Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and and he Armstrong and Yeddy.
Speaker 3: The astronauts were totally out of contact with mission control,
Speaker 3: but the crew used that time wisely because, according to Wiseman,
Speaker 3: the Captain, each one of us had a maple cream
Speaker 3: cookie and then right back into the science, an experience
Speaker 3: previously known as high school lunchtime when your only friend
Speaker 3: is the chem teacher. Yeah, what that joke's based on
Speaker 3: true story.
Speaker 1: I'm reminded of how funny Cold bowls when he's not
Speaker 1: being obnoxious.
Speaker 2: He's hilarious. Yeah, it's yeah, the whole politics thing, which
Speaker 2: reminds me. I'm going to Springsteen Monday night. My boys
Speaker 2: in San Francisco, and I've been watching some of the
Speaker 2: videos and with the East Deep Band and they sound fantastic.
Speaker 2: I had the experience of taking my youngest to the
Speaker 2: Eagles what year before last. They're eighty year olds and
Speaker 2: they sounded flipping amazing. For whatever reason, you can continue
Speaker 2: to play instruments well into your you know, late years,
Speaker 2: and so it doesn't surprise me that the e Street
Speaker 2: Band will sound great, but the political speeches are going
Speaker 2: to be rough.
Speaker 1: Well, all of the announcements of the tour were about politics.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna bring the East Street Band to
Speaker 1: bring you to your town or bring you a hope
Speaker 1: in in the midst of this fascist dictatorship.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, I've seen the set list. They still play uh
Speaker 2: you know thempt Avenue, Freeze Out and all the songs
Speaker 2: you want to hear, the horn section blasting and all
Speaker 2: that sort of stuff. So it'll be cool and I'll
Speaker 2: be able to report on it on Tuesday morning. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna bring earplugs, not for the loud rock and roll,
Speaker 2: but for the speeches. I'll put in the ear plugs
Speaker 2: during the speeches, then I'll take them out during the music.
Speaker 1: If it were possible to get good audio, I'd love
Speaker 1: for you to tape some of the screeds, but it
Speaker 1: could just sound poopy on your phone.
Speaker 2: Well, and I've watched some of the videos. What's hilarious
Speaker 2: is all these screeds about the lead singer guitar player
Speaker 2: from Rage Against the Machine is with the EA Street
Speaker 2: Band now right and going around and doing his thing
Speaker 2: and his guitar that says I'm homeless or whatever. It
Speaker 2: is an actual communist. Yeah, yeah, he's an actual communist.
Speaker 2: Great guitar player, but an actual communist in a crowd
Speaker 2: full of people who paid one thousand dollars a ticket
Speaker 2: to come and see a concert. I mean, how funny
Speaker 2: is that?
Speaker 4: Hilarious? Absolutely hilarious?
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, so this isn't funny stealing your money
Speaker 2: the state of California again, but lots of government programs
Speaker 2: do this. Thank you CBS News for doing this story yesterday.
Speaker 2: Are doctors trusted to approve care? But one stands out.
Speaker 5: His name appeared and claims from one hundred and twenty
Speaker 5: six hospices, and he had sixty percent more in Medicare
Speaker 5: reimbursements than the next closest doctor in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 5: doctor Rejiev Bouva. We wanted to ask doctor Buva how
Speaker 5: he managed to work for so many different providers, so
Speaker 5: we followed a trail of hospice offices across the LA
Speaker 5: base and linked to his name seventy one million dollars
Speaker 5: in Medicare claims in twenty twenty four. We understand that
Speaker 5: doctor Regie Bouva is the medical director here. We're just
Speaker 5: trying to get some information about it. Is that he's
Speaker 5: not was he at some point? Yes, but you're telling
Speaker 5: me he no longer is associated with you? Guys, No,
Speaker 5: was he at some point?
Speaker 2: You know how the company you work for can catch
Speaker 2: you if you spend twenty dollars you shouldn't have on
Speaker 2: an expense report when you claim you're taking a client
Speaker 2: out to lunch or whatever. The government can't catch one
Speaker 2: hundred million dollars clearly misspent because they won.
Speaker 1: Doctor who's the director at one hundred and twenty six
Speaker 1: different hospices? My he must work long hours because they
Speaker 1: don't even try, CBS goes on.
Speaker 5: In California, a hospice doctor cares for an average of
Speaker 5: one hundred and forty patients in a year. In twenty
Speaker 5: twenty four, claims with Boova's name were submitted for nearly
Speaker 5: twenty eight hundred terminally ill patients.
Speaker 2: There's no reason to think that that's legitimate.
Speaker 5: Doctor Christina Newport, a hospice physician of eighteen years, says
Speaker 5: there are several reasons why one doctor could be linked
Speaker 5: to so many patients. One of those reasons identity theft.
Speaker 6: They would have a superhuman schedule to do that in
Speaker 6: a meaningful Well, well right.
Speaker 2: No, you don't have to even pretend that you need
Speaker 2: to make an argument, no need.
Speaker 1: No, just make derisive jokes about that, please, it's ridiculous. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm glad to see belatedly the mainstream media jumping on
Speaker 1: this story. It was independent conservative journalists. What was the
Speaker 1: name of the young man who the independent guy provocateur?
Speaker 4: I can't remember. You ought to get credit, but they didn't.
Speaker 1: None of them was aware of this or pretended to
Speaker 1: care until he came along.
Speaker 2: True, I don't have any hope that this will stop
Speaker 2: or that we will turn it around. I have hope that,
Speaker 2: like an hour two we went big on the whole
Speaker 2: public school disaster in America. I'll bet we turned that around.
Speaker 2: I'll bet awareness comes along and we turn that around.
Speaker 2: There are a number of things that I believe we
Speaker 2: will fix. The whole trans surgeries for kids has peaked,
Speaker 2: and we're on the other side of it. We're going
Speaker 2: to turn that around. I have no hope that we're
Speaker 2: gonna be able to stop thieving from taxpayers because people
Speaker 2: just don't care enough. I don't see that changing at all.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, who.
Speaker 1: Did you get that insight from it doesn't really matter,
Speaker 1: but the polls show you just can't get people to
Speaker 1: sustain that their outrage.
Speaker 2: Making the mccardal, a libertarian who writes for the Washington
Speaker 2: Post and works for the Dispatch. She went through many,
Speaker 2: many examples throughout history of these scandals burbling up, every
Speaker 2: body being aghast, and nothing ever happening to do anything
Speaker 2: about it. We just don't feel like we can or
Speaker 2: the what system would you put in place? Or whatever.
Speaker 2: You just can't mobilize people to do anything about wasteful
Speaker 2: government programs, which is why is a fiscal conservative. I'm
Speaker 2: big on the Milton Friedman thing. The only way, there's
Speaker 2: one single way you can do this. Don't give them
Speaker 2: the money in the first place. That's the only thing
Speaker 2: you can do.
Speaker 4: And I agree completely. And the other.
Speaker 1: Thing that makes it impossible to turn this around. I
Speaker 1: remember my fantasy that I expressed the other day. No,
Speaker 1: not that one, this one that if you could spray
Speaker 1: trust Serram All for Washington, DC, you walk up there
Speaker 1: and say, hey, I want a little fiscal reform. Here
Speaker 1: protect attached bearers, and they would say, look, everyone you see,
Speaker 1: everything you see is in on a scam, So good
Speaker 1: luck with that, Sonny. The what was I listening to
Speaker 1: you yesterday?
Speaker 2: What would I would have been listening to that would
Speaker 2: have had this conversation anyway. They were going on and
Speaker 2: on about that argument that mom, Donnie and AOC and
Speaker 2: some have Governor Hoachel of New York that if you're
Speaker 2: a patriot you stay and you pay your high taxes,
Speaker 2: you're a you're a you're a bad citizen if you're
Speaker 2: trying to get out of paying your taxes, which obviously
Speaker 2: makes the assumption that when I give you this money,
Speaker 2: you're doing something worthwhile with it, and you and I
Speaker 2: disagree on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to say you disagree is the understatement of the century.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, it's so right.
Speaker 2: So trying a freaking patriot card on me when it
Speaker 2: comes to paying ridiculous taxes and high tax states that
Speaker 2: you're then you're gonna waste on this homeless program or
Speaker 2: that what was this one? We were just doing the
Speaker 2: fraud around hospice and everything, right, right, and they're one
Speaker 2: hundred examples. Yeah, oh my gosh, it's enough to piss
Speaker 2: a fell off. You're unpatriotic because you moved to another state,
Speaker 2: so you wouldn't have to pay those taxes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you are in response to that, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: but it's not arable. Although Trump would would certainly truth
Speaker 1: it out. He would which to bring a couple of
Speaker 1: the threads together their Momdani and company. And in some
Speaker 1: of the progressive states, they're pushing the woke thing further
Speaker 1: that it is on the front foot, like in California
Speaker 1: and New York and Minnesota and other places are pushing
Speaker 1: the gender bending madness for kids forward right now. They've
Speaker 1: just learned to disguise it a little better. So you know,
Speaker 1: those battles are far far from over. Although I agree
Speaker 1: with you, Jack, they're so completely insane. Surely sanity will
Speaker 1: win that battle eventually. It's a question of how many
Speaker 1: kids get scarred. Oh, speaking of which, we had a
Speaker 1: victim of transgender activists testified before the California legislature.
Speaker 2: I just listened to. That is enough.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're going to feature that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe our four gender bending Madness update very powerful and
Speaker 1: very very sad. It's the same damn story over and
Speaker 1: over again. Confused, alienated kid, maybe autistic, maybe the victim
Speaker 1: of abuse wants to reject themselves, and like getting a
Speaker 1: new haircut isn't enough for some alienated kids struggling with
Speaker 1: emotional problems and so, and they're not going to commit suicide,
Speaker 1: but they reject themselves by being convinced to change their
Speaker 1: sexual appearance. They're convinced that will make them a new person,
Speaker 1: a happy person, a healthy person. It is evil on
Speaker 1: the level of it's practically well, it's horrific child abuse
Speaker 1: that these activists participate in in my opinion.
Speaker 2: And anyway, more on that later, get to that an
Speaker 2: hour four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, once I start, I have a hard time to
Speaker 1: stop because I just I hate it so much.
Speaker 2: I was just thinking one of the advantages of the
Speaker 2: Springsteen cancer concert having the set list that I've seen
Speaker 2: is going around and everything like that, I've got a
Speaker 2: planned bathroom break in there that Streets of Minneapolis song. Oh,
Speaker 2: I know, I can go to the bathroom and like
Speaker 2: really take my time because it's a very long, annoying song.
Speaker 1: As Bruce himself might say, Jack, everybody's got a hungry
Speaker 1: heart and a full bladder, So why don't you take
Speaker 1: this moment to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 2: Yes, Katie, I don't know if that's a good time
Speaker 2: to go.
Speaker 7: You're gonna get the most liberal emotion and psychosis around you.
Speaker 2: I feel like doing that song. No, he gives a
Speaker 2: number of speeches. From what I've seen, I mean it's
Speaker 2: San Francisco, I've seen the speeches he gave in Portland
Speaker 2: and Minneapolis and the first couple of legs of this tour.
Speaker 1: All right, fair enough, I'm surprised you're subjecting yourself to this.
Speaker 2: Oh. I can't wait to hear the music, and I
Speaker 2: want my kids to see Springsteen. This might be the
Speaker 2: last time him in the Eastreet Band ever ever do
Speaker 2: their thing.
Speaker 4: His shows really long.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're not as long as they used to be.
Speaker 2: This one's been running three hours. Yeah, pretty long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as Jack and I and are brilliant agent Derek
Speaker 1: were texting yesterday. I saw him and the River tour
Speaker 1: long long, long time ago, and it was one of
Speaker 1: the most amazing musical things I've ever seen. The skill,
Speaker 1: the tightness of the band just and I love, love,
Speaker 1: loved the songs. But at around the three hour and
Speaker 1: forty five minute mark, I was like, dude, it's been great.
Speaker 4: But seriously, enough enough, this's been fun.
Speaker 2: He's been ending Okay, he's been ending with purple rain,
Speaker 2: so I want to stick around and see that because
Speaker 2: it's pretty awesome. Anyway, we got the latest on the
Speaker 2: whole Iran deal, whatever the Iran deal is, and nobody
Speaker 2: seems to know. Trump made another statement about it. Stick around,
Speaker 2: stay here, apparently.
Speaker 6: So other people put penis and coach when they go
Speaker 6: on Roadchritts. That was freaky, but that's my middle name.
Speaker 6: So we got to see what it's hidden on Peanuts
Speaker 6: coke taste.
Speaker 4: The exact same.
Speaker 6: The peanuts gets stripped of all their flavor, doesn't tell
Speaker 6: he's bad whatsoever.
Speaker 4: The texture kind of thrown me off, though.
Speaker 6: It feels like someone put a whole bunch of tonsilstones
Speaker 6: in my Coca Cola. I think the salt makes the
Speaker 6: coke busier, but if I'm being honest, I'd rather just
Speaker 6: eat the packet of peanuts bites up and get a
Speaker 6: little thirsty and then quench that.
Speaker 4: With a Coca Cola.
Speaker 2: Would I put it in my Coca cola again?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 6: But would I possibly put it in a great soda?
Speaker 4: Most definitely?
Speaker 2: What are tonsilstones? Geez?
Speaker 4: You know it's funny.
Speaker 1: There's a lot to come in on there, including the
Speaker 1: music in the background, which is.
Speaker 4: Fullng. Remember when I was talking about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these producers all try to put together digital music
Speaker 1: that if it becomes viral, they get like royalties when
Speaker 1: it's run twelve billion times on some viral video.
Speaker 2: So that guy was putting peanuts in his Coca Cola
Speaker 2: and Michael Angelo, our board operator, had never heard of that. People,
Speaker 2: we never heard of it. That's interesting. Maybe it wasn't
Speaker 2: a California thing. My dad did it as a kid.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's an ancient treat and it's delicious. I
Speaker 2: don't know why that guy didn't like it, but it
Speaker 2: made me Your dad was great plains, right Iowa, Iowa?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, it's I think it's not a California I
Speaker 7: had never heard of it until a couple of years
Speaker 7: ago when I met a guy from Mississippi who told
Speaker 7: me I had to try it in It's very thick accent.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's Midwest South thing. Okay, what's it? What's that
Speaker 1: other southern thing? It's a racism idiot? Jack the mushy peanuts?
Speaker 1: What is that called boiled peanuts?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've had people rave I've had family members like
Speaker 1: just you know, cousin's rave about them, and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: you've got boiled peanuts and I've tried They're.
Speaker 4: Like mushy and wet and gross. It's like, I wouldn't
Speaker 4: give those two prisoners what.
Speaker 7: Peanuts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you get a chance to try boiled peanuts,
Speaker 1: do it. I don't know, people, I wouldn't give them
Speaker 1: the prisoner. I mean that's not a good review. Oh yeah.
Speaker 7: But the rule is though, and according to Terry Mississippi,
Speaker 7: it's gotta be a it's gotta be a glass coke bottle.
Speaker 2: Now that makes a difference. I don't know why does
Speaker 2: taste better than a can? No old school glass bottles.
Speaker 2: I've never tried it in a can, so I can't
Speaker 2: speak to it.
Speaker 4: I don't I've never done it at all.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: I may have tried it once and thought, why do
Speaker 1: people do this? I'm just think of it.
Speaker 2: But it makes the peanuts taste really good.
Speaker 7: I've still never tried it, but gosh, you made it
Speaker 7: sound like a delicacy.
Speaker 2: It's pretty good. Speaking of prisons, Gavin Newsom's wife thinks
Speaker 2: the people in San Quentin are there because they made
Speaker 2: a mistake, not because they committed a crime because they
Speaker 2: made a mistake. Yet another video of Gavin Newsom's wife
Speaker 2: emerges that is mockable by I think all normal people,
Speaker 2: and we'll have that for you coming up next segment.
Speaker 1: I would respectifully, respectfully disagree signed all all of the
Speaker 1: victims of the criminals turned loose by Blue State City
Speaker 1: and County das over and over again till they finally
Speaker 1: maimed or murdered somebody or raped them. Yeah yeah, Jenny, Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: can't wait to hear your next pearl of your wisdom.
Speaker 8: Ooh, that's unkind.
Speaker 2: So I am really trying to nail down what the
Speaker 2: hell happened last night when Trump declared we've come to
Speaker 2: an agreement two way cease fire. They've were agreeing to
Speaker 2: negotiate over our plans. And we've got a fifteen point plan.
Speaker 2: They've got a ten point plan. There's no overlap between
Speaker 2: these plans. I mean, our plan is you need to
Speaker 2: give up your nuclear program and the uranium. Their plan
Speaker 2: is we get to keep our nuclear program and our uranium.
Speaker 2: Our plan is the Strait has to be open and free.
Speaker 2: Their plan is we control the straight I mean it's like,
Speaker 2: I don't even know what that is I'm gonna come
Speaker 2: meet you to buy your car, and I don't want
Speaker 2: your car. Oh, I don't want to sell it to you.
Speaker 2: Why are we meeting? So we have a deal, let's
Speaker 2: meet about it Saturday at noon. But I don't even
Speaker 2: want to sell the car. It's okay, I don't want
Speaker 2: to buy it.
Speaker 1: And you announced your success, yeah, or we announce we're meeting.
Speaker 1: Are we even going to talk about unless the analysis
Speaker 1: I offered earlier is true.
Speaker 4: I'm completely befuddled.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm My hope. My hope is that there's a
Speaker 2: lot of behind the scenes stuff that we just don't understand.
Speaker 2: They're they're talking to an entity or a person that
Speaker 2: feels like they're in charge in Iran but has to
Speaker 2: keep their head low until something else gets worked out.
Speaker 1: I don't know the other horrible possibility, and the Venezuela
Speaker 1: situation would tend to support this is the IRGC came
Speaker 1: to Trump and said, we get to keep doing what
Speaker 1: we've been doing, but we cut you in on the deal.
Speaker 4: And Trump said, yeah, okay, great.
Speaker 2: Because as of right now, at least according to Trump
Speaker 2: and interview he did with ABC, we and Iran are
Speaker 2: working together to charge a toll for ships going through
Speaker 2: the strait.
Speaker 1: Uh no, Trump said that, no, no, this moll.
Speaker 4: No no, no, no, no, no no, that's.
Speaker 2: Straight from the Horse's mount Anyway, A lot on the way.
Speaker 8: Armstrong and getty, Like every problem that we have in
Speaker 8: society right now will be fixed when women come together
Speaker 8: and partner with our male allies and other allies. But
Speaker 8: when more women are in the rooms making decisions, changing
Speaker 8: the status quo and transforming not just our culture, but
Speaker 8: our society and our economy.
Speaker 2: And she goes on to say, I guess it's not
Speaker 2: in that clip about how racism, greed those things will
Speaker 2: be conquered when women are in charge. What or at
Speaker 2: least in the room, there will be less misogyny, I
Speaker 2: would assume by definition. But I don't think you're gonna
Speaker 2: do away with other elements of human nature because it's women.
Speaker 1: Well, and if you just slightly expand misogyny and call
Speaker 1: it being mean to women.
Speaker 2: Ah, there you go, Hello, there you go, mean girls.
Speaker 2: So that's Gavin Newsom's wife, and I saw him tweet
Speaker 2: out yesterday he said, I've been watching Fox. The President
Speaker 2: has just threatened to wipe a civilization off of the
Speaker 2: Planet of the Year at the war crime, and they're
Speaker 2: focusing all their attention on criticizing my wife. Fox went
Speaker 2: big on this yesterday. That yet another clip from Gavin
Speaker 2: Newsom's wife that has re emerged. This is something she
Speaker 2: talked about a long time ago, talking about and two
Speaker 2: prisoners in San Quentin, and she told this story.
Speaker 8: I had to be very raw when we interviewed the
Speaker 8: young men who were juvenile offenders in San Quentin. I
Speaker 8: told them about my own loss where I lost my
Speaker 8: older sister a few days for my seventh birthday and
Speaker 8: I blame myself for her death. And I share that
Speaker 8: because that they ultimately were accused of committing these violent
Speaker 8: crimes and sentenced for life. And I think it shocked
Speaker 8: them that this you know, blonde lady who was you know,
Speaker 8: the interviewing them, had a similar story. It was perhaps
Speaker 8: in the wrong place at the wrong time, but wasn't
Speaker 8: punished the way they were because clearly it was an accident.
Speaker 8: But theirs was probably an accident too. So anyway, I
Speaker 8: share that just because I guess, you know, I quite
Speaker 8: enjoy spending time with people and being real and unmasking
Speaker 8: and showing them that it's safe to unmask themselves.
Speaker 4: Beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 2: So if you don't know the story, Lord Gavin Newsom's
Speaker 2: wife and she's a little girl, and this is a
Speaker 2: horrible story. I can't imagine awful it was for the parents.
Speaker 2: When she's a little girl, she was six, she accidentally
Speaker 2: ran over her sister with a golf cart and killed her.
Speaker 2: You know, and anybody who's had kids, you have lots
Speaker 2: of close calls with all kinds of different things, and uh,
Speaker 2: just horrible. But that's called a mistake and a tragedy.
Speaker 2: That's not a crime on an on purpose crime that
Speaker 2: is then dealt with through the legal system and a
Speaker 2: jury and everything.
Speaker 1: Seventeen year old putting a bullet in a fellow gang
Speaker 1: banger's head is a rough comparison.
Speaker 2: And talking to criminals in San Quentin are about criminals
Speaker 2: in San Quentin that and they're in here for a
Speaker 2: mistake too, And then they see this blonde haired, blue
Speaker 2: eyed person who made a mistake and isn't in jail.
Speaker 2: She is a being real, full one hundred percent Leninist.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's completely off her rock.
Speaker 2: She believes the people in prison. She believes the people
Speaker 2: in prison made the same mistake if she made as
Speaker 2: a kid, but because of the color of their skin
Speaker 2: or whatever, they were put in prison. You're a nut.
Speaker 4: If she merely.
Speaker 1: Produced convincing little kids that transgenderism is wonderful videos, that
Speaker 1: would make her a monster to me, certainly a maniac
Speaker 1: and a fool. If she then forced schools to show
Speaker 1: them to her own profit because her husband was the governor,
Speaker 1: that would really be plenty to convince me of that.
Speaker 4: But then she comes out with.
Speaker 2: That, How about that worldview she's got about people in prison,
Speaker 2: just the same mistake, sort of mistake I made as
Speaker 2: a kid, but they're not blonde haired and blue eyed,
Speaker 2: so they're in prison.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jennifer, if the guards turned their backs for ten seconds.
Speaker 4: You would be raped and murdered. Would that be a miss?
Speaker 1: And I realize how harsh that is, and if anybody's shocked,
Speaker 1: I apologize, But.
Speaker 4: That's what would happen.
Speaker 2: How do you come to that worldview and you're taught.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you you live in school and then in
Speaker 1: your social circles in a theoretical universe where you just
Speaker 1: agree with each other over and over on your philosophy
Speaker 1: and you never subject it to the what about reality
Speaker 1: test or within the ideology, they have explanations for how
Speaker 1: it doesn't square with reality.
Speaker 2: That just gets you further and further from reality. But
Speaker 2: how do you avoid running in reality? You know, the
Speaker 2: old conservative is a liberal who is mugged by reality.
Speaker 2: How do you not run into somebody hurt you or
Speaker 2: a loved one or took your stuff or whatever, and
Speaker 2: you just realize, oh, some people suck. It depends on
Speaker 2: the depth of your ideology, how strongly you believe in
Speaker 2: the cult, because again, the the people who perpetrate these
Speaker 2: ideologies are pretty sophisticated in their ability to brainwash people,
Speaker 2: and so just it reminds me of the conspiracy theory thing.
Speaker 4: And that's right.
Speaker 1: I've got a big feature at on that I want
Speaker 1: to do at some point. But you come up with
Speaker 1: explanations of why what you have been claiming don't square
Speaker 1: with reality, and they are good enough to convince the
Speaker 1: weak minded that they need to hang with your beliefs.
Speaker 2: How is something, Yeah, I'd say I think that stands
Speaker 2: out among all the other things she has said. Woof
Speaker 2: have you been following this story of trying to find
Speaker 2: the guy who created bitcoin? I'm l the latest wrinkle.
Speaker 2: This was from I think the Washington Post. After a
Speaker 2: year of searching for bitcoin's elusive creator, a trail of
Speaker 2: clues led our reporter to a fifty five year old
Speaker 2: computer scientist. There was a Netflix spe or some sort
Speaker 2: of special series a couple of years ago where they
Speaker 2: thought they nailed down who it was. But this, this
Speaker 2: guy says, it's not that person. It's this person. I
Speaker 2: wasn't aware or I'd forgotten that there's like one person
Speaker 2: that created it, got super super rich and his like
Speaker 2: stayed anonymous all this time. Mm hm, that's a heck
Speaker 2: of thing. Why did they stay either of blockchain more
Speaker 2: or less? Do we know why they stayed anonymous or
Speaker 2: they just I'd be guessing. I don't know, you didn't
Speaker 2: want to be famous or you know, fear for their life.
Speaker 1: I don't know how rich the guy got exactly crazy
Speaker 1: rich reason enough to be anonymous.
Speaker 2: Yeah. True.
Speaker 1: It's like the artist Banksy who they've just unmasked, just
Speaker 1: hated the idea of being famous and being known and
Speaker 1: being hounded and all of it.
Speaker 4: Because we're smart.
Speaker 2: Where do you feel like your grasp of bitcoin is
Speaker 2: in terms of an investment?
Speaker 1: Oh, it's purely speculative at this point. It's it's it's
Speaker 1: a casino. And I understand blockchain technology well enough and
Speaker 1: why cryptocurrency could be a really good idea, but right
Speaker 1: now it's just pure speculation.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't have a sense of that enough to want
Speaker 2: to get involved. Yeah I would if I had more time.
Speaker 2: I'm not greedy enough. I just I don't. I would rather,
Speaker 2: you know, play my guitar and watch birds. But you
Speaker 2: got to follow the You gotta really like be tuned
Speaker 2: into the trends, right since, at least.
Speaker 4: On a daily basis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be kind of fun, I suppose if you
Speaker 2: had the funds and time to just play that game.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I have a friend who is a he's a smart guy.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty successful. He was into it, and he paid
Speaker 1: for at least one kid's entire college education with his
Speaker 1: cryptocurrency profits. I think it was bitcoin.
Speaker 2: You got to get in and out on the right time, though, exactly.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Yeah, there are play of people who've lost
Speaker 4: their houses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for that's a good story. But there's probably
Speaker 2: somewhere with the story of his kid was going to
Speaker 2: go to college, they'd saved money, and then they lost
Speaker 2: it all and now there's washing dishes or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's like your five thousand times more likely to tell
Speaker 1: your story about going to the casino if you won
Speaker 1: than if you lost.
Speaker 2: Right, or it's even the only one you remember in
Speaker 2: your own mind, which is a weird thing about gambling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so true.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, they found the guy, so maybe he can
Speaker 2: explain it all to us later. Where in the world
Speaker 2: is the deal with Iran? Is there a deal with Iran?
Speaker 2: What is happening? Nobody's exactly sure, But we did not
Speaker 2: destroy a civilization yesterday. We can get to the latest
Speaker 2: on that at some point. Stick Around.
Speaker 9: The regime remains firmly in control of the country, and
Speaker 9: it's saying it retains the right to enrich uranium, which
Speaker 9: of course was one of the reasons for starting the
Speaker 9: war in the first place. Iran's proxies in the Middle
Speaker 9: East also remained in place, despite the White House saying
Speaker 9: severing support for these groups was another clear war objective.
Speaker 9: Around also claiming all US forces will withdraw from the
Speaker 9: region and that sanctions will be lifted, But the Trump
Speaker 9: administration hasn't mentioned either of these things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta figure feel like the breakdown in all
Speaker 2: of this over the last eighteen hours or whatever it's been,
Speaker 2: is the Trump people are talking to somebody in the
Speaker 2: media's hearing from a different entity. I'm hoping that's what
Speaker 2: it is. I guess the Trump people are talking to
Speaker 2: somebody says, look, I'm in charge. We got our hand
Speaker 2: on the wheel, all right, and then somebody else is
Speaker 2: talking to the media and saying no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: Our deal is this, you all leave, You pay us
Speaker 2: to rebuild stuff. We run the straight now and we're
Speaker 2: keeping our nuclear program. Pete Hegsath said just a couple
Speaker 2: hours ago, Iran's gonna say all kinds of things that
Speaker 2: aren't true.
Speaker 1: Fair enough, fair enough. I came across this analysis by
Speaker 1: an author, independent analyst on money, give politics, etc. He's
Speaker 1: got hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter. For what
Speaker 1: it's worth, he said, breaking the ceasefire just ate itself.
Speaker 4: He tweeted this not long ago at all.
Speaker 1: The head of Iran's parliamentary National Security and Foreign Policy
Speaker 1: Committee just stated, after the Israeli aggression on Lebanon, all
Speaker 1: plans to open the Strait of Horne Mooz must immediately
Speaker 1: cease until there are assurances that Lebanon is included in
Speaker 1: the ceasefire. There's either a ceasefire on all fronts or
Speaker 1: a ceasefire nowhere at all. The entire premise of the
Speaker 1: deal was Hortmoo's reopening. Trump's condition was complete, immediate and
Speaker 1: safe opening of the straight. Iran accepted. The ceasefire was
Speaker 1: built on that single exchange paused, The bombs opened, the water,
Speaker 1: Brent crashed thirteen percent, the oil SMP surge, the market
Speaker 1: price to peace. Now Iran is threatening to reverse the
Speaker 1: only thing the ceasefire achieved because of something the ceasefire
Speaker 1: never included.
Speaker 4: Three contradictions. In twenty four.
Speaker 1: Hours, Pakistan announced the ceasefire covers everything, including Lebanon. Everywhere,
Speaker 1: including Lebanon. Netanyahu said it does not include Lebanon and
Speaker 1: launched the largest IDF strike since Roaring Lion began, one
Speaker 1: hundred a Hesibola targets in ten minutes. Now Iran says
Speaker 1: Hormuz stays closed unless Lebanon is covered. The deal's architect
Speaker 1: says it includes Lebanon, the deal's beneficiary said it excludes Lebanon,
Speaker 1: and now the deal's other signatory says the court deliverable
Speaker 1: is revoked unless the excluded front is reinstated. This is
Speaker 1: what happens when a ceasefire is broken through intermediaries who
Speaker 1: need both sides to say yes more than they need
Speaker 1: both sides to agree. Pakistan shuttled drafts between Washington and
Speaker 1: Tehran through five mediating channels in one chaotic day. Egypt
Speaker 1: bridged language, Turkey provided back channels, China earned urged and
Speaker 1: off ramp. The framework was drafted with sufficient ambiguity that
Speaker 1: Iran could tell Hesbelo it was covered, and Israel could
Speaker 1: tell the public it was not. That ambiguity held for
Speaker 1: exactly eighteen hours before the IDF strikes ah. It forced
Speaker 1: Iran to choose between Hesbelus solidarity and Hormo's revenue.
Speaker 4: Iran chol chose Hesbelog.
Speaker 2: I'm surprised they would choose. If this is true, I'm
Speaker 2: surprised they would blow up this deal over Hesbola.
Speaker 1: At this point unless true ideologues are still, at least
Speaker 1: to a large extent in power. I mean that whole
Speaker 1: we have a web of proxies that are our national security.
Speaker 1: I mean they dedicated themselves to that. Oh, what's it
Speaker 1: going to be tough to move people off. That paradigmal
Speaker 1: word I hate to use because people mostly use it
Speaker 1: to sound pretentious.
Speaker 4: What about what.
Speaker 2: Trump said this morning? Now, this is a good thing
Speaker 2: to mention because it's his own words as opposed to
Speaker 2: speculation or reports of or whatever. He told Jonathan Carl
Speaker 2: on ABC News this morning that there's going to be
Speaker 2: a joint us RAN toll system for letting ships through
Speaker 2: the Strait. We're thinking of doing it as a joint venture.
Speaker 2: It's a way of securing it, also securing it from
Speaker 2: other people.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful thing, but we're thinking of It's just
Speaker 1: it's an idea that's out there.
Speaker 2: Well there, I haven't heard seen. I don't know if
Speaker 2: anybody's nailed this down yet. There are ships, are are
Speaker 2: ships going through the Strait today.
Speaker 1: Fifteen to twenty vessels are currently transiting under the IRGC
Speaker 1: clearance codes.
Speaker 2: Well, there were ships going through before. They're all just
Speaker 2: a very small handful. So did these ships pay a toll?
Speaker 2: They got to go ahead, I guess from the IRGC.
Speaker 2: And this guy speculating that nobody knows what's going to
Speaker 2: happen now, and then this is worth mentioning too. I
Speaker 2: think Trump has three options except Lebanon inclusion, which means
Speaker 2: pressuring net Yahoo to halt strikes against Hesbola, which Israel
Speaker 2: has refused, reject Lebanon inclusion, which means Iran recloses or
Speaker 2: moves which voids the CeaseFire's premise, or ignore the threat
Speaker 2: and continue as if the fifteen ships passing through the
Speaker 2: toll booth using Chinese currency constitute and open straight, which
Speaker 2: means the Islamabad talks on Friday begin over a deal
Speaker 2: that both parties are publicly threatening to revolke.
Speaker 1: Huh uh.
Speaker 2: Israel is not going to stop attacking Hesbola. No, No,
Speaker 2: I have no idea where this is going. Nobody knows
Speaker 2: who they're really negotiating with.
Speaker 1: So right, just just stacks of questions we'll have to say.
Speaker 2: And then if this falls apart, are we back to
Speaker 2: ending their civilization.
Speaker 1: Something like that. Back to the question of what does
Speaker 1: that mean exactly? And I still say it'll be taking
Speaker 1: out five to thirty five key bridges and power plants
Speaker 1: that directly serve the military, okay, or delicious helping of tacos.
Speaker 4: According to some commentators.
Speaker 2: Well, right, it's not taco. If it's not taco, if
Speaker 2: Iran agreed to the things in our fifteen point plan.
Speaker 2: But if they get to keep the uranium and charge
Speaker 2: people to go through the strait and all those sorts
Speaker 2: of things, then it's definitely taco.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, and this would be incredibly unholy. I get
Speaker 1: the Venezuela situation. I'm very uncomfortable with it, leaving the
Speaker 1: Maduro regime in charge, just with a new gang of
Speaker 1: a couple of new gangsters at the top who are
Speaker 1: willing to cut us in on the profits.
Speaker 4: That is a very odd twist of American foreign policy.
Speaker 1: If that happens again with the greatest murderer of our
Speaker 1: troops over the last fifty years.
Speaker 2: That the net result of the entire war would be
Speaker 2: now we're part of a deal with them to charge
Speaker 2: a toll for European ships to go through.
Speaker 4: That would be truly unholy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that might be what's happening.
Speaker 4: That would be well, that would be obscene.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I don't know. I hope they're talking to
Speaker 2: somebody who ends up consolidating power and raises his bearded
Speaker 2: face one of these days and says I'm the new
Speaker 2: something Ruther.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, well, we'll say I guess.
Speaker 2: Oh, but I know what that means for the Iranian
Speaker 2: people if they ever get to live a better lifestyle
Speaker 2: than the one they've been living for the last fifty years.
Speaker 1: So next hour, incredibly powerful gender bending madness update. Also
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Speaker 4: Oh Ibram x.
Speaker 1: Kenny's new book is out and everybody's like it sucks,
Speaker 1: and he always sucked, and I'm kind of ashamed that
Speaker 1: I pretended he didn't.
Speaker 2: So that's progress. Yeah, I'd say so. I saw a
Speaker 2: run down the other day on his his center that
Speaker 2: he had his anti racist center that ran millions and
Speaker 2: millions of dollars of it and then did nothing, did
Speaker 2: literally nothing, didn't produce a single one paper.
Speaker 1: Well, they took the money, so that's doing something. True
Speaker 1: got rich? Okay, they got rich?
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Similar to the BLM crowd.
Speaker 4: Con Man always.
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