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Speaker 1: A lot of things happened, A lot of things happened
Speaker 1: in that week. Some of them we could talk about,
Speaker 1: and I don't necessarily have any issue with talking about
Speaker 1: the just overall what's going on in DC right now.
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Speaker 1: and the whole Epstein situation. But I mean, we've been
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Speaker 1: There is a lot of kind of you know, I
Speaker 1: say this all the time. There's wild things. It's a
Speaker 1: wild time to be alive. I understand that that doesn't
Speaker 1: take away from the reality of it. Let's be real here,
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna go ahead and start off here.
Speaker 1: We got a couple of things we're gonna be covering.
Speaker 1: A couple of them are about China, A couple of
Speaker 1: them are about the UK. Gonna talk about Russia a
Speaker 1: little bit, Gonna bring in some North Korea. Uh yeah, Ukraine.
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Speaker 1: the Cult on Thursday. The link is down in the
Speaker 1: show notes below. Now let's just start off here. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna watch this whole thing. But General Jack Keane,
Speaker 1: he's a retired general. He says that China is in
Speaker 1: the middle of doing one of the most comprehensive penetrations
Speaker 1: in the United States society in our two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty year history. Now that's kind of a weird overarching
Speaker 1: thing here. But we also can't, you know, refute the
Speaker 1: fact that two, I'm sorry, three Chinese nationals are recently
Speaker 1: caught attempting to smuggle a biological fungus into a America.
Speaker 1: I don't know if everybody heard that or not. I
Speaker 1: know they kind of mentioned it a couple things here
Speaker 1: and there, and yeah, one of them was from Wuhan.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying, but I'm just saying, right, and now
Speaker 1: they got caught and they actually tried defending themselves saying, no,
Speaker 1: we were coming here for research. One of these students'
Speaker 1: boyfriends works in a lab somewhere. The lab had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with this biological potential weapon that they were
Speaker 1: trying to smuggle in. But let's just get into it here.
Speaker 1: The US is target one. Oh excuse me, this is
Speaker 1: a Fox business. As far as what the source is,
Speaker 1: The US is target one for the Chinese Communist Party
Speaker 1: and retired General Jack Keane says that beefing up defenses
Speaker 1: to stand up against the threat should be high on
Speaker 1: the list of priorities. Y'all know, I'm not exactly the
Speaker 1: biggest fan of the CCP, so I mean, I can't
Speaker 1: disagree with the general on this one. China is conducting
Speaker 1: the most comprehensive penetration of our society since we were
Speaker 1: formed two hundred and fifty years ago to forty nine
Speaker 1: years now, and we've never seen anything quite like this,
Speaker 1: he said Tuesday, weighing in on news that a third
Speaker 1: Chinese national has attempted to smuggle biological materials into the
Speaker 1: United States within the past week. Fox new senior strategist
Speaker 1: Analysis joins The Morning with Maria where he spelled out
Speaker 1: the severity of the comprehensive threat cyber espionage working to
Speaker 1: interfere with the food supply, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, and transportation. Again,
Speaker 1: I can't really find things that is incorrect with what
Speaker 1: we're saying here, he says. The list goes on and
Speaker 1: in the event of a conflict with China in the Pacific,
Speaker 1: they would attempt to defeat the American people at home
Speaker 1: and break their will to support the war. And here
Speaker 1: we have a biological pathoge in smuggling into the country
Speaker 1: that could attack our agriculture and ultimately our food source.
Speaker 1: And I think this is more exploration than anyone else
Speaker 1: to detect. Excuse me, I think this is more exploration
Speaker 1: yet than anyone else to detect and see how they
Speaker 1: can penetrate and how comprehensive this could be for the future.
Speaker 1: Now the real implications of Chinese fungus smuggling. The China
Speaker 1: threat has escalated of late, with Chinese nationals attempting to
Speaker 1: smuggle a dangerous crop killing fungus into the United States.
Speaker 1: Last week, the two bioterrorism suspects were intercepted in Detroit, Michigan,
Speaker 1: while allegedly attempting to smuggle Fusarium grammar gramminarium yep I
Speaker 1: know Latin words sometimes in the United States to study
Speaker 1: it in labs. The toxic fungus causes a crop killing
Speaker 1: head blight, a disease of wheat, barley, maize, and rice
Speaker 1: that is responsible for billions of dollars of economic losses
Speaker 1: worldwide each year and is also toxic to humans, according
Speaker 1: to the Department of Justice. A Chinese PhD student from
Speaker 1: Wuhan was also recently arrested for allegedly sending packages containing
Speaker 1: concealed biological materials into the United States from China in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: know where the article is cut off like that, but
Speaker 1: fair enough so we have some serious implications going on
Speaker 1: with what they are trying to do. Hypothetically, I can't
Speaker 1: imagine a situation where, you know, Chinese labs and Chinese scientists.
Speaker 1: It's not like America has suffered at the hands of
Speaker 1: them anytime recently. That comes to mind, of course, But
Speaker 1: then we've got this going on. Yeah, I see that
Speaker 1: as not a positive thing here Before I go on
Speaker 1: to the next article that kind of talks a little
Speaker 1: bit more about this. I'm gonna go ahead and read
Speaker 1: the chat and see how everybody weighs in, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, if anybody has any other articles or anything
Speaker 1: they would like to weigh in on, please raise your
Speaker 1: hand at anytime, Raven Lee, please.
Speaker 2: So I dropped in the chat there is speaking of
Speaker 2: China and like things that they are doing. There is
Speaker 2: a micro organism, there is a bacteria that they decided
Speaker 2: to bring from space. The potential threat they are I
Speaker 2: just dropped it in the chat, but it's talking about
Speaker 2: like they discovered a bacterial thing in their bacterial strand,
Speaker 2: and I've heard of some about it. There's some kind
Speaker 2: of fungus or something that they're talking about that might
Speaker 2: have been brought down from space by China.
Speaker 1: So o oho, okay, well let's talk about this a little
Speaker 1: bit here. As we're on the China thing. Anyway, there
Speaker 1: are some reports, not even saying I necessarily believe these,
Speaker 1: but there are some reports that are saying that China
Speaker 1: is trying to set up an actual base of operations
Speaker 1: on the dark side of the Moon. We talked about
Speaker 1: that I think two weeks ago, and I still have
Speaker 1: no idea how they're going to power a nuclear reactor
Speaker 1: without steam or anything, because it's allegedly space as a vacuum.
Speaker 1: So what are you going to do to cause propulsion
Speaker 1: to turn the turbans that I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know it. The articles that we read didn't really give
Speaker 1: a lot of explanation to that. But China is absolutely
Speaker 1: making a push in their own space race right now.
Speaker 1: So now that we're talking about an unidentified bacterial strain
Speaker 1: discovered inside China's space station, Okay, this is from gizmoto
Speaker 1: dot com Space and Spaceflight. Let's read in the microbes
Speaker 1: could potentially pose a threat to the health of astronauts
Speaker 1: on board Tiogong. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. In
Speaker 1: October twenty twenty two, China launched the final module of
Speaker 1: its orbiting space station. Since then, it has been astronauts
Speaker 1: aboard Tiogong. An unusual and previously unknown microbe has also
Speaker 1: been occupying low Earth orbit. A group of scientists examined
Speaker 1: swabs collected from inside Tiogong space station, revealing a form
Speaker 1: of bacteria not known to inhabit Earth. The discovery published
Speaker 1: in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, highlights
Speaker 1: the need to study the newly identified microbial strain to
Speaker 1: protect the health of the astronauts on board the Chinese
Speaker 1: space station. Pause before we go any further. That's terrifying.
Speaker 1: There's movies about this exact thing going on, when astronauts
Speaker 1: find some sort of space fungus or something along these lines,
Speaker 1: and it slowly but surely kills them all or turns
Speaker 1: them into space zombies. I've seen. I feel like I've
Speaker 1: seen a few sci fi horror flicks where this is
Speaker 1: what happens. Leave it to China to make the movie's reality.
Speaker 1: I am her right anyway. The previously unknown microbe named Nialia,
Speaker 1: oh geez, there's a bigger one next to it, Unalia
Speaker 1: tiong gung gensis ti tian gan gensis. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: assume that's a hard G than a soft G. I
Speaker 1: don't know. After the space station where it was discovered
Speaker 1: has proven especially resilient surviving in the harsh condition of
Speaker 1: micro gravity. Chionggong's shin Zoo fifteen astronauts swabbed a cabin
Speaker 1: on the space station in May of twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: as part of a surve by the China Space Station
Speaker 1: Habitation Area Microbiome Program God's Mouthful. Follow up studies of
Speaker 1: the swabs trace the newly discovered microbe to a strain
Speaker 1: that appears similar to Nealia circulons circlons okay, a rod
Speaker 1: shaped spore forming bacterium originally isolated from soil. It's not
Speaker 1: clear whether the strain evolved on the space station or
Speaker 1: had already evolved on Earth before hitching a ride to
Speaker 1: Low Earth orbit. Again, this sounds terrifying. The newly discovered
Speaker 1: species can break down gelatin for nitrogen and carbon, helping
Speaker 1: it to ensure harsh conditions by forming a protective biofilm.
Speaker 1: It also packs its essential chemistry into tough spores, allowing
Speaker 1: it to survive in extreme environments. Last year, scientists uncovered
Speaker 1: a mutated strain of drug resistant bacteria thriving under the
Speaker 1: harsh conditions of space aboard the International Space Station. This
Speaker 1: the ISS. Although Nealia tia jung Ginja's Yeah and it's
Speaker 1: ISS counterpart are both space faring spacefaring strains Jesus, they
Speaker 1: differ in composition and function. According to the paper, it's
Speaker 1: not clear if the bacterium poses a threat to the
Speaker 1: Tiongong astronauts, but the scientists behind the discovery say further
Speaker 1: examination of the new strain needs to be carried out.
Speaker 1: Understanding the characteristics of microbes during long term space missions
Speaker 1: is essential for safeguarding the health of astronauts and maintaining
Speaker 1: the functionality of spacecraft, said The paper read. Okay, so
Speaker 1: not only do we have Chinese nationals sneaking in bacteria
Speaker 1: and fungus into the United States, we also have some
Speaker 1: unknown space bacteria that is currently rocking and rolling on
Speaker 1: the Chinese space station. This sounds like the plot of
Speaker 1: a movie. I don't even know how else to call that.
Speaker 1: But let's go even further into it. Now. This is
Speaker 1: ABC News potential agro terrorism fungus into US, and this
Speaker 1: is from the Department of Justice. Let's listen in.
Speaker 3: I'm going to turn now to the case of two
Speaker 3: Chinese researchers charge with smuggling what's considered to be a
Speaker 3: potential weapon for agro terr rhythm into the US and
Speaker 3: that prosecutors say could target the nation's food supply. Our
Speaker 3: Chief Justice corresponding Pierre Thomas, has this story for US.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Pierre.
Speaker 4: Michael, Good morning. We're talking about a fungus which dj
Speaker 4: is calling a potential bile terror threat. Take a look
Speaker 4: at it under the microscroup. This is Fusarium gravit e
Speaker 4: aerum and it causes billions of dollars in crop damage
Speaker 4: each year. A pathogen that rocks wheat, barley, and rice,
Speaker 4: and if consumed by humans, can cause vomiting, liver damage,
Speaker 4: and birth defects. This morning, two researchers from China are
Speaker 4: accused of trying to smuggle it into the US to
Speaker 4: take it to a lab at the University of Michigan.
Speaker 4: Authorities claimed that in July of last year, they allegedly
Speaker 4: caught a scientists from China with the fungus hidden in
Speaker 4: a lot of tissues in his backpack at the Detroit Airport.
Speaker 4: Authority say the scientists initially lied, claiming he was coming
Speaker 4: to America to visit his girlfriend and that he had
Speaker 4: no idea how the material got into his luggage, but
Speaker 4: later he allegedly admitted he smuggled the fugus into the
Speaker 4: US to conduct research on it with his girlfriend, who
Speaker 4: was a visiting fellow at the University of Michigan.
Speaker 3: Michael well Pierre had the University of Michigan responded to
Speaker 3: any of this.
Speaker 4: Well, they're telling us that they're cooperating with the investigation,
Speaker 4: and they condemned any activity that could harm the public
Speaker 4: or damaged national security.
Speaker 1: Michael all right, wow, okay, so I'm trying very hard
Speaker 1: to give him the benefit of the doubt here. I
Speaker 1: don't know how this random, super potentially terroristic fungus ended
Speaker 1: up in my bag. I just don't know. Then cut
Speaker 1: to he admitted, Oh, no, I put it there on
Speaker 1: purpose because I was going to do research on it
Speaker 1: with my girlfriend. The story is not checking out. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: That's not even passing the first level of the sniff meter.
Speaker 1: Let's read it in here. Yeah, those are two of
Speaker 1: the most names that have ever been written. Yung Qing
Speaker 1: Jun thirty three and Zung Kyung Luis Liu Lou Sure,
Speaker 1: thirty three years old and thirty four years old, respectively,
Speaker 1: citizens of the of West Taiwan. I'm not calling it
Speaker 1: the People's republic of shit. We're allegedly receiving Chinese government
Speaker 1: funding for their research, well, obviously some of it at
Speaker 1: the University of Michigan, officials said the complaint. Yeah. The
Speaker 1: complaint also alleges that Jiun's electronics contained information describing her
Speaker 1: membership in and loyalty to the CCP. Color me shocked,
Speaker 1: Color me shocked. It is further alleged that Jian's boyfriend
Speaker 1: Liu works at a Chinese university where he conducts research
Speaker 1: on the same pathogen, and that he first lied but
Speaker 1: then it it to smuggling Fusarium Griminarium okay into America
Speaker 1: through the Detroit Metropolitan Airport so that he could conduct
Speaker 1: research on it in the laboratory of University of Michigan,
Speaker 1: where his girlfriend Jeon worked. The press release said. Attorney
Speaker 1: General Pam Bondi said in a statement that the Justice
Speaker 1: Department has no higher mission than keeping the American people
Speaker 1: safe and protecting our nation from hostile foreign actors who
Speaker 1: would do us harm. Well, Obviously, thanks to the hard
Speaker 1: work of our excellent DOJ attorneys, this defendant, who clandestinely
Speaker 1: attempted to bring a destructive substance into the United States
Speaker 1: will face years behind bars, the Attorney General said. The
Speaker 1: FBI says it causes head blight, a disease of wheat, barley, maize,
Speaker 1: and rice, and is responsible for billions at dollars. We
Speaker 1: heard that a couple of times here. Now, I don't
Speaker 1: know what the difference between like the potato famine and
Speaker 1: Ireland that was caused by a blight and what a
Speaker 1: head blight is. Maybe this is the same thing. I'm
Speaker 1: not the most well educated when it comes to agriculture
Speaker 1: and agro terrorism. However, just to say that it causes
Speaker 1: birth defects. I also find that to be pretty interesting
Speaker 1: because China was also caught.
Speaker 5: This was.
Speaker 1: Ten years ago. They were caught putting certain paints on
Speaker 1: toy baby toys on purpose, hoping that the babies would
Speaker 1: put it in their mouths and would cause some serious
Speaker 1: defects later on. I think China kind of screwed themselves
Speaker 1: to that whole one child policy. Now I think you're
Speaker 1: allowed to have two, but even still there's like restrictions
Speaker 1: on these types of things. And so they now would
Speaker 1: be coming after their biggest enemy, aka the United States.
Speaker 1: I could see that one hundred percent the alleged actions
Speaker 1: of these Chinese nationals, including a loyalty loyal member of
Speaker 1: the CCP, are of the gravest national security concerns. These
Speaker 1: two aliens have been charged with smuggling a fungus that
Speaker 1: had been described as potential agro terrorism weapon into the
Speaker 1: heartland of America, where they apparently intend to use the
Speaker 1: University of Michigan Laboratory to further their scheme. US attorney
Speaker 1: Jerome Gorgan says today's criminal charges levied upon the Chinese
Speaker 1: nationals are indicative of CBP's critical role in protecting the
Speaker 1: American people from biological threats that could devastate our agricultural
Speaker 1: economy and cause harm to humans, especially when it involves
Speaker 1: a researcher from a major university attempting to clan destinely
Speaker 1: bring potential harmful biological materials into the United States. US
Speaker 1: Customs and Border Protection Marty c Ravens said, And that's
Speaker 1: also kind of interesting too. Up until relatively recently, we
Speaker 1: were selling a lot of food to China because, you know,
Speaker 1: when the Communist revolution took over a lot of these
Speaker 1: you know, if you want to call it, the peasant
Speaker 1: class of farmers in China were forced off of their
Speaker 1: farms and forced into factories to work slave labor jobs
Speaker 1: or sweatshop jobs, same thing, interchangeable dialogue. We're going to
Speaker 1: be honest about this, and a lot of the farmland
Speaker 1: in China that used to feed the billion people that
Speaker 1: live there was no longer being produced. Now China doesn't
Speaker 1: have as many mouths to feed. Now arguably I disagree
Speaker 1: with that, but some people were saying this because the
Speaker 1: one child policy all the things, A fine, fine, okay.
Speaker 1: That being said, they rely on American soy. Now, I
Speaker 1: don't know how that is shaking out currently with the
Speaker 1: tariff war that Trump is putting on with them right now.
Speaker 1: Not to mention, most of Europe also just cited with
Speaker 1: Trump on this and are now levying their own tariffs
Speaker 1: against China currently. So maybe this is their way of,
Speaker 1: you know, evening the playing field a bit. If we
Speaker 1: can't buy the soy, no one can. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I didn't even say soy. It was grain though,
Speaker 1: but you know, it's in the same agro terrorism conversation,
Speaker 1: so maybe that was their plan. Jiam was scheduled to
Speaker 1: appear Tuesday afternoon in federal court in Detroit for her
Speaker 1: initial appearance on the complaint. The DJ said. The affidavit
Speaker 1: alleges that Jien and Liu were dating and also researching
Speaker 1: the biological pathogen, and when questioned about smuggling the pathogen
Speaker 1: into the United States, lied to authorities at the Detroit Airport.
Speaker 1: On July twenty seventh, twenty twenty four, Leo entered the
Speaker 1: United States and told authorities he was visiting his girlfriend
Speaker 1: and then returned to China to start his own laboratory
Speaker 1: in China. I feel like that was a double entunter.
Speaker 1: He allegedly said that he had no work materials, but
Speaker 1: upon a secondary screaming of his luggage, authorities found tissues
Speaker 1: concealing a note in Chinese, a round piece of filter
Speaker 1: paper with a series of circles drawn on it, and
Speaker 1: four clear plastic baggies with small clumps of reddish plant
Speaker 1: material inside. He told authorities he didn't know how the
Speaker 1: materials ended up in the bag, and suggested someone placed
Speaker 1: them there without his knowledge. He was arrested at that time.
Speaker 1: The court record suggested Leo stated in that he intentionally
Speaker 1: hit the samples in his backpack because he knew there
Speaker 1: were restrictions on the important importation of the materials. You
Speaker 1: think okay. According to the complaint, Leu confirmed that he
Speaker 1: had intentionally put the samples in a wad of tissues
Speaker 1: so CBP officials would be less likely to find it,
Speaker 1: and confiscated and he could continue his research in the
Speaker 1: United States. The University of Michigan put out a statement
Speaker 1: late Tuesday afternoon. We strongly condemn these actions. We heard
Speaker 1: about that already, and you know all this to say.
Speaker 1: And if I've said it once, I've said it a
Speaker 1: thousand times. But again, I will die on this hill.
Speaker 1: Don't Trump, don't trust China. China is asshole. Thank you
Speaker 1: random of Malaysian gentlemen. Anyway. All right, so now we've
Speaker 1: gotten the whole China conversation out of here. Let's move on,
Speaker 1: shall we. But before we do, if anybody's anything they
Speaker 1: would like to add into this, comments, questions, whatever the
Speaker 1: case is, go ahead and feel free to just unmute
Speaker 1: yourself and let's chime in on it. Otherwise we can
Speaker 1: just kind of move forward with it. Let's see the
Speaker 1: Jerusalem Post. This is an article from the Jerusalem Post.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, Royce shout out to you,
Speaker 1: our resident Jewish correspondent Iran orders thousands of tons of
Speaker 1: ballistic missile ingredients from China. Yeah. I do promise this
Speaker 1: is not going to be an overly Chinese episode. But
Speaker 1: I can't help the fact that the news is the news,
Speaker 1: right now and China be doing the most they really
Speaker 1: do be let's go into it now. Sources estimate that,
Speaker 1: if delivered, the materials could produce around eight hundred missiles.
Speaker 1: Iran has ordered thousands of tons of ballistic missile ingredients
Speaker 1: from China as part of an effort to rebuild its
Speaker 1: military capabilities while navigating ongoing nuclear talks with the United States.
Speaker 1: According to a Wall Street Journal report on Thursday, citing
Speaker 1: sources familiar with the transactions, the shipments, which are expected
Speaker 1: to reach Iran in the coming months include ammonium perchlorate,
Speaker 1: which I'm gonna be honest with you, I've never heard
Speaker 1: of that specifically. What I do know is that it
Speaker 1: is a critical component in the rocket propellant that they
Speaker 1: are using these days. Oh it says, are there a
Speaker 1: key component the solid and the solid propellant used for
Speaker 1: ballistic missiles? Boom? How about them? Sources indicated that these
Speaker 1: materials could potentially fuel hundreds of missiles. Some of the
Speaker 1: ammonium perchlorate, Yeah, perchlorate is expected to be sent to
Speaker 1: militias aligned with Iram, including the Hoothies and Yemen because,
Speaker 1: of course, because the Houthis have to make their appearance
Speaker 1: in some way, shape or form. I do like I
Speaker 1: will take this moment to kind of pause this one.
Speaker 1: I do like how whenever America started decimating the Hoothies
Speaker 1: with airstrikes, Iran turned the cold shoulder and acted like
Speaker 1: they didn't even know who they were. That was hilarious,
Speaker 1: that being said, without Iran, the Hoothies have no armament whatsoever.
Speaker 1: So and I know, I know America shouldn't ness necessarily
Speaker 1: get involved with things that aren't our a problem, but
Speaker 1: the who these keep attempting to touch our boats and
Speaker 1: America has an issue with people touching our boats. Now,
Speaker 1: they haven't been successful, let's be honest here, but they
Speaker 1: keep trying. But that's the thing. It's an insurgency. You're
Speaker 1: not going to bomb them enough to where they'll quote
Speaker 1: unquote get the message and stop, because that's not how
Speaker 1: an insurgency works. There's only one way to get rid
Speaker 1: of an insurgency, and that's eradication. And I'm not exactly
Speaker 1: advocating for that here and now, but one plus one
Speaker 1: still equals too. There's only one way to handle that
Speaker 1: kind of shit anyway. This move aligns with Iran's border
Speaker 1: strategy to strengthen its regional influence and rebuild its missile
Speaker 1: arsenal while continuing to negotiate with the Trump administration over
Speaker 1: the future of its nuclear program. Because there won't be
Speaker 1: a future of its nuclear program. That's what the goal
Speaker 1: would be here. I know they're saying they want clean
Speaker 1: energy as they're funding terrorist groups and supply them. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, if you start acting right, maybe nobody would care.
Speaker 1: I'm just throwing it out here. You know, if a
Speaker 1: non nuclear nation that is not affiliated with any terrorist
Speaker 1: cells whatsoever, wanted to quote unquote go nuclear, and I
Speaker 1: don't mean bombs, I mean nuclear power. I feel like
Speaker 1: most of the world really wouldn't care. It just so
Speaker 1: happens that Iran is not that country. But okay, and
Speaker 1: also I found this out recently. Did y'all know that
Speaker 1: it is illegal to be a homosexual in Iran? However,
Speaker 1: being a transgender is completely legal, and Tehran is actually
Speaker 1: a global hub for transgender operations. I did not know this,
Speaker 1: but apparently this is very very true. They see you
Speaker 1: as Okay, if you're gonna be gay, we can throw
Speaker 1: you off of a building. However, if you're gonna go
Speaker 1: through the process to get parts of you removed because
Speaker 1: you claim that you're that much of a girl somehow
Speaker 1: that's okay by allah, But being gay is totally not okay.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I just found that to be a weird
Speaker 1: double entendure here, and that's been going on since the
Speaker 1: early nineties. Come to find out, when did the ayatola
Speaker 1: get okay with trans But apparently he's not cool with
Speaker 1: the LGB, but he's cool with the t's, he's cool
Speaker 1: with the t's. I don't know. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Royce, go ahead and chime in on this one.
Speaker 6: Brother, No, I've never random stupid question.
Speaker 7: So you said in the past that it's acceptable for
Speaker 7: one of these people to like fuck goats and things.
Speaker 6: So does that.
Speaker 8: Mean that once you're trends, they are allowed to get
Speaker 8: fucked by said goats?
Speaker 1: No? No, because best reality is not okay for free gotcha.
Speaker 1: For a human to get got by an animal is
Speaker 1: not okay. But for the human to get the animal,
Speaker 1: it's getting his sinful seed out without involving another party,
Speaker 1: which is okay by a law. Now with that being said,
Speaker 1: I do not know if Iran is big with the
Speaker 1: whole You know, goats and things of that nature. I
Speaker 1: know that parts of Afghanistan absolutely are. There are countries
Speaker 1: in the region that are. I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: so much of a systemic thing in Iran because they
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel like the Iranian Religious Guard
Speaker 1: would have something to say about that. But I also
Speaker 1: maybe that would be okay because I have seen many
Speaker 1: videos with many different emoms saying that it was okay
Speaker 1: to spill your seed into an animal as long as
Speaker 1: you sacrifice it afterwards in the name of Allah. I
Speaker 1: don't believe that it's a Islamic rule of thumb. I
Speaker 1: am just saying that I have seen many videos where
Speaker 1: that as being greenlit by Islamic religious leaders, and I
Speaker 1: don't even know if that's more of a Sunni or
Speaker 1: Sheite type of conversation, to be honest with you. But yeah,
Speaker 1: But at the same time, if you're a dude and
Speaker 1: you want to be a girl dude, Tehran is the
Speaker 1: place to be. Apparently they have some of the best
Speaker 1: surgeons on earth for making your audia any so to speak.
Speaker 1: I who knew. Yeah, yeah, anyway, all right, let's get
Speaker 1: in here. It says Iran has been expanding its stockpiles
Speaker 1: of uranium enrichment of uranium enriched to just below the
Speaker 1: weapons grade levels, despite calls from the US to curb
Speaker 1: its nuclear activities. At the same time, Iran has made
Speaker 1: it clear that it has no intentions of negotiating limits
Speaker 1: on its missile program, a point that has remained a
Speaker 1: major sticking point in the international discussions. According to sources,
Speaker 1: the order of the missile ingredients was placed in recent
Speaker 1: months by Iranian entity Pishgaman Tajeru Rafi Novin Company. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I destroyed that, But moving on there.
Speaker 1: Iranian who cares The material was source from Hong Kong
Speaker 1: based Lion Commodities Holding Limited, a company that did not
Speaker 1: respond to request for comment. Shocker again. The Iranian mission
Speaker 1: to the United Nations also declined to comment on the matter. Again,
Speaker 1: I can't say them really shocked on that. In a statement,
Speaker 1: a Chinese Foreign Minister spokesperson denied knowledge of the deal,
Speaker 1: asserting that China has quote always exercised strict control over
Speaker 1: dual use items in accordance with China's export control laws
Speaker 1: and regulations and its international obligations. Right. Yeah, part of
Speaker 1: building Iran's axis of resistance. The shipment of ammonium per
Speaker 1: chlorate is part of Irans Iran's border broader efforts to
Speaker 1: rebuilt it's so called Axis of resistance network, which includes
Speaker 1: a number of terror proxies across the region. Again, if
Speaker 1: you're trying to do it for strictly peaceful means and
Speaker 1: energy in these things, then why are you funding and
Speaker 1: supporting known terrorist groups. It's not a good look. No
Speaker 1: one's gonna let you do your uranium thing if you
Speaker 1: keep playing it that way. But Aaran doesn't know another
Speaker 1: way to go, That's how they do. These groups have
Speaker 1: faced significant setbacks over recent years as well as the
Speaker 1: ongoing war. These setbacks include Israeli strikes on Hesbelah in
Speaker 1: Lebanon and the assassination of key leaders such as Iranian
Speaker 1: General Kasim Solomani from former HESBLA secretary general said Hassan
Speaker 1: Azraala and multiple Hamas leaders. And yeah, let's let's not
Speaker 1: forget how those dudes died. By the way, anybody remember
Speaker 1: those pagers that Mussad had sent out in that giant,
Speaker 1: long term scheme to just cripple the terrorist group. That
Speaker 1: was cool, That was cool, And then the Iranian Prime
Speaker 1: Minister had one of those pagers. Yeah. Anyway, while the
Speaker 1: US and Israeli strikes have damaged the hoot these capabilities
Speaker 1: in Yemen, they continue to periodically launch missiles at Israel.
Speaker 1: Beyond supporting regional militias, Iran has also reportedly transferred ballistic
Speaker 1: missiles to Shia militia groups in Iraq. Iraq. Yeah, I know, people,
Speaker 1: butcher me for mispronouncing these words. I speak American dude,
Speaker 1: got off it, which had previously targeted both the US
Speaker 1: and Israeli forces in the region, now earlier shipments of
Speaker 1: missile ingredients. Earlier this year, Iranian ships docked in China
Speaker 1: to load over one thousand tons of sodium perchlorate, a
Speaker 1: precursor for the ammonium per chlorate. The material was delivered
Speaker 1: to Iranians ports in mid February and late March. According
Speaker 1: to shipping trackers, this quantity of sodium pure chlorate is
Speaker 1: said to be enough to fuel around two hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty short range missiles. The new order for ammonium perchlorate,
Speaker 1: which was placed months before President Trump's proposed nuclear talks
Speaker 1: with Iran Supreme Leader Ayatola Ali Kamani in early March
Speaker 1: could supply Iran with enough material to produce approximately eight
Speaker 1: hundred missiles, one official estimated. In response to Iran's missile activities,
Speaker 1: the US Treasury Department sanctioned six individuals and six entities
Speaker 1: from both Iran and China on April twenty ninth for
Speaker 1: their involvement in procuring ballistic missile propellant ingredients. Two weeks later,
Speaker 1: the Treasury expanded these sanctions to include additional Chinese and
Speaker 1: Hong Kong entities. The US Department of the Treasury also
Speaker 1: added sodium perchlorate to the list of materials that it
Speaker 1: believes are being used in Iran's military, nuclear or ballistic
Speaker 1: missile programs. Iran's reliance on four materials for missile production
Speaker 1: is due in part to domestic production bottlenecks. Fabian hens
Speaker 1: Or Hines, a military analyst at the International Institute for
Speaker 1: Strategic Studies, noted that Iran's defense industry struggles to meet
Speaker 1: its needs without the continued importation of missile propellant materials.
Speaker 1: The storage and handling of these materials, however, comes with
Speaker 1: significant risks. A daily explosion at the shahied Reji Port
Speaker 1: in April which killed dozens was reportedly caused by the
Speaker 1: mishandling of explosive materials by a unit of Iran's Islamic
Speaker 1: Revolutionary Guard Corps. Hey talked about them a little bit earlier.
Speaker 1: Some of the sodium perchlorate imported earlier this year was
Speaker 1: lost in that explosion, and official confirmed these substances are
Speaker 1: a major fire and explosive hazards, says Heines. Iran's defense
Speaker 1: industrial complex does not have a strong track record in
Speaker 1: ensuring safety standards. Yeah, I fully believe that. Now. It
Speaker 1: also says here that Russia fired North Korean ballistic missiles
Speaker 1: in extreme dangerous threat to Europe and Asia. We will
Speaker 1: talk about the North Korea Russia conversation here in a moment,
Speaker 1: but before we do, I want to come over here
Speaker 1: and check out the chat. And by the way, like
Speaker 1: I said, if anybody has anything they would like to
Speaker 1: chime in, please do so. Let's see where is the
Speaker 1: spirit animal Yo. Sam doesn't come to these. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen Sam on this before or I think maybe one time,
Speaker 1: but you know he usually goes with the meta mysteries
Speaker 1: Wednesday Night Live conversations. So yeah, anyway, let's see regarding
Speaker 1: the LA riots, ooh, Steph chiming in with the LA riots.
Speaker 1: I heard that sending the National Guard is illegal because
Speaker 1: the Constitution protects the state's rights to decide on the
Speaker 1: National Guard or not. Yes and no dot dot, So
Speaker 1: I do know that the National Guard is subservient to
Speaker 1: the governor of the state. That being said, they are
Speaker 1: also soldiers in the United States Army and they can't
Speaker 1: be called upon by the president. But I don't know
Speaker 1: wherein lies the fine print within the fine print to
Speaker 1: decide when they can and cannot be mobilized for this purpose.
Speaker 1: That being said, Gavin Newsom is not going to mobilize
Speaker 1: the National Guard. He was the one that was saying
Speaker 1: it was mostly peaceful protests while there was things on
Speaker 1: fire behind him. He's the guy that while LA was burning,
Speaker 1: he was saying, he's on the phone and President Biden
Speaker 1: to that woman and I was a complete lie. So
Speaker 1: I don't exactly know. I don't think that deploying marines
Speaker 1: to LA, which apparently seven hundred marines are there now,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the best course of action because
Speaker 1: marines only do one thing well, like three things really well,
Speaker 1: and none of them would go positively here. Not a
Speaker 1: single one of the things that we do positively would
Speaker 1: play out well here. But go ahead, Steph.
Speaker 9: Well, I totally agree. I commented that someone mentioned that
Speaker 9: they are sending the Marines and my thought is, or
Speaker 9: my comment was, like, bring out the krakend that's what
Speaker 9: that's about. But so there's two parts that I had
Speaker 9: heard today. Had a conversation with a more liberal leaning friend.
Speaker 9: It's a good type of liberal, not like the super extreme.
Speaker 1: But like they still have brain cells.
Speaker 9: I feel you gotcha, yeah, yeah, So what was explained
Speaker 9: to me is that I think California has the right
Speaker 9: to decide on whether they want the National Guard or not,
Speaker 9: and that the governor decided against that something along those lines.
Speaker 9: And the second part that I heard was illegal that
Speaker 9: if you are on the land of the United States,
Speaker 9: even if you're not a citizen, you have a right
Speaker 9: to do process. And I think there's been reports about
Speaker 9: people being taken at their place of work, you know,
Speaker 9: separated from their families, and then they're not given the
Speaker 9: right of due process or taken I guess back to
Speaker 9: what I would assume would be Mexico or closer to
Speaker 9: the border. And so is so I heard it's in
Speaker 9: the Constitution that they have a right to do process
Speaker 9: even if they're not US citizens on the soil. Does
Speaker 9: that make sense?
Speaker 1: It does. I don't actually know the answer to this because,
Speaker 1: and we've talked about that on this show before. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: a convicted felon has rights, but he also forfeits some
Speaker 1: of those rights because he's a convicted felon. When you're
Speaker 1: a foreign national on US soil, excuse me, You're still
Speaker 1: you're supposed to follow the laws of the land. You
Speaker 1: still have to obey speed limits, you still have you
Speaker 1: can't just walk around with a weapon, if you don't
Speaker 1: have air, if you're in a state that doesn't allow this,
Speaker 1: you still have to obey them. So to say that
Speaker 1: these are foreign nationals and I don't even know if
Speaker 1: these riots are majority foreign nationals or if these are
Speaker 1: majority lib tards who were screaming in justice on behalf
Speaker 1: of the foreign nationals, I don't know. You are You're
Speaker 1: supposed to have due process. Yes, you're a criminal, you
Speaker 1: see your day in court. All these things. Trump is
Speaker 1: just more about the mass deportations, Like we don't have
Speaker 1: to waste all this time and all these tax dollars
Speaker 1: keeping these people in prisons when we can just put
Speaker 1: them on a bus, put them on a plane, and
Speaker 1: have them land in their home country today or within
Speaker 1: the week. I understand wanting to streamline the process, but
Speaker 1: I also feel like the entire La Riot situation, how
Speaker 1: it's gone to this level where they're calling in marines,
Speaker 1: it's mind blowing to me personally. I don't know the
Speaker 1: actual legal steps as far as the due process goes.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that a foreign national in America is
Speaker 1: that I don't think they get the same rights as
Speaker 1: an American citizen. Basic human rights, of course, but it's
Speaker 1: not like these people will get to vote, so I
Speaker 1: don't know if they I don't know where that line
Speaker 1: is really drawn. I'm gonna be honest with you, Raven Lee.
Speaker 1: Go ahead.
Speaker 10: So I've been watching, like all of fellow veterans and
Speaker 10: like other marines be posting all over the place. Apparently
Speaker 10: Antifa decided today to test the waters and see if
Speaker 10: they would actually carry guns or not, and so Antifa shot.
Speaker 10: Antifa shot at submarines, and they found out really quick
Speaker 10: that they're authorized to shoot back, and they were like
Speaker 10: screaming like little girls on the thing, and then a
Speaker 10: whole bunch of veterans I guess are already like gearing up.
Speaker 2: And rolling out to head out there and make sure
Speaker 2: that they have their back. And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you fucked up. You felt that big time.
Speaker 10: There's like a whole bunch of Marine vets got already, so.
Speaker 1: Okay in that regard, I don't know. Antifa is not
Speaker 1: a very smart group. That's been proven a few times already.
Speaker 1: I get this, of all the people to try, of
Speaker 1: all the people in all the uniforms, you could, you know,
Speaker 1: try this with and the whole fuck around and find
Speaker 1: out the whole nine you're gonna do that at And
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, these are grunts, correct, I don't
Speaker 1: believe they sent the admin group out to monitor the
Speaker 1: streets of LA. I want to say they launched.
Speaker 10: A They have to be grunt units.
Speaker 2: They they're first in line, so they have to be
Speaker 2: the grunt units that are going. Which the one Marine
Speaker 2: vet is this big guy and he was like he
Speaker 2: was him showing the video and he was like, you
Speaker 2: done fucked up a ron because now you got people waiting,
Speaker 2: and like he's think, all we do is wait, just
Speaker 2: to be able to shoot back like you fucked up
Speaker 2: so bad.
Speaker 10: And I was like, yes, the tangles.
Speaker 1: It's oh man, for those that don't know. And yes,
Speaker 1: I might be a bit biased on this. I get
Speaker 1: that Marine grunts do four things really well. Okay, get things, pregnant,
Speaker 1: break things, lose things, and kill things. That's about it
Speaker 1: and its entirety, oh man, Of all the of all
Speaker 1: the groups, you could go play around the National Guard guys.
Speaker 1: Maybe they'll fire back, maybe they want those dudes I
Speaker 1: saw with sticks, like a legitimate stick with a shield.
Speaker 1: That was the National Guard guys. Marines don't do the
Speaker 1: whole riot control thing. That's not I have never in
Speaker 1: any of my time when I was wearing a EGA,
Speaker 1: was I ever trained in proper riot control techniques. Not once.
Speaker 1: We were taught how to close with, you know, the
Speaker 1: enemy by fire and support and repel the enemy assault
Speaker 1: by fire and close contact was what that was what
Speaker 1: we were trained with. But okay, okay, Antifa, you know what,
Speaker 1: I like it. I think it's great. I also don't
Speaker 1: know why they care so much and these other veteran groups,
Speaker 1: why are they trying to go out and save La.
Speaker 1: It's La. Just let it go. You know, I don't.
Speaker 1: The only people that care about l A are the
Speaker 1: people that live there, and not even most of them.
Speaker 1: I mean the homeless population I think overpowers the housed
Speaker 1: population or the unhoused. Apparently saying homeless is a bad
Speaker 1: word these days, is it the unhoused group? I think
Speaker 1: that's the majority in the city these days. So let
Speaker 1: it go, let them just let them do their thing,
Speaker 1: Let La become even more of a cess pool. But sure,
Speaker 1: let's let's deploy marine grunts into the fray. The situation
Speaker 1: will get handled. But boy, this is gonna be bad optics.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be really bad optics. Royce.
Speaker 11: What you got so I don't have to say is
Speaker 11: basically that is essentially an incursion on our lands. Even
Speaker 11: though I agree with you that La California is not
Speaker 11: exactly for I'm real estate anymore, it's still a part
Speaker 11: of the kindent on us. Yeah, So like if we maybe,
Speaker 11: how about this Republicans take over there or everybody else
Speaker 11: gets the fuck out.
Speaker 1: In a dream world, you know, it's not even it's
Speaker 1: not even just Republicans. How about just somebody that wants
Speaker 1: to make it better and doesn't do this wasteful spending
Speaker 1: and doesn't you know, regurgitate lib tard ideologies. I'll even
Speaker 1: take a Tulsi Gabbard style democrat. Let somebody like that
Speaker 1: run LA for a bit. But as of right now,
Speaker 1: in the current moment, it's kind of like Portland, you know,
Speaker 1: like just let it go, just just it. It can go,
Speaker 1: you know, Seattle, it can go. Denver. Some people would
Speaker 1: even say, I don't know, I've actually never been through Denver,
Speaker 1: but like, you know, is it gonna be missed? Like really,
Speaker 1: I don't know, go ahead ravenly.
Speaker 2: So the veteran groups that are talking about going are
Speaker 2: talking about going to support the Marines.
Speaker 10: They aren't talking about saving anything. They're talking about like
Speaker 10: wiping the city clean. So I was like, yeah, I
Speaker 10: mean they can do that in Portland too. While they're at.
Speaker 1: It, like, is it a war crime if it's on
Speaker 1: your own soil? That's a that's another good question, right.
Speaker 2: I think the brief that they're they likely got, well
Speaker 2: I'm assuming that they wouldn't allow like I don't know,
Speaker 2: it depends on what he authorized, but technically it's they
Speaker 2: have to go.
Speaker 10: They have to be fired upon first.
Speaker 2: They're engaging fire they have to be fired upon first
Speaker 2: and then they can take immediate action.
Speaker 10: But it depends on what the president is allowing.
Speaker 2: And you know, wow, I'm not one hundred percent certain
Speaker 2: what their orders were.
Speaker 1: You know what, I wonder if we could find the
Speaker 1: ROE that was given to them, because I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: they get fired at, like you know, it is only
Speaker 1: go time from that point onward. I get that. Other
Speaker 1: than that, are they out there just kind of be
Speaker 1: a show of force. And I can't imagine that they're
Speaker 1: getting riot shields. Maybe they are. Maybe they got there
Speaker 1: and they were handed shields and they were said to
Speaker 1: just join the shield wall and if they hear pop
Speaker 1: shots then like it's green light. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I am very curious what the on paper ROE is
Speaker 1: for those seven hundred ground pounders that are in LA
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 12: This is probably really really strict because you have all
Speaker 12: eyes watching right now, and they aren't going to let
Speaker 12: them just do what we do best, so you know,
Speaker 12: it's going to have to.
Speaker 2: Be really political, really watched. I'm wondering at how much,
Speaker 2: like at what level are they actually going to be
Speaker 2: allowed to engage or is this going to be like
Speaker 2: trying to minimize the engagement.
Speaker 10: I don't know. I'm curious to see what happens.
Speaker 1: I man, what a what a weird time that we
Speaker 1: are currently living in. Gavin Newsom, the governor of the
Speaker 1: quote unquote great state of California, is saying that all
Speaker 1: of this is Trump's fault. He is the reason for
Speaker 1: these things. Blah blah blah. Never mind the fact that
Speaker 1: la was on fire then had landslides just recently, like
Speaker 1: the city has not recovered from those things. The city
Speaker 1: is on fire again from protesters. And also and that's
Speaker 1: how you can tell that it's not even just the
Speaker 1: the illegal aliens that are protesting for their right to
Speaker 1: be here, which you don't have a right to be here.
Speaker 1: You're not from here. There's rules, right. But I also,
Speaker 1: as I'm watching these news clips, I'm seeing a Mexican flag. Sure,
Speaker 1: i' Salvadorian flag, sure, hon Duran flag with you. I
Speaker 1: get it. I'm not supporting it, but I understand why
Speaker 1: I would see these flags being waved. Then I see
Speaker 1: a Palestine flag, Then I see an Isis flag, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, this makes sense. These are the people
Speaker 1: that are out here, These are American citizens that could
Speaker 1: be at work, but instead or do I see now? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so yeah in the Antifa group, boy man, that's that's hilarious.
Speaker 1: I Uh, I really hope that we see how this
Speaker 1: plays out together, you know that. Boy. I hope they
Speaker 1: got the message and they went home. I hope the
Speaker 1: riots get dispersed quick because that the marine's stepping foot
Speaker 1: there for this principle. It's not gonna play well for
Speaker 1: anybody in my opinion, but the situation will get resolved
Speaker 1: fairly quickly. I would think. Although I'm surprised it was
Speaker 1: only seven hundred marines, why not send you know, that's
Speaker 1: that's like two companies, three companies arguably send a couple
Speaker 1: of battalions, you know, just handle it.
Speaker 2: There's I know it could send that many, Like seven hundred,
Speaker 2: enough is gonna do enough damage if they decide to
Speaker 2: just handle it. But they're not gonna be They're not
Speaker 2: gonna want all out warfare because then people are really
Speaker 2: gonna feel some type of way.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like they're not gonna get shot
Speaker 1: at by most of the civilians there. Because it's California.
Speaker 1: They can't have fun guns. I just I was talking
Speaker 1: this past week with a bunch of guys from California
Speaker 1: veterans who hate their home state, and it sucks. There
Speaker 1: was a there was an ar that was being auctioned
Speaker 1: off and a silent auction as a part of the
Speaker 1: charity group. Nobody from California could bid on this weapon.
Speaker 1: There was a few people from certain states that couldn't
Speaker 1: bid on it, and it sucks. That gun was gorgeous.
Speaker 1: I wanted it so bad, but I also they they
Speaker 1: got into a bidding war with two very rich people
Speaker 1: for this gun. It was for charity, and I get that,
Speaker 1: but all of the guys that I know from California
Speaker 1: would have loved to have bid on it, but they couldn't.
Speaker 1: I'm just as I'm seeing this go down, the only
Speaker 1: people that would be able to shoot at the Marines
Speaker 1: or the National Guard or the police for that matter,
Speaker 1: would probably be people that are illegally carrying probably an
Speaker 1: illegal weapon. So in a certain lights, this would be
Speaker 1: California justice reigning Supreme. I don't know, that's just that's
Speaker 1: just my own Layman's Louisiana cage in perspective. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but yeah, fun times, fun things going on in California.
Speaker 1: I hope those Marines have a blast. I know that
Speaker 1: peacetime military sucks, but hey, hey, does it count as
Speaker 1: a combat action ribbon? Now, that's what I want to know.
Speaker 1: If a grunt gets shot at or gets shot he
Speaker 1: gets a purple heart and a car in LA, that
Speaker 1: would be kind of cool.
Speaker 10: It's enemies foreign and domestics, so technically do oh.
Speaker 1: My god, that means they're gonna have the If that
Speaker 1: happens and you get a car, does that mean that
Speaker 1: they have to acknowledge that it was a campaign? Is?
Speaker 1: Are they gonna have a California Campain medal for these
Speaker 1: seven hundred dudes? Oh? Man, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I know I'm being a little ridiculous here, but God,
Speaker 1: that that would be dope. I wonder what that would
Speaker 1: look like to just have the California bear on a ribbon.
Speaker 1: What's that for the Battle of Villa? Oh man, that'd
Speaker 1: be sick. I don't know. Okay, let's moving off the
Speaker 1: topic here. Let's get to the chat before we talk
Speaker 1: about Russia and North Korea. Uh, Dear optimists, pessimists, and realists.
Speaker 1: While you guys were busy arguing about the glass of water.
Speaker 1: I drink it, sincerely, the opportunists Royce. That was gorgeous.
Speaker 1: I like that a lot that Why not?
Speaker 6: You know, no, open up, there's more to it.
Speaker 1: Congratulations the water had flora. I did, and it's sincerely
Speaker 1: the conspiracy theory yo, yes, yes, indeed.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then we have Kamala Harris for the people. It
Speaker 1: looks like five people all having a good old fashioned
Speaker 1: circle jerk. Kamala Harris posted this to remind everyone. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: posted this to remind everyone that she's for the people
Speaker 1: and like Trump. But can someone please explain what this is?
Speaker 1: That was an actual campaign poster that she had. It's
Speaker 1: that is a legitimate cartoon circle jerk happening. Okay, wow,
Speaker 1: Camillte would just be doing her thing, you know. And
Speaker 1: now I'm hearing ooh ooh as we're talking about California.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to not gag as I say this.
Speaker 1: There are some reports that she might try to run
Speaker 1: for governor after Newsome serve his terms. Some are speculating
Speaker 1: that he is going to try to make a run
Speaker 1: for the presidency and that Cameltoe is going to try
Speaker 1: to run for the governor of the state and that's
Speaker 1: what we as Americans need. The woman who systematically put
Speaker 1: minorities in jail for nonviolent drug offenses, kept a man
Speaker 1: on death row after it was all confirmed that he
Speaker 1: was an innocent man, like to the point where it
Speaker 1: was about a week prior to him actually losing his
Speaker 1: life for a crime he did not commit. She knew
Speaker 1: this and kept him on death row. It had to
Speaker 1: go above her head for somebody to say something to
Speaker 1: save this guy's life. Kept prisoners in jail for longer
Speaker 1: than their sentence required because she said that California needed
Speaker 1: the cheap labor, so she legitimately was using minorities for
Speaker 1: slave sweatshop labor inside of prisons. Well, pass their time
Speaker 1: to get out. That's who we need to run the state. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess we shall see how that election goes out.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, Roy says a very poor planned poster. You know,
Speaker 1: I agree, that's that's wild. For anybody who would like
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Speaker 1: this every Wednesday night, nine pm Central. Okay, everybody, let's
Speaker 1: get back to it, shall we. Now? The North Korean
Speaker 1: ballistic missiles in extremely dangerous threat to Europe and Asia.
Speaker 1: This is from Zelenski. North Korean ballistic missiles once again
Speaker 1: rained down over Ukraine this week, as the war with
Speaker 1: Russia continues to rage, prompting President Zelenski to renew warnings
Speaker 1: that the threat posed by Moscow Pyeonggang Alliance is extremely
Speaker 1: dangerous for Europe and Asia alike. The longer this war
Speaker 1: continues on our territory, the more warfare technologies evolve, and
Speaker 1: greater the threat be to everyone, he said on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: This must be addressed now, not when thousands of upgraded
Speaker 1: Shahied drones and ballistic missiles begin to threaten Soul and Tokyo.
Speaker 1: Zelenski's warning came just one day after Ukraine's military intelligence
Speaker 1: chief Budanov confirmed in an interview with the war Zone
Speaker 1: that Russia has significantly improved North Korea's kN twenty three
Speaker 1: ballistic missiles the earlier this year. The Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team,
Speaker 1: a UN member group that includes the US, UK, Australia, Cana, France, Germany, Italy,
Speaker 1: Japan and the Netherlands, oh and also New Zealand and
Speaker 1: South Korea, confirmed late last month at Pyeongang not only
Speaker 1: supplied Moscow with more than eleven thousand troops beginning last
Speaker 1: October that's also been confirmed by multiple sources Russian and
Speaker 1: Ukrainian like, but also nine million rounds of mixed artillery
Speaker 1: and multiple rocket launcher ammunition, a slew of weapons systems,
Speaker 1: and at least one hundred ballistic missiles last year alone.
Speaker 1: In May twenty twenty four, Ukrainian authorities reported that at
Speaker 1: least half of North Korean supply ballistic missiles fired by
Speaker 1: Russia were missing their targets by malfunctioning and even exploding
Speaker 1: mid air, to the surprise of no one. I hate
Speaker 1: to be that guy, but yeah. On Monday, Budenov said
Speaker 1: the missiles are now hitting Ukrainian targets with deadly accuracy
Speaker 1: and improvement that appears to have arisen following June twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four's mutual defense pack between Russia and Kim Jong Un.
Speaker 1: Very very interesting. The Ukrainian officials are sounding the alarm
Speaker 1: that there is a clear exchange of North Korean troops
Speaker 1: and supplies for Russia's Russian technological know how, including developments
Speaker 1: it has learned from Iranian drome malfunctioning. We are also
Speaker 1: tracking evidence that Russian Iranian drone technologies have spread to
Speaker 1: North Korea. As Lenski said on Tuesday, this is extremely
Speaker 1: dangerous for both Europe and East and Southeast Asia. Similarly,
Speaker 1: offset Pyongyang has agreed to produce Russia's uvas on North
Speaker 1: Korean territory, utilizing developments in drone warfare the Moscow has
Speaker 1: obtained through the Iran. Through Iran and its steady supply
Speaker 1: of Shaheed drones, it will for sure be bring changes
Speaker 1: in the military balance in the region between North Korea
Speaker 1: and South Korea, the intelligence chief warned on Monday. Now
Speaker 1: I don't want to spend too much time on that
Speaker 1: one because we have more things to read on this one.
Speaker 1: And then we're gonna circle back to the whole Russia's
Speaker 1: clap back to the Ukrainian drone strike that just happened
Speaker 1: in their country. Now this is from RAND. I know
Speaker 1: some people hate the RAND Corporation. I see it as
Speaker 1: not a source of truth one hundred percent, but a
Speaker 1: source nonetheless. So let's read in here. It says dealing
Speaker 1: with North Korea as it deepens military cooperation with Russia.
Speaker 1: This was just posted last week. North Korea's growing friendship
Speaker 1: with Russia could yield benefits that empower Kim Jong UN's
Speaker 1: regime to pursue its Stratiga objectives more aggressively. To prevent
Speaker 1: that from happening, the United States needs to signal that
Speaker 1: its commitment to contribute to South korea self defense remains unchanged.
Speaker 1: The following discussion assesses the current state of military cooperation
Speaker 1: between North Korea and Russia and considers options for the
Speaker 1: United States and South Korea to counter the political or
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the potential benefits of such cooperation. Now, the
Speaker 1: state of military cooperation, Let's talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: the oa Kim Jong in putin. Pyongyang has been depending
Speaker 1: on its military cooperation with Moscow since Russia's invasion of
Speaker 1: Ukraine since twenty twenty two. The cooperation began with North
Speaker 1: Korea's shipments of artillery shows to Russia later that year
Speaker 1: and expanded to include the signing of a bilateral mutual
Speaker 1: defense treaty in twenty twenty four. North Korea took yet
Speaker 1: another step to deepen the partnership in late twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: when the country began sending troops to Russia to help
Speaker 1: fight the war in Ukraine, marking an unprecedented level of
Speaker 1: involvement by Pyongyang in an international conflict. This is also
Speaker 1: very accurate to mind. I don't believe North Korea has
Speaker 1: ever sent troops to aid an ally, or to aid
Speaker 1: anyone for that matter, in their entire history, at least
Speaker 1: since communism took over. I could be wrong if there's
Speaker 1: some history buff out there that has another example of
Speaker 1: when North Korea sent troops to help an ally of theirs,
Speaker 1: by all means, let it be known. I certainly can't
Speaker 1: think of one off the top. Usually it's the communist
Speaker 1: sympathizes that send troops to help North Korea, not the
Speaker 1: other way around. North Korea is likely to benefit from
Speaker 1: these developments in both tangible and intangible ways. For example,
Speaker 1: the troop deployment is giving the Korean People's army combat
Speaker 1: experience that it has not had in decades. And I've
Speaker 1: said that. I've said that before, too, right. The North
Speaker 1: Koreans are using this as battle hardening for their troops.
Speaker 1: When Russia invaded Crimea, I was in the Marine Corps
Speaker 1: when this happened. As a matter of fact, I saw
Speaker 1: it as what it was nobody's gonna stop them because
Speaker 1: it's Russia. They're so big, they're so scary. No one
Speaker 1: in the Russian military, from the top generals down to
Speaker 1: the lowliest of privates, had been shot at in decades.
Speaker 1: SPEC's NAS groups are doing their thing. I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about their special forces. I'm talking about their just regular army.
Speaker 1: None of them had been shot at, so they had
Speaker 1: no real battlefield experience up until that point. And then
Speaker 1: Crimea wasn't exactly a military battle. There were some skirmishes,
Speaker 1: but it was more like a walking in and taking it.
Speaker 1: Then saying that they were using this whole situation as
Speaker 1: a way to battle harden their troops. I could imagine
Speaker 1: that being the case, but Russia's lost so many that
Speaker 1: there's no way that that's even in the conversation anymore.
Speaker 1: North Korea chiming in to give their troops some experience.
Speaker 1: I see it as also very similarly to China using
Speaker 1: its troops in mianmar right now to try to repel
Speaker 1: the military Hunta. It's giving their troops some much needed
Speaker 1: battlefield time. I could see that being a possible leverage point.
Speaker 1: I don't know this for a fact, but I could
Speaker 1: understand why a general would think to send a couple
Speaker 1: of battalions to a war zone to aid their allies.
Speaker 1: If nothing else, it gets the It gets the young
Speaker 1: guys out of that whole first firefight tunnel vision mindset.
Speaker 1: They'll be ready for it if it happens in the future.
Speaker 1: So I could see that this is the first time
Speaker 1: since it's founding that the country has sent soldiers to
Speaker 1: a foreign war on a major scale while suffering heavy losses.
Speaker 1: The Ukrainian military believes that North Korea has lost roughly
Speaker 1: half of the eleven thousand troops it deployed. North Korean
Speaker 1: soldiers are reportedly motivated, disciplined, and good at using small arms.
Speaker 1: Most importantly, they are learning ways to fight in the
Speaker 1: modern battlefield, including the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I will say that too. Drone warfare has absolutely changed
Speaker 1: the battlefield scene. The entire scape of the battlefield has
Speaker 1: been changed by these drones in the way that they're
Speaker 1: being used, dropping mortars, dropping green By the time you
Speaker 1: hear him, it's too late. That's that's reality. I would
Speaker 1: hate to be in a war zone with this type
Speaker 1: of warfare going on. Now. I know America's got a
Speaker 1: couple of signal jamming devices to combat the drones. We
Speaker 1: now have drone hunter killer groups that that's their entire objective,
Speaker 1: and they're they're in the testing phases with a couple
Speaker 1: of different weapons, platforms and systems to go against that.
Speaker 1: That's dope. The trench warfare that is currently being fought
Speaker 1: with this conflict. Yo, I could never that sounds like
Speaker 1: an actual hell, But that's just me. Hell. I just
Speaker 1: watched a video of this Russian fighter who had pretty
Speaker 1: much just accepted his fate. He was I don't know
Speaker 1: if he was out of AMMO, I don't know if
Speaker 1: he was injured. I don't know what the situation was.
Speaker 1: But he was basically sitting in a chair in the woods.
Speaker 1: He had gotten out of the trench. It was basically
Speaker 1: just sitting there smoking a joe and the drone gets
Speaker 1: down like eye level with him, and you see him
Speaker 1: kind of smile at it and just kind of turn
Speaker 1: away and just take a big old drag, and then
Speaker 1: the drone hits him and he exploded. Then you saw
Speaker 1: ir above him that saw the whole thing play out.
Speaker 1: The guy was a you know, he went from a
Speaker 1: he hymn to a was person. But he didn't even
Speaker 1: seem phase by it. He could see that there was
Speaker 1: a mortar round owner an explosive. He was just like, whatever, dude,
Speaker 1: there's something to be said for that. When you get
Speaker 1: to that level of just throwing up the middle finger
Speaker 1: to the whole situation. And that's not a that's not
Speaker 1: a specifically Russian thing. The Ukrainian soldiers that have been
Speaker 1: fighting it for this long, a lot of them have
Speaker 1: the same type of apathy towards the entire situation. I
Speaker 1: got it's it's hell. While suffering heavy losses. North Korean
Speaker 1: soldiers are report oh that was another quote. The country
Speaker 1: is likely also gaining knowledge and resources from Russian from
Speaker 1: Russia to further advance its military capability in exchange for
Speaker 1: its contributions to the war. Most ominously, North Korea is
Speaker 1: believed to be close to obtaining advanced Russian technology that
Speaker 1: could advance its nuclear and missile programs. Russian space technology
Speaker 1: could be particularly useful for improving the accuracy of North
Speaker 1: Korean's intercontinental ballistic missiles rather program, and help the country
Speaker 1: launch military reconnaissance satellites into space, which would enhance targeting
Speaker 1: despite its pledge to put three such satellites into orbit
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, North Korea failed to achieve this goal.
Speaker 1: They just failed to launch a ship into their own harbor.
Speaker 1: They tried launching a destroyer and it sunk. Color me
Speaker 1: shocked that they also failed to launch satellites. Their rocket
Speaker 1: program is I mean, there's tons of memes being made
Speaker 1: about this. Nothing new there. Additionally, North Korea could believe
Speaker 1: that stronger military cooperation with Russia will lead to less
Speaker 1: outside pressure. Russia has already vetoed a UN Security Council
Speaker 1: panel that was monitoring the sanctions imposed by Russia for
Speaker 1: its nuclear emballistic missile programs. Pyongyang may think that such
Speaker 1: a backing could create space in the international arena to
Speaker 1: pursue its goals more assertively. Now, the options for countering
Speaker 1: military cooperation between Or Kim Jong and putin the counter.
Speaker 1: To counter the potential benefits of North Korea's military cooperation
Speaker 1: with Russia, the United States should demonstrate its enduring commitment
Speaker 1: to contribute to South Korea's self defense. This is because
Speaker 1: Pyongyang's defense strategy is focused on deterring US military involvement
Speaker 1: in a conflict on the Korean peninsula by trying to
Speaker 1: convince Washington that such an action would entail unacceptable costs.
Speaker 1: For this reason, North Korea has invested heavily in ICBMs
Speaker 1: capable of striking the continental US reiterating that such actions
Speaker 1: will not diminish US resolve is important both to signal
Speaker 1: to North Korea that its strategy will not work and
Speaker 1: to reassure South Korea that the US commitment to the country.
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's questioning that. By the way, I
Speaker 1: don't know this for an absolute fact, but ah, we
Speaker 1: are very very tight with South Korea, both politically and militarily.
Speaker 1: I know that we didn't like some things they did
Speaker 1: earlier in the year. I get this. But I also
Speaker 1: can remember a time not too terribly far in the
Speaker 1: past where a certain US president actually walked into North
Speaker 1: Korea to try to establish even further in armistice, possibly
Speaker 1: in the Korean War. Because that was ever actually ended.
Speaker 1: It was a ceasefire that has yet to be kicked
Speaker 1: back off, and everybody was on a certain agreement. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that everybody liked each other. This was not
Speaker 1: the time to sit around of campfire and sing Kumbai
Speaker 1: ya by any stretch of the imagination. But we were
Speaker 1: so close to having real progress being made. Cut to
Speaker 1: a couple months ago. North Korea blew up a bunch
Speaker 1: of bridges and railroads that connect South and North Korea,
Speaker 1: and they're sending troops into the Russia Ukraine conversation. And
Speaker 1: I don't think that that's necessarily a Trump thing or
Speaker 1: an anti Trump thing. I think that's just kind of
Speaker 1: them looking out for number one and trying to strengthen
Speaker 1: their own alliances. And I get that, but it's just
Speaker 1: a weird thing. We were so we were in such
Speaker 1: a different place only five years ago as compared to
Speaker 1: where we are now. So much has changed in so
Speaker 1: little time. But I guess that's how the world turns.
Speaker 1: As they say, let's see. Such reassurances is vitally important
Speaker 1: because these developments come at a time when North Korea
Speaker 1: is taking an increasingly aggressive approach towards South Korea. In
Speaker 1: late twenty twenty three, Kim Jong un said that his
Speaker 1: country will not seek reconciliation, but what instead treat the
Speaker 1: southern half of the peninsula as an enemy, as they
Speaker 1: have since the Korean War. Okay, anyway, this was a
Speaker 1: significant departure from the regime's previous position, which was to
Speaker 1: treat South Koreans as compatriots who should be reunited with
Speaker 1: North Korea. While this might not mean that the North
Speaker 1: will try to forcibly take over South or the South
Speaker 1: in the near future, it could embolden Pyeong Gang to
Speaker 1: try to achieve its political and strategic goals, which include
Speaker 1: ensuring the survival of the Kim family regime and exercising
Speaker 1: influence over the entire Korean peninsula through its nuclear threats
Speaker 1: and limits use of military power. Yeah, I also did
Speaker 1: a little more digging into the Kim family. Do you
Speaker 1: all know how granddaddy Kim was chosen to be the
Speaker 1: leader of this country? Stalin essentially, and I'm over oversimplifying
Speaker 1: this and I understand that, but bear with me. Stalin
Speaker 1: basically looked around and said, uh, you you're in charge. Now.
Speaker 1: That was it. It's not like the Kim guy was
Speaker 1: some sort of a massive political head. He wasn't leading
Speaker 1: the nation. He was in some advanced general and he
Speaker 1: basically was like just kind of picked out of the
Speaker 1: litter and said, yep, you're in charge, now run this shit.
Speaker 1: Here's the communist manifesto. Read it like it's the Bible.
Speaker 1: What's the Bible? It doesn't matter here here take it.
Speaker 1: So that was it. That's why the Kim family the
Speaker 1: supreme leader. How he is so supreme is because Stalin
Speaker 1: kind of picked out his granddaddy and said, go for it.
Speaker 1: But okay. North Korean's deployment of troops to the Ukraine
Speaker 1: also presents an opportunity for the United States and South
Speaker 1: Korea to learn about how North Korean soldiers fight hadn't
Speaker 1: been pretty good. I don't know. The movement of the
Speaker 1: North Korean troops reportedly included the elite forces known as
Speaker 1: the storm Cores, giving clues to their level of training
Speaker 1: and capabilities. Yet these are the same guys that were
Speaker 1: huddled up in big groups in the trenches and drones
Speaker 1: were just dropping mortars on them and taking out ten
Speaker 1: of them with one shot. Now, I think that they
Speaker 1: have developed more useful tactics since then, but that was
Speaker 1: their storm Core, So we know what they had prior
Speaker 1: to getting to Ukraine and Russia in the whole situation.
Speaker 1: But again, I think that they've probably got a little
Speaker 1: more aware withal of them these days. Anyway, the United
Speaker 1: States could remind North Korea that it is taking full
Speaker 1: advantage of this information as one of the potential costs
Speaker 1: of military adventurism. Such messaging could further ally or lay
Speaker 1: could further lay some of the concerns in South Korea,
Speaker 1: where in October twenty twenty four over seventy percent of
Speaker 1: the public described the deployment of the North Korean troops
Speaker 1: as threatening. The UN Security Council was unlikely to impose
Speaker 1: new sanctions on North Korea due to Russia and Chinese
Speaker 1: support for the country. Nonetheless, United States can still work
Speaker 1: not only with its regional allies in South Korea and Japan,
Speaker 1: but also with other Western countries to continue signaling to
Speaker 1: North Korea that its WND programs and assistants to Russia's
Speaker 1: invasion of Ukraine are unacceptable. In some While it may
Speaker 1: not be possible to prevent North Korea from obtaining all
Speaker 1: the benefits from its military cooperation with Russia, the United
Speaker 1: States can try to prevent such cooperation from spilling over
Speaker 1: into a bigger problem. To do so, the United States
Speaker 1: must show unflinching support for South Korea's defense and work
Speaker 1: with like minded partners to signal to North Korea that
Speaker 1: its destabilizing behavior is unacceptable. So, yeah, Russia and you
Speaker 1: in North Korea are getting even tighter together at this time.
Speaker 1: That's been a sign for a little while here. When
Speaker 1: Russia decided that they wanted to go after Ukraine in
Speaker 1: this way, they ran out of their They ran out
Speaker 1: of bullets relatively quickly. I think I was reading somewhere
Speaker 1: that they were firing at one point eleven hundred artillery
Speaker 1: pieces a day in and around the front line. That's
Speaker 1: not something that could be. That's not sustainable, right, especially
Speaker 1: when Russia is not a They don't have a military
Speaker 1: industrial complex like some other countries do. And I'm not
Speaker 1: even saying America could keep up with that for so long. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for a bit, but even still, stockpiles do dwindle eventually.
Speaker 1: So Russia was in need of armaments. It was around
Speaker 1: this time when they started to run out of certain
Speaker 1: pieces of equipment when we and when I say we,
Speaker 1: I mean the Royal We Biden made a deal with
Speaker 1: Russia to get Britney Griner back in exchange for the
Speaker 1: guy who was the inspiration for the Lord of War movie.
Speaker 1: That was a thing that happened. We did a prisoner
Speaker 1: exchange one to one for the biggest weapons dealer on earth,
Speaker 1: who was a Russian for a lesbian basketball player who
Speaker 1: had a weed pin. That's a real thing that took
Speaker 1: place not too terribly long ago, I might add. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: Russia got a guy who knew how to get things
Speaker 1: from point A to point B. Not just ak's off
Speaker 1: of a plane in the in some country in Africa.
Speaker 1: This guy did big picture things as well, Like he
Speaker 1: was a stud in that regard. He got back to Russia.
Speaker 1: Nobody's heard from him since. I don't believe he's dead.
Speaker 1: I believe he is living like a king right now,
Speaker 1: and business has boomed for him ever since. But neither
Speaker 1: here nor there. North Korea had some artillery pieces that,
Speaker 1: like they said in the beginning, were blowing up mid
Speaker 1: air or missing their targets completely. You just had to
Speaker 1: dial those in a little bit and put on some
Speaker 1: new apertures. I get it. So yeah, this makes perfect
Speaker 1: sense to me. With all of this being said, let's
Speaker 1: talk about Russia launching the biggest drone assault of the war.
Speaker 1: Ukraine says the attack used almost five hundred drones and missiles,
Speaker 1: breaking a record set just days earlier is Russia tries
Speaker 1: to overwhelm Ukraine's air defenses, which shot down most of
Speaker 1: the weapons Russia launchedhow with five hundred drones on missions
Speaker 1: at Ukraine overnight. Ukrainian forces set on Monday in the
Speaker 1: largest string of recorded or of record breaking aerial assaults.
Speaker 1: As peace talks stall despite pressure from Trump from the
Speaker 1: Trump administration to work towards a ceasefire, Russia has been
Speaker 1: stepping up its large scale barrages in recent months. That
Speaker 1: effort has further escalated since Ukraine mounted coordinated drone strikes
Speaker 1: on strategic bombers at air bases inside of Russia on
Speaker 1: June first. While there were no reports of major damage
Speaker 1: and only one person was killed, the scale of the
Speaker 1: Russia's aerial assault was the latest step in a campaign
Speaker 1: by Moscow to overwhelm and deplete your Ukraine's air defenses
Speaker 1: one and one with no end in sight given a
Speaker 1: lack of progress in peace negotiations. While mounting a new
Speaker 1: offensive on the ground in eastern Ukraine, Russia has been
Speaker 1: setting deadly records with swarms of drones and missiles it
Speaker 1: launches at Ukraine, often hitting civilian targets in towns and
Speaker 1: cities across the country. Some records have lasted just a
Speaker 1: few days before being broken. That's how this war is
Speaker 1: really going to be going. Honestly, as soon as one
Speaker 1: guy sends one hundred drones, this guy's sending three hundred,
Speaker 1: this guy's sending five hundred, and like, yeah, that's how
Speaker 1: this goes. It's a one up game. It's a dick
Speaker 1: measuring contest on a grand scale, with lives to be
Speaker 1: lost as a result. That's how war goes. Russia has
Speaker 1: dramatically increased the pace of such attacks this year, reflecting
Speaker 1: its sharp accelerating production of attack drones, but for months
Speaker 1: it would launch a maximum of three hundred or so
Speaker 1: of them in a single night. When then in early
Speaker 1: on June first, the Ukrainian Air Force said that Russia
Speaker 1: had launched four hundred and seventy two drones and seven
Speaker 1: missiles overnight. Now, I've heard different reports about the exact number.
Speaker 1: I saw one that said it was four ninety nine.
Speaker 1: I saw one that said it was for eighty three,
Speaker 1: you know whatever. The number might vary from source to source,
Speaker 1: but everybody can agree it was around five hundred of
Speaker 1: some sort of aerial attack. Fair enough, Ukrainian officials called
Speaker 1: it the largest combined aerial assault on the country since
Speaker 1: the start of the war. Before dawn on June fifth,
Speaker 1: Russia launched four hundred and seven drones and decoys, nearly
Speaker 1: forty cruise missiles and six ballistic missiles at towns and
Speaker 1: cities across Ukraine, an assault that Moscow describes as retaliation
Speaker 1: for the strikes on the Russian air bases. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: attack ranked as the second largest of the war. Then
Speaker 1: on Monday, the Ukrainian Air Force said Russia had launched
Speaker 1: four hundred and seventy nine drones and twenty missiles overnight,
Speaker 1: setting a new record for the largest drone barrage since
Speaker 1: the war began more than three years ago. Most were intercepted,
Speaker 1: but ten strikes were recorded, according to the Air Force,
Speaker 1: again more than three years ago. Do y'all remember when
Speaker 1: old boys said that this special military operation was going
Speaker 1: to be two weeks. Funny how that worked out. One
Speaker 1: person was killed in in the Revna region Revni, I
Speaker 1: don't know, a region of western Ukraine, and a Russian
Speaker 1: strike damaged a private home in Kiev region, according to
Speaker 1: local authorities. Officials in the Sumi region in the northeast
Speaker 1: said that nine people had been injured over the past day.
Speaker 1: There were no other immediate reports of further damage or casualties.
Speaker 1: As Russia has escalated aerial attacks, it has also been
Speaker 1: stepping up frontline assaults and has opened a new front
Speaker 1: in the north eastern Ukraine. But Ukraine has continued to
Speaker 1: try to take the war to Russia, including the attack
Speaker 1: on Russian air bases and with further drone strikes deep
Speaker 1: inside the country. The Russian Defense Ministry set on Monday
Speaker 1: that its air defenses had destroyed or jammed forty nine
Speaker 1: Ukrainian drones overnight. Russ Vyatstya YEAH, Russia's aviation regulator SURE,
Speaker 1: reported that four airport YEAH. Four airports in the center
Speaker 1: of the country had temporarily suspended operations overnight because of
Speaker 1: security concerns. Ukraine's military had been targeted. A claim to
Speaker 1: it had targeted a Russian airfield in the Novgorod region
Speaker 1: YEAH and a facility in Chebuk Chebuk Sari YEAH, both
Speaker 1: east of Moscow. Those claims could not be immediately confirmed independently.
Speaker 1: The attacks came despite efforts by the Trump administration to
Speaker 1: cajole both sides towards a ceasefire. Those talks have been sputtered,
Speaker 1: have sputtered. The latest round of talks between the two
Speaker 1: sides earlier this month in istanbul Y did literal results,
Speaker 1: little result apart from another agreement to swap prisoners. God,
Speaker 1: I'm getting tongue tied at this point. Later on Monday,
Speaker 1: the Russian Defense Ministry said that in exchange was underway,
Speaker 1: without specifying numbers. The ministry said in a statement that
Speaker 1: Russia had received the first group quote unquote of the
Speaker 1: Russian troops and had set sent an equal number to
Speaker 1: the Ukrainian side. President Zelenski of Ukraine confirmed that a
Speaker 1: swap of quote the wounded, the severely wounded, and those
Speaker 1: under the age of twenty five had begun. Add in
Speaker 1: the exchange would continue quote in several stages over the
Speaker 1: coming days. Ukrainians are returning home from Russian captivity, he
Speaker 1: wrote on social media. Okay, so all this to say,
Speaker 1: the war is still raging, Big strikes are happening, big
Speaker 1: drone things are taking place. It's it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: It's kind of crazy. I'm gonna go ahead and check
Speaker 1: the chat real quick, and if anybody's anything, they would
Speaker 1: like to chime in on anything we've covered thus far.
Speaker 1: Please go ahead and do so. Let's see here it
Speaker 1: is so bad everyone driving in twenty four Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree, Tony, I see your brother. Go ahead.
Speaker 8: I just wanted to say I'm still predicting Russia is
Speaker 8: gonna win by about March of next year. And that
Speaker 8: was arbitrary because I made that prediction back in March
Speaker 8: of this year. But it's taken a lot longer than
Speaker 8: I thought it would. But they will eventually win. They
Speaker 8: have a big offensive going on and all over the
Speaker 8: front parkov don to Miklaiev and ye petrovsk ensum me
Speaker 8: and I I'm sure that it's in that part of
Speaker 8: the world.
Speaker 13: And I think NATO is they made a big mistake.
Speaker 8: And I also sense Trump's heart really isn't in this fight,
Speaker 8: but other European leaders do seem to want it. And
Speaker 8: Tom Lango is a guy who speculates that European countries
Speaker 8: are trying to avoid a sovereign debt crisis, and one
Speaker 8: way to do that is to redirect attention on something else,
Speaker 8: and for a while that thing was COVID, but that
Speaker 8: that whole story came out of the new cycle eventually,
Speaker 8: and then Ukraine kind of replaced COVID, So to me
Speaker 8: that that all makes sense. Also, one story you may
Speaker 8: have seen but may not have had time for yet,
Speaker 8: is that Russia is trying to repay threate six thousand
Speaker 8: bodies to your Grain.
Speaker 1: You kind of broke up there. They're trying to We're
Speaker 1: trying to seem to.
Speaker 13: Want to accept them.
Speaker 1: You kind of broke up there.
Speaker 13: Six thousand bodies.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I'm with you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Ukraine doesn't want to take them back because then
Speaker 8: they're gonna owe death benefits on all of them, and
Speaker 8: they're their budget is pretty much bankrupt by now, So
Speaker 8: I think that Ukraine is pretty ready to collapse. I
Speaker 8: don't know if it'll be tomorrow or a month from
Speaker 8: now or a year from now, but I think Russia
Speaker 8: is gonna get more territory and they want to make
Speaker 8: you grain land block. They want hard Coff and Odessa
Speaker 8: and they can probably get them, and I don't really
Speaker 8: blame them. I think that that's probably what they need
Speaker 8: to do, so they're gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I think that this whole conflict is going to decimate
Speaker 1: both countries. I don't think either one of them is
Speaker 1: gonna come out of this as the win quote unquote,
Speaker 1: if anything is going to be a puic victory, even
Speaker 1: for Russia, because I mean, at this point, really we've
Speaker 1: talked about this before, and I'm wondering if your answer
Speaker 1: has shifted as of this moment, what does winning look
Speaker 1: like for Russia.
Speaker 8: Getting the most Russian favorable regions of Ukraine, including the
Speaker 8: coast and Kharkoff. I think that would be Sorry. I
Speaker 8: don't think they want Key ever any possible, and I
Speaker 8: think that's why they're dragging this on and on the
Speaker 8: slow way. They want to delegitimize the Zelenski government, and
Speaker 8: I think they will get that eventually. I was also
Speaker 8: thinking recently about how the end of World War One
Speaker 8: and World War Two were quite different, and after World
Speaker 8: War One, many Germans believed that they probably could have
Speaker 8: held out a bit longer and fought a bit harder
Speaker 8: than one.
Speaker 13: And I see a lot of that same rhetoric coming
Speaker 13: from NATO in the.
Speaker 8: Ukrainian side today that oh, if we really took the
Speaker 8: clubs off, we could we could be in Moscow a
Speaker 8: month from now. But I really think that's delusional, and
Speaker 8: I think that the Russians are trying to completely disabuse
Speaker 8: the Ukrainians and NATO the notion that we have a
Speaker 8: chance of winning this or of regime change in Moscow.
Speaker 8: So that's why I think the Russians are going to
Speaker 8: push for more. They're not going to settle for peace yet.
Speaker 8: I thought they were going to. But I also don't
Speaker 8: really blame them for not that.
Speaker 1: Being said. You brought up Germany with World War One
Speaker 1: and World War Two, and you're right, the end of
Speaker 1: those wars look very different. Right. Germany is also taking
Speaker 1: a very interesting position right now, and I'm not all
Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure if it's because of Russia or
Speaker 1: if it's just because they're trying to make themselves a
Speaker 1: stronger country overall. They are heard now in the process
Speaker 1: of turning themselves into a wartime economy with the express
Speaker 1: goal of being the strongest military on the European continent.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying that. You know, the last time
Speaker 1: they did this, the last two times they did this,
Speaker 1: I should say things went a little sideways, you know,
Speaker 1: one with Bismarck and the other with the funny mustache man.
Speaker 1: I don't think Germany's got that in them, right, now, however,
Speaker 1: I really do support Germany getting back after it in
Speaker 1: that regard. They have been pushed down by a long
Speaker 1: shot from what they once were militarily speaking. They're trying
Speaker 1: to make it to where you can well. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know the UK is not a part of the
Speaker 1: EU anymore, but as the European continent as a whole,
Speaker 1: Germany is stepping up. I think I saw one report
Speaker 1: saying they are trying to make eight percent of their
Speaker 1: GDP go strictly to military spending. For anybody who isn't
Speaker 1: exactly sure of what the numbers are on that, that
Speaker 1: is more than every country on Earth, with the exception
Speaker 1: of North Korea can say what they want or whatever.
Speaker 1: That's that's drastic, that's massive. So I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I support it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I haven't seen anything to that effect. To me,
Speaker 8: Germany seems like it's run by lip tards. To be
Speaker 8: honest and Merits he's a liptard and he's very pro Ukraine.
Speaker 8: But I haven't heard anything along the lines of eight
Speaker 8: percent of the GDP on military. They have been providing
Speaker 8: some tanks and stuff like that, but on the other hand,
Speaker 8: Germany's been deindustrializing a lot and uh getting rid of
Speaker 8: cold power there.
Speaker 13: They can't make.
Speaker 8: Cars anymore the way they used to. They used to
Speaker 8: make tons of cars and export them all over the place.
Speaker 8: They can't even do that anymore. Germany is a major
Speaker 8: disappointment to me, and I'm of German heritage and I
Speaker 8: think they're just liptarts right now.
Speaker 1: So but didn't the guy who was right of center
Speaker 1: win that?
Speaker 13: Well, let's see, there there was an election.
Speaker 8: For the the their Congress basically, and I think the
Speaker 8: tough result was still the Black Coalition, which is two
Speaker 8: conservative parties, the CDU and CSU. But second place to
Speaker 8: that was a f D.
Speaker 13: A f D is the Deutschelant, the Blue party. They're
Speaker 13: the they're the hard.
Speaker 8: Right party and they're the one that all the liptards
Speaker 8: internationally are really trying to squash because they're being portrayed
Speaker 8: as being Nazis and this is strategically smart for them.
Speaker 8: As a lesbian woman who's married to a woman from
Speaker 8: Sri Lanka and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it blows them on. They're so Nazis. They're led
Speaker 1: by a lesbian in an interracial relationship with two children.
Speaker 1: Super Nazi. But I think I'm with you to think
Speaker 1: that was more of a strategical move for them as
Speaker 1: a party.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and a f D it's got the strongest support
Speaker 8: in former East Germany, or some people call it Best
Speaker 8: Germany in reference to Korea. That's when you look at
Speaker 8: the map. East Germany's blue on the party color map
Speaker 8: and West Germany's. The SPD used to be the big
Speaker 8: time left left wing party and they've dropped like a rock,
Speaker 8: but they're still around. And there's this other party. I
Speaker 8: think they're purple. It's called the Linka the Left. And
Speaker 8: there's also a Green Party and there's also a Yellow Party.
Speaker 8: It's really a mess, and I can't really keep track
Speaker 8: of it. Just giving you broad overview right here. And
Speaker 8: overall Germany is lip cards in my opinion, they support Ukraine.
Speaker 8: There's very little support for Russia, even from a f D,
Speaker 8: although in public opinion polling, former East Germany is very
Speaker 8: favorable toward Russia and West Germany is not. And I think,
Speaker 8: you know, East Germany, maybe West maybe Best Germany in
Speaker 8: this case.
Speaker 1: It's very possible. I mean, I don't know. I the
Speaker 1: last report I saw was that their direct quote, and
Speaker 1: I wish I could actually pull it up I didn't
Speaker 1: pull up that article, but they were saying that the
Speaker 1: Germany is trying to take back military supremacy from what
Speaker 1: was once their greatness. And I'm like, they're not saying
Speaker 1: things that Adolph was saying, but boy, they're tiptoeing up
Speaker 1: to that line. And I don't know, maybe that was
Speaker 1: maybe that was just one guy in their defense ministry
Speaker 1: who was a little extra that day or whatever. But
Speaker 1: from all the reports that I'm reading, they are absolutely
Speaker 1: upping their military spending the eight percent when I don't
Speaker 1: know if that was a verified number or not, but
Speaker 1: that would also be really insane. I know Poland is
Speaker 1: spending every dime they have on every weapon that America
Speaker 1: or any other country will sell them because they see
Speaker 1: the situation of what's going on in Ukraine as about
Speaker 1: to be their problem. I don't know if there's any
Speaker 1: credibility to that. I don't really necessarily believe that, but
Speaker 1: Poland has had a couple of experiences with Russia to
Speaker 1: where they're they're feeling some type of way. I get it.
Speaker 1: And Poland is kind of like the European Texas I've heard.
Speaker 1: I think they're more like the European Florida man. That's
Speaker 1: just me. But yeah, I'm wild things.
Speaker 13: Yeah yeah, Poland.
Speaker 8: I do not agree with most of their you know,
Speaker 8: public opinion, but they do some quick math. I believe
Speaker 8: the US spending on GDP for our militaries about five percent.
Speaker 8: It's about a trillion dollars out of what's our GDP
Speaker 8: to twenty trillion. I think it was sixteen trillion last
Speaker 8: I checked that that was years ago.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure.
Speaker 8: Eight percent, yeah, eight percent, and I think is too big.
Speaker 8: And I think the NATO target is two percent. So
Speaker 8: you know, most of no other country hits two percent
Speaker 8: to my knowledge, So let them hit two percent first
Speaker 8: and then maybe we can think about eight I guess
Speaker 8: they feels whatever. This German spokesman is talking about eight
Speaker 8: percent or whatever. It probably feels really safe doing that
Speaker 8: because he feels like he's got NATO and US and
Speaker 8: you know, Anglo American protection because they're.
Speaker 13: In the US rborit now in the US Empire. They
Speaker 13: weren't in World War One or World War two, but
Speaker 13: now that they are, they feel they must feel safe
Speaker 13: and making a statement like that. I don't think it's.
Speaker 8: Wrong when they should try to get along better. With Russia,
Speaker 8: and so should our country.
Speaker 1: That being said, the GDP of Germany is nowhere close
Speaker 1: to the GDP of America, So I mean, as we're
Speaker 1: throwing these percents out, yeah, but it's per the percentages,
Speaker 1: that's a large amount, but that's still not coming close
Speaker 1: to what America spends dollar for dollar on our military.
Speaker 1: And I mean I get that for what it is too.
Speaker 1: They have a much smaller country, a much smaller population,
Speaker 1: a much smaller GDP.
Speaker 8: So yeah, well they are the biggest population and the
Speaker 8: biggest GDP in Europe, so that's saying a lot.
Speaker 1: That's fair, But.
Speaker 8: Yeah, patriotism in Germany has been pretty frowned upon in
Speaker 8: anything except football games since Yeah. I think there could
Speaker 8: be a generational cycle theory behind this, because when one
Speaker 8: human life span goes by, it's been observed that civilizations
Speaker 8: tend to go through cycles that last about eighty years
Speaker 8: or so, and you'll have a pig once eighty years
Speaker 8: every eighty years or so, like the American Revolution and
Speaker 8: Civil War. Then World War Two, I guess, I guess
Speaker 8: we're due for another one, unfortunately, but Germany. Germany was
Speaker 8: really kind of killed by World War Two in a
Speaker 8: lot of ways, and I don't think they'll ever recover.
Speaker 1: That's completely That's a fair statement, honestly. And you know,
Speaker 1: with that being said, with all of this being said
Speaker 1: about just you European military in general, have any of
Speaker 1: you heard what the UK just did with their Ministry
Speaker 1: of Defense. I'm gonna go ahead and share the screen
Speaker 1: again because as the world is doing their thing in
Speaker 1: new warfare and all of this, we need to also
Speaker 1: acknowledge that Keir Starmer just chose ARIF Chief Sir Richard
Speaker 1: Knighton to lead its armed forces. For anybody who doesn't
Speaker 1: know who Sir Richard Knighton is, He's an engineer. He
Speaker 1: was chosen to lead Britain's military. Let's talk about this.
Speaker 1: Prime Minister is understood to have made Chief of the
Speaker 1: Defense Staff appointment. Amid what has been billed as the
Speaker 1: most transformative period for the Ministry of Defense in decades.
Speaker 1: Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton has been chosen to
Speaker 1: be the next head of all three armed forces. Sir
Speaker 1: Keir Starmer is understood to have picked the head of
Speaker 1: the RIF to lead the Ministry of Defense as the
Speaker 1: Chief of Defense. Chief of the Defense staff from this autumn.
Speaker 1: The appointment has not yet been officially announced, although it
Speaker 1: is expected to be confirmed soon amid what has been
Speaker 1: billed as the most transformative period in the mod in decades.
Speaker 1: It comes a day after the Prime Minister vowed to
Speaker 1: make Britain quote unquote a battle ready, armor clad nation.
Speaker 1: I think you might have some issues with that at
Speaker 1: this moment, my boy. Your area in North Ireland is
Speaker 1: currently on fire because of riots. But yes, that's what
Speaker 1: we need, as he unveiled his Strategic Defense review SDR,
Speaker 1: which included an army boosted up to one hundred thousand personnel,
Speaker 1: twelve new submarines, drones, and a rollout in AI. Sir
Speaker 1: Richard fifty six is a career engineer who has been
Speaker 1: described as a defense bureaucrat as well as the money
Speaker 1: guy due to his ability to handle finances. With previous
Speaker 1: experience controlling the RAF's budget, he is known as a
Speaker 1: safe pair of hands and has also rolled out personal
Speaker 1: reform in the service. The fifty six year old is
Speaker 1: understood to be taking command of all the services, unlike
Speaker 1: those previously on this post. He will take over from
Speaker 1: Admiral Sir Tony Radakin radickin I don't know the first.
Speaker 1: The ex First Sea Lord has been in the role
Speaker 1: since November twenty twenty one, having spearheaded Britain's mission to
Speaker 1: support of Ukraine and push the Aucus submarine program through government.
Speaker 1: Sir Richard, a married father of two, was chosen over
Speaker 1: Army Chief General Sir Raley Walker. According to reports, the
Speaker 1: former SAS commander has been described as the ideas man,
Speaker 1: as well as having extensive operational experience, including in Iraq
Speaker 1: and Afghanistan. Sir Richard became the first non pilot to
Speaker 1: lead the RAF. In his official biography reportedly states that
Speaker 1: his only combat tour was a sh short stint as
Speaker 1: Senior Engineer officer in Italy during the Kosovo campaigns. However,
Speaker 1: a friend told The Times he is the right choice,
Speaker 1: adding quote, he is super smart, he is popular, he
Speaker 1: is very calm and strategic and you don't get any
Speaker 1: of the wild strings of rhetoric and emotion end quote.
Speaker 1: They also described him as having his feet firmly on
Speaker 1: the ground, with an understanding of how to get things
Speaker 1: done in defense better than anyone, and MOD spokesperson told
Speaker 1: The Independent this is speculation. The appointment process is ongoing
Speaker 1: and any announcement will be made in the usual way.
Speaker 1: So this is one report that I found, but it's
Speaker 1: also not the only report that I found about him
Speaker 1: being the choice for the leader of all three branches
Speaker 1: of Britain's military. I don't know how I feel about it,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, and I know I have
Speaker 1: no dog in this fight. I'm not British and I
Speaker 1: have no body related to me in Britain by any means.
Speaker 1: But what I can say is, and just in my
Speaker 1: own personal experience, when I was in the Marines, every
Speaker 1: commandant of the Marine Corps that would be the top
Speaker 1: dog in the entirety of the Marine Corps, the four
Speaker 1: star general in charge has always had a background in
Speaker 1: infantry or at least in some way, shape or form,
Speaker 1: a door kicker and a trigger puller. Right then, when
Speaker 1: I was in there was this guy, General Jim Amos,
Speaker 1: the first wing side commandant that the Marine Corps ever had.
Speaker 1: Some would say, myself included that this was possibly the
Speaker 1: darkest time in the Marine Corps years, at least in
Speaker 1: the last one hundred. It didn't go well. It didn't
Speaker 1: go well. Now that being said, you don't have to
Speaker 1: have a background in infantry to understand how to lead
Speaker 1: an organization. I get that. I'm not suggesting this, but
Speaker 1: with the guy being nowhere near the wing and he's
Speaker 1: leading the RAF, his only anything close to combat was
Speaker 1: a short stint as an engineer after Kosovo, I don't
Speaker 1: see that going necessarily well for Britain. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but again they got the people that are saying this
Speaker 1: is all bullshit and it's gonna be selected in the
Speaker 1: normal ways it typically is. I don't know how to
Speaker 1: call it. If he is a finance guy, that gives
Speaker 1: me some hope but also some trepidation towards it, because
Speaker 1: the way that this goes down in the American military,
Speaker 1: if your branch starts to lose funding, right they don't
Speaker 1: have enough money to go around, we would start we
Speaker 1: do what's called the Pepperoni method, where we got the whole,
Speaker 1: the link of sausage, and we're gonna shave a little
Speaker 1: off the end and shave a little off the end.
Speaker 1: We're gonna try to make that budget work for you,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna remove certain things that we may not need,
Speaker 1: some of the fluff whatever. Traditionally, the British military is
Speaker 1: in the habit of hacking off entire limbs like, oh,
Speaker 1: we can't afford the entirety of the navy this ship
Speaker 1: and this ship. Well, we're just gonna decommission those ships
Speaker 1: or these these certain things in the air wing or
Speaker 1: this unit, in this unit, they're gone disbanded. That's typically
Speaker 1: how they've done business in the past. This guy being
Speaker 1: an engineer who has also seen as a finance guy.
Speaker 1: I am hoping could maybe start going more towards the
Speaker 1: Pepperoni method. I don't know. Britain, of course, has its
Speaker 1: allegiances towards Ukraine in the conflict going on, and that
Speaker 1: seems to be the big thing that Europe is mostly
Speaker 1: concerned with right now. I get this, But that being said,
Speaker 1: Britain needs to worry about their own situation right now.
Speaker 1: We just did on the Live last night. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, we are hearing from our homie in
Speaker 1: North Ireland or dead Boy, that that city, that what region,
Speaker 1: I should say, is in open revolt right now, not
Speaker 1: towards the British government by any means, but towards their
Speaker 1: immigration policy and how it has led to what is
Speaker 1: happening right now. And it's not just them like you
Speaker 1: were saying, Amanda Goo, Tony. The German patriotism has been
Speaker 1: on the decline since after World War Two. Honestly, you
Speaker 1: could argue World War One, which is why Hitler got
Speaker 1: the momentum behind him, because he was actually speaking about
Speaker 1: German nationalism at a time where that was unpopular, but
Speaker 1: it gave it gave the people something to grasp onto.
Speaker 1: Multiple countries in Europe have taken in these refugees from
Speaker 1: certain countries. Not going to go into where these people
Speaker 1: came from, but you know, it doesn't take much research
Speaker 1: to figure out the demographic here. Britain has taken in
Speaker 1: a lot of them, and because of that, Germany in
Speaker 1: the same way, France the same way. They have mass stabbings,
Speaker 1: gang rapes, all the horrible things that come with these
Speaker 1: two cultures colliding, these cultures that do not work well
Speaker 1: together on paper. In real life, nothing about this looks good.
Speaker 1: But they are suffering from that at this moment. And
Speaker 1: because of these cultures colliding, and these people who don't
Speaker 1: understand how the rule of law works in the country
Speaker 1: that they currently are residing in, they have their own
Speaker 1: inherent problems, their own organic problems that they need to
Speaker 1: address before they worry about foreign wars and things like that.
Speaker 1: I understand that the EU handles things differently. I understand
Speaker 1: that it's a lot. Every country in Europe is a
Speaker 1: lot smaller than America. With the exception of Russia, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about most of Europe, and I get this, But homie,
Speaker 1: y'all got to handle what's going on in your backyard
Speaker 1: before you start worrying about what your neighbor from a
Speaker 1: few streets over is doing. I know, probably an unpopular
Speaker 1: opinion that I just said, but I'm just throwing this album.
Speaker 1: Let's see here. Getting back to the chat. If anybody
Speaker 1: would like to chime in or send anything else in,
Speaker 1: please do so. Let's Oh my god, a warning shot
Speaker 1: doesn't go to the face? Carl, Is that in Cali?
Speaker 1: That's great, That's great, Raven, let's see har g harboy Royce.
Speaker 1: I wish there was some rain. We're having a very
Speaker 1: hot week with a decent amount of humidity.
Speaker 13: Yo.
Speaker 1: Not to completely derail the conversation, but okay, So there
Speaker 1: I was Phoenix, Arizona. It's the desert, and apparently it
Speaker 1: had rained a day prior. Everybody was dying from what
Speaker 1: they considered humidity. I thought that that was arid as hell,
Speaker 1: that was dry. But apparently to these people, one bit
Speaker 1: of rain is enough to make people sweat their asses off.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I understand that I'm accustomed to Louisiana humidity,
Speaker 1: and by that we mean it's ninety five percent at
Speaker 1: all times. Could be February. It's ninety five percent humidity.
Speaker 1: You're not getting away from it. But these people in
Speaker 1: Arizona were dying. They would seriously act like this was
Speaker 1: seriously sticky weather. I was wearing a flannel. I was
Speaker 1: wearing a flannel and at one point a three piece tucks.
Speaker 1: It wasn't sweating at all. I was quite comfortable, as
Speaker 1: a matter of fact. I just it's crazy to me
Speaker 1: when you see how people get acclimatized to their environments
Speaker 1: and then you get them somewhere new. That same thing
Speaker 1: being said, though, if you were to get me anywhere
Speaker 1: near the mountains or anywhere where it's below sixty degrees,
Speaker 1: I would be bitching the entire time. I would be
Speaker 1: wearing three layers just to stay coherent. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I get it, I get it. But yeah, that was
Speaker 1: not humid whatsoever. So you're saying that you have a
Speaker 1: decent amount of humidity, and say you're in Colorado. Is
Speaker 1: humidity a thing where you're at or not so much?
Speaker 6: Forty nine percent? I just looked it up right now
Speaker 6: for right now, correct, And is that considered a lot?
Speaker 1: Or is that considered like me?
Speaker 6: I mean, so here's the thing. So it's more than
Speaker 6: what we're used to. It really all just depends on
Speaker 6: the rain. So when it rains, obviously it's getting christy.
Speaker 6: Humidity especially because it gets gets hot, so like fifty
Speaker 6: sixty is very very high. So you know it's not comfortable.
Speaker 6: I will tell you this.
Speaker 7: There are days when it's not humid and I don't
Speaker 7: sweat at all. There are days where it is humid
Speaker 7: and I will be out there doing nothing and I
Speaker 7: will spitz my ass off.
Speaker 1: You're so Jewish, you literally just said spitz your ass off.
Speaker 6: I literally do it, defeat, I do it. What do
Speaker 6: you want from me?
Speaker 1: I love it? So all right. I just looked it
Speaker 1: up on mine because I didn't actually know what my
Speaker 1: humidity level was in this state, and I didn't want
Speaker 1: to be speaking out of turn ninety one degrees fahrenheit
Speaker 1: and nine humidity that was today. This is I can't
Speaker 1: tell you how happy I was with this today. I
Speaker 1: love God, I love where I live. I know that
Speaker 1: most people would hate that. I seriously get down with it.
Speaker 1: But okay, so that's that's a relatively high humidity day
Speaker 1: for your area. Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 7: I mean, I remember living in Arkansas, in New Jersey,
Speaker 7: so I've had plenty of experiences with humidity. And I
Speaker 7: had no idea what they were talking about when they
Speaker 7: said the difference between a wet heat and a dry heat,
Speaker 7: and a wet cold and a dry cold, it is
Speaker 7: completely different than Colorado.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, I hate wet cold.
Speaker 1: So I was expecting a dry heat when I got
Speaker 1: to Phoenix. Apparently that was still a wet heat. I
Speaker 1: respectfully disagree, because though I was quite content there, I
Speaker 1: mean I I, yeah, even in a wet heat, I'll sweat,
Speaker 1: like for sure. I was chilling the entire time. I
Speaker 1: thought it was quite nice. I was like, damn, I
Speaker 1: understand the whole dry heat conversation, and everybody's like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, how is so humid. I just didn't really
Speaker 1: calculate in my calculator.
Speaker 9: So I mean, yeah, uh, well, it rained a few
Speaker 9: days before you visit it, and so that's probably why
Speaker 9: they were complaining. And there was a ton of accidents
Speaker 9: because there gets a lot of oil build up on
Speaker 9: the roads and then I get slick, and you know,
Speaker 9: we get made fun of saying we can't drive in
Speaker 9: the rain, but it's really just a oil build up
Speaker 9: on the road.
Speaker 1: I get.
Speaker 9: That is why there was conversations, probably about the humidity,
Speaker 9: because technically it was humid for Arizona, but I will
Speaker 9: say it is one hundred It was one hundred and
Speaker 9: seven today, and so summer has officially arrived, and this
Speaker 9: is about the time I start looking for a cabin
Speaker 9: in Montana. So if you know anybody, anyone out there,
Speaker 9: give a girl a shout out.
Speaker 1: No doubt. Also, thank you again for showing me Scottsdale.
Speaker 1: That was a gorgeous town. However, the Weaimo cars that
Speaker 1: if anybody who doesn't know, look it up. Waimo is
Speaker 1: a automated self driving car service. What I mean is
Speaker 1: you'll be at your hotel or at the airport and
Speaker 1: instead of getting on Uber or Lyft, you get on
Speaker 1: Waimo and a car with no driver will pick you
Speaker 1: up and take you to where your destination is and
Speaker 1: there is no one driving it. I was terrified to
Speaker 1: see them on the road. And it wasn't like one
Speaker 1: or two. It's a real thing in the Phoenix area.
Speaker 1: The future is now and I know I talked about
Speaker 1: that on the cult, but h scary.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so far, there's been as far as I know,
Speaker 9: there's been no fatalities in regards to the Waymo cars,
Speaker 9: but there has been a couple of incidences where the
Speaker 9: cars will go like up a one way but they
Speaker 9: do respond, like if police have their lights on, they
Speaker 9: will pull over. But they are freakings to see there.
Speaker 9: They're in downtown Phoenix and the Scottsdale area, but they're
Speaker 9: not really. You don't see him in the rest of Arizona.
Speaker 9: But that is kind of why I think donuts in
Speaker 9: the Phoenix area. And he talks about how he thinks
Speaker 9: Paradise Valley is going to be the next La Fires
Speaker 9: like we had in January. It's going to be the
Speaker 9: next fifteen minute city because some of the stuff like
Speaker 9: Waymo cars and whatnot. We'll see how it all shakes out.
Speaker 9: But I'm so far west, I'm not too worried about it.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that Donut was in the Phoenix area.
Speaker 1: Now I feel like a dick. I would have called
Speaker 1: him up. I would have at least tried to meet him.
Speaker 1: But damn. But okay, but wait, wait, wait wait, the
Speaker 1: La fires, that would require something to be able to
Speaker 1: be burned. There is nothing there to start a fire.
Speaker 1: I could see it. Possibly you can turn into like
Speaker 1: a fifteen minute city. But did I miss something? Do
Speaker 1: y'all have some sort of a large thing that could
Speaker 1: even be caught on fire in that area? Yeah?
Speaker 9: I think it just could be. The houses are really
Speaker 9: close together. They tend to be just because the way
Speaker 9: they're built. People don't have big yards here, especially the
Speaker 9: newer houses than newer developments. But I don't know. I
Speaker 9: wonder if it's just like in both the Maui fires
Speaker 9: and in the La fires, there was massive winds, and
Speaker 9: so my thought is, if you get a big enough wind,
Speaker 9: it doesn't matter if you don't have any shrubs or
Speaker 9: trees to burn. The buildings will burn and carry out
Speaker 9: on building to building. But he has that theory. He
Speaker 9: put it out probably before the La fires. I remember
Speaker 9: hearing hearing him talk about it last year.
Speaker 1: Possible, I saw a lot of stucco and a lot
Speaker 1: of stone. But I guess that's very true. Those that
Speaker 1: was very congested as far as the way things were built,
Speaker 1: not even just in the city, but even getting out
Speaker 1: into Scottsdale area. And I could assume most of the
Speaker 1: surrounding areas are built about that densely. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: could see it. Shit, Okay, learned something new every day.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see, let's get back to the chat here.
Speaker 1: I got a couple of messages I need to get to.
Speaker 1: Who are you calling these people? Raven? I am specifically
Speaker 1: talking about people who think that twenty percent humidity is
Speaker 1: like humid. Okay, that's that's what I'm talking about. Where
Speaker 1: forty nine Oregon does have it too. I assume it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, region to region as far as where the
Speaker 1: more densely humid areas are. But then y'all also have
Speaker 1: like Arctic winters in Oregon as well, so you know
Speaker 1: that sounds like hell, Oregon is sixty six percent humidity. Now,
Speaker 1: now let me ask you that, Raven, is that wild
Speaker 1: for Oregon or is that just kind of a part
Speaker 1: of summertime? Every year?
Speaker 10: Now we have humidity?
Speaker 2: What year round in the Oregon and no, just the
Speaker 2: summer mainly. Okay, yeah, the summertime. We mainly have it
Speaker 2: in summer.
Speaker 5: I mean it's not anything like crazy, but it can't
Speaker 5: get human not nothing compared to the South like nothing,
Speaker 5: but it's you know, it gets humid up there for
Speaker 5: that area, so it just depends.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get that. I was actually shocked at when
Speaker 1: I lived in DC. The winters you'd get, depending on
Speaker 1: the year, six foot of snow and then in the
Speaker 1: summertime it would one hundred degrees and one hundred percent
Speaker 1: humidity because the Potomac River right there would be just
Speaker 1: blowing in all that humidity. So summertime I actually kind
Speaker 1: of felt at home in DC was nice, not because
Speaker 1: of the city, but like the environment so to speak. Wintertime,
Speaker 1: I felt like I was gonna die every year. So
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I mean, I know everybody's got their
Speaker 1: their biomes if you will, but yeah, I do. I
Speaker 1: do love my heat and humanity. Man ninety one and
Speaker 1: ninety five today, that was, Oh, what a great day
Speaker 1: it really was. Anyway, Let's see, white Boy Wizard says,
Speaker 1: I'm at seventy five percent humidity, way high for an
Speaker 1: Idaho and okay Yo for real, white boy Wizard Idaho.
Speaker 1: How humid is it typically in the uh Mormon junior
Speaker 1: capital of the world.
Speaker 14: Uh, dry as fuck always, except for on days like today.
Speaker 14: We had just continuous thunderstorms rolling through and then it
Speaker 14: lingers further to the day. But yeah, I've been sweating
Speaker 14: my tits off cutting all the shitty branches down. So yeah,
Speaker 14: definitely a little wet out here today.
Speaker 1: I was about to ask what you're doing with a
Speaker 1: headlamp on, but you also seem to be in the woods.
Speaker 1: Are you camping? My boy?
Speaker 14: No, I'm just in my art I was just trying
Speaker 14: to get the last pile of bullshit off the ground.
Speaker 14: Heard that, so I threw my headlamp on like a crackhead.
Speaker 1: Hey, dude, that is a critical piece of equipment. Okay.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how often in my life I
Speaker 1: have needed one of those and not had it. Like
Speaker 1: I agreed, no judgment on that. Although the ones have
Speaker 1: those clip ons to their ball cap.
Speaker 14: Yeah, this one's freaking goes over your hard hat and
Speaker 14: has like four batteries.
Speaker 1: Motherfucker bradish shit. Yeah, the one when I was working
Speaker 1: at the sugar refiner, my heart had had to have
Speaker 1: a light on it because half the refinery was indoors
Speaker 1: and the small little wires that I'd be trying to
Speaker 1: strip and land on things. Yo, if I didn't have
Speaker 1: that headlamp, I'd be blind by now trying to like
Speaker 1: hone in on it. So I figured about one hundred percent.
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