WEBVTT - Try Planting a Lawn 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:06.320 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:09.960 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe. 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:17.480 Getty Armstrong and Getty and now he Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:29.800 Fifty four million dollars the state has put up for this. 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.800 Program, and we'll complete the job within another ten million dollars. 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.159 By the way, I called Wallace, We're not gonna ask 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:37.680 for any more money. We're good. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:38.640 We're good. 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:42.400 We're good. I think we're good. I don't know. 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.839 So the Butterfly Bridge, this is what we're going to 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.800 talk about here, and it's a kind of a wacky 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:53.960 idea and then it's turning into yet another money hole 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.200 that we do in California and all over the country, really, 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:01.480 but we specialize it in California. You come with a 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.000 do gooder idea and then you come up with a 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.560 ridiculous budget, and then you go way past the budget 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.360 and you just keep asking for money. The Butterfly Bridge, 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:16.760 it's officially the Wallace Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, also known as 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:20.560 the Liberty Canyon Wildlife Crossing in southern California. It's a 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:26.199 massive vegetated wildlife overpass going across one oh one which 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:27.880 is a big freeway in California. 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:32.200 If you don't know that it's a giant overpass that 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:36.520 they're going to grow stuff on. It's sometimes called the 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:40.160 Newsome Cougar and Butterfly Bridge. I hope there will be 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.400 shardennay stations so that it's the cougars as they cross 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:45.200 the bridge can get refreshments. 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:52.680 So the bridge connects habitats between the two areas of 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:56.480 southern California, which will in theory help wildlife safely cross 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:04.280 the busy freeway if the wildlife happens to have a 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:09.800 smartphone and are on waves a navigation system of some 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:11.639 sort that can tell them that this is the best 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.480 way to cross. You got two mountain lions. One's about 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.200 to walk into the road. The other one says, yo 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.480 yo Jim, Jim, Let's take the bridge. 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:19.440 It's much safer. 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:21.720 So it originally came up because there was so much 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.400 roadkill along the freeway, or somebody decided there was more 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:25.880 roadkill there than other places or. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.880 Whatever, including butterflies or all. 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.400 Kinds of wildlife, and that they needed some sort of 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:35.400 like bridge for the beasts of everything from butterflies to 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:39.840 mountain lions and everything in between. Could get across, and 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.880 it's about an acre, so. 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:43.639 It's pretty big. 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:45.200 I mean, the overpass is an acre. If you can 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.520 picture an acre, it's pretty damn big, making it the 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.799 world's largest wildlife crossing. You know why because nobody else 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:54.560 has done this dumb idea that probably won't benefit a 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:59.440 single ant anyway. It's behind on funding it. As all 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.920 these sorts of things happen. Let's hear from this Beth Prett, 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.120 who's involved in the raising more money for it. 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:09.640 When we started stage one and we're waiting to start 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:13.760 stage two, the world change beneath us. So this spring, 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.640 construction costs increase considerably. 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.960 And although we were holding reserves to finish construction, all 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:24.280 those are exhausted at this point because of tariffs, inflation, 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:28.240 and so many other factors in pacting construction projects, not 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.160 just ours. So we need your help one more time 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:33.920 to get us to the finish line and help. 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:34.880 Us build back those. 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.800 Reserves so that we can ensure that we finalize construction 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:41.200 by November, so we can all cut that ribbon together. 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.600 What a moment that will be. And like you, I 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.720 can't wait to see that first mount lying costs. 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:54.280 It'll probably be at night if I understand mountain lion habits, but. 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.760 Well, you have to believe that. I mean, while an 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:01.360 acre is fairly large, it's very very small for a 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.360 giant area of southern California, And you have to believe 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.520 the mountain lion is gonna figure out that there's a 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.120 place I can cross here to get to the other 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.520 side of the freeway. I just I don't know that 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.520 I believe that any this is gonna benefit anything other 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:23.960 than whoever's getting all the money. It's gonna be mountain lions, deer, bobcats, coyotes, foxes, bears, rabbits, lizards, birds, 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.839 and smaller creatures like monarch, butterflies, bats and rodents that 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:35.240 will use the bad butterfly literally fly. So you heard 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.000 from the groundbreaking there. That was Gavin Newsom, the groundbreaking 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.560 on Earth Day in twenty twenty two, where he said 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.120 that we're gonna get fifty four million dollars from the state. 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.839 We won't ask for any more money, fifty four million 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.960 dollars of taxpayer money for this thing that will probably 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.640 never benefit like I said, an aunt, and of course 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.320 that they haven't been able to build it, and they need. 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.720 Lots and lots of more money. Yeah, it's more than 0:04:57.760 --> 0:04:58.880 doubled in price. Right. 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.560 The total has risen to about one hundred and fourteen 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:07.120 million dollars with twenty one million in overruns and increasing 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:07.920 state funding. 0:05:08.320 --> 0:05:10.160 But that's always the so far. 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:12.840 I mean, we're always never even close to the end 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.880 of these things. It's a money spigot for cronies. 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:19.000 That's what it is. Every project, never mind what they 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.000 call it, it's a money spigot. Critics call it a 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:27.400 boondoggle or jobs program or money spigot. While supporters emphasize 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:32.080 long term safety and biodiversity aligning with California's conservation goals. 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:36.400 Who could be against which reduced wildlife vehicle collisions so 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:39.440 that we won't have any more SUV's hitting bats and 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:46.440 lizards My down the cat or a bob cat. The 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:50.119 lizard cottage has been unspeakable. Now I haven't heard this clip. 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:51.880 This is another do good or that do we just 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:53.839 happen to have Here we go ninety one. 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:58.000 So seed scouting is going out into natural lands and 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.640 you're identifying populations, plants that you want to be able 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.240 to return to when they set seeds. So I literally 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.400 had months to myself to work to get exactly what 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.200 was needed done for this particular project, and so to 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:15.120 be able to just be roaming the Santa Monica Mountains 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:19.640 looking for seeds in that sacred solitude was such a blessing. 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.760 It was such a blessing to be part of this 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:23.159 particular team and grow. 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.839 Wow, hey baby, I got a hint for you. You 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:30.160 ever try to plant a lawn, Just spread out some 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.880 dirt and you'll have all the native plants you can 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:34.599 use within about two weeks. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.160 So somebody told this poet dreamer, We're going to give 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:42.080 you a salary to go roam the mountains and hunt 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:44.760 for seeds to plant on this overpass. And she felt 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:48.320 like she'd won the lottery because she did. You got 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:51.600 the poet job in California that we taxpayers are paying 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.280 for that won't do any good for anything. The idea 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.400 that this is going to cause lots of animals to 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.080 figure out, well, that's the overpass. 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:00.520 If you need to get over there, if you're going, 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:01.480 then rangel down there. 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:04.320 So you all, as foxes and deer and bats and lizards, 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.720 we all head down to the overpass and cross there. 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:10.400 Didn't you read the animal newsletter, Jim, there's an overpass now, 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.680 you see, because we're animals and we understand roads and 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.520 the dangers of roads, so we wouldn't try to pass 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:17.680 here when we know. 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:24.120 Word mouth or beak there's some overpass down there. I mean, 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.720 the whole concept is so silly. Well, and you made 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:29.880 it sound more efficient than it is. She wasn't going 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.320 out to gather the seeds. She was doing a separate 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.480 scouting trip to find the plants that might someday have 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.520 the seeds that would just blow through the damn air again. 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.480 Just spread out some dirt. Trust me, all the native 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:46.760 plants you can see will be growing. How much did 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:51.200 she get paid? This is what maybe I'll do it 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.560 someday when I'm retired or whatever. There's so many documentary 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:58.080 films or news pieces I wish somebody would do find 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.400 out the people that are getting the money for this 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.520 project and interview them and lay it out for people. 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.840 This lady, whatever her name is, how many hours did 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:08.520 you work, what did you get paid? What were the 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:12.200 other benefits that came with the seed sprouting job for 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:16.800 this ridiculous, fanciful unicorn project. And then there's probably hundreds 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.640 of examples of just with this project, of things that 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:21.200 would blow people's minds. 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:26.280 She probably legally had her name changed to Butterfly Ocean feather. 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.200 Speaking of which, Gavin. 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:33.320 Newsom's figure out that that's where it across. 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:38.640 See the lizard doesn't know it's a road. It's got 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:47.160 a brain like an a sesame seed. Oh boy, Gavin 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:52.600 Newsom's utterly hilariously fictional climate false alarms coming up in 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:57.320 a moment or two. Oh stuff like this get off 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:58.000 the ground. 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:00.160 Thanks for taking the money. 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.439 And while a California taxpayer there and while one hundred 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.120 and fourteen million dollars so far, is it dropping the 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.960 bucket for what we spend in California, As we always. 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:14.960 Like to point out, that could be all the state 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.640 tax money you ever pay in your life, and all 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:21.120 your neighbors right there that just went to this stupid, 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.360 complete waste of money. 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:28.920 It's a land bridge for animals that fly, old boy. 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:33.640 Luckily for the animals that have GPS and understand roadways. 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:38.480 Ryan exactly exactly, Gavin. Stuff's worth staying tune for. Trust. 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:50.040 That's next. Breaking celebrity news. Breaking celebrity news. 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:54.360 Chuck Norris is in the hospital in an emergency according 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.679 TMZ in Hawaii, So full team coverage on the way 0:09:58.160 --> 0:09:59.239 kicking the gut. 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:03.720 Oh, Chuck, get well soon. Chub doesn't listen to Armstrong 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.040 and Geddy. He doesn't Armstrong and Geddy listen to Chuck Norris. 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:10.640 How old hospital is in, Chuck Norris? How old? How 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.960 old do you think Chuck Norris is? Eighty three? Eighty six? 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:19.239 Pretty good, guess, thank you. So let's talk about Gavin's ridiculous, 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.640 hilarious inaccuracy on climate change. I'm going to start with this, though, 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:24.959 leave it to the New York Times. They're writing an 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:31.200 article about struggling LA restaurants, and that's not exactly the 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.360 focus of the story, but one of the lead sentences 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:38.480 is some local chefs have find it inconvenient blah blah blah, 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:43.720 when LA restaurants are facing existential threats from climate change, inflation, 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:49.000 and immigration enforcement. And the facing existential threats is actually 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:55.120 hyperlinks to two New York Times articles about the challenges 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.280 facing the LA restaurant industry, but neither one of those 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:02.880 articles mentions climate change in any way, but The New 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:06.000 York Times listed it as one of the factors in 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:11.439 the hyperlink to those stories. It's like a cult Oh, 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.679 they don't mention bums and junkies, the artificially high twenty 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.679 dollars an hour minimum wage crime, any of that. No, 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.319 it's climate change that's making it tough to run a 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.600 restaurant in la unbelievable. But let's move on to heavy newsom, 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:28.960 shall we. The climate change thing is is currently one 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.680 of his big planks that he really hammers on why 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:33.600 he should be president, and that what a leader he 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.640 is in California, and he seems pretty wily to me. 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.160 I don't understand why he doesn't understand that that is 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.079 kind of like that ship has sailed a bit. 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.920 Yeah, because I don't think it's sailed among the hardest 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:47.240 core thirty percent. He might argue, Hey, dudes, primary voters, 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.320 that's what I'm talking to right now, And he might 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.480 be right anyway, But I'm gonna be quoting now some 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:58.280 nice writing by Bjorn Lomborg Gavin Knew some raising alarms 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.760 on climate change again and getting basic fact wrong. California 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.559 governor vows to sue the FEDS over the Trump administration's 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:08.959 repeal of the EPA's twenty oh nine endangerment finding, which 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.520 was the main legal basis under the clear act for 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:16.160 mandating reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. Declaring carbon dioxide a 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.319 pollutant in essence is what it did. Mister Newsom claims 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:23.000 the reversal will trigger more deadly wildfires and more extreme 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.040 heat deaths, So let's start there with the dead people. 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.160 Age adjusted heat related death risk in California has risen 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:34.600 modestly in recent decades, enough to account for ninety additional 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:37.360 deaths likely linked to higher temperatures over the last twenty 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.920 thirty years ninety, But he admits the other side, warming 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.079 has helped produced age adjusted cold related deaths by more 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:48.840 than five thousand a year. By more than five thousand 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:53.560 a year. Oh my god. Citing only the tiny heat 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:58.280 increase while ignoring the cold related deaths is insanely misleading. 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.520 Well that's what pauls do. But yeah, and it's not 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.959 even close. If it were a wash, it would be hilarious. 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:06.040 But it's not even close. 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:10.040 As for wildfires, mister Newsom is long wrongly focused on 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.760 California in the Western US while ignoring that global warming 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.240 is global. He's repeatedly referred to referred to California as 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:19.600 the tip of the sphere of climate change. Why including 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:24.200 after last January's Palisades fire years earlier Midwest Coast wildfires. 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.480 He claimed climate change. His role cannot be denied. That 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:31.440 science is absolute, self evident. All of those are quotes. 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:37.079 Global data contradicts this, NASTI satellites, Yeah, go ahead. 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:41.120 Self evident that now that's that out out, it's ridiculous. 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.840 Climate change is self evident. Just as a human being 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.319 on Earth, I can tell that being cost and that 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.800 it costs. The wildfires was undeniable, absolute and self evident. 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:55.000 NASA's satellites have trapped fires globally for earning twenty five years. 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.040 In the early two thousands, about three percent of the 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:01.319 world's land burned annually in total acrea, about twice. 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:05.040 Of the size of Mexico. The trends since has been downward. 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.760 Twenty twenty two hit a record low of two point 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:12.120 one six percent, twenty twenty five nearly matched it only 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.840 slightly more. That's a reduction of over twenty five percent 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:19.200 in twenty five years, sparing an area of land larger 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.800 than Texas and California combined each year. North America is 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:26.120 the only continent where burning burned areas increasing, but it 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.480 accounts for only two point two of the global total. Yeah. 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:32.000 The interesting thing about climate change, especially at this point, 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:35.960 is so they always go with the settled science and 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:40.160 like list their facts and figures to make the point. 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.960 But now we have it's been around enough this craze 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.560 that we have plenty of facts and figures to refute 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.000 it with, like you're just doing, but nobody ever gets 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:49.720 into those. 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.800 Right, right. And then this author points out that the 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.040 main reason for these really devastating wildfires in California is 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.560 all the building in the border areas between you know, 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:02.320 urban and and like wilderness areas. I know, I had 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.880 a house there and it was unensurable. Wildfire CO two 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:10.600 emissions have plummeted globally as well, hitting a satellite era 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.120 low last year, down three billion tons from early two 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:17.080 thousand levels. This undercuts claims of supercharged fires and feedback 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.880 loops of carbon release. Because less of the world's landscape 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.000 is burning, the result is less air pollution, especially in 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.520 heavily populated areas, and indeed it's spiraling in the other direction, 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.800 less and less and less carbon going into the air. 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.960 The wildfire decline is a century long pattern driven by 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:35.880 human adaptation, better land management, farming practice is the suppression 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.280 of tamed global fires. Some claim that intense fires are worsening, 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.720 citing a twenty twenty four Nature paper that declared extreme 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.640 fire events doubled globally from twenty three to twenty twenty three. 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.400 I remember hearing about that, but a subsequent Nature review 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.040 demolished that claim. The original study inflated trends by clustering 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:57.080 fire hotspots and measuring their radiative power as intensity. Properly analyzed, 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.920 extreme fire didn't burn more. Its frequency decreased by about 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.680 thirty five percent. Yet NASA's fire homepage still prominently features 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:08.880 the original studies claim. And there's more to this. It's 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:14.680 just well, global fires are dramatically declining in extent emissions, pollution, 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:19.000 death risk, and intensity. Mister Newsom's rhetoric may energize as supporters, 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:23.960 but Americans deserve evidence based policies, not cherry picked alarm. 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:25.720 Yeah you might be right. 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:28.240 Maybe he thinks this is still the hot ticket to 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.400 get denomination being big in climate change, But in terms 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:34.280 of it being a national issue, the ship has sailed. 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.000 I'm sure I'm plunged off the charts. I'm sure in 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:41.200 our public schools it's still very, very hot topic. I feel, 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:42.040 pardon the expression. 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.880 Yeah, maybe someday I can get into another piece by 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:50.520 mister Lomberg who wrote a great thing for the Free Press, 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:56.280 how reality destroyed Europe's green energy dreams. They devastated themselves 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.760 economically and socially to achieve. 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:06.760 So yesterday was the biggest escalation of the Iran war 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.639 since the first day. I realized a lot of you 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:12.520 might not be paying attention and might not know that, 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.840 but it's true. And where that goes as anybody guess. 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:17.439 But we've got a little bit of info on that, 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:18.360 among other things, on. 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:19.000 The ways to hear. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:26.199 Armstrong and Getty, just as the Gulf foreign ministers and 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:31.320 other foreign ministers from the region, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, the 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.119 Pakistani foreign minister here as well the Azerbaijan for a 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:38.040 minister also just as they were gathering in riand the 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:43.359 heaviest ballistic missile barrages on the capitol since the war began. 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.439 Yeah, Iran upped its game yesterday in terms of attacking 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:54.320 some of its neighbors. Israel attacked Iran's giant natural gas 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:58.440 field and Pete Hegsath vowed this today Today. 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.920 We've struck over seven thousand targets across Iran and its 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:05.960 military infrastructure. That is not incremental, that is overwhelming force 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:10.640 applied with precision, And again today will be the large, largest. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.919 Strike package yet, just like yesterday was. 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:16.159 As I've said from day one, our capabilities continue to build, 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:21.919 Iran's continue to degrade. We're hunting and striking death and 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:23.399 destruction from above. 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:27.680 So this war is clearly escalating by any measure, from 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.600 both sides, and the things people are willing to hit. 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.520 Is going up. So yeah, I'm interested in that math. 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:40.439 Pete just laid out that we're escalating, their ability to 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:45.240 do anything is declining. Will that mean, you know, capitulation 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:51.359 fairly soon or can they maintain that cornered beast flailing 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.840 and doing damage for the indefinite future. I don't know, 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:57.440 so let me do it in this order. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.840 I talked about story in Neil Ferguson and his Peace 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.200 in the Free Press about how. 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:08.800 The Iran war goes global, with his. 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.240 Sub headline being the straight of Horror moves is blocked 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.679 for how long the Strait of Taiwan is open for? 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:15.359 How long? 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.840 The administration is now trying to salvage a plan that 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.840 seems to be disintegrating on contact with the enemy, as 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:27.920 often happens, it may still be salvageable. The Islamic Republic 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:30.520 may yet oblige Trump by expiring I do not rule 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.800 that out, and I remember correctly at the beginning of 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:35.760 this Neil Ferguson was a supporter, thought it was the 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:40.159 right thing to do. But plans often disintegrate on contact. However, 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:42.560 if Trump's advisors do not keep their wits about them, 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:45.480 they may overlook the fact that they have created a 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:50.000 huge strategic opportunity for China and Russia, especially if they 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:53.919 act in concert. A Taiwan crisis would upend the international 0:19:53.960 --> 0:20:01.600 economy in geopolitical order. If China and Russia decided to 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.760 close the Strait of Taiwan at the same time we're 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:06.720 all focusing on how the hell to get the straight 0:20:06.760 --> 0:20:09.479 of Horror moves open, that would be a big problem 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:12.600 for the world. I don't know how difficult that would be, 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:14.720 how likely it is, but. 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:17.280 I mean we're. 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:22.919 Obviously otherwise occupied to a great extent. I don't know 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:24.280 if Neil gets into this. 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:26.600 This is what comforts me, but it's the sort of 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:29.560 prediction that you make and then realize, oh, I didn't 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:34.040 know that when it goes south. But according to a 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:38.159 number of really persuasive things I've read recently or listened to, 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:43.080 if China moved on Taiwan, that would cause a brutal 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:48.960 worldwide chip shortage and probably a global recession bordering on depression, 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:53.080 which would be devastating to China right now. So I 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:55.880 don't think they dare do it. I don't know, man, 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:57.760 chaos is a ladder. 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.480 If I wanted to change the history of the world 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:04.399 and have in the United States no longer be the 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:07.840 hegemen that it has been for the last eighty years, 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:10.640 really upending everything. 0:21:10.240 --> 0:21:13.399 Seems like a good idea, But I don't know. Be 0:21:13.520 --> 0:21:14.720 rolling the dice, no doubt. 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:19.480 So Eventually the books will be written about what Marco 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:22.000 Rubio is doing behind the scenes that got this to happen. 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:27.119 The United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Japan 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:30.600 released a joint statement today expressing their readiness to contribute 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:34.359 to efforts to ensure the safe passage of commercial shipping 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:37.240 through the Strait of our Moves. That was not the language. 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:39.639 Those there were not the noises they were making. The 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:42.639 last seventy two hours. Why they all came together and 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:45.479 decided to make a statement on that today. I have 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:46.200 no idea why. 0:21:46.800 --> 0:21:48.359 Yeah, wow, huh? 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:53.480 Possibly thinking about what Neil Ferguson was writing about. Look, 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:56.720 we gotta get this open because what if something happened 0:21:56.760 --> 0:21:58.639 somewhere else I don't know. 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:01.840 Or the transactional Tree said, hey, all those tariffs, forget 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:05.360 about him, you join us in this. We'll call it good. 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:08.400 Who knows? Who knows? 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:11.680 Different piece, just because this has been a topic now 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:15.080 for well since the war began. Did we do this 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:18.000 because of Israel? Are we doing this? Are we dancing 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:20.800 to Israel's tune? Or that whole thing? And Joe Kent, 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:24.960 the guy that left the Center for Counter Terrorism and 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:28.399 went on Tucker yesterday and says, ah, yeah, Israel and 0:22:28.480 --> 0:22:32.359 their lobby, they got us to go to war. Ian Bremmer, 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:35.400 to his credit, tweeted out Netanyah, who has been pushing 0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:38.880 for an Iran war with every American president for many decades, 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:42.240 doesn't make Israel responsible for a decision made solely by 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:43.480 the US commander in chief. 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:48.880 Right, appreciate that. I think that's obviously true. And Israel's 0:22:48.920 --> 0:22:51.399 been right about Iran for decades. 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:58.400 Correct where this goes is absolutely ebody's guests. I'll tell 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:00.879 you twenty four hours ago, I would not bet that 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:03.440 all those countries would as signed onto a letter saying 0:23:03.760 --> 0:23:05.840 we're all on board with helping you open the straight. 0:23:06.520 --> 0:23:09.040 I didn't think that was gonna happen. So who knows 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:12.760 what's gonna happen the next day? The fact that Israel 0:23:13.000 --> 0:23:18.120 hit the largest gas field in the world in Iran, 0:23:18.800 --> 0:23:22.840 and apparently with out telling us and Trump being very 0:23:22.880 --> 0:23:25.800 angry about it, and with a long truth social post 0:23:25.880 --> 0:23:28.920 last night saying that will not happen again. We didn't 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:30.399