WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:05.080 You can't tell it, and it probably you will because 2 00:00:05.320 --> 00:00:10.640 of what professionals Ross and I are. Other than me 3 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:15.359 telling you, you would probably have never noticed this. For 4 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:19.480 some reason. I can't hear myself, or I can hear myself, 5 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:22.600 but I can't hear anything else in the airchain back 6 00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:25.679 to me, which includes Ross's voice audio that I would 7 00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:27.600 play you the music bed you just heard as the 8 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:32.039 show started. So we are. But since you can hear 9 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:35.119 me and Ross is in there beating on stuff with 10 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:37.759 pipes or whatever the fix it is, we're just going 11 00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:41.399 to roll with this thing. So just understand, if at 12 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:43.240 any point I do sound it's a little distracted, it's 13 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:48.000 because Ross got it fixed. So all right, good, wonderful. 14 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:52.520 This is so weird not even hearing any of the return, 15 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:57.000 but that's okay because what we lack in technology, but 16 00:00:57.159 --> 00:01:01.759 we lack in technology, we make up or in preparedness 17 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:06.239 because we got a lot of fun stuff obviously coming 18 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:08.840 our way today. Pete Callander will join us. That'll be 19 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:11.959 at eight o five to uh, you know, talk about 20 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:16.400 one or two items out there. The story in New 21 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:19.319 York obviously is going to be one of those with 22 00:01:19.359 --> 00:01:24.120 the with the assassin, but now that has that has 23 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:26.200 turned into something else, and we gave you a little 24 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:28.680 inkling of it as we started the show yesterday. When 25 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:36.799 I say something else, like specifically, you know, specifically, we 26 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:43.040 we had Rachel Rachel Lorenz, Taylor Lorenz, former New York Times, 27 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:47.879 Washington Post, whatever, absolute lunatic who feels bullied by the way. 28 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:49.840 That's her big thing. If you remember her crying during 29 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:51.359 the interview, it's because people bullied her. 30 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:51.799 You know. 31 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:54.719 She she was out there posting on the blue sky 32 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:57.560 some of those memes we were talking about. But also 33 00:01:57.799 --> 00:02:00.840 like the picture of the bluke was a Blue Crosses 34 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:03.000 or human I don't know, one of the other company. 35 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:07.560 I think it was Blue Cross posting the CEO's you know, 36 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:10.919 name and likeness, which isn't private information, but it's the 37 00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:15.879 spirit of it. And then it was just absolutely everybody 38 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:19.719 under the set, not everybody in total, but like across 39 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:24.759 all the different demographics that were like, yay, the evil 40 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:27.280 CEO is dead. That's what he gets. 41 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:30.280 Then, and. 42 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:35.439 Think about where that, think about what it is you're advocating. 43 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:39.680 You're advocating the position of eat the rich. You realize that, right, 44 00:02:40.680 --> 00:02:43.319 even if you don't like the rich. You're advocating that 45 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:47.479 position that words words weren't enough, were not getting in 46 00:02:47.479 --> 00:02:50.599 our way, and so they go out and they shoot 47 00:02:50.639 --> 00:02:55.000 a CEO, and I say they as though it's a conspiracy. 48 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:56.800 Doesn't have to be. It's just that people are in 49 00:02:56.919 --> 00:03:00.800 spirit with it. Then it breaks it down just a 50 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:07.639 little more, like, well, look at the response he got right. 51 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:10.919 This is you're getting into that weird school shooter kind 52 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:14.000 of thing where people feel that, hey, there's a way 53 00:03:14.039 --> 00:03:17.400 I'll be remembered. And every time you you know, every 54 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:19.840 time you open that and you sit here and you 55 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:24.759 perpetuate it and promote it, like the media does this stuff. 56 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:27.599 They drive some of this narrative. Now it's easy in 57 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:30.919 the world of health insurance because it is. It is 58 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:33.759 absolutely one of the most frustrating things out there, and 59 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:36.800 there are people who fall by the wayside, and the 60 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.280 insurance companies are they don't have your best interest in mind. 61 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:44.439 They have their investors, right, and as an adult you 62 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:47.000 should know that, but you also have to understand how 63 00:03:47.039 --> 00:03:51.560 you're going to operate within the system. Doesn't mean there's 64 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:54.199 not people in the insurance game that care, but at 65 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:56.400 the end of the day, if you're a giant, giant 66 00:03:56.400 --> 00:04:00.879 health insurer. You're answering to shareholders most likely most of 67 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:05.599 them are publicly owned. So and and no, is the 68 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:06.599 system perfect? 69 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:06.719 No? 70 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:09.400 But is it better than things like the NA n 71 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:11.240 H R, n I H or whatever that is over 72 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:14.280 in the UK. Sure feels like it. Sure feels like 73 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:16.759 it's better in Canada's too, since I used to live 74 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:21.279 in Minnesota and medical tourism from Canada to UH to 75 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:25.240 Minnesota is gangbusters. That Mayo clinic has a lot of 76 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:28.279 Canadians flying around it, and it's not because the government 77 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:32.079 covers it up there. So with with that in mind, 78 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:37.639 you have almost this this this permissiveness, and that's where 79 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:40.279 stuff starts getting dangerous. That's how people think they can 80 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:42.720 take a shot at Trump and half the country will 81 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:47.639 think they're cool of tality. Man, it's not a good look. 82 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:51.920 And uh unfortunately that's so that's that's what we saw 83 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:56.199 up there. Now, there is another story that I thought 84 00:04:56.279 --> 00:05:02.279 was pretty wild on how the these photos that emerged, 85 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:07.279 how these photos that emerged of what they purport to 86 00:05:07.319 --> 00:05:09.439 be the suspect, but with his face uncover he's got 87 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:11.560 to beg old grin on his faith. As I saw 88 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:13.319 people spect that is that a guy or a guy 89 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:16.040 I don't that looks like a dude but whatever, or 90 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:19.319 is that the same guy? I don't know. I mean 91 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:21.920 it kind of looks like the clothes and everything fit. 92 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:24.399 And there's the timeline there. I mean, the officers are 93 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:25.720 not just throwing it out because they looked at the 94 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:28.519 photo and they went, that's probably him. Like remember, they 95 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:31.639 were tracking They were tracking dude back because they got 96 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:36.680 a whole surveillance network up there. So yeah, they're they're 97 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:38.680 they're going through there and they're putting all this stuff 98 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:42.199 together and so they have probably a number of reasons 99 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:46.319 they feel that it was confidently him. But the question becomes, 100 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:51.839 how do they get how if, if if, if people 101 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:55.879 are professional and and all of that, how would they 102 00:05:55.920 --> 00:05:58.759 slip up and allow themselves to be filmed right there? 103 00:06:01.399 --> 00:06:14.319 And the answer is, uh, women, ladies, Yeah, tests hormones. 104 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:20.839 Dude was so according to according to law enforcement, the 105 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:24.800 photo that they released or the two other photos, but 106 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:29.040 of with the smile, the reason he's smiling is because 107 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:34.120 he's flirting and being flirted with h with the girl 108 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:37.160 at the front desk of the hostel. He's trying to 109 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:41.399 hit that and Apparently she's reciprocating telling police that she 110 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:45.879 was flirting with him, and as part of flirting, she's say, oh, 111 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:47.920 take your fat take your mask down so I can 112 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:51.399 see your face there. Do I sound like a flirty girl? 113 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:55.439 I'm very good at it. And he's like, yeah, you 114 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:58.399 know why. And we mentioned this on the show the 115 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:02.680 other day. Women we can lay rock women weakened legs. 116 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:08.079 This is exactly what Mick was talking about going out there. 117 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:10.639 Oh you got a girlfriend, all their weakened legs. Man, 118 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:14.240 this is what he means by that. This guy has plan. 119 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:16.240 He had his bike, he knew where he was going 120 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:19.199 to go to avoid the cameras. He had the pistol, 121 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:22.680 he had the silencer suppressor. Don't calling yellow ross over that. 122 00:07:24.120 --> 00:07:27.560 He had all of these things. He had this guy's 123 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:31.519 itinerary at least enough to be knowing where he needed 124 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:35.319 to wait, at what time he needed to wait. And 125 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:39.040 then in a pretty methodical fashion, minus whatever the deal 126 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:42.800 is with that pistol, and why is racking the slide 127 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:50.160 which might be the attachment on there, the silencer, all 128 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:55.000 of this, and he's going to be undone by a 129 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:59.360 pumpkin spice latte and some girl he thought he could 130 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:04.279 get her digit from. We're so dumb. We're so dumb. 131 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:08.360 I bet the latte was for her. Do we even know? 132 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:12.800 I mean, the power bars are probably his, but that 133 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:17.800 is how they got the photo. She's she's flirting with him, 134 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:22.519 which is which a pretty crazy thing. So I mean, 135 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:25.160 think about that for a moment. These two are flirting. 136 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:30.759 She's probably got some some thoughts going through her head. 137 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:33.759 And then to find out later that that dude you 138 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:36.279 were gonna go hook up with or at least, you know, 139 00:08:36.879 --> 00:08:40.679 hang out with, might be the one who just walked 140 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:45.519 over and assassinated the CEO down the street, she probably 141 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:50.200 wants to hook up with him more. Sorry, I'm sorry. 142 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:56.720 You know I'm right though she won't say it, But 143 00:08:56.799 --> 00:09:00.000 that's that. That's that bad boy thing right there. Yeah, 144 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:03.080 they sitting in the hostel, You're probably surrounded with them, 145 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:04.639 so maybe that's why you work there. I don't know, 146 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:09.080 but yeah, that's crazy. That's crazy. That's the undoing of 147 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:11.639 this dude who. By the way, I just want to 148 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:14.840 be abundantly clear on this show. We want that person arrested, 149 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:19.200 we want that person charged with murder. We want whatever 150 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:21.480 led to it the tire story to come out so 151 00:09:21.519 --> 00:09:27.919 that people can, you know, understand everything, no matter how 152 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:30.080 crazy or weird than it is. And I want the 153 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:34.720 footnote to the story to always be that this individual 154 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:37.200 may have gotten busted because he couldn't keep it in 155 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:44.440 his pants. Just one of life's funny little twists as 156 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:49.200 it as it pertains to this this particular story. And 157 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:52.679 that's not our only update on it. But well, you 158 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:54.600 you see how things are going. It's Friday, so everything 159 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:58.000 gets thrown together. The operation get hag Seth is in 160 00:09:58.360 --> 00:09:59.519 full full force. 161 00:09:59.639 --> 00:09:59.799 Now. 162 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:03.919 I think that they took it personally over there at 163 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:10.080 Trump HQ, and so you had that moment where heg says, look, 164 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:12.000 I remem with the President. He's just like, yeah, let's 165 00:10:12.039 --> 00:10:14.000 do this thing. Man, We're gonna keep doing this. Don't 166 00:10:14.039 --> 00:10:17.000 don't let him get you down. You had that, and 167 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:19.159 then the media got mad because I think they thought 168 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:21.200 they were going to push him out with the thing 169 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:24.120 with his mom and all of that within a minute. 170 00:10:25.039 --> 00:10:29.320 Because remember confirmation hearings when the Republicans coming in are 171 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:37.240 the absolute ringer, the absolute clenchius kind of search that 172 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:39.679 you can imagine that they're willing to do to you. Meanwhile, 173 00:10:40.159 --> 00:10:42.919 Democrats come in, they're just like all right, I mean 174 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:45.320 the Republicans do it, but it doesn't drive the narrative 175 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:48.000 because the media won't parrot it or they'll carry water 176 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:53.799 for it. They'll be like, oh, well, yeah, no, he 177 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:56.720 was the mayor of He was the mayor of a 178 00:10:56.720 --> 00:11:00.240 small town in Indiana. But they had buses, have a 179 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:04.320 very good bus system, you know, just a little stuff 180 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:08.639 like that. So Haig says, going through there, and now 181 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:14.279 now they think they got him because he drank some beers. 182 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:20.879 He drank some beers at work. I thought of having 183 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:22.879 a beer during this show, but I don't have any 184 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:25.679 beer in the fridge there, so I thought it to 185 00:11:25.720 --> 00:11:29.000 have to pretend he drank some beer at work. However, 186 00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:34.000 it was in a pretty pretty specific situation. So we 187 00:11:34.759 --> 00:11:37.320 got tons of audio on this. We're gonna get to 188 00:11:38.759 --> 00:11:43.200 if we're able to fix whatever thing is that makes 189 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.200 me so I can't hear things. And I'm not deaf. 190 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:48.559 I checked because Ross and I obviously had it off 191 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:51.159 the year conversation, and we can hear each other's voices, 192 00:11:51.200 --> 00:11:56.879 so it's not that. But yeah, yeah, so we'll dive 193 00:11:56.919 --> 00:11:59.080 into that. Just when I can get into the audio 194 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:04.279 and what a villain arc man. I did not have 195 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:08.440 this on my Bengo card. So I want you to 196 00:12:08.559 --> 00:12:11.320 understand that you are waking up in a country right now. 197 00:12:12.279 --> 00:12:14.799 You're waking up in a country right now where if 198 00:12:14.840 --> 00:12:19.000 you did a popularity poll and this would be terrifying 199 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:21.519 and maybe one of these pole companies got nothing better 200 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:23.120 to do. Maybe this is what you should do today. 201 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:28.120 I want to see the favorability rating on CEO Shooter 202 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:33.759 guy and Hawk to a Girl because I feel like 203 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:37.039 right now, at least if the Internet, which I understand 204 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:40.679 is not reality, but Twitter is the closest to reality, 205 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:44.759 at least as it breaks down across our demographic lines, 206 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:48.240 I would say that people on Twitter are more mad 207 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:51.600 at this Haley Welch chick the Hawk to a girl 208 00:12:51.639 --> 00:12:54.799 to spit on that thing. Girl, Yeah, more mad at 209 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:57.840 her than the guy who murdered somebody in an assassination 210 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:03.879 in Manhattan the other day. Why she did the crypto 211 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:06.120 rug pule thing. So if you don't know, if you 212 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:07.879 don't know how this works, And by the way, I 213 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:11.840 don't need a bunch of crypto bros calling me and okay, 214 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:13.799 well now I can hear myself so we got that 215 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:19.320 going for us. So so that's that's it. Oh, it's 216 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:21.840 so distracted, I've to take my headphones off. All right. 217 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:26.320 So anyway, Haley welch talk to a girl? All right? 218 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:28.200 Now I can just hear Ross's voice in my ears, 219 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:31.440 So all right, yep, yep, yep. All right, dude, this 220 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:33.960 is I'm telling you. This is like doing surgery every 221 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:38.480 day while spinning plates man sometimes sometimes with the tech. 222 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:42.600 Uh So, Hailey Weld, social media influencer, hawked to a girl. 223 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:47.360 Uh yeah, here was the thing because people initially they 224 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:49.559 had like some big opinions on this girl, and I'm 225 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:52.480 just like, whatever, she's drunk. You asked her a question, 226 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:54.879 she said something, so you thought it was funny if 227 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:57.799 you thought she was cute, or you like the accent 228 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:01.759 or whatever, and that's fine. It was funny. It was 229 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:04.360 funny for the moment, and then you just moved on 230 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:07.000 from there. And and so she now has to figure 231 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:10.440 out how she's gonna seize that fifteen minutes. And of 232 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:12.879 course I think most people were like, ah, when does 233 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:15.320 the only fans open? But she didn't go that route. 234 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:19.000 She went and she established a podcast, because everybody has 235 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:25.360 a podcast now even though this is the superior one. 236 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:29.559 So she does a podcast and she gets big guess. 237 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:33.320 I've seen little clips on like YouTube shorts and whatnot 238 00:14:33.360 --> 00:14:36.240 of her sitting there with like Rachel Maddow. I'm sorry, 239 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:40.960 not Mark Cuban. I apologize, I confuse them, and and like, 240 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:43.279 so she's got big guests. I don't know how she's 241 00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:47.840 monetizing it, but I see her everywhere. So she was 242 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:50.639 making a run at it, but apparently the run wasn't 243 00:14:50.679 --> 00:14:53.480 fast enough. So what did she do. She launched her 244 00:14:53.480 --> 00:14:57.679 own crypto coin. And here's how the shady launches work. 245 00:14:57.879 --> 00:15:00.480 And by the way, this is not every crypto. Don't 246 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:02.159 call on you all at me because I don't care, 247 00:15:02.759 --> 00:15:05.559 all right, I do care. And by the way, yes 248 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:07.679 I do own some crypto. I bought it as a 249 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:12.600 joke on the radio years ago. And it may start 250 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:17.519 with a bit so what do you know? But in 251 00:15:17.559 --> 00:15:19.720 these case you get. What you do is you get 252 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:22.919 one internet idiot, all right. It could be a Paul Brother, 253 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:26.240 It could be this check, It could be anybody, could 254 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:28.840 be just someone. It could be that low life running 255 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:33.279 around Korea, Johnny Somali or whatever. It can be any 256 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:35.519 of it. But generally it's going to be attached. It's 257 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:37.679 a meme coin because it's attached to kind of a 258 00:15:37.759 --> 00:15:43.080 meme individual. Really, and you say, I've launched my coin, 259 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:45.840 all right, So like let's let's say we did ross coin, okay, 260 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:49.039 and then you launch it, and then immediately Ross and 261 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:54.279 his inner circle they own ninety seven percent of the 262 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:58.039 coin or whatever it is, and then and they and 263 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:00.960 now they start selling it, and they sell it, obviously 264 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:04.639 at at a much more inflated price. I think the 265 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:07.320 valuation of a coin. For a moment the market cap 266 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:11.519 was like a half billion dollars and then within twenty 267 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:14.600 minutes it's worth a tenth of it. But you've sold 268 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:16.759 it the high price to all of your fans and 269 00:16:16.919 --> 00:16:20.960 taken their money. It might be illegal, it should be, 270 00:16:21.159 --> 00:16:24.879 and this chick could end up in jail where I 271 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:26.559 don't know if you spin on it in there. I 272 00:16:26.600 --> 00:16:29.399 don't We'll be back because now I can hear Ross 273 00:16:29.399 --> 00:16:30.960 and I can hear all our stuff. But then our 274 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:34.279 our log has disappeared, which is a digital thing. But 275 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:38.840 now it's back, so I guess maybe I'll Can you 276 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:41.440 smell anything, I can't smell anything, so I don't know 277 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:44.240 what's going on, but they got the Gerbil back in 278 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:51.720 place and off we go. So I'm so glad it's Friday. Ross. 279 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:53.799 You know, I had a great thought this morning. Do 280 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:54.279 you know what? 281 00:16:54.759 --> 00:16:54.919 You know? 282 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:58.879 What today is? After today's show? 283 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:02.840 Two weeks till the vacation. Vacation not as if I'm 284 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:03.759 cutting down or anything. 285 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:06.440 No, he not that he has a giant advent calendar 286 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:08.359 in there, but not one that's sync to the to 287 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:11.920 the Christmas holiday, but rather pays off on what is 288 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:14.480 the twentieth or last show of the year. I think so, 289 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:19.480 so whatever that Friday is, And but it's leftover turkey 290 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:22.000 sandwiches in each of the holes and not chocolate. So 291 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:25.839 he's just he's just flexing now, all right, So Pete 292 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:29.359 hag Seth, he was the object of yer. Do you 293 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:35.319 see the Washington Post headline? Hold on just a second. Sorry, 294 00:17:35.359 --> 00:17:36.880 we were trying to make our stuff work, so I 295 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:42.839 got distracted. Uh, here we go, and I need I 296 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:48.440 need military folks to help me out with this one. Okay. 297 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:52.839 Now the Washington Post headline is as follows, Get out 298 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:58.720 of my way. Ah, just want to see the headline. 299 00:17:59.839 --> 00:18:05.000 I hate this stuff so much. These paywalls. Your whole 300 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:12.880 business model's busted. Nobody cares. So it has to do 301 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:18.720 with hegsas Bronze stars. Okay, and what what is your 302 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:20.799 understand a Bronze Star? Ross? You and I are both 303 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:23.839 non military, what is your understanding of a Bronze Star? 304 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:26.640 So if you find out somebody got a Bronze Star, I. 305 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:28.519 Would say if if you, like someone came up to 306 00:18:28.519 --> 00:18:30.160 me and said, hey, I have a Bronze Star my 307 00:18:30.240 --> 00:18:32.240 dad did, I'd be like you, They're a badass. That's 308 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:32.960 my assessment. 309 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:36.119 Yeah, that would be that would be most peaceable people's assessment. Now, 310 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:39.839 I understand, and I understand that Bronze Stars are awarded 311 00:18:39.880 --> 00:18:42.960 for a variety of things. It's not necessarily you know, 312 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:44.720 the stories don't have to be the same as a 313 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:48.240 Medal of honor recipient or something. Right there, that being said, 314 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:52.680 they are a they are a It is a award 315 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:57.440 of distinction, okay. And it is one that I as 316 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:00.759 far as I've known, Washington Post has always been a 317 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:04.839 fan of, including this. Here's one from where they were 318 00:19:04.880 --> 00:19:10.440 reporting on a guy who received let's see here Bronze Star. 319 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:14.799 A Army sergeant here we go was honored with the 320 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:18.440 bronze Star for taking on duties above his rank. And 321 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:21.039 they write this whole story and they're very excited because 322 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:24.000 you know who gets to give them the award, Joe Biden. 323 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:26.359 Joe Biden got to give him the award, and so 324 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:28.720 he's given him this bronze star and it was this 325 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:33.799 is a big damn deal, which is fine. Look, I'm 326 00:19:34.519 --> 00:19:37.759 you know, good for getting the recognition for doing something 327 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:41.680 like that. So fast forward, because heg Seth, heeg seys 328 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:45.359 got himself a couple of these. And again the Washington 329 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:49.519 Post apparently they've switched all their employees because they have 330 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:53.200 a very different take. Here's the headline. Bronze stars like 331 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:57.960 those heg Seth earned are common among military officers. So 332 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:00.160 here's the deal. Because I do know this to be 333 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:04.839 the case, and you know, not all purple hearts are 334 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:07.720 the same. You start getting into things with clusters and 335 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:12.079 things like that. That being said is still a word 336 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:15.920 of distinction. But is the Washington Post right that these 337 00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:21.119 two bronze stars that Hegseth earned are essentially meaningless. You're 338 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:23.119 willing to got you, you're willing to go that they're 339 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:26.519 out the common among military officers. So a military officer 340 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:29.720 is never just has served with distinction if they happen 341 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:31.400 to have a bronze star. Because I know a military 342 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:35.720 officer with a bronze star, and the story with that 343 00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:41.640 and his purple hearts sound pretty it sounds pretty badass. 344 00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:47.240 Sounds pretty badass, like Rambo kind of badass stuff there, 345 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:51.400 so does I'm not sure how it works. So I 346 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:53.960 as a civilian, somebody's gonna have to help me out. 347 00:20:54.440 --> 00:20:56.400 Somebody's got a couple of bronze stars like the one 348 00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:59.119 heg says has Is it no big deal? Ho hum or? 349 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:03.519 Is the Washington Post just doing Washington Post stuff? Eight 350 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:06.359 eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four. I'm 351 00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:09.200 just curious, right, I'm not going to come on here 352 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:10.759 and tell you that I know everything. Some of the 353 00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:12.319 stuff I don't know, And a lot of this is 354 00:21:12.359 --> 00:21:14.839 culture on. But you know, to a civilian, when you 355 00:21:14.839 --> 00:21:17.359 see a guy with a couple of bronze stars and 356 00:21:17.400 --> 00:21:21.480 they're not, you know, acting insane at that moment, you 357 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:24.799 tend to have a positive thought on that individual or 358 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:27.680 purple heart, unless you're Jane Fonda, then they're all baby 359 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:31.160 killers or whatever. But no, for most people, that's fine. 360 00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:34.480 So The Washington Post sees that people see this and 361 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:37.720 they realize it's another attack point to go after Hagseth, 362 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:43.440 and so they do. And they're not alone. Everybody was 363 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:46.519 trying to get their rib kicks in yesterday, including CNN, 364 00:21:46.559 --> 00:21:51.440 who boy, oh boy, is hung up on people drinking 365 00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:54.799 on the air. I want you to remember that CNN 366 00:21:55.400 --> 00:21:59.200 has a big pro or in this case, not even 367 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:02.200 not even on the air. So no, no, no, people are 368 00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:04.240 sending me emails. No, no, no, this is what I want 369 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:11.240 to know, all right, Yes, there is a distinction. People 370 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:12.839 can get a bronze star if you're a field grade 371 00:22:12.920 --> 00:22:17.200 officer or a senior enlisted based on your deployment in war. 372 00:22:17.599 --> 00:22:20.480 Then there's bronze star with value. I absolutely yeah, these 373 00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:22.519 are the words I was searching for. I understand that 374 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:26.599 there's a difference there. The point that I'm making is 375 00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:30.920 it's why is all of a sudden Washington Post bringing 376 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:33.640 this up. By the way, the bronze star in that 377 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:39.200 other story I used was also not the v not so, 378 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:43.240 but Washington Posts had a very different outlook on it. 379 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:47.119 So it's fine to contextualize, but you've got to be 380 00:22:47.160 --> 00:22:49.759 consistent when you do it. And that's why I asked 381 00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:51.519 this question on the show, and I'm kids, this is 382 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:53.440 why I want the answers. I want people to be 383 00:22:53.559 --> 00:22:58.599 armed with the information because now Washington Post is having 384 00:22:58.640 --> 00:23:01.640 to essentially slight the previous outlook on this stuff so 385 00:23:01.640 --> 00:23:04.319 they can go after somebody, and then it becomes telling 386 00:23:05.119 --> 00:23:08.000 as to why they're going with it. CNN, on the 387 00:23:08.000 --> 00:23:10.440 other hand, like I said, they decided to go a 388 00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:13.759 slightly different route get after heg Seth. And I don't 389 00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:15.960 want to say drinking on the air, but drinking adjacent 390 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:16.400 to the air. 391 00:23:16.640 --> 00:23:19.240 And we just have to sort of put some meat 392 00:23:19.240 --> 00:23:23.440 on the bone here, which is allegations keep coming out 393 00:23:23.759 --> 00:23:27.480 of various forms. One of thembum was at the Washington 394 00:23:27.480 --> 00:23:31.359 Post yesterday, which reported at Fox News Hegseth had a 395 00:23:31.359 --> 00:23:34.440 reputation as a heavy drinker. That's according to six former 396 00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:37.720 Fox News employees who worked directly with Hegseth and saw 397 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:40.519 him drinking on the job or visibly drunk at work 398 00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:43.480 events and who spoke on the condition of anonymity out 399 00:23:43.480 --> 00:23:45.240 of fear of retaliation and before. 400 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:48.279 All right, all right, so yeah, so retaliation. So these 401 00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:51.240