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• Ukraine conflict resembles a "Slavic civil war" with family ties across both countries preventing total dehumanization
• Modern warfare has transformed with $1,600 drones effectively neutralizing $100,000 weapons systems
• European nations increasingly recognize they cannot depend solely on American military protection
• NATO's future appears uncertain as member countries reassess their commitments and strategic interests
• Realistic peace in Ukraine will likely involve territorial compromise and abandoning NATO membership aspirations
• The traditional Western alignment against Russia may no longer serve America's strategic interests against China
• Privacy concerns with Amazon Alexa as the company will now use all voice recordings for AI training
• Recently released JFK assassination files raise questions about official narratives and CIA involvement

The complexities of modern geopolitics take center stage as we dissect the reality behind the Ukraine conflict. Far from the simplified narratives dominating headlines, we reveal how this war has evolved into a technological battleground where American and European weaponry accounts for nearly all of Ukraine's military capabilities. The emergence of drone warfare has fundamentally altered combat dynamics, with inexpensive drones neutralizing costly military hardware and forcing a return to World War I-style trench warfare.

What makes this conflict uniquely tragic is its resemblance to a civil war within the broader Slavic world. With family connections spanning both nations, the conflict lacks the total dehumanization characteristic of past global conflicts. This human element shapes potential peace scenarios, which will likely involve territorial compromises rather than total victory for either side. The original trigger—NATO expansion—remains a critical sticking point that must be addressed in any sustainable resolution.

Beyond Ukraine, we examine how shifting global power dynamics are forcing European nations to reconsider their defense strategies independent of American support. Could traditional Cold War thinking actually be hampering America's strategic interests? We propose a provocative question: might a Russian-American alliance represent a more logical counterbalance to China's growing influence? As privacy concerns with Amazon's Alexa devices and recently released JFK assassination files remind us, questioning established narratives often reveals uncomfortable but necessary truths. Join us for this frank conv

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Speaker 1:

How are you, ben? How are you today? I'm doing well, gene Yourself. All right, all right, man, another week.

Speaker 3:

It has been another week, that's true. Are you referring to your week or Trump's?

Speaker 1:

week, mainly my week, but Trump had a pretty interesting week. Which week isn't interesting for Trump? Pete Hegg says announcement last night was pretty interesting. Which one? Immediately terminating $580 million in DOD contracts?

Speaker 3:

Oh, I didn't hear that Really.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah. He announced last night that they were terminating $580 million in DOD contracts.

Speaker 3:

Wow, so all the Ukraine support staff is going home.

Speaker 1:

I don't know, but they also approved the next-gen fighter, so we've got that selected now Went to Boeing.

Speaker 3:

Oh no, what yeah, boeing sucks.

Speaker 1:

Okay, yeah, I got no dog in that hunt man between Boeing and Lockheed.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, it's Well, I don't know if there's alternatives. I mean, let's be honest, but no. Yesterday, in fact, on my other show with Darren and his other brother, Darren, darren and his other brother Darren, we kind of recounted what happened in Boeing to end up where Boeing is today, which is essentially taking a company that had a culture of reinvesting into R&D and rewarding engineering into a company where a lot of engineers retired and left and it can't attract good engineers anymore. Yeah, but yeah, I mean, it's always cool to see development of new hardware.

Speaker 1:

I think this program will be interesting. By the way, the Lockheed plane also was revealed. Okay, and it was totally the Dark Star, oh really, yeah. Well, that's cool, but the new Boeing I guess it's going to be the F-47, is a pretty interesting plane. I just sent you an article though the uh dod cuts okay uh, but anyway, since you didn't read about them, you know whatever, but no, I did not what's the lockheed one called uh, it was just this in gad fighter uh program.

Speaker 1:

But um, so you had the boeing one which kind of looks like uh, a b2 met a f-22 raptor. So it's very flat no tail fins, no vertical, no vertical control surfaces. Very very different. So yeah, and then the Lockheed one had vertical control surfaces and looked like the Dark Star. From what was that? Top Gun 2.

Speaker 3:

Mm-hmm. Well, you knew they had access to stuff. Obviously, yeah, because I mean, let's face it, there's a video that talked about the Okay. A video started playing at Boeing Okay. I watched that and talked about how, basically, the original Top Gun was in a large degree produced by the Navy.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, it was a recruitment video.

Speaker 3:

Exactly exactly video. Exactly exactly so. Obviously, the access granted and, uh, the wanting to show off tech even before it's announced was very much part of the second one. Yeah, I, I like cool looking planes. I've always liked cool looking planes. Every time I I've been to DC, I always stop at the National Air and Space Museum. Yeah, the Smithsonian Basically the Smithsonian's Airplane Hangar Museum.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so the entire concept behind the F-47 is that it's going to have manned and unmanned versions and basically virtual wing men.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, there's a few movies about that in the past, which we'll see how that goes. Yeah, well, I think the nature of warfare has obviously changed. We've seen that in Ukraine, where $100,000 weapons get destroyed by $1,600 drones.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but we haven't seen two peers going at it, Like we have not had peer warfare since World War II.

Speaker 3:

I don't know, I don't know, I don't know if I'd go quite that far.

Speaker 1:

Name a conflict where we've had peer warfare. Well, ukraine, ukraine is not a peer to Russia.

Speaker 3:

Ukraine isn't a war with Russia. The United States is.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, well We've seen proxy videos I've seen. I've sent you some links here. If you actually watch the videos, there's no such thing as ukrainian weaponry. There's american weaponry, and and all the weaponry being used against russia was well, I shouldn't say all about 80% was manufactured in the US and 20% in Europe from countries like Belgium and stuff that have a heavy weapons industry. There is nothing that is Ukrainian that is used in that war.

Speaker 3:

At the beginning of the war, there were ancient Soviet weapons being used by Ukraine, but they ran out of those in the first six months. So really for the next two years, two and a half years, uh it's, it's been purely us and European weaponry being used. I mean again, good luck, just watch any video and show me a weapon that's actually Ukrainian or, at this point, soviet. They don't exist on that battlefield right now, but luckily for Ukraine, the use of small drones has enabled a sort of I don't know what you'd call it. It's not really asymmetric warfare, but it's a warfare that negated the advantage of armored warfare. The drone is just a smart um explosives delivery system we can argue about how smart, but sure, well, most of them are human controlled, so human smart they're not.

Speaker 3:

They're not running autonomously out there and the latest thing is you except you've got jamming capabilities and everything else. That's where I was going is yeah, jamming doesn't work anymore because, as uh as I know, we've talked about it the the latest generation of drones from both sides russia and ukraine are all fibroctic they're running cables can, yeah the control, uh, wires, not necessarily all fiber, but yeah, um.

Speaker 1:

And the interesting thing there is the return to trench warfare and the best analysis I've seen is when someone can't get air superiority or make a you know, armored breakthrough because of whatever changes in warfare. That's where we're at and that's why we devolved back to world war. I style trench warfare of just moving inch by inch.

Speaker 3:

Well, I think that's not quite true. I think that is the case because either one side or both sides, depending on who you ask is not wanting to escalate, and I've called this a Slavic civil war for the entirety of its time, because the destruction that we see, the type of battles that we see, the type of battles that we see and the treatment that we see of prisoners is more akin to the American Civil War than it is to, let's say, world War II. In World War II, russia didn't take prisoners Because that costs money. You have to feed them, you have to, you know, move them around. It's much easier just to make sure there are no prisoners. When you're attacking the United States, likewise, firebombed cities, and not just Dresden. It's a standard practice, because when you want to win a war against an enemy that you've decommunized, you're not going to be caring about what you're doing. You're going to try and stop them from making any possible progress by cutting off them at the home front by cutting off them at the home front.

Speaker 3:

That type of behavior didn't happen during the American Civil War because it was a war of brother versus brother. Likewise, that type of behavior is not happening for the most part. There are certain pockets of that happening in Ukraine, pockets of that happening in uh in ukraine. But once the majority of the nazi units have been rounded up at the beginning of the war, um, I think that on both sides what you're seeing is a we really don't want to be here and we understand that our commanders have told us to fight, but there isn't a sort of dehumanization taking place. That has happened in previous wars, in large-scale wars, and this is really a lot more like the, the fighting that you see when governments get overthrown. So I don't want to say, or I wouldn't quite agree with what you said is that we've devolved to trench warfare.

Speaker 3:

I think we're in trench warfare because neither country and maybe you could say ukraine isn't even capable of it, but neither country has escalated the use of weapons of mass destruction. Could Russia have completely flattened Kiev? Absolutely, they have not used weapons to do that, because on the land to the east they consider that Russian territory, so they want the least amount of destruction possible. They just want to push ukrainian troops out of there and on the land to the west, which russia isn't claiming, they're still not willing to just go for mass destruction of infrastructure, and I shouldn't say infrastructure, mass destruction of cities, and I I shouldn't say infrastructure, mass destruction of cities.

Speaker 3:

And I think, again, that has more to do with the fact that almost everybody in Ukraine has a relative in Russia and almost everybody in Russia has a relative in Ukraine. And while the war couldn't be seen as a just thing, I think for most Russians, given what's happened, and in Ukraine obviously it's a war for what they see as their territory. But I don't think either side, maybe other than Zelensky himself, has a mortal hatred for the other. Zelensky himself has a mortal hatred for the other. So again, I see this a lot closer to the Civil War in the US, and the trench warfare is part of that behavior, because the escalation to larger weapons like tactical nukes has not happened. But it's not to say they don't exist.

Speaker 1:

So what do you think of the partial ceasefire that we have?

Speaker 3:

I think it's similar to the one that was in Gaza and Israel, meaning I don't think it's going to last. Yeah.

Speaker 1:

So what end do you see to this?

Speaker 3:

Well, I think the end Trump is on the right path here. I think the end is going to be making this be more productive and more rewarding to end than to continue the war Like that. That has to be an end goal. Um, you know, we've been hearing for three years that Ukraine's winning and Russia's on the brink of a revolution, and Putin's about to be either he'll die from cancer or he's going to get overthrown. What we actually have had happening, if you pay attention to the channels that review the daily war maps, is we've had a slow advancement of Russia for probably about a year and a half, followed by a very strong pushback by ukraine for about three months, and then another low, uh advancement by russia after that. So has russia lost territory that originally gained? Absolutely?

Speaker 1:

well, and you know, the ukrainians did make a push into Russia proper as well.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah, no, that's true too. They did make a push into Russia proper, which I think worked against them, frankly. But you know, I don't know who's calling the shots over there. It's hard to say how much of it is being driven by Zelensky and we saw what he is, his level of competency and how much of it is just being done by the military staff that they have. But, yeah, I think in the end what we'll have is a piece that is not ideal for either country, but acceptable to both ideal for either country but acceptable to both.

Speaker 3:

What that means for Russia is that all the territory that voted to be part of Russia ends up in Russia, and the part where a lot of people are not going to be happy is that Odessa is not part of that, because Odessa we've talked about this years ago.

Speaker 3:

In fact, you know the history of Odessa is that it is a city that was created about 300 years ago at the decree of the queen, and it has historically been an ethnically russian city.

Speaker 3:

Like no polish I shouldn't say there's zero polish, but you know it's a city that was always considered russian and more like other cities deeper into russia, because it sort of was created from a, uh, st petersburg population and it was a city that was created from a St Petersburg population, and it was a city that also supported a much higher Jewish population until World War II, and it was just a. It was not something that I thought personally would be not captured, like I thought for sure that the plan for Russia in the advancement would be to take the entire Southern coast, including Odessa, and make uh, whatever is left of Ukraine be landlocked. That didn't happen, and they've certainly had opportunities to keep pushing in the south, but they've been focusing on the north. So I don't know, I think that's, in the end, that's probably what's going to happen is the so you think Odessa staying is going?

Speaker 1:

to be a concession that the? I think so.

Speaker 3:

It won't be a popular concession with the Russian population, that's for sure, because, frankly, I think they care more about Odessa than Kharkov. You know, yeah, it's like great, yeah, there's Russians. There are people that feel like they're Russian, that are living there. They don't want to speak Ukrainian, they want to continue speaking Russian. But you know, in Odessa they've always spoken Russian. So Odessa is going to be seen as a failure for Putin for not achieving a victory in getting Odessa.

Speaker 3:

As far as other concessions, I think things like power grid, power plants, russia's probably going to still be on the hook for supplying ukraine with a lot of energy, like they used to forever. Um, and they'll make, you know they'll, they'll make concessions to that. Uh, I think the the completely unrealistic thought of Zelensky there or at least what he's been saying of getting all of the territory of Ukraine back, including Crimea. I mean, nobody ever thought that would happen and I think reality will set in there that the best ukraine can hope for is a, uh, a partial size with a certain level of of autonomousness. But, um, also, I I think obviously the whole reason this started is no nato, like there is no peace condition in which ukraine is part of nato well, I think nato is going to dissolve I think nato is pretty over and done with at this point, but that that's me um we can certainly hope.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, waste some money well, and I think that we're. We're seeing that. I think the eu has seen the writing on the wall. You know, ursula was uh in the netherlands talking at a military academy about how Europe cannot be dependent upon the United States for defense anymore. Yeah, cool, great. Thank you so Well, and I think, I think we're going to see a lot of big deficit spending out of the EU here shortly.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I think you're right on that, but it's also about time. But certainly if you go back to the 1950s, 1960s, nobody wanted Germany to have their own military. That was not an option, not because Germany didn't want it, but because Well, anytime Germany and France are both armed. We know what happens yeah exactly, germany always has ambitions and, uh, the French are just crazy. Um, speaking of the French, I was watching a uh God, what was the program? But it was somebody talking about how Macron's wife is a man.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, was it oh it was Tucker. That's what it was, oh yeah yeah, and Candace Owens yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3:

Which Candace Owens. I expect her to say that, right, Okay.

Speaker 1:

Okay, but I mean I think there's. I okay, but I mean I think there's. I'm sorry, but the evidence of Brigitte Macron being a man is.

Speaker 3:

It seems to be quite a bit.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's kind of like hey, look like Michelle Obama. We can kind of make some jokes here and say some things, Even that I feel like there's some validity. But you know, maybe joan rivers is just crazy.

Speaker 3:

But the reggie macron thing, dude yeah, I mean like not having any history and and, frankly, the photo that we see of michelle obama that's been circulated of like her in her senior year high school um, she's got that same face but on a much smaller body, so I don't know how that happens. So I still have doubts about michelle as well. But brigitte, just like there's nothing going back in terms of photo evidence earlier than when she was babysitting her victim, I mean her husband.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and that's the other thing. What person grows up to marry their babysitter?

Speaker 3:

Okay, what boy doesn't think that in their head when they're being babysat? Sure, but actually doing it is the thing.

Speaker 1:

I mean it's far more common for the dad to bang the babysitter and marry him, maybe he was, you never know. I don't know much about.

Speaker 3:

Macron's family, so I don't know what kind of a family he had, clearly a family that was perfectly fine with all this situation.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

I don't know, it's weird, but frankly, to me I was more sort of surprised by the fact that Tucker, of all people, is talking about it, about it and uh, because he's not really as conspiracy theoretical as as I. I know a lot of other people that I watch, for example, but you know, candace owens is kind of like the she's. She's definitely moved into her niche of being the black alex jones, like everything is a conspiracy usually involved, but like she is, very happy being in that conspiracy arena.

Speaker 3:

So, um, yeah, I mean, do you, would you disagree?

Speaker 1:

what the conspiracy? Uh, arena, no, I think she is.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, well, I know you wouldn't disagree about jews being involved, that's for sure, but uh, but she is.

Speaker 1:

I mean jews are involved with the production of this podcast. What are you talking about? Allegedly, allegedly we don't know.

Speaker 3:

I mean at least one the way you've been acting lately, maybe two anyway. So candace I think, and I I like her in this space. I think she brings a certain younger kind of vibe and to the whole conspiratorial theater stuff. And, uh, I I watched a bunch of her episodes on digging back through to um kamala harris's alleged black grandmother and the non-existence thereof, because it turned out she was a maid in the house, in in the plantation house, and they presented her as her grandma supposedly. So there's a lot of stuff that she really enjoys going in, digging for all this stuff. But I did not expect to see tucker talking about it like it's a factual thing.

Speaker 1:

It's like, oh yeah, that's a man well, I mean, what does that tell you? Does it tell you anything not?

Speaker 3:

really. I mean it's entertainment. It's maybe it's a slow day for tucker. Maybe that's what it tells me it's like.

Speaker 3:

does this change anything for anybody if macron's wife is a dude that you know was a pedophile and babysat him? I mean not really Macron. I thought was crazy before all this Still crazy. It's amazing to me how both the UK and France, countries which used to have a tremendous amount of nationalistic pride, which used to have a tremendous amount of nationalistic pride have just been slightly bickering about things that don't matter, while at the same time completely handing over their countries to Muslim invaders. If you look, there's an ex-post that listed all of the Muslimlim mayors in england.

Speaker 2:

right now in the uk there's like 12, 12 muslim mayors I don't think what's wrong with that, what's wrong with?

Speaker 3:

every person a lot, tremendous amount is wrong with that. Uh, I don't think the average person that I see on jeremy clarkson's farm is voting for a muslim.

Speaker 3:

Well, that's why they're about to get taxed to death yeah yeah, they are, and yet that's who seem to be getting elected more and more. The other stat, which I actually care less about, but it's still an interesting stat, is that there are over a thousand mosques in the UK now, and that feels like a larger number than I would expect. I figured it'd be about a hundred, but there's a thousand. But the context that was in the number came up is is a video of muslims celebrating ramadan by blocking streets and the commentator saying you know, with this many mosques available, it is surprising why they would be doing this outside and and blocking streets. Well, I guess because you know you're supposed to be resting and reading the Quran and not driving around to work. So I guess they're doing what the expectation would be in any other Muslim country, which the UK is quickly becoming.

Speaker 3:

So I don't know. I think it's actually too late for the UK. I think they've gone over the tipping point. I don't think there's any going back, because the laws at this point are reflecting a preemption of what we consider Western. What is the phrase?

Speaker 1:

you know western civilization yeah, western civilization type I don't know if it's too late or not, because I I think that there could be some. Look, I think we are at a point where a violent outcome. I don't see another option. No one's backing down, like what we see in the US, is a perfect example of this. What I think will eventually happen in the UK is there will be an uprising. Now they don't have the means to do it that we have in this country but there will be a no, fuck you.

Speaker 1:

you cannot do this. You cannot go that far. But there will be a no, fuck you. You cannot do this. You cannot go that far. You are crossing the line.

Speaker 3:

No, so I don't know. They've never had one of those. Why would they have one?

Speaker 1:

They have when, when the Magna Carta got written.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I knew you were going to go to Cromwell. No, no.

Speaker 1:

No.

Speaker 3:

No. They've never had one. The nobility, had one with a fair amount of civility, to take power from the king, which they failed to actually dispose of completely. They still have a king, but the populace has been sers and is demonstrating that even now they they have not had that uprising, and it's one thing say what you will about france, but at least they made use of the guillotine yeah, a little, uh, a little too much use of the guillotine.

Speaker 3:

I think maybe appropriate use, but in the UK I'm afraid that that island will become a staging ground for continued further Islamification of Europe further islamification of europe, because I think we're going to see europeans revolt against this in large numbers.

Speaker 1:

I I mean may or may. I could be wrong. You know this is how the world certainly pushing back this is how the world ends not with a whimper but with a uh, or not with a bang, but with a whimper. Right, that is an option I guess, yeah, I guess, but it is not what I would do, and it's not what I think people are going to do here in the US. I am very surprised that we have not had some pretty major violence.

Speaker 3:

What do you mean?

Speaker 1:

Tesla cars are getting burned left and right, right, but pushing back. So, for instance, all the, but they're doing it in states where you know they're not likely to be armed. So there's that. But if the, you know, if someone uh got in front of me, slammed on their, made me stop because I was driving a Tesla and told me I better sell it, and da-da-da-da-da, and wearing a bodily clava, and this actually happened, I'm drawing my firearm Like no dude, you're not going to do that to me. So I don't know, man, I think the whole thing about things going kinetic is happening. I think it's kind of interesting that Rudyard whatever his name is from what Evolved Hist? He predicted that we'd have a thousand deaths by now. He may have just been off a month or two on his timeline, like if this keeps up right.

Speaker 3:

So yeah, I don't know yeah the, the tesla stuff is getting really insane it is yeah well, and I think the babylon b is having a blast with it too. They've had multiple articles about tesla stuff now including uh, now that we're, you know, getting close to passover, uh, talking about liberals painting rainbow flags on their teslas as a sign that their tesla should be passed over you know, the story of passover right.

Speaker 3:

So it's uh, just checking you know it's. It's insane, but that is based on the grain of truth, like I guarantee you. There was at least one person that actually did that, that loves his tesla enough to not want to give it up and at the same time, is totally liberal and is willing to go paint a rainbow flag on their car to tell others but but I'm a liberal, so don't hurt my Tesla. I agree with you. I believe in violence, just not of my car. The other reminder, I think, to everybody. Maybe some people would consider it a change. I don't think it's a change. I think it's just a reminder of the violence of the left. This, to me, is kind of a return to the 1970s and what we saw from the left.

Speaker 1:

There's been a lot of comparisons made to the weather on the ground.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, because to the left, words have always meant violence. Like it sounds like a stupid phrase that they say, but it's one that I believe, that they actually believe. That to them, hearing someone say something offensive and replying to that with violence is completely appropriate in their minds. So I guess we shouldn't be too surprised that that's happening with tesla's right now, where they they've turned on a beloved company of the left because they don't like what its founder is doing in the current administration. Um the uh. The violence to them is just a. It's another expression, just like language, just like words of their feelings, and their feelings is what matters the most to the left, because everything that they accuse the right of has to do with hurting their feelings.

Speaker 1:

Well, and this is where we get um, this is where we get um. You know ben shapiro saying facts, don't care about your feelings so, and that's a tremendous insult to a lefty it's like yeah well my feelings.

Speaker 3:

Don't care about your stupid facts. I'm going to burn your Tesla down. So I don't think I'm surprised this is happening, but certainly some people are surprised. The left is only able to control its violence when they're treated as children and given everything that they ask for. They're treated as children and given everything that they ask for.

Speaker 1:

Well, I I would argue that pretty much all of the uprisings that we've had, uh, in this country for I mean really the last uprising, if you call it that, that we've had that was of any sort of conservative movement, was the civil war, but since then it has been leftist violence.

Speaker 3:

Um, what about david kresh? What about all these rightists marching with their anti-black slogans?

Speaker 1:

um, the closest you could come would be like charlottesville, but again, there were, there were, there were three sides at charlottesville. So there were the you know, neo-nazis, kkk, that you know, uh, jews will not replace us, etc. Etc. And those people are not who I'm talking about, because I consider those, I consider any totalitarianism like that on the left, like I don't put Nazis on the right and communists on the left, no, they're on totalitarian versus free, so I think the spectrum is wrong.

Speaker 3:

Also, those guys marching with those flags and banners are nonviolent, those guys marching with those flags and banners are nonviolent.

Speaker 1:

What ended up happening is you had also just people there. I almost went to Charlottesville to, you know, protest some of the taking down of the monuments, because I don't think you should be taking them down.

Speaker 1:

No, and you know, but that doesn't mean I'm going to go march in some white supremacist thing by any stretch. So I think there were several different things and what ended up happening is you had Antifa coming out and doing their black block shit and starting violence, causing violence, and then people trying to get away, like the one guy who ran over people with his car. If you look at the footage, he was getting beat up on the way to his car, he was getting his car beaten on and everything else and he just tried to drive away as fast as possible and, as a result, you know, I guess, what do you expect? You're assaulting someone and they are trying to flee, and then someone's in their way. I just I don't know.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, exactly the key, thing, I think is that so again, I wouldn't say that that was the right starting violence there. Or when the Proud. Boys have gone up against Antifa.

Speaker 3:

I don't think that's the right starting violence there no, I also don't call the proud boys the right either.

Speaker 1:

They're not more gay, and that's the thing. Is the proud boys was a fucking joke.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah, right, hello yeah, that that's like calling um. Uh, that gay guy who's pretending to be straight now like calling him the right Harry Session. No, that's a lefty gay. No, the righty gay with the blonde hair. What the hell is his name? The British guy. He's been on TimCast a bunch of times. He still talks like a total gay. I really.

Speaker 1:

Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know who you're talking about. Now the name's escaping me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh.

Speaker 3:

God, super gay who's now supposedly straight. Yeah, and we'll think of who it is after we move on to another topic. But you know, like he to me was always funny because he was poking at the left and he could get away with a lot more poking because he was gay. That was kind of like it. It's kind of like it's harder for leftists to poke back at somebody who is considered their type of darling Right, but I don't think anybody who is a serious conservative would have ever seen him as an actual conservative. He is playing a conservative.

Speaker 1:

Why can't we think of his name? He's got a weird name. The guy who says he's still attracted to men still has these desires, but because of his supposedly finding Christ. He's not going to do that anymore. Yeah, which you know. Hey, if that's the way you want to handle it, dude, that's fine. That's your business.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I just think he's less funny not being officially gay, that's all. Yeah, I mean, there is something a little funny about gays, right? Okay, if we had a show opener well, I you know, men who act female, not feminist, but feminine men who act feminine, they can. You know, they're a little funny. But not all homosexuals act that way, I know, but I'm just talking about the ones that do. I mean, look, there are probably gay people that you'd never know are gay. Okay, that's certainly a thing, gene are you finally coming out?

Speaker 3:

Am I finally coming out? Am I finally coming out? The only thing I'm coming out of is my house to drive to the grocery store.

Speaker 1:

That's about it you don't even do that, you haven't delivered. Don't even lie, no, I have food.

Speaker 3:

Well, I do have groceries delivered sometimes too, but occasionally I do need to drive to pick up stuff that isn't deliverable. What are you getting?

Speaker 1:

that's not deliverable.

Speaker 3:

You know, dude, the one-off stores you can't get delivery from. It's just the big chains that do delivery.

Speaker 1:

I mean, there's always like Favor and stuff like that. I'm surprised you don't use that Well.

Speaker 3:

I technically do use Favor because I buy from HEB and Favor is their company, they do delivery. But I don't use favor because I buy from H-E-B and favor is their company, they do delivery, but I don't use favor app for stuff. I don't know why. I've ticked Pookie, just stuck with Uber, and Uber does deliver from a number of chain stores but not uh, not one off stores Like I'm a co-op here, Anyway, anyway, yeah, yeah, I need my co-op miso.

Speaker 1:

Milo Yiannopoulos, by the way. That's the guy. It finally came to me.

Speaker 3:

Milo, because it's a crazy name, right, right, yeah, milo. Nobody names their kid Milo unless they want him to be gay. Let's face it. Oh, hello. Okay, my mom, not police, is Greek, which, let's face it, gay well, you know, I mean, that was a thing back then they were going to two factors going against him from childhood and the third factor was a priest was diddling him yeah, and he's even uh admitted to that, hasn't he's?

Speaker 3:

talked about it. He didn't think that that was a bad thing, until people pointed out uh, yeah, you were abused as a child. He's like, no, I wasn't. Yeah, you were abused as a child. He's like, no, I wasn't. Yeah, you were.

Speaker 1:

But he's still a Catholic.

Speaker 3:

Well, I don't know what to say.

Speaker 1:

He's still gay is what I say Still gay Okay still gay okay. I am scheduling my Windows update to restart next. Friday so that way I'll have a fresh reboot for the show see, think it ahead.

Speaker 3:

Why don't you just set up a task that does that every Friday, just reboots, even if there's no update? Why would I want to do that so you have a clean, fresh PC on a regular basis?

Speaker 1:

You know it's funny because my Linux systems I don't have to do that with. Well, yeah, obviously, but yeah. I don't know, man, windows 11. The last good version of Windows was really Windows 7.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I'm okay with 10. I mean, I've been running 10 for like 10 years now. 10's okay.

Speaker 1:

But 10 crossed some boundaries for me. You know, like always sending information and shit to Microsoft, no matter what settings you do, and even if you go through and harden the settings, next time an update is applied you have to go back and redo them.

Speaker 3:

That is annoying. I will say the changing of the settings when it's doing an update is bullshit. Did you hear speaking of security-related topics? Did you hear that Amazon has updated their security privacy policy for the? For Alexa, yeah, alexa's.

Speaker 1:

They are now going to use your audio recordings for ai.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, yeah, basically saying oh, you know that little setting that says uh, do not send my voice recordings back home. Yeah, that goes away. Now everything's going to automatically get sent back home so you're gonna finally get rid of your alexis I well, I'm gonna be muting my alexis for sure, um I may be powering down alexis as well, but I wouldn't trust the mute button, dude well, so here's, yeah, I, I know what you mean, but, um, you know, the main use I have of my a, my Alexa, is turning the lights on and off.

Speaker 3:

The second use of it is an alarm clock. It's an alarm clock that wakes you up, tells you the weather, you know all the stuff that you want to learn in the morning. And, um, could I get by without Alexis in the house? Yes, it's a little sad because I have three of them in the house so that any room I'm in I can give it commands, and I'm going to have to be reduced to using my phone's Alexa now for turning lights on and off. So you know, the Alexa app running on your phone, unlike normal Alexa's, doesn't have a mic on all the time, because apple wouldn't let them do that because that's a competitive product anyway, and so you have to push a button to turn the mic on. So now to turn my lights on and off, I'll have to go in, push a button, say you know, alexa, turn my lights on, uh, etc.

Speaker 1:

It's making my life more complicated, depending on which version of the Amazon uh, alexa, echo, whatever that you have. Um, there are ways to jailbreak and gain root on them. Okay.

Speaker 3:

Apparently.

Speaker 1:

So and people are working with they're trying to do alternative firmware to be able to use them with some of the open source home automation software stuff like that.

Speaker 3:

I'll take a look at it, but my short term plan is going to be at the end of the month, just to unpower these things. So that's sad, because I don't think home automation devices, uh, should be allowed. Well, they shouldn't be allowed to use your your conversations.

Speaker 1:

Right your conversations to in your house what you fight about with your wife, would you say behind closed doors, to train an ai like that is so draconian and stupid or dare I say, very 1984.

Speaker 3:

Oh hugely. Your devices in your house will now report back everything you say and do.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, not okay, and I I really hope that there's some blowback against this and they change their mind, but could be wrong well and look, there's a solution that could have worked beneficially to them all.

Speaker 3:

They have to do the same shit they did with the kindle and say we're introducing alexa plus. The alexa plus mode will have the highest level of privacy available to any alexa devices. However, uh, it's going to be five dollars a month, payable in one year subscription. So 60 bucks a year all All the regular Lexus will now have.

Speaker 1:

The problem is they want, I know they do.

Speaker 3:

I know they do. I'm agreeing with it. I know they would rather have the speech to train than the $60 a year. That's the problem. But I would pay $60 a year to not have that turned down. I mean, it's a stupid thing that I would have to pay for privacy from a product I already own. But I would still probably do it because of the convenience factor of turning my lights on and off. So but I'll tell you, what I'm getting rid of is the amazon cameras. Why say don't trust them?

Speaker 1:

well, but they're not included in this update. Who says, well, if you're talking about the battery powered ones, there's the they can't, I mean they can't just turn on and that you would end up with dead batteries very quick.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, no, I've got the non-battery powered one here. That's part of my Amazon lock.

Speaker 1:

Is it Ring or Blink?

Speaker 3:

It's neither this actually predates.

Speaker 1:

When Amazon bought Ring, okay, for a little while they had their own brand of cameras and locks, and then they bought ring and of course, everything got unified yeah, so ring and blink are not involved in this at this point, but yeah well, and I always sent data back to amazon um, well, you can opt out of certain things, but yes, uh, it sends data back, but how they use that data is segmented off, and I've got Blink cameras at home and I can tell you. If they end up getting included in this, I will be getting rid of them.

Speaker 3:

But you don't want Amazon learning how to walk their robots based on what they see in your house.

Speaker 1:

I don't want them to see me taking a leak in my backyard at night. I don't want them to see me uh deciding hey, your neighbor's ring sees you doing that?

Speaker 3:

no, they don't. Yeah, well, they might you know. You have the ring um the ring, outdoor lights.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, but I I know what my neighbors have. All you got to do is go outside at night with a night vision goggle and you can see who's got cameras wear real easy that's true, yeah, so trust me, I'm I'm no dummy all right, ben, I know, sometimes you, sometimes you just present as one, so you ought to look at Mycroft.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so Mycroft, brother of Sherlock. They've got a couple projects out there that is a replacement for Alexa and there's people trying to use some of the Alexa hardware. So, and there's people trying to use some of the alexa hardware as because they the real secret sauce to whether it's google assistant alexa or any of them is they've got these microphone arrays in there that are really pretty good they are, yeah, well, and and the alexas so I have.

Speaker 3:

I have two good Alexas and one cheap-ass Alexa. The two good ones is I have the original one, which I think I paid about $250 for, which was good, solid metal, good quality speaker, good array of mics. And then they came out with a whole slew of cheaper, more plasticky alternatives. And then I bought the high-end Gen 2 Alexa that came out. That was an even better microarray, and again, this was a solid metal product that weighs a hefty amount because it has a speaker capable of providing some bass to it as well, a speaker capable of providing some bass to it as well. And so I have those two. And then I have a one of the little cheap coffee puck lexus in the bedroom for the alarm yeah, well, I don't know man.

Speaker 1:

Look at the home assistant. Uh, home dash assistant, I dot io for another project because it looks like mycroft. They ceased development and forked. Oh really there's other options. You've got computers, you've got tablets, you've got lots of things in those rooms. You don't need the Alexa device, you just need the software.

Speaker 3:

So I don't know, yeah, I mean, all I want is something that can just turn my lights on and off when I say that, sure, just turn my lights on and off when I say that, sure, and your iphone can listen to my iphone can literally do that right now. I know it's. That's the first thing I always do on the iphones when I get them is turn off the constant listening. Yeah, me too. It drains the damn battery.

Speaker 1:

Oh I, I changed the setting on my google stuff I do not use the google voice assistant no, thank you I use google voice to text all the damn time, which is sending a lot of stuff back to google, yeah, but you know, but it's stuff you know you're sending you're cognizant of it yeah, and you know it's stuff that if someone really wanted to get a hold of a copy of that text message or whatever, even if I was using the keyboard you know there's lots of things.

Speaker 1:

Now there is the Futo keyboard it's an alpha still that does a lot of the voice-to-text stuff on your phone and never sends it anywhere. So you know, I've got that installed, playing around with it, but it's not as good as the other, and when you're driving or you just want to yeah, be mad and rant text at someone voice to text is the

Speaker 3:

real the way to do it, you know well, and siri's been around on apple for god knows how many years now, and certainly for driving. That's very convenient and I think on some states that's the only way you can do it now as well. Um including texas including texas, yeah, which I remember when california first started doing that.

Speaker 1:

It seems so bizarre because I was so used to, just you know, texting and driving in texas and the texas copies their laws and when we had a blackberry with a physical qwerty keyboard, it was a lot different than it is when you're driving and texting on a blank screen.

Speaker 3:

Sure, fair enough. There's something to be said for physical keyboards.

Speaker 1:

Those thumbs get a lot of work, a lot of exercise. I actually really do miss my old.

Speaker 3:

BlackBerry.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Did you have the one with the trackball? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah or the touch one.

Speaker 1:

Okay, yeah, I had a. Well, my first one was a trackball one, and it was a world phone, so it had two SIM card slots in it and everything else. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I mean I had the old Palm Pilot phone. Oh yeah, Not the one that they turned into it, but the actual original Palm Pilot. That was a cell phone. I had that back in the day in college.

Speaker 3:

I thought that came out like before you were born.

Speaker 1:

I had the original Palm Pilot in the 90s too. Yeah, I was a big user of Palm and graffiti and all that yeah, yeah, I like palm I.

Speaker 3:

I used it back in the 90s as well and I thought that it was not perfect, but then again I used the newton back, oh the newton was terrible. It really was. It was way. It was about a decade too early. Yeah, the size could not be reduced to a reasonable size. It was about the size of a paperback book and the thickness of a paperback book uh, the battery life was about six hours.

Speaker 3:

The what a big paperback book yeah yeah, but it weighed more than the paperback book. Um, um, I remember taking one of those a Newton on a road trip, uh, across the country and I have my maps on there, thinking I was super high tech, right, because I was uh not going to bring physical maps, you're super, not going to get to use that.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, physical you're super, not going to get to use that, yeah. So, super predictably, the batteries died at just the wrong time while driving and then I had to eventually pull over at a gas station to buy some fresh batteries. The good, the good thing about that device was it wasn't using rechargeables. It was using regular batteries yeah or true?

Speaker 3:

yeah, double a's, I believe so, double a's it's. It's the same thing. It's like most, not all, but most of my red dot sites are the romeo that uses a single triple a battery rather than the uh, the little flat batteries. Why? Because when the apocalypse happens, the supply of AAA batteries will be much greater than the supply of a variety of sizes of little flat batteries, which are going to be gone from the shelves very quickly. So I want my devices to be as universal as possible, and that means standardized batteries. Okay, plus it it, because it has that battery right underneath it. It's essentially the high-rise mount um, which is what I would be buying anyway, even if I wasn't buying the one with the battery in it. Okay.

Speaker 1:

So have you? Did you watch the Temple Culture War show from Friday by chance? Friday no, oh man you gotta watch it. Jfk Files, stuff Pretty good, oh, okay.

Speaker 3:

I didn't really see anything too exciting in the JFK Files myself.

Speaker 1:

I think we don't know jack shit of what's in the JFK files and it's going to take quite a while until we know.

Speaker 3:

Did you not ask Brock to tell you?

Speaker 1:

Oh yes, because they Dude if you actually go look at these files the. Ocring of these files is not going to be accurate at all. So, it's been mimeographed so many times and blurred and everything else like this well that's what they want you to think.

Speaker 3:

They just printed them. These are all photoshopped. There's nothing that's real in that whole thing. I don't know about that yeah I think they're all fake I the reality is that, well, starting with the most easiest, we have a photograph of the alleged bullet that killed JFK. That bullet has no damage and no sign.

Speaker 1:

No, deformation no deformation whatsoever.

Speaker 3:

Worse than that, it has no sign of going through a rifled barrel yeah.

Speaker 1:

Did you see the uh picture of dead jfk laying on the uh coroner's table?

Speaker 3:

nope, oh yeah, that's gone viral on uh on, uh, yeah, alex, yeah, and how's that?

Speaker 1:

look, it's pretty gruesome. It looks dead. Yeah, okay, and it's. You know, it doesn't make sense where the exit wound is under his chin. To me for the trajectory, but I don't know, I'd have to go really deep dive into it. But I think the point is there's a lot of stuff that's coming out that you know.

Speaker 1:

Uh, it's going to take a long time to see what the actual, real story is yeah, uh, and we need to be patient like this is going to be months to years some people think there was a second shooter on the grass, you know, I think think it was Jackie myself. Well, so there's the whole interview with the Warren Commission that Jackie gave. That's been, you know, completely erased from history and we got to see if that's in this or not.

Speaker 3:

So yeah, much like any other documents that have been withheld for an extended period of time, my trust level on this is about one percent. I just don't believe that something that has been held in secret for so long will ever see the light of day.

Speaker 1:

And the reason it takes so damn long to produce these types of documents is because they have to fake them, and making 80 000 documents takes a long time, guys yeah I mean, if that's the case, then yeah, but you know also, going through and finding and getting all the documents and making sure that we're not getting redacted versions and so on.

Speaker 3:

it takes a long time, I think what we're going to end up finding is the same thing that people have been finding with Barack Obama's birth certificate.

Speaker 1:

Oh the photoshopping.

Speaker 3:

It's not photoshopped. It was Adobe Illustrator and you can separate the layers when you open the PDF file that is posted on the official government website as Barack Obama's gift certificate.

Speaker 1:

Did you actually go and do that?

Speaker 3:

No, I watched the video again.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, so do you trust that video?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, totally. Guy has nothing to gain Because he's not even a political YouTuber, he's an illustrator YouTuber, he does training videos. So what the hell, man? Yeah, and so what you end up with is a multi-layer document where you can move a layer that has all the handwritten text on it, which is totally separate from the layer underneath, which has effectively a template of that Hawaii birth certificate like a scanned document.

Speaker 1:

I've seen similar video. I don't know if it's right or not. I haven't done it myself, so until I do it myself, it's one of those things that do.

Speaker 3:

I trust that video so more than the government I understand, I agree and I mean to a lot of us at the time including trump, mind you when obama was first being elected. There's this, you know, conspiracy of, well, where was he born? And a lot of people kind of just said, well, does it even matter?

Speaker 3:

because, where he was born, because his mother's an american, no matter what well I don't know that she was first of all, but uh, but aside from that, it, if there's no doubt about it, why cover it up? Why create a fake birth certificate? Let's, but let's just call. You know, tell the truth. The guy was born in nairobi, right? So what if he's got a? Uh, american mother? Um, you know our buddy, adam curry. Uh, lived in africa as a young kid. Um, I think one of his sisters was born in Africa. Does that make her not a US citizen? No, of course she's a US citizen. Parents were spies, so naturally that makes her US citizen. What are you chatting?

Speaker 1:

about. You think Adam Curry's parents were spies.

Speaker 3:

I know Adam Curry's parents were spies. Uh-huh. Yes, okay, absolutely yeah.

Speaker 1:

You don't know that. For what agency? Cia?

Speaker 3:

They were both in the CIA.

Speaker 1:

Hmm, yeah, so do we think Adam's in the CIA.

Speaker 3:

No, Adam did not pass.

Speaker 1:

He failed the entrance test.

Speaker 3:

He didn't realize it was an entrance test, but yes, he did fail it, uh-huh, uh-huh. Yeah, no, this is not a secret. I'm not revealing anything that he hasn't already talked about. But yeah, absolutely. And well, you know that whole story, don't you?

Speaker 1:

oh, I know about Uncle Don and I know a lot of things. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3:

Uncle Don was the one who recruited him, and recruited his parents yeah, recruited the parents.

Speaker 3:

A lot of the the Curry family has been in government service for many years, okay, but either way, my point is that I think it was his sister, willow, I believe, that was born there. That people are born all over the place. They don't lose their American citizenship because their parents are American, and I mean we could have a separate conversation on maybe wait, should they. But for whatever reason, it was very important that Obama would be born in Hawaii, and there were three different versions of what was claimed to be the original birth certificate that all looked slightly different, and now we have this coming out more recently, with the one that's actually posted on the government website, having multiple layers where you can literally take off the layer that has all the handwritten stuff on it yeah, and just to be clear, that came out, uh, during the biden administration not, yeah, not not trump.

Speaker 1:

So there's no chance of trump or somebody going in and right doing x, y and z so the the main point is like why would they do that?

Speaker 3:

why would you need to fake a birth certificate? And even even if he wasn't born in the us, he would still be a us citizen, assuming his mother was a us citizen. So what? I'm more interested. There have been arguments made being her birth certificate.

Speaker 1:

Well, no, the arguments that have been made, really that are kind of interesting, is that she wasn't of the age of majority, so can she transfer citizenship? Yeah, there's no question well, there has been questions.

Speaker 3:

There's no question there there was tons of women with that were not of the age of majority giving birth to children. At the beginning of this country, the age of majority was not what it is today. Back then, so when you raise the drinking age to 21, it doesn't magically mean that 18-year-olds handle alcohol any worse, I gotcha. So I think this is. There's a lot of dumb arguments that floated around at that time. The one that was interesting to me had more to do with what is the rationale for hiding this or trying to obfuscate?

Speaker 1:

Jinx. Yeah, no kidding.

Speaker 3:

So you know, that's the thing that is is making me raise my eyebrows is well, why are they doing this? What was the point? Um so well, how do we start this topic of obama?

Speaker 1:

I don't even remember dude, I don't know, I don't know where I I don't know where we went off the rails but, I yeah, I think it was with the Brigitte Macron thing.

Speaker 3:

Oh, why? Why, that was like an hour ago.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yes, gene you have been ranting a bit.

Speaker 3:

In the category of president's wives with balls.

Speaker 2:

Well, to be fair we don't know if she kept her balls. Uh-huh yeah, oh-huh yeah.

Speaker 3:

Oh man, well, Michelle Obama certainly has, it seems. Why? Well, because the videos floating of her actually they demonstrate a mass in the groinal area that seems to have a hard time being in a swimsuit.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but you can. You can. There's a dick, but no balls. Yeah, exactly, you can have stuff down there.

Speaker 3:

You sure can. You're a male, yeah, uh, so, uh, yeah, I don't, I don't know, I don't know what else. We talked about ukraine. We talked about wait, oh, you know, you brought up that I didn't see a video on tim pool. That's where we were.

Speaker 1:

Yeah With uh Kennedy assassination stuff. Um, I don't know, I think it's interesting. Uh, I think we might get to see some real stuff. Who knows, we'll see. Uh, I'm not holding my breath, I'm not suggesting that. Oh yeah, trump, I have full faith in Trump. I don't have that, but you know. I've got more faith than I did with anyone else releasing it.

Speaker 3:

What about aliens? What about them? Well, Elon Musk recently in an interview said there are no aliens.

Speaker 1:

Well, we haven't had contact with aliens, aliens which I don't think that we have had any where. When?

Speaker 3:

well, I mean, where do you think all the mythical stories come from of super beings?

Speaker 1:

I think that there are actually, you know, beings that are powerful and the alien you know beings that are powerful and the alien you know, like superman. Okay I don't see it but okay you don't, you don't see the aliens. All right, all right I mean yeah I don't think we're hiding anything I get where you're coming from, but no, I don't think that. Uh, it depends on what you mean by alien. Would you call an angel or god an alien?

Speaker 3:

Hell yeah of course, Okay sure. But that wouldn't be the way I would describe it, because that's just a human interpretation of something that they don't understand and can't explain. Of course it's alien. Okay, by human Okay.

Speaker 1:

I just don't think. I don't think the government has documented interactions with aliens you don't think the government's holding angels prisoners?

Speaker 3:

no, I don't really no, that's a shocker. Why is that? A shocker. They are uh-huh okay I, I, I wouldn't doubt it. I mean, historically speaking. This is something that most governments have participated in. When they capture something that can be utilized for benefit to their civilization, they tend to hang on to it.

Speaker 2:

Well, I don't think there's some great secret out there about aliens.

Speaker 1:

I'm sorry I don't. The's some great secret out there about aliens. I'm sorry I don't. The pyramid stuff going around is crazy enough to me. People are just jumping on this bandwagon. It's like whoa, whoa, whoa. This is one stupid survey of you've. Got to calm down and let's look at this in a little bit more depth. Right, calm down, and let's look at this a little bit more depth, right? Don't just say, oh my god, there's stuff all the way under the pyramids.

Speaker 3:

this on the other, the proven, no, no you know, that's what they said about easter island statues too. What about them? They were just heads, okay, until they finally started unearthing them and they realized they weren't heads. I have yet to see it. They were full-size statues.

Speaker 1:

Show me an image.

Speaker 3:

Oh, I can Google that right now. Those have been around for many years.

Speaker 1:

Talk about Photoshop.

Speaker 3:

Yes, I'm that good at Photoshop that I can create something on the fly as we're talking Now. If you wanted me to create a song and post it on X, that I can do something on the fly as we're talking Now. If you wanted me to create a song and post it on X, that I can do in a couple of minutes.

Speaker 1:

Grok's pretty good at making images, dude.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, that's true, but I don't need to because we actually have the real deals. Show me images.

Speaker 1:

Show me images. Grok Please quick.

Speaker 3:

There's no Grok thing here, this is purely a. Okay, here's a perfect one. I'm going to send you this one Copy, copy, paste, paste. I said Alexa, paste image. There we go, perfect.

Speaker 1:

Oh my god. You did not just use Alexa to paste an image.

Speaker 3:

Sure, you can believe that. There's a ton of these. There's literally hundreds of these photos Interesting. Yeah, they were full on statues. Now they're kind of goofy looking right. I'm not saying they're particularly good examples of carving stone to look human, but maybe they weren't supposed to be looking human, Maybe they were supposed to look like the aliens.

Speaker 1:

Well, and the question is was that intentionally buried at that level, or is that just the buildup of sediment?

Speaker 3:

over time and that question has been asked.

Speaker 1:

Because, if that's the case, they were buried. They were buried.

Speaker 3:

They were buried. Okay, there's too much regularity and consistency across these statures and the entire island to have been something that naturally occurred. Okay.

Speaker 1:

Interesting. I don't know why.

Speaker 3:

I don't know that anybody knows why they were buried, but they were buried. So, for all we know, what we're seeing in the pyramids in Giza are like the top 5% of the pyramid, and the rest of it is underground.

Speaker 1:

Dude talk about a megalithic structure.

Speaker 3:

Well, it's supposed to be big enough, supposed to be big enough. And now you know, from, from uh, electronics that, uh, when you have amplifiers, you do have somewhat of a perimitable shape. Um, you have that, uh, that concentration of the point at which the signal jumps from.

Speaker 1:

So you think that the pyramids are some sort of amplifier?

Speaker 3:

I don't know, man, I you know, I barely passed physics, so all I'm saying is that it brings up interesting questions that can create a ton of science fiction and fantasy writing, and that's the stuff I'm more interested in. But the idea that people have been saying well, the pyramids, you know that they're tuned to certain frequencies, have to be 440 hertz, which is also, incidentally, a frequency used by Apple when the computer starts up. But let's just pretend that that's still a coincidence. But the resonant frequency of the planet Earth, if amplified properly, can derive tremendous power, and the focal, focused power at that, which some people would argue was the whole point of building these things by the aliens that were on Earth a long time ago in the first place, because the pyramids were, you know, they're older than most of the Egyptian writings that we read about like, with Passover coming up here as one. Pyramids were already there during the time of Moses.

Speaker 1:

So the Jews didn't build the pyramids.

Speaker 3:

No, the space Jews built the pyramids. You see, the Jewish race is really the last descendants of the alien race that visited this earth, and they passed on certain commandments to their offspring. Are you not familiar with the history of this?

Speaker 1:

Dude, I think you're going down a rabbit hole that is bigger than Michelle Obama's car.

Speaker 3:

It's a fun rabbit hole. I got books on this rabbit hole. I'm sure you do, but I love shit like this. I love Atlantean stuff.

Speaker 1:

You're the guy who watches Ancient Aliens on Every episode, man. Every freaking, it is so fucking stupid.

Speaker 3:

Like that is the dumbest show yeah. Yeah. Guest appearance on it. I would totally do it. Oh gee, there are certain. There's certainly certain aspects or certain guests I should say on that show that that don't have a very good story to tell, but there's also a lot of fun stories.

Speaker 1:

All right, look, there's some neat, interesting like conundrums of hey, how did the ancients do this? But to sit there and turn around, and every time or was it ancient aliens? It's just so such a tiresome trope.

Speaker 3:

No, you could go the Battlestar Galactica route and say that you know. Civilizations on Earth have risen and killed themselves off so many times now that we've lost track of what was which civilization. Yeah, I think that's a what was which civilization?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I think that's a far more plausible answer. Yeah, and maybe we evolved and got to points way faster than our current history recognizes.

Speaker 3:

Exactly Because the Cylons came down and we're really children of the Cylons. I agree with you. Yeah, why else would we be burying statues on Easter Island? I don't know Exactly.

Speaker 1:

There's probably some explanation.

Speaker 3:

And isn't it fun trying to find those?

Speaker 1:

Probably aliens, though, I guess man, the ancient apocalypse stuff, yeah, like that is far more interesting to me than, oh, aliens, aliens the great flood that we see in virtually every religious text no, I, I, I, actually I take it as proof.

Speaker 3:

It was actually caused by the pyramids, when they were actively utilized to harness the energy of the natural resonant frequency of the Earth and to send that energy to the aliens that built them in the first place. I see, so you're a denier. I am a denier of this yes, Sounds like you're a denier man. Yeah, denier of this. Yes, Sounds like you're a denier man. Yeah, the ground shook so hard.

Speaker 1:

My belief in the Holocaust is far more than my belief in this.

Speaker 3:

Yes, I'm denying this, you alien denier you. Oh man, I love this stuff. I always thought it was some of the funnest stuff in pseudoscience is the alien related stuff, so let's talk about a topic that is more interesting dc circuit judge is asking you know one of the venezuelan uh games turns circuit.

Speaker 1:

I said what dc circuit?

Speaker 3:

it's a new jerk oh all right, sorry sorry, go ahead go ahead anyway.

Speaker 1:

Ordered the trump administration to turn around the planes containing yes trend a or agua gangsters going to.

Speaker 2:

Uh, you know a jail in latin america yeah what. What's your take on this?

Speaker 1:

because I think, I think he has zero authority he has zero authority, he has negative authority.

Speaker 3:

Frankly, as far as I'm concerned, he ought to join them, that's my take uh, I think it's high time we start building some penal colonies for the people that just don't get it, Because I don't think they're going to change. Frankly and this judge is a perfect example of that the president has within his authority the methods by which the Justice Department is actually conducting its business. So when a judge sentences somebody to prison, it isn't the judge or anybody in that department that is in charge of the prison system. Likewise here, when these people are found to be guilty of committing crimes such as entering the country legally, the methods of how these criminals are actually dealt with and imprisoned are not up to judges. They're up to the executive branch. That's their purview here. So the judicial branch says guilty or not guilty their purview here. So the judicial branch says guilty or not guilty.

Speaker 1:

The uh executive branch then carries out the um, yeah, I I think, I think, I think trump is gonna have to go full jackson on this one and say they've made their ruling, let them enforce it exactly.

Speaker 3:

Well, I mean, jesus, that you might as well say go full o biden on this, because that's what o biden did with forgiving student debt. You know he didn't care what the supreme court said uh speaking of the supreme court, yes, and uh the uh. The alleged republicans on it, which are, I think, there's only one at this point um, telling trump to stay in his lane and not be telling people anything bad about judges. Roberts said yeah what's your?

Speaker 1:

take on that uh well, roberts has a lot of uh stuff in his past. That's pretty iffy. So we should start talking about how he's a rapist, though, or you mean groomer pedophile who got some UK boys adopted through Latin America and can't find the paperwork on the adoption. Mm-hmm, yeah, there's that which got brought up on yesterday's Culture War through Latin America and can't find the paperwork on the adoption. Yeah, there's that which got brought up on yesterday's culture war and Tim Pool was like what is this?

Speaker 1:

It's like? Were you not paying attention during the confirmation hearings? Come on dude, probably not.

Speaker 3:

I think Tim was on the other side during the confirmation hearings, wasn't he Maybe?

Speaker 1:

but then why wouldn't he know?

Speaker 3:

that point. Yeah, I don't know. He was working for Vice, I think, at the time. But either way, look like. What Roberts is acting like is a guy who considers members of a profession judges to be his gang, and he's going to stand up for his gang against the other gang which got him into the job he's in. And it's like dude. The supreme Court justices are not above impeachment either, and I think they all forget that, and I think it's high time that we make an example of somebody from the judicial branch. You pick one. There's plenty of bad judges out there. Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Let's impeach them, let's actually show that hey, guess what your job for life?

Speaker 1:

you can lose it, yeah, show that. Hey, guess what your job for life? You can lose it, yeah. But okay, the impeachment process for a federal court judge is more or less the same as, uh, impeachment of the president.

Speaker 3:

Right, the house files sure, but during that process he will not be allowed to make any uh any judgments uh, I don't know about that absolutely okay, I, that's the first motion that every lawyer is going to file is a change of, uh, change of judge change of venue.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, well anyway the point is, I don't care what the evidence against the judge is you're not going to get two-thirds of a vote in the Senate to impeach a judge.

Speaker 3:

Well, again, I mean, it all depends on what you can dig up on these people. Everybody in there is crooked. So the question really is how hard do you want to apply the arm twisting? It's not like there's no arm twisting to be had. Look at chuck schumer. You think chuck schumer's doing this stuff out of the grossness of his heart.

Speaker 1:

I think he's got something on him I think there's a little bit of that. I think he was beaten in strategy. I think he knew that if he shut the government down, he'd be blamed for it. If he did, he was in a lose-lose situation. So he chose the option that he thought was the best option, which really screwed over a lot of the Democrats in the House, because they took some hard votes to shut the government down that, uh, they thought the senate was going to back them up on and turns out, uh, nope, they are not yeah so anyway, um, I I think the better option.

Speaker 1:

If you really want to, uh, take care of these judges in a meaningful way, um, you have to go through and defund their courts. So it would be easier for congress to, because congress determines the number of courts. The circuit courts and everything else so you could easily say all right, dc judge. Well, uh, your court no longer exists. So thank you, have doge, do that well, it's gonna require acts of congress.

Speaker 1:

I don't know, but it'd be funny and really what needs to happen is basically and this is what I think the house ought to start doing is take every single one of trump's executive orders and executive actions and into a law and vote up or down on each and every one of them as a single bill. Just go through and start having those votes and pass them into law, because then you're done. If AOC gets into the presidency next time, she can't just repeal it. So that, to me, is what needs to happen.

Speaker 3:

Well, more than that not only can she not repeal it, so that, to me, is what needs to happen. Well, more than that not only can she not repeal it, but the judiciary is going to have a much harder time opposing something that was passed by.

Speaker 1:

Congress, like they would actually have to show that it was an unconstitutional action.

Speaker 3:

Yes, Right now, they just wave their magic wand and say, uh no, this is questionable and therefore we're going to enforce a uh, a stay on that indefinitely. So it's a. Certainly, passing these into laws would make them work a lot harder if they really truly wanted to get in front of them, and I think for a lot of these judges, a lot of humans in general, there is a barrier that is defined by work effort, so you don't necessarily have to prevent somebody from doing something. You just have to make it difficult enough that they just decide it's not worth their time. Uh, agreed, and this happens in court all the time yeah, agreed, and it happens in business all the time.

Speaker 1:

And it also happens when you show that you're going to do some good faith effort, that it actually means something and goes a little further than someone who doesn't. So well, you hope so, but that unfortunately, it's not always the case it's not always the case, but odds are better than not that it's going to make a difference, in my opinion yeah at least it does with me. But dude, the amount of tds and elon, the arrangement syndrome is absolutely astonishing.

Speaker 1:

Like Zayhan, you know it's really that Mandela effect in a way that I look at this and I go, okay, you are so fucking off base on this. It really makes me question some of the areas I agreed with you on, like, okay, critical analysis here. I got gotta think about this and look at this a little bit deeper.

Speaker 1:

so I don't know, he's just he. He is literally acting like um trump is doing the bidding of russians again and going down that road. And oh, the russians, this, the russians, that dude. What I see is fuck the eu, fuck europe it. The best economic and military alliance to fend off china is going to be a russo-american alliance. Yeah, yeah that really is the thing that I always add in russia.

Speaker 1:

Compare russia to the eu. Right, you can. You can sit there and say, oh well, the russians aren't free, they're not this, they're not that, and you think the countries in the eu are. The eu is more communistic than russia is, absolutely you have to recognize this.

Speaker 3:

you have more communistic, more atheists, more more multicultural, more technocracy? Yeah, you know okay, so Respond to those people.

Speaker 1:

So maybe that wasn't true in 1944. Right but it sure is true today. So what direction right? What do you want to choose? Well, they've always been our enemy. Uh-huh. Yeah, that's bullshit, okay, and.

Speaker 3:

There's a I mean, I guess there's a little bit of truth to that with Britain, because Britain has fought Russia multiple times. But what I always say is, like you know, during the Cold War, all I kept hearing is we're fighting communism. Okay, well, we won against communism and we freed the people that were communists from communism and showed them the benefits of capitalism.

Speaker 1:

yes, why not welcome them into the fold?

Speaker 3:

worked for them. So communism is dead in russia. They are very capitalistic, so I'm going to say a little too capitalistic it's not dead gene.

Speaker 1:

No, no, no, that's not true. It's yeah, it's uh, it's all oligarchs and it's all this, that and the other oligarchs are literally only possible in capitalism.

Speaker 3:

Um is, in communism you can't have an oligarch. It's literally impossible. So if we were at war with communism, then why are we at war with russia, who is a capitalist country, and we're aligned with very socialist countries in europe that have been moving further and further and further towards communism. So was it never the communism? Was it always just, we don't like those white people. There's few countries.

Speaker 1:

Well, hey, we both know, slavs are not white oh, that's right.

Speaker 3:

That's right. Yes, they are people of color.

Speaker 1:

People of color, yes now that color happens to be white, but the.

Speaker 3:

The word caucasian literally comes from the caucuses, which are russia. So, yeah, yeah, they're not white, they're caucasian, right?

Speaker 1:

but you know, you have to remember this all goes back to you know the irish were not seen as white well, that I kind of agree with.

Speaker 3:

I mean, they're not really humans because they don't have souls, yeah, anyway the point is, try to argue against it.

Speaker 1:

I'm half irish.

Speaker 2:

I do a podcast with an irish and I know I can tell you I do a podcast with a jew.

Speaker 3:

It's okay, well, we're comparing minorities, are we?

Speaker 1:

exactly I'm and fucking here, but the point is I, I, I, I think, if you look at the northwest passage, if that is actually going to open up because of yeah, uh, let's say, global warming or ice melting or whatever, which I don't believe that it will, but right let's say it did what are the two countries that are going to control that? It's going to be america and russia and finland.

Speaker 3:

It's going to be finland, obviously. What do you mean?

Speaker 1:

it's clearly finland uh-huh, uh-huh yeah, no man, yeah I, I, I, I just trade between russia and the us has the most. So simple, yeah, and it has the most bypassing everybody else well, and you could actually. You know, if we took parts of British Columbia the way we should, you could literally make a bridge from the United States to Russia. You could literally have a pipeline going across the Bering Straits right there. Yep.

Speaker 3:

Yep, that's absolutely right. Yeah, that's absolutely right. There are a lot of logical, rational reasons why that alliance would be. I should say, is that is exactly why Europe will be not just opposed it will always be against it but because they will act in ways to provoke these two countries from ever wanting to join together. It is in Europe's best interest to keep the US and Russia fighting Agreed Always has been literally since the American revolution. So it's just because it's logical doesn't mean that it's natural outcome. It's. It's going to be progressively more and more difficult if Trump stays on the course of normalizing relations with Russia, because all kinds of other factors will start popping up, other than Ukraine, to try and prevent him from doing that.

Speaker 1:

Well and everybody's going to scream. I can see the false flags coming. I can see lots of things happening here. I, they're gonna, they're going to. As soon as russia gets tired of being goaded and doesn't abide by the ceasefire, they're gonna say oh look, see, he's bad no matter what the ukrainians did to cause it.

Speaker 3:

If that was the case, um yeah, well, they remember, russia blew up its own pipeline.

Speaker 1:

Yeah right, that's the logic, but now we know that's not the case, and why, why, the hell that's not but, why the hell isn't germany saying, uh zolinski, that was an act of war against us.

Speaker 3:

Yeah because they're a bunch of you-know-whats. No, I don't, no, they kind of are what, what? Germany? Yeah, a bunch of pussies.

Speaker 1:

Eh, okay, there are two world wars.

Speaker 3:

That would Exactly, and then, after that, they've been pussified exactly. And then, after that, they've been pussified uh the uh. You know, to this day you can get arrested, for god forbid having a nazi symbol.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, or you can't play video games.

Speaker 3:

You can't play video games in germany that have world war ii references. It's idiotic. If anything, you ought to learn from history, which means you can't ban any historical material.

Speaker 3:

Like that would be saying well, we have to ban all material involving any reference to slavery. What, why? That's idiotic. What you're going to take down statues next? I guess they're doing that already, but it is insane to try and prevent young people from learning about what happened, because banning Nazi paraphernalia symbology in Germany will only result in German youth not knowing what their grandparents did the word you were looking for. There is symbolism yeah, symbolism, exactly a nazi symbolism.

Speaker 1:

You know it's, it's crazy uh, did you ever see boondock saints? No, you have not watched boondock saints, no, okay you, you need to watch that movie, dude. And there's a great william defoe moment where he's correcting someone who's saying symbology versus symbolism, oh okay.

Speaker 3:

All right.

Speaker 1:

That was the reference.

Speaker 3:

Okay, I didn't get that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So what's the difference? So symbology is what Symbolism?

Speaker 1:

Anyway, I'll let you look it up. But yeah, the word you were looking for was symbolism.

Speaker 3:

Symbolic is the study or interpretation of symbols or symbolism. So if symbology is the study of symbolism yes, yeah. So to correct somebody to say symbolism instead of symbology, then the reference has to have been to a symbol, not the study thereof. Agreed, yeah, okay, well, I didn't know that. So you know, shut up, dude. That's why I'm reading. This is why we have the internet, so we can read things and order food.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, the main two reasons for the internet. Yeah.

Speaker 3:

My food will be here shortly. Oh yeah, what'd you get? Uh, fuego, fuego, the hot wings no fuego.

Speaker 1:

Uh, it's a little taco shop here in taco taco, yeah, this means fire. Yeah, yeah, I know, but fuego is a restaurant here in brian call station and they do. It's not like Mexican food at all. I literally got. Two of the tacos I got are called Buffalo Bill and it's literally fried chicken with buffalo sauce and pico and stuff like that and cheese in a taco yeah, and it's delicious Okay.

Speaker 3:

Gotcha Cool. Now I'm hungry. Well, you know, that's what happens. When you start thinking of food, your body has that same instinct that your dog does. You start drooling when you start thinking, oh, I'm about to eat.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's not what I'm drooling over lately, by the way, dude, oh my God, this has been a hell of a week for me personally. You bought a new gun no, no, and I, me personally. You bought a new gun no, no, and I won't be buying a new gun for a while. Uh, so that hailstorm that came through, oh, yeah yeah, two totaled cars, wow.

Speaker 1:

And I I'm gonna have to fight the insurance company because the valuation they're giving me is bullshit, but anyway. And then the roof. I've had one roofer look at it and said yeah, and I've got another one coming today to look at it. And then I've got to make a decision. But do you know that the insurance companies and this is something to look out for for everyone your hail and you know that that deductible that is separate from your rest of your home insurance deductible they are now deciding that the industry standard is now two percent as a minimum deductible. That's where your deductibles start of your home's value.

Speaker 1:

Wow that's a big deductible yeah yeah, I mean it's over 10 grand,000 for me.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, exactly $10,000 to $20,000 per house for deductible. Why the hell do I have insurance?

Speaker 1:

Well, I mean there's reasons that you have to, but it's just insanity. So, anyway, long story short, I'm laying out some money this week and it's a little stressful.

Speaker 3:

So the hail damaged two of your cars, bad enough to get replacements.

Speaker 1:

I don't know that it's bad enough that they have to be replaced. Okay, like my body guy, I already had him look at the cars and he was kind of surprised that they were totaling them out. So I, I've really sunroof break. No, they're never, never want to have a sunroof. Oh, neither one of them have any glass damage it's just dense.

Speaker 3:

So the value of the cars has gone down, but they're fully drivable and everything value of the cars has gone down, but they're fully drivable and everything.

Speaker 1:

Well, yeah, and I'm gonna look at the options of buying salvage titles back.

Speaker 3:

But do you really want to salvage title cars or daily driver depends I mean, if it's your card, you've driven it since it was brand new and then it got salvaged for a dumb reason like this. Yeah, hell, yeah, hell, yeah, yeah, but anyway, you're not going to sell it, you're going to drive it until it dies.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, it's an interesting conundrum.

Speaker 3:

I don't know what I'm going to. Wait, is one of these your truck? And are you getting a new car? Finally, for Christ's sakes?

Speaker 1:

No, my truck was fine. Ironically, that's too bad. The Tonto cover on my truck got dented up, but the rest of my truck is fine.

Speaker 3:

You have a hard Tonto. Yeah, yeah, okay, got it. Wait, isn't that plastic? How is plastic dent? No, it's aluminum. Oh, you got an aluminum. Yeah, aluminum dents. That's absolutely right.

Speaker 1:

And that's why my truck didn't get dented up. But the two newer cars that have aluminum bodies did Well, you know what didn't get dented?

Speaker 3:

What Steel? Yeah, the Tesla Cybertruck, yeah, no shit no dents yeah. Although. I don't know about that front windshield. That's pretty flat yeah.

Speaker 1:

I don't know how well that would take it. Well, anyway, we had a pretty significant hail storm here and yeah you showed me a giant hails picture yeah, well, and it wasn't just, uh, us, you know the, there it's it. This entire area just got really hammered. So, yeah, unfortunate, but that's the way it is yeah, it's uh's.

Speaker 3:

You know, fingers crossed that I can't wait to hear. We haven't had big hail in Austin ever since I moved down. We really haven't. We had small hail for sure.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we haven't had anything big. We haven't had a significant hailstorm here really since I've been here. You'll get pockets here and there that are significant, but this was the biggest and broadest destructive hailstorm in this area that I've seen, and I've been in this area since 2004. Anyway, some of these photos of the Kennedy autopsy I just sent you on are pretty interesting because you know you're supposed to believe that a rifle round did this and it's like, hmm, so you're saying there's not enough damage.

Speaker 1:

It certainly does not appear to be Okay, like it's really pretty shocking the uh the entrance and exit wombs looking the way they do with everything I've ever seen on uh, ballistic gel and everything else yeah, so well, and they, they've always said that the, uh, the exit wound was huge.

Speaker 3:

So have you seen a picture of the exit wound?

Speaker 1:

yeah, if you, uh, just go on x and search jfk photos yeah, I guess I could uh do that I'll. I'll do it for you, gene, don't worry. Okay, good, yeah, here's the exit wound that supposedly went out of his throat.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, and I just the trajectory just does not seem possible to me. Yeah. Yeah, I think it was a fake trajectory of two different rounds colliding in mid-brain. Um, that's jfk really.

Speaker 1:

It looks like he's surprised yeah, because he didn't think that jackson would actually pull him off and shoot him.

Speaker 3:

So an entry through the skull, the back of the skull and an exit at the very bottom of the throat near the clavicle. It had to have gone a good six to seven inches through his, his brain, and his neck and everything and not deflected. Yeah, and prior to exiting yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3:

So even the forgetting the fact that the bullet photos obviously fake, because there there's a zero damage whatsoever on that bullet, the you know, actually the photo of the round that allegedly went through him reminded me of the round that was still had the shell in it right, so like a full an unfired bullet, right, Right, right, and then showed that as one of the yeah, like a bullet in the cartridge, Showing that off as one of the bullets that had ricocheted off some building that was shot by these. You know, racists usually what else?

Speaker 1:

is CNN going to?

Speaker 3:

have as evidence like that, this boycott protest, whatever the hell it was that people were shooting them Not. The reporter. Clearly, having never held a gun in his life, couldn't tell the difference between an unfired round and a bullet that had gotten stuck in something or had bounced off a building. That's kind of what that, looking at that photo of the jfk round look, reminded me of.

Speaker 1:

It's like if you're gonna fake that round, at least make it look believable well, and I'll be honest, there's a lot of information, uh, in what was released that should point people to look harder and harder at the CIA, and I think that's ultimately why this was not released for a long time, and I think it's in Trump's best interest to release this information, get people going. Hey, it sure looks like the CIA killed Kennedy. Right, you know we should abolish the CIA and then you know he can release.

Speaker 3:

What's the information though?

Speaker 1:

And then he could release some information saying hey, the CIA was involved in the assassination attempts on me. They've already killed one president. We've got to stop this. I can see that being the play here, so I think there will be some real information in it, but we'll see anyway, yeah, but this, this, this wound, actually kind of goes more in line with my take on jackie being the murderer.

Speaker 3:

Why is the gunshot was from the neck going up into his brain? No, that's not an exit wound.

Speaker 1:

The, the, the, the. The photo of the back of his head is is an entrance wound. There's no way that could be an exit wound through bone.

Speaker 3:

There might have been more than one shot. I'm just saying that this could be an entrance wound as well.

Speaker 1:

This doesn't look like an exit wound would make sense to me, would would the only.

Speaker 3:

that's the only thing that would make sense to me on.

Speaker 1:

The damage we're seeing is some little small caliber, not a rifle round right, like exactly people just don't understand the difference in energy there and what happens yeah, yeah well, that's true.

Speaker 3:

Um, yeah, well, I'm gonna start watching to see if I hear any any questions being asked of putin about jfk well, they were certainly trying there.

Speaker 1:

there's documents that have already been released that we've looked at, where you know the faking of oswald doing stuff, and there's lots of interesting things. So definitely should uh should take a look yeah.

Speaker 3:

Hmm, oh, this is interesting here. I'm going to send you this. Uh, I haven't read it, I just read the headline, but it's an interesting headline, why Russian officials try to help John F Kennedy win the presidency.

Speaker 1:

The russians are all behind everything yeah, and here's uh some photos to support your jackie theory oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3:

What is she doing there? Yeah, anyway trying to run away from after shooting her husband and then there was a uh, there's a lot. Well, open it and look, because there's more than you see her right there holding the gun pointing at his neck, so I'm not sure how my it's blurry, I don't see how you can affirm that that's a gun, but it sure is a little wonky I will position she, she's in there uh, yeah and how she stepped on her husband trying to get away oh man, yeah, I, I just I don't trust women men

Speaker 1:

yeah yeah unfortunately these days you can't. Like you ever could Well you know, when they were kept a little more in line by society.

Speaker 3:

Yes, back when the whole world was Muslim, you mean? Yes mythical times. Yeah, it's hard to avoid having these sort of sarcastic conversations with any of my friends, even the ones that I'm not doing podcasts with, because everyone keeps telling me their stories about their wives or girlfriends and it's kind of like, well, you know, that's kind of par for the course, dude, that's how they act.

Speaker 1:

Sad, but true.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, Sad but true. That's about all you can say.

Speaker 1:

Well, anything else you want to cover before we wrap up, so I can go eat my tacos.

Speaker 3:

Oh yeah, your tacos are already. Yeah, no, I was just going to say. Well, you asked me what my thoughts were.

Speaker 1:

What are your thoughts and I will, ken. Do you think, um, I think the cia, I what I've thought for a long time? I think the cia, uh, the cubans and the mob wittingly or unwittingly worked together to off the president, because johnson um was a gangster in a lot of ways and uh, you know he was, uh, he was to kennedy as george hw bush was to reagan, reagan, he was kind of forced in there by the party. They were not friends, they had screaming matches. They were different. Kennedy was going to pull us out of Southeast Asia. He was going to do certain things.

Speaker 1:

I don't think that highly of Kennedy because I think he was just some playboy, but there were some things where he's like no, we're not going to do that and I'm the president, right, and I think the deep state for lack of a better word or the people in power that were the real power. Kennedy, you're just supposed to be the face. What are you doing? Said okay, take him out.

Speaker 3:

Well, and I think Kennedy frankly averted a disaster during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Mm-hmm. And if it was up to the permanent political state, otherwise known as the swamp or the deep state, I think they would have said yeah, they would have said this is our opportunity to nuke Cuba preemptively.

Speaker 3:

And because we're nuking Cuba and not Russia, Russia won't respond, but we'll be able to permanently remove that communist threat from our hemisphere. And I think he had the wisdom to actually call Russia. And they were able to get this situation averted through words and not weapons, Because ultimately, both countries were doing the exact same thing, which is bringing missiles closer and closer to the other. This wasn't like oh, Russia, out of the blue, decided to put missiles in Cuba. Oh, Russia, out of the blue, decided to put missiles in Cuba. No, the missiles in Cuba was a response to missiles in a lot further than Ukraine at this point, but basically missiles in the American-controlled areas of Europe. And so Russia was like well, hold on, you're bringing offensive weaponry closer to us. Well, we can do that too.

Speaker 3:

And as a result of that negotiation from the Cuban Missile Crisis, Russia removed the weapons from Cuba and the US removed the missiles not weapons, but missiles from where they were, and I'm trying to remember exactly where they were. I can't remember if it was like Turkey or somewhere else, but it was definitely on the non-socialist side of the Iron Curtain, obviously. But they were too close for comfort for Russia and I could look it up if I wanted to, but we're trying to wrap up the podcast so I'm not going to bother looking it up. Someone wants to. They can Google it themselves.

Speaker 1:

The point is, the cuban missile crisis could have gone the other way really quickly and been really bad, and it's a.

Speaker 3:

It's a good thing that it didn't yeah, and there there are always people that are trying to say that escalation will result in a win by our side, the warmongers well, and the problem is they feel like they can guarantee that win and they can't, and that that's the real problem is that these people have a in their mind oh, there's no way they can stand up to us we, we can definitely beat those commie bastards, we.

Speaker 1:

There's no doubt in my mind that we will win. Uh, okay, dude you. You know the enemy gets a vote too, and people have to realize that.

Speaker 3:

So I don't know yeah, yeah, and there there are certainly opportunities to settle things. This is where I think trump is really shining is that he is a negotiator. He knows how to bring ideas up that no one's thought of before. That may be more beneficial to both sides with those ideas to settle their differences than to keep fighting. And this is what he can bring to Ukraine. And I think the idea of Ukrainian resources for America was brilliant, and Zelensky obviously didn't see it, because what it did was effectively place an american shield in ukraine preventing russian attacks. Yeah, without saying I'm going to bring a shit ton of american Ukraine to prevent russian attacks. Yeah, like it was a non-escalationary way that resulted in the exact same benefit of well, shit, we can't bomb there because we'll kill americans. So it was a good move.

Speaker 3:

And then zelensky just being the man that he is well and not to see it. You know the question but we want to make sure that we can take all our territory back and push into moscow and what?

Speaker 1:

what does he do about the deal he already had with the uk, though for those?

Speaker 3:

minerals and things well, and the latest on that front, uh, without getting too deep on that topic, is you know, it looks like the uk is now being abandoned by the other european countries, who are not any longer wanting to place any troops in ukraine realizing that america is france is pretty on there uh, yeah, france, okay, fair enough, france might be, but most of the others, including germany, have said no troops in ukraine because they were all counting on the big american rah-rah.

Speaker 3:

If america places troops, then we will, and america is like, uh, not happening. No, no american troops in ukraine. And the uk still like, well, we are close friends with ukraine, we don't need america, we have europe. And europe is like, uh, no yeah I don't know man, and and part of it, I think too is that europe relies on either russian or american energy. Yeah, so uk does not ish.

Speaker 1:

So who do you think's going to get out of nato first? It's a good question because Is it going to be the Europeans that say fuck NATO, we're done, or is it going to be the Americans?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, it's a very good question. I would certainly like to see it be the Americans, because that will be the nail in the coffin of NATO, an organization that we have not needed for 30 years, actually more than that even, but let's say, generously, 30 years. It's beyond its mission. I would love to see it in Americans. I don't know if it's going to be Americans, but I think some of the countries that have no plans to increase their military budgets or their contributions to that it's going to be a hard press for them to stay in it. Because so why being an alliance where the united states has effectively said we will not protect you unless you pay, and they're not going to pay, like they don't have the budget to pay.

Speaker 3:

So what it's like? Purely symbolic but with zero meaning. So I think we may see an exiting of some of these countries out of nato. Other countries, like poland, are very pro-nato but antiU, which is an interesting thing. So if the US leaves NATO, I think that kind of flips Poland into not wanting to be in NATO, because then the only countries in NATO are European countries with whom it has a lot of conflict and I can see Poland immediately seeking a bilateral know, unilateral or bilateral uh defense treaty with us.

Speaker 1:

yeah exactly, and here's the thing if the uk actually had a decent government the uk doesn't have a trade deal with the eu, the the uk should be saying you know what america? We want to be part of the new american empire.

Speaker 3:

We want to trade with you, let us into nafta right, yeah, hey, by the way, somebody made a great point about the gulf of america. What's that? Which is the? The continent that the gulf is in is north america, yeah, yeah, it's not north mexico, right, and so, yeah, that point's been made quite a bit, okay. Well, it's the first time I heard. It was yesterday. I hadn't heard this point before and I was like, well, hell, that's actually logical, like that's not even a you know, go america, that's that's right like it was actually a lot of

Speaker 3:

yeah, yeah yeah, and that more things ought to be like that. Where that we're, we're trying to be unbiased, and a gulf of mexico or a gulf of united states of america like that would be equally biased, but a gulf of america is saying, hey, we're all on the american continent in there. So yeah, I agree makes sense to me cool uh, apparently george foreman died uh, oh, yeah, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3:

So george, george, george and george are going to be very sad right now. You know, all his kids are named george no, I did not know that yeah, yeah, he named all his kids george. Yeah, 76 brilliant guy who sold his name rights for millions, like I think it was over 100 million uh to that, uh really grill you know the george fallman grill george Grill, which became really synonymous with the whole home indoor grilling movement.

Speaker 1:

Yep and I had a George Foreman Grill.

Speaker 3:

I had multiple. It was fantastic it was. I love the fact it was the best little hot plate sort of thing ever and I love the fact that it drained the fat out of it so that you weren't like frying shit, you were literally like cooking stuff, meaning burgers and meats and things.

Speaker 1:

And then having the fat just drain off into a dish, yeah, versus cooking it in the pan, and why that was different? Yeah.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, because in the pan it doesn't drain, so you're cooking in oil. Exactly yes. Instead of cooking out the oil, which is the same thing with the air fryer is that that the oil, the fat, drips off, yeah, drips down into the pan, and and the food is cooked. Above that, with air circulating all the way around, makes for a, uh, a very tasty meal, but without the fat. So, yeah, I always liked him, I liked his sense of humor, I thought that the grill thing was great. I guess, Rip George, Rip George exactly.

Speaker 1:

Alright, Gene, We'll catch you next week. Man Sounds good. Bye Later.

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