WEBVTT - Reindeer Meat Everywhere 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:10.200 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.240 Armstrong and Jetty and no he Armstrong and Jetty. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:26.639 In Seattle, this chilling message appeared briefly on a road 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:31.120 sign threatening other CEOs the city, blaming a private construction contractor. 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:35.360 At the University of Pennsylvania, where Menhioni graduated with engineering degrees, 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.519 an assistant professor appeared to praise the CEO's murder in 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:41.360 this TikTok video, saying she's never been prouder to be 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.880 a professor there, later saying she was regretful and doesn't 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:45.879 condone violence. 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:53.200 Yeah, except you just did publicly, Yeah, proudly and cheerfully. Yeah. 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:55.440 I was reading the column in the New York Posts 0:00:55.440 --> 0:01:01.640 from David hers Sonny's seems to be an actual debate 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:06.240 going on in the progressive left over whether slaying CEOs 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:07.120 is a bad thing. 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.679 Yeah. Yeah, And you see those posters going up in 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.600 New York essentially urging people to hunt down other CEOs 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:17.920 with their pictures and stuff like that. I guarantee there 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.520 is a ninety nine point six percent overlap between the 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:25.160 people putting up those posters and people tearing down posters 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.640 of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas. Sure that same 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:36.680 angry radical left nihilist, over educated moron class that's screwing 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:38.800 up so much about what is good in this country. 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.559 More on that attitude in a minute. Had a weird thing, 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:48.240 interesting thing happened on news Nation yesterday. A reporter facilitating 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:55.080 communication between prisoners were the murder scumbags being held and 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:56.440 the report, well, let's listen to it. 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:00.800 Let me tell them a question, Alex, hold on, let 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:04.240 me yell a question, guys, if you can hear me clearly, 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:09.079 do you guys have any sights on Luigi MANGIONI just 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:09.960 yell yes or no. 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:20.799 I don't know if they're answering. They're flickering up. 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:29.600 They're saying no, okay, so they're actually watching her on 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:33.000 TV in the prison, and then it's it's a little 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.799 delayed from before it gets to her, and then they no, 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:37.079 we can't see him. 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:43.880 Yeah, do you have a follow up? Wait? Wait, wait, yeah, 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.480 that's that's kind of funny. I I almost want to 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:50.360 hear more of that. What else? What else did she ask? 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.600 I know a lot of you are in the News Nation. 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:57.440 I have too many friends who are like avid watchers 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.320 of News Nation. I've got to get on board and 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.560 start recordings some of their shows on a regular basis 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:03.400 like I do every other cable cham. 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.600 I'm behind the curve on that. Yeah, I know a 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.600 lot of you that you are that I am. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.480 more sources is good if you have the time. We 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:13.760 played this yesterday. 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:17.120 But to bring back up the conversation, this is Bill Burr, 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.640 comedian who i'm I'm a big fan of his comedy act. 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.600 This particular attitude he has would destroy the country. 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.360 So that's a problem. 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.000 You know what's annoying me about this, This kid who 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.960 killed this CEO is none of these news programs are 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.840 talking about the incredible lack of empathy from the general 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:40.720 public about this because of how these insurance companies treat 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.040 people when they are at their most vulnerable, after we've 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.880 all given them our money every month and now we 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.160 finally need you, and all you do is deny us, 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.160 and then these and all of these things are taking 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.960 the pictures of their CEOs off their websites. You know, 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.800 I gotta be honest with you, Okay, I love that 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:03.400 the CEOs are afraid right now, you should be, by 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:07.880 and large, You're all a bunch of selfish, greedy pieces, 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:12.320 and a lot of you are mass murderers. You just 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:13.320 don't pull the trigger. 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:15.120 See a lot of. 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:18.200 Those things in what he said there are true or 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:23.360 can be true, but don't have any connection to so 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:29.600 you can scare or or or violently attack or murder CEOs. 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.320 Right, are a. 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:36.760 Lot of companies greedy and sometimes CEOs are greedy and amoral? Yeah, sure, 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.640 I'm sure that happens in all kinds of industries. But 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.599 what's that got to do with. You can either murder 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.159 them in the street or have them be afraid to 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.480 do their jobs the way they want because you will. 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.400 Hurt them or murder them. Play this through. 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.880 I realize you're an artist, Bill Burr, but anybody who 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:57.760 has this mindset play this out for me. How would 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:03.120 this work? How would society be structured? If mob violence 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:08.200 is the way people approach their job every day? Is 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.400 the mob going to kill me or my family today? 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:11.640 Are they happy with this move? 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.120 I can do it? Okay, I mean, how would this work? Well? 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.159 I think Bill Burt would answer you in his charming 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:20.280 Boston accent and explain to you that, well, companies would 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:24.080 reform and behave more responsibly so they aren't gone down 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:26.880 on the pavement by self righteous little rich boys. 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.680 Okay, well, I would say to Bill Burr, I wish 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.720 I could have this conversation with him, because's pretty smart guy, 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:34.520 and I'd love to talk to him because I'm a fan. 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.640 But hey, Bill Burr, you are a very edgy comedian 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.120 and you make jokes about trans people and all kinds 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:41.920 of different sort of stuff. So what if the trans 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.760 community decided your causing harm in their community, and so 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.400 they threaten you physically to come around to their thinking, 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:51.360 or they're going to hurt you or shoot you in 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.080 the street. Then how do you where do you draw 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:55.119 the line on these things? 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.360 Well, I'm not as bad as a healthcare ceo. They 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.960 murder tens of thousands of people. Yeah, well, the trans 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.480 folks are gonna say, yeah, you caused thousands of duds, 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.479 You've made the world unsaved, blah blah blah. Yeah, I mean, 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:11.600 you're obviously right. It's it's worth kicking Elizabeth Warren one 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:14.880 more time, At least briefly. Charlie Cook was writing about 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:18.960 this review A beer that's my favorite I'm gonna have 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:22.400 me a beer. You gotta throw in that. Look how 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:24.520 normal I and down to earth I am. I'm gonna 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:29.520 have me a beer. Well, Harford academic has never uttered 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:33.279 in her life firewater indeed anyway, So she was one 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.440 of those people. Violence is never the answer, but people 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.200 can only be pushed so far. Then she explains why 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.360 it was justified to gun this poor son of a 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.760 gun down on the pavement, as Charlie Cook mentions. But 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.440 then he reminds us all. Oh. First of all, he 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.160 compares her to John Fetterman, who said, of the shooter, 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.039 he's the a hole. It's gonna die in prison. And 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.200 about anybody celebrating online, Fetterman said, a sore is going 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.039 to soar. That's what social media is about. I don't 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.560 know why the media wants to turn this into a story. 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.440 These trolls saying these kinds of things anonymously. But of 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:09.039 course these trolls anonymously include your fellow Senator Elizabeth Warren, 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:13.840 who is saying it publicly. But Fetterman went on, remember 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:15.880 he had two children that are going to grow up 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:19.119 without their father. It's vile. And if you've gunned someone 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.240 down that you don't happen to agree with their views 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.679 or the business they're in. Hey, you know, I'm next, 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.440 They're next, He's next, She's next, And as Charlie Cook writes, 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.920 Americans seeking good examples should resolve to be a fetterman 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.040 rather than a Warren. But then he points out that 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:40.280 she her cabal. You know, like in the NFL, they 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.560 have coaching trees, a bunch of the assistant coaches of 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.760 a Bill Belichick become head coaches and their assistant coaches, 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.640 and because they influence each other and they end up being, 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:53.320 you know, just the source of great coaches. Elizabeth Warren, 0:07:54.000 --> 0:08:00.240 her cabal became the Biden administration and pushed him way 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.160 to the left. She was also the person that pushed 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.960 Kamala Harris way way to the left. In twenty nineteen, 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:15.480 during the campaign, she of her skinny old Northeastern woman academic, 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:24.160 you know image. She's she is unbelievably effective radical leftist 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.680 who has really screwed up the Democratic Party right. 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.920 So she went on the warpath against anybody who didn't 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:30.960 agree with her and sent up smoke signals to let 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:32.440 them know, Hey, if you get on the wrong side 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:32.719 of me. 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.600 Right, and well played there. I don't think I didn't 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:41.920 notice that. I appreciate I appreciate you completely ignoring it. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:50.480 Final note from Charlie Cook. She pushed everybody way left. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.360 It should have been obvious that Warren was a crank 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.280 when she started tweeting out sentiments such as and this 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:59.960 is a quote, black, trans and CIS women, gender, nonconformed 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:03.479 and non binary people are the backbone of our democracy. 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:09.840 Wow, she speak with FOURK tongue, but it was not clear. 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:11.679 If it was not clear, then the consequences of her 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:13.880 influence have now made the indictment clear. Of Warren is 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:17.240 a disaster for her party, a disaster for America, and 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.800 a disaster for the basic human decency that we are 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.200 entitled to expect from our politicians. 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All right, 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.640 we'll have the update on the whole drone story also 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.640 this hour's of Stay Tuned arm Strong. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:39.840 I hope people fully. 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.599 Recognize this is a funny thing to say over the 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.120 beach boys singing at Christmas song. 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:44.400 Uh. 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.000 I hope people fully realize. 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.920 What a dangerous philosophy is going on here with the 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.000 whole I'm glad the CEO got gunned down thing. This 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.720 is not just your normal left right back and forth, 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:02.760 look how bad the others. This is the sort of 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:07.320 thing that catches on in societies and is very hard 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:08.559 to stop once it gets going. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.719 Yes, yeah, absolutely true. And it's also undeniable that if 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.600 somebody on the right says we need to target this district, 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.400 you're accused of fulling violence. Right. But if you say 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.360 we ought to gun down these mother blankers and then 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:25.839 they get gunned down, left says what me? Who may? 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:28.839 But having said that, it's interesting that eighty one percent 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:30.920 of people with private and health insurance are happy with 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:35.040 their insurance in America. Now, granted, when you do need it, 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.360 and there's that push and pull of no, you can't 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.400 have this test done, or you got to ask him 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.720 twice or whatever. That's a really uncomfortable thing and it 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:45.720 makes people mad. But and maybe it could be done better. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:47.920 We're not on the take from United Healthcare or anybody 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:49.319 else around here. We're just trying to get to the 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:49.840 bottom of it. 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.400 But would you answer that question yes or no? Are 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.560 you happy with your health insurance? I'm a no, I 0:12:55.600 --> 0:13:00.920 am Actually I was happier before Obamacare, when before more 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:04.720 deductibles became whatever they are, four thousand dollars for my family. 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.760 It's insane. Yeah, in general, I am. But you know, 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:11.559 I've been reasonably healthy too, which is, you know, kind 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.440 of an indictment right there. I suppose to. He's going 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:17.840 to be, you know, work on being more grateful. 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.600 I went through cancer and it got mostly paid for, 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.000 and that could have not happened, I suppose. Yeah. 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.360 It reminds me of you know, people who trust the 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.120 government to do all things well and good. Those are 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.719 people who never deal with the government. Anybody who's ever 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:35.160 spent a minute at a zoning office or whatever, it 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.520 doesn't feel that way anyway. The folks at Reason dot 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.599 com with a great, great piece. JD. Tussil wrote it, 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.880 I hope I'm saying his name right, but evoking a 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:47.600 collective scream of despair from socialists and anti corporate types. 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.840 Police in Pennsylvania arrested Luigi Mandi and menu we know 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:55.200 who he is, Thompson. They insist the murder victim stood 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.480 in the way of the sort of healthcare that they 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.720 think they deserve, and shooting him down on the street 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.680 was some sort of bloody minded strike for justice. The 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.560 assassin's fans and the legal system has yet to convict 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:09.400 anybody fur the crime are moral degenerates. But they're also 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:12.480 dreaming if they think insurance executives like Thompson or all 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.640 that stands between them and they are visions of a 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:18.280 single pair medical system that satisfies every desire. While there 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:21.120 is a lot wrong with the main way healthcare is 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.480 paid for and delivered in the US, what the haters 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:26.120 want is probably not achievable, and the means many of 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:31.600 them prefer would make things worse. There's an old joke 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:36.200 among health policy wonks according from a Cato Institute. According 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.200 to a Cato Institute guy from twenty seventeen, what the 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.560 American people really want from healthcare reform is unlimited care 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:44.960 from the doctor of their choice, with no way free 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:49.760 of charge. Correct. The problem, no matter how healthcare is 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.520 delivered is that it requires labor, time, and resources that 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:56.080 are available in finite supply. Somebody must decide how to 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.640 allocate medications, treatments, physicians, and hospital beds, and how to 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.880 pay for at all. And a common assumption in some 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.520 circles is that Americans ration medicine by price, handing an 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.680 advantage to the wealthy and sticking it to the poor. 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:13.240 Of course, and they quote Vox. Of course, the alternatives, 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:17.200 supposedly is one where healthcare is universal, with bills paid 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.600 by government, so everyone has access to care, except most 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.840 Americans rely on somebody else to pay the bulk of 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:26.080 their medical bills, just like Canadians, Germans and Britons. And 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.680 while there are huge differences among the systems presented as 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.640 alternatives to what we do in the US, third party payers, 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.880 whether government or insurance companies, do enormous damage to the 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:40.480 provision of healthcare. This is something Craig the healthcare Guru, 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.480 and I have also been saying for the longest time. 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:48.920 When you establish a giant, profitable middleman to get between 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:52.280 me and my doctor, that's not going to serve me. 0:15:53.360 --> 0:16:01.080 It complicates things, It clouds things. They write. Contrary to 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:04.120 conventional wisdom, health insurance, private or otherwise does not make 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.400 health care affordable. Right Roade an expert back in twenty thirteen, 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.680 the third party payment system is the principal force behind 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:14.080 healthcare price inflation in the US. The dominance a third 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.280 party payment, whether United Healthcare or others, or Medicare or 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.640 Medicaid or something else, makes it difficult to know the 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.680 price for procedures medicines and treatments, because there really isn't 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.680 one price when third party payers are involved, it's all 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:30.360 the subject of giant, complex negotiations. You pay three hundred dollars, 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.800 I pay fifteen hundred dollars, and I'm. 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:37.520 In the room next to you, right, Or when the truble, 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.280 when I was going to pay cash for a scan 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:42.520 that wasn't going to be covered by insurance years ago, 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.720 shopped around. The price was so different depending on where 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.200 he was, Like, why if I drive twenty miles. 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.080 Over here, I say four hundred dollars? Why? And again, 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.200 different kinds of people pay wildly different prices at the 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.640 same facility on the same day, right, which is insane. 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.280 I'd love to drill down on that a little more, 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:00.720 but we don't have on a time I wanted to 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.480 get to this part. When government lawyers are third party 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:07.800 assurances responsible for paying the bills, consumers have no incentive 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.560 to control costs. After all, the premiums already paid, right, 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.040 or the tax is already paid, right, So why do 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:18.560 I care if it's bloated or inflating or whatever. And 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:22.440 then they get into quite appropriately, how government run health 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:27.480 care systems have these problems and more because instead of profit, 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.439 you have taxes being taken from people run through the 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.920 bureaucracy then paying for the doctors and nurses and medicines 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:38.000 and stuff like that. So it's really scarce and it's 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:43.600 rationed by time. It takes twenty eight weeks in Canada 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.600 between your referral to a specialist and when you get 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.639 to see them. Oh my god, would you like me 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:52.280 to do that math for you. I'll give you a 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:56.439 hunt a hint. Six months would be twenty four weeks 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:01.920 and it takes twenty eight weeks. Wow. Yeah, Wow. Rationing 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:04.159 happens everywhere. Man, There's more to be said on this, 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.480 and that is pretty interesting. Hey, we're being invaded by drones. 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.879 Is everybody aware of that? Yeah, being invaded by drunes 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:10.280 by the. 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.679 Hype, the Armstrong and getty. 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:19.040 We should be doing some very virgin intelligence analysis and 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:21.959 take them out of the GUIs, especially if they're flying 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:30.320 over airports or military basis. Shouould be shot down if necessary. 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:36.159 That Senator Richard Blumenthal, so not a US House member, senator, 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.880 is a bigger deal and a respected senator at least 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.879 by the media saying we should shoot down the mysterious 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.720 drones and nobody's able to identify yet. Now, yesterday we 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.399 had the congress person from New Jersey saying there was 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.679 an Iranian mothership off shore and all that kind of 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.000 crazy talk, and nobody has any idea what that guy's 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:54.600 talking about. 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.400 You'd think Blumenthal, with his access to. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:00.040 It. 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:03.960 It's not classified information, but lots of information, would know 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.959 whether it's necessary to shoot them down or not. Based 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:08.359 at this point. 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:11.080 I would think he'd have access either direct like give 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.160 me the file, or know who to talk to, yeah, 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:20.000 to any information? Or are we actually that completely ignorant 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.239 of what the heck is going on? So here's a 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:24.960 different congress person, also from New Jersey. I haven't heard 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:25.639 this one yet. 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.840 I understand why so many in our community in our 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:32.760 state are concerned when you hear reports of drones flying 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:36.480 above us or see activity yourself, and federal agencies responsible 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:40.120 for controlling the airspace don't properly and quickly brief the public. 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:41.920 I want you to know that, based on the information 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:44.679 the briefings that I've received to date, I'm not concerned 0:19:44.680 --> 0:19:48.200 about any imminent threats to public safety or our national 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:52.160 security regarding these drones. But and I've made this very 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.639 clear to the FBI, the Homeland Security in the FAA, 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:58.920 the agency is chiefly responsible for monitoring drowne activity. They 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:02.679 must immediately disclose more information to the public. It's totally 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.840 completely unacceptable that you have all this drone activity going 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:08.199 on that people are sitting with their own eyes. And 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:10.119 even if it's not all drone activity, and some of 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:12.680 it is manned aircraft, there appears to be plenty of 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:15.080 drone activity that people are seeing their own eyves. The 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:18.879 fact that the federal agency is responsible for briefing the 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:22.960 public have not come forward in a clear way is unacceptable. 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:29.199 He needs to wake up, Pink. He's ignoring the Iranian mothership. 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:35.600 But yeah, here's the mothership, dude, Well here's the real deal, Harris. 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:38.040 You know, I'm also on the Transportation Committee, on the 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:41.840 Aviation Subcommittee, and I've gotten to know people and from 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:47.680 very high sources, very qualified sources, very responsible sources. 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:49.240 I'm going to tell you the real deal. 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:54.480 Iran launched a mothership probably about a month ago that 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:55.840 contains these drones. 0:20:56.240 --> 0:20:58.960 That mothership is off. I'm gonna tell you the deal. 0:20:59.280 --> 0:20:59.720 It's off. 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:03.240 The he's to the United States of America. They've launched 0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:06.000 thrones is everything that we can see over here, and 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:07.440 the gun These are from high sources. 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:09.760 I don't say this lightly. Yeah, they're high. 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:14.320 All right, Well that's interesting, So Hanson's sake, whichever, those 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:16.320 are two different districts in New Jersey. 0:21:16.520 --> 0:21:18.920 I want to know the media and IQ of each 0:21:18.920 --> 0:21:21.719 of those two districts, because the one guy certainly seemed 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:23.080 like an upgrade over that guy. 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:26.080 Well, yeah, so Hanson, our executive producer. Hanson's take on 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:29.959 the other guy was he knows what they are and 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:33.120 isn't worried about them, but he can't say and he's 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:36.119 his message is, Hey, the people who have are the 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:39.840 clearance to say need to say what these things are? 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:46.200 Ah? Yeah, is that the way you took it? Yeah? Yeah, Well, 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:48.199 and you've got to combine all of that with the 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:53.080 fact that now oldership Hank, everybody who sees anything larger 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:55.600 than a sparrow in the sky is saying, look, it's 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:59.520 one of those drones. You know, if it's some kid hobbyist, 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:03.520 or it's it's the regularly scheduled flight from lax to 0:22:03.760 --> 0:22:07.800 Las Vegas or whatever. Everybody's now it's it's like you said, 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:10.560 it's like the Salem witch hunt. Everybody's seeing witches in 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:15.119 the woods, which is a witch. Yeah, drones have been 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:17.720 spotted in Germany now, so it had spread across whist 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:20.720 they have. It'd been spotted spread across the United States yesterday, 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:26.720 and now they's been spotted in Germany now, no new Germany, Michael. 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:30.280