June 27, 2025 • 36 mins
🎙️ In this fast-paced and entertaining episode, Billy Dees and Cynthia Elliott dive into the complex — and often absurd — world of politics and media spin.
🔹 First up: the tangled relationship between Donald Trump and the media. Was the Iran strike truly a success? Or are we just hearing what we're meant to hear?
🔹 Then, things get cheeky with a playful look at Trump being dubbed “Daddy” by some within NATO. Yes, really.
🔹 The conversation heats up as Pete Hegseth confronts the press over its coverage of the Iran strike — and the hosts dissect how gender politics are being weaponized in the narrative.
And finally, we close with the “Best Line of the Day” from Senator John Neely Kennedy — a mic-drop moment you won’t want to miss.
Tune in for smart takes, sharp wit, and a whole lot of personality.
You can follow Billy Dees on X @BillyDees https://x.com/BillyDees
And Cynthia Elliott on X @Shamanisis https://x.com/shamanisis
Be sure to check out other episodes right here on this platform in the playlist, including our interview with Kansas gubernatorial candidate Stacy Rogers.
🔹 First up: the tangled relationship between Donald Trump and the media. Was the Iran strike truly a success? Or are we just hearing what we're meant to hear?
🔹 Then, things get cheeky with a playful look at Trump being dubbed “Daddy” by some within NATO. Yes, really.
🔹 The conversation heats up as Pete Hegseth confronts the press over its coverage of the Iran strike — and the hosts dissect how gender politics are being weaponized in the narrative.
And finally, we close with the “Best Line of the Day” from Senator John Neely Kennedy — a mic-drop moment you won’t want to miss.
Tune in for smart takes, sharp wit, and a whole lot of personality.
You can follow Billy Dees on X @BillyDees https://x.com/BillyDees
And Cynthia Elliott on X @Shamanisis https://x.com/shamanisis
Be sure to check out other episodes right here on this platform in the playlist, including our interview with Kansas gubernatorial candidate Stacy Rogers.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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(00:33):
With me tonight is Cynthia Elliott.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Cynthia, Hey, Billy, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah, you don't have your usual setup today because a
year in New York.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Right, Yeah, I'm in New York for graduation, so I'm
on the road.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
How are things in New York politically?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Cold?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Cold? Sorry, cold, it's cold. I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
It was like sixty degrees today. It apparently it was
one hundred for like five days.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, I was gonna say that, like record temperatures there,
because I'm in Ohio. We've had record temperatures and all
through the Northeast it's been blazing hot. I was actually
in Georgia earlier this week and it was hotter in
Ohio than it was in Georgia.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yes, yeah, yeah, Politically it's it's weird. New York has
a strange vibe right now.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
It really does.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I've spent so much time for decades here, but yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Been giving me. I've been getting this essence.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Of right before nine to eleven for the last couple
of weeks, which I don't say lightly, and that did
not change when I was in New York. I mean
that's meaning the city.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, I know the politics with the mayor candidate has
caused a lot of talk. I don't know, you know,
it's one of those things I don't know enough about
the situation with the particular candidate. I don't think it
has anything directly to do with the fact that he's Islamic.
(02:07):
I think it has to do with he's got some
radical positions, like abolishing the police.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Is something. Yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I'll say, you know, I Chris Rock did a routine
one time, and this is the litmus test if you
want to talk about who's who's doing the harm in society.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
When you walk up.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
To the ATA atm machine late at night and you
look over your shoulder, who are you looking for? Are
you looking for the police to do you harm? In
that situation? Are you looking for Trump to do you harm,
and that's probably not and I just don't. And you know,
we're in this situation now where you criticize anybody of
(02:50):
any religious or ethnicity, you get called a phobic of
that type. And his position are I think what's concerning people?
And he again, I haven't researched this New York situation
long enough to to speak intelligently about it, but that's
(03:11):
from what I've been gathering online. That's what I'm getting.
Before we get started, I do want to do a
shout out. I want to do a shout out to
Stacy Rogers. Do check out that interview in our playlist.
You can find our playlist anywhere you find the podcast.
And she is the a Republican I should say not
(03:32):
the a Republican candidate for the governor of Kansas, and
she gave us a wonderful interview. Lots of lots of
listens on that one. Do check that out in the playlist.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Okay, I have to say really.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Quick in rehers to New York, really fast. I find
the Democrats and the people that they are pushing forward
to be incredibly dangerous. Yeah, there's no plan, there's no organization.
It's just like who who whatever can stick up like
a nail whether no matter what they say, as long
as it's getting him attention, they seem to be supporting,
(04:07):
and it just they're dangerous.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
They are. Yeah, and you know, I know that's my opinion,
but it's the truth.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
No, it is the truth. Their strategy seems to be
the same one that lost them the election. And here again,
if you're new to the program, I'm not necessarily a partisan,
you know, I'm not a pro Trump guy. Not in
the context of politics. I don't have any feelings about
them one way or the other.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I don't know them.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
But in terms of strategy, the Democrats did a good
job of losing that election by championing these absurd societal norms,
the gender and race constantly becoming an issue, and the
villainization of Trump and that all of that. What all
(04:57):
of that does is it doesn't cultivate a candidate, you know,
like these guys are not. People voted for Bill Clinton,
people voted for Barack Obama. And in the last ten
years especially, we've had what is called the anti vote.
You know, our guy isn't as bad as yours. You know,
the anti Hillary vote did a lot to help Trump
(05:20):
in twenty sixteen, and then the climate switched, and the
anti Trump vote is largely what ushered in Biden. And
then it switched and the anti Biden vote is what
got Trump in in twenty twenty four. So the Democrats
haven't had somebody to actively vote for in a long time. Okay,
(05:44):
we're going to talk about scum today and people being
your daddy.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Let's go with Trump.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
He was asked, I believe this was that a NATO meeting. No, no,
it was asked about NATO partners. Let me qualify that.
And this was the question, and this is how he
answered it. And for those of you checking out the video,
be sure to watch Marco Rubio in the background.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
It's from Skyneese Mark Ritter, the NATO chief. Who is
your friend? He called you daddy earlier. Do you regard
your NATO allies as kind of children?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
No, he likes me.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I think he likes me. If he doesn't, I'll let
you know. I'll come back and I'll hit him hard.
Okay he did. He did it very affectionate. Daddy here,
my daddy, do you okay?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And the question was posed in the context of NATO,
where I got a little confused there is do the
NATO partners look to the United States as like a
big daddy and does Trump consider them children? That's probably
a little strong, But the fact of the matter is
is that the NATO partners, if something really bad would
(07:05):
go down in the world somewhere, it's the United States
that's going to do the heavy lifting, I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
And it's that simple.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
And a lot of questions have come up about should
NATO partners be funding You're helping the United States, you know,
with its expenses, because there's huge expenses with the military
and staffing and maintaining bases around the world. So yeah,
(07:33):
I'm kind of on the fence about this. If you
start doing that, though, if you start saying, hey, you
guys have to take care of yourself, you also lose
the very powerful voice that you have in Europe. So
what say you, Cynthia?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yeah, no, I I'm really kind of tired of America
playing policeman for the entire world. But I kind of
also understand it because America really is kind of a
hard beat of humanity on the planet, and when we
start to accept like too much funds and support, it
will come with telling us what to do, and that's
(08:09):
kind of a catch twenty two. We maintain a level
of autonomy by bearing it ourselves and allows us to
do go in, do what we need to do, and
get out without too much chatter from the other side.
So you know, I don't know I could go back.
I can go back and forth on this topic because
I really do.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I do. I like that we play that role, but
I don't think we can continue to afford to play
that role.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
And you know, it begs the question of if they
do fund us, is that mean they're going to get
involved in too involved in the choices we make.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
This getting back to the child scenario. This is like
telling your child, hey, you're twenty one, get out of
the house. We're not supporting you anymore. And the twenty
one year old, you know, goes on his or her way,
and all of a sudden, the twenty one year old
is doing whatever they want. It's not something you want
them to do, and you start telling them and they're
going to say, hey, hell with you, I'm out on
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my own. I'm going to do what I want. You know,
when they're under your roof, you can say as long
as you're under my roof you're going to do a
B and C, but you can't do that when they're not.
So it depends on what you want. Do you want
the responsibility of managing this child's life or can you
deal with the fact that they're going to go on
their own and it may not be where you want
them to go. So that's kind of situation that we're
(09:25):
dealing with there. The other one I wanted to talk
about is the remarks about Trump talking about the media
and uses the word scum, and this has to do
with the characterization of how successful the strike was in Iran.
(09:48):
Now let me say this objectively speaking. These what are
called bunker buster bombs. The way they work is they
remain intact. They have a kind of like throwing a
dart into a soft board. They go a certain depth
and once they're under the ground, then they detonate. So
(10:12):
when you just look at the surface, it's very hard
to know for sure what happened underneath. So therefore the
intelligence can be slow in coming out. Sometimes you don't
have definite ABC. This was all destroyed for weeks later,
and that's true. No matter what if you want to
(10:33):
believe that Trump knocked it out.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Fine.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
If you want to believe that it was a bust
and didn't do anything, that's fine too, But it's simply
too early to tell.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Now, with that being said, a lot of the media
was running with some of these reports that the bombs
didn't do that much. Okay, So Trump is reacting to
a lot of the way certain media groups really ran
(11:05):
with this as the narrative as it was a failure.
So now he's tut to get as a success. I
don't know how much you can do that. Now you
can make the argument he has access to classified information
that the rest of us don't. But I would imagine
between Israel and the United States will probably have a
better feel, or at least the governments will. What they
(11:26):
let us know is another thing entirely, but probably within
about two weeks, the governments of Israel and the United
States will probably have a pretty good idea of how
successful those were. In the meantime, this is Trump talking
about how the media dealt with this.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
This was an unbelievable hit by genius pilots and genius
people in the military, and then not being given credit
for it because we.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Have scum that's in this group and not all of
v are. You had some great reporters, but you have scum.
CNN is scum. He is scum. The New York Times
is scum. That bad people. They're sick.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
And what they've done is they're trying to make this
unbelievable victory into something less. Now, even they.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Admit that it was hit very hard.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Okay, but it wasn't.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
It was hit brutally and it knocked it out.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
The original word that I use, I guess it got
us in trouble because it's a strong word.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
It was obliteration.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Okay. Uh here again, we don't know. My guess is
they did do a lot of damage. How much is
another thing entirely. And I know there's been some conjecture
about where the uranium deposits were. The real issue was
the development. It takes a lot of processing to you know,
create fission, so you know, there's a lot of variables here. Now,
(12:52):
with that being said, getting back to the bunker buster bombs,
and this is something I haven't heard too many people
speak about. It's one thing to go under underground and explode.
It's another thing to go underground at the correct depth.
So you know, when you have a bomb that's capable
of going you know, two hundred feet whatever underground or further.
(13:14):
You know, sometimes you can go too far down, so
you know, it's it's just eternally early to tell. But
with the amount of explosions that were sent there, I
can't believe that something wasn't damaged.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
What is your take on this, Cynthia.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Well, I would say that the results, you know, yeah,
we would we won't know. So the actions that were
taken were incredible. I mean, the fact that they were
able to keep them secret is just a tremendous success
all on its own. They went in, they got out
without harm to our people. Huge wins, huge winds all around.
The fact is is that we don't know every single
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thing that's going on in that country and what where
they store everything and where you know, we don't have
all of those details. The fact is it was a
success and it brought people to the to the piece
to able to have talk. So I think it's a
huge win for Trump. I think it's a huge win
for Pete Heggsmith, who has literally been given an incredibly.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Difficult time by the media.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
They've just been just ugly and brutal, but My biggest
issue with the whole thing is and I think I
just wish if I could educate people on anything that
I learned in my twenty five years of working with
media is that whenever they're bitching about something, it's because
they want your attention, because the only way for them
to make money is with your attention. And Fox News
(14:30):
has really dug itself in as kind of.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
The media outlet for the Republican Party, and the.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Rest of them sold their souls sixteen to the last
twenty years to become the askisers of the Democrat Party,
and now they're left with the only way to get
attention is to dramatize or find something negative to say
about every win that comes in. Like it's just it's
so predictable at this point that I've actually stopped watching
news across the board.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I just I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I don't want to I don't care because I know
what they're going to do to find anything that they
can to just rip it apart. And you know, I
just I'm a big fan in support of our military,
and it would be just so nice to see, you know,
the liberal media actually appreciate people like our police departments
and our military. You know, they're just The Democratic Party
(15:17):
is just so anti all the things that have made
the country what it is to this day and what
the rest of the world depends on. So those are
my thoughts. I'm congratulating Trump and Pe, taxmanth in the
entire military.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I thought it was beautifully done.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I'll tell you what. That's a perfect lead into this
next clip. Let me go ahead and play it.
Speaker 8 (15:37):
Because you, and I mean specifically you, the press, specifically
you the press corps, because you cheer against Trump so hard.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
It's like in your DNA and in your blood.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
Cheer against Trump because you want him not to be
successful so bad. You have to cheer against the efficacy
of these strikes. You have to hope maybe they weren't effective,
Maybe the way the Trump administration is representative isn't true.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
So let's take half truths.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
Spun information, leaked information, and then spin it, spin it
in every way we can to try to cause doubt
and manipulate the mind, the public mind over whether or
not our brave pilots were successful. How many stories have
been written about how hard it is to, I don't know,
fly a plane for thirty six hours.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah, that's just the point that you were making, you know,
the refueling.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Here he goes on there to talk about the refueling,
the amount of time that those pilots had to sit
in those planes, the danger involved that those are all
good points and they don't touch on that.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
And on another note, really quick, I just have to
say this, it was so nice to see, Like I
don't think the Democratic Party ever has truly appreciated our military.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Look what they tried to do to it for the
last twenty years.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
When you look at somebody like a Raisin Caine giving
that briefing, I mean, how my heart and soul as
an American was warmed to see such a powerhouse delivery
from one of our military men. Like, I think they
could celebrate that, don't e free. Wouldn't it be nice
for change?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
It sure would. And you know you were speaking.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
About you know, Fox News. Fox News in terms of
ratings isn't what it once was, but the other ones
are really suffering, and cable news in general is in
bad shape. Now you mentioned some of the other networks.
You know, there was a time going back ten or
fifteen years ago that CNN they were the good guys. Right,
(17:42):
They were boring, but they were the good guys. You
had MSNBC that was always out the window to the left,
and of course Fox was always right leaning, although I
will defend them in that they did have a real
news show and then they had opinion shows which were
clearly identified as conservative. See. I don't have a problem
with that. Rush Limbaugh always used to say, I'm a
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conservative guy, and these are conservative viewpoints, and a lot
of times he would explain something that was happening in
government and then give his take on it. I don't
have an issue with that at all. What I do
have is an issue with people like Jake Trapper who
come on and speak like this sociatisticated and talk about things.
Is if it's the the divine truth and he's presenting
(18:27):
it as unbiased news, but it's his effing opinion. That's
the kind of thing that makes me nuts, you know.
And then he goes ahead and writes this book about
how the Biden administration kept his his real condition a secret.
No they didn't. Everybody knew it, and he was part
of the group that was gaslighting. Everybody's saying, oh no,
(18:49):
this is this is like Joe Scarborough. This is the
best Biden ever. Yeah right, sure, So anyway, that's what
I have a problem without. I'm gonna I'm gonna play
another clip from Seth and then I'm going to ask
you something about Pete, and I'm going to.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Go somewhere with that that's a little different.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Pete was asked, mister hag Seth was asked, how come
he didn't give proper acknowledgment to a female pilot.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
Oh yeah, this acknowledge the female pilots that also participated
in this mission.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
The early messages that you sent out only congratulated the boys.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
So when I say something like our boys and bombers,
see this is the kind of thing that press does.
Right of course, the chairman mentioned a female bomber pilot.
That's fantastic. She's fantastic, she's a hero. I want more
female bomber pilots. I hope the men and women of
our country sign up to do such brave and audacious things.
But when you spin it as because I say our
boys and bombers as a common phrase, I'll keep saying
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things like that, whether they are men or women. Very
proud of that female pilot just like, I'm very proud
of those male pilots, and I don't care if it's
a male or a female in that cockpit, and the
American people don't care. But it's the obsession with race
and gender in this department that's changed priorities where we
don't do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
We don't play your little games. Yes, right there. Yeah,
Now here's the thing. I want to be very clear
about this. I agree with everything he said.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
One.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I agree with Pete on this absolutely. As a backdrop
to this, this is my opinion. I have nothing to
go on this. He just doesn't blow me away. There's
never a time that I'm watching him or listening to
him and say, Wow, this guy, there's just something that
(20:33):
doesn't hit me.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
In watching this, there's been a lot of mostly liberal
of women commentators, and they talk about his accusations of
drinking and some of the things that he's allegedly done
with women that weren't so hot, and and they say
his body language and the way he acts during these
(20:56):
interviews is typical of a potential abuser or something of
that nature. Now, I don't necessarily go that far, but
I will say that this guy does not blow me away.
I just I agree with everything he says on paper.
I'm totally in line with him going after the press,
(21:18):
I'm totally in line with him, you know, combating against
the gender and ideal, you know, the identity politics. But
I'm not necessarily blown away. Now, you are a little
bit more of an intuitive than I am, and you
have a history of of what women go through.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
What is your take on this guy.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I don't dislike pg P. Taggsmith.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
I know a lot of people have been have really
dwelled on certain aspects of him. I find it really
interesting when they like people, particularly if they're Democrats, they
don't seem to talk at all about the bullshit that
they've done or the things they've been accused of and
their history and their career. But make it some that
they don't like, and they're going to find every single
thing they can to highlight and then overly and overly
and overly highlight.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Look, he got.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Through, can he got through, he was approved, he's now
got the job, and he's doing what he can to
you know, and I said this in the beginning.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
One of the things is.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Trump will roll the dice on a lot of people
that people others would not have chosen. And I have
a lot of respect for the reasons that we don't.
We don't always know the reasons why he does what
he does. We needed some pretty transformative change at the
Department of Defense. Trump rolled the dice on Pete. I
think he hasn't really been given it. He's spent the
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vast majority of his time so far just defending himself
against the constant attacks.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I don't think he's had a chance to really warm
up to it.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
As an intuitive I'm not getting a signal. And I'm
really good, especially with people who are who have a
tendency to be really narcissistic. I'm really good at picking
that kind of stuff up, and I do think you
need a level of that and just to go into politics.
Oh sure, to have the stomach. But I'm not getting
a bad feeling from him. I feel like he's trying
really hard, but he's had a lot of his time
(23:04):
and energy wasted by back, you know, by people he
didn't feel he could trust. And frankly, given what's happened
in the last twenty years, I'm sure there are a
lot of people that couldn't be trusted because they bought
into the Democratic Party and all the money that was
moving around, you said, and things like that, usaid and
things like that. So I'm I'm you know, I think
(23:24):
he handled this what happened with Iran very well. He
didn't fly the planes necessarily, but I do like that
he came out swinging when they went on the attack.
I think we'll find out more in time, don't. I
don't see any big issues coming with him at this point.
So yeah, that's my opinion.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yeah, I like I said, I don't have anything against
him at this point. But like I said, he hasn't
really pushed me to the positive side either. I just
don't get the Swartz cough. I just don't get the Powell.
I just don't. I don't get that kind of dynamic
from him. But that's it's early, you know, it's still early,
and a lot of that could change. Let's talk about
(24:05):
the Iran strike itself. A lot of people have said
this was an act of war, and I don't want
to quibble about what war is, what war isn't. I
will say that air strikes in and Oven, by themselves,
to me anyway, are not necessarily entering into a formal war.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
And by the way.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I don't believe we've actually declared war on anybody since
World War Two. So, with that being said, air strikes
when you one of the advantages to being a country
like the United States that generally has air superiority over
just about anybody. One of the advantages is when you
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have a radical regime of one kind or another and
they start making nuclear weapons, or they start threatening the border,
or they start doing something thing, you know, you know,
stacking their military on the border against one of our allies,
it's it's much easier to be able to go in
(25:09):
there and end in a pinpoint fashion those threats with
very powerful airstrikes. And quite frankly, I don't understand why
we didn't do that was set on. There was no
reason to go in there and take the ground. When
you start taking the ground, that's when things get ugly,
you know. That's when you start getting mired down in
(25:31):
the local fighting. That's when you start taking on heavy casualties.
That's when you know you have to maintain a ground force,
which means food and supplies and everything. You know, that's
when the real ugliness of war starts to set in.
And I'll say this, Reagan to his credit, when the
Bay Root explosion happened, he for the most part said hey,
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these people are nuts and I'm out of here, and
he stayed out of the Middle East for the most
part except for some strikes. I believe it was Libya. Yeah,
you know here again, just some controlled strikes. So for
a superpower to be able to minimize threats that these
radical dictators come up with without having to launch a
full scale war is part of the advantage of having
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a powerful air force. So in that context, hitting I
ran in the way that we did to me is
a measured way to control a threat that threatens our
allies and potentially threatens ourselves.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Do you have an opinion about that?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Yeah, I believe it was an act of peace. You know,
and people get upset about, you know, they want to
make it about the good people that are part of
the belief system or religion. But the truth is, whether
people want to hear it or not, the truth is.
One of the reasons why people struggle to trust particular
religions is because they have a radical element within them
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that is incredibly destructive and willing to do all sorts
of horrendous things. They've lost their humanness in many ways,
and it makes it very difficult, especially because that agenda
is octfully often hidden from us, and they'll slide into
positions of power without actually showing you what they're really
about until they get them. And you could say this
about just about anybody, but the links at which they'll
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go to are terrifying. And so I think this was
an act of peace. I think that some of the
plans that they've had, the you know, the the we
have cells in this country. We have lone wolves and
wolf packs in this country who would love nothing more
than to buy their way into paradise by taking out
a bunch of Americans and making a big statement. And
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so if we're you know, if we can do anything
that will help to minimize the terrorism around the planet
and also prevent war from continuing or escalating, then you know,
I think that was the best way we could have
done it.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Yeah, yeah, I would agree with that. And you got
to keep in mind too, that Iran as a state
sponsor of terror. Okay, And we've been pussy footing around
Iran for forty five years, and I'm old enough to
remember the Hasss crisis, which was well over a year.
It was like four hundred and forty four days or
something like that, something ridiculous. Yeah, and we've been pussy
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footing around this regime now for a long time. And
you know, I ran into a lot of Iranians online
on x who were really rooting for this because they
want that regime out. They want the Iran of the
early nineteen seventies. Oh yeah, yeah, before before we intervened.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Well, you know, I've never really understood that. I mean,
the Shaw was we Carter supported the Shaw for sure,
but a lot of people want to go back to
those days because that's when Iran started to look a
lot like Miami, you know, oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
So yeah, and that regime really held that against Carter.
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That's one of the reasons why they held the hostages
right to the last second.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Oh, Billy, I really believe. My intuition tells me that
that was about the American election.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, they hated Carter, That's why they held them.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Well I think we had I think not we, but
some people who wanted Reagan in there had something to
do with that. That's just not what my intuition's always
said it could.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I remember thinking this is weird.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
I felt like even as a child watching the situation,
I felt like, Wow, this seems like this is about
getting Reagan in office and not necessarily about the hostages.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
At this point, I can't speak about the forces in
the United States. I would hope that no American would
be that sinister to leave American hostages a hostage.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
But uh done, Yeah we've done.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
But I can tell you for sure there's no question
that that regime hated Carter for supporting the Shaw. He
wanted the show to stay, so they made things as
bad for him as they could. And yeah, a strike
like that would have been something that I'd I'd like
to have singing Carter do. So you can make the
argument that this was forty five years in the coming.
There was an attempt to save the hostages, but it
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didn't work.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
It has a deck come on as a Democrat, ever,
Like I remember being so incredibly disappointed in Obama.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I just for many.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Reasons, like it's a great orator, and I don't dislike
him as a person. I disliked the pretend show that
he put on, and when he became wimpy in terms
of our international relations, I was like, oh, you're not
even a real president.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
You're like a faux president.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
The Democrats are always weak when it comes to defense,
and I we have to we always have to have
a strong defense no matter what's going on in the world.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I would agree with that, that is for sure. Now
let me I got one more clip for you here,
And this is the This is the quote of the day.
This is the what would I call this? This is
the put down of the day. This is worth its
weight in gold. Now I don't know how old this is.
I mean, it's not like years old, but this is
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This was in regard to the tariffs, specifically with China
and the deal that was eventually made, where you know,
the United States is a certain rate and China's at
a certain rate and we're actually at a surplus that
we're better than where we started. And the Democrats were saying, oh, no, no, no,
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you accomplish nothing. The tariffs did nothing. And this was
the response from our good friend Senator Kennedy.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
Now, I've listened all day to some of my Democratic
colleagues say that, well, we we didn't.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Get anything for it.
Speaker 9 (31:42):
You know, if you believe that, I'm not saying you're
the dumbest person in the world, but you better hold
the dumbest.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Person in the world doesn't die.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
It was it was a clear victory.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
That is absolutely charming. I'm gonna have to remember that one.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I love him. I think he's I love it.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
We need his humor we do in politics because most
of the people are just full of shit.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I'm going to have to remember that one because boy,
there's some people I could use it on. That is
absolutely for sure. Okay, Cynthia, I know you've got a
lot going on. You always got to like it. Tell
us a little bit about where people can find you
and what's the latest stuff you got going on.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Yeah, people can find me at shamanis dot com, at
shaman isis, on all the social media platforms like x.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
And I am super excited.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
You know.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I just re released a New American Dream and it
went back into the top ten and social theory and philosophy,
which I was psyched about. That is my book on
how America can reignite the American Dream through the Age
of the Age of AI using this industrial revolution to
revitalize the dream. And it makes some really serious decisions
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that we need to make to help our kids have
a future.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
So go check that out. And then of course I've
got an.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Event coming up September fourth in Boca Ratona at the
Countess de Hornley Theater. It's called the Sultech Future Festival.
I am giving a talk and hosting the event a
lot of wonderful speakers talking about how we create a
beautiful future in the age of AI. How do we
create a conscious, beautiful future so that we have the
kind of wellness we need, the kind of technology that
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we need, the kind of healthcare systems, and you know,
fashion that works for sustainability.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
So it's going to be really exciting, so go check
it out.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
You can find it on a shaman isis dot com
as well as my foundation website, so Cultechfoundation dot org.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Well, that is absolutely fantastic. You can find me Billy
D's at Billy D's on x which is the old
of Twitter. That's kind of like my social media home,
so do check me out there. There's also a Billy
D's podcast Facebook page. You can check that out as well.
That's a real small page, but there's a lot of
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people on there that enjoy some of the behind the
scenes stuff. We talk about what we're doing from a
marketing perspective. We don't just have Hey, check out our
latest episode. It's wonderful, you know, one of those kind
of things. And you can find the abilities podcasts anywhere
podcasts are found. All the major platforms have carried us
on the average for about ten years, and we're on
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all of them as far as I know, we're on
all the major podcast platforms for sure. Do check us
out coming up in the coming weeks. First of all,
I do want to mention again Stacy Rogers her interview.
She is running as a Republican for the governor of Kansas.
If she does happen to win, she is going to
be the first Republican female to be the governor of Kansas.
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So that is in our playlist. Do check us out
on that. Lots of listeners on that one, thousands and thousands.
I mean, that's been a really, really good episode for us.
She is going to be on again. We've already talked
she is going to be on again. I have a
couple of major possibilities in terms of conservative commentators who
want to come on the show, and also some major
(35:08):
podcasters as well. So stay tuned for that and for
all the latest updates. Follow me on the former Twitter
now called X. Thank you everyone for listening to the program. Cynthia,
thank you as Olas, thank you Billy, and we.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Will talk to you again very very soon.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Now. I'm Billy D's and host of the self titled podcast,
The Billy D's Podcast. We are primarily an interview and
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Speaker 3 (35:59):
Thank you, and I hope you listen in
You are listening to The Billy D's Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
All right, Well, hello everyone, and welcome to the program.
As always, I am absolutely thrilled that you are here.
If you've never checked us out before, we are primarily
an interview and a commentary based podcast. You can find
The Billy D's Podcast anywhere podcasts are found. We have
about a ten year history and all the major platforms.
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With me tonight is Cynthia Elliott.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Cynthia, Hey, Billy, what's going on?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah, you don't have your usual setup today because a
year in New York.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Right, Yeah, I'm in New York for graduation, so I'm
on the road.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
How are things in New York politically?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Cold?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Cold? Sorry, cold, it's cold. I'm not even kidding.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
It was like sixty degrees today. It apparently it was
one hundred for like five days.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, I was gonna say that, like record temperatures there,
because I'm in Ohio. We've had record temperatures and all
through the Northeast it's been blazing hot. I was actually
in Georgia earlier this week and it was hotter in
Ohio than it was in Georgia.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Yes, yeah, yeah, Politically it's it's weird. New York has
a strange vibe right now.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
It really does.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I've spent so much time for decades here, but yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Been giving me. I've been getting this essence.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Of right before nine to eleven for the last couple
of weeks, which I don't say lightly, and that did
not change when I was in New York. I mean
that's meaning the city.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, I know the politics with the mayor candidate has
caused a lot of talk. I don't know, you know,
it's one of those things I don't know enough about
the situation with the particular candidate. I don't think it
has anything directly to do with the fact that he's Islamic.
(02:07):
I think it has to do with he's got some
radical positions, like abolishing the police.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Is something. Yeah, I mean yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I'll say, you know, I Chris Rock did a routine
one time, and this is the litmus test if you
want to talk about who's who's doing the harm in society.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
When you walk up.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
To the ATA atm machine late at night and you
look over your shoulder, who are you looking for? Are
you looking for the police to do you harm? In
that situation? Are you looking for Trump to do you harm,
and that's probably not and I just don't. And you know,
we're in this situation now where you criticize anybody of
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any religious or ethnicity, you get called a phobic of
that type. And his position are I think what's concerning people?
And he again, I haven't researched this New York situation
long enough to to speak intelligently about it, but that's
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from what I've been gathering online. That's what I'm getting.
Before we get started, I do want to do a
shout out. I want to do a shout out to
Stacy Rogers. Do check out that interview in our playlist.
You can find our playlist anywhere you find the podcast.
And she is the a Republican I should say not
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the a Republican candidate for the governor of Kansas, and
she gave us a wonderful interview. Lots of lots of
listens on that one. Do check that out in the playlist.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Okay, I have to say really.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Quick in rehers to New York, really fast. I find
the Democrats and the people that they are pushing forward
to be incredibly dangerous. Yeah, there's no plan, there's no organization.
It's just like who who whatever can stick up like
a nail whether no matter what they say, as long
as it's getting him attention, they seem to be supporting,
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and it just they're dangerous.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
They are. Yeah, and you know, I know that's my opinion,
but it's the truth.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
No, it is the truth. Their strategy seems to be
the same one that lost them the election. And here again,
if you're new to the program, I'm not necessarily a partisan,
you know, I'm not a pro Trump guy. Not in
the context of politics. I don't have any feelings about
them one way or the other.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I don't know them.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
But in terms of strategy, the Democrats did a good
job of losing that election by championing these absurd societal norms,
the gender and race constantly becoming an issue, and the
villainization of Trump and that all of that. What all
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of that does is it doesn't cultivate a candidate, you know,
like these guys are not. People voted for Bill Clinton,
people voted for Barack Obama. And in the last ten
years especially, we've had what is called the anti vote.
You know, our guy isn't as bad as yours. You know,
the anti Hillary vote did a lot to help Trump
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in twenty sixteen, and then the climate switched, and the
anti Trump vote is largely what ushered in Biden. And
then it switched and the anti Biden vote is what
got Trump in in twenty twenty four. So the Democrats
haven't had somebody to actively vote for in a long time. Okay,
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we're going to talk about scum today and people being
your daddy.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Let's go with Trump.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
He was asked, I believe this was that a NATO meeting. No, no,
it was asked about NATO partners. Let me qualify that.
And this was the question, and this is how he
answered it. And for those of you checking out the video,
be sure to watch Marco Rubio in the background.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
It's from Skyneese Mark Ritter, the NATO chief. Who is
your friend? He called you daddy earlier. Do you regard
your NATO allies as kind of children?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
No, he likes me.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I think he likes me. If he doesn't, I'll let
you know. I'll come back and I'll hit him hard.
Okay he did. He did it very affectionate. Daddy here,
my daddy, do you okay?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
And the question was posed in the context of NATO,
where I got a little confused there is do the
NATO partners look to the United States as like a
big daddy and does Trump consider them children? That's probably
a little strong, But the fact of the matter is
is that the NATO partners, if something really bad would
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go down in the world somewhere, it's the United States
that's going to do the heavy lifting, I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
And it's that simple.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
And a lot of questions have come up about should
NATO partners be funding You're helping the United States, you know,
with its expenses, because there's huge expenses with the military
and staffing and maintaining bases around the world. So yeah,
(07:33):
I'm kind of on the fence about this. If you
start doing that, though, if you start saying, hey, you
guys have to take care of yourself, you also lose
the very powerful voice that you have in Europe. So
what say you, Cynthia?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yeah, no, I I'm really kind of tired of America
playing policeman for the entire world. But I kind of
also understand it because America really is kind of a
hard beat of humanity on the planet, and when we
start to accept like too much funds and support, it
will come with telling us what to do, and that's
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kind of a catch twenty two. We maintain a level
of autonomy by bearing it ourselves and allows us to
do go in, do what we need to do, and
get out without too much chatter from the other side.
So you know, I don't know I could go back.
I can go back and forth on this topic because
I really do.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
I do. I like that we play that role, but
I don't think we can continue to afford to play
that role.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
And you know, it begs the question of if they
do fund us, is that mean they're going to get
involved in too involved in the choices we make.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
This getting back to the child scenario. This is like
telling your child, hey, you're twenty one, get out of
the house. We're not supporting you anymore. And the twenty
one year old, you know, goes on his or her way,
and all of a sudden, the twenty one year old
is doing whatever they want. It's not something you want
them to do, and you start telling them and they're
going to say, hey, hell with you, I'm out on
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my own. I'm going to do what I want. You know,
when they're under your roof, you can say as long
as you're under my roof you're going to do a
B and C, but you can't do that when they're not.
So it depends on what you want. Do you want
the responsibility of managing this child's life or can you
deal with the fact that they're going to go on
their own and it may not be where you want
them to go. So that's kind of situation that we're
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dealing with there. The other one I wanted to talk
about is the remarks about Trump talking about the media
and uses the word scum, and this has to do
with the characterization of how successful the strike was in Iran.
(09:48):
Now let me say this objectively speaking. These what are
called bunker buster bombs. The way they work is they
remain intact. They have a kind of like throwing a
dart into a soft board. They go a certain depth
and once they're under the ground, then they detonate. So
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when you just look at the surface, it's very hard
to know for sure what happened underneath. So therefore the
intelligence can be slow in coming out. Sometimes you don't
have definite ABC. This was all destroyed for weeks later,
and that's true. No matter what if you want to
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believe that Trump knocked it out.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Fine.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
If you want to believe that it was a bust
and didn't do anything, that's fine too, But it's simply
too early to tell.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Now, with that being said, a lot of the media
was running with some of these reports that the bombs
didn't do that much. Okay, So Trump is reacting to
a lot of the way certain media groups really ran
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with this as the narrative as it was a failure.
So now he's tut to get as a success. I
don't know how much you can do that. Now you
can make the argument he has access to classified information
that the rest of us don't. But I would imagine
between Israel and the United States will probably have a
better feel, or at least the governments will. What they
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let us know is another thing entirely, but probably within
about two weeks, the governments of Israel and the United
States will probably have a pretty good idea of how
successful those were. In the meantime, this is Trump talking
about how the media dealt with this.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
This was an unbelievable hit by genius pilots and genius
people in the military, and then not being given credit
for it because we.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Have scum that's in this group and not all of
v are. You had some great reporters, but you have scum.
CNN is scum. He is scum. The New York Times
is scum. That bad people. They're sick.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
And what they've done is they're trying to make this
unbelievable victory into something less. Now, even they.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Admit that it was hit very hard.
Speaker 6 (12:13):
Okay, but it wasn't.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
It was hit brutally and it knocked it out.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
The original word that I use, I guess it got
us in trouble because it's a strong word.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
It was obliteration.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Okay. Uh here again, we don't know. My guess is
they did do a lot of damage. How much is
another thing entirely. And I know there's been some conjecture
about where the uranium deposits were. The real issue was
the development. It takes a lot of processing to you know,
create fission, so you know, there's a lot of variables here. Now,
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with that being said, getting back to the bunker buster bombs,
and this is something I haven't heard too many people
speak about. It's one thing to go under underground and explode.
It's another thing to go underground at the correct depth.
So you know, when you have a bomb that's capable
of going you know, two hundred feet whatever underground or further.
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You know, sometimes you can go too far down, so
you know, it's it's just eternally early to tell. But
with the amount of explosions that were sent there, I
can't believe that something wasn't damaged.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
What is your take on this, Cynthia.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Well, I would say that the results, you know, yeah,
we would we won't know. So the actions that were
taken were incredible. I mean, the fact that they were
able to keep them secret is just a tremendous success
all on its own. They went in, they got out
without harm to our people. Huge wins, huge winds all around.
The fact is is that we don't know every single
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thing that's going on in that country and what where
they store everything and where you know, we don't have
all of those details. The fact is it was a
success and it brought people to the to the piece
to able to have talk. So I think it's a
huge win for Trump. I think it's a huge win
for Pete Heggsmith, who has literally been given an incredibly.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Difficult time by the media.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
They've just been just ugly and brutal, but My biggest
issue with the whole thing is and I think I
just wish if I could educate people on anything that
I learned in my twenty five years of working with
media is that whenever they're bitching about something, it's because
they want your attention, because the only way for them
to make money is with your attention. And Fox News
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has really dug itself in as kind of.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
The media outlet for the Republican Party, and the.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Rest of them sold their souls sixteen to the last
twenty years to become the askisers of the Democrat Party,
and now they're left with the only way to get
attention is to dramatize or find something negative to say
about every win that comes in. Like it's just it's
so predictable at this point that I've actually stopped watching
news across the board.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I just I don't want to hear it.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
I don't want to I don't care because I know
what they're going to do to find anything that they
can to just rip it apart. And you know, I
just I'm a big fan in support of our military,
and it would be just so nice to see, you know,
the liberal media actually appreciate people like our police departments
and our military. You know, they're just The Democratic Party
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is just so anti all the things that have made
the country what it is to this day and what
the rest of the world depends on. So those are
my thoughts. I'm congratulating Trump and Pe, taxmanth in the
entire military.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I thought it was beautifully done.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I'll tell you what. That's a perfect lead into this
next clip. Let me go ahead and play it.
Speaker 8 (15:37):
Because you, and I mean specifically you, the press, specifically
you the press corps, because you cheer against Trump so hard.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
It's like in your DNA and in your blood.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
Cheer against Trump because you want him not to be
successful so bad. You have to cheer against the efficacy
of these strikes. You have to hope maybe they weren't effective,
Maybe the way the Trump administration is representative isn't true.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
So let's take half truths.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
Spun information, leaked information, and then spin it, spin it
in every way we can to try to cause doubt
and manipulate the mind, the public mind over whether or
not our brave pilots were successful. How many stories have
been written about how hard it is to, I don't know,
fly a plane for thirty six hours.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah, that's just the point that you were making, you know,
the refueling.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Here he goes on there to talk about the refueling,
the amount of time that those pilots had to sit
in those planes, the danger involved that those are all
good points and they don't touch on that.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You don't know.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
And on another note, really quick, I just have to
say this, it was so nice to see, Like I
don't think the Democratic Party ever has truly appreciated our military.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Look what they tried to do to it for the
last twenty years.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
When you look at somebody like a Raisin Caine giving
that briefing, I mean, how my heart and soul as
an American was warmed to see such a powerhouse delivery
from one of our military men. Like, I think they
could celebrate that, don't e free. Wouldn't it be nice
for change?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
It sure would. And you know you were speaking.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
About you know, Fox News. Fox News in terms of
ratings isn't what it once was, but the other ones
are really suffering, and cable news in general is in
bad shape. Now you mentioned some of the other networks.
You know, there was a time going back ten or
fifteen years ago that CNN they were the good guys. Right,
(17:42):
They were boring, but they were the good guys. You
had MSNBC that was always out the window to the left,
and of course Fox was always right leaning, although I
will defend them in that they did have a real
news show and then they had opinion shows which were
clearly identified as conservative. See. I don't have a problem
with that. Rush Limbaugh always used to say, I'm a
(18:04):
conservative guy, and these are conservative viewpoints, and a lot
of times he would explain something that was happening in
government and then give his take on it. I don't
have an issue with that at all. What I do
have is an issue with people like Jake Trapper who
come on and speak like this sociatisticated and talk about things.
Is if it's the the divine truth and he's presenting
(18:27):
it as unbiased news, but it's his effing opinion. That's
the kind of thing that makes me nuts, you know.
And then he goes ahead and writes this book about
how the Biden administration kept his his real condition a secret.
No they didn't. Everybody knew it, and he was part
of the group that was gaslighting. Everybody's saying, oh no,
(18:49):
this is this is like Joe Scarborough. This is the
best Biden ever. Yeah right, sure, So anyway, that's what
I have a problem without. I'm gonna I'm gonna play
another clip from Seth and then I'm going to ask
you something about Pete, and I'm going to.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Go somewhere with that that's a little different.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Pete was asked, mister hag Seth was asked, how come
he didn't give proper acknowledgment to a female pilot.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
Oh yeah, this acknowledge the female pilots that also participated
in this mission.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
The early messages that you sent out only congratulated the boys.
Speaker 8 (19:24):
So when I say something like our boys and bombers,
see this is the kind of thing that press does.
Right of course, the chairman mentioned a female bomber pilot.
That's fantastic. She's fantastic, she's a hero. I want more
female bomber pilots. I hope the men and women of
our country sign up to do such brave and audacious things.
But when you spin it as because I say our
boys and bombers as a common phrase, I'll keep saying
(19:44):
things like that, whether they are men or women. Very
proud of that female pilot just like, I'm very proud
of those male pilots, and I don't care if it's
a male or a female in that cockpit, and the
American people don't care. But it's the obsession with race
and gender in this department that's changed priorities where we
don't do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
We don't play your little games. Yes, right there. Yeah,
Now here's the thing. I want to be very clear
about this. I agree with everything he said.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
One.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I agree with Pete on this absolutely. As a backdrop
to this, this is my opinion. I have nothing to
go on this. He just doesn't blow me away. There's
never a time that I'm watching him or listening to
him and say, Wow, this guy, there's just something that
(20:33):
doesn't hit me.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Now.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
In watching this, there's been a lot of mostly liberal
of women commentators, and they talk about his accusations of
drinking and some of the things that he's allegedly done
with women that weren't so hot, and and they say
his body language and the way he acts during these
(20:56):
interviews is typical of a potential abuser or something of
that nature. Now, I don't necessarily go that far, but
I will say that this guy does not blow me away.
I just I agree with everything he says on paper.
I'm totally in line with him going after the press,
(21:18):
I'm totally in line with him, you know, combating against
the gender and ideal, you know, the identity politics. But
I'm not necessarily blown away. Now, you are a little
bit more of an intuitive than I am, and you
have a history of of what women go through.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
What is your take on this guy.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
I don't dislike pg P. Taggsmith.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
I know a lot of people have been have really
dwelled on certain aspects of him. I find it really
interesting when they like people, particularly if they're Democrats, they
don't seem to talk at all about the bullshit that
they've done or the things they've been accused of and
their history and their career. But make it some that
they don't like, and they're going to find every single
thing they can to highlight and then overly and overly
and overly highlight.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Look, he got.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
Through, can he got through, he was approved, he's now
got the job, and he's doing what he can to
you know, and I said this in the beginning.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
One of the things is.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Trump will roll the dice on a lot of people
that people others would not have chosen. And I have
a lot of respect for the reasons that we don't.
We don't always know the reasons why he does what
he does. We needed some pretty transformative change at the
Department of Defense. Trump rolled the dice on Pete. I
think he hasn't really been given it. He's spent the
(22:35):
vast majority of his time so far just defending himself
against the constant attacks.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
I don't think he's had a chance to really warm
up to it.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
As an intuitive I'm not getting a signal. And I'm
really good, especially with people who are who have a
tendency to be really narcissistic. I'm really good at picking
that kind of stuff up, and I do think you
need a level of that and just to go into politics.
Oh sure, to have the stomach. But I'm not getting
a bad feeling from him. I feel like he's trying
really hard, but he's had a lot of his time
(23:04):
and energy wasted by back, you know, by people he
didn't feel he could trust. And frankly, given what's happened
in the last twenty years, I'm sure there are a
lot of people that couldn't be trusted because they bought
into the Democratic Party and all the money that was
moving around, you said, and things like that, usaid and
things like that. So I'm I'm you know, I think
(23:24):
he handled this what happened with Iran very well. He
didn't fly the planes necessarily, but I do like that
he came out swinging when they went on the attack.
I think we'll find out more in time, don't. I
don't see any big issues coming with him at this point.
So yeah, that's my opinion.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yeah, I like I said, I don't have anything against
him at this point. But like I said, he hasn't
really pushed me to the positive side either. I just
don't get the Swartz cough. I just don't get the Powell.
I just don't. I don't get that kind of dynamic
from him. But that's it's early, you know, it's still early,
and a lot of that could change. Let's talk about
(24:05):
the Iran strike itself. A lot of people have said
this was an act of war, and I don't want
to quibble about what war is, what war isn't. I
will say that air strikes in and Oven, by themselves,
to me anyway, are not necessarily entering into a formal war.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
And by the way.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I don't believe we've actually declared war on anybody since
World War Two. So, with that being said, air strikes
when you one of the advantages to being a country
like the United States that generally has air superiority over
just about anybody. One of the advantages is when you
(24:49):
have a radical regime of one kind or another and
they start making nuclear weapons, or they start threatening the border,
or they start doing something thing, you know, you know,
stacking their military on the border against one of our allies,
it's it's much easier to be able to go in
(25:09):
there and end in a pinpoint fashion those threats with
very powerful airstrikes. And quite frankly, I don't understand why
we didn't do that was set on. There was no
reason to go in there and take the ground. When
you start taking the ground, that's when things get ugly,
you know. That's when you start getting mired down in
(25:31):
the local fighting. That's when you start taking on heavy casualties.
That's when you know you have to maintain a ground force,
which means food and supplies and everything. You know, that's
when the real ugliness of war starts to set in.
And I'll say this, Reagan to his credit, when the
Bay Root explosion happened, he for the most part said hey,
(25:53):
these people are nuts and I'm out of here, and
he stayed out of the Middle East for the most
part except for some strikes. I believe it was Libya. Yeah,
you know here again, just some controlled strikes. So for
a superpower to be able to minimize threats that these
radical dictators come up with without having to launch a
full scale war is part of the advantage of having
(26:16):
a powerful air force. So in that context, hitting I
ran in the way that we did to me is
a measured way to control a threat that threatens our
allies and potentially threatens ourselves.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Do you have an opinion about that?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Yeah, I believe it was an act of peace. You know,
and people get upset about, you know, they want to
make it about the good people that are part of
the belief system or religion. But the truth is, whether
people want to hear it or not, the truth is.
One of the reasons why people struggle to trust particular
religions is because they have a radical element within them
(26:55):
that is incredibly destructive and willing to do all sorts
of horrendous things. They've lost their humanness in many ways,
and it makes it very difficult, especially because that agenda
is octfully often hidden from us, and they'll slide into
positions of power without actually showing you what they're really
about until they get them. And you could say this
about just about anybody, but the links at which they'll
(27:18):
go to are terrifying. And so I think this was
an act of peace. I think that some of the
plans that they've had, the you know, the the we
have cells in this country. We have lone wolves and
wolf packs in this country who would love nothing more
than to buy their way into paradise by taking out
a bunch of Americans and making a big statement. And
(27:39):
so if we're you know, if we can do anything
that will help to minimize the terrorism around the planet
and also prevent war from continuing or escalating, then you know,
I think that was the best way we could have
done it.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Yeah, yeah, I would agree with that. And you got
to keep in mind too, that Iran as a state
sponsor of terror. Okay, And we've been pussy footing around
Iran for forty five years, and I'm old enough to
remember the Hasss crisis, which was well over a year.
It was like four hundred and forty four days or
something like that, something ridiculous. Yeah, and we've been pussy
(28:15):
footing around this regime now for a long time. And
you know, I ran into a lot of Iranians online
on x who were really rooting for this because they
want that regime out. They want the Iran of the
early nineteen seventies. Oh yeah, yeah, before before we intervened.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Well, you know, I've never really understood that. I mean,
the Shaw was we Carter supported the Shaw for sure,
but a lot of people want to go back to
those days because that's when Iran started to look a
lot like Miami, you know, oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
So yeah, and that regime really held that against Carter.
(29:00):
That's one of the reasons why they held the hostages
right to the last second.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Oh, Billy, I really believe. My intuition tells me that
that was about the American election.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, they hated Carter, That's why they held them.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Well I think we had I think not we, but
some people who wanted Reagan in there had something to
do with that. That's just not what my intuition's always
said it could.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
I remember thinking this is weird.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
I felt like even as a child watching the situation,
I felt like, Wow, this seems like this is about
getting Reagan in office and not necessarily about the hostages.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
At this point, I can't speak about the forces in
the United States. I would hope that no American would
be that sinister to leave American hostages a hostage.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
But uh done, Yeah we've done.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
But I can tell you for sure there's no question
that that regime hated Carter for supporting the Shaw. He
wanted the show to stay, so they made things as
bad for him as they could. And yeah, a strike
like that would have been something that I'd I'd like
to have singing Carter do. So you can make the
argument that this was forty five years in the coming.
There was an attempt to save the hostages, but it
(30:10):
didn't work.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
It has a deck come on as a Democrat, ever,
Like I remember being so incredibly disappointed in Obama.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I just for many.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Reasons, like it's a great orator, and I don't dislike
him as a person. I disliked the pretend show that
he put on, and when he became wimpy in terms
of our international relations, I was like, oh, you're not
even a real president.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
You're like a faux president.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
The Democrats are always weak when it comes to defense,
and I we have to we always have to have
a strong defense no matter what's going on in the world.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
I would agree with that, that is for sure. Now
let me I got one more clip for you here,
And this is the This is the quote of the day.
This is the what would I call this? This is
the put down of the day. This is worth its
weight in gold. Now I don't know how old this is.
I mean, it's not like years old, but this is
(31:02):
This was in regard to the tariffs, specifically with China
and the deal that was eventually made, where you know,
the United States is a certain rate and China's at
a certain rate and we're actually at a surplus that
we're better than where we started. And the Democrats were saying, oh, no, no, no,
(31:23):
you accomplish nothing. The tariffs did nothing. And this was
the response from our good friend Senator Kennedy.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
Now, I've listened all day to some of my Democratic
colleagues say that, well, we we didn't.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Get anything for it.
Speaker 9 (31:42):
You know, if you believe that, I'm not saying you're
the dumbest person in the world, but you better hold
the dumbest.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Person in the world doesn't die.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
It was it was a clear victory.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
That is absolutely charming. I'm gonna have to remember that one.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
I love him. I think he's I love it.
Speaker 4 (32:02):
We need his humor we do in politics because most
of the people are just full of shit.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I'm going to have to remember that one because boy,
there's some people I could use it on. That is
absolutely for sure. Okay, Cynthia, I know you've got a
lot going on. You always got to like it. Tell
us a little bit about where people can find you
and what's the latest stuff you got going on.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Yeah, people can find me at shamanis dot com, at
shaman isis, on all the social media platforms like x.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
And I am super excited.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
You know.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I just re released a New American Dream and it
went back into the top ten and social theory and philosophy,
which I was psyched about. That is my book on
how America can reignite the American Dream through the Age
of the Age of AI using this industrial revolution to
revitalize the dream. And it makes some really serious decisions
(33:00):
that we need to make to help our kids have
a future.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
So go check that out. And then of course I've
got an.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Event coming up September fourth in Boca Ratona at the
Countess de Hornley Theater. It's called the Sultech Future Festival.
I am giving a talk and hosting the event a
lot of wonderful speakers talking about how we create a
beautiful future in the age of AI. How do we
create a conscious, beautiful future so that we have the
kind of wellness we need, the kind of technology that
(33:27):
we need, the kind of healthcare systems, and you know,
fashion that works for sustainability.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
So it's going to be really exciting, so go check
it out.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
You can find it on a shaman isis dot com
as well as my foundation website, so Cultechfoundation dot org.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Well, that is absolutely fantastic. You can find me Billy
D's at Billy D's on x which is the old
of Twitter. That's kind of like my social media home,
so do check me out there. There's also a Billy
D's podcast Facebook page. You can check that out as well.
That's a real small page, but there's a lot of
(34:02):
people on there that enjoy some of the behind the
scenes stuff. We talk about what we're doing from a
marketing perspective. We don't just have Hey, check out our
latest episode. It's wonderful, you know, one of those kind
of things. And you can find the abilities podcasts anywhere
podcasts are found. All the major platforms have carried us
on the average for about ten years, and we're on
(34:24):
all of them as far as I know, we're on
all the major podcast platforms for sure. Do check us
out coming up in the coming weeks. First of all,
I do want to mention again Stacy Rogers her interview.
She is running as a Republican for the governor of Kansas.
If she does happen to win, she is going to
be the first Republican female to be the governor of Kansas.
(34:47):
So that is in our playlist. Do check us out
on that. Lots of listeners on that one, thousands and thousands.
I mean, that's been a really, really good episode for us.
She is going to be on again. We've already talked
she is going to be on again. I have a
couple of major possibilities in terms of conservative commentators who
want to come on the show, and also some major
(35:08):
podcasters as well. So stay tuned for that and for
all the latest updates. Follow me on the former Twitter
now called X. Thank you everyone for listening to the program. Cynthia,
thank you as Olas, thank you Billy, and we.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Will talk to you again very very soon.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Now. I'm Billy D's and host of the self titled podcast,
The Billy D's Podcast. We are primarily an interview and
a commentary based podcast featuring authors and creators talking about
their craft, advocates for community issues, and myself in an
array of co host discussing current events. There's no partisan
(35:50):
renting and raving going on here, just great content. You
can find The Billy D's Podcast on your favorite platform
and on Twitter at Billy D's.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Thank you, and I hope you listen in
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