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The conflict with Venezuela, is it a war on drugs or regime change…or both?? We’ll get analysis from Colonel Steven Bucci.
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We have us special Envoy Steve Whitcoff meeting with Russian
President Vladimir Putin in Moscow today. Could we get to
an peace deal and an end of the war with
Russia and Ukraine? And Venezuela looms large as the President
prepares to hold a cabinet meeting today this conflict with Venezuela.
Is this a war on drugs? Or is this regime change?
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Or is it both? Time to get some analysis, Colonel
Stephen Butchie joining us from the Heritage Foundation, one of
the largest thing tanks in the world. You can read
his great work and his colleagues great work at Heritage
dot or Good morning, colonel, good morning, How are you well?
Tis the question of the hour. Is this truly a
drug war? If so, why aren't we bombing Columbia boats?
Why aren't we bombing Mexico? Why aren't we hitting ventanyl
(01:45):
facilities in China? Or is this regime change or is
it conveniently both? Which is it?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Well, it's primarily a war on drugs. I believe it is.
But in the Maduro regime, we do have a government
that is funded by this drug business. They're fully colluding
with it. It's not like they don't have control. As
you could say in Mexico and Colombia is kind of
(02:14):
in between the two. But Maduro has for a long
time been completely in charge of this operation. He's not
just a beneficiary of it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
He is the couple.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
They took the copy of the whole thing, and so
we're bombing the boats. We're trying to keep the boats
out of the country, and that's a legitimate drug war.
If it results in pressure that causes Maduro to fall,
well that's a win win for most of the world, frankly,
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and mostly for the Venezuelan people. But I don't think
right now we have a full up regime change type
of effort like we saw against Saddam Hussein. It's nowhere
near that level. Clearly not today.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
No, yet today you have done too much to serve
my family, my life, my country. I'm not being disrespectful,
But isn't the answer. It's both, and frankly, you really
can't win this war on drugs the Venezuelan portion without
regime change. Why not just explain it that way, because.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
There's not a lot of taste.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
He particulated in the about half of the Republican Party
for a regime change operation. So I don't think you're
going to get the Trump administration to come out and say, yeah,
we really meant.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
It was regime change.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I don't think you're going to get them to say
that because it's not marketable on their own side of
the aisle long on the other side. So it's they're
going to leave it as a war on drugs that
might have the ancillary benefit of having a better government
in Venice down the road.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well, here, here, here's where we stand today. The President
gave an ultimatum for Maduro to step down. We know
that call didn't go well because he said so on
Air Force one. Moduro has not left. The airspace has
not been closed, and I don't know from a military standpoint,
it's never heard that close your airspace. You don't have
the right to do that. You can go bomb them
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and close it. But so now he's called your bluff.
Now what do you do? Just keep bombing boats.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I think he keep bombing the boats. You could put
up a full up blockade around Venezuela, which the threat
of closing the airspace was kind of the aviation equivalent of.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
A naval blockade.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
But it's a little different because you can stop a
boat and inspect it and if it's harmless, let it go.
You can't do that with an airplane. You know, if
an airplane doesn't stop, we're going to shoot it down.
I don't think you know, Maduro would be thrilled to
send an airliner full of his people out of that
(05:05):
country and had the Americans shoot it down and make
himself a martyr in the Venezuelan people martyrs. So that one,
I think was a miscalculation on the Trump administration's part.
I don't think they should have said that. They could
have told other countries, hey, we're don't want you flying
in there, you know, stay away because it's going to
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be dangerous and if anything happens, then it's your fault,
not ours. But to declare the airspace closed when you're
not willing to shoot down any aircraft that come into
it is an empty threat that I believe was of
Mi state.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, right, so we have the closure airspace, Murduro ultimatum leave,
he's not leaving. Going back to Cuban missile crisis, we
didn't call it a blockade because people would have had
problems with that, so we called it a quarantine. But
what you're suggesting is but you could do that here.
The problem with that is then they would just start
transporting other ways. The other problem is most of the
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drugs are coming from Columbia, and most of the production
of fentanyl is coming from China, and all of it
under the United States. They're Mexico more than anyplace else.
Anybody addressing any of that, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
They are. They're working with the Mexicans. They're trying to
close down that path coming in. The Chinese are tougher
nut to crack because they're much bigger. There's lots more
Chinese transportation out there that is semi legitimate where they
can put sentinels. You don't need tons and tons of it,
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you need bags of it have a really, really tremendous effect.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
So it's a.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Pretty easy drug to.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Smuggle.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And some of the precursors that the Chinese also send
to the cartels in Mexico have other purposes, so you know,
it's it's even.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Harder to stop.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Look this, nobody is going to solve the drug problem
in a couple of weeks. We've been doing it for
my whole adult life, frankly, and we haven't been very
successful in any of the efforts. This is the latest
version of it. And and it's a legitimate goal. So
I think it's it's dangerous to put it in.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You know, this is.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Trump's foreign policy and if this doesn't work, my god,
he's a total failure. Well so was then, you know,
by every other problem else.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, And I think that's the sentiment most of the
American people probably share that at least somebody's being serious
about this war. What do you make closing moments with
Colonel Stephen Bouci from the Heritage Foundation, what do you
make of make of this anonymous source by way of
the Washington Post finally somehow surfacing since September that it
was a double shot on a boat in the Caribbean
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in September, they were clinging to the life on the
wreckage and a second drone strike took out. It's a
crime of war. It's murder, YadA, YadA. All this and
now that video with six members of Congress talking about
don't take illegal orders when they couldn't produce any illegal orders.
This is all starting to look pretty coordinated by the left.
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Pretty pathetic too.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
It's not coordinated, it's at least being leveraged and interpreted
in a way that gives them that leverage.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
You know, the six.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Legislators who made that video were just flat wrong to
do that, you know, unless there was evidence of previous
illegal orders. Everybody in the military knows that rule. I
used to teach it in basic training. The second day
we had the troops. So that was complete political theater
(08:51):
and dangerous political theater because you get people like Lieutenant
Colonel Vinmann in the Ukraine thing and others who, oh,
well this I can be a hero. I'm gonna herit
this stuff out when it may or may not be there,
and you put those people at risk. Whoever leaked that stuff,
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they're going to find out who did it. They're going
to prosecute it now if it yeah, they should. But
truth be told you, that's supposed to kill people clinging
to the wreckage in the seat. Even submarines in World
War Two stop to pick those people up or at
least give them boats. But and when it wasn't done
(09:37):
as the German U Boat's dating in several occasions, it
was considered a war crime. So if that looks if
it turns out to be what it looks like in
that snippet of the video, that's problematic. We shouldn't be
doing that. Shooting the boats is still up in the
air legally. I've got legal friends who tell me, well,
(10:00):
it could be, it could not be. Other people say, well,
it's just like pirates. It's free game because they're clearly
doing illegal stuff. Anybody who says they were fishermen is
lying through their teeth.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Or is delusional.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, and don't put and that fall that falls on
maritime That falls on maritime law right, which is somewhat antiquated.
It might need to be, but really this is all
determined by courtroom a public opinion. You know, there's such
a thing as the law of diminishing return. And all
it takes is that which is shocking today. And I
remember when Ellen in her sitcom just said over the
(10:38):
grocery store microphone, I'm gay. That was shocking to everybody.
Archie Bunker flushing a toilet sound effect was shocking to everybody. Well,
that looks far different from today. So that which is
shocking today becomes normal tomorrow. And then what does it
take to be shocking the day after? What these eight
members of Congress did is unthinkable two years ago, let
(11:00):
a decade ago. I don't know how low these politicians
will stoop until someone stops him. And I think ultimately
that will stop him is when there's no audience for it,
and there's still half of America that there's an audience
for it. That's absolute.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
That's the problem.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yeah, I think you're hitting it on the head. It's
most of this stuff is political theater. Our half of
the aisle recognizes it as political theater. The other half
is you know, talpaitting and clutching their pearls and saying yes, yes,
that's the right thing to do.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
But remember the.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
First time President Trump got elected, there were bunches of
people who were outwardly calling for the military to do
a coup against him, to throw him out because he
was going to be so horrific. Anybody who wants our
military to overthrow our government and to build that tradition,
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which we've never had in our system into it is
nuts and is destructive of America. Nobody wants that to happen.
We didn't call for that when President Obama was in
there and doing all sorts of things we thought was loony,
because we know it's wrong. But the left, they've got
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wire parameters.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I guess, Yeah, they do when we're sitting here, you know,
on the precipice of a second major piece deal the
first of Middle East, now Russia and Ukraine, and now
a rising conflict with Venezuela. And if the question is
is it a war on drugs or regime change, the
answer is probably authentically both, mainly war on drug but
a regime change may be necessary or would be a
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nice little benefit as the bottom line. Colonel Stephen Bucci
from the Heritage Foundation, largest thing thank in the world.
You can read his great work at Heritage dot org.
Thank you so much. We'll probably talk again next week.
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del Jorna. The big story. What's going on with Venezuela.
Cabinet meeting today? Will it be kicked around? What's the
next step the president gay Maduro and ultimatum he's not leaving. Uh,
do you keep bombing boats? Do you bomb more? We'll
find out later today. And meanwhile, while things are escalating
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towards war with Venezuela, we're escalating towards peace with Russian Ukraine.
Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff will meet with Vladimir Putin at
the Kremlin in Moscow later today. In cybers Monday's reputation
will remain intact. It's billed as the biggest online shopping
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member who was shot near the White House is improving,
which is answer to prayer and great news. Ket have
your morning show without your voice. I don't remember exactly
where we left off. I want to get to my
favorite story of the day, which may shock read what
I found to be my favorite story of the day. Now,
my journey of discovery to give a shameless plug to
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the podcast had to do with the next mom Donnie
running from mayor in DC. You know, the runaway socialist train,
and how we went from a republic to a democracy,
from a democracy to the Democrat Party, its platform, it's candidates,
and now to socialism, which is those that have taken
over the party, and how they plan to, maybe in
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a spirit of MV, destroy this company a country by
destroying the major cities it's taking over. Because when all
this stuff doesn't work and we're out the trillions of
dollars every day attacks paying Americans will have to pick
up the tab for the dumb mistakes a very b
loose cities. But my favorite story of the day is next.
I think we left off at Roger, didn't we.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Do?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
It matters much over there. Well, I'm just kind of
looking to see what you got here.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Here's Roger Wannie, Michael Jeffrey read Hey.
Speaker 9 (20:13):
When I saw the video of the six Congress people,
my first thought is always, could you imagine somebody trying
this in nineteen forty three?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And even if they had the hot water, they would
have been in.
Speaker 9 (20:23):
Second of all, I don't know if you saw Senator
Kelly had a press conference yesterday quote unquote, and uh,
it just felt like sowing seeds and saving his own butt.
And lastly, when's the last time you heard from leam
Panetta and for hitt them kind of out and make
those proclamations that the information is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah, you're dead on. We talked about that. I think
was last hour. I mean, there's just that's the law
of diminishing return, right, or maybe it was last half hour. Uh,
you know that which is shocking today becomes normal tomorrow.
So when you got to be shutting that video of
those six members of Congress that just simply was unthinkable
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two years ago, let alone a decade, let alone fifty
years ago. And what Auto Frank is what may be
coming next? They seem to have no lines they're unwilling
to cross in this pursuit of power and control. Keith,
I think is next Michael Gibbs Rule thirty nine states
that there is no such thing as a coincidence. Now,
(21:26):
I think he's quoting the physicist. You think he's quoting
a television show. I think he's quoting the dude in CIS.
Now we need Keith the callback. I think he's a scientist,
not a so so TV show viewer. Those people don't
listen to this, but yeah, it's not a coincidence. They
come out with that ridiculous sixty second commercial with accusations
(21:47):
of don't accept the legal orders, and then when they
don't cite any legal orders in the sixty seconds, and
then when they're all on talking head shows, they can't
give one example of any legal order given. And now
all of a sudden, The Washington Post says Anonymo Missaurus
on this double strikeout about Yeah, there's no such thing
as a coincidence. Is this a new Big John or
is this a different John?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
This is uh.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I think you're talking about Big John where he had
the odds on war with Venezuela. No, we did that earlier.
I have another John that says, oh, I've got a
I got a James. Oh must have been James. Okay, morning, Michael.
I don't.
Speaker 10 (22:21):
I don't know if you've listened to the Royal O'Neil's
Sunday show, but it is pretty left the center. It's
not even center. I'm really surprised. He even quotes News Nation,
which is I thought used to be center. But now
after the mar Laga raids and they went ballistic on Trump.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Well, he's entitled. I don't know. We I think we
agree more than we disagree. That yeah, we have disagreements too,
and he has that right. We had one caller earlier
talking about the Christmas tree in Portland and brought up
a great analogy. Can you imagine, like we celebrate birthdays
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in our house if if you're not related, you don't
care that it's next birthday, right, And if you love
me or you love Nick, you do care. Now Christmas
has become this object of offense, this object that must
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be controlled. And what's laughable in Portland is you won't
call it a Christmas tree, but you'll call it a
holiday tree. And the word holiday means holyday, so which
is it? And then you don't want a Christmas tree
because that could offend somebody, But you don't mind a
Palestinian with a flag chanting and leading the crowd in
a chant from the river to the sea. I mean,
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at some point, look, if you didn't if you didn't
believe that God will loved the world, that he said
has only begotten son, and that the good news is
we were born in the nature of sin. We have sinned,
and there's only one thing that can cover it no
longer even an animal sacrifice. Now it's the blood of
the lamb Christ and so obviously God's expression of love
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in sending his son, he also did the heavy lifting.
Resurrecting him has a different meaning to Christians. But if
kind of like a birthday, if it wasn't somebody you knew,
you just keep walking. Someone's trying to not just silence
your faith, they're trying to interject a different one. Now,
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not ought to get you on a journey of comparative history,
because one's a little more dangerous than the other. All right,
My favorite story of the day if I can, And
we had a lot of stories. We did the Journey
of Discovery. I'm the latest mom Donnie candidate. We did
the real ID twenty one years in the making an
outlis and they tell us, well, used to be if
you didn't have a real ID, you couldn't fly. And
they just kept checking, changing the date. First it was
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two thousand and eight, then it was you all the
way till twenty twenty three or twenty four. I can't
remember when they finally initiated it. Now we find out
they'll charge at forty five bucks. I thought you couldn't
fly without a real ID. Now you can for forty
five dollars. But no, that's not my or this woke
tree in Portland. No, my favorite story of the day
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is Fox News headline America's most used passwords in twenty
twenty five, revealed with all of the I cannot tell you,
I bet you. I've been through thirty five hours of
cyber training just in the last five years. Everything we
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know about how dangerous online interaction is and identity theft,
Ask me what the number one password in America today is?
What is the number one password in America today? Password?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
That's what?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Master?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
What's the password?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
No? No, this isn't a who's on first? Okay, password
is once again the number one password choseen by people,
the latest nord pass report shows this year and then
some do admin eighty I M I N H. Also,
another big password is one two three four five six,
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one four five sixty seven eight. For those that are
really paranoid.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Don't forget quote about password with a capital P.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
No. But no, My my favorite part about the whole
story was the progression. All right, so third on the
list was one two three four five six. It's pretty stupid.
It's going to be somebody's first guest, But then the
next most likely password. This person got a little more concerned.
He went one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
and then fifth on the list you guessed it one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
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eight nine, and three later is one, two, three, six,
seven eight ninety ten. I mean, at some point, you know,
I don't even think people should be prosecuted. You get hacked,
you deserve it. A lot of them do one does welcome?
One does ABC? One? Two? Three? Very few do any
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of you know uppercase, lowercase, any symbols or a mixture
of letters and numbers and capitalizing and not. I mean,
no wonder cyber crime is so out of control. The
number one password, it's password, and the password is vulnerable.
(27:40):
All right. Time for your tough live stories of the day.
Set up an order leader Chucky Schumer says all three
of his New York offices have been targeted by bomb
threats from mag Of course.
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According to Schumer, his offices in Rochester, Binghamton, and Long
Island each received threatening emails on Monday.
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The bomb threats against my offices came with the email
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The World Health Organization, which is just really with credibility
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Speaker 12 (29:27):
WA Joe's new guidelines are published in the medical journal JAMMA.
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Speaker 2 (29:42):
Who officials are hopeful that.
Speaker 12 (29:44):
Obesity will be viewed as a complex, preventable and treatable
chronic disease. Growing evidence suggests that golp one drugs lower
the risk of high blood pressure, heart attacks, and strokes
linked to obesity.
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Steve Whitkoff is headed to Russia to visit with Vladimir
Putin Today at the Kremlin, Venezuela looms large as the
President prepares to hold a cabinet meeting today and weight
loss drugs, they're changing more than just waistlines. How apparel, restaurants,
grocery stores, gyms, travel are all upended and it's only
the beginning, or so says our national cour spotted or
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are you and Neil? Good morning, Rory, Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 13 (33:24):
Fascinating story this week in the Washington Post that looks
at all the different ways they are having impacts and
fallout from the rapid adoption of these weight loss drugs
like Wagovi. More than twelve percent of the US population
now uses these drugs, more than forty million people, and
a number that's expected to explode once they are available
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in pill form at much lower prices in the months ahead.
But just think clothing. Not only are people now buying
more smaller sizes, but people that are losing a lot
of weight are actually going to a thrift store saying, look,
i've lost two sizes, I've got two more sizes to lose.
I don't want to spend a lot on sort of
intermediate clothes, so let's go to the thrift store. So
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there's a lot more thrift store buying, and at the
same time, more people are buying tuxios and gowns to
celebrate when they actually reach their weight loss goals.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
You know, it's funny you say that I'm not a
hoarder by any stretch of the imagination. But my wife
is just always on going through the closet, going through
the arm wire and thinning things out and getting rid
of stuff, which I'm usually all fours shoes what shoe
oh shoes is a problem. I've admitted my huge problems.
But the other issue is, you know, well, but Andrew,
(34:37):
I'm gonna lose some weight, and when I lose weight,
this might fit you know that kind of so I
could relate to that. I would think too. There's another
part of this story. In the long run, if I
looked better, I might wear clothes a lot more. In
other words, they might like the way they look and
they might like clothes more. So in the end they
might buy more clothes. But in the meantime they won't.
(34:59):
Grocery stores don't don't know how well, I would think
one thing that would affect it. Most of these drugs
just take away your appetite, right, so you just eat less,
you need to go.
Speaker 13 (35:08):
You do lack cravings for certain bad foods. Really, so
they're actually seeing a surge in more produce purchases. But
to your confidence point, also, more people feeling confident about
their bodies, confident to get on a long plane trip,
so we're expecting more travel as people also feel more
confident about squeezing into an airline seat for a long flight.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Well, if you can look good in a bathing suit, again,
you got to go on a vacation. But the bathing suit, yeah,
it is. It's going to change a lot of things
I hadn't thought about. There's this one thing dangling in
the air, and that is we just don't know what
the long term ramifications of these drugs are. America's had
an epidemic of obesity, that's for sure, and all of
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you know, I remember we went through shame smokers because
of what they cost us all in cancer. But these diabetic,
obese people and heart disease people, they've been crossing us
a lot more. We don't know what these drugs are
going to do long term in terms of the minute
you stop taking him, you just gain it all back,
or if it has other effects on organs in the
long run. But in the meantime, the effects are on
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grocery stores, apparel, restaurants, gyms, and I think for restaurants,
just less visits in general, smaller.
Speaker 13 (36:18):
And smaller portions, smaller portions on the plate too.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
When people don't want to eat that much.
Speaker 13 (36:22):
More so more petite filets rather than porterhouses.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I take either. Right now, roy O'Neil, great reporting as always.
We'll talk again tomorrow. All right, that'll do it for
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We have us special Envoy Steve Whitcoff meeting with Russian
President Vladimir Putin in Moscow today. Could we get to
an peace deal and an end of the war with
Russia and Ukraine? And Venezuela looms large as the President
prepares to hold a cabinet meeting today this conflict with Venezuela.
Is this a war on drugs? Or is this regime change?
(01:22):
Or is it both? Time to get some analysis, Colonel
Stephen Butchie joining us from the Heritage Foundation, one of
the largest thing tanks in the world. You can read
his great work and his colleagues great work at Heritage
dot or Good morning, colonel, good morning, How are you well?
Tis the question of the hour. Is this truly a
drug war? If so, why aren't we bombing Columbia boats?
Why aren't we bombing Mexico? Why aren't we hitting ventanyl
(01:45):
facilities in China? Or is this regime change or is
it conveniently both? Which is it?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Well, it's primarily a war on drugs. I believe it is.
But in the Maduro regime, we do have a government
that is funded by this drug business. They're fully colluding
with it. It's not like they don't have control. As
you could say in Mexico and Colombia is kind of
(02:14):
in between the two. But Maduro has for a long
time been completely in charge of this operation. He's not
just a beneficiary of it.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
He is the couple.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
They took the copy of the whole thing, and so
we're bombing the boats. We're trying to keep the boats
out of the country, and that's a legitimate drug war.
If it results in pressure that causes Maduro to fall,
well that's a win win for most of the world, frankly,
(02:49):
and mostly for the Venezuelan people. But I don't think
right now we have a full up regime change type
of effort like we saw against Saddam Hussein. It's nowhere
near that level. Clearly not today.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
No, yet today you have done too much to serve
my family, my life, my country. I'm not being disrespectful,
But isn't the answer. It's both, and frankly, you really
can't win this war on drugs the Venezuelan portion without
regime change. Why not just explain it that way, because.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
There's not a lot of taste.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
He particulated in the about half of the Republican Party
for a regime change operation. So I don't think you're
going to get the Trump administration to come out and say, yeah,
we really meant.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
It was regime change.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I don't think you're going to get them to say
that because it's not marketable on their own side of
the aisle long on the other side. So it's they're
going to leave it as a war on drugs that
might have the ancillary benefit of having a better government
in Venice down the road.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well, here, here, here's where we stand today. The President
gave an ultimatum for Maduro to step down. We know
that call didn't go well because he said so on
Air Force one. Moduro has not left. The airspace has
not been closed, and I don't know from a military standpoint,
it's never heard that close your airspace. You don't have
the right to do that. You can go bomb them
(04:22):
and close it. But so now he's called your bluff.
Now what do you do? Just keep bombing boats.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I think he keep bombing the boats. You could put
up a full up blockade around Venezuela, which the threat
of closing the airspace was kind of the aviation equivalent of.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
A naval blockade.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
But it's a little different because you can stop a
boat and inspect it and if it's harmless, let it go.
You can't do that with an airplane. You know, if
an airplane doesn't stop, we're going to shoot it down.
I don't think you know, Maduro would be thrilled to
send an airliner full of his people out of that
(05:05):
country and had the Americans shoot it down and make
himself a martyr in the Venezuelan people martyrs. So that one,
I think was a miscalculation on the Trump administration's part.
I don't think they should have said that. They could
have told other countries, hey, we're don't want you flying
in there, you know, stay away because it's going to
(05:28):
be dangerous and if anything happens, then it's your fault,
not ours. But to declare the airspace closed when you're
not willing to shoot down any aircraft that come into
it is an empty threat that I believe was of
Mi state.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, right, so we have the closure airspace, Murduro ultimatum leave,
he's not leaving. Going back to Cuban missile crisis, we
didn't call it a blockade because people would have had
problems with that, so we called it a quarantine. But
what you're suggesting is but you could do that here.
The problem with that is then they would just start
transporting other ways. The other problem is most of the
(06:05):
drugs are coming from Columbia, and most of the production
of fentanyl is coming from China, and all of it
under the United States. They're Mexico more than anyplace else.
Anybody addressing any of that, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
They are. They're working with the Mexicans. They're trying to
close down that path coming in. The Chinese are tougher
nut to crack because they're much bigger. There's lots more
Chinese transportation out there that is semi legitimate where they
can put sentinels. You don't need tons and tons of it,
(06:40):
you need bags of it have a really, really tremendous effect.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
So it's a.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Pretty easy drug to.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Smuggle.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
And some of the precursors that the Chinese also send
to the cartels in Mexico have other purposes, so you know,
it's it's even.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Harder to stop.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Look this, nobody is going to solve the drug problem
in a couple of weeks. We've been doing it for
my whole adult life, frankly, and we haven't been very
successful in any of the efforts. This is the latest
version of it. And and it's a legitimate goal. So
I think it's it's dangerous to put it in.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
You know, this is.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Trump's foreign policy and if this doesn't work, my god,
he's a total failure. Well so was then, you know,
by every other problem else.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah, And I think that's the sentiment most of the
American people probably share that at least somebody's being serious
about this war. What do you make closing moments with
Colonel Stephen Bouci from the Heritage Foundation, what do you
make of make of this anonymous source by way of
the Washington Post finally somehow surfacing since September that it
was a double shot on a boat in the Caribbean
(07:55):
in September, they were clinging to the life on the
wreckage and a second drone strike took out. It's a
crime of war. It's murder, YadA, YadA. All this and
now that video with six members of Congress talking about
don't take illegal orders when they couldn't produce any illegal orders.
This is all starting to look pretty coordinated by the left.
(08:17):
Pretty pathetic too.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
It's not coordinated, it's at least being leveraged and interpreted
in a way that gives them that leverage.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
You know, the six.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Legislators who made that video were just flat wrong to
do that, you know, unless there was evidence of previous
illegal orders. Everybody in the military knows that rule. I
used to teach it in basic training. The second day
we had the troops. So that was complete political theater
(08:51):
and dangerous political theater because you get people like Lieutenant
Colonel Vinmann in the Ukraine thing and others who, oh,
well this I can be a hero. I'm gonna herit
this stuff out when it may or may not be there,
and you put those people at risk. Whoever leaked that stuff,
(09:13):
they're going to find out who did it. They're going
to prosecute it now if it yeah, they should. But
truth be told you, that's supposed to kill people clinging
to the wreckage in the seat. Even submarines in World
War Two stop to pick those people up or at
least give them boats. But and when it wasn't done
(09:37):
as the German U Boat's dating in several occasions, it
was considered a war crime. So if that looks if
it turns out to be what it looks like in
that snippet of the video, that's problematic. We shouldn't be
doing that. Shooting the boats is still up in the
air legally. I've got legal friends who tell me, well,
(10:00):
it could be, it could not be. Other people say, well,
it's just like pirates. It's free game because they're clearly
doing illegal stuff. Anybody who says they were fishermen is
lying through their teeth.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Or is delusional.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, and don't put and that fall that falls on
maritime That falls on maritime law right, which is somewhat antiquated.
It might need to be, but really this is all
determined by courtroom a public opinion. You know, there's such
a thing as the law of diminishing return. And all
it takes is that which is shocking today. And I
remember when Ellen in her sitcom just said over the
(10:38):
grocery store microphone, I'm gay. That was shocking to everybody.
Archie Bunker flushing a toilet sound effect was shocking to everybody. Well,
that looks far different from today. So that which is
shocking today becomes normal tomorrow. And then what does it
take to be shocking the day after? What these eight
members of Congress did is unthinkable two years ago, let
(11:00):
a decade ago. I don't know how low these politicians
will stoop until someone stops him. And I think ultimately
that will stop him is when there's no audience for it,
and there's still half of America that there's an audience
for it. That's absolute.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
That's the problem.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yeah, I think you're hitting it on the head. It's
most of this stuff is political theater. Our half of
the aisle recognizes it as political theater. The other half
is you know, talpaitting and clutching their pearls and saying yes, yes,
that's the right thing to do.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
But remember the.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
First time President Trump got elected, there were bunches of
people who were outwardly calling for the military to do
a coup against him, to throw him out because he
was going to be so horrific. Anybody who wants our
military to overthrow our government and to build that tradition,
(11:53):
which we've never had in our system into it is
nuts and is destructive of America. Nobody wants that to happen.
We didn't call for that when President Obama was in
there and doing all sorts of things we thought was loony,
because we know it's wrong. But the left, they've got
(12:13):
wire parameters.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I guess, Yeah, they do when we're sitting here, you know,
on the precipice of a second major piece deal the
first of Middle East, now Russia and Ukraine, and now
a rising conflict with Venezuela. And if the question is
is it a war on drugs or regime change, the
answer is probably authentically both, mainly war on drug but
a regime change may be necessary or would be a
(12:35):
nice little benefit as the bottom line. Colonel Stephen Bucci
from the Heritage Foundation, largest thing thank in the world.
You can read his great work at Heritage dot org.
Thank you so much. We'll probably talk again next week.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Okay, so good it.
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Carmen died in twenty twenty one complications from a hernia
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minutes after the hour, the big story of the day.
Steve Whitkoff, the Special Envoy, is in Moscow, he'll be
at the Kremlin. He will meet with Vladimir Plutin and
that will take place today.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Witkof is traveling to Russia just today after he, along
with several other top US officials how talks of the
Ukrainian delegation in Florida. Secretary of State Mark Arrubio called
the meeting a very productive and useful session, adding so
much work remains.
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Why can't you handle that reporter? Every time I do?
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It?
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Just hilarious. She should have a James Bond name. Right,
Let's see the results of the President's MRI. They are
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Speaker 5 (16:02):
Monday, One House Press Secretary at Caroline Levitt told reporters
the results where the whole body scans are normal, adding
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which is advice for people in Trump's age group.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Overall, his cardiovascular system shows excellent health. His abdominal imaging
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The president tuo's seventy nine years old.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Trump was asked about the test of board Air Force
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del Jorna. The big story. What's going on with Venezuela.
Cabinet meeting today? Will it be kicked around? What's the
next step the president gay Maduro and ultimatum he's not leaving. Uh,
do you keep bombing boats? Do you bomb more? We'll
find out later today. And meanwhile, while things are escalating
(18:41):
towards war with Venezuela, we're escalating towards peace with Russian Ukraine.
Special Envoy Steve Whitcoff will meet with Vladimir Putin at
the Kremlin in Moscow later today. In cybers Monday's reputation
will remain intact. It's billed as the biggest online shopping
day of the year, and it was to the tune
of many billion is yesterday And the second National Guard
(19:02):
member who was shot near the White House is improving,
which is answer to prayer and great news. Ket have
your morning show without your voice. I don't remember exactly
where we left off. I want to get to my
favorite story of the day, which may shock read what
I found to be my favorite story of the day. Now,
my journey of discovery to give a shameless plug to
(19:22):
the podcast had to do with the next mom Donnie
running from mayor in DC. You know, the runaway socialist train,
and how we went from a republic to a democracy,
from a democracy to the Democrat Party, its platform, it's candidates,
and now to socialism, which is those that have taken
over the party, and how they plan to, maybe in
(19:43):
a spirit of MV, destroy this company a country by
destroying the major cities it's taking over. Because when all
this stuff doesn't work and we're out the trillions of
dollars every day attacks paying Americans will have to pick
up the tab for the dumb mistakes a very b
loose cities. But my favorite story of the day is next.
I think we left off at Roger, didn't we.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Do?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
It matters much over there. Well, I'm just kind of
looking to see what you got here.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Here's Roger Wannie, Michael Jeffrey read Hey.
Speaker 9 (20:13):
When I saw the video of the six Congress people,
my first thought is always, could you imagine somebody trying
this in nineteen forty three?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
And even if they had the hot water, they would
have been in.
Speaker 9 (20:23):
Second of all, I don't know if you saw Senator
Kelly had a press conference yesterday quote unquote, and uh,
it just felt like sowing seeds and saving his own butt.
And lastly, when's the last time you heard from leam
Panetta and for hitt them kind of out and make
those proclamations that the information is ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah, you're dead on. We talked about that. I think
was last hour. I mean, there's just that's the law
of diminishing return, right, or maybe it was last half hour. Uh,
you know that which is shocking today becomes normal tomorrow.
So when you got to be shutting that video of
those six members of Congress that just simply was unthinkable
(21:02):
two years ago, let alone a decade, let alone fifty
years ago. And what Auto Frank is what may be
coming next? They seem to have no lines they're unwilling
to cross in this pursuit of power and control. Keith,
I think is next Michael Gibbs Rule thirty nine states
that there is no such thing as a coincidence. Now,
(21:26):
I think he's quoting the physicist. You think he's quoting
a television show. I think he's quoting the dude in CIS.
Now we need Keith the callback. I think he's a scientist,
not a so so TV show viewer. Those people don't
listen to this, but yeah, it's not a coincidence. They
come out with that ridiculous sixty second commercial with accusations
(21:47):
of don't accept the legal orders, and then when they
don't cite any legal orders in the sixty seconds, and
then when they're all on talking head shows, they can't
give one example of any legal order given. And now
all of a sudden, The Washington Post says Anonymo Missaurus
on this double strikeout about Yeah, there's no such thing
as a coincidence. Is this a new Big John or
is this a different John?
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
This is uh.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I think you're talking about Big John where he had
the odds on war with Venezuela. No, we did that earlier.
I have another John that says, oh, I've got a
I got a James. Oh must have been James. Okay, morning, Michael.
I don't.
Speaker 10 (22:21):
I don't know if you've listened to the Royal O'Neil's
Sunday show, but it is pretty left the center. It's
not even center. I'm really surprised. He even quotes News Nation,
which is I thought used to be center. But now
after the mar Laga raids and they went ballistic on Trump.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Well, he's entitled. I don't know. We I think we
agree more than we disagree. That yeah, we have disagreements too,
and he has that right. We had one caller earlier
talking about the Christmas tree in Portland and brought up
a great analogy. Can you imagine, like we celebrate birthdays
(23:02):
in our house if if you're not related, you don't
care that it's next birthday, right, And if you love
me or you love Nick, you do care. Now Christmas
has become this object of offense, this object that must
(23:24):
be controlled. And what's laughable in Portland is you won't
call it a Christmas tree, but you'll call it a
holiday tree. And the word holiday means holyday, so which
is it? And then you don't want a Christmas tree
because that could offend somebody, But you don't mind a
Palestinian with a flag chanting and leading the crowd in
a chant from the river to the sea. I mean,
(23:46):
at some point, look, if you didn't if you didn't
believe that God will loved the world, that he said
has only begotten son, and that the good news is
we were born in the nature of sin. We have sinned,
and there's only one thing that can cover it no
longer even an animal sacrifice. Now it's the blood of
the lamb Christ and so obviously God's expression of love
(24:10):
in sending his son, he also did the heavy lifting.
Resurrecting him has a different meaning to Christians. But if
kind of like a birthday, if it wasn't somebody you knew,
you just keep walking. Someone's trying to not just silence
your faith, they're trying to interject a different one. Now,
(24:37):
not ought to get you on a journey of comparative history,
because one's a little more dangerous than the other. All right,
My favorite story of the day if I can, And
we had a lot of stories. We did the Journey
of Discovery. I'm the latest mom Donnie candidate. We did
the real ID twenty one years in the making an
outlis and they tell us, well, used to be if
you didn't have a real ID, you couldn't fly. And
they just kept checking, changing the date. First it was
(24:59):
two thousand and eight, then it was you all the
way till twenty twenty three or twenty four. I can't
remember when they finally initiated it. Now we find out
they'll charge at forty five bucks. I thought you couldn't
fly without a real ID. Now you can for forty
five dollars. But no, that's not my or this woke
tree in Portland. No, my favorite story of the day
(25:19):
is Fox News headline America's most used passwords in twenty
twenty five, revealed with all of the I cannot tell you,
I bet you. I've been through thirty five hours of
cyber training just in the last five years. Everything we
(25:41):
know about how dangerous online interaction is and identity theft,
Ask me what the number one password in America today is?
What is the number one password in America today? Password?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
That's what?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Master?
Speaker 2 (26:00):
What's the password?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
No? No, this isn't a who's on first? Okay, password
is once again the number one password choseen by people,
the latest nord pass report shows this year and then
some do admin eighty I M I N H. Also,
another big password is one two three four five six,
(26:25):
one four five sixty seven eight. For those that are
really paranoid.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Don't forget quote about password with a capital P.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
No. But no, My my favorite part about the whole
story was the progression. All right, so third on the
list was one two three four five six. It's pretty stupid.
It's going to be somebody's first guest, But then the
next most likely password. This person got a little more concerned.
He went one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
and then fifth on the list you guessed it one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
(26:57):
eight nine, and three later is one, two, three, six,
seven eight ninety ten. I mean, at some point, you know,
I don't even think people should be prosecuted. You get hacked,
you deserve it. A lot of them do one does welcome?
One does ABC? One? Two? Three? Very few do any
(27:19):
of you know uppercase, lowercase, any symbols or a mixture
of letters and numbers and capitalizing and not. I mean,
no wonder cyber crime is so out of control. The
number one password, it's password, and the password is vulnerable.
(27:40):
All right. Time for your tough live stories of the day.
Set up an order leader Chucky Schumer says all three
of his New York offices have been targeted by bomb
threats from mag Of course.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
According to Schumer, his offices in Rochester, Binghamton, and Long
Island each received threatening emails on Monday.
Speaker 11 (27:56):
The bomb threats against my offices came with the email
subject client MAGA and from an email address ledging the
twenty twenty election was rigged.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Security teams swept all locations and found no explosives. In
a statement, Schumer condemned the threats, saying that acts of
political intimidation have absolutely no place in.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Our political system. I'm Mark Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
My gosh, if i had a dollar for every bomb
threat or death threat I've received in forty two years
of radio, I'd be a US editor. The US State
Department is warning Americans exercise increased caution when traveling to
mehic called this winter. Why Well, not so much the weather,
but terrorism, crime kidnapping.
Speaker 8 (28:36):
The advisory follows a recent drone attack in Tijuana that
damaged six cars of an anti kidnapping unit. Popular tourist
areas near the US border carry Level three warnings, while
many other regions are under Level two advisories, meaning visitors
should remain cautious. Some states carry Level four warnings and
travel is strongly discouraged. The Department reminds travelers of entry requirements,
(29:01):
local laws on weapons and drugs, and recommends enrolling in
the Smart Traveler Enrollment program for updates and emergency assistants.
Travelers are also advised to check the State Department's website
for the latest travel advisories. I'm Chris powers Well.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
The World Health Organization, which is just really with credibility
after covid, is now recommending golp one drugs as a
tool for managing obesity. Jim Roop has more The.
Speaker 12 (29:27):
WA Joe's new guidelines are published in the medical journal JAMMA.
It says the drugs, which include Eli Lilly's zep bound
and Novo Nordisk's with gofy, represent a new chapter in
the shift in how society approaches obesity, rather than viewing
it as a lifestyle condition.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Who officials are hopeful that.
Speaker 12 (29:44):
Obesity will be viewed as a complex, preventable and treatable
chronic disease. Growing evidence suggests that golp one drugs lower
the risk of high blood pressure, heart attacks, and strokes
linked to obesity.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
I'm Jim Roop.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Attention married women. Attention married women. A new study says
cats do one thing differently for men than for women.
You can learn a lot from these cats and from
bre Tennis, who has more When cats won attention, they meow.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
Big studies not necessary to figure that one out, but
researchers at a university in Turkey found cats me out
louder and longer for men than they do for women,
and the why shows just how smart cats really are.
Cats are louder for men because men are worse at
noticing subtle feline body language than women, and they figured
out they need to be allowed to get the.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Attention they crave and deserve. I'm bre Tennis, not my
dumpster cat, so much as a peep out of her,
and I hear her every time. In Sparks. Patriots were
their old helmets and one like the new Patriots. They're
now eleven and two, beating the g Men thirty three
to fifteen. What a great Thursday night game coming up
this week. Cowboys red hot and the Detroit Lions. On
(30:54):
the hardwood. Pistons ninety nine ninety eight over the Hawks,
Donovan Mitchell forty three points, caps one thirty five over
the Pacers. Bucks lost by three to the whiz Brooks
with thirty three Gillespie with twenty eight no problem. Suns
big over the Lakers one twenty five to one oh eight.
On the ice, Penguins beat the Flyers in Philly five
to one. Sabers won at home against the Jets five
to one, Blues Lost on the Road to the Ducks
(31:16):
four to one. Wow. Birthdays today, Tennis great Monica Selis
is fifty two, the singer Oops, she did it again.
She got a year older. Britney Spears is forty four
years old, Steeler QB Aaron Rodgers forty two, and singer
songwriter Charlie Pooth is thirty four. If it's your birthday,
Happy birthday. We're so glad you were born, and thanks
(31:36):
for making your morning show a part of your big day.
Weight loss drugs are changing more than waistlines. Roory O'Neil
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Speaker 2 (32:56):
It's your Morning show with Michael del John.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Steve Whitkoff is headed to Russia to visit with Vladimir
Putin Today at the Kremlin, Venezuela looms large as the
President prepares to hold a cabinet meeting today and weight
loss drugs, they're changing more than just waistlines. How apparel, restaurants,
grocery stores, gyms, travel are all upended and it's only
the beginning, or so says our national cour spotted or
(33:21):
are you and Neil? Good morning, Rory, Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 13 (33:24):
Fascinating story this week in the Washington Post that looks
at all the different ways they are having impacts and
fallout from the rapid adoption of these weight loss drugs
like Wagovi. More than twelve percent of the US population
now uses these drugs, more than forty million people, and
a number that's expected to explode once they are available
(33:45):
in pill form at much lower prices in the months ahead.
But just think clothing. Not only are people now buying
more smaller sizes, but people that are losing a lot
of weight are actually going to a thrift store saying, look,
i've lost two sizes, I've got two more sizes to lose.
I don't want to spend a lot on sort of
intermediate clothes, so let's go to the thrift store. So
(34:07):
there's a lot more thrift store buying, and at the
same time, more people are buying tuxios and gowns to
celebrate when they actually reach their weight loss goals.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
You know, it's funny you say that I'm not a
hoarder by any stretch of the imagination. But my wife
is just always on going through the closet, going through
the arm wire and thinning things out and getting rid
of stuff, which I'm usually all fours shoes what shoe
oh shoes is a problem. I've admitted my huge problems.
But the other issue is, you know, well, but Andrew,
(34:37):
I'm gonna lose some weight, and when I lose weight,
this might fit you know that kind of so I
could relate to that. I would think too. There's another
part of this story. In the long run, if I
looked better, I might wear clothes a lot more. In
other words, they might like the way they look and
they might like clothes more. So in the end they
might buy more clothes. But in the meantime they won't.
(34:59):
Grocery stores don't don't know how well, I would think
one thing that would affect it. Most of these drugs
just take away your appetite, right, so you just eat less,
you need to go.
Speaker 13 (35:08):
You do lack cravings for certain bad foods. Really, so
they're actually seeing a surge in more produce purchases. But
to your confidence point, also, more people feeling confident about
their bodies, confident to get on a long plane trip,
so we're expecting more travel as people also feel more
confident about squeezing into an airline seat for a long flight.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Well, if you can look good in a bathing suit, again,
you got to go on a vacation. But the bathing suit, yeah,
it is. It's going to change a lot of things
I hadn't thought about. There's this one thing dangling in
the air, and that is we just don't know what
the long term ramifications of these drugs are. America's had
an epidemic of obesity, that's for sure, and all of
(35:48):
you know, I remember we went through shame smokers because
of what they cost us all in cancer. But these diabetic,
obese people and heart disease people, they've been crossing us
a lot more. We don't know what these drugs are
going to do long term in terms of the minute
you stop taking him, you just gain it all back,
or if it has other effects on organs in the
long run. But in the meantime, the effects are on
(36:11):
grocery stores, apparel, restaurants, gyms, and I think for restaurants,
just less visits in general, smaller.
Speaker 13 (36:18):
And smaller portions, smaller portions on the plate too.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
When people don't want to eat that much.
Speaker 13 (36:22):
More so more petite filets rather than porterhouses.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I take either. Right now, roy O'Neil, great reporting as always.
We'll talk again tomorrow. All right, that'll do it for
this Tuesday, December the second. We'll keep an eye in
the cabinet meeting in the president in Venezuela, and the
meeting in Moscow is Steve Whitcoff, and then do what
we can control. One chance to live this Tuesday, December second,
twenty twenty five. Go cherish your life and make a
difference in someone else's and we'll see in the morning.
(36:48):
We're all in this together.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
This is your Morning Show with Michael Vindheld Choo
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