Gray Area - Rex Jones & Tim Tompkins - Only Farms? Global CHOAS | Gray Area LIVE #61
Aired: 2026-03-30
Duration: 01:20:21


=== Trump Loser Hangout Joke (02:30) ===

[00:00:00]  They changed it to this, yeah, because they realized around and found out that the like radical like Christian people are cool with it.
[00:00:09]  Yes, I mean it was a joke.
[00:00:12]  Like, I thought it was funny.
[00:00:13]  I thought it was funny, but I was fully fight stuff.
[00:00:16]  But I also thought it was really fucking stupid because it's our actual government site.
[00:00:21]  You know, like you know who it is.
[00:00:22]  It's Gen Z's running the fucking social media account.
[00:00:26]  Yeah, I guess.
[00:00:27]  I guess so.
[00:00:28]  But like, he's just gonna think about it.
[00:00:30]  Yeah.
[00:00:30]  You don't you would never see China or like any of the other countries doing shit like this.
[00:00:35]  We just it I feel the circus, but I laughed not even a lot.
[00:00:41]  Okay, let me see if I can quickly wait for a little bit.
[00:00:44]  Yes, you can find protest stuff, though.
[00:00:49]  Oh, please, but this you've never seen Falling Down.
[00:00:54]  That was that's okay.
[00:00:55]  That's worth the story.
[00:00:56]  That's awesome.
[00:00:57]  Shit.
[00:00:58]  So it's.
[00:01:08]  That would be a good example.
[00:01:10]  This is in front of Capital.
[00:01:13]  Oh, but which cat?
[00:01:15]  That's FPC.
[00:01:17]  It doesn't look like PC.
[00:01:20]  It doesn't.
[00:01:21]  It's too small.
[00:01:23]  This might actually be.
[00:01:27]  I think it is.
[00:01:28]  We'll see.
[00:01:29]  I've been there, actually.
[00:01:31]  But that's a bird's eye view, so I'm not sure.
[00:01:34]  I'm just going to put these at the top.
[00:01:48]  What was the Trump quote I gave you when I came in here and I said I would throw it in there?
[00:01:52]  You said he hangs around losers.
[00:01:54]  Just look up Trump loser hangout.
[00:01:58]  Maybe you'll find Dude.
[00:02:03]  Do you want also you want an article, right?
[00:02:06]  Okay, let's put it on that.
[00:02:19]  I'm from Boston, you know, Trump!

=== Finding Dude in Oz (04:09) ===

[00:02:30]  Oh, man.
[00:02:32]  Holy shit.
[00:02:35]  That's not real.
[00:02:37]  No, way.
[00:02:40]  No, no, no.
[00:02:42]  Oh, no, no.
[00:02:45]  Oh, no.
[00:02:47]  Damn, that's disgusting.
[00:02:49]  Oh, no.
[00:02:50]  Freeze.
[00:02:57]  That's the thing, because, like, the dude who shot the guy, or I guess the guy who got shot, the protester here at Foster, like, the 2021 BLM stuff, he had a girlfriend.
[00:03:07]  He was like this, like crazy, like white, like ginger-looking guy, like crazy, like blue eyes.
[00:03:13]  And then he had this wife, who was an African-American lady, but she had no arms or legs.
[00:03:18]  So he was bringing her to the protest.
[00:03:20]  Like she was in the wheelchair.
[00:03:21]  Like, he would have his AK-47 with like her stuff.
[00:03:25]  And he left her on the street and ran over to the car with his gun.
[00:03:28]  Like this, he got shot.
[00:03:29]  What?
[00:03:30]  Yeah.
[00:03:32]  Oh, I can put it on my account.
[00:03:34]  That's what it is.
[00:03:37]  Wait, wait, wait.
[00:03:38]  I the frog.
[00:03:41]  Who is that?
[00:03:46]  Really?
[00:03:58]  I am the all-powerful Wizard of Oz.
[00:04:01]  Hear me, hear me, people of the Emerald City.
[00:04:04]  I am the Wizard of Oz.
[00:04:05]  Welcome, guys.
[00:04:06]  We're getting things figured out here.
[00:04:07]  A little ghost in the machine.
[00:06:37]  Welcome to episode 61.
[00:06:38]  Now I can't hear myself at all.

=== Sneak Peek at the Program (14:58) ===

[00:06:40]  Okay, there we go.
[00:06:41]  Welcome, welcome, welcome.
[00:06:42]  They got a little sneak peek and see how the show is just in real life.
[00:06:46]  It's the same.
[00:06:47]  It is.
[00:06:47]  It's on the program.
[00:06:49]  You guys heard us?
[00:06:50]  The hot mic?
[00:06:51]  Yeah, sorry about that.
[00:06:53]  Something's up with the software, but you know, we're figuring it out.
[00:06:56]  I hope you liked Rex's story.
[00:06:58]  I found it entertaining.
[00:06:59]  Yeah, Wizard of Oz, dude.
[00:07:01]  That's a good yarn.
[00:07:02]  How are we doing tonight, guys?
[00:07:04]  Go ahead.
[00:07:04]  What's up, Ashley?
[00:07:05]  Here, let's just say hi to the people.
[00:07:06]  Known commentary.
[00:07:08]  Swag Lord121 to you.
[00:07:11]  Shout out to you, honey badger.
[00:07:12]  I see you in there as well.
[00:07:14]  Cube.
[00:07:15]  Homie the Devil.
[00:07:16]  Shout out to you, homie the Devil.
[00:07:18]  Shout out to you, Moshmiri.
[00:07:20]  Moshmary, you are a fan favorite.
[00:07:22]  And she was the one that said she would wear the merch.
[00:07:24]  I think we got something like print order.
[00:07:26]  Yeah, we're working on that.
[00:07:28]  Waiting for some samples.
[00:07:29]  Merch is on its way, guys.
[00:07:30]  Merch is on its way.
[00:07:33]  But what have you been up to?
[00:07:34]  And let's just be chill for a little bit.
[00:07:36]  Yeah.
[00:07:37]  Because this is a chill.
[00:07:38]  This is a chill.
[00:07:39]  Much chiller than being on Infowars.
[00:07:41]  Oh, man.
[00:07:42]  We were just talking about that earlier.
[00:07:44]  Maybe we get into a little bit of that because people like to hear these stories.
[00:07:46]  Sure.
[00:07:47]  Well, the thing is, is like we were talking about it.
[00:07:50]  I really love doing a show where I have me and Tim where we can bounce ideas off each other because when you're alone in there and you have to host it solo, it's like running a marathon.
[00:08:00]  Like you don't get to stop, right?
[00:08:02]  So like if I'm talking and then I like lose my train of thought, because I have things I want to cover in that period of time.
[00:08:07]  And this, this relaxed format is actually a lot more information dense than a show.
[00:08:13]  Cause in a show, you got to be this segment, this segment, that segment, that segment, and you can't really have bleed over like we do here.
[00:08:19]  We can start one place, take all the places you'll go, Dr. Seuss book journey, and then end up back there at the same time.
[00:08:26]  And it's not really like, when you do two hours, we do two.
[00:08:28]  If we need to do four hours, we do four.
[00:08:30]  But when I'm in there and I'm just talking and I have to keep talking and I forget how to talk.
[00:08:35]  And then I'm like, well, actually, you know, the grander point here is, well, here's the deal.
[00:08:39]  Available, InfoWarstore.com.
[00:08:41]  Let me tell you about the deal.
[00:08:42]  For every subscription, you get a t-shirt and I'm like, okay, like I'm figuring it out.
[00:08:46]  And you get to get to watch this grow in real time.
[00:08:48]  Well, it's a lot of pressure too.
[00:08:50]  Like doing it solely.
[00:08:51]  You're like, well, you should do so.
[00:08:52]  I'm like, absolutely not.
[00:08:53]  I'm not ready for it.
[00:08:55]  I know where I'm at.
[00:08:56]  Well, let's talk about that.
[00:08:57]  Think about that.
[00:08:58]  Cause like, here's the thing.
[00:08:59]  Like, I was in that studio filming stuff when I was like 12, 13, 14 years old.
[00:09:03]  That exact state, that same studio, like immediately after it was built, right?
[00:09:06]  The one we're filming out of now.
[00:09:07]  Tim, completely no experience.
[00:09:10]  No experience.
[00:09:11]  No experience whatsoever besides doing like a podcast show, which is not your studio network.
[00:09:16]  We only got through three episodes, by the way.
[00:09:18]  So Tim is there, like helping wargame everything and plotting things out and working with the producer.
[00:09:26]  And like, this is day one for you.
[00:09:27]  You just kind of jumped into the deep end and you're making it work.
[00:09:30]  I just like that stuff, you know, like sitting there with the producer talking, strategizing.
[00:09:36]  Like that's just you see how receptive everyone is there.
[00:09:39]  And that's the thing.
[00:09:40]  Like your big preconception coming into it, and that's not a big deal.
[00:09:43]  Like we all have preconceptions about things.
[00:09:45]  Your big preconception was like, okay, they're going to like program and be like, you need to cover this more and this less and get with the program.
[00:09:53]  Well, yeah, because that's what you hear from like Fox.
[00:09:56]  If you go on CNN, they make you do that.
[00:09:58]  Also, like if you're on Ben Shapiro's show, you saw everything that happened with Candace.
[00:10:02]  Right.
[00:10:03]  So that got stuck in my mind just a little bit.
[00:10:06]  But you see what makes that operation so special and the way that it operates is it really is like it's people out in a pirate ship like having their own adventure.
[00:10:13]  Like they're, they're not working for anybody.
[00:10:15]  And this is the thing that really grinds my gears about Infowars and just like, I know you know it's true now, Tim, because you've seen it up close and personal.
[00:10:22]  People always make their assumptions about my dad and his operation, whatever.
[00:10:26]  It's the most genuine thing you could ever see on the planet.
[00:10:29]  Like, I just go in there and do a show.
[00:10:30]  I haven't communicated with Matt one bit.
[00:10:32]  I'll go in there and do a three-hour show tomorrow.
[00:10:34]  And me and Tim will do shows all throughout the week.
[00:10:36]  Yeah.
[00:10:36]  And completely organic.
[00:10:38]  Some people think that like they said, oh, did Israel call you guys?
[00:10:41]  And that's right.
[00:10:42]  We got to call him.
[00:10:43]  Tell you to get a black guy on there.
[00:10:44]  I'm like, I find it pretty good.
[00:10:46]  No, no, no.
[00:10:47]  Hold on.
[00:10:49]  It's not enough.
[00:10:50]  He says you got to be trans as well.
[00:10:52]  It's not enough.
[00:10:53]  Go ahead.
[00:10:53]  Go ahead, Sarf.
[00:10:54]  Yeah, I just got to be the Timu Don Lemon.
[00:10:56]  That's what we're going for.
[00:10:58]  Boss Citrus.
[00:10:58]  Boss Citrus.
[00:10:59]  Nah, but like overall, I will say, just to give you guys context, you know, first day, I had no nerves.
[00:11:08]  I'm like, all right, same thing.
[00:11:10]  Let's go.
[00:11:10]  We're going.
[00:11:11]  We're doing this.
[00:11:12]  Second day, it hit me.
[00:11:13]  I'm like, holy shit, we're doing this.
[00:11:16]  We're in it.
[00:11:17]  And you wouldn't have seen it on camera.
[00:11:19]  Like, and you didn't notice either.
[00:11:20]  But like, I had like a mini, like, whoa, okay, we're doing this.
[00:11:24]  And I got nervous, but then I was like, it's so easy to have your, when, when I look over at you and we've done this a million times, it's like muscle memory.
[00:11:33]  Yeah.
[00:11:33]  Well, the thing is, is like, if I go to you or you go to me, we know we have like a minute or two and we're on the same program because we've talked about the show.
[00:11:39]  We've wargamed the show.
[00:11:40]  We know what we want to cover.
[00:11:41]  So it's just a natural evolution of our broadcasting.
[00:11:45]  And we're going to be restructuring things a little bit, starting the shows a little bit earlier.
[00:11:49]  Yeah, we have to.
[00:11:50]  Yeah, this guy's doing it five days a week.
[00:11:53]  You know, I'm gonna do it.
[00:11:54]  We want to do more gray area.
[00:11:55]  Yeah, we want to do more gray area.
[00:11:57]  I've been doing it a couple of days a week, uh, three.
[00:12:00]  We're probably gonna go.
[00:12:01]  I'm probably only gonna do the journal two days a week.
[00:12:03]  He's gonna be holding down the fort.
[00:12:04]  But uh, are we allowed to say any feedback from your dad, or we just keep it?
[00:12:08]  I, my dad's pretty happy.
[00:12:09]  Let's just keep it at that.
[00:12:11]  Like, we're gonna keep chugging forward.
[00:12:12]  We want to make him proud, and really, it's just about doing a good job on the network.
[00:12:15]  Like, if it is, if people don't listen, like, we can see that information, and people have been listening to the show.
[00:12:21]  Yep, so really appreciate that.
[00:12:23]  Uh, we have a wide selection.
[00:12:25]  Some people are asking a question.
[00:12:26]  Give me one second.
[00:12:27]  Are there tally lights for the cameras?
[00:12:29]  What is that?
[00:12:30]  Do you mean like clocks?
[00:12:32]  Oh, that means I don't know what he means by that.
[00:12:35]  Not sure.
[00:12:36]  Not sure what you mean by that.
[00:12:38]  I'm not half Jewish.
[00:12:40]  Uh, love seeing your show.
[00:12:42]  Thank you, Maureen.
[00:12:43]  Tim's natural.
[00:12:44]  Appreciate it.
[00:12:45]  Yes.
[00:12:45]  Yeah, everyone says that, but you get imposter syndrome sometimes.
[00:12:49]  But then I realize I look back at the clips.
[00:12:51]  I'm like, okay, I got this.
[00:12:52]  Yeah, no, we're doing a good job.
[00:12:54]  The main thing is people like information.
[00:12:56]  Yeah.
[00:12:57]  Show information.
[00:12:58]  All right.
[00:12:58]  So let's get into it because we got a lot to talk about, guys.
[00:13:01]  Let me go ahead and do a little bit of rundown really quick.
[00:13:03]  So we got Ukraine-Saudi peace deal, which I assume is more weapons manufacturing stuff.
[00:13:07]  And we got more information on Russia.
[00:13:10]  We got more information on troops injured, Rubio on Cuba, got a little breakdown on socialism and government shutdown.
[00:13:16]  Got air travel crisis y'all want to hear about and the whole OnlyFarms fiasco.
[00:13:19]  We'll cover that, as well as job employment falls.
[00:13:23]  JD Vance.
[00:13:24]  Oh, JD Vance announced, oh, like we don't investigate fraud.
[00:13:27]  I saw that.
[00:13:28]  I was like, new scam.
[00:13:29]  Oh, I'm in.
[00:13:30]  Yeah, they're just letting people know.
[00:13:32]  Blood in the water.
[00:13:33]  Ready to do it.
[00:13:34]  President Trump.
[00:13:34]  Oh, Carolyn Levitt says President Trump is doing the war for young people.
[00:13:38]  See, it's to help us.
[00:13:40]  We need this.
[00:13:41]  We love this.
[00:13:42]  Also, today we're doing things backwards.
[00:13:44]  I provided more of the news blitz.
[00:13:46]  Rex is going to be doing the deep dive tonight.
[00:13:49]  Yeah, no, I'll just shut up and let you take us through these articles here.
[00:13:52]  And then I'm going to turn it in the final here at the end talking about war crimes and breaking it down post-World War II.
[00:13:58]  Yeah.
[00:13:58]  And then also, no guest tonight is just going to be us.
[00:14:02]  Honestly, this is a nice tar and feather us.
[00:14:04]  Yeah, they're going to tar and feather us.
[00:14:06]  But yeah, so let's get into the first thing.
[00:14:08]  Do you actually want to start with the no kings?
[00:14:10]  Keep it light first.
[00:14:11]  Start out with.
[00:14:12]  Yeah, sure.
[00:14:13]  Let's talk about the no kings protest.
[00:14:15]  Hold on.
[00:14:15]  If we truly want to keep it light, can we go ahead and play the Trump clip really quick?
[00:14:18]  Oh, yeah, yeah.
[00:14:19]  We don't need to give that much commentary on it.
[00:14:20]  Let's do the Trump.
[00:14:22]  I only hang around losers clip.
[00:14:24]  Let's just play that really quickly.
[00:14:26]  But you're a leader.
[00:14:27]  You garbage.
[00:14:29]  Yes, guys.
[00:14:31]  What is missing in leadership?
[00:14:32]  Well, it's winning.
[00:14:33]  You gotta win.
[00:14:34]  You know, I've watched a lot of people, leaders, great leaders.
[00:14:38]  And, you know, the one thing about sports is you break it down into, you know, a two-hour period, something nice.
[00:14:44]  You don't have to wait a lifetime to find out is somebody a winner or a loser.
[00:14:47]  You got a lot of losers, mostly losers, fortunately.
[00:14:50]  It's a good thing to have a lot of losers.
[00:14:52]  I always like to hang around with losers, actually, because it makes me feel better.
[00:14:58]  I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories.
[00:15:02]  I like people that like to listen to my success.
[00:15:06]  Okay, well, that's honest.
[00:15:08]  At least he's honest, guys.
[00:15:10]  At least he's not trying to hide it.
[00:15:12]  Dude, have you realized yet that we voted for the peace president?
[00:15:16]  Because I realize it more and more.
[00:15:19]  Oh, man.
[00:15:20]  Okay.
[00:15:20]  All right.
[00:15:21]  Deer leader chiming in.
[00:15:22]  Great, great stuff.
[00:15:23]  Leah, let's go to the No Kings because they broke records.
[00:15:26]  Apparently, over 8 million people out in the street protesting President Blumpf.
[00:15:31]  So let's go ahead and go to the go to that first clip of the No Kings protest just so we can see the scope and the size.
[00:15:40]  Now we're not sure where this is exactly.
[00:15:42]  It looks too small to be DC.
[00:15:43]  Yeah, maybe you guys can tell.
[00:15:45]  I was like, I can't tell if that's DC or someone else's capital.
[00:15:51]  Before we play that clip, where do you guys think this is?
[00:15:54]  That's a good one.
[00:15:55]  We were trying to figure this out.
[00:15:57]  Between these two buildings, whose capital is this?
[00:16:00]  Is that DC?
[00:16:01]  I don't think that's DC.
[00:16:05]  People have been going to be like, you're so stupid.
[00:16:07]  You don't even know the capital of your country.
[00:16:10]  I'll be like, all right, well, we're going to be able to do it.
[00:16:11]  I've never seen the top of the building.
[00:16:13]  That's not DC.
[00:16:14]  Yeah, I didn't think it was DC.
[00:16:16]  I'm just afraid of the guy, like, you know, like the glasses emoji guy.
[00:16:20]  It's St. Paul, Minnesota.
[00:16:21]  Of course it was in Minnesota.
[00:16:23]  Yeah, dude.
[00:16:25]  Shout out, bro.
[00:16:26]  Appreciate you, Swag.
[00:16:27]  Yeah, shout out.
[00:16:28]  Thank you for that.
[00:16:30]  Put you up there.
[00:16:31]  Okay.
[00:16:31]  Yeah, I'll watch a little bit of it because it's just okay.
[00:16:33]  Let's go ahead and play that clip.
[00:16:34]  Just static.
[00:16:38]  All right, it's a lot of people.
[00:16:39]  You know, that's like say 20 to 50,000 people, maybe more, maybe a little bit more.
[00:16:48]  I've seen a bigger crowd than that, but not much bigger.
[00:16:52]  Did we have one here in Austin?
[00:16:53]  Because I didn't see anything.
[00:16:55]  Yeah, but everything here is fake and gay.
[00:16:59]  That's what you have to do.
[00:17:00]  Well, that's a nice way to put it.
[00:17:02]  Well, it's true because he's just a bunch of old people hanging out with signs.
[00:17:06]  That is what happened.
[00:17:07]  I was downtown.
[00:17:08]  I just saw a couple of old people walking in.
[00:17:10]  And I'm like, oh, are they waiting for bingo tickets?
[00:17:13]  What's going on?
[00:17:14]  Because they're just all out here.
[00:17:16]  Well, here's the thing about the no kings protest.
[00:17:18]  You know, okay, fine.
[00:17:20]  We're going to go protest, but I always say protest isn't the number one way to get things changed in America sometimes because it depends on who's in control.
[00:17:29]  Like, Trump does not, he gives zero fucks.
[00:17:32]  Let's be honest.
[00:17:33]  They would care if it was a general strike.
[00:17:35]  And it's not a general strike.
[00:17:36]  Yeah.
[00:17:37]  Like, if you saw chaos, if you started seeing like explosions and it turned into a war zone, then it, yeah, then it becomes an issue.
[00:17:46]  But right now, these peaceful protests, he's just smiling.
[00:17:48]  Did you see that picture that he hung on the wall?
[00:17:51]  Oh, no.
[00:17:52]  Of him and a king.
[00:17:53]  You can see that?
[00:17:56]  Every day it's 10 years.
[00:17:58]  Now I need to go pull that up because I posted it.
[00:18:00]  He literally, he is like a Roman emperor.
[00:18:02]  I hope you realize.
[00:18:02]  And here's the thing, like, as Roman citizens, we deserve the rights that we're entitled to, like having our government be respected around the world so that we, the people, can be respected around the world and do good business and be well loved.
[00:18:14]  And we have President Caligula making his horse a senator and doing all sorts of stuff like this.
[00:18:19]  I mean, you know about the crazy Roman emperors of old, right?
[00:18:21]  Yeah.
[00:18:22]  You know, Nero had a dead wife.
[00:18:24]  So he was like going around in a parade one day and he saw like a boy that kind of looked like his wife.
[00:18:28]  He had the boy castrated and then renamed her.
[00:18:31]  What?
[00:18:32]  Yes.
[00:18:32]  Yes.
[00:18:33]  So like that's that's where we're at now.
[00:18:35]  And everyone's like, oh, that's crazy.
[00:18:36]  That's crazy.
[00:18:37]  Oh, did you used to know they used to fill the Coliseum up with water and have ship battles in there?
[00:18:42]  I mean, that's as big a waste of money as Iran, you know, comparably.
[00:18:45]  So like we're in that time period now.
[00:18:47]  Welcome to it.
[00:18:48]  I always thought it was interesting.
[00:18:50]  Okay, Wes, I just posted in there.
[00:18:53]  I have it highlighted above the first article there.
[00:18:58]  Go ahead and pull this up so we can see.
[00:19:00]  What is it?
[00:19:01]  This is Trump.
[00:19:02]  Oh, no.
[00:19:03]  I don't know if this was during the first kings protest or during the second one, but you know, it is comical.
[00:19:11]  And then also there was a tweet that he made.
[00:19:13]  He made a tweet that was like, you know, America, no, thank God Americans don't have like king, America doesn't have kings anymore, you know, but thank God I'm still your president or something.
[00:19:24]  He just totally dissed the entire population of people who are protesting.
[00:19:30]  Wait, what's that in context to, Ranger?
[00:19:32]  What did we say that made you that upset?
[00:19:34]  That's BS.
[00:19:34]  You don't seek globalist cucks respect in this environment so they can invite in more invaders.
[00:19:39]  We're not seeking anybody's respect.
[00:19:41]  I'm curious.
[00:19:42]  What do you mean?
[00:19:43]  I've been watching InfoWars from the UK for over 20 years.
[00:19:47]  WTF happened to Alex.
[00:19:48]  I don't know what you're talking about.
[00:19:50]  Everyone keeps saying that.
[00:19:51]  Yeah.
[00:19:51]  What does that mean?
[00:19:52]  What exactly does that mean?
[00:19:54]  Because if you're talking about the Trump thing, yeah, very desperate for Trump to do something, as he said many times, like the Democrats want to put him in prison, right?
[00:20:01]  So that would make sense why he would want Trump to do good.
[00:20:03]  So here's what I think I'm seeing.
[00:20:05]  Like people want like your dad to be like balls to the wall.
[00:20:10]  Like no matter what Trump does, you know, let's let's support it.
[00:20:14]  And now your dad is, you're right.
[00:20:17]  They either want him to attack it or support it.
[00:20:19]  Or support it.
[00:20:20]  Your dad has kind of been in the middle with this.
[00:20:22]  Yeah.
[00:20:22]  Harrison's more critical than your father.
[00:20:24]  We're more critical than your father.
[00:20:25]  Your father, but see how everyone gets a place on the network.
[00:20:27]  See, like, here's the thing.
[00:20:28]  The situation is so crazy.
[00:20:30]  I don't even know the context in which he asked the question.
[00:20:32]  Maybe you'll give us the context.
[00:20:33]  You just said we need other countries' respect.
[00:20:35]  Yeah, we need to be able to make deals, right?
[00:20:37]  Like, wouldn't it be nice to have a deal with Russia and mine the Arctic together and get the rare earth minerals and get the oil and not have to worry about nuclear war and all this stuff?
[00:20:46]  That's what I'm talking about.
[00:20:47]  Okay.
[00:20:48]  So like I get it.
[00:20:50]  You're a warrior.
[00:20:51]  You want to go fight and kill people.
[00:20:53]  Not the best solution all the time.
[00:20:54]  You'd be surprised to hear that.
[00:20:56]  It doesn't work.
[00:20:56]  You're saying that to me, I know much more than you.
[00:20:58]  Okay.
[00:20:58]  We're both citizens of the country.
[00:21:00]  I'm free to have my opinion.
[00:21:01]  You're free to have yours.
[00:21:02]  Go ahead and play this Trump clip.
[00:21:04]  Yeah, go ahead and play the Trump clip.
[00:21:06]  Good to grieve.
[00:21:07]  And it's very cool.
[00:21:10]  Oh, my gosh.
[00:21:13]  Nick, right?
[00:21:14]  That's true.
[00:21:15]  Just what up yesterday?
[00:21:16]  No, this ain't real.
[00:21:20]  Go ahead.
[00:21:20]  No, no, no.
[00:21:20]  Keep it.
[00:21:21]  Keep it on there and then go towards the middle of the video and show.
[00:21:24]  That's not real.
[00:21:25]  Go to the middle of the video.
[00:21:27]  You're kidding, right?
[00:21:28]  Like, this is a joke.
[00:21:29]  This is a meme.
[00:21:33]  Oh, my God.
[00:21:34]  Oh, no.
[00:21:35]  Oh, no, no.
[00:21:36]  He looks good.
[00:21:37]  He can't do this.

=== Playing the Trump Clip (15:40) ===

[00:21:38]  He looks good.
[00:21:39]  Okay, it's not real.
[00:21:41]  It's not real?
[00:21:42]  Okay.
[00:21:44]  I knew it was real.
[00:21:44]  If it was real, I okay, see, this is why AI is.
[00:21:47]  Damn, it got you, bro.
[00:21:48]  It got me.
[00:21:49]  Tim got me.
[00:21:50]  I'm not normally fooled by AI, but this would have been funny.
[00:21:54]  I know he really did have a tweet, though, about the King's protest.
[00:22:00]  All right, here, go back to the dock.
[00:22:02]  Show us something else in the dock if you will.
[00:22:04]  Can we go to the second one, the furries thing?
[00:22:08]  Oh, no, no, no, dude.
[00:22:10]  This might get us in trouble on YouTube.
[00:22:12]  Wait, why?
[00:22:14]  Well, we're not playing any audio.
[00:22:17]  We're just looking at visuals.
[00:22:19]  All right.
[00:22:20]  Wait, what is it?
[00:22:21]  What was it, by the way?
[00:22:22]  Wait, let me see.
[00:22:23]  It was Trump being walked as kind of a gimp, and it was some like paraplegic weapon.
[00:22:30]  They care like Mad Max.
[00:22:32]  We can't.
[00:22:32]  No, we can't.
[00:22:33]  We can't.
[00:22:34]  No, no.
[00:22:35]  We definitely can.
[00:22:36]  You care about the YouTube channel.
[00:22:38]  I do, but it says for misinformation.
[00:22:40]  We're not putting out any misinformation.
[00:22:42]  We're just showing that.
[00:22:44]  It's grotesque.
[00:22:45]  It's real flaws.
[00:22:47]  Okay, we're playing it.
[00:22:48]  Maureen doesn't need to see this.
[00:22:50]  You see?
[00:22:50]  Maureen, you want to see this?
[00:22:52]  No, no.
[00:22:53]  Maureen, you want to see this?
[00:22:54]  No, Okay, no audio, though.
[00:22:57]  All right.
[00:22:57]  No, absolutely no audio.
[00:22:59]  And this is Trump being walked as kind of a gimp.
[00:23:02]  And then there's like a 300-pound paralyzed Mexican woman in a chair wearing a Bane mask.
[00:23:08]  So the – Enough.
[00:23:10]  You just get it off the screen.
[00:23:12]  Wes, hear me now.
[00:23:13]  Hear me now.
[00:23:14]  Banish it from cyberspace.
[00:23:16]  Good.
[00:23:16]  Good job.
[00:23:17]  Okay.
[00:23:19]  I'll read the title of what it says.
[00:23:22]  Mad Max, woman in the wheelchair who caught everyone's attention today during the No Kings protest is a disabled, self-proclaimed Q activist.
[00:23:32]  You guys can fill in the blank on that based in Atlanta.
[00:23:35]  She claims that people voted for Trump don't have the jump against my fat shit.
[00:23:42]  Okay, yeah, we love it.
[00:23:43]  She loves to spend money on new tattoos, but this is a process of asking for donations on a GoFundMe support herself and the nationwide presentation of the Doge Walker live.
[00:23:56]  Good name.
[00:23:57]  W name, honesty.
[00:23:59]  Doge Walker, a live performative protest rooted in disabled, queer, and marginalized identities.
[00:24:04]  And if you didn't see it, we're not showing it again.
[00:24:06]  Please don't think about it.
[00:24:08]  She looks, it's like Mad Max.
[00:24:10]  You guys can go find that on X.
[00:24:11]  And then I want to play the one on the frogs because I'm going to put a picture together for this, right?
[00:24:17]  No, there are people dancing in frog suits.
[00:24:19]  Did you see that?
[00:24:20]  The gay frogs?
[00:24:21]  No, no.
[00:24:22]  Got to send this to my dad.
[00:24:25]  Go ahead and just play it.
[00:24:26]  Sorry.
[00:24:27]  Yeah, go ahead and play that.
[00:24:41]  The name of the gay frog is Geronimo Frost, by the way.
[00:24:44]  Geronimo Frost.
[00:24:46]  They're all Geronimo Frost out there.
[00:24:48]  That's pretty crazy.
[00:24:49]  going no and see that's that's a social media campaign right there now Now, smart.
[00:25:04]  Give me one second.
[00:25:05]  Wes, go ahead and show the tweet where I have the picture on that same thing above.
[00:25:10]  I want to show the contrast here, okay?
[00:25:13]  This is how protests used to be.
[00:25:16]  Okay.
[00:25:17]  You got end Vietnam War.
[00:25:19]  You got people out there taking it serious.
[00:25:21]  They're in ties.
[00:25:22]  They're in suit.
[00:25:22]  They're taking things serious.
[00:25:24]  And now you got people in frog costumes dancing around thinking that this is real protest.
[00:25:32]  Like they're really doing something here instead of just making themselves like we're, you're right.
[00:25:36]  Yeah.
[00:25:37]  We're on serious country.
[00:25:38]  We're very unserious country.
[00:25:39]  Very unserious.
[00:25:41]  I mean, who's going to take a lady in a wheelchair wheeling around a guy, a Trump with a dog, with a dog collar?
[00:25:49]  It's funny.
[00:25:49]  You think at China and like everyone there is just in like a high-tech plant, like with a fucking tool going like micrometers and whatever.
[00:25:56]  You got someone like assembling plane parts.
[00:25:58]  You got someone building electric cars.
[00:25:59]  And then in America, you should like fat people like waddling around in disability scooters, like walking a fake Trump on a leash.
[00:26:06]  And we're going to win, right?
[00:26:07]  I have something in here, honestly, to tie this in.
[00:26:09]  I don't want to interrupt.
[00:26:10]  Where is it?
[00:26:12]  Here, scroll down.
[00:26:14]  Yeah, can we show number 16?
[00:26:16]  Can we show the futuristic Chinese city?
[00:26:18]  It just, it ties into what you're saying here.
[00:26:20]  Go ahead.
[00:26:20]  Go ahead.
[00:26:21]  Yeah, go ahead and play that.
[00:26:22]  I'm just like, there's a huge contrast between, like, you see a protest in like one of these Asian countries like Nepal had a real protest.
[00:26:31]  You saw people protesting in South Asia.
[00:26:34]  Like, they're actually mad about something and they're doing something and it causes everyone's having fun.
[00:26:39]  Yes.
[00:26:39]  Everyone's having a good time.
[00:26:41]  That's what out, man.
[00:26:43]  Had a good time, bro.
[00:27:00]  Well, that looks nice.
[00:27:01]  Sorry about the audio there.
[00:27:03]  It was a little bit loud, but that looks wonderful, right?
[00:27:05]  Wouldn't it be nice to have stuff like that here?
[00:27:07]  It would.
[00:27:08]  It'd be pretty cool.
[00:27:09]  It would.
[00:27:10]  I mean, they're spending more money on their actual people than they are on their military.
[00:27:15]  Audio is gone.
[00:27:17]  No, no.
[00:27:18]  No, no way.
[00:27:19]  Wait, you can't hear us?
[00:27:20]  No way.
[00:27:21]  Hello?
[00:27:21]  Destiny.
[00:27:23]  Okay.
[00:27:24]  Oh, it's a video.
[00:27:25]  Okay.
[00:27:25]  Chinese cities are so great that they are unpopulated and fall apart based on Chinese construction.
[00:27:30]  Wake the F up.
[00:27:31]  You've never been to China.
[00:27:32]  Yeah, I've never been to China.
[00:27:33]  You're right.
[00:27:34]  Rangers.
[00:27:35]  Rangers got fighting words today.
[00:27:36]  People say it's good, man.
[00:27:37]  Other people say it's good.
[00:27:38]  Okay.
[00:27:38]  I want that here.
[00:27:39]  Other people say it's good.
[00:27:40]  Okay, so let me let me give you a quick breakdown.
[00:27:43]  There is a part of China where if you're in poverty, it's not the best.
[00:27:47]  Like our poverty is like, well, they got the suicide net and all that.
[00:27:51]  We know about that, but it's not like we don't have that here as well.
[00:27:53]  No, no, no, I know.
[00:27:54]  But like poverty in China is worse than poverty in America.
[00:27:57]  But if you are middle class and have some sort of wealth, China does have a lot of cool things.
[00:28:04]  Now, the trade-off is like you give up a lot of your freedoms and you're under a surveillance state and the social, what is it, the social credit score.
[00:28:13]  Like I'm not willing to trade for upgraded cities, but there's the whole point Rex is trying to make here is they're actually spending money on infrastructure and technology.
[00:28:23]  Here's the point I'm trying to make.
[00:28:24]  Ding, ding, That's the point I'm trying.
[00:28:33]  Okay.
[00:28:33]  Okay.
[00:28:34]  All right.
[00:28:35]  So, yeah.
[00:28:36]  I mean, look.
[00:28:37]  You want to get into the serious stuff?
[00:28:39]  Because this is a big deal with the Ukraine.
[00:28:41]  Because Zelensky.
[00:28:42]  Oh, okay.
[00:28:43]  Okay.
[00:28:43]  We have to have it.
[00:28:44]  I'm going to find it.
[00:28:45]  What?
[00:28:45]  Really quick.
[00:28:46]  Medev, the what position does he have?
[00:28:50]  He used to be the president.
[00:28:51]  He works.
[00:28:51]  He's like, hey, Putin's number two guy.
[00:28:52]  There's a freaking paywall behind this.
[00:28:55]  All right.
[00:28:56]  I'm adding something to the doc.
[00:28:59]  Oh, I sent that to you, Wes.
[00:29:02]  Yeah.
[00:29:02]  I mean, look, guys.
[00:29:05]  Wait, what is Ranger right about?
[00:29:08]  Yeah.
[00:29:08]  No, I know what ghost cities are.
[00:29:10]  Okay.
[00:29:10]  So there are ghost cities.
[00:29:12]  Basically, what he's talking about is China has tried to overengineer, create a bunch of infrastructure, and they're having a liquidity crisis in terms of too much inventory and not enough people actually buying homes.
[00:29:27]  So they propped up these major cities in these areas and nobody's living in them.
[00:29:32]  Yes, that is true.
[00:29:33]  But we're not talking about the ghost cities.
[00:29:35]  We're talking about specifically the populated cities.
[00:29:39]  Go to Hong Kong.
[00:29:40]  If you go to Hong Kong, it is a beautiful place.
[00:29:42]  And yes, it's totalitarian.
[00:29:44]  It's evil.
[00:29:44]  And like, what do we do over here?
[00:29:46]  We send all our money to Israel and commit genocide.
[00:29:48]  It's not all.
[00:29:49]  The only thing that, like, Ranger, you can't just be like one side or the other.
[00:29:53]  Like, it's all fake.
[00:29:54]  It's not all fake.
[00:29:54]  Like, they actually have real infrastructure.
[00:29:58]  And I know people who have been to China.
[00:29:59]  Like, my, my school used to take all of the kids in ninth grade to go to China.
[00:30:04]  Like, my sisters have been there.
[00:30:05]  I have people that have been there.
[00:30:09]  It's not like trash.
[00:30:11]  You know, most of China's bigger cities have some really cool like technology.
[00:30:16]  Okay.
[00:30:17]  So let's see where we're going here.
[00:30:20]  So I want to read.
[00:30:21]  Can you pull up that article, please, Wes, of the first one, the Ukraine-Saudi peace deal?
[00:30:26]  Because we're going to move on from China.
[00:30:28]  Ranger's mad today.
[00:30:30]  Hey.
[00:30:31]  Okay, I'm adding this.
[00:30:32]  This is this is Medev talking about what Zelensky's been doing in the Gulf.
[00:30:36]  Oh, and it just, it just leaves me.
[00:30:38]  China is communist.
[00:30:40]  Well, yeah, they're socialists.
[00:30:42]  Oh, we're going to cover the difference between socialism and communism.
[00:30:46]  China is a hybrid model, just like we're a hybrid model where corporations are partially owned by the government, just like we do it now.
[00:30:51]  So it's all the same thing.
[00:30:52]  We don't have capitalism.
[00:30:53]  They don't have capitalism.
[00:30:54]  Or is it the corporations owning the government?
[00:30:57]  Well, it's the same.
[00:30:58]  It's the same in every case.
[00:30:59]  And in that case, we're probably worse off than they are.
[00:31:02]  But they also have zero rights.
[00:31:03]  So we do acknowledge that.
[00:31:04]  Okay, I threw this in at the bottom, Wes.
[00:31:06]  It's going to be the last link at the bottom.
[00:31:08]  You want to play this first?
[00:31:09]  Let's get into the Ukraine thing.
[00:31:11]  Let's talk about it a little bit.
[00:31:12]  And then the Medev thing will give us some context.
[00:31:15]  Go ahead and pull up that article, Wes.
[00:31:17]  Number one.
[00:31:18]  I mean, it's not the number one.
[00:31:20]  It's the one that I sent you via text.
[00:31:22]  We appreciate your takes, Ranger.
[00:31:24]  We like a diversity of thought.
[00:31:27]  Means a lot to us, actually.
[00:31:30]  But yeah, so Zelensky is riding around like the green goblin in his little military outfit.
[00:31:37]  He's not a military veteran.
[00:31:38]  He's a comedian who played the president on TV and then was elected president in a party that was named after the TV show.
[00:31:45]  So that's who Zelensky is.
[00:31:47]  It's like if Kevin Spacey, we had, if Kevin Spacey became president.
[00:31:52]  Excellent analogy.
[00:31:53]  If you guys have ever seen House of Cards, that's the exact scenario.
[00:31:56]  Literally, Tim, you're dead on there.
[00:31:58]  And then, Tim, you also know about what they've become highly specialized at is making those FPV drones.
[00:32:04]  Yeah, and that's the technology that they're trying to provide now because – Oh, you need help with the – you need to bomb the Eileen.
[00:32:12]  Exactly.
[00:32:13]  Daddy is here.
[00:32:14]  Papa, come on.
[00:32:15]  Yes, yes, Papa's here.
[00:32:18]  And supposedly, I don't know how he's doing this because he gets his air defense from us.
[00:32:23]  He's promising them air defense.
[00:32:25]  How does that work?
[00:32:26]  Well, they did develop their own technology.
[00:32:29]  Okay, so the United States and the Western countries were providing them like the big, the big weapons, right?
[00:32:34]  Ukraine realized, well, we can't fire million-dollar missiles at 70,000 people.
[00:32:39]  You must build cheaper ones.
[00:32:41]  So they spent a lot of time making that technology.
[00:32:44]  I think it's the handheld one where you sit there and you look at the drone and you shoot it at it.
[00:32:48]  They also have the flamingo, which is like their cheaper ballistic missile rocket or whatever that we help them to make or whatever.
[00:32:56]  So Ukraine is capable of making weapons.
[00:32:58]  They're just not missing.
[00:32:59]  Necessity is mother of invention, as they say.
[00:33:01]  Yeah, and they had to come up with a reason because of the Russian drones.
[00:33:04]  So let's go ahead back to that article.
[00:33:06]  We're going to read it off the screen because.
[00:33:08]  Sure.
[00:33:08]  And to their credit, you know, like I still think they're going to lose the conflict really bad.
[00:33:12]  And they are losing and they've lost basically already.
[00:33:15]  But Ukrainians are hanging in there, man.
[00:33:17]  It's kind of creepy.
[00:33:18]  So we'll start off with the title here.
[00:33:20]  Iran War Shockwaves Push Saudi Arabia to Strike Security Deal with Ukraine.
[00:33:25]  This cooperation can be mutually beneficial.
[00:33:30]  No, it's good.
[00:33:31]  It's good.
[00:33:33]  Now keep going down.
[00:33:35]  Go back.
[00:33:35]  Go back.
[00:33:36]  Go back up.
[00:33:37]  Daddy.
[00:33:38]  Papa, come on.
[00:33:39]  Papa Zelensky is here.
[00:33:41]  I need a nuclear weapon.
[00:33:43]  Sorry.
[00:33:43]  All right.
[00:33:43]  I'll stop.
[00:33:44]  You have big ocean.
[00:33:45]  Oh, Israel.
[00:33:46]  I give you a drone.
[00:33:47]  Yes, but I need nuclear weapon.
[00:33:50]  Okay, so now let's start off here.
[00:33:52]  Ukraine signed a defense cooperation pact with Saudi Arabia on Friday as Gulf countries look to Kiev for assistance on developing drone attacks from Iran.
[00:34:01]  President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the agreement with senior Saudi officials during his two-day visit to Riyadh.
[00:34:07]  The accord lays the foundation for future contracts, technological cooperation, investment, also strengthens Ukraine's international role as a security donor.
[00:34:17]  That's like getting the homeless guy to sell you a house insurance.
[00:34:22]  That's basically what that is.
[00:34:24]  Your analogies are on point these days.
[00:34:26]  It's true, man.
[00:34:28]  It's true.
[00:34:29]  You want me to keep reading?
[00:34:29]  No, keep greeting.
[00:34:30]  Just do a little bit.
[00:34:31]  We are ready to share our expertise and systems with Saudi Arabia and to work together to strengthen the protection of lives.
[00:34:39]  I can't do it.
[00:34:40]  Now into the fifth year, Ukrainians are resisting the same kinds of terrorist attacks, ballistic missiles and drones that the Iranian regime is currently carrying out in the Middle East and Gulf region.
[00:34:50]  Saudi Arabia also has capabilities that are of interest to Ukraine, and this cooperation can be mutually beneficial, he said, without specifying details.
[00:34:58]  He wants oil, probably.
[00:35:00]  Since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran in February, Saudi Arabia, plus many other countries in the Gulf and Middle East, have suffered from Iranian retaliation and drone strikes against energy, military, and civilian infrastructure.
[00:35:13]  Ukraine is one of the only scroll up a little bit.
[00:35:16]  Scroll up a little.
[00:35:18]  Wait, where the hell did you say?
[00:35:20]  Oh, we got teleported.
[00:35:20]  Okay.
[00:35:20]  Yeah, there you go.
[00:35:21]  Ukraine is one of the only countries in the world having lived under massive Russian drone swarms since 2022 that has learned how to repel the attacks using cheap Ukrainian-made interceptor drones since the start of the Iran war.
[00:35:35]  So they've been pitching these drones to the Middle Eastern countries.
[00:35:39]  It sent 200 drone experts to Saudi Arabia.
[00:35:44]  Damn.
[00:35:44]  And then 30 more to Jordan and Kuwait.
[00:35:46]  Zelensky's talking to reporters about it.
[00:35:48]  Go ahead and scroll down.
[00:35:49]  I'll summarize the rest of it.
[00:35:51]  And I've got a video that also comes up.
[00:35:52]  Sure, I'll summarize it real quick.
[00:35:55]  So Zelensky's bragging about the air defense.
[00:35:58]  Zelensky says that he'd be super happy to trade the drones for more missiles that he wants.
[00:36:05]  Ukraine is set to sign further agreements in the region, making more deals.
[00:36:08]  Go ahead and scroll down.
[00:36:10]  Middle East, they have a lot of money and I want their money and I'll sell them FPV drones.
[00:36:15]  I am Zelensky.
[00:36:16]  That's what he says.
[00:36:18]  Now, Wes, go ahead and switch over to that video.
[00:36:21]  We'll play that out.
[00:36:22]  That's the news video.
[00:36:24]  It'll kind of summarize and show some graphics of what's going on there.
[00:36:28]  But, you know, let's talk about this.
[00:36:30]  I mean, I think, you know, it is a necessity.
[00:36:35]  And, you know, Ukraine and Zelensky is.
[00:36:38]  It's a necessity.
[00:36:39]  Yes, you understand them.
[00:36:41]  We are desperate to get the deal done.
[00:36:45]  Well, you know what?
[00:36:47]  I can see what he's trying to do here.
[00:36:49]  He's trying to make himself valuable so that he doesn't feel like he's the little kid getting kicked around in the playground.
[00:36:54]  Well, the thing is, is like to be a world leader, you have to actually be active in the international community.
[00:37:00]  So he's trying to show like, I am still doing my job.
[00:37:04]  Please do not kill me.
[00:37:05]  And he's doing the things that the West wants.
[00:37:07]  And it's crazy.
[00:37:08]  They still have, like, don't they have like hundreds of people still dying every single day?
[00:37:12]  Oh, yeah.
[00:37:13]  Yeah, absolutely.
[00:37:14]  And their desertions are in the three-figure range as well.
[00:37:16]  It's really crazy what's going on in Ukraine.

=== Is This World War III (08:34) ===

[00:37:18]  Not for this show.
[00:37:19]  We'll cover it during the week.
[00:37:20]  I mean, the footage of these press gangs, they'll just like bonk somebody on the head or like pull a gun on and be like, you're getting in the van.
[00:37:27]  Wow.
[00:37:27]  You're getting blown up by an FPV drone.
[00:37:29]  And then people will be like, you're a Putin puppet.
[00:37:31]  You're a Putin apologist, Slava, Ukraine.
[00:37:33]  It's like, okay, well, you're rooting for neo-Nazis that John McCain set up.
[00:37:36]  Well, and like, I watched a video the other day of like a Ukrainian who's like in like one of those like trenches.
[00:37:45]  Right, right.
[00:37:46]  Super dark and graphic video.
[00:37:48]  Like we weren't meant to see this stuff.
[00:37:50]  No, but see, it's desensitizing.
[00:37:51]  I was, well, I mean, I was sensitized to it.
[00:37:54]  Like, I didn't even get to sensitize.
[00:37:56]  I was like, damn.
[00:37:57]  Like, he, he, his buddy, you just see the bullet just hit him.
[00:38:00]  He's like, and then like he's trying to walk and then a mortar just hits like to the left of them.
[00:38:05]  Boom.
[00:38:06]  And, you know, he stays in the trench, lets his buddy go.
[00:38:09]  And I'm like, holy, like, this ain't Call of Duty, guys.
[00:38:12]  And you see the other show where they wear the MAGA hat.
[00:38:16]  That's cool.
[00:38:17]  Like, we hate that here.
[00:38:18]  Like, we hate seeing it.
[00:38:19]  We don't want to see any more of it.
[00:38:21]  It's what I tweeted out today.
[00:38:22]  I'm like, I don't, no more of this.
[00:38:24]  And everyone's like, that's child.
[00:38:25]  It should always be war.
[00:38:26]  No, no, fuck you.
[00:38:27]  Like, we're going to, we're going to end this equal conflict thing.
[00:38:29]  Like, not enough.
[00:38:31]  Everyone agrees on this, by the way.
[00:38:32]  Everyone's seen what it's done.
[00:38:33]  And here's the thing.
[00:38:35]  We represent the younger generation.
[00:38:37]  We understand that a variety of people watch the news across different demographics.
[00:38:42]  Okay.
[00:38:43]  And I talk to the average person who is our age minus the people who are plants, you know, like Brian Hollahand or whatever.
[00:38:52]  Oh, no, that's all organized.
[00:38:54]  Don't worry about the size of his head at all.
[00:38:56]  It's totally normal.
[00:38:57]  Like, besides the industry plants, the average young person doesn't want to see any of these things happening across the board.
[00:39:03]  That's right.
[00:39:03]  Right.
[00:39:05]  We don't have neocons in the young generation.
[00:39:07]  We're through the super chat here.
[00:39:09]  Stank Jesus.
[00:39:10]  Shout out to you.
[00:39:10]  You guys are dope.
[00:39:11]  And I just want to show a little love for the channel.
[00:39:13]  Stay solid, gentlemen.
[00:39:14]  Thank you so much.
[00:39:14]  Thank you.
[00:39:15]  Really appreciate that.
[00:39:16]  Really appreciate it.
[00:39:17]  That goes right back into the show.
[00:39:18]  Goes into the gray area warches.
[00:39:21]  Zelensky doesn't even know who his boss's bosses is, probably the Rothschild.
[00:39:24]  Yeah, I mean, Zelensky's like the, he's like, they're all managers of Burger Kings.
[00:39:27]  Trump's just the manager of a big Burger King, right?
[00:39:29]  But you want to go to the – Yeah, let's go ahead and play that video, Wes, of the Ukraine deal just so we can have an overarching summary of this.
[00:39:37]  A handshake and the hope of sealing a new partnership.
[00:39:41]  Oh, yeah.
[00:39:42]  Vladimir Zelensky landed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Thursday for discussions on a security cooperation agreement between the two countries, both facing the threat of Iranian drones.
[00:39:54]  The day before, the Ukrainian president highlighted his country's expertise in this area.
[00:40:00]  This includes all types of drones.
[00:40:03]  Shahid, drones which cause serious damage to infrastructure and FPV drones, which are now used for targeted attacks on military bases and equipment in the region.
[00:40:16]  We offer the Middle East and Gulf countries a partnership that benefits both sides, our knowledge and technology and their funding.
[00:40:27]  Under attack since 2022, from tens of thousands of drones launched by Russia, Ukraine has learned.
[00:40:33]  What were we saying?
[00:40:34]  All right, just I just want to make a point here.
[00:40:35]  Scroll back a little bit.
[00:40:37]  Let's just go to where his body is showing in the full shot, please.
[00:40:41]  That one.
[00:40:42]  Okay, here's the thing.
[00:40:43]  Me and you, Tim, me and you could both get over an eight-foot wall in like three seconds, you know, or less.
[00:40:48]  Zelensky's not getting over the eight-foot wall.
[00:40:50]  And you have these complete, like tiny little turdlets that send millions of men to die.
[00:40:55]  It's always like he dresses up as a soldier.
[00:40:57]  He pretends to be a soldier.
[00:40:59]  That's what he really is.
[00:41:00]  He's a complete non-threat.
[00:41:02]  He is trying to signal why he's always wore the black.
[00:41:05]  Well, you see, he doesn't look so tough as a middle schooler here.
[00:41:08]  That's just the point I wanted to make.
[00:41:09]  Go ahead.
[00:41:10]  We'll play that one.
[00:41:10]  Go ahead and scroll back a little bit.
[00:41:14]  Forward, sorry.
[00:41:15]  Forward a little bit.
[00:41:17]  Yeah, go ahead.
[00:41:18]  Under attack since 2022, from tens of thousands of drones launched by Russia, Ukraine has learned how to neutralize them.
[00:41:26]  It's developed interceptor drones capable of tracking down and destroying 80% of Shahid drones and has begun large-scale production of these in recent months.
[00:41:36]  An effective and inexpensive system.
[00:41:39]  To share this expertise, Ukraine has recently sent military experts to several Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, and Jordan.
[00:41:50]  Since the start of the war, these countries have been targeted by more than 3,000 drones launched by Tehran.
[00:41:56]  Weapons reportedly supplied to Iran by Russia, according to the Financial Times.
[00:42:01]  Four years ago, it was Iran that supplied its drones to Moscow, but since then, the Kremlin has significantly improved their performance.
[00:42:10]  The EU's foreign policy chief also accuses Russia of arming Tehran.
[00:42:15]  And Russia is also supporting Iran now with the drones so that they can attack neighboring countries and also U.S. military bases.
[00:42:24]  Moscow has denied these deliveries.
[00:42:27]  In exchange for its assistance, Ukraine is seeking to acquire more advanced air defense missiles such as those the Gulf states possess.
[00:42:37]  Okay, come back to us.
[00:42:40]  I'm just curious, what's the definition of a world war?
[00:42:44]  What have you guys saying?
[00:42:46]  Have you guys ever thought about this?
[00:42:48]  Like, you know, we have all these micro fights, but like, are we actually already in World War III?
[00:42:55]  I just, that thought crossed my mind.
[00:42:57]  So let's look at the definition.
[00:42:59]  World War is a global international conflict involving most of the world's major powers.
[00:43:03]  So we're not at most yet, so it's okay.
[00:43:05]  Don't worry about it.
[00:43:06]  Okay.
[00:43:07]  Don't worry about it.
[00:43:08]  Just some.
[00:43:08]  Characterized by intense large-scale fighting across multiple continents.
[00:43:13]  Well, that's definitely not happening.
[00:43:14]  Okay, that's not happening.
[00:43:16]  Well, you know.
[00:43:17]  I'm joking.
[00:43:17]  It is happening.
[00:43:19]  It is happening.
[00:43:20]  Well, I mean, what?
[00:43:20]  Venezuela.
[00:43:22]  A million people, 12 million soldiers have died in Ukraine.
[00:43:25]  No, you're right.
[00:43:26]  You're right.
[00:43:26]  Situation developing.
[00:43:27]  It's two theaters.
[00:43:28]  I think it needs to be like three or more theaters of combat.
[00:43:32]  I don't know.
[00:43:33]  You guys in the chat, you guys think we're already in World War III, or is this just the opening act to World War III?
[00:43:39]  Because I've thought about this very often now.
[00:43:43]  Let's see what people are saying.
[00:43:44]  According to your dad.
[00:43:45]  What do you think, Operator?
[00:43:46]  Are we in World War III?
[00:43:47]  You tell us.
[00:43:48]  Don't laugh about it.
[00:43:49]  Serious.
[00:43:52]  So, okay, so he says, AC33 says, according to your dad, Rex, we are in World War IV because we're in World War IV.
[00:44:01]  We actually had World War III.
[00:44:02]  It was a cold war.
[00:44:03]  That's an interesting point here, just to make this really quick.
[00:44:06]  I've been listening to Lawrence Wilkerson, he worked directly under Colin Powell when he was Secretary of State.
[00:44:12]  I've been listening to him talk a lot.
[00:44:15]  And he makes the point of when Gorbachev gave us the Soviet Union.
[00:44:20]  We didn't win a battle or a victory or anything like that.
[00:44:22]  Like the Russians were like, okay, we're going to dissolve the Warsaw Pact.
[00:44:26]  We're going to give all this up.
[00:44:27]  We're going to break up the USSR.
[00:44:30]  And then George H.W. Bush gets forced out of there.
[00:44:32]  And then everyone else after is like, we won the Cold War.
[00:44:35]  We won it.
[00:44:36]  So therefore, we can expand NATO.
[00:44:38]  Yeah, but what do we want it?
[00:44:39]  I mean, I guess you could say we won because they backed off last second before they crossed the, what was it?
[00:44:46]  The barrier that we threw up in Cuba, the barricade.
[00:44:51]  That's what I'm thinking of.
[00:44:52]  But I don't know.
[00:44:53]  The reason why they call it a Cold War is because there wasn't actually like missiles flying.
[00:44:57]  So I would think that it was a war against economic systems, right?
[00:45:01]  It was a war between the capitalist system of the West and the Soviet communist system of the East.
[00:45:06]  And the capitalist system technically won.
[00:45:08]  But with that victory, it drove itself insane.
[00:45:11]  It's like the quote from Alexander the Great.
[00:45:13]  And Alexander wept because there were no more worlds left to conquer.
[00:45:17]  And then when the U.S. is in that position, it's like, well, we are empire now.
[00:45:20]  No, you're right.
[00:45:21]  Because there was a battle in multiple continents for the capitalism versus the communism.
[00:45:29]  And they were going to each country and being like, hey, you're on our team, right?
[00:45:33]  Sure.
[00:45:34]  You're on our team, right?
[00:45:35]  You can look at like Bosnia would be an example.
[00:45:38]  You can look at Yugoslavia, be another example.
[00:45:40]  You can look at, of course, East and West Germany.
[00:45:43]  Technically, Vietnam.
[00:45:44]  Oh, yeah.
[00:45:45]  You can look at North Korea, South Korea.
[00:45:47]  You can look at a lot of African countries.
[00:45:51]  With China as well.

=== Empire Wept No More Worlds (02:33) ===

[00:45:52]  Okay, let's see what we got here next.
[00:45:56]  Russia's making money.
[00:45:58]  Here comes the money.
[00:45:59]  And keep in mind, at the beginning of this conflict, they were selling oil to India for $54 a barrel.
[00:46:06]  Now they're selling it for $100 plus.
[00:46:09]  Yeah, let's go ahead and play number three.
[00:46:11]  Russia's making $760 million a day on oil.
[00:46:17]  Hey, you know what?
[00:46:19]  The 19 or 18 sanctions packages that were passed by us alone, the destruction of Nord Stream 2 and all that entailed.
[00:46:28]  You know, all that work that the U.S. put in for like a half decade to like make things click on time, all that's just like poof up and smoke.
[00:46:34]  Like, that's fine.
[00:46:35]  That's a sacrifice we had to make.
[00:46:36]  That's how, you know, they're truly cucked by the war.
[00:46:39]  Like the war decides everything they do now.
[00:46:42]  Well, they have no real indicator to predict where things are going.
[00:46:45]  They're thinking.
[00:46:46]  But Trump says so.
[00:46:47]  So that's not true.
[00:46:48]  Well, we're playing 40 chess, sir.
[00:46:50]  That's right.
[00:46:50]  We know exactly what the enemy is going to make.
[00:46:52]  That's right.
[00:46:52]  You know, right now we'll put these sanctions, but don't worry.
[00:46:55]  Like two years later, we'll make sure we'll rely on them for every single thing.
[00:46:59]  Netanyahu and me like to play a little role play game.
[00:47:01]  It's called Helen Keller.
[00:47:03]  And he blindfolds me.
[00:47:05]  He puts a gag over my mouth and he puts things in my ears that I don't know about because I can't hear them.
[00:47:10]  Let me tell you.
[00:47:11]  Like that's that's where we're at.
[00:47:12]  Like give it to me, BB.
[00:47:14]  He can't see.
[00:47:15]  He can't see the force of the truth.
[00:47:16]  This is your, I saw your dad make this point.
[00:47:19]  He's like, I'm 54.
[00:47:22]  I go all day and I'm doing the show.
[00:47:25]  I'm researching after and by the end of the day, I'm exhausted, is what he said.
[00:47:29]  Right.
[00:47:30]  Then he's like, I don't know how Trump at the age of 70, whatever he is, he's probably croaching 80, right?
[00:47:37]  79.
[00:47:38]  Yeah, I don't know how he's able to keep up with all of this with just two hours of sleep.
[00:47:43]  And I was like, you know what?
[00:47:44]  That is a fair point.
[00:47:46]  How is he functioning to be able to make all of these decisions across multiple fronts?
[00:47:51]  And he's not, and you can very clearly see how he's corralled and how they bounce him back and forth like a pingball, a pinball machine, like through various people.
[00:47:59]  As to where, like, oftentimes, like, I'll feel this way.
[00:48:01]  Like, doing the morning show, like, I do the morning show, and then boom, my day's gone.
[00:48:04]  It's because I already know what I have to do, and then it's over.
[00:48:06]  You think about for him, literally, he's just in an endless loop of just getting older.
[00:48:10]  Well, and just think you're around the world, which means your clock is 24-7.
[00:48:15]  Something happens in freaking Syria.
[00:48:18]  Ring, ring, Mr. President, sir, we need you to get up at three o'clock in the morning and come to the debrief.
[00:48:24]  And it's like, you have no choice but to do that.

=== The Pinball Machine of Politics (15:55) ===

[00:48:26]  What are you going to do?
[00:48:26]  I'm going to die.
[00:48:27]  I'm going to kill over and die like a big dead fish.
[00:48:31]  Okay.
[00:48:31]  Like, I mean, he is tough.
[00:48:34]  He is tough.
[00:48:35]  Can't say he's tough.
[00:48:36]  He is tough.
[00:48:36]  And then you got to go through all these appearances.
[00:48:38]  So, you know, there's no way.
[00:48:40]  My whole point with that is you're going to make some mistakes.
[00:48:44]  There's no possible way.
[00:48:45]  Or you're relying so much on the information chain that's across and underneath you to make those decisions because you're not going to look into every single thing.
[00:48:54]  You'd be like, Mr. Sir, I have the best thing since sliced bread.
[00:48:57]  We should go and tackle the Iranians.
[00:48:58]  Well, absolutely, we should go do that.
[00:49:00]  Like, I think those things do happen at certain points.
[00:49:03]  So let's go ahead and play that clip of 760.
[00:49:08]  Go ahead.
[00:49:10]  If you want to just ride it.
[00:49:12]  And missiles are flying across West Asia.
[00:49:15]  Oil tankers are scrambling across the Strait of Hormuz, but thousands of kilometers away.
[00:49:20]  There's one man who is counting the cash.
[00:49:22]  I'm talking about Vladimir Putin.
[00:49:24]  The Russian president is making $760 million every single day.
[00:49:31]  What explains this windfall?
[00:49:34]  Well, let's rewind back to February 28th.
[00:49:37]  Israel and the US attacked Iran.
[00:49:39]  Tehran struck back.
[00:49:40]  And suddenly all eyes were on the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:49:44]  20% of the world's oil passes through it.
[00:49:47]  With that blocked, oil prices are off the charts.
[00:49:50]  Exactly what we're witnessing right now.
[00:49:52]  Supply was choked, prices exploded.
[00:49:55]  Brent crude, the global benchmark, shot up by 38%.
[00:49:59]  Now, when oil prices go up, the only one who benefits are the ones selling it.
[00:50:06]  And in this case, it's Russia.
[00:50:08]  You see, before this war, Russian oil was sanctioned.
[00:50:12]  That made its crude risky.
[00:50:13]  So it was being sold at a massive discount.
[00:50:16]  Russia was still selling oil, but it was missing out on billions.
[00:50:20]  Now, oil is suddenly scarce.
[00:50:22]  So buyers don't care about sanctions or political baggage.
[00:50:26]  They just want crude.
[00:50:28]  And the Russian barrels are the top option.
[00:50:32]  Moscow has something called the Euras benchmark.
[00:50:35]  That's what Russian crude is priced on.
[00:50:37]  Before the war, it was sitting at $57 a barrel.
[00:50:42]  Right now, it's almost at parity with Brent crude, roughly at $100 a barrel.
[00:50:46]  And Washington gave two.
[00:50:48]  They announced a 30-day waiver on Russian oil.
[00:50:52]  This is to stabilize the oil markets.
[00:50:55]  In this month alone, Kremlin oil and gas revenues are set to double.
[00:50:59]  They will go from 12 billion to almost 24 billion.
[00:51:03]  In the first two weeks of March, Russia pulled in an estimated $7 billion just from fossil fuel exports.
[00:51:10]  And it isn't stopping.
[00:51:11]  If the war continues till April, Russia is projected to earn $280 billion.
[00:51:17]  If it drags on for, let's say, six months, it could be around $400 billion.
[00:51:22]  But Russia isn't just minting money.
[00:51:24]  Reports say it is helping Iran too.
[00:51:26]  How?
[00:51:27]  By sending drones to the country.
[00:51:30]  According to the Financial Times, Russia sent its first weapons shipment to Tehran this month.
[00:51:36]  Now, you may wonder, why is Moscow sending drones?
[00:51:39]  Doesn't Iran manufacture the Shahid drones itself?
[00:51:42]  Well, here's the thing: Moscow has been using the Shahid drones in Ukraine since 2023.
[00:51:48]  They were manufacturing them.
[00:51:50]  Now that pipeline is reversing.
[00:51:52]  Kremlin has obviously slammed this report.
[00:51:55]  They call it fake.
[00:51:56]  But right now, one thing is apparent.
[00:51:58]  Putin is a man who knows he's holding all the cards.
[00:52:05]  Good point there.
[00:52:06]  Putin does know he's holding all the cards.
[00:52:09]  Sure.
[00:52:09]  He knows he's holding all the cards.
[00:52:11]  And the reason why you would see that pipeline reverse is because the United States is trying to bomb everything in Iran, right?
[00:52:18]  So if all of the manufacturing is now in Russia, we wouldn't dare bomb a single manufacturing plant in Russia, right?
[00:52:26]  And then you take a step back and you look at the justification given for the Ukraine war.
[00:52:30]  And they said this openly.
[00:52:32]  So anyone who says I'm not saying the truth or anyone who says I'm not telling the truth is just lying to you or you're ignorant of the facts of history.
[00:52:39]  And I just lost my train of thought there.
[00:52:40]  No, no, no, you're good.
[00:52:42]  What were we talking about?
[00:52:42]  No, we were just talking about like the fact that Russia holds all the cards, that they're sending things over to Iran and the United States can't do anything about it.
[00:52:50]  They said that the Ukraine war was about, it was a great opportunity for us to degrade Russia's military.
[00:52:57]  Think about that.
[00:52:57]  We did.
[00:52:58]  So if a large-scale conflict that causes one side, the bigger side, to expend a lot of resources to take out the smaller side is bad, why isn't the same thing true about Iran, where a larger power is attacking a smaller power and it's costing larger power a lot more to do that in things that are not regenerative.
[00:53:18]  Okay, like missiles don't grow on trees.
[00:53:20]  So it's not just a monetary thing of like, oh, we can print more money.
[00:53:23]  No, you can't print more missiles.
[00:53:25]  That's the problem.
[00:53:26]  You see what I'm saying?
[00:53:26]  Like it's literally the same war.
[00:53:29]  And DMT, he came on the American Journal.
[00:53:32]  He said it's not the easiest thing to keep manufacturing these things super fast.
[00:53:36]  Like they take time.
[00:53:38]  And honestly, you can only produce a certain amount in a year.
[00:53:42]  I think what, the Tomahawk missiles was like, what, 400 a year?
[00:53:46]  I could be wrong on that number, but it was a limited amount.
[00:53:48]  These things were made in the hundreds.
[00:53:50]  Yeah.
[00:53:50]  That's correct.
[00:53:51]  So now we think.
[00:53:53]  Bad interceptors cost $20 million each.
[00:53:55]  Per missile, not per unit.
[00:53:57]  Maha.
[00:53:58]  Exactly.
[00:53:58]  I think it's like a billion dollar unit.
[00:54:01]  And so when I think about this, it makes me realize how little the United States actually has control over its destiny.
[00:54:08]  It's the knee-jerking reaction of moving the car this way.
[00:54:11]  And it's because each administration's coming in with their own idea of what needs to happen.
[00:54:16]  Technically, the sanctions happened under Biden, right?
[00:54:19]  Biden was the one that did that after the whole getting into NATO, trying to get NATO into Ukraine into NATO, Russia, all of that stuff happened.
[00:54:27]  Now Trump has to, now Russia is now becoming an enemy again in Russia's, in Trump's eyes.
[00:54:35]  Originally, he came in, beginning of the administration, he's like, I'll have this war ended in like two days.
[00:54:41]  And that was the grand lie.
[00:54:42]  And the grand lie with Trump has always been his relationship with Russia.
[00:54:46]  People said he hated Russia at the beginning, he really didn't.
[00:54:49]  Or people said he worked for Russia at the beginning, you really didn't.
[00:54:52]  And then over time, as the law fair and as the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax stuff drag on, if you're a liberal in the audience and you've gravitated towards our show because we give middle-of-the-road commentary, you still believe in Trump-Russia stuff.
[00:55:03]  I got a bridge to sell you.
[00:55:05]  I got oceanfront property in Arizona.
[00:55:07]  I got everything you'd want.
[00:55:08]  It's just a complete bullface lie.
[00:55:10]  But they use that to lead him around by the nose.
[00:55:13]  And eventually he gave money to Ukraine.
[00:55:15]  He gave weapons to Ukraine.
[00:55:16]  Yes, he did.
[00:55:17]  Like he was used to set up a lot of these things.
[00:55:19]  He's like, I'm not pro-Russia.
[00:55:20]  I'm not per-Russia.
[00:55:21]  I'll prove.
[00:55:22]  I'll show you I'm not pro-Russia.
[00:55:24]  You know what I mean?
[00:55:25]  Look where we ended up.
[00:55:26]  And look where we ended up.
[00:55:27]  And the last thing I'll make on this is you look at the scenario in which now Russia has like insane amount of money because now we need the oil.
[00:55:39]  Like the rest of the world needs the oil.
[00:55:41]  What do you think they're going to do with all this excess cash?
[00:55:45]  You think they're not just going to go double down on the things that they're already doing?
[00:55:49]  It's a war of attrition.
[00:55:50]  Russia's already won the Ukraine war.
[00:55:53]  I think everyone realizes that at this point, it hasn't gotten any media coverage because there's nothing.
[00:55:58]  I don't say you're wrong.
[00:55:59]  There's nothing cooler to see about that because it's the same thing, death, destruction.
[00:56:04]  Russia's still winning out.
[00:56:06]  The lines haven't moved significantly.
[00:56:09]  Now, here's the thing.
[00:56:11]  What allows this to not work anymore is the United States is now fighting Iran.
[00:56:16]  When we are not able to provide Ukraine with the same weapons technology that we are currently doing, Ukraine has no choice but to succeed.
[00:56:25]  I mean, sorry, no choice but to give up at a certain point.
[00:56:30]  Well, I kind of agree with your first point where they have no choice but to succeed.
[00:56:34]  And what we're seeing right now, like with these FPV drones, really like terrorist tactics, it's a war, but they're asymmetric warfare tactics, what these people are doing.
[00:56:42]  It's a whole new thing.
[00:56:43]  So like back in World War I, but instead of the terrifying weapon being a poison gas that makes your lungs turn into chalk, the main problem is these drones, right?
[00:56:52]  And you think about the nature of that.
[00:56:53]  Like this is a terror war.
[00:56:56]  I want to work my entire life to make sure that all these things, all these automated weapon systems are considered to be war crimes.
[00:57:03]  It should be war crimes to outsource murder to a robot.
[00:57:06]  No, you should have to kill someone honorably.
[00:57:08]  You should.
[00:57:09]  But the last thing I have a question for you now, because this is bringing me to a thought experiment, because we're seeing like each administration comes in after eight years, four years, whatever your term is, making different decisions.
[00:57:22]  Do you think presidents should have longer terms than eight?
[00:57:27]  No, no, I think we need real political parties and actual leadership.
[00:57:32]  And then I think our system will actually work okay.
[00:57:34]  But don't you think part of the reason why we like, I don't, I'm not saying I want a king.
[00:57:40]  I don't want somebody there indefinitely like a Putin where he's like bad because it's it's like, yeah, you get a good guy in there for a while.
[00:57:46]  It's great.
[00:57:47]  If you get a bad guy in there, it's awful.
[00:57:49]  Like a Netanyahu.
[00:57:50]  Yeah.
[00:57:51]  So, you know, what is the right number?
[00:57:53]  Like, or does there have to be consistent ideology between the both the right and the left to carry the baton?
[00:57:59]  I think one of the big issues is that the intelligence agencies have to be broken up.
[00:58:03]  And that was something that was talked about, okay, in 2024.
[00:58:06]  That was heavily.
[00:58:07]  I didn't think you were going there.
[00:58:08]  Well, yeah, no, 100%.
[00:58:09]  Well, like, they talked about it.
[00:58:10]  Kash Patel was like, yeah, we're basically, we're going to turn the Hoover Building into a museum.
[00:58:13]  And what did they do?
[00:58:14]  They just moved everyone into a bigger building.
[00:58:16]  And the assumption was that he was basically.
[00:58:17]  Now, what about if we do dissolve?
[00:58:20]  And we'll get back to this real quick.
[00:58:21]  If we do dissolve, what happens to the adversaries that could actually do something to America?
[00:58:27]  Here's what I'm saying.
[00:58:27]  Okay.
[00:58:28]  The way the CIA works, specifically the CIA, we can talk about domestic agencies and another conversation.
[00:58:33]  But the way that foreign intelligence works is the president gives these people a directive.
[00:58:38]  And that directive could have been given in 1996.
[00:58:40]  And then they're still working that directive decades and decades and decades later.
[00:58:44]  And that's where the greater talk of the narrative or the mission.
[00:58:48]  That's what being on the team really means.
[00:58:50]  When you're really on the team, you're working on that decade-decade protocol.
[00:58:54]  And some of the stuff is from presidents long ago.
[00:58:56]  Some of the stuff is not from presidents at all.
[00:58:57]  Some of the stuff just appears in the system and then they act on it.
[00:59:00]  And the CIA actually operates almost as its own entity, autonomously from the president.
[00:59:06]  So we're seeing it like the president doesn't have that much control over the CIA as people are.
[00:59:11]  Well, the president is like a little kid.
[00:59:13]  Okay.
[00:59:14]  Seriously.
[00:59:15]  And then the intelligence agencies are like the teachers that have to make sure the little kid goes to school and does his assignments and is a good boy ultimately.
[00:59:23]  Okay, so let's move on to the next story here.
[00:59:26]  Do we want to talk about the troops injured?
[00:59:29]  Did you ever cover that?
[00:59:31]  Yeah, I definitely covered that.
[00:59:34]  12 injured?
[00:59:35]  No, is this are they Israeli troops?
[00:59:38]  No, they're United States troops.
[00:59:40]  Okay, here, I'll read the top of it.
[00:59:41]  If you scroll back, go ahead and pull this up, Wes.
[00:59:45]  It's number one.
[00:59:46]  It's a Politico article.
[00:59:47]  Number four.
[00:59:48]  Attacks ramp up in Iran war, including strikes on U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia.
[00:59:54]  Israel struck Iran's nuclear facilities hours after threatening to escalate and expand.
[00:59:59]  Its campaign against Tehran on Friday.
[01:00:01]  Iran vowed to retaliate and struck a base in Saudi Arabia, wounding U.S. service members and damaging planes.
[01:00:06]  A month into the war, however, there appeared to be a breakthrough as Tehran agreed to allow humanitarian aid and agricultural shipments through the straight or moves, accepting a request from the UN and the Iranian ambassador, which said Iran agreed to facilitate and expedite such movements, even if it or even as it endures strikes on its nuclear facilities.
[01:00:25]  The vital waterway usually handles about a fifth of the world's oil shipments, usually not anymore, and nearly a third of the world's fertilizer trade.
[01:00:33]  While markets and governments have largely focused on blocked supplies of oil and natural gas, the restriction of fertilizer ingredients and trade threatens farming and food security around the world.
[01:00:43]  Okay.
[01:00:44]  Yeah, so not a lot of meat on this story.
[01:00:47]  Covering the news.
[01:00:48]  You know, it just, let's just see what happens here.
[01:00:51]  You know, you got 10,000 more troops that went over there.
[01:00:55]  Iran is saying they're ready for anything.
[01:00:57]  They're ready to kill on site, essentially.
[01:01:00]  So we'll see how that one goes.
[01:01:02]  I don't see how it doesn't become like the Bay of Pigs where like you go in there, you think you're about to take the island and you just get overwhelmed by like 100,000 troops.
[01:01:12]  They're all just going to get killed.
[01:01:14]  And we don't want that to happen.
[01:01:15]  It's horrible that it's going to happen if Trump does this.
[01:01:18]  And we pray that he doesn't do it, but it's a suicide mission.
[01:01:20]  Okay, so let's go into the next story.
[01:01:22]  We're going to talk about Cuba.
[01:01:24]  Rubio's got this video.
[01:01:25]  I'm sorry.
[01:01:26]  Marco Rubio is talking about Cuba because we did talk about this on the American Journal, what's happening over there.
[01:01:31]  We're pretty much going to do regime change over there.
[01:01:34]  So let's go ahead and play number five.
[01:01:36]  And then I wanted to understand what the difference between communism and socialism was because it plays out.
[01:01:42]  And everyone uses the word communism.
[01:01:45]  And Cuba is a communist state, but we're going to cover exactly why those systems aren't working.
[01:01:50]  So let's just go ahead and click that.
[01:01:52]  And then do you want to get into your deep dive soon?
[01:01:54]  Let's just keep going.
[01:01:56]  Let's just cover what you have and let's crush call it.
[01:01:58]  I'll save it for tomorrow.
[01:02:00]  Okay.
[01:02:00]  Any reporting on Cuba that you didn't get from me or the president?
[01:02:03]  Okay.
[01:02:06]  Do you still want regime change?
[01:02:08]  I'm just warning you guys.
[01:02:08]  All these sources that are pitching you on Cuba don't know who Jack.
[01:02:11]  Okay.
[01:02:12]  They're not in the mix.
[01:02:13]  Okay.
[01:02:13]  I promise you.
[01:02:14]  Do you still want regime change or would you be okay with an economic deal?
[01:02:18]  No.
[01:02:20]  Cuba's economy needs to change and their economy can't change unless the system economic deal?
[01:02:26]  What economic deal?
[01:02:27]  Regime change?
[01:02:28]  Yeah, we want regime change.
[01:02:29]  Like it's just open, bold-faced, you know, right out there for everybody.
[01:02:33]  He don't care.
[01:02:34]  He doesn't care.
[01:02:34]  This is what America is about now.
[01:02:36]  So that's not an indictment of it.
[01:02:38]  That's not an endorsement of it.
[01:02:40]  It's just like this is America.
[01:02:41]  Let's go ahead and back to the clip.
[01:02:46]  Go ahead and play the clip again.
[01:02:47]  Keep going.
[01:02:49]  It's that simple.
[01:02:50]  Who's going to invest billions of dollars in a communist country?
[01:02:54]  Who's going to invest billions of dollars in a communist country run by incompetent communists, which is even worse than communists.
[01:02:59]  The only thing worse than a communist is an incompetent communist.
[01:03:02]  And so their system of government has to change because they will never be able to develop economically without those changes.
[01:03:08]  And economic change is important.
[01:03:09]  Giving people economic and political freedom is important, but they come hand in hand.
[01:03:13]  Come together.
[01:03:14]  Is there a deal?
[01:03:16]  Is there a deal where for you where the Castro family remains in place?
[01:03:20]  It's not about the Castro family.
[01:03:22]  It's about a system of government in a regime that doesn't work.
[01:03:24]  They never act that way in front of me.
[01:03:26]  Maybe they say that to you guys, or maybe they say that in other interviews or when they go on the press, but not in front of me, they don't.
[01:03:31]  I never get that.
[01:03:32]  On the contrary, these meetings are oftentimes about thanking America for the role we've played in trying to bring peace into damage.
[01:03:39]  The recognition that the president played a key role in ending what was happening in Gaza.
[01:03:43]  Recognition of the role we've played in stabilizing Syria.
[01:03:46]  Recognition, despite what they may have said in the press, that what we did in Venezuela was good for the world and good for our region in the Western Hemisphere.
[01:03:53]  A recognition of the role we've played in setting up, along with others like Canada, the gangster oppression force.
[01:03:58]  So and appreciation for the mediating role we've tried to play in this war between Russia and Ukraine.
[01:04:06]  So I don't know.
[01:04:07]  I mean, okay.
[01:04:09]  That boy, grinding meat.
[01:04:10]  Riding meat.
[01:04:11]  So we've stabilized Syria.
[01:04:13]  Okay, by putting notorious head chopper head of ISIS in Syria, formerly Al-Julani.
[01:04:18]  He's changed his name to Al-Shara now.
[01:04:20]  That's okay.

=== Regime Change for Cubans (04:17) ===

[01:04:21]  And he's killed thousands.
[01:04:22]  New Year, new me, man.
[01:04:23]  He's killed thousands of Shia Muslims, Christians, and Alawites since taking over.
[01:04:28]  We bring him to the White House.
[01:04:29]  Trump shakes his head.
[01:04:30]  Wait, really?
[01:04:31]  Yeah.
[01:04:32]  You don't know about this?
[01:04:33]  No, dude.
[01:04:34]  It's a quiet story.
[01:04:35]  No one talks about this.
[01:04:37]  You're right.
[01:04:37]  But here's the thing.
[01:04:38]  Next week, we got to do a deep dive on Al Julani.
[01:04:40]  Okay.
[01:04:41]  This guy's story is crazy.
[01:04:42]  He was in a U.S. prison for five years.
[01:04:44]  He comes out speaking perfect English after being raped about.
[01:04:49]  Let me make a note on that.
[01:04:52]  It's too heavy to cover on the journal, right?
[01:04:54]  No, certainly not.
[01:04:56]  We can definitely, I think that's my topic as well.
[01:04:59]  We might be able to cover that.
[01:05:00]  But we stabilized Syria.
[01:05:03]  We've helped play a role in the negotiating process for Russia, Ukraine.
[01:05:09]  I mean, she's just like, yeah, you know, sure, I killed that guy's wife, but you know, I was helping them in marital therapy.
[01:05:16]  You know, okay, so I'm definitely in your camp on this.
[01:05:21]  Like, it's ridiculous.
[01:05:22]  You know, he's just, he's just riding Trump's meat at this point, just trying to signal to him.
[01:05:27]  Turbo glaze.
[01:05:28]  Terrible glaze.
[01:05:29]  Get him the knee pads, everything.
[01:05:31]  But I will say one thing that he said in there that I specifically did agree with him on is like Cuba is in a state where it does need change, right?
[01:05:43]  Cuba is a they you call it a so a communist state, but it's really socialist state.
[01:05:49]  There's actually never been officially a real true communist state.
[01:05:53]  And that's because if you go by the textbook definition, it's really socialism because the government is still having control, but it's also managed by you still have certain personal rights.
[01:06:04]  You still have private business.
[01:06:05]  Yeah, you still have certain private businesses.
[01:06:07]  It's just state-owned.
[01:06:08]  So I'm going to cover the difference between socialism and communism here because it's a very clear distinction.
[01:06:15]  Because he says, well, Cuba is a communist state.
[01:06:17]  Now, if we do regime change, I think the regime change does need to happen in order to allow Cuba's like in order to allow Cuba's population to actually flourish as well as their economic.
[01:06:32]  Like if you go and it's like going back into the 60s.
[01:06:35]  They've got old cars.
[01:06:36]  They've got old buildings.
[01:06:38]  Things are dilapidated.
[01:06:40]  Their hospitals are kind of ruined.
[01:06:43]  Why is that?
[01:06:44]  It's because specifically.
[01:06:46]  Yes, yes, and no, right?
[01:06:48]  There's two things at play.
[01:06:49]  One is when Russia left it that way and we did do the sanctions thing, but we also have the scenario where they had taken a lot of the assets that the Americans had created.
[01:07:02]  That's why they did the sanctions, okay?
[01:07:04]  We covered that on the American Journal.
[01:07:06]  But what I want to talk about specifically here is if they do regime change, they need to put somebody in place that is for the Cuban people.
[01:07:14]  I don't want him to be a shill for the American government.
[01:07:18]  The new president.
[01:07:19]  Yeah, like Marco, no.
[01:07:21]  We don't need him in there, right?
[01:07:22]  We need somebody who's like pro-Cuba, pro-Cuba, but also is going to bring in deals that make money for Cuba.
[01:07:31]  Because if Cuba does get in the right side of the United States, they could be like Puerto Rico, where they've got like a good standard of living and you've got like ability to like have resources and travel freely to the United States.
[01:07:43]  Here's the thing.
[01:07:44]  Everything you're saying is going to happen.
[01:07:46]  Like this is not something where it's like thousands of miles away, like Iran.
[01:07:50]  It's like, ooh, they have street missiles.
[01:07:52]  But it's like, who do they put in?
[01:07:53]  Whoever they decide.
[01:07:54]  And that's the part I'm like scared about.
[01:07:56]  Who are they going to put in?
[01:07:58]  Okay, Wes, let's do this for a bit.
[01:08:00]  I bet it's going to be somebody nice and friendly and cuddly.
[01:08:01]  It always is.
[01:08:02]  Yeah, it always is.
[01:08:04]  It's always a friend.
[01:08:05]  It's always a friend.
[01:08:06]  You got a friend.
[01:08:07]  It means the shots going off.
[01:08:11]  Okay, Wes, go ahead and play number six because I want to talk about specifically, I want you guys to learn something today about communism and socialism.
[01:08:19]  This is a good video.
[01:08:20]  Okay.
[01:08:21]  It helps you distinguish between socialism and communism.
[01:08:24]  And next time somebody says Russia's communism or Cuba's communism, you say, no, communism has never actually truly existed if you look at the textbook definition.
[01:08:36]  Okay, go ahead and play that, Wes.

=== Why Free Markets Fail (06:19) ===

[01:08:39]  Why can socialism never work?
[01:08:42]  And when I say never work, I mean it's pretty much impossible.
[01:08:45]  But first, let's define our terms.
[01:08:48]  Socialism is a socioeconomic system where the means of production are collectively owned and controlled by a community or the state.
[01:08:57]  This means that resources, factories, and machinery are all owned in common and decisions about their use are made democratically.
[01:09:05]  At least that's how it's advertised.
[01:09:06]  Now, that might sound good in theory, right?
[01:09:09]  I mean, even some conservatives say so.
[01:09:11]  But socialism doesn't just fail in practice.
[01:09:13]  It actually fails in theory too.
[01:09:16]  And here's why.
[01:09:17]  Socialists believe that by seizing the means of production from those who own it and putting them in the hands of the people, we bring about a leveling effect, eliminating exploitation, tearing down artificial hierarchies, and achieving greater social equality.
[01:09:31]  But here's the problem.
[01:09:33]  Without private property rights, the goods that go into the means of production can't be openly traded since they're all owned collectively by the people.
[01:09:43]  And without trading, there are no actual market prices for these goods.
[01:09:48]  Now, some may be asking, well, wait a second, can't the government just establish prices?
[01:09:52]  Sure.
[01:09:53]  In fact, many governments have done just that.
[01:09:55]  But those aren't market prices.
[01:09:57]  And that's actually really important.
[01:09:59]  You see, prices in a free market system reflect how abundant or scarce a particular good or service is in relation to the demand.
[01:10:08]  This reflection helps inform people about how to use their resources most efficiently.
[01:10:13]  Business owners that make mistakes on the goods or services they purchase or produce can be instantly punished by customers.
[01:10:21]  This system of profit and loss creates powerful incentives that lead to a more efficient distribution of resources over time.
[01:10:28]  What's more, you get to help determine that system based on how you choose to spend your own time and your own money.
[01:10:35]  If you buy one good instead of another, you're actually signaling to the marketplace that it needs to provide more of that thing you just purchased.
[01:10:43]  But under socialism, the central planner lacks this basic feedback because there are no real prices since it's all owned by the collective.
[01:10:52]  This is why countries like the Soviet Union, Venezuela, and North Korea have all experienced catastrophic shortages of everything from oil to toilet paper because central planners were allocating resources not based off of consumer demand, but government edicts.
[01:11:09]  And this phenomenon is known as the economic calculation problem.
[01:11:13]  It's a challenge that no socialist philosopher, political party, regime, or economist has ever been able to solve.
[01:11:20]  Not because they haven't tried, but because it's just not workable.
[01:11:24]  And this problem doesn't even get into the ethical questions about socialism.
[01:11:28]  Because in a system with property rights, who gets to use a resource is determined through ownership.
[01:11:35]  But if the means of production are all owned by the collective or probably the government, then what happens if two people want to use a resource for different things?
[01:11:44]  Well, there's only one way to solve the dispute by forcing one person to bow to the demand of another.
[01:11:50]  So how do you get in a position to make sure that you get what you want?
[01:11:54]  Historically, in a society where the economy is run by the government, whoever has the most poll with the government wins.
[01:12:01]  And that's exactly how socialist economies have played out all throughout history.
[01:12:06]  Here's the bottom line.
[01:12:07]  This is not some trivial issue that just needs a few more years and the right type of experts to work out.
[01:12:12]  This is something they've tried to contend with for centuries.
[01:12:15]  And the reason why it doesn't work is very simple.
[01:12:18]  The economy is just us.
[01:12:20]  It's people working in voluntary cooperation and competition with one another to deliver the goods and services that people demand.
[01:12:27]  And when you take the people out of that equation and replace them with a room full of politicians and bureaucrats, the results are not just bad.
[01:12:34]  They're catastrophic.
[01:12:37]  Okay, so I saw something here real quick.
[01:12:40]  I think somebody said something.
[01:12:42]  They said it right.
[01:12:45]  They said something about free market, free market.
[01:12:47]  He said, we don't have, Michael said, we don't have a free market in America.
[01:12:50]  Okay.
[01:12:52]  Yes.
[01:12:52]  Yes and no, right?
[01:12:54]  So the reason, okay, so we all understand why socialism doesn't work.
[01:13:00]  It doesn't also spur competition.
[01:13:03]  Competition is one of the things that actually allows innovation to happen and it's why things flourish, right?
[01:13:08]  Because you have, you know that by merit, you can make money.
[01:13:11]  The problem that America has is the monopoly problem, right?
[01:13:16]  The monopoly.
[01:13:17]  We have laws against it.
[01:13:19]  They just don't get enforced because you're able to pay.
[01:13:21]  The only way it would work is Congress is supposed to be the check and balance to the monopoly and the fact that there needs to be a free market.
[01:13:29]  And they're not doing that because they're bought out.
[01:13:32]  If you were to say, okay, from now on, which it used to be this way, by the way, that you couldn't pay money to like political, you couldn't play, like companies couldn't pay to political people.
[01:13:46]  That used to be the scenario.
[01:13:47]  And then somehow, I think in the 90s or something, we rolled that back or there was at least a cap.
[01:13:53]  But the last thing, and I'll summarize this, right?
[01:13:56]  It doesn't work when there's a monopoly because a monopoly sets the prices and then somebody's always winning.
[01:14:02]  And that's why you're seeing capitalism not working and there's not a true free market.
[01:14:06]  True capitalism means there's a free market and the government has the checks and balance.
[01:14:10]  And really, like the reason why we're so much more harsh, we're so much more critical on people that traditionally you might think, I mean, we both voted for Trump, the reason why we're so much harder on people like him is because of the actions of people like him refusing to break up the monopolies, refusing to help the small business person, the employee on the street, refusing to help these people.
[01:14:31]  It creates the ultimate argument for these other systems that we don't want.
[01:14:36]  Yes.
[01:14:36]  And you look at like Mamdani winning in New York and he's running on a socialist campaign, which is beyond me, right?
[01:14:44]  And it's only because the young people have felt, you know, they have no opportunity.
[01:14:50]  They see rent going up.
[01:14:52]  And so they look at this other opportunity and they're like, well, he's making it seem like it's a better scenario.

=== Show Us the Newsletter (04:39) ===

[01:14:58]  So I need to go and do that.
[01:14:59]  But they don't understand truly what socialism actually means.
[01:15:03]  There's no way for it to actually flourish.
[01:15:05]  It's every single time you have a socialist economy, even the Soviet Union, it has never worked out.
[01:15:11]  I just don't like these labels.
[01:15:13]  I think that whatever system you're going to live in, it's going to be a mixed economy.
[01:15:18]  What that looks like is kind of in people that care about how the government functions like us voters.
[01:15:25]  Hey, the skipper gave us a super chat.
[01:15:28]  Thanks to y'all.
[01:15:28]  Keep getting after it.
[01:15:29]  Thank you, man.
[01:15:30]  I think we're going to cut it here pretty soon.
[01:15:32]  My stomach's bothering me.
[01:15:33]  Yeah, we're going to cut it short today, guys.
[01:15:35]  Sorry about that.
[01:15:37]  We are still going to be live this week.
[01:15:40]  You guys can catch us in the morning from 8 to 11 on the American Journal.
[01:15:43]  Rex is going to be solo tomorrow.
[01:15:45]  I'll be solo tomorrow and Friday and Friday.
[01:15:48]  It'll be me and Tim doing the show.
[01:15:49]  And we got good guests.
[01:15:50]  We got great guests.
[01:15:52]  On Tuesday, we've got Simon Dixon.
[01:15:55]  Wednesday, we've got Suleiman.
[01:15:57]  It's been a while since he's had.
[01:15:59]  And then on Thursday, guess who's coming?
[01:16:02]  We got James Fishback coming back in the building on a bigger platform now.
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[01:16:24]  March sure went out the window pretty quick.
[01:16:27]  Huh?
[01:16:27]  March.
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=== Wrapping Up with Love (00:44) ===

[01:19:37]  Take care.
[01:19:38]  What days we do the journal every day.
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[01:19:43]  Go ahead, brother.
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[01:20:09]  Modern life has left us out of balance.
[01:20:14]  Long ago it was once said, certain remedies could grant a man the vitality of a horse.