WEBVTT - No One Wants A Long Eyeball 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:06.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:10.800 Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty arm Strong 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:25.479 and Jetty en he Armstrong and Yetty Nicholas Buduro had 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:30.400 his chance, just like Iron had their chance. Until they didn't, 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.839 and until he didn't. He left around and he found out. 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:40.080 What we've witnessed today is a powerful demonstration of America's 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:46.239 joint force. We think, we develop, we train, we rehearse, 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:51.760 we debrief, we rehearse again and again, not to get 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:56.240 it right, but to ensure that we cannot get it wrong. 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.520 Also, we haven't mentioned this yet today. New York Times 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:03.960 was their reporting on Sunday that we had somebody next 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.280 to Maduro. I mean, we had a mole in there, 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.600 knew where he was hour by hour all the time. 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:15.280 And so others have said, that's a good message to 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.039 send to Putin or various bad guys around the world. 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.760 Ayatola whoever, that we can get somebody really close to 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.920 you that knows exactly what's going on. 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:26.880 I'd like to know that raises a little paranoia among 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:28.160 the evildoers of the world. 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.680 Well haha, yeah, make some look around one. Oh but 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:32.240 it's him. I saw the way he looked at me 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.399 the other day at dinner. I'm gonna kill him super quick. 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.800 Note had a really enjoyable conversation with Mike Lyons about 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:40.640 this during hour two of the show to kick off 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.880 our two. If you missed it, you'll probably enjoy it. 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.280 Grab it via podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. You 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:49.280 ought to be subscribing that way, it downloads automatically. 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:54.080 I've seen the pictures of Trump in the what do 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.040 they call it, that room that they're in when these 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:56.760 things are happening. 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:01.360 Oh, the situation, the situation room. 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.400 I like that we've got a situation happening, which is 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:05.360 pretty big. 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.160 After the guy from Jersey Shore, Mike, the situation pretty 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.960 broad term because everything's the situation, but the situation. 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:15.280 It's a fair point. And Trump's sitting in there, Tylas 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.320 collar open, looking very stern faced. I'll bet he was, 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.960 because same as Obama with gett know, Osama bin Laden 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.400 or whatever. Man, these things go wrong, not only and 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.840 I imagine first and foremost your thoughts or geez, I 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:30.600 hope we don't have, you know, twenty marines die here 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:34.480 or something like that. But then just the political fallout 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:39.679 would be immense if that had been a disaster, right, yeah, yeah, 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:44.200 both are true. Oh, Zelensky over the weekend more or 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.000 less saying, how about, that's pretty cool what you did 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.399 there at the Maduro, But you try the putting there. 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.720 Yeah, a little different, different situation, but I see your point. 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:59.840 Ah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it could have been a disaster. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.320 And one of the main things we talked to Mike 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:07.120 Leines about was what a magnificent display it was of 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:10.440 American military might and coordination and prowess. 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:11.880 I reached out. 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.400 To a person I am close with, a career military fellow, 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.839 and expressed that in many words, and he responded back, 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.680 we can do some serious ass, I said, yours is 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.000 more concise than mine. We can like nobody else on earth. 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.920 But we certainly didn't to when we were leaving Afghanistan. 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:33.960 So why is that horrible leadership? That's what I'm wondering. 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.360 Was it just was a Biden? Was the people below him? 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.320 Was it just didn't plan? And the way they were 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.480 just talking about there were you plan and plan and 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.480 plan and plan or Yeah. 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:47.360 One of the things I learned later in life that 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.320 has to be taught to non military people. Is that 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:52.760 one of the most difficult things the military ever does 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:54.080 is withdraw or retreat. 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.400 Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure that's very, very hard. Yeah. 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.960 Yeah, And Joe Biden was a horrible president on virtual 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:05.960 every level. So we heard General Cain there, Dan Raisin Caine. 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.640 It's such a good nickname. I hesitate to use it 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.840 because everybody uses it all the time, including our commander 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.680 in chief. But his descriptions during the news conference of 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.480 how the raid unfolded to me were just riveting. 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.080 Jackie. Mind if we jump into that now, let's start 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:21.919 with fifty two Michael. 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:27.120 This was an audacious operation that only the United States 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:31.800 could do. It required the utmost of precision and integration 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:36.479 within our joint force, and the word integration does not 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:41.400 explain the sheer complexity of such a mission, an extraction 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:45.320 so precise. It involved more than one hundred and fifty 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:50.960 aircraft launching across the Western hemisphere in close coordination, all 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:56.279 coming together in time and place to layer effects for 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:01.200 a single purpose to get an interdiction force into downtown 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:05.560 Caracas while maintaining the element of tactical surprise. 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.159 I mean, that's I had no guess if you'd ask 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.520 me to guess how many planes or aircraft were involved. 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:16.200 I'd ha said, I don't know eight, Or if you're 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.960 trying to be extravagant, you might have said thirty, but 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:21.360 I wouldn't have been able to come up with why 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.200 you need thirty one hundred and fifty. Yeah. Yeah. He 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.520 goes on describing how it unfolded as. 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:31.400 A helicopter force ingress towards the objective at low level. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:36.200 We arrived at Maduro's compound at one one am Eastern 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:40.440 Standard time or two to one am Caraccas local time, 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:45.400 and the apprehension force descended into Maduro's compound and moved 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:51.039 with speed, precision, and discipline towards their objective and isolated 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.039 the area to ensure the safety and security of the 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:57.880 ground force while apprehending the indicted persons. 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:02.679 As Mike Lyons describes so beautifully, the wave of aircrafted whoops, 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:05.680 there goes your defenses. Yeah, and now your power's out. 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:07.760 Oh there's your cordon of security. 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:08.640 Goodbye, fellas. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.480 And just coordinating then with the special forces both Army 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:17.800 and Navy, and just a crazy level of coordinated forces 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:19.400 that I guess we're the best in the world at 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:20.080 thank God. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.800 Yeah. So Mike Lions did say, and you should listen 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:25.279 to that segment if you have any interest in this 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.880 sort of thing. But he said the same thing that 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:31.360 that guy with the cool nickname just said. Our ability 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.520 to coordinate our various branches is what separates us from 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.400 the rest of the world, and that I don't know 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.080 anything about, but I'll take their word for it. Yeah. 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.520 Yeah, The more I hear about that, the more I 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.600 understand how incredibly important that isn't how impressive we are 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:45.880 at it. 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.760 Hey, Michael, I need your vote on this. Dan. Mike 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:54.400 needs a great nickname too, Mike Roaring Lions. Oh wow, 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:55.039 that's too much. 0:06:55.520 --> 0:07:03.680 Mike's great, Mike the Mighty Lions, Mike a pride of No, 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:07.400 that's just obscure and showing off my knowledge of groups 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:08.560 of animals. 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.520 Working on it. I mean, the guy's name is Lions. 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:14.240 That's true. 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.640 Goodness sakes, we got to be able to come up with, 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:19.160 you know, a good one. 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.720 So Maduro is going to appear in court. He gave 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.840 the thumbs up. I think he just did or he 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:30.920 did whatever. Today. He's in court today past tense or 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:35.440 or or present or freature. He will be in court today. 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.400 But the other day when he got arrested in there, 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.680 purple walking and everything like, he gave the two thumbs 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:41.640 up to the camera. Well what is that all about? 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:43.400 What are you give a thumbs up for? Dude? I mean, 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:48.720 he's key, he's an optimist. I'd say, you're cool. I 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.560 get to do whatever I want all the time. Life 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.200 has just gone one hundred and eighty degrees the other direction. Yeah, 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.160 you're not executed, which he may be. He may get 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:00.160 the death penalty. I was surprised to see you. 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.520 Flew first class, at least that's what I'm guessing, because 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.960 that picture that the administration put out he had eye shades, 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.440 which I assume were complimentary, and and the good headphones, 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.240 not like dopey little earplugs, but like the good headphones 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:13.840 they had him in. 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.440 So that must have been a comfortable flight for him. 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.320 And we don't usually grab the wife, but we grabbed 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.400 the wife in this case too, because she is a 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:22.080 full on. 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:26.520 Accomplice co conspirator. Yeah, and there she was, why not 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:27.200 snatch her up? 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:29.840 But well, you wouldn't normally write you go and you 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.320 get somebody, I mean, shoot bin Laden's old lady on 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:34.480 person on purpose. 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:36.959 No, not unless she reached for a weapon, which I 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.160 think she did, or used her as a human shield 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:43.920 or something. Anyway, she'll be missed. Uh So the question though, 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.800 is what the hell now? Oh? 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:51.120 Yeah, yeah, and Trump saying we run Venezuela. I mean 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.440 he said that like an hour later or something like that. 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:58.199 We now we're going to run the country until there's 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:02.360 a judicious transition. Yeah, we're in charge of Venezuela. And 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.959 everybody in the world, I think, said, what what does 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.839 that mean? Yeah, how's that going to work? Exactly? 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.160 It was perhaps the greatest end We're gonna take control, 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.040 YadA YadA, YadA, the greatest YadA YadA anna in the 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:20.680 history of geopolitics. Now it's become more clear and we 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.400 could probably play some of Marco Rubio on the various touchdowns. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:27.080 He also said over the weekend that because we have 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:31.240 simultaneously happening, an even bigger event going on in Iran, 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.920 because they've got protests all across the country and people 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.840 are tearing down posters of the Iyahtola and defacing government 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:39.960 buildings in a way that they've never been able to 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.920 get away with it. I mean, it's really got that Okay, 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:47.200 this is different. Wall coming down in Germany or Soviet 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.280 Union look to him, Arab Spring looked to it. I mean, 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.320 people are getting away with stuff they've never gotten away 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.960 with before and got you almost have to assume that 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:58.959 the security forces have decided not to shoot him down 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:01.320 or what. And then there's New York Times saying the 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.560 Ayahtola and h the closest people to him, have plans 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.240 to get out of the country if they need to 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.120 in the next couple of days. But I had a 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.319 point that the reason I brought up in Iran. Whatever 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.640 oh Trump said over the weekend about Iran, he said, 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:17.319 if they start killing protesters, We're we're going to protect them, 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.640 And I thought, Okay, how are we going to do that? Yeah, 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:21.439 what does that mean? 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.440 I've got to admit I haven't been paying enough attention 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.400 to the Iran situation just because I've been so I've 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.400 long been a hardcore we need to be more activist 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:34.240 inan our hemisphere guy, and so I'm really interested in 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.280 the Venezuela thing and where I might go. But you're right, 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.240 that's a huge story. There are two choices. Either there 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.840 is going to be a terrible terrible blood bath at 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.040 the hands of the security, for which Trump is vowed 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.080 We're not gonna let happen, or this is the beginning 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.560 of the end of the regime. Those are really the 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.720 only two choices. Oh yeah, I can't think of some others, 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:55.280 but those are the two main choices. 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.040 Yeah, which would be huge. 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.080 One final thought for now on the Venezuela deal, because 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:05.760 oh the president, let's go ahead, Michael play I just 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:09.800 was looking at it a second ago that there is 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:11.439 a sixty sixty place. 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.640 The next question is who's in charge of Venezuela right now? 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:18.840 Have you spoken to the newly swarned president there, Rob Riguz, 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.480 and what are your thoughts on the entire situation. 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:22.800 We're dealing with the people. 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.000 We're dealing with the people they just got sworn in, 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.720 And don't ask me what's in charge, because. 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.680 I'll give you an answer and it'll be very contulation. 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:33.320 Does that mean it's. 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.920 We're in charge? So we're in charge? 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.240 And it became more and more clear as Marco Rubio 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:40.880 made the rounds on the Sunday shows, and maybe we 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:42.439 can sprinkle some of that in the rest of the hour, 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.920 but it became clear that the plan is, Look, we 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:46.920 are going to tell them what we need them to do, 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.079 and if they resist or defy us, We're going to 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.600 put a terrible, terrible hurting on them. It's not regime change, 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:58.840 it's not democracy. It's not Ms Machado, the Nobel Prize, 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:04.160 Peace Prize winner, nor her appointed successor when she got 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.480 banned from the ballots who won the election, by the way, 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.880 So there are a whole lot of big, giant question marks. 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.520 But I had this thought, and I want to squeeze 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.240 it in because I keep forgetting to one thing that 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.000 was completely lost, especially during the Biden years. And Obama 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.200 was like this too to some extent. And this is 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.600 true in life as well as foreign policy. Sometimes the 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:31.720 most insane gamble you can make, the most wild, out there, 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:36.000 ill advised plan you can follow, is to do nothing. 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:40.360 Yeah, I know, and that Barack Obama definitely didn't understand that. 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:44.199 The whole don't do stupides. Doing nothing sometimes is the 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:45.920 stupidest freaking thing you could do. 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:52.480 Right, It's the wild gamble, but in action looks like 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.680 not a wild gamble, So people don't understand that. But letting, 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.920 for instance, China especially, and Iran and Russia have a 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.560 beachhead right across the newly renamed Gulf of America from 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:07.760 US in Venezuela. That would have been the wildly stupid 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.440 doing nothing strategy. And I'm glad it's over. Where it goes, 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.200 nobody knows, but I'm glad it's over. 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.360 I found the tweet from Trump about Iran. We'll get 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.280 to that later because that's a heck of a thing 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:19.560 if he's plans to back it up. Anyway, we got 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:25.560 lots of other stuff to talk about Tuesday here, So 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:27.480 I Jack did a lot of traveling over the two 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.640 weeks we are off with my kids. We did two 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.880 nights in San Francisco, three nights in New Orleans, and 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:36.680 three nights in Wichita, Kansas for a family get together. 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:41.480 Lots of hotel rooms, lots of flights, a million restaurant meals, 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:45.920 and eight thousand Uber rides. Oh wow, by the way, 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.319 everybody kept out. And I was telling people I was 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:49.840 going to New Orleans. They said, Oh, You're gonna love 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:51.600 the food there, and I'm not a foodie. I don't 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.600 care that much about food. Holy crap, was the food 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:56.640 good there? First trust we went to I got the 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:01.200 sampler platter and their jumble line, had their gumbo, had 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.760 their crawfits somethwhere other and had their red beans and rice. 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.640 That was the best plate of food I've ever had 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.160 in my life. In my life. Oh my god, that 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.559 was good. Holy yeah, yeah, I love that style. Oh 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:17.000 I could eat that every single day. But here's a 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:20.000 story that disappeared from veg. You gotta move down there, 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:21.760 and move down there and get bigger, a fat and 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.240 wear a white suit and sweat a lot. Oh that 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:27.080 sounds great. You know, I had no idea gets cold 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.200 in New Orleans. It just, you know, I just didn't 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.400 know that if, like, if we had gotten hired in 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.080 New Orleans, I thought, oh wow, cool, I guess I 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:35.840 get rid of all my coats. I didn't know it 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:39.400 got cold there. It was twenty five degrees with a 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.760 wind chill while we were there walking around the first 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.840 day twenty five, the high was like thirty eight. I 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:47.840 didn't know got that cold. Anyway, there's news to you 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:51.040 if you ever go take a winter coat on the 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.040 They're having the Sugar Bowl there at the super Dome, 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.600 so everybody in town was there for the college football game, 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:57.880 and it was very festive you add that to New 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.640 Year's even I guess New Orleans is always FESTI probably. 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.840 But here's a story that got obliterated by the news 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:08.960 were broadcast were on in San Francisco. When we broadcast 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:14.760 sixty miles from San Francisco. I went to San Francisco. Uh, 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.440 when was it? Right after Christmas? Right before Christmas? And 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.400 I hadn't even heard this story because I kind of 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:24.200 was on a news blackout. The electricity went off in 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:29.320 San Francisco for the entire day, the Saturday before Christmas. 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.640 That's crazy, the busiest shopping day they have in one 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.640 of the most Christmasy cities in America, and it is 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.080 very Christmas is very, very cool. The electricity went off 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.160 over the whole city, and I thought, one, how did 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.600 this not make the news? And two my first thought 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.400 all these of this stuff was was this the Chinese 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.720 trying to see if they could work? And by the way, 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:53.440 the official story was there was a fire at one 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.280 of the power stations from PG and E. Nobody I 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.920 talked to believe that. Nobody, not one person even kind 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.560 I've took that as an explanation for while all the 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.440 electricity went down in the whole city for an entire 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:07.760 day and for parts of the city for multiple days. 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.320 But they're just trying to limit the panic all bit. Yeah, 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.280 but uh, this is what it's like if this the 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.240 electricity goes off in a big city, and I hope 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.440 we don't ever find out because the Chinese get involved 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:22.240 in it. First of all, everybody sat around in the 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.520 restaurants and bars and the shopping ball saying, well, we'll 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.720 come back on, and then you ate a little longer, 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.360 Then you ate a little longer, doesn't come back on. 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:30.720 Then you realize you can't get your car out of 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.560 the parking garage because the things don't go up or down. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:37.520 Then you realize that the way Mos all are confused 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:39.600 because there are no traffic lights and are sitting at 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:43.360 every street, blocking off every street in the entire city. 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:47.000 Nobody could go anywhere the entire day. People just walked 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:48.880 out of restaurants without paying because there was no way 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.560 to pay. Cell phone towers are outs, nobody could communicate 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.280 with anybody. With the Waymos down, you could everybody was 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.480 just walking around wondering what we're supposed to do for 0:16:56.520 --> 0:17:00.400 the whole day. That's right. 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.840 That is a weapon that could be wielded the ability 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:08.800 to bring a major city to paralysis like that. 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.720 That's a little scary. God, I would say, so you 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.280 can buy Nowli so dependent on our technology, we really 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.360 really are. Okay, a lot more on the way, stay here, 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:20.399 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:25.000 An emotional tribute in Switzerland where hundreds of people held 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.280 a silent memorial march to honor at least forty people 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.320 killed at a barfire on New Year's Eve. It happened 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.639 at a Swiss ski resort in the Alps. More than 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:37.360 one hundred people were injured. Authority say that the victims 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:39.480 were as young as fourteen years old. 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:46.479 Forty people died at a ski lodge, Swiss ski lodge. 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:48.560 You don't expect that at a fancy place they had. 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:52.840 Somebody came up with this stupid idea to put flaming 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:57.960 sparklers on the champagne bottles, and everybody thought that was cool, 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.440 and it caught the place on fire and killed four people. 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:04.080 I'm reminded of that horrific fire where it was that 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.760 the band Great White was playing a number of years ago. Yeah, 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:10.040 and all those people died because the pyrotechnics in the show. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:14.000 Look if next time somebody proposes, Hey, you know what 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:17.359 we ought to do indoors is have some fireworks. You know, 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:20.200 just ought to be rejected out of hand. 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.359 Yeah. Another interesting aspect on it, and a lot of 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:25.640 people picked up on, were all the videos that ended 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:30.000 up coming out place catches on fire and everybody gets 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.520 their phone out. Instead of immediately running for the door, 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.040 they get their phone out to try to capture the 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.520 moment because we all think we need to do that 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:41.480 no matter what's going I think, and we'll get a 0:18:41.480 --> 0:18:44.439 bunch of clicks. Make your number one priority getting the 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:48.199 hell out of a burning building. Yeah, wow, that is 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:49.040 It's funny. 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:53.120 It's I read a piece that made a big impression 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.000 on me that was talking about people are turning their 0:18:56.000 --> 0:19:00.000 lives into Internet slop slop being the sort of content 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.160 and you just scroll right through because I mean, it's 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.960 it's fine, but it's not of any significance. And that's 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.920 like an extreme example of, oh, something happening in my life. 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.600 My first thought is I will post this for clicks 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:16.480 et cetera, or likes or what have you, even to 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:19.360 the point of ignoring that you're in mortal danger. 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.800 Yeah, now wild Yeah, different topic a couple of sports 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.120 notes for you. In the NFL, if you're an NFL fan, 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:32.639 your number one Seeds Seahawks in the NFC, Broncos in THEFC. 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:34.919 Those are the two teams that get home field all 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.520 the way through and there you go. Playoffs start this weekend. 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:42.600 It'll be fun. In college girls basketball, first seven foot 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:47.760 or ever? Wow? Texas Tech signed a seven to one 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:54.320 woman all drink of water. Yeah. Stephanie aka Chukwu. Wow, 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:56.639 she's got legs just like I like him up to 0:19:56.680 --> 0:20:00.240 my chin? Is she Chinese? I don't know that'd be 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:04.880 interesting since yuh, your expert pronunciation of her last name 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:10.320 left me wondering this. She perhaps African, but the tallest 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.800 guy in the NBA before Wenby came along was from 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:15.040 China also, So I just I get so many tall 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.919 people are what's going on? Somebody look into that? 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.040 Well, there's like a billion and a half people and 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:24.400 cruel experiments on military human farms. 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:31.080 Did you follow this story? Mom? Donnie's Hitler salute, which 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:34.080 didn't get covered at all? Right, and they I only 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:36.480 bring this up because it's really everything you need to 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:39.240 know about taking in the news. So he gives his 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:41.520 speech the other night where he talks about communism and 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:44.879 collectivism and everything like that, and then he does more 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:47.400 of a Hitler salute. It wasn't a Hitler salute. He's 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:49.199 just waving to the crowd or putting his arm in 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:51.800 the air. But it was closer to a Hitler salute 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:56.000 than like any I've ever seen, right, including Elon Musk's 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:59.359 non Hitler salute. Hitler salon. That's the point. So, I like, 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:02.560 whoever post this. Here are the news networks who have 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:08.840 not covered Zoran Mundani's salute. New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, MSNBC, NBR, 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:13.000 USA Today, Reuters, Axios, and ABC News. Every single one 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:18.359 of them had multiple stories about Elon Musk's salute, multiple 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:21.600 stories about Elon Musk when he put his hand in 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:23.520 the air at the So, I mean, that's all you 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:26.280 need to know, isn't it. That's also question the power. 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:30.000 Yep, it's so annoying truth telling business at all. 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:34.160 Yeah, for something that actually does matter. I was up 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:36.200 what night was it is? Two days ago? Three days 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:39.000 ago now, So it's like Saturday night when the Venezuela 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:41.600 thing had happened and the Iran thing was happening at 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:44.680