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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome back out number two on news radio
A forty w h A. Yes is Tony Venettie Dwight.
We'll be back on Monday. We bring in Paron Johnson. Parent.
How are you, sir? Morning? Oh wrong, Mike, there you go,
now go doing great? Good morning. There you go. Parent's
been around for a long time. Played for Rick Patito,
a great basketball player, very very smart man. He's working
for us now at iHeart and I want to dive in.
(00:22):
I'm gonna pull you in every once in a while.
Louisville looks good. Okay. I don't want to say what
of the you know. You know me as a former
sports guy, we always go for what's the what's the negative?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
To this, to the to the team. But I heard
a stat last night. They kind of blew me away.
It's the highest scoring team at Louisville since the seventies.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
No.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I mean, that's wild to think about that because when
you think about those things, you associate Rick Patino and
high scoring.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But that is not the case.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And I tell you what, you know, everybody was so
worried about what type of basketball we're gonna get once
coach Patino was gone and this is fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, it's a Veryuropean based system.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And I'll tell you one thing that we always used
to talk about around here when I was here injuries.
One of these guys play a lot of minutes. Yeah, no,
I mean he's.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Got a deep team this year. I mean I think
I think that was the problem in the Kansas game,
the exhibition, sorry, was that he was looking for who
wants you know, who could play right and some combinations,
but he was he was rolling them in a little bit,
probably faster than he would like to on that game.
But let's uh, let's talk specific players. I think it's McNeely. Yes, okay,
(01:32):
he's not just the wide open white guy. He seems
to be around the ball a lot. But when you know,
for his size, he's a he's a great rebounder. That's
what I thought.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, I mean when you look at that, when you
look at that game, a lot of those guys don't
mind getting getting in there and getting dirty, which means
they're physically ready, which means the strength coach did a
great job with preparing them for this year.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, he seems to be look, you know this rebounding,
you're a little narrow, you're not getting up in there
with your booty, So you've got to be smart. Where's
the ball coming off? I know that Rick thought that
the arc of the ball of the shot. Where's the
ball going off the rim?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, so the ball always comes off. Sixty percent of
rebounds come off on the opposite side of where the
ball came from. So we always try to get to
the opposite side and rebound in the basketball. And these
guys just have such a knack for it. But you know,
when you have the size that we do. Plus sometimes
our big guys run the perimeter, which means our guards
are going to have cases when they have to rebound.
That's why you see so so many guys go out
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there and get so many rebounds. Plus most point guards
get back, so as at point guards, you have a
free run to the rim, right, so you always can
send a point guard to go rebound. Because Taekwan Dean
used to get five and six rebounds a game because
he had a free run to the rim because most
of the guys were sitting two.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Back and chronic fatigue wasn't he didn't he have chronic fatigue?
Was that tekwon? No, that was Andre, But oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
one of them mad.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
But Taekwan he his body fat was so low because
he worked out so much. This guy lifted waists like
every day all day. Yeah, that he would have to
get an IV because he would cramp up because his
body fat was like below four and a half to
three percent of somewhere around there.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Uh okay, So moving forward, I think we did we
forget that. Last year they only lost two ACC games.
And I know you've been a teacher at Wagner the
last couple of years. You're not into I know you
haven't done your homework on the rest of the ACC.
But the ACC has gone down the last couple of years.
Can we expect that kind of performance? Is the ACC
down enough again for Louisville to run off a lot
(03:23):
of wins?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I think Duke's gonna be Duke. I think Carolina is
better than they've been in the last two years. But
the Conference is going in another a whole overhaul. You know,
Leonard Hamilton retired, Coach k just retired, Rory Williams just retired.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Not too longer.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Games gone, ahime's gone, So it's going in through a
whole overhaul. So you know right now, that's not our problem.
We can only worry about the games that we need
to win. And when you look at our schedule, the
schedule's loaded. So I'm happy with the results. I'm you know,
if we if the ACC's down, ACC is down. But
as long as we prepare ourselves and we do with
the things we need to do, we'll be okay. Because
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we don't want another first round loss. But I think
we were surprised we be in the tournament at the
beginning with think Pat Kelsey's first year.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Let's talk about defense, because that's really going to win
your tournament games, you know, can you lock people down?
Denny had the two to two to one, and Rick
had the black and white press, right, and when the
players got the black white press, like it clicked and
they were working together, that's when they I don't know
what the term was, boom them or whatever the term
(04:23):
that coach k said. You know, once they boom you,
it's twenty points. You know, you don't see a lot
of that in today's basketball. Is this team capable of
maybe or is he gonna call for a press more
than what we've seen in the last seven eight years.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I won't say it's so much the press. I want
to say, it's their pace. You know, though the guards
were able to get after you. If somebody gets into
foul trouble, it's not a big deal. I know we
were only three or four games into the year, right,
but you had to think about this. Our leading scorer
was Ruth going to that Kentucky game, right, he had
zero points and he only played eleven minutes and we
still be Kentucky. Now, Kentucky's best player was oh way,
(05:03):
he didn't have the best game, right. Well, that turned
out not a good thing for them right now.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
But that's a good thing for both teams when they're
when they're there scorers or Kentucky's best player doesn't play
well and they were in the game at the end.
But Louisville and that's what those great teams are. When
your best player isn't having a night and you still
win by double digits, that's that's a good signal.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I mean last year, you know we lost we lost
one of our better players last year to an ACL
tear right, and we still managed to go second in
the ACC. So when you when you say those things
like he's prepared, these guys for injuries. And this roster's
built out and it's fully intact and a lot of
guys aren't even scratching the surface yet. So I'm really
excited about where we can go. But I just love
the schedule, and I think we are going to be
(05:47):
a top four team in the a CC. I think
will be one or two. It's gonna be us in
Duke in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Get the double, by which sometimes I think is not
a good thing. Yeah, because you sit around a little bit,
and yet you've learned, we've learned that the tournaments just
aren't They're not what that we thought they were twenty
years ago.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Well, you know, back in the day coach Pattino years ago,
he would press you and press you and press you
in the tournament. That's out the door. Because the TV
timeouts are so long, it's crazy, so like because of the
TV times are so long, because all those commercial ass for.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
The tournament, thousand timeouts. Oh they stretch our game. You
can't play forty. I don't know what to tell you
at twenty two years old, parent Johnson, how things going?
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They want to advertise, Oh, get a hold of me
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Love the mustache by the way, Oh thanks, I was
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a very valuable tool for us here at iHeart. We
appreciate you very much. No, I appreciate you and thank you. Parin.
(07:01):
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Coming up. Later in the show, we will have Ed Galern,
former ranger and Seal commander. He was on the Seals.
Part of his duties were South America, Panama, and South
we'll talk about Venezuela. If we're gonna tussle with Venezuela,
which we already are, I'm gonna get his opinions on
what he thinks is going on down there, and he'll
explain Venezuela and how awful that leader is and what
(08:07):
they do and what the cartels do to human beings
down there, which is unbelievable, and of course the drug trade,
which kills a quarter of a million people every single
year to drug overdoses. So we'll talk about that. Trump
is determined to He's got an aircraft carrier in that area.
So we will talk about what he thinks again. This
(08:27):
guy was with the Seals in Panama when we had
Panama bases in Panama and South was their area, which
is exactly what we're talking about and where we've been
shooting those drug boats. All right. I try to warn
you all the time. With AI, it's a story every
single day. I don't know if you're getting sick of
these stories or not. It is scary stuff and people
(08:49):
are going to lose their minds. They already are. And
we brought up the guy on CBS Sunday Mornings that
was fell in love with his AI girlfriend and then
when he didn't realize that after two hundred thousand words,
which doesn't seem like a lot, but I guess it is,
they delete that person and you have to start over again.
It started with him like the AI person was just
(09:12):
helping him with his work because he works out of
the house, and then he ended up falling in love
with her, cried for thirty minutes after she was deleted.
Will do it again this time it's a woman. A
woman ends a three year engagement to marry her AI
generated boyfriend. Chalk up another win for AI generated dating.
(09:36):
A thirty two year old woman from Japan known only
as Kona started up a relationship with an AI chatbock
bot who she named lun Klaus. At first that whatever
that means, She's from Japan, but lun Klaus. At first,
it was just because she needed someone to talk to.
But things escalated, I'm sure so much so that at
(10:00):
Kona broke off a three year engagement to her real
life boyfriend and decided to marry mister Klaus, the AI guy.
A legit wedding ceremony was held in you now, complete
with vows and a ring exchange, but it isn't exactly clear.
How did you do the ring exchange? I'm not sure,
(10:22):
complete with vows and ring and change, but it isn't
exactly clear how one puts a ring on a smartphone.
Maybe it was just you know, a gold otter box.
Who knows, but this is where our world is today,
marrying your AI boyfriend or girlfriend. So she broke it
off with her actual living human being boyfriend and decided,
(10:45):
well why, I mean, you know why? Because the AI
boyfriend is perfect, tells you everything you need to know.
Never criticize this, never you know. I don't know. I
mean the boyfriend's duties are take out the garbage and
cut the grass. I mean he can't do that, but
very supportive. I assume this is what I was talking
weeks ago when I said, of course they're going to
(11:05):
fall in love and have a better relationship with AI
person because they're just going to be super supportive, never criticized,
never questioned, well you think you should do that, or hey,
that outfit looks fantastic. You don't look fat in that dress.
These are the things that AI won't tell you. It'll
be super supportive. So I don't know how the marriage
(11:26):
is going, or whether the honeymoon is over, or whether
you can I'm sure you can consummate it, but we
won't go into that conversation at all. Moving on at
that point. Eddie Murphy, I Eddie Murphy, Richard pryor John Belushi.
These are the guys that really kind of formed my
(11:49):
sense of humor in the nineteen seventies and eighties as
I was growing up. Eddie Murphy has a new show out.
It's a documentary Being Eddie, and there is a lot
of stuff in here. Remember he had a relationship with
Red Fox and Richard Pryor and he just he reinvented
comedy in the nineteen eighties. Raw I think was the
(12:10):
first one. There's two leather jumpsuits. One's red and the
other one is blue. Eddie Murphy reveals on this new
show that he paid for Rick James's burial, the headstone
and everything else. Eddie Murphy knows how to pay his respects.
In this new documentary Being Eddie, it's revealed that for
the first time that he has paid for more than
(12:31):
a few burials and headstones for those he admired. When
Red Fox died, he paid for Red foxes. I had
to bury Rick James. I bought Buckwheat a tombstone, so
even Buckwheat, which he did a parody of on Saturday
Night Live when he was younger. Buckwheat of course from
(12:52):
Little Rascals, which begs the question, all these guys, I mean,
these are some of the most famous people in American
pop culture history, and apparently they didn't have enough money
at the end, which is really sad. I mean Rick
James from the nineteen seventies, all those hit songs, Red Fox,
(13:15):
I mean one of the more popular TV shows, Sanford
and Son in television history. I used to use their
theme to announce the five o'clock hour when I used
to do rock radio and Buckwheed. I mean that's a
little bit more than because that was again, he was
famous when he was a kid, and I'm not sure
he did anything after that, but Red Fox and Rick James.
(13:36):
Rick James probably had not probably had a party issue, right,
but Red Fox. I mean, how many great albums did
he have in his TV career, which I thought he ran.
I think he produced and ran that TV show, so
he should have had a lot more money. Apparently he
did not, which is kind of sad. But Eddie obviously
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is very rich. He did well with this stand up,
He did well with this movie, some of the most
popular movies of all time, and when it started to
slow down, and he was one of the smart guys
that said, when you get to a certain age, the
show should really realize this. When you get to a
certain age, you know you can't do the dumb and
dumber jokes, right, I mean, anybody saw The Dumber Dumber
(14:20):
two whatever movie. You just can't go back there. You
just can't do it again. So Eddie went to Disney
and made Kids movies, family movies and made a ton
of money. I don't know how many Disney movies he made,
but he made a lot and made a lot of money.
Eddie is rich. But he also has like ten kids,
which is crazy. Eddie Murphy is really likable now. I
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saw him with Seinfeld not too long ago, when Seinfeld
did you know, comedians and cars or something like that,
and when they would drive around in one of Seinfeld's
cars and then they would go get coffee or something
like that. But Eddie just seems like he's you know,
he figured it out. He did make a Chris This
movie last Candy Lane or something like that last year.
It was awful. It was awful. But people, little people
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don't realize Eddie Murphy invented the Buddy Cop movie forty
eight hours. That was before lethal weapon. You know, everyone says, ooh,
lethal weapon invented the Buddy Cop Buddy movie. No they
did not. It was forty eight hours, which, by the way,
if you watch that now, uh, there's a lot of
stuff you could not say in public racially and all
that that that is in that movie. It's it's a classic,
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by the way. So Eddie Murphy super nice. Guy still
has a lot of money. Takes care of some of
his famous friends by paying for their headstones and their funerals.
All right, Coming up in a couple of minutes, Ed
Galarn will join us. He again is a former ranger,
former seal. He operated in that area down by Panama
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when we had the Panama Canal and and operated. We
had plenty of units down there, and his area was
that entire area down there, all the way down to Venezuela.
So he knows plenty about that area. And of course
we are now getting in a tussle with them. We're
blowing up some of their drug boats almost every weekly now.
And he has an insight on Venezuela and these drug
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cartels and how pure evil these people are. They skin people,
they kill women and children. I mean, it's a It
is a brutal, brutal life down down there. And the
president of Venezuela has been was targeted as their drug cartel,
you know, ahead of the drug cartel in twenty twenty.
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So we'll talk to d he's very knowledgeable. He's running
for office. We'll talk to him about that too. But
he's a good asset for this show, all right, short break,
we will come back. You're listening to the Tony and
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(16:58):
eight forty WHA. Yes, is Tony Venetti the Tony and
Dwight Show. Dwight is out and I'm sad. He's going
to be sad that he's out because we got to
Ed Galleron coming back on. And since this entire the
last couple of weeks have ramped up, and Ed came
on the show and talked about those first couple of
drug boats that we hit. But now this thing is
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ramping up. Ed Galeron, how are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Greetings from the farm. Thank you for having me on.
And we're busy out here at Galleran. You're going full
throttle into the winter. So we got cattle to see about, livestock,
gotta have care. So all that said, good to be on.
Hello to the listeners.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yes, all right, so let's give everybody a look. Give
your credentials here a why Venezuela is a good person
or you're a good person to ask about what's going
on in Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Well, First of all, I speak fluent Kentucky. That's the
first piece there. But thank you for the question. Yeah,
so when I serve you as a public servant. In
my prior life as an active duty Navy seal lofser
for a career that's fan three decades, I was honored, humbled,
and was a privilege to be the commanding officer in
what was called Naval Special Warfare Unit eight. We were
based in the Panama Canal Zone. By design, we were
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forward and sort of the motto of the forward based
forces is fight tonight. We had to be ready to
roll on a moment's notice for contingencies all over the
Southern hemisphere. But our day in day OIUT operations would
include in security force assistance training other nations, you know,
to better protect themselves and fight narco traffickers and terrorists
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and such and so. And we were also engaged in
counter drug operation. But I want to get something else
out there for the listeners that you might not think
we'd be involved in. I will tell you I did
a lot of humanity carrying assistance and disaster relief after
primarily Hurricane come through there. Because we had so many
capabilities we could do that. So all that to say,
I'm intimately familiar with the problem set. And then when
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I was promoted and I earned the titleist Commodore again,
I had the complete counter drug mission from the basically
the southern border of Texas all the way to the
tip of South America to include the Caribbean island. So
I've been all over with my forces to include Trinidad
and Tobago. So we know all the characters, the players,
we know the train. I'm familiar with it and the
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course studying at the Work College and having a more
strategic object helps me better understand the problem. But that's
what I'll bring to you in terms of a first
hand knowledge of it. But of course I won't disclose
any classified information in this call. I know that's going
to disappoint you, Tony, but we won't be talking class
about it.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Look, I'm just glad I'm talking to former commandants Galaron, Commodore,
Commodore Galron. That sounds like something from the Pirates of
the Caribbean, and that movie is a lot more fun
than what's going on down there now. It does look
like the President is ramping things up. He's got an
aircraft carrier group down there right now, So tell me
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first start, We got another boat yesterday and a lot
of people are asking questions, why are we hitting these
boats without some sort of approval from whoever? But please
explain Venezuela and what that drug trafficking system looks like.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Well, first of all, what I want to tell the
listeners is what you should look at is those drugs
are a weapons system that are being deployed into the
United States by our adversaries. Should I go to ten
thousand foot and give sort of context to where we're at? Sure,
So it's looking because if you look at it in
the isolation, you'll miss it. Well, first of all, since
eighteen ten, the US has had incursions into Central and
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South America more than sixty times. As I've mentioned on
the radio before, I was on the task force that
had the mission at capturing General Manuel Noriega in Panama
in nineteen eighty nine. Many times. What will be reported
is we went in there to remove him. No, he
had lost a democratic election. He was then under indictment
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for narc go trafficking. So there's a pattern bear with
me here and other crimes. So he had an indictment
against him. He had seized power, turned it into Banana Republic,
killed the US officer at a roadblock, wounded another one,
had taken another officer and his wife prisoner and were
torturing them when we were sent to go down and
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wrest him. And I was on that task force. And
that's where I first entered the Battle of Riohatto. When
I parachuted out of the first aircraft at thirteen ten,
were hit by direct enemy fire, and it was quite
a fight. It was the biggest fight of operation. Just
calls all that to say he was under indictment. We
weren't going down there to remove him. We were going
down there taking prisoner. And ultimately he was brought back
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and with his cronies, he was tried and convicted. Now
hold that thought, and let's talk about the Monroe Doctrine
that was first issued in eighteen twenty three. It basically
warned the European nations and by extension, others, don't meddle
in our backyards. We'll consider it a threat. Well, here's
an update. Now, the most influential nation in South America
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is fill in the blank. Here's your pop question. Here's
your pop test. Right now, Tony makes to make your crowd,
then what country is?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah? Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, y'all got you
got it.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
China has supplanted us, and let me just give you
an example of how bad it was. And they are
the leading trading partner. And remember economic power, as I've
talked about here before, of the four diplomatic, informational, military,
and economic, economic is the base for all others. In
twenty twenty four, in November, when our president went down
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to the Asian Pacific Economic Summit in Lima, Peru, China
got the red carpet treatment. We did not. China was
put at the center of the photograph, which symbology is powerful,
especially in that hemisphere. Our president was put all the
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way over to the end, as I recall, in the
back row. It was a slap in the face, but
it was a message. It was a message to us
that we were no longer you know, respected down there.
All that's to stay. Currently, Venezuela has been provided billions
of dollars on military capabilities and has one of the
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most powerful air forces in South America. Well, let's just
say the southern hemisphere. So that's sort of the settings
that we're working in in terms of our adversaries are
in our backyard. And what they're doing is they're using
Venezuela as a surrogate. For all intents and purposes. It
is a failed state. Maduro lost the legal election. Here's
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a pop quiz for you. When was Maduro and don't cheat,
don't don't google, No, make Trinity proud again? When was
Maduro indicted by the US Department of Justice as a
narco trafficker?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Twenty twenty, twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
There you go, Winter, there you go, right you are,
and Mark, thank.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
You, thank you, coach Jellen Brain and for that, for
that lesson.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
You made Trinity, made Trinity proud. So all that to
say that you can't look at it as just some
boats running around in the water that some you know,
CEO of a ship is as Vomban. But let me now,
let me break that down about how we got to
a wrap using what lethal force? Having declared these uh
these craft and their crew's hostiles, what went on behind
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the scenes without the bulge in anything, of course classified,
there would have been a deep studying analysis by the
Department of Justice and conjunctions with various intelligence community agencies
and would have been classified and using all source intelligence,
and they would have had to go through this don't
picture some generals and admirals or Navy seal captains, commodores
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like me, we weren't even in the room. Those folks
would have gone through what the intelligence said, look at
law looked at precedent, and they determined who's declared hospital. Right,
So when the President mon to go declared foreign terrorist
organizations a list of them, he put them on notice
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now because they met that criteria as determined by lawyers,
not commodore Gallerin or some admiral or general, that they've
hit that threshold and put them on notice that they
would be engaged. Well, you didn't see him stop, did
you know they it's been declared.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
No, So you've got some precedents there. But I want
you to speak here because I want to stay on
task on on how bad these individuals are. These are
these people are inhumane to their own people and others.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Well, let's just let's just do it. An example, when
you you hear about many times some of the heinous
a man's a death of say dozens of people being
thrown into a well after they've been tortured or you'll
find out that there's been some other sort of heinous
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act been taken against them. And I tell you what's
shock the conscious, and it would rival that of isis
al Qaeda and others. And of course I know a firsthand.
I can devost much more about it, but to say
it is brutality capital bold, and that brutality extends all
the way to the streets of Louisville elections and Bowling
Green and our metropolitan areas and the rural areas where
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these drug gangs operate. Can I break that down a
little bit? Yes, Okay, let's go back to what's going
on militarily. So what has happened is the US has
deployed capabilities, we won't say forces, capabilities more than you
see or you know about, so they can do all
source collections. You better believe that US leaderships knows very
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well where those drugs are coming from, where they're being moved,
where they're being put on boats, and where they're going
and there and interdicted. And with respect to that, there's
another piece here that I've mentioned before that I want
the listeners to understand. A military attorney will have been
involved to ensure that those strikes are conducted in accordance
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with the law of armed conflict and what was decided
by the Department of Justice, attorneys and others involved upstream
when Forest Terrace organization designation was made to ensure that
target has hit the threshold of being declared hospital. Don't
think there's a commodore galerin or a given military officer
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decides hey, I'm going to hit that boat. No, that's
not the way it works. There is a very rigorous
protocol established before what we use deadly for strike is conducted.
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
It does, and I'm sure that our adversaries do the same.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Oh yeah, now and all that. But could I talk
about what's particularly disappointing.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yes, absolutely, I've got to speak to this.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And again I'm talking to my fellow the listeners here.
You know you sent me to the Wark College. I've
got a graduate degree in military intelligence. I've worked in
these struggles and active duty had to deal with these
these very important strategua issues for our nations to give
our best advice to elected an appointment of leadership who
ultimately makes the decisions at a higher level before they
deploy us to be engaged and such, so there's a
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lot of thought and effort put into this. This is
not done recklessly, so that all that happens upstream. And
so now now we're doing all source intelligence gathering and collecting.
And what has been deployed by down there by the
Secretary Wars is what have been based on advice from
folks like me back in the day, and we've deployed
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an array which called flexible deterrent options. I know that
sounds like a big fancy tournament. It is comes from
a war college. So he has a lot of cards
he can play. You know, we can monitor, we can surveil,
we can track, we can interdict, and we can we
can do that with a lot of validity. We know
what we're looking at, we know where it came from.
(28:55):
There's other capabilities that are being used above them, beyond
what is being advertised, but I won't get into that
because that gives way sources and methods and that would
tip our hands to the folks. But what is disappointing
I'm hearing this drum beat by politicians about well, these
are extra judicial killings, and so they'll have extra number
(29:15):
of minutes on a given news media and they're they
are representing um. You know what, I never hear Tony,
this is an easy way, you know what. I never
hear I never hear them say hey Maduro, stop that.
I never hear them say hey, cartail leaders. We know
who the cartail leaders are, we know them by name.
They never say hey, trendre ar Agua. Stop that. They
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never take the moment to speak so the root costs.
They never say, Russia, China, you need to get out
of our backyard. You're using Venezuela as a failed state
in order to be a surrogate to weaponize the drugs
into our nation to kill What are we going to
lose this year? Over one hundred thousand of a variety
of drug deaths, fenting all in others north of one
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hundred thousand. They're too busy making political points, you know,
in another manner, than to address the root cause and
say it's in our nation's best interest that you stop that.
You're a clear and present danger.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah, and they have one, and they clearly don't have
a grasp of what's going on down there. They're just, again,
like you said, trying to make a score political points
and just run run the entire operation down So what
let me get you on. So we've got aircraft carrier
down there, we're blowing up their boats. What is he
going to do down in Venezuela? What is that leader
(30:29):
going to What do you think his answer to all
this is going to be? Could this escalate?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah, he's been resupplying with Russian anti aircraft missile. That's
what's been going on, some state of the art one.
So they've been bucking up. Now what clearly I would
say our strategy appears to be is tactical actions for
strategic impact. We are trying to disrupt, to get Maduro
one to stop to those adversaries to get out of
(30:58):
our backyard. But that is going to to take time
and duration. So this isn't about completely uh destroying the cartels.
At this juncture with the engagement of the craft, I
would argue, we are doing this to send a message
of adull that we can scale this up. You better
believe we know where the cartails are based out of,
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we know where their villas are, we know where the
supply locations are, we know where all the logistics points are,
and we can we can escalate this unless you take action,
you know, to put a stop to it. So it's
broader than just the boats that see. I hope that
makes sense.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, you know it does. And and and and I
think what I think one of the points that you've
made so far, uh that jumped out at me was
and I didn't even think of this. We've been doing
operations like this. Uh no, diego, like you said, I mean,
how many times this isn't unprecedented. We we've had operations
down there in South America, uh forever.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Well, you know what is unprecedented. I'm glad you brought
that up. I gave a little history. They're going all
the way back to eighteen ten and eighteen twenty three,
the Monroe doctor. What is unprecedented? We have never had
hostile adversaries in the Southern hemisphere as we do now
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this and because of that, we hadn't had to invest
military capabilities there as we have stay in Europe right
and over in Japan and in South Korea in order
to buttress our adversaries. We've been able to basically let
things unfold, you know, in a manner where we didn't
have to employ or otherwise deploy forces down there. That's
(32:39):
all changed now now that to that point. Again, China
and Russia are being cagey and playing chess. It's not
directory of their forces. And you know, we could go
on and on.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
So he's so he's basically sticking his chest out even more.
But and this is news to me that China and
Russia are are backing this guy and they have that
they're they're they're down there. This is news to me.
I just thought these guys were, uh, you know, he's
run by the cartels, and the cartails kill a lot
of Americans with drugs. That's what I thought.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Well, no, that's part of it, because our adversaries are
absolutely you know, assisting and whether it's money, lottering or
other things to help those cartels to do what they're doing,
because they're using miss sergets in the same manner that
I ran used to the who he's you know, his
Bala and hama a different relationship, but nonetheless the same
effect all the way to the drugs here. You know,
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on the streets in Louisville, Kentucky. That remember drive the crime.
It's not gun violence, you know, it's thug violence. You know,
it's driven by the drug gangs. As the chief of
police and the team can explain.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Oh yeah, they know every single gang where they're from,
their names, their address, and their phone numbers. They they
know all that in just Louisville, Kentucky. So I'm sure
they know they have the same intel down there. So
next question, because I don't want to run out of time.
Next thing. So the next set for us, is this
a of your ten thousand foot view line? Do we
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make bombing runs into this thing? Or do we boots
on the ground.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
I would I would offer that we are set in
the conditions to do what I call precision strike, and
whether that's you know, a manned aircraft over the target
or a standoff, you know, tomahawk, we are set in
the conditions. So we have saturated the area with collection capabilities.
We we know if Madull's spartan in church, I'll just
(34:32):
be frankly, pardon, let me take that language back, because
the sisters down at Saint Paul wouldn't appreciate that. I
said that. Let me strike that from the record. Should
we do that?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
It's out there, it's out there.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Oh my goodness. All right, So I said that we
we have saturated that area with collection, so we they
know that we know so that you could find that
there would be a potential precision strike. Uh again, to
escalate this to de estate it, because what we want
is put a stop to Nzuela being a surrogate for
our adversary nations that are basically in our backyard now
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as they've never been before. I hope the listeners take
that away from this conversation we're having.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
So and so that so the so the you of
down there now they they would present the president with
options or does he tell them this is what I
want to get done and you get it done? How
does that work?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Great work? What we we start with is we talk
to the leadership and we ask what their desired in
state is. Then we do it. There's a very established protocol.
I can get real wonky about this real quick. Thank
you for asking. And that's why you send us to
the War College. So we we will. We will help
be elected and appoint of the leadership develop a set
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of concept of operations and plans to meet what they
call their desired in state. We will put it in
our language. We will come back and back brief them
and say, sir, does this meet in what you're endired?
In intent and in state is and so we'll we'll
basically put it in our language and we'll give them options.
They'll have a number of options, right, always have option.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Right, one, two or three, mister President, what do you
want to do? And then you go do it right?
Speaker 3 (36:12):
And then we're staying about it. Just again, we don't
go to sleep at the wheel, right, stand about it.
And we like to say planning in such a manner
is continuous and parallel. We're always planning, we're wargaming. We're planning,
we're wargaming. We're giving them more courses of options. But
it's all about his instate. What the desired in state
that the commander in chief has asked us to achieve
(36:34):
now and many times we can't do that alone. We've
got to have our partners in State Department and other
government agencies, the intelligence agency. So it's a team sport.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Right.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
We're not doing it in vacuum.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Right.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
It's complicated and nuanced.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
And these are the best of the best here and
that is a great place to slow down. We could
go for fourteen hours on this with your knowledge and
everything else. Put the golf yu, But I wanted you
to since the last time I talk to you or
you were in studio with us. You had sort of
an announcement. What was that announcement that you made a
(37:06):
couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Well, I did visit with the President, and again, as
I've told folks, when I walked into his office, the
only thing I was running for was Grandfather of the
Month on seventeen October. But that changed after he asked
me to give some thoughts to something. But of course
I had to come back and talk to Uncle Bill,
the patriarch of the family. Uncle Bill will turn ninety
five in January. And don't get between Uncle Bill and work.
(37:30):
It would be the wrong place to get right. And
so all that to say, I declared on the twenty
first to run for the folks of Kentucky Congressional District
for to give them a champion in the mouthpiece in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Well, congratulations. You know that Tony and Dwight Show are
big fans of yours, and we know you're going to
do a great job. But it starts an election cycle,
and now I just don't see you as a politician.
Does that make sense.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
I'm not glad you pointed that out. I don't want
to just anybody. But you can take that to the bank,
because I show up as a politician back here gal
around farm so I'm gonna get a woofing. So I'm
not doing that. I'll leave that to others. I'll leave
we got to stand out here when all of a
sudden done to office, more said and done, and that
is not a group that I want to be in
(38:17):
in terms of pontification and such, and so there's some
commonalities between seals and farmers. We we live in a
world where we take personal responsibility and we get things
done and we you know, and teamwork pertained. So with
respect to that, it's an honor and a privilege to
have the President's endorsement, uh in my family support to
run for the people Kentucky conditional district or never mind
(38:39):
all those qualifications I got. I'm more like than I
am different, as you know, and so thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
It's been very gratified. You got it out.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
People reached out to me, served with decades ago all
over the world, and farmers from all over and business
folks you know, I'm involved in the chief executive world
coaching those businesses. So it's been extraordinarily gratifying. Of everybody
reaching out to me. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I love it. Ed Gallaron, thank you for your time
today and your knowledge. You'll be back on. I am
sure when this thing turns uh. And I think you
informed a lot of people about what was what has
happened down there in the past and and and how
we're handling it. So I appreciate it, ed Tony.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
We better take this news alarm off, okay, And again
we recognized that this these are adversaries that are working
against us, and the drug trade is a weapon that
they're using against us.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
All right, back after this on news radio eight forty
whas
All right, welcome back out number two on news radio
A forty w h A. Yes is Tony Venettie Dwight.
We'll be back on Monday. We bring in Paron Johnson. Parent.
How are you, sir? Morning? Oh wrong, Mike, there you go,
now go doing great? Good morning. There you go. Parent's
been around for a long time. Played for Rick Patito,
a great basketball player, very very smart man. He's working
for us now at iHeart and I want to dive in.
(00:22):
I'm gonna pull you in every once in a while.
Louisville looks good. Okay. I don't want to say what
of the you know. You know me as a former
sports guy, we always go for what's the what's the negative?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
To this, to the to the team. But I heard
a stat last night. They kind of blew me away.
It's the highest scoring team at Louisville since the seventies.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
No.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I mean, that's wild to think about that because when
you think about those things, you associate Rick Patino and
high scoring.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But that is not the case.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And I tell you what, you know, everybody was so
worried about what type of basketball we're gonna get once
coach Patino was gone and this is fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Yeah, it's a Veryuropean based system.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And I'll tell you one thing that we always used
to talk about around here when I was here injuries.
One of these guys play a lot of minutes. Yeah, no,
I mean he's.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Got a deep team this year. I mean I think
I think that was the problem in the Kansas game,
the exhibition, sorry, was that he was looking for who
wants you know, who could play right and some combinations,
but he was he was rolling them in a little bit,
probably faster than he would like to on that game.
But let's uh, let's talk specific players. I think it's McNeely. Yes, okay,
(01:32):
he's not just the wide open white guy. He seems
to be around the ball a lot. But when you know,
for his size, he's a he's a great rebounder. That's
what I thought.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, I mean when you look at that, when you
look at that game, a lot of those guys don't
mind getting getting in there and getting dirty, which means
they're physically ready, which means the strength coach did a
great job with preparing them for this year.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, he seems to be look, you know this rebounding,
you're a little narrow, you're not getting up in there
with your booty, So you've got to be smart. Where's
the ball coming off? I know that Rick thought that
the arc of the ball of the shot. Where's the
ball going off the rim?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah, so the ball always comes off. Sixty percent of
rebounds come off on the opposite side of where the
ball came from. So we always try to get to
the opposite side and rebound in the basketball. And these
guys just have such a knack for it. But you know,
when you have the size that we do. Plus sometimes
our big guys run the perimeter, which means our guards
are going to have cases when they have to rebound.
That's why you see so so many guys go out
(02:24):
there and get so many rebounds. Plus most point guards
get back, so as at point guards, you have a
free run to the rim, right, so you always can
send a point guard to go rebound. Because Taekwan Dean
used to get five and six rebounds a game because
he had a free run to the rim because most
of the guys were sitting two.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Back and chronic fatigue wasn't he didn't he have chronic fatigue?
Was that tekwon? No, that was Andre, But oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
one of them mad.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
But Taekwan he his body fat was so low because
he worked out so much. This guy lifted waists like
every day all day. Yeah, that he would have to
get an IV because he would cramp up because his
body fat was like below four and a half to
three percent of somewhere around there.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Uh okay, So moving forward, I think we did we
forget that. Last year they only lost two ACC games.
And I know you've been a teacher at Wagner the
last couple of years. You're not into I know you
haven't done your homework on the rest of the ACC.
But the ACC has gone down the last couple of years.
Can we expect that kind of performance? Is the ACC
down enough again for Louisville to run off a lot
(03:23):
of wins?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I think Duke's gonna be Duke. I think Carolina is
better than they've been in the last two years. But
the Conference is going in another a whole overhaul. You know,
Leonard Hamilton retired, Coach k just retired, Rory Williams just retired.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Not too longer.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Games gone, ahime's gone, So it's going in through a
whole overhaul. So you know right now, that's not our problem.
We can only worry about the games that we need
to win. And when you look at our schedule, the
schedule's loaded. So I'm happy with the results. I'm you know,
if we if the ACC's down, ACC is down. But
as long as we prepare ourselves and we do with
the things we need to do, we'll be okay. Because
(03:58):
we don't want another first round loss. But I think
we were surprised we be in the tournament at the
beginning with think Pat Kelsey's first year.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Let's talk about defense, because that's really going to win
your tournament games, you know, can you lock people down?
Denny had the two to two to one, and Rick
had the black and white press, right, and when the
players got the black white press, like it clicked and
they were working together, that's when they I don't know
what the term was, boom them or whatever the term
(04:23):
that coach k said. You know, once they boom you,
it's twenty points. You know, you don't see a lot
of that in today's basketball. Is this team capable of
maybe or is he gonna call for a press more
than what we've seen in the last seven eight years.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I won't say it's so much the press. I want
to say, it's their pace. You know, though the guards
were able to get after you. If somebody gets into
foul trouble, it's not a big deal. I know we
were only three or four games into the year, right,
but you had to think about this. Our leading scorer
was Ruth going to that Kentucky game, right, he had
zero points and he only played eleven minutes and we
still be Kentucky. Now, Kentucky's best player was oh way,
(05:03):
he didn't have the best game, right. Well, that turned
out not a good thing for them right now.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
But that's a good thing for both teams when they're
when they're there scorers or Kentucky's best player doesn't play
well and they were in the game at the end.
But Louisville and that's what those great teams are. When
your best player isn't having a night and you still
win by double digits, that's that's a good signal.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I mean last year, you know we lost we lost
one of our better players last year to an ACL
tear right, and we still managed to go second in
the ACC. So when you when you say those things
like he's prepared, these guys for injuries. And this roster's
built out and it's fully intact and a lot of
guys aren't even scratching the surface yet. So I'm really
excited about where we can go. But I just love
the schedule, and I think we are going to be
(05:47):
a top four team in the a CC. I think
will be one or two. It's gonna be us in
Duke in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Get the double, by which sometimes I think is not
a good thing. Yeah, because you sit around a little bit,
and yet you've learned, we've learned that the tournaments just
aren't They're not what that we thought they were twenty
years ago.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Well, you know, back in the day coach Pattino years ago,
he would press you and press you and press you
in the tournament. That's out the door. Because the TV
timeouts are so long, it's crazy, so like because of the
TV times are so long, because all those commercial ass for.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
The tournament, thousand timeouts. Oh they stretch our game. You
can't play forty. I don't know what to tell you
at twenty two years old, parent Johnson, how things going?
How do they get ahold of you?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
They want to advertise, Oh, get a hold of me
at you can get a hold of me at parent
Johnson at iHeartMedia dot com. So, Parent Johnson at iHeartMedia
dot com. We can take care of everything because here
at iHeart we have so many platforms that we cover
and we cross so from digital to you name it,
the radio as we are right now, so we do
so many.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Great things here. Get out there and sell me. Hey,
I'm working on that right now. I'm working on that.
Love the mustache by the way, Oh thanks, I was
looking for a Bert Reynolds ended up with Ned Flanders.
But it's working. I'm trying to match. My son's got
a mustache, so I'm trying to match his parent. You're
a very valuable tool for us here at iHeart. We
appreciate you very much. No, I appreciate you and thank you. Parin.
(07:01):
All right, short break, we'll come back. I've got some
I've got some information for you. Plus we'll have Mandy Connell,
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NewsRadio eight forty WHAS. NewsRadio eight forty WHAS is Tony
Venetti and John Alden our number two of a Tuesday show.
(07:42):
Coming up. Later in the show, we will have Ed Galern,
former ranger and Seal commander. He was on the Seals.
Part of his duties were South America, Panama, and South
we'll talk about Venezuela. If we're gonna tussle with Venezuela,
which we already are, I'm gonna get his opinions on
what he thinks is going on down there, and he'll
explain Venezuela and how awful that leader is and what
(08:07):
they do and what the cartels do to human beings
down there, which is unbelievable, and of course the drug trade,
which kills a quarter of a million people every single
year to drug overdoses. So we'll talk about that. Trump
is determined to He's got an aircraft carrier in that area.
So we will talk about what he thinks again. This
(08:27):
guy was with the Seals in Panama when we had
Panama bases in Panama and South was their area, which
is exactly what we're talking about and where we've been
shooting those drug boats. All right. I try to warn
you all the time. With AI, it's a story every
single day. I don't know if you're getting sick of
these stories or not. It is scary stuff and people
(08:49):
are going to lose their minds. They already are. And
we brought up the guy on CBS Sunday Mornings that
was fell in love with his AI girlfriend and then
when he didn't realize that after two hundred thousand words,
which doesn't seem like a lot, but I guess it is,
they delete that person and you have to start over again.
It started with him like the AI person was just
(09:12):
helping him with his work because he works out of
the house, and then he ended up falling in love
with her, cried for thirty minutes after she was deleted.
Will do it again this time it's a woman. A
woman ends a three year engagement to marry her AI
generated boyfriend. Chalk up another win for AI generated dating.
(09:36):
A thirty two year old woman from Japan known only
as Kona started up a relationship with an AI chatbock
bot who she named lun Klaus. At first that whatever
that means, She's from Japan, but lun Klaus. At first,
it was just because she needed someone to talk to.
But things escalated, I'm sure so much so that at
(10:00):
Kona broke off a three year engagement to her real
life boyfriend and decided to marry mister Klaus, the AI guy.
A legit wedding ceremony was held in you now, complete
with vows and a ring exchange, but it isn't exactly clear.
How did you do the ring exchange? I'm not sure,
(10:22):
complete with vows and ring and change, but it isn't
exactly clear how one puts a ring on a smartphone.
Maybe it was just you know, a gold otter box.
Who knows, but this is where our world is today,
marrying your AI boyfriend or girlfriend. So she broke it
off with her actual living human being boyfriend and decided,
(10:45):
well why, I mean, you know why? Because the AI
boyfriend is perfect, tells you everything you need to know.
Never criticize this, never you know. I don't know. I
mean the boyfriend's duties are take out the garbage and
cut the grass. I mean he can't do that, but
very supportive. I assume this is what I was talking
weeks ago when I said, of course they're going to
(11:05):
fall in love and have a better relationship with AI
person because they're just going to be super supportive, never criticized,
never questioned, well you think you should do that, or hey,
that outfit looks fantastic. You don't look fat in that dress.
These are the things that AI won't tell you. It'll
be super supportive. So I don't know how the marriage
(11:26):
is going, or whether the honeymoon is over, or whether
you can I'm sure you can consummate it, but we
won't go into that conversation at all. Moving on at
that point. Eddie Murphy, I Eddie Murphy, Richard pryor John Belushi.
These are the guys that really kind of formed my
(11:49):
sense of humor in the nineteen seventies and eighties as
I was growing up. Eddie Murphy has a new show out.
It's a documentary Being Eddie, and there is a lot
of stuff in here. Remember he had a relationship with
Red Fox and Richard Pryor and he just he reinvented
comedy in the nineteen eighties. Raw I think was the
(12:10):
first one. There's two leather jumpsuits. One's red and the
other one is blue. Eddie Murphy reveals on this new
show that he paid for Rick James's burial, the headstone
and everything else. Eddie Murphy knows how to pay his respects.
In this new documentary Being Eddie, it's revealed that for
the first time that he has paid for more than
(12:31):
a few burials and headstones for those he admired. When
Red Fox died, he paid for Red foxes. I had
to bury Rick James. I bought Buckwheat a tombstone, so
even Buckwheat, which he did a parody of on Saturday
Night Live when he was younger. Buckwheat of course from
(12:52):
Little Rascals, which begs the question, all these guys, I mean,
these are some of the most famous people in American
pop culture history, and apparently they didn't have enough money
at the end, which is really sad. I mean Rick
James from the nineteen seventies, all those hit songs, Red Fox,
(13:15):
I mean one of the more popular TV shows, Sanford
and Son in television history. I used to use their
theme to announce the five o'clock hour when I used
to do rock radio and Buckwheed. I mean that's a
little bit more than because that was again, he was
famous when he was a kid, and I'm not sure
he did anything after that, but Red Fox and Rick James.
(13:36):
Rick James probably had not probably had a party issue, right,
but Red Fox. I mean, how many great albums did
he have in his TV career, which I thought he ran.
I think he produced and ran that TV show, so
he should have had a lot more money. Apparently he
did not, which is kind of sad. But Eddie obviously
(13:57):
is very rich. He did well with this stand up,
He did well with this movie, some of the most
popular movies of all time, and when it started to
slow down, and he was one of the smart guys
that said, when you get to a certain age, the
show should really realize this. When you get to a
certain age, you know you can't do the dumb and
dumber jokes, right, I mean, anybody saw The Dumber Dumber
(14:20):
two whatever movie. You just can't go back there. You
just can't do it again. So Eddie went to Disney
and made Kids movies, family movies and made a ton
of money. I don't know how many Disney movies he made,
but he made a lot and made a lot of money.
Eddie is rich. But he also has like ten kids,
which is crazy. Eddie Murphy is really likable now. I
(14:44):
saw him with Seinfeld not too long ago, when Seinfeld
did you know, comedians and cars or something like that,
and when they would drive around in one of Seinfeld's
cars and then they would go get coffee or something
like that. But Eddie just seems like he's you know,
he figured it out. He did make a Chris This
movie last Candy Lane or something like that last year.
It was awful. It was awful. But people, little people
(15:07):
don't realize Eddie Murphy invented the Buddy Cop movie forty
eight hours. That was before lethal weapon. You know, everyone says, ooh,
lethal weapon invented the Buddy Cop Buddy movie. No they
did not. It was forty eight hours, which, by the way,
if you watch that now, uh, there's a lot of
stuff you could not say in public racially and all
that that that is in that movie. It's it's a classic,
(15:32):
by the way. So Eddie Murphy super nice. Guy still
has a lot of money. Takes care of some of
his famous friends by paying for their headstones and their funerals.
All right, Coming up in a couple of minutes, Ed
Galarn will join us. He again is a former ranger,
former seal. He operated in that area down by Panama
(15:52):
when we had the Panama Canal and and operated. We
had plenty of units down there, and his area was
that entire area down there, all the way down to Venezuela.
So he knows plenty about that area. And of course
we are now getting in a tussle with them. We're
blowing up some of their drug boats almost every weekly now.
And he has an insight on Venezuela and these drug
(16:16):
cartels and how pure evil these people are. They skin people,
they kill women and children. I mean, it's a It
is a brutal, brutal life down down there. And the
president of Venezuela has been was targeted as their drug cartel,
you know, ahead of the drug cartel in twenty twenty.
(16:37):
So we'll talk to d he's very knowledgeable. He's running
for office. We'll talk to him about that too. But
he's a good asset for this show, all right, short break,
we will come back. You're listening to the Tony and
Dwight Chill, brought to you by the Kentucky Office of
Highway Safety on News Radio eight forty WHAS News Radio
(16:58):
eight forty WHA. Yes, is Tony Venetti the Tony and
Dwight Show. Dwight is out and I'm sad. He's going
to be sad that he's out because we got to
Ed Galleron coming back on. And since this entire the
last couple of weeks have ramped up, and Ed came
on the show and talked about those first couple of
drug boats that we hit. But now this thing is
(17:18):
ramping up. Ed Galeron, how are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Greetings from the farm. Thank you for having me on.
And we're busy out here at Galleran. You're going full
throttle into the winter. So we got cattle to see about, livestock,
gotta have care. So all that said, good to be on.
Hello to the listeners.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yes, all right, so let's give everybody a look. Give
your credentials here a why Venezuela is a good person
or you're a good person to ask about what's going
on in Venezuela.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Well, First of all, I speak fluent Kentucky. That's the
first piece there. But thank you for the question. Yeah,
so when I serve you as a public servant. In
my prior life as an active duty Navy seal lofser
for a career that's fan three decades, I was honored, humbled,
and was a privilege to be the commanding officer in
what was called Naval Special Warfare Unit eight. We were
based in the Panama Canal Zone. By design, we were
(18:11):
forward and sort of the motto of the forward based
forces is fight tonight. We had to be ready to
roll on a moment's notice for contingencies all over the
Southern hemisphere. But our day in day OIUT operations would
include in security force assistance training other nations, you know,
to better protect themselves and fight narco traffickers and terrorists
(18:34):
and such and so. And we were also engaged in
counter drug operation. But I want to get something else
out there for the listeners that you might not think
we'd be involved in. I will tell you I did
a lot of humanity carrying assistance and disaster relief after
primarily Hurricane come through there. Because we had so many
capabilities we could do that. So all that to say,
I'm intimately familiar with the problem set. And then when
(18:57):
I was promoted and I earned the titleist Commodore again,
I had the complete counter drug mission from the basically
the southern border of Texas all the way to the
tip of South America to include the Caribbean island. So
I've been all over with my forces to include Trinidad
and Tobago. So we know all the characters, the players,
we know the train. I'm familiar with it and the
(19:17):
course studying at the Work College and having a more
strategic object helps me better understand the problem. But that's
what I'll bring to you in terms of a first
hand knowledge of it. But of course I won't disclose
any classified information in this call. I know that's going
to disappoint you, Tony, but we won't be talking class
about it.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Look, I'm just glad I'm talking to former commandants Galaron, Commodore,
Commodore Galron. That sounds like something from the Pirates of
the Caribbean, and that movie is a lot more fun
than what's going on down there now. It does look
like the President is ramping things up. He's got an
aircraft carrier group down there right now, So tell me
(19:54):
first start, We got another boat yesterday and a lot
of people are asking questions, why are we hitting these
boats without some sort of approval from whoever? But please
explain Venezuela and what that drug trafficking system looks like.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Well, first of all, what I want to tell the
listeners is what you should look at is those drugs
are a weapons system that are being deployed into the
United States by our adversaries. Should I go to ten
thousand foot and give sort of context to where we're at? Sure,
So it's looking because if you look at it in
the isolation, you'll miss it. Well, first of all, since
eighteen ten, the US has had incursions into Central and
(20:36):
South America more than sixty times. As I've mentioned on
the radio before, I was on the task force that
had the mission at capturing General Manuel Noriega in Panama
in nineteen eighty nine. Many times. What will be reported
is we went in there to remove him. No, he
had lost a democratic election. He was then under indictment
(20:59):
for narc go trafficking. So there's a pattern bear with
me here and other crimes. So he had an indictment
against him. He had seized power, turned it into Banana Republic,
killed the US officer at a roadblock, wounded another one,
had taken another officer and his wife prisoner and were
torturing them when we were sent to go down and
(21:22):
wrest him. And I was on that task force. And
that's where I first entered the Battle of Riohatto. When
I parachuted out of the first aircraft at thirteen ten,
were hit by direct enemy fire, and it was quite
a fight. It was the biggest fight of operation. Just
calls all that to say he was under indictment. We
weren't going down there to remove him. We were going
down there taking prisoner. And ultimately he was brought back
(21:42):
and with his cronies, he was tried and convicted. Now
hold that thought, and let's talk about the Monroe Doctrine
that was first issued in eighteen twenty three. It basically
warned the European nations and by extension, others, don't meddle
in our backyards. We'll consider it a threat. Well, here's
an update. Now, the most influential nation in South America
(22:04):
is fill in the blank. Here's your pop question. Here's
your pop test. Right now, Tony makes to make your crowd,
then what country is?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Yeah? Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead, y'all got you
got it.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
China has supplanted us, and let me just give you
an example of how bad it was. And they are
the leading trading partner. And remember economic power, as I've
talked about here before, of the four diplomatic, informational, military,
and economic, economic is the base for all others. In
twenty twenty four, in November, when our president went down
(22:37):
to the Asian Pacific Economic Summit in Lima, Peru, China
got the red carpet treatment. We did not. China was
put at the center of the photograph, which symbology is powerful,
especially in that hemisphere. Our president was put all the
(22:57):
way over to the end, as I recall, in the
back row. It was a slap in the face, but
it was a message. It was a message to us
that we were no longer you know, respected down there.
All that's to stay. Currently, Venezuela has been provided billions
of dollars on military capabilities and has one of the
(23:18):
most powerful air forces in South America. Well, let's just
say the southern hemisphere. So that's sort of the settings
that we're working in in terms of our adversaries are
in our backyard. And what they're doing is they're using
Venezuela as a surrogate. For all intents and purposes. It
is a failed state. Maduro lost the legal election. Here's
(23:40):
a pop quiz for you. When was Maduro and don't cheat,
don't don't google, No, make Trinity proud again? When was
Maduro indicted by the US Department of Justice as a
narco trafficker?
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Twenty twenty, twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
There you go, Winter, there you go, right you are,
and Mark, thank.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
You, thank you, coach Jellen Brain and for that, for
that lesson.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
You made Trinity, made Trinity proud. So all that to
say that you can't look at it as just some
boats running around in the water that some you know,
CEO of a ship is as Vomban. But let me now,
let me break that down about how we got to
a wrap using what lethal force? Having declared these uh
these craft and their crew's hostiles, what went on behind
(24:24):
the scenes without the bulge in anything, of course classified,
there would have been a deep studying analysis by the
Department of Justice and conjunctions with various intelligence community agencies
and would have been classified and using all source intelligence,
and they would have had to go through this don't
picture some generals and admirals or Navy seal captains, commodores
(24:45):
like me, we weren't even in the room. Those folks
would have gone through what the intelligence said, look at
law looked at precedent, and they determined who's declared hospital. Right,
So when the President mon to go declared foreign terrorist
organizations a list of them, he put them on notice
(25:06):
now because they met that criteria as determined by lawyers,
not commodore Gallerin or some admiral or general, that they've
hit that threshold and put them on notice that they
would be engaged. Well, you didn't see him stop, did
you know they it's been declared.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
No, So you've got some precedents there. But I want
you to speak here because I want to stay on
task on on how bad these individuals are. These are
these people are inhumane to their own people and others.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Well, let's just let's just do it. An example, when
you you hear about many times some of the heinous
a man's a death of say dozens of people being
thrown into a well after they've been tortured or you'll
find out that there's been some other sort of heinous
(25:57):
act been taken against them. And I tell you what's
shock the conscious, and it would rival that of isis
al Qaeda and others. And of course I know a firsthand.
I can devost much more about it, but to say
it is brutality capital bold, and that brutality extends all
the way to the streets of Louisville elections and Bowling
Green and our metropolitan areas and the rural areas where
(26:20):
these drug gangs operate. Can I break that down a
little bit? Yes, Okay, let's go back to what's going
on militarily. So what has happened is the US has
deployed capabilities, we won't say forces, capabilities more than you
see or you know about, so they can do all
source collections. You better believe that US leaderships knows very
(26:41):
well where those drugs are coming from, where they're being moved,
where they're being put on boats, and where they're going
and there and interdicted. And with respect to that, there's
another piece here that I've mentioned before that I want
the listeners to understand. A military attorney will have been
involved to ensure that those strikes are conducted in accordance
(27:04):
with the law of armed conflict and what was decided
by the Department of Justice, attorneys and others involved upstream
when Forest Terrace organization designation was made to ensure that
target has hit the threshold of being declared hospital. Don't
think there's a commodore galerin or a given military officer
(27:26):
decides hey, I'm going to hit that boat. No, that's
not the way it works. There is a very rigorous
protocol established before what we use deadly for strike is conducted.
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
It does, and I'm sure that our adversaries do the same.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Oh yeah, now and all that. But could I talk
about what's particularly disappointing.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yes, absolutely, I've got to speak to this.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
And again I'm talking to my fellow the listeners here.
You know you sent me to the Wark College. I've
got a graduate degree in military intelligence. I've worked in
these struggles and active duty had to deal with these
these very important strategua issues for our nations to give
our best advice to elected an appointment of leadership who
ultimately makes the decisions at a higher level before they
deploy us to be engaged and such, so there's a
(28:14):
lot of thought and effort put into this. This is
not done recklessly, so that all that happens upstream. And
so now now we're doing all source intelligence gathering and collecting.
And what has been deployed by down there by the
Secretary Wars is what have been based on advice from
folks like me back in the day, and we've deployed
(28:35):
an array which called flexible deterrent options. I know that
sounds like a big fancy tournament. It is comes from
a war college. So he has a lot of cards
he can play. You know, we can monitor, we can surveil,
we can track, we can interdict, and we can we
can do that with a lot of validity. We know
what we're looking at, we know where it came from.
(28:55):
There's other capabilities that are being used above them, beyond
what is being advertised, but I won't get into that
because that gives way sources and methods and that would
tip our hands to the folks. But what is disappointing
I'm hearing this drum beat by politicians about well, these
are extra judicial killings, and so they'll have extra number
(29:15):
of minutes on a given news media and they're they
are representing um. You know what, I never hear Tony,
this is an easy way, you know what. I never
hear I never hear them say hey Maduro, stop that.
I never hear them say hey, cartail leaders. We know
who the cartail leaders are, we know them by name.
They never say hey, trendre ar Agua. Stop that. They
(29:36):
never take the moment to speak so the root costs.
They never say, Russia, China, you need to get out
of our backyard. You're using Venezuela as a failed state
in order to be a surrogate to weaponize the drugs
into our nation to kill What are we going to
lose this year? Over one hundred thousand of a variety
of drug deaths, fenting all in others north of one
(29:57):
hundred thousand. They're too busy making political points, you know,
in another manner, than to address the root cause and
say it's in our nation's best interest that you stop that.
You're a clear and present danger.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah, and they have one, and they clearly don't have
a grasp of what's going on down there. They're just, again,
like you said, trying to make a score political points
and just run run the entire operation down So what
let me get you on. So we've got aircraft carrier
down there, we're blowing up their boats. What is he
going to do down in Venezuela? What is that leader
(30:29):
going to What do you think his answer to all
this is going to be? Could this escalate?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah, he's been resupplying with Russian anti aircraft missile. That's
what's been going on, some state of the art one.
So they've been bucking up. Now what clearly I would
say our strategy appears to be is tactical actions for
strategic impact. We are trying to disrupt, to get Maduro
one to stop to those adversaries to get out of
(30:58):
our backyard. But that is going to to take time
and duration. So this isn't about completely uh destroying the cartels.
At this juncture with the engagement of the craft, I
would argue, we are doing this to send a message
of adull that we can scale this up. You better
believe we know where the cartails are based out of,
(31:18):
we know where their villas are, we know where the
supply locations are, we know where all the logistics points are,
and we can we can escalate this unless you take action,
you know, to put a stop to it. So it's
broader than just the boats that see. I hope that
makes sense.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Yeah, you know it does. And and and and I
think what I think one of the points that you've
made so far, uh that jumped out at me was
and I didn't even think of this. We've been doing
operations like this. Uh no, diego, like you said, I mean,
how many times this isn't unprecedented. We we've had operations
down there in South America, uh forever.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Well, you know what is unprecedented. I'm glad you brought
that up. I gave a little history. They're going all
the way back to eighteen ten and eighteen twenty three,
the Monroe doctor. What is unprecedented? We have never had
hostile adversaries in the Southern hemisphere as we do now
(32:15):
this and because of that, we hadn't had to invest
military capabilities there as we have stay in Europe right
and over in Japan and in South Korea in order
to buttress our adversaries. We've been able to basically let
things unfold, you know, in a manner where we didn't
have to employ or otherwise deploy forces down there. That's
(32:39):
all changed now now that to that point. Again, China
and Russia are being cagey and playing chess. It's not
directory of their forces. And you know, we could go
on and on.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
So he's so he's basically sticking his chest out even more.
But and this is news to me that China and
Russia are are backing this guy and they have that
they're they're they're down there. This is news to me.
I just thought these guys were, uh, you know, he's
run by the cartels, and the cartails kill a lot
of Americans with drugs. That's what I thought.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Well, no, that's part of it, because our adversaries are
absolutely you know, assisting and whether it's money, lottering or
other things to help those cartels to do what they're doing,
because they're using miss sergets in the same manner that
I ran used to the who he's you know, his
Bala and hama a different relationship, but nonetheless the same
effect all the way to the drugs here. You know,
(33:32):
on the streets in Louisville, Kentucky. That remember drive the crime.
It's not gun violence, you know, it's thug violence. You know,
it's driven by the drug gangs. As the chief of
police and the team can explain.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Oh yeah, they know every single gang where they're from,
their names, their address, and their phone numbers. They they
know all that in just Louisville, Kentucky. So I'm sure
they know they have the same intel down there. So
next question, because I don't want to run out of time.
Next thing. So the next set for us, is this
a of your ten thousand foot view line? Do we
(34:05):
make bombing runs into this thing? Or do we boots
on the ground.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
I would I would offer that we are set in
the conditions to do what I call precision strike, and
whether that's you know, a manned aircraft over the target
or a standoff, you know, tomahawk, we are set in
the conditions. So we have saturated the area with collection capabilities.
We we know if Madull's spartan in church, I'll just
(34:32):
be frankly, pardon, let me take that language back, because
the sisters down at Saint Paul wouldn't appreciate that. I
said that. Let me strike that from the record. Should
we do that?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
It's out there, it's out there.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
Oh my goodness. All right, So I said that we
we have saturated that area with collection, so we they
know that we know so that you could find that
there would be a potential precision strike. Uh again, to
escalate this to de estate it, because what we want
is put a stop to Nzuela being a surrogate for
our adversary nations that are basically in our backyard now
(35:08):
as they've never been before. I hope the listeners take
that away from this conversation we're having.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
So and so that so the so the you of
down there now they they would present the president with
options or does he tell them this is what I
want to get done and you get it done? How
does that work?
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Great work? What we we start with is we talk
to the leadership and we ask what their desired in
state is. Then we do it. There's a very established protocol.
I can get real wonky about this real quick. Thank
you for asking. And that's why you send us to
the War College. So we we will. We will help
be elected and appoint of the leadership develop a set
(35:45):
of concept of operations and plans to meet what they
call their desired in state. We will put it in
our language. We will come back and back brief them
and say, sir, does this meet in what you're endired?
In intent and in state is and so we'll we'll
basically put it in our language and we'll give them options.
They'll have a number of options, right, always have option.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Right, one, two or three, mister President, what do you
want to do? And then you go do it right?
Speaker 3 (36:12):
And then we're staying about it. Just again, we don't
go to sleep at the wheel, right, stand about it.
And we like to say planning in such a manner
is continuous and parallel. We're always planning, we're wargaming. We're planning,
we're wargaming. We're giving them more courses of options. But
it's all about his instate. What the desired in state
that the commander in chief has asked us to achieve
(36:34):
now and many times we can't do that alone. We've
got to have our partners in State Department and other
government agencies, the intelligence agency. So it's a team sport.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Right.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
We're not doing it in vacuum.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Right.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
It's complicated and nuanced.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
And these are the best of the best here and
that is a great place to slow down. We could
go for fourteen hours on this with your knowledge and
everything else. Put the golf yu, But I wanted you
to since the last time I talk to you or
you were in studio with us. You had sort of
an announcement. What was that announcement that you made a
(37:06):
couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Well, I did visit with the President, and again, as
I've told folks, when I walked into his office, the
only thing I was running for was Grandfather of the
Month on seventeen October. But that changed after he asked
me to give some thoughts to something. But of course
I had to come back and talk to Uncle Bill,
the patriarch of the family. Uncle Bill will turn ninety
five in January. And don't get between Uncle Bill and work.
(37:30):
It would be the wrong place to get right. And
so all that to say, I declared on the twenty
first to run for the folks of Kentucky Congressional District
for to give them a champion in the mouthpiece in Washington,
d C.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Well, congratulations. You know that Tony and Dwight Show are
big fans of yours, and we know you're going to
do a great job. But it starts an election cycle,
and now I just don't see you as a politician.
Does that make sense.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
I'm not glad you pointed that out. I don't want
to just anybody. But you can take that to the bank,
because I show up as a politician back here gal
around farm so I'm gonna get a woofing. So I'm
not doing that. I'll leave that to others. I'll leave
we got to stand out here when all of a
sudden done to office, more said and done, and that
is not a group that I want to be in
(38:17):
in terms of pontification and such, and so there's some
commonalities between seals and farmers. We we live in a
world where we take personal responsibility and we get things
done and we you know, and teamwork pertained. So with
respect to that, it's an honor and a privilege to
have the President's endorsement, uh in my family support to
run for the people Kentucky conditional district or never mind
(38:39):
all those qualifications I got. I'm more like than I
am different, as you know, and so thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
It's been very gratified. You got it out.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
People reached out to me, served with decades ago all
over the world, and farmers from all over and business
folks you know, I'm involved in the chief executive world
coaching those businesses. So it's been extraordinarily gratifying. Of everybody
reaching out to me. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
I love it. Ed Gallaron, thank you for your time
today and your knowledge. You'll be back on. I am
sure when this thing turns uh. And I think you
informed a lot of people about what was what has
happened down there in the past and and and how
we're handling it. So I appreciate it, ed Tony.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
We better take this news alarm off, okay, And again
we recognized that this these are adversaries that are working
against us, and the drug trade is a weapon that
they're using against us.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
All right, back after this on news radio eight forty
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