WEBVTT - If Your Fonk Gets Hot 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:06.120 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:09.920 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.239 Armstrong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:26.520 What we're seeing is arguably the largest ever conflict in 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:29.040 the Middle East, with eleven countries that have been hit 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.479 by Iranian missiles or drones that, as Israeli officials tell 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:34.839 me that they believe they'd run, still has about twenty 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:38.120 five hundred ballistic missiles which the US and Israel are 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:40.000 systematically working to destroy. 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:44.520 Largest conflict ever in the Middle East. And now that's 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.720 saying something. Arianna has struck eleven countries. 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.919 Doctor Jeff mccauslan joins us to discuss the conflict unfolding 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:56.560 in the Middle East. Jeff, of course, CBS News Military consultant, Jeff, 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:57.200 how are you, sir? 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.040 Very busy, guys afraid of I'll bet this. 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.120 Has unfolded, I'd imagine. 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.160 So, so, what are your impressions of the conflict as 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:07.320 it's taken shape so far? 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:11.200 Well, again, this is, first of all, is a war 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:13.480 of choice, not a war of necessity. I still think 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.760 the administration has been able to provide an answer to 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.760 what was the imminent threat that required this to go 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.319 down when it did. Now, there's no doubt there's been 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:25.360 continued conflict between the Iranians and the United States since 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:30.320 nineteen seventy nine when the revolution occurred, but that still 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.160 doesn't explain why things occurred. Right now, there's no evidence 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:36.200 have been preparing for an attack. There's no evidence that they 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.600 were that close to creating a nuclear weapon. They were 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:40.800 trying to recover that, but even our Secretary of State 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.800 so they were no longer enriching nuclear material. And this 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:47.400 whole question of regime change seems to be one that 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.960 the administration is very unclear about. They certainly want to 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.960 reduce Iran's ability to project threats in the region blisting 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.680 missile capabilities. They certainly want to ensure that IRNS does 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:00.000 not moved towards a newcure weapon. But the President said, 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.880 we're going to accept established conditions whereby the Iranian people 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.000 could rise up and take over the government. Now I 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:07.720 can see, as an old military guy, how you can 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.400 use military force to destroy the blistic missiles, and I 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:12.400 can see how you can use military force to grade 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:14.920 their NUCRI capabilities. I don't see how you can use 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.520 air power and naval power alone to affect that type 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:21.400 of a political transformation on the ground. And then, of 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:23.400 course the last thing I would say, of course, the 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:26.240 war is escalated vertically with more and more attacks on Iran, 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:28.919 and as you guys suggested, has escalated horizontally now to 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:33.320 include eleven countries across the region. It also is expanded 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.720 by the Israelis and now have attacked hets flow on Lebanon. 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:39.919 And of course we're seeing the stock markets Royal and 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.320 the aftermath, and we've seen the price of oil go 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.040 up to about eighty five bucks a barrel as essentially 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.320 the Straits of Horror moves. We're about twenty percent of 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:50.520 all oil and natural gas passes through to the globe 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:54.240 have effectively been shut down, whether the Iranians can do 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.440 that militarily or it's just shut down because of fears 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.880 by maritime countries for the safety of their tankers and 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.360 crews or even insurance costs. Until does matter that particularly 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.000 area has been shut down, which will continue to affect 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.840 the global economy in greater and greater fashion as the 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:11.200 days go on. 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.960 So why do you think Iran attacked all those countries 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.840 near them? How is that supposed to help them. 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:18.440 Yeah. 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.079 I think that was frankly a strategic era on their part. 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:24.200 I think what they thought was that those countries, once attacked, 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.400 would then put pressure on Washington to try to seas 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.320 and desist, bring this to a close, and allow the regime, 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:34.200 albeit bruised in Iran, to survive, because for them, this 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.880 is an existential moment. I think the reverse has happened, 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.320 and in fact, what they have done is really solidify 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:45.120 opposition the region to Iran. And you'd understand that there's 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.200 no love loss between the Iranians and all of these 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:51.240 sticker countries in the Middle East. The monarchies in the 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:56.680 Gulf facuities qataris, Amortis, Kuwaitis, et cetera, have long been 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.160 opposed to Iran. They are Sunni countries. Largely, Iran is 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:03.720 almost solely a she Eite country around since the revolution 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:06.920 in nineteen seventy nine, it's been trying to export revolution 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:10.040 so called political Islam across the region, a threat to 0:04:10.120 --> 0:04:14.520 those monarchies. The Saudis believe they have tried several times 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.239 to incite Shea heights in the eastern provinces where Sali 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:21.520 oil is. They've attacked Saudi Arabia before, of course, in 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:26.200 terms of in twenty nineteen Saudi oil refineries, so there's no. 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:27.159 Great love loss. 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.280 But I think they thought that the Iranians, that this 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:33.000 would cause the United States to be pressured to restraint, 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.080 and so far, at least the opposition the opposite. 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:41.680 Is, i'd say, doctor Jeff mccauslon online from CBS News, Jeff, 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.479 I've got to admit I see things a little differently 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.919 than you. I see a malign regime that has spilled 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.760 more American blood than any other over the course of decades. 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.800 So just no sign of reforming, has no popular support 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.599 among its people, in which is by hook or by crook, 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.400 desperately trying to develop nuclear weapons. And you know that 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.280 the in terms of the urgency to act, the one 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.760 argument I've heard that's somewhat compelling is that Israel saw 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.040 an irresistible opportunity and that the when the Iranians counter 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.200 attacked Israel, they would hit all of our bases and 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:15.880 hit them hard. Therefore, we said to our ally, Okay, 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:17.680 now is the time, let's do this. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:21.880 Well, yeah, there's a lot of bad there's a lot 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:23.960 of bad countries around the world. I mean North Korea 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:25.559 comes to mind, and they have the ability to actually 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.200 strike us with a nuclear weapon potentially, so and frontmore, 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.240 You're exactly right. There's been a lot of bloods built 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:35.760 in the Iranians, who certainly I have a autocratic, despicable regime. 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:39.760 I mean no tears for the Iotola, for sure. But 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.440 the question is how and the win. And it seems 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.679 to me if you go back to two thousand and three, 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.600 which is the imperfect metaphor, Bush made the case to 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:52.240 the United Nations or why Iraq was a threat. The 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.279 entire State of the Union in two thousand and three 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.760 was devoted to the American people explain to them why 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:00.240 this was going to have to occur. He created a 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.080 coalition of the willing of forty eight countries that were 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:06.719 participating initially from the very onset, and that took your conflict. 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.080 And of course he enmasked a major force in the region, 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.440 not air in naval, but also ground to affect that. 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.520 Then mister Trump made no attempt to argue this in 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.120 the nation. He spent three minutes on it during his 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.080 State of the Union address, did not go to Congress. 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.600 Bush went to Congress and got seventy seven Senators to 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.400 vote in favor. So they had the entire American people 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:28.440 behind this, which I think could have strengthened mister Trump's 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.159 efforts in this regard. And then finally, of course, it 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.320 seems to me the tails wagon the dog here. I 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.719 understand the Israelis were going to might want to attack, 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:38.599 but they're the junior partner in this allif so, I 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:41.320 didn't know that we were going to allow major decisions 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.719 on going to war and major decisions on the American 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.480 foreign policy to be made by Benjamin Nette Yahoo in Jerusalem, 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:49.080 as opposed to being made in Washington. 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:51.440 So I've got a military question. 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.640 I keep hearing that the aircraft carriers can only sit 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.680 there for a certain amount of time before they can't 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:00.680 just sit there. What's the story on that? How long 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:02.800 can they sit there? And why can't they sit there? 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.400 Well, I'm not a navy guy, but you can sustain 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:07.920 those things for a long period of time. I mean, 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.960 take the USS gerald Ford operating now in the Eastern Mediterranean. 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:16.480 It left Port on its current operation in June of 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.160 last year, so it's been under way for about eight 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.880 months or more. It was in the eastern Mid it 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.000 went to the Caribbean, of course, for the strikes on 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.760 Venezuela and Colombian drug boats coming out there in the 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:30.680 operation to take down Maduro. Now has returned to the 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:34.280 Eastern med The record, as I understand it for a 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:38.160 carrier operation in the modern age is about ten months 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.080 or so, and if they get into May, then the 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.840 gerald Ford will cross that line. But it seems to 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.640 me up until that point at least, so these can 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.600 be operated pretty and definitely, all that being said, over time, 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.559 of course, maintenance becomes a major problem with the ship 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.920 and the aircraft, and you've got to sustain it. And 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.720 an operation like this underscores, if you will, that old 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.480 adage for World War Two, that strategy intact exits for 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:04.560 amateurs and logistics and sustainment is for professionals. 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.440 Speaking of which, how concerns should Americans be about our 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:12.840 stockpile of armaments after arming Ukraine in particular, and then 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.920 this conflict because our manufacturing base is not what it 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:17.920 used to be from what I understand. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.720 Yeah, it has up a good bit since the Ukrainian 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.840 War began, But you're exactly right, there is a concern. 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.720 I've seen that voice by experts in varying side. Administration 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.400 said no, no, no, we have plenty of weaponry, but 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.880 of course the total arsenal is classified. But I'm sure 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.200 people depending on are very worried about the fact that, 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.880 of course we transferre an awful lot of weaponry to 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.640 the Ukrainians in over the last couple of years. Yeah, 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.920 we also expended a lot of ordnance on our own 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.400 in fighting the Huthis down in the Red Sea about 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:49.559 a year or so ago. And we also expend a 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.120 lot of ordinance defending Israel during the couple of years 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.440 of the war in the Gaza Strip in Iran and 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.720 others attacked Israel. So there is a real concern about 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:02.840 sustaining that that industrial stockpile and a lot of what 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.640 the you know. For example, big Beautiful Bill which was 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.880 passed in the last few months included a plus up 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.720 of one hundred and fifty billion dollars on the defense 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.920 pudget over the over several years to come, a good 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.720 portion of that money going to expanding the industrial base. 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:21.280 And even prior to this operation, administration had talked about 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:25.280 delivering its FY twenty seven defense budget at the rather 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.360 you know, eye watering the top line of about one 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.840 and a half trillion dollars for the year, which would 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:32.760 be a five hundred billion dollar plus up in the 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.760 defense budget. Again, a good portion of that going to 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:40.959 expanding the industrial base and restocking the US arsenal weapons. 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.520 Right, Doctor Jeff mccauslin, Jeff, it's always pleasure. Thanks for 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:49.319 the time, my pleasure, all right, you know, it's it's funny. 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:53.880 And look, there's there's ambivalence and ambiguity. 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.200 All over this, as there always is with war, almost always. 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:04.120 But the example of how meticulous and thoroughly the Bush 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:07.560 White House prepared the nation and Congress and the UN 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.720 and everything for that conflict, the coalition of the willing 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:14.960 all those countries, and then then the execution of the 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:19.720 mission was miserable after the purely military part of it. 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:24.000 It's terrible, historically terrible. So it's just it's kind of 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:26.959 ironic that we cite that as this is the way 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:27.400 you do it. 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:27.600 Well. 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:29.400 I don't agree with Jeff mccauslin on any of that 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.160 stuff at the beginning, as if you've been listening you 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.560 would know that. And I'm glad he's not in charge 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.800 because I think he's wrong. But I know a lot 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:37.800 of you do agree with them because I look at 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:42.640 the texts, So yeah, he represents those arguments worth entertaining. 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:44.920 Of course, he represents the thoughts of a lot of you. 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:45.920 I don't agree. 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.120 I think waiting until it's an imminent threat is a 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:50.000 terrible idea. 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:51.480 So that's me. 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.760 Well, the history of the world is you wait too long. 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.640 But this debate will be ongoing, and it's an important 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.480 one and we're more than happy to engage with people 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:05.480 who disagree. So completely different topic, the health of your dog. 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.680 Roughgreens is not in dogfood. You're not gonna change your 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:14.400 dog's food. It is a supplement. 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How close are the uield supposed to 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:58.840 allow them to get a bomb. 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:04.160 Especially a country who's motto is practically death to America? 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:05.319 Right? 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.160 And I don't think the North Korea example that he 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.320 used makes any sense because they already have a bomb. 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:12.680 That's why we can't do anything. 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:12.880 Now. 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.040 That's why you don't want a ran to get a bomb, 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.079 because once a country gets a bomb, like North Korea, 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.120 you have to let them do all kinds of crazy ass. 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:21.840 And in North Korea, No, that that was it's a 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:24.000 very bad comparison. We'll leave it there because we're out 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.480 of time. Very bad any thought. Number of levels. 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:34.480 Text line four one KFTC. So a couple of things 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.199 that have nothing to do with the war. First of all, 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:41.400 there's a new Pinocchio slasher movie out is it? What 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.600 is the rating on this? It's not for kids, isom 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:48.320 It took the childhood classic beloved Pinocchio, which is all 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.280 about if you lie, your appendages grow. 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:50.760 One of your. 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.640 Appendages grows, It's correct, which is not true. By the way, 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.480 no part of your body does grow. If you if 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:02.680 you tell him, if you, if you spread misinformation or disinformation. 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:08.120 I would agree. I would agree that you know it's 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:12.080 it's not for the kids. But the original Pinocchio was 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:15.840 actually very very dark story. 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:16.599 I've forgotten that. 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.400 I mean full of like violence and abuse and that 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:21.920 sort of thing. Here's the trailer for the new slasher 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:22.760 Pinocchio movie. 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.040 Take Cory. 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:39.440 Peace, do make yourself. Okay, that sounds good. I'll take 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:43.560 the goods. Oh boy, all right? 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:44.600 And then. 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.400 Yeah, yeah, Katie, do you want to explain what this 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:51.200 next clip is. 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.160 Yeah, it's a podcast with these two guys and they have. 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.440 There are no other podcasts, just ours, but go on, 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.000 but this one no longer exists. It's only. 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.360 But they have a guest on that is translating the 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:08.000 beginning of The Lion King, when Raffiki is holding Simba 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:12.400 over the pride Land and it's that big dramatic moment saying. 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:23.640 Like, no, what does it mean? It means Look there's 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:32.120 a lion. Oh my god, what that means? That is 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:33.200 not what that means? 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:39.920 That's exactly. Look there's a lion. Oh my god, there's 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:40.560 a lion. 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:42.120 Oh my god. 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:47.880 That's funny. 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.680 You do it in another language and it seems so 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:55.120 like deep and mystical and powerful. You said, look there's 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.160 a lion. Oh my god, it's not quite as deep 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:01.800 and mystical. Well, how many buena vistas are there all 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.560 over the place. It just means a nice view, right right, right, 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:05.160 right right. 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.600 Yeah, but it is a boy. I can't remember what 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:08.840 it was. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.480 It was a movie or a song or something, but 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.880 it was one of those foreign phrases that sounds all mystical, 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.400 but if you put it in English, it's just so banal, 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.080 like the rock or something like that. 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:20.320 Right exactly. 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:22.440 We don't really have time for this, but I want 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.480 to highlight funk music in a little bit. 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:31.120 That's right, he said, funk p h O n k okay. 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:32.040 I don't know that music. 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:38.800 People making founk music are making zillions of dollars, mostly 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.440 because it's become the go to music to back up 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.960 videos short videos on like TikTok or YouTube in particular. 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:49.840 Just whatever wacky. 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:52.560 Video you're watching has that annoying music in the background. 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:54.440 You know what the hell, We're already talking about it. 0:16:54.480 --> 0:17:01.760 Michael play thirteen for us talks about all we can 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:06.040 play because of weird podcast copyright laws. But uh, that's 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:11.720 that's the sort of music that is fong apparently, huh. 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:12.760 And is there money in that? 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.840 Oh, zillions of dollars because it's used in all of 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:20.800 those those YouTube videos and it's copywrited like any other 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:21.760 music is. 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.160 It's you know, if I'm surprised to use there aren't 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.840 more people that can make that for themselves, or so 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.359 many people making it that it's cheap. My son keeps 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.320 making these songs with some program on his iPad that 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.840 I'm just amazed, just musical stuff. He just adds all 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.000 these different things in. I'm like, oh, yeah, wow, that's incredible. 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:39.520 I would have loved being able to do that as 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:42.359 a kid. Oh yeah, it's effortless to make. 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:46.040 But then if yours gets hot for whatever reason, I 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.439 mean it's like you pay a three dollars, it's a 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:51.920 three dollars raffle ticket. And if for whatever reason your 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.480 fong track it's hot and people decide to use it, 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.159 then you get to enormous royalties. 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:59.879 FONK is a sleeping giants at the head of a 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.400 and are at a big digital. 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.800 Music I feel like you really enjoy saying that what 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:08.359 fong Gavin Newsom has an actual learning disorder, which is 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:09.399 pretty damned interesting. 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:13.000 Among other things. On the way Armstrong. 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:17.400 And get the Southwest Airlines so that they're refining their 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:21.760 new seating process amid complaints overboarding and bin space. Yep, 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.000 they're going back to their old policy of every man 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:25.360 woman in trout for themselves. 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:32.280 Airlines need to crack down on the bags, like just 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:35.239 eyeballing it. It seems like practically everybody in line has 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.560 got a bigger bag or more bags then you're allowed, 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:42.399 and then it fills up really quickly, so they you know, 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:45.159 I followed the rules, so it doesn't bother me if 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:49.840 they crack down. So this is getting lost in the 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.560 blur of war. It would have been the biggest story 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:56.920 in America today if we weren't at war. They released 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:03.359 the videos of Bill and Hillary's interrogation over Epstein last week. 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:08.040 They released them today, but because we're at war, they're 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:10.719 not getting much attention. It's Epstein and it probably shouldn't 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:14.080 get much attention. But we do have Hillary being asked 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:19.800 about Pizzagate by Nancy Mace, who's a bit of a kukola, 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.720 half a nut job for sure about the whole Pizzagate 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.320 QAnon thing. And I haven't heard it yet. I'm kind 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.320 of interested in hearing it. We'll get to that here soon. 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:30.360 Yeah, just in a couple of minutes, but I wanted 0:19:30.359 --> 0:19:32.879 to get to this really quickly. Big, big, big, great 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:37.720 news for fans of sanity. According to the Supreme Court 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:42.480 in a split decision, of course, California public schools cannot 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.320 keep parents in the dark if their child is trying 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:49.760 to bend their gender at school under the sway of 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:51.080 activists at the school. 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:53.960 Of course, court. 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.119 In a split decision concluding that parents likely have a 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.400 constitutional right to be informed if their children adopt new pronouns, 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.440 use a different or take other steps to socially transition 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.120 to a new gender identity while at school. 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:07.040 Well, I think it's abhorrent to the idea of the 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:09.800 school keeping it a secret, just like in just in 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:14.080 the world of common decency, your rumors, your kids really, 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:17.240 you know, struggling with something, So we just want to 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.440 let you know, whether it's they're getting bad grades or 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:24.399 wetting their parents, or want to change their gender whatever 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:26.919 it is, you ought to let the parents know. But 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.080 what's the constitutional right? What's that? 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:30.640 What friggin groomers? 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:31.200 Uh? 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:33.600 I will, I will read part of it. 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:36.480 When a child exhibits symptoms of gender dysphoria at school, 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:40.440 California's policies conceal that information from parents and facilitate a 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:44.720 degree of gender transitioning during school hours. These policies likely 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:47.800