1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 3 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Getty. 4 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 3: So Joe and I both did some play by play 5 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 3: when we were really really young starting out in radio. 6 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:30,479 Speaker 3: I don't know how good I was, And and I 7 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:36,559 Speaker 3: did some like community college basketball games and stuff like that. 8 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:39,639 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I enjoyed it. 9 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: It was It was fun, nice source of desperately needed 10 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:43,800 Speaker 1: additional income. 11 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 2: Too. It's harder than it looks though. Oh yeah, it's 12 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 2: a lot harder than it looks. Anyway. 13 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 3: So there was the march madness is going on right 14 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 3: now with your Division I college basketball teams, and we 15 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 3: got a big upset here where, you know, one of 16 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 3: the favorites in the tournament got upset by a little 17 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 3: school and here's the college announcers doing their thing. 18 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: It just. 19 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:12,680 Speaker 2: First time. 20 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:16,959 Speaker 4: Through. 21 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:18,840 Speaker 5: We will stay. 22 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:28,920 Speaker 1: Lineuil oh in the long, longer form video which we 23 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,319 Speaker 1: should put up at Armstrong and Getty dot com. During 24 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: the final minute of the game, which was just excruciatingly tense, 25 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: Oh my god, these guys were melting down but keeping 26 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: the rack together and then still calling the game. 27 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 2: Oh I gotta catch that. Yeah, that sounds fantastic. Oh, 28 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 2: lineup fail. What a feeling. 29 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: I haven't been that happy in a very long time. 30 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: They're probably gonna get beat down by thirty points in 31 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: the second round, but who knows. Maybe if he's college aged, 32 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:02,080 Speaker 1: he's having that. 33 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 2: Oh, what a feeling. 34 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 3: Oh my god, this is amazing s on my regular 35 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 3: basis with a variety of different things. 36 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 2: He and his. 37 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,280 Speaker 1: Companions probably had a hell of a big night and 38 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: perhaps sought out the companionship of others and had a 39 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: good time. 40 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 2: And when he screamed at this dep. 41 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:23,560 Speaker 1: A lot of failing hell women may demand that out 42 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 1: of him. 43 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 2: Do your signature line? Baby? 44 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 1: That was just that was a basketball thing. Come on, 45 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: So I got something good. Mark Halprin, the journalist. 46 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 3: He didn't say where and who exactly because he said 47 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 3: it was private. But he got to attend a gathering 48 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 3: of political think or military strategists, think tank people all 49 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:57,079 Speaker 3: together about the war in Iran, and they laid out 50 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 3: the worst case scenario, the five worst case scenarios. Wow, 51 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:05,959 Speaker 3: what they're most concerned could happen at this point? And 52 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 3: he laid that out today and I'll get to that 53 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 3: probably bottom of this hour. It's pretty darned interesting if 54 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 3: you've been wondering yourself, you know, in what ways could 55 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 3: this go bad? 56 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 1: Also, if you have the perception that Hollywood's become miserably 57 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: unpopular among Americans, you're absolutely right. There's a big new 58 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 1: poll out among Californians and the movie business Hollywood quote 59 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 1: unquote really really low approval ratings and shocking well right, 60 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: And you have people thinking saying out loud, if I 61 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: was a movie executive, I'd be really afraid that I'd 62 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: alienated like a huge chunk of the population because we're 63 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 1: way too far left. Correct, doctor correct, Absolutely, so that 64 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 1: coming up, I was interested in this the question of 65 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: the filibuster. 66 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 2: The way the Senate works. 67 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: Is you need sixty votes to end debate and bring 68 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,400 Speaker 1: a bill up for a vote. You have to vote 69 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 1: to vote, And the way it's functions for many, many 70 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: years is that as the Senate is the world's most important, 71 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,080 Speaker 1: do they say, or the world's delivered. 72 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 2: The body, with the idea being that. 73 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 3: You really have to get a fair amount of buy 74 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 3: in to get anything to happen. It's just not mob rule, 75 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 3: or you call it democracy. You know, fifty plus one 76 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:29,880 Speaker 3: percent will get you anything. It's not that way in 77 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 3: the Senate. You need to convince the people on the 78 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,919 Speaker 3: other side enough of them to buy into. 79 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 2: Your idea or give a little on your idea to 80 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 2: get them on your discs. 81 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: I was just going to say, you have to moderate 82 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: at least a little bit to get those extra votes. However, 83 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,840 Speaker 1: many you happen to need listen to their concerns, say okay, 84 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: that's legit. Let's see if we can craft this to 85 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,039 Speaker 1: address your concerns. And that way, the Senate is the 86 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:55,559 Speaker 1: grown ups in the room. It's the saucer that cools 87 00:04:55,560 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: the milk is the same one was and really through 88 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:06,640 Speaker 1: history a really cool thing in a smart thing. Well, 89 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 1: of course, if it's cool and smart, we're gonna throw 90 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: it away in the twenty first century, and there are 91 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: a lot of folks on both sides of the isle who, 92 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: when they have the power, scream that we need to 93 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: eliminate the filibuster. Then, when the other guys are in power, 94 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 1: scream that would be the worst thing to ever happened 95 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 1: to our democracy. 96 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 3: Ron Johnson, did, did Biden, or did even Barack Obama? 97 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 3: Call the filibuster a tool of swhite supremacy or something 98 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:30,839 Speaker 3: like that. 99 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:31,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that. 100 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:33,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, Except when they were out of power then 101 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 1: they said it was the only thing preventing white supremacy. 102 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: Of course, it says if they have no character whatsoever. Anyway, 103 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 1: So Ron Johnson, the Republican from Wisconsin, surprised me. He's 104 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: got a piece in the Journal today, move to end 105 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: the filibuster now before Democrats do, and he's kind of persuasive. 106 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 2: The US Senate is broken. 107 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: Opening sentence that US federal government debt is approaching thirty 108 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: nine trillion dollars is only the most obvious evidence point 109 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 1: proving this point. Since I entered Congress in twenty eleven, 110 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: we should have passed one hundred and eighty appropriations bills 111 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 1: before the start of the fiscal year they were funding. 112 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: We've only passed six on time. That's a ninety six 113 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 1: point seven percent failure rate. Owing to that dysfunction. In 114 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:28,200 Speaker 1: the past fifteen years, we've had five shutdowns, relied on 115 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:32,159 Speaker 1: fifty seven continuing resolutions to fund government on an interim basis, 116 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 1: and increased or suspended the debt sealing a dozen times, 117 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 1: allowing the federal government to incur an additional twenty four 118 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:41,680 Speaker 1: trillion dollars in debt. Despite this record of failure, for 119 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: some inexplicable reason, many of my Republican colleagues believe that 120 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:48,440 Speaker 1: maintaining the sixty vote threshold required into filibuster is crucial 121 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:53,239 Speaker 1: to the future of our republic. I'll admit, well, here's 122 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:58,240 Speaker 1: his point, and it is discouraging, which is a hell 123 00:06:58,240 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: of a thing to do to you on a Friday. 124 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 2: Apologize deeply, he says. 125 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 1: I'll admit that the sixty vote cloture threshold has prevented 126 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 1: many bad bills from becoming laweah and that without it, 127 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: bad bills would become law more easily. But it also 128 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: prevents good bills from getting passed. Before nineteen seventeen, when 129 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: senators established the cloture rule, there was no formal way 130 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: of ending a debate and a filibuster in the Senate, 131 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: because unlimited debate was the tradition of the Senate. Clture 132 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: was invoked only five times in the approximately first fifty 133 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,920 Speaker 1: years of its existence. That's because the cloture vote was 134 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 1: intended to end to debate that two thirds of Senators 135 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 1: believed had gone on too long. It was later pre 136 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,320 Speaker 1: paired to sixty blah blah blah. It was never intended 137 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: to prevent all debate. However, it has evolved to do 138 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:47,160 Speaker 1: exactly that. Lawmakers routinely use the cloture vote today to 139 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: snuff out discussion and thoughtful consideration of proposed amendments to 140 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: legislation being debated. The results is a charade in which 141 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: both sides agree to set a number of amendments that 142 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 1: will be voted on that are guaranteed to fail, protecting 143 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 1: the original tech of the legislation from alteration. 144 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 3: The problem, of course, is uh, right, now, you could 145 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 3: get stuff through a republic end the filibuster, you get 146 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 3: stuff through a Republican House, you get it through the 147 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 3: Republican Senate immediately. Because you have the Senate and the 148 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 3: President signs it. You can do a whole bunch of 149 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 3: different things that a lot of people on the. 150 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 2: Right might like. 151 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 3: But the Democrats are almost they're almost guaranteed to take 152 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:30,960 Speaker 3: the House. I think if you jammed through a whole 153 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 3: bunch of Republican legislation, they would take the Senate certainly, 154 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 3: And I think it's more likely than not a Democrat 155 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 3: ends up president. So then all of the things Democrats 156 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:44,480 Speaker 3: have been wanting to do forever, get done starting day one, 157 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 3: for real, and you have we're going to add a 158 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 3: National Review actually had a list out the other day 159 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:53,559 Speaker 3: what the Democratic controlled House, Senate, and presidency that might 160 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,359 Speaker 3: be happening in two years will do if there's no filibuster, 161 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 3: and the list was horrifying, including adding a couple of 162 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 3: Democrats states that would make it impossible for Republicans to 163 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 3: ever win anything ever again, et cetera, et cetera. 164 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:08,280 Speaker 1: One of the things Ron Johnson really is pushing is 165 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:12,040 Speaker 1: the Save America Act, which I was reading about finally 166 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: for the first time, like really reading about. 167 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 2: And it's a bad idea. 168 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: There's some really good stuff in there, some of the 169 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,439 Speaker 1: id requirements, and that's all anybody ever talked about. 170 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:21,079 Speaker 2: They're good. 171 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,439 Speaker 1: You ought to have to show an ID to vote 172 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: to say otherwise it is idiotic in my opinion. But 173 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: it also nationalizes certain standards for the elections in a 174 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,000 Speaker 1: way that the Democrats could overturn immediately when they took 175 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 1: power and mandate ballot harvesting nationwide. They could mandate mailing 176 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: a ballot, just painting the landscape with ballots that will 177 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: be forged and handed in by activists and you know, 178 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 1: cheaters and bribers and the rest of it. 179 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:54,240 Speaker 2: And we've we've already. 180 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 3: Got a swinging back and forth way too much because 181 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 3: of executive orders. So you get a Republican president and 182 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 3: they signed executive orders, and you know, this is the 183 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,560 Speaker 3: law of the land, at least until a court overturns it. 184 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:06,679 Speaker 3: And then you get a Democratic president and it swings 185 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 3: completely the other direction, and the swinging back and forth 186 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 3: is not what our system is supposed to do. Well, 187 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:14,680 Speaker 3: you're gonna have a lot of swinging back and forth 188 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 3: if all you need is fifty senators, the House and 189 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 3: the presidency to do whatever the hell you want to do. 190 00:10:22,760 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 3: And that wild swinging back and forth is not only 191 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 3: going to cause enormous logistical problems, business investment problems, but 192 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 3: it's gonna cause enormous resentment. 193 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, how mad? 194 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:38,559 Speaker 1: How mad would you be in whatever state you are, 195 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: if you're not a Californian, If all of a sudden, 196 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 1: the federal government mandated that your hospitals have to mutilate. 197 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 2: Children in the name of sex change. 198 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: If the confused adolescent and some activist teacher brings them 199 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: to the hospital. I mean, there would be armed violence 200 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 1: in the streets, but I don't think this would. 201 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 2: But something needs to change obviously. As listened to. 202 00:11:03,679 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 3: Chris Steier, Walt's been with a bunch of the Fox 203 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:09,000 Speaker 3: and Dispatch, and I don't know who's with now. He 204 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 3: was talking about this the other day. We've talked about 205 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:15,559 Speaker 3: this too, and not like nobody's stumbled upon this. There 206 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 3: are three examples of things that are bulletproof electorally. 207 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:26,679 Speaker 2: There's just I mean, there is such overwhelming support for it. 208 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 3: It's insane that we haven't been able to do it yet. 209 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 3: But it's because of our modern politics, where like half 210 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 3: the people in there want to be Instagram influencers more 211 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 3: than they want to legislate or the biggest problem of 212 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 3: having the issue is better than solving it. And the 213 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 3: three great examples, and we all know what they are 214 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 3: are ending late term abortion. Overwhelmingly people want to end that. 215 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 3: Even if you're a Democrat woman, people want to end 216 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,400 Speaker 3: late term abortion. But it's better to have the issue 217 00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:00,160 Speaker 3: than to fix it. Immigration, like ninety percent of people, Well. 218 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 2: You've seen the polls. We had the poll like a 219 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 2: week ago, even after everything that happened in Minneapolis. 220 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:06,719 Speaker 3: You still got like two thirds of Democrats say we 221 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 3: got a boot out of legals out of the country. 222 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 3: I mean that one's not even close. That we need 223 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 3: to control our borders. But you'd rather have the issue 224 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,719 Speaker 3: than to solve it. And then this voter ID is 225 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:22,240 Speaker 3: another good one. Polls overwhelmingly positive voter ID both parties, 226 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 3: every age, everybody agrees, doesn't matter your race, and we 227 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,720 Speaker 3: can't do it because it's better to have the issue 228 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 3: than to solve it. 229 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 2: So is this ironically or appropriately? 230 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 1: Ron Johnson ends his little screed with a compromise, like 231 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: the Senate supposed to do. He says, at minimum, if 232 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:43,239 Speaker 1: the Save America Act, because he'd advocated ending the filibuster 233 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:45,839 Speaker 1: and passing everything they can before the Democrats get power. 234 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: But he says, at a minimum, if the Save America 235 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 1: Act fails to pass, the Senate should immediately debate and 236 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: vote on a rule change, which would require sixty seven 237 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 1: votes to end the filibuster. It would be interesting to 238 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 1: see whether Democrats would vote yes when Republicans are in power. 239 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 1: Forcing them to defend the rule now could politically shame 240 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: them into preserving it later. It's the only chance I 241 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: see of dissuading them from voting yes once they regained power. 242 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:18,760 Speaker 2: That's good. That's good, well said Ron. That one I like. 243 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 3: I don't think there are enough senators on board to 244 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 3: end the filibuster, but they would have to say it 245 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 3: out loud. It got stopped last time around by two 246 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 3: Joe Manchin and Christian Cinema. But most people leave. There's six, eight, 247 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 3: ten more Democrats that also didn't want end to philibuster. 248 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 3: They just didn't want to have their name on it. 249 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 3: But this would force it. 250 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 2: That's a good one. That's really interesting. More of the 251 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 2: ways to hear. 252 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 5: The US Postal Services unveiled new forever stans that feature 253 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 5: five different lowrider cars. 254 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 2: So if you love lowriders. 255 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 1: And you collect stamps, you might be the only one. 256 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 3: Some pretty good point for people who still ever put 257 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 3: a stamp on anything. Maybe three times a year. 258 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,959 Speaker 2: I do that, I don't know, and pay attention to 259 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,679 Speaker 2: the stamp and think about it. 260 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 1: Or so we real quickly, real quickly. Israel got a 261 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 1: really bad guy snuffed demo. I want to tell you 262 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 1: about him next later. 263 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 2: And we've got the worst case scenarios for how the 264 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 2: war turns out. 265 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 3: We all know what the best case scenario is, right, 266 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:28,720 Speaker 3: So I'm not trying to go negative. It's just the 267 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 3: best case scenario is obvious. You end up with a 268 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 3: government that is, you. 269 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 2: Know, rejoins the Community of Nations, not. 270 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 3: Horrible, and friendly to the United States, and the people 271 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 3: get to live free, prosperous lives. 272 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 2: That's the best case scenario. 273 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 3: We are on a lot of radio stations across the country, 274 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 3: and I don't know how many of them carry CBS News, 275 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 3: probably a number of them. There are seven hundred stations 276 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 3: across the country that have CBS News that won't have 277 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 3: it anymore because CBS News has gone out of business 278 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:59,160 Speaker 3: on the radio side after. 279 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 2: One hundred years. That's the end of that. 280 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 3: And who made the call on that, Barry Weiss, As 281 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:10,479 Speaker 3: she's trying to remake what CBS is and it's relationship 282 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 3: to everybody else in a more modern way. The headline 283 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 3: in the Washington Post I find funny about this, as 284 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:20,400 Speaker 3: it is CBS News will end radio services wi struggles 285 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,240 Speaker 3: to write ship. I feel like the way they wrote 286 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 3: that makes it sounds like she's really not doing a 287 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 3: very good job of trying to turn this around. 288 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 2: At the Washington Post where you just had to cut. 289 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 3: A third of your newsroom because because of Bezos was 290 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:37,239 Speaker 3: smart enough to realize things. 291 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 2: Have changed and they ain't going back. 292 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 1: Tell you what, if there's anybody in America who wouldn't 293 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: struggle to turn an old media company around and become 294 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 1: relevant and profitable in the modern day, they're a miracle 295 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: worker and I'd like to know their name. 296 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you can't be done. 297 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,080 Speaker 3: So you got to become a completely different thing in 298 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 3: a completely different environment, which is what Barry. 299 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:59,400 Speaker 2: Weis is doing. Acting like it's a failure to resurrect 300 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:00,520 Speaker 2: radio news. 301 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 3: I mean, come on, yeah, yeah, it's gonna be interesting 302 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:07,160 Speaker 3: to see where this goes. 303 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 2: But you know, it wasn't that many years ago. 304 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 3: You had to flip on the radio to find out 305 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 3: what the weather was gonna be, or what team want won, 306 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 3: what game last night, or lots of different things. 307 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 1: Obviously that ship has sailed, right, Yeah, constant change. What 308 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: are you gonna do? 309 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:26,360 Speaker 2: Edward R. Murrow spending at his grave soon passed. Yes 310 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 2: he has, that's confirmed. 311 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 3: CBS, the network of Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and 312 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 3: Dan Rather leave Dan. 313 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 2: Rather, Yeah, you didn't help with that last one. No, 314 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 2: that didn't help anything. 315 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 3: Their ratings have gone down on the TV side for 316 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 3: the flagship news product with Tony Dekoppel in the in 317 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 3: the chair at night have gone down. 318 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 2: I don't know why. I find him pretty good. 319 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: I think it may be one of those things where 320 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:57,080 Speaker 1: the existing audience liked what they were getting, which is 321 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 1: utterly one sided news for the elderly right, and so 322 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 1: it may take a while to turn that around, if 323 00:17:06,280 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 1: it can be done. 324 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:09,400 Speaker 3: Mark Alpern got to sit around with a whole bunch 325 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 3: of super smart people about the Iran war. What are 326 00:17:11,520 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 3: the worst case scenarios? I thought it was pretty interesting. 327 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:15,880 Speaker 3: Among all the things to tell you coming up, stay. 328 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:19,159 Speaker 2: Here, Armstrong and Getty. 329 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 5: Kentagon announcing it is now deploying the Venerable A ten 330 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:27,360 Speaker 5: war Hog, the fifty year old war horse beloved by 331 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:31,200 Speaker 5: ground troops for years, armed with its massive thirty millimeter 332 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:35,119 Speaker 5: chain gun that spits out nearly four thousand rounds a 333 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 5: minute of depleted uranium, probably the only ranium the Trump 334 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:41,719 Speaker 5: administration was to see in Iran. It is targeting Iran 335 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:48,399 Speaker 5: small Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gunboats along Ron's southern coast right. 336 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:52,880 Speaker 1: Now, yipes, the a ten ward hog, love it, love 337 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 1: it speaking of the IRGC, And that's sort of folks. 338 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 2: The Israelis just eliminated. Day of a eliminated. 339 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 1: Esmel Amadi was the head of the intelligence division of 340 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 1: the besiege force. 341 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 2: He one of the key. 342 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: Guys in machine gunning Iranians down in the streets, love 343 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:17,199 Speaker 1: to torture. He was responsible for enforcing public order and 344 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:20,160 Speaker 1: the regime's values on behalf of the IRGC. 345 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 2: Monster of a human being dead go oud, he's dead. 346 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:25,159 Speaker 1: Man. 347 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 3: As listening to somebody described yesterday, the difficulty in getting 348 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 3: an uprising going at this point of popular uprising because 349 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 3: almost certainly the leaders of that big uprising in early 350 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 3: January were killed, almost certainly many of them hunted down 351 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 3: in the hospital, tortured and murdered. 352 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:42,920 Speaker 2: There. 353 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:46,680 Speaker 3: Yes, the people that organized it, you know, who got 354 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 3: everybody together, they were known, first of all, they were 355 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,119 Speaker 3: out in the streets, obviously, probably at the front of 356 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:56,160 Speaker 3: whatever group they were with, and the bad guys knew 357 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 3: who they were and killed them also, And you know, 358 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 3: and people brave enough to do that on a dime 359 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:04,439 Speaker 3: a dozen. So ironically you have the upright or the 360 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:08,480 Speaker 3: you know, the popular uprising such as it is in 361 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 3: the same situation as the regime. All of our leaders 362 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,479 Speaker 3: are gone. So I thought this was super interesting. Yesterday, 363 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:17,199 Speaker 3: in the middle of the day, Mark Alprin put out 364 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:21,120 Speaker 3: an unusual email in addition to what he usually puts 365 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 3: out where He said, today, at a location I cannot disclose, 366 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:26,919 Speaker 3: there was a very interesting conversation about the prospects for 367 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 3: ending the Iran conflict. The discussion involved a group of 368 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 3: very sophisticated people with military backgrounds, some political backgrounds. He 369 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 3: couldn't say who it was or where, but he's then 370 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,280 Speaker 3: he shared this information. Here's a summary of what the 371 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 3: group felt is the current best strategy before we get 372 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 3: to the worst case scenarios. Best best strategy right now. 373 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:50,480 Speaker 3: If there are any truly military targets left. 374 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:53,000 Speaker 2: Hit them immediately. Then through the Gulf. 375 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:57,080 Speaker 3: States, negotiate a conditional ceasefire with Iran. We and Israel 376 00:19:57,119 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 3: will stop bombing you. You open the Strait, will let 377 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 3: you sell oil, but if you go anywhere near the 378 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:07,400 Speaker 3: nuclear material, we will hit you hard. If the ir 379 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 3: GC moves to kill citizens again, we will hit you hard. 380 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:14,399 Speaker 3: The idea being this would freeze the conflict and the 381 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:18,119 Speaker 3: short term allow oil to flow, and then we would 382 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 3: be in a mow the grass strategy in the medium 383 00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:25,160 Speaker 3: term as everything gets worked out. I start I've started 384 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,399 Speaker 3: hearing this phrase at least once a day now, the 385 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 3: mow the grass strategy, where you get them knocked down enough, 386 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 3: and it's I think it's pretty obvious to anyone with 387 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 3: a brain what that means. But if the problem starts 388 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 3: to creep up a little bit again, you go and 389 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:39,479 Speaker 3: you mow the grass. 390 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 2: You hit them. That's pretty promising to me. 391 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:47,840 Speaker 3: The fourth part of this being message deterrents to China 392 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 3: with this by emphasizing the major tactical improvements demonstrated by 393 00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 3: the US military. China does not know if it can 394 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 3: keep up that we have demonstrated in Venezuela and now 395 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:06,359 Speaker 3: in Iran, some coordination, sophistication, talent, expertise beyond what China 396 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 3: probably even already respected out of our military, which fits 397 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 3: in with this worst case scenario. 398 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:14,800 Speaker 2: Stuff which I thought was super fascinating. 399 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:19,040 Speaker 3: Here's the group's consensus view of the current worst outcome 400 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 3: before the end of the year. The end of the year, 401 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 3: it's only March, we get into an endurance contest to 402 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 3: see which side can endure the most pain. 403 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 2: That seems like where we are right now. You don't 404 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 2: want that to continue. 405 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:38,160 Speaker 3: Russia counter attacks against Ukraine taking advantage of Ukraine's lack 406 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,640 Speaker 3: of interceptors because we're using them all. 407 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 2: Israel's used them all. According to Politico. 408 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 3: Today, that's known Putin is planning for another offensive because 409 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:51,520 Speaker 3: he thinks now is the time, and he's probably right. 410 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 2: I'd be shocked if he didn't. I'd be shocked if 411 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:54,160 Speaker 2: he didn't too. 412 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 3: What his capability is, who knows, But holy crap, what's 413 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 3: Ukraine got left to defend themselves with nobody? 414 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 2: You'll be paying any attention to it. Sean Penn will 415 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 2: be over there. 416 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,200 Speaker 3: And you know, I'll read about it, but it ain't 417 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:11,679 Speaker 3: gonna get a lot of national coverage. China guarantees oil 418 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 3: flow as long as traded in Wan, so everything's traded 419 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 3: in the world on the US dollar currently, but China's 420 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,199 Speaker 3: been trying to change that for a while. What what 421 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 3: does guarantee oil flow mean that they. 422 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 2: Would escort ships through the Strait? I don't know. I 423 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:30,160 Speaker 2: don't know what that mean. 424 00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:33,159 Speaker 3: I wish you would have added more context to that 425 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:37,040 Speaker 3: North Korea helps Iran sprint to nuclear weapons. 426 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 1: That's not an impossibility. Yeah, but who are you gonna call? 427 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 1: Can I talk to you with Mohammad? 428 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:44,400 Speaker 2: He's dead? 429 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:49,320 Speaker 1: How about Ali and he's dead too, How about Jimmy Joe, 430 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 1: Jimmy is dead? 431 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 2: Or than the hell anybody else? 432 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 3: And the other worst case scenario they're really concerned about. 433 00:22:54,840 --> 00:23:00,200 Speaker 3: Under false pretense, China initiates a quarantine against Taiwan. If 434 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 3: they didn't like full on attack Taiwan, but just put 435 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 3: ships around it. 436 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 2: There ain't nothing else coming in or going out from Taiwan. 437 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:14,720 Speaker 3: I don't think we got enough leftover whatever we would 438 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 3: need to stop that from happening. 439 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 1: As we discussed earlier in the show, in the late eighties, 440 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 1: we had I've got the numbers in front of May 441 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 1: two hundred and fourteen surface shifts. We're down to eighty 442 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:32,200 Speaker 1: one because of the idiotically naive idea that we're at 443 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: the end of history, the peace dividend, the end of history. 444 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 2: Please. 445 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,639 Speaker 3: The other thing that none of us really know, and 446 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,359 Speaker 3: you can understand why they're keeping this. 447 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 2: A secret, is how low. 448 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 3: On various important pieces of equipment and munitions are we 449 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:54,000 Speaker 3: actually us in Israel, the ability to shoot down rockets 450 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 3: and drones and all that sort of stuff. You know, 451 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,280 Speaker 3: you hear all this talk about how we've gone through 452 00:23:58,280 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 3: so much of it and it takes so many years 453 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:00,280 Speaker 3: to build it. 454 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:01,400 Speaker 2: Back up, and blah blah blah. 455 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,560 Speaker 3: Are we really like teetering on the edge running out? 456 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 3: Or as Pete Heggsa said the other day, we got 457 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 3: plenty don't worry about it, which I think you would say, whether. 458 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:10,840 Speaker 2: It was true or not. 459 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 1: Oh, I would want him very much to say that, yeah, yeah, damn, 460 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,920 Speaker 1: we're down like ten of these and three of these. 461 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 2: No, he would not say that. 462 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,359 Speaker 3: You talk about a known unknown that is that is 463 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,439 Speaker 3: a big one right there, right, And that's definitely the 464 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 3: sort of thing that we'll never hear for certain for decades. 465 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 3: Perhaps one of my favorite stories that's happened in my lifetime. 466 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,360 Speaker 3: In case you don't already know this, if you're old enough, 467 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 3: maybe you remember when the first Gulf War started, was 468 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 3: the first word. It's the second first Gulf War. I 469 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:43,640 Speaker 3: believe everybody who's worried about Sadam Hussein's scud missiles, because 470 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:48,360 Speaker 3: he had these horrifying missiles with tremendous technology that we're 471 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,639 Speaker 3: really going to be hard to stop. But we had 472 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 3: the Patriot, the Patriot missile that could shoot down the scuds. 473 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:58,160 Speaker 3: Will it work? The war starts, and all the reporting 474 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 3: was the US Patriot missile is superior to the scud. 475 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 3: It shot down every single one of them, and that's 476 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 3: what was believed for years. Turned out it was the 477 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,919 Speaker 3: exact opposite. We didn't shoot down any scuds with the 478 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 3: Patriot missile, none of them. The scud was much superior 479 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 3: to our Patriot missile, but we didn't know that for 480 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:20,680 Speaker 3: a very long time. 481 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:23,919 Speaker 2: So what's actually happening right now? I don't know. 482 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the scud was pretty primitive, But the point 483 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: was our missile defense was in its infancy and was 484 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,879 Speaker 1: not ready for prime time. It's a lot better now, 485 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:36,439 Speaker 1: I mean a lot better now. Sure, But any report 486 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:40,960 Speaker 1: you hear about who's got the superior whatever, who knows 487 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: in warten and don't tell me. 488 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 2: I don't need to know the truth. 489 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:46,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, just keep working on it as hard as you can. 490 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 1: So final note on this topic. It's and this is 491 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:53,840 Speaker 1: a bit of a pivot, but we are talking about 492 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 1: Islamic supremacy. I like to term Muslim supremacist because people 493 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,639 Speaker 1: get that. People who don't follow geopolitics much or understand 494 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:08,639 Speaker 1: the nature of political Islam, these people are unquestionably Muslim 495 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 1: supremacist to the point that they want to kill everybody else. 496 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 2: Zorin. 497 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: Mumdani's wife is one hundred percent one of those, I mean, 498 00:26:15,720 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 1: has been her whole life. 499 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 3: I had to bring up Mark Alpern again, but he 500 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:23,879 Speaker 3: said on his podcast yesterday, the New York Times coverage 501 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:27,440 Speaker 3: of Mom Donnie and his wife ranks among the worst 502 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:30,639 Speaker 3: most biased coverage he's ever seen in his career. The 503 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 3: way they're ignoring some of the things that his wife 504 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 3: has been involved in and not covering it. 505 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 2: Interesting. 506 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, she has since she was a teenager, been posting 507 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:45,440 Speaker 1: over and over and over again, unbroken to this very day, 508 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:52,360 Speaker 1: praise for terrorists, terrorist organizations, violence against Jews, violence against Israel. 509 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 2: I mean, she is a died in the wooler. 510 00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:01,520 Speaker 1: She has celebrated plain hijackings, all sorts of explosions and 511 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 1: the rest of it is as righteous resistance. And she 512 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 1: had an infamous post not terribly long ago that called 513 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:15,359 Speaker 1: the the accusations of rape. On October seventh, fictional. She 514 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 1: called it a hoax. It was all a hoax, and 515 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 1: actually I've got it in front of me. It's funny. 516 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: I just lost it again. A survivor of the music 517 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:28,119 Speaker 1: festival has addressed an open letter to her in which 518 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:33,560 Speaker 1: she describes everything she saw on that day and friends, 519 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 1: it's too grim and too horrible to read. 520 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 2: Do you. 521 00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:44,440 Speaker 1: But the idea that this Islamist mayor and is his 522 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,640 Speaker 1: Lomist wife are going around denying that women were victimized. 523 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,120 Speaker 1: I mean that just shows you the depth of their 524 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 1: how they despised you is they despised Israel, and I 525 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 1: believe in their hearts they despised the US, and I will. 526 00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:58,399 Speaker 2: Stand by those words. 527 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: They want to convert the United States into an Islamic 528 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,200 Speaker 1: republic as soon as they can. 529 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:04,720 Speaker 3: I guess it makes sense for you to focus on 530 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,440 Speaker 3: the mayor and his wife. I'm focused on the media 531 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:12,159 Speaker 3: coverage of the fact that they're willing to ignore the 532 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 3: things his wife has said and not put him in 533 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 3: a position where he's got a answer for him. 534 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 2: Right, is amazing? Right? The woman I was talking about, 535 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 2: the survivor, Ah, there it is. 536 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:28,400 Speaker 1: She hid in a tiny little compartment of a camper, 537 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:33,760 Speaker 1: and could hear the horrifying cries and begging for mercy, 538 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,640 Speaker 1: then the gun shots over and over again, and when 539 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: she finally emerged from the camper the scenes she saw, 540 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:46,280 Speaker 1: I will not describe to you a horrifying sexual violence 541 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,920 Speaker 1: of both men and women on an unimaginable scale and 542 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:54,000 Speaker 1: of unimaginable cruelty. And the lovely missess of Mamdonnie said, 543 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:54,640 Speaker 1: that's a hoax. 544 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:55,480 Speaker 2: It never happened. 545 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 3: I can't even come up with my usual picture the 546 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 3: opposite of this happening, where the New York Times would 547 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 3: ignore this sort of thing. I don't even know what 548 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 3: a good example would be. This one's so etregious. 549 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're right, the whole if it was a 550 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:14,640 Speaker 2: Republican thing. He just can't come. 551 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 3: Up with an example. But that's horrible, it's incredible. It 552 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 3: is because they don't want to be anti first Muslim mayor. 553 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 2: That's part of it. 554 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, if I'm going to put on my political science hat, 555 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,800 Speaker 1: actually it'd probably be like a sport coat with leather 556 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:42,080 Speaker 1: patches on the elbows, right, I would say. And this 557 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 1: gets back to the whole red Green alliance where Islamists 558 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 1: know Marxists are useful because they're both intent on overthrowing 559 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:55,680 Speaker 1: secular Western governments. The Marxist crowd the young, A lot 560 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:57,680 Speaker 1: of them don't even understand what they're doing. But the 561 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: young crowd that's susceptible to the Marxist pitch are numerous 562 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:08,640 Speaker 1: enough and foolish enough that they got Zorn Mumdanni elected elected, 563 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 1: which is shocking given the barely even veiled intentional irony 564 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,240 Speaker 1: beliefs of Mumdanni. 565 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 2: And his wife. Sound. I can't believe I'm witnessing this, 566 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,560 Speaker 2: I know. Uh. 567 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,360 Speaker 3: Coming up, we got an elementary school teacher reading some 568 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,040 Speaker 3: emails from parents that I think you'll find quite interesting. 569 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 2: Oh boy, yeah, among other things. Stay here. 570 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 4: Emails that I've gotten from parents. 571 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 2: Here we go up. 572 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:47,360 Speaker 4: First, Hi, we noticed Mason has been bringing home homework. 573 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,680 Speaker 4: We're trying to protect his mental health and family time, 574 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 4: so we don't really do homework in our house. Is 575 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,160 Speaker 4: there any way he can still get full credit without 576 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 4: completing it? Thanks for understanding. 577 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 2: Good morning. Emma was late. 578 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 4: Because it was raining and she doesn't like the rain. 579 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,719 Speaker 4: It really affects her mood. Please mark her present, but 580 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:09,360 Speaker 4: not late. 581 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:11,560 Speaker 2: Next one, Hi. 582 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,400 Speaker 4: I saw that Olivia has a seventy two. We were 583 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 4: hoping for at least a ninety. Is there anything we 584 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 4: can do to adjust that? We feel like a bee 585 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 4: better reflects her potential. Let me know what paperwork I 586 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 4: need to fill out. 587 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: Oh my god, I wouldn't shocking yet unsurprising. 588 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 2: I wouldn't last a day as a teacher. 589 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:37,320 Speaker 6: So that that was quote part one on his TikTok page, 590 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 6: and I checked it this morning. 591 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 2: He is on part seventeen. Oh and there's more. We 592 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 2: ought to get more of those, maybe for hour four. 593 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 2: Those are two good. 594 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 3: Ugh. 595 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,280 Speaker 2: We are a soft, soft people. I know. 596 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:53,320 Speaker 1: I'm sitting here more disturbed than I ought to be, 597 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 1: not like disturbed, like I need, you know, a drug 598 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:56,360 Speaker 1: or something. 599 00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 2: Hmmm. 600 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:02,840 Speaker 1: The character of the people is displayed in those emails, 601 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:03,480 Speaker 1: and good. 602 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 3: Times lead to soft people sort of situation. Just the 603 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 3: history of mankind. We are very comfortable under no threat, 604 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,240 Speaker 3: very few people starving or anything like that. M and 605 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:26,400 Speaker 3: uh So we're just very soft. Yeah wow, yeah, So 606 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 3: we've had a lot of discouragement this hour. 607 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,160 Speaker 2: Too much discouragement. How about something cute? 608 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,800 Speaker 3: So these are a couple of little kids, like I 609 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,560 Speaker 3: don't know, three five year old's whatever, brother's sister talking 610 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:36,440 Speaker 3: to each other listening to this. 611 00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 2: Babies were divers and I'm not a baby, and you're, well, 612 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 2: I'm not a baby here. 613 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 4: I'm not. 614 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:51,320 Speaker 2: I mean you were in a diaper. I'm not a baby. 615 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:55,640 Speaker 2: You were in a dip wa wa. 616 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 3: Baby, Like the older kid is going to stick with 617 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:11,480 Speaker 3: I'm gonna stick with the argument until. 618 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:15,360 Speaker 2: You can refute it. But you're wearing a diaper, and 619 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,880 Speaker 2: babies wear diapers, and she goes, you can't say but 620 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,120 Speaker 2: that's a bad word. 621 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 6: So this video is actually I think it's a couple 622 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,200 Speaker 6: of years old, but it circulates every now and then, 623 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 6: and it circulated this time with the caption what it feels. 624 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:28,480 Speaker 2: Like to argue with a liberal. 625 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,120 Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, you're both going to your 626 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:34,880 Speaker 1: rooms for having one dimensional arguments. 627 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:36,720 Speaker 2: You're wearing a diaper. 628 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: I'm not a baby, but you're wearing a diaper. You 629 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 1: can't say butt, but is a bad word, and I'm 630 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:53,280 Speaker 1: not a baby. Furthermore, that's funny. 631 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 2: That is funny. I saw mommy yesterday. 632 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:57,320 Speaker 3: I walked by her on the sidewalk when I was 633 00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,120 Speaker 3: walking to the gym, I think, and two kids and 634 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,720 Speaker 3: they were like they're a little older, maybe like five 635 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,040 Speaker 3: and seven, but they have their bicycles. They're both on 636 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:07,320 Speaker 3: their bikes and their their front tires are together as 637 00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,200 Speaker 3: they're sitting there on the sidewalk and the older one 638 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,799 Speaker 3: keeps like turning his steering woman banging his tire on 639 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,759 Speaker 3: the younger stick and he's saying stop, and the older 640 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:15,560 Speaker 3: one does again. 641 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,800 Speaker 2: Stop stop it, stop it. Mommy won't stop. 642 00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:22,760 Speaker 3: It's just walking by watch that thinking, oh my god, I'm. 643 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:23,480 Speaker 2: Not doing that again. 644 00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,840 Speaker 3: I mean, it's just it's it's nothing, but it's the 645 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:27,879 Speaker 3: constant of that. 646 00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: Ah. 647 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:30,440 Speaker 2: Yeah. 648 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,120 Speaker 1: And also nobody calls you out on your bs like 649 00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:33,880 Speaker 1: your siblings. 650 00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,520 Speaker 2: You know, it's you know, the only child is fine. 651 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,120 Speaker 1: There are a lot of roots to happiness in life, 652 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,400 Speaker 1: but it's it helps own who you are real quickly. 653 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,920 Speaker 1: I'm reminded of we were talking about school in some 654 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,400 Speaker 1: context and somebody emailed and said, dudes, you're living in 655 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,600 Speaker 1: the past. The everybody gets a trophy generation are the 656 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:56,360 Speaker 1: parents now? Ah, And that's who's writing those emails. 657 00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:00,880 Speaker 2: That's interesting. The coddle kids are now the modeling parents. 658 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:02,120 Speaker 2: My kid got a seventy two. 659 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,239 Speaker 3: I really we were hoping for a ninety I really 660 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,360 Speaker 3: feel that that better reflects her potential? 661 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:07,400 Speaker 2: Right what? 662 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:08,399 Speaker 6: I think? 663 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:16,240 Speaker 2: You're unclear on the concept heire? Wow, oh my god? 664 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:16,759 Speaker 2: How is it? 665 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:18,400 Speaker 3: How are you ever going to survive in the world? 666 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,640 Speaker 3: Tell your boss my salary. I feel like one hundred 667 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:23,800 Speaker 3: and twenty thousand of year better reflects my potential. 668 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,240 Speaker 2: Nah, that ain't to wear Armstrong and Getty.