1 00:00:01,880 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong, and Jetty 3 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:17,280 Speaker 1: and now he Armstrong and Yetty. 4 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:27,320 Speaker 2: So wonder that Americans think the president controls the price 5 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 2: of eggs. Nearly a third think he controls gas prices 6 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,599 Speaker 2: and the unemployment rate. One in four thinks he has 7 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 2: control over interest rates and consumer prices. 8 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: What do you expect. 9 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 2: When we have this big balley hoot annual event that 10 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,480 Speaker 2: looks like the president's royal wedding to himself. 11 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: That's one of the things I've always hated about the 12 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: State of the Union address is the treating it. It's 13 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:56,280 Speaker 1: like it's the king walking in who runs the country? 14 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: And how else would you interpret that if you don't 15 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: pay close attention to you know, your civics lessons. The 16 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: people sitting down in the crowd much lower than him. 17 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: They're the powerful people. Congress is the most powerful entity 18 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: in our government, but that's not the way it's portrayed 19 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 1: in the State of the Union Address or in anything 20 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: really in the news. Congress has healthfully gone along with 21 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: that by not exercising their power lately. Yeah too, which 22 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: is the subject to Gorsach's quote last Hour that we 23 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: featured that was, actually, I couldn't I couldn't hate the 24 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 1: State of the Union Address more on so many different levels. 25 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:34,960 Speaker 1: And that part that Bill Maher came up, I actually 26 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 1: forgot how much I hated that angle of it. The 27 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: way he comes in, now the King of America, and 28 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: then everybody cheers, and then the king, Oh save the King, 29 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 1: God save the King, points to the Queen and everybody 30 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: stands and cheers as the Queen stands up and looks regal. 31 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:53,680 Speaker 1: That's not what we're supposed to be at all. The 32 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: clip we played was kind of the culmination in Mars thoughts. 33 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: Here's some more of it. It's very Jack Armstrong like. 34 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 1: And finally, new rule. 35 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 2: Since the State of the Union Address is next Tuesday, 36 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 2: let's get rid of the State of the Union Address 37 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 2: before Tuesday. 38 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: And here's a lot. 39 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 2: Nothing has misled the American people to the warped belief 40 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 2: that the president can act like a king more than 41 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 2: this stupid, boring performative after dinner speech from Hell where 42 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 2: the sergeant at arms announces the President like he's a king. 43 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 2: He the best nursemaker, the President of the United States, 44 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 2: and he walks into the room like Connor McGregor, heading 45 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 2: into the octagden with members of Congress lining the aisle 46 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 2: like medieval peasants hoping to touch the royal garments. 47 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: And then the point he makes next is straight out 48 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:06,959 Speaker 1: at Jack's screen, Michael, we can skip it that. Then 49 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:11,519 Speaker 1: he proceeds to tell the Congress what to do, which 50 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: is not the way the system is supposed to work, 51 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: not at all. No, and listen, I realized this is 52 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,359 Speaker 1: like reciting the alphabet and asking you to remember the 53 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: D comes after C. 54 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:23,239 Speaker 3: No. 55 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:29,079 Speaker 1: Congress writes the laws. Then the president enforces the laws 56 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,800 Speaker 1: Congress has passed, and if they need to, the judiciary 57 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: gets involved and says, no, that's not Congress means who said? 58 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: What does it sound like to you? Which branch is 59 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: in charge there? Right? And Congress can remove a president. 60 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: President can't do anything about even the lowest member of 61 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 1: some tiny district in Montana. They just can't. Right as well, 62 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: Let's have the squad to get together with the old 63 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: what's her name Paulina Luna and and what's their name? 64 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: The chicken mashes with guys in public? What is there want? 65 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: I want to say Loraina Bobbitt, But that's not right, 66 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: Robert Lauren bo Bolbert Lauren Bobert, Raina Bobbitt cut off 67 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: her husband's penis that's a completely different story from like 68 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,479 Speaker 1: from like thirty years ago. Both of them fans of 69 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:22,360 Speaker 1: the Shawans, just in different ways. But yeah, let's unfortunately 70 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,600 Speaker 1: we have so many chuckle as well. They both held 71 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 1: one in their hand, one in a theater in front 72 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: of people, the other one not near the body of 73 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 1: the person that had it. Exactly some similarities, but to 74 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 1: the plots diverged there towards the beginning of the show. 75 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: Right Anyway, My point is you got so many damn 76 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 1: morons and grand standards and would be social media stars 77 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: in Congress, they wouldn't know which end of the pen 78 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: to grabbed it at the right legiscy. This is an 79 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: underappreciated thing. We've talked about it a lot, and a 80 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: lot of my favorite thinkers talk about it and read 81 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 1: about it a lot. But this convincing people maybe just 82 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 1: because it's simple, I don't know what that the president is. 83 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:06,159 Speaker 1: The government is the worst thing we've done. It's just 84 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 1: so weird, and so everybody's okay with executive orders to 85 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: run everything, and the on day one I will as 86 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,359 Speaker 1: they run for president like they're in charge of everything, 87 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: it's just not. And obviously, and then because you have everything, 88 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:28,400 Speaker 1: all your hopes and dreams in one human being, obviously 89 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: it makes things much more contentious that if you had 90 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 1: the reality of it spread out among three branches of 91 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 1: government and five hundred and thirty five people in the Senate, 92 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,159 Speaker 1: in the House and all that. And then not to 93 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 1: mention your state local government. Right, I wish I had 94 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: the Tom of Solo quote in front of me. It's 95 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,119 Speaker 1: one of my all time favorites from him. I should 96 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: memorize it. He's essentially saying it's our fault that our 97 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: politicians are such liars because when we demand that they 98 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: promise the utterly undeliverable to elect them, what do you 99 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: think they're going to do? And I would suggest that 100 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: you know, the idea that the president is the king 101 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:06,599 Speaker 1: is one of the big steps down that road, because 102 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 1: you're looking at a process whereby one man can just 103 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: decide by fiat to grant you your dreams, which is 104 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: not our process at all. If you understand our process 105 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: the way it's supposed to function, you wouldn't ask that 106 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: of anybody because it's an impossibility. So yeah, there are 107 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:25,440 Speaker 1: all sorts of ills that flow from the idea of 108 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: president is king. It's terrible. I remember one of my 109 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: LBJ books that I read that other people find boring 110 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:36,039 Speaker 1: from Robert Carroll, greatest political biography in our nation's history. 111 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,240 Speaker 1: According to Bill Clinton, I would agree, it's absolutely amazing. 112 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 1: But in one of the books, at the era of 113 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,679 Speaker 1: John F. Kennedy being president, he wanted to do something, 114 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 1: and he sends Bobby Kennedy, his brother, who was also 115 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: involved in the government at very high levels in many 116 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:56,039 Speaker 1: different ways, including the Attorney General, Nepo Baby. He sends him 117 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: to the Speaker of the House, who is and now 118 00:06:58,240 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: it's flitted out of my head, the guy who was 119 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,360 Speaker 1: Speaker the House when the Democratics Democrats controlled it for 120 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 1: like sixty years, Sam Rayburn. And Rayburn says, if your 121 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 1: brother wants to do that, tell him he needs to 122 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: come talk to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. 123 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 1: And I thought, wow, is that a different way of 124 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: interaction between those two branches than what we have now 125 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 1: right where the speaker would say, yeah, he needs to 126 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: come talk to me and ask if he wants to 127 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:29,440 Speaker 1: do that because I am, you know, a big deal 128 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: jealously guarding for the power, and they're in the same 129 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: party of the House, yeah, of his branch of government. 130 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 1: That's the way it's supposed to function. The idea that well, 131 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: I'm a lapdog and I'm afraid of the president because 132 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: his voters are so loyal that I don't dare run 133 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: a foul of them. On both sides, folks, both sides. Ye, 134 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: it's where it's just pathetic. I wonder how much the 135 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: President will try to sell war with Iran tonight. If 136 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: I were coaching him, I'm not sure I would talk 137 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: about it much, if at all. I don't because I 138 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: don't think it's on people's radar. I don't know that 139 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: you need to sell it. You should. I think it's 140 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: important that we be talking about this. It's going to 141 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 1: be a really big deal if we go full on 142 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 1: regime change with a country of ninety million people in 143 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 1: a significant military. But if I was going to be 144 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: a clinical advisor, yeah, that's exactly right, I would say, 145 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:29,560 Speaker 1: you know what, let's sleep in dogs line, right, Let's 146 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: sleeping dogs or not. There's no significant opposition to the 147 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:34,719 Speaker 1: move because nobody's talking about it at all. No, and 148 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: it's all about people's how they're feeling about the economy. 149 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:39,079 Speaker 1: So spend the most of the speech on that. Oh 150 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 1: that's right, Trump said yesterday. The speech is going to 151 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 1: be long, and if he announces ahead of a time, 152 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:45,439 Speaker 1: then it's going to be long. I can't imagine how 153 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:52,160 Speaker 1: long it's going to be. I would guess ninety minutes least. Oh, yeah, 154 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: I think the under is probably like ninety nine minutes. Oh, 155 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: can't nobody get time for dad? No freaking away, I'm 156 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 1: watching an hour and a half speech. I'll catch the highlights. Yeah, yeah, 157 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: I like to watch the first ten to fifteen minutes, 158 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 1: and then if somebody shakes their cane or yells you lie, 159 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:12,679 Speaker 1: or something like that, I'll see it in a highlight later. 160 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: A bunch of cane shakers up in her. Yeah, it's 161 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 1: just yeah. So the King gets up, and then the 162 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 1: lap dogs and or performative cane waivers of Congress do 163 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 1: whatever they've decided to do today. They're gonna walk out 164 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: in the minute. They probably have a go ahead or don't, 165 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: or walk in the middle, get up and hold a 166 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 1: square dance in the middle. Nobody cares you suck at 167 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:41,040 Speaker 1: your jobs. What I think is, buddy, it's gonna be 168 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: interesting to see how the hockey thing goes, because the 169 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 1: men's hockey team is going to be there and they're 170 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: beloved right now, and so everybody's gonna have to stand 171 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 1: for that. And then those poor hockey players are gonna 172 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 1: sit there and listen to Trump talk about minutia of 173 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 1: the economy and then booze from half the crowd, and 174 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 1: they're all these layers are gonna be looking at you like, 175 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:03,800 Speaker 1: what is this? And how long is this? When do 176 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 1: we get too crazy? When do we get to leave? 177 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: At least I get why people cheering boo at hockey games. 178 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 1: They're thinking speaking of hockey. I got to point this 179 00:10:12,520 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: out because I was threatening to hit people with my 180 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: stick earlier. I talked about this years and years ago, 181 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:19,719 Speaker 1: but not sinse. One of the things I love best 182 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 1: about hockey is it has the best names for the penalties, 183 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 1: because football, which is a violent game you have holding 184 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 1: and off side you're slipping, is not like George Carlin 185 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:38,719 Speaker 1: now right with the hockey spearing, slashing, what's the other 186 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:42,679 Speaker 1: one hooking? I mean those are penalties. They disemboweling one 187 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: of the penalties, and tooth removal. Yeah, two minutes dentistry 188 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 1: without a license. You point to the box. Oh, speaking 189 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 1: of wish final thought, Now I had here to get 190 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 1: your teeth. This hasn't been discussed enough. I don't think 191 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 1: it would have to really hurt to get your teeth 192 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: knocked completely out as an adult or broken. They're really 193 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 1: wedged in there. Oh yeah, Holy, they're not designed to hurt. 194 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: Come out right yet? Oh yeah, well he skated on. 195 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: It happens all the time with hockey players. You give 196 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: your teeth to the trainer who puts them in cold water. Ah, 197 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:21,719 Speaker 1: so the dentist has a chance of sticking them back in. 198 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:23,720 Speaker 1: It doesn't happen when we played chess. I'll tell you 199 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 1: that not not often had to have some dental work yesterday. 200 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 1: I tell you what the comfort of dental procedures in 201 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: my lifetime has gone from. I'll tell you all my secrets. 202 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:38,839 Speaker 1: What do you want to know to It was practically 203 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:42,320 Speaker 1: a nothing. Really. Oh the topical thing they put on 204 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 1: your gums so you don't even feel the injection. I know, 205 00:11:45,679 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 1: I know, I know who hear that? Nobody? 206 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 3: Hell? 207 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 1: Are you doing? Grow up? What I'm trying to tell 208 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: you is, don't postpone dental work if you have a 209 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: good dentist, because it's so comfortable these days. Was that 210 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 1: your goal, Katie? Share your head? 211 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 4: Nothing comfortable about it. There's no way I believe it. 212 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:07,439 Speaker 1: I've never had anything done to my teeth, so I 213 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 1: don't know anything. Women needle goes into your you don't 214 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,839 Speaker 1: even feel it. It's wondrous. No I I go to 215 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: Venice to relax these days. Yes, even the noise. Turn 216 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: that off. Michael's now I'm on their side. Turn that off. 217 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 1: That was the worst moment in a really long time. Yeah, 218 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,480 Speaker 1: that was. That was a long list of moments. That 219 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:39,720 Speaker 1: was Joe's low point. We may have identified it. Boy, 220 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:44,439 Speaker 1: The Pentagon and AI companies are at odds. Mark Cowprin's 221 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 1: one of my favorite political pundits, talk about that he 222 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: took on AOC's Weird Late Night perhaps drunken or after 223 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 1: crying Twitter response. We've talked about it something yesterday. Heyway, 224 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 1: that's pretty entertaining and a bunch of stuff on the way. 225 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:09,760 Speaker 1: Stay here, armstrong and getty. You know, I think that. 226 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 3: This is such a you know, I think that. 227 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: This is a so we played that a lot. That's 228 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:22,760 Speaker 1: AOC In Munich last week, it was her attempt to 229 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: be her debut as a serious candidate for president, showing 230 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 1: her foreign policy chops when she was asked about China 231 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: invading Taiwan, and she had no answer, and it she 232 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:36,199 Speaker 1: looked like she'd never thought about it before in her life, 233 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:37,839 Speaker 1: which is I almost wish we were playing the long 234 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 1: version of that, because when she finally did, like coalesce 235 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: a few words together and something that sounded like a sentence, 236 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: it was nonsense. She had been polling pretty high as 237 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:50,800 Speaker 1: a likely candidate for the Democrats to run for president 238 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty eight. After that answer and a couple 239 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:56,600 Speaker 1: other things she did there in Germany, she got beat 240 00:13:56,679 --> 00:14:01,200 Speaker 1: up pretty good by like right, left and center, including 241 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:03,280 Speaker 1: the New York Times, which you're about to hear about 242 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:06,439 Speaker 1: in just a second. But over the weekend, I guess 243 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 1: late at night she'd put this out. 244 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 3: If you think that I don't understand foreign policy, because 245 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:20,760 Speaker 3: out of hours of discourse about international affairs, I pause 246 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 3: to think about one of the most sensitive geopolitical issues 247 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 3: that currently exist on curse, I'm afraid the issue is 248 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 3: not my understanding, but rather the problem is perhaps you've 249 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:39,600 Speaker 3: gotten adjusted to a president that never thinks before he speaks. 250 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 1: Have we nailed down if that was her dog? Or man, 251 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 1: oh that's a dog. That's a dog. So I was 252 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 1: watching a video zoom call with a bunch of political 253 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 1: pundits on there, and it was like a show of hands. 254 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: Would any of you if your candidate had sent this 255 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: to you and said should I post this? Would any 256 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: of you say yes? Of course? They were all hard No, 257 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 1: you would never have posted that. Right now, Mark Halpern, 258 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 1: who you're about to hear from political pundits, said he 259 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 1: has long thought that everyone in government should have a 260 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 1: breathalyzer attached to their phone so that they can't post 261 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: until they breathe into it to show that there's over. 262 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: He said he has no indication that she was drinking, 263 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 1: but I thought perhaps that could be an issue with 264 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: some people. Maybe that explains the eyes, because I said 265 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:31,480 Speaker 1: to Katie last night it looked like she'd been crying. 266 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: Maybe I wasn't crying. Maybe that was hammered late at night. 267 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: I don't know, But so we have plenty of time, 268 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: so drunk or crying, Katie do you think drunk er crying. 269 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:48,000 Speaker 4: Possible hangover, But those look like crying puffy. 270 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 1: No, maybe she got drunk and started crying anyway, So 271 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: Mark Halpern then has this angle on the story. 272 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 5: AFC called the New York Times last night because she 273 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 5: didn't like the press she was getting over her appearance 274 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 5: in Munich, and she said something on one level very rational. 275 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 5: She said, I wasn't there as a presidential candidate. I 276 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 5: wasn't even there as a senate candidate. Here's the New 277 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 5: York Times headline after first big overseas tripo Casio Cortet 278 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 5: expresses frustrations. The congressman argued in an interview the presidential speculation, 279 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 5: which including scrutiny of her slip ups, had overshadowed her 280 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,359 Speaker 5: anti authoritarian message at the Munich security conference. The congresswoman 281 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 5: made me a camera too. If you go to an 282 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 5: international security conference filled with potential presidential candidates and have 283 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 5: your team build up that you're there to be on 284 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:35,600 Speaker 5: the world stage, and you think that the press is 285 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 5: going to cover your substantive and very interesting message about 286 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 5: the threat of authoritarianism taking advantage of income inequality over 287 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 5: your prospects of a presidential candidate, as evinced by your 288 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 5: debut in the world stage, you are so naive that 289 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 5: you shouldn't even be. 290 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 1: A member of the House. She actually contacted The New 291 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 1: York Times as that her coverage being was unfair. I agree. 292 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 1: I don't know that she has got unless she's going 293 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: to change her tune. She doesn't have the chops for 294 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 1: run for president. This has merely reinforced my perception of 295 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:10,760 Speaker 1: her as a human being. In a Congress person you 296 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 1: have been. You have been saying that from the beginning. 297 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 1: You get credit for that. Okay, we got a lot 298 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: more on the way. Stay here, Armstrong and Getty. 299 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:24,359 Speaker 6: And Mencho was wanted on drug trafficking charges by both 300 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 6: Mexico and the United States. Winehouse Press Secretary Caroline Levitt 301 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,880 Speaker 6: called him a top target for both countries and said 302 00:17:31,920 --> 00:17:36,120 Speaker 6: the US provided Mexico with intelligence support ahead. 303 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,880 Speaker 1: Of the operation. Ellmancho one of the top drug king 304 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 1: pens on planet Earth. Now dead and kind of exciting 305 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: a local twist for US since we broadcast out of 306 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:51,600 Speaker 1: northern California, San Francisco, kind of his adopted hometown where 307 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 1: he was a drug dealer multiple times getting deported and 308 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,920 Speaker 1: coming back and continuing to be a drug dealer, arrested 309 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:01,040 Speaker 1: and released over and over again. That's right, as Rolling 310 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 1: Stone put it in their investigation of this, A city 311 00:18:04,040 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 1: known for its lax attitude toward drug dealing had him 312 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 1: on the street multiple times through the nineties. But back 313 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:15,960 Speaker 1: to the big bust, which was remarkably efficient. No Mexican 314 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 1: good guys were killed. A number of cartel people killed. Unfortunately, 315 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:24,000 Speaker 1: the mayhem was just beginning with the bust Sristra. 316 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:30,360 Speaker 7: Twenty seven cowardly attacks against authorities were recorded in Jalisco alone. 317 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 7: There were six attacks in which twenty five National Guard 318 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 7: members lost their lives. 319 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:40,879 Speaker 1: So number one, you got to vengeance from the cartel 320 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: saying you can't you can't do us like that. Mexican authorities, 321 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 1: and you know, the past couple of administrations had led 322 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:49,360 Speaker 1: them to believe they weren't going to do them like that, 323 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,359 Speaker 1: said leading security consultant in Mexico City. Quote. This is 324 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 1: the biggest blow that the government has ever struck against 325 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: a criminal group in Mexico. It has national implications given 326 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,040 Speaker 1: the vast number of states where the cartel operates, and 327 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:04,119 Speaker 1: it's too early to tell whether this turns into a 328 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 1: Great War, referring to the fact that when there is 329 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 1: a power vacuum in a Mexican cartel, generally lots and 330 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 1: lots of severed heads follow. So he got trapped because 331 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:21,679 Speaker 1: he is going to meet one of his hatty girlfriends 332 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 1: that he apparently needed to see so bad. As a 333 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 1: friend of mine pointed out, it's all a woman sent 334 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: me this. Can I say this on the air? Maybe 335 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:31,639 Speaker 1: I should show this to Joe first. I don't know 336 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,439 Speaker 1: if he can see it from across the room, not 337 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:37,400 Speaker 1: without my Should I say this out loud? I won't say. 338 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 1: But it's why not Well, it's a it's a. It's 339 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:41,440 Speaker 1: a it's a it's a. 340 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:47,640 Speaker 8: It's a colloquial not not very elegant, non elegant term 341 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 8: for uh, you know, a romantican interludes with a woman. 342 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:57,159 Speaker 1: Anyway, it's the act of coita. Well, no, it's a 343 00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:59,919 Speaker 1: particular area of a woman. But it's always it's an 344 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:05,200 Speaker 1: a part of a woman that is well, somebody texted 345 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 1: me it's always the snatch, Oh boy, that is not elegant. 346 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: That has brought down many many a great man, great 347 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:20,000 Speaker 1: being the term of like powerful or whatever, not good, 348 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,560 Speaker 1: but has brought you know, Alexander the Great or I mean, 349 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: you can name great man through history who have been 350 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:30,359 Speaker 1: brought down by that that unfortunate term. A country is 351 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:34,199 Speaker 1: burning down over a tale as old as time, this 352 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:38,120 Speaker 1: person said, and it is really tales. It is amazing 353 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: that no matter how powerful you are, are you because 354 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:43,919 Speaker 1: I'm sure he has access to as many women of 355 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 1: whatever type and age he wants, being as ruthless and 356 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:52,679 Speaker 1: uncaring and awful as he was, and still there was 357 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:57,280 Speaker 1: some woman that was enough special to him that he 358 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,199 Speaker 1: needed to see her. And they followed him there and 359 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: they killed him. Yeah, yeah, with help from US intelligence, 360 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:09,080 Speaker 1: and the authorities weren't sure he was actually there, but 361 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: then locals saw, I think local authorities saw a man 362 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 1: get out of a pickup truck and squeeze a woman 363 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 1: give her a big hug before they went into one 364 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,119 Speaker 1: of the love cabins there at the mountain retreat. The 365 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 1: snatching question, oh boy again with that, I just, folks, 366 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,040 Speaker 1: I try so hard to elevate the show and I 367 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:30,480 Speaker 1: get dragged back down. It's like crabs, buckets, et cetera. Anyway, 368 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: so not only you know, did he come out of 369 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 1: the his Heidi hole wherever he goes to meet this 370 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 1: gal at this love shack, a little old shack that 371 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,280 Speaker 1: we can get together. But he's got a you know, 372 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,040 Speaker 1: like run out and give her a big hug when 373 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:48,919 Speaker 1: she gets there. I mean, that's love that it touches 374 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,400 Speaker 1: my heart. Unfortunately, a bullet touched his heart and he's dead, 375 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 1: right right. It is a tale as old as time. Yeah, 376 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,399 Speaker 1: But so how about the explosion of violence around the 377 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,240 Speaker 1: country where I don't know, if you've seen the videos 378 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 1: in the news, it's amazing cartel members setting gas stations 379 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:09,720 Speaker 1: on fire, blowing up grocery stores, attacking airports, all kinds 380 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:13,160 Speaker 1: of different things, just to let people know, hey, we're 381 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:15,600 Speaker 1: still here and you can't bushes around or I don't 382 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 1: know what their goal was, Well, if you mess with 383 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,320 Speaker 1: us like this, we will exact an enormous cost. Keep 384 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 1: that in mind going forward, beaches, Yeah, exactly. So, whether 385 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: this cartel can come up with some sort of succession 386 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: plan or it degenerates, you know, the power vacuum degenerates 387 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:38,640 Speaker 1: into the sort of isolence we saw when El Choppo 388 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,160 Speaker 1: got yanked. He was betrayed by another head of another 389 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 1: family clan, and he got arrested and everything. The conflict 390 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:49,440 Speaker 1: over who would take over the big Sinaloa cartel has 391 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 1: left more than two thousand people dead and three thousand missing. 392 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,240 Speaker 1: And I don't think they're going to turn up anytime soon, 393 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 1: right well, mention and people dead and missing over who's 394 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 1: going to run that cartel. If you've watched any of 395 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 1: these many shows or documentaries about Pablo what's his name 396 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 1: down in Colombia, Escobar or any of these people or Scarface, 397 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,480 Speaker 1: I mean, these people who come up through the ranks 398 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: in these drug cartels are the most violent. There are 399 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 1: no rules people that have practically ever existed. And for 400 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 1: him to be at the top for as long as 401 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,960 Speaker 1: he was means he did a lot of really really 402 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 1: awful things. As we talked about yesterday, he was known 403 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: for he would cut the heads off police officers or 404 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: jurors or whoever went against him and put their heads 405 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,520 Speaker 1: at the school of their kids to send a message 406 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 1: to everybody of how I can reach out and touch 407 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 1: you and this is what it'll be like. That that's 408 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: some hardball right there. Sole President Shinbaum in Mexico, their 409 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 1: lady president has got to have her knickers in a 410 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 1: twist because, as this expert points out, a second narco 411 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: civil war in western Mexico would upend the security of 412 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 1: the World Cup this summer, as the gigantic international soccer 413 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 1: tournament has played in Mexico, the US and Canada. Nobody 414 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 1: want soccer interrupt Jalisco's state capital a Huadalajara, which is 415 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: one of Mexico's largest and most affluent cities, is set 416 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 1: to host World Cup matches. Boy, if the cartels really 417 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 1: wanted to mess with the Mexican government, they would mess 418 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: with the World Cup. Woof oh wow. Yeah. The fact 419 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,640 Speaker 1: that he was a regular in San Francisco and because 420 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,399 Speaker 1: of their lax laws with policing and drugs, he is 421 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 1: able to set up shop there as a youth and 422 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:57,639 Speaker 1: become a big deal is well not surprising. Also, the 423 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 1: California Post reporting today cartel warfare threatens to spill into 424 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,640 Speaker 1: California as narco terras n leach hell on border cities. 425 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 1: So we could cross the border into the US, and 426 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 1: then we're gonna probably get a lot more serious about it. Beautiful. 427 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:18,040 Speaker 1: I remember back in the day when uh Pablo Villa 428 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 1: was running different sorts of bad gangs in Mexico. We 429 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:26,080 Speaker 1: made it clear to the gangs down there that hey, 430 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 1: you make sure your bullets are going east and west 431 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: and not north to south, because if anything crosses the border, 432 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 1: it's going to get ugly fast. And then some of 433 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: the violence did spill over and we had general pershing 434 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: down there chasing the Mexican bad guys, is like, hey, 435 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 1: ain't crossing our border. I would imagine it'd be the 436 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 1: same sort of situation here if it spills into the 437 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: United States, it's we're going to get involved. Well, under Biden, 438 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: there could be seven hundred and fifty dead in uh, 439 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: you know whatever, El Paso and nothing would have happened. 440 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:54,960 Speaker 1: But Trump will not put up with that for a minute. 441 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:59,880 Speaker 1: So that's that's good. Now back to the whole who 442 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 1: controls Cartel's thing. I was reading a piece that was 443 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 1: describing that, you know the process of I'm like third 444 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,879 Speaker 1: or fourth tier, I'm really going to prove myself that 445 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,920 Speaker 1: I'm the most brutal son of a bitcher. I mean, 446 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: it's it's it's horrific, says this one former security chief. 447 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 1: New kingpins aren't directly annointed, and a brutal competition determines 448 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:28,040 Speaker 1: who is more skillful or more violent, and it has 449 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 1: to do with you know, logistical skill and economic vision 450 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: and that sort of thing as well. But this Elmentho, dude, 451 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: his cartel is called the one of the fastest in 452 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,800 Speaker 1: the history the rise, one of the fastest in the 453 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 1: history of organized crime. Well, yeah, it would be straight 454 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,080 Speaker 1: out of Shakespeare or Game of Thrones or whatever else. 455 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:53,000 Speaker 1: It's a combination of violence, brutality and politics, getting people 456 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,879 Speaker 1: on your side and creating loyalty among people and all 457 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,439 Speaker 1: that sort of thing. And then when you got an 458 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:04,200 Speaker 1: elements who bites the dust again referring to this expert. 459 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:08,560 Speaker 1: With a cartel with such great capacity and logistics occupying 460 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,959 Speaker 1: so much territory, both inside and outside Mexico, it's natural 461 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: to think about organizational changes or internal power of struggles 462 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 1: within the organization, sometimes challenging the hierarchy. You got to 463 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:20,359 Speaker 1: remember that this is not like a gang of twenty 464 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 1: five people. This is a giant, sprawling corporation with an 465 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 1: army and factories and scientists and salespeople and probably a 466 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,520 Speaker 1: freaking mail room somewhere, or you know some guy that 467 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: delivers packages and or walks around with a cart like 468 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 1: you know in your office, sitcoms or whatever. It's a 469 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 1: giant corporation. It is interesting though that practically maybe Hitler's 470 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:58,119 Speaker 1: an exception. I don't know. Love or a combination of 471 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:02,200 Speaker 1: love and lust is just it's so incredibly powerful. There 472 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,960 Speaker 1: was a special woman that men enough to him. He 473 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: had to see her. 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Suspected Narco terrorists yesterday torched vehicles at 496 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 1: the border wall and Tijuana, right on the border a 497 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 1: stone's throw from San Diego, setting up roadblocks targeting local businesses. 498 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:36,840 Speaker 1: On Monday, footage showed a major highway that runs parallel 499 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,200 Speaker 1: to the United States completely shut down, while cops cautiously 500 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: inspected a burning car, wondering if there were bombs inside. 501 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: In rest does American touristas were told to shelter in 502 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:51,360 Speaker 1: place for the second straight night. I gotta believe that 503 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:55,080 Speaker 1: the cartels don't see it to their benefit to have 504 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 1: the violent spill into the United States. There's no way 505 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,640 Speaker 1: that could help them, right. Sometimes that sort of stuff 506 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: happens accidentally. Sure, sure, but it wouldn't be a tactic. 507 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,640 Speaker 1: I wouldn't think, because there's a possibility that they can 508 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:18,480 Speaker 1: get their grip back on Mexico. It will be really, 509 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: really hard hard to rebuild a law and order has 510 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: the upper hand over the bad guys after decades of 511 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 1: it go in the direction it's been going. As we've 512 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: said many times, you give away the rule of law, 513 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: law and order, you will have to fight a war 514 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:39,960 Speaker 1: to get it back lefties decades or centuries. My final thought, 515 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:44,240 Speaker 1: this moment reminds me a little bit of brings to 516 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:48,160 Speaker 1: mind the moment in Iran. There's weak as there a 517 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,320 Speaker 1: level ever be. Is now the time for the big, 518 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 1: big move on the cartels? Yeah? Maybe, with the urging 519 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:01,840 Speaker 1: of the US government. Yeah, yeah, I don't think Mexico 520 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: is strong enough. Why wouldn't we get involved there? I mean, 521 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,120 Speaker 1: if we got involved down there in Venezuela, why wouldn't 522 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:10,000 Speaker 1: we get involved in Mexico right on our border, our 523 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 1: biggest trading partner. They're sending plenty of drugs in the 524 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 1: United States. I mean, you can use the that crisis 525 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:20,200 Speaker 1: as an emergency theory the same way, can't you. We 526 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 1: have not received in the tassion, We have not been 527 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:30,040 Speaker 1: invited to help them except providing intelligence. Besides, are you 528 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: going to put the no, I'm not going to say it. 529 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 1: B's o TG. I'm not going to say it in Mexico. Yeah, No, 530 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 1: Marines in Mexico fighting cartels. We didn't put boots on 531 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,560 Speaker 1: the ground in Uh well, I guess we did at 532 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: the very end when he took Maduro out. Yeah. Yeah, 533 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 1: and the discombobulator rays time to unleash that. Any thoughts 534 00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:53,680 Speaker 1: on that text line four one five two nine five KFTC. 535 00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: I need to apologize to what america is most beloved 536 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 1: shipping companies at some point later, as I believe I 537 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 1: bad mouthed them a couple of weeks ago, have an 538 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 1: apology to make. I'll get to that later. Yeah, one 539 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,560 Speaker 1: of America's giant shipping companies is the first out of 540 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,800 Speaker 1: the gate to sue over the tariff returns to oh Witch. 541 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,959 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so Katie, what should we know about this 542 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:18,520 Speaker 1: next clip? 543 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,479 Speaker 4: All right, this is a woman that is cold calling 544 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,280 Speaker 4: from a business and she screws up on the voicemail 545 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:25,160 Speaker 4: and realizes she. 546 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:33,760 Speaker 1: Can't go back. Hi, Danny, this is I'm so sorry. Hi. 547 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:38,880 Speaker 3: This is from Equinox and I have a complimentary session 548 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:39,240 Speaker 3: for you. 549 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:40,760 Speaker 1: So whenever you'd like to schedule. 550 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 3: Just give me a callback and either one of my 551 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,200 Speaker 3: managers that I will answer and we can help. 552 00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 1: You paraly delete this delete Okay, well I don't think 553 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:54,160 Speaker 1: I can. 554 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:54,840 Speaker 8: Delete it the police. 555 00:32:55,000 --> 00:33:00,160 Speaker 3: Just give me some human amount of grace, and if 556 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,480 Speaker 3: you would never want to come in, I completely understand. 557 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 1: Thank you. Hi what. 558 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:09,920 Speaker 4: Because now a lot of voicemails will allow you know, 559 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:11,800 Speaker 4: if you would like to delete this message and re 560 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:12,560 Speaker 4: record you know. 561 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no turning back. Oh she was so sad 562 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 1: at the end. Dude defeated. Yeah, if you just hate me, 563 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:30,320 Speaker 1: I understand, get it. Thanks, Wow, so f bomb. If 564 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:34,600 Speaker 1: you'll remember over Christmas vacation, I was traveling with the 565 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,320 Speaker 1: family and we were in New Orleans and somehow we 566 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 1: got to the airport to leave, and we all looked 567 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 1: at each other, who's got the big bag? I thought 568 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:43,200 Speaker 1: you had the big bag. None of us had the 569 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 1: big bag, because we had carry ons and then one great, 570 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 1: big giant bag that we had all of our stuff 571 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 1: in that we left at the hotel and it was 572 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 1: not enough time to go back to the hotel. So 573 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,880 Speaker 1: I called the hotel and the hotel says, not a 574 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:56,840 Speaker 1: big deal. People do it all the time, which made 575 00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:58,640 Speaker 1: me feel better. I wasn't the only person that had 576 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:00,520 Speaker 1: ever walked out of the room and left the bag behind. 577 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,560 Speaker 1: They said, we have a process for that. We we 578 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:06,080 Speaker 1: fed exit to you. Well, I wasn't gonna name the company. Uh, 579 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 1: it's not a company. It's like if you were if 580 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:11,480 Speaker 1: you're if uh, the person you used to be married 581 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:16,560 Speaker 1: to was hungry, you would and needed to be fed. 582 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:23,120 Speaker 1: I'm not tracking with you. You fed your ex anyway. Anyway, 583 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,720 Speaker 1: they lost my bag and uh, and I was pretty 584 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,120 Speaker 1: unhappy about it, and and I it took me forever 585 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:30,719 Speaker 1: to try to deal with it. You couldn't get a 586 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 1: hold of a human being. It was impossible. And then 587 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:34,279 Speaker 1: we just keep telling me, well, you need to talk 588 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,839 Speaker 1: to the shipper. I'm the shipper. Well did you ship it? Well, no, 589 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:39,880 Speaker 1: the hotel ship that. You need to talk to the shipper. 590 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:41,560 Speaker 1: I just talked to them. They said, I need to 591 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,759 Speaker 1: talk to you. I just was was one of those 592 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:45,680 Speaker 1: circle things. It was driving me crazy, and I and 593 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,920 Speaker 1: they and they kept saying, we don't know where it is. 594 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:49,600 Speaker 1: How do you not know where it is? There's a 595 00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,359 Speaker 1: tracking number. It was last at this place. Where did 596 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,080 Speaker 1: it go from there. Uh, you'll have to check the 597 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,319 Speaker 1: tracking on the website. I did check the tracking, got 598 00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,279 Speaker 1: the website. That's why I'm calling you. And it was 599 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,120 Speaker 1: just I couldn't get an answer from anybody anyway, and 600 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:03,960 Speaker 1: I assumed I'd never seen the back again. Oh and 601 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,920 Speaker 1: then if you want to get any of your stuff back, 602 00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,080 Speaker 1: I found this was really interesting. To make a claim 603 00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: to get any of the stuff back, you need to 604 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 1: show receipts. So if you have receipts for the bag, 605 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,160 Speaker 1: which was kind of expensive, do you have the receipt 606 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:20,520 Speaker 1: for the suitcase that you bought three years ago, or 607 00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,640 Speaker 1: the pair of shoes that you bought two years ago, 608 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,120 Speaker 1: or my genes for five years? But nobody has the 609 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,399 Speaker 1: receipts for this stuff. I mean, that's a hilarious thing 610 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:31,520 Speaker 1: to ask for, right, and which is a way of 611 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,160 Speaker 1: getting around I guess having to worry about the value 612 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,480 Speaker 1: of your thing, and I assumed I would never see 613 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,960 Speaker 1: it again. I asked chat GPT and they said, very 614 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,560 Speaker 1: unlikely you're ever going to get it back. In most cases, 615 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,919 Speaker 1: percentage wise, once it's lost, it's lost, which I'm wonder 616 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,040 Speaker 1: how that happens. You have a tracking number you know 617 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,640 Speaker 1: where it went. How do things just disappear like that? 618 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,839 Speaker 1: I guess when you're dealing with gazillion the volume being 619 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:59,759 Speaker 1: so high, But I think you'd have some idea where 620 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:01,480 Speaker 1: it was. Anyway, I got an email two days ago 621 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:02,799 Speaker 1: said we found it. It's on the way and it's 622 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,160 Speaker 1: going to be here today. Oh that's nice. Yeah, two 623 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,160 Speaker 1: months later, which is fine though. I'm happy to get 624 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,520 Speaker 1: my stuff back. I'm glad your X has had a 625 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:15,160 Speaker 1: nice nourishing kneal. It's no longer hungry. Right. Yes, So, 626 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,840 Speaker 1: a totally different company, FedEx, has filed lawsuit against the 627 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,440 Speaker 1: US seeking a refund of the tariffs. 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