In this episode of The Stone Zone, former US Green Beret and current podcast host Matt Tardio joins me to talk about the latest in the war on Iran. We cover a variety of topics, but the main focus is on the Iranians.
00:01:34.760And Matt, I had to have him on to talk about a lot of things in the war.
00:01:39.060I could get your overall assessment, but I want to get specific first, and if we have
00:01:42.380time, we can get your overall assessment.
00:01:43.560But it seems to me, Matt, the first thing I want to talk about is it looks like we're
00:01:48.660getting an idea now about war tactics.
00:01:51.280So the first war tactic I want to talk about is it's clear now that in addition to some other things they're doing, the Israelis are implementing a get each Iranian leader at a time as they can get top leaders, something that, by the way, Matt, probably wasn't possible technologically not that long ago.
00:02:10.600But technologically, it seems possible to do. And I'm going to let you let me know what you think about it. But a little tease. I think this is actually the most ethical way to conduct a war. But I'd like to get your take on it, Matt.
00:02:21.280You know, I don't know if I'd say, like, the most ethical way to conduct a war, you know, bombs are always going to have collateral damage, but, like, the most ethical way is obviously going to be put boots on the ground.
00:02:31.860But at the same time, you end up being bombs that fall afterwards.
00:02:34.860I think in the case of Iran, you've got a completely different conflict going on here where you have, you know, an active resistance movement on the ground that wants absolutely nothing to do with the Islamic regime over inside of Iran.
00:02:45.940And so it affords us the opportunity to go about doing things, you know, a little bit differently.
00:02:50.620And, I mean, we're currently dominating the airspace, we're dominating the battlefield to the point where, you know, I watched a video earlier of besiege forces.
00:02:59.060And for those that don't know which ones the besiege forces are, are literally stripping off their uniforms in the middle of checkpoints and putting on civilian attire before they leave to go somewhere else.
00:03:08.260And it's because they've been actively getting targeted.
00:03:10.300And even that airstrike yesterday that ended up taking out leadership, the airstrike yesterday that took out leadership, it was very, very interesting the way that that ended up going down.
00:03:19.740because they ended up going to a tent out in the middle of nowhere,
00:03:50.980In some ways, there are some boots in the ground, right?
00:03:53.160The actual Iranian people, they're painting the targets for us, aren't they?1.00
00:03:56.800They're lighting them, aren't they, a little bit?
00:03:58.560No, it's not that they're lighting the targets for us.
00:04:01.080You know, a lot of people are getting confused for some of the videos
00:04:03.160that they see going around of the airstrikes that are falling down.
00:04:05.780They see the laser that's, like, you know, like painting the target.
00:04:09.280That's actually coming from some of the drones, right?
00:04:11.160So it looks like we have recon drones that are out and about doing their thing,
00:04:14.240and then they're painting the targets for the fast neighbors that are coming in
00:04:17.560or the bombers that are coming in and dropping the bombs on those targets in particular.
00:04:21.380But the people that are on the ground, that's something completely and totally different.
00:04:24.260What we're seeing is either, A, FPV drones, like first-person view drones,
00:04:30.080that are flying around one way, you know, that are going in and blowing up these different besiege checkpoints,
00:04:35.500or B, I saw a video the other day of a drone that appeared that it had dropped an explosive device
00:04:41.980on a besiege checkpoint and turned around and ran away.
00:04:44.700So that's pretty significant when we take into account what we saw after the 12-day war,
00:04:49.220which was an entire drone-making IED factory that was being manned by Afghans that was over inside of there.
00:04:57.620So that goes to show the – I don't want to say the amount of intelligence that's on the ground,
00:05:02.440the amount of people that we have working for us and also working for Mossad that are over there doing these different things,
00:05:08.080that are keeping those Basij forces on the run.
00:05:10.660But it also shows that you have this uprising that's about to start taking place over there.
00:05:14.860I saw a drive-by shooting that occurred earlier today over inside of Tehran.
00:05:18.800So all those things are pretty dang big.
00:05:20.680There was an ambush that took place over in southeastern Iran just the other night that Iranian state media even recognized.
00:05:28.180And it ended up killing five of the besieged forces.
00:05:30.140So, I mean, all of these are signs that we're about to start seeing the regime get overthrown in the very near future.
00:05:35.540um i we're going to go to break in a few minutes but i want to get two more questions into you and
00:05:39.860then we'll bring you back after the break for one more thing but i want to talk about another war
00:05:43.480tactic which is of course israel hitting that gas field this morning and obviously that got the
00:05:48.940markets all upset and things like that people are worried about oil supply and things like that but
00:05:52.720matt i just couldn't help but think of how this contrasted with what's going on with ukraine and
00:05:59.320russia and i know that some russian energy sites have been targeted but frankly you know nothing
00:06:04.660like this today nothing like in the percentage of this is going to hit the iranian uh oil industry
00:06:09.960and it just made me laugh because as the europeans actually funnel more money to russia and energy
00:06:15.660and energy purchases than they're funneling to ukraine in the war israel may have made a point
00:06:20.880here like you want to end a war you want to end a war you want to win a war and end a war you got
00:06:24.580to cut off the financial sources and yeah it's going to cause some pain in the markets but
00:06:28.720probably worth it probably yeah i mean that's exactly what trump said the other day you know
00:06:34.080he was getting asked whether or not the u.s was concerned about the street being closed and he's
00:06:38.020like meh i mean it might bother the eu but maybe they ought to get over there and help reopen the
00:06:41.660street but as far as the united states go i mean we're the top producers so why would we care you
00:06:46.160know right now the next question i want to quickly ask you is just about this joe kent
00:06:50.100resignation and his i mean it's more than just a betrayal of what he had to say just a couple
00:06:57.180months ago but you know he really went full-on conspiracy theory thing that it's the jews and
00:07:02.920israel that led us to war uh actually by the way he clearly doesn't read the wall street journal
00:07:07.800because there's been and the washington post has been incredible reporting about how the saudis
00:07:12.040were the ones lobbying for this war the hardest and i don't blame them but they certainly were
00:07:16.380but what's your what's your take on this obviously we're not going to try to trash his past he had a
00:07:21.000nice record but that doesn't excuse him for what he's doing now no he's got a he's got a very good
00:07:26.460record um as far as his military service goes and you know i actually spoke to him on the phone last
00:07:30.300week um about a national security matter and it appears that that matter got taken care of
00:07:35.060um and it undoubtedly saved american lives however comma you know there's a difference
00:07:40.640between making sure that uh you know we we're taking care of our troops and everything else
00:07:45.760and just outright blatant lies um but i feel like we're thrown out during that form now it could
00:07:50.760also you know be his opinion but what i'm also saying is it looks like he's set up for tucker
00:07:55.300carlson it looks like he's set up for a speaking engagement and i'm also hearing about a couple
00:07:58.780different places he's probably going to be appearing on in the very near future so it almost
00:08:02.440seems kind of uh uh set up and it almost also seems a little bit reminiscent of what we saw
00:08:06.920with anthony aguilar when he ended up bringing up the amir kid over in gaza that allegedly got
00:08:11.740killed that who we later then end up discovering that he wasn't killed and he's alive and well
00:08:16.740um and and that within itself is a little bit troubling brie dial ended up putting out yesterday
00:08:21.400um something that i was unaware of but that ended up getting confirmed through somebody else that i
00:08:26.020You know, his wife working for Grayzone, you know, and that is one of the most pro-Russian propagandist platforms you can find.
00:08:35.120And in my opinion, that's where this issue might be coming from.
00:08:39.960You know, Israel today was taking out supply boats that were pushing to the Caspian Sea to go supply Russia, you know, on their way from Iran.
00:08:46.440And so, you know, Russia in themselves has a lot of interest in this war, and I don't think a lot of people actually realize that.
00:08:51.720Yeah, you mentioned we're talking to Matt Tardio, former Green Beret, former law enforcement officer, and he just referenced a journalist named Bree Dahl, D-A-H-L, who works for the Daily Signal.
00:09:01.840So you can check her out and her reports.
00:09:04.220So, listen, we are not trashing Joe Kent's overall past record.
00:10:20.740And unlike Joe Kent, Matt Tardio, Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't have any great record of service for us to have any gentleness with her over this.
00:10:34.620You know, a lot of people don't know that the term disinformation ended up getting coined by the Russians in the early 1900s.
00:10:41.980It's something very, very interesting that people need to look into.
00:10:44.780I would encourage people to look into, you know, something that's called Operation SIG that the Russians launched.
00:10:51.760I believe it was the late 60s, the early 70s.
00:10:54.040That was, you know, an attempt to tear apart, you know, the U.S. support for Israel, along with several other things.
00:11:00.580And, of course, we've got Russia operating over there.
00:11:02.240But, you know, Russia ends up getting a lot of its support from Iran.
00:11:05.900So it's no surprise to me that we see a lot of pro-Russian media outlets that are very, very against this war.
00:11:11.660because Russia certainly is because it's going to put a big hurt on them, you know, here in the near future.
00:11:17.320So, you know, it's kind of scary for them, I guess, that they're about to have, you know,
00:11:22.500a money laundering machine along with a huge supplier of weapons get cut out right from underneath them.
00:11:27.920All right. We're talking to Matt Tardio. This is The Stone Zone.
00:11:30.400I'm Jake Novak filling in for Roger Stone.
00:11:32.500When we come back, we're going to talk about Trump's response to a question about terror threats here in the United States,
00:11:39.580Even as the Department of Homeland Security once again today, it was a vote that failed to refund it, or at least temporarily.
00:11:45.840We'll be right back on The Stone Zone.
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00:15:19.460Yeah, no, it's all about being vigilant.
00:15:21.820And let's be clear, you know, the shooting that took place in Michigan at the Temple of Israel was by, at a bare minimum, a Hezbollah sympathizer, if not a Hezbollah terrorist himself.
00:15:34.660And when we look at some of the things that are taking place over here in the United States, just run by the last two weeks, the amount of, you know, active shooters, bombs, bomb threats, et cetera, that have taken place over here.
00:15:43.780It all has to do with radical Islamic extremists.
00:15:47.980And when you look at places like Dearborn, Michigan, they're defending all of these people and they're pretending like it's not a thing.
00:15:54.080And by the way, you know, the rumor was that his vehicle was registered out of Dearborn.
00:15:58.200Right. Right. And also that, you know, I was speaking with a law enforcement officer that was on the ground today.
00:16:04.180They had information on a second suspect and they were actually out searching for a second suspect.
00:16:09.700This is this is not something that should be taken lightly here in the United States of America.
00:16:14.840Maduro was working very closely with the IRGC, but working very closely with Hezbollah and was giving out diplomatic passports.
00:16:22.000I mean, that's in his indictment. Right. Yeah.
00:16:24.380Like we like these are things that we know that Maduro was doing.
00:16:27.920And it's not a surprise to me that we've ripped Maduro out and now we're going over to rip out the IRGC.0.72
00:16:33.820Yeah, this is Matt Tardio. You're listening to Matt Tardio on the Stone Zone. He's my guest.
00:16:38.180I'm Jake Novak in for Roger Stone. You just alluded to something that I've been talking about for several years.
00:16:43.480When I first heard, and I think it was 2022, when I first heard that for some period of that year, the large group, the largest group of people coming over our open border under the Biden administration were from Venezuela, I knew that Hezbollah was making a foothold in this country because that because Hezbollah had a foothold in Venezuela for many years.
00:17:03.900Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former president of Iran,
00:17:06.780who has been eliminated, by the way, by the Israelis,
00:17:09.460made a very famous visit to Hugo Chavez,
00:17:12.260who was the dictator there at the time,
00:17:13.960and started Venezuela on that downward spiral.
00:17:16.100So you knew that this was going to happen.
00:23:03.440and they're gonna deliver it to your house,
00:23:05.580the train doesn't pull up to your house.
00:23:06.700You need a truck to make that connection.
00:23:08.380Same thing with the planes at the airport.
00:23:10.400And Craig Fuller says that trucking volumes are at a four-year high, up 10% from last year, and he says the economy is very strong.
00:23:19.960He said that is a tremendously strong indicator of an economy.
00:23:23.000It's a very reliable indicator of the economy.
00:23:25.220I am not saying the economy is perfect, but if you believe that everything is terrible, no one's getting hired, homes are falling, that's not happening.
00:23:34.660And what also isn't happening is that we're not seeing a grinding to a halt of our economy.
00:23:39.060That's simply just not happening. Now, let's talk a little bit about other delusions.
00:23:44.180I don't know about you, but during the height of the 2024 election, some of the people in my wider circle who were on the moderate to liberal side told me that they kind of wanted to vote for Donald Trump.
00:23:58.800But they were sure, they were sure that he was going to make in vitro fertilization, IVF, illegal.
00:29:36.060when barry weiss took over the editorial reigns at cbs people like me and i actually
00:29:41.040have some secondary uh one or two degree separations from her and i was able to get
00:29:47.440some messages to her about things i think she should have done at cbs news and no i'm not
00:29:52.100surprised that she didn't do them believe me i'm not that full of myself but honestly there hasn't
00:29:57.360been enough of a change in that broadcast and now it's below four million viewers they're they're
00:30:03.100really in trouble there there's really no other way to say it um folks speaking of things that
00:30:08.620are in trouble new york state's in trouble we don't have a lot of money now why should the rest
00:30:13.540of the country this is a coast-to-coast international program in addition being a national
00:30:16.840program the reason is what you're about to hear from the governor of new york is what you're about
00:30:21.260to hear from probably a lot of other blue state governors here's kathy hochel the governor of new
00:30:26.240york telling people why she really really thinks rich people should come back to new york listen
00:30:31.700to this. And being conscious of the facts that I need people who are high net worth to support the
00:30:38.540generous social programs that we want to have in our state. Right now, there are some patriotic
00:30:44.520millionaires who stepped up. OK, cut me the checks. They just if you want to be supportive,
00:30:51.440but maybe the first step should be go down to Palm Beach and see who you can bring back home
00:30:56.080because our tax base has been eroded. These people really think we're stupid. It was the
00:31:01.420same Kathy Hochul who a year and a half ago or so told rich people who didn't want to pay higher
00:31:05.640taxes they should get out of New York now uh you should come back and be patriotic uh what a lot
00:31:12.280of people don't understand is it's not about greed if I think if people thought that their
00:31:16.320tax money was being spent efficiently and better than you and I can spend it in our own charitable
00:31:21.040donations then we would do it now I'm not a New York exile I'm staying here in New York state but
00:31:27.040But I can see why somebody who could set up a foundation with their billions of dollars would rather say, you know what, I'm going to save some of that tax money that would have gone down the drain here in New York, go to Florida, go to Texas, go to some other state where I don't have to pay as many as much taxes and then really do some good for America.
00:31:43.100Now, I was telling you earlier about this call to prayer issue, the call to prayer recordings in some parts of New York City at 5 a.m. are starting to cause what we call here in New York City quality of life issues.
00:31:55.580Now, look, I think that even some of the call to prayer, I know I might be in a minority here.
00:32:00.360I actually think some of it is really beautiful.
00:32:02.920I actually don't think it's necessarily a horrific thing.
00:32:05.640But no, loudspeakers at 5 a.m. in a public place are really not part of your constitutional right as a religious group.
00:32:12.500Now, I'm not going to go into the pros and cons much more into this.
00:35:27.740I have absolutely no sympathy for you.
00:35:30.060And if I were a shareholder of one of these airlines or one of the employees of one of these airlines, I would repeat what I just said to the boss.
00:35:37.600Now, I'm not a prude. I understand people are going to gamble. I have no problem with that, really. I really don't. I promise I'm not that kind of a guy. But I'm telling you right now, do not play your state lotteries. Do not play your national lotteries. They are rigged.
00:35:52.540and here's how they're getting rigged right now
00:35:54.940because I knew this was going to happen
00:36:20.560all those orders couldn't be processed in time and there weren't enough machines to actually
00:36:26.000print out all those tickets but because of those online ticket selling apps where you can buy
00:36:33.740lottery tickets even from out of state you can now make massive orders for massive numbers of
00:36:38.900tickets at once and in the case of what happened in texas in 2023 we only found out about this last
00:36:44.300year the state texas lottery commission according to someone known as the joker they call him the
00:36:49.820joker because he's an Australian gambler who has a difficult name to pronounce. I'm going to give
00:36:53.420it a shot. Zelko Renogadzik. And he is an Australian gambler, investor, whatever you want
00:37:00.420to call him. And he gave an exclusive interview to a Dallas magazine just today explaining how
00:37:05.960the whole scam worked. I explained most of it to you. They were able to use online ticket buying
00:37:10.720apps to order a massive number of tickets at once, which is something you couldn't do before
00:37:15.000those online apps began then they were able to buy up a bunch of convenience stores fill them up
00:37:20.620with lottery printing machines and according to the joker guy the state lottery fully cooperated
00:37:26.360by providing those machines with all the extra paper they needed there's a special paper you
00:37:30.420have to print out these tickets on it can't just be on regular paper and the state lottery commission
00:37:34.700apparently showed up with reams of paper more than once during the whole process and they won
00:37:39.720the lottery and they got a 20 million dollar profit even though they spent so much money on
00:37:43.380that operation now if you believe in the simulation you're going to love this name
00:37:47.340the executive director of the texas lottery at the time his name was gary grief i kid you not
00:37:53.560not good grief gary grief g-r-i-e-f and when this story came to light about a year ago
00:38:00.140he went missing he's still missing nobody knows where he is the state of texas has dissolved
00:38:07.740dissolved its lottery commission ever since they still have lottery drawings though
00:38:12.020So Governor Abbott has ordered the Texas Rangers and a number of other groups within the state to investigate this thing.
00:38:17.940No findings yet, folks, but I'll give you, I just gave you the findings.
00:38:22.400Some out-of-state international people with a ton of money and probably paid off Texas Lottery Commission people were able to pull off this scam.
00:38:31.580And if you think it's only Texas doing this, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you and maybe a bridge in Texas to sell you, too.