June 13, 2025 • 51 mins
Billy Dees Live! June 13, 2025 8:00pm EST
Global Tensions, Media Narratives, and Political Theater
Episode Description:
In this episode, we dive into a range of pressing headlines making waves around the world. From the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran to the tragic plane crash in India, we break down the facts and explore the broader implications.
We also examine the media’s portrayal of recent riots in California and other parts of the country—what’s being emphasized, and what’s being left out?
Later, we analyze the Alex Padilla moment at Kristi Noem’s press conference and how political theatrics are shaping public perception. And to wrap it all up, we take a look at Greta Thunberg’s latest controversial protest involving Israel—and the global reaction it's stirred.
00:02 - Tensions in the Middle East
10:20 - Dreamliner crash speculations
19:57 - Law enforcement and public safety
31:04 - Disruption of free speech
37:13 - Respecting political discourse
43:02 - Iran's struggle for normalcy
48:45 - Podcast updates and community engagement
Global Tensions, Media Narratives, and Political Theater
Episode Description:
In this episode, we dive into a range of pressing headlines making waves around the world. From the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran to the tragic plane crash in India, we break down the facts and explore the broader implications.
We also examine the media’s portrayal of recent riots in California and other parts of the country—what’s being emphasized, and what’s being left out?
Later, we analyze the Alex Padilla moment at Kristi Noem’s press conference and how political theatrics are shaping public perception. And to wrap it all up, we take a look at Greta Thunberg’s latest controversial protest involving Israel—and the global reaction it's stirred.
00:02 - Tensions in the Middle East
10:20 - Dreamliner crash speculations
19:57 - Law enforcement and public safety
31:04 - Disruption of free speech
37:13 - Respecting political discourse
43:02 - Iran's struggle for normalcy
48:45 - Podcast updates and community engagement
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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and we appreciate that history.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
We appreciate it so much.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Okay, I would be remiss if we are currently going
live on Friday. The exact date here is June thirteenth.
It's approximately eight three eight oh four pm Eastern Standard time.
I would absolutely be remiss if I didn't mention the
tensions that are going on between Israel and Iran. There's
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a lot to unpack there, and I'm not really going
to delve into it. It's a very fluid situation. All
I can say is anytime human life is at risk,
as much as it is in anywhere, but in this
particular conflict that is unfolding within the last twenty four hours,
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we always have to be very mindful of the innocent people.
And there's here again, without taking aside, without being political
about it, there's a lot of innocent people whose lives
are at risk and a lot of people who will
undoubtedly have their lives changed forever by what's happening there.
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Briefly put, what's happening there is Israel. Is in the
United States is very concerned about Iran's nuclear capabilities, and
this is because Iran has a history of being associated
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with terrorism, and a lot of what's happening around Israel,
aside from the nuclear weapon issue, is that they're sponsoring
of terrorism and financing what's happening along the perimeter all around,
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and Israel is pretty much surrounded by potential terrorist forces.
Depending on what side of the border you're talking on,
what part of the of the country of Israel you're
talking about, and where those forces are located, so I
understand the move. I guess the official United States policy
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is that we did not take part in the attack,
But when you really mince it out, we most certainly
helped with the defense of Israel with the Iron Dome,
and we help a lot in general with the weapons
that they use and so forth. So the association is there,
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and I'm kind of leading into what the dangers of
this could potentially be in terms of let's call them uprisings,
possible sleeper cells with in the United States. Most security
experts agree that there are sleeper cells to one degree
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or another within the United States, and you know who
knows what they're plotting to do. So you know, it's
a time when you really have to look over your shoulder,
and that is a shame. Now tomorrow here in the
United States, these no Kings protests are going on. The
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latest number fifteen sixteen hundred, seventeen hundred different locations, mostly
in big cities, but not exclusive to that. I checked
the map. I'm in Ohio, and I was really surprised
some relatively small areas in terms of what I would
come to my mind. Here in Ohio, some unlikely places
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have come up on that protest map. Of course, there's
the military parade happening happening in Washington tomorrow, and I'm told,
you know, this is the two hundred and fifty year
celebration for the you know, for the services here in
the United States, those types of defenses. And if it
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happens to coincide with Trump's birthday, I understand.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So there's a lot going on tomorrow, and I know
that there is the.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Urge to go out and check it out by a
lot of different people, and I would probably caution against that.
I believe that you know, life is short enough, and
to get involved into areas where you know that there's
a potential for a problem, just be very careful, be
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very mindful, that's the word that we use now. Be
very mindful of what you're doing, aware of your surroundings,
be aware of any sudden crowd movements, and always having
a little escape plan. You know, that's always a good idea,
you know, be aware of where you are, what the
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geography is around you, and if you have to make
an escape, know the best way to go to get
out as quickly as possible. And you know that's not
just for public events anymore. We're living in a world
and I'm not advocating being paranoid, but we are living
in a world where you know, you go to the mall,
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you go to a sporting event, you go to you know,
some sort of a very average parade, you know, the
flower festival in your hometown, and.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You never know what's going to happen. Somebody's gonna drive
their car into a crowd.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
It's hearing it. I'm not advocating at all being paranoid,
but it does behoove you to be aware of your surroundings.
And as we move into the weekend and moving forward,
there's a lot going on, so just be very careful.
So one of the things that they're going to talk
about a number of different things today. Most of it
is is political in nature. Most of it is not
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life and death. But another thing that grabbed my attention
is the air crash that happened in India, and I'm
showing get on screen. I'll talk about it for the
audio audience. You have a dreamliner which is made by
boeing seemingly in a relatively normal takeoff pattern and then
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all of a sudden starts to descend and this is
called a stall and a lot of times and then
of course it hits the ground and explodes. You know.
The fact of the matter is is that when when
you talk about a stall with an aircraft, it's a
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little bit different than than your car. When your car stalls,
we typically imagine that the engine just stopped running, and
you know, you have to do something to get it started.
Either you have to get the car jumped with with
with another car, or something's wrong with it. A stall
with an airplane really refers to the pattern of lift
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of the air going over the wings, not generating enough lift,
and a lot of times the engines can be going
you know, full tilt, okay, working fine, and the plane
can still go into a stall because of the way
it's maneuvered, or if it's in some sort of atmospheric condition,
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and a number of things can cause a stall. Now,
there's a lot of speculation about what happened here, and
I certainly don't want to, you know, speculate that this
has to be thoroughly investigated. Some people have mentioned the flaps,
some people have mentioned which you weren't in the right position.
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That's what they're theorizing about. And of course there's talk
about the engines themselves having an issue, which is possible,
and of course then there's the possibility of human error.
Now there's some things about this that I would have
to say, I'm doubtful that it's human error because these
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modern aircraft, and the Dreamliner is certainly one of them.
One of the things, as your takeoff protocol is is
to make sure that your flaps are in the proper position,
and there's numerous pilots that go through that checklist. The
takeoffs are largely computer controlled, so there's a lot of
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things that happen automatically in terms of a takeoff procedure.
And in the event that these first two things have failed,
there's alarms going off all over the place if you're
trying to take off and an aircraft of that type
and don't have the flaps in the proper position. So
I'm going to say that operator error is unlikely, but
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that is strictly speculation on my part.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
It is possible.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I've heard rumors that there were lights not coming on
in the cabin. This would, you know, lead to possibly
some sort of an electrical problem. The Dreamliner has had
through Boeing, a lot of employees, former employees talk about
the way that the plane was assembled. That plane was assembled,
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and that's the word we want to underline. I've checked
into this before and there's a lot of parts, a
lot of you know, enormous sections of that plane that
weren't actually built by Boeing and a subcontracting in certain situations.
I've known a lot of people of manufacturing. Sometimes it's
the proper thing to do. There are times when another
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company can make smaller parts of whatever it is that
you're making much more efficiently and better, not only for
a better price, not only for a more an expensive price,
but actually make them better. But the word that we're
getting is know that they shop the price as a priority.
And this led to a lot of subcontractors that didn't
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have a lot of experience with aircraft parts. So here
again it's all speculation. This particular model, the Dreamliner. This
is the first major accident involving a Dreamliner, and it's
you know, it's a plane that's been out for a while,
so the safety record is relatively good. Here again, though,
the enormous loss of life to me is just absolutely shaking.
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And I will say this, you know, five or ten
years ago, go you had those two crashes in Africa
involving Boeing jets. I believe it was in Africa. I'm
not sure that both of them were in there, but
there was a two crashes had that happened close together
that involved software that was supposed to compensate for engines
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mounted under the wing of the seven thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
And Boeing.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I'm not sure what happened or what the official investigation was,
but when you have situations like that, especially after the
first one, it really, to me is unforgivable that the
second one would happen when clearly they suspected all along
that there was a problem with what was happening with
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the operation of the aircraft, and it basically involved how
they moved because the design of the plane change. They
moved the engines forward and up and this changed the
handling characteristics, and they put a program in the plane
that was supposed to adjust for that, and it didn't
tell the pilots because from what I've heard from what
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was untold, what was told was because part of the
selling points to a new aircraft is you don't have
to spend a lot of time training new pilots with
new control systems and new characteristics, and the selling point
was it was new, but it operated just like the
old one, and the pilots were not aware that sometimes
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things are happening that you're not putting into the controls.
So that really turned me on that company. And what
a shame because you know lately with some of the
things that are happened with doors blowing off in mid
flight and all this. You know, this was a company
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that was a shining beacon of American ingenuity. You know,
when the seven forty seven came out in the nineteen sixties,
it changed the game.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
It changed the.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Way that air travel was was managed. You could move
large amounts of people very quickly, enormous distances. It changed
the way people thought about travel. It changed the way
airports were constructed, It changed the way airlines operated. And unfortunately,
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the innovators, the engineers, which were a part of the
culture of that company changed in the late nineteen nineties
when they absorbed another company. So this is sad. It's
one of the few times that you know, this was
probably around two thousand and two thousand and one, somewhere
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around in there. I recall I strike that the Boeing
employees did not because they wanted more money, not for
anything like that, not because they wanted more vacations, because
they didn't want the culture of the company to shift,
you know, from such a major, technological driven, innovative company
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to one that was just trying to sell as many
planes as possible and make as much money as possible.
And I hope that isn't the case. I hope that
whatever happened here was truly an accident. And I say
truly an accident because to me, there's a difference between
an accident that happened because of a convergence of events.
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It's just like when you're driving your car. You know,
could I forgive somebody that killed a family member of
mine driving well, if if something just happened in traffic
where it was a split second decision jog right, jog left,
something stopped in the street, whatever, he had seconds to
react and it was the wrong decision, Yes, yes I could,
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because we all have had close calls, and if we haven't,
by some chance been in an accident, we've been so
close to one that you know, it made us shiver.
And it happens. You know, accidents happen. But what I
don't like is hearing stories about people drinking and driving
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or being careless or you know, speeding in situations that
they shouldn't be. And then is it an accident? I
don't know, it's it's maybe something a little different than
an accident. You may not have meant to do it,
but you put yourself in a reckless situation. And when
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these large companies make calculations in terms of, you know,
how the outcome of something is going to be, how
likely is it something? When they're aware of a design flaw,
there's a formula and as cold as it is, it
basically says this, how likely is this event versus the
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cost of fixing the problem, And if it is unlikely,
or if it's only going to happen in a wild scenario,
then the decision is, well, it's better to take the chance,
and if something does happen, it's cheaper to just pay
off the families than it is to fix the problem.
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So it's a business decision from that point. And what
upset is to me about this is airplanes. I believe
a lot of us take it for granted. You know,
we hop on a plane at the airport and we
don't go our main concern is what's what's the food
going to be like? Is this sandwich going to be yummy?
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Are we going to have a place to put our luggage?
And the fact of the matter is that's technology that
puts you that high and that fast in the atmosphere
is more akin to the Space Shuttle than it is
to your car than it is to a bus. And
we take that for granted, and that's fine. As passengers,
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we have that luxury because we're just sitting in a chair, okay,
But for the people that manage these planes, both in
terms of the manufacturers and for the airlines, the decisions
that they are making are affecting life and death, you know,
the preservation of life at an altitude where what little
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breathable air is outside that window is going by four
or five hundred.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Miles an hour and it's ice cold or whatever.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I just don't know. I really it really turns my stomach.
I could not work for a company like that and
make a decision, well, this probably won't happen. We'll just
pay off all the flanged families. It's a lot cheaper
than fixing a problem and a whole big fleet that's
that's not a decision that I would I know my
faults and that's not something that I could do, all right.
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I titled this episode, this live episode today, drama and
stunts in LA and Washington and in LA there in
the Hollywood area, it's famous for drama, it's famous for stunts.
And yeah, we've had a lot of that. Let's start
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with the riot coverage. You know, there's there's and I'm
gonna call it riots because there's cars being burned, There's
all these other things going on. And I've listened to
some people that live in LA and they all say that, well,
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you know, the areas that are being affected are very mall.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
You know, the.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Areas are very small, and you watch it on the
news and it seems like the whole city's burning. And
I would agree that that distortion is true. I would
absolutely agree that that distortion is true. At the same time, though,
the way these things are presented is a little odd.
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Let's listen to what this announcer had to say about
cars burning in the street.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
It could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement
in there and the wrong way and turn what is
just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn
into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers and demonstrators.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yeah, you know, I just love an evening watching cars burn.
You know, I'll get out some marshmallows and some weedies,
and you know, I have some fun watching these cars burn.
That's absolutely ridiculous. That is absolutely ridiculous. Now let's contrast
this with a news conference that happened in the great
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state of Florida.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
If you resist lawful orders, you're going to jail. Let
me be very clear about that. If you block an
intersection or a roadway in Brevard County, you are going
to jail. If you flee arrest, you're going to go
to jail tired, because we are going to run you
down and put you in jail. If you try to
mob rule a car in Brevard County, gathering around it,
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refusing to let the driver leave in our county, you're
most likely going to get run over and dragged across
the street. If you spit on us, you're going to
the hospital and in jail. If you hit one of us,
you're going to the hospital and jail and most likely
get bitten by one of our big, beautiful dogs that
we have here. If throw a brick, a fire bomb,
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or point a gun at one of our deputies. We
will be notifying your family where to collect your remains
at because we will kill you graveyard dead. We're not
going to play.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
This has got to stop.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Okay, they're going to kill you, graveyard dead. I really
like that here Again. You know, this is two sides
of how these things are being portrayed. And I'm very
much a law and order person. If I had to
choose between those two things, I'm going to go with
law enforcement because there's nothing about protesting and exercising your
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free speech rights that has to do with destroying property
and doing it in a way. It's one thing. If
you know, some of these violent protests, let's call them vandalism,
you know, happened in a parking lot where there where
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there wasn't any but nobody likes to have their car
windows broken out. That's not fun, okay. But a lot
of this vandalism is doing it in a way where
other people that live, other people who are trying to
make their way by are in harm's way. So it
is a form of terrorism. They are trying to instill
fear into the people that are in that area. And
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people do get hurt and people do get killed, so
you know this is not something to take likely and lightly.
And I am on the side of law enforcement, but
maye no mistake. I mean that there was a little
bravado there. You know, that's part of that's part of
you know, public relations anymore. You know, you've got to
get people talking, get the word out, get people's attention.
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And that certainly worked. But I got to tell you,
I don't care if it's one block or if it's
ten square miles. People deliberately setting cars on fire and
have an announcer like that say, oh, well, we're just
having some fun watching some cars burn.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
That's a little ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
So these things get molded by the media, and it's
because they have an agenda. And I've noticed that both
sides of the aisle play this out. The coverage on
the left is because oh Trump is so evil, you know,
all this stuff going on with Ice, it's so terrible,
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it's like the SS. And the conservative side of the
media says, a look at these crazy liberals out in
the street, look at them. So it plays well for both.
And I'm going to say right now, the bowling on
this is a little mixed, but I don't know that
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the it's playing well for the Democrats. It's not playing
well for either. But it's not playing well for the Democrats,
and I'll tell you why. As some of you may recall,
in twenty twenty four, I did an episode where I
laid out why the Democrats were on their way to
lose the election. And I did it not because I
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was a Republican or Democrat or independent. It was strictly
from a marketing standpoint. And what the Democrats did. The
reason the Democrats lost is their only brand was Trump
was bad. And that can't be a brand.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
You can't go up against coke and say, well, coke
is so bad by ours that that's not That is
not a way to market a product, and it's not
the way to market an idea.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
The Democrats, somehow or other, we had a I think
Republicans would all agree Reagan was the perfect brand and
for Democrats who had Bill Clinton and then Obama, and
I know all the Conservatives get mad when I mentioned
them in a good light, but the fact of the
matter is they were candidates that people voted for. Okay,
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that's why they won And what we have now is
the anti vote. Okay, our guy or our woman isn't
as bad as the other one. It's the anti vote.
The anti vote, it largely is what usher Trump in
in twenty sixteen, people just didn't like Hillary. The anti
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vote is what one Biden in twenty twenty, they were
all against Trump, and in twenty twenty four or the
polar opposite happened. People looked at Biden and some of
the crazy ideals that Democrats were standing up for, and
they simply said, if that's their brand of crazy, then
I'm gonna go with this brand of crazy. We really
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haven't had a a candidate that has captivated the imagination,
that has captivated a new approach that has has captivated
that in a very long time.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
That's not nothing against Trump for the for the Trump
supporters out there, Trump is very dynamic, and he's he's
he's good at what he does. But in the grand
scheme of things, you don't get the warm fuzzies like
you did with JFK. And we haven't had that in many,
many decades. I think there was an affection for Reagan
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to some degree. I liked him, you know, he always
appeared very affable, and he always told those little jokes,
and he was a great communicator. You know, they call
them the great communicator. But we haven't had that, you know,
where you proactively vote, you know, Reagan, I believe I
remember election in nineteen eighty four that entire map was
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almost read and we just haven't had somebody captivate the
imagination and their hearts in that way in a long time.
We vote against the person we do not want to win.
That is how the elections have gone the last ten years.
And uh, this leads us into what are the Democrats
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doing now? Well, let's take a look at what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Now.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
I have questions for the secretary because the fact that
the matter is half a dozen FIGN criminals that you're.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Rotating on your on your.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Off, many of our says have been joshed in your city.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
All right, Yes, that is our very good friend, Senator
Alex Padilla Padelia. And he's at Christy NOMS news conference
there and he's being ushered out by security. And oh,
this is all anti you know, this is the Trump regime.
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This is anti free speech. This is treating a senator
like he's a piece of garbage. Let's look at another
angle here, and she is speaking at a podium, and
here's the deal. And I would say the same thing
no matter who was up there. And as a matter
of fact, I'm going to talk about something that happened
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sometime ago with John Carey. But let's take another look
at this other angle here, and she's at the podium
and he just comes in and starts talking right over
top of her, and nobody knows who we is. And
in this day and age, you can't let somebody approach
a podium like that. You don't know what they're gonna do.
(30:05):
You know, they could throw acid on or pull a gun. Uh,
And you just can't presume that this person, you know,
safely got through security. So you can't let somebody just
approach a podium like that with a major governmental official.
And as you'll see, he's not the room does not
know who he is. He just comes in, he doesn't
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identify himself until he's being pushed out the door.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
I want to know about you.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I want to thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Also, I want to have the secretary because the fact
matter is half a.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Dozen that your prochating on your I also want to.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
Talk all right, coolate class.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Other hands, other hand, let me get my hens done. Yeah,
so this uh, this idea. You know, here's the thing
about free speech. When we hear the term free speech,
we conjure up an image of somebody speaking and it
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is free speech, okay, But what it really is is
about our ability to listen to who we want to
listen to. And when somebody gets silenced by a heckler,
or when they get silenced in in a in a
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room or an events center or some location that they
have either you know, they've sanctioned somehow, they got the
proper permits, they rented the room, whatever, people come to
hear them, or they're having a preference conference so that
people can hear what they have to say. And when
you come in and disrupt that, that isn't your right
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to free speech. You are silencing somebody, and worse, you
are telling the audience who wants to hear what they
have to say that that decision is being made for you.
You don't have to listen to that person. Okay, we
don't want you to listen to that person. That's what
they are doing. And I say the same thing when
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it happens on the other side, for the case of Padilia,
made some other remarks, but here's the one that kind
of went viral. Just in the sake of fairness, I.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Will say this. If this is how this administration responds
to a senator with a question, If this is how
the Apartment of Home mat Security responds to a senator
with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing
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to farm workers two cooks, two day labors out in
the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country.
We will hold this administration accountable now here Again, he
came in there.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
When Christy nom had secured that area, there was a
time and you know that was designated, and she was
making her remarks, and he came in and disrupted that.
All right, He could have waited his turn to you know,
wait to ask a question if you wanted to ask
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a provocative question. When she turned things over, when that
part of the thing came up, he could have pressed
her then. But he went in there unidentified initially, when
he went in the room and disrupted that conference there
this is all grand standing. And then he cries. And
(34:01):
what's said about this is there's a significant amount of
people that are going to fall for this. Oh, look
how badly he was treated. These people are authoritarians. And
I'm going to be clear, I'm not necessarily a Trump person.
If you followed the podcast, you know last year when
I was talking about when I had that big episode
(34:21):
about the Democrats, and I say big because that one
got a lot of national tension. I got blocked by
nationally known pundits and everything else. If you followed that,
I was not a Trump I was not that, okay.
I just knew what the Democrats were doing, with the
(34:42):
manipulation of authorities, with the manipulation of keeping people that
they didn't like off the ballot, with the this seat around,
what bided, what his physical and mental health was, all
of these things, and the crazzy notions now I mean,
(35:04):
the the gas lighting over such obvious social issues. It
was such that I I I finally committed around Trump
around the time that the Republican Convention happened. And that
was only because here again, that brand of crazy wasn't
(35:24):
as crazy as what the other side was doing. And uh,
that's not much of a of an endorsement, but that
is that, and and the Democrats are doing the same thing.
Now this is the brand. Look how terrible this regime is,
this Trump regime. Look how awful it is. The measurement
(35:48):
they're doing all the little bit. Okay, where is their Obama?
Where is their Clinton? It's still not here. They're making
They have not learned from what happened in twenty twenty four.
They're doing the same thing over again. Now I mentioned
(36:14):
back in let's see, I'm not sure what year that was.
I don't know if I made a note of it
here or not. Oh I did.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
I did.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
This was in two thousand and seven, and this happened
with a University of Florida student and the then Senator
John Carey was making remarks. Now, I got to tell you,
I am not a friend of a fan of John Carey.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Why the lung face? John? I just didn't dig it always.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Kind of reminds me of the guy who played Herman Munster.
But I was not a fan of John Carrey. But
you know what I was all for what happened here.
You had to you know, he was up there trying
to talk and some you know, ideologically driven a moral
high ground jerk decides he is going to disrupt what
(37:08):
was going on. People there were quietly listening to what
John Carey had to say. Why they were interested in
what he had to say?
Speaker 1 (37:15):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
But here again, when somebody comes in there, they're not
shutting up John Carrey. What they're doing is they're telling
the people in those seats who they can and can't
listen to. It's about free listening. And I got to
be honest with you here. I hope this doesn't change
your opinion of me. But back when, back when this happened,
(37:39):
I had a don't Taste me Bro T shirt. I
had a vote for Pedro one too, I did. I
had a vote for Pedro T shirt. And I also
had a don't tase me bro, don't taste me Bro.
I had the T shirt. And here's what happened there.
And I wish they would have done this to Padilla.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Why am I? God, I didn't do anything. Don't taste
me bro, don't tease me?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
All right, don't tase me bro? Oh well yeah, so
and here again you're gonna call me croul. But I
really don't have a problem with somebody obnoxious coming in
there and making a decision for a room full of
people that they don't need to listen to what they
(38:51):
came there to listen to, and they do so in
a very obnoxious way. They have no respect for the
people in the room, They have no respect for law enforcement,
they have no respect at all for the security in
the room. And here again, you know, I'm not a
fan of John Kerry, but he was a US senator
at the time. Would I would respect John Carrey enough,
(39:12):
you know, if I was around him, I would be
very respectful towards him. And to act like that, I mean,
who do these people think they are? And here again,
it's very clear it's it's not because it's it's you know,
and more recently it's it's been Trump that has been
and his associates that have been disrupted by people like this.
(39:36):
I didn't I didn't like it when it happened to Clinton,
Hillary Clinton, I didn't happen. I didn't like it when
it happened to Barack Obama. When Barack Obama was addressing
Congress and somebody shouted, you lie, that guy was a pig.
You know, that is the president's moment. That is people
in in the United States were watching that. The people
(39:57):
that were watching it wanted to hear what I had
to say. Not somebody's big mouth, Okay, And so that's
all right, that's my take on that. One more thing
here and then I'll wrap it up. You know, about
the left, we love the left. I tease the left,
(40:20):
but I love the left, and I'm not really on
the right. If I had to choose, I would probably
have to say that I'm more on the right than
I am the left. But I'm not clearly identifiable. And
I don't really like even saying that I'm moderate because
that's still on the scale and I think there's way
too many Everybody wants to put you on the scale.
(40:43):
Well you're here, you're here, you're there. You know, I'm
all about objective analysis. I don't approach a subject from
the right or the left. I always say, I try
to go around at three hundred and sixty grease, and uh,
(41:04):
it's usually the left that's a little lopsided, but not always.
But anyway, one thing that I uh that I really
like about the left is they their complaint is that
there's too many privileged people. There's too many wealthy, privileged
(41:24):
people that really don't understand the plight of what's going
on in the world. So let's champion a rich, spoiled
brat and make her a hero for doing nothing. You know,
(41:45):
this greta Thumburg or Dumburg or whatever she calls herself.
You know, this is a person that has the resources
to travel the world. She gets press coverage wherever she goes.
And this thing Israel called it the selfie yacht, and
that's correct. This was a stunt. She went to you know,
(42:08):
the guy on her way to the Gaza thing on
this humanitarian effort on a yacht. Now, this is how
much resources could she have been carrying to carry relief
into an area where there's millions of people. This was
a stunt. She knew that she was going to get stopped,
(42:30):
and she predicted that she was going to get stopped.
And look at this little, precocious little brad.
Speaker 8 (42:37):
My name is Gethatumbe and I am from Sweden. If
you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped
in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces or forces
that support israel I. Urged all my friends, family and
comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to release
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me and the others as soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Yeah, and she was. They sent her back on a plane.
I don't know if she went to France first or
where she went back to Sweden.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Yeah, kidnapped.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
There was pictures of her getting sandwiches from the Israeli
defenses while she was getting processed. From what I understand,
she refused to watch some of the films and some
of the tapes, which I'm guessing have not been released
to the public about what really happened on that terrorist attack,
(43:36):
when the terrorists came in and took Israelis and you know,
some of the pictures that we saw. To me, it's
insulting to hear that brat. It's insulting to the families
of those hostages. Who talks about she's being kidnapped. She's
on a yacht that costs sailboat or whatever it is.
(43:58):
Who would that costs? Who knows how much? And she's
saying that she's kidnapped in the same vein that those
women that we saw with their hands, some of them
had broken wrists, broken arms, blood coming out of their pants.
That's kidnapped. What you saw there was a spoiled, pretentious brat.
(44:25):
And if the media is so concerned about privilege. Maybe
what they should do is find a young person, a
young woman from an under from an underserved community, as
they say, and maybe listen to her about what her
day is like and maybe give the world a better
understanding of what it's like to be in some of
(44:47):
those communities where getting to school alive is an achievement.
So yeah, needless to say, I I was never big
on this Greta to begin with, and now her her
(45:07):
championing what amounts to terrorism.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Uh, and and.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Putting the reality of that situation into such an unfocused
and horrible spectrum of analysis. You know, my question for
her when you were out on the ocean was the
ocean boiling?
Speaker 1 (45:34):
And I know, we.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Want to make the climate change people mad, but you know,
they're some of her predictions. You know, it's already irreversible,
what's happening with climate if you go back through the years,
some of her predictions. She was a lot younger than
and uh, you know, I can understand some of the
criticism not being too stark back then when she but
(45:56):
she's she's an adult now and she's manipulating world events
to her advantage. She's distorting the reality of what's happening.
She's doing it where she's making herself a celebrity and
people are eating this stuff up. People are eating it up.
Like it's like like she is, you know, a Pulitzer
(46:17):
Prize winning journalist.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
She's a hack.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
All right, I have a lad, all right, all right,
Well that's my commentary again. I want to say, with
the unrest in the world right now, in particular what's
happening with Israel and Iran. You know, there's a lot
of good people in Iran and I follow some of
(46:45):
them on x and they want a regime change there.
You know, if you go back and check out some
of the pictures of Iran, you know, way back in
the early seventies, it was it would be hard to
tell the difference between you know, Iranian life in American life,
(47:05):
and things are a lot different there now, and there
are people that want you know, there was a couple
times when there was almost you know, a regime change.
But I feel a lot of the Iranian people want
normalcy back in their lives, and I would like that
for them. I if I could wave a magic wand
(47:29):
I would want the people in Iran to live like
it's Miami and have Israel in a situation where they
don't have to be walking out the door and looking
up at the sky to see if there's any streaks
going by. And same with with with the Gaza Strip. Uh,
(47:50):
it would be great if the if the Gaza Strip
could turn into.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
You know, something that was a vacation spot.
Speaker 4 (47:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
Wouldn't that be great for the the people there? Wouldn't
that be great for the world. And it brings such sadness,
you know, all the fighting through the centuries and the
millennia in that area and indeed the world, you know,
when it comes right down to it, fighting over what
(48:21):
we believe, fighting over imaginary linees drawing on a map.
It's and we talk about how intelligent we are because
we have a phone. We have a phone. Boy, they'll
call advanced we are. But the fact of the matter
is still very territorial, still killing each other over resources.
(48:45):
Not much has changed in the last ten thousand years.
George Carlin once said, take away electricity. We're right back
in the caves. So yeah, Well, anyway, I gotta tell
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(49:29):
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Speaker 2 (01:13):
Okay, I would be remiss if we are currently going
live on Friday. The exact date here is June thirteenth.
It's approximately eight three eight oh four pm Eastern Standard time.
I would absolutely be remiss if I didn't mention the
tensions that are going on between Israel and Iran. There's
(01:35):
a lot to unpack there, and I'm not really going
to delve into it. It's a very fluid situation. All
I can say is anytime human life is at risk,
as much as it is in anywhere, but in this
particular conflict that is unfolding within the last twenty four hours,
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we always have to be very mindful of the innocent people.
And there's here again, without taking aside, without being political
about it, there's a lot of innocent people whose lives
are at risk and a lot of people who will
undoubtedly have their lives changed forever by what's happening there.
(02:20):
Briefly put, what's happening there is Israel. Is in the
United States is very concerned about Iran's nuclear capabilities, and
this is because Iran has a history of being associated
(02:41):
with terrorism, and a lot of what's happening around Israel,
aside from the nuclear weapon issue, is that they're sponsoring
of terrorism and financing what's happening along the perimeter all around,
(03:02):
and Israel is pretty much surrounded by potential terrorist forces.
Depending on what side of the border you're talking on,
what part of the of the country of Israel you're
talking about, and where those forces are located, so I
understand the move. I guess the official United States policy
(03:25):
is that we did not take part in the attack,
But when you really mince it out, we most certainly
helped with the defense of Israel with the Iron Dome,
and we help a lot in general with the weapons
that they use and so forth. So the association is there,
(03:47):
and I'm kind of leading into what the dangers of
this could potentially be in terms of let's call them uprisings,
possible sleeper cells with in the United States. Most security
experts agree that there are sleeper cells to one degree
(04:10):
or another within the United States, and you know who
knows what they're plotting to do. So you know, it's
a time when you really have to look over your shoulder,
and that is a shame. Now tomorrow here in the
United States, these no Kings protests are going on. The
(04:30):
latest number fifteen sixteen hundred, seventeen hundred different locations, mostly
in big cities, but not exclusive to that. I checked
the map. I'm in Ohio, and I was really surprised
some relatively small areas in terms of what I would
come to my mind. Here in Ohio, some unlikely places
(04:54):
have come up on that protest map. Of course, there's
the military parade happening happening in Washington tomorrow, and I'm told,
you know, this is the two hundred and fifty year
celebration for the you know, for the services here in
the United States, those types of defenses. And if it
(05:18):
happens to coincide with Trump's birthday, I understand.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So there's a lot going on tomorrow, and I know
that there is the.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Urge to go out and check it out by a
lot of different people, and I would probably caution against that.
I believe that you know, life is short enough, and
to get involved into areas where you know that there's
a potential for a problem, just be very careful, be
(05:52):
very mindful, that's the word that we use now. Be
very mindful of what you're doing, aware of your surroundings,
be aware of any sudden crowd movements, and always having
a little escape plan. You know, that's always a good idea,
you know, be aware of where you are, what the
(06:13):
geography is around you, and if you have to make
an escape, know the best way to go to get
out as quickly as possible. And you know that's not
just for public events anymore. We're living in a world
and I'm not advocating being paranoid, but we are living
in a world where you know, you go to the mall,
(06:34):
you go to a sporting event, you go to you know,
some sort of a very average parade, you know, the
flower festival in your hometown, and.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You never know what's going to happen. Somebody's gonna drive
their car into a crowd.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
It's hearing it. I'm not advocating at all being paranoid,
but it does behoove you to be aware of your surroundings.
And as we move into the weekend and moving forward,
there's a lot going on, so just be very careful.
So one of the things that they're going to talk
about a number of different things today. Most of it
is is political in nature. Most of it is not
(07:14):
life and death. But another thing that grabbed my attention
is the air crash that happened in India, and I'm
showing get on screen. I'll talk about it for the
audio audience. You have a dreamliner which is made by
boeing seemingly in a relatively normal takeoff pattern and then
(07:37):
all of a sudden starts to descend and this is
called a stall and a lot of times and then
of course it hits the ground and explodes. You know.
The fact of the matter is is that when when
you talk about a stall with an aircraft, it's a
(07:58):
little bit different than than your car. When your car stalls,
we typically imagine that the engine just stopped running, and
you know, you have to do something to get it started.
Either you have to get the car jumped with with
with another car, or something's wrong with it. A stall
with an airplane really refers to the pattern of lift
(08:23):
of the air going over the wings, not generating enough lift,
and a lot of times the engines can be going
you know, full tilt, okay, working fine, and the plane
can still go into a stall because of the way
it's maneuvered, or if it's in some sort of atmospheric condition,
(08:44):
and a number of things can cause a stall. Now,
there's a lot of speculation about what happened here, and
I certainly don't want to, you know, speculate that this
has to be thoroughly investigated. Some people have mentioned the flaps,
some people have mentioned which you weren't in the right position.
(09:04):
That's what they're theorizing about. And of course there's talk
about the engines themselves having an issue, which is possible,
and of course then there's the possibility of human error.
Now there's some things about this that I would have
to say, I'm doubtful that it's human error because these
(09:26):
modern aircraft, and the Dreamliner is certainly one of them.
One of the things, as your takeoff protocol is is
to make sure that your flaps are in the proper position,
and there's numerous pilots that go through that checklist. The
takeoffs are largely computer controlled, so there's a lot of
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things that happen automatically in terms of a takeoff procedure.
And in the event that these first two things have failed,
there's alarms going off all over the place if you're
trying to take off and an aircraft of that type
and don't have the flaps in the proper position. So
I'm going to say that operator error is unlikely, but
(10:13):
that is strictly speculation on my part.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
It is possible.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I've heard rumors that there were lights not coming on
in the cabin. This would, you know, lead to possibly
some sort of an electrical problem. The Dreamliner has had
through Boeing, a lot of employees, former employees talk about
the way that the plane was assembled. That plane was assembled,
(10:44):
and that's the word we want to underline. I've checked
into this before and there's a lot of parts, a
lot of you know, enormous sections of that plane that
weren't actually built by Boeing and a subcontracting in certain situations.
I've known a lot of people of manufacturing. Sometimes it's
the proper thing to do. There are times when another
(11:04):
company can make smaller parts of whatever it is that
you're making much more efficiently and better, not only for
a better price, not only for a more an expensive price,
but actually make them better. But the word that we're
getting is know that they shop the price as a priority.
And this led to a lot of subcontractors that didn't
(11:28):
have a lot of experience with aircraft parts. So here
again it's all speculation. This particular model, the Dreamliner. This
is the first major accident involving a Dreamliner, and it's
you know, it's a plane that's been out for a while,
so the safety record is relatively good. Here again, though,
the enormous loss of life to me is just absolutely shaking.
(11:55):
And I will say this, you know, five or ten
years ago, go you had those two crashes in Africa
involving Boeing jets. I believe it was in Africa. I'm
not sure that both of them were in there, but
there was a two crashes had that happened close together
that involved software that was supposed to compensate for engines
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mounted under the wing of the seven thirty seven.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
And Boeing.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I'm not sure what happened or what the official investigation was,
but when you have situations like that, especially after the
first one, it really, to me is unforgivable that the
second one would happen when clearly they suspected all along
that there was a problem with what was happening with
(12:49):
the operation of the aircraft, and it basically involved how
they moved because the design of the plane change. They
moved the engines forward and up and this changed the
handling characteristics, and they put a program in the plane
that was supposed to adjust for that, and it didn't
tell the pilots because from what I've heard from what
(13:13):
was untold, what was told was because part of the
selling points to a new aircraft is you don't have
to spend a lot of time training new pilots with
new control systems and new characteristics, and the selling point
was it was new, but it operated just like the
old one, and the pilots were not aware that sometimes
(13:38):
things are happening that you're not putting into the controls.
So that really turned me on that company. And what
a shame because you know lately with some of the
things that are happened with doors blowing off in mid
flight and all this. You know, this was a company
(13:59):
that was a shining beacon of American ingenuity. You know,
when the seven forty seven came out in the nineteen sixties,
it changed the game.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
It changed the.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Way that air travel was was managed. You could move
large amounts of people very quickly, enormous distances. It changed
the way people thought about travel. It changed the way
airports were constructed, It changed the way airlines operated. And unfortunately,
(14:36):
the innovators, the engineers, which were a part of the
culture of that company changed in the late nineteen nineties
when they absorbed another company. So this is sad. It's
one of the few times that you know, this was
probably around two thousand and two thousand and one, somewhere
(14:57):
around in there. I recall I strike that the Boeing
employees did not because they wanted more money, not for
anything like that, not because they wanted more vacations, because
they didn't want the culture of the company to shift,
you know, from such a major, technological driven, innovative company
(15:19):
to one that was just trying to sell as many
planes as possible and make as much money as possible.
And I hope that isn't the case. I hope that
whatever happened here was truly an accident. And I say
truly an accident because to me, there's a difference between
an accident that happened because of a convergence of events.
(15:41):
It's just like when you're driving your car. You know,
could I forgive somebody that killed a family member of
mine driving well, if if something just happened in traffic
where it was a split second decision jog right, jog left,
something stopped in the street, whatever, he had seconds to
react and it was the wrong decision, Yes, yes I could,
(16:03):
because we all have had close calls, and if we haven't,
by some chance been in an accident, we've been so
close to one that you know, it made us shiver.
And it happens. You know, accidents happen. But what I
don't like is hearing stories about people drinking and driving
(16:24):
or being careless or you know, speeding in situations that
they shouldn't be. And then is it an accident? I
don't know, it's it's maybe something a little different than
an accident. You may not have meant to do it,
but you put yourself in a reckless situation. And when
(16:44):
these large companies make calculations in terms of, you know,
how the outcome of something is going to be, how
likely is it something? When they're aware of a design flaw,
there's a formula and as cold as it is, it
basically says this, how likely is this event versus the
(17:09):
cost of fixing the problem, And if it is unlikely,
or if it's only going to happen in a wild scenario,
then the decision is, well, it's better to take the chance,
and if something does happen, it's cheaper to just pay
off the families than it is to fix the problem.
(17:34):
So it's a business decision from that point. And what
upset is to me about this is airplanes. I believe
a lot of us take it for granted. You know,
we hop on a plane at the airport and we
don't go our main concern is what's what's the food
going to be like? Is this sandwich going to be yummy?
(17:56):
Are we going to have a place to put our luggage?
And the fact of the matter is that's technology that
puts you that high and that fast in the atmosphere
is more akin to the Space Shuttle than it is
to your car than it is to a bus. And
we take that for granted, and that's fine. As passengers,
(18:18):
we have that luxury because we're just sitting in a chair, okay,
But for the people that manage these planes, both in
terms of the manufacturers and for the airlines, the decisions
that they are making are affecting life and death, you know,
the preservation of life at an altitude where what little
(18:39):
breathable air is outside that window is going by four
or five hundred.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Miles an hour and it's ice cold or whatever.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I just don't know. I really it really turns my stomach.
I could not work for a company like that and
make a decision, well, this probably won't happen. We'll just
pay off all the flanged families. It's a lot cheaper
than fixing a problem and a whole big fleet that's
that's not a decision that I would I know my
faults and that's not something that I could do, all right.
(19:14):
I titled this episode, this live episode today, drama and
stunts in LA and Washington and in LA there in
the Hollywood area, it's famous for drama, it's famous for stunts.
And yeah, we've had a lot of that. Let's start
(19:36):
with the riot coverage. You know, there's there's and I'm
gonna call it riots because there's cars being burned, There's
all these other things going on. And I've listened to
some people that live in LA and they all say that, well,
(19:57):
you know, the areas that are being affected are very mall.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
You know, the.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Areas are very small, and you watch it on the
news and it seems like the whole city's burning. And
I would agree that that distortion is true. I would
absolutely agree that that distortion is true. At the same time, though,
the way these things are presented is a little odd.
(20:23):
Let's listen to what this announcer had to say about
cars burning in the street.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
It could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement
in there and the wrong way and turn what is
just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn
into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers and demonstrators.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yeah, you know, I just love an evening watching cars burn.
You know, I'll get out some marshmallows and some weedies,
and you know, I have some fun watching these cars burn.
That's absolutely ridiculous. That is absolutely ridiculous. Now let's contrast
this with a news conference that happened in the great
(21:10):
state of Florida.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
If you resist lawful orders, you're going to jail. Let
me be very clear about that. If you block an
intersection or a roadway in Brevard County, you are going
to jail. If you flee arrest, you're going to go
to jail tired, because we are going to run you
down and put you in jail. If you try to
mob rule a car in Brevard County, gathering around it,
(21:35):
refusing to let the driver leave in our county, you're
most likely going to get run over and dragged across
the street. If you spit on us, you're going to
the hospital and in jail. If you hit one of us,
you're going to the hospital and jail and most likely
get bitten by one of our big, beautiful dogs that
we have here. If throw a brick, a fire bomb,
(21:59):
or point a gun at one of our deputies. We
will be notifying your family where to collect your remains
at because we will kill you graveyard dead. We're not
going to play.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
This has got to stop.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Okay, they're going to kill you, graveyard dead. I really
like that here Again. You know, this is two sides
of how these things are being portrayed. And I'm very
much a law and order person. If I had to
choose between those two things, I'm going to go with
law enforcement because there's nothing about protesting and exercising your
(22:37):
free speech rights that has to do with destroying property
and doing it in a way. It's one thing. If
you know, some of these violent protests, let's call them vandalism,
you know, happened in a parking lot where there where
(22:59):
there wasn't any but nobody likes to have their car
windows broken out. That's not fun, okay. But a lot
of this vandalism is doing it in a way where
other people that live, other people who are trying to
make their way by are in harm's way. So it
is a form of terrorism. They are trying to instill
fear into the people that are in that area. And
(23:23):
people do get hurt and people do get killed, so
you know this is not something to take likely and lightly.
And I am on the side of law enforcement, but
maye no mistake. I mean that there was a little
bravado there. You know, that's part of that's part of
you know, public relations anymore. You know, you've got to
get people talking, get the word out, get people's attention.
(23:46):
And that certainly worked. But I got to tell you,
I don't care if it's one block or if it's
ten square miles. People deliberately setting cars on fire and
have an announcer like that say, oh, well, we're just
having some fun watching some cars burn.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
That's a little ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
So these things get molded by the media, and it's
because they have an agenda. And I've noticed that both
sides of the aisle play this out. The coverage on
the left is because oh Trump is so evil, you know,
all this stuff going on with Ice, it's so terrible,
(24:34):
it's like the SS. And the conservative side of the
media says, a look at these crazy liberals out in
the street, look at them. So it plays well for both.
And I'm going to say right now, the bowling on
this is a little mixed, but I don't know that
(24:59):
the it's playing well for the Democrats. It's not playing
well for either. But it's not playing well for the Democrats,
and I'll tell you why. As some of you may recall,
in twenty twenty four, I did an episode where I
laid out why the Democrats were on their way to
lose the election. And I did it not because I
(25:23):
was a Republican or Democrat or independent. It was strictly
from a marketing standpoint. And what the Democrats did. The
reason the Democrats lost is their only brand was Trump
was bad. And that can't be a brand.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
You can't go up against coke and say, well, coke
is so bad by ours that that's not That is
not a way to market a product, and it's not
the way to market an idea.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
The Democrats, somehow or other, we had a I think
Republicans would all agree Reagan was the perfect brand and
for Democrats who had Bill Clinton and then Obama, and
I know all the Conservatives get mad when I mentioned
them in a good light, but the fact of the
matter is they were candidates that people voted for. Okay,
(26:27):
that's why they won And what we have now is
the anti vote. Okay, our guy or our woman isn't
as bad as the other one. It's the anti vote.
The anti vote, it largely is what usher Trump in
in twenty sixteen, people just didn't like Hillary. The anti
(26:52):
vote is what one Biden in twenty twenty, they were
all against Trump, and in twenty twenty four or the
polar opposite happened. People looked at Biden and some of
the crazy ideals that Democrats were standing up for, and
they simply said, if that's their brand of crazy, then
I'm gonna go with this brand of crazy. We really
(27:16):
haven't had a a candidate that has captivated the imagination,
that has captivated a new approach that has has captivated
that in a very long time.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
That's not nothing against Trump for the for the Trump
supporters out there, Trump is very dynamic, and he's he's
he's good at what he does. But in the grand
scheme of things, you don't get the warm fuzzies like
you did with JFK. And we haven't had that in many,
many decades. I think there was an affection for Reagan
(27:53):
to some degree. I liked him, you know, he always
appeared very affable, and he always told those little jokes,
and he was a great communicator. You know, they call
them the great communicator. But we haven't had that, you know,
where you proactively vote, you know, Reagan, I believe I
remember election in nineteen eighty four that entire map was
(28:16):
almost read and we just haven't had somebody captivate the
imagination and their hearts in that way in a long time.
We vote against the person we do not want to win.
That is how the elections have gone the last ten years.
And uh, this leads us into what are the Democrats
(28:37):
doing now? Well, let's take a look at what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Now.
Speaker 6 (28:42):
I have questions for the secretary because the fact that
the matter is half a dozen FIGN criminals that you're.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Rotating on your on your.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Off, many of our says have been joshed in your city.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
All right, Yes, that is our very good friend, Senator
Alex Padilla Padelia. And he's at Christy NOMS news conference
there and he's being ushered out by security. And oh,
this is all anti you know, this is the Trump regime.
(29:23):
This is anti free speech. This is treating a senator
like he's a piece of garbage. Let's look at another
angle here, and she is speaking at a podium, and
here's the deal. And I would say the same thing
no matter who was up there. And as a matter
of fact, I'm going to talk about something that happened
(29:43):
sometime ago with John Carey. But let's take another look
at this other angle here, and she's at the podium
and he just comes in and starts talking right over
top of her, and nobody knows who we is. And
in this day and age, you can't let somebody approach
a podium like that. You don't know what they're gonna do.
(30:05):
You know, they could throw acid on or pull a gun. Uh,
And you just can't presume that this person, you know,
safely got through security. So you can't let somebody just
approach a podium like that with a major governmental official.
And as you'll see, he's not the room does not
know who he is. He just comes in, he doesn't
(30:27):
identify himself until he's being pushed out the door.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Here we go.
Speaker 6 (30:31):
I want to know about you.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I want to thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Also, I want to have the secretary because the fact
matter is half a.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Dozen that your prochating on your I also want to.
Speaker 7 (30:52):
Talk all right, coolate class.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Other hands, other hand, let me get my hens done. Yeah,
so this uh, this idea. You know, here's the thing
about free speech. When we hear the term free speech,
we conjure up an image of somebody speaking and it
(31:25):
is free speech, okay, But what it really is is
about our ability to listen to who we want to
listen to. And when somebody gets silenced by a heckler,
or when they get silenced in in a in a
(31:45):
room or an events center or some location that they
have either you know, they've sanctioned somehow, they got the
proper permits, they rented the room, whatever, people come to
hear them, or they're having a preference conference so that
people can hear what they have to say. And when
you come in and disrupt that, that isn't your right
(32:05):
to free speech. You are silencing somebody, and worse, you
are telling the audience who wants to hear what they
have to say that that decision is being made for you.
You don't have to listen to that person. Okay, we
don't want you to listen to that person. That's what
they are doing. And I say the same thing when
(32:26):
it happens on the other side, for the case of Padilia,
made some other remarks, but here's the one that kind
of went viral. Just in the sake of fairness, I.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Will say this. If this is how this administration responds
to a senator with a question, If this is how
the Apartment of Home mat Security responds to a senator
with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing
(32:58):
to farm workers two cooks, two day labors out in
the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country.
We will hold this administration accountable now here Again, he
came in there.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
When Christy nom had secured that area, there was a
time and you know that was designated, and she was
making her remarks, and he came in and disrupted that.
All right, He could have waited his turn to you know,
wait to ask a question if you wanted to ask
(33:40):
a provocative question. When she turned things over, when that
part of the thing came up, he could have pressed
her then. But he went in there unidentified initially, when
he went in the room and disrupted that conference there
this is all grand standing. And then he cries. And
(34:01):
what's said about this is there's a significant amount of
people that are going to fall for this. Oh, look
how badly he was treated. These people are authoritarians. And
I'm going to be clear, I'm not necessarily a Trump person.
If you followed the podcast, you know last year when
I was talking about when I had that big episode
(34:21):
about the Democrats, and I say big because that one
got a lot of national tension. I got blocked by
nationally known pundits and everything else. If you followed that,
I was not a Trump I was not that, okay.
I just knew what the Democrats were doing, with the
(34:42):
manipulation of authorities, with the manipulation of keeping people that
they didn't like off the ballot, with the this seat around,
what bided, what his physical and mental health was, all
of these things, and the crazzy notions now I mean,
(35:04):
the the gas lighting over such obvious social issues. It
was such that I I I finally committed around Trump
around the time that the Republican Convention happened. And that
was only because here again, that brand of crazy wasn't
(35:24):
as crazy as what the other side was doing. And uh,
that's not much of a of an endorsement, but that
is that, and and the Democrats are doing the same thing.
Now this is the brand. Look how terrible this regime is,
this Trump regime. Look how awful it is. The measurement
(35:48):
they're doing all the little bit. Okay, where is their Obama?
Where is their Clinton? It's still not here. They're making
They have not learned from what happened in twenty twenty four.
They're doing the same thing over again. Now I mentioned
(36:14):
back in let's see, I'm not sure what year that was.
I don't know if I made a note of it
here or not. Oh I did.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
I did.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
This was in two thousand and seven, and this happened
with a University of Florida student and the then Senator
John Carey was making remarks. Now, I got to tell you,
I am not a friend of a fan of John Carey.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Why the lung face? John? I just didn't dig it always.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Kind of reminds me of the guy who played Herman Munster.
But I was not a fan of John Carrey. But
you know what I was all for what happened here.
You had to you know, he was up there trying
to talk and some you know, ideologically driven a moral
high ground jerk decides he is going to disrupt what
(37:08):
was going on. People there were quietly listening to what
John Carey had to say. Why they were interested in
what he had to say?
Speaker 1 (37:15):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
But here again, when somebody comes in there, they're not
shutting up John Carrey. What they're doing is they're telling
the people in those seats who they can and can't
listen to. It's about free listening. And I got to
be honest with you here. I hope this doesn't change
your opinion of me. But back when, back when this happened,
(37:39):
I had a don't Taste me Bro T shirt. I
had a vote for Pedro one too, I did. I
had a vote for Pedro T shirt. And I also
had a don't tase me bro, don't taste me Bro.
I had the T shirt. And here's what happened there.
And I wish they would have done this to Padilla.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
Why am I? God, I didn't do anything. Don't taste
me bro, don't tease me?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
All right, don't tase me bro? Oh well yeah, so
and here again you're gonna call me croul. But I
really don't have a problem with somebody obnoxious coming in
there and making a decision for a room full of
people that they don't need to listen to what they
(38:51):
came there to listen to, and they do so in
a very obnoxious way. They have no respect for the
people in the room, They have no respect for law enforcement,
they have no respect at all for the security in
the room. And here again, you know, I'm not a
fan of John Kerry, but he was a US senator
at the time. Would I would respect John Carrey enough,
(39:12):
you know, if I was around him, I would be
very respectful towards him. And to act like that, I mean,
who do these people think they are? And here again,
it's very clear it's it's not because it's it's you know,
and more recently it's it's been Trump that has been
and his associates that have been disrupted by people like this.
(39:36):
I didn't I didn't like it when it happened to Clinton,
Hillary Clinton, I didn't happen. I didn't like it when
it happened to Barack Obama. When Barack Obama was addressing
Congress and somebody shouted, you lie, that guy was a pig.
You know, that is the president's moment. That is people
in in the United States were watching that. The people
(39:57):
that were watching it wanted to hear what I had
to say. Not somebody's big mouth, Okay, And so that's
all right, that's my take on that. One more thing
here and then I'll wrap it up. You know, about
the left, we love the left. I tease the left,
(40:20):
but I love the left, and I'm not really on
the right. If I had to choose, I would probably
have to say that I'm more on the right than
I am the left. But I'm not clearly identifiable. And
I don't really like even saying that I'm moderate because
that's still on the scale and I think there's way
too many Everybody wants to put you on the scale.
(40:43):
Well you're here, you're here, you're there. You know, I'm
all about objective analysis. I don't approach a subject from
the right or the left. I always say, I try
to go around at three hundred and sixty grease, and uh,
(41:04):
it's usually the left that's a little lopsided, but not always.
But anyway, one thing that I uh that I really
like about the left is they their complaint is that
there's too many privileged people. There's too many wealthy, privileged
(41:24):
people that really don't understand the plight of what's going
on in the world. So let's champion a rich, spoiled
brat and make her a hero for doing nothing. You know,
(41:45):
this greta Thumburg or Dumburg or whatever she calls herself.
You know, this is a person that has the resources
to travel the world. She gets press coverage wherever she goes.
And this thing Israel called it the selfie yacht, and
that's correct. This was a stunt. She went to you know,
(42:08):
the guy on her way to the Gaza thing on
this humanitarian effort on a yacht. Now, this is how
much resources could she have been carrying to carry relief
into an area where there's millions of people. This was
a stunt. She knew that she was going to get stopped,
(42:30):
and she predicted that she was going to get stopped.
And look at this little, precocious little brad.
Speaker 8 (42:37):
My name is Gethatumbe and I am from Sweden. If
you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped
in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces or forces
that support israel I. Urged all my friends, family and
comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to release
(42:57):
me and the others as soon as possible.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Yeah, and she was. They sent her back on a plane.
I don't know if she went to France first or
where she went back to Sweden.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Yeah, kidnapped.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
There was pictures of her getting sandwiches from the Israeli
defenses while she was getting processed. From what I understand,
she refused to watch some of the films and some
of the tapes, which I'm guessing have not been released
to the public about what really happened on that terrorist attack,
(43:36):
when the terrorists came in and took Israelis and you know,
some of the pictures that we saw. To me, it's
insulting to hear that brat. It's insulting to the families
of those hostages. Who talks about she's being kidnapped. She's
on a yacht that costs sailboat or whatever it is.
(43:58):
Who would that costs? Who knows how much? And she's
saying that she's kidnapped in the same vein that those
women that we saw with their hands, some of them
had broken wrists, broken arms, blood coming out of their pants.
That's kidnapped. What you saw there was a spoiled, pretentious brat.
(44:25):
And if the media is so concerned about privilege. Maybe
what they should do is find a young person, a
young woman from an under from an underserved community, as
they say, and maybe listen to her about what her
day is like and maybe give the world a better
understanding of what it's like to be in some of
(44:47):
those communities where getting to school alive is an achievement.
So yeah, needless to say, I I was never big
on this Greta to begin with, and now her her
(45:07):
championing what amounts to terrorism.
Speaker 1 (45:12):
Uh, and and.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Putting the reality of that situation into such an unfocused
and horrible spectrum of analysis. You know, my question for
her when you were out on the ocean was the
ocean boiling?
Speaker 1 (45:34):
And I know, we.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Want to make the climate change people mad, but you know,
they're some of her predictions. You know, it's already irreversible,
what's happening with climate if you go back through the years,
some of her predictions. She was a lot younger than
and uh, you know, I can understand some of the
criticism not being too stark back then when she but
(45:56):
she's she's an adult now and she's manipulating world events
to her advantage. She's distorting the reality of what's happening.
She's doing it where she's making herself a celebrity and
people are eating this stuff up. People are eating it up.
Like it's like like she is, you know, a Pulitzer
(46:17):
Prize winning journalist.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
She's a hack.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
All right, I have a lad, all right, all right,
Well that's my commentary again. I want to say, with
the unrest in the world right now, in particular what's
happening with Israel and Iran. You know, there's a lot
of good people in Iran and I follow some of
(46:45):
them on x and they want a regime change there.
You know, if you go back and check out some
of the pictures of Iran, you know, way back in
the early seventies, it was it would be hard to
tell the difference between you know, Iranian life in American life,
(47:05):
and things are a lot different there now, and there
are people that want you know, there was a couple
times when there was almost you know, a regime change.
But I feel a lot of the Iranian people want
normalcy back in their lives, and I would like that
for them. I if I could wave a magic wand
(47:29):
I would want the people in Iran to live like
it's Miami and have Israel in a situation where they
don't have to be walking out the door and looking
up at the sky to see if there's any streaks
going by. And same with with with the Gaza Strip. Uh,
(47:50):
it would be great if the if the Gaza Strip
could turn into.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
You know, something that was a vacation spot.
Speaker 4 (47:57):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
Wouldn't that be great for the the people there? Wouldn't
that be great for the world. And it brings such sadness,
you know, all the fighting through the centuries and the
millennia in that area and indeed the world, you know,
when it comes right down to it, fighting over what
(48:21):
we believe, fighting over imaginary linees drawing on a map.
It's and we talk about how intelligent we are because
we have a phone. We have a phone. Boy, they'll
call advanced we are. But the fact of the matter
is still very territorial, still killing each other over resources.
(48:45):
Not much has changed in the last ten thousand years.
George Carlin once said, take away electricity. We're right back
in the caves. So yeah, Well, anyway, I gotta tell
you we had a great Quest's right interview. It's in
the playlist. Please do check it out. The playlist of
the Ability's Podcasts. You can find the Ability's Podcasts anywhere
(49:07):
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for the governor of Kansas, is on the program. It's
in the playlist. Just go to The Ability's Podcasts. It's
right there. Check it out. We talk about not only Kansas,
(49:29):
and she told me some things about Kansas I did
not know. But we talked about the current state of
affairs and how everybody's in their own bubble and how
people are hard to reach these days. And we also
talk about autism and a lot of other things. So
it's a great interview. Do check it out. Billy D's
(49:50):
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(50:11):
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So do check us out on social media. Ironbil Ds.
Don't forget no live show next week, as they say,
(50:33):
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(50:57):
very very soon.
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