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00:03:58.000Tennessee whiskey, a country song, written by Dean Dillon and Linda Hargrove, who was originally recorded by artist David Allen Coe for his album, The Same Name, peaking at number 77 in the Billboard Hot Country singles in 1981. Wow!
00:04:10.000George Jones, 1983 version of the song, was included on his album Shine On and reached number two on the Hot Country Singles chart.
00:04:19.000Did you hear that Randy Travis is using AI now to make new songs because he was paralyzed by a stroke, but because they could take his voice, which is an iconic voice, Randy Travis has it.
00:05:41.000Well, that one specifically, I think someone else was, like, it was a conversation between two people, and they both were like, I didn't hear that, and I didn't say that.
00:05:49.000So they were like, all right, well, what could have happened?
00:05:52.000I think they got the guy's computer to find out what he did.
00:05:55.000So he must have had a secret recording, and then in that secret recording, he took it and then threw it through AI and had him say a bunch of N-words in there.
00:06:04.000There's two aspects to this whole thing, right?
00:06:06.000There's the detection portion of it, right?
00:06:08.000Can you detect something like this as fake?
00:06:11.000Whether it's audio, whether it's video, a combination of both.
00:06:14.000And then there's the other side of it, which is trying to stay up with the capabilities of those that are trying to do these identity thefts or whatever you want to call it.
00:06:24.000And that's sort of the proactive effort to lock down recordings, right?
00:06:31.000And there's some interesting work being done in that space where if you film something, say you go to a campaign rally and you film that campaign rally, there are a handful of companies out there figuring out that you can essentially watermark it.
00:06:57.000So, but detection, it's important, but it's not enough anymore.
00:07:00.000So where the focus has to be is on ensuring that anything that's being recorded, whether it's a body cam for a police officer, whether it's maybe someone's at a protest, right?
00:07:10.000And they're a protester or they're on the other side, whatever.
00:07:13.000To be able to film something and then ensure that it's accurate and true going forward, right?
00:07:20.000And that's a really important part because you can't, the detection side of it's important, but it can't stay up with the developments of all the folks out there, all the criminal gangs, criminal elements, and whether it's state-sponsored or not that's out there, you know, with this disinformation effort.
00:08:23.000There are if you talk about Just what do they call a face swap, right?
00:08:28.000So they can take a photo of somebody now they can take a little snippet of somebody talking now and There are over a hundred apps out there readily available to anybody right that can Basically do this FAPES face swap technology and put somebody else in there and the criminal elements are doing it all the time Yeah,
00:08:50.000so if I'm a fraudster And I send a note, say, to somebody in procurement.
00:08:58.000I say, hey, you need to send a check for $100,000 to our vendor, right?
00:09:03.000Well, they might have protocols in place at the company.
00:09:05.000He says, okay, well, first, this is a large transaction.
00:09:07.000I better call the finance director, right, or whomever.
00:09:11.000They've got a way that they can figure out how to spoof all of that, right?
00:09:14.000So you could be talking to whom you think is the finance director, but they'll actually, with the face swap technology that's available out there, right?
00:09:23.000You think it's the finance director, but they're talking to you and- Completely different person, their voice gets changed, their face gets changed, they look exactly like you, so I could use face swap technology that exists today, and with all the recordings that we have of you from this show,
00:09:39.000100%, we could have you saying a bunch of shit that you never really said.
00:09:44.000And some shit that I probably did say over the years.
00:09:51.000When they're doing all this face swap technology and all this different stuff, What what can be done to try to keep ahead of it to make sure like from a national security perspective like how do you?
00:10:13.000Yeah, there's a couple parts to that one Netanyahu all of a sudden has some crazy speech right and says some wild shit and like we're going to war like hey Yeah, is that real well what they I mean again part of it is like this there's a handful of companies out there and They're able to,
00:10:32.000again, record, and instantly as it does it, it embeds information, right?
00:10:38.000It embeds specific time, location, you know, your coordinates.
00:12:09.000Almost no matter what thing you're trying to average out, they almost always end up looking this way, and 15% will always be on that side of it.
00:13:27.000Are you really smart if your emotional intelligence sucks so hard?
00:13:31.000Your ability to read social cues, your ability to form meaningful friendships sucks so hard that you're isolated and nobody likes to be around you, but you have a high IQ. So I'm supposed to think that's good?
00:16:34.000And you think about it, and you think about they all grow up, and people talk about this all the time, so it's nothing new, but, you know, kids grow up in the same environment, right?
00:16:41.000And then they end up being so uniquely different in ways.
00:16:51.000And you realize that when you see your kids grow up and you see traits that, like, there is no fucking way this is getting to you any way other than genetics.
00:17:42.000I'll tell you, that woke thing, it got into college, and then the high school kids, the ones coming up now, they are rejecting it.
00:17:49.000I 100% agree with you, and I know that because Our youngest Muggsy is like what 12 years old now and So he's in seventh grade and he it was in the complete blast zone of woke, right?
00:18:03.000Because and and like the oldest one who's you know 16 He kind of had some of it the middle one again didn't care.
00:18:08.000He was like, you know fuck you you don't play ball, so I'm not paying attention to you and But the youngest one was in a complete firing, you know fire zone of this this is this wool culture and And you'll never meet a more conservative, sexist kid in your life.
00:19:35.000You know what's interesting is like, Tucker Carlson had a very good point when he talked about the difference between different dysphoria's.
00:19:43.000Like body dysphoria for like anorexia versus gender dysphoria.
00:19:47.000And he said when a child has body dysphoria and they think they're fat, you don't tell them, oh yeah, you are fat.
00:21:18.000But the answer is not to overindulge every single aspect of everyone's ideas so that you do let a kid wear a fucking tail and ears and run around the high school and be a freak.
00:21:55.000Once you're a grown adult and you've got your own job and you pay for your own apartment, you want to go to a furry convention, God bless you.
00:23:18.000And so, anyway, he's got his crew cut going on, and I suspect he's the only one in this entire school that's got this, and it's a good look for him, right?
00:23:28.000And it also, you know, again, I think there's so much happening in the school in terms of...
00:23:35.000The way kids are, what's the word I'm looking for?
00:24:07.000If you want a successful, happy life, you have to be engaged in some sort of a pursuit, something that you enjoy, whatever the fuck it is, find it, go for it.
00:26:47.000Well, just try to watch people, like, just lose their minds, try asking somebody like that, you know, is there a difference between a man and a woman?
00:26:55.000Imagine asking that to a Supreme Court Justice 20 years ago.
00:26:57.000Imagine if Ruth Bader Ginsburg 20 years ago, somebody asked her, she would go, shut the fuck up with these stupid questions.
00:27:03.000I'm here on the goddamn Supreme Court to get shit done, okay?
00:27:08.000I'm not here to hear, what did you ask me?
00:27:22.000It's anybody in a position of leadership who's afraid of getting bullied, right?
00:27:27.000And so nobody wants to state the obvious.
00:27:29.000We went through the whole pandemic with one side screaming, believe the science, right?
00:27:34.000And now they're like, well, no, you know, it depends on the context of whether a man and a woman are different.
00:27:38.000You're thinking, look, you can, again, do whatever you want to do, but if you're a girl, but you identify as a boy, then you're a girl identifying as a boy, and vice versa, right?
00:28:10.000You know that they run multiple tests and multiple studies and they'll throw out the ones that don't show any positive results and they finagle the studies to show some Kind of fugazi, positive thing, and then they'll start prescribing it to people.
00:28:29.000So shut the fuck up about this science thing until you can sort the science out.
00:28:33.000Unless you have a third party, non-biased, where there's not a revolving door between the government organization and the pharmaceutical drug companies, which we know there is.
00:28:46.000And we know that they know there is, so we know that they know where the fucking bread is buttered, and they know how to get things through, and then looky-do!
00:30:15.000No, we have a disguise unit at the agency, and I'm super proud of them.
00:30:21.000Was the benefit of their expertise on numerous occasions, because you might guess, I mean, I'd spent almost all my time with the agency overseas in operations, and there's some places where I don't blend, right?
00:32:29.000Because what they did was they went to Hollywood and there's been this liaison for years, years and years, between the agency and Hollywood when it comes to special effects, when it comes to makeup.
00:32:40.000And again, and it's horses for courses.
00:32:41.000So sometimes you need a light disguise, right?
00:33:01.000Yeah, it could be like a wig, it could be, you know, facial hair, change of glasses, could be just a change of hair color.
00:33:10.000In reality, if you're out on the street, I know I'll probably disappear down a rabbit hole and people will be like, oh, this is fucking boring.
00:33:16.000But if you're out on the street and you're just, you're in a surveillance exercise, say, right, and you're covering a target.
00:33:22.000Then all you got to do is you're just talking about switching up your look a little bit.
00:34:11.000And also, do you understand that the vast majority of people out there, no matter where you are, right, a fourth world country, U.S., wherever, they're not thinking about it, right?
00:34:21.000And I've had extended conversations with people in disguise Where, you know, they don't give a fuck.
00:35:03.000You have to be able to do this quickly.
00:35:04.000Look, I've been on the streets of, you know, capital cities around the world where I'm on a motorcycle and, you know, I've got a helmet on.
00:35:13.000But you've got to get off that motorcycle at some point and walk the streets or go somewhere, whatever.
00:35:17.000And so you've got to be able to do these things quickly, right?
00:35:20.000So, again, not giving away any sources or methods, but I will say the disguise unit and Mrs. Mendez there, who they just showed briefly, she ran that operation to a great person and a great part of the agency.
00:36:17.000A lot of times, if you're trying to get on side with somebody, right?
00:36:20.000So if I'm trying to develop a relationship with the deputy foreign minister of whatever from some country, right, because they've got inside information on their NUC program, then I'll spend a lot of time Thinking about and watching and observing that person,
00:36:38.000and eventually I'm mirroring that person's activities, right?
00:36:42.000So, you know, if you're sitting across from somebody and they lean on the desk, right, and they start talking to you, they move in a little bit closer, well, I'm going to do the same thing.
00:36:52.000They don't know it, they don't understand it, but it makes them more comfortable, right?
00:36:56.000So if you start mirroring their actions, their activities, That's just one of those things.
00:37:01.000It's a small part of it, but it's one of them.
00:37:02.000My buddy told me that when you see people like leaning against a wall, that we see people in foreign countries leaning against a wall, nine times out of ten they're American.
00:37:12.000Like with leaning like one shoulder against a wall.
00:37:14.000He said it's a very American thing to do.
00:37:16.000Like lean against doorways with one shoulder or lean against a wall with one shoulder.
00:37:21.000Yeah, I wouldn't make a lot of book on that.
00:37:23.000I mean, because, you know, it's a Western thing more than just an American thing.
00:37:27.000I've spent a long time in Europe and, you know, Italians will lean against the wall.
00:37:44.000I mean, it could be anything that could, you know, show out as a certain cultural...
00:37:51.000What is the way that different people hold their fork?
00:37:54.000Well, you know, if you hold your knife here and you hold your fork here, right, and you just keep eating with this hand, you don't switch the fork over to your dominant hand, right?
00:38:06.000That's an interesting take, and I mean, like, if you're over in the UK, you see it all the time, right?
00:38:11.000People just kind of eating like this, right?
00:38:13.000Just pushing their food onto their fork.
00:39:10.000Even if you're walking in the wrong direction.
00:39:12.000Americans are known for enjoying sweet treats for breakfast, a habit that may be seen as strange in other cultures where breakfast is typically a savory meal.
00:39:19.000Americans are often seen as being obsessed with their appearance and constantly checking their appearance in mirrors.
00:39:35.000Americans are known for the love of baseball caps, especially when worn backwards.
00:39:40.000Americans are in love for the love of saying the U.S. or America when asked if they're from, even though these terms refer to the entire country.
00:39:49.000Americans are known for their friendly grins and making eye taunt.
00:39:53.000Basically just a leaning against the wall thing that seems odd.
00:39:56.000Yeah, that's interesting, but I've seen a lot of leaners in my time.
00:40:03.000But yeah, all those things, it's good to be aware of, but...
00:40:08.000You were saying with the fork and knife thing that the Europeans keep a fork in one hand and a knife in the other, and they don't switch hands.
00:40:16.000I've seen that a lot here in the States, where people, like, they'll eat, you'll cut, you'll put down, you'll eat, and maybe it's just because I hang around with a lot of posh people, I don't know.
00:42:02.000But I'm just saying, in the old days, because I'm fairly old, but in the old days they'd throw in a ball cap and you think, like, okay, well...
00:43:15.000Then it shows a guy doing a very quick thing.
00:43:17.000People that pinch it here, they probably like European music.
00:43:19.000This guy goes from a suit to just taking it off, putting on a hat, and now he's in disguise.
00:43:26.000See, and it can be that simple, right?
00:43:28.000And particularly if you're in surveillance or if you're doing counter-surveillance, you've got to be aware of these things.
00:43:35.000Did you see that I had a guest on the podcast that came with my friend Josh Dubin who works with criminal reform and getting innocent people out of jail?
00:43:45.000So we had this guest that came on and then after he was on the show wound up killing somebody?
00:44:26.000That's interesting, you know, that video that you just showed, because there's been some talk about the protests on campus, right, and the fact that all these...
00:44:36.000All these outside agitators, activists, and then the students, the actual students, the ones that are actually affiliated with the university, most of them are wearing masks, right?
00:45:47.000And it's got to be a country where you're operating where they've got the resources and the technology, but it makes it a shit ton tougher to get away with things, right?
00:45:56.000And as does the ability for communications intercepts and tracking of phones and all the other things.
00:46:28.000And You know I fine you you know you some of them aren't getting to graduate There's one girl I was watching this video with they were they just told her she couldn't graduate she got arrested well You know what you what do they say you play stupid games?
00:46:57.000And that's the part, look, again, you know, hey, God bless the actual students who are out there feeling like they're being a part of something.
00:47:21.000But it's the coordination of it all by the various outside groups and the activists and the funding of it, right?
00:47:27.000And the potential for that funding and the coordination to tie back to groups like Hamas or Hezbollah, which basically means you're tying back to the Iranian regime, right?
00:47:36.000Because that's the only reason those groups exist.
00:47:40.000But nobody seems curious about that because a lot of the media wanted to portray this as just like kids being kids.
00:47:46.000Oh, look, this is their moment to shine as student activists.
00:48:38.000And always looking to have organizations disinvest from Israel or to, you know, promote causes that are anti-Israeli, right?
00:48:50.000And then you say, okay, well, who's funding it, right?
00:48:54.000So you look at these groups and you say, okay, where's the money coming from?
00:48:57.000And the money's always coming from the same places, right?
00:48:59.000The Tide Center, right, which is part of the Tide's network, which gets significant funding.
00:49:04.000No surprise, Soros' Open Society Foundation.
00:49:09.000You get Westchester People's Action Coalition.
00:49:14.000So you get these groups and you get the legal support.
00:49:17.000So all these people, the activists who are getting arrested, they can turn to Palestine Legal, which provides legal support to the activists and the NGOs that are engaged in all this.
00:49:26.000Again, they're getting their money from charities.
00:49:29.000A lot of times the charities don't know they're putting money into these groups, right?
00:49:32.000It goes into the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, right?
00:49:36.000And the Rockefeller Brothers Fund provides money to these NGOs, you know, like Justice for Palestine or whatever.
00:50:20.000This is what I was going to get to earlier when I was talking about social media.
00:50:25.000How much do you think foreign governments have an influence on certain trends and certain things that people are talking and promoting and pushing and being a part of on social media?
00:51:17.000The Foreign Minister Khamenei himself, right, the Ayatollah, came out on his official X page, you know, who knew, and praises the protesters.
00:51:26.000And they talk about the oppression and the violent tactics of the police, right, and suppressing protests.
00:51:33.000Which is crazy when you think about what the Iranian regime has done to anybody who dares protest inside Iran.
00:51:40.000Yeah, they executed a world champion wrestler over that.
00:53:01.000You know, you could argue, I mean, whether it's the face-swapping techniques, whether it's AI that can mimic, and whether it's for criminal purposes or whether it's for state-sponsored efforts to try to put the knife into the American system or the West.
00:53:21.000It's made it so that everybody can engage in it, not just state sponsors, but everybody, because all those apps are out there, all the abilities out there, and you've got an incurious public, for the most part, that doesn't take the time.
00:55:26.000Well, let me ask you this from a perspective of someone who kind of understands all these different influences and all the things that are happening in these universities.
00:55:33.000What can be done to sort of like unwind some of this fuckery, if anything at this point?
00:55:41.000I mean, are we just going to operate from here on out with this understanding that our kids get indoctrinated to this preposterous, ridiculous way of thinking where they're taught these Marxist, Leninist ideas as if they make any fucking sense and that they've ever worked anywhere and if they don't always lead to totalitarian,
00:56:01.000authoritative governments that Take over and enforce all these socialist policies, which is a fucking nightmare that happens in every single regime when they go socialism.
00:56:13.000So what can be done to sort of unwind some of this bullshit in colleges and balance it out a little bit?
00:56:21.000There's nothing wrong with having ridiculous ideas, as long as those ridiculous ideas can be challenged.
00:56:27.000But if you're the only one that gets to talk, and you just indoctrinate these kids, and no one comes along and says, You've never even functioned in the fucking real world.
00:56:36.000Like, this shit that you're teaching these kids, unless they go into academia, they're fucked.
00:56:41.000Or you're gonna ruin corporations with this ideology, because it doesn't jive with capitalism.
00:56:51.000Okay, well then what, you fucking idiots?
00:56:53.000Then no one has any incentive to get anything done?
00:56:55.000Well, that's great for you, because you've never done anything.
00:56:58.000So you think all these people that did things, even if you don't agree with them, even if it's Bill Gates, He still built that fucking company.
00:57:12.000Then, you know, you can talk about it, you can protest about the idea that you should, everyone should have to give all their money away, and there should be no billionaires, and there should be no capitalism, and all the money goes into, and then who's in charge?
00:57:23.000And who gets to tell you what you can do and not do?
00:57:25.000Who gets to tell you you can't have your money anymore?
00:57:28.000Who gets to take your house away because it's too big?
00:58:38.000Again, I keep reverting back to examples of the real world and from my own experience.
00:58:43.000My daughter went to undergrad and grad school, and she kept her mouth shut for most of that time, six years, because she always knew, as she said, there was no upside to her arguing in class.
00:58:56.000She's a centrist, but that's not popular either.
00:59:45.000You know, I've watched oil companies, like, do this complete left turn saying, we're gonna, you know, we're gonna make over half of our revenues from green energy in the future, near future, like a couple of years from now, and you think, like, it's not gonna happen.
00:59:56.000But they have to play that game for a while.
00:59:58.000And then they come back and go, it's not gonna happen.
01:00:01.000We're investing in all of this shit, including fossil fuels.
01:00:05.000So I think whether it's that or whether it's kind of the pushback on DEI from corporations that are saying, you know, maybe it is a grift, right?
01:00:12.000Maybe you've got all these DEI grifters out there, and they got it.
01:02:20.000This problem's never probably going to get solved in our lifetimes anyway, but it is disturbing when you hear some of the Kids, the actual students, I mean, try to explain what this is, right, and what this problem is,
01:02:35.000and talk to me about the river to the sea, which, again, you can say that phrase, you know, in 10 different circumstances, it's going to mean 10 different things to 10 different people, right?
01:03:54.000They're just there because they think they're supposed to be a good person to be there, and they want to make all their friends think they're a good person.
01:04:00.000They're carrying around signs and yelling out these things.
01:04:02.000Got the keffion, and they're like, hey, look at me.
01:04:06.000I don't know what the fuck I'm doing here.
01:04:07.000Meanwhile, it is a fascinating time if they allowed debates, because if you could see a pro-Israeli and a pro-Palestinian debate, like a real, legitimate, honest, intellectual debate in discussing all the various issues, like from the beginning of the formation of Israel to back in the history of the land,
01:04:28.000And then what's going on today, all the treaties, all the different things that have happened, all the different peace talks, that would be a fascinating opportunity for people to hear both sides of this conflict and try to get a better understanding of it instead of just running out there with signs and camping on the lawn.
01:04:48.000Universities and these places of higher education are supposed to be where these difficult conversations get sorted out.
01:05:03.000And if you can get them together and have them sort out your details, all the people in the audience can get a better, more informed understanding of how complex this conflict is.
01:05:12.000And that is supposed to be what universities are for.
01:05:17.000It should be a place where people can sit down and learn something about something very difficult, which is international conflict.
01:05:26.000These crazy moments in history where we get entwined with military conflicts that are happening all over the world and it's nowhere near you and it's complicated shit, man.
01:05:39.000And to just run out there with a sign because these fuckers are organizing this on campus, it messes everything up.
01:05:47.000It messes up everybody and to have like only one side's perspective heard messes up everybody.
01:05:55.000Well, I think that the students for the most part, again, the actual students who have an affiliation with the universities, look, you know, the pro-Hamas groups, the pro-Palestinian activists, they tend to view the students, I believe,
01:06:15.000And it gives it a sort of a veneer of, as you pointed out before, sort of this organic grassroots movement that's sweeping the nation when in fact there's this underlying infrastructure that's always out there trying to take advantage of opportunities like this in the chaos.
01:06:30.000And then aside from that, then you've got this other 30,000-foot problem where you've got the Iranian regime and others who are promoting this and pushing for it.
01:06:40.000Look, you know, Hezbollah, Hamas, they've got a lot of money, right?
01:06:45.000They have, again, not to disappear out of rabbit hole, but the leaders of Hamas are extremely wealthy, right?
01:06:54.000You know, Ishmael Hanyay and Marzouk and Mashal and the other CACs, you know, They have billions of dollars, right?
01:07:03.000Because for years, people say, well, how could that be possible?
01:07:05.000Well, for years and years now, they have been receiving a great deal of money.
01:07:11.000Conservative estimates from Iranian regime, Hamas gets maybe a quarter billion a year, right?
01:07:21.000It appears gives them even more than that.
01:07:22.000There have been years when they've given about 400 million dollars to Hamas for a variety of reasons, right?
01:10:29.000Well, and that's, again, yeah, when you talk about, like, whether we're talking about money that goes to the Palestinian cause and gets filtered through Hamas, and they've been able to carve off billions of dollars for themselves.
01:10:40.000They're living big lives in Qatar and Turkey.
01:10:43.000But Part of the problem with Ukraine has been, you know, in terms of, well, they've got big issues, right?
01:10:50.000One of them has been explaining why it's important to the American people, right?
01:10:53.000The administration hasn't really accomplished that Yet, right?
01:11:00.000And trying to say, why are we doing this, right?
01:11:03.000They should have been doing it from the very start.
01:11:05.000Didn't you see them wave their flags in Congress?
01:11:33.000That's the other big issue is the transparency and how are we spending this money?
01:11:37.000How are we spending your money, the taxpayers' money?
01:11:40.000And look, I fall down on the side of, I don't want to see Putin win.
01:11:43.000And he will win, you know, without significant support that gets to the point where he feels so much pain, he actually negotiates a settlement, right?
01:11:51.000We're not going to get to a victory in this war.
01:12:03.000He'll probably go to tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield before he does that.
01:12:07.000Right and so you've got you've got to get but you've got a you got to hurt him enough So that he says oh fuck it.
01:12:13.000Okay, because if he's hurt enough that means at home He's facing some dissent right and that's the big thing for him.
01:12:20.000He doesn't you know He just wants to hold on to power right here two versions of what's going on I hear the war has already been won by Russia and Ukraine is down to like a minimum amount of soldiers They've lost half a million people rough estimates like no one really knows the real estimates Yeah.
01:12:37.000And then I've heard other stories where Ukraine is actually doing much better than people think, and Russia has hemorrhaged people because they're essentially just sending people into the front line.
01:12:48.000They're sending prisoners, and they're just using bodies to win this.
01:13:02.000Russia's got a three to one manpower advantage in terms of population right what they can what they can do to recruit and put more people on the battlefield and Russia has a no problem with sort of a meat grinder strategy I just throw bodies at it right just and the stats on Fatalities on casualties on both sides are completely bullshit.
01:13:20.000There's no transparency really and it's kind of understandable why you don't want to tell the other side how many soldiers you've lost or injured and Zelensky came out a while back and said, you know, we've suffered 31,000, you know, fatalities on the battlefield.
01:14:40.000Well, disinformation and political influence campaigns, instilling personnel that are, there's a party there in Georgia, the Georgian Dream Party or something, that's pro-Kremlin.
01:14:52.000And they're pushing very hard on a variety of fronts, right?
01:14:56.000They're pushing a bill that's sort of like a foreign agent bill, which is a Russian tactic, right, to basically You know, single out anybody who's got foreign influence or foreign involvement.
01:15:08.000And that could be NGOs, it could be media, independent media.
01:15:11.000And the Russians have used that foreign agent bill very successfully.
01:16:16.000The idea that, you know, the only outright winner will be Putin if we back off and say, we're not going to provide you with certain armaments, certain weapons to allow you to inflict enough pain to stop this.
01:16:28.000And this is an incredibly complex and dynamic environment because the U.S. The White House, the Biden administration, is pushing very hard on Zelensky to not attack any targets inside of Russia,
01:16:45.000The Ukrainian military is like, well, fuck it.
01:16:49.000Why aren't we attacking Russian oil refineries, right?
01:16:52.000And energy infrastructure, like the Russians are doing inside Ukraine.
01:16:56.000That's been a tactic of the Russian military for quite some time now, right?
01:17:00.000Because it impacts morale of the population, it demoralizes people.
01:17:05.000So the Ukrainian military is saying, do that.
01:17:06.000The White House is saying, no, we don't want to escalate, so don't do that, right?
01:17:10.000Now, the other side of that coin is, if you fuck over the Russian energy infrastructure, what does that do to oil prices around the world, and what does it do to gas prices at the pump when you're in an election year?
01:17:20.000I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist.
01:17:23.000But then you've got the Europeans, and, you know, Macron is over there saying, well, you know, if Kiev asks, I can see putting French troops on the ground in Ukraine.
01:17:34.000He's trying to distract from the fact that his wife's a man, right?
01:17:46.000That is the wildest one I've ever heard.
01:17:50.000The fact that Candace Owen is like, I stake my reputation on this.
01:18:09.000This person, this woman that he's married to, even, even, even, even if it's a man, the real problem is they had a relationship when McCrone was 15 and she was 39. That,
01:18:32.000Because if it was the opposite, if it was a 39-year-old man who was a teacher and a 15-year-old girl who was a student, this would be horrific.
01:18:49.000The old Italian prime minister or Someone asked him what he thought of Macron's wife, and he says, well, he's got a good-looking mom, doesn't he?
01:20:48.000I think that there's definitely a lot of corruption over there.
01:20:52.000And to deny that, I'm sure you saw that one thing where Candace Owen was going back and forth with the New York Times when they were saying, what evidence do you have of Ukraine being corrupt?
01:21:01.000She's like, oh, you mean your fucking newspaper, stupid?
01:21:04.000She said these different articles about the rampant corruption in Ukraine.
01:21:13.000But anywhere you've got vast sums of money coming in for a variety of reasons, which is, again, I'm always astounded when people say, oh, there's no way that the three top leaders of Hamas are worth $11 billion collectively.
01:21:31.000And you think about these guys running Hamas, which supposedly, I mean, they've been governing since, what, 2007, 2006, supposedly for the benefit of the Palestinian people.
01:21:41.000And they're sitting on billions of dollars, and you think, and so that's why, you know, fuck Hamas.
01:21:46.000And I understand the Israeli perspective, which is, we can't allow them to retain control.
01:22:50.000Everybody, you know, evacuate Eastern Rafa.
01:22:53.000You know, we're going to engage in some targeted strikes against Hamas targets that we've identified.
01:22:59.000Hamas turns around shortly thereafter and says, ah, we accept a peace proposal, a ceasefire proposal from Egypt and Qatar, right?
01:23:06.000So look at us, we're accepting a ceasefire proposal, and Israel's moving on Rafah, right?
01:23:11.000That's a, you know, on one hand, that's a brilliant communication strategy, right?
01:23:16.000Now you've won the day on the international stage, and exactly what they knew would happen, just like what they knew would happen after the seven October strikes, they knew What was going to happen?
01:23:26.000They knew that civilians were going to die, right?
01:23:53.000I don't necessarily believe the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry in terms of their statistics, and also they don't separate out how many combatants were killed, right?
01:24:03.000They're just like, oh, 34,000 people have died.
01:24:05.000So people imagine, oh my god, 34,000 civilians.
01:24:07.000Well, thousands and thousands of those people are fighters.
01:24:18.000But what I am saying is Hamas has a much better communications public relations operation.
01:24:25.000So they knew what Israel was about to do.
01:24:27.000They claim, oh, we accept the ceasefire.
01:24:29.000The ceasefire was completely different from what had been presented, you know, by Israel and to Israel, right, just during the past 48 hours.
01:24:38.000They say, no, this thing is not what we've been talking about.
01:24:53.000But again, the point is, it's also, when all that money's sloshing around, of course you're going to have people who are benefiting from it.
01:24:59.000And in this case, it's people like, you know, Hanye, who can sit in Qatar with all that money, and What are they worried about?
01:25:08.000They're worried about losing the revenue stream, right?
01:25:11.000They know that if Hamas is destroyed, you think Iran's gonna continue giving them a quarter billion dollars a year, or Qatar's gonna allow them to live this lavish lifestyle and give them money, or they're gonna continue to be able to, you know, extract taxes from money coming in, or from goods coming into Gaza,
01:25:28.000you know, or put tariffs on things coming in, you know, to the tunnels, the contraband?
01:25:33.000So, in part, it's this It never changes, right?
01:25:38.000Where there's situations like this, whether it's there, whether it's Ukraine or wherever, yeah, you're gonna get this, right?
01:25:44.000You're gonna get this level of corruption.
01:25:46.000And so I'm not surprised at all when people are worried about or concerned about what's going on with Ukraine and we give them another $61 billion and how much is that is ending up in pockets.
01:25:55.000But I'd argue that that's part of the problem that the government, the US government has faced.
01:26:02.000They haven't provided As much transparency as possible and accountability to the American public, and so you lose the support of the American public, who had been just two years ago waving their fucking flags and putting Ukrainian flags on their Twitter sites and all the rest of that bullshit.
01:26:55.000Well, they've been trying to put together an Arab states coalition, right, of countries that would then be responsible for a couple of things.
01:27:02.000The rebuilding of the infrastructure and also security, right?
01:27:08.000Again, no ceasefire, no permanent ceasefire is going to be accepted that allows Hamas to be the governing authority there, right?
01:27:16.000So the U.S. has been pushing very hard to have the Palestinian Authority, right, run by Mahmoud Abbas, who's been in charge of the Palestinian Authority for, God, 20 years now.
01:31:59.000Moving back to the PLO, so back then, part of the rift between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas is Hamas came out of the first intifada in like 80-whatever,
01:32:15.00087. But they took exception with Yasser Arafat because he basically denounced violence, right, as a way to attain, you know, the Palestinian objectives and goals and everything.
01:32:27.000He was like, okay, and he, you know, remember, he was involved in signing some peace accords in Madrid and Oslo accords and everything.
01:32:32.000So Hamas, you know, in their charter basically is like, no, jihad is the way to go.
01:32:37.000Violence is the way that we're going to You know, it's liberation, not negotiation.
01:32:41.000They have all these sayings in their charter, right, about this.
01:32:44.000And so, anyway, so there's, but there have been problems, and eventually, they had an election in, in, what the hell, what year was it, 2006, I think, in Gaza, right, and Fatah, Yasser Arafat's party, the PLO party,
01:33:51.000The U.S., Secretary Blanket and others have been pushing this idea that somehow the Palestinian Authority will be the governing body in Gaza.
01:34:01.000And, you know, Gazans, look, they don't necessarily, you know, they don't want that.
01:34:51.000But, you know, they're saying, no, we don't want them governing.
01:34:54.000So it could end up looking like some type of UN-Arab states type of coalition that then is there and they're responsible for security of Gaza and they're responsible for the rebuilding effort.
01:35:09.000But he has a long ways to go to get there.
01:35:14.000So Israel is not trying to take over Gaza.
01:36:33.000Again, Between the two, of course, yeah.
01:36:37.000But you have to say, okay, are we lumping Hamas into the Iranian proxy network?
01:36:44.000They built a belt of terrorist organizations, right?
01:36:47.000Whether it's Islamic Jihad, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or Hamas, or the Houthis, or the Hezbollah of North, they've created this network of proxies.
01:36:57.000Designed with the objective of removing Israel at some point, right?
01:37:01.000Because that's the stated purpose of the Iranian regime.
01:37:04.000They, you know, they want the destruction of Israel.
01:37:06.000So, you know, you could argue, well, look, all of that together, that's the military power, or is it just this one group?
01:37:13.000Now, you know, in a confined sense, yes, of course, Israel's got far more military power than Hamas as an organization, right?
01:38:13.000And Ismail Hanyeh, right, came out, head of the political wing of Hamas, came out after the attacks and talked about this and glorified the attacks and also said that, look, this, you know, people, our Arab brothers, our Arab states,
01:38:29.000Should realize that Israel is not, you know, you will have no peace, basically, with negotiations and with relationships.
01:38:40.000So he was clear in the way that he put it that, you know, he was sending a message to the Arab states about this idea of normalizing relations with Israel.
01:38:58.000They kind of took them off the table for a while.
01:39:01.000But the Saudis and the US have been having some pretty good discussions recently over the normalization of all of this, right?
01:39:10.000And I think it's in the Arab states, you know, look, Bahrain and Morocco and others, All understand, too, that long-term stability down the road is going to come from normalization of relationships and some long-term ability to have peace,
01:39:52.000They've been adding to their wall down along their border with Gaza Strip.
01:39:55.000So, you know, look, they formed the PLO. Egypt was in charge of the PLO all those years ago, back in the early 70s, right?
01:40:03.000You know, they were essentially the leaders they put in place in the PLO all those years ago were basically just puppets for Egypt, right?
01:40:09.000And part of the reason why they were putting those people in place was because they wanted to minimize sort of the radical Islamic extremist actions, right?
01:40:17.000And the acts that they took against Israel because they wanted stability.
01:40:22.000Whether it's Qatar or the Saudis or the Egyptians or whatever...
01:40:26.000They're just as worried about radical Islam, right, and the potential for them to lose control and to lose power as are the Israelis and others in a sense, right?
01:40:35.000Not necessarily from the physical sense, but they've attacked, you know, Arab families, Arab leaders before.
01:40:53.000You know, Palestinian people are terrible.
01:40:56.000No, there's so much fucking more to this.
01:41:00.000So, again, you know, I don't know that there's any solution that will be long, long-term committed peace in the region in our lifetime.
01:41:09.000But in the short term, I think, you know, the conflict, when it's wrapped up, I don't see how it ends with Hamas still being in control of Gaza.
01:41:19.000I think that's a red line for the Israeli government.
01:41:25.000Now, maybe Netanyahu doesn't last as the leader of the government, and somebody like Benny Gantz takes over, and they're more inclined to say, now, you know what, just for the sake of some peace right now, you know, let's just call it quits.
01:41:48.000Well, that's something that we talked about before, the people protesting on the street for months, hundreds of thousands of people protesting on the streets about Netanyahu expanding power with their courts.
01:42:03.000Look, if there's a change in government, fine, they do what they're going to do.
01:42:08.000I just think that, you know, from an operational perspective, and this is just operational, I'm not talking about the moral, the ethics of the whole thing, of people dying on this.
01:42:17.000I'm just saying from an operational perspective, leaving Hamas in place isn't going to create any even midterm peace.
01:42:24.000Is it possible for them to get Hamas out?
01:43:24.000And in part because, look, Hamas runs a network of businesses and charitable organizations, just like Hezbollah does.
01:43:33.000Hezbollah's got a global presence, right?
01:43:37.000They're sitting over there in a country that is also one of our key non-NATO allies, right?
01:43:45.000So we have our largest Middle East base there, you know, in Qatar.
01:43:50.000And, you know, so it's only just recently, and recently is like the past week or so, where the U.S. has broached the idea of saying, look, if Hamas doesn't accept a ceasefire, right, then the Qatari government needs to move these people out.
01:44:59.000If the problem is a two-state solution, then maybe, you know, this thing is just never going to work because, you know, maybe a two-state solution is the best idea, but if one side or the other is not going to accept it and both sides have pushed back against it at various times, Then,
01:45:50.000And, you know, not everybody wants to sit and listen, you know, to details about Israel and Hamas or Ukraine or, you know, what Iran's doing with their nuclear weapons program or whatever.
01:46:01.000But, you know, we tend to have ADHD, right, as a nation, I think.
01:46:27.000Or the shit that comes in from outside elements like the Chinese, the Russians, the Iranians who don't have our best interests at heart.
01:46:34.000And, you know, so again, we keep going back to the same thing.
01:46:37.000If people aren't curious, And they don't take the fucking responsibility upon themselves to understand what it is that they're listening to.
01:47:29.000If they think, you know, okay, I know where he's coming from, and then you have a conversation where you're listening to something completely on the other side, right?
01:47:37.000And you're not just saying, well, fuck you, that's wrong.
01:47:38.000You're saying, well, why is that, right?
01:47:40.000And you're having people explain things.
01:47:59.000Thinking is fucking complicated, especially when you're dealing with layers upon layers, decades and generations of conflict, like you are in Gaza and Palestine and Israel.
01:49:39.000You know, I think they were trying him for a little while, but then they decided to just run it with Biden again, which is just absolutely wild.
01:50:57.000Well, I assume that they've looked at the scenarios and they thought to themselves, we can't have Biden step down and put somebody else at the top of the ticket.
01:51:06.000So we've got to clear the ticket entirely, right?
01:51:09.000Because we can't run Kamala Harris as the presidential candidate.
01:51:13.000And we certainly can't bring in Newsom, a white dude, to run the top of the ticket and keep her in place, right?
01:51:19.000That's not an optic they're willing to put up with.
01:52:35.000I think that what's going to happen is that...
01:52:40.000You have to have a perfect storm for Trump to win in terms of the independents, right, and suburban moms, and you have to have enough people come back into the tent, right, to vote for him.
01:53:17.000He is, but again, I don't know that I'd make bank on polls nowadays.
01:53:25.000This is going to sound like I'm going off topic, but after the 7th October attacks in Gaza, I think that the survey was done In maybe January and February timeframe.
01:55:19.000When you hear about shenanigans when it comes to voting, when you hear about particularly corruption involved with mail-in ballots, it seems to be a sticking issue with people.
01:55:30.000How much of a security issue is that, like the mail-in ballots thing?
01:56:01.000So I don't have any insight or inside information about, you know, to what degree there's a problem with mail-in ballots and voter fraud, but to me, I tend to be a little more simplistic.
01:56:13.000I remember a lot of elections where you just show up, you show your ID, you fill out the form, and then by that evening, You found out who won.
01:56:24.000It didn't seem to be that complicated.
01:56:38.000How do people decide whether or not mail-in ballots are appropriate?
01:56:43.000Because the reason why they were there in the first place was COVID. But now that it's there and it's set up, Yeah.
01:56:49.000Now there's this resistance to get rid of mail-in ballots.
01:56:52.000But if that is the thing that keeps us closer to corruption, and it seems to be, that's the thing that's an element that you can fuck with.
01:57:16.000So then you have to look at it with some skepticism.
01:57:19.000Are you genuinely concerned that somehow there were vast swaths of the population that were disenfranchised and not able to vote, or just can't get themselves an ID, which I think is an insulting stance to take for a lot of people.
01:57:36.000I'm sorry, you're not smart enough to get yourself an ID. But you need one if you have a vaccine.
01:57:41.000Yeah, but you need one if you have a vaccine.
01:57:50.000So I think, to me, it just seems like we should look at it from...
01:57:54.000From a perspective of the way that you would do it if you were running a business, which is, I want to minimize the potential opportunities for fraud.
02:00:08.000He paid a lady off, and I guess he did it in a secretive way?
02:00:13.000Well, he did it in the same way that Arnold Schwarzenegger did it.
02:00:16.000He did it in the same way that a variety of people who are trying to suppress a bad PR story do it, right?
02:00:24.000I think the trial that's going on right now involving Stormy Daniels in New York was the least favorite trial of the Democrats who are the most keen to see him put in prison.
02:00:36.000They all felt as if this is probably not the one to start with, but they started with it because Alvin Bragg was dead set on doing it, right?
02:00:43.000He just like, I'm going to throw this out there.
02:00:45.000And, you know, a variety of other entities had looked at that case and said, we're not going to push it forward.
02:00:53.000I don't think that there's anybody other than the hardcore never-Trumpers, the people that are just desperate to see him in a jumpsuit, who believe that there's any merit to it.
02:01:04.000The analysts that you watch across the board, even the hard left ones, they tend to speak in caveats, right?
02:01:14.000Like, you know, they're not completely convinced that this was the way to go.
02:02:17.000And again, it's not like there haven't been countless dudes who, you know, did the mess around and then had to pay to get the story suppressed, right?
02:02:27.000I mean, there are PR firms that specialize in that sort of thing.
02:02:34.000I don't see that this is going to tank him, right?
02:02:38.000There's probably other cases out there.
02:02:40.000Is it a case where, yeah, there's probably more cases, right, waiting?
02:02:43.000They're going to keep throwing it at them.
02:02:44.000Yeah, they've got a timeline of cases.
02:02:46.000And look, the Democratic strategists have been, you know, they stick to a message.
02:02:49.000They're very smart and they're very disciplined.
02:02:52.000But they all sat in a room somewhere and they looked at these various things.
02:02:54.000They looked at the election calendar and they looked at, you know, where the primaries are and they looked at when they could maybe get these trials going.
02:03:01.000And the idea being, let's just keep this thing rolling.
02:03:03.000Keep him in the news as being in a court, right?
02:06:07.000And so I don't think I'm being overly cynical.
02:06:12.000What I was getting to was that if Biden did, if we went crazy in 2027, they get him on stem cells, and they put him in a hyperbaric chamber every day for four hours, and he's sharp as a tacker.
02:06:29.000Imagine if Trump goes after him, because there's a lot to go after.
02:06:33.000If they started uncovering the emails and the Burisma stuff and the fact that he said he never talked to any of his son's business partners, but Hunter Biden's former partner said they had at least 20 phone calls, the fact that he allegedly used a pseudonym when he was exchanging emails,
02:07:40.000Maybe there are no first worlds anymore, but...
02:07:42.000When you find out, when we found out that the 1% of the world is $34,000 a year, when you hear that, you go, oh, that's why they're walking over here.
02:07:58.000Well, look, I know I spent most of my life overseas, and I met a lot of people in some very bizarre environments and some sort of remote areas, and they all had this idea, you know,
02:08:13.000get to America, work hard, and you could do who knows what.
02:08:17.000So it's still, and it still continues to be, a very dynamic and, you know, driving element of, you know, of people overseas.
02:08:25.000I think we forget that sometimes, right?
02:08:27.000And certainly, you know, you could look at the campus protests and go to, well, okay, maybe, you know, the youth of today, but that's not true either, right?
02:08:35.000Because we can fall into that trap and say, well, the fucking youth of today don't understand how, you know, great they have it and everything like that.
02:08:41.000Every generation has said that about their kids.
02:08:45.000Every generation has said that about their kids, for sure.
02:08:48.000But if you looked at this population of college kids, and you could remove these kids from their friends, and with total immunity and total anonymity, Get their real opinions on all this stuff.
02:09:05.000I guarantee you there's a lot of kids.
02:09:07.000They say some of this is so crazy and you can't have opposing opinions and we just sort of accept it and we move on and it's what percentage of the kids are out there in tents?
02:09:19.000What percentage of the kids are out there blocking the roads and protesting?
02:09:31.000Well, I mean, if you look at the arrest statistics so far, right, you know, say it's not a completely accurate number, but about 2,400 arrests, right, campuses across the country.
02:09:45.000And the statistics are starting to show that, you know, upwards of half of those arrests Those people have no affiliation with the university.
02:10:04.000And again, I would argue that, you know, from the outside activist perspective, again, whether it's, you know, Students for Justice in Palestine or, you know, the other groups that are involved...
02:10:15.000They look at the students themselves as just window dressing.
02:11:09.000But in terms of just the sheer number of people that aren't, it'll surprise you.
02:11:16.000There's a lot of great people in this country.
02:11:18.000We have our problems, and we're going to always have problems, but one of the ways we find solutions is by having problems.
02:11:26.000And that's one of the ways we've come to understandings.
02:11:28.000And the people that are trying to stop you from discussing this, that's the real problem.
02:11:33.000The problem is not disagreement, folks.
02:11:35.000The problem is people trying to stop people from discussing very important subjects.
02:11:41.000And that is, look, Fucking all hail Elon Musk cuz that motherfucker stepped in spent 44 billion dollars and shifted the entire The whole like the environment of social media is very different because X is the Wild West Yeah,
02:11:58.000it's very different everywhere Everything has to kind of relax just to kind of keep up with it because the the whole power dynamic the whole bell curve has shifted and And now you've got this one dude who's like, I don't give a fuck.
02:16:10.000And so now the US is suddenly realizing that they've got an issue because a while back, a handful of years ago, they put in place a law that will actually come into effect in 27 in a big way, which says, you know, no magnets, you know, from China where the materials or the processing or manufacturers in China.
02:18:12.000He was talking about the refining of it, and that's what I think this article starts talking about.
02:18:17.000So we don't have the refineries available?
02:18:19.000Yeah, and so they're starting to put money into, whether it's us or the Australians or the Germans or whomever, they're starting to realize.
02:18:26.000But good news is they've figured this out, but while we were paying attention to whatever we were focused on, China was dominating above 90% and knowing, strategically thinking ahead years ago, thinking what's going to be important.
02:18:41.000And they're not playing the same game in terms of regulations and environmental concerns and practices.
02:18:53.000One of the wildest things that these social media bots Who knows what countries are using these, but there's a lot of them that are being run by foreign countries.
02:19:05.000And they'll, a lot of times, be real inflammatory about climate change.
02:19:10.000And if they're funded by China, while China is building coal plants all the time, don't they have hundreds of new coal plants that they're building?
02:19:18.000Yeah, opening up, I forget what it was, two a week or so, new coal plants.
02:19:23.000And the EPA just crushed the coal industry here over the past week and a half or so with some new regulations that are going forward in terms of, you know, what you have to reduce your emissions by.
02:20:24.000They figured out that the way to impact the U.S. for their own good was to impact local and state regulations and regulatory policies towards things like mining, right?
02:20:34.000Because it helps them in their cause to dominate the industry or to dominate whatever that market is that we're talking about.
02:20:50.000This article talks about the overbuilding of plants, but they're going to run less frequently to keep their capacity high, and then it's asked, like, why, and that they might just be doing it just in case?
02:21:05.000Well, maybe that's their preparing for their electric cars.
02:21:10.000By the way, China has the most advanced electric car suspension that I've ever even heard of.
02:21:18.000It's so good that you could drive over speed bumps and you could have glasses balance on the hood.
02:21:27.000Well, it sounds like that old Saturday Night Live skit where they said the ride was so smooth in the Lincoln you could conduct a circumcision in the back.
02:21:34.000So they had a rabbi in the back of a Lincoln doing a circumcision to show how smooth the suspension was.
02:21:41.000Well, this makes that look like a motorbike, like a motocross bike.
02:21:55.000And if you see how it works, like all the different things that are moving around inside of it, all the machinery that they've developed to have this insane suspension, it's crazy.
02:22:35.000And part of that is because they've been strategic about locking up critical minerals overseas in terms of getting in there, working with countries to lock up that market and also to dominate completely the refining side of things.
02:24:58.000It's interesting to watch now that they're developing things like this, which you can take apart and then ship someplace, right?
02:25:03.000It doesn't need to travel underwater to get to where it's going, right?
02:25:05.000You just ship it off, you put it together, you assemble it, you put it in, and it's got a variety of uses and it can carry payloads, but it is fascinating.
02:25:14.000But there's also, we talked about AI, and there's something else that DARPA's been doing, because this is a DARPA-related project as well, is something called ACE. And they've just finished an AI and machine learning dogfight.
02:25:32.000They've created like X-something, X-62, which isn't...
02:27:19.000Do you think these are foreign governments?
02:27:22.000If China can make electric cars that advanced, and we can make drones that are pretty fucking advanced, what kind of shit do they have?
02:27:30.000Well, I think most of that UIP sightings, and I think it's important for them, I'm glad the government and the Defense Department has finally at least come forward to some degree to say, look, we've got an interest in this, we want to investigate, we want to know what these things are, these sightings that we can't readily identify off the bat.
02:27:47.000Look, we were tricked out in the Korean War.
02:27:51.000The Russians, you know, designed the MiG, whatever it was, the MiG-15 maybe, and we had no idea, right?
02:27:56.000So they'd come out, they'd roll out the MiG-15 against, we were still using, you know, old rotor aircraft from, propeller aircraft from World War II. In Korea at the outset, and we didn't know that the Russians had advanced material science to the point that they had so that they could build something like this.
02:28:16.000So it would be insane for us to think somehow that the Chinese, you know, who have proven themselves to be brilliant at reverse engineering other people's technology, haven't figured out something else.
02:28:25.000So, yeah, there's always this game of trying to understand how advanced they are, and I suspect some of the UAP sightings are definitely, probably Chinese, I don't think the Russians necessarily, but...
02:28:37.000Not that they wouldn't try or not trying but I suspect the Chinese are further advanced on this and they've stolen a lot of technology from us over the years and we've talked about that but I think a number of the UIP sightings that get listed are just that but that's why they do it that's why they have a An office now that they've admitted to that investigates because it's a national security issue.
02:28:58.000You've got to know if a hostile state has created something that we are not aware of, right?
02:29:03.000Propulsion or material science or whatever it may be.
02:29:05.000How much of that stuff could be kept secret and for how long do you think?
02:29:09.000Like, is it equivalent in terms of, like, the physicists that are working on this in China versus the ones that are working on it over here?
02:29:17.000Like, is it possible that somebody made some sort of a propulsion breakthrough?
02:29:21.000Well, yeah, anti-gravity or something.
02:29:31.000But she was working on an anti-gravity device.
02:29:34.000And she went back to China for a little bit and then came back here.
02:29:39.000There's been some talk about various people, Salvatore Pais and some others, who have been working on supposedly on things similar, various propulsion systems, anti-gravity.
02:29:51.000How do you change the laws of physics?
02:30:11.000And we're always trying, we're always working just like the Chinese are always working against us.
02:30:15.000We're always working to understand what they got.
02:30:17.000And so, you know, I'm not a big believer that, you know, you keep secrets of an immense nature like that for a long period of time.
02:30:24.000Well, if they did keep it a secret, if that's what the Tic Tac thing was, that was 2004. It's hard to imagine them having that complex propulsion system that's so alien from what we currently know, and have that 20 years ago and no one hears about it?
02:31:08.000There was a lot of things here that Just the physical movement of it.
02:31:13.000If all the machinery works, if all the sensors work, if all the detection equipment, if all that stuff is accurate, that thing's doing something that no one's ever even seen before.
02:31:46.000It sounds crazy, but 20 years ago, it was a fucking totally different world.
02:31:50.000Well, there's that exponential advancement of technology as you go along and as you create things.
02:31:54.000Which is really crazy if that was ours.
02:31:57.000So if we had something like that in 2004, who, where, what, how, how much Where'd you get the smart guys?
02:32:04.000I don't think that would have been the case because I think that we wouldn't have heard about it because I think they would have had a classified briefing with Fravor and say, you saw nothing.
02:32:13.000Do you think that's the case or do you think they allow some talk about it because a lot of the talk is nutty anyway?
02:32:19.000A lot of these people that believe in UFOs, I am open-minded about the idea, to a certain extent, but a lot of these people, they could be telling you Bigfoot stories.
02:32:33.000There's people that just see shit, and it makes their life way more interesting, and then there's people that have really seen those things.
02:32:42.000I have good friends that have seen things, that have seen bizarre things.
02:33:46.000That's the one that if you're going to really dig in, you're never going to shift me off the position that there were state, local officials, federal, whatever, involved in that.
02:35:10.000It's done remarkably well, despite me being the host.
02:35:15.000So it's every morning, every afternoon, we touch on, we hit the top issues, critical issues of the day, international stories, conflicts, whatever.
02:35:26.000And because it's done well, that's the weekdays, that they're going to launch a weekend version, extended weekend version, on our YouTube channel.
02:35:37.000So, starting Saturday, May 18th, we're going to take the PDB. It's going to still be during the weekdays on Spotify and all your other podcast platforms.
02:35:46.000But then on Saturday, May 18th, we start with this, the Situation Report.
02:35:49.000It'll be an extended version on YouTube with video.
02:35:53.000We're going to have guests, which leads me to my question of, how do you interview guests?
02:36:06.000Touching on critical issues and stories.
02:36:08.000We're going to just stick with the facts.
02:36:09.000We're going to stay away from opinion, which I think is one of the reasons why the PDB has done well, is that it's 20 minutes in the morning, 10 minutes in the afternoon.
02:37:37.000And the President's Daily Brief's got a great staff.
02:37:40.000You know, it's not like I'm doing everything.
02:37:42.000I'm just sort of like the monkey crashing the cymbals together.
02:37:45.000There's a very unfortunate sort of combining of the people that give you the news with people that think they're activists.
02:37:55.000You know, or people that think that it's very important that you stick to a very specific narrative and ignore information that's contrary to what your belief system says.
02:38:06.000Well, if all you do is just say, here's what's happening, right?
02:38:09.000Here's what we know is happening, right?
02:38:11.000And you don't try to, again, you don't try to tell people what to think, and you don't try to say, okay, we're going to approach it from a particular point of view and leave out half of what's happening, right?
02:38:21.000Yeah, so just, and it's like that old thing, you know, there's still some news outlets out there that do a good job of just presenting facts, but most of them, you know, like you pointed, most of them are opinion-based.
02:40:53.000So Dan Woods, global head of intelligence and cybersecurity company F5, who spent more than 20 years at the U.S. federal law enforcement and intelligence organizations, told The Australian that more than 80% Of Twitter accounts are probably bots.
02:41:20.000And then, but that is, that's probably, you're probably getting to accurate because just the Chinese alone, right, and the Russians, they invest an enormous amount of resource into this because they know it's effective, right,
02:41:35.000and they know how damaging it can be, and why wouldn't you, right?
02:41:49.000And if you can just get, like, arguments going on Twitter, you know, people get engaged in those, and you need to, like, start a fire and run away from it.
02:42:32.000And so you always got to try to get the most out of your guest.
02:42:36.000My idea when I go into a conversation is, I want to talk to, and we're going to talk to each other, but I'm just trying to get the most out of you.
02:42:46.000I'm trying to encourage what you're saying, just ask more questions.
02:42:50.000I'm trying to just genuinely engage with what you're saying and get the most out of you.
02:42:54.000The problem with a lot of people when they host things is generally you want to talk, and so if you want to talk, you start talking.
02:43:01.000And then sometimes you talk too much, and then the guest doesn't talk enough, and it's a balancing act.
02:43:07.000But I always go into it with the intention of whatever this person's doing, help them make it the best version of this discussion that I can provide.
02:43:19.000Because, like, you go on a news show, and the question is five minutes, you know, and you think, okay, well, that question includes a lot of the talking points that you producers asked me to send to you.
02:44:10.000It's just like that format of a limited amount of time to talk about complex things.
02:44:15.000In this day and age, it just doesn't really make sense anymore.
02:44:18.000But it's how people, I mean, whether it's that or whether it's the, you know, I get my news from TikTok, I get my news from X. No, that's the way to get it.
02:46:44.000But the bigger problem is 170 million American users of TikTok...
02:46:49.000Being vulnerable and reachable by a Chinese regime that does not have our best interests at heart, by any means, right?
02:46:55.000So that's the bigger issue, I think, rather than the harvesting of personal data, which Amazon and Google and everybody else, how it has it, right?
02:47:03.000So it's not, you know, yes, it's a hostile regime, and yes, they're harvesting your data, but, you know, I think it's more of the disinformation campaign and the potential for that that is the problem with TikTok.
02:47:19.000Like if rather if you can control if you can control exactly what percentage of stuff gets out like if someone if you can limit someone's reach Like if someone posts something and it's some right-wing philosophy And they post that and they immediately tag it as such and limit its reach.
02:47:39.000But then you take the other one and you expand its reach, whatever the contrary position is, and you promote it and you push it out everywhere.
02:47:47.000How much of an effect does that have on young people?
02:47:50.000And that's the whole point of the game anyway, is, you know, you're suppressing and you're promoting, and again, you're doing it to an audience for the most part that is very vulnerable.
02:48:01.000And so, yeah, again, I don't know that they're going to ban TikTok.
02:48:06.000Somebody's going to come in and view that as an opportunity buy, right?
02:48:09.000And I think, so, they will be able to sell it, even though right now ByteDance is saying, absolutely not, we're not going to sell it, you know?
02:48:47.000If you're looking to suppress accurate information because you don't like what you think that's going to do for an election, that doesn't seem like you should be able to do that.
02:49:01.000If you develop an organization that is allowed to do that to all of social media by law, You're in territory that's real slippery now because it's just so ripe for corruption.
02:49:16.000And it always goes back to this, which you talked about before, which is this idea that, well, okay, if one president can do this to another former president, then the next one goes, the next one goes, and it's the same problem, right?
02:49:26.000Hey, it maybe sounds good to us right now to censor something or to suppress something.
02:49:32.000But we're not going to be in charge forever, unless they've figured that out, how they can be in charge forever.
02:49:50.000Well, again, not to beat a dead horse, but if people could take away one idea, it's incumbent upon you, whether it's for you or whether it's for the sake of your kids, to be curious and to actually make the fucking effort.
02:50:06.000To understand what it is that you're seeing and reading and hearing.
02:50:09.000And, yes, it takes time and, you know, maybe it sounds daunting and you'd rather have the government do it, right?
02:50:19.000I think it comes down to individual responsibility, like a lot of things in life.
02:50:23.000And I don't know that I'm optimistic about that as being the solution.
02:50:28.000I don't see another way around it, right?
02:50:31.000I mean you we can detect we can we can create apps to Protect and be proactive you can do all those things which are incredibly important But ultimately it comes down to the individual and if they don't take it upon themselves Yeah to go back to our earlier point then you know fucked yeah well I have hope Look at you!
02:52:17.000It's going to be a much better government.
02:52:19.000It's going to be a much better government.
02:52:20.000It won't even be controlled at all by people.
02:52:22.000It runs on its own algorithm that it created after it realized the flaws.
02:52:26.000The way human beings are processing reality.
02:52:29.000Do you know what the US government's trying to do right now?
02:52:32.000They're trying to get China and Russia to sign up to an agreement, essentially an international treaty, that would ensure that AI does not alone run nuclear weapons systems, right?
02:52:45.000And there's no treaty that prevents that right now.
02:52:49.000There's no treaty that prevents Taking the humans out of that decision-making process.