local bank. It happens to be the location 651 00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:31.039 where residents in Centerpoint, Texas can pick up applications for 652 00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:35.719 financial relief. That money is being distributed by the Centerpoint 653 00:37:35.760 --> 00:37:38.880 Alliance for Progress, which has about two hundred and seventy 654 00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:40.280 thousand dollars to hand out. 655 00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:42.920 We have a committee that actually went to their houses 656 00:37:43.199 --> 00:37:45.320 to verify that they did have damage. 657 00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:48.199 So far, it's helped fifty eight families with twenty five 658 00:37:48.320 --> 00:37:49.079 hundred dollars. 659 00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:53.000 Checks rent now and hit our shop rent. 660 00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:54.800 But that money doesn't go far. 661 00:37:55.039 --> 00:38:00.519 We don't have the money to just rebuild go buy 662 00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:02.280 a house, go rent somewhere. 663 00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:05.000 Local groups like the Alliance are having to step up 664 00:38:05.079 --> 00:38:08.119 because relief efforts at the state capitol are stalled as 665 00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:10.079 politicians duel over redistricting. 666 00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:13.440 It would be nice for our government to want to help, 667 00:38:13.559 --> 00:38:15.480 but we're going to try to make sure they're taken 668 00:38:15.519 --> 00:38:16.440 care of regardless. 669 00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:19.639 Both political parties are appointing fingers over who to blame 670 00:38:19.679 --> 00:38:22.239 and the delay and funding, But people like Rich are 671 00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:25.039 choosing not to wait around for Austin politicians. 672 00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:27.480 I got way more going on than to sit and 673 00:38:27.519 --> 00:38:30.440 watch the news and be mad at Democrats or be 674 00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:31.880 mad at Republicans or whatever. 675 00:38:32.039 --> 00:38:35.360 They continue rebuilding little by little with a simple mada, 676 00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:38.119 one day at a time in Kirk County. I'm Dylan McKim. 677 00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:42.000 Okay, now let's talk about that a little more in depth. Shally. 678 00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:45.679 This is from the Texas Tribune. Texas Republicans and Democrats 679 00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:50.679 locked in redistricting battle weaponize the flood response, with Democrats 680 00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:53.880 walking out over redistricting, bringing the house to a standstill. 681 00:38:53.960 --> 00:38:57.400 Both parties are accusing each other of abandoning Central Texas 682 00:38:57.440 --> 00:39:01.760 flood victims. And I'm not saying this because I am 683 00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:04.679 more of a conservative minded person, I am going to 684 00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:08.760 say who abandoned who, Which side of the aisle just 685 00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:12.000 literally up ended and left the state rather than come 686 00:39:12.039 --> 00:39:14.039 in and do their job. If we're gonna start pointing 687 00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:17.599 the fingers at who is abandoning their post and abandoning 688 00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:21.320 their constituents. But let's read in here. When Governor Greg 689 00:39:21.400 --> 00:39:24.199 Abbott called a special session last month, he put legislation 690 00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:28.119 responding to the devastating Hill count Country floods at the 691 00:39:28.159 --> 00:39:31.159 top of the lawmaker's agenda, But with the session went 692 00:39:31.320 --> 00:39:34.800 winding down, the legislator's ability to improve disaster response has 693 00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:37.239 become tied up in a bitter fight over a rare 694 00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:41.760 effort by Republicans to redraw the state's congressional map halfway 695 00:39:41.800 --> 00:39:44.960 through the decade. The new map, as demanded by President Trump, 696 00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:48.400 would create up to five new GOP seats ahead of 697 00:39:48.519 --> 00:39:51.599 next year's midterm elections. The Texas House is in a 698 00:39:51.639 --> 00:39:55.159 standstill after Democrats left the state on mass last week 699 00:39:55.199 --> 00:39:58.679 to prevent the chamber from voting on the map again 700 00:39:59.679 --> 00:40:02.760 blow my mind, and both parties have been accusing each 701 00:40:02.760 --> 00:40:06.079 other of abandoning Central Texas flood victims. With the tragedy 702 00:40:06.159 --> 00:40:08.480 which killed more than one hundred and thirty people, becoming 703 00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:12.760 a political cudgel in the redistricting clash. Republican lawmakers have 704 00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:16.880 blasted Democrats for delaying measured measures to bolster the state's 705 00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:20.000 emergency response by fleeing the state to deny the House 706 00:40:20.119 --> 00:40:23.880 the quorum needed to advance any legislation. The only thing 707 00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:26.800 standing between Texas and real disaster relief is whether our 708 00:40:26.920 --> 00:40:30.440 absent colleagues decided to show up. That's what Speaker Dustin Burrows, 709 00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:34.280 a Republican from Lubbock, said on the House floor Monday, 710 00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:38.360 continuing the quote, when the gavel drops, the question is simple, 711 00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:41.000 will you be in that chair to vote for these 712 00:40:41.039 --> 00:40:44.239 critical disaster recovery bills or will you be remembered as 713 00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:48.039 one who did not show up. That's pretty cut and 714 00:40:48.119 --> 00:40:52.239 dry there. Democrats say their GOP counterparts showed they were 715 00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:55.199 never serious about prioritizing the flood response when they put 716 00:40:55.239 --> 00:40:59.400 the contentious redistricting effort first on their agenda. They point 717 00:40:59.440 --> 00:41:01.480 out that the flood bill saw no movement in the 718 00:41:01.519 --> 00:41:03.559 House in the first two weeks of the session, even 719 00:41:03.599 --> 00:41:07.079 as Republicans advanced the congressional map at a quick clip. 720 00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:09.679 This is a quote here. Abbot can call a special 721 00:41:09.719 --> 00:41:12.320 session today that is dedicated to honoring the loss of 722 00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:15.599 the memory of the July fourth flooding victims, or he 723 00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:19.039 can once again put DC corruption ahead of Texas communities. 724 00:41:19.719 --> 00:41:24.320 Representative Jene Wu of Houston, chair of the House Democratic Caucus, 725 00:41:24.360 --> 00:41:28.360 said in a statement Tuesday, Ultimately, all legislation, including the 726 00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:33.000 flood response, the new congressional map, stricter regulations on consumable hemp, 727 00:41:33.400 --> 00:41:37.440 and a raft of socially conservative a raft of socially 728 00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:41.079 conservative priorities Abbot placed on the agenda, will remain stalled 729 00:41:41.159 --> 00:41:45.320 until Democrats return to Austin and the House regains a quorum. 730 00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:48.599 Republican leaders on Tuesday said that it would they would 731 00:41:48.679 --> 00:41:52.159 gabble out the special session early on Friday and immediately 732 00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:55.559 launch into a second thirty day session if Democrats did 733 00:41:55.559 --> 00:42:00.239 not return to Austin this week. I don't believe they're 734 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:03.559 gonna gonna be real with you. They scheduled the flood 735 00:42:03.559 --> 00:42:06.000 bills for a Tuesday vote on the House floor, which 736 00:42:06.199 --> 00:42:09.639 did not take place due to insufficient attendance. Upping the 737 00:42:09.840 --> 00:42:13.719 pressure on Democrats to return, Abbot has launched a flurry 738 00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:16.840 of ads targeting the Democrats who walked out, and he 739 00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:20.440 has asked the Texas Supreme Court to declare their seats vacant, 740 00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:25.280 arguing they have deserted their office. Again, I'm not saying 741 00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:28.760 this because I disagree with their political statements. I'm saying 742 00:42:28.800 --> 00:42:31.559 that I agree with him based off of the fact 743 00:42:31.599 --> 00:42:34.599 that they're not showing up to work. It's literally their 744 00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:36.599 entire job to show up and vote on these things. 745 00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:41.679 But yeah, anyway, if Texas House Democrats care about the 746 00:42:41.719 --> 00:42:44.800 Texans they abandon, they will return to Austin and do 747 00:42:44.920 --> 00:42:47.840 the job they were elected to do. Man Man after 748 00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:52.719 my own heart, Abbot spokesperson Andrew Mahalaris think I got 749 00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:55.639 that right, said in a statement Tuesday. Democrats said they 750 00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:58.000 were eager to pass the flood bills, but refused to 751 00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:00.679 play a role in adopting the new congressional which they 752 00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:03.800 called an attempt by Trump to rig the midterm elections 753 00:43:03.840 --> 00:43:10.039 and maintain Republican control of the US House. So, all right, 754 00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:13.840 I don't know. I know a lot of people from Texas. 755 00:43:13.920 --> 00:43:17.199 I do have very close family members that live in Texas. 756 00:43:18.119 --> 00:43:20.840 I can't imagine that this is going to bode well 757 00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:24.679 for the Democrats in the midterms, even if they don't redistrict. 758 00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:29.239 Like just being real here, because the people that really 759 00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:31.760 need the help right now are not getting it, and 760 00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:34.360 there is one side of the isle that is showing 761 00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:37.199 up to work. Whether you agree or disagree with their politics, 762 00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:40.119 that's not important. You got real people that are really 763 00:43:40.199 --> 00:43:42.440 hurting right now, and they're not getting the help that 764 00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:47.039 they need because one side of the aisle isn't showing up. 765 00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:51.519 I can't imagine the people that are not showing up 766 00:43:51.559 --> 00:43:55.440 getting re elected when that time comes. Maybe I'm wrong, 767 00:43:55.559 --> 00:43:58.440 Maybe these are very long standing seats and this is 768 00:43:58.440 --> 00:44:01.159 a person that's been elected eighteen times and it's name 769 00:44:01.199 --> 00:44:05.119 recognition alone, so they're gonna get re elected anyway. But 770 00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:08.559 I would I would think very low of the people 771 00:44:08.800 --> 00:44:12.159 that would vote that kind of person in. And I'm 772 00:44:12.199 --> 00:44:16.320 not saying, you know, I don't know each individual person's quality, 773 00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:19.599 but if that's what it is, when the going gets tough, 774 00:44:19.679 --> 00:44:24.960 you literally abandon your posts until things smooth out. That's 775 00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:27.159 not the type of people that I personally would want 776 00:44:27.159 --> 00:44:30.400 to run my area or my district or my county 777 00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:35.800 or whatever else. But okay, we will see continuing here, 778 00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:40.119 it says, Dems say the flood response wasn't a GOP priority. 779 00:44:40.440 --> 00:44:43.280 Democrats noted that about halfway into the special session, the 780 00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:47.599 Republicans led House hailed four hearings on redistricting and planned 781 00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:51.199 a four vote of sorry, a floor vote on the map. 782 00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:54.920 The legislature's Disaster Committee meanwhile held two joint hearings on 783 00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:57.880 the floods. In these sessions first two weeks before specific 784 00:44:57.880 --> 00:45:00.840 bills were introduced, the House and Senate handles advanced their 785 00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:05.440 proposals last week. Is another quote from Actually, there's a 786 00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:09.239 quote from Representative Anne Johnson, a Democrat from Houston. We 787 00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:12.920 have been there for two weeks waiting to address They 788 00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:15.239 only put one bill up for us to debate in 789 00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:18.840 the House, and it was the redistricting Okay, that's fair. 790 00:45:19.159 --> 00:45:22.360 Democrats also argue Republicans showed their priorities by putting a 791 00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:26.320 quote unquote call on the House that would hold until 792 00:45:26.360 --> 00:45:32.320 the redistricting map was adopted without mentioning the flood related bills. Okay, 793 00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:35.280 so it's dirty politics either way, slicely, I get this, 794 00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:39.519 But again, as an elected official, your job is to 795 00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:44.360 wade into the waters of dirty politics, not abandon it 796 00:45:44.440 --> 00:45:46.800 when things don't look like they're going to go your way. 797 00:45:47.519 --> 00:45:52.079 So anyway, just given the update on the Texas situation, 798 00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:53.719 we talked about it last week, and I thought it 799 00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:56.840 was worth bringing up again this week. All right, So 800 00:45:57.320 --> 00:46:00.400 still sticking to the South. You know, in the United 801 00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:03.639 States of America, this is from Wece. This flesh eating 802 00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:06.920 bacteria is spreading across the South. Here is how to 803 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:11.280 stay safe. There's something extra unsettling about the words flesh 804 00:46:11.320 --> 00:46:14.079 eating and beach season being in the same sentence, but 805 00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:20.400 that's where we are. A bacterium called Vibrio valneficus. Yeah, 806 00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:22.480 I'm just gonna call it vv if that comes up again, 807 00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:24.920 because I'm definitely not gonna get that right. For twice 808 00:46:24.960 --> 00:46:28.000 in a row. It's spreading across five Southern states and 809 00:46:28.039 --> 00:46:30.920 it already has been linked to nine deaths this year. 810 00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:34.239 It lives in warm, salty, not super clean water, the 811 00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:37.000 kind you wade into barefoot while holding a beer. And 812 00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:41.800 it's hitting Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and North Carolina the hardest. 813 00:46:42.639 --> 00:46:45.559 That's kind of a jump up. It jumped straight over 814 00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:48.199 South Carolina and hit North Carolina the heart. Okay, fair enough. 815 00:46:48.480 --> 00:46:50.840 The bacteria can enter your body in two ways, and 816 00:46:50.920 --> 00:46:54.199 neither is ideal. First is through open wounds, which would 817 00:46:54.239 --> 00:46:57.639 include scrapes, cuts, tattoos, piercings, and yep, even razor birn. 818 00:46:58.039 --> 00:47:00.880 The second is through the consumption of raw or undercooked 819 00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:06.440 sell shellfish, especially oysters. See I gotta m that sucks. 820 00:47:06.800 --> 00:47:10.039 I personally love oysters, but just being real with you, 821 00:47:10.840 --> 00:47:14.079 I prefer farm raised because you have way less of 822 00:47:14.119 --> 00:47:16.840 a chance of getting sick from them, regardless of what 823 00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:21.480 month it's in. Yeah, but fair enough. If you were 824 00:47:21.519 --> 00:47:24.079 just to go out there and get you some oysters 825 00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:26.960 from the Gulf and just start shucking and slurping, you 826 00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:30.239 could very well get a flesh eating bacteria. Isn't that fun? 827 00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:34.079 That sounds like a particular attack on your vacation plans. 828 00:47:34.119 --> 00:47:37.360 That's because it sort of is. According to state health departments, 829 00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:40.079 most cases so far have been linked to wound exposure, 830 00:47:40.280 --> 00:47:42.880 but several have been tied to the consumption of raw seafood. 831 00:47:43.079 --> 00:47:46.559 Either way, once it's in, things can get serious fast. 832 00:47:46.960 --> 00:47:49.480 The flesh eating bacteria it's infecting people across the South. 833 00:47:49.519 --> 00:47:52.920 The doctors say the symptoms can go from that looks 834 00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:56.440 red to getting the ambulance in a matter of hours. 835 00:47:56.719 --> 00:48:00.920 High fever, swelling, intense pain, and oozing wounds are In 836 00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:03.400 the worst cases, the infection can spread to your bloodstream 837 00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:08.159 and trigger blisters, confusion, dangerously low blood pressure, and tissue death, 838 00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:10.559 hence the flesh eating nickname. 839 00:48:10.840 --> 00:48:11.119 Wow. 840 00:48:11.199 --> 00:48:13.559 So that thing can make you go necrotic in a 841 00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:16.880 matter of hours. It can start going that way. Oh 842 00:48:17.039 --> 00:48:20.880 my goodness. Some people have indeed amputations or I'm sorry, 843 00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:24.920 have needed amputation. Others didn't survive. The Florida Department of 844 00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:29.280 Hell says blood born infections from Vibrio vulneficus. Ah, I 845 00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:30.960 think I got it right twice. What's up, have a 846 00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:35.280 fatality rate of about fifty percent. Oh my god. If 847 00:48:35.320 --> 00:48:37.440 this gets into your bloodstream, you got a fifty to 848 00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:40.079 fifty shot of making it out alive. But even if 849 00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:42.760 you make it out alive, you're not gonna be all good. 850 00:48:43.079 --> 00:48:46.880 Oh my god. And while this bacteria isn't new, it 851 00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:49.639 was first reported in the nineteen seventies, it's showing up 852 00:48:49.679 --> 00:48:53.280 more often, especially at ocean temp as ocean temperatures rise. 853 00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:57.239 Louisiana typically sees about seven cases a year this summer alone. 854 00:48:57.280 --> 00:49:01.440 It's already had seventeen. Cool Florida has had at least 855 00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:04.639 thirteen with four deaths. North Carolina has seen nearly sixty 856 00:49:04.840 --> 00:49:08.840 Vibrio cases across different strains. Some health departments are blaming 857 00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:12.239 the spike on hotter water and hurricane related flooding. Climate 858 00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:15.440 change once again is playing Oh Jesus Christ, yep, it's 859 00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:19.039 climate change. That's why the bacteria is killing us. Clearly, 860 00:49:19.760 --> 00:49:22.760 the best way to protect yourself is, unfortunately also the 861 00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:25.119 least fun. Don't go into the water if you've gotten 862 00:49:25.360 --> 00:49:28.400 any open skin, no matter how small. Skip the raw 863 00:49:28.440 --> 00:49:31.119 oysters unless you know they're from a safe, regulated source 864 00:49:31.760 --> 00:49:37.760 like farm raised. And if you're immunocompromised or have liver issues, 865 00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:40.679 be especially cautious. Doctor say you're at higher risk of 866 00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:45.519 the life threatening complications. No one's saying cancer is Cancel 867 00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:48.480 your beach plans. Maybe rethink the combo of open wounds 868 00:49:48.480 --> 00:49:51.920 and seafood that you brought out of a cooler. Okay, 869 00:49:51.960 --> 00:49:54.800 fair enough, So I did think that was important to 870 00:49:54.800 --> 00:49:57.480 bring up. As we are getting into hurricane season, the 871 00:49:57.480 --> 00:49:59.920 water is still warm and people are still making beach trips. 872 00:50:00.920 --> 00:50:04.519 Just be careful out there, everybody. Now, let's jump into 873 00:50:04.559 --> 00:50:08.599 this next conversation. This is from the Washington Examiner. Appeals 874 00:50:08.639 --> 00:50:11.880 court says that Trump can cut two billion dollars in 875 00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:15.760 foreign aid. They just dropped this information, so let's learn 876 00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:17.519 a little bit more about what this means. 877 00:50:18.440 --> 00:50:21.559 Appeals court ruled that President Donald Trump can withhold nearly 878 00:50:21.599 --> 00:50:25.519 two billion dollars in previously approved foreign aid payments. The 879 00:50:25.639 --> 00:50:28.119 US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia voted 880 00:50:28.159 --> 00:50:31.239 two to one to overturn a lower court's order requiring 881 00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:34.639 the administration to pay out the funds. Judge Karen L. 882 00:50:34.679 --> 00:50:37.840 Henderson wrote for the majority that the plaintiffs, a coalition 883 00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:42.199 of contractors and nonprofit organizations, lacked legal standing to challenge 884 00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:45.199 the freeze. The case drew support from a coalition of 885 00:50:45.199 --> 00:50:49.119 twenty state attorney generals led by Republican South Carolina Attorney 886 00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:52.280 General Alan Wilson, who argued that the President has brought 887 00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:57.199 authority to ensure taxpair dollars serve US interests. Judge Florence 888 00:50:57.239 --> 00:51:00.440 Pan issued a lengthy dissent, warning that the majority's decision 889 00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:03.360 under minds Congress's power of the purse and enables the 890 00:51:03.400 --> 00:51:08.119 executive branch to bypass constitutional safeguards. Shortly after beginning his 891 00:51:08.199 --> 00:51:12.039 second term, Trump moved to dismantle USAID and other sources 892 00:51:12.039 --> 00:51:15.599 of foreign spending. The administration argued that the freeze was 893 00:51:15.679 --> 00:51:19.360 necessary to reevaluate whether the billions of dollars spent annually 894 00:51:19.360 --> 00:51:23.400 through USAID advanced US diplomatic and security interests. 895 00:51:27.480 --> 00:51:30.519 All right, so I got a PBS article. It's going 896 00:51:30.599 --> 00:51:32.679 to talk a little bit more about it, to talk 897 00:51:32.679 --> 00:51:37.360 about the the deeper analysis of what this could mean. 898 00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:41.960 The Appeals Court lets Trump administration suspend or end billions 899 00:51:41.960 --> 00:51:45.000 in foreign aid funding. A divided panel of Appeals Court 900 00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:48.159 judges ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration can suspend or 901 00:51:48.280 --> 00:51:52.800 terminate billions of dollars of congressionally appropriated funding for foreign aid. 902 00:51:53.239 --> 00:51:55.599 Two of three judges from the US Court of Appeals 903 00:51:55.599 --> 00:51:58.360 for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded that the grant 904 00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:01.199 recipient's challenging the freeze to not meet the requirements for 905 00:52:01.239 --> 00:52:04.880 a preliminary injunction restoring the flow of money. In January, 906 00:52:04.920 --> 00:52:07.079 on the first day of his second term in office, 907 00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:11.119 Republican President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the 908 00:52:11.159 --> 00:52:14.760 State Department to shut down USAID. We talked about that already. 909 00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:20.039 After groups of grant recipients sued to challenge that order, 910 00:52:20.360 --> 00:52:24.400 the US District Judge Emir Ali ordered the administration to 911 00:52:24.440 --> 00:52:26.719 release the full amount of foreign assistants that Congress had 912 00:52:26.760 --> 00:52:30.360 appropriated for the twenty twenty four budget year. The Appeals 913 00:52:30.760 --> 00:52:36.119 Court's majority partially vacated Ali's order. Judges Karen Lacraft Henderson 914 00:52:36.159 --> 00:52:40.480 and Gregory Katsas katsas I don't know concluded that the 915 00:52:40.480 --> 00:52:43.039 plaintiffs did not have a valid legal basis for the 916 00:52:43.039 --> 00:52:45.800 court to hear their claims. The ruling was not on 917 00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:49.760 the merits of whether the government unconstitutionally infringed on Congress's 918 00:52:49.880 --> 00:52:52.920 spending powers. The parties also dispute the scope of the 919 00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:56.119 District Court's remedy, but we need not resolve it because 920 00:52:56.119 --> 00:52:59.599 the grantees have failed to satisfy the requirements for the 921 00:52:59.639 --> 00:53:04.000 poleminary injunction. In any event, Henderson wrote. Judge Florence pan 922 00:53:04.039 --> 00:53:06.599 who we just heard about a second ago, who dissented, 923 00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:10.360 said that the Supreme Court has held in no uncertain 924 00:53:10.440 --> 00:53:13.280 terms that the President does not have the authority to 925 00:53:13.360 --> 00:53:16.559 disobey laws for policy reasons. Yet that is why the 926 00:53:16.559 --> 00:53:20.960 majority enables today. Pan wrote the majority opinion thus misconstrues 927 00:53:21.320 --> 00:53:25.119 the separation of powers claims brought to the grantees by 928 00:53:25.159 --> 00:53:29.280 the grantees, rather misapplies precedent and allows executive branch officials 929 00:53:29.320 --> 00:53:34.599 to evade judicial review of constitutionally impermissible actions. The money 930 00:53:34.639 --> 00:53:37.400 at the issue, I'm sorry, yeah, The money at issue 931 00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:42.119 includes nearly four billion dollars for USAID, USAID, I should say, 932 00:53:42.360 --> 00:53:45.159 to spend on global health programs, and more than six 933 00:53:45.199 --> 00:53:49.119 billion dollars for HIV and AIDS programs. Trump has portrayed 934 00:53:49.119 --> 00:53:51.719 the foreign aid as wasteful spending that does not align 935 00:53:51.760 --> 00:53:55.599 with his foreign policy goals. Okay, Henderson was nominated to 936 00:53:55.599 --> 00:54:01.559 the Supreme Court by the President George hw and Catnus 937 00:54:01.639 --> 00:54:04.639 or cats Sistic rather was nominated by Trump. Pam was 938 00:54:04.639 --> 00:54:09.480 nominated by Democrat President Joe Biden. So they just gave 939 00:54:09.519 --> 00:54:12.880 the approval, basically saying that he has the go ahead 940 00:54:12.920 --> 00:54:16.239 to suspend and cut off these funds. We're gonna we'll 941 00:54:16.280 --> 00:54:17.920 see if they want to try to fight this, or 942 00:54:17.960 --> 00:54:21.000 if they're gonna try to do something to repeal it, 943 00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:23.960 or or you know, I don't know, I don't know, 944 00:54:24.079 --> 00:54:27.519 but it seems like that money's not gonna go where 945 00:54:27.559 --> 00:54:32.199 it was slated to go. Have you know, I'm not 946 00:54:32.239 --> 00:54:35.079 a big fan of USAID, and it's not just because 947 00:54:35.119 --> 00:54:37.719 of the and there was that list that Doge found 948 00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:40.960 of like all these ridiculous things that USAID was sending 949 00:54:41.000 --> 00:54:44.239 the money to. That's not my inherent problem with it. 950 00:54:44.400 --> 00:54:48.360 I just see it as inefficient, and it's there's that list. 951 00:54:48.400 --> 00:54:50.719 Don't even wrong. But yeah, there's a few things that 952 00:54:50.719 --> 00:54:53.199 they were sending money to that was very worthwhile causes 953 00:54:53.239 --> 00:54:55.360 and people that really needed the help, and I understand that. 954 00:54:56.400 --> 00:54:59.800 But I will say this Trump has a very very 955 00:55:00.039 --> 00:55:04.400 different approach to foreign relations than most of the presidents, 956 00:55:04.440 --> 00:55:07.360 if not all the presidents that we've had since McKinley. 957 00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:11.320 So again, we will see if they try to push 958 00:55:11.360 --> 00:55:14.840 this in a more judicial way or if this might 959 00:55:14.880 --> 00:55:18.239 even lead to I'm sure somebody's gonna try to make 960 00:55:18.239 --> 00:55:21.119 this an impeachable offense for him. But he's still having 961 00:55:21.159 --> 00:55:25.239 to fight this whole Epstein situation, which they just tried 962 00:55:25.320 --> 00:55:30.519 to get a release of the documents from Maxwell of 963 00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:33.559 the conversation, and the court basically said, we're not going 964 00:55:33.639 --> 00:55:36.840 to release this because it doesn't hold any kind of 965 00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:39.960 real weight behind it, and it wouldn't help any open 966 00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:45.320 investigations at this time. So it's again Trump's guy's playful 967 00:55:45.400 --> 00:55:47.760 with things that he started, and we'll see how it 968 00:55:47.760 --> 00:55:52.280 all shakes out. Now. In other news, still talking about 969 00:55:52.280 --> 00:55:55.000 Trump and the White House, the White House has ordered 970 00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:59.119 the review of the Smithsonian Museums. And I think this 971 00:55:59.159 --> 00:56:02.320 all kind of ties in with the new push to 972 00:56:02.440 --> 00:56:05.719 federalize Washington, d C. And I just saw an article 973 00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:08.719 that the mayor of d C actually wants to work 974 00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:12.920 with Donald Trump, who a Democrat with a Republican. I 975 00:56:12.960 --> 00:56:15.960 just want to throw this out bipartisan union where they 976 00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:20.880 are wanting to federalize the city itself. And yeah, it 977 00:56:20.920 --> 00:56:24.400 all stems from old big balls getting you know, mugged. 978 00:56:25.199 --> 00:56:27.800 But the crime rate in d C, yeah, it might 979 00:56:27.840 --> 00:56:29.760 be a little bit lower this year than it was 980 00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:33.119 last year, but that's not saying much overall. I think 981 00:56:33.519 --> 00:56:37.119 the statistics said that Washington, d C is twenty six 982 00:56:37.199 --> 00:56:41.039 percent safer now than it was last year. I get that. 983 00:56:41.039 --> 00:56:44.440 That's cool. That's a quarter safer. So when you go 984 00:56:44.559 --> 00:56:46.719 out in a you know, area that may not be 985 00:56:46.760 --> 00:56:50.920 the safest, you have a one in four less shot 986 00:56:51.079 --> 00:56:55.480 of being mugged. But again, it's like, is that really 987 00:56:55.519 --> 00:56:57.360 the ratio that we should be looking at or why 988 00:56:57.440 --> 00:57:00.840 is there so much rough areas in and around our 989 00:57:00.920 --> 00:57:09.199 nation's capital? Right? Sam, go ahead, sir, Yeah, I'm sorry. 990 00:57:09.719 --> 00:57:12.639 I thought that the ec the whole point of BC 991 00:57:12.840 --> 00:57:14.920 being the way it is is so that no one 992 00:57:15.039 --> 00:57:18.079 state could be quote unquote the capital of the nation, 993 00:57:18.280 --> 00:57:20.920 so they couldn't have all the power. So then federalizing 994 00:57:20.960 --> 00:57:25.599 that wouldn't that be counterproductive of said government could be? 995 00:57:26.039 --> 00:57:30.719 However, federalizing it wouldn't make it under the jurisdiction of 996 00:57:30.760 --> 00:57:35.760 Maryland or Virginia. If anything, they just wouldn't be That's 997 00:57:35.800 --> 00:57:38.000 the thing. It's like, it's seen as its own district, right, 998 00:57:38.280 --> 00:57:40.679 which means it has its own legal precedents. It has 999 00:57:41.159 --> 00:57:43.960 like six different police departments that are operating within it. 1000 00:57:44.480 --> 00:57:48.519 Federalizing it basically means that those police departments may or 1001 00:57:48.559 --> 00:57:50.400 may not be around anymore. But it would be more 1002 00:57:50.480 --> 00:57:54.000 like the DC National Guard would be the police force 1003 00:57:54.440 --> 00:57:55.440 of DC. 1004 00:57:57.760 --> 00:57:58.079 So. 1005 00:57:59.800 --> 00:58:03.119 It could so it's like similar to martial law without 1006 00:58:03.159 --> 00:58:03.960 it being marshall. 1007 00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:07.719 It's like, basically, if you commit a crime in Washington, 1008 00:58:07.800 --> 00:58:13.800 d C. It will instantaneously be a federal crime. Oh now. 1009 00:58:14.079 --> 00:58:17.119 But that's the other thing too. That's seen as a 1010 00:58:17.239 --> 00:58:22.880 very authoritarian thing. And I understand why knee jerk reaction 1011 00:58:22.960 --> 00:58:24.679 it would look that way. And I'm not even necessarily 1012 00:58:24.679 --> 00:58:27.119 saying that it's not. I am saying that I lived 1013 00:58:27.119 --> 00:58:30.000 in Washington, d C. For four years, and that place 1014 00:58:30.159 --> 00:58:33.159 is a shithole. Like aside from the National Mall where 1015 00:58:33.199 --> 00:58:35.440 all the monuments are and all the tourist attractions are, 1016 00:58:35.480 --> 00:58:39.239 which find good things, and aside from the rich, swanky 1017 00:58:39.280 --> 00:58:42.159 neighborhoods where all the politicians live and things like that, 1018 00:58:42.199 --> 00:58:45.360 which fine, you have these areas, pretty much the entire 1019 00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:49.960 town is an actual shit bag. It's it's horrible and 1020 00:58:51.480 --> 00:58:51.800 go ahead. 1021 00:58:52.360 --> 00:58:57.880 But didn't they like, uh, deface Lincoln's memorial and tear 1022 00:58:57.960 --> 00:59:01.320 down Washington and statue and everything. 1023 00:59:02.320 --> 00:59:05.559 I don't know about the defacing of Lincoln. I feel 1024 00:59:05.559 --> 00:59:06.480 like that would have been. 1025 00:59:09.119 --> 00:59:11.440 But I remember they spray painted over it. It was 1026 00:59:11.519 --> 00:59:13.440 during the time when they started tearing down all the 1027 00:59:13.599 --> 00:59:17.559 statues of fus shit U. It was of Albert Pike, 1028 00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:21.760 which they I think we all can agree, fuck him. 1029 00:59:22.320 --> 00:59:26.280 And I say what you will about the Confederate generals 1030 00:59:26.920 --> 00:59:29.360 that that's neither here nor there, but them tearing down 1031 00:59:29.400 --> 00:59:33.519 the like all statues of our founding fathers, I do 1032 00:59:33.719 --> 00:59:36.199 have a problem with. And now they're bringing back the 1033 00:59:36.239 --> 00:59:37.280 Albert Pike statue. 1034 00:59:37.719 --> 00:59:40.280 You know what's crazy. I think I do remember hearing 1035 00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:43.039 about it. It was like a spray painting on Lincoln and 1036 00:59:43.079 --> 00:59:47.039 it was during the big activism, you know, b LM movement. 1037 00:59:48.440 --> 00:59:50.280 It makes no sense to me that you would do 1038 00:59:50.320 --> 00:59:52.239 that to Lincoln. And then they even went and spray 1039 00:59:52.239 --> 00:59:55.599 painted on Mlk's memorial, which made no sense. 1040 00:59:56.840 --> 01:00:02.639 Like, ah, I'm just a little waising boy from Georgia, 1041 01:00:02.719 --> 01:00:05.480 but it would be it seems like that that would 1042 01:00:05.559 --> 01:00:08.400 be the one thing that is the biggest slapper in 1043 01:00:08.400 --> 01:00:12.039 the face of your own community. Uh m Oka, He's 1044 01:00:12.119 --> 01:00:15.039 paraded almost as a sight in your community and you're 1045 01:00:15.079 --> 01:00:16.679 gonna disrespect him. 1046 01:00:17.159 --> 01:00:19.719 It made no sense to me either. I remember it. 1047 01:00:21.079 --> 01:00:23.800 That man is rolling over in his grave like we 1048 01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:25.480 need some my knees to dig him up and matches 1049 01:00:25.559 --> 01:00:27.599 trap him down so he don't set his damn coffin 1050 01:00:27.639 --> 01:00:28.079 on fire. 1051 01:00:29.840 --> 01:00:32.239 It's a crazy But this is the thing. If DC 1052 01:00:32.480 --> 01:00:35.920 does get federalized, that is not gonna happen again, or 1053 01:00:35.960 --> 01:00:38.159 if it does, it's going to have a lot more 1054 01:00:38.199 --> 01:00:40.440 weight behind the punishments that will be doled out to 1055 01:00:40.519 --> 01:00:44.480 the offending parties. So I don't know. I'm I'm not 1056 01:00:44.519 --> 01:00:46.960 saying that I am in favor of federalizing DC, and 1057 01:00:47.000 --> 01:00:49.800 I'm not inherently against it either. I would have to 1058 01:00:49.840 --> 01:00:52.039 see to what level that's really gonna play out to 1059 01:00:52.079 --> 01:00:55.679 the local population, But we could talk about that later on. 1060 01:00:55.840 --> 01:00:58.559 For now, Like I said, the White House has ordered 1061 01:00:58.559 --> 01:01:02.280 the review of the Smith's Soan museums. The reasons why 1062 01:01:02.320 --> 01:01:04.000 are actually kind of funny. Let's listen. 1063 01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:07.719 In coming to your favorite Smithsonian museums. The White House 1064 01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:10.360 will be reviewing material in some of the museums to 1065 01:01:10.440 --> 01:01:14.639 make sure that they align with the President's view of history. 1066 01:01:14.800 --> 01:01:15.199 There's forth. 1067 01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:18.360 Jessica Albert explains what we know about the President's audit 1068 01:01:18.400 --> 01:01:21.960 of these Smithsonian museums. She also spoke with museum visitors 1069 01:01:22.000 --> 01:01:26.199 about the changes. We talk to people outside some of 1070 01:01:26.239 --> 01:01:28.960 these museums that will be reviewed by the White House. 1071 01:01:29.119 --> 01:01:32.559 Many of them express concerns that key pieces of history 1072 01:01:32.880 --> 01:01:33.800 could be erased. 1073 01:01:34.280 --> 01:01:40.199 The ridiculousness of it evades description. History is history, and 1074 01:01:40.239 --> 01:01:47.599 you can't change it to fit the. 1075 01:01:44.920 --> 01:01:47.239 The plan of somebody who doesn't know what's going on. 1076 01:01:47.519 --> 01:01:50.920 In a letter addressed to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1077 01:01:51.159 --> 01:01:53.280 the White House laid out a plan that could alter 1078 01:01:53.519 --> 01:01:57.760 several Smithsonian museums content and these eight museums will be 1079 01:01:57.800 --> 01:02:00.000 reviewed by the White House to make sure it fits 1080 01:02:00.159 --> 01:02:03.000 with the President's vision ahead of the country's two hundred 1081 01:02:03.039 --> 01:02:04.960 and fiftieth birthday celebration. Next. 1082 01:02:06.320 --> 01:02:08.239 All right, real quick, I did want to read which 1083 01:02:08.320 --> 01:02:11.519 of these eight museums, because the Smithsonian has tons of 1084 01:02:11.599 --> 01:02:15.400 museums for the record, all over DC. The eight in 1085 01:02:15.519 --> 01:02:19.760 question the National Museum of American History, the National Museum 1086 01:02:19.800 --> 01:02:23.719 of Natural History, the National Museum of African American History 1087 01:02:23.760 --> 01:02:26.800 and Culture, the National Museum of the American Indian One 1088 01:02:26.800 --> 01:02:28.800 of my favorite museums in DC, I might add the 1089 01:02:28.800 --> 01:02:33.320 place is badass. The National Air and Space Museum, my 1090 01:02:33.480 --> 01:02:37.760 other one of my other favorite museums, The Smithsonian American 1091 01:02:37.880 --> 01:02:41.760 Art Museum, the National Oh dang it, the captions are 1092 01:02:41.760 --> 01:02:46.840 on on that one. National Portrait Gallery, and the Hershorn 1093 01:02:46.920 --> 01:02:55.239 Museum of Sculpture. Oh wow, her Shorn Museum and Sculpture garden. Okay, 1094 01:02:55.280 --> 01:02:57.679 fair enough, let's continue cheer. 1095 01:02:58.000 --> 01:03:01.519 The letter says, quote. This initiative aims to ensure alignment 1096 01:03:01.559 --> 01:03:05.960 with the President's directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive 1097 01:03:06.119 --> 01:03:10.800 or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions. 1098 01:03:11.159 --> 01:03:13.639 One of the museums on the list is the National 1099 01:03:13.760 --> 01:03:16.400 Museum of African American History and Culture. 1100 01:03:16.599 --> 01:03:18.320 That oswe come before the changes. 1101 01:03:18.519 --> 01:03:19.960 If they do, hopefully they don't. 1102 01:03:20.320 --> 01:03:23.239 If the changes do occur, that's one give you one 1103 01:03:23.360 --> 01:03:24.440 last chance to go ahere. 1104 01:03:24.800 --> 01:03:28.039 The McGinnis family from Pennsylvania brought their grandson to the 1105 01:03:28.159 --> 01:03:30.760 National Museum of the American Indian History. 1106 01:03:30.760 --> 01:03:33.960 Shouldent follow an agenda. What happens happens, and there are 1107 01:03:33.960 --> 01:03:37.480 a lot of things that happened that are we're. 1108 01:03:37.239 --> 01:03:37.880 Not proud of. 1109 01:03:38.320 --> 01:03:40.679 This isn't the first time the President has targeted the 1110 01:03:40.719 --> 01:03:44.480 Smithsonian Museums. In March, he signed the Restoring Truth and 1111 01:03:44.559 --> 01:03:47.960 Sanity to American History Executive Order, which called for the 1112 01:03:48.000 --> 01:03:52.199 removal of quote improper ideology from the Smithsonian Museums and 1113 01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:55.360 National Zoo. News Force spoke with a curator at the 1114 01:03:55.400 --> 01:03:58.239 Air and Space Museum, another museum on the list, sent 1115 01:03:58.280 --> 01:04:00.440 out by the White House. He told us he just 1116 01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:03.039 learned of the plan to do a review the curators. 1117 01:04:03.079 --> 01:04:06.480 We are historians first, and we care deeply about just, 1118 01:04:06.920 --> 01:04:09.480 you know, wanting to tell stories as accurately as possible 1119 01:04:09.519 --> 01:04:12.639 in a way that is accessible for all Americans to 1120 01:04:12.639 --> 01:04:13.039 come see. 1121 01:04:13.199 --> 01:04:16.159 The Smithsonian also put out a statement. It says the 1122 01:04:16.199 --> 01:04:20.559 Smithsonian's work is grounded in a deep commitment to scholarly excellence, 1123 01:04:20.639 --> 01:04:25.000 rigorous research, and the accurate, factual presentation of history. We 1124 01:04:25.079 --> 01:04:27.880 are reviewing the letter with this commitment in mind, and 1125 01:04:27.960 --> 01:04:31.519 will continue to collaborate constructively with the White House, Congress 1126 01:04:31.559 --> 01:04:34.960 and our governing Board of Regents. According to the letter 1127 01:04:35.000 --> 01:04:37.719 from the White House, the museums have thirty days to 1128 01:04:37.800 --> 01:04:41.400 turn over information about their current exhibits, and about one 1129 01:04:41.480 --> 01:04:45.400 hundred and twenty days the museums should begin implementing quote 1130 01:04:45.639 --> 01:04:50.559 content corrections where necessary in the district. Jessica Albert News. 1131 01:04:50.320 --> 01:04:59.840 Four content corrections. That's very interesting phrasing, and like I said, 1132 01:05:00.079 --> 01:05:05.719 it's it's kind of crazy that. And I understand that history, 1133 01:05:06.119 --> 01:05:08.360 some would say, is all I agreed upon. And I 1134 01:05:08.440 --> 01:05:11.519 understand that from time to time we have a certain 1135 01:05:11.559 --> 01:05:14.920 opinion of history that we get more information on later 1136 01:05:15.079 --> 01:05:17.679 that kind of rewrites what we once knew about history. 1137 01:05:17.719 --> 01:05:21.719 This happens all the time. It really does not being said, 1138 01:05:21.840 --> 01:05:25.480 that is not what is in this conversation here. I 1139 01:05:25.519 --> 01:05:28.280 actually had the letter pulled up on the White House 1140 01:05:28.360 --> 01:05:33.159 dot gov Briefing Statement Letter to the Smithsonian International Review 1141 01:05:33.159 --> 01:05:37.519 of Smithsonian Exhibits and material I said, Aaron International, I'm internal. 1142 01:05:37.719 --> 01:05:40.280 Excuse me, so it's going to be an internal audit 1143 01:05:40.360 --> 01:05:44.440 of the Smithsonian exhibits and materials. Now, let's talk about it. 1144 01:05:44.480 --> 01:05:44.639 Here. 1145 01:05:44.679 --> 01:05:49.199 It says, Dear Secretary Bunch, we wish to begin, Actually 1146 01:05:49.280 --> 01:05:53.119 is Bunch the last name? Yeah, the honorable Lonnie G. Bunch, 1147 01:05:53.199 --> 01:05:56.199 the third, Dear Secretary Bunch. We wish to begin by 1148 01:05:56.199 --> 01:05:59.639 expressing our appreciation for the brief tour you gave us 1149 01:05:59.679 --> 01:06:02.519 recently of the National Museum of American History and the 1150 01:06:02.599 --> 01:06:06.280 National Museum of the African American History and Culture, and 1151 01:06:06.599 --> 01:06:09.840 by acknowledging your work on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution, 1152 01:06:10.480 --> 01:06:13.840 as well as the Institution's role in shaping public understanding 1153 01:06:13.880 --> 01:06:16.840 of the American history and culture. We are completely aligned 1154 01:06:16.840 --> 01:06:20.320 with your statement that the Smithsonian is a welcome welcoming 1155 01:06:20.360 --> 01:06:23.280 place of knowledge and discovery for all Americans. We are 1156 01:06:23.320 --> 01:06:26.320 grateful that you and the Board of Regents have expressed 1157 01:06:26.320 --> 01:06:29.920 your commitment to the non partisan educational mission of this 1158 01:06:30.079 --> 01:06:33.480 great institution. As we prepare to celebrate the two hundred 1159 01:06:33.480 --> 01:06:36.159 and fiftieth anniversary of our nation's founding, it is more 1160 01:06:36.199 --> 01:06:40.159 important than ever that our national museums reflect the unity, progress, 1161 01:06:40.199 --> 01:06:44.679 and enduring values that define the American history. In this spirit, 1162 01:06:44.920 --> 01:06:48.440 in accordance with Executive Order one four two five three, 1163 01:06:49.039 --> 01:06:52.480 this is the restoring truth and sanity to American history, 1164 01:06:53.400 --> 01:06:56.880 we will be leading a comprehensive internal review of selected 1165 01:06:57.199 --> 01:07:01.880 Smithsonian museums and exhibit exhibitions. This initiative aims to ensure 1166 01:07:02.000 --> 01:07:06.960 alignment with the President's directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove 1167 01:07:07.039 --> 01:07:10.880 divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared 1168 01:07:10.920 --> 01:07:17.199 cultural institutions. Okay, to some of the museums in question, 1169 01:07:17.719 --> 01:07:20.199 I don't think that's going to be an issue whatsoever. 1170 01:07:21.360 --> 01:07:28.440 To others, I could see some potential upheaval. I'm just 1171 01:07:28.440 --> 01:07:33.280 gonna throw that out, but we shall see. This review 1172 01:07:33.800 --> 01:07:37.440 is a constructive and collaborative effort, one rooted in respect 1173 01:07:37.480 --> 01:07:41.360 for the Smithsonian's vital mission and its extraordinary contributions. Our 1174 01:07:41.400 --> 01:07:43.519 goal is not to interfere with the day to day 1175 01:07:43.519 --> 01:07:46.880 operations of curators or staff, but rather to support a 1176 01:07:46.920 --> 01:07:50.960 broader vision of excellence that highlights historically accurate, uplifting and 1177 01:07:51.039 --> 01:07:57.599 inclusive portrayals of America's heritage. That's a great sentiment, it 1178 01:07:57.679 --> 01:08:03.519 really is. However, not all of American history has been 1179 01:08:03.679 --> 01:08:09.320 uplifting or inclusive. Just gonna make sure that we're keeping 1180 01:08:09.360 --> 01:08:13.199 it all one hundred here, but all right, continuing, it says, 1181 01:08:13.280 --> 01:08:16.439 the review will focus on several key areas. Number one, 1182 01:08:16.680 --> 01:08:23.560 public facing content A review of exhibition text, wall dick ditict, didactics, 1183 01:08:24.439 --> 01:08:28.920 didactics rather excuse me? Websites, educational materials, and digital and 1184 01:08:29.000 --> 01:08:33.840 social media content to assess tone, historical framing, and alignment 1185 01:08:33.880 --> 01:08:39.720 with American ideals okay. Number two the curator process. The 1186 01:08:39.760 --> 01:08:44.479 curatorial process a series of interviews with curators and senior 1187 01:08:44.560 --> 01:08:50.359 staff to better understand the selection process, exhibition approval workflows, 1188 01:08:50.640 --> 01:08:57.760 and any frameworks currently guiding exhibition content. Okay. Exhibition planning 1189 01:08:58.359 --> 01:09:01.840 a review of current and few your exhibitions, with particular 1190 01:09:01.880 --> 01:09:04.359 attention to those planned for the two hundred and fiftieth 1191 01:09:04.399 --> 01:09:09.560 anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Of course, Number four 1192 01:09:09.800 --> 01:09:14.239 Collection use evaluating excuse me an evaluation of how existing 1193 01:09:14.279 --> 01:09:17.199 materials and collections are being used or could be used 1194 01:09:17.239 --> 01:09:21.399 to highlight American achievement and progress, including whether the Smithsonian 1195 01:09:21.479 --> 01:09:24.760 can make better use of certain materials by digitizing or 1196 01:09:24.800 --> 01:09:32.279 conveying to other institutions. All right. Number five Narrative Standards 1197 01:09:32.840 --> 01:09:37.439 the development of consistent curatorial guidelines that reflect the Smithsonian's 1198 01:09:37.520 --> 01:09:41.800 original mission. Going on, It says, initially our review will 1199 01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:45.520 focus on the following museum's. Additional museums will be reviewed 1200 01:09:45.560 --> 01:09:49.520 in phase two. This is a multi phase plan. Well, 1201 01:09:49.560 --> 01:09:52.600 all right, let's see where we're talking about here. I 1202 01:09:52.680 --> 01:09:54.880 read this list earlier, but let's re review it, shall we? 1203 01:09:55.319 --> 01:09:58.880 The National Museum of American History, the National Museum of 1204 01:09:59.079 --> 01:10:03.399 Natural History, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, 1205 01:10:03.800 --> 01:10:06.840 the National Museum of the American Indian the National Air 1206 01:10:06.920 --> 01:10:12.439 and Space Museum, Smithsonian Art Excusing a Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1207 01:10:13.000 --> 01:10:16.960 National Portrait Gallery, and the Hershore Museum and Sculpture Garden. 1208 01:10:17.680 --> 01:10:24.880 So of these, let's see one, two, three, four, possibly five, 1209 01:10:26.000 --> 01:10:31.319 I think possibly five out of these eight will have 1210 01:10:31.399 --> 01:10:35.199 some very drastic changes made because they don't fit into 1211 01:10:35.239 --> 01:10:39.600 this whole inclusivity narrative that is trying to be portrayed 1212 01:10:39.600 --> 01:10:45.199 at this moment, and we'll see, we'll see how they 1213 01:10:45.199 --> 01:10:50.000 try to rewrite history this time materials request to initiate 1214 01:10:50.039 --> 01:10:52.760 this process, We respectfully request that each of the museums 1215 01:10:52.800 --> 01:10:56.720 listed above designate a primary point of contact and provide 1216 01:10:56.720 --> 01:10:59.960 the following materials to our team, including for online content 1217 01:11:01.319 --> 01:11:05.159 number one, two hundred and fiftieth Anniversary programming number two, 1218 01:11:05.279 --> 01:11:10.680 current exhibition content number three, Traveling and Upcoming exhibitions number four, 1219 01:11:11.000 --> 01:11:15.520 Internal guidelines and Governance number five, Index the permanent collection 1220 01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:19.720 or index of the permanent collection, Number six, Educational materials 1221 01:11:20.960 --> 01:11:25.880 number seven, Digital Presence number eight, External Partnerships number nine, 1222 01:11:26.119 --> 01:11:31.439 Grant related documentation, and number ten Surveys and other evaluations 1223 01:11:31.479 --> 01:11:35.520 of visitor experience. So we talk about the timeline a 1224 01:11:35.560 --> 01:11:39.119 little bit here. Within thirty days of receipt of this letter, 1225 01:11:39.159 --> 01:11:42.039 we anticipate that each museum will submit all requests of 1226 01:11:42.039 --> 01:11:44.760 materials outlined in the first four bullet points above, including 1227 01:11:44.800 --> 01:11:48.760 current exhibition descriptions, draft plans for upcoming shows, America's two 1228 01:11:48.760 --> 01:11:52.520 to fifty programming materials and internal guidelines using the Exhibition 1229 01:11:53.840 --> 01:11:57.399 Development Review of america two hundred and fifty exhibition and 1230 01:11:57.439 --> 01:12:01.000 program planning, and connect with curators and staff about their 1231 01:12:01.039 --> 01:12:04.720 specific proposals. A staff liaison from each museum will be 1232 01:12:04.760 --> 01:12:07.600 designated to serve as the primary point of contact, and 1233 01:12:07.680 --> 01:12:11.319 our team will begin on site observational visits, conducting walkthroughs 1234 01:12:11.319 --> 01:12:17.159 of current exhibitions to document themes, visitor experience, and visual messaging. 1235 01:12:17.880 --> 01:12:22.159 They have another timeline for within seventy five days, museums 1236 01:12:22.159 --> 01:12:25.720 are asked to submit the remaining requested documentation. Our team 1237 01:12:25.760 --> 01:12:29.119 will begin scheduling and conducting voluntary interviews with curators and 1238 01:12:29.159 --> 01:12:34.720 senior staff. It is a voluntary interview, but okay, and 1239 01:12:34.840 --> 01:12:37.800 each museum should finalize and submit its updated plan to 1240 01:12:37.840 --> 01:12:41.960 commemorate America's two fiftieth within one hundred and twenty days. 1241 01:12:42.279 --> 01:12:47.800 Museums should begin implementing content corrections where necessary, replacing divisive 1242 01:12:47.920 --> 01:12:52.399 or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate, and constructive 1243 01:12:52.399 --> 01:12:58.039 descriptions across placards, walled dedications, digital displays, and other public 1244 01:12:58.119 --> 01:13:01.359 facing materials. If all the benchmarks are met on schedule. 1245 01:13:01.399 --> 01:13:04.760 We anticipate completing our review and preparing for a final 1246 01:13:04.800 --> 01:13:08.439 report for your review in early twenty twenty six. This 1247 01:13:08.640 --> 01:13:12.560 report will include museums specific assessments and institutional trends, and 1248 01:13:12.600 --> 01:13:18.520 constructive recommendations for future exhibit exhibition strategy. We view this 1249 01:13:18.600 --> 01:13:22.359 process as a collaborative and forward looking opportunity, one that 1250 01:13:22.399 --> 01:13:27.039 empowers museum staff to embrace revitalizing curatorial visions rooted in 1251 01:13:27.079 --> 01:13:31.199 the strength, breadth, and achievements of the American story. By 1252 01:13:31.239 --> 01:13:35.560 focusing on Americanism, the people, principles, and progress that define 1253 01:13:35.600 --> 01:13:38.560 our nation, we can work together to renew Smithsonian's role 1254 01:13:38.640 --> 01:13:42.079 as the world's leading museum institution. All right, and they 1255 01:13:42.359 --> 01:13:45.640 list a bunch of names of thanks and things. Okay, 1256 01:13:48.199 --> 01:13:51.960 remember how I said that federalizing DC kind of seemed 1257 01:13:52.119 --> 01:13:57.439 like in a certain light and authoritarian move. You know, 1258 01:13:57.760 --> 01:14:02.119 this is where we kind of take that next uptick. 1259 01:14:02.560 --> 01:14:05.880 And again, it may not play out that way. It 1260 01:14:06.000 --> 01:14:08.279 might be that they just want to make sure that 1261 01:14:08.479 --> 01:14:11.920 a lot of these exhibits have a you know, for instance, 1262 01:14:11.920 --> 01:14:15.439 in the National Museum of the African Americans. Right, So 1263 01:14:15.560 --> 01:14:19.239 is it possible that they're going to keep up all 1264 01:14:19.279 --> 01:14:24.960 of the somewhat the exhibitions or exhibits I should say 1265 01:14:25.000 --> 01:14:29.479 that may not cast ante bellum America in the best light. 1266 01:14:30.119 --> 01:14:32.479 Is it possible to keep those up? But then they 1267 01:14:32.520 --> 01:14:36.079 also want to make sure that they show some patriotic 1268 01:14:36.119 --> 01:14:38.239 things as well as far as like how far we've 1269 01:14:38.279 --> 01:14:41.439 come as a nation since our beginning. Okay, that's not 1270 01:14:41.760 --> 01:14:45.960 inherently a bad idea. Is it also possible that they 1271 01:14:45.960 --> 01:14:51.439 are about to try and rewrite and, for lack of 1272 01:14:51.479 --> 01:14:56.279 better words, whitewash a lot of this history. There is 1273 01:14:56.840 --> 01:15:01.960 a possibility of that. Yeah, So anyway, we will see 1274 01:15:01.960 --> 01:15:05.880 what happens with the Smithsonian Museums in the upcoming days. 1275 01:15:07.000 --> 01:15:08.720 Real quick, We're not going to spend too much time 1276 01:15:08.720 --> 01:15:11.000 on this one, but we did need to bring this up. 1277 01:15:11.479 --> 01:15:15.920 An investigation is begun. The US Steel Plant is ready 1278 01:15:15.960 --> 01:15:18.439 to get to the bottom of the explosion. For anybody 1279 01:15:18.439 --> 01:15:21.680 who did not hear about this, a US steel plant 1280 01:15:21.760 --> 01:15:24.039 blew up and there were some deaths and they have 1281 01:15:24.119 --> 01:15:27.359 a current investigation to see what exactly happened. If you 1282 01:15:27.479 --> 01:15:31.239 haven't heard about it yet, let's hear some from CBS Pittsburgh. 1283 01:15:31.439 --> 01:15:34.800 Wes Steele continues to promise to pinpoint what happened at 1284 01:15:34.800 --> 01:15:37.640 its Clairton plant on Monday to cause the explosion that 1285 01:15:37.760 --> 01:15:41.159 killed two workers, injured ten more, and spread fear throughout 1286 01:15:41.199 --> 01:15:44.680 the mand Valley. The company's president and CEO said again 1287 01:15:44.680 --> 01:15:48.079 today they're committed to understanding exactly what happened and will 1288 01:15:48.119 --> 01:15:51.960 fully cooperate with all investigations. As slatest statement comes as 1289 01:15:52.000 --> 01:15:54.399 federal investigators make their way to Clareton. 1290 01:15:54.920 --> 01:15:58.000 Of the ten workers who were injured, five remain in 1291 01:15:58.079 --> 01:16:01.199 the hospital. They range in age from twenty seven to 1292 01:16:01.279 --> 01:16:05.119 seventy four. As of yesterday, all were in critical but 1293 01:16:05.279 --> 01:16:09.079 stable condition. The five other injured victims were released Monday. 1294 01:16:09.600 --> 01:16:12.279 As for the two men killed, one has been identified 1295 01:16:12.319 --> 01:16:15.359 as Timothy Quinn. The family of the other is asking 1296 01:16:15.399 --> 01:16:19.560 that his name not be made public. From Governor Shapiro 1297 01:16:19.600 --> 01:16:22.640 on down, everyone wants to answers as to what caused 1298 01:16:22.640 --> 01:16:23.319 the explosion. 1299 01:16:23.439 --> 01:16:27.640 Congresswoman Summerly represents Clareton in Washington. Chris Hoffman asks her 1300 01:16:27.640 --> 01:16:29.119 what the investigation will look like. 1301 01:16:29.960 --> 01:16:33.600 Congresswomanly is appreciative if you as steal's efforts to get 1302 01:16:33.720 --> 01:16:36.439 to the bottom of this. She says, ultimately this can 1303 01:16:36.479 --> 01:16:39.840 never happen again, and we need to make sure people 1304 01:16:39.840 --> 01:16:42.439 that do work in these facilities, whether here and Claron 1305 01:16:42.520 --> 01:16:44.159 or in other parts of the Mont Valley, are in 1306 01:16:44.199 --> 01:16:47.479 a safe environment. You as Steel committed to a transparent 1307 01:16:47.520 --> 01:16:49.920 process that it says we'll get answers about the blast. 1308 01:16:50.000 --> 01:16:52.479 Congresswoman Lee says it's up to leaders and agencies to 1309 01:16:52.520 --> 01:16:54.199 hold them to that promise so. 1310 01:16:54.119 --> 01:16:55.640 That we can get the full truth of not just 1311 01:16:55.680 --> 01:16:58.960 what happened, how it happened, and what do we do now, 1312 01:16:59.159 --> 01:17:01.279 what needs to be done to make sure that something 1313 01:17:01.279 --> 01:17:02.359 like this never happens again. 1314 01:17:02.520 --> 01:17:05.439 According to the pH twelve representative, OSHA and the EPA 1315 01:17:05.520 --> 01:17:08.800 will be involveda have federal regulation and investigative power. 1316 01:17:09.039 --> 01:17:09.159 Now. 1317 01:17:09.239 --> 01:17:11.600 Lee didn't have a timeline for when more details could 1318 01:17:11.640 --> 01:17:14.079 come out. She says some of the investigation will need 1319 01:17:14.079 --> 01:17:16.159 to be talking with the people who were there, some 1320 01:17:16.239 --> 01:17:17.479 of whom are still recovering. 1321 01:17:17.680 --> 01:17:19.279 Those are some of the folks who will be able 1322 01:17:19.319 --> 01:17:21.760 to talk more, you know, in detail about maybe what 1323 01:17:21.840 --> 01:17:24.199 happened in real time, what they saw themselves. 1324 01:17:24.479 --> 01:17:26.920 The US Chemical Safety Board also has a team at 1325 01:17:26.920 --> 01:17:29.479 the plan investigating. They are in an independent agency that 1326 01:17:29.520 --> 01:17:33.119 doesn't issue citations are fines, but gives recommendations to companies 1327 01:17:33.119 --> 01:17:34.319 and groups like OSHA. 1328 01:17:34.359 --> 01:17:37.399 Basically, today we were just able to see the initial 1329 01:17:37.479 --> 01:17:41.199 debris field. Is the site still being made safe to 1330 01:17:41.319 --> 01:17:45.920 allow further engine? Real quick? That dude looked like a 1331 01:17:45.960 --> 01:17:49.760 safetymand didn't he tell me that dude does not look 1332 01:17:49.840 --> 01:17:54.640 like safety is his life. I'm just saying, uh, anyway, 1333 01:17:54.640 --> 01:17:57.000 moving on to allow further engine. 1334 01:17:57.399 --> 01:17:59.880 Our newsroom has been contacted by several steel workers, CLEM 1335 01:18:00.000 --> 01:18:02.880 and US Steel maintenance work is reactive and not preventative, 1336 01:18:02.920 --> 01:18:04.600 and it may have played a role in this explosion. 1337 01:18:04.920 --> 01:18:07.640 US Steel CEO David Burrett had this response. 1338 01:18:08.000 --> 01:18:11.760 I'm shocked and outraged at that statement. 1339 01:18:12.079 --> 01:18:17.119 I find it unbelievable because of safety being in our DNA. 1340 01:18:17.399 --> 01:18:19.520 We take this extraordinarily seriously. 1341 01:18:19.640 --> 01:18:22.319 Congressoman Lie says, whether it be US Steel or Nipon, 1342 01:18:22.760 --> 01:18:25.359 there must be a commitment and investments to fix whatever 1343 01:18:25.439 --> 01:18:27.960 issue caused the blast and make all mills safer. 1344 01:18:28.239 --> 01:18:31.760 And if there's no accountability, then we can't, you know, 1345 01:18:32.199 --> 01:18:34.960 we can't say for sure that safety is in a DNA. 1346 01:18:35.279 --> 01:18:37.840 Her office is working on getting in contact with Ni Pond, 1347 01:18:37.840 --> 01:18:39.920 who has put out a statement saying it's committed to 1348 01:18:40.000 --> 01:18:43.039 give all the resources needed to heal from this tragedy. 1349 01:18:43.399 --> 01:18:46.920 All right, So that will just about do it as 1350 01:18:47.000 --> 01:18:53.279 far as the the American home front conversation is concerned. Now, 1351 01:18:53.439 --> 01:18:58.479 let's shift over to wildfires that are going rampant in 1352 01:18:58.600 --> 01:19:02.399 Europe as we speak. Lest listen, it is of em Reuters. 1353 01:19:03.960 --> 01:19:07.680 Wildfires, fanned by a heat wave and strong winds continued 1354 01:19:07.720 --> 01:19:11.399 to rage across southern Europe on Wednesday, as houses, farms 1355 01:19:11.399 --> 01:19:14.800 and factories were burned and thousands of residents and tourists 1356 01:19:14.880 --> 01:19:19.720 were evacuated. A wildfire near the city of Patras in 1357 01:19:19.760 --> 01:19:23.840 western Greece prompted the evacuation of at least twenty five settlements, 1358 01:19:25.000 --> 01:19:27.960 with the fires setting alight a cement factory and sweeping 1359 01:19:28.000 --> 01:19:32.880 through olive groves and forests. On the Greek islands of 1360 01:19:32.960 --> 01:19:36.359 Chios in the east and Caphalonia in the west, both 1361 01:19:36.439 --> 01:19:40.399 popular with tourists, authorities told people to move to safety 1362 01:19:40.479 --> 01:19:45.239 as fires spread. In Spain, a volunteer firefighter died from 1363 01:19:45.359 --> 01:19:49.600 severe burns fighting fire in the Central Castile and Leon region. 1364 01:19:50.960 --> 01:19:55.239 Firefighters hosed down blazing houses and warehouses and villages, where 1365 01:19:55.279 --> 01:19:58.920 more than five thousand people were evacuated. The country's state 1366 01:19:59.000 --> 01:20:02.920 weather agency almost all of the country was at extreme 1367 01:20:03.119 --> 01:20:06.520 or very high risk of fire. Spain's environment minister said 1368 01:20:06.520 --> 01:20:10.279 many fires were suspected to be intentionally caused, but added 1369 01:20:10.319 --> 01:20:13.399 it was too early to say how many. In Albania, 1370 01:20:13.600 --> 01:20:16.800 several major wildfires are burning across the country. In the 1371 01:20:16.840 --> 01:20:20.279 southern city of Dalvina, evacuees returned to their homes, but 1372 01:20:20.399 --> 01:20:25.239 authorities remained vigilant. Attempts to douse the fires have been 1373 01:20:25.279 --> 01:20:28.399 hampered by a heat wave across large parts of the continent. 1374 01:20:28.800 --> 01:20:31.159 Spain was in its tenth day of soaring heat that 1375 01:20:31.279 --> 01:20:34.000 peaked on Tuesday, with temperatures as high as one hundred 1376 01:20:34.000 --> 01:20:37.960 and thirteen degrees fahrenheit. Conditions are expected to last till Monday, 1377 01:20:38.119 --> 01:20:40.319 making it one of the longest on record. 1378 01:20:41.119 --> 01:20:45.800 Okay, Greece, Spain, Albania. Well, let's learn a little bit 1379 01:20:45.840 --> 01:20:49.680 more about this here. This is from CNBC. Temperature records 1380 01:20:49.720 --> 01:20:54.880 smashed as extreme heat wildfires grip parts of Europe. The 1381 01:20:54.960 --> 01:20:56.720 extreme heat, like I said, there is the key points. 1382 01:20:56.760 --> 01:20:59.359 Excuse me, extreme heat is smash temperatures like you said? 1383 01:21:00.079 --> 01:21:04.880 Weather forecaster Media or Media France said it has an 1384 01:21:04.960 --> 01:21:10.399 update that unprecedented maximum temperatures, often twelve degrees above normal levels, 1385 01:21:10.600 --> 01:21:14.159 were set earlier in the week. Scientists have warmed, of course, 1386 01:21:14.199 --> 01:21:17.479 that climate change is exacerbating the frequency and intensity of 1387 01:21:17.560 --> 01:21:20.239 extreme weather events. Let's learn a little bit more about 1388 01:21:20.239 --> 01:21:22.680 this here. Record breaking heat has swept across Europe in 1389 01:21:22.720 --> 01:21:25.640 recent days, pushing temperatures well beyond four a degree celsius, 1390 01:21:25.640 --> 01:21:28.079 which is one hundred and four degrees fahrenheit in some areas, 1391 01:21:28.479 --> 01:21:33.159 and fuelling regional wildfires. In France, temperature records were obliterated 1392 01:21:33.279 --> 01:21:43.079 in the Bordeaux region, Saint Emilio, Saint Girons, Anguilem and 1393 01:21:43.439 --> 01:21:46.720 Bergerac Bergiaq. It's been quite a while since I tried 1394 01:21:46.760 --> 01:21:50.279 to pronounce French words. On Monday afternoon, according to an 1395 01:21:50.319 --> 01:21:55.720 update from the Weather forecaster, often remarkable, even unprecedented maximum temperatures, 1396 01:21:55.760 --> 01:21:58.960 often twelve degrees above normal levels, were reached this Monday. 1397 01:21:59.359 --> 01:22:02.880 The FORECASTU said that a heat wave is in the 1398 01:22:02.920 --> 01:22:07.319 southwest has seen spreading to the center, east and northeast 1399 01:22:07.359 --> 01:22:11.479 of the country through Tuesday and Wednesday. In Croatia, temperatures 1400 01:22:11.520 --> 01:22:14.800 climbed to thirty nine point five degrees celsius. In the 1401 01:22:14.840 --> 01:22:18.560 Adriatic coastal city of Sibonik, and thirty eight point nine 1402 01:22:18.760 --> 01:22:23.199 in the popular tourist deaf destination of Dubravinnik, the Brovnik. 1403 01:22:23.239 --> 01:22:26.760 Excuse me. The temperature records come as scientists warren climate 1404 01:22:26.840 --> 01:22:30.720 change is exacerbating the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. 1405 01:22:31.279 --> 01:22:34.159 The burning of fossil fuels such as coal and gas 1406 01:22:34.319 --> 01:22:38.760 is the chief driver of the climate crisis. There's okay. 1407 01:22:39.199 --> 01:22:41.760 Europe is meanwhile known to be warming faster than any 1408 01:22:41.760 --> 01:22:44.680 other continent, at twice the speed of the global average 1409 01:22:44.720 --> 01:22:48.720 since the nineteen eighties, according to the EU's Copernicus climate 1410 01:22:48.800 --> 01:22:52.720 change service. The UU excuse me. The EU's climate monitor 1411 01:22:52.760 --> 01:22:56.319 has attributed this trend to changing weather patterns, reducing reduced 1412 01:22:56.319 --> 01:23:00.279 air pollution, and the region's geography, noting that part of 1413 01:23:00.319 --> 01:23:04.720 Europe extend into the Arctic, the fastest warming region on Earth. 1414 01:23:05.079 --> 01:23:08.760 In Spain, firefighters largely contained a blaze that broke out 1415 01:23:08.840 --> 01:23:12.319 near the capital of Madrid on Monday evening. Nearly six 1416 01:23:12.399 --> 01:23:14.960 thousand people were evacuated from their homes in the northern, 1417 01:23:15.079 --> 01:23:19.119 central and southern Spain this week as wildfires raged amid 1418 01:23:19.119 --> 01:23:22.920 a heat wave predicted to push temperatures up to around 1419 01:23:23.079 --> 01:23:26.039 forty four degrees celsius in some parts of the southern 1420 01:23:26.079 --> 01:23:32.439 European country. Wildfires have also been reported in Portugal, Croatia, Turkey, Greece, Albania, 1421 01:23:32.560 --> 01:23:36.359 Montenegro and the UK in recent days. It's not just 1422 01:23:36.399 --> 01:23:39.239 Europe suffering from the record heat, with temperature records also 1423 01:23:39.399 --> 01:23:43.159 broken in Canada of late temperatures Meanwhile, soored above fifty 1424 01:23:43.159 --> 01:23:47.359 degrees celsius in Iraq, plunging the country into darkness on 1425 01:23:47.399 --> 01:23:52.840 Monday during a nationwide power outage. So the heat is 1426 01:23:52.880 --> 01:23:55.880 actually also affecting the power grid in some of these places. 1427 01:23:55.920 --> 01:24:00.920 But that is unprecedented that many countries, all spread out 1428 01:24:00.960 --> 01:24:03.600 across Europe. It's not like these are all neighboring countries. 1429 01:24:03.640 --> 01:24:11.199 Some of them are, but the UK, Portugal, Croatia, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Montenegro, 1430 01:24:11.359 --> 01:24:17.760 the UK, Spain. This is crazy. And yes, of course, 1431 01:24:18.119 --> 01:24:22.720 hotter temperatures make for easier combustibles. I understand that one 1432 01:24:22.760 --> 01:24:28.600 hundred percent. But my god, again, that is unprecedented. And 1433 01:24:29.520 --> 01:24:32.319 I'm not saying that there is obviously a nefarious actor 1434 01:24:32.479 --> 01:24:36.479 or arsonists at play here, but I would like to 1435 01:24:36.479 --> 01:24:39.039 see what the investigation yields as far as how all 1436 01:24:39.119 --> 01:24:42.079 these fires started. We will see what these things turn 1437 01:24:42.159 --> 01:24:44.960 up if they actually do an investigation on it. Now. 1438 01:24:45.560 --> 01:24:50.399 Sticking onto the European conversation, Zelensky and European leaders to 1439 01:24:50.560 --> 01:24:54.079 hold a call with Trump ahead of the Putin summit. 1440 01:24:54.199 --> 01:24:57.159 This is from the BBC. I should add Ukrainian President 1441 01:24:57.239 --> 01:25:00.800 Vladimir Zelensky is joining European leaders and talks need at 1442 01:25:01.119 --> 01:25:04.239 aimed excuse me at increasing pressure on the US President 1443 01:25:04.279 --> 01:25:07.319 to side with Ukraine during Friday's summit with his Russian 1444 01:25:07.359 --> 01:25:11.279 counterpart in Alaska. In an online call with Trump on Wednesday, 1445 01:25:11.319 --> 01:25:14.159 the leaders are expected to reiterate that no decision should 1446 01:25:14.199 --> 01:25:17.479 be taken without Ukraine, including changing its borders by force. 1447 01:25:17.920 --> 01:25:20.920 Trump has said any peace deal would involve some swapping 1448 01:25:20.960 --> 01:25:25.039 of territories quote unquote, and it is believed that Putin's 1449 01:25:25.079 --> 01:25:29.159 demands is that Kiev surrenders the parts of eastern Donbas 1450 01:25:29.199 --> 01:25:33.239 area that it still controls on Tuesdays. Lensky said such 1451 01:25:33.279 --> 01:25:36.560 a concession could be used as a springboard for future 1452 01:25:36.600 --> 01:25:41.119 attacks by Russia. Russia launched a full scale invasion in 1453 01:25:41.159 --> 01:25:45.479 February twenty twenty two. A Russian summer offensive has been progressing, 1454 01:25:45.479 --> 01:25:48.239 with troops making a sudden thrust near the eastern town 1455 01:25:48.319 --> 01:25:55.039 of Do Dobro Pilia, all right, and advancing ten kilometers 1456 01:25:55.159 --> 01:25:58.359 or six miles in a short period of time. But 1457 01:25:58.479 --> 01:26:01.680 they really, yeah, they did that, but they haven't really 1458 01:26:01.680 --> 01:26:04.680 taken much ground more than that as of this moment. 1459 01:26:04.800 --> 01:26:08.640 Some but it's a very very slow grind. But yes, 1460 01:26:08.720 --> 01:26:12.039 they are still gaining ground one hundred percent. While downplaying 1461 01:26:12.119 --> 01:26:14.640 Russia's advance, Zelensky said it was clear to us that 1462 01:26:14.760 --> 01:26:19.039 Moscow's objective was to create a certain information space before 1463 01:26:19.039 --> 01:26:23.359 Putin meets Trump, that Russia is moving forward, advancing while 1464 01:26:23.520 --> 01:26:28.199 Ukraine is losing. Okay, that's not a certain information space. 1465 01:26:28.439 --> 01:26:31.840 The math is the math. I'm just gonna throw that out, 1466 01:26:31.840 --> 01:26:34.880 but all right. No official details have emerged on what 1467 01:26:35.000 --> 01:26:37.680 demands Putin could make when he meets with Trump in 1468 01:26:37.800 --> 01:26:42.399 Anchorage on Friday. However, there has been concern among Ukraine's 1469 01:26:42.520 --> 01:26:46.439 European allies about the possibility of Trump agreeing to Putin's demands. 1470 01:26:46.880 --> 01:26:52.159 German Chancellor Merz has called Wednesday's meeting, and Zelenski is 1471 01:26:52.199 --> 01:26:55.239 traveling to Berlin to join him for the video call 1472 01:26:55.439 --> 01:26:59.119 with other European leaders, including the UK Prime Minister Starmer. 1473 01:26:59.239 --> 01:27:03.600 Before the call Trump, Zelensky has previously insisted that Ukrainians 1474 01:27:03.600 --> 01:27:07.399 would not quote unquote gift their land to the occupier, 1475 01:27:07.880 --> 01:27:11.239 and pointed to the country's constitution, which requires a referendum 1476 01:27:11.239 --> 01:27:14.399 before a change in its territory. Last week, Trump said 1477 01:27:14.399 --> 01:27:18.159 there would be quote some swapping of territories to the 1478 01:27:18.199 --> 01:27:22.720 betterment of both quote Russia and Ukraine, sparking concerns in 1479 01:27:22.840 --> 01:27:25.920 Kiev and across Europe that Moscow could be allowed to 1480 01:27:26.000 --> 01:27:29.960 redraw Ukraine's border by force. Russia currently controls just under 1481 01:27:30.000 --> 01:27:33.359 twenty percent of Ukrainian territory. The dun Boss is made 1482 01:27:33.399 --> 01:27:37.239 up of the eastern regions of the Luhansk and Dnesk 1483 01:27:37.840 --> 01:27:41.560 has been partially or partly rather occupied by Russia since 1484 01:27:41.560 --> 01:27:47.359 twenty fourteen. I think with that they mean the U Crimea. 1485 01:27:48.239 --> 01:27:52.000 Moscow now holds almost all of Luhansk and about seventy 1486 01:27:52.039 --> 01:27:55.760 percent of Dunesk. But speaking to reporters on Tuesdays, Zelensky 1487 01:27:55.840 --> 01:27:59.279 reaffirmed that Ukraine would reject any proposal to leave the 1488 01:27:59.359 --> 01:28:03.000 donbas So this is a current map of the occupied 1489 01:28:03.119 --> 01:28:07.159 territory of eastern Ukraine. Like they said, they have all 1490 01:28:07.199 --> 01:28:11.720 of thelu Hansk, they have seventy percent of Dunesque, They've 1491 01:28:11.720 --> 01:28:15.279 had Crimea since twenty fourteen. They are still pushing into 1492 01:28:15.279 --> 01:28:17.439 the Khirsan region, but it's not as heavy of a 1493 01:28:17.479 --> 01:28:20.960 push as it is to the northern region, and Zaparizia 1494 01:28:21.039 --> 01:28:23.800 still has fighting going on there. But again, the Dunesku 1495 01:28:23.920 --> 01:28:27.079 seems to be where the majority of the Ford advance 1496 01:28:27.199 --> 01:28:30.399 is taking place as of this moment. The White House 1497 01:28:30.439 --> 01:28:34.079 on Tuesday said that Alaska talks would be a quote 1498 01:28:34.119 --> 01:28:38.880 unquote listening exercise for Trump, and added having him and 1499 01:28:38.920 --> 01:28:40.760 Putin sit down in the same room would give the 1500 01:28:40.840 --> 01:28:44.239 US President the best indication on how to end this war. 1501 01:28:44.960 --> 01:28:48.359 It follows Trump describing the summit as a feel out 1502 01:28:48.439 --> 01:28:52.640 meeting on Monday, seeming to tone down expectations that Friday's 1503 01:28:52.640 --> 01:28:55.119 meeting could bring Ukraine and Russia closer to peace. Yeah, 1504 01:28:55.159 --> 01:28:57.239 I don't believe it's gonna at all. As a matter 1505 01:28:57.279 --> 01:29:00.000 of fact, when he announced the summit last week, Trump's 1506 01:29:00.039 --> 01:29:03.119 sounded positive that the meeting could result in concrete steps 1507 01:29:03.159 --> 01:29:06.319 towards peace. He's very sure of that, but he's very 1508 01:29:06.319 --> 01:29:08.439 sure of pretty much everything he says, So take that 1509 01:29:08.479 --> 01:29:10.840 with a grain of salt. I think in my gut 1510 01:29:11.079 --> 01:29:14.520 instinct really tells me that we have a shot at it, 1511 01:29:14.640 --> 01:29:17.960 he said. The Ukrainian leader has previously said any agreement 1512 01:29:18.039 --> 01:29:23.039 without Kiev's involvement would amount to dead decisions. That's fair, 1513 01:29:23.760 --> 01:29:28.159 and Zelensky is very pissed about this. I understand that 1514 01:29:28.720 --> 01:29:30.840 he's basically saying, like, Yo, if you're gonna call this 1515 01:29:30.920 --> 01:29:34.479 meeting with Putin, why is Ukraine not also being invited 1516 01:29:34.520 --> 01:29:37.720 to the meeting. Meanwhile, the Trump is like, listen, man, 1517 01:29:38.319 --> 01:29:40.239 I've got to get him alone to talk to him 1518 01:29:40.239 --> 01:29:42.319 about some things. We're trying to figure out what's gonna 1519 01:29:42.319 --> 01:29:45.000 be best for all parties. You'll be at the next one. 1520 01:29:45.239 --> 01:29:47.680 I've had multiple meetings with you, and the last time 1521 01:29:47.720 --> 01:29:50.600 you came to my house and had a conversation with me, 1522 01:29:51.039 --> 01:29:54.920 you got a little temper tantrum on international television. So 1523 01:29:55.520 --> 01:29:58.920 I'm gonna go meet with old lad real quick and 1524 01:29:58.920 --> 01:30:01.319 we're gonna have a convo. I'll let you know how 1525 01:30:01.399 --> 01:30:04.640 things shake out, Tony, I see you unmuted brother way 1526 01:30:04.640 --> 01:30:06.760 in Yeah. 1527 01:30:06.800 --> 01:30:12.439 Back in twenty fourteen, Crimea succeeded very effectively, but Luganskantnik 1528 01:30:12.520 --> 01:30:16.720 also attempted to their legislators didn't recognize the new the 1529 01:30:16.800 --> 01:30:20.279 departure of Yanikovic, and they tried to secede, and they 1530 01:30:20.319 --> 01:30:23.000 held referenda on it too. But in kind of the 1531 01:30:23.079 --> 01:30:27.479 short term, the don Bas Republics ended up only being 1532 01:30:27.600 --> 01:30:30.840 like maybe twenty percent of those territories way in the east, 1533 01:30:31.000 --> 01:30:34.079 and Ukraine was trying to conquer them, and that's kind 1534 01:30:34.159 --> 01:30:38.079 of what really set off the war in twenty twenty two, 1535 01:30:38.239 --> 01:30:43.520 because Kiev was about ready to finish the job and 1536 01:30:44.119 --> 01:30:48.800 take back these kind of breakaway regions within the breakaway 1537 01:30:48.840 --> 01:30:51.960 province that was like the easternmost twenty or thirty percent 1538 01:30:51.960 --> 01:30:54.680 of them. So yeah, that is different, a little different 1539 01:30:54.680 --> 01:30:58.359 from Crimea. But now, as we've seen for the last 1540 01:30:58.359 --> 01:31:03.600 three years, Putin has gotten uh you know, pretty much 1541 01:31:04.239 --> 01:31:07.680 most of both of those territories and more so, and 1542 01:31:07.720 --> 01:31:11.640 he's not giving them up and it's time to probably 1543 01:31:11.680 --> 01:31:12.600 just recognize that. 1544 01:31:14.039 --> 01:31:18.560 So yeah, I means he's not very popular in his 1545 01:31:18.600 --> 01:31:24.079 country as of this moment, Putinsky. Yeah, I mean, there's 1546 01:31:24.119 --> 01:31:26.000 an argument to say that Putin is also not very 1547 01:31:26.039 --> 01:31:28.000 well liked in his country as of this moment, because 1548 01:31:28.039 --> 01:31:29.439 he told his people this was going to be a 1549 01:31:29.479 --> 01:31:32.800 two week military operation and we're on year three of it. 1550 01:31:33.199 --> 01:31:37.399 Even if people supported what the mission was about. That's 1551 01:31:37.600 --> 01:31:40.720 that's not a good look. Right. It's the same thing 1552 01:31:40.720 --> 01:31:44.640 if America was to get involved in, you know, some 1553 01:31:44.680 --> 01:31:49.159 sort of a peacekeeping operation via the UN, and we 1554 01:31:49.279 --> 01:31:51.840 told the American people that, oh, we're only going to 1555 01:31:51.920 --> 01:31:53.960 be there for a month, and we ended up staying 1556 01:31:54.000 --> 01:31:56.760 for ten years. Like that's that is not a good look, 1557 01:31:56.840 --> 01:32:01.199 regardless of what the initial motives were. Yeah. 1558 01:32:01.239 --> 01:32:03.560 I think there was some overconfidence on both sides, to 1559 01:32:03.600 --> 01:32:07.840 be sure. Yeah, but I think Putin is still popular enough. 1560 01:32:08.439 --> 01:32:11.119 And if you felt like he's about to lose his 1561 01:32:11.159 --> 01:32:13.239 seat of power by any means, it's not to that level, 1562 01:32:13.399 --> 01:32:13.800 no way. 1563 01:32:13.920 --> 01:32:16.600 Yeah, And he has been re elected since the war started, 1564 01:32:18.079 --> 01:32:20.680 if you believe the election results, which a lot of 1565 01:32:20.680 --> 01:32:24.319 people in the West don't. But I believe him, and 1566 01:32:24.359 --> 01:32:27.720 I think opinion polls confirm that he is popular enough. 1567 01:32:28.079 --> 01:32:31.680 He's least popular with younger and male voters. He's more 1568 01:32:31.720 --> 01:32:34.079 popular with older and female voters. 1569 01:32:34.319 --> 01:32:37.600 Wait, wasn't his opponent in that election arrested shortly after 1570 01:32:37.640 --> 01:32:38.119 the election? 1571 01:32:39.800 --> 01:32:44.159 You know, I forget might have been even been before 1572 01:32:45.880 --> 01:32:48.319 I don't even remember what those guys' names were. I 1573 01:32:48.319 --> 01:32:50.399 would have been able to remember if this was last year, 1574 01:32:50.439 --> 01:32:51.279 but I don't remember. 1575 01:32:51.720 --> 01:32:54.600 Same. Same. And then I also get that mixed up 1576 01:32:54.600 --> 01:32:57.279 with the leader of the Wagner group that tried to 1577 01:32:57.279 --> 01:32:59.279 throw a coup, and I know it's not the same. 1578 01:32:59.399 --> 01:32:59.880 You have guy. 1579 01:33:01.079 --> 01:33:04.560 Yeah, it wasn't Pregosion that he was going up against 1580 01:33:04.560 --> 01:33:07.640 in the election. It was somebody that was not a 1581 01:33:07.680 --> 01:33:10.439 member of his cabinet, but like somebody who was seen 1582 01:33:11.119 --> 01:33:14.039 in years prior to as a homie of his. And 1583 01:33:14.079 --> 01:33:16.159 then you know, when they went up for the election, 1584 01:33:16.239 --> 01:33:18.479 it was, oh, it's no big deal, this is his friend. 1585 01:33:18.720 --> 01:33:21.399 Putin's obviously gonna win and it's gonna be no big deal. 1586 01:33:21.800 --> 01:33:23.720 Then you hear that your boy was bagged and tagged, 1587 01:33:23.760 --> 01:33:29.479 and it's like, oh, well, all right, then this is 1588 01:33:29.520 --> 01:33:31.319 an ursha, you know, and these kinds of things. 1589 01:33:31.359 --> 01:33:35.359 But anyway, Yeah, I don't have much more to say 1590 01:33:35.359 --> 01:33:40.159 on that. How many more stories you got? 1591 01:33:42.199 --> 01:33:43.840 Just a few, But I mean we can go longer 1592 01:33:43.880 --> 01:33:45.960 than two hours this evening. I have no issue with it. 1593 01:33:46.159 --> 01:33:48.239 So if you got something, dude, do you want to 1594 01:33:48.319 --> 01:33:50.439 jump in? Now we're jumping towards the end. 1595 01:33:51.079 --> 01:33:53.720 Yeah, I'd like to jump in now, Okay. 1596 01:33:53.560 --> 01:33:55.079 Go for it. The next article I was going to 1597 01:33:55.159 --> 01:33:58.439 read is talking about the conversation with Trump and Putin, 1598 01:33:58.479 --> 01:33:59.840 but by all means, brother, jump in. 1599 01:34:00.680 --> 01:34:03.279 Okay. This has to do with Israel and Gaza, which 1600 01:34:03.319 --> 01:34:05.159 I don't think we've talked about in a little while. 1601 01:34:05.520 --> 01:34:06.920 Okay, and I. 1602 01:34:06.880 --> 01:34:09.079 Wish Royce were still here, but I guess it's not. 1603 01:34:09.840 --> 01:34:12.079 He said he was passing out and good bye, good 1604 01:34:12.159 --> 01:34:15.520 night and Royce. But I wanted to bring up a 1605 01:34:15.600 --> 01:34:18.119 guy who many listeners have probably heard of. His name 1606 01:34:18.159 --> 01:34:21.199 is Anthony Aguie lar He's gone on Tucker Carlson twice, 1607 01:34:21.239 --> 01:34:23.840 He's been interviewed by the BBC, He's been interviewed by 1608 01:34:24.119 --> 01:34:27.079 a host of other podcasts hosts that I have listened to. 1609 01:34:27.800 --> 01:34:30.319 And to give you some background on him, he was 1610 01:34:30.359 --> 01:34:35.039 working for a security contractor called ug Solutions. I forget 1611 01:34:35.079 --> 01:34:38.239 what that stands for, but they're like PMC a little bit, 1612 01:34:38.760 --> 01:34:44.399 and they were working for GHF, another three letter acronym, 1613 01:34:44.920 --> 01:34:54.079 and GHF stands for Godza Humanitarian Foundation, and Godza Humanitarian 1614 01:34:54.399 --> 01:35:03.199 Foundation kind of replaces the U n unruh. If you've 1615 01:35:03.239 --> 01:35:06.000 ever heard of them. It's U n r W, a 1616 01:35:06.840 --> 01:35:10.479 un Relief Work Association or something. I actually forget what 1617 01:35:10.520 --> 01:35:12.840 it stands for. But that was the organization that was 1618 01:35:13.359 --> 01:35:16.359 bringing lots of food into Gaza until about March of 1619 01:35:16.399 --> 01:35:20.560 this year when they were banned and Gaza was put 1620 01:35:20.600 --> 01:35:23.560 under a blockade, and then food couldn't get in there 1621 01:35:23.560 --> 01:35:30.920 anymore until this GHF Foundation started. And okay, this guy 1622 01:35:30.920 --> 01:35:33.960 Anthony Aguilar, let's let's play a little bit of one 1623 01:35:34.000 --> 01:35:36.319 of his Tucker interviews. I got it going right now. 1624 01:35:36.319 --> 01:35:37.399 I hope that you can hear it. 1625 01:35:37.920 --> 01:35:44.960 I have it pulled up. You posted in the chat. Huh, Tony, 1626 01:35:45.600 --> 01:35:47.760 can you hear it? I can't guess, but I have 1627 01:35:47.800 --> 01:35:50.760 it pulled up on my screen. It's the it's twelve 1628 01:35:50.760 --> 01:35:54.319 minutes long. Is this the one you post in the chat? 1629 01:35:55.279 --> 01:35:57.680 Yeah, let's just do like the first minute of it 1630 01:35:57.720 --> 01:35:58.760 and then I'll keep talking. 1631 01:35:59.000 --> 01:36:02.680 Okay, all right, so good everybody watching this on Patreon 1632 01:36:02.840 --> 01:36:05.359 at Cajun night. You're gonna be able to see this 1633 01:36:05.680 --> 01:36:08.439 for everybody who is just listening to it. Look, you're 1634 01:36:08.479 --> 01:36:10.119 gonna want to be a part of this. Come join 1635 01:36:10.159 --> 01:36:12.159 us a Patreon for this. All right, let's check it out. 1636 01:36:12.560 --> 01:36:17.600 I witnessed Palestinian parents, men and mothers and fathers carrying 1637 01:36:18.039 --> 01:36:23.239 their dead children in their arms, skeletons. I witness that, 1638 01:36:24.199 --> 01:36:26.520 I've witnessed people that have come on to the sites 1639 01:36:26.760 --> 01:36:30.159 that you can see that they are just completely emaciated 1640 01:36:30.199 --> 01:36:30.840 and starving. 1641 01:36:31.399 --> 01:36:32.760 That's not fake. 1642 01:36:33.359 --> 01:36:36.000 So if if the deniers want to think that we 1643 01:36:36.039 --> 01:36:38.359 got Stanley Kubrick to go into Gaza and take a 1644 01:36:38.359 --> 01:36:41.119 bunch of crisis actors and shoot a film on, you know, 1645 01:36:41.159 --> 01:36:47.239 to fake this starvation, but it's real and people are dying. 1646 01:36:49.039 --> 01:36:50.680 At this point right now. 1647 01:36:51.079 --> 01:36:54.039 Because we the United States, the Gaza Humanitarian Fund put 1648 01:36:54.119 --> 01:36:57.000 up our hand and said we'll do it. The starvation 1649 01:36:57.119 --> 01:36:59.840 at this point has gotten worse than it was before 1650 01:37:01.199 --> 01:37:07.000 because the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's process is leading to that 1651 01:37:07.079 --> 01:37:10.760 starvation because it's not delivering enough aid, not even nearly enough, 1652 01:37:10.800 --> 01:37:14.920 not even nearly to be to be a fraction of enough. 1653 01:37:15.000 --> 01:37:16.000 Because I feel like. 1654 01:37:17.439 --> 01:37:21.279 Someone handed bb net NYAFU a list of the violations 1655 01:37:21.279 --> 01:37:24.039 of the Djeva Convention, but but like took the took 1656 01:37:24.079 --> 01:37:26.159 the numbers off of it, and he's just checking them off, 1657 01:37:26.600 --> 01:37:28.039 like displacing the population. 1658 01:37:28.319 --> 01:37:28.880 Yeah, do that. 1659 01:37:28.920 --> 01:37:32.039 It's like Okay, well that that's a war crime. Firing 1660 01:37:32.079 --> 01:37:35.199 at the civilians to control the population. Okay, well, targeting 1661 01:37:35.199 --> 01:37:37.880 civilians with lethal amunition to control the population, verbatim is 1662 01:37:37.920 --> 01:37:39.800 a war crime. So you got that one. 1663 01:37:39.920 --> 01:37:41.039 Check what next? 1664 01:37:41.039 --> 01:37:41.800 What do you got next? 1665 01:37:42.720 --> 01:37:45.079 We're gonna build the humanitarian distribution sites in the middle 1666 01:37:45.079 --> 01:37:47.640 of combat zones. Oh shit, there's there's protocol three. 1667 01:37:47.920 --> 01:37:48.239 Got it? 1668 01:37:48.359 --> 01:37:49.239 You just did that one. 1669 01:37:49.399 --> 01:37:51.920 What's next? Oh? 1670 01:37:52.199 --> 01:37:55.039 How about we, uh we label the entire society as 1671 01:37:55.159 --> 01:37:58.800 as got as hamas and kill them all. Wow, bingo, 1672 01:37:59.000 --> 01:38:00.920 you just got a straight across, because now you just 1673 01:38:00.920 --> 01:38:04.239 made another war crime statement. Because the Geneva conjaventions pecimply 1674 01:38:04.279 --> 01:38:07.840 hibbits the classification of an entire population as the enemy 1675 01:38:07.880 --> 01:38:11.119 based on the actions of a few is hamas all. 1676 01:38:11.039 --> 01:38:11.960 Of all of Gaza. 1677 01:38:12.159 --> 01:38:16.920 No, no, of course it's not. Are we treating them 1678 01:38:16.960 --> 01:38:21.159 like they're all Hamas? Yes, we are. Another war crime. 1679 01:38:21.800 --> 01:38:23.359 So when I bring up these points about this. 1680 01:38:23.880 --> 01:38:27.279 Not this content here, and yeah, I don't want to 1681 01:38:27.319 --> 01:38:30.680 take up all of everyone's time, But he's he repeats 1682 01:38:30.720 --> 01:38:33.600 the same thing in a number of different places, and 1683 01:38:34.600 --> 01:38:37.479 so he went on Tucker once I think July thirty 1684 01:38:37.560 --> 01:38:40.720 first or August first, and then a few days later, 1685 01:38:41.560 --> 01:38:44.600 all of a sudden, and Tucker warned them, there's going 1686 01:38:44.680 --> 01:38:47.119 to be a lot of attacks on you. So a 1687 01:38:47.199 --> 01:38:48.920 day or two later, and I don't think this is 1688 01:38:49.039 --> 01:38:53.680 just useless Twitter drama, but a bunch of mugshots of 1689 01:38:53.760 --> 01:38:56.640 him were posted alleging that he beat up his wife 1690 01:38:57.399 --> 01:39:00.960 and was guilty of you know, elie, possession of a 1691 01:39:00.960 --> 01:39:05.720 firearm and all kinds of stuff. And then what I'm 1692 01:39:05.760 --> 01:39:10.239 sharing here for people who can't view it is that 1693 01:39:10.760 --> 01:39:14.520 lady on Twitter who goes by handled Village Crazy Lady. 1694 01:39:15.760 --> 01:39:19.039 She pretty thoroughly debunked that, and I don't use the 1695 01:39:19.039 --> 01:39:21.760 word debunked lightly, but she was kind of lucky that 1696 01:39:21.800 --> 01:39:25.359 she's got like a paralegal background, and she also lived 1697 01:39:25.359 --> 01:39:27.920 in North Carolina where he lived, and she looked at 1698 01:39:27.920 --> 01:39:31.399 the mugshot and the arrest record and said it just 1699 01:39:31.439 --> 01:39:36.039 doesn't look right. The docket number actually maps to somebody else, 1700 01:39:36.520 --> 01:39:41.239 and his date of birth, which is listed on the mugshot, 1701 01:39:41.520 --> 01:39:44.319 is not the procedure that the way they do things, 1702 01:39:44.399 --> 01:39:47.399 they will give the age in years like forty something 1703 01:39:47.520 --> 01:39:51.520 years old, but they don't post birth dates. And yeah, 1704 01:39:51.600 --> 01:39:54.000 Duke Lane doesn't exist. And there's you know, all kinds 1705 01:39:54.000 --> 01:39:57.079 of other reasons that this was obviously a fabricated attack 1706 01:39:57.159 --> 01:39:59.640 on him, and he's been coming under lots of attacks. 1707 01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:03.159 This one's obviously very illegitimate. One of the slightly more 1708 01:40:03.239 --> 01:40:05.720 legitimate attacks on him is that he seems to be 1709 01:40:05.920 --> 01:40:09.520 a disgruntled employee. So he was a contractor. They didn't 1710 01:40:09.560 --> 01:40:11.880 want to renew his contract. He was having a hard 1711 01:40:11.880 --> 01:40:14.159 time getting along with people, and he told them, if 1712 01:40:14.319 --> 01:40:16.239 if you don't renew my contract, I'm going to go 1713 01:40:16.279 --> 01:40:21.319 public with all this stuff, and he did so. This 1714 01:40:21.479 --> 01:40:25.760 is making Gaza Humanitarian Foundation look bad. It's because he's 1715 01:40:26.479 --> 01:40:29.680 got lots of stories about how starving people are coming 1716 01:40:29.760 --> 01:40:32.520 and just getting a shot at and something like a 1717 01:40:32.640 --> 01:40:36.079 hundred of them will die per day at least, you know, 1718 01:40:36.119 --> 01:40:38.720 that's the report I've seen. He had kind of a 1719 01:40:38.800 --> 01:40:41.359 unique position where he got to travel between four different 1720 01:40:41.439 --> 01:40:44.479 sites there. Three of them are way down in the 1721 01:40:44.520 --> 01:40:47.680 southern end of Gaza, and the fourth one is right 1722 01:40:47.720 --> 01:40:52.840 in the middle in the net Serene Corridor. So most 1723 01:40:52.840 --> 01:40:55.920 people throughout Gaza don't really have easy access to any 1724 01:40:55.960 --> 01:40:58.319 of these places, and they have to walk a long 1725 01:40:58.359 --> 01:41:01.079 long distance to get there, and it's just a terrible 1726 01:41:01.119 --> 01:41:03.479 situation because they get there, there's no signs telling them 1727 01:41:03.479 --> 01:41:05.119 where to go. The only way they figure out where 1728 01:41:05.159 --> 01:41:10.920 to go is that American and Israeli contractors shoot it 1729 01:41:11.119 --> 01:41:14.199 to the ground or over their head, and you know, 1730 01:41:14.239 --> 01:41:18.399 some of those bullets hit them. And so he's got 1731 01:41:18.399 --> 01:41:21.039 lots of stories. One of his stories is about a 1732 01:41:21.039 --> 01:41:23.359 boy named Emir who comes up to thank him for 1733 01:41:23.399 --> 01:41:25.279 the food and then he sees a mirror running off 1734 01:41:25.319 --> 01:41:29.399 and then in a group that gets fired on, Amir 1735 01:41:29.479 --> 01:41:33.079 gets killed. I'm sure most people, many people have probably 1736 01:41:33.079 --> 01:41:37.199 heard that story. As for the whole disgruntled employee allegation, 1737 01:41:37.399 --> 01:41:43.159 I guess this comes down to the idea of loyalty 1738 01:41:43.520 --> 01:41:49.319 in a military situation, because I think you would agree, Jacob, 1739 01:41:49.359 --> 01:41:53.239 the military the highest virtue for somebody in the military 1740 01:41:53.359 --> 01:41:58.439 is loyalty and obedience, not so much you know, doing 1741 01:41:58.520 --> 01:42:02.600 the right thing based on what a priest might tell you. 1742 01:42:03.119 --> 01:42:04.159 What do you think about that. 1743 01:42:04.560 --> 01:42:06.960 There's levels to that, but I would say yes, loyalty 1744 01:42:06.960 --> 01:42:10.279 and instant obedience to orders are two of the highest qualities. 1745 01:42:10.319 --> 01:42:12.840 But just so we're clear here, he wasn't there for 1746 01:42:12.960 --> 01:42:16.319 military as far as like uniformed military purposes. He was 1747 01:42:16.359 --> 01:42:20.359 there for a as a private contractor correct, Yeah, he was, 1748 01:42:20.680 --> 01:42:23.560 so then his loyalty goes to the almighty dollar. 1749 01:42:24.840 --> 01:42:28.479 Yeah, maybe to his employer. But I think the people 1750 01:42:28.520 --> 01:42:32.720 in organizations like this have a pretty military like mindset 1751 01:42:33.039 --> 01:42:36.880 where they follow orders and it's a messy world and 1752 01:42:36.920 --> 01:42:38.600 you do the best you can and you're not going 1753 01:42:38.680 --> 01:42:42.880 to be judged based on the morality of your actions. 1754 01:42:42.920 --> 01:42:47.880 Your superiors are responsible and for making those decisions. So 1755 01:42:48.079 --> 01:42:50.640 I think his disloyalty, you know, if you can call 1756 01:42:50.680 --> 01:42:53.880 it that, there's a big turn off to people who 1757 01:42:53.880 --> 01:42:59.680 are especially are more ideologically aligned with Israel. But this 1758 01:42:59.760 --> 01:43:02.039 brings so I don't know, maybe this is a larger issue, 1759 01:43:02.039 --> 01:43:04.920 But in the twentieth century, I feel like Nuremberg tried 1760 01:43:04.960 --> 01:43:09.119 to the Nuremberg Trials tried to rewrite the whole idea 1761 01:43:09.279 --> 01:43:11.199 of what you should do as a soldier if you're 1762 01:43:11.239 --> 01:43:14.640 commanded to do something bad, because the previous mindset was 1763 01:43:14.880 --> 01:43:18.399 you just obey orders, and the mindset after that is 1764 01:43:18.479 --> 01:43:21.600 actually a lot murkier, where yeah, maybe you can obey 1765 01:43:21.640 --> 01:43:24.399 the orders, but you know, will you be able to 1766 01:43:24.560 --> 01:43:26.960 use that as a defense if people want to judge 1767 01:43:27.000 --> 01:43:27.760 you for it. 1768 01:43:28.920 --> 01:43:32.800 Yes, I'm with you on that front. But also PMCs 1769 01:43:32.880 --> 01:43:36.520 do not operate under the Geneva Convention or the Nuremberg trials. 1770 01:43:36.840 --> 01:43:40.319 So and there's levels to the private military contractor game, 1771 01:43:40.520 --> 01:43:44.000 and I understand that as well. But like for instance, Benghazi, right, 1772 01:43:44.600 --> 01:43:47.560 if you ever watched the movie associated with it, the 1773 01:43:47.640 --> 01:43:51.439 contractors that were there to guard the CIA Liaison office, 1774 01:43:51.760 --> 01:43:54.399 even though everybody in that building was American, and the 1775 01:43:54.520 --> 01:43:59.000 dudes that were a part of the PMC were American contractors, 1776 01:43:59.039 --> 01:44:01.319 and yeah, all of them were former military, they were 1777 01:44:01.319 --> 01:44:05.000 not military at that time. They were ordered to not 1778 01:44:05.199 --> 01:44:07.960 go help the embassy, and they said, fuck you were 1779 01:44:07.960 --> 01:44:11.760 doing it anyway, right, So like good things, but that 1780 01:44:11.920 --> 01:44:14.920 also broke their contract. And if something would have happened 1781 01:44:14.920 --> 01:44:18.399 to them and they would have gotten taken prisoner, no 1782 01:44:18.439 --> 01:44:22.039 one's coming to get them because PMCs they don't operate 1783 01:44:22.079 --> 01:44:25.159 that way. And if a private military contractor wants to 1784 01:44:25.199 --> 01:44:28.239 take a prisoner and do medieval torture on them to 1785 01:44:28.279 --> 01:44:31.880 get some sort of information, Geneva Conventions not at play here. 1786 01:44:31.960 --> 01:44:34.319 Neither is the Nuremberg neither is any other kind of 1787 01:44:34.600 --> 01:44:39.199 international officiating body. Because they're out there for private contracting purposes. 1788 01:44:39.800 --> 01:44:43.520 So I don't know Aguilar's entire backstory. I don't know 1789 01:44:43.560 --> 01:44:46.520 which contractor he worked for. I know dudes personally, who 1790 01:44:46.760 --> 01:44:48.760 and hell I even almost worked for a PMC at 1791 01:44:48.800 --> 01:44:51.159 one point in time. I was I was almost picked 1792 01:44:51.199 --> 01:44:54.319 up by Constellis and I was almost picked up by 1793 01:44:55.680 --> 01:44:59.159 Oh Hill. What was the other one? Not bare Claw. 1794 01:45:00.439 --> 01:45:02.439 I'm thinking I'm hunger. I'm thinking of bear clothes. I 1795 01:45:02.479 --> 01:45:04.439 forget what the name of it was, but there was 1796 01:45:04.479 --> 01:45:07.920 two PMCs No no, no, no, no Blackwater that went by 1797 01:45:07.960 --> 01:45:11.079 the wayside after the Blackwater Bridge incident. It then became 1798 01:45:11.159 --> 01:45:14.359 Triple Canopy, and then it got sold and it's some 1799 01:45:14.439 --> 01:45:16.960 other subsidiary. Now it's a new name, but basically the 1800 01:45:16.960 --> 01:45:21.079 same rank and file structure of it all. God, I 1801 01:45:21.119 --> 01:45:23.399 cannot remember the other PMC that I was about to 1802 01:45:23.439 --> 01:45:25.520 work for, but damn it anyway. But a lot of 1803 01:45:25.520 --> 01:45:27.920 my buddies that went worked for them in Afghanistan and 1804 01:45:28.079 --> 01:45:31.520 in active war zones. They were fully aware of what 1805 01:45:31.560 --> 01:45:33.920 the score was, and that's why they were getting paid 1806 01:45:34.279 --> 01:45:36.880 up to five or six times what these soldiers were 1807 01:45:36.880 --> 01:45:40.399 getting paid out there, because the soldiers if something happens 1808 01:45:40.600 --> 01:45:44.319 to them, the US Government's coming to get them. PMCs. 1809 01:45:44.319 --> 01:45:47.760 If something happens to you, you are up Shit's creek, brother, 1810 01:45:47.840 --> 01:45:49.359 and I hope you make it back to the state 1811 01:45:49.439 --> 01:45:53.159 to one piece, because that's just the way it goes now. 1812 01:45:53.319 --> 01:45:58.880 Humanitarian PMCs, I don't know, they're like their mo right, 1813 01:45:58.920 --> 01:46:01.279 I don't know what they're stane and operating procedure is. 1814 01:46:01.560 --> 01:46:04.479 I know that the same rules or lack of rules 1815 01:46:04.560 --> 01:46:07.760 still applies to them, but I don't know what the 1816 01:46:07.880 --> 01:46:11.279 difference is as far as their like you would say, 1817 01:46:11.279 --> 01:46:15.800 their orders or their mission set. Usually PMCs are hired 1818 01:46:15.840 --> 01:46:21.920 to protect the assets of their their contract, right, So 1819 01:46:22.000 --> 01:46:25.760 if you are hired to guard this road, it's not 1820 01:46:25.960 --> 01:46:29.800 against this group or against that group. You're hired to 1821 01:46:29.880 --> 01:46:32.880 make sure that no one destroys this road or impedes 1822 01:46:32.960 --> 01:46:37.159 traffic beyond a reasonable point. And like whether that's your guys, 1823 01:46:37.199 --> 01:46:40.600 their guys, whatever, that's your job and you're just literally 1824 01:46:40.640 --> 01:46:44.159 punching a clock. There's no feelings or morality associated with it. 1825 01:46:44.600 --> 01:46:47.119 So I don't know. I don't know how that's going 1826 01:46:47.159 --> 01:46:50.640 down as far as Gods is concerned. But PMCs kind 1827 01:46:50.640 --> 01:46:53.920 of operate their their mercenaries for lack of better words, 1828 01:46:53.960 --> 01:46:57.720 and morality very rarely plays in with mercenaries. 1829 01:46:58.640 --> 01:47:01.920 Yeah, and these guys were proud, probably largely hired precisely 1830 01:47:02.000 --> 01:47:05.479 because they were trusted to keep their mouths shut. And 1831 01:47:05.920 --> 01:47:08.359 this is one guy. I don't know how many coworkers 1832 01:47:08.359 --> 01:47:11.199 he has, but he's had a couple other make statements 1833 01:47:11.199 --> 01:47:14.359 that are very critical of the of the aid process 1834 01:47:15.520 --> 01:47:18.199 and how these people are not really getting fed, but 1835 01:47:18.319 --> 01:47:20.439 they are getting shot at and they are getting killed. 1836 01:47:20.560 --> 01:47:22.560 But the other people have done it anonymously. He's the 1837 01:47:22.560 --> 01:47:24.119 only one who puts his name on it. And he's 1838 01:47:24.119 --> 01:47:28.439 saying that after this is over, or maybe not even 1839 01:47:28.479 --> 01:47:30.359 after it's over, maybe just months from now, more of 1840 01:47:30.359 --> 01:47:32.239 these guys are going to come forward and say they've 1841 01:47:32.239 --> 01:47:36.039 seen the same thing. And he's alleging the UNRA did 1842 01:47:36.079 --> 01:47:41.000 a better job at distributing food, but GHF seems like 1843 01:47:41.079 --> 01:47:43.880 it's specifically set up to get as many of them 1844 01:47:43.960 --> 01:47:46.600 killed as possible. He points out lots of things like 1845 01:47:46.640 --> 01:47:48.680 they don't provide any water. Most of the food they're 1846 01:47:48.680 --> 01:47:51.319 providing his dry rice and lentils and stuff and stuff 1847 01:47:51.319 --> 01:47:53.920 you've got to boil in water, and God has no water, 1848 01:47:54.000 --> 01:47:57.560 no fresh water. It's got salt water but no fresh water. 1849 01:47:58.600 --> 01:48:00.319 So they are just really screwed there. 1850 01:48:01.159 --> 01:48:05.199 That is, that's horrible, Sam, your hands raised, brother, what 1851 01:48:05.279 --> 01:48:06.439 you got? 1852 01:48:07.119 --> 01:48:07.359 Yeah? 1853 01:48:07.520 --> 01:48:12.119 I was wondering, what was the Blackwater bridge thing? 1854 01:48:13.520 --> 01:48:14.279 Something Falujah? 1855 01:48:15.000 --> 01:48:19.800 Uh? All right, so how can I The Blackwater Bridge 1856 01:48:19.840 --> 01:48:26.119 incident was where you had some Blackwater operators that were 1857 01:48:26.399 --> 01:48:30.239 American by birth, but where they were operating, they were 1858 01:48:30.279 --> 01:48:34.560 not flying an American flag that got into a little 1859 01:48:34.560 --> 01:48:38.239 bit of a scuffle with the local for lack of 1860 01:48:38.279 --> 01:48:41.600 better words, let's call them a terrorist organization. They lost 1861 01:48:41.640 --> 01:48:44.640 the fight, and their bodies were drugged through the streets 1862 01:48:44.760 --> 01:48:47.439 and hung off of a bridge with nooses, with signs 1863 01:48:47.439 --> 01:48:50.520 around their necks. You know, the typical debt to America, 1864 01:48:50.600 --> 01:48:52.600 death to the infidels, you know that old that old 1865 01:48:52.640 --> 01:48:56.520 stick and uh. These pictures made their way all over 1866 01:48:56.560 --> 01:48:59.399 the internet. You could look up right now videos and 1867 01:48:59.439 --> 01:49:03.399 documentary about the Blackwater Bridge incident. Blackwater, up until that 1868 01:49:03.479 --> 01:49:09.079 point was the largest and most successful American PMC operating 1869 01:49:09.119 --> 01:49:13.239 in the world. That one incident pretty much negated that, 1870 01:49:13.600 --> 01:49:17.319 and they took such a hit that they ended up 1871 01:49:17.359 --> 01:49:20.680 having to sell and rebrand the company. To another group, 1872 01:49:21.000 --> 01:49:22.760 which is when it became triple canopy. 1873 01:49:23.880 --> 01:49:28.359 Wait, is that why the snipers started dipping his bullets 1874 01:49:28.359 --> 01:49:29.560 in the spam? 1875 01:49:30.199 --> 01:49:34.359 No, that sniper was an American sniper, so PMC they 1876 01:49:34.359 --> 01:49:35.840 could dip it. Huh. 1877 01:49:36.239 --> 01:49:39.039 I was talking about why he was doing that because, Hey, 1878 01:49:39.079 --> 01:49:43.439 a fellow American was killed and humiliated like that. 1879 01:49:44.079 --> 01:49:47.359 And yeah, there's been a few cases of American soldiers 1880 01:49:47.359 --> 01:49:49.840 and marines that you know, were killed and their bodies 1881 01:49:49.880 --> 01:49:55.239 were mutilated and all these things, But these were servicemen PMCs. 1882 01:49:55.560 --> 01:49:58.159 You could do psych warfare all you want. It's not 1883 01:49:58.279 --> 01:50:01.520 gonna like help your mis set. But yeah, if you 1884 01:50:01.520 --> 01:50:03.960 want to dip your your bullets and spam to make 1885 01:50:04.000 --> 01:50:07.439 sure that the hodgies will you go to hell when 1886 01:50:07.479 --> 01:50:09.600 they die, then like you could totally do that. There's 1887 01:50:09.600 --> 01:50:12.960 no Geneva convention that these guys answer to. See. 1888 01:50:13.119 --> 01:50:14.720 That's the thing and the way I say, if an 1889 01:50:14.760 --> 01:50:18.960 insurgency doesn't follow the Geneva conventions, why should we? I 1890 01:50:18.960 --> 01:50:20.960 feel like, how government can tell us where to fight, 1891 01:50:21.000 --> 01:50:22.960 when to fight, they should not tell us how to fight. 1892 01:50:24.039 --> 01:50:27.920 So the problem is, whenever you declare total war on 1893 01:50:28.039 --> 01:50:31.560 a group of people, the blowback on that years after 1894 01:50:31.600 --> 01:50:35.359 the fact is typically the Uh, the ends don't justify 1895 01:50:35.399 --> 01:50:39.800 the means, right, So you want to try to leave 1896 01:50:39.880 --> 01:50:42.079 the area better than when you got there. When it's 1897 01:50:42.119 --> 01:50:44.960 all said and done, you want to leave the area 1898 01:50:46.079 --> 01:50:50.960 a little freer, uh, not as oppressed, you know, because 1899 01:50:51.039 --> 01:50:53.720 the bad guys that you're killing, you want to be 1900 01:50:53.840 --> 01:50:56.199 the bad guys, like the actual bad guys over this 1901 01:50:56.279 --> 01:50:58.720 area where the women and children are scared of these 1902 01:50:58.760 --> 01:51:01.479 people in the are they are a hindrance to a 1903 01:51:01.720 --> 01:51:07.199 happy life being lived in this area. Whenever you go 1904 01:51:07.359 --> 01:51:10.279 into the mindset of a total war kind of situation, 1905 01:51:11.079 --> 01:51:13.680 that usually goes by the wayside. And that's how we 1906 01:51:13.760 --> 01:51:16.720 get some of these situations like in Vietnam where you 1907 01:51:16.800 --> 01:51:19.960 had helicopter pilots and door gunners that were just mowing 1908 01:51:20.000 --> 01:51:23.039 down groups of women and children because well, how do 1909 01:51:23.079 --> 01:51:25.760 we know they weren't VC And it's like, no, no, no, 1910 01:51:25.800 --> 01:51:28.039 that's that's not the way at least that's not the 1911 01:51:28.039 --> 01:51:31.439 way that America wants to do business. We want to 1912 01:51:31.479 --> 01:51:33.560 be seen as the golden standard of how to operate 1913 01:51:33.600 --> 01:51:37.520 in a war zone, not not the other way around. 1914 01:51:37.560 --> 01:51:39.640 Although I think there's a time and place for everything 1915 01:51:40.079 --> 01:51:42.800 I mean, if the insurgency is going to use dirty tactics, 1916 01:51:43.199 --> 01:51:45.960 I am all in favor of meeting that fire with fire. 1917 01:51:46.680 --> 01:51:49.600 But the problem is that if we don't maintain the standard, 1918 01:51:49.600 --> 01:51:50.439 then who's going. 1919 01:51:50.279 --> 01:51:55.279 To I PREGI that goes along with this this whole 1920 01:51:55.359 --> 01:51:58.560 title of this podcast Cajun knight, and being a knight 1921 01:51:58.720 --> 01:52:02.079 means that you have a concept of honor and chivalry, 1922 01:52:02.279 --> 01:52:05.159 and part of that's, you know, just pr and part 1923 01:52:05.199 --> 01:52:07.159 of that's trying to do the right thing. But pr 1924 01:52:07.239 --> 01:52:09.840 is really important in war, and you don't want to 1925 01:52:09.840 --> 01:52:14.760 cross lines that you'll be judged negatively for and that'll 1926 01:52:14.800 --> 01:52:16.680 give the enemy an excuse to cross lines too. So 1927 01:52:16.680 --> 01:52:19.279 in World War Two in Europe, luckily nobody crossed the 1928 01:52:19.319 --> 01:52:22.560 line of using chemical weapons, even though both sides had 1929 01:52:22.560 --> 01:52:24.840 stockpiles of them, and both sides were just waiting for 1930 01:52:24.880 --> 01:52:27.680 the other side to cross that line first, and somehow 1931 01:52:27.720 --> 01:52:29.680 it never happened. So we got lucky there. 1932 01:52:30.000 --> 01:52:33.079 Saying with the flamethrower situation, right, that's why they stopped 1933 01:52:33.159 --> 01:52:36.239 using flamethrowers, because you would use them to clear out 1934 01:52:36.279 --> 01:52:39.159 a pillbox or a machine gun. Nest okay, dope, that's 1935 01:52:39.159 --> 01:52:41.239 what they were designed to do. But once these guys 1936 01:52:41.279 --> 01:52:44.279 came out on fire, they wouldn't shoot them. They would 1937 01:52:44.319 --> 01:52:48.239 let them slowly burn to death. That's that goes against 1938 01:52:48.359 --> 01:52:50.760 the standard of us trying to show the world that 1939 01:52:50.760 --> 01:52:53.640 we're the good guys. If we had cameras and satellite 1940 01:52:53.720 --> 01:52:57.399 TVs back in those days, and the American public, we're 1941 01:52:57.439 --> 01:53:00.960 seeing that our American boys, these guys that were drafted 1942 01:53:01.000 --> 01:53:04.000 from all over the country were doing this animalistic and 1943 01:53:04.079 --> 01:53:06.960 heinous shit to the enemy, even if yes, they were Nazis. 1944 01:53:07.319 --> 01:53:10.399 I understand that, I get it, But it's about the optics. 1945 01:53:10.720 --> 01:53:13.399 It's about what gets seen by the public and what 1946 01:53:13.439 --> 01:53:14.960 these guys are going to be viewed as when they 1947 01:53:15.000 --> 01:53:17.239 get home. That's why you had these guys coming home 1948 01:53:17.239 --> 01:53:20.479 from Vietnam getting spit on and called baby killers. Right. 1949 01:53:20.520 --> 01:53:22.760 It wasn't even like they were actually trying to do that. 1950 01:53:22.760 --> 01:53:25.720 There were some cases where they were doing some heinous 1951 01:53:25.800 --> 01:53:28.680 shit and should have been shit on. But the ninety 1952 01:53:28.760 --> 01:53:32.199 nine point nine percent of US service members that went 1953 01:53:32.239 --> 01:53:35.279 to Vietnam because they were drafted and then came home 1954 01:53:35.439 --> 01:53:37.760 did not deserve that type of retribution. But they got 1955 01:53:37.760 --> 01:53:40.800 it anyway, because that's all that the media was reporting 1956 01:53:40.840 --> 01:53:44.720 on because no news sells like bad news, so it's 1957 01:53:44.760 --> 01:53:46.039 about the optics overall. 1958 01:53:46.760 --> 01:53:52.960 But Jacob, the uh, how do I put it? That's 1959 01:53:52.960 --> 01:53:55.960 the thing though, you you can't really I feel like 1960 01:53:56.000 --> 01:53:58.520 you can't judge. So you can't judge the actions of 1961 01:53:58.640 --> 01:54:01.600 like the men on the in the fight in war 1962 01:54:01.640 --> 01:54:04.119 because war is not human. Everybody says, oh, we should 1963 01:54:04.119 --> 01:54:05.119 fight the war humanly. 1964 01:54:05.640 --> 01:54:06.159 How do you. 1965 01:54:06.760 --> 01:54:10.720 Kill vast amounts of enemies humanity? 1966 01:54:10.840 --> 01:54:11.359 You can't. 1967 01:54:11.920 --> 01:54:13.600 And if you want to, and if you really want 1968 01:54:13.600 --> 01:54:19.199 to talk about the justifying the ends, justify the means. Okay, yes, Uh. 1969 01:54:19.760 --> 01:54:23.680 The world's greatest uh general Ville party was when America 1970 01:54:24.199 --> 01:54:27.399 UH introduced our little boy to Japan. Granted, but we 1971 01:54:27.439 --> 01:54:30.960 did far more and more damage and more UH casualties 1972 01:54:31.000 --> 01:54:35.640 with the firebombing of Japan, the mainline Japan then we 1973 01:54:35.680 --> 01:54:38.159 actually did with the two atomic bombs dropping. 1974 01:54:38.760 --> 01:54:41.000 That's fair, but we also have to look at what 1975 01:54:41.039 --> 01:54:44.760 the alternative was to that. The culture of Japan during 1976 01:54:44.800 --> 01:54:47.119 World War II was literally they were telling the people 1977 01:54:47.119 --> 01:54:50.800 that Americans were eating them, they were gonna eat the 1978 01:54:50.800 --> 01:54:54.840 prisoners of war, that we were these barbarian animals, and 1979 01:54:54.880 --> 01:54:57.560 all these things and that's confirmed by multiple people that 1980 01:54:57.600 --> 01:55:00.359 could speak Japanese that were in the Pacific year that 1981 01:55:00.760 --> 01:55:04.199 heard these women throwing their children off of cliffs to 1982 01:55:04.319 --> 01:55:07.960 their deaths rather than be quote unquote captured and eaten 1983 01:55:08.000 --> 01:55:11.479 by the animalistic Americans. Right, they were not going to 1984 01:55:11.520 --> 01:55:13.960 surrender by any means. As a matter of fact, every 1985 01:55:14.039 --> 01:55:17.600 Purple Heart that has been awarded since World War Two 1986 01:55:18.159 --> 01:55:21.520 were made for what they expected to be the Purple 1987 01:55:21.520 --> 01:55:25.239 Hearts to be awarded after the invasion of mainland Japan. 1988 01:55:25.800 --> 01:55:30.680 So the ends justifying the means dropping two atomic bombs 1989 01:55:31.159 --> 01:55:34.760 finally got it through the Japanese mindset that hey, y'all, 1990 01:55:35.159 --> 01:55:37.760 maybe we can't win this thing and we need to 1991 01:55:37.800 --> 01:55:41.760 stop to save our population. Because the reality of it 1992 01:55:41.800 --> 01:55:47.279 is that upwards of hundreds of thousands, if not a million, 1993 01:55:47.319 --> 01:55:50.920 people would have died from the US invading mainland Japan. 1994 01:55:51.680 --> 01:55:54.119 So I'm not in favor of dropping nukes on people, 1995 01:55:54.720 --> 01:55:58.640 but that truly was a situation where the inns truly 1996 01:55:58.840 --> 01:56:01.600 justified the means. It's not a fun conversation to have, 1997 01:56:02.159 --> 01:56:04.920 and I'm with you, you can't. You can't judge the 1998 01:56:04.960 --> 01:56:07.319 war fighter who's in the middle of a firefight for 1999 01:56:07.399 --> 01:56:10.319 going a little berserk. I get this one hundred percent 2000 01:56:10.760 --> 01:56:13.000 fog of war being a thing, frenzy being a thing. 2001 01:56:13.119 --> 01:56:16.319 I have the sympathy and the empathy for it. But 2002 01:56:16.359 --> 01:56:17.399 there's gotta be a limit. 2003 01:56:18.640 --> 01:56:23.680 Okay, I understand what you're saying, but it's just the 2004 01:56:23.680 --> 01:56:26.439 way it says. You can't judge some like the way 2005 01:56:26.479 --> 01:56:30.000 that people judge. So like the our boys from Vietnam, 2006 01:56:31.119 --> 01:56:34.039 they the people judging them, they didn't they they weren't there, 2007 01:56:34.119 --> 01:56:36.920 they didn't do it. And and what really fills them 2008 01:56:36.920 --> 01:56:40.199 off if you go to you have twenty years before that, 2009 01:56:40.279 --> 01:56:42.760 you had you had the Gat the dads and all 2010 01:56:43.000 --> 01:56:46.720 who were young boys literally killing Nazis and all getting 2011 01:56:47.600 --> 01:56:50.439 swiped out on beaches and everything. Then you have the 2012 01:56:50.439 --> 01:56:53.840 forgotten war, which was the Koreans. They that the Korean War, 2013 01:56:53.880 --> 01:56:56.159 which they probably felt some type of way because they 2014 01:56:56.239 --> 01:56:59.359 would they were just dropped off by the wayside. No 2015 01:56:59.399 --> 01:57:03.680 one ever would talk about the Queen War. But it's 2016 01:57:03.800 --> 01:57:07.560 just like, how do you as a country. 2017 01:57:08.279 --> 01:57:08.800 We didn't. 2018 01:57:09.439 --> 01:57:12.600 We went into the Vietnam War as a favor towards 2019 01:57:12.640 --> 01:57:14.920 the French, because up until that point it was the French, 2020 01:57:15.159 --> 01:57:17.359 the French and Indonesian War. 2021 01:57:17.399 --> 01:57:19.680 I want to say this Vietnam was called. 2022 01:57:21.119 --> 01:57:25.520 Yeah, yeah, that it was a over a twenty years 2023 01:57:25.640 --> 01:57:26.840 civil war at that point. 2024 01:57:27.159 --> 01:57:27.399 Yeah. 2025 01:57:29.119 --> 01:57:33.239 Granted, you really can't expect much from the French military 2026 01:57:33.279 --> 01:57:35.640 that they gave up with They didn't even fight in 2027 01:57:35.720 --> 01:57:36.359 World War two. 2028 01:57:37.039 --> 01:57:40.600 So but again there's limits. There's got to be limits. 2029 01:57:40.640 --> 01:57:43.760 There's never gonna be justification from mowing down a village 2030 01:57:43.760 --> 01:57:46.279 full of women and children. You know that there's gotta 2031 01:57:46.319 --> 01:57:49.359 be a line where we say, no, although the insurgents 2032 01:57:49.439 --> 01:57:51.880 might be doing some heinous shit, we are not going 2033 01:57:51.960 --> 01:57:54.760 to go to this level to match that particular fire 2034 01:57:55.199 --> 01:57:58.640 using human shields. We have to at some point acknowledge, no, 2035 01:57:58.840 --> 01:58:02.720 we have to be better than that, right, I agree, 2036 01:58:03.680 --> 01:58:05.399 So but yeah. 2037 01:58:06.640 --> 01:58:08.720 You know, we want to give our boys the maximum 2038 01:58:08.720 --> 01:58:12.840 possible benefit of the doubt. But the other people are 2039 01:58:12.880 --> 01:58:16.399 given their boys, and even if they're terrorists or Nazis, 2040 01:58:16.399 --> 01:58:19.479 the maximum benefit of the doubt from their angle too. 2041 01:58:19.640 --> 01:58:22.840 So this ends up, I don't know, special pleading on 2042 01:58:22.880 --> 01:58:25.600 both sides to say, oh, well, we're just better and 2043 01:58:25.680 --> 01:58:28.399 but you know, our boys should be allowed to do anything. 2044 01:58:28.640 --> 01:58:33.439 So Hitler allowed that Wehrmacht completed immunity from any prosecution 2045 01:58:33.520 --> 01:58:35.800 for any crimes in the Eastern Front, not on the 2046 01:58:35.800 --> 01:58:38.840 Western Front. He was pretty strict with them in France 2047 01:58:39.640 --> 01:58:42.039 and German. German behavior was not too bad there, but 2048 01:58:42.079 --> 01:58:44.760 in Russia and Poland it was very bad by comparison. 2049 01:58:45.319 --> 01:58:48.079 And yeah, if we're going to say, well, we don't 2050 01:58:48.079 --> 01:58:50.119 want you know, the men who are fighting the war, 2051 01:58:50.159 --> 01:58:52.399 they are under so much pressure you can't really judge them. Well, 2052 01:58:52.439 --> 01:58:54.880 that goes for the enemy's men too, But we do 2053 01:58:54.960 --> 01:58:56.399 want to judge the enemy's men. 2054 01:58:56.880 --> 01:59:03.239 And humanize your enemy. It's a whole lot easier to 2055 01:59:03.359 --> 01:59:07.960 kill them, which is the indoctrination. But it's jack you 2056 01:59:08.000 --> 01:59:10.279 bought up how the Japanese said that we were cannibalizing 2057 01:59:10.319 --> 01:59:14.239 the POW's. There was an actual Japanese unit that actually 2058 01:59:14.840 --> 01:59:18.640 took a bunch of I want to say that air 2059 01:59:18.720 --> 01:59:24.840 man it was yeah, yeah, not even that, it's not 2060 01:59:24.840 --> 01:59:27.720 not even talking about just then. But no, they they captured, 2061 01:59:27.720 --> 01:59:29.520 they shot down a bunch of the US planes. They 2062 01:59:29.560 --> 01:59:33.479 captured the crews of the ships. And of yeah, it 2063 01:59:33.520 --> 01:59:34.600 was a Bush senior. 2064 01:59:35.000 --> 01:59:37.000 Yeah, his boys. He found out that all of the 2065 01:59:37.039 --> 01:59:39.199 guys that were in the camp with him got eaten. 2066 01:59:40.000 --> 01:59:43.600 Yeah, so it's kind of funny that they were gonna say, 2067 01:59:43.600 --> 01:59:48.159 oh that they they commit cannibalism. But yet the Japanese 2068 01:59:48.159 --> 01:59:51.960 officer made his men eat the the body parts of 2069 01:59:52.000 --> 01:59:54.560 the American pow because he believed that it would give 2070 01:59:54.600 --> 01:59:58.279 them the strength that they would absorb their essence and right. 2071 01:59:58.920 --> 02:00:00.319 But they were that's. 2072 02:00:03.439 --> 02:00:06.760 Absolutely accurate. And but here's the thing. They were eating 2073 02:00:06.840 --> 02:00:12.520 a military combatant. The Emperor of Japan and his media 2074 02:00:12.560 --> 02:00:19.079 spear told the Japanese civilian population that the Americans were 2075 02:00:19.119 --> 02:00:23.239 eating women and children. I'm not saying that eating military 2076 02:00:23.279 --> 02:00:26.279 members is better or anything like that. What I'm saying 2077 02:00:26.399 --> 02:00:29.279 is a mother humming her two year old off of 2078 02:00:29.319 --> 02:00:33.840 a cliff onto rock face to prevent it from being 2079 02:00:33.920 --> 02:00:38.119 eaten alive, and committing mass suicides like that seen as 2080 02:00:38.159 --> 02:00:40.760 the more humane option because that's what they were told. 2081 02:00:41.720 --> 02:00:44.039 That's a different conversation, right. 2082 02:00:44.000 --> 02:00:48.840 Oh, it's just agree and everything, and it might just 2083 02:00:48.880 --> 02:00:53.479 come out like I'm a dickord of it, which I 2084 02:00:53.600 --> 02:00:57.840 say this as someone who has Japanese lineage and I'm 2085 02:00:57.920 --> 02:01:01.039 learning more about the heritage, and I'm about my Cueen 2086 02:01:01.079 --> 02:01:05.439 and Filipino heritage too. It's just it escaped. 2087 02:01:06.279 --> 02:01:06.800 It kind of. 2088 02:01:06.760 --> 02:01:10.279 Pisses me off that the Japanese there's folk they believe 2089 02:01:10.319 --> 02:01:13.159 that they were on a bound and they have the code, 2090 02:01:13.159 --> 02:01:16.720 the Bashido code, but yet when push come to shove, 2091 02:01:16.840 --> 02:01:19.119 they threw all that shit out the window because they 2092 02:01:19.279 --> 02:01:25.520 wanted to be quote unquote the superior Asian when in reality, 2093 02:01:26.079 --> 02:01:29.920 all Asians primarily come from the same fucking area, which 2094 02:01:31.399 --> 02:01:33.079 it's all a fucking su. 2095 02:01:33.279 --> 02:01:35.960 I think it's funny that the Bashido code and pretty 2096 02:01:36.000 --> 02:01:38.439 much the entirety of the Samurai way of life was 2097 02:01:38.560 --> 02:01:42.039 outlawed in the eighteen hundreds, and then when it came 2098 02:01:42.079 --> 02:01:43.880 time for World War Two, they're like, we got to 2099 02:01:43.920 --> 02:01:46.640 get back to our roots. Man. It's like, wait, so 2100 02:01:46.800 --> 02:01:50.520 all the swords, the Samurai swords that you outlawed, now 2101 02:01:50.600 --> 02:01:54.399 you have Kamakazi pilots that are putting their family samurai 2102 02:01:54.479 --> 02:01:57.279 swords in their planes so that they can have and 2103 02:01:57.359 --> 02:02:01.600 maintain their family honor. It's like, all right, that's that's 2104 02:02:01.600 --> 02:02:02.159 a flex. 2105 02:02:03.000 --> 02:02:06.680 Also, uh oh, I can't remember which general it was 2106 02:02:06.800 --> 02:02:08.840 or if it was the in for himself, but when 2107 02:02:09.439 --> 02:02:12.640 they gave the they gave, when they surrendered, they gave 2108 02:02:12.680 --> 02:02:15.800 their not not there are the military sort. They actually 2109 02:02:15.840 --> 02:02:20.199 gave their families a semi sort, which is saying a 2110 02:02:20.199 --> 02:02:23.720 lot because they they believe the Kaitans, they believe that 2111 02:02:23.760 --> 02:02:25.760 their ancestral souls goes into them. 2112 02:02:25.960 --> 02:02:27.880 Yeah. I've seen a couple of those in the Marine 2113 02:02:27.920 --> 02:02:30.119 Corps Museum. As a matter of fact, a quantico, it's 2114 02:02:30.119 --> 02:02:30.680 pretty dope. 2115 02:02:30.680 --> 02:02:37.319 I had a actual kitana that a that that was 2116 02:02:37.359 --> 02:02:42.159 passed on to me, uh from a gentleman that I met, 2117 02:02:42.560 --> 02:02:45.920 uh and everything. He was he was a World War 2118 02:02:45.920 --> 02:02:48.319 two vet, it was and everything, but it got stole 2119 02:02:48.479 --> 02:02:50.119 when my house got broke into. 2120 02:02:51.039 --> 02:02:52.439 Damn it was. 2121 02:02:53.560 --> 02:02:56.319 It was. I cleaned it in everything, but it was 2122 02:02:57.079 --> 02:03:00.800 very old it You could feel the history in it 2123 02:03:00.960 --> 02:03:06.239 like they even like you couldn't tell that they've seen battles. 2124 02:03:06.279 --> 02:03:08.840 There was nicks from where it was, uh where the 2125 02:03:08.920 --> 02:03:12.119 other it's hit another sword and off and uh. There 2126 02:03:12.319 --> 02:03:15.359 there was even notches in the pommel like titting. 2127 02:03:15.640 --> 02:03:18.840 Yeah that's a dope, dude. Yeah. 2128 02:03:19.039 --> 02:03:22.479 But there's also photos of the Japanese having a competitive 2129 02:03:22.720 --> 02:03:26.239 beheadings with the in Nan king, which. 2130 02:03:26.319 --> 02:03:28.840 Yeah, the raping of name king. You actually did have that. 2131 02:03:28.960 --> 02:03:32.600 You had two Japanese officers that had a contest to 2132 02:03:32.640 --> 02:03:37.000 see who could be head one hundred people the fastest 2133 02:03:37.039 --> 02:03:40.079 with a katana. And then they got to the end 2134 02:03:40.159 --> 02:03:42.000 of it and it was decided that it was a tie, 2135 02:03:42.079 --> 02:03:44.399 and neither of them like were cool with that, so 2136 02:03:44.439 --> 02:03:48.479 they continued the contest in more more disgusting ways. The 2137 02:03:48.600 --> 02:03:51.840 raping of Nan King was, uh, that was a thing. 2138 02:03:52.720 --> 02:03:54.039 You know what the fucked up thing is? 2139 02:03:54.680 --> 02:03:59.000 And I say this and it's it's fascinating, but it's 2140 02:03:59.039 --> 02:04:01.800 also fucked up. You know who's actually considered the hero 2141 02:04:01.920 --> 02:04:06.560 of Nan King, I cannot remember, it's gonna uh. It 2142 02:04:06.760 --> 02:04:10.279 was actually a high ranking Nazi he actually uh, he 2143 02:04:10.359 --> 02:04:13.520 was not a racist. He actually hated that. He grew 2144 02:04:13.600 --> 02:04:16.880 up over in Japan and it uh no over in China. 2145 02:04:16.920 --> 02:04:19.279 He was like the Nazi delegate over in China. He 2146 02:04:19.359 --> 02:04:23.720 had China. He had uh, Germany and Chinese like children 2147 02:04:23.760 --> 02:04:27.760 at all. Like he and Hitler did not get along 2148 02:04:27.960 --> 02:04:32.399 for that reason. But he wrote up. He interfered with 2149 02:04:32.439 --> 02:04:36.359 the Japanese. He he gave a sanctuary I want to say, 2150 02:04:36.399 --> 02:04:37.720 like a mile long whatever. 2151 02:04:38.079 --> 02:04:43.039 And Chalkeenhausen I believe that was his name. Yeah, but yeah, 2152 02:04:43.039 --> 02:04:44.039 I know who you're talking about. 2153 02:04:44.840 --> 02:04:48.039 He was cleared of. He was the only ss TO 2154 02:04:48.479 --> 02:04:52.039 officer to not have any charges brought up to him 2155 02:04:52.079 --> 02:04:53.079 after World War Two. 2156 02:04:54.439 --> 02:04:55.199 That's incredible. 2157 02:04:55.880 --> 02:04:58.199 Well, yeah, I think they wanted to charge and they 2158 02:04:58.239 --> 02:05:01.159 held them in captive. The Allies did, and he lost 2159 02:05:01.199 --> 02:05:03.319 a lot of weight. And it was a Chinese lady 2160 02:05:03.319 --> 02:05:06.720 who actually saved him from that situation. 2161 02:05:07.640 --> 02:05:07.960 Damn. 2162 02:05:08.000 --> 02:05:11.760 Her name was and she lived in Belgium until two 2163 02:05:11.840 --> 02:05:12.479 thousand and eight. 2164 02:05:13.680 --> 02:05:14.039 Damn. 2165 02:05:14.560 --> 02:05:17.159 Yeah, she also saved a lot of a lot of 2166 02:05:18.199 --> 02:05:22.159 like Belgian resistance from the Nazis too, so she saved 2167 02:05:22.239 --> 02:05:25.279 people on you know, mostly the Belgian resistance side. 2168 02:05:27.880 --> 02:05:31.399 She was the thing today. 2169 02:05:31.520 --> 02:05:33.399 I can't remember the name, and I feel bad, but 2170 02:05:34.600 --> 02:05:38.039 like when the Nazis rolled into her country, I can't 2171 02:05:38.039 --> 02:05:41.520 remember which country. I'm running off for like two hours 2172 02:05:41.520 --> 02:05:47.399 of sleep, but yeah, I'm great. So she was eight 2173 02:05:47.479 --> 02:05:49.159 months pregnant. 2174 02:05:49.439 --> 02:05:49.840 Oh wow. 2175 02:05:52.000 --> 02:05:54.159 I don't know if it was I can't remember if 2176 02:05:54.159 --> 02:05:56.560 it was the Funch, if it was the Nazis, But anyway, 2177 02:05:56.640 --> 02:05:58.600 she got held and they waited till the day after 2178 02:05:58.640 --> 02:06:00.520 she gave birth, then killed her. 2179 02:06:03.039 --> 02:06:05.319 The lady that we're talking about that lived in Belgium 2180 02:06:05.319 --> 02:06:06.239 to a two thousand and eight, not. 2181 02:06:06.520 --> 02:06:09.479 The Chinese lady and Belgium else. 2182 02:06:10.840 --> 02:06:15.640 A revolution she was she started. 2183 02:06:15.720 --> 02:06:20.159 She didn't just lead it, She erected the She built 2184 02:06:20.199 --> 02:06:24.239 the whole of resistance, like the network and everything. Like 2185 02:06:24.439 --> 02:06:26.800 she was pregnant at the time she started. I eight 2186 02:06:26.800 --> 02:06:29.960 months pregnant. And then when she gave birth to like 2187 02:06:30.000 --> 02:06:33.319 a month later, she got captured and the government waited 2188 02:06:33.399 --> 02:06:35.880 till after the day after she gave birth to kill her. 2189 02:06:36.560 --> 02:06:41.239 Wow, talking about Southeast Asia, let's talk about this and 2190 02:06:41.399 --> 02:06:43.479 let's you know, let's end this one on a slightly 2191 02:06:43.600 --> 02:06:48.159 humorous note, shall we? Collision between Chinese ships expected to 2192 02:06:48.359 --> 02:06:52.279 escalate tensions in the South China Sea. And before people 2193 02:06:52.319 --> 02:06:54.640 start thinking that this was some sort of an active war, 2194 02:06:55.000 --> 02:06:57.520 we should mention the fact that it was two Chinese 2195 02:06:57.520 --> 02:07:00.960 ships that hit each other because they were trying to 2196 02:07:01.039 --> 02:07:06.520 stop a merchant vessel, a non combative merchant vessel just 2197 02:07:06.600 --> 02:07:09.560 got a maneuver kill. And that's on record. Let's read 2198 02:07:09.600 --> 02:07:11.840 in and now let's just predict China will move to 2199 02:07:11.880 --> 02:07:15.239 restore its image at sea while ramping up exercises to 2200 02:07:15.279 --> 02:07:18.960 improve navy coast guard coordination. Yeah, I'll bet they are. 2201 02:07:19.039 --> 02:07:21.560 This is a picture of one of the ships that 2202 02:07:21.760 --> 02:07:24.199 had a collision. Let's learn some more about it, shall we. 2203 02:07:24.960 --> 02:07:29.760 Just they cannot, they cannot, And of course this article 2204 02:07:29.880 --> 02:07:32.079 on my phone opened up the entire way, but on 2205 02:07:32.119 --> 02:07:35.840 the internet it's not going to long story short. These 2206 02:07:35.880 --> 02:07:39.720 two military Chinese vessels, they were, you know, Chinese coast Guard. 2207 02:07:39.880 --> 02:07:42.880 They were trying to stop I cannot remember off the 2208 02:07:42.920 --> 02:07:45.199 top because I had this article pulled up earlier, and 2209 02:07:45.239 --> 02:07:48.199 of course it's going to suck now. They were trying 2210 02:07:48.239 --> 02:07:50.920 to get closer to and I'm not sure if it 2211 02:07:51.000 --> 02:07:54.720 was a Taiwanese merchant ship or a Indonesian or what 2212 02:07:54.800 --> 02:07:55.520 the case was. 2213 02:07:55.600 --> 02:07:58.760 But it was Filipino, I'm pretty sure. And the filip 2214 02:07:58.960 --> 02:08:00.279 got video of it too. 2215 02:08:00.720 --> 02:08:02.920 Yes, Filipino, that's what I knew. It was an island nation. 2216 02:08:02.920 --> 02:08:06.359 I couldn't remember which one. My apologies, and uh, essentially 2217 02:08:06.399 --> 02:08:09.560 they tried to maneuver to stop it and ended up 2218 02:08:09.680 --> 02:08:13.720 ramming into each other and now they're worried about their 2219 02:08:13.760 --> 02:08:17.199 image at sea. If nothing else, I think this is 2220 02:08:17.239 --> 02:08:20.640 an excellent time to hear from our resident Malaysian correspondent. 2221 02:08:21.600 --> 02:08:22.720 Try don't trust China. 2222 02:08:22.920 --> 02:08:23.800 China is ass hoo. 2223 02:08:24.479 --> 02:08:27.239 I love that guy so much. I really do. So 2224 02:08:27.520 --> 02:08:29.720 you know, we'll see, we'll see if China is able 2225 02:08:29.760 --> 02:08:34.479 to uh save face on this. I don't think that's possible. 2226 02:08:34.800 --> 02:08:35.880 Just gonna throw that out. 2227 02:08:36.239 --> 02:08:36.399 Uh. 2228 02:08:36.560 --> 02:08:39.239 Now, that's not to say that America has not had 2229 02:08:39.239 --> 02:08:43.079 our own military oopsies in the past couple of years. 2230 02:08:43.079 --> 02:08:45.840 I mean, hell, we had two planes get shot down 2231 02:08:45.880 --> 02:08:49.319 by the same destroyer over towards the Middle East area, 2232 02:08:49.319 --> 02:08:51.520 and that was that was not a good look. The 2233 02:08:51.560 --> 02:08:56.000 commander was relieved of command hard and uh, I don't 2234 02:08:56.000 --> 02:09:01.920 think he's even allowed to recommission, honestly. But that's at 2235 02:09:02.039 --> 02:09:05.800 least I would think slightly better than ramming two entire 2236 02:09:05.960 --> 02:09:09.520 ships into each other. I don't know. I've never piloted 2237 02:09:09.560 --> 02:09:12.439 a naval vessel or a coastguard vessel. I've never piloted 2238 02:09:12.479 --> 02:09:16.800 a plane, so I don't know, but out loud, one 2239 02:09:16.840 --> 02:09:19.359 of those sounds more embarrassing than the other. You have 2240 02:09:19.439 --> 02:09:22.279 a missile system on a plane that, for a split 2241 02:09:22.359 --> 02:09:25.039 second couldn't tell the difference between if that was our 2242 02:09:25.079 --> 02:09:29.319 guys or their guys, versus two giant ships that were 2243 02:09:29.319 --> 02:09:37.000 trying to outmaneuver a non armed merchant vessel and one 2244 02:09:37.039 --> 02:09:40.279 of them straight up nose dove into the other. I 2245 02:09:40.479 --> 02:09:44.680 just speaking on behalf of myself. I think that's just hilarious. 2246 02:09:44.800 --> 02:09:48.319 But you know, hey, anyway, all right, Sam, go ahead, 2247 02:09:48.319 --> 02:09:49.279 I see your hand raised. 2248 02:09:50.479 --> 02:09:50.840 Yeah. 2249 02:09:50.880 --> 02:09:56.680 So I just I find it funny and that they're 2250 02:09:56.760 --> 02:10:00.920 Asian and there's a reason why the stereotype things can't drive, 2251 02:10:01.479 --> 02:10:03.239 and now they can't fucking boade either. 2252 02:10:04.359 --> 02:10:08.159 I guess not. You know, I guess not. Oh Man. 2253 02:10:08.720 --> 02:10:11.319 Quite an episode we've had this evening, everybody. I want 2254 02:10:11.319 --> 02:10:13.479 to thank everybody for joining me on this edition of 2255 02:10:13.520 --> 02:10:16.000 The Cajun Night Live once again. 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