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- 0:00Speaker 1: And an Iranian warship surrenders to the SRIL the first
- 0:05Speaker 1: time a ship intered by neutral nations that has been
- 0:10Speaker 1: Excuse me in turn, I should say about neutral nations
- 0:13Speaker 1: since the Second World War.
- 0:15Speaker 2: That's pretty cool.
- 0:17Speaker 1: The captain of a ship of the Iranian Navy handed
- 0:20Speaker 1: his vessel over to the Sri Lankan government, a neutral party,
- 0:25Speaker 1: for internment, saving the lives of his crew. Hours after
- 0:30Speaker 1: another Ranian ship was destroyed by nearby by the United
- 0:33Speaker 1: States Navy. The Sri Lanka has assumed control of the
- 0:38Speaker 1: Islamic Republic of Iran ship, a fleet supply ship oiler.
- 0:42Speaker 1: Sri Lanka has sent craft to receive the nineteen seventies
- 0:46Speaker 1: airship within its territorial waters. Per local media accounts, they
- 0:50Speaker 1: had taken it has taken off one hundred and eight
- 0:53Speaker 1: officers and men who are to be sent ashore. The
- 0:57Speaker 1: ship will now be taken by the Sri Lankans for
- 1:00Speaker 1: internment for the duration of the hostilities there.
- 1:03Speaker 2: The Sri Lankan.
- 1:04Speaker 1: President said as government had selected the historic port there
- 1:08Speaker 1: due to the risk of disruption to maritime traffic by
- 1:11Speaker 1: the presidence of the inactive warship, so they wished to
- 1:14Speaker 1: keep it away from the country's primary commercial ports, they
- 1:17Speaker 1: decide to use another one. The Times of India reports saying,
- 1:21Speaker 1: we are not taking sides in this conflict, but while
- 1:24Speaker 1: maintaining our neutrality, we are taking action to quote save lives. Now,
- 1:29Speaker 1: neither Sri Lanka nor Iran have yet officially confirmed that
- 1:32Speaker 1: the ship was surrendered by the captain. Yet the ship
- 1:37Speaker 1: only arrived in Sri Lanka waters this morning, and according
- 1:39Speaker 1: to the long established laws of armed conflict at sea,
- 1:43Speaker 1: it would be entitled to spend twenty four hours in
- 1:46Speaker 1: the water of a neutral country without fear from attack.
- 1:50Speaker 1: The fact the ship has been handed over to the Sri
- 1:52Speaker 1: Lankan authorities so quickly strongly suggests the captain took the
- 1:56Speaker 1: decision to preserve the life of his men by opting
- 1:59Speaker 1: out the conflict altogether. Now, had Sri Lanka not in
- 2:03Speaker 1: turn the ship within twenty four hours or compelled the
- 2:05Speaker 1: Iranians to leave their territory, the United States would have
- 2:09Speaker 1: been free to sink that ship even inside Tri Lanka
- 2:12Speaker 1: International waters or harbors. The International Red Cross also states
- 2:16Speaker 1: on this subject, it is generally accepted that when a
- 2:20Speaker 1: ship like this and the force is inter neutral territory
- 2:23Speaker 1: and the neutral authority is unable or unwilling to expel
- 2:26Speaker 1: or in turn them. The first party is enteled to
- 2:28Speaker 1: undertake their hot pursuit and attack them there. It may
- 2:31Speaker 1: even seek compensation from the neutral state for this breach
- 2:35Speaker 1: of neutrality. The mere presence of this ship does not
- 2:39Speaker 1: just fly hot pursuit. There must be some failure by
- 2:43Speaker 1: the neutral state to uphold its neutrality. Now this is
- 2:46Speaker 1: obviously complicated kumbaya and you know, like international rules just
- 2:50Speaker 1: make me roll my eyes. But under the same those
- 2:53Speaker 1: same law laws of war, the cost to the captain
- 2:56Speaker 1: the crew is that they too are to be in
- 3:00Speaker 1: in Sri Lanka for the remainder of the conflict. The
- 3:02Speaker 1: officers may be given parole, but would not be free
- 3:05Speaker 1: to leave the territory of Sri Lanka to go home.
- 3:08Speaker 1: Given the facts is known, this is the first time
- 3:11Speaker 1: since the World War Second World War that a warship
- 3:14Speaker 1: has been in turned by the government of a neutral power.
- 3:17Speaker 1: During the Second World War, several damaged U boats were
- 3:20Speaker 1: able to limp to neutral harbors and turn themselves over
- 3:22Speaker 1: to the authorities after being damaged and attacks, preferring to
- 3:26Speaker 1: see out the remainder of the war in captivity rather
- 3:28Speaker 1: than the certainty of death at sea. The internment of
- 3:32Speaker 1: the Iris follows by day the destruction of the Iranian
- 3:36Speaker 1: frigate and the international waters in the south of Sri Lanka,
- 3:40Speaker 1: the first sinking of an enemy ship by the United
- 3:42Speaker 1: States submarine since the world Second World War War and
- 3:46Speaker 1: the first officially acknowledged sunk sinkings anywhere since nineteen eighty two.
- 3:51Speaker 2: The US Department of.
- 3:52Speaker 1: War published the periscope footage of the moment of destruction,
- 3:55Speaker 1: and I got to say, it was pretty awesome, Like
- 3:57Speaker 1: it was kind of like, yeah, we could have hit
- 3:59Speaker 1: this from the air, but let's let our submarines show
- 4:01Speaker 1: what they can do as well. I think it was
- 4:03Speaker 1: a pr move and a very smart one to remind
- 4:05Speaker 1: the rest of the world that we've got a lot
- 4:07Speaker 1: of submarines that are very capable and they wanted them
- 4:09Speaker 1: in the action. I also think that's amazing that they
- 4:11Speaker 1: wanted them in the action. So I got to say,
- 4:14Speaker 1: another example of a job well done in by the US,
- 4:20Speaker 1: and this Iranian worship surrendering also, I think tells you
- 4:24Speaker 1: about the mentality of what we're seeing right there in Iran,
- 4:29Speaker 1: and there's a lot of people now saying do we
- 4:31Speaker 1: stay and die or do we maybe think about saving
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- 5:47Speaker 1: very interesting is that Iran now is trying to figure
- 5:50Speaker 1: out like who's going to be in charge. They really
- 5:53Speaker 1: don't know because every time they name somebody, we keep
- 5:57Speaker 1: taking them out looking and it's just a funny question
- 6:02Speaker 1: to ask. If you're bored, you want to ask Siri
- 6:03Speaker 1: or Alexa or like chat GBT or gronk, like who's
- 6:06Speaker 1: in charge?
- 6:07Speaker 2: I ran?
- 6:08Speaker 1: The answers are actually very different, which is also really
- 6:11Speaker 1: really funny because they're just like that. It's hard to
- 6:14Speaker 1: keep up with, like who's alive, who's in charge? What's happening,
- 6:19Speaker 1: what's going to happen next? Now, there's also also a
- 6:23Speaker 1: question a lot of people were asking in the White House.
- 6:25Speaker 2: Is frustrated about this? I know?
- 6:27Speaker 1: And that is that we are seeing because of this war,
- 6:29Speaker 1: gas prices that have risen. I'll give you a great example.
- 6:33Speaker 1: I'm in Houston right now. Gas price of Riman risen
- 6:36Speaker 1: thirty cents a gallon since the US Israel strikes on Iran. Now,
- 6:40Speaker 1: according to Triple A, the highest gas prices ever recorded
- 6:43Speaker 1: in Houston were four dollars and sixty eight cents per
- 6:45Speaker 1: gallon of regular unleaded and five twenty four per gawn
- 6:49Speaker 1: of diesel during March of twenty twenty two. You know
- 6:51Speaker 1: who is president then, that would be Joe Biden. That
- 6:54Speaker 1: was shortly after Russia's invasion also of Ukraine. So you
- 6:58Speaker 1: can again think about that. Now, gas prices are up
- 7:02Speaker 1: thirty cents on average as the oil markets in the
- 7:05Speaker 1: US around the world react to the ongoing conflict in
- 7:07Speaker 1: the Middle East that it has sparked because of this war.
- 7:12Speaker 1: According to Triple A, the average price for regular unleaded
- 7:15Speaker 1: gas has since risen from two forty eight to seventy
- 7:18Speaker 1: eight per gallon over the past month. That is a
- 7:21Speaker 1: thirty five cent increase. Now where you are, it could
- 7:23Speaker 1: be much higher than that, depending on where you are
- 7:26Speaker 1: in the country. Texas is going to be lower because
- 7:29Speaker 1: there's a lot of refineries here, a lot of oil here,
- 7:31Speaker 1: and it doesn't have to travel as far after it's refined.
- 7:33Speaker 1: There's a very good chance it's going to be much
- 7:35Speaker 1: higher depending on where you're listening. This is something the
- 7:39Speaker 1: White House I think knew about. But I also think
- 7:42Speaker 1: that the White House understood that they had to do this,
- 7:47Speaker 1: and I actually last week went down to the permium
- 7:51Speaker 1: basin with Chevron and went to a Davison drilling rig
- 7:55Speaker 1: to see how it works in the premium basin. You
- 7:58Speaker 1: realize something very fast there. This is all about American
- 8:01Speaker 1: energy security. And if you go firsthand and you see
- 8:06Speaker 1: what fuels America, and you go to these rigs, as
- 8:09Speaker 1: I was able to, I got to sit in the
- 8:11Speaker 1: in the and I mean the driller's chair as they
- 8:13Speaker 1: were drilling this new uh well. And I put this,
- 8:15Speaker 1: by the way, the video up on x if you
- 8:18Speaker 1: want to watch it, as I sitting there talking with Chevron,
- 8:20Speaker 1: like you understand the importance of energy independence. You understand
- 8:25Speaker 1: the importance of making sure that we're not reliant on
- 8:30Speaker 1: foreign oil to fill up our cars and to run
- 8:34Speaker 1: our country and and and almost everything you touch as
- 8:36Speaker 1: petroleum in it.
- 8:37Speaker 2: Okay.
- 8:38Speaker 1: That's That's like another like really important and significant part
- 8:42Speaker 1: of this is that people really truly do need to
- 8:47Speaker 1: understand that having America energy it dominants is not only
- 8:52Speaker 1: key for our prosperity, but it's a key for our
- 8:55Speaker 1: national security. And if you look at now where China is,
- 9:00Speaker 1: and this is Trump's attack on Iran has taken a
- 9:04Speaker 1: big economic bite out of one of America's chief rivals, China.
- 9:11Speaker 1: Almost all okay, listen carefully. Almost all of Iran's exported
- 9:17Speaker 1: oil and more than half of Venezuela's oil went last
- 9:22Speaker 1: year to China directly. Now there are five different charts
- 9:28Speaker 1: that are now showing that China's oil dilemma is a
- 9:32Speaker 1: massive problem.
- 9:34Speaker 2: All right.
- 9:35Speaker 1: Politico did a very interesting article about this, saying disruption
- 9:38Speaker 1: of Iranian oil supplies may make China more interested in
- 9:42Speaker 1: turning to Russia because they're now getting desperate quickly for
- 9:46Speaker 1: energy and President Trump's attack on Iran is now taking
- 9:51Speaker 1: a massive economic bite out of China. Over the span
- 9:54Speaker 1: of two months, the Trump administration has removed not one,
- 9:58Speaker 1: but has removed two leaders of the two most important
- 10:02Speaker 1: countries to China when it comes to their oil and
- 10:07Speaker 1: getting oil. China is it's their most important crude oil
- 10:11Speaker 1: customer was China four Iran and four Venezuela. China buys
- 10:18Speaker 1: oil from nations all across the Middle East, Okay, but
- 10:21Speaker 1: Iran was second only to Saudi Arabia as its supplier
- 10:24Speaker 1: last year. According to analysis of data provided by market
- 10:29Speaker 1: research firms that are in the industry, almost all of
- 10:32Speaker 1: Iranian's export oil and more than half of Venezuela's went
- 10:36Speaker 1: directly to China, which remained one of the only purchasers
- 10:40Speaker 1: of goods from the Nearly from the two heavily sanctioned nations.
- 10:45Speaker 1: The two countries combined represent some seventeen percent of China's
- 10:50Speaker 1: overall oil purchases. That is a massive share of the
- 10:54Speaker 1: world's largest importer of crude oil. In China is the
- 10:57Speaker 1: largest importer of crude oil. The Chinese Foreign Minister and
- 11:00Speaker 1: Saturday said it was highly concerned. Okay, they said that's
- 11:04Speaker 1: in China by the attack on I Ran and called
- 11:07Speaker 1: for an end of the war immediately. Why because there's
- 11:09Speaker 1: a squeeze on China's energy supply and it comes just
- 11:13Speaker 1: weeks before Trumps lay to hold a summit with a
- 11:15Speaker 1: Chinese leader G Gping. That's going to be a big
- 11:19Speaker 1: problem for them as well. Now you add all these
- 11:22Speaker 1: new challenges and obtaining oil from the Persian Gulf, that
- 11:27Speaker 1: could drive China to expand its reliance on anybody else
- 11:30Speaker 1: that's going to work with them. I think that's clearly
- 11:33Speaker 1: going to end up being Russia. Quote, if the conflict
- 11:37Speaker 1: drags on for a couple of weeks, the most logical
- 11:39Speaker 1: solution for Beijing is going to be to turn to
- 11:41Speaker 1: more Russian crude, and they're going to have to figure
- 11:44Speaker 1: out how to get around all the issues there and embargoes, etc.
- 11:49Speaker 1: China has a significant amount of crude held in storage.
- 11:52Speaker 1: They're really smart when it comes to that, all right.
- 11:54Speaker 1: They're better than we are with our oil supplies and
- 11:56Speaker 1: our strategic oil reserves. And had already begun ramping down
- 12:00Speaker 1: its imports of Iranian oil in twenty twenty six in
- 12:03Speaker 1: exchange from more Russian oil even prior to Saturday's fighting,
- 12:07Speaker 1: because they understand geopolitics anderson how reliant they were on
- 12:11Speaker 1: Iranian oil. Following the strike, ships had begun to avoid
- 12:14Speaker 1: the Strait of Hormus off the coast of Iran that
- 12:17Speaker 1: is a critical shipping lane for Gulf nations to export
- 12:20Speaker 1: oil to Asia. Specifically China, for example, in twenty twenty
- 12:24Speaker 1: five received about half of its imports imported oil from
- 12:29Speaker 1: these six Gulf countries that rely on the Strait of
- 12:32Speaker 1: Hormus to get the oil to China. Other large crude
- 12:35Speaker 1: producers in the region, including Saudi Arabia and Iraq and
- 12:38Speaker 1: the UAE, transport almost all their crewed exports through the
- 12:42Speaker 1: geographic bottleneck the Strait of Hormus, and almost all of
- 12:46Speaker 1: their oil is now going directly to China now. Trump,
- 12:50Speaker 1: to be clear, did not mention Iranian oil in his
- 12:53Speaker 1: address announcing the strike Saturday, marking a contrast from his
- 12:57Speaker 1: remarks after the raid against Nicholas Maduro when he said
- 12:59Speaker 1: the USA would run quote unquote Venezuela and have US
- 13:03Speaker 1: companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly
- 13:05Speaker 1: broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for
- 13:09Speaker 1: the country. So that is very different than what we're
- 13:12Speaker 1: seeing now in Iran. Iran, just to put in perspective
- 13:15Speaker 1: for you, exports five hundred and twenty million barrels of
- 13:18Speaker 1: crude oil to China and twenty twenty five that's more
- 13:23Speaker 1: than three times as much as Venezuela. Another one point
- 13:26Speaker 1: four billion barrels came from the five other countries that
- 13:29Speaker 1: rely on the Strait of Hormuz, and in total, more
- 13:32Speaker 1: than half of China's crude oil imports come from countries
- 13:36Speaker 1: that are now facing trade disruptions because.
- 13:40Speaker 2: Of the war in Iran.
- 13:41Speaker 1: So there is a massive vested interest in China saying, hey,
- 13:46Speaker 1: seventy percent of China oil comes from Venezuela and Iran.
- 13:49Speaker 2: Last year, we got to fix that.
- 13:51Speaker 1: They are also there's a huge interest in them, saying
- 13:54Speaker 1: to the President Nights, it's America. We'd love to work
- 13:56Speaker 1: with you and figure out a way to get all
- 13:58Speaker 1: of this settled very very quickly. And this is weakening China.
- 14:04Speaker 1: I want to be clear. That is a perk of
- 14:07Speaker 1: what's happening right now. I also want to get you
- 14:10Speaker 1: another story in here. The Attorney General up there in
- 14:14Speaker 1: New York City, we'll teach you. James is now pressuring
- 14:18Speaker 1: and this is how radical the left has become. Now
- 14:21Speaker 1: pressuring New York City hospitals to resume sex change drugs
- 14:28Speaker 1: for miners. The Democratic New York Attorney General, the same
- 14:33Speaker 1: one that tried to put Trump in jail, ordered one
- 14:36Speaker 1: of New York City's largest hospitals to resume ordered okay,
- 14:40Speaker 1: the New York City Hospital resume providing sex change drugs
- 14:43Speaker 1: to miners after the hospital decided to stop its transgender
- 14:46Speaker 1: youth program citing pressure from the Trump administration. James then
- 14:52Speaker 1: send a letter to the NYU Hospital on February the
- 14:59Speaker 1: twenty fifth, claiming that the hospital's decision to end its
- 15:03Speaker 1: transgender youth health program quote unquote is jeopardizing healthcare access
- 15:07Speaker 1: for vulnerable people.
- 15:08Speaker 2: In her state.
- 15:10Speaker 1: The New York Post reporting on this saying the letter
- 15:12Speaker 1: threatened further action if the hospital does not comply with
- 15:17Speaker 1: her mandate. Now, a lot of people would say, hey,
- 15:21Speaker 1: by the way, that's like going rogue.
- 15:23Speaker 2: Probably not a good idea.
- 15:25Speaker 1: Nyu Legon appears to be suddenly and indefinitely canceling transgender
- 15:32Speaker 1: children's future appointments, thereby jeopardizing access to medical necessary healthcare
- 15:39Speaker 1: for some of the most vulnerable in New York.
- 15:41Speaker 2: The letter reportedly reads the.
- 15:44Speaker 1: Gaze against Groomers put out this tweet saying massive win.
- 15:48Speaker 1: Nyu Legon Hospital has immediately and permanently acts its transgender
- 15:55Speaker 1: treatment of minors program. They blame the current regulatory environment
- 15:59Speaker 1: for the sudden shift, the Trump administrations threat to cut
- 16:02Speaker 1: funding the hospitals that do not end their programs, which
- 16:05Speaker 1: was a smart move by the president. Okay, Like, I'm
- 16:07Speaker 1: one hundred percent in favor of this. The trum administrations
- 16:12Speaker 1: threat to cut funding the hospitals that do not end
- 16:14Speaker 1: the sterilization and mutilation of minors is working. So that
- 16:19Speaker 1: came out and they if you look on their website,
- 16:22Speaker 1: the hospital's website landing page for this quote, care now
- 16:26Speaker 1: reached gender and sexuality services rather than the previous Transgender
- 16:29Speaker 1: Youth Health Program their Gender and Sexuality Services. This is
- 16:34Speaker 1: what it says in their website right now. It says,
- 16:36Speaker 1: we help children and their families understand, exploil their identity
- 16:39Speaker 1: with the goal of helping them achieve a true and
- 16:42Speaker 1: nuanced sense of self. We want children to understand and
- 16:46Speaker 1: value themselves so that they can develop the confidence to
- 16:50Speaker 1: talk with others about their sexual orientation and gender identity.
- 16:54Speaker 1: In addition, we counsel children, adolescents, and young adults who
- 16:57Speaker 1: have been diagnosed with disorders of sexual development also known
- 17:01Speaker 1: as intersex conditions or general variations and co occurring minutes.
- 17:10Speaker 1: So they're even admitting like this is in the mental
- 17:12Speaker 1: health issue now on their website, the lgbtwo Radical community,
- 17:16Speaker 1: they do not want it labeled that way.
- 17:18Speaker 2: I want to be very very clear.
- 17:21Speaker 1: So this hospital ends its program and why because President
- 17:26Speaker 1: did the right thing. Donald Trump and the Department of
- 17:29Speaker 1: Health Human Services proposed rules that would pull federal funds
- 17:33Speaker 1: from hospitals that provide sex mutilating drugs and surgeries to minors.
- 17:37Speaker 1: Good for the president quote. Given the recent departure of
- 17:40Speaker 1: our medical director, coupled with the current regulatory environment, we
- 17:45Speaker 1: made the difficult decision to discontinue our transgender youth health program,
- 17:50Speaker 1: the hospital statement now reads. They also added it has
- 17:53Speaker 1: committed to helping patients in our care manage this change,
- 17:58Speaker 1: and said it's pediatric mental health care program will continue.
- 18:02Speaker 1: So they're admitting that the transgenderism is a mental health issue.
- 18:05Speaker 1: I'm not saying as a negative. I've said for a
- 18:07Speaker 1: long time. And what we allowed was the radical left
- 18:10Speaker 1: to stop treating people dealing with mental health issues, believing
- 18:13Speaker 1: that like they're a man trapped in a woman's body
- 18:15Speaker 1: or vice versa, is somehow outside of it being mental,
- 18:19Speaker 1: Like they were advocating and supporting a mental health issue
- 18:24Speaker 1: instead of treating it. And because they were making millions
- 18:27Speaker 1: off these kids. That's the sick part about all this.
- 18:30Speaker 1: It used to be a real mental health issue that like, hey,
- 18:33Speaker 1: like we got to get Timmy help.
- 18:34Speaker 2: He thinks of Susie.
- 18:35Speaker 1: And instead what the left is like, no, no, let's embrace
- 18:38Speaker 1: Timmy being Susie. Let's exploit their mental health issue to
- 18:45Speaker 1: make money off of it. Because when we do this
- 18:48Speaker 1: to a kid, their patient for life, whether they like
- 18:52Speaker 1: it or not, because their bodies rejecting what we've done
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- 22:11Speaker 1: the left knows that a lot of their voters are poor,
- 22:13Speaker 1: and they want to convince them that the system's working
- 22:16Speaker 1: against them, right, not for them, and so they're like, hey,
- 22:21Speaker 1: help us take from the rich. This is the Robin
- 22:23Speaker 1: man like syndrome, as I call it, where you get
- 22:26Speaker 1: a lot of people that do great because they work
- 22:28Speaker 1: their a to blast is off, and you have a
- 22:30Speaker 1: lot of people that don't. And then they're like, well,
- 22:31Speaker 1: I want what they have, but they're not want to
- 22:33Speaker 1: do the work or study hard, to go to school
- 22:35Speaker 1: or whatever it may be. And so there's a jealousy.
- 22:37Speaker 1: And then you have politicians come around they're like they're
- 22:39Speaker 1: like Hey, there's enough of you guys are angry and
- 22:41Speaker 1: jealous that I can convince you that you're not failing.
- 22:47Speaker 1: But the system is against you and rigged against you.
- 22:50Speaker 1: And it's not your fault you didn't go to college.
- 22:52Speaker 1: It's not your fault that you're a pothead, it's not
- 22:54Speaker 1: your fault to your drug addic, it's not your fault
- 22:55Speaker 1: that you're just lazy. I mean, I look, I see
- 22:58Speaker 1: this in life. Now I'm forty, for Justin and like,
- 23:02Speaker 1: it's very interesting now how many people in my forties
- 23:06Speaker 1: that I used to be friends with will will actually
- 23:09Speaker 1: like come after me on social media, like not call me,
- 23:12Speaker 1: not text me, but will attack me because they are,
- 23:16Speaker 1: I guess, frustrated that I'm successful. And they're like, well,
- 23:19Speaker 1: you don't understand the working man, the hard man. I'm like, dude,
- 23:21Speaker 1: I work my tail off, like while you were, while
- 23:23Speaker 1: you were trying to get one of them, I said.
- 23:26Speaker 1: We had one of those pretty bunk conversations one day
- 23:29Speaker 1: and I said to him, I was like, he was like,
- 23:31Speaker 1: you know, well you don't understand what it's like struggle
- 23:32Speaker 1: like I do. That's why I work so hard. And
- 23:36Speaker 1: we both came from the same place. We both didn't
- 23:41Speaker 1: grow up on third base or second base or on
- 23:43Speaker 1: first base. Okay, like you and I both knew we
- 23:46Speaker 1: need to.
- 23:47Speaker 2: Pay we were gonna have to pay for college.
- 23:48Speaker 1: You and I both knew that we were gonna have
- 23:50Speaker 1: to get there on a college scholarship if we were
- 23:52Speaker 1: going to go. And the difference between you and I
- 23:56Speaker 1: is I was out there busting my tail working sixty
- 23:59Speaker 1: hours a week teaching tennis in the summer, while you
- 24:01Speaker 1: were trying to get your beer plate on the wall
- 24:03Speaker 1: at Flying Saucer. And if you know what Flying Saucer is,
- 24:06Speaker 1: it's a beer house. They have like X number of
- 24:08Speaker 1: brews on tap. It's insane, like over one hundred and
- 24:11Speaker 1: if you drink every beer and you can't, and it's
- 24:13Speaker 1: like there's rules on it, like so that you have
- 24:15Speaker 1: to come back every week so you don't just you know,
- 24:17Speaker 1: get belligerently drunk. But you can get a plate with
- 24:20Speaker 1: your name on the wall. And I'm like, dude, that
- 24:22Speaker 1: was your biggest accomplishment in your twenties, was like getting
- 24:25Speaker 1: your beer plate on the wall at Flying Saucer. There's
- 24:30Speaker 1: a difference between my work ethic and your work ethic.
- 24:34Speaker 1: Like a very very big difference.
- 24:39Speaker 2: And now you're mad.
- 24:40Speaker 1: And you become a liberal because you somehow think that
- 24:43Speaker 1: like the systems against you and rigged. No, it's because
- 24:47Speaker 1: you didn't work hard. You've got multiple mug shots for
- 24:52Speaker 1: being an idiot, like not committing major crimes, like just
- 24:55Speaker 1: being like just doing stupid stuff like a dui, And
- 24:59Speaker 1: so that has hindered you as well in your development,
- 25:04Speaker 1: Like you made some stupid decisions being arrogant with people
- 25:07Speaker 1: you worked with, and you got fired from jobs because
- 25:09Speaker 1: of insubordination. That again, and some of that came back
- 25:13Speaker 1: to the drinking issues. Like this is there is a
- 25:18Speaker 1: real interesting moment happening here in this country whereas the
- 25:22Speaker 1: left is saying to people like that, hey, it's somehow
- 25:25Speaker 1: the system that screwed you, and that's why you're making
- 25:27Speaker 1: all these bad decisions. And that's where the mundanis AOC's
- 25:32Speaker 1: and all these liberal mayors in different liberal cities like Memphis,
- 25:36Speaker 1: in New Orleans and Detroit and Baltimore come in because
- 25:39Speaker 1: they figured out that there's enough lazy people that they
- 25:44Speaker 1: can get to vote from that they just give them
- 25:46Speaker 1: free stuff. It's modern day slavery, right, Like I'll feed you,
- 25:51Speaker 1: but I'm not going to help you get out of poverty.
- 25:53Speaker 1: Because if I help you get out of poverty, then.
- 25:56Speaker 2: You don't need me anymore.
- 25:58Speaker 1: One of the biggest reasons why the Democratic Party tried
- 26:00Speaker 1: to destroy Donald Trump their impeachment twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen,
- 26:03Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen is because they understood the threat
- 26:07Speaker 1: that Donald Trump was to the minority voters. Why do
- 26:10Speaker 1: you think the Democrats let some of illegal immigrants into
- 26:12Speaker 1: this country? Because Donald Trump had completely decimated the Democratic
- 26:19Speaker 1: Party's control of the African American community, and you had
- 26:23Speaker 1: African American unemployment rates the lowest in history when Donald
- 26:27Speaker 1: Trump was president in his first term. Yeah, the lowest
- 26:30Speaker 1: unempoyment rate for African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos. And
- 26:36Speaker 1: so what the Democratic Party realized was if this keeps up,
- 26:41Speaker 1: and think goodness, COVID came in for them. It saved
- 26:43Speaker 1: them politically in many ways because COVID, you know, really,
- 26:46Speaker 1: as you know, hurt the economy in a major way,
- 26:49Speaker 1: and that stopped alloted that Trump like MAGA movement, and
- 26:54Speaker 1: I think in many ways cost Trump as presidency his
- 26:57Speaker 1: first time because of what happened with COVID to shut
- 27:00Speaker 1: down the whole country, and they that was the gift
- 27:04Speaker 1: to the Democratic Party. But the Democratic Party was losing
- 27:07Speaker 1: their base because what Donald Trump said was, I don't
- 27:10Speaker 1: want you to live in poverty your whole life. I
- 27:12Speaker 1: don't want you to live on food stamps your whole life.
- 27:16Speaker 2: I want to.
- 27:16Speaker 1: Empower you to pay for your own stuff. But not
- 27:19Speaker 1: because I'm like, don't want to give you help. It's
- 27:22Speaker 1: because I want you to live a better life. I
- 27:24Speaker 1: don't want you to live in government housing. I don't
- 27:27Speaker 1: want you to be like in a hud house your
- 27:30Speaker 1: whole life. I don't want you to have to depend
- 27:33Speaker 1: on handouts to survive. I want you to be able
- 27:36Speaker 1: to get your kids in a good school, not a
- 27:39Speaker 1: failing school. And one of the ways that Democrats keep
- 27:42Speaker 1: Americans down is by giving their kids horrific educational quality.
- 27:48Speaker 1: Horrific educational quality the level of Democrat cities education quality level.
- 27:59Speaker 1: It is failing virtually nationwide in every school district in
- 28:02Speaker 1: a major city where Democrats control it. And the question
- 28:07Speaker 1: is why. I think it's designed deliberately, because if kids
- 28:12Speaker 1: are uneducated, then they are going to end up depending
- 28:15Speaker 1: on them the Democratic Party for survival after they fail
- 28:19Speaker 1: in school. If you empower a kid to be smart
- 28:23Speaker 1: and get a great education, okay, if you if you
- 28:32Speaker 1: have a child succeed and get on their own, the
- 28:36Speaker 1: chances that child, at some point in their life becomes
- 28:38Speaker 1: a Republican are very high. And the Democratic Party understands
- 28:44Speaker 1: that if you empower, if these kids grow up and
- 28:49Speaker 1: we don't own them in poverty and own them because
- 28:52Speaker 1: of their failures, that we've created an environment for them
- 28:55Speaker 1: to fail with failing schools, then that is self fulfilling prophecy, Like, Okay,
- 29:00Speaker 1: they'll vote for us, and their kids will vote for us,
- 29:03Speaker 1: and they'll never get out of the ghetto, and they'll
- 29:04Speaker 1: always need us for their food and for their lights
- 29:07Speaker 1: and their heat and their hut housing and their and
- 29:09Speaker 1: their government aid and their government healthcare. Right Like, That's
- 29:13Speaker 1: one of the reasons why Obamacare was so important to
- 29:15Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, because it was a.
- 29:16Speaker 2: Way to.
- 29:18Speaker 1: I would say in chain Democratic voters to them. You
- 29:23Speaker 1: can't vote against me. You need that healthcare, right like,
- 29:26Speaker 1: you can't vote against me. You need that and without me,
- 29:29Speaker 1: you're screwed, right Like, without me, you're in deep trouble.
- 29:34Speaker 1: Without me, you've got serious, serious, serious problems. And so
- 29:39Speaker 1: that's why they keep voting for them. That's just what
- 29:41Speaker 1: happens here.