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We are recording on Sunday, March 8th, 2026 at 11 11 a.m. Eastern time, I can daylight

saving times, awful, I hate it, I did it, it's whatever.

Of course with the general Holt and Colonel Watkins, and we're waiting for Colonel,

little doctor, astronaut Steve Murray, who I believe is in the International Space Station.

And everything we were just talking about, I don't even know if it's a bad instinct.

You were just saying everything, you know, drop MREs on the courage and they won't touch

shit.

Is that just like a good survival instinct and not take anything we give them?

No, just dietary wise, MREs suck.

And I think the people were genuinely shocked that, you know, the impression was that this

is talking about in 1991.

They were, you know, concerned about them starving because they had fled Iraq into the hills

up mountains of southern Turkey.

And so we think we're being, you know, benevolent and dropping them food and stuff like that,

we drop them tents so that they can put the tents over the trees so they'd be out of the

weather.

And when we eventually go in to get them to transport them into a constructed tent city

in order to transition them back to their homes because Saddam Hussein's military had

booby trapped with bombs, many of their homes.

And so we had to go through all of the cities in northern Iraq to clear out the ordinance

that had been distributed there.

The army was shocked that all of the MREs were just left there because then they had to

clean them all up because they wouldn't eat them.

That's, but my impression and I know people disagree with me.

I think they, they're horrible.

They, they're, you know, high calorie, which I understand the need for that, but they're

just, they taste awful.

And the irony for me was they all came with these little Tabasco bottle and army are

fixated on Tabasco sauce.

Now this was the first time I'd ever deployed in this type of joint operation.

And I deployed in Air Force related things, but as a maintenance truth, but never surrounded

by army.

Those were gold.

So every time I got my MRE, I didn't eat it.

I took the Tabasco sauce and every collectible that I have from the EOD guys, the expended

shells, pieces of marble from Saddam Hussein's airport that they were building, all of that

was traded.

I have an Iraqi knife with my Tabasco sauce.

There are literal currencies when you deploy with the army completely unrelated to anything

we're talking about.

But it's, I think maybe the best channel on YouTube is Steve MRE in 1989.

He's this guy that he eats, he finds any MRE, he's, he's a total like historian connoisseur,

but he's eaten MREs from like World War One and shit.

And the joke is always when he doesn't upload that he's dead and then I'll come back with

another one or something.

But I, now I heard a great quote about MREs and they're, yeah, they taste like dog shit

so that you, you only eat them when you're truly hungry.

So you don't waste them.

So that's true.

But what were you guys saying beforehand as I was staring at you guys slack job like an

idiot, as always, about, about Lloyds of, Lloyds of London.

And I believe generally you were saying something about Taiwan or did I screw that up?

Well, let's, let's get to it because it's a bunch of marble ice cream.

Yeah.

What we were talking about is the fact that things are now moving so fast, so fast below

the substrate that it's really, really hard to kind of keep up with the program.

I was talking to, uh, the good colonel here about how I completely whiffed at the plate

that, um, zeroing out the regime in Iran and they're basically dead man walking their

unlife support flatline and they're going to be gone soon.

But the, uh, the funding stream that was heading from them to South Africa where you've

got this brutal regime rolling up white farmers, murdering and raping and terrorizing their

population, they're going, uh, to zero in their budget and they're very vulnerable now.

This changes the game geopolitically because of, uh, shipping.

And so I'm going to get us back to Lloyds of London here in just a second.

But, um, that shipping passage, if you drop the Suez Canal, if you drop the Panama Canal,

if you drop, um, the malloc and straights, you're basically in a situation where that,

that cape there is the most important shipping lane in the world.

And that's why the Iranian, Russian, uh, navies had been exercising down there, um, a lot

with the Chinese Navy as well, by the way.

Well, here comes the big disruption.

So now on land, the ANC gets zeroed out and we look back up at the closure of the straits

of Hormuz.

Well, who's closing them?

Because it's certainly not the former Iranian Navy that's not there anymore.

Um, the missile batteries on the coast are gone.

So what's stopping shipping?

Well, Lloyds of London said, this is war, it's dangerous.

We're not doing it.

Uh, all insurance policies are on hold.

So President Trump came back and countered with, okay, I get it.

City of London subsidiary called Lloyds of London, which has been a monopolistic, um,

mess for, uh, uh, and a real enemy of the United States for a very long time.

Because they pick winners and losers on the high seas.

Well, Lloyds of London quietly, uh, responded to President Trump saying,

we'll ensure the, the oil now.

Just go ahead and run the oil through and we'll get naval escorts.

Lloyds is now, and I know this from a source.

Lloyds is now quietly telling the shipping companies they work with.

If you take America up on those insurance policies, we will zero you out.

And so you better be confident that

US will ensure you forever.

Well, that basically partially shut the, the straights down again.

So this doesn't make a whole lot of sense on the big board because you would say,

well, why would they do that?

Because 50% of Chinese oil comes through those straights of hormones.

They need that oil.

The Chinese Communist Party works hand in glove with the city of London that has Lloyds of London.

Wait a minute.

My theory and, and you can both throw rocks at me is what we have is a dangerous enemy in the city of London

that is growing more and more desperate by the day.

The cartels and the laundering schemes are coming down.

They have now exposed themselves as a true adversary to the United States.

You know this when completely irrational things happen like

Kierstharmer coming out saying the US can't use Diego Garcia for this war.

The US will not get any MI6 help with its operations in the Caribbean.

And now the Lloyds of London mess.

So when you have an enemy as sophisticated as the city of London is,

the last thing they ever want is exposure.

The last thing they ever want is for you to understand that they're the enemy.

Because we've always tackled over that with this thing called the special relationship.

Well now you have Lloyds of London and the city of London essentially cashiering the Chinese

Communist Party and they know it.

So now you've got to base shake this awful choice.

They have a Hobson's choice to make.

And the Hobson's choice is do we stick with our friends in Airquotes London

or are we really going to have to get on board the Trump train and start working out

this NSS art kind of world that Trump has told us is coming.

And in other words, I don't have more than that.

I'm just telling you that the old world order is now got a severe crack in its base.

And they know it.

And they're acting irrationally and they're actually showing

some leg that I don't think they ever wanted to show because all heads are now twisting

away from Tehran going, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what are those guys doing?

And so it's delicious.

This is wonderful.

I don't have enough popcorn for this.

So let me just add to that because I agree with everything you said.

I have no rocks to throw.

But I do want to add up the for the first time in my adult life.

Every single globalist adventure where aircraft are flying, ships are sinking.

People are getting killed.

The UK government was locked up with the US, locked up.

Even if it's just a few people to throw at it,

they're with us every step of the way until now.

First time, not going to get involved.

And then couple that with the point that he just made about Lloyds of London.

Lloyds of London has ensured through everything for over a hundred years,

ships in the middle of conflict until now.

You know, it's interesting is I look at it as just like the podcast and networking.

And when we do shows, obviously you guys retweet it and I'll retweet all the people.

And then I also know like sometimes I'll have you know,

I'll do a big show.

I'll just send up a hey, you guys retweet this.

Even if it's a guess that has nothing to do with you guys.

Even if it's a guess that maybe politically or not even specifically,

you guys, whatever disagree with.

Yeah, yeah.

At times, my only and whatever retweet it, right?

There's always that sort of special relationship with friends.

Hey, Tom, do you think you can interview this guy?

He's my friend, I owe.

Yeah, I got you.

You got to go out of your way for someone to be like, I'm not touching that.

I've never had that happen.

You got to go out of your way to be like, yeah, I'm not touching that.

That's that's indicative.

Yes.

And for the first time, you know, it's not like, oh, sometimes they're with us,

sometimes they're not because they actually have standards or whatever.

No, it's their lockstep because it was the globalist agenda that I can't understand how people

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Yeah, it's this is really something and one of the

so I think I think that the high table and the shadowy overlords that you're not allowed to see

are another damn names although we do.

I think that the problem that they have is when you set up a thing like the world economic forum

since 1971, when you start to groom leaders that are going to become your ponds on the battlefield,

your mid-level and senior managers like Starmer, McCrown,

Ruta, Ursula Van der Leyen, Kaya Collas, there's some attributes that you must have

if they're going to do exactly what you say forever.

First off, they have to be idiots. That's one thing.

They have to have zero moral compass.

The only thing that they crave is to become a vented member of the high table and all you have

to do is convince them that they have upward mobility to get to that place if they'll just do

whatever the hell you say and then if they start to get weak need along the way, then you frame

them, you put them in a room with a kid, you do something terrible and then you on them forever

anyway. Okay, that's the stage. But the problem is is when you have idiots with no moral compass,

when they tell a cure Starmer and give him his script card because this bearer very little

brain didn't come up with this shit on his own. When he comes up and says the United States will

not be using Diego Garcia for this. He doesn't understand that when he gets that script card,

he doesn't understand he's got to sell it. He's got to sell that as if it makes sense in the tapestry

that is the geopolitics of the moment. So he could have come out and nuanced it and said

we've got to carefully review our own posture, our own resources. As you know, I'm in a tight pickle

with the Chinese and Mauritius on Diego. I've asked the president not to consider Diego for now or

something along those lines. Instead, he just reads his verbatim lines. There will be no Diego Garcia

in this war. So that's the end of it, which again, special relationship air quotes does not

make any sense whatsoever, which is really lovely because then I am certain president Trump called

him up and said that's fine. Go ahead and shoot down a C-17 when we keep using it. Go ahead and shoot

down a B-2. Go ahead. Let's see how that plays out because what we'll do is we'll just attack you

from Milton Hall. Right there at Cambridge, right there on your own soil, if that's what you'd prefer.

And then Starmer is basically an NFL referee at that point. After further review, the play does not

stand as called Diego is once again open for business and the special relationship is reestablished

minus the Lloyds of London practice, which is now brewing. Well put. Yeah, that's that's kind of the

benefit of when you're working with somebody who's not really in charge is a that's the good thing

about an actor is they'll just take the bigger check from the bigger company or in this case,

the bigger threat. Under review, the subtext here, Donald Trump has something called Delta Force

and I do not. But that's that's but what you're saying about selling it, right? That's a bit indicative

so you could say, well, how come he didn't sell it? How come how come he didn't, you know, kind of

really sell it like he knows it's important to sell? Well, I would imagine that's part of the

compartmentalization of having somebody who's not at the high table. They don't know. But this is very

important. Look at Kyle. He just says today's flash car. He's like, yeah, and we're going to do

this thing. He doesn't know that it's a vital, you know, don't do that type. Yeah, Kyle, Kyle,

Kyle, oh, well, then if we can't take Russia, how are we going to go after China? She said that.

She said that. So what she forgot in her script card was you, you don't actually read on the

air the thing that's in parentheses. The thing that's in the parentheses is the shit to give you

the context so you know how to sell it. And what she's doing is using her hand gestures to go,

I don't even know how if we can't take Russia, how would we get China? I mean, come on, people

use your brains and you're like, not the parentheses, not you said the quiet part allows. Yeah, no,

that's the parentheses part. So then what did they do? They started deleting the parentheses parts

off that the script cards. And then they just are out there saying weird shit that makes no damn

sense. The United States will not be benefiting from him. I six intelligence against the drug cartels.

It's like, oh, okay, hold on, stop, stop everything. It does seem to slowly be materializing more.

That this really is, it's a form of like puppet fighting. And that we're seeing like, oh,

these really are figured. So I know we from George Carlin on, of course, we always kind of know

that, but you're really seeing it now or you're coming out and you're like reading, you're like,

that guy's really, and it kind of start you then opens at least for me. It opens the imagination,

the imagination, the possibility of, oh, well, then what is Venezuela? What is Iran? And it's,

and of course, you're just a 5D chester. Shut the fuck up. I'm trying to look at this as soberly as

I can. Like, I've been, I've been wrong more times on this podcast and we continue to be, I don't

care. I'm genuinely just trying to look at what is happening. And that to me would be indicative of

to Gerald's point, think about what, and saying these things without the context, think about what

summer's saying by saying I'm not going to share in intelligence we have about drug trafficking.

Well, what, what intelligence do you have done with that intelligence? And why are you doing

something with the intelligence that you have as the drugs are, you know, spewing through the

streets of Britain? And when he said that, who's like, what the hell? Yeah. And then, and then why do

you have all those private wealth banks in St. Bart's right there? Is there anything, is there anything

to that? Is there gambling in the casino? They have them off all of those islands. I know.

I ran across that in the book, the Mafia, the CIA, and George Bush. They were using all of those

islands. That's where Jeffrey Epstein was helping them set up trusts, which is why he's a quote-unquote

tax advisor or wealth advisor, whatever you want to call it, because he helps them set up. He's

like the Paul Hellywell of today. Or yesterday. But that's what Paul Hellywell was doing with Castle

Bank. He was helping, and who was the largest depositor at Castle Bank? The Pritzker family.

They helped them hide their wealth in these trusts in offshore locations, and the British

Isles are full of them. Yeah, but all that shit coming off of Venezuela was paying for all of that,

just the operating costs. You know, you've got executives, you've got private jets, you've got

this stuff's not cheap. Doing private and ghetto banking and laundering. But you saw, this is

what the sequence of events was then when the Venezuelan thing started, which I found so interesting.

The flashpoint that City of London's pissed off is obviously UK is not going to do intel sharing

with anything to do with this. That's your flashpoint. Okay. Now we have the thing that doesn't

make sense in the equation, which we were waiting for. Okay. Great. Next thing, wow, this is going

to really stress out a lot of these private and shadow bankings. But when people don't understand

about private and shadow banking, it's not illegal. It's just that it's a way to get around the

banking regulations of the United States when you want a risk profile that does not match up

with what the rules are. So what you can do is you can be a Jamie Diamond Chase and say,

you know what, there's a higher return for us to gain. So we'll go ahead and fund

Billy's shadow bank, Sally's private bank, and we'll fund those things because we understand that

with their lending, they can get a higher rate of return because they're going to take much risk

here investments. So then what we don't know in that time frame after that is, well, was there

any effect? Did anything happen to the St. Bart's kids or did anything happen to the Cayman kids?

Well, it did. If you go like two to three weeks right after that, you had the failure of this

operation called tricore. Tricore is in the United States. Tricore is like a payday loan operation.

It's they they handle automobiles and cars, mostly for illegals, and you can pay by the week,

you know, hey, can you make a hundred dollar a month or a hundred dollar a week payment,

then you get to have a car and tricore will underwrite all of this. But then it wasn't just tricore.

It was a lot of these little stupid ancillary financing companies that prey on poor people,

and they're belly and up. Why? That was the evidence. Their money, the investments that were coming

into them to make those loans were coming from the Caribbean offshore banks. So you started to see

the domino effect or the cascading effects. Guess what? That then gets to guys like Jamie Diamond.

That then gets to guys like Larry Fink. And then what you see is, oh, this this cartel thing,

it's multiple funding streams. It's the vascular system to all of it. And this is just but one

tentacle. It's not a very major tentacle, but it's one we can see. Yes.

In terms of the as as as Colonel Watkins and I've talked about the importance of

of showing this to people and not showing it out of some you'd be nice to them. I mean,

if you want the people behind you, you have to show them. This is a huge part of that I would

imagine is I mean, you know, it's the whole trope of the, you know, it was animal house where they

all the the you know, the headphone in or whatever it is. And the guys reading them. No, it's not

sorry, old school. The guy outside is reading the test answers and they all have the thing and

they don't write it down. If you wanted, if you were making an allegation that everyone in the

room is actually using an earpiece and getting their answers from some guy in a van, you're going

to sound like a fucking schizophrenic. Now, if you're if your goal was to illuminate that,

you could disrupt the signal. And then they all start getting the same wrong answer at the same

time. Well, then the professor might start going, oh, because it's extraordinary claims require

extraordinary evidence. That's an important point of when you start to really see this as

its flashcards, you could go one step further and disrupt the signal to all of a sudden.

What happens if he doesn't get his flashcards? He doesn't know he's working that's compartmentalized

by design. He's just going to be out there going, well, what are we talking about? What are we

doing? That isn't a way you would, you would imagine and start to kind of illuminate this. And

I think what you're talking about, General. You know, you know who's the master of that? Trump.

During his first term, that was one of the things that was most notable to me is the perpetual

they were classified as leaks, but there were different versions of the leaks. And the reporting

of those leaks indicated who got what card to your announce. Yeah, yeah, no, that's right.

That's exactly right. Yes. And that was masterful because they were able to diagram the network.

That's exactly right. Well, this gets to another place. I'm really interested in what you think

about this Roxanne. President Obama two weeks ago, I think it was two weeks ago, it might have been

a week ago, but I guess he retained a lot more criminal defense attorneys. And he's hired

these firms. And I guess a couple of others have two. I think if you see some of these events

happening that look like they're oriented towards more and more disclosures and exposures,

at some point, you got to get down to the swamp's cubicle level. And I mean the Kool-A drinker,

Apparachic, Bolsheviks, who every day think they're serving this great cause where one day they

too could become in a think tank position that would get them to the world economic forum and then

get them up to the high table somehow. But yeah, that's well, it's all just a Cubscat racket,

right? Get your bear badge and you can get a wolf badge and you can get it, whatever. But

I have to believe that many of them, legions of them in the IC and other corrupted parts of the

government that we call it lovingly the deep state, I think that they probably are starting to

understand just about now. Holy shit. They know who I am. They know me by name. They know what I've

done. And I believe that that's true. But what's more important, whether I believe that or not,

is that they believe that. So if you have nothing going, meaning there is no after the government

offer for you. There is no think tank that's courting you. There is no board at Lockheed Martin for

you. But you have this sinking feeling that I can see what I have done might be construed as

treasonous behavior towards my country. I'm in trouble. Are we going to, you know, first off,

what do you think about that? And second off, do we then go into a season where we start seeing a

shit ton of cubicle dwellers that are like, I want to deal. Yes. I absolutely agree with that.

But Blaine, many of those people you just described are wearing a military uniform too.

I know that I agree with you completely. All the more reason I want to deal with a little more

they don't have money for lawyers. So that's the pesky thing about these people. And actually,

they can't accept Mark Elias money or George So as many for those lawyers. So you seem to have

a problem. Good sir. They have pro bono. Come on. You don't think they're going to leave them hanging

do you? Yeah. Yeah. There's there. Yeah. I do think they're going to leave them hanging. And I

think that's going to make even more of them talk. Yeah. There is something so deeply hilarious.

But the idea of like a Tony Robbins or Gary V for for this stuff. Like listen, you too can one day

get get you know, get directives from a shadow we cut out. You know, I used to be a good body.

Now I'm on private planes talking about deals. I don't understand for people with money beyond

description. Like you too can do that. Like I'm Mark Ruta and you can too. You know, when I first

started, I was selling crack and now I'm telling people to do this. I don't know what the big picture

that there's something hilarious about that. But in any Jacobson's operation paper club, I think

it's the most fascinating thing is right all about the Nazi high command turning on the end and

and getting deals through blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The most that to me, none of that surprising

or you know, of course they do. The most interesting part to me is that a lot of these guys had

like blueprints for their you know, whatever subspecialty on the on the rockets that they were

proficient in. They had these blueprints created up on their own property going back to like

1941-42. So it's not like they they saw the war was over. It was in the heyday and they still had

these things because they said on the off chance this doesn't. Yes. And they all did and they're like,

I had these and they'd be like, yeah, I had these two. That's interesting to me is they have that

stuff when it seems like they're winning and they all pulled that stuff out like no issue. So I

think it's very it's human that a lot of these people are going to actually you know what I did

have this thumb drive back in 2020 when it seemed like they were rolling out the vaccine pass.

But I kept this just you know because by definition these people are are spineless and amoral.

So they are you have to use that against them. They are slimy bitches. Right.

Pivot with that. But the slimy bitches are dealing with other slimy bitches and they know

they're slimy. So they're going to protect themselves from the other slimy bitches. And it is

very easy to turn on each other. Yes. It's very natural human nature. What you're describing is

insurance against the other slimy bitches because they know that they're all backstabbing

fucking sad. When I started my Air Force career, I went to purgatory and purgatory for a pilot

in the United States Air Force is called you're going to be called a fake and a fake is what we call

a first assignment instructor pilot. You're not going on to your operational combat weapon system

quite yet my friend. You'll be staying here for three more years because you're going to instruct

students because you are cursed with graduating the top third of your class but not number one or

number two to get the fighter. So our motto in that hyper competitive environment where we measured

each other down to how do your students grade books look. The motto was it's not enough that I

succeed but you must also fail. And when we start talking about those amoral people that you're

talking about, now I want you to think about the middle setup here in the United States because

this is the city of London's management structure. Not the senior managers like Soros and Obama

and the Clintons but the middle managers, the Podesta's, the Valerie Jarrett's, the Brennan's.

I think that's that's the class of folks that are in between the dog and the fire hydrant and

here's why because from up on high they represent an incredible amount of risk because they have an

incredible amount of knowledge. So I think that there's a great assassination risk for those folks

but down below now they're squeezed on the other side because the cubicle dwellers will be only too

happy to go, yeah, John Brennan told me to do this. Oh no, Podesta told me to do that.

No, Samantha Power said this is where the billions in those NGO dollars were going to go.

And so it's that middle tier that gets squeezed on both ends. Some of them will be

suicide with three bullets to the back of their heads. Some of them will incur probably witness

protection because the cubicle dwellers are going after them and that's how they get them.

Here's my only concern because this stuff sounds so great. It's how the strategy of doing this

is going to be. So if you're going to take it through the DOJ and you're going to take it through

the courts and you're going to get it done that way or military courts under normal court martial

rules, then we won't get this work done until about 2137 that year. If actually probably mid 2137,

if I'm being more precise, sorry. But if I, so the only thing that I would say from a strategy

standpoint is we have to make the case. And I mean we too, the kids in alternative media land

podcasts land and all of that. There is a argument that needs to be made for

reviewing both sides of the non-existent aisle in DC and declaring the government is incapacitated

and then therefore under constitutional rules you're going to have to go to some form of martial law,

some form of tribunal because the illegality is too widespread. It's too much and we have an

incapacitated government. And personally my own opinion is I do believe we have an incapacitated

government. I don't know how to fix it. We have a criminal government, a government full of

criminals. Look, but I've always had a sneaking suspicion only because I know a couple of the

people that were involved in that there may be quite a bit of this that has gone on without our

knowledge. And let me give you an example. In 2019 in the country of Italy,

they're obviously I pay attention to the mafia and the gladiow operators in Italy specifically

because that's kind of the depth of material. So they had an entire mafia family that was

intimately involved in gladiow during its time which is some elements of existing today inside

of Italy and primarily mafia. There was an entire mafia family that was involved in all of this

and unbeknownst to the citizens of Italy because the history of anybody investigating this in Italy

to your point was they're assassinated. So if you're a prosecutor, you're going to get killed.

If you're a judge, you're going to get killed. If you're a reporter reporting on it, you're

going to get killed. So what the government did was they created this entire cell of prosecutors,

judge, jury people, the whole nine yards. They spent about two years building out this huge

facility. Some reports said it was underground. I can't confirm that. But they had all of the trials

and no one knew it existed until the end. They spent about 48 hours throughout the entire

sector of Italy where this mafia family was and they launched almost a thousand people to go out

and apprehend these people and within 48 hours, they were all taken down. They were taken to this

facility. They had their trials and it was not until the end of all of this that it was ever

reported that it happened. See, I learned stuff like this. It would be a cold war technology or

precedence like that. And then I'm always like, I was trying to remain grounded and then I find

something factual like that. And I'm like, no, I'm not crazy enough. I try to. I'm like, I

want to stop being that guy. And then you know, you read about anti-grividic propulsion in the

50s and you're like, Walker, but like, that's what that's insane. Yeah. And so to couple that,

you know, that all of those reports about them expanding Gitmo, they're all true. You can see that.

That was the first thing I was going to say is like, yeah. So I don't know what those the

relationship to those two things are. But I could see and I could make an argument that they're

directly related. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Catherine here, I just

done some really great work going down to Gitmo to kind of document the expansion and what's going on

down there. And we don't know that there's not but things going on or that things. We don't. We

absolutely don't. Yeah. But I'll tell you what between here and July 15th, which I kind of call

the informal cutoff point going into the midterms, major, major, major, major shits got to go down.

Major stuff astonishing things have to happen. Otherwise, you're just going to have a status quo.

If the midterms were today, I think you'll have a very complicit John Thune and complicit speaker

Johnson that will gladly turn over power to the Dems. Also, they can get rid of Trump by impeachment

conviction this time next year. And we're going to be in a whole new place, not a good one. I think

what was it? Mel Gibson played that guy in Mad Max. What was that character's name? But anyway,

that's a kind of environment we get if we don't win on this hill. So the good news is we have no

choice. We've got to win. But but but I think it's good for us out here in in our spaces to be good

ankle biters and not accept any strategy lock stock and barrel. And if it's worthy of criticism,

then it gets the criticism. People who have been very busy on social to tell me how I should think

about a variety of things like Israel, air quotes, the plan, whatever the flavor of the day is.

I'm like, no, Boston strikes. If I think there's a problem, I'm probably going to you're probably

going to hear my voice because we all bought tickets on this flight. Which is just in general,

I should go about your life in general is like, don't ever, don't ever take anything. It's that

therefore it's good. Well, I didn't leave one call to get in another. Yeah, right? Well,

it's Tim Dylan says looking through the meeting, but he's genius, looking through the world,

looking at the world through the lens of Democrat or probably in left and right. What it really is,

it's the shirking of the burden of independent thought. It takes away that because it takes a

little effort. Yeah. Well, you know, you got to look at it and go and not just intellectually,

you got to look at it and examine things. It's also egotistically, you have to go. That's the

guy I've been defending you're getting on to something extremely important. Everybody is led to go

get into a team. What team do you want to be on the dams? You want to be on the Republicans?

Well, it's the right move. It's it's it's in our DNA to it's that if you're trying to control,

that's exactly good. Here and here and very red, by the way, that's folklore. In very red,

Northern Idaho. And that's folklore. That's complete mythology. In very red, Northern Idaho,

I had a person come up to me in a restaurant and they said, you know, I listened to you blaying

on the air. You're not a very good Republican. And I I said that is one that is one of the highest

compliments I could be paying. And I I so appreciate you. I'm actually not a Republican. I'm an American.

No, it's tough. I was tough. Yeah. And they're like, you know, yeah, you're how come you're

how come you're taking? I'm like, I'm not I'm Tommy. I'm not a Republican. I like most of your

shows, but I'm like, I'm like, how could you like all of my show? I've done 2,000 episodes.

One person likes all my shows. And it's my mom. Yeah. That's one wasn't. Yeah. Well,

you know, I really didn't like this guy. I'm like, dude, I've done thousands of these. And it's

but yeah, no, it's it's it's you have to look at it and examine it as you will. And that's

where I come back to when I'm looking at and examining this. Yes, it happens to be something I

like, but it's also something I believe I'm like, yeah, it's not nothing. It's not nothing's

happening. Things are happening faster and faster and faster, which is why I'm optimistic for

if it's going to happen, if things are going to change, it's it's the the kindling is it's going,

it's sparking the the wood is dry. The flames are looking at I'm I'm I'm I'm hopeful.

That's the reason why I don't believe most people on in common

history is taught about Hagle. And the importance of understanding the creation of a

polar opposite in order to control people. So you have to have a left and a right if you really

want to have friction. And that's how they siop people. That's how they control people. You put

them in opposing camps and then you make them fight. It's like, you know, dog fights or the

rooster fights. It's that medieval. That's the mentality. And they research they've spent

probably the last hundred years perfecting this technique. And if you choose not to be an either one

of those camps, you are the only one your independent thought that can look at that one and that

one and be objective. And that's why they do not want you in that middle.

How dare you critically think? How dare you?

Correct. It takes way more effort.

To tie it back into two current events is could we go back to what I believe you're saying

before we start recording about we say about FARC kernel? Well, and I think this is an

interesting conversation that Blaine and I were having for people like me who've done really

deep research into these geographical locations. There are things that are going to happen as we

move down this road where you will typically have to roll your eyes, right? So one of the things that

I discovered because I had several of my friends as a matter of fact, one of the guys I went to

Air War College with was a special ops helicopter pilot. And another guy, an army guy in our same

class was an army helicopter pilot. He went on to be the brigade commander or whatever it is

at Fort Rucker. And we had lots of, because we were going to be at NAMM, we had lots of conversations

about special ops and different engagements and where they deployed and stuff like that. And

he's the one that got me interested in the operations in Columbia flying, you know, what he thought

was counter narcotics. But he was one of the first ones that clued me in that the FARC and the

Colombian government, that's kind of one of these two opposing camps. So the FARC's really

were, and I'm just going to kind of talk about this generically, was the resistance forces in

Columbia, right? So Columbia has taken over as an arco state. The CIA's embedded everywhere in my

sixes there, the sods there, selling them glial weapons. We're training them originally at the

school of America's and then the hemispheric school. They have 20,000 excess paramilitary people

in Columbia that goes around the world and does these glatigo operations. That's why the

preponderance of foreigners in Ukraine today are Colombians. And you can tell that by the death list.

That's right. So I came to realize that we were not funding in plan Columbia and anti narcotics

operation. We were actually funding the narcotic operation. And you have to have a quote-unquote

resistance group not that they're controlled by the CIA. But in order to justify the amount of

weapons that we were bringing into Columbia, if you don't have a resistance to try to kill,

then you have no justification for bringing those weapons in. And that's what the FARC was.

The FARC didn't produce cocaine. There were people in the FARC that grew coca plants, but that

is an indigenous thing to do. They make tea out of it and all kinds of other stuff. What they did

was tax because the ground that they monopolized or controlled was a transit point. So if the narcotics

was going out of Columbia by land, they had to pay taxes to the FARC. That's how they raised

money for their own weapons. And so they're a small rebellious force. But when they were preparing

for plan Columbia and this massive hundreds of millions of dollars pouring into Columbia,

what they did was they had one of their rudimentary cocaine manufacturing labs that they staged

an attack on and then littered FARC uniforms around in the aftermath of it, took pictures of it

and said, oh, look, we took out a FARC lab. And that was kind of like the, oh my god, we need all

the funding. We can do this and blah, blah, blah. And the entire thing was staged. So today,

or a couple of days ago, when we took out that Ecuadorian lab, that was a FARC facility,

according to the local press. You can go on the index and get translated local press releases.

And of course, I just kind of sat back in my chair and go, not this again.

Whose intelligence are we using? However, Blaine made a very good point and I'll let you go.

So the thing here is you got to look at all the layers of itches that get scratched out of just

this one example that the colonel's talking about. And that is, look at, look at it at the top,

city of London. What are they managing? They got a whole damn other opium war because these people

don't ever come up with innovative new creative ideas. They just recycle the old bullshit.

And they got a whole new damn new opium war for what? To bring the United States to heal.

It's about control. And then you make a few quid on the side. Okay, that's there. Now, come on

down to the DC level. We got business development going on. This is the greatest thing ever.

You've got this terror group called the FARC. And we've got drugs down in Colombia. We're going to

have to put OD 18s down there and supply them and do fit. And we're going to have to do all kinds of

stuff. But what does that really mean? It means billions upon billions upon billions of dollars.

Nobody saying anything else. And in DC to counter that stuff, nobody even asking the question,

how dare you say anything that gets in the way of our counter terror efforts or fit. And then

you all these industrial complexes, like the intelligence complex, all of these security firms,

the big six defense contractors, all orient products to this. They get on the funding line

for what we call the FIDE app. So it's basically institutional money. And then it's money forever.

And we're always going to be fighting in these little jungles forever. And we'll never come out of

them. And then you can think tanks where these pompous asses like Max boot right about this

shit, glorifying these little wars down there and these little stupid ass jungles. And it's

all an ecosystem to support the other ecosystem. Now here's what I never understood because I've done

one tour in a Pentagon, actually two tours in the Pentagon, two tours in the combat and commands.

But in the combat commands, I served at Yukon twice and then sent come on a on a on a detailed,

I was detailed out to them. When I look at South America, when I look at the central command,

they're the Middle Eastern AOR or what we had in Europe. So now let's think about those. You got

Iran. You've got in our in our AOR we had Ukraine and you've got a Columbia to some extent Mexico

Ecuador and Nicaragua. But you've got what you've got down in South America. What I did not

understand and what they are so careful to do is the intelligence is all cooked. Everything we're

looking at in the combat and commands reinforces the behaviors and the belief system that they

want you to have. So literally when I used to sit down in briefings on Ukraine, it's not even just

the lies. They don't start with once upon a time. It's the lies by omission. It's the lies by omission.

It's the, yeah, listen, militarily, we don't need to get into the politics of the mind on revolution.

Let's just move into this other thing here and we got little green men problems. So let's just

address that. In other words, it's they put their it's calculated. It's elegant. They're so good at

it that people very intelligent people right on up to the four star level are embroiled in beliefs

that aren't reality. Aren't reality. It took me Benghazi plus going into retirement and actually

thinking about it for a couple of years before I could go, oh, wow. Hey, wait a minute.

And I I still have some of these little epiphanies from back in my career where I'm like, oh, no,

that was that was something very different. But, but it's that manipulation and then what you do

is you create these talking head generals like myself who get out there and they say stuff and

you're like, that's crazy talk. Why are you saying that talk? I just heard a three star general

on TV talk about why a Ukraine was winning this war. And I was like, I actually think you believe

that shit. Where are you getting this stuff from? It's a it's an entire machine ecosystem and they

spend a lot of time in our combat and commands because I will tell you from, you know, the person

hitting the brew button with two stripes on their shoulder all the way up to four star general

by and large. Most of these people are extremely honest high integrity love their country patriotic

people. They're just being they're in an echo chamber being completely duped.

Truth's marinated. I yeah, it'd be hard to put a number on the difference between the two.

One of the most astounding things that I ran across in doing all of this research is how

often the CIA actually dress up dress up like military. Oh, yes. I knew the OSI did that. I mean,

being a personnel officer when we had an OSI team come into our base for an investigation.

You generally knew who they were. But it was not obvious. And it became obvious to me looking at

people's personnel records. But I was shocked. I just finished doing some research for the guys that

were doing as a matter of fact, I'm I've got two more podcasts to do. The creation of the YouTube

program under the CIA while there was a parallel one slightly delayed for the the air force and

that the arc wings that were set up overseas to fly to you two out of had CIA integrated into the

wing wearing a military uniform. Yeah, that and again, that's a slippery slope. And I think we

saw that in Afghanistan in a really bad way because you had and this led up to the fall of Kabul

where untold amounts of really, really bad people got into our country. But you know, I had a case

officer tell me one time and he was wearing military garb down range and he he was telling me

well, I've got, you know, we're we're totally integrated. I've got special ops training. And I

said, excuse me, special ops training, really. Tell me more about this special ops training that

you've got case officer. And he said, well, yeah, no, I've trained with the seals and the regiment

and all these guys. And I said, uh-huh. So some snake eater took you out in the deserts of near

Bagram and taught you how to shoot a carbine and you've got special ops training. And where I'm

going with this is not all of them, not all of them. I'm not, I'm not going to impune everybody

anywhere. It's never that way. But I can't tell you how many egos and how much hubris organizational

hubris I would run into. We are the panopticon. We know all you don't know anything. The military

are just good elements of service provision that we get. And and that's where it's at. And

and here's the problem. Even at that level, they don't even understand they're being manipulated.

That they're in a in a marinated vat of lies and cooked bullshit. That they have a belief system

that they think is completely real. And it is also completely untrue. So what I have observed in

all of this research is the fundamental creation of back in 1947 of all of this apparatus is that

the CIA is number one. And the really only function they see the department of defense at the time

was to support them. Period. Yeah. And they take that into operational because here's what I think

the problem is the US military thought their role in Afghanistan was to defeat the bad guys.

That's not what the role was for the actual mission that the CIA was. The bad guys was in the way

of their opium fields. IE the Taliban. So we're going to have the military come in because there's

too many of them for us to take them all out. So your supporting role is to take out the Taliban

so we can get our opium fields back. That's right. And the military thinks they're in there

where the CIA is supporting them, beating them intelligence. And that's not the way it is at all.

I know. They are there. And I didn't know that at the time. I know. Neither did I. And you understand

that. Yeah. 1947, whether it was Korea, we weren't there to actually fight communism. We were there

to provide another front into China for Shanghai Shaq. Same thing with Vietnam and the opium. And you

just go conflict after conflict after conflict. And the military, the military has a completely

different version of the situation on the ground while they're engaged. And they they have no

inkling of the fact that it is in many cases, in all the cases I've looked into. We're there to

to do the CIA mission. We just think it's our mission. When I was the wing commander at our base

in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, this is again one of my moments much, much later on down the road where I

went, no fricking way. Yeah. I was there at that critical time. I am there to provide the logistics

for most of the new surge into Afghanistan, bacon beans and bullets to the war, get the troops out

of there, fly a third of the air of fueling missions, double, triple the capacity of the wing.

And then we have a violent bloody revolution, which I could see coming. But what I never

appreciated or understood was that it wasn't an organic revolution at all, that it was completely

orchestrated. And the people that orchestrated this were lying to my face once a week in the

damn embassy when I would attend meetings. So it must have been funny around the water cooler

about a Patsy Colonel Holt, who doesn't really understand the whole situation. And at the same

time, I'm saving their families and their lives from real no shit bullets that are flying all

over Bishkek. And my base, as I evacuate them and save a bunch of Peace Corps kids, because

that is a real absolute PK of one. Probability a kill of one if you eat that precious metal

called lead. And it was all, it was all just, it all just went. And it wasn't until many more

years later, when we started looking at, I looked at some of your work on Gladio, I looked at

some of these color revolutions. And it really kind of lock in with me when I watched what happened

in Ukraine. And I'm like, no, Rick and way. Alpha to it is, is it for them to stage a revolution

while you're the logistical support that you think you're there for Afghanistan

and provides that capability for them to do operation B. Yeah. Well, Bill Burns was the regional

ambassador of that area at the time, who would go on to be the CIA boss, imagining that. And

happens every time. Yeah. And it's just months right after this. And so I do know for a fact,

because I mean, I worked for General Petraeus. And I know for a fact, state department had a

royal case of the ass with a DOD and wanted that base out of Central Asia. They didn't want to

apply the resources to Central Asia. Didn't understand the strategic value of it. They wanted it

gone. So and what again, now let's get back to the drugs. What got stopped because Bishkek and

Manas were there in Central Asia. What got stopped was all those supply chains on Narco Terra.

And the Narco Terra supply chains were going into China and destabilize them and going into Russia,

which the CIA really loved. Yes. So I'm in the way. Yes.

Thought it was important to go tell me I was in the way. In fact, my orders were losing the base

in Bishkek. We need it for this surge. You're going to go there, renegotiate the whole thing,

hold the ground. And they got mad at me because I was successful. I went and learned Kurgas.

I went ignored the government. Overachieber. I know. I got into the civil society. I went

propped up women's programs. And the ambassador, I never understood it. She was literally getting

more and more pissed off with my existence every damn month I was there. And I could be because you

you become a vital threat. You are absolutely intelligent. And you are likely to see their

undermining more so than anybody else. I should have learned my lesson at the country team meeting

when my boss showed up and asked everybody at the country team how they're supporting my wing.

And the USAID director for the country said we have zero reason to be working with Blaine or

Colonel Holt in any of his endeavors here. There is no touch point between USAID and the US military.

Even though I was delivering way more real humanitarian aid in that country than that woman

could have ever have dreamed of. And the other part was she had a bunch of water projects in the

southern part of the country where the real terrorists were that it all fell. And I said hey,

I got a whole civil engineering group. I'll get down there with some humvees and we'll fix that

shit right now. I'll get your stuff up and running. Thinking I'm going to get a nice pat on the

head and a gold star. This is going to be great. They looked at me like I had just

burned the building down. Yes. All right. So you just said that USAID was not

supplying humanitarian because that's not their job. Their job is. I know what they were doing now.

Oh, I okay. And the aid going down for those dams were going down to the training camps to train

the terrorists not to do the water thing. And if you go down there and you're going to actually

give them water. Yes. Dangerous. Yes. And now I'm so blessed and happy that when I was in doing my

military fellowship at the CFR that I did not finish writing my book, which I now am reexamining

how that book is going to end up. It's called hard truths on soft power, airmen on the ground.

It's with the epiphanies that I have had over the last eight years. It's going to be a different book

than the nice cotton candy one that Colonel Holt would have written in New York City and finished.

And so that's so important what you just said because we in the military have such a special

place both historically and intellectually as Americans, right? We are held to a standard

that is much different than the general population. And by keeping you ignorant in military duties

and giving you all of this world experience, you come home and you write a book that

is blissfully ignorant of the world. But it's significantly credible because you lived it. Yes.

But you were in things you had no context of whatsoever. And now you're looking around the

world and you're going son of a bitch. They lied to me here. I was bamboozled.

Yes. And and that's that is why they don't want any of this information out.

But Roxanne, suppose I had published it, then I've impugned my own credibility. That's one.

And two, the book can be used against me as a a record of history. And well, this is an important

book that chronicled the whole thing. And this is the way it really happened. Now let's go

back because one of the friends I made that year I was in New York was George Kenan's daughter,

Grace Warnocky Kenan. And amazing woman. I adored her. And what she told me because I never

forgot the guy John somebody wrote the he's a professor Princeton, I think he wrote he had just

written that year or the year after a biography about George Kenan. And Grace had told me she just

said, I don't have complimentary things to say about this. Will you be with me at the National

World War College when they unveiled this thing? And he talks about it. The reason is it's the same setup.

Now I'm no Kenan and nothing I was ever going to write was going to rival the long telegram

or had such consequence. But Ambassador Kenan had no intent to embark on the strategy in the

Cold War that resembled what would be bastardized of his long telegram. They bastardized the whole

thing. They knits Paul Knits and the rest of the little acolytes for Alan Dulles. They wrote

an SC68 which was trying to codify the response to what Kenan was saying we need to do to engage

Russia. And so Kenan didn't get to rewrite anything. And he had always thought that, well they

hijacked me. They hijacked everything I said. It wasn't it doesn't what I meant. And so I wonder if

I was to walk back through it. How many how many generals ambassadors scholars have written

something that they thought was their truth at the time. They massively researched it.

Only to find out much later on that all I wrote was a pack of lies. And it was all intentional.

And I was run down a garden path. And now if I come out against it, I screwed up my own credibility

and the like. And so it's it's a very interesting formula on this fifth generation warfare battlefield.

So I got mixed opinions of Kenan. I agree with everything that you just said, but he appears

so many places in gladio in the government. With full knowledge of this fake anti-communist

campaign and the creation of this strategy of tension. I know where you're going.

gladio. Yeah. And and that's kind of what I've come to appreciate is many of these people

there has been a conscious effort to pick pieces of their career out and highlight them when

their life is so much more nuanced. And that was kind of, you know, you and I's first thing about

Eisenhower. Yeah. We're taught to love Eisenhower. You know, he warned us of the military

industrial complex. Sure. He was a, you know, let's tactical news. I'm fine with that kind of

philosophy. The cultivation of those military like La May and all of them. And also his extensive

use of assassinations. Right. You know, I was just blown away. I'm like, who police this guy?

That's not so you're going to a place where especially with Kenan. Yeah. It can be a couple of

there's a couple of things here. The thing that we don't get to see through the prism of history.

But we know it's present and go back to the Bronfman's and Myron Lansky.

Is that when there's a very public figure with a lot of power and influence and credibility

that's not playing ball, there are several different tools to get them on sides. That's one.

Yeah. Two. In the case of a Kenan, I can't help but wonder and I don't know. I don't know what

the answer is. I can't help but wonder that when you've drawn a line in the sand and people

bastardize your work, that the next step, if you're not in some form or fashion continuing down the

path, that your credibility, your life's work, your legacy and your relevancy just flitter away.

Meaning did they put a big cage around him and say, well, you can become the disgraced

ambassador who tried to counter what we knew to be right and good about countering the communist

menace and the Russians or you can have a very nice path that ends up with you being fondly

remembered. What I do remember about if you look at a lot of the biographies in World War 2,

especially that particular period of time, I would say end of World War I going into World War 2.

So let's go from any Rick and backer to Clare Chanel. We'll bracket it by Herman.

The...

Give me started on Clare Chanel. Go ahead.

Oh, I want to have that talk with you. We're going to do a podcast just on that.

So a lot of those people in that period of time, their legacy, their credibility and how they would

be remembered historically so much more important as a value, a human value than I think even today

in the news environment that we live in today. I would say that because we didn't have the technology

we had, we didn't... It was really these universities, think tanks, the books written of the time

that people were very cautious, I guess, about how they would end up. And some of those big warning

signs is, look what happened to Curtis Lemay. Curtis Lemay had a bad day in Congress. And I mean,

a seriously bad day in Congress. Well, Kurt, you're not in charge of the nuclear football and no,

we don't really want you launching nuclear weapons in anybody, so... You wanted to launch a nuclear

weapon at free body. Yeah, I'm aware. I'm aware. In fact, as an, look, as an heirloaf pilot, we

have to have our beloved General Tunner pull his ass right out of the Ramstein Kambia post to go,

no, no, listen, hold up. You don't know shit about delivery. The goods, so we'll take over for

me. The stock, I mean, I... He wanted to have Gail Halverson court martial. Oh my God.

Yeah. Yeah. Gail Halverson saved us. Yeah, I know. Save the relationship. Yep. So we're going

to end Cuba. Yeah. And anyway, who knows? Mafia guns, personal vanity, it's hard. I'll tell you

what is compelling to me, sitting down with the man's daughter and listening to her for an hour

and a half over lunch, that actually talks to me quite well. Yeah. Yeah.

Gerslom is fucking hilarious. I mean, you agree with him, disagree with him. He just has

character. He's like, well, he nearly ended the human race. Yeah, I mean, listen, it was

wrong. I mean, there's a great chunk out of it. There's a good. Yeah. And then he got 25,000 killed

in the skies over Germany because daylight bombing. And he doesn't, I mean, I could go on and on

and on about the bomber Mafia that spawned our damn Air Force from half Arnold on. And I can tell

you, I'm just like, wow, wow. There's a great quote from them though. He's on a flight line of

I think B 36's and they're all gassing up and there's fuel all over the ground and he's smoking

his cigar. Yeah. And everyone's looking at him because he's, there's just like an inch of fuel

on the ground and all these B 36's lined up and they're like some, or some young guy goes,

he got to put out that cigar. If an member falls, we're going to lose half our bomber fleet.

And he looked up and down and said the planes wouldn't dare light on fire. And I just think that's

such a great quote. He, I mean, like him, hate him, whatever. I mean, I strive for that kind of

confidence and, and delusional belief in myself. It's not about like or hate. It's about how does

that shit go in this military service? Yeah. And, and, and you just said, and listen, we never

stopped it. We never stopped it. He had incarnates that went right on through Air Force history.

Every, I explained what a faith is. I was a T 38 instructor pilot. Love my little white rocket.

Um, but there wasn't a damn fake, uh, when General Ashie was in command of air training command

that didn't want to go down and put something in his mailbox that was going to blow apart half

the damn base. That's how honor is he made life for us. And, isn't it general Ashie the curb guy?

The curb guy? Yeah. He, he demanded. There'd be curbs. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

That was one of his things. Yes. Or Randolph. I had a colonel is a full bird colonel. He told me this

as I was, I was a captain, baby kid. No, I was still first lieutenant. And he came up from Randolph

because the way he treated his staff was the till of the hunt. And, and, and Ashie the Aggie,

he, he, uh, so, so this colonel came up and, uh, I have flown several times with him. And

the colonel comes up and he's sitting around with us having a scotch at the, uh, O club.

And he, we said, so, sir, how is it getting along with General Ashie? And this man said,

you know, I, I don't want to hear one afternoon that on the highway outside the base gate

that General Ashie in his little K car command vehicle had a fender bender and the general got injured.

I don't want to hear that. We're like, okay. And then he goes, I want to hear that an 18-wheeler

coming in the opposite direction came across the median at 110 miles an hour,

and hit that fucker's car so hard that they found one of his eyeballs in Mexico.

That's what, that's what I want to hear. And we're like, oh, what worked for that guy?

Yeah, he was a nightmare. Anyway, so the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,

LeMay DNA strain in our Air Force does follow through. I could name seven or eight other, uh,

general officers that you're like, how did they make it to Captain let alone this vaulted rank?

And then they were above the law, above the rules, above everything. Yes, of course,

I'm sleeping with my eight now. Let's move along.

Um, uh, to, to, to kind of bring it to a close is

because things are moving so quickly and it's more and more is happening and it's less delusional

fantasies, uh, and I'm always cautious to do this about, about predictions, but

or what we've been saying, what do you guys see coming in the, in the coming weeks or months,

regarding I, I ran or Lloyds of London or, or any, what is the next shoot at the next foot to drop?

I, I have no idea. I think the finance piece of this is going to be critical, um, to Blaine's point

early on. Um, we're going to see some really desperate things happen. Um, the, the, the,

curtailing of the cartel stream, these financial, um, private equities are crashing, um,

insurance is a big part of the financing of everything, um, because without that, um,

capability, uh, or their, you know, acquiescent, too, we're going to cut off.

Thinking they're going to have some negative effect on Trump, um, at Lloyds is, um, kind of,

you know, it's going to spite themselves, not Trump. So I, I don't have any specific, um,

but the, I think we pay attention to, just to Blaine's point, the second and third order effects

of the operations that are already ongoing, um, because the, to me, the biggest piece of this

right now is the financial piece, because we are crippling China right now, um, by some of these,

um, uh, secondary effects of Venezuela and Iran.

Yeah, I think, I think the key theme for the rest of the year is acts of desperation.

And acts of desperation are extremely dangerous. And so that could be on the financial side,

maybe we're, we fail an economy, a global economy intentionally by, you know, Lloyds

and London can do a lot more damage. They can wipe out supply chains. There's no question

that they can do that. So, um, there's, there's, there's that. The bond markets already would

indicate to you that we're in, in a, in on an eve of a very interesting place. I know Scott

percent is doing everything he can to counter that so far has been quite successful.

But then desperation can also mean, um, a lot of dead people. And what I mean by that is you,

you've got Orban and Hungary today, this morning, sounding the warning horn on Europe actually

wanting a major war as bad as it possibly can and wants to force troops into Ukraine to,

to get it all going. Um, they have been at this. The fire blankets by President Trump and team

have been applied. They put a tourniquet almost everywhere in the world to deny them this.

But it's, it's, it's a very telling moment that the camouflage about who the real bad guys are,

they're throwing it off to the side and they don't really give a rat's ass whether you see them or

not. And when they do that, that's when they become at their most amd dangerous. And so what I would

say is here at home, domestic terrorism, keep your head on a swivel, uh, things that don't make

sense require your immediate examination. And, um, and in, in this school, in the, in the globe

right now, we have to look at flashpoints, uh, just about every damn place. And then don't forget

that the swamp, uh, can do bad, bad things any damn time and twice on Sunday. And, um, and, and,

and if you do see us go into some massive state of accountability, oh, that desperate enemy is

going to be a cornered honey badger. It's going to be, it'll get even more interesting. So, so

yeah, these are the, you know, get your popcorn out, stay safe, stay strapped and uh, make sure you

make sure you got a lot of food at home, some power generation and uh, take care of your neighbors

and have a relationship with your creator. Oh, he's a cheery episode. Oh, he's, I like these

episodes. They bring, there's, there's like a nice X just the entire conversation is very soothing

and I never leave here wanting to jump off a building. Um, so we'll wrap this up. Uh, I don't

know where Steve Maria is. He's probably doing classified research and I ran or something. I've

no idea. He's in Columbia. I heard it. Yeah. He's the, he's the new, he's the new Ayatollah.

Ayatollah. I know. I think he's ready for president in Columbia. Oh, Godspeed, Steve. Um,

we'll wrap this up. Guys, thank you both for time out of your Sunday, of course. And most

importantly, what you said in closing in all seriousness, guys, relationship with God. Seriously,

it just, even if it's 30 seconds or per day, just making attempt, he will help you. He always does

and you just have to try. And I think that that's the genuinely, the most important point is

get good with, get good with God and it's you'll walk the middle path. So,

Amen. Amen. We'll wrap this up for now. General Colonel, thank you so much. I'll text

us to you guys when it's up and um, look forward to the next one. Thank you guys. Thank you.

Guys, thank you for watching.