2-5-25 - *FULL SHOW* Trump's Gaza Bombshell; Well Now You Know; Dating in America

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
First, let me just start with kind of the headline.
This is what everybody, everybody is talking about. I mean,
like I was talking about this in the whole way
here in Kawa with a newsperson and a salesperson.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Everybody's talking about it.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
The US will take over the Gaza Script and we
will do a job with it too. We'll own it
and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded
bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site
and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out,
create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of

(00:42):
jobs and housing for the people of the area.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Do a real job to something different. Just can't go back.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
If you go back, it's going to end up the
same way it has for one hundred years.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Wow, America will take over, redevelop and own the Gaza Strip.
So I have two things to say about this. That
is a really interesting idea, and it's never going to happen.
But this is I mean quintessential Donald Trump. And let
me make a few points because a lot of people

(01:15):
are focusing on the it's never going to happen. Peace
and a very negative reaction.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
By Saudi Arabia.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
A lot of people are focusing on that, and that
stuff is.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
True, and I will mention it as well.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
I will get to it, but I want to focus
on another side that you're just not going to hear
that much in the media.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
And that is as he often does, right.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Donald Trump doesn't always come up with the right solution,
but he does more often than most politicians, identify an
actual problem. And it would seem pretty obvious to anybody
who's been paying attention for the last one year, ten years,
or seventy five years that Palestinians want all Israelis and

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all Jews dead.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
And it's not a great situation having It's.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Not just having Palestinians next to Israel, it's having Palestinians
who are willing to elect Hamas to run their government
and having Hamas do what.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
They did, and having the the other well.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Both governments, because the Palestinians are kind of separated into
the West Bank and Gaza, and they have two different governments,
both of them reward terrorists and murderers. They famously named
streets and parks after people who after terrorists who kill
Israeli civilians, and and and and Trump is right that

(02:33):
there's there's no reason to expect anything other than well
Einstein's definition of insanity, right, if you you keep doing
what you've been doing, you're gonna keep getting the same
results you've been getting. And I think, obviously I don't
know Trump, but I think what's going on in his mind.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Is a couple of things.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
One, this cycle that we've been repeating over and over
is stupid and harmful, so maybe we should find a
way to do something different. Two, the guy is a
real estate developer, and his son in law, Jared Kushner,
is a real estate developer who is Jewish and very

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very involved with what's going on in the Middle East,
and was the primary architect of the Abraham Accords, which
is one of the great achievements of Donald Trump's presidency.
And as bb net Nyahu said yesterday in their joint
press conference, if the first Trump term had had six
more months, they probably would have been able to get
a piece deal done with Saudi Arabia. But anyway, Trump

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is a real estate developer. And you may not have noticed,
but the guys, the strip is on the ocean that
could be some of the most fabulous beachfront.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Property in the world.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
It could be, it could be the riviera of the
Middle East. It has so much potential, so much and
I'm sure Trump sees that. Now. Part of Trump's conversation,
of course, is getting the Palestinians out, and he's looking
at it and saying, look, this place is destroyed. Why
don't we move them to a place where it'll be

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a much nicer place to live. This is this is
kind of where you get to why it's never gonna happen.
The Palestinians don't want to leave. It's there, it's their land,
it's their homeland. Put aside, you know how many of
them are terrorists, and all I understand they don't want
to leave. I think lots of people wouldn't want to
leave the place that you grow up. You'd probably rather
rebuild it. The other the other part of the kind

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of resettlement idea. And I know some people are saying
it's just ethnic cleansing by by another name, and actually,
let me let me let me just talk about that
for a second. I'm fine with it. Ethnic cleansing usually
means I've said this once before. The term ethnic cleansing
is usually used to describe a program of murdering people

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so they don't exist anymore. This is talking about moving
some people out and having them live somewhere else. So
I wouldn't say that that really falls neatly into what
people normally call ethnic cleansing. But if you want to
call it, you know, cleansing the land of these particular
people with these particular views, then yeah, go for it.

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Because these people. First of all, the Palestinian people are very,
very young. They have lots of kids in the average
age in the Palestinian territories. I don't know the number,
but it's got to be one of the youngest places
on earth. And they've been brainwashed from the time they
were kids. And I won't go into all the details,
but they are basically the.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Modern era's Hitler youth.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Now, why would you allow a whole territory, or some
people want a nation of Hitler youth growing up to
be full on Nazis right next to Israel. Why would
you allow that?

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Why would you.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
By the way, just a little historical note, one of Donald,
one of Adolf Hitler's biggest supporter, was the Grand Mufty
of Palestine all and he actually I think moved to
Germany at some point this guy, so that the Palestinians,
many Palestinians, and certainly Palestinian leadership going back to before

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the creation of Israel, are Nazis. Not the way you
think of, you know, jack booted, you know, very blonde,
white guys or whatever, but they are functionally Nazis, and
they love the Nazis. Why should they be allowed to
stay there? I love that Donald Trump is thinking this way,

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but I think there's no chance this will happen.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Just the fact though, of throwing this bombshell out there
really shifting the Overton window on this conversation. I don't
know if there's a lot of upside, but there's no
downside Trump's remarks on the US taking over Gaza, and
then we're gonna come back to that topic later. I said,
there's no doubt side in terms of Trump saying what

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he said. There's one potential downside that a few people
are talking about, and it's too complex for me to say.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
For sure that it's really a significant risk.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
But a lot of people are saying that his commentary
might make it more difficult for Israel and Hamas to
maintain a ceasefire and for Israel to get the rest
of the hostages out. So I don't know if that's
really a risk of what Trump said. But that's the
thing I'm hearing most from people who are who are
thinking about this. We're going to come back to the
topic in a while. I am seeing all your texts

(07:29):
about it. I have responded to some of your texts
about it. We will come back to the topic in
a bit. I want to just share with you a
story here. I got to grab my laptop for this.
I want to share with you a story that I
just saw pop up on the Denver Post and it
looks like it was updated three minutes ago on.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
The Denver Post website.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
US Immigration and Customers enforcement rates were underway and Aurora
and Metro Denver on Wednesday morning. That's this morning, with
early reports and video showing agents going door to door
and throwing what appeared to be flashing smoke grenades. The
Denver Post mentions a video posted by the DEA Let's see.

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They talk about agents being at some apartment complexes called
Edge of Lowry, Whispering Pines and Cedar Run. They describe
a woman, presumably a government agent, shouting into a megaphone
or she's probably not shouting the megaphone, is probably doing
the shouting, but speaking at least into a megaphone about

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people's rights in both English and Spanish. And I think
there's more, but I think I'll just leave it there.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
I just wanted to give you that update.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
It looks like these raids that we knew were coming
after all. After all, Trump had called some of his
efforts in this direction, he'd called it Operation Aurora. And
you may recall this was just sort of briefly in
the news, and I don't even.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Know if I mentioned it on the show.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
I did definitely hear it mentioned by our KOA newspeople.
Apparently there were going to be some raids in Denver,
into or Aurora, or and who knows where else in
Colorado maybe a week ago, and there were news leaks
about it, saying these raids are coming, and so the government.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Held off because they didn't.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Want criminals, you know, sitting there, you know, behind the
door holding a pistol, waiting for the government agent to
show up, So in order to try to protect these
government agents a little bit, they held off. So in
any case, I just wanted to let you know of
that headline. Let me do this for just two minutes.

(09:44):
I don't love talking about the federal government and Donald
Trump and whatever all that much, but there's just so
much news every day. The guy makes an immense amount
of news every day. And some of it's interesting, and
some of it's important, and some of it is good ideas,
and some of his bad ideas. And and I want

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to mention this one that I had planned to get
to yesterday but didn't. So on Monday, the President ordered
the Secretary treasure of the Treasury and his nominee to
head the Commerce Department to begin a process of at
least researching how the United States would start our own

(10:30):
sovereign wealth fund. And this is one of those things
where I can easily understand how it would come out
of the mind of Donald Trump, this sort of thing.
And it's a it's it's a really bad idea. It's
appealing at first on some levels, but it's it's a

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really bad idea. And I don't think it's gonna go
anywhere because Congress would have to create it, and it's
just not gonna happen. So let me just take one
minute and tell you why. And wealth fund is a
bad idea By the way, what is a sovereign wealth fund.
It's basically a hedge fund, an investment vehicle that invests
the nation's money on behalf of the nation, and the

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profits go back to the nation, to the treasury. So
there are a few reasons why this is. And and
most countries that have sovereign wealth funds are are dictatorships
that have a lot of oil and so they have
a lot of money, right you know, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia,
these places. Norway actually has a sovereign wealth fund. But
I'll get back to that in a second. Gosh, I

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only have a I only have a few seconds here.
Let me just you know what, I'm gonna hit a
quick break here. I'm gonna I'm gonna finish up on
this topic when we come back. And then, yeah, we
still have an immense amount of stuff to do, including
and this is kind of nerdy, a really interesting story
I saw yesterday about earth, the Earth cleaning itself. I'll

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explain after this. So President Trump has announced that he
wants the Tray Secretary and his nominee to be the
Commerce Secretary he's not approved yet, to look at starting
a sovereign wealth fund for the United States.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
So, as I mentioned before, sovereign.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Wealth fund is basically a hedge fund, an investment vehicle
using government money for the benefit of the government, and
then theoretically, if it makes profits, then the government can
use that money for whatever purposes.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
There are a few.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Reasons why this is a bad idea in the case
of the United States in twenty twenty five. The first
is we have a massive budget deficit and debt, and
for sure, Donald Trump and Elon Musk and others are
working on that, and they're slashing what they can as
much as you think Elon Musk and Trump and so

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on are slashing right now, and God bless them for
what they're cutting. It's not going to get us anywhere
close to a balanced budget.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Now.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
I did see a headline, and I didn't the story
that Senator Ron Johnson is talking about proposing a balanced
budget and we should. I think it's politically impossible. Economically,
I think if we went immediately to a balanced budget
it probably causes a short lived recession, recession which would

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be worth it for sure.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
If I were king, I would do it.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
But politicians don't have the courage that kings have because
they have to get elected every two years or every
six years or every four years, depending on the job.
Well Trump doesn't because he's not running again. In any case,
in order to have a sovereign wealth fund to be
able to buy things, you'd have to put money in it.
It doesn't make any sense to put money in a

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sovereign wealth fund when you have to start by borrowing
the money at fairly high interest rates right now, I
might add, right, So, it's one thing if you have
lots of extra money, like Saudi Arabia or Norway from
selling all kinds of oil, and so you have this
spare cash flow and you're looking for ways to generate
excess return, and that makes good sense. But for us,

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we'd have to borrow the money in an environment where
interest rates are already going up, perhaps in part because
the market is a little bit skeptical that there's enough
supply of money to keep funding our debt. Right, we're
not grease yet, people aren't panicking, people aren't dumping our bonds.

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But long term interest rates have gone up a full
point over the same time period that the Federal Reserve
has cut short term interest rates by a full point,
and there is a message there or there are a
few different messages, but one of them might be fear
of how much debt the US has and whether people

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will be willing to continue to buy our debt at
these interest rates. So with a sovereign wealth fund, where
are you going to get the money?

Speaker 2 (15:01):
You're gonna have to borrow it?

Speaker 1 (15:04):
You know, if the US had a budget surplus, even
then I probably wouldn't support a sovereign wealth fund for
reasons I'll mention in a second, I would just say,
cut taxes, let people keep more of their own money. Right,
But in any case, we have no business having a
sovereign wealth fund.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
While we have a lot of debt.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Every extra dollar we have should go to pay down
that debt so that it doesn't wreck our children's futures.
The other reason that I don't like a sovereign wealth fund,
and the which relates to the reason that I think,
except for Norway, all the places with sovereign wealth funds

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are dictatorships. Can you imagine? So, first of all, you
probably couldn't create one that was completely insulated from politics
because it's probably illegal. As an example, just to you know,
give you a comparison here, Congress create this Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau, this brainchild of Pocahontas Senator Elizabeth Warren, and

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they originally set it up in a way where the
loss of the president can't fire the head of CFPB,
and Supreme Court ruled the president can fire the head
of CFPB. The president can fire you know, any political
appointee that is, you know, under the executive branch. And

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that is even though it was sort of under the
FED in any way. In any case, my point is
really really hard to insulate people from politics, like even
the president, even the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
I mean, he's got this term and I don't know
that Trump could force him out because the FED is
theoretically independent. But you know what if Trump said to

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your own Powell, I want you out now, you'd have
to go. So anyway, can you imagine, and let's assume
you can't really insulate these a sovereign wealth fund from politics.
Can you imagine the kind of stuff that a sovereign
wealth fund might want to go by when during a

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Trump administration, maybe invest in small nuclear reactors. Let's stick
with energy, right, invest in small nuclear reactors. And I
don't know the next advancement in oil and gas drilling technology,
just example, right, and then and then four years later,

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I don't know, some Democrat gets elected and they say,
all right, we're not investing in that stuff anymore. We're
not honoring our promises to those companies that we invested
in where we said, you know, we'll be in for
a second round later, We're not going to honor that,
and instead we're going to invest more.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
In wind farms.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
It would be utterly chaotic and exceptionally unlikely to be
profitable and just a mess, just an absolute mess. And
so also Norway, which I might be the only democracy

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I know of with a sovereign wealth fund. They don't
do what Saudi Arabia does and what Abu Dhabi does
and what all. So what the Arab countries do is
they really pick and choose very carefully what they're going
to invest in. And it's not driven by politics with
those guys, it is entirely driven about making money. Although

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making money, since they have so much oil, making money
could be investing in projects that they think might increase
demand for oil, but they do lots and lots of
other stuff as well, and it's you know, they'll invest
in technology and it's all about profits. Okay, because it's
a dictatorship, they're not worried about the politics, they don't
have any competition, they don't have to worry about voters,

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they don't have to worry about anything except making money
for the king. Norway is a democracy, and Norway runs
their sovereign wealth fund differently. They run their sovereign wealth
fund as I read this morning.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
I'm not an expert on this.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
I was just reading this basically like an index fund,
where they're not really making a lot of decisions about
what to buy and what not to buy. It's sort
of on autopilot and that keeps it insulated from politics.
But I think that there is no way an American
sovereign wealth fund would be like that. And so for

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all those reasons, I think an American sovereign wealth fund
is a bad idea and won't happen. All Right, here's
this other thing that I mentioned to you, and this
is so cool. I love nerdy science stuff. And here's
the headline. Let's see where this is at. Where do

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I want to look at this?

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (19:50):
Fizz dot org, phys dot org, which is a major
a major science site, what is going on with this thing?
Oh my gosh, my browsers going crazy.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
All right, here's the headline from.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
Just less than a week ago, atmosphere's self cleansing ability
followed by long term study. Now this is really interesting
because obviously climate change is a big topic of conversation.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Many people, especially.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
People have a particular political persuasion, care a lot about it.
I don't, but I do care about it as a
political and economic issue because the people who think that
climate change is an actual serious problem then try to
manipulate the economy or energy or other stuff in order
to kind of chase their you know, their white elephant

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or or their great white whale. But the science behind
it is exceptionally complex. The United Nations IPCC has been
getting less and less reliable over time, and every once
in a while a study comes out that really has
you scratching your head and what else you don't know?
Or what else the people who are telling you that

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we're all going to die don't know? There's a summary
of the study at a website called no Ridge, knowridge
dot com. Scientists have discovered that the Earth's atmosphere is
getting better at removing air pollution including methane, one of
the most powerful greenhouse gases. The new research published in

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Nature Communications reveals that a natural chemical in the air
called the hydroxyl radical, which is one oxygen and one
hydrogen with a spare electron floating around, which is important.
It is playing a big role in keeping the atmosphere clean.
This is a thirty three year long study done by

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researchers in New Zealand and The way it works is
this ultraviolet light from the sun hits ozone, the ozone
layer and water vapor and the reaction creates this hydroxyl radical.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
It is a very short lived thing.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
It normally sticks around this this hydroxyl radical. Oh and
I think it has I think it's I think it's
oh minus, I think it's I think it's ionic charges
negative one. I think yeah, it would because oxygen is
negative two and hydrogen is positive one. So normally in nature,
when this thing is created, it will disappear in less

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than a second. It's not stable, but during the time
that it's that it is there, if it interacts with
other chemicals that it can interact with, like methane, it
neutralizes them. And one of the scientists said that this
hydroxylradical removes nearly ninety percent of methane from the air,
making it one of the most important natural air purifiers

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on Earth. And in fact, they're saying the atmosphere is
getting better at doing this. So again, I'm not say
saying that this changes everything we think we know about
climate change.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
I am saying that there's a lot we don't know.

Speaker 1 (23:09):
And the people who are telling us we're all gonna
die are making money by telling us we're all gonna die.
You should be very skeptical of them. All right, let's
do something completely different. I'm so happy to welcome a
Rod back to the show he was on with us
in the eleven o'clock hour yesterday. Producer Anthony Rodriguez. Executive

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producer Anthony Rodriguez is reporting on Super Bowl Week, the
week leading up to the big game, from New Orleans.
This is presented by Chevron Colorado. So thank you for that,
Chevron and ay Rod. You sent me a video yesterday
of one of the greatest gets to use a radio
term in radio interviews of all time.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
Yes, I did.

Speaker 5 (23:54):
It was the likely going to go down as the
most pitole and the most important and just the most
entertaining interview that anyone could ever get here at Super Week,
and that was with the one and only SpongeBob SquarePants
and Patrick Starr, stars of the alternate Nickelodeon broadcast that
has taken the NFL global world by storm with the

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young fan base.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
So you did a laugh, you did like a SpongeBob laugh,
and ask them to grade it. And by the way, folks,
if you want to see this, you can find it
on Kowai's social media and you and I embedded it
into my blog at Rosskominsky dot com to in today's
blog if you want to find it easily that way.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Are you a SpongeBob fan?

Speaker 4 (24:43):
I mean, is there anyone you know what?

Speaker 5 (24:44):
Let me answer, Just like Travis Kelsey did when I
asked him a non Swifties, I will say, ye, are
there really non SpongeBob fans?

Speaker 4 (24:54):
I'm just gonna one line you. That's it. That's all
you get.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
I knew you were going to go to that too,
I really did.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
But seriously, that must have been kind of fun for you.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
It was it was. I mean, first of all, I
just love the.

Speaker 5 (25:10):
Revamp or the like the re install of SpongeBob and
Friends back into today's pop culture and tied them with
the NFL because I don't know if there is simply
a better way to get the young fans to pay
attention to the game.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
And I don't know, if you're watching these alternate broadcasts.

Speaker 5 (25:26):
With the one and Only Sponge by the one and
only Patrick and Sandy and Friends, they'd actually do a
pretty darn good job integrating ways to really teach the
game to young audiences.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
So I waited patiently, patiently.

Speaker 5 (25:40):
I had to wait thirty minutes for a little a
water break for SpongeBob and Patrick with which makes zero
sense because they are, you know, running on water, so
I don't know why they need a thirty minute water break,
but I had to wait for the interview, and I
waited with bated.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
Breath because I was very very very very much wanting
to get that and I.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Secured it well done, And I will say, I mean,
those guys live in the water, but they're out of
the water to be able to talk with you, So
maybe they really did need a water break way more
than most people would.

Speaker 4 (26:14):
I would guess.

Speaker 5 (26:15):
So I have no idea how they're surviving as long
as they are making appearance after appearance.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
They have the Nickelodeon set.

Speaker 5 (26:23):
They have like these little slime hats that they're giving
out the people, so they're having to manage that as well.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
They've got a big responsibility.

Speaker 5 (26:30):
I mean, the entire future of the NFL fan base
that is living and breathing the NFL through the living
and breathing of air of SpongeBob and Patrick rely solely
on those two individuals and their representation of the league
in the game today.

Speaker 4 (26:43):
So it's a lot of pressure.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
But also on a more serious note, pretty clever of
the NFL to try to recruit fans at an early
age before you know, those kids end up becoming fans
of let's say, some other professional primary fans of some
other professional sport.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
It's it's very clever.

Speaker 5 (27:05):
Just when you think the NFL can't take their genius
to a new level about how to capture different audiences,
not just across the globe and now of all ages
as young as those that would watch Nickelodeon on a
regular basis.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
It's just brilliant.

Speaker 5 (27:17):
And those broadcasters are really good, and like you said,
on a serious note, they do a phenomenal job getting
folks to tie in the game because you got to.
You gotta find a way to get younger audiences. A
lot of other sports struggle to do so. The NFL
is a global brand that continues to impress.

Speaker 4 (27:31):
And that's just another reason why.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Uh So, you told me that there was a big
party last night where when we spoke yesterday you said
you were going to the party. Did you go to
the party, and if so, tell us a little about it.
I did go to the party. I have heard legend
of the big Super Bowl media party that is held
yearly basically by probably a combination of both the Super

(27:53):
Bowl host Committee and then also like you know, the
visit whatever city you know, so visit New Orleans.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
Probably all work in tandem on this ross. This was
like going to five parties at once, mixed with a
Disney theme park. It was at Marty Garral World, which
is just within a few minutes of a walk from
the Convention Center, which is by the way, I'm standing
right now before I walk into Hall G and it's insane,
thirty participating restaurants, five stages. It literally felt like I

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visited five different parties at one party. It's like a
comic con mixed with the biggest party with all the
different kinds of music you can imagine. And again, New
Orleans just continues to impress in that party by itself,
the amazing gumbo that I just had to break the
diet for the best cheesecake I've had on planet Earth.

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All of the New Orleans vibe and feel and music
and persona all mixed together, and I got everyone was
walking around with these awesome New Orleans necklaces the New
Orleans super Bowl one of the alternate lowest for the
super Bowl, and I couldn't find one, And I asked
one of the staffers, Hey, do you know where you
could get one? Could I get myself one? And she goes, well,

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I think the people just walked away. But here half mine.
I mean, if there doesn't anything that just captures the
New Orleans vibe in the hospitality, I mean that right there.

Speaker 4 (29:11):
It was just the best party. It was so much fun.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
So other than SpongeBob and Patrick, who I think did
more listening than talking, those guys, what was the most
interesting conversation you had there in New Orleans yesterday?

Speaker 5 (29:27):
You know what I gotta tell you, I continue to
be impressed with Ryan Leaf. You don't know Ryan Leaf.
Obviously he got drafted right in the same draft with
Peyton Manning. Was supposed to be potentially just as good,
if not better than Peyton Manning. And he has just
turned his entire life around in the last decade plus. Obviously,
he his NFL career, to put it gently, did not

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go the way he anticipated. Had a lot of issues
with substances, and I believe spend some jail time and
then turn this thing around. Has become one of the
most well respected, well listen to.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
Analysts that there is.

Speaker 5 (30:01):
And he had some glowing things to say about bo
Nicks and what he was able to accomplish in his
rookie season and said, you know, honestly, like you know, uh,
get him, get the get the He was very, very
very supportive of the Bronco was getting an elite tight
end and take another step on defense, and he he
thinks they're going to be right there in terms of competing.
So he had some really really good things to say.

(30:22):
You could hear that too many interview on our social channels.
The other fun one real.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
Quick, I had a real good chat with c J
two K.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
Chris Chris Johnson I think I mentioned to you guys
yesterday he had some awesome stuff to say about the
running back position and what what adding a guy like
Saquon Barkley like the Eagles did, can do for you
as a squad.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
So so those are a couple of good chats.

Speaker 5 (30:40):
But I will say ross Wednesday and Thursday, today and
tomorrow are the big ramp up periods where all the
celebrities coming to town, all the athletes coming to town
promoting their brand, promoting you know, whether there's a cause
or a product or whatnot. So this is this is
when the ramp up period comes up. So I'm definitely
hoping to chat with some more folks here today.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Okay, I got just a few seconds left. But so first,
like a warm up question, do you prepare questions in
advance for specific people or do you just make them
up as soon as you're you know, there's Chris Jones,
what are you know?

Speaker 2 (31:11):
All right, I'm gonna ask him this? Or do you prepare?

Speaker 4 (31:15):
I do prepare some stuff.

Speaker 5 (31:16):
It was more for more along the theme talking about
Sean Payton and bon Nicks and the Broncos, especially from
their division rival Chiefs. So on opening night, that's really
their direction. I wanted to go, you know what you
think about bone Nicks and his rookie campaign? What do
you think about that marriage with him and Sean other guys?
You know, most of the time, especially today tomorrow, I'm
not gonna really have much prep periods and I see
him and go, oh, this would be great to ask him.

(31:37):
Great to do that. But generally I try to prep
some stuff, but not too much. That way, I can
kind of let it, let it take the right direction.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Okay. So my question then is what question, if any.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Have you prepared for Taylor Swift?

Speaker 5 (31:51):
For Taylor Swift, Well, I will say I'm gonna throw
Travis under the bus. I'm gonna say, hey, look, I
gave Travis the opportunity to speak to the world, all
the non Swifties, all the NFL fans were not Taylor
Swift fans, and he just one lined me. It's almost
like he just disregarded that that relationship all together. So
am I going to try to create a rift between
Taylor and Travis one hundred percent because that's my revenge

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for me standing and waiting for Travis Kelsey to answer
my question and for him to just Oneline me, so
my revenge just plotted.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
I'm ready to go.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Yeah. But it was a darn good line. And like
we said yesterday, it was the line he needed to
give boss.

Speaker 5 (32:25):
A friend of mine, a friend of mine who was
from Austria, who who was a massive Taylor Swift fan,
text me this morning and shout out to Lisa.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
By the way, Lisa and Stephan my housing friends.

Speaker 5 (32:34):
She said that they she literally randomly came across my
video in a Taylor Swift hate subreddit. I mean, I mean,
if that doesn't just perfectly explain this video is everywhere.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Oh that's really funny.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
All right. A Rod is reporting from New Orleans for
the rest of the week. Thanks so much to Chevron
Colorado for supporting that.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Have fun eight Rod. We'll talk with you tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
Thank you, appreciate it. Man.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
All right, we'll be right back on kaway.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
All right, back by popular demanding tripid Chad Bauer from
the Kawai newsroom with his fabulous segment. Well, now you
know what are we talking about today, Chad? It's got
to be the super Bowl. It does It has to be.

Speaker 6 (33:10):
The most popular sporting event in America TV wise, for sure,
And a lot of people talking about it. Our guy
A Rod who you just talked to, is down there.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
And do you know.

Speaker 6 (33:22):
That it wasn't called the super Bowl For the first
couple of years that the game was played.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
I did not know that. Do you know what it
was called? I don't know. Championship.

Speaker 6 (33:33):
It was the it was the very exciting name, the
AFL NFL World Championship Game. Okay, rolls right off the
time it does, and how it originated was the end.
There was the rival league, the AFL, the American Football
League and the NFL, so in nineteen sixty six they agreed.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
To merge, and they ended up merging a few years later.

Speaker 6 (33:57):
But part of this agreement was this annualchampionship game, and
the first one was in nineteen sixty seven, meaning this
one is LIX.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Fifty nine the Roman numerals.

Speaker 6 (34:10):
And do you know how the name and for the
first two Super Bowls it was called that AFL NFL
World Championship Game. Do you know why it's called the
super Bowl?

Speaker 1 (34:20):
I've got a guess on that one.

Speaker 7 (34:21):
I think I know that the college bowl games were
the big thing of the time. So the NFL AFL merger,
they're like, hey, we need to have super Bowl, a
bowl that's bigger than the college games, sort.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
Of sort of.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
I don't have a guess.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
It was actually.

Speaker 6 (34:39):
Originated supposedly, as these things sometimes are, by who the
owner of the Kansas City Chiefs at the time, Lamar Hunt,
And while they were talking about this whole merger thing
well before the supposedly he said this in nineteen sixty
six when the AFL was negotiating with the NFL, and
he was talking to the to the commissioners, saying, you

(35:00):
know what we should do is, you know, we should
have this game where the NFL champion plays our league's champion,
and if possible, we should coin a phrase for the
championship game. I have kiddingly called it the super Bowl,
which obviously can be improved upon. And he supposedly came
up with that because his kids loved to play.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
With a super ball, a super super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
But of course you know that's there's always multiple reasons. Yeah,
because it was so long ago. The Chiefs were in
the first it wasn't called a super Bowl, but they
were in the first one.

Speaker 6 (35:34):
They've been yeah, this one, and so Pete Rosel, the
commissioner apparently hated the name. He wanted to call it
the Pro Bowl, but of course that was already taken
by the All Star Game every year that the NFL
plays already existed. Apparently it did. Yeah, okay, and so
then they agreed that the NFL AFL NFL Championship Game.

(35:54):
But you know, when meetings and stuff this, the word
super Bowl started leaking out and they, you know, they said,
and some owners did mention the college thing, that we
needed to surpass that, and so it just kind of
the snowball came and everybody kept calling at the super Bowl.
And then finally with super Bowl three, they said, I did, okay,
we're gonna call it the super Bowl now since that's
what everybody's calling it anyway. But they didn't use the

(36:17):
Roman numeral until super Bowl five. It is just at
the time they didn't say this is super Bowl three,
they said, this is the super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
I like the Roman numerals. I think they look kind
of dramatic and I don't know, I dig it.

Speaker 7 (36:31):
Yeah, yeah, But the last one that we have was
the fifty, which is the five zero.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
They didn't use the Roman numerals for that one.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
You're right, because L might have just confused people. Yeah,
I have a question for you, Chad.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Yes, do you know how much a ticket costs to
the first super Bowl? Twelve dollars?

Speaker 2 (36:47):
That's right, of course, it's right. And it didn't sell out, Yes.

Speaker 7 (36:51):
And broadcast on multiple networks, if I recall correctly, multiple
televised on multiple networks.

Speaker 6 (36:57):
Really, I'm pretty sure. I think you're right, and I
think it was at least two. And today the halftime
show is the is the highlight of the event for
a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
We have the biggest names in music performing.

Speaker 6 (37:10):
But that was not the case for the first you know,
a few decades of the Super Bowl. Do you know
who the performers were at the halftime show at the
very first super Bowl at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, A.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
High school marching band go up on one level marching band.

Speaker 6 (37:28):
It was the University of Arizona and the Grambling State
University of marching band, plus a big star that they
brought in to help him out, Yeah, trumpeter Al Hurt Okay.
And so that was the case for a lot of
the years. They had, you know a lot of these
various marching bands, and then they had various Caribbean bands.

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One year one was a tribute to Paris. It was
the way it was, the New Orleans It's a Small
World featuring La Unified City Band with the New Mousketeers
in nineteen seventy seven. In nineteen eighty two, and Pontiac, Michigan,
it was a salute to Motown featuring up with People.
So those are the kind of these types of halftime shows,

(38:09):
and then they started getting bigger and bigger, like, for example,
in ninety one they had new kids on the block
who at the time you know, were pretty big, and
then they started getting bigger and bigger and bigger stars,
until you know, we have the huge stars.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
We have what Kendrick Lamar, Who's who's playing this year?

Speaker 6 (38:27):
I honestly have no It's Kendrick Lamar. Do you ever
who played last year? I honestly have no idea usher.
Oh and before that it was Rihanna. There was a
run there.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
I don't care about any of those people. I don't
listen to any of their music and I don't did.
But that's you know, that's a statement about how to
out of touch I am. That's not really trumping about
remember that.

Speaker 6 (38:48):
Yeah, all right, well, there was a good run in
the early two thousands where it was almost all rock bands.
For example, two thousand and two was U two, and
then two thousand and five was Paul McCartney the Rolling Stones,
and two thousand and seven it was my all time
favorite Prince halftime shot.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
I should say, I think.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Prince probably tops the list.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
If you did a huge poll, you know, if you
pull thousands and thousands of people, what was the best?
I bet your Prince would come out as number one.
Did Springsteen do one? I'm trying to remember. I yes,
he did two thousand and nine, who did two? And ten?
Tom Petty two thousand and eight. Wow, Michael Jackson was
one as well as.

Speaker 6 (39:27):
Michael Jackson did one a little earlier than that, and
then his sister with the wardrobe malfunction. That was the
most most controversial one for sure was the Janet Jackson
and justin Timberlin.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
I wish we'd get back to some rock and roll
and a little less of whatever this stuff is that
they're doing now.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
But again that was like.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
Comment about me that this ACDC, Oh wouldn't that be amazing? Yes,
you know what kids these days like ac DC, You know,
like there's some old music that's cool with the kids.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Now, all right, Chatt'll get last nineteen seconds.

Speaker 6 (39:58):
Okay, what team has the most Super Bowl appearances? Steve
Pittsburgh's the Patriots with eleven.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Who has the most Super Bowl wins? Patriots?

Speaker 6 (40:10):
It's two, tied with two or tied the Patriots is
one Steelers boom. And who has the most Super Bowl defeats?
Another tie between two teams m Denver and also the
team with the most wins the Patriots of the Patriots, yep,
they also have five losses. Yeah, and the last one.

(40:34):
There are four teams that have never made the Super Bowl.
Do you know what they are?

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (40:38):
Browns correct, uh, Hexans.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Texans is the third Southeast.

Speaker 6 (40:48):
For the last one, it's Tampa Baban And that's it.
Those are the four that have never been very of course,
my Minnesota Vikings have lost all four times they were
in and never led. They're the only team that's lost
that They've never even led for a second in the

(41:08):
Super Bowl. I shouldn't know that lost four of them. Yeah,
there was a lot there I didn't.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
Know, But I think for me, maybe the top one
is the potential origin of the name of super Bowl
coming from Super Bowl, Yeah, I do.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
I do love that story. And Chad, I did not
know Ross.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Now you know, fingers in the air, everybody will be
right back on ka. Oh my gosh, I remember that
from when my kids were young, obsessed with it.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Oh my god, you were your kids obsessed.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
With it totally.

Speaker 7 (41:37):
I had the yellow vhs that I had to put
it or it was orange. Yeah, yeah, ye, all day,
every day. If you weren't a parent at that time,
that was. That was Blues Clues.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
Did your did your kids also watch Dora the Explorer?

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Does that sound familiar?

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Yes? That was like map.

Speaker 7 (41:52):
Same I'm the map, I'm the map, the Map, I'm
the map.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
I'm the map. I'm the map. I'm the map.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
Yeah, same vintage, same vintage.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
We all suffered through all of that as parents, and I,
by the way, I could tolerate and even occasionally enjoy
most of that stuff, except for Barney.

Speaker 7 (42:14):
Gosh, Barney, I have my little sister with Barney the worst.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
Oh my gosh, the worst. All right, So I was
gonna do a whole bunch of things, but then Dragon.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Just played that.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
So I will tell It's actually a very interesting story.
I know, I'm following your shows.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
I know, I know.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
It's your own fault. Did you put your trash out?
By the way, you didn't. You didn't warn me in time,
so I didn't. You didn't put yours. I didn't put
my trash out. And my wife is gonna come home
tonight or tomorrow morning and the trash is still gonna
be there, and then she's gonna be mad at me.
You're lucky, You're pretty. And if any listeners have figured
out what's wrong with this conversation, you can text us

(42:55):
at five six six nine. Here, all right, let me
do this for two minutes, and then in the next
segment of the show, Ruthie Bloom is going to join
us from Jerusalem and talk about that incredible press conference
that President Trump did with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday.
This was actually a little bit of whiplash, and I
want to share with you to let me make sure

(43:15):
I can get this going here, Okay.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
I want to share with you to.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
Short like announcements, let's say, from the United States Postal Service.
And these announcements are separated from each other by less
than twelve hours and maybe less than six hours.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
I forget.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
But here here's the first one. I saw this yesterday,
Effective February fourth, the Postal Service will temporarily suspend only
international package acceptance of inbound parcels from China and Hong
Kong posts until further notice. Note the flow of letters
and flats from China and Hong Kong will not be impacted.
In other words, what they're talking about is, you know,

(44:00):
so many people buy small orders of stuff from China
through Temu, through a company I never heard of but
apparently is freaking enormous called Shine Sahgi n and apparently
what they sell is inexpensive clothing. I So, anyway, I'll
come back to that in a second. I'm in a
run out of time here, But so yesterday the post

(44:22):
Office announced they are no longer going to accept packages
coming from China and Hong Kong.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Within a few hours.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
They said, effective February fifth, which is today, the Postal
Service will continue accepting all international inbound mail and packages
from China.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
And Hong Kong posts.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
So I'm gonna have to explain this to you in
more detail a little bit later in the show. But
the short version of what's going on here that you
might need to know about depending on if you buy
stuff from sites like Teamu and the TikTok store and.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Shine and Ali Express.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
I ordered a lot of small electronic parts from Ali Express.
Is that as part of the ongoing trade war and
tariffs with China. The other thing that President Trump changed
was he stopped what's called the Deminimus exception that allows
something worth under eight hundred dollars to come in without
having to pay a tariff. And Trump claims that drugs

(45:22):
were coming in that way. It's unclear to me that
that's true. This stuff still gets you know, inspected X
ray or whatever looking for drugs. But in any case,
at this point, it appears that any package, even if
it's worth two dollars, is coming from China, it's gonna
have to pay the tariff. So you're gonna have to

(45:44):
the importer somehow will pay another twenty cents on top
of the two dollars. It'll probably cost the federal government
two or three or five dollars to do that process
to collect twenty cents. And in the meantime, the prices
of stuff are gonna go up, and so both the
buyers and sellers are going to get hurt, but in
any case, the postal service gave us some whiplash. We'll

(46:06):
be right back with Ruthy Bloom from Jerusalem. I wanted
to share with you a brief clip from Donald Trump's
press conference yesterday with Benjamin Etnia, who I shared with
you earlier. The clip that everybody's talking about We're going
to take over Gaza and all that. I just want
to share with you a little bit of kind of
context what he said right.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
Before that they should not go through a process of
rebuilding and occupation by the same people that have really
stood there and fought for it, and lived there and
died there and lived a miserable existence there. Instead, we
should go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts,

(46:47):
and there are many of them that want to do
this and build various domains that will ultimately be occupied
by the one point eight million Palestinians living in Gaza,
ending the death and instruction and frankly bad luck. This
could be paid for by neighboring countries of great wealth.
It could be one, two, three, four, five, seven, a twelve.

(47:11):
It could be numerous sites, so it could be one
large site, but the people will be able to live
in comfort and peace.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
So that was Donald Trump yesterday in one of the
most mind blowing press conferences I've ever seen in my life.
And so he said, basically, if you keep doing the
same thing with gods that you've been doing, you're going
to get the same results you've been getting. And maybe
we should do something else. And then there's something else
that he that he suggested was pretty out there, but

(47:40):
still it's a change in the conversation.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Joining us to talk about it.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
From Israel is Ruthie Bloom from JNS Jewish News Syndicate,
and she's a pundit and a writer and a former
advisor to the net Yahoo administration in Israel and just
an awesome guest and we love having her on and
thank you for making time out of your evening in Israel.

Speaker 8 (48:02):
Ruthie, Well, I'm happy to be here as always.

Speaker 9 (48:06):
Ros.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
So, you know what, there are so many possible angles
on this. I'm just gonna ask you to talk about
whatever angle you want to talk about, and then I'll
have some follow up questions.

Speaker 8 (48:18):
Okay, So how about if I start with a little
anecdote in two thousand and five, the disengagement from Gaza,
which is a euphemism for the total withdrawal of every
last Jew from the Gaza strip, from Bush Katif, which
was where there were Jewish settlements along the southern Israel

(48:43):
and in Gaza.

Speaker 9 (48:46):
The reason that.

Speaker 8 (48:47):
Then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon did that was because daily
there were suicide bombers coming in from Gaza, blowing up cafes,
blowing up school buses. It was untenable. But his solution
to it was to pull out the Jews. Say, you
know what, We're going to build a fence, and even
one pebble comes over that fence and we will then

(49:09):
go to war, which of course, people like me, we
knew that wouldn't happen, would be enough to have some
television crew there, and we would be accused of all
kinds of crimes. And that was two thousand and five.
We are now twenty years later. Okay, Now, when that happened,
my father and I had a huge political argument over it.

(49:32):
He supported that move and I was against it, and
I said, why are you pulling.

Speaker 9 (49:38):
The Jews out of there?

Speaker 8 (49:39):
Why don't you why don't you kick out the Gosins
who are committing those suicide bombings, And he said, you
know that's not realistic. You know, nobody's going to allow it.
It's not realistic. And I said, right, it's not, but
neither is pulling out all the Jews from there. So

(50:00):
how about you have your unrealistic plan and I have
my unrealistic plan. Well I was wrong, because we actually
did pull the Jews out of there. Nobody said boo
in the world about that, except to again accuse Israel
of closing.

Speaker 9 (50:16):
Off of the siege of Gaza.

Speaker 8 (50:18):
Now I'm the reason I'm telling you that anecdote is
that look at us.

Speaker 9 (50:23):
Twenty years later.

Speaker 8 (50:24):
President Trump gets up there, and it was unprecedented what
he did.

Speaker 9 (50:29):
The whole world.

Speaker 8 (50:31):
The whole world's jaw dropped because he got up there.
Nobody expected this. We knew he was going to be Trump.
You know, Trump is Trump. He's always outrageous to some extent.
And we saw the warm bath he gave Prime Minister Nitaniao,
who arrived in Washington, the first world leader to visit
the White House. We also saw the stark deviation from

(50:54):
the way that the Biden administration treated Nitaiao and Israel
even after yeah October seventh atrocities. So we knew that
something was cooking. And we had also heard last week
that he spoke about some kind of relocation of the
of the residents of Gaza, but nobody expected him to say.

Speaker 9 (51:16):
Okay, so here's the deal.

Speaker 8 (51:19):
Uh, We're the United States is going to We're going
to relocate all of the Gazans.

Speaker 9 (51:24):
We're going to rebuild Gaza.

Speaker 8 (51:25):
We're going to give them a human, humanitarian solution, get
them out of the hellhold that is Gaza, out from
under from us, out from under the rubble that resulted
as a because of the war, because of the idea
of bombing buildings to look for hostages. And he said, okay,

(51:49):
the United States is going to oversee this.

Speaker 9 (51:52):
So it was a huge bombshell.

Speaker 8 (51:53):
And what I'm saying is it's possible that this plan
won't come to fruition. It's possible, but you never know,
because you know, Trump has said dumb things in the
past and said things in the past and then he came.

Speaker 9 (52:05):
Through with them. So I wouldn't give up hope on
that yet.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
Okay, I have a lot of things to say. So
I've been saying for many years that it's insane for
the Gaza Strip to exist as a place that holds
this generation's equivalent of the Hitler youth in large numbers,
right there next to Israel. And like you said, it's

(52:32):
all unrealistic plans. I was saying earlier in the show
about how the Grand Muffy you know in the nineteen
thirties was one of Hitler's best friends. And and the
Palestinians have always been close to the actual Nazis, and
they remain effectively Nazis today, and yet they're supposed to
be there next to Israel, next to all the Jews

(52:55):
they want to kill.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
So it is an untenable situation.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
On the other hand, like you can understand why people
wouldn't want to leave their land. Let's just put aside
the terrorists for a second. A normal Palestinian, if there
is such a thing, might not want to leave their land.
But to me, the part of this that nobody's talking
about that I would like you to elaborate on a
little bit is the Palestinian people, not every one of them,

(53:19):
but way too many are ignorant and radical. And the
governments of places that have been mentioned as possible destinations
for the Palestinians don't want them because they don't want
the creation of something like humas in their own country
and a revolution in their own country, and anyway, can
you elaborate on that a little.

Speaker 8 (53:41):
You're exactly right, No Arab country wants them. And I've
got to say something. It's very controversial, but then I'm
going to explain it. Okay, the reason they don't want them,
I mean, they're actually right not to want them, and
the reason is that wherever Palestinians go, they reack havoc
and destruction and then they try to overthrow the regime.

(54:02):
And that's why Jordan doesn't want them, and that's why
Egypt doesn't want them. They're also in arm of the
Muslim Brotherhood, which is outlawed in Egypt. So they're right
not to want them. But they're hypocrites because they constantly
claim that they have their hearts are bleeding for the
Palestinians and they want them to have a state and
all that. Now, the Palestinians don't want a state, and

(54:24):
how do we know that because they keep rejecting statehood.
What they want is to destroy the state of Israel.
They destroy everything, and they're wake. Now, you can't really
blame them in a way, because any child who is
raised on the kind of material that those children are
raised on.

Speaker 9 (54:42):
Well, you would be like that too.

Speaker 6 (54:44):
You know.

Speaker 8 (54:44):
Their math books say things like if we kill two
Jews and you kill two more, how many Jews did
you kill? They're crossword puzzles. Their sports games are named
after suicide bombers. Now, the worst part about this is
guess who their teachers are?

Speaker 9 (55:04):
UNRA UNRA.

Speaker 8 (55:05):
The United Nations that is supposed to do the United
Age is supposed to care about their their well being
and perpetuates their refugee status even after for three generations,
four generations, there is no such comparable group. Now aside
from that, you said, well you can understand why someone
wouldn't want to leave his land. Really, what about all

(55:28):
the Syrians who went flooded Europe because of the Syrians
Civil War? What about Ukrainians who searched for safe haven?
That's ridiculous. People populations in wartime are always moving and
relocate to be in a safer environment.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
So just so just to clarify for a second, what
I meant was I understand why people don't want to
permanently leave their land, and I think there would be,
for example, a lot of Ukrainians who would love to
go back to where they were. Syria, Not so sure,
especially if they're in the you know, getting welfare from

(56:10):
stupid European countries. Who are you know, giving them free
money and stuff. But if they stop getting the free money,
they might want to go back.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
Want to go back too.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
Yes, during war, you'd want to get out from under that.
But I don't think it's I don't think you can
casually claim that people would be willing to abandon what
they consider their homeland forever.

Speaker 6 (56:32):
Right.

Speaker 8 (56:32):
But you know what, if you really listen to what
Trump said, he said, well, it could be temporary, it
could be permanent, It could be temporary.

Speaker 9 (56:43):
First of all, rebuilding.

Speaker 8 (56:44):
Gaz according to him, okay, he treated it sort of
like a real estate dealer, right. He said, it could
take ten to fifteen years to actually get Gaza turned
Gaza into the riviera of the Middle East. All right,
that's what he said now. But what he didn't say
was that Palestinians couldn't return.

Speaker 9 (57:03):
He did not say that.

Speaker 8 (57:04):
He said when asked by a reporter, well, can Palestinians
live there? He said, of course, Palestinians can live there,
and so can other people in the world. And what's
interesting about that is you realize the Palestinians have said
this is that when they have a state, no Jew
will be allowed to live there. In other words, they

(57:29):
really do have a Nazi ideology. And I'd like to
point to something you just mentioned before about the ties
to the Nazis. My son and son in law were
both in reserve duty throughout this war, and they came
back saying that in every single.

Speaker 9 (57:45):
House, civilian houses, okay.

Speaker 8 (57:48):
Not necessarily hamas leaders or hamas commanders, civilian homes, girls
twelve year old girls, pink laptops had pictures of Hitler
as their screensaver. This was all over the strip. So
you know, you're talking about a population that unless it

(58:15):
is re educated or re educates itself to be to
love life, not to worship death, to want a better
life for their children. You know, one of the things
that differentiates if you take, for example, Egypt and Israel.
Egypt and Israel have had a peace treaty for many

(58:37):
many for decades.

Speaker 6 (58:39):
Now.

Speaker 8 (58:39):
Now you could say, well, the Egyptians are Antisemites, or
you know, the Egyptian governments have been hostile to Israel,
et cetera. But here's the difference. The Egyptians do want
their children to be educated, do care that their children
don't get killed in war. The Egyptians wanted Israel and
each had a common goal, and that was not to

(59:04):
be at war, right, that was the common goal, regardless
of hostilities in the streets. You know, you could say
there's a lot of anti Semites in the streets of Egypt.

Speaker 9 (59:14):
Forget about it.

Speaker 8 (59:15):
The Palestinians do not have the same goal as Israel,
and that is why there has never been peace. They
are not It's like a real estate deal. If you
want to buy an apartment, I'm the seller, you're the buyer.
We have the same goal, and that is to eventually
we need to negotiate. Right, you want to buy it,
I want to sell it. We have the same goal.

(59:39):
The Palestinians do not have the same goal. They do
not care about statehood. Their goal is not to live
side by side with Israel. Their goal is to annihilate Israel,
to kill Jews. And by the way, Christians and apostate
I say in quote Muslims as well, and that's especially
true of Hamas. But let me tell you that's also

(01:00:00):
true of the Palestinian authority who and the Palestinian authority
that hates come As because their rivals for power nevertheless
continues to pay have discipens to terrorists families for the
rest of their lives. So you know, we don't have
a common goal. And when Trump came along and said, okay,

(01:00:21):
no more, history is repeating herself. This hasn't worked. And
then he took the humanitarian route. He said, to help
all of those people in Gaza who don't want to
live in garbage and under terrorist leadership. So interestingly, the
world got angry. Why why not say, wow, this is

(01:00:44):
humanitarian for these people, This will help them. But you
know what, how do we.

Speaker 9 (01:00:49):
Also know that.

Speaker 8 (01:00:52):
They don't have the same goal. Do you know that
Gaza has been rebuilt after every war? There have been
billion in some dollars, euros and shekels poured in to
that tiny strip of land for rehabilitation, and all Hamas
did was take it to build tunnels and a war
machine and rockets and plan kidnapping of Israelis. Every Gazzin

(01:01:18):
could have had a villa in a swimming pool by now.
So I really I take my hat off to President
Trump for coming out and just saying, okay, now.

Speaker 9 (01:01:32):
The jig is up.

Speaker 8 (01:01:33):
Okay, so all of you people whose hearts are bleeding
for the Palestinians, you're gonna chip in money. If you're not,
you're gonna help relocate them. You're gonna chip in money
to rebuildre and we're gonna aim for a peaceful, peaceful
border there and make Gaza a kind.

Speaker 9 (01:01:53):
Of hub and there'll be lots of employment.

Speaker 8 (01:01:55):
Now this may sound like some kind of pipe dream,
but you tell me it does anything else sound like
anything other than a pipe dream?

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
Yeah, so I agree with you, like every proposal is unrealistic.
I love Trump's acknowledgment of the problem, and I've been
very clear about this for years as well, that the
that it's not just Hamas but many many guys, and
as you say, civilians are are Nazis basically, and we

(01:02:25):
have to acknowledge that we're running short on time. So
I just I'll make one comment and then I have
one other question. The main reason that I think this
won't happen is I think the American public won't tolerate it. Right,
Like Trump's all about trying to cut government spending right now,
this would be very expensive.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
So Congress won't go along with it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
The other thing is America is tired of war, and
the first time an American soldier or contractor or anyone
you know gets shot in Gaza as part of this project,
America will revolt against it. And that's part of the
reason that I, you know, I don't think it will happen,
but I do love Trump just completely changing the conversation.

(01:03:04):
So here here's my last question for you, Ruthie. I've
seen a few people, including a dude from JNS who
I saw on NewsNation this morning and his name escapes me,
say that one potential downside of Trump saying what he
said is that it could make it more difficult to
get more hostages released. And I don't understand that. Can you,

(01:03:30):
even if you don't agree with that claim, can you
at least explain why they're putting that together and then
you can say whether you agree with it or not.

Speaker 8 (01:03:40):
Yes, and I agree with it and don't agree with it.
It's one of those you know, This whole business with
the hostages has created a huge dilemma inside myself, both politically,
morally spiritually. But I can explain what he probably meant,
what he probably meant, was that the mind that Trump
starts threatening like that or scaring them and saying, you know.

(01:04:04):
He also it's not only that he said that that
America was going to take over. He also said that
if in the second phase of this hostage release deal
that Hamas pulls some stunts, that he will get violent.
Use the word well he said something like, uh will
be considerably more violent something like that.

Speaker 9 (01:04:23):
Use that word.

Speaker 8 (01:04:25):
So I would assume that the reason there might be
fears that that endangerous hostages is that Hamas will say, well,
in that case, what do we need them for.

Speaker 9 (01:04:35):
We can just execute them all.

Speaker 8 (01:04:37):
I don't think that it will happen because Hamas considers
them leverage. It has nothing left, it's all in rubble,
and it's still claiming victory and that the hostages are
its last bit of collateral. So I don't think that'll happen.
But everything in dangerous, the hostages, including these deals. So

(01:04:58):
that's why I say it's terrible, you know, a terrible
moral dilemma here, because on the one hand, even when
we try to rescue operations six of the hostages were executed,
we have to be extremely careful. However, the deal is
really really bad.

Speaker 9 (01:05:16):
For the rest of Israeli society.

Speaker 8 (01:05:18):
And for the hostages who were released. You think they're
not put in danger by all those bloodthirsty terrorists we
released from Israeli jails.

Speaker 9 (01:05:26):
Those same hostages, like the rest of.

Speaker 8 (01:05:28):
The country, could be kidnapped again, or slaughtered or raped.
I mean, uh, you know so, so it's a terrible dilemma.
But I don't think that Trump saying that is.

Speaker 9 (01:05:40):
Going to cause that to happen. I think what could happen.

Speaker 8 (01:05:43):
Is that it causes commas to realize that now there's
a new sheriff in town. This isn't Biden anymore. This
isn't blinking, This isn't you know, oh you you you know,
not all guys intore terrorists. This is this is a
whole new as you said. Conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
Ruthie Bloom is a writer and pundit at the Jewish
News Syndicate JNS dot org. Always so great to see you, Ruthie.
Thanks for your time, go enjoy the rest of your
evening in Israel.

Speaker 9 (01:06:16):
Thanks roth Great to see you.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
Yeah, great to see you too.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
All Right, we're gonna take a very quick break ponder
all that, and we'll be right back on kaw. A
listener texted in during my conversation with Ruthie Bloom who's
in Tel Aviv, and and the listener. The listener said,
sometimes she is hard to listen to because she never pauses,
which is true. But what I want to say is

(01:06:39):
you realize that's an Israeli woman, right, What do you expect?
That was brevity from an Israeli woman? Okay, I'm Jewish,
I know that was brevity. So there you go, there
you go. Anyway, it's a it's a very it's a
very complicated situation with Gaza, and we will see what happens.

(01:07:02):
I'm gonna I'm gonna move on from that for now.
Oh okay, this just shows you how the the world
we're in right now in this particular context. So when
I go to King Supers, I will often look for
the little rectangular stickers that show it to me like
a manager special like they used to say, woohoo.

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
I don't know if they still say that, and you
know they're I may I don't even remember.

Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
Red and yellow with a white border sounds about something
like that. And they've got the they've got the markdown
price on them, and you know, if it's something that
I know I'm gonna eat and that you know, doesn't
look like it's gone bad or is it about to
go bad, I.

Speaker 7 (01:07:49):
Not definitely buy it the day old shelf.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
You know, one of my favorites is so I like
making ice cream from time to time, and you eat
heavy cream for ice cream, and heavy cream is very expensive,
and sometimes you catch the woo hoo sticker on the
heavy cream and it'll be marked down from you know,
five seventy nine to two dollars and thirty cents, and
actually that stuff lasts a really long time. And so

(01:08:16):
I'll buy that and makes ice cream and it's great.

Speaker 7 (01:08:20):
I made it really big few weeks ago, yeah, right,
just after Christmas. Yeah, what you get em and m's
from the day old counter. Yeah, there were still the
Christmas eminems. So they were just red and green M
and ms. Yeah, like the eminem's minis excuse me? And
so I bought like eight tubes. Each tube was like
fifty cents, normally like two and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
So I was like, yes, yes, score winner.

Speaker 1 (01:08:44):
So just to give you a sense and you can
understand by the way, how painful this story is for
me to tell you, because you know, you know what
kind of shopper I am. The other day I found
one of those wooh oh manager special deals on a
dozen eggs oohoo, which made it six dollars. Isn't that nuts?

(01:09:12):
If you go to the supermarket right now, I don't
think you can find a dozen eggs of the least
expensive eggs that they have. I don't think you can
find a dozen eggs for less than six dollars or
maybe seven or eight. And then some of the fancier
eggs I saw, you know, eleven ninety nine, and you

(01:09:35):
know it's it's mostly bird flu. You know, we've had
Bill Skeby on from the Egg Producers Association. He said,
there's I think he usually attributes something like twenty cents
an egg to the cage free law. And by the way,
a Republican proposed a bill in the state legislature to

(01:09:55):
repeal the cage free law and that got shot down
by the Dems.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
So it's really bird flu.

Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
And I was thinking of it because I saw this
story over at Axios and this is one of the
most important stories of the day. The waffle house has
added temporary surcharge of fifty cents per egg amid rising
egg prices from the bird flu outbreak.

Speaker 4 (01:10:17):
Again.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
This is from axios dot com. Avian influenza has affected
at least twenty two point seven million birds just in
the last month, according to us DA data. So waffle
House based in Georgia, they got about twenty one hundred

(01:10:38):
locations nationwide. I haven't been to waffle House a lot,
but I do like it. You called the last time
you were at a waffle House. It was about it
was about two years ago when I went down to
Colorado Springs to meet up with my friend, Chef Bill,
a former White House chef, because he the guy that

(01:11:00):
he works for.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
Placed a bunch of.

Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
Crawfish traps in a lake or reservoir somewhere uh west
of Colorado Springs. And so I actually took the day
off from work, took a vacation day, and I went
down there and we had breakfast at the waffle House,
and then I went out on a boat with them,
and we're pulling up these traps and and getting the
crawfish and putting the traps back in the lake.

Speaker 7 (01:11:27):
I am seriously gonna have to rethink my feelings for
waffle House.

Speaker 1 (01:11:30):
If Chef Bill goes to waffle.

Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
How about that.

Speaker 4 (01:11:32):
Huh.

Speaker 7 (01:11:33):
I've never been to a waffle House, never really had
the odder desire to do so. Yeah, now that I
know Chef Bill, Yeah, that's.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
A good point. Okay, that's a good point. I hadn't
even thought of the fact that I was, that I
was there with the White House chef at waffle House.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
So there, that is quite a testament.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
And I can't and I can't believe I never thought
of that before.

Speaker 2 (01:11:53):
Dragon, just Dragon, Dragon, figure that out.

Speaker 1 (01:11:56):
Never gone. But gonna go now, I'm gonna go now.
Waffle House said in a news release that the temporary
surcharge of fifty cents per egg began Monday. They said, quote,
rather than increasing prices across the menu, this is a temporary,
targeted surcharge tied to the unprecedented rise in egg prices.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
This is still their quote.

Speaker 1 (01:12:15):
The continuing egg shortage caused by bird flu has caused
a dramatic increase in egg prices. Consumers and restaurants are
being forced to make difficult decisions. As long as they
are available, quality, fresh, cracked grade A large eggs will
remain a key ingredient in many of our customer's favorite meals.
By the way, egg prices are expected to go up

(01:12:37):
by twenty percent this year, according to the USDA. Now,
I don't know what that number means in this sense.
Maybe maybe it means the average price of an egg
over the course of this year will be twenty percent
higher than the average price of an egg over the
course of last year, I'm guessing. Or maybe they mean

(01:12:59):
the expected the price of an egg at the end
of this year will be twenty percent more than the
expected price of an egg at than the price.

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
Of an egg at the end of last year.

Speaker 1 (01:13:07):
And if so, that would that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
Would be bad. But not like right now, I.

Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
Mean, this is this is insane. This is absolutely insane,
This says start.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
Let Dragon know. Hold on, I got it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:23):
I got a text from Mandy h but it's kind
of a mess because of voice to text. But Mandy,
let Dragon know that I have decades of experience at
waffle house and I will be happy to take him
and walk him through the voluminous menu. Beautiful, it's a date,
all right. Mandy must be in our car right now.

(01:13:43):
So Mandy, you heard you heard it? And the only
question I have Mandy?

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
Is can I come to?

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
Or is this am I excluded from? You should see
the expression on Dragon's face. The expression on dragon in
space is along the lines of russ. Why should you
be allowed to come? This is my this is mind
date with Mandy exactly all right? At waffle House says well,

(01:14:13):
we hope that these price fluctuations will be short lived.
We cannot predict how long the shortage will last. You know, Also,
I would note just this is very simple math. Fifty
cents an egg is about right as far as the
as far as the surcharge of fifty cents an egg
is about right because it does seem that a dozen
eggs is around, give.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
Or take six dollars more than.

Speaker 1 (01:14:36):
It used to be, right, So, and fifty cents an.

Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
Egg is a you know, sort of nice, nice round number.

Speaker 1 (01:14:41):
I also think by I was just thinking about this
this morning, Dragon, because I'm in because I'm a nerd, right,
so it pained me a lot to buy a dozen
eggs on Managers special for six dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
Okay, but if I were going to a restaurant and
I will get a breakfast restaurant.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
And I was to get you know what, do I
like for breakfast corn beef hash and it comes with
two eggs, And they said, well, it's a dollar extra
for the two eggs, Like that'd be all right. It's
you know, I understand on a percentage basis, for the
price of eggs, it's a lot, but all right, I
can add a dollar to because you're buying two eggs

(01:15:23):
at a time instead of twelve, And I think that
makes it more manageably. And I actually think there's a
pretty decent chance, and I'd be interested to, you know,
if we ever find out. It wouldn't surprise me if
the fifty cents an egg surcharge has almost no measurable
impact on how many eggs are ordered at waffle house.
I don't think it will demand very much because people are.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
Buying one or two.

Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
If you're gonna order a five egg omelet, you know,
all right, man, you may rethink right, But even a
three egg omelet, which is a decent sized omelet, it's
a buck and a half, and you're already going out
to breakfast, and everything else in the world already costs
a billion dollars. You're probably just gonna pay it. Waffle
House is paying a lower price for eggs than Joe Public.
I'm not sure about this information. I would assume that's true.

(01:16:07):
I would certainly hope that restaurant pays less. Yeah, I
mean a restaurant that uses that many eggs. You know,
anybody who's doing bulk purchasing would normally get them for
lower than the public would. But that doesn't mean that
the increase for them would be very different from the
increase for everybody else.

Speaker 2 (01:16:25):
You know, if if the increase for you.

Speaker 1 (01:16:27):
And me is fifty cents an egg at the store,
the increase for them is probably forty five cents per egg. Right,
the baseline is lower, but the increase is probably pretty
darn close.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
So there's that ross.

Speaker 1 (01:16:40):
I paid twelve dollars and thirty nine cents for eighteen
eggs at Walmart. Wow wow uh oh yeah, So this
person says is the same person a previous tweet. I
was in Chewelavista, California this morning. I didn't realize until
I got home and was looking at the receipt. I
paid twelve dollars and thirty nine cents for eighteen eggs.

(01:17:04):
And then he sends a bunch of swear words that
I can't say on the radio three times what I
paid for them a month ago. So first of all,
let me say four dollars for eighteen eggs was a
great deal a month ago. Wow. Yeah, okay, so.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
We still have a ton of stuff to do.

Speaker 1 (01:17:24):
Actually, I want to go back to a thing that
Donald Trump said yesterday in this press conference that I
thought was important, really important and correct, and I'm very
glad he said it, and it's not getting as much
attention as it otherwise might because of all the stuff

(01:17:46):
about Gaza where he just, you know, the whole world's
jaw dropped when when President Trump said the US is
gonna take over Gaza and own Gaza, which is not
gonna happen, and actually it it shouldn't happen. I'm I'm
for doing something to change the situation there. I'm not
for the US taking over Gaza, in part because we

(01:18:10):
don't want to make the whole rest of the Middle
East hate the United States more than they might already,
and they definitely will if we are seen as the
people who pushed the Palestinians up. But anyway, I want
to mention another thing. Have a listen to this. This
is Donald Trump talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:18:25):
Iran, he was asked.

Speaker 1 (01:18:27):
He was asked how he felt about having about putting
sanctions back on Iran. He signed an executive order yesterday
that basically orders the United States government to put the
maximum possible amount of economic pressure on Iran to try
to keep them from making money, to try to keep
them from selling oil, to try to because they take
all their excess money and they sport terrorism with it.

(01:18:47):
And he was asked, you know, how did you feel
about about doing that?

Speaker 3 (01:18:52):
But I hated to do it, just so you understand,
And I hope we're going to be able to do
something so that it doesn't end up in a very
catastrophic I don't want to see that happen. I want
to I really want to see peace, and I hope
they were able to do that. They cannot have a
nuclear weapons, very simple. No, I'm not putting restrictions. They
can not have one thing. They cannot have a nuclear weapon.

(01:19:13):
And if I think that they will have a nuclear
weapon despite what I just said, I think that's going
to be very unfortunate for them. If, on the other hand,
they can convince us that they won't, and I hope
they can. It's very easy to do. It's actually very
easy to do. I think they're going to have an
unbelievable future.

Speaker 1 (01:19:28):
As Ruthie Bloom noted in our conversation last hour, as
part of what he was saying about Iran, and I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
Get it included in that clip, but.

Speaker 1 (01:19:39):
Actually no, I take it back. He was talking about Humas,
but he used the word violence, which is very interesting
in this one talking about Iran.

Speaker 2 (01:19:46):
He used the word.

Speaker 1 (01:19:46):
Catastrophic and that that's quite a message and there's no
will room in that message. And he made that very clear,
right he said, I'm not placing this or that restriction
on them. You can't work on this, you can't work
on that. It is you may not have a nuclear weapon,
and if you try to, despite my warning, the results

(01:20:09):
for you will be catastrophic. This is going to be
very interesting because Trump is going to put an incredible
amount of pressure on the Iranian government, and one wonders
at what point the Iranian people will be able to
overthrow the government.

Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
The only way that happens is.

Speaker 1 (01:20:30):
If at least some key military leaders decide to side
with the people. I'm not very optimistic about that, I
have to say, and I do feel bad for the
Iranian people that they are going to have to suffer
because of their government. But if the alternative is that
the Mullahs in Iran can continue to fund hamas in,

(01:20:54):
the Huthis and what's left of Hesbalah and whatever other
new terrorist group, then this is how it's going to be.
Thanks for spending some time with us. I want to
I want to go over just a few quick short
stories and then get to a topic that I've had
to talk about for a week and having gotten to
it's not political, but it's really interesting. So let me

(01:21:14):
just go through a couple of quick things first. So
first thing you need to know is Donald Trump signed
an executive order this morning. Actually I don't think he's
signed it yet. I think he's going to sign it
a little bit later today, an executive order that is
entitled Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports. CNN says the

(01:21:37):
order is too pronged, leaning on compliance with Title nine,
which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex and education
programs or activities that receive funding from the federal government,
as well as federal engagement with the private sector. And
let's see that the Trump administration official who is talking
about it says that the administration species is if you're

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going to have women's sports, if you're going to provide
opportunities for women, then they have to be equally safe,
equally fair, and equally private opportunities. So that means you've
got to preserve women's sports for women. And I'm not
going to spend long on this. I think listeners know
what I think. I I don't have a problem with

(01:22:23):
transgender people. I want people to live their lives and
and if if somebody was born, you know, male and
deeply persistently for years, truly believes their female, And again
I don't I don't need your h you know, insulting

(01:22:47):
texts about those people. You can keep that stuff to yourself.
I don't want to hear it. Go live that life, okay,
But it is not fair for people who went through peberty.
Is a male to compete against females in sports.

Speaker 2 (01:23:07):
It is simply not fair.

Speaker 1 (01:23:10):
And some people will claim, well, the transgender person has
a right to participate in sports. Yes, but what we're
talking about here is a competition among rights. And yeah,
you could claim that right in theory, and I would
go along with it in theory. If it didn't hurt anybody.
But look at Leah Thomas formerly Will Thomas, a mediocre

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male swimmer, became a female and was dominant against female
swimmers because she, if you want to say, she has
the body of a man, the strength of a man,
the bone density of a man, the musculature of a man.
And you might say, why should a person who has
this identity issue be prevented from doing the things that

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fulfill them? And the answer is because it destroys the
dreams of these dozens or hundreds or thousands of girls
who grew up swimming trying to get into the IVY League,
trying to get to the IVY League swimming championship, trying
to be the IVY League champion, only to end up
competing against a man.

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
It's not right.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
It's not right, And I'm glad Trump is doing this
all right? Moving on to the next thing. You remember
the name Daniel Penny. Daniel Penny is the is the
guy who grabbed a sort of violently ranting man on
a New York City subway and the guy ended up dying.

(01:24:40):
Penny was charged with I forget what, manslaughter or second
agree murder or something by Alvin Bragg the worst DA
in America probably, and acquitted wasn't a hungary. He was acquitted,
not guilty, and yeah, criminally negligent homicide.

Speaker 2 (01:24:55):
That was the that was the charge.

Speaker 1 (01:24:57):
He was found not guilty as he should have been.
He never should have been charged in any case. I
just wanted to share with you a little good news here.
This is from the New York Times. Daniel Penny has
been hired by one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture
capital firms to join its American Dynamism team. So the

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company's called andreasen Horowitz. If you follow high tech venture
capital investing right, Mark Andresen is extremely well known the firm,
Andresen Horowitz is one of the most respected, most high
profile Silicon Valley in investing firms. And they said, we
believe in Daniel and are excited to have him as

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part of our team. It's unclear just what he's going
to do, but they say they plan to teach him
the business of investing and that he will support some
of the firm's portfolio companies. A portfolio company is a
company that an investment firm owns part of, and on
the website he is listed as a quote deal partner,

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so there you go. They also quote mister Penny's lawyer.
He said, the unjust prosecution not only put his liberty
at jeopardy, but risked depriving society of a decent and
talented young man. And we know that he will be
going on to do great things as he enters this
next chapter of his life. So very good congratulations to

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Daniel Penny. He deserves something good to happen to him
after the law fair abuse by the New York New
Manhattan District Attorney. The other thing I wanted to mention,
so Dragon earlier in the show, we were talking during well,
now you know about halftime acts, and what is your

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guess as to the average amount paid to these massive
music stars and bands that perform at Super Bowl half time? None?

Speaker 2 (01:27:01):
Yeah, it's about none.

Speaker 1 (01:27:03):
I think they get some really small amount because they're
required to by union rules.

Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
So maybe they.

Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
Get thirty bucks an hour or fifty bucks an hour
for an hour or whatever it is, but it's it's
essentially zero.

Speaker 4 (01:27:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:27:18):
I think the rumor in the past is that they
actually pay to be in the super and I.

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
Would wonder if that's true too.

Speaker 1 (01:27:25):
And the story has been you know, the NFL said
to Forbes a year or two ago. The NFL said
that they meaning the NFL cover expenses and production costs, right,
which which can be a lot, right, Yeah, that could
be millions potentially for something that big. But the musicians

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themselves do not get paid. And of course that makes sense, right.
I mean, it's an opportunity for you to be in
front of what is the biggest television audience around the
world in any given year, potentially a.

Speaker 7 (01:28:01):
Different crowd than what you're used to because the Chad
listed off three or four and both of us are like,
who who Yeah, so it gets their name in front
of somebody that they don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
Yep, Okay, what else?

Speaker 1 (01:28:13):
I was talking earlier in the show about Donald Trump's
proposal to create an American sovereign wealth fund, and I
listed some reasons why that's a bad idea. And one
of the reasons I said an American sovereign wealth fund
is a bad idea is that it well two of
the reasons, it'll be politicized, and we have.

Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
A huge we have huge debt.

Speaker 1 (01:28:30):
We don't have free cash flow to put into an
investment fund. If the US you know suddenly had free
cash flow. The only responsible thing to do with it
is to pay down our existing national debt. And a
few listeners texted in, well, what about Alaska. And Alaska
does have something they call their permanent fund, and it
is a form of sovereign wealth fund. The sovereign in

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that case is the state rather than the country.

Speaker 2 (01:28:55):
But this is the thing.

Speaker 1 (01:28:57):
Alaska makes an immense amount of money off of the
fact that they've got a lot of oil and some
other minerals and stuff like that as well. So Alaska
does have free cash flow, and so they put it
in this permanent fund. And this permanent fund does not
get politicized. And you know, you look at their investment

(01:29:19):
philosophy and it's just all.

Speaker 2 (01:29:20):
About, you know, generating returns.

Speaker 1 (01:29:22):
For the benefit of the State of Alaska and the
people of Alaska, and it's it's just it's all business.
But again, keep in mind, the fact that Alaska has
its own sovereign wealth fund is not an argument for
the US having a sovereign wealth fund. Alaska has spare
cash flow and it's not that hard for them to

(01:29:45):
insulate their fund from politics. The nation does not have
free cash flow, and it would be very difficult to
insulate it from politics. All right, let me do this
other thing for our last minutes together today. I got
two stories for you that are that are similar, mostly
non political, but there is a slight political aspect that

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you'll get here. The first is from the American is
from Americansurveycenter dot org, which is the website for the
Survey Center of American Life, which is a project of
the American Enterprise Institute. All right, that was a lot
of words. So one of the interesting things they're talking
about is dating and the influence of politics on dating.

(01:30:30):
And I don't want to give too much. I don't
spend too much time and too much detail, but I
noticed a few things in this particular article. Among those
who voted for Kamala Harris, uh, forty one percent of
single women and twenty six percent of single men say
that they are frightened by Trump's election. Now, taking it

(01:30:52):
into the dating world, what you find is that with
women much more than men, if you voted for Kamala Harris,
you are more than fifty percent likely to say that

(01:31:12):
you will either probably not or definitely not date somebody
who voted for Donald Trump. And if you're college educated.
Seventy three percent of college educated single women say they
would be less likely to date a Trump supporter. That

(01:31:32):
is a really interesting thing. I'll let you kind of
do your own analysis on this right now. Nearly nine
and ten single women who voted for Harris said they
would be less likely to date someone.

Speaker 2 (01:31:43):
Who favors Trump.

Speaker 1 (01:31:44):
Oh my gosh, it's unbelievable. All right, So there's more
to that. But I also want to mention another thing
that really jumped out at me in this survey about dating,
and it's in the area of of safety.

Speaker 9 (01:32:02):
Me.

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
I'm just going to quote from this.

Speaker 1 (01:32:04):
Even as online dating has grown in popularity, transforming the
way singles meet and whom they can meet, there's rising
concern about safety. A growing number of single men and
women no longer believe dating apps are safe. Fewer than
four in ten women who have never been married believe
that dating apps are a safe way to meet people,
a twenty three point drop in five years. Single men

(01:32:30):
have also become less comfortable with online dating, though most
still believe platforms offer a safe way of meeting people.
So that that's like the first thing that puts this
a spark in my head. Isn't it remarkable how many
women believe that maybe that dating generally, but especially dating

(01:32:51):
by meeting someone on an app is not safe. Like,
that's a whole different question from you know, am I
going to meet mister right? Am I going to meet
missus right? We're talking about women I meet mister Wright.
That would seem like the dominant question. But safety is
I mean, listen to listen to some of these Listen

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to some of these numbers. More than one in three
single women believe that most or all men would take
sexual advantage of a woman if given the opportunity.

Speaker 2 (01:33:27):
I'll say it again, I'll just put a number on it.

Speaker 1 (01:33:29):
You.

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
I'm like, let's let's call it.

Speaker 1 (01:33:30):
Thirty five percent of single women believe that most or
all men would take sexual advantage of a woman if
given the opportunity.

Speaker 7 (01:33:42):
This goes back to several months ago we were talking
about this. The women were asked, would you rather be
locked in a room with a bear or a man?
Or a man?

Speaker 1 (01:33:49):
Yeah? Yeah, they chose the bear.

Speaker 2 (01:33:51):
They chose the bear.

Speaker 1 (01:33:52):
It's remarkable single men are far less likely to believe
that men would engage in this type of uh in
this type of behave. I just look, I haven't been
in the dating world for a long time, and I'm
a man, so I have a bias here and came
up in that conversation with the bear versus the man.
I hope that these women are wrong, that most or

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all men would take sexual advantage of a woman if
given the opportunity. I assume what they mean by that
is something like, if a woman's a little drunk, then
you try to, you know, have your way with her,
rather than say, all right, you know this person can't
don't know what she's doing, can't consent. I don't want
to be that guy.

Speaker 2 (01:34:34):
I mean, I.

Speaker 1 (01:34:38):
Whether or not they're right, I assume they're wrong. But
what does it say about the society.

Speaker 2 (01:34:46):
We live in now?

Speaker 1 (01:34:48):
That's such a big percentage of women believe that about men.

Speaker 2 (01:34:54):
And maybe that leads to this next thing.

Speaker 1 (01:34:56):
Most single men at fifty seven percent and single women
at fifty four percent, feel pessimistic about being able to
find a partner they would be happy with. Wow, that said,
fifty nine percent of young men are single and only
forty four percent of young women are single. And this

(01:35:20):
goes to a whole other thing. And I only have
like four minutes here. But I'm gonna try to get
this in anyway, and I'm gonna switch articles and switch studies,
and now I'm over at Axios and again a really
fascinating piece entitled the marriage gap for women isn't what

(01:35:40):
you think and I don't know why?

Speaker 4 (01:35:45):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:35:46):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:35:46):
So this is based on the year the women were born.
They have a chart showing two lines. The X access
is the year the woman who is asked the pole
question the year the woman was born. The why access
access is the percentage of women who are married.

Speaker 2 (01:36:07):
Now, if you go back to let's say nineteen forty.

Speaker 1 (01:36:11):
Oh, okay, one line is non college educated women. In
the other line is college educated women. If you go
back to around nineteen forty, around seventy one, seventy two
percent of forty five year old women were married, whether
they were college educated or not. When you get to

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around the mid nineteen forties, the lines start to diverge massively.
The line for the percentage of women with college degrees
who are married by the age of forty five is
essentially a flat line at around seventy one percent and
basically has not changed like since my parents were born.

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The line for the percentage of women who don't have
a college degree who are married by the age of
forty five is a straight downward line, going from seventy
two percent in the nineteen forties to fifty two percent now.
And what's really going on here? I don't have probably

(01:37:17):
time to get into all the details of it, so
I'm just gonna I'm gonna summarize it. Women without college degrees,
the reason they're not getting married is not because there's
no demand for them. It's because it's not that easy
for a woman without a college degree to marry a

(01:37:41):
man with a college degree. Right, most educated men will
want to marry an educated woman, but the women without
the college degrees have very very little interest in a
man without a college degree. They can't get the man
with the college degree, they don't want the man without
the college degree. And so these women are are in

(01:38:03):
large numbers choosing to stay single, which is an interesting thing. Hi, Mandy, Hello,
Can I can I go to waffle house with you?

Speaker 5 (01:38:15):
Yes?

Speaker 10 (01:38:15):
You may, Dragon, I mean, be nice.

Speaker 11 (01:38:18):
But here's the thing. We're not going to let him
choose any of the songs in the jukebox. Fair enough, okay,
because waffle houses all have a.

Speaker 1 (01:38:23):
Jukebox with records or like a digital version digital nature.

Speaker 11 (01:38:27):
But I mean it was when I was a kid,
it was. It was definitely records. It's each table or
is neither just one big jukebox. You could torture everyone
in the waffle house with your musical choices.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
So you grew you're from the Southeast.

Speaker 11 (01:38:38):
I'm I'm from the South. In my nana's favorite restaurant
was waffle house.

Speaker 2 (01:38:41):
Okay, because I'll lead.

Speaker 10 (01:38:43):
In waffle house. I don't even know how many times.

Speaker 1 (01:38:46):
I don't know if I even heard of waffle house
till I moved to Colorado, and it's not a Colorado thing.
But you know, I grew up in the Northeast and
in California.

Speaker 11 (01:38:53):
But if you go to Atlanta, there's literally waffle houses
on opposing corners.

Speaker 1 (01:38:57):
Yeah, well from Georgia.

Speaker 2 (01:38:58):
Yeah, so are you a big fan?

Speaker 11 (01:39:01):
I love waffle house. It's one of my favorite breakfasts.
It's the best grits in Colorado, hands down. I really
want grits that I'm not making myself.

Speaker 1 (01:39:08):
Named waffle house. That's the best grits.

Speaker 11 (01:39:11):
Yeah, the waffs are fine, They're not my favorite thing there.
So you got to get your hash browns. I get
mine scattered, sweathered, covered, chunk, peppered and capped. So that
means that instead of instead of being in a nice
round thing like that, they just they just blow them
wide open. So that's scattered, that's scattered, and then smothered
is with cheese, okay, and then excuse me, smothered is

(01:39:34):
with onions, covered, is with cheese, capped is mushrooms, peppered
is kalipinos. And what is ham scattered, smothered, covered, chunked
is ham, ham, kalipinos, cheese, mushrooms.

Speaker 2 (01:39:47):
That's how I get. So if you said what you
just said, would.

Speaker 10 (01:39:55):
You need to be like, oh, yeah, you're one of us.

Speaker 1 (01:39:57):
Yeah, I get what you just said, except for the
I lave the mushrooms are but I get everything else.
And I'm a huge and I and I love grits.
I'm not I'm probably not a grits kind of swirl
like you.

Speaker 4 (01:40:06):
But do you.

Speaker 2 (01:40:07):
Prefer butter cheese?

Speaker 1 (01:40:10):
What do you? What do you?

Speaker 11 (01:40:12):
Before you say sugar, just stop there, because grits are
not a sweet item.

Speaker 10 (01:40:16):
Huh, they are a savory item.

Speaker 11 (01:40:17):
I love cheese, rits, especially with fried fish and rush puppies.

Speaker 1 (01:40:21):
But I also like.

Speaker 11 (01:40:21):
Regular grits, which is a tiny bit of butter and
just salt and pepper, and then you put your egg
on top of the grits and grits.

Speaker 2 (01:40:28):
How is how is the egg cooked over?

Speaker 10 (01:40:31):
Over easy, over medium?

Speaker 11 (01:40:32):
One of those? So you have the nice, drunny yolk
and you PLoP that right on the grits and then
you just make that look like vomit and it's delicious.

Speaker 2 (01:40:38):
Can you chunk it?

Speaker 1 (01:40:39):
Can you put ham in it?

Speaker 11 (01:40:41):
I usually have them bring the grits and then dump
the grits onto everything else, so it looks like a savage.

Speaker 10 (01:40:49):
You know, I don't eat a lot of bread.

Speaker 11 (01:40:51):
If I'm gonna get my carbs, it's going to be
from the grits, you know what I mean. I got
a good show plan today. We've got Mary Rook from
The Daily Collars. She's got a really good call on
why so many on the left are so upset about
the possibility that US eight is going away. We've got
the National Security Advisor from News Nation on coming on to.

Speaker 10 (01:41:10):
Talk about the whole gazza.

Speaker 11 (01:41:12):
That press conference yesterday was wild, insane, It was wild.
I mean, it was just so, I gotta tell you,
I think that we're seeing the Donald Trump strategy of
I'm gonna lay out the worst possible scenario and then
we'll talk and then we'll talk happened.

Speaker 10 (01:41:30):
But the Gazza thing, I mean, that.

Speaker 11 (01:41:32):
Was when he said we're gonna move to Palestinians. I
was like, I'm sorry, what, what did he just say?

Speaker 10 (01:41:38):
You're gonna talk about that?

Speaker 11 (01:41:39):
And then of course Weather Wednesday coming up at twelve
thirty with Dave Frasier.

Speaker 1 (01:41:42):
Everybody stick around for Mandy Talk to you tomorrow