8-20-25 - 8am - Public Broadcasting Funding and Shuttle Diplomacy

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Listening to you live has become impossible because every moment
you're not speaking, they're pushing some lefty, stupid podcasts about
murders in Canada. Everything's by lefties, Boston, Globe, La Times.
What is going on at iHeart? Do they not know

(00:22):
their customer?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Did he say he's listening live?

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yes, because I don't hear those I hear red Pilled America.
I hear the Ted Cruz podcast I was now again,
I don't pay attention. I just that's just kind of
what I hear in the background.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
I want to give some more clarification as to how
he is listening, whether it's over the air or streaming.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
If you're streaming, you get targeted ads.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, you're finding out the area that.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
Those ads are being targeted.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Two.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Please do us a favor and send us a text
message three three one zero three keyword Michael, Michael, because
I really am curious because I disagree. Now, first of all,
I agree with you about iHeart. If you don't understand
that iHeart is a liberal, leftist center publicly traded company,

(01:12):
then you're not paying any attention. Do you know why
do you know my belief about why iHeart has people
like me, Mandy Ross, Dan Ryan, you know, or has
like for example, Freedom, where you've got all the nationally
syndicated folks, including myself. Do you know why they have

(01:35):
those money makers? They're moneymakers for the company. So they
may be left of center liberal company, but they still
want to make money.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
What I'm curious about, though, is.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Because again I honestly don't when I'm in this studio
or walking in and out of the student I have
the speakers on so that I if I don't hear,
if I don't have my microphone on, I can hear
what's going over air. I don't really pay attention to it,
but I just kind of it's kind of again, I'm

(02:15):
a drive by consumer of that and what I hear
live broadcast our podcast like I just heard one, I
swear I just heard one for for Red Pilled America.
Red Pilled America is a very good podcast about and

(02:35):
it's not really I mean it is. Look, the two
the husband wife that have that podcast are very conservative individuals,
and so they have a very conservative point of view,
but they're storytellers. They're not political commentators that I you know,
remember you just have Ben ferguson, Now you got the
Ted Cruz podcast. Uh, so I don't hear what you're hearing.

(02:59):
So I'm curious, am I missing something or you listening streaming?
Because if you're listening streaming, and I know there are
exceptions of this, so don't start sending me a bazillion
text messages. But for example, if if I'm at the
Endisclosed location in New Mexico and I'm downloading some of
my international podcasts that I listen to, I get all

(03:23):
sorts of advertisements for car dealers in Albuquerque or you know,
a plumbing company in Santa Fe or you know whatever
that shows up and then it stays there because if
I if I never get to that podcast until I
get back home, I might be laying in bed listening
to a podcast that I downloaded three days ago that
suddenly is telling me about you know, hey, there's there's

(03:46):
a great new restaurant on Central Boulevard and Albuquerque.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Well, I'm sitting in Denver, Colorado.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
And then there are also times when I will download
a podcast here and I mean here, I mean in Colorado,
and I get some Spanish language advertisement.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Which I.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
How much Spanish I know? See taco burrito enchilada, and
then a couple of I know a couple of curse
words in Spanish. So there's no rhyme or reason to it.
Geo fencing doesn't always work perfectly. Technology doesn't work perfectly.

(04:30):
I was paying you know, Dragon, I have been told
you I was panic stricken last night. I have an
Alexa dot on my bedside table. I don't have an
alarm clock. I have an Alexa. We had a funky
little situation with Exfinity Comcast, So when I went to
bed last night, I usually just say I say her name,

(04:55):
turn off the light, and it turns off the light
and it tells me what the weather is.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
So also, for example, so if you wanted to listen
to Dan Caplis, was you were going to bed, you
would say, hey, Alexa, please turn on six thirty K
on iHeart Radio.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, if I were going to bed at four in
the afternoon, yeah, which is what I do. No, I
would say, hey alexla play the Dan Capolis podcast for me.
That's what I would do. Would put me, which would
put me to sleep.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Be similar to say hey, Siriah, would you play six
thirty K on iHeart Radio.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, I would never say, for example, Alexa play the
what's it called Ryan Schuling live?

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Correct?

Speaker 5 (05:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (05:43):
I mean I would never. I mean, good grief, why
would I? Why would I listen to that? You know,
or or the or the or the blonde chick next door?
You know, why would I listen to that or the
Jewish guy next door? I mean, why would I listen
to a Jew? I mean think about I'm holy gal,
why would you listen to a Jew talk about anything?
Let alone a blonde chick? Who else can I offend?

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Now? Right?

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Well?

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Ryan is a Edwards no shooting h what? What? What
he's not? He's not lith aweighted What?

Speaker 5 (06:20):
What is he?

Speaker 4 (06:21):
I don't pay attention to you? Why would I pay
at what he is?

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, I'm just a dune white guylo Slavic.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Yeah, he's some sort of Slavic background of some sort
I don't I don't know what it is. So so
why why would I listen to some you know guy
this you know whose family's from you know, Eastern Europe?
In fact, he's probably a spy. He's probably a spy.
How do we get off on all of this?

Speaker 6 (06:44):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Because my stupid Alexa wasn't working because a stupid Exfinity
and and and their internet was really funky yesterday, so
I learned what was going on. So I couldn't get
Alexa to work last night. And I guess I could
have called our Alexa and said, hey, would you call
me at four o'clock in the morning and wake me up?

(07:06):
She probably would have done it. So I couldn't get
it to work. So I set my phone for my alarm,
which I don't need because I'm always awake before my alarm.
But when you don't have the alarm, then you panic.
What if I do oversleep? Life is horrible when you
think about it, so many problems, so many first world problems.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Do you recall.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
How many times I have talked about we have abdicated
our compassion to the government, and there is no need
to do that, because if we really wanted to help
the downtrodden, the truly disabled, those who are completely incapable
of helping themselves, there would be lots of charitable organizations

(07:58):
that would rise up or would be created in order
to help them. Think about the public broadcasting system, the
same is true there, and I want to use them
as evidence that we spend money that we don't need
to be spending that the private sector could instead fund.

(08:20):
If we just cut off the public spigot, if we
just cut off the government teat, if we just did
a double mass stectomy of the government teat and got
rid of it, there would be private organizations it would
step up and fill that so called need, if.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
You really believe there is a need for something like that.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
So Congress votes to rescind one I think one point
one billion dollars in public media funding. Well, guess what's happened.
A bunch of philanthropy groups have banded together and they
have to date provided almost twenty seven million dollars to
those public broadcasts that they find most needy. But they're

(09:04):
not stopping there. They're now going to go even further.
They want to raise more money. They want to hit
the fifty million dollar mark by the end of this year.
The Knight Foundation, which regularly supports hundreds of nonprofit news organizations,
has committed ten million dollars to the Public Media Bridge Fund.
They've been joined by the usual suspects of nonprofits that

(09:26):
are left leaning, the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the
Smith Family Foundation, Pivotal Ventures and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
which you always hear, you know, this program brought to
you by our you know, our sponsors, including the Robert
Wood family found Johnson Foundation. So their goal is to

(09:46):
get money to public radio and public TV stations that
had been getting more than thirty percent of their funding
from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has announced is
that we know from earlier reports that is going to
shut down later this year because the elimination of taxpayer funding.
So those stations which have already begun to lay off

(10:06):
some of the staff in anticipation of the cuts, tend
to be located in rural areas, and so you know,
the argument goes that you don't have access to alternate
us of alternate sources of news and information, which I
find absolutely utter bull crap because I go to the
undisclosed location and I've got the same access. In fact,

(10:32):
I actually have better access at the unders undisclosed location
because my rural electric cooperative that serves me decide decided
years ago to put in fiber optic, and I have
a full gig of fiber optic. In fact, the drop
point for my location is right along the river, not

(10:56):
one hundred yards from the undisclosed location. So oftentimes I'll
just do the weekend program from New Mexico because hell's bells.
I got a full gig of fiber optic broadband, so
I've got I've got probably in fact, I know I've.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Got better internet than I've got in this building.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
And I've got better internet than I've got at home.
So in a rural area, don't tell me that you, oh,
we don't have any ultimate sources of news and information.
Yes you do, and quite frankly, I don't think it's
the obligation of me if you live in a rural
area to pay for your internet. They're you know, Starlink's not.

(11:37):
I mean, I don't know what it costs, but I
don't think it's that expensive. So if Exfinity, which sucks,
doesn't isn't able to provide your area, then go to Starling,
go to Dish, go to somebody else. Don't don't give
me this crap that you don't have access to stuff.
The Night Foundation president again in the New York Times, Well,

(11:58):
there's just too much New York Times in the program today.
I apologize says this. We believe it's crucial to have
a concerted, coordinated effort to make sure that the stations
that most critically need these funds right now have a
pathway to get them. So now she's out there are arguing,
marydelle is for all these other left leaning foundations to

(12:23):
move philanthropy at the philanthropy at the speed of news.
What a clever little statement that is. So after funding
gets canceled, which began shortly after Trump's election, the effort

(12:44):
to keep those stations afloat.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Started in Earnest.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Tim is Good, head of the consulting firm Public Media Company,
almost immediately began working with somebody by the name of
Eric Langer, who's the CEO of the nonprofit Information Equity Initiative.
Information has to be equitable, Oh, socialist information, I got it.

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So they had a meeting with the CEOs of PBS
and NPR, and in that meeting they addressed a group
of philanthropists just before the House vote, so before the
funding was even cut off, they were laying out what
losing federal funding would mean for public media and they
estimated a shut down of about one hundred and fifteen

(13:38):
local stations that could lead to fewer dollars for public
radio and TV program which might cause additional stations to close.
So they went into they went into action, and they
started going out to all of their like minded you know,
big foundations, all these groups, you know, wealthy donors and

(13:59):
everybody else knew it. You know what, we need some money.
We got to keep it afloat.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Now.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
Parenthetically, just think for a moment, if, just if Public
Broadcasting System and National Public Radio or the Corporation of
Public Broadcasting, all of those public entities that get taxpayer funding,
if they're so damn important that even before the funding

(14:29):
is cut, just in anticipation of the funding being cut,
the private sector steps up and starts raising money to
keep the worst of the worst, the most hard hit
outlets open. If they'll do that for radio, wouldn't they

(14:52):
do that for homeless people? Wouldn't they do that for
truly dis people that can't function, can't work, can't do anything.
I would like to believe that they would, but they're
not going to as long as we keep doling out
all of this money for what should be the private

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sector taking care of those people. It's not a federal
function for us to take care of citizens of this
nation other than to protect them from enemies foreign and domestic,
and to guarantee the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. That's
what the role of the government is. That's their social compact,

(15:36):
not Social Security, not SNAP, not medicaid, not medicare, not
all of these, not all these entitlement programs that we've created.
But somehow we come to believe that the government's the
only way that that can occur. I just honestly believe

(15:56):
that now. First of all, just be realistic, because I,
you know, I live in the real world, and in
the real world, those programs are never going to go
away until they, I guess, default and just financially collapse
upon themselves, out of which will rise private charitable organizations
to take care of the people that we are now

(16:17):
taking care of, money which could be spent on things
like you know, national defense, or you know, building absolutely
good roads, bridges and highways, or doing the the truly
inherently governmental functions. The they want to argue that the

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long term effect of their financial fundraising can't replace government funding.
So while they're out there recognizing that government funding is
going away, they're raising money while simultaneously screening.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
But we still need public funding. We still need it.
You know, you just.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Undercut your own argument by raising fifty dollars, and now
the sky's the limit.

Speaker 6 (17:10):
Michael, I'm sending condolences for the death. It's your hamster tribe.
It's a shame that they're no longer able to reproduce.
I guess you're gonna have to get dragging to run
on the treadmill for a while. You've better Why don't
you go dragon yourself over there and run around the wheel.

(17:31):
By the way, You're coming in really good in Munich,
Germany this morning, and whatter's fine.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Nice getting a little time Munich. Coming in loud and
clear in Munich, Germany.

Speaker 5 (17:44):
Where's our map?

Speaker 2 (17:46):
We can't but we can't be heard, like two blocks away.

Speaker 5 (17:50):
Where's our map? Michael, huh huh, where's our.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Okay, szepadit Munich.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
I'd like to fly to Munich, get in a car,
drive south, drive into Austria and just find a little
burg somewhere, snuggle in the mountains, cow bells ringing and
just well it's still summer. I want to wait till
the fall, when it's kind of cold at night, and

(18:34):
just pull the big down comforter up over my head
and just go to sleep and sleep for a.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
Week and never be heard from again.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well that's what you want. That's what you want or
what I want? Do you remember? You probably don't because
well you're too young.

Speaker 6 (18:53):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
During the Nixon presidency, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was
engaged in what got to be labeled by the Cabal
as Shuttle diplomacy. He was trying to head off more
wars in the Middle East. This was after the Young
Compure War of nineteen seventy three between Israel and a
coalition of Arab states led by Egypt. My how things

(19:13):
have changed.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Right.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Though Kissinger's efforts were largely successful, the Kabal, primarily the
Washington Post, would ridicule Kissinger throughout the entire process. They
just lied after lie after lie about both his actions
and his motivations. Well, I know, that's just what the

(19:37):
Cabal does. It's baked into the DNA of the Kabal
and trick quite frankly, even into a minority of staff,
even though we're at the Fox News channel. They don't
know any other way of life. That's just who and
what they are. What Trump's trying to accomplish in Ukraine.
I think can be fairly termed as a form of

(19:58):
shuttle diplomacy, but it's really on a grander scale than
what Kissinger and Nixon were doing. Marco Rubio, the stellar
Secretary of State, Yes he's always involved, But in this situation,
what I find interesting is is that the president himself
is assuming a incredible level of personal ownership, which when

(20:23):
you think about just you know, six seven months ago,
that human or the shell of a human that occupied
the Oval Office could never have pulled this off. He
didn't have the stamina or the end. Think about Trump's schedule,
Remember how Dragon and I would laugh at times and

(20:43):
check on Biden's schedule. In the first meeting, he would
be at ten o'clock. In the last meeting, he's at
three point thirty or maybe four at the latest. Trump
sitting on Air Force one at two o'clock in the morning,
refusing to get off because he's on the phone with Putiner.
He's on the phone with you know, some European leader.
Biden would know where he was. In fact, another footnote,

(21:06):
too many footnotes today. I think it was CBS. In fact,
I know it was CBS because it involved Sharon Redstone.
CBS is reporting that in one and I don't remember
who the reporter was. I think it was one of
the sixty Minutes reporters that in twenty twenty three when
they did an interview with Biden, that the reporter is

(21:29):
now admitting and admitted to Sharon Redstone, the owner of
CBS Paramount, that Biden had to be prompted to answer
the questions prompted, mister President, what do you think of
the weather today? Staffer, mister president, reporter acts tell them

(21:54):
what the weather is today. It prompts like you're talking
to some AI chat bot. You need a prompt. He
needed a prompt, except he's well, he was artificially intelligent
and he had no intelligence. That story is not making
the airways at all. I'll try to dig into that
further because I find it fascinating. But anyway, so Trump

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is involved to a personal level that we've not seen
since Nixon and Kissinger, and I think it even exceeds
the level of involvement that Nixon had when Nixon, when
Kissinger was doing all of his Shuttle diplomacy. Now, I've
listened to pundits across the entire spectrum of the cabal,

(22:39):
and in recent days, and they've off handedly mentioned that
old Joe never even communicated with Putin other than what
one word a contraction, don't.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
And they're all.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Saying, that is if it were a strategic decision by
that old fart, never mentioning really the reality that Biden
was simply in cable trying to hold a conversation with
Putin without bubbling his way into probably starting another nuclear war.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
I mean, come on, man, come on.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Man, seriously, try to imagine Biden, or even worse, try
to imagine Kamala Harris sitting in a room holding a
face to face with Vladimir Putin. That is rank absurdity,
entirely unimaginable. And if you have a functioning, non brainwashed mind,

(23:33):
you understand that the truth, the truth is, had the
election gone the wrong way, we might all even be
dead by now by this time. If Kamala Harris had
won the twenty twenty four election, I think that would
have sent a signal to Putin. Hey, you know what,
you may have lost a million soldiers, but you want

(23:55):
to use tactical nukes. You want to go ahead and
go on into Poland, You want to go into Lithuania, Stonia.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
You want to go, you want to go.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
Into the checker, you want to just keep moving westward,
just have at it, and of course NATO would would
have responded, and we probably would be in World War three.
I sincerely believe that. I sincerely believe it, because that's
how much of a thug Vladimir Putin is. But instead,
here we are today, and we have a real functioning

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president who has skillfully moved the chest pieces into place
to a point at which Putin finally understands that, Yeah,
I'm gonna have to sit down and talk. Now, how
has Trump done this? How has he set the process up?

Speaker 2 (24:41):
Well?

Speaker 3 (24:42):
He writeted up to sanctions on the economy through teriffs
and other penalties. He sanctioned you know many of these
things that I'm about to say. I have a list
of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. I
get about eight things here. I bet there are several
of these that you think I'm just making it up

(25:03):
because you haven't heard it from the cabal, because they
don't talk about it. And the first one is the
sanctioning of prominent Russian oligarchs. Really if it ever gets reported,
And then he started beefing up NATO. He re established US,
the United States as the dominant force in NATO, to

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a point at which the head of the Defense Alliance
took referring to the President as NATO's figurative daddy. That's
where that whole joke about Daddy's back in charge again,
that came from the President of NATO making a joke. Yes,
it was a joke, but nonetheless, you know when you
make a joke, there's always a little bit of truth
in those jokes. Then at the same time, the third

(25:45):
point would be Trump made it crystal clear that Ukraine
will not become a member of NATO period. Just that
discussion over, and I think that is critical. He then
next sent a huge package of approved advance US weaponry
to beep up Ukraine's own war effort, so that helped
stalemate the Russian advances. I heard something, don't hold me

(26:09):
to this figure, but I heard somewhere that over the
past week, they have gained less than one hundred yards.
That truly is trench warfare, less than one hundred yards.
And I think a lot of that is because you
know he did. I know he cut off intelligence for
a while, and I know he cut off weaponry for

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a while he sat down, he developed a strategy. He
reopened the intelligence pipelines, and then he reopened the weaponry pipelines,
and that pretty much stopped Putin from making any further
significant advances. Then what do he do next?

Speaker 2 (26:48):
He then just talked about.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
Just the mere mentioning of severe sanctions on major buyers
of Russian oil, including Indian China, and then actually did
take a shot right at India and said, you know,
I China imports, their imports of oil from Russia is
about three percent or maybe less than, let's say, less

(27:14):
than ten percent of all their fossil fuel imports. India,
on the other hand, was upwards of somewhere above fifty percent.
So what did he do to India? An ally, bam
slapped on a heavy, heavy tariff.

Speaker 5 (27:34):
He then.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
He then at that.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
Point knew that Putin realized it was time to talk,
and so, to Trump's credit, and he invited Putin to
the first face to face meeting in Anchorage. And I
think that symbolism was incredibly important. That's where Russia and

(27:59):
US kind nearest to one another. Highly symbolic given that
we bought the Alaskan territory from Russia in eighteen seventy three,
and Russia sold it to US as a way to
help us. If you understand the history of that whole purchase,
you can be certain Putin understood, appreciated the generosity of

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that symbolic gesture. And you can also be certain that
Putin fully understood the flyover the B two stealth bomber
accompanied by four advanced to US fighter jets as they
walked the red carpet and then walked that phalanxes of
fighter jets. And then one key thing after the.

Speaker 7 (28:40):
Break, Michael I bought my first BMW and the fluent
the Frankfurt, took a train in Munich, picked it up
at the BMW store. We went through the Alps down
to Venice, Florence Ante Johnny the One Country. Was a blast,
and fell in love of BMW. And then we took

(29:01):
it back seventeen days later, and I saw my card
a month.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
And you took it back.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
My understanding is they then take it, you take it
right back where you picked it up, and then they
take care of the shipping and they ship it over
here to you. Yeah, what a way to buy a car.
What a way to buy a car? I think, what
he's Here's one key thing I think Trump understood about
the situation he had been left with by the inaptitude

(29:29):
of the previous administration, and that is that the United
States and NATO really didn't have any idea what terms
Putin would insist upon if he had any any inkling
of even trying to settle the war. So obviously, the
first step to gaining that understanding, while at the same

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time simultaneously laying down the US NATO position was you
had to actually talk to Putin. Boys. That's rocket science,
isn't it. Yet that very concept is entirely unimaginable under
the previous putitive president. I'm not sure what he was

(30:17):
so following that, what I believe to be just successful.
I'm not gonna say it was great, mediocre, it was
just successful, whatever degree you want to say success. Look,
if success is measured on a scale of one to ten,
whether this was a one or at ten doesn't make
any difference. It was a one or at ten. And

(30:39):
then the media comes in and they portrayed as a
complete and utter failure, while all the major leaders in Europe,
along with Zelenski himself, just literally dropped everything they were
doing and came to DC to sit around the Resolute
desk and talk about where do we go from here

(31:00):
happens and would never have happened unless they all realized
that Trump was actually going to personally, along with Rubio
and Bessind and everybody else in the cabinet, actually work
to get this done. And they better get on that
train because it's leaving the Oval Office if they want

(31:21):
any credit all for themselves when and if something finally
comes together. And notice I said when and if something
comes together, because I'm realistic enough to understand that it
could completely fall.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Apart at any time.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
But the simple fact facing the Macrones and the Merts
and the Starmers and everybody else that showed up is
that both Ukraine and they are well and truly screwed
without the mighty mighty United States to prop up their defense.
They understand that reality, and so does Trump. So they

(31:53):
all gathered in the White House, not to kill Trump
like the Cabal wants to do, but to praise him out,
to slam Trump for meeting one on one with their
favorite boogeyman, but to declare that was a masterstroke. You know,
the President of Finland, Alex Stubb said during the meeting
that Trump has made more progress and trying to end

(32:15):
the war in just the past few days that him
been made in the prior three years.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
And he's absolutely correct. Now is it a done deal? No?

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Are there pitfalls? Absolutely? But isn't it me compared to
the cabal saying oh this is all wrong? And he said, oh,
he's a punt and poop. Seriously, it's like my whole point.
Are they for crime? Are they for the war?