No BS Newshour Episode #372
I-ran an Airbase
(0:28) You can’t fight City Hall but you can shame them.
(6:00) Former commander of Selfridge Air Force Base (Ret.) Brigadier General Odie Slocum on Iran, Israel, and American Military preparedness.
PLUS What’s Bullshit in the News
(44:42) MI State Sen Mallory McMorrow embraces illegals while turning out the lights on nursing home old people.
(46:28) Another Flint police beatdown!
(48:12) EXCLUSIVE – AOC is really a spoiled white girl.
(50:37) UPDATE – The guy who dropped a bomb in a Detroit shoe store.
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Transcript:
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Ken Beck, my sidekick,
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that’s the guy right over there that shoots and edits
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the videos.
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That’s retired Brigadier General,
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Odie Slocum.
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We’ll get to you in a minute,
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General, sir.
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Sir.
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What’s Brigadier?
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One, one, one star.
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One star.
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It’s the best we could do.
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Wow.
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All right.
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Better than I’ll ever do.
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Yeah, that’s for sure.
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So we went to City Hall yesterday to get you your due.
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What did we learn yesterday?
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Can we learn?
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City’s broke.
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City’s broke.
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And they want to and they want to tax everybody coming
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in from out of town.
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Every suburban night,
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you want to go to a Red Wings game,
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they’re taxing you want the beer,
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they’re taxing you.
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How are they going to do that?
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Maybe they’ll check your license when you buy your
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tickets.
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So you go to the hot dog stand,
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they check your license,
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and yet nobody’s got to show ID to vote.
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I don’t know.
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But what we went for
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was the Northland Mall being ground up and tossed into
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the holes where children in the city played.
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And this is what we came back with.
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The old saying goes,
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you can’t beat City Hall.
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That might be true.
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But you can sure as hell shame them.
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Over there.
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We got to get our money.
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I’m Charlie LeDuff,
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followed by Mr.
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Cunningham.
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Good morning.
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I’m Charlie LeDuff from the Michigan Enjoyer.
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It’s a beautiful day.
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For years,
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the Detroit Demolition Program has been a cesspool
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of graft and incompetence.
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More than a half billion dollars has been spent.
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What did Detroiters get for it?
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They got done dirt.
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In 2017, the U.S.
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Treasury looked at 100 random demolition contracts.
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Not one had receipts for the dirt.
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Nevertheless,
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the city paid handsomely.
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In 2021, the Land Bank told the Treasury they had no
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dirt receipts at all.
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Again, the city paid handsomely.
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Former Inspector General Ellen Ha estimates that as
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many as 10,000 demo sites may be contaminated with
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toxic dirt.
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Well, now we have the Northland Mall.
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An executive for the city testified last week that
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the contaminated dirt from the mall couldn’t have
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been used in Detroit because the city did not approve
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it.
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This doesn’t mean anything.
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The allegations again are cheating by the contractors
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and a blind eye by the city.
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And now, sidewalks.
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A contract today worth nearly $3 million.
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For what?
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Contractors who did those demolitions were supposed
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to complete the jobs or not get paid until they did,
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but they did get paid.
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Handsomely.
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Did those contractors who didn’t finish the sidewalk
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have bonds,
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which is called insurance,
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which is required by law?
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When asked,
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another city executive said,
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indeed, the new contractor who stands to receive the
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$3 million sidewalk contract today does have a bond.
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But that’s not the question.
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The question is,
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did the old contractors have bonds?
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The public has been promised that information,
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but so far it has been an information brownout.
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For years,
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we’ve heard the buzzword,
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environmental racism.
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Meanwhile,
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here in Detroit,
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it’s been perpetrated right under our noses.
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Quite probably,
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there is an ocean of toxic earth underneath the city
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of Detroit.
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Children play in those lots.
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They deserve better.
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Thank you for your service.
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Two hours later.
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Well, they passed it anyway.
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Like I said,
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you can’t fight City Hall,
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but at least now you know how it works.
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Live from downtown Detroit,
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it’s the No Bullshit News Hour with my main man,
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Charlie LaDoux and Karen Dumas.
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It’s just that breaking us.
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No more bullshit.
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No more bullshit.
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I’m Grace Karos,
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and I’m third generation of American Coney Island.
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People say Detroit’s a comeback city.
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I say, where you’ve been?
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We’ve been here for over 100 years.
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My family’s been here on the same corner,
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serving our famous proprietary American Coney Island
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when it rains,
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the power goes out,
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and when the power goes out,
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the internet goes out.
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When the internet goes out,
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I call my friend Matt and Bernie at XG Service Group.
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Look at Bernie here on his hands and knees,
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giving it everything he’s got.
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Look at that man crack.
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So busy.
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He forgot to wear a belt.
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There’s Matt right there getting the board together.
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That’s 734-245-4100 if you need Matt and Bernie to
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come take care of your voice over internet,
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your security cameras,
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They’ll design it for you.
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got restaurants,
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they do drive-thru systems,
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railroad cameras for public safety.
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Call XG Services at 734-245-4100.
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I ought to make it be known that there is a big ass
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criminal investigation going on with that dirt.
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I’m just going to leave it at that because we’re not
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going to do dirt.
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We’re going to go on the other side of the world.
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And joining us is retired Brigadier General Odie Slocum,
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former fighter pilot.
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He trained fighter pilots and he was commander at the
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Selfridge Air Force Base.
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Good to see you,
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sir.
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Good to see you.
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And thanks for the service,
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really.
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I appreciate the opportunity.
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You are a highly.
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Regarded man.
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Thank you.
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In this world.
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And so let’s just,
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I’m talking to Red downstairs,
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comedian Detroit Red.
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He didn’t even know there is a ceasefire.
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So let’s start.
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I’m not sure they know that in the Middle East either
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sometimes.
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Yeah, that’s the fact.
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So is it over?
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Is nobody shooting now?
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Oh, I don’t know.
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I’ve heard different accounts.
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You know, everything you see on the news you take with
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a grain of salt.
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We can only hope.
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that we’ve actually come to a place of at least a small
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bit of peace over there after what’s been going on.
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Ken, there’s a big,
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okay, so the B-2,
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I mean, they fly almost Mach,
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almost speed of sound,
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go all the way around the world,
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refueling the air,
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never land.
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When those bay doors open and they’re dropping those
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30,000 pound mops,
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what happens to the airplane?
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Like you’re flying,
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it’s cooling,
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then the bay doors open,
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does the plane warp,
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does
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Does it shake?
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Well, anytime you open like…
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But never that part.
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Now, I’m not a B-2 pilot,
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but just,
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you know,
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aerodynamics as a whole,
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I mean, you’re going to be opening,
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you know,
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it’s going to affect the aerodynamics just a little
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bit.
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I think the biggest effect is actually going to be
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the center of gravity of the airplane,
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because all of a sudden you’re taking 30,000 pounds
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and you’re taking it off.
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So there’s going to be some sort of a shift,
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some sort of a pitching moment or something that’s
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going to be a result of that.
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And most of the time,
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the pilots are going to know what to expect and everything.
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Is that like when they training to simulate?
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Or do they,
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is that change in aerodynamics?
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It all depends on how that simulator’s programmed,
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hopefully so.
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And in this case,
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of course,
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they had two of them loaded on each of those bombers,
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so that’s 60,000 pounds.
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You know, they dropped one and then the other.
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You know, that’s a lot of weight,
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and it all depends on how it’s distributed.
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within the airframe itself.
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I mean, right,
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like you’re flying a plane,
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you’re coming in for a landing,
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the landing gear goes down on the plane.
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Yeah, you can feel that.
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I mean, that’s very,
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yeah, I mean,
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I could imagine,
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I can’t imagine being a pilot.
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All right,
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time to drop the ordinance and then…
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Well, one of the things with the low observable planes,
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we would call the 5th generation,
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so that’s your B-2,
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your F-35,
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F-22, they have weapons bays to keep that low observable,
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what everybody would call stealth.
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Well, when you open that bay,
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all of a sudden you’re not so stealthy anymore.
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So the whole idea would be open,
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drop or shoot and close it right back up again so that
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you’re keeping your stealth characteristics as intact
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as possible.
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Wait, I didn’t even think of that.
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So…
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Stealth is basically,
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it absorbs like radar,
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right?
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The skin of the plane,
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something to this.
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Or it’s the angles that the plane is designed so it
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reflects in a way.
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So it’s a combination of all these different types
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of technologies.
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But yeah, the whole idea is,
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you know,
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when you open the weapons bay,
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you’re kind of ruining the pristine,
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low observable characteristics of a plane just by
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nature.
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Oh, so you can be noticed right at the moment.
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Well, and that’s actually a very important difference
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is low observable,
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you’ll hear me call it,
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LO,
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Anything can be found.
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Anything can be tracked.
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It’s not invisible.
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It’s just really hard to find.
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And if you have a missile,
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you know,
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an air defense system that can go 200 miles,
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but it can only see you at 20 because you’re so small,
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well, now you can be much more effective because you
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can go in between them and everything else.
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So when people say,
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oh, we tracked the stealth or whatever,
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well, maybe they weren’t even trying to be stealthy
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at the time.
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But the other is it opens up opportunities and gives
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advantages
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It doesn’t make you invisible.
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The other way it’s visible is by Twitter,
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because I don’t know if you saw people posted videos
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of, hey, B12 or B,
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what are they B12s?
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B2s are taking off right now in Missouri.
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B12 is a vitamin,
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but yeah,
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B2 vitamins.
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I’m an idiot.
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Now, when they were going,
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now there was this whole deception thing,
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right?
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They were,
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oh, the stealth,
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they’re going to Diego Garcia or they’re going to
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wherever.
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Guam, I think,
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or whatever the story was.
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Did you did you see through that one?
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I laughed.
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when I saw that.
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I knew it because I’m like this,
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wait a minute.
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They’re on FlightWear.
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They’re on,
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they’re being tracked on FlightWear.
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I’m like, they got their transponders on.
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I’m like, FlightWear is how I tracked Gretchen Whitmer
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going to visit her father in Florida.
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And you knew right away,
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like, come on,
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man, right?
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You knew something was going on.
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But I’m looking at these photographs,
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General.
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They seem pretty precise,
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these strikes.
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Oh, yes.
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You know what I mean?
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I mean, so it’s funny to listen to reports,
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classified reports be leaked to fake CNN and whatnot.
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Like it’s only a couple of months,
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it’s six months.
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Doesn’t even matter at this point now that you’ve sort
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of closed the doors,
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collapsed at least the top roof in,
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even if they went in there to try to reconstitute
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this.
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And by the way,
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there’s three different sites and each of them are
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in a chain to make a nuclear weapon.
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If we see bulldozers trying to dig the dirt out and,
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reopen the house,
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I mean, we’d come back,
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I would think,
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right?
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Isn’t this a lot about nothing?
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Well, the weaponeering of this is where the real science
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is.
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You know, we’re watching a bomb drop from a B-2 that’s,
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you know,
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30,000 pounds and goes into the dirt.
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You know, what you see on the surface is such a small
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part because that thing’s going to go down.
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and there’s going to be a little bit of stuff that
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comes up as a result.
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The real damage,
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of course,
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is way beneath the Earth’s surface.
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How do you tell?
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What kind of intelligence do we have there?
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You know, who’s saying what on radios and telephones
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and everything else?
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There’s a lot to be studied to find out how effective
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this was.
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Now, you were talking about these ordinances earlier.
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You said that the most interesting part of…
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the bunker buster is the fuse.
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I said yes,
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it would be technologically advanced,
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because if you think about it,
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okay, so you have the 30,000 pound bomb that has about
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5,000 pounds of explosive.
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The rest is just that hard casing shell that allows
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it to go through with that kinetic energy to even
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get to a point to explode.
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Well, you have to have a fuse that knows the optimal
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time to explode.
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And it has to know,
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not just when you hit,
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it has to,
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how far down does it need to go?
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And it still needs to be intact and viable when it
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gets to that point.
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So yeah, that’s a very high-tech part of the whole
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technology.
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There’s no real way to know at this point.
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Don’t you just love,
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as soon as the hand-wringing,
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like you got the mag and no war on the right,
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like Marjorie Taylor Greene,
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and I’m out of here,
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and then the AOCs,
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and you need to be impeached,
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and it didn’t work,
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and it’s like,
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I don’t know,
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we sort of have a…
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A ceasefire?
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I mean, do we,
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here’s what Trump said the morning after he announced
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on social media that we had a ceasefire.
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Israel, as soon as we made the deal,
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they came out and they dropped a load of bombs,
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the likes of which I’ve never seen before.
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The biggest load that we’ve seen.
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I’m not happy with Israel.
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You know, when I say,
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okay, now you have 12 hours,
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you don’t go out in the first hour and just drop everything
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you have on them.
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So I’m not happy with them.
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I’m not happy with Iran either,
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but I’m really unhappy if Israel’s going out this
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morning because the one rocket that didn’t land,
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that was shot,
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perhaps by mistake,
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that didn’t land.
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I’m not happy about that.
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You know what?
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We basically have two countries that have been fighting
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so long and so hard that they don’t know what the
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fuck they’re doing.
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Do you understand that?
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Sir, can you interpret that military parlance for us?
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that is a highly technical term that he used there.
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that adjective,
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there’s a lot of engineering that goes behind it.
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Can, he’s got a point there,
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right?
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So if the hostility simmers and we don’t want him to
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have a nuke,
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can we be 100%
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sure that they never would without boots on the ground?
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I mean, we didn’t destroy all files,
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I’m assuming.
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We’re being told that
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enriched uranium was taken out of the place.
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Something tells me those trucks that we have satellite
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images of,
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the drivers were actually Mossad.
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I got a feeling we know exactly where this stuff went.
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But can we guarantee a non-nuclear Iran without troops?
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Guarantee?
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I don’t think we can guarantee anything anytime.
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But there is a lot of technology that we can know what’s
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going on.
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Certainly,
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Israel has shown a lot of ingenuity,
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especially when it comes to intelligence and putting
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people on the ground,
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eyes, ears,
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sniffers,
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whatever you want to call it.
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And then, of course,
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we have very,
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very capable systems.
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So, you know,
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whatever Iran’s up to,
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I’m sure we know.
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Most of that knowledge and everything’s going to be
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behind a vault door for
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good purposes,
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as we can see that,
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a lot of good information can be used against us.
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So we want to make sure we get good information that
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we’re using it for the right purposes.
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And you need a place to enrich uranium.
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And these are huge places.
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These are huge centrifuges.
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That’s why they had to build them in a mountain.
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And a lot of electricity goes into that.
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So you could have sort of enriched uranium,
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right?
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That’s good for a
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How the fuck do you know?
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I’m just saying.
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Well, you need a facility,
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right?
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The guy’s reading,
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he’s doing Twitter again.
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Just ask the general a question.
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Don’t be a facility,
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right?
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You need a facility to enrich this stuff.
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You can have uranium,
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but unless you enrich it to the point where you can
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put it on the tip of a missile,
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right?
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It’s…
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Okay, hold on here.
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Let’s just test Ken for a second here.
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His nuclear acumen.
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Where on the periodic table of say,
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where is…
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It’s very heavy.
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Where’s the element hydrogen?
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It’s very light.
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Where is it on?
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It’s like one or I don’t know.
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One, two.
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It’s up there.
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That’s very light.
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I know uranium is very heavy.
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00:16:03,283 –> 00:16:03,763
General.
521
00:16:04,323 –> 00:16:05,763
It’s outside of my expertise.
522
00:16:05,763 –> 00:16:07,563
I can’t tell you where anything is on the periodic
523
00:16:07,563 –> 00:16:07,923
chart.
524
00:16:07,923 –> 00:16:09,603
The deception here in this mission,
525
00:16:09,603 –> 00:16:10,803
the ballet of it,
526
00:16:10,803 –> 00:16:14,283
there’s an overriding feeling in my heart.
527
00:16:14,483 –> 00:16:15,203
That’s all I’ll say.
528
00:16:15,603 –> 00:16:17,443
Is everything was a mess in America?
529
00:16:18,563 –> 00:16:19,203
The border,
530
00:16:19,523 –> 00:16:20,083
policing,
531
00:16:20,083 –> 00:16:20,643
everything.
532
00:16:21,203 –> 00:16:23,123
Certainly that translated to the military,
533
00:16:23,123 –> 00:16:23,923
that we’re a mess.
534
00:16:23,923 –> 00:16:25,123
Does this show us,
535
00:16:25,763 –> 00:16:27,763
no, the military’s not a mess.
536
00:16:27,763 –> 00:16:30,603
The military just goes about its business and keeps
537
00:16:30,603 –> 00:16:31,203
its mouth shut.
538
00:16:32,243 –> 00:16:33,843
Our military is very,
539
00:16:33,843 –> 00:16:34,723
very capable.
540
00:16:35,883 –> 00:16:39,203
What we saw was a great plan executed well.
541
00:16:39,403 –> 00:16:41,203
I mean, there was the ruse that went with it.
542
00:16:41,203 –> 00:16:42,683
Let’s take the planes off to the west.
543
00:16:42,683 –> 00:16:44,523
I’m sure they were making all sorts of radio calls
544
00:16:44,523 –> 00:16:47,363
so that everybody would watch what was going on there,
545
00:16:47,563 –> 00:16:49,283
at least from what I saw in the news.
546
00:16:49,923 –> 00:16:52,483
It sounds like what the actual strike planes did is
547
00:16:52,483 –> 00:16:53,043
took off,
548
00:16:53,283 –> 00:16:54,563
didn’t use the radios.
549
00:16:54,563 –> 00:16:55,843
They did this all come out,
550
00:16:56,803 –> 00:16:59,603
what we would call OPSEC or operational security.
551
00:17:00,163 –> 00:17:02,963
So they were able to execute this with a great degree
552
00:17:03,003 –> 00:17:04,723
of operational security.
553
00:17:05,603 –> 00:17:06,803
because there’s people that watch,
554
00:17:06,883 –> 00:17:08,043
Whiteman in Missouri and all,
555
00:17:08,043 –> 00:17:09,443
they know when planes take off.
556
00:17:09,443 –> 00:17:10,803
So they had to do something.
557
00:17:11,923 –> 00:17:14,443
But, these planes flew halfway around the world and
558
00:17:14,443 –> 00:17:16,083
everything else was part of all this.
559
00:17:17,283 –> 00:17:20,323
And the choreography of it is amazing when you really
560
00:17:20,323 –> 00:17:20,883
look at it.
561
00:17:20,883 –> 00:17:21,283
I believe,
562
00:17:21,683 –> 00:17:21,843
you know,
563
00:17:21,843 –> 00:17:22,963
General Raisin Cain,
564
00:17:23,443 –> 00:17:24,243
a fighter pilot,
565
00:17:24,243 –> 00:17:24,563
by the way,
566
00:17:24,563 –> 00:17:26,163
our chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
567
00:17:26,163 –> 00:17:27,683
I actually flew with Raisin.
568
00:17:28,883 –> 00:17:31,123
I would expect nothing less under his leadership.
569
00:17:31,123 –> 00:17:34,083
So there is a lot to be said for military leadership
570
00:17:34,083 –> 00:17:35,363
and what they emphasize.
571
00:17:35,683 –> 00:17:36,243
And, you know,
572
00:17:36,243 –> 00:17:38,323
the first time you see Raising Cane on the news is
573
00:17:38,323 –> 00:17:41,563
with this outstanding execution of this plan that
574
00:17:41,563 –> 00:17:42,803
we saw, you know,
575
00:17:42,803 –> 00:17:43,763
play out in front of us.
576
00:17:44,323 –> 00:17:50,883
Do you think the Biden era DEI principles also helped
577
00:17:50,883 –> 00:17:51,603
in this mission?
578
00:17:52,883 –> 00:17:54,483
I don’t know what you mean by helped.
579
00:17:55,803 –> 00:17:57,243
pronouns, stuff like that.
580
00:17:57,283 –> 00:17:58,723
Diversity is our greatest strength I’ve heard.
581
00:17:59,323 –> 00:18:00,003
Not the military.
582
00:18:00,323 –> 00:18:01,923
Well, you all know this.
583
00:18:01,923 –> 00:18:03,523
I’m not going to go political on you and everything
584
00:18:03,523 –> 00:18:08,203
here, but it tells us that our warriors are able to
585
00:18:08,243 –> 00:18:09,763
focus when they need to focus.
586
00:18:10,963 –> 00:18:12,083
But at the same time,
587
00:18:12,163 –> 00:18:12,403
you know,
588
00:18:12,403 –> 00:18:14,563
there are a lot of stresses on our military right
589
00:18:14,563 –> 00:18:14,803
now.
590
00:18:15,683 –> 00:18:16,403
Our Air Force,
591
00:18:16,403 –> 00:18:16,563
you know,
592
00:18:16,563 –> 00:18:17,443
where I come from,
593
00:18:18,163 –> 00:18:19,443
we are the smallest,
594
00:18:19,523 –> 00:18:21,843
oldest, and least ready that we ever have been in
595
00:18:21,843 –> 00:18:22,563
our history.
596
00:18:23,443 –> 00:18:24,923
and especially compared to China,
597
00:18:24,923 –> 00:18:26,643
which is the newest,
598
00:18:27,923 –> 00:18:30,003
most ready they’ve ever been in their history.
599
00:18:30,403 –> 00:18:31,843
And the trend is continuing.
600
00:18:32,163 –> 00:18:34,003
So there’s a lot that we should be looking at.
601
00:18:34,003 –> 00:18:34,643
You know, the B-2,
602
00:18:34,643 –> 00:18:36,683
we’re sitting here screaming about this wonderful
603
00:18:36,683 –> 00:18:39,203
technology of the B-2 bomber that flew,
604
00:18:39,203 –> 00:18:42,003
I believe its first flight was 36 years ago.
605
00:18:42,323 –> 00:18:44,643
This is not new technology we’re talking about.
606
00:18:44,643 –> 00:18:46,403
It’s a couple decades old.
607
00:18:47,123 –> 00:18:48,563
obviously been updated and all,
608
00:18:48,803 –> 00:18:52,163
but we’re designing and has flown the first B-21 Raider
609
00:18:52,163 –> 00:18:54,723
bomber that’s supposed to be the replacement.
610
00:18:55,803 –> 00:18:59,523
Originally we were going to buy like 100 B-2 bombers.
611
00:18:59,763 –> 00:19:03,443
We ended up buying 21 and we have exactly 19 of them
612
00:19:03,443 –> 00:19:05,683
according to the things you can read online and everything
613
00:19:05,683 –> 00:19:07,123
now that are still operational.
614
00:19:08,243 –> 00:19:09,603
because we cut the buyback.
615
00:19:09,603 –> 00:19:11,283
That’s just what we have this tendency to do.
616
00:19:11,523 –> 00:19:14,163
We’re supposed to buy over 100 B-21s,
617
00:19:14,163 –> 00:19:15,683
this new 6th generation,
618
00:19:15,683 –> 00:19:16,963
very capable bomber.
619
00:19:17,683 –> 00:19:20,723
Let’s hope that program stays intact and we deliver
620
00:19:20,723 –> 00:19:22,243
not just the capability,
621
00:19:22,243 –> 00:19:25,003
but the capacity of buying the numbers that we need
622
00:19:25,003 –> 00:19:26,563
to be able to make a difference around the world.
623
00:19:26,803 –> 00:19:27,283
Now, you know,
624
00:19:27,603 –> 00:19:30,883
it’s crazy because we have a trillion dollar military
625
00:19:30,883 –> 00:19:31,523
budget, right?
626
00:19:32,483 –> 00:19:36,043
And then when we’re sending artillery shells to the
627
00:19:36,083 –> 00:19:37,843
Ukraine, they have to be diverted
628
00:19:38,403 –> 00:19:40,603
to Israel when things light off there.
629
00:19:40,603 –> 00:19:43,923
Like we don’t even have enough of the basic stuff that
630
00:19:43,923 –> 00:19:46,243
you would need to fight some kind of war like that.
631
00:19:46,243 –> 00:19:47,683
We don’t even have artillery shells.
632
00:19:47,683 –> 00:19:49,283
So what’s going on?
633
00:19:49,443 –> 00:19:53,403
Are we enamored with all the bells and whistles and
634
00:19:53,403 –> 00:19:54,403
the, you know,
635
00:19:54,483 –> 00:19:57,883
the latest airplane and we’re not taking care of the
636
00:19:58,643 –> 00:19:59,363
regular
637
00:20:00,083 –> 00:20:01,283
business of today.
638
00:20:01,283 –> 00:20:02,483
I know war will change.
639
00:20:02,643 –> 00:20:04,323
Well, every conflict we’ve ever had,
640
00:20:04,323 –> 00:20:06,243
we’ve learned the same lesson over again,
641
00:20:06,243 –> 00:20:09,963
is that we use munitions at a rate much higher than
642
00:20:09,963 –> 00:20:12,003
what we ever anticipate or plan for.
643
00:20:12,723 –> 00:20:14,883
you can go back in conflicts and look at that.
644
00:20:15,523 –> 00:20:17,123
We’re seeing the same thing play out now.
645
00:20:17,123 –> 00:20:18,883
I mean, munitions are expensive.
646
00:20:19,123 –> 00:20:21,363
We could look at our Navy and these missiles that we’re
647
00:20:21,363 –> 00:20:23,883
using to shoot down the drones and the ballistic missiles
648
00:20:23,883 –> 00:20:24,563
especially,
649
00:20:25,283 –> 00:20:27,403
and how incredibly expensive they are.
650
00:20:27,403 –> 00:20:29,043
And we buy them by the dozens,
651
00:20:29,083 –> 00:20:30,963
and we’ve been shooting them by the hundreds.
652
00:20:31,243 –> 00:20:33,243
There’s articles out there right now that are talking
653
00:20:33,243 –> 00:20:35,283
about our depleted inventories.
654
00:20:35,283 –> 00:20:37,123
And this is fighting Iran.
655
00:20:37,603 –> 00:20:38,643
Let’s start talking about,
656
00:20:38,723 –> 00:20:39,123
you know,
657
00:20:39,203 –> 00:20:40,083
Korea, China,
658
00:20:40,083 –> 00:20:41,843
Russia, or any of these other types of things.
659
00:20:43,283 –> 00:20:44,243
Is our military,
660
00:20:44,243 –> 00:20:48,243
do we have the capacity to be able to execute our
661
00:20:48,243 –> 00:20:49,603
defense strategy?
662
00:20:50,483 –> 00:20:50,963
Do we?
663
00:20:51,363 –> 00:20:52,723
Well, the argument would be no,
664
00:20:52,723 –> 00:20:55,283
not in terms of we haven’t necessarily purchased the
665
00:20:55,283 –> 00:20:55,643
numbers.
666
00:20:55,643 –> 00:20:57,043
And you just brought out some cases.
667
00:20:57,363 –> 00:20:59,523
The 155 artillery shells,
668
00:20:59,523 –> 00:21:02,163
the NATO standard that are used all around the world.
669
00:21:02,563 –> 00:21:03,363
Look how much,
670
00:21:03,363 –> 00:21:03,603
you know,
671
00:21:03,603 –> 00:21:04,283
the Ukraine,
672
00:21:04,283 –> 00:21:04,603
of course,
673
00:21:04,603 –> 00:21:07,043
they’ve just been using it to kind of crunch along
674
00:21:07,603 –> 00:21:10,083
this trenches type of warfare going on over there.
675
00:21:10,643 –> 00:21:12,763
but they’ve just been using them left and right and
676
00:21:12,763 –> 00:21:17,123
trying to scour the earth to get enough to be able
677
00:21:17,123 –> 00:21:18,563
to continue with what they’re doing.
678
00:21:19,123 –> 00:21:19,923
And you’re right,
679
00:21:20,003 –> 00:21:22,083
we had to divert some to Israel when the whole thing
680
00:21:22,083 –> 00:21:23,363
started with Gaza over there.
681
00:21:23,363 –> 00:21:24,563
So once again,
682
00:21:24,563 –> 00:21:26,683
this is all just open source type of information that
683
00:21:26,683 –> 00:21:27,603
you can read out there.
684
00:21:28,003 –> 00:21:30,803
But I hope you could give us some information like
685
00:21:32,003 –> 00:21:35,283
new sheriff in town that we’re trying to order it
686
00:21:35,283 –> 00:21:36,003
and prepare.
687
00:21:36,003 –> 00:21:37,763
Not that we want war,
688
00:21:38,443 –> 00:21:40,643
But we want to at least have a defensive posture.
689
00:21:40,963 –> 00:21:42,883
But there’s a lead time required for all this.
690
00:21:42,883 –> 00:21:44,323
We could sit here all day long and say,
691
00:21:44,323 –> 00:21:44,883
that’s great.
692
00:21:44,883 –> 00:21:48,643
Let’s buy more SM-3 missiles for the Navy.
693
00:21:49,203 –> 00:21:50,163
We could decide that.
694
00:21:50,163 –> 00:21:51,603
Congress has to pass a budget.
695
00:21:51,603 –> 00:21:53,123
Then it has to go into a contract.
696
00:21:53,123 –> 00:21:56,243
Then they have to get these limited supplies from around
697
00:21:56,243 –> 00:21:57,323
the world to make it happen.
698
00:21:57,323 –> 00:21:58,643
And it’s going to be years,
699
00:21:59,043 –> 00:22:01,043
many years before we’re able to see
700
00:22:01,603 –> 00:22:04,483
the result of our decisions that we make today.
701
00:22:05,123 –> 00:22:06,883
Shipbuilding is a huge one right now.
702
00:22:06,883 –> 00:22:07,763
That’s a big problem,
703
00:22:07,763 –> 00:22:08,163
isn’t it?
704
00:22:08,243 –> 00:22:13,243
China can build 232 times the capacity of ships that
705
00:22:13,243 –> 00:22:14,483
we can in the United States.
706
00:22:14,483 –> 00:22:17,443
We just don’t have shipyards here like we used to.
707
00:22:17,443 –> 00:22:18,963
We farmed it out.
708
00:22:19,203 –> 00:22:20,483
We farmed a lot of it out.
709
00:22:21,123 –> 00:22:23,803
We have a hard time building 2 submarines a year or
710
00:22:23,803 –> 00:22:25,523
a couple destroyers for our Navy.
711
00:22:25,603 –> 00:22:27,043
I see ads on TV.
712
00:22:27,603 –> 00:22:30,083
recruiting young women to build submarines.
713
00:22:30,083 –> 00:22:31,683
None against young women,
714
00:22:31,683 –> 00:22:32,883
but you know,
715
00:22:33,123 –> 00:22:35,283
we were putting ads on TV to recruit people.
716
00:22:35,363 –> 00:22:37,123
Yeah, and Michigan actually has been a big part of
717
00:22:37,123 –> 00:22:37,243
that.
718
00:22:37,243 –> 00:22:40,323
They’re trying to help train the talent to work in
719
00:22:40,323 –> 00:22:43,283
the shipyards to be able to help with this problem
720
00:22:43,283 –> 00:22:43,923
going forward.
721
00:22:43,923 –> 00:22:45,763
So the Navy has approached a lot of our,
722
00:22:45,763 –> 00:22:46,003
you know,
723
00:22:46,003 –> 00:22:49,043
like Macomb Community College and some of these institutions
724
00:22:49,043 –> 00:22:50,003
we have around here,
725
00:22:51,283 –> 00:22:51,483
you know,
726
00:22:51,483 –> 00:22:52,563
trying to solve the problem.
727
00:22:52,563 –> 00:22:53,163
But once again,
728
00:22:53,163 –> 00:22:56,563
when you’re outgunned 232 times the capacity
729
00:22:57,403 –> 00:22:58,483
of what we have now,
730
00:23:00,803 –> 00:23:02,403
okay, so that leads into this.
731
00:23:03,763 –> 00:23:04,643
The Middle East,
732
00:23:05,483 –> 00:23:06,283
I mean, it’s important.
733
00:23:06,283 –> 00:23:07,843
Everywhere on earth is important,
734
00:23:07,843 –> 00:23:12,003
but the Pacific Rim is where it’s at.
735
00:23:12,003 –> 00:23:12,723
That’s like,
736
00:23:13,603 –> 00:23:16,403
I don’t know what percentage of the world’s population,
737
00:23:16,683 –> 00:23:17,683
what it’s
738
00:23:18,083 –> 00:23:21,123
over fifty percent of the world’s GDP I believe right
739
00:23:21,363 –> 00:23:25,123
so well we’re busy over here with not enough artillery
740
00:23:25,123 –> 00:23:30,683
shells we let off about 14 bunker busters we’re not
741
00:23:30,683 –> 00:23:36,963
building airplanes or ships does the mission in Iran
742
00:23:37,083 –> 00:23:41,763
at least open the eyes of say Russia and China like
743
00:23:43,443 –> 00:23:44,803
There’s lots of different ways.
744
00:23:45,043 –> 00:23:45,923
As a military man,
745
00:23:45,923 –> 00:23:46,603
I mean, just that,
746
00:23:46,643 –> 00:23:47,363
as your opinion.
747
00:23:47,523 –> 00:23:50,483
One, I can go on the positive side of things and say
748
00:23:50,963 –> 00:23:53,043
there was so much more of a message that was sent
749
00:23:53,043 –> 00:23:55,283
by what we were able to do with this strike recently
750
00:23:55,283 –> 00:23:58,643
with the B-2s and the Iran nuclear program that they
751
00:23:58,643 –> 00:23:59,683
flew all the way around the world.
752
00:23:59,683 –> 00:24:00,643
They took off from Missouri,
753
00:24:00,643 –> 00:24:01,723
they landed in Missouri,
754
00:24:02,003 –> 00:24:05,203
and they were able to do this incredible capability
755
00:24:05,203 –> 00:24:06,803
that no other Air Force,
756
00:24:06,883 –> 00:24:08,723
no other military in the world has.
757
00:24:09,043 –> 00:24:10,003
That’s an eye-opener.
758
00:24:10,923 –> 00:24:13,003
But we own 19 of those B-2 bombers.
759
00:24:13,003 –> 00:24:16,083
How many of them were used on this mission and all
760
00:24:16,083 –> 00:24:18,403
considering the availability,
761
00:24:18,483 –> 00:24:19,923
having a mission capable rate,
762
00:24:20,003 –> 00:24:21,123
probably a 50,
763
00:24:21,123 –> 00:24:22,243
60% at any given time?
764
00:24:22,243 –> 00:24:26,643
We pretty much used our entire available bomber strength
765
00:24:26,643 –> 00:24:28,163
to make this one thing happen.
766
00:24:29,683 –> 00:24:30,723
So, you know,
767
00:24:31,163 –> 00:24:32,803
where do we stand going forward?
768
00:24:32,803 –> 00:24:33,283
Like I said,
769
00:24:33,283 –> 00:24:34,443
it’s not just capability,
770
00:24:34,443 –> 00:24:36,563
it’s our capacity and our endurance.
771
00:24:37,523 –> 00:24:38,883
if we lose a couple of bombers,
772
00:24:38,883 –> 00:24:40,323
what do we do from there going forward?
773
00:24:40,323 –> 00:24:40,923
If we, what,
774
00:24:41,043 –> 00:24:41,523
how do we,
775
00:24:42,163 –> 00:24:46,563
how resilient are we in the face of an adversary?
776
00:24:47,243 –> 00:24:49,283
We’re talking with the retired Brigadier General,
777
00:24:49,763 –> 00:24:50,723
Odie Slocum.
778
00:24:51,043 –> 00:24:53,923
Odie, where’d Odie come from?
779
00:24:54,723 –> 00:24:55,923
Garfield’s little dog.
780
00:24:56,163 –> 00:24:57,363
So you think of fighter pilots,
781
00:24:57,363 –> 00:24:58,723
you think of Iceman and Goose.
782
00:24:59,043 –> 00:25:02,003
My name came from a young lady that worked on our command
783
00:25:02,003 –> 00:25:04,043
post one day that said I was like Garfield’s little
784
00:25:04,043 –> 00:25:06,123
dog, always getting kicked and never complaining,
785
00:25:06,123 –> 00:25:06,563
and she went,
786
00:25:07,923 –> 00:25:08,643
Just like that,
787
00:25:08,643 –> 00:25:09,603
the call sign stuck.
788
00:25:09,603 –> 00:25:11,763
So all the guys in the locker room,
789
00:25:11,763 –> 00:25:12,403
yeah, Odie.
790
00:25:12,563 –> 00:25:12,683
Yep.
791
00:25:13,363 –> 00:25:14,243
But even to this day,
792
00:25:14,243 –> 00:25:15,083
my wife calls me.
793
00:25:15,083 –> 00:25:17,123
I mean, I met her at work that we knew each other long
794
00:25:17,123 –> 00:25:18,243
before we ever dated at all.
795
00:25:18,243 –> 00:25:19,083
So around the house,
796
00:25:19,083 –> 00:25:19,883
around the community,
797
00:25:19,883 –> 00:25:21,603
everybody just knows me as Odie.
798
00:25:21,963 –> 00:25:23,083
No, that’s not my given name.
799
00:25:23,083 –> 00:25:26,243
You liked it so people will underestimate the pit bull
800
00:25:26,243 –> 00:25:26,803
that you are.
801
00:25:26,803 –> 00:25:28,003
Sure, let’s roll with that.
802
00:25:28,083 –> 00:25:29,683
Any really funny call signs?
803
00:25:30,323 –> 00:25:32,003
Oh, there’s a lot of interesting ones out there.
804
00:25:32,123 –> 00:25:33,603
Anyone that’s stuck with you?
805
00:25:33,603 –> 00:25:34,723
Oh, I’d have to think about it.
806
00:25:36,163 –> 00:25:38,403
There’s a few that are probably not even I won’t even
807
00:25:38,403 –> 00:25:39,323
say it on this podcast.
808
00:25:41,763 –> 00:25:45,203
But I’ll just say that there’s some pretty interesting
809
00:25:45,203 –> 00:25:45,843
ones out there.
810
00:25:45,843 –> 00:25:47,523
A lot of times they’re acronyms that have,
811
00:25:47,923 –> 00:25:48,163
you know,
812
00:25:48,723 –> 00:25:50,963
double entendre type of meaning meanings to them.
813
00:25:51,843 –> 00:25:53,443
Let me let me get back to this one here.
814
00:25:53,443 –> 00:25:53,763
Okay.
815
00:25:53,763 –> 00:25:56,483
So like you’ve been in many theaters,
816
00:25:56,483 –> 00:25:58,443
you’ve trained pilots all over the world.
817
00:25:58,883 –> 00:26:02,323
You had a career in the military.
818
00:26:04,683 –> 00:26:06,243
The Democrats now lining up saying,
819
00:26:06,403 –> 00:26:08,163
this is unconstitutional.
820
00:26:08,163 –> 00:26:12,803
You didn’t bring it before Congress to vote on a war.
821
00:26:13,043 –> 00:26:15,203
But my dad served in Vietnam.
822
00:26:15,363 –> 00:26:16,563
That wasn’t a declared war.
823
00:26:16,723 –> 00:26:18,403
Korea wasn’t a declared war.
824
00:26:20,323 –> 00:26:22,803
Obama on his last day in office bombs Libya.
825
00:26:22,803 –> 00:26:23,603
That wasn’t clear.
826
00:26:23,603 –> 00:26:24,283
There’s Iraq,
827
00:26:24,283 –> 00:26:25,283
there’s Afghanistan.
828
00:26:25,363 –> 00:26:26,603
Well, instead of all the knots,
829
00:26:26,603 –> 00:26:28,923
how about when was the last time we declared war?
830
00:26:28,923 –> 00:26:29,523
World War II.
831
00:26:29,523 –> 00:26:30,163
World War II.
832
00:26:30,803 –> 00:26:31,443
That was it.
833
00:26:31,843 –> 00:26:35,443
That was the last time we went through that constitutional
834
00:26:35,443 –> 00:26:37,763
process to formally declare war.
835
00:26:38,003 –> 00:26:40,243
So there’s the War Powers Act,
836
00:26:40,243 –> 00:26:42,163
but it’s never even.
837
00:26:42,323 –> 00:26:44,083
There’s notification requirements,
838
00:26:44,083 –> 00:26:44,723
et cetera,
839
00:26:44,843 –> 00:26:45,363
et cetera.
840
00:26:46,003 –> 00:26:48,723
So this is just more stupid fucking theater in the
841
00:26:48,723 –> 00:26:49,643
modern world.
842
00:26:50,083 –> 00:26:52,563
Twitter, cable television,
843
00:26:52,563 –> 00:26:53,083
it’s just,
844
00:26:53,443 –> 00:26:55,363
our politicians have become just notice me,
845
00:26:55,523 –> 00:26:57,163
not get things done,
846
00:26:57,163 –> 00:26:58,163
not say, hey,
847
00:26:58,163 –> 00:26:58,483
you know,
848
00:26:58,643 –> 00:26:59,723
that one actually worked,
849
00:26:59,723 –> 00:27:00,723
that could have been wrong,
850
00:27:00,883 –> 00:27:01,363
but
851
00:27:02,643 –> 00:27:03,283
you’re always,
852
00:27:03,443 –> 00:27:06,163
especially in today’s day and age with the social
853
00:27:06,163 –> 00:27:07,523
media and all the way that it is,
854
00:27:07,763 –> 00:27:09,243
if somebody is from this party,
855
00:27:09,243 –> 00:27:12,003
they’re always going to take a position one way and
856
00:27:12,243 –> 00:27:13,883
the other party is going to take a position just the
857
00:27:13,883 –> 00:27:14,203
opposite.
858
00:27:14,203 –> 00:27:16,003
It doesn’t matter what the facts are and all in this
859
00:27:16,003 –> 00:27:16,243
case.
860
00:27:16,243 –> 00:27:18,003
And that’s why it’s kind of tough sometimes to see
861
00:27:18,003 –> 00:27:21,123
through the noise of what’s really going on out there.
862
00:27:22,483 –> 00:27:24,883
It gets awful tough to watch the news nowadays.
863
00:27:25,123 –> 00:27:25,603
God, it is,
864
00:27:25,603 –> 00:27:25,763
right?
865
00:27:25,763 –> 00:27:28,683
What was your opinion of that battle damage assessment
866
00:27:28,803 –> 00:27:31,123
was leaked yesterday.
867
00:27:31,123 –> 00:27:32,643
That seems pretty bad.
868
00:27:32,643 –> 00:27:35,723
I’ve never seen a foreign U.S.
869
00:27:35,723 –> 00:27:37,043
strike a foreign enemy,
870
00:27:37,043 –> 00:27:38,563
and then like the next day,
871
00:27:39,203 –> 00:27:42,483
a very damaging leak coming out of the Department
872
00:27:42,483 –> 00:27:43,363
of Defense.
873
00:27:43,603 –> 00:27:44,403
Well, one,
874
00:27:44,403 –> 00:27:45,123
I would have to ask,
875
00:27:45,123 –> 00:27:45,563
like I said,
876
00:27:45,563 –> 00:27:46,483
anything in the news,
877
00:27:46,723 –> 00:27:48,083
is that really what happened?
878
00:27:48,403 –> 00:27:49,763
Would be my first question.
879
00:27:49,763 –> 00:27:50,483
It was CNN,
880
00:27:50,563 –> 00:27:52,723
so, but you know,
881
00:27:52,723 –> 00:27:56,163
and that rat chick that leaked the,
882
00:27:56,243 –> 00:27:56,483
you know,
883
00:27:56,483 –> 00:27:56,683
the
884
00:27:57,523 –> 00:27:58,723
community intelligence,
885
00:27:58,723 –> 00:28:01,043
the intelligence community intelligence,
886
00:28:01,203 –> 00:28:03,843
that the Hunter laptop is fake.
887
00:28:03,843 –> 00:28:04,323
Same one.
888
00:28:04,323 –> 00:28:05,523
Yeah, it’s just the same asshole.
889
00:28:06,363 –> 00:28:06,803
But you know,
890
00:28:06,883 –> 00:28:09,883
I go back to when I started in the military,
891
00:28:09,883 –> 00:28:10,083
you know,
892
00:28:10,083 –> 00:28:11,363
my law of primacy,
893
00:28:12,323 –> 00:28:13,363
dealing with classified,
894
00:28:13,363 –> 00:28:15,363
how you had to go in and out of the facilities,
895
00:28:15,363 –> 00:28:16,523
how you dealt with information,
896
00:28:16,523 –> 00:28:17,443
how you controlled it.
897
00:28:17,763 –> 00:28:19,963
I used to have nightmares thinking that maybe I left
898
00:28:19,963 –> 00:28:22,563
a piece of paper in my pocket or something like that,
899
00:28:22,923 –> 00:28:24,523
or I used to have these nightmares.
900
00:28:24,523 –> 00:28:26,403
What would paper be doing in his pocket?
901
00:28:27,563 –> 00:28:28,403
I know he did.
902
00:28:28,443 –> 00:28:29,523
He put it in his pocket.
903
00:28:29,523 –> 00:28:31,523
He’d go to the toilet to take pictures of it.
904
00:28:32,483 –> 00:28:34,243
Well, but my point is,
905
00:28:34,243 –> 00:28:36,683
nowadays it seems like there’s leaks of information
906
00:28:36,683 –> 00:28:37,523
and everything that happened.
907
00:28:37,523 –> 00:28:39,683
You’ve seen some very high-profile cases in the news.
908
00:28:39,843 –> 00:28:41,443
I can’t even fathom that.
909
00:28:41,443 –> 00:28:43,843
I was so paranoid about,
910
00:28:44,083 –> 00:28:44,323
you know,
911
00:28:44,323 –> 00:28:46,403
controlling classified information.
912
00:28:46,963 –> 00:28:49,923
How we have somehow let go of that in some people’s
913
00:28:49,923 –> 00:28:50,803
minds, clearly,
914
00:28:51,443 –> 00:28:53,883
that they would think it’s okay because things are
915
00:28:53,883 –> 00:28:55,523
classified for a reason.
916
00:28:55,763 –> 00:28:57,203
it’s our time,
917
00:28:57,203 –> 00:28:58,323
talents, and treasures.
918
00:28:58,883 –> 00:29:02,163
We put people in a lot of cases on the line to be able
919
00:29:02,163 –> 00:29:05,563
to gather and gain this information and then to set
920
00:29:05,563 –> 00:29:08,483
it out puts people and processes at risk.
921
00:29:08,483 –> 00:29:09,443
I will speculate.
922
00:29:09,523 –> 00:29:10,323
I will speculate.
923
00:29:12,243 –> 00:29:14,243
Haven’t been in the business a while and knowing how
924
00:29:14,243 –> 00:29:17,763
sources work and whatnot and watch what had gone on
925
00:29:18,083 –> 00:29:20,403
and who’s been leaking and putting out,
926
00:29:20,723 –> 00:29:21,043
you know,
927
00:29:21,163 –> 00:29:21,923
false narrative.
928
00:29:22,403 –> 00:29:25,243
This came from very high levels because I’ll tell you
929
00:29:25,243 –> 00:29:26,003
as a reporter,
930
00:29:26,243 –> 00:29:33,083
you got like a mid-level analyst or you got a homicide
931
00:29:33,083 –> 00:29:33,563
detective.
932
00:29:33,603 –> 00:29:34,643
You’re not getting
933
00:29:35,763 –> 00:29:37,443
that right away.
934
00:29:37,443 –> 00:29:40,723
And you certainly as the reporter would not 6 hours
935
00:29:40,723 –> 00:29:42,323
later run up to her and go,
936
00:29:42,563 –> 00:29:43,843
we’ve got the report.
937
00:29:43,923 –> 00:29:44,643
You know what this would,
938
00:29:45,283 –> 00:29:45,763
it’s going to,
939
00:29:45,763 –> 00:29:46,803
it has to be near the top.
940
00:29:46,803 –> 00:29:48,163
It’s got to be the deep state.
941
00:29:48,563 –> 00:29:49,083
You know what I mean?
942
00:29:49,083 –> 00:29:50,243
They don’t like what’s going on.
943
00:29:50,323 –> 00:29:50,883
That’s just,
944
00:29:51,203 –> 00:29:52,563
that’s just how the game works.
945
00:29:53,043 –> 00:29:53,163
Yeah.
946
00:29:53,163 –> 00:29:55,123
I mean, if it truly was a classified leak,
947
00:29:55,123 –> 00:29:56,643
I hope they find out.
948
00:29:57,043 –> 00:29:59,723
how that happened and I hope whoever is responsible
949
00:29:59,723 –> 00:30:02,243
for that pays the serious price and I know Obama went
950
00:30:02,483 –> 00:30:06,563
took a lot of people to trial a lot of reporters for
951
00:30:06,803 –> 00:30:09,203
just this scenario but I’ll also say you have to take
952
00:30:09,203 –> 00:30:11,243
the information with a grain of salt because I mean
953
00:30:11,243 –> 00:30:14,003
this strike just happened you know let’s call it an
954
00:30:14,003 –> 00:30:16,643
initial report you were you know when you started
955
00:30:16,643 –> 00:30:19,803
this program one of yes that there’s going to have
956
00:30:19,803 –> 00:30:22,083
to be a lot of follow-on that’s going to look at this
957
00:30:23,043 –> 00:30:25,043
Okay, we sealed the entrances and exits.
958
00:30:25,043 –> 00:30:27,043
Well, then how do we know what’s going on in the middle?
959
00:30:27,043 –> 00:30:27,523
Word.
960
00:30:27,843 –> 00:30:30,243
You know, I’ll go back to the take it all with a grain
961
00:30:30,243 –> 00:30:30,723
of salt.
962
00:30:32,083 –> 00:30:33,203
Anything I see on the news,
963
00:30:33,203 –> 00:30:35,083
especially that something that’s been put there for
964
00:30:35,083 –> 00:30:35,643
a purpose,
965
00:30:35,643 –> 00:30:37,283
is usually for a political purpose.
966
00:30:37,763 –> 00:30:39,443
So I’d say smoke a lucky.
967
00:30:39,443 –> 00:30:41,883
Let’s see what really happens in the long run with
968
00:30:41,883 –> 00:30:42,003
this.
969
00:30:42,003 –> 00:30:42,283
Thank you.
970
00:30:42,283 –> 00:30:43,323
I was worried if you minded.
971
00:30:43,323 –> 00:30:48,403
Give me a break,
972
00:30:48,483 –> 00:30:48,683
man.
973
00:30:48,723 –> 00:30:50,083
You’ve been around the barracks.
974
00:30:50,843 –> 00:30:51,923
I don’t think that’s a lucky,
975
00:30:51,923 –> 00:30:52,483
but all right.
976
00:30:55,603 –> 00:30:59,523
What we do know is the shooting has stopped.
977
00:31:00,003 –> 00:31:01,763
And wisely,
978
00:31:02,403 –> 00:31:03,243
yeah, exactly.
979
00:31:03,683 –> 00:31:04,363
And wisely,
980
00:31:04,363 –> 00:31:05,123
in my opinion,
981
00:31:05,123 –> 00:31:06,163
from experience,
982
00:31:06,563 –> 00:31:08,323
having been in the Mideastern theater,
983
00:31:08,803 –> 00:31:10,363
you didn’t want regime change.
984
00:31:10,363 –> 00:31:12,243
Like we did that in Iraq.
985
00:31:13,123 –> 00:31:14,403
We did that in Syria.
986
00:31:14,403 –> 00:31:16,163
We blew the Middle East wide open.
987
00:31:16,163 –> 00:31:18,243
If you know anything about Iran,
988
00:31:18,443 –> 00:31:20,963
and I know a little because I studied a little in
989
00:31:20,963 –> 00:31:23,843
college, you try to keep fresh with what’s going on
990
00:31:23,843 –> 00:31:24,323
in the world.
991
00:31:24,963 –> 00:31:28,323
About half of Iran is Persian.
992
00:31:30,043 –> 00:31:30,323
Okay?
993
00:31:30,403 –> 00:31:34,243
The other 40 to 50 percent are ethnic minorities,
994
00:31:34,243 –> 00:31:36,323
like the Azerbaijanis in the north,
995
00:31:36,483 –> 00:31:37,523
the Kurds,
996
00:31:38,243 –> 00:31:40,243
Arabs, Turkmenis.
997
00:31:40,323 –> 00:31:42,483
There are independence movements there.
998
00:31:43,043 –> 00:31:46,563
And so if you were to destabilize Iran so much,
999
00:31:47,003 –> 00:31:48,723
it would turn into a massive civil war.
1000
00:31:48,963 –> 00:31:50,723
There would be unintended consequences,
1001
00:31:50,883 –> 00:31:53,283
refugees fleeing Europe,
1002
00:31:53,283 –> 00:31:54,283
all over the world.
1003
00:31:54,643 –> 00:31:58,483
I think, I don’t even know how to say it.
1004
00:31:59,123 –> 00:32:01,683
Well, Trump’s a lot smarter than people give him credit
1005
00:32:01,683 –> 00:32:01,843
for.
1006
00:32:01,923 –> 00:32:03,123
I mean, worldly smart.
1007
00:32:03,363 –> 00:32:04,643
Well, just studying history,
1008
00:32:04,643 –> 00:32:05,283
like you just said.
1009
00:32:05,283 –> 00:32:06,243
That’s not an endorsement.
1010
00:32:06,243 –> 00:32:07,043
I’m just watching.
1011
00:32:07,683 –> 00:32:09,763
When there’s a regime change or whatever,
1012
00:32:09,843 –> 00:32:11,763
now you’re into the world of unknown unknowns.
1013
00:32:12,243 –> 00:32:13,963
what are you going to end up getting out of the long
1014
00:32:13,963 –> 00:32:14,083
run?
1015
00:32:14,083 –> 00:32:14,963
It could be worse.
1016
00:32:15,563 –> 00:32:16,643
Whether you like it or not,
1017
00:32:16,643 –> 00:32:18,403
at least now we’re dealing with a known.
1018
00:32:19,363 –> 00:32:19,683
All right,
1019
00:32:19,683 –> 00:32:20,803
so we know who the actors are.
1020
00:32:20,803 –> 00:32:22,083
We know what to expect.
1021
00:32:23,363 –> 00:32:24,803
There’s a degree of rational…
1022
00:32:25,003 –> 00:32:26,963
I mean, look at what happened as a result of all this.
1023
00:32:26,963 –> 00:32:28,483
Iran could have,
1024
00:32:29,043 –> 00:32:29,283
you know,
1025
00:32:29,283 –> 00:32:31,363
used everything to attack all the military bases,
1026
00:32:31,363 –> 00:32:34,043
but we got this little 6 missile short range.
1027
00:32:34,043 –> 00:32:36,723
We’re going to tell you it’s coming attack against
1028
00:32:36,723 –> 00:32:38,243
the deed in Qatar.
1029
00:32:39,883 –> 00:32:42,003
and now they’re back claiming victory and everything.
1030
00:32:42,163 –> 00:32:43,523
And I was telling somebody the other day,
1031
00:32:43,523 –> 00:32:44,003
they have to.
1032
00:32:44,003 –> 00:32:45,203
They have to save face.
1033
00:32:45,203 –> 00:32:47,363
They have to be able to go to their people and say,
1034
00:32:47,923 –> 00:32:48,643
we did this,
1035
00:32:48,643 –> 00:32:49,963
we prevail or whatever.
1036
00:32:49,963 –> 00:32:52,483
I mean, that’s even more than our culture in the Middle
1037
00:32:52,483 –> 00:32:53,523
East, that’s huge.
1038
00:32:53,603 –> 00:32:54,643
Saving face.
1039
00:32:54,883 –> 00:32:57,123
And that has to be part of any solution that’s going
1040
00:32:57,123 –> 00:32:58,963
on over there as part of the ceasefire.
1041
00:32:59,523 –> 00:33:00,483
So you can see right now,
1042
00:33:00,483 –> 00:33:01,203
Israel can say,
1043
00:33:01,203 –> 00:33:01,923
we did this.
1044
00:33:01,923 –> 00:33:02,923
You got Iran saying,
1045
00:33:02,923 –> 00:33:03,363
okay, well,
1046
00:33:03,363 –> 00:33:04,403
we were able to do this.
1047
00:33:04,403 –> 00:33:05,323
Look, we struck Israel,
1048
00:33:05,323 –> 00:33:06,083
we’ve done all this.
1049
00:33:06,563 –> 00:33:07,363
So everybody
1050
00:33:07,603 –> 00:33:09,643
is kind of claiming their victory at this point.
1051
00:33:09,843 –> 00:33:12,803
And I think that is probably the key to a ceasefire
1052
00:33:12,803 –> 00:33:13,443
sticking.
1053
00:33:14,083 –> 00:33:17,523
Because if anybody feels like they’ve got thumbed at
1054
00:33:17,843 –> 00:33:18,643
in this whole thing,
1055
00:33:19,163 –> 00:33:21,603
it’s going to go back to the default around that.
1056
00:33:22,243 –> 00:33:24,043
These people have been shooting at each other and in
1057
00:33:24,043 –> 00:33:25,323
a warlike state for so long,
1058
00:33:25,323 –> 00:33:27,283
just like President Trump said in the news clip right
1059
00:33:27,283 –> 00:33:27,683
there.
1060
00:33:27,923 –> 00:33:29,283
That’s what they know.
1061
00:33:29,283 –> 00:33:31,243
That’s their default go-to is to fight.
1062
00:33:31,243 –> 00:33:33,283
Let me bring in another military expert here.
1063
00:33:34,163 –> 00:33:34,883
Major Hardon,
1064
00:33:34,883 –> 00:33:35,483
you had a question?
1065
00:33:35,683 –> 00:33:36,323
I just wondered,
1066
00:33:36,483 –> 00:33:39,363
does Israel want regime change in Iran?
1067
00:33:39,723 –> 00:33:40,643
I mean, they started it.
1068
00:33:40,643 –> 00:33:42,163
Do they want it?
1069
00:33:42,163 –> 00:33:45,043
Well, I think Israel’s interest is the survival of
1070
00:33:45,043 –> 00:33:45,523
Israel.
1071
00:33:46,323 –> 00:33:47,763
And the practical side of it,
1072
00:33:47,763 –> 00:33:47,963
you know,
1073
00:33:48,003 –> 00:33:49,123
do they want regime change?
1074
00:33:49,523 –> 00:33:50,483
I can’t answer that,
1075
00:33:50,483 –> 00:33:52,683
but I can tell you that they are very interested in
1076
00:33:52,683 –> 00:33:54,563
Iran not having nuclear weapons.
1077
00:33:55,123 –> 00:33:57,283
So that had to be first and foremost of everything
1078
00:33:57,283 –> 00:33:58,003
that they did.
1079
00:33:58,163 –> 00:33:58,523
The other,
1080
00:33:58,523 –> 00:33:58,803
of course,
1081
00:33:58,803 –> 00:33:59,763
is to be a deterrent.
1082
00:34:00,763 –> 00:34:02,883
deterrence through strength in this particular case,
1083
00:34:02,883 –> 00:34:05,603
who would have thought Israel would completely control
1084
00:34:05,603 –> 00:34:07,123
the skies over Iran,
1085
00:34:07,483 –> 00:34:10,323
as far away as it is with the technology that’s available,
1086
00:34:10,323 –> 00:34:11,523
and you look at the population,
1087
00:34:11,523 –> 00:34:12,483
you look at the economy,
1088
00:34:12,803 –> 00:34:14,683
and this little small country of Israel,
1089
00:34:14,683 –> 00:34:15,043
about what,
1090
00:34:15,043 –> 00:34:16,963
the size of New Jersey or something out here,
1091
00:34:17,603 –> 00:34:18,323
able to do,
1092
00:34:18,883 –> 00:34:21,923
they have accomplished what a lot of people thought
1093
00:34:21,923 –> 00:34:24,403
was undoable in here.
1094
00:34:24,403 –> 00:34:25,323
Speaking of that,
1095
00:34:25,603 –> 00:34:28,563
I mean, there had to be planning for
1096
00:34:29,523 –> 00:34:30,243
decades, right,
1097
00:34:30,243 –> 00:34:34,723
on just looking at Iran’s missile or air defense system,
1098
00:34:34,723 –> 00:34:34,963
right?
1099
00:34:35,363 –> 00:34:38,403
Did anybody think that could be taken out the way Israel
1100
00:34:38,403 –> 00:34:38,523
did?
1101
00:34:38,523 –> 00:34:40,123
I mean, they took it out a lot of it in October,
1102
00:34:40,123 –> 00:34:41,203
and then they finished the job.
1103
00:34:41,923 –> 00:34:43,763
Like, did anybody think that was possible?
1104
00:34:44,243 –> 00:34:45,483
You mean outside the IDF?
1105
00:34:45,683 –> 00:34:45,923
Yeah.
1106
00:34:46,963 –> 00:34:49,043
Well, the capability is there.
1107
00:34:50,163 –> 00:34:51,443
You know, anything that emits,
1108
00:34:51,603 –> 00:34:52,483
if you think about it,
1109
00:34:53,043 –> 00:34:54,323
that means it can be detected,
1110
00:34:54,323 –> 00:34:55,123
it can be hunted.
1111
00:34:56,163 –> 00:34:56,643
out there.
1112
00:34:56,643 –> 00:34:57,843
So there’s nothing that,
1113
00:34:58,003 –> 00:35:00,083
they could have a very capable system,
1114
00:35:00,883 –> 00:35:01,803
but at the same time,
1115
00:35:01,803 –> 00:35:04,003
we’re going to come up with counter equipment,
1116
00:35:04,003 –> 00:35:04,883
counter tactics,
1117
00:35:04,883 –> 00:35:07,123
and everything to be able to go and hunt those same
1118
00:35:07,123 –> 00:35:07,403
things.
1119
00:35:07,483 –> 00:35:09,763
Israel doesn’t have like the stealth fighters,
1120
00:35:09,923 –> 00:35:10,443
or do they?
1121
00:35:10,723 –> 00:35:11,683
have the F-35.
1122
00:35:11,803 –> 00:35:12,883
They do have the 35 number.
1123
00:35:13,363 –> 00:35:14,803
They’re buying 72 of them,
1124
00:35:14,803 –> 00:35:16,083
and I think last I saw,
1125
00:35:16,083 –> 00:35:18,963
they have 30 or 40 of them currently in the inventory.
1126
00:35:19,043 –> 00:35:20,083
They denuded them.
1127
00:35:20,523 –> 00:35:21,363
Before we went in.
1128
00:35:22,003 –> 00:35:23,843
But the first time they struck Iran should have been
1129
00:35:23,843 –> 00:35:24,483
an eye-opener.
1130
00:35:24,483 –> 00:35:26,643
I mean, they flew the entire way there and back.
1131
00:35:27,923 –> 00:35:29,323
they not only took out their targets,
1132
00:35:29,323 –> 00:35:31,323
but they took out a lot of those air defenses and
1133
00:35:31,323 –> 00:35:32,003
everything else.
1134
00:35:32,003 –> 00:35:33,603
And then there was like a symbolic,
1135
00:35:34,283 –> 00:35:35,443
another symbolic attack,
1136
00:35:35,443 –> 00:35:35,723
right?
1137
00:35:35,723 –> 00:35:36,723
Where they kind of warned them.
1138
00:35:37,163 –> 00:35:37,763
Iran did.
1139
00:35:37,843 –> 00:35:38,083
Yep.
1140
00:35:38,563 –> 00:35:39,123
Retalination.
1141
00:35:39,443 –> 00:35:42,483
But just to have that capability of we came all this
1142
00:35:42,483 –> 00:35:43,043
distance,
1143
00:35:43,043 –> 00:35:43,923
we got in there,
1144
00:35:44,323 –> 00:35:46,643
and you weren’t even able to shoot at us.
1145
00:35:47,003 –> 00:35:47,323
That’s great.
1146
00:35:47,843 –> 00:35:48,803
and it came back.
1147
00:35:48,963 –> 00:35:50,003
That alone,
1148
00:35:50,003 –> 00:35:52,683
you think about the programs like the F-35 and everything
1149
00:35:52,683 –> 00:35:53,283
that are out there.
1150
00:35:53,683 –> 00:35:56,003
Wow, what a testament to the technology,
1151
00:35:56,003 –> 00:35:56,763
the weapon system,
1152
00:35:56,763 –> 00:35:58,483
the training and all that go into all that,
1153
00:35:59,443 –> 00:36:00,563
type of a capability.
1154
00:36:00,563 –> 00:36:02,043
The people that should have had their eyes open there
1155
00:36:02,043 –> 00:36:03,043
were China and Russia.
1156
00:36:03,363 –> 00:36:05,363
Yeah, I just remember going in Iraq.
1157
00:36:05,363 –> 00:36:07,683
I have not been to Iran.
1158
00:36:07,683 –> 00:36:09,123
I’ve never been to Iran.
1159
00:36:09,123 –> 00:36:10,283
I would like to go to Iran,
1160
00:36:10,323 –> 00:36:13,443
but I just remember being in with the Marines
1161
00:36:15,203 –> 00:36:17,603
realizing these were the Flintstones.
1162
00:36:18,083 –> 00:36:21,203
This military capability,
1163
00:36:21,283 –> 00:36:22,963
the bluster wasn’t there.
1164
00:36:22,963 –> 00:36:26,483
It was all in the proxies just to create pockets of
1165
00:36:26,483 –> 00:36:27,123
mayhem.
1166
00:36:27,243 –> 00:36:30,083
And now I’m worried because of the wide open border,
1167
00:36:30,243 –> 00:36:32,243
because in Dearborn,
1168
00:36:32,323 –> 00:36:34,003
right, we’ve let known terror,
1169
00:36:34,163 –> 00:36:36,723
we’ve knowingly let people on the terror list into
1170
00:36:36,723 –> 00:36:37,283
the country,
1171
00:36:37,363 –> 00:36:39,123
much less sleeper cells.
1172
00:36:39,203 –> 00:36:40,163
I worry about this now.
1173
00:36:40,483 –> 00:36:41,803
Well, when you look at what happened,
1174
00:36:41,803 –> 00:36:43,123
so when they went head to head,
1175
00:36:43,203 –> 00:36:45,083
Iran clearly was no match.
1176
00:36:45,643 –> 00:36:46,963
either to Israel,
1177
00:36:47,363 –> 00:36:48,363
primarily in all this,
1178
00:36:48,363 –> 00:36:48,963
and then of course,
1179
00:36:48,963 –> 00:36:50,803
by the time they’d been beaten up a little bit,
1180
00:36:50,803 –> 00:36:52,963
no match for the United States and our capabilities.
1181
00:36:53,283 –> 00:36:54,803
So what options do they have?
1182
00:36:55,203 –> 00:36:57,363
The term we would use is they’re going to have to go
1183
00:36:57,363 –> 00:37:00,003
asymmetric and not meet us head-to-head.
1184
00:37:00,003 –> 00:37:01,163
So through proxies,
1185
00:37:01,163 –> 00:37:02,323
through unusual means,
1186
00:37:02,323 –> 00:37:05,203
through innovative ways to project power,
1187
00:37:05,683 –> 00:37:07,763
they’re not going to be able to do it in the traditional
1188
00:37:07,763 –> 00:37:08,803
way like we would think.
1189
00:37:09,323 –> 00:37:10,483
Well, that’s a nice,
1190
00:37:10,483 –> 00:37:13,523
clean way of saying there’s a good possibility.
1191
00:37:15,283 –> 00:37:17,963
I mean, look what’s going on with the Houthis and all
1192
00:37:17,963 –> 00:37:18,283
there.
1193
00:37:18,283 –> 00:37:20,083
I mean, that is still an ongoing issue.
1194
00:37:20,203 –> 00:37:23,203
What’s going to happen to the supply chain with Yemen,
1195
00:37:24,083 –> 00:37:26,763
the sea line of communication through the Red Sea,
1196
00:37:27,043 –> 00:37:29,363
and all of those things that have been a constraint
1197
00:37:29,443 –> 00:37:32,323
on the world economy and everything up till this point?
1198
00:37:32,883 –> 00:37:33,923
All these are in play now.
1199
00:37:34,083 –> 00:37:34,963
What’s going to happen?
1200
00:37:34,963 –> 00:37:37,083
What’s Iran going to be able to do going forward?
1201
00:37:37,083 –> 00:37:39,443
Are we going to allow them to continue to supply?
1202
00:37:40,003 –> 00:37:41,603
this country of Yemen down here.
1203
00:37:41,603 –> 00:37:43,843
And what are they willing to do and what can we give
1204
00:37:43,843 –> 00:37:45,963
them to bring them into the,
1205
00:37:46,083 –> 00:37:47,443
community of nations?
1206
00:37:47,683 –> 00:37:51,923
like it is better to make business than make war.
1207
00:37:52,083 –> 00:37:54,443
Well, and we can go back to what you started with early
1208
00:37:54,443 –> 00:37:54,803
on this.
1209
00:37:54,803 –> 00:37:57,603
You said, you studied Iran and I’m guessing you were
1210
00:37:57,603 –> 00:37:59,843
probably about the same age I am when you’re looking
1211
00:37:59,843 –> 00:38:01,203
at it and they were friendly.
1212
00:38:01,763 –> 00:38:02,083
Yes.
1213
00:38:02,483 –> 00:38:03,123
At the time,
1214
00:38:03,163 –> 00:38:04,083
the Shah of Iran,
1215
00:38:04,083 –> 00:38:05,483
that was one of our biggest allies.
1216
00:38:05,483 –> 00:38:06,843
That’s why they have F-4,
1217
00:38:06,843 –> 00:38:08,763
F-14 fighter jets.
1218
00:38:08,763 –> 00:38:09,523
He was brutal,
1219
00:38:09,523 –> 00:38:09,643
though.
1220
00:38:09,643 –> 00:38:11,323
He can’t go back to a regime like that.
1221
00:38:11,323 –> 00:38:12,643
Didn’t say it was right or wrong.
1222
00:38:12,643 –> 00:38:16,923
I will just say he was an ally of the United States.
1223
00:38:16,923 –> 00:38:19,043
And we were dumping military equipment in there like
1224
00:38:19,043 –> 00:38:19,843
nobody’s business.
1225
00:38:20,283 –> 00:38:21,243
Disappearing people,
1226
00:38:21,243 –> 00:38:24,483
what the Argentinian junta was better than hyperinflation.
1227
00:38:24,723 –> 00:38:25,363
We’ve got to be,
1228
00:38:25,523 –> 00:38:26,243
it’s business.
1229
00:38:26,243 –> 00:38:27,443
It’s got to be business.
1230
00:38:27,443 –> 00:38:29,603
You know, and we’re not going to go over there
1231
00:38:30,683 –> 00:38:31,843
And in part liberalism,
1232
00:38:31,843 –> 00:38:34,443
I don’t, like wide open world trade.
1233
00:38:34,443 –> 00:38:35,803
It killed us here in Detroit.
1234
00:38:35,803 –> 00:38:38,003
There’s got to be a new thinking about,
1235
00:38:38,083 –> 00:38:38,403
you know,
1236
00:38:39,363 –> 00:38:40,403
the human family.
1237
00:38:40,403 –> 00:38:41,443
Like you have your culture,
1238
00:38:41,443 –> 00:38:42,243
I have mine.
1239
00:38:42,963 –> 00:38:44,923
I can’t let corporations take over the world.
1240
00:38:44,923 –> 00:38:45,603
At the end of the day,
1241
00:38:45,603 –> 00:38:47,203
doesn’t Iran just want to sell their oil?
1242
00:38:47,603 –> 00:38:50,163
Like imagine Iran if they were allowed to sell their
1243
00:38:50,163 –> 00:38:52,083
oil on the open market just like everybody else if
1244
00:38:52,083 –> 00:38:52,803
they behaved.
1245
00:38:53,043 –> 00:38:54,083
Wouldn’t that be like their,
1246
00:38:54,083 –> 00:38:55,123
like you know what I mean?
1247
00:38:55,203 –> 00:38:58,083
Well, and you’re talking the difference between the
1248
00:38:58,083 –> 00:38:59,283
people, the economy,
1249
00:38:59,323 –> 00:39:00,163
and the politics.
1250
00:39:00,963 –> 00:39:01,643
with all of that.
1251
00:39:01,643 –> 00:39:02,163
Of course,
1252
00:39:02,163 –> 00:39:03,683
the people are going to want to be prosperous.
1253
00:39:03,683 –> 00:39:05,283
They’re going to want to do things that are going to
1254
00:39:05,283 –> 00:39:05,883
take care of them,
1255
00:39:05,883 –> 00:39:06,803
take care of their families,
1256
00:39:06,803 –> 00:39:09,003
just like every human being has those values.
1257
00:39:09,003 –> 00:39:10,603
That’s all the discontent in this country.
1258
00:39:10,603 –> 00:39:11,403
I’m not able to.
1259
00:39:11,523 –> 00:39:11,683
Yeah.
1260
00:39:12,083 –> 00:39:13,843
But I think one of our biggest shortcomings really
1261
00:39:13,843 –> 00:39:14,883
is we have a tendency,
1262
00:39:14,883 –> 00:39:15,923
we, United States,
1263
00:39:16,163 –> 00:39:18,923
to look at problems around the world through our eyes.
1264
00:39:19,683 –> 00:39:21,243
We don’t understand
1265
00:39:21,603 –> 00:39:22,723
the Middle East culture.
1266
00:39:22,723 –> 00:39:24,643
We don’t understand Persians.
1267
00:39:25,083 –> 00:39:26,883
What is it that drives them?
1268
00:39:27,483 –> 00:39:28,563
What motivates them?
1269
00:39:28,563 –> 00:39:30,563
What are their values and how are they different than
1270
00:39:30,563 –> 00:39:30,963
ours?
1271
00:39:31,123 –> 00:39:32,083
If we took the time,
1272
00:39:32,083 –> 00:39:33,483
I think, and looked from that perspective,
1273
00:39:33,483 –> 00:39:36,563
it would be a lot easier to come up with that long-term
1274
00:39:36,563 –> 00:39:37,043
solution,
1275
00:39:37,043 –> 00:39:38,563
just like what you were talking about.
1276
00:39:39,163 –> 00:39:41,683
What is it that would get everybody to get along on
1277
00:39:41,683 –> 00:39:44,483
the same sheet of music so that we can get back in
1278
00:39:45,603 –> 00:39:49,083
it’s a win-win for everybody if with an open economy
1279
00:39:49,083 –> 00:39:51,363
where we’re able to trade and get along and everything
1280
00:39:51,363 –> 00:39:51,683
else.
1281
00:39:52,243 –> 00:39:54,003
Okay, so we’re coming up on that cut.
1282
00:39:54,003 –> 00:39:55,843
We try to keep it under an hour general,
1283
00:39:55,843 –> 00:39:56,363
you know what I mean?
1284
00:39:56,363 –> 00:39:56,883
This is the hour.
1285
00:39:57,043 –> 00:39:58,123
We had a couple more hours.
1286
00:39:58,603 –> 00:39:59,603
We could do it,
1287
00:39:59,603 –> 00:40:00,843
but this is the,
1288
00:40:00,883 –> 00:40:01,203
you know,
1289
00:40:01,203 –> 00:40:01,843
the hour,
1290
00:40:01,843 –> 00:40:05,603
less than an hour where people can watch it because
1291
00:40:05,603 –> 00:40:06,523
nobody watches news.
1292
00:40:06,523 –> 00:40:07,763
We just want to give you the news.
1293
00:40:08,083 –> 00:40:10,643
This was the world that we gave you some local.
1294
00:40:11,523 –> 00:40:12,803
We gave you the worldview.
1295
00:40:12,963 –> 00:40:13,723
Thank you for that.
1296
00:40:13,723 –> 00:40:15,763
And we’re going to give you what’s bullshit in the
1297
00:40:15,763 –> 00:40:17,923
news right after this.
1298
00:40:18,803 –> 00:40:19,923
You know your teeth can’t heal,
1299
00:40:19,923 –> 00:40:21,123
but the stock market can.
1300
00:40:21,123 –> 00:40:22,163
That’s just a fact.
1301
00:40:22,483 –> 00:40:24,483
The market roller coaster is making you grind your
1302
00:40:24,483 –> 00:40:24,803
teeth.
1303
00:40:24,963 –> 00:40:30,403
Call or text my friend Luke Nowakia at 248-663-4748.
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We’re all hanging on to this ride like Gayle King and
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Katy Perry.
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Just hang on to your flower.
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Some people are saying that the earth will be better
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when this is all over.
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live closer to home?
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Are you a caregiver with good heart and good character,
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but you feel stuck in a dead-end job?
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Are you a social entrepreneur looking for a safe real
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All right,
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00:41:18,183 –> 00:41:19,863
before we get to what’s bullshit in the news,
1326
00:41:19,863 –> 00:41:22,103
the general wants to bring you some good words.
1327
00:41:22,343 –> 00:41:22,863
Well, one,
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00:41:22,863 –> 00:41:23,703
I just wanted to talk,
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00:41:23,703 –> 00:41:27,063
if people are not aware of the 127th Wing,
1330
00:41:27,063 –> 00:41:28,983
which is Selfridge Air National Guard Base,
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00:41:29,783 –> 00:41:31,383
about 20 miles north of here,
1332
00:41:31,383 –> 00:41:32,503
right against the lakes,
1333
00:41:33,103 –> 00:41:35,303
is one of the oldest continual operating military
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00:41:35,303 –> 00:41:35,943
airfields,
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00:41:36,263 –> 00:41:38,663
but it is the home of the 127th Wing,
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00:41:38,663 –> 00:41:40,183
the Michigan Air National Guard.
1337
00:41:40,183 –> 00:41:43,463
They currently fly the A-10 aircraft and the KC-135
1338
00:41:43,463 –> 00:41:44,023
tankers.
1339
00:41:44,663 –> 00:41:47,063
all this military capability we’re talking about,
1340
00:41:47,303 –> 00:41:48,503
this is tip of the spear.
1341
00:41:48,503 –> 00:41:49,983
This is part of our national defense,
1342
00:41:49,983 –> 00:41:52,103
and these are our hometown heroes.
1343
00:41:52,343 –> 00:41:54,463
So if you haven’t had an opportunity to ever get to
1344
00:41:54,463 –> 00:41:55,103
know Selfridge,
1345
00:41:55,103 –> 00:41:56,103
what goes on there,
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00:41:56,663 –> 00:41:58,183
it’s absolutely amazing.
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00:41:58,183 –> 00:42:00,983
We have fantastic Michiganders doing our nation’s business
1348
00:42:00,983 –> 00:42:01,383
every day,
1349
00:42:01,383 –> 00:42:02,863
and I can’t sing their praises enough.
1350
00:42:02,863 –> 00:42:04,903
Can you get a tour there?
1351
00:42:05,743 –> 00:42:07,063
If you contact public affairs,
1352
00:42:07,063 –> 00:42:07,783
they’re at the base,
1353
00:42:08,103 –> 00:42:09,023
that can be arranged.
1354
00:42:09,063 –> 00:42:10,423
Okay, that’s online.
1355
00:42:10,423 –> 00:42:12,423
It’s like a Selfridge National.
1356
00:42:13,303 –> 00:42:16,823
I just call it Selfridge Air National Guard Base and
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00:42:16,823 –> 00:42:18,343
their public affairs would be,
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00:42:18,343 –> 00:42:18,543
you know,
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00:42:18,543 –> 00:42:20,263
what I would Google if you wanted to look to find
1360
00:42:20,263 –> 00:42:20,783
their phone number.
1361
00:42:20,783 –> 00:42:22,503
Sorry, I don’t have it off the top of my head here.
1362
00:42:22,503 –> 00:42:25,063
Probably starts with a 586 though.
1363
00:42:25,623 –> 00:42:26,663
Might be 800.
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00:42:27,623 –> 00:42:28,423
Next time you’re on the show,
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00:42:28,423 –> 00:42:29,103
do your research.
1366
00:42:29,463 –> 00:42:29,703
Come on.
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00:42:30,743 –> 00:42:32,943
Sorry about that.
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00:42:32,943 –> 00:42:33,943
It’s beautiful out there,
1369
00:42:33,943 –> 00:42:34,263
by the way.
1370
00:42:34,263 –> 00:42:34,583
Selfridge,
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00:42:34,583 –> 00:42:35,223
it’s a beautiful.
1372
00:42:37,623 –> 00:42:39,463
They should save those officers’
1373
00:42:39,463 –> 00:42:40,103
quarters.
1374
00:42:40,183 –> 00:42:41,383
Oh, we could talk all that.
1375
00:42:41,463 –> 00:42:43,463
was actually supposed to be a traumatic brain injury
1376
00:42:43,463 –> 00:42:45,063
transition center and all that.
1377
00:42:45,063 –> 00:42:45,623
They ended up,
1378
00:42:45,783 –> 00:42:46,983
their business model folded.
1379
00:42:47,303 –> 00:42:49,023
So I’m not sure what the long-term plan is going to
1380
00:42:49,023 –> 00:42:52,023
be, but there’s some amazing facilities and all.
1381
00:42:52,263 –> 00:42:53,223
Not enough brain injury,
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00:42:53,263 –> 00:42:53,703
I guess.
1383
00:42:53,943 –> 00:42:55,223
I don’t think we have a shortage of that,
1384
00:42:55,223 –> 00:42:55,823
unfortunately.
1385
00:42:55,823 –> 00:42:58,023
Yeah, they’re running state government.
1386
00:43:00,103 –> 00:43:00,863
I did not say that.
1387
00:43:00,863 –> 00:43:01,623
I said that.
1388
00:43:01,783 –> 00:43:02,983
I said you can quote me on that.
1389
00:43:03,543 –> 00:43:05,263
Real quick before we get to what’s bullshit in the
1390
00:43:05,263 –> 00:43:05,543
news.
1391
00:43:06,183 –> 00:43:07,063
Is it possible?
1392
00:43:07,063 –> 00:43:09,143
I’ve been told by sources it’s possible.
1393
00:43:09,143 –> 00:43:10,263
It’s not a done deal.
1394
00:43:10,263 –> 00:43:12,103
It’s not even in the drawing board.
1395
00:43:13,383 –> 00:43:16,263
Could Selfridge be used to house migrants going on
1396
00:43:16,903 –> 00:43:17,463
their way home?
1397
00:43:19,383 –> 00:43:20,343
Could it be used?
1398
00:43:20,423 –> 00:43:21,703
Anything is possible.
1399
00:43:22,023 –> 00:43:23,943
There’s not really housing out there of any kind.
1400
00:43:23,943 –> 00:43:24,423
Tents.
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00:43:24,463 –> 00:43:25,623
They did it in New York City.
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00:43:25,623 –> 00:43:26,263
They did.
1403
00:43:26,263 –> 00:43:27,463
You have to understand,
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00:43:27,463 –> 00:43:28,583
Selfridge is very unusual.
1405
00:43:28,583 –> 00:43:29,783
It is a federal facility,
1406
00:43:29,783 –> 00:43:31,863
but it’s managed through the state of Michigan,
1407
00:43:31,863 –> 00:43:33,383
through the Michigan National Guard.
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00:43:34,183 –> 00:43:36,103
Department of Military and Veterans Affairs at the
1409
00:43:36,103 –> 00:43:36,743
state level.
1410
00:43:36,743 –> 00:43:38,103
So the 127th Wing,
1411
00:43:38,783 –> 00:43:40,343
essentially through the tag,
1412
00:43:40,663 –> 00:43:43,143
the adjutant general up to the governor would be responsible
1413
00:43:43,143 –> 00:43:44,263
for whatever goes on out there.
1414
00:43:44,343 –> 00:43:45,103
So that would be a decision.
1415
00:43:45,103 –> 00:43:46,103
Any discussion about this?
1416
00:43:46,263 –> 00:43:46,703
Personally,
1417
00:43:46,703 –> 00:43:47,983
no, I have not heard anything of this.
1418
00:43:47,983 –> 00:43:48,863
Now you’ve heard something.
1419
00:43:49,023 –> 00:43:49,463
Okay.
1420
00:43:49,743 –> 00:43:51,343
Because it’s amazing because you could put them in
1421
00:43:51,343 –> 00:43:52,263
the old officers’
1422
00:43:52,263 –> 00:43:54,263
quarters and then when it’s time to go home,
1423
00:43:54,263 –> 00:43:55,303
their taxi’s right there.
1424
00:43:55,463 –> 00:43:56,743
Yeah, I don’t think those old officers’
1425
00:43:56,743 –> 00:43:58,103
quarters are quite livable right now.
1426
00:43:58,183 –> 00:44:00,263
They haven’t been maintained for a long time.
1427
00:44:01,583 –> 00:44:01,783
Wow.
1428
00:44:02,503 –> 00:44:03,503
Yeah, I thought they were beautiful.
1429
00:44:03,783 –> 00:44:05,143
They look good from the outside.
1430
00:44:05,583 –> 00:44:05,703
Yeah.
1431
00:44:05,943 –> 00:44:06,543
Hit me, Mark.
1432
00:44:10,263 –> 00:44:14,743
The No BS News Hour presents What’s Bullshit in the
1433
00:44:15,343 –> 00:44:16,263
News?
1434
00:44:30,383 –> 00:44:31,463
It’s just so well done,
1435
00:44:31,463 –> 00:44:31,783
Mark.
1436
00:44:32,783 –> 00:44:33,663
a couple of geniuses,
1437
00:44:33,663 –> 00:44:34,343
Ken and Mark.
1438
00:44:35,703 –> 00:44:36,423
Hope you’re feeling good,
1439
00:44:36,423 –> 00:44:36,743
Karen.
1440
00:44:36,743 –> 00:44:37,623
I hope you’re watching.
1441
00:44:37,623 –> 00:44:39,463
All right,
1442
00:44:39,863 –> 00:44:41,143
speaking of migrants,
1443
00:44:41,303 –> 00:44:42,263
let’s put this up.
1444
00:44:43,383 –> 00:44:44,863
Michigan, I can’t even read it.
1445
00:44:44,863 –> 00:44:50,263
Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow on violent
1446
00:44:50,263 –> 00:44:54,823
illegals saying it’s our job to stand up and fight
1447
00:44:55,383 –> 00:44:56,743
for our constituents.
1448
00:44:57,503 –> 00:45:00,023
And that’s rich because
1449
00:45:00,983 –> 00:45:05,223
Manhattan Mallory voted against helping or keeping
1450
00:45:05,223 –> 00:45:09,783
COVID-19 infected people out of the Michigan nursing
1451
00:45:09,783 –> 00:45:10,263
homes.
1452
00:45:11,383 –> 00:45:12,423
Bipartisan,
1453
00:45:12,583 –> 00:45:14,823
by far, it passed.
1454
00:45:15,783 –> 00:45:17,303
Whitmer vetoed it,
1455
00:45:17,463 –> 00:45:20,423
and thousands of constituents died.
1456
00:45:20,423 –> 00:45:23,223
That’s good to remember when you want to be the United
1457
00:45:23,223 –> 00:45:24,023
States Senator.
1458
00:45:24,183 –> 00:45:25,143
That’s what you did.
1459
00:45:25,303 –> 00:45:26,823
That’s fact.
1460
00:45:27,223 –> 00:45:27,703
There it is.
1461
00:45:27,703 –> 00:45:28,343
There’s your vote.
1462
00:45:29,063 –> 00:45:29,783
I can’t believe it.
1463
00:45:29,863 –> 00:45:31,223
You want to know how devastating.
1464
00:45:31,383 –> 00:45:32,223
I’m going to tell you right now.
1465
00:45:32,223 –> 00:45:33,543
I’m going to gamble here.
1466
00:45:34,583 –> 00:45:35,783
Whitmer’s dead in the water.
1467
00:45:35,783 –> 00:45:38,263
If you really think you want to be president and anybody
1468
00:45:38,263 –> 00:45:39,303
carrying a vote like this,
1469
00:45:39,463 –> 00:45:40,423
if you want to be senator,
1470
00:45:40,583 –> 00:45:44,183
it’s not going to work because Andrew Cuomo,
1471
00:45:44,343 –> 00:45:46,743
former governor of New York,
1472
00:45:47,463 –> 00:45:49,503
with all the money in the world and all the endorsements
1473
00:45:49,503 –> 00:45:50,103
in the world,
1474
00:45:50,503 –> 00:45:54,183
lost last night to a Democratic socialist in New York
1475
00:45:54,183 –> 00:45:56,343
City for the Democratic
1476
00:45:56,823 –> 00:45:58,583
nomination to be mayor.
1477
00:45:58,823 –> 00:45:59,943
And in large part,
1478
00:46:00,343 –> 00:46:04,103
nobody forgave him for what he did in those nursing
1479
00:46:04,103 –> 00:46:04,503
homes.
1480
00:46:04,743 –> 00:46:07,063
So when you talk about constituents,
1481
00:46:07,143 –> 00:46:08,743
you better be talking about us,
1482
00:46:08,823 –> 00:46:10,663
not people that can’t vote.
1483
00:46:11,943 –> 00:46:12,343
Sir?
1484
00:46:13,863 –> 00:46:14,263
Okay.
1485
00:46:14,343 –> 00:46:14,823
All right.
1486
00:46:15,263 –> 00:46:16,063
What next?
1487
00:46:16,263 –> 00:46:17,703
What’s bullshit in the news?
1488
00:46:17,703 –> 00:46:18,303
Hit me, Mark.
1489
00:46:18,303 –> 00:46:22,263
The No BS News Hour presents…
1490
00:46:22,663 –> 00:46:25,583
What’s bullshit in the news?
1491
00:46:25,623 –> 00:46:26,103
Here we go.
1492
00:46:26,103 –> 00:46:28,623
Let’s get it ready.
1493
00:46:28,623 –> 00:46:30,103
We got video out of Flint.
1494
00:46:30,103 –> 00:46:35,063
Another city council meeting ends up with a woman,
1495
00:46:35,303 –> 00:46:36,423
disabled woman,
1496
00:46:36,903 –> 00:46:40,463
getting her ass thrown into the wall by the police.
1497
00:46:40,463 –> 00:46:41,863
What’s going on in Flint?
1498
00:46:41,863 –> 00:46:42,423
Roll that.
1499
00:46:48,743 –> 00:46:50,343
Head right into the wall.
1500
00:46:51,383 –> 00:46:52,263
Sheldon Neely,
1501
00:46:52,263 –> 00:46:53,303
it’s not good.
1502
00:46:53,623 –> 00:46:57,623
Jedediah Brown and company are really shining a light
1503
00:46:57,783 –> 00:46:58,263
now.
1504
00:46:58,743 –> 00:47:00,343
Was this a murderer they were arresting?
1505
00:47:01,023 –> 00:47:05,143
No, it was a citizen who’s upset with the governance
1506
00:47:05,143 –> 00:47:05,743
of Flint.
1507
00:47:05,743 –> 00:47:07,463
Oh, I thought it was a violent criminal,
1508
00:47:07,463 –> 00:47:07,863
by the way.
1509
00:47:07,863 –> 00:47:08,823
They were taking her down.
1510
00:47:09,783 –> 00:47:11,623
Okay, that’s amazing.
1511
00:47:11,623 –> 00:47:14,423
Now, we’re going to talk to her,
1512
00:47:14,423 –> 00:47:16,663
but she just recently posted this.
1513
00:47:16,663 –> 00:47:17,783
They took her away.
1514
00:47:18,423 –> 00:47:20,343
Something happened at the jail and now she’s in the
1515
00:47:20,343 –> 00:47:20,903
hospital.
1516
00:47:20,903 –> 00:47:21,383
Roll it.
1517
00:47:21,383 –> 00:47:22,903
The police whooped my ass.
1518
00:47:23,863 –> 00:47:25,343
They tore ligaments and…
1519
00:47:26,503 –> 00:47:27,223
Allegedly.
1520
00:47:27,223 –> 00:47:27,863
In my body.
1521
00:47:29,463 –> 00:47:30,903
But this is not the end of me.
1522
00:47:32,263 –> 00:47:34,263
This is not the end of me telling my story.
1523
00:47:35,383 –> 00:47:37,063
And this is not the end of my journey.
1524
00:47:38,623 –> 00:47:40,023
In the words of my great grandma,
1525
00:47:40,183 –> 00:47:41,943
it’s more than one way to skin a cat.
1526
00:47:43,863 –> 00:47:46,863
And I got four cats I need to skin alive.
1527
00:47:50,503 –> 00:47:52,103
And that’s all I’m going to say on that.
1528
00:47:54,583 –> 00:47:56,103
And that’s all she’s going to say on that.
1529
00:47:58,343 –> 00:47:59,863
Now, what’s going on in Flint?
1530
00:48:00,263 –> 00:48:00,983
Here, I’ll tell you,
1531
00:48:01,703 –> 00:48:03,223
put a topper on this.
1532
00:48:03,543 –> 00:48:04,743
You go to Flint City Hall,
1533
00:48:05,383 –> 00:48:07,063
the drinking fountains still don’t work.
1534
00:48:07,863 –> 00:48:08,343
Just saying,
1535
00:48:08,343 –> 00:48:09,383
that’s exclusive.
1536
00:48:09,943 –> 00:48:10,343
All right,
1537
00:48:10,663 –> 00:48:14,343
next, AOC getting into Twitter spat with Trump,
1538
00:48:14,383 –> 00:48:16,983
G, because we struck
1539
00:48:18,023 –> 00:48:21,383
DeFordo nuclear site in Iran.
1540
00:48:21,943 –> 00:48:24,743
He now has to be impeached because he didn’t ask her
1541
00:48:24,743 –> 00:48:26,183
permission first.
1542
00:48:26,583 –> 00:48:28,983
She tweeted,
1543
00:48:29,543 –> 00:48:30,103
what’s it say,
1544
00:48:30,103 –> 00:48:30,503
Mark?
1545
00:48:31,223 –> 00:48:32,263
I’m A Bronx girl.
1546
00:48:32,263 –> 00:48:35,223
You should know that we eat Queens boys for breakfast,
1547
00:48:35,303 –> 00:48:36,103
respectfully.
1548
00:48:36,543 –> 00:48:37,463
Was that her picture?
1549
00:48:37,943 –> 00:48:39,863
Yeah, it looks like she’s been eating more than Queens
1550
00:48:39,863 –> 00:48:40,863
boys, if you know what I’m saying.
1551
00:48:40,863 –> 00:48:41,903
A lot of stress.
1552
00:48:41,903 –> 00:48:45,063
A lot of stress to be the social media queen.
1553
00:48:45,543 –> 00:48:47,463
Now, from the Bronx,
1554
00:48:48,503 –> 00:48:50,023
but you ain’t from the Bronx.
1555
00:48:50,023 –> 00:48:50,743
All right,
1556
00:48:50,743 –> 00:48:51,063
man.
1557
00:48:51,063 –> 00:48:53,463
You know, you lived there when you were five.
1558
00:48:53,463 –> 00:48:54,303
All right.
1559
00:48:54,503 –> 00:48:55,863
But you moved.
1560
00:48:55,863 –> 00:48:57,143
Here’s a picture of it.
1561
00:48:57,383 –> 00:48:58,103
You moved.
1562
00:48:58,143 –> 00:48:59,143
What’s the name of this town?
1563
00:48:59,143 –> 00:48:59,703
Yorktown?
1564
00:48:59,703 –> 00:49:00,583
Yorktown Heights.
1565
00:49:00,583 –> 00:49:01,303
Yorktown Heights.
1566
00:49:01,303 –> 00:49:02,183
I covered.
1567
00:49:03,103 –> 00:49:03,663
Sounds fancy.
1568
00:49:03,663 –> 00:49:05,343
All of metropolitan New York.
1569
00:49:05,343 –> 00:49:07,143
I don’t even know where Yorktown Heights is.
1570
00:49:07,223 –> 00:49:08,663
I had to look up Yorktown Heights.
1571
00:49:08,663 –> 00:49:10,183
You want to know where Yorktown Heights is?
1572
00:49:10,503 –> 00:49:10,743
Yes.
1573
00:49:10,743 –> 00:49:12,103
It’s north of Connecticut.
1574
00:49:12,823 –> 00:49:14,583
It’s nowhere near the Bronx.
1575
00:49:14,743 –> 00:49:16,423
Nowhere near the Bronx.
1576
00:49:16,583 –> 00:49:17,623
I said it before.
1577
00:49:17,863 –> 00:49:18,823
I’ll say it again.
1578
00:49:19,863 –> 00:49:20,743
Cortez.
1579
00:49:21,543 –> 00:49:23,863
That is a European name.
1580
00:49:24,103 –> 00:49:25,623
European.
1581
00:49:25,863 –> 00:49:26,263
Okay.
1582
00:49:26,423 –> 00:49:29,623
You grew up in a rich area.
1583
00:49:30,583 –> 00:49:32,303
Look, you’re a white girl.
1584
00:49:32,303 –> 00:49:33,063
That’s what you are.
1585
00:49:33,063 –> 00:49:33,623
Stop it.
1586
00:49:33,623 –> 00:49:34,343
Stop it.
1587
00:49:35,063 –> 00:49:36,343
Now, I, sir,
1588
00:49:36,343 –> 00:49:37,543
General, you’ll appreciate this.
1589
00:49:37,623 –> 00:49:38,263
My father,
1590
00:49:38,263 –> 00:49:38,903
non-veteran.
1591
00:49:39,263 –> 00:49:40,863
I was born in Portsmouth,
1592
00:49:40,863 –> 00:49:42,263
Virginia in the Naval Hospital.
1593
00:49:43,383 –> 00:49:44,183
You’re a brat.
1594
00:49:44,903 –> 00:49:46,103
Does that make me,
1595
00:49:46,103 –> 00:49:47,743
sir, a war hero?
1596
00:49:47,743 –> 00:49:51,143
No, it makes you a military brat just like me,
1597
00:49:51,143 –> 00:49:51,383
right?
1598
00:49:51,583 –> 00:49:52,903
Child of a military veteran.
1599
00:49:52,903 –> 00:49:53,543
That’s right.
1600
00:49:53,583 –> 00:49:53,903
Okay.
1601
00:49:53,903 –> 00:49:55,783
Guys on active duty overseas,
1602
00:49:55,903 –> 00:50:00,503
I’m born and don’t make me a non-vet.
1603
00:50:00,863 –> 00:50:02,583
This is so stupid.
1604
00:50:02,743 –> 00:50:04,343
Stop, shut the fuck up.
1605
00:50:04,623 –> 00:50:08,503
And as an old school former Democrat,
1606
00:50:08,503 –> 00:50:09,863
never registered as a Democrat,
1607
00:50:10,103 –> 00:50:12,023
but I’m from here,
1608
00:50:12,183 –> 00:50:12,743
Gary.
1609
00:50:12,743 –> 00:50:14,663
Oh yeah, I’m from Gary.
1610
00:50:14,663 –> 00:50:16,543
You know what I mean?
1611
00:50:16,543 –> 00:50:18,183
We moved back here when I was like 8,
1612
00:50:18,183 –> 00:50:18,663
9.
1613
00:50:18,983 –> 00:50:20,743
Does that make me smell?
1614
00:50:20,823 –> 00:50:23,823
That make me a steel worker or part Michael Jackson,
1615
00:50:23,823 –> 00:50:24,023
maybe.
1616
00:50:24,023 –> 00:50:26,183
Does that make me part of the Jackson Five?
1617
00:50:26,183 –> 00:50:27,783
Yeah, I think so.
1618
00:50:27,783 –> 00:50:27,943
No.
1619
00:50:28,023 –> 00:50:29,223
You need to work on your hair.
1620
00:50:30,423 –> 00:50:31,823
You’ve been eating your hair.
1621
00:50:33,623 –> 00:50:34,503
God took care of that.
1622
00:50:36,343 –> 00:50:37,303
So, all right.
1623
00:50:37,383 –> 00:50:38,583
Now, finally,
1624
00:50:38,583 –> 00:50:41,303
sir, speaking of dropping bombs,
1625
00:50:43,303 –> 00:50:49,463
somebody dropped a double deuce in the aisle #4 at
1626
00:50:49,463 –> 00:50:52,423
the shoe store at 8 Mile and Van Dyke got out of a
1627
00:50:52,423 –> 00:50:53,063
Cadillac.
1628
00:50:53,143 –> 00:50:54,663
We got the video footage,
1629
00:50:54,903 –> 00:50:56,023
got out of a Cadillac,
1630
00:50:56,423 –> 00:50:57,943
walked into the shoe store,
1631
00:50:58,263 –> 00:50:59,383
pulled down his pants,
1632
00:50:59,863 –> 00:51:02,423
Dropped a bomb and split.
1633
00:51:02,503 –> 00:51:03,503
He came straight in the store,
1634
00:51:03,503 –> 00:51:04,983
didn’t even talk to anybody,
1635
00:51:05,143 –> 00:51:06,423
went straight to the shoe aisle.
1636
00:51:06,503 –> 00:51:08,183
He just pulled down his pants,
1637
00:51:08,583 –> 00:51:10,623
pooped, didn’t even wipe and walked straight out and
1638
00:51:10,623 –> 00:51:11,503
got in the car and left.
1639
00:51:11,703 –> 00:51:12,903
I think that’s ridiculous.
1640
00:51:13,143 –> 00:51:14,663
I think that’s the craziest thing I’ve ever heard in
1641
00:51:14,663 –> 00:51:15,023
my life.
1642
00:51:15,943 –> 00:51:17,943
I mean, I don’t know what he was thinking or what he
1643
00:51:17,943 –> 00:51:19,783
was going through because they have a bathroom in
1644
00:51:19,903 –> 00:51:20,063
there.
1645
00:51:20,663 –> 00:51:22,903
It seems like that’s what they came there just to do
1646
00:51:23,143 –> 00:51:24,503
because they didn’t talk to anyone,
1647
00:51:24,503 –> 00:51:25,463
didn’t grab nothing,
1648
00:51:25,783 –> 00:51:27,703
made a beeline straight for the shoe department.
1649
00:51:28,423 –> 00:51:29,623
Used the bathroom and just left.
1650
00:51:29,703 –> 00:51:30,343
When I seen it,
1651
00:51:30,343 –> 00:51:31,063
I just thought,
1652
00:51:31,063 –> 00:51:31,623
no way.
1653
00:51:31,783 –> 00:51:33,183
That’s why I reviewed the camera so quick,
1654
00:51:33,183 –> 00:51:35,983
because I was thinking maybe it’s a kid and an accident
1655
00:51:35,983 –> 00:51:36,383
happened.
1656
00:51:36,663 –> 00:51:37,863
But it was no kid.
1657
00:51:38,023 –> 00:51:40,503
The guy that actually used the bathroom in there,
1658
00:51:40,583 –> 00:51:42,103
he was probably 50s.
1659
00:51:42,423 –> 00:51:43,863
And the guy that he was in there with,
1660
00:51:44,503 –> 00:51:45,463
had to be about my age,
1661
00:51:45,543 –> 00:51:46,263
mid 30s.
1662
00:51:46,423 –> 00:51:49,503
The guy that he was walking in with and left,
1663
00:51:49,543 –> 00:51:50,663
he had a nice car.
1664
00:51:50,663 –> 00:51:52,503
It looked like a burgundy Cadillac.
1665
00:51:52,663 –> 00:51:54,423
The guy who had a nice outfit on.
1666
00:51:55,383 –> 00:51:55,863
They were nice,
1667
00:51:55,863 –> 00:51:56,583
clean cut.
1668
00:51:57,823 –> 00:51:59,623
I don’t know what was going on.
1669
00:51:59,943 –> 00:52:01,383
I was trying to find him before he left.
1670
00:52:01,783 –> 00:52:02,543
Just to ask why.
1671
00:52:02,543 –> 00:52:05,783
Like, but they were going so quick.
1672
00:52:07,383 –> 00:52:07,503
Wow.
1673
00:52:07,943 –> 00:52:10,863
Was that the lead story on Fox 2 yesterday?
1674
00:52:10,903 –> 00:52:11,863
I don’t know.
1675
00:52:11,863 –> 00:52:12,743
Who watches Fox 2?
1676
00:52:12,983 –> 00:52:14,223
You would know.
1677
00:52:14,223 –> 00:52:14,583
Was it?
1678
00:52:15,143 –> 00:52:15,583
I don’t know.
1679
00:52:15,623 –> 00:52:16,103
I’ve never.
1680
00:52:16,103 –> 00:52:18,303
I literally didn’t see that story before,
1681
00:52:18,303 –> 00:52:20,183
which is kind of unusual for me,
1682
00:52:20,183 –> 00:52:21,463
but that’s.
1683
00:52:21,783 –> 00:52:23,543
That kind of sums up the state of local news right
1684
00:52:23,543 –> 00:52:23,703
now.
1685
00:52:24,663 –> 00:52:25,463
The stories,
1686
00:52:25,623 –> 00:52:27,343
the important stories we talked about today.
1687
00:52:28,583 –> 00:52:30,543
Zero airtime on any of the,
1688
00:52:30,543 –> 00:52:30,743
you know,
1689
00:52:30,743 –> 00:52:32,263
4-7, CBS,
1690
00:52:32,543 –> 00:52:32,983
whatever.
1691
00:52:33,383 –> 00:52:34,583
They won’t talk about it.
1692
00:52:34,583 –> 00:52:35,663
They’ll talk about this.
1693
00:52:35,663 –> 00:52:36,703
will be the lead story.
1694
00:52:36,703 –> 00:52:38,583
A guy takes a dump in a shoe store.
1695
00:52:38,903 –> 00:52:39,623
It is unusual.
1696
00:52:39,623 –> 00:52:40,183
It’s funny,
1697
00:52:40,183 –> 00:52:40,823
but it’s…
1698
00:52:40,903 –> 00:52:43,263
Well, Ken was the former like executive,
1699
00:52:43,863 –> 00:52:45,303
producer of Let It Rip,
1700
00:52:45,383 –> 00:52:46,623
10 o’clock news on Fox,
1701
00:52:46,623 –> 00:52:47,183
CBS.
1702
00:52:47,183 –> 00:52:48,263
So it’s your fault.
1703
00:52:48,263 –> 00:52:49,343
You created it.
1704
00:52:49,423 –> 00:52:51,663
This is exactly the type of story when I work.
1705
00:52:51,863 –> 00:52:54,903
there that would be the leads.
1706
00:52:54,983 –> 00:52:56,343
Oh, drop everything.
1707
00:52:56,343 –> 00:52:56,983
This is crazy.
1708
00:52:56,983 –> 00:52:57,863
No pun intended.
1709
00:52:57,863 –> 00:52:59,503
Including your trout.
1710
00:52:59,543 –> 00:53:00,223
This is why I had to,
1711
00:53:00,223 –> 00:53:02,183
this is why I had to leave that business because this
1712
00:53:02,183 –> 00:53:03,423
is, it’s so ridiculous.
1713
00:53:03,423 –> 00:53:04,263
Yeah, it’s funny,
1714
00:53:04,823 –> 00:53:06,383
but it has a place.
1715
00:53:06,383 –> 00:53:07,463
I’m sure this was the lead.
1716
00:53:07,463 –> 00:53:07,903
And again,
1717
00:53:07,903 –> 00:53:10,623
no, expertise.
1718
00:53:10,623 –> 00:53:13,223
No, let’s really look at what’s happened here.
1719
00:53:13,383 –> 00:53:17,783
Now we have retired Brigadier General Odie Slocum.
1720
00:53:17,783 –> 00:53:20,263
Sir, I know your career was in the Air Force.
1721
00:53:20,903 –> 00:53:22,903
But what do you make of this man dropping anchor?
1722
00:53:24,183 –> 00:53:25,463
I will have to decline.
1723
00:53:25,463 –> 00:53:27,103
I am not a gastroenterologist.
1724
00:53:27,103 –> 00:53:31,543
I cannot explain the anatomical motivation of this
1725
00:53:31,543 –> 00:53:32,423
particular individual.
1726
00:53:32,423 –> 00:53:33,383
Now to wrap it up,
1727
00:53:33,383 –> 00:53:36,103
our perpetrator is still on the bum.
1728
00:53:39,383 –> 00:53:41,783
But did they get a license plate number or any moles
1729
00:53:41,783 –> 00:53:43,543
or any of the identifying marks?
1730
00:53:43,823 –> 00:53:45,463
It’s this story’s peanuts.
1731
00:53:45,623 –> 00:53:47,063
License plate ended with a 2.
1732
00:53:49,223 –> 00:53:49,623
Sir.
1733
00:53:50,263 –> 00:53:50,983
Before we go,
1734
00:53:51,143 –> 00:53:51,823
you’ve written a book.
1735
00:53:51,863 –> 00:53:52,543
Can you tell us?
1736
00:53:52,543 –> 00:53:53,303
Yes, I did.
1737
00:53:54,343 –> 00:53:56,263
You know, it was a wonderful opportunity I had in my
1738
00:53:56,263 –> 00:53:57,783
35 years in the military.
1739
00:53:58,023 –> 00:54:01,303
And I got into some very interesting opportunities,
1740
00:54:02,103 –> 00:54:03,143
suicide prevention,
1741
00:54:03,143 –> 00:54:04,023
resiliency,
1742
00:54:04,423 –> 00:54:05,943
safety programs and all.
1743
00:54:06,303 –> 00:54:08,143
And it was important to me to tell that story.
1744
00:54:08,143 –> 00:54:09,823
And it took me 4 years to write a book,
1745
00:54:09,823 –> 00:54:10,903
but I was able to do that.
1746
00:54:10,903 –> 00:54:13,903
And I titled it what I called my leadership principles,
1747
00:54:13,903 –> 00:54:15,943
which is violent positivity.
1748
00:54:16,343 –> 00:54:17,863
So if you have any questions about it,
1749
00:54:17,863 –> 00:54:20,023
it’s about a leadership book on caring for people,
1750
00:54:20,103 –> 00:54:22,263
violentpositivity.com.
1751
00:54:22,983 –> 00:54:24,503
And it’s on Amazon and everything,
1752
00:54:24,743 –> 00:54:25,703
so it’s available there.
1753
00:54:25,703 –> 00:54:28,383
But it’s a story that I think needed telling.
1754
00:54:28,903 –> 00:54:29,383
Beautiful.
1755
00:54:29,383 –> 00:54:30,503
Thank you for your service.
1756
00:54:30,503 –> 00:54:31,463
Thank you for being here.
1757
00:54:31,463 –> 00:54:32,343
It was really a pleasure.
1758
00:54:32,423 –> 00:54:33,783
It was quite the experience.
1759
00:54:36,023 –> 00:54:36,703
See you next week.
