Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: We reviewed all the information and the American Republic is
Speaker 3: going to get as much as we can release. He
Speaker 3: killed himself. Do you think let's play out the logical
Speaker 3: conclusion of this. Do you think that myself, Bongino and
Speaker 3: others would participate in hiding information about Epstein's grow test activities.
Speaker 4: That's cash Buttel now that he's FBI director saying there's
Speaker 4: no list and we're not hiding anything, and why would
Speaker 4: we be hiding this stuff? So why were they out
Speaker 4: there acting like there was stuff to hide before? Sarah
Speaker 4: Isger of The Dispatch was on ABC this week speaking
Speaker 4: to that Where did.
Speaker 5: Epstain there's money come from? Where did the money now go?
Speaker 5: I mean, I guess I do still have questions about that.
Speaker 5: I'm surprised that again, these people who made a lot
Speaker 5: of money and careers and got their current jobs based
Speaker 5: on this conspiracy theory aren't telling us any of those
Speaker 5: answers that they could have found at the same time
Speaker 5: hiding behind you know, saying, well, we're not going to release,
Speaker 5: for instance, videos of miners or grand jury material that's
Speaker 5: sealed by the court, like okay, but this was your
Speaker 5: bread and butter.
Speaker 4: So she's saying a lot of those people that were
Speaker 4: out there, Pambandi, Cash Hotel, Dan Bongino, you know, he
Speaker 4: got a lot of clicks and got a lot of
Speaker 4: attention by talking about the Epstein thing and how you're
Speaker 4: going to uncover it. But she says, and I've heard
Speaker 4: a couple of and she's a buy the book straight
Speaker 4: shooter Sarah Isger, and I've heard other straight shooters say
Speaker 4: where did this guy get his money? I thought that
Speaker 4: was known. It's not known.
Speaker 2: How will he ended up so wealthy?
Speaker 6: I thought it was he was just a very aggressive
Speaker 6: and savvy financial manager, managed the portfolios the rich people
Speaker 6: and made him tons of money and got a cut.
Speaker 4: But maybe he ended up Okay, now I'm going down
Speaker 4: a complete maybe world. So did he end up managing
Speaker 4: the funds of rich people because hey, I can get
Speaker 4: you a seventeen year old if that's your thing.
Speaker 6: Or was that just his perverse hobby that he could
Speaker 6: indulge when he became so wealthy?
Speaker 2: That's what I've assumed all along.
Speaker 6: I do kind of appreciate the side points you made,
Speaker 6: what made which was you having set and fueled this fire?
Speaker 6: Perhaps you would like to join us in putting it
Speaker 6: out now that you have the insider information.
Speaker 4: Right I I'm like President Trump when it came up
Speaker 4: yesterday the last week in a press conference.
Speaker 2: Are we still talking about Epstein? Really? I feel the
Speaker 2: same way as Trump. Now it was taken by.
Speaker 4: Some in the world of being into Epstein that that's
Speaker 4: part of Trump's cover up. Oh my god, He's compromised
Speaker 4: to which Tucker Carlson. So, Tucker Carlson did an interview
Speaker 4: with somebody on his website show thing that has millions
Speaker 4: of followers, last week, and then he spoke somewhere over
Speaker 4: the weekend and got into the explanation for the whole
Speaker 4: Epstein thing. I don't know if we'll play you the
Speaker 4: whole two minutes, although it's pretty interesting.
Speaker 2: I vote yes.
Speaker 6: But it's turning point USA Charlie Kirks's organization, which is
Speaker 6: pretty big.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh yeah, there's lots of people that are
Speaker 4: into this. But anyway, Tucker Carlson laying out what's going
Speaker 4: on with Epstein, and.
Speaker 7: I think the truth, for whatever it's worth, in case
Speaker 7: you're interested, is that the DOJ didn't release lots of
Speaker 7: incriminating sex videos with Epstein and his billionaire pals because.
Speaker 2: They don't have them. They don't have.
Speaker 7: Them because when the original search warrant was served two
Speaker 7: thousand and seven I think, possibly two thousand and six,
Speaker 7: I think seven, it was basically designed to protect Epstein.
Speaker 7: The search warrant was written in such a way to
Speaker 7: make sure that the FEDS never got their hands on
Speaker 7: the actually incriminating evidence. It's another way of saying the
Speaker 7: cover up has been going on since two thousand and seven,
Speaker 7: almost twenty years.
Speaker 4: Okay, so that is one of the maybe you believe this,
Speaker 4: but one of the things that people do with conspiracies
Speaker 4: is put in details that make it seem so real,
Speaker 4: like it's two thousand and six, two thousand and seven,
Speaker 4: not sure on the date there, but you know, stuff
Speaker 4: like that is you throw in nuggets like that.
Speaker 2: But anyway, here we go.
Speaker 7: And so the real question is not was Jeffrey Epstein
Speaker 7: a weirdo who is abusing girls? Yes, we can answer that.
Speaker 7: The real question is why was he doing this? On
Speaker 7: whose behalf? And where did the money come from? And
Speaker 7: those are the questions that need to be answered. And
Speaker 7: I think it's entirely fair to ask them, and it's
Speaker 7: not adequate to say anyone who asked them is somehow
Speaker 7: desecrating the memory of little girls who died in Texas.
Speaker 7: They're not going to put up with that answer. I
Speaker 7: don't care who gives that answer. That is not acceptable.
Speaker 4: Now was a shot of Trump because Trump said to Texas,
Speaker 4: we're talking about Texas, and you're bringing up Epstein right right.
Speaker 4: That entire chunk of audio was completely incoherent. Was clearly
Speaker 4: Joe's on the list. Okay, so you're part of the deal.
Speaker 4: You're part of a.
Speaker 6: Perfer who preyed on the young girls. Yes, that's clear.
Speaker 6: But why was he doing this? Where did the money
Speaker 6: come from? Why did did he hold his freak coughs?
Speaker 6: Because he's a perv? Where'd the money come from? He
Speaker 6: is a wealthy investment manager more.
Speaker 7: And I think the real answer is Jeffrey Epstein was
Speaker 7: working on behalf of Intel Services, probably not American, and
Speaker 7: we have every right to ask on whose behalf was
Speaker 7: he working.
Speaker 2: How does a guy.
Speaker 7: Go from being a math teacher at the Dalton School
Speaker 7: in the late seventies with no college degree, to having
Speaker 7: multiple airplanes, a private island, and the largest residential house
Speaker 7: in Manhattan. Where did all the money come from? And
Speaker 7: no one has ever gotten to the bottom of that
Speaker 7: because no one has ever tried.
Speaker 4: Now that he's got to be at least somewhat true
Speaker 4: to where the money came from.
Speaker 2: Or Sarah, I Isger wouldn't have said that.
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, I'd like to ask her about that, but
Speaker 6: I found that incoherent.
Speaker 2: So yes, Joe is on the list. Listen to him
Speaker 2: cover up.
Speaker 4: He disproved his own case, all right.
Speaker 6: Here are two explanations of how a private school math
Speaker 6: teacher who dropped out of college could become rich and famous.
Speaker 6: Because he was smart, he was fascinated by markets, he
Speaker 6: worked really hard, and he happened to be a really
Speaker 6: charming guy. That is the obvious explanation to me. And
Speaker 6: he also happened to be a perv who preyed on
Speaker 6: underage girls, but he was a typical American success story.
Speaker 6: The alternate, the dark hinting of Tucker for people with
Speaker 6: minds not quite sharp enough to understand what he's doing,
Speaker 6: is that somehow the Israeli intelligence services, because I think
Speaker 6: he gets there eventually, right, the Jews.
Speaker 4: Want to hear that next, and then we can comment on.
Speaker 2: I'll be very brief.
Speaker 6: But the alternate theory is that somehow clandestine's secret string
Speaker 6: pulling intelligence services identified this math teacher at a private
Speaker 6: school who dropped out of college and thought he the
Speaker 6: one will use well, get him lots of money, and
Speaker 6: he'll pray on little girls, and he'll wait a minute.
Speaker 2: Why him?
Speaker 7: And moreover, it's extremely obvious to anyone who watches that
Speaker 7: this guy had direct connections to a foreign government. Now,
Speaker 7: no one's allowed to say that foreign government is Israel
Speaker 7: because we have been somehow.
Speaker 2: Cowed crowd cheers.
Speaker 7: Into thinking that that's naughty. There is nothing wrong with
Speaker 7: saying that. There is nothing hateful about saying that. There's
Speaker 7: nothing anti Semitic about saying there's nothing even anti Israel
Speaker 7: about saying that.
Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, okay, let's hear one more and then we'll comment.
Speaker 1: Who have you seen Pam Bondy. She has never missed
Speaker 1: an opportunity to go on television and dangle sweet nothings
Speaker 1: that might be coming your way, try to lead you
Speaker 1: to believe that she's got it. It's on her desk,
Speaker 1: it's coming tomorrow, You're going to see something on Epstein.
Speaker 2: And it was a tease.
Speaker 1: So you either believe that Pam Bondy was telling the
Speaker 1: truth then or that she's telling the truth now, but
Speaker 1: both cannot be true. She was either lying when she
Speaker 1: went on Fox News all those times saying I've got it,
Speaker 1: I've got it, we're looking at it.
Speaker 2: Wait until you see it.
Speaker 1: It's horrible, or she's lying in her two page memo
Speaker 1: that they released on a Sunday night at the tail
Speaker 1: end of a holiday weekend to Axios as if Axios
Speaker 1: is where we all go for our news.
Speaker 4: She went to Telly at the speaking of the same
Speaker 4: thing on how Pam Bondy is covering up something so
Speaker 4: or was being a Trump esque promoter back in the day, right,
Speaker 4: she didn't have it. I feel like Megan Kelly, who's
Speaker 4: way more up and up than Tucker. She was kind
Speaker 4: of just hinting that it could be something, but she's
Speaker 4: really she's really just falling back on Pambonni was a
Speaker 4: charlatan playing this game to get all excited, and.
Speaker 6: Yeah, she was trying to gently come halfway between Tucker
Speaker 6: and the audience.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 4: But so Tucker, you know, when he finally gets to Israel,
Speaker 4: crowd cheers like crazy. And there's nothing wrong with looking
Speaker 4: into Israel. That's not a Israel's not a bad word.
Speaker 4: We're not allowed who says we're not allowed to look
Speaker 4: at Israel? And the crowd cheers like crazy. So the
Speaker 4: leaps that get made in the whole Epstein thing, I mean,
Speaker 4: you just leap with a couple of words constantly. So
Speaker 4: obviously foreign influence. Why obviously back up a second, why
Speaker 4: is there obviously foreign influence?
Speaker 2: I mean I missed that part, I guess.
Speaker 6: And yeah, the idea that a super rich Jewish fellow
Speaker 6: in New York would have some contacts in the Israeli government,
Speaker 6: it's not that crazy.
Speaker 2: But you know what, that's fine.
Speaker 6: I want to hear the Steve Bannon tape because I
Speaker 6: think that really crystallizes what's going on here. It's people
Speaker 6: are making money, folks, lots and lots of money.
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Speaker 8: Would strongly recommend in that because I've argued for this
Speaker 8: from the beginning, that in that arc of looking at
Speaker 8: how the deep state has tried to stop Trump in
Speaker 8: the Maga movement, you can easily fit in the Epstein situation.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 8: If you want the full release of documents, the special
Speaker 8: prosecutor gets it.
Speaker 2: And here's why.
Speaker 8: Epstein is a key that picks the lock on so
Speaker 8: many things, not just individuals, but also institutions, intelligence institutions,
Speaker 8: foreign governments, and who's working and who was working with
Speaker 8: him on our intelligence apparatus and in our government. This
Speaker 8: is why it's a time for choosing.
Speaker 2: Now, a time for choosing over Epstein. Right.
Speaker 4: I guess at this point in my life, I finally
Speaker 4: you know, fully understand what goes on with these conspiracy things.
Speaker 2: It's just if you.
Speaker 4: Need a scary thing to blame for just not being
Speaker 4: happy with the world, you go with these things, and
Speaker 4: it's just kind of an amorphous. That's what's causing everything.
Speaker 4: I don't like, what do you? And I and I
Speaker 4: and I can't do anything about it, damn it.
Speaker 2: End or it's a mystery and a hobby. There's somebody
Speaker 2: yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Often with that it's yeah yeah, like you like trying
Speaker 4: to figure out who killed JFK.
Speaker 2: That sort of thing, right, it's fun to follow.
Speaker 6: You get that burst of endorphins every time a new
Speaker 6: revelation comes out or somebody can tie Epstein to the
Speaker 6: Jews or or whatever.
Speaker 2: The Israelis.
Speaker 6: I love how Tucker will like overtly blame the global
Speaker 6: conspiracy of Jews. And then when you say, oh, that's
Speaker 6: out of bounds, he says, what we can't question the
Speaker 6: Israeli government. Come on, Tucker Allo, people fall for that
Speaker 6: sort of Uh.
Speaker 4: I am a modern Bailey argument. Zero concern that there's
Speaker 4: some major thing going on with Epstein? Do you have
Speaker 4: any No, I have zero, I mean like zero, I
Speaker 4: don't even have two percent. I have zero percent concerned
Speaker 4: that there's some major secret being held back from me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I think you may have nailed it earlier.
Speaker 6: Oh we're on late when you said essentially, people just
Speaker 6: they want a person or people or something in particular
Speaker 6: to blame for the fact that things suck, and not
Speaker 6: just the government is gigantic and bloated nobody's in charge
Speaker 6: of it. It's extremely hard to scale back. Yeah, there's
Speaker 6: a permanent bureaucracy that serves their own needs in Washington.
Speaker 6: You can call them the deep state if you want.
Speaker 6: But it's not a carefully controlled conspiracy. It's just a
Speaker 6: gig antic bureaucracy.
Speaker 2: Kind of in line with that.
Speaker 4: We got to get to the Teddy Bear with human skin,
Speaker 4: just because I see it ouverall on social media.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned.
Speaker 6: Hey Ynie seven eleven turned ninety eight today on seven eleven,
Speaker 6: and they gave away free slurpees.
Speaker 7: They started this tradition in two thousand and two, which.
Speaker 4: Is also the last time they cleaned their microwaves. Okay,
Speaker 4: I got two more Epstein nuggets I forgot to throw
Speaker 4: out there.
Speaker 2: One.
Speaker 4: Alan door Schrewitz, the famous lawyer was on Fox all
Speaker 4: the time, says there is a list. He's seen it,
Speaker 4: but he can't speak more about it for legal reasons. Okay,
Speaker 4: Holy cow.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 4: This was actually reported by ABC News, their news guy.
Speaker 4: The FBI had hundreds of agents on the Epstein story
Speaker 4: that are now being assigned to other work. Thank god,
Speaker 4: hundreds we're working on the Epstein story, all right. Whatever
Speaker 4: they were.
Speaker 6: Doing Hey, if information comes out that is contrary to
Speaker 6: my beliefs on this, I will take it in. I
Speaker 6: am not I have not predetermined a conclusion. I have
Speaker 6: an open mind.
Speaker 4: Speaking of convenience stories, you walk out of a convenience
Speaker 4: store in Victorville, California, and you see that on the sidewalk,
Speaker 4: and what the hell is that?
Speaker 2: A teddy bear with human skin?
Speaker 6: Oh my god, world's worst bedtime story.
Speaker 4: A teddy bear with what looks like it's got human skin.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you how I first became aware of this story.
Speaker 4: I got information through social media. I saw some people
Speaker 4: posting about, oh my god, the cartels are in California.
Speaker 4: They found a teddy bear that had human skin sewed
Speaker 4: into it. It's a message the cartels do in Mexico
Speaker 4: to let people know they're in town and they've taken over.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: And so it's horrifying and oh my god, be careful.
Speaker 6: It says if the childhood classic The Velveteen Rabbit had
Speaker 6: been written by Jeffrey Dahmer.
Speaker 4: Which when I first saw that, because that's how I
Speaker 4: first heard about the story, I thought, oh my god,
Speaker 4: this is the worst thing I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 4: That the cartels, so human skin into things to let
Speaker 4: them know, you know, watch out the beloved teddy Bear please. Anyway,
Speaker 4: he gets a bunch of attention and then ends up
Speaker 4: on a news story and then some store owner who
Speaker 4: runs ans Etsy shop called Dark Seed Creations contacts the
Speaker 4: TV station said, Yeah, that's me, that's me. I make
Speaker 4: these sorts of things. I make all kinds of weird
Speaker 4: macab objects. People really like them. The store has four
Speaker 4: and a half star rating. They sell an array of
Speaker 4: macob objects. Speaking of Jeffrey Epstein, I want everybody who
Speaker 4: buys one on a list, no kidding, all featuring human
Speaker 4: like skin on normal objects, like ties with faces on them,
Speaker 4: or a stomach churning one hundred dollars human leather baseball back.
Speaker 4: It's not real ski and obviously it just looks kind
Speaker 4: of like it. It's it's like stuff you'd get at
Speaker 4: a I don't know halloween shop. How it ended up
Speaker 4: on the sidewalk at the Commune, but it's got nothing
Speaker 4: to do with cartels, and it's not a message that
Speaker 4: we all need to be afraid, very afraid. So just
Speaker 4: let you know from an Etsy store are so many
Speaker 4: ways you can make a living in life, and that's one.
Speaker 6: Apparently macromade potholders human skin covered teddy bears.
Speaker 2: Which will be oh my god, oh jeez, what does
Speaker 2: that have? The big thing?
Speaker 4: Oh, so Trump is going to announce while we're on
Speaker 4: the air today, the big announcement that he's been teasing
Speaker 4: for seventy two hours about going after Russia's money and
Speaker 4: funding and arming Ukraine. So looking forward to whenever that
Speaker 4: announcement comes out.
Speaker 6: Plus, on a lighter note, major pet company decide its
Speaker 6: executives don't have the right catitude. We'll bring you that
Speaker 6: horrifyingly cutesy story next hour.
Speaker 2: Wow, later this hour, how was an annoying term? Armstrong
Speaker 2: and getdy?
Speaker 9: With Russia's assault on Ukraine far from over, a stark
Speaker 9: and surprising shift in President Trump's tone towards Vladimir Putin,
Speaker 9: a man he has often praised, Trump lashing out at
Speaker 9: the Russian president and promising new weaponshipments to Ukraine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we ought to play that opening clip again with Trump,
Speaker 4: because that's that he was getting on a plane and
Speaker 4: it's getting It's like the.
Speaker 2: Lead clip on all news stories. Play that again, would you?
Speaker 4: Michael?
Speaker 9: I am very disappointed with President Putin.
Speaker 4: I thought he was somebody that meant what he said,
Speaker 4: and you'll talk so beautifully and then I'll bomb people
Speaker 4: at night.
Speaker 6: We don't like that, so we commented on that earlier.
Speaker 6: He surprised a lot of people. Trump said he surprised
Speaker 6: a lot of people by not being what he said.
Speaker 6: He was, okay, by being precisely who he's always been
Speaker 6: and has made infinitely clear he always will be. He
Speaker 6: didn't surprise anybody, but you, I don't think. But that aside,
Speaker 6: if you watch what Trump does, not what he says,
Speaker 6: I like to move toward rearming Ukraine. We're waiting for
Speaker 6: the big Monday announcement as we speak these words about
Speaker 6: what the new policy is toward Ukraine slash Russia, slash
Speaker 6: Russia's major oil trading partners. That's where Trump, I think,
Speaker 6: is really going to bring the hurt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, specifically India, China, and Brazil five penalty for buying
Speaker 4: oil from Russia.
Speaker 6: So a handful of Ukraine and Russia related headlines that
Speaker 6: I found interesting. First of all, Peggy Noonan's piece in
Speaker 6: the Wall Street Journal, very very beautifully written as usual
Speaker 6: about isol and engagement in the world and Ukraine and Russia,
Speaker 6: and she makes the point, and I think this is
Speaker 6: really good and smart.
Speaker 2: Isolationism is essentially emotional.
Speaker 6: You're angry at the cost in blood and treasure of
Speaker 6: your country's international forays and adventures and want to withdraw
Speaker 6: from the world. Emotionalism can old sway and dominate politics
Speaker 6: for a time, even inn era, but you can't build
Speaker 6: anything on it. It doesn't last because emotions change, because
Speaker 6: facts change. And the problem is, you can quit the world,
Speaker 6: but the world won't quit you. If you tell the
Speaker 6: world earlier in the century America is too uproarious and aggressive,
Speaker 6: we'll stop now, goodbye, the world will not respond by
Speaker 6: saying what geopolitical modesty you're showing?
Speaker 2: Goodbye now and best wishes do you. The world will.
Speaker 6: Instead see new opportunities to continue to do what it does.
Speaker 6: Harry and harass, undermine a perceived foes, interests, provoke and pray,
Speaker 6: And she goes into China and Russian and a bunch
Speaker 6: of others and how Vladimir Putin is a monster of history.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that my favorite troop is waking up to him.
Speaker 4: My favorite pushback on non intervention thing is always you
Speaker 4: can quit, but it doesn't make mean they're gonna quit.
Speaker 4: It'd be nice if you could just I'm out, I'm
Speaker 4: opting out of this whole thing. Okay, well, we'll do
Speaker 4: it on our own and leave you out of it.
Speaker 4: But it doesn't that's not an option.
Speaker 6: Sure, Sure, and her final point, at least the final
Speaker 6: point I want to make. But you can bring attitude, well,
Speaker 6: she talks about. Isolationism is not a good strategy. Neither
Speaker 6: is wild foreign interventions and trying to build Jeffersonian democracies
Speaker 6: all across the world. Idiotic anyway. But you can bring
Speaker 6: attitudes and ways of operating. Don't look for trouble, don't aggress,
Speaker 6: build bridges where you can be peaceable and prudent, but
Speaker 6: have hard eyes. Don't carry yourself forward into the world
Speaker 6: with hubris about your grand democratic system. Be quietly proud
Speaker 6: and see to its wholesomeness. Be an example, be a beacon,
Speaker 6: which I thought was good. Then moving along to a
Speaker 6: couple of other things. Patriot systems will be sent to Ukraine.
Speaker 6: Trump says, essentially, we're gonna sell them to some of
Speaker 6: our NATO partners and they're going to give them to Ukraine.
Speaker 6: Trump is congenitally unable to understand just giving stuff to
Speaker 6: other countries. If you can sell it to them, we'll.
Speaker 2: See how it enfolds. Why not make a buck.
Speaker 6: But again we're waiting for the other aspects of the
Speaker 6: new strategy. I found this interesting purely military tactics wise,
Speaker 6: a never ending supply of drones has frozen the front
Speaker 6: lines in Ukraine. In the Battle for Ukraine's frontline is
Speaker 6: increasingly at a standstill. The reason rapid innovations in drone technology,
Speaker 6: and they mentioned that from just a few at the
Speaker 6: beginning of it, unmanned vehicles now dominate the battlefield.
Speaker 2: Each side has hundreds of.
Speaker 6: Them constantly in the air in the seven hundred and
Speaker 6: fifty mile front. Drones can lay mines, deliver everything from
Speaker 6: ammunition to medication, and then evacuate wounded or dead soldiers. Crucially,
Speaker 6: drones spot any movement along the front line are dispatched
Speaker 6: to strike enemy troops and vehicles. So you can't get
Speaker 6: anything started. You can't use tank columns anymore, right, because
Speaker 6: that was in the early days. It was all about
Speaker 6: tank columns an anti tank weaponry.
Speaker 4: I heard about a speech that Petreeus gave the other day,
Speaker 4: and man, it is a it's so awful that he
Speaker 4: got driven out of public life by the affair and
Speaker 4: sharing classified information with the chick he was having sex
Speaker 4: with and all that, because he's really brilliant. But anyway,
Speaker 4: he said, the tank is becoming an almost useless piece
Speaker 4: of equipment.
Speaker 2: It was the.
Speaker 4: Dominant war machine for a century and now it's just
Speaker 4: drones have surpassed it. And what has taken its place
Speaker 4: with the evolution of drone technology means large scale assaults
Speaker 4: with tanks have all been abandoned in favor of small
Speaker 4: groups on foot or motorbike. Yes, small assault teams which
Speaker 4: are harder for drones to spot or hit, advance more slowly.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, last week I was watching the report about Russia.
Speaker 4: Small groups on dirt bikes and ATV drones are now
Speaker 4: so plentiful again. There are hundreds in the air every
Speaker 4: moment that pilots will attack a single soldier.
Speaker 6: On foot, making rotating soldiers in and out of trenches
Speaker 6: dangerous and creating a mostly static front line.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine how terrifying that is when you're running
Speaker 4: with a couple of drones over your head, just wondering
Speaker 4: at what moment?
Speaker 6: Oh oh, and I read an account in the Wall
Speaker 6: Street Journal last week. I think it was about the
Speaker 6: new fiber optic cable connected drones because you can't use
Speaker 6: radio control drones much because everybody's gotten so good at
Speaker 6: you know, countermeasures, blocking signals, et cetera, scrambling things. And
Speaker 6: it opens with an account of one of the top
Speaker 6: drone pilot dudes who is just a video gamer kid
Speaker 6: when he got recruited controlling a drone that goes under
Speaker 6: an overpass a bridge and sees a Russian soldier sleeping
Speaker 6: like against one of the column under a blanket, and
Speaker 6: he just buzzes the thing up. The guy's totally unaware
Speaker 6: of it in kerbleuy. War's over for that young man.
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 6: Yeah, just crazy. How do the great powers respond to this?
Speaker 6: What technology is right around the corner? Will this lead
Speaker 6: to more war or less?
Speaker 2: Who knows? Of the key.
Speaker 4: Question being are we going to be on the leading
Speaker 4: edge of it? I'm tempted to, but I won't for
Speaker 4: now get to. China warns of rogue robot troops unleashing
Speaker 4: terminator style indiscriminate killings. So you've got that robot troops, Well,
Speaker 4: that's not horrifying robot armies, correct, than this.
Speaker 6: It's actually a profile again in the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 6: of Eldridge Colby, who a lot of people are have called,
Speaker 6: you know, quite inaccurately, some sort of isolationists because he's
Speaker 6: not pro really really arming Ukraine, but his arguments for
Speaker 6: pivoting instead to countering China and not being distracted by
Speaker 6: smaller regional conflicts and other smaller interests is pretty compelling.
Speaker 4: He's the one that pulled the plug on arms to
Speaker 4: Ukraine a week or so ago, according to most reports,
Speaker 4: without Trump's go ahead.
Speaker 6: Right their sources says memo on Ukraine arms requests and
Speaker 6: depleted US stockpiles factored into a temporary suspension of shipments.
Speaker 6: I might not agree with mister Colby on all of
Speaker 6: his conclusions, but boy howdy, we need his voice saying China.
Speaker 6: Focus on China, certainly, as China's every bit as aggressive
Speaker 6: and expansionist as they've ever ever been. It just hasn't
Speaker 6: been the headlines China. I don't, sir, but thank you
Speaker 6: for the renewed warning. And then finally this, I'll just
Speaker 6: hit you with a little of this. I am going
Speaker 6: to be reading the closed captioning of a Russian language
Speaker 6: video It is a Russian soldier calling his mud from Ukraine,
Speaker 6: just to give you a view of those static front
Speaker 6: lines and the efforts to move them and what it's like.
Speaker 6: She asks, how are you there? We're f't What do
Speaker 6: you mean only ten of us left? I deserted? How
Speaker 6: come I ran off from the combat zone? Efing hell?
Speaker 6: How come are you efing crazy? Two hundred people went in,
Speaker 6: only ten remain. What do you mean, are you drinking
Speaker 6: or something? I'm not drinking, mom, no joke. I bailed
Speaker 6: from the front. Two hundred of us went in, only
Speaker 6: ten left. They just threw us into a meat grinder.
Speaker 6: We tried to assault, but nothing's working. Six regiments have
Speaker 6: already been wiped out, three hundred people. They still think
Speaker 6: I'm in combat, but I've left the battle. I heard
Speaker 6: someone on the radio, Sam actually killed in action, and
Speaker 6: no one knows where I am. For F's sake, is
Speaker 6: my replies. They don't even collect the bodies. We've been
Speaker 6: walking over corpses since November. That's how it is, mom. Really,
Speaker 6: they're even killing their own here. What number is this?
Speaker 6: The guy messaged you from last time, he's gone, he's
Speaker 6: been killed. He's using somebody else's phone. Oh f of,
Speaker 6: she says. Our guys, corpses from November are still there.
Speaker 6: No one gives an f at all. They told us,
Speaker 6: even if only three of you are left, you'll still
Speaker 6: go in with sapper shovels and try to attack. They
Speaker 6: don't give an f about us. Then they write missing
Speaker 6: an action, don't retrieve the bodies. As for the wounded,
Speaker 6: they said they won't evacuate them anymore. Oh all right, mom,
Speaker 6: I got to get the hell out of here. I'm
Speaker 6: scared what if I get killed?
Speaker 2: Huh? Either way?
Speaker 4: By And that's the history of the way Russia has
Speaker 4: treated their soldiers forever.
Speaker 2: That's just their culture. That's brutal.
Speaker 6: You thousand guys are going to die for your country,
Speaker 6: and here we go, yeah for.
Speaker 4: Your country and quotes. I mean, you're fighting Napoleon, You're
Speaker 4: dying for your country. You're fighting to take Ukraine. Today,
Speaker 4: you're not really fighting for your country, You're fighting for
Speaker 4: one egomaniac's pipe dream.
Speaker 2: Right exactly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, I will tell you this. People don't really
Speaker 6: bring Ukraine up in real life to me. Nope, hardly
Speaker 6: at all. No, I'm not sure how much mind to
Speaker 6: share it has in the annoyance at the annoying parlance
Speaker 6: of our time. Speaking of annoying parlance, next hour, probably
Speaker 6: we could do it. Next we can talk about it.
Speaker 6: A major pet company says it's executives might not have
Speaker 6: the right catitude.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like we need to get catitude off
Speaker 4: our plate so we can move on.
Speaker 2: It's going to.
Speaker 4: Just lodge in my craw and then, you know, I
Speaker 4: keep talking about my craw. My craw is really.
Speaker 2: Really really ought to get that looked at.
Speaker 4: I got a ointment, but it just doesn't seem to
Speaker 4: be working for my crawl crawl ointment. Okay, stay tuned
Speaker 4: for catitude the right. It's pulling on immigration and how
Speaker 4: we're handling and everything like that.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll get to that an.
Speaker 4: Hour three, and then some of the stuff around Alligator
Speaker 4: Alcatraz and all of that.
Speaker 2: So that's fun.
Speaker 6: Eighty percent of the coverage of Alligator Alcatraz is because
Speaker 6: of the name. Of course, this, oh boy.
Speaker 2: Speaking of ridiculous.
Speaker 4: I didn't say it's a sign. There's actually a sign
Speaker 4: there that says alligator Alcatraz. I thought it was just
Speaker 4: a clever term somebody came up with, But that's actually what.
Speaker 2: It's called it's a good name. Sure, I mean, I'll
Speaker 2: grant you that.
Speaker 6: Speaking of ridiculous inside operation Catitude, a pet food giant's
Speaker 6: mission to understand cats.
Speaker 2: There's nothing to understand about cats, is there? There is?
Speaker 4: Jack?
Speaker 6: Well, well about cat, which is a term I'm not
Speaker 6: supposed to use.
Speaker 2: By the way, I will tell you this.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 2: The you're clearly team dog, Mega team dog.
Speaker 6: Jack your team dog. I've been a lifelong team dog owner.
Speaker 6: I've owned one cat as an adult one as a kid.
Speaker 6: Was very fond of them both. But when it ended,
Speaker 6: it was like, oh that's too bad.
Speaker 2: It was a nice cat. Anyway, what are we having
Speaker 2: for dinner? I'm not sorry I don't like your cat, dude?
Speaker 6: Wow, Well, and look, other people are different and I
Speaker 6: can accept that and I am not going to bad
Speaker 6: mouth them for it.
Speaker 2: I will, I will if you want.
Speaker 6: But well, yeah, it's just let's not hurt any feelings unnecessarily.
Speaker 2: Sure, Okay.
Speaker 6: The maker, the giant pet food giant company that makes
Speaker 6: Whiskas food and Temptations treats, had a problem. Cats were
Speaker 6: rapidly catching up to dogs as America's favorite pets.
Speaker 2: I had no idea of this is Are you sure
Speaker 2: about that?
Speaker 6: It's absolutely true, yes, huh. And they became aware that
Speaker 6: the company was filled with people who were on team dog.
Speaker 6: Essentially they didn't understand cats and cat owners and their relationships. Wow,
Speaker 6: that's like having too many you know, progressives in your company.
Speaker 6: That leans the other direction.
Speaker 4: You got too many dog lovers at your cat company.
Speaker 9: Huh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a lot to really really hate in this article.
Speaker 6: But that's just smart management. This is the Mars Corporation
Speaker 6: that makes candies and one hundred other How.
Speaker 4: About we have people around here who like cats since
Speaker 4: we make cat products.
Speaker 6: So they launched a mission to get it's dog loving
Speaker 6: workers inside cat's heads. Part of the internal operation called Catitude,
Speaker 6: the maker of bah bah Bah organized visits from vets
Speaker 6: and animal nutritionists. Their PowerPoint presentation, staffers were paired with
Speaker 6: you know, I'd rather swim in a pool filled with
Speaker 6: the boiling hots soul firus urine of satan and say
Speaker 6: this phrase.
Speaker 2: That's quite a phrase right there.
Speaker 6: Staffers were paired with cat parents. One afternoon, senior bosses
Speaker 6: walked around the office with cat.
Speaker 4: Ears on the boiling hot sulfurous urine of satan that
Speaker 4: was a good phrase. They walked around the office with
Speaker 4: cat ears on yes.
Speaker 6: Being distracted from the thread their cat parents, the thread
Speaker 6: that the cat parents or their cats are chasing.
Speaker 2: Yes, they walked around with cat ears.
Speaker 6: The I'm not a cat. But the goal is to
Speaker 6: reorient the entire team. Here's an interesting revelation. And our daughter,
Speaker 6: our youngest daughter, Delaney is living with us as she
Speaker 6: does an internship. And she has two cats, and they
Speaker 6: are upstairs in her area. And I am very fond
Speaker 6: of them. I like them, I hang out with them.
Speaker 2: I am an.
Speaker 6: Emissary two team cat. She uses the term cat parents
Speaker 6: are my sons because she knows how much it annoys them.
Speaker 2: That's funny, my son's But I do like this.
Speaker 6: Occasionally she'll say your grandsons. Then I God, but I
Speaker 6: can attest to the truth of this. They wanted all
Speaker 6: of those people to understand one of cat parents, Oh god,
Speaker 6: there it goes.
Speaker 2: Where's the swimming pool?
Speaker 6: Their main excuse me sources of angst what they call
Speaker 6: feline insecurity, a fear of cat's indifference to their owner's affection.
Speaker 6: If you type does my cat into Google, the autofill
Speaker 6: is immediately love me.
Speaker 2: Does my cat love me. The second is I know
Speaker 2: I love her.
Speaker 6: Cat owners, I'm not using that effing other term say
Speaker 6: for too long.
Speaker 2: Oh blah blah blah.
Speaker 6: The point is all cat owners spend their time being like,
Speaker 6: Fluffy won't come to me today. What the heck, Fluffy,
Speaker 6: I love you, Fluffy, come to me, Fluffy, be nice
Speaker 6: to me.
Speaker 2: Cat insecurity they call it. Dogs don't do that to you.
Speaker 4: No, they don't. Dogs care. Cats don't really care. No, well,
Speaker 4: they care entirely on their own terms. I found an
Speaker 4: instructive in parenting and in being a pet owner, not
Speaker 4: parent that children. Small children are like poppies, are like dogs.
Speaker 4: They come to you, they want affection. They're always up
Speaker 4: for it. Teenagers are cats. It's on their terms when
Speaker 4: they want it.
Speaker 2: Don't bother them when they don't.
Speaker 4: Are you gonna feed me or scratch my belly? I
Speaker 4: don't ever scratch their belly.
Speaker 9: But.
Speaker 6: Anyway, so blah blah blah. They're trying to adjust their
Speaker 6: cat to d I.
Speaker 4: Think there need to be harsh penalties for people who
Speaker 4: push their pets around in strollers.
Speaker 2: Oh what, that dog can't walk? One dog and one
Speaker 2: old dog. I will allow it.
Speaker 4: Oh my God, I think I should turn their attention
Speaker 4: towards people who push their pets around in strollers.
Speaker 2: Oh no, you've offended people. I asked you not to