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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Wine Bill Handle here.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
It is a Wednesday morning, October twenty nine. Some of
the big stories we're looking at. President Trump has said
when asked and now there's some kind of movement saying
third term, third term. When asked about it, he said,
it's pretty clear the US Constitution does not permit him
to run for a third term in office.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Pretty clear.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It's crystal clear. It is completely clear. It's unequivocally clear.
It's clear. It's insanely clear. He can't do it, and
he's admitting it. But I'm sure he's having a great
time with this.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
There's yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I mean, one of the things the president does is
he has a great times.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Matter of fact, he loves being president.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
He said that just as some people hate it, some
presidents couldn't wait to get the hell out. And I
think Donald Trump is going to be not very happy
when he leaves because he enjoys it so much. Okay,
I want to talk about alien beings. There is some
kind of maybe it's a comet, Maybe it isn't moving
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towards Earth now, it's not going to hit us. But
on the first of July. Astronomers using Atlas. That's asteroid
terrestrial impact last alert system.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
God, I love these acronyms.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
There's a telescope in Rio Hrstado, Chile there was this fast,
faint moving object, never seen anything like it. It's officially
named three to one Atlas and it marks only the
third confirmed interstellar object ever observed. The first one was
al Mama Muay. I'm assuming it was someone that was
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doing the hula when it was discovered. That was twenty seventeen.
And there is two to one Borisov, probably someone eating
borsched in Russia that is twenty nineteen. So what exactly
is three to one Atlas. Well, it's believed to be
a comet. It has a tail, is getting brighter that
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approaches the Sun. It shows signs of dust and gas
being released.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
It looks pretty much like a comet.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
And incidentally, its name three to one Atlas is it's
the third interstellar object found after the first two. Obviously,
I for Interstellar Atlas for the telescope network that spotted it.
Now why are people paying attention? It's speed and trajectory.
It's not gravitationally bound to the Sun, which all comments
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are or most of them.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So guess what.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
It had to be originated from another star system and
it wandered into our star system by chance. Also, according
to astronomers, it's a race seeing through space at a
speed that's increasing, and it's not being pulled. It's too
fast to being pulled by the gravity of the Sun.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
You know, they can figure that stuff out.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
You know, a comet is moving at a certain speed
because the gravity of the Sun.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
They know what that is. This is going way too
fast for that.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Now, for most astronomers, it's a natural phenomena, very exciting.
But there is one and his name is Avi Loebe,
and he is known as a crazy man because within
scientific circles there is one. Of course, the conspiracy theorists
will go up and he's the end all be all.
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What makes him so interesting is he is a theoretical
theoretical astrophysicist at Harvard. Okay, that's not to say you
don't have crazy people at Harvard.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
There are plenty of them.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
So when a series of scientific x essays published in
the publication media, and this is where the paper literally
lifts off the table and flies around and it reads
itself to you, he argues that scientists should still consider
whether this object could be an alien technological or an
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artificial probe, or an artifact from another civilization. One of
his essays, does three to one Atlas generate its own light?
Does its brightness stem from self illuminosity rather than the
reflected sunlight? Like every comet? Is is it different? Well,
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of course, NASA said, it's nuts. It looks like a comet,
It does comet things. It walks like a duck, talks
like a duck. Is probably a duck. It is very,
very very strongly resembles in almost every way of the
commets that we know, although there are a couple things
about it. Now. Even Lobe has acknowledged in one of
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his blog posts that the sim helpless hypotheses is that
three to one Atlas is a comet. However, he says,
we have to look at this, we have to look
at the possibility that this may be alien technology, And
(05:18):
NASA responded with with we have to look at the
possibility that Lobe is out of his mind and is
a fruitcake.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
No, as a matter of fact, it's more than.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
A possibility, it's it's a probability that he's out of
his mind. I mean he's known for this, and what
makes him so interesting. I mean, there are crazy uh there.
We know they're conspiracy theorists out there that are nuts,
and almost never are they legitimate people in the terms
of having credentials.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
For example, the vaccine.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
People, they rely on one study done by Wakefield. This doctor,
in all of his information, what he based his survey
on was completely debunked because he made that stuff up,
and he lost his license to practice medicine based on that.
Yet he is the basis for the vaccine conspiracy. Vaccines
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cause autism?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Do you know what I think? It just occurred to me.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I think I genuinely believe that RFK Junior suffers from autism.
I think he suffers from it, and I think he's
trying to move attention away from him. Remember yesterday, dogs
having autism. There's crazy out there. There's crazy. Okay, Now,
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gun control and I was always an advocate of gun control,
and that ship has sailed. The only thing left now
is you can't have eighty eight Howitzer's RPG low grade
nuclear weapons in your backyard. Short of that, there is
much control out there now. There is another aspect of this,
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and this is state by state, it's very different. There
is an article in the Wall Street Journal and the
title is six words every killer should know.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I feared for my life. Officer.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
It's easier than ever to kill someone in America, to
actually get away with it, and sometimes legitimately and sometimes questionable.
In thirty states thirty states, more than half, it requires
only a claim you killed while protecting yourself or others. Now, Americans,
because we are a gun culture, we've long been free
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to use deadly forced to defend ourselves at home. No
one is arguing against that. And those are the standiard
ground laws. Those extend legal protections to public places.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Stand your ground means you don't have to just be
at home. You can be in a public place.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
And if you feel threatened, you can unload and kill someone.
And let's say the police are now looking at it,
and there are only two people that are there if
there are no witnesses, and that is the person who
has died and the person who's alive. So you take
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a statement from the person who is alive, Officer, I
was merely protecting myself. And then the cops look at
the dead person down there. What do you have to say,
not much. That's stand your ground laws, and thirty states
have those. And what does that mean, Well, that means
that in those states, the while you want to call murders,
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the shootings, the deaths have risen substantially in recent years
because the number of states that are adopting standard ground
laws have been extended have increased.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So here is a stat that the Wall Street Journal
looked at.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Justifiable homicides, that is, an officer I feared for my
life by civilians increase fifty nine percent from twenty nineteen
through twenty twenty four. Sixteen percent rise in total homicides.
For the same period, total homicides sixteen percent. The ones
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where officer I feared for my life, those went up
by fifty nine percent. Now I have a great quote. First,
I want to tell you about a retired Las Vegas
police officer. He walked free after shooting a retired computer
network engineer over a dispute who had the right of
way in a Walmart parking lot. Both men got out
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of their cars, both were armed, and the ex officer
said the retired engineer pointed a gun to him, and
according to the dead man's widow, only two people know
what happened. Unfortunately, my husband is dead and what ends
up happening. In many stand your ground cases, authorities are
left to rely on the word of survivors. And so
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I'm going to come back I talk a little bit
more about this journal analysis and states where stand your
ground and those that you can only know your house
is your castle. You can defend your castle, whatever the
hell they call it, and California being one of those
where you have to retreat if at all feasible. In
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thirty states you don't have to retreat. You can just
unload if you fear for your life. Retreating is not
required as it is in California. Okay, this was a
study just came out from the FBI and it said
JUSTI file. Homicides by civilians went up fifty nine percent
in cities and counties that only allow or only or
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do allow shootings killings, and they are stand your ground rules.
Stand your ground laws allow you to be in a
public place and shoot someone that.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
You reasonably fear is going to kill you.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Now, California and other states, the other half of the states,
what they say is you have to retreat. You cannot
just shoot someone. You have to you have to make
available or if there is available a retreating you don't
have to and stand your ground. You can do it
in a public place. No one argues shooting someone in
your house. Someone's breaking in your house, you can shoot
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those people.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Although I have heard.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
From police officers, former police officers, if someone ever breaks
into your house, whatever you do, you cannot shoot that
person in the back. So what you do is you
take the guy that's on the ground that you have
killed and turn him over and at least put a
knife in his hands. And then no one is going
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to argue because you have to retreat. And once your
life is no longer in danger, boom. You can't shoot
and stand your ground laws. You can be in a public,
public place and you don't have to retreat.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
That's not mandated by law.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
And so I've got the greatest quote going that I
wanted to share with you, and I read this thing
and it's just absolutely terrific. Okay, there is a Democratic
legislator who was arguing against stand your ground laws and
he said he raised a hypothetical dispute right there on
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the floor of the legislature and he said, let's say
I'm in a supermarket line, and I'm in the ten
items or less line and I've got fifteen items. The
shopper behind me is understandably irate and proceeds to push
me out of line. And I feel that somehow I
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am in danger and I'm fearing for my life. Remember
this is subjective, Okay, he said. Can I then pop
a cap on him, proceed to check out my fifteen
items and ask for a cleanup in line three?
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Okay, that's not bad.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
After the law on Florida passed, it reported an increase
in justifiable homicides, excluding those by the police.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
And here were the figures.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I mean they're small, but they're growing fifteen a year
in the ten years before the law. Forty five hit
in twenty two thousand and nine. In twenty twenty there
was seventy seven. You can see the increase. And then
at that point Florida simply stopped reporting the data. We're
not going to tell you how many people were killed.
We don't want to deal with it. Reportable justify you
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or reported justifiable homicides have risen in years and twenty
states and those are why don't we put it this way?
Without specific stand your ground laws? They don't do well
with stand your ground laws, they do well. And the
bottom line is the more people that have guns, I mean,
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it's just straight statistics. The more people that have guns,
the more people are going to use guns. For example,
the more people that are mentally ill, the more people
are going to act out because they're mentally ill. It's
just a question of numbers. And one legislator said, if
everybody has a gun, and I've heard this before, if
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everybody has a gun and anticipates everybody having a gun,
we're not going to see much of the kinds of shootings.
Who's this said?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
An armed society is a polite society.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
All right?
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I mean, is it. I'll tell you one thing. Road
rage that kills people.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
And in these stand your ground laws, the road rage
ines that in this incidences have increased dramatically. And so
if someone cuts me off, for example, I used to
flip the bird at that person.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I used to get very angry.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Sometimes I'd open the window as they were passing or
they were coming back, or I was passing them. Let's
say they were tailgating me and then they zip past me.
I'd open my window and scream you a hole. Today
I just wave hello. I don't care what they do. Hey,
how's it going? Nice day, isn't it? Because I don't
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know when these guys are going to pull out a
shotgun and shoot me through the side window.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
And by the way, I am not exaggerating.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So you're saying an armed society is a polite society.
You're polite or I'm polite. That is absolutely correct. However
that someone who has a gun may not be so polite.
Uh that's the problem because again I'm gonna go back
to statistics.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
And this isn't a value judgment. This isn't my ideas
or should be gun control of some kind.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
It's real simple.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
The more people that have guns, the more shootings are
going to take place.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
It's it's not complicated.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
You know what I carry in my car A wave,
A wave and I'm sorry, yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
That's all you can do. All you need to do
just that thumbs up, thumbs up.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Yeah. So uh it's that. And California, of course has
the retreating law. You must retreat, So all right, so
much for that. All right, we're gonna eat.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Oh I want to end up with this. This is fun.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
There is a story they came out of the Times,
and I love this story. And there's a growing fringe
of people who say it is time for an absolute monarchy.
Now when I think about fringe groups, and I used
to think, come on, guys, I mean they're fringe, But
look at what's happening today. What used to be fringe
people standing on street corners with bullhorns are now.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
In the highest reaches of government.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
There are cabinet members and they were considered fringe just
a few years ago. So you look at this, you go, Okay,
we no longer dismiss fringe anymore. And these young Americans
are in their twenties for the most part, and this
thing is growing. They want a monarchy, but they want
they don't want King Trump. And it's kind of interesting
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about this because there are well Trump supporters who do
want a King Trump.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Not so much a King Trump.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
They're not talking about King Trump, but a president that
gets re elected. And the President said, I don't want
to be king, and I believe that. Does he want
to be elected and be the president for the rest
of its Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I think he'd enjoy that.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
But I think there are plenty of presidents who when
they leave would love to continue on with their presidency.
Bill Clinton loved being president and was not happy when
he left. Obama I'm sure would have easily and gladly
done another term. And then there are presidents that just
hated it and couldn't wait to get the hell out.
Who Truman was one of them that just couldn't wait
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to get out. And so this whole argument about the
king Trump and even to the point where no king's
the rally two weeks ago were millions of people showed
up and I was there, and I was the only
sign that I saw freedom of the press because that
was my issue, and everybody else it was no kings
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and pictures of Donald Trump with a crown that was
crossed out. I mean, people, I think are genuinely afraid.
Am I afraid? No. I think he believes that we
should not have a quote, absolute monarchy. I think he
believes there should be elections, free elections, but only when
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Republicans win, because that's the only free election. He has
said that if a Democrat wins, it's a rigged election
of course by definition, and so you know, I think
he's having a lot of fun with this is what
I think it is. Look at the video that he posted.
He's flying in f sixteen. He has a crown on
his head and he flies over a group of demonstrators.
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Strangely enough, the know Kings march demonstrators and unloads just
this enormous amount of liquid. Well, clearly it was crap
that he unloaded. And so he's joking about being king.
But you know, is there any truth to the jokes? Yeah,
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not king, although look at what people are saying. First
of all, he it's as much power as he possibly can,
There's no question about that. As president, he stretches the
limits of the presidency and has the court agree with
him that he's very close to in many cases absolute power.
And another fun thing is look at the he loves gold.
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He's very much like Louis the fourteenth Versailles. Everything is gold.
I mean, look at the great, big, beautiful ballroom that
he is building.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
It's all gold.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
It looks like a lot of like the ballroom at
mar A Lago, which is all gold. Have you ever
seen photos of the inside of his house at Trump
Tower in New York, Man, Come on, it's all gold.
So I'm just having a good time with this. And
my point is fringe is no longer fringe. That's the
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crazy part of this. Okay, we're done, Neil, looks like
you want to say something or not.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
No, I was just saying that there's I don't know
what it is about gold, but it always looks cheap.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Uh yeah right, yeah, no gold.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
If it's yeah, if you have a gold bar and
you're you know, it's you know, a pound or two
and using it as a doors like as a doorstop,
that's not cheap.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
That's kind of yeah. It always looks cheap to me,
it does. It does. So anyway, so much for that.
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