1 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:06,480 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and 3 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: Jetty and now he is Armstrong and Yetty. I just 4 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:26,160 Speaker 1: saw it right now and I couldn't believe it. It's 5 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: not something I'm used to the I'm a tourist, but 6 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: for me, that's too high, too expensive. There they we're 7 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,919 Speaker 1: about like six dollars max, which is something that you know, 8 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:38,840 Speaker 1: it hits everyone like crazy. But here's ten dollars. 9 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:40,160 Speaker 2: Never seen that probably. 10 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 1: Could try to twenty dollars a gallon. And if you 11 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,200 Speaker 1: have to get gas, you have to get gas. Where's 12 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: it ten dollars a gallon for gas? Big sir, California? 13 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: Oh okay, and the other reportation on that remote coastal 14 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: parts of California, it's hitting ten bucks a gallon. Oof. Yeah, 15 00:00:57,040 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: that will surely be a drag on the economy. Jack 16 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: reflected in the miserable job numbers. Job numbers, as we've 17 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:07,000 Speaker 1: already mentioned, came out and they were huge, defying expectations. 18 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 1: The New York Times says US job growth blue past 19 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: expectations last month, a resilient rebound that defied concerns about 20 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: appending downturn. That's pretty positive language coming out of the 21 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 1: New York Times. Who wants the economy to be bad, 22 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 1: of course, so they can be mad at Trump. Yeah, 23 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,280 Speaker 1: I'll issue the usual annoying caveat that these numbers are 24 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,680 Speaker 1: going to get revised and sometimes substantially, so take it 25 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:32,680 Speaker 1: with a grain of salt. But I mean, it's not 26 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: bad news. 27 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 3: No. 28 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 1: The job gains were driven by a big rebound for 29 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 1: the healthcare and social assistance sector, the pillar that has 30 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: held up the labor market for much of the past year. 31 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: It added about ninety thousand jobs in March, a reversal 32 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: from February, when a West Coast strike had sent usd 33 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 1: the other direction. Anyway, I'm sorry, what would the what 34 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: in social assistance sector? The healthcare and social assistance sectors? 35 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,040 Speaker 1: The healthcare sector that really drove these numbers total number 36 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: one hundred and eight seventy eight thousand new jobs one 37 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,239 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy eight thousand new jobs. I can't be 38 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,720 Speaker 1: the only one asking what does social assistance mean? I 39 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 1: don't know, no idea, just the official and I never 40 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: I never understand how did the healthcare add tens of 41 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:29,679 Speaker 1: thousands of jobs just all of a sudden last month. Yeah, 42 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 1: I know. Well that was a good country. Yeah yeah, 43 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: well we're aging too. Boy, that's the hell of a 44 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 1: lot of in the last month. Yeah, I know, I know. 45 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 1: I share your skepticism. Obviously, interestingly enough, and I've been 46 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:48,119 Speaker 1: teasing this a bit. Let's pay it off now. Wall 47 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 1: Street Journal identified a particular field as the quote surefire 48 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 1: new path to American prosperity, plentiful jobs, potential six figure 49 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: and comes draw young people as other industries fall. It's 50 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 1: the modern middle class jobs engine, ladies and gentlemen. I 51 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:11,079 Speaker 1: give you dog walker, I'm kidding. Nursing, nursing, nursing, So 52 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,880 Speaker 1: that's the healthcare. Yeah yeah, And they first of all, 53 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,520 Speaker 1: you've got to start a story with a specific human 54 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: being and tell their story for some reason these days. 55 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:23,560 Speaker 1: And it's a thirty three year old gal who became 56 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:27,680 Speaker 1: a licensed practical nurse after earning a community college diploma. 57 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:29,679 Speaker 1: Later she went back to school. Urse, you go with 58 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 1: your ankles and they say you're fine walking off. That's 59 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 1: a practical nurse, right right, It's not gonna kill you, Kelly. 60 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: A little ice and you'll be fine later, She went 61 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: back to school for bachelors and nursing and worked in 62 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 1: an emergency room during the pandemic. Four years ago, she 63 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: got her doctorate and became a nurse practitioner. Wow, that's 64 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: an advanced thing. But these days she's working at a 65 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: primary care clinic in Lincoln, Nebraska, earning about one hundred 66 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: and twenty k a year, which is really good money 67 00:03:55,040 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: in Lincoln. Factory worker used to be Ka's or factory 68 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 1: work used to be America's most reliable ticket to the 69 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: middle class. But as automation globalized manufacturing now artificial intelligence 70 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: threat in a lot of these past healthcare jobs and 71 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: become the surest bet at the time of uncertainty in 72 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:15,640 Speaker 1: the labor market, Nursing offers not only stability, but for 73 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,799 Speaker 1: some a pathway to real prosperity. The median annual wage 74 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: for registered nurses in the US is ninety three six 75 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 1: compared with forty nine to five for all occupations according 76 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 1: to the Labor Department. For nurse practitioners and others with 77 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: advanced degrees, it's around one hundred and thirty two. OK. 78 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: I got a friend who mentioned their daughter's interested in 79 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: going into nursing. For quite a few years now, you 80 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:39,239 Speaker 1: go in to nursing, you could get a job anywhere 81 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 1: in the country, which would be one of the really 82 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:43,840 Speaker 1: cool things. You could work anywhere. It is one of 83 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:46,720 Speaker 1: those traveling fill in nurse jobs. It's obviously got its 84 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,679 Speaker 1: own challenges and stresses, but man, you can make really 85 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:52,160 Speaker 1: good money for a while if you're footloose. I went 86 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,600 Speaker 1: to an impractical nurse at Exemund. She said, sleep hanging 87 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: from your feet, and I thought, oh no, no, this 88 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 1: is not for me. Not practical. Healthcare in general has 89 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: generated some of the most consistent job growth of any 90 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,840 Speaker 1: US proficient since the profession, since the eighties. Yet I 91 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: gotta say, I mean, you know, this is all interesting, 92 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: but I like how monthly they you write about these 93 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 1: big changes that are happening. Changes don't happen monthly, but 94 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:24,440 Speaker 1: every month we act like a new giants, you know, 95 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: seismic shift has occurred of some sort. I guess you 96 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: have to write that. You're an economics reporter. That's your job. 97 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:34,440 Speaker 1: Everything is what folks fill in the blank test. Everything 98 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,840 Speaker 1: is click bait. That's right. This is not though, so 99 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 1: healthcare uh oh, soaring healthcare spending, aging population plus the 100 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: billions and billions of dollars of fraud of all of 101 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: the government healthcare problems. There's a hell of a lot 102 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 1: of profit and fraud. If you missed yesterday's discussion of 103 00:05:55,120 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: the soon to be breasthtaking fraud that comes clear in California, 104 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:04,160 Speaker 1: Holy crap, there's a lot of money in it. But 105 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: just a couple more figures then we can either analyze 106 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 1: or move on. Total jobs in the industry overtook those 107 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,240 Speaker 1: in manufacturing and retail in their early two thousands. The 108 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:15,799 Speaker 1: gap has widened since then. According to University of Chicago, 109 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: healthcare was the largest source of job creation in the 110 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 1: US last year, as many other industries cooled or contracted. 111 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:25,480 Speaker 1: That trend continued in January through employment in the sector. 112 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 1: Oh though it dropped somewhat in February, partly because nursing 113 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: strikes in New York City and elsewhere. But anyway, as 114 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 1: we age and more and more money spent on healthcare, 115 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:36,720 Speaker 1: it's a good gig. You got to be of a 116 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 1: certain level of intelligence ambition. You have to like to 117 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:43,839 Speaker 1: work hard and deal with human beings. But it's good field. 118 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: I think the deal with human beings is the hardest part. 119 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:49,280 Speaker 1: Like the person I had the other day when my 120 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 1: son went to get is a physical. She was so fantastic. 121 00:06:53,960 --> 00:06:57,120 Speaker 1: I thought, you have got the gift for this kind 122 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: of job, just personality wise. I couldn't do it. Yeah, 123 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 1: all day long, every day being nice to people. But 124 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 1: New York Times writing about unemployment rate and that sort 125 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: of stuff brought up and this is kind of interesting. 126 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: This actually is a change from fairly recently. The unemployment 127 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: rate is where it is in part because the Trump 128 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: Administration's immigration crackdown that has curtailed the supply of workers. 129 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 1: I mean, that's absolutely happened. People are not going back 130 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: and forth across the border like nobody is. We went 131 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: from millions of people to nobody like overnight. Oh yeah, 132 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: that means that employers don't need to create as many 133 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:38,240 Speaker 1: jobs as they used to in order to keep the 134 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: unemployment rates steady. There ain't a whole bunch of people 135 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: in the country looking for jobs. There you go times 136 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: few that's noticed. There's a lot of volatility these days. 137 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,400 Speaker 1: It seems like everything's changing all the time. You think, yeah, 138 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: has had lunchon with a client yesterday, who you're going 139 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: to hear more about on the air. In and coming 140 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 1: weeks and months. But he has kids similar age as mine, 141 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: are like, what are you supposed to be hoping your 142 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 1: kid does? Both? Discussing how most of the stuff people 143 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: been sending their kids to college for over the last 144 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: couple of decades are almost completely useless because of AI. 145 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,080 Speaker 1: You know, that's even without the uselessness of college, because 146 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,520 Speaker 1: they've destroyed their you know, their own thing by not 147 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: teaching anything and blah blah blah. But with AI coming, 148 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 1: what do you even hope for your kid? Nobody knows? 149 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: Two choices? Number one nursing. Number two defrauding the government. 150 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: You want to talk about, you know, making a good 151 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,760 Speaker 1: living in it not being terribly difficult, judging by all 152 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:42,559 Speaker 1: the stories coming out and everything I read about it. 153 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 1: Defrauding the government is not difficult. You gotta be willing 154 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,960 Speaker 1: to run a you know, at least a slight risk 155 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: of doing time or getting fined, but very slight. A 156 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: Swiss bank. Do they still have those? Let's call it 157 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,439 Speaker 1: working the system as opposed to defrauding the government. And 158 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: where where is that most prevalent? Always your socialist countries? 159 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: And why is it more prevalent here? Because we become 160 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: more and more socialists. The more giant programs you have 161 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: with money sloshing around, the more people who figure out 162 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: how to work the system. And a lot of the 163 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 1: people advocating for the growth of those systems intend fully 164 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 1: to what did you say, exploit the system. Yeah, that's 165 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 1: their intent when they promote it. Engage in a positive 166 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,960 Speaker 1: way the system as it is. I did not get 167 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: to hammer this as much as I wanted to, but 168 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 1: there was a big story, I think it was in 169 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:39,839 Speaker 1: the journal a while ago, about the insurance companies how 170 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:43,599 Speaker 1: they they go to like all of their clients, and 171 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: they like send nurses to their homes and say, hey, 172 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:48,880 Speaker 1: look this person over and come up with a list 173 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 1: of diseases that they may or may not have, and 174 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 1: then they charge the government for the treatment of those diseases. 175 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 1: There's never any treatment, there's never any definitive diagnosis. It's 176 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:01,600 Speaker 1: a giant with that scal that would be so easy. 177 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 1: I mean, just look at we've all done this. You Google. 178 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:08,680 Speaker 1: I have a headache and I've been really tired lately. 179 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: Anything I might have an at a list a thousand 180 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: diseases you have. Oh, he's clearly got blarney syndrome. Right, government, 181 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: you know it's ten thousand dollars for us to treat 182 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: blarney syndrome. Then nobody ever checks whether any treatment happened. 183 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 1: And in many, many, many cases, and with hippa, you 184 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: can't well right, And in many cases the person who 185 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,079 Speaker 1: allegedly has the syndrome has no idea any of this 186 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 1: has happened. Sure, sure blank, unbelievable. He voting for bigger government. Thom, Okay, 187 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 1: it's fine, it'll work out great. We got to get 188 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: into Tiger Woods. I don't mind kicking him. There was 189 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:49,760 Speaker 1: a piece in the Hey got a California post yesterday. 190 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 1: Tiger has been a fraud from the beginning, and people 191 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 1: are just catching on you. You were early on the 192 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,719 Speaker 1: Tiger's a jerk. I've been an anti tigerist since like 193 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: the second year. Hear is on the PGA because of 194 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: his personality. He's utterly ingracious. Yeah yeah, well wait till 195 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: you hear how he acted when he got talked to 196 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:17,199 Speaker 1: by the cops having flipped his car again. And another 197 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: thing to look forward to. More tape of Gavin Newsom 198 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:23,959 Speaker 1: seeming like a drug addict is coming out, and also 199 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:28,319 Speaker 1: of his Marxist wife shooting off her mouth. Oh my lord, 200 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: the gift that just keeps giving. The first partner, soon 201 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 1: to be if Gavey gets his wish, the first lady. Hmmm, 202 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: we got to get to that this hour, her talking 203 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: about the way she raises their kids. Oof. See if 204 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 1: you agree, All right, stay here. I think it's become 205 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 1: very clear over the years that Tiger Woods is not 206 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 1: a good person, right, He is a highly flawed individual. Yes, 207 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: so I guess that makes it easier for me to 208 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:01,240 Speaker 1: do this. I was complaining a couple of weeks ago 209 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:08,439 Speaker 1: with the Justin Timberlake stuff. You commit a misdemeanor, but 210 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:11,960 Speaker 1: because it's on video and it's entertaining for all of us, 211 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:15,680 Speaker 1: you get to be embarrassed in front of the world 212 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: for a misdemeanor. I mean, Tiger Woods is being charged 213 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: with two misdemeanors. I just looked it up, and there's 214 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: a decent chance because he did not submit to a 215 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 1: year analysis and all they've got to go on is 216 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: refusing to, you know, take the test or whatever, which 217 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: is its own crime. Second degree misdemeanor is what he 218 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: might be looking at in Florida. Does that mean we 219 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 1: all get to watch the video and then mock him. Well, 220 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:44,079 Speaker 1: a number one, he still has to wait for the 221 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: blood test to come back, doesn't he or has that 222 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: been assessed? I don't know that, but uh no, I 223 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: get you your greater point, though I'm somewhat surprised having 224 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: since he does this every other year, it's still a misdemeanor. 225 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:03,120 Speaker 1: I know. It's horror that you can exhibit this level 226 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:06,199 Speaker 1: of recklessness of driving and uh and continue to drive 227 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: and not even really pay much of a penalty. The 228 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: penalties are the cost. That's what keeps people, most people 229 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: in line, the insurance costs and all that sort of stuff. 230 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 1: Obviously that doesn't apply to a Tiger Woods. But here's 231 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 1: the first part of the tape that came out yesterday, 232 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:20,439 Speaker 1: and well, if you can't understand what it is, we'll 233 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: explain it. The ending of this is rich. This is 234 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 1: Tiger talking to the cops after he flipped his vehicle again. 235 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 1: Comes down on my phone and all of a sudden boom, 236 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: can't tell me what happened? Real quick? Yeah, I was 237 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: looking down at my phone. You to look at changing stations, 238 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:46,559 Speaker 1: and next general boom, are you okay? Ye? Are you 239 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,040 Speaker 1: all right? Are you in any pain? No back pain, 240 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:53,679 Speaker 1: no neck pain, no me, nope. Unfortunately for the accident, 241 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:56,599 Speaker 1: you are at faulty and subsequently you are usually a 242 00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 1: citation for Kelly is driving resulting in a crash. Okay, 243 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: behind you that. 244 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 3: So at this time I do believe your normal faculties. 245 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:08,000 Speaker 1: Are impaired, okay, and you're under the unknown substance. O 246 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:18,559 Speaker 1: do yes, sir? Anarko ye? Okay? Okay? Which clip was that? Michael? 247 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: Somehow we got confused on this, Okay, I wanted twenty five, 248 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: but maybe I mis represented. Okay, that was so that 249 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 1: was him interacting with the cops and everything like that. 250 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: This is this is the rich one. Go with us, 251 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 1: mister Woods. Mister Woods, did you hang out down here 252 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: with us? Please? Thank you so much? All right, got 253 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:43,280 Speaker 1: it all right? Thank you? So yeah, I just keep 254 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:44,280 Speaker 1: you down here with us, please. 255 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:45,160 Speaker 2: Yeah. 256 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: I was just talking to the president. I was talking 257 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: to the president. So he's over by the bushes. You've 258 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 1: probably seen the pictures and everything like that, and mister Woods, 259 00:14:55,840 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: can you come over we need talk? Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. 260 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 1: I was just talking with the president. I'll come over 261 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: and talk with you now. Now that's a that's the 262 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,160 Speaker 1: all time. Do you know who I am? I mean, 263 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,280 Speaker 1: that makes do you know who I am? The same 264 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: way seem like nothing. But you wouldn't think Tiger Woods 265 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: would have a higher gear of do you know who 266 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 1: you're messing with? Right? Wow? No kidding, but you know 267 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,680 Speaker 1: I'm talking to the Maybe if you can literally flex, 268 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: I was just on the phone with the President. You 269 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 1: do it, yes, Katie. I want to hear Trump's reaction 270 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 1: to him dropping that has anybody nailed down if he 271 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: actually was on the phone with the president, because he's 272 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 1: got he was Trump Trump said, yeah, that I talked 273 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: to Tiger. He's doing fine. He's a a tough time. 274 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:44,960 Speaker 1: He has a lot of pain. I talked about this 275 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: the other day. He has a lot of pain. It's 276 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:48,920 Speaker 1: not good what he did, right, But I did know 277 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: that that happened at the scene. Okay, so oh yeah, 278 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: I guess I didn't know that either, But yeah, yeah, 279 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 1: I assumed he talked to him later because because tis 280 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: dating Trump's daughter x and daughter in law ex daughter 281 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 1: in law she was she was married to Eric or 282 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: Trump Junior, whichever, but so now she's with Tiger Woods. 283 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 1: So did so Tiger has the President's number, his phone, 284 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:19,200 Speaker 1: flips his car, and his thinking is I'm gonna call 285 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 1: the president. I wonder what he asked him to do. 286 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 1: I don't know. He's pilled up, so maybe his thinking 287 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: was a little glory. That's a that's a great question. 288 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: What was he hoping for? A pardon? Hey, it's the president. 289 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: Could you get on the phone with these cops and 290 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 1: tell them to leave me alone? Can I push you 291 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 1: on with the cops so they do? Could? They'll think 292 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 1: you're an imitator? So you got to like prove your view. What. Yeah, 293 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: I was talking to the president. I was talking to 294 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: the president. That's the all time flex. Man. Wow, good 295 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: on the cops for not You can't in the modern 296 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 1: era of body cams and all that sort of stuff, 297 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 1: I suppose, but man, oh man, ohmen, it'd be pretty 298 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: easy to say, he's on the phone with the President, 299 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 1: let's just let him go. Let's just drive him home, 300 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 1: put his car back on the wheels, call it good. 301 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: I have more questions about the nature of the charges 302 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:12,159 Speaker 1: than all were out of time, but more on that 303 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: to come stop stop trying to kill people. 304 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 3: Tuggert, Armstrong and Getty Exclusive CNN reporting about the extent 305 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 3: of damage to Iran's military capability. Roughly half of Iran's 306 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:32,719 Speaker 3: missile launchers are still intact despite the daily attacks by 307 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:36,800 Speaker 3: the US and Israeli military. Thousands of one way attack 308 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:40,679 Speaker 3: drones also remain in Iran's arsenal. One source says Iran 309 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:44,119 Speaker 3: is quote still very much poised to reach absolute havoc 310 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,400 Speaker 3: throughout the entire region. A Pentagon spokesperson calls CNN's reporting 311 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:50,359 Speaker 3: quote completely wrong. 312 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:54,159 Speaker 1: Right, So this is really interesting, and I don't know 313 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,080 Speaker 1: what to think. So you've got the mainstream media who's 314 00:17:57,119 --> 00:17:59,159 Speaker 1: taking is negative a view on the war as they 315 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:03,360 Speaker 1: possibly can, in some cases practically actively rooting for our defeat. 316 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 1: On the other hand, the history of all administrations in 317 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:13,440 Speaker 1: my lifetime, going back to you know, Johnson and Obama 318 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:21,920 Speaker 1: about Afghanistan, administrations lie always and sometimes are lied to themselves, 319 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:24,040 Speaker 1: and then they lie to the public not knowing it, 320 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 1: about the success of their military operations. It's just a thing. 321 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 1: So and I fit that in with I was watching 322 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:35,119 Speaker 1: a news Nation report today where they had somebody on 323 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 1: the ground in Israel where they got hit with lots 324 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,960 Speaker 1: and lots of rockets overnight by Iran. Again and this 325 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:42,680 Speaker 1: reporter is saying a lot of people here on the 326 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:47,960 Speaker 1: ground are really confused and surprised by Iran's continued ability 327 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:51,760 Speaker 1: to project power and shoot rockets at him. So, and 328 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,119 Speaker 1: I think a lot of us are like, how is 329 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,679 Speaker 1: this still possible that every day you can blow up 330 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 1: a tanker or hit this base or that base, or 331 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 1: keep firing it. I don't know what the right answer is. 332 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 1: So CNN's reporting that like half the rocket launchers are 333 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:11,159 Speaker 1: still working, the Pentagon says that's completely not true. Right, boy, Well, 334 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 1: there are a number of topics you brought up there, 335 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:20,160 Speaker 1: one being the necessary right to deceive in warfare, because 336 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: sometimes you have to do that as a government. It's 337 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:27,680 Speaker 1: the perfect example of a power, granted that is always abused. 338 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: I mean, I get the reasons you do that, and 339 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:35,639 Speaker 1: they're absolutely valid, but as you point out, every administration 340 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:40,119 Speaker 1: abuses it and goes way beyond any justifiable keeping the 341 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:42,679 Speaker 1: home front together or not demoralizing the troops or fooling 342 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 1: the enemy or whatever. They all like. The second thing 343 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 1: about the missile capability, I think, why do you think 344 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 1: that happens? Why did why did the Defense secretary and 345 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:59,120 Speaker 1: everybody beneath him mislead Johnson in Vietnam? Why did everybody 346 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: lie to a bomb? And he thought the war was 347 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,880 Speaker 1: going great in Afghanistan? And then the Washington Post blew 348 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 1: that open with now it's going horrible, and everybody write 349 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: up the chain. Everybody lied. Yeah, yeah, I think because 350 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: it's life and death, and people think since the stakes 351 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 1: are so high, their justification is strong to And they 352 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: wouldn't say mislead the president. They'd say stay optimistic, or 353 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: not be overly negative or what have you. It's a 354 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:31,080 Speaker 1: great question. I'm sure there are books written about it. 355 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,040 Speaker 1: I suppose to a certain extent, it might be as 356 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:34,960 Speaker 1: simple as how often do you want to tell your 357 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: boss you're not doing a good job or haven't been 358 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,640 Speaker 1: successful at the big project he gave you. That's part 359 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, you're tasked to accomplish something, and you 360 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:46,080 Speaker 1: don't want to be the one to say is can't 361 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:50,200 Speaker 1: be accomplished, right, because that sounds like I can't accomplish 362 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 1: it anyway. There are a bunch of headlines to hit 363 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:58,720 Speaker 1: today live updates. US fighter jet reportedly shot down over Iran. 364 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: A least one American pilot was reportedly ejected from their 365 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,439 Speaker 1: aircraft today when it was shot down over southwestern Iran. 366 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: According to multiple outlets, let's see a television channel in 367 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,840 Speaker 1: this province instructed Iranians who find down US pilots to 368 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 1: leave them alive and take them to security agents agencies 369 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: for a precious prize rather than kill them as they 370 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 1: had previously advised on the air well. That's very civilized 371 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:28,879 Speaker 1: of you, Thank you, aroon. Another headline, Iran beefs up 372 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 1: defenses and recruits children as it prepares for a ground war. 373 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:38,160 Speaker 1: Whoa yeah, They've stepped up defenses of their biggest oil port, 374 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 1: whilst threatening to attack a wider array of targets around 375 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 1: the Gulf and launching a mass recruitment drive reminiscent of 376 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:51,919 Speaker 1: its nineteen eighties war with Iraq. The Tehran is mobilizing 377 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,200 Speaker 1: its population ways that seek to harness the spirit of 378 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:57,439 Speaker 1: the eighties war with Iraq. That includes drives to recruit 379 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 1: millions of Iranians, including children, fixture of the tribute to 380 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,120 Speaker 1: martyrs via street signs and posters that are still part 381 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,680 Speaker 1: of the Iran's daily life. Iran is also hardening defenses 382 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 1: on karg Island, among the other strategic islands. Steps include boosting, 383 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 1: guided missile systems, laying mines along the coastline, and booby 384 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:25,159 Speaker 1: trapping facilities. According to an Iranian official, I feel like 385 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: the trying to get the uranium ount project has got 386 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 1: historic disaster written all over it. I don't know if 387 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 1: they're still considering that or not. Trying to secure a 388 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:43,119 Speaker 1: giant area and the number of people and the amount 389 00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: of equipment we'd have to have in place, I mean, 390 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 1: if RANN has got any ability to fire rockets or 391 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: launch attacks or anything when that's going on, they will, Yeah, 392 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 1: they would go nuts trying to achieve that psychological and 393 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:01,800 Speaker 1: you know, frankly real victory. Speaking of which, another headline, 394 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 1: A great article written by the musically named Yaroslav Trauma Trofimov. 395 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:08,680 Speaker 1: We forgot to do our great tease. Let me do 396 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,680 Speaker 1: our great teas. Oh okay, sorry, we interrupt this story 397 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: to bring you this. Gavin Newsom's wife is going to 398 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,879 Speaker 1: be the gift that keeps on giving. Oh yeah, as 399 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: they dig up old interviews and probably once he was 400 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:25,359 Speaker 1: running current interviews, well yeah, because he's gonna try like 401 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,680 Speaker 1: crazy to muzzle her and she ain't gonna have that. 402 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 1: She ain't muzzible muzzle uble right, I don't think, but 403 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: her talking about how they raise their kids that I 404 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:39,359 Speaker 1: think you'll find pretty rich. So stay tuned for that 405 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: and you might take his wonderful parenting advice. So stay 406 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:48,160 Speaker 1: with us. Anyway, back to Yaroslav Trofumov, control over Straight 407 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:52,080 Speaker 1: of Hormuz will determine who wins the war. Iran is 408 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 1: seeking permanent leverage over the Middle East with new rules 409 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,119 Speaker 1: rules for the strategic Waterway. You gotta give him points 410 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:02,440 Speaker 1: for having Kahona. So they're getting hell battered out of 411 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:04,400 Speaker 1: them and trying to hold onto the regime. And they say, 412 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,160 Speaker 1: you know what, not only are we going to fire 413 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: on the streets of horror moves to bring this to 414 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 1: an end, but we now own it and we're going 415 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,359 Speaker 1: to charge enormous tolls to anybody who goes through it 416 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 1: from now to the end of history. So holy cow, 417 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 1: we either have to batter them to the point that 418 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:24,520 Speaker 1: they can't do that, which it seems increasingly might not 419 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 1: be achievable, or make them not want to do it anymore. Well, 420 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: yesterday we blew up their brand new giant bridge that 421 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:35,880 Speaker 1: they've got between Terran and somewhere else that they apparently 422 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,439 Speaker 1: want to get in cars, but we blew up that bridge, 423 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: and Trump tweeted our truthed out our military, the greatest 424 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,480 Speaker 1: and most powerful by far anywhere in the world, hasn't 425 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,920 Speaker 1: even started destroying what's left in our and bridges next 426 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: then electric power plants. New regime leadership knows what has 427 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 1: to be done and has to be done fast. It's 428 00:24:55,119 --> 00:25:00,399 Speaker 1: very possible that the big overarching headline that will written 429 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 1: about this war someday is that uh Trump was wrong 430 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:16,159 Speaker 1: about the Iranian regime's willingness to die fighting, or just 431 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: their resilience in general. He thought, and maybe reasonably so, 432 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 1: that they were like regular people. You realize you're losing, 433 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 1: you make some sort of deal to make your life better. 434 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 1: You don't just go. You don't just let everything around 435 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:32,359 Speaker 1: you get destroyed and you die. Who would do that? 436 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:35,320 Speaker 1: And these and this might be the crowd that does that. 437 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,879 Speaker 1: They let everything get destroyed and they die, and they 438 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 1: don't care because they're going to meet the virgins in heaven, 439 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 1: and or those who aren't religious cultists dead enders are saying, hey, 440 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:48,560 Speaker 1: I get twenty five percent of the rebuilding cost, so 441 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 1: you know the hell, it's just the scam will change 442 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,720 Speaker 1: shape a little bit, but the scam will continue. Uh So, 443 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 1: one final thought on the Strait of Hormuz Valley, NASA 444 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: professor at Johns Hopkins University, former State Department official blah 445 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: blah blah involved in informal discussions. Quote now the only 446 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: reason why oh, to the Iranians, the Strait of Hormuz 447 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 1: now matters more than the nuclear program. The nuclear program 448 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 1: was symbolic, but didn't provide them with any deterrence, not yet. 449 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 1: Now the only reason why they're surviving the store war 450 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,159 Speaker 1: is because of the Strait. The Uranian thinking is that 451 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,679 Speaker 1: at the end, the Strait must remain under their control 452 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: because it is their only deterrence and only source of revenue. 453 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:30,119 Speaker 1: So why did Marco Rubia the other day say he 454 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 1: made the goal taking out their ability to fire off 455 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 1: rockets They learned from North Korea? And I heard a 456 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 1: smart person explain this, Why does North Korea have a bomb? 457 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,760 Speaker 1: They have a bomb because all the rockets they had 458 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 1: and their ability to hit soul. Back in nineteen ninety four, 459 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton was in the standoff that ended up leading 460 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:52,399 Speaker 1: to North Korea getting a nuclear weapon, with plans on 461 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 1: the table to attack North Korea and take out their 462 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:00,840 Speaker 1: nuclear weapon making capability. But they're so worried about North 463 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: Korea attacking Soul, where we had thirty some thousand troops 464 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,080 Speaker 1: in it's a big city and lots of people dying, 465 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 1: that we couldn't and Iran learned that lesson and knew it. 466 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: So as long as they got enough rockets to attack 467 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 1: Israel or their neighbors or whoever their belief was, the 468 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 1: world can't come take out our nuclear site. So now 469 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,359 Speaker 1: we believe that the way to stop them from getting 470 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: nukes is they don't have the rocket capability. M Yeah, interesting, 471 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, I've been working on this. Should have paid 472 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 1: less attention to thong and more attention to jong ill. Wow, 473 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,959 Speaker 1: And because it rhymes, it's more powerful. I don't. Oh, 474 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:42,920 Speaker 1: clearly everybody knows that. A couple more quick notes to 475 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 1: shoehorn into this segment. The fabulous Victor Davis Hansen writing 476 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:49,639 Speaker 1: for The Free Press, the War and the War on 477 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:53,920 Speaker 1: the war. It's actually reminiscent of something we've been talking about. 478 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal editorialists to phrase that is defeatists 479 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:02,960 Speaker 1: on the left, Pollyanna is on the right. But VDH 480 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 1: says militarily, the war is going as well as could 481 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,640 Speaker 1: be envisioned, Yet Democrats seek to turn it into another 482 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,760 Speaker 1: Vietnam or Afghanistan, hoping to win control of Congress at 483 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,679 Speaker 1: the expense of national security. And VDH is nothing if 484 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: not a realist. He's pointing out that it's gone absolutely 485 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 1: fabulously well thus far. But that doesn't mean the uncertainties 486 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:29,040 Speaker 1: have gone or the difficulties of war are no longer real. 487 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,399 Speaker 1: But all you can hope is that a war is 488 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:39,160 Speaker 1: going fabulously well. There is an unspoken or spoken comment 489 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,440 Speaker 1: or question in the media that well, you say it's 490 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 1: going well, but there's still a great deal of uncertainty. 491 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,600 Speaker 1: Add so it's not going well. But that's just a 492 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 1: misunderstand war. That exactly. That's worth pointing out. And that's 493 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:53,160 Speaker 1: why Trump the other night in his speech laid out 494 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 1: how long Iraq took, Afghanistan took, World War I, World 495 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 1: War two it took. Because if we end up coming 496 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 1: completely taking out their rockets, getting back to that topic, 497 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:05,880 Speaker 1: if we end up completely taking out their launchers on 498 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 1: day ninety, which would be three times as long as 499 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 1: we've been at it so far, roughly, I ll you'll 500 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 1: look back on and think, wow, they took the United 501 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 1: States took out a top twenty world military in less 502 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 1: than ninety days would seem shockingly effective. But right now, 503 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 1: at the thirty day mark, people are acting like it's 504 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 1: a disaster right right, and throw in with admittedly tragic 505 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:35,960 Speaker 1: yet very very small scale losses of human life. Final note. 506 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 1: Through VDH, the left seeks to create abject chaos that 507 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 1: it can only be eliviinated alleviated by the political destruction 508 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: of Donald Trump. So the anti war hysteria follows the 509 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 1: pattern of the left's embrace of tesla vandalism, violent demonstrations 510 00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 1: against Ice, the incoherent no Kings protests, and three government shutdowns. 511 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,400 Speaker 1: Such nihilism shares a common trait of offering no positive 512 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:02,320 Speaker 1: counter agenda. Yeah, I would tend to agree with VDH. 513 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: And finally, Neil Ferguson, we don't really have time for this, 514 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:11,040 Speaker 1: but love and f how great powers lose wars they're winning. 515 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:14,880 Speaker 1: Nearly seventy years after the Suez Crisis, the US may 516 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 1: have marched into a strikingly similar trap in the strait 517 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 1: of horror moves his main point, maybe we spend a 518 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: little more time on this later is stopping before the 519 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 1: job is done, because that last x percent is the 520 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: toughest part of the battle. Well on that to come. 521 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,720 Speaker 1: Eisenhower dealing with Suez didn't have to deal with a 522 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,560 Speaker 1: TikTok world where we expect everything to happen at thirty 523 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 1: seconds at the time. That's another pressure that's just completely modern, 524 00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:57,920 Speaker 1: the timetable. Yeah, and then Neil also asks there's now 525 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 1: a rising probability that Trump's wore backfires on him as 526 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,440 Speaker 1: much as Eden's did. That was the British guy back 527 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 1: in the day in the Suez Canal economically, politically and geopolitically, 528 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 1: which raises the question, is this the American sue az 529 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 1: It could be. It could be. So we got to 530 00:31:17,240 --> 00:31:20,080 Speaker 1: leave time to get to Gavin Newsom's wife and child 531 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: rearing and see if you agree with it or not 532 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 1: as a lifestyle. It's next, by the way, history buffs. 533 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,479 Speaker 1: If you're into the Suez Canal standoff or you've never 534 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 1: gotten into it. The book Ike's Bluff by Evan Thomas 535 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:42,760 Speaker 1: is a page turner, fantastic book about that and really 536 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: gets into that's the moment where Great Britain's military dominance 537 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,520 Speaker 1: of the world really came to an end and we 538 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 1: took over. Was right then. So Gavin Newsom's running for 539 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,920 Speaker 1: president almost certainly, and his wife is going to end 540 00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,760 Speaker 1: up being a we think a series live. She's got 541 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 1: all kinds of woke craziness, she has said over the years, 542 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,719 Speaker 1: and nobody is paying attention. She's a wife of a governor, 543 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: and whatever she goes in California's first Partner, Sir, she 544 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 1: goes around to various things and talks. Here she is 545 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 1: in front of a group of people sitting in big 546 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 1: comfy chairs having a conversation about raising kids. Here's what 547 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 1: she's sounded like. 548 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 2: I've given our boys dolls. Even if they tear the 549 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 2: heat off, I've given them dolls to learn that care 550 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 2: and caregiving is not just an activity that's reserved for women, 551 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 2: but that it's also an activity that is a responsibility 552 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 2: of men. What I've done with both my daughters and 553 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 2: my sons is if I'm reading a book and the 554 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,720 Speaker 2: protagonist is a male, I just change the heat to 555 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:48,640 Speaker 2: as she and it just normalizes for my sons. In particularly, 556 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 2: it's not even I don't even just do it for 557 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 2: my girls. 558 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:51,040 Speaker 1: I do it for my sons. 559 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:53,520 Speaker 2: Because I want them to see that women can be 560 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 2: the center of a story, that women matter, that women 561 00:32:58,200 --> 00:32:58,920 Speaker 2: are interesting. 562 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:04,320 Speaker 1: And she is saying this in the year fifteen eighty apparently, 563 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 1: where women get no respect and aren't seen as like 564 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,200 Speaker 1: the main character in any story or whatever. What the 565 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,480 Speaker 1: hell are you talking about. I've never understood why the 566 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 1: left can't understand when they've won. You won that argument, 567 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 1: all right. There are more chicks in college and law school, 568 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,920 Speaker 1: medical school and everything else you can think of than 569 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 1: there are boys. We've got a boy crisis. You don't 570 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,440 Speaker 1: need to when you read a book, change the protagonist 571 00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:34,480 Speaker 1: if it's a boy to a girl to make sure 572 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:36,480 Speaker 1: girls think they can go out in the world and 573 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: be something. What are you talking about? Two points? Number one, 574 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,320 Speaker 1: it's the it's the advocacy, that's the point. It's not 575 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 1: the goal. It's just look at me. I'm a fighter 576 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,400 Speaker 1: for justice, even if the goal doesn't make any sense. 577 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 1: And yeah, your point is an excellent one, and let's 578 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,560 Speaker 1: let her finish and then we'll I'll continue to rent 579 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:53,880 Speaker 1: and rape. 580 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 3: At the end of the day. 581 00:33:54,960 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 2: We're all kind of like in this place in history 582 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:04,040 Speaker 2: maybe where we're recognizing what it is to ultimately deconstruct 583 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:08,359 Speaker 2: all these gender roles and ultimately be human. And that's 584 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:12,880 Speaker 2: exciting to me. So you know, I'll just continue to 585 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,719 Speaker 2: kind of do my work and try and deconstruct all 586 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,399 Speaker 2: of these like limiting narratives about ultimately what it means 587 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:18,960 Speaker 2: to be human. 588 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, if you know the code words, she's a postmodernist 589 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:27,680 Speaker 1: neo Marxist. You're deconstructing everything and whatever the party tells 590 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:29,919 Speaker 1: you to do. That's the new reality. Since you're about 591 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,640 Speaker 1: to be a mom and a woman, Katie will let 592 00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,359 Speaker 1: you weigh in. I was just thinking about, no wonder 593 00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:39,560 Speaker 1: he's doing drugs. Yeah, that's stuff about I give my 594 00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,760 Speaker 1: boys dolls so they can understand that men too have energy. 595 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 1: Oh thanks for insulting the entire male population. Then we 596 00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 1: don't just automatically understand the need to be nurturing for 597 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,200 Speaker 1: our children or whatever. Blah blah blah unless you tell 598 00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:58,640 Speaker 1: us she is so beyond out of touch. Oh yeah, 599 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:03,000 Speaker 1: she is like one hundred already proof distillation of being 600 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 1: desperate to find a problem and pretending you've found it 601 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,800 Speaker 1: and be the leader of fixing it. Yeah, right, exactly 602 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:13,120 Speaker 1: what you are talking about. You change the male protagonist 603 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,480 Speaker 1: in a book to a girl, so that your boys 604 00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:18,440 Speaker 1: can understand your girls can understand it. Sometimes the girls 605 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,600 Speaker 1: can be the center of a story. What girls can 606 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:23,640 Speaker 1: even be a doctor or a lawyer. I need to 607 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:30,640 Speaker 1: teach my boys that what the hell Armstrong and Getty