In this episode, the brother and sister duo of the sit down and talk about their adventures in the snow covered Idaho mountains. Mike talks about how beautiful it is up there in God s Country, and talks about some of his favorite places to ski and fish in the winter! Thanks to everyone for all your support, stay safe out there in the mountains, and Don't Get Lost in the Storm! Don't Tell Mom: e-mail me what you thought of this episode and I'll get back to you soon! Timestamps: 3:00 - What's been going on in your life in the past week? 4:30 - What are you looking forward to in the next few days or weeks 5:15 - How's the snowfall been so far 6:20 - What is your favorite place to ski or fish in Idaho 7:00 What do you like about the snow? 8:30 What's your favorite thing to do in Idaho in winter? 9:40 - How does it compare to other places in the U.S. ? 10:00- What are some of your favorite places in Idaho? 11:30- What's the best thing about Idaho in the Winter? 12:15 13:00 What are your favorite part of Idaho in general? 15:00 Is it a beautiful place to live? 16:00 Are you skiing or fishing in the most beautiful place in Idaho right now? 17: How do you feel about it? 18:00 Do you feel like it's a beautiful? 19:00 How is it snowing? 21: What would you like to go back to the snow in the best place you're skiing or hiking? 22:00 Can you think of a good place to spend the most amazing place in the coldest place you've ever been? 25:00 Does it snowed the most snow you've been in the last few days of the winter so far? 26:00 Where are you going to go skiing or have you're going to be going to the most recent snowfall? 27:00 Will you be going next? 28:00 Have you have any plans for the next snow day? 29: Is there a snow day coming soon? 30:00 Would you like me to come back to Idaho next week or not?
00:01:13.000There's actually these foldable skis and you strap these things on and they can stuff in your pack when you're done and apparently it's way better than snowshoes.
00:01:21.000So when guys are trying to traverse like really fresh snow, no path, thick stuff, They're doing cross-country skiing.
00:03:23.000And then the skiing is great there in the winter.
00:03:25.000It's, you know, I sound like I'm on the Chamber of Commerce.
00:03:27.000Well, listen, man, we were saying right before people from Idaho don't like to talk about how beautiful Idaho is because they're trying to keep people out.
00:04:26.000And this is something that I put on my Instagram yesterday and the day before as well because there's a bill that got introduced that's being proposed to sell off public lands.
00:04:53.000Just, people don't realize how lucky we have it to have so much of this country, public land like that, where you can, and it's not just hunting, folks.
00:05:00.000You know, people say, oh, you care about hunting.
00:05:48.000You want to see money for conservation for hunting.
00:05:51.000You want to see some staggering numbers.
00:05:53.000The Twitter page, Rocky Mountain Elk Federation, RMEF, and they post these charts that show the billions and billions of dollars that go towards conservation every year, all because of people who fish and hunt.
00:06:08.000You go to Cabela's, and you know, I always wondered about this.
00:06:11.000You go to Cabela's, you buy something at Cabela's, or Bass Pro, wherever you got in your local area, And, you know, routinely they're saying, well, would you like to donate a dollar to, you know, conservation fund?
00:06:21.000Would you like to donate a dollar to, you know, of course you would.
00:06:24.000Plus the percentage of your sale goes directly to it anyway.
00:06:27.000If you buy hunting equipment, a certain percentage, I forget what the number is, but it's a good healthy percentage that turns out to be millions and millions of dollars every year.
00:06:36.000More people hunt or fish in Minnesota, 1.65 million, than double the combined populations of Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester, and Duluth.
00:06:46.000And $3.17 billion is the amount spent by 1,649,000 hunters and anglers in a single year in Minnesota.
00:06:54.000That's an incredibly large part of the economy, folks.
00:06:57.000And a giant chunk of that goes to preserving wildlife habitat, to preserving wetlands, to making sure that animal populations are kept healthy, to make sure that predator populations are kept in balance, and that ranchers aren't impeded upon by mountain lions and wolves and shit like that.
00:07:19.000You know, and then you think of the other states all combining together, you know, it's the reason why we have more white-tailed deer in America today than when Columbus landed.
00:10:51.000And they're not 9, 7, and 5. That's a good age to start Taekwondo because then you'll learn the dexterity and the flexibility and stuff like that.
00:10:58.000And then if they really get serious about martial arts, you can transition them to something like jujitsu or kickboxing or something like that.
00:11:04.000I think the middle one will stick with it.
00:12:22.000They spend all their time, like every other kid, right, but boys in particular, they spend all their time beating the shit out of each other.
00:13:42.000The middle one, again, the middle one, Sluggo, he caught me one time when I came in the door, the front door of the house, and I was carrying a bag.
00:13:51.000I was carrying a bag, and before I could even put the bag down and say hello, and the kids were kind of coming down the stairs, you know, I thought it was just like a Norman Rockwell thing, you know, they're going to come hug their dad and adore me a little bit, you know, and daddy's home.
00:14:02.000And Sluggo comes around the corner out of nowhere and says, Dad, and just punches me square in the nuts.
00:15:27.000There was no reason for him, in the early stage of this, when that narrative started to build about, oh, there's this rift building between Trump and the intel community, it was because of his tweets, right?
00:15:37.000And it was because of him questioning the intelligence about Russian meddling in our election system.
00:15:45.000Now, to talk about that just for a second, Of course the fucking Russians were meddling.
00:15:52.000The Russians have been meddling in U.S. politics and campaigning over here in a way since they've been around.
00:16:00.000You could go back to, and people said this was a fascinating period of time in history, back to like 1941. Go back to when the Russians were still in an alliance and a pact with the Nazis.
00:16:12.000And so from the Russian perspective, their goal, their point was to keep the U.S. out of the war.
00:16:55.000He didn't see that, you know, and the Nazis were running a very large propaganda campaign, a diversion effort to ensure that the Russians wouldn't know that they were about to invade.
00:17:03.000So the Russians spent a great deal of time and money and resource here in the U.S. influencing U.S. public opinion about staying out of the war.
00:17:20.000They were setting up associations that were supposedly independent but were run by the Soviets.
00:17:27.000They were influencing unions, dumping money into unions and bribing basically to get them to steer their membership to isolationist agenda.
00:17:37.000So to say that, oh, I don't know if the Russians were meddling, of course they've been doing it.
00:17:40.000And then all the way through the Cold War, you know, this is what they do.
00:17:44.000So, you know, but the narrative, because it always has to be simplified, I think as far as the media is concerned, the narrative was that they influenced the election.
00:17:54.000Well, no, they were meddling, but they weren't hacking into election systems.
00:17:59.000They weren't hacking into voting booths and changing these things.
00:18:03.000So when you say meddling, what they were doing is essentially they were getting information that was private, that was being distributed between the Democratic conventions.
00:18:18.000Were they involved in whether they directly did the hacking to the Democrats, or were they privy to the information because someone sold it to them or got it to them?
00:18:27.000As with most of these things, usually there's cutouts, right?
00:20:10.000You could just go out there, thank the people, say you're looking forward to working with them to protect national security interests, shake some hands and leave.
00:21:06.000DNI? Director of National Intelligence.
00:21:09.000James Clapper was the previous guy going in there, running that.
00:21:13.000It's going to be interesting because the DNI was no...
00:21:16.000from Mike Flynn, who's now the national security guy, he had a rocky relationship with the DNI. He feels like they basically pushed him out of his last position in the intel community.
00:21:26.000So it'll be interesting to see how he deals with this issue of, do we restructure?
00:21:52.000You know, we don't have to agree with every single thing that any president.
00:21:56.000We can disagree with the policies, but we don't have to, you know, slag people off.
00:22:00.000And if I veer off and say, well, I don't think President Trump should have veered off and talked about inauguration numbers in the media when he was standing there in our lobby in front of the stars on the wall, you know, I get a couple hundred tweets, you know,
00:22:15.000saying, you know, you're a fucking idiot.
00:22:31.000I'm veering down a rabbit hole right now, but I think it's because I'm getting pissed off because we seem to have gotten away from the idea that nobody's perfect, right?
00:22:40.000And everybody that's a dyed-in-the-wool Trump supporter right now, who for the past eight years hated the fact that Obama supporters were adoring of him and said everything he does is brilliant, now some of those folks are doing the same thing with the new president.
00:22:54.000You know, like I said, I'll be honest with you.
00:25:04.000It's chaos out there, and it's pretty nasty at times.
00:25:06.000And so I'm a big believer in, yes, we shouldn't be out there policing everything, but we're going to need to, and we should want to be at the top of the heap.
00:25:14.000Well, it definitely doesn't seem there's any benevolent superpower that's looking out for the world's best interests outside of us.
00:25:51.000Countries out there, not bad people, but countries that are run by dictators, countries that are run by extremely ruthless people, and a lot of them have access to some significant military power.
00:27:10.000New Zealand, Australia, you know, there's a small community there that tries to be principled, tries to do the right thing.
00:27:17.000Everybody else out there is acting purely in their own best interests.
00:27:21.000And our interests and theirs almost never align, whether it's Russia or, you know, parts of Europe or, you know, wherever it may be, Latin America.
00:27:30.000So, yeah, somebody's got to be at the top of the food chain, and I just prefer to be us.
00:27:35.000You know the I mean there's massive criticism the United States and a lot of them are valid it makes a lot of sense but Human beings are just flawed.
00:27:57.000And the more you look into it, you have a much more intense and deep understanding of it than I ever will because of your experience in life and all the different places that you've been and all the things that you've seen.
00:28:08.000There's no way, if you look at the rest of the world, there's nothing remotely similar to what's going on over here.
00:28:40.000And that's, you know, that's a small, you know, a small group and that's fine and it's gonna happen, I suppose.
00:28:45.000But, you know, when they're out there talking about oppression and being oppressed in America, My thought is always the same.
00:28:52.000I always think, you know what we should do?
00:28:53.000We should reenact the standard mandatory service.
00:28:56.000Everybody should have to serve two years, whether it's in the military or some international component where you go overseas and you spend a little bit of time in some shithole, and you see how bad it is and how bad it can be.
00:29:09.000But all these people that walk around here and talk about it, and I get it, you know...
00:29:23.000Because this is what was confusing to me.
00:29:25.000How did the FBI, and now eventually the FBI came around to the CIA's conclusions, but for a long time the FBI was disagreeing with the CIA about whether or not the Russians had anything to do with hacking and DNC. Yeah, I think the big disagreement was really over motivation,
00:29:43.000I thought it was an evidence-based thing, that they didn't see any evidence that the Russians were involved, which eventually became clear.
00:30:20.000But let's all see what it tells us, you know.
00:30:22.000And so part of it is how they approach reaching a conclusion.
00:30:27.000But, you know, they were both going to get to the same place because eventually they sit down and they compare notes.
00:30:35.000But part of it was the difference of opinion over the motivation.
00:30:39.000And motivation is the toughest thing, one of the toughest things to prove in this business and intelligence.
00:30:44.000You know, you can say, okay, they did this.
00:30:46.000But, you know, unless you've got a source sitting in the tent who was there and part of the conversation when somebody said, well, you know, this is why or, you know, this is how we're going to do this and this is a reason or...
00:30:55.000Without that sort of sourcing or intercepts, it's tough to prove motivation.
00:31:00.000So it took a while to kind of get around to that notion.
00:31:03.000And it's still, to be honest, it's still a little bit up in the air.
00:31:07.000We're probably never going to get it unless, again, we get our hands on a really quality, good source.
00:31:12.000That may still be a little bit up in the air.
00:31:13.000But the bottom line is, yeah, the Russians were engaged in doing what they always do, covert action, propaganda campaigns, whatever it may be.
00:31:21.000Their 30,000-foot view is always the same.
00:32:22.000Because of now, yeah, because people want to talk about it.
00:32:24.000What bothered me about this was the narrative.
00:32:28.000Because the narrative was Russia hacked the elections.
00:32:31.000That's what everybody kept saying, and that's what all these Democrats, these left-wing people, were saying to try to pump up this idea that Trump was not a legitimate president.
00:32:43.000Someone, maybe Russia, whoever it was, put that Information out that the DNC had sent through private emails, but the information was what they sent.
00:33:39.000There was not a whole lot of people that are in his position for as long as he is that have the kind of principles he has.
00:33:44.000Like, when he was able to say, you know, why don't you release the transcripts of all these different speeches you gave to all these banks that you got paid a quarter million dollars.
00:33:52.000And he goes, I'll happily release mine because I don't have any because I wouldn't take a penny from those people.
00:33:57.000There's not a whole lot of people who can say stuff like that in a big debate.
00:34:16.000Now, I guess what, you know, obviously what people on the...
00:34:20.000Far left side are saying is, well, but without that, if they hadn't released that information, then it would have been a different ballgame.
00:34:27.000Right, because we wouldn't know how fucking corrupt she was.
00:34:30.000We wouldn't know that Debbie Wasserman Schultz had done what she'd done, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz wouldn't have gotten fired from the DNC and then immediately got hired by Hillary's campaign.
00:34:37.000I mean, they picked her up in a couple of minutes.
00:34:40.000Well, obviously they want to keep her happy.
00:34:42.000You don't want somebody walking out of that organization with a chip on their shoulder and then talking.
00:34:47.000Especially after what she did for you.
00:35:40.000Someone had to sit and say, you know, I got an idea for an operation.
00:35:42.000And they had to say, you know, they're a bureaucracy like everything else.
00:35:45.000And so they would have had to sit and figure this out.
00:35:50.000It would have made its way to Putin because, you know, this is obviously the concern over the blowback and the publicity of it all.
00:35:56.000So Putin clearly knew what was going on.
00:35:59.000But again, that's just the way it works.
00:36:01.000Stalin knew back in the day, knew exactly what they were doing, trying to influence public opinion here back during the early World War II. Yeah, there's no surprise.
00:36:35.000That's actually a good thing, given how aggressive and how nasty the world is out there and how We're constantly being hit and attacked out in cyberspace.
00:36:44.000I mean, yeah, we better hope we're good at it.
00:36:46.000And, you know, if people knew how often, how consistently and constantly our commercial and public sector infrastructure is probed and tested and attacked on a daily basis, people wouldn't sleep at night.
00:37:01.000All they have to do is watch Showtime series, Homeland.
00:38:21.000One of the big arguments was that the Russians definitely wanted Trump to win because if they didn't, then they would have hacked the RNC and they would have released their emails too.
00:38:30.000But that's a hard argument to make because you don't know that they said anything inappropriate.
00:38:35.000You don't know that there was any collusion.
00:38:37.000Well, and there was also attempts to hack the RNC. And the RNC, as would one company to a next, not every company is running the same security protocols on their infrastructure.
00:38:47.000So the RNC had different security protocols on their infrastructure, but they were probed and tested and attacked.
00:38:58.000You know, that idea that they wanted Trump to win, frankly, if Putin sat there and thought to himself, well, what I want is what's in my and Russia's best interests, well, then I'm going to go with a known quantity.
00:39:11.000I'm going to go with Hillary Clinton, because I know what I got there.
00:39:27.000He's reading all the same shit and watching all the same shit that everybody else is, which is that Trump in the past has kind of been all...
00:39:33.000President Trump has been all over the place and talked in different directions.
00:39:36.000And so it's not as if Putin would hear and say, oh, he likes me.
00:39:51.000And I know I'm not going to get any pushback for the shit that I do because she is just going to continue the same things that have been happening.
00:39:57.000They're going to continue to withdraw off the world stage.
00:39:59.000And this idea that somehow Hillary Clinton was a warmonger.
00:40:13.000I would have thought that he'd want him to win just to throw democracy into the shitter, just to fucking throw a big monkey wrench into the gears.
00:40:20.000He probably felt that a Trump victory would do that.
00:40:59.000Now, so what was the point of them meddling and doing what they did?
00:41:03.000Well, again, it goes back to the same thing.
00:41:05.000They're just trying to create instability, chaos in a...
00:41:08.000Some sort of sense of mistrust of a democratic institution.
00:41:12.000Now how much of a factor do you think it is that Hillary was not ever prosecuted for deleting all those emails after a subpoena?
00:41:23.000Because it seems like In any other case, if you do something like that, top secret clearance, you're found to have violated it, and you delete all those emails.
00:41:33.000And people are tired of hearing about this from the left.
00:41:35.000They're like, are you still bringing that up again?
00:41:37.000But I gotta think that in light of what you said about them trying to hack into the RNC, but no evidence that they actually got in, but they did get into the DNC, and you think about all the different security errors that they've made, especially with her having that private email server and all that shit with Huma was using the same goddamn computer and printer that...
00:41:54.000Anthony Weiner sending his dick pics out on?
00:44:04.000Outrage at woman Secret Service agent and Clinton supporter who said she would not, capital letters, risk her life to protect President Trump.
00:44:12.000Secret Service agent Kerry O'Grady wrote last October that she would rather go to jail than take a bullet for Donald Trump.
00:44:19.000Well, she'd definitely get a better job.
00:44:22.000Okay, O'Grady removed the post days later, said she wrote it after being overcome with emotion following Trump's grab them by the pussy video.
00:45:23.000It's time for, I would say, you know what, that's dishonoring the service, the Secret Service, and you know what, maybe, I'm sure they'll ice her, put her in some admin position.
00:45:32.000Well, you have to in that position, right?
00:45:34.000If you're a Secret Service agent, you can't say anything critical like that publicly about the president.
00:46:30.000By the way, did you see that little clip that was making its way around at the inauguration, on the inauguration stand of Bill Clinton checking out Melania?
00:47:45.000That would be the only reason I wanted, or I would have wanted Hillary Clinton to win.
00:47:49.000The only bright spot, I guess I should say instead, the only bright spot to her winning would have been that he would have been back in the house.
00:50:42.000Yeah, the position is such a crazy position.
00:50:45.000I mean, there's no one that's really qualified to do it.
00:50:47.000And every time someone gets in, it's like, okay, let's see what kind of flaws in your character are going to be revealed by this.
00:50:52.000And in that case, when you look at it that way, at least from the point of view of representing a stately sort of like an intelligent, articulate leader, Obama did a great job in that regard.
00:51:15.000He was sort of one of those folks you look at and go, that's our president.
00:51:21.000But again, you could say he did certain things well.
00:51:23.000And I would say from a foreign policy perspective, it was not good.
00:51:28.000But, you know, you got to be able to say there was good and there's bad, you know.
00:51:32.000And that's what I'm worried about with the new president is that I'd like to think that all those supporters aren't just going to say everything he does is good, that you still got to But they always do that.
00:51:44.000I mean, hear what's going on right now with the Dakota Access Pipeline, where everyone's blaming Trump for this.
00:51:49.000They forget this all started while Obama was in office.
00:51:53.000All of this, where they were putting easements on people's private land, when they were arresting these ranchers for protesting against it, trying to keep these guys from drilling into their fucking private land.
00:52:02.000That was all during the Obama administration.
00:55:07.000No, it's not, you know, the truth is, again, I'm not saying this is from the right wing or from the left wing, I don't give a fuck, but the truth tends to always be somewhere in some defined middle.
00:55:18.000The parameters shift on the middle, but, you know.
00:55:21.000He also describes the experience of being stripped naked at night and made to stand for parade in the nude.
00:56:40.000Yeah, and then the question is, there was a lot of people that thought he was going to pardon Bo Bergdahl, you know, Sergeant Bergdahl, the fellow who walked into the Taliban camp, turned himself in, walked off his post.
00:57:02.000I thought Snowden would have been a very interesting one, but apparently what he said, and it made a lot of sense, was the difference between what Chelsea Manning did was, Chelsea Manning was arrested, went through trial, was convicted, and then he pardoned her, commuted her sentence.
00:58:41.000It's very strange because on one hand, look, nobody wants their goddamn emails peered into constantly when they haven't done a damn thing wrong.
00:58:49.000When you think of a free country, you think, well, hey, I'm a free man.
00:59:10.000Well, I saw it in more of a simplistic operational perspective, because again, what we talked about before, everybody looks at these things from their own life experiences.
00:59:19.000My life experiences are different than somebody who hasn't done this.
00:59:24.000You know, you sign up your fucking agreements.
00:59:26.000You sign, you commit yourself to protect national security.
00:59:30.000You commit yourself to treat classified material honorably.
00:59:34.000So just like the Secret Service agent, you know, when you start making posts like that on your Facebook, this is against the whole gig.
01:01:04.000And a curious public or a curious people's representatives are always supposed to be having these discussions about where on the spectrum between security and civil liberties and freedom, you know, where does that pendulum rest at any given time?
01:01:20.000These people up on the Hill in the intel committees There's a well-worn path from NSA, from the CIA, from others, up to that hill to brief those people on every fucking thing that goes on.
01:01:34.000And people are going to roll their eyes, but that's the way it fucking works.
01:01:38.000And so then there's also this game that gets played in Washington where they pretend like they don't know, and then they get outraged, and they stand up and say, well, I just saw them all angst-ridden.
01:01:51.000They didn't demand that they have these...
01:02:01.000The healthiest thing we can have of course are people up on the Hill who are constantly Questioning the system, constantly talking about it, because you're right, and it's very important.
01:02:12.000You have to figure out where that goes.
01:02:14.000Now, another bomb goes off somewhere, and that pendulum's going to swing back to security, and people are going to say, fuck it, I don't care.
01:02:19.000You know, check my shoes, do whatever the hell you want to.
01:02:22.000But, you know, read my emails, just keep us safe, you know, in particular if it's a big incident, and God forbid, but that's, I guess, my point being is that pendulum's constantly moving.
01:02:32.000Because that's where the conspiracy theorists come in.
01:02:34.000Whenever something goes on and there's any sort of a terrorist attack, conspiracy theorists jump in and say, this is a false flag because they've been trying to erode our privacy and erode our civil liberties, and this is the way they do it.
01:02:46.000So instead of looking at it in a broad perspective, looking at it saying, well, okay, is it possible that a terrorist act took place and now they have to tighten up security because of that?
01:03:01.000People automatically go to know they orchestrated the terrorist attack so that they could tighten up security, because it's this overall global plan to turn this into one world government.
01:04:51.000And you think, that's pretty fucked up.
01:04:54.000And so that's why I'm a big fan of term limits and a big fan of saying, you know what, there's nothing set in stone that says our congressmen, congresswomen have to be just two-year terms, right?
01:05:05.000We did that in the old days because nobody wanted to be in D.C. because it was a swamp and they had to get back to their farms and actually earn a living.
01:05:11.000So, stretch that out to four years, say you can be a congressman for a total of eight years, you get two terms, you can be a senator for two terms, six years each, and then get the hell out, go back to your jobs, do something else.
01:05:21.000And I think we would deepen the pool of potential candidates.
01:05:25.000We would see other people come up, rise up, maybe take some of the money out of it, maybe.
01:05:30.000Take a little bit of the influence out.
01:05:32.000Take some of the influence out of it, yeah.
01:05:33.000If I know somebody's going to be in office and on the Ways and Means Committee for 36 years, I'm going to invest a lot of effort and time in that individual if I'm a lobbying firm on K Street in D.C. But if that person's not going to be there,
01:05:49.000I'll figure out how to work the system, I'm sure.
01:05:51.000But it's going to at least shake it up a little bit.
01:05:55.000And I think it would take some of that money and influence out.
01:05:58.000But I don't know where I was going with that story.
01:06:01.000You were just comparing the difference between local politics, where people have an actual job on top of being a local politician.
01:06:09.000Yeah, I mean, look, it's a dirty business.
01:06:11.000As soon as you're in the business of governing people, you're in the business of controlling people, you're in the business of trying to pass laws that help the people that put you in power in the first place, and it just gets real squirrely.
01:06:55.000But how could they possibly entertain that?
01:06:59.000You can look at the New York Times, and you can pick up the New York Times on any given day, and they've got a front page above the fold story that's relying almost exclusively on anonymous sources.
01:07:21.000And supposedly the narrative became then, for those that would like to have believed it, it became, well, the person that wrote it is a very distinguished former MI6 officer from the British Secret Service.
01:08:44.000It's usually, I've talked to girls that are dominatrixes, and one of the things they tell you, it's always these guys that are like big-time CEOs, they run corporations, they have all this power.
01:08:54.000Yeah, type As, you know, they want to get kicked out.
01:08:56.000They want you to tie them up and shit on their head.
01:09:19.000Hopefully these people that I overheard aren't, you know, I hope they are listening.
01:09:22.000I was at the hotel I'm staying at while I'm in town, and I was standing at the bar getting a cup of coffee to go early this morning, and there were two fellows sitting in a couple of chairs, and they were talking about the new administration.
01:09:35.000And you could tell they were seriously angst-ridden about the whole thing.
01:09:39.000They were hyperventilating, very upset about it.
01:09:42.000And one of them said, well, I tell you what I'm worried about.
01:09:45.000I'm worried about this whole Muslim ban thing and returning to the days of being a white supremacist nation.
01:10:40.000And it's not just now with President Trump.
01:10:42.000Obviously, yeah, people on the right that were doing the same thing with the previous president.
01:10:45.000But, you know, I wanted to turn around and say something to them and at least just say, excuse me, look, do you think you're maybe over there?
01:12:18.000We should all just chill the fuck out a little bit.
01:12:20.000Well, people get on their team and they stick with it, whether it's team left or team right, which is why all those people that are anti-war refuse to go crazy about Obama and the drones.
01:12:33.000If you look at all the drone deaths that happened during the Obama administration, what percentage of them were innocent civilians, it's pretty staggering.
01:12:39.000But you don't hear about that from the left.
01:12:41.000All you hear about from the left is that the right is a bunch of warmongers and they're doing terrible things.
01:13:12.000Well, I mean, at the 30,000-foot level, sort of not to start from a different direction, but at the 30,000-foot level, we've lost a significant amount of leverage in the Middle East.
01:13:26.000So, as an example, when previous Secretary Kerry from President Obama's administration talked about going to a conference to talk about peace in Syria, It's a joke.
01:13:41.000We're not the player out there anymore.
01:13:43.000Because again, this idea that we're going to step off the world stage a little bit.
01:13:46.000As we did that over the past several years, Iran, in particular, has realized more influence, more leverage in that region than they've had in modern times.
01:13:57.000They can't believe their good fortune.
01:14:00.000And, you know, I'm not just beaten on that whole, you know, ridiculous nuclear agreement that we ended up signing, which if Secretary Kerry was telling the truth and saying that it was all based on verification, we're kind of fucked.
01:14:14.000Because I'm here to tell you, we don't have really good verification on their programs.
01:14:18.000And we haven't had it for a long time.
01:14:19.000So we rely on the Israelis to a great deal.
01:14:23.000And some of our, a couple of our other allies out there Who have better human-sourced intelligence.
01:14:27.000But if it was down to us, you know, we'd be flying a little bit blind because it's a tough, tough target.
01:14:34.000So anyway, point being is the Iranians, you know, saw an opening over the past few years to do what they wanted to do for a long time.
01:14:44.000And now they have an increasingly tight relationship with Iraq, of all places.
01:14:51.000The Russians saw the same thing that the Iranians saw in the Middle East.
01:15:47.000The idea that we were going to work together, this is one of those fallacies, again, where you think, well, maybe, you know, our interests are aligned as far as fighting ISIS. No, they're fucking not.
01:15:58.000And so the idea that somehow we were going to, you know, work, you know, and that Russia had the same sort of agenda, Russia was never, never going to let a side go, unless they had a rock-solid replacement who was, you know, on their team.
01:16:28.000And when we don't say it out loud, when we don't prove it, then they start looking elsewhere.
01:16:32.000So Germany and Turkey start creating an alliance.
01:16:36.000The UK and China create economic alliances.
01:16:40.000You know, France and Russia working together, again, in counterterrorism.
01:16:44.000You start getting these weird alliances that have been built up over now the past recent few years, and then we're surprised that somehow the European Union is kind of coming apart a little bit at the fabric.
01:16:54.000And so, anyway, but the point being is then Israel sitting there, Fort Apache, the Bronx, obviously Netanyahu and President Obama not exactly the tightest of relationships.
01:17:08.000And You know, they don't have a lot of options.
01:17:13.000It's not like they could look around and say, well, we'll align ourselves with somebody else to protect what is obviously an existential threat for them.
01:17:45.000Again, like with any alliance, we should always be able to question and everything.
01:17:48.000But we should understand that we've got to make these things as tight, you know, so that there's no visible daylight between us and our key allies that others, because they're always looking for that daylight, that others could play off of and look to take advantage of.
01:18:38.000And, I mean, Libya, it doesn't get much in the press, because the previous administration had no interest in talking about it, because they had pushed for the regime change in Libya.
01:18:53.000Again, I don't want to relitigate Iraq or Afghanistan or anything else.
01:18:58.000Frankly, I think it was a drastic mistake.
01:19:00.000But it goes back to what you were saying earlier.
01:19:02.000What you were saying earlier was that this idea that we shouldn't be involved in policing the world.
01:19:09.000The real problem with that is when you pull back, you create this vacuum.
01:19:13.000When you remove leaders, as brutal as they are, you create a vacuum.
01:19:17.000And as horrible as Saddam Hussein is, It was almost better for those people when that guy was in power than having what's going on right now, which is essentially chaos.
01:19:28.000It sounds horrible to say something like that.
01:19:30.000It's horrible to say something like that.
01:19:35.000Not funny, it's terrible to say that that way, but the strange thing about Libya was, look, Gaddafi was working on our behalf in the world of counterterrorism for several years leading up to his being removed.
01:19:44.000The only folks that were involved in that exercise that really had national interests in Libya were the French and the Italians.
01:19:51.000And they somehow convinced the previous administration to get involved and that it was a good idea.
01:19:57.000And now, I mean, look, Libya's got, what, 130 some odd tribes.
01:20:02.000It's even worse than Iraq in the sense of sort of a fractured tribal environment.
01:20:11.000So what I mean by each failed state potentially poses a threat to Israel is that what you get is you get the sucking sound as all the air leaves the country and it becomes chaos.
01:20:23.000And chaos is where a group like the Islamic State or Al-Qaeda or Boko Haram, that's where the extremists make their money.
01:20:39.000You know, so I don't know how it's way above my pay grade when you talk about, well, what does President Trump do now with the Middle East?
01:20:45.000Well, he met with Mattis and he met with a bunch of folks over the Pentagon today.
01:20:49.000And one of the things he said is, you know, we're going to take action and destroy Islamic State.
01:20:56.000You know, that's one of those things where it's a nice soundbite, but nobody should actually think that if we somehow rid Iraq and Syria of the Islamic State, that we've solved the problem.
01:21:35.000And a guy that worked for me when I started the business, the business had been up and running for about a year, and I had a Russian working on staff, a very interesting cat, was a former GRU, military intelligence, and had been a tank driver.
01:21:49.000And he had been out in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation.
01:21:52.000We're still carrying some shrapnel around for that.
01:21:55.000And when we went into Tora Bora, I remember he came up to me, he was visibly shaken, and he said, that was brilliant, really brilliant, but don't stay.
01:22:34.000I'm one of those who are happy to admit that maybe if you sell shoulder-fired weapon systems to, you know, a bunch of folks in Afghanistan, at some point it's going to turn out to be a bad idea.
01:22:44.000So you have to go back and buy them back.
01:22:48.000But anyway, point being is we should have left at that point, but we were feeling guilty about having left before.
01:22:53.000And the idea was like, oh, if we just stayed, then Al-Qaeda wouldn't have found a home base in Afghanistan and who knows what we might have prevented.
01:23:02.000And the honest guy's truth is they would have found a home base someplace else, and we would have just been sitting in Afghanistan for another 25 years, leading up to now.
01:23:11.000I think that's one of the most frustrating things about international conflict, when people start thinking about it, especially people like me that have nothing to do with it.
01:23:18.000You look on the outside and you go, how does this ever get resolved?
01:24:23.000And the local and the state and the federal authorities here in the U.S. are actually spending a lot of time trying to build some level of communication and trust with the Muslim communities here in this country.
01:24:34.000Because at the end of the day, if you just want to talk about somebody popping off and doing something horrible here in our country...
01:24:41.000Again, the concept of the lone wolf attack, whatever you want to call it...
01:24:46.000Your real only chance of identifying that individual, because they're not coming up on comms and it's not on the radar already, they're not associating, unless they do, maybe they do, but usually they're not associating with known targets.
01:25:00.000And so your best bet is a mom or a dad or a brother or a sister picking up the phone and saying, I'm worried about, you know, whomever.
01:25:07.000And I think that's probably more likely to happen now after San Bernardino.
01:25:11.000When that San Bernardino attack happened, there was a lot of people that knew those folks were really into guns and saying a bunch of crazy shit, but they just went, let me just get out of here.
01:25:45.000She's lived under that oppressive regime.
01:25:47.000She risked her life to get out of there.
01:25:48.000She risked her life to come to the United States, and they still call her an Islamophobe for it.
01:25:53.000Anyone that said I mean, this is like it's fashionable anyone says anything critical about Islam, but you become an Islamophobe or a bigot Yeah, you're a bigot and then yeah, you're yeah, so somehow it's I Yeah, I'm not even sure how we got to that point, but well, it's the left, you know people go I mean,
01:26:09.000it's just like the far left gets nutty the far right gets nutty far reaches of any ideologies They all they're you know, they they're blinded blinded by their beliefs and they are supported by other people who are equally blinded and You're right.
01:26:24.000On the far edges is where the zealots tend to reside for either side.
01:26:40.000You're learning a lot of new stuff here, folks.
01:26:42.000But when you talk, when you have this, you know, you have just a massive amount of experience when it comes to foreign relations, and when you're talking about the almost like hopelessness of...
01:26:54.000Creating peace on earth, you know, like that concept is always what everyone's always wanted, right?
01:26:59.000Peace on earth, that's what we all want.
01:27:00.000But when you talk about the Middle East, and you talk about how hopeless it is, and then you go back to like the fucking Carter administration, you go back previous to that, I mean, it seems like it's always been a mess.
01:28:20.000If you just assume that's a principle on dealing in foreign policy, and then you also assume that another principle is that nothing is unconnected, nothing happens in a bubble, then with those two things as guiding principles, You know, you got to start to creating a foreign policy that makes some sense,
01:28:53.000But don't you think that that's evidence of the fact that it's because of the fact that we are essentially the premier superpower in the world, and everyone else is a very distant second.
01:29:02.000So it's kind of like we're the big boss.
01:29:04.000We kind of have to go, well, you know, we probably shouldn't be doing that.
01:29:18.000When you say we're the lone superpower, some people would say, well, what about China?
01:29:22.000And, oh, I just said it like President Trump does, China.
01:29:26.000Then part of China's problem is, well, they've got several, but one is that their economy, this idea that somehow they were going to rise to the top of the heap In the world because of their economy I think has always been flawed.
01:29:39.000There's a lot of, we spend a lot, my company spends a fair amount of time looking at Chinese companies on behalf of financial institutions and others from outside of China.
01:29:47.000There's a lot of smoke and mirrors, a lot of bad paper there floating around.
01:29:51.000They've got some problems, really shaky problems in their infrastructure, in their economy.
01:29:56.000And tied to that is a problem that if they can't manage the slowdown, you know, if they can't manage it, it's not good for us either, so we have to hope that they do, but if they can't manage a slowdown, and part of that is in their economy, and part of that is It's managing or putting a damper on people's expectations.
01:30:14.000They've kind of gotten away for some time now with people thinking, oh, I'm rising up.
01:30:18.000I'm coming up out of the poverty class.
01:30:21.000Well, there's only so far in that economy they're going to go, and they've hit that ceiling, basically.
01:30:25.000So there's a lot of discontent, in a sense, and a lot of problems that they're trying right now to mask.
01:30:32.000I don't know whether they're going to be able to do it, but we should all hope that they're somewhat successful since, again, nothing happens in a bubble and we're connected.
01:30:39.000So if they have significant problems, there could be issues.
01:30:43.000So I've never been, you know, when people say, well, what about China?
01:30:46.000China's sort of a rising superpower along with us.
01:30:48.000Well, yeah, militarily, I mean, you know, but we're still...
01:31:15.000As long as none of these people like Iran or Pakistan or anybody who has nuclear weapons, as long as they don't launch anything, as soon as they launch everything, we're all fucked.
01:31:23.000So we've got to kind of keep everybody from launching everything.
01:31:26.000Well, and you've raised really where the crisis is.
01:31:30.000The crisis isn't with us and Russia going to war or us and China going to war.
01:31:33.000The crisis is a A smaller nation with nuclear weapons losing its shit and doing something stupid, or some of those materials falling into the wrong hands.
01:31:48.000Those two scenarios are still the ones that are most worrisome.
01:31:51.000When you look at a country like, I hate to say this, you look at a country like Pakistan.
01:32:04.000Shane Smith was telling me about, Shane Smith, the head of Vice, was telling me about, what is that one city in Pakistan that he was talking about that he said is essentially the most dangerous spot on earth?
01:32:15.000He's like, there are so many murders created in this city.
01:34:08.000Like, what does that mean by someone being upset that he wants to put America first?
01:34:13.000I mean, if there's bad treaties, if there's bad agreements, if there's anything that doesn't favor us or our economy or our safety, why wouldn't you want them to put America first?
01:34:26.000Here's where I think we are with that.
01:34:28.000Maybe I'm completely wrong on this theory, but if Donald Trump was any other ethnicity, Been saying America First would not be construed as racist.
01:34:36.000I think the far left construes it as racist because he's a white guy.
01:34:40.000And they view everything through race.
01:34:43.000They view everything through race, as far as I'm concerned.
01:34:45.000You think if Obama said it, they would think he's being conciliatory to the right and that he's trying to drum up patriotism or something like that?
01:34:52.000I think they'd say, yeah, look, he's trying to fire up the economy.
01:35:05.000Well, she said some crazy shit about Russia that we should be able to respond militarily to the cyber attacks.
01:35:13.000I was like, you really can't say shit like that.
01:35:15.000And apparently what was said was that they had said to the Russian people they were in contact with, look, this is all just rhetoric, don't worry about it.
01:35:29.000When you start trying to imagine what's that line where another nation engages in some sort of cyber shenanigans and we're going to respond militarily, the Pentagon is still trying to figure that out.
01:35:39.000The Pentagon has been working on this for some time.
01:35:45.000But the idea of what are your protocols for cybersecurity, for cyber attacks, cyber warfare, they're still trying to figure that out because it's so freaking difficult.
01:35:54.000But think about, in this particular instance, what we're talking about is not really cyber warfare.
01:35:58.000It's someone getting a hold of some emails.
01:36:01.000So you read my emails, I'm going to launch a bomb at you?
01:37:45.000What line do we need to see before we...
01:37:48.000So, you know, it's a whole different world, and this is something to really pay attention to, because going forward, when you talk about, well, you know, maybe something happens and you get, you know, people starting to launch nukes, yeah, maybe, again, you get some crazy-ass, you know, leader of a small nation, you know,
01:38:03.000that decides to do something, or they get overrun, and, you know, it falls into bad hands, whatever.
01:38:08.000But more likely than not, what's going to happen is something that spins out of control in cyberspace.
01:38:14.000And because we either, you know, we overreact or we underreact and then we're playing catch.
01:38:24.000So it's a constant game of arbitration and coordinated communication and trying to soothe things out and keep things from getting too crazy.
01:38:34.000Which is why, again, I sometimes make fun of diplomacy, but diplomacy is very, very important.
01:38:39.000So you've got to have those communication channels open all the time.
01:39:06.000I look at the new administration's sort of second and third tier folks, you know, where crap actually gets done, you know, not the cabinet level or anything, but the down, you know, second, third tier.
01:39:16.000And they brought in some good pragmatic people.
01:40:16.000I don't know if you've noticed this online, but there's a bunch of weird sort of now...
01:40:22.000Now very obvious right-wing guys, but people that were just sort of online commentators or they would have a blog or a little of this or that.
01:40:32.000And then when it kind of became a movement, this Trump thing became a movement, all their stuff got really pro-Trump and they started using words like cuck, calling people cucks and falling into these camps where you're just seeing these tribal sort of behavior patterns play out.
01:41:12.000Yeah, I mean, I... Early on, I signed on to a national security letter with some other folks and basically said that, you know, we didn't believe that Donald Trump, now President Trump, was the right candidate from a national security perspective.
01:41:28.000And, you know, I took some heat for that.
01:41:32.000But some of those folks are now looking for jobs in the administration.
01:41:43.000Once, you know, once the person wins, and this is maybe where, you know, I have a hard time understanding some of the angst that's out there.
01:41:52.000Once the president gets in, you've got a duty to, you know, work and make the country, you know, go forward and work.
01:42:00.000And so I've got no problem supporting the administration in the sense that I want them to do well.
01:42:04.000And I don't think there's anything incongruous with that, in the sense that, yeah, it wasn't my candidate, you know, fine.
01:42:10.000But now that he's in, I want this place to do well.
01:42:13.000And so I want this administration to do well.
01:42:15.000I'm glad that they've got good people coming in.
01:42:20.000I still say, there's going to be things that he's going to do that I'm going to say, yeah, it's great, good, excellent.
01:42:25.000And there's going to be things that he does that I'm going to think, what the hell is that?
01:42:27.000And if you can't be in that position and you've always got to be all on board or all against, I don't see how people live that way.
01:42:39.000Do you think it's possible that he could pull this off and he could be a good president and he could listen to the advice of the people that actually know how the world works and stay off Twitter?
01:42:48.000I don't think it's possible he can stay off Twitter.
01:42:50.000I don't think it's just like that old scorpion right on the back of the frog.
01:42:53.000Tell me he can't end tweets with sad anymore.
01:43:54.000But you could also argue it's actually a beneficial thing to have a lot of people talking at you, because they do seem willing to listen to a lot of different people, right?
01:44:05.000I realize that could change or maybe, you know...
01:44:07.000And I don't want to make too much of it, but they do seem like there's a lot of different voices that are being dragged in and saying, what do you think about this?
01:44:18.000You know, it's like the discussions that they've already started about how do we realign the intel community so that it's more efficient, it's more effective.
01:44:26.000That's a good conversation to have, but we don't see that because people get lost in the tweets, and they get lost in the various headline of the day.
01:44:46.000And also, you know, I mean, let's be fair.
01:44:48.000I'm not saying anything that people are going to be shocked by, but this was not their candidate, never would be.
01:44:56.000He stands for everything they don't like.
01:44:58.000Part of the media is very insular, obviously.
01:45:01.000Again, this is all stuff that people know.
01:45:03.000So it's no surprise, but there's a large portion of the media out there that really wants him to fail, and they're actively working towards that end.
01:45:10.000So, you know, I... Again, you could go back to the previous administration and say, well, look what Fox News was.
01:45:17.000They're always questioning President Biden.
01:45:18.000Well, that was one voice, you know, fine, and some talk radio.
01:46:12.000Once a guy gets in, you might criticize his movements, you might criticize his decisions, but ultimately, you should want him to do well, because it will be good for the entire country.
01:46:37.000I mean, people made a lot of fun of the Tea Party, but look, the Tea Party did what, you know, you're supposed to do in a democratic society.
01:47:01.000Hopefully it just leads to more discussion, more debate, more communication, and more people having a better understanding of how the system works.
01:47:08.000I think if one thing that we can look forward to with Trump is that he's so transparent, and if something pisses him off, he's immediately going to talk about it, that we're going to get to see more and understand more about how it works behind the scenes.
01:47:24.000And I think that's one of those things that people look at and...
01:47:28.000Unless they hate him, they look at that as a positive and they think, you know what, I'm happy that he's out there tweeting because I want him to bypass the media and tell me what's going on and that sort of thing.
01:47:38.000And I think he genuinely believes that that was a big part of why he got elected.
01:47:43.000So he's not going to change that shit.
01:47:46.000They get crazy when, look, everybody looks at someone who's in power, whether they're the president or whatever it is, they look at them as being some irreproachable, some person of much higher moral cloth and value and intellect,
01:48:02.000and when you see him, he's clearly not.
01:48:24.000Yeah, I've got very progressive liberal friends who, you know, that's the first thing they say, he's such an idiot, he's so stupid, and he appeals to all the stupid people out there.
01:48:32.000And I said, you know what, how do you think you ended up with President Trump?
01:48:36.000By spending eight years telling people how stupid they are, right?
01:48:39.000And minimizing their importance and making fun of them.
01:48:46.000Congratulations It's definitely a part of it.
01:48:49.000I mean and he played off of that really brilliantly He's a very smart persuader in that regard you know Scott Adams who the creator of Dilbert who predicted this whole thing a long time in advance and took a big hit for it told me cost him millions of dollars people Boycotting him hating him and by the way,
01:49:30.000And the way he understands how to manipulate the press and say outrageous things, so they talk about him constantly, so he gets free press.
01:49:36.000I mean, what he did in that sense, Scott was totally right.
01:49:39.000And Scott was looking at it completely objectively.
01:49:51.000It's really fascinating, because when you get to know Scott, you realize he's a brilliant guy.
01:49:57.000But he's unafraid to discuss what he actually believes will take place, regardless of whether or not people think that's what they want or, you know...
01:51:17.000So you randomly choose somebody as the designated survivor.
01:51:19.000Well, whenever they start talking about how security is so locked down, I remember that guy who was the sign language interpreter for Obama.
01:53:04.000That Secret Service operation, I know it seems like it only makes the news when there's some bad thing that happens to fuck up or something people find funny, like some hookers or whatever.
01:54:40.000But the executive protection world is a fairly large business.
01:54:46.000You know, it's a really tough industry, and there's no room for egos, and it requires a real variety of skills, diplomacy, common sense on top of all the typical skills you would imagine.
01:54:59.000And it is, again, it's just a sort of a thankless job.
01:55:03.000You know, you're often dealing with principals who...
01:55:24.000And then, like, out in Hollywood, you know, you sometimes get, you know, the bodyguard, you know, they'll hire whoever happens to be biggest.
01:55:30.000And that's the worst thing you can do.
01:55:31.000You don't want, you know, some big, thick-necked guy out there thinking that he's going to protect you, or he's the best guy, when it could, in fact, be the, you know, 5'2 woman who's going to be actually the smartest, because she's got all the right skills.
01:56:52.000Yeah, I remember one of my friends, you know, one time we were sitting under the desk, and Mark said, we started talking, and I looked at him, and I had older brothers, so they'd already told me how bullshit that whole exercise was.
01:57:02.000But I realized that my friend Mark, sitting there as we kind of ate our lunch underneath the desk, you know, it seemed like this was going to do it.
01:57:55.000There was talk about up on Capitol Hill after the end of the Cold War, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we could shut down the CIA. What do we need that for anymore?
01:58:03.000And that was the same thought that happened after World War II. World War II ended, and Harry Truman signed an order that ended the Office of Strategic Services, which was the old precursor for the CIA. Shut it down.
01:58:17.000It took two years, two years while the Soviet Union started building up and rampaging for the president to think, you know, maybe this is actually a good idea.
01:58:27.000So then he created the CIA at that point.
01:58:31.000You know, we thought we were going to get some sort of dividend out of the end of that, and it just wasn't going to happen.
01:59:07.000What he did by running Russia, stepping back, and being sort of a puppet master for a while, and then jumping back in in 2012 and running it again.
02:00:37.000And that's where, when we go back to that conversation about the Middle East and we realize what they've been doing in the Middle East in particular, they've been active in other places, but mostly in the Middle East.
02:00:50.000And so it's not a mystery why he does things.
02:00:53.000If you take him at his base word, which we should do because he tends to say exactly what he intends to do most of the time, and not try to read our values into it, right?
02:01:06.000Not say, well, I'm sure he doesn't mean that.
02:01:07.000I'm sure what he means is like, you know, he's...
02:01:09.000He wants to get to democracy eventually, but that's a lot of horseshit.
02:01:12.000But we tend to mirror our values on other people, right?
02:01:15.000So when we were talking about, you know, earlier about how, you know, there's not another nation out there that really kind of approaches global concerns the way that we do with a certain set of principles and desires, even if we make mistakes, and obviously we do from time to time, of course.
02:01:29.000Then, you know, you look at Russia and you think, yeah.
02:01:35.000He doesn't look at something and go, hmm, maybe that would be best for all of us.
02:01:40.000I don't think he's ever had that thought.
02:01:42.000You know, he literally is single-minded in his desire to do whatever will build back up Russian influence in the world.
02:01:49.000So we have to be pragmatic about it and dealing with it.
02:01:51.000And to get a better understanding of him, I think there's a great podcast between Sam Harris and Garry Kasparov, the chess champion who's a big critic of Putin who's managed to stay alive somehow or another.
02:02:03.000And I guess because he's just so famous.
02:02:06.000But that was a thing with one of his political opponents.
02:02:10.000He thought that if he was public, he would be much less likely to be killed, and they shot him right in front of his fucking girlfriend in public.
02:02:23.000I mean, he's on a totally different level.
02:02:25.000But Kasparov highlights the fact that he's a former KGB agent, and he says that you have to understand the mentality of the KGB. Like, once you are KGB, you are KGB for life.
02:02:36.000I mean, there's an extreme form of nationalism and patriotism and this loyalty to the KGB. Yeah, and he's absolutely right.
02:03:01.000They're going to love democracy because we love it, and we want to do well, and we want to improve their literacy rate, and we want to do these things.
02:03:38.000That's not why we should be concerned about him.
02:03:39.000Although you do have to, again, worry about military buildup, worry about their nuke program and what they're doing with theirs and what we're doing with ours.
02:03:52.000Unilateral disarmament, not a good idea, whether we're talking about Putin or anybody else.
02:03:57.000You can always want peace and you can strive for peace, but I have not seen a world that works differently.
02:04:04.000You've got to do that through a position of strength.
02:04:06.000I think these conversations are so important because when a guy like you talks about this, you're not talking out of your ass, and you get a chance to understand how crazy this situation is worldwide and how difficult it is and what a balancing act it is.
02:05:20.000Well, he knows that, you know, he's smart enough to understand that We got that wall to fall because we outspent the hell out of the Russians.
02:05:32.000They actually didn't know if Reagan was crazy enough to hit the button.
02:05:36.000And so that unknowing, that uncertainty about what Reagan was all about, combined with the fact that we...
02:05:42.000We were outspending them and they couldn't keep up.
02:05:47.000That's what brought the Soviets eventually to realize, yeah, this is, you know, we've got to realign things because this isn't going to work.
02:05:54.000As soon as they found out that Nancy Reagan based all of her decisions and all of her advice on astrology.
02:07:18.000Identifying specific countries with Muslim majorities and carving out exceptions for minority religions flies in the face of the constitutional principle that bans a government from either favoring or discriminating against particular religions, Romero said...
02:09:08.000Do a little quick search to try to find that dude's name, because he's got a bunch of really hilarious videos.
02:09:13.000But he made a compilation of all the wackiest moments on Jim Baker's show where he tries to sell the survival food, and he's got this table that he sets down.
02:09:23.000Instead of on legs, it's set down on these buckets of survival food that he recommends.
02:09:28.000This is where you store your survival food.
02:09:31.000It's sort of a mid-century modern look.
02:09:34.000Well, it's stupid because you can't get your feet under the table then.
02:12:22.000So we're not going to be here for the Fight Companion on Saturday, but we're going to play the fights and not watch them.
02:12:28.000So I'm not watching them on Saturday night.
02:12:30.000I'm going to record them here, and then we're going to come in on Sunday, and it's going to be Brendan Schaub, Eddie Bravo, Brian Callen, and my pal Jimmy Burke.
02:12:38.000It's going to be a good goddamn time, folks.
02:12:40.000So if you want to get in with us, Sunday, 7pm Pacific.