From Decency To Discord: Values, War, And The Cost Of Politics

A country’s character shows when the lights are brightest—and sometimes harshest. We open with a candid look at decency, respect, and work ethic as the unwritten rules that once kept our political fights productive, then ask what happens when those rules get tossed for viral soundbites. That question frames everything that follows: domestic conduct isn’t separate from foreign policy; it shapes how we choose, react, and hold the line when events move fast.

We dive into the Iran–Israel–U.S. moment with specifics you can use. Why a daytime strike? Because real intel beats tidy doctrine. How did air defenses fold so quickly? Suppression of surface‑to‑air systems came first, followed by a push on short‑range ballistic launchers aimed at U.S. interests. We break down Patriot and Iron Dome intercepts, the uncomfortable reality of leakers getting through, and the political shockwaves when missiles cross allied airspace. Then we tackle the hard part: a power vacuum in Tehran. Is the next chapter another theocrat, a military regime with a pious veneer, or a constitutional turn led by a diaspora figure? Each path carries timelines measured in years, not news cycles, with insurgency, sabotage, and creeping authoritarian “emergencies” lurking in the margins.

Back home, we connect policy to culture. Respect for institutions isn’t about agreeing on everything; it’s about guarding the floorboards we all stand on. We unpack the War Powers Act—what the president must report, how the 60–90 day clock works, and why “he didn’t tell Congress” is more talking point than law. We also call out the online noise machine: rising antisemitism, conspiracy riffs about allies, and a click‑first media diet that treats complexity like a liability. Through it all, we keep returning to a simple test: incentives matter. Safety nets matter. But when they replace earned progress, we breed cynicism at home and confusion abroad.

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Transcript

Opening Rant On Values And Decency

SPEAKER_03 0:01

Our nation is 250 years old. This place we call our home was founded on Christianity, which enters morals, values, respect for others, a strong worth of ethic, and honesty. This is what America is founded on. And for most of us, we live by these high standards today. For most of us that were raised here in this great nation, this is what was taught to us, the world and values of Christian public Christians. Now we have all different religions here, which there's nothing wrong with that, although the standards have changed over the years. It seems to me these standards have lowered drastically or they don't exist at all. I asked myself two questions. One is why, and number two is how. These questions I asked myself after the pathetic display by the Democrats of the State of the Union. Did anyone else ask themselves these questions? No, I'm not one to preach on values of morals. We all have our faults. But what the Dems did was appalling, embarrassing, and quite frankly, scary. Is this what our country is turning into? No morals, values, respect? If it is, this country will fail faster than it is old. Then I asked myself one more question, and it's probably the most important question of the three that I raise here today. What would my mother and father do to me if I acted like the Democrats did? They would kick my ass. Some of you may be asking yourself, why would this be the most important question? I think that this question is so important. And why? Because these the morals, values, respect, the hard work ethic, uh, all of that, it was all handed down from generation to generation. My parents raised me. They taught me right from wrong, taught me what moral values, respect, and responsibility mean. What it means to be an American. This was taught to them by their parents, and so on. My great-grandparents came to this country expecting nothing unlike others. They came here with the dream that they knew that they had to work hard to accomplish, unlike others. It wasn't going to be handed to them, unlike others, and with that, they earned respect, unlike others. They learned the values and the morals that this country was founded on, unlike others. My great-grandparents passed that on to their kids, and them to their kids, and so on. This is what was instilled in us, that this is what was expected of us. And I say to you who have come here from other nations and don't like our cultural, morals, values, and want to change our way of life, why did you come here? Why did you come here? Because you want free shit, that's why. Go back there, go back to your country, and let me know where you would like it better after comparing the two. I would guarantee you you would come back to the United States of America. My point being, the Democrats want to change things to a system that has overwhelmingly failed on multiple occasions in other countries, Iran being a perfect example. This is what we call psychotic. Keep doing the same thing over and over again, but not trying to change anything, but yet expect a different outcome. When Trump asked a question if you want a safe, safe, safe nation for your constituents. They did not stand up, not that I have seen. Trump was right. They should be ashamed. They should be ashamed of themselves. Why would anyone vote for an unsafe nation? I bring this up after the events that occurred over the last almost 48 hours. Israel and the United States pretty much freed Iran of a regime that had total control over the people. No freedom of speech, no women's rights? These people lived on constant fear of getting killed for something they said or may have done. Do you want to live like that? So ask yourself this. Is this what I want for my children or for myself? Do I want to live like the Iranians did, or North Korea, or the Chinese? I highly doubt that you do. I still to this day believe if you want to serve in any government office, you should be born here. So I ask you, my fellow Americans, what would your mother or father do if you acted like the Democrats did during the presidential address? I'm your host, Rich Capalka. This is Studio 411. I'm here with Mr. Jim Yellen. Now sit back, relax, grab yourself a cup of coffee, and join the conversation. All right, yeah. Here we are, another day, another dollar, another show here in the studio. Mr. Yellen, what's happening? What's cooking? What's going on?

SPEAKER_00 5:31

Not a lot. God knows there's nothing in the news. So, you know. Yeah, I want to I want to touch on real quick uh your intro there. Uh it it reminds me very much of a uh uh a quote from uh the book The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. Yeah. And uh the judge that's uh uh overseeing the protagonist's trial. He has this thing where he says, uh, be decent, and decency is something your grandmother taught you. When I was listening to your intro, that's it just that that hit me from that book. It's uh it's such a great statement. It is uh about about how how decency and a lot of times common sense is something that used to be passed on from generation to generation, and uh somehow now that's not necessarily the case.

SPEAKER_03 6:10

We got away from it, and and that's the reason I I I wrote that intro. Uh was was the reason actually of the State of the Union, which we excuse me, we will uh get into, but we have uh more of a pressing issue going on right now. And uh there's a lot going on overseas. Uh we have uh Israel and um United States taking care of Iran. We're trying to, well, they are at their knees right now, but they're they're still retaliating in certain ways. Uh what do you what do you what's your opinion now, Jim? Well, what do we got going on here now?

SPEAKER_00 6:56

Well, I'm I'm being quite the quote machine today, but you know, to quote the great Dennis Leary, uh I want to I want to take yeah, I want to take Iran and Iraq and put them all together in one big country and call it IRA, put all the pissed off people there.

SPEAKER_03 7:07

That's good. Uh that's applicable right now. Right. It's applicable.

SPEAKER_00 7:12

It's a uh um a a joint U.S. Israeli venture um that has been remarkably successful in a remarkably small amount of time. Uh the reason the the the timing is very crucial on this, uh the reason that the hit happened in broad daylight over there, and and the U.S. military generally doesn't work that way. Military does best in the dark. Uh, but they hit during the day because they received intel that uh high-level members of the Iranian um government were gonna be in one place. Right. And uh they were like, okay, we gotta move on this because this is a way to almost almost cut the head off the chicken.

SPEAKER_03 7:53

Yeah, the one thing I I I I want to say when when you say that this was uh in a short period of time, this was planned out. I think this has been planned out for a long time. Not not I'm not talking like days, weeks, months. I'm talking even before Trump got into office, I think he had an idea of uh what he wanted to do uh once he got into office, and I think he was planning this. I think he was planning it in his first his first uh uh term there, and uh he just carried it over into this one. Uh I think that uh obviously uh it's the right thing that they did.

Iran, Israel, And U.S. Strikes Overview

SPEAKER_00 8:37

Well, uh uh it seems to me every administration has had a policy or a plan with Iran, whether it came to fruition or not, whether it was successful or not, on how to handle Iran. Iran has been a bloody thorn in our side since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Yeah, they have and every single president, every single president since then has had to address the uh elephant in the room, which isn't me. Uh it turned out to be Iran, which is it turned out to be Iran. Um, you know, so and that this time, and the reason I say in such a short period is is is because first of all, plans change uh quickly. Well, I think the military aspect of it definitely was in a short period of time. Exactly. And and also, like I said, the timeline changed. Right. The the initial attack, which which was in the works, more likely was in dark in the dark. So they had to change things up when the intel changed. And I I that's that's a testament to how well the United States and the Israeli military moved in lockstep and cooperated with each other. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:43

So this is where we're at now. Um we're we're looking at now uh Iran now retaliating. They are um they're uh retaliating against other states. Uh Iraq, uh Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, uh other other other nations over there.

SPEAKER_00 10:11

And even though Iran is targeting uh American interests in those nations, I have the complete list here. It's uh Dubai, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Cyprus, and Jordan. Uh you mentioned Saudi Arabia. Right. Uh of course Israel, but that's that's kind of a different beast. Right.

SPEAKER_03 10:27

That that's that's been yeah, yeah, that's all different there.

SPEAKER_00 10:31

Even though Iran is targeting in uh U.S. interests in those countries, the countries are still pissed off. It's like, wait a minute, this is our sovereign airspace, this is our territory, this is our land. Right. And for uh their neighbor to launch missiles against them is really rocking the boat. It's something I didn't anticipate.

SPEAKER_03 10:46

I I didn't either, and it raises the question, are these other nations going to get involved as far as militarily? Abso fucking not. You don't think? I don't think. Well, for one, I don't think they have the military to uh get too involved in it to begin with. Uh and number two is I don't think that well, I I think that if they do get involved, it it's gonna be uh it it it there's a potential for uh these other states and the US to go on bad terms. Not that they're on great terms now, that far from it. They're on business terms now. Right, that's it, business terms. And if it if it does go that far, or they do get involved, which there's always that possibility, but highly doubtful, um that's a problem, a huge problem.

SPEAKER_00 11:43

My my main concern is less about um these countries getting involved on a state level or a national level. What what I see that might happen, especially if especially since the death of uh Ayatollah Khamani, is it's going to be a religious call to arms. Now, that is not something that happens on a state level. That is usually something that happens on an individual level, and you'll see you know uh uh radicalized Muslims making a pilgrimage to join uh forces. Like this is this is kind of how Al-Qaeda happened, right? You know what I mean? That they saw an injustice against um Islam, uh that being boots on the ground in Saudi Arabia. Uh it kind of like fueled the fire of uh I'm drawing a blank here, uh mastermind of 9-11, uh, tall guy, beard, and just described half the people over there. Um Navy SEAL blew his brains out. What the hell is his name? Osama Osama bin Laden. Thank you. Wow, I can't believe I blanked on that one. Yeah, so I'm watching so much, like you know, Arabic. I thought you were going somewhere else. But no, that was that was the that was the uh the impetus for al-Qaeda was was the fact that the uh infidel boots were on the ground in Holy Land, their holy land. Uh so I think that is kind of I think that can be used as a catalyst to draw it radical people in, and on unfortunately the way that they handle things with that is terrorism.

SPEAKER_03 13:18

Yeah, I was gonna say there there might be an uptick, definite uptick. I don't imagine the yeah, I would think so. Uh the radicals. How the hell do you forget bin Laden? Oh Usama. Usama bin Laden. Yeah. Well, he was tall. He was tall, he had a beard, yeah. He was pretty ugly, yeah. And I'm sure he smelled millionaire, too. You know, I I don't know if they have showers over there.

SPEAKER_00 13:44

Uh they they do actually actually Islam has very uh lined out things about cleanliness. Yeah. But uh uh I don't think they're always adhered to. I think that might be part of the religion. It's like, all right, well, we'll deal with that on another day.

SPEAKER_03 14:01

I mean, I know I know they won't shake your hand with their right hand. That's the hand they wipe their ass with. Right. That's the hand they wiped their ass with.

SPEAKER_00 14:08

And honestly, that's not just racist rhetoric.

SPEAKER_03 14:10

That's that's the truth. That is what it is. Right. That is the truth. That is the truth. I mean, and now they were talking, well, they had the the question was raised in a report that I saw is if Iran keeps if their leadership, whoever's in charge now, I have no idea if anybody is you know, and if they keep retaliating and and doing what they're doing now, or is the US or Israel or whoever else may be involved in in the attack of Iran? Um, I I don't like to even call it the attack of Iran. It just No, it's been a it's it's been a what 47-year buildup? Yeah, yeah. But the question has risen that uh it would the US or Israel uh uh take care of their oil fields, start burning oil oil fields. Would the US do that? Yeah, no, we like cheap gas. Right. That's that was a question. And a couple, uh a few of the uh leftists had had said that we're not sure. Maybe. How could you not be sure?

Retaliation Across The Region

SPEAKER_00 15:27

That's just you know it's kind of funny that they would bring something like that up and think that their government would work in that fashion when that then in the next breath they'll say the only reason we're over there is for oil. You can't have it both ways, all right. Americans like cheap oil, Americans like cheap gasoline. Why would we do something that would raise it up, raise that up? And also, you know, the political ramifications three years down the road, it takes forever for this shit to go away once you start it. Like the they set the oil fields on file with fire, it takes time to put them out, it takes time to recap those wells, it takes time to reprocess that that oil into gasoline. That would be the most ridiculous thing in the world because the current administration, in the hopes, let's say Vance wants to run in in 2028, okay? Um why why why would they do something like that? Because oil and gasoline impacts how the general public perceives our leaders, the price of it. Definitely so if if if they take an action that's going to make oil and gasoline skyrocket, that's gonna impact them at the at the polls, they wouldn't do that. Right. From a political point of view, it's suicide. Yeah. Um, we're you know, before we speculate on the future, could do you do you mind if I just go down where we're at right now? Go for it. All right, as of right now, as we sit here on March 1st at noon o'clock, um we've achieved air superiority over Iranian forces. Uh we targeted uh their surface-to-air missile capability and pretty much knocked it out. So you know, we we could fly over there and do kind of whatever. Um now we're now turning to targeting their surface-to-surface missile missiles, which is what they're using to attack uh U.S. interests in other Arab countries.

SPEAKER_03 17:15

Well, their surface to their surface-to-surface missiles, they they are short range, and uh they're they are ballistic missiles, but they're very accurate, yes, from what I understand. But they're not they're they are not long range.

SPEAKER_00 17:29

Now the good news is, and this might be a blast from your ass from uh the first Golf War, uh the Patriots system, Patriot Missile System is uh in the Iron Dome system, which was developed with Israel and the U.S. joint venture there. It it's stopping a lot of these, not all, but it's it's stopping a good good amount of them. There's a lot of good footage out there about these missiles being caught uh in in mid-air by these systems.

SPEAKER_03 17:55

There was uh two or three that got through the iron dome this time, and I believe there was a couple civilians that that did get killed with some injuries.

SPEAKER_00 18:08

But uh a large majority of that, and by the way, it's not just Israel using these systems. There are there are other Arab nations that are are privy to the United States system, the patriot missile system. Yeah, and uh, you know, there it is again. If uh Arab nations want to get humpty with us, then stop using our technology to protect yourselves. Right. Uh anyway, where was I? Um, we we discussed that Iran has targeted uh other Arab nations uh rocking the boat over there. Uh that's not uh that's that's that's that that that really boggled my mind. I didn't expect that. Um now returning uh uh to different targets. Like I said, we're going after their surface-to-surface missiles. We're also targeting uh sites where the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is. That's that's the basically the army, like the the elite army. Yeah. Um the Besiege, which is a organization, it's a paramilitary group that kind of infiltrates protesters and beats them uh in the name of the republic and and and uh acts basically like thugs to kind of uh uh break up protests.

SPEAKER_03 19:15

Well, Israel, excuse me, Israel did oh, I can't shake this, but Israel did hit uh uh one of one of their facilities um and blew that right up out of the water.

SPEAKER_00 19:30

Another another one that they're going after right now uh that they're targeting is called the Farage. It's a national police force, it's it's reminiscent of the KGB, like a secret service, they get intel right on uh the leaders of these protest movements and either arrest or disappear them, um, or unalive them, as is as is unalive uh popularly said on the internet because we're too much of a pussy nation to say kill. Yeah. But whatever. And that's that's kind of where we're at right now.

SPEAKER_03 19:56

Right. Now all this has happened. It's they're they're saying it's gonna be over in days. It's not gonna be over in there. It's gonna be weeks, it it might be a couple months. And I have two questions here that we've just talked about uh off the mic. The one question we did anyway, but the first one I want to bring up is who's gonna be in charge now of Iran?

SPEAKER_00 20:25

Yeah, it's a massive power vacuum. And uh Trump in his address to the nation, uh I I think I think he he he raised a really valid point, and I'm gonna paraphrase to be crazy here. Uh you know, now's the time, folks. Yeah now's the time for the people of Iran to take control of their country. This is an opportunity you haven't had in 47 years. Yep. Uh it might be the might be the only one you get for another couple generations. Right. So now's the time. Um, you know, buck up, folks.

Air Superiority And Missile Defense Details

SPEAKER_03 20:58

Now they they've always been under some kind of dictatorship over there, correct?

SPEAKER_00 21:04

Uh I would say dictatorship, like uh the uh Pahlavi was a king. Like a monarchy, we wanted to. It was a monarchy before the uh 79 Islamic revolution, right? And uh Shah Reza Pahlavi was in terrible health, and he became uh an exile in the United States. Um the Islamic Revolution happened, and then you had the rise of Khomeini and all the popular figures that we grew up with.

SPEAKER_03 21:34

Got you, got you. All right, yeah. I I was wondering about that, and you know, as we say we we sit here and talk about how long this could go on here. We just brought it up, and we it could be weeks, it could be a couple months, and we talked about the uh 1973 uh wars act. How does that work?

SPEAKER_00 21:58

Before we move on to that. I want to talk just one hot second about the power back and it's over there. Do it. Um, if if they uh want to remain a theocracy, or if it's put in place that they remain a theocracy, the main person that's in line to take over is Khomeini, who was who was killed in these uh attacks, his son. His son's basically just a younger carbon copy that his father shot out of his asshole.

SPEAKER_03 22:26

How do we how do we how do we keep him out of there? Great question. You know, that's that is one of my concerns. And I'll bring up another concern of mine too, once you you finish what you're doing here. Go for it.

SPEAKER_00 22:37

Oh no, just uh I'll be I'll be brief. Um that is possible. But uh no, uh beyond him, uh what what's next? Well, if they they're no longer a theocracy, then that that gives the military an opportunity to take over. Right. And that's the uh the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, essentially, that would go in there and they're brutal. And it might be as bad or not worse than a theocracy because they're still gonna follow the theocratic guidelines that they're used to. Correct. You know what I mean? They're just gonna they're just gonna add a militaristic element to it, even more so than they have. And uh uh a dark horse in the running is uh Shah Reza Pallavi's son, who's in exile in the United States right now, right? Uh, if they wanted to return to that type of uh government, not necessarily a monarchy, maybe they can make it a more uh democratic type monarchy or what however it would work. The reinstituting the the position of Shah is again a dark horse, but it's in the running. Right. He's he's very popular with uh people who aren't happy with the theocracy over in Iran.

SPEAKER_03 23:48

We we talk about people that that are not happy about what's going on in Iran, but from video clips that I've seen, uh people in the streets over there, some people in the streets over here, uh in our country, uh, they're very happy with uh what has happened. And uh I I want to play this clip before uh we we we continue on here. Let me play this. Listen to this guy, it's about three minutes.

SPEAKER_01 24:39

Thank you, President Trump. I believe in you from the start. I had to say if I knew you could do it. I've got some people that you know their assistance in this operation. I was raised to believe that it is indecent for a man to celebrate another man's death, no matter how evil. So I shall not celebrate I mean yes for now.

SPEAKER_03 25:13

Let me pause that for a minute and I want to play it some more. This is why I I I wrote the opening that I did when when this guy said we were raised to believe one way or another. And it it made it got me thinking. Uh, this is one of the reasons I I wrote this opening. It got me thinking a little bit. And how many people are really raised radical to to to to be a terrorist, to be to to wanting to harm another person for self-gain?

Iran’s Power Vacuum And Possible Successors

SPEAKER_00 25:55

Honestly, I think that depends on where in the world you are, right? But but for the most part, uh, you know, the the the idea of thou shalt not kill is not exclusive to Judeo-Christian ethic. I think I would say that most places around the world life is considered generally sacred. Yeah. Um, but you know, somewhere along the way, and radicalization is a real thing. I think there were some buzzwords that happened, especially after 9-11, where people just got um fatigued from hearing it. Buzzwords like terrorism, buzzwords like radicalism, but it's a real thing.

SPEAKER_03 26:32

Yeah, it it is a real thing.

SPEAKER_00 26:34

It's overused, it's sometimes used incorrectly, but that is a real thing.

SPEAKER_03 26:39

And it's you know, just because you know, we are where we are now with Iran, we can't let our guard down. Yes, because I I think you might see you might see an uptick of radicals trying to harm us and Israel.

SPEAKER_00 26:59

Yeah, and like we like we discussed earlier, there's definitely this is definitely going to be used as a platform to galvanize radicals. Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_03 27:08

You know, and and and and the other thing is too with this too, is it it's going to be something that if something does go wrong with this, it it's a reason to to blame Trump for everything. If it's a a a hangnail that uh a Muslim got somewhere or an Iranian got, Trump is gonna be to blame, without a doubt.

SPEAKER_00 27:34

Not necessarily the same thing of what you're talking about about blaming Trump, but I will say this. He he preemptively said something in his speech. He said, you know, American lives might be lost, right? And I love the fact that he said that, not because I want to see anybody pass away or be violently killed or anything like that in in the pursuit of uh this action over there, but because that's realism.

SPEAKER_03 28:01

It's real, it's real, man. It's realism and it's it it's kind of uh an acknowledgement and a preparation to let the American people know this is not going to be perfect. War is not perfect, war equals death, right? These things happen, and uh you know, I was in the military, I knew what I signed up for, I knew the potential of what could happen and what could not happen. And thank God, thank God, I did not go. I was never ever, not one time in harm's way. Never ever. And I I I thank God for that. Um but you know, the it's war and these things happen. I want to play some more of this clip. How old is this kid? This guy that's talking. He doesn't look no more than 30.

SPEAKER_00 28:53

Because that's that's another huge deal. Like the the youth over in Iran are are up in arms and sick of the theocracy shit. They are so it's very much a youth-led movement.

SPEAKER_03 29:05

And when you look at uh well the the the radicals over there, I I would love to know what the common age is over there as far as um al-Qaeda, uh all you know, the terrorist groups, right? I would love to know what the common age is.

SPEAKER_00 29:25

I would say probably for foot soldiers, and I'm I'm guess I'm guessing here, younger, because younger minds are easier to mold. It's why it's it's why the intake into the army is usually 18 years old, because that that is the time to more mold minds.

SPEAKER_03 29:40

I I agree with you on on the part of molding minds, but I I tend to want to lean the other way. That the it's a much older generation that want to live by what do you want to say, the old way, the old guard, the caliphate type of member reasoning.

SPEAKER_00 29:58

Well, those those would be called the uh um that's why I said the foot soldiers are young. The guys planning it, they're the ones with the gray in their beards. Right, right, right. But you also don't see them strapping on a uh a suicide vest. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:13

Let's play a little bit more of this. This is very interesting to me. It was what you could hear the emotion in this kid's voice, too. Oh, yeah.

unknown 30:23

He is gone.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

But I'm at a loss for words because we got some guys. Never in my lifetime did I think I see a free run. Even with all the fighting.

SPEAKER_03 30:41

You're not there yet. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:43

And now I can take my paralyzed father home.

unknown 30:51

He recognizes a terrorist fucking monsters to go.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

My family there. They can live their lives. Thank you, God. Thank you, all of you who have supported us. Without you, this would have never been possible. It was your views, your shares, your comments. God bless all of you. I love you all. Thank you. In my lifetime, I get to see a freaky run, I get to take my dad back home.

SPEAKER_00 31:36

He's putting the cart about five miles in front of the horse. A little bit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 31:42

It's still wishful thinking.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

Very much so. This requires structure.

SPEAKER_01 31:50

He has a 100-day plan to institute a constitution, to democratically elect a form of government. He doesn't want to be an absolute monarch. He wants to be a constitutional monarch. He doesn't even want to be a monarch. If they vote for him to be a monarch, he will only do it as a constitutional monarch to protect the rights because the constitution will be rights-based. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of everything, women's rights, gay rights, minority rights, all the rights, all the beautiful rights. Reza Fahavi is the man to lead Iran. We need him, we need him now. Ayatoli's history. Let's move forward. Iran is free, baby. This is what we work for.

SPEAKER_03 32:33

Will you get to that?

SPEAKER_00 32:34

As as I I love the emotion in his voice. I love the hope in his voice. I also think that it's really, really unrealistic to be packing your father onto a plane and going back home. Uh maybe at some point. But I'm also going to throw this out there. Let's say Pallavi returns, let's say he sets up this democratic monarchy or however it takes shape. You think there's not going to be cells of terrorists who are looking to take him out? You don't think there's going to be infighting in that country that's going to last for decades after this? That's you know, that that's one of my issues.

SPEAKER_03 33:10

Uh this is what that's what concerns me with this, because it it it we talked about this before, about this turning into another Iraq and Kuwait. And I it it it concerns me that we're gonna we're we're doing this all over again, another 20-year war.

SPEAKER_00 33:32

I mean in a country where there's only one letter separating it from our last bad experience, yeah.

Risks Of Regime Change And Long Wars

SPEAKER_03 33:38

And it's like, you know, uh how do we prevent that from happening again? We started this now. We started this, right? And yeah, and that's the God's honest truth. We started this, and we can't just do this and just walk away.

SPEAKER_00 33:56

The mantle of responsibility has to be taken up by the Persian people, it it does, Jim.

SPEAKER_03 34:02

It does 100%, but at the same time, you can't you you can't do this and say, well, okay, we did this now, here you go, figure the rest out. Right. We we can't do that, and I believe our administration, they know that. And this is this is one part that where I the only time I could disagree actually with this, with this is the only situation, is like I just say we can't just walk away and leave these these people, you know, just just standing there with their thumb up their ass, wondering what to do now. How do we protect our government now? How do we we we we we fight against these terrorist groups? It's not gonna happen.

SPEAKER_00 34:50

Well, regime change is always a dicey proposition, and it's not gonna happen overnight, too. And it and and also the government that that that does wind up happening over there might not look the way that we want it to look. Right, right. You know what I mean? Uh so what are we trying to do? Choosing the per the potential lesser of two evils. And listen, I would love to see Persian women in mini skirts again. Oh, yeah. They're gorgeous.

SPEAKER_03 35:13

I mean, literally, they are gorgeous people. It's it's a beautiful place over there when it's not worn-torn.

SPEAKER_00 35:19

And if if you see if you see photographs and and and and uh read literature about what Iran was like pre-1979, that's what it was. It was it was beautiful women, uh, and they were there were an education, right, a heavy society. Um, you know, what was it perfect? Absolutely not, but no form of government is. But here's the thing, when you say, you know, well, they have the we can't just let them figure it out on their own. Well, they did in 1979, didn't they?

SPEAKER_03 35:50

Well, right, they did. And my problem is, is they went the wrong direction, the direction they didn't want to go in.

SPEAKER_00 35:58

But maybe they've been taught, maybe they've been learning a 47-year-long lesson. Because the people possibly the young people that were involved in the Islamic Revolution in 1979, they're still alive. Yeah, vast majority of them are still alive, and they saw what happened to their country. Now, I I I I uh you gotta wonder how many of those people that are right around the age of 70 right now, uh do they like the way shit's been going? Because let's let's not just talk about the accuracy here, let's talk and oppression and all that other stuff. Let's talk about the fact that the economy in Iran is terrible, horrible, horrible. Poverty is rampant. Yes. Uh it's so you know, there's there's a whole bunch of reasons for these people that involve themselves in the Islamic Revolution to not be happy with the direction it took.

SPEAKER_03 36:42

And and this is you know, also something that that hasn't been brought up yet, that I have I haven't seen it in any reports is how do they rebuild their economy, their infrastructure? How are they gonna do that? They they cannot do it on their own, that they're not gonna do it. And if we send in just like that we did in Kuwait and Iraq, we send in private contractors to help rebuild, and a lot of them got killed.

SPEAKER_00 37:12

A lot of them got killed, but they also made a shit ton of money. They did make a lot of money because these people are floating on a sea of oil, right?

SPEAKER_03 37:21

But what what good what good is the money when you're fucking dead? Well, um, you know, that I noticed it didn't stop any of them. It it didn't, you know, and I had the opportunity to go over there as a private contractor uh to work for a private contact contractor, and I said no because I knew the reproductive risky, you know, I said no, and uh I knew a couple people that did, and they they made out very well.

SPEAKER_00 37:47

Business is about risk, and you know, the companies that'll go in there to help Iran rebuild its oil structure are going to make a mint, as is Iran. They are because because it and here's something else that's gonna happen. The worldwide sanctions, and believe me, the United States sanctions are much more stringent than the sanctions that the UN or the rest of the world has put on Iran, but they're still there. You lift those sanctions and a river of oil starts flowing, right? And uh you you you the oil is money, right?

SPEAKER_03 38:22

So uh what what you know it it's gonna it's going to it's going to take a long time for them to to uh establish a healthy economy.

SPEAKER_00 38:32

And no matter what government is in place, well, that's not true because rebuilding that economy is kind of dependent upon a cooperative government put in place.

SPEAKER_03 38:43

When was the last time they had that?

SPEAKER_00 38:44

Uh uh 1978. Yeah. Uh but yeah, but you know, you know, a cooperative government being in place, even if that's the case, and even if a majority of the people are happy with the government that's put in place and the the policies that they're uh putting forward to improve the economy and all the other stuff like that, it's still gonna be a bloody road.

SPEAKER_03 39:01

It is, it is, it's it's not gonna be an easy road.

SPEAKER_00 39:04

There is no happy ending here five years down the road. You're talking about 15, 20, 30 years.

SPEAKER_03 39:13

Yeah, it it just concerns me, you know. Our involvement concerns me. That's what concerns me. Right. It's our involvement, and and not only, you know, possibly put getting our military over there again for another 20 some years, but economically, somebody's got to pay for this shit. And they right now they don't have the money. And we could say, oh, we'll pay, we'll we'll we'll help them out, we'll do what we're gonna do, we'll pay for it, and and uh the they'll recon they'll compensate us in oil.

SPEAKER_00 39:45

Well, that was a that was a plan in Iraq, too.

War Powers Act Myths And Realities

SPEAKER_03 39:48

Yeah, I was just gonna say, and and and you know, we're what 34 almost 36 trillion dollars in debt now. And what are we gonna go another 10 trillion just to bail them out? You know, this is this is the thought process that I have that I don't think that the administration really looked at down the road. I I don't think that they did. I think that they looked at the immediate and they said, you know, let's let's help these people out, let's try to get their freedom, let's get in there and do what we gotta do. And they looked maybe three, four years, maybe five years down the road. They didn't look beyond that.

SPEAKER_00 40:36

I I also think though that um there is the nuclear component here. I've heard a lot of the left. It it's it's ridiculous on its face, but a lot of leftists that I've seen on social media and and commenting are saying things like, well, Trump assured us that six months ago they're they're I mean their nuclear the Iran's nuclear program was destroyed. Okay, and rebuilding isn't a thing, right? Right. We yeah, don't you think that a motivated uh uh a motivated country is going to scramble to spend money to start rebuilding and reinstituting their their nuclear programs? That's the one thing. Um and don't don't you think that that is a potential problem? And what people will people will say is that people will say Israel has nukes, yeah. But we're also talking about Iran being a again a Muslim theocracy that's been a state sponsor of terrorism now for you know, again, 47 years. It's it's almost a magical number, right? Uh there's no stability there.

SPEAKER_03 41:49

There's not, you know, you we could not want them having a nuke at any cost. We could talk about this this this this uh what's his name here? This this uh crown prince, uh Pallavi coming in, right? He could come in, gain control, you know, and he could have a democracy, right? But what's to say that there's not some radical that infiltrates the the government and starts talking to him and starts radicalizing this guy, and it's not gonna take much to do, and now he's going nuts. Now he wants nuclear weapons and he's gonna fight to get them. I can see that happening too, without a doubt.

SPEAKER_00 42:29

Or it might even be a slower burn than that. It might be it might come from a different direction. Like Pahlavi takes control, uh, but he's facing the kind of guerrilla warfare, um, you know, tactics that we saw in Iraq. Iraq? Iraq, what the fuck? Iraq. Uh and and Iraq. All of a sudden, I racked my brain with that. But but all of a sudden now he has to start taking the freedoms away. He has to become more militaristic. Why? Because he's got to get to the bottom, he's got to root out these people that are that are doing violence in his own country. Yeah, and all of a sudden you're seeing almost like a martial law take effect, right? You know, and and it's a slow vice that that that starts to and the same people that are chafing under the uh the weight of a theocracy are gonna chafe under that too. No matter how good the intention is, you start taking rights away, you start taking freedoms away, they're gonna chafe under that. So, like, there's always the seeds for discontent and the potential for discontent. And uh it's it's a it's a long road.

SPEAKER_03 43:31

Yeah, it's gonna be a long run. Frickin' dogs come down. That's great. All three of them, all three of them, got down like Democrats.

SPEAKER_00 43:38

They move in lockstep.

SPEAKER_03 43:40

What the frig. Coco, get going. Roll on now. Go. Give him a mic. Yeah, hop on, hop on the mic. Coco. Come on, come on, lay down. That's her tail wagging. I know. All right, sit here with that. Yeah, I I get all your points, but you know, the get down. The only thing that, you know, that really concerns me is boots on the ground over there and staying over there for another 20 years, and we're back in the same crap.

SPEAKER_00 44:13

Quagmire part three. Vietnam first, Iraq second, and then Iran. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 44:18

Yeah.

TikTok, Antisemitism, And Media Narratives

SPEAKER_00 44:18

Um, really quick, you started to touch on the W the WPA, the War Powers Act. Yeah. And uh this also goes along with social media and and and media and general media comments, especially from Democrats, about how uh Trump should have informed Congress he needs to, he's breaking the law with this action. No, he's not. When you see a Democratic leader getting on camera and getting on microphone and making a statement like that, what they are doing is they're playing on the general public's lack of knowledge of what the War Powers Act is and how it works. So, for those who don't know, the War Powers Act was packed and passed in 1973. President Nixon hated the idea so much that he vetoed it, but then Congress overrode his veto and put it in place. And what it basically states is whenever a president has a need to use the United States military in an action, um they have 48 hours after launch of the action to advise and and and inform Congress. Uh, they also have 90 days essentially. 60 to 90 days to 90, but still that 90-day thing is there because it it depends on what shape it takes. But overall, 90 days to conduct and end the action before having to get Congress to declare war. And and Congress hasn't declared war since World War II.

SPEAKER_03 45:46

Now, I'm reading here now. I I want to it they have they have 60 days, they have oh wrong one, they have uh 60 days to terminate uh military action, and 30 days to draw down and and withdraw.

SPEAKER_00 46:04

Yeah, right, yeah. But that being said, is there really need of a withdrawal if we don't have boots on the ground? If this is entirely an air campaign, withdrawal means flying over the border and that takes about 30 minutes. So that being said, when Democrats talk about, you know, he had no right to do this. Let's let's talk some history here. Uh War Powers Act was 1973. Well, in uh 1980, Carter would have had to invoke the War Powers Act when he tried to uh rescue our hostages from Iran. Uh it never left the ground, literally. It was a colossal failure, but he would have uh he would have been forced to use that. Uh President Ford used it. Um let's see, Reagan in 1983 when he invaded Granada, George Bush Sr. in 1989 with Panama and Somalia, Clinton throughout the 90s with Iraq, Haiti, um, Bosnia, Kosovo, George W. Bush, 2001, with the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts, Obama in 2011 uh with Libya, Biden, multiple operations in the Middle East, and uh, you know, every every president pretty much funny.

SPEAKER_03 47:24

You know what's funny. They're already talking the Dems if they win the midterms, which I don't think they're going to. I I don't think they have a shot in hell, to be honest with you.

SPEAKER_00 47:34

I worry about the blue hair nose ring crowd coming out in force, but whatever.

SPEAKER_03 47:38

I don't. I I I really don't. Uh they're already talking about impeaching him. Again? How'd the first three go? You know, well, they've been doing here here's my problem. Here's my problem. I think if if they do go that route, he's out. He's done. If they win the midterms, they're gonna they're they're going to impeach him, and he's gonna be out. I guarantee it. So then power goes to JD Vance. Right.

SPEAKER_00 48:09

So what's the difference? Exactly. Impeach him, he's gonna be making a run, you know. Uh it would just be a continuation of power.

SPEAKER_03 48:18

Right. Here here's my here. This is funny. Here's my thought process 2028. You're gonna see JD Marco Rubio run, they're gonna win. They're gonna appoint Donald Trump Speaker of the House. Right? Then purposely, JD and Marco, they're gonna do something to get impeached. They're gonna kick them out, and you're gonna see frickin' Donald Trump take the office over again.

SPEAKER_00 48:52

I don't want to I I don't want to do this on microphone because you'll be able to hear the tinfoil hat being made as I sit here. Um but yeah, that's that's that's a stretch.

SPEAKER_03 49:04

It's a yeah, we're we we were uh driving down the road the other day, we were talking, and we I said, Well, what about this scenario?

SPEAKER_00 49:12

Yeah, and that that's exactly a scenario, but uh funny. Yeah, no joke. It is it is funny how you know you you could you could weave this web and and make it more interesting, but uh yeah, it they Trump is a president, and I mentioned this in the last podcast, he's got nothing to lose. He doesn't, he's got nothing to lose. He's he's he's done after this. Um it is what it is, and and there's a certain amount of swagger that comes along with that. Uh but you know what's funny, by the way. Uh I think another excellent and I I like Rubio for vice president, don't get me wrong, but uh I also would love to see my girl Sanders. Oh, you know, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I thought for sure she was gonna run in the last one, but she walked those cankles up to that podium and make it happen, girl. I love you. I love you.

SPEAKER_02 50:07

God, you know, cankles.

State Of The Union Reactions And Respect

SPEAKER_00 50:10

That's right. You haven't brought her up in a long time. Well, you know, I haven't been feeling myself. Now that we're talking about Persian girls and mini skirts, it's time to bring up Sanders again. Oh, dear Lord. Listen, if I could get a poster, I would.

SPEAKER_03 50:24

Yeah, yeah. Oh, God. What else you got on this topic? We're gonna move on here in a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 50:31

Uh, I think we brought up just about everything that I oh one of the thing that I noticed is since this started, um you you're a big fan of TikTok. I happen to despise and revile TikTok, and then I'm guilty of watching the same fucking videos on Reels, but whatever. It's the same thing. It's the same thing, but I I'm I stubbornly refuse to download a TikTok TikTok app. It has nothing to do with China, it just has to do with the I see so many kids and young people doing stupid shit on TikTok that I I refuse to, you know, subscribe to it and lend it my support in any way as I watch Reels videos. Um, but that being said, yeah, I know I'm I'm a hypocrite, I'm a hypocrite and I suck. But I have seen such uh a huge amount of TikTok anti-Semitism and online anti-Semitism involved in this. Right. And uh a lot of it is I I I brought up the tinfoil hat it it's a lot of tinfoil hat stuff. Uh you know, Israel's uh has us as puppets on its string and that kind of thing, and they control the world and uh it's just a brief touch on I don't want to get too far into it, but it really does you can you you can't get through a 45-second support video for the American forces and the actions that we're taking without saying not too happy about Israel and they're probably pulling the strings behind this, but go team America. Yeah, yeah. You know, well, I'm sorry, you you can't you kind of can't have it both ways. You can't say, I support what we're doing, but fuck our ally. Right, right. That's not how it works, it's not how any of this works. It doesn't work like that, but that's that's kind of like my last thought on that. But here we go. Speaking of reels, videos, and uh I I I I kind of mentioned this off mic, and hopefully I don't say do this so loud that the microphone clips, but uh I've noticed one of my favorite things to watch, and it it it's it cuts a wide swath of entertainment because that's all that's all reels and TikTok is is pure entertainment to me. It is, yeah, a lot of it's it's either an entertainment of it, yeah. To entertain me to make me angry or to entertain me to make me laugh, and sometimes both in the same video. But I watch quite a bit of videos of people being pulled out of their cars on traffic stops who make things much more complicated than they have to be. They end up being tased until they piss themselves or they're they're on the ground screaming, don't touch me, all the other stuff like that. Police officers have a tendency to repeat certain phrases because people just don't listen. Yeah. And one of the ones I noticed is uh put your hands behind your back. Put your because they're they're they're endeavoring right to cuff them and and you know, control the situation. Put your hands behind your back, put your hands behind your back. And you know, for the last four months of sitting at home watching his videos, all uh my mind's gotten kind of warped. So I'm sitting there in my recliner watching these videos, putting your hands behind your back, and all I can think of is the bee gees. Put your hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back.

SPEAKER_02 53:32

You are rested, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:36

And I sit there singing that like a moron and laughing. It's I yeah, you'll go get down. You'll like the high register, don't you? Oh my god, I'm delighted. Well, we're back. Uh we took a brief break due to canine involvement and an urgent need to piss by one of the hosts. What are you gonna do? That was that was funny. Friggin' dog was funnier than anything I said.

SPEAKER_03 54:05

Friggin' dog. I put that gate up pretty good too. And and they they just tend to uh escape down here.

SPEAKER_00 54:13

This is the second week in a row where the dogs were involved in something. Was it that yeah? Well, remember Timmy let him tell Timmy let him out last week?

SPEAKER_03 54:20

Oh, yeah, he escaped on Tim last week. I couldn't download that video either because I don't have that in my app. I can't share it. The audio is golden. It is golden.

SPEAKER_00 54:30

The audio is golden just just to hear Tim, come here, come here. The dog's like, I don't think so. Yeah, I couldn't uh download it. The point I was getting to with uh the the the reels and TikTok videos is that everything is entertaining on there on a different level. And even if it's just even if it just causes you to to to think the most ridiculous things like like my association with the bee gees and people getting tased, uh uh it's it I really have to admit it is endlessly entertaining because I can go from that to an endless selection of reels of Bugs Bunny, and I do. Uh love Bugs Bunny at 50 years old. I still laugh my ass off. Yeah, I like Bugsy. It just it's a great way to kill time, and and it's it's helped me absolutely murder the last four months of my life.

SPEAKER_03 55:22

No, I got my camera in your shot. Okay, alright. I'll do something with it, maybe. I don't know, whatever. Believe me, the the less people that watch video of me, the happier I am. Uh my last thought on this subject is reels or Iran. I ran. All right, and we'll move on. I I think that I think you'll see uh maybe I don't know. I I think you might see when I we talked about this off the mic, you might see a little less uh possibly a little less of uh the the Muslim people coming here because of what has happened there. You might see people leaving here going back there.

SPEAKER_00 56:13

I think. Conversely, if it's messy, you can see more of an influx here of immigration here.

Assimilation, Safety Nets, And Work Ethic

SPEAKER_03 56:21

Yeah, right, if it gets bad. So that that's my final thought on that. And I just hope everything works out for these people and uh and our military, and our military, and Israel's military. They're just as involved as we are. They are, and we we have to give kudos to to our military and uh everybody who was involved in this. Uh, they did a hell of a job on the shock and a effect. Um just hopefully. Now we had we have we had three killed and five injured so far with this of U.S. forces. Of U.S. forces. Uh Israel had uh civilians killed from the retaliation.

SPEAKER_00 57:05

Well, they're they're in range of uh uh surface-to-surface missiles from Iran. Yeah, so if they're getting the brunt of it, anything that the Iron Dome doesn't pick up and destroy, yeah, unfortunately is gonna land in uh in Israel.

SPEAKER_03 57:18

So hopefully everything works out the way it's expected to, which I don't when the hell does that happen? I don't think that's gonna happen. Um let's move on here. I want to talk a lot about I wouldn't say a lot, but we'll put a little bit of time into uh the uh State of the Union address by Trump. And that that is what actually led me to your opening. Writing my opening. I was uh uh I was like in shock. I was in shock the way the Democrats acted. All every single frickin' one of them.

SPEAKER_00 58:02

All of them. How many times have we said Democrats move in lockstep?

SPEAKER_03 58:07

But what they don't realize, I don't think they realize this, or they wouldn't be doing it. They're they're losing they're losing these they're gonna lose these elections when they keep doing what they're doing. It's like committing uh political suicide doing what they're doing. I would like to think you're right, but again. How could you not look at that? How could you not look at that and say I want to vote for that? I want to vote for that Democrat who doesn't want a safe nation, who doesn't want an economically sound nation. How could you vote for that?

SPEAKER_00 58:48

Well, how well again, I I really do think it's it's generational. I think I I think that the generational voter, the the I I derisively refer to them as the blue-haired nose-ring crowd, but there's a lot of them out there. There's a lot of young people who who automatically associate anything Trump with pure evil, and those are the the people that potentially can be uh uh motivated to go to the polls, and that that could really turn the tide in in the midterm elections, and that scares the shit out of me because this also goes back to your opening. Who would vote for that? Exactly. People like you and I are appalled when we see an entire side not standing for something that's basic common sense, right, and and and and appreciation, love, and defense of country. But we were also, like we talked about, our parents and our grandparents taught us decency, and also a part of that decency is respect for the office. How many Democrats said, Oh, I'm not going to this, right? Right. Well, out of respect for the office, you show up, and also because it's your job. This isn't just some address that the president wanted to talk his his face off. It's mandated that he has to do this, it's a law, he has to give a state of the union, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:05

But here's the people who who who want to vote for this, it's the people coming from other countries. That's the problem. And this is where I when I said, you know, my parents raised me, you know, they taught me right from wrong, they taught me, you know, morals, values, respect, you know, hard work will get you somewhere. And you have these people coming from other countries, and everything is just handed to them. You know, they they don't know what it's like to work hard to to get what you want. They they don't know that.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:44

They expect uh things to be handed to them, and they're bringing their culture here and refusing to release the culture, the part of the culture that made them want to leave. For some reason, they embrace when they get here. And again, this is not everybody, of course. Uh, how many hardworking immigrants do you see uh in in your travels? You see a lot of them, you don't not everyone, not everyone, not everybody has their hands out. I they but a majority of them do have a lot, a lot that are that have been coming in and I would say the last 10 years have a different expectation of this country, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:20

And uh um well that that's uh that's my point. They it's it they have they instill the values and and and morals on from where they come from, and they come over here and they want to change ours to a totally different set of laws that's that's an anathema to everything that this nation is, and and and it man is it bug the shit out of me that these people want to do that, and why? Why if you don't like it here, like I said in the opening, if you're here, go back to where you whatever country you come from, stay there, and compare the two. And where would you rather live? Like I said, you will more than likely come back to this nation. More than likely, you're not gonna want to live like they do in China and Korea, like the old Iran. You you're not gonna want to live like that. You're not, you're gonna want to come back here, but let's let's get back to uh the state of the union uh as far as uh the democrats and and the way they act. Um you know, I said it in the opening, towards the end there. I said, if if you want to hold government office, I I've been saying this for years, you should be uh a born citizen here. You should not be able to come here from Somalia, from Iran, from Korea, from China, from anywhere, and hold a government office. I you should not be able to do that.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:55

Now, any of the current uh congress people or senators that heard you say that would probably say something along the lines of that's discriminating. Our uh our people need a voice, and I disagree with that argument because no, your voice is supposed to be the voice of Americans, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:03:16

You shouldn't individual our values, our morals. Don't bring your shit here, genre, shall we say?

Party Politics, Fetterman, And Future Power

SPEAKER_00 1:03:22

You know, um what the hell? Uh you you had mentioned something about how uh people it's it's about assimilation. Assimilation has become a dirty word. I want to talk a little about go back to what you talked about about immigration. Uh, back in the day, and people will scream to the rafters about how this country was founded on immigration. Yeah, and I I I've said this before in other podcasts that we've done. We had a country to fill. Yep. So what did we do? We developed a system. That system was Ellis Island. There were strict rules in Ellis Island. You had to say where you were from, you had to say what your name was. What happened to that? A lot of times they got it wrong, but but still, there was a system in place. And uh um there was no support system, there was no safety net. Once you got past Ellis Island and got into New York or wherever the hell you landed, you're on your own. You're on your own. And that's when that's when they developed that work ethic of we have to work, we have to strive, we have to succeed, we have to assimilate. And uh, if you were fresh off the boat from Italy and you spoke Italian in the household, that's all well and good. But some of the older guys would be like smack the kids upside the head and say, Hey, English, we're here now.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:32

But here's really quick before before we do that.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:36

Um an astounding number of those immigrants that came over went back because they couldn't cut it here. They couldn't cut it here. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:45

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. No, you're good. But my my what I'm saying is too is they come here now and everything is handed to them, it's given to them for the most part. And just like you just said, if they had to work hard for it, they would say, Oh, screw this, I'm not working this hard for that. They'll go back to wherever it is they came from, and they can live in their little shack or whatever, and and sit out in front, uh their their their front door there and uh just chill out for the day and not have a job. They'd rather eat you know shit food and and piss in their own drinking water or whatever, rather than working hard and and and living free and and having a more uh a life that is more uh frugal.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:40

Right. Well, there was a time that success in this country was merit-based for immigrants, it's not no more, not even close. And they'll they'll call them safety nets, but instead it it it it is a hand uh to listen, it's a handout. I mean, if it has two legs and belt loops, it's a pair of pants. Never mind the color, it's a fucking. Handout.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:00

Stop it. Right. And I think uh, you know, that they we keep doing this, we keep handing this stuff out and giving and giving and giving. Uh people are just gonna expect it all the time, and we're getting away from that work ethic, and we're already there. Uh the younger generation is already getting away from from uh uh uh uh a hard work ethic, what it's like to work for something and be successful from on your own merit. Exactly. It's not it's going away pretty quick.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:36

And if you if you already have a list of cash and prizes when you enter this country without having to work for it, all that we're doing as a country is incentivizing mediocrity.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:45

Right. That's that's and that's what the Democrats want.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:49

Well, yeah, it also expands their voter base, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:06:51

They want mediocrity, they want uh uh what do you call it? Uh where everybody's equal. They don't want, you know, they don't want wealthy, they want everybody the same.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:04

Which never works, it never works any, you know. Communism, it doesn't work, socialism, it doesn't work as far as making everybody equal. There's always somebody who's a cut above, who's richer, right, who's uh better off. It just is what it is. Yep. That's that's a human experience.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:19

I don't know. Uh uh our government is very uh it's very disappointing. Uh there's no respect anymore for the presidency.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:28

No, even even by people in Congress. Right. Again, going back to going back to the uh uh State of the Union address, there was a time when congressmen and senators would never just say, Well, I'm not going because I don't like the president. Right.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:43

They respected the office enough, they respected their jobs enough, let alone stand up, let alone or not stand and point at the president of the United States and heckle and heckle him that broad. She means to go. Oh my god, she's she's she's an awful, awful human being. She she is. She she is so we're for those of you who don't know we're talking about, Ilhan Omar. Omar. Yeah, yeah, she is like the most uh uh ridiculous person. I don't know how she got elected into where she is.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:16

I don't because why Obama planted uh Somalis in a certain area of Minnesota to change a voting right uh block.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:24

Yeah, uh and and he he should he should be arrested for treason for doing that, to be honest with you. Gerrymandering, treason, all of that crap. You know, it's a bunch of bullshit. It it really is.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:37

Ilhan Omar, though, I will say this. One hell of a collection of headscarves.

Closing Banter, Dogs, And Listener Reminders

SPEAKER_03 1:08:41

Oh, yeah. Good stuff, good, yeah, yeah. Uh, I don't know. I I I don't like her at all. I don't like half the probably most of the Democrats at all, very few. Uh the one Democrat that I will say that really, really changes tune over the years. Very surprising, by the way. I know where you're going with this, is uh Fetterman.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:03

Very, very uh moderate. Very he's also the last person I expected to uh speak common sense. Yeah, and in a in a in a sense, right now, when he makes these statements, he's speaking truth to power. Right. Because the Democrats are all turning their back on him.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:21

I wouldn't be surprised if you see him flip. I would not be surprised over time if you see him flip.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:28

If that did happen, if he became a Republican, imagine the ugly things that would be said about him. It would be almost like the ugliness that was said about him when he had a stroke. Yeah, yeah, you know, and I know the right was guilty of this about calling him like a headful of mush or whatever. We did it on the on our show. Yeah, we all did it. What do we you know? He had a very Herman Munster quality about him, yeah, especially after uh his stroke. But I I guarantee you that the left would start with that immediately if he flipped.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:57

Absolutely, absolutely, because there's no shame. Like I I I I I I I could see him flipping. I could. I could see that.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:04

With the way that he he's he's approaching things in a reasonable way, right? Reason isn't exactly the hallmark of the uh Democrat Party, Democrat Party these days. Far from it, far from it.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:17

I don't know. It's very disheartening when when I look at our government. It really is. You know, we go from having respect not only for the presidency, but for you know, senators and congressmen and representatives, each other. And it it's it's just gone. It's gone. It's very disappointing, very disappointing. You know, i even when I in the mornings and I'm picking up my trailer, you know, years ago I used to wave to the guy driving by or whatever. Nope. Freaking head forward, man, won't even look at you, won't wave, you got a problem, they don't stop, they just keep freaking going.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:59

Common courtesy is like common sense, it's not so common anymore.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:02

It's not, no, it it's gone, it's gone. So, you know, that's where I'm at with with with uh the State of the Union, and I I think that was I I can't say that I watch a lot of State of the Unions. I I really can't. Over the past 10 years, I'd say I've watched just about all of them. But the ones uh between the ones I did watch, that was probably the most inspirational one that I've watched. It was one that infuriating too. It was infuriating seeing what I saw, and it was uh very it was very well thought out. You know, it it really was. Um he did not say much about Iran in that in that speech.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:48

You know why you know why I think when police are involved in an investigation, they don't comment on an investigation. When you're planning a military action, you don't comment on your potential target. Right. Now at least not that you know what I mean. It might have been uh a bit of an obfusc obfuscation on his part where he's like, Don't look over there. Yeah, no, no, no, look over here. Look at look at look at that broad heck over me.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:13

No, you know, I believe, I believe I did say last week when we were talking about this, this this invasion and this attack on Iran. I believe I did say, I don't know if it was to you or if it was on the show, but I think I did say it's gonna happen on Saturday, it's gonna happen on the weekend.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:33

I don't know if you said the day, but you did mention to me that like it's coming up. It's coming up quick.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:37

It's definitely coming up. Yeah, and you you called that one. Yeah, I knew it was coming up. There there was just too much talk, and uh, and then it got really quiet for a little bit, and I said, Yeah, yeah, something's something's brewing here. It's gonna happen. And uh not only that, all the the the military militarization going on in in the in uh in the what's the sea over there, the the the the Persian Gulf over there. The Red Sea the Red Sea, you knew something was going on, so and you said it was coming quick, like a teenager in the backseat of a car.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:12

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:17

Oh my god. Sorry to your mother-in-law. Speaking of uh relations, uh, we don't have Timmy here today. Oh no, the orgy's off. I called him. I called him and I talked to him uh yesterday, and I believe I talked to him Thursday or Friday. He was looking for something, and uh I told him to come down. He says, Yeah, if I'm not doing nothing. And he called me yesterday, he can't come down because he's home babysitting and he's writing out wedding invitations.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:51

For those of you who who don't know Tim, these are the last activities that we would expect from him. Tim Tim. And here here, this is also a testament to to the heart of gold that lies underneath the facade of the exterior. Uh he he is he he absolutely adores uh his his his girlfriend and uh future wife's granddaughter. Uh he he he's much more into the wedding thing than you would expect from people who know him and his demand. He has this gruff demeanor that underneath lies this this very uh uh very very good person. Right, right. And and uh it's it's kind of cool. When you when you told me he was babysitting, I was like, you know what? Papa Tim.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:38

And the only he sent me that text. Oh yeah. The only reason I know he was writing out wedding invitations, because he calls me this morning. I I thought it was a phone call, hey, I'm coming down. It was no. He says, uh, how do you spell yelling? Oh my god, Jimmy's last name. Well, it's it's nice that I'm invited, at least now I know. All I was thinking was, well, why don't you just go on Facebook and look yeah, or even better yet, hey Jim, how do you spell your last name? Yeah, so you know, well, I'm happy for him. I really am.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:17

Yeah, well, I'm happy for him because he seems genuinely happy, and that's cool. It's always it's always cool to see friends do well and and and achieve a level of happiness when they've gone through a uh a moment of adversity, right? Right. And that's that's kind of where Tim is, and it's it's very cool that he landed how he has.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:36

He he yeah, he's doing well. He's doing well. So what do you think? What do you got? Anything else we want to call it? I don't know. Where are we at? Uh we're out of uh about an hour and a half. That seems about right. Yeah, I think we're good. It's a long enough shift. Hand me my time card, would you? All right, punch in, punch out. That's right. All right, we're gonna punch out for Jim and Rich and uh even Mr. Tim. Thanks for joining us here today. For Coco, the Coco Bear and Jagger. Yeah, the dogs and are involved in this way. Yeah, they caused a little bit of havoc again. That's right. But we're out of here. Thanks for listening. Don't forget to follow us on Facebook, YouTube, and Spotify. Hit that subscribe button. Leave a comment or two, and uh that's it. That's all we got.