Emery Goes to War with "Dept of War"

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott, I'm sure you've heard the conversation around changing the
name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War. Well,
Trump has talked about this, Pete Haig, Seth has talked
about this. Do you have a strong opinion on this?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
No? You, I mean have we solved all the rest
of the problems? Like when President Trump does something, it's
either because someone has presented him with an issue He's like, well,
let's solve it. Well, it's going to take Congress a
long time. I forget that, I'm gonna solve it right now,
or he's just looking to kind of tweak people.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Oh, he stirs the pot.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yes, so changing it back to the Department of War,
where it hasn't been since shortly after the end of
World War Two. I mean, it was the Department of
War for a very long time in this country, much
longer than it's been the Department of Defense. Do we
need to change it back? Does that mean that Pete
Haig says title is Secretary of War.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
I don't know. So does it matter that it sounds cooler?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
I don't know that people who went through the Great
War and then World War Two thought war was a
real cool thing. That's why they changed it. And I
can't imagine that those people, including several who fought in
both or were really close to fighting in both, probably
thought war was a real cool sounding anything. And they
also probably never imagined that there wouldn't be a World

(01:36):
War three in pretty short order, at least twenty to
thirty years. Certainly, we have had issues since nineteen forty
seven when they changed it back or changed the Department
of Defense. But the fact that we haven't been in
World War three had to have been amazing to that
greatest generation that grew up during the Great War and

(01:58):
then fought in the Second World War.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, but this is the thing, right because.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
The thought process from the Trump side of things is
that they want to reflect a warrior ethos. That's what
Pete Haigseth said, and he said this before. You know,
he wants it to be manly, masculine, you know, the tough,
tough sounding people to take pride and you know, gritty

(02:27):
and dirty and willing to get mud on the uniform,
just you know, because they're willing to do whatever it
takes to win. And I have to I have to
be honest with you. It's not something I've ever thought about.
I didn't know that the success of our military had
anything to do with whether or not we were talking
about the Department of Defense or the Department of War.

(02:51):
And Donald Trump, as he related to this, said, as
Department of War, we want everything. I think we're going
to have to go back to that. Are we losing
things now? I mean, that would be my question. Now, Greg,
I me an email the only reason I bring this up,
because otherwise I wouldn't bring this up. This is like
real Golf of America things. Are you still calling it
the Golf of Mexico or are you referring to the

(03:13):
golf as the Golf of America?

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Golf of America. I saw someone on the golf golf
course go o LF this past weekend had a Golf
of America golf towel.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Golf is in gol Golf.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Of America, and I say, nice, nice Golf of America towel.
So the name's catching on. It's on merch.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Is this not the stupidest timeline that we live in?
In some ways?

Speaker 2 (03:44):
I mean yeah, But at the same time, I mean
that one at least makes sense. You've got this golf here, do you.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Mean it makes sense. Who cares what its name.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
It's because it's that golf is right in between North
and South America. It would be the Golf of America
or America.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Well, it's really it's it's tucked into the Yucatan Peninsula
in Mexico, right, So it's like.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
We have as much of that coastline as they do.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
You know how many names of cities and and other
they're changing all the names back to the old names.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
And I just think it's so petty.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Not necessarily this administration, but even the previous administrations that
have thought that they needed to rename like Fort Bragg
and stuff like that, and just changing the name. It
is just like the name like it stands for something,
It means something, and we need to institute this, you know,
feeling of like it we're tough, we're rough and tumble
in this, you know, bowing down and cow towing to

(04:45):
the people who are trying to change everything to a wimpi.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Er version of what the United States was. Like. It's
it's bad, it's nasty.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
It's just like I understand the thought. I just don't
think practically that makes much sense at all. I think
it's all leadership situation. You know, we talk about trying
to get transgender people out of the military for that reason. Well,
that makes sense to me, because if you're not sure
these are people that can do the job, because yet sure,
they've been listened in, they're volunteering, and they want to

(05:14):
serve our nation, maybe there's a better way for them
to do that. If you're not sure they're up for
the task of something super duper physical, or if you
don't think their mind is in the right place, those
are things in the military you should take seriously.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
We're talking about renaming the department.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
So Greg said an email and said, why the heck
do we need to change the name of the Department
of Defense to the Department of War.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
What purpose does that serve?

Speaker 1 (05:34):
It doesn't save us any money, it's not going to
make it more efficient, it's not going to make the
service members any better fighters. All it does is waste
taxpayer money, and it does anything to do with any
transition or renaming or rebranding things. I'm a Trump supporter,
but he's dead wrong on this. There's no point to this.
Why isn't anybody and in his administration telling him this.

(05:54):
It's a waste of our money. I'm sick of him
doing stuff like this contrary to what he believes. He's
not only he's not always right. I think it's going
to be an interesting situation the longer Donald Trump is
in office, and if this kind of thing keeps happening,

(06:15):
because I think his rants on Twitter in his first
term were really what kind of hurt him as we
got closer to twenty twenty, when the pandemic happened. Of course,
the George Floyd thing happened, and then it was really
difficult for him to be in a strong position to
win reelection considering all of the crazy stuff that was happening,
and people just said, this guy sounds like he's an
insane person when he's on social media.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
So they've changed up the social media platform a bit.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Now, true social is what exists, and all the politicians
are on these social media accounts now. So it's not
really that crazy of what Donald Trump does on social
media because so many other politicians are doing that now
ten years after you know, he started doing it first.
But I think that there are going to be a
growing number of people like Greg here in my email,
it says I support Donald Trump I've voted for him.

(07:00):
I want to see him do what he says to do.
But so much of what this administration seems to be
standing for is just renaming stuff or rebranding stuff, or
you know, talking like like they put a name on everything.
Did you see they're building another the deportation holding facility
in Louisiana and they gave that a name to the

(07:20):
Louisiana lock Up or whatever. They just put a name
the corn Husker Clink thing, you know that in University
of Nebraska.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Had to say, hey, we actually have.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Nothing to do with that, so please don't throw tomatoes
at us or whatever.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
You know.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
The Gulf of America thing, it just okay. And I
can say this right when you call it the Golf
of Mexico. If I were to just say, you know, flippantly, yeah,
my wife and I a few years ago we went
on vacation to Cancun, and you know, we're on a
beach at the Gulf of Mexico, and I got the
historical in the Gulf of Mexico. If I would have
just said it like that, and I might not be
thinking anything of it. We've been referring to the Golf

(07:56):
of Mexico as the Golf of Mexico for what a
few hundred year like like, and now all of a
sudden that's become some sort of political statement. If I
call it the Golf of Mexico, I'm immediately gonna have
people in my email saying, you coming, how dare you
call it the golf of Mexico. That is the Gulf

(08:16):
of America. Nobody even thought to call this thing anything
other than the Golf of Mexico until earlier this year.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
That is the absurdity of it all. I just don't
get it.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
But again, if this is something that really means something
to you, and you want it to be called the
Department of War because it sounds tougher, or it sounds
more exciting, or it makes it feel like the United States,
Oh that's that sounds like a department that wins, versus
the Department of Defense, which apparently does not sound like.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
A department of you know, winning.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
I couldn't tell you, but I know that a lot
of people really enjoy the stuff and really enjoy the
renaming of things. And I just know that when a
Democrat comes into office eventually and decides they want to
change it back everybody's going to be throwing tomatoes at them, saying,
how dare you You can't change names like this? Eh, well,
just remember how we feel right now. Are you really

(09:16):
calling it the Gulf of America?

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Oh, I don't really call it much of anything. If
I'm if I, if I think of it, I will.
I'll tell you what though, dude, I don't I get
the Department of War thing more so probably than the
Golf of mexic or see golf Golf of the Golf
of America thing. Because we're not doing this to satisfy

(09:41):
these guys here in America who have spent more time
in their lives deciding which beard trimmer or Chai Latte
they want to get than whether or not they should
ever serve our nation in the military. We're not This
isn't to try and pacify them. They will not be
pacified no matter what they call it. As long as
the Department of Defense, Department of War exists, or military

(10:03):
or law enforcement, they're gonna be really mad about it.
We do this because Department of War that they hear
that in Russia, they hear that in China, they hear
that in North Korea. Those three nations just got together
for a little military parade to flex their might a
little bit. So we're just kind of letting them know, like, hey,
I don't know if you're familiar with what we can

(10:25):
do here, but we will do it if we have to.
President Trump doesn't want to, but that that proclamation of
the name change. They understand that in where the Taliban
is in Afghanistan. There, these guys are are just backworld
enough to this will get their attention, and this is
for them.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Okay, I I don't disagree with that.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Does the name mean that much? I mean, can I
can I use an example?

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Sure?

Speaker 3 (11:02):
What is a buffalo Bill?

Speaker 2 (11:05):
A guy?

Speaker 3 (11:07):
It's a guy?

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Right, Well, there was a guy with a nickname.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
What's a Green Bay Packer?

Speaker 2 (11:14):
It's a nickname?

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, right? You know I Batman?

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Batman's Batman.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Right.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's just like if you had no concept of what
that meant and I just said Batman, your brain will
be like, it's like a guy who also is a
bat like that the little things that like fly around
and hide in the dark, dad, Yeah, something like that.

(11:45):
These names mean absolutely nothing to the actual thing that
it is. Do you think people like Vladimir Putin and
Kim Jong un and Jizin Ping are out there doing
whatever they do, pretending like they're, you know, some sort
of really tough military group of people. You think at

(12:08):
any given point, this name is gonna be like, oh
wait a second, I think he might mean business.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Now they're a Department of war like the Department of War.
Oh gosh, look out?

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Or is it also just like the same people are
in charge, the same government is operating, the same military
is operating. Yes, maybe some things are changing, maybe some
policies are changing, certainly trying to get a little bit
more masculine, I suppose in the way that we're talking
about stuff.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
But you really think the name means anything to these people.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
I don't know. If your kid's got a football game
tonight and you're looking at the schedule, going who do
we play? You're gonna feel a lot better if they're
playing the South Olmaha Sissy Bridges versus like the Elkhorn
Spine Rippers.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
Will you? Because I have to?

Speaker 1 (13:01):
I have to, you know, like in this God loved
the Benson Bunnies, you know, hardcore go Benson a big
fan of public schools of any type.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
And I think mascots in.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Toughness is completely overrated. There's a school in Northwestern iould
call the Esterville Lincoln Central Midgets. They have not been
forced to change that name somehow, and that's their mascot
still to this day. There are some terrible mascots out there.
There are some terrible you know, company names right, and

(13:35):
you try to get the branding right, and I understand
all of that, it still does not change at all
what the actual company itself is. I know that we
just spent like a week talking about how awful Cracker
Barrels new logo was, but it really didn't fundamentally change
much of anything. Remember we had to talk Scott, and
you were among the people that we talked to who

(13:56):
straight up said, as long as they got the food
and the peg game and all that.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Like, I don't care what their logo looks.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Like, right, I'm just saying, based on the name, I'd
rather go up against the Sissy Bridges than the Spine Rivers. Now,
if it could certainly be a boy named Sue kind
of a thing where where this team gets to be
the toughest, baddest team in the land because they're tired
of people calling them sissy Bridges. So I mean that's

(14:24):
something they're gonna have to earn. Ultimately, we're all going
to have to earn it, no matter what we call
ourselves or think of ourselves. At some point, you've got
to go out there and prove it. I hope we
don't have to go out and prove that we can
be an established department of war, but I know that
we can if we have to be.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, and okay, And there are people that are trying to,
you know, give them my email inbox here in which,
by the way, you can email me Emory at kfab
dot com and say, the Gulf of America name change
is a workaround on the oil drilling band and the
Biden administration. You think just renaming a body of water
is like fundamentally changing the way. Like, if that's the case,

(15:05):
then let's just rename whatever we want. And I was like, well,
it didn't say I couldn't go into here. It didn't
say I couldn't take this thing, all right, the Golf
of Mexico. I also had somebody else send me this, Jason,
he said. The Golf of Mexico officially named the Golf
of Mexico in fifteen fifty, the year fifteen fifty. You know,

(15:26):
can you name me anything that was going on in
fifteen fifty.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Gary just started on KFAB. You have to ask him.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
I have no comment on that. I am not taking
part in that conversation.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Respect I I just if it's a workaround for the
oil drilling, that is one heck of a way to
try to explain this, because Donald Trump could have done
whatever he wanted for the oil drilling. He could have
changed anything he wanted to. I don't think it has
anything to do with a work around on the old
oil thing. If you talk, if you go back and
you look at the way he talked about it when

(16:03):
he renamed it the Gulf of America in February, he
was talking about this as America First. We're restoring America pride,
just like we're changing all the names back of these
military bases and Mount McKinley and all these other places
and things that the Democrats decided were too politically incorrect
or whatever. Marcus had a pretty good email here. He says,
I'm gonna keep calling it the Gulf of Mexico, just

(16:25):
like I'm still calling Mount McKinley that name, and I'm
gonna watch Creighton at Century Link because changing names is dumb,
and I'm practicing it being a crusty old man. Now,
what's going on at Canagar Repliza this week?

Speaker 3 (16:40):
I don't even know.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
I'm gonna take my family to uh, well, that's downtown.
Is he talking about Jobbers Canyon. Let's let's go back
even further. I I'm anxious to go take my family
tomorrow night to go see the bug Eaters play a
Memorial Stadium.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
There you go. Now we're talking. That is a name.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
If you want to talk about a name, that'll, you know,
strike fear into the op position the bug Eaters.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Yes, let's light that up.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
I'm not going to the concession stand at the bug
Eaters game.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
Ah, you'll find some good grubs there.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
I tell you what gross.

Speaker 1 (17:11):
Well, if you got thoughts on this, the renaming of
the Department of Defense into the Department of War, why
you think that matters? Or the renaming of this stuff
in general, which we've had emailers say, I don't understand
it and I don't really care about it. That's a
fair take. In a point in point two, it seems
kind of seems kind of overused by this administration at

(17:32):
this point is like, hey, let's just give some new
names to stuff. Uh two forty eight, We'll talk to
you right here on news radio eleven to ten kfab
and Mari Sunger. I had this person email in and
say Trump is always ten steps ahead, and renaming the
Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America might have
something to do with the Golden Dome and protecting our interests. Yeah,

(17:54):
but he said it was for American pride, and I
think he just did it because he thought he had
the authority to do it. Do you think the people,
like when you are given a globe, they're gonna like,
just because Donald Trump said this, like all of a sudden,
the globe manufacturers in Europe are going to be printing

(18:15):
the Gulf of America where the Golf of excuse to be.
Seems like a bit of a long shot. I guess
some of these countries are changing what their names are now.
Do you know that Turkey doesn't want to be called
Turkey anymore?

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Is it Turkey with like it ends with Turkey? Why
apostrophe why or whatever Hawaii is doing these days.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Or it's close, Yeah, it's it's Turkey is how you
say it, but it's.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Really just the untranslated name of their country.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
We took that and we anglicized it and it came
out Turkey, and I think they just recently realized that
that's a bird that we cook on Thanksgiving and they
were like, wait a second, that's what you're calling our country.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Don't do that. It's Turkey. You know, maybe we should
go back to the Ottoman Empire.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
If I'm gonna keep, you know, yelling about name changes, like,
we might as well just keep that going, right am I?

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Right now, I'm just that was joke.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Don't take that seriously, please, But the Golden domen protecting
of the interests and all this, it's like, I don't
think I had anything to do with that. Now, I
did have Toddson mean email here and say to a
comparison of all the renaming the Democrats did of Confederate
historical sites in certain sports teams, you know, like the
Cleveland Guardians and the Washington Commanders, and then how the

(19:33):
dem say words like pro choice instead of abortion. Also,
how many wars have we won since the Department of
War became the Department of Defense.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
I don't have a right or wrong, other.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Than just the concern of hiding the truth. I think
that's what that means. Yeah, it's a good point. I
am opposed to dramatic name changing of all types, now
as it relates to certain teams. A team called the
Indians or the Redskins or what are some other warriors

(20:05):
I guess savages.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Here in Millard and Millard South Patriots used to be
the Indians.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Okay, there you go.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
I grew up in an area where there was a
place called Sigourney in southeast Iowa, and they were the
Sigourney Savages.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
They have had a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Tell them they need to change that name because of
you know, historically it has been referring to a Native
American and there's Native American imagery in some of the
stuff that they used previously. Now they're trying to kind
of change it into like a wolf bear thing that
is a savage.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
But like you can try to do that.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
I mentioned the Estervi Lincoln Central Midgets, which I know
some people who have you know, that condition find that
term these days to be offensive. I'm not going to
tell people what to be offended by. If there is
a group that feels like a mascot name is offensive
to them, and enough people agree on that from that community.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
I'll listen to.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
What drives me nuts is people who are absolutely not
related at all to this situation, who aren't Native American.
You rememb remember the Fighting Sioux, the North Dakota Fighting Sue,
great college hockey team. They also, you know, play football
and do well in football and stuff. Well they are
now the Fighting Hawks. And you know why because one
of the Sioux tribes in North Dakota didn't like the

(21:22):
name being used. So based on that pushback from one
of the two tribes in North Dakota, they said, look,
let's just change the name of the Fighting Hawks, and
no one can be offended. Well, at least it was
the Sioux that were offended. It wasn't other random people
that are not related at all of the Sioux telling
North Dakota to change their name. I'll listen to that argument,

(21:45):
and I can understand that even if it may not
be popular to the fans or the people who are
related to it at the same time, I just don't
know how much difference is it makes. Okay, So the
same people who pretend to be outraged over this stuff
just get pretend outraged over other stuff. After that gets resolved,
whether the name gets changed or it doesn't, they find

(22:07):
some purpose in life of just being mad all the
time about stuff. It makes no sense to me what
a way to live, you know. Changing the name of
the Department of Defense to the Department of War fundamentally
isn't changing anything other than I guess the optics of
the way the American people see that department. Does it
make Pete Haykeseth feel like he's like Eisenhower or something like.

(22:28):
I don't know what the I don't know what the
gains are other than the fact that I guess it
sounds tougher and it is for a bygone era. And
we know for sure the Democrats will just change it
back when they take office too, if it's that easy
to change. It's weird, guys, And it just seems like
the obsession of trying to mess with the branding of

(22:50):
this stuff has kind of clouded our perspective on what
actually matters. And that's the substance of what this stuff is.
It's not about names, about what we're doing with it.
It's kind of crazy to me anyway, all Right, we
have plenty more to talk about on this Friday on
news radio eleven ten kfab this conversation we were having
in the first hour about the renaming of things and
why certain names are changing. You know, Amber sent me

(23:12):
an email and reminded us that the Czech Republic is
now called Czechia.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
Now did you know that.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
They renamed it from the Czech Republic to Czechia. But
Amber also noted that some people in the United States
probably don't realize it's not Czechoslovakia anymore, which is probably
pretty accurate. There are people that still think Yugoslavia is
a country, so not that I'm sure people who live
there would be somewhat offended by that, But I don't

(23:41):
think it's that crazy to think that, you know, if
you haven't planned to visit or art you know, from there.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Or anything like that when a name like that changes.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
The only the only reason I know that is because
they were playing in the European Soccer Championships last summer
and I was like, oh, wow, they're going by check now,
so there you go.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
No more, we know.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
I don't have a problem with name changes as it
pertains to freedom.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
What I think.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Makes me roll my eyes at this conversation is the
fact that anybody thinks anything actually substantialized change. Yeah, Scott,
can you refer to me by a different name from
now on?

Speaker 2 (24:31):
To your face? I've been doing it behind your back
for the last couple of years.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Oh thanks?

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Can you call me Fergus from Fergus falls or Fergus
is like the old school Irish name Fergus?

Speaker 2 (24:45):
You bet Fergus?

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Now you could call me whatever you want. Does that
fundamentally change who I am? That fundamentally change how you
see me, how you hear me? When my voice sounds
like my opinions. I mean, I could try to make
that happen, but that'd be pretty disingenuous, wouldn't it. So Yeah, now,
all of a sudden, I'm Fergus. What are you gonna
do about it? You're not gonna notice a darn thing.

(25:10):
You'll just have to adjust how you address me.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
I was a lot more confrontational than Emory. I'm noticing
that right now.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
Oh oh is he? Yeah? Well maybe I am.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Maybe I just needed a good, you know, Connor McGregor's
style name for me to, you know, feel like I
could really get into tune with that portion of myself,
just doesn't make any sense. The substance is the same.
There's gotta be food that we call like different things, right,
Like like the English they call what we call French

(25:44):
fries they call chips. Does that mean they taste different
because they don't. They're the same thing. You can prepare
them differently, but they're the same thing. I don't understand it.
Do you know how many different types of what we
call pizza exists? Have you been to Chicago and had
a pizza there?

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah? But I can give you a couple of examples
where a better name definitely or a worse name definitely
changes people's mind. One is, as someone said, hey, would
you like some black pudding, You're like, oh, yeah, I
like putting that sounds good. Well, another name for black
pudding is blood sausage. What if they say you want
blood sausage? No, I don't want any part of that

(26:25):
same thing. Black pudding sounds better. Here's another one. For
some reason, some activists decided a few years back, and
maybe you remember this Fergus, that they were going to
start calling the lean beef trimmings that were injected into
beef to make more beef. And what was injected in
the lean beef trimmings was beef, but they started calling

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it pink slime, Like, you know, they're putting pink slime
in your meat, and people are like, that's gross. They'd
been doing the same thing, it's leaf lean beef trimmings,
but they started calling it pink slime, and people were
outraged that there was pink slime in their meat.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
You know what this tells me more than anything else,
what we are stupid people. Yeah, the fact that we
will fall for this stuff just because of a name. Yeah,
I watched this. This was a great bit Jimmy Kimmelton.
I know people who are Republicans are gonna hate me
for even referencing that guy.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
But he did a bit.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Oh it's probably twelve years ago or so, in the
wake of Obamacare becoming a thing, and he had one
of his like remote reporters or something going around the
streets of New York City or Los Angeles or wherever
and saying do you like Obamacare? And then asking the

(27:46):
same people what do you think about the Affordable Care Act?
And most everybody that you know, he showed, like I
don't know how many people that they asked and how
many people they actually used in the bit. But the
people were outraged about Obamacare. I mean, it's just like,
I don't think it makes sense for this country to
have something like that.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
And then when the same.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
People were asked shortly thereafter about their opinions on the
Affordable Care Act, they thought that that made sense. Oh,
it's more affordable healthcare. Firm the American people, of course,
I like it.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
It's the same thing.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Daily Wire did the same thing when Trump was running
for president in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen. They were asking
college kids, Hey, what do you think of Bernie Sanders'
tax plan? And they and he was reading Donald Trump's
tax plan. And when they thought it was Bernie Sanders,
the college kids thought it was great. And he said,
I'm sorry, this is actually Trump, and they immediately hated it.

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Nothing changed fundamentally about the plan, just the fact that
was attached to him.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
We are dumb, We are so easily fooled.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
The things that you think. You know, you just believe
that it's all on the level. That doesn't mean it is.
And this whole name discussion and what the what is
it the putting the black pudd I mean, if black pudding,
which already sounds bad to me. And what was the

(29:06):
other thing, like blood sausage?

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Well, yeah, blood sausage is the other name for it. Same,
what is it, It's sausage with some more of the
juices included.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Okay, So so with a sausage with.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Juices, you know you want to say, you want to
say it's a big, juicy sausage.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
I don't want to say that. That was a trying
to avoid saying that.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
It doesn't sound appetizing to me, just based on what
it actually is.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
No matter what you do, though.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
You could call it. You could call it fairy dust,
you could call it husker chow. Is that gonna make
it like better? Maybe it could trick you into trying it,
But that didn't fundamentally change anything. That it is the
Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of America or whatever you

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want to call it. It's still the same body of
water it was when it was named that in fifteen fifty.
I have no idea what our fascination is with the
optics of some of this stuff. It really just sounds
like the people who are in charge, both Democrats and Republicans,
are trying to wage some sort of ideological war by
trying to fool us into thinking names are somehow fundamentally

(30:26):
more important than the actual substance in which we're talking
about here. Does anybody really care that much about what
some of this stuff is called.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
It doesn't change a darn thing.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
I would be fascinated to see how North Korea, China,
and Russia would view the United States military if we
changed the Department of Defense to the Department of Snuggles
and Cuddles. That doesn't mean we're doing a lot of
snuggling and cuddling, but just calling it that. Would they
be like, oh, we're going in now, or would they
be like, yeah, that's funny, but we know more about

(30:59):
what that military is. They're not a whole lot of
snuggles and cuddles. What are we doing here? Doesn't make
any sense. Let's let's actually like beef up the substance
and not just change names and labels and act like
that somehow solves problems. It solves nothing. It might sell
some merch. I guess if that's what you're into. Wild

(31:21):
stuff man. Anyway, it's three seventeen. Thanks for listening. We're
gonna you know, if you want to email me about
this or anything else. The email line is open Emory
at kfab dot com.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
That's Emory E. M. E. R Y at kfab dot com.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
And we'll talk about this and Donald Trump potentially banning
transgender Americans from purchasing firearms. I will explain what that
looks like coming up as well on news radio eleven
ten KFAB. Sounds like Donald Trump is signing executive orders
and that included today the renaming of the Department of

(31:57):
Defense into the Department of Just in time. I cannot
wait to hear what he has to say about this
fire away. What did Donald Trump say as he was
signing this just moments ago?

Speaker 5 (32:09):
Great job, Dan, And we've been talking about this Department
of War. So we won the First World War, we
won the Second World War, we won everything before that
and in between, and then we decided to go woke
and we change the name to Department of Defense. So
we're going Department of War. And I'd like to ask
our Secretary of War to say a few words. Pete

(32:33):
Haicks said, I think it's a much more appropriate name,
especially in light of where the world is right now.
We have the strongest military in the world. We have
the greatest equipment in the world. We have the greatest
manufacturers of equipment. By far. Is nobody to even compete.
And you see that with this and so many other things.
The patriots are the best every element of the military,

(32:55):
we make the best by far. So I'd like to
ask you and maybe Dan.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
Uh. Yeah, So we don't need to stick with that.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Wasn't Trump the anti war candidate, Like, wasn't that? Wasn't
that His whole thing was like he he ends wars,
So why would he change this back to Secretary of
War or the Department of War?

Speaker 3 (33:24):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (33:27):
And then mentioned, like, in light of where the world
is right now, we're going to have this the Department
of War. Even though he said one thing, I just
it makes no sense. It doesn't actually even matter. So
I don't know, Scott, Am I am I out of bounds?

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Am I am I wrong?

Speaker 2 (33:45):
He didn't just declare war on anybody, and I know, but.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
He's saying, in light of where the world is right now,
we need to rename this the Department of War. This
was a guy a campaign and says, you know, he
ends wars. Wars aren't a thing. When he's the president
of the United states.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
He's kind of in.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
We get there, we get there through strength, and he said,
we need to have the strong military, and we need
our enemies to know where we stand. We're not gonna say,
all right, I'm putting a red line here and then
Syria crosses the line and we don't do anything about it.
We can't do a thing where we let the Taliban
take over Afghanistan, get all of our military and don't
do anything about it. So the President has said we

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need to do we need to lead, lead through strength.
And I guarantee China and Russia, North Korea, they're paying
attention to this. This got their attention.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
What does this have I just don't It's a name.
It's a name. It doesn't structurally change anything.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
The military is the same right now as it was
ten minutes ago when this was a thing, as it
was a week ago before we started talking about this
this seriously, as it was ten years ago. I know
that different leadership of different ideals and different presidents have
different types of whatever.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Changing the aim of the.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Department to secretary or to the Department of War and
calling Pete haiks At the Secretary of War, what war?

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Let me try this a different way with you. When
I was I think probably in my teens twenties that
there was a very different shift in how the military
advertised whether or not someone should enlist in our nation's military.
It went from be all you can be to suddenly
you saw it looked like there was a video game

(35:30):
being played. It was like some guy climbing a mountain
and then fighting a minataar or something like that, and
you're like, wow, man, the military is cool. I get
to sword fight a minatar or a giant you know,
fire demon or something like it. And then it was
all about like, hey, I got this education and the
military paid for it. And it went away from how

(35:53):
the military used to advertise for enlistment, you know, how
they advertise for people to enlist the military around like
the Great World, World War Two. In that period, it
was a picture of a woman saying, I wish I
was a man. If I were a man, I'd join
the Navy. And then guys would be like, well, I
want to be a man. You know, that's that's what
a man does, and and men enlisted in our nation's military. Now,

(36:18):
certainly there was a long stretch there where you were
enlisted whether you liked it or not. But we've done
a lot of different things try and get young people
interested in our military. Well, a lot of the really
really tough guys haven't enlisted as of late because they're
not Suddenly it's like their dad who fought in Vietnam, going,
I don't know what happened to our military. That wasn't

(36:40):
what I signed up for. And then you hear like
some of their buddies saying, yeah, we were all stationed
over here with no rules of engagement. We're getting shot
at every day. We can't shoot back. President Trump is
putting the message out this is a fighting machine and
if and if the world needs us, we will be
here as a depart department of war, not of occupation,

(37:03):
not of being mall cops, of righting wrongs through what
we do. And that's war if we have to.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
As the Department of Defense.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
The United States has been into Korea, Vietnam, has been
involved in the Middle East in how many countries, like,
I don't know all of them are. There are bases
all over the world of United States military members and
a variety of branches. This isn't to discount anything that
you're saying and I understand what you're saying, and we

(37:34):
need to be more manly in buff I was literally
just here talking yesterday with you on this show that
the Heisman Trophy winning quarterback in NC Double A from
two years ago, Caleb Williams paints his fingernails and carries
a man purse. Okay, Men of the nineteen seventies or eighties,

(37:55):
men of the nineteen forties and fifties, men of the
nineteen tens in twenties, these are not the same and
especially compared to now. So we're trying to re masculinate
our society in our military. Changing the name from the
Department of Defence when it was called that when we

(38:15):
were in Korea and Vietnam and almost all of these
Middle Eastern countries, for for whatever it's worth, versus the
Department of War still doesn't change anything. It literally changes nothing. Yes,
you might say, oh, you can smack that on a billboard,
and I might excite the juices of somebody who might

(38:36):
have been on the fence about you know, how manly
it is to be a part of the United States military.
I would love to see what the enrollment or the
enlistment numbers look like for the Army, the Navy, the Marines,
the Air Force, Space Force, the Coast Guard, the National Guard, whatever.
I'd love to see if this is the turning point
where all of a sudden you see a bunch more

(38:56):
guys who are high testosterone and they're in highest they're
in college, and they're saying, you know what, I want
my life to mean something more.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
I want to get into the military.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
Well, you wouldn't do that just because of a name change,
would you. And anybody who does decide I'm going to
join the military because now all of a sudden, it's
the Department of War that means something to me. And
I'm high testosterone, I'm manly. I want to go into
the military and serve into the Department of War.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
What war.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
This president has explicitly said he's the anti war president.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
What war are we talking about here? So I don't know.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
Man, we can debate and talk about how you know,
bygone generations or previous generations or you know, the Vietnam veterans.
I am appreciative of everything that they have done. That
type of person is not the same type of person
that is of enlistment age now.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
And we also are not fighting.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
The same way we were fighting in World War One
World War two, things are a lot more sophisticated in technology.
It is not like we're getting into formations and you know,
using infantry to march into places and you know, try
to out maneuver the opposition with you know, just Sherman
tanks and a group of individuals who are positioned behind

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these barricades or these trenches.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
It is a very different thing that we're doing right now.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
And renaming the Department of Defense of the Department of
War doesn't fundamentally change a dog one thing. And I like,
I'm fine talking about it because it's being talked about.
I just the idea of this is some sort of solution,
is some sort of masculinity problem in America.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
We're not talking about the right things.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
If this is something you need to fix, like the
masculinity of America, we need to do more than just
changing the name.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
All right. There are kids out there.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
That have really stupid names already, like me, you know,
I kind of like my name, but like you, if
you have a really like sis style name, maybe you
need to go get your name legally changed all of
a sudden. If you want to be a real man,
that's what we're talking about here, makes no difference. It's
ridiculous as we're talking about things. And before I even

(41:13):
take a call, I just want to throw this out
here because I have a few people that are saying
I'm a closet liberal. Get off of the radio, please
shut up. Your stupid rants are making me dislike you. Oh,
is that the case? Is my opinion, which you apparently
disagree with somehow hurt your feelings. Point me to the

(41:37):
spot on you where my opinion actually hurt you. Or
maybe you're just not used to hearing somebody say something
that maybe you disagree with. And I thought that that
was part of this country's makeup is we would talk
to each other about the things we did or did
not agree on. And here I am sitting here talking
about something that is so ridiculous, insanely stupid that I'm

(41:59):
even spending time.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
I'm on this.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
But people apparently care a lot about it. Changing the
name of the Department of Defense of the Department of War. Sure,
go for it, do it. I don't care. But acting
like this is some sort of big deal that fundamentally
changes things. It changes nothing. Keep kidding herself. Donald Trump
does stuff like this because he wants to stir the pot.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
He loves stirring the pot.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
And this is a legacy move that's gonna go on
the Wikipedia page that one hundred years from now, people
are gonna say, well, Donald Trump did this, this, this, this,
and this, and this is one thing that he did.
And you know what's gonna happen the next time a
Democrat gets elected, because there will be a Democrat that
gets elected at some point down the line, they are
going to take note of every single thing he's done
and they are gonna undo it all, okay, And that's

(42:42):
just and then I'm gonna make fun of them too, Okay.

Speaker 3 (42:46):
So what are we doing here?

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Just because Donald Trump did it doesn't mean that it's like,
oh gosh, it's the it's.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
Genius, brilliant genius. What are we doing here, guys? It's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
It's okay for people to disagree with you if you
think this is somehow a fundamental win for the United
States of America that all of a sudden call the
Department of Defense the Department of War, and is that
if that changes anything in the way that we do things.
I emailed this to one person the way that you
make change in our military. You fund the military, which
I applaud Donald Trump and the Republican Party for wanting
to put more funds in the military one hundred percent.

(43:21):
For that, you get better leadership. We have a bunch
of people who question the leadership of our military in
this country. I don't know if Pete Haig Seth is
going to be the best Secretary of Defense or Secretary
of War in the history of the United States, but
at least he seems to give a darn about the
leadership that goes on in that department. That's way more
important than what we call the department. And then the

(43:43):
other thing is the integrity of your recruitment. You have
to try to recruit people and understand that it's not
the same as it was when we were recruiting people
for World War Two, or what we were recruiting people
during our Middle Eastern operations. A lot of what we
do now is a very different type of operation and
educating people on that. Plus, I have a brother in

(44:06):
law who is in the military full time. He goes
different places, been based in different spots. My best friend
has been in the National Guard. He's been deployed before.
Like my uncle was in the Air Force. He retired
out of the Air Force. He was serving it off
at Air Force Base. I have a ton of connections
to the American military, and you know what, these are
good people who are in the military. You have to
recruit people like this, people who care, people who want

(44:29):
to get their hands dirty, they want to work, and
they want to be proud of wearing that uniform.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
You need to find people like that. That changes things.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
And if the name changed from Department of Defense the
Department of War, does that, then I'll eat that crow.
I'll cut the crow up and eat it myself. But
it absolutely insane to me that we think changing the
label of this somehow is going to open the floodgates
and all of a sudden, all these strapping young men
who are afraid to enlist into our military will now

(44:58):
be knocking on those recruitings and saying, let me and
I want to be a part of the United States military.
It isn't going to be that easy. You have to recruit.
It is a different animal now anyway. All right, So
let's go ahead and get to the phones. Four O, two, five, five,
eight to eleven. Mark On the phone line, Mark, thanks
for listening to the show today.

Speaker 6 (45:20):
Hey Maray, how you doing.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
Oh I'm I'm good. Do all things. What's on your mind?

Speaker 6 (45:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (45:26):
So on this, you know, uh, I had a couple
of different ideas.

Speaker 6 (45:31):
But when you came back from the break, h what
you were talking about I think also stands in on this,
just the fact that how how fired up you are
and your your juices are flowing. On one side of.

Speaker 7 (45:46):
It, that it's not going to do anything.

Speaker 6 (45:48):
But at the same time, there's there's two sides of
every page. There's somebody out there that that might have
been thinking about joining that that now they're like, oh, well,
something's being done, something's being changed. That's not why I
called it, but I just wanted to throw throw that
out there. The reason I called I look at it
as if there's a lot of things that you look

(46:08):
at media. One. Trump's really good about keeping bait in
the water, trying to keep the opposition side, the Democrats,
the liberals, trying to keep them busy with with talking
about this and talking about that. He's really good about
throwing this bait out there, keep them busy with this.
What he's doing. On another note of it. Changing it
to the Department of War. I think that kind of

(46:33):
loosens the ties of our hands military wise. When we're overseas.
You know, don't shoot unless fired upon, don't do this,
don't do that. We're there in defense. We're you know,
everything was so closely guarded as oh my gosh, you know,
don't do this because you know somebody might get offended
or they're gonna think this.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
I hear that.

Speaker 7 (46:52):
I hear that if we go overseas, and if we
stand at the beginning and say this is the Department
of War, don't be surprised if something has to take place,
don't come back and say, hey, we're you're.

Speaker 6 (47:04):
The defense and we didn't do anything, you know. So
I think on a foundational level, changing it to the
Department of War opens it up to give us the
dominance that the United States has and has had and
will continue to have as we move forward.

Speaker 7 (47:23):
I'm sure it's just a name change, but what it does.

Speaker 6 (47:26):
Is it it's a playing field. You know, the offense
takes the field. You're going out.

Speaker 7 (47:32):
There to show what you can do and do what
you can. When you're on.

Speaker 6 (47:35):
Defense, you're simply trying to hold back the other team.
You know, don't don't do this. But when you're on offense,
you're out there to be who you are, do what
you do, and command that field. You know what the
war is offense. Defense is defense. That's my opinion.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
And Mark, it's about as good an argument as you're
going to be able to make to get me to
feel like this was a worthy use of the President's time.
And so kudos to you for coming with that type
of articulation today.

Speaker 3 (48:04):
I really appreciate it absolutely.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
I we love you all right, see man, thanks for
calling in. Got Keith on her phone line at four
h two five five eight to eleven ten. Keith, welcome in.
What's on your mind?

Speaker 7 (48:15):
Well?

Speaker 8 (48:16):
I want to piggyback on the last caller. Well, first
of all, I would like to tell you those people
who disagree with you and write those negative things, like
you said, why can't we not disagree and just have
a nice little conversation about this? I agree with you
on that.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (48:31):
And as far as the last caller, I think it's
definitely a mindset anytime you have a different mindset going
into especially something that's gonna be as dangerous as going
into some type of conflict, international conflict of some sort. Yeah,
you definitely need to have the going to work mindset

(48:52):
rather than to wait till be till we're getting shot
at mindset. Lastly, if you think about a mindset in
a name, remember I think it was Obama when he
first gave somebody a title of the tzar. What did
everybody think when they when they were thinking, oh, it's

(49:13):
a czar. Now now we're all communists because it was
a czar, even though it's just yet another name for
just another leader of whatever.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
You know, the Trump Trump Trump uses the same name,
I mean, like Holman's the borders are, right, Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 8 (49:30):
Yeah, well that's because there was already the borders are.
He just hasn't changed that yet. And he may or
may not, you know, but but again, you know, the
borders are. It's it's a mindset, and I think that's
the mindset that he wants to give the United States
and just those in the armed services as well.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
I appreciate the call, Keith, thanks for listening to our
show today.

Speaker 8 (49:55):
Thanks Henry, keep up the good work.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
Thanks Man, appreciate it. John sent me this email. We
should probably rename it to the Department of peace, since
that's really the goal. Call it what we're going for.
Even though it's all the same look, if you would
have renamed it the Department of Peace, I'd feel the
exact same way.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
I'd be like, what are we doing?

Speaker 1 (50:12):
Although Donald Trump does say that he is the President
of Peace, which is why it's just so strange that,
you know, the posturing of what the military is. Although
I am a big fan of strength, I want the
military to be as strong as it ever was. I
want there to be more people voluntearing to be in
the Army and the Navy and the Marines, and the
Air Force and the Coast Guard and the National Guard
and the Space Force than ever before.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
I am one hundred percent on for that.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
You know what else, I'm one hundred percent on for
doing it in a way that actually makes a difference
through actual recruitment, finding good people, showing all the different
jobs that you can do while being a part of
the military. It is a very different monster now than
it was years ago.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
That stuff matters.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
Yes, I've had a bunch of people, not just callers
but email are saying it's just a mindset change. Changing
it from the Department of Defense to the Department of War. Okay,
it might be a mindset thing if you're that gullible
that the name means something. It's the same thing. It's
like when we play the Tennessee Titans in the NFL.
It's like, Wow, these must be really large, gigantic guys.
I'm afraid. I know we're talking about football here, but

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what are we doing right? Like, that's not how it works.
The name means nothing. It's the makeup, the substance of
what they are. The military. Is it in that department?
For whatever it's worth. Is it a war machine? It
can certainly go to war if Donald Trump or any
future president decides that's what needs to happen. But it's

(51:37):
it's a military, it's a department.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
You know.

Speaker 1 (51:40):
How you strengthen that. You don't change the name, You
build from within. That's what we're talking about here. I've
said my opinion, I've been you know, I'm maybe jacked
up on Mountain Dew. I'm having a lot of fun here.
I know a lot of people are getting in their
feelings in my email inbox, but we're actually having some
pretty good discussion about this. Something I didn't think was
really that import and of a deal, but it is

(52:01):
it has conjured up a lot of emotion, and that
is the renaming of the Department of Defense to the
Department of War. And my opinion that this is this
name change doesn't fundamentally change anything, and it just seems
like a waste of time and energy by this administration and.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
We need to get to the real route.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
A lot of people are saying it actually does make
a difference, and I like hearing that. You can call
me at four h two five five eight eleven cent.
We'll run through some calls here. Ed is on the
phone line. Ed, thanks for being on the show today.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
Hey, I kind of agree with you to a certain extent.
But if you need to rename the Department of Defend
to the Department of War, why not combine it and
call it the Department of Defense and War because that's

(52:50):
what they really are. They're there to defend the country,
but they are also there to command warriors who I
personally respect.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Yeah, and you know what, Ed, that actually makes a
lot of sense because you're right that. I mean, if
we're talking about what the job actually is or what
the department actually does, both things would be accurate.

Speaker 3 (53:16):
It's a good point. I appreciate the call man, thanks
for listening.

Speaker 4 (53:20):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
Got Chris on the line for two, five, five, eight,
eleven ten. Chris, you're on eleven ten kfab they Rich.

Speaker 9 (53:28):
I can't agree with you on the Gulf of America.
I mean, I don't really see the significance of that.
I mean, what are the people of New Mexico are
going to do now to start changing their letterhead? I mean,
because I could put a bit scared in things. However,
when it comes to other things like departs, the Department
of or things like that, there's a lot of things

(53:51):
that go on before something like that has changed, and
that's usually from the psychological department, you know, that are
saying how will this affect how China will look at
this and China, North Korea, Russia. A term like that,
Department of War does demonstrate an escalation as far as

(54:12):
ability and how you want your adversaries.

Speaker 7 (54:16):
To look at things, to say, no, we're not here
just for defense, we are.

Speaker 6 (54:19):
Here for war.

Speaker 9 (54:20):
For instance, you probably have heard things when you know,
you have the Soviet Union and they come up with
a new whatever submarine or whatever, and they would put
on the term like first strike capability, and everyone would jump.

Speaker 4 (54:34):
Everything is the.

Speaker 9 (54:34):
First strike capability. And there's also things that are done
between countries right now on purpose that are specifically designed
not so much for the populace, but for those in power.
A friend of mine was in the military, Bigwood with
missiles in here at the Air Force base, and he said,
did you ever wonder why North Korea keeps shooting missiles

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straight up into the air? And he goes, They'll just
do it straight up, and you know, we, as a populist,
goals that's not going anywhere. It's only going straight up.
He goes, no, no, no, They're sending messages to us
saying we might not be able to hit you, but
we can take out your satellites and cripple you. And
those kind of things go back and forth a lot
between those in the know, and they're not really broadcast

(55:19):
just to the populace. So lit things like that I
can see, So yeah, interesting show.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
Again.

Speaker 9 (55:25):
I don't get the whole Gulf of America thing. I
don't know why that's such a big deal, but I
do understand when certain terminology is utilized with government and
especially with military, it's meant to say China who's getting
ready to invade Taiwan.

Speaker 3 (55:40):
Yeah, wha wa wait.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
Wait, I'm running out of time here, Chris. I appreciate
the college right, Yeah you too.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:46):
I don't fundamentally disagree with what he's saying there, But
we're talking about the name right.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
It didn't like.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Don't you think if they're really in the know, they
know what our military is capable of.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
This name change doesn't mean anything. It really doesn't