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It was awesome having brad Thorne Studio, 6 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: who was definitely an A list guest and U s 7 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 1: U s I in this episode we have a de 8 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:28,279 Speaker 1: list guest, I mean, just a writer for this site. 9 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:30,240 Speaker 1: It's just a funny you go from New York Times 10 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: best selling author to Kurt, who we all know Ian 11 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: what a dick until Kurt writes the New York Times 12 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: bestseller eighteen of them in a row. Yeah, exactly eighteen. Sorry, Kurt, 13 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: you know what I was interested by. By the way, 14 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: I didn't realize this. So it actually does seem like 15 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: he may have branched off one time, brad Thor because 16 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: I was looking at his entire um, like you wouldn't 17 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: say discography that that's recording. What what does it mean 18 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 1: when you go like your entire catalog, your catalog of books. Yeah, 19 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: and so he was eighteen, but apparently one of them 20 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:06,320 Speaker 1: was not entirely a Scott Harvath book. It was that, 21 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,040 Speaker 1: that's the one I read. The Athena Project, Yeah, it was. 22 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: It was like a spinoff. It's about like four women 23 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,920 Speaker 1: who they're like Jay soccer girls, doing their own operation. 24 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 1: It's like a spinoff of the series. He writes. It 25 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 1: seems like he didn't continue with that though. Yeah, it's 26 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: probably too too much. I mean, if he's writing one 27 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 1: book a year, you know, with that that main protagonist, 28 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: I mean, now he's got to pump out two a year. 29 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: Like that's yeah, I know, because I noticed the year 30 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: he did the Athena Project, he did two books that ye, 31 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: so yeah, it may it may have been him branching 32 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: out and thinking it might do so it might have 33 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 1: been his wife like no, like you need to sit 34 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: at the dinner table, you know what I mean. That's 35 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: a lot of work. Yeah. Yeah. I also saw by 36 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,680 Speaker 1: the way on Twitter that he, um he did right, 37 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: I'm ending like the promotional tour of this book due 38 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 1: to a family emergency. Just really I didn't so hopefully 39 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah, hopefully everything is all right. 40 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: I he just wrote that, So no specifics of what 41 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: it was, Um, the other things to get to I 42 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 1: guess are the woman climbing the Statue of Liberty in 43 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 1: protest of ice? That was entertaining and that was some 44 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: entertainment for your U four. Yeah, well, no one knew 45 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: why she was doing it at first. Every I just 46 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: saw everybody on Twitter and Facebook performance are someone climbing 47 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: the statue Liberty? Which I just saw the the e 48 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 1: s U guys, which is like New York City's version 49 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 1: of the SWAT team, the Emergency Services Unit, And they 50 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: also do high risk rescues um which could be like, um, 51 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 1: I don't know, something like going down into like subway 52 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 1: tunnels or like like high angle like that involves like 53 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: repelling and stuff like that they can do. They do 54 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: those like high risk rescue missions also. Um so I 55 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: guess that's why they got thrown that bone and had 56 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 1: to go deal with the woman climbing up the statue 57 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: of Liberty. Yeah, I'm not surprised, but by what she 58 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: was protesting though. You know, if people want to be fair, 59 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: Donald Trump gets blamed for a lot of like violence 60 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 1: that goes on that is politically driven on the right. 61 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: Then I think when you have this woman on the 62 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:07,760 Speaker 1: left that we've mentioned, you just got elected to Congress 63 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: and calls is a terrorist organization and they're operating at 64 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 1: black sites, Like, don't be surprised if someone who's probably 65 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 1: mentally unstable does something like Well, I mean, to be fair, 66 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 1: that young woman who was elected to Congress. I mean, 67 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: what she has said is a drop in the bucket 68 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: compared to what so many of our other politicians have said, 69 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: and especially Donald Trump night less. But I do think 70 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 1: calling is a terrorist organization is very like, that's a 71 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: very heated thing to say. Oh it is. It is 72 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: very heated, and it's inappropriate. But I mean, you had 73 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:45,360 Speaker 1: Ed Snowden accused our entire you know, government intelligence community 74 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 1: of spying on American citizens, and what did our government do? 75 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 1: They said, we're gonna look. I know that they never 76 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,520 Speaker 1: said that's bullshit, that's not true. Yeah, they were participating 77 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 1: in legal activities that we ordered them to do. Our 78 00:04:56,640 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: government didn't said that. They rolled over like a bunch 79 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 1: of little girls. It was embarrassing. Um. And then the 80 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: last thing to mention before we get over to Kurt is, 81 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 1: I just saw that Ed Schultz died. I was not 82 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,039 Speaker 1: necessarily like an Ed Schultz fan, but he was a 83 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:15,359 Speaker 1: part of uh, you know, the commentary news industry, I 84 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: guess you would say. And uh, I just thought it 85 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: was interesting, like near the end of his career he 86 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:23,279 Speaker 1: went from MSNBC, which everybody on there pretty much blames 87 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: Russia for everything, to going to the Russian owned RT 88 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:31,719 Speaker 1: News network. So yeah, I mean, I guess they offered 89 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: him a good deal. Yeah, but rest in peace to him, 90 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: you know, regardless of like if you're politically on his 91 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 1: side or not. You know, he was a guy who 92 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,720 Speaker 1: was very passionate about what he did obviously, and they 93 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: say he died due to natural causes, but you know, 94 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: no one should be dying like in there. I think 95 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:50,600 Speaker 1: early to mid sixty he wasn't. Yeah, I don't think 96 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: he was that old. Yeah, not an old guy. Um. 97 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: Rest in peace. Um. And with that we will get 98 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 1: over to uh Kurt. Yeah, yeah, sure, I see, Kurt. 99 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:06,279 Speaker 1: You're wearing your patriotic wife beaters today. I just didn't 100 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:12,919 Speaker 1: change since yesterday. Really, So joining us on the podcast 101 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:17,280 Speaker 1: back on is Kurt Schroeder, former Marine American volunteer with 102 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: the Peesh Murga and I'll throw myself under the bus. 103 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 1: I was jokingly saying that last episode we had on 104 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: an a List guest like Brad thor and then we 105 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:29,839 Speaker 1: followed up with the de List guest like Kurt Troeder. 106 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 1: And that's what I said, Yeah, what I get to 107 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 1: tell everybody I'm famous now I'm on the radio. He 108 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 1: was doing he was doing your dirty. But as Jack said, 109 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 1: you would have to write eighteen New York Times bestsellers 110 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: to be of brad Door status. You know, I wrote 111 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:49,560 Speaker 1: a couple of sentences the other day on Facebook and 112 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 1: coming along classics. How was your July four? Man? It 113 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,279 Speaker 1: was pretty damn good. Actually did like a little barbecue 114 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: with the family, washing fireworks. Um yeah, pretty relaxed. He 115 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 1: went out halfway through the day. Somebody blew up something somewhere, 116 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: but I don't know if you heard Jack there just 117 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: saying barbecues are racist? Yeah, well you know me, I'm 118 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 1: throwing out. Was it are Nation hand signal? Yeah? The 119 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: white white power hand signals out of the shot show. Yeah, 120 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: that was a good one. When the was it? He was? 121 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: He current given the okay sign and some dude on 122 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: Twitter jumped on it was like he's giving crypto white 123 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: supremacist handed arm signals. Were like what the fuck? Because 124 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: like when you're giving the okay sign apparently like the 125 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: three fingers up stand or a W and when you 126 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: have three and then your pointer finger closed making a 127 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: circle with your thumb is the P white power. Oh 128 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: that's freaking ridiculously Yeah. I didn't even know that until 129 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: that guy on Twitter started heckling you is what is more? 130 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: The more you know, I am not, I am not 131 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: not by the way white power. So you say, Kurt, yeah, 132 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: you know i'd have to go and inspect this barbecue 133 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: of yours a k a. White nationalists get together in 134 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest bringing your linen. Oh my god, people 135 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: are too much. But we're gonna get into that later 136 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 1: on today we're gonna start doing our so woke segment 137 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: or should we say woke tard segment, which you're suggested 138 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:39,319 Speaker 1: by someone on Twitter. Yeah, yeah, someone else came on 139 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: do a segment especially that was at least by the 140 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 1: way that Wolf Veteran's podcast, you guys did was absolutely amazing. 141 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:52,680 Speaker 1: Like I almost heard like big Serge Murphy come out 142 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:55,400 Speaker 1: and almost start knife handing people. Almost a little bit 143 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: of you know, corporal team leader coming out in me 144 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:01,480 Speaker 1: a little bit. I was getting I was mildly perturbed 145 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: by that entire sequence of events. It was a little frustrating, 146 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: I'll say that much for it. It was Michael Stephano 147 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 1: by the way, who tweets us a lot, great dude, um, 148 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: who suggested the the hashtag so woke segment, So we'll 149 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:16,920 Speaker 1: do that at the end of the Woke Tards. Yeah, 150 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: And I mean, you know, I was kind of disappointed though, Kurt, 151 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:22,319 Speaker 1: because I mean I kind of dropped a j damn 152 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: on their HQ right there on Cobra Commander's Lair and uh, 153 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: you know, these kids are supposed to be like the 154 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 1: king of irony and sarcasm and all that woke takes 155 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 1: and all that good stuff. And I mean not a 156 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: single rebuttal has been advanced against that podcast to this day. 157 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: I mean not. They couldn't say ship and it was 158 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: fun to watch them scatter like cockroaches. But you know, 159 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll come back. Cockroaches tend to infest certain areas. 160 00:09:49,679 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: It sounds like you hit him pretty good, then yeah, Well, 161 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: well the thing is, the smart ones no better than 162 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: to open their mouths. It's like, well, it's like, let 163 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: this thing blow over. The dumb ones open their mouths, 164 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: you know, it's it's just interesting to see how people respond. Definitely, 165 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 1: so getting into what you've been up to. Man, as 166 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 1: people know, I think that read the site. You're one 167 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: of our regular writers, and you're working on a lot 168 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: of stuff. Yeah. I just started doing the tune by 169 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: the way, which is just pretty fun to be honest, 170 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: because I've gotten to learn a few historical events I 171 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: didn't know about, like the Berlin Airlift. So a lot 172 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,920 Speaker 1: of this, I feel research these things for the articles 173 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:34,959 Speaker 1: or the tune right ups and uh and then uh, 174 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: I've been working on a lot of stuff just article wise, 175 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 1: which is trying to keep up with the Middle East 176 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 1: because it's kind of died out in people's minds, but 177 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: there's still a lot of very relevant things happening, you know. Yeah, yeah, no, 178 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 1: I definitely agree. I mean it seems like the media 179 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 1: has definitely shifted their attention, like and you know, Kurt, 180 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: because you were there too. I mean ten, even sixteen 181 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 1: is starting to die off. But for for sure was 182 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:06,960 Speaker 1: like the the isis clickbait years everywhere. It was like 183 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,440 Speaker 1: just like now Trump has to be in every headline, 184 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 1: three three or four years ago, Isis had to be 185 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 1: in every headline. Um. And you know, just because the 186 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,480 Speaker 1: media has diverted their attention doesn't mean you should stop 187 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: paying attention to what's happening in Syria or Iraq because 188 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: the Lord knows something else will happen. And we're going 189 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: to be right back over there definitely. Well, and you 190 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:32,839 Speaker 1: know that's kind of interesting. I don't think we're planning 191 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:36,559 Speaker 1: on leaving. I just wrote about that today, um, because 192 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: who was it, Senator Lindsey Graham just held a meeting 193 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: with a president or Dogan in Turkey who's been on 194 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:48,120 Speaker 1: the podcast by the way, there Lindsey Graham, not Urdawan, 195 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:54,199 Speaker 1: but yeah something um, but uh yeah, and they were 196 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,240 Speaker 1: basically discussing about the future of mom bees and UM, 197 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:01,720 Speaker 1: right now there's coordinated patrols happening between independent but coordinated 198 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 1: so they're not bumping in to do each other out 199 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: there in the sticks between the Turkish forces and the 200 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 1: US Coalition based forces. Um. And it sounds like the 201 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:14,800 Speaker 1: last of the YPG That actually where the banner YPG 202 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:19,080 Speaker 1: uh pulled out the beginning of this month, and it's 203 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:22,680 Speaker 1: strictly the mom Beage Military Council and the SDF forces 204 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:25,520 Speaker 1: there and it sounds like they're trying to make that 205 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 1: dividing line because our Dogan wants mambage, but the US 206 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: doesn't want to give it up. Yeah, well we have 207 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 1: the airfield there right. Um, it's going to be interesting 208 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 1: to see how all that plays out. I think why 209 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 1: the Kurds and the SDF in general, I mean, I 210 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 1: think they understand they're going to have to have some 211 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: sort of negotiated settlement with the Assad regime at some point. Um, 212 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 1: and you see the indicators. I mean, they're not dumb. 213 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: They understand that they're gonna have to They're not gonna 214 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: be able to continue like this forever. They're going to 215 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 1: have to figure out some sort of long term solution. 216 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: It's interesting. It's a slowly developing situation. But there is 217 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:07,080 Speaker 1: stuff happening in Syria still, and I don't know, I 218 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:11,080 Speaker 1: think it's just not catching the headlines anymore. But it's 219 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:15,080 Speaker 1: the way it goes. Yeah. I mean, that's what I 220 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 1: was trying to say before, is that it's one of 221 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 1: those things like everyone's attention is diverted to whatever the 222 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 1: latest you know, bullshit is here. You know some uh, 223 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:27,199 Speaker 1: you know, big game hunter killed a giraffe in Africa. 224 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 1: We're angry about that, and then the next day we're 225 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:32,079 Speaker 1: angry that some kids are eating tide pods. But I mean, 226 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 1: eventually it's gonna swing full circle come back around to 227 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: you know, is anyone really so dumb and so naive 228 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 1: that they think Iraq isn't going to be back in 229 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 1: the headlines, that something else isn't gonna pop off over there? 230 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 1: You know? Absolutely? Like no, it's well, I mean think 231 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: about it now. That's the other thing I read about is, uh, 232 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,200 Speaker 1: how we pulled out the Iran nuclear deal and the 233 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:56,440 Speaker 1: repercussions are being felt like on their end end, our end. 234 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:00,840 Speaker 1: But mostly what we're seeing right now is with Todd 235 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:05,000 Speaker 1: All Solder being elected for Racki Parliament, which is nobody 236 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 1: remembers he was the enemy back in Oh yeah, he 237 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: was like the public enemy number at one point. Yeah, 238 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:14,839 Speaker 1: like no joke. He was the guy. And suddenly now 239 00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: he's the head of parliament. So and and basically because 240 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 1: of his heavy shite background. Um, there's a lot of 241 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: ties there to Iran, and they're sending big heads of 242 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 1: military and the Republican Guard down to meet with him 243 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:35,760 Speaker 1: and talk about future plans in relationship between Iran and Iraq. Um, 244 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,480 Speaker 1: there's stuff happening, and we've better keep an eye on it, 245 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:41,840 Speaker 1: because I mean, that's that's like our long standing right now. 246 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 1: They're kind of a whale long stating relationship militarily with Iraq. 247 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 1: But I don't know, it made it worries me that 248 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: I Ran is trying to kind of sneak him out 249 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: from under us if if you will, well, I mean 250 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: I think it's already happened to a large extent. I 251 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: mean to what how are things shaken out with the 252 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: Shia militias in Iraq? Where where did they end up 253 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: settling down? I mean, go ahead, yeah, oh yeah, no, 254 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:05,760 Speaker 1: I mean and and yeah, that's the funny part. They're 255 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,400 Speaker 1: they're an official part of the Iraqi military now, like 256 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: they're recognized. They get like veterans disability and stuff. And 257 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: um actually wrote about that, like they have legit. You know, 258 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 1: if you're retired from hostile shabby or get injured while fighting, 259 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: you get like disability from the government now and U UM, 260 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting in that regard to because they're 261 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: um been they've been operating, co operating in Syria, like 262 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:33,440 Speaker 1: we just j damned the hell out of it. Was 263 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: like a platoon of hostile shabby and some what's it 264 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: on no stra but nobody like the the j o 265 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:42,640 Speaker 1: C in Iraq were like, yeah, we we don't have 266 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 1: any units operating in that area, but they were like 267 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: legit Iraqi Nationals and hostile hostile shabby unit and some 268 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: of them, some of them were actually invited in by Syria, 269 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 1: which was really I'd love to know what the deep 270 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: politics behind that settlement or that negotiation was, like why 271 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 1: would have the Syria in government invite yet another player, Like, well, 272 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 1: we got all these guys already, we might as well 273 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: bring one more. I'm sure it involved the Iranians of course, Yeah, definitely, 274 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: definitely well and yeah, Rans trying to set up that 275 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 1: that corridor into a Palestine. So the Middle East never changes, Well, 276 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 1: the more it changes, the more it stays the same, 277 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: you know, definitely. And I don't know, I think we 278 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 1: all have similar frustrations with that part of the world, 279 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: and I'm sure no one feels that way more than 280 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: the people who actually have to live there. Uh. You know, 281 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,080 Speaker 1: I wrote an article about ms Will when we retook it. 282 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: I mean, quite cynical of me, but I mean I 283 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:51,400 Speaker 1: think there's some truth to it that it doesn't really 284 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:53,720 Speaker 1: matter that we retook miss Well, how many more times 285 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 1: are we going to see these cities change hands during 286 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 1: our lifetimes. We've already seen them change hands like what 287 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 1: five six times or something since we removed Saddam, you know, 288 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, I don't Menna cut you off. I 289 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:08,400 Speaker 1: I touch on this in almost every article because I'm like, 290 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:14,080 Speaker 1: the the Iraqi paramilitary forces are hostile, shoppy and every 291 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:18,200 Speaker 1: other small militia taking kirk Cook from the Kurds like there, 292 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:22,160 Speaker 1: It's just that was a big shift in power because 293 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:24,159 Speaker 1: Kurds had a lot of power with that city and 294 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 1: now they do not They wanted it to there, yeah, 295 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,880 Speaker 1: really seriously because the old trade would have made them 296 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 1: um alone. But also like and now they're trying to 297 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:37,639 Speaker 1: it's like you feel the curse politicians like doing this 298 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:40,439 Speaker 1: this air of confidence, like their fronting like yeah, I 299 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: know we're demanding this of Iraq and they're telling people 300 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 1: this and that, but really it's like they don't have 301 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:47,359 Speaker 1: a leg to stand on. It's like or what what 302 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,119 Speaker 1: Iraq tells you is what goes? Yeah, I mean that 303 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 1: that's it's interesting. I mean, did they get anything in 304 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:56,200 Speaker 1: return for giving up kirk Cook so easily. Uh well, 305 00:17:56,359 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: so what I understand is that um, some higher ranking 306 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 1: members in the PUK basically struck a deal with Iran. 307 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 1: So money that changed, yeah for sure, and maybe some 308 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: oil trade rights, I'm not sure. But and then there 309 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: was an investigation, like the the KRG or the Iraqi 310 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 1: Central Government, one of the two ordered an official investigation 311 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 1: into the heads of the PUK. And I don't think 312 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 1: anything ever came of it, because you know, it's the 313 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,159 Speaker 1: fucking mafia. So because of the way things work in 314 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: that part of the world. I mean, a lot of 315 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: the courage blamed us for it immediately there, like oh yeah, 316 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:35,760 Speaker 1: that was you. You you green lit that. It's like 317 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:38,840 Speaker 1: well wait, hold on a second now, yeah, And that 318 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 1: the other part was like they betrayed, Like people were 319 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:44,200 Speaker 1: screaming in the streets, like America betrayed us. Why didn't 320 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:47,359 Speaker 1: you fight Iraq when they came to like, dude, we're 321 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: not gonna fight Iraq, like coming into kirk Cook, Yeah, 322 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: we're not gonna. You know. The other funny qua like 323 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 1: it's funny. That's like a very curtish thing. And I 324 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 1: do be wrong. I love the curds to death. But 325 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:02,360 Speaker 1: that whole like the US like owes us this, like 326 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:07,119 Speaker 1: you owe us to like in that regard of like 327 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 1: you should be fighting, you should be fighting them, like 328 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 1: hang on, we we just fuck like the majority of 329 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: the Islamic state conflict for you, like you know what 330 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 1: I mean? Like what do you mean? Now you want 331 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 1: us to do this too? Like at this point, it's 332 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 1: been three years. You know, we held the line for you, 333 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:23,639 Speaker 1: fought side by side. It's your turn to you know, 334 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 1: take the reins and like, you know, if you want this, 335 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:29,159 Speaker 1: take it, keep it. I remember sitting in the office 336 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 1: of this uh he's he was a p KK party 337 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,919 Speaker 1: member who long story short, I mean use an arms dealer, 338 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 1: and um I remember I brought up in conversation. You 339 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: know it's like you know I just mentioned in passing. 340 00:19:42,280 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: You know, I can't speak for our government, of course, 341 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: but you know, maybe part of our hesitation in arming 342 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: you guys is that if we arm the party that 343 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 1: you got after the war with ISIS is over, you 344 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:54,800 Speaker 1: guys are going to turn those weapons on the Turkish government. 345 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: And I sat there and look like look me in 346 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,520 Speaker 1: the eyes, slapping on the desk that will never happen, 347 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: I promise you. Yeah, okay, buddy, right, you know, you know, yeah, 348 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,639 Speaker 1: I love the Curds too. But there there's deep in 349 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,760 Speaker 1: the in the Kurdish soul is the desire for their 350 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: own state are and rightly so, but there's also a 351 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 1: deep seated desire to fight almost every every single country 352 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 1: and party around them. Everybody like yeah, they're our enemy. 353 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 1: There are enemy like and then the well this was 354 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,880 Speaker 1: a funny part, like like when they can't find anybody 355 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 1: outside of their state or they can't manage a fight 356 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 1: with them, they fight each other. Yeah. They had the 357 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 1: civil war in like six the the general of my 358 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: the last brigade I was with in in the pesh Murga. 359 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:51,919 Speaker 1: He under orders from Kasu Russell Ali, which was a 360 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:55,520 Speaker 1: good friend of Jeal Talibani and basically like the vice 361 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 1: president of the pu K. Yeah. So this general which 362 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 1: is like his boy like when his right him and 363 00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 1: at the time back and there young guys fighting the 364 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 1: civil war. Uh, the ship went down and he he 365 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 1: ordered him go down to Sulemanina and kill the mayor. 366 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 1: So he like straight went down there in public and 367 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,440 Speaker 1: shot him in the face. And his wife showed up 368 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 1: and slit the throats of his like wives because he 369 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:23,080 Speaker 1: was phi murker too. Yeah, like old school hood rats ship, 370 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:26,479 Speaker 1: like damn yeah. They marked him all and then, and 371 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 1: that's why he got put in charge of the uh 372 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 1: the privatized brigade of the p UK, because he's like, 373 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:34,159 Speaker 1: you've shown loyalty, Like it's it's old school the way 374 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 1: they do stuff. I remember being with with General Joffer, 375 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,639 Speaker 1: and I mean having that conversation with him about the 376 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:42,879 Speaker 1: Civil War and he referred to it as like this 377 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: great mistake. I don't think I met him, but I'm 378 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 1: pretty sure I met one of his right hand dudes 379 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: on the way out because we had a hard time 380 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 1: getting those exit pieces. I remember I met your wife 381 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,119 Speaker 1: down in her bill because she was at the teacher's thing. 382 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 1: I remember I was like, hey, Betty, what are you 383 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 1: doing here? She's like, what are you doing? I'm like, 384 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: we're just trying to leave. Yeah. I remembered you guys. 385 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 1: You you had outstayed your visas and then you had 386 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,080 Speaker 1: to figure out you know, you you were like undocumented 387 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 1: workers in the United States and Ice was coming to 388 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 1: get you. I was still good because I had like 389 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:20,399 Speaker 1: basically when my visa expired. Again. This is the power 390 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: of the political parties there. This uh um okay, so 391 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 1: what is the costa Russell's son, chalal Um Russell, he 392 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 1: basically basically we talked to him and I was like, dude, 393 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:36,920 Speaker 1: I've been here like over a year and I never 394 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: got a visa. And he's like, oh ship, He's like, 395 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:41,640 Speaker 1: hang on, I'll make a call. Just go to the airport. 396 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:44,680 Speaker 1: So I walk up to the airport at customs mind 397 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: you of the sliminy airport and literally this right hand 398 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: man show A walks over to the customs officer and 399 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: was like, he's good, let him through and just walk through. Dude. 400 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,880 Speaker 1: This was the airport at Sully. Yeah. Yeah, I mean 401 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,640 Speaker 1: that that airport is. Yeah, the party is all over that. 402 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:01,919 Speaker 1: I mean that explains a lot of it. But no, 403 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 1: you're absolutely right, like people don't understand like how differently 404 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,200 Speaker 1: things working in Curtis Stan. It it's all about who 405 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,200 Speaker 1: you know, um, And you think, like like the time 406 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 1: when I went over there and I met with you 407 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: and I was able to go and interview um plot 408 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,679 Speaker 1: Talabani Um who's he's like the the CTG command or 409 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: the equivalent. They're equivalent of like the Delta Force commander. 410 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 1: And I mean just think about that. That like some 411 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: dude like me just rolls into town, and because I'm 412 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 1: able to work some connections and some personal relationships, I'm 413 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 1: able to go and interview that guy and sit in 414 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,960 Speaker 1: his office and talk to him have a conversation. Like 415 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,160 Speaker 1: if you come to America, especially if foreign journalists comes 416 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 1: to America, was like, I want to interview the Delta 417 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:43,119 Speaker 1: Force commander, Like that will never ever happen. But in 418 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:46,439 Speaker 1: Curtis stand, all of these possibilities are. It feels like 419 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:50,160 Speaker 1: they're kind of open in a sense, depending on if 420 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 1: you can make that personal connection to people. Definitely, I 421 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 1: would say, just like my time, they're the biggest thing 422 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,800 Speaker 1: I did was networking, which is why I got to 423 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:00,359 Speaker 1: go and be with some of the the plays and 424 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: things I did, and that taking those opportunities as well, 425 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:04,639 Speaker 1: Like they're gonna pop up randomly and you have to 426 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,240 Speaker 1: be able to jump on him. But the networking is huge, 427 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 1: I mean even on the low levels. Like I always said, 428 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:14,359 Speaker 1: I always say in like any like foreign travel article, 429 00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:16,479 Speaker 1: I right, I'm like, if you meet an English speaking 430 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,359 Speaker 1: taxi driver, this legit tip m really well on that 431 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:21,840 Speaker 1: first ride, take their phone number down and usually they 432 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: will come get you somewhere like that's that's your interpreter too. Yeah, 433 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 1: so it's when you're you're bringing up about the like 434 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,959 Speaker 1: hardcore uh civil war stuff happening in Curtis Stand reminds 435 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,000 Speaker 1: me of that this story. I was just thinking about 436 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: it this morning for some reason. When I was in 437 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 1: the Philippines, I was on like their version of Fort 438 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:46,560 Speaker 1: Bragg at Fort Ma Say Say, And Um, I was 439 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,640 Speaker 1: sitting there talking to this Filipino officer, really nice guy, 440 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:52,720 Speaker 1: and he just kind of brings up out of like 441 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 1: off the cuff, like how he participated in a coup 442 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: in the Philippines, got into like and he got into 443 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,960 Speaker 1: a lot of trouble for it, and a higher officer 444 00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 1: bailed him out. So like him in his unit were 445 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 1: to participate in this coup attempt that was not that 446 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 1: long ago either, And um, his his unit never moved 447 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: because there's a communication breakdown. So he was a participant, 448 00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 1: but his unit he never mobilized his unit because he 449 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:23,080 Speaker 1: didn't get the word in time. So yeah, like he 450 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 1: was so he wasn't going to jail, but they knew 451 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,280 Speaker 1: he was in on it, so he was he was 452 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 1: in some trouble, so they pulled they pulled him out, um, 453 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,880 Speaker 1: and somebody saved his butt. Um. And and he's still 454 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 1: he's doing very good work now for the for the 455 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 1: Filipino military. Um seems like a really good guy. But 456 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,400 Speaker 1: it's just funny, like how different things work in other 457 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:43,280 Speaker 1: parts of the world. I mean, the Philippines has like 458 00:25:43,359 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 1: cups and attempted cus and counter cups, like really bad 459 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,000 Speaker 1: in the seventies and eighties, but even into you know, 460 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 1: much more recent times. Um. And interestingly, a lot of 461 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:57,879 Speaker 1: it has to do with the lower ranking officers and 462 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 1: enlisted guys seeking backed from their own government and their 463 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,679 Speaker 1: own chain of command because there's so much corruption up 464 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,199 Speaker 1: at the top levels that they're like stealing the paychecks 465 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: of their men um. So the guys are starving stuff 466 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: like that. That's where a lot of those uprisings come from. Yeah, 467 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,120 Speaker 1: one of the units I was in in Kurdistan, Um, 468 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,680 Speaker 1: it was a known fact that the general he skimmed 469 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 1: I think it was like timber cent off all the 470 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 1: fuel they got like a lotman monthly and sold it 471 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: off like but it was just calm. It was just known. 472 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 1: Everybody knew, but nobody brought it up. It was, you know, 473 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 1: just expected, like like in Iraq. That is the whole 474 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 1: reason why you become an officer. It's not because there's 475 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 1: any um prestige in that job um, or that it's 476 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:45,520 Speaker 1: for any of the pay or anything. It's because it 477 00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:49,480 Speaker 1: gives you the opportunity for corruption and graft. The captain 478 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 1: who was in charge of the I swat team that 479 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 1: I worked with in Iraq in two thousand nine, he 480 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:56,880 Speaker 1: was doing all of that. The fuel racket he had 481 00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 1: that going on. He was stealing fuel from our fuel point. 482 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:02,640 Speaker 1: I caught them and made them force march them at 483 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 1: you know, one in the morning. But that's another story, um. 484 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,760 Speaker 1: But he was also stealing their money. He was taking 485 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,840 Speaker 1: equipment that was supposed to be for his men and 486 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,120 Speaker 1: selling that on the black market. All that kind of ship. Yeah, 487 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:20,800 Speaker 1: that's just super typical. Yeah yeah, oh odd strange world. 488 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,879 Speaker 1: Yeah for real. He told me the story, the great 489 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: story about one of the guys you worked with in Kurtistean. 490 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 1: Remember when they went and they torched the house of 491 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 1: like the like prime Minister's son or something like that. 492 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 1: It was over something. It was it was a wasn't 493 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:41,000 Speaker 1: getting paid like nephews. Yeah yeah yeah, and it was 494 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 1: in her bill. But anyway, so we're sitting there and 495 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 1: like where the riots are going on. They're pissed at 496 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,440 Speaker 1: the Prime Minister, the pd case catching the blame because 497 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,159 Speaker 1: the pesh hadn't been paid in months, right yeah yeah. 498 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 1: So anyway, I'm like watching these fucking riots on our 499 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:56,240 Speaker 1: television or a little break room when we smoked, we 500 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,400 Speaker 1: did the interview. You know, I have my morning shy 501 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,240 Speaker 1: and and uh, I'm watching these things and one of 502 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 1: my instructors comes walking in. He's like and uh, this 503 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,400 Speaker 1: guy is so awesome Saudi. He was not the guy 504 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 1: you guys met. That was call Us. That's my one 505 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,640 Speaker 1: of my best friends. He's a really good guy. Um. 506 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 1: But they're they're like close buddies. Um. Anyway, Sonny comes 507 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:19,280 Speaker 1: walking in and he's like looking really tired. Having I'm like, 508 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:21,280 Speaker 1: what's up, man, He's tired, like I'm kind of broken 509 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,720 Speaker 1: Kurdish whatever, and he's like I'm very sleepy or whatever 510 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,679 Speaker 1: something like that, and he's like, look, Mr Keenan, and 511 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 1: he shows me. He pulls out a video on his 512 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 1: phone and it's of him like throwing a molotov at 513 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 1: the son's house at the riot and they're like, yeah, 514 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,440 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, you good. Rap motherfucker's they're 515 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: gonna get me into the little Sunday. It's a different 516 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: world out there, man. Yeah, he's like he's like, no 517 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: pay problem. Like you know, in in a place like 518 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,560 Speaker 1: Curtis Stand or the Philippines, politics is something that's much 519 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 1: more participatory than it is here in the United States. 520 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,920 Speaker 1: You get down in the weeds and you participate in 521 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: that ship. Yeah. I push it all along though. The 522 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:06,239 Speaker 1: uh the Philippines though, Man, I was I was just 523 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,000 Speaker 1: watching that, uh some of the footage coming out of 524 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 1: there from when they were fighting in Malawi. Yeah, they're 525 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: pretty good too. Those guys are pretty squared away. They 526 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 1: got good for him. Yeah, the uh so, I mean 527 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,320 Speaker 1: everybody ended up down tomorrow we eventually. Um, but that 528 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 1: was the guy I interviewed, and I read some articles 529 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 1: about him and quoting him General Pomona, and he got 530 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 1: brought in and put an end tomorrow We and put 531 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 1: down that uprising the same way he did too, um 532 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,960 Speaker 1: Zemblanga years prior. Um. But he's a really good guy 533 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 1: in general. Pomona is the guy who was pushing all 534 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 1: along for a um A a FP Armed Forces of 535 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 1: the Philippines so calm. They had so calm before, but 536 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,240 Speaker 1: it was only for the army units, for the scout rangers, 537 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 1: the special forces in the White Reaction Regiment. Um So, 538 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 1: he was pushing for a long time, and it finally 539 00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: just happened a few months ago, the creation of a 540 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 1: military wide so calm that brings in the Philippine Seals. Um. 541 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,720 Speaker 1: I believe it's going to bring in the Marines, and 542 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 1: it brings in the newer Air Force Special Operations Unit 543 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 1: of Ford Air Controllers. Um So. That was really cool 544 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: that you know that that was kind of his dream 545 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: and his legacy. Um and and it all happened the 546 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,680 Speaker 1: big step. Yeah, but did you see that. I threw 547 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: an article up on it this week about Mayor's being 548 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 1: assassinated in the Philippines. There's too, just in the last 549 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,640 Speaker 1: couple of days I saw the video. Yeah. By the way, 550 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 1: that hydesight Man, that dude had some some know how. Yeah, 551 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 1: I mean, like I said in the article, I don't 552 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,000 Speaker 1: think it required a school trained sniper, but I mean 553 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,440 Speaker 1: it was somebody wo knew what they were doing. It 554 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 1: wasn't just some dumbage some degree, yeah, some degree for sure. Yeah, 555 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,440 Speaker 1: he had a little improvised hidesight he made out of 556 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 1: the grass and uh and I mean the shot was 557 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,880 Speaker 1: like a hundred meters away, so again doesn't require a 558 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:57,360 Speaker 1: trained sniper, but a trained marksman. You know, it wasn't 559 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: just some kid who picked up a gun for the 560 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 1: first time. I don't know if you guys have seen similarly. Similarly, 561 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,000 Speaker 1: in Mexico, there's been a lot of like attempted assassination 562 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:11,440 Speaker 1: on on those running for office. That's been happening forever, 563 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 1: politicians getting whacked over the currently. Yeah, it's just a lot, yeah, man, 564 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 1: I mean Mexico is a whole other ball of wax. 565 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: I mean I haven't even kept a close watch on Mexico, 566 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:27,080 Speaker 1: uh recently recent last couple of years. I probably should be, 567 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 1: because there's something like thirty thousand murders down there in 568 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 1: the last year. I mean honestly, it rivals what's been 569 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:37,040 Speaker 1: happening in Syria as far as like death toll, which 570 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,520 Speaker 1: is why you know, I think that I've I've said 571 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,360 Speaker 1: it before, you know, And not to get too off 572 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:43,760 Speaker 1: topic here, because I do want to get back to 573 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,000 Speaker 1: the Philippine and stuff and everything else we're talking about. 574 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,600 Speaker 1: But um, you know, when we do get into the 575 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,480 Speaker 1: issue of we're talking earlier about ice and people coming 576 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,000 Speaker 1: over here in the whole border issue, I think a 577 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,640 Speaker 1: lot of you know, we talked about coastal elites on 578 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,600 Speaker 1: the show. People in New York I think are really 579 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 1: out of a loop of the negatives of people coming 580 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,720 Speaker 1: over here, in that most of the people come here 581 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 1: to New York are family people who just want to work. 582 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:10,880 Speaker 1: But if you if you are a rancher in Arizona, 583 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 1: you know, the people bringing those people legally over the 584 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 1: border are oftentimes these Mexican drug cartels, and some of 585 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:21,840 Speaker 1: those people are gonna wind up here. Yeah, no, we don't. 586 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,480 Speaker 1: We don't feel illegal immigration like people down in Texas 587 00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,720 Speaker 1: or Arizona. Even we're you know, up here in the 588 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 1: North Pacific Northwest area. We uh, that's like all all 589 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 1: the farm farm hands out here. And I mean, yeah, 590 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 1: we have Seattle and like Portland and everything, which is 591 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,400 Speaker 1: like the hubs, but once you get outside of the 592 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:44,040 Speaker 1: city's we're mostly farmland and you know, um, and especially 593 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 1: when you go to the mountains, then you really it's 594 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:48,600 Speaker 1: seriously nothing but farm land, the desert, and we have 595 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,560 Speaker 1: you know, it's funny because we're so far north, but 596 00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,480 Speaker 1: I legal immigration is huge here. Well, work in the 597 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 1: factories because we have a lot of industrial stuff in 598 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 1: the area. And I was going to say that I 599 00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,280 Speaker 1: think in New York we do feel it, but it's 600 00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,239 Speaker 1: not in a negative of sense. You know, we go 601 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,880 Speaker 1: places and it's just people who you know, don't speak 602 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,400 Speaker 1: English who are working various jobs like but not in 603 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,880 Speaker 1: the sense of being a rancher over there and having 604 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:11,960 Speaker 1: to worry all hours of the night of people coming 605 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:13,880 Speaker 1: on here. When I say we don't feel it, I 606 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 1: mean like illegal immigrants. Immigrants are kind of like invisible 607 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:20,800 Speaker 1: to us, Like they work in service sector jobs. Um, 608 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 1: they're you know, they're the people who mow our lawns, 609 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,240 Speaker 1: you know, just being honest, I mean they do a 610 00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 1: lot of the like grounds keeping work and stuff like that. 611 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 1: Like they do a lot of jobs that probably most 612 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:34,240 Speaker 1: of us don't want to do if we don't have to. Um, 613 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 1: so I mean, yeah, we don't. I just think that 614 00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,720 Speaker 1: we don't feel it in that sense that people who 615 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:43,320 Speaker 1: live down around the southern border feel it. Yeah, I 616 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,320 Speaker 1: agree completely. Back to the Philippines, though, you know what, 617 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:50,719 Speaker 1: I haven't heard like any crazy stuff recently about the Terte. 618 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:52,560 Speaker 1: I feel like for a while there he was in 619 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,480 Speaker 1: the news of he was almost like the Donald Trump 620 00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,560 Speaker 1: to an extreme over there, if he would make one 621 00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,760 Speaker 1: insane statement after another. I haven't heard any, um, like 622 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,520 Speaker 1: anything recently. He still makes crazy statements and stuff is 623 00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,720 Speaker 1: just nothing to the extent of that he wants to 624 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,920 Speaker 1: do to drug dealers or drug addicts what Hitler did 625 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,600 Speaker 1: during the Holocaust. Did you use the e j K 626 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,040 Speaker 1: Is that the guy who like said he was going 627 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:19,280 Speaker 1: to give out free guns to the citizens. I wouldn't 628 00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 1: have passed him of saying that. Yeah, he was likea like, 629 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,399 Speaker 1: We're gonna give out free guns to citizens as long 630 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,680 Speaker 1: as they used them to hunt criminals and drug runners. 631 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:32,200 Speaker 1: And there was some I'm almost positive that No, you 632 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,960 Speaker 1: know what, I felt like the press that misconstrued some 633 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,680 Speaker 1: of those statements too, because really what they were talking 634 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,360 Speaker 1: about giving the guns is to um I can't remember 635 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,720 Speaker 1: the name of them off the top of my head. Um, 636 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:46,839 Speaker 1: it's in my articles. I have to go and look 637 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:50,360 Speaker 1: it up. Um. But there are people that the Philippines 638 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,760 Speaker 1: Special forces have trained as like surrogates, like the way 639 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,120 Speaker 1: RSF guys go overseas and train you know, locals to 640 00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:02,120 Speaker 1: be uh you know, like bas foreign internal defense. The 641 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,560 Speaker 1: Phils do that also if their SF, but they're doing 642 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,839 Speaker 1: it domestically internally. And that's what they were talking about 643 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,200 Speaker 1: giving guns away to citizens. It's like giving it to 644 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,319 Speaker 1: a way to those guys that they trained to be 645 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:17,359 Speaker 1: like a constabulary force inside some of their communities. Now 646 00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,280 Speaker 1: on the flip side of that is that with those 647 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,799 Speaker 1: with those proxy forces that they've trained over the years, 648 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:23,520 Speaker 1: some of them have gone over to the dark side, 649 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,080 Speaker 1: just like these guys we train have done it at times. 650 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:31,279 Speaker 1: So but I mean, I don't it wasn't like the 651 00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:33,280 Speaker 1: press made it out like there's gonna be like toys 652 00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:35,560 Speaker 1: or russ handing out m sixteen STI like twelve year 653 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,399 Speaker 1: old kids on the streets. You know. I don't think 654 00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:40,840 Speaker 1: that's what he meant by that got you not that 655 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,360 Speaker 1: I'm I'm normally in uh in the business of like 656 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:46,640 Speaker 1: defending to tour day and all that crazy shit. He says. Um. 657 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:50,440 Speaker 1: But uh, the citizens do like him though. I mean, 658 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,520 Speaker 1: he is a guy who got fairly elected, at least 659 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,239 Speaker 1: as far as I know. Well, again, it's one of 660 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:59,400 Speaker 1: those things where the Philippine version of the coastal elites, 661 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,600 Speaker 1: the the media elites, and the Philippines they live on 662 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:07,200 Speaker 1: Walt compounds, like literally Walt compounds and Manila Um. They 663 00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,239 Speaker 1: have a pretty decent lifestyle for the most part. They 664 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:15,000 Speaker 1: don't feel the crime that a woman coming home from 665 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,640 Speaker 1: work at midnight getting off the bus with her purse 666 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,360 Speaker 1: and she has to run past all these drug addicts 667 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,799 Speaker 1: and everything else, and she's in fear of physical fear 668 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,359 Speaker 1: for her life every day. And the people who constitute 669 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,319 Speaker 1: the the elite class and the Philippines, they just don't 670 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,440 Speaker 1: feel that the way the poor people down on the 671 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:33,640 Speaker 1: streets do. And that's why there's a lot of like 672 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 1: grassroots support for Do Tourte. Even as he says crazy stuff, 673 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:42,080 Speaker 1: they're like, they're so frustrated and so afraid that they 674 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,919 Speaker 1: are willing to turn to somebody like Do tourthday because 675 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,880 Speaker 1: he has that reputation being tough on crime. Well, I 676 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,920 Speaker 1: could say this, there's you know, there's no secret we've 677 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,399 Speaker 1: talked about before. A lot of the web design team 678 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:56,480 Speaker 1: at Hurricane Group is in the Philippines. We see them 679 00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,279 Speaker 1: a couple of times each year. And you know, I've 680 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,880 Speaker 1: talked to those guys about, like, just living in the Philippines, 681 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:03,399 Speaker 1: what do you think of the tar Day And their 682 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,759 Speaker 1: response is usually like, we love him, He's our leader. Interestingly, 683 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,480 Speaker 1: in the in the Philippine military, um, the opinion is 684 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,440 Speaker 1: kind of split on him, was my my perception of it. 685 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:18,359 Speaker 1: Some of it. I mean, some people support do Turt 686 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,719 Speaker 1: Day because they see him as a reformer who's not 687 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:23,879 Speaker 1: going to be so corrupt, um. But there's others who 688 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,200 Speaker 1: have a deep, deep distrust of do Turth Day because 689 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:30,400 Speaker 1: our Philippine military officers who grew up their entire lives 690 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,759 Speaker 1: fighting communism and Do turt A lot of people don't 691 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,560 Speaker 1: realize this. He comes from the leftist side of the house. 692 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,840 Speaker 1: He comes out of that communist left wing background in 693 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,440 Speaker 1: the Philippines. He's not a he's not a right winger. UM. 694 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,920 Speaker 1: So when people compare him to Donald Trump, you have 695 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,279 Speaker 1: to keep that in mind. Also, but I I think 696 00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:50,480 Speaker 1: he's like Donald Trump. He has the same appeal from 697 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,080 Speaker 1: what I've seen, populist appeal, yes, yes. And and also 698 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,560 Speaker 1: he has that factor of like he says whatever he wants, 699 00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:59,320 Speaker 1: doesn't care, and he changes his mind at the like 700 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,120 Speaker 1: the SNA happy your fingers. He'll contradict himself and he 701 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,919 Speaker 1: doesn't think anything of it, like it doesn't he sees 702 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,000 Speaker 1: no contradiction in his words. He hasn't been as vocally 703 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,840 Speaker 1: critical of Donald Trump as he has been of Obama, 704 00:38:11,239 --> 00:38:13,479 Speaker 1: who he said is the son of a whore. He's 705 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,200 Speaker 1: been I can't I can't recall at the top of 706 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,400 Speaker 1: my head specific insults against Trump, but he's been very 707 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,960 Speaker 1: critical of the United States. Yeah, I don't. I don't 708 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,319 Speaker 1: know if if he's said anything bad about Donald Trump, 709 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,879 Speaker 1: though in particular I and I think Donald Trump has 710 00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,320 Speaker 1: said like that he likes him generally, and you know, 711 00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,440 Speaker 1: he's a he's an interesting guy. I mean, he doesn't 712 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,200 Speaker 1: come from the same background as previous leaders, is what 713 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,240 Speaker 1: I know. He's not a part of like the corrupt 714 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,719 Speaker 1: administrations before, which were very tied into like the drug 715 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:47,719 Speaker 1: cartels over there. Look, I can almost I don't want 716 00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:49,400 Speaker 1: to say that I know this as a fact, but 717 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:51,560 Speaker 1: I would say there's a very high percentage that do 718 00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:55,520 Speaker 1: Turte is being blackmailed by the Chinese government, is working 719 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:59,319 Speaker 1: for them, like almost directly because if you look at 720 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,520 Speaker 1: his action and some of the maneuvering that's been going 721 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,120 Speaker 1: on and the way do Dirt Day has completely failed 722 00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:09,200 Speaker 1: to assert Philippine sovereignty. I think that the Chinese got 723 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:13,000 Speaker 1: them by the balls. Interesting, I haven't heard that before. 724 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:20,680 Speaker 1: Tie yeah, um, and all that has to do. You 725 00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:22,920 Speaker 1: can look at everything happening in South Korea and the 726 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,640 Speaker 1: Chinese they have strong, long, long term strategic games to 727 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,000 Speaker 1: get us the hell out of the South China Sea entirely, 728 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:30,880 Speaker 1: and then get us out of South Korea and get 729 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:32,480 Speaker 1: us out of the Philippines, and then they just need 730 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:34,799 Speaker 1: to get us out of Okinawa. But the good news 731 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,239 Speaker 1: is that we have a very strong tie military to 732 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:41,640 Speaker 1: military tie between the Philippine military and our military. One 733 00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,560 Speaker 1: that's gonna it goes back like a hundred years or something. So, 734 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,080 Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's something that's so much stronger than 735 00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:51,440 Speaker 1: um any one president, stronger than a dot Day or 736 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:56,120 Speaker 1: a Trump. It's something that is institutionalized. It makes sense. 737 00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:58,040 Speaker 1: I mean, and you know it's funny. I mean, I 738 00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,359 Speaker 1: not quite my area expertise, but from what I can 739 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:05,160 Speaker 1: tell there, you know, they're military guys are incredibly like, 740 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,759 Speaker 1: you know, they connect well with us. It seems very well, 741 00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:12,640 Speaker 1: very well. And you know, uh, this is like just 742 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:16,439 Speaker 1: uh some practical advice for any of our soldiers heading 743 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,880 Speaker 1: over to the Philippines as they do every year for 744 00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,000 Speaker 1: training exercises and so forth, Like when you go to 745 00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,200 Speaker 1: the Philippines, don't think you're going on another deployment to Afghanistan. 746 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:28,880 Speaker 1: Like those people are not Afghanis. They're good soldiers and 747 00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,279 Speaker 1: they they're very well trained. Yeah, and that's what I 748 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:35,440 Speaker 1: was saying in the videos watching watching a move shoot communicate. 749 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:39,000 Speaker 1: They're very proficient Like that was I was like, holy shit, 750 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:42,680 Speaker 1: I really wish I had volunteered in this conflict. They 751 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:44,840 Speaker 1: have their ship wired tight, and I mean they have 752 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:50,120 Speaker 1: a ton of experience doing jungle patrols, urban combat and 753 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:54,239 Speaker 1: easy fighting either I mean maritime operations because it's an 754 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:58,000 Speaker 1: archipelago nation. Um, those guys have done a lot of stuff, 755 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,440 Speaker 1: and they do a lot of stuff. Uh, and you know, 756 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,160 Speaker 1: some of them would complain to me, they're like, you know, 757 00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:05,239 Speaker 1: the Americans, they come over here, good guys, But some 758 00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,480 Speaker 1: of the younger ones need to understand, like this isn't 759 00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:12,120 Speaker 1: fucking Afghanistan. Even I met when I met I met 760 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,600 Speaker 1: a bunch of American seals over there, and uh they did. 761 00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:17,719 Speaker 1: They were doing good work. Like, don't get me wrong, 762 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:19,440 Speaker 1: like they were doing really good stuff working with the 763 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,440 Speaker 1: Philippine Seals, the navsad guys. But like one of the 764 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,800 Speaker 1: one of the seals was walking around wearing a kafia 765 00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,560 Speaker 1: and I met him and you know, we we bullshitted 766 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:32,560 Speaker 1: for a few minutes and it's like okay, bro, like 767 00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:35,759 Speaker 1: thank you for your service. But you know they don't 768 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:39,160 Speaker 1: wear kafia's over here, like you know that right, what 769 00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:51,439 Speaker 1: the fucking Arab schmegma rag that they oh yeah, the sma? Yeah, 770 00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:59,879 Speaker 1: the s regma literally mean like what's like, like jack, 771 00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:03,880 Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell the other word is 772 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,360 Speaker 1: for it, but and yeah, yeah, but he's wearing like 773 00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:11,320 Speaker 1: the chic Yeah, you know. Funny story. Joey was like 774 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:14,520 Speaker 1: we got to Iraq and Joey's like talking to this 775 00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:16,880 Speaker 1: Iraqi guy we were working with. He's like, so what 776 00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,120 Speaker 1: is that thing? And he spoke with the good English. 777 00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:21,239 Speaker 1: She's like it's it's whatever you know he wearing on 778 00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,759 Speaker 1: her head And he's like, yeah, but what's the what's 779 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:29,480 Speaker 1: the tube? Is that a whoka? Tube and it's iracky. Guy, 780 00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,800 Speaker 1: I thought it was hilarious, so we gave me and 781 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,640 Speaker 1: him gave Joey Ship like Joey about that. Guys, who 782 00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:40,920 Speaker 1: ka tube? By the way, I'm gonna I'm gonna randomly 783 00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,840 Speaker 1: ask because we have webcam on. He's Kurt working on 784 00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:49,000 Speaker 1: a gun while you're on how how American is this guy? 785 00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:52,200 Speaker 1: Like he's got his American flag tag top on working 786 00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:56,799 Speaker 1: on a gun. That's because I'm in the free part 787 00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,960 Speaker 1: of the state. Boys, Yeah, because I knew I saw something. 788 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,080 Speaker 1: I'm like working on the gun right now. I just 789 00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:06,760 Speaker 1: got some rails so I'm I'm trying to get them attached. 790 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:10,640 Speaker 1: That's awesome, dude, But I know you're I know, actually 791 00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:14,040 Speaker 1: just from shot show, you're a big gun enthusiasts. That's awesome. Yeah, No, 792 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,320 Speaker 1: it's it's kind of part of the you know, the 793 00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,239 Speaker 1: culture run at. You know, we're out in the we 794 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,239 Speaker 1: may be part of the hippies portion, but we're we're 795 00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,560 Speaker 1: out in like the farm land country parts. So a 796 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:26,279 Speaker 1: lot of people are into guns. And you know, given 797 00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,440 Speaker 1: my background, it's just kind of always been something. So 798 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:31,880 Speaker 1: are you able to like shoot outside there or you 799 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:33,320 Speaker 1: have to go to a range, like do you have 800 00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,200 Speaker 1: land to do that? We yeah, So it's kind of 801 00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:38,000 Speaker 1: like there are ranges and stuff and you can go 802 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,239 Speaker 1: to um, but I'm not rural enough where I can 803 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,480 Speaker 1: just walk out my back porch. Um. There are places 804 00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,400 Speaker 1: like that where you're just out in the middle of nowhere. 805 00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:46,640 Speaker 1: But for us, we drive about thirty minutes up in 806 00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,080 Speaker 1: the mountains and they have a nice, big open spot 807 00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,359 Speaker 1: for the public to come and shoot on public land, 808 00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:54,520 Speaker 1: which is convenient. So it's just it's so funny because 809 00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:56,319 Speaker 1: it's just I mean, I got to see that when 810 00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,320 Speaker 1: it was in Vegas, but it's so foreign awesome in 811 00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,279 Speaker 1: the Northeast, like obviously where I live, gun ranges and 812 00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:03,640 Speaker 1: all that, but they're these you know, there are these 813 00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,600 Speaker 1: little buildings that you know, we are all indoors, Like 814 00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:10,719 Speaker 1: shooting outdoors is kind of outside. That's right there, as 815 00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,640 Speaker 1: you can in PA. So I shouldn't say all the least. 816 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:16,440 Speaker 1: My whole thing is like you know, and I kind 817 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,560 Speaker 1: of get like that argument. You hear the liberal crowd 818 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,120 Speaker 1: like you shouldn't have those this and that, and I 819 00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:24,000 Speaker 1: get it because I'm like, yeah, where you live, it 820 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:26,080 Speaker 1: doesn't make any fucking sense. To have an R fifteen. 821 00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:29,359 Speaker 1: But like, you know, guys, got most of the people 822 00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:33,279 Speaker 1: out here live on big swaths of land. You know that. 823 00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:38,160 Speaker 1: Do you guys form citizens patrols and patrol the border 824 00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,879 Speaker 1: of Canada to make sure there aren't frost tracks coming 825 00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:47,080 Speaker 1: across the word and taking our jobs. Yeah? Yeah, as 826 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:51,239 Speaker 1: I say while wearing our liddens Jack. Yeah, those damn comedians. Well, 827 00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,560 Speaker 1: they're smuggling maple syrup in the United States, Tara free 828 00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:58,360 Speaker 1: maple syrup. Remember only in Austin. Uh, it's Austin Peterson 829 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,600 Speaker 1: right on the podcast The Bertarian. Yeah. And remember he 830 00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:03,520 Speaker 1: said to me that we don't need a border patrol 831 00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,960 Speaker 1: because we could just have citizens with their second amount 832 00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:12,960 Speaker 1: rights protecting the border. That was ridiculous, terrible idea, you know. Good, 833 00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:15,160 Speaker 1: But I'm also like pro training. I'm like, God, there's 834 00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:16,600 Speaker 1: like you can go into the public range here and 835 00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:20,200 Speaker 1: you watch some serious rednecks like spray all over places, 836 00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:23,520 Speaker 1: like Jesus dude, take a class. Yeah. He made a 837 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,640 Speaker 1: number of interesting claims when we that was the most 838 00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,480 Speaker 1: ridiculous I thought of all of them. You know, because 839 00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:31,800 Speaker 1: a lot of the libertarian guys and I can I 840 00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:34,320 Speaker 1: think both of us and probably you two kurd consider 841 00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:37,320 Speaker 1: ourselves like pretty libertarian. But I'm not like a card 842 00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:39,600 Speaker 1: carrying you know, memory of the party or any of that. 843 00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:42,120 Speaker 1: And some of those guys are ridiculous with their views 844 00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:45,759 Speaker 1: of like they just freely flow to any country you want, 845 00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:48,759 Speaker 1: like without your identification and you know, you just go wherever. 846 00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:54,560 Speaker 1: You just show the cops city idea, you're a sovereign citizen. Yeah, no, dude, 847 00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:56,560 Speaker 1: Like I'm that's the hard part about being a libertarian 848 00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:58,640 Speaker 1: because you like tell people libertarian, you're like, oh, you're 849 00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:02,120 Speaker 1: one of those like yeah, we get all the we 850 00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:04,560 Speaker 1: get some serious wackos like some and then you meet 851 00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:06,320 Speaker 1: the ones who are like, you know, we need to 852 00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,839 Speaker 1: get rid of the fire department. We need to privatize 853 00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:12,320 Speaker 1: the fire department. Really that's your beach. But the government, 854 00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:15,399 Speaker 1: yeah f d n Y. We need to really get 855 00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,600 Speaker 1: like yeah, that's my issue with the government. Yeah, come on, 856 00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:22,759 Speaker 1: I mean, some of these things work. You don't need to. 857 00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:27,120 Speaker 1: If it's not broken, don't fix it. Um. But yeah, 858 00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:29,680 Speaker 1: I mean that's why the Libertarian Party is a complete 859 00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:32,839 Speaker 1: mess and I can never get their act together at all, 860 00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:35,680 Speaker 1: because yeah, there's there's there are there's a lot of 861 00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:42,960 Speaker 1: weirdos who constant John McAfee running another thing that's uh 862 00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:45,680 Speaker 1: making me think about it because with with because I'm 863 00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,040 Speaker 1: at Washington. I won't say where because I don't want 864 00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:52,279 Speaker 1: fan mail. But uh, you know. The other funny thing 865 00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,840 Speaker 1: is because we're we're pretty left as a state, but 866 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,120 Speaker 1: I mean we're still pretty pro gun. We have some 867 00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:03,279 Speaker 1: some regulations, but I mean it's you know, it's all 868 00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,759 Speaker 1: pretty middle ground. Yeah. At the same time, we're also 869 00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,400 Speaker 1: like the lead in legal marijuana. So it's like we 870 00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:14,120 Speaker 1: are very libertarian and like, yeah, look conservative side, U 871 00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:18,400 Speaker 1: s U s U. Yeah. But so it's it's kind 872 00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:19,960 Speaker 1: of an interesting place when you get out to the 873 00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:21,880 Speaker 1: side of the country and I mean Organs going that 874 00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:25,839 Speaker 1: way to um Ship. Organ has lacks or gun laws 875 00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:27,600 Speaker 1: and we do, I think, I mean, they're they're harder 876 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:30,520 Speaker 1: to get like a concealed carry permit, but like they 877 00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:35,080 Speaker 1: can own machine guns. You know, we can't. So, as 878 00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:36,920 Speaker 1: I've said before on the podcast, I think once the 879 00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:39,560 Speaker 1: three D printer gets popularized, I think a lot of 880 00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,120 Speaker 1: this goes out the window of like what you can't own, 881 00:47:42,200 --> 00:47:45,319 Speaker 1: what you can't own. They tried that and they put 882 00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,680 Speaker 1: the kebosh on it quick, like like the government was 883 00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,960 Speaker 1: really fast about like no, wait, you can't down It's 884 00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:52,640 Speaker 1: not even you can't print it. It's so you can't 885 00:47:52,719 --> 00:47:55,440 Speaker 1: download the specs. They made the specs illegal for the 886 00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,719 Speaker 1: three D printers. I'm pretty sure people get around that. Yeah, 887 00:47:59,520 --> 00:48:02,719 Speaker 1: but you know, then you're not law abiding anymore. Which 888 00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:05,840 Speaker 1: but that's the whole point behind the you know, the 889 00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:08,200 Speaker 1: whole agument against further gun laws is that like, yeah, 890 00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:09,680 Speaker 1: if I want to print something off of a three 891 00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,719 Speaker 1: D printer, I can just do it. I mean right now, 892 00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:14,360 Speaker 1: and as of now, you can. You know, if you 893 00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:16,640 Speaker 1: want to see and c machine, you can make anything. 894 00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,200 Speaker 1: They'll get you anywhere, yeah, out of the billet. But 895 00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:24,040 Speaker 1: I mean, our government is so stupid. They don't understand 896 00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:26,120 Speaker 1: how Facebook makes money. So I mean, I don't see 897 00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,880 Speaker 1: them effectively regulating three D printers anytime soon, you know 898 00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:32,000 Speaker 1: what I mean. They have like when they have Zuckerberg 899 00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:36,000 Speaker 1: on there and they're like, oh gosh, how does face 900 00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:39,400 Speaker 1: block make money? And he's like, oh, we run ads. 901 00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:43,680 Speaker 1: It's like wow, dude, like this is our government and 902 00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:48,960 Speaker 1: action moment watching his face, he's like, you know, like 903 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:53,319 Speaker 1: did you really just ask me that, like's like bro, bro, really, 904 00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:58,520 Speaker 1: it's like kind of it's for a serious like grilling 905 00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:02,200 Speaker 1: from you guys. What I'm getting? Yeah, you know, he 906 00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:05,120 Speaker 1: sat down with like pr experts for like hours on end, 907 00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:08,480 Speaker 1: going over every potential eventuality that could come up during 908 00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:12,880 Speaker 1: that thing, and that's what they hit him with. I 909 00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:14,880 Speaker 1: think that's why he was delayed in answering. It's like 910 00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:18,799 Speaker 1: it's like explaining the interwebs here, like grandfather, But even 911 00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,279 Speaker 1: even then, I mean, your grandfather probably knows more about 912 00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:23,879 Speaker 1: the interwebs and our government does. And then that gets 913 00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:25,880 Speaker 1: scary because it's like these are the same people like 914 00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:29,840 Speaker 1: we're supposed to be engaged in like cyber warfare and 915 00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:34,719 Speaker 1: cyber defense. Is Rudy Giuliani still our cybers are? I 916 00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,359 Speaker 1: have no idea. Actually that was the job he got 917 00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:38,880 Speaker 1: put up for. I can't remember. I don't know if 918 00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:40,920 Speaker 1: he's still in that position, But it's like he's not 919 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,400 Speaker 1: the guy I would want. Yeah, it's like Rudy Giuliani 920 00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:45,759 Speaker 1: probably doesn't know how to use anything more, you know, 921 00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:48,960 Speaker 1: more high tech than a typewriter. How the hell is 922 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:53,440 Speaker 1: that guy? What our presence on Twitter? Yeah, our president 923 00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,759 Speaker 1: on Twitter geez, he is very effective with it. So 924 00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,120 Speaker 1: but all right, man, well great having you on is 925 00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,479 Speaker 1: always what are you working on next for the site? 926 00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,960 Speaker 1: And this will be up tomorrow Friday, so it's here. 927 00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:08,520 Speaker 1: I have I dropped. I did a tune tune on 928 00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:12,160 Speaker 1: the air Berlin airlift today, um, and then I just 929 00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:15,160 Speaker 1: dropped one about that meeting with Lindsay Graham and church 930 00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:19,759 Speaker 1: president maybe with Lindsey Graham back on the podcast. And 931 00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:24,560 Speaker 1: then what else? Oh Ian, we didn't talk about the 932 00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:31,680 Speaker 1: signs though, the wonderful fireworks signs. Oh yeah, I just dropped. 933 00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:34,000 Speaker 1: I did the tune for that, and I gave everybody 934 00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:36,040 Speaker 1: a fair warning. I'm like, I used some part language. 935 00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:38,439 Speaker 1: Did you come across any of those in the state 936 00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:41,080 Speaker 1: of you're talking about the like I'm a veteran. Yeah, 937 00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:44,800 Speaker 1: it's like cleanlan, please be curty to your fireworks like 938 00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:48,560 Speaker 1: And my whole thing is it's literally like the majority 939 00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:51,320 Speaker 1: people have those signs are like we're you know, like 940 00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:55,120 Speaker 1: on a ship somewhere in the Gulf like or something 941 00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:57,880 Speaker 1: that they're like a cook. It's funny because they actually 942 00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:00,520 Speaker 1: remember when they first happened, like people started looking into 943 00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:03,200 Speaker 1: it or like calling out people who put push the 944 00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:05,239 Speaker 1: pictures of their signs and they were like dudes in 945 00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:06,719 Speaker 1: the units like yeah, I know that guy, he was 946 00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,160 Speaker 1: a freaking armor or whatever. You know, Like it's like 947 00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:11,319 Speaker 1: some kind of like weird cry for help, like look 948 00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:14,160 Speaker 1: at me, look at me. Yeah, well for sure, it's 949 00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:16,960 Speaker 1: like they want to be associated as combat veterans. But 950 00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:20,640 Speaker 1: then like that sucks before actual combat veterans because then 951 00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:23,040 Speaker 1: you're just like, dude, I'm not some weird asshole who 952 00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,960 Speaker 1: wants you to like cater society to me. I want 953 00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,800 Speaker 1: to fit in with people, and I'll adapt and improvise 954 00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:32,279 Speaker 1: as needed. Like I'm a grown ass man who you know, 955 00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,160 Speaker 1: went through war. I don't need society to like be 956 00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:37,759 Speaker 1: careful with their fireworks and instead I'll use my brain 957 00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,480 Speaker 1: look out the window, like, oh, it's fourth of July. Fireworks, 958 00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:43,360 Speaker 1: I mean fireworks. I mean I can't speak for everybody, 959 00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:45,440 Speaker 1: of course, but just from like, I don't freak out 960 00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:49,200 Speaker 1: of fireworks because it sounds distinctly different than gunfirs. Gunfire 961 00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,840 Speaker 1: is very sharp because you know the ballistics involved, as 962 00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,320 Speaker 1: opposed to a fireworks, which is a piece of cardboard 963 00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:57,680 Speaker 1: with something like black powder and it refuse it just 964 00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:02,520 Speaker 1: sounds totally different, right, And I'm the explosions are not 965 00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:05,480 Speaker 1: nearly as compressed as say like an I D or 966 00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:07,360 Speaker 1: you know. It just none of it sounds And the 967 00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,680 Speaker 1: only thing I say comes close is the mortar tubes 968 00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:14,560 Speaker 1: and hearing them go out, Yeah, like you're like when 969 00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:16,680 Speaker 1: they shoot off, and I'm like, I'm like, oh, ship 970 00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:18,600 Speaker 1: like because it sounds like the ship that was in 971 00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:20,520 Speaker 1: the distance in Ukraine. But even then it wasn't like 972 00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:23,200 Speaker 1: me for it was like, oh nostalgia, Like it sounds 973 00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:26,839 Speaker 1: like they sending them out. If someone really felt that way, 974 00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:30,040 Speaker 1: couldn't they just go on a vacation somewhere where they're 975 00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:33,640 Speaker 1: I will hear that, you know, Yeah, rather than tell 976 00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:35,680 Speaker 1: other people what to do, I could the fourth of 977 00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:40,279 Speaker 1: July be loud and proud. Yeah, I mean it's like, 978 00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:42,759 Speaker 1: what is that what you served for? Some people can 979 00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,840 Speaker 1: celebrate this country. I do wonder though, is it is 980 00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:48,080 Speaker 1: it just a quick bad thing? Because I've never perfectly 981 00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:52,080 Speaker 1: So we'll hang on because when when it started, which 982 00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:55,640 Speaker 1: was I was incurtased in we uh we we found 983 00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:57,240 Speaker 1: it because we have nothing to do in the downtime. 984 00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:59,520 Speaker 1: But like look at the internet and there was an 985 00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:02,920 Speaker 1: actual sign site sending out these signs and people posting 986 00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:05,120 Speaker 1: pictures in the comment threads. And I'm like hundreds and 987 00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:08,239 Speaker 1: hundreds with their new signs posting pictures like it was 988 00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:12,480 Speaker 1: a real thing yesterday, like uh, fishing for sympathy was 989 00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:16,160 Speaker 1: Malcolm Nance was posting stuff on Twitter or like oh 990 00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:18,360 Speaker 1: it's so hard the fourth of July. So when I 991 00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:21,400 Speaker 1: came back from the Gulf War, I realized those fireworks 992 00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:25,359 Speaker 1: are really just colored explosives that sound just like eighty 993 00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:28,239 Speaker 1: two millimeter and hundred and twenty two millimeter mortar rounds. 994 00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:31,760 Speaker 1: Like really, bro, you, I mean you were a Navy cryptolinguist, 995 00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:33,719 Speaker 1: Like were you really in the ship in the Gulf War? 996 00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:36,920 Speaker 1: Like you know? Also, isn't the isn't the eighty two 997 00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:42,040 Speaker 1: like ours? No one is ours? Eighty two? Is the Russian? 998 00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:46,040 Speaker 1: Is it? Okay? I had that backwards in UM but 999 00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:51,319 Speaker 1: yeah either way, chill man. Yeah, that was when we'll 1000 00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:55,080 Speaker 1: talking like chill out, dude, chill acs, go crack open 1001 00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:58,879 Speaker 1: another corona. You're gonna be ok So, where could people 1002 00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:01,799 Speaker 1: follow you? And and all that stuff? As we wrap 1003 00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:04,680 Speaker 1: this up, you know, you asked me that every time 1004 00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:07,960 Speaker 1: you cannot Oh, yeah, you're not on anything. I have 1005 00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:10,480 Speaker 1: a reclusive but you can follow me on software and 1006 00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:12,920 Speaker 1: you can read articles, and I'm guarantee you. Well, I 1007 00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:15,319 Speaker 1: can't guarantee you, but most of the time I am 1008 00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:17,600 Speaker 1: in the comments section there. If you're one of the 1009 00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:19,920 Speaker 1: subscribers to the team room, and I get in there, 1010 00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:22,200 Speaker 1: engage are our readers down in the comments as often 1011 00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:24,200 Speaker 1: as I can on the articles are right, you can 1012 00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:26,800 Speaker 1: you can help. You can heckle me and send me 1013 00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:29,879 Speaker 1: tweets and tell me that Kurt's a white supremacist. Yeah, 1014 00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:32,800 Speaker 1: you can also reach me through the letters the editors. 1015 00:54:33,760 --> 00:54:36,440 Speaker 1: You reach me through your editor, Jack, send him your 1016 00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:39,920 Speaker 1: hate now. Well the oh no, the last one I 1017 00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,160 Speaker 1: got or Jack got, was somebody getting really mad because 1018 00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:47,480 Speaker 1: I called the the PKK communists. And yeah, I mean, 1019 00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:49,759 Speaker 1: I mean, but I was like, what they are, like 1020 00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:54,960 Speaker 1: said picture of the Come on, look at their flag. Yeah, 1021 00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,800 Speaker 1: it's vestigial because they were communists. They were hardcore Marxists 1022 00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:02,040 Speaker 1: when they formed. I mean, I know they're democratic and 1023 00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:05,640 Speaker 1: federalists now, but if you look at um, well there's 1024 00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:09,839 Speaker 1: still like hardcore you know, socialist aspects of it. There's 1025 00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:12,279 Speaker 1: aspects of it that are still. Uh. They take things 1026 00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:15,719 Speaker 1: from Marxism um. Like if you I mean now you 1027 00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:17,800 Speaker 1: you were in Iraq, so you didn't see it. But 1028 00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:21,160 Speaker 1: if you see the YPG or YPJ doing like drills 1029 00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:23,200 Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and they like out in the morning, 1030 00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:25,879 Speaker 1: they'll be doing rifle drills, um, and they'll be doing 1031 00:55:25,920 --> 00:55:29,040 Speaker 1: their like chances and singing their songs and stuff. It's 1032 00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:33,279 Speaker 1: all very vestigial of you know, Marxism and Communism. It's 1033 00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:37,320 Speaker 1: all it's all there um. But they don't necessarily practice 1034 00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:44,080 Speaker 1: that ideology anymore. No. Well, great having you on, man, 1035 00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,120 Speaker 1: regardless of me breaking your ball is having to follow 1036 00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:51,680 Speaker 1: the greatness of bran Thor. 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So First, Jack's 1080 00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:20,360 Speaker 1: daughter has been patiently sitting here that entire interview, which 1081 00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:24,040 Speaker 1: was great, and I guess today did you guys just 1082 00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:27,320 Speaker 1: finishing Jurassical saw it? We saw it like the day 1083 00:58:27,400 --> 00:58:30,960 Speaker 1: after it came out, so I know she wanted to 1084 00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:32,520 Speaker 1: talk about it. All right, do you want to tell 1085 00:58:32,600 --> 00:58:35,040 Speaker 1: people about Jurassic World? Yeah? What do you want to 1086 00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:41,640 Speaker 1: tell them that it was very fun and and there 1087 00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:45,960 Speaker 1: was lots, a lot and a lot of dinosaurs. There's 1088 00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:50,280 Speaker 1: some of the dinosaurs killed a lot of people. A 1089 00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:54,240 Speaker 1: lot of bad guys though. Yeah, like Rexy he ate 1090 00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:58,760 Speaker 1: the bad guy at the end. Yeah, and then at 1091 00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:03,320 Speaker 1: the end find a new home. You find a new 1092 00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:07,200 Speaker 1: home there. Have you? Have you seen the other Jurassic parks? Was? 1093 00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:10,680 Speaker 1: Was this the first she saw? We watched Jurassic World, 1094 00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:15,600 Speaker 1: the first one together? Yeah? What's your favorite dinosaur in 1095 00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:20,840 Speaker 1: the in the movies? Blue Blue, the velociraptor whose friends 1096 00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:25,200 Speaker 1: with the guy what's his name Owen? Yeah, he has 1097 00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:28,480 Speaker 1: a raptor buddy. Yeah. What were some of your favorite 1098 00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:34,160 Speaker 1: parts of the movie? Um, the and ween A Maxi 1099 00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:38,880 Speaker 1: killed the bad guy and when the show owned all 1100 00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:46,920 Speaker 1: the dinosaurs on in the cages and they escape and 1101 00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:50,680 Speaker 1: Blue kills the bad dinosaur. Yeah, that was pretty cool too. 1102 00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:56,040 Speaker 1: And it was up the rooftop. It's actually like two 1103 00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:58,440 Speaker 1: movies in one because in the beginning they're on the 1104 00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:00,720 Speaker 1: island and then the second half of the movie they're 1105 01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:04,560 Speaker 1: actually at this like big mansion. Yeah. And she's also 1106 01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:07,680 Speaker 1: a big comic book enthusiast. Thanks to you. Yeah, you 1107 01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:10,880 Speaker 1: wanted to tell them what your favorite comic books are. Um, 1108 01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:23,400 Speaker 1: back Girl, what a Woman? Um? Two Titans and that's it. Yeah, 1109 01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:25,920 Speaker 1: those ones are pretty good. Teen Titans is cool. And 1110 01:00:26,040 --> 01:00:29,320 Speaker 1: I got you the new Catwoman comic book today. Yep 1111 01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:35,360 Speaker 1: is the first serious Yeah, the first and series. You're 1112 01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:39,360 Speaker 1: backgirl on Halloween? M Yeah, what are you going to 1113 01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:48,360 Speaker 1: be next Halloween? Um? Welocer raptor uncle be this sister 1114 01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:54,800 Speaker 1: in the Credibles. Oh, the character and the incredible viol Violet. Okay, 1115 01:00:55,120 --> 01:00:58,920 Speaker 1: that's cool, very cool. Anything else you want people to 1116 01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:03,640 Speaker 1: know about Jurassic World? No? No, okay, thank you for 1117 01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:06,360 Speaker 1: your review. That So that was a little bonus interview 1118 01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:09,440 Speaker 1: for you guys in the audience. And what and actually 1119 01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:11,360 Speaker 1: I was asking you, like, what did you genuinely think 1120 01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:13,880 Speaker 1: of Jurassic World, because this could be like I always 1121 01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:16,640 Speaker 1: refer to back when I saw the Mario Brothers movie 1122 01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:19,240 Speaker 1: with my grandpa, which I thought was amazing, and my 1123 01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:22,080 Speaker 1: grandpa did not feel the same way through that Mario 1124 01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:25,240 Speaker 1: Brothers movie was weird. Yeah that's a weird movie. Another 1125 01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:28,200 Speaker 1: movie that added a bunch of dinosaurs for no apparent reason. 1126 01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:31,560 Speaker 1: But um, I like Jurassic World. I like both of them. 1127 01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:33,640 Speaker 1: I mean, if you go into it like expecting some 1128 01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:36,880 Speaker 1: kind of like art house movie, you're going to be disappointed. Um. 1129 01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:38,800 Speaker 1: But if you just want to go and see like 1130 01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:41,120 Speaker 1: a cool action movie with a lot of dinosaurs in 1131 01:01:41,200 --> 01:01:44,160 Speaker 1: it and stuff like that, you know, like good summer 1132 01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:48,080 Speaker 1: action adventure flick, then you'll really like it. Awesome. I 1133 01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:50,280 Speaker 1: still have to see it. The most recent thing I 1134 01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:54,800 Speaker 1: saw was a Mr. Rogers documentary, which was actually extremely good. 1135 01:01:54,880 --> 01:01:59,320 Speaker 1: I loved it. Yeah, um go see it, Go see 1136 01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:05,000 Speaker 1: the Mrs. Won't you be my neighbor. I didn't realize 1137 01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:06,960 Speaker 1: like how revolutionary of the show he was doing because 1138 01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:09,400 Speaker 1: I'm so I'm so young when it was going on. 1139 01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:14,600 Speaker 1: Um and the last thing, uh with that as well, 1140 01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:17,120 Speaker 1: we wanted to do a new segment as we said, 1141 01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:22,600 Speaker 1: uh suggested by Mike DeStefano so woke the hashtag so 1142 01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:25,600 Speaker 1: woke or what didn't you say woke? So woke? You're asleep? 1143 01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:29,840 Speaker 1: So what what did we want to cover for this one? Uh? Michael, 1144 01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:34,080 Speaker 1: that cat at Vox who wrote an article like happy 1145 01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:36,520 Speaker 1: fourth of July, Here's why your country sucks and we 1146 01:02:36,640 --> 01:02:39,200 Speaker 1: never should have you know, split with the British empire. 1147 01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:44,240 Speaker 1: So like, thanks guy, and so he wrote this entire article. 1148 01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:47,600 Speaker 1: This dude, I can't remember his name, matt something, Matthew something, 1149 01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:51,640 Speaker 1: and he wrote this article about how it was a mistake, 1150 01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:55,960 Speaker 1: how American independence was a mistake because had we stuck 1151 01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:59,439 Speaker 1: with the British Empire. He thinks that, um, we would 1152 01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:03,760 Speaker 1: have done away with slavery a lot earlier. Maybe debatable, 1153 01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:05,640 Speaker 1: it might have gone on a lot longer because we're 1154 01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:09,040 Speaker 1: part of a globe spanning empire, UM. And the British 1155 01:03:09,080 --> 01:03:11,800 Speaker 1: Empire would have had a lot, you know, less of 1156 01:03:11,840 --> 01:03:14,320 Speaker 1: an incentive to do away with slavery because they had 1157 01:03:14,360 --> 01:03:17,920 Speaker 1: the American colony. UM. So it's just an article that's 1158 01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:21,520 Speaker 1: filled with conjecture and revisionist history. And then he says, uh, 1159 01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:24,479 Speaker 1: you'd have a white royal family running things a lot longer, 1160 01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:29,040 Speaker 1: hereditary monarch running things. But that would have been good. 1161 01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:31,400 Speaker 1: But that's the thing. I mean again, you're so woke, 1162 01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:34,720 Speaker 1: you're asleep. I mean, you're you're trying so hard to 1163 01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:37,880 Speaker 1: be trendy and avant garde and portray your country in 1164 01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:40,560 Speaker 1: a negative light that you've just come full circle and 1165 01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:44,000 Speaker 1: you're a monarchist. Like really, you like well, you have 1166 01:03:44,080 --> 01:03:46,760 Speaker 1: the British royal family isn't racist either, There's no no 1167 01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:50,520 Speaker 1: racism their folks. And then his other argument was that, um, 1168 01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:53,680 Speaker 1: had we not split with the Brits, that, um, we 1169 01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:56,919 Speaker 1: would have been nicer to the Native Americans. Like, brother, 1170 01:03:57,040 --> 01:03:59,880 Speaker 1: do you understand that the British were the first ones 1171 01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:02,920 Speaker 1: to use the concentration camp. They use it against the 1172 01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:06,720 Speaker 1: South Africans during the Boer War? Like where do where 1173 01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:08,840 Speaker 1: do people come up with this stuff? They're trying so 1174 01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:12,520 Speaker 1: hard to be woke that there's falling flat on their flace. 1175 01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:15,080 Speaker 1: It's it's embarrassing to watch them floil around like this. 1176 01:04:15,880 --> 01:04:20,200 Speaker 1: And then his third argument was, oh, that a constitutional 1177 01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:23,880 Speaker 1: monarchy is better than a constitutional republic. Brother, are you 1178 01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:28,560 Speaker 1: smoking crack? He says that the government that if we had, 1179 01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:30,280 Speaker 1: if we had stayed with England, we would have a 1180 01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:35,600 Speaker 1: parliamentary system, which is better than our current republic presidential 1181 01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:39,280 Speaker 1: system that we have. It's like, dude, do you know 1182 01:04:39,400 --> 01:04:43,640 Speaker 1: anything about the parliamentary systems in Europe? Like they their ship, 1183 01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:45,720 Speaker 1: they can't get anything done. You have to form a 1184 01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:49,200 Speaker 1: coalition government. And I mean Italy did not have a 1185 01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:52,400 Speaker 1: government for like a freaking year. And now they finally 1186 01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:54,160 Speaker 1: formed a government and they have like right now, they 1187 01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:57,240 Speaker 1: have like a pretty like right leaning some would even 1188 01:04:57,280 --> 01:05:01,560 Speaker 1: say like crypto fascist government. I mean, there's a lot 1189 01:05:01,640 --> 01:05:05,000 Speaker 1: to be said for our presidential system and its ability 1190 01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:07,760 Speaker 1: to get stuff done that you don't see with these 1191 01:05:07,880 --> 01:05:12,200 Speaker 1: shaky parliamentary systems that they have over in Europe. So 1192 01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:15,440 Speaker 1: I mean, dude, I don't even know what to say. 1193 01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:17,440 Speaker 1: I think that article was really just trying to get 1194 01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:20,280 Speaker 1: clicks on the fourth of July, really like what can 1195 01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:23,800 Speaker 1: I do to really piss people off? And it'll get 1196 01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:27,680 Speaker 1: retweets from the you know, other side of everyone trying 1197 01:05:27,680 --> 01:05:30,160 Speaker 1: to prove everyone trying to prove how woke they are. 1198 01:05:30,280 --> 01:05:33,120 Speaker 1: All the all the woke cards are gonna retweet it. 1199 01:05:33,520 --> 01:05:35,840 Speaker 1: So this is kind of a I guess it's a 1200 01:05:36,440 --> 01:05:39,840 Speaker 1: so woke slash throat punch for the week. You're so woke, 1201 01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:43,960 Speaker 1: you're asleep. It's sad u sad guys. All right, well, 1202 01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:46,240 Speaker 1: thanks for checking this out. I didn't, you know what, 1203 01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:49,320 Speaker 1: I should have acknowledged it at three. But we're an 1204 01:05:49,360 --> 01:05:52,760 Speaker 1: episode three sixty seven, which is insane to me because 1205 01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:55,280 Speaker 1: I was thinking, this means you can literally go an 1206 01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:59,560 Speaker 1: entire year plus now every day listening to us ramble 1207 01:05:59,800 --> 01:06:02,680 Speaker 1: that and saying, I know it's just hours upon hours 1208 01:06:02,840 --> 01:06:08,040 Speaker 1: of us mindlessly going on. I hope it's not totally there. 1209 01:06:08,080 --> 01:06:10,640 Speaker 1: There are there are stretches, you know, five minutes at 1210 01:06:10,640 --> 01:06:12,840 Speaker 1: a stretch where it's pretty mindless. But I mean there's 1211 01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:16,240 Speaker 1: some of course, there's some thought behind the within the hour, 1212 01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:19,640 Speaker 1: there is surely something interesting. It is crazy, though, when 1213 01:06:19,640 --> 01:06:22,200 Speaker 1: you think about it, because like you have your daughter here, 1214 01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:24,840 Speaker 1: and I think people think of legacy and stuff like that. 1215 01:06:25,400 --> 01:06:29,720 Speaker 1: You know, I don't have Uh maybe actually when I 1216 01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:32,000 Speaker 1: was at the very end of his life, I recorded 1217 01:06:32,040 --> 01:06:34,040 Speaker 1: something on my phone of like my grandpa for like 1218 01:06:34,120 --> 01:06:37,240 Speaker 1: two minutes. But it's pretty crazy legacy to think. If 1219 01:06:37,280 --> 01:06:38,919 Speaker 1: people want to go back and they want to listen 1220 01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:41,640 Speaker 1: to Jack Murphy's voice years down the line, that's kind 1221 01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:44,080 Speaker 1: There's going to be an insane amount of material that 1222 01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:46,640 Speaker 1: I never really can't even get through. I never really 1223 01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:48,680 Speaker 1: thought of it that way. And then if they're and 1224 01:06:48,720 --> 01:06:50,800 Speaker 1: then when they're done with this, they could watch the 1225 01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:54,080 Speaker 1: Tesla show, you know, and then they can watch the 1226 01:06:54,200 --> 01:06:56,840 Speaker 1: inside the team rooms. I mean, it's it's an insane 1227 01:06:56,920 --> 01:07:01,120 Speaker 1: amount of archived audio and video. I am just one 1228 01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:05,360 Speaker 1: disembodied voice amongst all of the media content out there. Yeah, 1229 01:07:05,640 --> 01:07:08,320 Speaker 1: you can find me if you look for me. Though. Well, um, 1230 01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:12,880 Speaker 1: the last thing I'll shamelessly plug. I randomly decided recently 1231 01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:15,960 Speaker 1: to write an article for the first time, and it 1232 01:07:16,120 --> 01:07:19,000 Speaker 1: is titled The Mind Muscle Connection on Plugging and Escaping 1233 01:07:19,040 --> 01:07:23,920 Speaker 1: through Exercise on soft Wrap. I've really appreciated the response 1234 01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:26,120 Speaker 1: that I've gotten, and I think some people liked it 1235 01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:27,800 Speaker 1: because they were like, oh, you know, when I hear 1236 01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:30,680 Speaker 1: about mindfulness, it sounds like some hippie bullshit, but they 1237 01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:32,120 Speaker 1: were like, you were able to break it down in 1238 01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:35,440 Speaker 1: a way that it didn't and hopefully, uh yeah. You 1239 01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:40,120 Speaker 1: know what was interesting actually is um Cody Um, I'm 1240 01:07:40,200 --> 01:07:42,720 Speaker 1: forgetting his name. I know Matt Vierkan who starved with 1241 01:07:42,760 --> 01:07:45,560 Speaker 1: boburg Doll, but we've also Cody on the podcast Oh 1242 01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:49,320 Speaker 1: Cody from Yeah He's done. Yeah. So he messaged me 1243 01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:51,200 Speaker 1: and he was like, yeah, I'm a huge believer in 1244 01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:53,800 Speaker 1: the whole mind muscle connection and mindfulness and he was like, 1245 01:07:53,920 --> 01:07:56,520 Speaker 1: I'm over two hundred pounds with abs and work out 1246 01:07:56,560 --> 01:07:59,480 Speaker 1: all the like, that's insane. First of all, but I 1247 01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:02,400 Speaker 1: think it's cool because you do read about this mindfulness 1248 01:08:02,440 --> 01:08:05,720 Speaker 1: stuff on websites into yoga, and you know, it's it 1249 01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:09,840 Speaker 1: doesn't typically hit our demographic. Military guys are people interested 1250 01:08:09,880 --> 01:08:12,880 Speaker 1: in the military. So I was, you know, I thought 1251 01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:15,400 Speaker 1: it was cool to write an article about something that's 1252 01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:17,960 Speaker 1: not really touched on by us, but but it's actually 1253 01:08:18,040 --> 01:08:20,479 Speaker 1: practiced by a lot of people in that community. Um, 1254 01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:24,840 Speaker 1: you know, when we just had Todd Yeah, so when 1255 01:08:24,880 --> 01:08:26,720 Speaker 1: we had Todd on, I think he's a believer in that. 1256 01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:29,519 Speaker 1: And then also a Brandon Webb who runs the company. 1257 01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:32,240 Speaker 1: I mean he's written articles about how yoga has changed 1258 01:08:32,320 --> 01:08:36,000 Speaker 1: his wife and about meditation and things like that. It's 1259 01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:39,040 Speaker 1: not like I kind of say in the article, it's 1260 01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:42,360 Speaker 1: I think people think these are ideas are not real, 1261 01:08:42,960 --> 01:08:45,760 Speaker 1: but they've been practiced for like literally thousands of years 1262 01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:49,040 Speaker 1: by everybody from like Christians to atheists to Buddhists. It's 1263 01:08:49,120 --> 01:08:51,240 Speaker 1: more important now than ever with the amount of like 1264 01:08:51,360 --> 01:08:53,639 Speaker 1: white noise in people's lives. Yeah, which is the big 1265 01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:56,560 Speaker 1: thing that I say. You know, I definitely try the 1266 01:08:56,640 --> 01:08:58,920 Speaker 1: best to not be this guy, but when you go 1267 01:08:59,040 --> 01:09:01,639 Speaker 1: out with people off and they're not even making eye 1268 01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:04,360 Speaker 1: contact with you, it's just like notification as their notification 1269 01:09:04,400 --> 01:09:07,040 Speaker 1: on their phone. Uh. And and then you go to 1270 01:09:07,120 --> 01:09:08,960 Speaker 1: a concert with someone and they have to like video 1271 01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:11,679 Speaker 1: every single song, take a picture of it, like, dude, 1272 01:09:11,880 --> 01:09:15,639 Speaker 1: enjoy the moment. And I really do think that people 1273 01:09:15,880 --> 01:09:18,080 Speaker 1: not living in the moment, not enjoying the moment, is 1274 01:09:18,160 --> 01:09:20,800 Speaker 1: why we have so much depression. And you know, at 1275 01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:25,360 Speaker 1: the worst end of that suicide people spazing out every 1276 01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:28,400 Speaker 1: day on social media just like it's like so obvious, 1277 01:09:28,479 --> 01:09:30,960 Speaker 1: like you need a psychiatrist, man like you, how can 1278 01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:33,960 Speaker 1: you live your life like this? Well, you know, people 1279 01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:36,160 Speaker 1: might be surprised because he is on the left side 1280 01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:38,040 Speaker 1: of the spectrum, but I thought he did. I mentioned 1281 01:09:38,120 --> 01:09:40,120 Speaker 1: he did a great interview on Howard Stern that I 1282 01:09:40,200 --> 01:09:43,519 Speaker 1: thought was just very honest, and one of the things 1283 01:09:43,600 --> 01:09:45,680 Speaker 1: he said that set out to me, what is as 1284 01:09:45,720 --> 01:09:47,680 Speaker 1: I said to you, was the quote where he was like, 1285 01:09:48,040 --> 01:09:50,000 Speaker 1: you know, no matter how woke you are, we all 1286 01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:52,200 Speaker 1: have to sleep sometimes. But the example that he gave 1287 01:09:52,600 --> 01:09:55,559 Speaker 1: is he's like there's literally people who will walk through 1288 01:09:55,640 --> 01:09:59,400 Speaker 1: the streets like oblivious to like homeless people they're tripping 1289 01:09:59,479 --> 01:10:02,280 Speaker 1: over while tweeting that you know, you use the wrong 1290 01:10:02,400 --> 01:10:07,040 Speaker 1: gender protect their outright. So that's exactly what I've been 1291 01:10:07,040 --> 01:10:09,120 Speaker 1: trying to talk about. And I mean we can get 1292 01:10:09,160 --> 01:10:11,840 Speaker 1: into it another time, aren't then to this podcast? But 1293 01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:15,280 Speaker 1: talking about how, you know, we have this whole generation 1294 01:10:15,479 --> 01:10:21,040 Speaker 1: of you know, bourgeoisie woke activists who have they're completely 1295 01:10:21,120 --> 01:10:23,559 Speaker 1: disconnected from the working class. They have nothing in common 1296 01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:25,920 Speaker 1: with the working man. If they spent a single day 1297 01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:28,840 Speaker 1: with union guys, I think their heads would explode because 1298 01:10:28,840 --> 01:10:30,400 Speaker 1: I don't know, if you ever been on a construction 1299 01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:34,160 Speaker 1: site or you've been you've been around steam fitters or 1300 01:10:34,240 --> 01:10:38,880 Speaker 1: steel workers, like they are not gender pronown guys. That's 1301 01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:41,360 Speaker 1: not now. It's come home, feed up on the table, 1302 01:10:41,439 --> 01:10:44,479 Speaker 1: crack open a beer, watching the ballgame, maybe even do 1303 01:10:44,680 --> 01:10:48,000 Speaker 1: some cat calling, some cat calls on the work side. 1304 01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:50,439 Speaker 1: I don't want to scare anybody, you know. I think 1305 01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:53,200 Speaker 1: if you took one of these woke uh you know, uh, 1306 01:10:53,479 --> 01:10:56,519 Speaker 1: you know woke activists out you know they're like upper 1307 01:10:56,560 --> 01:10:59,519 Speaker 1: middle class white people and put them around union guys, 1308 01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:01,560 Speaker 1: I think they're head would explode like a watermelon with 1309 01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:04,639 Speaker 1: an M A D in the middle. Um, that's exactly 1310 01:11:04,680 --> 01:11:06,800 Speaker 1: what you're referring to, is you know, you're running around 1311 01:11:06,840 --> 01:11:09,720 Speaker 1: scolding people on social media and you're completely oblivious to 1312 01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:12,360 Speaker 1: the actual world that you live in. Yeah, and you 1313 01:11:12,520 --> 01:11:14,360 Speaker 1: especially see it walking around here and here in New 1314 01:11:14,439 --> 01:11:17,120 Speaker 1: York City. I mean, I really I like living on 1315 01:11:17,240 --> 01:11:19,160 Speaker 1: Long Island personally, and I feel like it's a totally 1316 01:11:19,240 --> 01:11:22,639 Speaker 1: different world. Everybody in New York City like walks around 1317 01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:24,920 Speaker 1: like they're just angry with the world. I feel like, 1318 01:11:25,479 --> 01:11:27,560 Speaker 1: and when I go to Long Island, which is just 1319 01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:30,240 Speaker 1: like a forty minute trade ride at least way more 1320 01:11:30,320 --> 01:11:34,000 Speaker 1: people say hello and are friendly and you're out there 1321 01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:36,599 Speaker 1: and Long Island, that's an actual neighborhood. Yeah, Like we're 1322 01:11:36,640 --> 01:11:39,720 Speaker 1: here in Midtown. No one's here except for business for work. Yeah, 1323 01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:42,360 Speaker 1: So I mean there's people just look pissed. I think 1324 01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:44,559 Speaker 1: they're just busy. Yeah. I think there's going from one 1325 01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:47,280 Speaker 1: place to the next and no one really you know, 1326 01:11:47,360 --> 01:11:48,880 Speaker 1: I have it. There are even times where, like you 1327 01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:52,439 Speaker 1: hold doors for women here and they don't even say 1328 01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:56,200 Speaker 1: thank you, or you know, maybe because you're a misogynist. Again, 1329 01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:59,519 Speaker 1: I don't think that it's like it's a different place. 1330 01:11:59,560 --> 01:12:01,160 Speaker 1: I don't think it's personal like that. I think it's 1331 01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:03,519 Speaker 1: just people are busy they're working, and things move very 1332 01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:05,840 Speaker 1: quickly here out in Long Island. Like I said, you're 1333 01:12:05,840 --> 01:12:08,320 Speaker 1: living in a neighborhood. You're living in like an actual community. 1334 01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:11,439 Speaker 1: Even where I live out in Brooklyn, I mean it's 1335 01:12:11,479 --> 01:12:14,639 Speaker 1: more like that, like the like people actually live there. Yeah, 1336 01:12:14,760 --> 01:12:17,559 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Well, part of the thing 1337 01:12:17,720 --> 01:12:21,519 Speaker 1: that I've said before is the whole um stereotype is 1338 01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:23,479 Speaker 1: that New Yorkers are assholes and all that. But I 1339 01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:26,040 Speaker 1: think part of it is because I've noticed it with myself. 1340 01:12:26,520 --> 01:12:30,320 Speaker 1: If I walk around New York City and someone stops me, 1341 01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:34,519 Speaker 1: like literally nine out of ten times, it's asking for 1342 01:12:34,720 --> 01:12:36,680 Speaker 1: change or you know, do you want to check out 1343 01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:39,680 Speaker 1: this product or you know, sign this petition for animal rights? 1344 01:12:40,200 --> 01:12:42,639 Speaker 1: So like the one time out of ten that someone 1345 01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:44,960 Speaker 1: stops you for like a legitimate there's been people have 1346 01:12:45,040 --> 01:12:46,639 Speaker 1: stopped me and they're like, hey, I like your teacher. 1347 01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:50,000 Speaker 1: They're like hey you it's like what They're like, yeah, sure, 1348 01:12:50,280 --> 01:12:52,519 Speaker 1: and then you just feel like a total jerk. But yeah, yeah, 1349 01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:55,639 Speaker 1: in condition they just want to know where the subway 1350 01:12:55,720 --> 01:12:57,800 Speaker 1: stop is or something like that, and yeah, and you're like, 1351 01:12:57,840 --> 01:12:59,280 Speaker 1: go away, I don't want to talk to you. And 1352 01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:02,400 Speaker 1: then you realize like I'm that guy you've been conditioned 1353 01:13:02,439 --> 01:13:04,760 Speaker 1: to be that you're desensitized because you're so used to 1354 01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:08,120 Speaker 1: all the bs. Yeah, that's what I think it is. Um, 1355 01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:12,320 Speaker 1: all right, well, I will end this here because Jack's 1356 01:13:12,400 --> 01:13:15,120 Speaker 1: daughter has been patiently, honestly waiting. Do you want to 1357 01:13:15,360 --> 01:13:19,960 Speaker 1: tell the people on time, on target? It's our radio motto. Now, 1358 01:13:21,560 --> 01:13:25,559 Speaker 1: all right, we're not on time and off target. We've 1359 01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:28,960 Speaker 1: been told that before interviews. You are so off target 1360 01:13:29,080 --> 01:13:32,240 Speaker 1: and not on time right now, Ian uh, Well, enjoy 1361 01:13:32,320 --> 01:13:34,640 Speaker 1: the weekend, everybody. If you're in New York, it's been 1362 01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:37,280 Speaker 1: great warm weather, so enjoy the beach and all that. 1363 01:13:37,400 --> 01:13:38,880 Speaker 1: And for the rest of you not in New York, 1364 01:13:39,080 --> 01:13:44,040 Speaker 1: I don't know, and enjoy wherever you are. Chow. You've 1365 01:13:44,080 --> 01:13:48,160 Speaker 1: been listening to self Rep Radio. New episodes up every 1366 01:13:48,240 --> 01:13:51,599 Speaker 1: Wednesday and Friday for all of the great content from 1367 01:13:51,640 --> 01:13:54,880 Speaker 1: our veteran journalists. 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