1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,840 Speaker 1: The Team forty seven podcast is brought to you by 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: Cozy Earth. 3 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 2: Comfort, style and quality. You can count on Cozy Earth. 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:13,600 Speaker 3: Team forty seven with Clay and Buck starts now. 5 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: Mark Wayne Bolton will be the actually HS secretary, which 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:18,439 Speaker 1: we believe he will be. 7 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 3: Is currently I did your way in earnest. 8 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 2: Can I just be clear though, it's really important, this 9 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:28,159 Speaker 2: is a really important job. So and unfortunately this was 10 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 2: This is among a lot of you would say the 11 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 2: way the Epstein files were handled. The Epstein files have 12 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:35,559 Speaker 2: now come out, as far as I understand it, there 13 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,519 Speaker 2: was mishandling of that too. For me, I think the 14 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 2: leadership of DHS may be the single biggest whiff of 15 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 2: the first twelve months, because guys, Minneapolis, we pull back. 16 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,280 Speaker 2: Minneapolis is now all you're hearing about from these Democrats 17 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 2: and this is what you know, the whole thing. It 18 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 2: was a bit, It was a blunder. It was a 19 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 2: blunder from the people running running that shop. And we 20 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 2: need new leadership Clay that gets the job. Is there 21 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:04,399 Speaker 2: a more important thing than deportation, securing the border and 22 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 2: changing the trajectory of legal immigration in this country. I 23 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 2: don't think so. I don't think there is something that's 24 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,160 Speaker 2: more important as a Trump agenda item than that. Yeah, 25 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 2: so I'm I'm pretty frustrated with how it's gone up 26 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:19,399 Speaker 2: to this point. The border securing amazing that that was 27 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 2: something that we got done the first ninety eights. 28 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,119 Speaker 1: So if we want to talk things that are alarming, 29 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 1: there are a lot of them out there. What I 30 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: would say is particularly alarming to me is we're now 31 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 1: into mid to late March. Soon we will be into 32 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: early summer and Congress will just shut down for the 33 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: campaign season, and if Republicans don't retain the House and 34 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: or the Senate, then we're insignificant, just basically gridlock for 35 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: the next two years. 36 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 3: Nothing is going to happen. 37 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 1: So if Republicans don't get through things now, then basically 38 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: I'm just being honest with you all. 39 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 3: Nothing's going to happen for two years. 40 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 2: And the twenty twenty eight election starts in December, my friends, Yes, 41 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 2: think about that. The twenty twenty eight election begins at 42 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 2: the end of this year. So this is really important. 43 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 2: It is time sensitive the agenda, and people are like, 44 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:25,919 Speaker 2: we got a VIP email from Matthew. Please ask Senator 45 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 2: Paul what are you doing to get the Save Act passed. 46 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 2: We'll ask him. It's not going to pass. That's it. 47 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 2: There's no there's because the way that it have to 48 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,079 Speaker 2: get passed as they get rid of the filibuster, they're 49 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 2: not willing to do that. It's not going to pass. 50 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 2: I think. I mean, I can sit here and complain 51 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 2: about it, and we have, but we're not senators. We're 52 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 2: certainly not sixty senators. 53 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:48,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think that just ties in with what 54 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 1: are they going to do? We know what Democrats are 55 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:52,960 Speaker 1: going to do if they win the House. I was 56 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: looking today on polymarket buck there's a seventy percent chance 57 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 1: Trump is going to be impeached again if Democrats that's 58 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: win the House in lockstep. They are going to go 59 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: impeach President Trump and we're gonna have the multi month charade. 60 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: And you may say, well, this is a total joke, 61 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:11,640 Speaker 1: and it is, and we agree with you. But they're 62 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 1: going to shut down the House and the Senate to 63 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: have another trial on President Trump. They're going to shut 64 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,800 Speaker 1: down everything. And again this is this is why I say, look, 65 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 1: the House is important, the Senate is. To me, it 66 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: has got to be the U has got to be 67 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,959 Speaker 1: the ultimate, you know, magno line so to speak. That 68 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:33,839 Speaker 1: didn't go well, although that didn't work out so great 69 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: as we do historically did not. But we've got to 70 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: have what is the most successful uh wall of China? 71 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 2: We got to also, by the way, kind of a 72 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 2: fabrication after the fact, not really that successful. The Mongols kicks. 73 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 3: What is the most successful defense line? Ever? It's a 74 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 3: good military history question. 75 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 1: Maybe maybe maybe they need to have a cemetery ridge 76 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 1: third day Battle of Gettysburg bulwark which used to be 77 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 1: a good word before those crazy people took it over 78 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: in order to rebut a charge. 79 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 3: And this is why I've said a. 80 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: Lot of people Supreme Court Claire's Thomas seventy five, Justice 81 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: Alitos seventy four, we may not have the ability to 82 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 1: have a president of the same party as the Senate 83 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 1: for another four or five years. You saw what happened 84 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 1: with Ruth Bader Ginsberg. 85 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 2: We told you guys to enjoy that first year of 86 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 2: Trump's incredible wins and just running up the scoreboard and 87 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 2: all that stuff, because it does not last. There will 88 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,159 Speaker 2: be the fight ahead, that is for sure. Clay got 89 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 2: me excited about history there. For second, some of your 90 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 2: writing in about this. To be clear, for much of 91 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 2: US history on the red blue phenomenon, blue was, of 92 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 2: course the color of the Union. During the Civil War, 93 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 2: blue represented the Union. Blue was the color of the 94 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 2: Republican Party more often than not, although there was no 95 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 2: standard system. It was Color TV that changed this in 96 00:04:55,880 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy six Ford versus Carter. Blue was suddenly for Republicans. 97 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Speaker 2: Red was for Democrats. And this followed the older convention. 98 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 2: But then guess what they changed it. Some of you 99 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 2: pointed this out two thousand election Red States on the 100 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 2: screen after the disputed election Republican George Bush, blue State's 101 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 2: Al Gore, and then all the networks followed suit Clay, 102 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:19,920 Speaker 2: and that's how we got red state, blue state. The 103 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 2: Democrat party should be the reds. 104 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, maybe I don't know what would happen 105 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: if one station just flipped it, Like if Fox News 106 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:31,520 Speaker 1: just said, hey, you know what, red blue, We're going 107 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 1: back to the historic. 108 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:34,600 Speaker 2: They went full Department of War on this. I kind 109 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 2: of liked that idea because the Democrats of the commedies 110 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,359 Speaker 2: they should be read. Blue is the greatest color, in 111 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:41,800 Speaker 2: my opinion, and blue is what the Republican Party has 112 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 2: always stood for. So there you go. 113 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,280 Speaker 3: You're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck. 114 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,159 Speaker 2: Let's talk about New York for a second. Shall we 115 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 2: hello to everybody on the WRNYC fantastic heritage radio station 116 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 2: that really covers much of the Triborough area or sorry that. 117 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 3: The Tri State area, Tribborough. 118 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 2: Good lord, Try State, I haven't been gone that line. 119 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 3: Guys in Florida suddenly doesn't know anything about New York. 120 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 2: Anymore, the try Burrows, the three boroughs of New York. 121 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta remember things here, I gotta keep 122 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 2: things straight. But w R great station, listening many of you, 123 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 2: and the truth is, sorry, we're gonna have a little 124 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 2: fun at the expense of New York State governance right now. 125 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 2: That's just where this is going because a lot of 126 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:34,479 Speaker 2: very wealthy people have become quite annoyed with what's going 127 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 2: on in New York. Not just New York. Washington State 128 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 2: now has this millionaire's tax situation. Same thing California. California's 129 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 2: just got so many taxes, all kinds of problems. Kathy Hockel, 130 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:51,960 Speaker 2: who is honestly somebody that you wouldn't want in charge 131 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 2: of the bake sale for the PTA, not even the PTA. 132 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,159 Speaker 2: You wouldn't want her running the bake sale to raise money, 133 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,280 Speaker 2: like you would not want this woman in charge of 134 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 2: anything of any consequence whatsoever. She'd be burning the zucchini bread, 135 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 2: There's no question about it. And here she is telling 136 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 2: people that they need to move back to New York. 137 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 2: Wealthy people need to move back to New York so 138 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 2: they can fund welfare programs in New York. Play eight. 139 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 4: There's this anxiety which is real, and we're continuing to 140 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 4: address the affordability crisis, which I believe she'd be the 141 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 4: number one priority of this legislative session. What can we 142 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 4: do to take off some of that pain that New 143 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 4: Yorkers are feeling that I hear about literally every day. 144 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 4: What I want to make sure we are smart about 145 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 4: is having a system in place where it's not just 146 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:44,800 Speaker 4: taxing for the sake of taxing, and being conscious of 147 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 4: the facts that I need people who are high net 148 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 4: worth to support the generous social programs that we want 149 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 4: to have in our state. Right now, there are some 150 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 4: patriotic millionaires who stepped up, Okay, cut me the checks. 151 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 4: They If you want to be supportive, but maybe the 152 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 4: first step should be go down to Palm Beach and 153 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 4: see what you can bring back home. 154 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 2: I mean, she's saying Florida, Florida has stolen her cash cows, 155 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 2: and a lot of them are in Pombea's a lot 156 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 2: of them are here in Miami Beach. Let me tell you, 157 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:20,840 Speaker 2: I got neighbors and they're in del Rey, and they're 158 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 2: in Boca Hey, a lot of places around here and Clay. 159 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 2: This is really I appreciate this. She is so unsophisticated 160 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 2: in so many ways that she's just saying the truth here, 161 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 2: which is New York or former New Yorkers, please move 162 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 2: back to New York so you can be milked like 163 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 2: the cows you are for the welfare state. That is 164 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 2: her pitch. 165 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 1: And so we've told you this and it is going 166 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: too long. Range mean that states like Tennessee, Florida, Texas, 167 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 1: zero state income tax states are going to be far 168 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 1: more effective and well run than super high income tax 169 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 1: states that are losing. As you just heard Kathy Hokel say, 170 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:05,720 Speaker 1: a lot of the base that has paid. 171 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 3: For all of the government to exist. 172 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 1: What was the data point you gave us, Buck that 173 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 1: New York I think has a little bit fewer people 174 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:18,240 Speaker 1: now than Florida. Right, But Florida's government is half the 175 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: size of New York's. 176 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:23,439 Speaker 2: Well, Florida's budget is half the size of New York's budget. 177 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:27,080 Speaker 2: And Florida has two to three million more residents as 178 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 2: a state. Two to three million. By the way, there 179 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 2: are a lot of states that barely have two or 180 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 2: three million residents. 181 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,959 Speaker 1: And as a general rule, how would you say as 182 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 1: a Florida resident that the Florida budget and the governance 183 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:42,679 Speaker 1: is at running the money that they get, at basically 184 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:44,520 Speaker 1: managing the taxpayer dollars. 185 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 2: Everything that involves the State of Florida is more efficient, 186 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 2: more reasonable, more sane compared to New York state level governance. Everything, 187 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:57,120 Speaker 2: everything is easier, everything is smoother, everything makes more sense. Miami, 188 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:00,439 Speaker 2: things get a little third world down here, but state 189 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 2: of Florida fantastic. 190 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 1: Okay, So, but building on that, you mentioned this stat 191 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: earlier and I saw it in my jaw dropped. It's 192 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 1: rare that I see a stat and I'm like, oh my, 193 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 1: I can't believe this is real. New York is at 194 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 1: New York City is spending more money than the average 195 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: New Yorker makes on homeless people. 196 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 3: What is this math? 197 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 1: Buck, eighty one thousand dollars a year, I believe was 198 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:28,880 Speaker 1: the uh so, all of you out there, you worked 199 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 1: a long time when not making eighty one thousand dollars 200 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: a year. Buck, I worked a long time not making 201 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 1: eighty one thousand dollars. 202 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 2: I aspired to eighty one thousand. I was like, oh, 203 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,319 Speaker 2: my gosh, think about life at eighty k. Yes, this is, 204 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 2: by the way, one hundred percent true. 205 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:43,440 Speaker 1: A lot of you out there are aspiring to life 206 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 1: at eighty K. Right, that's a lot of money. That 207 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: is what New York is spending on homeless people. And 208 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 1: you made this analogy earlier. How many of you out 209 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: there listening to us right now in New York are 210 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:02,360 Speaker 1: busting your asses all day and you're not making eighty 211 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,840 Speaker 1: one K. And you're looking around and you're saying, wait 212 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:08,600 Speaker 1: a minute, what is the state doing that they're providing 213 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: eighty one k a year in support for homeless people. 214 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 1: This is just so flagrantly flawed. I mean, it's it 215 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:20,959 Speaker 1: would be better off, and this would be an awful idea. 216 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,560 Speaker 1: But if the entire government just got out of the 217 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: way and they just gave eighty seventy eight thousand dollars 218 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: in cash. You would save money if you just walked 219 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: up and gave seventy eight thousand dollars in cash to 220 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: every homeless person. 221 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:38,840 Speaker 2: I also, by the way, there's nothing, there's nothing inherently 222 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 2: derogatory about the term homeless. These people clearly don't have homes. 223 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:48,439 Speaker 2: This whole thing about unsheltered. Now, I'm sorry, housed unsheltered 224 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 2: is the other the same thing? No, I'm sorry. We're 225 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 2: not doing this, Okay. The reason they're doing this is 226 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:58,439 Speaker 2: because homeless, homelessness and homeless realities across this country. People 227 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 2: have learned more about this, and they've started understand that 228 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 2: almost all of the homeless, the truly homeless population, almost 229 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,199 Speaker 2: all have either extreme substance abuse or extreme mental health, 230 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 2: or a combination of both issues and disorders. The stories 231 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 2: that you hear about a family of four kicked out 232 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 2: of their home, down on their luck, that can happen. 233 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:26,199 Speaker 2: It does happen. I get it. It is rare, and 234 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 2: they don't stay homeless because there are programs and there 235 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:34,679 Speaker 2: are you know this notion thankfull, I mean, but there 236 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:36,840 Speaker 2: are things to help people get back on their feet 237 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 2: and they tend to do so. The real homelessness issue 238 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 2: is people with severe mental health and severe addiction issues overwhelmingly, 239 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:46,959 Speaker 2: so the stories about someone lost their job, they're down 240 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 2: on their luck. One percent of the of the unhoused 241 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 2: or homeless population at any point in time five percent. 242 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:55,960 Speaker 2: Maybe I think that might be too much. It's people 243 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 2: with those problems. Now, those are human beings who deserve 244 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 2: health too. I'm not saying otherwise. My point though, is 245 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,040 Speaker 2: they're changing the definition truly, or they're changing the terms 246 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 2: we use of homeless because they don't want people to 247 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 2: think about the discussions about Like Gaven Newsom said he's 248 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:13,680 Speaker 2: gonna lower homelessness. That was the term he was using 249 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 2: in California over a ten year period. It's like doubled. Yeah, 250 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:18,959 Speaker 2: So they're changing the words. So it's like a new 251 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 2: problem now, right, It's like, oh, well, we're not dealing 252 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:23,880 Speaker 2: with the homelessness thing, Clay, because we completely failed. Now 253 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 2: we're dealing with the unhoused population. And here's the other thing. 254 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:32,200 Speaker 2: Eighty one thousand. This is from the Comptroller of New York. 255 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,680 Speaker 2: This isn't you know, right wing angry blogger dot net 256 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 2: or something. This is from the Comptroller of New York 257 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 2: eighty one thousand dollars a year per homeless person in 258 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:46,319 Speaker 2: New York. Well, why are we spending? I mean, think 259 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 2: about should we just give a check? Should you give 260 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 2: a check for half of that forty grand in cash 261 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 2: to every homeless person one time payment? 262 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 1: There you go, lump sum, get off the street, cut 263 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: half of the expenditures to your point. And you know 264 00:13:57,679 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 1: what's a big part of this. There are a lot 265 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:03,439 Speaker 1: of people who are doing nothing to actually help homelessness 266 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:05,960 Speaker 1: that are being paid a lot of money inside of 267 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 1: that eighty one days. This is where you get this 268 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 1: is the ugly true. This is the ugliness of it. Okay, 269 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:13,959 Speaker 1: we're seeing this, my friends. Some people are going to 270 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,199 Speaker 1: really start to pull these dots together. I also think 271 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 1: this is part of why Elon, just with the whole 272 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:22,680 Speaker 1: Doge thing, had kind of a like a thermonuclear meltdown 273 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 1: of there's just so much fraud and so much waste 274 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: and so much crap that it was nobody else unlike 275 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: a business where you would have as somebody look at 276 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: it and say, we can't run a business like that. 277 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 3: We need that for our country and for our government. 278 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 2: I think Elon was truly just overwhelmed by the scale 279 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 2: of this and in his you know, his brain is 280 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 2: able to tackle these things at scale, and he's just like, 281 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 2: this is completely this monster is one hundred times larger 282 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 2: than I even realize. Anyway, A big part of this, notice, Clay, 283 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 2: the autistic like an autistic kids programs, the child daycare Somali. 284 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 2: I'm talking look at the autistic thing, and that's in California. 285 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:03,680 Speaker 2: I think they've started looking at the spending on these 286 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:08,840 Speaker 2: programs has gone absolutely stratospheric in recent years. This is fraud, 287 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 2: my friends. People are being paid a lot of money 288 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 2: to do nothing of public benefit, and they're getting taxpayer 289 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 2: dollars to do this. And you know why the Democrats 290 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 2: keep this going. It's a giant cash cow for their constituents. 291 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 2: What do you think if you walk into some city 292 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,720 Speaker 2: funded homelessness program in New York, what do you think 293 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 2: the voting record are the people that are getting checks 294 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 2: from the city to run the program, what do you 295 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:34,280 Speaker 2: think vote? I bet it's ninety five ninety nine percent Democrat. 296 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 2: It's just like the public school systems have become. Now, Clay, 297 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 2: this is about vote harvesting. This is about donations. This 298 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:44,400 Speaker 2: is power for the Democrat Party. There is a homeless 299 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:49,120 Speaker 2: industrial complex now essentially of all these NGOs and bureaucrats 300 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 2: getting paid to not actually fix the problem. 301 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,400 Speaker 1: And this is also ties in with the healthcare system 302 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:58,560 Speaker 1: being broken. There was a new Wall Street Journal editorial 303 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 1: saying ninety nine percent of one state I think it 304 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: was Ohio of the fraud analysis, it was all fraud 305 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: nine nine percent. I also think, again, this goes to healthcare. 306 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: Nobody knows what it costs. The government funds a ton 307 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: of it, doesn't look at spending. There are people being 308 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: paid six hundred dollars an hour to do autistic rehab 309 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: that didn't actually have any kids with autism. I also 310 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: think this ties in with an interesting question. We keep 311 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: talking about how the number of kids with autism has skyrocketed. 312 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 3: That's certainly true. 313 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:36,840 Speaker 1: How much of the autism diagnosises that we are seeing 314 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 1: are completely made up and a function of being able 315 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: to make money at four or five and six hundred 316 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 1: dollars to do autism therapy. I mean some of these companies. 317 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: You saw what happened in Minnesota, but I think the 318 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: same thing is happening in California. These companies don't even 319 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 1: have a physical location. They have a PO box and 320 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: they're getting paid millions of dollars a year. They're not 321 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:07,000 Speaker 1: even pretending, just like you saw with the Somali daycares thing, 322 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,440 Speaker 1: remember Buck, it is interesting. No one has come out 323 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:12,920 Speaker 1: that I've seen and said, hey, my family lost daycare. 324 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: Leave aside whether you think the government should be involved 325 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:20,240 Speaker 1: in Smali daycares at all. If they were actually doing 326 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,640 Speaker 1: Somali daycare, wouldn't Tons of people have come out and said, 327 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 1: oh my goodness. 328 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 3: The kids daycare. I can't go, I can't go to 329 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 3: I haven't. 330 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 1: Seen anything about this. This was all a sham, and 331 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 1: it's a function of government not being well run enough 332 00:17:36,840 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 1: for people to notice where all the money is going. 333 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: It's just it's infuriating for anybody out there that pays taxes. 334 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 3: It really is. 335 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:49,239 Speaker 2: It's astonishing. And what you realize is that and this 336 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:51,720 Speaker 2: is a this is a pretty stark realization, but it's true. 337 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 2: We think about fixing this. Not only are Democrats unwilling 338 00:17:58,119 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 2: to fix it, they don't want it to be fixed. Yes, 339 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 2: they believe that this is a redistribution of wealth to 340 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 2: people who should get the money they want homeless administrators 341 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:14,119 Speaker 2: on the on the city, you know, getting getting their 342 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,479 Speaker 2: budget paid for by the city, by the taxpayers. They 343 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,240 Speaker 2: want them making three four six hundred grand. 344 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:21,800 Speaker 1: To be honest, how crazy almost is that New York 345 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:25,639 Speaker 1: is spending more money, more than eighty one thousand dollars 346 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 1: a year for every homeless person. 347 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 3: I mean it should be infuriating more. 348 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,880 Speaker 2: Than the average household New York City people who are working, 349 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 2: people who are showing up. And We've all been there. 350 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 2: I have showed up to jobs on mornings where I 351 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:40,360 Speaker 2: hated so much I thought I was gonna throw up. 352 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just like, I'm not making any money. 353 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:45,919 Speaker 2: This sucks. We've all been but you show up and 354 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:47,719 Speaker 2: you suck it up and you do it. You do 355 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 2: it for your family, you do it for you know, 356 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 2: the people around you who are counting on you. Eighty 357 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:56,719 Speaker 2: grand going to every you know, spend for every individual 358 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 2: homeless person. What are they doing? Yeah, well, where is 359 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 2: all the money? Think about this, How can that be possible? 360 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 2: Where's all the money going? We know what it is 361 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:05,119 Speaker 2: in the public school system. The public school system in 362 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 2: New York pays more than most private schools cost across 363 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 2: the country per pupil. You know where the money goes. 364 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:14,159 Speaker 2: Bloated administrators making one hundred and fifty grand to show up, 365 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:16,400 Speaker 2: sit at a desk, do nothing all day. There are 366 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:20,439 Speaker 2: tens of thousands of them in the crazy plitic school system. 367 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 2: Don't teach, don't do any don't. 368 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 3: Do anything, and are just administrators. 369 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 2: It goes to vice principles of a district. Is a 370 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:30,920 Speaker 2: vice principal what like, you know, in case someone needs 371 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:33,159 Speaker 2: to step in for the principle, like vice principles and 372 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 2: vice chancellors and all this stuff. We're making two three 373 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:38,919 Speaker 2: hundred grand to be working for the public school system 374 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 2: of New York or New Jersey or any of these states. 375 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 2: Oh and you can retire after twenty years and you 376 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 2: get all your benefits and everything paid for. I mean friends. 377 00:19:47,119 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 2: By the way, this is also where all your city 378 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 2: taxes and state taxes are going as well. And you 379 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:52,239 Speaker 2: know what the game is At the end of all 380 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:56,680 Speaker 2: this clay federal bailout, it's coming. You get a Gavin 381 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 2: Newsom administration. What do you think he's gonna leave California 382 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:02,160 Speaker 2: high and dry with its budge deficit? Oh no more, 383 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:03,239 Speaker 2: They'll just find ways more. 384 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:06,879 Speaker 1: That's a good point because thankfully most states have to 385 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:10,120 Speaker 1: have balanced budgets, but a lot of cities have ended 386 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:14,080 Speaker 1: up going bankrupt, and again the federal government doesn't. So 387 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:17,119 Speaker 1: the to Bucks point, the bailout goes on the books 388 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:20,159 Speaker 1: of the federal government. I saw today we hit thirty 389 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 1: nine trillion national debt. That the number today now is 390 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 1: thirty nine trillion, And what percentage of that money do 391 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 1: you think has been well spent? 392 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 3: Again? 393 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 1: Much we could strip seventy five percent of all government 394 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 1: and be better off. I mean, I think that there's 395 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,199 Speaker 1: zero doubt about that. Unfortunately, we're not going to do it. 396 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 1: The Team forty seven podcast is brought to you by 397 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:49,080 Speaker 1: Cozy Earth. 398 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 2: Comfort style and quality. You can count on Cozy Earth. 399 00:20:53,119 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 3: You're listening to Team forty seven with Clay and Buck. 400 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: Had another early press conference about the situation unfolding in Iran, 401 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:08,360 Speaker 1: and I'm sure we're going to play some of those 402 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: cuts for you. But President Trump is meeting the new 403 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 1: leader of Japan in the Oval Office as we speak, 404 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 1: and he just made news as Trump typically does. Buck, 405 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: one of my favorite things that Trump does is say 406 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:24,600 Speaker 1: he's not going to answer a question and then answer 407 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:27,399 Speaker 1: the question while while saying he's not going to answer 408 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,320 Speaker 1: the question. So he was specifically asked, this is something 409 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 1: that a lot of you have been concerned about. He 410 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:36,640 Speaker 1: was specifically asked, are you going to put so called 411 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,400 Speaker 1: boots on the ground in Iran? He's typically said, hey, 412 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 1: I'm not going to answer that, and to his credit, strategically, 413 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 1: it would be not smart to say, potentially, if he's 414 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 1: going to do one thing or another, leave all options open. 415 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,399 Speaker 1: It's harder to prepare for something if you don't know 416 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 1: what's coming. But he said he's not going to answer, 417 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 1: and then he answered, here is cut thirty one. This 418 00:21:58,200 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 1: just happened in the Oval Office moments. 419 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 3: Potentially for the. 420 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,679 Speaker 2: US troops are more troops than the region. 421 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 5: No, I'm not putting troops anywhere. If I were, certainly 422 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 5: wouldn't tell you. But I'm not putting troops, and we 423 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 5: will do whatever is necessary to keep the price. I 424 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 5: actually thought when I did this, Look, the Dow just 425 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 5: hit fifty thousand a couple of weeks ago. They said 426 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,199 Speaker 5: that couldn't happen for four years. It wouldn't happen in 427 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 5: my term. But it's such an outrageous thing. Because I 428 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 5: said it would happen. I didn't know it was going 429 00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,680 Speaker 5: to happen that fast, but just at fifty thousand. 430 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:39,679 Speaker 1: So Trump kind of dancing around there, but asked if 431 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 1: he's going to put poots on the ground. The only 432 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:43,520 Speaker 1: place I think he would have gone, and we've said 433 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 1: this for days and days now, is potentially carg Island, 434 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 1: which is the main central location of where Iranian oil 435 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 1: is shipped produced. We have video of Trump from back 436 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:58,119 Speaker 1: in the nineteen eighties that we've played talking about, Hey, 437 00:22:58,119 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 1: if you're going to hit her on, that's the place 438 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 1: where you hit ran. 439 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,679 Speaker 3: But it seems like buck there is. 440 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,160 Speaker 1: Trump had a strongly worded statement that he put out 441 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 1: last night and continues to move towards things being done. 442 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 1: I think you said you expected by April one for 443 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:16,119 Speaker 1: this thing to be over. I think that's a good number. 444 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 1: I would go by April fifteen if we want to 445 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:21,360 Speaker 1: go on the long end, which would mean another three 446 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: and a half or so weeks. But it does feel 447 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 1: to me like this operation is winding down, primarily because 448 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 1: Iran has very few ballistic missiles left and increasingly few drones. 449 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: If you look at the overall trajectory, of Iran's ability 450 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 1: to fire back kind of haphazardly in every direction. They 451 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 1: don't have that opportunity anymore to a large extent, And 452 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: as that opportunity has continued to be degraded, we are 453 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:52,200 Speaker 1: now sitting in a situation where it's basically, Hey, who 454 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 1: do we want to take out? And what is a 455 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:58,160 Speaker 1: resolution here? Is that your take? As President Trump again 456 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,360 Speaker 1: will continue to updatentinues to answer questions. 457 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 2: Well, sure, but I think I think that something else 458 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 2: that came out last night a reminder that this is 459 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:15,239 Speaker 2: high stake stuff and things can go south on us 460 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:21,240 Speaker 2: pretty quick. The President truthed out the following. Israel, out 461 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,119 Speaker 2: of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, 462 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 2: has violently lashed out at a major facility known as 463 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:31,679 Speaker 2: South Pars gas field in Iran. A relatively small section 464 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,320 Speaker 2: of the whole has been hit. The United States knew 465 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 2: nothing about this particular attack, and the country of Cutter 466 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,199 Speaker 2: Qatar was in no way, shape or form involved with 467 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,679 Speaker 2: it in or did it have any idea that it 468 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 2: was going to happen. Unfortunately, Iran did not know this 469 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 2: or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South 470 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:54,959 Speaker 2: Pars attack, and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of 471 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 2: Qatar's liquid natural gas facility. No more attacks will be 472 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 2: made by israe all caps pertaining to this extremely important 473 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:07,879 Speaker 2: and valuable South Pars Field, unless Iran unwisely decides to 474 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 2: attack a very innocent in this case Cutter, in which instance, 475 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:15,120 Speaker 2: the United States of America, with or without the help 476 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 2: or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety 477 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,879 Speaker 2: of the South Pars gas field at an amount of 478 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 2: strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before. 479 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 2: I do not want to authorize this level of violence 480 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 2: and destruction because of the long term implications that will 481 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 2: have in the future of Iran. But if Cutters liquid 482 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 2: natural Gas is attacked again, I will not hesitate to 483 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:35,400 Speaker 2: do so. Thank you for your attention to this matter, 484 00:25:35,440 --> 00:25:37,399 Speaker 2: President Donald J. Trump. I just want to read that 485 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:42,200 Speaker 2: whole thing because wow, that's uh, there's a. 486 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 1: Lot going on, a lot of different plot twists in 487 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: that statement. When I read it last night, I was like, 488 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 1: oh wow, so there's it's almost like you need, as 489 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 1: you know, to break down all the different categories. The 490 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,400 Speaker 1: first and obviously the one that jumped out the most 491 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 1: to me was this attack that Israel levied was not 492 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,480 Speaker 1: one that Trump knew was coming. But I actually thought 493 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: it was quite diplomatic as he moved on to say, Hey, 494 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: if you do anything to Qatar, then we are going 495 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: to rain down holy hell on you. There are some 496 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 1: reports that Iran seems to be stepping back from doing anything, 497 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:21,359 Speaker 1: which obviously would suggest we are moving towards a situation 498 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:26,920 Speaker 1: where maybe calming down is more likely to occur. Oil 499 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 1: and gas prices, Buck, I thought you said this yesterday. 500 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,159 Speaker 1: This is of all the times that you could be 501 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:35,399 Speaker 1: the oil and gas guy. It spikes on every little 502 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 1: news story, It comes back down on every little news story. 503 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:42,000 Speaker 1: There's a bunch of different oil markets there now is 504 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 1: a huge divergence between the oil markets that are based 505 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,480 Speaker 1: in the Middle East, largely that type of oil and 506 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: gas and crude oil, which is the typical US oil 507 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: and gas. As I have it open on my screen 508 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,359 Speaker 1: in front of me right now, ninety seven dollars a 509 00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:58,639 Speaker 1: barrel crude oil. 510 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,120 Speaker 3: The US focused. 511 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,119 Speaker 1: Crewrue oil went to one twenty about a week ago, 512 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: and it continues to spike or not spike entirely based 513 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:10,400 Speaker 1: on news stories right now. So you'll hear, hey, there's 514 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: something new in the Strait of hor moves or a 515 00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:15,400 Speaker 1: new missile has landed, and they will move in one 516 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:20,159 Speaker 1: direction or another rapidly. Even as we are talking to 517 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:24,160 Speaker 1: all of you. Crude oil right now is ninety seven 518 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: dollars and a half a barrel again, down from one 519 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: twenty where it went a couple of weeks ago, and 520 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,080 Speaker 1: sitting at right at ninety seven fifty as I'm talking 521 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:37,880 Speaker 1: to all of you, moving on the news basically that's 522 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,399 Speaker 1: coming out of the Oval Office every sentence. Almost it 523 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:41,640 Speaker 1: feels like right now. 524 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:49,440 Speaker 2: Look, I'm wondering what exactly is going to come out 525 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:56,200 Speaker 2: of all of this, because increasingly, I think it's clear 526 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,119 Speaker 2: what we've been saying, there's not going to be regime 527 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,359 Speaker 2: change here se You've killed the leadership all off, but 528 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:06,120 Speaker 2: the security forces and the government structure below that leadership 529 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 2: level seems like they're staying in place. You've destroyed all 530 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 2: their military infrastructure, but that doesn't seem to change. For example, 531 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 2: the besiegee militia, the besiege being able to terrify people 532 00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 2: into staying in their homes, and I just sit here 533 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:30,680 Speaker 2: and think this was what is Is it clear? Why 534 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,199 Speaker 2: we're what we're trying to get out of this, and 535 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 2: why we got into this. I'm not sure it is well, 536 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 2: I think I think this is a fair question to 537 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 2: ask what we're trying. What got us into this is 538 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 2: Iran was going to go nuclear, which we've been told 539 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 2: for twenty years at different levels, was like months away, 540 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 2: weeks away, months away, weeks away. Okay, all right, I 541 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 2: mean we don't have access to that information. Only the 542 00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:59,280 Speaker 2: top of the National security apparatus does, which should make 543 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,640 Speaker 2: people a little bit on comfortable, right. I mean, we're trying. 544 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,479 Speaker 2: I lived through the whole WMD thing, as did all 545 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 2: of you. We're trusting the people in charge now. I 546 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 2: voted for Trump three times. I trust President Trump on 547 00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,959 Speaker 2: matters of national security as a general rule, but there 548 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 2: is just a trust factor there. What is the outcome 549 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 2: here that's going to be worth the hundreds of billions 550 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 2: of dollars that this campaign will have ended up costing. 551 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,959 Speaker 1: I think the challenge is, and you would know this 552 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 1: better than anybody, having worked as a CIA analyst predicting 553 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,880 Speaker 1: what was going to happen on the ground and what 554 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 1: is happening and what's likely to happen, is really really 555 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: difficult inside of Iran because the president's first statement that 556 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 1: he made when we decapitated the government and took out 557 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: the Ayatola was now is the time for all of 558 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 1: you to rise up. You may not have another chance 559 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 1: for decades or generations to take back your government. That 560 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 1: seemed like the goal was regime change. But it now 561 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 1: seems like, given that, there doesn't appear to have been 562 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,959 Speaker 1: that rising tide inside of Iran. I mean, I think 563 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 1: it's fair to say, Buck, there were tens of thousands 564 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 1: of people in the streets protesting the government when the 565 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 1: Ayatola was still alive. Now he's dead, and the tens 566 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: of thousands of people in the streets don't seem to 567 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 1: be happening now a lot of them are dead. But 568 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 1: you know, well, ya, he killed thirty thousand people. Australia 569 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 1: has an incredible new great newspaper on Australia has an 570 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 1: incredible front page. So yes, a lot of the resistance 571 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 1: they killed. But I think maybe there was an expectation 572 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 1: of more of an uprising. And as you were talking, 573 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 1: I just sent it in. We'll play it. Bessen is 574 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 1: in the Oval office and he just said they still 575 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: expect for there to be an uprising inside of Iran. 576 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 1: So I think part of the argument has been it's 577 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,760 Speaker 1: shifting in its goals. Because on the one hand, the mode, 578 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,960 Speaker 1: the grass strategy of hey, we're just going to wipe 579 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:59,840 Speaker 1: out Iran's ability to have strong weaponry and any impact 580 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 1: in the Middle East. That's to me the low end, 581 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,400 Speaker 1: and I think likely to have occurred. The high end 582 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: is we're going to replace this government with one that 583 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 1: actually is a decent one. That seems unlikely, And it 584 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,600 Speaker 1: feels to me like we're going to be somewhere in 585 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: kind of the squishy middle where what exactly is Iran 586 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,960 Speaker 1: is going to look like when we stop dropping bombs 587 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,280 Speaker 1: is hard to forecast. Here's the other thing, why can 588 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,240 Speaker 1: Israel not continue to drop bombs? So if the US 589 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 1: decides at some point in time, hey, we've done everything 590 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,280 Speaker 1: we think we need to do, I'm not sure the 591 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 1: joint response. We've got an audio clip from Trump about 592 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 1: this and the truth social post that you read is 593 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,120 Speaker 1: indicative of this as well. Couldn't there be at some 594 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,880 Speaker 1: point a divergence in the union where the US says, hey, 595 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 1: we think we've done enough, and Iran says Hey, you know, 596 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:52,400 Speaker 1: we haven't like we saw in Gaza when Iran kept going. 597 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 1: I mean, sorry, Israel kept going because they're trying to 598 00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 1: eliminate the threat once and for all. And the threat, 599 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,360 Speaker 1: to be fair to Israel is more substantial than the 600 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 1: threat is to the United States. 601 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,320 Speaker 2: I think the Israelis have made it clear to Iranian 602 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:11,840 Speaker 2: hardliners if you do anything that negatively affects the national 603 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 2: security or the people of Israel will blow you up 604 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 2: in a tent in the middle of nowhere, in the 605 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,200 Speaker 2: middle of the night, like we'll get you. Yeah, I 606 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 2: mean that has been made clear. What does that mean 607 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,720 Speaker 2: for the future of a country of ninety million people? 608 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:28,280 Speaker 2: I mean, I got to tell you, as this thing 609 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 2: is going on here, we are using a tremendous amount 610 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 2: of munitions which are very expensive. I might add in 611 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 2: all of this to blow up a lot of kind 612 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 2: of second and third tier military equipment, just calling it 613 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,400 Speaker 2: like it is, So how long do we continue to 614 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:53,880 Speaker 2: do this for? I mean, this is going to end 615 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 2: up being an expensive, an expensive side quest of sorts. 616 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,120 Speaker 2: From what I think A lot of people are still wondering, Hey, 617 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,160 Speaker 2: we've got we've got domestic issues here. That's really what 618 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,640 Speaker 2: we want to see the focus on. Trump is aware 619 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,840 Speaker 2: of that. Look, he just said it's going to be 620 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:20,560 Speaker 2: over pretty soon. This is cut thirty three, play this one. 621 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,480 Speaker 5: But prices will go up, the economy will go down 622 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,800 Speaker 5: a little bit. I feel it would be worse, much worse. Actually, 623 00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:26,640 Speaker 5: I thought there was a chance it could be much worse. 624 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,200 Speaker 5: It's not bad, and it's going to be over with 625 00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:33,000 Speaker 5: pretty soon. We've obliterated the Navy. We've obliterated there just 626 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:37,240 Speaker 5: about everything there is to obliterate, including leadership. The Navy's gone. 627 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 5: Their air force is gone, their anti aircraft equipment is gone. 628 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 5: We're flying wherever we want, Pete, we have nobody even 629 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 5: shooting at us. They have, I mean, and as you know, 630 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:52,000 Speaker 5: their leadership is gone, their leaders are gone. They pick 631 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 5: new leaders, they're gone. They pick new leaders, they're gone, 632 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,640 Speaker 5: and now they're looking for new leaders again. We can 633 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,120 Speaker 5: take out the island anytime we want it. 634 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,160 Speaker 3: So he's talking about car G Island. There