Iran, China, And The Cost Of Conflict

We track how the Iran operation is shifting public opinion, draining resources, and colliding with everyday costs like gas and airfare. We also zoom out to China, local foreign influence, and the trust crisis that flares up the moment masks and new virus headlines return.
• Iran’s long tail on gas prices, airlines, and voter patience 
• Precision munitions limits and what “degraded capability” means 
• War powers fights in Congress and claims of illegality 
• Trump’s China trip and why Taiwan and Iran dominate 
• Rubio’s viral tracksuit moment and the optics trap 
• Arcadia, California mayor pleading guilty as CCP agent and what it implies 
• AOC’s billionaire argument and the 2028 Democratic field chatter 
• Masks, hantavirus, and what public health must do to regain trust 
• UK Labour turmoil and how a prime minister can be replaced 
• Nancy Guthrie case updates, DNA talk, and frustration with local leadership 
• Airplane boarding etiquette, overhead bins, and “Jetway Jesus” 
• Whether Rubio can move the country back toward the middle 
Don't forget to join us in the comment section. We'd love to hear what you have to say. 
Keep moving, keep tuning.

Transcript

Travel Setup And Audio Issues

SPEAKER_00 0:29

Well, hello there. How are you, my friend?

SPEAKER_05 0:32

I'm good. That is uh I'm traveling, folks, at an undisclosed location. Top secret. That's not I am not in my uh and not in my home office, and that's the first time I'm hearing that with earbuds in, and that song is awesome.

SPEAKER_00 0:48

It's pretty awesome, isn't it? It's pretty loud too when it comes on, right? In the in the earbuds.

SPEAKER_04 0:53

I know we sure is.

SPEAKER_00 0:54

We we switched it up because I usually are as of late, I was wearing the the buds. And um listen, guys, I I'm techie to a degree, but when it comes to soundboard kind of it's just not my lane. It's not my thing. And uh I have had consistent issues, which I'm sure you guys have, you know, maybe noticed. I don't know. Nobody's actually commented on it. So thanks for pretending not to notice, I guess. Um, but I I kept getting this like echo of just myself. You weren't echoing, but I was. So all of my techie folks in the comments, you know, you feel free to uh give me some uh some sage advice on how to fix it because I kind of do like the earbuds, but whatever. I hated it originally, but like it.

SPEAKER_05 1:38

And I've got them in now because I don't have my normal um, I didn't travel with my microphone. I'm just using the computer, but I thought maybe I would try the earbuds and see how they work. And uh yeah, it's definitely a different sound uh for sure. I can understand where your echo echo concerns would come from.

Iran Update And Public Anxiety

SPEAKER_00 1:53

Mm-hmm. And uh I gotta say, kudos to you. I think everybody should give you some kudos here for you know, you're off in a different location and you still took the time. You you wanted to hang out with everybody. And uh thank you. I appreciate that. Because you know, when I when I go see the grandbabies, like I have tunnel vision, like the the horse with the blinders on. That's the only thing I can focus on. It's all babies all the time. So oh my goodness. So we've got a bunch of stuff to talk about. And, you know, now it feels like it's not a joke, obviously. It's not funny, but you know, I I can't help but make fun a little bit. But here we are um talking about. Can everybody guess? We're still talking about it. Of course we are. Um, so we talked about this last week too, that the right is kind of divided. There's some divided feelings. Uh, the left is panicking, and normal Americans, like here's the truth, like here's the heart of everything that matters probably to most people watching or listening. Um, normal Americans just want honesty, and we really don't want to be involved in a war, but logic tells you that there are times where, you know, things have to happen. So um obviously this is still a big part of the conversation, Clay, as we knew it would be, right?

SPEAKER_05 3:10

Well, we had said last week that we'll be talking about it again this week. And, you know, it's been plus 60 days, and so we've moved into, you know, uh essentially a different phase of the operation, which is the defense of the strait. Um, but Americans in general, you're starting to hear more. You're starting to hear more concern in people's voices. Um, you know, the the question is when are gas prices gonna come down? When is this gonna become effective? Uh effective in the sense of, you know, when is it gonna benefit America? Because that was even in our headline, like America first. Okay, I, you know, we we've outlined like Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. I have turned the the corner that they shouldn't even have nuclear power. Um but but when does this in a in a tangible sense to the average American, when does this make America better? When does it make life easier for the average American? And they're not feeling it. We're not feeling it in uh gas prices being the biggest and most obvious, but also in like things like airline prices, right? Airline prices are going up because fuel prices are up. And you're uh everybody is starting to feel it more and more. And so even you know, some of the most hardy uh pro-supporters of this entire endeavor in Iran are starting to ask the question like, okay, when is enough enough? And I think for all of us, we need if you're a pres if you're a supporter of this administration and President Trump, what you need to start thinking forward to is the election cycle. And how is this going to affect the elections in the, you know, in the in the coming election cycle? Because if this doesn't get straightened out soon, I think there is going to be some impact. I think it's undeniable.

SPEAKER_00 4:50

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, again, I always go back to, you know, what's you you have all these different factions talking about this, and a lot of armchair quarterbacks, you know, should be done, and people really don't have any reason or basis to to speak at all.

SPEAKER_05 5:08

And the the longer that this goes on, the more questions that are being asked, um, and the more concerns are being raised. I mean, you know, I I said it probably week three or four in this whole thing, and it's now becoming a uh you know a concern is that we expended a ton of munitions uh in the in the prosecution of the you know, destroying targets in Iran, uh defending against drones, destroying uh, you know, attack precision attacks on individuals within the leadership realm. Uh and you know, those munitions are not like this isn't like making bullets for machine guns, folks. This is a simple, you know, kind of on a processing line mass production kind of thing. This is gonna take months in some cases in years, in other cases, to replace the capabilities that we used. And I'm not saying we shouldn't use them, but I I think the concern is that if we have to do this again, or if this, you know, if we have to, or if it continues, or if we have to do this again somewhere else, um, we're we're gonna have a degraded capability or no capability at all to replicate what we did against you know Iran in the earliest stages. And that is a concern. Uh and and it really is a concern in the aspect of the way we, the United States, prosecute war and the way American citizens expect us to prosecute war, in the sense of those precision munitions that we talk about, where it's like we know where this person is, this bomb is gonna hit that house, and the you know, uh civilian casualties in around the area are gonna be minimized, right? And we we expect precision and exacting science at this point in the prosecution of warfare. Listen, we can still bomb the crap out of somebody, uh, but we have elevated the level of risk, we've elevated the number of perspective and possible and probable civilian casualties that go along with it, because the precision that we're used to using, uh, that capability is what is is has been degraded and is going away, and is very difficult in time to replicate. It just takes a long time to build those types of munitions. So can we still do it? Sure we can. Is it gonna get a lot messier as we do? Absolutely. So, you know, again, the longer this goes on, the more questions are being asked and the more concerns people have. And again, I think looking longer term, um, we we all need to be worried about the impact of this on the election cycle uh more so than anything else.

SPEAKER_00 7:35

Yeah, I saw a a good uh kind of point counterpoint, and it was uh that one side says deterrence prevents a larger war later, and the other side says intervention creates a larger war later. And you know, therein lies like the argument back and forth um between you know what what's right to do, what what should be done at this point. And, you know, it it's hard for me at least not to keep going back to that they cannot have nuclear access. They just can't, they can't have access to that. So um I don't know what the answer is. It just definitely feels like kind of the the Trump administration has been kind of backed into a corner. I think I used that reference last week too, that it's like being kind of backed into a corner now. That like, what are you gonna do? And you know, that's the question I guess we're all asking. What's gonna happen? And I did just see I saved a screenshot it um about an hour ago. Guys, we're recording on Wednesday uh afternoon, just so you know. Um, so about an hour ago or a couple hours ago, it said uh Fox News reported that the Senate rejects the Democrat-backed Iran resolution to handcuff Trump's war powers for the seventh time. Um so yeah, so you know, in the in the meantime, this is not just playing out in the the court of public opinion. This is playing out, of course, uh legislatively as to as to what he can and cannot do.

SPEAKER_05 8:59

And look, there's there's gonna be a lot of folks with very short memories that are gonna say, yeah, this is illegal, and yeah, he's he didn't he was not authorized to do this. And listen, folks, we we were we were in Afghanistan, I was in Afghanistan. Like we were there 20 years and never declared war. This is, you know, Congress has the power to continue or discontinue this, and they're doing their due diligence. Um but this is not, you know, the the illegal war argument, which we've all been seeing since the day that this thing started, um is is null and void. It's it's a moot point, like it's it's actually a lie. It's not an illegal war, and this is proof positive as Congress votes to continue to give President Trump the the power to do what he's doing, that everything's on the up and up. You may not like it, and that's different, but it is definitely not illegal as it has been authorized by Congress to continue the way that it has been.

SPEAKER_00 9:52

We will be talking about this next week, too. That is the only certain thing. I mean, do we have to? No, of course not. We could avoid it, but how how do you not give the update of of what's happening or not happening at this point? Because, you know, we are obviously all affected in um so many different ways. So yeah, we're we're gonna keep watching it.

Congress, War Powers, And Legality

Trump Lands In China

SPEAKER_05 10:14

Yeah, the world's the world's affected as well. And this is, you know, President Trump, you know, moving into our next topic. President Trump landed in China today. Um, and and this, what's going on in Iran, if you think that's not gonna be talked about today, or in the coming days, as President Trump sits down uh and and talks with the leadership in China, you're crazy because you know, Iran and the Strait of Hormuz does affect the world. And that is gonna be I will it may be topic number one. I don't know, but it's definitely in the top two or three uh as the president sits down in China and discusses you know the relationship between us and them.

SPEAKER_00 10:51

Yeah, yeah. And you gotta love that, you know, everybody on TikTok and every other social media platform is now an expert in geopolitics, right? And everybody's an expert. And everybody's everybody knows like their Mall Wayne and we do have a little video of his um arrival. Let's play that real quick. People can have all kinds of feelings about this, but uh, you know, how can he not go and have these talks? The the reality is is that we have to deal with the you know the economic strain and all of those things and military and all of that, and he's trying to project strength while negotiating trade and and you know, like you said, dealing with the the Iran issue and of course Taiwan tensions.

SPEAKER_05 11:46

Yeah, and he brought the aid team with him. He brought, you know, um Secretary Rubio was on the plane with him. Um if you haven't seen him in his travel clothes, uh it's pretty funny.

SPEAKER_00 11:56

I did, yeah, in like a tracksuit kind of thing.

SPEAKER_05 11:59

Yeah, yeah, so there's there's an uproar though about it. I think it's hilarious if it's even intentional. I don't know if it is or not, but he's in this Nike tracksuit, right? And uh, because listen, folks, you know, uh probably other than President Trump, and maybe Barron, I don't think anybody lives in a suit, uh, you know, like like he does. I think President Trump, probably from the time that he was a child, was put in a suit, you know, five minutes out of bed and then wore it until he changed, you know, into his pajamas. And then and I think Barron is very similar in that very, yes, that was the thing.

SPEAKER_00 12:29

He always had to wear his when he was little, always wore suits.

SPEAKER_05 12:32

Yep. So um, but I don't Secretary Rubio, I don't think fits in that same box. And so, you know, it's a long flight, obviously, in Air Force One to China, and uh, you know, he changed into some comfy traveling clothes, so he's in this Nike track suit. But it turns out that it is similar, if not the same, as the track suit that they moved Maduro in when they pulled him out of Venezuela and put him on a helicopter and flew his ass out of there. It is it looks like the exact same track suit. Um, and again, if it is and it's on purpose, I think that is a great sense of humor by Secretary Rubio. I think that's a great slighting. Good for him. That's hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 13:10

I think he has a much better sense of humor than people give him credit for. He's got a very dry delivery, so I think some people don't get his humor. Yeah. Yeah, I saw that. That was like one of the first things I saw today, I think it was, or this afternoon. Finally opened up my my phone and took a look, and it was like they call it the the Venezuela track suit or sweatsuit or whatever. Yeah, as soon as I saw it, I was laughing.

SPEAKER_05 13:31

Yeah, and and so you know, people, this is these visits are multi-pronged. Like, so it's not gonna be President Trump and Secretary Rubio attached at the hip and the rest of the team, you know, everywhere all the time for the duration of the visit. I can promise you that President Trump will have appearances and interactions and you know, um, all kinds of ceremonial stuff that he will have that he will endure as part of the visit. He will sit down with uh, you know, the various people within the leadership chain of China, but I can I I will bet you a dime on a dollar that Secretary Rubio will be working the entire time that he's there. There's not gonna be a lot of fun for him. There's probably not gonna be a walk on the wall of China or any of that touristy stuff. He's gonna be in with his counterpart, and they're gonna be the ones working the real nuts and bolts of anything that's going on. Um, and he will be messaging on behalf of the administration of President Trump hard from the moment that they hit the ground. He'll be the guy who at the end of this will be completely exhausted, uh, guaranteed. But that's that's how these visits work. You do bring the A-team, you do bring every asset that you can available. I don't know who else on the on the flight, but uh I know obviously Secretary Rubio, but President Trump, I'm sure, loaded up with everybody that he needs, and uh, you know, and they will it would be interesting to do to see and hear the debrief after this was over with so that we know collectively what was, at least on the unclassified side, what was discussed between the two nations.

SPEAKER_00 14:58

Yeah, you know, I haven't um I haven't perused the the leftist media, but uh I it would it be safe to guess that they're one of the things that they are saying, probably because I'm just making a guess that what they are most likely to be saying, and that's that the uh see, I told you he's in bed with China. See, I told you he's best friends with him, right? No doubt, no doubt.

SPEAKER_05 15:21

Yeah, as soon as I saw the red carpet, and then um President Trump, he gave a little fist pump while he was standing there. Um, and I I don't know what I don't know if it was for the students or if it was for the band or the music or whatever, but he gave a couple of you know, President Trump fist pump pumps. And uh, you know, that of course, like you said, it spawned a reaction. The red carpet itself spawned a reaction. Uh and yes, I'm sure there'll be accusations of, you know, anti-America, anti-democracy deal making going on. Um I'm sure there'll be accusations of personal business gains that will be made. Of course. And I listen, I'm sure there's an agenda for this. Uh I I know that everybody's got their assignments and their talking points, but really the after it's over with the debrief is is where we will know, you know, at least what can be discussed in in public, what was uh, you know, what was accomplished between the two nations. You can assume a few things. Um, Taiwan probably being number one, uh if it's not Iran, and Iran being number two. Uh and those will be the two biggest things. And then of course you've got international trade, which is affected by both Taiwan and Iran, you know, uh, and and those sorts of things. So um I can tell you what's not going to be on the list, and that is things like environmental impact and all the crap that the previous administration would have wasted time on. Uh, that's not what President Trump's doing either.

California Mayor As CCP Agent

SPEAKER_00 16:41

Right. Nope, nope. He's talking about the real stuff, not the manufactured, manufactured nonsense for sure. Um we can um we can move right into sort of kind of some more more of the same but different, if that makes any sense, guys. Um this was pretty wild. So the Arcadia Mayor story is uh actually bigger than one person. A California mayor has now agreed to plead guilty. That's in itself, that is a big deal. Um acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government.

SPEAKER_05 17:10

I think it's is it I may have typed on this. I think it's Acadia, Acadia California.

SPEAKER_00 17:15

Did I say, did I say Arcadia? I I have Arcadia, but you're you're you're probably right.

SPEAKER_05 17:19

I think it's Acadia, California. So anyway, so this is um Mayor Eileen Wang. Um and so she has been on the city council since 2022. She's been a member of the Chamber of Commerce in uh Acadia since 2018. Now, they don't have an elected mayor. What they have is a rotating responsibility within the city council. So as of 2025, I think uh the way I could track it, because it's pretty confusing if you don't live there, um, I think she became the mayor, or it was her turn in the barrel, to become the mayor from the city council, which she has resigned from. That is the post that she was currently occupying, uh, I think as early as either late 25 or early 26. But she has admitted, as you stated, that from 2020 to 2022, at a minimum, uh she was acting under the guidance from communist China, from the CCP, uh, in facilitating pro-China messaging within the United States. So acting as a foreign agent on behalf of a foreign government while an elected official in California. Now, she had a partner in this, uh, who, you know, he had an American named Son or Sonny, uh, but another Chinese resident who has already been prosecuted for this. Uh so it wasn't just her, and it wasn't just a few years. So she is probably going to jail for what amounts to treason, uh, which will get her a minimum of 10 years. So those are the kind of nuts and bolts of this, uh, as she's been found out. Uh, and I obviously I think in the uh investigation of her partner, the guy who's already been prosecuted, her role in this became readily apparent. Uh why it has taken so long to, you know, bring charges against her, I think is a little strange. But she designed, and she is being indicted, and she will likely go to jail uh for at least 10 years or for in around 10 years. So that's the nuts and bolts of it. Um I think the bigger question is where else is this happening? That's the bigger question.

SPEAKER_00 19:28

Uh it's funny. I was just gonna say, so what other, you know, small local governments have this same type of infiltration and you know, treasonous activity going on? I mean, you know, we we could uh talk about Minnesota real easily, of course, not Chinese, but you know, just simply different examples of different uh foreign countries influencing our our politics, our our lives, our social media, you know, everything that we do is being heavily influenced uh by these outside entities. And, you know, the the funny part to me, as always, there was like right on cue, there were some in our in our delightful leftist media that right away went to like disregarded the whole treasonous act, disregarded all of the facts of this and and went right in right away instead to the well, we got to be careful. We don't want to encourage, you know, Chin Chinese people hate. You know, we don't want people to you know blame all like literally nobody's doing that. Like we're literally calling out the problem, holding the people accountable, or at least trying to, or at least advocating for that to happen.

SPEAKER_05 20:40

This is personal accountability. This is accountability for an individual, and in this case now two individuals who are acting on behalf of communist China uh within you know local governance. Again, where else is this happening? You said it, Minnesota. Uh you can see it starting to happen in other places, right? And folks, this is not this is not cultural influence, okay? This is not the same as having a deeply Jewish district or a deeply Hispanic district or a deeply, you know, black district where the people that they elect are people of you know of the same culture or of the same race or religious you know preference. That's not what this is. This is acting, and listen, folks, I know people are gonna argue Israel. If you're Jewish, you're acting on behalf of Israel. Not true. Stop being a bigot, right? That's not what that is. Um, but these people are not just Chinese, uh, they are Chinese elected elected officials in an American government that have admitted to working on behalf of a foreign nation. That's not the same as you know, cultural influence. This is actual governmental influence. And I can promise you that that is happening other places at different levels within our government. Local governance, state governance, potentially even federal governance. This is happening, right? And and I know Minnesota is an easy example. There's a dense Somali population there. You can say that they're not acting on behalf of Somalia, except for the fact that you have things like the Minnesota state flag now looks like the Somali flag. Like there's there's very, very different things, especially when you've got elected officials that don't declare themselves to be American, right? When when Ilena Omar says she's a Somali, she doesn't think you say Somali American. She says she's a Somali. Yes. That is that is you know akin to what we're talking about.

SPEAKER_00 22:37

Yeah, she's made so many statements regarding her allegiance to Somalia and you know her, and none of them have anything to do with an allegiance to this country that she serves.

SPEAKER_05 22:50

So yeah, this isn't listen, folks, this isn't you know, um Marco Rubio talking about being a Cuban. This isn't even AOC talking about being Puerto Rican, right? Right? It's it's not the same, right? This is this is different, this is significantly different, and there's criminal charges that you know come with this, appropriately so. Um and but you're right, like the overreaction of you know Chinese, like let's all just let's distrust every Chinese person is a little bit absurd.

SPEAKER_00 23:21

And you know, to to make the the assumption or the accusation that that's what we're gonna do, it's just it's plain deflecting. And I would say anyone, anyone who is saying things like that is one of two things you're on that payroll, or you're just too dumb to think critically and logically. Like those are your only two options.

SPEAKER_05 23:42

The other problem with that though is that when we do have people trying to collect facts, people like Nick Shirley, right? Yes, and then you have people who stand in the way and they say, Well, you can't do that because what you know it's it goes along with what you're saying, which is you know, we've got an example of two Chinese individuals acting on behalf of the communist government of China, right? So don't be racist against all Chinese people or be suspect, you know, suspect all Chinese people. Okay, fine. Um, you know, you've got somebody like Nick Shirley who is making sure that we're not stereotyping, he's actually doing investigations, he's present finding and presenting facts, and even when he does that, he is being accused of being racist. So, you know, it it is this absolute defense against anything, you know, that is not, you know, and I'm I'm trying really, really hard not to turn this into a racial thing, but if you're a white, if you're a white American and you're investigating or looking into anybody who's not a white American, you're immediately called a racist. So it's a catch-22. We still got to hold people accountable for wrongful conduct, whether it's, you know, fraud in the sense of Medicare or public funding or whatever, or if it's these elected officials acting on behalf of China, we still have to hold people accountable. I I don't care who's doing the investigating and who's being investigated.

SPEAKER_03 24:58

I really yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:00

Yeah, you know, and the difference between now and just a few years ago, um those types of accusations um would silence people that would stop people from doing things because they don't nobody wants to be viewed as a racist, nobody wants to be, you know, perceived as anything other than a good person. Um, but you know, we all know that those are tactics. Those are tactics, tactics to shut down conversations, to deflect from the truth and from facts, and people aren't falling for it anymore. You know, you can't cancel people anymore. It doesn't work. It doesn't, you know, you you can turn a group of people against another group of people or a person uh for saying things that you don't like, but it's not, you're not canceled anymore. Like it's not, it's not a thing. And I know some people still worry for their job security and their job safety, and they can't say certain things or or you know, express certain beliefs or thoughts. Um, but that is less and less. And especially when it comes to, you know, saying stuff on on social media, you know, I don't really care what you call me or what your opinion is. I know exactly what I'm saying. I know exactly what I mean by what I say. And if you want to interpret it as something else, knock yourself. You want to go tell all your little friends, you know, to go tell Elsa on her social media comments that she's a bad person. I don't care. I don't care, you know. And and that's that's the general mindset of you know, more and more people now. Like it's just stop. Nobody cares what you're what you're gonna whine about today.

SPEAKER_03 26:28

Yeah.

AOC, Billionaires, And 2028 Odds

SPEAKER_00 26:29

Speaking of whining, you already mentioned her name. She doesn't really whine, she just rants incoherently, erratically.

SPEAKER_04 26:42

She makes stuff up.

SPEAKER_00 26:43

She just makes things up. What was her latest thing? The the the billionaires? No one no one should be a billionaire, isn't that what she said?

SPEAKER_05 26:50

No, no, no. You can't, a billionaire, you cannot earn a billion dollars.

SPEAKER_00 26:54

You cannot earn a billion dollars.

SPEAKER_05 26:56

You cannot earn a billion dollars. Um there's you know, it's so funny because you know, people like they show she said that they like took a clip of her saying that, and then they showed Oprah Winfrey. You know, yeah, really saying that, and then they showed a clip of uh who was it? Was it Mark Cuban? You know what I mean? Like all of these super uh hyper liberal Democrat types, and uh, you know, her sentiment being that you're not the one who earns the money, who makes the who makes the product, who does the work, who does whatever to earn that billion dollars, um, is flawed. That's the nicest way of saying it. Um that was the sentiment that she was or the tap that she was trying to take. Uh and so people have been uh speculating whether or not she will be a not just a candidate, but a viable candidate for the 2028 presidential election. What do you think?

SPEAKER_00 27:57

Listen, uh I all I can think is please, please, please, please make it so. Please do it. You already know, y'all know, my dream ticket for the left is AOC and Kamala Harris. Like those two will put me right back in business in a heartbeat. The amount of material those two women would provide, and the improbability of them making any kind of significant impact in the election cycle would be well, actually, there's there's plenty of people. We already know there's plenty of people that will vote for them. God, God help them all. Um, but yeah, so uh I don't know. I mean, she says her ambition is bigger than being president, which is probably her way of saying, you know, please pick me. I just don't want to say that I want you to pick me, right?

SPEAKER_05 28:50

We don't have kings here.

SPEAKER_00 28:52

Oh, that's right. That's right.

SPEAKER_05 28:54

Can't be bigger than president. So the current, according to Polymarket, uh one of those awesome betting sites. So Gavin Newsom is the number one, uh, 24.1%. This is for the Dems, folks. 24.1%. Uh your girl, Gamala, uh, rolling in in second at 9%, with AOC hot on her heels at 8.8%. Top three nominations, uh, dem nominations right now for president, according to Polymarket.

SPEAKER_03 29:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 29:27

So I I think um, first of all, I think uh Kamala Harris thinks that she can still win.

unknown 29:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 29:35

How dumb she is. Um I think that you will see we've been saying it's newsome, you and I've been saying it's newsome since halfway through Biden.

SPEAKER_03 29:44

Right.

SPEAKER_05 29:44

Once when the newsoms took the trip to Mexico with the Clintons, and uh I think Bill pulled them aside and said, hey, not now, but later. And so that was, you know, like I said, halfway through Biden. Um but uh I think it's newsome. I I think Harris is gonna run. I think AOC is gonna be in there, I think Pete Boudegig is gonna be in there again. I think Prince Kerford from Illinois is gonna be in there again. Uh you may see uh Hochel, you may see some of those folks, but I think all in all it's Newsom, and the question is who's the BP? And I think if and thankfully she's dumb as a post, but if AOC had a brain, that's what she would be shooting for.

SPEAKER_00 30:27

Yeah, yeah, that's the uh wagon she'd she'd hitch to, right?

SPEAKER_05 30:31

Yeah, she should be shooting for VP with Gavin Newsom. Uh and I think probably probably the Dem Party, that's a great ticket for them. You know, he's he's a white guy, uh, which you know is they they all complain about white guys until that's who their their primary candidate is.

SPEAKER_00 30:49

Their white guy, until it's their white guy.

SPEAKER_05 30:51

Yeah, and they love him. Um so of course they're gonna need, you know, it's the same, it's literally the same formula as as Biden Harris. So you've got a white guy and then you've got a woman of color uh in the VP slot. And so AOC is the most likely to go with that because they're not gonna run two white guys. Like that's that's not gonna happen. Uh so yeah, if she's smart, which she's not, but if she was smart, that's what she would be doing.

SPEAKER_00 31:16

She's not smart, but she's the ambitious, so that's enough. But right, you know, for them, that's enough. You don't have to be smart. Kamala Harris proved that. You don't have to be smart, you just have to be ambitious and know the right people and do the right things.

SPEAKER_05 31:28

I just wonder though, she is willing to risk her seat.

SPEAKER_00 31:32

Hmm.

SPEAKER_05 31:33

Yeah. And I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 31:35

I mean, you know, like you said, kind of thing. I I don't know if she's willing to give that up or it's probably gonna be a matter of whatever she's promised, you know, whatever, right? You know, whatever it is that that that she's hoping for out of this, if they promised it to her, um, then she probably would do it. Because again, I think it's the the ambition is there. Um, you know, she she fancies herself as a you know, as an activist and as uh, you know, I mean, she's uh she's the she's an extremist. She she repres she well, not well in the real sense, but she well represents a faction of that party, which is the extremist, you know, climate and you know, all her all of her nonsense. Um, she embodies all of that. And then you add to it that she's young, um, she is in her own way comparatively, she's uh uh would be considered attractive to them, you know. So she fits a lot of of lanes that that would please them. So, you know, she would be very appealing to a percentage of people, as as you as you gave the percentages. There, there are people that would be on board for it. And, you know, as um someone on the opposite side of everything, I am fully on board for that.

SPEAKER_05 32:52

I am Yeah, she's the best, she's the best candidate the GOP could hope for.

Masks Return And Hantavirus Fear

SPEAKER_00 32:57

Oh my goodness. I was just going through, I was um, I was kind of weeding out some of my, you know, just lighting the load on my my laptop of videos and stuff. And I uh, you know, have a small, very small collection of uh AOC impressions that I did. I was thinking of throwing them back out there again, but I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. I still gotta work on them, perhaps. We'll see. I don't know. Speaking of more lunacy, let's go on to the next one. Let's talk about this. Oh, masks again. What do you think, Clay? I mean, listen, I still see people walking around with their masks on. Some people have not given up their masks, and it's usually the ones that are walking by themselves in fresh air or driving in their car.

SPEAKER_05 33:38

Driving in their car, yeah. But it but it there is there is an increase not just in uh seeing masks. Like I said, I I'm traveling, so passed through an airport and I saw a lot, a lot of masks. Uh not a lot, I shouldn't say that, a lot more masks than I have seen recently. Um, and I won't attribute that to allergies and springtime and all that crap. Um, I have seen a lot of uh, you know, the same phrasing coming back already from COVID. I've seen trust the science, I've seen you know, mask up and be safe. I've seen it's the same bumper stickers from the same people, uh, and they're already pushing it for hontavirus, which is crazy. Um crazy. And I I hate I'm gonna give you a high five because you were skeptical last week, the guy on the boat.

SPEAKER_00 34:29

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 34:30

Have you seen this? That he uh in 22, I think, somebody pulled up an old social media post from that exact same guy. Yes, that was very much a you know, hot girls get boosters and hot girls, like he was uh that guy is a huge and was a huge, huge vaccine super booster. Get your fifth booster. He is that guy, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:57

He's like a travel vlogger or something like that, too. Like he has himself an influencer, and yes, yes, I did see that.

SPEAKER_05 35:05

And I your skepticism, your spidey senses were tingling on that guy.

SPEAKER_00 35:10

They were.

SPEAKER_05 35:10

And uh, I I think you hit it because if you have you seen another person recording and putting anything out from the boat? Anyone at all?

SPEAKER_00 35:18

No, you know, and it's funny that you said that because I actually pulled that up for uh one of our comments from last week for the comments section. We'll just talk about it now. Um, somebody said exactly that I'm gonna put it up now. So somebody said, Catherine said, in this day of posting, everything that is happening in your life, has anyone seen any videos or pictures from any of the passengers on the social media platform? And and no, I'm I know that I haven't. I saw, you know, I looked in the comments section of other videos um from other people, and um, everybody was kind of saying that I think I saw like one or two people have said, like, yeah, I thought I saw a video from somebody, but they weren't sure. So uh, you know, uh again, can't can't help but be a little suspicious of basically everything. And that is not the weirdest thing.

SPEAKER_05 36:07

And and the lessons that we learned from COVID, people haven't forgotten, thankfully. So there are small things that people are picking up on. I've seen um a couple. One, like every when they were bringing, because people have been brought to the continental United States, they've been, you know, I I think a handful, a dozen or so were taken to a specific facility, like in Nebraska and other places. But in the transport of these people who have been infected, you know, there's a great scene of like on the tarmac, all these people in chemsuits getting sprayed down with treatment, and like some baggage handler like walking by completely, you know, right? Smoking a snake. Yeah, there was another one where like the the bus that they were transporting, you know, all these people on, like, you know, everybody on the bus is all in the suits and everything else, except for the driver who's just kind of driving the bus, right? So the things that we, you know, again, the lessons we learned, all of our skepticism from COVID is alive and well, and it's keeping everybody's vision sharp to find the plot holes in all of this. And, you know, I think I think hontavirus isn't what everybody assumes it is. Uh, I think that we, you know, we all got very familiar with what COVID was and wasn't. Uh I think you've got another round of folks that are gonna get very smart on hauntivirus here very quickly. Uh, but I think it's already being won, blown out of proportion by people who want to go back to masks and go back to closing schools, and by the way, pay attention to what position all the teachers' unions take, and then you'll see what's real and what's not. Yes. But uh, you know, but then also it's being, you know, all the holes are being found very quickly. So I I hope that they're this gets downplayed to a reality sense very, very quickly.

SPEAKER_00 37:56

Yes, yeah. And there's a you know, there's plenty of voices that I'm hearing speaking out saying, like, stop, this is this is you know, such an overreaction. And, you know, people with with some medical background, you know, and and some um, you know, not fame, but uh recognition online that are saying, I'm forgetting who right now. I want to say it was like, nah, it can't be Dr. Drew. Maybe it was Dr. Drew, I don't know. Um, but they're you know, they're saying, like, stop, this is this is so out of hand. The reaction to this is absurd. And uh, you know, side note, um, I don't know if you remember this, but remember uh Gene Hack when Gene Hackman and his wife were found. His wife actually, according to what they reported, she actually died uh as a result of the virus. Um but you know they yes, yep. So and it actually didn't, you know, that's where my little tinfoil hat comes out a little bit like, oh, were they starting to try and float that back then, maybe? But I don't I don't think so. I think that was just a uh, you know, cr crazy, uh sad, awful set of circumstances that that went on there. Um but yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 38:57

There's you know, we know who patient zero is, right? They know who it is. This guy and his wife who were bird watchers from Denmark or the Netherlands, something like that, who went to some rat-infested dump in Argentina.

SPEAKER_00 39:10

A landfill or something, right?

SPEAKER_05 39:11

Landfill. So now they know not just who, but where, right? So this isn't a wet market in China. This isn't right, there's no um, you know, there's no speculation about the or origin or genesis of this. So now the question is, what are they doing about that landfill in Argentina? Are they burning the place?

SPEAKER_03 39:30

Right.

SPEAKER_05 39:30

Are they right poisoning every rat that's in that joint to make sure that they don't go anywhere? Like what are we doing to prevent if this is in fact something to be concerned about, right? What actions are being taken in specifically that landfill in Argentina to make sure it doesn't go anywhere else?

SPEAKER_00 39:46

Right. Yeah, and you know, and I don't I don't really know. Um, I don't know enough about I haven't like researched it that the hantavirus, you know, and of course they there so the I guess they it it's spread from um rat and rodent feces and urine basically. Um it's not there's like different strains, right? There's one strain, the I think like the common strain, it does not go person to person. Obviously, this one, this strain did uh or does. So my question is are do do rodents like just naturally carry that virus, or um that's what I'm actually curious. I will do my reading after. I mean, I am curious now, like if that's a natural thing in the because, you know, generally speaking, we have good immune systems, we're generally clean. I mean, you do think of places like New York and the cities where they're often rat central. Yeah, you know, where you think about these like rat infested areas. So I guess the answer maybe would be like, no, it's not something that they naturally automatically carry. Maybe it's just something they contract. I don't know. I don't know, but I guess I've got some homework to do. I will find out. Or y'all can feel free to tell me in the comment section. Go do the research for me. Like uh some of my commenters that are like, can you put the link to that in your just look it up? Look it up. I'm gonna look it up. I'm gonna look it up. Come on, folks. But I am asking you to tell me if you know. So whatever. Um, so yeah, the the whole mask thing, that's a big heck no. Um, not gonna happen. And I know that I am far, very far from being alone in that. Um, you will not, you know, what is that saying? Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, right? Isn't that the uh saying? So not gonna happen. Not gonna take your new Hampton scene. Uh, none of the things are gonna be happening. And, you know, to y'all who want to do it, knock yourself out, do put your man, put your triple mask on, stay your six feet, you know, what is it? Six, yeah, six foot distance apart, which was a total made up thing that Fauci admitted to just throwing out a number just because people wanted to hear it. Yeah, good luck with that. So madness. Uh what else we got? Is there anything else we want to say on that? No. Yeah. Oh, actually, there was I did have a question that what do you think the public health institutions actually need to do to regain credibility with Americans? Because nobody trusts anything that we hear, right? Nobody trusts these organizations anymore. I don't. I mean, I the minute you start telling me that you created a new vaccine to address this new or actually not new problem that is happening in such you know minute um areas, I don't trust them. So how do we get that back?

SPEAKER_05 42:37

Yeah, I think the first question or the the first indicator is the um that institution and the medical providers specifically don't jump to a conclusion. They actually continue to do real diagnosis uh and their first inclination is not uh, oh, it's gotta be huntivires. That can't be it that can't be their answer. Because that's what they did with COVID. And everything, we all know this, we've we've talked about this. Everything turned into COVID. The other thing that they have to reject, they have to reject is additional funding from the federal government that has anything to do with huntivires, because that also colored everything it had to do with COVID. You know, every COVID fatality, that's why the numbers got skewed. Anyone who was in a hospital due to COVID, the hospitals were getting extra money from the federal government, they were getting different streams of funding. So a common goal was COVID. If you got hit by a car and died and they tested you and you had COVID, your cause of death is COVID. And that's not an exaggeration, folks. That but it all had to do with the money. So that has to be super, super transparent. But I think that the conversation has to continue to be an honest conversation with your medical provider about what is wrong with you. And if they jumped to the conclusion that it's hantavirus, you should get up and walk out and find another. Another doctor continually.

SPEAKER_00 44:02

Yeah, absolutely. I saw something the other day, and again, I didn't research it yet, so can't give it any kind of uh validity yet. Um, but I did see that somebody claimed that one of the side effects, maybe it was, from the COVID vaccine was cantavirus. Did you see anything about that?

SPEAKER_05 44:21

No.

UK Turmoil And Replacing Starmer

SPEAKER_00 44:22

I'm sure it's possible, but I yeah, like that, you know, they claim that it was it's in like the the the small print. Some of the effects could be, you know. So listen, guys, I don't know. I'm not saying that that is a a factual thing. I'm saying that I've heard this is one of the things that people are saying don't know. You know, but that's I guess that's the sad part of the world that we live in now is like that you anything you hear, you're like, yeah, that's possible. I guess that's possible. You know, like aliens now. So yeah, now we got the aliens, you know. So you've got the people who are alien crazed, you know, that's all they want to talk about. And then you've got the other people that are like, you know, it's a distraction. It's a distraction. Everything's everything's a distraction. And maybe it is, you know. And then there's a third group of people like, what if they're not aliens? What if they're demons? Listen, I don't have any answers. I don't know what they are. I don't, I don't, I just don't have time. I don't have time for this. I don't know if you know, do I think that there are other beings out in the universe? Of course there are. Of course there are. You can't be that egocentric, can you, to to believe that to uh to not believe that there's nothing else out there. So yeah, there is definitely other things out there. Are they here? I don't know. Probably. There's a high probability, you know, but I just don't have time. I can't, I can't be worrying about that right now, guys. Y'all want to worry about it. You worry about it. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. That's not even one of our topics, but we had to dip into that real quick. Oh, what else have we got? Oh, okay. So this one was really interesting to me because I I really kind of knew next to nothing uh about this. So uh there potentially could be a new British prime minister. Um, and this is this was it. So Clay kind of gave me the low down here, and I'm gonna have him do the same. And I don't want to hear you in the comments. You can if you want, that because somebody's always commenting something like, Americans, they they don't know anything that's going on in the rest of the world. Don't don't blame the rest of the world for something I don't know. I don't know the answer. There are plenty of Americans that know the answer. I just happen to not. So you don't have to pick on the entire country for something I don't know. Clay, explain this.

SPEAKER_05 46:44

So um, and I I had to do a little bit of research on this too, because I I was trying to, I had heard something about potentially Pierre Starmer, Sir Pierce Stoner, uh being replaced as the Prime Minister in in the UK. And I was like, man, what is their election cycle? Uh, because I knew they were having elections, but I didn't know at what level. And so really what it boils down to is, and I'll explain this in American terms for those that don't know. Um the British Prime Minister, the selection is very akin to the Speaker of the House. In other words, the party that controls Parliament uh and has the most MPs, as they call them, members of Parliament, they have the majority number in Parliament, get to select the Prime Minister, forward that individual to the Crown, king or queen, whoever is sitting at the time, uh, for approval. So the Labour Party, who Keir Starmer belongs to, uh, has some internal strife going on. He is not doing well, his approval rating is atrocious. Uh, there are a lot of people who are not fans of his, including his own party. Uh so the concept or the proposal of him being replaced as prime minister is not due to a uh national level election like we have for president, but it's also not due to a change in majority in parliament. There has been uh Labor Party changes within Parliament. Uh Labor Party has retained power, they're still the majority, but within the Labor Party, they need 81 members, MPs, to call for a challenge or replacement for Keir Starmer as the Prime Minister. And right now they have 80. So they're one individual away from bringing a new prime minister on and removing Keir Starmer. He is also being uh influenced, he's being poked in the chest by members of his own party and telling him to resign. Uh because they don't necessarily want it to go to a vote. They would rather have him resign and then they choose another prime minister. Uh but things are very unstable uh in Britain right now because of this. Yeah. But yeah, so for the folks that don't know, that's the process over there. Uh the prime minister does move into whatever it is, number 10 Downing Street or whatever, which is, you know, their their White House equivalent. Uh but again, it is selected very much like our speaker of the House. So uh but it's uh you know, we all think of people like Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher and all those types. Yeah, um exactly. It is it tends to be it is a five-year term uh as as the Prime Minister. I don't know, I'd have to go back and look. I don't know how many five-year prime ministers we've had of late. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 49:38

It seems like they change over pretty quick.

SPEAKER_05 49:40

Yeah, maybe three or four years. I don't know if anybody's gotten a five, but regardless, there's uh potential, you know, uh a potential change in in uh Britain right now, as far as the prime minister goes. So pay attention to that because it does affect us. As much as Americans don't like to think foreign politics affects us, it certainly does. All you have to do is look and see what's going on in England right now. Uh there's a massive Islamic influence, not just in London, but across all across the UK and uh and across the the Isles, because you got to include Ireland in this too. Um and so and it's not it's not going over well. Uh I know Kirst Armer has been known to bow down to you know the the Islamic influence, and it's that is not going over well uh with the populace. So with the voting populace. So um yeah, pay attention to that, folks, because you may see a new prime minister in England, which again has has impact on us uh in uh you know for potentially up to a five year span.

SPEAKER_00 50:36

Yeah. Wow, yeah, it'd be interesting to see what happens with that.

SPEAKER_03 50:40

Yeah.

Nancy Guthrie Case And Sheriff Criticism

SPEAKER_00 50:40

Um more interesting stuff, completely back over on the other side of the pond, our side of the pond, as they call it. Uh Nancy Guthrie, my goodness, a hundred, it's I feel like it's even that a hundred days missing.

SPEAKER_03 50:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:53

Um so I I'm actually a little baffled by the the latest uh conversation. But anyhow, the the Nancy Guthrie case is uh obviously speaking because underneath the headlines and speculation, and we talked about this before, um, is a real family living through uh just a kind of uncertainty that you you just don't even want to imagine. Um investigators continue working the case. We're more than 100 days after her appearance. Now, DNA evidence is reportedly playing a major role. Um, so yeah, talk a little bit more, Clay, about what they they just found or they just finished testing. What what's the the time?

SPEAKER_05 51:35

I I am I am not you're right, it's all very confusing. Yeah, and and so she's been gone a hundred days. I I know that the there was something that popped up that caused a stir, but really what I keep getting out of this is this sheriff sucks. He is just that bad. And I say that because there have been a number of outside agencies that have offered assistance, like including you know the Cajun Navy, you know who those guys are, right? So this is like every time that there's a hurricane down in Louisiana, this is a bunch of dudes with with boats, right? And they will go and they will pull survivors out of rivers and out of floodplains and all kinds of stuff, and they call themselves the Cajun Navy. Um you know, it it's but they they've branched out. It's not just about that. They're really a search and rescue organization, is what they've evolved into. And they have offered uh to go uh and you know, provide people to search, provide, you know, manpower to provide all these things. And the sheriff says, No, don't need your help. No, don't want it. And they're not the only ones, but you've got that as an example, you know, to say there are people willing to help provide, you know, capabilities to get to the bottom of this for the Guthrie family, if nothing else. And the sheriff just says, nah, no, pass. Sorry, don't need you. When clearly, you know clearly you do, you do. Yeah, beyond the uh, hey, too many, too many footprints will spoil the crime scene. Like we're past that.

SPEAKER_03 53:10

Well past it, right.

SPEAKER_05 53:11

Yeah, we're we're at a point where it's like literally we need people online lifting up every leaf to see if there's something underneath it.

SPEAKER_03 53:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 53:19

And and you know, listen, I've said it before, a woman of her age and her medical condition, a hundred days in that climate, uh, and no legitimate ransom, you know, contact. I know there's a lot of you know attempts out there to spell by TMZ and others, but like Nancy Guthrie's dead. I I it's it's the only logical conclusion to come to. Uh, and I don't look beyond much of that. But again, this this sheriff, this guy needs, he doesn't just need to be defeated in the next local election. Like this guy needs to be in jail for negligence. Like, this is it's unbelievable how bold-faced he is in in trying to defend what he and his department are doing and not doing it. It's so weird. Yeah.

Listener Comments And Airplane Etiquette

SPEAKER_00 54:06

Well, I I guess that that the family that we know of at least isn't saying, no, we want all the help we can get. Like, why are you turning down, you know, and maybe they are. I don't know that they are or not, but you know, because it hasn't happened, we that that ask for help hasn't really gone out, it kind of does tend to tell you that, you know, they they have come to the same foregone conclusion as well. And now it's just about kind of recovering uh her remains, really, just just getting some some closure uh for them at this point. And and listen, I I certainly would pray for a miracle for them and for that woman to be alive and to be okay and all of those things and would be thrilled for them if that was the case. That would be just amazing. Um, but equally amazing is that, you know, a hundred days that this amount of time has gone by, they have, you know, some um leads, you know. I mean, they have the video, they have, well, apparently DNA evidence. Um, I I think there was something. So the thing that I saw, um, and it just saw it very quickly in passing, was something to do with like a blood trail. And I don't know if it was one that they had already um discovered, because that's where I got thrown off. I'm like, wait, was that a a new discovery or was that something that they have have no new information? Maybe that's the DNA stuff. But um I don't know. You know, no matter what, it's it's very sad, it's very tragic. And it's equally tragic for any family who has experienced um, you know, uh a kidnapping like this and and have no closure and no, you know, it's not it's not more sad and heartbreaking because it's somebody famous adjacant. Um, it's sad because it's a human being, you know, and a family that's um, you know, suffering. It's just wild. But I agree with you. I I it is um it sounds like there's some ineptitude going on, mishandling. Uh and again, as always, this is looking from the outside in and not having every ounce of information, which, you know, at this point, certainly you think they'd put it all out there. If there's been no right, no contact from the uh kidnapped or alleged kidnappers, if there's been nothing, like what what harm is there to put it all out there? And maybe somebody, you know, can shed some light. I don't know. Very sad. Yeah. Let's uh let's go into that comment section. Uh I pulled two. Well, I technically pulled three, but we already took a look at one of them. So I have no idea which one I'm pulling up first here. Let's see. Oh, so this was uh so we had talked about your your jet way Jesus.

SPEAKER_05 56:48

Jetway Jesus, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 56:50

And once again, I was dumbfounded and surprised and and learned something new uh about this. Was uh regarding Southwest guys, uh, that they changed from the whole pick your seat when you get on the plane to assign seating, uh and that um the the wheelchair brigade that dominated the first uh wave of borders, right? And suddenly uh by the time they boarded, they were miraculously healed and were able to walk. So obviously it was a scam to get on board first. And now that um now that they have a signed seating, there isn't nearly as many wheelchairs. So that's the gist of what we had talked about. And uh James here said, I'm always last, and I'll tell you after why I why I chose this one. He said, I'm always last to board. Why would I want to sit in a stuffy plane and wait for everyone else to be boarded? I sit in the lobby and wait for the line to get down to the last person, and then I stand up and walk over. And I, you know, I actually thought James was kind of brilliant in doing that because I I get when I was, especially with that, actually any flight I go on, even when I have assigned seats, I'm I'm that nervous, Nelly, and I travel so much, I'm not really a nervous traveler, but certain things. I am the one that like I hear if I'm row or group B to board or group C to board, and I hear A being called, I'm already gathering my stuff. I'm already picking up my things, I'm closing my laptop, I'm getting anxious, like that I that I'm gonna miss the, you know, miss them calling boarding group C, and then they get to B and I'm standing up already, and I I am one of those people in the peripheral block in the aisles, you know, the the walkway there making other people mad. But I don't know what it is. That is my version of anxiety, I guess, travel anxiety. That's how it manifests. So um, and I I get mad at myself. I I tell myself every time, relax. You have an assigned seat. You nobody's gonna take your seat. You're okay. Just sit and relax and wait. Because, like he said, why would you want to sit on that stuffy plane and wait for everybody to get on board? I you have a different perspective. Go, go, Clay, go.

SPEAKER_05 59:02

My only counter to this, my only counter to this is if you are a person who puts something in the overhead bin, if you're now in modern travel, if you're the last one on the plane, you're not gonna get overhead bin and your carry-on is probably gonna end up getting checked, which turns into a bit of a pain in the ass on the backside. Now, if you don't care about that, or if you're only traveling with a small bag, maybe a small computer case or something that fits under the seat that you don't use overhead bin, then yeah, good for him. Other than the fact that like if he's a window seat guy and he then he also chooses to be last on the plane and he makes everybody else get up and out and all that, you know, like that's you're you're kind of you're close on the on the courtesy thing. Um, you know, because people by that point have settled in, they've probably even got their seat belts on, you know, they probably got their headphones and their neck pillows on and they're ready to take off. And then you're gonna be the guy who's like, hey, I gotta, I gotta get to that window seat.

SPEAKER_00 59:58

Yeah, and you gotta unbuckle, put all of the stuff in the pocket and do the things and maneuver and do the awkward thing. Yes. Well, those are actually very valid points that I would agree with completely. So, yes, that is that there should be, you gotta do the little the little check. Right? There is a balance. I, you know, listen, I have done, it was a long time ago. I haven't done it since, but I have done, I go on like these airport airplane etiquette rants, and I have so many things that should be law, like absolute law. So a couple of those things I could put on there. Like if I could just be the person that got up and did the um, you know, the PSA for everyone, like, you know, all of the things, you know what I'm gonna say, guys. Keep your shoes on. Keep them on. Number one, I know that you just because you can recline your seat doesn't mean that you should.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:52

I agree.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:53

Don't do it. Not in this day and age. You're packed in like sardines. Don't do it. Like, just don't be a jerk. Don't do it. You don't, you're writing what for however long. You're fine. You can handle it. You're big boy, big girl. I could go on. I have a whole list. If anybody would like to know, I'm happy to share them with you. Happy to share them with you. No smelly food. Don't eat stinky food on the plane.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:15

All right, one more comment. What do you got?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:17

What do I have? What do I have? Let's see. What's my last comment here? Oh, shoot, this one's tiny. Let's see. Uh, this was about Marco Rubio. We talked about um my in particular wanting Marco Rubio to um run for president, if not next time, the time after. So I I am very much team Marco. So she said, or he said, I'm sorry, he said, I'm sorry, Elsa, but Marco will never be able to unify this country given the currently deranged minds of the Democrats. Secretary Rubio speaks eloquently and truthfully about peace, unity, and progress while the left wears, I mean, he's got a point here, while the left wears dinosaur costumes and fights authority for rights certain people have no claim to. Uh, America is sick right now, and it will take more than reasonable words to heal. So I, you know, generally speaking, fair enough. I mean, fair enough. You're you're, you know, kind of spot on there in certain aspects, certainly. Um, but you know, what what's the uh you know, what's the alternative here? We keep, we keep being combative, we keep taking the hard road all the time. And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we roll over at any point in time for any reason uh when it comes to things that are right and true and factual, um, you know, like biology and you know, all of those things. But, you know, uh, I don't know. There, there's gotta be someone. I I believe that there is someone that can do it, you know, and maybe it's only Jesus. I don't know, but you know, when the the time comes, but I I don't know. But you know, he made fair points there, and and he's go ahead.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:51

Somebody's gotta, but somebody's gotta move us closer to the middle. I think, you know, you're never right now. I don't disagree in the sense that we you and I have talked about this. It used to be you fight for the middle because the extremes were so small, right? The majority of the voting population was the middle. Now they fight for the middle because it is the four percent dividing line between, you know, 48% blue and 48% red. Yeah. Um and so you know, we've got to have somebody that kind of brings the majority of America back to the middle, uh, and we're not so extreme on either end. And I think there's nobody I can think of that has a better potential to do that than he does. Um is it is he gonna be the guy who does it? Can he do it in four years if he's the president? No. Can he do it if in eight years is the president? Potentially. Um but but I think uh it's steps towards bringing us back to where we were even as recently as say you know, 1992. Uh, you know, you could argue that we were more we were less divided uh in the Bush Clinton Perot election of 92 than we than we are now. Uh but but I would say some people will argue that that would you could even say all the way up to 2000 uh with the with the Bush gore, but I would tell you the hanging chad kind of was the the the divide, that's the line of demarcation on when we started really getting worked up about this stuff. But yes, I don't think I I don't think there's anybody out there who can do it who has a better potential to do it than he does. So that's my only counter. I don't disagree in principle with what that guy was saying, uh in the fact that there is such a divide in America right now, but I don't see anybody other than you know Secretary Rubio that has the potential to fix it.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:35

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's my standpoint too, for sure.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:38

Rubio Fetterman.

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Fetterman.

Rubio, Unity, And Final Takeaways

SPEAKER_00 1:04:43

He's a curious man, he's a curious fellow, that that fetterman. I I go, uh, you know, on any given minute, I I bounce back and forth on my opinions. Yeah, he's interesting. We're gonna give him that. We're gonna give him his at times saying uh quite a few of the right balanced things and then other times, and then his actions a lot of times say the exact opposite. You know, he says certain things and then he votes a different way, and so we'll see. We will see what he has to do. I don't know. I don't know, guys. But uh, but that is all we have for this week. That was uh quite a bit of stuff, lots of stuff, some fun, fun ones in there. AOC was definitely if I had to pick my favorite topic this week, it would definitely be the AOC topic. Did you have a favorite topic?

SPEAKER_05 1:05:29

Uh I think she's probably the most curious of all of them, yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:32

Yeah, sure is. She is entertainment, pure entertainment. All right, guys. Well, we thank you for joining us again for another week. And uh don't forget to join us in the comment section. We'd love to hear what you have to say. Clay, send them off for the week.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:48

Hey, folks, uh again, we we appreciate comments. Those are great comments this week. I think we're maybe a little bit more on and up, and uh, we appreciate everybody kind of keeping things clean. And as always, from you know, we you jump in with us. On Thursday evenings, and we appreciate it. And Nelson and I try and get in there as well. So we thank you for that, and we keep doing this for y'all every week. And from me, as always, keep moving, keep tuning.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:10

Take care. The headlines will change by tomorrow, but the patterns won't. Thanks for spending this time with us. We'll be back to keep asking the harder questions and telling the quieter truths. Until then, stay grounded, be discerning, and we'll see you next time.