July 1, 2025 • 59 mins
In episode 192 I discuss various current events and personal reflections. I cover the 2025 NATO Summit, highlighting key outcomes like increased defense spending and support for Ukraine, while also offering critical commentary on U.S. financial contributions and Ukrainian leadership. Then I transition to military technology, discussing the B-2 Stealth Bomber and its successor, the B-21 Raider, in the context of a recent bombing mission in Iran. Furthermore, the podcast explores P. Diddy's ongoing legal issues, including his racketeering and sex trafficking trial, and connects them to the mysterious death of Anne Heche. Finally, it concludes with a sports anecdote and a personal "quote of the week" from the host's uncle.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
I make money when talk.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
When I'm talk, I'm a boss.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Take a lot.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
This Hey, is the Soapbox Champion Podcast?
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Welcome to this dog and Pony show I call the
Soapbox Champion Podcast. It's episode one ninety two. It's Tuesday,
July first, twenty twenty five. My name is Craig Delaney.
Is it horse and Pony show? Or is it dog
and pony? Both of them sound right, and both of
them sound ridiculous. I feel like I'd rather go to
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a dog and pony show. If you get sick of
the dogs, you can always go watch the horses and
vice versa, you know, And why would why would they
combine the two during a show? What is this? Four
h But I don't know, I don't know. Hey, how
are you guys? I'm all right, I'm good. A lot
(01:20):
going on. There's always a lot going on, you guys.
I got uh. This is gonna be a hell of
a podcast. It's gonna be a heck of an episode.
You're don't talk about war? A lot?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Okay? Not just that? But a lot? And how you
and I are responsible for it? We're paying for it.
The twenty twenty five NATO Summit took place June twenty
fourth and the twenty fifth in the Hague, Netherlands, making
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the first time the Netherlands hosted a NATO summit. It
was chaired by NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta, a former
you have to say it like that, it's your duty,
a former Dutch Prime minister, and attended by heads of
state and government from the thirty two NATO member countries,
along with leaders from partner nations including New Zealand and
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Japan in the European Union. Approximately nine thousand people attended,
including forty five heads of state, forty five foreign ministers,
forty five defense ministries, six thousand delegates in two thousand
journalists and one special guest. And we'll get to that
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in a minute. What are some of the highlights, Well,
the allies agreed to a new benchmark to invest five
percent GDP annually on defense by twenty thirty five, with
three point five for core military requirements in one point
five percent for defense related areas like infrastructure, cyber security.
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This was a significant I look, I don't like NATO.
It should be disbanded. I'm saying this as a US
taxpayer and a US citizen. I don't like it, and
it should be disbanded or no, there's no ore, it
just should be it's a stupid thing now and won't
get to that too. But since it does exist and
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we're not properly and rightfully represented in our country, it
exists and this is how it goes. There was a
significant increase from the previous two percent target, and that
was driven by our own US President Donald Trump as
he pushes for fair contribution, which he deserves credit for
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this big time, as the US currently contributes sixty five
percent of the NATO's defense budget. The agreement was seen
as a diplomatic win for RUTA and a victory for Trump,
though some countries like Spain, initially resisted and there was
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a debate over the timeline twenty thirty versus twenty thirty five.
When you're talking about that that many dollars, what's five
years huh. NATO reaffirmed its unwavering support for Ukraine amid
Russia's ongoing aggression. Decisions included continued security assistants, with the
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UK announcing three hundred and fifty advanced air defense missiles
for Ukraine, which will be used up in two days
funded by well and you they get it's the figures
in pounds, but it equals ninety six million, fifty four
five dollars and sixty cents US from frozen Russian assets
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that are still floating around there in our hands for
some reason. I don't believe that's legal, never have. I
take it some sort of war crime. I don't know,
but I don't like it. I don't like Russia either,
but that's stealing. I don't know. It's a weird thing.
Bilateral meetings included between Trump and President of Voladamir Zelensky
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from Ukraine. Then it addressed Ukraine's defense needs. I think
that's been addressed to death. I'm done with it. The
NATO Summit Defense Industry Forum on June twenty fourth focused
on boosting the defense production and innovation. Allies discussed strengthening
transatlantic cooperation, expanding production lines, and integrating Ukraine and the EU.
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In these efforts, NATO released an updated Deficient Defense Production
Action Plan, Commerce Space Strategy and Rapid Adoption Action Plan
to enhance capabilities. The Hague Summit Declaration reaffirmed NATO's commitment
to collective defense under Article five, addressing threats like Russia's
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actions and terrorism. Okay, you're addressing those threats, but you're
not addressing the threats correctly. Those aren't threatening any NATO member.
It's you know what I'm saying. Ukraine is not a
NATO member, you guys. Okay. Despite earlier concerns about Trump's
stance on Article five, the final agreement solidified NATO's unity
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on Ukraine. The NATO Public Forum, which is a water
down and a deceptive version, was held alongside the Summit.
Of This event, co organized by NATO, the Dutch government
and civil society groups like the Hague Center for Strategic Studies,
engaged five hundred politicians, experts, journalists, and youth and discussions
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on NATO's policies. It was live streamed on NATO's YouTube
and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs channels. Some other
side events that took place around NATO, there's a dinner
hosted by the Dutch King and Queen, bilateral meetings like
the one in trump Zelensky. Turkish president also met with
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Trump while they were there. The summit also addressed that
Israel Iran conflict is that what we're calling it, though
no formal plans were made to discuss it extensively. Of course,
there was drama around the event. On June twenty first
through the twenty second, a counter summit coalition for Peace
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and Justice protested in the Hogue. The Hague sorry against
NATO's militarization, increased defense spending. In Israel's actions in Gaza,
hundreds demonstrated, citing concerns over global insecurity and the climate crisis.
Strange that they did that days before the actual summit
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and not on the days of the summit. The summit,
held at the World Forum, saw significant security measures, including
road closures, airspace restrictions, and a heightened police presence, impacting
travel in the Hague, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The airport reduced
flight capacity by almost thirty percent. The Netherlands terrorism threat
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level remained quote unquote substantial, with concerns about loan actors
attacking and cyber attacks. UH The summit was streamlined to
focus on defense spending and avoid controversy. Of course, it
would be reflecting or reflecting NATO's effort to maintain unity
amid geopolitical tensions, particularly with Russia, and uncertainties about US
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commitment under Trump. It was there they're concerned because they
might lose all that funding. They can be skimmed off,
oven and washed and redistributed. It was hailed as a
success for reinforcing NATO's strength and cohesion. The money's still
rolling in boys, that's what it's about. And here's a
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little NATO propaganda for you from their multimedia website that
I had to jump through hoops to get access to.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
It's two in the morning, a peaceful night.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
The city is asleep.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Not much happening here, and there's a reason for that,
because it's all happening here.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
At this very moment. Thousands of soldiers are on watch,
deployed to battlegroups and working around the clock. Dozens of
fighter jets are standing by, ready to launch within minutes
of alert. Naval fleets patrol the seas, guarding our territory
above and below the waves. We live in uncertain.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Times, we can rest assured that our way of life
is protected. NATO has kept us safe for seventy six
years and counting. As we face growing security threats, the
Alliance is rising to the challenge. We are taking action
now to make NATO stronger. We will need more resources, forces,
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and capabilities so that we remain prepared to face any
threat and can pave the way towards a more peaceful future.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
They need more of your money so that you can
sleep good. Guys. Okay, you understand that going forward, we're
going to need a little bit more money and shake
you down a little bit harder so that you don't
have to worry when you sleep at night in you're home. Ah,
are all those assets standing by for you and me
here in the US? Like, would they be deployed around
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the globe to protect me here in southern Indiana? You know? Is? Uh?
Probably not? You know, I've always thought of NATO as
a form of a kind of supplemental insurance provided by
the United States, you know, seeing a sixty five percent
of NATAL funding is provided by the US. We provide more,
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but do the heavy lifting. Is that how NATO works.
It's one of the reasons it should be disbanded. I also, uh,
it's a red flag when you go to research exactly
how much the United States has contributed to NATO over
the years, and every piece of info starts with something
that sounds like while there is no exact total, et cetera,
et cetera, or the one that pisses me off. Quote.
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While the US spend approximately four point seven billion dollars,
this is just a fraction of its total defense spending end. Quote.
That's like saying, uh, yeah, we got four point seven
billion of their dollars, but they've got plenty of money. No,
they don't. They don't have any money. Our government doesn't
have any money. It's my money, and I don't want
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you NATO to have it. Uh. NATO has an extensive
library of multimedia eclips and soundbites from the NATO summits,
but individual nations contributions get a little murky when you
go dig in around the money part. Uh, I need receipts,
you guys, I want receipts. I want to know exactly
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where our dollars are going. And there's nothing wrong with that.
And what the hell was Zelenski doing there this year?
Like he's not had meetings with them before. Did he
have to go to the NATO summit? Was it just
a piss putin off? You know, the whole world, including
Russia saw him arrive and walk in as if he
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was a member. Ukraine is not a member of NATO,
not a paying member. The US is allocated approximately one
hundred and eighty two point eight billion dollars in emergency
funding for Ukraine and related regional support through December this
past year, and now it seems like they've been discussing
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how much aid if any. Remember Ukraine is not a
member that NATO will be providing, which remember the United
States currently provides sixty five percent of the US You know,
then it's a big deal. So I don't agree with
the amount of support we've provided Ukraine already and since
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the beginning, and now they will get even more US
dollars by proxy of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization crap.
US taxpayers are getting robbed blind every day. Remember, no
matter if you're talking about Ukraine spending, NATO funding or
Hunter Biden's crack addiction, the US government has no money
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of its own, zero, it has zero money. All of
it is tax dollars. The money that is involuntary held
from your paycheck is all the money they have, and
you and I have virtually no say where it goes.
It's wild. We need to start paying more attention to
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where our money goes, or more accurately, we need to
start caring where our tax dollars go and vote accordingly.
There are thirty two NATO member countries, and Zelensky was
there to talk to one the United States. You think
he was there begging Estonia for its latest weapons. You
think he wanted help of a North Macedonia to fight Russia. No,
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he was there to talk to Trump about how many
more tax dollars he could get and how many Patriot
missiles he could get before he Israel uses them all up.
It needs to stop unpopular opinion. Zelensky's a dirt bag.
Canceled elections to extend his power beyond normal term, took
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control of all media, TV, print, Internet, closed churches, arrested priests,
beat church members and confiscated church bank accounts, disbanded eleven
political parties and arrested their leaders, kidnapped old men and
teens and forced them to fight Russia. Lied about Ukraine
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casualties during the early part of the war with Russia. Also,
he can't provide any accounting for the hundreds of billions
of dollars US dollars in aid. None of that's on
mainstream media. You gotta find that on your own, and
all of it's true. Anybody remember Gonzalo Ledra Lidra was
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a Chilean American novelist, filmmaker, YouTuber, political commentator. Sounds kind
of like me who gained notoriety now it's definitely not
me for his controversial online presence and became a polarizing
figure during the Russian Ukraine War for content. Accused of
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spreading Russian propaganda. In April twenty twenty two, Leda was
briefly detained by Ukraine's security service in Kharkiv, claiming he
was targeted for his critical videos. He was released without charges,
but instructed not to leave the city or discuss the incident.
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In May of twenty twenty three, the SPU arrested Lidra
at his Kharkiv home for producing and disseminating pro Russian content.
Evidence included videos and data from his phone and computer.
He faced five to eight years in prison under Article
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four to thirty six DASH two related on bail or
released on bail rather sorry. He violated conditions by attempt
to flee Hungry for asylum on July thirty one, twenty
twenty three, and was arrested in Zarkar Pasha Oblast, Ukraine
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as he tried to flee to Hungary. Leder died on
January twelfth, twenty twenty four, in a Kharkiv hospital. He
was only fifty five years old, while in Ukraine in
custody awaiting trial. The official cause, pneumonia, was a handwritten
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note from Liedra citing double pneumonia, pneumo thorax, and severe edema,
alleging medical neglect. The US Department of State and Chile's
Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed his death, offering condolences but
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no further details. Leder acclaimed he was tortured in prison, beaten, sleep, deprived, arms, twisted,
and extorted, paying seventy thousand dollars in bribes and eleven
thousand dollars in bail. His father, Gonzalo Lira Senior, accused
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Ukraine and the US, specifically Zelensky and Joe Biden, of
complicity in his torture, extortion, and incommunicable detention, alleging the
US embassy did nothing. These claims were echoed by Russian
officials and figures like Tucker Carlson who Cares though, who
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called Lira a political prisoner tortured for criticizing Zelensky the US.
I mean, I'm sorry the SBU denied the torture allegations,
of course, stating leader was detained lawfully. He may been
detained lawfully, he didn't die lawfully. And let's not forget
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just how corrupt Ukraine has always been. Since Ukraine's independence
in nineteen ninety one, corruption has been systemic, rooted in
the Soviet era networks and made worse by oligarchs and
political elites. In the two thousands, bribes were common for
public service, with some exceeding one million dollars. Sectors like
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vehicle inspection, police, healthcare courts, and higher education were notably
corrupt Pray two thousand and eight survey. And that's exactly
where a slimeball like Hunter Biden would love to operate,
and he did operate and served on the board of
Barisma in Ukraine. So yeah, let's pump the brakes on
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billions going to Ukraine finally, can we? They aren't the
pillar of democracy there are often portrayed as they're actually
far from it. And remember Israel gave a bunch of
Patriot missiles to Ukraine in twenty twenty four. It's all connected,
you guys, and it's all leading us right to a
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real world War three eventually just amount of time. The
ball's rolling. And don't forget about what Albert Einstein said
about World War three quote I know not what weapons
world War three will be fought, but World War four
will be fought with sticks and stones end quote. That's
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where we're headed. This is just the pregame right now.
Everyone picking sides and making trades and bribing this person
and begging this person and that person, and seeing what
buddies we can hang out with before the real shit
hits the fan. I think maybe everyone is bluffing right now,
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as in this month, to get everyone else to show
their alliances and to show their cards. This is the
Russia thing, in the Ukraine thing, Israel thing in the
Iran thing, all of it. I think they're bluffs. To
review what we're going to do in World War three
if it really happens. I think that's a real possibility.
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And that made me think of that gloriously perfect bombing
mission to Iran last week. The B two stealth bomber
was first introduced into service with the United States Air
Force on January first, nineteen ninety seven, when the first
operational aircraft was delivered to white Man Air Force Base
in Missouri. However, determine its age, you have to consider
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the prototype B two made its maiden flight on July seventeenth,
nineteen eighty nine. I would call the B two thirty
six years old, and it's been shown over and over
again in every form and every type of technology has
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a lifespan and a life cycle of about ten years
before something you know, much much bigger, much more advanced,
takes its place about ten years. Remember the original iPhone,
it was released June twenty nine, two thousand and seven,
the phone that revolutionized cell phone use and the cell
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phone period changed everything forever. And that thing felt like
something that fell from the future. The original iPhone was
released just eighteen years ago. Cell phones have advanced so
much over the last eighteen years. If you think back
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to the original iPhone, it didn't even have three G
the original iPhone, that feels like forty years ago. It wasn't.
The B two is twice as old. Do you really
think the US hasn't developed anything bigger and better since
the B two, Well, they have. The newest stealth bomber
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for the United States Air Force is the North Grumman.
Of course, B twenty one Raider. It's a next generation
long rage strategic stealth bomber designed specifically to replace the
aging B one Lancer which done You Enough Credit and
the B two Spirit bombers, with plans to potentially phase
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out the B fifty two Strati Fortress in the future.
The B twenty one raiders part of the Long Range
Strike Bomber program initiated in twenty eleven to develop a
stealth bomber capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear munitions.
Northrop Grumman won the development contract in October of twenty fifteen,
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beating Boeing Lockheed Martinine. The first public unveiling of the
B twenty one was on December second, twenty twenty two,
at north Grumman's facility at Air Force Plant forty two
and Palmdale, California, during a tightly controlled ceremony. Of course,
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the B twenty one's first flight I was conducted November
tenth of twenty twenty three from Palmdale to Edwards Air
Force Base in California, making a significant milestone, and as
of June of this year, as in just last month,
at least three B twenty one raiders are actively involved
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in a flight test campaign at Edwards undergoing ground evaluation,
taxing trials and flight operations to validate aerodynamic performance, stealth,
cape ability, and the avionics systems you know, work out
all the bugs. Several additional aircraft are in the various
stages of assembly. Could the Iran mission have been a
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farewell to the B two? Not likely. You saw what
it's capable of. But the B twenty one incorporates advanced
stealth that a knowledge Compared to the B two, it
actually surpasses it by a lot. It features reduced radar
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cross section, advanced coatings and materials to evade sophisticated air
defense systems, making it incredibly low observable. Defense Secretary Lloyd
Austin remember that guy who disappeared when he was sick
and didn't tell anybody. He noted that even the most
sophisticated air defense systems will struggle to detect the B
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twenty one in the sky. They already struggle and failed
to detect the B two. It's a flying wing doses
just like the B two. It looks very similar. Think
of it as in its shrinked down a little bit,
and the air intake is different, and it has different engines.
I'm assuming, I don't even know if it's been released yet.
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It's slightly smaller to enhance range as in fuel miles.
You know. It uses advanced materials and propulsion for improved
survivability and reduced maintenance compared to the B two, and
that's key the maintenance costs to aging bombers. The B
twenty one can carry both conventional and nuclear weapons, including
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standoff and direct attack munitions, and is designed for deep
penetration strikes in contested environments, just like the Iran mission.
It's a modular open system and they're calling it MOSA,
a modular Open Systems approach which allows rapid integration of
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new technologies, ensuring you know, quick adaptability as you know,
threat levels, threat types change, or mission types change. I
think that's a good idea and that would definitely lengthen
its lifespan. The B twenty one is designed to operate
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this is This is I think amazing with or without
a human crew, offering flexibility for manned or unmanned missions,
as in it itself could be a weapon holding two
nukes maybe, you know, and we don't lose a crew member.
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The B twenty one uses engines that are similar to
the engines in the F thirty five. It's a Pratt
and Whitney of some kind. I'm not an engine guy
like that, but it's similar to the F thirty five
engine enough that it reduced costs with only having the
service and have parts available for one style as opposed
to a new, brand new engine for the raider. You know,
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just smart too, efficiency. I like it. Speaking of that
mission in Iran, have we seen the proof of destruction yet?
I mean, like proof proof where you're like, okay, there's
still conflicting reports and official statements and conflicting satellite imagery
and intelligence assessments and leaks, and it's uh. President Trump,
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Secretary Defense Pete Hegseth, and CIA director Ratcliffe claimed the
strikes obliterated Iran's nuclear program. The Israel Atomic Energy Commission
stated that the US strike on four to zero destroyed
the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable.
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And by the way that sentence destroyed the site's critical
infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. That's not something
Israel said. That is very American, that is a very
US military sentence destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered
the enrichment facility inoperable, just my opinion, and Israel claimed
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to set back Iran's nuclear weapons capability by many years. Ah,
I don't know the general consensus by people that don't
have a side, you know, neutral parties, or that there
were significant damage to all three facilities, but we're not
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sure if they're obliterated or not. I need again, I
need receipts.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I just, I just do I just. I don't trust
anything now, I don't I don't trust Uh where Israel
and and where the United States said that Iran's nuclear
program was at, you know, checkpoint wise? Where are they
at in this in this enrichment process. I don't trust that,
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especially not now that Israel's beefing with Iran, You know
what I mean. I don't trust it. So I don't know.
I need proof. I don't know. There's a leak US
intelligence assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency, and it was leaked.
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It wasn't released, and I'm not sure it was official,
but it was labeled low confidence that the strikes destroyed
all the core components. I don't know. It was leaked
and the leak itself seemed like an inside job. The
leak itself. I don't even trust that leak, and I
don't trust the report, and I don't trust that it
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was actually leaked. I think that's some kind of trade craft,
some kind of propaganda or spycraft or something like that.
It's weird. The report suggested that Iran moved its stop stockpile.
Oh you know, I don't know. I don't know. That's
the problem. I don't know. And nine bombs, Remember, everyone
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keeps talking about and supposedly the reason real or made
up that we justified the bombing. Iran supposedly had something
that appeared to be nine bombs, nine cylindrical things that
were said to be those are nuclear bombs. I haven't seen.
I haven't seen the evidence. Just being honest, you know,
I don't count the side by side satellite images they
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keep showing us either. I'm not trained to determine anything
by satellite and to me, one image is a different
shade of gray, you know, that's it. What does that mean?
Is what does that mean? It's a different season when
they took that picture dust storm, you know, no idea,
But it doesn't count those pictures don't count so far.
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Seems like George W's Weapons of mass Destruction in Iraq
never got any evidence, never saw it was the Iran
bombing mission of success. Well, it kind of depends on
the truth and what the real mission was. Was it
a successful show of stealth and force. Hell, yes, it was, absolutely.
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It was to the world friend and foe. It showed
that we could reach out and touch anyone in the
middle of the night and you wouldn't know anything was
coming except for it already came and went. And maybe
that was the objective. You know, if someone whispered in
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my ear, someone please whisper this in my ear. If
it's true, maybe that was the objective. And if if
they whispered that in my ear, I'd be like, Okay,
I'm all right with it, you know, to let them know,
let everybody know that the US still got it. And
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I'll tell you something right now, though all kidding, war
is not for me, and nuclear war is on another level.
I watched the documentary over the weekend, and I think
we all say what I just said, Oh, nuclear war
is different. You don't want that, Yeah, you don't want that,
But do you know why you don't want that I
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watched a documentary over the weekend. I know, I know,
this isn't a documentary review podcast, but it can be
and do what I want. I watched the documentary over
the weekend and it was an older one, and I
can't believe I hadn't seen it before. White Light, Black
Rain it's a two thousand and seven documentary directed by
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Steven Okazaki, focusing on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima in
Nagasaki nineteen forty five by the United States. It combines
survivor testimonies, archival footage, and interviews with American and Japanese
perspective to depict the human and material devastation caused by
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the bombs. The film features fourteen Japanese survivors spectacular documentary
and four American servicemen involved in the bombings as in
they were in the planes and that details the immediate horrors,
intense heat as in the white light, blast waves and
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radiation the black rain of radioactive fallout. That's where the
name comes from, and includes graphic accounts and pictures of burns, injuries,
and long term health effects like leukemia and just countless others.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I look roan of the picking rack, then not found.
Then pretty soon the blackness going away. I can probably
go away now then see's sort of a gray and
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moving people.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
That was one of the witness testimonies, and it's loaded
with the witness testimonies. The bombings killed and estimated one
hundred and forty thousand people in Hiroshima and seventy four
thousand in Nagasaki by the end of nineteen forty five,
with many more dying later from radiation related illnesses. The
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documentary emphasizes the unprecedented destruction of nuclear weapons. Watch that documentary, everyone,
I learned about it in school. Of course you talked
about the destruction. Of course, you think you've seen it
depicted in movies, but you haven't. You haven't heard anything
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until you hear it from the survivors, and you haven't
heard anything until you describe. Until the survivors described what
happened to them and what they saw around them, I
couldn't even understand how they were talking about it like
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they were, even after all these years. I couldn't understand
why and how they would talk about it. Nineteen forty five,
Ladies and Gentlemen, technology advances tenfold approximately every ten years.
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Those nuclear bombs were eighty years ago, but it had
to be done right. Drop a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima
and then one on Nagasaki because the destruction of the
military bases there would put a stop to the war. Right.
Hiroshima Nagasaki were chosen as targets due to their industrial
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capacity and the potential for significant psychological impact on the
Japanese leadership. Neither were military targets. One hundred and forty
thousand civilians vaporized in Hiroshima, seventy four thousand civilians vaporized
(37:25):
in Nagasaki. White Light, Black Rain is available on HBO
now and for free and in its entirety on YouTube.
Go watch it and see if that doesn't change the
way you think about war. P Diddy still in the
(37:49):
news still and almost nothing's changed, but might be changing
as we speak. Colmb's faces charges for racketeering, conspiracy, sex
trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and transportation to engage
in prostitution stemming from a federal indictment filed in September
(38:09):
last year. He is pleaded not guilty to all charges.
The trial, which began in May, concluded its evidence phase
after seven weeks. The prosecution. Prosecution rested on June twenty fourth.
Former employees and law enforcement agents were represented part of
(38:32):
thirty four witnesses. Even ex girlfriends are in there. At the defense,
They rested without calling witnesses or having Combs testify, which
was wild. On June twenty six, prosecutors led by Chris Slavic,
argued Combs led a criminal enterprise that coerced women and
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drug fueled sexual performances freak offs, he called them, which
is creepy through intimidation and violence. They presented evidence like
explicit videos, text messages, and witness testimonies of physical abuse
and witness tampering. Prosecutor Maureen Comy emphasized that in Combe's world,
(39:15):
no was never an option. On June twenty seventh, the
defense attorney Mark Agnifilo argued the case was badly exaggerated,
portraying Combs as a flawed man in consensual relationships within
a swinger lifestyle. He claimed the accusations were motivated by money,
(39:39):
citing Ventures twenty this is his ex girlfriend Ventures twenty
million dollars settled lawsuit and denied a racketeering scheme, calling
the trial a farce. The jury, eight men for women
began deliberations yesterday after receiving instructions from the US District
(40:00):
jud Subermanean This was their last name. If convicted, Combs
faces fifteen years to life in prison, possibly on June
twenty fifth. Prosecutors dropped three charges attempt at kidnapping Arson
and aiding sex trafficking to streamline jury instruction, leaving five counts.
(40:25):
The defense moved for acquittal, arguing in sufficient evidence, but
the motion was denied. Prosecutor showed explicit videos and texts
of Combs arranging freak offs and abusing women. Witnesses like
Capricorn Clark, his former assistant, and Maya Ormiya, another assistant,
testified to force labor and intimidation, though the defense argued
(40:49):
they willingly returned to work for Combs. The defense admitted
he physically assaulted Adventurer, but framed it as part of
a consensual, troubled relationship, not try thicking. Cobs was engaged
during the trial, passing notes to lawyers and praising the
judge for doing an excellent job. Cool His family, including
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his twin daughters and mother, attended closing arguments, though his
son Justin was asked to remove a free Shawn Combs
shirt okay. Opinions are divided, but barely Some like John Day,
suggest the racketeering charge is strong due to evidence of
criminal enterprise with Comb's might be cooked on this count
(41:34):
quote unquote. Other notes the defense strategy of highlighting consensual
acts could sway jurors. The trial follows a twenty twenty
three law suit by Cassie Venture settled for twenty million
and raids on Comb's properties in March. The indictmental ledges
a decade long pattern of abuse, including parties involving coerce,
(41:55):
sex and drugs orchestrated by Combs and his staff. A
guilty verdict could lead to a lengthy prison sentence. We'll
find out. I guess the jury's decision is expected seen
as in any minute. It could be today before I
get done here. It could be I was watching the
(42:19):
news kind of. I don't really watch the news. I
just put it on the background while I do stuff.
Unless I'm, you know, digging into something real hard. I
just kind of let it run in the background. But
I heard something referenced that I forgot all about. Remember
(42:39):
the and hash accident August fifth, Going back all the
way to twenty twenty two, and Hash Ellen DeGeneres's ex
girlfriend if you don't know, and an actress on her own,
crashed her Minie Blue Cooper into a two story home
(43:00):
in the mar Vista neighborhood in La The vehicles traveling
at a high rate of speed based on surveillance footage,
causing the car to plow inside of the house and
then erupted in flames. The crash first hit the garage
in an apartment complex, then a parked car before the
(43:20):
final collision in the house. No one in the house
is harmed, but lost most of her possessions due to
the fire. I think firefighters took sixty five minutes to
extinguish the fire and rescue Hash, who was trapped under
the floorboard, complicating initial detection. It took at least forty
(43:42):
five minutes to extract her due to heavy fire and
smoke conditions. Hash sustained severe and noxic brain injury due
to lack of oxygen inhalation and thermal injuries. There were
burns over twelve percent of her body and a sternal
fracture from blunt trauma with a steering wheel busted up
her sternum, and that significantly contributed to her death by
(44:05):
impairing breathing. But if your breathing is impaired, then you
don't inhale as much auction. Okay, I'm getting in the weeds, man,
I'm getting in conspiracy land, and we're already there. Okay.
She also lacerated a right kidney. She was rushed to
a burn center in West Hills in critical condition, requiring
(44:25):
mechanical ventilation surgical intervention for burns, and by August eighth,
she slipped into a coma and was an extreme critical condition.
August eleventh, she was declared brain dead under a California
law which defies defines legal death. She was kept on
life support until August fourteenth to assess organ donation viability
(44:50):
per her wishes. Her organs were successfully matched, and she
was taken off life support, officially passing on August fourteenth,
twenty twenty two. The La County Medical Examiner Coroner ruled
her death an accident caused by nihilation and thermal energies injuries,
with the external fracture as a significant contributing factor. But
(45:16):
all that is fine until you remember the video from
the news helicopter. Keep in mind this was before the
news knew who was in the crash, and they actually
thought it was a guy. This is straight up news.
Helicopter flying right over the scene and watching it all.
(45:38):
This is how they reported it.
Speaker 8 (45:40):
They are up cables to that car, pulled it out.
It's actually in that driveway. And then and then the
driver well La City Fire Department, their paramedics pulled that
driver from that vehicle. We have tape of that, and
then basically had him on a gurney. We weren't sure
what the situation was there on his condition. But then
as he made his way over to the ambulance, you
(46:02):
see it right there, he jumps up out of that gurney.
It was horrific, scary for a moment for everybody watching.
And then the fire department well they had to sate
him and take him to the hospital. Right now, though
the structure is still standing.
Speaker 4 (46:19):
It was wild that video was still online and available
and it appears as though firefighters they had all that time,
but no ambulance was there. I guess there was, but
firefighters I guess because they pulled her from fire They
were the ones that were bringing her out on a
gurney to put in the back of the ambulance, and
(46:41):
as conspiracy. I can go conspiracy at anytime you want
me to, Guys, I can't. There's actually a firefighter that's
online saying we don't we don't put people in body
bags to put in the ambulance as firefighters. We just
don't do that. So and there's a whole conspiracy on
that being in a body bag. I don't believe that
(47:02):
was a body bag. I believe it was a burn bag.
But I don't know. Hey, who am I? Who am I?
Who am I? I don't know. I don't know the hell.
The whole thing is. She was in such bad shape.
But the second before they lifted those front gurney wheels
to go up in the ambulance, the bag comes unzipped
(47:23):
and she sits right up and she looks completely fine
and is trying to get up, and they take her shoulder,
press her back down the gurney, throw her into the ambulance.
That was the end of it. Ah weird too weird
Uh bonus trivia on this. This was Ellen's second X
(47:49):
to die in a car crash. You can look up
her first. Her name was Cat perk Off. It's Kat
and perkof spelled p E. R. Koff. She passed away
in nineteen eighty after fighting with Ellen. They were broken
up but still living together and fighting a lot. Ellen's words,
(48:10):
she said they were living together and fighting a lot.
Perkoff's sisters suspect suspected foul play, and her family alleged
that the two Dedynus and Perkoff were involved in a
violent New Orleans lesbian mafia. True story, but we don't
(48:31):
have time to get onto that one. But do you
want to hear more about that eventually? Let me know
eight one two six one zero nine zero zero five.
Let me a voicemail if you do or do not
want to hear more on that, or email info dot
Soapbox Champion at gmail dot com. And it wasn't long
after the hash craft that the conspiracy started flying around
(48:55):
Ellen and I can't go over all of them because
they'd fill a wheelbarrow, but I'll mention one that seemed
like a thing. At the time, Haysh was working on
a documentary about sex trafficking. It was called The Girl
in Room thirteen, and she alleged she had information on P.
(49:16):
Diddy's involvement. Remember this was in August of twenty twenty two,
long before the official Diddy allegations and charges. What's also
alarming about her death is and Haitian owned Degenerus were
in a romantic relationship from eighty or nineteen ninety seven
to two thousand. Well, Diddy and Ellen always had some
(49:39):
kind of creepy relationship too, if you remember. In twenty sixteen,
Degenerous shared a tweet wishing Diddy a happy birthday, and
she said, happy birthday, p Diddy, puff Daddy Sean Combs
or as I call him, cuddle mcstuggle stuff. You don't
need to know why end quote. Now that tweet alone,
(50:00):
there's absolutely nothing. And she was a comedian, but thrown
on the pile. It could be something. Diddy was on
Ellen's show at one time when a skit didn't come
off as funny as all at all, and it was
awkward as they wanted, I suppose, and then this happened.
Speaker 2 (50:18):
All right, what do you have there?
Speaker 9 (50:20):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (50:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (50:21):
Now?
Speaker 4 (50:21):
Brought for Porsche?
Speaker 8 (50:23):
She's not here.
Speaker 6 (50:25):
He was going to give it to us a gift,
all right, then I'll.
Speaker 5 (50:27):
Say it's mine.
Speaker 8 (50:28):
Yeah, okay, that's sweet.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
Well what not for me?
Speaker 8 (50:35):
Look at that? That's so sweet.
Speaker 5 (50:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (50:37):
How come is pro Porsha not me?
Speaker 4 (50:39):
Because you have her wear it? And all right, we
go so far back.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
I will tell these people how fall back we go.
Speaker 5 (50:50):
I know, but I wear T shirts. I don't know
what that means.
Speaker 4 (50:53):
He sounds drunk anyway. All right, let's say I mean, you.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Know that.
Speaker 8 (50:58):
Of the joke didn't work, I don't want no problem.
Speaker 5 (51:03):
So cherish.
Speaker 4 (51:09):
Okay, you can watch that whole video.
Speaker 5 (51:12):
You can.
Speaker 4 (51:13):
It's everyone online, but you see Diddy step close to
Ellen and whisper quote. I can give them the tape
too if the joke didn't work end quote. Ellen nervously
laughs and says, no, no, it's okay, Okay, I'm gonna
take two of the joke didn't work. I don't want
no problem. And that and the fact that Ellen now
(51:36):
lives in Cottswald, England, United Kingdom with their wife Portie. Okay.
Diddy was officially charged on September sixteenth. De Jenners just
decides to move out of the country six weeks later.
I don't know. It just really seems like there is
something there there. I like to say, she's mean as shit.
(51:59):
Everyone's and now there are just too many strange puzzle
pieces around her. You can even take a few away,
but so many remain. It's just strange. More on that later,
I don't know, We'll see, but right now it's time
for sports. In nineteen ninety two Olympics, Derek Redmond of
(52:28):
Great Britain became a symbol of perseverance, but not by
winning gold or getting a medal, but by finishing last
and away the world would never forget. In the four
hundred meter semifinal, Redmond tore his hamstring midway through the race,
crumbling to the track. He is His dreams of Olympic
(52:49):
glory seems shattered, but instead of quitting, he got up,
limped in agony, Determining to finish what he started. He
hobbled toward the finish line. Then from the stands, his
father broke past security, ran to his son and wrapped
an arm around him, and together they crossed the finish line,
(53:12):
the crowd roaring, not for victory, but for heart, and
that will do it. This week is sports, and this
week's quote of the week it's kind of special to me,
(53:34):
maybe in a good slash bad way. I don't know.
It's by someone I knew and know and love and
have lost. This week's quote of the week is quote
it takes a big dog to weigh a ton end quote.
That was something my uncle Mike said often, and it
(53:55):
was always met with side eyes and glances at each other,
no one knowing exactly what it meant. We knew it
meant something, but when we'd ask him, he would just
wink and repeat the quote. This went on for years
and years amongst aunts, uncles and cousins. Uh. He was
(54:16):
the king of one liners, and he had great ones.
So I figured it's time to find out what the
hell that quote means. So modern problems, you know, require
modern solutions, So I asked Ai, this is the explanation quote.
The phrase takes a big dogged away a ton is
(54:37):
an idiomatic expression that implies it requires someone or something substantial, powerful,
or significant to accomplish a major or impressive task. The
phrase uses the metaphor of a big dog to represent strength, capability,
(54:57):
or importance, and weigh a ton to significant significant signify
something massive or impactful. Essentially, it means that big challenges
or achievements require equally formidable individuals or resources to handle them.
(55:19):
End quote. And it all makes so much sense now,
rest in peace, Uncle Mike. And that wraps up episode
one ninety two of the Soapbox Champion podcast. I know,
I know, I know. No official sugar today. I don't
(55:39):
feel like I don't feel like putting together sugar. I'm
not in a sugar mood because of Uncle Mike. You
know what I mean. It's fine, but I want to
go out on with that. So maybe Uncle Mike's sugar. Okay,
how about that? How about that?
Speaker 2 (55:55):
That?
Speaker 4 (55:55):
That's it. Uncle Mike was sugar this week. Ah. Thanks
for hanging out guys. Any way you do it? Listen
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(56:40):
put the video up earlier. If I can all this
got you feeling depressed or having thoughts of suicide, Well,
first of all, it's not weird and it's not uncommon.
You may just want to talk to someone and you
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call her text anytime at nine eight eight. Just three numbers,
nine eight eight. Take care of yourself in one another.
(57:02):
I'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 9 (57:05):
See, I want everybody to plan look down the road
six months. Yes, your husband lost his job, that's why
you need to sock away some money when he's gainfully employed. Yes,
they foreclosed on your home. That's why you need to
(57:25):
have a network, a community, friends, family members, money, put it.
Speaker 1 (57:30):
But think about the kids.
Speaker 3 (57:32):
Half of African Americans in the state of California, roughly
half Latino families that have no access to a check
account for an ATM.
Speaker 1 (57:38):
Things we take for granted. They don't have a check,
what's wrong with them?
Speaker 3 (57:41):
But well, because they don't, they don't have the resources
to sock those things away. Why do we have a
lot of different reasons, but roughly half those families don't
where they Armenians have them, but where they end up
is check cashing places.
Speaker 5 (57:55):
Why those two groups don't have any A.
Speaker 1 (57:57):
Lot of it just happens to be that we can
talk about.
Speaker 3 (58:00):
No, they're hardly flawed, but their struggling genetics are making
their word hardly not okay.
Speaker 5 (58:05):
So, but do Asians have this problem?
Speaker 1 (58:07):
I mean a lot of communities have a lot of
whites have these problems.
Speaker 5 (58:10):
That's not just black in Hispaniic.
Speaker 3 (58:12):
No, but but because the magnitude is ominous.
Speaker 5 (58:16):
But why so many of them?
Speaker 1 (58:17):
It just happens to be the man to plan not
at all.
Speaker 5 (58:21):
What's happened to the.
Speaker 3 (58:22):
There are a lot of issues, and that the communities
are struggling. A lot of immigrants, a lot of different reasons,
lacks of opportunity.
Speaker 5 (58:30):
Been here longer we've been here.
Speaker 1 (58:32):
Well we can we can, we can surmise.
Speaker 5 (58:33):
What about Asians? They were put in internment camp?
Speaker 3 (58:36):
Yeah, we in fact that all initiated at San Francisco Chinese.
Speaker 1 (58:40):
Exclusion Act came out. Are they.
Speaker 3 (58:43):
A lot of a lot of Asians certainly do because
of them. The only reason why is the magnitude. There's
more the magnitude and percentage.
Speaker 5 (58:54):
But there's no way to figure out how that happens Africa.
Speaker 1 (58:56):
We could talk about you know what I'm dealing with.
I don't want to have a social law. Well here's
wh Why.
Speaker 9 (59:02):
Would you want to do that because the person when
the Times wouldn't write good things about you.
Speaker 5 (59:06):
Could get that.
Speaker 1 (59:06):
Oh no, that's not the case, because I want to
want to get that.
Speaker 5 (59:09):
You want to deal with reality.
Speaker 3 (59:10):
I want to deal with the reality of people that
are struggling. People are suffering. I want to deal with
the problems.
Speaker 5 (59:15):
Why are they struggling.
Speaker 3 (59:16):
I don't want to idea we can hold hands in
surmise about all these uni.
Speaker 5 (59:19):
I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (59:20):
I don't know why they're struggling.
Speaker 5 (59:21):
Why are they struggling.
Speaker 3 (59:22):
A lot of folks are struggling because they can't find
because they're working.
Speaker 5 (59:26):
Why Blacks and Hispanic across the board all.
Speaker 1 (59:28):
Social Okay, so everybody everybody struggling.
Speaker 5 (59:31):
So Asians are suffering just as much.
Speaker 3 (59:33):
As the face of welfare is not an African American.
Speaker 5 (59:37):
Fass Asian Jewish, it's.
Speaker 1 (59:39):
All of them Caucasian. It's a lot of society. A
lot of folks are struggling
I make money when talk.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
When I'm talk, I'm a boss.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Take a lot.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
This Hey, is the Soapbox Champion Podcast?
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Welcome to this dog and Pony show I call the
Soapbox Champion Podcast. It's episode one ninety two. It's Tuesday,
July first, twenty twenty five. My name is Craig Delaney.
Is it horse and Pony show? Or is it dog
and pony? Both of them sound right, and both of
them sound ridiculous. I feel like I'd rather go to
(00:58):
a dog and pony show. If you get sick of
the dogs, you can always go watch the horses and
vice versa, you know, And why would why would they
combine the two during a show? What is this? Four
h But I don't know, I don't know. Hey, how
are you guys? I'm all right, I'm good. A lot
(01:20):
going on. There's always a lot going on, you guys.
I got uh. This is gonna be a hell of
a podcast. It's gonna be a heck of an episode.
You're don't talk about war? A lot?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Is that?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Okay? Not just that? But a lot? And how you
and I are responsible for it? We're paying for it.
The twenty twenty five NATO Summit took place June twenty
fourth and the twenty fifth in the Hague, Netherlands, making
(01:53):
the first time the Netherlands hosted a NATO summit. It
was chaired by NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta, a former
you have to say it like that, it's your duty,
a former Dutch Prime minister, and attended by heads of
state and government from the thirty two NATO member countries,
along with leaders from partner nations including New Zealand and
(02:16):
Japan in the European Union. Approximately nine thousand people attended,
including forty five heads of state, forty five foreign ministers,
forty five defense ministries, six thousand delegates in two thousand
journalists and one special guest. And we'll get to that
(02:37):
in a minute. What are some of the highlights, Well,
the allies agreed to a new benchmark to invest five
percent GDP annually on defense by twenty thirty five, with
three point five for core military requirements in one point
five percent for defense related areas like infrastructure, cyber security.
(03:01):
This was a significant I look, I don't like NATO.
It should be disbanded. I'm saying this as a US
taxpayer and a US citizen. I don't like it, and
it should be disbanded or no, there's no ore, it
just should be it's a stupid thing now and won't
get to that too. But since it does exist and
(03:25):
we're not properly and rightfully represented in our country, it
exists and this is how it goes. There was a
significant increase from the previous two percent target, and that
was driven by our own US President Donald Trump as
he pushes for fair contribution, which he deserves credit for
(03:49):
this big time, as the US currently contributes sixty five
percent of the NATO's defense budget. The agreement was seen
as a diplomatic win for RUTA and a victory for Trump,
though some countries like Spain, initially resisted and there was
(04:11):
a debate over the timeline twenty thirty versus twenty thirty five.
When you're talking about that that many dollars, what's five
years huh. NATO reaffirmed its unwavering support for Ukraine amid
Russia's ongoing aggression. Decisions included continued security assistants, with the
(04:36):
UK announcing three hundred and fifty advanced air defense missiles
for Ukraine, which will be used up in two days
funded by well and you they get it's the figures
in pounds, but it equals ninety six million, fifty four
five dollars and sixty cents US from frozen Russian assets
(05:01):
that are still floating around there in our hands for
some reason. I don't believe that's legal, never have. I
take it some sort of war crime. I don't know,
but I don't like it. I don't like Russia either,
but that's stealing. I don't know. It's a weird thing.
Bilateral meetings included between Trump and President of Voladamir Zelensky
(05:24):
from Ukraine. Then it addressed Ukraine's defense needs. I think
that's been addressed to death. I'm done with it. The
NATO Summit Defense Industry Forum on June twenty fourth focused
on boosting the defense production and innovation. Allies discussed strengthening
transatlantic cooperation, expanding production lines, and integrating Ukraine and the EU.
(05:50):
In these efforts, NATO released an updated Deficient Defense Production
Action Plan, Commerce Space Strategy and Rapid Adoption Action Plan
to enhance capabilities. The Hague Summit Declaration reaffirmed NATO's commitment
to collective defense under Article five, addressing threats like Russia's
(06:10):
actions and terrorism. Okay, you're addressing those threats, but you're
not addressing the threats correctly. Those aren't threatening any NATO member.
It's you know what I'm saying. Ukraine is not a
NATO member, you guys. Okay. Despite earlier concerns about Trump's
stance on Article five, the final agreement solidified NATO's unity
(06:33):
on Ukraine. The NATO Public Forum, which is a water
down and a deceptive version, was held alongside the Summit.
Of This event, co organized by NATO, the Dutch government
and civil society groups like the Hague Center for Strategic Studies,
engaged five hundred politicians, experts, journalists, and youth and discussions
(06:56):
on NATO's policies. It was live streamed on NATO's YouTube
and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs channels. Some other
side events that took place around NATO, there's a dinner
hosted by the Dutch King and Queen, bilateral meetings like
the one in trump Zelensky. Turkish president also met with
(07:19):
Trump while they were there. The summit also addressed that
Israel Iran conflict is that what we're calling it, though
no formal plans were made to discuss it extensively. Of course,
there was drama around the event. On June twenty first
through the twenty second, a counter summit coalition for Peace
(07:42):
and Justice protested in the Hogue. The Hague sorry against
NATO's militarization, increased defense spending. In Israel's actions in Gaza,
hundreds demonstrated, citing concerns over global insecurity and the climate crisis.
Strange that they did that days before the actual summit
(08:02):
and not on the days of the summit. The summit,
held at the World Forum, saw significant security measures, including
road closures, airspace restrictions, and a heightened police presence, impacting
travel in the Hague, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The airport reduced
flight capacity by almost thirty percent. The Netherlands terrorism threat
(08:27):
level remained quote unquote substantial, with concerns about loan actors
attacking and cyber attacks. UH The summit was streamlined to
focus on defense spending and avoid controversy. Of course, it
would be reflecting or reflecting NATO's effort to maintain unity
amid geopolitical tensions, particularly with Russia, and uncertainties about US
(08:53):
commitment under Trump. It was there they're concerned because they
might lose all that funding. They can be skimmed off,
oven and washed and redistributed. It was hailed as a
success for reinforcing NATO's strength and cohesion. The money's still
rolling in boys, that's what it's about. And here's a
(09:14):
little NATO propaganda for you from their multimedia website that
I had to jump through hoops to get access to.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
It's two in the morning, a peaceful night.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
The city is asleep.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Not much happening here, and there's a reason for that,
because it's all happening here.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
At this very moment. Thousands of soldiers are on watch,
deployed to battlegroups and working around the clock. Dozens of
fighter jets are standing by, ready to launch within minutes
of alert. Naval fleets patrol the seas, guarding our territory
above and below the waves. We live in uncertain.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Times, we can rest assured that our way of life
is protected. NATO has kept us safe for seventy six
years and counting. As we face growing security threats, the
Alliance is rising to the challenge. We are taking action
now to make NATO stronger. We will need more resources, forces,
(10:20):
and capabilities so that we remain prepared to face any
threat and can pave the way towards a more peaceful future.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
They need more of your money so that you can
sleep good. Guys. Okay, you understand that going forward, we're
going to need a little bit more money and shake
you down a little bit harder so that you don't
have to worry when you sleep at night in you're home. Ah,
are all those assets standing by for you and me
here in the US? Like, would they be deployed around
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the globe to protect me here in southern Indiana? You know? Is? Uh?
Probably not? You know, I've always thought of NATO as
a form of a kind of supplemental insurance provided by
the United States, you know, seeing a sixty five percent
of NATAL funding is provided by the US. We provide more,
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but do the heavy lifting. Is that how NATO works.
It's one of the reasons it should be disbanded. I also, uh,
it's a red flag when you go to research exactly
how much the United States has contributed to NATO over
the years, and every piece of info starts with something
that sounds like while there is no exact total, et cetera,
et cetera, or the one that pisses me off. Quote.
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While the US spend approximately four point seven billion dollars,
this is just a fraction of its total defense spending end. Quote.
That's like saying, uh, yeah, we got four point seven
billion of their dollars, but they've got plenty of money. No,
they don't. They don't have any money. Our government doesn't
have any money. It's my money, and I don't want
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you NATO to have it. Uh. NATO has an extensive
library of multimedia eclips and soundbites from the NATO summits,
but individual nations contributions get a little murky when you
go dig in around the money part. Uh, I need receipts,
you guys, I want receipts. I want to know exactly
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where our dollars are going. And there's nothing wrong with that.
And what the hell was Zelenski doing there this year?
Like he's not had meetings with them before. Did he
have to go to the NATO summit? Was it just
a piss putin off? You know, the whole world, including
Russia saw him arrive and walk in as if he
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was a member. Ukraine is not a member of NATO,
not a paying member. The US is allocated approximately one
hundred and eighty two point eight billion dollars in emergency
funding for Ukraine and related regional support through December this
past year, and now it seems like they've been discussing
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how much aid if any. Remember Ukraine is not a
member that NATO will be providing, which remember the United
States currently provides sixty five percent of the US You know,
then it's a big deal. So I don't agree with
the amount of support we've provided Ukraine already and since
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the beginning, and now they will get even more US
dollars by proxy of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization crap.
US taxpayers are getting robbed blind every day. Remember, no
matter if you're talking about Ukraine spending, NATO funding or
Hunter Biden's crack addiction, the US government has no money
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of its own, zero, it has zero money. All of
it is tax dollars. The money that is involuntary held
from your paycheck is all the money they have, and
you and I have virtually no say where it goes.
It's wild. We need to start paying more attention to
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where our money goes, or more accurately, we need to
start caring where our tax dollars go and vote accordingly.
There are thirty two NATO member countries, and Zelensky was
there to talk to one the United States. You think
he was there begging Estonia for its latest weapons. You
think he wanted help of a North Macedonia to fight Russia. No,
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he was there to talk to Trump about how many
more tax dollars he could get and how many Patriot
missiles he could get before he Israel uses them all up.
It needs to stop unpopular opinion. Zelensky's a dirt bag.
Canceled elections to extend his power beyond normal term, took
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control of all media, TV, print, Internet, closed churches, arrested priests,
beat church members and confiscated church bank accounts, disbanded eleven
political parties and arrested their leaders, kidnapped old men and
teens and forced them to fight Russia. Lied about Ukraine
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casualties during the early part of the war with Russia. Also,
he can't provide any accounting for the hundreds of billions
of dollars US dollars in aid. None of that's on
mainstream media. You gotta find that on your own, and
all of it's true. Anybody remember Gonzalo Ledra Lidra was
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a Chilean American novelist, filmmaker, YouTuber, political commentator. Sounds kind
of like me who gained notoriety now it's definitely not
me for his controversial online presence and became a polarizing
figure during the Russian Ukraine War for content. Accused of
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spreading Russian propaganda. In April twenty twenty two, Leda was
briefly detained by Ukraine's security service in Kharkiv, claiming he
was targeted for his critical videos. He was released without charges,
but instructed not to leave the city or discuss the incident.
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In May of twenty twenty three, the SPU arrested Lidra
at his Kharkiv home for producing and disseminating pro Russian content.
Evidence included videos and data from his phone and computer.
He faced five to eight years in prison under Article
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four to thirty six DASH two related on bail or
released on bail rather sorry. He violated conditions by attempt
to flee Hungry for asylum on July thirty one, twenty
twenty three, and was arrested in Zarkar Pasha Oblast, Ukraine
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as he tried to flee to Hungary. Leder died on
January twelfth, twenty twenty four, in a Kharkiv hospital. He
was only fifty five years old, while in Ukraine in
custody awaiting trial. The official cause, pneumonia, was a handwritten
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note from Liedra citing double pneumonia, pneumo thorax, and severe edema,
alleging medical neglect. The US Department of State and Chile's
Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed his death, offering condolences but
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no further details. Leder acclaimed he was tortured in prison, beaten, sleep, deprived, arms, twisted,
and extorted, paying seventy thousand dollars in bribes and eleven
thousand dollars in bail. His father, Gonzalo Lira Senior, accused
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Ukraine and the US, specifically Zelensky and Joe Biden, of
complicity in his torture, extortion, and incommunicable detention, alleging the
US embassy did nothing. These claims were echoed by Russian
officials and figures like Tucker Carlson who Cares though, who
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called Lira a political prisoner tortured for criticizing Zelensky the US.
I mean, I'm sorry the SBU denied the torture allegations,
of course, stating leader was detained lawfully. He may been
detained lawfully, he didn't die lawfully. And let's not forget
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just how corrupt Ukraine has always been. Since Ukraine's independence
in nineteen ninety one, corruption has been systemic, rooted in
the Soviet era networks and made worse by oligarchs and
political elites. In the two thousands, bribes were common for
public service, with some exceeding one million dollars. Sectors like
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vehicle inspection, police, healthcare courts, and higher education were notably
corrupt Pray two thousand and eight survey. And that's exactly
where a slimeball like Hunter Biden would love to operate,
and he did operate and served on the board of
Barisma in Ukraine. So yeah, let's pump the brakes on
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billions going to Ukraine finally, can we? They aren't the
pillar of democracy there are often portrayed as they're actually
far from it. And remember Israel gave a bunch of
Patriot missiles to Ukraine in twenty twenty four. It's all connected,
you guys, and it's all leading us right to a
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real world War three eventually just amount of time. The
ball's rolling. And don't forget about what Albert Einstein said
about World War three quote I know not what weapons
world War three will be fought, but World War four
will be fought with sticks and stones end quote. That's
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where we're headed. This is just the pregame right now.
Everyone picking sides and making trades and bribing this person
and begging this person and that person, and seeing what
buddies we can hang out with before the real shit
hits the fan. I think maybe everyone is bluffing right now,
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as in this month, to get everyone else to show
their alliances and to show their cards. This is the
Russia thing, in the Ukraine thing, Israel thing in the
Iran thing, all of it. I think they're bluffs. To
review what we're going to do in World War three
if it really happens. I think that's a real possibility.
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And that made me think of that gloriously perfect bombing
mission to Iran last week. The B two stealth bomber
was first introduced into service with the United States Air
Force on January first, nineteen ninety seven, when the first
operational aircraft was delivered to white Man Air Force Base
in Missouri. However, determine its age, you have to consider
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the prototype B two made its maiden flight on July seventeenth,
nineteen eighty nine. I would call the B two thirty
six years old, and it's been shown over and over
again in every form and every type of technology has
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a lifespan and a life cycle of about ten years
before something you know, much much bigger, much more advanced,
takes its place about ten years. Remember the original iPhone,
it was released June twenty nine, two thousand and seven,
the phone that revolutionized cell phone use and the cell
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phone period changed everything forever. And that thing felt like
something that fell from the future. The original iPhone was
released just eighteen years ago. Cell phones have advanced so
much over the last eighteen years. If you think back
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to the original iPhone, it didn't even have three G
the original iPhone, that feels like forty years ago. It wasn't.
The B two is twice as old. Do you really
think the US hasn't developed anything bigger and better since
the B two, Well, they have. The newest stealth bomber
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for the United States Air Force is the North Grumman.
Of course, B twenty one Raider. It's a next generation
long rage strategic stealth bomber designed specifically to replace the
aging B one Lancer which done You Enough Credit and
the B two Spirit bombers, with plans to potentially phase
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out the B fifty two Strati Fortress in the future.
The B twenty one raiders part of the Long Range
Strike Bomber program initiated in twenty eleven to develop a
stealth bomber capable of delivering both conventional and nuclear munitions.
Northrop Grumman won the development contract in October of twenty fifteen,
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beating Boeing Lockheed Martinine. The first public unveiling of the
B twenty one was on December second, twenty twenty two,
at north Grumman's facility at Air Force Plant forty two
and Palmdale, California, during a tightly controlled ceremony. Of course,
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the B twenty one's first flight I was conducted November
tenth of twenty twenty three from Palmdale to Edwards Air
Force Base in California, making a significant milestone, and as
of June of this year, as in just last month,
at least three B twenty one raiders are actively involved
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in a flight test campaign at Edwards undergoing ground evaluation,
taxing trials and flight operations to validate aerodynamic performance, stealth,
cape ability, and the avionics systems you know, work out
all the bugs. Several additional aircraft are in the various
stages of assembly. Could the Iran mission have been a
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farewell to the B two? Not likely. You saw what
it's capable of. But the B twenty one incorporates advanced
stealth that a knowledge Compared to the B two, it
actually surpasses it by a lot. It features reduced radar
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cross section, advanced coatings and materials to evade sophisticated air
defense systems, making it incredibly low observable. Defense Secretary Lloyd
Austin remember that guy who disappeared when he was sick
and didn't tell anybody. He noted that even the most
sophisticated air defense systems will struggle to detect the B
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twenty one in the sky. They already struggle and failed
to detect the B two. It's a flying wing doses
just like the B two. It looks very similar. Think
of it as in its shrinked down a little bit,
and the air intake is different, and it has different engines.
I'm assuming, I don't even know if it's been released yet.
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It's slightly smaller to enhance range as in fuel miles.
You know. It uses advanced materials and propulsion for improved
survivability and reduced maintenance compared to the B two, and
that's key the maintenance costs to aging bombers. The B
twenty one can carry both conventional and nuclear weapons, including
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standoff and direct attack munitions, and is designed for deep
penetration strikes in contested environments, just like the Iran mission.
It's a modular open system and they're calling it MOSA,
a modular Open Systems approach which allows rapid integration of
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new technologies, ensuring you know, quick adaptability as you know,
threat levels, threat types change, or mission types change. I
think that's a good idea and that would definitely lengthen
its lifespan. The B twenty one is designed to operate
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this is This is I think amazing with or without
a human crew, offering flexibility for manned or unmanned missions,
as in it itself could be a weapon holding two
nukes maybe, you know, and we don't lose a crew member.
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The B twenty one uses engines that are similar to
the engines in the F thirty five. It's a Pratt
and Whitney of some kind. I'm not an engine guy
like that, but it's similar to the F thirty five
engine enough that it reduced costs with only having the
service and have parts available for one style as opposed
to a new, brand new engine for the raider. You know,
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just smart too, efficiency. I like it. Speaking of that
mission in Iran, have we seen the proof of destruction yet?
I mean, like proof proof where you're like, okay, there's
still conflicting reports and official statements and conflicting satellite imagery
and intelligence assessments and leaks, and it's uh. President Trump,
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Secretary Defense Pete Hegseth, and CIA director Ratcliffe claimed the
strikes obliterated Iran's nuclear program. The Israel Atomic Energy Commission
stated that the US strike on four to zero destroyed
the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable.
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And by the way that sentence destroyed the site's critical
infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. That's not something
Israel said. That is very American, that is a very
US military sentence destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered
the enrichment facility inoperable, just my opinion, and Israel claimed
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to set back Iran's nuclear weapons capability by many years. Ah,
I don't know the general consensus by people that don't
have a side, you know, neutral parties, or that there
were significant damage to all three facilities, but we're not
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sure if they're obliterated or not. I need again, I
need receipts.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
I just, I just do I just. I don't trust
anything now, I don't I don't trust Uh where Israel
and and where the United States said that Iran's nuclear
program was at, you know, checkpoint wise? Where are they
at in this in this enrichment process. I don't trust that,
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especially not now that Israel's beefing with Iran, You know
what I mean. I don't trust it. So I don't know.
I need proof. I don't know. There's a leak US
intelligence assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency, and it was leaked.
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It wasn't released, and I'm not sure it was official,
but it was labeled low confidence that the strikes destroyed
all the core components. I don't know. It was leaked
and the leak itself seemed like an inside job. The
leak itself. I don't even trust that leak, and I
don't trust the report, and I don't trust that it
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was actually leaked. I think that's some kind of trade craft,
some kind of propaganda or spycraft or something like that.
It's weird. The report suggested that Iran moved its stop stockpile.
Oh you know, I don't know. I don't know. That's
the problem. I don't know. And nine bombs, Remember, everyone
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keeps talking about and supposedly the reason real or made
up that we justified the bombing. Iran supposedly had something
that appeared to be nine bombs, nine cylindrical things that
were said to be those are nuclear bombs. I haven't seen.
I haven't seen the evidence. Just being honest, you know,
I don't count the side by side satellite images they
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keep showing us either. I'm not trained to determine anything
by satellite and to me, one image is a different
shade of gray, you know, that's it. What does that mean?
Is what does that mean? It's a different season when
they took that picture dust storm, you know, no idea,
But it doesn't count those pictures don't count so far.
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Seems like George W's Weapons of mass Destruction in Iraq
never got any evidence, never saw it was the Iran
bombing mission of success. Well, it kind of depends on
the truth and what the real mission was. Was it
a successful show of stealth and force. Hell, yes, it was, absolutely.
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It was to the world friend and foe. It showed
that we could reach out and touch anyone in the
middle of the night and you wouldn't know anything was
coming except for it already came and went. And maybe
that was the objective. You know, if someone whispered in
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my ear, someone please whisper this in my ear. If
it's true, maybe that was the objective. And if if
they whispered that in my ear, I'd be like, Okay,
I'm all right with it, you know, to let them know,
let everybody know that the US still got it. And
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I'll tell you something right now, though all kidding, war
is not for me, and nuclear war is on another level.
I watched the documentary over the weekend, and I think
we all say what I just said, Oh, nuclear war
is different. You don't want that, Yeah, you don't want that,
But do you know why you don't want that I
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watched a documentary over the weekend. I know, I know,
this isn't a documentary review podcast, but it can be
and do what I want. I watched the documentary over
the weekend and it was an older one, and I
can't believe I hadn't seen it before. White Light, Black
Rain it's a two thousand and seven documentary directed by
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Steven Okazaki, focusing on the atomic bombings of Hiroshima in
Nagasaki nineteen forty five by the United States. It combines
survivor testimonies, archival footage, and interviews with American and Japanese
perspective to depict the human and material devastation caused by
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the bombs. The film features fourteen Japanese survivors spectacular documentary
and four American servicemen involved in the bombings as in
they were in the planes and that details the immediate horrors,
intense heat as in the white light, blast waves and
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radiation the black rain of radioactive fallout. That's where the
name comes from, and includes graphic accounts and pictures of burns, injuries,
and long term health effects like leukemia and just countless others.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I look roan of the picking rack, then not found.
Then pretty soon the blackness going away. I can probably
go away now then see's sort of a gray and
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moving people.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
That was one of the witness testimonies, and it's loaded
with the witness testimonies. The bombings killed and estimated one
hundred and forty thousand people in Hiroshima and seventy four
thousand in Nagasaki by the end of nineteen forty five,
with many more dying later from radiation related illnesses. The
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documentary emphasizes the unprecedented destruction of nuclear weapons. Watch that documentary, everyone,
I learned about it in school. Of course you talked
about the destruction. Of course, you think you've seen it
depicted in movies, but you haven't. You haven't heard anything
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until you hear it from the survivors, and you haven't
heard anything until you describe. Until the survivors described what
happened to them and what they saw around them, I
couldn't even understand how they were talking about it like
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they were, even after all these years. I couldn't understand
why and how they would talk about it. Nineteen forty five,
Ladies and Gentlemen, technology advances tenfold approximately every ten years.
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Those nuclear bombs were eighty years ago, but it had
to be done right. Drop a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima
and then one on Nagasaki because the destruction of the
military bases there would put a stop to the war. Right.
Hiroshima Nagasaki were chosen as targets due to their industrial
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capacity and the potential for significant psychological impact on the
Japanese leadership. Neither were military targets. One hundred and forty
thousand civilians vaporized in Hiroshima, seventy four thousand civilians vaporized
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in Nagasaki. White Light, Black Rain is available on HBO
now and for free and in its entirety on YouTube.
Go watch it and see if that doesn't change the
way you think about war. P Diddy still in the
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news still and almost nothing's changed, but might be changing
as we speak. Colmb's faces charges for racketeering, conspiracy, sex
trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and transportation to engage
in prostitution stemming from a federal indictment filed in September
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last year. He is pleaded not guilty to all charges.
The trial, which began in May, concluded its evidence phase
after seven weeks. The prosecution. Prosecution rested on June twenty fourth.
Former employees and law enforcement agents were represented part of
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thirty four witnesses. Even ex girlfriends are in there. At the defense,
They rested without calling witnesses or having Combs testify, which
was wild. On June twenty six, prosecutors led by Chris Slavic,
argued Combs led a criminal enterprise that coerced women and
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drug fueled sexual performances freak offs, he called them, which
is creepy through intimidation and violence. They presented evidence like
explicit videos, text messages, and witness testimonies of physical abuse
and witness tampering. Prosecutor Maureen Comy emphasized that in Combe's world,
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no was never an option. On June twenty seventh, the
defense attorney Mark Agnifilo argued the case was badly exaggerated,
portraying Combs as a flawed man in consensual relationships within
a swinger lifestyle. He claimed the accusations were motivated by money,
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citing Ventures twenty this is his ex girlfriend Ventures twenty
million dollars settled lawsuit and denied a racketeering scheme, calling
the trial a farce. The jury, eight men for women
began deliberations yesterday after receiving instructions from the US District
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jud Subermanean This was their last name. If convicted, Combs
faces fifteen years to life in prison, possibly on June
twenty fifth. Prosecutors dropped three charges attempt at kidnapping Arson
and aiding sex trafficking to streamline jury instruction, leaving five counts.
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The defense moved for acquittal, arguing in sufficient evidence, but
the motion was denied. Prosecutor showed explicit videos and texts
of Combs arranging freak offs and abusing women. Witnesses like
Capricorn Clark, his former assistant, and Maya Ormiya, another assistant,
testified to force labor and intimidation, though the defense argued
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they willingly returned to work for Combs. The defense admitted
he physically assaulted Adventurer, but framed it as part of
a consensual, troubled relationship, not try thicking. Cobs was engaged
during the trial, passing notes to lawyers and praising the
judge for doing an excellent job. Cool His family, including
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his twin daughters and mother, attended closing arguments, though his
son Justin was asked to remove a free Shawn Combs
shirt okay. Opinions are divided, but barely Some like John Day,
suggest the racketeering charge is strong due to evidence of
criminal enterprise with Comb's might be cooked on this count
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quote unquote. Other notes the defense strategy of highlighting consensual
acts could sway jurors. The trial follows a twenty twenty
three law suit by Cassie Venture settled for twenty million
and raids on Comb's properties in March. The indictmental ledges
a decade long pattern of abuse, including parties involving coerce,
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sex and drugs orchestrated by Combs and his staff. A
guilty verdict could lead to a lengthy prison sentence. We'll
find out. I guess the jury's decision is expected seen
as in any minute. It could be today before I
get done here. It could be I was watching the
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news kind of. I don't really watch the news. I
just put it on the background while I do stuff.
Unless I'm, you know, digging into something real hard. I
just kind of let it run in the background. But
I heard something referenced that I forgot all about. Remember
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the and hash accident August fifth, Going back all the
way to twenty twenty two, and Hash Ellen DeGeneres's ex
girlfriend if you don't know, and an actress on her own,
crashed her Minie Blue Cooper into a two story home
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in the mar Vista neighborhood in La The vehicles traveling
at a high rate of speed based on surveillance footage,
causing the car to plow inside of the house and
then erupted in flames. The crash first hit the garage
in an apartment complex, then a parked car before the
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final collision in the house. No one in the house
is harmed, but lost most of her possessions due to
the fire. I think firefighters took sixty five minutes to
extinguish the fire and rescue Hash, who was trapped under
the floorboard, complicating initial detection. It took at least forty
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five minutes to extract her due to heavy fire and
smoke conditions. Hash sustained severe and noxic brain injury due
to lack of oxygen inhalation and thermal injuries. There were
burns over twelve percent of her body and a sternal
fracture from blunt trauma with a steering wheel busted up
her sternum, and that significantly contributed to her death by
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impairing breathing. But if your breathing is impaired, then you
don't inhale as much auction. Okay, I'm getting in the weeds, man,
I'm getting in conspiracy land, and we're already there. Okay.
She also lacerated a right kidney. She was rushed to
a burn center in West Hills in critical condition, requiring
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mechanical ventilation surgical intervention for burns, and by August eighth,
she slipped into a coma and was an extreme critical condition.
August eleventh, she was declared brain dead under a California
law which defies defines legal death. She was kept on
life support until August fourteenth to assess organ donation viability
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per her wishes. Her organs were successfully matched, and she
was taken off life support, officially passing on August fourteenth,
twenty twenty two. The La County Medical Examiner Coroner ruled
her death an accident caused by nihilation and thermal energies injuries,
with the external fracture as a significant contributing factor. But
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all that is fine until you remember the video from
the news helicopter. Keep in mind this was before the
news knew who was in the crash, and they actually
thought it was a guy. This is straight up news.
Helicopter flying right over the scene and watching it all.
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This is how they reported it.
Speaker 8 (45:40):
They are up cables to that car, pulled it out.
It's actually in that driveway. And then and then the
driver well La City Fire Department, their paramedics pulled that
driver from that vehicle. We have tape of that, and
then basically had him on a gurney. We weren't sure
what the situation was there on his condition. But then
as he made his way over to the ambulance, you
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see it right there, he jumps up out of that gurney.
It was horrific, scary for a moment for everybody watching.
And then the fire department well they had to sate
him and take him to the hospital. Right now, though
the structure is still standing.
Speaker 4 (46:19):
It was wild that video was still online and available
and it appears as though firefighters they had all that time,
but no ambulance was there. I guess there was, but
firefighters I guess because they pulled her from fire They
were the ones that were bringing her out on a
gurney to put in the back of the ambulance, and
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as conspiracy. I can go conspiracy at anytime you want
me to, Guys, I can't. There's actually a firefighter that's
online saying we don't we don't put people in body
bags to put in the ambulance as firefighters. We just
don't do that. So and there's a whole conspiracy on
that being in a body bag. I don't believe that
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was a body bag. I believe it was a burn bag.
But I don't know. Hey, who am I? Who am I?
Who am I? I don't know. I don't know the hell.
The whole thing is. She was in such bad shape.
But the second before they lifted those front gurney wheels
to go up in the ambulance, the bag comes unzipped
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and she sits right up and she looks completely fine
and is trying to get up, and they take her shoulder,
press her back down the gurney, throw her into the ambulance.
That was the end of it. Ah weird too weird
Uh bonus trivia on this. This was Ellen's second X
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to die in a car crash. You can look up
her first. Her name was Cat perk Off. It's Kat
and perkof spelled p E. R. Koff. She passed away
in nineteen eighty after fighting with Ellen. They were broken
up but still living together and fighting a lot. Ellen's words,
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she said they were living together and fighting a lot.
Perkoff's sisters suspect suspected foul play, and her family alleged
that the two Dedynus and Perkoff were involved in a
violent New Orleans lesbian mafia. True story, but we don't
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have time to get onto that one. But do you
want to hear more about that eventually? Let me know
eight one two six one zero nine zero zero five.
Let me a voicemail if you do or do not
want to hear more on that, or email info dot
Soapbox Champion at gmail dot com. And it wasn't long
after the hash craft that the conspiracy started flying around
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Ellen and I can't go over all of them because
they'd fill a wheelbarrow, but I'll mention one that seemed
like a thing. At the time, Haysh was working on
a documentary about sex trafficking. It was called The Girl
in Room thirteen, and she alleged she had information on P.
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Diddy's involvement. Remember this was in August of twenty twenty two,
long before the official Diddy allegations and charges. What's also
alarming about her death is and Haitian owned Degenerus were
in a romantic relationship from eighty or nineteen ninety seven
to two thousand. Well, Diddy and Ellen always had some
(49:39):
kind of creepy relationship too, if you remember. In twenty sixteen,
Degenerous shared a tweet wishing Diddy a happy birthday, and
she said, happy birthday, p Diddy, puff Daddy Sean Combs
or as I call him, cuddle mcstuggle stuff. You don't
need to know why end quote. Now that tweet alone,
(50:00):
there's absolutely nothing. And she was a comedian, but thrown
on the pile. It could be something. Diddy was on
Ellen's show at one time when a skit didn't come
off as funny as all at all, and it was
awkward as they wanted, I suppose, and then this happened.
Speaker 2 (50:18):
All right, what do you have there?
Speaker 9 (50:20):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (50:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (50:21):
Now?
Speaker 4 (50:21):
Brought for Porsche?
Speaker 8 (50:23):
She's not here.
Speaker 6 (50:25):
He was going to give it to us a gift,
all right, then I'll.
Speaker 5 (50:27):
Say it's mine.
Speaker 8 (50:28):
Yeah, okay, that's sweet.
Speaker 2 (50:30):
Well what not for me?
Speaker 8 (50:35):
Look at that? That's so sweet.
Speaker 5 (50:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (50:37):
How come is pro Porsha not me?
Speaker 4 (50:39):
Because you have her wear it? And all right, we
go so far back.
Speaker 2 (50:47):
I will tell these people how fall back we go.
Speaker 5 (50:50):
I know, but I wear T shirts. I don't know
what that means.
Speaker 4 (50:53):
He sounds drunk anyway. All right, let's say I mean, you.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Know that.
Speaker 8 (50:58):
Of the joke didn't work, I don't want no problem.
Speaker 5 (51:03):
So cherish.
Speaker 4 (51:09):
Okay, you can watch that whole video.
Speaker 5 (51:12):
You can.
Speaker 4 (51:13):
It's everyone online, but you see Diddy step close to
Ellen and whisper quote. I can give them the tape
too if the joke didn't work end quote. Ellen nervously
laughs and says, no, no, it's okay, Okay, I'm gonna
take two of the joke didn't work. I don't want
no problem. And that and the fact that Ellen now
(51:36):
lives in Cottswald, England, United Kingdom with their wife Portie. Okay.
Diddy was officially charged on September sixteenth. De Jenners just
decides to move out of the country six weeks later.
I don't know. It just really seems like there is
something there there. I like to say, she's mean as shit.
(51:59):
Everyone's and now there are just too many strange puzzle
pieces around her. You can even take a few away,
but so many remain. It's just strange. More on that later,
I don't know, We'll see, but right now it's time
for sports. In nineteen ninety two Olympics, Derek Redmond of
(52:28):
Great Britain became a symbol of perseverance, but not by
winning gold or getting a medal, but by finishing last
and away the world would never forget. In the four
hundred meter semifinal, Redmond tore his hamstring midway through the race,
crumbling to the track. He is His dreams of Olympic
(52:49):
glory seems shattered, but instead of quitting, he got up,
limped in agony, Determining to finish what he started. He
hobbled toward the finish line. Then from the stands, his
father broke past security, ran to his son and wrapped
an arm around him, and together they crossed the finish line,
(53:12):
the crowd roaring, not for victory, but for heart, and
that will do it. This week is sports, and this
week's quote of the week it's kind of special to me,
(53:34):
maybe in a good slash bad way. I don't know.
It's by someone I knew and know and love and
have lost. This week's quote of the week is quote
it takes a big dog to weigh a ton end quote.
That was something my uncle Mike said often, and it
(53:55):
was always met with side eyes and glances at each other,
no one knowing exactly what it meant. We knew it
meant something, but when we'd ask him, he would just
wink and repeat the quote. This went on for years
and years amongst aunts, uncles and cousins. Uh. He was
(54:16):
the king of one liners, and he had great ones.
So I figured it's time to find out what the
hell that quote means. So modern problems, you know, require
modern solutions, So I asked Ai, this is the explanation quote.
The phrase takes a big dogged away a ton is
(54:37):
an idiomatic expression that implies it requires someone or something substantial, powerful,
or significant to accomplish a major or impressive task. The
phrase uses the metaphor of a big dog to represent strength, capability,
(54:57):
or importance, and weigh a ton to significant significant signify
something massive or impactful. Essentially, it means that big challenges
or achievements require equally formidable individuals or resources to handle them.
(55:19):
End quote. And it all makes so much sense now,
rest in peace, Uncle Mike. And that wraps up episode
one ninety two of the Soapbox Champion podcast. I know,
I know, I know. No official sugar today. I don't
(55:39):
feel like I don't feel like putting together sugar. I'm
not in a sugar mood because of Uncle Mike. You
know what I mean. It's fine, but I want to
go out on with that. So maybe Uncle Mike's sugar. Okay,
how about that? How about that?
Speaker 2 (55:55):
That?
Speaker 4 (55:55):
That's it. Uncle Mike was sugar this week. Ah. Thanks
for hanging out guys. Any way you do it? Listen
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I listen to all of them, or compose an email
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(56:40):
put the video up earlier. If I can all this
got you feeling depressed or having thoughts of suicide, Well,
first of all, it's not weird and it's not uncommon.
You may just want to talk to someone and you
can twenty four hours a day suicide and Christ's Lifeline
call her text anytime at nine eight eight. Just three numbers,
nine eight eight. Take care of yourself in one another.
(57:02):
I'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 9 (57:05):
See, I want everybody to plan look down the road
six months. Yes, your husband lost his job, that's why
you need to sock away some money when he's gainfully employed. Yes,
they foreclosed on your home. That's why you need to
(57:25):
have a network, a community, friends, family members, money, put it.
Speaker 1 (57:30):
But think about the kids.
Speaker 3 (57:32):
Half of African Americans in the state of California, roughly
half Latino families that have no access to a check
account for an ATM.
Speaker 1 (57:38):
Things we take for granted. They don't have a check,
what's wrong with them?
Speaker 3 (57:41):
But well, because they don't, they don't have the resources
to sock those things away. Why do we have a
lot of different reasons, but roughly half those families don't
where they Armenians have them, but where they end up
is check cashing places.
Speaker 5 (57:55):
Why those two groups don't have any A.
Speaker 1 (57:57):
Lot of it just happens to be that we can
talk about.
Speaker 3 (58:00):
No, they're hardly flawed, but their struggling genetics are making
their word hardly not okay.
Speaker 5 (58:05):
So, but do Asians have this problem?
Speaker 1 (58:07):
I mean a lot of communities have a lot of
whites have these problems.
Speaker 5 (58:10):
That's not just black in Hispaniic.
Speaker 3 (58:12):
No, but but because the magnitude is ominous.
Speaker 5 (58:16):
But why so many of them?
Speaker 1 (58:17):
It just happens to be the man to plan not
at all.
Speaker 5 (58:21):
What's happened to the.
Speaker 3 (58:22):
There are a lot of issues, and that the communities
are struggling. A lot of immigrants, a lot of different reasons,
lacks of opportunity.
Speaker 5 (58:30):
Been here longer we've been here.
Speaker 1 (58:32):
Well we can we can, we can surmise.
Speaker 5 (58:33):
What about Asians? They were put in internment camp?
Speaker 3 (58:36):
Yeah, we in fact that all initiated at San Francisco Chinese.
Speaker 1 (58:40):
Exclusion Act came out. Are they.
Speaker 3 (58:43):
A lot of a lot of Asians certainly do because
of them. The only reason why is the magnitude. There's
more the magnitude and percentage.
Speaker 5 (58:54):
But there's no way to figure out how that happens Africa.
Speaker 1 (58:56):
We could talk about you know what I'm dealing with.
I don't want to have a social law. Well here's
wh Why.
Speaker 9 (59:02):
Would you want to do that because the person when
the Times wouldn't write good things about you.
Speaker 5 (59:06):
Could get that.
Speaker 1 (59:06):
Oh no, that's not the case, because I want to
want to get that.
Speaker 5 (59:09):
You want to deal with reality.
Speaker 3 (59:10):
I want to deal with the reality of people that
are struggling. People are suffering. I want to deal with
the problems.
Speaker 5 (59:15):
Why are they struggling.
Speaker 3 (59:16):
I don't want to idea we can hold hands in
surmise about all these uni.
Speaker 5 (59:19):
I don't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (59:20):
I don't know why they're struggling.
Speaker 5 (59:21):
Why are they struggling.
Speaker 3 (59:22):
A lot of folks are struggling because they can't find
because they're working.
Speaker 5 (59:26):
Why Blacks and Hispanic across the board all.
Speaker 1 (59:28):
Social Okay, so everybody everybody struggling.
Speaker 5 (59:31):
So Asians are suffering just as much.
Speaker 3 (59:33):
As the face of welfare is not an African American.
Speaker 5 (59:37):
Fass Asian Jewish, it's.
Speaker 1 (59:39):
All of them Caucasian. It's a lot of society. A
lot of folks are struggling
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