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title: 02-02 Discussion: Project Management, Geopolitics, and Personal Faith
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Speaker 1 00:02:51
Egg.
Speaker 1 00:03:25
Sniffing*. 
Speaker 2 00:08:52
Um. So. I still need to build essentially. A new. Fountain that's going to connect to this. Right.
Speaker 2 00:09:22
Okay, and then but ours is gonna is gonna be the, the source.
Speaker 1 00:10:05
Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:10:37
Um, I mean, I don't mind drawing it. I, just since I saw the uh the wall, essentially um not I was kind of expecting that the the wall on their um on their trough would be open to our little gutter.
Speaker 1 00:11:42
We Do try to please the customer. 
Speaker 2 00:11:47
I just wanted to take a shot. That's all.
Speaker 1 00:12:34
Sure. Well,
Speaker 2 00:12:42
It might be I told you that I found that uh. That website and I was looking on it, you know, if you're okay with me sending. You know, probably thirty bucks or something. You know, I can send a message like just like hey change this thing to. You know, you can say like hey put up, Put a house around it, and AI will just go right. You know, I can play with it for a little bit. Just get like a month of it. Um, you might be able to just kind of make.
Speaker 2 00:13:44
He started pushing. I need to know materials. I need to know this, that, and the other. And I had it was like you know what like all right, I'll give you everything and you know. It's just I'm going to have to spoon feed him once I because when i he's like, "I got it." I'm looking at it but this doesn't really tell me anything. You know, I couldn't really understand what i well That's where i was just like, You know what, I'll get back to you. Um, so I think he's doing. He just wants to be spoon fed and you know, but I sent him your video. I sent like he's like, you know, and he I don't know. So I think if I can give him a completed drawing, then he'll be able to go oh.
Speaker 1 00:14:46
No.
Speaker 1 00:16:25
Yeah, no worries.
Speaker 1 00:19:41
Okay.
Speaker 1 00:21:25
We.
Speaker 1 00:23:55
Okay.
Speaker 2 00:26:14
Be real careful here because this is where we needed to be perfect. See it was an open. Just a touch.
Speaker 1 00:26:34
Oh, there you go.
Speaker 1 00:27:27
I'm not sure what the problem is.
Speaker 1 00:34:18
Hey, Mary.
Speaker 2 00:35:36
I Don't Think he knows how to float.
Speaker 2 00:35:42
You want to allow regular. You want to allow that up and. No, it's not. It's not. No, it's compact. Please. No, nothing? Yes? Okay? Can you put the regulator like this? Okay? Okay? Right? And now use.
Speaker 2 00:36:12
Still there I mean, maybe he's not done, but it's still why it takes too long. So maybe do one next to him.
Speaker 3 00:36:42
I think So.
Speaker 2 00:37:12
Art right. Oh. Put it in strong so it's not, you know, it's doodles. So, what what? Yeah no. So, estos is uh is to yours see? Estos the floats are yours right? I guess I mean that's, No. So I know I don't care, right? It's fine. Just, I think he needs he needs to learn more.
Speaker 1 00:37:53
Yeah. And you you teach him.
Speaker 1 00:39:41
I think, bro.
Speaker 3 00:40:14
It's very hung up. Give it to him because those are other. 
Speaker 1 00:40:25
Weights that he's doing and it's not working any better.
Speaker 3 00:42:28
Hey, What Time is it What time is it.
Speaker 2 00:42:37
You never been there. No, it's you can say it. It's it's. Oh yeah, multiple. No, But I was it's uh I have not I have not been there or right. So how do you say I have not been there? You know you like Yeah, That's but he we're trying to I'm trying to He said how do I say in English because.
Speaker 2 00:43:40
Um. Because it's I have not been there. Or. Oh, I haven't been there. Right. I haven't been there so, to be is uh is that? Is that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So no, you know, and I have uh yo estado or estado, estar, ser or estar o ser o estar, right, so estar or. I haven't been there.
Speaker 1 00:50:34
They complain. Are you complaining about the ticket?
Speaker 3 00:51:05
I.
Speaker 1 00:52:39
A man is sweeping the floor with a broom. The man sweeps the floor with a broom.
Speaker 1 00:53:41
Thank you.
Speaker 2 01:00:08
There he is.
Speaker 2 01:00:26
Thank You. If you didn't bring it, I would have forgotten about it again.
Speaker 2 01:00:39
What's going on Brandon?
Speaker 2 01:00:43
We left everything over there like the pressure washer and the sprayers. Assuming you drove. You're not? Yeah, we left them over there. Okay. Um, yeah, we got. We're not gonna be back there for a while or a month so. Uh. But we rolled up all the hoses. 
Speaker 2 01:01:10
Well, let's uh. Okay. Um, maybe tomorrow morning you guys start there, grab them real quick and then come over here. Yeah. Tomorrow morning we'll grab the pressure washer and bring it over here. Probably just uh. Ouch! The last two times, and this is just a communication thing. This is not a. Oh, you guys screwed up. Um. Maybe just call me real quick so we all need to.
Speaker 3 01:02:02
Alright, Brandon, what do you use?
Speaker 2 01:02:04
Thirty- seven oh one and ten set.
Speaker 3 01:02:07
Are you going to want to use ahawk or no?
Speaker 1 01:02:10
Yeah. I. 
Speaker 2 01:02:17
Can use some of his instinct to get started, right? He's cranky. Like I gotten close, he started growling at me. I don't know, you know? Are you like.
Speaker 3 01:02:28
Yeah. But I messed up here, I didn'tum.
Speaker 2 01:02:39
If it's like that, can we just maybe not a full strike, put it on for shipping and stuff and come back? I think I think more than anything like Rene's learning how we do it a little bit differently. And so um you know um is that okay that I'm saying it like that? No, it's right. Yeah, so you know, It's probably good. If you're right next to him, he can kind of watch you do it. And should be should be a normal batch. You wanted you wanted us to what the yeah. Anytime, we do S S D S S D right, but but S S D should be applied. Essentially if there's cement in the product, it should be. That's your right. So and that's almost all of our products except for epoxy. Is that alcohol or water? It's alcohol and and we do not need to wipe it down at all. So we can pressure wash, right? The float.
Speaker 2 01:03:38
Alcohol. So that is the trade- off. Just wet it, right? Yeah. And, they were just wetting it with a sponge and a clean bucket of water. Or was they have a spray bottle? Um, if they don't have a spray bottle. Here is spray. Well maybe they took the top off. A glassy.
Speaker 4 01:04:01
Spray bottle with water? Yeah. It's right there, it has no top on it.
Speaker 1 01:04:39
Thank you.
Speaker 2 01:05:41
And guys, I'd be or maybe I'd be happy for you to get them in on the floating process, right? Like okay, once you set me up, right? Set yourself up and float right next to me. You know and that way we can kind of push them along. I'm Down.
Speaker 3 01:06:10
Uh, not all the this this part of the top, not the. Yeah, cause we were just putting like to this point right here.
Speaker 1 01:06:18
All right. Okay.
Speaker 2 01:06:39
Yeah, we'll do like this so we pull up.
Speaker 1 01:07:10
Hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 1 01:09:33
Yeah, it's. 
Speaker 2 01:09:38
Falling down. Yeah, it's special. Let it go, let it set up. It's gonna keep doing it. Spend a lot of time just fucking with this thing.
Speaker 3 01:09:52
Should I take it off and do like a scratch build? I wouldn't take it off. I would put the track on there.
Speaker 1 01:10:34
Alright. You're done?
Speaker 2 01:10:48
Oh, he's done. 
Speaker 1 01:10:59
With it.
Speaker 3 01:11:34
So Alex, how do you take it from here to here? How does it get off? Yeah, just so I can see the back. It's all kind of sticking. Well, I'm just going to put a small point and then I'm going to scratch it. And then. Alright, go for it. Does this other one access too over there? It does. Can yeah. Yeah okay okay now let's just. For my own information. Yeah it does, it does that's what happens when you're trying to tell the computer.
Speaker 3 01:13:58
I'm just gonna wipe it all off with a sponge and then I'm gonna dry it and then put the stickers on.
Speaker 1 01:16:12
I'm not going to be able to do this.
Speaker 3 01:17:19
Uh, Are you doing a sketch for me? Are you gonna put it all on? Uh, this one's not bad. Oh, okay.
Speaker 3 01:17:54
Yeah.
Speaker 1 01:18:50
Excuse me, second.
Speaker 1 01:19:45
Thank you.
Speaker 1 01:20:53
I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 01:23:25
Okay.
Speaker 3 01:24:41
Yeah, It's not signing a mortgage. We don't have any more.
Speaker 1 01:25:29
Abandon.
Speaker 1 01:26:19
Ah.
Speaker 1 01:28:32
Thank you.
Speaker 3 01:29:52
Okay, okay.   When you put the.   .lower.   .three seven one.   because it's dry. If it's not dry, it doesn't work. It's dry now, so no problem. I'll pass another one to the back? Yeah, when you put it like this.
Speaker 1 01:31:11
No, no,
Speaker 3 01:31:13
I'm watching how you do it. I'm gonna, I'm gonna try to.
Speaker 3 01:31:34
You Guys are using this to mix it or is this what The.
Speaker 1 01:32:32
You know, Brandon. 
Speaker 3 01:32:46
Was talking about you every day. Oh, I wonder what Manny's doing. I know. I wonder what he's having for lunch today. We'll be sitting there like just at lunch and then he'll look at me and say," Can you sing it for me?"
Speaker 3 01:33:20
You Have a show here.
Speaker 1 01:34:13
Oh, Shit.
Speaker 3 01:38:05
It's better.
Speaker 1 01:38:35
Two hours?
Speaker 3 01:39:39
That's How that's I'm gonna float like this. That's all that makes it exactly the. That's what the app says for for thirty seven, oh, one wall, a hundred and six point eighty, uh ounces of water, and that's exactly what I put in. You can check. Don't, they have a tolerance, like the most you can put in like for like walnut, and this is good consistency for. So like a floor, that's what I was saying. Follow the exactly on the app. Double. 
Speaker 2 01:40:14
Check because you got to have some kind of creamy consistency to just spread it on the wall without it just crumbling and falling off. Wait wait, where's my phone? Maybe packing it on the wall. We can we can check it out. Okayum you know I think whatever, whatever the app says we do right. And then but if it looks different, I mean that.
Speaker 2 01:40:40
Looks a little even dry to me. The question is, you know, I think we have to do is did I make a mistake, right? And I'm not saying you did. But I know that I've done ones like this. Wait a minute. You know. Um. Yeah, yeah. I mean. Exactly even though. Measured it right here. Put in the. I'm sure that you know. I'm sure that you did everything, you know? Right.
Speaker 2 01:41:10
Um. So how many pounds is that?
Speaker 3 01:41:13
Sixty pounds. Six zero? Six zero, yes. One full bag. And then uh, it's one hundred and six point eighty ounces of water to combine with the gel. Yeah. Then I'll measure it right there for a wall, yeah, for a wall.
Speaker 2 01:41:39
So. You know, then the only thing I start doing is I start going, "Well, did I maybe miss something on the measurement?" Right.
Speaker 2 01:43:04
So, you are on the drier side of it. So, one hundred and six point eight is the driest, and the you can add one twenty point two minus hundred.
Speaker 2 01:43:52
And you can add thirteen point four more. Thirteen point four more pounds. You know, and then when your next when you mix the next one, you can look at it and say, is it the same? You know, so that if it doesn't look the same then something's wrong somewhere. Right.
Speaker 3 01:44:14
Well I mean I think it's just like the uh uh like dryness of it. Just how do I see this? I think we, Here's a an area where, like, you know, okay, I'll say, one hundred and six point eight is uh minimum for like,
Speaker 2 01:44:30
Uh exactly right. That is yeah, but I. But I think really it's like if you guys are going according to the app each time, and that looks drier than it normally does, then something went wrong. Okay no well I mean I always. 
Speaker 3 01:44:44
Follow the this was an issue before, you know where where I mixed it by what the app said and I was told it looked too dry. And now even. Kind of like I followed the app. No, I'm not. No, no. So, what you're saying though is like,
Speaker 2 01:44:56
So and all I'm throwing in there is but I've done it before where I went. Oh, yeah. And as I step through it, and this one looks different than the one I just did a minute ago. But then what did and then try it again. And it's like then this one looks like the other stuff, so must have been something here wrong, right? Right? And. I i think that.
Speaker 3 01:45:21
No, No. Yeah, yeah. Definitely. What I was trying to clarify was that like so that there's a there's an area where we can kind of play around with the different, like with the amount of water we add to it, But one hundred and six point eight is the minimum, and then the maximum is four sixty pounds.
Speaker 2 01:45:35
Yeah. Okay. And then you can go another fourteen. Yeah. Okay Um But what I'm what what I'm trying to drive home more than anything is if it looks different, you need to first go something identical, right? That's, That's what I am, you know. I think we have to look at, you know, yeah, yeah. No,
Speaker 1 01:45:56
I get that. The potential of stakes first, you know? Yeah. That's all.
Speaker 2 01:46:21
Get all that. By tomorrow I can tell you, uh.
Speaker 1 01:46:33
I told. 
Speaker 2 01:46:34
Him he can add for sixty pounds. We can put fourteen ounces more water if he wants to, so it doesn't get too dry. So, because of those, the detail gives you a three point two is three point six four. You know. 
Speaker 1 01:47:24
No, I need to stop the board.
Speaker 3 01:48:44
Since I mix it again, I have to wait for it to sleep for five minutes.
Speaker 3 01:48:53
I don't know if it'll. No, I think.
Speaker 2 01:48:59
It's not the mixing, it's the adding in. Um, but I mean,
Speaker 3 01:49:06
It was already moist though. That's right. Yeah. Look out! Look. 
Speaker 2 01:49:18
At These things! Oh okay here.
Speaker 3 01:51:07
What do you need? What does he need? Uh, the wood floor. Oh. Yeah. Right here. Is that it then? I think so. You press down.
Speaker 1 01:51:15
Okay, I'm gonna put it all in there because. I got one here. Oh, yeah! Can we.
Speaker 1 01:53:19
Thank you.
Speaker 1 01:55:37
Keep wiping the tray as well.
Speaker 3 01:55:40
Before you cut it, cut the excess off so it doesn't stick to your tray.
Speaker 3 01:57:51
I am not going to do anything.
Speaker 1 01:59:49
Okay.
Speaker 3 02:00:44
I am not going to the market.
Speaker 1 02:04:02
Yeah. That's nice, right? Over the weekend or just. Okay. Working. That. 
Speaker 2 02:04:24
I hate having you guys at different locations. Yeah, but I don't like to do this.
Speaker 2 02:04:31
It's just like, you know, talking to Cory. Why are we, you know, he wasn't pushing for this stuff. That's mobilizing for these different places and whatnot is like we've always done that. We've been doing this since the beginning of time. Yeah, but we're just getting our voice out there.
Speaker 1 02:05:19
When you cut, cut going down. Sometimes it has a tendency to pull the mud down with it.
Speaker 2 02:07:37
With please no water.
Speaker 3 02:07:41
Oh, on the trash bags. Yeah, yeah, okay. Um, keep it there.
Speaker 2 02:07:46
It does do anything, but I just don't want the this can still protect that or keep the okay junk from going in.
Speaker 1 02:08:48
Yeah.
Speaker 2 02:09:57
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Speaker 1 02:10:00
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Speaker 2 02:10:27
I was just yeah exactly. So there was one day with Raul, he came with brand new boots, and then he had the red the red tip. Brand new boots go shoo! Hi! And then and then uh I I came maybe an hour later, and he had uh put M1. Oh, está bien? Está bien?
Speaker 3 02:12:08
Alright, I'm gonna head out to the rocky point.
Speaker 2 02:12:11
In the morning. That's wrong. Yeah, I was watching a video earlier. Yeah, so apparently the client's really happy with the tile so. Nice. He told he told Corey that this morning tile looks great. It looks good before the plastering even better after. Yeah. Yeah uh, seeing it yeah.
Speaker 2 02:12:42
Um, okay. I am heading out the bonanza in the morning. This is fair warning. If I get here. And I mean this in the nicest way, if I'm gonna get two fifty four and thirty seven oh one. If I get here in the morning, and you guys ask me for something from Bonanza, I'm gonna kill you. But but if I forget two fifty four then lunch is on me. There you go.
Speaker 3 02:13:56
I Think if you make me go back to Bonanza this week, then don't don't do that too hard. Okay. It just snug, yeah. Um Do you make me go back to Bonanza this week? I think You know, I think I should get lunch. Huh? Let's trade you.
Speaker 2 02:14:13
Yeah, yeah, I'll get you a sponsor. But hey, my risk is four lunches. Your risk was a quarter lunch between the four of us. I had uh when I worked for my dad's company, I took over their uh San Francisco branch. Drivers kept on hitting everything. So make you guys a deal. There's when you're backing up a trailer there's they call one shot Right, You ever see when they back up and then they correct, and then they back up again, they correct. I said well let's make a deal, me against all of you guys. I'll bet you I can one shot the dock before you do. Right so you give me your best, I'll do one, you try one. I'll do one somebody else can try one. Right for six weeks man I got free food. For six weeks And then. 
Speaker 2 02:15:12
And then uh and then they beat me, which is fine because I wanted them to get better. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So, Hey, you punch it? All right. See you tomorrow guys. Call me if you need anything or don't and then I'll get free lunch. I'll send you pictures. 
Speaker 4 02:17:53
Yes, we can see Tehran. Last question before the break, And then one more question : Do the people believe any of the ideology that the ayatollahs put forward, or are they just taking it as words? You know, I think it's very similar to late ' 80s Soviet Union in which not only within the society, but within the regime, you have very few true believers left in the system. In fact, A friend of mine who was a professor in Tehran, said at the beginning of the revolution, "the regime was 80 percent ideologues and 20 percent charlatans, " and now it's reversed : only perhaps even within the regime, only 20 percent true believers. So in society I would say it's even less than that.
Speaker 5 02:18:11
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Speaker 6 02:18:32
I want to just say the most delicate issue for the last screen, Which is the role of Israel in any coming conflict between United States and Iran. The national security adviser, The equivalent of national security adviser in Iran said if there's any conflict with United States, we're going to target everything we got at Israel. What do you expect their role to be? What do you want their role to be? Does their participation make it more or less difficult to topple the regime?
Speaker 4 02:18:44
Well, Israel obviously showed over the last couple years that militarily they're far superior to Iran, even though Iran is 75 times larger as a nation state. And, so it was Israel, which paved the way for United States to take action because they took out Iran's air defenses. And going back to what I said earlier about restoring connectivity in Iraq, But Israel, which has a very sophisticated cyber capability that Israel was able to help restore connectivity within Iraq. App reciated, but they haveum because they're within missile range of Iran, and it's a much smaller country. Things are much more delicate for them. And so that's why this, you know, among the many reasons whyum you have a huge US presence now in the region, and everyone is on alert because ultimately, Iranian missiles are not going to reach US homeland, but they could indeed go after Israel cause some real damage.
Speaker 6 02:19:12
So Karina everybody in DC talks to you about this. So I'm, just curious off the record, what do the other countries in the region not named Israel United States Turkey uh Saudi Arabia, the United, Arab Emirates Qatar. What do they want to see happen? Do they want this regime to stay? There seem like it's an endless source of woes for a region that ought to be booming.
Speaker 4 02:19:22
Yeah, I think the only country uh major country in the world, which benefits from keeping this Islamic Republic around is Russia. Because as long as Iran is isolated, it can't exploit its vast natural gas and oil reserves. Compete with Russia as it should in global energy markets. It's a thorn in the side of the United States. It can't compete with Russia in its historic sphere of influence, Central Asia. Obviously, you know, smaller countries like North Korea like to keep it around as well. But the regional countries, I don't think any of them like the status quo about our country on their border. That is so deeply ideological and destabilizing. But a lot of them for various reasons worry about conflict. They worry that they could be retaliated against in the case of our Gulf partners inside Saudi, Arabia and UAE. A country like Turkey worries about chaos that could spill over refugees into their territory. So everyone is watching this very carefully. But I think most of those regional countries, if they could push a button and have a clean transition to a nationalist government in Iran rather than an ideological government in Iran, I think the vast majority of them would do that okay. 
Speaker 6 02:19:54
I s, there any worry on your part that Iran is planning sleeper cells in the United States? They've sent people to assassinate people here before. They tried to kill President Trump, we know that. But what about a widespread Hezbollah or related network? Have you got concerns there?
Speaker 4 02:20:01
I'm not too worried about that in the United States. In Europe, They have carried out operations and usually it's not Iranian nationals that are doing that. They pay European, Russian criminal gangs or Pakistani radicals to carry out these activities. So. So that is you know certainly a possibility. But at the moment, you know, I think that given how the noose is tightening around their neck. And as you mentioned, perhaps even the Europeans have proscribed them, they're revolutionary guards as a terrorist organization. I don't think their first instinct is to want to create even more problems for themselves. Your very last question, what is the ceiling? We we know it's at rock bottom. They keep digging a hole in which they can fall out the floor. What's the ceiling for Iran, if they were run by even minimally competent nationalist government? That's a wonderful question, and it is something which um I think it's obviously in US national interest. Kissinger once said, there are two nations in the world with whom United States with United States has more common interests. And less reason to quarrel than Iran.
Speaker 4 02:20:32
And it might be that given Iran's enormous human capital, its enormous natural resources, it's very rich country. This should be a G20 nation. It should be you know Saudi Arabia, Turkey are G20 nations. Iran should be in that category. You know in 1978 you um Iran's GDP was on the same level as Spain and South Korea combined. You see where those countries are now and where Iran is now, it just shows you what a profound difference leadership makes. And I do believe that this country once it has proper leadership um it could have one of the highest growth rates in coming years. And I have one more question : Does the United Nations contribute anything to to give Iran today? Are they protecting world uh historic sites today? Doing any kind of relief? Have they been any help at all to Iran? Not terribly when it comes to the politics, you know, there are already some large Afghan refugee presence. And so United Nations UNHCR was helpful there, and I do want to give a shout out to the new head of UNHCR, the former president. 
Speaker 7 02:21:29
Lucas, welcome to the Hugh Hewitt show. When were you in Greenland? And what did you find out when you were there? Well, Hugh, thanks for having me. I just got back last night. I spent a week on the ground in Greenland when things were getting a little serious about uh people thinking that President Trump might use, uh military means to take Greenland. Of course, as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported, President Trump walked that back said he has no intention of using force. But uh, the Danish government who um controls Greenland, they were a little nervous about it. You know they spend about six hundred million dollars a year on Greenland territory that they have possessed has been the Danish realm since the eighteenth century. Going all the way back to Knut. Gudmundsson in Denmark has a population of just six million people. That's about twice the population of Brooklyn Control an area of Greenland that's three times the size of Texas. You have a population that could fit into the seats of any NFL stadium, 57,000 people. It's very strategic in hearing President Trump and many others talk about the importance of the Arctic. The president wants to deploy a golden dome there, as you know right now U.S. missile defense is pretty limited, Just 44 interceptors in Fort Greely in Alaska and just four interceptor missiles at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California maybe not far from where you are right now. That's just to intercept a rogue ballistic missile from Iran or North Korea. There's no system in place to go handle a large - scale nuclear missile strike from Russia or China. Also what missile defense experts tell me is all these other targets would be in play.
Speaker 7 02:22:12
Hypersonic missiles, drones, cruise missiles. That is why President Trump wants to deploy the new Nordic Air Force. We're at the top of the Earth above the Arctic Circle. T wo- thirds of Greenland is uh, you know, it's a much shorter distance from Russia and China to any part of the United States. That's why President Trump thinks Greenland is so important and why he uh, he wants to expand U.S. military presence there today. There's less than 200 troops at one single uh U.S. Space Force base in Thule, that was about 930 miles north of the capital Nuuk where I was, that's the same distance from L.A. To Seattle too Now Lucas you were in Greenland for a week I assume you got to talk to a lot many of Greenlaners more than 90 percent of Greenlaners are Inuit right? What. Do they think about this? I'm sure you probably talked to all 57,000 in a week What do they think about this? A lot of the Inuits, the natives, even many of the Danes I spoke to, they just want to be left alone. Now a majority of Greenlanders, Greenlander as they refer to themselves, they want to be left alone. They do want to be independent though. They are not wild about you know the Danes who they live under. You know the Danes you know it's like a welfare state. They spend about six hundred million dollars US a year for Greenland and take care of education, you know police hospitals. It's about twenty percent of their GDP comes from Denmark, but many of the people I spoke to not only do they want to be independent, they want to be left alone and were not used for media attention. As you can imagine. They're really uh territory of hunters and gatherers I mean they hunt polar bears seals, you know, muskoxs might have google that one I have no idea what that is. It's uh shining uh ox or big hairy beast in essence, and I actually enjoyed some reindeer meat muskoxs I ate raw seal liver at a market.
Speaker 7 02:23:04
Uh, do you want to get to know what are your foreign policy? By the way, do they have a Costco? No Costco in Greenland. How about a Trader Joe's? No Trader Joe's. I'm not going there. A lot of local grocery stores as well. Whale, I had a little whale. Did narwhals popularly known as the other two? Yeah, you don't want to be around when a narwhal comes through the ice. Tell me look at that's why I read an endurance book about Shackleton Shackleton yeah, tell me about how you were received You're big time. I don't know if they get cable. I know they watch Fox News They've seen you in Israel when the bombs are coming down Do, they know who you are Do. They watch Fox News Some do, but it was notable that uh when Greenland's prime minister held a press conference, uh he was almost doing this because his Biden routine, he was going down on his prepared list. And then CNN got the first question, and then he was going line on down this list, and like wait minute, I traveled all over here from Washington. Getting a question at this press conference, I moved my seat, and he looked up at one point and called me, which was very nice So sorry to ask, but welcome.
Speaker 7 02:23:57
There's ten thousand troops in the Idaho Corps, spread out over seventeen bases. Today, There's just one is that the two third base space or space in the far north island with a green. How many towns of size do they have Lucas? I consider a town to be five thousand to ten thousand people. Just a handful of Nukus is about thirty thousand residents, about half the territory lives in the capital. They refer to settlements as anything, uh, you know, eight hundred and fifty or less. They have dozens of those, but they do not have many big cities. You can imagine. In fact, some of the settlements in the north. They're only supplied, you know, a few times a year. And you can imagine anything even coming into the capital has to come aboard ship very little comes from uh from the air force. What's it like in Lukistan? Have you packed your bags for Israel?
Speaker 6 02:24:21
I have, you know, I told my boss, my bureau chief that I'm ready to deploy to the Middle East. He goes, "Why don't you get back from Greenland first and then we'll talk." But would it just be Israel or would you possibly go to UAE, Bahrain, Qatar? Do you have any idea where you'd be? I would prefer. You know Israel would be great of course. I would prefer in the Middle East. Because if we do see action in Iran and the government were to break down, it might be a good time against the country. Uh I'm glad you're young man. Might get this done then. Be careful Lucas Tomlinson your friend. And if your very kind come on give us a first person report from Greenland. Lucas Tomlinson and you can find him on X. Uh anything Lucas Fox News on X. Thank you. Lucas all right, Dr Rebecca. Thank you all right. Kick it off with former United States Senator Jim Talent. He represented the state of Missouri. He's now seeing a fellow at The Reagan Institute for the Study of Peace through Strength. Uh Senator Talent we were talking off air about Adam Montgomery yesterday, who was fabulous, but here You've been in defense business as long as he has.
Speaker 8 02:24:49
Do you think we are on the cusp of a very uh violent war? Well, I wouldn't call, I mean all wars are violent. You know, I think we're we're on the cusp of a campaign that will be a much more campaign sustained campaign than we had to do to take out their nuclear uh arsenal. I heard Mark say ten to twelve days, which to me seems about right because there's two objectives here. First is to is to enforce our red line and thereby enhance our credibility in the Middle, East and around the world. President's going to do that beyond a shadow of a doubt. The second is to further degrade Iran's ability to aggress against its neighbors and destabilize the region, uh, which is against our national interest. Again, if you read the national security strategy. So, The logical thing to take out is their missile capabilities and every and anti - air systems that protect them. So these silos are still up. And in order to do that job. Well, it, you know, it takes a lot of sorties. You're not going gonna do that today. So, One interesting question which Mark talked about was whether the Israelis are going to join in. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when Trump is talking with Netanyahu about that. What do you think the preference of the president is? I think he would prefer that they not, But I don't think he's going to hold it back if Iran does something provocative. Right. Look, with regard to the Israelis, It's a complicated question because Israel has moved from a containment policy in the region to an preemption policy in the region. And Netanyahu has been very decisive about doing that and I think he's got Israeli people behind him. So, the Israelis can send a message here too. In past, they tried to do hands - off on this sort of thing because they felt more vulnerable in the region. If he joins in, Maybe it's a good way of sending them message. :. Look, we're at head of modern region, and we're going act like it when our security is at stake.I think General Montgomery was right. 
Speaker 8 02:25:46
You know, I was with a client back in my law practice days in Nevada, big swinger, Jewish man, big supporter of Israel. When Israel did not respond to Saddam's Scuds. And he couldn't believe it. I was in his office. He could not believe that they were not responding. But of course Secretary Baker and George Bush had asked them not to respond. I don't think Donald. Trump is in the business of asking people not to respond if they want to. And I think President Trump adjusts better to changes in a strategic position. In other words, In the past, Israel has acted sometimes like they can't act like they can't be a normal. Do what a normal nation would do in a normal situation, okay, which is to take advantage of this to attack and degrade their chief aggressor. I think the Israelis are done with that and I think Trump is fine with it. Uh uh Trump has been burdened by three or four years of assumptions about the Middle East, and he's rethinking the region. He's rethought it. And I just think anybody else in Israel's position with Israel's power would join us in this attack. And so I'd like to see them do it now. Again, There are a whole lot of factors working here, you and I don't know about, so maybe they won't. But um we're certainly going to use their intel, particularly if we can go after command and control with the IRGC. They're going to tell us where everybody is. Would you expect any of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries to join in? No except defensively uh when the Iranians respond. And, you I want I want to reassure people. We're very good at this kind of mission when we have time to build up a plan and when the environment is basically uncompetitive, I mean, this is not the South China Sea, right? Uh where there are thousands and thousands and thousands of anti-ship cruise ballistic missiles along the coast of China. This this is a basically uncompetitive environment, we're good at this. And so I'm not saying that we can't take any casualties, but i i feel pretty confident.
Speaker 6 02:26:45
In our force protection there. Jimmy, we were around the same age, And I think you can remember the buildup to the nineteen ninety one war, which kicked off I. Think on March one or thereabouts nineteen ninety one. And the projections of the dead on our team, On our side was going to be in the five digits and people were horrified by that, but it was going to be five digits. Men lost their lives but it was in the hundreds. It might not even have been over a hundred I can't remember. Uh In, the Panama Canal invasion. In nineteen ninety one, we lost twenty three. Uh some soldiers were killed on an earthquake rating Granada. And then when the two thousand and three invasion happened, we thought chemical weapons and everything was going to rain down on our troops. It didn't happen. Do. You think that's a false premise of four wars with relatively low casualties has Americans complacent about the risk our troops face right now?
Speaker 8 02:27:10
Well, we had a couple of wars after that, even where unfortunately you know we took a lot of casualties. So relatively speaking, but compared to those other engagements, we took a lot of casualties. So now I think people are worried. I think Donald Trump is uniquely reluctant to use American military power in a sustained combat type situation. Not only like ten, twelve, fifteen days all that sustained. So, this is the president I think who uniquely sometimes I worry about him, and sometimes I think maybe he's he's too reluctant. Uh. So we're not going to go in until we're ready. And until we have in place, what we need to protect our people as much as they can be protected. That's why I say I have a fair amount of confidence and you never know with war. Uh he's going to pull the trigger. Uh it's just a question now when and uh I've been saying this on the show and on the pod now for the better part of a month. So i should be careful, but i've got to believe it's going to be soon.
Speaker 8 02:28:06
And you can do that by going after their oil shipments. So, assuming they have the assets to do it, We can do to them what we're doing to Venezuela now and choke off revenue for the regime. Do, you think that they are in touch with reality enough to know what happens where they would inflict serious casualties on American troops? And I mean, if they got a destroyer, I think Donald Trump would go through the roof. Oh yeah. No, I don't think so too. I think this is a collapse and and they're gonna be very. This is kind of like Hitler in the bunker is what I think. I mean this is the collapse of all their ideological and eschatological pretensions. I think that there'll be desperate to do anything to prevent it. And the question is which Israelis may know, I don't know, Is are there regime factions that are drawing back from that kind of scorched earth policy? But who will act if necessary? I think they've been waiting for Supreme Leader to die which makes sense. I mean that's the time for transition something new so So, but are there forces that are prepared to say at some point, no, you know what? We're going to hurry that along. You know, We'll bring a pillow to his bedside in the bunker and and we'll get changed before that. I don't know. I don't think anybody knows if anybody knew it would be the Israelis. I'm watching his son. His son is amassing a fortune of many, many hundreds of millions of dollars outside of the country. And that's not the action of a confident next in line supreme leader. Is it? No. And I kind of believe that there were people close to him who weren't quite as willing to die as he may be. There's a limit how much you know, The top leader is one thing or or the people immediately around him. But I never thought that when you broaden it out, The RGC generals and rest of it uh that they're as willing, you know, to meet their maker as the supreme leader is. So if it happens soon, if regime collapse happens soon now, we'll see what will cause it.
Speaker 6 02:29:03
We will look for Senator Talent to be back next week. He's also a frequent guest on Wayne's World. I don't know how often, Wayne, between that and you pick it up every kid like the after show. Uh, be careful Jim, they're copying that on a regular basis. Don't go anywhere America. Thank you Senator Talent Paul on at at Jim Talent to show you the best example out there at Jim Talent from the Reagan Institute for the Study of Peace through Stance States United Two Gary. He is, of course National Review senior writer. He's of course, host of The Thing with Martini Lunch. He's, of course, a contributor to The Editor's Podcast by National Review, and he is the father of Robot Boys. And so I don't know if he's smart, but his wife must be uh Robot Boys interest me a lot more than you Jim, but someday they'll come on and talk to me about what they're up to have. They been set back. Can they get a robot to shovel? The snow? Uh has not done that uh, but this is big deal. We here in Fairfax County, where they are metaphorical snowflakes over literal snowflakes. We got real snow, and we were shoveling out Sunday between football games.
Speaker 5 02:29:32
There was, you know, Like on our driveway, there was still like a layer of ice on top of everything else. So schools were closed Monday. That was a guarantee. Wednesday's a half day. Thursday and Friday off because it's the other quarter of the grade grid. So off Monday, school canceled Tuesday, Tuesday afternoon they're like what are we doing? There's no way we're sending the kids for half a day for the week. You're off Wednesday too. So usually my son is like for real? Yay! Snow days! No! Wants to get into school to work on the mobile robot team schedule before competitions already like end of February. So you know, basically get this assignment in January this year, robots gonna have to like take a ball. Uh probably about the size of like a volleyball, slightly smaller and shoot it up into a basket. And you get points for how well your robot can do that. He also has to go over a ramp. Uh, this is his first robotics competition. Bring me out there. He's like. What is this? You know, bizarre thing, my kids gonna need to get into and really competitive about. So they're into it, but they have to. First, we got one more month. They have the design, they have the basics. They got a robot that can roll around by remote control and stuff. It's gotta be autonomous for I think three seconds this year ; they increased that. So you, you program it inside the software. Robot's gonna be able to do it by itself for the first thirty seconds of like a two minute thirty second competition period. So, we had to work it out for them. And uh couldn't go in, you know, any day this week, which is making things a little more complicated when there was no robotics advisor came in and opened one door and let that robot get in here. That is an intense topic of discussion once we were there and I don't want to get uh the illustrious fact of the advisor who's a terrific guy. Um I don't want to get him in trouble. All right. So nobody starts snooping around. What did he give all these people? What he gave them? Okay, good enough alright. Gentlemen, let's get serious, uh, war or no war? What do you think?
Speaker 5 02:30:28
Um, well, it certainly seems like we've got more and more forces going into that region. Um, I had been frustrated that both on your program in early January and then a little more than two weeks ago, President Trump had gone on Truth Social encouraged the Iranian people to rise up. He says keep track of who the torturers are. Help is on the way. MIGA and I assume that means you know greater Iran great again. And I was very supportive of that because I wanted to see what president would do. And then time went by and not much has happened. Except now some of this was getting aid for an Lincoln Carrier Group out to the Persian Gulf. Oh by the way, I saw news that Iran China and Russia plan on doing joint naval exercises in that neighborhood in the coming days Hugh. Do you think the timing of that joint naval exercises is coincidence? No, but I'm also not particularly worried about uh the Chinese and Russian navies staying together. I'm afraid what they'll do is run into each other, they might hit us by accident. But uh if there are Ukrainians no Ukrainians psychologically now maybe has best. You know why they bring in A B S less on the books, right? Operation, operation. Bring them in. Most of the time they can see no Iranian A B S. Okay, but um I think there's something going off here. That I'm just on record. What do you think? I think the president, he will look really bad if nothing happens. Now let me point out that we have a variety of ways to undermine the Iranian regime uh could be cyber, could be covert action. I think getting as many Starlink links and other ways to get communications going on would be helpful. I think trying to jam the communications or disrupt a few communications of the Iranian regime might be helpful to people trying to throw up, To overthrow their regime. So I'm hoping we're doing something already, and i'm hoping that there is more to come because, as i'm sure your listeners know, Hugh, The estimates of the death tolls among the protesters, some have it in ten thousand range, some have it closer to twenty thousand, some even as high as thirty thousand.
Speaker 5 02:31:25
It's like ten times I went.
Speaker 6 02:31:26
Like the biggest massacre since Bobby Arri in World War One when the Nazis wiped out thirty- three thousand Jews in Ukraine in two days. It's the biggest two- day massacre since then.
Speaker 1 02:31:34
Sean sent a photo and said he had the dumb and dumber tux before it was cool.
Speaker 6 02:31:41
Unthinkable, but Jim, I have talked to I think pretty much every Iran expert inside the Beltway over the last two weeks since the president made remarks on this show, and they all tell me that you cannot bomb the IRGC out of power. They're too deeply dug in. All, you can do is create conditions of extreme opportunity for the street. If it takes that opportunity.

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Conversations explore project management challenges, including subcontractor communication and hands-on training for team members. The dialogue shifts to geopolitical analysis, focusing on Iran's regime decay and the potential for a stable government benefiting regional powers, except Russia. The importance of Greenland in missile defense is discussed alongside the desire of its inhabitants for independence. A personal crisis arises when a speaker's son is hospitalized, prompting deep reflections on faith, suffering, and the nature of prayer within a community context.