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Speaker 1:
[00:01] Thanks for listening to The Von Haessler Doctrine Podcast. Follow The Doctrine on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Instagram, and Twitter for even more content. Hour one of The Von Haessler Doctrine begins right now. I'm your host, Eric Von Haessler. We have a full compliment of Doctrineers. Tim Andrews is here. Autumn Fisher is here. Look who's back from Italy. George Clark is here. And of course, Jared Yamamoto is here. And we'll start with Jared, who is now wearing his hawks gear, his hawks jersey, because yesterday he had a plan. He wore his hawks jersey on Friday and then the hawks lost on Saturday. He saw that the Braves were on a five-win streak. Now a six-win. Now a six-win. What we're talking about yesterday. Yes. They were on a five-win streak. And so you decided you were going to confuse the universe somehow with your fandom. And actually you wore a Braves hoodie yesterday, thinking that that would make the hawks actually win. And when they were down 14, I was thinking, is this the time to text Jared and let him know that his choice of apparel? But they came back and they won.
Speaker 2:
[01:29] And he missed both. No timeout called. Get it up for Bridges. Put it up for the wing. And he missed it. Atlanta comes all the way back from 14 down and ties the series. They win game two in MSG. 107-106.
Speaker 3:
[01:48] MSG? That gives me a headache.
Speaker 1:
[01:50] Yeah, it does. It does. Whatever you do, don't get Asian food while at Madison Square Garden because that's MSG squared.
Speaker 4:
[01:59] So what happened in the fourth quarter to all those fans there at MSG? They were whining and crying and pouting.
Speaker 1:
[02:05] The fans were confused for a while. They wanted to hate on somebody. And so they started out with just F-bombing Trey Young, even though they knew he wasn't on the team. And then somewhere in the middle of all this, they realized, oh, we've got somebody new to hate on the Hawks. And that was CJ McCollum. And they started tossing the F-bombs his way.
Speaker 2:
[02:28] CJ has no problem.
Speaker 4:
[02:31] Look at him.
Speaker 5:
[02:31] He's dancing right now.
Speaker 4:
[02:35] He's like, yeah, I love it here.
Speaker 2:
[02:38] In 2021, it was Trey Young. Looks like they found a new heel in New York.
Speaker 1:
[02:43] It was like mid-game. They were like, they were F-bombing Trey Young.
Speaker 6:
[02:45] Yeah, they didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1:
[02:46] And then it was, ah, we got to hate somebody.
Speaker 4:
[02:48] And they should hate our defense is what they should hate. McCollum, amazing game.
Speaker 1:
[02:52] If you're a Knicks fan, you know, they melt it.
Speaker 6:
[02:54] Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[02:54] That's the way it always is with comebacks. You know, if you're the team, if you're the fan of the team with a comeback, it was just a remarkable achievement. If you're a fan of the team that was up 14, then it's just like, okay, we lost focus, whatever. But listen, the Hawks are playing very well. And, you know, they look like a, probably, and I've done this before. Remember the unbeaten January? And then Kyle Orton couldn't hit a billboard after that? Like, you know, like I've been sucked in before. Kyle Corver, yes. I'm sorry, yeah. Kyle Orton was a quarterback. Yes. He had a hard time. He had, well, yeah. I should have given him a little wiggle room. Wasn't his first game. So, I've jumped in a few, but I will say just the eye test. You know, they may be a year early right now. They may be a little bit further than, but who knows? He can get hot. But the thing that they're building there seems real to me. It does seem real to me. Whether they can get through this series and go all the way, why not? Why not? But what I'm saying is, if they don't, and I know you're not supposed to talk like this in the middle of playoffs, if they don't, they certainly look like a much better team than they have in a very long time.
Speaker 4:
[04:09] Absolutely. I mean, they have this magical ability, and I just love, first of all, that we live in New York's head rent-free like this. I love it.
Speaker 1:
[04:16] They live in your head, too.
Speaker 4:
[04:18] No, not at all. I love it. I love how they just hate it.
Speaker 1:
[04:20] The whole concept of New York City lives rent-free in Atlantins.
Speaker 4:
[04:23] No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1:
[04:24] Listen, I first got here, there was a big poster that I saw, and it was like this lady, and she was eating a peach, and she's really hot, and she says, New York's got nothing on us. And I thought to myself, well, they do because nowhere in New York is there a poster talking about Atlantins. So just the fact that you're reaching like that. But anyway, that's a little anecdotal. Go ahead.
Speaker 4:
[04:45] Even now, though, with all the social media posts of people being mad at Hawks fans, being angry, you see Ben Stiller pouting in the crowd, you see Timothy Chalamet crying, you see Spike Lee getting upset. Give me Offset, give me Millie Bobby Brown. Give me Soulja Boy, give me all of those celebrities over their celebrities.
Speaker 1:
[05:05] How about let's not give a damn about any celebrities? I don't care about my celebrities here, Amanda. My celebrities are better than your celebrities. My favorite teams.
Speaker 4:
[05:13] Millie Bobby Brown would take all three of them by herself.
Speaker 1:
[05:17] Has she been working that out a lot lately?
Speaker 7:
[05:20] I've heard that about her.
Speaker 1:
[05:21] You know, it's funny, you take this stuff seriously, but CJ. McCollum does it. He sees it as exactly what it is. They're yelling F-bombs at me, and that means, you know, it's sort of valid, and he also says, I'm not a villain.
Speaker 7:
[05:33] I am no villain. I'm a nice guy with two kids and a wife.
Speaker 8:
[05:39] I think it's admiration.
Speaker 7:
[05:41] Great, passionate fans in a really hostile environment. It's fun. It's basketball. It's the playoffs.
Speaker 4:
[05:46] And if anything, I think it's a sign of respect.
Speaker 1:
[05:50] See how calm he is? He's not responding emotionally.
Speaker 4:
[05:53] He needs me to respond emotionally. That's why I couldn't go to sleep for an hour and a half after that game.
Speaker 6:
[05:59] I was so pumped up.
Speaker 4:
[06:00] I was so excited. I was running around my living room like a crazy person.
Speaker 1:
[06:03] What I'm saying to you is, I think that's great. That's great that you were that pumped up and I thought it was awesome. But when you emotionally attach yourself and really get into the, all fans are jerks. It's just that you like your jerks. That's the way that it is. All fan bases are basically jerks once their teams start winning a lot. We all like our own jerks and that's fine. But it's sort of annoys me when it's, well, yeah, but they've got criminals on their teams. Have you looked at your team? We don't do things. No, everybody does it the same way and sometimes teams get hot. When teams get hot, their fan bases turn from the lovable losers to the biggest jerks possible very quickly.
Speaker 4:
[06:55] I'm okay with it in this case.
Speaker 1:
[06:56] It's always jerk versus jerk is what I'm saying is, I don't know why you have to take this superior. Well, I'll tell you what, if I got a job in New York City doubling my pay, I wouldn't take it.
Speaker 4:
[07:06] Listen, I want to be that fan base finally. I want to have the dynasty in the NBA. I want Atlanta to become a basketball town.
Speaker 1:
[07:14] I want to be that.
Speaker 6:
[07:15] Absolutely.
Speaker 4:
[07:15] I've never had that ability. I have never had that in my life. I want to be the jerk finally.
Speaker 6:
[07:21] I want to be on top of the mountain, on top of the heap.
Speaker 1:
[07:23] When you're the jerk, it's possible to be on top of the heap and just be wildly happy. You don't have to be a jerk.
Speaker 7:
[07:29] I wasn't a jerk after the Yankees swept the Braves in 99.
Speaker 1:
[07:33] How dare you? You kind of were.
Speaker 7:
[07:34] You didn't know me then.
Speaker 1:
[07:37] That's how much of a jerk you were.
Speaker 7:
[07:38] That's right.
Speaker 1:
[07:39] I was aware of it and I hadn't even met you yet.
Speaker 7:
[07:42] He heard about it. You heard about it?
Speaker 1:
[07:45] Your behavior around town preceded you. It's known. It's known. I think it's not necessary to become a jerk. I just think you take that part of it too seriously. As a fan, the fact that the Hawks came back from 14 points, won that game, stole for the time being, stole home advantage. I think that's great. I understand you being up, not being able to sleep. What I can't relate to is our fan base versus their fan base. Guess what? No one in their fan base, no one in our fan base, no celebrities that like the Knicks, no celebrities that like the Hawks, none of them are going to hit the court and play at all. So it's just a matter of you're just a booster.
Speaker 4:
[08:29] Not even for a half time show? We do have Soulja Boy this Thursday, so that'll be fun.
Speaker 7:
[08:34] Is he good at basketball? Or they? I don't know. Is that a person?
Speaker 3:
[08:37] He's that Superman, not what you do.
Speaker 1:
[08:40] Now remember, they could be one person as well.
Speaker 4:
[08:46] You know what it is, Eric? As I've gotten older, I have thought...
Speaker 1:
[08:50] You're speaking to me from experience.
Speaker 4:
[08:51] I think so. It's just somebody that has been a lifelong Atlanta sports fan, a suffering Atlanta sports fan for most of my life.
Speaker 1:
[08:59] We got a couple of World Series.
Speaker 3:
[09:01] Yeah, we did get the World Series in 2021.
Speaker 7:
[09:02] You were alive in 95?
Speaker 4:
[09:03] Of course, I was alive in 95. It's not that we haven't won, but for the majority of my life...
Speaker 1:
[09:09] He was five.
Speaker 4:
[09:10] Yeah, we have not won. For the majority of my life, we have not won. And to be finally in conversations, to be one of those great teams, I want it so bad. And for the Hawks to finally turn things around...
Speaker 1:
[09:22] But why... Okay, I get all that. You don't have to repeat yourself. I don't understand why the longing... Part of the longing is, I want to be a valid, legitimate jerk.
Speaker 4:
[09:32] But a happy jerk.
Speaker 1:
[09:32] A happy jerk. Okay, well... I'm no stranger to that.
Speaker 7:
[09:38] I'll take it if they're happy or angry.
Speaker 1:
[09:40] Sad jerk.
Speaker 7:
[09:41] Mad.
Speaker 1:
[09:41] Anything worse?
Speaker 3:
[09:43] Sometimes, you know.
Speaker 7:
[09:44] Disgusted.
Speaker 3:
[09:46] Embarrassed.
Speaker 7:
[09:47] That's my favorite.
Speaker 1:
[09:48] Yeah, there's nothing like really kind of getting yourself to that point, all of a sudden, questioning, am I a good person? Is this the time? Whether I am a good person or I'm not a good person, is this the time for that thought to come up in my head? There's nothing worse than when you're kind of alone with yourself, and then all these other regular, mundane, worldly thoughts come into your brain. You're like, now? I'll worry about that doctor's appointment when I need to.
Speaker 9:
[10:22] We're gonna obliterate it right now.
Speaker 7:
[10:24] Come on!
Speaker 1:
[10:28] Yes! Do I need to be thinking about this thing we call a war right now? When I'm alone with myself, for heaven sakes?
Speaker 9:
[10:37] Iran, Iran, Iran.
Speaker 7:
[10:38] Alright, I'll look up Lexie Bloom. Lexie Bloom, that'll...
Speaker 1:
[10:42] Is that...
Speaker 7:
[10:44] Iranian.
Speaker 1:
[10:45] Oh, Persian porn? No. That doesn't exist.
Speaker 7:
[10:48] There's three or four of them.
Speaker 1:
[10:49] I'm just going to say it doesn't exist in case it upsets people if I say it does. I have no idea.
Speaker 7:
[10:54] This is what I've been told.
Speaker 1:
[10:55] Are there any... Well, I mean, there are some cultures that just ban pornography altogether, obviously, and participating in it. So...
Speaker 7:
[11:02] Successful places.
Speaker 1:
[11:04] Very successful places. Places where men want to live for a very long...
Speaker 4:
[11:10] Very focused.
Speaker 1:
[11:12] Very focused on the task at hand.
Speaker 7:
[11:14] You can't even do the fake stepmom stuff in England anymore.
Speaker 9:
[11:17] That's how draconian they are.
Speaker 1:
[11:19] Is that true?
Speaker 7:
[11:20] Yeah, they just banned it.
Speaker 1:
[11:21] What's wrong with stepmom? That's... There's not an age problem there, is there?
Speaker 7:
[11:25] You'll have to ask the British.
Speaker 3:
[11:26] I think it... I guess they're saying it encourages behavior that they don't want to encourage.
Speaker 1:
[11:33] Yeah, okay, because this kind of stuff only started when pornography came around. It hasn't been with us for 10,000 years.
Speaker 7:
[11:39] The royal family.
Speaker 1:
[11:41] Look at the royal family. Look at the Romans. Look at everybody. It's kind of like one of those things that we as humans have to kind of, you know, to say, okay, people have their freak flags. And then there's a line. There's a freak flag line. And some people step over that freak flag line, and then they find themselves to be in trouble.
Speaker 9:
[12:00] I say to your Prime Minister, don't yuck my...
Speaker 1:
[12:04] You know, in England now, I just read today that they are going to... They're passing a law, I guess. I almost thought this was like a joke. So if somebody sourced me on it, I can't remember. I think it was the BBC. But the headline was poorly written. And I'm always, when I look at headlines that are poorly written, I think, okay, is this AI or something? But the headline was something to the effect... I can't remember what the date is, George. Do you remember the date? If you're born, like, let's say it's last year or two years ago or something, it will be illegal to sell tobacco products to anybody born after that date.
Speaker 8:
[12:43] So, smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK.
Speaker 1:
[12:47] Okay, so if you're born in 2009, you are now about 15 years old, 16 years old, something like that? My math is terrible, but you'd be somewhere... 17. 17 years old. So anyone 17 years old or younger, it is now illegal to sell any tobacco products to. And so, which is a pretty... You're saying to the tobacco companies that are in your country, we are looking to put you out of business. Now I don't know if vapes go along with that. Rick Jackson doesn't want those Chinese vapes coming in. I know that I've heard it.
Speaker 6:
[13:23] Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
Speaker 3:
[13:27] Totally fine.
Speaker 1:
[13:28] No, it's not at all nothing. It's nothing.
Speaker 3:
[13:31] What's wrong with that?
Speaker 1:
[13:32] It's the kind of thing that open-minded people Would constantly, whenever bringing up another country, would hit some stereotypical music. There's nothing, I don't know why. You must be looking for things. That's all I could say. Yeah, so that's pretty profound. And, you know, I don't know. I just want to know that that story is real. There was something about the way that headline looked. I thought, am I being spoofed here?
Speaker 8:
[14:00] No, it's definitely real. It is the BBC.
Speaker 1:
[14:02] Well, somebody could pretend.
Speaker 8:
[14:03] Vaping would still be allowed outside hospitals in a bid to support those trying to quit.
Speaker 3:
[14:11] I said hospitals?
Speaker 1:
[14:12] Yeah, because they're in the hospital trying to quit. What about a clinic?
Speaker 3:
[14:15] Can I smoke through my trach?
Speaker 4:
[14:16] No.
Speaker 8:
[14:18] Only vaping.
Speaker 3:
[14:20] Oh, that's right. All right, all right.
Speaker 1:
[14:23] How about minute clinics? No? I would think you'd find people suffering.
Speaker 7:
[14:28] Those are for nicotine gum.
Speaker 1:
[14:30] Okay.
Speaker 3:
[14:30] I need to get, I need to pick up at Advil. I want to smoke outside.
Speaker 7:
[14:35] You got a license for that, Advil.
Speaker 1:
[14:37] It does seem like meddling, micromanaging. I mean, what you're, well, we're going to do this because then it'll push you into that. Well, if you're vaping at a hospital, okay, that's a car. It becomes too ridiculous and probably will not add up to anything. Do more people smoke in England than in America? Because the number of, the percentage of people smoking in America compared to the 1970s, when I was a kid, having to breathe everybody's bad habits, I mean, it must have gone down, I would imagine, 60%. It was hugely, yeah. Everybody smoked when I was a kid and they smoked everywhere. They didn't feel like you had to crack the window in the car. Speaking about my parents.
Speaker 7:
[15:21] Yeah, my mom wouldn't crack the window in the winter.
Speaker 1:
[15:23] And I didn't care. I mean, I was so used to breathing secondhand smoke that it didn't even occur to me that it was happening. I'm not saying that that's a good thing. I think we're better off with kids not breathing secondhand smoke. But in England, I know in France, everybody smokes. That's what I hear.
Speaker 7:
[15:38] I think they've cut back dramatically as well, because they have to do whatever the EU tells them to do.
Speaker 1:
[15:43] But there's no law like this. It says you can't actually have, you can't sell. I mean, we're not talking about you can't sell to anybody under 18. This is now saying anybody born after 2008, going forward.
Speaker 4:
[15:56] Percentage-wise, I would say the UK has more smokers percentage-wise than the US, like across the board.
Speaker 1:
[16:01] You would say that?
Speaker 4:
[16:02] Yes, percentage-wise.
Speaker 1:
[16:03] Are you just speculating that, or do you have a source?
Speaker 4:
[16:05] No, my little brother's in Scotland.
Speaker 1:
[16:06] That's called anecdotal.
Speaker 4:
[16:07] I was just in London.
Speaker 6:
[16:08] That is anecdotal.
Speaker 4:
[16:10] And there were ashtrays in places that you went, in pubs and whatnot. And I would say in France-
Speaker 1:
[16:15] That's crazy, there's no ashtrays in America anymore.
Speaker 4:
[16:17] In France, you still have them at the cafes.
Speaker 7:
[16:18] There aren't, that's why there's cigarette butts everywhere.
Speaker 1:
[16:20] Yeah. I guess you still have those trash can type things.
Speaker 3:
[16:24] Yeah, those are around.
Speaker 1:
[16:25] But I mean, I'm talking about the old-fashioned ashtray that used to be everywhere. Oh, no. In every room, except for like the kids' bedroom, in every room in the house, in every house you went in, in 1975, there were ashtrays.
Speaker 3:
[16:37] Now they're just used by the front door to put your keys in.
Speaker 1:
[16:40] Yeah, if there's some leftover, or they're like a novel-
Speaker 3:
[16:42] That's what I use it for, if I go to like the thrift store.
Speaker 1:
[16:44] Yeah, they're a novelty item, like you pick them up at the thrift store. Hey, I can put my guitar picks in here.
Speaker 6:
[16:49] Yeah.
Speaker 7:
[16:50] Jared's right, by the way.
Speaker 6:
[16:52] What?
Speaker 7:
[16:54] England has slightly more smokers per capita than the United States, based on the latest official 2024 adult cigarette smoking prevalence data.
Speaker 3:
[17:01] Adult cigarettes.
Speaker 1:
[17:03] Adult cigarettes.
Speaker 3:
[17:04] They're only for adults, mate. Come on. I'm not selling it. When you're born 2009.
Speaker 7:
[17:10] 12 and up only.
Speaker 3:
[17:12] 12 and up only.
Speaker 1:
[17:15] So, are we blowing the world up again today, tonight, tomorrow?
Speaker 4:
[17:18] Well, it depends.
Speaker 1:
[17:19] There's even an argument when the deadline ends.
Speaker 4:
[17:22] Yes. So, there's...
Speaker 1:
[17:23] Both sides have a different... I think for Trump, it's further than for what Pakistan thinks.
Speaker 4:
[17:29] Correct. It would be tomorrow evening is what Trump is thinking, but then Pakistan has got 750 tonight is when...
Speaker 3:
[17:36] Tomorrow evening? Like around what time?
Speaker 7:
[17:38] It's not going to be good for me.
Speaker 3:
[17:40] Yeah. Do you think we could push it?
Speaker 1:
[17:42] Yeah. Let's push it. Let's push it.
Speaker 9:
[17:44] Oh, I don't get naked. Well, we'll wait until Thursday. All right. Thank you.
Speaker 1:
[17:48] I have gotten to the point with this that this administration has banged up against my nerve endings so many times and gotten me so worked up. I mean, not even in a ranting on my radio show way, but just worked up and frightened. Like, are we really going to end a civilization tomorrow? And what does that look like? Because it seems like it can only go one way, which is America, you know, bears this horrific stain. And it says, you know, all of this stuff, you know, building up. And that's happened a couple of times. And then ever this ceasefire is just every day. It's either we're this close to ending the war, to I'm just going to have to bomb everything. Now they can't even agree when the ceasefire ends. And I have just gotten to the point where I just don't have it. I don't, I don't, I don't, I can't say I don't care because I don't want to blow up the world. But I've gotten to the point where it's like, get back to me. Tell me whether or not you blew up the world. All of the riding these events where you've got three sides that are just lying constantly. United States, Iran, Israel, nothing but lies coming out of all of these places concerning where we are at this moment in this war. And then you just kind of wonder who's in charge, who has a plan and see how I'm getting myself. What does it matter? Eric Von Haessler is going to have zero effect on the outcome of this war. So I've gotten to the point where I'm just cross my fingers. Hey, I hope they don't blow up the world. That's really about all I've got. Oh man, okay, what time is it? All right, what's Trump saying? Okay, what's going on behind the scenes? Who's got his ear? Like all of that nonsense. Hey, Trump.
Speaker 9:
[19:48] Yes?
Speaker 1:
[19:48] Either blow up the world or don't.
Speaker 9:
[19:50] Okay.
Speaker 1:
[19:51] Your act is boring me to tears. It's amazing to me how mundane an autocrat can be. I've always heard about it, but it is, oh, we're back at a deadline and you're gonna kill everybody again. Okay, whatever. Give me a call.
Speaker 9:
[20:08] Where's the market today?
Speaker 1:
[20:09] Yeah, it's back up. It was. Now that they've been called off, nobody's going to Pakistan. Maybe they've gone back down.
Speaker 4:
[20:18] It's negative 78 as of right now.
Speaker 9:
[20:20] We're working on peace. It'll happen tomorrow.
Speaker 1:
[20:23] And the thing that, oh, we'll go back up. Another thing we're learning, the people on Wall Street are complete and total idiots. They are goldfish. They live for the next two seconds. You've been through this. What we've been through. Trump says something tomorrow. All right, that's something that I can put my money down. What? Why? Is there anyone on Wall Street that thinks in, I don't know, 48 to 72 hour chunks of time? Is everybody making their money in microseconds now? And that's why it's all so very important to react to every single thing. The markets should be run by the markets. The thing that should be affecting the markets is how the markets are doing. How is business doing? How is supply versus demand? Our Wall Street now just goes up or down based on the last thing the president said. Do you think anybody that put together the whole Wall Street scheme even imagined that? Even imagined that, yeah, we'll all gather together and we'll just listen to the president. And everything he says will trade based on that. I don't know what you call this system. I know what you don't call the system we have in this country right now. Capitalism. It's not capitalism. Hey, the president said that maybe one day he might and it could be tomorrow. Alright, okay, I'm bullish again.
Speaker 6:
[21:45] Bye. It's so reactionary.
Speaker 1:
[21:47] The president just tweeted something about, Pull all my money. Learn what you learn through events that are bigger than the events. What we're learning is Wall Street is populated by a bunch of goldfish minded idiots who can't see past the next 48 hours. You know, it's interesting. There's a Wall Street Journal article from yesterday that I read this morning. And it's all about Trump's state of mind right now during all of this. And it hits a few different things. I mean, the overall thing is it paints him as somebody who's a lot more worried in private than the bravado act he's putting on in public, which by the way, to me is a hint of sanity. If I found out that behind the scenes, he actually believed everything that he was saying because he says seven different things a day, that would be a little more worrying. I'm not convinced of the sanity. I'm just saying it's a nice little piece of evidence that some is there. They also go over the fact that while these few times that we've tried to work things out with Iran, since the war has started, like two times, maybe three times, the diplomats have gotten Iran to kind of back off on something or agree to something. And then, immediately, he goes to Truth Social and basically says, Yeah, Iran's caving, whatever. And then they see that and they go, OK, we're not in. I've talked about this before. You shouldn't be using social media as a, you know, you announce that negotiations are taking place and we don't hear from you again on social media until you tell us that it's over and or that we've come up with this agreement. But the American people have a right to a lot of things. They don't have the right to know every minute of a negotiation. Negotiations don't work if both sides know both fanbases, if you will, know what's going on during the negotiation. Another thing that's in there that's really interesting is that the generals threw Trump out of the room during the rescue of the airmen in Iran because he had been yelling at them all day. You know, it's always about Trump. So his big worry was, here we are in Iran, we've got a rescue mission, this is what absolutely killed Jimmy Carter's administration. This is all these people we're hearing all day long, and apparently, loudly, a lot of screaming, you know, you've got to get them, this is what did Jimmy Carter in, we can't, you know. It would be nice to think, well, you've got to get them because we want him to be alive. I'm not saying that wasn't it.
Speaker 9:
[24:30] I don't care about that.
Speaker 1:
[24:33] But by the time the rescue mission actually started happening and going down, it doesn't say how they did it. It doesn't say that somebody said, Mr. President, get the hell out of here. But basically, the generals made sure that the president was not in the room because they felt like he would screw it up. He was just, something to say about every single moment. And he just thought that having him in the room, that's an odd thing. And certainly, I would like to know from insiders or if it's been published somewhere else, if it's ever happened before, where a president of the United States has seemed to be just too edgy to be in the room in a moment. When you vote for president, you're voting for them in this exact situation as the most important one. Sure, you'd like this policy, you'd like that policy. But when you're evaluating a candidate, can this person be president? It's about what's their demeanor in moments like this? Are you Captain Kirk or are you running around the deck, screaming at people? So basically, he was kept out of the loop and the idea was the generals would keep him up to date every whenever there were moments where the president should know. I mean, can you imagine the general saying to Eisenhower, we need you out of the room. You're just, first of all, they want Eisenhower out of the room because everyone will go to sleep if he's in the room. That's not good. This is the complete opposite.
Speaker 4:
[25:57] For sure.
Speaker 1:
[25:58] So it's, I don't, so whatever's going on today, right now apparently there's an all hands meeting at the White House as we get close to either, whichever side's deadline we're hearing to.
Speaker 4:
[26:10] Pakistani deadline is 7.50 tonight. Trump's deadline is tomorrow evening.
Speaker 1:
[26:14] At like eight?
Speaker 4:
[26:15] Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[26:15] Tomorrow evening, I don't know, something like that.
Speaker 9:
[26:17] I told everybody that if they do not honor the agreement, we will surrender tomorrow.
Speaker 1:
[26:25] Well, you know what they say, think outside the box, right?
Speaker 9:
[26:28] We'll give them Maine and call it a day.
Speaker 1:
[26:31] I mean, remember, wasn't it only just, was it Friday? Was it yesterday that we were so close to a, I can't remember anymore. It was Friday. It was Friday. We were going to give them 20 billion of their frozen assets. They were going to give us the uranium. If that wasn't going to happen, why did the president tell us it was? I mean, he didn't put out all the details. The details of what the agreement that he kept saying we're very close to were out there. It just doesn't make any sense. You know, if it all works out, then I guess we all just have to take a step back and go, well, he really was playing 272D Chest. Not chest, chess. He still is.
Speaker 3:
[27:12] Double D Chest. So you're just not following.
Speaker 1:
[27:14] You know what? That's exactly what it is. It's double D chest that he's playing.
Speaker 3:
[27:19] We're just, it's so different that we can't wrap our heads around it. It's like understanding the universe. Trump's brain is so complex and so ahead of us that we can't get it.
Speaker 1:
[27:33] He's just playing, he's just that much smarter than the rest of us.
Speaker 3:
[27:36] He's having to dumb it down so much for us that it sounds dumb.
Speaker 9:
[27:40] That's why it sounds stupid.
Speaker 1:
[27:42] Well, you know, this Wall Street Journal article kind of got into that the public persona thing is all an act and that it also says in there that when he said he was going to end their civilization and he put Allah in there and all that, he told the people around him, I want them to think I'm crazy. But here's the thing, you can't be. If you play that game, that is a strategy, you know, where you act like so insane that the enemy just is scared. But the most important part about that is that it is a complete and total act. You're not actually going to end their civilization. I don't know. I think that as with so many times with this administration, something big is going to happen in the next 48 hours. And we don't know what it is. And unfortunately, I don't think the president at this point knows what it is. He lives off of deadlines. I guess that's real estate, that's construction. This has to be done by a certain time.
Speaker 4:
[28:40] Or push deadlines.
Speaker 1:
[28:42] Right. What I'm saying is even pushing deadlines, you're living by deadlines. And so this is just kind of a new thing. It's how he's run his business. Whether it's the best way to manage a war, I certainly have my opinion. It's pretty quick. No. There are others, I suppose, who might disagree. There's a lot of differences, I think, between running a real estate company and managing a war. I don't know. I could be wrong. Maybe all of the things that give you success in real estate, if you use them as tools, will also help you manage and win a war. But if that's true, I'm going to be surprised. I'm going to be surprised if all of that is true. I will come here and I will admit it. I'll say, I never saw that one coming. I thought we were headed for disaster. I don't even know that I believe that anymore. Otherwise, it's disaster. I don't know. There may be, it seems to me like a lot of the world is just going to kind of try to wait them out. I mean, a lot of things are changing because of Trump. I don't know if they're good or they're bad sometimes. Japan is changing their war stance. For the first time since World War II, they are going to be able to sell weapons to a bunch of different nations. And if you know anything about the way the World War II ended and the Constitution, the new Constitution, basically, our idea was to create a pacifist state out of this because they had been so war-mongering for so much of their history. And that lasted, what, about 80 years or something like that? So now, and so are those changes good? And the reason is because Japan is thinking, we can't count on America. If China goes wild here in the Pacific Theater, they see what's going on. We're taking patriot missiles out of that theater, putting them in the Middle East theater.
Speaker 4:
[30:39] North Korea is right there too.
Speaker 1:
[30:41] Yeah, North Korea, everything's ad hoc. Nothing seems to be planned. Everything seems to be, well, how do I deal with it today? And, you know, you have cultures like Japan that think in terms of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years at a time. And they're looking out and going, yeah, I'm not so sure we can rely on America. You know, so we need to have our own, we need to start...
Speaker 7:
[31:02] Are they going to be allowed to build up their military again? Yeah, I think that they already can.
Speaker 1:
[31:07] I think that they already can. They have, I mean, since like 2014 or so, they have been going in this direction. But now, they're going to have a weapons industry, you know, like ours and like many other countries, where they're going to go to market and try to sell the... and say, hey, we have the best weapons, you should buy them from us, which is a complete difference. But it allows them to know that they've got an industry that's going at the same time that they're wondering if the United States will or can help them. You know, that's how... They were a pacifist state, knowing that the United States would always come and basically protect them.
Speaker 9:
[31:45] Well, we're looking so... A lot of your men are marrying pillows. Maybe you need more masculinity.
Speaker 1:
[31:50] It's a possibility.
Speaker 9:
[31:51] It's a good idea.
Speaker 4:
[31:52] And it's also a clear sign that we're overextended. I mean, it's not... It's no doubt that our military is the best in the world, but we're in so many places now.
Speaker 1:
[31:58] We are in every place in the world. The definition of overextended. The people on the Gerald Ford ship, I mean, they have been out on missions now, I think over... Somebody can look this up. It's an astonishing...
Speaker 7:
[32:12] Yeah, most of them aren't going to re-up.
Speaker 1:
[32:14] Yeah. Yeah, they're not going to re-up. They're going to come back and say, that was hell. The toilets keep breaking down.
Speaker 7:
[32:21] Did they get those fixed?
Speaker 1:
[32:22] They're told they're going to have shore leave and it's taken away and they're told... They keep fixing the toilets and the toilets keep breaking down.
Speaker 4:
[32:29] 300 days.
Speaker 1:
[32:30] 300 days at sea.
Speaker 4:
[32:33] Longest carrier deployment since the Vietnam War.
Speaker 1:
[32:35] And a president today who's trying to figure out what's the new idea that we can use them for. Because the decision we're going to make today about Iran has nothing to do with seven weeks ago. Or eight weeks ago before, whatever, February 27th. We went in on February 28th. Whatever they're deciding in the White House today has nothing to do with what they were talking about on February 27th before they went in on February 28th. And you're on this ship and you're out there for 300 days and the toilets keep clogging up. And it's like, hey, how is this going to end? Some kind of ridiculous mission that I don't have a chance to live through? Nobody knows because the president doesn't know.
Speaker 4:
[33:16] Well, at least when you're out at sea.
Speaker 1:
[33:18] I thought we were going to break that. Am I wrong?
Speaker 8:
[33:22] I thought Jared had something to say.
Speaker 1:
[33:23] Well, usually the host will finalize this. I apologize. That's my bad. I don't know nothing about nothing. But I'm suspicious of this hilarious story that is out there. The headline, by the way, no one's harmed so you can laugh all you want. Florida woman dodges death after wheelchair she bought in thrift store explodes in huge fireball. Ouch. Now apparently she bought it for somebody else. But I'm watching this video and we have some audio here. Go come out of the video. It kind of looks like, I don't know, fireworks or something coming out of it. I don't know, so.
Speaker 7:
[34:18] There's a demon in it?
Speaker 1:
[34:19] Yeah, there's a demon at the end, speaking. It is. It truly is the end of days. This is the fifth horseman.
Speaker 7:
[34:29] It is.
Speaker 4:
[34:30] The devil's lazy boy.
Speaker 1:
[34:33] So maybe it is real, I guess. The first time I saw it, I thought it wasn't real because she pushes the wheelchair out there, and I thought you're videoing it, and I found out it was the ring camera that they got the video from. So maybe it was real. Does this happen a lot? The wheelchair is exploding a lot?
Speaker 8:
[34:49] It looks like a battery fire because it can spark and shoot flames.
Speaker 1:
[34:53] So I've never seen that kind of lithium battery fire. Is that how it looks like at the beginning of fireworks? Yeah. It looks like a... Oh, what do you call those things that go in circles? No, the ones that have a Catherine wheel. It looks like a stationary Catherine wheel kind of thing.
Speaker 7:
[35:09] Well, all those lithium batteries are dangerous.
Speaker 1:
[35:12] Well, a lot of things are dangerous.
Speaker 7:
[35:14] Like the vape pens that explode.
Speaker 1:
[35:17] But, I mean, how many people are actually affected by these things? I mean, how many people have had their wheelchairs blow up on them?
Speaker 4:
[35:24] Hopefully not many.
Speaker 1:
[35:25] I think we would have heard this story before. And then we just get this one and the ladies out of the wheelchair. That's why I'm a little...
Speaker 4:
[35:31] What?...
Speaker 1:
[35:32] suspicious.
Speaker 8:
[35:33] Just on the plane this trip, they were telling you don't bring your portable batteries with you on the plane.
Speaker 1:
[35:38] Sure.
Speaker 8:
[35:39] Or keep an eye on them.
Speaker 1:
[35:40] Yeah, you gotta keep an eye on them. I'll watch you burn. Well, yeah, that's because they're very hard to put out. I know that. So, you get that going on, trying to put out a fire on an airplane will be almost impossible.
Speaker 7:
[35:51] It killed Anne Haich. She couldn't get out of her car and burn to death.
Speaker 1:
[35:54] That's true.
Speaker 3:
[35:55] Or did she?
Speaker 1:
[35:56] Well, what do you think she, is she off living with John Denver at Ellen's house?
Speaker 3:
[36:02] Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 7:
[36:02] Ellen blew her up with a satellite.
Speaker 1:
[36:06] I mean, that is, yeah, because she was in an electric car and that happened, right? But really, she died because she couldn't get out of her seat or something like that. And it just kept going and going. People have died in car fires before. I don't know if it was one of those situations where you can't even be rescued because you can't, I don't know.
Speaker 7:
[36:23] It burned so hot and so fast.
Speaker 1:
[36:25] Yeah.
Speaker 7:
[36:26] But then she sat up while she was on the gurney, which is supposedly a reaction.
Speaker 1:
[36:30] Oh, I'm nodding to my mom.
Speaker 3:
[36:32] Exactly.
Speaker 1:
[36:33] She's saying, she's saying.
Speaker 3:
[36:34] Where's Annie?
Speaker 1:
[36:38] She believes she's assisting. She believes in it, Gartha. Maybe she stole Madonna's clothes from Coachella. That's a great story.
Speaker 7:
[36:45] Catastrophic failure rate of lithium ion cell batteries is approximately 1 in 10 million, according to AI.
Speaker 1:
[36:52] Okay. So when you put that next to the other products we've used, you know, there are car fires with the combustible combustion engines. Yeah, I always, I stopped myself because I just had this habit of saying combustible when saying engines after the next word, and that's ridiculous. So thank you for stepping in.
Speaker 4:
[37:12] You say gas-powered engine.
Speaker 1:
[37:13] It's a gas-powered engine.
Speaker 4:
[37:15] That's right. By the way, this-
Speaker 1:
[37:17] So I don't know how often they blow up or, you know, how often, I mean, you got explosions going on in there constantly.
Speaker 4:
[37:23] I've been doing a little research. I'm watching other YouTube videos of lithium batteries exploding, and I have to say-
Speaker 1:
[37:28] It looks like that?
Speaker 4:
[37:28] It looks just like that.
Speaker 1:
[37:29] Okay.
Speaker 6:
[37:30] I think this is a-
Speaker 1:
[37:31] Give it to the old wheelchair lady.
Speaker 4:
[37:32] I think the wheelchair lady is being truthful.
Speaker 3:
[37:35] Are those like bricks? Are the bricks that you have that you can like bring with you to like plug different things into and then charge your phone or charge your electronics? Is that lithium?
Speaker 1:
[37:44] Yeah, and your phone.
Speaker 3:
[37:45] Like a power bank?
Speaker 1:
[37:46] Yeah, the power bank is, your phone is. All the batteries for electronics are, for the most part, lithium. So, yeah, better put them in the freezer at night, so you don't have to worry about sleeping through a fire.
Speaker 3:
[37:59] It doesn't say on here that it contains lithium.
Speaker 1:
[38:02] Are they called lithium ion batteries? Is that what they are?
Speaker 3:
[38:06] This says power bank, 10,000 M capital A H.
Speaker 1:
[38:12] Yeah, that's 10,000. Magahertz. Make America great again.
Speaker 3:
[38:18] I'm throwing it away, I'm throwing it away.
Speaker 1:
[38:20] Well, people have said that Magahertz. The people who are against Magahertz say they are.
Speaker 3:
[38:25] Every Magahertz.
Speaker 9:
[38:29] We have the best batteries in the United States.
Speaker 1:
[38:31] Is that the problem? These are probably batteries. That's what Rick Jackson said.
Speaker 9:
[38:37] That's right, now that we've got that lithium in Texas, thank you, Elon, or whoever wanted to.
Speaker 4:
[38:41] Hey, can you pass the meatloaf in this diner that I'm in apparently?
Speaker 1:
[38:44] Oh, I liked when Rick Jackson said, well, kiss my grits. That's my kind of man. Hour two of The Von Haessler Doctrine begins right now. I told George, he went overboard there, I told him, come on, that's some, you know, he was playing music that was like instrumental and slow. I told him to jazz it up a little bit. And he hits me with, what is this?
Speaker 7:
[39:18] Great Balls of Fire.
Speaker 1:
[39:20] Great Balls of Fire, but it's not actually Great Balls of Fire, it's a karaoke version, right?
Speaker 8:
[39:25] It says here on YouTube, this is a sexy rocking sax.
Speaker 1:
[39:28] Oh, this is the sexy, we can call it the sexy rocking version.
Speaker 4:
[39:33] I feel like you guys are going to come out with that new Madonna song, that new I Feel So Free, man.
Speaker 1:
[39:37] Listen, I'm so worried. I've been, you know. It's so good. I may know somebody who knows somebody who stole her clothes at Coachella, so I don't want to.
Speaker 4:
[39:46] Don't out him yet.
Speaker 1:
[39:47] You know this story?
Speaker 4:
[39:49] It is wild.
Speaker 1:
[39:50] She wore, well, we got West Moss here, we'll get to Madonna later. They have some separation because to our audience, West Moss, Madonna, kind of the same thing. So we have a little, we don't want to.
Speaker 10:
[40:00] I can talk about that topic too.
Speaker 1:
[40:03] Coachella and Madonna joining Sabrina Carpenter so that a very young pop star and a very old pop star can prove that they can both lip sync on stage. Live show.
Speaker 10:
[40:13] Lip sync.
Speaker 1:
[40:14] That's a big thing where Madonna. Madonna did. Madonna was not even, I have heard that Sabrina Carpenter is known for lip syncing. I have heard. Madonna is just really bad at it. Sabrina's been doing it. Listen, I'm not going after Sabrina Carpenter. Very talented young lady. It's all over. People are doing lip syncing all over the place. Madonna definitely was. Anyway, the story is she wore the clothes that she wore 20 years ago when she did her big Coachella set. And then I guess backstage, somebody lifted them and stole them. And so now it's a big mystery.
Speaker 10:
[40:49] She did tell a lot of people that when she was out there.
Speaker 1:
[40:52] Oh yeah. You know, she's 67.
Speaker 10:
[40:56] Yeah.
Speaker 3:
[40:56] She also needs to sit down and chill.
Speaker 10:
[40:59] Talk about a happy retiree.
Speaker 1:
[41:00] Yeah, exactly. She needs a Wes Moss to step in because one of the stories we gave you is that people are losing their confidence that they have enough to retire with or have losing confidence in their retirement. What's behind this? Wes Moss, do you agree? Do you disagree?
Speaker 10:
[41:17] First of all, great story. My producer, Bot, never came up with this one. Jared Yamamoto did.
Speaker 1:
[41:24] Oh, I love it.
Speaker 4:
[41:25] Give me the credit. Come on, Eric.
Speaker 1:
[41:27] Come on. It is in the section. Well, I will say Jared found this story.
Speaker 6:
[41:35] It was a collective effort.
Speaker 4:
[41:36] There were other stories.
Speaker 10:
[41:38] Again, it wasn't hiding under a rock.
Speaker 1:
[41:39] Only one person on this panel has a subscription to The Wall Street Journal, sir, remember that?
Speaker 10:
[41:42] Okay, well, maybe that's right.
Speaker 1:
[41:43] That's Tim. It's always Tim Andrews.
Speaker 10:
[41:45] It was in the personal finance section of Wall Street Journal, which is a great resource, but it gets stale. They get excited when we have new numbers to write about. And this is a double new number. The two numbers are one, the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment just came in. The sentiment level, just to give you some context, what is usually, I would say the level over the over time, I usually put these charts back to 1976, over 50 years. And it's 80s kind of the baseline. And we've been in the 90s, the high 90s.
Speaker 1:
[42:25] 80% confident in their returne, what does that mean exactly?
Speaker 10:
[42:28] Don't look at it that way. It's not 80% of people are confident. It's just a reading. It's just a measure. So you have to look back over time and just to get a relative sense of, is sentiment good today or not?
Speaker 1:
[42:38] It used to be 90, now it's 80, that kind of thing.
Speaker 10:
[42:40] Correct. So there have been lots of times when it's been well above 80 and there's been some times well below 80. And today, what's interesting about the brand new data is that it's as low as it's ever been. It just printed the lowest number it's ever been. At 47.6. If I go back to before the pandemic, when we were close to an all-time high, it was around 100. So we've gone through 80, we've gone through 50 for the first time ever, and now we're at 46, 47.6. So it's as low as it's ever been.
Speaker 1:
[43:14] Now let me ask something. Do you think that that's just because of generalized instability, not really? Is it other fundamentals involved, or is it just a feeling that people have that everything is just going sideways?
Speaker 10:
[43:27] Well, okay, so I'll get to them in one second. The other new piece of information, EBRI, the Employee Benefit Retirement Institute, does an annual study, and they've been doing this for more than 30 years, and they've tried to measure retirement preparedness and retirement confidence. So those are the two new variables that have just come out.
Speaker 1:
[43:52] And this one's low as well?
Speaker 10:
[43:54] And this one, and the EBRI study is low as well. So you put those two together, and you have a new personal finance article.
Speaker 1:
[44:02] That Wes Moss is putting out, where can I read it?
Speaker 10:
[44:04] Well, no, this is what you guys said.
Speaker 1:
[44:06] Oh, you say it in The Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 10:
[44:07] I think that's kind of what they're saying, is that we have two really, and there's been a lot of articles about the dropping consumer sentiment, because it's an all time, it's a generational low. It's as low as it's ever been. Here's what's happening. So here's another couple of stats. EBRI shows sick only, you can look at this either way, only 61% of workers feel either somewhat or very confident that they'll be able to retire comfortably. So only 61%. That number is down from 72% in 2021. It was then it went down to 67%. That's precipitous. Now it's 71%. That's precipitous. It's a pretty big drop. And now I look at that and I think, wow, 61% of people feel pretty confident they're going to be able to retire. That's a lot better than I think what Main Street would tell you, which is, oh, well, only 1% of people can really retire. It's a pretty big number of-
Speaker 1:
[45:00] Was it 50, how much percent?
Speaker 10:
[45:02] 61%.
Speaker 1:
[45:03] 61%. Now you gotta remember, 5% of those people are delusional. So let's go on over half.
Speaker 10:
[45:09] Let's go on over half. And we all know the reasons. I don't think you need to be a rocket scientist economist to figure this one out.
Speaker 1:
[45:16] Well, it's $2.50 for a Snickers bar and that machine over there.
Speaker 10:
[45:19] If I charted this, there's so many different reasons for it. Culprit number one is inflation. We know that. In fact, the chart that I'm showing you here in studio is consumer sentiment on top of our graph with the price of oil. Every time we see oil go up, consumer sentiment goes down. Oil prices come down and get reasonable. We feel the pump. Consumer sentiment goes back up. So every single time over the course of the last 50 years, when we see a big rise in oil, people feel squeezed. They feel like they can't afford what they need to afford, what they need to pay for just to live basically in the United States. And that gives people a real sense of unease. It scares people. And when you're scared about money, your consumer confidence is low. And that's exactly what's happening today. Now, you can say on top of that, we've got geopolitical concerns. We're just coming out. A year ago was tariffs. People were worried about that. People worried about the impact of inflation because of tariffs. Here we are in this spring of 2026. And now we're worried about we still have an ongoing war. It's very new, but very much in the headlines and affecting oil in the Middle East. And it's impacting oil. So you put that all together. It's not that surprising. Even though we have a relatively low unemployment rate, the hurdle of higher prices never goes lower. It just gets higher and higher and it hasn't gone down. And that was with the hyperinflation we saw in 2022. And it's just never gotten any better. The rate of change has gotten better. The hurdle has stopped going up as quickly, but now it's starting to happen again because of oil. Put it all together, people have a lower sense of confidence about their money situation and their ecosystem than they have in a long time.
Speaker 1:
[47:05] And I think that when you think about retirement, it's in the future, right? You may be closer to it, you may be further from it, but I just think right now, the future just doesn't... When you think about the future, Wes, it just seems opaque. It just seems like fuzz. We just don't have any idea what it's gonna look like. What's the world gonna look like after this Iranian thing is over? How long is it gonna take all of these gulf states and everybody to get back to pumping and getting all this stuff out there? How many geopolitical situations will change as a result of the last two or three months? And I think that's like a shakiness. When I don't even know what the future looks like, then how can I be very confident about my personal retirement in that future?
Speaker 10:
[47:52] And that number's come down, that number's lower too, this is from EBRI. Last year, 78%, which is a really good, strong number of retirees felt that they were either somewhat or very confident in their retirement plan. These are people that are already retired. That's a big number, 78% feel pretty good.
Speaker 1:
[48:10] That's success in a society.
Speaker 10:
[48:11] It is. I think it really, coming from you, coming from you, that's a big success.
Speaker 1:
[48:17] Look, you can't get everybody over the finish line, but as a society, if you're getting almost 80% of people into retirement comfortably, that's a success.
Speaker 10:
[48:26] That's dropped to 73. So that number dropped again this year. And that again, that's from last year to this year. So that's a five point drop over the past year. What are they citing at the same thing that we've been citing for the last year here, which is inflation, groceries, car insurance, you name it.
Speaker 1:
[48:47] Yeah, the inflation thing is just, you're right. If it stops, does it ever go the other way? It could go the other way. Like, you know.
Speaker 10:
[48:54] It's possible.
Speaker 1:
[48:56] Right.
Speaker 10:
[48:57] And we've had a few months in the last hundred years where we've had deflation.
Speaker 1:
[49:02] But that's bad, right? Isn't that like a weird thing? You wouldn't want all the prices to go down at once because it would hurt the overall economy. It's very, but once you start going up, but here's the thing in the past, and I don't know how far in the past, it doesn't matter how high prices go if wages compete. If as long as your wages stay that percentage higher than what it costs to buy your groceries, you're not feeling any difference. But I think with this inflation, we're getting crazy inflation and wages seem to have peaked for an awful lot of people.
Speaker 10:
[49:32] That's the big problem. It's real wage inflation. Does it outpace the CPI and PC? And the answer is, it has to some extent recently, but it hasn't really come close to the big rise over the last five years. All right.
Speaker 1:
[49:46] Let's say hello to Alex Williams. Alex says there unfortunately is a crash on you. All right. We're not going to be blowing anybody up anytime soon, apparently, although I don't know. This puts us in more murky waters, I suppose. Donald Trump is truth. What do they call it? Truthing? A truth. He said, based on the fact that the government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so, and upon the request of Field Marshal Aseem Munir and Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif of Pakistan, Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our attack, not all caps, but the attack is capitalized, on the country of Iran until he capitalizes the word country of and then capitalizes Iran. Okay. Until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal, I have therefore directed our military to continue the blockade and in all other respects remain ready and able and will therefore extend the ceasefire capitalized until such time as their proposal is submitted and discussions are concluded one way or the other. President Donald J. So that basically just means now we're just kind of up in the air until somebody decides these things have concluded. I imagine he would be the person who makes that decision. Wes Moss, tell people how they can get more Wes Moss.
Speaker 10:
[50:59] Well, that's easy to do so at Your Wealth is the website ..com or wealth.com.
Speaker 4:
[51:05] And how do you listen here on Wsb?
Speaker 10:
[51:07] I've started just saying your wealth, your wealth. It's easy to remember.
Speaker 1:
[51:12] Well, you think the.com throws people off. I just feel like it seems like efficiency for efficiency sake.
Speaker 10:
[51:18] Yeah, it's just your wealth.com or just your wealth. And you can find our team there. There's a contact button. I think that sometimes people think they can't find us. It's easy to find us. Your wealth.
Speaker 1:
[51:28] Okay, there it is. Your wealth.
Speaker 4:
[51:29] Then 8 to 10 every Sunday here, right? On Sundays?
Speaker 10:
[51:32] 9 to 11.
Speaker 4:
[51:32] 9 to 11.
Speaker 10:
[51:33] But close, Jared.
Speaker 6:
[51:34] Excuse me, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:
[51:36] Horseshoes, you get points.
Speaker 10:
[51:38] 9 to 11.
Speaker 4:
[51:39] One of the hours.
Speaker 1:
[51:40] We don't have a lot of time, so I want to ask you about this.
Speaker 10:
[51:43] Lightning round.
Speaker 1:
[51:43] It's kind of like, I'm lightning round with one question, basically. Because I've been saying that I am still a capitalist. I do not recognize that the way we're doing our business, for many reasons in this country, are capitalism. The invisible hand of the market. To me, that's capitalism. This story, because today they opened up the portal, so if you paid those tariffs that the Supreme Court said, Trump made you pay illegally, now they have a portal where everybody's going to go to try to get their tariff money back. And Donald Trump said on Tuesday, CNBC told CNBC that he will gratefully remember US companies that do not seek refunds for the tariffs. He unilaterally imposed, which the Supreme Court later ruled were illegal. Now that's, so that's, he is saying, if you do something that's counterintuitive to the right way to run your business, I might help you out with something next year.
Speaker 3:
[52:35] Oh yes, no, I can't wait to impress him with my humbleness.
Speaker 1:
[52:39] Wsb, do you agree with me when I say, that's not capitalism?
Speaker 10:
[52:45] It's all part of capitalism.
Speaker 2:
[52:46] Oh, yes!
Speaker 10:
[52:48] It's all part of capitalism.
Speaker 1:
[52:49] How is that part of capitalism?
Speaker 10:
[52:51] It's all part of capitalism because capitalism is a giant, imperfect ecosystem that is still the best system there is, even though it's incredibly unfair.
Speaker 1:
[53:02] But this is not it. This kind of stuff is what you would call an autocrat, I think.
Speaker 10:
[53:08] I think that this is...
Speaker 1:
[53:10] Not a dictator, but...
Speaker 10:
[53:10] You could make that case. I'm not going to argue politically.
Speaker 1:
[53:13] You're bullying businesses to make bad decisions based on bad business decisions, based on me maybe helping you in the future. That doesn't sound like capitalism.
Speaker 10:
[53:21] Here's the reality. The vast majority, well, the big money, who have paid tariffs, are publicly traded companies that have millions of shareholders and publicly traded companies that are able to get hundreds of millions or billions of dollars back from tariffs. If they don't do it, they are going to face a day of reckoning from the very system, which is their shareholders, who will not allow that.
Speaker 1:
[53:48] So you're saying it's still capitalism because they're going to tell him no? No, absolutely. Okay, all right. Yeah, all right. Okay, well, so you still believe that capitalism will stand up to this kind of bullying.
Speaker 10:
[53:58] I believe so.
Speaker 1:
[53:59] All right, Wes Moss, I believe that you look younger and more handsome every single week as it goes by. And I look forward to seeing you next week. Have a great week. Alex Williams says, I 20 is pretty. As I was putting together the stories, as I was preparing for the show, we call that prep. You're preparing for the show, going over all the stories.
Speaker 4:
[54:25] A lot of different ways to prep.
Speaker 1:
[54:27] There are a lot of different ways to prep. There are a lot of different ways to prep. Are you being naughty?
Speaker 3:
[54:33] I take prep.
Speaker 7:
[54:34] I'm doing it right now.
Speaker 1:
[54:40] I came across a few stories that I felt like, I put them under lifestyle, slash culture, slash society, just the way things are. The way things are different now. This is not one of those stories. But I have to say that I am actively longing for a return to the analog world at this point. It was just better. Now, there's a lot of things that are good now. I can do my prep on one machine and then magically it's on every different device. Yes, I do. Photocopy these, Jared. Yes, I do.
Speaker 4:
[55:19] The first show I ever produced for, I had to do that.
Speaker 1:
[55:23] There's a computer chip in everything now and things that you just don't, you know, our ice machine in the break room. Now, since Tim Andrews, a handyman, got in there and got it working. But all these machines that we have now around us, that used to be around but they didn't have computer chips in them, have you noticed they just break like once a month? And then when they break, it's a computer thing. So you just have to, first you have to wait for somebody at the company to recognize and fill out a ticket and put it up, and then it takes five days for the maintenance worker to come out. To fix an ice machine. Now back in the days of analog, the ice machine was set up in such a way that gravity was your friend. The ice was kind of hanging there, being held back until you put the cup in, that opened it up and gravity worked, every once in a while it would get jammed. You know what? You didn't need a college degree to figure out how to fix it. Oh, it's jammed with ice. Open it up. Pop, pop. Okay, now it works again. There was a guy here, a maintenance guy, he was working on the machine I get my Snickers out of. He was in there for like a half an hour. Good guy. He left, I went to buy a Snickers and the whole credit card thing just wouldn't work because that's all computer stuff. We used to put quarters in and just, the whole thing was just like kinetic. I want to go back to more, more of a kinetic world. That's just my little, my little rant. I just want everything now has a computer chip in it. And if it breaks, there's like, well, we got to call somebody to come in. And then they walk in and they go 72578888 and it's fixed.
Speaker 7:
[57:05] $1000, please.
Speaker 4:
[57:07] Does that machine still take change? Or does it take dollar bills at all?
Speaker 1:
[57:10] I don't think it does. It might. I don't know.
Speaker 7:
[57:12] It's supposed to. Anytime I've tried to use it that way, it won't do it.
Speaker 1:
[57:15] I know it does have the dollar thing, but everything just, it's just, does everything have to have a computer chip in it so that if that goes sideways, there's nothing we can do with this thing? I'm just an old man griping here. I'm telling you, things were, it used to be when things broke on you, you didn't have to be an expert to fix it. You could kind of figure it out. Oh, that thing fell here. Did I just move this around or? Honey, get me a rod and a couple of rubber bands. I'll fix this thing.
Speaker 7:
[57:48] Commercial ice machines would run water. They would constantly run water when it needed ice. It was a trickle of water and it would build a layer of ice. In between the water and the layer of ice were these copper wires that would cut it and then it would fall down, as you said, through gravity. If one of those snapped, you just would put a new one in there and tighten it.
Speaker 1:
[58:08] Yeah, and they would break once every five years. They weren't breaking all the time.
Speaker 7:
[58:14] Well, more than that.
Speaker 1:
[58:16] OK, but these things break constantly. The Starbucks machine upstairs, which is fantastic when it works. There's always two weeks here, three weeks, because when it goes down and then it breaks, and then there's just a message. There's just a digital message. It basically says, you're not up to this, pal. Just do something without ice and call our service rep.
Speaker 4:
[58:37] Now, I have found, at least with the Starbucks machine, just to push back a little bit, is that-
Speaker 1:
[58:41] Are you pushing back as a youngster?
Speaker 4:
[58:43] I'm just a little-
Speaker 1:
[58:44] Pushing back is this old man's rant?
Speaker 4:
[58:46] Just a little bit here.
Speaker 1:
[58:47] I will admit music is better now, but other than that, everything else is going crap.
Speaker 4:
[58:52] I'm glad you're coming around your senses on that. What about pulling up a YouTube video? Back in the old days, the analog, you couldn't just pull up YouTube to figure out how to fix it.
Speaker 1:
[58:59] No, there's good things, but I would do away with- Listen, there's some good things that technology has brought. Number one, you don't have to walk into a storefront on Main Street to buy porn. That's a good thing.
Speaker 7:
[59:12] That was a thrill. Maybe the banker would see you.
Speaker 1:
[59:15] I'm not one of these people who ever wanted to get caught at anything. I just, you know. And like I said, utility, you know, doing my prep, I do it on one device and immediately it's on every other device. Yes, there are good things. But you know, you look at these things as pros and cons, you weigh them. And I got to say, right now, the cons are starting to... I mean, I like the internet and all that, but just everything having to be digitized, it just seems like it's not as good as it used to be. Even if what that means is it used to break down once a year and now it breaks down once every six weeks. And whenever it breaks down, we can't... Nobody in the office can do anything. As a matter of fact, if they tried to do anything, you might nullify some sort of agreement where you would get maintenance for free or for some period of time.
Speaker 4:
[60:03] So you don't want me to watch a YouTube video to try to fix the ice machine?
Speaker 1:
[60:07] No, because if you went in and you messed it up, then probably you'd be on the hook because there's an agreement.
Speaker 7:
[60:12] You also don't have the right key to open it up to get into the digital features of it.
Speaker 4:
[60:16] I got a pen over here.
Speaker 7:
[60:17] Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1:
[60:17] Listen, he knows what to do.
Speaker 4:
[60:18] You can find a way in there.
Speaker 7:
[60:20] Now, the coffee machine upstairs...
Speaker 1:
[60:21] It's the MacGyver of ice machines.
Speaker 7:
[60:22] A lot of times it breaks down, but other times it gets filled because there's a filter in there and there's a rolling paper thing. Jared showed me how to change that. So I'll change that. And people look... When you do it, people look at you like, whoa!
Speaker 1:
[60:33] Well, what are you talking about?
Speaker 7:
[60:35] There is an automatic feeding roller that pulls filter paper through, so you can put the individual cup of coffee in it. And that bin gets filled and then it won't make coffee.
Speaker 1:
[60:45] You're talking about the Starbucks machine upstairs.
Speaker 7:
[60:47] And people just get perplexed. And Jared showed me how to fix it, he knows how to fix it, so I'll just change it.
Speaker 1:
[60:53] See, that's the beginning of institutional knowledge. See, if you stick around long enough, somebody younger than Jared will come across this, Jared will teach that person, and then Jared will go off and do whatever he's going to do in his career after this. Then this guy will teach somebody else younger, so maybe we're starting, maybe it's just too early, maybe I'm wrong, maybe we just... It's too early.
Speaker 3:
[61:10] You're just in the middle of the beginning.
Speaker 1:
[61:12] Yeah, we're in the middle of the beginning, and we have no institutional knowledge, and maybe I'm overreacting. It's a possibility. It's happened before.
Speaker 4:
[61:20] I have found, okay, with machines like the Starbucks machine, you can... There are a lot of people that have put YouTube videos on, because the issue that Tim is talking about is when you have to change the filter out or you have to just empty it out.
Speaker 1:
[61:34] Well, that's fine, because it's not to do with a computer chip.
Speaker 4:
[61:36] But there are other places where I found out how to reset it, like when it isn't working, because I'm that addicted to caffeine.
Speaker 1:
[61:42] You're all up inside that Starbucks machine, aren't you?
Speaker 3:
[61:45] I get up in there.
Speaker 1:
[61:45] You don't know it well.
Speaker 3:
[61:47] Unscrew that.
Speaker 4:
[61:49] I found there's a part of the screen that you push to go to a default menu, and when you get to that default menu, it resets everything and then it works again.
Speaker 3:
[61:58] That's how I use my laundry machine downstairs that costs money to use. I put in a special code, like I do a series of buttons in a specific way, and then I don't have to pay.
Speaker 1:
[62:07] You steal?
Speaker 3:
[62:08] Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[62:09] Oh, all right.
Speaker 3:
[62:10] Well, look.
Speaker 1:
[62:11] Does she steal? We're talking about Autumn here.
Speaker 7:
[62:13] Of course she steals. Good for you.
Speaker 3:
[62:15] I don't want to pay for laundry.
Speaker 7:
[62:17] Well then, buy a washing machine.
Speaker 3:
[62:19] I can't. I'm in an apartment. I can't install a washing machine.
Speaker 7:
[62:21] Oh, they don't have a hook up there?
Speaker 1:
[62:23] Buy a house.
Speaker 3:
[62:23] No, that's what I'm saying. It's downstairs in my apartment complex. It's down in the basement.
Speaker 1:
[62:28] Why are you laughing, Jared? You think I'm starting trouble with autumn?
Speaker 4:
[62:32] No, you just said that very much under your breath there, Eric.
Speaker 3:
[62:36] What did he say?
Speaker 1:
[62:38] I said that I think that you should not have to pay to do your...
Speaker 3:
[62:42] I agree.
Speaker 1:
[62:43] Laundry.
Speaker 3:
[62:44] Thank you. I agree, too.
Speaker 1:
[62:45] I mean, water doesn't cost anything.
Speaker 3:
[62:47] I pay for water.
Speaker 1:
[62:48] Okay. All right. Well, there you go. Why don't you go to the office and say, hey, this should be free, and if you don't make it free, I'm going to start a protest in the middle of the apartment. It's a complex.
Speaker 3:
[62:59] I'm like, great. I have no where to go.
Speaker 4:
[63:01] Do you at least pay for the detergent that you use?
Speaker 3:
[63:05] Yeah, I have to use. What do you mean? It's my detergent.
Speaker 1:
[63:07] Yeah, it says detergent. They don't leave detergent down there.
Speaker 7:
[63:09] She finds it at Walgreens in the dumpster.
Speaker 3:
[63:10] Although, I go to the CVS dumpster. I have a free detergent from there.
Speaker 1:
[63:14] Foraging always works. I remember the...
Speaker 3:
[63:16] I squeeze out other people's wet clothes in there.
Speaker 6:
[63:19] I use that water.
Speaker 3:
[63:20] Brilliant.
Speaker 1:
[63:22] I remember when I used to do launder mats, sometimes we would actually buy the detergent in the launder mat from some kind of machine. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3:
[63:30] It's not like that. Because this isn't a launder mat.
Speaker 1:
[63:32] I know. It's just a little... It's just a room where... How many machines do they have?
Speaker 3:
[63:36] There's two each, which is nice.
Speaker 1:
[63:38] Right. But I mean, is it connected per unit or is an entire building uses two each?
Speaker 3:
[63:44] No, the entire building uses two each.
Speaker 1:
[63:46] And there's two each for every building?
Speaker 3:
[63:48] Yes.
Speaker 1:
[63:49] Alex Williams. And now that I got that all... That wasn't for the audience. That was just my curiosity.
Speaker 3:
[63:55] There's a mattress down there right now and it's in the lane of my washing machine.
Speaker 1:
[64:00] Chloe, could you just send me schematics just of the washroom? Alex Williams is now keeping his eye on... Oh yeah, gotta remind people, new Driving and Crying album. Crushing Flowers, everyone should go get it.
Speaker 7:
[64:19] Little banger gong tributing.
Speaker 1:
[64:26] Everybody should go out and get it.
Speaker 4:
[64:28] You didn't hear that?
Speaker 1:
[64:28] It's fantastic. Nah, not really, I mean, rock and roll is a derivative art form. Isn't all art a derivative art form? Is there any such thing as something that's not influenced by anything else?
Speaker 4:
[64:43] Who was the first artist?
Speaker 1:
[64:44] Well, that's a good question, some guy in a cave. No, I say the first artist, it was the egg.
Speaker 3:
[64:51] Ah, you're wrong.
Speaker 1:
[64:53] Somebody in a cave, right? Like somebody in a cave doing their little artwork. Painting a deer. I was reading about what a terrible experience Coach Hella has been turning out for a lot of people. I watched it on my couch and so I was like, oh, that was a good set by so and so or that was boring or whatever. And you are always acting like the influencers only dominate weekend one. That's not what I'm hearing. I'm hearing weekend one, weekend two. It's all influencers everywhere you go. And most of them are paid to go there by these companies. But beyond that annoyance, again, second year in a row that I've looked at this, over 60 percent of the people who bought tickets went into debt to get tickets. And it's interesting how Coachella works. A lot of their marketing, and that's why they bring in all these influencers, a lot of their marketing is based on creating FOMO. Creating, and I'm 61 now, so it's hard for me to remember being 23 and those kind of feelings. But you can create this thing that says all of your friends and all of your peers are going to be doing this thing, and they're going to have this moment of their lives they'll be talking about for years, and you're not going to have it. So you better get on Klarna and go into debt or in some way, whether you do it on your credit card that you're not going to pay back in a timely manner, so it's going to be like 28 percent that interest on these tickets. And it's really stunning that apparently, for a lot of people, the way that this thing is set up, the music is like the last thing that the organizers really give a damn about. It's more about how many people that are here are going to shoot video of themselves being here, having this experience. And quite often, the influencers hardly ever talk about the acts. When Coachella is coming up, it's very rare for an influencer to say, oh my goodness, so and so is going to be there. I can't miss that. It's all about, I can't miss the event, you know, which is a difference.
Speaker 7:
[67:04] What do they talk about?
Speaker 1:
[67:05] Oh, because they're brought in by, like Starbucks will bring their influencers in, and all these perfumes will bring their, and so, and they have special accommodations. While most people are waiting an hour and a half for a crappy shower, the influencers get put up in, you know, beautiful apartments that are full of, if you're, excuse me, if you're a Starbucks influencer, you got a Starbucks espresso machine and all this kind of stuff. And so really what they're doing is they're just pushing products from the FOMO place, which makes people, so it's more intense, it's more heightened, right? It's like, oh, it's not just another influencer about a makeup. It's an influencer. It's another influencer about makeup at Coachella.
Speaker 4:
[67:47] There is one influencer specifically that I love. Her name is Madison Humphrey. And she pointed that out on Weekend One, especially. She's like, look at this, like nobody's dancing. Like, well, it's a great set that's going on. She was dancing during Bieber and dancing during Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 1:
[68:01] Dancing during Bieber? I don't even think Bieber was dancing during Bieber. Alex Williams says 285. Our three of The Von Haessler Doctrine begins right now. And it's Wsb's A Grand for Gas Giveaway. This hour's keyword is radio. R-A-D-I-O. Radio. Go to the WsbRadio app or wsbradio.com/gas for your chance to win $1,000. Again, that keyword is R-A-D-I-O. Radio. Radio.
Speaker 4:
[68:43] Can you use it in a sentence? What is that?
Speaker 1:
[68:45] You use it in a sentence.
Speaker 7:
[68:47] Huh?
Speaker 1:
[68:47] I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3:
[68:48] My radio is broken.
Speaker 1:
[68:51] The sentence I was going to use would not have been appreciated by my boss.
Speaker 7:
[68:54] I mean, what's a radio?
Speaker 1:
[68:58] Do questions count? Yeah, I guess it's a good sentence for the question. What is this thing you call radio? That's what I'd like to know. Boy, Shelley Winter. I'd tune in tonight at 7. He's on fire, man. About what? Well, about this latest thing with Trump where, because now it's even more opaque. We're just extending the ceasefire until the negotiations end and then he's saying that the blot the, that we totally control the state of Hormuz. Oh, if that's true, why is Australia running out of gas? Was that your choice not to allow Australia to have the oil they need to refine into gasoline? Does this make any sense?
Speaker 3:
[69:47] Do they refine it there? I know that like we don't refine ours.
Speaker 1:
[69:51] I'm not sure, you're asking me questions. I don't know about the Australian energy industry.
Speaker 3:
[69:56] You know, I'm pretty disappointed actually.
Speaker 1:
[69:58] I know, I know.
Speaker 3:
[69:58] I expected you to know stuff like that.
Speaker 7:
[70:00] I looked this up, yes, they do have some refineries there.
Speaker 1:
[70:02] Well, there you go.
Speaker 3:
[70:03] Thank you, Tim.
Speaker 1:
[70:03] You did, on your, oh well, oh.
Speaker 7:
[70:05] Thank you, Tim.
Speaker 1:
[70:06] You know, when you just get out of the way, and you two can just kind of do the show, you know.
Speaker 7:
[70:10] Oh yeah, that'd be exciting. Autumn and I talking about gas refinery.
Speaker 4:
[70:15] World War 4, 872.
Speaker 3:
[70:17] You know, some places don't refi their own gas. I don't know which ones though.
Speaker 1:
[70:21] People can call in with their gas stories. I think it'll be fantastic.
Speaker 9:
[70:26] I've seen it for 367.
Speaker 3:
[70:28] Oh, dang. That's real high. Wait, that's good?
Speaker 1:
[70:31] No, it's low.
Speaker 6:
[70:32] That's low, yay.
Speaker 1:
[70:34] Shelly is, he's upset with Trump, cause you know, he went out there and he stumped for him. You know, so he's feeling that way. I have to say this, and I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, it's something that's happening to me in my life, but I don't know. I find that like I have found in the last year or so, few months, even more so, maybe during this administration, I don't know because this is not what I'm about to say, it's not all about politics. Politics is just part of your life. But I have found that life is easier if I just accept the fact that most things aren't going to go the way I want them to. It's just easier just to just, and I look at that and go, well, is that just the lowering of standards? That's not good. You just kind of lower the standards so much that you can be happy now. But it tends to go that way. Like I was bitching and moaning about all the digital things that break down, and you got to wait for some service person to come out. When you used to be able to kick a machine, it would suddenly just roar back into life. Those days are long gone because those machines didn't have computer chips in them or whatever. But I mean just people, friends, family, just like you think they're going to like somebody, and then they don't. That used to bother the hell out of me, or the other way around. You think they're not going to like something. That's kind of the point where I think life is just easier if you just assume pretty much almost everything you want isn't going to happen. Then you can just kind of like cruise through life, understand. And then when wonderful things do happen, right? Wow, that came out of nowhere. I could celebrate that. That's a fantastic thing.
Speaker 4:
[72:17] So you're seeing the lower expectations, basically.
Speaker 1:
[72:19] Yeah, everything's become Christmas morning now. As you get older, Christmas morning, you keep trying to make it special, and it keeps letting you down. Why? Because you're not a kid anymore, and it's built for kids. And now the whole world has kind of become Christmas morning.
Speaker 7:
[72:31] It all starts with the bills. Once you realize they're never going to win a Super Bowl, and you just enjoy the game.
Speaker 1:
[72:36] Life becomes easier. Life becomes easier. And then if something crazy were to happen, that would just pop up out of nowhere. And you wouldn't be like, oh, my emotions have been... It starts there, and it extends all the way to the Strait of Hormuz. This is a philosophy that you can apply to all parts of your life.
Speaker 7:
[72:54] We're in nine years of daily insanity in the news. And I've been into it every day for a long time. And nowadays, I'm just like, well, nothing I can do.
Speaker 1:
[73:03] But because you recognize it's a game on the part of, like we're in a different world now, where the news cycle is this online behemoth. It's not brought to you in Time magazine once a week. It's not brought to you in 24-hour increments by your local newspaper. It's now this rolling shock machine.
Speaker 7:
[73:23] Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[73:24] People talk about how there really are no shock jocks anymore. The world just out shocked them. It's like the regular news, it's so weird and strange that you can't try to make it quite a shock people anymore. And you're right. You either get outraged by things constantly, or you're just mad because I want this policy and so-and-so is standing up against it.
Speaker 7:
[73:49] Well, that's why I was saying yesterday about the onion taking over Infowars and Tim Hydeck are doing a parody. That is going to be funny the first time you see it. But if they continue doing that, two or three times a week, forever, it'll go away. The same with Colbert. People aren't tuning in to that every night because it's too much.
Speaker 1:
[74:07] So, yeah, you want to get away from it all, really, is what it comes down to.
Speaker 7:
[74:11] Unless you're an addict for that, which I'm not.
Speaker 1:
[74:12] Yeah. Well, I think even an addict can get enough. I think that's what's happened. I mean, I've been a news junkie since I was a teenager. And to me, now it's just like, it's just not fun. It's not fun. It's strange. It used to be you could actually, everybody in the world wasn't lying about everything all the time. So you could point, oh, that's a lie. But this over here, now you just have to assume. Look at the world we're in. The smartest person would assume everyone's lying to them. Everything they see is possibly not what it appears to be with the AI stuff. And, you know, Jared went to see the Michael movie, Michael Jackson. And I saw a one star review that said this is a bad TV movie at best. But you saw it and they can't even blame it on not dealing with the children thing because it stops before you get to that point in life. This is part one.
Speaker 4:
[75:08] Yeah, which I did not know that.
Speaker 1:
[75:09] I brought it up to further make this point. You said that there's a lot of CGI in it. Just fake, just the stuff that that crowd in the movie. It's not really a crowd. Well, like you were saying just AI.
Speaker 4:
[75:21] Yeah, if there is one positive part of the movie.
Speaker 1:
[75:24] I don't want to hear about the positive part of the movie. I don't want to hear about the AI.
Speaker 4:
[75:27] I know, I'm getting there. I promise. I'm just trying to set it up.
Speaker 1:
[75:28] I just kind of always got to give me the positive.
Speaker 4:
[75:30] I'm just trying to set it up. I'm trying to, because what makes the movie entertaining to me is the music of Michael Jackson. That's what wanted me to get.
Speaker 1:
[75:38] Yeah, but you don't need the movie for that.
Speaker 4:
[75:39] And that's the point. So when they were showing these crowd shots of people that were dancing at Michael's concerts or Michael's festivals, wherever he was performing at, they would show like one or two real people. And then they would have a drone shot where they would back out of it.
Speaker 1:
[75:53] All AI.
Speaker 4:
[75:54] And you would see all AI and it looked terrible.
Speaker 1:
[75:56] It looked terrible. What I'm saying is, that's life now. You're watching me go, that's not a crowd. Nothing is real.
Speaker 3:
[76:03] Yeah, your brain knows. Even if you think the AI is pretty good, like it's still, your brain knows.
Speaker 1:
[76:11] I don't even, yeah, I agree with that. And that's true with CGI as well. But with AI, it's even worse. It's like, why are you doing this? I bought a ticket to see this movie. Why are you, why are you cheating me? Yeah, it costs.
Speaker 3:
[76:30] Why does it cost so much if it's all made with a computer?
Speaker 4:
[76:32] And they kept doing it over and over and over again. The movie just dragged. It was really bad. Honestly.
Speaker 1:
[76:38] Well, families make their, it's because the family made their, getting off my original point with the thing, it's because the family made it. You know, the Queen movie was huge in this moment. Most people don't say great things about that movie anymore. They've gone back. What really happened was it hit a generation that wasn't familiar with all those great songs. I think that's why that Queen movie did so well at first, and like a whole new generation fell in love with the band. And now on second and third viewings, that movie does not, has no good reputation whatsoever.
Speaker 3:
[77:08] This rating is pretty bad.
Speaker 1:
[77:09] And it was produced by Queen. People don't tell their own stories. Look, conflict is the essence of drama. That means you don't have drama without conflict. If you don't have drama, you don't have an interesting story. When bands tell their own stories, they're going to protect themselves from their worst behaviors or whatever. It's like that horrible Led Zeppelin documentary was out. You know, I want to know about what really happened.
Speaker 7:
[77:38] Exactly.
Speaker 1:
[77:40] And so that's anything that's made either with the approval of or by the family of the artist is going to be ultimately disappointing because the truth always hurts feelings. You know, if you have a lot of people around the band or the individual.
Speaker 4:
[77:57] The last three biopics that I've seen have all been let down. This Michael one is probably the worst of the three.
Speaker 7:
[78:02] But the Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 1:
[78:03] I hear it's just a bad movie.
Speaker 4:
[78:04] Yeah, it's just not good. With the exception of maybe the young Michael. But even then, like the story is still terrible. But the Bruce Springsteen biopic, not good at all. Did not enjoy that one at all.
Speaker 1:
[78:15] I haven't seen it.
Speaker 4:
[78:15] And then also the Bob Dylan one, it had good hopes at the beginning. It was certainly interesting.
Speaker 1:
[78:22] My wife didn't like it.
Speaker 4:
[78:23] But it did not come together well.
Speaker 1:
[78:26] My wife told me that he was talking like his old self when he was young in that movie.
Speaker 7:
[78:31] He was, but Bob was involved in its creation, which means there's a lot of lies and a lot of misdirection. And that's what I enjoyed.
Speaker 1:
[78:36] He at least does that on purpose. But yeah, is that true? Cause I was like, my wife, that can't be true. Cause Dylan, Dylan didn't speak like that in the sixties. He was very crisp in his style of speaking. Why did he change? He just got old. He's got old. Alright, we'll say hello to Bill Crane when we get back. Right now, Alex Williams is checking the slow spot. Alright, Bill Crane is here and he is willing to once again have that Crane brain drained. And that's what we do. Bill, how are you?
Speaker 5:
[79:16] I am well, because of the gasoline and the traffic. I was a little way late.
Speaker 1:
[79:21] No, that's alright. That's alright. The gasoline, which you can still afford to put in your car, that's a good thing. The Snickers bar I just went upstairs to buy, this is not a huge... You know, sometimes the chocolate goes down in price and the candy bars get larger. I've seen... This is about as small as a Snickers bar can get. $2.50 plus tax. Now, that's here inside the building. I don't know if I went to Buddy's or something, what it would cost.
Speaker 5:
[79:45] It's about $2 at a grocery store if you're at Kroger. You're really looking past all the impulse. I'm not at any candy bar at this point.
Speaker 1:
[79:52] That's... You know, I'm doing pretty well. And when I go, ooh... You know what I mean? Like, I haven't always...
Speaker 5:
[79:58] You've weighed that decision before you point it.
Speaker 1:
[80:00] Yes. I mean, I have not always been doing well. About half of my life, I was not doing well. The other half, I've been doing okay financially. But if I'm going, mm, man, what about somebody who's got a couple of kids?
Speaker 5:
[80:11] Look at a bag of chips if you really want to pause.
Speaker 1:
[80:13] Yeah, I don't think I have to like $9 or something.
Speaker 5:
[80:16] In a real size bag of grocery store, yeah, five or six bucks a bag of chips.
Speaker 1:
[80:20] It's just, you know... But I don't know, I just heard that Trump said it's the greatest economy we've ever had.
Speaker 5:
[80:27] I'm sorry, I didn't know.
Speaker 1:
[80:27] Well, he's looking at one thing. He's looking at Wall Street numbers, right? To him, that is the economy. If Wall Street is going up, it's a good economy. If it's going down, it's bad. And nothing else matters, I feel like, in his mind. It seems to be, you know, that's the way he's looking at it.
Speaker 5:
[80:42] Well, I mean, if you're in the White House, though, he does pay for the catering, which is one of the reasons they eat McDonald's and Whopper's all the time.
Speaker 1:
[80:47] He's a billionaire.
Speaker 5:
[80:48] Yeah, what I'm saying is he makes a good living. His company has done very well in this presidency.
Speaker 1:
[80:55] Amazing coincidence.
Speaker 5:
[80:56] So when you look at it from that vantage point, it is a very healthy economy.
Speaker 1:
[80:58] Isn't it an amazing coincidence that his company has grown 3x, 4x?
Speaker 5:
[81:04] Billion, particularly overseas.
Speaker 1:
[81:05] It all happened to take place while he had power.
Speaker 5:
[81:09] When his kids are running the company, so that obviously means they're a better business people than he is.
Speaker 1:
[81:13] Because he doesn't have anything to say about it anymore. It's all out of his hands completely.
Speaker 9:
[81:17] I dug to know one.
Speaker 5:
[81:18] There's a wall.
Speaker 1:
[81:19] Yeah. People are really starting to bring this up. It's not something that you could ever, maybe one day you could legislate something, I don't know. But there's a real feeling amongst people who are in the know on trading stocks and the markets that he is tipping people off before things happen.
Speaker 5:
[81:38] Yeah, that's called insider training and there's law.
Speaker 1:
[81:41] Because we don't know what the president's going to do concerning Iran next or whatever. But at least 10 minutes before he tweets or speaks, he does. You think that there's some truth to this, that he's tipping people off before he makes major decisions so that they can either buy or sell or whatever?
Speaker 5:
[81:57] Or as he does, just running off at the mouth.
Speaker 1:
[82:00] Oh, with the people around him, right.
Speaker 5:
[82:02] With the people around him, we don't know. But clearly, market-moving information is leaving the White House and moving the market before intended, and that's illegal. It's called insider trading. But you have to have an SEC and an FBI and a Justice Department that are willing to prosecute that.
Speaker 1:
[82:18] Well, the director of the FBI is suing the Atlantic for $250 million in a defamation lawsuit. We'll talk about that and other things when we get back. Would you like to give some... Oh, we got to remind people, of course.
Speaker 5:
[82:30] Give some gas.
Speaker 1:
[82:30] Wsb's A Grand for Gas Giveaway. This hour's keyword once again is radio, R-A-D-I-O. Go to the Wsb Radio app or wsbradio.com/gas for your chance to win $1,000. Alex Williams says, there's a crash on I-20. All right, Bill Crane. So Cash Patel has filed a lawsuit, $250 million defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic. The Atlantic earlier in the week, maybe late last week, I'm not sure, came out with an article that they had worked on for quite some time. Within this article, it portrayed moments under Cash Patel, where they say he was inebriated in official settings. Apparently, early on, when he hadn't gotten it together yet, he would be out all night, and so he would postpone all the meetings till the afternoon, and the idea that at one moment they had to smash in his door to get him out of some office or something, because he was just so drunk or whatever. So now he files the lawsuit. Now, what that means is discovery, right? We're going to find out a lot of things.
Speaker 5:
[83:46] Well, you used to have litigation based sort of, particularly with defamation of character, based on the income estimation, earnings, of the person that you're harming reputationally and that you're going to harm their reputation and ability to earn an income later.
Speaker 1:
[84:02] Yeah.
Speaker 5:
[84:03] In what world is Cash Patel making 250 million dollars? But he's learned from his boss, the president.
Speaker 1:
[84:11] Keep the next paper from doing it.
Speaker 5:
[84:13] Yeah, and who does not in any way let the reality or the norms of the world get in the way and sues news outlets for fear and intimidation.
Speaker 1:
[84:21] Now, what has to be proven here because he's a public official is that the Atlantic knew that the information that they were running with, they absolutely knew it was false and they ran with it anyway, right? Because he's a public figure. So there's a lot of you can parody, you can do a lot of you can say a lot of nasty things.
Speaker 5:
[84:37] They had no verification and they purposely intentionally to smear him, ran false information. Yeah, that is the standard for deaf animation.
Speaker 1:
[84:43] They're claiming it's based on like nine different interviews of people who are part of this.
Speaker 5:
[84:46] Slander is a lower standard, but you can also ask for less in recovery.
Speaker 1:
[84:50] Sure.
Speaker 5:
[84:51] But he, I mean, I'm assuming they've got cold witnesses, perhaps breathalyzers.
Speaker 1:
[84:57] Of course.
Speaker 5:
[84:58] And yeah, as to your point, he's not the president and they will probably be coming forward with the documentation, the receipts, as they say.
Speaker 1:
[85:04] And then he, once you get into discovery, they can start asking other questions that people want to know about. How often do he and his country music girlfriend use the plane to get, you can start asking a bunch of questions. And so he better be a hundred percent correct on this or else it's not going to look good. I just feel like these, I wonder what you think about this idea. It seems like, because they just, whoever they're nominated to CDC is getting flying colors from everybody, like just like, this is a respected doctor who is.
Speaker 5:
[85:42] She has a track record.
Speaker 1:
[85:43] Has a track record, which is so different, these initial appointees, Pam Bondi.
Speaker 5:
[85:50] He's done what he wanted to do with the CDC.
Speaker 1:
[85:52] Well, but my point is this. I think that when he went in, he just liked the idea of this. I'm going to put Tulsi Gabbard at, I'm going to put Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of HHS. I think it was that thing that he has, that showmanship thing that he has. But these people are starting to, Noam is out. Who else? Pam Bondi is out. It looks like Cash Patel may very well be getting close to being out. And are we going to go through a series of nominees like this person for CDC where he's like, OK, you know what? That shock value has worn off. These people are actually incompetent, and that's not making me look good.
Speaker 5:
[86:31] Well, also Senate confirmation is not going to get easier.
Speaker 1:
[86:34] Right.
Speaker 5:
[86:35] Not only with the party that he has, but the party he may have after November. So I think people like Susie Wiles, some of the adults in the room that are still in the White House, are suggesting that maybe in near term appointments might be more experienced, have resumes, have worked relevant, have done relevant work in the field.
Speaker 1:
[86:50] Have something to do with the industry they're looking over? That they're regulating.
Speaker 5:
[86:55] Not part of it.
Speaker 1:
[86:56] Yeah. I mean, you can find people, that's why I call it show business. You know, remember he wanted, what's his face? Matt Gaetz was going to be the first Attorney General. You know, you can find people who have, who have been in whatever industry that they are supposed to be regulating, who disagree with the norms, who are contrarians.
Speaker 5:
[87:16] Bill Barr was that way.
Speaker 1:
[87:17] Exactly. You don't have to go out to complete left field and get some, you know, small time internet star. The Department of Defense was a weekend host on Fox for seven years. Nobody at Fox ever thought, we got to get this guy to primetime.
Speaker 5:
[87:36] Well, if you really want to get a little disturbed, think that he may still have two more Supreme Court appointments in him.
Speaker 1:
[87:43] He's done all right with the Supreme Court appointments.
Speaker 5:
[87:45] No, but I'm saying he said he's not going to listen to the Heritage Foundation.
Speaker 1:
[87:48] So he's going to put goofballs on there.
Speaker 5:
[87:50] And he's not going to listen to the typical groups that have vetted his prior appointees. And Anthony Alito's health is, Justice Alito's health is not great. And supposedly neither is Clarence Thomas'. Clarence Thomas wants to wait a little longer, but supposedly Alito will step down before the end of this year.
Speaker 1:
[88:06] Well, Clarence Thomas may be running out of energy, but it just doesn't take much to rubber stamp a Republican president. And anytime there's a Republican president, he gets four years of easy. What does the president want? Okay, you got it. Alito is more of a thinking right wing. I mean, Clarence Thomas, I used to have a hell of a lot of respect for, but it's become obvious later in his career that he's just whatever Republicans want, they get and then he'll go against the same thing just because he's a Democrat. So I've lost a lot of respect for Clarence Thomas over the years. Trump has put people on the court that I think have turned out to be pretty good.
Speaker 5:
[88:47] I don't disagree, but he had a lot of help, and Mitch McConnell leading the way on all of his prior Supreme Court appointments and Senator McConnell will be gone after January.
Speaker 1:
[88:57] I'm blanking on the lady's name that he put. Amy Coney Barrett. She's turned out to be, I think, a very good jurist.
Speaker 5:
[89:02] I agree. I don't have issues with most of his appointees.
Speaker 1:
[89:06] No, I know what you're saying. He's going to go goofball.
Speaker 5:
[89:08] He's definitely going to go rogue.
Speaker 1:
[89:10] And young. So he's going to put somebody in there. It's like, I don't even know if there's a, is there a, is there, I mean, there is not a minimum age, but you typically never see. What if he put a 12 year old in there?
Speaker 5:
[89:19] I can see him putting somebody like Judge Judy on the Supreme Court. I could see him doing something.
Speaker 1:
[89:23] Again, he's good. Now, he could lose. He can lose the Senate.
Speaker 4:
[89:28] That's why he's got to do it.
Speaker 1:
[89:29] That's in play.
Speaker 4:
[89:29] I mean, Clarence Thomas and Alito probably, if they want a Republican to pick their essence, they could go down.
Speaker 1:
[89:35] I think it comes natural for Alito, I think, before November. He seems to be in very bad health.
Speaker 5:
[89:42] That word, apparently, is out in Washington. The White House is trying to nudge Clarence Thomas towards the door, but he's basically saying, not yet.
Speaker 1:
[89:50] That's the thing. It's for life. You can't push him out. That really could be his lasting legacy. If he gets a couple of people in there who are 40 years old, and they're in good health, that's what W is trying to do with John Roberts going on as Chief Justice at such a young age.
Speaker 4:
[90:07] What's crazy is, I'm looking at this up here, Phil, not only are you right about the Supreme Court not having an age limit, but 31 states on their Supreme Court do have an age limit.
Speaker 5:
[90:16] Interesting that on the federal side, the founders weren't envisioning people staying on for 20 and 30 years because they weren't typically in those days nominated or put on the bench until they were very, very senior in their judicial careers, and they were going on at 60 or 55, and they might live.
Speaker 1:
[90:32] Their thinking was, we want people who can't be bought.
Speaker 5:
[90:35] Politically impacted.
Speaker 1:
[90:36] They're not looking for, this is the last office and the highest office you're ever going to be at, and you don't have to worry about politics or people.
Speaker 5:
[90:44] Here in George, our current two Supreme Court justice seats are up, and it's gotten very political on the abortion question.
Speaker 1:
[90:50] It's weird to me when judges are involved in elections. I guess, I mean, most are, some are, some aren't, different levels, different states.
Speaker 5:
[90:58] Typically, the state justices have been above it, but not, I meant Court of Appeals and Supreme Court, but state and superior courts, depending on the part of the state you're in, but when we are seeing literally kind of a, it'll start being a media war over the issue of abortion rights in the two Supreme Court cases.
Speaker 1:
[91:17] And I don't want that in judges.
Speaker 5:
[91:18] Me either.
Speaker 1:
[91:19] I mean, obviously you want to judge with a backbone. You want a judge that has a worldview. You want a judge that has a personal philosophy through years of experience.
Speaker 5:
[91:26] And you can ask that, but it shouldn't be a single issue and it shouldn't be litmus test.
Speaker 1:
[91:30] Yeah. And I don't like judges running commercials. I don't like judges being politicians.
Speaker 5:
[91:37] Well, the ones that are up now are just as so-and-so will fight for... No, that's not what you're...
Speaker 1:
[91:42] I like it better when we elect the people who appoint the judges. Now, nothing's perfect and everything could be abused. But overall, I kind of like that system.
Speaker 4:
[91:51] What about influencer clavicular for the Supreme Court?
Speaker 1:
[91:55] He's young. He's young.
Speaker 4:
[91:56] Trump on there, yeah, he's an addict.
Speaker 1:
[91:59] He's young and he's damn good-looking and Trump likes that.
Speaker 5:
[92:02] Well, thank God Laura Loomer is falling out of fashion.
Speaker 1:
[92:05] Bill Crane, just stick around for one more. Alex Williams has better news on I-20. All right, Bill Crane. One little thing I want to ask about. So this Clay Fuller... It's funny, last night after I got home, all the things I said about Clay Fuller, because I was not impressed with that little video that he did from a Maryland hotel room. When I got home, I thought... Because we have a new... When you get these young guys who are politicians, that guy could kick my ass. He could just say, I don't like this guy. What's this guy saying? He'd just show up and just beat the hell out of me. But again, I have to stick with what I think. I didn't find that impressive at all. It was new to Congress, backward baseball cap video, all kinds of snark. Some of it which was easy to pick up, he was joking, he was dropping Gunnar Stockton's name, that stuff was easy to pick up. I'm assuming when he said Georgia was named after George Washington, that that was also a snarky joke. But where's the end for people?
Speaker 5:
[93:04] I don't have a personal history or knowledge of him. I've never met him. I've only witnessed him in debates and things. He's a former district attorney.
Speaker 1:
[93:12] I know he served, right?
Speaker 5:
[93:13] He served in the military. He was a Lieutenant Colonel, I think in the Air National Guard. He's got a respectable resume. My assumption is his handlers, his staff are telling him in that this is his first week in Congress, make some headlines, get some attention, but don't do what Marjorie Taylor Greene did. So he's picked the Second Amendment as an issue he's going to be heavy on. It is the age of social media and TikToks and memes. So a video that gets some pickup and play like we're talking about him right now. Otherwise, it was the last time we otherwise talked about a member of Congress other than Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Speaker 1:
[93:47] I think it's I'm getting annoyed with all the all the religion because it's to me it I'm not getting annoyed with all the like people are religious. I'm not annoyed with that. The merging of politicians and them wearing their religion on on their sleeve. To me, it's like it's kind of like a thing where it just tells you, hey, you can only argue with me so much because there's there's this idea that if you disagree with me too much, well, you must be in favor of the devil, you know? I just, I just, I, your religion is your religion. And, and it's, it's also your personal philosophy. So it, it should show up in your work, in what you do, because it's, it's your world view. And that's perfectly fine and wonderful. But I just feel like it's being used in kind of a-
Speaker 5:
[94:38] As a prop.
Speaker 1:
[94:39] And also as like, I'm better than you. So don't question me on these things.
Speaker 5:
[94:44] In and outside of politics, I have challenged in my life dealing with people who wear their faith on their sleeve as if it makes them a better person.
Speaker 1:
[94:53] Yes.
Speaker 5:
[94:54] But if you think about a president, I think very effectively used his faith. Ronald Reagan would often be criticized by others for not attending worship services. And he had when he was in California, when he was governor, and he pretty early on in his first term explained why, even with the National Cathedral right down from the White House, do you know how much it costs and how much the Secret Service would have to spend and plan for Nancy and I to be in the front row and the danger we place everyone else in that church by being there.
Speaker 1:
[95:23] Right. And also, I'm the kind of politician who can win without it.
Speaker 5:
[95:27] And I like worshiping privately.
Speaker 1:
[95:29] Yeah. It seems, I hate that term weaponized, it's used too much. And so when you use it, you just sound like one of somebody from a bucket, you know, whatever political bucket you're in. But it does, I'm just getting tired of it. Tired of all the talk, all the rhetoric, all the snark, all the I'm this and the way I live my life is better than you, from the right and the left. Can we get some problem solvers? This country has a lot of problems that need to be solved. But first, I guess the constituents have to get interested in, I guess they haven't felt enough pain from the way we've horribly run this country for the last 30 years.
Speaker 5:
[96:03] Both parties have supported certain parts of the religious community, but the Republican Party since the Jerry Falwell era has in their base the conservative right, and that's a part of the chain.
Speaker 1:
[96:12] This thing now seems like, it comes across like Pete Hegseth, like, I'm a Christian, and I'll beat you up.
Speaker 5:
[96:19] And I'll misread or misstate a biblical reference. I mean, I've known you guys, everybody in this room for a decade. Do any of you know my faith?
Speaker 1:
[96:25] No.
Speaker 5:
[96:26] And so, but I'm a person of faith. But I've never discussed it unless you've asked me a question.
Speaker 1:
[96:33] And people can discuss it all they want. I just don't like it being used as a, let's get something perfectly, let's set the table with this. I'm better than you. It's just annoying. You're supposed to represent me. Bill Crane, tell people real quickly how they can get more Bill Crane.
Speaker 5:
[96:48] The easiest way besides here on WSB radio and WSB television, there's a one man's opinion syndicated column that's in about 90 media outlets out state, and you can subscribe to it and get in your email inbox for free via sub stack on most of the socials, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube.
Speaker 1:
[97:02] Have a great week.
Speaker 5:
[97:03] Take care.
Speaker 1:
[97:03] Alex Williams says there are break lights on 285. That is correct, Kayachiyo. Hour four of The Von Haessler Doctrine begins right now. People ask themselves, what are you saying is correct? The Bill Kayachiyo said, nothing. It's just one day I said, that's correct. Kayachiyo, it's not as if he says, hey, now we're going into hour four, but you know what? It just works. Don't ask so many questions. Everything doesn't have to have meaning.
Speaker 3:
[97:33] I mean, is he wrong?
Speaker 1:
[97:35] He's not wrong. He's not wrong.
Speaker 3:
[97:36] No, so?
Speaker 1:
[97:37] Correct. Which makes me correct, insane correct. And where the hell is Greg Russ? Right now? Where is he? Is he with us? It's Tuesday. Oh, it's Tuesday.
Speaker 3:
[97:48] Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:
[97:49] This is weird. It is.
Speaker 3:
[97:50] This is weird.
Speaker 1:
[97:51] I was thinking it was one of those days when Greg Russ joins us, but apparently it is not. All right, somebody in Washington needs a hug and his last name is Hug with two Gs. Andrew Hug. This guy is the US. Chief of Chemical Nuclear. What I see here says surety. Is that it? Or is it supposed to be safety?
Speaker 7:
[98:12] Surety.
Speaker 1:
[98:12] Okay, surety. You never know online because if they get something wrong, they leave it up.
Speaker 7:
[98:17] Yes.
Speaker 1:
[98:18] Because they have to redo the count once they correct it. They should do something like that about that online. You should be able to go in and edit an article if you've just grammatically messed up without having to lose value. Because you have to start over again at zero when you repost it.
Speaker 4:
[98:36] Or at least allow me to report it. So that way they know there's an error.
Speaker 1:
[98:40] Yes, something like that.
Speaker 4:
[98:41] I'll put a snarky comment.
Speaker 1:
[98:42] I think the reason there's so much bad stuff out there is because if they realize they've messed up in an article with bad grammar or just gotten something wrong, misspelled a word, they just leave it up because there's already 500,000 views. If they correct it, apparently, they're going to go back to zero. Something should be done about that. Like in Slack, if I edit something, everyone else knows that it was changed. That's fine.
Speaker 3:
[99:06] Yeah, it should reflect the edit so that you know that it's not like months later, they got something wrong and then they're changing it to be correct.
Speaker 1:
[99:16] Sure. Maybe you put a 48-hour thing on it. But within a reasonable amount of time, if they just realize, oh, we messed that up. Just having bad grammar out there, it seems to me, underneath your logo. Well, it's not good for gravitas, right? That's a 24-hour callback right there. Andrew Hug, this is from Gateway Pundit. Tim just told me that Wikipedia says, what about Gateway Pundit?
Speaker 7:
[99:46] The Gateway Pundit is an American far-right fake news website.
Speaker 1:
[99:49] Okay. That's Wikipedia.
Speaker 4:
[99:51] And it's owned by Jim Hoft, a far-right wing blogger.
Speaker 1:
[99:54] Okay. Well, being a far-right wing blogger is legal in America. What? What are you talking about? I don't think it makes it safe. I asked him. So he's reporting on this and other sources are reporting this, right? After that Wikipedia judgment, I want to make sure.
Speaker 7:
[100:08] And Grock says it is correct.
Speaker 1:
[100:10] Andrew Hug, a US chief of chemical nuclear surety. See, that's bad writing. A US chief. How many do they have? It's called chief. That's one.
Speaker 7:
[100:19] Oh, yeah.
Speaker 1:
[100:20] You only have one chief, right?
Speaker 7:
[100:21] That's right.
Speaker 1:
[100:22] Andrew Hug, the US chief of chemical nuclear surety, was caught on hidden camera, casually revealing sensitive information to a stranger in a public restaurant. So this was James O'Keefe, right? Who used to be with the project. And then they fired him over something. And now he does his stuff himself.
Speaker 7:
[100:42] OMG is what it's called.
Speaker 1:
[100:45] I had a back and forth. Somehow that guy had my number once. And I said something. I wasn't very happy with him about something. And he texted me. And I just like told him off and whatever. That was it. Maybe it wasn't him. It was somebody pretending to be him on my text. I didn't even know I got the number. Anyway, he's the guy who usually goes after Democrats, but he's got had many hits. And basically, he uses Tinder and Grindr to get people to go on dates. And they don't know it's a journalist that's affiliated with him. And he gets these high-level people to go on dates. So it's a very interesting situation he sets up. The person from the government who ends up revealing so many secrets also wants to get laid that night. So it's a very kind of, you know, sometimes you wonder, are they embellishing? Are they trying to pretend they have more power than whatever? So it was this kind of situation. So The Stranger was a journalist for James O'Keefe. And so in this, the upshot of this is that this guy has been escorted out of the Pentagon and is going to lose his job after this. He claimed in this that the US still possesses nerve agents, and says a US. Army chemist recently died from exposure to those nerve agents. He also acknowledged that US airstrikes have killed children in Iran, calling it collateral damage. Well, we knew that from the very first, wasn't it the first strike, that elementary school, or it was on the first day. He revealed to the journalists, well, they cannot write at this. I don't know if they're right-wing hacks, but they cannot write. If I read this and revealed, I'll do it the right way, revealed to the journalists how nuclear launch decisions are made in real time. He said, United States can and will assassinate Iran's next leader if he doesn't change, and also revealed, we're not going to nuke anybody, that the administration has taken nukes off the table. All of it was casually revealed to an undercover journalist in a restaurant, and so the right thing to do is to get rid of this guy, and also look at some of the things that he said and say, okay, all right, maybe we got a little peek behind there. But O'Keefe's way of doing things, again, I always remember because he gets a lot of stuff off of Grindr Gay Dates. So a lot of times these guys are maybe in the closet, sometimes they are, sometimes they're not, but they've got administrative jobs in one administration or another. Well, no, these are people. I wouldn't fall for that. You get people like this who are down in departments or whatever to try to get their-
Speaker 7:
[103:28] And he may just be trying to impress these people too.
Speaker 1:
[103:30] Well, that's the whole thing. And I've always, a couple of the big ones have been through Grinder. And I'm like, well, is this guy trying to get laid? Is he just- that's kind of the problem. But also you got to give it to O'Keefe. He has gotten a lot of people at middle and low levels of government to admit to things that you would never be able to get people higher up. So it's interesting to know this information. And no matter what you think of the administration, it's absolutely the right thing to do to get rid of this guy.
Speaker 7:
[103:58] He is scrubbed as LinkedIn, this guy. And there's no major news outlets yet reporting on it.
Speaker 1:
[104:06] OK, that's making me wonder if it's Gateway Pundit. Am I being...
Speaker 7:
[104:09] It's all over the place. I mean, it comes from him.
Speaker 1:
[104:11] It's all over the place, but does it...
Speaker 7:
[104:12] It comes from James O'Keefe himself. They're just reporting on what he put out already.
Speaker 1:
[104:16] But we should know whether or not he was escorted out of the Pentagon. That's the...
Speaker 7:
[104:21] That comes from James O'Keefe.
Speaker 1:
[104:23] Okey-dokey. So we... Okay, well, let's just say that.
Speaker 3:
[104:26] We have one...
Speaker 1:
[104:27] We have one... Yes. Oh, my goodness. All those flowers.
Speaker 3:
[104:29] Those flowers? Gorgeous.
Speaker 1:
[104:31] They remind me of other things, but maybe it's me. Maybe I just have a dirty mind. I don't know.
Speaker 3:
[104:36] They remind me of something too, but I can't quite put my finger...
Speaker 1:
[104:38] More than a flower. That's all I'm saying. And, you know, Georgia. She's from Georgia because her name's Georgia.
Speaker 3:
[104:46] Georgia.
Speaker 1:
[104:48] I did find... So I'll say we have one source for this, and that's James O'Keefe. And we'll leave it there. If you find out that it's not real, then we know that we told you that it was one source.
Speaker 4:
[104:58] Oh, I did find the great source, Times Now World.
Speaker 1:
[105:01] And they're probably just going back to his... Everybody is sourcing him. So, okay, we don't know for a fact that any of this is true. We certainly don't know if he's been escorted out of the Pentagon. This is all coming from a man that I once had a text argument with. So who knows?
Speaker 4:
[105:15] Well, now I'm so curious. What was that about? I can't remember.
Speaker 1:
[105:18] It was during the show. I think it was during the... pandemic, because I was doing the show from my basement, and you guys were in different places. And somehow one of his things, maybe it ended up being the thing that got him fired. I can't remember. But I kind of went off on him. And then my phone, I get a text that says it's from James O'Keefe. And I don't even know if it was him, because whoever it was, was even slightly more arrogant than I would have expected if it was actually James O'Keefe. I remember I had a reasonable text, and then he just kept blaring through it, and then tried to pitch me on another story. And I'm like, get the hell out of here. You're just a jerk. I basically had told him, I don't like your style. And then he pitches me on a story that I should cover. It's all very vague to me now.
Speaker 4:
[106:13] I remember you bringing up the story without mentioning his name on the show now.
Speaker 1:
[106:19] And who knows? I mean, that's a hard thing to do, to ghost yourself or spoof yourself as James O'Keefe. And how would he have heard it? We're all over it.
Speaker 7:
[106:27] Oh, that's true.
Speaker 1:
[106:28] Hey, well, how could we have heard it? He's a right-winger and we're on Wsb back before the-
Speaker 7:
[106:33] When somebody told him or something.
Speaker 1:
[106:34] As the pandemic. This was in real time, though.
Speaker 7:
[106:36] Man.
Speaker 1:
[106:37] And so I don't know.
Speaker 4:
[106:38] Good times, right?
Speaker 1:
[106:39] And then I probably blocked him.
Speaker 7:
[106:40] So we have to take this story with a grain of salt until it's proven.
Speaker 1:
[106:42] That's what I'm trying to say. I am backpedaling faster than you can possibly imagine because we started with Wikipedia telling us this was a fake news site. Now, that doesn't mean it is. Who goes to Wikipedia anymore for anything other than... You know what I go to Wikipedia for? Geography. Oh, I want to know about some city in Europe.
Speaker 3:
[107:03] Oh, I go there for like birthdates, maybe.
Speaker 1:
[107:04] Birthdates. But even then, you get a little, that's a little bit. But yeah, basically, if I want to know about, you know, what's nightlife like in Venice? Like, there's no reason to lie to me. Like Wikipedia, or how long, when was this city, when did they first get their charter or something like that? I'll use Wikipedia for 2 plus 2 equals 4 questions. Nothing that anyone could have an opinion on.
Speaker 4:
[107:29] If you do want something confirmed, this is breaking here. ESPN has just confirmed that Joe Buck is going to host an ESPN Jeopardy starting this summer.
Speaker 1:
[107:40] Hey, speaking of Jeopardy, my youngest son texted me a couple of weeks ago, you got to watch this guy on Jeopardy. He's unbelievable. How many? There's this guy. 20, I think. Yeah. It's a new record, right? Well, he hasn't made as much money as Ken Jennings yet. But while Ken Jennings is the host, this guy may surpass him.
Speaker 3:
[107:58] He won't let that happen.
Speaker 1:
[108:00] And I'm like now, it's like, it's like, well, how do I catch up? I'm going to tune in and that'll be the one who loses.
Speaker 3:
[108:08] He's on a 27 win streak.
Speaker 1:
[108:11] 27 games. And see, I guarantee you if Alex Trebek was still there and nothing is Ken Jennings, slight list, but a good host. I'm just saying, nothing is him. But I think if Alex Trebek was still the host of Jeopardy, Jeopardy would just be in my mind more and I would have picked up on this when he won seven or eight. What?
Speaker 8:
[108:32] Ken's record is 74.
Speaker 1:
[108:34] So he's got a long way to go. But what about money?
Speaker 8:
[108:37] Let me find.
Speaker 1:
[108:37] All right. Well, we got to take a break. And also, when you go into the money, you know, let's remember inflation. You got quite a task in front of you during this break.
Speaker 4:
[108:45] A lot of different inflation calculators, too.
Speaker 1:
[108:47] So we use the right one. Alex Williams says there's a crash, a lot of crashes. All right. George has done his homework. Tell me if I'm getting this right, George. So this Jamie Ding has a 27-day Jeopardy! winning streak right now. And in total, he has won $753,000. Now, that's obviously in today's money. He ranks fifth all-time for consecutive Games 1 and fifth in regular season winnings. So he's chasing Ken Jennings, the current host of Jeopardy! And he's got a long way to go. 74-game streak. And is this the Jennings money that's in here? Or the stuff for Holes Hour that comes next? The Jennings money, I believe, is...
Speaker 8:
[109:38] So when Jennings lost, he was at $2,520,700.
Speaker 1:
[109:43] And we put that in the inflation calculator, which means today that money would be worth $4.4, basically. Uh, not 4.0. It wasn't... Yeah, they went millions or...
Speaker 8:
[109:55] Yeah.
Speaker 1:
[109:56] No, 4.4 million. So he won 2.5 million then. That would today be $4.5 million. But he's not the biggest... He's the game winner, 74. But according to this information... Excuse me. That creepy Vegas guy from a few years ago... Sorry, I got something stuck.
Speaker 3:
[110:15] It's all right. It's okay.
Speaker 4:
[110:16] We got the little stickers.
Speaker 3:
[110:18] No, he's crying because he's so touched.
Speaker 1:
[110:20] No, I've got a little peanut stuck right there.
Speaker 3:
[110:22] Oh, that's the worst.
Speaker 1:
[110:25] That's the problem. Yeah, I'm not getting so worked up by this story. I can't believe it. The creepy guy from Vegas, Hulshour, he actually... Did he win more money than Jennings?
Speaker 8:
[110:36] He did not win more money than Jennings. He has the biggest single game winnings. The all-time winnings for a person is Brad Rutner. I don't know how many wins he got, but he got $4,938,000 versus Ken Jennings' $2,000,000.
Speaker 1:
[110:50] So that would be worth like $7,000,000 now if I'm doing my own inflation calculator in my head. So this guy, hey, he's the fifth most. You know, I swear, what we pay, hey, what we find out... Hey, no big deal. Hey, he's $127,000, but that's nothing. Ken Jennings' $174,000.
Speaker 3:
[111:08] If he beats Ken Jennings either by winning or money, I think at the end, they have to wrestle each other and whoever wins takes over the hoax.
Speaker 1:
[111:17] Yeah, it's the hoax.
Speaker 3:
[111:19] I mean, that's dealer's choice.
Speaker 1:
[111:21] It's kind of what you want. I think if you just take the video and put it in some kind of AI thing, you can get your new curse.
Speaker 4:
[111:27] Guys, there's an easier solution. Take the top three winners of Jeopardy, let them play Wheel of Fortune, and the winner of that ends up getting it.
Speaker 1:
[111:34] That's a lower form of gaming.
Speaker 6:
[111:36] Hey, that's objective.
Speaker 1:
[111:38] I'm not saying it's... I'm not saying it... I'm not saying it, idiot.
Speaker 2:
[111:42] It's a lower form.
Speaker 3:
[111:44] It's all right. In order for Jeopardy to be elevated, other things need to...
Speaker 1:
[111:48] That's right. You've got to be...
Speaker 7:
[111:49] You're in the trivia biz, so she's going to lean to Jeopardy.
Speaker 1:
[111:52] Okay. I'm biased.
Speaker 3:
[111:54] Maybe I'm just a professional and I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1:
[111:56] A professional? Is that what you are? Are you a professional?
Speaker 7:
[111:58] A professional.
Speaker 3:
[111:59] Per-fation-er.
Speaker 1:
[112:00] I'm a professional. Are you a professional?
Speaker 3:
[112:03] I'm a per-fation-er.
Speaker 1:
[112:05] Well, she's a professional, so I think that we ought to go with what she thinks.
Speaker 3:
[112:10] That's right.
Speaker 1:
[112:11] Wheel of Fortune is you got to be good at one thing. You know, and if you're very good at that, then you're good at puzzles and filling in stuff. But with Jeopardy, I mean, you have to be aware of questions or whatever, answers, play the game, that are from everything under the sun. I wonder if it's been dumbed down. I wonder if it was harder in the 80s. I wonder. I imagine. I wonder. You know, when the celebrities are on, that's when I like to watch, because I know all the answers. They dumb it down good. They don't want to embarrass the celebrities.
Speaker 3:
[112:38] That's why I do the TV Guide Crossword Puzzle.
Speaker 1:
[112:41] Yeah, it makes you feel good inside. Four-letter word, last name of a MASH actor. A-A-L-D-A. I'm smart.
Speaker 3:
[112:50] Don't tell me.
Speaker 1:
[112:51] I'm sorry. Spoiler alert. Hey, let's give away some tickets here. Two tickets to Santana and the Doobie Brothers on Thursday, July 9th at Ameris Bank Amphitheater. Be caller number 10 to 404-872-0750. Tickets are on sale right now at ticketmaster.com. Alex Williams is checking the ride. Congratulations to Andy Brent of Gainesville. Won two tickets to Santana and the Doobie Brothers on Thursday, July 9th at Ameris Bank Amphitheater. Tickets are on sale at ticketmaster.com. George, I only ask you because maybe you can keep your eye on these things or maybe somebody can look this up. How did Kevin Warsh do today? This is, I believe he had to appear before the Senate because this is Trump's nominee for the Fed to replace Powell.
Speaker 4:
[113:43] The only person...
Speaker 1:
[113:44] Because this is what he had to do. He has to give answers that reflect reality because Trump wants interest rates dropped always and doing it right now would be a disaster in the minds of most people. So he has to figure out a way to appear competent and realistic in front of the senators without pissing off Trump. So I'm wondering did he thread that needle? Did he do well? I don't know.
Speaker 4:
[114:09] The issue is with Tom Tillis right now. Tom Tillis in North Carolina obviously has kind of turned on Trump and he still is a Republican.
Speaker 1:
[114:15] And he's leaving. Now Tom Tillis' issue is he says he's not going to vote for any nominee for anything until Trump drops the lawsuit against the current Fed Chairman, Jerome Powell. So, and Trump says he's not going to do that. And I believe Tillis is in the situation, in the position that he can decide whether or not the vote goes for. I'm not sure.
Speaker 4:
[114:39] Yeah, he is in that. So he is, and Trump.
Speaker 1:
[114:41] He's the chairman of the committee, right?
Speaker 4:
[114:43] Yeah, Trump was on some phone call earlier this morning. I was watching.
Speaker 1:
[114:46] CNBC, I think.
Speaker 4:
[114:47] And he was like, well, Tillis is an American. He'll do the right thing. So I think Trump knows that Tillis has him now.
Speaker 1:
[114:53] Yeah. Well, that's what happens is when somebody is using how they can harm your future. Once you go, oh, you know what? It's been a good enough run for me. I'll just quit now. Suddenly, you go from 100% leverage to zero leverage. You can't threaten somebody's career if they say, you know what? I've had a good career. I'm going to call it a day.
Speaker 7:
[115:13] As of three hours ago, Tillis said he's still a no.
Speaker 4:
[115:16] Oh, wow. OK.
Speaker 1:
[115:19] But what is the question? This question because that he still has this lawsuit.
Speaker 7:
[115:24] Until he does.
Speaker 1:
[115:25] Yeah. Which by the way, I disagree with Tom Tillis on a lot of things. He's a neocon. But he is standing his ground on something important here. This the President of the United States coming up with a goofy. Here's the thing. He's saying that he overspent on some building or something like that. But the reality of what every courtroom is going to know and what everyone really, seriously knows is that if Jerome Powell did everything Trump told him to do, it wouldn't matter how much he spent on a building. So the only reason he's being sued is because Trump wanted lower interest rates and he wouldn't do it. By the way, the Fed is supposed to be, I guess I'd use the word, it's supposed to be independent. It's not fully independent, but it's supposed to act independently.
Speaker 4:
[116:08] What's crazy is Jerome Powell, after his term ends, he could still end up on the board.
Speaker 1:
[116:14] Yeah, because he has a, I guess, also if the thing that Tom Tillis has going on right now is Jerome Powell can just stay until the Senate votes for somebody. So Tom Tillis can just make it so that well being Tom Tillis is going to be gone after January. But up to that point, he can just drag it out and drag it out. So it's really about, you know, because Trump can never just go, yeah, drop a lawsuit, let's get the new Fed guy in there. It's just the easiest damn thing in the world.
Speaker 7:
[116:47] Tillis said today that he respects this guy, Warsh, and that he would vote for him, and he will vote for him as soon as the lawsuit is dropped.
Speaker 1:
[116:56] And he's so right about that. On that, he is principled. The President of the United States should not be telling the Department of Justice, and this is the problem, and you need to understand this about America when it's at its best. No law official, no one with any power should ever be allowed to point to someone they don't like and tell their Justice Department, go find something. Go find something. And that's, law cannot be used in that way. I mean, it's not supposed to be.
Speaker 7:
[117:27] You would think since they did that to him, he would know better.
Speaker 1:
[117:29] No, no. They did it to him, and now I'm gonna get it double. That's the whole thing. That's the whole thing. They did it to me. Oh, yeah. And then, hey, you know what? Welcome to America. Don't think, all of America is exhausted. Don't think the Democrats are above it. They don't want to get in there. They don't want to rush in there to fix all these problems. We're gonna start putting people in jail. I've said this, I said this a couple of days ago. Maybe I said it yesterday. I don't know. The only way we can get out of this is one party has to take over and let it go. Has to take over and say, what you did to our party while you were in power was not only wrong, but we could take you to court for four years. But there's this other thing called the country. And we could do that. We'd be right to do that. We'd be morally right to do that. Here's the decision. We're not gonna do that. For the good of the country, one side has to be the reset. Otherwise, every president is gonna pardon every member of the cabinet at the end of at the end of their terms, whether it's the first term and they lose or they get two terms. And when the new administration comes in, forever more, the party that's not in power is gonna look for ways to get somebody into court. Some party, some politician, somewhere along this line has to say, what you did to us was completely wrong, and now we're gonna move on. The country has a lot of problems. We need to fix the problems. Do we really want to go? I mean, I want, listen, I don't believe in the Democrats or the Republicans. In this situation, I would like the Democrats to win the House or the Senate. Not because I agree with anything that they want to do. I just want to gum up the works for two and a half years. I don't want the ballroom built. I don't want the arc built. I don't want, I want, I just want everything, I want to cauterize the rest of the nation and the world as much as possible from this administration. But it has nothing to do with me thinking, oh, the Democrats are better. The reason we have Trump 2.0 is because of the response that the nation had to Biden 1.0. People got sick and tired of being told every word they can use. And if you immediately didn't agree with some movement, 100%, you were Hitler and losing and people being canceled. And then Trump showed up and didn't say, hey, that was bad and we're going to move on. He doubled down and started putting people in jail for articles that were written in college newspapers. So at some point, some one of these wounded sides has to say, okay, enough is enough. You won the election. You were morally wrong to do that to us. If you need to pardon a few people that you think got mixed up and stuff, go ahead and do that and then move on.
Speaker 8:
[120:29] They will do that after the impeachment in January.
Speaker 1:
[120:32] That's what I'm saying is, is that why we want, even me, I want Democrats to win just to gum things up. I'm not looking, I don't care. What are you going to impeach him again? Why for history?
Speaker 8:
[120:43] He's waste our money.
Speaker 1:
[120:45] It's a waste of everything. It's a waste of everything. If you don't think he should be president, figure out how to get him out of there. If you don't have the votes in the Senate to remove him, don't waste our time with another impeachment. If you've got the votes, if you can actually do it. But when you impeach a president, when you know you don't have the votes in the Senate, you're just doing it for performance. We've had far too much. I was thinking about this, you know, that Clay Fuller with his thing, and then the way Trump acts, the way Hegseth, the way Marjorie Taylor Green was, the way AOC is, the way Gavin Newsom has kind of changed his thing, that he's the social media guy. You know what we're in? If you look at Hegseth's, Trump, Clay Fuller's thing, remember the Attitude Era of wrestling? We are now in the Attitude Era of national politics. And it was great for wrestling.
Speaker 8:
[121:36] Well, that means the Family Friendly Era is next. We'll put Triple H in charge of the government.
Speaker 1:
[121:41] Yeah, we need John Cena to come in. Was he Attitude or was he After Attitude?
Speaker 8:
[121:45] He came in after. But Triple H is running it now.
Speaker 1:
[121:52] That's the way that it is. It's the Attitude Era of national politics.
Speaker 8:
[121:56] Stone Cold Steve Austin.
Speaker 1:
[121:58] What? Didn't Clay Fuller look like when he was done with that thing, he'd just go put on his outfit and go wrestle somebody? Alex, it's all about the promo. Isn't that what Trump does all the time?
Speaker 8:
[122:10] Isn't cutting the promo and KFE.
Speaker 1:
[122:11] Isn't cutting the promo, I will end your civilization, you effing crazy, you know? You know me and Gene. That's what it is. What? Alex Williams is taking one last look. Who came back and scored what? What are you talking about?
Speaker 8:
[122:27] The Bruins and the Sabres are in the playoffs.
Speaker 1:
[122:29] The Sabres are in the playoffs?
Speaker 8:
[122:31] The Sabres had a very big win over the Bruins last night and they play again tonight.
Speaker 1:
[122:35] I had no idea. I thought as someone from Western New York, I just...
Speaker 8:
[122:39] Did you see Josh in the get up?
Speaker 1:
[122:40] No.
Speaker 8:
[122:42] He had a saver shirt on and a hat. Of course, it could have been AI and I was fooled.
Speaker 1:
[122:46] Yeah, who knows anymore? That's what I'm saying. You just got to just... Brock, is this true? Tend to your own garden. You just can't know what's real and what's not real. You know, it's funny because not only are you, like with the AI can make you think things happen that didn't happen, because AI is making us question everything, people can actually be doing the things we see them in videos and they say, oh, that's AI, and we'll go, well, I guess, maybe. Like, people will actually get away with things because of it. Stunning. All right, there's a story. I think we have a package on it. From our dear friend Deborah Rodriguez.
Speaker 4:
[123:26] Here we go.
Speaker 1:
[123:26] This is, hey, listen, as criminals go, this, although we got caught, this is a pretty good scheme.
Speaker 8:
[123:32] It's brilliant.
Speaker 1:
[123:32] It's good.
Speaker 4:
[123:33] A man is under arrest in Southern California in a plot to steal Lego pieces from boxes of collectibles from Star Wars, Marvel and Harry Potter sets.
Speaker 8:
[123:43] Pretend to Hogwarts.
Speaker 4:
[123:44] Irvine police say he bought them at a Target, replaced the pieces with dried pasta, then returned the boxes. Officials say when you shake the packages, they sound about the same. It was part of a scheme carried out in several states that added up to about $34,000 in stolen or damaged property. Experts say Legos are easy prey because the pieces and kits are small, untraceable and in high demand. Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News.
Speaker 1:
[124:11] There you go. Thanks, Deborah. That's pretty smart. Pretty smart though. I'm going to make pasta. I'm eating it today. Go ahead, yes.
Speaker 8:
[124:20] I was going to appreciate that a lot more than the grown man standing and poking baseball card packs, trying to find it. They'll do it.
Speaker 1:
[124:27] This guy was actually clever. He's going to jail as he should, but that was actually a clever. Our criminals have gotten so dumb and boring lately. It's nice to have a good clever one. By the way, I just saw this that Trump has been reading Bible verses from the Oval Office in the midst of this whole Pope Leo thing. It's like, keep on going, Trump. I think it's pretty doable. You're going to convince people that you are more religious than have more religious knowledge than the Pope. I think it's, everyone knows it's close. You've lived a life totally religious and so has Pope Leo. So we'll see how this works out. I heard Sean Hannity say like he doesn't consider himself Catholic anymore. That was a long time ago. Oh, really? Oh, it was? Yeah.
Speaker 8:
[125:12] I thought it was recent. My bad. That was before his divorce.
Speaker 1:
[125:14] Oh, is he back?
Speaker 8:
[125:15] Now that I've got my divorce, I feel like a great Lutheran.
Speaker 1:
[125:18] Is he back to being Catholic or did he go Protestant? It's going around again that he did at one point drop Catholicism. Because of the Leo thing. But it was before his divorce.
Speaker 8:
[125:27] The Pope wouldn't give me a dispensation, so I just created my own religion, Hanityism.
Speaker 1:
[125:31] Henry VIII. All right, that music is telling us two things. Shut the hell up and get the hell out. And I'm sure you all agree. And we do what we're told. We're good citizens that way. Get ready for Shelley. Shelley. Shelley's had a hard time today with his, up to very recently, favorite president. Shelley's going to have what the kids call fire tonight for you. We'll be back tomorrow at 3 p.m. You're all invited to join us. But until then, continue on your journey. Do not piss off the genie. Thanks for listening to The Von Haessler Doctrine podcast. Follow The Doctrine on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Instagram, and Twitter for even more content.