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It's Fine. 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:06.160 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:07.640 Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:10.280 Jack Armstrong and Jo Getty. 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:17.680 I'm strong and getting and no key, I'm strong and yetty. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:27.600 As a helicopter force ingress towards the objective at low level. 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:30.040 We arrived at Maduro's. 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:34.360 Compound at one one am Eastern Standard time or two 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:38.440 to oh one am Caracas local time, and the apprehension 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:43.720 force descended into Maduro's compound and moved with speed, precision, 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:48.199 and discipline towards their objective and isolated the area to 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:51.920 ensure the safety and security of the ground force while 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.080 apprehending the indicted persons. 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:58.120 So how old is Maduro? 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:04.040 I gotta think he get woken up from a sound sleep, 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:10.040 and there's a bunch of you know, US super secret 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:14.000 Special Forces Special Forces dudes with guns and flashlights and 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:14.640 stuff in your face. 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:16.399 Takes a while to get your bearings. 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:19.040 You got to have at least one thought that, wow, 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.959 this is a weird dream. He's sixty three. Yeah, it 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.679 take me a little while to se I had some 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.760 pice of food last night. What's going on here? 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:28.160 Right right? 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:34.880 Well? General Caine there describing the critical kind of uh, 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.839 you know, the climactic moments of the raid and coming 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:43.320 across Maduro. We skipped past where he helps us understand 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:47.680 the incredible complexity and sophistication of the operation and for 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.320 that analysis, what a pleasure it is for the first 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.440 time of the year to talk to military analyst Mike 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:57.080 Lyons about this awesome, awesome demonstration of American capability. Mike, 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.000 how are you, sir? Do you have a good holiday season? 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:01.800 Guys? Happy New Year? And yes, it's had a great 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:03.800 highlight season and what a way to start the year 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:04.240 for sure. 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:04.560 Yeah. 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.920 I was really digging your Twitter feed in the middle 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.440 of the night the other night, following your your analysis 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:09.560 of that. 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:10.360 It was what happened. 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.760 So thanks, Yeah, you know, just watching this, you know, 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.480 here's to me, it's the biggest issue. For months, I'd 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.200 been talking to former special operators and other people in 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:22.480 the military trying to figure out what are we doing 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.720 in the Caribbean right Obviously we're projecting power blowing up 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.320 drug boats and the like there, and we all thought 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.880 that this mission was going to be impossible. I mean, 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.880 for us to go in kinetically take out Maduro, it 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.280 would mean an invasion for US. I kept saying, well, 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.040 nothing's going to happen because the Army's not in the 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.840 game yet. And you know, the only I can think 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:42.120 of it was like you're sitting on a desert island, 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.600 you got a can without a can opener, and you're 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:45.680 not going to eat, and then all of a sudden, 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:47.440 the next day the cans open and now you're gonna 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.480 be able to eat. I mean, the level of from 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:53.639 an operational perspective was so complex and just just incredible, 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.200 and from a competency perspective, And I still have the 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.840 scars from the nineteen eighties with you know, Desert One 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:02.840 and what happened there and the ashes that took place there. 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:08.800 So I can't reiterate just how incredibly amazing this mission 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.760 was and the complexity of it. One hundred and fifty aircraft, 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.880 no casualties in and out two and a half hours. 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:16.760 You couldn't write a script that said it would go 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:17.519 as as you said. 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.240 One hundred and fifty aircraft. 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.040 Yeah, help us understand what kind of aircraft and what 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.240 were they doing for we layman, Just give us the 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.600 broad outlines of the complexity of the operation. 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.480 So all the levers of forces that we have in 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.640 power where we're applied here aircraft that took out their 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:40.520 air defense systems, drones, monitoring surveillance, helicopters, shuttling in the 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.480 seventy fifth Rangers. You know, this was if you had 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.800 to give a visual, it's kind of like Blackhawk down 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.640 back in the nineties, that failure of a mission, unfortunately. 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:52.160 But you know the fact that we had the Rangers 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.280 in there protecting the strike force, which is the Delta 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.320 guys that go in and extract people like this, this 0:03:58.360 --> 0:03:59.800 is their mission, and we know that they ended up 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.960 practicing this for months before they had a set up 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.160 and they had done this. I'm still surprised that Maduro 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.080 didn't have thirty thousand troops surrounding him. I mean, given 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.040 the fact that you know, he knew the United States 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.520 was going after him. So it still is just incredible 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.720 about those those soldiers getting in. But every single one 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.800 of those aircraft had a mission either bringing troops in, 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:26.400 gathering surveillance, taking out targets. Just a real high combination. 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.680 And you notice General Kane kept talking about the Joint Force. 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.360 The Joint Force that is the difference between US and 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:33.720 every other military out there. This is why the Russians 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:35.320 are wallowing a novacane in Ukraine. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:35.560 Right. 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:39.719 They can't jointly bring all their forces together to make 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.920 to attack something and move forward with They don't combine 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.039 air power with ground power and ISR. They just go 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:47.839 one at a time. But in this case, the United 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.840 States is able to take with interagency, take all of 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:54.359 these levers of power and bring them together and create 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:58.120 this incredible fist that can take anybody out that we choose. 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:02.440 To give me an idea of how oh risky this 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.239 would have been, Like if you do it ten times, 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:06.560 are you successful eight times? Or do would you have 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:07.159 any guests on? 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:07.360 Then? 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.680 Well that's why we all sat around and said this 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.080 just wasn't gonna happen. It wasn't even a kind of 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.400 a course of action. And I was talking to guys 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.240 that if the highest levels of jay Sock and you 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:19.919 know that that had been in that spot, they just 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.719 thought it was going to be just too difficult. The 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:27.080 element of surprise, just maintaining that that alone was a 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.640 factor that just was incredible. And then the weather played, 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:32.560 I mean, the D Day type invasion is what we 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.360 all thought. We thought that, yeah, if they thought they 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.839 would move twenty to twenty five thousand troops or so, 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.160 and because we thought they'd had to get an egress 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:42.560 point in, but they were able to take out any 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.960 of the air defense systems. So the other thing this does, 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.040 too is that it shows that once again the total 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:51.440 crap of Russian military equipment, because that's what's been surrounding 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:53.880 Venezuela when it comes to their air defense system. So 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:55.480 the essay three hundred you might as well put in 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.960 the museum right now because anybody who has it is 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:00.559 never going to use it again because the United States 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.520 just blew right by it. So we take out the 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.280 air defense platforms, we take out their systems, and then 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.640 we've shut the power off in the country. I mean again, 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.159 there's no other country in the world that can do this. 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.920 But to say that you wouldn't expect a casualty, or 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:16.080 you wouldn't expect something to go wrong, very unlikely. In 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:18.400 this case. Eight out of ten times something else would 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.960 go wrong. You have the expectation commanders expect losses. You 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:22.640 have then expectation you lose something. 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:24.640 Right, Yeah, miraculous success. 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.960 I was struck by General Kin saying we rehearse this 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.320 over and over and over again. Not so that we 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.560 could get it right, but so that it couldn't go wrong. Now, 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:38.159 obviously fate and God intervened, but that that's that's a 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:42.960 philosophy that we civilians don't I hadn't heard articulated in 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:43.760 that way before. 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.560 Yeah, that's the result of Desert one and the fact 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.599 that you have to plan. When when I was on 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.640 ACTI duty, we said, with the planning gets slimed, right, 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.320 what's going to happen to us along the way, And 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.760 you have to plan for every one of those contingencies, 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:00.000 rehearse them so their second nature, so you know exactly 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.159 what to do. It's that your playbook, checklist mentality that 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:07.800 the military has military trains for that. Within our military 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.400 because of this thing called commander's intents. Right, I'm watching 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:13.800 people try to say, oh, the soldiers are these sailors, 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.960 they don't know where're going. You know, we're invading Venezuela. 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.320 None of that. Everybody got the mission. Everybody knew what 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.720 the mission was. Get in, get out, extra extra streate 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.800 the guy, get him in and out. Everybody knows commander's intent. 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:26.840 And that's what's another thing that makes our military work 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:28.200 better than everybody else's. 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:31.520 Well, as you're talking to some of your friends who've 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:35.160 been there, done that, with regime change and nation building 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.880 and everything, is there some concern that we're going to 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:41.920 have boots on the ground trying to keep Venezuela a 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:43.760 stable place for a certain amount of time. 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.320 I don't think so. This is not a rock We 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.000 don't have one hundred thousand troops there. This was not 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.640 an invasion, and it's also not regime change. Their constitution 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.040 has put their vice president, Elsea Rodriguez now in charge, 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.280 and we've given her the message you're either going to 0:07:58.280 --> 0:07:59.560 play ball or not. And if you're not going to 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.200 play ball, you might find yourself in a pair of 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.000 white tennis shoes and a Nike jumpsuits sitting in the 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:06.240 back of a Special Forces helicopter here if you don't 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.160 play ball. And the thing about it is, this is 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.800 what we want to do. Were taking control, taking control 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:16.760 of three hundred billion barrels of reserve crude oil in 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.360 our hemisphere, not allowing the Chinese, by the way, the 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.720 Uranians that had already built a drone facility manufacturing drones 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:28.240 in Venezuela. The Chinese are taking their oil. The Russians 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.480 and the military. This is long overdue to take care 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.679 of this situation right now. I mean, this is, this 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.120 has been so this will be so pivotabal for our 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.559 country and from from a generational perspective, and how we've 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:41.640 reset the world and reset the economy and the any 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:43.679 energy market in particular, it's fantastic. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.720 I'm we're talking to military analyst Mike Lyons. Mike I 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.880 mentioned earlier in the show that you almost have to 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:52.319 compartmentalize each part of this because you always want to 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.800 leap to the next part, and you kind of did, 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:58.240 which is a great discussion, and I'm a little mystified 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.640 by this. The upper was amazing, and there's a demonstration 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.120 of American power. I think it will echo around the 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:10.960 globe and it should. But going forward, can we exercise 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.520 Lever's power effectively enough to get what we need out 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.160 of the Venezuelan regime given the fact that they are 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:19.560 still what they were and this this Galo's in charge 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:23.160 now is a hardcore Maduroite socialist. 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:27.600 Well we're gonna find out. And she controls the military 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.240 right now, and he's basically said we'd come back in 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.200 if we had to, So We're going to let this 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.120 thing stew for a little bit. Again, it's not been 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:38.400 regime changed right now, it's just different person running the country. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.960 Right now. I've got confidence that we'll put enough pressure 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.000 on them. We will then start to take over the 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:48.000 petroleum assets and where they actually pump oil from, and 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:49.880 we'll do all we'll do all those kinds of things, 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.320 which is what we're trying to do here. We're trying 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.320 to get to I think, so for example, this this 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:59.320 administration that Trump's was not keen about restoring Machado. That 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.600 was the ind of Jual won the Nobel Peace Prize 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:04.280 from uh this last year and. 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.280 Was he already won the left election right right. 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.360 But this but real politic on the ground. She doesn't 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.720 control anything, you know, it's right now, this is hardcore 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:18.360 human nature. Who controls the military? This is for you know, 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:22.160 grown ups. This is not for you know, theoretical people 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.280 that are running the government. She's got no legitimacy. Unfortunately, 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:26.920 I hate to say it like that, but she doesn't 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.120 to run the government. So we're gonna give this person, 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.960 Rodriguez a chance because she does control the military and 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.800 the oil. We're gonna cut a deal with her. I'm sure, 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.319 and we'll move this. We'll move this down the road. 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.959 And if we do it, this is again trumped with leverage. 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.840 He is the leverage meister, getting leverage of oil right now. 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.520 The fact that we have this control now over there 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:50.120 oil puts Canada on notice, China onnoticed. China might not 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.560 be able to invent in made Taiwan now they only 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.640 have twenty five billion barrels in reserve. They might not 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.040 have the energy to do it now. So there's so 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:02.199 much leverage that was gained by this operation that without 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.720 even a casualty being gone, I just can't talk about 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:05.160 it so much. 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.600 So if this gal doesn't come around, we snatch her 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.680 up and then the person after her, and before long, 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.520 it's like being the head of isis you know the 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.040 first thing you do when you get the job is 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:14.040 you're right your will? 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:15.160 Yeah right. 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.280 You know what's funny was they got asked the question 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.000 like Marco Ruby got asked the question over the weekend 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:21.800 about why did you just take him? Why didn't you 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:23.920 take all his other henchmen. It's like, do you not 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.600 get do you not hear yourself? I mean, that was 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.440 the mission of getting that one person, which is the person. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.440 So again it's all done legally too, which is really 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.520 why we go in there in the first place, under 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.600 this guise of you know, getting him from legally from 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.400 a drug perspective. No, you can't argue against it. 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:41.680 Again. 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:42.080 You know, the. 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.120 Democrats wanted him out five years ago. They just didn't 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:46.600 have the nerve to do what we did. 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:52.280 Military analyst Mike Lines, Yeah, Marco gave a fine spank 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:53.640 into Margaret Brennan. 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:55.240 We enjoyed that. 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.320 I wanted to ask you this before we let you go. 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:01.520 I purposely went to New Orleans over vacation just to 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.040 go to the World War II Museum. 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:04.319 I assume you've been there before. 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:08.280 I have amazing It's just, you know, the story you know, 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.760 starts in the that real car and you walk through. 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:13.800 That's the most amazing museum I've ever been to anywhere 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:14.520 in the world. 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:16.560 Absolutely incredible, and. 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.680 A lot of presents there, and just the sacrifice is 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.280 made and we just should never forget and we're getting 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.560 further from that generation. 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My classmate actually is one 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.800 of the directors there, works down there and they hold 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.440 nice events there, but just the historical what they've captured 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:33.280 there is just amazing. 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.000 Well we'll tell them I'm impressed. 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.040 Yeah, yeah, I want to hear more about that from you, 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:39.480 Jack as well, Mike Liones. 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:40.960 Mike, thanks so much for the time. 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.240 Great to talk to you, great guys, Thanks for having 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:43.880 me all. 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:44.559 Right, our pleasure. 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:46.960 Yeah, oh man, is this an exciting time of the 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.240 year and where you've got to get involved in Price Picks. 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.079 We have got the brackets all set up. 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:52.720 For everything, and you know, we know how it's going 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.160 to play out somewhat at least who's going to play, 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.120 So the price picks up today. 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.480 Right, It's good to be right. 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I hope 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:14.200 you can join us. 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:22.240 By the way, the text line four one kftcy. 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.920 My resolution for this year, if my plan is to 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:27.440 have seventy five dollars automatically deducted from my checking account 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:28.320 every month. 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.120 Without ever going to the gym at all, not even 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:30.640 the first time. 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.520 You could do that, Yeah, absolutely could do that. 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.560 I will be going to the gym today, having just 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.280 gotten back from vacation yesterday, and I'm sure it will 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.320 be jam packed off people in brand new workout clothes. 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.280 Oh yeah, yeah, I'll be wearing my old workout clothes. 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.080 But I too will be burning some calories, which is 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.920 badly needed. Again, if I was a state fair hog, 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.920 the vacation went great. Really looking at a ribbon this year, 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.240 but I'm not. You see, as of yesterday you were 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.600 up six from before Thanksgiving. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.960 That's pretty impressive. Yeah, well that's one word for it. Yes, yes, 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.000 it'll kill me anyway. 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:07.800 Nice. 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.160 Thank God for the new stretchy fabrics that the American 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:12.440 science has developed. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.840 Right that's that's a good way to make lemonade out 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:16.720 of lemons, right there. 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.720 But we live in a time with stretchy pants, right 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.920 what night? And it's American ingenuity. Oh, speaking of which, 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.440 I came across this. You know this, jack, All social 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.800 issue polling needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Okay, 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:34.800 And that's true of this too. But the arch Bridge Institute, 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:38.600 which I'm judging from the writing style of their chief 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:43.400 operating officer, is a patriotic outfit at conservative outfit. But 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:45.560 they did a bunch of polling on the American Dream 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.760 and it came whatever that means. And that's one of 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:57.560 the great, you know, dishonest journalistic topics of our time 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.640 is they just kind of assume the America can dream 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.360 means whatever they want it to for the premise of 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:07.320 their story, and then they declare that it's dead or 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.520 people think it's dead or whatever. But then when you 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:11.520 get down to wait a minute, how do you define 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.680 the American Dream? You think that's a stupid definition. I 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:19.800 don't think that's what I mean by it anyway. They asked, Well, 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.360 first they said about seventy percent of Americans in their 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.760 poll believe they have achieved or are on their way 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:28.960 to achieving the American Dream. But more significantly, I think 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.480 they asked them, what do you think that phrase means? 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:35.760 What do you value about life when you talk about 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:39.200 the American Dream? And freedom of choice? In how to live? 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:43.520 Was the number one answer, eighty three percent. I want 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:45.240 to live the life I choose. 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:50.480 That's pretty good definition. That's a great definition I've always 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:50.960 gone with. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.480 If you work hard and follow the rules, you can 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.600 get ahead. Now a lot of people deny that. I 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:58.560 still believe it's true. Oh you're a fool if you 0:16:58.640 --> 0:16:59.120 deny that. 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.800 I mean you are definitely part of the times you're 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:06.080 living in. Sometimes are easier than others, sometimes are harder 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:09.680 than others. Sometimes your skill set, which is valuable yesterday, 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.879 isn't as valuable today. But what is the alternative, you know, 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.040 the warm embrace of collectivism? 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.360 Good lord? Yeah, anyway, having a. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.600 Good family life was also very, very high on the 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:25.760 list at eighty percent. Only fifteen percent said becoming wealthy, 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.920 whatever that means, is essential to achieving the American dream. 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:29.919 Happy to hear that. 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.560 And contrary to the narratives of declining opportunity, just twenty 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.359 three percent of Americans believe they have less opportunity than 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:41.080 their parents did. And again, this is all, you know, 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:46.520 debatable and interesting, but they also point, and one of 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:48.760 the main points of this article is that they saw 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:53.920 over and over again that Americans, real Americans, not journalists, 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.760 not talking heads on cable TV, really are fond of 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:01.880 their country. To Americans, view the US as a key 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:05.679 driver of global progress leadership. They believe this is a 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:07.880 country of optimism and possibility. 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.760 All those things are true. Don't let anybody talk you 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:13.119 out of it. Look at the new Joe bringing the sunshine. 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:17.280 How long will this last? Critics want to know Armstrong 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:17.879 and Getty. 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:34.040 Okay, so that's free Maduro, Free him now Portland protesters. 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.479 But it spears to be like three people involved in this. 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:38.840 So I don't know how widespread that was. 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:43.480 The hilariously idiotic reaction of the left to the Maduro 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.199 raid coming up next hour stay with Us, not to 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:46.679 be missed. 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:47.440 But that reminded me. 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:52.240 I came across I read a ton of projections, predictions, 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:56.200 that sort of stuff from various people, and it was hilarious. 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:59.399 I was listening to the National Review podcast, which I 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:03.040