1 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,960 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe. 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 2: Getty Armstrong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Getty. 4 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 3: Fifty four million dollars the state has put up for this. 5 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 2: Program, and we'll complete the job within another ten million dollars. 6 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 2: By the way, I called Wallace, We're not gonna ask 7 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 2: for any more money. We're good. 8 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 4: We're good. 9 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 2: We're good. I think we're good. I don't know. 10 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 3: So the Butterfly Bridge, this is what we're going to 11 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 3: talk about here, and it's a kind of a wacky 12 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 3: idea and then it's turning into yet another money hole 13 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 3: that we do in California and all over the country, really, 14 00:00:57,240 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 3: but we specialize it in California. You come with a 15 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 3: do gooder idea and then you come up with a 16 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 3: ridiculous budget, and then you go way past the budget 17 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 3: and you just keep asking for money. The Butterfly Bridge, 18 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:16,760 Speaker 3: it's officially the Wallace Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, also known as 19 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 3: the Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing in southern California. It's a 20 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:26,199 Speaker 3: massive vegetated wildlife overpass going across one oh one which 21 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 3: is a big freeway in California. 22 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 2: If you don't know that it's a giant overpass that 23 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:36,520 Speaker 2: they're going to grow stuff on. It's sometimes called the 24 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:40,160 Speaker 2: Newsome Cougar and Butterfly Bridge. I hope there will be 25 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:43,400 Speaker 2: shardennay stations so that it's the cougars as they cross 26 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 2: the bridge can get refreshments. 27 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 3: So the bridge connects habitats between the two areas of 28 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 3: southern California, which will in theory help wildlife safely cross 29 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 3: the busy freeway if the wildlife happens to have a 30 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 3: smartphone and are on waves a navigation system of some 31 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:11,639 Speaker 3: sort that can tell them that this is the best 32 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 3: way to cross. You got two mountain lions. One's about 33 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 3: to walk into the road. The other one says, yo 34 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 3: yo Jim, Jim, Let's take the bridge. 35 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 2: It's much safer. 36 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 3: So it originally came up because there was so much 37 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 3: roadkill along the freeway, or somebody decided there was more 38 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 3: roadkill there than other places or. 39 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 2: Whatever, including butterflies or all. 40 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 3: Kinds of wildlife, and that they needed some sort of 41 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 3: like bridge for the beasts of everything from butterflies to 42 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:39,840 Speaker 3: mountain lions and everything in between. Could get across, and 43 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 3: it's about an acre, so. 44 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 2: It's pretty big. 45 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 3: I mean, the overpass is an acre. If you can 46 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 3: picture an acre, it's pretty damn big, making it the 47 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,799 Speaker 3: world's largest wildlife crossing. You know why because nobody else 48 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 3: has done this dumb idea that probably won't benefit a 49 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 3: single ant anyway. It's behind on funding it. As all 50 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 3: these sorts of things happen. Let's hear from this Beth Prett, 51 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 3: who's involved in the raising more money for it. 52 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: When we started stage one and we're waiting to start 53 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 1: stage two, the world change beneath us. So this spring, 54 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 1: construction costs increase considerably. 55 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,960 Speaker 5: And although we were holding reserves to finish construction, all 56 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,280 Speaker 5: those are exhausted at this point because of tariffs, inflation, 57 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 5: and so many other factors in pacting construction projects, not 58 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 5: just ours. So we need your help one more time 59 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,920 Speaker 5: to get us to the finish line and help. 60 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 3: Us build back those. 61 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 5: Reserves so that we can ensure that we finalize construction 62 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 5: by November, so we can all cut that ribbon together. 63 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 5: What a moment that will be. And like you, I 64 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 5: can't wait to see that first mount lying costs. 65 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 2: It'll probably be at night if I understand mountain lion habits, but. 66 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:56,760 Speaker 3: Well, you have to believe that. I mean, while an 67 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 3: acre is fairly large, it's very very small for a 68 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 3: giant area of southern California, And you have to believe 69 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 3: the mountain lion is gonna figure out that there's a 70 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 3: place I can cross here to get to the other 71 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 3: side of the freeway. I just I don't know that 72 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 3: I believe that any this is gonna benefit anything other 73 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 3: than whoever's getting all the money. It's gonna be mountain lions, deer, bobcats, coyotes, foxes, bears, rabbits, lizards, birds, 74 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 3: and smaller creatures like monarch, butterflies, bats and rodents that 75 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 3: will use the bad butterfly literally fly. So you heard 76 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 3: from the groundbreaking there. That was Gavin Newsom, the groundbreaking 77 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 3: on Earth Day in twenty twenty two, where he said 78 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,120 Speaker 3: that we're gonna get fifty four million dollars from the state. 79 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 3: We won't ask for any more money, fifty four million 80 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 3: dollars of taxpayer money for this thing that will probably 81 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 3: never benefit like I said, an aunt, and of course 82 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,320 Speaker 3: that they haven't been able to build it, and they need. 83 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,720 Speaker 2: Lots and lots of more money. Yeah, it's more than 84 00:04:57,760 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 2: doubled in price. Right. 85 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 3: The total has risen to about one hundred and fourteen 86 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:07,120 Speaker 3: million dollars with twenty one million in overruns and increasing 87 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 3: state funding. 88 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,160 Speaker 2: But that's always the so far. 89 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:12,840 Speaker 3: I mean, we're always never even close to the end 90 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 3: of these things. It's a money spigot for cronies. 91 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 2: That's what it is. Every project, never mind what they 92 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 2: call it, it's a money spigot. Critics call it a 93 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 2: boondoggle or jobs program or money spigot. While supporters emphasize 94 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 2: long term safety and biodiversity aligning with California's conservation goals. 95 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 2: Who could be against which reduced wildlife vehicle collisions so 96 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:39,440 Speaker 2: that we won't have any more SUV's hitting bats and 97 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 2: lizards My down the cat or a bob cat. The 98 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:50,119 Speaker 2: lizard cottage has been unspeakable. Now I haven't heard this clip. 99 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 3: This is another do good or that do we just 100 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:53,839 Speaker 3: happen to have Here we go ninety one. 101 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 4: So seed scouting is going out into natural lands and 102 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 4: you're identifying populations, plants that you want to be able 103 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 4: to return to when they set seeds. So I literally 104 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:08,400 Speaker 4: had months to myself to work to get exactly what 105 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 4: was needed done for this particular project, and so to 106 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 4: be able to just be roaming the Santa Monica Mountains 107 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:19,640 Speaker 4: looking for seeds in that sacred solitude was such a blessing. 108 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:21,760 Speaker 4: It was such a blessing to be part of this 109 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:23,159 Speaker 4: particular team and grow. 110 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 2: Wow, hey baby, I got a hint for you. You 111 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,160 Speaker 2: ever try to plant a lawn, Just spread out some 112 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:32,880 Speaker 2: dirt and you'll have all the native plants you can 113 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 2: use within about two weeks. 114 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 3: So somebody told this poet dreamer, We're going to give 115 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 3: you a salary to go roam the mountains and hunt 116 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 3: for seeds to plant on this overpass. And she felt 117 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 3: like she'd won the lottery because she did. You got 118 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 3: the poet job in California that we taxpayers are paying 119 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,280 Speaker 3: for that won't do any good for anything. The idea 120 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 3: that this is going to cause lots of animals to 121 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 3: figure out, well, that's the overpass. 122 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 2: If you need to get over there, if you're going, 123 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 2: then rangel down there. 124 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,320 Speaker 3: So you all, as foxes and deer and bats and lizards, 125 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 3: we all head down to the overpass and cross there. 126 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 2: Didn't you read the animal newsletter, Jim, there's an overpass now, 127 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 2: you see, because we're animals and we understand roads and 128 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 2: the dangers of roads, so we wouldn't try to pass 129 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 2: here when we know. 130 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 3: Word mouth or beak there's some overpass down there. I mean, 131 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 3: the whole concept is so silly. Well, and you made 132 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 3: it sound more efficient than it is. She wasn't going 133 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 3: out to gather the seeds. She was doing a separate 134 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 3: scouting trip to find the plants that might someday have 135 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 3: the seeds that would just blow through the damn air again. 136 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 3: Just spread out some dirt. Trust me, all the native 137 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 3: plants you can see will be growing. How much did 138 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 3: she get paid? This is what maybe I'll do it 139 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 3: someday when I'm retired or whatever. There's so many documentary 140 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 3: films or news pieces I wish somebody would do find 141 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 3: out the people that are getting the money for this 142 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 3: project and interview them and lay it out for people. 143 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,840 Speaker 3: This lady, whatever her name is, how many hours did 144 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 3: you work, what did you get paid? What were the 145 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 3: other benefits that came with the seed sprouting job for 146 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 3: this ridiculous, fanciful unicorn project. And then there's probably hundreds 147 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 3: of examples of just with this project, of things that 148 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 3: would blow people's minds. 149 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 2: She probably legally had her name changed to Butterfly Ocean feather. 150 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 2: Speaking of which, Gavin. 151 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 3: Newsom's figure out that that's where it across. 152 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 2: See the lizard doesn't know it's a road. It's got 153 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 2: a brain like an a sesame seed. Oh boy, Gavin 154 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:52,600 Speaker 2: Newsom's utterly hilariously fictional climate false alarms coming up in 155 00:08:52,679 --> 00:08:57,320 Speaker 2: a moment or two. Oh stuff like this get off 156 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 2: the ground. 157 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 6: Thanks for taking the money. 158 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:05,439 Speaker 2: And while a California taxpayer there and while one hundred 159 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 2: and fourteen million dollars so far, is it dropping the 160 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,960 Speaker 2: bucket for what we spend in California, As we always. 161 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 3: Like to point out, that could be all the state 162 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 3: tax money you ever pay in your life, and all 163 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 3: your neighbors right there that just went to this stupid, 164 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 3: complete waste of money. 165 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 2: It's a land bridge for animals that fly, old boy. 166 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 3: Luckily for the animals that have GPS and understand roadways. 167 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 2: Ryan exactly exactly, Gavin. Stuff's worth staying tune for. Trust. 168 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 2: That's next. Breaking celebrity news. Breaking celebrity news. 169 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 3: Chuck Norris is in the hospital in an emergency according 170 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 3: TMZ in Hawaii, So full team coverage on the way 171 00:09:58,160 --> 00:09:59,239 Speaker 3: kicking the gut. 172 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 2: Oh, Chuck, get well soon. Chub doesn't listen to Armstrong 173 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 2: and Geddy. He doesn't Armstrong and Geddy listen to Chuck Norris. 174 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,640 Speaker 2: How old hospital is in, Chuck Norris? How old? How 175 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 2: old do you think Chuck Norris is? Eighty three? Eighty six? 176 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:19,239 Speaker 2: Pretty good, guess, thank you. So let's talk about Gavin's ridiculous, 177 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 2: hilarious inaccuracy on climate change. I'm going to start with this, though, 178 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:24,959 Speaker 2: leave it to the New York Times. They're writing an 179 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:31,200 Speaker 2: article about struggling LA restaurants, and that's not exactly the 180 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 2: focus of the story, but one of the lead sentences 181 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 2: is some local chefs have find it inconvenient blah blah blah, 182 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 2: when LA restaurants are facing existential threats from climate change, inflation, 183 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 2: and immigration enforcement. And the facing existential threats is actually 184 00:10:49,520 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 2: hyperlinks to two New York Times articles about the challenges 185 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 2: facing the LA restaurant industry, but neither one of those 186 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 2: articles mentions climate change in any way, but The New 187 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 2: York Times listed it as one of the factors in 188 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:11,439 Speaker 2: the hyperlink to those stories. It's like a cult Oh, 189 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,679 Speaker 2: they don't mention bums and junkies, the artificially high twenty 190 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:17,679 Speaker 2: dollars an hour minimum wage crime, any of that. No, 191 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:20,319 Speaker 2: it's climate change that's making it tough to run a 192 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 2: restaurant in la unbelievable. But let's move on to heavy newsom, 193 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 2: shall we. The climate change thing is is currently one 194 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 2: of his big planks that he really hammers on why 195 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 2: he should be president, and that what a leader he 196 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:35,640 Speaker 2: is in California, and he seems pretty wily to me. 197 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:38,160 Speaker 3: I don't understand why he doesn't understand that that is 198 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,079 Speaker 3: kind of like that ship has sailed a bit. 199 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:43,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, because I don't think it's sailed among the hardest 200 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 2: core thirty percent. He might argue, Hey, dudes, primary voters, 201 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:49,320 Speaker 2: that's what I'm talking to right now, And he might 202 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:53,480 Speaker 2: be right anyway, But I'm gonna be quoting now some 203 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 2: nice writing by Bjorn Lomborg Gavin Knew some raising alarms 204 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 2: on climate change again and getting basic fact wrong. California 205 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:04,559 Speaker 2: governor vows to sue the FEDS over the Trump administration's 206 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:08,959 Speaker 2: repeal of the EPA's twenty oh nine endangerment finding, which 207 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 2: was the main legal basis under the clear act for 208 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 2: mandating reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. Declaring carbon dioxide a 209 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 2: pollutant in essence is what it did. Mister Newsom claims 210 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 2: the reversal will trigger more deadly wildfires and more extreme 211 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 2: heat deaths, So let's start there with the dead people. 212 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 2: Age adjusted heat related death risk in California has risen 213 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 2: modestly in recent decades, enough to account for ninety additional 214 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 2: deaths likely linked to higher temperatures over the last twenty 215 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 2: thirty years ninety, But he admits the other side, warming 216 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:44,079 Speaker 2: has helped produced age adjusted cold related deaths by more 217 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 2: than five thousand a year. By more than five thousand 218 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 2: a year. Oh my god. Citing only the tiny heat 219 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 2: increase while ignoring the cold related deaths is insanely misleading. 220 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 3: Well that's what pauls do. But yeah, and it's not 221 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,959 Speaker 3: even close. If it were a wash, it would be hilarious. 222 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 3: But it's not even close. 223 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 2: As for wildfires, mister Newsom is long wrongly focused on 224 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 2: California in the Western US while ignoring that global warming 225 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 2: is global. He's repeatedly referred to referred to California as 226 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 2: the tip of the sphere of climate change. Why including 227 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 2: after last January's Palisades fire years earlier Midwest Coast wildfires. 228 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 2: He claimed climate change. His role cannot be denied. That 229 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:31,440 Speaker 2: science is absolute, self evident. All of those are quotes. 230 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:37,079 Speaker 2: Global data contradicts this, NASTI satellites, Yeah, go ahead. 231 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 3: Self evident that now that's that out out, it's ridiculous. 232 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 3: Climate change is self evident. Just as a human being 233 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:46,319 Speaker 3: on Earth, I can tell that being cost and that 234 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 3: it costs. The wildfires was undeniable, absolute and self evident. 235 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:55,000 Speaker 3: NASA's satellites have trapped fires globally for earning twenty five years. 236 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 3: In the early two thousands, about three percent of the 237 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:01,319 Speaker 3: world's land burned annually in total acrea, about twice. 238 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 2: Of the size of Mexico. The trends since has been downward. 239 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 2: Twenty twenty two hit a record low of two point 240 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 2: one six percent, twenty twenty five nearly matched it only 241 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 2: slightly more. That's a reduction of over twenty five percent 242 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:19,200 Speaker 2: in twenty five years, sparing an area of land larger 243 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 2: than Texas and California combined each year. North America is 244 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 2: the only continent where burning burned areas increasing, but it 245 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:28,480 Speaker 2: accounts for only two point two of the global total. Yeah. 246 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 3: The interesting thing about climate change, especially at this point, 247 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 3: is so they always go with the settled science and 248 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 3: like list their facts and figures to make the point. 249 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 3: But now we have it's been around enough this craze 250 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 3: that we have plenty of facts and figures to refute 251 00:14:46,560 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 3: it with, like you're just doing, but nobody ever gets 252 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 3: into those. 253 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:52,800 Speaker 2: Right, right. And then this author points out that the 254 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:56,040 Speaker 2: main reason for these really devastating wildfires in California is 255 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 2: all the building in the border areas between you know, 256 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 2: urban and and like wilderness areas. I know, I had 257 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 2: a house there and it was unensurable. Wildfire CO two 258 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 2: emissions have plummeted globally as well, hitting a satellite era 259 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 2: low last year, down three billion tons from early two 260 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 2: thousand levels. This undercuts claims of supercharged fires and feedback 261 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 2: loops of carbon release. Because less of the world's landscape 262 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 2: is burning, the result is less air pollution, especially in 263 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:25,520 Speaker 2: heavily populated areas, and indeed it's spiraling in the other direction, 264 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 2: less and less and less carbon going into the air. 265 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 2: The wildfire decline is a century long pattern driven by 266 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 2: human adaptation, better land management, farming practice is the suppression 267 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 2: of tamed global fires. Some claim that intense fires are worsening, 268 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 2: citing a twenty twenty four Nature paper that declared extreme 269 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 2: fire events doubled globally from twenty three to twenty twenty three. 270 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:48,400 Speaker 2: I remember hearing about that, but a subsequent Nature review 271 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 2: demolished that claim. The original study inflated trends by clustering 272 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 2: fire hotspots and measuring their radiative power as intensity. Properly analyzed, 273 00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 2: extreme fire didn't burn more. Its frequency decreased by about 274 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 2: thirty five percent. Yet NASA's fire homepage still prominently features 275 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 2: the original studies claim. And there's more to this. It's 276 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 2: just well, global fires are dramatically declining in extent emissions, pollution, 277 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 2: death risk, and intensity. Mister Newsom's rhetoric may energize as supporters, 278 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 2: but Americans deserve evidence based policies, not cherry picked alarm. 279 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 2: Yeah you might be right. 280 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,240 Speaker 3: Maybe he thinks this is still the hot ticket to 281 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 3: get denomination being big in climate change, But in terms 282 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 3: of it being a national issue, the ship has sailed. 283 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 3: I'm sure I'm plunged off the charts. I'm sure in 284 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 3: our public schools it's still very, very hot topic. I feel, 285 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 3: pardon the expression. 286 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe someday I can get into another piece by 287 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 2: mister Lomberg who wrote a great thing for the Free Press, 288 00:16:50,520 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 2: how reality destroyed Europe's green energy dreams. They devastated themselves 289 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 2: economically and socially to achieve. 290 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 3: So yesterday was the biggest escalation of the Iran war 291 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:10,639 Speaker 3: since the first day. I realized a lot of you 292 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:12,520 Speaker 3: might not be paying attention and might not know that, 293 00:17:12,560 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 3: but it's true. And where that goes as anybody guess. 294 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:17,439 Speaker 3: But we've got a little bit of info on that, 295 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:18,360 Speaker 3: among other things, on. 296 00:17:18,320 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 2: The ways to hear. 297 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:26,199 Speaker 6: Armstrong and Getty, just as the Gulf foreign ministers and 298 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 6: other foreign ministers from the region, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, the 299 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:34,119 Speaker 6: Pakistani foreign minister here as well the Azerbaijan for a 300 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 6: minister also just as they were gathering in riand the 301 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 6: heaviest ballistic missile barrages on the capitol since the war began. 302 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,439 Speaker 3: Yeah, Iran upped its game yesterday in terms of attacking 303 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 3: some of its neighbors. Israel attacked Iran's giant natural gas 304 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:58,440 Speaker 3: field and Pete Hegsath vowed this today Today. 305 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:00,920 Speaker 7: We've struck over seven thousand targets across Iran and its 306 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 7: military infrastructure. That is not incremental, that is overwhelming force 307 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,640 Speaker 7: applied with precision, And again today will be the large, largest. 308 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:12,919 Speaker 2: Strike package yet, just like yesterday was. 309 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:16,159 Speaker 7: As I've said from day one, our capabilities continue to build, 310 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 7: Iran's continue to degrade. We're hunting and striking death and 311 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:23,399 Speaker 7: destruction from above. 312 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:27,680 Speaker 3: So this war is clearly escalating by any measure, from 313 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 3: both sides, and the things people are willing to hit. 314 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 2: Is going up. So yeah, I'm interested in that math. 315 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:40,439 Speaker 2: Pete just laid out that we're escalating, their ability to 316 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 2: do anything is declining. Will that mean, you know, capitulation 317 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:51,359 Speaker 2: fairly soon or can they maintain that cornered beast flailing 318 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 2: and doing damage for the indefinite future. I don't know, 319 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:57,440 Speaker 2: so let me do it in this order. 320 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 3: I talked about story in Neil Ferguson and his Peace 321 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:04,200 Speaker 3: in the Free Press about how. 322 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 2: The Iran war goes global, with his. 323 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 3: Sub headline being the straight of Horror moves is blocked 324 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 3: for how long the Strait of Taiwan is open for? 325 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 2: How long? 326 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 3: The administration is now trying to salvage a plan that 327 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,840 Speaker 3: seems to be disintegrating on contact with the enemy, as 328 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:27,920 Speaker 3: often happens, it may still be salvageable. The Islamic Republic 329 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 3: may yet oblige Trump by expiring I do not rule 330 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 3: that out, and I remember correctly at the beginning of 331 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 3: this Neil Ferguson was a supporter, thought it was the 332 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:40,159 Speaker 3: right thing to do. But plans often disintegrate on contact. However, 333 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 3: if Trump's advisors do not keep their wits about them, 334 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 3: they may overlook the fact that they have created a 335 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 3: huge strategic opportunity for China and Russia, especially if they 336 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:53,919 Speaker 3: act in concert. A Taiwan crisis would upend the international 337 00:19:53,960 --> 00:20:01,600 Speaker 3: economy in geopolitical order. If China and Russia decided to 338 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 3: close the Strait of Taiwan at the same time we're 339 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 3: all focusing on how the hell to get the straight 340 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,479 Speaker 3: of Horror moves open, that would be a big problem 341 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,600 Speaker 3: for the world. I don't know how difficult that would be, 342 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 3: how likely it is, but. 343 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 2: I mean we're. 344 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:22,919 Speaker 3: Obviously otherwise occupied to a great extent. I don't know 345 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 3: if Neil gets into this. 346 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 2: This is what comforts me, but it's the sort of 347 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 2: prediction that you make and then realize, oh, I didn't 348 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 2: know that when it goes south. But according to a 349 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:38,159 Speaker 2: number of really persuasive things I've read recently or listened to, 350 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 2: if China moved on Taiwan, that would cause a brutal 351 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 2: worldwide chip shortage and probably a global recession bordering on depression, 352 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 2: which would be devastating to China right now. So I 353 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:55,880 Speaker 2: don't think they dare do it. I don't know, man, 354 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:57,760 Speaker 2: chaos is a ladder. 355 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,480 Speaker 3: If I wanted to change the history of the world 356 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,399 Speaker 3: and have in the United States no longer be the 357 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 3: hegemen that it has been for the last eighty years, 358 00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:10,640 Speaker 3: really upending everything. 359 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,399 Speaker 2: Seems like a good idea, But I don't know. Be 360 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 2: rolling the dice, no doubt. 361 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:19,480 Speaker 3: So Eventually the books will be written about what Marco 362 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 3: Rubio is doing behind the scenes that got this to happen. 363 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 3: The United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan 364 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,600 Speaker 3: released a joint statement today expressing their readiness to contribute 365 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,359 Speaker 3: to efforts to ensure the safe passage of commercial shipping 366 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 3: through the Strait of our Moves. That was not the language. 367 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,639 Speaker 3: Those there were not the noises they were making. The 368 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 3: last seventy two hours. Why they all came together and 369 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:45,479 Speaker 3: decided to make a statement on that today. I have 370 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 3: no idea why. 371 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:48,359 Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, huh? 372 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 3: Possibly thinking about what Neil Ferguson was writing about. Look, 373 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 3: we gotta get this open because what if something happened 374 00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 3: somewhere else I don't know. 375 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 2: Or the transactional Tree said, hey, all those tariffs, forget 376 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,360 Speaker 2: about him, you join us in this. We'll call it good. 377 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,400 Speaker 2: Who knows? Who knows? 378 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:11,680 Speaker 3: Different piece, just because this has been a topic now 379 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 3: for well since the war began. Did we do this 380 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 3: because of Israel? Are we doing this? Are we dancing 381 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 3: to Israel's tune? Or that whole thing? And Joe Kent, 382 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 3: the guy that left the Center for Counter Terrorism and 383 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 3: went on Tucker yesterday and says, ah, yeah, Israel and 384 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 3: their lobby, they got us to go to war. Ian Bremmer, 385 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,400 Speaker 3: to his credit, tweeted out Netanyah, who has been pushing 386 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,880 Speaker 3: for an Iran war with every American president for many decades, 387 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,240 Speaker 3: doesn't make Israel responsible for a decision made solely by 388 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 3: the US commander in chief. 389 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:48,880 Speaker 2: Right, appreciate that. I think that's obviously true. And Israel's 390 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,399 Speaker 2: been right about Iran for decades. 391 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:58,400 Speaker 3: Correct where this goes is absolutely ebody's guests. I'll tell 392 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:00,879 Speaker 3: you twenty four hours ago, I would not bet that 393 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,440 Speaker 3: all those countries would as signed onto a letter saying 394 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:05,840 Speaker 3: we're all on board with helping you open the straight. 395 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 3: I didn't think that was gonna happen. So who knows 396 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 3: what's gonna happen the next day? The fact that Israel 397 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:18,120 Speaker 3: hit the largest gas field in the world in Iran, 398 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 3: and apparently with out telling us and Trump being very 399 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 3: angry about it, and with a long truth social post 400 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,920 Speaker 3: last night saying that will not happen again. We didn't 401 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:30,399 Speaker 3: want Israel to do that. We didn't know they were 402 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 3: gonna do it, and it will not happen again. As 403 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 3: if he's can forbid Net and Yahoo from doing that 404 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 3: sort of thing. Israel Iran, by the way, after getting 405 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,159 Speaker 3: hit like that, hit Katar next door who shares that 406 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 3: oil field with them, also hit the oil field. 407 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're gonna hit the oil field. 408 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,200 Speaker 3: We're gonna hit the oil field, the gas field, and 409 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:53,359 Speaker 3: we didn't do it, says cutter, Right, why are you 410 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 3: hitting us like you and everybody? 411 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:59,360 Speaker 2: Well, boy, that strategy is backfiring like crazy. I tell 412 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:01,320 Speaker 2: you what, We're going to lash out and punish everyone 413 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 2: in the region for the actions of Israel and the 414 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 2: US and anybody who has helped them or hasn't. We're 415 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:07,360 Speaker 2: just going to punch everybody. 416 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 3: Well, so, is there a theory that it's just going 417 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:14,280 Speaker 3: to drive up energy prices and democracies will doesn't matter 418 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 3: what's the best thing. 419 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:19,880 Speaker 2: Long term. Democracies will react with gas is too high, 420 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:22,320 Speaker 2: this is gotten the Gulf and the Gulf States will 421 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:24,240 Speaker 2: react with we're tired of getting bombed. You got to 422 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:27,159 Speaker 2: stop attacking her on That's their strategy. 423 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,720 Speaker 3: If that's going to happen, though, a Saudi representative I 424 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:32,200 Speaker 3: saw in Fox this morning said that they're contacting their 425 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 3: golf neighbors to talk about bringing this to an end. 426 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 3: Being attacked by Iran, bringing that to an end, no 427 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,240 Speaker 3: matter what they have to do economically, diplomatically, and militarily. 428 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,760 Speaker 3: So are you going to see Saudi planes and Katari 429 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:49,880 Speaker 3: planes and UAE planes, all probably purchased from the United 430 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:52,919 Speaker 3: States flying next to Israeli planes bombing Iran. 431 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,000 Speaker 2: Well, here's some old guy wisdom that if that guy 432 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 2: still maintains that Twitter account, Rye quotes and he'll probably 433 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 2: quote me. In life, there are many things that go 434 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:09,160 Speaker 2: very very well that are still extremely difficult, building a career, 435 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 2: raising a kit, that sort of thing. And even if 436 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:16,080 Speaker 2: this effort continues to go quite well from virtually any 437 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 2: advantage point, it could still be incredibly difficult. For one thing, 438 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,919 Speaker 2: as we discussed earlier, at some point we have to 439 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:29,680 Speaker 2: get all of the highly refined fizzle material that Iran has, 440 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:31,360 Speaker 2: and that's going to be a hell of an operation 441 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:36,880 Speaker 2: fraught with risk, including it's extremely radioactive and volatile. Plus 442 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 2: you know, getting the straight of Hormuz open and kept open, 443 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:45,040 Speaker 2: even if it goes great, is going to be really 444 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 2: costly and involve human beings with guns on the ground. 445 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:52,480 Speaker 2: Oh yeah. 446 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 3: We haven't talked since earlier about the couple thousand marines 447 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,880 Speaker 3: being sent and now a couple thousand more being sent. 448 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 3: It certainly looks like it's headed toward boots on the 449 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:06,879 Speaker 3: ground sort of conflict, doesn't it. 450 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 2: Uh, there are aspects of it, like the two things 451 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 2: I was just talking about that absolutely can't do them 452 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:13,159 Speaker 2: from above. 453 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:17,119 Speaker 3: Entirely, and then those have a tendency to grow. Doesn't 454 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 3: mean this one will, but historically they do. 455 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:24,520 Speaker 2: One thing we've learned is apparently you can't bomb someone 456 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 2: back to the Stone Age, as they seem to still 457 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:33,640 Speaker 2: be using modern ordinance. I'm surprised Bronze Age. Maybe I don't. 458 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 3: Know anything about this, but I'm surprised. After what did 459 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 3: Hegxeth say we've hit nine thousand targets something like that, 460 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 3: that they still have the capacity to fire rockets and 461 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:45,679 Speaker 3: missiles and kill people in Tel Aviv and attack an 462 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 3: oil field and cutter and everything else they did yesterday. Right, 463 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:53,679 Speaker 3: that nine thousand targets doesn't take out all of their launchers. 464 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 3: I mean, Mike Lines has been told since day one 465 00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 3: of the war. You know, it's you don't have to 466 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 3: take out the arrows, you take out the archers. But 467 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 3: apparently we've taken out all the archers. 468 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,399 Speaker 2: Well, some of it's that we've hit their army and 469 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:09,200 Speaker 2: their navy and their air force and command and control 470 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,720 Speaker 2: and stuff like that. But takes a while. We have 471 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 2: that hilarious. You have to flip which one was that 472 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,919 Speaker 2: about the navy. I really enjoyed that. Oh, yeah, that 473 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 2: was good. Yes, if you like hard asks, you get 474 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,399 Speaker 2: some here. Fifty four. 475 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,320 Speaker 7: The last job anyone in the world wants right now, 476 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:34,720 Speaker 7: senior leader for the IRGC or besiege temp jobs all 477 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 7: of them, And to borrow a page from Admiral Ernest 478 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,359 Speaker 7: King in World War Two, we've decided to share the 479 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:47,440 Speaker 7: ocean with Iran. We've given them the bottom half. We've 480 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 7: damaged or sunk over one hundred and twenty of their 481 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 7: navy ships, with battle damage assessments pending for many more. 482 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:56,879 Speaker 2: We're sharing the ocean with them. We'll give them the 483 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,680 Speaker 2: bottom half. Oh, I know what he means. 484 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,720 Speaker 3: Who's that for? I like it, I'm not against it. 485 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 3: But who's that for? Is that to keep the American 486 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:06,640 Speaker 3: spirits up? 487 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,879 Speaker 2: If I'm in the Navy and I hear that, I'm 488 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 2: yelling with all my might, with all my shipmates, cheering 489 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 2: like a maniac, I'm all for that. Yeah, I haven't 490 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 2: got this all about the war fighters, Pete. How history 491 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 2: judges him ultimately, I don't know, but I believe he 492 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 2: is one hundred percent sincere in his protectiveness of and 493 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,439 Speaker 2: love for our actual fighters. Well, you mentioned this earlier, 494 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 2: and I think it's true. 495 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 3: History is going to judge Pete Hegseth completely based on 496 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,880 Speaker 3: how this war turns out. And maybe Donald Trump even 497 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:45,480 Speaker 3: all the stuff that's gone into Trump's presidencies, including January sixth. 498 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 3: The whole thing might get judged by how this turns out, 499 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:50,160 Speaker 3: depending on how it goes right. 500 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 2: Right, As I mentioned briefly, he is Trump is now 501 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 2: forty one points underwater overall on cost of living, and 502 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 2: it's sick step points underwater among independents. So the uh, 503 00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:07,960 Speaker 2: you know, the next blood bath is going to be 504 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 2: the midterms and. 505 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 3: Then it'll be impeached. So that'll be our last two 506 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,960 Speaker 3: years of his second term. Super couple of impeachments. That'll 507 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 3: be fun. But I have no idea where this war's going. 508 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 2: None. 509 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 3: Like I said, I wouldn't have predicted all those European 510 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 3: countries in Japan saying we'll help you open the straight? 511 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 2: What that means? How'd we get them there? M how 512 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 2: did we get them there? The carricter or the stick? Oh? 513 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 3: What got them on board with this letter? And then 514 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:40,600 Speaker 3: how long does it take them to get boats there 515 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,640 Speaker 3: or planes or troops or whatever they're going to do 516 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:43,600 Speaker 3: to help us open the straight? 517 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 2: Right? 518 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:51,120 Speaker 3: Donna, the CEO of Costco, taking a page from the 519 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,440 Speaker 3: McDonald's guy, said, oh my god, what is this? 520 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,160 Speaker 2: Oh? Wow, I know I eat this. That guy. 521 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 3: McDonald's, the ceost Goes put out a video he had 522 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 3: one of their hot dogs and what he said will 523 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:04,880 Speaker 3: shock you. We're not shock you, among other things on 524 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 3: the waist to hear march madness has begun. And I 525 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 3: just saw during a time out Ohio State's mascot Buddy 526 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 3: or Bucky or something, the Buckeye anyway. 527 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 2: Bucky the buck Eye. Yes, indeed, he was hilarious. He was. 528 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 3: Pretending he had a basketball and doing all kinds of 529 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,360 Speaker 3: moves going between his legs behind fact and then shot 530 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:34,840 Speaker 3: the ball and then strutted around. 531 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:35,840 Speaker 2: It was very entertaining. 532 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 3: What a fun thing to do for some theater major 533 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:48,600 Speaker 3: probably you know. The more I think about it too, 534 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:51,360 Speaker 3: that whole Butterfly Bridge thing in California that we talked 535 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,000 Speaker 3: about earlier this hour, that is one of the more 536 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 3: hilarious stealing of taxpayer money stories. Ever, it's very California. 537 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 3: This might be taken it to the limit, to a 538 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 3: complete absurdity. Makes the bullet train seem like cancer research 539 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,960 Speaker 3: in terms of spending taxpayer dollars. 540 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 2: I wonder there's part of me that wonders. I mean, 541 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,520 Speaker 2: you can make the argument, Okay, mountain lions have to 542 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:18,400 Speaker 2: be able to get across, and what was the foxes 543 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:23,000 Speaker 2: and other things, But they included things that fly on 544 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 2: the list, like the butterfly. He's gonna say to it, youngsters, now, kids, 545 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 2: remember let's fly over this bridge and not down by 546 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 2: the roadway where we might get hit by a semi truck. 547 00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:39,600 Speaker 2: I mean to include flying beasts as being benefited by 548 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 2: a land bridge. I think that's just seeing how far 549 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 2: they can go. He laughed. I laughed. 550 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 3: Okay, different topic. It's been very popular now for a 551 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,160 Speaker 3: couple of weeks because the CEO McDonald's put out a 552 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:51,920 Speaker 3: video of him eating a sandwich, and then a bunch 553 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 3: of CEOs from other restaurants put out videos and everything 554 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,719 Speaker 3: like that. Here's the CEO of Costco sitting down at 555 00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,800 Speaker 3: a Costco table to have od. 556 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 2: On dollar fifty for this hot nug he's now eating it. 557 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:11,240 Speaker 2: Put a ketchup on it. 558 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:12,040 Speaker 4: Hot dog. 559 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,040 Speaker 2: Price will not change as long as I'm around. 560 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 6: Still amazing, amazing quality, amazing value. 561 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 2: That's a dollar fifty well spent. Are you gonna have 562 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 2: another one at your next building you go to? Absolutely? 563 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:32,320 Speaker 3: He came off exactly the way you would want to 564 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 3: come off if you're trying to promote that sort item. 565 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:37,080 Speaker 3: He kind of looks like a regular guy, a little fat, 566 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 3: really actually enjoying his Costco hot dog the way I 567 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,880 Speaker 3: enjoy them, as opposed to them. The McDonald's guy who 568 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 3: had just wreaked of you've never eaten a burger at McDonald's, 569 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 3: have you? Is the first time you've ever seen one? 570 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:52,840 Speaker 3: Is the way he came off. And it was a 571 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,800 Speaker 3: fine burger product, and he took a tiny, tiny little 572 00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 3: nibble of it, and I'll save that for later, so phony, 573 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,360 Speaker 3: Oh my god. The Costco guy looks like I'm a 574 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:07,960 Speaker 3: guy who eats Costco hot dogs. 575 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,040 Speaker 2: Lots of my everyone, I got every store and go 576 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 2: to I eat one. Give me some monies to final 577 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:20,440 Speaker 2: thoughts with Hot Strong. You get the facts. They're sharp 578 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 2: and steady. Tune in to mal don't you for Yetty 579 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:29,479 Speaker 2: for more strong and yet Dude, you gotta put out 580 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 2: a whole album of that stuff. 581 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:35,360 Speaker 3: I like, Oh, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. 582 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,760 Speaker 2: For the record, I'm neither sharp nor steady, but you 583 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,080 Speaker 2: know whatever, it's our Hey, let's get a final thought 584 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:42,560 Speaker 2: from everybody on the crew to wrap up to day. 585 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,480 Speaker 2: There is Michael Agelow and the ConTroll room. Michael, wish 586 00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:47,360 Speaker 2: these CEOs would quit putting out these videos. 587 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,520 Speaker 7: I've got to eat a big arch, a new whopper, 588 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:50,920 Speaker 7: a Costco hot dog. 589 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,240 Speaker 2: I'm gonna get fat. I do like me a Costco 590 00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 2: hot dog Jack. A final thought for us. 591 00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a funny YouTube video somewhere of h It's 592 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,960 Speaker 3: a cart rendering of when I went to Costco one 593 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:03,720 Speaker 3: time and got the Gosco hot dog and I was 594 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 3: walking around shopping and didn't notice that I had spilled 595 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:11,080 Speaker 3: mustard all down my shirt and onto the tops of 596 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,200 Speaker 3: my shoes. Oh no, I was walking around a mustard 597 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,920 Speaker 3: on top of my shoes and mustard might as well 598 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,160 Speaker 3: be oil based paint. 599 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,879 Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, it's never coming out. My final thought. 600 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,839 Speaker 2: It just dawned on me. Mark Wayne Mullen will get 601 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,920 Speaker 2: confirmed as the DHS Secretary, and he's going to be 602 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,960 Speaker 2: going in front of that committee featuring Rand Paul for 603 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:33,960 Speaker 2: a couple of years. Probably Rand Paul is the chair 604 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 2: of that committee. Yeah right, Oh boy. 605 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,759 Speaker 3: That back and forth argument was with the chair of 606 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,080 Speaker 3: the committee Secretary. 607 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,279 Speaker 2: Ahole, what are you want, curly I got to punch 608 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,160 Speaker 2: you in the face for a couple of years. 609 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:51,920 Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday. 610 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:53,400 Speaker 2: So many people with thanks a little time. Go to 611 00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,400 Speaker 2: Armstrong and Giddy dot com for the hot links. For 612 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:59,520 Speaker 2: Katie's corner for the Ang Swag Store. Your favorite Ang 613 00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:02,520 Speaker 2: fan would love a hat, a T shirt, or a hoodie. 614 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:07,120 Speaker 2: I'm going to cough now, excuse me. 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