WEBVTT 1 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:16.519 Get ready, okay April three, twenty twenty six, allegedly according 2 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:19.239 to that thing we call a calendar. This is the 3 00:00:19.239 --> 00:00:24.239 Ocelly effect. So normally I have Larry on lately on Wednesdays, 4 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:26.760 but today I have Larry Hancock with me. Of course, 5 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:29.480 he is the great author of a great many books. 6 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:31.079 I'm not going to list them all, but I do 7 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:34.719 have them all, and so should you go to the 8 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:38.240 links in the show description follow up on Larry's work, 9 00:00:38.560 --> 00:00:42.560 his discussions of the security state, the national security state 10 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:46.240 of the United States, as well as global politics, history 11 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:50.439 in general, of course, the JFK assassination, and various other 12 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:56.119 focuses of his research, and well what shall we call it? 13 00:00:56.159 --> 00:01:00.679 He is a historian of record in my mind, who 14 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:05.079 has gone back, revised some history, and given us all 15 00:01:05.159 --> 00:01:08.280 new stuff. And I might have a sidebar conversation with 16 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:13.599 him very soon about my recent interesting interaction on the 17 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:17.200 Monday Morning AM wake Up show where I was confronted 18 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:20.319 with a JFK author who complained that Larry ignored him. 19 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:23.280 And I may have a discussion with Larry at some 20 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:25.400 point in the near future about that, And I don't 21 00:01:25.400 --> 00:01:27.719 know if we're going to do it. On air just saying, 22 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:30.519 but I will get to it, because not only is 23 00:01:30.599 --> 00:01:35.719 Larry a remarkable author and somebody who has done, like 24 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:38.319 I say, a great deal of work responsibly, in a 25 00:01:38.359 --> 00:01:42.159 sober fashion, in an effective way as a researcher, etc. Etc. 26 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:45.000 But he's also a friend of mine, so I'm going 27 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:48.519 to have a friendly conversation with him about that. Don't worry, 28 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:53.799 but tonight that's not the topic. The topic, unfortunately, is 29 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:58.480 the current conflict with Iran and the United States and 30 00:01:58.719 --> 00:02:03.120 Israel and everything else. And quite frankly, I mean I've 31 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:05.439 got a starting point. I don't know where Larry wants 32 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:07.799 to begin, but we're going to try and condense an 33 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:12.120 update on this into less than an hour's discussion. We'll 34 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:14.960 see if I can accomplish it, because I'm the long 35 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:20.000 winded one who does not know how to surmise things 36 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:24.159 often without running off at the mouth into slight Let's 37 00:02:24.199 --> 00:02:28.599 call them off roading excursions verbally now and then, so 38 00:02:28.680 --> 00:02:31.360 I'll try and keep that to a minimum. Larry, First 39 00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:33.879 of all, Larry Hancock is who I'm talking about, and 40 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:37.240 you should follow his blog as well and have all 41 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:39.520 his books. But you should know that already and if 42 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:42.280 you don't, Now you do, Larry, how are you? 43 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:45.719 I'm doing fine this evening, Chuck. 44 00:02:47.199 --> 00:02:47.560 Okay. 45 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:49.319 The cherry trees blooming and making. 46 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:53.159 You know, the cherry blossom festival is happening. So we 47 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:56.599 have the cherry blossom trees and all that, and that 48 00:02:56.719 --> 00:02:59.520 is a big thing here. I'm surprised, you know that 49 00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:01.520 a lot of people we don't know that about Making Georgia. 50 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:06.560 You know, most people find it relatively funny that our 51 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:10.240 minor league baseball team is the Macon Bacon. But you 52 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:13.400 know that is true. They're an independent minor league baseball team. 53 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:15.960 And I've actually gone to a game anyway. Yeah. No, 54 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:19.439 the cherry blossom thing. Things are blooming. It's getting warm again, 55 00:03:19.719 --> 00:03:22.319 although it was freezing cold not so long ago, which 56 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:26.879 was strange. But the seasons are seasoning Making Georgia at 57 00:03:26.919 --> 00:03:29.159 the moment. How is weather good with you? 58 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:33.719 We finally, we have had a horrible drought. 59 00:03:33.919 --> 00:03:37.400 We've have probably the worst drought and recorded history winter drought. 60 00:03:38.120 --> 00:03:41.520 We had our first rainfall in like five months, wow, 61 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:47.800 but half an inch. So the situation around here, agriculture wise, 62 00:03:47.879 --> 00:03:54.120 is desperate. It's spraying good. Trees are trying to leaf out. 63 00:03:54.120 --> 00:03:57.960 I hope they got enough moisture to continue. So we 64 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:01.319 are coming into spring ourselves and looking much nicer. But 65 00:04:01.479 --> 00:04:05.879 it's been an extremely dry winter, and as far as 66 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:09.080 making goes, my wife and I attended the cherry festival 67 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:13.879 there one time, came down from Atlanta, really enjoyed it. 68 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:16.279 So you bet we know what it looks like. 69 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:20.519 Oh yeah, cool. I didn't know that. But hey, listen, 70 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:22.399 the good thing about your half inch of rain is 71 00:04:22.439 --> 00:04:25.680 that it had a chance to wash away the treacherous 72 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:30.000 levels of pollen that were probably deposited on every surface 73 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:32.839 where you were, because they certainly were here until we 74 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:37.399 started getting some rain again. And it was pretty pretty extreme. 75 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:39.600 I mean, you know, people that don't have breathing problems 76 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:42.639 suddenly had breathing problems. Here is just the way of 77 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:45.480 the world. Except my son, who seems to survive everything, 78 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:50.160 but everybody else seemed to be affected. You know, you 79 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:52.560 couldn't breathe for a little bit and you're wondering why, 80 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:54.439 and it might because there was more things in the 81 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:57.000 air than air a little too often when you were 82 00:04:57.000 --> 00:04:59.720 taking a breath. But anyhow, now that we've checked in 83 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:02.439 on all of that, let's get to the world conflict. 84 00:05:03.279 --> 00:05:06.120 The issue that may in my mind, and you know, 85 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:08.839 I'm told that that's more of a liberal panicking talking 86 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:13.319 point become a World War three type event if it 87 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:18.160 continues on. But other people want to strongly disagree with me, 88 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:20.959 and one of them is certainly the President of the 89 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:24.319 United States, who gave a remarkable statement last night. And 90 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:28.160 I want to begin there because why is it remarkable? 91 00:05:28.199 --> 00:05:31.560 Because he bragged because he stated that, you know, we 92 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:34.480 the United States, and of course our coalition with Israel 93 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:38.040 and whoever else we can convince to send us some supplies. 94 00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:43.000 I guess, you know, are definitely you know, banging all 95 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:47.079 over and actually have launched some weapons on Tehran, not 96 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:52.279 just hitting a remote, you know, weapons base, allegedly things 97 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:54.600 like that. But he claims that, you know, regime change 98 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:57.959 has already pretty much happened. All that good stuff and 99 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:02.680 hyperbole is definitely just the cost of doing business if 100 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:05.680 you want to listen to this guy talk. But it 101 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:10.879 was very concise. It was very precise, even the language 102 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:13.120 he didn't run on, He didn't take a lot of 103 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:16.680 time with it. It was very quickly done. He did 104 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:19.720 find time to congratulate himself because if he wasn't doing 105 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:22.319 that his well, he wouldn't be breathing in his mouth, 106 00:06:22.319 --> 00:06:25.920 wouldn't be moving if he wasn't congratulating himself and his accomplishments. 107 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:29.560 But it was done in a very shorthand kind of manner, 108 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:34.560 and so much so that I found it almost disturbing 109 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:37.480 that we didn't get normal Donald Trump in a speech 110 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:40.639 where he takes on the airwaves, which used to carry 111 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:43.800 a lot more gravity when the president used to do that, 112 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:46.240 because there were only three networks at the time, and 113 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:48.839 he would, you know, the president at the time, would 114 00:06:48.839 --> 00:06:51.439 take over all of them and later on, you know 115 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:55.839 that plus gable if the announcement and the news was major. 116 00:06:56.680 --> 00:06:59.680 So he does that sort of thing where the president says, 117 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:02.920 taken over all the networks for a moment live to 118 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:05.560 give a speech, and he doesn't give a Donald Trump 119 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:12.120 ish speech, very almost not presidential, but very direct, almost 120 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:15.199 seeming like somebody else wrote it for him. In my mind, 121 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:18.360 And I'm not trying to launch conspiracy theories here, but 122 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:21.600 I will also say I question whether it was live 123 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:27.800 because I was watching the President's YouTube channel, the White 124 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:32.519 House YouTube channel, which doesn't have commentators, doesn't have commercial breaks, okay, 125 00:07:32.519 --> 00:07:37.199 except for what YouTube shoves on you. And therefore it 126 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:41.680 went straight from a feed almost directly like within moments 127 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:47.680 of the live presidential speech allegedly live presidential speech to 128 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:51.519 him on Air Force one. And to my mind, the 129 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:54.120 clothes he was wearing did not look like they aged 130 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:58.360 fifteen minutes. They looked like they aged some hours. And 131 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:00.120 he went out to basically say to the press, she 132 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:03.560 got any questions about what I just said, that would 133 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:05.279 be the shorthand way to put it. And then of 134 00:08:05.279 --> 00:08:07.360 course there were other things that happened there, but I 135 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:09.959 don't care. I want to focus back on the speech, 136 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:13.519 and you know, take a little look at that, because 137 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:16.439 that was supposed to tell us update us as to 138 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:20.800 where we are or were as of last night. Do 139 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:25.839 you have any thoughts about the presidential address? And do 140 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:29.480 I sound completely crazy to you when I'm saying something 141 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:31.639 is odd? I'm not sure if that was live. And 142 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:34.639 also I won't believe, no matter how many times you 143 00:08:34.759 --> 00:08:39.320 tell me that he authored it, because it was way 144 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:44.679 too short, it was way too efficient in its communication style, 145 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:48.200 and it was I'll say it again, way too short 146 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:51.919 for the guy who set two consecutive records on State 147 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:55.000 of the Union, addresses to Congress, where he ran on 148 00:08:55.159 --> 00:08:58.480 and on, repeated himself, continued to go back over the 149 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:01.919 points he wanted to, you know, beat like a team 150 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:05.799 of dead horses. And this is not what we got 151 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:10.679 last night at all. It was very not Donald Trump 152 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:14.759 in its trump Ish ways, even though it had some 153 00:09:14.840 --> 00:09:19.919 of the elements, they were all how shall I say, restrained, limited, 154 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:23.080 and quite frankly, he can't even limit himself when he's 155 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:26.399 given a time limit on a debate stage. He overruns, 156 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:30.480 talks over people, interrupts, pushes into things, and pushes past 157 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:33.639 and even insists on answering questions that he wasn't even 158 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:37.600 asked during a debate, you know, which I guess is 159 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:42.639 good form for him. But when he's completely seemingly in control, 160 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:45.600 has taken over all the networks, has the time if 161 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:48.080 he wanted to go on for an hour, you know. 162 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:51.039 I mean, it's almost like me. If you ask me 163 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:53.759 a question and I have a microphone, you're going to 164 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:56.679 get an answer and it's going to be more than 165 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:59.440 you know, three words. It's a promise, no matter what 166 00:09:59.480 --> 00:10:05.080 it is. So weird this speech was to me. But Larry, 167 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:09.639 how do you interpret that? Speech and the update and 168 00:10:09.679 --> 00:10:12.720 the nature of things before we even get into the 169 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:15.879 reality of the circumstance. As best you can tell us, 170 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:18.120 what do you think about this, the speech and our 171 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:22.039 progress and what that stated, and you know, and also 172 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:25.919 my idea that quite frankly, hey, he didn't write it. 173 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:29.519 That's not his words. Okay, he didn't script it, he 174 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:35.240 didn't craft it. It wasn't his decision. He definitely if 175 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:38.600 he wasn't working with notes live or as it was 176 00:10:38.639 --> 00:10:42.080 being recorded, he definitely was working off of a set 177 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:46.120 of bullet points. And there was a clear indication that 178 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:52.120 he was, you know, restraining himself, roping it in. So 179 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:54.159 what are your thoughts on those two things that maybe 180 00:10:54.159 --> 00:10:59.159 it wasn't live and also the almost way out of 181 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:04.600 character on Donald Trump's style of restraint and limiting oneself 182 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:06.759 and limiting oneself's words. What are your thoughts? 183 00:11:08.519 --> 00:11:11.200 Well, the first thing astrayed me is there's no doubt 184 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:15.960 that it was totally uncharacteristic. I mean, nobody has ever 185 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:21.080 seen that before. Nobody has ever seen Donald Trump passed 186 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:24.320 the opportunity to take major credit for things that were 187 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:24.799 going on. 188 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:28.080 It's like nothing you've ever seen before. Larry, like nothing 189 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:31.279 you've ever seen. Sorry, I had to do that. Go ahead. 190 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:35.879 I mean, if you look at where I could not 191 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:39.799 fathom where there would have been another fifteen to twenty 192 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:43.440 minutes on the Moon mission, right, I mean, where was 193 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:47.360 the Moon mission, first first launch to the Moon in 194 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:51.039 fifty years. If you look at the White House statements 195 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:56.159 about that, he's making prolific remarks and making huge claims 196 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:00.320 about being totally responsible for turning the space program around. 197 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:05.000 I mean it's almost impossible not to see that. 198 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:09.399 It worked into the speech because he I mean we 199 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:12.840 saw in his National Security Council meeting he was taking 200 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:15.639 ten minutes to take credit for a sharp eye discussion, 201 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:17.879 right that apparently never happened. 202 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:20.360 You know, So how did how did the Moon get 203 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:22.559 left out of this? How? 204 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:23.879 Just so? 205 00:12:24.639 --> 00:12:28.279 No, no eight no complaints about anything else, which is 206 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:34.240 very uncharacteristic. No, no complaints about birthright citizenship. I mean, 207 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:37.759 he had taken the time that day to go to 208 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:43.360 the Supreme Court, right in an extremely atypical effort to 209 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:48.200 intimidate and obviously impress the justices who were not swinging 210 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:52.360 his way, and he was complaining about that elsewhere, but 211 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:53.320 not in the speech. 212 00:12:53.919 --> 00:12:54.240 Nothing. 213 00:12:54.480 --> 00:12:58.200 So yeah, that that that part is very uncharacteristic, and 214 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.279 I certainly had to flavor you know, well, it's as 215 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:05.360 if he can this part and then walked away. 216 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:08.039 Can I ask you one thing? Can I ask you 217 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:10.879 one thing about this, by the way, because in addition 218 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:13.200 to what you said about the Supreme Court, right, and 219 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:16.399 anything that's going on currently, regardless of what Trump is 220 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:18.840 there to talk about. I mean, even when he goes 221 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:21.759 to give a you know, the Presidential Medal to somebody 222 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:24.440 who's dead and he's honoring their family, he takes the 223 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:26.320 time to tell you about the stock market if he's 224 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:29.240 happy with the numbers that day. Okay, So you know, 225 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:32.360 it's not like he won't bring things up out of context. 226 00:13:32.840 --> 00:13:35.279 Not only did he have the whole Supreme Court thing 227 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:40.519 going on, but he also fired Pam Bondy. Now, usually 228 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:44.399 Trump has a way of dropping hints when he can't 229 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:47.159 you know, he can't even contain himself when he's about 230 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:51.240 ready to do something major, Right, I don't recall Pam 231 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:54.480 Bondi coming up in the presser, you know, in the 232 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:57.679 announcement on TV, or even in the back and forth 233 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:01.399 with the press after. I see no hint of that. 234 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:06.320 So that either indicates that again, he restrained himself greatly 235 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:08.679 by not bringing up something that was currently, you know, 236 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:12.519 concurrent with the situation, even if it wasn't related, or 237 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:15.759 maybe it was, I don't know, but the point is 238 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:18.759 either it was a snap decision or he restrained himself. There. 239 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:21.720 Doesn't that seem out of character that he wouldn't have 240 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:24.480 said something about that and even maybe said, well, you know, 241 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:26.519 very soon we're going to have a big announcement about 242 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:30.799 you know people. Something would have been said here just 243 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:34.159 in passing about the fact that he's getting ready to 244 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:38.279 get rid of guess who is attorney general? But nothing. 245 00:14:39.480 --> 00:14:43.679 Go ahead, Sorry again, but the one counter what I offer. 246 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:47.879 It's become quite clear in the last few weeks, in particular, 247 00:14:48.600 --> 00:14:52.159 that there are two subjects that he will walk away from. 248 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:55.879 If he's asked the question, he will literally walk away 249 00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:58.120 from it. He doesn't want to talk. He doesn't even 250 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:01.480 to the extent of using it as a platform to 251 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:05.279 talk about something else, which is a common practice. 252 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:07.360 And one is Epstein. That's clear. 253 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:10.080 Okay, So if you talk about BONDI you're going to 254 00:15:10.159 --> 00:15:13.559 have to get into Epstein because that's this major complaint. 255 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:15.159 Okay, So I. 256 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:17.799 Can see a pass on that he really really does 257 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:20.919 not want to talk about Iran anymore, and I think 258 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:23.559 you heard that last night. He really My sense is 259 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:27.919 he really wants to walk away from Iran as quickly 260 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:32.600 as possible. So in one sense I can see him 261 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:39.159 it being characteristic, true, but it's also uncharacteristic for him 262 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:41.080 wanting to walk away from things. 263 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:42.519 He likes to engage with him so much. 264 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:45.960 But those two subjects at this point in time, I 265 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:50.519 can see him mentally walking away from and saying, I'm 266 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:53.960 not gonna Last night, he did not really want to 267 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:58.399 talk about Iran and people. Actually, I think his advisors 268 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:01.200 did not want him to talk about On because if 269 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:05.120 you looked at what happened yesterday, two things happened. The 270 00:16:05.159 --> 00:16:09.879 market bounced yesterday, right because everybody expected that he was 271 00:16:09.919 --> 00:16:14.519 going to declare victory and walk away today, and that 272 00:16:14.759 --> 00:16:15.480 he didn't do it. 273 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:17.200 He talked too much. 274 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:21.639 He just for thirty seconds he couldn't resist saying, oh, 275 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:23.840 but we're going to take two or three more weeks 276 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:25.440 and drive him back into the stone age. 277 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:27.240 And look at what happened to the market today. 278 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:31.279 There are people that want him to shut up, not 279 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:35.080 people that oppose him, people that are in his court 280 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:41.440 who he's hurting financially. That really there are people that 281 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:44.320 he listens to that want him to pull back. 282 00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:48.000 They don't want this, they really don't, but he can't 283 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:50.120 help himself. So I think there. 284 00:16:49.960 --> 00:16:53.960 May be a conflict going on here, like an internal conflict. 285 00:16:54.039 --> 00:16:57.279 That's like, I know I promised them I wouldn't say 286 00:16:57.279 --> 00:17:00.440 anything more, but you know, I can't look weak. 287 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:01.240 I got it. 288 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:05.720 So I don't know how much of that counseled itself 289 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:08.680 out to prevent it from being an hour long speech. 290 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:10.119 Who knows? 291 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:13.559 Okay, Now, look, I don't want to argue about this 292 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:16.200 or belabor the point, but let me offer a counter 293 00:17:16.279 --> 00:17:20.480 to your counter politely. Okay that being the case, Larry, 294 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:23.440 then why in the hell do you take the special 295 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:28.720 time to make an announcement at all? You See, That's 296 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:31.599 the weird thing here is that this isn't just you know, 297 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:35.119 his usual mo of well, I'm just going to drop 298 00:17:35.160 --> 00:17:38.200 some major craziness on truth social and screw you. You 299 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:39.960 can deal with it till the morning when I feel 300 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:43.480 like answering it again. That's normally what he does. It 301 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:45.640 seems like to me when it comes to like all 302 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:47.400 of a sudden, you know, people are clamoring for an 303 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:50.440 answer on Epstein or you know, hey, gee, you said 304 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:52.160 that this was going to happen, and you've now just 305 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:55.079 did the opposite. He says, stuff on truth sold your 306 00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:57.920 bunch of losers. You don't understand what's going on, and 307 00:17:57.960 --> 00:17:59.559 now you can just have fun with that in the 308 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:03.480 news meeting and read my truth post for the next 309 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:06.440 you know, twenty four hours until I feel like answering 310 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:10.720 you again. That seems to be his mo. That's not 311 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:13.519 what happened here, though. This is a special arrangement to 312 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:17.279 I mean, you know, not super special in that you know, okay, 313 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:18.960 they only do this when we're going to war or 314 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:22.079 something like they used to. But I mean, in a way, 315 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:26.279 this is extra effort to make no point, which means 316 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:29.880 I don't buy the argument of this is just him 317 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:32.559 trying to walk away from it, because it's more like, 318 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:35.720 instead of walking away from the dangerous thing, you walk 319 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:38.279 into it. You know, well, I didn't want to bump 320 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:40.519 my head on that thing that was hanging down, so 321 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:43.759 I walked straight in its direction, you know what I mean? 322 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:46.559 And talk about a guy who doesn't know how to duck. 323 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:50.359 You know what I'm getting out of here? Or do 324 00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:51.440 I make no sense to you? 325 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:57.240 I don't know that. We can no check because my 326 00:18:57.799 --> 00:19:02.240 speculation would be that some one is influencing him. Okay, 327 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:05.599 and we're not We're not just talking. I'm not talking 328 00:19:05.599 --> 00:19:10.079 about pulling. Someone is influencing him and literally saying, you know, 329 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:16.200 we the royal We because there are he does have influencers, 330 00:19:16.519 --> 00:19:20.000 influencers that are telling him that we need to wrap 331 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:23.440 this up. You know, we lost five thousand points in 332 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:28.519 the market. Okay, Now now's the time. You need to 333 00:19:28.559 --> 00:19:32.000 move on to a victory statement. So you need to 334 00:19:32.599 --> 00:19:36.519 and and a victory statement of Trump on board a carrier, 335 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:40.200 you know. And it needs to be prominent. It needs 336 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:44.400 to be something to move the needle, which it almost did. 337 00:19:44.599 --> 00:19:45.160 It could have. 338 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:48.400 Everybody was expecting it to move the needle. I think 339 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:52.160 the market was prepared and there there are people playing 340 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:54.160 the market with him. I got to tell you, I 341 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:57.680 just there is no doubt, including the Secretary of Defense, 342 00:19:58.039 --> 00:20:00.359 that there are people that are playing the market them 343 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:04.160 and I think they had imprimed to say something that 344 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:07.000 would have shot it up two thousand points in a day. 345 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:11.759 And he messed it up. He just couldn't he couldn't resist, 346 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:14.640 you know, it couldn't look weak. So I think it 347 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:16.799 was a big deal, but not in the sense that 348 00:20:16.880 --> 00:20:19.160 you're talking. I think that was a big deal for 349 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:24.960 his influencers. I will not put out the somebody wants oil. 350 00:20:24.680 --> 00:20:27.599 Prices to be big, right, of course they. 351 00:20:27.799 --> 00:20:30.839 I mean he's done three things that have helped Iran 352 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:37.279 and Russia. Okay, the invasion actually helped rest here, certainly, 353 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:42.400 the oil price, the withdrawing of the sanctions. 354 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:43.839 I mean, who in. 355 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:46.920 The world would withdraw sanctions on Iran when you just 356 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:50.400 went to war with them on oil? Now to the 357 00:20:50.440 --> 00:20:54.119 point that okay, and they're letting the Russian Okay, we 358 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:58.799 withdrew our sanctions on all oil transportation for both the 359 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:04.000 Iranian shipping and the Russian caring. You know, somebody is 360 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:07.799 winning here. And then he comes through the speech and says, 361 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:09.799 and this is this is the most important. 362 00:21:09.759 --> 00:21:13.119 I saw this in local news. That's sort of saying, but. 363 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:15.279 We're okay, it's not going to hurt us because we've 364 00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:16.680 got all the oil we need. 365 00:21:17.400 --> 00:21:17.480 Now. 366 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:19.640 If you think about that for a minute, it's like 367 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:22.640 what I saw in print was the person at the 368 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:26.480 gas station who's paying three point fifty to four dollars 369 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:29.000 is going to be asking, if we have all the 370 00:21:29.039 --> 00:21:32.640 oil we need and we don't have to worry about 371 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:35.279 the rest of the world, why is my price up? 372 00:21:35.559 --> 00:21:37.680 Yeah? Well, see, that's the thing is, if it didn't 373 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:40.480 really matter, then oil wouldn't have reached one hundred and 374 00:21:40.519 --> 00:21:45.359 fifteen dollars a barrel, right, you know this is this 375 00:21:45.480 --> 00:21:47.200 is counterintuitive profit taking. 376 00:21:47.960 --> 00:21:51.440 So I not I'm conspiratorial in a different way. 377 00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:55.680 I do think Trump can be influenced by political and 378 00:21:55.799 --> 00:21:56.720 business interests. 379 00:21:56.960 --> 00:21:59.160 Oh no, it can be influenced. 380 00:21:58.680 --> 00:21:59.000 To the. 381 00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:03.000 And I think that's what we saw. 382 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:05.920 I think people came to him and said we need 383 00:22:05.960 --> 00:22:10.920 you to and he did, and it just didn't And 384 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:13.640 in the end it really didn't change anything. 385 00:22:13.839 --> 00:22:16.240 No, but there was real I think there was a shock. 386 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:18.160 There was a real effort to land it the way 387 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:20.480 you wanted to though, because he even put the context 388 00:22:20.519 --> 00:22:23.640 of it on. You know, we had these other conflicts 389 00:22:23.720 --> 00:22:25.839 and here's what happened. And it took a long time, 390 00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:28.839 and that was to drive home the point that hey, look, 391 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:30.720 we're only a couple of weeks and it's going to 392 00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:34.759 be over soon, so don't worry about it yet. Okay, anyway, 393 00:22:34.839 --> 00:22:36.519 I don't want to keep going on this because this 394 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:40.759 is not actually the most important point. But don't forget that. Yeah, 395 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:43.920 that little nuance was in that speech. Guaranteed he did 396 00:22:43.960 --> 00:22:47.000 not author that where he gives you a progressive view 397 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:49.519 of well, you know, here's what happened with World War one, 398 00:22:49.599 --> 00:22:51.839 world War two. I mean you caught that part right, 399 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:55.119 world War one, world War two? What was the next one? 400 00:22:55.119 --> 00:22:57.519 Did he say Korea? Next? I think so? Then he 401 00:22:57.559 --> 00:23:03.279