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It's March 25th, I'm Brian Dean Wright, former C-I-A operations officer, and this is The

Right Report.

Hey, good day to you, ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome to The Right Report, your daily news, podcast.

It's a listener Q&A today, an episode built by you with facts and intel and analysis from

me.

That is ever our shaping America in the world of first up.

We've got Mr. Tristan, thank you for writing in Tristan in Northern Utah.

Brian, he writes, I see the Trump is sending in more tropes, which doesn't sound like

we are going to see peace in the Middle East, not anytime soon.

If you had to guess, do you think that we are likely going to see World War III or a

peace deal?

Well, all right, Tristan, thank you for that nice and gentle morning question for us,

all sobering, but important.

Thank you for asking it.

Let's get folks caught up on the news and the intel that you're referencing here.

There are reports.

The present Trump is preparing to deploy about 3000 troops from the Army's 82nd Airborne

Division.

They're heading to somewhere in the Middle East.

That combat brigade is a spicy group of men who serve as the Army's emergency response

force.

Basically they get 24 hours and they go anywhere in the world.

Their mission generally is to parachute and to say hostile or contested territory to

secure things like airfields and land.

So you combine that news with the news that we've covered, covered about the Marine Expeditionary

Units headed to the Middle East, which by the way, the U.S. has triply is now at Diego

Garcia heading west to the Middle East.

So God bless them.

So you take all of that plus.

They are joining much of America's military firepower in the Middle East this morning, both

offensive and defensive, all deployed to sent com.

So I would say that if you think about possible missions, you've got yourself, everything

that you would need for attacking Korg and Kesham Islands as we've been talking about.

Now if that is present Trump's intention, I would imagine, in fact, I'm going to predict

that we would see action by early to mid next week on that.

That gives the Marines time to arrive also the 82nd Airborne.

And we've also got to get some more Marine F 35C fighter jets.

They are now on their way this morning to provide close air support for these operations

on the islands.

So you take that plus you got away on the scales this morning towards war.

Some reporting from the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News.

It confirms what I've shared with you about air of governments.

They have had it with Iran and they are looking to get involved in this in this war directly.

And that's because they will not tolerate Iranian control of the straight up Hormuz and

the Red Sea.

So let's unpack that.

If you look at your maps on your phones, computers, or in your minds this morning, you'll

see why the Arabs might be a little bit worried.

Imagine that the Iranians control the Persian Gulf and of course the straight up Hormuz along

with the Red Sea and they would be able to do that or contest those waters with the Houthis.

Well, look at all the countries in between there.

That is game over for Gulf countries and those Sunni Arab royal families there, they know

it.

That is why as I understand it in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg are reporting

that the Saudis and the Emirates especially are just a whisker away from joining Israel

and the United States in this war.

In fact, President Trump or less said that yesterday saying that the Saudi crown prince

MBS, he's a warrior and he is all in on cutting off this Iranian, the head of the Iranian snake.

So Tristan, all of that then would certainly suggest that we are much closer to greater

degrees of war, not peace, but on the other hand.

President Trump made a very interesting and cryptic reference yesterday that Iran just

gave the United States something of value saying, quote, they gave us a present.

And the present arrived today, it was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of

money.

It was a nuclear, it was oil and gas related and it was a very nice thing that they did,

end quote.

President then added that it was related to these straight up Hormuz.

Meanwhile, NBC News reports that Pakistan and Egypt, they are stepping up their peace

negotiations this morning between DC and Tehran and the President Trump's team has delivered

what is basically the same peace deal that we gave last winter to Tehran.

It's a 15 point peace plan that if I could distill it down, basically says to the IRGC

and the clerics in Tehran, look, we will stop this war and we will remove all sanctions

on Iran and help you secure business deals in your country and help you build a civilian

nuclear energy program for your electricity.

But you IRGC and the clerics, you have got to agree to a few things, most especially.

There can be zero nuclear material enriched inside of Iran and that all other nuclear

programs that are obviously unsanctioned, they've got to be shut down like at Fordo or

that pickaxe mountain and the 60% enriched material that is buried.

That's got to be unburied and turned over to international inspectors also.

No more medium or long range missiles.

The short range stuff you can have, not the medium to long term or long range rather.

And also Iran, please stop it with the use of the terror groups like the Puthis or Pesbola

and forget this idea as Tehran has been proposing over the past 48 hours that Iran will own

the straight up Hormuz and charge these ships tolls according to this 15 point peace

plan.

The straight up Hormuz belongs to no one, it is an open international waterway.

So those collectively are the distilled parts of the peace plan that have been proposed

to the Iranians by the White House and arrow powers this morning.

Interestingly, Iran has confirmed that they got this refreshed peace plan and they are

now talking to President Trump and his team despite their denials that I shared with you

yesterday.

So Tristan, we now await the IRGC's official response here to this new refreshed peace

plan.

I'm going to imagine probably not a good response, but even if the IRGC agrees to talk about

these 15 points in the peace plan, at least in principle, allegedly apparently President

Trump is willing to do a 30 day ceasefire to keep talking.

So all in then Tristan, I can't tell you which way this is going to go, war or peace.

I sure wish I could, but I can't.

It is a coin toss at least based on the facts and data as we know them this morning, although

I guess I could speculate into that end, somebody really wants me to read as a list of

Mr. Chase and new after Ryan, if you were to give President Trump some advice about how

to end this war, would you say to escalate to the escalate, you know, like more war and

just beat this not out of them for a while and then peace or just now declared victory

and leave, like you've said, maybe turning everything over to the Arabs and the Israelis,

also Brian, what would you do if you were President?

All right.

Well, Mr. Chase, some good questions here, tough scenarios.

So here's what I would do, especially if I could go to the White House this morning and

make a suggestion, tell Gulf countries this morning, the Sunnis, reach out to President

Xi of China, give him that 15 point peace plan and tell him and other Beijing leaders

look, if you all want one more drop of Arab oil for the next 100 years, tell your IRGC

buddies in Tehran to accept this 15 point peace plan full stop and look, if they won't

do it and you won't stop them, we will join this war with the Americans and the Israelis

and you Beijing will never ever get Arab oil again.

And in case you get cheeky, we will blow up any vessel that tries to take out Iranian

oil and if that's a Chinese ship, well, that's very sad, but that will be on you.

So Chase, my point is that I think that that is the key leverage to ending this war, this

conflict.

That is where peace is to be found in my view.

China has profound leverage over and with Iran based on oil purchases.

So if she could then use that leverage and I would imagine he could probably also tell

President Putin of Russia to fall in line as well and squeeze the IRGC to, then we

can end this war without a single U.S. boot on the ground in Iran or any of those islands.

So that's the advice that I would encourage President Trump to consider that all roads

to peace, at least without great cost, go through Arab capitals on their way to China.

However, even though that is my advice, I'm going to acknowledge something I suspect that

the Israelis would not be happy with this idea of mine.

I think that they want regime change in Tehran or they would settle for a civil war there

that results in Iran being just a mess because from Israel's perspective, a weak Iran is

a good Iran.

And you know, after the past 34 years, I totally get it.

But as an American, I am vastly more interested in settling this conflict as soon as possible

by using this 15 point plan.

And by doing that, it certainly gets rid of the nukes and the long range missiles.

That's the most important thing to me as a voter.

Then by settling this war and getting out of it, not losing the midterm elections to

a seditious Democrat party, although, again, I really do appreciate why Netanyahu and

a lot of Israelis would probably be bitterly disappointed and angry if we did this 15 point

piece plan and didn't do the regime change stuff.

But I think that this Chinese piece is important and that's why I would really push for it.

So there you have a chase.

Get the Arabs to use their oil leverage and threaten Xi with no oil and escalate the

war, which by the way, if that's what were to happen, it would result in how to imagine

certainly a global recession, if not a depression, which would be terrible for Xi and China's

economy because they are an export dominant economy.

So press that weakness with Xi, but it's got to be done by the Arabs, not by us.

Next up, we've got Paula who wrote in from Branson, Missouri, great town, Brian, my husband

and I love your news about the shortwave radio mystery from a couple of weeks ago regarding

those secret messages coming out of Iran, it's kind of like an old spy movie.

Let us know if you hear anything more and what you think is going on.

Well, Paula and your husband, it's a lucky day.

We've got an update.

But first though, just a quick refresh.

So we're all tracking as I covered back on March 10th, there has been a set of very interesting

secret messages being broadcast.

We believed out of Iran to the world on shortwave radios, starting right after the Ayatola

was killed with us until believing that it could be an operational trigger for their sleeper

assets outside of the country, probably in Europe and the United States.

In fact, as we talked about in this shortwave message that we're hearing, there is a man

speaking in Farsi who's speaking for about 30 seconds and he starts his message with

attention, attention.

And then he reads a series of numbers in Farsi, you know, and let's do a reminder here.

Here's what this actual message sounds like.

This is the actual secret audio.

Now, as you all can tell, that is clearly a code, a system by the way that was actually

dated all the way back to the First World War where you use numbers and code words or

Morris code that's otherwise meaningless or just gibberish to virtually everybody listening

unless you were a spy or a saboteur.

Now, in that case, both the sender and the receiver have little booklets or what are called

the one-time pads that basically translate as it were, what every one of those numbers

actually mean, maybe a letter or a word, that's the coded secret message.

And it's a really great system, highly secure, and obviously somebody's been using it inside

of Iran and regionally, that's what I shared with you a couple of weeks ago.

But now we're learning something else, some new news.

And that is, this is probably also the CIA.

We've seen out messages from Germany broadcasting to CIA agents inside of Iran.

So let's talk about what we know.

Wired magazine is reporting that shortwave operators have managed to triangulate at least

some of the broadcasts and have found that they're actually emanating from a shortwave transmission

facility inside a U.S. military base, Southwest of Stuttgart, Germany.

It's part of the U.S. Army's 52nd Strategic Signal Battalion.

Now what I would guess, and this is a low confidence guess, is six to nine months ago,

the CIA saw where everything was going in the Middle East and they trained up their assets

inside of Iran to use this old system because they assumed we would either be at war with

Iran and comms would be down or dicey, or they feared that Iranian counterintel would

discover our assets if they ever try to use the cell phones or internet and the more modern

stuff to communicate with us.

So the CIA then asked around for some help and they found it in Germany at this 52nd

Strategic Signal Battalion.

Now they are helping to keep the CIA's source networks of spies and saboteurs inside

of Iran safe.

Oh, wow, it's also true that the Iranians appear to be doing the same thing using this

old system with their spies and saboteurs inside of Europe and the U.S.

So all of everybody is going back to the future.

And that's because this commos system, it works, it's old, but it's good, which takes

me to a fun, related question from Mr. Robert and Ardmore, Oklahoma and also from another

listener, but I can't find my notes from last week.

So I apologize to that listener.

You all asked the same question.

Here it is, Brian, tell us about your favorite memories at the CIA and maybe something

that most people don't know about it.

Like what would be surprising for us to find out?

All right, this is fun.

So first, let's start with something that you might not know.

The CIA is basically a big dating club because everybody has been polygraphed and there are

finances vetted.

So when you go to work and you see somebody that you think is cute, you're probably

not dealing with the serial killer.

So the agency over the years has become a big matchmaking service, really.

A lot of husband, wife, spy teams as it were and boyfriend girlfriend.

Second, the answer is yes, there really is a Dunkin Donuts inside of agency headquarters

and a Starbucks and a really cool museum, including some of the animals that the CIA used

back on the second world war to help spy for us.

And I'll just give you some inside intel, birds, birds are real.

I'm kidding.

Birds are real.

Anyway, also next, Hollywood's version of the CIA, you know, all the movies that you see,

the TV shows, not real.

So I would guess that about 80% of the people who work at the CIA to next to nothing, very

little.

And I tell you, you can see that when you work there because there is an internal messaging

board where people will talk to each other about all kinds of different things you would

hope about work.

But no, it's about politics and yard sales and clubs that you should join, including where

you address up like a civil war reenactor.

No, I'm not kidding.

So then you got the other 20% at the CIA, the rest of the agency that actually does the

cool work and heavy lifting and all the ops and the analysis and the covert action.

So there you go.

That's something that I guess a lot of people don't know.

Good and bad.

Speaking of, by the way, you asked about memorable experiences and I got two from the field.

So one was when I was meeting with an asset and he was sharing a bunch of intel.

And in fact, I think I shared part of this story before.

I was memorizing what he was saying, but I was not taking notes and he asked me, hey,

you're not taking notes.

All the other guys that I've worked with, they took notes.

So what's wrong with you?

So I just feel a little cheeky.

I shot back the intel that he was telling me from my memory.

And I said, but don't worry, friend.

My shoe is recording everything just in case.

And he was so impressed.

But it was a lie.

My shoe was not a recording device.

It was actually a pair of new balance sneakers, worn for comfort, not for spine.

Another fun memory I have with an asset, actually this one, I'm going to skip that one.

I'm going to tell you another one.

It's more memorable, actually, and I don't think I've shared this.

And this is definitely a situation that the CIA did not train me on.

There was an agent that was clearly coming down with something very, very bad.

It was very sick and getting worse.

And I suspected at the time, it was probably advanced HIV, if not full-blown AIDS.

And I assumed that because in the culture in which I was operating,

there were men who had a lot of mistresses beyond their wives.

And definitely talking about HIV was not kosher, if I can say it that way.

But I talked to them about it in the spirit of friendship and non-judgment.

And he got tested and he was, in fact, HIV positive.

And that meant he had to get other people tested,

including his wife and his girlfriends, and they were all positive.

So that was a tough case.

And it took a very non-operational turn or set a direction for a while,

because I had to deal with all of that.

And not as an officer, but just as a human.

We had to get all of that tightened up to get everybody on their meds

so we could get back to the real operational work that obviously we hired him for.

Thinking of the medical stuff, I also, I experienced this a lot.

I had an asset that was touched by something called Huntington's disease.

And that is, if you've ever heard of it, if you've been exposed to it,

if you know anybody with it, it's just a profoundly awful neurological condition.

Virtually always lethal.

And I will tell you, though, there has been some good news.

We've covered this on the podcast in the past couple of years on it.

But Huntington's is not a diagnosis that you want at any rate.

So I had these kinds of medical cases working with my assets

as we were trying to do operational stuff.

And while going through that, the human stuff life that pops up,

I learned a lot about medicine and I developed a real appreciation

for the medical community and for good health and how to work with people

through doctors who are kind of helping me through the process.

And that was definitely not something that I ever expected at CIA training

or definitely not anything that my mentors warned me about.

I just had to figure it out on the fly.

And at the end of the day, that's kind of how the business of human intelligence works.

They find and recruit people that are kind of operationally flexible

and can meld in any kind of situation.

And that's definitely something I had to learn, which reminds me,

I've got a related piece of feedback from another listener

about the business of human intelligence.

This is from a listener, also named Brian, with a why,

who said to me yesterday, quote,

I wanted to mention that there are a few people

that I've turned on to your podcast.

They are asking me, if I'm getting hints

of Operation Mockingbird 2.0 coming from your podcasts recently,

I just thought that you should know that.

All right, so for folks unaware,

what Brian is talking about here, Operation Mockingbird or a project Mockingbird,

it was a set of people or assets that were recruited by the CIA

starting back in the 1950s through the early 1970s.

And they worked in American media

and they worked to influence apparently, allegedly,

the American people about all kinds of different topics.

So apparently, according to listener Brian,

I'm starting to sound like that.

A new CIA operations officer involved

in some sort of influence operations,

trying to twist your minds and twist your thinking.

All right, so let me just say officially and completely,

that's not true, that is silly.

And you know, if I may, it's just a little bit disappointing

because I have worked my tail off for now four years

of doing what I'm just gonna say nobody

in the space of new media is doing.

And that's providing you daily transcripts with sourcing

that you can check for yourselves.

And I sure work to separate those from those facts and data

from my analysis and opinion.

And I constantly say, you make the call.

It is not up to me to tell you what to do or how to think,

but rather to encourage all of us to use free will

and use our own minds.

But, you know, here we are.

I've got a four-year track record that's due

and that it's been tossed in the trash this morning

for at least for some listeners based on a CIA operation

before I was ever born and had nothing to do with.

And that is, by the way, despite also my years of absolutely

and wrestle loosely criticizing the CIA

in the deep state for what they did under Obama and Biden

to not just Donald Trump, but also you and me,

the American Republic, it was awful.

But yet, but yet I get it, you know,

the CIA has done a lot of bad stuff over the years.

Some good stuff too, but bad stuff.

So I kind of have to live with both

and it's just kind of how it goes

when you're a former Intel officer.

But again, let me just emphasize the official

and complete and total answer is no.

I am not working for the CIA on some sort of propaganda op.

I've got four years of transcripts if you want to check.

I would encourage you to do so.

But that does take me back to Mr. Robert and Ardmore, Oklahoma.

I do wish that actually sometimes

I still work for the CIA and for two reasons.

First, because one of the things that I'd love to do

more than anything when I was at the agency

was to gin up operations that just hammered

the Chinese Communist Party.

That was the only operational thing

that I really, really love doing.

And second, this is just a personal thing.

I really want to go through the CIA train again

down at the farm.

That's where, of course, they teach you the art

and the science of espionage.

Well, I don't really want to go through all of the training.

It just parts where we got to race the cars

and I got a ton of range time in.

And then here's the big part.

I want to jump out at more airplanes

because I did not get to do that during training

the first time I went through.

And that's because the classes,

they went before me class nine and 10.

They had a bunch of people that jumped out of the planes

and then they busted their legs and ankles,

which is not funny.

But what it meant was that the agency

was short of officers to get in the field.

And this was right after 9.11.

So the airplane jumping out of stuff,

that was put on ice for my class

until they figured out this busted leg syndrome issue.

You know, the other thing I would sometimes

I would like to go back to the agency

because I really miss working with the old timers.

You know, the guys that went up against the Soviets

or the Cubans and most of them are probably dead by now,

but not all of them.

And man, I would love to work with them again.

They were such great officers.

Tough as nails, completely patriotic.

And they hated the communists anywhere in the world.

Well, because that's certainly the all-American thing to do.

But they really understood the warnings

and the risks and the death associated with radical left.

It was just something that they saw.

And I think that we've forgotten that.

So I'd love to be around that kind of set of workers

and that kind of environment again.

So there you have it, Robert and Brian.

Some old memories for you at the CIA.

And if you have any more of those questions

regarding anything we've talked about this morning,

please unsubstack, fire those away.

We'll try to do another episode next week with that.

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We've got Miss Olivia from the very fine state of Alabama. She's writing and asking Brian,

what do you think about the USS Liberty story? What do you think really happened? I've heard

other podcasts talk about it and I'm wondering about your take. So this is actually quite good.

Thank you, Olivia for asking. So for folks not tracking this history, let's cover just a brief

thumbnail sketch of it back on June 8th of 1967 during the six day war between Israel and a bunch

of Arab states. The USS Liberty was off the North Coast of the Sinai Peninsula, the Israeli military

in the middle of this war attacked our ship, the USS Liberty and they did so for two hours.

They killed about 34 Americans. They wounded another 170. It was awful two nightmarish hours

that those men had to deal with. Israel quickly apologized. They expressed regret. They offered

and paid compensation. They explained that this attack was a case of mistaken identity. They

thought that this ship was an Egyptian transporter in the middle of the war.

The US accepted that, this apology and the compensation. We also later conducted inquiries

onto what exactly happened and whether Israel's story here was true, whether they were telling

the truth. Multiple inquiries were done by the Navy, the CIA, President Johnson and I believe

the Joint Chiefs and Congress and they all found the same thing that Israel was certainly responsible

for gross negligence in this fog of war, but it was an accident and it was not pre-planned,

nor was it intentional. Some people, including some of the survivors of the USS Liberty attack,

they contest this finding or these five or six findings. They cite their own evidence and some

gossip from Johnson officials at the time, although others say that this evidence is pretty weak

or it's cooked up in some cases, just really a set of conspiracy theories.

All right, so Miss Olivia, what do I think about all of that? Well, actually, I'm going to stop

us from thinking first about the USS Liberty and what I believe about the incident. Instead,

ask us something else. What's the goal of resurrecting this absolutely horrific incident or attack

from 59 years ago? What relevance does it have for today? And you say that you heard about this

from podcasters. All right, how are listeners like you supposed to use this knowledge about the

USS Liberty? What are the podcasters? Why are the podcasters making sure that you know about this

history? Now, if you're listening to all of this, let's say on the history channel or a history

podcast, all right, well, that makes sense. But if this set a podcast that you're listening to,

Olivia, largely political podcasts that are largely commenting on modern politics and national

security, that to me, I find curious. So to help understand why I find that pretty strange,

let me say this in with some different context. Let's go back to December 7th of 1941.

That, of course, is a day that will live in infamy. About 85 years ago now, that is when the

Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Of course, the Japanese destroyed her damaged about 20 American

naval vessels, including eight battleships, over 300 airplanes destroyed more than 2400 Americans

died in that attack, 2400, including civilians, and another thousand were wounded.

Lives in Hawaii and beyond would never be the same. And this country would never be the same.

It prompted our entry into World War II. So Olivia, what if we started to hear and see a lot of

podcasters or influencers say on YouTube, suddenly, all start talking about Pearl Harbor after

now 85 years. And what if they start pointing the finger at Japan and say, how evil and bad

and grotesque that attack was? And also this universe of podcasters, they just repeat this story

about Pearl Harbor over and over and over again. But why? What in that case would be the goal

after 85 years? Why now start talking about the Japanese? Well, like I can't say for sure,

but my guess would be that these podcast hosts would want their viewers and their listeners

to get fired up about the Japanese. Make them mad and angry about the 24-100 people who died and

the thousand who were wounded and the 20 American naval ships that were damaged or destroyed.

So yeah, that's probably going to create an environment of more and more Americans than saying that

we can't trust the Japanese today. You know, remember Pearl Harbor? So Olivia, getting back to your

question, I think that that is why you are seeing a lot more coverage of this issue of the USS

Liberty on other podcasts, right? We are living in a time of great charged environments where a lot

of people aren't just asking reasonable questions about Israel and their influence over American

foreign policy, but they're trying to reset or rescind that relationship altogether with the

United States. In fact, play this out with me. So I've heard some podcasters say that we need a

renewed investigation into this USS Liberty attack. All right, well, let's say that we do that.

How would that report then be used? What would we imagine the resulting media coverage would

be like after this 59 years after the incident? Would we want to then earnestly use that kind of

report looking for justice and truth? Or would it likely be used as a propaganda tool and leverage,

of course, this report to accomplish this reset or the rescinding of the relationship between the

US and Israel? I suspect the latter. I suspect that this is not about the earnest seeking of truth

and justice, but rather a tool to divide and a tool for propaganda. So Olivia, bottom line,

here's what I would encourage you and all of us to do explore American history, including the USS

Liberty attack and other attacks too by other nations over the past two or 25 years. Let us use

those lessons from history to shape our views about tactics and intrigues between foreign powers or

my favorite president George Washington warning us against foreign entanglements.

I celebrate all that history, but I would sure encourage us to be deeply suspicious of people

who are cherry picking events like this one from 1967 as what sure seems like is some sort of

propaganda campaign by people out there who are trying to influence you, not just inform,

which takes me to another question. This is from Ian, even North Florida. Brian, I respect that you

don't want to talk about other podcasts and I think that's a good thing, but if you were to

speculate about the motivations of the new media, what do you think's going on? All right, Ian,

I'm going to keep this short and sweet. I am also going to put aside podcasters and influencers

instead, I would encourage us to reflect on something that's happening in this country.

In three years time, Donald Trump will no longer be president of the United States.

And I suspect that his influence over the GOP will start to fade quickly or otherwise.

So my question to all of us this morning is, what comes after Trump? What's the future of the GOP?

So by that, I mean, ideologically, is it going to be more traditional Republican like 15 years

ago with Mitt Romney or George Bush or is it more Trumpian like America first or more populism?

I don't know, but that fight between the various wings of the party that fight is inevitable.

And I think it's on right now. Okay, so if that's true, if you can buy my argument there,

let's talk about the podcasters and the influencers. Knowing that this environment now exists,

where Trump will soon be gone and there will be or is a fight for the soul on the future of the

party. Is it not inconceivable that we are listening to podcasters and influencers getting paid to

say whatever talking point to affect that future GOP might some Democrats be involved in this?

Maybe foreign powers. I would argue, yes, yes, yes. That's because the battle for the future of

the GOP and ultimately this country is underway. By the way, thinking then of Olivia's question,

that's why I see this stuff like stuff like the USS Liberty popping up from decades gone by,

with a lot of emotional reactions. That to me is the tell that we are in the midst of an op,

a propaganda op. And I would guess that it is connected to either a candidate or an ideology

that wants to win the GOP and control it post Trump. So in there's my guess about what's really

going on in this podcast war these days, but really more importantly, both old and new media alike.

I think there's a really, really big fight in the GOP. I think the fight for the future of the

Democrat party is settled. Unfortunately, very leftist, very radical, very Islamist, but I don't think

that fight is fully settled amongst the GOP folk. And I think that's why we're seeing a lot of this

division lately. Next up, we've got another question from David. He is in the lovely city of

Spokane, Washington. Brian, I would be grateful if you could highlight the story of some ranchers

in Cooley City, Washington. I feel like the little guy doesn't get a lot of attention. And with

your background of ranching, I think you would probably appreciate what is going on in my back

yard. So David, thank you. And let's do it. Let's share this news along with why this then matters

to everybody in the country. So here's the story. In Cooley City, which is in central Washington,

there is a lovely family with the last name of King. They have been farming and ranching

there for at least four generations. About 100 years ago, give or take, they and the folks before

them who owned the land did, but a lot of cattle families have done out there. They build stock

ponds to ensure that the rain and the snow is collected in the winter and the spring. So that during

the dry season, of course, that would be in the summer and into the fall, they've got water in

their stock ponds. That means they can use more of their pasture. These ponds, these stock ponds

did not exist before they were built. Sometimes the old timers, the old families,

they would build them in a draw, a little canyon, or sometimes around a spring. But the point is

they are man made. The state of Washington, however, in all of their leftist glory this morning,

they have decided that the stock ponds at this King family ranch are actually wetlands. The state

says that this King family owns $267,000 in damages for destroying the wetlands and $3.7 million

in restoration for ponds that were made by their ancestors for cattle. So David, everybody,

that is the news. Those are the facts and data. And if I may now pivot to analysis and opinion,

you're right. This is bonkers. But the state of Washington, like a lot of states run by Democrats

this morning, they're using their regulatory schemes that intentionally bankrupt farmers and

ranchers like the King family. And they do so, of course, with a big, big legal fees. And then,

once these families and these farms or ranches disappear, the land often becomes controlled by the

state. And I assure you, it is not going to be used for farming and ranching because that

ideologically to them, to the state, the Democrats is bad. Kind of like I mentioned yesterday,

and nearby Oregon, with that ballot initiative that wants to stop supposedly animal abuse,

although that language on the ballot would protect all animals and creatures from countless

to bugs. So David, thank you for flagging this and reminding us that there is this concerted

effort to target ag families all across this country. And it's being done by Democrats for all

kinds of reasons, climate change reasons to control your food supply. Or this Marxist belief

that government should be in charge of, well, everything, including the wetlands.

All right. So if you are so moved about this issue or the King family and you want to learn more,

I would sure encourage you to do so. You might want to toss in my couple box to help out with

the legal fees. And I want to emphasize, I do not know this family. And I am not making any

penny of any of this. I just got this great email. And I think it's really important to flag

this cause for the little guy. So politicians, folks, are going to control your food supply if we

don't get in front of this stuff. That's really what is motivating me this morning,

in addition to the fact that my family has been doing ag in this country since the 1600s. So

check out this family story in Washington state. You can go to saveKingRanch.com. Check it out.

If you feel so motivated, you can donate a few bucks. So again, thank you, David. I appreciate the

email. Tell us both can't hide from you. By the way, I went to Gonzaga. Good school there.

Finally this morning, we've got Susanna from St. Cloud, Minnesota. She writes, Brian, I love the

medical news that you share. I think that makes you different than anybody else that I listen to.

I think that you actually care and you want people to get healthy. Keep that up. Well, Susanna,

how sweet are you? I want to give you a hug. Thank you so much. I really do care about this stuff.

And I love ending episodes with good medical news because there is so much bad news out there.

And that gets to be a downer and heavy and not just for you, but for me too. Believe it or not,

I'm human. So let's get to that good news. The best part of this podcast I would say,

let's talk about some good medical news. Here we go. Researchers in the UK have found a very

interesting bacteria in the gut that is plentiful when we're younger, but it dissipates as we grow

older. And that's bad because the researchers found that there's a direct connection between the

amount of this bacteria and how much muscle mass we retain as we age. And that's a big deal

because once we hit around our 40s and certainly beyond, we lose muscle mass, which can then

contribute to a range of problems. Researchers have found that this bacteria is called and forgive

me on the pronunciation here. It's called our Inulin Ivarans. The issue though is where to find this

stuff or how to encourage its colonization and our guts as we get older. My understanding for

the research is that we don't right now have a product on the shelf that we can buy that includes

this our Inulin Ivarans in it, but high fiber diets generally encourage this back period of

flourish, especially Chikari root, garlic, onions, leeks and asparagus. So there you have it. And by

the way, if you know or if you find a pro or a prebiotic with this our Inulin Ivarans, let me know.

And also take this research to your doctors and ask them to dig around on this because apparently

there is a medical grade version of this pre or probiotic that has this stuff in it.

But you got to have connections like a lot of things in life. Anyway, there you go. Thank you

ladies and gentlemen for a great morning. Lots of great questions. Keep those coming on

sub stack and with that ladies and gentlemen, my friends, let us conclude this morning's episode,

your episode of the right report.

As always, I will see you tomorrow, God willing. Until then, I leave you with a creed of every good

and every wise American. They are the words from the Gospel of John, chapter 8, verse 32.

And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Good day.