March 5, 2026 • 38 mins
Hour 1 of the show begins with a story that archaeologists in Utah found a 150 year old bottle of alcohol, as well as updates on Iran.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Listen
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
John Justice, Twin Cities News Fantastic talk radio host.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Oh thank you, Laura.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
We will update you on Operation Epic Fury in the
first hour of the show this morning, and welcome. I
can see Friday from here. Jake Coleman from America's for Prosperity,
we'll be joining us at seven point thirty. In between
we will play for you a bounty of audio from
(00:33):
that House Committee hearing. We'reing Governor Tim Walls and Keith
Ellison testified some rather interesting exchanges. I'll share with you
my expectations, as little as they are, of what the
consequences of this hearing will be. Well, of course, hear
(00:54):
from you throughout the show this morning. We have some
fraud talk that we need to dive into. We'll get
updated on the legislative session. A lot of ground to
cover today on a Thursday. My name is John Justice.
In the Master Control booth. To my right is Devin.
Thankfully he pulled all of that audio, of which required
two separate pages worth a lot of it this morning.
(01:17):
I want to start off here, though I haven't talked
about the Supreme Court arguing over the ability of those
that keep and bear arms who use marijuana and whether
or not that's legal. We'll get to this in just
(01:37):
a moment, but I want to share with you details
on that story. This story from WSVN out of Utah
in my hands. I just thought it was interesting because
Justice Neil gorshisch in the Supreme Court oral arguments, he
references our founding fathers and how they were habitual drunkards,
(02:00):
and it's some really fascinating details.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I had no idea like this.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
If you are a casual alcoholic beverage drinker, the details
that I'll share with you from this Foxy New story
of the Supreme Court oral arguments are really going to
make you feel better about the amount of alcohol that
you consume, if you're indeed concerned at all about the
amount of alcohol that you consume. However, regarding alcohol, archaeologists
(02:25):
in Utah made a boozy discovery. The crew was digging
in the mining town of Alta when they unearthed a
one hundred and fifty year old bottle of alcohol. The
bottle was still corked, dating between eighteen seventy and eighteen ninety,
(02:52):
according to officials, So what have they decided to do?
They decided to drink it. Crews call the local distillery.
They used a needle to extract the liquid for sampling.
This is like pulling the DNA out of the Jurassic
(03:13):
insect stuck in the amber in Jurassic Park. And what
was their reaction is that it that wasn't too bad.
This sounds like it could be a superhero or super
villain origin story in the making. Maybe this is how
(03:35):
you create Captain Morgan. Captain Morgan, you know, thirst is legendary,
and perhaps it becomes legendary by drinking a one and
fifty year old bottle of alcohol. I think this is
a fantastic idea. They said they sensed dried fruit notes,
(03:58):
there's a little bit of vinegar in it, but surprisingly,
I think it held up after being in a bottle
for over one hundred and fifty years, said Isaac Winter,
who tasted the drink.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And then subsequently died. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
The team was also able to dig up several other artifacts,
including a mining hat, bullets, shot glasses. Maybe this is
more how Indiana modern day Indiana Jones gets created, and
I know they want to reboot the franchise. Officials suspected
the drink was some sort of sherry or beer and
plan more tests to pin down what it was. They
(04:37):
better keep it locked up, because you know, this is
one of those circumstances where like the night Crew comes
into clean.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And like, oh look some alcohol, cool, I'll try this out.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I had a similar experience to what they went through
in Utah, although not as much at distance. Going back
to the re release of Zemo, I think that was
what twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen. I had purchased a couple
of cases, but I had set a few six packs
aside to save, and I think I waited about eighteen
months before I went and dove back into it.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, I wasn't very good. It didn't. It didn't. It
didn't didn't.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
It didn't keep for it didn't keep for very long.
Brave Souls. I assume they must have run some tests
on this before. I mean, you had you had to.
You had to put it through some sort of filter
just to make sure that it hadn't developed into something
that could have been.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Deadly. Brave Souls.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Justice Neil Gorshich spent a portion of the Supreme Courts
or oral arguments this week speaking of alcohol, exploring what
a doing that thing with my fingers. Habitual drunkard is
as part of a case that centered on whether a
drug user is allowed to own a gun. Jumping ahead
in the story, by the way, the National Rifle Association,
(05:58):
the NRA, and the Gun on His of America. Also,
I believe the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus both support the
Texas man who's been charged by the FBI after it
was discovered that he possessed a handgun and smoked marijuana
every day. But Gorsuch questioned the DOJ's lawyer on how
gun restrictions for habitual drunkards in early American history compared
(06:24):
to today's law restricting drug users and owning guns. The
DOJ was required to point to a strong historical comparison
to provide the modern law was constitutional, and chose to
use the founding era laws about habitual drunkers. So I
(06:44):
want to share with you some of the some of
the details that were revealed in this Supreme Court to
oral argument hearing, because I was not and I'm sure
this is probably very well known regarding our founding fathers.
I know there was a whole comedy channel was d
or a whole series drunk History. I don't know this
(07:06):
was a part of it, but some of the details
laid out about the drinking habits of the founding fathers
I found really really interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You're fascinating to talk to, so I'll give you details
on this coming up in just a moment.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The US is winning decisively against Iran in Operation Epic Fury.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I have some.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Awesome clips to share with you from Marco Rubio one
going back to twenty fifteen, where he succinctly in twenty
fifteen laid out what was going to happen with.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Iran based off of the.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Moves that were being made at the time, and you
compare that to what's happening now, and he was spot on.
He also lays out more justification as to why the
operation exists in the first place. Details on that coming up.
Of course, we will dive into how, according to Representative
Comer Walls, Ellison turned a blind to the alleged Minnesota fraud.
(08:02):
I have a lot of audio to share from that
committee hearing yesterday, and of course we'll hear from you
throughout the show this morning. You can email me Justice
at iHeartRadio dot com. Our new phone number eight four
four nine four six five eight five five and if
you're listening on the iHeartRadio app, the talkbacks are brought
to you by Lyndahl Realty and we'll get to those
next here on Twin City's News Talk Am eleven thirty
(08:23):
and one oh three five FM. Good morning, and I
love your show. Archaeologists in Utah found a still coarked
bottle of alcohol they believe was some sort of sherry
(08:43):
or beer dated between eighteen seventy and eighteen ninety, one
hundred and fifty years old. So one of the crews
of the local distillery do and I suppose these guys
are experts, right. They used a needle, they extracted the liquid,
and then they drank it. Said that it surprisingly held up.
(09:05):
What kind of you buzz do you get from one
hundred and fifty year old alcohol. Let's go to the
iHeart Radio app before we dive into the Supreme courtal
oral arguments relating to the drunkards that apparently were our
founding fathers.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Good morning John.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
When it comes to that bottle of lequor, have you
ever seen the movie Leviabo? Yes, yeah, I don't think
I'm taking a swig off any liquor that I don't
know precisely where it came from.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I'm so glad you brought that up because I knew
when I was writing my jokes. I mean, okay, listen,
it's a stretch to call those jokes. I did write
them down, though I didn't make notes my Captain Morgan,
this could be a superhero or villain story. I knew
I was drawing from something, and that's what I was
drawing from. I had just watched levi Oh within the
(10:02):
past year. That movie's in my wheelhouse because it was
part of three different films, the biggest one being The Abyss,
and my brother worked in special effects at the time.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Going back to the nineties, he worked on The Abyss.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I don't know if he worked on Leviathan, but I
know he worked on the other movie that was like it,
which was Deep Star six. So if you're ranking those
films in terms of quality, it starts with The Abyss,
then goes to Leviathan, which is really just sort of
a campy science fiction film, and then it gets even
camp here when it comes to Deep Star six. But
(10:42):
I'm glad that you brought that up because I knew
I was drawing upon something, and that's exactly what I
was drawing upon. Spoiler alert for that movie, they end
up finding a I think it's a bottle of Russian
vodka on board a ship and it ends up turning
him into an underseat creature. Yeah, you know, I yeah,
you know what. I'm on the right page, But now
I am.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You're fascinating to talk to.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Thanks all right, So, Justice Neo gorsic oral arguments exploring
what a habitual drunkard is. Part of the case surrendering
a centered around a drug user and whether or not
they're allowed to own a gun. The DOJ, as I mentioned,
was required to point to a strong historical comparison to
(11:24):
prove the modern law was constitutional, and it shows the
Founding era laws about habitual drunkers. Gorsicic said, the American
Temperance Society back in the day, they said eight shots
of whiskey a day only made you an occasional drunkard.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Eight shots of whiskey a day.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
The Conservative Justice also appointed to the Founding Father's drinking
habits to convey his skepticism about the DOJ's argument that
habitual drunkard was similar to a modern day drug user
and that both were worthy of being disarmed. Gorsuch said
John Adams took a tankard of hard cider with his
(12:14):
breakfast every day. James Madison reportedly drank a pine of
whiskey every day. Thomas Jefferson said he wasn't much of
a user of alcohol. He only had three or four
glasses of wine a night.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
So here's the question that I have.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
If anybody knows the answer, brought me a email Justice
at iHeartRadio dot com or leave a talkback on the
iHeartRadio app, Like what was the alcohol content back then?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
For Like what was the percentage?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Like I have no baseline of which to even venture
a guess, Like we're the alcoholic beverages that I just
mentioned as strong as they are today and of potency.
If you know, leave a talkback. I know we have
a lot of smart friends of the show out there.
(13:07):
Or if you're a foe of the show and you
want to let me know the quality of alcohol and
how hard it was compared to what it is today.
Gorsch went on to say, are they habitual drunkards who
would be properly disarmed for life under your theory?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So the case is us versus.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
HALMANI centered on a Texas man who had been charged
after the FBI discovered he possessed a handgun and smoked
marijuana every day. The law at issue nine two to
two G three gained national attention under Biden's son Hunter,
who was convicted under it for possessing a gun in
(13:51):
twenty eighteen while addicted to crack cocaine.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
So that's an interesting note.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
There's crack can make you act any differently?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Now? Is it shafer than alcohol? Probably?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
The DOJ argue the man Ali Hamani or Hamiani illegally
owned the gun while a habitual user of marijuana, and
that he was rightfully charged for to the Second Amendment
advocates are closely watching the case, as I mentioned before,
the National Rifle Association and the Gun Owners of America,
and I do believe I need to look it up,
but I'm pretty sure the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus was
(14:28):
commenting on this as well in support of Hamioni, while
several Democratic states are backing the DOJ in the case,
setting up strange alliances in a test of what exceptions
to gun ownership are allowed by law. To a few
of your thoughts from the iHeartRadio this morning.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
As a two ay supporter.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
I guess I have no problem with people periodically smoking
a joint while owning a gun, since many people who
carry will enjoy a glass of wine with dinner. Problem
lies in the fact that there's no moderation with pod use.
It's all or nothing with the omnipresent stench of skunk weed.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It's ironic.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
Many of my progressive friends have mysteriously discovered the Second
Amendment recently, even while remaining high ninety percent of the time.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That is untenable. Oh, I completely disagree with that.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
There's absolutely moderation within THHC usage and levels of which
one can be inebriated using products containing THHC. It's not like, yeah,
there's varying degrees, just like there is with alcohol. Now
there's no good way to measure currently. This is one
(15:45):
of the difficulties of law enforcement's been coming under. But no,
I completely disagree with that there are absolutely varying degrees
of which an individual could be high, is what I'm
trying to say.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Puny John say.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
I don't know if anybody else who's mentioned this yet
or not, but the active ingredient in alcohol is a
tox and that the yeese produces that actually writeses at
such a level it becomes toxic to other bacteria. And
it even eventually killed the east itself, which is why
wine can last for centuries. And that and she'll be
(16:18):
drinkable all right, thanks by.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
A friend of the show, pack to the rescue. What
an answer of the level of alcohol going back into
the seventeen and eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Hey, John pat front of the show.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
In the seventeen hundreds, the alcoholic content of beer ranged
from about four to fifteen percent, depending on the type,
and wine was usually around eight percent to fifteen percent,
and beer was consumed more wildly than beer.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And again all the alcohol back then.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
Was consumed because of the water, where you could get
like typhus, a dysentery from the water.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
So that's why they drank more alcohol back then. Talk
to you later, bye, Thank you so much for that.
So it was.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Less alcoholic than our bever just today to varying degrees.
Speaker 10 (17:05):
Coome on to John Dale and Princeton. I'm on my
third reincarnation now, and way back in the seventeen hundreds.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
By the way, was I the only one that's held
in the Blanke when he said I'm on my third.
I was waiting for him to say some alcohol. Okay, yeah, Devin,
shaking his head. You were waiting for that too.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I'm on my third shot at tequila for your show
this morning.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
Dale.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
My apologies.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
That's a really, really bad impersonation of you, and you
are one of my favorite friends of the show, so
I mean absolutely no disrespect.
Speaker 10 (17:37):
Whiskey and the rum and the wine and everything like
that only had about one percent alcohol, so we could
drink a lot of it and not even have any
ill effects from it outside of, you know, having another
glass full. Anyway, great show, keep it up, Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Well what fun is that? And sell like like much fun?
All right? Coming up.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Senate Republicans closed ranks yesterday, handing Trump a win on
his use of force in Iran despite lingering questions about
America's involvement in the Middle East. I have those clips
of Marco Rubio to share with you as well. The
majority of voters right now are backing Operation Epic Fury.
There is one thing, in my view that will change voters' minds.
(18:25):
I will let you know what that is next. We'll
get some more of your thoughts as well from the
iHeartRadio app coming up on twin City's News Talk AM
eleven thirty and one oh three five FM. What do
you think based on the weather, I think it's safe
for me to switch out the floor mats in the car.
(18:47):
I've got the weather Tech ones in there right now.
I used to wrap the floor mats well on the
other in Junior the old Kia and for Monty new
Que that's his name, by the way, I got the
weather Tech ones, but I want to get the original
ones back in.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I think I'm safe now.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
You're all gunked up with the snow when it was
all dirty.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Leave me a talkback.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Trying to City's News Talk A'm eleven thirty one oh
three five FM. Al right, Operation epic Fury in just
a moment. I do want to get to a handful
of your comments or your talkbacks from iHeartRadio, brought to
you by Lyndall Realty.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Hey, I'm on my third gummy for the day.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Don't have a gun, but I'd much rather have a
gun stone than have a gun drunk.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Okay, we need to find a way to rhyme that,
and you could almost have like a twenty twenty sixth
version of I'd rather have a bottle in front of
me than have to have a frontal lobotomy.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
John On, All these guys are just making stuff popper wise,
But I remember reading history books the moonshine from back then,
even you know, one hundred years ago gol blind from
a kazu or so much alcohol and impurities and whatever
in it. So I don't know if they had any
way of measuring it back then like we do now.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Yeah, I had a friend of the show Dennis had
emailed and did a Google search too, talking about how
verified bottle labels from eighteen seventy, for example, rare Jack
Daniels whiskey in that era was generally sold at a
higher proof than the modern eighty proof forty percent ABV.
(20:39):
In the late nineteenth century, it was common for Tennessee
whiskey to be sold in the ninety to one hundred
proof forty five to fifty ABV before it was eventually
standardized to lower proofs in the twentieth century. You're not
the only one to point this out, by the way,
the discrepancy between the other talkbacks.
Speaker 11 (21:00):
I just asked Google Jem and I what was the
percentage of alcohol by volume? And drinks are like rum
brandy and whiskey in the days of our founding fathers,
and the answer was forty five percent alcohol by volume,
which is ninety proof.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Okay, thank you for the updates, by the way, and
thank you to the foes of the show who apparently
are taking a thirty day sabbatical from the show, and
they're doing so by leaving talkbacks and telling me how
they're listening.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
We won't miss you, but I appreciate the update.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Senate Republicans close ranks yesterday shooting down the resolution by
Senator Tim Kaine aimed at limiting Trump's military actions in Iran,
following days of speculation about whether Republicans would cross the
aisle as they have done before to reprimand.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
As the president only.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Senator Ran Paul of Kentucky favored the resolution and voted
as such. Boy, he's been a disappointment, Senator John Fetterman
for the lone Democrat to cross the aisle in support.
What world are we living in? The Majority of voters
are backing Operation Epic Fury. However, that will not remain
(22:21):
if the operation goes on for too long a period
of time. Now, I want to address this coming up
in just a moment here on Twin City's News Talk.
But first I want to share with you a couple
of clips. Marco Rubio, who's just absolutely been stellar in
all of the press conferences that he's been conducting.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
The entirety of the administration has been stellar on this.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
But laying out specifically why we're in the middle of
this operation Pete Hegseth yesterday laying out in detail the
success of the operation so far. Again just so incredibly
proud of the right. Now, I do want to start
with a clip going back to twenty fifteen, however, from
Marco Rubio. This was then Senator Rubio and resurfaced yesterday.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
He called Iran's.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Playbook perfectly and this was eleven years ago.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Give a listen to this. Love this deal have already
been said.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I do want to be recorded for history's purposes before
I know what was going to happen in regards to this.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
If it goes through, Iran.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Will immediately use the money that it's receiving and sanctioned
relief to begin to build up its conventional capabilities.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It will establish the.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Most dominant military power in the region outside of the
United States, and it will raise the price of US
operating in the region.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
They're going to build anti.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Access capabilities, rockets capable of destroying aircraft carriers and ships,
continue to build these swift boats that are able to
come on us, these fast boats that are able to
swarm our naval assets, and they'll make it harder and
harder for.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
US troops to be in the region. They'll also work.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
With other terrorist groups in the region target American servicemen
and women, and they may or may not deny that
they're involved, but they will target us and raise the
price of our presence in the Middle East until they
hope to completely pull US out of that region. The
laws will continue to build long range missiles this was
capable of reaching the United States. Those are not affected
by the steal, and they will continue to build them
(24:18):
as they've been doing. And then at some point in
the near future, when the time is ripe, they will
build a nuclear weapon. And they will do so because
at that point they will know that they have become immune,
that we will no longer be able to strike their
nuclear program because the price of doing so will be
too high. This is not just the work of imagination.
It exists in the world today. It's called North Korea,
(24:39):
or a lunatic possesses dozens of nuclear weapons and a
long range rocket that can already reach the United States,
and we cannot do anything about it. An attack on
North Korea today would result in an attack on Tokyo
or Soul, or Guam, or Hawaii or California. And so
the world must now live with a lunatic in possession
of of nuclear weapons. And this is the goal Iran
(25:01):
has as well, to reach a point where they become
immune to any sort of credible military threat because the
price of a military strike.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Would be too high.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
And then they become an established nuclear weapons power. And
never in the history of the world has such a
regime ever possessed weapons so capable of destruction. Iran is
led by a Supreme leader who is a radical Shiah
cleric with an apocalyptic vision of the future. He is
not a traditional geopolitical actor who makes decisions on the
(25:32):
basis of borders or simply history or because of ambitions.
He has an apocaly religious, apocalyptic vision of the future,
one that calls for triggering a conflict between the non
Muslim world and the Muslim world, one that he feels
especially obligated to trigger, and he's going to possess nuclear weapons.
This is the world that we are on the verge
(25:52):
of leaving our children to inherit, and perhaps we ourselves
will have to share in it. And so I want
to be recorded for history's purposes of nothing else to
say that those of us who opposed this deal understood
where it would lead, and we are making a terrible mistake.
And I fear that a passage of this deal will
make it even harder for us to prevent it. And
I hope that there's still time to change our minds.
(26:13):
But here's the good news. Iran may have a supreme leader,
but America does not. In this nation, we have a republic,
and soon we'll have new leaders, perhaps in this chamber,
but also in the executive branch. And I pray that
on their first day in office, they will reverse this
steal and reimpose the sanctions and back them up with
a credible threat of military force, or history will condemn
(26:33):
us for not doing what needed to be done at
this critical moment in the world's history.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
How yield the floor?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And again that was then Senator Mark Ruby eleven years ago,
and he laid out exactly what ended up transpiring over
the course of those eleven years. Now, President Donald Trump's
military operation is popular with around sixty percent of likely voters.
This is according to a survey that was released earlier
this week. The poll suggests that most of American of
(27:02):
the American public alignce with Trump's messaging on Operation Epic
Theory and is on board with adjoined US Israeli mission
to wipe out the authoritarian regime. The poll shows that
fifty six percent of likely voters support the United States
taking out the Iranian leadership, sixty three percent agree with
targeting the Iranian nuclear and baddistic missile sites. Nearly seventy
(27:25):
percent of respondence, meanwhile, agree with the Trump administration's argument
that Iran is a threat to global peace and democracy,
and seventy six percent agree that if Iran built a
nuclear weapon, it would pose a direct threat to the
United States. The results are flying in the face of
Democrat Party talking points, which has been why you've seen
(27:46):
the Democrats, apart from the War Powers resolution, which everybody
knew was going to fail yesterday, why they've been so
hesitant to go and take a strong stance on this
all Still while condemning the President for taking military action
against Irani without congressional approval, but even that has fallen flat.
And just to really simplify this, people underestimate the fact that,
(28:09):
regardless of party and Trump Derangement syndrome aside, as part
of our American culture, we love blowing stuff up.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I don't think I can put it any more plainly.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
We love the American mite of our military and we
love blowing stuff up. Now, the flip side to this
is it can't go on forever. The administration has said
that it's not going to The operation will come to
an end. They're hoping in four to five weeks, depending
on how things transpire. And that needs to happen because,
(28:50):
as we saw with Operation Iraqi Freedom between two thousand
and three and twenty eleven, you had a public on
board until they weren't. You had a me that got
tired and was running out of ways to go and
cover Operation Iraqi Freedom. And we all know the results
of that endo becoming incredibly unpopular. Wherein in the onset
(29:11):
it was certainly more popular than what it ended up being.
All indications so far seemed to be, however, that this
is not going to be a protracted, lengthy conflict. The
other big news item yesterday of note is that the
Kurds from Iraq are now apparently coming in on the
ground and may be aided by us in order to
(29:33):
help further the transition of this authoritarian regime in Iran,
which again is still on the brink of collapse. So
we'll continue to keep you updated throughout the morning of
any further breaking news we're regarding Operation Epic Fury. I
want to go back to a couple of different things.
First off, friend of the show Pat who let the
(29:53):
talk back earlier which caused a bit of clarification regarding
the alcohol content of hard alcohol going back to the
seventeen and eighteen hundreds. She was referring to and looking
up beer and wine specifically, not hard alcohol, which is
we've seen now via email and from the talkbacks and
(30:15):
people have shown that yes, it was incredibly hard alcohol
back then the drunkards that were our founding fathers, based
off of the Supreme Court to Justice of Gorsic in
that in that testimony. The other thing I wanted to mention,
and I want to get to a few of your thoughts,
is that I opened up a can of worms with
my format discussion. All right, we'll go to a few
(30:39):
of your talkbacks.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Great is Jauff talking about the switch in the summer floormats.
Now we're gonna get about twelve inches next week.
Speaker 10 (30:48):
Thanks John.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
All right, listen, if that happens, it is all my fault.
I firmly, I firmly admit that I will take I
will take blame if we end up getting any significant snow.
Speaker 12 (31:02):
Morning John, This is TJ from Northside. I'm also a
fellow Southern Californian transplant in Minnesota and an avid Kia representative.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Nice for Kia owner.
Speaker 12 (31:13):
I go through the same struggle you do with my formats.
That is hilarious. Keep up all the hard work.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I just hate having a dirty car.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I cannot stand having a dirty car interior and exterior.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
And yet I refuse to go and buy a subscription
to a car wash. What kind of fool of mine?
Speaker 13 (31:32):
No, No, John, he don't you're gonna jinx it.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
It's only March. You gotta get through April May.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Still, you know I felt a little uh diss in
that talk back, just a little tiny.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Bit, John.
Speaker 13 (31:52):
You must resist the temptation to completely convert your car
to the spring summer mode. The only thing than those
kind of uh icky looking weather texts right now is
a when you can wash them again. But b those
new mats. They need to say pristine the entire summer. Yeah,
I'd hold off till May first, as hard as that is.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Just do it. You won't regret it. You know the
problem that I have with the formats. You don't.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
But I'm going to tell you so. I'm not that tall.
I'm about six feet maybe a little bit over depending.
My wife will argue with me on that, by the way,
But the way I position my feet, I always end
up with like a rub mark at one little spot
for the gas pedal and Devin shaking his head.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
He happens to you too.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Hate that they need to really reinforce it. But I
don't like buying aftermarket formats either.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I want them to be the ones for.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
The car, which is partly the reason why I don't
like the weather texts in there. They're really effective. You're right,
you can clean them.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I just.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
In case you hadn't noticed, in very particular about my automobiles.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
John, you must resist the temptation. I think I played
him already. My apologies going John.
Speaker 14 (33:00):
I am sorry to inform you, but you absolutely need
to leave the weather techs in your car at least
until the end of April. Snow is not over. It
always snows in April and then you have all the
spring mud it. So please leave your weather tech mats
in your car. Thanks everyday.
Speaker 15 (33:19):
Good morning, John, Darryl from southern Minnesota. Hey Daryl, I'm
a little bit of a stickler when it comes to
my maths. I like a nice and clean They make
a product called gloss dressing makes them things look like
brand new. Keep them in your around, keep your car
looking good, smelling good, enjoy your ride.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
That's what it's all about, all right.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Getting back to I got a quick one here regarding
alcohol usage.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Goring, John, there's an easy way to find out about
the alcohol content during your revolutionary War times. Just go
to the current sources. Nancy Pelosi, wasn't she or around during
the Revolutionary War? Or how about eoc the bartender. You
should know what the alcohol content is and if all scales,
(34:08):
there's always Maxine Waters.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
All right.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
On the subject of operation epic theory, You're.
Speaker 16 (34:16):
Right, John, we do love blowing stuff up have you
watched any of the videos from Operation Epic Fury.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
God, it's just bada.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Oh, it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
My favorite one so far is our submarine that ended
up dispatching apparently what was Iranian's prized ship. The footage
on that was incredible. I saw a meme overnight. It
made me laugh because I'm a huge one for Red
October fan, both of the book and the film, and
(34:51):
the meme was essentially it was the Jim Carrey from
Liar Liar where he takes the sip of water and
he goes come on and the water spills everywhere, and
it was He's like, this is the view of the
members of our military that ended up joining our military
to work on a submarine in the wake of watching
humph for Red October after seeing and retiring and now
(35:15):
watching one of our submarines go and blow up on
Iranian ship.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Yeah, oh they're pretty awesome. It's pretty awesome footage. And
when you're watching.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Those those that footage online, by the way, and you
ever have any questions, because there's a lot of misinformation
that's going around right now regarding the footage is being released,
and a lot of fake footage make sure you do
a double check on it. I watched one yesterday where
somebody was trying to claim that we were blowing up
drawings of F fourteen's on the ground in Iran, and
(35:45):
it was completely debunked.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Yeah, you just said it, John. This thing's got a
half life to it and a point of diminishing returns,
and that's probably in about five or six days, honestly,
because there's a lot, lot, lot of damage being done
to the infrastructure and at least Tehran, probably the ports.
(36:11):
So we got to get it done pretty quick and
then hopefully we stopped before everybody free.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Now I listen, I give it a much longer lifetime
before opinions begin to change. The Trump administration has established
upfront that Trump even said five weeks, and I think
that's on the long end. And because of that, I
think the baseline has been has been set. The standard's
been set because the concern here is not Democrats. The
concern here is Republicans, and Republicans will grow tired of
(36:40):
this evidence of extending beyond the standard of which the
administration has has set. Five weeks, you know, two months,
I think is an acceptable amount of time to go
on longer than that or of boots on the ground
situation that would end up becoming a negative for a
lot of voters and even you know myself included. I
(37:02):
don't want to see to get into any protracted engagement,
any lengthy engagement. Let's get this done. Let's let the
Iranian people step up. Let's have a new leader step
up in Iran to take over and remove this tyrannical regime.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Let's wrap on this.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
This is the other clip I had for Marco Rubio,
once again laying out in detail why Operation Epic Fury exists.
And then coming up just after the top of the hour,
we will dive into the Oversight Committee hearing on fraud
in which Governor Tim Walls and Keith Ellyson testified. A
lot of commentary and a lot of audio to share
here on Twin City's News Talk Listen.
Speaker 17 (37:37):
Let me explain to you guys this in simple English, okay.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Iran is run.
Speaker 17 (37:41):
By lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics. They have an ambition to
have nuclear weapons. They intend to develop those nuclear weapons
behind a program of missiles and drones and terrorism that
the world will not be able to touch them for
fear of those things, and this is the weakest they've
ever been.
Speaker 13 (37:56):
Now is the time to go after them.
Speaker 17 (37:57):
The President made the decision to go after them. Take
away their missiles, take away their navy, take away their drones,
take away their ability to make those things so that
they can never have a nuclear weapon. That's why the
President made this decision. It was the right decision and
the world will be a safer place when these radical
clerics and a lot of them have access to these weapons.
You see how they're using them now, Imagine how they
would use them a year from now they had more
(38:18):
of these.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
I'm an optimistic person. I'm not hysterical.
John Justice, Twin Cities News Fantastic talk radio host.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Oh thank you, Laura.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
We will update you on Operation Epic Fury in the
first hour of the show this morning, and welcome. I
can see Friday from here. Jake Coleman from America's for Prosperity,
we'll be joining us at seven point thirty. In between
we will play for you a bounty of audio from
(00:33):
that House Committee hearing. We'reing Governor Tim Walls and Keith
Ellison testified some rather interesting exchanges. I'll share with you
my expectations, as little as they are, of what the
consequences of this hearing will be. Well, of course, hear
(00:54):
from you throughout the show this morning. We have some
fraud talk that we need to dive into. We'll get
updated on the legislative session. A lot of ground to
cover today on a Thursday. My name is John Justice.
In the Master Control booth. To my right is Devin.
Thankfully he pulled all of that audio, of which required
two separate pages worth a lot of it this morning.
(01:17):
I want to start off here, though I haven't talked
about the Supreme Court arguing over the ability of those
that keep and bear arms who use marijuana and whether
or not that's legal. We'll get to this in just
(01:37):
a moment, but I want to share with you details
on that story. This story from WSVN out of Utah
in my hands. I just thought it was interesting because
Justice Neil gorshisch in the Supreme Court oral arguments, he
references our founding fathers and how they were habitual drunkards,
(02:00):
and it's some really fascinating details.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I had no idea like this.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
If you are a casual alcoholic beverage drinker, the details
that I'll share with you from this Foxy New story
of the Supreme Court oral arguments are really going to
make you feel better about the amount of alcohol that
you consume, if you're indeed concerned at all about the
amount of alcohol that you consume. However, regarding alcohol, archaeologists
(02:25):
in Utah made a boozy discovery. The crew was digging
in the mining town of Alta when they unearthed a
one hundred and fifty year old bottle of alcohol. The
bottle was still corked, dating between eighteen seventy and eighteen ninety,
(02:52):
according to officials, So what have they decided to do?
They decided to drink it. Crews call the local distillery.
They used a needle to extract the liquid for sampling.
This is like pulling the DNA out of the Jurassic
(03:13):
insect stuck in the amber in Jurassic Park. And what
was their reaction is that it that wasn't too bad.
This sounds like it could be a superhero or super
villain origin story in the making. Maybe this is how
(03:35):
you create Captain Morgan. Captain Morgan, you know, thirst is legendary,
and perhaps it becomes legendary by drinking a one and
fifty year old bottle of alcohol. I think this is
a fantastic idea. They said they sensed dried fruit notes,
(03:58):
there's a little bit of vinegar in it, but surprisingly,
I think it held up after being in a bottle
for over one hundred and fifty years, said Isaac Winter,
who tasted the drink.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And then subsequently died. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
The team was also able to dig up several other artifacts,
including a mining hat, bullets, shot glasses. Maybe this is
more how Indiana modern day Indiana Jones gets created, and
I know they want to reboot the franchise. Officials suspected
the drink was some sort of sherry or beer and
plan more tests to pin down what it was. They
(04:37):
better keep it locked up, because you know, this is
one of those circumstances where like the night Crew comes
into clean.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And like, oh look some alcohol, cool, I'll try this out.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
I had a similar experience to what they went through
in Utah, although not as much at distance. Going back
to the re release of Zemo, I think that was
what twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen. I had purchased a couple
of cases, but I had set a few six packs
aside to save, and I think I waited about eighteen
months before I went and dove back into it.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, I wasn't very good. It didn't. It didn't. It
didn't didn't.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
It didn't keep for it didn't keep for very long.
Brave Souls. I assume they must have run some tests
on this before. I mean, you had you had to.
You had to put it through some sort of filter
just to make sure that it hadn't developed into something
that could have been.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Deadly. Brave Souls.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Justice Neil Gorshich spent a portion of the Supreme Courts
or oral arguments this week speaking of alcohol, exploring what
a doing that thing with my fingers. Habitual drunkard is
as part of a case that centered on whether a
drug user is allowed to own a gun. Jumping ahead
in the story, by the way, the National Rifle Association,
(05:58):
the NRA, and the Gun on His of America. Also,
I believe the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus both support the
Texas man who's been charged by the FBI after it
was discovered that he possessed a handgun and smoked marijuana
every day. But Gorsuch questioned the DOJ's lawyer on how
gun restrictions for habitual drunkards in early American history compared
(06:24):
to today's law restricting drug users and owning guns. The
DOJ was required to point to a strong historical comparison
to provide the modern law was constitutional, and chose to
use the founding era laws about habitual drunkers. So I
(06:44):
want to share with you some of the some of
the details that were revealed in this Supreme Court to
oral argument hearing, because I was not and I'm sure
this is probably very well known regarding our founding fathers.
I know there was a whole comedy channel was d
or a whole series drunk History. I don't know this
(07:06):
was a part of it, but some of the details
laid out about the drinking habits of the founding fathers
I found really really interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
You're fascinating to talk to, so I'll give you details
on this coming up in just a moment.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The US is winning decisively against Iran in Operation Epic Fury.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
I have some.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Awesome clips to share with you from Marco Rubio one
going back to twenty fifteen, where he succinctly in twenty
fifteen laid out what was going to happen with.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Iran based off of the.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Moves that were being made at the time, and you
compare that to what's happening now, and he was spot on.
He also lays out more justification as to why the
operation exists in the first place. Details on that coming up.
Of course, we will dive into how, according to Representative
Comer Walls, Ellison turned a blind to the alleged Minnesota fraud.
(08:02):
I have a lot of audio to share from that
committee hearing yesterday, and of course we'll hear from you
throughout the show this morning. You can email me Justice
at iHeartRadio dot com. Our new phone number eight four
four nine four six five eight five five and if
you're listening on the iHeartRadio app, the talkbacks are brought
to you by Lyndahl Realty and we'll get to those
next here on Twin City's News Talk Am eleven thirty
(08:23):
and one oh three five FM. Good morning, and I
love your show. Archaeologists in Utah found a still coarked
bottle of alcohol they believe was some sort of sherry
(08:43):
or beer dated between eighteen seventy and eighteen ninety, one
hundred and fifty years old. So one of the crews
of the local distillery do and I suppose these guys
are experts, right. They used a needle, they extracted the liquid,
and then they drank it. Said that it surprisingly held up.
(09:05):
What kind of you buzz do you get from one
hundred and fifty year old alcohol. Let's go to the
iHeart Radio app before we dive into the Supreme courtal
oral arguments relating to the drunkards that apparently were our
founding fathers.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Good morning John.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
When it comes to that bottle of lequor, have you
ever seen the movie Leviabo? Yes, yeah, I don't think
I'm taking a swig off any liquor that I don't
know precisely where it came from.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
I'm so glad you brought that up because I knew
when I was writing my jokes. I mean, okay, listen,
it's a stretch to call those jokes. I did write
them down, though I didn't make notes my Captain Morgan,
this could be a superhero or villain story. I knew
I was drawing from something, and that's what I was
drawing from. I had just watched levi Oh within the
(10:02):
past year. That movie's in my wheelhouse because it was
part of three different films, the biggest one being The Abyss,
and my brother worked in special effects at the time.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Going back to the nineties, he worked on The Abyss.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I don't know if he worked on Leviathan, but I
know he worked on the other movie that was like it,
which was Deep Star six. So if you're ranking those
films in terms of quality, it starts with The Abyss,
then goes to Leviathan, which is really just sort of
a campy science fiction film, and then it gets even
camp here when it comes to Deep Star six. But
(10:42):
I'm glad that you brought that up because I knew
I was drawing upon something, and that's exactly what I
was drawing upon. Spoiler alert for that movie, they end
up finding a I think it's a bottle of Russian
vodka on board a ship and it ends up turning
him into an underseat creature. Yeah, you know, I yeah,
you know what. I'm on the right page, But now
I am.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You're fascinating to talk to.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Thanks all right, So, Justice Neo gorsic oral arguments exploring
what a habitual drunkard is. Part of the case surrendering
a centered around a drug user and whether or not
they're allowed to own a gun. The DOJ, as I mentioned,
was required to point to a strong historical comparison to
(11:24):
prove the modern law was constitutional, and it shows the
Founding era laws about habitual drunkers. Gorsicic said, the American
Temperance Society back in the day, they said eight shots
of whiskey a day only made you an occasional drunkard.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Eight shots of whiskey a day.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
The Conservative Justice also appointed to the Founding Father's drinking
habits to convey his skepticism about the DOJ's argument that
habitual drunkard was similar to a modern day drug user
and that both were worthy of being disarmed. Gorsuch said
John Adams took a tankard of hard cider with his
(12:14):
breakfast every day. James Madison reportedly drank a pine of
whiskey every day. Thomas Jefferson said he wasn't much of
a user of alcohol. He only had three or four
glasses of wine a night.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
So here's the question that I have.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
If anybody knows the answer, brought me a email Justice
at iHeartRadio dot com or leave a talkback on the
iHeartRadio app, Like what was the alcohol content back then?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
For Like what was the percentage?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Like I have no baseline of which to even venture
a guess, Like we're the alcoholic beverages that I just
mentioned as strong as they are today and of potency.
If you know, leave a talkback. I know we have
a lot of smart friends of the show out there.
(13:07):
Or if you're a foe of the show and you
want to let me know the quality of alcohol and
how hard it was compared to what it is today.
Gorsch went on to say, are they habitual drunkards who
would be properly disarmed for life under your theory?
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So the case is us versus.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
HALMANI centered on a Texas man who had been charged
after the FBI discovered he possessed a handgun and smoked
marijuana every day. The law at issue nine two to
two G three gained national attention under Biden's son Hunter,
who was convicted under it for possessing a gun in
(13:51):
twenty eighteen while addicted to crack cocaine.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
So that's an interesting note.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
There's crack can make you act any differently?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Now? Is it shafer than alcohol? Probably?
Speaker 3 (14:06):
The DOJ argue the man Ali Hamani or Hamiani illegally
owned the gun while a habitual user of marijuana, and
that he was rightfully charged for to the Second Amendment
advocates are closely watching the case, as I mentioned before,
the National Rifle Association and the Gun Owners of America,
and I do believe I need to look it up,
but I'm pretty sure the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus was
(14:28):
commenting on this as well in support of Hamioni, while
several Democratic states are backing the DOJ in the case,
setting up strange alliances in a test of what exceptions
to gun ownership are allowed by law. To a few
of your thoughts from the iHeartRadio this morning.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
As a two ay supporter.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
I guess I have no problem with people periodically smoking
a joint while owning a gun, since many people who
carry will enjoy a glass of wine with dinner. Problem
lies in the fact that there's no moderation with pod use.
It's all or nothing with the omnipresent stench of skunk weed.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It's ironic.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
Many of my progressive friends have mysteriously discovered the Second
Amendment recently, even while remaining high ninety percent of the time.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
That is untenable. Oh, I completely disagree with that.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
There's absolutely moderation within THHC usage and levels of which
one can be inebriated using products containing THHC. It's not like, yeah,
there's varying degrees, just like there is with alcohol. Now
there's no good way to measure currently. This is one
(15:45):
of the difficulties of law enforcement's been coming under. But no,
I completely disagree with that there are absolutely varying degrees
of which an individual could be high, is what I'm
trying to say.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Puny John say.
Speaker 8 (15:57):
I don't know if anybody else who's mentioned this yet
or not, but the active ingredient in alcohol is a
tox and that the yeese produces that actually writeses at
such a level it becomes toxic to other bacteria. And
it even eventually killed the east itself, which is why
wine can last for centuries. And that and she'll be
(16:18):
drinkable all right, thanks by.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
A friend of the show, pack to the rescue. What
an answer of the level of alcohol going back into
the seventeen and eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Hey, John pat front of the show.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
In the seventeen hundreds, the alcoholic content of beer ranged
from about four to fifteen percent, depending on the type,
and wine was usually around eight percent to fifteen percent,
and beer was consumed more wildly than beer.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
And again all the alcohol back then.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
Was consumed because of the water, where you could get
like typhus, a dysentery from the water.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
So that's why they drank more alcohol back then. Talk
to you later, bye, Thank you so much for that.
So it was.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Less alcoholic than our bever just today to varying degrees.
Speaker 10 (17:05):
Coome on to John Dale and Princeton. I'm on my
third reincarnation now, and way back in the seventeen hundreds.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
By the way, was I the only one that's held
in the Blanke when he said I'm on my third.
I was waiting for him to say some alcohol. Okay, yeah, Devin,
shaking his head. You were waiting for that too.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I'm on my third shot at tequila for your show
this morning.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
Dale.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
My apologies.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
That's a really, really bad impersonation of you, and you
are one of my favorite friends of the show, so
I mean absolutely no disrespect.
Speaker 10 (17:37):
Whiskey and the rum and the wine and everything like
that only had about one percent alcohol, so we could
drink a lot of it and not even have any
ill effects from it outside of, you know, having another
glass full. Anyway, great show, keep it up, Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Well what fun is that? And sell like like much fun?
All right? Coming up.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Senate Republicans closed ranks yesterday, handing Trump a win on
his use of force in Iran despite lingering questions about
America's involvement in the Middle East. I have those clips
of Marco Rubio to share with you as well. The
majority of voters right now are backing Operation Epic Fury.
There is one thing, in my view that will change voters' minds.
(18:25):
I will let you know what that is next. We'll
get some more of your thoughts as well from the
iHeartRadio app coming up on twin City's News Talk AM
eleven thirty and one oh three five FM. What do
you think based on the weather, I think it's safe
for me to switch out the floor mats in the car.
(18:47):
I've got the weather Tech ones in there right now.
I used to wrap the floor mats well on the
other in Junior the old Kia and for Monty new
Que that's his name, by the way, I got the
weather Tech ones, but I want to get the original
ones back in.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
I think I'm safe now.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
You're all gunked up with the snow when it was
all dirty.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Leave me a talkback.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Trying to City's News Talk A'm eleven thirty one oh
three five FM. Al right, Operation epic Fury in just
a moment. I do want to get to a handful
of your comments or your talkbacks from iHeartRadio, brought to
you by Lyndall Realty.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Hey, I'm on my third gummy for the day.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Don't have a gun, but I'd much rather have a
gun stone than have a gun drunk.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Okay, we need to find a way to rhyme that,
and you could almost have like a twenty twenty sixth
version of I'd rather have a bottle in front of
me than have to have a frontal lobotomy.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
John On, All these guys are just making stuff popper wise,
But I remember reading history books the moonshine from back then,
even you know, one hundred years ago gol blind from
a kazu or so much alcohol and impurities and whatever
in it. So I don't know if they had any
way of measuring it back then like we do now.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Yeah, I had a friend of the show Dennis had
emailed and did a Google search too, talking about how
verified bottle labels from eighteen seventy, for example, rare Jack
Daniels whiskey in that era was generally sold at a
higher proof than the modern eighty proof forty percent ABV.
(20:39):
In the late nineteenth century, it was common for Tennessee
whiskey to be sold in the ninety to one hundred
proof forty five to fifty ABV before it was eventually
standardized to lower proofs in the twentieth century. You're not
the only one to point this out, by the way,
the discrepancy between the other talkbacks.
Speaker 11 (21:00):
I just asked Google Jem and I what was the
percentage of alcohol by volume? And drinks are like rum
brandy and whiskey in the days of our founding fathers,
and the answer was forty five percent alcohol by volume,
which is ninety proof.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Okay, thank you for the updates, by the way, and
thank you to the foes of the show who apparently
are taking a thirty day sabbatical from the show, and
they're doing so by leaving talkbacks and telling me how
they're listening.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
We won't miss you, but I appreciate the update.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Senate Republicans close ranks yesterday shooting down the resolution by
Senator Tim Kaine aimed at limiting Trump's military actions in Iran,
following days of speculation about whether Republicans would cross the
aisle as they have done before to reprimand.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
As the president only.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Senator Ran Paul of Kentucky favored the resolution and voted
as such. Boy, he's been a disappointment, Senator John Fetterman
for the lone Democrat to cross the aisle in support.
What world are we living in? The Majority of voters
are backing Operation Epic Fury. However, that will not remain
(22:21):
if the operation goes on for too long a period
of time. Now, I want to address this coming up
in just a moment here on Twin City's News Talk.
But first I want to share with you a couple
of clips. Marco Rubio, who's just absolutely been stellar in
all of the press conferences that he's been conducting.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
The entirety of the administration has been stellar on this.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
But laying out specifically why we're in the middle of
this operation Pete Hegseth yesterday laying out in detail the
success of the operation so far. Again just so incredibly
proud of the right. Now, I do want to start
with a clip going back to twenty fifteen, however, from
Marco Rubio. This was then Senator Rubio and resurfaced yesterday.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
He called Iran's.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Playbook perfectly and this was eleven years ago.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Give a listen to this. Love this deal have already
been said.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I do want to be recorded for history's purposes before
I know what was going to happen in regards to this.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
If it goes through, Iran.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Will immediately use the money that it's receiving and sanctioned
relief to begin to build up its conventional capabilities.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
It will establish the.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Most dominant military power in the region outside of the
United States, and it will raise the price of US
operating in the region.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
They're going to build anti.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Access capabilities, rockets capable of destroying aircraft carriers and ships,
continue to build these swift boats that are able to
come on us, these fast boats that are able to
swarm our naval assets, and they'll make it harder and
harder for.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
US troops to be in the region. They'll also work.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
With other terrorist groups in the region target American servicemen
and women, and they may or may not deny that
they're involved, but they will target us and raise the
price of our presence in the Middle East until they
hope to completely pull US out of that region. The
laws will continue to build long range missiles this was
capable of reaching the United States. Those are not affected
by the steal, and they will continue to build them
(24:18):
as they've been doing. And then at some point in
the near future, when the time is ripe, they will
build a nuclear weapon. And they will do so because
at that point they will know that they have become immune,
that we will no longer be able to strike their
nuclear program because the price of doing so will be
too high. This is not just the work of imagination.
It exists in the world today. It's called North Korea,
(24:39):
or a lunatic possesses dozens of nuclear weapons and a
long range rocket that can already reach the United States,
and we cannot do anything about it. An attack on
North Korea today would result in an attack on Tokyo
or Soul, or Guam, or Hawaii or California. And so
the world must now live with a lunatic in possession
of of nuclear weapons. And this is the goal Iran
(25:01):
has as well, to reach a point where they become
immune to any sort of credible military threat because the
price of a military strike.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Would be too high.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
And then they become an established nuclear weapons power. And
never in the history of the world has such a
regime ever possessed weapons so capable of destruction. Iran is
led by a Supreme leader who is a radical Shiah
cleric with an apocalyptic vision of the future. He is
not a traditional geopolitical actor who makes decisions on the
(25:32):
basis of borders or simply history or because of ambitions.
He has an apocaly religious, apocalyptic vision of the future,
one that calls for triggering a conflict between the non
Muslim world and the Muslim world, one that he feels
especially obligated to trigger, and he's going to possess nuclear weapons.
This is the world that we are on the verge
(25:52):
of leaving our children to inherit, and perhaps we ourselves
will have to share in it. And so I want
to be recorded for history's purposes of nothing else to
say that those of us who opposed this deal understood
where it would lead, and we are making a terrible mistake.
And I fear that a passage of this deal will
make it even harder for us to prevent it. And
I hope that there's still time to change our minds.
(26:13):
But here's the good news. Iran may have a supreme leader,
but America does not. In this nation, we have a republic,
and soon we'll have new leaders, perhaps in this chamber,
but also in the executive branch. And I pray that
on their first day in office, they will reverse this
steal and reimpose the sanctions and back them up with
a credible threat of military force, or history will condemn
(26:33):
us for not doing what needed to be done at
this critical moment in the world's history.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
How yield the floor?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And again that was then Senator Mark Ruby eleven years ago,
and he laid out exactly what ended up transpiring over
the course of those eleven years. Now, President Donald Trump's
military operation is popular with around sixty percent of likely voters.
This is according to a survey that was released earlier
this week. The poll suggests that most of American of
(27:02):
the American public alignce with Trump's messaging on Operation Epic
Theory and is on board with adjoined US Israeli mission
to wipe out the authoritarian regime. The poll shows that
fifty six percent of likely voters support the United States
taking out the Iranian leadership, sixty three percent agree with
targeting the Iranian nuclear and baddistic missile sites. Nearly seventy
(27:25):
percent of respondence, meanwhile, agree with the Trump administration's argument
that Iran is a threat to global peace and democracy,
and seventy six percent agree that if Iran built a
nuclear weapon, it would pose a direct threat to the
United States. The results are flying in the face of
Democrat Party talking points, which has been why you've seen
(27:46):
the Democrats, apart from the War Powers resolution, which everybody
knew was going to fail yesterday, why they've been so
hesitant to go and take a strong stance on this
all Still while condemning the President for taking military action
against Irani without congressional approval, but even that has fallen flat.
And just to really simplify this, people underestimate the fact that,
(28:09):
regardless of party and Trump Derangement syndrome aside, as part
of our American culture, we love blowing stuff up.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I don't think I can put it any more plainly.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
We love the American mite of our military and we
love blowing stuff up. Now, the flip side to this
is it can't go on forever. The administration has said
that it's not going to The operation will come to
an end. They're hoping in four to five weeks, depending
on how things transpire. And that needs to happen because,
(28:50):
as we saw with Operation Iraqi Freedom between two thousand
and three and twenty eleven, you had a public on
board until they weren't. You had a me that got
tired and was running out of ways to go and
cover Operation Iraqi Freedom. And we all know the results
of that endo becoming incredibly unpopular. Wherein in the onset
(29:11):
it was certainly more popular than what it ended up being.
All indications so far seemed to be, however, that this
is not going to be a protracted, lengthy conflict. The
other big news item yesterday of note is that the
Kurds from Iraq are now apparently coming in on the
ground and may be aided by us in order to
(29:33):
help further the transition of this authoritarian regime in Iran,
which again is still on the brink of collapse. So
we'll continue to keep you updated throughout the morning of
any further breaking news we're regarding Operation Epic Fury. I
want to go back to a couple of different things.
First off, friend of the show Pat who let the
(29:53):
talk back earlier which caused a bit of clarification regarding
the alcohol content of hard alcohol going back to the
seventeen and eighteen hundreds. She was referring to and looking
up beer and wine specifically, not hard alcohol, which is
we've seen now via email and from the talkbacks and
(30:15):
people have shown that yes, it was incredibly hard alcohol
back then the drunkards that were our founding fathers, based
off of the Supreme Court to Justice of Gorsic in
that in that testimony. The other thing I wanted to mention,
and I want to get to a few of your thoughts,
is that I opened up a can of worms with
my format discussion. All right, we'll go to a few
(30:39):
of your talkbacks.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Great is Jauff talking about the switch in the summer floormats.
Now we're gonna get about twelve inches next week.
Speaker 10 (30:48):
Thanks John.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
All right, listen, if that happens, it is all my fault.
I firmly, I firmly admit that I will take I
will take blame if we end up getting any significant snow.
Speaker 12 (31:02):
Morning John, This is TJ from Northside. I'm also a
fellow Southern Californian transplant in Minnesota and an avid Kia representative.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Nice for Kia owner.
Speaker 12 (31:13):
I go through the same struggle you do with my formats.
That is hilarious. Keep up all the hard work.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I just hate having a dirty car.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
I cannot stand having a dirty car interior and exterior.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
And yet I refuse to go and buy a subscription
to a car wash. What kind of fool of mine?
Speaker 13 (31:32):
No, No, John, he don't you're gonna jinx it.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
It's only March. You gotta get through April May.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Still, you know I felt a little uh diss in
that talk back, just a little tiny.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Bit, John.
Speaker 13 (31:52):
You must resist the temptation to completely convert your car
to the spring summer mode. The only thing than those
kind of uh icky looking weather texts right now is
a when you can wash them again. But b those
new mats. They need to say pristine the entire summer. Yeah,
I'd hold off till May first, as hard as that is.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Just do it. You won't regret it. You know the
problem that I have with the formats. You don't.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
But I'm going to tell you so. I'm not that tall.
I'm about six feet maybe a little bit over depending.
My wife will argue with me on that, by the way,
But the way I position my feet, I always end
up with like a rub mark at one little spot
for the gas pedal and Devin shaking his head.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
He happens to you too.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Hate that they need to really reinforce it. But I
don't like buying aftermarket formats either.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
I want them to be the ones for.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
The car, which is partly the reason why I don't
like the weather texts in there. They're really effective. You're right,
you can clean them.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
I just.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
In case you hadn't noticed, in very particular about my automobiles.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
John, you must resist the temptation. I think I played
him already. My apologies going John.
Speaker 14 (33:00):
I am sorry to inform you, but you absolutely need
to leave the weather techs in your car at least
until the end of April. Snow is not over. It
always snows in April and then you have all the
spring mud it. So please leave your weather tech mats
in your car. Thanks everyday.
Speaker 15 (33:19):
Good morning, John, Darryl from southern Minnesota. Hey Daryl, I'm
a little bit of a stickler when it comes to
my maths. I like a nice and clean They make
a product called gloss dressing makes them things look like
brand new. Keep them in your around, keep your car
looking good, smelling good, enjoy your ride.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
That's what it's all about, all right.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Getting back to I got a quick one here regarding
alcohol usage.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
Goring, John, there's an easy way to find out about
the alcohol content during your revolutionary War times. Just go
to the current sources. Nancy Pelosi, wasn't she or around during
the Revolutionary War? Or how about eoc the bartender. You
should know what the alcohol content is and if all scales,
(34:08):
there's always Maxine Waters.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
All right.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
On the subject of operation epic theory, You're.
Speaker 16 (34:16):
Right, John, we do love blowing stuff up have you
watched any of the videos from Operation Epic Fury.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
God, it's just bada.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Oh, it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
My favorite one so far is our submarine that ended
up dispatching apparently what was Iranian's prized ship. The footage
on that was incredible. I saw a meme overnight. It
made me laugh because I'm a huge one for Red
October fan, both of the book and the film, and
(34:51):
the meme was essentially it was the Jim Carrey from
Liar Liar where he takes the sip of water and
he goes come on and the water spills everywhere, and
it was He's like, this is the view of the
members of our military that ended up joining our military
to work on a submarine in the wake of watching
humph for Red October after seeing and retiring and now
(35:15):
watching one of our submarines go and blow up on
Iranian ship.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Yeah, oh they're pretty awesome. It's pretty awesome footage. And
when you're watching.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Those those that footage online, by the way, and you
ever have any questions, because there's a lot of misinformation
that's going around right now regarding the footage is being released,
and a lot of fake footage make sure you do
a double check on it. I watched one yesterday where
somebody was trying to claim that we were blowing up
drawings of F fourteen's on the ground in Iran, and
(35:45):
it was completely debunked.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Yeah, you just said it, John. This thing's got a
half life to it and a point of diminishing returns,
and that's probably in about five or six days, honestly,
because there's a lot, lot, lot of damage being done
to the infrastructure and at least Tehran, probably the ports.
(36:11):
So we got to get it done pretty quick and
then hopefully we stopped before everybody free.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Now I listen, I give it a much longer lifetime
before opinions begin to change. The Trump administration has established
upfront that Trump even said five weeks, and I think
that's on the long end. And because of that, I
think the baseline has been has been set. The standard's
been set because the concern here is not Democrats. The
concern here is Republicans, and Republicans will grow tired of
(36:40):
this evidence of extending beyond the standard of which the
administration has has set. Five weeks, you know, two months,
I think is an acceptable amount of time to go
on longer than that or of boots on the ground
situation that would end up becoming a negative for a
lot of voters and even you know myself included. I
(37:02):
don't want to see to get into any protracted engagement,
any lengthy engagement. Let's get this done. Let's let the
Iranian people step up. Let's have a new leader step
up in Iran to take over and remove this tyrannical regime.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Let's wrap on this.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
This is the other clip I had for Marco Rubio,
once again laying out in detail why Operation Epic Fury exists.
And then coming up just after the top of the hour,
we will dive into the Oversight Committee hearing on fraud
in which Governor Tim Walls and Keith Ellyson testified. A
lot of commentary and a lot of audio to share
here on Twin City's News Talk Listen.
Speaker 17 (37:37):
Let me explain to you guys this in simple English, okay.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Iran is run.
Speaker 17 (37:41):
By lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics. They have an ambition to
have nuclear weapons. They intend to develop those nuclear weapons
behind a program of missiles and drones and terrorism that
the world will not be able to touch them for
fear of those things, and this is the weakest they've
ever been.
Speaker 13 (37:56):
Now is the time to go after them.
Speaker 17 (37:57):
The President made the decision to go after them. Take
away their missiles, take away their navy, take away their drones,
take away their ability to make those things so that
they can never have a nuclear weapon. That's why the
President made this decision. It was the right decision and
the world will be a safer place when these radical
clerics and a lot of them have access to these weapons.
You see how they're using them now, Imagine how they
would use them a year from now they had more
(38:18):
of these.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
I'm an optimistic person. I'm not hysterical.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by Audiochuck Media Company.
Betrayal Season 5
Saskia Inwood woke up one morning, knowing her life would never be the same. The night before, she learned the unimaginable – that the husband she knew in the light of day was a different person after dark. This season unpacks Saskia’s discovery of her husband’s secret life and her fight to bring him to justice. Along the way, we expose a crime that is just coming to light. This is also a story about the myth of the “perfect victim:” who gets believed, who gets doubted, and why. We follow Saskia as she works to reclaim her body, her voice, and her life. If you would like to reach out to the Betrayal Team, email us at betrayalpod@gmail.com. Follow us on Instagram @betrayalpod and @glasspodcasts. Please join our Substack for additional exclusive content, curated book recommendations, and community discussions. Sign up FREE by clicking this link Beyond Betrayal Substack. Join our community dedicated to truth, resilience, and healing. Your voice matters! Be a part of our Betrayal journey on Substack.