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Paradigm Shift: Iran Updates & More
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All right, guys, welcome back to the Paradigm Shift. I am, of course, Big Rob back with my partner in crime, Jesse. What's going on, brother?
SPEAKER_02Hey, doing great, buddy. Grad, glad to be back for a uh another fantastic episode of the shift. I know this one is going to uh get into the weeds of all things Iran.
SPEAKER_00Yes, well, that seems to be one of our most popular topics we talk about uh based on the amount of downloads of our podcasts. Is uh, you know, this is the third update on the uh Iran Trump Strait of Harmoose kind of situation. So uh let's let's dive into the weeds of what the latest is and prepare to be offended. So I guess I'll kick things off with what I was reading uh a little bit earlier today. We know that the uh peace talks had broken down um in Pakistan uh between April 11th and 12th, right? If I'm if I'm correct there. And I'm surprised right there, honestly. I'm surprised markets didn't respond negatively, but they just kind of went sideways on that news. I guess people are kind of getting numb to it now. But um outside of that, I guess now they're hoping to extend the peace talks uh because they do expire on the 22nd of April, right? I know they said it's a two-week uh two-week peace talk period where, from my understanding, the Strait of Harmoose is supposed to be open. I was reading about blockades now, and uh I read the headline of an article while I was on the treadmill today saying something along the lines of uh US flips the f the Strait of Harmoose and is now controlled by uh the US. I didn't know this was a game of risk. What do you think?
SPEAKER_02Um, well, you know, I I think it depends on who you talk to, right? And um if if anything's true with this current uh administration of the U.S., the story changes uh by the by the minute, by the hour. And I don't know if anybody ever gets a the truth, right? It's it's kind of it it it it goes back and forth. So, you know, one minute, um you know, I I even saw speaking of that, I saw a post that somebody did where they had all of all of the Trump administration's and the White House's statements on this thing, like over the course of like a month, and you read them, it's it's pure insanity. It's like, yeah, we bombed them, yeah, we won. We're the greatest. Hey, where are our allies at? What you're not helping us? Okay, well, well, we're looking for peace talks. Hey, we're gonna destroy the whole world. It's like, no, we decide not to, and it just kind of goes back and forth.
SPEAKER_00Read like a bipolar chart, yeah, really, it really does, man.
SPEAKER_02I mean, it's it's like a a roller coaster, and so um, you know what what the actual truth is, I'm not a hundred percent sure. And I don't know if anybody accurately knows, if you think about it, because um, I don't think the US is telling the truth, I don't think Iran is telling the truth. If Saudi Arabia had a chance, they probably wouldn't tell the truth either.
SPEAKER_00Maybe we should all just ask Pakistan what the hell's going on.
SPEAKER_02Well, you know, Pakistan is is trying to broker the deal and be the guy in the middle, but I don't even know if if they truthfully know. Um it's it's kind of uh it's kind of challenging. And so, you know, I I know we were kind of talking before the episode started, you know, I I did take some notes on this, so I had a couple points, and specifically I have one on the Strait of Hormuz. And so some of the points here. So Iran uh mined mined it, supposedly. I don't know if you've heard about this, they supposedly mined the waterway, but they don't know where the mines are. So that's interesting, right? So any of the ships that go through are going through a minefield.
SPEAKER_00So hang on. So Iran mined it, and Iran doesn't know where they put the mines.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_00Wow, and just on a side note, that is bad for uh industries because markets, because if they mined the Strait of Harmuz, it's gonna take two to three times longer to remove those mines. Yes, so that's not good for markets.
SPEAKER_02No, this isn't good at all, yeah. And and you know, most people when they think of mines, they think of something in the ground, but these are mines in the water, and so when you're on one of these uh mega ships, even if they spotted it, I don't know if they could avoid it, to be to be honest, you know.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, just take a sharp left.
SPEAKER_02No, no, you cannot. And so um you know, like one of the things with Iran is kind of like who's leading the country? And they say that Al Al Al Hamani's son is supposedly leading it, and then there was a story that he was dead, and then they said, Yeah, he didn't survive the bomb, and then there was a story that he lost a leg, and now the latest story is that he's supposedly disfigured but recovering. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Where are these reports coming from?
SPEAKER_02All over the place. It there's misinformation everywhere, so you don't know. You don't know, you don't know like like who's the mouthpiece of Iran right now. Is it some part of the government? Is it the military? Are they are they acting separately of each other?
SPEAKER_00I don't know. Interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if there was disarray in terms of uh who who's actually running things. Maybe there is some. I mean, that would make sense in terms of why these peace talks keep kind of falling apart, is because maybe there is an internal kind of conflict as to who's in charge over there. Maybe it's a civil situation, right? That they're that they're kind of keeping under wraps. It's entirely possible.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I mean, it so first of all, there was absolutely an internal conflict. So prior to this whole thing, you know, they had those huge uprisings, and supposedly uh, you know, again, like none of this gets published anywhere, but how many people did the government uh protesters did the government kill in that process? I've heard it was in the tune of thousands, and that's from somebody with Iranian family. So uh, you know, again, kind of kind of what's what's going on. There was already internal strife. Like, like the people that actually live there, they don't they don't most of them don't support what the government is and the way it's run, they just happen to live there. Um, I I was talking to somebody else that um he's a i Iranian and he lives in Germany, and he was telling me that he can't call home, they can only call him. And he said, when they do, the line is monitored, so they they can't they can't really get into certain things, like it's always gotta be kind of very brief, you know?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, stick to how's the how's the dog code words, yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_02Um, anyway, though, so so going back to the strait, right? So this is interesting. So I don't know if you've seen China's role in this thing all along or Russia, because they're both getting involved because they're allies with Iran, right? And Russia in particular has been taking the Iranian drones and firing them into Ukraine for the last four years, killing civilians left and right. Okay, great. So now they're sort of involved on the backside, but then you also have China that's been getting involved. And the interesting thing with China is China um hasn't had a chance to test all of their military equipment. And so I had read a story earlier today where they had said that um they were now giving some of their equipment to Iran. And also, when the Chinese ships are trying to go through the strait, uh apparently the the US, you know, the supposed blockade said, like, hey, you can't go there, and they said, What are you gonna do about it? And win anyway.
SPEAKER_00Well, I can see why, because let's be honest, you can put a blockade up, but no one wants to be the one who fires the first shot. Right. In that aspect, right? Uh no one wants to be that guy. So the call in his bluff a little bit with the blockade, and I mean, I don't blame them because it's common sense, right? You know, Trump talks a lot, right? But also changes his tune a lot. He's he's the worst poker player I would imagine there is over there, right? I'll nuke this table if I people.
SPEAKER_02If I have to, and then he goes, Oh, well, wait, no, well, maybe not, you know.
SPEAKER_00I'll get you in the next hand.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and that's exactly it, right? So listen to this. So the the supposed blockade started uh 413, so two days ago, right? Uh apparently today, 415, they were already turning the ships around like it wasn't quite panning out the blockade. And so one of the one of the uh bullets that I got from it also said that uh basically uh President Trump has been offering conflicting signals claiming the war is close to over while simultaneously threatening to destroy Iran's uh civilian infrastructure if a deal is not signed. What?
SPEAKER_00What the hell? Yeah, yeah. Unbelievable, man. This again, I I feel like people are, and especially markets, are starting to price this stuff in because we're not seeing the crazy volatility that we we did in the beginning. Um and that's kind of normal for for markets. I mean, when we first see something taking place, the first couple announcements usually markets crash or pump, and then eventually people are like, you know what? I don't care.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you deal with this every day, and it's like again, I mean, you're in Canada, I'm in the US, that's Iran. Like the the whole world is dealing with this crazy back and forth roller coaster constantly, and and eventually you do kind of get numb to it, right? Like, you know, when he put out that truth social post in the middle of the night that said, you know, you effing crazy bastards, open the straight, or you're all gonna die. I'm gonna annihilate your whole civilization. And by the way, it's Easter Sunday, praise Allah. And everybody was like, What the fuck? Like, what is this? You know, and he's like, Oh, yeah, I sent it, but I guess I didn't mean half of that. And it's like, huh?
SPEAKER_00I was howling when I read you crazy bastards at the end.
SPEAKER_02I know, and he sent it in like the middle of the night. It's like, dude, you should know better. You're like, you're 79.
SPEAKER_00Come up, man. You're also you're not just some billionaire, you are the president now, right? You're not just yeah, running your own companies, you have a little more global influence. Like that's when when I read it, I thought there's no way that this is this is real. This is somebody putting out a fake truth social, you know, thing. When I saw it over on X, I was like, there's no way he said, You crazy bastards. But he did.
SPEAKER_02Apparently he did. Yeah, yeah. Now I don't know if he's actually typing it or if he's just shouting in the room and somebody's like feverishly putting this in, and they just hit send, you know.
SPEAKER_00Probably. He probably does pay somebody to, you know, I'm gonna say it and you just you know, type it out, kind of thing, right? Right. I think that's they should hire someone that's if there is someone doing that, it should be someone who like will kind of type it out and then save it without putting it up there first. Let them cool down for half an hour and then say, You sure you still want me to send that?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, that's pretty funny. Um, all right, so so slightly different part of this thing. So I know you mentioned the um ceasefire earlier, right? So ceasefire brokered by Pakistan. However, uh, in the middle of the ceasefire, Israel has continued to bomb the absolute daylights out of Lebanon under the guise of their it's supposedly bombing Hezbollah, you know, kind of just like what they did in Gaza, right? Where they said, yeah, we're bombing Hezbollah. And uh, you know, never mind the uh millions of civilians that live there that we just sort of ignored while we bombed their whole uh you know city into rubble right into the Stone Age. And so anyway, so now they're they're bombing the hell out of Lebanon. And in the meantime, they've basically uh displaced it's 1.2 million people. They've killed 2,000 people with their bombing, uh, they've wounded 7,000, they've killed uh 22 journalists, one of which, I don't know if you saw the X video, he was out there reporting he clearly has a vest that says press, you know, it says press all over everything, and they tried to hit him and they missed him, right? So they're purposefully going after journalists. And so one of the other things that that has come about is on April 9th, uh the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his defense, quote, defense minister, uh, both, uh, specifically for what they've been doing in the war, and more specifically for that they're starving the population in Gaza, the genocide. So the people that are still alive, they're starving them.
SPEAKER_00This is the weirdest ceasefire I've ever seen. What like unbelievable, man? Like how do you uh here's a question how do you have a ceasefire that's not a ceasefire? Yes, we'll all agree for a ceasefire, except those guys.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we didn't say Lebanon, so we continued to just uh annihilate, you know, a city block after city block.
SPEAKER_00What you should see, Lebanon sitting on the corner, like, uh hey, what the hell, bro? Like, yeah, I don't know, man. It's that's what I mean. Like, I if I feel like there is um a conflict in terms of who's making decisions out there because that just it doesn't add up, right? I mean, you'd think it would be common sense that if there's a general ceasefire, but you're still gonna attack Lebanon. Like it just I don't know, it just it doesn't add up to everyone who's running things over in Iran right now being on the same page.
SPEAKER_02Well, this is Israel doing this this part, right?
SPEAKER_00Right. Yeah, but again, everyone is clearly not on the same page, though. Right?
SPEAKER_02No, they're not. No, no one is. They're they're they're all sort of pretending to be, but no one actually is. I mean, again, um displacing 1.2 million people, uh killing thousands, wounding 7,000 people, that's not like a whoops, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_00That's not an accidental missile fire or something like it's a lot of collat a lot of collateral damage is happening here during this ceasefire. And I don't know, and here's the thing too, is like, have you seen Trump talk about this at all? No, like it's just kind of happening and and no one's really addressing it, right?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and you know, a lot of things with um Trump, especially V2, have gone completely against norms, established norms of years and years of precedent, like in the US, that you know typically when you get into something like this, the president does like a nightly address, they address the nation, they say, hey, here's what's happening and why. And the following days we'll be talking about this, you know, they do their press conferences or whatever, and they go into it. Um not this group. Either they don't tell you anything, or what they do tell you um changes by the minute, you know, and they're always kind of like angsty about it one way or the other. Um, and in the meantime, uh, you know, we can we can get in this later or we can talk about it now, is uh, you know, like in the U.S. Congress, they filed articles of impeachment against Trump and Heg Seth, the you know, our quote Secretary Secretary of Defense, aka War of over the numerous war crime violations that he's done. And there are numerous, including bombing the girls' school, blowing up the unarmed ship, even taking out the leader of Iran, as much as you hate his guts and as much as you'd like to get rid of him, you can't just do that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you know there are rules, yeah. There are rules. Let's put a pin in the impeachments for a moment. Yeah, and I wanted to ask you: do you think that because the norm is not being followed in terms of public address, like you said, on a on a nightly basis, do you think that that's probably people on his administration that are saying maybe it's best if we don't give him a microphone every night?
SPEAKER_02It it could be. So in Trump v1, after he was president, 42 of his 44 cabinet members said he was unfit for office. These are the people that he was surrounded by at some point in time during that four years, right? And it changed constantly.
SPEAKER_00Who saw him behind the scenes and things he was doing in absolutely?
SPEAKER_02So, you know, you got to think like like the public only sees what's in front of the curtain, but they see everything behind the curtain, also, right? And they said, Yeah, absolutely not, no way. But again, when they're in there, no one ever speaks up when they're in there, ever. They all just sort of you know dance on eggshells and go along with it and don't say anything, and then the moment they leave, they write a book.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Well, I mean, truthfully, not not to be, you know, anti-or pro-Trump. Uh, I like some things he does and says, I dislike other things he doesn't say, but at the end of the day, we see a lot of his jerk reactions to to things, and sometimes we're like, whoa, right? Like, pro, chill. It's like calling them crazy bastards and threatening to destroy them and wipe them off the face of the earth, for example. Um, imagine, if you will, the stuff we don't see, the jerk reactions we don't see. How many things do you think he's thrown across the Oval Office?
SPEAKER_02A lot. A lot. And you know, you want to take it one step further. Just take anything that Trump has done over this entire last year and put Obama's name on it. There would have been a mob with pitchforks, and you know, Fox News would have been blasting around the horn non-stop about how unfit he was for office, and we need to get him out ASAP. But because it's Trump, they they kind of like dance around it. And ironically, um, Fox News, you know, is one of those things that kind of propelled him into office to begin with. But truthfully, he really doesn't see eye to eye with Rupert Murdoch or the family of Fox News that runs it like at all. Like, like they really don't see eye to eye at all. And there's even uh a few different news anchors on Fox News that are finally starting to say, like, yeah, this this is crazy. Like, like, we can't even keep up. Like, you're completely insane. How how are we doing this? And we're only one year in, you know.
SPEAKER_00Have you ever seen the movie The Post? No. Tom Hanks. Oh, I highly recommend that you watch it. Um it was, I think it was back in the 60s or 70s. It's it's a true story about um The Post and how Tom Hanks' character says a line in the movie that I just I'm like, what happened between then and now? Because he says, like the time of um journalists being in the same rooms and rubbing shoulders with the politicians and the bankers and all that stuff needs to come to an end, right? Because what was happening in the movie was you know, influence, political influence and and financial influence from you know, bankers and all that kind of stuff in terms of what should be printed, which stories should be printed and stuff, right? And um and it was like and it was a true story. It's like we need to end this, and they started printing these stories that the politicians did not want them to print because it was detrimental to the politicians, and that's kind of what kicked that kind of era off. What the hell happened? To the journalists, no, to that concept, I mean, of not you know, rubbing shoulders and just doing what politicians and
SPEAKER_02bankers and all that stuff printing what they want them to print there's no there is no non-biased um journalism anywhere in the that's why so many people have turned to uh social media influencers to get the news now and stuff like that because it's it's more it's more i mean it's obviously always bias because we're all amateurs here but at the end of the day um it's you'll you're gonna get more of a down the middle look at it than you're going to from cnn or fox or anywhere else they've just become completely and utterly ridiculously obviously biased in one direction or the other and I don't know how anyone watches either broadcast any news broadcast on television or reads their print and thinks man they're being real honest here they're not biased at all right yeah it it's it's all about reinforcing uh what what people want to believe so whatever whatever side you normally lean to or you think you're this or you're that or whatever whoever reinforces that that's who you naturally like and they know that right I mean again um Fox News said in court in court when they almost went bankrupt after the voting machine defamation case that they lost okay where that where they smeared the voting machine old Dominion and I can't remember the other one they smeared them for like well over a year both companies took them to court and said this is defamation you don't have anything and they lost and in their court filing they said we are not a news channel we're an entertainment channel that's what they said so so so I and now now granted don't don't get me wrong here that's just Fox News now CNN I think is equally bad the other way I agree with you I can't watch any of them because it makes my head hurt when they start talking I'm like I don't care Van Jones or you know whoever it is on your yeah that they got like the five people and it's like here's here's like the you know the the you know the entitled uh democrat lady over here you know and here's here's the you know the asshole Republican guy and here here's the entitled black guy that we try to paint him as a Democrat but really he's a centrist and and just listening to them talk I'm like oh my god like I I can't I can't do it like like when they do the uh the the like the the the voting night right and they're all following along and talking about it's like I can take about 20 minutes and then I'm just like I can't I can't do it.
SPEAKER_00Can't do it yeah we put we'll put it on the screen and mute it so that way we can kind of see but we don't have to hear any of the crap because we went from you know we're not watching discussions anymore like you and I were having a discussion about these things and sometimes we disagree on on certain aspects of things and and that's fine right but when we're watching these these channels they don't even discuss anything anymore there's not a conversation that's being had everyone is speaking over each other they're taught they're not listening to respond like they're not they're not listening to hear they're listening to react right as soon as they hear enough that they can fire something back before the other person's even finished talking it's just blah blah blah blah blah bullets right and I remember Denzel Washington another quote Denzel Washington said to to um a reporter when they when they asked him about politics or about news and you know uh fake news and stuff he said you guys have uh what a responsibility you guys have right he said but uh you guys went from uh who can report the most accurate to who can report the fastest you don't care if it's true who can get it out the fastest it doesn't matter if it's true just get it out get it out get it out as quick as you can right and I agree with him 100% there's no due diligence there's no I mean you see probably nowadays you probably see more recants than ever in history but it's all hidden you know like they don't openly do it it's just in small print somewhere they recant something and you know so it's yeah it's it's no wonder that the ratings on these these channels are just sinking especially when it comes to uh politics and that's that is in part why I tend to that's one of the things I agree with when it comes to Trump he's constantly on the press about fake news and reportings you know like they're there he's absolutely right everyone knows it it's like this unwritten rule now that you can't that whatever you're watching on on the news or by reporters you know it's not the whole story it's probably 25% of the truth if that most of the time so I I would say he's half right right so I do agree with you that I think half of them do have an agenda and that's true.
SPEAKER_02And they do write agenda slanted pieces. Now on the other hand every time he talks shit or has some inflammatory bullshit statement to somebody who asked him asked him a legitimate question especially if they're female I mean come on man like like he looks awful every time he does that and one of the things they've tried to do is muzzle the press in his administration because it was so unfavorable and they've recently lost those lawsuits also. So they have to let him back into the Pentagon. But you know one thing I would say um you know I've I've kind of seen this in my own life you know I always like to bring up a good corporate story. So in the corporate world one of the companies I work for had a uh like a a newsletter kind of news internal publication you know they do little articles and have a few photos with somebody or whatever this topic or that topic. And I remember um my former boss you know meeting with them to do one of these and then later the article comes out and it's like slanted a certain way. It's sort of like changing his words and he's like I didn't say that. You know and then his boss is calling him like what the hell did you tell them? God damn it you know and they're like going back and forth. And he's like ah this guy you know and he he hated that guy because he would always he would always write the articles in a way that were better for his article but not necessarily for the person he was interviewing. And so he would change your words and sometimes uh there were a couple of times that he actually like when I did them he would attribute a statement or something to me that was something I didn't say and he would send it to me ahead of time I'd say I didn't say that take it out like no you you like if if I say it that's one thing fine leave it in but the this is like you're crossing a boundary here attributing a statement to me I never said you know yeah you don't want credit or fault for it. Yeah but so I I can see that argument that in the press there are people that do slant it both ways absolutely you know well here here's the thing though I I mean we have too much in my opinion we have too much protecting press and the things that they say right like they're not held accountable for anything that they say they just say they they'll and and we all know that this is true.
SPEAKER_00Whenever a story gets out whether it's true or not right once it's out there they can they can recall it they can they can say oh it was not true it was inaccurate this was inaccurate reporting by us blah blah blah but it's already out there the the toothpaste is already out of the tube right and that is the stereotype that people will now have about whatever subject it is moving forward right that's just the way that our brains are wired that's the way we work and there's no accountability for that when it comes to the press and that is a problem I think right I really do uh because they do they just they they say whatever they don't even care. There's no fear of repercussions or being sued or being charged or being put out of business. And I I you know so and I think that that is part of me thinks that that's kind of what Trump is trying to achieve uh but I just don't think that he's going about it the right way.
SPEAKER_02Yeah yeah if if if you wanted to think about going about it the right way remember I don't know if you remember this with Hulk Hogan that he sued Gawker for defamation and he said that they had um they had basically slandered him and when they published it you know that like none of this was true and he took him to court and he won and he won like a sizable substantial amount of money from them and I I can't remember 100% but I think he may have bankrupted them when it happened. And so that was a great example of like yeah you did publish false stuff it wasn't true you were then sued and you faced the the consequences right so do you think maybe that doesn't happen more often because the average person just doesn't have the finances to battle a large corporation like that? Yes 100% that's uh that's something that's wrong with the American justice uh system and Canadian justice system too yeah yeah I mean it it with America really the party that typically wins a lawsuit is the one that can wait it out the longest and the other one will eventually just say I've I've had enough and that's it you know we can't afford it and that that was a big problem with uh with the SEC for a long time right they would just especially under uh Gary Ginsler's regime they would just file these lawsuits against companies and they'll say you look you either settle with us and admit what we want you to admit so that we win or we'll just drag this court this case out until you're bankrupt.
SPEAKER_00Right. And that is for me that's a government agency doing that that's deplorable in my opinion like again over overreach so it's so it's it's I guess what I'm saying is it's not just uh just Trump's administration that maybe overreaches when it comes to powers like that right I mean that was the Biden administration uh that was overseeing that you had Maxine Waters and Elizabeth Warren and all of them backing everything that the all the overreach the SEC was I have a funny story I just read an article the other day uh from Paul Atkins and the SEC had reported that um out of all the out of all the lawsuits that were launched uh against crypto companies right uh in the last I think he said two years he said not there was zero evidence that any of the lawsuits wins or anything benefited a single retail investor of in any capacity and they also reported out that within the last month of uh the election before Trump took office they there was they released the reports of like a rush to get as many lawsuits out as you can before Trump takes office right just and just put it out there to the public right in Gary Ginsler's smug face. So hate that guy still hate that guy still hate him I don't know how he sits across from his wife and daughters at the dinner table every night I really don't I don't know how anybody sits in the room with him.
SPEAKER_02He's annoying very annoying you know and I don't know how the heck he was qualified for that role but regardless you know I I I think kind of what you're getting at there is um maybe a government apparatus run amok right and it's it's kind of a little out of control and coming coming full circle here back to the Iran topic uh that's what's happening right there. So again in the US and this this is one of my biggest I think what the biggest thing that's in my craw right now over the Trump administration is that he swore an oath to the Constitution and he isn't following it at all right and part of the Constitution is the war powers and only Congress has power to to grant war. And they just did it. They totally just did it right and they have no plan they don't know what the hell they're doing they don't know what the goal is no one knows what the goal is it's changed by the day. And so I think a a great example of this is I wanted to talk about this the story of the missing pilot. Did you hear this one?
SPEAKER_00No okay oh wait wait maybe I did but go on.
SPEAKER_02You might have okay um have you ever seen the movie Behind Enemy Lines with Owen Wilson?
SPEAKER_00Yes I did.
SPEAKER_02Okay that's what I think of when I think of this story. Okay. So the story was there was supposedly an F-15 or two something along these lines that was shot down and there was uh you know uh uh pilots that ejected right and all we ever saw was like here here's like the middle of the desert and here's a a seat from a jet with you know a parachute but but we never saw any pilots or anything right just a seat in a jet just just a seat yes and and so the the story with this thing is that this pilot was supposedly missing and that the U.S. government was going to get this pilot and it was some mountainous region or something like that. And so there's multiple parts of this that don't add up where you can tell that they're lying to the public and it's really something else, right? So first of all, the supposed pilot no one knows who it is this this person you know in the past if something like this happened I mean they would be like front page evening news just like the Artemis crew I mean it it's on that level that if if you were alone in Iran in the middle of war and and the the US government got you over 24 hours later and Iran didn't kill you or torture you that would be amazing right there's there's nobody so there's no person. There's never been a face there's not a name there's nothing and part of the story is really weird where they they said that the area where the pilot supposedly ejected and landed where they supposedly found the pilot 24 hours later was 110 miles away I don't know about you but that's a long way to go in 24 hours ride a deer or something what the hell in the mountains in the mountains in the mountains 110 miles away okay so physically that's impossible okay that that doesn't add up right so then you say okay well what else happened so supposedly in this operation they had special forces helicopters they had four helicopters and two planes that they supposedly the US government supposedly blew up afterwards because somehow they used all this equipment to get in and then didn't was weren't going to take it out or whatever and they got rescued some other way but but the story was is just like with Afghanistan they said oh no we we disabled all of it so so they can't use it or we blew it up or whatever. Okay so again what okay you're you're telling me two large airliners and four helicopters all went in didn't come out okay this is weird we have the pilot that went 110 miles no name no face okay um and then you say well what were they really after and so the you know this is where they're like you know going back to the card game analogy this is where they're terrible at cards because you can just see what's actually happening. So the story is and this is the thing that most people can agree on is that we don't want uh Iran to have enriched uranium capable of creating a nuclear bomb okay but the reality is is we have no idea where that enriched uranium is okay now they have they have rough ideas and they think it's in the mountains which is where this would have been right so they think it's in the mountains but they don't really know where and they don't know how deep. And so you know like one of the crazy things in this whole story is that you know you and I have talked about in one of the other episodes that the US government was surprised by all the missiles that Iran started firing out of the desert where all of a sudden they pop the cap, it's like a sewer cap, goes off where you thought it was a sand dune and all of a sudden a ballistics missile is coming out, right? So we have no idea what's underground or where it is. And so what I think was going on and what a lot of people are starting to think likely happened here is that they probably sent in special forces they tried to find the uranium but even if you found it how do you get it out right this isn't this isn't like a like a briefcase or you know like mission impossible you know like we get like a thumb drive like that's that's not how this is right like this is like substantial like how do you how do you just get I uh uranium out of Iran of all places I mean just just the whole idea once you ask like secondary questions it's it's like this isn't pure insanity. And so I think the story here with the pilot is completely made up and I think it was a ruse to try and do this special operation and again Cavalier Pete thinks he's smarter than everybody and he's like the dumbest guy in the room I think that I heard another story involving this that was like now that you tell me this story it feels like what I heard was like a distraction from asking those secondary questions that you're talking about.
SPEAKER_00If I'm right so what I heard was they made it like a leftist woke situation where I guess the secretary secretary of defense made the comment that no man is left behind. True yeah and everyone on the left lost their mind saying so I guess the implication is you would leave a woman behind right that was like this big thing. Yeah it's like what they've been saying this the military has been saying this has been their their mantra for generations for decades and decades right no man left behind right it's a figure of speech as in doesn't matter if we know and and listen it probably started back when women were not allowed to enlist in the military well they're definitely in it now yeah but but to be so asinine to to make the the connection that because he said no man left behind that must mean we would leave a woman behind it's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard someone take offense to at the end of the day. Like unbeliev you must be unbelievably like ignorant to life like did you live your whole life in a basement somewhere like you know you have no kind of connection to how people talk or figures of speech or metaphors or like you you everything is just literal to you some people are like that that's true.
SPEAKER_02You know what that makes you think of is uh yeah obviously Chuck Norris just passed away recently R.I.P. Chuck Norris R.I.P. Chuck there was a great there was a great joke it was something along the lines of like yeah Chuck Norris went to a feminist convention you know and came back with a girlfriend or you know something along those lines like he can even break through that like nothing can stop him I'm seeing a lot of the yeah the Chuck Norris videos and jokes and all that stuff and guys the guy's a legend absolutely he's great there's a video of uh uh the grim reaper sitting there like uh sweating and just like you know like he's preparing for something and then he's gotta go get Chuck Norris yeah he's gonna come in and yes he's gonna kick you in the face like it's coming oh Chuck life wouldn't have been the same without you buddy no no sorry um back to the uh sorry well I was gonna say so back to what we had pinned in the impeachments if that's where you wanted to go next I actually had one thing right before that okay so one one other uh small side note is troop movements okay so um all the US has already sent I want to say it's 6,000 troops supposedly aboard one of these aircraft carriers or they were flew into Saudi Arabia or something along those lines right and their latest thing was that they were sending 1000 more boots on the ground maybe right maybe um so 1600 total now when you think of sending 16,000 people So, first of all, you got to fly them all over there. They're not all just there, right? You got to move them from other places. Huge logistical operation to support 16,000 people. That's a lot. Okay, great. Okay, but 16,000. All right. Now I I looked up the numbers. This is what I found. I'm not saying it's 100% right, but it could be ballparked. Okay. So supposedly in the uh Iranian military, the uh IRGC, they've got a hundred and ninety thousand uh people, okay. So soldiers, whatever, 190,000. So your 16 is looking a lot smaller. Now, outside of that, in Iran, they've also got their armed militia that they say is up to 25 million. Million. Okay.
SPEAKER_00Send in Chuck Norris.
SPEAKER_02You're gonna need Chuck Norris on this one. You will absolutely need Chuck. There ain't no way that you're gonna do anything with 16,000 versus either either number, 190 or 25 million.
SPEAKER_00Chuck Norris with a slingshot. You can take care of it. That's a lot, though. Million? Holy million.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. So again, I mean, I I get it that you're trying to show you're trying to show that you've got this force, and I understand that, but at the same time, it's all kind of relative, right? Because then you then you say, okay, they have 190,000, and then on top of that, they have up to 25 million armed. But like it's it's kind of like if you reverse this and you looked at the US, you know how many guns are in the US? Just just average houses, you know how many people have guns? A lot. Like, like if an army ever tried to invade the US, I mean, we we could get some of these shit kicking rednecks and just say, hey, there they are, and then they'd be like, got them, you know, and they'd get out all their guns and shit and just go to town.
SPEAKER_00Finally, an excuse.
SPEAKER_02I know, I know. So you got like the same kind of deal there, except you have this weird, like oppressive regime over it. But but again, you have all these people, right?
SPEAKER_00It's a massive militia.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00The entire country is just one big militia.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. And and you know, ironic enough with this, you would you you almost gotta say, okay, so if they have that many people, why don't they just like overthrow the government? Ain't easy, ain't easy, you know. Like, like the way this whole thing works, uh again, you know, with Trump killing um Alhameni, he was 86. Dude was gonna die anyways. You don't think they have a backup plan? And you know, like this is the problem when you cut off the head, there's another head pops up, you know, and and you take that one out, another guy pops up.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and I mean you don't want something similar to what happened in uh Afghanistan. I mean, how long were they end how long boots on the ground were they there? 20 years. Wow, man.
SPEAKER_02Like 20 years, and and for what? What'd we get out of it at the end? Nothing. We uh we had this embarrassing fly out, and then the worst part of it, well, there's two bad parts. One of the really bad parts is that they basically reversed all the women's rights and things like that, so it went to this super oppressive culture again, unfortunately. And the even worse part was all of the translators and people that helped the U.S. government, we abandoned them, all of them. And they probably got murdered, half of them. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00How does that like how does that happen? How do you not at least bring them over to the US or something to to keep them alive, protect them?
SPEAKER_02Like it is this is one of those items that you know, where I tell you I I equally disliked Biden. This is one of those. Like that that was managed so piss poorly in the way that they just sort of like didn't abandon a bunch of weapons and stuff there. Do they abandon everything? Yeah, oh yeah, we we you know pulled the couple screws out of it, it doesn't work anymore. Oh, right. Like they can't fix it. Come on now. I mean, you know, like if you look at uh I don't know if you've ever seen Cuba, like modern day Cuba still has cars from like the 50s, and it's really kind of cool. It's almost like frozen in time from basically where like all trades stopped. But but the crazy thing is, you know, the the people that live there are resilient, and they they just like sort of like give me, you know, it's it's like the guy from uh uh Half Baked, you know, where they it's like you know, give me a bubblegum, blowtorch, and uh avocado, and you're like, what you know, and he puts it in the engine, the car works. McDermott, you know, they're gonna do the same thing over there, you know, with everything we left. They'll they'll they'll re-engineer it, you know.
SPEAKER_00Oh, absolutely, yeah. I mean you have to, yeah, it's you adapt, right? Yeah. So what's the what is the latest on these uh impeachments?
SPEAKER_02Well, that's that's that's a that could be an episode all on its own. Um the latest is uh the articles of impeachment. I think it's article 25, and it's for uh Cavalier Pete and it's for Trump, right? And like I said earlier, Cavalier Pete has committed multiple war crimes. Um he also, I think one of his statements he said something about no quarter, something like that, which basically means they're not following any international rules of war whatsoever.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, rules of engagement are out the window.
SPEAKER_02Yes, yes, and so basically he is saying right off the bat, uh I'm gonna direct you as a war criminal would. And so there have been in the US some generals that have spoken out and said it's okay not to follow an illegal order. Now, obviously, if you're in that position, that is a really awkward position, right? Saying it and doing it are totally different. But in the US, um, there has been some of the military has come out, former military, especially the ones that he's fired left and right. All of the people that would have prevented the the bombing of the girls' school, the probably would have prevented most of this. Any dissenting voice, he's he just sort of haphazardly fired. Um and so all of all of them have spoken out and said, look, if he's giving you something that goes against the rules of engagement, you can decline that because otherwise you can be charged as a war criminal. You know, I mean, think about that. So, like I said earlier, he blew up the boat. Um, he gave the directive for that. He, you know, that blew up Al Hamini. Okay, great, whatever. Blew up the girls' school. Um, I'm sure there's probably multiple other things that have happened along the way. Oh, all of his uh blowing up of various boats um between the US and South America. They don't even know who's on these boats or why or what. They just sort of blow them up. And one of them uh had survivors and then they hit it again. These are all war crimes. So um there's that. Um now with uh Trump, it's kind of a it's kind of a never ending laundry list with him in terms of war crimes, insider trading. Um it goes on and on and on and on and on and on every day. So what's the point of an impeachment?
SPEAKER_00What is the what is the consequences of an impeachment, multiple impeachments? I'm asking this as a as a Canadian. I don't know the intricacies down in the states. So so what are the consequences? What's the point? Is it just oh he got impeached and then it's like okay, and then we just keep moving forward and there's no consequences, or what's okay.
SPEAKER_02So let me let me try my best to explain this. So you have to go back in time to when the country was founded, right? The founding fathers. And at that point in time, Washington in particular said, do not make political parties for basically all the long laundry list of reasons we have today of why they suck. He gave us all those reasons all the way back then, and we did it anyway, right? So if you go back to a time of no political parties and it's simply individuals, well, then you're basically trying to create a working governing document that holds people accountable. This is why you have three branches of government. This is why the you know the power is split between them, right? You know, like I said, Congress can only declare war. Congress controls the purse. Um, you're supposed to have a Supreme Court that's entirely independent and not political. It is, right? So what's really weird right now, and it just the kind of the way everything unfolded, and this is where Biden was asleep at the wheel, was because he was such a piss poor leader, it sort of let all of this happen that one political party took all four areas. So that they basically they they took the Senate, they took the uh House of Representatives, they took the presidency, and they took the Supreme Court. And so what that has created is your your normal checks and balances that if if we were all simply individuals and nobody was politically affiliated, uh, we could all individually vote. But that's not reality, right? The reality is you're backed by donors, you're backed by lobbyists, uh, people have an agenda. Um, like I told you before, uh, like probably four-fifths of the US Congress is bought and paid for by the Israeli lobby.
SPEAKER_00Wait, wait, wait. Are you telling me people pay politicians to do things that are detrimental to the American citizen but beneficial to the person paying the politician? That can't be true.
SPEAKER_02I'm gonna let you, I'm gonna shine a little light on this one, buddy. Yes, it is true. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna have to ask, I'm gonna have to ask AI. That sounds made up.
SPEAKER_02But but you know what's really funny is if you actually look at the different um departments of the U.S. government, usually they're tied to like an industry, right? Like the Department of Agriculture is sort of tied to farming, right? And the the people who are in the Department of Agriculture, they'll be in that department for five, 10 years. Then guess where they go after that? They hop the fence and they go over and they become part of the lobby on the other side for farming, and then they may stay there a little while and they may hop the fence and come back. And that's how it works is that the lobbyists and the politicians are constantly hopping back and forth over the fence.
SPEAKER_00Now, I would say that we need terms for especially Congress. Yes, there are some mummies sitting in there, Maxine Waters. Really? I know, like unbelievable. How old is this woman, right? Like, I don't know, man. There's so many. There was that one that one politician who was having like strokes. I can't remember his name, the guy with the glasses. You think like Mitch McConnell? Yeah, he's up there having a stroke. Like 10 minutes. I know here.
SPEAKER_02Like, I as far as I'm aware, he's still in there. Like, I I think I think he's retiring at the end of the year, maybe. I don't know. Who votes for these people? That that's an even better question, right? Because I know you and I have talked about this, but it's worth mentioning again that a lot of these people have sucked for like 20 years or 30 years or 50 years. I mean, I Pelosi, how long has she been in there? Like 70 years? I mean, she's like bad about the world's best investor. This is true.
SPEAKER_00Put some respect on her name.
SPEAKER_02But case in point, again, I mean, uh, term limits, age limits, uh yeah, you know, I I I I've made the joke before, but it's true that if you wouldn't get in the car with that person driving, then how the hell are you electing them? Right? And and this is what I thought of with with Biden, because he he liked to make it look like he was cool when he put on his aviators and get in the Corvette. You want to get in a Corvette with that guy? Come on, man. Come on, man. Yeah, he's gonna crash you straight into anything, like literally anything.
SPEAKER_00Jeez, politically, we have we have if if I could go back in time to myself to like 1995 or something, and tell myself, my younger self, where things are at. Like half the stuff Biden said was just like there's like memes and tick tocks about it. He would just go off talking about something that made no sense whatsoever. And people were like, Oh no, he's perfectly coherent. What are you talking about? Like, yeah, because we can hear him talk. We can hear him. What the what the fuck? You know, if I if I go back to myself, there's no way my younger soul will be like, come on, bro. Like the the biggest political problems we had back then was the president getting a blowjob. That was the biggest problem we had. That was like a shocker to the world, right? Everyone was like, no, and then it was like this big scandal, and and she was Monica was on the on the news and she was testifying. It was just it was this big deal. Now we wouldn't think twice of president got blowjob. Yeah, me too, right? What else you got?
SPEAKER_02What else you got in there? Yeah, yeah. You know what's amazing about that, speaking of of age, is Clinton is younger than Trump. Just think about that. Clinton was president like over 30 years ago. He's younger than Trump.
SPEAKER_00That's crazy.
SPEAKER_02That's what we're dealing with today.
SPEAKER_00Trump's like, what is he, 79? 79, almost 80. Yep. He's starting to get close to that point too, or some sometimes some of the things, and you see him sometimes, and he is starting to look a little worn.
SPEAKER_02So he's looking very worn. You know, he takes four maximum strength aspirins a day, and and he's he said publicly, yeah, I like uh thin blood. Well, dude, your liver's failing in the meantime with your four maximum strength aspirins a day.
SPEAKER_00You figure you figure his doctor would be telling him that.
SPEAKER_02Well, it it sometimes they show him, and on his hands, he he'll try to cover it up, but he'll have like a huge bruise on his hands because that's what happens when you take too much aspirin, is you naturally bleed because you're your your blood's so thin. And you know, I would say too, I remember I had an elderly neighbor, and she would tell me that her skin just like turned into like paper. And she's like, I I just I like if I get if I even just bump the wall the wrong way, like just start bleeding, and it it just doesn't stop because she's on all these blood thinners, you know.
SPEAKER_00That's terrifying though. Yeah, there but what is that disease called? There's people with that disease. I don't I don't know if it's called I don't know if it's actually a disease, it's a it's a medical condition where if they get cut, they just their blood cells don't uh coagulate or whatever, they don't uh they don't close the wound, and then they'll just continue bleeding forever until they die, right? Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's terrifying. Imagine that. Man, I can I couldn't. I'd be walking around with super glue in my pocket all the time.
SPEAKER_02Hey, are you are you wait a minute, I gotta ask, are you a super glue guy? Do you have you ever super glue to cut?
SPEAKER_00I have.
SPEAKER_02I have too. I you know, funny story. When I was younger, I was using a chainsaw at one point, and it I was whatever I was sawing, it popped, right? And it kind of hit my foot uh in an instant, and I thought, oh no! And I looked and my foot was bleeding, right? And instant I ran straight into the garage, wiped it off, super glue.
SPEAKER_00No more, yeah, no mus, no fuss, right? It's gone. There you go.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah. I mean, it'll it'll do that. I even cut my knee at one point. This is another crazy story. I was helping a buddy do construction, and I was leaning down, kind of on my knees. I was tying my shoe or something, and the grinder turned on, and it it sliced my knee like in an instant. And he was like, Oh shoot! And I was like, Whoa. And the weird thing was the weird thing was because of where it was at, like I felt nothing, like there was like no nerves at all. It was just been fat basically. And I told him, I said, I'm like, go straight to CVS, get the super glue. And he was like, What? I'm like, Yeah, get the super glue. We're all we're all fine, you know, and that's exactly what I did. Super glued it, good to go. Never did anything else.
SPEAKER_00Oh, absolutely. Yeah, some it's a man's way of doing it, right?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, be a real man. Some super glue in it, some gorilla glue fixed.
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SPEAKER_02Ooh.
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SPEAKER_02Oh man, another complicated, uh complex topic. I'm not sure if there's a truth on either side. Uh, where we stand today, I don't know. I would simply say I'm hoping for the best. I I hope it's over soon, and hopefully we can get back to some sense of normal normalcy. That's it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, for me, I would say my final thoughts are I said it at the beginning of the announcements of these two-week peak peace talks, guys. It's going to be a roller coaster mentally and emotionally, and especially if they expand the deadline even longer. Uh, right now the deadline expires on the 22nd. Uh, it's gonna be a lot of peaks and valleys, ups and downs. If you were hoping to have a nice calm couple of weeks, I'm afraid I've got some bad news for you, right? Uh, we all know that as soon as Trump hears something that he doesn't like, he will turn to social media and crash the markets. So um just hold on, pay attention on a daily basis, guys, to what's going on because it affects our everyday lives, right? I know it sucks to have to follow these things, but it affects markets, it affects oil gas prices, it affects oil, it affects everything on your day-to-day, most likely. So uh if you hear something that's going to increase uh oil prices and stuff, maybe go fill up your gas tank before the price goes up, right? So absolutely plus you combine that with summertime coming, gas generally increases in price on top of that. We could have a compounding effect going into the summer. So watch your gas prices out there, guys.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, don't sell that Eevee just yet.
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