Speaker 1: This is Gary and Shannon, and you're listening to KFI
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Speaker 2: Let's go down the list of things that are not
Speaker 2: blowing up in Beirut. Hard to the list of things
Speaker 2: not blowing up is shorter than the list of things
Speaker 2: that are blowing up.
Speaker 1: I wondered what was next yesterday when we were talking
Speaker 1: to Shannon Kingston with ABC.
Speaker 3: News, what's next?
Speaker 1: There's got to be an escalation here, and now we
Speaker 1: have the second wave of explosions with the walkie talkies
Speaker 1: and the solar systems. This follows months of tensions between
Speaker 1: Hesbela and Israel since the October seventh terror attacks.
Speaker 3: Really goes back there, and it was a late.
Speaker 1: Monday that Israel announced their latest war objective, right, the
Speaker 1: safe return of the residents displaced from all the fighting
Speaker 1: with Hesbela across that northern border there with Lebanon. And
Speaker 1: then the pagers exploded because there was definitely some form
Speaker 1: of escalation that was coming, the pagers exploded, and then today,
Speaker 1: like I said, the second wave.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the second wave appears to be even lower
Speaker 2: tech than the pagers that were hit yesterday. This was
Speaker 2: a series of walkie talkies that included some walkie talkies
Speaker 2: held by people attending funerals for those who were killed yesterday.
Speaker 2: This is Nick patten Walls. She's a correspondent for CNN.
Speaker 2: Uh Jack, go give me the thing.
Speaker 4: We are looking at it yet more low tech form
Speaker 4: of communication. Remember hesbla pits. We've reached to Pages because
Speaker 4: of concerns and warnings that Israel would use smartphones to
Speaker 4: track their members and target them the pages they use.
Speaker 4: The supply chain, it seems from Taiwan. Unclear how it
Speaker 4: necessarily got to Lebanon, having lived there.
Speaker 5: For a while.
Speaker 4: All sorts of stuff turns up in the ports there
Speaker 4: from various dodgy provenances, so you know, very easy to infiltrate.
Speaker 4: They're peer to. According to New York Times, reporting infiltrated
Speaker 4: that supply chain put explosives in the pages. The question
Speaker 4: now is was indeed a walkie talkie supply chain also infiltrated.
Speaker 4: It appears that this series of explosions can't be too
Speaker 4: much of a coincidence, that indeed it happened about twenty
Speaker 4: four hours off the previous.
Speaker 1: One, exactly twenty four hours yeah, Israel could benefit on
Speaker 1: several levels from this kind of operation. First, of course,
Speaker 1: the physical damage to the HESBLA militants right. Secondly, disrupting
Speaker 1: the communication right, the group's ability to communicate. It could
Speaker 1: take a large number of the commanders out of the field.
Speaker 1: This could be crippling.
Speaker 2: Well, and you figure Hesbela after yesterday's attack had already
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, that's one of the things that they
Speaker 2: have said forever is that they would destroy the Zionist
Speaker 2: state or whatever their philosophy is.
Speaker 6: So they have threatened to.
Speaker 2: Rain down all fire and hell on top of Israel
Speaker 2: for decades. This made them more angry, I suppose. And
Speaker 2: they do have several tens of thousands potentially missiles and
Speaker 2: rockets that are ready to go to fire at Israel.
Speaker 2: But if they don't have the simple command and control
Speaker 2: structure to call for those attacks, what do they do?
Speaker 6: I mean your point that this.
Speaker 2: Disintegrates literally their communication apparatus.
Speaker 6: So what is next? There is a report you mentioned this.
Speaker 2: There is a report in the Guardian out of the
Speaker 2: UK that said that several solar power systems have exploded
Speaker 2: in people's homes across Lebanon. They're exploded solar panels. They
Speaker 2: said that there are pictures of fingerprint readers that have
Speaker 2: exploded and other small electronic devices that are currently circulating
Speaker 2: throughout social media. Not clear if they blew up my
Speaker 2: favorite favorite line of the day. It's unclear if they
Speaker 2: blew up by themselves or they were simply near the
Speaker 2: walkie talkies which blew up. I don't know why solar
Speaker 2: panels would have blown up. I don't know why anybody
Speaker 2: would have a walkie talkie and you're a solar panel.
Speaker 3: And it makes you wonder if smartphones are next.
Speaker 2: Well, they're clearly, they're clearly potential targets smartphones would be.
Speaker 1: But people that are smarter than I am when it
Speaker 1: comes to technology and explosives say that modern smartphones are
Speaker 1: constructed in ways that such tampering could be anywhere from
Speaker 1: very difficult to nearly impossible.
Speaker 2: Well, I would have said that it was nearly impossible
Speaker 2: to put an explosive charge inside a twenty year old pager,
Speaker 2: but clearly it's not. I mean, I don't know if you,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't put anything past the abilities of the A
Speaker 2: group like Mosade.
Speaker 1: They say that agent's plant as little as two ounces
Speaker 1: of explosives next to the lithium ion battery. That's the key,
Speaker 1: I think, as well as a remotely operated switch to
Speaker 1: trigger a blast within those pagers and walkie talkies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I do believe that the explosives is a
Speaker 2: key component here. It's not just what I assumed yesterday,
Speaker 2: which was hacking a pager causing it to overcharge itself
Speaker 2: and then having the battery get so hot.
Speaker 6: That it explodes whatever.
Speaker 3: But unlikely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because if you saw the video of some of
Speaker 2: these explosions, those are not batteries exploding. I mean that
Speaker 2: would obviously be painful, hot, cause fire. That sort of
Speaker 2: thing that was a small explosion, I mean that was
Speaker 2: a that was larger than a battery simply going. That
Speaker 2: had to be something like we talked about yesterday, that
Speaker 2: PETN or some sort of semtech using PETN something like that.
Speaker 2: So listen, we're all explosives experts now, aren't we.
Speaker 3: I need to talk to you about uh.
Speaker 2: Oh man, I have you have never said those words
Speaker 2: to me, really, that you need to talk to me
Speaker 2: about something?
Speaker 3: Well, I need to talk to you about moo Dang.
Speaker 1: Moodang has been a blind spot for you and I
Speaker 1: and I was in the Chargers breakfast in the meal
Speaker 1: room and hanging out with a bunch of people that
Speaker 1: are younger than us, and said, what do you talk
Speaker 1: about on the show today, And I'm like, oh, I'm
Speaker 1: just reading this story about Moo Dang and they're like, oh, yeah, Moodang.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But one of the social well yeah, they've known about it,
Speaker 1: and apparent everyone knew about it but me, and one
Speaker 1: of the social media girls goes, yeah, we were going
Speaker 1: to try to do something with Moodang, but it was
Speaker 1: just too late, like it's just it's old now. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, great, that's how old I am. It's too
Speaker 1: old and I'm just hearing about it now. So I
Speaker 1: don't want this to happen to anybody else. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to have to tell you about Moodang when we
Speaker 1: come back.
Speaker 2: Did you then say something like, uh, I'm trying to
Speaker 2: be very demure, very mindful.
Speaker 3: No, God, I try to. I try to speak as
Speaker 3: little as possible.
Speaker 1: I literally said two words and then those deemed me
Speaker 1: as an old woman, and those two words were Moodang.
Speaker 2: Well, we also have a huge animal roundup store segment
Speaker 2: coming up next hour.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I just want to get this out of
Speaker 1: the way real quickly in case anyone wants to move
Speaker 1: about their day and doesn't want to sound like they
Speaker 1: don't know about Moo Dang.
Speaker 2: We are going to do a segment later this hour
Speaker 2: called Nothing to See Here, which is a prelude to
Speaker 2: World War or three. The US military has moved a
Speaker 2: bunch of people along with mobile rocket launchers to an
Speaker 2: island in the Illusion Chain of western Alaska. Excellent because
Speaker 2: of the increase in Russian military planes and boats approaching
Speaker 2: American territory.
Speaker 6: We'll talk about that, just.
Speaker 1: So everybody is clear and you can move about your
Speaker 1: day and feel educated. There is a baby pygmy hippo
Speaker 1: in a Thailand zoo that has become a worldwide internet sensation.
Speaker 1: Moodang is two months old. Photos of Moodang have flooded
Speaker 1: social media. Utah Jazz included the hippo and a post
Speaker 1: about the team's home opening game.
Speaker 3: This is all about this baby hippo.
Speaker 1: A Sephora Thailand celebrated moudang stardom by posting on social
Speaker 1: media about.
Speaker 3: How to wear your blush like a baby hippo.
Speaker 1: The zoo where Moodang lives has limited visitation to just
Speaker 1: Saturday and Sundays for five minutes because the of the
Speaker 1: interest in Moodang. But people are it's such a celebrity.
Speaker 1: People are not behaving well at the zoo, so they
Speaker 1: have to be very careful. Moodang was born on July
Speaker 1: tenth and rose to fame apparently when the zoo began
Speaker 1: posting videos of her eating, even opening a door at
Speaker 1: one point. She is the seventh baby hippo born to
Speaker 1: her parents at the zoo. It's just very cute baby hippo.
Speaker 1: Her name, by the way, Moodang means bouncy pig. Oh,
Speaker 1: and she was named by an online vote, so people
Speaker 1: already had skin in the pig before the pig came out.
Speaker 6: That's big.
Speaker 2: I don't think that that would be a good nickname
Speaker 2: for a spouse or partner.
Speaker 3: Bouncy pig. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I kind of like it. But this it looks that
Speaker 1: Moodang kind of has like human features a little bit.
Speaker 2: It is funny because they The whole Washington Post article
Speaker 2: today is about why we humans react to baby the
Speaker 2: animals the way that we do it.
Speaker 6: Kitchens, the pudgy bodies.
Speaker 1: It makes us want to take care of them, just
Speaker 1: like our babies makes me want to eat them.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna eat the baby, no, I know.
Speaker 2: I don't mean literally, but I mean you you you
Speaker 2: know when.
Speaker 6: You react to a baby.
Speaker 1: I never have that reaction like when I've heard people
Speaker 1: say that, oh, I just want to eat them up.
Speaker 1: Like I've never had the reaction like I want to
Speaker 1: eat that baby. It doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 7: I know that.
Speaker 2: I know that you're looking at it in a literal.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody wants to actually bite into a child. Right,
Speaker 2: there's something about you want to and I'm going to
Speaker 2: use this word and it doesn't mean that it doesn't
Speaker 2: mean it literally either, but you want to smother them
Speaker 2: like you just want to.
Speaker 6: All Right, It's a thing I get you, guys. Seriously.
Speaker 2: An hour and a half from now is when the
Speaker 2: feder Reserve is going to announce whether or not it's
Speaker 2: going to raise interest rates. And we think it is
Speaker 2: going to raise interest rates. We just don't know how
Speaker 2: much it's going to raise interest.
Speaker 1: I feel like we need sexy music for oh, for
Speaker 1: interest rates?
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1: Because relief is on the way borrowing money. It's about
Speaker 1: to get cheaper.
Speaker 2: ABC News chief business correspondent and friend of the show.
Speaker 2: At least she was at one time, Rebecca Jarvis, you
Speaker 2: are never going.
Speaker 3: To get over her breakup with us.
Speaker 8: And the reason the Fed is doing this right now.
Speaker 8: Inflation is now at a three year low. It's well
Speaker 8: below the nine percent peak. It is back in what
Speaker 8: they would consider the normal zone where the Fed wants
Speaker 8: to see it at two and a half percent. Meantime,
Speaker 8: unemployment still historically low four point two percent, but it
Speaker 8: is starting to take higher. You may have heard this
Speaker 8: term soft landing. That is exactly what the Fed is
Speaker 8: trying to do here. They want to land this plane
Speaker 8: nice and easy.
Speaker 1: Oh man, did I call for the music at the
Speaker 1: right time.
Speaker 6: Or what he certainly did. Speaking of the.
Speaker 2: Dow Jones Industrial average right now, is that is only
Speaker 2: down about forty two points. They say, basically, the markets
Speaker 2: have been treading water waiting for whatever announcement is going
Speaker 2: to come today. S and P five hundred and the
Speaker 2: NASTAC are basically flat.
Speaker 6: They're down just a couple of points.
Speaker 2: So we don't expect to see much of a huge change,
Speaker 2: at least not right away.
Speaker 6: We'll kind of see what goes on over the next
Speaker 6: couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Now, the biggest question is, and I know everybody's on
Speaker 2: the edge of their seats, the big question is whether
Speaker 2: or not this is a fifty basis point reduction or
Speaker 2: a twenty five basis point reduction.
Speaker 6: Jeffrey Solomon is the president of T D Cowen.
Speaker 7: They may actually do fifty bases voints, but I think
Speaker 7: they shouwly do twenty five because why are we Why
Speaker 7: what's the rush?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 7: There's no urgency. They can they can ease a little bit,
Speaker 7: see how it goes, see if we continue to see
Speaker 7: inflation or continue if inflation continues to abate, and there's
Speaker 7: no reason for them to go to fifteen. And my
Speaker 7: point now, the market bay price and you can see
Speaker 7: a pullback in equities if they don't do it, But
Speaker 7: you know that would just be a today event or
Speaker 7: next few weeks event.
Speaker 6: I think longer term, it's.
Speaker 7: Better for them to be cautious to ensure that inflation
Speaker 7: doesn't rear its ugly ahead.
Speaker 3: He wasn't a sexy.
Speaker 1: Right when we come back, Yeah, let's cut the sex music,
Speaker 1: because when we come back, we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: Diddy and his latest proposal for bail, which is asinine.
Speaker 1: It just shows he does not take this seriously, or
Speaker 1: his attorneys don't take this seriously. If this was their
Speaker 1: contingency plan, you.
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Speaker 9: Shannon and Gary, the real brilliance and the attack against
Speaker 9: Hesbola using pages and walkie talkies is that not only
Speaker 9: does Israel disrupt their communications, but now there's a fundamental
Speaker 9: distrust of all electronic devices mark which is going to
Speaker 9: make communications really difficult in the future.
Speaker 6: Yep, going forward. It's a good point. Don't listen to me.
Speaker 6: I don't know what I'm.
Speaker 10: Saying, guys.
Speaker 5: I thought it was pretty funny. Gary consistently said the.
Speaker 6: Fed was going to raise rate. I'm pretty sure they
Speaker 6: were going to lower. Yes, the percent, Gary, lower, They're
Speaker 6: going to lower lower, lower. It's not going to raise
Speaker 6: the interest rates.
Speaker 5: Lower.
Speaker 9: Lower lower means cut, raise means more.
Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, yes, still giving like you're a four year old.
Speaker 6: Well I did, I made a four year old mistake.
Speaker 3: I didn't hear that. Maybe I should listen.
Speaker 2: When the FED makes an announcement at eleven just after eleven.
Speaker 2: The expectation is that they will be cutting interest rates,
Speaker 2: the borrowing rate by fifty basis points or twenty five
Speaker 2: basis points. We don't know that part yet, but we
Speaker 2: do know it's widely expected that they will in fact cut, lower, shrink,
Speaker 2: make smaller.
Speaker 3: This is this is why you know, this is why.
Speaker 1: This is why Rebecca Jarvis broke up with us, because
Speaker 1: you probably said stupid stuff.
Speaker 3: Hey, and then she was like, I'm done.
Speaker 2: There's another We haven't gotten the details specifically yet if
Speaker 2: this is considered an actual threat, but police have reportedly
Speaker 2: found explosives in a car near a rally site for Trump.
Speaker 2: This is on Long Island ahead of a speech tonight.
Speaker 2: If it's confirmed, then I guess you could say this
Speaker 2: would be a third assassination to Tap. Again, the details
Speaker 2: are sketchy at this point. They have apparently detained somebody
Speaker 2: who was running away from the scene of a vehicle
Speaker 2: that did contain some sort of explosives, and again we
Speaker 2: don't know if it was fireworks, if it was something
Speaker 2: more nefarious than that. That rally is expected tonight at
Speaker 2: the Nassau Coliseum about seven o'clock New York time.
Speaker 1: Well, Diddy is taking another swing at getting out on bail.
Speaker 3: He's upping his offer to the court.
Speaker 1: He says he will forego contact with almost all women.
Speaker 3: If he's out. Oh thank you, it says, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: In the documents, his legal team says, if he's released
Speaker 1: on bail, the security company it keeps a log of
Speaker 1: all visitors to his home in Miami Beach, will hand
Speaker 1: over those logs to the government nightly in order to
Speaker 1: be fully transparent about who did he is contacting. That
Speaker 1: he will limit all visitors to family, property caretakers and
Speaker 1: friends who are not co conspirators.
Speaker 3: In the federal indictment.
Speaker 1: You don't get to have friends over after you have
Speaker 1: spent more than ten years at least kidnapping and assaulting
Speaker 1: and beating women like that is not something.
Speaker 3: You get to have.
Speaker 1: Also, who's going to believe his security team and the
Speaker 1: logs they keep. Also, women coming over to your house
Speaker 1: wasn't the problem. It was the fact that you were
Speaker 1: keeping them there for weeks and months and beating them
Speaker 1: and assaulting them and having them raped essentially, Like that's
Speaker 1: the problem. It's not that we don't think that you
Speaker 1: should be fraternizing with women. It's the fact that you
Speaker 1: held people against their will. And don't forget when this happened.
Speaker 1: Not when this happened, but when the original.
Speaker 2: Problems arose and we saw the raids on his properties
Speaker 2: at Holmby Hills and down in Miami. He took off,
Speaker 2: he left, he fled. I mean, the idea that he's
Speaker 2: now somehow not a flight risk is absolutely ridiculous. And
Speaker 2: the idea also of him where was it They said
Speaker 2: that they wanted to put him on home detention fifty
Speaker 2: million dollars bond secured by his home in Miami. Okay,
Speaker 2: So how rough a life is it going to be
Speaker 2: if you're stuck in a fifteen thousand square foot mansion
Speaker 2: in Miami.
Speaker 1: Why do people keep calling him a rapper too? I mean,
Speaker 1: he is a mogul, He had his own record label,
Speaker 1: he discovered artist like Usher clothing line Mary J. Blige.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is essentially a titan of industry.
Speaker 1: When you say rapper, it kind of water it down.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy had a immense power, immense power.
Speaker 1: He was at the very least he was a rapper.
Speaker 6: Did she ever? Did she?
Speaker 2: I've already mentioned her in my head without saying it
Speaker 2: out loud. Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 6: What was her connection to Ditty?
Speaker 3: I don't know. They never got.
Speaker 6: Married, is what I mean.
Speaker 2: In fact, for those of you who uh, I don't know,
Speaker 2: gauge your Jennifer Lopez memories based on outfits that she's worn.
Speaker 2: That Versace, that green Versace outfit that blew everybody's doors
Speaker 2: off twenty four years ago. She went to the Grammys
Speaker 2: that year with Ditty, so they were they were boyfriend
Speaker 2: and girlfriend at least she dated.
Speaker 3: Him between nineteen ninety nine and two thousand and one.
Speaker 2: Okay, now I am not that that matters or no,
Speaker 2: I'm just curious about the timelines. Again, I'm not saying
Speaker 2: Jennifer Lopez had anything to do with this or even
Speaker 2: had knowledge of it.
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 2: She's definitely not named as a co conspiracy I don't
Speaker 2: think so.
Speaker 1: I mean, his transgressions go back to the nineties, but
Speaker 1: it seems like he got out of control and this
Speaker 1: escalated circuit two thousand and nine. That's when he really
Speaker 1: started these these crazy parties and keeping this layer and
Speaker 1: trying to direct live porn and.
Speaker 2: The mentality of that is it just that he got
Speaker 2: away with it for so long and then just thought
Speaker 2: he was untouchable.
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly. Well, if I can get away with that,
Speaker 3: then I can get away with this right awful.
Speaker 2: He is expected to be back in court today and then,
Speaker 2: like you said, arguing for some bail. He's in jail
Speaker 2: right now on no bail. He's arguing for some bail
Speaker 2: so that he can go leave. There's I can't imagine
Speaker 2: a world where they offer him bail. No because even
Speaker 2: if you post, you know, a ten million dollar bail
Speaker 2: or something like that, he can afford it. So the
Speaker 2: only option I think it has to be no bail.
Speaker 2: But we'll see how that goes this afternoon. Hey, we
Speaker 2: were talking yesterday about plastics, microplastics and stuff and the food.
Speaker 2: Did you see that Tupperware is going to a file
Speaker 2: for bankruptcy protection?
Speaker 3: Prescient, You're very prescient.
Speaker 2: The Tupperware brand, introduced in the forties by a guy
Speaker 2: named Earl Tupper, a chemist, developed a clean, durable plastic
Speaker 2: to create airtight containers. They said that the direct sales campaign,
Speaker 2: the Tupperware parties that we saw back in the eighties
Speaker 2: et cetera are the reason why they can't make money.
Speaker 6: Now there's just no there's no way to do it
Speaker 6: the way that they did it before.
Speaker 1: Well back then, I think women and moms needed an
Speaker 1: excuse to get together and drink wine. And now they
Speaker 1: don't feel like they need an excuse anymore. Like it
Speaker 1: used to be like, oh, I want to check out
Speaker 1: this tupperware. Oh yeah, come over, And the tupperware was
Speaker 1: the vehicle for socialization.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they and they don't what is there a an?
Speaker 2: Is there any sort of thing like that that goes on.
Speaker 1: Women these days get to do whatever they want whenever
Speaker 1: they want. Gary, we don't need an excuse like tupperware
Speaker 1: to cook for the family and all of that anymore.
Speaker 6: I don't believe it.
Speaker 3: Although a good candle party is still a good thing.
Speaker 2: A candle party, Yeah, wow, we used to do those
Speaker 2: all the time.
Speaker 6: There's only somebody. It was a clothing company called Cabby.
Speaker 6: Was that a thing? Yes, it sounds right.
Speaker 2: I think my wife went to one of those not
Speaker 2: heard of that fires continue to burn. The Bridge fire
Speaker 2: almost fifty five thousand acres now, thirty seven percent contained
Speaker 2: airport fires, thirty five percent contained the line fire is
Speaker 2: fifty percent contained.
Speaker 6: We got a message to remind everybody.
Speaker 5: Good morning Garyan Shannon toom me here, a long time listener,
Speaker 5: I had to go to an opportunity to thank some
Speaker 5: of our firefighters from Alameda who are up here helping
Speaker 5: our firefighters locally. So if we could give a big
Speaker 5: shout out to the Alameda firefighters, that would be a
Speaker 5: great privilege. Love you guys, have a wonderful day. Thank
Speaker 5: you too.
Speaker 2: It's one thing we didn't we haven't spent a lot
Speaker 2: of time on the reminder that there are firefighters from
Speaker 2: around the around the state, and around the country that
Speaker 2: have come in to help fight these fires. When I
Speaker 2: saw a couple of cowfire trucks that had come in
Speaker 2: from Oraville, as a matter of fact, way up near
Speaker 2: obviously near Paradise, where that fire was several years ago.
Speaker 1: Surprise they could spare firefighters from places like Oraville. Well,
Speaker 1: one thing from New Jersey, I get that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's one thing from Minnesota.
Speaker 10: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's not. Hobo is not
Speaker 10: the correct term. I'm not being politically correct here. A
Speaker 10: hobo is actually a traveling tradesman, someone who may be homeless,
Speaker 10: does not have a home, but actually has marketable skills
Speaker 10: which they go about town to town and basically bartering
Speaker 10: for food or money and all that until they move
Speaker 10: on to the next area. The word we're looking for
Speaker 10: here is bumfire. Yeah, there's a bum fire here. People
Speaker 10: who just live under the freeway bums.
Speaker 1: But that's not as much fun to say as hobo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty home like a homeless wanderer is a hobo, all right.
Speaker 2: The US military has moved about one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: soldiers along with mobile rocket launchers, to an island in
Speaker 2: western Alaska, out on the Eleusian Chain of islands. There
Speaker 2: recently have been eight Russian military planes, four navy vessels,
Speaker 2: including a couple of submarines, that have come close to
Speaker 2: Alaska in the past week. Because Russia and China are
Speaker 2: conducting joint military drills.
Speaker 1: Now, none of the planes breached US airspace. Pentagon spokesperson
Speaker 1: said there's no cause for alarm that this is not
Speaker 1: the first time we've seen the Russians and the Chinese
Speaker 1: flying in the vicinity. We monitor it at something we
Speaker 1: are prepared to respond to.
Speaker 2: It's one of those testing the waters literally kind of
Speaker 2: thing that goes on. Walter Russell Mead is a writer
Speaker 2: who contributes a bunch of different to a sorry, to
Speaker 2: a bunch of different publications about military readiness, and he
Speaker 2: summarized in the Wall Street Journal a report that came
Speaker 2: out from the Commission on the National Defense Strategy. It's
Speaker 2: a bunch of experts picked by Republicans and Democrats, and
Speaker 2: it says basically that the United States faces the most
Speaker 2: serious and most challenging threats since oh, I don't know,
Speaker 2: nineteen forty five, including the very real risk of near
Speaker 2: term major war, and that the nation was last prepared
Speaker 2: for such a fight during the Cold War, but that
Speaker 2: ended thirty five years ago. And then this is the
Speaker 2: devastating line in the report, it is not prepared today.
Speaker 2: And I think the thing that he wrote in there
Speaker 2: that surprised me the most, or at least open my
Speaker 2: eyes the most, was that in the event that this
Speaker 2: was a normal political environment that we were in, where
Speaker 2: you had one person on one side arguing policy and
Speaker 2: the other person on the other side arguing policy, and
Speaker 2: us deciding between the two, then this would be a
Speaker 2: massive story. But because we're so distressed by other things
Speaker 2: in this political environment. This report that says we are
Speaker 2: not prepared for a war just kind of goes by
Speaker 2: the wayside.
Speaker 6: Happy times, happy.
Speaker 1: Time, few times. Everything's fine, everything's fine, nothing, just fine.
Speaker 1: Come on back to your hobo fires. Ah, I want
Speaker 1: to do more on hobo fires. Okay, maybe in the
Speaker 1: next hour. We've got a huge ten o'clock hour for you.
Speaker 1: By the way, we've got newsome with the funniest parody
Speaker 1: I've seen in a while. We've got embryos that were
Speaker 1: just tossed into the wind and an animal round up.
Speaker 1: Did you hear about the evacuated animals in that line fire?
Speaker 1: They were evacuated from the Big Bear Zoo. One of
Speaker 1: the people evacuating the animals, her quote was, I had
Speaker 1: two foxes in my personal vehicle and it will never
Speaker 1: smell the same.
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