1 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: Ah, beaut force. If it doesn't work, you're just not 2 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:25,440 Speaker 1: using enough. You're listening to software Radio special operations, military 3 00:00:25,520 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 1: news and straight talk with the guys and the community. 4 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 1: And we are live, or we're at least live on 5 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: Facebook and Twitch. For some reason, YouTube is being h 6 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 1: a pay neck at upload this later if I have to, 7 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: But yeah, man, plenty of news going on for uh 8 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: those you know who check out the podcast. We haven't 9 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 1: done a live stream like this in a while. Being 10 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: scotto here, I am the producer of Softwrep Radio for you, 11 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: I always know that there's people who like check out 12 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: the live stream or new that type of thing. And 13 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:52,080 Speaker 1: Jack Murph, the editor in chief of softwarep dot com. Yeah, 14 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,080 Speaker 1: it's been a while. Yeah, it's been a while since 15 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: we've done a live stream. I mean I saw you 16 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: two days ago. Well, we've been doing a lot of podcasts. Yes, 17 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: we've been doing two podcasts week, which you could of 18 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 1: course subscribe to on Apple Podcasts or the people watching 19 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: the live stream. But we figured we'd do this because, um, 20 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: we'd like to get questions from the audience. And you know, 21 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 1: if there's any of you checking this out, I know 22 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 1: that we're doing this like New and East time, not 23 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 1: exactly prime time. But if you happen to be catching this, 24 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: Who're always happy to answer any questions you may have. Um. 25 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:23,799 Speaker 1: Last episode three forty six with Jim Morris, I thought 26 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 1: was excellent. Um, this is episode three forty seven. I 27 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 1: can't believe where that many episodes time flies, that's for sure. 28 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 1: Yeah it does. And and so being that Jim Morris 29 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: was a Green Beret Vietnam era, I think it's only 30 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: appropriate to mention the death of Michael Healy, Army major 31 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 1: general who led Green Berets in Vietnam dies at Uh. 32 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: Michael D. Healy and Army major general and highly decorated 33 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: counterinsurgency expert who retired is the top ranking Green Beret 34 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: and a legend in special Forces. Died April fourteenth at 35 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: a hospital in Jacksonville floor to He was ninety one. 36 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 1: By the way, this is from Harrison Smith at Washington Post. 37 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: Um and if you read on one of the first 38 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: Green Berets to achieve the rank of a general. And 39 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: I feel like I say this just about every other 40 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 1: episode at this point, like we really are losing so 41 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: many of these guys, and that's why we try to 42 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: take advantage and we kind of interviewing them and getting 43 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: their story out there back in back in the day. 44 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 1: This plays into the interview we did with Jim Morris. 45 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,840 Speaker 1: Before Special Forces became a branch, it was very hard 46 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 1: for a SF officer to make rank and actually become 47 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: a general. Um. Now it's a pretty commonplace. Why I 48 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: shouldn't say common place necessarily, it's still difficult to make 49 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: General refordless, but um, it's much more common than it was. 50 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: You know, back in the in the days of the 51 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: Vietnam days, UM, going to Special Forces was basically career suicide. Yeah, 52 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:50,040 Speaker 1: that was interesting hearing Jim Morris talk about that last 53 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: episode where he said, you know, green Berets were not 54 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: this same decorated brand. There's no there's no career path. 55 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 1: It was kind of like a career dead end. Yeah, 56 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:01,839 Speaker 1: from for far as people who they're in their mind 57 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: they're interested in making rank and climbing the ladder and 58 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: all that good stuff. Yeah, well, you know, it's interesting 59 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 1: we talked about it on the show. UM, speaking of 60 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: like career after the military, it does seem to be 61 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:17,480 Speaker 1: that stereotype that SF guys, um Army rangers. They don't 62 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,039 Speaker 1: always move on transition to the civilian world the way 63 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,280 Speaker 1: seals do. And there's no like reason for that that 64 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: you see, like these seals who become CEOs and I could. 65 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's a couple of things involved there. 66 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,680 Speaker 1: I think a lot of their guys who come out 67 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: of the army side aren't necessarily show boating quite frankly. Um. 68 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:37,720 Speaker 1: But I also think that it has something to do 69 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:41,599 Speaker 1: with the culture. Um. And I've said this before, Like 70 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,600 Speaker 1: in the Seals, it's different because it's like it's encouraged. 71 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: That's sort of like individual achievement and entrepreneurial spirit. In 72 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 1: the army, I mean in in range of battalion, it's like, 73 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:53,919 Speaker 1: if you want to do anything that isn't range of battalion, 74 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: your chain of command basically treats you like a piece 75 00:04:56,120 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: of ship and tells you you'll never amount to anything. Um. 76 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,120 Speaker 1: When I was in Special Forces and I was getting out, 77 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: I was told that, you know, n c O. We 78 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: were n c O s and non commissioned officers, and 79 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: I was told, hey, you know what n c O 80 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 1: really stands for? Right, no chance on the outside I've 81 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: heard you said before. Yeah, So I mean, if you're 82 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:16,840 Speaker 1: telling guys that, and then of course they don't achieve 83 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: as much when they when they get out of the 84 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: military because they've been told they won't him out to 85 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: anything that all you can ever be in life is 86 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 1: a is a Green Beret or a ranger or whatever. 87 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 1: So for those watching the live stream, I'm gonna be 88 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,920 Speaker 1: kind of checking um comments and all that. If you 89 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: have any questions or anything like that, here's your chance 90 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,359 Speaker 1: to ask them. Uh. Please like this, please share it. 91 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: We love getting a word out about the show, getting 92 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: new listeners, um, and that's why we periodically like to 93 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 1: do these live streams. But biggest news today Ronnie Jackson 94 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,680 Speaker 1: withdraws as a VA secretary nominee. Uh. This is from CNN. 95 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: Rear Admiral Ronnie Jackson is withdrawn as President Donald Trump's 96 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. His nomination 97 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 1: was hampered by a flurry of allegations about Jackson's professional conduct, which, 98 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 1: by the way, before this show, we were like, what 99 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: are those allegations again? Really? Yeah, because I just saw 100 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 1: party animals, I just saw the memo, the actual um 101 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:16,599 Speaker 1: not resignation, but his his formal withdraw withdrawal from being 102 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,240 Speaker 1: a nominee for v A Secretary, And it was kind 103 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: of boilerplate, like I deny all the accusations that were 104 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 1: made against me and all this, and yeah, that was 105 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 1: when I was like, what allegations? Because I hadn't been 106 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: following it me either. And then we looked up the 107 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 1: some of these articles that have been published about him 108 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,520 Speaker 1: the last couple of days, and it's a lot of 109 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 1: just getting drunk, and it's like, Bro, I want to 110 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 1: party with this dude, Donald Probably it seems like it 111 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:41,479 Speaker 1: seems like he has a fun time man. Um. You know, 112 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: go and get some drinks at the White House and 113 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: we're getting that uparmored limousine that the president has. We'll 114 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:50,040 Speaker 1: do donuts in the front lawn. Tokyo drift that motherfucker, 115 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: you know. Um. Yeah. Jackson said he was motivated to 116 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 1: withdraw from consideration because the allegations against him have become 117 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 1: a distraction for Trump and his agenda. And then It's 118 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 1: Funny Hour writer Alex was talking about this. Then Trump 119 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:05,600 Speaker 1: went on Fox and Friends today and gave his opinion 120 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 1: to that. Um, I have there been like I feel 121 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: like there's been so many v A secretaries in the past, yeah, 122 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 1: five six years grinding through them. Yeah, and none of 123 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,440 Speaker 1: them have been very popular, from Shinseki to now. Like 124 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:24,160 Speaker 1: I feel like, uh, yeah, you could probably speak on 125 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: this better than me. But it's more of like a 126 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: embedded cultural problem at the v A than just who's 127 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: the guy at the time. Yeah, like institutional problem that 128 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: they just can't correct. Um. And it probably has to 129 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: do with like years and years of you know, culture 130 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 1: and going to the lowest bidder and all these other problems. 131 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 1: I've actually been to the v A here in Manhattan, 132 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 1: and I don't really have anything bad to say about them. Um. 133 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: It's not as good healthcare, it's not as efficient as 134 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: like private healthcare, but it works, you know, it pretty 135 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: much seems to do his job at least that's my 136 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 1: experience with them. Um. But that's Nonetheless, there are v 137 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: A hospitals all around the country where I mean you 138 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: can pull up story after story after story about corruption 139 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: and medical malpractice, um, all sorts of issues. Um. So yeah, 140 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: v A has just really profound problems, and um man, 141 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to be the v A secretary. Seems like, 142 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: you know, like you're just condemned to commit ritualistic sepacu 143 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: like cut your guts out, you know, like the samurais 144 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 1: used to um. You know, we just keep grinding through 145 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 1: these v A secretaries. Yeah, and I know the major 146 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 1: thing that's always said is we need to fix this 147 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: backlog and that that that's not something like yeah, like 148 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,160 Speaker 1: when when I talk about like the the efficiency UM 149 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: versus the private sector, it's like, man, if you call 150 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 1: v A and you try to make an appointment, you 151 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:52,559 Speaker 1: will spend two hours getting bounced around their automated call system, 152 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:55,199 Speaker 1: like sending you to this department that department. When you 153 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: finally get to the one you're supposed to go to 154 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,319 Speaker 1: to make your appointment, I'm sorry the we're no longer 155 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: taking voicemail messages. Call again later. Yeah. Fuck. Really, I 156 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 1: feel like as a civilian, though, that's not that much 157 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:09,520 Speaker 1: different than the crap that you have to deal with 158 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,160 Speaker 1: and just the private I mean, my experience of the 159 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: private healthcare system is like you go online, you find 160 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: a doctor you're looking for, you book the appointment online. 161 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: It takes like five minutes. Yeah, I just know that 162 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:21,559 Speaker 1: there's always been a lot of forms to fill out 163 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,280 Speaker 1: to get reimbursed for stuff. And all that type of crap. Yeah, 164 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 1: when the bills start coming and then you have to 165 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 1: negotiate with the doctor's office and insurance company, that can 166 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: be a pain in the ass. Yeah. Well, and and 167 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:35,440 Speaker 1: also just I feel like as a whole, they make 168 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: you fill out a ton of paperwork can be done 169 00:09:37,880 --> 00:09:41,920 Speaker 1: much more efficiently, but they don't give a shit about efficiency, 170 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: which I think I've I've heard people in the medical 171 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: industry even say I think they do that as a 172 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,679 Speaker 1: way to to weed out Some people are like, I 173 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 1: don't want to fill all this out and then they're 174 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 1: not even a submit a claim. Oh, I see what 175 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,280 Speaker 1: you mean. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, yeah, it 176 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 1: seems like a lot of those forms they have you 177 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 1: fill out or things that you could, like, you know, 178 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:03,559 Speaker 1: do via email or something like that. Yeah, except maybe 179 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: like your social Security number you don't want to put 180 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,959 Speaker 1: on the internet, I understand, But most of that stuff, 181 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: and they have like online web portals all the doctors 182 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 1: used today anyway, where they send you your medical forms, 183 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 1: you know, via quote unquote portals. So why can't you 184 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 1: fill out those forms on their quote unquote secured portal 185 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: zac doc which is great? I do love that. I 186 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 1: don't know if I've used that or not. Well, I 187 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: guess just also being a civilian, I have a different experience. 188 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:35,440 Speaker 1: So um this ties into our interview with Dr Leonard Wong. 189 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:37,679 Speaker 1: I thought this was an interesting one, and I saw 190 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:40,559 Speaker 1: that our friend Amber Smith, who we just had on 191 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 1: UM Army Helicopter Pilot UH put this out there on 192 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,040 Speaker 1: Twitter and was like, this is great news for the Army. Uh. 193 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,680 Speaker 1: So this is from Megan Myers and Army Times. The 194 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: Army just dumped a bunch of mandatory training to free 195 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: up soldiers time. The Army's top civilian is unloading a 196 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,199 Speaker 1: pile of training not required by the Defense depart meant 197 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,680 Speaker 1: in favor of allowing commanders to distribute guidance to their 198 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 1: troops on their on their terms. According to a series 199 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 1: of memos released in April. The guidance is part of 200 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: a larger plan to cut the administrative burden on units. 201 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 1: Army Secretary Mark Aspert told Army Times in December and 202 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 1: roll out again this month. Um So here are the 203 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:23,960 Speaker 1: things that they're cutting. They're cutting training programs in travel 204 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: risk planning, system media awareness training and combating trafficking in 205 00:11:29,200 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 1: persons training. UH. You know, you could speak probably more 206 00:11:33,520 --> 00:11:35,680 Speaker 1: on if if these were necessary in the first place. 207 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: I mean, they're all kind of like check the block training, 208 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: you know, you go through you just click your way 209 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 1: through some online training module and check the block. And 210 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: that's what all that online training really is anyway. It's 211 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 1: just so the commanders have their asses covered and they're like, oh, 212 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:51,920 Speaker 1: he got the training. You know, so if you crash 213 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: your car, they can be like, oh, well you got 214 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: the vehicle safety training. Or if a soldier kills himself, 215 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, I mean, this is how cynical it is. 216 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 1: You know, if a soldier commits suicide, the chain of 217 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: command can be like, he got the suicide to wear 218 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 1: news training. It's not our fault, you know. And as 219 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 1: strange as this sounds, there was a time, and please 220 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 1: go back and listen to the podcast we did with 221 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,720 Speaker 1: Dr Leonard Wong. We go really in depth on this subject. 222 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: There was a time when you know, if a soldier 223 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: was looking depressed, if he was having problems in his unit, 224 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 1: if he wasn't performing as expected, that his leadership would 225 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,679 Speaker 1: look at him and as a person and say like, well, 226 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 1: I can tell something's wrong with this kid. And the 227 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 1: first sergeant when vitamin you know, come on, kid, come 228 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: into my office and sit him down and he'd pour 229 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 1: a glasses scotch and slide it across the desk and 230 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:42,400 Speaker 1: be like, what's got you so blue? Kid? Like that 231 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:45,440 Speaker 1: sounds surreal today and our you know, are are you know, 232 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:49,079 Speaker 1: hyper sensitive, politically correct culture. But this is how the 233 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 1: army used to be. There used to be this human 234 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: element to it, and you talk to your soldiers and 235 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: you would know your soldiers. Nowadays, you know, even officers 236 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:01,679 Speaker 1: come in and their initial counseling is done via you know, 237 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: it's like a cut and paste form. They have no 238 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: face to face interaction with their battalion commander. Nobody gives 239 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 1: a shit anymore. And this is why I say the 240 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: problem the military is having is not necessarily political correctness. 241 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,000 Speaker 1: A lot of people misidentify the problem. There is political 242 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: correctness in the military. That's a problem, But the bigger 243 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: problem is corporatization. And we've had this idea that we 244 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 1: can institute corporate quote unquote efficiency um into the military 245 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: ranks um. And this is where you get all this 246 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 1: online training module bullshit, all this other nonsense. And we've 247 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 1: stacked the deck. We've given these guys so much mandatory 248 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 1: training that are our squad leaders don't have time to train, 249 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 1: to coach, teach and mentor these young infantrymen or other 250 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:50,200 Speaker 1: mos is and bring them up the way they need 251 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 1: to be brought up and learn the skills they need 252 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: to have. Um. And because they're taking these stupid online 253 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:59,080 Speaker 1: training modules that do nothing for force readiness, they do 254 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 1: nothing to make are military more agile, more lethal. It's 255 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: just a drain on them. Um. You know. Another example 256 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:09,080 Speaker 1: that was brought up to me recently is DTS BELS, 257 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: the Defense Travel System. So when you go on temporary duty, 258 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:15,079 Speaker 1: you come back and you go into this stupid DTS 259 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 1: system and you enter all your information and you put 260 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: your vouchers in and your receipts and blah blah blah. 261 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:23,880 Speaker 1: Back in the day, you used to just tell your 262 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 1: chain of command or they would tell you you're going 263 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 1: on t D y okay, and there'd be a someone 264 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 1: in the personnel office would cut your orders, give it 265 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: to you. Okay. You come back, you throw a bunch 266 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: of receipts at them. You shouldn't throw over seats and 267 00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:38,840 Speaker 1: your personnel people, please don't do that, but you give 268 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: them the receipts, they do up the paperwork and you 269 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 1: get reimbursed. It's all good. Okay. Now do you have 270 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: this DTS system that soldiers have to slog through and 271 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 1: it's one of those things that's designed it's like corporate 272 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:52,080 Speaker 1: efficiency quote unquote, So we'll put this burden on the 273 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 1: soldier and make him do his own travel paperwork. Does 274 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: anyone ever look at how much time is wasted making 275 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: soldiers do this kind of bullshit? And I mean it's 276 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: not laziness, it's just saying we should have personnel, you know, 277 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:10,680 Speaker 1: S one people in the military who do S one stuff. Um, 278 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:15,000 Speaker 1: you know, instead of passing the burden onto the soldier 279 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: and calling it efficiency because it isn't. It's just wasting 280 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 1: more time. Um. So this is kind of where we're 281 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 1: at with the military right now. And doctor wanged it 282 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 1: his sweeping research and white paper with um some other 283 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 1: um students graduate students or army work college students. They 284 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: really did a tremendous job on it. Then you can 285 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 1: go look at that paper. It's called um oh ship 286 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 1: I think it's called a lying to ourselves and what 287 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: he what he found and that when he did that 288 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 1: research was that not only do we give our soldiers 289 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: more mandatory training than there are training days in the 290 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: calendar year, so they're they're at like a hundred and 291 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:56,760 Speaker 1: overloaded here. But what he also found, a secondary finding, 292 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: was that all our officers are reporting up to hire 293 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: that they are a percent efficient, they're a hundred percent 294 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 1: complete on all of that mandatory training, which we know 295 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 1: is literally impossible. So what we've done is we've bread 296 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: and we've cultivated a culture in the military now where 297 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 1: it's it became okay to lie, to send up reports 298 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 1: to hire and say, yes, we're a d percent in 299 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 1: the blue good to go on all mandatory training when 300 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,400 Speaker 1: we absolutely are not. And what are the repercussions of that? 301 00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: When we um create a culture of lying in the 302 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: military and it becomes okay to lie to your superiors 303 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: and say that you're at what are the other effects 304 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: of that? What does that mean? Um? And that's what 305 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: his paper explores. So I hope people check that out. 306 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 1: But this article and that they're starting to cut some 307 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 1: of the mandatory training shows that Dr Wang's research is 308 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 1: starting to having a really profound impact on the force, 309 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: a really positive impact and I'm really happy to see that. 310 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:58,720 Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, and do you think his paper had 311 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 1: any effect on this? I think it had a huge effect. Um. 312 00:17:01,760 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 1: I think it went all the way up to the top. 313 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 1: I think a lot of middle management, a lot of 314 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:10,160 Speaker 1: officers wanted to ignore it and just roll their eyes 315 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 1: at it. But I do think that eventually his research 316 00:17:13,880 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 1: was heard and understood, and that there were people, um 317 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:21,400 Speaker 1: like the Secretary of the Army um, uh what's his name, Ellsberg? 318 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:25,879 Speaker 1: I believe um and UH in the Secretary of Defense, UM, 319 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 1: Jim Madis. I think they understand this now. No, it's 320 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 1: right here, Secretary, you got it. Secretary Mark Esper, Um, 321 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: So thank you, Mr Esper. Secretary Esper and UH and 322 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 1: Jim Maddie have put this on their plate and they 323 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 1: understand that this is an issue and they're trying to 324 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 1: resolve it. Yeah, which is good to hear. Maybe we 325 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 1: should get him back on at some point and and 326 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 1: hear about his reaction to them doing this if they're 327 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:53,719 Speaker 1: if they're doing it in the most efficient way, so 328 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: you know, the change change happened slowly in a big 329 00:17:56,520 --> 00:18:00,480 Speaker 1: bureaucracy like the Department of Defense. Um, it'll I think 330 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: you'll start to see the soldier will start to feel 331 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,119 Speaker 1: an impact over the next you know, six to twelve months. Um, 332 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to gauge that and see, like, have 333 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:12,119 Speaker 1: you has your time been freed up? Do you have 334 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,880 Speaker 1: time to train your soldiers? Now? Yeah? The first great 335 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 1: question we have here from brad Manning, and I guess 336 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:19,639 Speaker 1: not to be confused with the Bradley mann like the 337 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:23,159 Speaker 1: Bradley Manning now Chelsea Manning, unless Chelsea Manning happens to 338 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 1: be watching us. Where can I get the shirt Jack 339 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,639 Speaker 1: is wearing soft rep dot Com. You know what's the 340 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:31,159 Speaker 1: funny thing. I have a soft Rep on time on 341 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:34,920 Speaker 1: target shirt. I do not have the software. Probably should 342 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:36,920 Speaker 1: you probably should, one of the guys on the show, 343 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 1: since you produce every single episode. Yeah, so go to 344 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 1: soft rep dot com. Uh, shameless plug since you mentioned it, 345 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:47,199 Speaker 1: it's right on there. And they're great shirts. I love 346 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: the way all the soft Rep shirts fits. So that 347 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 1: is the answer, bred Um. And like I said, I 348 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:56,159 Speaker 1: assume you're not the bread Bradley Manning. Um. All right, 349 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: this is a great article that Kurt Troeder, a writer 350 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: did on soft Rep. IRAQ begins air strikes in Syria 351 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,040 Speaker 1: against ISIS, and Kurt is great on this stuff because 352 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: of the fact that he's been a volunteer at the 353 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 1: pesh Merga, has spent so much time over there. Yeah, 354 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 1: so he he knows his stuff. Um, and you should 355 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 1: check this out. It's right there, Like I said the title, 356 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:17,880 Speaker 1: if you want to look it up. Is Iraq begins 357 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: air strikes in Syria against ISIS UH. This past week, 358 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:25,479 Speaker 1: the Iraq Air Force began carrying out coordinated air strikes 359 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 1: on Islamic State positions in Syria alongside the Syrian government. 360 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,679 Speaker 1: A tweet from the Iraqi Air Force read, based on 361 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: the orders from a Body, the Commander in Chief, our 362 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 1: air forces by using F sixteens bombarded ISIS terrorist positions 363 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 1: in Syria on the border with the Rock on Thursday, 364 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 1: hater all a body. Iraq's Prime minister has hinted that 365 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:50,920 Speaker 1: Iraqi military forces may soon be aiding and combating terrorism 366 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: in Syria earlier this month, According to Brigadier General Yahia 367 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: Rasul of the Iraqi Air Force, the air strike missions 368 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,159 Speaker 1: were based out of Iraq and done cross border with 369 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 1: the Syrian government's permission. The United States led anti Islamic 370 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 1: State Coalition UH provided target intelligence for the strikes for 371 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: the operational forces. However, the mission was planned and executed 372 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: by the Iraqi Joint Operations Command. The Iraqi Air Force 373 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 1: provided a video later uh that featured an F sixteen 374 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: fighter jet adorned with a Rocky flag on the tail, 375 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:28,040 Speaker 1: staging for a takeoff on a military flight line. Prime 376 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:31,360 Speaker 1: Minister hater A A body has tweeted our heroic air 377 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,400 Speaker 1: force carried out on Thursday in Syria near Iraq border 378 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:39,919 Speaker 1: Iraqi border deadly air strikes against Dash's terrorists gangs. Iraq 379 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:43,920 Speaker 1: has yet to disclose specific target locations on their exact 380 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:47,679 Speaker 1: content contents. A body had ordered air strikes to be 381 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 1: carried out in Syria last year in February against ISIS 382 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 1: positions as well. Despite a body declaring victory over the 383 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:58,680 Speaker 1: Avon state last December, as Massoul was liberated by Iraqi 384 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 1: military forces, the tacks from sleeper cells and pockets resistance 385 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:06,480 Speaker 1: seem to have increased the alan Bar province in Iraq 386 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:10,560 Speaker 1: and deer As azora am I, saying that correct Or 387 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:14,400 Speaker 1: region have experienced militant based attacks over the past week. 388 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,920 Speaker 1: According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Kirk Cook 389 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:21,399 Speaker 1: has been a hotbed for ISIS based in surgeon activity 390 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:25,639 Speaker 1: as well, given its current state of dispute by local nationals. 391 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: Welcome to the party, pal, Yeah, well, yeah, you work. 392 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:30,959 Speaker 1: You've been talking about this on on episodes. I mean, 393 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,680 Speaker 1: this is handing the power to the Iraqi indigenous population. 394 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,159 Speaker 1: And well, yeah, in a sense, I don't know if 395 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 1: we green lithum or not um. Of course, the um 396 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:44,560 Speaker 1: perspective from you know that that so called Arab street 397 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: is always that America green lithusts. You know, every action 398 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 1: Turkey takes, for example, they're like, oh well America, okay, 399 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 1: this whether we did or not um, And that's just 400 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:55,480 Speaker 1: part of the difficulty in dealing with that region. But 401 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,440 Speaker 1: it's interesting. You also got the Shia militia's uh that 402 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 1: went from Iraq and crossed over into Syria and mucking around. 403 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 1: It's what a ship show, all right. I see we're 404 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 1: getting a few questions here, so I'll get to this 405 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,479 Speaker 1: one last article and then um we'll get to your questions. 406 00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 1: So if you have anything that you want to ask, 407 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 1: keep it coming to the live stream right now and 408 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:20,760 Speaker 1: like it, share it and um, yeah, any any questions 409 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 1: at all. I mean we rarely get to do these, 410 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 1: so it doesn't have to be on topic. Um. You know, 411 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:26,920 Speaker 1: we we rarely get to do these q and a s, 412 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 1: so we're happy to answer anything you have for the 413 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 1: podcast or for jack Um or for me. No, this 414 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 1: is from South China Morning Post. It's interesting because no 415 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,680 Speaker 1: one's really reporting on it that you found this. Uh, 416 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 1: you know, I don't even know much about the South 417 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 1: China Morning Post as a source. I actually, yeah, So 418 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,160 Speaker 1: here's what the article is. North Korea's nuclear test site 419 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 1: has collapsed, and that maybe why Kim Jong un suspended tests. 420 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,040 Speaker 1: The mountains collapse after a fifth blast last fall has 421 00:22:56,119 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 1: led to the creation of a massive chimney that could 422 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 1: leak great you active fall out into the air. Researchers 423 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: have found North Korea's a mountain nuclear test site has collapsed, 424 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,840 Speaker 1: but in China and other nearby nations at unprecedented risk 425 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:13,359 Speaker 1: of radioactive exposure. To separate groups of Chinese scientists studying 426 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,399 Speaker 1: the issue of confirmed which is pretty serious. Um, the 427 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 1: collapse after five nuclear blasts maybe why North Korean leader 428 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,160 Speaker 1: Kim Jong un declared on Friday that he would freeze 429 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,120 Speaker 1: the Hermit States nuclear and missile tests and shut down 430 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:29,959 Speaker 1: the site. One researcher said, the last five of pyongyang 431 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: six nuclear tests have all been carried out under a 432 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: mount man tap at the Pungyr pungy Would you say 433 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:42,280 Speaker 1: that would be the big bang in Pyongyang? You mentioned 434 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 1: it At the pungy Re nuclear test site in North 435 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 1: Korea's northwest, our group of researchers found that the most 436 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:53,400 Speaker 1: recent blast tour open a hole in the mountain, which 437 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: then collapsed upon itself. A second group concluded that the 438 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:00,400 Speaker 1: breakdown created a chimney that could allow radioactive fall out 439 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 1: from the blast zone below to rise into the air. 440 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: So this is crazy to hear just from a health perspective. 441 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 1: People in China. Also, you know Kim Jong un covering 442 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,159 Speaker 1: his day. So is it? Is it true or is 443 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 1: it a deception? And this is part of um, you know, 444 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:22,399 Speaker 1: sort of international gamesmanship or brinksmanship. Um. You know, I 445 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,600 Speaker 1: think they'll be able to confirm it via satellite and 446 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 1: via um not not Geiger counters, but you know they 447 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,640 Speaker 1: have sensors that can test for you know, nuclear tides 448 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 1: and all that good stuff. Then see if radiation is 449 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 1: really leaking out of there. So I mean I think 450 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:37,760 Speaker 1: technically it'll be able to be confirmed, UM for sure 451 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 1: one way or the other eventually. UM. But this would 452 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 1: be interesting because it doesn't mean that their nuclear facility 453 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:49,919 Speaker 1: is defunct now because they destroyed it accidentally. Uh. And 454 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,679 Speaker 1: that's why they're like, Okay, yeah, we'll suspend nuclear testing 455 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 1: because they can't test anymore. So it's like it's already 456 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: shut off, but now you're gonna make it seem as 457 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 1: if you're making a concession. Your Trump will take credit 458 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: for sure. Sure, and we can get into all of that, 459 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:07,360 Speaker 1: but I mean any administration would take credit for it. UM. 460 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:11,119 Speaker 1: The So the thing about nuclear underground nuclear testing, I mean, 461 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 1: it's the designed to control the radiation, but there's also 462 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:20,400 Speaker 1: a theory that you can decouple a nuclear explosion um 463 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:24,679 Speaker 1: from uh what would be like seismographs. So if you 464 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:27,880 Speaker 1: have it in a big enough underground cavity, UM, then 465 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,520 Speaker 1: you can test nuclear weapons inside that cavity and it 466 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 1: won't show up on on seismic sensors around the world 467 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,880 Speaker 1: as a nuclear blast. Uh. And I had a professor, UM, 468 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:43,400 Speaker 1: Professor Richards, who was a nuclear seismologist, and UM, now 469 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: I kind of asked him, I was like, you know, 470 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:46,800 Speaker 1: what do you make of that? Theory, and you know 471 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: how academics they won't say as like someone like I 472 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 1: would like, that's total bullshit. Man, he's a very astute person. 473 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 1: Um and and but the basically in a very academic way, 474 00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:01,359 Speaker 1: he said, I don't necessarily buy that argument, you know. 475 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,000 Speaker 1: And uh so it's probably not true that you can 476 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:08,920 Speaker 1: decouple a nuclear explosion like that. But nonetheless they were 477 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:14,040 Speaker 1: testing underground. Um I mean, how many how many nuclear 478 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 1: detonations can you do in the underground cavity before you 479 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,800 Speaker 1: collapse it. I mean, it seems like it's something that's 480 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: gonna happen sooner or later. Right, It's just it really 481 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 1: is scary to think what we're doing, you know, and 482 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,639 Speaker 1: that that's also goes into I know it's unrelated, but 483 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:31,280 Speaker 1: we always talk about um loring or carbon footprint here 484 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 1: in America, and you know that we need to have 485 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 1: these agreements with the rest of the world, like I 486 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 1: don't think China, and China doesn't give it, especially these 487 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: regimes like North Korea really care and are willing to 488 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,440 Speaker 1: go on board with doing things that are you know, 489 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,399 Speaker 1: less harmful to the environment. When you hear about these 490 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: nuclear tests, it's hilarious. The way we negotiate with some 491 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 1: of these countries and try to couple with them or 492 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,680 Speaker 1: deal with them. Um and just sort of like hand 493 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,640 Speaker 1: ringing that we do in the West, and like, especially 494 00:26:57,680 --> 00:26:59,719 Speaker 1: like the the American left. I feel like looking at 495 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,119 Speaker 1: them sometimes and I'm like, all the things that you 496 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 1: value the most, the rest of the world values the least. 497 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,120 Speaker 1: Like you don't think the Chinese are willing to buy 498 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 1: carbon footprints if they The Chinese don't care about environmentalism, 499 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 1: they don't care about racism, they care not a damn 500 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,440 Speaker 1: about LGBT rights. All these things are just like superfluous 501 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: to them. They do not give a ship from their 502 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: point is the point of view. They want to harmonize 503 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: the entire region around the Han Chinese, which the the 504 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 1: elite class of that country see them as the master race. 505 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,399 Speaker 1: There's it's just hilarious. We're not even like thinking of 506 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 1: each other on equal terms. Um. And China represents itself 507 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,199 Speaker 1: as this sort of like positive force for good in 508 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 1: the world, and a lot of Americans buy that for 509 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:45,359 Speaker 1: some reason, which actually brings us into the I believe 510 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 1: is a Washington Post story about Chinese student spies. Yes, yeah, 511 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: and I had written about that years ago, and people 512 00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 1: were like, you're a racist, Jack Murphy. How can you 513 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: say that, How can you say that these Chinese students 514 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:01,880 Speaker 1: are or spies. That's just xenophobic. And it's like, no, no, 515 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 1: this is really how it works. Like if you're from 516 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,840 Speaker 1: the mainland, you know, it's quid pro quo. I mean, 517 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,119 Speaker 1: you're coming back home and it's just understood that you 518 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,520 Speaker 1: work for the homeland. That's how it is. Um and 519 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,719 Speaker 1: and all that started for me. I didn't know that 520 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,159 Speaker 1: much about how how these things work and how Chinese 521 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,280 Speaker 1: espionage functions. Um. But I was at a class in 522 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 1: college and uh I was in so it's a little 523 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 1: study group who are studying for a final examin I 524 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 1: was with three Chinese students and really nice people. I 525 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 1: liked them. Um, but we've gett into talking about like 526 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,040 Speaker 1: politics and stuff like that, because it was like it 527 00:28:34,119 --> 00:28:36,919 Speaker 1: was a course in international politics, I think. And I 528 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 1: asked them about full on gong, which is very controversial 529 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 1: in China. And I asked them, you know, just your opinion, 530 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 1: you know, no judgment here, you know, do you think 531 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 1: they're a persecuted group or do you think they're really 532 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,200 Speaker 1: up to no good? And brother, you could have heard 533 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 1: a pin drop in that room, like you could hear 534 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 1: the second hand on the clock like. And I realized 535 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 1: after the fact, is the three Chinese students in that class, 536 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 1: they're all afraid to talk because they're all afraid that 537 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: the other people in the room are going to inform 538 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: on them back to their home country. And so this 539 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,760 Speaker 1: story got ignored for a long time. But I see 540 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 1: this as a positive development is the American press over 541 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,640 Speaker 1: the last couple of years has finally started talking about 542 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 1: how China poses a threat to America. UM, poses a 543 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 1: threat to democracy. China is never going to democratize, That's 544 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,960 Speaker 1: just a pipe dream. And UM, the Chinese espionage happening 545 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 1: right here in America. Finally it's become an acceptable topic 546 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 1: for conversation in the mainstream media. So I am glad 547 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,960 Speaker 1: to see that the Washington Post is picking up on that, 548 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,560 Speaker 1: and I will issue a correction here. Carlos Figaro Washington 549 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,120 Speaker 1: says it was the Washington Time. It was the Washington Times, 550 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,320 Speaker 1: thank you. So according to Carlos, UM, all right, so 551 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 1: I'll get to some questions here. I feel like we've 552 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 1: covered a lot of news going on this week in 553 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 1: the community. UM. Let's see here, Gene Fornsworth, you love 554 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: what is j I think winning means in the Middle East? 555 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:05,640 Speaker 1: What does win look like? So I guess he means 556 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 1: from an American perspective, an American foreign policy perspective. I 557 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 1: think winning would mean stable governments UM that are at 558 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: least UM political in nature, rational in nature. UM are 559 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,400 Speaker 1: willing to engage politically in the rest of the world, 560 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 1: rather than UM act as UM terror terror states like 561 00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 1: we saw in Afghanistan Gaddaffi would engage in acts of terrorism, UM, 562 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:38,120 Speaker 1: things like this. UM. The winning might be in the 563 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 1: Middle East. It might be some form of political Islam. 564 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: I mean a lot of people don't want to hear that, 565 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 1: but it might be a form of you know, UM, 566 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:51,440 Speaker 1: you know, politics informed by Islam, not necessarily Shariah, not 567 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 1: crazy stuff like you see in Saudi Arabia, UM, but 568 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 1: who are our allies, but a more pragmatic form of 569 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 1: political Islam that is willing to engage politically and diplomatically 570 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 1: with their neighbors in the region, with Israel, with the 571 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,400 Speaker 1: United States in the West, and we'll have some sort 572 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:12,680 Speaker 1: of you know, give and take and normal diplomatic relations. UM. 573 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 1: So I think from that perspective, from an American foreign 574 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,520 Speaker 1: policy perspective, that's the best we can hope for is 575 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:25,400 Speaker 1: stable rational states DOT lean more or less towards democracy. 576 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 1: Might not it's not going to be American style democracy, 577 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,160 Speaker 1: but some indigenous type of democracy in the region. Um, 578 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 1: whoever can move the Middle East in that direction will 579 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,640 Speaker 1: be the hero of our age. Uh, you know, actually 580 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 1: accomplishing that as a whole other story. Yeah, yeah, it's 581 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 1: very true. Um, And we've talked about in the previous podcasts, 582 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: like staying there for generations. How do you make an impact? Nobody? 583 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,360 Speaker 1: Nobody has any answers, I mean, and I don't. I 584 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,440 Speaker 1: don't have all the answers either. You know, let's just 585 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 1: be real, all right, Scott Fisher Ian, I need to 586 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,640 Speaker 1: send you a list of metal bands to check out. Yeah, 587 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:01,960 Speaker 1: feel free softwarepp dot radio at stop rep dot com. 588 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:06,520 Speaker 1: Jack looking forward to your memoir. Thank you. Yeah, Yeah, 589 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,360 Speaker 1: it's uh, we're going into the editing process now, make 590 00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,040 Speaker 1: some revisions, add some things maybe I don't, I don't know. Well, 591 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,360 Speaker 1: we'll go. We're gonna start getting into that process and 592 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,320 Speaker 1: going through that nice all right, Brad Manning says he 593 00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:25,320 Speaker 1: is not that Brad Manning, which is uh oh alright, Mark, Comma, Larry, 594 00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 1: Am I going to be okay in uh in Turkey 595 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:31,920 Speaker 1: on the holidays this year from the United Kingdom. Uh, 596 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,880 Speaker 1: be careful. Don't don't go to like big public gatherings, 597 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,600 Speaker 1: you know, I mean, go have a good time. You know. 598 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,600 Speaker 1: I wouldn't tell people not to go to Turkey. Um. 599 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 1: You know, even though I have, I'm probably not welcome 600 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,680 Speaker 1: there um because of some of this stuff I've done 601 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 1: well well, my both my wife and I have done 602 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,160 Speaker 1: a lot of reporting on the Kurds and we've hung 603 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,800 Speaker 1: out with different Kurdish groups that Turkey is not does 604 00:32:55,840 --> 00:33:00,640 Speaker 1: not hold in high regard. Um. But you know, for 605 00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,840 Speaker 1: the you know, the rest of the public, I mean, 606 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,080 Speaker 1: go to Turkey while you can before that country backslides 607 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,080 Speaker 1: another twenty five years. UM. I would just avoid like 608 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,640 Speaker 1: large public gatherings, Like I said, don't don't go to 609 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:16,200 Speaker 1: protests things like that because of bombings. But you should 610 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 1: be okay, cool, all right? Uh yeah, I don't live 611 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 1: in fear. That's you know, if if that's something that 612 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,640 Speaker 1: you really want to do. Uh. Same Brad Manning, what 613 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:30,360 Speaker 1: were your favorite weapon while in service. Oh my favorite weapon. 614 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,720 Speaker 1: Let me think here. I mean, I was very fond 615 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:41,320 Speaker 1: of my SR sniper rifle. UM three three. You can't 616 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,560 Speaker 1: have one of those in New York. You can't have 617 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,320 Speaker 1: any of these in New York. I mean the three 618 00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:52,280 Speaker 1: wind meg very nice gun. Um. I mean the MA 619 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:54,560 Speaker 1: Deuce is a classic. I mean that's a hell of 620 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,760 Speaker 1: a lot of fun to shoot. But I was, you know, 621 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,360 Speaker 1: uh eighteen bravo, So I got to shoot all the guns. 622 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 1: It was fun. You still, you don't really shoot any 623 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,160 Speaker 1: of those anymore though, I know, because I live in 624 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:05,960 Speaker 1: the city, I don't have that many of you know, 625 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,279 Speaker 1: there's people who travel to p A. Yeah, I could 626 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,040 Speaker 1: travel every weekend if I was that motivated to go 627 00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,640 Speaker 1: and shoot. Um. If I lived in a different place, 628 00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:15,879 Speaker 1: I probably would take up some sort of like um, 629 00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,239 Speaker 1: I don't know, competitive marksmanship, you know, or something like that. 630 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:20,680 Speaker 1: You know, I know a lot of guys who are 631 00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,400 Speaker 1: into that. It's a cool hobby. I was listening to 632 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:25,799 Speaker 1: Kohley on now Air, the guy who works with the 633 00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,040 Speaker 1: n r A on Joe Rogan's podcast, and he does 634 00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,279 Speaker 1: a lot of that, like three guns all that. Yeah, 635 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:33,439 Speaker 1: Because he was saying that his dream as a kid 636 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,759 Speaker 1: was to be a professional basketball player, and he was like, 637 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 1: so I'm very into um you know, I guess, including 638 00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:43,319 Speaker 1: what that athleticism was shooting and he got into it 639 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,680 Speaker 1: later on life. Really good interview with that guy. I'd 640 00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:47,719 Speaker 1: actually love to get him on soft Rep. I was 641 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,759 Speaker 1: even saying, Scott Whittner from the load out room, like 642 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:51,200 Speaker 1: it'd be cool to have him on and do like 643 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,719 Speaker 1: a gear talk type of thing. He's a really cool 644 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,560 Speaker 1: guy and smart guy. Didn't know I didn't know he's 645 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,279 Speaker 1: a lawyer. Oh no, I didn't know that either. There's 646 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,680 Speaker 1: a lot of stuff out there now for people are 647 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 1: interested in competitive marksmanship, like all these ipsick competitions, and 648 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,280 Speaker 1: it seems like that that sport has gotten bigger and bigger, 649 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,080 Speaker 1: um over I guess over the last decade or so. 650 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:11,960 Speaker 1: There's a lot of opportunities out there for people who 651 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:15,719 Speaker 1: are interested in taking that up. Awesome, all right, Um, 652 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:17,920 Speaker 1: let's see, I don't know who this person is, but 653 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:23,640 Speaker 1: Carries and Zandy Nan says, Hi, my brother from another mother. Jack, Hello, 654 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,800 Speaker 1: Chris Thornton. Jack, what do you think about the escalating 655 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:33,360 Speaker 1: tensions between Turkey and Greece? I mean, yeah, the g 656 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,279 Speaker 1: and c Um. Well, the tensions have always been there 657 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,960 Speaker 1: right over Cyprus, over these islands and the Aegean. Um. 658 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:41,680 Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm prepared to give like a 659 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,359 Speaker 1: total like geopolitical breakdown of what's happening, but I think 660 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,359 Speaker 1: it's all emblematic of what we've talked about before. How 661 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,920 Speaker 1: Urdawuan has these neo Ottomani ambitions and they see the 662 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:56,319 Speaker 1: entire surrounding area as part of the new Ottoman Empire. Um. 663 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,120 Speaker 1: So it's like, man, are they gonna go and you know, 664 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:00,920 Speaker 1: wage war against bell Right again? You know, are they 665 00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,320 Speaker 1: going to try to take the city, take eastern Europe? 666 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,680 Speaker 1: How's that going to go down? Howere? You know, where 667 00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:08,600 Speaker 1: does this end for Urbiwan? Because it's always a question 668 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:10,919 Speaker 1: of what do you do for an encore right if 669 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,120 Speaker 1: this is your form of legitimacy, this sort of um 670 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:18,360 Speaker 1: insane blending of Islamism in Turkish nationalism, where is it 671 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,560 Speaker 1: going to go? Um? You know, the Greek government I 672 00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,839 Speaker 1: was told was actually the Greek military was on high 673 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:28,480 Speaker 1: alert because they were expecting an impending attack from Turkey. 674 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,879 Speaker 1: I mean, that's insane that these two, you know, two 675 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,840 Speaker 1: countries in NATO that are ostensibly both part of Europe. 676 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:37,920 Speaker 1: I don't want to start I know there's a lot 677 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:39,680 Speaker 1: of a lot of tension there. I don't want to 678 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:42,560 Speaker 1: start a fistfight about which countries belong in the EU 679 00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:45,319 Speaker 1: and which don't. I know, you have a bad economy, Greece, 680 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,600 Speaker 1: it's not your faults. Okay, Well we're moving on. We're 681 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,920 Speaker 1: moving on. UM. But yeah, those tensions are gonna keep building. 682 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,760 Speaker 1: And I mean, I think it would be better for 683 00:36:56,239 --> 00:37:00,200 Speaker 1: you know, some of these supernational structures like NATO, like 684 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,840 Speaker 1: the European Union, UM, with America playing a sort of 685 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,520 Speaker 1: vanguard role, to try to step in and try to 686 00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:10,279 Speaker 1: dial that back now if possible, um, because it's gonna 687 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,000 Speaker 1: get worse and worse, there's no doubt about that. HM. 688 00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:16,440 Speaker 1: And then how long before there's a real conflagration in 689 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:20,000 Speaker 1: the Aegean and you have Turkish troops, you know, having 690 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:25,360 Speaker 1: firefights with Greek troops. Um, all right, Scott Fisher, what's 691 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,520 Speaker 1: del Gotto up to? I don't know, you'd have to 692 00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:31,600 Speaker 1: ask him. Uh, let's see what else we have here. 693 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,040 Speaker 1: Thank you for the softrep T shirts. Oh l l 694 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,200 Speaker 1: R R guys, thank you for the soft rup T shirts. Oh, 695 00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:42,960 Speaker 1: they White Reaction Regiment in the Philippines. Yeah. Yeah, we 696 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,440 Speaker 1: gave him a big box of T shirts. I handed 697 00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,520 Speaker 1: off to UM one of their friends in Las Vegas 698 00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,480 Speaker 1: at the shot show, and they gave me a plaque 699 00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:54,279 Speaker 1: which is very nice. Is really cool, um uh with 700 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:58,040 Speaker 1: some some memorabilia from the Battle of Marrow we um. 701 00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,839 Speaker 1: But yeah, the Filipino Special Operation Asians units are They're 702 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:07,120 Speaker 1: really good guys. Awesome, all right, Jared lee uzy question 703 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,719 Speaker 1: where Jack is someone who has served in both units? 704 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,040 Speaker 1: Are s F or rangers more likely to deploy in 705 00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:18,040 Speaker 1: small teams? Uh? Special Forces is much more likely to 706 00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:20,920 Speaker 1: deploy in small team because it's designed to function as 707 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:22,880 Speaker 1: an O d A. A twelve man team is the 708 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:26,360 Speaker 1: maneuver element of Special Forces um SO. They're designed to 709 00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,720 Speaker 1: go and work in austere environments and a decentralized environment. 710 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:35,000 Speaker 1: UM Rangers are designed to work as a platoon or 711 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,400 Speaker 1: higher um. You know, you could deploy a platoon, you 712 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,640 Speaker 1: could deploy a company, you could deploy a battalion. Um. 713 00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,880 Speaker 1: There have been circumstances where like in Panama where the 714 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:50,839 Speaker 1: entire regiment deployed and jumped in um SO. Yeah, two 715 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:55,439 Speaker 1: different jobs. Different organizational structures. I don't think rangers would 716 00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,120 Speaker 1: ever be deployed as less than a platoon, at least 717 00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:03,000 Speaker 1: not to not to combat. I can't see that happening alright. Um, 718 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,520 Speaker 1: and our friend Shannon Miller, who's been on the for 719 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,920 Speaker 1: US says, sign up for the Department of State travel 720 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:11,160 Speaker 1: warnings for Turkey. We'll tell you of the places to 721 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,360 Speaker 1: avoid inside Turkey. Don't travel to the east in Turkey. 722 00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:22,560 Speaker 1: So that's that's definitely some good advice. Um Oh, I 723 00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,840 Speaker 1: have no idea what this question is, Michael s Pezel, 724 00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,760 Speaker 1: what you see more places to go back with God? 725 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,279 Speaker 1: All things are b I have been trying. I don't 726 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,440 Speaker 1: know what that even means. Go with God, brother, go 727 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,760 Speaker 1: with God. 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Yeah, 779 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,160 Speaker 1: they just did the first episode is the first episode 780 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,360 Speaker 1: on there already, I believe. So yeah, yea. So it's uh, 781 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,279 Speaker 1: it's me hosting it. And we went into the March 782 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:30,560 Speaker 1: for Our Lives protest here in New York City, and um, 783 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,160 Speaker 1: you know, we interviewed all sorts of people. We interviewed 784 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:37,320 Speaker 1: you know, high school students, teachers, um, to run of 785 00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:40,400 Speaker 1: the mill protesters, you know, people who live in in 786 00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:43,800 Speaker 1: the city who came out the protest guns. We interviewed 787 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:46,160 Speaker 1: pro n r A people, We interviewed you know, the 788 00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:50,400 Speaker 1: MAGA crew, the MAGA people that make America great again, 789 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:54,359 Speaker 1: hats on, including Kanye who's rocket head lately. We did 790 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,560 Speaker 1: not we did not interview Kanye, but we we made 791 00:42:57,600 --> 00:42:59,959 Speaker 1: an effort to try to cover as many different side 792 00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,840 Speaker 1: to the issue as we could. And um, the concept 793 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,920 Speaker 1: of the documentary is just that that instead of you know, 794 00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:09,480 Speaker 1: hearing it from a talking head like someone like me, Um, 795 00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,680 Speaker 1: are you really a talking head? Though? Well, I could 796 00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,759 Speaker 1: become a talking head if I just like lecture you, 797 00:43:13,840 --> 00:43:16,640 Speaker 1: if if I, you know, get my cell phone out 798 00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:17,880 Speaker 1: and I sit in the front seat of my car 799 00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:19,600 Speaker 1: and I just go on rants every day, I would 800 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,319 Speaker 1: become a talking head. Um, but you hear from the 801 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,120 Speaker 1: people who are there, and I think if you watch 802 00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:26,520 Speaker 1: that documentary, it'll give you a good idea of what 803 00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:28,719 Speaker 1: type of people showed up at that protest, what their 804 00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,960 Speaker 1: thoughts are, and what they were. Yes, so check that out. 805 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,600 Speaker 1: The divide on the spec Ops channel, it's spec ops 806 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:38,360 Speaker 1: channel dot com. Uh, only five hours a month right now. 807 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,200 Speaker 1: I don't know how long we're running that. So if 808 00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:42,799 Speaker 1: you want to join or become a team, remember and 809 00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:46,080 Speaker 1: you'll get it. Um included wrapping things up here, I 810 00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:48,680 Speaker 1: see a couple more questions coming in, so I'll shoot, 811 00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,440 Speaker 1: I'll get to those and then we'll call it a show. 812 00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:55,759 Speaker 1: Chris Thornton, Um, I've posted several articles on Sam Rock 813 00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,919 Speaker 1: Sam Rock, and Jack has written on the issue. So, Jack, 814 00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:00,719 Speaker 1: do you have any new in full on all the 815 00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:05,200 Speaker 1: seventh Group guys getting in serious legal problems? Um. I've 816 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:09,319 Speaker 1: had some conversations often maybe leave it at that, but no, 817 00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:13,080 Speaker 1: I don't have any other additional information. I know the 818 00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,160 Speaker 1: unit is trying to grapple with it and deal with 819 00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:18,480 Speaker 1: some of these things. UM. You know, they got their 820 00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,879 Speaker 1: work cut out for them unfortunately. UM, but we'll see 821 00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:25,960 Speaker 1: how it goes. UM. All right, Bred Manning once again, 822 00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,200 Speaker 1: Jack Murphy, when you expect to go back out and 823 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,120 Speaker 1: do more news type stuff overseas and what are your 824 00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:34,759 Speaker 1: thoughts on Africa? I don't have any plans right now. UM. 825 00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:40,840 Speaker 1: I have to see what's interesting, what's under reported. UM. 826 00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,320 Speaker 1: I have Actually I want to send some of my writers. 827 00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,440 Speaker 1: They have some ideas about some different hotspots around the world. 828 00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:50,319 Speaker 1: I'd like to shoot them out to UM sometime this year. 829 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,160 Speaker 1: I don't have any plans right at this moment. I 830 00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:56,359 Speaker 1: think the next thing for me is, um actually going 831 00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,640 Speaker 1: on my honeymoon. So yeah, I'm taking a little bit 832 00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:01,960 Speaker 1: of a k Asian time, going to be in uh 833 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,200 Speaker 1: in Europe, and then my wife and I are taking 834 00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:08,239 Speaker 1: our honeymoon. But you know, my my wife is a journalist. 835 00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,279 Speaker 1: I am what I am. We're gonna go to some 836 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,279 Speaker 1: places that are a little bit off the beaten path 837 00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:15,960 Speaker 1: as far as honeymoons. We're not going to Tahiti or 838 00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:18,960 Speaker 1: anything like that. UM. So maybe they'll come back, who knows. 839 00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,600 Speaker 1: Maybe I'll come back with a story from there, um, 840 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:23,680 Speaker 1: both to figure out who's gonna be here while you're 841 00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:27,319 Speaker 1: not here. It would be like a month without you. Yeah, 842 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,239 Speaker 1: well I can still call in, we can do it 843 00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,759 Speaker 1: like that and calling on sky Yeah I know. Um, 844 00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:34,759 Speaker 1: but yeah, it will be probably like a month or so, 845 00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:39,319 Speaker 1: maybe five weeks that I'll be out. Um. So that yeah, 846 00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,480 Speaker 1: that's that. But as far as like, yeah, doing another 847 00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:45,000 Speaker 1: reporting trip would be interesting. It would be interesting to 848 00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:50,560 Speaker 1: go back to Syria, to northern Syria again, um, because 849 00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:53,840 Speaker 1: as the war matures, it's interesting to see how the 850 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:56,640 Speaker 1: Kurds evolve in that region and how they're trying to 851 00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:59,480 Speaker 1: create their own system of governance and will that system 852 00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:02,360 Speaker 1: of government survive. So it's sort of like the post 853 00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,919 Speaker 1: war environment and what that looks like. Um. But there's 854 00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:06,960 Speaker 1: a lot of interesting areas in the world, a lot 855 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:10,600 Speaker 1: of interesting things going on. I mean, there's all kinds 856 00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:12,840 Speaker 1: of stuff going on in Central and South America. Nobody's 857 00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:15,480 Speaker 1: reporting on its Yeah, it's crazy. No one's even reporting 858 00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:18,480 Speaker 1: on what we spoke about earlier with North Korea and 859 00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,160 Speaker 1: what's going on with their nuclear test. So there's a 860 00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:23,839 Speaker 1: lot of stuff getting brushed onto the carpet with North Korea. Yeah, 861 00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:26,200 Speaker 1: that's another subject. Hey, this is a guy that I've 862 00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,600 Speaker 1: heard you mentioned before on the show Carries and zand 863 00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:33,560 Speaker 1: Nan says, Hijack, this is mclovin. I've heard you referenced 864 00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:37,840 Speaker 1: him before. Oh, mcvin, Yeah, mclovin was want to He 865 00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:41,640 Speaker 1: worked with me on on our base at um At 866 00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:46,360 Speaker 1: Fob Sykes and tell Afar Iraq and Uh mclovin and 867 00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,960 Speaker 1: his brother they both worked for us for my O 868 00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:52,440 Speaker 1: d A and Um. They have both immigrated to America 869 00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:55,560 Speaker 1: subsequently and they're here with their families now. It's great. Yeah, 870 00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:57,279 Speaker 1: I've heard you bring him up. So he says, we 871 00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:01,279 Speaker 1: we interviewed his brother, you remember, Um, I know we were. 872 00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:04,719 Speaker 1: We interviewed the U z D guys. That's him, that's brother. 873 00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,640 Speaker 1: I remember. I remember everybody we interview I really do. Um. 874 00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:10,879 Speaker 1: So okay, that makes sense. Um, and he does ask 875 00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,799 Speaker 1: do you guys have the soft rep T shirt available online? Yes, 876 00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,319 Speaker 1: we do soft rep dot com. There's a store tab 877 00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,239 Speaker 1: right on there, and there's a whole rout. We have 878 00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:20,719 Speaker 1: a throat punch of the weak shirt. I've a whole 879 00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:22,759 Speaker 1: bunch of you're also working on like some more like 880 00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:25,040 Speaker 1: I think, like different kinds of like funny shirts and 881 00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,000 Speaker 1: stuff like that. Weren't we weren't we talking about that 882 00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:30,000 Speaker 1: with Yeah, I mean the stuff I've seen on there, 883 00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:31,960 Speaker 1: I've seen for a while. But it's all good. They're 884 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,560 Speaker 1: all great shirts. So yeah, go to soft rep dot com, 885 00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:38,239 Speaker 1: buy a shirt, help us out. Um, all right, I 886 00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:40,480 Speaker 1: guess we'll get to this one last one, will choose, 887 00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:45,040 Speaker 1: says um. Nice analysis on various issues. Good job, thank you, Um, 888 00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,360 Speaker 1: And I guess we'll wrap it with this question, Jimmy Alfred, 889 00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:55,800 Speaker 1: what would our the US next step be in Syria? Wow? Yeah, okay, 890 00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:59,400 Speaker 1: so next step in Syria would be consolidation and withdrawal. 891 00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:02,520 Speaker 1: I mean probably unless we're playing on staying there for 892 00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:05,560 Speaker 1: a long time and we want to um, you know, 893 00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:08,480 Speaker 1: the same way we might put troops in Poland, right, 894 00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:12,960 Speaker 1: So that it's a it's a it's a like a force, um, 895 00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:16,520 Speaker 1: like we keep troops in Estonia or Lithuania. And what 896 00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:19,279 Speaker 1: that does is it projects to the Russians. It says, look, 897 00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:21,520 Speaker 1: if you invade this country, you're gonna be at war 898 00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:25,840 Speaker 1: with American soldiers. And so it's um, it's a just 899 00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:30,000 Speaker 1: stationing troops there, A small number of soldiers, not enough 900 00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:33,200 Speaker 1: to be provocative, like it's clear this isn't an invasion 901 00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:35,279 Speaker 1: for Uce, like we're gonna try to invade Russia with this, 902 00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:38,600 Speaker 1: these two hundred troops, it's just a small force to 903 00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,520 Speaker 1: tell them, Look, if you invade this country, you're you're 904 00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:44,640 Speaker 1: at war with America. Now, the question is would we 905 00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,800 Speaker 1: be interested in doing that in Syria and what the 906 00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:50,799 Speaker 1: Kurds called ra Java, this area of northern Syria? Are 907 00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:53,520 Speaker 1: we going to keep a small number of American troops 908 00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:57,640 Speaker 1: two hundred Special Forces and support guys there just to 909 00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:01,560 Speaker 1: tell Turkey and maybe the Syrian regime if you invade 910 00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:05,759 Speaker 1: this area, you're at war with America too. But I 911 00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,000 Speaker 1: don't know if that's our our long term agenda. I'm 912 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,000 Speaker 1: not sure if we even have a long term agenda 913 00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:12,000 Speaker 1: in Syria. I don't I'm not convinced we ever have 914 00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:17,080 Speaker 1: had one. UM So that might be one option. Maybe 915 00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:21,120 Speaker 1: that's what we're looking at. UM Or the option could be, Look, 916 00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:24,880 Speaker 1: we want to UM get the Curds to the table 917 00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:29,160 Speaker 1: with the Assad regime and reach something and help reach 918 00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:32,200 Speaker 1: some sort of negotiated settlement. I think that's this is 919 00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:34,799 Speaker 1: how the Curds perceive it, and my my, and it's 920 00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,560 Speaker 1: how the regime perceives it too, because I've I've fum, 921 00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,640 Speaker 1: I've been with both sides, so I've heard both comments 922 00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:42,960 Speaker 1: from both sides, and I think both the Kurds and 923 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:45,719 Speaker 1: the government, the Syrian government both understand that at a 924 00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:48,520 Speaker 1: certain point they're going to have to reach a negotiated settlement. 925 00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:53,440 Speaker 1: And what the Curds want is a semi autonomous area, um. 926 00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:55,920 Speaker 1: Just like we have states rights in America. They want 927 00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,040 Speaker 1: to have some states rights where the Curds have rights 928 00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,319 Speaker 1: and things like this, and they have some participation in 929 00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,440 Speaker 1: the government. Um. But they understand that what they call 930 00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:08,160 Speaker 1: Java and those cantons will be folded under a Syrian 931 00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:12,000 Speaker 1: federal system. Right. So that might be the next step, 932 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,480 Speaker 1: and maybe America can help push that a little bit 933 00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:17,600 Speaker 1: further along. But again, I mean it's also fluid. Who 934 00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:20,680 Speaker 1: knows what the hell? We never seem like we know 935 00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:23,239 Speaker 1: what the hell we're doing over there, um. And I 936 00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:26,120 Speaker 1: would say whatever it's like, you know, you say to 937 00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:28,680 Speaker 1: a young lieutenant in the army, like, look, make a 938 00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:31,560 Speaker 1: decision or I was told this to make any decision, 939 00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,160 Speaker 1: because any decision is better than no decision, and I 940 00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:36,440 Speaker 1: feel like in terms of Syria, it's like we're making 941 00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:38,960 Speaker 1: no decision, hoping like this whole thing is going to 942 00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:42,440 Speaker 1: blow over, like the Homer Simpson where Homer Simpson goes 943 00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:44,640 Speaker 1: back to college and he's like, I didn't study for 944 00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:46,600 Speaker 1: the exam, so I'm just gonna hide under the pile 945 00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:49,399 Speaker 1: of coats and hope that this whole thing magically blows over. 946 00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,759 Speaker 1: That's a bad strategy. That's that's the worst strategy you 947 00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,080 Speaker 1: can have. Like, let's make a decision about what we 948 00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:58,200 Speaker 1: want the future to look like and move in that direction. 949 00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:01,719 Speaker 1: All right. I hope you guys enjoyed this, like it, 950 00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:05,680 Speaker 1: share it out, follow us on Twitter and Instagram at 951 00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:09,280 Speaker 1: soft Rep Radio, and uh, I think that's it. Thanks 952 00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,400 Speaker 1: for joining us for this first live stream in a 953 00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,240 Speaker 1: very long time. We enjoyed doing it, enjoyed the answering 954 00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,600 Speaker 1: your questions, and uh, hopefully we will do more of these. 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