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the hand and let's open dialogue this thing. Now. To start off, we're gonna go to ABC News here. Apparently the Atlas object, so I'm not even sure if we can call it a comet or a meteor or a spaceship or whatever. Okay, Apparently they lost sight of it a couple of weeks ago because of some sort of a I don't want to say a solar flare, but some sort of a galactic flare or something made it

go invisible to our instrumentation and our equipment. Now, all of a sudden they have caught a glimpse of it as it passed by Mars, and they are speculating here, of course, if it's gonna hit Earth. Now, before I play the video that is attached to this article, no expert believes that it's going to strike Earth. But yes, there is a greater than zero percent chance that anything ever can happen. So they're gonna do that for the clickbait.

And I get that they're calling it the city killer asteroid, and yes they are talking about the three I Atlas. But apparently it went out of sight for a bit. And now they just caught a glimpse of it as it passed by Mars, so they know for sure that it is still inbound and they're gonna be able to get a really good look at it the closer it gets to Earth without further ado. Let's listen to the ABC News cast talk about it.

zoomed past Mars. Images of the object, dubbed three I at lists, were captured by two of the European Space Agency Mars orbiters XO Mars and Mars Express, which we're able to record the comment as an approached the red planet on octob According to the ESA, both cameras are designed to photograph the bright surface of Mars, which lies fewer than two hundred miles below. Scientists were unsure what to expect from the observations of a relatively dim target

so far away. The space agency said, so this is the image right it is this bright light. Right here is the image of Atlas as it passed in front of Mars' surface. So although they kind of lost sight of it, we know for sure it is still inbound. So at least we have that going. The observation of three I Atlas was very challenging for the camera because the comet is about ten thousand to one hundred thousand times fainter than their usual targets, said Nick Thomas, the

principal investigator at the Cassis camera, in a statement. The comment was about eighteen point six million miles away from the orbiters when the image was taken. According to the ESA, the cameras were able to capture the center of the comet, which is comprised of an icy rocky nucleus and is surrounded by a comma, which is the fuzzy halo of gas and that forms around its nucleus. The comet is one of the one of only three interstellar objects ever

recorded entering our Solar system. Going on it says it was first spotted on July first by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System in Rio Hurtado, Chili. Astronomer's hypothesized that it could be the oldest comet ever observed, a core estimating its age at three billion years older than the Solar System. That's pretty insane out loud, but yeah.

Scientists announced last month that the comet is much larger than previously thought, likely weighing more than thirty three billion tons, with the nucleus mostly comprised of carbon dioxide, gas and water ice. I don't know why they would just say like water ice. Well, I guess in space a lot of different things can freeze, so I guess you'd have to get that nomenclature. Heat and radiation from the Sun is bringing the comet to life, causing the object to

release gas and dust that form the comet's comma. It's spelled like coma, but I think it is pronounced comma, The Space Agency said in November. ESA astronomers will observe three i at lists through its Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer aka Juice, which that's that's kind of cool, as it makes its closest approach to the Sun. Scientists will continue to analyze data from the ESA orbiters to determine exactly what the comet is made of, though our Mars orbiters

continue to make impressive contribution to Mars science. It's always extra exciting to see them responding to an unexpected situation like this one, said Colin Wilson, Mars Express and Exo Mars Project scientists at ESA, in a statement, I look forward to seeing what the data reveals following further analysis. So again, there's nothing to worry about with the three

I Atlas comet or object or whatever. People are saying that it's going to be, but it is getting closer to Earth and it will be really cool whenever it gets close enough for us to get a good look at it later this month, if I'm not mistaken, they were saying that it was going to be sometime around end of October beginning of November. Whenever it makes its way around the Sun and shoots off the other direction, that will actually be able to get a decent look

at it. And I'm excited just for the you know, I know some people that listen to the cult of conspiracy are of the belief that space is not a real thing, not here to have that conversation on the cage to night for my own personal beliefs, I am really excited to see this. I think it's cool, you know, Anyway, moving on to the next topic of discussion, still sticking, and we're going to start with the international side of things. I don't know how many people have been paying attention

to celebrity news. Myself. I don't particularly care about it that much, you know. It's just it's one of those things that the celebrities and what they have going on to their day to day life very rarely ever actually affect my thought process. Ever, however, Katie Perry and Justin True are dating. I don't know if anybody was aware of that. But this isn't a tabloid news although this one's from Cosmopolitan, there are multiple news sources that are

talking about their relationship. So in this Cosmopolitan article, we're not gonna read the whole thing because, to be honest with you, I feel brain cells dying as I was even reading it to do research for this. But we're gonna hit the cliff notes of it real quick. Right August twenty or August third of tw twenty twenty three, Justin and his wife Sophie announced their separation after eighteen

years of marriage. All right, cool. Moving On July third, twenty twenty five, after weeks of rumors Katie and Orlando Bloom confirmed their relationship is over. Okay, so they gave a statement to US Weekly. On this July twenty eighth of this year, Katie and Justin are spotted on a dinner date in Canada. July twenty ninth, TMZ drops more picks of Justin and Katie, only this time they're in different outfits. Okay, so that means it's not that pictures

of the same dinner outing. It's obviously of a different outing. So at least twice they went out for dinner. July twenty ninth, The Sun manages to get a hold of not one, not two, but of Justin Trude's close associates, who are more than happy to spill and there's things that they learned about. Long story short, there's a list. There is a eighteen or i'm sorry, sixteen point list of what the homies of Justin Trudeau are saying about

this and long story short, they really are into each other. Shocker. July thirtieth, Justin has spotted watching Katie perform and sings along with Fireworks. We're not going to play the video because we all know the song. But there's Justin Trudeau out of Katy Perry concert July thirty. First Insider says Katie's friends are worried about her dating Justin. So even Katie's friends are like, yo, you sure you want to date that guy? August eighteenth, Long story short, long story short.

They go on September fifteenth, October fourth. They're keeping their relationship quiet as of this moment. But it's also worth mentioning that, yes, Justin Trudeau and Katie Perry, the bastard son of Fidel Castro and the quote unquote first woman to ever sing a song in space, which that's a whole conversation in and of itself, are now making moves to become a couple. I think that's hilarious. And you know,

just one of those things. Now, as we're sticking on the topic of the celebrities, actors, singers and things of that nature, how many of you have heard of the AI actor Tillie Norwood. If you haven't, let me tell you about her. Tilly Norwood is an actress that is going to start making more and more appearances and movies and TV shows. Here's the little thing about her. She's not a real person. She is an AI generated actress.

And she it AI has been getting some very decent contracts for some upcoming motion pictures and actors and actresses are pissed about it. I know, shocker, And in one sense, I couldn't care less about these overprivileged actors getting upset

that AI is about to take their job. We all saw it coming a mile away, right, I mean, even though was it last year or the year before the Hollywood writers strike happened and all of these movie companies decided to just use AI models, and they came out with really good scripts, arguably better than what the overprivileged Writer's Guild of Hollywood was able to produce. And then they realized, man, we're striking to make more money, but

we are very replaceable by a chatbot. And then they shut down the strike and a lot of these movie companies decided, you know, we might hire you back. But honestly, we have seen the light and AI is just cheaper and doesn't require X amount of dollars, and it doesn't require off days. And if we tell it to change things, it's not gonna bitch and moan about it. It's just

gonna change it and do what we want. So we already saw the writing on the walls that AI was going to be taking over a lot of the entertainment space. Now we absolutely have an AI actress and the thing is going by the name Tilly Norwood. There's a BBC article before I read it. Go ahead, Royce, what is your thoughts?

that is correct. The AI bot, the automated, not real thing, is now being sought after by talent agencies above actual flesh and blood actors and actresses. We're at that point, y'all. Twenty twenty five is a weird year. Norwood could be mistaken for a young, aspiring actress when one glances at its social media. Yeah, the AI bought as a social

media presence. By the way, the brunette poses for photos and show cases a fully AI generated generated comedy sketch where it is described as having girl next door vibes. Because that's not creepy. I may be AI, but I'm feeling very real emotions right now, Tilly's creator wrote on her page I'm so excited for what's coming next. That's a quote. Hollywood is not rolling out the red carpet.

It's powerful Actors Union IS has condemned the creation, along with a list stars like Emily Blunt, Natasha Leone, and Whoopy Goldberg. Which I'm sorry, Whoopy, you haven't been relevant for years. You weighing in on this one is something that literally no one, negative, anyone actually asked for. And you haven't been an actor since maybe we could say Roger and Hammerstein's Cinderella. You were a voice actor for the Lion King movies, you know, sister Mary Clarence, Like,

I don't know, It's it's very yeah. Anyway, Norwood is not an actor. It's a character generated by a computer program that was trained on the work of countless professional performers. The Screen Actors guilled. American Federation of Television and Radio Artists or SAG said in a statement, it has no life experience to draw from, no emotion, and from what we've seen, audiences aren't interested in watching computer generated content untethered from the human experience. The union said, I would

have to respectfully disagree. There is billions of people that are watching AI generated YouTube videos on mass and those are getting millions of views. So again, moving on. The AI actor was created by Dutch actor and comedian Aleen vander Velden. Well that's a mouthful, who reportedly said she wanted Norwood to become the next Scarlett Johansson. The BBC has reached out to vander Velden and her company, Particle six.

Norwood's Instagram page includes headshots from faux filming tests and an advertisement spoofing programs on the BBC, including being superimposed on the often star studed couch on BBC's The Graham Norton Show. Amid the anger and backlash in Hollywood, the Dutch creator posted on Tilly's Instagram page to say that the creation is quote not a replacement for a human being,

but a creative work, a piece of art. Creating Tilly has been for me an active imagination and craftsmanship, not unlike drawing a character, writing a role, or shaping a performance, vander Velden wrote, adding such creations should be judged as part of their own genre rather than compared to the human race. So here we see a list of people in Hollywood who are on strike, and that's the Writer's Guild strike. Remember no to AI all these things, and then they had to back off because you know that

was a really dumb idea. Anyway, AI has been hotly contested technology in Hollywood and was a key sticking point during the labor strikes that shut down the industry two years ago, as writers and actors demanded protections from the technology. In this statement on Norwood, SAG reminded agencies and studios that using Norwood in projects could pose issues for contractual protections they secured after the twenty twenty three strike. It

doesn't solve any problem. It creates the problem of using stolen performances to put actors out of work, jeopardizing performer livelihoods and devaluing human artistry, the union said. Actress and filmmaker Natasha Leone, known for her leading role in Poker Face, Orange is the New Black and Russian Doll, said anyone who works with Norwood should be boycotted. I'm sorry, this is great, this is great. So you're telling me the

AI chatbot is gonna make hundreds of millions, that's our money. No, not if you can be replaced by an AI bot. Sounds like you need to get a better craft anyway, Moving on, any talent agency in this that engages in this should be boycotted by all guilds. Leone who is currently working with Ethical AI to create a feature film that stars real actors. So she's using AI while shitting on AI because I understand one of the chat bot one's a image. AI is AI is AI. I'm sorry.

If you're using it for one thing, it's only a matter of time before it gets used for other things too. So she's just mad that she is getting cut out and that human actors and actresses are gonna get cut out of the deal. That's all they're pissed about. That they're gonna lose out all money and acting opportunities, and this is just kind of the way the future is gonna shake out. So, I mean, it is what it is.

She says, it is deeply misguided and totally disturbed again as she is using AI for writing when she was a part of the screen guilder's boycotting that was almost replaced completely by AI. But you know, hey, what do I know? Fellow actress Emily Blunt, speaking on a podcast with Varieties, said the creation was terrifying. That's an Ai. Good lord, we're screwed. And this is a Nomina Oscar nominated actress, and she said this when she was shown

a video of Norwood that is really really scary. Come on, agencies, don't do that. Please stop, please stop taking away our human connection. Most actors and actresses have no human connection. They are so detached from what the rest of the human race actually is experiencing in their day to day lives. Not all, not all. There are some that truly keep

themselves grounded. I'm not just taking this opportunity to shit on every single person that makes their money in front of a camera and rehearsing lines and things, but I'm gonna say that ninety nine percent of them are completely detached from reality. Honestly, look at uh what was named Jervas. Look at Jervas's speech when he was hosting the Oscars

two years ago, maybe three. That is a truth. And that is why when he made these stabs at all these actors, there was only a handful of them that were laughing at it, and the rest of them were like, ooh oh, And He's like, I don't care, I'm not doing this again, screw you. So I mean, I'm just I'm throwing it out on the US chat show The View comedian and actress. Barely either of those things are accurate. When discussing will be, Goldberg said audiences can tell the

difference between humans and synthetic performers. She was skeptical over concerns that AI creations would steal jobs for human actors because they moved differently. Our faces moved differently, our bodies move differently. Yeah A, now, given another two years of ingenuity, and you're not gonna be able to tell the difference. Hell,

you could barely tell the difference anymore these days. While Norwood's Instagram has been active for months, her existence gained notoriety in Hollywood this week after trade publication Deadline reported on a summit her creator presented at in a Zurich

over the weekend. Vandervelden discussed her AI production studio and her new AI talent agency x Koya probably mispronounced that on Saturday, according to Deadline, and suggested that Hollywood studios and agencies were embracing AI under the radar, which they are. She told the crowd they should expect public announcements about high profile projects using the technology in the coming months. Yes,

this is accurate, this is real life. Sam, your handile was raised first, Go ahead, well, speaking about the AI and all that, Okay, So it's.

dot dot dot. So yes, currently secretary of war. Now that is the new title. Secretary of defense is antiquated. Now we have Pete Hegseth our secretary of war. Uh, this is the war Department, not the Defense department. It's excellent. I'm so happy about this, but it's out the point. So yeah, that's that's how they do it over there. And currently Albania has an AI overlord over at least their procurement. And if it does well, uh, it will that.

I could imagine a world where we have AI prime ministers and Hugh, it's a it's scary, it's just it's dystopic.

We're gonna just watch from this side of the pond and see how it plays out. I don't see it going well.

And you gotta keep in mind, Korea, like most Asian countries, are very honor bound to like community and everything, and going there as a as a foreigner, especially to one of the extracted countries, and to pretty much be a dick to society. I'm surprised they didn't bag him and tag him and take his ass to a black site.

trained in the art of that. Now, should that be something that these people make millions upon millions of dollars per day or per episode. Absolutely not right, But it definitely is a talent and is a skill.

Instead of having to all right, cut, all right, listen, I'm gonna need you to be just more more emotion, cry more, just complete breakdown and action, and then you cut. I need more. I need more out of you on this one. Okay, we go just all the way through. Instead of going back and forth and back and forth, wasting everybody's time and film and resources and all this, you could just play it through the AI model and then be like, actually, can we make her cry a

little bit more? Da da da boom, It's done. Okay, a little bit less da da da boom. Okay, can we have a little lip quiver at this point ba ba bap. It would take a matter of an hour to get right a scene that in otherwise would have taken days. So I hear what you're saying as far as the human connection, as far as like bringing real emotion to it. But also I agree with the other point that you made that give it a little bit

of time and a little bit of tweaking. Tillie nor would, in my opinion, is just the tip of the iceberg. I could see this going way way deep into our entertainment industry as a whole. Let's not even talk about AI musicians or singers or anything else that we have going on here. It's only starting here, you know.

A video shared on social media platform ex quickly went viral was showing the robot performing kung fu moves in a playful face off with the actor. I gotta tell you, I am. I used to be a fan of Jared Leto as an actor, but I have heard and seen too many things about him as a person to where I can't separate art from artists on this one. He's kind of a raging piece of shit as a human being. Well.

A person that I know, a content creator who's like a friend of a friend, has a lady friend that basically her and Leto were in a hotel room together and in the middle of it, she decided that she wasn't as down with it as she was, and they were having drinks earlier, so he literally threw her out of the hotel room without any of her clothes and locked the door, and like, that's not the first and only time he's done similar things. So yeah, Jared Leto's

kind of a raging piece of shit. But all right, hold on, Sam, I see her. Him Sharing the clip, which drew widespread attention within hours, Tesla's official x account for Optimus rote tried to start a fight with try to start a fight at the tron Aris premiere. The public display was reportedly part of an effort involving Tesla's Disney and Elon Musk's AI platform XAI, designed to connect Hollywood events with advanced robotics technology. Yeah, that's the other

way this cookie's gonna crumble in it. It's not just the AI model on the screen. They're gonna have robotics to play certain portions of movies. Why not. In the viral clip, which has already garnered over twenty eight million views, and this was yesterday, it was posting, I guarantee it's more than that. Now, Optimus is seen playfully facing off against Jared Leto, showing off a series of choreographed Kung

Fu style moves. Leto stays in character during the lighthearted moments, striking a playful kung fu pose of his own and smiling as the robot continues its routine. Let's go ahead and play this man. Let's check it out. He didn't get into a kung fu stance. He got into a basics fighter stance, like basically a boxing pose. But all right, and I mean, yes, granted, there was obviously robotic in movement.

I get that. Yo, give that thing about five more years and let musk really work on the fine motor skills of that thing and then throw a skin suit over the top of it. Will you be able to tell the difference? I mean, honestly, go ahead, sam U.

civilian own drones. They just put out this massive nationwide proclamation saying basically, if you have a drone and you're flying in the air, expect us to assume you're doing terroristic shit and we're gonna shoot it down and you're gonna be arrested. Now, why would they do that? Let's read in here. EU leaders have met in Copenhagen under pressure to boost European defense after a series of Russians incursions into the EU airspace and days after drones targeted

Danish airports. That is correct, Danish Prime Minister met Fredrickson, the most Danish last name on Earth. Toll reporters that from a European perspective, there is only one country willing to threaten us, and that is Russia, and therefore we need a very strong answer back. The incursions have become most accurate, or excuse me, most acute for countries on the EU on their eastern flanks, such as Poland and Estonium.

Sorry I'm kind of bumbling through this one. A number of member states have already backed plans for a multi layered drone ball to quickly detect and then track and then destroy RU drones. We meet at a time when Russia has intensified their attacks in Ukraine, where we have seen Russian airspace violations and unwanted drone activity in several European countries, Fredrickson told a news conference after the talks had concluded. They are threatening us, and they are testing us,

and they will not stop. She said, oh, she wait a minute, Fredrickson met okay, I honestly thought there was a dude. I don't know traditional Danish names, so apparently met is a female name. My apologies for the assumption. She said. The next steps would include stepping up military and financial support for Ukraine, rearming European countries, and strengthening the production of drones and anti drone technology, which if they would to buy America's new I think it's called

the Spartan Wave. Basically, out of fifty drones, it was able to take down forty one of them in one shot. Just sending radio waves to fry the computers was beautiful. And yeah, and this is how it's gonna go. Drone technology is the way that people are gonna fight warfare until something else counteracts it, and then something else is gonna counteract that counteract, and then something else is gonna It's this is how this goes. It's spy versus spy.

That's that's the way that warfare goes. Right. We must provide the strongest of deterrence at a scale and speed. European Commissioner President Ursula Vonderley and said Denmark beefed up security for the summit, banning all civilian drone flights until Friday and placing heavy restrictions on traffic and Copenhagen. Every time I know that Copenhagen is their capital city, but every time I read it, all I can think is

the country song copern Your Sorry. Denmark is also hosting a broader European Political Community summit on Thursday, and international allies have lent support to ensure both events pass without incident. Copenhagen airport, followed by several Danish airports and military sites on the Jutland peninsula fail least drone disruption disruption rather last week. Ten allies are providing anti drone and surveillance support.

According to Denmark's military, which has highlighted an increased presence of foreign troops and equipment. Among the countries contributing are Poland obviously, the UK, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, and the US. A German frigate has also docked in Copenhagen. The Germans are the Germans really are stepping up to become the military powerhouse that they once were, and honestly I'm here for it. As hosts to dozens of European leaders over two days, Denmark will want to fend off any more

unwelcome surprises in its airspace. Danish police have not found any evidence that Russia was behind last week's drone disruption, but Frederickson linked it explicitly to other hybrid attacks, such as Russia's drone incursions over Poland. It was part of a pattern that had to be viewed from a European perspective.

She told reporters on Wednesday. The war in Ukraine is very serious and when I look at Europe today, I think we are in the most difficult and dangerous situation since the end of the Second World War, not the Cold War anymore. Okay, fair enough, but again there's no proof that the drone incursions over the Danish airports were Russian drones. I think that that does need to be restated here. They are assuming, and they may have some credence to that assumption. Fine, but there is no proof.

Just so we're clear. Sweden has loaned powerful radar systems to its neighbor for the week, and Ukraine's Zelenski has said Kiev was sending a mission to Denmark for joint exercises to provide Ukrainian experience to drone defense. Good Lord German Chancellor Frederick Murrs said ahead of the summit that airspace incursions were getting worse and that it was reasonable to assume the drones are coming from Russia. Again, that's

a reasonable assumption. It's not guaranteed and understood. Just what it's saying. Drones have been seen in recent days over Germany's northern state of Schlaswig Holston, all right, and flights have been delayed in the past week in Vilnius Airport in Lithuania and at Oslo Airport, Norway because of drone activity. We are not at war, but we are no longer at peace either. We must do much more for our

own security. Maris told an event in Dusseldorf. This week, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskoff said it was obvious Germany had long been indirectly involved in the war in Ukraine and rejected unfounded accusations of Russian involvement in the last week's disruption in Denmark. Europe would be better off seeking dialogue on security issues rather than looking to build a divisive

drone wall, he said on Tuesday. Uh huh. Such is the concern at Russian activity on Europe's eastern flank that NATO met for consultations twice in September under Article four of its treaty, first after drones violated Polish air space, then when Russian MiG thirty one warplanes entered Estonian airspace for twelve minutes. We have to keep our sky safe, said NATO Secretary General Mark Root, who met Ursula vonder Layan in Brussels on the eve of the Copenhagen summit.

The idea of a drone wall was raised a month ago by vonder Lahyam, and Root said it was timely and necessary because in the end we cannot spend millions of euros or dollars on missiles to take out drones which are only costing a couple of thousand dollars. It's

very true, very accurate. A senior EU diplomat told the BBC that there were still questions over financing the plan and about command and control, but Europe's response to Russia's drone violations in Poland had led to some serious soul searching. We have to be more agile and find better tools. Again, I feel like they're looking at it the wrong way. You shouldn't be shooting down drones with missiles. There's way

easier and more cost effective ways. But anyway, a former brigadier general in the Danish military, all Kavarno Kaverno, told the BBC that the drone wall was a political, very generic concept at the moment, but that last week's drone activity over his country had been a wake up call for the authorities and the broader Danish population. Anyway. The article goes on for a little bit longer, but I think we've got the overall gist of it here. Yeah,

everybody's worried about russia incursion over their airspace. Drones are becoming more of a frontline asset as far as the war is concerned. So every European country is watching the skies for a little bit more than just jets at this time. And yeah, here we have it. We're moving on to the next topic, talking about foreign assets in the sky. However, let's go on to this next article. This is from Army Recognition dot com. Chinese fighter jets

simulated constructive kills on British carrier strike group. There's only a couple of days ago. Let's get into it here. Actually know what I'm going to zoom into where I could read that better, because I'm getting older and my eyes are getting shittier as the day is long. Chinese fighter jets executed constructive kill attacks profiles against HMS Richmond as the UK's carrier group, led by HMS Prince of Wales,

was tracked and harassed near the Spratlee Islands. According to the British officers cited by The Independent on September thirtieth, twenty twenty five, the incident's underscore rising risks around freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea and Taiwan straight routes critical to the US trade and Allied security.

The Independent reported on Tuesday that the Chinese aircraft flew the same trajectories they would use to strike Royal Navy vessels before breaking off, described by officers as quote unquote constructive kills, while Chinese ships shadowed the UK carrier HMS Prince of Wales and the frigate HMS Richmond near the Spratley Islands. The update ads that the HMS Richmond also

faced simulated attack runs during a Taiwan straight transit. These maneuvers increased the chance of miscalculation in one of the world's busiest sea lanes and test Allied commitments to open navigation. So this in the picture here is the HMS Prince of Wales. That's a massive aircraft carrier. And you know, I know that every country does their thing different. The British have this ramp at the very end of their

aircraft carriers. Americans don't have that. We have a straight runway and we have the oh hell, what's it called, the thing that basically launches off the ship. If you've ever seen top gun, it's the thing that they use to kick the football at the front of the ship. I forget what it's called. I want to say shuttle cock. Is that the technical term for it.

kind of cool. I don't want to knock it too hard, but yeah, that's how you can tell a British aircraft carrier if you see the ramp at the front.

my dad. The episode forms part of the sequence that began with HMS Richmond's transit to the Taiwan Straight on the twelfth of September, alongside the USS or US deshoer USS Higgins Beijing denounced a provocation quote unquote and deployed air and naval assets to shadow the two ships, while London and Washington described a routine passage in the air National waters HMS Prince of Wales which they go into the nomenclature of operates F thirty five B short takeoff

and vertical landing aircraft and Merlin helicopters for airborne early warning and anti submarine warfare, enabling an air SA protective bubble extending hundreds of miles. Its Stovl deck which they probably pronounced stoval but I don't know, Just moving on and mission architecture allows sustained, sustained SORTI generation in a contested environment while providing a useful command and control volume

for allied operations. HMS ription Richmond a type twenty three frigate optimized for anti submarine warfare fields, a whole sonar and towed array CAMC sceptor missile missiles for a local area air defense, and a hangar for Merlin or Wildcats, making it a frontline sensor and early warning picket for strike groups. The USS Higgins is an AEGIS equipped rle

Burke Flight two a destroyer. It combines SPY one, radar, SM two or SM six, surface to air missiles, and precision strike options, providing layered defense and an expanded air defense umbrella within the Allied formation. The constructive kill maneuver func shud as signaling pilots climb, place themselves within a plausible weapons envelope, simulate an attack solution, then to disengage. Basically, if I'm understanding here, it's the same way that pilots

will play war games against each other and do mock dogfights. Essentially, if you could lock onto them, then that's seen as a constructive kill, so to speak. So the Chinese air assets were essentially doing this mock. Of course, they weren't actually locking on They weren't actually about to pull the trigger and send weapon or missiles or anything to these ships, because that would be crazy of them to try that.

But essentially they were going through the motions as if that's what they were about to do for their quote unquote constructive kills. On the British side, officers describe an information warfare intent designed to make clear that the aircrafts are targeting them while keeping a safe more margin. On the Chinese side, the fighters use these scenarios are multi roll platforms with long range profiles able to carry beyond

visual range air to air missiles and anti shiploads. The latest version mounts an AESA radars, allowing realistic approach parameters even without firing. British reports describe this to and FRO in detail, visible on called consoles and suitable for post mission analysis. They get more into the nomenclature of the British ships, in which, like flagships, are what on station

around the sprat les. Chinese platforms alternated tracking close approaches and shows of presence all round allied units modulating intensity above or below contested thresholds. British crews describe four or five Chinese ships seeking to close with the Prince of Wales to test reactions, which is exactly what this was for.

The surface units involved in these situations combined surveillance radars, long range optics and robust communications, often with coastguard support, enabling tight contact and exploitation of legal gray areas in the air. The simulated trajectories remained readdible readable Jesus readable on shipborn radar and electro optics. Altogether, the sequence generated data useful for refining rules of engagement, alert procedures, and close in defense drills. The Taiwan Strait, which is a

narrow waterway, carries specific legal and political weight. Beijing regularly presents the strait as internal waters, whereas Western navies point to the freedom of the navigation under unclos Essentially, China is the only one that recognizes this as a part of China. Everyone else on Earth and their allies. China and their allies see it as a part of the Sea of China. Everyone else sees it as international waters.

So you know there's some contention there. In practice, each routine transit triggers public statements, coordinated aircs showing imaginary capture or imagery capture, and then a return to calm. In this case, the combined presence of the US AGIS destroyer and a British anti submarine escort under the umbrella of a carrier capable of operating the F thirty five B with few sensors and secure data links reduced the coercive value of the opposing aerial delays or displays. So it

gets more into the technicalities of it all. But yes, this is absolutely a source of contention. These Chinese fighters essentially were simulating a kill shot on these naval assets of the US and the British while they were in the Taiwan Strait. Not a good look, but also they got to test their abilities as pilots, and our navy got a good look at what they'd be willing to do if and when that time came. So all right now, as we are still talking about international things, I don't

know how many people listening to the Cajunier gamers. I know. I like to play a video game from time, you know, every now and again. I can't tell you the last time I really sat and played any real video game for any real extended amount of time, except for Minecraft with my kids. And oh I should give this adendum Double seven's Golden eye for any of the old school gamers out there that remember the first first person shooter

video game ever on Nintendo sixty four. I just downloaded it for my Xbox and I was playing it earlier. You want to talk about, immediately send you back to ninety eight when you and your homies were all huddled around one Box TV and the Nintendo sixty four with four remotes coming off with that mug. It is insane, and I'm playing this showing my children that this is what first person shooter games used to look like. This was cutting edge, y'all. The animation that we used to

geek out over it's so realistic. Looking back at it now is crazy, like actually crazy. But it was really really nostalgic and really cool. With all of that being said, the Saudis have now bought EA Games, Yes, the whole EA Sports It's in the game that is now owned by the Saudis, And there's a lot of things to be said about this. Some are hoping, myself included, that perhaps EA will actually produce a good game now, because I, in my humble opinion, think that EA has not produced

a good game aside from like sporting games. Fine, I'm talking about like actual in depth games. They haven't produced a good one of note in ten years, fifteen years. Maybe so because they've been trying to give what they

think the people want. The Saudis, depending on what day you catch them, could be very much willing to work with the public, or they're completely unhinged and they're just gonna do what the hell they want anyway, So I'm hoping that this will lead to hopefully some revamping of games that we wanted and this never received, or perhaps they will release video games that we're seen as like the second tier or third tier of some of these

older video games that we were waiting on. But yeah, I'm just saying I could see it as a very net positive thing. But let's read in here. It says on September twenty ninth of twenty twenty five, Saudi Arabia's public investment fund equity company silver Lake and investment firm Affinity Partners, the latter of which is led by Jerry Kushner. Yeah, I let that one's sink in announce their intention to

acquire EA for fifty five billion dollars US. Once complete, the acquisition would take the company private and another high profile video game publisher to the PIF's portfolio and put one of the biggest video game publishers under owners with close personal ties to the US government. If you're worried

about EA's future, you're in good company. The acquisition is unprecedented on many levels and throws the future of EA Studios and some of its biggest franchises, including BioWare, the Sims, Apex, Legends, and battlefield into doubt. Industry analysis have varying predictions about what could come next. However, there are a few contestants, namely that EA will or constants rather namely that EA will likely implement large scale spending reductions and sell off

its less profitable studios. I gotta say, I don't see that as a possibility. The Saudis are very comfortable throwing large amounts of money at anything for the hell of it. They've shown that how many they have their own golfing league, They have their own They're starting entire whole sports franchises and leagues with Saudi money just to do it. It's mind blowing. So I don't see this as them doing this to trim the fat by any stretch of the imagination.

But yeah, I mean I don't know that for a fact. Go ahead there, Sam.

done in Saudi Arabia. Now they're about to have the first WrestleMania in Saudia and they're try they for I love wrestling, I love all the gimmicks, I love the characters, and all I do not like the fact that they're they're making the women go in like from neck down in leather suits or they're even trying to make them wear burke is now and if they don't, they won't be able to come back.

any means. Now, I will say this, as far as the video game market is concerned, aside from the big ones, the Call of Duty's and the you know these types of things, the indie market has been killing it as far as video games are concerned. Right. EA has been losing money, whether they really want to acknowledge it or not, for a few years now. Perhaps perhaps the Saudi's throwing this type of money at it and basically saying like, hey, no idea is a dumb idea. Of the people want it,

the people can get it. Perhaps we might see some decent video games come out of it. But anyway, not gonna spend too much time on this article. But I did want to make a mention of the fact that yes, Ea games are now owned by the Saudis. So the next time you're playing Battlefield or Fifa or BioWare or any of these bigger games, you are now helping to fund the Saudi royal family. It's worth mentioning. Now we

should make a mention of this. It is possible while we are sticking as of this moment on the international news, then we're gonna make our way to national news for the United States. Anyway. Trump just announced only a few hours ago as of time recording, that there may in fact be an Israel Hamas deal in the works as we speak. I got a quick video of it. Trump gets a note from Rubio before announcing that Israel and Hamas have struck a deal. Let's watch.

chance of happening. I may go there sometime towards the end of the week, maybe on Sunday actually, and we'll see. But there's a very good chance that negotiations are going along very well. We're dealing with Hamas and many of the countries, as you know, we have Muslim All of the Muslim countries are included, all of the Arab countries are included, very rich countries and some that are not so rich, but just about everybody's included. It's never happened before.

Nothing like that has happened before. In our final negotiation, as you know, is with Amas and it seems to be going well. So we'll let you know if that's the case. We'll be leaving probably on Sunday, maybe Saturday, maybe a little a little later than Saturday evening, but that seems to be our schedule. That's why they shouldn't be reported.

end the two year long war. This is a great day for the Arab and Muslim world, Israel, all surrounding nations, and the United States of America. Blessed are the Peacemakers is a direct quote from his truth Social post. Two regional sources told CBS News there is an agreement on all sides in principle on a hostage release, but procedural issues remain. Once those details are handled, it will be forty eight hours before any release starts, the sources say.

A senior White House official told the said the hostages could be released on Monday. The deal will go to Israel's cabinet for approval on Thursday, and if votes yes, the Israeli military will need to withdraw to an agree uponline in the Gaza strip, which should take under twenty four hours. Then Hamas will have seventy two hours to

release the hostages, the official said. In an interview Wednesday night with Fox News Sean Hannity, Trump suggested that other parts of the Israeli Hamas peace plan he laid out last week, including a committee to oversee governance in Gaza, could be forthcoming. Direct quote here it says, I think you're going to see people getting along and you'll see Gaza being rebuilt. The President said, that is. That is wishful thinking from my layman's perspective. But all right, let's

keep going. People are going to be taken care of. It's going to be a different world. Wow. Yep, that is. That is one of the most statements that's ever been made. Magid all I'm sorry. An advisor to Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman al Taini. Jesus these names. Homeboy has six names and it starts with Prime Minister

at eight. Okay also confirmed that the deal on Wednesday, writing on x that an agreement was reached on the first phase of the Gaza cease Fire Agreement, which will lead to ending the war, the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, and the entry of aid. Israeli Prime Minister net Nyahu also released a short statement on the hostages that read, with God's help, we will bring them all home. In a follow up statement, net Nyahu said it was a big day for Israel and that he

would convene the government to approve the agreement. And bring all our dear hostages home. Net, Yahoo and Trump spoke Wednesday, which the Israeli government described as very emotional and warm conversation. Hamas also confirmed in a statement that it had reached an agreement. The terrorist group praised Katari, Egyptian and Turkish mediators in helping broker a deal, and specifically thank Trump

for his efforts quote unquote efforts. It also called on the President to ensure that Israel fully complies with the terms of the agreement. I don't know how Trump's gonna make Net and Yahoo do anything but all right cool. In his earlier truth social post, Trump wrote, all parties will be treated fairly. The announcement came just hours after Trump said that he may travel to the Middle East this weekend and was open to potentially traveling to the

Gaza Strip. I seriously doubt Trump's gonna be making a trip to the Gaza Strip that that would be sure. During an unrelated event at the White House on Wednesday, Trump read a note that was passed to him. We just watched the video of that taking place. A little over a week ago, Trump unveiled a twenty point piece plan at a White House meeting with net Yahoo, who

expressed his full support for the proposal. The current round of indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas began on October sixth in Egypt, with Egyptian and Katari officials acting as intermediaries. US Envoy Steve Whitkoff and Trump's son in law Jared Kushner have been expected to join the talks on Wednesday, days after NETANYAHUO confirmed that he had sent a delegation quote to close the technical details of the release of

our hostages end quote. The war in Gaza, which has royal the Middle East has sparked, was sparked by Maas. We are the October seventh attack. We know this Israel's RETALIATORYA war in Gaza against Amas, which the US and Israel consider a terrorist organization, has killed more than sixty seven thousand people, according to Hamas run Gaza Ministry of Health. Yes, I understand there is going to be people that are

saying those numbers are conflated. There's going to be some people that are saying that number is way too high to be accurate. There's gonna be people saying that number is way too low to be accurate. Not here to squabble over the details. They have killed way more people than what was necessary if you're just trying to take out Amas. There's been far too many innocent civilian casualties on this entire situation, and I think everybody can agree

on that. Moving on, it says yeah, it says the sixty seven thousand people ran the Hamas ran Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not distinguish between civilian and combatant casualties. Of the two hundred and fifty one hostages who were taken into Gaza, one hundred and forty eight were either freed as part of previous ceasefire agreements or rescued by Israeli forces. According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the bodies of a number fIF of another fifty seven

hostages were returned or recovered. The ministry says Trump's peace plan had called for Hamas to release all forty eight remaining hostages. Israel believes twenty of them are still alive. In return, Israel would release two hundred and fifty Palestinians serving life sentences, along with approximately seventeen hundred other Gazans

detained since the start of the war. Hamas said on October fourth, it agreed to key portions of mister Trump's original proposal, including the release of hostages in exchant for Palestinian prisoners hail by Israel and relinquishing its governance of Gaza, but the group had said other parts of the plant needed to be further negotiated. So apparently whatever further negotiations needed to happen have taken place. Hopefully, I mean, I

don't know, but hopefully this is accurate. Hopefully this will be step one, whether it's a three point plan or a twenty point plan, or whatever the case is. I think everybody, regardless of what side of the aisle you're currently sitting on, or whatever religious deity you worship, I think we can all agree that we just want that whole situation to stop. I think we're on the same page here.

the nation in the first place. Then we continue on to the religious and moral dogmas of either side of this conversation. It gets messier and messier the more you look into it, as far as a genocide on one side of the other and same thing there. There's an argument that could be said to say that if Hamas would just put down their guns, then this conflict would have been over months ago. But if Israelis would have put down their guns, would the conflict also have been

done months ago? Or would Hamas have taken that as a sign of weakness and made a counter offensive. And this is what I'm saying. It's it's all up in the air of the what ifs and the how ziffs and the who ziffs, and it's just there is no clear cut answer. There are no good guys, no matter which way you slice this one. Who started the conversation and who shot the first shot. Yes, Hamas did do their attack on October seventh. Nobody's denying that that took place. However,

who funded that? If you really want to go up the chain far enough, Biden did because Biden gave Iran six billion dollars. Those six billion dollars were used in military aid that was sent to Hamas to give them the push that they needed to make their attack into Israel. And let's not negate the fact that that allegedly Gaza is an open air prison and they're under strict surveillance and all these things for years and years and years.

Yet somehow Mussad, the world's greatest intelligence organization ever period ever, missed the amassing of weapons and troops and all these things. For the weeks leading up to the attack. Mussad just kind of didn't look at the cameras on their prison Like I said, the more you dig into this, the messier it gets. And not even trying to go conspiratorial with it, but you kind of can't.

some nails or something. They probably never happened, but they just feel like they need a backstory.

all the soldiers to the perimeter. And in my opinion, it really was a prison. It didn't have an airport, didn't have a seaport. They were not allowed to fish beyond, you know, a few hundred feet from the shore. In fact, this brings up one thing about that flotilla. The flotilla actually distracted the Israeli navy so much that the gozen's actually got the fish. Last week they got to catch big nets full of fish for the first time in a long time.

to have all this. They want to have a state. They don't have a state right now.

being said. I mean, even we just did an episode on the Cult talking about the Christian genocide going on around the world. In Nigeria, thousands of Christians have been murdered and crucified. Also, thousands of liberal Muslims have been murdered by the Muslim extremists, so there's infighting within the religion as well.

D E all the way through. So just so you're clear, if you're jumping through and you're just reading it cover to cover and you don't know that, you'll get a little lost in the trans I'll throw that out.

they tried to soften it right there. Definitely, And if you want to complain about the Hajeths, really not any garcier than the Old Testament in my opinion, So anyone quoting ancient literature like this is definitely going to run into embarrassing stuff. So I think that the way Hamas is and the way Palestinian terrorism is in Islamic's terrorism is in general, it's mostly like ninety nine percent a result of the Israeli occupation of the land that they

used to live on. And you know, of course they're pissed off about that.

were beheaded because they would not convert to Islam. Thomas Jefferson, who was the president at the time, could not understand why they would behead the prisoners, like because they wouldn't convert to a religious idea ideation, Why wouldn't they ransom them or something along these lines. So Thomas Jefferson read the Quran and read these books and realized like, oh, this is a part of their religion, like forced conversion.

At sword points he was like, got you, So we're just going to handle that, and that led to the Barbary Wars. So as far as Islam being a religion of peace, I have to say that is completely anti antithetical to what the warlord known as Mohammad the prophet quote unquote was actually about what he actually preached what he was also a pedophile, Yeah, yeah, for sure, he was a pedophile.

better and there was more religious diversity than there is today. Now. It seems like Israel really wants to rule the place and the other people just do not get political rights. They don't get statehood, and that's a problem.

There is examples, as a matter of fact, when the Knights Templars ran or that city for a portion of time, they allowed Muslims to come in and worship at the Dome of the Rock. Now not massive armies, of course, it was case by case, but there's examples of the Muslims doing very similar things for the Jews and for the Christians at different points in time. So Jerusalem is

the outlier, it is not the rule. It is the exception. Now, if we look at the land surrounding it, and we look at all of Palestine, Judea, Israel, all these things, that land has been under a lot of contention for thousands of thousands of years. So I mean, yeah, I see what you're saying. There are exceptions historically speaking, but I don't. Yeah, it's one of those things, man. And a lot of the the Islamic tradition is based off of warlord style tactics. Most of the book is written

about warring with quote unquote enemy tribes. Some of them were true enemies, some of them were conquest versus conquistador style things. It just, yeah, it's not a it's not a clean it's not a clean history. But then again, most history is not clean, So go ahead, Sam, Look you are like dying over here.

will look at as sometimes I witness, sometimes not. But they're closer to the events that took place than we are. So I mean a lot of people use them as sources, and yes, some of their things that they wrote about are subject to interpretation. I want to say it was Plenty the Elder who or maybe was Plenty of the Younger. No, no, no, no, Plutarch, I'm not mistaken. Damn it not, damn it. Now you got me all turned upside down. I'm trying to think

of which one wrote the first encyclopedia. I want to say it was Plenty of the Elder.

Indian and things. It's it's it's bad. He compares them to literal animals, and that was seen as like the historical figure for the first century a d for the Roman Empire.

armor because they were so bad ass. And there's cultural interpretations, I think is what we can take on this one.

versus line formation. Yeah you had some calvary units, absolutely, but usually those cavalry units were using lances and axes and swords and things like this, more handheld weapons. And being on a horse, yeah, you could charge through a formation, break up a battle line, whatever the case. And it was basically seen as far as battlefield tactics go, that one dude on a horse was essentially worth ten guys on the ground. As far as lethality on the battlefield.

Cut to the horse archers that were able to basically run laps and just fire constant arrows at the front line. Eventually you're gonna find a gap in the armor. And as somebody who fights in armor, I promise you there is no way that you can have completely gapless armor. So eventually arrows are gonna find their gaps, and eventually the lines are gonna fall. And if you've got dudes on horses that are not gonna get tired, especially with

the Mongols because they were using shortened arrows. Right, the long bow was seen as the ship for the longest time. The Mongol shortened bow was something that you couldn't nobody could really fight against it, and they pretty much ran the reins on them figuratively speaking and literally on that kind of technology for centuries.

He and his two legions were the ones that were capturing with that weren't killed, were brought back and they founded two cities and they were put to use. Because keep in mind, all Roman soldiers were also engineers, right, they were told to build a city and then build a miniature city right next to it, and because they only know one style of architecture, they built these cities to be Roman essentially. And once it was all said and done, the Persian leader said, okay, cool, you and

your boys get to live here now. He also had them build a palace in this city, and he told Valaria, and you'll live in this palace now, right, and your boys can live in the city. He's like, what are we supposed to do? He's like, you built bakeries, you built blacksmithing shops, all this. Take up a profession, live your life here. Now, you're you're cool. Take Persian wives. The whole nine. He's like, okay, He's like, you can never leave, just so you know you are still prisoners,

but feel free to live your Roman life here. Now, here's what he did. He built because it was there was hills that overlooked this Roman city. He built trails going around the Roman city, and he turned the two captured Roman legions, including the Roman Emperor, into a tourist attraction, so where all these Persians could could now come and see a Roman city with a Roman emperor and pay a fucking entrance fee to come see it for themselves.

geometry people. And if you want to take it even further than that, the six pointed star also has precedents in the Vedic traditions, and the Hindus and the Muslims are not friends with each other. So once again, it's the squiggle people versus the geometry people, That's all I can figure here. But anyway, anyway, all right, let's let's go ahead, Royce, please, resident getrude.

six is the number they agreed upon. And the number they agreed upon was two ninety six, not two ninety five, not three hundred. It was that that was a very specific part of the deal. Don't know why. And For the record, these are not for sale for other countries. This is for America. I don't understand, but here it is. The twenty four point three billion dollar deal covers one hundred and forty eight aircraft each in production lots eighteen

and nineteen. Closing out negotiations that have stretched since twenty twenty three, the Pentagon's Joint Program Office and manufacturer Lockey Martin have finalized a deal for roughly twenty four point three billion dollars that covers nearly three hundred nearly three hundred, but two ninety six again F thirty five stealth fighters

and two parties. Announced Monday evening. The agreement provides for one hundred and forty eight airframes each in production Lats eighteen nineteen, according to the Pentagon contract announcement, concluding negotiations again that stretched for roughly two years. The deal includes jets for the US government as well as foreign buyers, and deliveries are expected to begin twenty twenty six. But the US government's one that mandated the two ninety six number.

Again I don't know why. The F thirty five Lot eighteen nineteen contract represents continued confidence in the most affordable and capable fighter aircraft in production today. Chauncey Macintosh, who is the Lackey Vice President and general manager of the F thirty five program, said in a press release, we are proud to support our customers and further solid solidify the F thirty five's role in enabling peace through strength.

A spokesperson for the F thirty five JPO did not immediately have a breakdown available of the cost per aircraft of the trivarian Stealth Fighter. Comment from the Marine Corps Lieutenant General Greg mss Sale Massalio miss Cilo, miss Cilo whatever, who recently took the reins after the JPO, was also not available. The finalized F thirty five contract follows an unde undefinitized Jesus Contract Action or UCA, awarded to Lockheed

in December to kickstart production for Lot eighteen. The agreement, announced Monday evening, covers just the airframes of the Stealth Fighter, whose engines are produced by RTX, which formerly rate theon subsidiary Pratt and Whitney. The engines are awarded separately by the JPO as government furnished equipment, which are in turn

provided to Lockheed. The Pentagon awarded Pratt a nearly two point nine billion dollar UCA in August to begin production on Lot eighteen engines, and after this report was published, a JPO spokesperson told Breaking Defense that the Pentagon plans to define a tize or definitize okay, Lot eighteen and award the Lot nineteen contract for engines in the spring

twenty twenty six. Once the Lot eighteen engine UCA is finalized or definatized, they keep you god a flyaway cost for the aircraft and approximate an approximation of price tag for a plane that's sitting on a runway ready to go. Should become clear, the average flyaway cost for an F thirty five A across Lots fifteen, sixteen, and seventeen is

eighty two point five million. In a press release announced on the Lot eighteen and nineteen deal, Lockheed said the increase in price per jet in Lot eighteen and nineteen from previous years was less than the rate of inflation. Okay, I guess that's something to be said, So it should be somewhere around. I'm hoping eighty five mil per plane, give or take, but I guess we shall see. But anyway,

just wanted to bring that up. Apparently the military industrial complex is booming and thriving, So anybody around the world be on the lookout for new F thirty fives to be bought by your nation's military. I know Poland is a decided to get their hands on some. All right, moving more towards American things going on, We're not gonna spend a lot of time on this. I don't know how many people actually watch the WNBA. I'm gonna be honest. I have tried really hard to make it through a

game and I just can't. Right, hold on, Sam, I know you have your hand raise for everything I say, Just hold on, brother. I don't know who's actually watching the WNBA like this, but apparently the chief, Kathyl Engelbert, she made a comment about Caitlin Clark and how she should be grateful for the money that she is making with the WNBA. The WNBA players are saying that they're not making enough. That's a that's a theme that we

have heard for years and years and years. Unfortunately, they're only gonna get paid based off of how entertaining their sport is to watch, because advertisers are not going to pay more money. You're not gonna get sponsorships deals if your sport is boring as hell. What I mean by that is the US curling team only makes its way or even is known about, during the Olympics. They train

every year, I'm sure of it. Why don't they have crazy sponsorship deals because no one's watching curling except for when it happens to be on when the Winter Olympics are running. That's just the way this goes. So for the WNBA players to be bitching that they're not making as much money as their male counterparts, there's reasons for that, and it's not because society is so sexist. Is because one is entertaining to watch and one is seen as

more of a novelty for a lot of people. That being said, the chief of the WNBA had made some comments that she then had to go back on later on. Got a quick clip that's attached to the article, and it will do a decent job of breaking this down because apparentlyn Fisa Collier has made some claims that the chief had to make a claim about. In response, let's listen in.

and it wouldn't even be worth talking about. But anyway, go ahead, Sam, Yeah.

like block, they can hit them with the dodgeball. But instead of being a dodgeball, it can be a big purple going the dark deal though, And that would make this, that would make the game a whole lot more interesting, And that would be like, hey, this is different from the men's side, and it would make it more interesting to see, Hey, what I wonder which one is gonna get hit hit and if and hey two points if it's a head shot, three points, if it it hits him in the titty. It'd be fun.

critics to call it political retribution. Comy's attorney says he will file three motions in voting vindictive and unlawful prosecution.

Republicans say this is CNM. Senate Republicans announced on Monday that the Monday, the FBI, as part of a Special Council Jack Smith's January sixth investigations, used court orders in twenty twenty three to obtain the phone records of nine

GOP lawmakers and move senators. Called political and weaponization, it's unclear what exactly investigators are seeking to determine by pulling the records, and there's no indication that these senators were targets of Smith's investigation, so they're not targets, but it's worth mentioning, I guess as they're trying to throw Republicans under the bus as much as they can. But here

we go. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley released the FBI record at a news conference Monday, where Republicans emphasize that the phone records were obtained through a grand jury, a lawful process for federal investigators to obtain such documents. The phone records of some lawmakers were seized in the probe has long been known since the Justice Department fought a legal battle over the limits of constitutions speech or debate

clause in order to add access lawmakers communications. This is a direct quote here from Grassley. There's no predicate that we can find for the solicitation of these telephone records, which I think emphasizes the political weaponization that was behind

all this effort. And we're still getting more information. The lawmakers said that FBI Director Cash Bettel turned over information on the subpoenas which sought the toll records, which show the phone numbers called in time and duration of calls, but not content. Pattel, in a post on X say, we recently uncovered proof that the phone records of US lawmakers receives for political purposes. That abuse of power ends. Now, Yeah, he's really trying anything to seem like he's some sort

of a guy in charge. It's silly. The lawmakers were Senator Lindsey Graham, Bill Haggerty, Josh Hawley, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tubberville, Ron Johnson, Cynthia Loomis, and Marsha Blackburn, as well as Representative Mike Kelly. Now that's the end of the CNN article. There's another article here from Wyoming Public Media and it basically gives a breakdown the exact same thing. But I did want to give this list just for those that

don't know who these people are. Loomis, who we talked about a moment ago, and she is She is a Senator from Wyoming. But continuing here, Lindsey Graham, who's a Republican from South Carolina. He's a senator. Representative Mike Kelly,

Republican from Pennsylvania. Senator Bill Haggerty who is a Republican from Tennessee, Senator Josh Howley who is a Republican from Missouri, Senator Dan Sullivan, a Republican from Arkansas, Senator Tommy Tupperville who's a Republican from Alabama, and Senator Ron Johnson who

is a Republican from Wisconsin. And Senator Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from ten A se So anyway, I didn't want to give that distinction and give these people at least their proper des a nation of what state they represent. But nine Republican lawmakers have been apparently had their phone records shown in this investigation, which we'll see what comes

of that. Honestly, the whole, the whole thing about the January sixth, quote unquote riot, the January sixth insurrection, or whatever you want to say that the liberal media is saying that that was the peaceful protest where they stormed the capitol. In reality, they were let in, again confirmed by multiple sources that are not Republican or Democrat, just eyewitnesses. Yeah, that was That was a whole lot of people trying to turn this into something to make it look like

the riots that were happening all over the country. Right, this is this is all a part of See the

Republicans riot it too. It's not just Democrat it's but let's look at the the actual weight behind them, right, Let's look at the the fallout of the Portland riots and the shit Cargo riots and all these other places LA, and then let's look at jan six One of these had or a bunch of these had cop cars being torched, buildings being looted and broken into, violencing occurred, And the other one had no barely barely any damage done to

any private or public property. And one person was killed, and that was a horrible tragedy, and it wasn't in the same way that the violence was done on these other sides. So I feel like trying to call the Jan six a riot slash insurrection. Uh is that's just liberal media trying to turn a mole in a mole hill into a mountain. But anyway, moving on, let's talk

more about the government and Washington DC. I don't know how many people are paying attention, but the government is currently a shutdown, and I honestly think at this point we could start making that a federal holiday, the annual government shut down. Here we go and they only have one month to get it together, and maybe they will, maybe they won't. There's a couple of different things behind what has caused this one, and you know what, let's

just play this year. Marjorie Taylor Green gives her two cents about what is going on with the government shut down. We shall see. This is from NBC News.

three hundred. What kind of ripple effect is that going to have in your life?

be crazy. Essentially, Trump is saying that he is not going to back pay the quote unquote furloughed politicians who are not showing up to work to solve the problem, which people have opinions on. Some people say that's a great thing, some people say this is tyrannical. I got a quick little video that's going to talk about it more. Trump administration threatens no back pay for federal workers in shutdown.

I am saying that there is a side that is saying that this is what Trump is trying to do. There's another side that is saying that this is him continuing to overreach and all these other things. I don't know, Sam, what is your thoughts.

sex abuse fell by forty percent. Those are real results, and Detective Pemberton if you would tell this committee what was the effect of the twenty twenty two Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Law, and what would the benefit be for the people of d C. If Congress passes my Clean DC Act.

That's better. That's a better use of the words. I'm hoping that that was a Freudian slip and not him actually saying that people need to leave pedophiles alone, because boy, that's not good at all.

that killed twelve people. The devastating fire that destroyed thousands of homes appeared to have been rekindled of an earlier New Year's Day fire. The most destructive inferno in Los Angeles history, which charred a devastating path through the Pacific Palisades and Malibu early January, was a flare up of a fire that an uber driver had intentionally set days earlier. Federal prosecutors edged Wednesday Jonathan render rinderkneck Yeay, his last

name is weird of course. He is twenty nine years old, is accused of starting the initial fire on New Year's Day that rekindled to become the Palisades Fire later. He was arrested Wednesday in Florida and charged with destruction of property by means of fire, which carries a minimum of five years in federal prison. Among the evidence collected from his digital devices was a dystopian image he generated on

Chad gpt Ai makes his entrance. You know what I'm saying, depicting a burning city with people trying to flee, said Bill Asali, acting you as attorney for the Central District of California, at a news conference on Wednesday. This is the guy. This, This is the Florida man that did it. I swear the guy called nine to one one to report the fire, then offered to help firefighters battle the blaze.

According to an affidavit by an agent with the Bureau with the ATF, prosecutors accused render Connect of lying about where he was when he made his first nine to one one call. We cannot undo the damage and destruction that was done. We hope this arrest and the charges against him brings some measure of justice to the victims of this horrific tragedy. Yeah, five years is really going

to bring justice to it. The federal prosecution affirms a long suspected theory among fire experts, and comes after a nine month pro into the cause of the Palisades fire, which charged twenty three thousand, four hundred acres and leveled more than sixty eight hundred structures, including many homes, and of course twelve people did die in the blaze, So.

a Florida man. It's you know, Florida man be striking. Now, let's continue with some conversations about Trump and the situation is going on some big cities in America right now. I don't know which side of the aisle most people get their news from, and I'm not judging one way

or another. What I am saying is that I have watched hours and hours and hours of eyewitness boots on the ground in the trenches type of reporting that has been going on in regards to Portland, in regards to Chicago, in regards to any of these big cities where they have riots and barricades around ice buildings and federal agents are being attacked, and all of these things is all going on, and people are asking why hasn't Trump invoked the Insurrection Act yet? So let's talk about it. This

is from Politico. President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act if federal courts bar him from sending National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon. It's a tactic that the President has been anxious to use. But several key allies and White House officials don't think he'll need it, at least for now, they are confident that the Trump administration will prevail in court after a federal judge twice blocked the White House's efforts to send troops into Oregon because she

ruled that the president's moved lacked legal basis. Again, it doesn't take you very much effort to look on YouTube and find videos of not even press release reporters affiliated with some sort of a MSM, talking about just a YouTuber who is just talking to people on the street to see what it's about, including the governor who was

walking with this group. Should add that the governor of Oregon and the mayor of Portland were walking with the protests that turned into riots, and this dude was attacked, he was hit, people were getting pepper spray, people were getting arrested, all these things around him. If these were peaceful protests, why would you be taking a swing at ice agents. That's not what's happening here. So they're asking why doesn't he instill the Insurrection Act. Let's read in

more here. Anyway, the administration has appealed to the ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals and would almost certainly take the case of the Supreme Court if needed. Is a direct quote here to be frank, if somebody wants twenty to one odds that this temporary restraining order would survive Supreme Court review, I'd give it to them, said Will Chamberlin, senior counsel at the Article IREI Project, a Trump aligned legal organization founded in twenty nineteen. That's how strongly I

think this is doomed to be reversed. But even as the White House insists that the President is on firm legal ground, Trump has made clear he has a plan b the Insurrection Act in eighteen oh seven, law that gives the president emergency powers to deployed troops on US soil to quell what the president deems an insurrection. This is from Trump. If I had to enact it, I'd do it. If people were being killed and the courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors is holding

us up, I'd use it. Trump declined to invoke the Insurrection Act earlier this year in the context of the emergency at the southern border, after Defense Secretary War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Christy Nome recommended against it, but in recent weeks, the White House has been increasingly building the case to use the move to blue cities, with Trump repeatedly calling rioters in Portland insurrectionists. Its invocation

would fulfill a long term desire of the president. He'd views it as the epitome of presidential power and considered invoking it to quell unrest during the George Floyd protests in twenty twenty. Aid suggests it again after he lost the twenty twenty election, and he talked about it extensively during the twenty twenty four campaign, and allies discussed it in the context of the twenty twenty four election, concerned that Trump's victory would spark violent protest movements, which I

mean the did we or do we not? Just see a No King's Day but anyway, which was done in response to the military parade that Trump put on for his birthday, when in reality it was the United States Armies two hundred and fiftieth birthday and that was the reason for the parade. Hell, I'm going to Philadelphia November to celebrate the Marine Corps two hundred and fiftieth birthday. It had nothing to do with Trump having an ego trip.

It was weird timing that his birthday and the Army's birthday happened to be aligned in such a way, but that wasn't by design, but you know whatever, it would mark major intensification in the president's crackdown on crime, immigration, and riots, making his promises to use the military for domestic law enforcement on the campaign trail a reality. So just so we're clear here, I'm not going to read

the whole article. There has been other times throughout the US history where a president has invoked the Insurrection Act to further their means. Famously, Dwight D. Eisenhower famously JFK JFK. As a matter of fact, when they were trying to integrate the school system, the National Guard troops that were deployed to make sure that the little black children were able to go to school without being attacked by white parents, those National Guard troops were deployed under the Insurrection Act.

Just so we're clear, this is not like he's just doing this as as an ego trip and he's way too powerful. No, No, there is real problems that are going on in major US cities right now to stop ICE agents from detaining illegal immigrants, which is something that we have talked about on mass People that think that borders are suggestions and not real things have no idea how history works. That's never how any group of people throughout the course of human history have ever seen things.

Including the Native Americans. They understood lines, they understood hunting grounds, and if this tribe was in their hunting grounds, they would go to actual war over that. Lines and divisions and barriers and borders have always been a thing since the ancient times. So to say that America's border is unlawful and there's no such thing as illegal persons, that's just ridiculous historically speaking and in our modern day speaking.

So I, for one, kind of hope that he does use the Insurrection Act to get these troops where they are needed, because Chicago has kicked off right now and they have deployed National Guard troops and Marines. If I'm not mistaken, I see Portland is needing the exact same treatment, as well as multiple major cities across the country right now. Sam with your thoughts.

didn't even arrest the Antifa member that attacked him and everything. Uh, So Portland is getting fucked, which they need to fucked him in the ass because the guy that got detained everything, he made a call to uh the uh general Attorney, uh the the like top lawyer of the fucking nation. I can't remember her name, which then she called and she gave it like anyway that the the yeah he

called Pambondi. Yeah, so that entire police station is under investigation. Also, I was listening to the police calls of Portland, there was actual uh uh. Dispatchers were telling cops who stand down, do not intervene, slap ship play out, do not help the ICE agents that are being barricaded in and are being attacked, don't help them.

It's like you said, they are trying to invoke violence to further their political goals. That is textbook definition of what a terrorist is.

days on this deployment. Our cameras were rolling as crews put up privacy screens along the interier of the existing fence line at the Army Reserve training facility southwest of Chicago. One of the few signs of the National Guard members now staging inside while they wait to hear from a federal judge. The city, county and state of Illinois trying to block their deployment.

jobs that now have to be designated. Here. If you send troops to guard these buildings, now the police for that local city can go out and effectively do their jobs. You're freeing up more resources for the city so that they can handle their own internal problems. And the reason why this is needed is because there are multiple federal buildings, mostly ice detention agencies or buildings and things that have been shot up and had things thrown at them and

damage done to the building itself. So to say, there's no legal precedence for this and there's no reason for this. Again, all evidence to the contrary, but yeah, this is the status of America. Right now. We have a government shut down, we have insurrections going on in certain cities, and no matter which way you go, the president tries to make something happen, and the leader of that area, especially if they're a part of the opposition, says, no way, man,

not up in here. Meanwhile, if it's a state like Louisiana, where he talked about sending troops to New Orleans, the Louisiana governor was like, please come on in. We could use all the help we need. They are over politicizing something that should be right off the scene as a net positive. But of course this is what you can expect from these groups of people anyway. All right, so before we head out, I do want to check out the chat and see what else has been said in here.

Do Let's see Germany. Uh oh, the Prime Minister of Germany is talking about bringing back the draft. Unfortunately I got it in German, but I can translate just like twenty or thirties. So okay, all right, So Tony, do you want me to pull this one up? We could talk about it. You're muted still, brother.

more thing. We need your kids. And that's about all I wanted to show you. So Meritz is part of the Conservative coalition, he's a prime minister, he wants and Germany's had a draft law on the books forever, but they have not invoked it to my knowledge, since World War Two. And anyway, the SPD Social Democrats, they're the main liberal party. They're also in favor of drafting people and it's basically for Ukraine. The AfD is now the

biggest party. They are okay with the idea of a draft and principle, but they say zero German forces abroad, nobody for Ukraine, and I think that's the way to go. They seem to be the most popular right now.

German weapons manufacturer. That's not American weapons. If you're gonna say, like hi, Mars and things like that, fine, sure they're buying some missiles from America. I'm not gonna negate that. But Germany is very capable of arming their own military without the help of the United States and him saying all we need is your children, You mean all that

Germany needs is German people to defend Germany. That's I know that might sound mind blowing, but like that's like saying all America needs is American people to defend America and not go to foreign wars. Okay, I can at least get behind that. If you're talking about a Germany first, don't deploy them to other places. We just need a man up to purt German borders and the German crisises that are happening inside of Germany. I don't see a negative here.

they got plenty of plenty of volunteers. My speculation is the same as Stormy Waters, who believes that's a pseudonym for some guy I don't know his real name, but he thinks that the European countries are trying to distract people from domestic problems, especially monetary problems, and also demographic problems. Too many old people, not enough young people, and too many immigrants.

a real thing, right. Any country that has forced conscription faces these problems where you basically get the short termers that are only there for their two years of service or four years or whatever their country designates, and the ones that are there to just do their job and get out solid. They do fine. The ones that are diametrically opposed to the military or to any kind of war fighting whatsoever, they tend to bring down the entire unit.

And there's only so many places where you could stick them to where they're away from people, where they also won't go out of their way to be shitty at their jobs as their own personal form of protests. And it's been done successfully a few places, but that's for places that have culture of military service and of defense and things like that, like South Korea or Israel. Right, these people have a culture of defending their land and

being an active conflict. So like they all for the most part want to do their part and then get out when the time comes. There's some exceptions, of course, there's some nuance, but by and large they accept it because it's had a long precedence. Trying to force that out of nowhere. It's not going to be very popular at all, and it's not going to be popular for them in the next election cycle either, I should say that.

took three years. There's a lot of people were posting about that on Twitter, mostly to the effect that why can't we build stuff that impressive and quickly anymore? It's a record like elevation bridge six hundred meters tall.

and I can't fucking stand it. I'm gonna be honest with you.

a high speed rail system? Are you're saying our interstate system is not good enough? And that's that they start this whole thing where it becomes politicized. Now one side says this, the other side says this, and like it's it's boomers fighting about boomers.

not the most convenient. Let's leave it at that, you know, I mean, unless you're going from a place that has a train station to a place that has a train station that doesn't just do cargo, does passenger as well, then like by all means get after. But it's still gonna take you days to make a trip that you could have driven in like half the time. And it's it's it has its own inherent problems. It depends on where you're going and things like that. But now, I

for one, would love a high speed rail system. And they have been talking about making a high speed rail system to connect the entire West Coast for years and years and years, and every time they try to get the construction underway, it gets hit with so many problems and restrictions and government interference that they can never really get it off the ground. And it's it's like you said, it's bureaucracy and it's annoying as hell. Sam, go ahead.

has suffered brain drains in certain regards. Yes, but we still have a solid platform to build off of and re instill an American Golden Age as far as engineering, architecture, science, medicine, all these things America can do that we can spearhead that I wish we would. I wish we would. And it's not going to be because of a certain president, a certain administration, a certain political party. If that is going to take place, it is going to be a

cultural shift within America. I for one, hope that we can see that cultural shift happen within our lifetime. I hope that we don't suffer the other part of that adage where weak men create hard times and then hard times create hard men. I'm hoping that possibly we could break that chain, right, And I know I'm getting high as hell on hopium on this one because I also don't have much faith in humanity. But if we are to not repeat the faults of the past, then we

must be the ones to make that change. Unfortunately, I think most Americans', most Americans of both parties, of all backgrounds and everything, are so wrapped up in their own shit that they can't see the bigger picture. It's a perspective thing, and I get that of it from time to time as well. So I mean, I don't know, all right, all these things being said, I just got through the chat and uh yeah, I think we are

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