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title: 01-23 Discussions on Construction Projects, Political Commentary, and Daily Life
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Speaker 1 00:00:08
We pay for it because last year my mother came with air.
Speaker 1 00:01:45
Thank you.
Speaker 2 00:02:28
so i need to talk to corey but the plan the plan says an inch and a quarter overhang coping. yeah so the coping it's like yes.
Speaker 2 00:03:27
so they is um so like so inch and a quarter so this yeah so one one and five eighths right yeah one and five eighths and i need to check with corey first double check because it's not.
Speaker 2 00:04:11
it's not uh poncho is usually not wrong he said he was sure. and they said that the plan was to change it, but I don't think so because it's different.
Speaker 2 00:05:08
you can put them so I'll put one here.
Speaker 3 00:05:12
and you can put the legs here and one there.
Speaker 2 00:05:27
So maybe put the legs in the middle of the pool right so yeah and then you can move it so as.
Speaker 4 00:05:52
you're working you can move it or you can put yeah but the problem is once you go here I think the.
Speaker 2 00:06:12
sun's always there the sun's always there it's always like that because it's south so it's always, you can put one here and one there because of the you know so you don't have to worry about that but. so yeah you don't need to cover it but i don't there did he make the adjustments.
Speaker 2 00:07:08
and then i'll bring the others yeah i'll bring all of the.
Speaker 3 00:07:22
Do you want to put just one or two? Just one, the one that is good. Mark the instructions, right? So, the cover? No, no, but, you know, so you can, you know, the cover is, you know, 38 inches, a little, right?
Speaker 3 00:07:52
You know, so. 
Speaker 2 00:07:56
I think we need instructions. Huh? No.
Speaker 3 00:08:02
The ones we need. Yeah. Maybe I can get that one. Why not. 
Speaker 2 00:08:36
We can, remember we have the, the other one too. Is that good. 
Speaker 5 00:08:53
Did you guys turn the, the fan off? Oh, we went to lunch, yeah. Because everybody stopped working, I just turned it off. I didn't turn it back on though.
Speaker 6 00:09:03
It's nice and calm. Reduces noise level. I can digest my food better.
Speaker 2 00:09:09
But then you didn't turn it back on.
Speaker 6 00:09:11
You're right. I felt it turning back on.
Speaker 2 00:09:14
Everybody just kind of went, ah. I'm okay with it, but. Then we didn't turn it back on. Okay. Hey Alex, Manny's calling you. Manny needs you.
Speaker 4 00:09:38
Okay, um, yeah I'll call Cory, I think I can get the, if Cory answers I can give you the numbers, well you can't, you can't float today anyway so, so yeah the canopy, the speed bus, the speed bus is going to be here too, huh, a little next to it.
Speaker 3 00:11:14
So remember, when you rapid-set, agua para ahora, mojado para ahora.
Speaker 2 00:11:27
Okay, so when you install rapid-set, we need to put, we need to give it a, we need to stay wet for an hour. Rapid-set. 
Speaker 4 00:11:39
Yeah, keep wet. Y las esquinas. 
Speaker 2 00:12:00
Y las esquinas. I don't want I don't want their dust okay okay so that's more for teaching than for because you know.
Speaker 3 00:13:03
This is ok, but... Oh, this is ok. Ok. And here.
Speaker 4 00:13:31
Ok. Ok. 
Speaker 3 00:13:59
So.
Speaker 4 00:14:10
We should do a detail for the wire.
Speaker 2 00:14:43
The wire. 
Speaker 3 00:14:51
Yeah. M1 and here. And here.
Speaker 2 00:15:13
all right guys i'm gonna call corey a little bit i don't think you'll know about poncho till later okay but i'd say i'll give you like a there i'll i'll draw this out oh you can't go to the.
Speaker 3 00:15:34
warehouse and move things around again so cory can't find them so these edges you need to cut them this way and then this way and i'll draw on here and that's because of plastic it doesn't have.
Speaker 2 00:15:59
when you get to the corner right so we want it to look like that you're going to want like a wire wheel or something like that because then you have to detail that you can throw back.
Speaker 3 00:16:14
So you don't want to vacuum, mask, and we need to be careful in more detail. If you want to use, you know, ask him what he thinks the best tool is. If you don't have it, then you can come with one.
Speaker 3 00:17:16
Is this the one we just brought back? No, this is the one we just brought back. The one we just brought back is up there. It's up on the top. What we can do, I'll leave it for now. I don't want to go a couple days without it. I can leave it here.
Speaker 2 00:18:10
Didn't one of them say... shop vac accessories or something like that the new bucket pro is jump pro well that's in here but that's not the that's not the point where's where's the where's that clip.
Speaker 2 00:18:40
can we throw that other one away.
Speaker 5 00:18:58
so before we leave here today you'll let us know and that way we know what.
Speaker 2 00:19:04
is going on yeah well i hope i'll have an answer for you i'd say worst case scenario though. Check in with me. If you haven't heard from me, call me. How's that? OK.
Speaker 5 00:19:17
See this one? I was telling you about 25, this one's 25 to 1. On this side, you just push it up. I don't know what that means, the ratio. And then when this side is 12 to 1, I guess that's just how much of a long of a push it has.
Speaker 6 00:19:32
Is it going to go heavy or light? Yeah. Heavy.
Speaker 2 00:20:17
Okay, thank you, sir.
Speaker 4 00:21:21
I agree.
Speaker 7 00:25:07
is knowing enough about a subject to think you're right, but not enough about the subject to know you're wrong.
Speaker 8 00:25:17
Jack Smith, former special prosecutor of Donald Trump, had his day being prosecuted by the House Oversight Committee today. Here's Jim Jordan of Ohio talking with America's Javier Jack Smith, cut number two. You and Mr. Trimble are your vector. Gentleman yields back.
Speaker 9 00:25:32
Mr. Smith, is Cassidy Hutchinson a liar? She was their star witness. January 6th committee, their star witness in one of those staged and choreographed hearings they paid the former president of ABC News to put together. She was in fact the only witness at this special primetime hearing, Tuesday, June 28th, 2022, 8 o'clock in the evening, and she told some stories. I mean, these were some stories.
Speaker 9 00:26:03
She talked about them. president lunged across the back seat grabbed the steering wheel tried to drive the car to the capitol and i just want to know you think she was lying chairman jordan my assessment of that.
Speaker 10 00:26:22
particular issue is that with respect to uh the testimony about someone lunch at the president plunging towards uh the driver uh my recollection of her testimony about that is that it was secondhand she said she heard that from somebody you're familiar with the name tony or not i'm.
Speaker 9 00:26:41
sorry you familiar with the name tony ornato yes white house deputy chief of operations definitely she was staffed for operations right you know you remember what he said about it as i sit here right now i do know yeah he said it didn't happen how about bobby engel you familiar with that name yes i am secret service agent who was actually in the car, that day you know what he said he said it didn't happen and they both said the first time they ever heard this story was when miss hutchinson testified in the prime time hearing as their star.
Speaker 9 00:27:17
witness of the january 6 committee by the way did you ever confirm her testimony about this.
Speaker 10 00:27:23
particular incident uh we uh conducted as i said before our own independent investigation of all aspects of the case that we thought was relevant we uh attorneys from my office did you ever confirm it that's a simple question uh we interviewed her i should say attorneys in my.
Speaker 9 00:27:44
office did you ever confirm the president leaping across the seat grabbing the steering wheel this whole concoction she brought up in the january 6 hearing do you ever confirm that we interviewed.
Speaker 10 00:28:33
a another first-hand witness who is in the car uh who did not confirm that that happened but also.
Speaker 9 00:28:41
your definition to the committee last month mr smith uh you said yes my recollection with miss hutchinson was a number of the things that you gave evidence on were secondhand yesterday your members making that statement to us last month in the deposition i did and.
Speaker 10 00:28:56
i was referring particularly to what we're talking about now yeah and you also said.
Speaker 9 00:28:60
miss hutchinson regarding this particular claim was a second or even third-hand witness we asked you if you were a defense attorney how would you handle cost examining her if she was on the witness stand and you said if i were a defense attorney miss hutchinson were a witness the first thing i would do was seek to preclude her testimony because it was hearsay you remember saying all that yes that's correct that's correct right we're going to put her on the witness stand.
Speaker 10 00:29:22
if you ever got to trial we had not made final determinations as to who we were going to call as a witness we had a large still considering her.
Speaker 9 00:29:33
We had a large choice of witnesses in this case. Are you familiar with what Washington Post reporters Carol Lanning and Aaron Davis said in their book? It is his book, 300-some pages book on Chronicle and the whole investigation of the Justice Department. And here's what they said on page 310. They said, Jack Smith had wondered whether some of Hutchinson's claims might be relied upon at trial. Still at one point, Smith told the elections team he wasn't ready to give up on Hutchinson's account. Ultimately, however, Trump administration officials uniformly, fiercely disputed her accounts under oath.
Speaker 9 00:30:06
Prosecutors on your team told Smith they wouldn't want to use Hutchinson as a witness in court, and Smith agreed. Are Carol Lanning and Aaron Davis who wrote this, are they lying. 
Speaker 10 00:30:19
My recollection is... I certainly had not made any final determinations about who we were going to call.
Speaker 8 00:30:26
And that's the point. That is the point. The fact that they used... Point. Check. Brandon Gill, congressman from Texas, made more points. Cut number three.
Speaker 11 00:30:37
Yes, sir, we did. Yes, you did. And the subpoena covered the time period between November 2020 and January 2021. Is that right. 
Speaker 10 00:30:45
I'm sorry, sir. Could you say that again. 
Speaker 11 00:30:47
We're not going to delay like this. The subpoena covered the time period between November 2020 and January 2021. How many days after Kevin McCarthy was sworn in as speaker did you subpoena his records? I don't recall, but those two things had nothing to do with it. It was 16 days after becoming the highest ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, you subpoenaed his toll records. Do you agree that that might reasonably be considered a violation of the speech and debate clause?
Speaker 11 00:31:18
I do not and I want to be clear that you were collecting months worth of phone data on the republican speaker of the house the leader of the opposition right after he got sworn in as speaker, all around the time of a major vote that sounds like a flagrant violation of the speech or debate clause to me and I think most people agree with me and speaker McCarthy had no recourse did he because you issued a non-disclosure order ensuring that neither he nor any of the American people.
Speaker 10 00:31:45
knew about these subpoenas is that right the toll record the non-content toll record subpoenas we did secure non-disclosure orders for those subpoenas you did and let me ask you mr smith at.
Speaker 11 00:31:58
the time you you secured those non-disclosure orders with some speaker McCarthy of flight risk. the uh non-disclosure order was based on concerns with speaker McCarthy of flight risk he was not he was not then why did your non-disclosure order refer to him as a flight risk, It says right here the court finds reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure will result in flight from prosecution.
Speaker 10 00:32:27
Sir, when securing a non-disclosure order, uh, the risks, uh, don't have to be associated with...
Speaker 11 00:32:35
You think the, the, the Speaker of the House is a flight risk? You finished answering this question? No, this is not your time. This is my time. You think, you think the Speaker of the House is a flight risk? You think he's gonna hop on a plane and leave the country. 
Speaker 10 00:32:47
No. No, what I was trying to explain is, with respect to a non-disclosure order, the risks aren't necessarily associated with the subscriber to the phone. There's, there are the risks to the investigation.
Speaker 11 00:32:60
I think that you were using, this is clearly in reference to, to Speaker McCarthy, and you were using clearly false information to secure a non-disclosure order to hide from Speaker McCarthy and from the American people the fact that you were spying on his toll records. let's move on in may of 2023 you also issued subpoenas for total records of nine u.s senators and an additional representative is that right if you trade all contracts with the u.s watch my.
Speaker 12 00:33:32
snoring disappear in one night my wife couldn't believe it was that easy to try these buckler.
Speaker 11 00:33:37
stories and there's only one that works uh it may have three we did uh issues which did and there were non-disclosure orders in conjunction with those subpoenas as well right that's correct right consistent with department policy right so again nobody would know what you were doing the senators would and the representatives wouldn't the american people wouldn't know what you were doing is that right the total records that we secured uh and the non-disclosure orders consistent with policy and you knew whenever you were doing that that there was.
Speaker 11 00:34:10
a risk you were violating this feature debate clause is that right. the toll record subpoenas that we secured were with the concurrence of the public your own analysis says that you knew there was a risk you were violating the speech or debate clause i have it right here this is an email from john keller in public integrity section to your team as you are aware as you are aware there is some litigation risk regarding whether compelled disclosure of toll records of a member's legislative calls violates the speech or debate clause in the dc circuit that's from your own analysis right there so you didn't.
Speaker 10 00:34:45
know sir with respect to the item you just put up on the screen the last sentence states we're.
Speaker 11 00:34:51
going to get to the last sentence okay we're going to get to the last sentence and if you sign case law in your quote the bar compelled disclosure is absolute is right is that right or do you think that you didn't have to abide by that precedent.
Speaker 10 00:35:05
To be clear, this is not, this statement is not from my office. This is the statement of the public.
Speaker 11 00:35:09
This is your justification, those subpoenas and NDOs that you ordered. This was part of your analysis. It's a cursory analysis. I think it's worth noting. Let's get to that last sentence then. Quote, given my understanding of the low likelihood that any of the members listed below would be charged, the litigation risk should be minimal here. In other words, you're using a novel legal theory, which you knew was novel, has never been tested by any court. You're not charging any of these members. Nobody's going to know about it because you issued NDOs.
Speaker 11 00:35:40
Nobody's going to sue about it, so sue this. So who cares? We're going to do it anyways. Meanwhile, all over the Constitution, throughout this entire process, you're telling the gentlemen to buy our members of Congress, and you know it. It's absolutely disgraceful.
Speaker 8 00:35:56
It is absolutely disgraceful. It goes on and on. Jack Smith was a rogue prosecutor. who did great damage to the Constitution and the political process of the United States. He is the Javert from Les Mis. He ought never to prosecute anyone again. He ought never to prosecute Trump. He was unconstitutionally appointed, as was held by the District Court in Florida. Never appealed because the case was dismissed after President Trump won re-election.
Speaker 8 00:36:28
Jack Smith and his team are a disgrace to justice in the United States. Noah Rothman is with National Review, where he's a senior writer. Noah, I'm going to go from least important to most important subjects today. First, the Oscar nominations came out. I want to run through the list of the best pictures and just get a yes or no from you, whether you've gone to Frankenstein. No. Hamnet. No. The Secret Agent. No.
Speaker 13 00:37:00
Sentimental Value. No, you might be detecting a trend. Sinners. 
Speaker 14 00:37:06
Nope. F1? Believe it or not, no.
Speaker 13 00:37:13
Train Dreams? Want to take a guess? Train Dreams? Nope. Marty Supremes? Unsadly, no, but I kind of do want to see that one. One Battle After Another? Nope. And finally, Begonia? A big no. So you're over 10. 100%. You're over 10. I've got a lot of good guests today. Same television show I've watched 10 times with my wife on the couch at 9 o'clock.
Speaker 13 00:37:44
I've seen that happen to that one show. I don't think you're the problem.
Speaker 8 00:37:49
I think Hollywood's the problem, and I'm going to test it out. I have you, Eliana Johnson, Jim Talent, Josh Kroschauer, and Jim Garrity to ask today, and me. And I only saw F1, Formula One.
Speaker 14 00:38:03
I want to see Sinners, I want to see F1, and I do want to see Mardi Supremes for the rest of the movie. But you haven't. This is why the movie business... No, I'm culturally illiterate. It really is on me to a certain extent.
Speaker 8 00:38:13
Well, no, it's not. You're on every day on the editor. You're right about stuff. They have not drawn you into the theater. That's the problem. You make taste. All right, now, second big issue, Greenland and the deal. I think it's significant, but a lot of people want to say it's nothing. I think, and I'm going to tell you this before you answer, I think they're putting their dislike of the president ahead of the realities of the Golden Dome. What do you think. 
Speaker 14 00:38:43
Yeah, well, listen, it's not nothing, but it doesn't really seem, it does not seem to be what the president retailed yesterday. He was stipulating that, and attributing to Mark Rutte, the NATO Secretary General, that they had secured some deal for functional sovereignty to be ceded in parts of Greenland to the United States. And I was on with the Times of London today, I've been surveying international media for a while today, and Mark Rutte denies it. The Danish government strenuously insists that they had not and would not agree to such a deal.
Speaker 14 00:39:13
Nobody can confirm that. So we're left with mineral rights and new days and the deployment of anti-missile technology, all of which are very important and very valuable. I struggle to see how we couldn't have gotten that through a process that was much less hostile, much more deliberate, and not so injurious to America's reputation with its allies in Europe.
Speaker 8 00:39:33
I like the process. I don't mind injuring allies in Europe. Because I don't think we did. I think they're press people.
Speaker 14 00:39:45
Well, then we do agree, Q. You're not saying you like being hostile to Europe for hostility's sake. You're saying that that's just a bit of a case. Yeah, I think it's a bit of a case. I think that they've got a lot of people who are wringing their hands. 
Speaker 15 00:39:54
and in fact, they're glad they don't have to get in a fight with Trump because Trump is the one.
Speaker 4 00:39:56
And he just did it the developer way. Developers are not doing it. I've represented them my whole life.
Speaker 15 00:40:23
That's the developer way. Now, the most important thing. Do you believe President Trump is going to order a strike on Iran and shouldn't. 
Speaker 16 00:40:35
I knew with certainty that no one was coming to help. My breath stopped. as the alpha advanced and i fell backward certain i was about to die in the beast's survival exam we hunt to pass but i became the prey but just when i was on the ledge the alpha stood above me i think.
Speaker 14 00:41:07
you should i think you're better than me and i will i read about this today the president said you know at the davos conference during the peace corps presentation that they want to talk about the greatest office we've heard that before it doesn't come to anything and it does strike me as a bank given the amount of hardware that we're sending into the region because we have the german link which is deployed from the western president between now apparently but gerald on the um on his way to the um so we're gonna have a lot of hardware as well as uh support aircraft commander craft we got 15. so if there are talks then we're gonna have a lot of hardware to back it up but what is there to talk about by the way that the bush might be out on seat.
Speaker 15 00:41:31
trial we might not be going to bed so i want to make sure that people understand this question about that i want them to strike simply because they're not gonna ever change. people, the machine guns in the street, you're going to get hit by us because we're the whips. I don't think we'll get the regime changing, but I think we ought to set a standard. What's your argument for doing that. 
Speaker 14 00:41:44
I'm typically leery of message strikes, but I think we should have a strategic question as well as a tactical question. And when I think these strikes would have a strategic question, beyond that, the president has a sub-sector line. He has said many times he does not follow through with his sub-sector line. And I agree with his assessment. So he is obligated to do what the Wall Street Journal doesn't do. And to make note of that, there are a number of things that Trump's enforcing for sacrifice. He has a message on the start of the siege by our GC installations. The objective there would be to weaken the regime of the protest movement, which is part.
Speaker 15 00:42:11
of the military target, which is, I mean, what does that do to them. 
Speaker 8 00:42:21
And we've got new sources coming out in the United States from them, and I think the one response I got from that person was to invite China down to their body, because that's because they don't like so much the mass immigration situation in China. I understand that's why I'm not coming up with it, but I do believe that we are a non-nuclear nation, but we have to do it.
Speaker 14 00:43:05
I think they would have to buy energy on the white market.
Speaker 8 00:43:09
And the president, if I don't work out the trade, and there's no reason for them to send it to the US. 
Speaker 15 00:43:15
they're not going to have, you know, there's no need for them to go to China, to China to try to sell their products. They're not ready. You can buy down points. That's a process that Andrew Del Rey and Todd Avakian will walk you through.
Speaker 15 00:43:47
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Speaker 15 00:44:17
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Speaker 15 00:44:48
They do reverse mortgages for seniors. When we moved back to D.C., they did the mortgage for money, they did the mortgage for thousands of you, they've refinanced thousands of you, they've taken care of my kids as well, and it's not that we get special deals, nobody gets special deals, there are no special deals. The mortgage market is a national market, so you've got to deal with a national lender if you need a mortgage. and friends early this morning uh very early this morning when i'm in california my fox and friends did that three hours so it's on it's at 6 30 in the morning east coast time and i got up and got to the studio at 3 30 in the morning i'm used to that kind of morning driving california was doing that every day but nevertheless i went back to bed when i got home and i did not go up the.
Speaker 15 00:45:18
impossible hill today but i still take my relief factor every day every single day i carry for commitment whether or not i go up the hill i go for distance at the beach or whatever i do and the reason is when i do go up there tomorrow it won't feel bad now a lot of you are about to be shoveling snow and shoveling snow is the all-time number one indicator of bad backs and aches and pains that you might have even more than gym even more than marathon even more than half marathon you know what's coming but when you shovel snow people are just asking to throw their back out that's why you should get your relief factor now in the mail on the way before the snowstorm hits and it's coming aaa 1172 aaa 1172 don't wait another day head over there and get your relief factor we got a lot of jd vans coming up dr eliana johnson i do want to give you a little bit of jd vans in toledo earlier today at number 13. we're one year in to raising wages for workers instead.
Speaker 15 00:45:52
of declining wages we're one year into 18 trillion dollars of new investment for the united states of america instead of investing going to every other country but the united states of america we're one year in to getting a legal alien out of our country so that american homes can go to american citizens, And why is he doing one year in? Because he's one year in, one day in, and why is he in Toledo? Because Toledo serves Michigan, the Detroit market. The key demo is Detroit and the outer verbs of Detroit to keep Michigan in play. So when you serve Toledo, you take care of the base, and you pick up Michigan. For the first time in years, I've missed two commentary podcasts back-to-back. To my next guest, Eliana White-Johnson, who's a regular contributor to commentary. I haven't heard her voice in three days. Eliana is also the editor-in-chief of the Washington Free Beacon, which I'll be reading every morning at freebeacon.com.
Speaker 15 00:46:23
Eliana, three parts to today's interview. Part number one, 10 yes or no questions, because the Oscars is coming. Number one, have you seen Frankenstein. 
Speaker 17 00:46:27
Hi, Hugh. I'll spare you time. I haven't seen anything. You're 0%? I make up for my 0% by having seen the SpongeBob movie three times with my four-year-old, okay? That's about it. Okay, I'll make it different. Have you been following Frankenstein? Yes. Amnesty? No, never heard of it. The Secret Agents? Heard of it. Sentimental Value? Never heard of it. Sinners? Heard of it. F1? Never heard of it. Train Dreams? Never heard of it. Marty Supreme? Heard of it, for sure. My colleague, John Bedore, gave it a rave review. We did talk about that one on the podcast.
Speaker 15 00:46:55
Okay, one battle after another. 
Speaker 17 00:46:56
No.
Speaker 15 00:46:57
And Begonia. 
Speaker 17 00:46:58
No.
Speaker 15 00:46:58
How bad is Hollywood marketing when you haven't even heard of six of the ten best pictures of the year. 
Speaker 17 00:47:02
I mean, Hugh, the one movie I will say that I can't even tell you if it was this year was the Bob Dylan movie. Was that this year? I saw the Bob Dylan movie. That was two years ago. That's it. It's the only movie that I've seen in the theater in recent memory.
Speaker 15 00:47:11
You're too young for Zootopia? Is that the problem. 
Speaker 17 00:47:13
A little bit young. I've been trying to nudge my daughter there, and she's been saying, no, I want to go back to SpongeBob, and I did look it up, and it says it's more like a six, seven, eight-year-old movie.
Speaker 15 00:47:18
Don't go there. I took two three-year-olds to it. Do not do it. Do not do it. All right, next. Three films focused on Gaza war and hostage crisis nominated for Oscars. Israel's Butcher's Stain, Children No More, Where and Argonne, and then one called The Voice of En-Rajah about the death of a five-year-old Palestinian. Do you want to bet which wins. 
Speaker 17 00:47:31
Oh, I can only walk away with a word, because I think that's what would happen if the Oscars could do it, and I look forward to the demonstrative protest by the winners while they're all on stage and the absolute silence on the butchery of the Iranian regime.
Speaker 15 00:47:40
Yeah, 15,000. I'm coming back. I'll reverse order my question, because you brought it up. Should President Trump strike? It's a purely punitive measure. I do not have hopes for a change, and I want a bombing campaign. I just want to strike them, because you shouldn't mow down 15,000 of your people and really strike.
Speaker 18 00:47:50
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Speaker 17 00:48:03
Well, I think he should strike in an effort for regime change in Iran, not simply as a punitive measure, but because it's in the American interest. And for about the past 10 days, you believe strongly that the window for American action is notes. In the days after President Trump issued his threats, and the Iranian leaders were sort of thumbing their noses at him, a lot of people say, through a red line, he's not enforcing it. That may yet turn out to be true, but I think we're working on a bit of a longer timeline. There's an U-15 squadron and aerial refueling tankers heading to the region, and I tend to think President Trump is waiting for the right time here. And at the same time, the conditions that led to these protests, the economic evisceration, and the Iranian currency is not worth the paper that it's printed on. And we're not changing. The regime has real problems, and I do think the president is going to pick his moment, and I hope he does.
Speaker 15 00:48:36
I think he's going to, but we have two different kinds of strikes. Punitive, meaning there's a guardrail here, you know, machine gun your own people, and then regime destabilization, that's changed, as with Serbia, as with Libya. That would be a sustained air campaign. Do you think he's got the will to do that? He's got iron will, but I don't think he's in the bombing campaign business. Do you. 
Speaker 17 00:48:52
I'm not sure, you know, predicting the actions of this president is tough. The latter, regime destabilization, regime decapitation, is obviously more difficult than the former. But I would put it as this president, and Hugh, I would note, the Wall Street Journal report last night, that this regime is looking, that this president, Trump, is looking at regime change in Cuba. So I think we can totally disagree. And I think the two are connected, because what underlies all of these things, as well as the Maduro raid in Venezuela, is that we can totally discard the notion that this president is not considered beyond our shores. I think he's looking at a legacy building, and I think he knows that the way he acts on Iran is intimately connected with his legacy. And when he went out and did that press conference on Maduro, announcing that they'd captured him,
Speaker 17 00:49:22
and foreign policy actions, including killing of Qasem Soleimani, and Operation Midnight Hammer. So I would say now, those three things are the things he's proudest of, and he may be looking at a more than a fifth, with another strike on Iran and in Cuba. It's clear this is where his mind is, and you can have Greenland for that, too. His mind is broad. It's a big deal. I think it's a big deal. You know, I don't know if we know yet, Hugh. On the one hand, the president may have seen the Dow and the markets and climbed down with some kind of bony deal. I think that's a point Noah and some of his colleagues at National Review were making. On the other hand, it may be that Rubio and the vice president and others negotiate with American sovereignty over bases in Greenland if we really do get a deal for rare earth minerals. I myself, I don't have real knowledge of where this is going to end up. But I'm for it. I'm for the sovereignty over the bases.
Speaker 15 00:49:54
I'm for the Golden Dome. I'm for protecting the 230 mile, excuse me, economic tunnel, which can give us sovereignty over some of the bases but give us the right to patrol. And that's something that I don't think a lot of people know about me. The story that Eliana mentioned is called The U.S. is actively seeking regime change in Cuba by the end of the year. Here's what happened. I had a dinner with a daughter of Cuban exiles last night who actually, she's a Cuban exile. She sat on Fidel Castro's lap and her father in the shade, and they got out of Cuba because they knew they were going to become murderers, communists, and she already was a statistic monster. So yes, I hope we have regime change in Cuba.
Speaker 15 00:50:24
Now, what's the use of having a nationally syndicated radio and television show unless you shamelessly ask for a bike? This is my iPhone. I also have another phone. It's a Versailles phone, which I'll tell you about a little later. That's for family only. This is my work phone. It's a iPhone 11. All right? iPhone 11.
Speaker 15 00:51:30
to say, I want a new iPhone, I'd like to keep the number and the contact, I don't want anything else transferred over. Can they do that? It doesn't make my phone clean. 1-800-520-1234. I want techie. I want people who do this for a living. 1-800-520-1234. I got a five-page printout from Brock on how to assure it happened. I don't want to read that. I don't want to know that. I can't possibly execute on that. I want to be able to say that the techie has the iPhone mark. I want to buy the new one, and I want it to be clean. I want my old number and my old contact. I just want to know if that's possible. It's a very simple question, because they'll tell me if it's possible, because they want to sell me an iPhone. But I want you to tell me, is that possible? 1-800-520-1234. You can do it. I have a simple question for my audience for this segment. I have to buy a new iPhone. This one is broken,
Speaker 15 00:52:01
seven years old. I know for a fact this one has been hacked. I know there's malware on it. I know there are bad apps on it. I know that possible foreign entities have access to it. I know that for a fact. All I want to know is if I go to the iPhone, if I go to the iBar, and I say, I want to keep my number, I want to keep my contacts, I don't want you to transfer over anything else, will I be free of the hacking and the malware? Let's start with Denise in Chicago, because Denise has been avoiding the law in Chicago for a long time. What do you say, Denise. 
Speaker 19 00:52:21
And now we're going to get to the phone. Yeah. Okay, so I want to get back to the first part.
Speaker 15 00:52:37
I just want to transfer it free of the spies. That's what I really want. Yeah, I don't know, but I will say this to you. You need to get yourself a care day case. I know, I know. But, you know, I don't know anything. All I give them is a case. You really want to be safe. Now you get a care day case and, you know, everybody puts their phone in there. Whatever you're talking to, they put their phone in there. I know, and that's what happens whenever people come over to Ringland and I regularly put it in the box. And I know that, but I just, I want to start from ground zero. Thank you, Denise. Let me ask Alan in Arizona. Alan, can they do it at the iPhone store?
Speaker 15 00:53:13
They're listening, but they're listening. That's the point. Yes, sir. Greg, what do you say? Oh, yeah, you can do that. My girlfriend, my chicanx, just did that. She had an iPhone 12, I think. She had a SIM card. And so when she got her new phone, there's no longer a SIM card. There's a digital integrated into the computer. So now what she did is she just transferred her phone number and her contacts. And so you're pretty confident that if there was any malware on the old phone,
Speaker 15 00:53:45
on the SIM card, it wouldn't go with it? That's good news. That's why I ask people stuff. Okay, great. Thank you. Roland, you've got advice for me. Roland is calling from Philly. Of course he has advice for me from Philly. I didn't ask for advice. I asked a question, Roland. I'm not from Philly originally. I'm from Miami. But anyway. Um, here's the thing. The operating system in the iPhone is where the weakness is. No matter what you do, the operating system can be hacked, and something as simple as receiving a text you don't open can install malware on an iPhone. That being said, the only way you can truly be safe is to get a phone that has open source operating system. It's called a Brax phone, B-R-A-X.
Speaker 15 00:54:16
You can go online, there's a multitude of YouTube videos done by the owner, and they can walk you through setting everything up. And don't worry about, you know, NSA kind of stuff. The real worry is if you have any banking apps on there. I don't. Your banking apps. Yeah, I know. Very good. No one in their right mind should have a banking app on their phone. Well, on a Brax phone, you're safe. Well, um, I'm going to be completely honest with you, Roland. I just don't want to screw it up by transferring over malware, right? Well, then you need to have somebody scan all the stuff that's on your iPhone and just start fresh.
Speaker 15 00:54:47
Well, then I don't need a new number to start fresh, do I? No, you can port the number. Okay, you can switch carriers. You can port your number. The number itself is not going to carry any kind of malware. Okay, that's good. That's the most important thing. In fact, I can do that, keep the old phone. What about the contact list. 
Speaker 17 00:55:04
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Speaker 15 00:55:10
The contacts list, I would suggest download that into your computer and use it on your scanner to make sure that there's nothing in there and then transfer it to the new phone. Can they do that for me? It depends on where you go because most of those people at the iPhone place, they can tell you how to install all the new apps. But as far as doing any kind of security stuff, I would suggest you check online and maybe find somebody to check your ad it or find an app that can scan all of your apps. All right, will do. Hey, Roland, thank you. That's why I have an audience because they can give me that. That gave me a great deal. Port the number down to anything. I'll wait about the contacts later. Now, let me go to JD Vance in Minneapolis at a press conference. Because he went up to Minneapolis today, got number 15. I'm going to meet with business leaders.
Speaker 2 00:55:49
Hey, got a minute? What's up? Yeah. I've just got like five topics, so... Number one, I think I'll be done with... Essentially the equivalent of what I send to you on the drawing today, and then I got to make it pretty I got your thing for Pedro.
Speaker 2 00:56:26
To Pontius as he doesn't know about the guys for tomorrow because he would need to check out my head beach first We call me later, If he needs guys, I've got guys If I don't if he doesn't need guys I'd like to send Brandon and Alex over to Rocking Point to start on those cuts tomorrow. They've only worked four days.
Speaker 2 00:56:57
Um.
Speaker 20 00:57:00
i don't know let me ask tim i mean i don't think there's a rush to do that i mean if there's not a rush i don't think there's something that needs to be done but.
Speaker 2 00:57:08
i just wanted to get them out what's the reason uh they uh because they didn't work on martin luther king right so or brandon didn't i should i should say that so yeah i mean i i can i can.
Speaker 20 00:57:27
reach out to them i'd rather stick to just monday through friday i mean then saturday is something.
Speaker 2 00:57:32
if we need guys at the work that we're asking to work you know yeah okay so but they're they're open they they know that punch is a priority anyway so i told them you know as soon as punch tells me i'll tell you so that's that's fine if you don't want to do that that's fine yeah no i prefer not to i mean um oh the overhang uh coping overhang at 8th street.
Speaker 2 00:58:02
Um, on the track, is that an inch and a quarter. 
Speaker 20 00:58:12
Um, no, I mean, I think the coping overhang is one inch, but I don't know, why, why would it be different on the track than the other wall, the end wall, the transverse wall, the pool and spa. 
Speaker 2 00:58:25
So on one side it said, I want, you know, I'm more limiting it to what I'm working on, but as I was, so I, I talked to Ponch and, and he was like, it's three quarters of an inch, I'm sure, and I'm looking at it going, I've got two inches of space here, there's no way, it's three quarters of an inch, you sure? And he's like, yeah. So I look at the plan.
Speaker 20 00:58:43
You have two inches of space from where. 
Speaker 2 00:58:46
From his, where, where he's got his control line of where the coping is supposed to end. So.
Speaker 20 00:58:54
You got two inches of space from rough concrete wall to his.
Speaker 2 00:58:59
Line right that way you're saying right? Yeah, and then I got more on the on the south wall because you guys made a shift with the wall, so, So that on the south wall.
Speaker 20 00:59:15
South wall a longitudinal wall opposite from the house. Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 00:59:23
So when I looked at the plan, That the plan shows two inches on the south wall and two inches on the north wall Which is the house wall, but that the marker is behind the tile So I'm assuming that's an error.
Speaker 20 00:59:36
But when you look at the well the plan change like we're not doing right hoping overhang face the upper plan anymore I mean bridge means it I think he changed it to a one-inch overhang. I mean, I'll ask him I mean, I think we need to Load what we need to float for our tile.
Speaker 2 00:59:58
so my my issue is is the thickness of the plaster that's why i'm concerned right right well and.
Speaker 20 01:00:03
that's what i was gonna say what we need to flow to for the tile based on the thickness of the plaster right which you have from bc pro to finish base of tiles to call the half to five eights right i think that's where we landed so you're gonna go to five eights plus membrane c plus dc pro i mean that might be another quarter right right so i mean we don't need to do the full inch, um if we don't have to right but we have to know what those buildups are and i'm convinced that dc.
Speaker 20 01:00:42
pro with the rough you know loop roller you know textured finish is more than a quarter inch right.
Speaker 2 01:00:54
It can be.
Speaker 20 01:00:55
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 01:00:55
I mean, well. I actually think, you know, I was reading the other day, you know, and it was like, I was reading the other day and it's like, no, we actually want a thickness of 332nd for the minimum. And so I was like.
Speaker 20 01:01:10
Well, and 332nd is your thickness of BC Pro in a thin area.
Speaker 2 01:01:15
As your base.
Speaker 20 01:01:16
But it's not. Yeah, it's not the thickness of the BC Pro at the peaks of the rough texture. Right. And so the peak of the rough texture is really where you need at least a half inch from those peaks.
Speaker 2 01:01:30
Right.
Speaker 20 01:01:30
And what is the peak of a rough texture? I mean, that should be, you know, something we know. So, but I think that's, that's, that's the way we should close that. Right. And then Chris Fritz will be happy if we don't take up that whole inch. He's still going to do an inch overhang. Right. And his client gets a slightly. you know but maybe not noticeable but a slightly larger pool right and that's kind of what we call hey we'll do whatever we can we'll make it as big as we can but here were our limitations right so.
Speaker 20 01:02:02
okay so i mean if you tell me hey i got but where we you know where the track gets in so he's going to have a consistent overhang we should have a consistent float and i'll install all the way around the perimeter that allows for our blasters and his coping is going to overhang right and then whether you know by whatever let's say you know an inch from our tile and even where our tracks are that's still the tracks are flush with our tile so it's still an inch past our.
Speaker 2 01:02:30
grass right does that make any sense yeah that makes yeah yeah that makes a lot of sense so, yeah cool i just wanted to that'll be the first thing we hit on, monday most likely i want to make sure i was ready for it so okay.
Speaker 16 01:02:51
Okay, that's what I got. Um, yeah, and did you take pictures. 
Speaker 20 01:03:01
Do you happen to take pictures of the plunge pool at. 
Speaker 2 01:03:07
Broad beach. Yeah, I took a whole first thing I did was I just kind of did a video all the way around it.
Speaker 20 01:03:13
Because I wanted that's a thing like this if we end up getting somebody like Pedro, you know Like even though we're really only concerned with you know, how the details are on the thing with that rendering, My client's gonna if I'm gonna you know for them to feel like they're seeing it right properly They're gonna want it to kind of look like it has the decking around the whole point like the way it is Right, right. No, that's kind of thing.
Speaker 2 01:03:41
You know, we at least have to present, you know what it's going to look like.
Speaker 20 01:03:47
All right, and and that and that all that dark stone is gone, The Infinity, I was just saying, and then all the Darkstone, I convinced Drew that everything should change to Mocha Cream, which is the deck, you know? So, I'll tell you where that goes and how we're going to do it, you know, once you kind of have that done. But, I think the Mocha Cream, which is the stone he's got everywhere over there, which, by the way, obviously, that was the same stone from the same deck's interior. Oh.
Speaker 20 01:04:17
Yeah, yeah, good taste. These people are good taste. Yeah. Although, I think this guy's only worth, like, four or five dollars.
Speaker 2 01:04:24
Well, you know, you can be a little guy, and still have good taste, you know? Right, right, yeah. So.
Speaker 20 01:04:34
Which his sister called me today, and we talked, and so I think we're going to get that other job. so which is on bristol by the golf course south of so where bristol dead ends into the golf course if you're going away from those house right you know san vicente if you make the right and then the left you go around the golf course and you kick bristol back up the house right there and, then there's one and then that turns into franklin up the hill and the same guy so he has out there that he's giving to his sister and then they're building one for the parents right now which is.
Speaker 20 01:05:08
where bristol kind of as you're headed south still towards santa monica turns into franklin and the parents are he's finishing building house for the parents right there so we'll probably have the actual blood parents not the mother-in-law have you met the mother-in-law you met the mother-in-law right oh yeah she called the police oh that's right okay all right so this is for the real parents and this is you know the mom and the dad that prevented us from doing the child job at you know um rocking rocking camp but anyway.
Speaker 20 01:05:39
so she called me today and she's you know she originally wanted a pool with stone and so the price was like 450 grand and she freaked out and then now it's like two-fifths i've never seen a pool with plaster like this before i sent everybody those plastic things that we've done like why is my plaster failing at my house that burned down her moraine her monument house and i'm like well i mean it sounds like we're gonna get she was happy that she's like wait you guys are doing.
Speaker 20 01:06:15
broad beach i said yeah we're doing broad beach we started toyota we maintain all these properties for your family oh i didn't know you guys were in with the family i thought zion did everything i said well i think zion has done a bunch of work for you guys in the past but i hope there were some issues and she's like yeah no drew says nothing then and you know it just took us some.
Speaker 2 01:06:57
A grandkid, a kid that makes... No, just visit my son.
Speaker 4 01:07:01
No, I can't do soccer.
Speaker 2 01:07:33
But you know what? The Kardashians are Iranian, right? I've got some... yeah yeah no no actually you know what's funny is and i can do this because i'm already married.
Speaker 2 01:08:08
and everything so can you right when i started dating ashley ann she wasn't you know but she. wasn't pretty but she wasn't my range my normal range if that makes any sense and you know. right but um try to break up with her a couple times and the lord just didn't let me you know.
Speaker 2 01:08:41
you know and then next thing you know i'm with uh tellers you know podcast on marriage right that the book so the book was written off of the podcast yeah which is which is, which is sermons not not actually a pot right but um and he's like you know the way you know you act out 70 of the people that you see minimum because they don't ever do that and you know.
Speaker 2 01:09:18
the whole point of this makes you better you know like now personally i don't know that i could have done this at 26 you know or whatever you know there's some girls i look at you know no dude if you look at it like he wasn't interested in his wife for the longest time they were just friends.
Speaker 2 01:09:49
and they were like and i think you know. It's well here. Nobody can hear me right? No, dude. I got you beat. I got you beat. You've seen my sister-in-law. She's got a Brian.
Speaker 2 01:10:28
So what you're saying is that essentially, you know, God would have, yeah, like ever be spiritual helpers for me. Like that's how God made it. We have the same value systems, like working out. I prefer to, I prefer to exercise all of my muscles, not just my biceps.
Speaker 2 01:11:20
no you're you automatic okay i'll say one more thing so remember when like what is it first it was like a lap band or no it was lipo and then it was the lap band right so i remember i went to the house one day and danielle was there and she's like yeah dude why she's gonna do it everything.
Speaker 2 01:11:58
right like, i mean i knew everything about it afterwards afterwards everything i spent the next 45 minutes just stay neutral stay neutral don't say anything don't say anything you know and, next thing i know my wife is like what the hell she's like well apparently i'm very, very open with her she's never been so open now remember danielle and i were friends before.
Speaker 2 01:12:28
actually in the night you know yeah i didn't know there was something but so danielle was going through that so she's um i said and you know and then we go over to her house like a couple days later and uh back to the city's house for like a holiday thing, and she's making brownies and she's freaking going into the tub of fudge afterwards like after.
Speaker 2 01:13:02
you mix it and like wiping it all off with her fingers and like i mean dude that dog couldn't have gotten that thing more clean and i'm like looking at it and i'm looking at ashley and looking at it looking at ashley and she's like ashley and like she's got this like look on her face like i don't know what to do like he's gonna say something and i'm so afraid of this or and and this is also extremely funny you know but it's like i'm the bad guy here i'm the bad guy.
Speaker 20 01:13:33
all right all right right exactly oh yeah good times yeah all right cool all right um.
Speaker 2 01:13:43
we'll do posh supposed to let me know on that on the other thing so when i know i'll let you.
Speaker 20 01:13:48
yeah okay so yeah let me know for sure so cool cool all right man have a good week.
Speaker 2 01:13:54
all right dude thanks yep all right you too.
Speaker 15 01:14:18
with ICE officers, with local law enforcement to try to understand a little bit better what's going on so that we can tone down the temperature a little bit, reduce the chaos, but still allow us, as a federal government, to enforce the American people's immigration laws. That is the purpose of my visit. Now, this is step one or step two of that process. There's going to be a lot of work that follows through from here. I'm happy to talk about that, but I think I learned a few things that were very important. So, number one, one of the things I learned is that the guys behind me are doing an incredible job, and frankly, a lot of the media is lying about the jobs they do every single day. Now, it doesn't mean that there aren't occasionally stories out there, there aren't occasionally videos out there that suggest that these guys, or at least some of the people who work for them, are not doing everything right, but peacefully, if you assault a law enforcement officer,
Speaker 15 01:14:50
the Trump administration and the Department of Justice is going to prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law. On the ground here, it's already gotten, for example, did you know that within the last, I think, week or so, maybe even more recently than that, you had a couple of ICE officers who were off-duty with their lives, and then, of course, it was federal law enforcement officers who had to come up, lower the temperature on the situation, and actually get those two off-duty officers to avoid safety. Now, imagine, if you would, your life, and your perspective on law enforcement, if you can't even go to a restaurant without some agitators locking the door and making you feel like your life is in danger. That is the environment that has been created, I think, by a lot of very, frankly, far-left people, but also by some of the state and local law enforcement.
Speaker 15 01:15:44
...who could do a much better job in cooperating... Hey, man, Vice President, here's the one we don't have. I'm going to have to read it to you from a reporter. A local school district here is alleging ICE agents detained a five-year-old after preschool on Tuesday. Are you proud of how your administration is conducting this immigration crackdown? Vice President Vance, I actually saw this terrible story while I was coming to Minneapolis. I see this story, and I'm the father of a five-year-old, actually a five-year-old little boy. I think to myself, my God, this is terrible. How do we arrest a five-year-old? Well, I do a little bit more research, and what I find is that the five-year-old was not arrested. His dad was an illegal alien, and when they went to arrest his illegal alien father,
Speaker 15 01:16:14
the father ran. So the story is that ICE detained a five-year-old. Well, what are they supposed to do? Are they supposed to let a five-year-old freeze to death? I wish we had that one. Well, I'll try and get you cut 19 by the next segment. Former United States Senator Jim Talent is a senior fellow at the Reagan Institute for Peace Through Strength. Hello, Jim. How are you. 
Speaker 21 01:16:40
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Speaker 15 01:18:39
I am doing well, Mr. Hewitt. How are you? Good. We're going to play 20 questions. The 20 questions have to do with the 10 movies nominated for Best Movie of the Year by the Academy today. And the questions are, have you heard of it and have you seen it for each movie? Movie number one, Frankenstein. Have you heard of it? Have you seen it? No and no. And I'm afraid a lot of my answers are going to be along those lines. All right. Number two, Hamnet.
Speaker 13 01:18:54
Hamlet. Is that Hamlet misspelled? No, that's Hamlet with an N in it.
Speaker 15 01:18:58
That's Hamlet with an N in it. No. Definitely no, no. The Secret Agent. No. I like the song from the 60s, Secret Agent. That doesn't count for hearing about it, so that's a no on the... I haven't seen it. That's a... Draws another blank, you. No, no. One battle after another, and they're not talking about reconciliation. I've heard of that one, because that's not a couple articles. So at least you've heard of two of these movies. Jim, what's wrong with Hollywood? I used to go to two movies a week until like five years ago, before COVID. Yeah, I think it's a combination of economics, control by people who don't care about the quality of the movies. Whatever you think about the old Hollywood system, I mean, the men who ran it were ruthless, but they really did care about producing good movies.
Speaker 15 01:19:29
And then, of course, their obsession with woke topics and messaging and the rest of it has really interfered with the creative instincts that they used to have. The last movie I saw was Godzilla Minus One, which was very good. I missed that, too. All right, from very silly Hollywood to very serious. Should President Iran strike Iran and Willie? President... What? Okay, I think he should, and I think he will, but let me go into the background or the reasoning for that. I mean, the reason to do it, there are two reasons to do it. One is because we said we would, and I think it's important to sustain our credibility. And the second is, if it's done properly, it could further weaken the regime. The reason not to do it, you know, is that the rest of the Middle East is really going well now.
Speaker 15 01:20:00
I mean, we're in phase two, which I think we really have a mafia in the egg bowl. I mean, the Lebanese president just said, you know, Hezbollah's got to disarm, got to leave. Syria and Israel are negotiating closer terms. And so, you know, the old legal state. And so there's a danger that if we hit Iran, it could disrupt some of those activities, our allies and partners, diverge us, not to do it. And I think what the president's eventually going to do is hit them in some very targeted way, but something that will hurt them uniquely without disrupting the region. Kind of when he took out Qasem Soleimani. When was that, 2018? 2020. Early 2020. I know, Jim Talent. I hope he hits Karg Island if people tell me the reason not to.
Speaker 15 01:20:33
The Amit Sehgal, very, very serious Israeli analyst, said one of the second-order consequences of President Trump obliterating the Iranian nuclear program was to drive Saudi Arabia further away from the Abraham Accords because they no longer need them. I have not considered that before, but Amit's a very good reporter. What do you think about that? Yeah, I think it's very possible. I believe Dwayne and I discussed that on the pod, that one of the ironic outcomes of the real successes over the last year is that the Gulf states have less of a reason. I mean, they're less afraid of Iran now. But personally, and you might want to ask me this, is, you know, the Saudis are not stupid. And they know what President Trump wants. He wants the Abraham Accords to be expanded. And there are things they want. And so by engaging in this kind of a tactic, being a very reluctant partner in that respect, they're probably hoping to get them.
Speaker 15 01:21:08
You know, there are other countries besides the United States that are good at pursuing their own interests. We don't see that very much in Europe. But we do see it in the Middle East. So that's what I suspect. Because I think MBS wants economic development for the country. He wants stability in the region. He wants to modernize Saudi Arabia. And all of that is advanced by the right kind of agreements with Israel, which may or may not be a formal recognition. That doesn't matter that much. So my last question is, what did you make of the Greenland outline as the president described it, provided it's accurate? I like it, and your producer wrote a great column about it, because he actually read the National Security Strategy, which in discussing Western Hemisphere, I think, mentions five times critical supply chains, the importance of military readiness. This whole episode, this whole exercise for the last year has been about.
Speaker 15 01:21:39
sending a signal that we're very interested in the Arctic and we're going to pursue our claims there, that we're very interested in showing up our supply chains, and Greenland is an important part of that, and that we're going to protect our hemisphere and pursue our own interests. And we got an agreement. I don't know exactly what's in it, but we'll have more freedom to operate militarily, we'll have better access to the rare earths in Greenland, and that's more than we have. So, I don't think President Trump ever really cared about getting sovereignty over Greenland. He wants to integrate Greenland into America's National Security Strategy for the Western Hemisphere. So, I can't wait to see exactly what's in it, but it's got to be better than what we had before, and I don't think we would have gotten it if we hadn't combined his pressure tactics with the negotiations. Jim Talent, it's good to talk with someone who actually, thinks about National Security on a daily basis. Jim Talent, can we follow it on at Jim Talent? I track down the J.D. Vance.
Speaker 15 01:22:12
question and answer with the reporter that I read to you two seconds ago on my play for you now. Cut 19. A local school district here in Leving, I see you as a five-year-old at the preschool on Tuesday. We've also seen a couple of citizens detained by ICE for the last five to last six weeks. Are you proud of how your administration is conducting this event? I read this terrible story while I was coming to Minneapolis. We just left Toledo High this morning for an economic message. And I see this story, and I'm a father of a five-year-old, actually, a five-year-old little boy, and I think to myself, oh my.
Speaker 15 01:22:42
Thank you.
Speaker 22 01:23:36
there you go sir thank you have a good day.
Speaker 15 01:26:05
from inside a house. They don't need a warrant to go inside that person's house. There are very narrow exceptions to the warrant requirement where law enforcement is fired at from inside a house. They don't need a warrant to go inside that person's house. There are very narrow exceptions to the warrant requirement where law enforcement officers don't need a warrant if, for example, they're an immigrant to write their lives. But what we've said and what I propose, what the Department of Homeland Security really has proposed in the Department of Justice is that we can get administrative warrants to enforce administrative immigration law. Now, it's possible, I guess, that the courts will say no, and of course, if the courts say no, we would follow that law, but nobody's talking about doing immigration enforcement without a warrant. We're talking about different types of warrants that exist in our system. Typically, what happens, not always, but typically in the immigration system, those are handled by administrative law judges, so we're talking about getting warrants from those administrative law judges, and then, of course, with other cases, you get warrants from a judge.
Speaker 15 01:26:35
That's very consistent with the practice of American law. I'm sure the courts will weigh in on that. ALJ, by the way, is called an Article 1 judge because it's established by Congress, ALJ in the immigration system. An Article 3 judge is also established by Congress as pursuant to the federal judiciary power of Article 3. Those warrants are different. I'm not going to say they're harder or easier to get, but they're different. I don't have to deal with what's coming to Josh Boshar. It's going to be a bad weekend in the Beltway, Josh. You ready for it? You can trade pro and college football contracts, across the U.S. on Robin Hood.
Speaker 7 01:26:58
One of the great challenges in this world is knowing enough about a subject, to think you're right.
Speaker 15 01:27:05
But, you know, we haven't had a snowmageddon, as they call it here, in about a decade. So the way the forecasters are saying, you guys are in Ohio, you're used to that kind of snow, but we haven't had more than a foot of snow in a long time. I think the snow is better than icy rain, so take the snow. I have a drill, Josh, before we get to the real story. I want to know if you've heard and then seen the 10 movies nominated for Best Picture. So, heard of and seen. Frankenstein. No. No, no? No, no, yeah. Hamnet. Hamnet, never heard of it. No, no. The Secret Agent. No, no. Sentimental Value. No, no. Sinners. No, no. F1. No, no. Trick. Yes, it's very good.
Speaker 15 01:27:36
No, I can't do it. Okay, so that's a hit, though. One battle after another. No, but actually, I thought I'd be getting snow watch list, so. Okay, so that's a yes. A no and a yes. And Begonia. No, no. So you're three out of 20. Okay. And that's better than Noah Rothman, Ileana Johnson, and Jim Tallent. So what's that tell you about Hollywood and movies? Well, the disconnect between what's nominated for the Oscars and what hasn't. And I actually try to see some of the artsier, critically acclaimed movies. You and me both. But some of the ones, I haven't even heard of them, at least half of them, I agree with what you mentioned. I would want to make a shout-out for a song, a surprise song, a song that was not nominated, because I thought it was a good one. I liked it. I know, I liked it. But they're not going to nominate things that people like, and therefore they're not going to get Oscars, and no one's ever going to hear of them.
Speaker 15 01:28:07
All right, let me move on, if I can, Josh, to the big story. If you asked me that a couple days ago, it would have been more bullish, given the comments made by my president and a lot of his inner circle. But at Davos, Steve McCaulsey did suggest that they were going to be looking at a diplomatic option, and that rhetoric was echoed by the president this morning in an answer to the Court of Peace. And, you know, I just feel like Trump is very responsive to the headlines in the news and the visuals coming out of social media. And it does feel like, even though we have moved military assets into the Middle East, and we're prepared, more so than we may have been a week ago, it doesn't seem like, right now, the administration is ready to strike. I mean, I could be surprised, the president has surprised me before, but it just doesn't seem to face the public comments from both the president and Steve McCaulsey.
Speaker 15 01:28:45
Yeah, I mean, look, I hesitate to make predictions for that very reason, and I certainly, I mean, Trump has sort of gone back and forth in terms of his rhetoric in the last week on Iran, but look, there's every bit of evidence that protesters continue to be killed, the human rights disaster, that the horrible atrocities that took place, they're fresh in my mind, but I wonder, given all the news of the last week, whether it was Greenland, whether it was, you know, all the Davos back and forth, whether that's not quite as front and center, quite as front. Now, let me ask you about Greenland, Josh. There are lots of reactions. I thought Trump made Davos great again because it became kind of a joke, and he actually made news there and made it relevant. What did you think about the Greenland deal and the Davos trip?
Speaker 15 01:29:39
So I think there's a lot of TDS on display here. about this rupture, and I can't help but think that he's already been trying to improve the business side of China, which is hard to swear in his comments, because I deal with the more idealistic and strategic comments that Carney made with the Chinese relationship and the intentionated by Semitism that Canada's been playing in recent years. So I do think there's a little bit of posture and a little bit of chest-stuffing from some of the Europeans, but I also think it's a totally needless provocation, and I think there's no national security, Denmark and NATO and the EU, we're all pretty much the same age, I think we still are on the same age, aside from all the threats that Trump made that freaked the heck out of the Scandinavians and the EU, and I don't think that was necessary. Well said, Josh Krausauer.
Speaker 15 01:30:10
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Speaker 15 01:30:40
I've been nominated for one of the best original songs in the Oscar nominations today. I'm one of the few people in America who has two phones, two numbers, because I think journalists do this more than anyone else. I got a phone number that the world has, and I turn it off, and then I have a different number and a different phone. That's making me feel like, Daddy, you don't use. That's why this is the same tower. Call 1-800-411-4... You can also go to ConsumerCellular.com, slash you, give it 454, and they will seek money. Don't throw money. I'm going to play more Vice President Officers in Minnesota. He did a fabulous job. He was a great communicator. I wrote that yesterday in my Washington Examiner. Actually, two days ago in my Fox News column. His first year was super. He's done 100 appearances.
Speaker 15 01:31:11
He's done 50 sit-down interviews. I'm going to play some of that for you when we come back. So what's going on today? I want to make sure that you do not miss the most important thing that President Trump said at Davos. This is the most important thing he said. Cut number five.
Speaker 1 01:31:20
And many have said that Infamous doesn't do what they promised they would do. And I think they probably will, but they were born with rifles in their hands. Literally born. First, they had a rifle put into their hands. But they have to give up their weapons. And if they don't do that, it's going to be the end of them. But many countries have told me, we want to go in and do it. And they really aren't countries that you traditionally think of as being involved in that. But that's, uh, the fire. It has a lot of lebanon in it. Do something about that, please, sir. I call them remnants. They're small remnants compared to what it was before. It was massive, large, powerful countries fighting each other. Viagra and Cialis, they increase blood flow down there. That's why you can physically perform, but they do nothing for arousal.
Speaker 2 01:31:52
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Speaker 15 01:32:17
And now, Hamas has to give up their weapons, or Israel will make them disarmed. The border peace is a good idea, but you can't rebuild Gaza. You can't get it into a rebuilt situation that's actually beautiful, it's very real estate, it's got to be planned, it's got to be done the right way. You can't do that with a bunch of terrorists running around with AK-47s, they have to be disarmed. Now, J.D. Vance in Minneapolis, I'd like some of that, I want to make sure you're all of it. This is cut number 17, he's giving a press conference to the assorted local and national internet communities. And we'll bear cut number 17. I heard from a business leader today, he told me a very tough story, and I think so much of what's gone wrong in Minneapolis is people not trying to understand the perspective of somebody else. Try to understand what somebody else is experiencing, whether they're a police officer or anybody in the community here in Minneapolis. So, they told me a story about this manufacturing facility where an illegal immigrant was being arrested,
Speaker 15 01:32:49
and as these employees are going into the manufacturing facility, all of a sudden, the illegal immigrant shows up, they don't know it's an illegal immigrant, and then a bunch of ICE officers descend. Now, these people just want to go to work, they want to go to work safely, and now all of a sudden, there's a major law enforcement operation happening right outside their place of business. Now, from my perspective, I certainly understand why a business leader or a white employee would say, well, what's going on, it's a little scary, no matter your position in life, if a bunch of cop cars show up and they're arresting someone. Now, the additional context is that we know that people online have been encouraging illegal immigrants that one way they can evade arrest is by showing up at a legitimate place of business, making it impossible for these guys to actually enforce their immigration laws. So, while I can understand the perspective of somebody who doesn't want to see an arrest happen at their place of work, I can also understand the perspective of our immigration enforcement officers who have to do their job and... We can't allow a heckler's veto over our immigration enforcement, and so much of what's gone wrong.
Speaker 15 01:33:20
is the failure to do that. And here's the point. We can do a good job of enforcing our immigration laws without the chaos, but it actually requires the cooperation of state and local officials. If you look at blue cities and blue states, red cities and red states, you go to Austin, Texas, or Memphis, Tennessee, you go to the state of Texas, obviously a very red state, or the state of Tennessee, a very red state, but you've got blue cities within those states, you do not have this level of chaos. The reason why things have gotten so out of hand is because of failure of cooperation, between the state and local authorities and what these guys are trying to do. We have a ton of resources, a ton of ICE agents in the city right now that I would rather us not have. I'd love to send those guys home. They're not even doing targeted immigration enforcement. They are trying to protect ICE officers who are doing immigration enforcement because when a crowd surrounds them and these guys call 911, the local officials, the local cops have been told to stand down.
Speaker 15 01:33:51
So we have people here who aren't even doing immigration enforcement, they're doing force protection, so that if a rioter tries to ruin the life or assault an ICE officer, they're actually protected. Now, why doesn't it make more sense for the local cops to get involved in that situation? Why not just have the mayor or the local officials tell the police officers, you know what, if an ICE officer is being assaulted by a far-left agitator, you are invited, you should actually help him. That's what would work out in any normal situation, and that's what happens in nearly every jurisdiction, red or blue, in the United States of America. The reason it hasn't happened here is because the local authorities have been told, well, stand down, do not help ICE, promote the violence, promote the agitation, but don't do anything to lower the temperature and lower the chaos. Now, I'm going to play one more cut from the Minneapolis press where I did most of them in hour two, but then I'll go to the Toledo speech, I'm doing them in reverse order, but the press conference is in Minneapolis.
Speaker 15 01:34:22
on AM 1280, the answer is talking about your city, your wacky mayor, your buffoon governor. They need to get with the program, and the chaos will go. Remember, chaos brought ice to your city. Ice didn't bring chaos to your city. Cut number 18, Vice President Vance in Minneapolis. Here's another example of how the lack of cooperation between state and local officials makes it harder for us to do our job, turn up the temperature. Let's say, for example, we have a criminal migrant who is a sex offender. And let's say that we've got to go and arrest that person who, Democratic or Republican, wants a sex offender living in their community. I would assume, I would hope, that most people don't. But because they're an illegal alien, we don't know their last address. We may have known their address three years ago, but we don't know their address now. Now, what we'd like to do is talk to local officials and say, you know what?
Speaker 15 01:34:53
A SNAP application, a food stamps application, maybe that could give us insight to where this person is today. Or maybe they had some local court trouble. We could go to a local courthouse, or even a local jail, and try to find where this criminal sex offender is today. The local authorities have been told, do not cooperate. So these guys are trying to go out and enforce the law. They're trying to arrest sex offenders, but they're trying to do it in an environment where local officials have been told, do not help them, do not provide intelligence about where these sex offenders might be. This is disgraceful. And there are a lot of things that all of us could do better to lower the temperature, but the number one thing that I learned today is the best way to facilitate reasonable enforcement of the law, but also to lower the chaos in Minneapolis, would be for state and local officials to cooperate. And one final positive note, I actually think that there's some hope, I think there are reasons to believe that these people are going to step up and actually.
Speaker 15 01:35:25
ask the cops to protect our ICE officers when they're being assaulted. We're going to ask the local courts to cooperate with getting criminal sex offenders out of our community. That's a good thing. That's the good news. And that's something I'm going to work on when I get back to Washington. But please, if you're a local official, if you're the mayor of this town, if you have any influence over those people, just tell them to cooperate. Because we can have immigration enforcement operated smoothly and without the chaos that we see in Austin, Texas or Memphis, Tennessee, or even rural parts of the state of Minnesota. All we need is a little cooperation. I guarantee we're going to do the best to be professional, to respect people's rights, to not do anything that we don't have to do in order to enforce immigration laws that would make our lives a lot easier, it would make our officers a lot safer, and it would make Minneapolis much less chaotic if we had a little bit of cooperation from the state and local officials. His message was the same that he delivered in Toledo a little bit earlier in the day.
Speaker 15 01:35:56
So I'm going to grab a clip from that as well. Cut number 14. This is the vice president in Toledo. Now I'm headed from here to Minneapolis, where we're going to talk to some of our ICE agents, talk with local officials about how we can turn down the chaos. And my simple piece of advice to them is going to be, look, if you want to turn down the chaos in Minneapolis, stop fighting immigration enforcement and accept that we have to have a border in this country. It's not that hard. If you look all across our country, what's happening in Minneapolis is happening almost nowhere else in the United States of America. And that's because, whether it's in Texas or Tennessee, it's in red states, it's in blue cities, even within our country, most people are cooperating with the simple principle that we ought to be able to enforce our immigration laws and get illegal criminals the hell out of the United States of America. It's really not that complicated. But in a few distinct cities, you see this craziness because the far left has decided that the United States of America shouldn't have a border anymore,
Speaker 15 01:36:28
and they are willing to fight and penalize and not even insult our law enforcement officers in order to fight with the basic principle that anybody ought to be able to come to the United States of America. Well, I'll tell you right now, the Trump administration, we reject that. We are going to get illegal criminals out of our country, and we're not going to let a few left-wing radicals stop us. Let me sneak in one more. Country 9, JVS, and Toledo. When I talk about lowering the temperature, those are the two things that we want the local authorities to do. Help us find sex offenders and get them out of their community. And again, this is bonkers. Think about this. If you've got a neighbor who's a sex offender and somebody wants to go and take that person away, I'm going to raise my hand to guess. Please, get that person away from my children. What is wrong with Minneapolis authorities? They so hate the idea of enforcing immigration laws that they're telling their people not to get sex offenders out of their community. It's crazy, and it's why we see so much chaos in Minneapolis, but not elsewhere.
Speaker 23 01:37:05
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Speaker 15 01:37:19
economy coming up remind everybody i've got a great audience all across the united states but it's no surprise that a huge audience inside the beltway and 570 the answer and on the sale mission and my beltway audience is worried because they're not a snowstorm friendly place excuse me i'm not too mean okay and they're not friendly they are allergic to snow even the mention of snow so they've gone out they've loaded up but the one thing they need to get is really factor because two things are going to happen by sunday night 10 to 20 inches of snow we're supposed to drop on the beltway between now and sunday night and people have to move that snow and they're gonna do with the shovel and when they deal with the shovel they're gonna use muscle sets that they haven't used since 10 years ago when they had a major snowstorm most of the time people just let them know they push around the room there's not much in virginia certainly not maryland in the district and they haven't got the opportunity to get off the road so if.
Speaker 15 01:37:51
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Speaker 24 01:38:02
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Speaker 15 01:38:18
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Speaker 15 01:38:49
President Trump this week said that he has made some mistakes. I'm curious, what steps the administration is taking to rectify those? And do you think the president's in Minneapolis today will call him attention? The President says that there are mistakes that have been made. My thought on that is, of course, there have been mistakes made, because you're always going to have mistakes made in law enforcement. I mean, we all do those things. Probably every single person in this room knows a police officer. 99% of our police officers probably more than that are doing everything right. Some people are going to make mistakes. That's the nature of law enforcement. But the number one way that we can lower the mistakes that are happening, at least with our immigration enforcement, is to have local jurisdictions that are cooperating with us. There are some very basic things that would make Minneapolis look like a blue city where you do not have this chaos in immigration enforcement.
Speaker 15 01:39:19
because the local police and the local authorities are cooperating with us. So when you look at Memphis, Tennessee, or Austin, Texas, or any other community virtually across the United States of America, and you don't see the same level of chaos in Minneapolis, the natural conclusion is that it's not what ICE is doing in Minneapolis, it's what Minneapolis authorities are doing to prevent ICE from doing their jobs. And that's exactly what's happening. Rose said his primary reason to go to Toledo was to give an economic address at Glass City. Cut number 13. We are one year in to raising wages for workers instead of declining wages for workers. We are one year in to $18 trillion of new investment for the United States of America instead of investment going to every other country but the United States of America. We are one year in to getting illegal aliens out of our country so that American homes can go to American citizens, which is exactly where they ought to go. And we are one year in to seeing lower inflation and bigger paychecks.
Speaker 15 01:39:51
and more opportunity for the American worker. Ladies and gentlemen, I think that we are on the cusp of the greatest economic year in the history of the United States of America. We're investing in you. We're investing in American workers. We're investing in American businesses, and we're saying to everybody that the United States is open for business, but only if you invest in our great American people and our great American businesses. We are done with the old approach of shipping American jobs overseas and investing in everybody else. We are back to investing in the American worker, and we're not going to stop fighting for you until we return America to the true golden age of great American prosperity. Okay, another home run, cut number 10.
Speaker 15 01:40:46
Why are we going to have the biggest tax year, the biggest refund year in the history of the United States of America? It's because the President of the Republican Congress got no taxes on tips. It's because we got no taxes on overtime. Three promises that we ran on, three promises the President of the United States kept, and because of it, every single person in this room and every single person in the state of Ohio is going to benefit from it. That's what we said we were going to do. We were going to end the green energy scam and invest in American energy workers, and we did it. We're going to reward companies for investing in the United States of America and penalize companies for trying to invest in communist China and places all over the world. We said we were going to do it, and because of it, we're starting to see the benefits for American workers every single day.
Speaker 15 01:41:17
We have the lowest inflation, wealth, and plastic. We have rising wages for American workers. You know that under the Biden administration, there's terrible, terrible times. Under the Biden administration, we lost an average of $3,000 because inflation was out of control and wages were snagged for our country. We've already gained over $1,300 in real wage gains, and my friends, we are just getting started. So take a second. There's still a lot we need to know, but I do believe you're right about the year ahead. The right is that we do not have to do this.
Speaker 15 01:41:52
I get to say I'm a good pollster, so I'm happy about that. Are you in the path of the snowstorm? Oh, yes. I hope you don't have anyone out making phone calls tonight. John, would you explain to us what you went out and asked people about with regards to lowering health care costs in America? Well, by the way, you filed this poll, so we had polls back in early November in 16th Congressional Districts and Battleground Districts, and they were telling us that, you know, health care at 39% was the most biggest cost of living. And food was right behind it at 38%. Health care was ahead of it. And, you know, in April, when I keep health care affordable, they support certainly what President Trump has done to lower drug prices, where, you know, they blame the former supermarkets for the high prices without down 73%. And at the same time, you know, we've got, by the way,
Speaker 15 01:42:23
one of the things that's relevant to President Trump's story on this today, you know, he expects the Democrats to try to do his shit again. Because the economy grew at 5% in the last quarter, which is great. And it's growing faster than the rate of inflation right now. And back when we did our survey in October, it was October, people thought that 53-36 was the most expensive country, but the Democrats should compromise and allow the government to alter it again. So, you know, you've got a situation that's going to...
Speaker 15 01:42:60
Get your free Thomas Sowell eBook, Trickle Down Theory, and Tax Cuts for the Rich. Seoul explains how cutting taxes blames us, they don't believe, they make it about us that we're trying to, that we're working with big drug companies or we're working for big insurance or whatever, they say we don't get a fair shot in the media, that's what President Trump is talking about, the media misinformation, because if you listen to Salem Radio, if you listen to your show, if you're following Fox or Newsmax, etc., those 4 to 10 voters are the ones where the President votes for Republican Congress, and the other voters, there's another 4 to 10 that are left in the Senate, and then there's another 3 to 10 that don't pay attention either, they get information that they don't get, for example, like in Minneapolis, when the.
Speaker 15 01:43:36
vice officer was getting beat up by 3 guys with a snow shovel and broomstick, they had to shoot one of the guys, it was basically that, you know, there was no importance of the attacks on him, it was just that, but John, when they think about, the one piece of information they can't avoid is when they go pick up their prescription, right, on thewindfall.com, on thewindfall.com, who do they blame for that? 73 to 20, by the way, they proved what Trump is doing to keep the prices of drugs down, this is from the December National Survey of 1,600 likely voters, and they blame the pharmaceutical companies, 73%, for the high prescription drug prices, and really, nothing else comes close, and they say that prescription drugs are essential to health care affordability, 93 to 5, they favor employers, their choices are becoming.
Speaker 15 01:44:06
Outreach 68 to 15. They don't want the federal government like restricting their choices where they could, you know, like they say they'll support a mandate from Congress that protects employer choices 50 to 17. They want the ability to use the market to force the drug companies to lower their prices. Do they think President Trump is doing that when you call them? Do they get him credit? Yes, they do, but he has to fight for that credit because unless we tell them about it, like you saw the president out there before he went to Europe was talking to his one-year accomplishments. It's basically to get it out there because otherwise it's not reported. And, you know, as three-part of these voters, they're concerned about the government being in the market. And head to finalwindfall.com. Both John and I believe in conservatives for lower health care costs that sponsor this program. They send John in the field to get good information.
Speaker 15 01:44:36
It's all there at finalwindfall.com. Thank you, John McLaughlin. That means a big Jim Garrity is in the house with us. Garrity, the indispensable. Jim, as you are my cultural reporter, you write for The Washington Post, you write for National Review, you do the Three Martini podcast, you're often on the Editors podcast for National Review. So you're a man of culture. The Oscars were nominated. The nominations came out this morning. I'm looking for your reactions to the best picture, all right? Number one, Frankenstein. At least heard of that one. Didn't see it. Don't expect to see it. Okay, I know that's not a typo. You're not mispronouncing it. It actually is an N, not an L. I have a vague, I remember seeing it on the box office display. Didn't see it. The Secret Agent. That actually sounds good, but I haven't seen it.
Speaker 15 01:45:06
Sentimental value. You could be making up that one, and I would not be able to tell you whether it's true or not. Not making it up. Wouldn't be true. Not going to do it. Wouldn't do it. Sinners. Okay, heard of that one. Haven't seen it. Heard people raving about it. It's about vampires in the Old South. So that one I'm not surprised by. At least it imperviated some with Michael B. Jordan as opposed to the other Michael Jordan. It received 16 Oscar nominations. F1. Okay, I actually saw that one. So did I. Yes, I really enjoyed it. Kind of almost felt like old-fashioned movie making. It's not a groundbreaking movie. And the theme is about, you know, pursuing greatness, but also kind of passing the torch to the new generation. I'll be rooting for that one. I know it's never going to win.
Speaker 15 01:45:37
Not a chance. It's Brad Pitt's in it. It's not going to win. Train Dreams. Again, you've been making that up. No, I'm not making it up. Let me out. You haven't seen that? No. Marty Supreme. Okay, heard of that one. Heard people saying good things about it. Haven't seen it. Definitely the biggest idea of what it's about. Don't really. Unlikely to see it. I have seen it. They were lying to you. One battle after another. Heard of that one. I hear from the likes of Kyle Smith, who used to be with us in National Review and now over at the Wall Street Journal, just insufferably overhyped and overdone and having a political metaphor and all that stuff. Leonardo DiCaprio throws himself into whatever role he's doing, but it's about Trump being bad, so I figured I'll do the big one. Oh, I didn't know that. Another reason not to say it. I'd heard of it, but now that I've heard you say that, I won't say it.
Speaker 15 01:46:08
And then, Begonia. I feel like I might have heard. Is this about the kidnapping of the CEO? No idea. Never heard of it. So I've seen F1 and Marty Supreme. I've seen two out of ten. I like the one out of ten, the one that can't win because Brad Pitt's in it. You've seen none? I've seen one out of ten, and you've heard of Sinner. So you've heard one more than I've heard of. So, what's that say about the movies, or what's that say about you, and what's that say about me? Okay, well, what it says about me is that I generally see action movies, superhero movies, you know, stuff like that, summer movie types, right? I am not the target audience for most Oscar bait. It doesn't mean I've never enjoyed them, but we all know what Oscar bait is, you know, where you're playing a character who's somewhat mentally challenged, and I won't use the line from the Robert Downey Jr. did.
Speaker 15 01:46:42
No, don't use that line, no. But another lasting idea, like, you know, often it's someone who's trying to stretch as an actor.
Speaker 18 01:46:46
Historical dramas, you know, if you're playing somebody...
Speaker 15 01:46:47
Anything with Daniel Day-Lewis in it.
Speaker 18 01:46:48
Yep, yep. Like, if most movies are your taste, great.
Speaker 15 01:46:51
I know very rarely have I seen an Oscar winner. Argo, I remember seeing a couple years ago. You've got robot kids.
Speaker 8 01:46:56
Do your robot kids go to the movies. 
Speaker 15 01:46:59
Not that often. We'll go see superhero movies. We actually felt pretty good about all three of the ones that came out this year. Superman, Fantastic Four, and Thunderbolts. We did not like the Captain America one. It did not work. We're the general mainstream consensus that for a long time the Marvel movies were about as much fun as you could have in the theaters. And then they did Endgame and it's been very hit and miss since then. They're teenagers. I know I have young grandchildren so my movie options are very limited. I used to be, with the best thing this issue had, a two film a week person when even when my kids were in the house we just loved movies. There aren't any movies, Jim. My point is, it's collapsed. And I think this list proves that. Am I making too much of a point of it? I don't know if the Oscar selections are the most natural measuring stick but what is indisputable.
Speaker 15 01:47:30
is what they used to call the middle class movies. Movies that had a budget from about $15 million to $200 million. A lot of comedies were in this category. A lot of romantic comedies were in this category. But this basically has disappeared. And this is where, Will Smith in Hitch would be that kind of movie. Kevin James or something like that. Every Kevin Costner movie ever made. Yes, exactly. Basically, movies are either small, independent, or they're giant blockbusters that are designed to have a theme park at Universal or Disney or something like that. The movies used to form the culture. My kids grew up on the movies. My grandkids grew up on the movies. I think I took my daughter to see Titanic 10 times when she was 14 or 13. So we got into this. We'll come back after Oscar something important are they dead by streaming and by consensus that the filmmakers have lost their mind.
Speaker 15 01:48:03
Or is it just a bad couple of decades what Billy Crystal in the Princess Bride is only mostly done I'm mostly dead because you can get that now cost about 20 bucks at least where I have to go to movies I don't like you I see movies maybe once a week once every two weeks But they only cost seven bucks the more the ticket cost the more movies gotta be good The movies gotta be something where you feel really good from the trailer or the commercial or you like the book or something like that Yeah, you become a much bigger risk if money bucks are dead I'm coming back with a technical question for Gary because his kids build robots And they're bound for the school in the Charles that actually learns Jim is my tech consultant Jim I have here my iPhone which is many years old with my Cleveland Browns orange on it I'm gonna just don't get quarterbacks already. Don't anyone's going home. I think I just can't I'm gonna get a new one today Can I say to the person at the Apple help desk? I'm sure this has been happening has malware on it.
Speaker 15 01:48:35
I want my contacts. I want my number. I don't want any malware. Can they make that work. 
Speaker 18 01:48:38
Let's cover ten pro tips for working with the cursor agent So I've got cursor open and my agent on the right and the first tip is to you probably not I'll sell you something with the much higher caliber.
Speaker 15 01:49:22
If you told my phone, you said, Jim, you've been to Ukraine a bunch of times, no Russian spyware, you've been to Taiwan, nothing Chinese, I feel a little insulted. I've been told by reliable sources that both of those countries' governments have a file on it. That probably just means, that file just means they have a paper, we don't like this guy. Look at what he wrote. I know I've got spyware. When people come to the house for dinner who are in the government, they make me put it downstairs under a bunch of wooden crates, and then they... I believe that. You interview the president fairly regularly, and I assume that when they're doing that, they not only scan all your recording equipment, they probably frisk you. I don't know if you feel like you've been to the proctologist. I'm just figuring it out in a full check whenever you're in the president. But do the robot kids help? Do having robot kids help you figure this stuff out? This is not really their specialty, but I'm glad you mentioned it to you, because we're now... Early January is when they get the assignment. So, my younger son, I'm just never going to see him until the first competition.
Speaker 15 01:49:54
They are building, they are designing the electrical stuff to worry about. I'll get to see him in, like, maybe a month from now. Do the power fail? Does the light flicker in the house at that time? They're probably not doing it here, but they're basically... Oh, go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead, Virginia. I think the power goes out. I'm fairly certain AI will come, you know, sentient, and it's going to happen because of what we robot run. Are you, by the way, ten seconds. Do all the robot kids get together? What do they do for fun? Oh, this. They're into this. And if someone... You need to write a book. You need to write a book called Robot Kids. There's your title. Ben, how are you? I'm doing well, I apologize. Megan woke up to see me. Oh, that's okay. Young fathers don't have to ever apologize for anything.
Speaker 15 01:50:25
No, there was no way. I tried, I tried. You had better get to the store before the snow comes, because... I've spent approximately $7,000 on good words in the last three hours. And don't shovel the snow. It doesn't matter. Don't hurt your back. You've got the baby. Oh, no, no. I have two different kinds of ice melting. It's all good. I'm good. I want to focus on Mark Carney. Did you listen to his speech at Davos? Not only did I listen to it, I went off with it on the Big Ben show. I know. And I found it refreshingly honest. I don't know what your opinion of... Oh, I hated it. I think he's cowardly and hypocritical. So, we have a different opinion. No, that's okay. What I also thought, though, is that this is not something that he's going to abide by in any real way. It's not something that he truly... On a...
Speaker 15 01:50:56
Hypocritical is a good word for him. Because this is something that I think a smart person recognizes, but then he takes the wrong lessons from it. Meaning that, I think that this whole, you know, admission that, like, oh, we were actually just depending on the Americans all along is honest and is refreshing. I think that the next step, though, is saying, well, because of that, you know, the implication is basically we need to expand the nuclear umbrella. And I think that that's something that is going to be terrible for Europe and for global stability. And you're going to have... But they're not going to do it, though, Ben. This is fact-free posturing. I don't think so, because they've got 42 million people. They're just... GDP is $2.4 trillion. They're spending a grand total of $82 million over the next five years to get to 2%. He said in the course of this speech, I've got submarines, you know. He's got four submarines.
Speaker 15 01:51:26
Four. One was built in 2015. The other three were built in 2003 and 2000. He's got 68,000 active duty troops, 27,000. He's not Finland or Poland. By the way, the funniest thing about the Greenland deployment that I said to a friend of mine, and that friend was looking at me with a phone, by the way, is that it was, like, oh, so that's, what, 50% of their force? Yeah. I think they're Greenland. But what really gets my goat is when he talks about the hegemons. Like, we're the same thing. All right, he can sell oil to China because we protect freedom of the seas. If there isn't freedom of the seas and China's not buying, he can only sell his oil to us. But don't you think it's useful to at least have someone get up on that stage, the reason Donald Trump, and say, we cannot continue this fiction that we are all living in this system of a rules-based international order, where, you know, we are all, you know,
Speaker 15 01:52:00
sort of existing underneath some type of international law and agreement. We're all sort of in the room together, kumbaya. There are two ways to say it. The way you just said it, or the way, and by the way, the reason we aren't is because China got into the WTO and cheated. They steal intellectual property. They do dumping. They don't care about the environment. They use dirty coal. Bring it in, you know, have, have, uh, have most favorite nation status, have, have, you know, trade, have that, you know, be something that increases alliances with the weapon. Instead, it's about exporting their values and not importing ours. And that just, you know, you're going to read a book to your little boy one day called Willie the Wimp, uh, because every little four-year-old has it. Have you seen it? It's a gorilla and a little chimpanzee.
Speaker 15 01:52:31
And Willie is the wimp and the chimpanzee is the giant chimpanzee. And the giant chimpanzee takes care of the little monkey. And that's what we are. We're the giant gorilla and they are the little monkey. And I'm glad that they're a nice little monkey. I like them, but you don't go around with a bunch of bankers and, you know, he's the only guy who's got a standing ovation. He's got a standing ovation. is that it's just everything is posturing and behind the scenes they're all going to the same you know things together and they're all i mean got to do some net with donald trump apparently you know it's just one of these things where you know it's just so deeply corrupt and one of the things i do appreciate about this particular moment has related to the green situation is that the president's approach to foreign policy i think has been vindicated so many times that now he thinks he can just like he can hit that number on roulette every single time i can get.
Speaker 15 01:53:03
it every single time you know and i'm not sure he's going to get everything you know i follow lucas on special report last night he's on greenland and i think we had a breakthrough this week because now everyone agrees greenland is necessary for golden dome and it's just the details that's the breakthrough and the breakthrough too is that as i have argued as my friend dr vio has argued in multiple essays including the wall street journal there is a sovereignty solution here that is right in front of you and it just you know basically requires that type of movement in our direction it does not require an invasion it does not require a system and normally buying it but it requires america to have a sovereign footprint there that is in our security interests both long term and right now and i think that that's something that everyone has come around to uh because it's just impossible to deny yeah and you know that's that's something that again you know to your point trump sort of forces people into admitting the truth that they.
Speaker 15 01:53:34
don't want unless they can go to a place in posture like carnegie i'm going to come right back with ben during the break because we're talking about the big ben podcast this week and about his expert from uva on cell phones if you haven't listened to it uh big ben podcast on the box podcast network.
Speaker 15 01:54:15
I think this thing is really a lot more simple than people seem to be making it. the work that Jonathan Haidt has done, and everyone else who's kind of, you know, they've developed a whole conversation within the space. I think it's that simple, isn't it, Hugh? And I realize I may sound completely out of touch on this, or as if I'm some, you know, throwback stoic, but the question that I really have for you is, why can't you just delete the apps? Why can't you just get rid of them? He went further when he said, no cell phones at night in the bedroom, because they lose sleep, and of course the boys are looking for body pictures, and number two, in school, computers are overrated, that we learn by doing things. I said, hallelujah! That point is actually the more critical point from my perspective.
Speaker 15 01:54:45
So first off, no phones in the room. That's me, by the way, as an adult, too. It's not as bad as... I actually think the TV should be, you should have a central location or whatever for it, but it should be something that you intentionally do. It should not be constant background noise or what have you. But when it comes to the school part of this, Hugh, we are in constant fights about this, and I will say this as someone who sends, you know, my kids to some pretty top-flight, expensive schools, no offense to any listener, but, like, I mean, I think they're a little too pricey, because I have a home school all the way, but anyway. The point is, that is a point of contention among everyone. It's not just the public schoolers, it's the private schoolers, too, and the schools are constantly pushing you to do more screenings, to say, like, oh, no, I mean, just this snowstorm, you know, coming up, you know, here.
Speaker 15 01:55:18
The school sends out something about, you know, be sure to, you know... have your kid take the iPad home, or zoom in for class. It's like, no, we're not going to do that. We're not going to do that. We're just not going to do that because that's not the way that people learn. What I was glad to hear you say is that it's become a source of opprobrium if you were in a restaurant and you give the kid the phone. Because I cast a glance like that, 30 seconds span. How often do you get that look? For me, I have, quite honestly, I have never opened my phone and shown my kids a video. I will say that I've been at tables where other people have done that and my kids have watched and I have not objected. But I've never done that with my phone and I don't ever object to it because I think that I've been at tables where, for me, I have, quite honestly, I have never opened my phone and shown my kids a video.
Speaker 15 01:55:49
I will say that I've been at tables. It's become a source of opprobrium if you were in a restaurant and you give the kid the phone. Because I always, I cast a glance like that, 30 seconds span. How often do you get that look? Uh, for, for me, uh, I have, quite honestly, I have never opened my phone and shown my kids a thing. Ah. That's right, never. Um, I will, I will say that I've been at tables where other people have done that, and my kids have watched, and I have not objected, but I have never done that with my phone, and I don't ever intend to, because I think that is an admission of failure. Yeah, but I do believe that they are permissible on long car rides and airplane flights. Oh, like, that's fine. Long car rides and airplanes, it is, it's the same thing that everybody else is doing, you know, so I, I don't have a problem with that. You can bring a certain amount of games and entertainment, but eventually they're gonna move from the Play-Doh to Disney and watch other things. Coming back with Ben on Jack Smith, though.
Speaker 16 01:56:20
I knew, with certainty, that no one was coming to help. My breath stopped as the Alpha advanced, and I fell backward, certainly.
Speaker 15 01:56:29
I am back with Ben Dominich, host of the Big Ben Podcast on the Fox Podcast Network. You can read him in the Spectator, you can read his sub stack at the Transom, and you can follow him on at EpiDominich. Ben, I want to give you four uninterrupted moments for your comments on Jack Smith and what we take away from this, because I've already said my piece three or four times. Well, I think, first off, I'll just say, I don't, I'm not sure that I've seen a person who has occupied a role as important as Jack Smith be in a position in front of a congressional hearing where he was more, where anyone that I know of. Was more dismissive, disrespectful, and, you know, quite frankly, full of hubris about everything that he did in his role, ever. in front of the Congress. And keep in mind, we've seen Anthony Fauci just define...
Speaker 15 01:56:59
We've seen Ollie Norton. Ollie Norton, I mean, this is quite, you know, this is sort of, you know, one-one to achieve. And so I think that Jackson came in and did himself no favors because there was no humility on this part, especially when it came to the issues related to routing the phone records of members of Congress and the records of all these different citizens across the country. I hope that you have seen, maybe you played at the audio of Chip Roy talking to him about this, but the idea that you could just seize and go after all these things, years after the fact, by the way, and not inform members of Congress that you're just going to be snarfing up their phone records, I mean, that's obscene. You can't do that. Now, Justice Jackson, when he was Attorney General, gave a very famous speech about the power of the prosecutor and why you've got to be very careful. He went rogue. He went Javert. And I think Eileen Cannon's.
Speaker 15 01:57:30
ruling that his appointment was unconstitutional, bears up very well because he had never... You can appoint a U.S. Attorney to be a special counsel, and that's fine. They got the right temperament, the right judgment, they passed through Senate confirmation. This guy is a fanatic, and therefore... It's obscene. I mean, you said, he went Javert. Javert had the honor, I don't want to do that. I just want to go away. I'm just saying, there was a moment of clarity for him. This is a guy who just really thinks that he did everything right. That was one of the tips questions to him. And Kevin Tiley, I did it a slightly different way. But it's one of these things where you come in front of Congress after something as botched as this, and you don't at least have the humility to admit maybe we overreached in certain areas.
Speaker 15 01:58:00
Maybe we should have done something differently. We were trying to do this in a responsible way and instead we gave a reflection of it as a partisan investigation. There was none of that. So the key question is, did Merrick Garland get what he wanted or did he just get plunked by someone making a recommendation? That is a big question. I don't know the answer to it. I would incline more toward the latter, but that's only because I think Garland is not particularly bright. He's kind of hapless, right? Yeah, that is my impression of him based on limited interaction, but I think that that is not... I think he got jobs. Last question. Of the ten movies nominated for Best Picture, how many of them have you seen? Oh, I've seen about half of them. Oh, you're the outlier. You're the sixth person I've asked.
Speaker 15 01:58:30
Hugh, I've seen... I saw 27 movies last year and of them, nine were kids' movies, okay? And the best movie that I saw last year in theaters was F1, which everyone hates. That's the only other one anyone's seen, and I agree. It was great, but you actually saw Sinner? Yes. No, I liked it. It was good. You're the only one. We're not going to your movie recommendations anytime soon. Look, I will tell you, the movie that I saw that I enjoyed the most last year was Weapons, and I also really liked Eddington, which everyone hates, but everyone but me and Jonathan Hortz. At least you've seen them, though. At least you've seen... I just couldn't go back to movies. Me and Jonathan Hortz. Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 15 01:59:02
Welcome back, America. I'm Hugh Hewitt. I'm joined by Matt Contenetti, who is, of course, head of domestic policy studies at the Canadian Enterprise, no, the American Enterprise Institute. He's also the Canadian Wall Street Journal columnist, and he's just back from Canada. I was going to call him the Kim Philby of Canada, but I think Don McLean or Guy Burgess sounds more Canadian. What were you doing up north in the land of hot maple syrup? That's slanders on my character, comparing me to those Cambridge spies. No, I was in Canada, engaged in high-stakes diplomacy, Hugh. I went to Toronto Wednesday evening, spent a whole 24 hours there with our northern neighbor, touched down in Ottawa briefly on my way back to D.C., and I can report the following. Canada's not happy with President Trump and his rhetoric on Greenland or the 51st state, and so my job there was to explain what Trump is up to in shaping the world.
Speaker 15 01:59:32
in order to create kind of the sinews, restore the sinews of Western civilization in preparation for the competition with China. I'd like to think I convinced a few of my Canadian friends, but it was tough going. You need to sit down with Mark Carney. Have you listened to the Mark Carney address at Davos yet? Oh, yes. You know, that speech was the talk of the chattering class here in D.C. almost as soon as it was delivered, and so ever curious, I went and I looked it up, I watched the speech, and I have to say I don't know what all the fuss is about, Hugh. I think it's one of the most anti-American speeches because it's cowardly. He never mentions America or Donald Trump, but he talks about the hegemons, meaning that China and us are alike, and then he runs through, I'll just give you a... So we placed the sign in the window, we participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.
Speaker 15 02:00:06
This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transit. All right, Matt, a rupture. They are not protected from the world without us. They depend upon our nuclear umbrella, our military, they have four submarines, 68,000 soldiers, they spend less than 2% of their GDP on national defense, and from a world leader who depends upon America to the extent that Canada does, it really enraged me. So tell me why I'm wrong.
Speaker 12 02:00:23
Who's going to win the pro football championship this year? Make your pick and trade it on Robin Hood.
Speaker 14 02:00:29
If you think it's years, you're wrong. Months, close enough. Never, that's if you do nothing. Most guys...
Speaker 15 02:00:36
No, I don't think you're wrong. I think there are two main problems with this speech that Prime Minister Carney gave. The first one is, there was no action item. It was all rhetoric. It was all quotations from Thucydides and Vassal Havel. But he never said what he was going to do except have this liberal pluralistic society that he oversees, he governs in Canada. But what does that mean? Is he actually going to spend more money on defense? Is he going to correct the wreckage that Justin Trudeau caused Canada through socialism and through the Green New Deal? In the Canadian economy, America's opened up a tremendous gap in per capita GDP and productivity with Canada. And he needs to address those. And the second thing about the speech was, I thought it was really rich, because he delivered a speech, obviously directed toward President Trump, less than a week after he met with Xi Jinping,
Speaker 15 02:01:07
who does not believe in freedom, wants to set the rules of this new world order in a way that would disadvantage any country not named China. And Carney there was extremely solicitous, even slavish.
Speaker 4 02:01:22
Hey, you.
Speaker 25 02:01:25
My day was good. I'm on your day.
Speaker 2 02:01:29
In fact, what's funny is I remembered stuff that like I didn't remember this morning. I remember it's like, hey, wait a minute. I was awake during the procedure. I remember I woke up looking and I looked at the screen.
Speaker 25 02:01:56
Not yet. Are you super glad to eat. 
Speaker 2 02:02:06
I made a stop on the way to your school and got myself the biggest Taco Bell sandwich.
Speaker 25 02:02:13
you ever had.
Speaker 2 02:02:14
A burrito and a quesadilla.
Speaker 25 02:02:16
Of course you did. Did you actually go to Taco Bell. 
Speaker 2 02:02:19
No, I went to Albert Tacos.
Speaker 25 02:02:22
Oh, you're not going to have, you're not going to spray water. You're going to be diarrhea.
Speaker 2 02:02:28
Bro, it's gonna be thick, it's not gonna spray.
Speaker 25 02:02:33
You're gonna have the smoothest roof ever. It's just gonna glide right down, no pressure.
Speaker 4 02:02:45
Everyone good? Can I watch a video. 
Speaker 25 02:02:52
I have to show you dad more chips in there.
Speaker 2 02:02:57
So, I'm stuffed, obviously.
Speaker 25 02:02:60
Yes, you don't want it.
Speaker 2 02:03:01
So I don't want it, but I'm happy to facilitate for you. Hold on one second at all. Dad's the moment.
Speaker 24 02:03:23
Cory sent an Instagram article about DeFranco.
Speaker 25 02:03:27
The Franco, your tanko. The Franco, not my tanko. I think that's what it is. Oh, that looks cool. I want to see that little short.
Speaker 21 02:03:39
This? Yeah. What is this ball thing over the turret? Normally, bomber crews sit directly next to the turrets. But in the B-66, the rear gunner sits near the pilot at the front. The gunner monitors the fire control system and locates enemy aircraft. The radar in the tail emits radar waves that are reflected by the enemy aircraft, thus measuring approach angle, speed, and range. The lead point is calculated by the computer, whereupon the 20mm twin cannon can be fired.
Speaker 21 02:04:10
What is this ball thing over the turret? What? That's cool. Yeah.
Speaker 2 02:04:13
It says you and me in the morning.
Speaker 14 02:04:28
this is the number one wall on tiktok shop this thing is very compact it's got a lot of great features to it uh you guys can see it's about as thin as my camera right there so it's.
Speaker 26 02:04:36
nice and slender it's too thick it's the party powers of june 6 1944. the men of the green howards one of britain's oldest and proudest infantry regiments are lining up on the empire lance or the motherships traversing the english channel the future base unit has been selected by field marshal montgomery as the spearhead of the landing on gold beach as the green howards make their turn with the landing crafts they are handed a last-minute piece of equipment a condom a booming voice thunders over it's the early hours of june 6 1944 d-day the men of the green.
Speaker 26 02:05:08
howards one of britain's oldest and proudest infantry regiments are lining up on the empire lance one of the motherships traversing the english channel the yorkshire-based unit has been selected by field marshal montgomery as the spearhead of the landing on gold beach, as the Green Howards wait their turn to board the landing crafts. They are handed a last-minute piece of equipment, a condom. A booming voice thunders over the sound of cannon fire. What are these for? he bellows. Are we going to make war to the Germans, or screw them?
Speaker 26 02:05:41
The voice belongs to Company Sergeant Major Stanley Elton Hollis, in way of used somewhat less polite vocabulary. The large Al Khairi man has fought with gallantry in all the major theatres of the war, from the Battle of France, to Alamein, to the invasion of Sicily. He is said to have taken down at least 100 enemies. He has survived five major injuries. His men call him, and they couldn't kill. But he is about to live his most dangerous day yet. Hollis, one of the old men of the unit, is looked up to by the younger soldiers,
Speaker 26 02:06:12
who look to him to take the lead. hollis and the green howards boarding their landing craft they're heading to king's sector of gold beach braving the violent waves and the defensive barrage discharged by german mortars and field guns everything in the world opened up from behind us he wrote in his brief memoirs there were 25 pounders firing off floating platforms floating platforms firing thousands of rockets in one salvo are shaking all are struggling to look the day in the face and control their bodies when stan's craft is within reach of the shore it's targeted with machine gun.
Speaker 26 02:06:45
fire shot from a german pillbox on their flank pulling the cocking handle back on the landing craft's lewis gun hollis unloads the whole ammo drum onto the german strongpoint stan pulls the machine gun off its mount to reload but forgets the barrel is red hot and with the scorching heat he sears his hands the ramp of the craft slams down and stan jumps into waist deep water, As the ground shakes under cannon and water shells, suddenly bursts of fire fall upon them, shot from another pillbox. A well-manned German MG42 is a formidable foe, but so is this Yorkshireman with a Sten gun.
Speaker 26 02:07:22
In a moment of extreme courage, Sergeant Stanley Hollis stands up and runs zigzagging towards the enemies, managing to avoid the incoming German bullets. He reaches the enemy position, shoves the gun muzzle into the slit and squeezes the trigger. Then he climbs on top of the pillbox All the Germans inside the fortification are wounded, too shocked to react. But Sergeant Stanley is not going to stop here because after seeing another enemy battery, which is parallel to the one he's just destroyed, he fearlessly charges towards it with his.
Speaker 26 02:07:53
mind set on catching another enemy bunker. Hollis manages to capture it and 20 German soldiers all by himself. With two German batteries decommissioned, Hollis effectively secured an advance point for Allied troops that have already occupied a good part of the Normandy beaches. According to the war biographer Mike Morgan, without Hollis's contribution the first attack would have been stopped by the enemy troops, thus a crucial moment of the landing being jeopardised. Asked later why he risked his life so carelessly, Hollis simply replied, because I was a green.
Speaker 26 02:08:24
Howard. While storming another position, Stanley throws yet another hand grenade, but forgets to take out the pin first. Looking for him, the two German soldiers don't realise it and keep their heads down. When they realise it's not going off, it's too late. Hollis drops them. Nearby, several Germans manage to pull back to the south, but Stanley spots them and fires. She has a shot and it's almost disastrous, but Hollis' cheek is grazed by the bullet. Pushing past the shore, this fiery giant and his platoon are ordered to inspect a farmhouse.
Speaker 26 02:08:56
in the village of Prypon. The only movement in the farmhouse is that of two dogs wagging their tails, but Hollis spots an enemy field gun in a nearby orchard.
Speaker 2 02:09:22
So she's going there. Do you want her to have Eric get Eric out too so we don't have to wait? Or do you want to just...
Speaker 2 02:09:52
Hello? Hey, can you just get them both out? I'll be there in ten minutes.
Speaker 27 02:10:01
Okay. Unless... Where are you going to... I'm going to go to the front and get Maddie up and out of the front so we can go back and change.
Speaker 2 02:10:10
I'll bet you I will be there before you even have a chance to pull out of the parking lot.
Speaker 27 02:10:26
So what do you want me to do? I'm sorry, I don't understand.
Speaker 2 02:10:30
I'll meet you in the office. Or, yeah, just grab both kids. You're going to the office, right. 
Speaker 4 02:10:36
Yeah.
Speaker 2 02:10:38
Give both kids and I'll bet you I'm there before you get to your car.
Speaker 27 02:10:43
Okay, sounds good.
Speaker 4 02:10:45
Okay. Love you. Love you too. Bye.
Speaker 25 02:11:02
Why do we want to take one. 
Speaker 2 02:11:06
Ben has a fitness practice, so she's going to go straight from school to pick up a couple of his teammates. No.
Speaker 26 02:11:15
Hollis volunteers to take it out. He picks up a PIAT launcher and orders two Bren gunners to follow him. The three men crawl as closely as possible to the objective. Stan loads the anti-tank weapon, takes aim, and fires. But then it falls short, and it gives away their position. The German gun barrel slowly cranks around towards Hollis and his men. The three keep their heads down as a cannon round sears through the air above them. Stanley withdraws and gives the order to withdraw, but his two mates can't move, as they are pinned down by incoming German fire.
Speaker 26 02:11:47
Looking back, he realizes that the two brain gunners are still in the orchard. Hollis discards the pier, grabs a brain machine gun, and dashes back to help his men. He takes position by the fellow Howards and fires burst after burst towards the Germans. This oppressive fire silences the enemies long enough, allowing for the two brain gunners to crawl to safety. Once they're out of range, Hollis turns back and sprints after them. Chased by obstinate, but imprecise, Mouser boys. On the 10th of October 1944, at Buckingham Palace, King George VI pins the Victoria Cross on his chest.
Speaker 26 02:12:21
Wherever the fighting was the fiercest, Sergeant Hollis was there, says the official Victoria Cross report. Stan was the only British soldier to be awarded the VC of the D-Day, but he would always downplay his achievements, claiming, I've just been lucky. If I hadn't done the things I did, then somebody else would have. If you haven't yet, please subscribe to the channel and...
Speaker 4 02:12:50
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Speaker 26 02:12:59
It's the 18th of November, 1952. F-9F-5, their jets, are on their way to strike a target in North Korea, just a few miles from the Soviet border, when the section leader, Lieutenant Elmer Royce Williams, gets a call on the radio from the American strike force.
Speaker 12 02:13:16
We have seven. Repeat, seven boogies incoming. Deplete at all costs. Copy.
Speaker 26 02:13:24
Eighty-three miles to the north, a Soviet base, just outside of Vladivostok, picks up the American contacts and radios to flight leader, Captain Nikolai Belia. We're going to... Captain Belikov and his men are in the most dominant fighters of the time prowling the Korean skies, the Soviet MiG-15BIS. The American planes and the Soviet planes turn towards each other.
Speaker 26 02:13:55
The four Americans burst through the cloud cover at 12,000 feet when Williams gets another message, this time from his flight leader.
Speaker 13 02:14:03
Terminal light to trouble. I must return to the carrier. Gabi, I'll take it from here.
Speaker 26 02:14:07
As his flight leader and his wingman turn away, Williams looks up to see contrails, seven of them. It's just Williams and his wingman, Lieutenant Dave Rowlands, left to take on what the Americans still think are seven Korean jets. The two Americans are the only ones standing between the enemy and the American ships. Belikov orders the groups to split into two and dive upon the nimble MiGs' role.
Speaker 26 02:14:39
Williams and Rowlands are at 26,000 feet when they see the MiG split, but they lose sight of them as the contrails disappear, suddenly by them. A second turret litters them with lead. It flies past, but it's replaced by yet another MiG. They're completely outclassed by the MiGs in air-to-air combat. A fourth MiG comes in hot. He opens fire upon the Panthers, raking them in the 23 and 37-millimeter shells. He flies in behind them, pulling it into his crosshairs, and opens fire.
Speaker 26 02:15:10
Inside the MiG, Senior Lieutenant Pakomkin feels the impact of it and dies after the enemy fighter, leaving Williams alone to watch the three remaining MiGs walk away from the Soviet MiG. Come in for another attack run. The Soviet jets are faster, and they're already in a hot fight. Despite the risk of wider conflict, Williams has no choice but to rise to meet his own. And the MiGs are in a dime. It's head to head. The three planes go roaring past the American, firing all the way.
Speaker 26 02:15:44
But incredibly, no hits are scored on either side. Williams now tries to get more altitude when a stream of tracers comes flying in from the opposite direction. It's the other three. The attacks are relentless. Four MiGs fly past in formation, and Williams gets behind them. Inside a MiG, the Soviet pilot feels dread as follows a target, and is instantly blinded. Straight towards him. There's no time to dodge.
Speaker 26 02:16:18
Williams is... How many are there today. 
Speaker 25 02:16:23
I don't know.
Speaker 4 02:16:35
Thank you.
Speaker 27 02:17:12
Well, then you guys can go, you guys can go, so, little fuzzball, he didn't have this, he did it, he didn't have it, I did put water in it, he puts water in it, yeah, I guess, all right, do you want to know, like, update him on what's going to happen tomorrow with the test, he knows about the test, but, like, how long it's going to be, I bought him,
Speaker 27 02:17:45
Originally said that we had to bring in number two pencil, so I bought him a number like the pre sharpened number two pencils and erasers And I just forward you an email. I had sent it to me too. Oh, did it? No, they wanted number two and it's like four hours long. Think of it as saving yourself time.
Speaker 27 02:18:15
Because you just have to take even if it is shorter You're still gonna have to take another test, They give you a break like there you be ready like break it up. Do you know what's going on Ben? Yeah, okay. Take this head of school. Okay, cool. Give me your stuff go back and change. So I need, we need to get going. Yeah. So that way you can know.
Speaker 27 02:18:46
Here Maddie. Where's he going? He's gonna go. Why don't you take this with you so that way I don't lose it. Okay. Because it'll get jumbled. Where's he going? I see him. Where's Sam? Where's he going? I don't know. Is he going? Huh? Is he going? No.
Speaker 2 02:19:04
Did you get your words? Your OG words? Yes. Okay. Come on for keeping me on track.
Speaker 4 02:19:17
Good.
Speaker 2 02:19:17
I stay here. You keep me all on your side.
Speaker 22 02:19:36
Can you put this somewhere safe for me? What team captain? And I beat him twice. I scored a hat-trick on him, too.
Speaker 2 02:19:44
A hat-trick? That was 3-1. Cool.
Speaker 22 02:19:47
What is a hat-trick. 
Speaker 2 02:19:48
Three goals. But, it's with one bird, you can score three goals.
Speaker 25 02:19:59
Can you watch the video? Mm-hmm. Can't believe what Dad had. He had a taco and a, like, what. 
Speaker 2 02:20:07
False.
Speaker 25 02:20:08
What. 
Speaker 2 02:20:08
A burrito and a quesadilla.
Speaker 25 02:20:10
Yeah, a burrito and a quesadilla. That's, like, Taco Bell for you.
Speaker 2 02:20:16
It was like, huh? So, I had to get gas, and so, it was like, well, show me some, you know, and I didn't like the pricing on where I saw it. So, usually what I do is, like, go, okay, what's one that has, like, good pricing in between that won't, that? it'll show me the prices and like what's the the least out of my way said to you fabio and daniella.
Speaker 24 02:20:46
hi i'm happy to take g home but i'm at school picking up ben and heading over to a vis house and grabbing him and ian there to take them um and uh so especially and said to you fabio and daniella.
Speaker 2 02:21:06
really deep into your belinda um so anyways the cheapest gas i was like zero minutes out of my way was this place in cyprus and i was like daniella said to the group yes please and brandon.
Speaker 24 02:21:25
said to you and alexander okay sounds good um no because i need to hear those but, So, I was like, Cyprus? Where is it taking me in Cyprus? Daniela said to you, you can push Leon and Fabio. I can pick him up at your place when you're back.
Speaker 2 02:21:44
I was like, I wonder where it is in Cyprus, and then it was like, it's two miles away from, I think it was another four minutes out of my way to go to Alberto's, and I'm like, oh.
Speaker 22 02:22:04
I got up, and I thought it was six. Yeah, your mom told me. Dude, I was watching YouTube for like 30 minutes, 45 minutes, and it was still dark outside. Like, I wasn't paying attention to the time, and like, nobody come down, and it's still dark outside, and I'm like, what is going on? Look at the time, and it's like 1245, and I'm like, that's not good.
Speaker 25 02:22:32
That's why you were so mad at me when I actually turned on the lights and I thought you went downstairs.
Speaker 22 02:22:39
I was mad at you for like, falling in bed from the lights on.
Speaker 2 02:22:43
I didn't notice you were- That's what he's saying, he thought you were downstairs, he turned on the lights. I thought you already went downstairs.
Speaker 22 02:22:53
So, I was getting super tired all day.
Speaker 25 02:22:59
So, video? Video? Any shakers? Any shakers? So, the Russians fighting, they're fighting the, fighting this guy. The British. The British and the British are, man, the Americans are way out.
Speaker 2 02:23:23
They thought it was the North Koreans, but it's the Russians. And they're like, oh, you can't fight them because- You know, it'll start World War III, and he's like, well, I'm already fighting them, so... But it's one against six.
Speaker 26 02:23:39
Turn straight towards them. Challenge them again to a head-on... No, British.
Speaker 25 02:23:43
Right now, it's one against six.
Speaker 24 02:23:45
There's another one, and he... Ashlian said to you, Fabio and Daniela, I'll drop him off, because I'm going to take his back home, too. Abbas' dad is going to come to park to grab him, so thankfully, I don't need to take him home.
Speaker 2 02:23:59
How do you say there was some fighting from the Russians? British. Fighting Russian.
Speaker 26 02:24:10
Joust. He opens fire, and the lead MiG, piloted by Captain Nikolai Beliakov, turns away. But his wingman, Senior Lieutenant Alexander Vandejov, takes on the challenge. He shells drop and pass underneath him. He can't see it, but his own shell's also falling short of the enemy. They hold their triggers down as they come closer. A 29-meter shell strikes straight into the MiG's cock, hitting Vandeleff and killing him.
Speaker 24 02:24:43
Daniela said to the group, okay, thank you then, and sent a smiley emoji.
Speaker 26 02:24:49
Williams sees a MiG stop firing as it flies upside down underneath. Another MiG flies past, and Williams, on pure reflexes, fires another blast and takes out his third MiG of the day. In the lead MiG, Beliakov watches as two other MiGs are shot down, including his wingman, and he turns back to avenge his fallen comrade. There's only a short exchange plane's pass. He looks back at his enemy and sees it diving away out of the fight. The American turns hard to chase, but as he does, a MiG screams in behind and lands a hit.
Speaker 26 02:25:23
He's been hit before, but this time... The way his plane lurches and the 7mm round strikes his wing and punches King through and into the engine compartment. The impact wrecks the hydraulic systems and in an instant his rudder, flaps and half of his ailerons are gone. Williams looks back as the MiG stays behind him, riddling his Panther with lead. He immediately attempts to roll, but his stomach sinks as the aircraft responds unbearably, terrifyingly slowly. More cracks reverberate through the fuselage.
Speaker 26 02:25:54
As he wills his aircraft to escape, the Panther wobbles as he does, the lack of rudder making the aircraft terribly unstable. Williams is forced to be careful with his inputs, or else lose control altogether, and throughout the MiG has no problem following the limping Panther. But the American still has his elevator, so he does the only thing he can. He pulls up and then pushes down, riding a wave motion to try and get some distance between him and his enemy before he can reach clouds, which are still 10,000 feet below him.
Speaker 26 02:26:27
Bullets continue to strike his fuselage. A1 impact. His luck is running out. He's not going to make it. His wingman appears out of the blue and comes soaring in, opening fire at the one remaining MiG, forcing him to pull off the chase. Now, inside the safety of the cloud, Williams pulls up, leveling off at 400 feet in altitude. He's just survived a grueling six versus one dogfight that lasted over half an hour at full throttle,
Speaker 26 02:27:00
but how is it going to land? he tries to get a feel for his wounded machine his flight controls don't respond properly and he finds he can't slow under 170 knots without his plane becoming uncontrollable it's an incredibly.
Speaker 24 02:27:14
high speed brandon said to you and alexander pressure washer vacuum dust pro cup grinder he looks down at the churning sea and brandon said to you and alexander for monday those ejections no.
Speaker 26 02:27:34
option he'd only survived 20 minutes in the cold water at most not enough time to get a helicopter.
Speaker 13 02:27:39
to rescue him he needs to land coming in for a landing maneuverability severely caught online.
Speaker 26 02:27:44
action game where you can control the shans orders to prepare for a crash landing 170 knots wind shand orders to get the maximum they can out of the engines in the air of control. The added drag affects the Panther's aerodynamics and he starts immediately veering off course. Williams wrestles with the controls but struggles to bring it back in line.
Speaker 4 02:28:06
I'm gonna miss it.
Speaker 26 02:28:09
Shands looks out with his binoculars. Must align with him.
Speaker 13 02:28:13
Tell him to keep going. Heading 196 now.
Speaker 26 02:28:16
The whole aircraft carrier starts turning. Captain Shands keeps his eyes on Williams, ordering course corrections as a barely controllable Panther barrels in towards the flight deck. He's still crooked but time is running out. Royce Williams in his Panther jet slams the aircraft down at 200 miles an hour. Miraculously, the third cable grabs and he's lurched forward, as the wounded bird is brought and brought to stop. He'd done it. After half an hour of grueling battle against seven enemies, his F9F Panther had suffered 263 holes across his fuselage, and so much wing damage, it's a miracle it didn't snap off.
Speaker 26 02:28:59
It was then that the cover-up started, and a huge effort to calm the fires of a potential catastrophic conflict between two nuclear superpowers. Both sides exchanged harsh diplomatic notes, but the incident was not made public by either side. And with all records connected to it, classified. Gun footage was edited to remove Soviet roundels, any reference in the transcripts of that day, referring to Soviet fighters, were just changed to enemy. Williams was awarded the Silver Star for his part in the action.
Speaker 26 02:29:32
He continued his service, retiring in 1980, and never telling a soul what happened, until 50 years later, when the documents about that fight became declassified. when the story went public in russia the russians conceded to three planes being lost having been ambushed by the americans the u.s government upgraded williams's silver star to a navy cross in 2022 and in 2026 there's news that he may even be getting the medal of honor captain royce.
Speaker 26 02:30:02
williams is still alive today and a hundred years old and we very much hope that he enjoys this film.
Speaker 12 02:30:07
for another great modern air battle check out this film on when mig-29s ambushed eagles in iraq.
Speaker 2 02:30:24
yeah i just want to answer him real quick there's a lot of dirt yeah.
Speaker 25 02:30:46
The one I'm going to eat. Can I go inside? Yeah, of course.
Speaker 22 02:30:51
You got something on your shoe. Something on your shoe.
Speaker 25 02:31:22
This got stuck on my shoe. Well, thanks, dude.
Speaker 28 02:31:45
about biology, not a choice, not a personal failure, someone decides to have. Two-thirds of Americans did not wake up one morning and decide to have a disease. And I think understanding that obesity is a disease to shift. I wanted everybody to know, all these years I thought.
Speaker 29 02:32:06
I was overeating, I was standing there with all the food noise. I thought that that was because of me and my fault. Now I understand that if you carry the obesity gene, if that is what you have, that is what makes you overeat. You don't overeat and become obese. Obesity.
Speaker 12 02:32:24
causes you to overeat. Here's my opinion regarding obesity being recognized as a disease. I think it's complete bullshit. Now, our genetics should be recognized as a primary risk. To, classify genetics as the main cause. of obesity is just ridiculous. It encourages a victim mentality and encourages people from taking responsibility for their own health, which is the we should be doing,
Speaker 12 02:32:55
especially when we consider what we know to be the actual cause of obesity, which is an energy imbalance between calories consumed, and calories burned, period. One can argue that beyond. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Drop me a comment and let me know.
Speaker 28 02:33:17
Yeah, obesity is about biology. Obesity is not a choice. It is not a personal failure.
Speaker 6 02:34:11
hey brandon braden yeah yeah okay um hey um over here at h3 um they get out believe the job they uh, put down some um waterproofing or something like that for the um wood floor and they got it all taped hot we can't actually do the front door and the only the way that they're exiting nobody told us they were closing that off either so as far as getting a pressure washer i don't know how.
Speaker 2 02:34:42
to turn that oh we can carry it down if you can't do it if you're quite if it's questionable then, don't do it and we can take care of it another time okay all right so don't hurt yourself and you know doing it yeah yeah okay so meaning meaning don't you dare put that that uh pressure.
Speaker 6 02:35:04
washer on the scaffolding how's that yeah i wouldn't want to do that it's too uh yeah it's too.
Speaker 2 02:35:10
Yeah, what I'll end up doing is...
Speaker 6 02:35:14
We'll get it down the stairs.
Speaker 2 02:35:15
Okay.
Speaker 6 02:35:16
And I kind of, I shot your...
Speaker 2 02:35:17
I don't expect you to finish everything, but I want you to, right? You don't want to be breathing that in. I would even, you know, it'll help. Yeah, then I'm good.
Speaker 4 02:35:32
Alright.
Speaker 2 02:35:53
Hey guys, how come I have to take this bag in? Hmm? Uh, you said, hey dad. Were you just responding to me? Sorry, dad. Well, before I said that, I said, hey guys, and it sounded like you were saying, hey dad, at the same time I was saying, hey dad.
Speaker 4 02:36:23
You said, hey guys, and I said, hey dad.
Speaker 4 02:37:03
Yeah.
Speaker 2 02:37:05
Well, that's because you clocked it, bro. Monster poops. We're just basically pushing force and forcing it through the channel.
Speaker 2 02:38:15
They're made out of porcelain. Porcelain is super smooth, so nothing sticks to it.
Speaker 4 02:38:36
By the way, another reason why that thing is so dirty is you guys put it right back down.
Speaker 2 02:39:09
What I do is I do this. I just rinse it.
Speaker 4 02:39:16
You didn't throw it, you didn't touch anything, it just rinses.
Speaker 2 02:39:24
What are you going to do? Wait, a little wait, the water will soften it up a little bit. We'll try it again a little bit later. You know what you guys got to do too? What? Peach clogs. Sometimes it's the poop. You know, sometimes you guys have like super big poops and you can't make it around the, because it goes, it goes in, then it goes up, and then back around. It does that because there's a water trap. The water stays there, right? That's why it flushes water. So it flushes enough water to push everything up over the little hump.
Speaker 2 02:39:60
And you want that hump there so that way it'll trap the smell from the sewer that's going down. Like where? So because the smell doesn't, smells don't go past water. so the smell so you gotta imagine this is the sewer line okay and you've got it's called, so and then you've got so so this guy right imagine this this little turn here so here's.
Speaker 2 02:40:41
your toilet imagine it's it's like so imagine that instead of here going that way it goes straight down right so so it goes up like this and then straight down after here instead of going into the wall it goes straight down so there's water that stays right here right because it's coming in from the toilet and into here there's water and then the sewer line is here, Right? And since there's water, the poop and the smell and stuff like that wants to come in and go through.
Speaker 2 02:41:18
Because since there's water, the water blocks it from going into the toilet. Do all the smell go through the toilet? Because it can't make it over the...
Speaker 25 02:41:29
Does that fill it up with more water? What if it happens if you fill it up with more water. 
Speaker 2 02:41:35
Well, there's a point where it'll...
Speaker 25 02:41:38
It'll just empty itself. 
Speaker 2 02:41:42
There's a point where it'll flush. That's what happens, right? When you flush, it fills up with so much water that it pushes over.
Speaker 25 02:41:49
What's that thing when it goes like... When no one even did anything to it. 
Speaker 2 02:41:56
Sometimes it's leaking. And it reshapes itself? So, you have that guy. Sometimes this... So what happens is when you open this guy up... All this water goes into the toilet, pushes the water up and over, right? And then this guy, since it drops down, this is called a float valve. So when it drops down with the water. 
Speaker 25 02:42:23
open what. 
Speaker 2 02:42:27
No. So this guy, see, let's put more water in the tank. And then this guy is an overflow. So too much water comes into here. It goes. Yeah. So you want it. Probably cause the water is going to go out of here and then to the, but sometimes, sometimes this red guy, yeah. So when it's just flushing on its own, it's cause the red guys.
Speaker 25 02:43:09
Can you do this? It's gonna flash. Pick it up. Oh gosh, Daddy. You're close. Daddy! It's fine. Yeah, now it's gonna be Austin. Now it's just gonna spin.
Speaker 2 02:43:36
Now it'll slowly leak out. It'll slowly like work its way through. Okay, the guest bathroom is just there. You dumped a monster down there.
Speaker 25 02:43:52
Dad, why do you have coffee. 
Speaker 3 02:44:02
The other day. Take it out.
Speaker 2 02:44:07
Can I come in? Daddy? Two pens please. One for me, one for you, one for Eric. Huh? Do you want them in? There's one left. Only one left? Yeah.
Speaker 22 02:44:24
No, after he grabs them all. Hmm? After he grabs them all.
Speaker 2 02:44:28
So there's only... I like it frozen. Everything's better frozen. It's not blue. Except these. They were in my car too long.
Speaker 25 02:44:59
Did you choose baby frozen. 
Speaker 2 02:45:04
Nope. I'm gonna get the baby frozen. Nope. I'm gonna get the baby frozen.
Speaker 4 02:45:10
Did you drop your phone?
Speaker 4 02:46:06
Oh, it's your phone. The toilet paper.

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The transcript features three interconnected narratives: a discussion on construction project management focusing on technical specifications and scheduling discrepancies; a political talk radio segment analyzing the Jack Smith hearing, foreign policy issues regarding Iran and Greenland, and immigration policies; and personal conversations reflecting family dynamics during after-school routines, including educational moments and humorous exchanges. Key points include debates over construction specifications, critiques of political investigations, and the impact of immigration policies on local communities.