Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe.
Speaker 2: Getty Armstrong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Fifty four million dollars the state has put up for this.
Speaker 2: Program, and we'll complete the job within another ten million dollars.
Speaker 2: By the way, I called Wallace, We're not gonna ask
Speaker 2: for any more money. We're good.
Speaker 4: We're good.
Speaker 2: We're good. I think we're good. I don't know.
Speaker 3: So the Butterfly Bridge, this is what we're going to
Speaker 3: talk about here, and it's a kind of a wacky
Speaker 3: idea and then it's turning into yet another money hole
Speaker 3: that we do in California and all over the country, really,
Speaker 3: but we specialize it in California. You come with a
Speaker 3: do gooder idea and then you come up with a
Speaker 3: ridiculous budget, and then you go way past the budget
Speaker 3: and you just keep asking for money. The Butterfly Bridge,
Speaker 3: it's officially the Wallace Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, also known as
Speaker 3: the Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing in southern California. It's a
Speaker 3: massive vegetated wildlife overpass going across one oh one which
Speaker 3: is a big freeway in California.
Speaker 2: If you don't know that it's a giant overpass that
Speaker 2: they're going to grow stuff on. It's sometimes called the
Speaker 2: Newsome Cougar and Butterfly Bridge. I hope there will be
Speaker 2: shardennay stations so that it's the cougars as they cross
Speaker 2: the bridge can get refreshments.
Speaker 3: So the bridge connects habitats between the two areas of
Speaker 3: southern California, which will in theory help wildlife safely cross
Speaker 3: the busy freeway if the wildlife happens to have a
Speaker 3: smartphone and are on waves a navigation system of some
Speaker 3: sort that can tell them that this is the best
Speaker 3: way to cross. You got two mountain lions. One's about
Speaker 3: to walk into the road. The other one says, yo
Speaker 3: yo Jim, Jim, Let's take the bridge.
Speaker 2: It's much safer.
Speaker 3: So it originally came up because there was so much
Speaker 3: roadkill along the freeway, or somebody decided there was more
Speaker 3: roadkill there than other places or.
Speaker 2: Whatever, including butterflies or all.
Speaker 3: Kinds of wildlife, and that they needed some sort of
Speaker 3: like bridge for the beasts of everything from butterflies to
Speaker 3: mountain lions and everything in between. Could get across, and
Speaker 3: it's about an acre, so.
Speaker 2: It's pretty big.
Speaker 3: I mean, the overpass is an acre. If you can
Speaker 3: picture an acre, it's pretty damn big, making it the
Speaker 3: world's largest wildlife crossing. You know why because nobody else
Speaker 3: has done this dumb idea that probably won't benefit a
Speaker 3: single ant anyway. It's behind on funding it. As all
Speaker 3: these sorts of things happen. Let's hear from this Beth Prett,
Speaker 3: who's involved in the raising more money for it.
Speaker 1: When we started stage one and we're waiting to start
Speaker 1: stage two, the world change beneath us. So this spring,
Speaker 1: construction costs increase considerably.
Speaker 5: And although we were holding reserves to finish construction, all
Speaker 5: those are exhausted at this point because of tariffs, inflation,
Speaker 5: and so many other factors in pacting construction projects, not
Speaker 5: just ours. So we need your help one more time
Speaker 5: to get us to the finish line and help.
Speaker 3: Us build back those.
Speaker 5: Reserves so that we can ensure that we finalize construction
Speaker 5: by November, so we can all cut that ribbon together.
Speaker 5: What a moment that will be. And like you, I
Speaker 5: can't wait to see that first mount lying costs.
Speaker 2: It'll probably be at night if I understand mountain lion habits, but.
Speaker 3: Well, you have to believe that. I mean, while an
Speaker 3: acre is fairly large, it's very very small for a
Speaker 3: giant area of southern California, And you have to believe
Speaker 3: the mountain lion is gonna figure out that there's a
Speaker 3: place I can cross here to get to the other
Speaker 3: side of the freeway. I just I don't know that
Speaker 3: I believe that any this is gonna benefit anything other
Speaker 3: than whoever's getting all the money. It's gonna be mountain lions, deer, bobcats, coyotes, foxes, bears, rabbits, lizards, birds,
Speaker 3: and smaller creatures like monarch, butterflies, bats and rodents that
Speaker 3: will use the bad butterfly literally fly. So you heard
Speaker 3: from the groundbreaking there. That was Gavin Newsom, the groundbreaking
Speaker 3: on Earth Day in twenty twenty two, where he said
Speaker 3: that we're gonna get fifty four million dollars from the state.
Speaker 3: We won't ask for any more money, fifty four million
Speaker 3: dollars of taxpayer money for this thing that will probably
Speaker 3: never benefit like I said, an aunt, and of course
Speaker 3: that they haven't been able to build it, and they need.
Speaker 2: Lots and lots of more money. Yeah, it's more than
Speaker 2: doubled in price. Right.
Speaker 3: The total has risen to about one hundred and fourteen
Speaker 3: million dollars with twenty one million in overruns and increasing
Speaker 3: state funding.
Speaker 2: But that's always the so far.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're always never even close to the end
Speaker 3: of these things. It's a money spigot for cronies.
Speaker 2: That's what it is. Every project, never mind what they
Speaker 2: call it, it's a money spigot. Critics call it a
Speaker 2: boondoggle or jobs program or money spigot. While supporters emphasize
Speaker 2: long term safety and biodiversity aligning with California's conservation goals.
Speaker 2: Who could be against which reduced wildlife vehicle collisions so
Speaker 2: that we won't have any more SUV's hitting bats and
Speaker 2: lizards My down the cat or a bob cat. The
Speaker 2: lizard cottage has been unspeakable. Now I haven't heard this clip.
Speaker 3: This is another do good or that do we just
Speaker 3: happen to have Here we go ninety one.
Speaker 4: So seed scouting is going out into natural lands and
Speaker 4: you're identifying populations, plants that you want to be able
Speaker 4: to return to when they set seeds. So I literally
Speaker 4: had months to myself to work to get exactly what
Speaker 4: was needed done for this particular project, and so to
Speaker 4: be able to just be roaming the Santa Monica Mountains
Speaker 4: looking for seeds in that sacred solitude was such a blessing.
Speaker 4: It was such a blessing to be part of this
Speaker 4: particular team and grow.
Speaker 2: Wow, hey baby, I got a hint for you. You
Speaker 2: ever try to plant a lawn, Just spread out some
Speaker 2: dirt and you'll have all the native plants you can
Speaker 2: use within about two weeks.
Speaker 3: So somebody told this poet dreamer, We're going to give
Speaker 3: you a salary to go roam the mountains and hunt
Speaker 3: for seeds to plant on this overpass. And she felt
Speaker 3: like she'd won the lottery because she did. You got
Speaker 3: the poet job in California that we taxpayers are paying
Speaker 3: for that won't do any good for anything. The idea
Speaker 3: that this is going to cause lots of animals to
Speaker 3: figure out, well, that's the overpass.
Speaker 2: If you need to get over there, if you're going,
Speaker 2: then rangel down there.
Speaker 3: So you all, as foxes and deer and bats and lizards,
Speaker 3: we all head down to the overpass and cross there.
Speaker 2: Didn't you read the animal newsletter, Jim, there's an overpass now,
Speaker 2: you see, because we're animals and we understand roads and
Speaker 2: the dangers of roads, so we wouldn't try to pass
Speaker 2: here when we know.
Speaker 3: Word mouth or beak there's some overpass down there. I mean,
Speaker 3: the whole concept is so silly. Well, and you made
Speaker 3: it sound more efficient than it is. She wasn't going
Speaker 3: out to gather the seeds. She was doing a separate
Speaker 3: scouting trip to find the plants that might someday have
Speaker 3: the seeds that would just blow through the damn air again.
Speaker 3: Just spread out some dirt. Trust me, all the native
Speaker 3: plants you can see will be growing. How much did
Speaker 3: she get paid? This is what maybe I'll do it
Speaker 3: someday when I'm retired or whatever. There's so many documentary
Speaker 3: films or news pieces I wish somebody would do find
Speaker 3: out the people that are getting the money for this
Speaker 3: project and interview them and lay it out for people.
Speaker 3: This lady, whatever her name is, how many hours did
Speaker 3: you work, what did you get paid? What were the
Speaker 3: other benefits that came with the seed sprouting job for
Speaker 3: this ridiculous, fanciful unicorn project. And then there's probably hundreds
Speaker 3: of examples of just with this project, of things that
Speaker 3: would blow people's minds.
Speaker 2: She probably legally had her name changed to Butterfly Ocean feather.
Speaker 2: Speaking of which, Gavin.
Speaker 3: Newsom's figure out that that's where it across.
Speaker 2: See the lizard doesn't know it's a road. It's got
Speaker 2: a brain like an a sesame seed. Oh boy, Gavin
Speaker 2: Newsom's utterly hilariously fictional climate false alarms coming up in
Speaker 2: a moment or two. Oh stuff like this get off
Speaker 2: the ground.
Speaker 6: Thanks for taking the money.
Speaker 2: And while a California taxpayer there and while one hundred
Speaker 2: and fourteen million dollars so far, is it dropping the
Speaker 2: bucket for what we spend in California, As we always.
Speaker 3: Like to point out, that could be all the state
Speaker 3: tax money you ever pay in your life, and all
Speaker 3: your neighbors right there that just went to this stupid,
Speaker 3: complete waste of money.
Speaker 2: It's a land bridge for animals that fly, old boy.
Speaker 3: Luckily for the animals that have GPS and understand roadways.
Speaker 2: Ryan exactly exactly, Gavin. Stuff's worth staying tune for. Trust.
Speaker 2: That's next. Breaking celebrity news. Breaking celebrity news.
Speaker 3: Chuck Norris is in the hospital in an emergency according
Speaker 3: TMZ in Hawaii, So full team coverage on the way
Speaker 3: kicking the gut.
Speaker 2: Oh, Chuck, get well soon. Chub doesn't listen to Armstrong
Speaker 2: and Geddy. He doesn't Armstrong and Geddy listen to Chuck Norris.
Speaker 2: How old hospital is in, Chuck Norris? How old? How
Speaker 2: old do you think Chuck Norris is? Eighty three? Eighty six?
Speaker 2: Pretty good, guess, thank you. So let's talk about Gavin's ridiculous,
Speaker 2: hilarious inaccuracy on climate change. I'm going to start with this, though,
Speaker 2: leave it to the New York Times. They're writing an
Speaker 2: article about struggling LA restaurants, and that's not exactly the
Speaker 2: focus of the story, but one of the lead sentences
Speaker 2: is some local chefs have find it inconvenient blah blah blah,
Speaker 2: when LA restaurants are facing existential threats from climate change, inflation,
Speaker 2: and immigration enforcement. And the facing existential threats is actually
Speaker 2: hyperlinks to two New York Times articles about the challenges
Speaker 2: facing the LA restaurant industry, but neither one of those
Speaker 2: articles mentions climate change in any way, but The New
Speaker 2: York Times listed it as one of the factors in
Speaker 2: the hyperlink to those stories. It's like a cult Oh,
Speaker 2: they don't mention bums and junkies, the artificially high twenty
Speaker 2: dollars an hour minimum wage crime, any of that. No,
Speaker 2: it's climate change that's making it tough to run a
Speaker 2: restaurant in la unbelievable. But let's move on to heavy newsom,
Speaker 2: shall we. The climate change thing is is currently one
Speaker 2: of his big planks that he really hammers on why
Speaker 2: he should be president, and that what a leader he
Speaker 2: is in California, and he seems pretty wily to me.
Speaker 3: I don't understand why he doesn't understand that that is
Speaker 3: kind of like that ship has sailed a bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I don't think it's sailed among the hardest
Speaker 2: core thirty percent. He might argue, Hey, dudes, primary voters,
Speaker 2: that's what I'm talking to right now, And he might
Speaker 2: be right anyway, But I'm gonna be quoting now some
Speaker 2: nice writing by Bjorn Lomborg Gavin Knew some raising alarms
Speaker 2: on climate change again and getting basic fact wrong. California
Speaker 2: governor vows to sue the FEDS over the Trump administration's
Speaker 2: repeal of the EPA's twenty oh nine endangerment finding, which
Speaker 2: was the main legal basis under the clear act for
Speaker 2: mandating reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. Declaring carbon dioxide a
Speaker 2: pollutant in essence is what it did. Mister Newsom claims
Speaker 2: the reversal will trigger more deadly wildfires and more extreme
Speaker 2: heat deaths, So let's start there with the dead people.
Speaker 2: Age adjusted heat related death risk in California has risen
Speaker 2: modestly in recent decades, enough to account for ninety additional
Speaker 2: deaths likely linked to higher temperatures over the last twenty
Speaker 2: thirty years ninety, But he admits the other side, warming
Speaker 2: has helped produced age adjusted cold related deaths by more
Speaker 2: than five thousand a year. By more than five thousand
Speaker 2: a year. Oh my god. Citing only the tiny heat
Speaker 2: increase while ignoring the cold related deaths is insanely misleading.
Speaker 3: Well that's what pauls do. But yeah, and it's not
Speaker 3: even close. If it were a wash, it would be hilarious.
Speaker 3: But it's not even close.
Speaker 2: As for wildfires, mister Newsom is long wrongly focused on
Speaker 2: California in the Western US while ignoring that global warming
Speaker 2: is global. He's repeatedly referred to referred to California as
Speaker 2: the tip of the sphere of climate change. Why including
Speaker 2: after last January's Palisades fire years earlier Midwest Coast wildfires.
Speaker 2: He claimed climate change. His role cannot be denied. That
Speaker 2: science is absolute, self evident. All of those are quotes.
Speaker 2: Global data contradicts this, NASTI satellites, Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Self evident that now that's that out out, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Climate change is self evident. Just as a human being
Speaker 3: on Earth, I can tell that being cost and that
Speaker 3: it costs. The wildfires was undeniable, absolute and self evident.
Speaker 3: NASA's satellites have trapped fires globally for earning twenty five years.
Speaker 3: In the early two thousands, about three percent of the
Speaker 3: world's land burned annually in total acrea, about twice.
Speaker 2: Of the size of Mexico. The trends since has been downward.
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty two hit a record low of two point
Speaker 2: one six percent, twenty twenty five nearly matched it only
Speaker 2: slightly more. That's a reduction of over twenty five percent
Speaker 2: in twenty five years, sparing an area of land larger
Speaker 2: than Texas and California combined each year. North America is
Speaker 2: the only continent where burning burned areas increasing, but it
Speaker 2: accounts for only two point two of the global total. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The interesting thing about climate change, especially at this point,
Speaker 3: is so they always go with the settled science and
Speaker 3: like list their facts and figures to make the point.
Speaker 3: But now we have it's been around enough this craze
Speaker 3: that we have plenty of facts and figures to refute
Speaker 3: it with, like you're just doing, but nobody ever gets
Speaker 3: into those.
Speaker 2: Right, right. And then this author points out that the
Speaker 2: main reason for these really devastating wildfires in California is
Speaker 2: all the building in the border areas between you know,
Speaker 2: urban and and like wilderness areas. I know, I had
Speaker 2: a house there and it was unensurable. Wildfire CO two
Speaker 2: emissions have plummeted globally as well, hitting a satellite era
Speaker 2: low last year, down three billion tons from early two
Speaker 2: thousand levels. This undercuts claims of supercharged fires and feedback
Speaker 2: loops of carbon release. Because less of the world's landscape
Speaker 2: is burning, the result is less air pollution, especially in
Speaker 2: heavily populated areas, and indeed it's spiraling in the other direction,
Speaker 2: less and less and less carbon going into the air.
Speaker 2: The wildfire decline is a century long pattern driven by
Speaker 2: human adaptation, better land management, farming practice is the suppression
Speaker 2: of tamed global fires. Some claim that intense fires are worsening,
Speaker 2: citing a twenty twenty four Nature paper that declared extreme
Speaker 2: fire events doubled globally from twenty three to twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: I remember hearing about that, but a subsequent Nature review
Speaker 2: demolished that claim. The original study inflated trends by clustering
Speaker 2: fire hotspots and measuring their radiative power as intensity. Properly analyzed,
Speaker 2: extreme fire didn't burn more. Its frequency decreased by about
Speaker 2: thirty five percent. Yet NASA's fire homepage still prominently features
Speaker 2: the original studies claim. And there's more to this. It's
Speaker 2: just well, global fires are dramatically declining in extent emissions, pollution,
Speaker 2: death risk, and intensity. Mister Newsom's rhetoric may energize as supporters,
Speaker 2: but Americans deserve evidence based policies, not cherry picked alarm.
Speaker 2: Yeah you might be right.
Speaker 3: Maybe he thinks this is still the hot ticket to
Speaker 3: get denomination being big in climate change, But in terms
Speaker 3: of it being a national issue, the ship has sailed.
Speaker 3: I'm sure I'm plunged off the charts. I'm sure in
Speaker 3: our public schools it's still very, very hot topic. I feel,
Speaker 3: pardon the expression.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe someday I can get into another piece by
Speaker 2: mister Lomberg who wrote a great thing for the Free Press,
Speaker 2: how reality destroyed Europe's green energy dreams. They devastated themselves
Speaker 2: economically and socially to achieve.
Speaker 3: So yesterday was the biggest escalation of the Iran war
Speaker 3: since the first day. I realized a lot of you
Speaker 3: might not be paying attention and might not know that,
Speaker 3: but it's true. And where that goes as anybody guess.
Speaker 3: But we've got a little bit of info on that,
Speaker 3: among other things, on.
Speaker 2: The ways to hear.
Speaker 6: Armstrong and Getty, just as the Gulf foreign ministers and
Speaker 6: other foreign ministers from the region, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, the
Speaker 6: Pakistani foreign minister here as well the Azerbaijan for a
Speaker 6: minister also just as they were gathering in riand the
Speaker 6: heaviest ballistic missile barrages on the capitol since the war began.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Iran upped its game yesterday in terms of attacking
Speaker 3: some of its neighbors. Israel attacked Iran's giant natural gas
Speaker 3: field and Pete Hegsath vowed this today Today.
Speaker 7: We've struck over seven thousand targets across Iran and its
Speaker 7: military infrastructure. That is not incremental, that is overwhelming force
Speaker 7: applied with precision, And again today will be the large, largest.
Speaker 2: Strike package yet, just like yesterday was.
Speaker 7: As I've said from day one, our capabilities continue to build,
Speaker 7: Iran's continue to degrade. We're hunting and striking death and
Speaker 7: destruction from above.
Speaker 3: So this war is clearly escalating by any measure, from
Speaker 3: both sides, and the things people are willing to hit.
Speaker 2: Is going up. So yeah, I'm interested in that math.
Speaker 2: Pete just laid out that we're escalating, their ability to
Speaker 2: do anything is declining. Will that mean, you know, capitulation
Speaker 2: fairly soon or can they maintain that cornered beast flailing
Speaker 2: and doing damage for the indefinite future. I don't know,
Speaker 2: so let me do it in this order.
Speaker 3: I talked about story in Neil Ferguson and his Peace
Speaker 3: in the Free Press about how.
Speaker 2: The Iran war goes global, with his.
Speaker 3: Sub headline being the straight of Horror moves is blocked
Speaker 3: for how long the Strait of Taiwan is open for?
Speaker 2: How long?
Speaker 3: The administration is now trying to salvage a plan that
Speaker 3: seems to be disintegrating on contact with the enemy, as
Speaker 3: often happens, it may still be salvageable. The Islamic Republic
Speaker 3: may yet oblige Trump by expiring I do not rule
Speaker 3: that out, and I remember correctly at the beginning of
Speaker 3: this Neil Ferguson was a supporter, thought it was the
Speaker 3: right thing to do. But plans often disintegrate on contact. However,
Speaker 3: if Trump's advisors do not keep their wits about them,
Speaker 3: they may overlook the fact that they have created a
Speaker 3: huge strategic opportunity for China and Russia, especially if they
Speaker 3: act in concert. A Taiwan crisis would upend the international
Speaker 3: economy in geopolitical order. If China and Russia decided to
Speaker 3: close the Strait of Taiwan at the same time we're
Speaker 3: all focusing on how the hell to get the straight
Speaker 3: of Horror moves open, that would be a big problem
Speaker 3: for the world. I don't know how difficult that would be,
Speaker 3: how likely it is, but.
Speaker 2: I mean we're.
Speaker 3: Obviously otherwise occupied to a great extent. I don't know
Speaker 3: if Neil gets into this.
Speaker 2: This is what comforts me, but it's the sort of
Speaker 2: prediction that you make and then realize, oh, I didn't
Speaker 2: know that when it goes south. But according to a
Speaker 2: number of really persuasive things I've read recently or listened to,
Speaker 2: if China moved on Taiwan, that would cause a brutal
Speaker 2: worldwide chip shortage and probably a global recession bordering on depression,
Speaker 2: which would be devastating to China right now. So I
Speaker 2: don't think they dare do it. I don't know, man,
Speaker 2: chaos is a ladder.
Speaker 3: If I wanted to change the history of the world
Speaker 3: and have in the United States no longer be the
Speaker 3: hegemen that it has been for the last eighty years,
Speaker 3: really upending everything.
Speaker 2: Seems like a good idea, But I don't know. Be
Speaker 2: rolling the dice, no doubt.
Speaker 3: So Eventually the books will be written about what Marco
Speaker 3: Rubio is doing behind the scenes that got this to happen.
Speaker 3: The United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan
Speaker 3: released a joint statement today expressing their readiness to contribute
Speaker 3: to efforts to ensure the safe passage of commercial shipping
Speaker 3: through the Strait of our Moves. That was not the language.
Speaker 3: Those there were not the noises they were making. The
Speaker 3: last seventy two hours. Why they all came together and
Speaker 3: decided to make a statement on that today. I have
Speaker 3: no idea why.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, huh?
Speaker 3: Possibly thinking about what Neil Ferguson was writing about. Look,
Speaker 3: we gotta get this open because what if something happened
Speaker 3: somewhere else I don't know.
Speaker 2: Or the transactional Tree said, hey, all those tariffs, forget
Speaker 2: about him, you join us in this. We'll call it good.
Speaker 2: Who knows? Who knows?
Speaker 3: Different piece, just because this has been a topic now
Speaker 3: for well since the war began. Did we do this
Speaker 3: because of Israel? Are we doing this? Are we dancing
Speaker 3: to Israel's tune? Or that whole thing? And Joe Kent,
Speaker 3: the guy that left the Center for Counter Terrorism and
Speaker 3: went on Tucker yesterday and says, ah, yeah, Israel and
Speaker 3: their lobby, they got us to go to war. Ian Bremmer,
Speaker 3: to his credit, tweeted out Netanyah, who has been pushing
Speaker 3: for an Iran war with every American president for many decades,
Speaker 3: doesn't make Israel responsible for a decision made solely by
Speaker 3: the US commander in chief.
Speaker 2: Right, appreciate that. I think that's obviously true. And Israel's
Speaker 2: been right about Iran for decades.
Speaker 3: Correct where this goes is absolutely ebody's guests. I'll tell
Speaker 3: you twenty four hours ago, I would not bet that
Speaker 3: all those countries would as signed onto a letter saying
Speaker 3: we're all on board with helping you open the straight.
Speaker 3: I didn't think that was gonna happen. So who knows
Speaker 3: what's gonna happen the next day? The fact that Israel
Speaker 3: hit the largest gas field in the world in Iran,
Speaker 3: and apparently with out telling us and Trump being very
Speaker 3: angry about it, and with a long truth social post
Speaker 3: last night saying that will not happen again. We didn't
Speaker 3: want Israel to do that. We didn't know they were
Speaker 3: gonna do it, and it will not happen again. As
Speaker 3: if he's can forbid Net and Yahoo from doing that
Speaker 3: sort of thing. Israel Iran, by the way, after getting
Speaker 3: hit like that, hit Katar next door who shares that
Speaker 3: oil field with them, also hit the oil field.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're gonna hit the oil field.
Speaker 3: We're gonna hit the oil field, the gas field, and
Speaker 3: we didn't do it, says cutter, Right, why are you
Speaker 3: hitting us like you and everybody?
Speaker 2: Well, boy, that strategy is backfiring like crazy. I tell
Speaker 2: you what, We're going to lash out and punish everyone
Speaker 2: in the region for the actions of Israel and the
Speaker 2: US and anybody who has helped them or hasn't. We're
Speaker 2: just going to punch everybody.
Speaker 3: Well, so, is there a theory that it's just going
Speaker 3: to drive up energy prices and democracies will doesn't matter
Speaker 3: what's the best thing.
Speaker 2: Long term. Democracies will react with gas is too high,
Speaker 2: this is gotten the Gulf and the Gulf States will
Speaker 2: react with we're tired of getting bombed. You got to
Speaker 2: stop attacking her on That's their strategy.
Speaker 3: If that's going to happen, though, a Saudi representative I
Speaker 3: saw in Fox this morning said that they're contacting their
Speaker 3: golf neighbors to talk about bringing this to an end.
Speaker 3: Being attacked by Iran, bringing that to an end, no
Speaker 3: matter what they have to do economically, diplomatically, and militarily.
Speaker 3: So are you going to see Saudi planes and Katari
Speaker 3: planes and UAE planes, all probably purchased from the United
Speaker 3: States flying next to Israeli planes bombing Iran.
Speaker 2: Well, here's some old guy wisdom that if that guy
Speaker 2: still maintains that Twitter account, Rye quotes and he'll probably
Speaker 2: quote me. In life, there are many things that go
Speaker 2: very very well that are still extremely difficult, building a career,
Speaker 2: raising a kit, that sort of thing. And even if
Speaker 2: this effort continues to go quite well from virtually any
Speaker 2: advantage point, it could still be incredibly difficult. For one thing,
Speaker 2: as we discussed earlier, at some point we have to
Speaker 2: get all of the highly refined fizzle material that Iran has,
Speaker 2: and that's going to be a hell of an operation
Speaker 2: fraught with risk, including it's extremely radioactive and volatile. Plus
Speaker 2: you know, getting the straight of Hormuz open and kept open,
Speaker 2: even if it goes great, is going to be really
Speaker 2: costly and involve human beings with guns on the ground.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: We haven't talked since earlier about the couple thousand marines
Speaker 3: being sent and now a couple thousand more being sent.
Speaker 3: It certainly looks like it's headed toward boots on the
Speaker 3: ground sort of conflict, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: Uh, there are aspects of it, like the two things
Speaker 2: I was just talking about that absolutely can't do them
Speaker 2: from above.
Speaker 3: Entirely, and then those have a tendency to grow. Doesn't
Speaker 3: mean this one will, but historically they do.
Speaker 2: One thing we've learned is apparently you can't bomb someone
Speaker 2: back to the Stone Age, as they seem to still
Speaker 2: be using modern ordinance. I'm surprised Bronze Age. Maybe I don't.
Speaker 3: Know anything about this, but I'm surprised. After what did
Speaker 3: Hegxeth say we've hit nine thousand targets something like that,
Speaker 3: that they still have the capacity to fire rockets and
Speaker 3: missiles and kill people in Tel Aviv and attack an
Speaker 3: oil field and cutter and everything else they did yesterday. Right,
Speaker 3: that nine thousand targets doesn't take out all of their launchers.
Speaker 3: I mean, Mike Lines has been told since day one
Speaker 3: of the war. You know, it's you don't have to
Speaker 3: take out the arrows, you take out the archers. But
Speaker 3: apparently we've taken out all the archers.
Speaker 2: Well, some of it's that we've hit their army and
Speaker 2: their navy and their air force and command and control
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. But takes a while. We have
Speaker 2: that hilarious. You have to flip which one was that
Speaker 2: about the navy. I really enjoyed that. Oh, yeah, that
Speaker 2: was good. Yes, if you like hard asks, you get
Speaker 2: some here. Fifty four.
Speaker 7: The last job anyone in the world wants right now,
Speaker 7: senior leader for the IRGC or besiege temp jobs all
Speaker 7: of them, And to borrow a page from Admiral Ernest
Speaker 7: King in World War Two, we've decided to share the
Speaker 7: ocean with Iran. We've given them the bottom half. We've
Speaker 7: damaged or sunk over one hundred and twenty of their
Speaker 7: navy ships, with battle damage assessments pending for many more.
Speaker 2: We're sharing the ocean with them. We'll give them the
Speaker 2: bottom half. Oh, I know what he means.
Speaker 3: Who's that for? I like it, I'm not against it.
Speaker 3: But who's that for? Is that to keep the American
Speaker 3: spirits up?
Speaker 2: If I'm in the Navy and I hear that, I'm
Speaker 2: yelling with all my might, with all my shipmates, cheering
Speaker 2: like a maniac, I'm all for that. Yeah, I haven't
Speaker 2: got this all about the war fighters, Pete. How history
Speaker 2: judges him ultimately, I don't know, but I believe he
Speaker 2: is one hundred percent sincere in his protectiveness of and
Speaker 2: love for our actual fighters. Well, you mentioned this earlier,
Speaker 2: and I think it's true.
Speaker 3: History is going to judge Pete Hegseth completely based on
Speaker 3: how this war turns out. And maybe Donald Trump even
Speaker 3: all the stuff that's gone into Trump's presidencies, including January sixth.
Speaker 3: The whole thing might get judged by how this turns out,
Speaker 3: depending on how it goes right.
Speaker 2: Right, As I mentioned briefly, he is Trump is now
Speaker 2: forty one points underwater overall on cost of living, and
Speaker 2: it's sick step points underwater among independents. So the uh,
Speaker 2: you know, the next blood bath is going to be
Speaker 2: the midterms and.
Speaker 3: Then it'll be impeached. So that'll be our last two
Speaker 3: years of his second term. Super couple of impeachments. That'll
Speaker 3: be fun. But I have no idea where this war's going.
Speaker 2: None.
Speaker 3: Like I said, I wouldn't have predicted all those European
Speaker 3: countries in Japan saying we'll help you open the straight?
Speaker 2: What that means? How'd we get them there? M how
Speaker 2: did we get them there? The carricter or the stick? Oh?
Speaker 3: What got them on board with this letter? And then
Speaker 3: how long does it take them to get boats there
Speaker 3: or planes or troops or whatever they're going to do
Speaker 3: to help us open the straight?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: Donna, the CEO of Costco, taking a page from the
Speaker 3: McDonald's guy, said, oh my god, what is this?
Speaker 2: Oh? Wow, I know I eat this. That guy.
Speaker 3: McDonald's, the ceost Goes put out a video he had
Speaker 3: one of their hot dogs and what he said will
Speaker 3: shock you. We're not shock you, among other things on
Speaker 3: the waist to hear march madness has begun. And I
Speaker 3: just saw during a time out Ohio State's mascot Buddy
Speaker 3: or Bucky or something, the Buckeye anyway.
Speaker 2: Bucky the buck Eye. Yes, indeed, he was hilarious. He was.
Speaker 3: Pretending he had a basketball and doing all kinds of
Speaker 3: moves going between his legs behind fact and then shot
Speaker 3: the ball and then strutted around.
Speaker 2: It was very entertaining.
Speaker 3: What a fun thing to do for some theater major
Speaker 3: probably you know. The more I think about it too,
Speaker 3: that whole Butterfly Bridge thing in California that we talked
Speaker 3: about earlier this hour, that is one of the more
Speaker 3: hilarious stealing of taxpayer money stories. Ever, it's very California.
Speaker 3: This might be taken it to the limit, to a
Speaker 3: complete absurdity. Makes the bullet train seem like cancer research
Speaker 3: in terms of spending taxpayer dollars.
Speaker 2: I wonder there's part of me that wonders. I mean,
Speaker 2: you can make the argument, Okay, mountain lions have to
Speaker 2: be able to get across, and what was the foxes
Speaker 2: and other things, But they included things that fly on
Speaker 2: the list, like the butterfly. He's gonna say to it, youngsters, now, kids,
Speaker 2: remember let's fly over this bridge and not down by
Speaker 2: the roadway where we might get hit by a semi truck.
Speaker 2: I mean to include flying beasts as being benefited by
Speaker 2: a land bridge. I think that's just seeing how far
Speaker 2: they can go. He laughed. I laughed.
Speaker 3: Okay, different topic. It's been very popular now for a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks because the CEO McDonald's put out a
Speaker 3: video of him eating a sandwich, and then a bunch
Speaker 3: of CEOs from other restaurants put out videos and everything
Speaker 3: like that. Here's the CEO of Costco sitting down at
Speaker 3: a Costco table to have od.
Speaker 2: On dollar fifty for this hot nug he's now eating it.
Speaker 2: Put a ketchup on it.
Speaker 4: Hot dog.
Speaker 2: Price will not change as long as I'm around.
Speaker 6: Still amazing, amazing quality, amazing value.
Speaker 2: That's a dollar fifty well spent. Are you gonna have
Speaker 2: another one at your next building you go to? Absolutely?
Speaker 3: He came off exactly the way you would want to
Speaker 3: come off if you're trying to promote that sort item.
Speaker 3: He kind of looks like a regular guy, a little fat,
Speaker 3: really actually enjoying his Costco hot dog the way I
Speaker 3: enjoy them, as opposed to them. The McDonald's guy who
Speaker 3: had just wreaked of you've never eaten a burger at McDonald's,
Speaker 3: have you? Is the first time you've ever seen one?
Speaker 3: Is the way he came off. And it was a
Speaker 3: fine burger product, and he took a tiny, tiny little
Speaker 3: nibble of it, and I'll save that for later, so phony,
Speaker 3: Oh my god. The Costco guy looks like I'm a
Speaker 3: guy who eats Costco hot dogs.
Speaker 2: Lots of my everyone, I got every store and go
Speaker 2: to I eat one. Give me some monies to final
Speaker 2: thoughts with Hot Strong. You get the facts. They're sharp
Speaker 2: and steady. Tune in to mal don't you for Yetty
Speaker 2: for more strong and yet Dude, you gotta put out
Speaker 2: a whole album of that stuff.
Speaker 3: I like, Oh, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: For the record, I'm neither sharp nor steady, but you
Speaker 2: know whatever, it's our Hey, let's get a final thought
Speaker 2: from everybody on the crew to wrap up to day.
Speaker 2: There is Michael Agelow and the ConTroll room. Michael, wish
Speaker 2: these CEOs would quit putting out these videos.
Speaker 7: I've got to eat a big arch, a new whopper,
Speaker 7: a Costco hot dog.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get fat. I do like me a Costco
Speaker 2: hot dog Jack. A final thought for us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a funny YouTube video somewhere of h It's
Speaker 3: a cart rendering of when I went to Costco one
Speaker 3: time and got the Gosco hot dog and I was
Speaker 3: walking around shopping and didn't notice that I had spilled
Speaker 3: mustard all down my shirt and onto the tops of
Speaker 3: my shoes. Oh no, I was walking around a mustard
Speaker 3: on top of my shoes and mustard might as well
Speaker 3: be oil based paint.
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean, it's never coming out. My final thought.
Speaker 2: It just dawned on me. Mark Wayne Mullen will get
Speaker 2: confirmed as the DHS Secretary, and he's going to be
Speaker 2: going in front of that committee featuring Rand Paul for
Speaker 2: a couple of years. Probably Rand Paul is the chair
Speaker 2: of that committee. Yeah right, Oh boy.
Speaker 3: That back and forth argument was with the chair of
Speaker 3: the committee Secretary.
Speaker 2: Ahole, what are you want, curly I got to punch
Speaker 2: you in the face for a couple of years.
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