Dr. Keith Rose and former South-Texas Congressman Blake Farenthold discuss concerns about current leadership and intelligence gathering within the government, citing recent failures and lack of accurate information being provided to decision-makers. They suggest that new, trustworthy individuals need to be recruited. They also address issues related to energy independence and Chinese laundering through Venezuela and Mexico and hope for significant changes by President Trump in his second term, calling for immediate action before internal unrest becomes a serious concern. /// The Scalpel is proud to partner with Brickhouse Nutrition. Dr. Rose uses and highly recommends Field of Greens. Your purchase through this link supports The Scalpel Podcast. /// https://scalpeledge.com/brickhouse -------------------------------------------------
Dr. Keith Rose and former South Texas Congressman Blake Farenthold address the current state of leadership and intelligence gathering within the government. Dr. Rose highlights some of the recent failures in leadership and intelligence gathering that have come to light such as the Afghan withdrawal, which has been widely criticized for its botched execution, as well as the lack of accurate information being provided to decision-makers which has led to confusion, miscommunication, and missteps, resulting in serious consequences for national security and policy decisions. Dr. Rose suggests that new, trustworthy individuals need to be recruited and trained to rebuild relationships within the intelligence community, emphasizing the importance of having a diverse pool of talent to draw from, which will help address some of the critical challenges facing the community today. Trust is a crucial factor in successful intelligence gathering. Trust between the government and its partners, as well as within the intelligence community itself, is essential for effective operations. The conversation is an insightful discussion on some of the critical challenges facing our nation today, particularly with regards to leadership, intelligence gathering, and energy independence.
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Dr. Keith Rose and former South Texas Congressman Blake Farenthold address the current state of leadership and intelligence gathering within the government. Dr. Rose highlights some of the recent failures in leadership and intelligence gathering that have come to light such as the Afghan withdrawal, which has been widely criticized for its botched execution, as well as the lack of accurate information being provided to decision-makers which has led to confusion, miscommunication, and missteps, resulting in serious consequences for national security and policy decisions. Dr. Rose suggests that new, trustworthy individuals need to be recruited and trained to rebuild relationships within the intelligence community, emphasizing the importance of having a diverse pool of talent to draw from, which will help address some of the critical challenges facing the community today. Trust is a crucial factor in successful intelligence gathering. Trust between the government and its partners, as well as within the intelligence community itself, is essential for effective operations. The conversation is an insightful discussion on some of the critical challenges facing our nation today, particularly with regards to leadership, intelligence gathering, and energy independence.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, this is Everett, producer of the Scalpel with doctor
Keith Rose, ready to drop another episode on you careful.
It's heavy this time around. Doctor Rose and former South
Texas Congressman Blake Faarenthald get together. As I always explain it,
that it's a discussion about everything. Anything that's current, anything
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that the news is discussing, anything that's in the chats.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
That's what you're gonna hear about.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
So the revelation that former President Biden has prostate cancer, Yep,
they're going to.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Talk about it.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
James Comey, Yeah, Like I said, anything concerns about leadership
and intelligence gathering within the US government, failures of the past,
other things like the lack of accurate information getting to
decision makers either out of ineptness or because the people
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are nefarious. There is a need for new and trustworthy
individuals to be recruited and trained, and how do you
find them and create those relationships that will that will
rebuild that intelligence community that needs to be trusted not
only by leadership like the President Trump and others, but
(01:28):
but for the for the public. We'll do this probably
two episodes. First one's coming at you now, another one
in well in just.
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Speaker 4 (02:33):
Last date Cancer. There was a steady done once on.
It was published in one of the journals. This is
a long time while back. I think I was in
residency when it was published, so that would be in.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
The a long time again. In the nineties, well wait
first met you and.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
It looked at the incidents of prostate cancer in natural
deaths of men, the men that died over the age
of eighty that they just checked them natural causes, no
diagnosis of cancer, and like ninety percent of those had
some focus of prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is an extremely
(03:10):
for most people. It's extremely slow growing. Now, having said that,
why do we listen to anything the media scus?
Speaker 5 (03:20):
I mean the media.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Has lied, They've lied, and they've lied some more. Chuck
Schumer came out and said, I talked to Biden every
day and he's brilliant.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
He's articulate. You remember that big massive he's doing carwheels
in the Oval.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
This is the this is the most vibrant president we've
ever had. And he's he was over there playing with
his g I Joe and Barbie going, oh, like our.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Baby over there. They had him a play White House set.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
They didn't even in the real White House because there
were sharp objects and they were afraid he was going
to fall.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
And hit himself. I just this is just crack.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Or his doctor or whoever that doctor was. I've seen
pictures of him, the guys like three feet hall. Yeah,
you know, they might want to ask him. You know,
here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Did you run a PSA?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Did you run a ps.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Did a public service announcement that just said he's an idiot.
He was he Look, he was incontinent in the brain.
He was probably incontinent other place probably, And God Blessing
the man couldn't fill six circles during COVID at a rally,
yet he was the most got the most vocal everstry
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of the planet. You know, look, anyone that wants to
buy into that farcicle is you're deluding yourselves. We have
a serious problem in our nation right now. Because we
got comfortable and we started, we came into agreement with.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Well, they're politicians, so of course they lie. I mean
they have to. It's we don't call it lying anymore.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
What do we say, Blake, We say it's yes, it's spend,
its narrative. It's politics. Well he said this, Well it's
politics here. I got some politics for you. I was
talking to some folks the other day that have intimate
knowledge of doze. Do you know that we roughly have
fourteen computers in the United States government that put out
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the money, and these fourteen computers issue money to quote
fan numbers, and there are no invoices.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
And you know what we spend. We spend a billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
A minute that's ridiculous in the United States of America,
and we don't know where a lot of it's going.
I think that's a problem that we need to unostrich
ourselves from, put ourselves out of this, heads out of this.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Moody has lowered our bond rating.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Look, we took the greatest country in the world, and
we saw Greece failing, we saw Spain failing, we saw
most of the African nations failing.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
And then someone in DC said, hold my beer.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
And it's just, bottom line, it's lack of virtue in morals.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
And I'm not talking about perfect people.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I'm talking about people that understand that stealing and lying
are wrong.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And oh, it certainly isn't stopping them.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Oh it's not stopping them.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
And it's on an accelerated pace a billion dollars a minute.
So when you write that tax check, and here's the thing,
they can't audit it blake because there's no invoices. There's
no way to see where the money's going. Why do
you think they're screaming about nineteen and twenty year old
geniuses that are in there auditing them, and they're like,
they have no business being in there. Look, I this
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is a story. I don't tell a lie. But I
was in Washington, DC in twenty fifteen. I had a meeting,
not going to say where or with who, and I
was sitting in an office area.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Waiting to go into the meeting.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
There was another gentleman there who was a former ambassador,
high ranking politician. He didn't know me. He got a
phone call. He hung up, and I could tell the
guy was frustrated. He looked over at me, just thinking
I was and I wasn't anyone important, And he goes,
you know, if the American people actually knew what was
going on in this town, there would be blood in
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the streets. And I thought, wow, must have been a
really bad phone call. But now that i'm you know,
we're ten years later, and the things that I've personally
seen and the things I personally know, and the things
that we can see as American citizens, our nation is
an extremist and we just run around and you know,
(07:40):
go to Best Buy and Costco and well, what can
I do about it? Well, you can demand some accountability.
Because I think Dan Bongino coined this, the best cutesie
time is over and you're either going to get it
by revelation or you're going to get it by situation,
and we're headed down the steep slope of situation. Moody
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lowered our bond rating one day. People are just going
to look at us and go, yeah, I know, and
that's going to be a dangerous time.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It is, I mean pretty much.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
I forget the percentage, but we're getting close to one
hundred of our tax colection are just going to pay
interest on the national debt.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Well, okay, and I.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Get again, I don't see why this isn't a priority
to President Trump and more members of Congress.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Okay, I think it's a priority to President Trump. Again,
I have a little bit of inside baseball here. I
think it's a big priority to him. But in his defense,
and I haven't spoken with President Trump, so I don't
assume or presume to know what he's thinking or saying.
You have to play the team you have. Fortunately, Blake,
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you saw this in twenty sixteen. When someone gets in
the Oval office, everyone that was taking risks, being bold,
doing the right thing to get the boss there, all
of a sudden decides I'm gonna circle the wagons.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
I got to keep my position.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I don't want to put a big poo poo bag
on the president's desk, and they either they start playing
defense and they start I like my position. I don't
want to bring the president something that he may not
want to hear, or it may be controversy, or how
do we really know that's true? And all of a sudden,
you get this giant filter that comes in there, this
(09:37):
giant filter that filters out good ideas, filters out adverse
information that the president needs, filters out information you not
only need to make decisions and run the country, but
just data points. And then you have what we call
mushrooming in the intelligence world. They put you in the
dark and they feed you poop. He saw this during
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his first term, and I think he sees it now,
and I think there's going to be a lot of
shakeup in his administration.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I believe this.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Is just I have no reason to say that other
than that's just my gut feeling. But if we don't
correct course, if we don't start getting a handle on
these root causes that are destroying our nation, we're not
going to ever realize what this nation once was or
(10:30):
what it can be.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
And the way you do that is you start.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Listening to people bringing in information, making tough decisions. And unfortunately,
because of the growth, the rot, the massive size of Washington, DC,
people are going to have to be fired. Whosts sell
people need to lose their jobs. They need to tell
them what to do. If they don't do it, find
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someone who will let them whine. Americans for the past
five years have suffered. They have suffered because we have
sent people to Washington, d C. Who have lied to
our face. I mean, that's on us. Now we sent
someone who is we know who will do the right thing.
We need to support him and we need to show
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no quarter metaphorically to the people that are lying and
that have driven this country into the ground.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
So I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
If you've been in d C for decades, it's probably
time for you to go now.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You fall into.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
The trap of I call it the titwaddie. That's the
way we've always done things. And we really need people
like Elon Musk who.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Aren't tied to the past.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
And have the knowledge and passion. And I guess it's
a god given skill to disrupt and see things differently
than it has traditionally been seen. And you know, he
(12:18):
he he, certainly saw it with space X. I think
Tesla was and I hate speaking ill of Elon, but
I believe Tesla was created to feed at the government troll.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Well again, I mean, but you know, it's not.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Like he went and lobbied for the rule.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
He just took advantage of what was there. And it's
hard to blame somebody. Or you know, there's a pile
of money in the sidewalk, I'm going to stop and
pick it up.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Well, and yes, and though because there's a thing called
ethics and more and we're spending I'm not going to
go down the Tesla road. Where I'm going to go
is this We're spending one billion dollars a minute in
the United States and we don't know where it's going.
I think that's where we need to start. Fourteen computers
spinning out money to different banks. You have a rogue intelligence.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Cabal. I'll just leave it there.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Of former members, and unfortunately, my guess is probably some
current members.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (13:31):
What are you working against the president? And this is
a problem.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
And unless we address this root cause, nothing's going to
change because there's a reason that this money is going out.
No one knows where it's going there's a reason. I mean,
it's not that George Soros was the most altruistic guy
in the world, or a lot of these guys. They're
giving away, what we say in business O PM other
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people's money. It's just it's turning out, according to DOJ,
that it happens.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
To be your money. They're giving away back to the
Democrat Party.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
It's one big washing machine of dollars and it makes those.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
It's not one hundred percent of it, but enough of
it to make a difference.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
We had a Our deficit prior to nine to eleven
was in the billions, billions in a scant twenty four year.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Twenty five years later, it's in the trillion.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
It's in that we're spending a billion a minute and
we haven't gotten that big.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
The government's gotten that corrupt.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
And when I say government, I'm talking about the Mattress
wise and I get with.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
You, what are they doing with the money?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
And the Congress is inept. Let's just call it for
what it is.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
And there's not much they're they're they're in.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
They've given away so much power to the executive branch
agencies not executory.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
They've given me so much power to the bureaucracy, to
the unaccount unelected bureaucrats that are making regulations, and Congress
has punted that ball down the road. Congress is doing
nothing at an accelerated rate. And you have a long
history of the Trey Goudis and his ilk and the
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John Bayners that enriched themselves and did nothing of substance, nothing,
And the American people are pissed off. I'm sorry, I'm
gonna call it like I see it. Congress is doing nothing.
Now I understand the president. He's got to work with Congress.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
That's the way. Here's the interesting rub. This is the paradox.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Our founders gave us a wonderful bicarmel, legislation, wonderful government,
a republic. But they all wrote in their letters and
you can go back and read them and study history
that if anyone acts I'm just paraphrasing without morals, that
this won't work, because it takes morals at the executive branch,
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at the judicial branch, and at the congressional branch or
the legislative branch to make this nation work.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
And so what you have is a.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Toxic mix of people that are compromised.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Or they're just cowards.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
I recall an incident, and I don't know if I've
told you this story or not. The Texas delegation in
Congress all not all, but most of us sat in
a single row, and as we got bigger, we had
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a few states behind or in front. And I don't
remember which Texas congressman it is.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I wish I did. But we were voting on something.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Not that controversial, but a little bit controversial, And as
he stuck his card in the machine to vote, he said,
this is hard. As I do this vote, I hear
in my brain the ad my opponent is going to
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run against me based on this vote. And I just
kind of shook my head and then went into my
radio announcer voice and you know, ad libbed something about,
you know, this congressman voted for this or voted against that.
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But you can't be governed by fear of not getting
or re elected. Well, you have got to do what's
right for the country. And there are only a handful
of folks in Congress, I think who have that courage.
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They've reached a point where they like the high life
in Washington.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Well it's not.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
It's called the House of representatives, the question we need
to ask is who are they representing? Are they representing
their reelection bid or are they representing their constituents.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
We know the answer to that.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
That's why our nation is trillions in debt encircling the toilet.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
And one of my.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
One part of my campaign speech was I'm your representative.
I'm going to do what I think y'all want me
to do, unless it goes against what I feel is.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Morally right or wrong, or what is best for the
nation as a whole.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
If you want somebody who's just going to stick his
finger in the wind and see where his constituents want,
but isn't going to vote with a conscience even if
sometimes it may not be.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
What you want, don't vote for me.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Right, But in Blake, here's the issue. I was in
twenty fifteen. I was at a business meeting, not a
political meeting, and a guy was there, very wealthy guy,
and he was talking and this was just in a
private conversation between he and I and another person. Guy,
I guess I got to go to DC now he
goes got.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
To get some more work done.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
He was an Indian guy, American citizen, and he said,
you didn't get a lot done in DC. He goes, Congressman,
are fifty thousand dollars? You can get anything past you
want if you pay fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Now I don't. I'm just telling you what he said.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
But I've heard from other people and back then, I
guess that's what the going rate was.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Unfortunately now.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Frank mcneieth, our Wednesday co host has three topics for
doctor Rose. I agree with, do you agree with the
reduction of flag general officers in the military by twenty
five percent?
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
I agree with the removal, the unmitigated removal of all
flag general officers, all SIS INTELLI Senior Intelligence Service individuals
that would be in the Intelligent Services for Intelligent Services,
all the ses senior executive service individuals that made their
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rise from two thousand and eight ford from Obama's time forward.
I agree with the removal of those people. I think,
you know, I think you get rid of everyone and
you bring back the three's, the fours, the guys that
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actually did the work and we're doing good that Obama
drove out in droves, just ran them out.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Because here's the problem.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
We haven't won a conflict since Vietnam, and we have
made a mess of everyone. So to me, you know
them by their fruit. They have no fruit, bad fruit,
bad root. You get rid of them, all of them.
You're not going to lose anything. Now, there's some good
officers out there, but you have to look at the pars,
(21:38):
their reviews, and you have to I would put together
a group of former successful people and go in there
and see if you can't retool the military, because the
military is struggling because look, these flag general officers that
are there now allowed DEI to come in without without protesting,
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resigning and protest. If the enough general flag officers push
back against DEI, it would have been gone. But they
just rolled over. So that's what I think on the
first one, we can go the second one.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Now, well, the Democrats who the military as a social
engineering tool, and that's not what they are. Military's job
is the.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
It's it's designed to identify the enemy, close with them,
and kill as many as possible.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
It's what the military does.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
It's not a humanitarian organization, although they can aid at times.
The military is designed to protect the United States of America.
But unfortunately, you have a lot of people that have
turned it into a social project. But you know whose
military isn't a social project?
Speaker 5 (22:45):
China.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
You ran, Look, we have we need to have a
lethal fighting force. And that's that's all I need to say.
Everyone knows that you can go to number two on
this topic here.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
All right, Do you believe the loss of seacads number
one platform with no planned replacement process or replacement jeopardizes
SEACAD The aged sixty Blackhawk is not going to stay with.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
The army, Well, the Blackhawks should stay with the army.
I'm not familiar with the what's what's going on there
behind the scenes, So I'll tell you what I do know,
and I also say what I don't. I think that
if SEACAD loses to Blackhawk, it's not going to be
a good thing for Corpus.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
However, the Blackhawk.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Is the workhorse of the military and of all the services,
Blackhawk Seahawk. So I pray that it stays. I pray
that SEACAD does an amazing job.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
They really do.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
It's one of the finest bases we have as far
as getting work done. I've been out there, I've seen
what goes on there, and so I hope it stays.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
I'll have to check into it, get more for Mason.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Well we'll get you back in two weeks.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
And you're gonna mark that down.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Then give pray Roger.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
All right, this is kind of local and I know
you don't follow the local.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Now.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
I look at school though, what can we do about
CCISD to get it on track?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
They got a C, but London got an A.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Public school has become a joke because of the teachers union.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Sorry, it's just the way it is.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
If you want to get CCISD on track, you're gonna
have to get a handle on the teachers unions, on
DEI and on public education in general. And that is
a that's like a month long of shows. London got
an A because London has a strong local influence. My
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friend and dear friend and brother, General Flynn Mike Flynn says,
local impact, national consequences. Well, we need strong local impact
here in the school districts. Parents got to show up
to these school board meetings. They got to have their
voices heard. You can't keep teachers that aren't doing their job. Now,
I think there's my and my kids went to public
(25:24):
school in Corpus Christie. All of my children did, and
they got great educations. My daughter, we switched her over
to private at the very end, my youngest, but all
the others, the boys, all went to public schools and
got a great education. They were out in Flower Bluff,
and I have no complaints. But I will tell you
My youngest son, Blake, who's now thirty thirty one, went
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to Corpus CHRISTI CCID grade school at Wilson and got
a great education.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Great.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
But I could even see that when he was leaving
there and we put him in Flower Bluff, I could
see that waning when they had He was in sixth
grade and they had the awards celebration and every kid
got an award for something.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
One kid got an award for breathing. Literally he shows
up and breathes. He got an award.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
And my son had won the award or the second
place for where the most books read. When you help
every kid, they're special, No one is special. What they
need to do is encourage hard work. I'm not too
old to remember. I went to public school. I'm a
product of public education. And we had field day where
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there was competition. We had awards in school, but only
a few kids got the awards. And I went to
big public schools, and that's what made the awards special.
The goal here is not to protect children's feelings. The
goal is to educate them and give them durable emotional skills,
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give them, let them fail, let them understand failing, and
then work to achieve so when they do achieve something,
they don't think it's a participation trophy.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
I mean, we have reduced our.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Education system and our parenting to helicopter parents and bumpers
around the kids so that nobody's feelings get bruised. Well,
bruceed feelings create emotionally strong people because feelings aren't facts, although.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
If they were, you'd be a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
All right, Komy need to go to jail for eighty
six forty seven.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Comy needs to go to jail for a lot of things,
not just eighty six forty seven.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
But that's how stupid. No, it's arrogancet Blake.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
It's look Comy is part of the problem. Comy's daughter
is a US attorney that was involved in the Epstein
case and is also involved in the Diddy trial. Can
you imagine that.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Both of those.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
As long as the American people want to look at
it and nothing to see here? I don't know how
any of those changes.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Well, I mean, and what did Epstein have to hide
that got him gilled?
Speaker 5 (28:27):
What did Epstein have to hide?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I think videos of a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
I can tell you there's videos out there, but they're
also the people Epstein used.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
From my understanding, to compromise.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
People showed up to say Pentagon officials, public officials, not
just off of their body, but carrying cash and giving
it to them, and it was all videotaped.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
These were honey pots.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
These were honey pots that were bribing public officials. And
this goes deep, This goes as deep and as high
as anyone can imagine. It doesn't affect Trump, but it
probably affects some people, a lot of people in Washington,
d C. On both sides of the aisle. I imagine
it affects people at black Rock. I imagine it affects
(29:13):
people at Mackenzie. I imagine the money that they're using
is you can tie it into the porn industry, and
then once you do that, you'll see another pillar of
financing for nefarious activities through trafficking and the point industry,
which we're starting to see those ties come out open
source now. So yeah, These are what we call the
(29:36):
clues in the intelligence world. The problem is there's not
a lot of intelligent people with ethics working overtly in
the intelligence world right now. And they're out there. There's
some great people out there. But so how is Trump
going to clean that up? He hadn't even started on
that yet.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
The only way that can be cleaned is to have
an outside solution.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
He's going to have to bring back a lot of
former intelligence officers who have maintained contacts, who have maintained relationships,
and that have integrity, and that are willing to work
an outside in to give the president the right questions
to ask. And it's going to take host self firing
of a lot of people. We don't fire anyone anymore. Well,
(30:23):
we do in the private sector, you just don't in
the public sector. I mean, nine to eleven was the
most massive intelligence failure in the history of the world.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
And what did we do post nine to eleven? We
put a.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Billion dollars in and created another alphabet in the soup,
the DNI. We didn't address the root failure. We didn't
address the stove piping of information, the risk aversion, any
of that.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
We just you know, make it.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
The dn I supposed to deal with the stoaf vibing though.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Like the DNI, was another government's work program to add people,
to add complexity to an already complex system that didn't
need to be that way, and it created more stove pipes.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Well, you know, doesn't know how to solve anything other
than to throw money at it.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
No, and to stick their heads in the sand. They
don't want to know something because knowing something means they
either have to do something or say something. And those
two things, unless it has to do with getting re elected,
don't usually coincide with a long life in Congress.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
I always go back to Comy for a second. Who's
going to get him? Who's you know, who's investigating? Congress
is feckless on investigations there. Their investigations are nothing but
bread and services.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
The way you're going to fix or attempt to fix
the problems, she have to root cause.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
The president is going.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
To have to put together a core team, protect them,
fund them, and let them reveal the rot in the
intelligence community, the rot inside the FBI, the rot inside
the DNI, the rot inside a lot of the intelligence
and military apparatus.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Now doesn't mean you don't have good people.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
I think Dan bon Jun is one of the greatest
Americans ever to live. I think Cash Pattel, they all
have They all want to do the right thing. I
think Pam Bondi wants to do the right thing. I
know Tom Homan is a truly great American. But these
are individuals at the top of a org chart, and
(32:46):
they have to get people to do what they tell
them to do. And more importantly, they have to get
the correct information. And when you have everyone underneath you
that maybe a minimum of three to five out of
ten of those are working against you hard to get
the information.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
It's in any sort of leadership role though, and from
you know, border nonprofit to city council to the CIA,
you are at the mercy.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Of the information you're given by your underlings.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Right or would you tell someone something to do? Even
in the president's orbit, the president can say he hears something,
this is a good idea, he turns to someone, get
it done. Well, if he turns to someone and says,
and get it done. If that person wants to get
it done, it gets done immediately. If they don't or
they don't even know how to get it done, then
they have meetings, and Washington, DC is the land of meetings,
(33:50):
and they and then the intelligence world. My understanding talking
to people that are still in the building, a meeting
counts as an operational action, which is a joke. Oh,
we had a meeting on it. We did a PowerPoint
on it. Oh we're talking about it really because there's
significant problems out there. I mean, you can't get past
(34:10):
the recent failures. The afghan withdrawal, absolute failure, the rise
of the Iranians.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Absolute was the absence.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
It was the Afghanistan withdrawal an intelligence failure or was
that just a leadership failure that fell squarely at whoever
was pulling Biden's puppet strings.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
It was both.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
I mean, you have a huge intelligence failure where we're
still according to reports, paying the Taliban. You it was
an absolute intelligence and leadership failure. We we x filled
the country from the wrong base. I mean, the bus
driver could tell you that wasn't the right I mean
(34:56):
it was a bus driver diagnosis that no one would
do that, not leaving from a protected base like Bagram
Airfield and leaving from the middle of Kabble, the largest
city in Afghanistan with the poorest protection Kable Airfield.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
That was beyond stupid.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
And you have you have you could you could label
it to the bureaucrats that wanted to be closer to
the restaurants or whatever. I mean, that's a plausible explanation,
but that kind of stupidity is really impressive because it.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
Got people killed. I mean, the withdrawal was a disaster.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
The way we treated our allies and the Afghans that
helped us and risk their lives force was a disaster.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Are they ever going to Are some of our allies
and or the locals in whatever conflict we may be
in next ever going to trust us?
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Well? Again, the answer to that is if the same
people are there. The answers, no, they're not. If they're
new people, you have to build new relationships. Intelligence world
is built on relationships, and it's built on agent asset
trust officer agent asset trust. And they don't. I don't
(36:18):
believe they have active officers case officers that even know
how to do that anymore. I don't think they teach it.
I don't think there's recruitment's going on. My understanding is
they don't even have recruiting going on. Of I guess
how you would say it getting new spies. They just
rely on other foreign intelligence services telling them what they
need to know, which you can imagine that's probably a
(36:39):
little bit of attainted information.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
We call that liaison information. And it's a problem.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
It's a problem because maybe you can't make decisions unless
you have accurate information. Intelligence is a product that comes
from information that has run through analytical processes and then
you develop an intelligence report and the president gets these
through something called the PDB, the President's Daily Brief.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
And my understanding now is there's no PDB.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
It's he gets the PDB twice a week, which he
should get every day.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Well, and I don't know how you steal.
Speaker 6 (37:21):
You say, you rebuild the relationships with new, hardworking and
trustworthy people, but all of a sudden there's a change
in the White House and you get morons or people
with an anti American agenda in there.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
And that's right, yeah, and that's relatively new since I
say relatively new, since President Obama. It used to be
in the military and intelligence services, there was some politics
at the highest level Blake, but there wasn't the day
to day political infusion that you did your job, not
(38:04):
for the people in Washington. But for the country, you
did the right thing. And you know, my boss Dewey Claridge,
he was a great leader and he never talked about politics.
He just talked about getting the job done. And Dewey
was an amazing man. He's probably lasted the great spymasters.
But the guys there today strictly look at a mission
(38:27):
from the optics of politics, and that's that cannot keep
a country safe and will not have will not allow
the country to grow and advance as a country.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
Should we, for that matter, forget growing and advancing, how
about just protecting ourselves from a plethora of nation states
and terrorists who want to do us are Well.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Yeah, there was an article the other day out by
a gentleman named Sam Fatas. Sam is a former case
off senior officer at the when the CIA was actually
functioned correctly, and he has this platform called and an
D Magazine, and I highly recommend everyone go to it.
Sam's a brilliant guy, and he was out the other
(39:15):
day talking about how on these solar farms Chinese have
hackers and they also have kill switches and they could
seriously damage our electrical grid because I mean, what could
be the risk of massive amounts of renewable electrical areas
wind turbine solar farms made in China where there's an
(39:37):
internal kill switch bid built in.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Well, I mean, I don't know what could go wrong there.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Oh, maybe someone should read the book Unrestricted Warfare, written
by two Chinese kernels. I believe it was back in
the eighties where they, I don't know, talked about this
is how they would take down a nation.
Speaker 6 (39:55):
Well, I remember when they put in those floor when
I don't think they're still there at the port, Uh,
you know, to promote the wind energy, and you know,
they opened it up and showed me the inside the
control panel.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
Uh Chinese it was.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
It was in Chinese. I couldn't read anything.
Speaker 5 (40:18):
We did.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
My company Rose Medical Management that's on site clinics for
oil and gas and renewable projects. We provide paramedics, providers,
do all kinds of stuff rescue, and we had people
out at several wind farms and I've seen the inside
of those things. They're impressive, by the way, and they
also cost more, take more energy to make than they'll
(40:41):
ever produce in the lifetime of the turbine let that
sink in Yep and they they're bird killers because all
kinds of problems. Look, I got a crazy idea. Let's
let's put it out there on the Blake Parenthal show.
Let's open up oil and gas. Let's build out the pipelines.
Let's make America energy independent again. Let's get a handle
(41:02):
on the oil smuggling of a run through Venezuela and
Chinese laundering through Venezuela coming up through Mexico and the
cartels and into the Houston refineries.
Speaker 5 (41:13):
Hey, let's just let's show us out there.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Let's stop that and put American oil and gas workers
back to work.
Speaker 5 (41:20):
I think that would be nice to see.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
It would and I think we're starting to see it
with Trump. But you know, a lot of that doesn't
happen overnight.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
No, but let me tell you something. It's not happening yet.
I hear it is. We're supposed to be starting a
pipeline towards the end of May. But Blake, the people
around Trump, I believe are slow walking stuff, whether intentionally
or unintentionally. I couldn't tell you. Maybe that the swamp
is trying to bog him down. But if something doesn't
(41:55):
get done substantial in this country prior to the first
year in office before the midterms, and I would tell
you by December thirty first, Yeah, I don't see the
Republicans or anyone doing well.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
Now. The American people. The good news is.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
They are awake and they see the rot in DC,
and I know that. I think I think President Trump
is the right man for the job. I think he's brilliant.
I think he wants to do the right thing, and
he sees the problems, and I think you're going to
see some massive changes. You're right, he hasn't been there
that long and we need to let him get his
feet under him. But he has. He's been there four years.
(42:34):
He well, but he was sabotaged for four years. I said,
this is this is round two. I think he has
a little better understanding of the problems.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
There's no question.
Speaker 6 (42:46):
And he had four years between his terms to think
through a lot of this and come up with the plants.
Speaker 4 (42:54):
Multiple assassination temps, tried to put him in jail for
every times, change the law, the rules. A you know,
a judiciary that's way out of control and continues to
be out of control. Our nation's not doing well. It's
the American people. This is my concern Blake. I pray
(43:17):
this never happens because it would be horrific. But if
something doesn't happen where this get Washington gets reformed and
they get a handle on it, I think we could
have serious internal unrest in that and that would be
a tragedy because nothing ever good comes from that.
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only by leadership like the President Trump and others, but
(01:28):
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Speaker 4 (02:33):
Last date Cancer. There was a steady done once on.
It was published in one of the journals. This is
a long time while back. I think I was in
residency when it was published, so that would be in.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
The a long time again. In the nineties, well wait
first met you and.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
It looked at the incidents of prostate cancer in natural
deaths of men, the men that died over the age
of eighty that they just checked them natural causes, no
diagnosis of cancer, and like ninety percent of those had
some focus of prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is an extremely
(03:10):
for most people. It's extremely slow growing. Now, having said that,
why do we listen to anything the media scus?
Speaker 5 (03:20):
I mean the media.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Has lied, They've lied, and they've lied some more. Chuck
Schumer came out and said, I talked to Biden every
day and he's brilliant.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
He's articulate. You remember that big massive he's doing carwheels
in the Oval.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
This is the this is the most vibrant president we've
ever had. And he's he was over there playing with
his g I Joe and Barbie going, oh, like our.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Baby over there. They had him a play White House set.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
They didn't even in the real White House because there
were sharp objects and they were afraid he was going
to fall.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
And hit himself. I just this is just crack.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Or his doctor or whoever that doctor was. I've seen
pictures of him, the guys like three feet hall. Yeah,
you know, they might want to ask him. You know,
here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Did you run a PSA?
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Did you run a ps.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Did a public service announcement that just said he's an idiot.
He was he Look, he was incontinent in the brain.
He was probably incontinent other place probably, And God Blessing
the man couldn't fill six circles during COVID at a rally,
yet he was the most got the most vocal everstry
(04:33):
of the planet. You know, look, anyone that wants to
buy into that farcicle is you're deluding yourselves. We have
a serious problem in our nation right now. Because we
got comfortable and we started, we came into agreement with.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Well, they're politicians, so of course they lie. I mean
they have to. It's we don't call it lying anymore.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
What do we say, Blake, We say it's yes, it's spend,
its narrative. It's politics. Well he said this, Well it's
politics here. I got some politics for you. I was
talking to some folks the other day that have intimate
knowledge of doze. Do you know that we roughly have
fourteen computers in the United States government that put out
(05:18):
the money, and these fourteen computers issue money to quote
fan numbers, and there are no invoices.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
And you know what we spend. We spend a billion dollars.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
A minute that's ridiculous in the United States of America,
and we don't know where a lot of it's going.
I think that's a problem that we need to unostrich
ourselves from, put ourselves out of this, heads out of this.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Moody has lowered our bond rating.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Look, we took the greatest country in the world, and
we saw Greece failing, we saw Spain failing, we saw
most of the African nations failing.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
And then someone in DC said, hold my beer.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
And it's just, bottom line, it's lack of virtue in morals.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
And I'm not talking about perfect people.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I'm talking about people that understand that stealing and lying
are wrong.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And oh, it certainly isn't stopping them.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Oh it's not stopping them.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
And it's on an accelerated pace a billion dollars a minute.
So when you write that tax check, and here's the thing,
they can't audit it blake because there's no invoices. There's
no way to see where the money's going. Why do
you think they're screaming about nineteen and twenty year old
geniuses that are in there auditing them, and they're like,
they have no business being in there. Look, I this
(06:43):
is a story. I don't tell a lie. But I
was in Washington, DC in twenty fifteen. I had a meeting,
not going to say where or with who, and I
was sitting in an office area.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Waiting to go into the meeting.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
There was another gentleman there who was a former ambassador,
high ranking politician. He didn't know me. He got a
phone call. He hung up, and I could tell the
guy was frustrated. He looked over at me, just thinking
I was and I wasn't anyone important, And he goes,
you know, if the American people actually knew what was
going on in this town, there would be blood in
(07:17):
the streets. And I thought, wow, must have been a
really bad phone call. But now that i'm you know,
we're ten years later, and the things that I've personally
seen and the things I personally know, and the things
that we can see as American citizens, our nation is
an extremist and we just run around and you know,
(07:40):
go to Best Buy and Costco and well, what can
I do about it? Well, you can demand some accountability.
Because I think Dan Bongino coined this, the best cutesie
time is over and you're either going to get it
by revelation or you're going to get it by situation,
and we're headed down the steep slope of situation. Moody
(08:04):
lowered our bond rating one day. People are just going
to look at us and go, yeah, I know, and
that's going to be a dangerous time.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It is, I mean pretty much.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
I forget the percentage, but we're getting close to one
hundred of our tax colection are just going to pay
interest on the national debt.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Well, okay, and I.
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Get again, I don't see why this isn't a priority
to President Trump and more members of Congress.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Okay, I think it's a priority to President Trump. Again,
I have a little bit of inside baseball here. I
think it's a big priority to him. But in his defense,
and I haven't spoken with President Trump, so I don't
assume or presume to know what he's thinking or saying.
You have to play the team you have. Fortunately, Blake,
(09:01):
you saw this in twenty sixteen. When someone gets in
the Oval office, everyone that was taking risks, being bold,
doing the right thing to get the boss there, all
of a sudden decides I'm gonna circle the wagons.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
I got to keep my position.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I don't want to put a big poo poo bag
on the president's desk, and they either they start playing
defense and they start I like my position. I don't
want to bring the president something that he may not
want to hear, or it may be controversy, or how
do we really know that's true? And all of a sudden,
you get this giant filter that comes in there, this
(09:37):
giant filter that filters out good ideas, filters out adverse
information that the president needs, filters out information you not
only need to make decisions and run the country, but
just data points. And then you have what we call
mushrooming in the intelligence world. They put you in the
dark and they feed you poop. He saw this during
(10:00):
his first term, and I think he sees it now,
and I think there's going to be a lot of
shakeup in his administration.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I believe this.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Is just I have no reason to say that other
than that's just my gut feeling. But if we don't
correct course, if we don't start getting a handle on
these root causes that are destroying our nation, we're not
going to ever realize what this nation once was or
(10:30):
what it can be.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
And the way you do that is you start.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Listening to people bringing in information, making tough decisions. And unfortunately,
because of the growth, the rot, the massive size of Washington, DC,
people are going to have to be fired. Whosts sell
people need to lose their jobs. They need to tell
them what to do. If they don't do it, find
(10:56):
someone who will let them whine. Americans for the past
five years have suffered. They have suffered because we have
sent people to Washington, d C. Who have lied to
our face. I mean, that's on us. Now we sent
someone who is we know who will do the right thing.
We need to support him and we need to show
(11:18):
no quarter metaphorically to the people that are lying and
that have driven this country into the ground.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
So I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
If you've been in d C for decades, it's probably
time for you to go now.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
You fall into.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
The trap of I call it the titwaddie. That's the
way we've always done things. And we really need people
like Elon Musk who.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Aren't tied to the past.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
And have the knowledge and passion. And I guess it's
a god given skill to disrupt and see things differently
than it has traditionally been seen. And you know, he
(12:18):
he he, certainly saw it with space X. I think
Tesla was and I hate speaking ill of Elon, but
I believe Tesla was created to feed at the government troll.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Well again, I mean, but you know, it's not.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Like he went and lobbied for the rule.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
He just took advantage of what was there. And it's
hard to blame somebody. Or you know, there's a pile
of money in the sidewalk, I'm going to stop and
pick it up.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Well, and yes, and though because there's a thing called
ethics and more and we're spending I'm not going to
go down the Tesla road. Where I'm going to go
is this We're spending one billion dollars a minute in
the United States and we don't know where it's going.
I think that's where we need to start. Fourteen computers
spinning out money to different banks. You have a rogue intelligence.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Cabal. I'll just leave it there.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Of former members, and unfortunately, my guess is probably some
current members.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
What do you think?
Speaker 5 (13:31):
What are you working against the president? And this is
a problem.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
And unless we address this root cause, nothing's going to
change because there's a reason that this money is going out.
No one knows where it's going there's a reason. I mean,
it's not that George Soros was the most altruistic guy
in the world, or a lot of these guys. They're
giving away, what we say in business O PM other
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people's money. It's just it's turning out, according to DOJ,
that it happens.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
To be your money. They're giving away back to the
Democrat Party.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
It's one big washing machine of dollars and it makes those.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
It's not one hundred percent of it, but enough of
it to make a difference.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
We had a Our deficit prior to nine to eleven
was in the billions, billions in a scant twenty four year.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Twenty five years later, it's in the trillion.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
It's in that we're spending a billion a minute and
we haven't gotten that big.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
The government's gotten that corrupt.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
And when I say government, I'm talking about the Mattress
wise and I get with.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
You, what are they doing with the money?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
And the Congress is inept. Let's just call it for
what it is.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
And there's not much they're they're they're in.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
They've given away so much power to the executive branch
agencies not executory.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
They've given me so much power to the bureaucracy, to
the unaccount unelected bureaucrats that are making regulations, and Congress
has punted that ball down the road. Congress is doing
nothing at an accelerated rate. And you have a long
history of the Trey Goudis and his ilk and the
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John Bayners that enriched themselves and did nothing of substance, nothing,
And the American people are pissed off. I'm sorry, I'm
gonna call it like I see it. Congress is doing nothing.
Now I understand the president. He's got to work with Congress.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
That's the way. Here's the interesting rub. This is the paradox.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Our founders gave us a wonderful bicarmel, legislation, wonderful government,
a republic. But they all wrote in their letters and
you can go back and read them and study history
that if anyone acts I'm just paraphrasing without morals, that
this won't work, because it takes morals at the executive branch,
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at the judicial branch, and at the congressional branch or
the legislative branch to make this nation work.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
And so what you have is a.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Toxic mix of people that are compromised.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Or they're just cowards.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
I recall an incident, and I don't know if I've
told you this story or not. The Texas delegation in
Congress all not all, but most of us sat in
a single row, and as we got bigger, we had
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a few states behind or in front. And I don't
remember which Texas congressman it is.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I wish I did. But we were voting on something.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Not that controversial, but a little bit controversial, And as
he stuck his card in the machine to vote, he said,
this is hard. As I do this vote, I hear
in my brain the ad my opponent is going to
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run against me based on this vote. And I just
kind of shook my head and then went into my
radio announcer voice and you know, ad libbed something about,
you know, this congressman voted for this or voted against that.
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But you can't be governed by fear of not getting
or re elected. Well, you have got to do what's
right for the country. And there are only a handful
of folks in Congress, I think who have that courage.
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They've reached a point where they like the high life
in Washington.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Well it's not.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
It's called the House of representatives, the question we need
to ask is who are they representing? Are they representing
their reelection bid or are they representing their constituents.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
We know the answer to that.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
That's why our nation is trillions in debt encircling the toilet.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
And one of my.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
One part of my campaign speech was I'm your representative.
I'm going to do what I think y'all want me
to do, unless it goes against what I feel is.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Morally right or wrong, or what is best for the
nation as a whole.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
If you want somebody who's just going to stick his
finger in the wind and see where his constituents want,
but isn't going to vote with a conscience even if
sometimes it may not be.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
What you want, don't vote for me.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Right, But in Blake, here's the issue. I was in
twenty fifteen. I was at a business meeting, not a
political meeting, and a guy was there, very wealthy guy,
and he was talking and this was just in a
private conversation between he and I and another person. Guy,
I guess I got to go to DC now he
goes got.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
To get some more work done.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
He was an Indian guy, American citizen, and he said,
you didn't get a lot done in DC. He goes, Congressman,
are fifty thousand dollars? You can get anything past you
want if you pay fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
Now I don't. I'm just telling you what he said.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
But I've heard from other people and back then, I
guess that's what the going rate was.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Unfortunately now.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Frank mcneieth, our Wednesday co host has three topics for
doctor Rose. I agree with, do you agree with the
reduction of flag general officers in the military by twenty
five percent?
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
I agree with the removal, the unmitigated removal of all
flag general officers, all SIS INTELLI Senior Intelligence Service individuals
that would be in the Intelligent Services for Intelligent Services,
all the ses senior executive service individuals that made their
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rise from two thousand and eight ford from Obama's time forward.
I agree with the removal of those people. I think,
you know, I think you get rid of everyone and
you bring back the three's, the fours, the guys that
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actually did the work and we're doing good that Obama
drove out in droves, just ran them out.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Because here's the problem.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
We haven't won a conflict since Vietnam, and we have
made a mess of everyone. So to me, you know
them by their fruit. They have no fruit, bad fruit,
bad root. You get rid of them, all of them.
You're not going to lose anything. Now, there's some good
officers out there, but you have to look at the pars,
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their reviews, and you have to I would put together
a group of former successful people and go in there
and see if you can't retool the military, because the
military is struggling because look, these flag general officers that
are there now allowed DEI to come in without without protesting,
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resigning and protest. If the enough general flag officers push
back against DEI, it would have been gone. But they
just rolled over. So that's what I think on the
first one, we can go the second one.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Now, well, the Democrats who the military as a social
engineering tool, and that's not what they are. Military's job
is the.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
It's it's designed to identify the enemy, close with them,
and kill as many as possible.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
It's what the military does.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
It's not a humanitarian organization, although they can aid at times.
The military is designed to protect the United States of America.
But unfortunately, you have a lot of people that have
turned it into a social project. But you know whose
military isn't a social project?
Speaker 5 (22:45):
China.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
You ran, Look, we have we need to have a
lethal fighting force. And that's that's all I need to say.
Everyone knows that you can go to number two on
this topic here.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
All right, Do you believe the loss of seacads number
one platform with no planned replacement process or replacement jeopardizes
SEACAD The aged sixty Blackhawk is not going to stay with.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
The army, Well, the Blackhawks should stay with the army.
I'm not familiar with the what's what's going on there
behind the scenes, So I'll tell you what I do know,
and I also say what I don't. I think that
if SEACAD loses to Blackhawk, it's not going to be
a good thing for Corpus.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
However, the Blackhawk.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Is the workhorse of the military and of all the services,
Blackhawk Seahawk. So I pray that it stays. I pray
that SEACAD does an amazing job.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
They really do.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
It's one of the finest bases we have as far
as getting work done. I've been out there, I've seen
what goes on there, and so I hope it stays.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
I'll have to check into it, get more for Mason.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Well we'll get you back in two weeks.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
And you're gonna mark that down.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
Then give pray Roger.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
All right, this is kind of local and I know
you don't follow the local.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Now.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
I look at school though, what can we do about
CCISD to get it on track?
Speaker 2 (24:26):
They got a C, but London got an A.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Public school has become a joke because of the teachers union.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Sorry, it's just the way it is.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
If you want to get CCISD on track, you're gonna
have to get a handle on the teachers unions, on
DEI and on public education in general. And that is
a that's like a month long of shows. London got
an A because London has a strong local influence. My
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friend and dear friend and brother, General Flynn Mike Flynn says,
local impact, national consequences. Well, we need strong local impact
here in the school districts. Parents got to show up
to these school board meetings. They got to have their
voices heard. You can't keep teachers that aren't doing their job. Now,
I think there's my and my kids went to public
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school in Corpus Christie. All of my children did, and
they got great educations. My daughter, we switched her over
to private at the very end, my youngest, but all
the others, the boys, all went to public schools and
got a great education. They were out in Flower Bluff,
and I have no complaints. But I will tell you
My youngest son, Blake, who's now thirty thirty one, went
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to Corpus CHRISTI CCID grade school at Wilson and got
a great education.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Great.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
But I could even see that when he was leaving
there and we put him in Flower Bluff, I could
see that waning when they had He was in sixth
grade and they had the awards celebration and every kid
got an award for something.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
One kid got an award for breathing. Literally he shows
up and breathes. He got an award.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
And my son had won the award or the second
place for where the most books read. When you help
every kid, they're special, No one is special. What they
need to do is encourage hard work. I'm not too
old to remember. I went to public school. I'm a
product of public education. And we had field day where
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there was competition. We had awards in school, but only
a few kids got the awards. And I went to
big public schools, and that's what made the awards special.
The goal here is not to protect children's feelings. The
goal is to educate them and give them durable emotional skills,
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give them, let them fail, let them understand failing, and
then work to achieve so when they do achieve something,
they don't think it's a participation trophy.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
I mean, we have reduced our.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Education system and our parenting to helicopter parents and bumpers
around the kids so that nobody's feelings get bruised. Well,
bruceed feelings create emotionally strong people because feelings aren't facts, although.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
If they were, you'd be a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
All right, Komy need to go to jail for eighty
six forty seven.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Comy needs to go to jail for a lot of things,
not just eighty six forty seven.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
But that's how stupid. No, it's arrogancet Blake.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
It's look Comy is part of the problem. Comy's daughter
is a US attorney that was involved in the Epstein
case and is also involved in the Diddy trial. Can
you imagine that.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Both of those.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
As long as the American people want to look at
it and nothing to see here? I don't know how
any of those changes.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Well, I mean, and what did Epstein have to hide
that got him gilled?
Speaker 5 (28:27):
What did Epstein have to hide?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I think videos of a lot of people.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
I can tell you there's videos out there, but they're
also the people Epstein used.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
From my understanding, to compromise.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
People showed up to say Pentagon officials, public officials, not
just off of their body, but carrying cash and giving
it to them, and it was all videotaped.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
These were honey pots.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
These were honey pots that were bribing public officials. And
this goes deep, This goes as deep and as high
as anyone can imagine. It doesn't affect Trump, but it
probably affects some people, a lot of people in Washington,
d C. On both sides of the aisle. I imagine
it affects people at black Rock. I imagine it affects
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people at Mackenzie. I imagine the money that they're using
is you can tie it into the porn industry, and
then once you do that, you'll see another pillar of
financing for nefarious activities through trafficking and the point industry,
which we're starting to see those ties come out open
source now. So yeah, These are what we call the
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clues in the intelligence world. The problem is there's not
a lot of intelligent people with ethics working overtly in
the intelligence world right now. And they're out there. There's
some great people out there. But so how is Trump
going to clean that up? He hadn't even started on
that yet.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
The only way that can be cleaned is to have
an outside solution.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
He's going to have to bring back a lot of
former intelligence officers who have maintained contacts, who have maintained relationships,
and that have integrity, and that are willing to work
an outside in to give the president the right questions
to ask. And it's going to take host self firing
of a lot of people. We don't fire anyone anymore. Well,
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we do in the private sector, you just don't in
the public sector. I mean, nine to eleven was the
most massive intelligence failure in the history of the world.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
And what did we do post nine to eleven? We
put a.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Billion dollars in and created another alphabet in the soup,
the DNI. We didn't address the root failure. We didn't
address the stove piping of information, the risk aversion, any
of that.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
We just you know, make it.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
The dn I supposed to deal with the stoaf vibing though.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
Like the DNI, was another government's work program to add people,
to add complexity to an already complex system that didn't
need to be that way, and it created more stove pipes.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Well, you know, doesn't know how to solve anything other
than to throw money at it.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
No, and to stick their heads in the sand. They
don't want to know something because knowing something means they
either have to do something or say something. And those
two things, unless it has to do with getting re elected,
don't usually coincide with a long life in Congress.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
I always go back to Comy for a second. Who's
going to get him? Who's you know, who's investigating? Congress
is feckless on investigations there. Their investigations are nothing but
bread and services.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
The way you're going to fix or attempt to fix
the problems, she have to root cause.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
The president is going.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
To have to put together a core team, protect them,
fund them, and let them reveal the rot in the
intelligence community, the rot inside the FBI, the rot inside
the DNI, the rot inside a lot of the intelligence
and military apparatus.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Now doesn't mean you don't have good people.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
I think Dan bon Jun is one of the greatest
Americans ever to live. I think Cash Pattel, they all
have They all want to do the right thing. I
think Pam Bondi wants to do the right thing. I
know Tom Homan is a truly great American. But these
are individuals at the top of a org chart, and
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they have to get people to do what they tell
them to do. And more importantly, they have to get
the correct information. And when you have everyone underneath you
that maybe a minimum of three to five out of
ten of those are working against you hard to get
the information.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
It's in any sort of leadership role though, and from
you know, border nonprofit to city council to the CIA,
you are at the mercy.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Of the information you're given by your underlings.
Speaker 4 (33:26):
Right or would you tell someone something to do? Even
in the president's orbit, the president can say he hears something,
this is a good idea, he turns to someone, get
it done. Well, if he turns to someone and says,
and get it done. If that person wants to get
it done, it gets done immediately. If they don't or
they don't even know how to get it done, then
they have meetings, and Washington, DC is the land of meetings,
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and they and then the intelligence world. My understanding talking
to people that are still in the building, a meeting
counts as an operational action, which is a joke. Oh,
we had a meeting on it. We did a PowerPoint
on it. Oh we're talking about it really because there's
significant problems out there. I mean, you can't get past
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the recent failures. The afghan withdrawal, absolute failure, the rise
of the Iranians.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Absolute was the absence.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
It was the Afghanistan withdrawal an intelligence failure or was
that just a leadership failure that fell squarely at whoever
was pulling Biden's puppet strings.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
It was both.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
I mean, you have a huge intelligence failure where we're
still according to reports, paying the Taliban. You it was
an absolute intelligence and leadership failure. We we x filled
the country from the wrong base. I mean, the bus
driver could tell you that wasn't the right I mean
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it was a bus driver diagnosis that no one would
do that, not leaving from a protected base like Bagram
Airfield and leaving from the middle of Kabble, the largest
city in Afghanistan with the poorest protection Kable Airfield.
Speaker 5 (35:11):
That was beyond stupid.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
And you have you have you could you could label
it to the bureaucrats that wanted to be closer to
the restaurants or whatever. I mean, that's a plausible explanation,
but that kind of stupidity is really impressive because it.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
Got people killed. I mean, the withdrawal was a disaster.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
The way we treated our allies and the Afghans that
helped us and risk their lives force was a disaster.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
Are they ever going to Are some of our allies
and or the locals in whatever conflict we may be
in next ever going to trust us?
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Well? Again, the answer to that is if the same
people are there. The answers, no, they're not. If they're
new people, you have to build new relationships. Intelligence world
is built on relationships, and it's built on agent asset
trust officer agent asset trust. And they don't. I don't
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believe they have active officers case officers that even know
how to do that anymore. I don't think they teach it.
I don't think there's recruitment's going on. My understanding is
they don't even have recruiting going on. Of I guess
how you would say it getting new spies. They just
rely on other foreign intelligence services telling them what they
need to know, which you can imagine that's probably a
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little bit of attainted information.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
We call that liaison information. And it's a problem.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
It's a problem because maybe you can't make decisions unless
you have accurate information. Intelligence is a product that comes
from information that has run through analytical processes and then
you develop an intelligence report and the president gets these
through something called the PDB, the President's Daily Brief.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
And my understanding now is there's no PDB.
Speaker 4 (37:11):
It's he gets the PDB twice a week, which he
should get every day.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Well, and I don't know how you steal.
Speaker 6 (37:21):
You say, you rebuild the relationships with new, hardworking and
trustworthy people, but all of a sudden there's a change
in the White House and you get morons or people
with an anti American agenda in there.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
And that's right, yeah, and that's relatively new since I
say relatively new, since President Obama. It used to be
in the military and intelligence services, there was some politics
at the highest level Blake, but there wasn't the day
to day political infusion that you did your job, not
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for the people in Washington. But for the country, you
did the right thing. And you know, my boss Dewey Claridge,
he was a great leader and he never talked about politics.
He just talked about getting the job done. And Dewey
was an amazing man. He's probably lasted the great spymasters.
But the guys there today strictly look at a mission
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from the optics of politics, and that's that cannot keep
a country safe and will not have will not allow
the country to grow and advance as a country.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
Should we, for that matter, forget growing and advancing, how
about just protecting ourselves from a plethora of nation states
and terrorists who want to do us are Well.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Yeah, there was an article the other day out by
a gentleman named Sam Fatas. Sam is a former case
off senior officer at the when the CIA was actually
functioned correctly, and he has this platform called and an
D Magazine, and I highly recommend everyone go to it.
Sam's a brilliant guy, and he was out the other
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day talking about how on these solar farms Chinese have
hackers and they also have kill switches and they could
seriously damage our electrical grid because I mean, what could
be the risk of massive amounts of renewable electrical areas
wind turbine solar farms made in China where there's an
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internal kill switch bid built in.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Well, I mean, I don't know what could go wrong there.
Speaker 4 (39:42):
Oh, maybe someone should read the book Unrestricted Warfare, written
by two Chinese kernels. I believe it was back in
the eighties where they, I don't know, talked about this
is how they would take down a nation.
Speaker 6 (39:55):
Well, I remember when they put in those floor when
I don't think they're still there at the port, Uh,
you know, to promote the wind energy, and you know,
they opened it up and showed me the inside the
control panel.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
Uh Chinese it was.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
It was in Chinese. I couldn't read anything.
Speaker 5 (40:18):
We did.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
My company Rose Medical Management that's on site clinics for
oil and gas and renewable projects. We provide paramedics, providers,
do all kinds of stuff rescue, and we had people
out at several wind farms and I've seen the inside
of those things. They're impressive, by the way, and they
also cost more, take more energy to make than they'll
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ever produce in the lifetime of the turbine let that
sink in Yep and they they're bird killers because all
kinds of problems. Look, I got a crazy idea. Let's
let's put it out there on the Blake Parenthal show.
Let's open up oil and gas. Let's build out the pipelines.
Let's make America energy independent again. Let's get a handle
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on the oil smuggling of a run through Venezuela and
Chinese laundering through Venezuela coming up through Mexico and the
cartels and into the Houston refineries.
Speaker 5 (41:13):
Hey, let's just let's show us out there.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Let's stop that and put American oil and gas workers
back to work.
Speaker 5 (41:20):
I think that would be nice to see.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
It would and I think we're starting to see it
with Trump. But you know, a lot of that doesn't
happen overnight.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
No, but let me tell you something. It's not happening yet.
I hear it is. We're supposed to be starting a
pipeline towards the end of May. But Blake, the people
around Trump, I believe are slow walking stuff, whether intentionally
or unintentionally. I couldn't tell you. Maybe that the swamp
is trying to bog him down. But if something doesn't
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get done substantial in this country prior to the first
year in office before the midterms, and I would tell
you by December thirty first, Yeah, I don't see the
Republicans or anyone doing well.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
Now. The American people. The good news is.
Speaker 4 (42:12):
They are awake and they see the rot in DC,
and I know that. I think I think President Trump
is the right man for the job. I think he's brilliant.
I think he wants to do the right thing, and
he sees the problems, and I think you're going to
see some massive changes. You're right, he hasn't been there
that long and we need to let him get his
feet under him. But he has. He's been there four years.
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He well, but he was sabotaged for four years. I said,
this is this is round two. I think he has
a little better understanding of the problems.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
There's no question.
Speaker 6 (42:46):
And he had four years between his terms to think
through a lot of this and come up with the plants.
Speaker 4 (42:54):
Multiple assassination temps, tried to put him in jail for
every times, change the law, the rules. A you know,
a judiciary that's way out of control and continues to
be out of control. Our nation's not doing well. It's
the American people. This is my concern Blake. I pray
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this never happens because it would be horrific. But if
something doesn't happen where this get Washington gets reformed and
they get a handle on it, I think we could
have serious internal unrest in that and that would be
a tragedy because nothing ever good comes from that.
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