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Loomy Monday, get used to this, Dave Moriel be on with us as usual in 330, but my phone

tells me it goes all the way to next weekend.

So this is going to kind of suck a little bit to show me suck a little bit today.

We're a couple of men down.

We have Wheeler who's still in Chicago, although I think he's done all the stuff to get his

daughter moved and we're talking over the weekend and it sounded terrible.

I love great stories tomorrow.

If you recall, Andrew was sick on Friday.

He's back.

He's here.

Feel a little bit better, but still, you know, not great.

And then rage texted me this morning and she'd been sick all weekend.

And I am going to spring break next week with Michael Kelly.

And I was afraid that I would get sick this week and have to miss time because I'm

not missing the spring training trip next week.

So we asked Michael to come in and he's here from one to two.

Then he has a meeting.

He's coming back three to five.

And while he's gone Brad is coming in.

Yes.

They offered me him and Elam and I'm like, oh, my God.

So thanks for coming in.

I appreciate it.

Happy to do it.

I don't know that I've got the aesthetic pleasurable viewing that you get with Rachel, but I'll do

my best.

And no one can see either one of you because we have no stream today.

And that's because that's a Rachel thing.

Oh, she handles these.

She handles the stream.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's all new and I could figure out how to do it, but it would take a long time and it

would make probably a bunch of noise.

And you're sick.

I'm sick.

Right.

And I would just be bumbling through trying to figure that out over here.

You don't, you don't look sick.

You look like you got it together.

That's the nicest thing we've been game of thumbs up.

That is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.

So wheels was like traversing the world, right?

Wasn't it going to like the Carolinas or something?

He flew to North Carolina, packed up a whole apartment by himself and then drove the truck

all the way from North Carolina to Chicago.

Through the mountains.

And he is, I think, about to get on an airplane in Chicago to fly back here.

Yeah.

Yeah, which is like a one hour flight, I think.

So I shouldn't be too much trouble.

I've never driven through the smokey mountains.

I have a few times.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a butt clincher.

Is it?

Yeah.

It's not like going 70 out west.

A little bit.

Yeah.

It's probably no worse than that.

Right.

Yeah.

What's so bad about it?

Oh, I mean, I, I love the mountains.

I've never done anything.

I would, I love Colorado.

I love the mountains.

I just don't love driving through them.

And yeah, it's just, you know, twisty and turning and up and down and that kind of stuff.

So, so we all woke up on Saturday to see that we're at war with Iran.

I was still hoping against hope that they would find a diplomatic solution.

I'm not sure exactly why they're not really saying why they decided to go now.

It could be as simple and I'm just spitballing, but I know that the Ayatollah and his people,

which kind of loosely relates to the president and his cabinet, were foolishly having a meeting

all together.

That seems like a dumb thing to do.

And so we knew that through our intelligence and we hit them in the first 30 seconds and

now they're all gone.

Ahmed Dinajad, who is my generation guy, and I have a bit of history with this.

So I'm 61 in 1979 when the, the revolutionaries took over the embassy.

I was, well, I've been 15 years old and two of my best friends, homie, Navid, were

Iranian exchange students and they took a ton of crap and I took a ton of crap for

being their friend.

Right.

So just walking through the hallways and like ninth grade and people, you know, Yellen

Adjian stuff.

So I, I knew back then, like, oh, and I experienced it more than a 15 year old should.

And then later in life, within the last 20 years or so, became good friends with Rocky

Sikman, who was a hostage for 444 days.

As long as I could live to be 150 and one of the top five experiences I've ever had was

Rocky was down in Mark Bulger's basement, me and Mark and Rocky and a couple other guys.

And we asked him to tell a story.

And he, I bet he talked straight without interruption for two hours.

Wow.

And just told us everything.

And a lot of like really disturbing details and scary stuff.

And he thought Ahmed Dinajad was one of his captors.

And we asked Rocky to be on today, but he said he'd need some time.

So he's not giving interviews right now, which is understandable.

It has to be very emotional for him.

Do you remember how many days he was 444 44?

He was 444.

No.

No.

No.

Rocky was one of two US Marines and he was 22 years old, who were standing guard.

And he said that he was in this hallway and they broke in.

And the revolutionaries were armed and they had women in front of them.

And as you know, she and he said that he had his shotgun trained on them as did his compatriot.

And they were on the phone with the White House.

And the White House told them to stand down.

We will handle this diplomatically.

And Rocky said this many times on the show, one of the most amazing things I've ever heard.

He said, had I pulled the trigger, it would have started all of this.

And maybe we don't have 9, 11 and maybe we don't have this war on terror for 30 years.

And he said, if I could go back, because he has a beautiful family, beautiful wife and

know them all really well, he said, if I could go back to be a 22 year old kid, I would

pull that trigger.

Wow.

Even if it meant I died that day, just so we didn't have everything that happened.

Wow.

Dave, how long did it, did he go back into working again or when he was released?

I was a little too young.

I remember obviously the day that Ronald Reagan got sworn in.

He got released.

But did he go back to work or what, what happened?

I don't know what he did right away.

I know eventually he went to work at Anheuser Bush and had a great career there.

And the last 20 years or so, he was running all the military sales, which was perfect for

him.

And he's very involved with Folds Vonner and lots of other, you know, especially Marine

Corps focused veterans affairs and yeah, just the greatest guy in the world, just such a

good dude.

Yeah, his stories were just amazing, right?

Just amazing.

They would, they would show them videos of people being lined up against this very specific

looking wall and then they would shoot them in the head.

And then they would grab these guys, take them to that wall, strip them down, turn them

around, point the gun at their heads and click it and just psychological warfare.

And Rock said one time on the show that eventually he just turned around, grabbed the rifle, stuck

it in his face and said, just do it.

And that's the last time they did that.

Wow.

That crazy.

Superhuman is what that is.

And then they, they screwed with them one last time.

They got them on the plane and the planes going and then they had to shut the plane off.

Just to screw with them one last time and waiting until Jimmy Carter was no longer the

president.

Wow.

Yeah.

Unbelievable.

So, yeah, I mean, I have complicated feelings about it.

I'm no expert on warfare.

As you know, I'm not a big fan of the administration.

I don't trust Hegseth, but they are, you know, the people who run around are very bad

people and have killed thousands at least, maybe more Americans and people abroad and, you

know, Hezbollah and Hamas and all of these proxies, if, if, by doing this, we could at

least seriously stunt terrorism for 10 or 15 years.

That would be great.

The things I'm a bit uncomfortable with is that no one's even pretending to have a

plan.

Uh, Lindsey Graham was on, uh, meet the press yesterday, you know, Lindsey gets pissy,

right.

And he got really wound up when Chris, Kristen Walker kept asking, well, what's the plan?

And he would say, that's not our problem.

Uh, we're not choosing who takes go over the Iranian people will choose who take over.

And okay, I, I, I, okay, I get it.

It shouldn't you have some idea, right, who you want to, who you could, you know, put

in there.

Um, so yeah.

And what happened to the break it you own at doctrine, I mean, they're just saying that's

not true.

Well, they're putting a big onus on a bunch of folks out in the streets saying that it's

on you now to turn this over, uh, to your government.

I mean, at the end of the day, uh, there are still military capabilities inside of

Iran.

And you're asking college kids and others to go overthrow, uh, modern day military weapons.

Uh, that doesn't seem like a plan to me.

And I gotta tell you, I did, did you get to see Hegsess speech this morning every word?

So I am one of those people, look, I'm a partisan.

I'm not a fan of the administration either.

But whenever we're involved in world conflict, I'm on, we're Americans, it is particularly

when there's men and women and I have friends who currently serve inside of the United

States military.

What was disappointing to me was supposed to be a briefing today similar to what maybe

like what it was when Norman Schwartz got announced, you know, and they were going to say

what the initial stages of the invasion of Iraq were.

And Hegseth came out with that smart, alike liberal media stuff before anybody had ever

even asked a question.

I'm a person right fake news and I'm a person who's not supportive of the administration.

But I'm supportive of the military and gosh darn it, you're my secretary of defense.

I want to hear what you have to say and to go to immediately start with insults.

I think that a real disservice to, uh, the military and the cause.

And I don't get why if this is truly, uh, a necessary action that, that Donald Trump

and, and our administration and our country chose to do why you have to start in a combative

nature with our own people.

Tell us to tell us what your story is, tell us what you're doing, ask us to rally around

our troops.

Yeah.

Don't start with poking me in the eye.

Yeah.

And that was really aggravating to me this morning.

And it would be, maybe it shouldn't be good enough for me, but it would, it would, um,

qualify me if they simply said, look, were we going to get nuked next month?

No.

Were we going to get nuked in the next five years, ten years, probably not.

But these guys are one of the worst bad actors in the world.

And Hamas, October 7th, that's Iran, all these, um, uh, soldiers who come back with missing

limbs.

Those are IEDs.

That's typically Iran.

So we decided while they are at their weakest, let's just put them, let's just put them out.

Let's put them out.

It's going to cost us some blood and treasure now, but it will pay off in the future.

Yeah.

I mean, okay.

Because I don't trust you, but the words you're saying are making sense, right?

But and it's just day three.

This is the first work day, business day, show day we've had.

So we'll see what comes out.

But so far, I'm, I'm lacking for, well, aren't we owed as Americans an explanation, typically

when we invade a country or we bomb a country, the president of the United States speaks to

us, explains to us what our mission is, what they're trying to accomplish.

I feel like we are owed that right now.

We're, we're being told that this was an important, and I, hey, look, I'm, I'm, I'm open.

I'm here.

I'm here to hear what you want to tell me.

But I also remember three months ago, you told me that we had completely obliterated

their, uh, nuclear possibilities.

That's clearly changed.

You also told me a year ago when you were running for this job that you didn't want to

be involved in world conflicts anymore.

And then I wake up on a Saturday morning and here we are in the midst of maybe the

largest conflict of my lifetime.

I think this is potentially could wind up being bigger than Iraq and, and some of those

battles simply because we're doing this by ourselves with the Israelis.

I remember the months and months of build up to previous wars where we built together

a world coalition and the, the explanation of, oh, well, you're just a liberal and fake

news.

No, you owe us an explanation.

Tell us what we're doing.

We're paying for this.

Yeah.

The part that seems to be the biggest disconnect for me because I watched, uh, not live because

it was like one 15 in the morning, but I watched the president's eight minute, uh, recorded

video on hey, we've, we've attacked around and here's why.

And one of his big points was to the Iranian people.

Now's the time for you to step up and take over your country.

You'll never get another chance.

It's yours to take and so far, I haven't seen any stepping up.

I think they're still hunkering down, right?

You know, there, there, we, there's a lot more to come and no one in Iran is safe clearly

because we hit that girl school.

I'm sure we're trying not to, but war is war.

Uh, but I think that's a big thing too is that Trump is maybe not depending on, but he's

certainly strongly hoping that the people rise up and so far, they're not.

Yeah.

I'm like, my ultimate fear is, look, we're going to get through this.

We will prevail in whatever it is to find our objective is, but I'm, I'm not naive

enough to think that this ends six weeks from now when the president says it does, uh,

because eventually these folks are going to be radicalized and they're coming back.

Yeah.

Tell you guys about my friend Charles D'Angelo, um, look, I'm going to make this just

a big call to action.

I'm sure you've heard of Charles, he was on the show the other day, he'll be on again

at some point this week.

Uh, he's something of a phenomenon, um, and you can say, oh, it's all hype.

Look at him.

He's eight feet tall and he's jacked with muscles and he used to be 160 pounds overweight.

Um, but, but I can lose weight on my own.

You probably can't.

As Charles will admit to you, the, the X's and O's, the bones of it.

What do I eat?

When do I eat it?

How do I work out?

Of course, it's different for every single person.

But it's not all that complicated.

That's not the part you're really paying for.

You are paying for Charles to get you to the finish line as he has thousands of clients

in the past.

And we're talking, you know, famous people, millionaires who can go anywhere for their

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Um, if you want to lose weight, if you want to get in the best shape, you possibly

can be a whatever age you are, just stop yo-yoing, stop living and dying by what the

scale says on any given morning.

Give yourself a real chance to accomplish it.

Reach out to Charles and Charles de Angelo.com.

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Matt DG Hassan came Alex and one more, uh, thought about the war and then we'll let it

go until 2 p.m. when we have Colonel Jeff McCoslin on and best guy in the world to have

on.

He will talk to us militarily and politically and then, uh, Brad Young will be with this

as well.

Get Brad's thoughts.

And, uh, there you go.

Here's, here's something I always think about.

I'm a bit of a hoarder.

I wish I were a hoarder with money, but I'm not.

It's mostly baseball gloves, but I always think when, when we do this, I think what percentage

of our arsenal are we using, are we using 25% of everything we have?

Are we using 2% of everything we have?

You know, it's like, is it a zero sum game we're going to run out?

I always think that like, wait, don't use all the cruise missiles.

I mean, for China, there has to be a ton of it out there, right?

I mean, look, if you've ever gone to St. Charles and gone up on North 94, there's the

Harpoon missile plant that Boeing has there and they're cranking stuff out day after

day after day.

I would, I would have to believe that now, who knows how much of our, our arsenal goes

to other countries.

Yeah.

Um, but I would think we've got to have a good stockpile.

And the other thing, we'll get into this with Brad much more because I've forgotten a

lot of the law that I learned, but not only did I learn this in law school, but I

has learned it in life in civics and eighth grade that Congress declares war.

And I know that Trump is far from the first president to go to war without declaring

war through Congress.

I think Bush didn't, uh, for Gulf war.

Yeah.

When he went after Iraq, I think he did it.

Um, but yeah, this is clearly a war, right?

If someone attacked us and killed the president and the whole cabinet, we'd call that a war.

Well, the second time we went to Iraq, my boss, uh, Congressman Dick Gephardt, who was

getting, who was the Democratic leader in the house put together the vote that allowed

that authorized the, the, the military action.

Um, I think that's also what's disappointing.

Now I understand the, um, administration did visit with the gang at eight, eight people

that are, uh, he's required to communicate with.

He did visit with them, but he's not made his case publicly.

And I, I think that there are enough people that are going to examine, uh, the war powers

act here in the next week or so because, uh, our own two senators from Missouri, I've

yet to hear them speak about where they stand on this military action.

Josh Holley's always been a skeptic of, uh, of an administration being able to move

on its own.

And oddly enough, Eric Schmidt's been quiet too.

Andrew thoughts?

I am really looking forward to, to talking to the Colonel mainly because I, I, I want

to, I think he'll know why, like the good parts of this, the positives of it.

And I, I am a very dove person.

I'm not a, I'm, I'm very against, uh, war, I'm very America first, uh, and so I'm interested

to hear why we should be doing this because all I can think about is why we shouldn't.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, we've had four reasons for that already, right?

We've had four Americans who have died, uh, three airplanes shot out of the sky.

Yeah.

And hope that my dreams will come true.

No, and all the people that come and go, stop and say hello, on the corner is a bad guy's

DGS.

I came a wax happy Monday, as I said at the top of the show, going to be gloomy like this

all week.

So just kind of settle in, try to enjoy it in some way, uh, rage is out sick today.

She should be back tomorrow.

Um, Andrews here, but not feeling well, uh, wheels is in Chicago.

He, uh, completed his trip, moving his daughter, I was talking to him yesterday, sounds like

the drive in the 15 foot truck through the mountains was awful, uh, but that's done.

He'll be back tomorrow.

A good friend, Michael Kelly from Hancock and Kelly is in until two, then he has a meeting.

Then he's going to be back from three to five.

Brad Young will be here from two to three, talking to Colonel Jeff McCoslin at the top of

the hour.

So if you want to know what's really going on in Iran, stick around until two and listen

to the Colonel, um, which looks like London out there.

It does, doesn't it?

I'm going to be like this all week, all week.

What a crazy Saturday, right?

I don't, I was out and about enjoying hitting golf balls.

And then Sunday, yeah, you had to be bundled back up like we were going to get snow again.

It's crazy, huh?

I don't like it.

Were you guys awake last night for the, like, sleep?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Coming down.

It started, uh, it started in my house in like seven or something, five, six, seven.

Oh.

And it, I mean, it's like, I turned my teeth because I found it cozy.

I opened up the windows, turned off the TV and just kind of sat there and listened to

it.

It sounded really pretty, but I imagine it was pretty nasty to drive in.

So, yeah.

I mean, I wasn't outside or anything, but all of a sudden it just started to hammer in

my windows.

I don't believe it.

So you and I are bugging out of town here at the end of the week.

Sure.

And I'm coming back.

Yeah.

I'm thinking about not coming back.

Now, I am one of those people that when I leave town, I wanted to snow because then

I feel like it's a bonus on top of my vacation.

Yeah.

That's a real Chris Range thing to say.

Yeah.

I'm not going to be out of town, but I'm going to know that if I was at home, I would

have been miserable.

Yeah.

Range famously says that if he dies, he hopes everyone else in the planet dies.

That sounds about right.

Yeah.

Very Range is.

You don't miss anything, but it does.

You just feel better when you find out like, oh my God, they got three inches of snow

in St. Louis.

Yeah, baby.

I won't go that far, but when I go somewhere tropical and it's really nice at home, I'm

a little like crap.

Right.

Yeah.

Exactly.

I should wish that all my friends and family are enjoying 85 degrees, but I kind of like

low-key don't.

I guess that's an awfully virtuous of you.

Thank you.

Today is National Old Stuff Day.

And I bring this up mostly because you have told me that you fight your hoarding instincts

by keeping a very simple pristine hotel room.

I live like I'm in a hotel room.

Yeah.

And minimalist is what I would describe it as.

And it's a hard thing to break.

I've got a couple of sisters who are trying to get into it right now.

And minimalist from the sense that when I, if you go into your closet, you haven't

worn it in a year, you've got to get rid of it, even if it's your favorite thing.

You're like Marie Kondo.

Exactly.

You don't like to save anything, but it takes some really deep thought.

You go to a cardinal game.

They hand you a magnet because it's the first game of the year.

You can't take it.

You have to start the blocking of free and useless stuff right there.

And otherwise it all accumulates.

Think of Andrew's car.

The amount of stuff that you can take from people.

And so I just got to a place where when I moved, I was like, nope, I'm never doing this

again.

I built a place like a hotel room.

And as a result, I don't keep anything and kind of wear the same six sets of clothes

all the time.

And I was wearing six sets of clothes, even when I had 300 things to choose from.

It's the best way to live, dude.

Yeah.

And it saves you a ton of money.

Yeah.

And you don't realize the amount of time people spend looking at stuff.

I was on a trip with my family to Ireland.

And if I could have back all the time that was spent watching family and friends.

And shops looking at stuff that they may or may not buy.

I'd had two extra days in Ireland to be around, we're roaming around.

You just don't need it.

Yeah.

Say no.

I'm weird.

Everyone who listens to the show knows how I'm weird.

I get very, very little new stuff, but currently I bet I have eight boxes.

Nothing expensive.

I don't buy expensive stuff.

I really don't.

Eight eBay boxes that with a gun to my head, I couldn't tell you what's in there.

I have no idea.

And then when I open it, I'm like, why did you buy that?

Why?

I still have a three inch tall figurine of the hamburger glor because four years ago,

Rachel called him the hamburger glor.

And I decided to get her one from eBay and that mofo still staring at me on top of my

refrigerator.

That's great.

Yeah.

You see, you've seen the show on television that we're, I guess there's like storage

lockers that get, you know, people fill them up with storage, right?

Storage wars.

Best show.

Could you get suckered into that, like buying a storage locker?

Oh my gosh.

I have a storage locker in my building and I store nothing in it.

Wow.

Yeah.

You had stuff you could throw it in there.

But when I watch that on television, it's just mind blowing to me because I'm thinking,

why would I want somebody else's junk?

No, I guess they're looking for the little gems.

They're looking for, yeah, they're looking for anything.

So what they do, right, is they open it and then you can look inside, but you can't go

through anything.

So you just kind of got a guess like, ooh, I bet there's some good stuff in those boxes.

Right.

And then you bid on, you know, how much you would pay for that storage.

I love that show.

And it first came out that one girl was really hot and everyone had a really distinct personality

and I bought into it.

Yeah.

And they found out they were cheating.

They were putting stuff in the storage lockers, stacking it.

And then you're like, why am I watching this?

Well, you'll always read a story occasionally.

It'll show up on drug reporter something where somebody will find like an old Porsche that's

never been driven because it was in a storage locker.

That would be cool to find.

But somebody's tickling me Elmo or, you know, a Pokemon card, thanks anyway.

Those are worth a lot of money though.

The Pokemon's.

Oh yeah.

I don't get it.

That's the big thing right now.

I mean, it's a insane scalper market at the moment for stuff like that.

Drew, did you get, Andrew, did you get into the Pokemon that was on your phone that

Pokemon go?

Not really.

Not as much as, not as much as you might expect.

Which so, a lot of people got like super crazy into it.

I never, I never really did.

So we, I have an office here downtown and it's, it's about a block from the city museum.

And the city museum, particularly in the summertime, has herds of children with their

parents walking.

Well apparently one of these little things was in my office.

I'm on the first floor.

And so you'd hear all this little talk outside of our windows and stuff.

What in the heck is going on?

You'd open it up and it's like they're waiting for George Clooney to come out or something.

And you'd see these people on their phone trying to mix the, and I, we finally figured out

that we had a gizmo in there.

Yeah.

And they said you could go online and tell them we don't want that guy in there.

Yeah, because they didn't ask before they, before they would do that, they didn't ask you

before making it like a, a gym or a stop or whatever.

There was one on Epstein Island.

Yeah.

There was one on Epstein Island, for example.

And so they would just do these things randomly and just like take any what they would, you

know, what looked like a significant location or something in the downtown or whatever.

Right.

And so no one knew that they had this, you know, attached to it until, like you said,

you find out you can go online and say like, hey, I don't want to get this off of you.

And then, and that was at a time where the living, the Larry Rice Shelter was right across

the street from us.

And so he closes that in the middle of the day, he made everybody go out.

It's no longer there.

And it was just funny because you'd have a bunch of, not funny, a bunch of three year olds

and a bunch of homeless folks all standing around and you're thinking, what are these people

all doing together?

It sounds like the pre-school we have in this building.

Seriously.

Is it still here?

They shut them down for six weeks because they let a kid wander off.

And they were on probation and now they're back and like, oh, I got a show.

Yeah.

I got, there's a bunch of pre-schools in downtown.

It's kind of cute when you see them out walking because they, they do that elephant train

where they all hold on to a really cool, they go walking places.

We do that on the show.

We go to lunch.

I want my kid at a pre-school in the middle of the heart of the business district.

You know what I mean?

It just doesn't seem.

I wouldn't exactly call it the heart of the business district, but the, the relic of

the business district, the bones, the bones, right?

The homeless district.

Where would you call the business district of San, is it's Clayton, right?

I guess it is.

I think so.

Yeah.

I don't, I don't know what you'd call downtown anymore.

Yeah.

It didn't used to be.

Plays where we host sporting events.

One more time.

I've said it so many times, but I graduated from law school in 90 and my first job was in

the boatman's bank.

Sure.

Tower.

You're a big building and 100 North Broadway and it, you had to wait in line to go to lunch,

right?

Like the lettuce leap was down there and all these different restaurants and you don't

have to wait in line so much these days.

No, it's really sad.

It feels apocalyptic.

Yeah.

We lived at 20th in Washington in the sporting news for a while and the sporting news building

and it was redone and Escape from New York was filmed there.

I love that.

Right.

They used the bombed out sandwich to do it and it was kind of cool because they had the

pictures of Escape from New York, et cetera and that was 24 years ago and pretty much looks

the same.

Yeah.

One of the big fight scenes in Escape from New York is in the Grand Hall of Union

Station.

Right.

And it's torn to pieces and now it's really cool, right?

Right.

Union Station is very beautiful.

You ever go to the whispering wall there?

Yeah.

I can't make it work.

You can't.

No.

How can you not make it work?

Didn't we do it one time?

I think the person I was doing it with was screwing with me.

Yeah, I think so.

Like, do you hear it, am I?

Maybe I hear it.

I'm not sure.

One update on wheels or is that personal information?

No.

Give it to him.

Here.

Okay.

This is from Wheeler.

M-Eifer.

We're stuck getting off the plane.

They have to do maintenance checks because they think they say fuel leaking from the engine.

F.

Ooh.

He's in Chicago.

Yeah.

Go rent a car, dude.

Transplanes and automobiles.

Drive it home.

That's what I'm saying.

We're in the front.

Guys, GGS on Kamawex.

We apologize about no stream today, but Rage is out feeling under the weather and she

is our stream person.

Michael Kelly is still here.

He has to leave for a meeting.

He'll be back at three and stay with us until five.

Brad Young just walked in the door.

So I can't thank you enough.

Thanks so much for coming in.

Oh, happy to do it.

Appreciate it.

We have Colonel Teppekoslin coming up at two, but first let me just get your thoughts.

You woke up Saturday morning.

We're at war with Iran.

What do you think?

Well, my first concern, as anytime that there's any sort of military action, my first concern

is where there'll be boots on the ground.

We saw what a debacle Iraq was.

We saw what a debacle Afghanistan was.

And my first concern was, oh no, we bombed last year in Operation Midnight Hammer

I think was the name of it.

And that was from the get go.

We knew it was just going to kind of be a one-off, which by the way, this is really nitpicky.

But can we stop having 13 year old boys name the words epic fury in Midnight Hammer?

Oh, I know.

That's the way they all are.

It's like, it's like Thor himself, apparently.

So that was kind of a one-off and I thought, okay, I boys it worried about it.

But then Saturday, when we saw the news break, my concern was, since the point, at least

the stated point was regime change.

My concern was this, the only way you can really effectively accomplish regime change is

boots on the ground.

It's the only way you're going to do it.

And so when he said that, I thought, oh crap, here we go.

This is Iran.

This is Iraq 2.0 is really what this is.

We're going to be there for the next 30 years.

And by the way, now we got Marco Rubio is apparently

president of Venezuela, president of Cuba, and now president of Iran, apparently, all

three at the same time.

Yeah.

Saturday, the same day that we hit Iran, both the president and Marco, we're talking about

Cuba's next and Lindsey talked about it.

Cuba's next.

Well, I just don't know how many countries can Marco Rubio be president.

I just don't know how that's going to work.

But seriously, after the initial campaign started, I started feeling better because

everything that I heard after the initial announcement was, yeah, we're going to do a

regime change, but it's only going to be strikes by missiles.

It's only going to be air strikes.

There's not going to be boots on the ground.

And to me, that is because you could have people die in military exercises.

But if you're going to put boots on the ground, you're talking big casualties.

You're talking a commitment over time.

You're talking a terrorist component where they attack back.

If someone tried to occupy the United States, don't come by my house because I'm a big

supporter of the Second Amendment, right?

So you have to deal with that kind of an insurgency if you have boots on the ground.

So I'm feeling better today than I felt Saturday.

What about help us to understand because I swear Congress declares wars is one of the

first things I learned in civics and like eighth grade, but we just don't do it anymore.

No, we don't.

And if push comes to shove, I think at the end of the day, if the Democrats in Congress

want to challenge the president, I mean, he has no problem taking anything to court, right?

He's got lots of lawyers and he likes to use them.

And there has been this understanding over the past decades that we all know that the

War Powers Act may not be completely constitutional, but we're all going to abide by it.

And if Trump doesn't abide by the War Powers Act or the War Powers Resolution and decides

to take it to court, my concern and it really is a concern.

I like the War Powers Resolution.

It provides checks and balances on Congress by Congress on the executive branch.

But if it goes to the Supreme Court, particularly with this Supreme Court, I think it could be

ruled unconstitutional in its entirety and we would be worse off for it.

And would we pull out?

Well, the War Powers Act has several different triggers as it were.

The first one is that the president has to advise Congress within 48 hours of any substantial

military action.

That has been done.

Secondly, it allows the president 60 days for an engagement with a 30 day pullout, 90

days.

So we'll see what happens in 90 days.