WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:09.679 Good evening and welcome everybody to another edition of the 2 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:11.880 ca to Night Live. I am your host, the Caju 3 00:00:11.919 --> 00:00:14.080 to Night. There's a lot of things going on around 4 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:16.480 the world, some things we're gonna be discussing on this 5 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:18.280 evening and some of the things that are going on 6 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:21.640 in DC as we speak, certain things that if you 7 00:00:21.679 --> 00:00:25.160 are listening to this tomorrow, might be going on. In 8 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:28.440 the moment you're actually listening to this. They are saying 9 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:31.839 they want the big beautiful bill signed into action on 10 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:35.520 July fourth, who knows, But we're gonna talk about We're 11 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:38.039 gonna break it all down here. 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I 23 00:01:17.159 --> 00:01:18.560 don't know. I'm still coming up with a name for 24 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:20.439 all the followers of the Cajun Night. It is what 25 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:24.000 it is anyway, let's just dive straight into it here again. 26 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:25.959 For anybody who would like to see this, come join 27 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:28.840 us on the Patreon. But let's go ahead and get 28 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:31.519 a pop in here. A few things to start off 29 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:36.400 with this evening. First off, let's talk Russia and no, no, 30 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:38.799 I am not going to spend a moment to go 31 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:41.959 onto a whole big spiel about the Russia Ukraine conflict. 32 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:46.920 Still going, still going on, still pretty much gridlock. Some 33 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:50.079 would say it's a stalemate, some would say Ukraine is dominating, 34 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:52.799 some would say Russia is dominating. Look, I'm I'm not 35 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:55.439 here to have that conversation tonight, all right, I'm just 36 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:59.159 not who knows. But I did find it interesting that 37 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:04.120 Russia captured a into Bradley and then decided to retro 38 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:08.680 fit it with a thirty millimeter cannon and essentially wood 39 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:12.560 screwing JB weld armor and things onto it. I thought 40 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:15.159 it was a little funny and also a little ingenuitive, 41 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:18.039 so let's check it out here. Russia creates a battlefield 42 00:02:18.039 --> 00:02:23.800 Frankenstein fitting captured into Bradley with its own thirty millimeter cannon. 43 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:26.520 A surprise twist on the ongoing battle for the armored 44 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:29.879 superiority has emerged in Russia, where a US applied to 45 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:34.639 Ukraine m too Bradley infantry fighting vehicle has been photographed 46 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:38.159 fitted with a Russian made thirty millimeter to a seven 47 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:41.080 to two cannon, justs bite previous claims that a West 48 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:46.680 Western tanks and IFVs are overrated and essentially useless. Those 49 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:49.599 are Russia's words, not ours. They say that these infantry 50 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:52.120 vehicles are useless and why would you need them? But 51 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:54.879 then they retro fit one with a cannon again a 52 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:58.080 little I'm a little impressed. It also looks like a 53 00:02:58.120 --> 00:03:00.680 coad Hagar abortion gone a ride to an to Bradley. 54 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:03.159 I guess it's about perspective, right. Beauty is in the 55 00:03:03.159 --> 00:03:06.360 eye of the beholder. It's just my own taste. The 56 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:10.560 modification involves replacing the Bradley's original twenty five millimeter bush 57 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:14.719 Master chain gun with a two a seventy two auto cannon, 58 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:18.400 raising fresh questions about Russia's intentions and the fate of 59 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:21.560 the Western supplied equipment. According to the defense media outlet 60 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:25.039 The War Zone on June twenty eighth, the photo, whose origin, 61 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:29.080 location and date remain unclear, appears to show the modified 62 00:03:29.080 --> 00:03:33.240 Bradley at a depot housing other Western armor sies from Ukraine. 63 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:37.360 So this says, remember this Ukrainian M two Bradley unleashing 64 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:40.520 twenty five millimeter rounds on a ten ninety m tank 65 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:43.960 and classic battlefield encounter. If we're able to watch this, 66 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:46.439 I think it's great because the Russians have gone on 67 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:49.479 and on about how superior their tanks are. Meanwhile, a 68 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:52.400 basic infantry fighting vehicle is able to take it out, 69 00:03:52.400 --> 00:04:09.479 but let's take it. Yeah, well lower the volume one 70 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:11.879 that one. I did like the beat. I'm be honest, 71 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:14.000 I did like the beat. And also for anybody who 72 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:16.279 doesn't know, yeah, that's what a twenty five millimeter chain 73 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:20.160 gun can do. And then they just replace that with 74 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:24.079 a thirty millimeter cannon, which, don't get me wrong, thirty 75 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:27.360 mike mike is nothing to sneeze at. But also I 76 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:30.839 like the bush Master chain gun better. It's it's very effective. 77 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:35.519 It's very effective anyway. Anyway, while It's unknown whether the 78 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:40.120 vehicle is meant for operational use, weapons trials or simply propaganda. 79 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:43.560 The War Zones notes that this isn't the first time 80 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:47.319 Russian forces have tinkered with captured NATO gear. This is 81 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:50.399 from bush Master to two A seventy two. The two 82 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:52.680 A seventy two cannon now mounts it on the bradley, 83 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:56.160 is typically found on Russian BTR eighty two A armored 84 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:59.160 personnel carriers, and is a lighter variant of the two 85 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:03.040 A forty two, which arms the BMP two BMD series 86 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:06.240 vehicles and even the KA fifty two and I twenty 87 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:09.120 eight attack helicopters. All right, for anybody who doesn't know 88 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:13.120 what all the nomenclature is vehicles, Russian made vehicles, and 89 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:15.279 even some Russian helicopters. There it is that's the over 90 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:18.720 under on it. With a firing rate of three hundred 91 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:21.000 and thirty rounds per minute and a range of nearly 92 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:23.920 a mile against armor and up to one point two 93 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:27.439 miles against infantry, the two to A seventy two offers 94 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:29.639 a faster rate of fire than the bush Masters two 95 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:33.839 hundreds round per minute, though it sacrifices some accuracy and versatility. 96 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:37.639 As the war Zone points out, one plausible motive behind 97 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:41.360 the swap could be ammunition logistics. This person, I get it. 98 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:43.839 This makes sense to me. Russia's not got their hands 99 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:45.959 on a lot of twenty five millimeter ammo, but they 100 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:48.560 do have a lot of thirty millimeter AMO. That's a 101 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:52.639 weapon that they play with, so it makes sense anyway. 102 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:55.639 Russian troops operating captured Bradley's may struggle to supply twenty 103 00:05:55.639 --> 00:06:00.279 five millimeters NATO standard rounds, especially specialized armor piercing or 104 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:04.199 depleted uranium SABO variants. In terms of firepower, the M 105 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:07.439 two A two Bradley's twenty five millimeter M two forty 106 00:06:07.439 --> 00:06:11.279 two autocannon proved more accurate and more effective than the 107 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:15.319 BMP three's thirty millimeters UH two A forty two and 108 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:18.399 to A seventy two guns. The Bradley's rounds offered nearly 109 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:22.399 double the armor penetration compared to other Russian counterparts, extending 110 00:06:22.439 --> 00:06:26.160 its effective cape combat range. Oh what's this one? And 111 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:29.920 American made into bradley annihilated a Russian T eighty tank. 112 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:31.199 All right, let's check this high out. 113 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:47.360 Don't lower the volume on it now though, huh ooh. 114 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:49.120 I mean that also makes sense to me that NATO 115 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:52.920 would have better armor piercing capabilities on their rounds than 116 00:06:53.040 --> 00:06:55.720 a Russian made variant. And that's not me trying to 117 00:06:55.800 --> 00:07:00.360 just no, no, it just that personally makes sense. NATO 118 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:03.639 has had more fighting experience in the past twenty years 119 00:07:03.879 --> 00:07:06.240 thirty years than Russia has, so it makes sense that 120 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:08.879 the weapons capabilities are a little more up to snow. 121 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:11.519 But again, it also makes sense to me why they 122 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:13.600 would swap it out for a thirty millimeter cannon for 123 00:07:13.680 --> 00:07:16.879 their own logistics. I just I think it's fugly. I 124 00:07:16.879 --> 00:07:19.079 don't know. It's not just the gun, it's everything else 125 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:21.920 they did to the Bradley. The study also noted the 126 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:26.319 Bradley's operational advantages better internal ergonomics, easier maintenance, and improved 127 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:30.199 crew access between compartments. One Russian soldier, quoted in official 128 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:33.319 footage even claimed to prefer the BMP two thirty millimeter 129 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:37.480 gun to the Bushmaster Shocker. I know. In addition, capturing 130 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:41.319 NATO hardware is often displayed at exhibitions across Russia, and 131 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:45.639 mounting a familiar Russian weapon on an American IFV could 132 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:49.759 be a symbolic gesture designed for parades or displays rather 133 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:53.920 than combat. If that's the case, then fine, okay they do. 134 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:57.600 They love their military parades in countries like this, and 135 00:07:57.639 --> 00:07:59.360 I know people are going to get super mad. Dude 136 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:03.879 in America have one just like putin. No, No, the 137 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:07.399 United States Army was celebrating their two hundred and fiftieth birthday. 138 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:10.519 It was just luck of the draw that had happened 139 00:08:10.560 --> 00:08:13.879 to be on Donald Trump's birthday. That had nothing to 140 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:15.959 do with it. That was not him trying to be 141 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:21.360 dictator esque by having a military parade on his birthday. 142 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:23.560 That that just happened to shake out that way. But 143 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:26.800 I understand why certain haters are gonna hate on that. 144 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:30.600 But neither here nor there, let's go. In addition, captured 145 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:33.919 NATO Harware already said that design for parades or display 146 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:36.279 rather than combat. After all, this wouldn't be the first 147 00:08:36.279 --> 00:08:39.159 time that the Kremlin has modified captured Western armor for show. 148 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:43.200 One M one a one Abrams tank previously displayed in Russia, 149 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:47.840 had its damaged barrel reattached upside down. Yeah, I remember 150 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:50.080 seeing that there was a whole There was a whole thing. 151 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:52.279 It was that, and I think it was a Russian 152 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:56.279 or not. I'm sorry. A German made tank that they 153 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:58.200 also had on display, and it was like a whole 154 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:00.720 thing to bring crowds in. Everybody was taking pictures with it, 155 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:03.879 and you could also tell that it was kind of 156 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:06.919 thrown back together to look a certain way and it 157 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:13.519 was not accurate. But okay. Russia's use of captured Bradley's. 158 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:17.399 There is documented evidence that Russia has returned some captured 159 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:20.519 Bradley's to working order, fitted them with ad hoc armor, 160 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:23.279 and deploying them on the battlefield. One video shows a 161 00:09:23.320 --> 00:09:26.159 Russian unit from the Center Army Group operating such a 162 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:29.519 vehicle after mind damage had been repaired. Soldiers praise the 163 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:33.200 vehicle's armor, internal space, and fire control systems. Yeah, that 164 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:36.000 makes sense. Let's see here. This is a video of 165 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:39.799 Ukrainian MTA two Bradley reportedly saved from a lancet strike 166 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:42.879 by its advanced brat dynamics protection. Who this should be 167 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:47.440 interesting and for anybody who's just watching or just listening 168 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:49.159 to this, this is one of the ones you want 169 00:09:49.200 --> 00:09:50.960 to be on the Patreon to see this thing. I'm 170 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:54.679 just saying, well, that was dope. You saw the big explosion, 171 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:58.480 but the Bradley is still intact. That's the Lancet armor. Basically, 172 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:00.799 it shoots out a rocket to hit rocket in the 173 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:05.000 air before it hits them. It's brilliant in my opinion. 174 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:09.039 Uh Still, it's unlikely that Russia could maintain a fleet 175 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:11.759 of Bradley's in any meaningful way. The War Zone notes 176 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:14.120 that while over three hundred M two A two to 177 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:17.519 ods Bradley's have been sent to Ukraine since April twenty 178 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:21.440 twenty three, only a fraction have been captured. According to Oryx, 179 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:25.279 a respected open source monitoring group, at least twelve Bradley's 180 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:28.080 have been seized, though many more have been damaged or 181 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:31.120 abandoned in the battlefield. So there's another one where they're 182 00:10:31.120 --> 00:10:33.320 taking pictures in front of it. So I get it 183 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:39.279 into Bradley's also, or yeah, into Bradley I think they've 184 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:41.759 meant to say Bradley on that one. Also is criticized 185 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:45.159 by the head of Russia State Defense conglomerate Russteck serge 186 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:51.360 A kem Mesov. Chemosov kept yeah, Russian dude. He claimed 187 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:55.279 that the vehicle lacks off road performance and amphibious capability, 188 00:10:55.360 --> 00:11:01.200 a notable difference compared to Russian IFVs Okay, all right, 189 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:04.440 it struggles off road and gets stuck in black soil. 190 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:07.960 He claims, nearly all Bradley's delivered to Ukraine have been destroyed. 191 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:11.200 That's not accurate to the reports that we've been getting 192 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:16.559 from the open sources. But I mean sure. Russia's weapon 193 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:20.639 chief calls challenger to a cooking pot, says the ten 194 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:25.120 ninety m outperforms Abrams and leopard or leopard. Excuse me, 195 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:32.879 that's just categorically incorrect. I'm sorry. And again that's not 196 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:37.000 just because I'm all about American turnk and no like. Seriously, 197 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:40.840 the ten ninety is not even in the same conversation 198 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:44.360 as the abrams are the Leopard? But okay. Indeed, Ukrainian 199 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:48.159 forces have published video evidence showing Bradley's absorbing multiple hits 200 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:51.000 and surviving drone or mine attacks. In one clip, a 201 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:53.720 Bradley is seen engaging a Russian ten ninety tank a 202 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:57.559 close range with its bushmashes. They're cannon demonstrating both resilience 203 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:01.480 and offensive capabilities. So let's talk about this. Is this 204 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:05.720 a tactical experiment or a pr stunt? While the retrofit 205 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:09.840 may hint at battlefield experimentation or reverse engineering the war zone. 206 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:13.639 The war Zone emphasizes that the most likely scenario is propaganda. 207 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:17.879 The Bradley's heavy armor and survivability make it valuable even 208 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:21.399 in limited numbers, but the logistical hurdles to sustain capture 209 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:25.399 vehicles with American systems remains steep. Yeah, that also makes 210 00:12:25.399 --> 00:12:28.799 sense to me too. While you see certain armor on 211 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:33.440 the sides that look like they've been JB welded into place, 212 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:36.960 I can only imagine what the internals look like as 213 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:39.480 far as the engine is concerned. But this would make 214 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:44.039 sense whenever you're not getting replacement parts. If something breaks 215 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:46.799 on this vic like, that's simply not gonna happen. So 216 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:49.720 you may do with what you got. You, you know 217 00:12:49.759 --> 00:12:51.600 what I'm saying. You duct tape it and you hope 218 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:53.240 and you dream, and you zip tie it to get 219 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:56.799 it running, and eventually it's gonna come crashing down on you. 220 00:12:56.879 --> 00:12:59.120 But at least while you can ride it like you 221 00:12:59.159 --> 00:13:01.120 stole it, I mean, after it, you know, do the 222 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:05.200 Ricky Bobby thing. I get it. Earlier, a video emerged 223 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:07.600 online showing what appears to be a scene from a 224 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:11.960 battlefield near Sokill Village in the dunn Esque region. A 225 00:13:12.120 --> 00:13:15.639 Ukrainian M two A two ods SA Bradley infantry fighting 226 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.879 vehicle is shown surrounded by the wreckage of five Russian 227 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:23.399 BTR eighty two armored personnel carriers and two buggies. Now, 228 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:26.759 again we don't know the validity of that video. Did 229 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:29.080 they get taken out by other means and then the 230 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:30.879 Bradley just kind of rolled up into the middle of 231 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:35.519 it for the photo op. It's very possible, okay, But yeah, 232 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:40.399 so this is it. This is the Frankenstein Bradley that 233 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:43.639 they have right now. And again, maybe I'm just being 234 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:46.200 hyper critical of it, and it's gonna be used just 235 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:50.000 for parades and propaganda. Okay, I get it. You want 236 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:52.840 to show off a war trophy. If they're trying to 237 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:57.559 use that for frontline battle, I don't know how long 238 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:01.840 it's gonna be able to be used. I understand the 239 00:14:01.879 --> 00:14:04.840 swap from the twenty five chain gun to the thirty millimeter. 240 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:08.240 I just personally think the chain gun is better. That's 241 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:12.679 just me that the armor is way better. But that's 242 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:14.759 just Jacob speaking on behalf of Jacob. I'm not exactly 243 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:17.320 a weapons expert when it comes to this, but when 244 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:19.519 I found out that they had frank and molded this 245 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:21.759 thing together. I figure we could talk about it on 246 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:26.480 the Cajun night now while we are still talking international conversations. 247 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:30.960 Brazil's justices cleared the road for a tech platform liability, 248 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:36.799 while Congress stalls in gridlock. All right, so Brazil essentially 249 00:14:36.960 --> 00:14:41.919 just passed a new governance for anything to basically control 250 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:45.080 big tech. And yes, of course with this AI is 251 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:48.279 a part of it, but it's not only AI. It's 252 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:51.440 basically trying to limit how big big tech is allowed 253 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:53.799 to get. And it's it's also kind of remnant of 254 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:56.720 the situation we had in America not too terribly long, right, 255 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:58.840 you had that. I think it was a fourteen year 256 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:03.879 old kid who had downloaded a Denarius Targarian mod to 257 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:09.720 his chat GPT and the AI told him to off himself. 258 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:12.480 And the company was trying to say that, well, the 259 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:14.960 AI has freedom of speech, don't we. We're in America. 260 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:16.960 I mean, you can't hold the company liable for what 261 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:20.039 the AI did. That's not how this works. And then 262 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:23.200 the I think it was Florida, I think it was Florida. 263 00:15:23.639 --> 00:15:27.519 The state body of Florida pretty much said no, no, 264 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:30.320 The company is absolutely liable, and his blood is on 265 00:15:30.399 --> 00:15:33.480 y'all's hands, and it was a whole thing. It's not 266 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:36.120 the same one to one translation to what's going on 267 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:40.200 in Brazil, but it's got the same flavoring, you know, 268 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:42.399 it's got the same remnants to it, and I think 269 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:44.440 it's worth talking about. So let's get into it here. 270 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:50.279 With lawmakers conflicted about regulation versus innovation, the Supreme Court 271 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:53.919 stepped in raising the pressure on legislators, AI startups and 272 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:58.279 big tech firms and raising doubts about judicial oversights. Also, 273 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:01.399 I like their lady Liberty. I think she looks cool 274 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:03.919 in Brazil. I know ours has got the scales and 275 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.840 the sword and all that. This one's pretty dope too, 276 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:09.960 I'm just saying anyway. So this is coming from Rio 277 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:13.639 de Gennaro. Brazil's Supreme Court ruling that expands the civil 278 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:18.120 liability of tech platforms for third party content is reshaping 279 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:21.879 the interpretation of the Article nineteen of the twenty twenty 280 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:26.440 four Marco Civil Day Internet, the country's landmark Internet Bill 281 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:29.519 of Rights. The decision underscores the growing rift between the 282 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:34.559 judiciary and Congress in setting digital regulation policy under the 283 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:37.360 precedent's set Thursday. Platforms can be held liable in a 284 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:40.600 variety of situations even without a court order, depending on 285 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:43.000 the nature of the content. The case was prompted by 286 00:16:43.039 --> 00:16:46.519 lawsuits from users who claim harm when platforms failed to 287 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:51.000 remove offensive material even following direct complaints. The ruling establishes 288 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:56.000 four liability regimes. Court order. Court orders remain necessary for 289 00:16:56.120 --> 00:17:01.120 content related to defamation or similar offenses. Crimes such as 290 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:05.839 incitements to violence or hate speech may trigger liability upon 291 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:11.440 simple notification. Structural negligence applies in cases of systemic failure, 292 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:16.960 and sponsors for AI generated contacts, content such as chatbots 293 00:17:17.119 --> 00:17:22.440 automatically generates platform liability. So, just so we're clear here, 294 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:28.960 sponsored or AI generated content such as chatbots automatically generates 295 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:34.400 platform liability. I like that platforms are now required to 296 00:17:34.440 --> 00:17:38.519 maintain the legal representative in Brazil's, implement self regulatory mechanisms, 297 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:42.960 publish transparency reports, and remove identical content previously ruled unlawful 298 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:46.039 by Brazilian courts. The Supreme Court took something that was 299 00:17:46.079 --> 00:17:50.480 simple and direct and that may be deserved review by lawmakers, 300 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:54.920 maybe deserved review by lawmakers, excuse me, and turned into 301 00:17:54.920 --> 00:18:00.480 something complex and even hard to grasp, said mister our Kegas, 302 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:04.400 researcher at the Rio de Gennaro based Institute for Technology 303 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:09.359 and Sociology or Society or its REO, in a statement 304 00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:14.279 obtained by Paulo. The Brazilian Chamber for Digital Economy, which 305 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:19.279 represents companies like Meta, Google, Amazon, Kwi, Mercado, Livrey and 306 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:24.599 TikTok Civilize the criticize the ruling, warning that it creates 307 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:29.720 legal uncertainty, raises moderation costs, and encourages preventative censorship to 308 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:32.720 of legitimate posts. I'd to tell my glasses off. It's 309 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:36.000 starting to get jumbled up in here. The companies expect 310 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:38.640 a wave of lawsuits and intend to lobby Congress to 311 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:42.279 pass new legislation that could override the court's interpretation. The 312 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:46.640 ruling comes amid legislative inaction in Congress. Digital regulations have 313 00:18:46.799 --> 00:18:52.119 been a partisan battlefield, particularly around freedom of speech. Build 314 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:55.640 twenty six thirty in twenty twenty, aimed at regulating platforms 315 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:59.920 and combating disinformation, was shelved in the Lower House after 316 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:02.920 strong opposition from right wing and far right parties such 317 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:07.480 as pl Novo Republicanos, which labeled the proposal as a 318 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:11.839 threat to free expression. Meanwhile, Build twenty three thirty eight 319 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:15.920 in twenty twenty three, which sets general rules for AI governance, 320 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:18.240 passed the Senate and is now under review and special 321 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:22.160 committee in the lower House. The proposal, inspired by EU's 322 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:26.599 risk based approach, has drawn criticism for potentially stifling innovation 323 00:19:26.759 --> 00:19:32.759 through the overly strict requirements. Alejandro Pacheco de Silva, I 324 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:35.400 know I got that silver part right, a law professor 325 00:19:35.519 --> 00:19:46.400 at a Jesus christ Fondasieo Fandaseo Getulio Vargas and San 326 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:50.519 Paulo Okay and the coordinator of the institute's Center for 327 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:54.200 Teaching and Research on Innovation, noted that Article nineteen differs 328 00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:58.480 significantly from Section two thirty of the US Communications Decency Act. 329 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:02.359 Instead of require ing platforms to act upon notice, Brazil's 330 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:05.400 law gave courts the sole authority to determine whether content 331 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:10.599 was illegal, shielding platforms from liability until a judicial decision 332 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:15.480 Wow Okay. This judicial gatekeeping was originally seen as a 333 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:18.160 safeguard against censorship and a way to protect freedom of 334 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:21.119 speed of expression, but according to Silva, the rise of 335 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:25.240 AI and algorithmic amplifications has shifted the role of platforms 336 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:29.640 from neutral hosts to active curators of online content. I 337 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:32.240 gotta say I agree. I agree with this one hundred percent, 338 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:35.160 absolutely has What the Supreme Court is saying is that 339 00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:39.759 Article nineteen does not violate free speech. Silva said, Justice 340 00:20:40.039 --> 00:20:44.839 Moraus often says in Brazil democracy. In Brazilian democracy, we 341 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:48.759 have freedom of expression, not freedom to attack our Kai 342 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:51.079 Gus sees the ruling as a turning point in the 343 00:20:51.119 --> 00:20:55.799 deteriorating regulatory landscape. Brazil wants a global pioneer with its 344 00:20:55.839 --> 00:20:58.839 Internet Bill of Rights, has since lost ground by failing 345 00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:02.480 to update its framework and increasingly relying on fragmented court 346 00:21:02.519 --> 00:21:06.240 decisions or imported models like the EUS. Brazil needs to 347 00:21:06.240 --> 00:21:11.559 recover the regulatory DNA it had during Marcos Seville, the 348 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:15.920 Marco's civil era. I guess that's civil and I'll tell 349 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:18.200 you pronounce it in English, but maybe that's like CV. 350 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:22.440 I don't know. I don't speak Portuguese. Francisco Cruz, a 351 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:26.319 lawyer and director of the Salpolo based Internet Lab, said 352 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:29.599 the outcome would likely have been different had Congress acted sooner. 353 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:32.279 No one wanted the Supreme Court to take this on, 354 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:35.680 not even the Supreme Court. He said. The Judiciary, he argued, 355 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:39.319 lacks the tools to enforce complex policies and cannot create 356 00:21:39.400 --> 00:21:43.680 a create a dedicated regulatory body. What the court did 357 00:21:43.799 --> 00:21:47.039 show What the Court did shows the debate can't stay 358 00:21:47.079 --> 00:21:50.960 frozen and added, just as congressional and action pushed the 359 00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:54.000 Supreme Court to act, the Court's move will now pressure 360 00:21:54.039 --> 00:21:58.319 Congress to respond. All right, So kind of long story 361 00:21:58.400 --> 00:22:01.119 short on this Brazil bill is going out of their 362 00:22:01.160 --> 00:22:04.559 way to try to put regulations on not just the 363 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:08.640 Internet as a whole, but definitely more towards AI. I'm 364 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:12.839 a fan of this, I am. Anybody who's listened to 365 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:16.119 me for more than an hour understands that I am 366 00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:19.200 just simply not a fan of AI. I don't use it, 367 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:23.720 I don't enjoy that it exists in any way, shape 368 00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:27.319 or form. But Brazil is also seeing it for the 369 00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:30.079 dangers that it could actually cause, and up until recently 370 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:33.640 they have kind of modeled their approach similar to how 371 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:37.880 the EU has done. But that's not always going to 372 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:40.720 work out, especially with the way that AI is advancing 373 00:22:41.519 --> 00:22:45.480 way more rapid than anybody can pass legislation to try 374 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:48.599 to limit by the time the Board of Directors or 375 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:50.880 by the time the congressman, and the centers all get 376 00:22:51.160 --> 00:22:53.640 to the table to have a conversation about it. The 377 00:22:53.720 --> 00:22:56.519 thing they're trying to talk about is probably already months 378 00:22:56.519 --> 00:23:00.039 ahead of what they were trying to initially discuss. So 379 00:23:01.079 --> 00:23:03.640 at least they're taking steps in the right direction. And 380 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:06.279 they're saying that, No, the platform and the company is 381 00:23:06.319 --> 00:23:09.160 going to be liable for whatever the AI does. It's 382 00:23:09.160 --> 00:23:12.279 not a free and independent entity that has freedom of 383 00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:15.599 speech inherently in and of itself. The company's liable for 384 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:20.200 what the AI says. I like it. Now, let's move 385 00:23:20.359 --> 00:23:23.480 on to the next order of business. As we are 386 00:23:23.480 --> 00:23:27.920 still staying international. NATO allies agreed to boost defense spending 387 00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:33.000 to a five percent at the Hague summit. Now, Trump 388 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:36.559 was talking about this. He wanted all NATO countries to 389 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:38.880 increase their defense spending by five percent. We just talked 390 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:41.279 about this a couple of weeks ago. He was pushing 391 00:23:41.319 --> 00:23:44.839 for it. That being said, a lot of countries have 392 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:50.880 issues even meeting the two percent three percent that was required. 393 00:23:50.920 --> 00:23:53.200 I know it's actually two percent. I'm just saying that 394 00:23:53.720 --> 00:23:56.480 even if these countries wanted to try to reach three percent, 395 00:23:57.359 --> 00:23:59.400 that was going to put a couple of them in 396 00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:04.200 a financial hurt locker. Now, NATO allies have agreed to 397 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:07.920 boost their defense to five percent, and I am not 398 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:10.240 a hundred percent sure if this is how it went down, 399 00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:12.680 but from what I could tell, Trump pretty much said, 400 00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:15.559 if you cannot even attempt to match where we are 401 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:20.119 at with our defense spending, we'll just leave. Like it's 402 00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:23.839 very clear that America does not need NATO. NATO needs America. 403 00:24:24.680 --> 00:24:26.880 And I'm not again, this is not me trying to 404 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:30.359 beat my American chest. This is just facts and figures 405 00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:34.400 on paper. They have America. It's not a secret. America 406 00:24:34.440 --> 00:24:37.039 has pulled the lion's share of the duty as far 407 00:24:37.079 --> 00:24:44.119 as NATO's armed forces are concerned, or military or weapons capabilities, 408 00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:48.559 or naval assets or air assets or what name your topic. 409 00:24:48.880 --> 00:24:51.079 And America's pretty much run the roost on it for 410 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:56.400 a while. So and I understand the reason why not 411 00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:00.359 just Trump, but why most people with brains would want 412 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:05.920 NATO to have more defense spending, especially especially America. But okay, 413 00:25:06.200 --> 00:25:08.839 if we're footing the bill for the majority of the 414 00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:14.599 military operations, it would behoove us to have stronger allies. 415 00:25:16.200 --> 00:25:19.519 That just makes sense to me, right, If I'm trying 416 00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:22.440 to find another example of this. If we were let's 417 00:25:22.440 --> 00:25:26.440 say it's a it's a police precinct. Okay, it's this 418 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:31.240 county's sheriff's office, or this parish's sheriff's office, or however, 419 00:25:31.279 --> 00:25:35.000 you live out there right cool, and you have a 420 00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:38.599 top notch department, right, one of the best SWATT teams 421 00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:41.160 in the state, some of the best logistics, some of 422 00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:44.519 the best training, all of this, and on occasion, a 423 00:25:44.559 --> 00:25:47.279 big event might go down in your AO and you 424 00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:51.319 might need to call on some local you know, friends, 425 00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:54.119 some local cops from other precincts and other counties and 426 00:25:54.160 --> 00:25:57.480 other cities to come to your town to help, you know, 427 00:25:57.599 --> 00:26:00.160 not just crowd control, but security, getting people from A 428 00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:02.079 to B whatever the case is. Big events happen like 429 00:26:02.119 --> 00:26:07.319 this all the time. But the neighboring counties and precincts 430 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:11.440 have what some might call If you if your department 431 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:14.000 would be like an A plus on the grading scale 432 00:26:14.680 --> 00:26:17.200 and most of your people that you could call upon 433 00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:23.160 might maybe be around a C minus, that's that's not 434 00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:26.319 a good look. And if you really need some support, 435 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:30.119 you don't want to call on the C. Students just 436 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:33.960 gonna throw this out, So that being said, with NATO 437 00:26:34.079 --> 00:26:37.200 being stronger as a whole, not only is that good 438 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:40.279 for America, but that's good for the world in my opinion. Now, 439 00:26:40.359 --> 00:26:43.839 I understand that NATO should have been taken down as 440 00:26:43.839 --> 00:26:45.960 soon as the Soviet Union felt That was the whole 441 00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:47.799 point of NATO's standing up, was to go against the 442 00:26:47.799 --> 00:26:51.039 Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union collapsed, NATO should have 443 00:26:51.039 --> 00:26:54.279 gone by the wayside. And or when Russia tried to 444 00:26:54.359 --> 00:26:57.759 join NATO, they should have let them that. That would 445 00:26:57.799 --> 00:27:00.680 have been a solid move, a show of good faith 446 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:03.319 and olive branch. Turning a new leave name, your expression 447 00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:06.279 doesn't matter. It would have been great. Didn't happen. It 448 00:27:06.359 --> 00:27:09.599 didn't happen. But I'm just saying, if NATO is going 449 00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:14.079 to be this global superpower conglomerates like they're wanting it 450 00:27:14.119 --> 00:27:17.359 to be, then yeah, I think all the NATO countries 451 00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:19.920 should step up to the plate and open their wallets 452 00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:22.960 and spend the money on their military that they should. 453 00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:26.200 But I mean, let's be honest, I'm I'm a big 454 00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:29.799 supporter of over spending on your military. You know, the 455 00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:33.799 whole Speak softly, but carry a big stick. I think 456 00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:36.079 like you should carry one of the biggest sticks in 457 00:27:36.119 --> 00:27:38.759 the game if you're going to carry one. I know, 458 00:27:39.119 --> 00:27:42.000 unpopular opinion, but you know it is what it is, Tony, 459 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:42.920 I see your brother. Come on. 460 00:27:43.839 --> 00:27:47.920 I bet Locke and Raytheon and General Dynamics appreciate this. 461 00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:51.559 And there's a few European companies that'll make money off 462 00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:54.240 of this too, But I really doubt they'll actually hit 463 00:27:54.279 --> 00:27:57.960 five percent. They'll probably hit like three percent or something. 464 00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:00.920 What do you think, Well, first of all, you are 465 00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:05.400 on the money figuratively and literally Lockheed Martin and Boeing 466 00:28:05.559 --> 00:28:08.599 and RTX formerly Raytheon, and a couple other ones from 467 00:28:08.599 --> 00:28:09.279 around the world. 468 00:28:09.960 --> 00:28:13.160 Oh they are happy. Oh, this is business, is a 469 00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:17.279 booming and they are stoked. Right, And that's good, fine, fine, 470 00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:21.799 everybody making money. Now. I don't believe that this is 471 00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:24.960 going to take effect immediately, and we're gonna read in 472 00:28:24.960 --> 00:28:27.359 this article, but I want to say it's supposed to 473 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:32.000 be achieved by twenty thirty or twenty thirty five something 474 00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:35.559 like that, where the NATO countries will the ones that 475 00:28:35.599 --> 00:28:38.079 have agreed to it will be at five percent. But 476 00:28:38.119 --> 00:28:41.400 I mean, let's be honest here, how many of these 477 00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:43.559 countries are supposed to be at two percent and can't 478 00:28:43.559 --> 00:28:47.839 even meet that. Will they double their spending. Let's say 479 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:49.680 got a country out there that's showing like a one 480 00:28:49.720 --> 00:28:52.599 point eight of their GDP on their military and in 481 00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:55.079 five ten years they go from a one point eight 482 00:28:55.200 --> 00:29:00.839 to four A three A three, Right, that would be 483 00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:03.160 huge for them and all these things. I mean, it's 484 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:05.000 not like they're gonna get kicked out of NATO over it. 485 00:29:05.319 --> 00:29:07.720 I know they threatened that a lot, but it's not 486 00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:08.319 going to happen. 487 00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:11.640 Yeah. Right, they might inch up close to it, but 488 00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:14.559 I don't think they'll hit it. And Europe's also got 489 00:29:14.599 --> 00:29:18.079 a track record of these kinds of promises, not with NATO. 490 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:20.839 But I'm thinking about the climate goals that they had 491 00:29:20.880 --> 00:29:23.119 ten or twenty years ago. Yeah, they were saying that 492 00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:26.359 they were going to cut their CO two to half 493 00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:31.079 of nineteen ninety levels by twenty twenty. I forget the 494 00:29:31.119 --> 00:29:34.319 exact benchmarks, but they didn't even get close. It's just 495 00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:36.359 a lot of a lot of words in hot air. 496 00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:38.839 But you know, on this thing, Yeah, I bet they'll 497 00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:43.880 increase military spending a little bit and the defense companies 498 00:29:43.880 --> 00:29:47.920 will be happy, But yeah, I don't think they'll I 499 00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:50.240 think I think they'll hit more like three. 500 00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:54.599 It's very possible. I mean, it depends on the country, right. 501 00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:56.400 Some of these countries have a little bit more to 502 00:29:56.400 --> 00:29:59.559 throw that way. Some of these countries are barely scraping 503 00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:01.880 by to even attempt to hit the two percent mark. 504 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:04.480 So I don't know what to really make of it. 505 00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:06.799 I but I stand by my statement. I think that 506 00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:11.960 our allies, America's allies, having stronger military might is only 507 00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:15.880 good for everybody. That's you know. I know, I'm not 508 00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:18.480 trying to be a warmonger here. That's that's all I'm 509 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:23.559 trying to say. But it makes sense. Right. If we're 510 00:30:23.599 --> 00:30:27.079 all on the same team and we're all operating at 511 00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:30.359 the same level of intensity, it just seems like the 512 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:32.880 machine would run better. I could be so wrong, but 513 00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:35.480 let's read it in here. This is from Paris. Here, 514 00:30:35.839 --> 00:30:38.839 NATO allies agreed to boost defense spinning to five percent 515 00:30:38.920 --> 00:30:43.559 GDP NATO Secretary General Mark Root or Route Routie, I 516 00:30:43.559 --> 00:30:46.160 don't know, said after a vote on the thirty two 517 00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:49.359 member countries on Wednesday at a summit in the Hague. 518 00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:52.400 As part of the agreement, the allies committed to investing 519 00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:54.839 at least three point five percent of GDP on core 520 00:30:54.920 --> 00:30:58.640 defense requirements, up from the current target of two percent. 521 00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:02.920 Root said as a press conference following two days of meetings. 522 00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:06.960 The Native Secretary General credited United States President Donald Trump 523 00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:09.680 for the results, saying the spending increases wouldn't have happened 524 00:31:09.680 --> 00:31:13.200 without him. Now, before we read anymore, if I'm not mistaken, 525 00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:16.440 the five percent overall, Yeah, it's like a three point 526 00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:19.359 five on the core defense requirements. But the rest of 527 00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:23.359 it's supposed to be on critical infrastructure upgrades. We've talked 528 00:31:23.359 --> 00:31:28.200 about this before. Europe's power grid is not every country, 529 00:31:28.480 --> 00:31:34.960 not every country, but a few is not as optimal 530 00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:38.559 as it could be. Some of these roads are beyond 531 00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:40.880 in disrepair. And I know I live in Louisiana, and 532 00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:43.279 I'm saying that, you know, calling a spade a spade 533 00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:45.599 here in pot and Kettle. I get it. I get it. 534 00:31:46.119 --> 00:31:48.480 But that being said, there is a lot of critical 535 00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:51.880 infrastructure that could be used for defensive purposes. That is 536 00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:54.519 very subpart this moment. So let's keep reading. But I 537 00:31:54.559 --> 00:31:57.519 want to say there was a percentage of this GDP 538 00:31:57.720 --> 00:32:01.400 overall that's going to increase europe infrastructure as a whole. 539 00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:03.519 But let's keep going I want to get ahead of myself. 540 00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:09.240 Trump has repeatedly criticized European NATO members and Canada obviously 541 00:32:09.559 --> 00:32:12.440 for not spending enough on defense, suggesting the US might 542 00:32:12.519 --> 00:32:16.359 not honor the alliance's mutual defense commitments for allies that 543 00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:18.640 don't step up. As recent as two years ago, most 544 00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:21.759 NATO countries had failed to meet a two percent spending 545 00:32:21.799 --> 00:32:25.319 target agreed at a summit in Wales in twenty fourteen. 546 00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:28.680 All allies are united in the understanding that we need 547 00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:33.279 to step up to stay safe, Ruth said. European allies 548 00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:35.799 in Canada will do more of the heavy lifting, equalizing 549 00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:39.319 their spending and taking greater responsibility for our shared security. 550 00:32:39.799 --> 00:32:42.359 Root and Trump had been clear that the United States 551 00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:45.920 is committed to NATO, and affirmed it again today with 552 00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:49.480 in no uncertain terms, while at the same time making 553 00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:52.599 clear that the country expects Europe and Canada to contribute more. 554 00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:57.519 He said, NATO's Article five mutual defense clause is absolutely clear, 555 00:32:57.799 --> 00:33:00.519 but the Alliance doesn't provide details on what will trigger 556 00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:04.240 it to avoid helping adversaries. In a press conference before 557 00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:08.279 heading back to Washington, Trump struck a conciliary tone as 558 00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:12.200 he sought to harvest praise for the spending boost. This 559 00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:14.079 is a direct quote from Trump. He said, I came 560 00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:17.279 here thinking it's something I'm supposed to be doing. The 561 00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:20.960 summit preceded proceedings had changed his mind, and he as 562 00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:26.279 he absorbed individual messages of patriotism from Alliance members representatives. 563 00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:29.720 It's not a ripoff, he told reporters, reversing his long 564 00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:32.599 hailed grievance, at least for the moment, that Europeans were 565 00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:35.559 taking advantage of the United States will help them protect 566 00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:38.720 their country. The US has been asking for its allies 567 00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:42.079 to lift defense spending since the nineteen fifties, and the 568 00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:45.559 agreed reached the agreement reached in the Hague will make 569 00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:48.880 the Alliance more stable, according to Root, He said, there 570 00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:51.440 is a need to bolster NATO in the face of 571 00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:55.519 a threatening Russia, as well as an impressive military build 572 00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:59.799 up by China. Okay, the rushing point, dude, If Russia's 573 00:33:59.799 --> 00:34:03.240 not breaking through Ukraine this two week special military operation, 574 00:34:03.400 --> 00:34:05.960 we're going on three and a half years at this time, 575 00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:09.800 Europe is not an inherent danger of Russia doing shit. 576 00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:15.159 Let's be real here now, China having a military build up, Okay, 577 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:17.880 I don't disagree with what they're saying, but at the 578 00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:20.920 same time, China is worried about their Belt and Road 579 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:23.840 initiative and securing that. I don't believe that Europe is 580 00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:27.440 in any danger of China doing anything to them. I 581 00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:30.320 could be so wrong here, but it just it makes 582 00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:31.960 more sense to me that China would be trying to 583 00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:35.079 build up so that it could maybe set up outposts 584 00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:38.039 along the BTR like this makes more sense to me. 585 00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:42.400 But anyway, Russia's root said Russia is a short term 586 00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:45.920 and long term menace to the Alliance, with intelligence suggesting 587 00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:47.960 the country could be ready to attack NATO in the 588 00:34:48.039 --> 00:34:51.960 next three two seven years. Highly unlikely. Look at the 589 00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:55.320 number of military aged males in Russia that are no 590 00:34:55.440 --> 00:34:59.480 longer in play. Three to seven years to build back 591 00:34:59.519 --> 00:35:01.199 even if they were to call it quits right now, 592 00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:04.719 if they were to reach a ceasefire agreement, they go home. 593 00:35:04.840 --> 00:35:09.159 Whatever the case is, three to seven years to build 594 00:35:09.199 --> 00:35:12.360 back a force that could possibly do some damage to 595 00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:17.079 a formidable NATO European country. I'm I'm sorry, homie, what 596 00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:21.599 world are you living in? But okay, the Russian threat 597 00:35:21.639 --> 00:35:23.840 is there and we need to make sure to be 598 00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:28.519 able to defend ourselves. With Trump having demanded NATO allies 599 00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:30.880 to spend five percent of GDP on defense, the agreement 600 00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:32.800 in the Hague is a bit of a workaround, with 601 00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:35.679 three point five for core defense tasks and an additional 602 00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:38.800 one point five on measures that support defense and security, 603 00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:43.280 for example, investment in infrastructure and cyber defense. Okay, yeah, yeah, 604 00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:46.320 that's Greg, that's correg These decisions will have a profound 605 00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:49.760 impact on our ability to do what NATO founded was 606 00:35:49.800 --> 00:35:54.239 founded to do, deter and defend. Ruth said, US spending 607 00:35:54.280 --> 00:35:57.480 on core defenses around the required level already, and it's 608 00:35:57.519 --> 00:36:01.000 spending on infrastructure, cyber and hybrid threat and developing the 609 00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:05.000 defense industrial base puts the country more or less at 610 00:36:05.079 --> 00:36:08.280 five percent. According to Root, the NATO leader said Trump 611 00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:11.239 was totally right that Europe and Canada were not providing 612 00:36:11.280 --> 00:36:15.320 the alliance what they should, and I agree with that fully. 613 00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:18.519 Trump said in a press conference with Root before the 614 00:36:18.639 --> 00:36:21.400 vote that the agreement to increase spending was a great 615 00:36:21.480 --> 00:36:25.039 victory for everybody, I think, and we will be equalized 616 00:36:25.159 --> 00:36:27.159 very shortly, and that's the way it has to be. 617 00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:28.920 And it's going to be a lot of money too, 618 00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:32.320 a lot of defense. Rout said more money will fund 619 00:36:32.360 --> 00:36:36.360 air defense, ammunition, drones, tanks, and troops. He said NATO 620 00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:40.960 needs to expand defense industrial capacity. I was gonna say capability. 621 00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:44.920 Excuse me. NATO needs to expand defense industrial capacity and 622 00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:48.360 on both sides of the Atlantic, which could potentially create 623 00:36:48.440 --> 00:36:54.079 millions of new jobs across the Alliance. I mean maybe, yeah, 624 00:36:54.280 --> 00:36:58.440 if you incentivize people to join the military, and if 625 00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:04.360 you're military industrial complex in your country, is like creating 626 00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:08.079 enough weapons to fund, like to supply the demand that 627 00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:12.760 has now been made. Okay, I don't see that going 628 00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:16.679 for the entirety of Europe. There's a few companies I 629 00:37:16.719 --> 00:37:19.440 could think of that will benefit heavily from this, even 630 00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:22.280 some European companies. But I feel like that might have 631 00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:26.159 been a bit of a bold statement to say out loud, Tony, 632 00:37:26.199 --> 00:37:26.800 what's your thoughts? 633 00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:31.559 Three words? Broken window fallacy. That's all. 634 00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:34.000 Break this down for me, Broken window fallacy. 635 00:37:34.679 --> 00:37:39.199 Oh well, this was Frederick Bastiat's theory about two hundred 636 00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:43.519 years ago that breaking windows may create some economic activity 637 00:37:43.559 --> 00:37:46.480 for window makers, but it's a net loss for everybody else. 638 00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:49.280 And the broader points is that military spending might be 639 00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:53.920 good for arms companies and their suppliers and a certain 640 00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:57.679 group of people, but it comes at the expense of 641 00:37:58.039 --> 00:38:00.559 other goods and services for everybody else. It's called the 642 00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:04.599 broken window fallacy. So yeah, people who advocate military spending 643 00:38:04.639 --> 00:38:07.000 always point out to oh, yeah, it's gonna benefit, it's 644 00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:09.920 gonna create jobs. It will create jobs, but it will 645 00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:11.760 be at the expense of other jobs. 646 00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:15.000 I mean I hear that. I don't. I don't see 647 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:16.800 what they're talking about with the creating of jobs. Yeah, 648 00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:20.679 if you're gonna increase your numbers of troops, sure it'll 649 00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:25.920 it'll create more jobs. But like, the recruiting offices are 650 00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:29.280 open right now, and I can't think of the last 651 00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:32.800 time I heard of them turning someone away. Well, okay, 652 00:38:33.039 --> 00:38:35.920 that's a bit of a misnomer. I actually know people 653 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:38.519 that were turned away from the recruiting offices when they 654 00:38:38.559 --> 00:38:41.119 were trying to join while we were in the middle 655 00:38:41.159 --> 00:38:44.599 of two different wars and things. Fine, but as far 656 00:38:44.639 --> 00:38:48.119 as the European nations, their standards are not American standards. 657 00:38:48.159 --> 00:38:51.719 As far as troop mobility is concerned, it's not like 658 00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:55.280 they got a line wrapped around the building in France 659 00:38:55.679 --> 00:38:57.760 for people that are just like begging to join the 660 00:38:57.760 --> 00:39:00.400 French Army or the Spanish Army or the Italian army. 661 00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:04.920 It's some of these countries do. Some of these countries 662 00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:07.920 absolutely do, and they have found a way to incentivize 663 00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:11.039 their you know, young men and women to join. But 664 00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:16.360 that's also that is not a standard by any means. 665 00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:19.320 I mean, hell, in America right now, recruiting numbers are down, 666 00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:23.480 except for the Navy last year, which, if I'm not mistaken, 667 00:39:23.480 --> 00:39:25.559 it was still remnants from the Maverick movie. I think 668 00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:29.199 their recruiting numbers they met their quota. The Marines have 669 00:39:29.559 --> 00:39:31.719 had no issue meeting their quota, but I mean we're 670 00:39:31.719 --> 00:39:34.400 the smallest branch. Do that makes sense? The Army and 671 00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:36.559 the Air Force and the Coast Guard, and I don't 672 00:39:36.599 --> 00:39:39.079 know what the Space Forces. I don't know what their 673 00:39:39.159 --> 00:39:42.559 quota is, but I'm assuming that they're having issues finding 674 00:39:43.079 --> 00:39:46.480 smart enough people to join it and become guardians. But 675 00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:49.159 I do know that the Army and the Coast Guard 676 00:39:49.239 --> 00:39:52.440 in the Air Force are having some serious problems trying 677 00:39:52.480 --> 00:39:54.800 to man up with just the quotas they already have 678 00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:57.440 in place. And we're not even in an active combat zone. 679 00:39:58.079 --> 00:39:59.920 So I don't know what they're talking about as far 680 00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:03.159 is creating more jobs in that sense, I think you're 681 00:40:03.239 --> 00:40:05.360 onto something here with the like i've never heard of 682 00:40:05.360 --> 00:40:07.519 the broken window fallacy. I'm going to be using that 683 00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:11.360 more often though. Yeah, you're going to create more jobs 684 00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:16.119 at Boeing and Lockheed and RTX, But I mean, how 685 00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:19.599 many of these jobs are specialized jobs? How many of 686 00:40:19.599 --> 00:40:22.719 these jobs can be replaced with robots and automation and 687 00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:26.960 therefore AI's I just don't see it being what they're 688 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:28.400 talking about as far as that's. 689 00:40:28.280 --> 00:40:33.320 Concerned, right, Yeah, they are pretty specialized jobs. I'm related 690 00:40:33.360 --> 00:40:38.400 to people who worked at Lockheed, and yeah, that job 691 00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:41.840 is not extremely transferable. He was working on missiles and 692 00:40:41.880 --> 00:40:45.559 satellites and stuff, and there's not really private companies that 693 00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:48.000 do that until now, I guess with space X, but 694 00:40:48.039 --> 00:40:50.800 he's been retired for a while. There's another. Yeah, I'm 695 00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:52.920 really glad to make you and the listeners aware of 696 00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:55.519 the broken window fallacy. The name of the guy was 697 00:40:55.519 --> 00:40:58.760 Frederick Bastiat and he was in France about two hundred 698 00:40:58.800 --> 00:41:03.000 years ago. Another great, you know, restatement of the same 699 00:41:03.039 --> 00:41:06.760 thing was Dwight Eisenhower's Cross of Iron speech. If you've 700 00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:09.159 ever heard of that. I'm sure he was borrowing from 701 00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:12.960 the Cross of Gold speech from William Jennings Bryan maybe 702 00:41:13.119 --> 00:41:17.239 sixty years later. But this Dwight Eisenhower made the exact 703 00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:19.960 same observation, and he was trying to push America back 704 00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:21.960 into a peacetime economy. 705 00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:25.400 Yeah, he was trying to warn everybody about the military 706 00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:27.920 industrial complex that was taking root. And this is the 707 00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:30.119 guy who is a general who just got done with 708 00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:34.159 a Second World War, and he saw the war machine. 709 00:41:34.239 --> 00:41:38.440 And I don't mean that for a euphemistic statement. I 710 00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:41.519 mean that like the actual machine of the logistics and 711 00:41:41.639 --> 00:41:45.400 everything that goes into a wartime economy. He saw what 712 00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:47.960 America was gearing up to become, and he was trying 713 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:51.039 to warn us to not go that route. But I mean, 714 00:41:51.079 --> 00:41:53.400 of course, that's that's what America does. It's like the 715 00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:55.480 only thing we do really well, So I get it. 716 00:41:56.440 --> 00:41:58.920 Yeah, he could remember a time before the World Wars, 717 00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:02.159 which nobody today can remember. And in his speech he 718 00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:04.280 was making the same point, which is that, yeah, B 719 00:42:04.400 --> 00:42:06.800 fifty two bomber costs a certain amount of money, but 720 00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:10.679 let's translate that into things like schools and school buses 721 00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:12.920 and roads and things like that, and that's the kind 722 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:15.360 of thing that we have to forego in order to 723 00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:19.360 have the B fifty two for example. Yeah, yeah, that's 724 00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:20.639 all I can help myself. 725 00:42:20.639 --> 00:42:23.599 Again, No, brother, I appreciate your insight. I always do. 726 00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:29.119 Let's keep going here. It says we need quality and quantity. 727 00:42:29.239 --> 00:42:31.800 The Secretary General said, we need to innovate and we 728 00:42:31.880 --> 00:42:36.320 need to act fast. Again, I don't see what the 729 00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:39.639 rush is on this. I agree that the Allies need 730 00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:41.559 to spend more on their military. I'm with you, but 731 00:42:42.360 --> 00:42:45.000 I don't know why we're like all of a sudden setting. 732 00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:47.079 I guess because you have to set a deadline or 733 00:42:47.119 --> 00:42:49.519 else nothing's going to get done. I get that, but 734 00:42:50.199 --> 00:42:52.280 there's no need to light a fire under anybody's ass 735 00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:55.559 right now. I just I don't see the thing. Maybe 736 00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:57.519 I'm just not in the loop on this, but anyway, 737 00:42:58.159 --> 00:43:01.400 Some countries, including Spain and well Jium, have questioned the 738 00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:05.079 three point five percent target, and Roots said Spain estimates 739 00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:09.039 that it can reach its capability targets while spending two 740 00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:13.039 point one percent of GDP on defense. The Secretary General 741 00:43:13.159 --> 00:43:15.599 said Allies will report on how they will reach the 742 00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:19.960 capability targets, and NATO will any way have a review 743 00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:23.320 of all of this in twenty twenty nine. Okay, so 744 00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:25.519 they were trying to get it done before twenty thirty. 745 00:43:26.239 --> 00:43:29.119 Spain has consistently been at or near the bottom of 746 00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:33.320 military spending in NATO, last year, ranking last with an 747 00:43:33.440 --> 00:43:39.239 estimated one point three percent of GDP spent on defense. Well, okay, 748 00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:42.400 this is just okay. In his post summit press conference, 749 00:43:42.440 --> 00:43:45.920 Trump blasted Spain for seeking an exception to the five 750 00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:49.239 percent spending goal. He suggested trying to recoup the national 751 00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:53.800 funding difference by skewing US trade with Madrid in Washington's favor. 752 00:43:56.079 --> 00:43:59.639 Trump be Trump, and doesn't he. NATO allies have pledged 753 00:43:59.639 --> 00:44:02.960 more than three thirty five billion euros, which would be 754 00:44:02.960 --> 00:44:06.559 forty one billion dollars for Ukraine so far this year 755 00:44:06.599 --> 00:44:09.599 to help the country fend off the Russian invasion, according 756 00:44:09.639 --> 00:44:13.079 to Root, who said he expects total EID and twenty 757 00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:16.000 twenty five to surpass last year's pledge support of more 758 00:44:16.039 --> 00:44:21.800 than fifty billion euro Wow. Okay, so yeah, like I said, 759 00:44:21.880 --> 00:44:26.719 I'm happy that we are you could say strong arming 760 00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:29.840 are allies to actually step up to the plate. I'm 761 00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:33.079 not mad at this, but also it's it's what's the 762 00:44:33.599 --> 00:44:38.000 what's the intent. I want to believe that it is 763 00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:42.360 for stronger allies, makes the organization as a whole stronger. 764 00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:47.079 This I'm good with putting a timeline on it, I 765 00:44:47.159 --> 00:44:49.719 understand because if you just said you have to do this, 766 00:44:50.119 --> 00:44:52.119 they'll just kind of say, yeah, yeah, we'll handle it 767 00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:55.039 with the next administration, or we'll handle it after this 768 00:44:55.199 --> 00:44:56.960 or after this. You have to give a deadline in 769 00:44:57.039 --> 00:44:59.199 order for the job to get done. I understand that 770 00:44:59.239 --> 00:45:02.760 as well. But I also think that that's going to 771 00:45:02.840 --> 00:45:07.239 be quite a stretch for countries just like Spain and Belgium, 772 00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:10.079 and I don't know what kind of jobs they're expecting 773 00:45:10.119 --> 00:45:12.840 for it to create. I hope for the best on this, 774 00:45:13.039 --> 00:45:18.280 but we shall see. Now, speaking of Trump, this one 775 00:45:18.519 --> 00:45:22.480 I thought was pretty hilarious. Paramount settles with President Trump 776 00:45:22.519 --> 00:45:25.440 for sixteen million dollars. I don't know if y'all heard 777 00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:28.599 about this, but this is great. Let's listen. 778 00:45:28.599 --> 00:45:32.519 In tonight, a sixteen million dollar settlement Paramount the parent 779 00:45:32.559 --> 00:45:35.840 company of CBS, announcing it will pay President Trump's legal 780 00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:39.199 fees and give money to his future presidential library. The 781 00:45:39.239 --> 00:45:42.559 president sued CBS over this interview with Vice President Kamala 782 00:45:42.599 --> 00:45:45.800 Harris on Sixty Minutes during last year's presidential campaign. 783 00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:49.599 We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for 784 00:45:49.639 --> 00:45:51.920 the United States to be clear about where we stand 785 00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:53.719 on the need for this war to end. 786 00:45:54.119 --> 00:45:57.000 The suit accusing the Show of manipulating the editing in 787 00:45:57.079 --> 00:46:01.360 Harris's favor, I claim CBS News deny. In June sixty 788 00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:04.239 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley was asked what effect a settlement 789 00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:09.119 and apology would have will be very damaging to CBS 790 00:46:09.119 --> 00:46:14.039 to Paramount to the reputation of those companies. Paramount is 791 00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:16.840 not issuing an apology, but says it has agreed to 792 00:46:16.880 --> 00:46:21.480 release written transcripts of future Sixty Minutes interviews with presidential candidates. 793 00:46:21.559 --> 00:46:24.320 The Trump legal team calling the settlement another win for 794 00:46:24.360 --> 00:46:28.280 the American people, holding the media accountable for their wrongdoing 795 00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:29.480 and deceit. 796 00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:32.760 The announcement concepts. Paramount is looking to merge with Skydance Media, 797 00:46:32.840 --> 00:46:35.960 a deal with eight billion dollars. It has been stuck 798 00:46:36.039 --> 00:46:40.280 waiting for SEC approval for nearly a year. Paramount previously 799 00:46:40.320 --> 00:46:43.840 saying the lawsuit is unrelated to the sky Dance merger and. 800 00:46:43.800 --> 00:46:47.360 The FCC approval process. Following a string of lawsuits this year, 801 00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:50.880 media companies and social media platforms have reached settlements with 802 00:46:50.920 --> 00:46:54.000 the president worth more than sixty million dollars. 803 00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:58.679 Okay, real quick, ho, god, we need to read this one. 804 00:46:59.280 --> 00:47:04.400 So SEE has settled for sixteen million, ABC owned by Disney, 805 00:47:05.079 --> 00:47:09.840 is settling for fifteen million, X owned by Elon Musk, 806 00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:14.159 has settled with Trump for ten million, and Meta, owned 807 00:47:14.159 --> 00:47:18.760 by Zuckerberg, has settled with Trump for twenty five million dollars. 808 00:47:19.480 --> 00:47:24.440 So pretty much, Trump has taken the media as a whole, 809 00:47:24.559 --> 00:47:29.400 social and press to court here and has come out 810 00:47:29.440 --> 00:47:32.159 sixty million to the good because he can now show 811 00:47:32.239 --> 00:47:35.079 and prove how they were skewing certain interviews and certain 812 00:47:35.119 --> 00:47:38.960 polls and certain algorithms to make something out to be 813 00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:41.239 what it wasn't. And if anybody doesn't know about the 814 00:47:41.280 --> 00:47:47.079 Kamala Harrison interview that's being questioned at this time, basically, 815 00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:54.519 the Kamala was she is rather very dumb. She's very dumb. 816 00:47:54.599 --> 00:47:57.719 She's a very dumb human being. You know. They say 817 00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:01.039 that she was the America drunk ant for most of 818 00:48:01.079 --> 00:48:05.760 the election and the debates, which I myself agree with. 819 00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:08.440 I have called her a whore for many a month, 820 00:48:08.440 --> 00:48:10.360 and I will continue to do so because you know, 821 00:48:10.400 --> 00:48:12.679 I believe in calling a spade is paid. But neither 822 00:48:12.719 --> 00:48:17.360 here nor there. She this interview with CBS. Basically he 823 00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:20.760 would ask her a very hard hitting question, quote unquote 824 00:48:20.760 --> 00:48:25.199 hard hitting question, and she would give a very I 825 00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:29.159 don't know what you're talking about kind of answer because 826 00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:32.360 she has no clue what's actually going on. So then 827 00:48:32.440 --> 00:48:35.320 he would stop and pretty much softball pitch her the 828 00:48:35.400 --> 00:48:38.559 question in a way to where she knew what like 829 00:48:38.840 --> 00:48:41.800 the response should be, and then they did cheap editing 830 00:48:41.840 --> 00:48:44.599 tricks to make it look like that was her immediate 831 00:48:44.639 --> 00:48:47.079 response to the question. When it was asking all these things. 832 00:48:47.679 --> 00:48:50.920 They went on for a while saying that they did 833 00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:54.880 not do this, and now they have to acknowledge that, yes, 834 00:48:54.920 --> 00:48:58.000 they did, to the tune of sixteen million dollars. They 835 00:48:58.039 --> 00:49:00.159 have to acknowledge that that's exactly what they did. So 836 00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:04.920 if anybody is unaware out there, Yes, the press lies. 837 00:49:04.960 --> 00:49:09.360 And if you think you're bullying journalists hard enough, you're wrong. 838 00:49:09.719 --> 00:49:11.719 You can bully harder. I know you can. I believe 839 00:49:11.719 --> 00:49:12.760 in you. Let's keep listening. 840 00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:16.599 In January, ABC News agreed to pay fifteen million dollars 841 00:49:16.639 --> 00:49:19.960 over on air comments made by George Stephanopflis. The terms 842 00:49:20.079 --> 00:49:23.599 similar to CBS, though in that case, ABC News did 843 00:49:23.719 --> 00:49:27.239 issue a statement of regret. Stephanie Gosk, NBC News. 844 00:49:27.079 --> 00:49:32.360 New York, very good things, very funny things. You know, 845 00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:35.440 I didn't know that this was going on. As I 846 00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:37.719 was doing my little putting together my notes and things 847 00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:40.840 for this episode. I found that and I just I 848 00:49:40.920 --> 00:49:45.559 was flabbergasted by this. CBS absolutely or paramount I should 849 00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:50.840 say absolutely had to acknowledge that they tilted certain things 850 00:49:50.840 --> 00:49:53.639 that were released in order to make Trump look bad 851 00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:57.239 and Kamala look better. In which that's the thing. We 852 00:49:57.280 --> 00:50:00.719 all know that this is going on to be going on. 853 00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:04.079 For them to lose a court case over it, y'all, 854 00:50:04.599 --> 00:50:09.760 this had to be egregious, Like it's it's mind blowing 855 00:50:09.760 --> 00:50:14.639 to me. But anyway, now, speaking of Trump, we talked 856 00:50:14.639 --> 00:50:16.280 a little bit about the NATO stuff, we talked a 857 00:50:16.280 --> 00:50:19.119 little bit about his victories in court. Now let's talk 858 00:50:19.159 --> 00:50:23.000 about something that is going down with the big beautiful bill. Okay, 859 00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:26.400 So a portion of the bill was basically going to 860 00:50:26.440 --> 00:50:29.880 cut the legs out from under the NFA. Okay, the 861 00:50:29.960 --> 00:50:33.440 National Firearm Association. I was so happy about this. This 862 00:50:33.599 --> 00:50:36.519 was amazing. It was so close to where you would 863 00:50:36.559 --> 00:50:39.440 be able to buy a suppressor and not have to 864 00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:41.760 register it, which I believe we should be able to do. 865 00:50:42.280 --> 00:50:45.480 It was going to take away the registration of SBRs 866 00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:48.599 or short barrel rifles and salt off shotguns. It was 867 00:50:48.639 --> 00:50:51.559 about to be more freedom for the two way community, 868 00:50:51.599 --> 00:50:54.440 of which I probably am a member of. I enjoy guns. 869 00:50:54.519 --> 00:50:58.360 I think everybody should carry that being said, the Big 870 00:50:58.400 --> 00:51:03.920 Beautiful Bill moves forward with zero tax on most NFA items, 871 00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:09.079 and then yesterday they decided to change the language because 872 00:51:09.079 --> 00:51:12.480 of one human being that is not elected and can 873 00:51:12.519 --> 00:51:14.760 and should be fired. But we'll talk about that in 874 00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:18.880 a bit. With the deletion of the Popular Hearing Protection 875 00:51:19.159 --> 00:51:22.559 Act and Short Act Short being anything like sprs and 876 00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:26.559 things like that provisions from HR one on Friday, Republican 877 00:51:26.599 --> 00:51:30.960 lawmakers switched to a backup plan heading into this weekend. 878 00:51:31.079 --> 00:51:36.599 The old section seven zero four to three six, elimination 879 00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:40.679 of tax on certain devices under the National Firearms Act, 880 00:51:41.159 --> 00:51:44.840 was deleted from HR one, better known as One Big 881 00:51:44.920 --> 00:51:51.000 Beautiful Bill, by the ostensibly nonpartisan Senate proletarian at the 882 00:51:51.119 --> 00:51:54.480 urging of Democrats on Capitol Hill. While Dems and the 883 00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:58.440 anti gun groups chess bumped and celebrated. Pro two A 884 00:51:58.559 --> 00:52:02.159 groups quickly issued a joint letter calling for the parliament 885 00:52:02.440 --> 00:52:07.039 parliamentarian to either be overruled or for the NFA taxes 886 00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:10.679 on suppressors and short barrel firearms to be leased by 887 00:52:11.679 --> 00:52:16.519 at least two excuse me, NFA taxes on suppressors and 888 00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:19.960 short barrel firearms to at least be zeroed out. The 889 00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:23.880 statement and this is actually the direct quote June twenty seventh, 890 00:52:23.960 --> 00:52:29.599 twenty twenty five. The American Suppressor Association, Gun Owners of America, 891 00:52:29.679 --> 00:52:34.559 Firearms Policy Coalition, Second Amendment Foundation, National Rifles Association, National 892 00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:39.760 Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers, and Fair Trade Group strongly 893 00:52:39.840 --> 00:52:44.159 disagree with the weaponized procedural maneuvering used by the unelected 894 00:52:44.199 --> 00:52:47.960 parliamentarian to block the removal of suppressors and short barrel 895 00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:51.000 firearms from the NFA tax scheme in the One Big 896 00:52:51.039 --> 00:52:56.000 Beautiful Bill, unless the Senate chooses to overrule her egregious 897 00:52:56.039 --> 00:53:01.840 decisions or the majority leaders removes the the existing parliamentarian, 898 00:53:02.360 --> 00:53:05.760 which is well within their rights, which it is, which 899 00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:08.400 it is the parliamentary into which they're talking about right now. 900 00:53:08.679 --> 00:53:11.679 This woman has been in this position. She's not elected. 901 00:53:11.760 --> 00:53:14.559 She can be fired tomorrow. It is well within their 902 00:53:14.599 --> 00:53:17.840 rights to remove her from her job, and they're just not. 903 00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:22.599 I don't know why, but anyway, immediate action must be 904 00:53:22.679 --> 00:53:26.159 taken to ensure law abiding Americans are able to exercise 905 00:53:26.239 --> 00:53:32.320 their Second Amendment rights without the Dredconian NFA tax. I agree, 906 00:53:33.000 --> 00:53:35.760 though not the full tax repeal it should have been, 907 00:53:36.079 --> 00:53:39.000 there is still an opportunity to use well established precedent 908 00:53:39.159 --> 00:53:44.840 to lower the NFA's unconstitutional excise tax on suppressors and 909 00:53:44.920 --> 00:53:49.920 short barrel firearms. Two zero dollars or organizations stand united 910 00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:52.599 on behalf of millions of law abiding gun owners in 911 00:53:52.760 --> 00:53:56.199 calling on Congress to immediately make this revision. This is 912 00:53:56.199 --> 00:53:59.639 a critical step in our fight against the unconstitutional NFA 913 00:53:59.719 --> 00:54:04.440 tax scheme and for the rights of all Americans they're preaching. 914 00:54:04.840 --> 00:54:06.679 They're preaching right now. If y'all are not aware of this. 915 00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:10.000 By Sunday, when at least nine hundred and forty page 916 00:54:10.039 --> 00:54:12.719 texts of HR one was released by the Republican Control 917 00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:16.119 Budget Committee, Section seven zero four to three six had 918 00:54:16.159 --> 00:54:20.119 been restored but read much differently than in previous versions. 919 00:54:20.400 --> 00:54:23.639 While the new language drops both making and transfer taxes 920 00:54:23.679 --> 00:54:27.880 on suppressors, short barrel rifles, short barrel shotguns, and aow's 921 00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:31.159 which is any other weapon, AOW any other weapon. It's 922 00:54:31.320 --> 00:54:33.719 very broad brushstrokes with these types of things when it 923 00:54:33.719 --> 00:54:38.000 comes to guns in it keeps them under NFA control 924 00:54:38.079 --> 00:54:43.119 and regulation. In short, punintended like being a contestant on 925 00:54:43.159 --> 00:54:46.000 a game show and instead of winning the jackpot earned 926 00:54:46.000 --> 00:54:49.400 fair and square, being sent off with the home edition 927 00:54:49.480 --> 00:54:51.840 of the game as a parting gift. So here's the 928 00:54:51.880 --> 00:54:54.440 new language, and I'm not going to read all of it, 929 00:54:54.519 --> 00:54:56.639 but we could at least touch on it for a second. 930 00:54:56.639 --> 00:55:02.079 Here the reduction of Transfer and manufacturing tax for certain devices. 931 00:55:02.519 --> 00:55:07.639 Transfer tax is amended to read as follows rate. There 932 00:55:07.679 --> 00:55:11.800 shall be levied, collected, and paid on firearms transferred, a 933 00:55:12.039 --> 00:55:15.400 transferred a tax at the rate of two hundred dollars 934 00:55:15.440 --> 00:55:18.360 for each firearm transferred in the case of a machine 935 00:55:18.360 --> 00:55:22.559 gun or destructive device, and a zero dollar tax for 936 00:55:22.639 --> 00:55:27.199 any firearm transferred which is not described in paragraph one 937 00:55:27.880 --> 00:55:31.239 Making tax Section five A two one A is amended 938 00:55:31.280 --> 00:55:35.280 to read as follows rate. There shall be levied, collected, 939 00:55:35.320 --> 00:55:37.960 and paid upon the making of a firearm, a tax 940 00:55:38.119 --> 00:55:40.800 at the rate of two hundred dollars for each firearm 941 00:55:40.920 --> 00:55:43.159 made in the case of a machine gun or a 942 00:55:43.199 --> 00:55:47.280 destructive device, and zero for any firearm made which is 943 00:55:47.400 --> 00:55:52.519 not described in paragraph one. Conforming amendment is amended by 944 00:55:52.559 --> 00:55:56.199 adding at the end of the following, for purposes of 945 00:55:56.239 --> 00:56:00.519 the preceding sentence, any firearm described in section five eight 946 00:56:00.719 --> 00:56:04.679 one two shall be deemed to be a firearm on 947 00:56:04.679 --> 00:56:07.800 which the tax provided by Section five eight one one 948 00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:11.559 has been paid effective date. The amendments made by this 949 00:56:11.599 --> 00:56:14.880 section shall apply to calendar quarters beginning more than ninety 950 00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:17.440 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. 951 00:56:17.599 --> 00:56:20.440 All right, so let's just break this down a little bit. 952 00:56:21.199 --> 00:56:22.920 They were about to make it to where you didn't 953 00:56:22.960 --> 00:56:27.480 have to have a tax imposed upon you for buying 954 00:56:27.480 --> 00:56:30.159 a suppressor or making a short barrel, or any of 955 00:56:30.239 --> 00:56:32.280 these types of things. It was about to be legal 956 00:56:32.480 --> 00:56:34.760 for you to do with your guns, which you so chose. 957 00:56:35.199 --> 00:56:38.679 I like this now when it comes to the term 958 00:56:38.960 --> 00:56:42.840 machine gun. I understand this is a hot button topic 959 00:56:42.880 --> 00:56:47.400 for some people. Some people are four civilians owning machine guns. 960 00:56:47.440 --> 00:56:50.119 I myself am. Some people are against it, and I'm 961 00:56:50.599 --> 00:56:53.400 not trying to have a whole two way debate here tonight, 962 00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:57.199 although we definitely can. It is what it is. There 963 00:56:57.360 --> 00:57:00.840 is a way for a regular civilian to own a 964 00:57:00.960 --> 00:57:05.519 machine gun, whether it was pre eighties or was eighty six, 965 00:57:06.280 --> 00:57:09.599 Either eighty six or eighty four when that bill was passed, 966 00:57:09.599 --> 00:57:12.719 there is ways for a civilian to legally own a 967 00:57:12.760 --> 00:57:15.159 machine gun. There is some hoops you have to jump through, 968 00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:17.400 some paperwork, you have to file, some background checks you 969 00:57:17.440 --> 00:57:19.400 have to do, and that's fine. That's fine. I don't 970 00:57:19.480 --> 00:57:21.880 like that, but it's fine. What take what we can get. 971 00:57:22.599 --> 00:57:26.239 But now they basically have made it to where everybody 972 00:57:26.280 --> 00:57:29.280 was super excited about this, and now there's a tax impost. 973 00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:33.280 So what could we do about this? We could fire 974 00:57:33.719 --> 00:57:36.239 the parliamentarian that put it in place, but let's talk 975 00:57:36.239 --> 00:57:39.800 about it here. While the sound of free tax stamps 976 00:57:39.800 --> 00:57:42.679 for everything but machine guns and destructive devices feels like 977 00:57:42.719 --> 00:57:45.360 a big win of sorts, it still falls short of 978 00:57:45.400 --> 00:57:48.880 the promised NFA reform of the Hearing Protection and Short 979 00:57:48.920 --> 00:57:51.320 Acts for the record. The hearing protection that would be 980 00:57:51.360 --> 00:57:54.119 for suppressors, for anybody who actually does a fair amount 981 00:57:54.119 --> 00:57:57.800 of shooting. Dude, I'm telling you, having a suppressor on 982 00:57:57.840 --> 00:57:59.679 your weapon, especially if you're going to go for a 983 00:57:59.760 --> 00:58:04.119 rain day, your ears will thank you in about twenty years. 984 00:58:04.719 --> 00:58:07.079 Let's just be real here. The reason why I am 985 00:58:07.119 --> 00:58:09.519 deaf right now is because ear protection was not something 986 00:58:09.559 --> 00:58:13.679 that was allowed in certain cases for us. But if 987 00:58:13.719 --> 00:58:16.000 you're going to blow through a thousand rounds in a day, 988 00:58:16.719 --> 00:58:19.519 and you might do that once a month, once every 989 00:58:19.559 --> 00:58:22.159 six months, and again, if you're not somebody who even 990 00:58:22.199 --> 00:58:24.800 wants a suppressor, then this doesn't apply to you. So 991 00:58:24.880 --> 00:58:26.960 it doesn't matter for you personally, But for the rest 992 00:58:26.960 --> 00:58:31.039 of us that enjoy shooting and wants to use suppressors, 993 00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:33.559 we have to go through all these extra steps. We 994 00:58:33.599 --> 00:58:37.199 have to register the suppressor as its own device, separate 995 00:58:37.199 --> 00:58:40.760 from the gun its own device, which registering weapons is 996 00:58:40.760 --> 00:58:44.159 also mind blowing to me anyway, Neither here nor there. 997 00:58:46.480 --> 00:58:50.559 Let's say further, as the mechanisms to tax such items 998 00:58:50.559 --> 00:58:54.800 remains on the books, a future simple reconciliation bill by 999 00:58:54.840 --> 00:58:57.920 a Democrat control Congress could just bump the taxes back 1000 00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:02.400 up and significantly increase them. US Representative Andrew Clyde a 1001 00:59:02.519 --> 00:59:07.880 Georgia Republican a FFL holder has been a driving force 1002 00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:10.519 behind the scenes in the debate to get the reforms 1003 00:59:10.559 --> 00:59:13.880 into HR one. He cautioned that the fight isn't over. 1004 00:59:14.239 --> 00:59:18.000 Of course, I want the NFA registration eliminated as it 1005 00:59:18.039 --> 00:59:21.199 is inseparably linked to the tax. That's why I fought 1006 00:59:21.239 --> 00:59:24.960 tirelessly for months, said Clyde. Yet we can't pass up 1007 00:59:25.039 --> 00:59:27.760 on an opportunity to end the ninety one year old 1008 00:59:27.880 --> 00:59:32.880 unconstitutional taxation under the draconian NFA. This rewrite is another 1009 00:59:32.920 --> 00:59:35.440 shot at this provision. It's not perfect, but it's a 1010 00:59:35.559 --> 00:59:38.960 far better. But it's far better than getting zero two 1011 00:59:39.039 --> 00:59:42.360 A victories. I will say that it might be a 1012 00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:47.440 small lowercase W, still a W. I understand that, but 1013 00:59:47.440 --> 00:59:48.920 it's not as much of a W that it was 1014 00:59:48.920 --> 00:59:51.320 supposed to be. And it can still be fixed. We 1015 00:59:51.400 --> 00:59:54.880 still have time. But anyway, Clyde said, the move, should 1016 00:59:54.880 --> 00:59:57.320 it be successful and make it a law, could set 1017 00:59:57.320 --> 01:00:00.280 the stage for a more groundbreaking legal change. This is 1018 01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:03.400 him speaking again. He said, I strongly believe eliminating the 1019 01:00:03.440 --> 01:00:06.639 tax provides a highly credible basis to challenge the NFA 1020 01:00:06.719 --> 01:00:10.119 registration in court because with the taxation repeal, there is 1021 01:00:10.159 --> 01:00:14.280 no longer a foundation for the registration. The registration database 1022 01:00:14.440 --> 01:00:16.920 is the method used by the government to account for 1023 01:00:16.960 --> 01:00:19.840 the tax paid on each firearm by the serial number 1024 01:00:19.880 --> 01:00:23.840 of the firearm. That's why they are inseparably linked. No tax, 1025 01:00:24.039 --> 01:00:28.000 no foundation for a registration database. I love this. I 1026 01:00:28.039 --> 01:00:31.079 love this. I think the taxation is theft for the 1027 01:00:31.119 --> 01:00:35.360 most part, especially when it's something that's a God given right. Anyway, 1028 01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:38.760 the Senate narrowly passed a fifty one to forty nine 1029 01:00:38.880 --> 01:00:42.320 procedural vote to hold a debate on HR one on Sunday, 1030 01:00:42.639 --> 01:00:45.880 which will unfold on Monday, following a move by Democrats 1031 01:00:45.920 --> 01:00:48.239 to force the entire bill to be read prior to 1032 01:00:48.320 --> 01:00:51.800 moving forward. Then there will come a series of proposed 1033 01:00:51.800 --> 01:00:55.119 amendments from both sides that could see section seven zero 1034 01:00:55.199 --> 01:00:58.760 four to three six, the one in question here changed further. 1035 01:00:59.519 --> 01:01:01.639 Once past by the Senate, the bill would still require 1036 01:01:01.679 --> 01:01:06.360 House concurrence due to all the changes since it left 1037 01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:10.239 that body. Republicans hope to have the measure on President 1038 01:01:10.320 --> 01:01:14.960 Trump's desk by July fourth. They're really pushing for this 1039 01:01:15.039 --> 01:01:18.159 to be on and signed by July fourth. That's like, 1040 01:01:18.440 --> 01:01:21.679 you know, for the for the day of it all 1041 01:01:21.760 --> 01:01:26.480 and I get that. Man, I really, I really really 1042 01:01:26.519 --> 01:01:29.400 really want this to pass. I want suppressors to be 1043 01:01:29.519 --> 01:01:32.840 legal for everybody. I think it's just for the betterment. 1044 01:01:33.360 --> 01:01:37.480 I mean, you know, especially hunting. It's all about hunting. 1045 01:01:38.239 --> 01:01:40.760 If I'm hunting in the woods and I shoot my rifle, 1046 01:01:41.280 --> 01:01:43.400 now the entire woods knows where I am. And I 1047 01:01:43.400 --> 01:01:45.440 don't mean people, I mean the other animals that I'm 1048 01:01:45.480 --> 01:01:48.559 trying to hunt. A suppressor is not going to take 1049 01:01:48.559 --> 01:01:50.320 away all of the blast, and it's not going to 1050 01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:53.639 take all of the sound away, but it would drastically 1051 01:01:53.679 --> 01:01:56.599 help the rest of my days hunt. Just throwing this out, 1052 01:01:56.679 --> 01:01:58.880 this is just speaking on behalf of the rednecks out there. 1053 01:01:58.920 --> 01:02:03.079 But anyway, all right, moving on to this next bit. 1054 01:02:03.119 --> 01:02:05.599 As we're still talking about Trump's let's talk about the 1055 01:02:05.639 --> 01:02:09.239 House Republicans raised towards a final vote on Trump's tax bill, 1056 01:02:09.760 --> 01:02:15.760 daring critics to oppose again. This is a flex, some 1057 01:02:15.880 --> 01:02:18.320 might say, one of the most flexes that have ever happened. 1058 01:02:18.360 --> 01:02:20.760 But let's hear more about this big, beautiful bill as 1059 01:02:20.800 --> 01:02:23.719 it's coming through here very soon. 1060 01:02:23.920 --> 01:02:27.519 Let's talk and tonight, Republicans are still working to gain 1061 01:02:27.559 --> 01:02:31.199 support for President Trump's signature tax cuts and spending bill, 1062 01:02:31.559 --> 01:02:34.199 known as the Big Beautiful Bill. The President wants to 1063 01:02:34.280 --> 01:02:35.440 sign it on the fourth of July. 1064 01:02:35.679 --> 01:02:38.320 Monica Alba reports on the debate happening right now on 1065 01:02:38.360 --> 01:02:39.000 the House floor. 1066 01:02:40.519 --> 01:02:43.960 As Republicans, we're touting the benefits of President Trump's signature 1067 01:02:44.000 --> 01:02:46.119 tax and spending bill on the House floor. 1068 01:02:46.760 --> 01:02:52.000 Historic tax relief for working families, massive investments to secure 1069 01:02:52.039 --> 01:02:56.519 our nation's borders, capturing generational savings. 1070 01:02:56.719 --> 01:03:00.599 The President himself working behind the scenes, meeting with at 1071 01:03:00.599 --> 01:03:03.559 the White House, trying to please Republicans who say the 1072 01:03:03.599 --> 01:03:05.480 Senate version spends too much. 1073 01:03:05.800 --> 01:03:08.320 The overall deficit number is not good to bear, I think. 1074 01:03:08.239 --> 01:03:11.599 It got worse, and trying to calm other Republicans fears 1075 01:03:11.840 --> 01:03:14.239 that cuts to social programs go too far. 1076 01:03:14.599 --> 01:03:17.800 Those meetings are having a big impact. Members are moving 1077 01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:20.400 to Yes, Donald Trump is the best closer in the business, 1078 01:03:20.400 --> 01:03:21.760 and we're going to get it done. 1079 01:03:21.880 --> 01:03:24.960 Democrats amping up the pressure on potential holdouts. 1080 01:03:25.079 --> 01:03:28.079 That's all we need are four Republicans to join us 1081 01:03:29.000 --> 01:03:30.639 and support of their constituents. 1082 01:03:30.960 --> 01:03:34.559 So allat a time when most households are struggling to 1083 01:03:34.719 --> 01:03:39.840 afford the basics, Republicans have a clear message for American families, 1084 01:03:40.320 --> 01:03:41.840 you don't matter. 1085 01:03:42.280 --> 01:03:46.239 The Senate pass version extends the twenty seventeen Trump tax cuts, 1086 01:03:46.360 --> 01:03:50.199 slashes funding for medicaid in food stamps, and increases funding 1087 01:03:50.239 --> 01:03:53.880 for border security and the military. The non partisan Congressional 1088 01:03:53.920 --> 01:03:56.800 Budget Office estimates it will add more than three trillion 1089 01:03:56.840 --> 01:03:58.239 dollars to the national debt. 1090 01:03:58.800 --> 01:04:03.280 Real quick, hold on, I just wanted to read that list. Okay, 1091 01:04:03.360 --> 01:04:08.920 So nine hundred and thirty billion dollars in cuts to medicaid, 1092 01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:12.559 two hundred and eighty five billion dollars in cuts to snap, 1093 01:04:13.239 --> 01:04:15.960 a one hundred and fifty seven billion dollar boost to 1094 01:04:16.000 --> 01:04:19.400 military spending, one hundred and fifty billion dollar increase for 1095 01:04:19.639 --> 01:04:23.800 immigration enforcement, four hundred and eighty eight billion dollars in 1096 01:04:23.880 --> 01:04:28.119 cuts to clean energy credits. That's a debate. I don't 1097 01:04:28.119 --> 01:04:32.000 think that clean energy credits actually makes clean energy happen. 1098 01:04:32.159 --> 01:04:34.039 That kicks the can down the road and allows these 1099 01:04:34.079 --> 01:04:37.519 facilities to still produce the same toxic fumes they've been doing, 1100 01:04:37.559 --> 01:04:39.480 but now they paid their extortion fee, so it's not 1101 01:04:39.559 --> 01:04:45.000 a net positive. And then ten billion dollars for MARS missions. 1102 01:04:46.719 --> 01:04:50.079 That's a thing, that is a thing that's happening right now. 1103 01:04:50.119 --> 01:04:52.039 So for everybody out there that doesn't believe that space 1104 01:04:52.119 --> 01:04:56.000 is real, I'm sorry. You know, apparently the government thinks so. 1105 01:04:56.280 --> 01:04:59.760 And I know they would, wouldn't they they would? But uh, yeah, 1106 01:05:00.280 --> 01:05:03.320 who knows. It's it's possible we'll be on Mars here soon. 1107 01:05:03.519 --> 01:05:06.559 I don't. I have no idea what all that implies. 1108 01:05:07.039 --> 01:05:10.119 Oh my god, that's hilarious. All right, let's keep going. Oh, 1109 01:05:10.119 --> 01:05:10.880 go ahead, Tony. 1110 01:05:11.880 --> 01:05:15.280 You know, I hate it when people don't annualize these numbers. 1111 01:05:15.280 --> 01:05:18.719 I'm pretty sure these numbers are not annualized because Medicaid 1112 01:05:19.119 --> 01:05:21.679 and Medicare in total aspect checked was a little over 1113 01:05:21.679 --> 01:05:25.360 a trillion dollars a year. So you know, nine hundred 1114 01:05:25.519 --> 01:05:28.280 billion dollars in cuts to Medicaid that's probably spread out 1115 01:05:28.280 --> 01:05:32.119 over like twenty or thirty years or something. But you know, 1116 01:05:32.239 --> 01:05:34.239 it looks like a bigger number if you make it 1117 01:05:34.239 --> 01:05:35.960 over a lot of years instead of just one. And 1118 01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:38.360 I hate it when people don't just confine it to 1119 01:05:38.360 --> 01:05:38.840 one year. 1120 01:05:39.360 --> 01:05:43.239 Yeah, this is an extension on Trump's twenty seventeen tax cuts. 1121 01:05:43.400 --> 01:05:46.320 So like we're already talking about nine years ago the 1122 01:05:46.360 --> 01:05:48.960 things that he implemented, and this is like a further 1123 01:05:49.000 --> 01:05:52.559 continuation of it. So you're right. They absolutely they throw 1124 01:05:52.599 --> 01:05:54.440 it all together to make it look like it's happening 1125 01:05:54.519 --> 01:05:57.400 this year, and it's like, that's that's simply not happening. 1126 01:05:57.719 --> 01:06:01.719 I agree. Even still, I had to stop and talk 1127 01:06:01.760 --> 01:06:05.079 about that one ten billion for MARS missions. That's great, 1128 01:06:05.800 --> 01:06:06.800 let's keep going. 1129 01:06:06.760 --> 01:06:10.280 Funding for border security and the military. The non partisan 1130 01:06:10.320 --> 01:06:13.280 Congressional Budget Office estimates it will add more than three 1131 01:06:13.360 --> 01:06:16.679 trillion dollars to the national debt and will strip healthcare 1132 01:06:16.719 --> 01:06:20.599 coverage from more than eleven million people. Republicans are working 1133 01:06:20.679 --> 01:06:23.760 under a President Trump imposed July fourth deadline. 1134 01:06:23.800 --> 01:06:26.400 I feel good about where we are and where we're headed, 1135 01:06:26.519 --> 01:06:27.880 and stay tuned. 1136 01:06:27.880 --> 01:06:29.320 There's more conversations to be helped. 1137 01:06:29.440 --> 01:06:31.559 The tricky part for House Republicans is they have to 1138 01:06:31.559 --> 01:06:34.559 pass the Senate version of the bill unchanged if they 1139 01:06:34.599 --> 01:06:36.760 want to get it to the President's desk by Friday. 1140 01:06:36.960 --> 01:06:39.360 Any reluctant House members who want to make deals on 1141 01:06:39.400 --> 01:06:41.199 the side would have to do that and pass it 1142 01:06:41.360 --> 01:06:44.960 through separate legislation. Otherwise it could take additional days or 1143 01:06:45.000 --> 01:06:47.880 even weeks for this to get across the finish line. 1144 01:06:48.079 --> 01:06:50.840 Monica Alba, NBC News Washington. 1145 01:06:51.280 --> 01:06:53.599 And we've also been in touch with our local lawmakers 1146 01:06:53.639 --> 01:06:55.039 who have spent much of their day on the House 1147 01:06:55.079 --> 01:06:55.679 floor as well. 1148 01:06:55.800 --> 01:06:58.880 Congressman Andre Carson says Democrats are trying to get the 1149 01:06:58.920 --> 01:07:02.239 four Republican wholes doubts to side with him, but he 1150 01:07:02.440 --> 01:07:05.079 is not giving up on the other Republicans asking them 1151 01:07:05.119 --> 01:07:07.840 to not pass this bill. 1152 01:07:07.960 --> 01:07:11.760 This won't just impact those who are on Medicaid. It 1153 01:07:11.800 --> 01:07:16.320 really impacts our entire systems. Our hospitals rely on Medicaid, 1154 01:07:16.360 --> 01:07:19.719 Our emergency rooms rely on Medicaid to stay open. With 1155 01:07:19.800 --> 01:07:24.320 these cuts, hospitals, especially rural hospitals, are at risk of closing. 1156 01:07:24.360 --> 01:07:27.239 And that's my appeal to my Republican friends. If you 1157 01:07:27.280 --> 01:07:32.360 have these hospitals close, you're going to disrupt the entire 1158 01:07:33.079 --> 01:07:34.960 ecosystem of local communities. 1159 01:07:35.239 --> 01:07:36.840 It's going to now. 1160 01:07:36.880 --> 01:07:40.639 We also reached out to Republican Representative Victoria's Sparts. We 1161 01:07:40.800 --> 01:07:43.679 have not yet heard back from her office. 1162 01:07:43.960 --> 01:07:50.079 Okay, so let's break it down. Actually, before we do that, 1163 01:07:50.239 --> 01:07:54.760 let's get into the chat over here. Also, there ain't ooh, okay, 1164 01:07:55.000 --> 01:07:57.000 I see links, I see things that people wanting to 1165 01:07:57.039 --> 01:08:01.880 bring up here real quick. There's this whole Candice Owen's 1166 01:08:01.920 --> 01:08:08.199 phone call with Trump from February. She's reposted one guy's impression. Okay, 1167 01:08:08.400 --> 01:08:13.159 I'm down everything. Everyone's arm late, Anthony. Good to see you, brother, 1168 01:08:13.199 --> 01:08:16.319 Good glad you could join us. My dad lost a 1169 01:08:16.319 --> 01:08:18.279 good chunk of his hearing about a year ago from 1170 01:08:18.279 --> 01:08:20.960 a gun he used. Yeah, I'm saying. I'm just saying 1171 01:08:20.960 --> 01:08:23.760 a suppressor would go a long way, especially if you're 1172 01:08:23.800 --> 01:08:26.479 an older shooter or even a younger shooter. Help my son. 1173 01:08:26.600 --> 01:08:28.680 He does competition shooting a Granted it's only like a 1174 01:08:28.720 --> 01:08:30.600 twenty two, so I'm not that concerned with it, and 1175 01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:33.520 he wears ear protection, but still, and he's not gonna 1176 01:08:33.560 --> 01:08:36.479 use a suppressor at camp for obvious reasons. But if 1177 01:08:36.520 --> 01:08:39.399 we're practicing and he's like getting his shooting positions down, 1178 01:08:39.520 --> 01:08:42.399 we're blowing through AMMO at the range one day. Yeah, 1179 01:08:42.760 --> 01:08:45.399 a lost suppressor on a twenty two goes a long way. 1180 01:08:45.800 --> 01:08:47.920 I don't know. Maybe I'm just being ridiculous with it, 1181 01:08:47.960 --> 01:08:51.720 but I like it. I'll never freaking live somewhere where 1182 01:08:51.720 --> 01:08:54.880 you have to register your babies such bigots. My firearms 1183 01:08:54.880 --> 01:08:57.439 are family. Yeah, I agree with that white boy wizard. 1184 01:08:57.640 --> 01:09:00.720 I agree, which I mean registration that's kind of more 1185 01:09:00.720 --> 01:09:06.720 of a suggestion, isn't it. I'm saying, Uh, let's see here. Also, ooh, 1186 01:09:06.880 --> 01:09:10.079 the yoked yid my boy Royce just posted this one. 1187 01:09:10.319 --> 01:09:15.720 The Diddler aka puff Daddy akap Diddy aka Sean Combs 1188 01:09:16.119 --> 01:09:18.520 Face is twenty years in prison, but is found not 1189 01:09:18.760 --> 01:09:23.000 guilty of the more serious crimes. Now the question is 1190 01:09:23.399 --> 01:09:27.439 was he not guilty or was there dirt in the videos? 1191 01:09:29.119 --> 01:09:33.039 That's interesting. Let's see here for a racketeering conspiracy, he 1192 01:09:33.119 --> 01:09:37.000 was found not guilty. Yo, how how was he found 1193 01:09:37.079 --> 01:09:40.560 not guilty of racketeering? That's literally what he was doing 1194 01:09:40.600 --> 01:09:43.920 was extorting these people for his own gains. But okay, Uh, 1195 01:09:44.199 --> 01:09:48.720 sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, found not guilty. 1196 01:09:50.399 --> 01:09:56.720 I cool. That's dirty. That is dirty by force, maybe 1197 01:09:56.760 --> 01:10:01.640 not by fraud, absolutely by coercion. Oh one hundred, that's 1198 01:10:01.680 --> 01:10:07.439 what he did. Uh, found not guilty. That's mind blowing. 1199 01:10:07.439 --> 01:10:13.079 But okay. Count three transportation to engage in prostitution, he 1200 01:10:13.199 --> 01:10:16.760 was found guilty. Okay, So he brought in hookers from 1201 01:10:16.800 --> 01:10:21.199 over state lines like all right, yeah, I didn't think 1202 01:10:21.199 --> 01:10:22.920 that was even open for debate. But then again, I 1203 01:10:22.960 --> 01:10:24.960 didn't think any of these were But all right, Count 1204 01:10:25.000 --> 01:10:31.119 four sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion. Wait, that's 1205 01:10:31.159 --> 01:10:33.920 the same thing as count two. Oh, I guess it's 1206 01:10:33.960 --> 01:10:38.279 different cases or different instances. Okay, found not guilty again. 1207 01:10:39.520 --> 01:10:43.039 So I don't know how they found him not guilty 1208 01:10:43.079 --> 01:10:46.359 of that. I mean, I understand that a willing party, 1209 01:10:46.920 --> 01:10:50.079 somebody who is trying to do these things to better 1210 01:10:50.159 --> 01:10:54.520 their career or whatever the case is. But I also 1211 01:10:54.520 --> 01:10:56.840 feel like there was probably a bit of coercion there. 1212 01:10:57.039 --> 01:10:59.800 I don't know that for a fact. But okay, and 1213 01:11:00.560 --> 01:11:03.680 count five transportation to engage in prostitution. So that's the 1214 01:11:03.720 --> 01:11:06.520 only thing he has found guilty on. Two counts of 1215 01:11:06.640 --> 01:11:14.600 transportation to engage in prostitution. Wow, that's pretty mind blowing. Okay, well, 1216 01:11:15.520 --> 01:11:19.560 didd he's going to jail for twenty years. He'll probably 1217 01:11:20.640 --> 01:11:22.239 I don't know what you'll think, you'll think you'll get 1218 01:11:22.239 --> 01:11:25.880 out and what like eight, he'll pay an absorbiting amount 1219 01:11:25.880 --> 01:11:29.479 of money, good behavior, all the things. He'll be out 1220 01:11:29.520 --> 01:11:33.880 before ten years by far. Yeah, go ahead for Royce. 1221 01:11:34.880 --> 01:11:37.560 So I don't know the veracity of this article. 1222 01:11:37.880 --> 01:11:41.720 However, it basically is said that with the prostitution charges, 1223 01:11:42.159 --> 01:11:46.000 it'll probably be maybe time served, and he will almost 1224 01:11:46.279 --> 01:11:50.039 seem like he'll probably walk, which is pretty much status 1225 01:11:50.119 --> 01:11:53.199 quo for anybody who has a lot of power and 1226 01:11:53.720 --> 01:11:57.720 has money, it doesn't really matter what see if they do, 1227 01:11:57.840 --> 01:12:00.159 they just get to do really whatever they want as 1228 01:12:00.159 --> 01:12:02.720 long as they have a great lawyer in money. 1229 01:12:03.600 --> 01:12:06.960 And that's absolutely what he has working for him right now. 1230 01:12:07.000 --> 01:12:09.479 So I yeah, he I don't even know as far 1231 01:12:09.520 --> 01:12:12.039 as the time serve things. He's only been in jail 1232 01:12:12.119 --> 01:12:16.720 for a year, give or take. And I mean, I 1233 01:12:16.760 --> 01:12:19.039 don't know what his record looks like. I know he 1234 01:12:19.159 --> 01:12:21.319 portrays himself as a thug and all of that, I 1235 01:12:21.359 --> 01:12:26.760 don't know what his actual like record looks like even Still, dude, 1236 01:12:26.760 --> 01:12:32.319 we're talking at the time served of a year even two. Yeah, 1237 01:12:32.359 --> 01:12:34.319 but then how are they coming to a twenty year 1238 01:12:34.399 --> 01:12:37.640 sentence if he's already yeah, I don't, I don't know. 1239 01:12:37.800 --> 01:12:38.159 I don't know. 1240 01:12:38.520 --> 01:12:40.600 I think that the twenty years would have been if 1241 01:12:40.640 --> 01:12:42.880 he would have been guilty of the racketeering and the 1242 01:12:43.039 --> 01:12:47.119 serious charges. But since he's not guilty of that, I 1243 01:12:47.119 --> 01:12:47.479 don't know. 1244 01:12:48.279 --> 01:12:52.600 Still, how is he not guilty of racketeering? That's clearly 1245 01:12:52.680 --> 01:12:55.359 what he was doing. How many careers has he built? 1246 01:12:55.439 --> 01:12:58.159 And he used certain things as leverage over these people? 1247 01:12:58.239 --> 01:12:58.279 What? 1248 01:12:58.520 --> 01:13:04.079 What would you? Okay? All right, well, our justice system 1249 01:13:04.119 --> 01:13:07.159 is broken for anybody who didn't know that, that's absolutely 1250 01:13:07.159 --> 01:13:11.880 a part of it. Let's see whoever said money can't 1251 01:13:11.880 --> 01:13:14.359 buy happiness never paid for a divorce before? Boy, I 1252 01:13:14.399 --> 01:13:18.840 know it. That's right. Let's see middle one fourth from Yeah, 1253 01:13:18.960 --> 01:13:21.359 that's a meme. All right, Let's see Raven Lee has 1254 01:13:21.399 --> 01:13:25.520 sent a article. Let's check this one out here. This 1255 01:13:25.560 --> 01:13:30.000 is US news. The US plans to begin breeding billions 1256 01:13:30.159 --> 01:13:34.479 of flies to fight a pest. Here is how it 1257 01:13:34.520 --> 01:13:38.159 will work. Oh, Raven Lee, what have you shared with 1258 01:13:38.239 --> 01:13:40.239 us this evening? All right, I'm go ahead and share 1259 01:13:40.279 --> 01:13:43.800 the screen for everybody. Let's learn about some sort of 1260 01:13:43.960 --> 01:13:48.920 new scientific advancements that's happening with flies. The US government 1261 01:13:48.960 --> 01:13:52.399 is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them 1262 01:13:52.439 --> 01:13:59.920 from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas. Okay, likes 1263 01:14:00.199 --> 01:14:04.640 as a prank. Let's read. Let's read. Okay. In this 1264 01:14:04.800 --> 01:14:08.039 January twenty twenty four photo provided by the Panama United 1265 01:14:08.039 --> 01:14:13.600 States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of Cattle screw Worms, oh, okay. 1266 01:14:14.039 --> 01:14:17.880 A worker drops a New World screwworm fly larva into 1267 01:14:17.920 --> 01:14:22.479 a tray at a facility that breeds sterile flies in Pocona. 1268 01:14:22.800 --> 01:14:24.479 I'm a zooming on this a little bit because my 1269 01:14:24.520 --> 01:14:28.720 eyes are not what they once were. Children Pacora, Panama 1270 01:14:28.880 --> 01:14:31.239 to Peaka, Kansas. The US government is preparing to breed 1271 01:14:31.239 --> 01:14:33.439 billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over 1272 01:14:33.479 --> 01:14:37.119 Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh eating maggot. 1273 01:14:37.399 --> 01:14:39.199 That sounds like a plot of a horror movie, but 1274 01:14:39.239 --> 01:14:41.279 as part of the government's plan to protect the US 1275 01:14:41.319 --> 01:14:45.199 from a bug that could devastate its beef industry, decimate wildlife, 1276 01:14:45.199 --> 01:14:49.000 and even kill household pets. This weird science has worked 1277 01:14:49.039 --> 01:14:54.399 well before. Okay, let's go. It's an exceptionally good technology, 1278 01:14:54.439 --> 01:14:57.880 said Edwin Burgess, and assistant professor at the University of 1279 01:14:57.880 --> 01:15:01.840 Florida who studies parasites and animals, particularly livestock. It's an 1280 01:15:01.840 --> 01:15:04.920 all time great in terms of translating science to solve 1281 01:15:04.960 --> 01:15:08.039 some kind of large problem. The targeted pest is the 1282 01:15:08.079 --> 01:15:11.600 flesh eating larva of the New World screwworm fly. The 1283 01:15:11.720 --> 01:15:14.439 US Department of Agriculture plans to ramp up the breeding 1284 01:15:14.479 --> 01:15:18.600 and distribution of adult male flies, sterilizing them with radiation 1285 01:15:18.680 --> 01:15:21.279 before releasing them. They mate with females in the wild, 1286 01:15:21.279 --> 01:15:23.960 and the eggs laid by the females aren't fertilized and 1287 01:15:24.039 --> 01:15:26.920 don't hatch. There are fewer larva, and overtime the fly 1288 01:15:27.039 --> 01:15:31.279 population dies out. It is more effect is more effective 1289 01:15:31.279 --> 01:15:35.239 and environmentally friendly than spraying the pest on or into oblivion, 1290 01:15:35.640 --> 01:15:38.039 and it is how the US and other nations north 1291 01:15:38.079 --> 01:15:41.359 of the Panama ere eradicated the same pest decades ago. 1292 01:15:41.840 --> 01:15:44.840 Interesting steri flies from a factory in Panama kept the 1293 01:15:44.840 --> 01:15:47.800 flies contained there for years, but the pest appeared in 1294 01:15:47.840 --> 01:15:51.359 southern Mexico last year. The USDA expects a new screwworm 1295 01:15:51.399 --> 01:15:54.039 fly factory to be up and running in southern Mexico 1296 01:15:54.359 --> 01:15:57.279 by July twenty twenty six. It plans to open a 1297 01:15:57.319 --> 01:15:59.720 fly distribution center in southern Texas by the end of 1298 01:15:59.720 --> 01:16:02.760 the year so that it can import and distribute flies 1299 01:16:02.800 --> 01:16:07.439 from Panama if necessary. Now fly feeds on live flesh, 1300 01:16:07.920 --> 01:16:10.720 most fly larva feed on dead flesh, making the New 1301 01:16:10.760 --> 01:16:15.000 World screw worm fly and its Old World counterpart in 1302 01:16:15.079 --> 01:16:18.479 Asia and Africa outliers and for the American beef industry 1303 01:16:18.520 --> 01:16:21.640 a serious threat. Females lay their eggs and wounds and 1304 01:16:21.880 --> 01:16:26.039 sometimes exposed mucus. One thousand pounds bow vine can be 1305 01:16:26.079 --> 01:16:29.239 dead from this in two weeks, said Michael Bailey, President 1306 01:16:29.279 --> 01:16:35.560 elected the American Veterinary Medicine Association. WHOA yeah, you want 1307 01:16:35.600 --> 01:16:38.319 to talk about an infestation of that hitting a massive 1308 01:16:38.359 --> 01:16:42.840 cattle farm. That is it? It's over. Veterinarians have effective 1309 01:16:43.000 --> 01:16:46.520 treatments for infested animals, but an infestation can still be 1310 01:16:46.600 --> 01:16:51.039 unpleasant and cripple an animal with pain. Don Henneman, a 1311 01:16:51.079 --> 01:16:56.680 retired West in Kansas rancher, recalled infection. Recalled infected cattle 1312 01:16:56.720 --> 01:17:00.319 as a youngster in his family's farm. It smelled nasty, said, 1313 01:17:00.359 --> 01:17:03.960 like rotten meat. How scientists will use the flies biology 1314 01:17:04.000 --> 01:17:07.199 against it. The New World screwworm fly is a tropical 1315 01:17:07.199 --> 01:17:10.840 species unable to survive in Midwestern or Great Plains winters, 1316 01:17:11.239 --> 01:17:14.560 so it was a seasonal scourge. Still, the US and 1317 01:17:14.640 --> 01:17:17.680 Mexico bred and released more than ninety four billion steril 1318 01:17:17.720 --> 01:17:20.880 flies from nineteen sixty two through nineteen seventy five to 1319 01:17:20.920 --> 01:17:24.039 eradicate the pest. According to USDA, the numbers need to 1320 01:17:24.079 --> 01:17:26.600 be large enough that females in the wild can't help, 1321 01:17:26.640 --> 01:17:29.680 but hook up with sterile males for mating. One biological 1322 01:17:29.720 --> 01:17:33.960 trade gives the fly fighters a crucial wing up ah 1323 01:17:34.199 --> 01:17:38.880 nice pun female's mate only once in their week's long 1324 01:17:39.000 --> 01:17:42.359 adult lives. While the US wants to breed more flies. 1325 01:17:43.399 --> 01:17:46.600 Alarmed by the flies migration north, the US Temporary League 1326 01:17:46.760 --> 01:17:50.520 temporarily closed its southern border in May to imports of 1327 01:17:50.600 --> 01:17:53.520 live cattle, horses, and bison, and it won't be fully 1328 01:17:53.560 --> 01:17:57.920 open again at least until mid September. But female flies 1329 01:17:57.920 --> 01:18:01.079 can lay their eggs and wounds on any warm blooded animal, 1330 01:18:01.199 --> 01:18:05.560 and that includes humans. Decades ago, the US had fly 1331 01:18:05.720 --> 01:18:08.560 factories in Florida and Texas, but they closed as the 1332 01:18:08.600 --> 01:18:12.199 pest was eradicated. The Panama fly factory can breed up 1333 01:18:12.199 --> 01:18:16.159 to one hundred and seventeen million a week wow, but 1334 01:18:16.199 --> 01:18:20.680 the USDA wants the capacity to breed at least four 1335 01:18:20.800 --> 01:18:24.880 hundred million a week good God. It plans to spend 1336 01:18:25.159 --> 01:18:27.960 eight point five million on the Texas site and twenty 1337 01:18:28.000 --> 01:18:32.760 one million to convert a facility in southern Mexico for 1338 01:18:32.840 --> 01:18:38.560 breeding sterile fruit flies into one four screwworm flies, Okay, 1339 01:18:39.560 --> 01:18:43.439 how to raise hundreds of millions of flies? In one sense, 1340 01:18:43.560 --> 01:18:46.359 raising a large colony of flies is relatively easy, said 1341 01:18:46.399 --> 01:18:50.960 Cassandra olds And, assistant professor of an entomology at Kansas 1342 01:18:51.000 --> 01:18:53.840 State University. But she added, you've got to give the 1343 01:18:53.840 --> 01:18:56.279 females the cues that she needs to lay her eggs, 1344 01:18:56.680 --> 01:18:59.640 and the larva have to be have to have enough nutrients. 1345 01:19:00.239 --> 01:19:03.399 Factories once fed larva horse meat and honey, and then 1346 01:19:03.520 --> 01:19:06.600 moved to a mix of dried eggs and either honey 1347 01:19:06.680 --> 01:19:10.000 or molasses, according to the past USDA research. Later the 1348 01:19:10.039 --> 01:19:12.960 Panama factory used a mix that included egg powder and 1349 01:19:13.079 --> 01:19:16.600 red blood cells and plasma from cattle in the while, 1350 01:19:16.760 --> 01:19:20.119 larva ready for the equivalent of a butterfly's cocoon stage, 1351 01:19:20.239 --> 01:19:24.039 dropped off their hosts and onto the ground, burrowed just 1352 01:19:24.079 --> 01:19:27.279 below the surface, and grow to adulthood inside a protective casing, 1353 01:19:27.720 --> 01:19:31.079 making them resemble a dark brown tic tac mint. In 1354 01:19:31.119 --> 01:19:34.239 the Panama factory, workers drop them into trays of sawdust. 1355 01:19:34.600 --> 01:19:40.479 Security is an issue, Sonya Swigger, Sweeger Swiger, I don't know, 1356 01:19:41.119 --> 01:19:45.399 sweezer Swige, I don't know. And entomologists with the Texas 1357 01:19:45.439 --> 01:19:48.880 A and M University's Extension Services said a breeding facility 1358 01:19:48.960 --> 01:19:54.279 must prevent any fertile adults kept from breeding stock from escaping. 1359 01:19:55.039 --> 01:19:57.239 So how to drop them from an airplane? I'm assuming 1360 01:19:57.239 --> 01:19:59.800 in the tic TAC stage. I don't know. Dropping flies 1361 01:19:59.840 --> 01:20:02.279 from the air can be dangerous. Last month, a plane 1362 01:20:02.359 --> 01:20:06.960 freeing steriol flies crashed near Mexico's border with Guatemala, killing 1363 01:20:06.960 --> 01:20:10.960 three people. Well Jesus Okay. In test runs in the 1364 01:20:11.000 --> 01:20:14.119 nineteen fifties, according to the USDA, scientists put the flies 1365 01:20:14.199 --> 01:20:16.800 in paper cups and then dropped the cups out of 1366 01:20:16.800 --> 01:20:20.399 the planes using special shoots. Later, they loaded them into 1367 01:20:20.439 --> 01:20:24.439 boxes with the machine known as a whiz packer. I 1368 01:20:24.439 --> 01:20:26.119 feel like the paper cups is just going to add 1369 01:20:26.159 --> 01:20:29.720 to pollution. Although there's biodegradable paper, there's ways, you know, 1370 01:20:30.439 --> 01:20:33.239 the method is still pretty much the same light planes 1371 01:20:33.239 --> 01:20:37.960 with crates of flies dropped those crates bur just called 1372 01:20:38.000 --> 01:20:41.880 the development of sterile fly breeding and distribution in the 1373 01:20:41.920 --> 01:20:45.680 nineteen fifties and sixties one of the USDA's crowning achievements. 1374 01:20:45.800 --> 01:20:49.560 Some agriculture officials argue now that the new factory shouldn't 1375 01:20:49.560 --> 01:20:53.680 be shuttered after another successful fight something we think we 1376 01:20:53.760 --> 01:20:56.960 have complete control over and we have declared a triumph, 1377 01:20:56.960 --> 01:20:59.560 and victory over can always rear its ugly head again. 1378 01:20:59.640 --> 01:21:05.800 Burgess said, Okay, wow, very very interesting, Raven, thank you 1379 01:21:05.840 --> 01:21:08.199 for sharing this. All right, let's go back to the 1380 01:21:08.279 --> 01:21:11.439 chat because it seems like you have another one ready 1381 01:21:11.439 --> 01:21:14.479 to go here. Okay, it was another one that's basically 1382 01:21:14.479 --> 01:21:18.319 talking about the same thing about breeding the flies. That 1383 01:21:18.479 --> 01:21:22.199 is pretty fascinating. I mean, we did an episode we 1384 01:21:22.239 --> 01:21:25.640 talked about the screwworms not too terribly long ago. I 1385 01:21:25.640 --> 01:21:27.680 didn't realize that it was that much of an issue 1386 01:21:27.720 --> 01:21:30.880 and that they were making a real advancement north. That's 1387 01:21:31.119 --> 01:21:34.039 I'm glad that the USDA has taken some sort of 1388 01:21:34.079 --> 01:21:37.479 approach against that, because, good god, that's that's one of 1389 01:21:37.520 --> 01:21:39.600 the other things America does really well. We do war 1390 01:21:39.880 --> 01:21:43.880 really well, and we do farming really well. So for 1391 01:21:43.960 --> 01:21:46.359 them to try to protect that, I like it. I 1392 01:21:46.479 --> 01:21:50.279 like it a lot. All right, let's see here RFK Junior. 1393 01:21:50.479 --> 01:21:54.159 This is from ms N. RFK Junior says the CDC 1394 01:21:54.479 --> 01:21:58.359 data to be public for the first time in autism study. 1395 01:21:59.279 --> 01:22:01.680 Oh here, here we go. All right, I'm gonna go 1396 01:22:01.680 --> 01:22:03.560 ahead and share the screen yet again for all the 1397 01:22:03.600 --> 01:22:06.199 good listeners of the Cave tonight, if you would like 1398 01:22:06.239 --> 01:22:08.039 to be a part of this conversation and see what 1399 01:22:08.079 --> 01:22:10.760 we're talking about and join in and send in your 1400 01:22:10.880 --> 01:22:12.840 articles there anything you would like to talk about that 1401 01:22:12.880 --> 01:22:15.640 you think is interesting. Again link in the description below. 1402 01:22:15.640 --> 01:22:19.840 We only got one tier for entry here. Okay, let's 1403 01:22:19.920 --> 01:22:24.199 do this. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kenny 1404 01:22:24.239 --> 01:22:27.000 Junior said the CDC will publish large amounts of data 1405 01:22:27.000 --> 01:22:30.479 for researchers to sift through related to possible causes of 1406 01:22:30.560 --> 01:22:34.279 autism during an interview published today with Tucker Carlson. We're 1407 01:22:34.279 --> 01:22:36.560 going to do real science, and the way we're going 1408 01:22:36.600 --> 01:22:39.840 to do it is we're going to make the database 1409 01:22:39.880 --> 01:22:43.359 public for the first time, he said. We're going We're 1410 01:22:43.439 --> 01:22:46.479 We've gone into the CDC. We've got the data from 1411 01:22:46.479 --> 01:22:50.479 the CMS, which is the Medicaid and Medicare. We're getting 1412 01:22:50.520 --> 01:22:53.079 the data from the Vaccine Safety Data Link, which is 1413 01:22:53.119 --> 01:22:57.000 the biggest repository for HMO health records. Those records will 1414 01:22:57.039 --> 01:23:00.239 have all the vaccination data and the subsequent health claim games. 1415 01:23:00.560 --> 01:23:02.920 You can do a cluster analysis and look to see it. 1416 01:23:02.920 --> 01:23:06.239 There as an Association. Kennedy said, We're going to do 1417 01:23:06.319 --> 01:23:09.439 some in house studies ourselves, but more importantly, we're going 1418 01:23:09.479 --> 01:23:12.880 to make this data available for independent scientists so everyone 1419 01:23:12.920 --> 01:23:17.199 can look at it. So here's the full interview. Yeah, okay, 1420 01:23:17.199 --> 01:23:19.079 I'm not going to read the entirety of it, but 1421 01:23:19.840 --> 01:23:22.359 all right, it says, here's the full interview, and we're 1422 01:23:22.359 --> 01:23:24.119 not going to pull it up, but at least the 1423 01:23:24.159 --> 01:23:26.760 overarching theme of it here. Twenty years ago, Bobby Kennedy 1424 01:23:26.840 --> 01:23:29.880 was exiled from Polite Society for suggesting a link between 1425 01:23:29.920 --> 01:23:33.600 autism and vaccines. Now he's a caverte secretary and still 1426 01:23:33.640 --> 01:23:36.600 saying it. So him and Tucker got into it, and 1427 01:23:36.640 --> 01:23:40.640 he is basically saying that we will have all of 1428 01:23:40.680 --> 01:23:44.479 the information ourselves that we can look into. Let's see. 1429 01:23:44.640 --> 01:23:47.119 Tucker Carlson says, I remember your first break with the 1430 01:23:47.119 --> 01:23:51.039 Democratic Party and with personal friends, even members of your 1431 01:23:51.079 --> 01:23:53.840 own family, was a rolling Stone piece that you wrote 1432 01:23:53.880 --> 01:23:58.119 about autism, asking why have autism rates risen? And you 1433 01:23:58.199 --> 01:24:00.720 were kind of written out of Polite Societ for doing that. 1434 01:24:01.159 --> 01:24:03.439 One of the first things you did as secretary, I think, 1435 01:24:03.600 --> 01:24:08.560 tell me if I'm mistating here was commission was commission 1436 01:24:08.640 --> 01:24:11.119 a kind of study on autism. Can you tell us 1437 01:24:11.159 --> 01:24:13.359 what that is and what you're seeking to do with that. 1438 01:24:14.359 --> 01:24:16.760 So here's Robert F. Kennedy. I'm not going to do 1439 01:24:16.800 --> 01:24:19.720 an impersonation of his voice, mostly because it would hurt 1440 01:24:19.720 --> 01:24:22.960 my throat. But yeah, yeah, I mean, you know the studies. 1441 01:24:23.119 --> 01:24:25.079 There are a handful of studies that the CDC has 1442 01:24:25.119 --> 01:24:32.600 generated on autism. They were all a deep pemelogical Jesus Christ, 1443 01:24:32.680 --> 01:24:37.640 a deepaminie epidemiological studies. There we go and they all 1444 01:24:37.680 --> 01:24:40.199 say what the CDC wanted them to say, which is 1445 01:24:40.239 --> 01:24:42.359 that they couldn't find a link. The problem is that 1446 01:24:42.399 --> 01:24:44.520 the Institute of Medicine, which is part of the National 1447 01:24:44.520 --> 01:24:46.680 Academy of Science, has said in two thousand and one 1448 01:24:46.760 --> 01:24:50.159 that the link between autism and vaccines is biologically plausible, 1449 01:24:50.680 --> 01:24:52.800 and they were highly critical of the way the CDC 1450 01:24:53.079 --> 01:24:56.800 was making decisions about the vaccine schedule. This group AIP, 1451 01:24:57.439 --> 01:25:00.840 which is an external panel responsible for deciding which new 1452 01:25:00.920 --> 01:25:03.520 vaccines will be added to the schedule. They had essentially 1453 01:25:03.560 --> 01:25:07.560 been captured by industry. Wow, raven, I saw your hand 1454 01:25:07.680 --> 01:25:09.159 was raised. Please speak on this. 1455 01:25:11.000 --> 01:25:14.960 So pretty much he's like shook the community by saying 1456 01:25:15.479 --> 01:25:20.239 he says that the CDC covered up internal study which 1457 01:25:20.319 --> 01:25:24.680 found and thirty five percent increase in autism. Bricks for 1458 01:25:24.920 --> 01:25:31.159 Hepta B vaccine specifically, he needed that vaccine. They're wanting 1459 01:25:31.479 --> 01:25:34.760 most people, myself included, want the actual data on the 1460 01:25:34.880 --> 01:25:38.520 MMR and the DETAP. But it's a huge win for 1461 01:25:39.199 --> 01:25:42.720 at least for the community of like coming forward and saying, hey, 1462 01:25:42.800 --> 01:25:46.079 like there is something going on. Because the people that 1463 01:25:46.079 --> 01:25:48.239 I've spoken out about it, a lot of the doctors 1464 01:25:48.319 --> 01:25:53.000 have unlived themselves or disappeared or renakeed on what they've 1465 01:25:53.000 --> 01:25:55.399 said or things like that. But if you look at 1466 01:25:55.399 --> 01:25:57.760 the Trump just spoke about it just the other day 1467 01:25:57.840 --> 01:26:01.640 with RFK. He was saying, like when he first started 1468 01:26:03.399 --> 01:26:05.680 back in the day, it was like one number. Now 1469 01:26:05.720 --> 01:26:09.479 it's like one in thirty two people or something. One 1470 01:26:09.479 --> 01:26:11.600 in thirty two kids or thirty five kids or something 1471 01:26:11.920 --> 01:26:15.039 has autism. And it's like at some point, you know, 1472 01:26:15.079 --> 01:26:17.920 we all have to look at what's happening. It's not 1473 01:26:17.960 --> 01:26:22.039 just autism though, it's it's all different types of disorders, 1474 01:26:22.079 --> 01:26:25.439 and autoimmune disorders is a huge thing. There's tons of 1475 01:26:25.479 --> 01:26:28.560 things that have increased by like two hundred plus percent 1476 01:26:29.039 --> 01:26:32.119 in the last decade or two, and it's like, okay, 1477 01:26:32.159 --> 01:26:34.840 clearly it you know, look at the food, look at 1478 01:26:34.880 --> 01:26:38.479 the water supply, look at the vaccine schedule, look at 1479 01:26:38.479 --> 01:26:41.600 all this stuff. But by him like scrupling down on 1480 01:26:41.840 --> 01:26:44.640 the vaccines, it's it's a huge thing. Like, I mean, 1481 01:26:44.680 --> 01:26:46.560 a lot of people are waiting for the studies to drop. 1482 01:26:46.600 --> 01:26:49.840 That's pretty much what he goes on about with Tuckercarls, 1483 01:26:49.840 --> 01:26:51.640 and he talks about a lot of other stuff, but 1484 01:26:51.680 --> 01:26:54.000 that the main point is that he came out and 1485 01:26:54.039 --> 01:26:57.880 said that it's one and thirty five percent increase because 1486 01:26:57.920 --> 01:26:58.840 the heptitis B. 1487 01:27:00.880 --> 01:27:04.119 They started implementing B. Correct me if I'm wrong, But 1488 01:27:04.159 --> 01:27:06.239 this was in the eighties or was it the seventies. 1489 01:27:06.279 --> 01:27:13.279 Maybe I'm trying to remember when they started making that 1490 01:27:13.319 --> 01:27:15.319 more of a I. 1491 01:27:15.239 --> 01:27:18.960 Think it was the eighties because the eighties so like 1492 01:27:19.079 --> 01:27:23.000 eighty eight and eighty nine, the vaccines changed. In ninety 1493 01:27:23.039 --> 01:27:27.319 two is when Gates and Fauci got their hands heavy 1494 01:27:27.359 --> 01:27:32.840 in the vaccines, and they were like the original vaccines 1495 01:27:32.880 --> 01:27:36.399 the way they were created in like the seventies and stuff. 1496 01:27:36.680 --> 01:27:40.520 They didn't have the same additives as they do now. 1497 01:27:40.680 --> 01:27:43.680 And that's the big conversation. I think people are missing 1498 01:27:43.720 --> 01:27:46.880 when it comes to anti vax and BAX conversation is 1499 01:27:46.960 --> 01:27:49.800 everyone's fighting against each other, and it's like, why don't 1500 01:27:49.840 --> 01:27:52.880 we just actually talk about why did they change the 1501 01:27:52.960 --> 01:27:55.199 chemical makeup and why don't we go back to something 1502 01:27:55.199 --> 01:27:58.800 that we know doesn't have heavy metals that impacts different 1503 01:27:58.800 --> 01:28:01.680 parts of the brain that cause the autoimmune issues? Like 1504 01:28:02.039 --> 01:28:04.119 why are we not going after a big farmer that 1505 01:28:04.279 --> 01:28:07.800 can't be sued for vaccine injuries? Why are we not 1506 01:28:07.880 --> 01:28:10.079 talking about all the children that have them? And like 1507 01:28:10.479 --> 01:28:13.800 myself included with a child that had vaccine injuries, like 1508 01:28:14.399 --> 01:28:16.399 I felt for the same thing everyone else said, you 1509 01:28:16.399 --> 01:28:18.760 need to vaccinate your kid. Okay, I really didn't feel 1510 01:28:18.760 --> 01:28:21.600 comfortable with Cheryl keep doing it. And he suddenly woke 1511 01:28:21.680 --> 01:28:24.199 up with all this crap, like he started to get 1512 01:28:24.239 --> 01:28:26.560 sick and then a week later he started having all 1513 01:28:26.600 --> 01:28:29.760 these issues and I was like, yeah, my child was fine, 1514 01:28:30.000 --> 01:28:33.399 so that was the only thing to change. But that's 1515 01:28:33.439 --> 01:28:35.600 a that's kind of the big conversation right now, and 1516 01:28:35.640 --> 01:28:39.000 a lot of people that are anti that are vaccining 1517 01:28:39.079 --> 01:28:42.720 people are now kind of questioning like, hey, well, maybe 1518 01:28:42.720 --> 01:28:45.640 there's something to this. If this is really starting to 1519 01:28:45.920 --> 01:28:49.439 come out as truth, which is huge because anti vaxers 1520 01:28:49.479 --> 01:28:53.520 are looked at as crazy people, which it's it's you know, 1521 01:28:53.720 --> 01:28:55.720 they can go to extremes, just like the left and 1522 01:28:55.760 --> 01:28:59.479 the right. There's extreme vaccinators, extreme anti vaxx. Like I 1523 01:28:59.479 --> 01:29:01.720 think they're to be a healthy middle in between. 1524 01:29:02.279 --> 01:29:04.640 I agree with you one hundred percent, and it's that's 1525 01:29:04.680 --> 01:29:09.920 the thing. The anti vaxx movement was made public by 1526 01:29:10.039 --> 01:29:14.199 the crazies, right. It wasn't from logical people who have 1527 01:29:14.359 --> 01:29:16.479 children who had vaccine injuries and things like that. The 1528 01:29:16.520 --> 01:29:19.800 first time we ever heard about anti vaxers was from 1529 01:29:19.920 --> 01:29:23.159 the screaming heads on one side or the other. And 1530 01:29:23.199 --> 01:29:26.359 that's the problem, right, the squeaky wheel gets the oil, 1531 01:29:26.600 --> 01:29:29.840 and unfortunately those that are talking the loudest typically get 1532 01:29:29.840 --> 01:29:33.560 the most attention, which really sucks when it comes to 1533 01:29:33.600 --> 01:29:35.560 something like this Because I agree with you. I think 1534 01:29:35.600 --> 01:29:40.359 that there's a place for vaccines. The polio, measles and mumps, 1535 01:29:40.359 --> 01:29:43.239 all these things, like, we eradicated a lot of really 1536 01:29:43.399 --> 01:29:49.880 horrible diseases from vaccinations. However, this was before they started 1537 01:29:49.880 --> 01:29:52.159 putting in a lot of extra additives to it. And 1538 01:29:52.199 --> 01:29:54.800 this is we didn't have nearly the rate of autism 1539 01:29:54.840 --> 01:29:58.079 in the thirties, forties, and fifties that we do today. 1540 01:29:58.680 --> 01:30:01.119 I'm not saying it's one hundred perc link to vaccines, 1541 01:30:01.159 --> 01:30:05.520 but there is a clear correlation between it, like indiscernibly 1542 01:30:05.600 --> 01:30:08.479 connected between them. And even if it's not just the 1543 01:30:08.520 --> 01:30:11.840 vaccines that you're giving the children. Even further proof of this, 1544 01:30:13.159 --> 01:30:18.399 most veterans that I know that deployed to Afghanistan or 1545 01:30:18.439 --> 01:30:22.600 Iraq have at least one child with some sort of 1546 01:30:22.760 --> 01:30:28.119 autoimmune five motor skill issues, something on the spectrum of 1547 01:30:28.159 --> 01:30:31.920 autism or anything like that. And they were trying to 1548 01:30:31.960 --> 01:30:34.079 deny that that was a thing for so long. But 1549 01:30:34.199 --> 01:30:37.760 I mean, it's hard to find a veteran that deployed 1550 01:30:37.920 --> 01:30:41.520 that doesn't have a child that is suffering from some 1551 01:30:41.600 --> 01:30:44.800 sort of issue in some way, shape or form. At 1552 01:30:44.800 --> 01:30:47.359 this point, there's too much research out there for them 1553 01:30:47.399 --> 01:30:49.600 to ignore and just push under the rug like this. 1554 01:30:52.960 --> 01:30:56.199 So the vaccine was created. Heavy vaccine was created an 1555 01:30:56.239 --> 01:31:00.399 eighty one release in eighty two, And in regard to 1556 01:31:00.640 --> 01:31:04.720 the vaccines for deploying or receipts, when I went to 1557 01:31:04.800 --> 01:31:07.800 the VA, I had a real frink conversation with them 1558 01:31:07.800 --> 01:31:09.039 and I was like, you know, I talked to a 1559 01:31:09.079 --> 01:31:11.560 couple of the doctors that were doing the screenings and 1560 01:31:11.600 --> 01:31:14.600 I was like, so are we going to ever be 1561 01:31:14.680 --> 01:31:17.560 able to bring up the amount of vaccines that they 1562 01:31:17.680 --> 01:31:21.199 gave us and what it does to our bodies and 1563 01:31:21.239 --> 01:31:24.680 like what it's done to you know, our egg our 1564 01:31:24.720 --> 01:31:26.840 eggs and our semen and stuff like that, like you know, 1565 01:31:27.279 --> 01:31:30.079 for everybody. And they're like, there's no way we could 1566 01:31:30.119 --> 01:31:32.560 ever like they'll ever let that happen. We've tried to 1567 01:31:32.560 --> 01:31:35.359 bring it up, but that would mean every service member 1568 01:31:35.439 --> 01:31:40.600 period ever is connected to some type because of all 1569 01:31:40.640 --> 01:31:43.319 the different vaccines that you're given, because like when you 1570 01:31:43.359 --> 01:31:46.880 go live over seas and oknaw, you're given way more 1571 01:31:46.960 --> 01:31:50.279 vaccines than people that live in stateside. Then when you deploy, 1572 01:31:50.399 --> 01:31:53.479 you get more vaccines and you get pills on top 1573 01:31:53.560 --> 01:31:56.359 of that, and it's like there's just so much And 1574 01:31:56.399 --> 01:31:58.399 like by the end of the time I was in 1575 01:31:58.800 --> 01:32:00.960 I was questioning everything giving me and I was like, 1576 01:32:01.000 --> 01:32:03.239 what are you giving me? Like why do I need this? 1577 01:32:03.640 --> 01:32:06.359 I've already received smallpox. What was the point of getting 1578 01:32:06.439 --> 01:32:10.039 another smallpox, like a live virus? I had already gotten it, 1579 01:32:10.359 --> 01:32:11.840 So why do I need two of. 1580 01:32:11.840 --> 01:32:13.079 Them like it. 1581 01:32:13.239 --> 01:32:16.960 You know, it's just like the COVID vaccine. I want 1582 01:32:17.760 --> 01:32:22.039 the Stars vaccine, the original. What is covid derivative from 1583 01:32:22.319 --> 01:32:25.640 and dreaded from? And I'm like, why would I need 1584 01:32:25.680 --> 01:32:28.479 a COVID vaccine? I had the actual like mother of it, 1585 01:32:29.000 --> 01:32:32.119 So what's the point of that? Like, it's just never 1586 01:32:32.119 --> 01:32:33.920 made any sense to me. But I mean that's the thing. 1587 01:32:34.039 --> 01:32:37.119 It's it's a money making business. Making people sick is 1588 01:32:37.159 --> 01:32:39.920 what they do, and they want to keep people being sick. 1589 01:32:40.199 --> 01:32:42.520 And it's not just a vaccine. So I mean, we 1590 01:32:42.640 --> 01:32:45.279 really have to look at all the components that's in 1591 01:32:45.319 --> 01:32:47.800 our society. And I think that's where people get all 1592 01:32:47.880 --> 01:32:50.560 hung up as like you're blaming just vaccines. I'm not 1593 01:32:50.600 --> 01:32:53.359 blaming just vaccines. What about what they're putting in food? 1594 01:32:53.720 --> 01:32:56.359 What about the screen time? What are they you know, 1595 01:32:56.439 --> 01:32:59.319 all of this stuff is playing into what's happening with 1596 01:32:59.359 --> 01:33:02.520 the children. But I will say, like the Gardasil vaccine 1597 01:33:02.560 --> 01:33:04.960 is one of the worst vaccines ever. If anyone's even 1598 01:33:05.000 --> 01:33:08.479 considering giving it to your children, please do research into it. 1599 01:33:08.600 --> 01:33:11.159 I wrote a massive, like forty page paper about this 1600 01:33:11.279 --> 01:33:15.600 damn vaccine, and it is terrible, Like they really strongly 1601 01:33:15.600 --> 01:33:17.880 suggest people don't ever let their kids get them. 1602 01:33:18.159 --> 01:33:20.199 No, I agree with you one hundred percent. There's there's 1603 01:33:20.279 --> 01:33:22.960 way more at play than just vaccines. But like, the 1604 01:33:23.119 --> 01:33:25.840 conversation has to start somewhere, and it has to start 1605 01:33:25.880 --> 01:33:30.319 somewhere with documented scientific data to back it up. And 1606 01:33:30.399 --> 01:33:34.319 I feel like vaccines are a very good jumping point 1607 01:33:34.359 --> 01:33:36.359 for the rest of the conversation to begin. But like 1608 01:33:36.399 --> 01:33:39.000 you said, it's a money making operation and they will 1609 01:33:39.039 --> 01:33:42.079 never release the data. Although RFK is talking about them 1610 01:33:42.119 --> 01:33:45.720 releasing the data, let's hope and pray that they actually 1611 01:33:45.760 --> 01:33:47.800 do these things. They also said they would release all 1612 01:33:47.880 --> 01:33:50.159 the JFK files and all of the UFO files and 1613 01:33:50.199 --> 01:33:52.520 all these other things. We're still waiting on this. They 1614 01:33:52.640 --> 01:33:55.359 swore the Epstein list was going to be released now 1615 01:33:55.359 --> 01:33:58.039 we got cash, but telling Dan bon Gino saying there's 1616 01:33:58.079 --> 01:34:01.840 nothing to release. I I hope that RFK is going 1617 01:34:01.880 --> 01:34:04.239 to stay on this, But I mean he has been 1618 01:34:04.319 --> 01:34:08.199 on this conversation for better part of two decades now three, 1619 01:34:08.760 --> 01:34:11.039 so I hope he doesn't change course at this time 1620 01:34:11.079 --> 01:34:13.720 and we actually see the data. Tony, go ahead, brother. 1621 01:34:14.439 --> 01:34:17.479 Yeah. When RFK wrote the book, the real Anthony Fauci 1622 01:34:17.520 --> 01:34:20.279 two or three years ago. About two hundred pages in 1623 01:34:20.319 --> 01:34:24.279 the book were dedicated to AIDS and the proposition that 1624 01:34:24.479 --> 01:34:27.359 HIV does not actually cause AIDS, something I'd never heard 1625 01:34:27.399 --> 01:34:30.720 of before. But apparently one of the discoverers who won 1626 01:34:30.760 --> 01:34:34.720 the Nobel Prize for discovering HIV did not believe it 1627 01:34:34.760 --> 01:34:39.720 caused AIDS, and it's amazing that he put that out there, 1628 01:34:39.800 --> 01:34:42.199 and nobody in the mainstream media asked him about that. 1629 01:34:42.520 --> 01:34:46.199 It was more of his criticism of Fauci over over COVID. 1630 01:34:46.439 --> 01:34:50.319 They got all the attention, but Fauci really got his 1631 01:34:50.640 --> 01:34:55.199 career started with HIV and AIDS. He started a little 1632 01:34:55.239 --> 01:34:59.039 before that, but AIDS was considered a form of cancer 1633 01:34:59.119 --> 01:35:02.199 until he got it designated as a viral infection. And 1634 01:35:02.239 --> 01:35:06.560 when it was designated as such, that's when research was 1635 01:35:06.600 --> 01:35:09.439 done into finding an AIDS vaccine, right, and that never 1636 01:35:09.520 --> 01:35:13.560 panned out, And it's probably because AIDS isn't really a 1637 01:35:13.640 --> 01:35:17.960 viral disease. But these guys, they're trying to tap into 1638 01:35:18.000 --> 01:35:22.079 the religious part of people's brains, which are associated with healthcare, 1639 01:35:22.680 --> 01:35:25.359 and they want to be seen as these heroic, godlike 1640 01:35:25.479 --> 01:35:29.079 figures who can cure disease and on a pretty large 1641 01:35:29.159 --> 01:35:31.520 chunk of the population it works. 1642 01:35:31.920 --> 01:35:36.000 I agree. I mean it's when Fauci really got into 1643 01:35:36.039 --> 01:35:38.800 the whole AIDS conversation. He was trying to push a 1644 01:35:38.840 --> 01:35:44.560 certain drug, rimdzevie rimdesevir. I might be mispronouncing it. I 1645 01:35:44.600 --> 01:35:47.640 don't know, but this he pushed and I think it 1646 01:35:47.720 --> 01:35:50.039 might be something that he created as a matter of fact, 1647 01:35:50.399 --> 01:35:52.199 and it was going to be the cure for AIDS 1648 01:35:52.319 --> 01:35:54.319 or the cure for HIV. Well that didn't work. Well, 1649 01:35:54.319 --> 01:35:56.199 it was a cure for AIDS, well that didn't work. Well, 1650 01:35:56.199 --> 01:35:57.880 it was the cure for this well, that didn't work. 1651 01:35:58.319 --> 01:36:00.560 He has been trying to find a way to plug 1652 01:36:00.680 --> 01:36:06.319 this drug to fix something out there, and every single 1653 01:36:06.359 --> 01:36:08.960 time it goes through a clinical trial to show that 1654 01:36:09.039 --> 01:36:12.760 it does something to help prevent or help fight some 1655 01:36:12.840 --> 01:36:15.439 sort of issue that a person is having, it is 1656 01:36:15.439 --> 01:36:18.520 shown to be basically rat poison, and he is still 1657 01:36:18.560 --> 01:36:20.760 promoting it like it's some sort of a miracle drug 1658 01:36:21.000 --> 01:36:23.520 for what we don't know, but we're gonna find out 1659 01:36:23.640 --> 01:36:26.640 it is. It's mind blowing. It's mind blowing that these 1660 01:36:26.680 --> 01:36:28.880 people are building a giant monument to him in the 1661 01:36:28.880 --> 01:36:33.720 CDC right now. It Oh, it blows my mind. Fauci 1662 01:36:33.880 --> 01:36:36.119 is i in my personal opinion, one of the worst 1663 01:36:36.199 --> 01:36:40.239 human beings ever ever. But yeah, go ahead, Raven. 1664 01:36:41.359 --> 01:36:44.359 I've actually heard of what Tony's talking about. It's actually 1665 01:36:44.359 --> 01:36:49.439 getting some popularity right now. It throughout the anti vox 1666 01:36:49.560 --> 01:36:52.640 groups right now. That's why I just I literally just 1667 01:36:52.720 --> 01:36:57.600 read about it two days ago. But Fauci is terrible. 1668 01:36:57.680 --> 01:37:00.520 You can actually want like there is a article I 1669 01:37:00.600 --> 01:37:05.159 read about him that broke down like his involvement in 1670 01:37:05.239 --> 01:37:08.520 all different types of vaccines and how he had heavy 1671 01:37:08.760 --> 01:37:12.439 backing by the Gates Foundation, and how when a couple 1672 01:37:12.479 --> 01:37:15.119 other ones like the Clinton Clinton's also backed him in 1673 01:37:15.199 --> 01:37:19.079 certain areas too. And that's the thing about it, though, 1674 01:37:19.159 --> 01:37:23.079 Like it's it's when you start looking at when people 1675 01:37:23.119 --> 01:37:26.720 started getting sicker and you start following the money trail, 1676 01:37:26.880 --> 01:37:31.119 It's like, clearly there is an agenda at play. Whatever 1677 01:37:31.159 --> 01:37:33.920 that agenda is, Is it to make people more sick? 1678 01:37:34.359 --> 01:37:36.800 Is it to make kids have more issues to where 1679 01:37:37.199 --> 01:37:39.720 that way they have long term disabilities that are going 1680 01:37:39.760 --> 01:37:43.239 to be money makers? I mean it, who knows. But 1681 01:37:43.840 --> 01:37:47.239 the conversation at least is being opened up now. If 1682 01:37:47.359 --> 01:37:50.199 people will actually listen is a whole other thing, because 1683 01:37:50.600 --> 01:37:55.119 the smear campaign on RFK is massive, and like him 1684 01:37:55.279 --> 01:37:58.760 even saying this is huge, and it's like, it's not 1685 01:37:58.840 --> 01:38:01.199 taking away from anyone that has a child that has 1686 01:38:01.199 --> 01:38:04.600 a disability. Hell, I have a child that has disabilities, 1687 01:38:05.079 --> 01:38:08.960 and you know it's not taking that away. It's having 1688 01:38:08.960 --> 01:38:12.159 the conversation as hey, maybe there's something wrong with this, 1689 01:38:12.680 --> 01:38:14.439 and maybe we should look at why they're wrong with 1690 01:38:14.560 --> 01:38:19.000 the original polio vaccine is safe, like the one that 1691 01:38:19.199 --> 01:38:21.319 they were using in the seventies is safe. Like there's 1692 01:38:21.520 --> 01:38:24.760 certain things that are safe about some vaccines, but now 1693 01:38:24.840 --> 01:38:26.720 the vaccines aren't safe, and you can look at it 1694 01:38:26.720 --> 01:38:29.800 with COVID. Cod is a great example of everyone trying 1695 01:38:29.840 --> 01:38:31.600 to shove it down your throat and calling you all 1696 01:38:31.640 --> 01:38:34.239 this stuff. I mean, hell, they were on genesid, like 1697 01:38:34.680 --> 01:38:37.800 on the verge of having a genocide conversation about people 1698 01:38:37.800 --> 01:38:40.880 that didn't get vaccines, and I mean we were, we 1699 01:38:40.880 --> 01:38:43.239 were a hair breath away from that being a vibe. 1700 01:38:43.520 --> 01:38:45.960 And it's like, okay, but you wanted to say all this. Now, 1701 01:38:45.960 --> 01:38:48.479 look at all these people that are dying, look at 1702 01:38:48.520 --> 01:38:51.279 all of what they've come out and said that, like Hey, 1703 01:38:51.279 --> 01:38:53.680 by the way, we were wrong, we screwed up. But 1704 01:38:53.800 --> 01:38:57.720 like it's whatever, now, just keep pumping it out. That's 1705 01:38:57.960 --> 01:39:00.920 that's not okay. But you know, who knows that people 1706 01:39:00.920 --> 01:39:02.560 are actually going to listen to anything. 1707 01:39:03.479 --> 01:39:07.800 I'm happy that the information is becoming more of a 1708 01:39:07.840 --> 01:39:12.279 conversation piece. Right, it's not. It's not a social taboo 1709 01:39:12.399 --> 01:39:16.159 to have your own opinion on vaccines. It was prior 1710 01:39:16.199 --> 01:39:18.680 to COVID and during COVID, Oh my god, you're right, 1711 01:39:18.720 --> 01:39:21.640 there was. I mean people may think, like, you just 1712 01:39:21.680 --> 01:39:24.920 said the genocidal conversation, Well they never said that. Yes 1713 01:39:24.960 --> 01:39:28.760 they did, Yes they did. There was multiple news anchors, 1714 01:39:28.920 --> 01:39:32.640 multiple conversations. I even remember having with people. It's like, well, 1715 01:39:32.640 --> 01:39:34.560 if you don't get the vaccine, you should just go 1716 01:39:34.640 --> 01:39:36.920 die and save the rest of us, and like we 1717 01:39:36.960 --> 01:39:38.399 don't need to catch it from you. And it's like, 1718 01:39:39.000 --> 01:39:41.840 if you have the vaccine, you shouldn't worry about catching it, right, 1719 01:39:42.319 --> 01:39:46.239 But even saying that was seen as like a huge 1720 01:39:46.359 --> 01:39:50.319 social taboo and all of these things. Now that truth 1721 01:39:50.359 --> 01:39:53.199 is coming out, I am happy that more and more 1722 01:39:53.239 --> 01:39:56.039 people are starting to actually think critically about what they're 1723 01:39:56.039 --> 01:40:00.600 putting in their bodies. But I feel like it's not enough. Honestly, 1724 01:40:00.720 --> 01:40:04.439 if some sort of a oh, COVID two point zero 1725 01:40:04.439 --> 01:40:07.560 came out, and no I don't mean the the you 1726 01:40:07.600 --> 01:40:10.039 know gamma and delta and theta and all these other 1727 01:40:10.159 --> 01:40:14.800 variants of COVID, they they lost their credibility on that one. 1728 01:40:14.840 --> 01:40:20.119 But if some new disease came out, I'm hoping that 1729 01:40:20.159 --> 01:40:22.560 more people would think critically before they would just jump 1730 01:40:22.600 --> 01:40:26.600 to go get jabbed. But I also feel like we 1731 01:40:26.640 --> 01:40:31.079 would be sorely let down by these people. Right. The 1732 01:40:31.319 --> 01:40:35.800 study showed that eighty one percent of Americans got at 1733 01:40:35.920 --> 01:40:38.920 least one shot, and somewhere around sixty five percent got 1734 01:40:39.000 --> 01:40:43.000 more than one shot. That's mind blowing to me that 1735 01:40:43.000 --> 01:40:46.479 that many people. And yeah, some of these people they 1736 01:40:46.479 --> 01:40:48.159 thought they were doing the right thing and they didn't 1737 01:40:48.159 --> 01:40:50.079 actually do their research because there wasn't a lot of 1738 01:40:50.079 --> 01:40:52.640 research that was out to the public. Okay, some of 1739 01:40:52.680 --> 01:40:56.119 these people were threatened that if they didn't get this vaccine, 1740 01:40:56.119 --> 01:40:59.159 they couldn't return to work or something along these lines, 1741 01:40:59.159 --> 01:41:01.840 And like, I I think that's abhorrent that they did 1742 01:41:01.840 --> 01:41:06.079 that to the people. I get this. I am currently 1743 01:41:06.279 --> 01:41:09.600 I hope that somewhere around maybe twenty percent would go 1744 01:41:09.640 --> 01:41:12.920 get the shot if some new virus quote unquote, sickness 1745 01:41:13.039 --> 01:41:18.600 quote unquote whatever came out. I also, I feel like 1746 01:41:18.720 --> 01:41:22.720 society is so far gone that it would be probably 1747 01:41:22.800 --> 01:41:26.840 closer to over fifty percent would jump at the opportunity 1748 01:41:27.239 --> 01:41:31.479 before doing any further research. Now, granted that's a lot 1749 01:41:31.560 --> 01:41:34.720 less than eighty one percent, but that still doesn't give 1750 01:41:34.720 --> 01:41:37.000 me a lot of hope for the future. But anyway, 1751 01:41:37.119 --> 01:41:39.960 Raven Goohead, I think. 1752 01:41:39.760 --> 01:41:45.119 That depending on how aggressive and how deadly the situation 1753 01:41:45.199 --> 01:41:49.119 would be, as how many people would get it. I mean, 1754 01:41:49.560 --> 01:41:53.119 this was a whole thing really a training operation. Yeah, 1755 01:41:53.159 --> 01:41:55.159 And that's what I kept telling people while we were 1756 01:41:55.159 --> 01:41:58.640 in COVID. I was like, look at the characteristics of 1757 01:41:58.680 --> 01:42:01.000 what's going on. This is little like a training op. 1758 01:42:01.439 --> 01:42:05.000 They're using, you, like, using everyone globally to see how 1759 01:42:05.039 --> 01:42:09.680 people would respond, to see how easily people are manipulated, 1760 01:42:09.720 --> 01:42:11.960 to see how they can turn the tides with the media, 1761 01:42:12.359 --> 01:42:15.199 to see what they can push and what can't they push. Like, 1762 01:42:15.680 --> 01:42:18.840 standing six feet apart, explain to me how the fuck 1763 01:42:18.920 --> 01:42:24.039 that's actually gonna do anything. We wearing wearing a cloth 1764 01:42:24.199 --> 01:42:27.720 mask that was proven to not be effective. Yet people 1765 01:42:27.920 --> 01:42:31.800 even now are still wearing masks even now. And that 1766 01:42:31.920 --> 01:42:34.680 was the whole thing. Like me and my girlfriend, I 1767 01:42:34.680 --> 01:42:38.600 mean literally got like the cops calling us in Barnes 1768 01:42:38.600 --> 01:42:40.680 and Noble because we wouldn't mask up. And I was 1769 01:42:40.760 --> 01:42:45.079 like explain to me, like, really, give me actual scientific data, 1770 01:42:45.359 --> 01:42:48.520 proof that isn't bought and paid for by a big farmer, 1771 01:42:48.560 --> 01:42:52.680 that isn't swayed, and then and then I'll comply. But 1772 01:42:52.840 --> 01:42:55.199 until that point, I'm not going to be a blind 1773 01:42:55.239 --> 01:42:58.520 sheets following this along. And that's kind of like how 1774 01:42:58.560 --> 01:43:01.359 the whole you know, vaccine situation is going on. Is 1775 01:43:01.920 --> 01:43:05.720 what RFK was saying, is that the studies are bought 1776 01:43:05.720 --> 01:43:09.479 and paid for. You can't get realistic studies because statistics 1777 01:43:09.479 --> 01:43:13.159 can be swayed so easily by a single number that 1778 01:43:13.399 --> 01:43:16.760 changes the graphs that make it look even worse. Because 1779 01:43:16.800 --> 01:43:19.680 if they're being bought and paid for by by people 1780 01:43:19.720 --> 01:43:22.600 that are that are from big pharma, then how are 1781 01:43:22.600 --> 01:43:25.800 we ever going to get realistic data that actually shows 1782 01:43:25.840 --> 01:43:29.600 what's really happening. That's why varus is so like they're 1783 01:43:29.600 --> 01:43:31.680 trying to get more people to use it, but even 1784 01:43:31.720 --> 01:43:33.800 that the CDC is trying to have its hand in 1785 01:43:33.880 --> 01:43:36.880 that and control the numbers and sway what's actually being 1786 01:43:37.199 --> 01:43:38.760 collected on that platform. 1787 01:43:38.880 --> 01:43:43.520 So yeah, regardless, I mean the whole mass thing. I 1788 01:43:43.520 --> 01:43:46.720 forget which comedian said it, but also I can't find 1789 01:43:46.720 --> 01:43:48.640 a fault in this, and not to detract from the 1790 01:43:48.680 --> 01:43:50.920 seriousness of what we're talking about here, but also in 1791 01:43:51.000 --> 01:43:56.920 the same spirit, so the cloth mask, that's not effective. 1792 01:43:57.479 --> 01:44:02.319 They were literally telling us to breathe less moistly. That 1793 01:44:02.479 --> 01:44:05.479 was an actual quote unquote official that was telling us 1794 01:44:05.560 --> 01:44:09.119 to do that. And it's like, wait, do what the 1795 01:44:09.159 --> 01:44:11.880 comedian basically said, like, all right, if I was to 1796 01:44:12.039 --> 01:44:15.600 fart right now, I'm going through at least two layers 1797 01:44:15.600 --> 01:44:18.039 of cloth, and I promise you'll be able to smell it. 1798 01:44:19.159 --> 01:44:21.479 What do you think this mask is going to actually do? 1799 01:44:22.800 --> 01:44:26.000 Like real talk, it doesn't prevent anything. The virus is 1800 01:44:26.000 --> 01:44:28.720 small enough to get through it. It doesn't help anything. 1801 01:44:28.760 --> 01:44:31.840 It might keep your hands away from your face, but 1802 01:44:31.920 --> 01:44:34.560 not really because most of the time you're adjusting the mask, 1803 01:44:34.960 --> 01:44:37.039 which is making your hands go closer to your face. 1804 01:44:37.760 --> 01:44:41.720 More just speaking on it. Hell, I remember the first 1805 01:44:41.800 --> 01:44:46.119 time we even heard anything about that. It was some scientists, 1806 01:44:46.439 --> 01:44:50.199 some doctor who was telling people to keep their hands 1807 01:44:50.239 --> 01:44:53.439 away from their faces, right. That was the big thing. 1808 01:44:54.159 --> 01:44:57.520 In the speech where he was talking about this, they 1809 01:44:57.600 --> 01:45:00.319 had account of how many times his hand went by 1810 01:45:00.359 --> 01:45:02.479 his face. And then at the end of it they 1811 01:45:02.479 --> 01:45:04.600 even told him this. Somebody from the crowd of press 1812 01:45:04.600 --> 01:45:08.000 conference or something said this, and He's like, as you 1813 01:45:08.039 --> 01:45:10.560 can see, it's rather difficult to do, but we all 1814 01:45:10.640 --> 01:45:12.840 as a society have to make an effort. And it's 1815 01:45:12.920 --> 01:45:15.800 like you, you know that we can hear you and 1816 01:45:16.000 --> 01:45:20.000 see you, and like people bought it. People bought it, 1817 01:45:20.039 --> 01:45:23.640 hook line and sinker. I would hope, like I said, 1818 01:45:23.720 --> 01:45:26.079 that more people are aware of these things and wouldn't 1819 01:45:26.159 --> 01:45:29.079 jump to this conclusion so quickly. And like you said, 1820 01:45:29.119 --> 01:45:31.840 I think it would affect. It would be depended upon 1821 01:45:32.760 --> 01:45:38.159 the effectiveness and severity of the new sickness. But I mean, 1822 01:45:38.279 --> 01:45:41.600 even still, even if it was another round of the flu, 1823 01:45:41.680 --> 01:45:46.119 which is all COVID actually was. I don't know. I've 1824 01:45:46.159 --> 01:45:48.399 lost so much faith in society that I feel like 1825 01:45:48.920 --> 01:45:51.840 over half of the American population would jump at the 1826 01:45:51.840 --> 01:45:55.560 opportunity to get some new jab regardless of what studies 1827 01:45:55.800 --> 01:45:59.399 did or didn't exist in favor of it. So I 1828 01:45:59.399 --> 01:46:02.000 don't know. I hope I'm wrong. But you know, as 1829 01:46:02.039 --> 01:46:06.079 we're talking about that, you actually pulled up another article 1830 01:46:06.119 --> 01:46:07.960 which I think kind of ties into this one. As 1831 01:46:08.000 --> 01:46:10.960 far as the American society just going along with it, 1832 01:46:11.159 --> 01:46:13.680 not thinking for themselves, I'm gonna go ahead and share 1833 01:46:13.720 --> 01:46:18.000 the screen again. This is a study from MIT that 1834 01:46:18.159 --> 01:46:22.359 found that chat GPT is making people dumber. Eighty three 1835 01:46:22.439 --> 01:46:27.800 percent of chat GPT users can't recall what they just wrote. 1836 01:46:28.000 --> 01:46:30.880 So let's talk about this, shall we. A new study 1837 01:46:30.880 --> 01:46:33.720 out of MIT is raising serious questions about what heavy 1838 01:46:33.800 --> 01:46:37.880 chat GPT used might be doing to our brains. Researchers 1839 01:46:37.880 --> 01:46:40.319 found that most people who rely on the AI tool 1840 01:46:40.399 --> 01:46:43.439 for writing are struggling to stay mentally engaged, and many 1841 01:46:43.520 --> 01:46:47.319 can't even remember what they wrote minutes later. The paper, 1842 01:46:47.399 --> 01:46:51.359 titled your Brain on Chat GPT Accumulation of cognitive debt 1843 01:46:51.720 --> 01:46:56.239 when using an AI assistant for essay writing task tracks 1844 01:46:56.279 --> 01:46:58.840 how many are how the human brain behaves when it 1845 01:46:58.920 --> 01:47:02.840 leans too heavily on AI. The results a drop in 1846 01:47:02.920 --> 01:47:08.640 neural activity, memory gaps, and loss of original thought. I'm 1847 01:47:09.399 --> 01:47:14.640 caller me shocked. Let's go AI amnesia chatpyt GPT is 1848 01:47:14.720 --> 01:47:19.720 making you dumber? What the MIT study found MIT Researchers 1849 01:47:19.840 --> 01:47:23.960 studied how using large language models like chat GPT affect 1850 01:47:24.000 --> 01:47:27.920 the brain and writing behavior. Participants were split into three groups. 1851 01:47:28.079 --> 01:47:30.640 One us an LLM that'd be a large language model, 1852 01:47:30.880 --> 01:47:34.800 another used a search engine, and a third wrote without tools. 1853 01:47:35.319 --> 01:47:40.880 Over four sessions, they completed essays tasks essay tasks while 1854 01:47:40.880 --> 01:47:45.640 their brain activity was tracked using EEG. Here's the key findings. 1855 01:47:46.079 --> 01:47:49.800 Brain only participants had the strongest neural activity and the 1856 01:47:49.840 --> 01:47:54.800 best memory. Recall I can I can believe that large 1857 01:47:54.840 --> 01:47:58.960 language model users showed the weakest brain connectivity and struggled 1858 01:47:58.960 --> 01:48:03.840 to remember their own writing. Yeah, I believe this too. 1859 01:48:04.560 --> 01:48:07.840 When LM users switched to writing without AI in the 1860 01:48:07.880 --> 01:48:13.239 final session, their brain engagement dropped even further. So it 1861 01:48:13.279 --> 01:48:15.439 actually was doing damage to their brain. It's not like 1862 01:48:15.520 --> 01:48:18.520 it was just not being used during that time. Even 1863 01:48:18.560 --> 01:48:21.680 after they weren't using chat GPT, their brain wasn't able 1864 01:48:21.760 --> 01:48:23.920 to do as much as it could before they started 1865 01:48:24.000 --> 01:48:29.159 using it. Wow. People who started without tools and then 1866 01:48:29.359 --> 01:48:34.199 used LMS showed better cognitive performance than full time AI users. 1867 01:48:34.760 --> 01:48:39.319 LM users reported the lowest sense of ownership over their writings. Yeah, 1868 01:48:39.359 --> 01:48:42.359 I could believe that one hundred percent AI versus human 1869 01:48:42.399 --> 01:48:47.880 brain the MIT findings. The experiment followed fifty four participants, 1870 01:48:47.920 --> 01:48:51.239 mainly college students in the Boston area. Oh wow, okay, 1871 01:48:51.880 --> 01:48:54.880 let's consider the source of the subject, shall we. But anyway, 1872 01:48:55.840 --> 01:48:59.479 as they completed four writing sessions, one group used chat 1873 01:48:59.520 --> 01:49:02.720 gpt V four to another used Google Search, and a 1874 01:49:02.760 --> 01:49:06.000 third wrote without any assistance. During the sessions, the researchers 1875 01:49:06.079 --> 01:49:09.840 use EEG's headsets to monitor brain activity across thirty two regions. 1876 01:49:10.199 --> 01:49:13.600 The essays were scored by teachers and AI judges, but 1877 01:49:13.680 --> 01:49:16.319 the real story came from what was happening inside the 1878 01:49:16.359 --> 01:49:20.560 participants' heads. By the fourth session, the group switched roles. 1879 01:49:20.640 --> 01:49:23.239 Chat GPT users had to go without it, while the 1880 01:49:23.439 --> 01:49:26.079 brain only group got to try it for the first time. 1881 01:49:26.560 --> 01:49:29.560 That twist revealed just how dependent some users had become 1882 01:49:29.680 --> 01:49:33.279 on AI. While there's a direct quote here from the 1883 01:49:33.359 --> 01:49:38.760 MIT paper. While LM's offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight 1884 01:49:38.880 --> 01:49:44.760 potential cognitive costs. For four months, LLM users consistently underperformed 1885 01:49:44.800 --> 01:49:49.239 at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raised concern 1886 01:49:49.279 --> 01:49:53.720 about the long term educational implement implications of LLM reliance 1887 01:49:54.039 --> 01:49:57.119 and underscore the need for a deeper inquiry into AI's 1888 01:49:57.199 --> 01:50:00.479 role in learning. This is what the MIT paper said. Wow, 1889 01:50:00.960 --> 01:50:05.119 the warning signs. The numbers are hard to ignore. Brain 1890 01:50:05.199 --> 01:50:09.199 activity fell off a cliff. Chat GPT users showed significantly 1891 01:50:09.279 --> 01:50:14.079 less neuro connectivity, especially in alpha and theta waves, signals 1892 01:50:14.119 --> 01:50:17.479 tied to memory, creativity, and deep thinking. In fact, the 1893 01:50:17.560 --> 01:50:20.920 number of active neural connections dropped from seventy nine to 1894 01:50:21.159 --> 01:50:25.520 forty two. Memory all but vanished. A staggering eighty three 1895 01:50:25.680 --> 01:50:28.920 percent of chat GPT users couldn't recall what they wrote 1896 01:50:29.000 --> 01:50:32.720 minutes earlier. In contrast, just ten percent of the non 1897 01:50:32.760 --> 01:50:38.560 AI and Google Search users had similar recall issues. Wow, okay, 1898 01:50:38.640 --> 01:50:42.239 so writing loss its spark. Teachers called the AI assistant 1899 01:50:42.439 --> 01:50:46.159 essays soulless and bland. Many users copy and paste of 1900 01:50:46.159 --> 01:50:50.000 the AI's output without editing, resulting in flat generic writing. Well, 1901 01:50:50.039 --> 01:50:52.359 I mean, yeah, what else would you do with an 1902 01:50:52.399 --> 01:50:54.600 AI model. You're not gonna use it for research. You're 1903 01:50:54.600 --> 01:50:56.880 gonna do it. You're gonna use it to make your 1904 01:50:57.039 --> 01:50:59.560 entire paper for you, and you just read it, and 1905 01:50:59.640 --> 01:51:03.520 it's just what it is at that point, right. AI 1906 01:51:03.600 --> 01:51:06.319 dependents came at a cost when chat GPT group had 1907 01:51:06.359 --> 01:51:10.039 to write without it, Their brain showed signs of cognitive fatigue, 1908 01:51:10.119 --> 01:51:13.840 they struggled to engage, and had weaker performance. Overall, people 1909 01:51:13.840 --> 01:51:18.039 felt disconnected from their own work. Users relied on chat 1910 01:51:18.079 --> 01:51:21.279 GBT reported lower satisfaction with what they produced and felt 1911 01:51:21.359 --> 01:51:26.119 less ownership over their writing. Again, yeah, that's what happens 1912 01:51:26.119 --> 01:51:28.680 when you play darize. But anyway, so what's going on 1913 01:51:29.439 --> 01:51:33.920 the research team says this is more about convenience, or yeah, 1914 01:51:34.079 --> 01:51:38.840 this is more about more than convenience. It's about offloading 1915 01:51:38.880 --> 01:51:41.960 mental effort. When people start a task with AI from 1916 01:51:41.960 --> 01:51:46.479 the get go, they tend to stop thinking deeply, planning, analyzing, revising, 1917 01:51:46.600 --> 01:51:51.119 Those steps fade away. Lead research and Natalia Kami's cosmin 1918 01:51:51.159 --> 01:51:56.279 Nah cosmina. Yeah, summed up, summed it up bluntly. The 1919 01:51:56.359 --> 01:51:59.000 task was executed and you could say that it was 1920 01:51:59.039 --> 01:52:02.920 efficient and convene, but you basically didn't integrate any of 1921 01:52:02.960 --> 01:52:07.760 it into your own memory networks. The EEG data backs 1922 01:52:07.800 --> 01:52:10.960 it up. Chat GPT users show lower activity and brain 1923 01:52:11.039 --> 01:52:14.920 areas involved in decision making and long term memory. Meanwhile, 1924 01:52:15.000 --> 01:52:18.119 the brain only group lit up those regions, suggesting deeper 1925 01:52:18.199 --> 01:52:23.279 cognitive involvement. Interestingly, the search group sat in the middle. 1926 01:52:23.600 --> 01:52:26.920 While search engines still offer outside help, they require users 1927 01:52:26.920 --> 01:52:30.720 to think more formulating questions, scanning results, and evaluating sources. 1928 01:52:31.000 --> 01:52:33.760 Chat GPT, on the other hand, gives a clean output 1929 01:52:33.760 --> 01:52:38.239 with minimal effort. Now what this means for schools and workplaces? 1930 01:52:38.279 --> 01:52:41.920 The implications go beyond academia. Students who rely to heavily 1931 01:52:41.960 --> 01:52:45.279 on AI might see their writing skills deteriorate, and in 1932 01:52:45.319 --> 01:52:49.560 the workplace, team teams banking on AI for reports or 1933 01:52:49.600 --> 01:52:55.720 communication could be short circuited or short circuiting their own creativity. Wow, 1934 01:52:56.319 --> 01:52:58.439 so it does go on to say it's not all 1935 01:52:58.560 --> 01:53:01.640 bad when you used the right way. To be clear, 1936 01:53:02.079 --> 01:53:05.319 the study doesn't say that chat GPT is inherently harmful. 1937 01:53:05.720 --> 01:53:08.319 When the brain only participants got to use it in 1938 01:53:08.359 --> 01:53:12.079 the fourth session, their brain activity spiked. That group already 1939 01:53:12.159 --> 01:53:14.840 had a strong foundation, and they used AI to build 1940 01:53:14.920 --> 01:53:18.399 on their own ideas, not replace them. Even chat GPT 1941 01:53:18.479 --> 01:53:22.159 itself responded with some self awareness asking about the study, 1942 01:53:22.439 --> 01:53:26.600 It replied, this study doesn't say chat GPT is inherently harmful. Rather, 1943 01:53:26.680 --> 01:53:30.479 it warrants against the over alliance without reflection or effort. 1944 01:53:31.159 --> 01:53:34.760 You strategically the tool can boost productivity and creativity, but 1945 01:53:34.880 --> 01:53:38.159 when hand over. But when people hand over the entire 1946 01:53:38.199 --> 01:53:41.399 process from the start, they risk losing the mental muscles 1947 01:53:41.439 --> 01:53:46.439 needed to think independently. Yeah. No, I absolutely agree with 1948 01:53:46.479 --> 01:53:51.520 what they have found. Gol Okay, that was a solid 1949 01:53:51.560 --> 01:53:54.239 fine Raven, thank you for sharing that with the group. 1950 01:53:54.279 --> 01:53:57.880 Good God almighty. Uh ooh oh wait a minute, Tony 1951 01:53:57.920 --> 01:54:01.479 had something here. There is the this whole Candace Owen's 1952 01:54:01.520 --> 01:54:05.359 phone call with Trump from February. She reposted one guy's impression. 1953 01:54:06.079 --> 01:54:08.039 All right, let's go see that. Then hold on. That 1954 01:54:08.119 --> 01:54:12.640 sounds good. Uh oh no, where's it at? Okay, let's 1955 01:54:12.640 --> 01:54:15.439 see this when Donald Trump asked real Candace Owens for 1956 01:54:15.520 --> 01:54:17.000 a favor. Let's listen in. 1957 01:54:21.960 --> 01:54:24.760 Hi, Candae, how are you? It's Donald just wanted to 1958 01:54:24.800 --> 01:54:28.319 say hello, see how you doing. Make sure that everything's okay. 1959 01:54:28.359 --> 01:54:32.479 After I saw that little speech that you gave. This 1960 01:54:32.720 --> 01:54:36.720 was a nasty thing you did. Well. It was nasty 1961 01:54:36.760 --> 01:54:40.199 because you took a perfect phone call and you said 1962 01:54:40.239 --> 01:54:43.119 something happened that never ever happened. You know that better 1963 01:54:43.159 --> 01:54:48.479 than anybody. Yeah, that's what I wanted to talk to 1964 01:54:48.520 --> 01:54:51.439 you about. Quite frankly, just wondering if you could do 1965 01:54:51.520 --> 01:54:54.279 me a little favor and maybe just shut the fuck 1966 01:54:54.359 --> 01:54:57.359 up about mccrone's wife and Dick. Could you do that? 1967 01:54:57.560 --> 01:54:59.079 Would you be able to do that for me? 1968 01:54:59.159 --> 01:55:05.039 Please? Yeah? 1969 01:55:05.079 --> 01:55:07.039 I know about that, but I was pretty close to 1970 01:55:07.079 --> 01:55:10.399 her and I never saw man. I saw something in 1971 01:55:10.439 --> 01:55:12.840 her pants, but I don't know what it was. I mean, 1972 01:55:12.840 --> 01:55:14.399 it could be, and if it was, i'd like you 1973 01:55:14.439 --> 01:55:16.159 know in about two weeks. But for now, can you 1974 01:55:16.199 --> 01:55:19.079 just shut the fuck up about it? Because I'm in 1975 01:55:19.079 --> 01:55:23.319 the middle of a negotiation with Macron to end the 1976 01:55:23.439 --> 01:55:26.199 Ukraine War. I promised it'll be ended within twenty four 1977 01:55:26.239 --> 01:55:29.439 hours and it's a little late, but I'm in a negotiation, 1978 01:55:29.600 --> 01:55:31.439 so i'd appreciate it if you could stop. 1979 01:55:31.199 --> 01:55:33.279 Talking about it. That'll be lovely, Thank you very much. 1980 01:55:33.319 --> 01:55:34.960 By the way, Macron did have a little bit of 1981 01:55:35.039 --> 01:55:40.439 danger for on his shoulder, but that's not the first time. Yeah, 1982 01:55:40.479 --> 01:55:42.640 if you want as a little reward, I'll come when 1983 01:55:42.680 --> 01:55:45.119 you show. You know, I'm great for ratings. But if 1984 01:55:45.159 --> 01:55:47.000 you keep this up, you're starting to sound like your 1985 01:55:47.079 --> 01:55:50.359 kookie friend took her colls and then I said, you'll 1986 01:55:50.359 --> 01:55:52.000 be kookie Candy. So you want to be known as 1987 01:55:52.079 --> 01:55:53.720 Kookie Candy's I don't think so. 1988 01:55:53.920 --> 01:55:57.840 I don't think so. For the love of God, I 1989 01:55:58.039 --> 01:56:02.479 don't know what I was expecting. But okay, thank you 1990 01:56:02.479 --> 01:56:05.600 for bringing a little, uh comedic relief to the conversation. 1991 01:56:05.760 --> 01:56:07.359 Tony Good God Almighty. 1992 01:56:08.000 --> 01:56:12.359 So for anyone who doesn't know, Candace Owans did an 1993 01:56:12.359 --> 01:56:15.920 episode yesterday saying that back in February, the reason she 1994 01:56:16.079 --> 01:56:21.199 drops this whole Brigit Macrone discussion was because a Trump 1995 01:56:21.279 --> 01:56:23.760 advisor called her and asked her to stop. And then 1996 01:56:23.840 --> 01:56:28.399 she claims that Trump himself called her and delivered a 1997 01:56:28.439 --> 01:56:32.680 message similar to what's in that little impression there, because 1998 01:56:32.720 --> 01:56:36.039 he was talking to Macron and Macrone was saying that 1999 01:56:37.119 --> 01:56:41.000 Macron might be able to help get the Ukraine war ended. Now, 2000 01:56:41.039 --> 01:56:44.319 a lot of people don't believe Candace Owans at all 2001 01:56:44.359 --> 01:56:46.680 in this, and I don't know what to believe. She 2002 01:56:46.800 --> 01:56:49.399 could be making it up, or she could be, you know, 2003 01:56:49.479 --> 01:56:52.720 misinterpreting it, but I tend to actually believe her. I 2004 01:56:52.720 --> 01:56:55.680 believe I find it believable that something like this may 2005 01:56:55.720 --> 01:56:56.680 have actually happened. 2006 01:56:56.920 --> 01:57:01.520 I believe Brigitte's a dude. I fully fully support that idea. 2007 01:57:02.359 --> 01:57:05.279 Yeah, she did a six part series on it, and 2008 01:57:05.439 --> 01:57:07.800 I only have kind of fuzzy memory of it now, 2009 01:57:07.920 --> 01:57:13.399 But Brigitte McCrone has almost no childhood photos and what 2010 01:57:13.439 --> 01:57:18.479 little exists might have just been created decades later. And 2011 01:57:18.560 --> 01:57:21.640 her brother, Jean Michele trug No, appears to have been 2012 01:57:21.680 --> 01:57:24.520 born and grown up and then goes out of existence 2013 01:57:24.640 --> 01:57:27.279 right about the time that Brigitte appears with lots of 2014 01:57:27.319 --> 01:57:32.239 evidence of her existence. And the six part series is 2015 01:57:33.359 --> 01:57:35.800 it does a really good job have proven to me. Anyway, 2016 01:57:36.359 --> 01:57:40.560 I found it very persuasive that Brigitte was actually Jean 2017 01:57:40.640 --> 01:57:45.279 Michel a man and he transitioned to a woman. And 2018 01:57:45.399 --> 01:57:50.760 Jean Michel is probably actually Emmanuel mcrone's father. And there 2019 01:57:50.840 --> 01:57:56.119 is another, you know like sibling of McCrone. It was 2020 01:57:56.199 --> 01:57:59.600 not acknowledged as such, but he looks just like him. 2021 01:58:00.600 --> 01:58:04.800 So yeah, anyway, I don't think Macrone even had the 2022 01:58:04.840 --> 01:58:07.840 ability to end the Ukraine War, but he was trying 2023 01:58:07.840 --> 01:58:10.640 to do some horse trading with Trump, and I think 2024 01:58:10.680 --> 01:58:15.319 he really wanted this story to go away. So I 2025 01:58:15.399 --> 01:58:18.600 find it believable that something like this actually happens. 2026 01:58:18.960 --> 01:58:22.760 Yeah, Candace is Candas is a wild one. Don't get 2027 01:58:22.760 --> 01:58:25.159 me wrong, right, I may not agree with every single 2028 01:58:25.159 --> 01:58:28.279 thing that's ever come out of her mouth, but I 2029 01:58:28.319 --> 01:58:32.119 do agree with most things that have And I watched 2030 01:58:32.159 --> 01:58:38.600 the series. I gotta say it is pretty compelling. I 2031 01:58:38.760 --> 01:58:43.600 personally can't find any holes in the logic. And if 2032 01:58:43.640 --> 01:58:46.880 it wasn't, if it was false, they could sue her 2033 01:58:46.920 --> 01:58:51.600 for defamation, like they could come after her and fry 2034 01:58:51.680 --> 01:58:55.720 her alive for going at it this hard. And yet 2035 01:58:55.760 --> 01:58:58.960 they're silent. And it's not like Candas is just some 2036 01:58:59.039 --> 01:59:03.359 internet personnel that like no one watches. Millions and millions 2037 01:59:03.359 --> 01:59:07.000 of people around the world listen to her, and millions 2038 01:59:07.000 --> 01:59:10.359 and millions of people believe this statement. This would be 2039 01:59:10.479 --> 01:59:15.840 a massive defamation lawsuit. Yet they are silent. If nothing else, 2040 01:59:15.920 --> 01:59:19.600 that's pretty damning as far as that's concerned. They're not 2041 01:59:19.640 --> 01:59:21.920 even they're not even acknowledging that it's real. They're not 2042 01:59:21.960 --> 01:59:25.000 even joking about it to try to make light of it. Nothing, 2043 01:59:25.119 --> 01:59:27.960 And it's not a good look. It is not a 2044 01:59:28.039 --> 01:59:32.640 good look. So uh yeah, I don't know what Macrone 2045 01:59:32.640 --> 01:59:35.560 thought he could do to end the war in Ukraine. 2046 01:59:36.520 --> 01:59:40.800 France is nowhere near the conversation. I think they may 2047 01:59:40.800 --> 01:59:45.199 have donated some funds and some military assets. Fine, so 2048 01:59:45.319 --> 01:59:48.239 as a lot of countries America's donated more than them, 2049 01:59:48.359 --> 01:59:51.239 and Trump was really trying to make a deal happen here. 2050 01:59:52.039 --> 01:59:56.119 He finally got Zelen Zelensky rather to come to the table. 2051 01:59:56.600 --> 01:59:59.399 Putin was about to come to the table, and then said, nevermind. 2052 02:00:00.760 --> 02:00:02.560 The last thing I heard as far as the whole 2053 02:00:03.680 --> 02:00:06.680 war is concerned, was the big drone strikes that took place, 2054 02:00:06.720 --> 02:00:11.159 and then Russia retaliated, And like I said earlier, it's 2055 02:00:11.199 --> 02:00:13.920 nothing really new to report as far as it goes, 2056 02:00:13.920 --> 02:00:18.159 They're still fighting, dude, You're still dying. Both sides are 2057 02:00:18.199 --> 02:00:21.000 still very very corrupt. As far as I can tell, 2058 02:00:21.119 --> 02:00:24.199 it's same, same old same at this point. 2059 02:00:25.000 --> 02:00:28.640 Yeah, I agree, it's grinding along kind of slowly. Russia 2060 02:00:28.680 --> 02:00:31.840 takes more territory very slowly. I did not realize until 2061 02:00:31.880 --> 02:00:34.119 this week they didn't have one hundred percent of Lugansk, 2062 02:00:34.199 --> 02:00:36.760 but they just got the last little bit this week. 2063 02:00:37.279 --> 02:00:41.680 And they also took territory that included some kind of 2064 02:00:41.800 --> 02:00:47.520 rare earth mineral. Mind that Zelenski had promised was going 2065 02:00:47.600 --> 02:00:50.079 to be exporting stuff to the United States, and now 2066 02:00:50.720 --> 02:00:52.439 he can't use it for that anymore. 2067 02:00:52.920 --> 02:00:55.399 Right, He's starting to lose more bargaining chips, and I 2068 02:00:55.439 --> 02:00:58.199 think that was another thing. Putin didn't want us to 2069 02:00:58.279 --> 02:01:00.720 put business out posts there because I would have stopped 2070 02:01:00.720 --> 02:01:05.319 his momentum. So you know, it's it's a mess. It's 2071 02:01:05.359 --> 02:01:07.439 an absolute mess, and it's not I don't think it's 2072 02:01:07.439 --> 02:01:09.600 gonna get wrapped up anytime soon. I hope it does. 2073 02:01:09.960 --> 02:01:13.119 Good God, I hope it does. But this this seems 2074 02:01:13.119 --> 02:01:15.880 like it's gonna be one of those situations that it's 2075 02:01:16.159 --> 02:01:19.439 it's very possible that ten years from now we're going 2076 02:01:19.520 --> 02:01:22.800 to be talking about the latest updates in Ukraine. I 2077 02:01:22.840 --> 02:01:25.479 don't know. I hope, I'm God, I hope I'm wrong. 2078 02:01:26.000 --> 02:01:28.039 But this thing was supposed to be two weeks and 2079 02:01:28.039 --> 02:01:30.439 it's been three and a half years. At this point. 2080 02:01:30.680 --> 02:01:33.199 There's nothing that sounds too crazy, So I don't know. 2081 02:01:33.720 --> 02:01:36.720 Yeah, Marching next year is what I bet three months ago. 2082 02:01:36.920 --> 02:01:39.920 So you've been saying it happens. I hope that you're correct. 2083 02:01:39.920 --> 02:01:41.479 As a matter of fact, that might even make it 2084 02:01:41.520 --> 02:01:44.399 on the Cult of Conspiracy Bingo card for twenty twenty sakes. 2085 02:01:44.439 --> 02:01:46.720 If it's not wrapped up this year, we'll put it 2086 02:01:46.760 --> 02:01:50.560 on the Bingo card for this one. You know, we 2087 02:01:50.560 --> 02:01:56.119 can only hope. But anyway, let's see, I think that 2088 02:01:56.199 --> 02:01:59.920 might have been the last article that was posted. Yeah, 2089 02:02:00.399 --> 02:02:03.279 all right, cool, which kind of perfectly timed it out. 2090 02:02:03.359 --> 02:02:06.720 So with that, I believe we are going to wrap 2091 02:02:06.800 --> 02:02:09.279 up this edition of the Cajun Night Live once again. 2092 02:02:09.319 --> 02:02:11.079 I want to thank every single one of you for 2093 02:02:11.119 --> 02:02:14.800 coming and joining me on this Wednesday Night excursion. For 2094 02:02:14.880 --> 02:02:16.760 any of the good people listening to this on the 2095 02:02:16.800 --> 02:02:18.640 cult to conspiracy, and if you would like to join 2096 02:02:18.720 --> 02:02:22.079 in on the conversation next Wednesday Night at nine pm Central, 2097 02:02:22.399 --> 02:02:24.760 come check us out. The link is in the description 2098 02:02:24.880 --> 02:02:28.720 below At Patreon Cajun Night. There's only one tier for entry. 2099 02:02:28.720 --> 02:02:30.640 We're trying to grow this community to where we can 2100 02:02:30.640 --> 02:02:33.119 have these kinds of conversations at least once a week. 2101 02:02:33.159 --> 02:02:35.399 How we might even go more frequently as time goes on, 2102 02:02:35.880 --> 02:02:38.159 I don't know. Would be would y'all be down with 2103 02:02:38.239 --> 02:02:41.079 going to a week on these lives or or would 2104 02:02:41.119 --> 02:02:43.560 y'all rather it be once a week a Cajun Night 2105 02:02:43.600 --> 02:02:46.279 episode is kind of me just rambling on by myself, 2106 02:02:46.359 --> 02:02:49.439 or would y'all rather be all lives y'all let me know. 2107 02:02:49.840 --> 02:02:51.680 I would love to hear back from all of y'all. 2108 02:02:52.720 --> 02:02:55.560 But with that being said again, I am the Cajun 2109 02:02:55.680 --> 02:03:27.880 Night and as always, good people, God bless