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4:08some park leading up to a fountain that said Caesar's Chavez on it, and they were there with cement pasting over the Caesar's Chavez letters that were carved into the marble to try to make sure nobody saw that. I came across this and maybe you get into it later, maybe not, but from Reason.com. Decades before the left through Caesar's Chavez under the bus for being a sexual predator, Reason magazine at the time exposed him as a taxpayer grifter and thief who stole from his own members. The great Nick Gillespie reminds us. But if the left lionizes you, your sins don't matter anymore. You're just a symbol. Whether it's BLM, the Tea Party Movement for a bunch of the organizations or Caesar's Chavez, the people at the top of these things often make out very well. It goes from a cause to a business to a grift, as they say. Just since Caesar's Chavez came up and his awfulness, one of Bill Cosby's rape accusers was awarded 19 million dollars

5:12in a civil trial yesterday. In Los Angeles Superior Court, I have no idea if the Cosby's estate has the kind of money to pay or anything, but that's a lot of money. Coming up, I want to get to a little bit of the economic polling. If Trump really, really is hurting in the midterms, it ain't going to be the war. It's going to be people's feelings about affordability, I think. Man, the polling is horrible on the economy right now, so more on that later. This story is not important at all, but I thought it was darn interesting. I don't know the restaurant Zaya in Los Angeles. It's supposed to be a very trendy downtown Los Angeles restaurant, and these women are all wearing spring skirts and strappy shoes, sort of thing. They were finishing brunch on Sunday when the check came and a fight broke out over who would pick up the check at this nice restaurant as they're all dressed up. And then at some point somebody whipped out one of a knife

6:12like from the table, somebody else snatched a bottle and broke it like classic. And they went to stab in each other. The crazed diners and cut each other to pieces. Two women were arrested for assault with a deadly weapon. This 29 year old woman and 26 year old woman were taken into custody. A couple of them went to the hospital. So here's the check, I'll get it. No, no, no, no, I'll get it. Right, I don't know if I went the other direction. You get it, you get it. But no, you ordered champagne. We're not dividing it up evenly. You're a tight wad. Who knows? God, I was at a meal not too long ago where somebody did that. Oh, order something for the table. And then at the end of the meal, they weren't the ones that paid for it. You can't order something for the table if you weren't paying for it. You just can't. You can't do that. Yeah, bad form definitely. Yes, we got some more Iran analysis coming up a little bit later. By the way, news is continuing to break on that.

7:12Yes, Katie. Oh, no, I just, I got put into a situation where it was a dinner party. And Drew and I showed up. We both didn't have anything to drink and we split a meal because we both had already eaten. We were just kind of showing up to be there. Bill comes. They decided to just split it all 14 ways. Right. And then that puts you in a weird situation because if you say something, then you're kind of an A-hole. My favorite example of that for me was it was just four of us, two couples. Dude, because he is a big swinger, man. He ordered a $250 bottle of wine. This was money years ago. So this would be like a $400 bottle of wine now. $400 bottle of wine for the people. And then at the end said, we'll just split it four ways. Hey, I didn't choose to order a $400 bottle of wine. I never would order a $400 bottle of wine. You did. And then you want to split it four ways. Yeah, flex. These chicks throw back like $15 espresso martinis one after, you know, the other. And I'm going, oh boy. And then we all ended up paying for it. But the flex doesn't work on people like me.

8:14I don't think you're a cool and rich and more powerful than me because you drink $4 wine. I think you're freaking moron. So the flex doesn't work on me. I think you're an idiot. Katie, did you want to stab those people? God, a little bit. Were you stabbing me? I was a little stabby. I was stabbing me when the $4 bottle of wine thing happened. So when you make them pay for a way is that's not a flex. For that. Yeah, right. Your flex is you picked it up. That's what the flex. Yeah. Yeah. It's a different flex. I get the stab in now. I get it. I do too. I fully understand it. I'm on board with those women. Probably should have thrown in a beaten. Yeah. All right. Wow. Yeah. Okay. All right. Interesting. I'm looking at the article. Interesting. All right. National Reviews got a good piece out. If you want to read this sort of thing and you're into it, Al Gore's false prophecy. They do a good rundown. It's the 20 year anniversary. Did you know that? Next month, 20 years ago, Al Gore came up with the greatest idea of his life becoming a

9:19climate change warrior and he put out the movie and book an inconvenient truth. And National Review goes through all the dire predictions that have not come true. And in fact, in many cases, it's gone the other direction. Oh, yes. There's more polar bears now than there used to be. For instance. Yes, please. Yeah. Al Gore, I just admire it, the boldness of it and how thorough he was. The OG climate scammer who got the convinced millions of people who helped convince each other because, you know, the, the left's need to be doing the right thing, being on the right side of history. Hey, can we go through some of these facts here? You're a bigot. You're up to, you know, conservative or a fascist, a science today. I hate you. I just want to look at the data. By the way, this is written by a guy in the National Review, which is a conservative publication if you don't know that. Written by a guy who believes in climate change and believes it is man-made. He just doesn't believe any of the stuff we're doing is making any difference. Bullshit. And it's pointing out that the $16 trillion, the planet has spent so far on trying to fight

10:28climate change, didn't do anything. Yeah. A lot of the bad results never happen. Al Gore painted a picture of a world besieged by floods, drought, storms, wildfires with humanity on the brink of extinction, and none of those things have happened. Yeah. Are we going to go through that? We could. I'd like to. But we could. I love that stuff. We're discussing a little while ago that government, in my opinion, ranges from a complete scam, like the money spent on bumps and junkies or the bullet train in California to like a mob boss that does what they say they're going to do, but they skim 20%. That's just the way they do business and you expect that. But the climate change thing is a perfect example of that. Yes. The climate is changing. Yes, man has played a role in it. How do we exploit that and throw millions of dollars at it and keep a chunk and give it to our cronies in return for their support? That is the actual analysis. Every time there is a challenge faced by a nation or its people or its government, that's

11:32what they talk about. That's what government is. You got to wake up to that. It's well as Washington allegedly said, it's like fire, a fabulous servant, but a terrifying master. That's why you got to stay on top of government with both your fists ready. Did Rama manual invent the phrase never let a crisis go to waste or did he just become famous for it in the chief of staff for Barack Obama, but that does seem to be the role of government. We have a crisis. How can we turn this into a whole bunch of money? Yeah. Oh, yeah. 100%. No. He didn't invent that. I think maybe he summarized it nicely, but certainly the idea of it. He didn't invent. I'm sure it goes back to the Greeks. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder. How taxes work to go back in the Greek days, but I suppose people have always rallied their supporters around some sort of crisis to turn it into more power or money.

12:37My hero, Henry Lewis Mankin, HL Mankin wrote this in the 20s, I think it's in the early part of the 20th century. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by an endless series of hobgoblins, hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. That's the whole aim of politics, occasionally we get them to do something we want them to do, but it ain't the other way around fools. I'm not calling you fools. We're friends. But then if you have a real one like 9-11 terrorism, COVID was real. It's going to change. It's getting warmer, just not enough for me to care. But then you really got some ammo to get people to do all kinds of stuff. Oh yeah. Yeah. Sell your parka by some shorts. There are more polar bears, less hurricanes, there's a long list of those sorts of things.

13:38Fewer wildfires, right? Can't swing a dead polar bear without hitting another polar bear that ain't dead. I would like to know how much money did Al Gore personally make off of that? I've seen that figure estimated. It's tens of millions of dollars. So he hundreds of millions at this point because he led the frightening us with a hobgoblin, thank you HL Menken, and then he invested in all of the beneficiaries of those policies, meanwhile lobbying his many, many good close friends and supporters in Washington DC and other capitals for that matter to throw money at it. Pretty clever. Oh yeah. Like I said, I just admire it. It's horrific on one level, but it's incredibly smart. If he asks you to give him a massage, he's expecting a little more than the normal massage. Just going there and knowing that. Just be aware. Yeah, just be ready.

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18:44glass and are being pulled from shelves in dozens of states. Oh, you don't want glass in your fried rice. Oh, okay. We miss our so picky. We thought you did, so sorry about that. That's a heck of a recall. There's glass in the fried rice, okay. Coming up, it looks like you're going to take a shot at trying to get the UN Security Council to do something about the straighter horror moves, bunch of countries signing onto that, including the United States. See where that goes. I forgot the UN existed. Yeah, no kidding. Anyway. Um, also coming up, and this is straight out of one of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Dead people, drug overdose, found with no drugs, no paraphernalia, just a little bird paper next to them. What's going on there? And it happens to be a bunch of inmates, really interesting story, just crazy, stay with us

19:45later on in the show. I, you know, I finally came across the, the, the obituary of Chuck Norris that I was looking for because I'm not much into action movies, and I'd forgotten exactly. I, you know, Walker, Texas Ranger, I remember, and he was in the Bruce Lee movie. Um, but so this not only includes his credits in a way that was helpful to me, but also some unbelievably interesting stuff about the man. I don't think I ever saw Bruce or saw him Chuck Norris in anything. I just know about the jokes. Gosh, I have, but not much, um, but anyway, um, he passed away in the, quote, his family, of course, and, and blah, blah, blah, privacy, um, unlike some other actors who boasted to their fighting prowess, Norris was the real deal, a holder of black belts in such disciplines as karate, tang sudo, I wouldn't know that if somebody brought me to the ground with it. Uh, and Taekwondo, and he trained with Bruce Lee and battled him in the way of the dragon in 1972. On screening, often portrayed loners and like one of his heroes, John Wayne, he would

20:45only resort to violence when there was no other choice. That was his personal code, of course, uh, he was encouraged by Steve McQueen to become an actor. He had given McQueen a private karate lessons for several years, uh, and he had his breakthrough in, uh, lone wolf McQueen in 1983, playing a Texas Ranger who faces off against David Caradine, arm's dealer. I think I did see that now, uh, then he, he signed a movie contract. He starred as Colonel James Braddock, a former POW who returns to Vietnam to rescue capture soldiers in missing in action in 1984, though the film was blasted by critics. It was beloved by audiences, uh, spawning a couple of prequels and sequels, um, uh, Chuck a quote Steve McQueen saying, look, the critics critics can praise you to the end of the world, but if your movie makes two dollars, you're not going to work. So the thing is, as long as people come and see your movies, you're going to keep working no matter what the critics say. So when I got crucified by the critics, I tried to keep that in mind. He then continued his hot streak with code of silence, invasion, USA, fire walker and

21:50the Delta force, which then had a sequel a few years later. Yeah. I never saw any of those, but I'm aware of them. Then there was Walker Texas Ranger that debuted in April of 93 ran for nine seasons and about 200 episodes, plus a 2005 TV movie, uh, let's see, then, uh, he was a Texas Ranger who would kung fu chop people now and then, uh, when it would jump only when it was necessary. Only when that was the last resort. The oldest of three boys, Carlos Ray Norris was born in 1940 in Oklahoma, not far from the Texas border. His, uh, father was a mechanic in a trucker. His mom did odd jobs to help the family get by. He's half Irish and half Native American. His father had a drinking problem, often left the family for long stretches. So he found his real male role models in John Wayne, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers at the movies. And he said, and I quote, I determined that I would grow up one day to be like them. Their behavior in the films was governed by the code of the West loyalty, friendship and

22:51integrity. They were unselfish and did what was right, even when the risk was great. Years later, I would recall those Western heroes when I developed the kind of character I wanted to play as an actor, but he says they influenced him as a human being, much more than as an actor. He decided he would live by the codes. He saw on the movie screen. And by all accounts, he did an incredibly honorable guy. You know, this is perfect for where we are in the year Chuck Norris's calendar goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd. No one fools Chuck Norris Chuck Norris can strangle you at the cordless phone. Wow. Wow. And when the boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris. Perfect. Chuck Norris definitely listened to Armstrong and Gettie. Armstrong and Gettie listened to Chuck Norris. And he said, when you're fighting good against evil, when the good guys are taking on the bad guys and winning, I think that's good.

23:53It's not ugly violence. It's necessary violence. Unfortunately, in our society, it's not always the case to be able to nice to be able to do movies where people say, this is what should happen. This is the way it should be in real life. That's why I think I was so successful. Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door, for instance. Um, we've got more on the warner and stay tuned. Armstrong and Gettie, when your schedule sounds like this. Are you kidding me? An oil change is the last thing you have time for. So driving to take five and let our techs change your oil, check your tires, top off your fluids, and let you back on the road, pit stop fast. All while you stay in your car. No putting your entire schedule on hold, no upsells, no problem, seeking it back to your to-do list or not. Find your nearest shop at take5.com, take 5, the stay in your car, 10-minute oil change. You know what I could really go for right now? Literally anything that comes in a McDonald's carton, wrapper, or bag, or a McDonald's cup.

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28:00The attack was on a fleet of ambulances. They belonged to Hutsula, which is a volunteer led ambulance service. It's actually run by this Jewish community. Now security footage caught three people in hoods pouring accelerant on the vehicles before igniting them and fleeing. Oxygen cylinders inside exploded. No one was hurt. A largely unknown Islamist group, Harakat to Saab Al Yameen, claimed responsibility on social media, but police have not yet confirmed the authenticity of their claim. That same group claimed responsibility for three other attacks in Europe and March alone. The Jewish community in London is relatively small, about 150,000 people. In the last year, there have been over 1,000 anti-Semitic hate crimes reported to police. Wow. Islamist blew up a bunch of ambulances in London. That is what globalizing the Intifada means, Mayor Mamdani. Yeah, no kidding. He knows that. Free press with a great piece, the terrorizing of British Jews. Britain keeps saying anti-Semitism has no place here.

29:03Britain keeps being wrong. Did you see that video? I think I posted it to the group. It's got too much nasty language in it. I think for us to run on the radio anyway. This woman says, let's play a game. I'm going to read a quote or show you a tweet. And you tell me whether it's Nick Fuentes or Mayor Mamdani's wife, and they're all Mrs. Mamdani, but they sound like the sort of thing that you'd expect out of Hitler want to be Nick Fuentes, who gets beaten up in the media all the time because he's had dinner with Trump or whatever. But Mamdani's wife said all these horrifying quotes about Jews and all that sort of thing. Yeah. This will just take a minute. I got this ready to talk about something slightly, well, it's on the same topic more or less. Agree or disagree. This is the late Christopher Hitchens, who did a worldwide tour where he would, who is the scholar who he often debated about the existence of God or religion?

30:05Oh boy, there was quite a few of them. Yeah. Yeah. You're more acquainted with this than I am, but anyway, the more I think about it, it was incredibly brave, what he did. Whether you agree with them or disagree with them, I think ironically this is Hitchens in London at one of those debates, 13, Michael. As a Sufi Muslim, I'm very ruffled by the title of your book. Did you have to settle for the literal negation of Allah, what, per? Yes. I thought so. Thank you. The moment it's very clear to me, the most toxic form that religion takes is the Islamic form, the horrible idea of wanting to end up with Sharia, the state of religious law, and that the best means of getting there is jihad, holy war, and that Muslims have a special right to feel aggrieved enough to demand this. I think it's an absolute obscene wickedness, and I think their religion is nonsense. George speaks to some illiterate merchant, warlord in Arabia, and it contains the answer to all of you. Don't waste my time. What the f**k are you saying this thing about it?

31:05Also that God, the God speaks, the Occasional Gabriel speaks in the Arabic. All religions claim to be revealed truth, and Islam, what the dangerously says, ours is the last and final one, there can't be any more after this, this is God's last word. Now that's straight away temptation to violence, an intolerance, and if you note, it's a temptation they seem quite running to fool for. Every alive or alive reminds people that with a very serious struggle, with a very depraved religion. I wish he didn't smoke. Christopher itchens could have used his voice now. Yeah. Yep. So, the Iranians are Islamists, you see, part of the deal. And we're dealing with that right now, or Trump's time to deal with that. Bakrane just put out a UN-backed action for getting the straight of Hormuz open. Bakrane came up with a draft for the UN Security Council resolution that would authorize countries to use all necessary means, which means, of course, force, to protect commercial

32:09shipping in and around the straight of Hormuz. That's according to a text seen by Reuters today, diplomats said the draft text was backed by other Gulf Arab states and the United States, although they said it was unlikely to get through the Security Council, why? Because permanent members of the Security Council include Russia and China who have veto power. You mean they don't just do the right thing in the Security Council, but at least it will force Russia and China to vote against it, and I don't know, to my mind, at least point out to more people who are stupid, the UN in it, the UN, but yeah, exactly, I mean, I guess I sort of kind of get how that might be useful in diplomatic circles, but it reminds me of the time for your birthday, years and years and years ago, I got the American Park Council to name you, they're men of the year, or something like that, or as a significant and everything. God, that was years ago. I think that had about as much weight as the UN Declaration would have, which they're

33:11not even going to get. I don't know. I think it's a pretty big deal that all the Gulf Arab states, joining with the United States, yes, against Iran, that is, that has never happened before. Yeah, it's standing up and raising their hands. You're absolutely right. So we'll see how that turns out. I was just looking at the political reporting on the, you know, the, who's the administration Negotiate negotiating with, that whole question, and they're talking about one particular person. I don't remember what the name was. It doesn't really make any difference. He's a hot option. One administration official said cautioning that no decisions have been made. He's one of the highest, but we've got to test him because we can't rush into it to see if he actually speaks for the regime, which I think is interesting. So you're negotiating somebody and then kind of wait and see. Does he actually have any uff behind him? Well, yeah, any, any skilled negotiator knows you've got to make sure you're talking

34:12to the decision maker or somebody who at least has tied to the decision maker. Otherwise, you're wasting your time and man, that's a real conundrum, right? And another quote from an administration official that political had, it's all about installing someone like Rodriguez, Rodriguez down in Venezuela that we can say, okay, we're going to keep you here. We're going to not take you out. You're going to work with this. You're going to give us a good deal and, and we'll go forward from there. So put somebody, you know, in charge that says, yeah, not going to get a new clear up and not going to attack your basis, not going to attack Israel. I don't know if that'll work though. What's her name down in Venezuela isn't surrounded by people that, you know, for religious regions, reasons like Christopher Hitchens was just explaining, feel like she needs to die. Right. And there are some pretty dangerous armed militias and drug cartel type organizations in Venezuela. But it's nothing like Iran that has this multi-polar power structure and, and it's very mysterious

35:17and no, he knows quite who's in charge because you know, you, you might negotiate with some like the top civilian guy who's alive right now. And he's got the army with him, but he doesn't have the IRGC and they're like, no, we're not going along with that. So what's the U.S. to do? What are the Gulf states to do in that situation? Keep bombing our little hearts out. Is that what the president said? Right. And then meanwhile, we've got all of those Marines and airborne Rangers and everybody, either in the, in the area of the Middle East or headed there and Trump very likely to pull the trigger on some sort of ground invasion of the straight-of-war moose. That's going to be a tank of a thing, man, when that goes down. Same across this on the Twitter machine. Why on all my tabs, do some of them have the little blue bird and some of them have the X? I have no idea. Yeah. Anyway, let's see. The deadline for that Trump set for Iran to open the straight-of-war moose, the five

36:18days is Friday, the 2200 Marines plus all of their heavyweight gear of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit arrive in sent-com on Friday. The USS Tripoli and the USS New Orleans also docked the same day. None of this is subtle. A deadline without consequence is just a request. A deadline with 2200 Marines on amphibious assault ships arriving the same morning is a different kind of communication entirely. And from what I understand, listen to one military expert, they are, they are ready to go at a moment's notice. I mean, that's what they are. So they will be there and Trump could say, okay, now and it is literally now, they can do it now. That's what they train you. Give us an hour. Yeah. If that. But back to this and y'all, I always have to come back to this, standard negotiating, even threats land differently when you're dealing with religious fanatics, particularly

37:24of a certain bent of Shia Islam that are something like death cultists. I mean, they, when the twelfth moddy comes, is it, and I'm no theologian, but the culmination of God's will will be Armageddon. That's good if that comes. How do you negotiate with somebody like that? Hey, we'll kill you. Well, that's fine. Go ahead. On the other hand, threats land differently when they're from Trump because you can imagine him doing practically anything. Yes. Short of nuclear war, barely, barely. And I mean, even if he did that, I wouldn't be completely surprised. Oh, boy, sickening thought, but yeah, I hear you. I wish we could, you know, we had an emailer suggest a number of days ago. Why aren't we dropping pallets of weapons? Small arms. And the areas that are most anti-regime, 15,000 guys with rifles who've had enough because

38:32their, their husband got, their wife got killed or their brother got killed or their dad got killed or their little brother or whatever. And they're ready to go out and ablaze a glory. I'm sure there's an answer to that question. Yeah, you'd probably have to arm five million of them, honestly. Yeah, I'm sure there's an answer to that question. I don't know what it is though. Coming up at some point, there was a stunning twist in the Google metal metatrial that's been going on in Los Angeles for several weeks now. That is the, the big one that is going to lead the way forward for suing the social media companies, depending on how it turns out. So we get to that stunning twist. And hard drugs are about to change completely in a way that it will be impossible to control. Wow, I haven't heard this story. It's absolutely stunning with a couple of teenage boys I'm raising. Highly interested in that. Okay, lots on the way. Stay here. Arms strong and getty. When your schedule sounds like this,

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44:43the authorities can identify them and where something as ubiquitous as paper can become lethal. The story is fringe chemists are ushering in a total transformation of the illicit drug market, operating from clandestine labs. They are churning out a dizzying array of synthetic drugs, not only fentanyl, but also hazardous new tranquilizers, stimulants, and complex cannibloids. Sometimes several unknown drugs appear on the streets in a single month. Many are so new they are not even illegal yet. Nearly all of them are harder to trace than conventional drugs, less expensive to produce, much more potent and far deadlier, according to scientists and law enforcement, around the globe. And the unbridled use of synthetic drugs is as profound for the illicit drug market as television was for radio or the computer was for the typewriter, scientists say, and it is confounding law enforcement officials all over the world. For a lot of obvious reasons, a transport of them would be,

45:46you could transport so much of it without it'd be very hard to catch. Well, yeah, you send an inmate to a book, a magazine, anything like that, and he knows the pages are saturated with drugs, smoke some. Wow, nearly impossible to stop and the invent new drugs faster than we can make them illegal. What's the answer to this? Oh, I'm glad you asked that question. To do drugs, quote unquote, is a completely different proposition than it was. And, you know, everybody talks about the 60s, the 70s or whatever. The word has to be, don't do drugs, don't do drugs at all, or only do drugs that, you know, precisely what they are. And anybody who does the other thing is a fool who'll die soon.

46:50That's got to be normalized in our society like, I don't know, you know, it's like, don't drink and drive times five. Yeah, I was actually listening to a conversation about this sort of thing yesterday, the dispatch podcast they were talking about. How much gambling there is, they were using March Madness as a kickoff point for how gambling is exploded since we legalized and then how many people's lives that run blah, blah, blah. And the libertarian issue view is that you just, you got to have enough people lose it all, and then society sees that and decides that's a bad road to go down. And that's the way things work culturally with lots of different bad things for you. And that might be the only way to do it, but man, a lot of people got to lose their kids before you get there. Exactly. That's exactly where I was going to go. The thing that bothers me, having read a lot about the sports gambling thing, is that the main victims of that are young males whose frontal cortex, whatever,

47:54that part of your brain that teaches you caution and risk management, it's not fully mature in an 18 to 22 year old male, except in very rare instances, which is part of the reason there's such good soldiers. So how strong would a cultural norm have to be before an 18 year old with a love of thrills and very little sense of caution? How strong would that norm have to be before 18 year olds wouldn't ruin their lives over and over and over again? Yeah. With either drugs or gambling or whatever, I don't know. Why do we have so much of an appetite for drugs in other countries if that what I just said is true? I don't know. I don't know. Could be we're just so affluent. Could be. Yeah. I mean, if you're busting your ass all day long to feed yourself and you don't have much of a welfare state, you're just what? You're going to be dead immediately. Or there's a question to do it. AI comes along and nobody has to work. Will that lead to

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