WEBVTT - The Big Weekend Pod 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.760 Welcome to today's podcast sponsored by Hillsdale College, All Things 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.280 Hillsdale at Hillsdale dot ed or I encourage you to 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:08.800 take advantage of the many free online courses there, and 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.119 of course I'll listen to the Hillsdale dialogues, all of 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:14.080 them at Hugh for Hillsdale dot com or just Google, 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:18.959 Apple iTunes and Hillsdale Marnin Glory and evening Grace America, 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.120 I'm you, Hewittt. Welcome to the Big Weekend Pod. Four 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.040 weeks of the war with Iran are in the books. 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:30.080 America continues to win decisively alongside of our ally Israel. 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.640 Two allies have stood up verbally strongly with us, the 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:38.279 United Arab Emirates and Ukraine, and all the people out 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.200 there have been wondering, shall we really be supporting Ukraine? 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.920 Take note. Old Europe is nowhere to be found. I 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.240 mean they sit around, they say they're going to participate 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.080 in opening the Straits of Horror moves, but we haven't 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.320 seen a British ship, we haven't seen a French ship 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.240 Wenesday in anything from Old Europe that we liberated twice 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:59.440 in the last century. But the United Arab Emirates, they're 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.080 getting into the fight, and Ukraine has been in the 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.240 fight for weeks, sending all the anti drone technology to 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.679 protect our golf allies. So when it comes time to 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.000 remember this for let's remember who was there and who wasn't. Now. 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.840 I've been a long time supporter of NATO. Everyone listens 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.480 to my show knows that. But at some point you 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:23.200 have to say, are those countries broken beyond repair? Now? 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:27.480 Maybe they'll revive. It's possible Nigel Farage or somebody else 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:33.520 will rise in Britain. It's possible that Macrone's successor won't 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:37.440 be a weak need surrender monkey. I don't know it's possible, 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.920 but them been there thus far, and UAE and Ukraine 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.480 have been And when I count wins and losses and 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:48.120 friends and allies, I want you to remember that Ukraine 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:54.400 United Arab Emirates. Secondly understated by our defeatist and demoralized 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:58.760 legacy media is the fact we're winning decisively. We're winning 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.000 so fast you can't even leave how fast we're winning. 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.880 We're winning in every part of the country, We're winning 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:08.359 in every battlefield. We have lost seventeen Americans, another a 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:13.960 dozen are severely wounded. Their families are suffering grievously. It 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:18.079 is not a war without costs. We've lost two f 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:22.040 fifteen to friendly fire. We've lost a dozen drones that 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:26.799 were old school. But the Israelis have lost between twenty 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:31.120 and twenty five civilians and soldiers and a number of 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:35.239 direct hits on their infrastructure. Our golf allies have lost 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.600 more than twenty of their people. So it's not a 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:41.079 bloodless for and we are smashing Iran on every level. 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:45.600 And there's no telling who's in charge. There's no telling 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:47.800 what is a lie and what isn't a lie. But 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:49.880 so long as the war goes on, I'm all in 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.520 favor of it because Iran's killed more than a thousand 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.160 Americans since the revolution in nineteen forty seven. They are 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.760 our sworn enemy. They chant death to America and they're 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.880 sleep and they mean it. They want it to happen, 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.280 and I am so glad this is finally happening. And 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:09.400 I'm still broadcasting because they've been killing Americans for as 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:10.560 long as I've been on the air, and I've been 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.000 on the air a long time. Finally, I want to 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:16.360 point out two things. First of all, a lot of 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:19.560 people are mad at Donald Trump for not giving a 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:24.160 Churchillian speech, you know, summoning the nation to war. We 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.200 will fight on the beach at a different time, and 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:28.919 a lot of people now he's not clear, and he 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.280 changes his mind and he's ambiguous. I will use a 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:34.760 Churchillian if you listen to Doctor Ironer and I talk 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.920 about Winston Churchill on the Hillsdale Dialogues all the time. 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.800 I've been in Churchill's The Gathering Storm for a year now. 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.880 If you listen to us talk about Churchill, I think 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.640 you will have heard us refer to the famous I 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.920 think it was a toast that he gave ironically in 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:56.560 Tehran at the Tehran Conference in nineteen forty three, and 0:03:56.600 --> 0:04:00.840 I believe he gave the toast to Stalin, and the 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:07.000 toast went in wartime. Truth is so precious that she 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:11.360 must always be attended by a bodyguard of lives. In 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.440 other words, you've always got to use misdirection in war. 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.520 You don't tell people what you're going to do. You 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.240 don't tell them what you've done. You don't tell them 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:20.680 what losses you've suffered. You tell them the truth that 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:22.400 we're in a war and we got to win it. 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:27.320 It's an evil regime. You tell them big victories. Churchill 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:31.560 kept suppressed the news of sinkings sometime for weeks at 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:33.560 a time and a month at a time. But we 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.560 are winning decisively. But spare me the og. He hasn't 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.560 given us the battle plan in detail to put on 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:41.240 the front page of the New York class. No, we're 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.320 trying to win. And then, finally, the biggest picture of 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:50.320 all what Donald Trump is doing right now with this war, 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.680 along with Secretary of Exist Sherman of the Joint Chiefs 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:59.320 of Staff, Cain, everyone up and down the chain of command, 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.320 and everyone a Jay to the Shain of Command, Vice 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.919 President's Secretary of State, Gang of eight, and the Senate 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:07.680 in the House. People on the inside, they know that 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:12.480 he's restoring American deterrence which is lost by Joe Biden 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:17.200 when he withdrew precipitously from Afghanistan in the summer of 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:20.440 twenty twenty one, which led to the Ukraine War. He's 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:24.159 also restoring deterrence with Iran, which was given away by 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.039 Barack Obama in the JCPOA, which was the worst deal 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.920 in history, as President Trump said. And he's doing it 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.279 in a way the same way that Reagan and George H. W. 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.880 Bush did over a period of time. Reagan started with 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.840 GREATA small operation killed a bunch of Cubans, got him 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.120 off of Grenada. George H. W. Bush followed with the 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.880 Panama invasion, then with the big punch in Gulf War one, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.640 and after Gulf War one one hundred Hour War. Though 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.159 it was perhaps concluded too soon, it re established in 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.960 the minds of our enemy, do not mess with America. 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.080 That same message is coming through right now now. And 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:06.120 if you have not yet read Mobilized by Schum Sandcar, 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:13.360 that's spelled shyam sa nkr Sandcar and it's simply called Mobilize. 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.839 Schum wrote it with Madelon Hart, and I talked to him. 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.080 You can find it over at my YouTube channel. On Thursday. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.200 Realize that, yeah, we didn't build a lot for the 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.640 last thirty years, and maybe that we got lucky that 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.200 we're now building what we need for the next generation 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:35.040 of warfare, which is completely different from what we needed 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.960 to win the Cold War. Golf four one, Golf four two, 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.520 the March to Baghdad. It's a different kind of war. 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.440 And right now you'll hear me ask Sankar this if 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.919 you listen to it, how soon can we build a 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:52.520 long range drone with a heavy payload by the hundreds 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.360 of thousands that can take off from anywhere in the 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.480 United States and go anywhere in the world. Because when 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.200 we've got that, we've got the terns. And by the way, 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:04.440 when can we deploy that Leonidas system that you talked about. 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.200 The Leonidas system is a way to knock down drones? 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.160 And how soon can we defeat the chicoms Leonidis. The 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:15.080 battlefields of Ukraine and Iran are showing us stuff, But 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.560 more importantly, they're putting to end. And I don't know 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.560 if it'll be immediate or if it'll take a year, 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:25.360 but this regimes finished in Iran. Everybody hates it. They're 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.360 out of money, their leadership has been destroyed, their weaponryes 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.920 and the shambles. They're getting off one or two missiles 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:38.920 a day, sometimes five, a very great cost to Israel, annoying, exhausting, tiring. 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.640 Ninety percent of Israel support the war because they do 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:46.360 not have a defeatis demoralized press. So sit back and listen. 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.480 They have John Allison Ellis items to talk about, some 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.880 of the headlines you might not have seen. I've got 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.680 Charles C. W Cook, who is pro war sort of. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.640 And then I've got Eli Lake who's very pro war. 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.360 And so the new news and review is coming up 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:06.120 this week is a fabulous weekend review the Big Weekend Pod. 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.160 Thank you for listening. Enjoy the Big Weekend Pod Studio 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:14.360 Beltwigh Today it is the Weekend Review program. And what 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.400 a week it's been. The conclusion of the fourth week 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.440 of the war with Iran. I begin as I do 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:23.320 most Fridays and weekends with John Ellis, Founder of News Items, 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:26.840 editor in chief of News Items, and John always sends 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:28.840 me the stories he wants to cover, and I'm glad 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.360 the first story was Iran. John, I'm going to give 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.920 you the stage, but I'm going to say beforehand, I 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.520 try and read everything about the war, listen to the 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:42.240 informed speculation, and I'm an optimist. I think it's going 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:46.000 very very well. I'm not sure you are, so have 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.520 at it well. I think. 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:56.280 It's difficult because the Ranians have a lot of leverage 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.840 with the straight being able to close the straight essential 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.760 which creates stress, you know, all the way down the line. 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:08.800 East Asia obviously the ones that feel it most acutely first. 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:13.720 So it also seems unlikely that that can be resolved 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:18.240 without the commitment of US troops quote on the ground 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.559 end quote. And I think that's what President Trump is 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:25.320 leading up to. And anytime troops are on the ground, 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:27.400 you want to be you want to be hopeful that 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:31.040 need it'll work out, and you want to be realistic 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.600 about the fact that it might go awry. 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:39.280 Now I'm reminded, and I remind everyone of an ironically 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.480 something Churchill said in Tehran in nineteen forty three to 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:46.480 Stalin in more time. Truth is so precious it must 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:50.160 be protected by a bodyguard of lives. So I don't 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:54.440 believe anyone on anything. All I can tell is facts 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:58.199 and the facts from scentcom and the idea they do 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:03.160 seem to dictate to us that the Iranian military is crumbling. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.440 It's in shambles. Oh. 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.320 I think that the you know, the projection of force 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:14.160 that has been executed by the Americans and the Israelis 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:18.600 is just absolutely astonishing. And to me it's a wonder 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.960 that the regime, the Iranian regime still stands. I don't 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.240 think there really is a regime anymore. I think it's 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:31.080 the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps that remains. They have a 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:35.680 very decentralized command structure, and so if you know, if 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.240 one part gets blown up, other parts all across the 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:43.960 country keep going. And really the question is how much 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:48.040 pain can they withstand. They've withstood enormous pain so far. 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.840 The historical record the Iran Iraq War in the nineteen eighties. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.120 They lost six hundred to eight hundred thousand people in 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.040 that war. So they certainly have a history of being 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:00.720 able to withstand a lot of pain. 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:05.120 That's absolutely true. In there once again relying on children recruits. 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.080 But that was forty seven years ago and the revolution 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.839 was fresh and the enthusiasm was there. Now the real 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:15.000 is worth nothing. And the people I talked to it 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.160 you tell me, if you talk to other people, adamal 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.120 Mark Montgomery and others, they tell me that the operation 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:24.440 in the Strait, while difficult, is not that difficult, especially 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.280 if we have allies, and you pointed out to me 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.400 we do. We've got real allies who are going to 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:33.400 help us clear and keep the straight open. Once that's done, 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:38.240 They've played all their cards, haven't they. I think they have. 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:42.240 And the other thing is, we have friends who have 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:47.480 family in Tehran, and you know, on the ground so 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.800 to speak. No one's looking forward to getting slaughtered by 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:55.800 leading and uprising in downtown Tehran, but there's real hope 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.800 that the US operation will be successful, and that has 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:03.040 to eat away at the regime. I think the card 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.920 that the Iranians have is that the longer they can 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:14.240 delay the you know, petroleum products getting through the strait, 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:20.760 the more difficult it is for everyone all around the world, 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:27.280 you know, to continue on with their normal economic activity. 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:31.200 If it's done, If this operation is successful in the 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:36.360 next two to four weeks, then you know it'll it'll 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:40.720 slowly but certainly go back to where we were before. 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:45.160 If it goes much longer than that, then it really 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:46.360 becomes problematic. 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.400 Last on this topic, John, I've told people I think 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:52.000 it will go to early June, because at that point 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.920 it's either frozen or it's over. And I also think 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:01.960 the Trump card is he has to win. He can't lose. 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:06.160 If he loses, it's the most important sequence of events 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.400 of his two presidencies, and it will mark him forever. 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.520 Do you agree with me on the stakes. 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:16.199 Yeah, I mean it's existential for both sides, right, I mean, 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.960 for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, this is it. 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:21.320 If they don't. 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:25.199 You know, if if they don't quote, well, if they 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:30.520 don't not lose, then they're dead. Then it's over. The 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:34.600 population will turn against them. It'll be curtains for them. 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.600 And for Trump. He's not going to die, obviously, but 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:42.360 he will politically, he'll be dead. So both sides, you know, 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:46.079 need to well, the Iranians need to not lose and 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.640 the Americans need to win. And well, you know, there's 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.200 no other other way. 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.240 Now. I want to combine two of your topics, both 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.400 the AI backlash and the Big Energy conference in Houston 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.520 this week, because it seems to me to be that 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:04.040 in a graded we need AI. AI projects are increasingly 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:08.960 running into local nimbiism and that was, I guess to 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.040 be expected, but we really can't afford it. 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:18.040 Why don't you explain, Well, you know, AI needs electricity essentially, 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.080 and in order, we don't have enough on the grid. 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:24.240 So we have to build out capacity with dedicated natural 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:28.440 gas plants, with dedicated solar, with dedicated wind, and as 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.840 much of it as we possibly can to keep the 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:35.920 data Summer Data Centers Humming, twenty four to seven. There's 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:41.640 real concern amongst voters in America about big bad Ai 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.280 and the big bad companies behind them. My son in 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.840 law is working on a solar project in West Texas 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:53.280 and he thought, you know, they got all their approvals, 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.360 they were going to provide power to a data center there, 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.680 and he you know, everything was going smoothly, and then 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.560 it'll was all reversed. And at first he thought, well, 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:05.560 that's because people in Texas don't really like solar power, 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:09.920 but actually that wasn't the reason at all. What they 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:13.720 didn't like were the data centers themselves. Uh so they 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.440 you know that that populous backlash I think is not 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:21.360 just about the noise and the water that's used to 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:26.440 make these data centers go. I think it's also a 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:31.119 concern that these big companies basically are rolling over everybody 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:33.880 and that they have no voice in in how this 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.320 is happening. And we're seeing this backlash everywhere. I mean, 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:41.120 if you see it in West Texas and you know 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:46.480 you're you're you're looking at a genuine populist issue, arising. 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.200 Tea party sort of stuff. And I got to say, 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:53.240 I talked yesterday with Shiam Sankar volunteered got this new 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.640 book out, Mobilized, which I read in two days fabulous book. 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.480 We got to build a lot of ai DA data centers, 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:01.440 We got to build a lot of factories to produce 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.480 drones and anti We got to build a lot. So 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.680 people have to make the argument to Americans that we 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:11.920 need to build. Is anyone doing that? I don't think so. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:16.160 I mean Trump has been all in on AI and 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:19.400 data center, So that's a positive. You know, having the 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:23.680 president fully supportive is a good thing. But there's a 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.160 story in the Washington Post today that the US has 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:31.240 used up eight hundred and fifty Tomahawk cruise missiles and 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.520 we only make about three hundred a year. Are you 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.560 know you and I have talked about this before, that 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:41.280 we don't have mind sweepers. We have these weapons that 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:45.480 don't work. We lack munitions where we need them. You know, 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:49.520 we need to build out much greater capacity for Tomahawk 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:54.760 cruise missiles. It's stunning to me, how you know, how 0:16:54.840 --> 0:17:00.720 the war has revealed the deficiencies in our in our 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.320 defense manufacturing capabilities. 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:07.160 Sankar makes the argument, he persuaded me, it's not the 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:10.919 stockpile that's the issue, it's the production line behind it. 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:12.960 You have a big stockpile, but if you haven't got 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:17.879 a production line, You're screwed. The good news is people 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.600 like Palmer Lucky any names throughout this entire book, which 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.439 I recommend to everyone, called Mobilize. He names about a 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.760 half dozen, maybe even a dozen entrepreneurial companies that are 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:31.160 building the weapon system that Ukraine is using in that 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:36.120 we're using and we can mass produce. John ellis if 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.760 we choose to. But I don't like your son in 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.960 law's experience. We got to go to the break to 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.080 talk about gambling because we really to talk about gambling. 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:47.199 But are they overcoming are they going to overcome the 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:53.320 resistance in the Texas model? I don't know. 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.840 I mean those you know, those permits and permissions that 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.560 were granted have been withdrawn. So my son in law 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:03.600 sort of stuck. They don't know what to do. You know, 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:07.080 their choices are to bring legal action, which you know 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:11.600 and out of state company bringing legal action against against 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:12.440 the local. 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:17.800 Advisory board or whatever it is. That's going to be difficult. 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.480 So I did that for thirty years. That was my 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.000 land News practice for thirty years. Never good to be 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.720 out of state against the locals. John Allison is going 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:28.840 to stay with me one more segment during the break, 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:32.879 which we'll put on the Big weekend Pod, Don't Go Anywhere, America. 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:35.720 I'm back with John Ellison. John, I wanted to talk 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.560 to you about the story on gambling and baseball. Last night, 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:43.080 Baseball Season Open Guardians won two home runs from Chase 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.399 to Lotter, only the seventh rookie to ever do that 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.640 in his first game in the Major League. But gambling 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.760 is hanging over baseball. Two Guardians are not playing this 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.520 year because they're going to go to jail, probably for gambling, 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:58.679 and gambling is ubiquitous everywhere. Do you think there's a 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:04.280 way to teach gen alpha and gen beta that this 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:09.920 is a crazy, addictive, life ruining habit. I don't know. 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:15.000 I find the whole gambling thing and prediction markets to 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:20.280 be extraordinarily dangerous. You have a generation of kids that 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:23.639 are you know, have a view or many have the 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:27.160 view that their financial futures are by no means secure, 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:31.960 and so they have sort of turned to kind of 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.119 I'll win the lottery or I'll be able to you know, 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.679 bet correctly and therefore make more money to have a 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:41.920 better financial future, and that is. 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:43.560 Not going to work out. 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:48.320 And the amount of advertising that goes into urging people 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.639 to gamble. I mean I watch a fair amount of 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.720 local news and stuff it in sports events on TV, 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:58.040 and the amount of advertise, I would say that half 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.719 of the ads I see on you know, a Knicks 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:06.040 game or whatever have to do with betting. So it's 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:09.960 really discouraging and you know, the horses out of the 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:12.600 barn and I'm not sure we can get it back 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:14.520 into the barn. So it's going to take some real 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:18.280 leadership at the national level, end at the state level 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:23.000 to you know, encourage people to you know, you know, 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.600 cap them out that they're willing to bet or something. 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:29.760 But it's it really is a it's really troubling. 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:32.840 I think, Yeah, the only answer is actually federal preemption 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:37.440 and coupled with maybe nil a lot, because it's going 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:41.280 to bankrupt a generation. They just don't realize it yet. 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:45.160 That Arch Schlater is a name every Buckeye football fan knows. 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:48.720 Great quarterback went to jail for gambling. Event. It's an addiction, 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.000 and it gets there's a bell curve and it's going 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:53.960 to get so many people and it's going to get more. 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:56.760 I'm glad you wrote about it in the news items. If 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:59.080 you want to subscribe to news items, just Google news 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.280 Items and John, you'll be smarter to anybody else by 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:05.080 six fifteen every morning if you do get it so 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:08.320 John Allis follow him on exit Ellis Items. Thank you, John, 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:12.000 I'll be right back. Welcome back, America. I'm to Hewett 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:15.520 Charles C. W. Cook as my guest senior writer, Senior 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:19.560 editor for National Review, podcaster Exurreinaire on The Editors and 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:23.640 his own podcast, The Charles C. W. Cook Podcast. Inexplicably 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:27.040 a Jacksonville Jaguars fan, Charles, I was in your neck 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:30.359 of the woods two weeks ago at Flagler College, guest 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:34.360 of John Delaney. Had a wonderful time at Amelia Island 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:36.879 and at Flagler. But have you ever been to the 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:38.679 Kennedy Space Center. 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:42.080 Oh yeah, I took the kids last year. 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:44.120 What did you think of it? 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:48.760 I thought it was fantastic. I loved it. I'm into 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:50.679 all that stuff though. It's one of the things I 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:52.200 loved about America when I was little. 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:55.000 Well, I love it too, but I thought it was 0:21:55.560 --> 0:22:01.800 ineffectively educational. Other words, it was s Timu Disneyland and 0:22:01.880 --> 0:22:04.639 not educational enough. Did you find out what you needed 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:08.280 to know? Did your kids. 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:10.880 Well, I mean it depends what you mean. We had 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:13.800 a great time standing next to the huge rockets and 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:16.160 going inside this space shuttle and so forth. 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:16.880 I suppecially right. 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:18.760 Maybe they could have been more reading, but we could 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:22.320 do that at home. It was seeing set in five 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:25.600 and a space shuttle and the original consoles they used 0:22:25.640 --> 0:22:26.720 on the Apollo program. 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:27.680 That was the best part. 0:22:28.119 --> 0:22:31.159 All right. I like the memorial too. We'll have to 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:33.560 talk about this at greater length, Charles. I want to 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:35.480 start in an unusual way. I want to play for 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:38.919 you something that Marco Rubyo said on the tarmac in 0:22:38.960 --> 0:22:42.760 Europe today about Cuba to a reporter and then break 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:47.920 out brought out into Iran and the war, the information war. 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:51.080 Here's what he had to say in response to question 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:55.120 about Cuba cut number ten regime change. But now there 0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:58.680 seems to be a sense that perhaps President Trump. 0:22:58.359 --> 0:23:01.720 Would be happy with the win, which would only entail 0:23:01.800 --> 0:23:02.760 an economic deal. 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:05.880 You said, the sense where do you get that sense 0:23:05.920 --> 0:23:08.120 from report? Well, there's a lot of reporting that there's 0:23:08.160 --> 0:23:11.360 a lot of faith any no, no, no, no, no. Any reporting 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:13.000 on Cuba that you didn't get from me or the 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:15.840 president is a liar because there're the only people working 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:19.199 on pine change. We're warning you, guys, all these sources 0:23:19.200 --> 0:23:21.520 that are pitching you on Cuba, on Old Jack, Okay, 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:24.240 they're not in the mix. I promise you they don't 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:28.120 know what the hell happens. What's your reaction to that statement, 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:31.720 I think absolute clarity and truth. 0:23:34.560 --> 0:23:38.480 Well, I think it's particularly appropriate given so much of 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:42.080 the coverage of the war in Iran, about which, as 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:47.399 you know, I have been ambivalent. But the coverage of 0:23:47.560 --> 0:23:51.600