WEBVTT - The Most Rosy Scenario 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:06.960 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:11.120 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty. 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:22.760 Arms Strong and Gatty and he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.920 For the first time since President Trump ordered a return 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:30.440 in the naval blockade, US Forces disabled an oil tanker 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.559 trying to run through it to Iran's carg Island, in 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.000 a sign the conflict with Iran has entered a new phase. 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:41.800 Oh, it definitely has, and we have new information about 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.440 it to discuss from a piece in the Wall Street 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:48.360 Journal today. But Lucas Tomlinson of Fox goes on an. 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:52.680 American air campaign against Iran has expanded. US Navy jets 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:56.800 now launching strikes around the clock, including daylight hours, in 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.800 an effort to bring Iran back to the negotiating table. 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.959 This afternoon, the US Forces hit Greater Two Island outside 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.360 the straight Offoor Moves for the first time. The increased 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.759 volume of air strikes an attempt to clear a path 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:13.160 through the straight offour moves to increase shipping volume and 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.560 potentially paving the way for US warships to sail through 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.600 something that hasn't happened for two months. 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:23.920 Okay, a little more from Lucas and then fill in 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:24.840 some of the gaps here. 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:29.679 This is a man we are into. We really are 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:31.920 into a different phase. I think the. 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.800 US naval blockade has now been in effect for more 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:38.600 than twenty four hours, forcing at least two commercial vessels 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:42.959 to reverse course. With Iranian ports now closed, US officials 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.800 estimate the return of this economic strangulation will cost Iran 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.400 more than four hundred million dollars per day. 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:53.680 Okay, good, And hopefully that strangles him, and that that 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:56.600 seems to me to be pretty much our only hope 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:00.160 at this point that the regime collapses, that they're closer 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:03.160 than it looks to collapse and they finally fall apart 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.280 because they've been strangled and. 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.639 Are taken over by more reasonable voices. Well, I don't 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:10.600 know what would happen when the people rise up. 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:13.160 No idea what happens once the regime collapses, as we 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.480 saw with the Arab Spring, or throughout all of history. 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.680 You never have any idea what's gonna come. Sometimes it's 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:21.280 something worse, right, you never know. But back to the 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:25.920 current situation. So we bombed the crap out Iran yesterday 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:29.679 for seven hours, took a little break, then came back 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:35.799 with another ninety minute of bombing and just keep pummeling them. 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.240 But according to the Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon has 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:44.360 been telling Trump that ain't gonna do it. In terms 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:49.520 of opening the straight back up, for instance, the President 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.120 could up the ante with This is the Wall Street 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.680 Journal talking to people in the Pentagon and sources close 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:56.560 to the president. The President could up the ante with 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:00.560 close escorts of traffic using American warships. Experts estimate it 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:04.200 could take two ships to escort a single tanker, or 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.840 a dozen for each convoy. Navy officers warn Iranian drones 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.200 and anti ship missiles have the potential to turn the 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:13.440 area into a killbox for US forces if we try 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.440 to do that, though, he that's with you just run 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.840 ships through there. In terms of taking over the strait, 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:22.760 like actually taking it over, and they quote somebody saying, 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.320 if we're going to open the strait, we need to 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.639 take this strait. That would be a land invasion. At 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.679 the extreme end of it, Trump has the option of 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:34.239 a large and costly ground operation to seize the territory 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:38.240 around the waterway, whose rocky shores present unique challenges that 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.720 would require many thousands of troops in the operation. 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.320 That would likely take many months. 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:49.120 The paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has one hundred and 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:54.560 ninety thousand troops along with the country's regular army, and 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:58.360 specializes in fights against better armed foes. A ground operation 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.320 on Iran's coastline would leave us tree extremely vulnerable to 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:05.520 attacks from the country's rear and would be very difficult. 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:10.360 This would be like a rack in two thousand and five. 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.560 Sort of battle at that point, many thousands of troops, 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:19.719 long war, lots of casualties to open up a strait 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:22.440 that was open before we started. Now you said we got, 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.040 we got. Some people thought we're being too negative on this. 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.120 Yeah, yeah, but again I don't They didn't make the 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:29.960 context declaire. 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.520 What's what's the positive thing on this? 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.360 Give me the most rosy scenario you can come up 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:39.479 with at this point. 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:40.799 You know how many. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.880 Ships went through our route of the strait yesterday after 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:46.159 Trump declared it open. 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.080 Zero zero ships. 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:53.040 Zero ships went through the waterway that we have declared 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:53.679 is open. 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.359 Let me read this very negative. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.960 It starts with zero and it grows from there. Well, 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:00.839 let me let me give you the side. I'll quote 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.359 the administration. We've sunk their Navy to the bottom of 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:07.279 the sea. We've totally decimated their defenses. They got no 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:11.760 air force, So there you go. Well, they're continuing to 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:15.440 take pot shots at ships. I shouldn't call them pot 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:20.920 shots because twelve sailors have been killed or missing so far, 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.800 and ships have stopped going through, So those aren't just 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:24.479 bot shots. 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:26.400 They have been very effective shots. 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:30.440 Tuesday morning, US Forces radio to message to ships gathered 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:31.200 near the waterway. 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.440 These are the oil tankers that are waiting there, trying 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.440 to figure out can we go through or not? Is 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:36.920 it open or not? What's going on here? 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.800 US Forces are prepared to maintain freedom of navigation and 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:45.160 safeguard lawful commerce in accordance with international law. The military 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:48.400 set over marine radio. According to a recording reviewed by 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.240 The Wall Street Journal, the southern route of the Strait 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:56.839 remains open. At least one boat responded with f off. 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.479 One sailor is heard responding via the ship's radio, wow, 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.200 and again zero ships went through. 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.560 Tell you what on Captain Joe's ship, I would radio back, 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.279 we would be delighted to be the eleventh ship to 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:09.960 go through. 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:13.960 You let me know when the first ten are through. Yeah, yeah, 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:14.480 no kidding. 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:20.240 All it takes to close the straight is the threat, 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.800 and the IRGC has gone far beyond that. 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:26.360 I didn't realize the RAGC. 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.240 Has still has one hundred and ninety thousand troops plus 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.960 the regular army, yeah, plus whoever, what other other. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.560 Rol militias would join in. 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:40.360 Nothing would bring them all together, Like you know, ten 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.280 thousand marines on the beach. 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:47.120 Well, and to send ten thousand would be you know, 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:48.400 monumentally stupid. 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.240 It would have to be hundreds of thousands. 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:54.520 You have to apply overwhelming force, or your Vladimir Putin 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.760 just sending your guys to death. We need to sweep 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.440 over them and defeat them so quickly and decisively that 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.160 nobody dares lift up a pea shooter to us. 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:04.400 That's the only strategy. 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.400 So you're looking at an enormous, enormous you know, not 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.080 quite D Day maybe, but an enormous force. 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.760 One official from the Pentagon told the Wall Street Journal that, 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.320 as I said earlier, at the end of the day, 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.600 if Trump wants to take control of the Straits, he'll 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.400 need to take over the Straits. But he's not going 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.760 to be able to reach that objective with the force 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.800 he has now. So even with all those ships, and 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:30.880 we keep hearing about we got fifty thousand troops in 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.240 the area. According to this official, that's not even close 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.520 to the amount of manpower you need if you're actually 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.040 going to try to take the strait and force it open. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:44.920 There is no scenario where the American public is on 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:45.520 board with that. 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.560 No, So the only other alternative, I think, realistically, is 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:57.040 to bring such combination military from above pain and economic 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:04.840 pain that you remove their will to resist. Given the IRGCS, 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.120 we get all the food and energy first, those poor 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.360 people can starve. We don't care. We'll shoot them. Hell, 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:13.600 we'll starve them anytime. 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That 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:14.200 would probably be the worst day in world history. That 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.360 it's really really bad, and and and it's just it's 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.760 just a no go okay if we're an agreement on that, 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:22.080 what's your suggestion? 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:27.000 Nobody, that's what they would say. 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.880 No, no, no, that doesn't work. It had run its 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.280 course already. That's just the damn I don't know, you 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:35.520 know we have in the last couple of weeks. 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.959 But oh no, I'm not saying that's my point of view. 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.120 That's what Margaret Brennan would say. Then she'd show you 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:42.720 a little bit of calf hmm. 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.200 Iran can't have a nuclear weapon, period? What are you 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.640 going to do about it? And so I heard somebody 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.880 bringing up the whole war a choice thing. This was 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:54.800 a war, a choice of war choice. I would like 0:10:54.920 --> 0:11:00.480 this rhetorical conversation to occur where you say, at what point, 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.400 so we're in agreement Iran can't have a nuclear weapon? 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.360 Do you agree they were trying to get a nuclear weapon. 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:07.800 I think we're all in agreement on that they were 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.800 trying to get a nuclear weapon. How close they were 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:11.640 you can argue about that, but they were trying to 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.920 get a nuclear weapon. At what point in their process 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.160 of them getting a nuke does it stop being a 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:23.000 war of choice? You tell me, at what point is 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.959 it no longer a war of choice? Once they've got it, 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.560 when they're an hour away? I mean, when when is 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:31.840 it no longer a war of choice? Is there such 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.200 a thing? Or is the whole war a choice thing? 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:40.320 A stupid rhetorical instrument. Well, it's absolutely that. That's some 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.800 good devil's advocating right there. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:44.400 I'm glad. I would love to hear something if I 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:45.640 was on the other side of it. I don't know 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:46.440 what I would say. 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.400 What are you gonna say to when does it stop 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:51.960 being a war of choice? If it's a war of choice? 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:54.400 If we're an agreement that they're trying to get a 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:55.480 nuke and they can have it. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.320 Well you get again, though, they would go to their 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:03.839 fantasy that you can negotiate Iran out of wanting a nuke, 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:08.720 and you can't bridge that Gulf with them. I mean, 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.160 I would love the exercise because the American people could 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:14.360 make the judgment themselves, having heard an honest discussion of 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:17.840 the salient points as opposed to never ending discussion of 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.600 the strait, which is now undeniably a salient point. But 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.800 it's not the original one. But you're never going to 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:27.559 convince him. So at the beginning to Meet the Press, 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.240 Margaret Brennan has shown in a variety of poses, and 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:32.920 the final two shots or her in front of Lincoln Memorial. 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.440 The second to last shot is a fairly reasonable one 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:37.840 of her and her short skirtain well her medium skirt 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.240 in or spike heels. But then the very last shot 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:44.600 she turns, looks away demurely like turns her thigh towards you. 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:47.439 Every time I watch it, I think, what what? 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:51.120 What? What am I about to watch here? Does the 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.560 rest come off? Is she kind of into me? Or what? 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:56.160 I don't need sex? 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:57.160 Pot newswomen? 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:00.240 Of course you know that Fox News the infamous a 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:04.959 leg chair at Fox News shiny shiny legs. 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:08.199 Uh. 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.880 To wrap this up, we don't want some hairy legged 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:13.720 woman telling me the unemployment numbers. 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.600 No way if vice president of the United States. I 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.240 honestly don't know what I would do, Because I would 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.360 do I would expend all political capital to keep Iran 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.079 from getting a nuclear weapon. I don't care if I 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.000 go down in history as whatever. Iran's not getting a 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:27.880 nuke on my watch. 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:31.160 But I don't know what I would do at this point. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:37.719 Uh, economic pressure and bombings and hope, hope they give in, 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:43.360 I honestly don't falls or they give in and come 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:47.200 to the table in a serious way, all right. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.160 If you have any thoughts text line four one five 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:49.839 two nine five. 0:13:49.920 --> 0:14:00.800 KFTC got a call about an hour ago from someone 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:04.800 claiming to be from fraud protection at my bank, and 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.480 they said, listen, we suspect that people are trying to 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.760 illegally withdraw money from your account. 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Yeah, I've heard of 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:05.760 better scams than that. I get semi regularly the hey, 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.560 somebody has made a purchase on your credit card. If 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.360 this was not you, please you know, contact us. Here's 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:15.040 the link. And boy, I'll bet those I'll bet they're 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.240 batting average for that scam is pretty good. 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.960 Well, how about if it's see I click on those, 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.120 If it's I made that purchase at that place yesterday, 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.280 I think there's no way fraudsters know that, do they? 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.760 Oh yeah, if it's that specific, that's fine. But often 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:33.160 it's your Amazon package or oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:34.680 And it's easy if you're like in a hurry and 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:38.160 kind of tired or whatever to just oh crap, you know, 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.720 you're expecting something from UPS and it's been. 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:43.000 Delayed held up at the border whatever. 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:47.280 Oh crap and then you yeah, right, I haven't, but 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:48.840 I could see doing it. 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:50.280 Oh yeah. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:55.880 Speaking of spending money in buying dinosaur bones, news Softhebies 0:15:56.120 --> 0:16:03.640 sold a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil for fifty point one million dollars. 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:04.080 Cool? 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.840 How big? How big was it? As hell? 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:07.720 Oh? 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:08.880 Let's see full. 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:12.040 It's a full skelet, practically a full skeleton, twelve and 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.080 a half foot tall t rex. 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:14.920 See. 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:19.040 If I was a billionaire, I'd absolutely spend my fifty 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.880 million on having an actual t rex skeleton. 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:22.240 In my living room. 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.680 Oh yeah, yeah, if I had billions, I would absolutely 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:27.800 have spent fifty million dollars on a t rex? Are 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:31.520 getting every mail in America has the same answer? 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.400 Or versely, all of us. 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.720 We when we were in Santa Fe, there's a great 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.000 fossil store there where you can buy all kinds of stuff, 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.720 and it ranges from a couple hundred dollars to I 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.600 think the most expensive thing he had was like eighty 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.960 grand or something. But man, I was looking at some 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.880 of that stuff, I'm thinking that'd be cool to have. Yeah, 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:55.400 just tell magnates. Putting the world in perspective and time 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:56.400 and everything, it's just. 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.880 Oh yeah, yeah, Plus, it's a giant lizard's bones. 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:00.760 That's cool. 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.560 One of your big hotel magnates started to in effect 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.160 a fossil museum. And it's in a hotel in Savannah, Georgia. 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.480 I can't remember which, if it's High At or Hilton 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:13.879 or whatever, one of the Hilton's or one of the 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:19.480 Super Eights, the Super eight family. Yes, it's quite amazing. 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.160 It does put everything into perspective. But anyway, so fifty 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.800 million dollars topping record set in recent years. The previous 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.920 record holder at forty four point six million dollars, Jack 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:37.240 had been a stegosaurus herbivore plays a vegan dinosaur A 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:39.119 dinosaur plays what? 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:42.440 Sorry? Being a parody? I don't know. 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:47.879 The record continues a trend of climbing prices for dinosaur bones. 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:52.720 Oh man, that is so cool. I wish I had 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:53.359 a t Rex. 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:58.360 Yeah, that's on vacation. I almost bought some pretty expensive 0:17:58.359 --> 0:17:59.240 dinosaur bones. 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.320 What about spending ten thousand dollars for a really good 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.240 replica of one? 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.280 Would you do that the real thing? 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.880 I'd rather have a tiny, little real bone than a 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.320 really big fake one like a t rex. 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.480 Pinky bone. Yeah, little tomb a tooth or something. I 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:15.879 think it was a tooth. I was actually look at 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:19.000 him by Huh Armstrong and getty. 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:24.240 Electric cars did not work out for American auto manufacturers. 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:29.040 That story among other things on the way, yeah. 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:32.639 Including it's clear that the Democratic Party has completely lost 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.040 his mind and is in the group in the grips 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:39.520 of leftist lunatics. And you know who thinks that non 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:44.520 leftist lunatics who are Democrats? Right, they're getting more and 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.840 more vocal about, hey, we gotta nip this in the bud. 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.200 But you know, day before yesterday. 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.919 Like the Bill Maher crowd right right, and and a 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:58.560 lot younger sane folks too, I mean they've observed just 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:00.400 and this is a for instance. Then we'll come back 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:04.560 to this later, but in like what was this about 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:09.840 nineteen ninety five, around two thousand, the percentage of Democrats 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:15.960 that described themselves as very liberal was about twenty four percent. 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:18.240 It's now sixty percent. 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:25.200 And the percentage that describes himself as moderate has gone 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:28.919 from like forty eight percent to thirty two percent. So 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:31.600 it is just really really swinging left. But again, more 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.440 on that to come. Here's something we're bad at as 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:39.320 a country, and I am bad at personally following up 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:45.879 in demanding accountability Bill off stuff. Yeah, my vertical leap. 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:51.320 My vertical leap is sad, always has been too. I 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:54.840 remember I remember playing shortstopped in third base in high 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:58.040 school baseball, and line drive had come my way that 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.000 I had to jump for, and I think, no problem, 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:02.320 got this, And I would leap up and there would 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:04.080 be the ball in the outfield and I'd be like, 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:06.879 what the hell happened? I just had to get like 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:11.159 six inches in the air. I time I jump. Fine, 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:14.159 I'm confident out here. I know I couldn't do. I 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:17.879 realized I can't jump. I have like I should be 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:22.560 getting government money for white Man's disease because I got 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:23.080 it bad. 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:25.520 Anyways, Where was money for lack of hops? I didn't 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:27.400 realize that. Well, there should be if there was any 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:28.360 justice anyway. 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:31.359 One thing we're bad at in this country and I 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:35.040 am personally is following up and demanding accountability for really 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:38.080 bad stuff that happened a little while ago. The Jack 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:43.919 Smith case, the guy who was examining looking at Trump 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:46.520 and what was he Russian collusion and all? 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:49.880 What was Jack Smith's purview? 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:53.320 Is he the uh that's funny, I don't even remember 0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:56.960 that the precise it was investigating Trump and company for something. 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:00.400 I don't remember which of the many investigations there was, no, Yeah, 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.320