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6:37Rose before hoes, brother. That's that's that's how it goes.
6:40>> Oh, hell yeah, dude. I learned that a long time ago.
6:46>> That's why you and I are tight, man. We don't need these I'm on the phone with Cash Patel, the FBI director.
6:58>> Are you live?
6:59>> Yes. Yes. We're >> Oh Maybe I should go.
7:04>> We're briefly discussing the rumors that his girlfriend was cheating at him at the White House correspondents dinner.
7:09Holding hands with a cop in a in a room.
7:13>> Cheating at That's worse than cheating on me. Cheating at me. That's like That's the next level up, >> dude. She cheated directly at me, bro.
7:25>> Well, she's >> a >> All right, let's jump into it. We're here with the world's premier voice impressionist, Mike McCrae. Let's get to it. Hey, this is Jimmy. Who's this?
7:39>> What's up, Jimmy? It's your favorite US vice president calling.
7:43>> Wow, we have Hubert Humphrey on the line.
7:46>> Oh, very funny. Okay, very funny. You got me.
7:52Wait, do I sound like him for real, though?
7:54>> I got no idea, buddy. How are you, Mr.
7:56Vice President?
7:57>> Oh, I'm doing great. Thanks for asking, Jimmy. And things are going great, too.
8:02Jimmy, I'm happy to announce we're on the verge of wrapping this whole Iran thing up.
8:08>> Yeah. Is that so?
8:10>> Uh, yes. And it's glorious to see all that we have accomplished with sheer American will and American military might.
8:21>> What do you mean? You you haven't accomplished literally anything. None of your objectives.
8:26>> I know. No regime change, no solid end to the nuclear program. They still have enriched uranium underground.
8:35>> Yeah. You you you've established Iran has complete control over the straight of Hormuz.
8:41and our actions have marginalized moderates in the government and neutralized civilian opposition. Mission accomplished.
8:49>> Okay. How on earth is this a win, >> Jimmy? We win in the Trump admin. We in the Trump administration know how to spin massive fuckups into positives.
9:00Spinning the Iraq debacle may be our biggest challenge yet, but we are up to the task. And here we say by accomplishing nothing have we really accomplished everything?
9:17>> And here I say no.
9:21>> Well yeah that's your opinion. We needless to say have a different one which is think of the message that this sends to the world. The United States is now officially willing to go to war for literally no reason to accomplish nothing. Do you realize what a statement of strength that is? Like who in their m right mind would mess with us now?
9:46>> Uh we've come a long way from the Donald Trump who was pining for a Nobel Peace Prize.
9:52>> Well, there again, I think you're wrong.
9:54Actually >> to that end think of all the countries we haven't invaded >> which is like most countries.
10:02>> So considering how frivolously we can go to war uh you know that shows President Trump in a very restrained and peaceful light if you want to think about it a certain way.
10:14>> What an amazing disconnect from reality sir.
10:18>> Thank you. But yeah it's pretty great.
10:21There's really only one loose end that we haven't been able to wrap up yet, but uh >> I'm sorry, Mr. Vice President, I'm getting a call on the other line. Hello, this is Jimmy at the Jimmy Door Show speaking. Who's this?
10:34>> Jimmy, this is Benjamin Netanyahu. Is JD Vance there.
10:40>> Oh, hey BB. Uh I uh >> Hey, hey, hey, tell him I'm not here.
10:46>> I can hear you. Oh, hey man. What's up, dude? How How are you doing?
10:53>> Don't give me that. Why is no one at the White House taking my calls? What is this? I hear about a a peace deal being brokered without me.
11:03>> BB, just calm down. Everyone is going to get their fair share. You just need to be patient for a little while.
11:09that. I want to talk to Trump. I demand to talk to him now.
11:15>> You can't talk to him right now. He I'm the one who put this war together. God damn it. Without my connections, none of this would have happened. I demand my concessions. I want my concessions right now. JDP, >> will you keep your voice down? You're going to get your concessions. I promise you. But you have to wait until the heat of this whole thing blows over. Have you ever known Trump to desert an ally? You just need to lay low and be patient for a little while.
11:47Oh, JD.
11:50JD, what?
11:53Oh, JD boy. The pipes. The pipes are calling.
11:59>> Wow, that got tense for a minute there, but then everything now is clearly going to be okay.
12:06>> I don't know what I'd do without this kid. I really don't for the life of me get Trump, but JD can always get through to him.
12:14Well, that's part of my job.
12:18>> I feel better already. I don't even know what I was so worked up about. Time for me to pass on the good news to others. I bid you gentlemen farewell. Shalom.
12:29>> Uh, bye, BB.
12:31>> That dude's dead than a door nail.
12:34>> What?
12:36>> Yeah, dude. Trump told him if he starts raising a stank about this peace brokering, he's going to withdraw his support for him so he gets toppled and prosecuted within the Israeli government.
12:46>> Whoa.
12:47>> So that chaos will solve the whole Israel/ Lebanon Gaza problem for us once and for all.
12:54>> So anyway, yeah, I got to go set that in motion personally.
12:58I do enjoy personally stabbing people in the back, so this will be a good one. Anyway, what can I say? Peace breaks out. Peace in our time. And all thanks to the great peacemaker Donald Trump himself.
13:15Oh, my chest hurts. I got to go.
13:19>> That was well done.
13:22Well done, Mike. Mike Mike McCra.
13:24>> They really Yeah, he he wanted his his share, but I don't know if he's going to get it or not.
13:28>> I don't know if he's going to get it either, but nicely done. Your calls are just killing. You're just killer every time now.
13:36everything.
13:36>> Yeah, thanks. I I stopped around.
13:39>> Some Sometimes they used to just piss me off, but now they make me laugh all the time.
13:46>> Well done.
13:47>> That's all I try to do. James.
13:50>> Okay. All right. Let's move on. Hey, this is Jimmy. Who's this?
13:54>> That it's Cashel.
13:57>> FBI Director Patel. What uh what's the what do I owe this pleasure to hear from you? What's on your mind?
14:04I'll tell you what's on my mind, dude.
14:06Space.
14:07>> What? The >> final frontier. Meaning, what's up there? Are those little effers coming here to Earth? And if so, what do they want? Also, are any of them hot?
14:18>> What?
14:20I'm sorry.
14:21>> UFOs, dude. That's my new shizz. That's a new tip I'm on right now. UFOs are, as they have been rebranded, UAPs. You down with UAPs? Yeah, you know me.
14:32>> What? What? Why UFOs?
14:35>> Well, as I announced on the Shan Annity podcast recently, I guess you didn't hear, the FBI will be releasing a large dump or trunch of UFO UAP documents to the public previously unknown to and unseen by the public. Like tossing raw meat to wild dogs. Dude, >> why now? Why? Why? Why this sudden change in FBI focus?
14:59Well, it's straight out of the operating manual of the Trump administration, isn't it? Epstein files not satisfactory or incomplete. Guess what? We're invading Iran now, Iran war turns out to be a disaster. Well, we're going to drop the ET files on you, Jironius. Now, when the public gets bored with aliens, it's your ass, Cuba.
15:19Cyclical, controlled, always a step ahead. Calculations having sex with many narratives.
15:34>> I see. Well, this is truly fascinating.
15:37Can Can you give us a hint on what may be contained in these alien files?
15:42>> Ah, you know me, Jimmy. I hate to give away spoilers. I'm afraid you and the rest of the media are just going to have to wait and find out what kind of tight ass space is going to be in there just like everybody else.
15:55>> Oh. Oh, come on, Director Patel. There's got to be something you could tell us.
16:00>> All right, fine.
16:02Okay, check this out. Probably the most shocking revelation included in these files is that Robin Leech, the host of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, once strangled a girl to death at a high profile or >> Okay, but we already know this from the Epstein files. Amazingly, these appear to be two separate >> with this with this one having a UFO tangent or component.
16:32>> I see. But it's fascinating.
16:35>> For real. For real. Who knew about that?
16:38>> I could also say with confidence that the United States government was once in fact in possession of the bodies of deceased alien beings. Clutch.
16:51was. Well, where are the bodies now?
16:54>> Well, that's the problem. Their locations are not currently known with confidence the location of said clutch alien bodies.
17:02>> We lost aliens.
17:04>> That's not what I said, dude. We didn't lose Older agents within various bureaus have told younger agents with confidence that they themselves have seen the bodies that it was widely known that these bodies were being preserved. But when an effort was made to locate the bodies, no one could find them.
17:24>> So it was a hoax.
17:26>> Not necessarily, dude.
17:30>> Not necessarily.
17:33Do you re Dude, bro, do you realize how much is in the US government's possession? Like the sheer size of our files and archives, it makes the Smithsonian holdings look like a junk drawer. Just because you misplace something, that doesn't mean it never existed. At least, you know, usually.
17:53They'll turn up eventually. I'm sure of it. Maybe. And who knows, maybe the public knows something >> about about where top secret government aliens are.
18:03>> You never know, dude. You never know.
18:05Maybe someone out there has ESPn2 or whatever. This is alien dude.
18:12We're in a whole new territory. Maybe that lady can help us. Whatever her name is. Clairvoyant.
18:18>> No, Clairvoyant is a word.
18:21It's it's it's pronounced Clairvoyant.
18:24It's a word meaning Hey, what are you Bill Maher over here? You don't know what stuff is? Clairvoyant is a word meaning psychic. There there's not there's not a person named Claire Voyant.
18:36>> No, you're wrong, dude. She's in the files. Clairvoyant.
18:40>> No, she's not.
18:42>> Well, she is now.
18:44>> Which brings us to the UAPs themselves.
18:48These up hypersonic zip zappers super flying all throughout our airspace. I say that. Top pilots and generals and have seen them and they cannot explain it. They're not of this earth, dude. I swear to god.
19:05>> Have commercial pilots and passengers seen similar things? How come you never hear from them on this matter?
19:14>> I don't know. I don't know, dude. Get Southwest Airlines to release their UFO files. Okay, that shit's none of my business, son. I'm focused on big daddy over here. Point is, these brave pilots and generals and colonels and risk their lives to come forth >> and speak their truth, and now the world will know, which is tight as >> Wait, their lives were at risk from whom?
19:46I don't know. The government, >> the government was going to kill US military personnel for reporting atmospheric phenomena to the US military.
19:56>> Well, I don't know then. Aliens, the deep state. Deep state aliens. Dude, you. The point is, we need this to be a giant distraction. And the more we can whip up the public imagination based on the X Files and other media, the better. There's that Stephen Spielberg movie coming out like that's literally exactly about this that can only help us, dog.
20:18>> Okay, I see.
20:20>> Yeah. So, if we roll this out properly, the entire population will forget all about the fact that we bombed Iran and accomplish nothing other than seeding a large chunk of of a sovereign nation to Israel.
20:32>> Oh, well. Oh, well, in case that I I I hope it fails and and I hope uh I look for I look forward to debunking all of it.
20:42>> Oh, yeah. Well, maybe you'll get abduct abducted if you try that I do not recommend that We may have to send Randy and them over there at night with a paralysis agent and an anal probe.
20:54>> Then you'll be ready to believe then, won't you? I'm just with you, dude. We wouldn't do that. We can't we can't even not lose aliens. You know what I mean? Plus, I can't really spare Randy right now. I'm leaning on him a lot. All right, I gotta go, dude. We still have to redact some from the 50s to make a small plane crash look like a UFO landed in the desert. I love the creative part of this job.
21:20>> Sick.
21:23>> Cash Patel. Ladies and gentlemen, let's hear it for the one and only Cash Patel from the one and only Mike McCrae. Mike McCrae online.
21:31>> He's just he's full of beans, that guy.
21:33>> He is full of beans, as they say. As as as my uh third grade nun teacher would say.
21:40>> Exactly. Oh, imagine what she would think of Cash Patel.
21:44>> Oh, no kidding. He's full of beans.
21:47>> None. Yeah. Yeah. What's up, none?
21:49>> Okay. All right, brother. Uh, anything you want? You got any shows coming up you want to tell people about? How's the show's been going, by the way?
21:56>> Oh, they're always fun here, whether they're uh in town or in the outskirts of town. There's It's Comedy's hopping here in Austin. So, check it out. You can see where I'm going to be on uh Instagram. That's a good place. That's follow me. Uh Mike McCrae online, M A R A. I've got some more coming up. Uh I had to cancel some because I had to make an out of town trip, but I got plenty more this month. So, follow me on Insta.
22:21Okay, everybody follow Mike McCrae on Insta. Mike McCrae online.
22:27Thank you, pal. Great to hear from you again. Great job as always. You really great way to kick off the shows on Wednesday.
22:34a, dude. I love it, too, dude.
22:38>> All right, let's take a break and we'll be right back.
22:41>> Did you have a job at the time when you didn't get the vac?
22:44>> Well, I work in entertainment, so it didn't go so well.
22:47>> Oh, really? Are you an actress?
22:49>> Oh, no. K. They were they were like Nazis on that in Hollywood, right?
22:53So you didn't you weren't allowed to audition or work or anything?
22:56>> Well, I still did. I just didn't >> You just lied about it.
22:59>> No, I didn't. I was a good girl. I didn't lie. I was too pissed off to lie about it, I guess.
23:04>> And they still let you on the set.
23:05>> Well, some of them.
23:06>> Oh, really? Was it Was it mostly porn?
23:17>> It's lovely talking to you as always.
23:19Oh, hello.
23:20>> We were just talking about you kids.
23:22>> I'm Denise Heberly >> and I'm Bill Goodman.
23:25>> Together, we've been fighting fascism for over 50 years.
23:29>> And so much has changed over those 50 years, such as the ingredients to a successful firebomb >> and the glass that bank windows are made of.
23:37>> But there's one thing that hasn't changed over 50 years. Something that is so important to tell you kids who are new to this movement.
23:44>> Shut the up. You're sitting in the police transport van after a protest.
23:49>> Shut the up. In a holding cell with your comrades, >> shut the up. Cop knocks on your door.
23:53>> Shut the up.
23:54>> Texting on an unsecured device?
23:57>> Shut the up. Pulled over by the cops after a protest.
24:00>> Shut the up. Cop just asking about your day.
24:03>> Shut the up. Feds call your mom.
24:07>> Tell your mother to shut the up.
24:10>> Now repeat after me. When the cops come calling, what do you do?
24:16>> Shut the up.
26:00Did you have a job at the time when you >> So Jim, how do we get out of this? Who do we vote for? You can't vote your way out of this. What has to happen is something like all the railroad workers not show up for work for a couple of days and shut the that cuz that's the backbone of capitalism in America. And they have to have a demand and demand has to be you get all the money out of politics. We have publicly funded campaigns which saves everybody trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars. People say, "Oh, we can't afford publicly." We can't afford to have billionaires completely financing
26:33our campaigns, which means they are we don't live in a democracy. You know, we live in an oligarchy. So, what we need is to for all the railroad workers not to show up, all the port workers not to show up for work, and they have to have a demand. Now, the problem is the leaders of those unions are easil easily compromised. That's the problem. when Joe Biden came in and and the Democrats and they squashed the railroad uh strike that was about to happen a couple years ago, they should have struck anyway. Uh they didn't because they have weak leadership at their unions. That's what we need to have a couple of union
27:05leaders willing to go to prison and become martyrs and then become the leaders of the country. That's what we need to have happen. We need to follow like look look what just a handful of truckers did in Canada and that freak them out and shut down their country.
27:20That's what we need to do here. We need to have truckers. We need to have railroad workers. We need to have port workers. We need to have am all. What if all the Amazon workers and UPS drivers didn't go to work one day? This is what we need. It's only going to get worse.
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32:51do this.
32:55Hey, welcome back to the live stream.
32:56Got special guest with us, returning uh uh Douglas McGregor is a popular political commentator and retired US Army Colonel who served as senior adviser to the acting secretary of defense under President Trump, has served on the board of US military academy and is currently the CEO of Our Country, Our Choice, a media company that aims to unite like-minded Americans. He recently launched the Substack at McGregor.stack.com.
33:21Douglas, uh, thank you for accommodating my schedule as you always do. I appreciate it and always appreciate your insight. This is this is my, uh, this that's that's my Judge Npalitano introduction. I hope you >> I wondered about that. I was trying to figure it out.
33:35>> Yeah. Yes. Uh, so anyway, uh, I'm glad to have you here. I wanted to, of course, go over the the news that's all over the place. So, I just wanted to This was from April 28th. Uh it says US spy agencies asked to analyze how Iran might react if Trump were to declare victory and back away from military operations. Right. Well, so that was on the 28th of April and Trump had launched his new uh what is it called? The freedom fla whatever it's >> project freedom. Project Freedom where he was supposed to be escort using navy ships to escort uh ships through the straight of Hormuz. But it turns out it
34:16didn't work out because from the Hormuz letter, the cargo ship that Iran attacked one of those cargo ships that were being uh shephered through by and it says the cargo ship attacked by Iran in the street of Hormuse yesterday has been identified as a Frenchowned. Uh, it's attempting the US backed crossing and designated route by Trump with AIS transponders switched off. UKMTO hid the locations to avoid admitting the US route isn't safe. And then Trump 4 hours later, he canled project freedom after that happened. And I just wanted to the vessel that was hit by Iran tried to follow the US route through the
34:58straight. After the failure, Trump suspended his project. And uh well here it is. Here's Trump saying that based on the request of Pakistan and other countries, the tremendous military success that we have had during the campaign against sounds like Joe Isuzu if you're old enough to remember what that means. Uh against the country of Iran. Additionally, the fact that great progress has been made toward a complete and final agreement with representatives of Iran. We have mutually agreed that while the blockade will remain in full force in effect, project freedom, the movement of ships through the straight
35:34of Hormuse will be paused for a short period of time to see whether or not the agreement can be finalized and signed.
35:44And that's signed by President Donald Trump. And here's Marco Rubio. Here's here's his him saying on Tuesday what he want what the United States wants. As President Trump has said, and the facts clearly bear out, the United States of America holds all the cards. There is no scenario here in which if they decide to join a ladder of escalation, they wind up getting the last say. But our preference is for these straits to be opened to the way they're supposed to be open, back to the way it was. Anyone can use it. No mines in the water, nobody paying tolls. That's what we have to get back to, and that's the goal here. So,
36:19if you don't know, what he just said is we had to start a war so we could go back to the way things were before we started the war. It's a genuinely one of the most absurd foreign policy statements I ever heard. And here is kind of like Donald Trump is this is from that Austin Powers movie. This is him trying to get out of the straight of horses. This is what it it kind of looks like. Uh that so uh let let me is that's kind of funny but uh let me just go real quick. Let me just cover it real quick and we'll get your response. Uh this is from Axios. Uh US and Iran closing in uh on a one-page memo to end the wars. But then that was
37:02from Tuesday. Then today Trump's surrender deal is immediately dealt a brutal blow. A report that US and Iran are nearing an agreement on a one-page memorandum to end the war was met with almost immediate push back despite President Donald Trump claiming progress. Iranian officials and the president have been sending a series of chaotic and mixed signals since Trump announced on Monday that he was pausing project freedom in the straight of Hormoose. Early Tuesday, Axios reported uh that the White House believed it was getting closer to a memorandum of his understanding to end the war and set parameters for nuclear talks. But a
37:38senior Iranian parliamentary official threw cold water on the idea. And what he said was Axios's text is America's wish list until it becomes reality.
37:48America will not obtain will not obtain through a failed war what they failed to gain in face-to-face negotiations. Iran has its finger on the trigger and is ready. If they do not surrender and grant the necessary concessions or if they or their devilish hedgehog allies try to act mischievously, we will deliver a harsh and regret inducing response. So he and then so he came back here's Trump's latest. This is from uh today, right? Uh he says assuming Iran agrees to give what has been agreed to which is perhaps a big assumption that already legendary epic fury will be at an end and the highly effective blockade
38:34will allow the hormone strait to be open to all including Iran if they don't agree the bombing starts and it will be sadly at much higher level and intensity than it was before. Um, so let me just get your what's your response to all this back and forth by Trump and the the Iranian officials.
38:55>> I think we elected PT Barnum as president.
38:58>> It sounds like it, right?
38:59>> He seems to think that every American is a sucker. Uh, obviously the Iranians are not suckers. And the last thing that I was sent was a message that the Iranian government had directed everyone to evacuate all building, official buildings, government buildings, hotels, other structures. I think they anticipate that the war will begin any time.
39:22Uh now I've read Larry Johnson's Substack and he said there's credible reports but he not confirmed at all that the plan is to start the war again on May 7th which would be tomorrow. Uh do you have any information? Can you talk to that?
39:41>> Larry could be right. His source could be right. I I was asked earlier today and I said I think within 48 hours something's going to happen. The Iranians have already attacked uh targets in the United Arab Emirates, which has been a a not so secret Trojan horse for the Israelis for a long time.
39:59I think the air defense networks are up and running. And as I said, the Iranians have already instructed everybody to go below ground and hide out. So my suspicion is it's coming. But is it coming tomorrow or the next day or the next day? I don't know. But it's definitely going to happen. What else can they do, Larry? I mean, this this is uh like Laurel and Hardy is running the State Department on behalf of Trump. It doesn't make any sense. We go from one silly thing to the next. We claim victory every other hour. We tell everyone how many alleged ships have been sunk. I mean, the Iranian Navy didn't have much of a navy to begin
40:38with. The Iranian Air Force hasn't really been a significant player since the Sha departed. I mean, none of this stuff matters. It doesn't. It it just it's one unending sort of flow of crap that comes out of the White House. I don't think I don't think anybody with a brain is going to believe anything that the White House says anymore.
41:03>> Uh and what do you what Now I've been pontificating on social media about what would happen if Trump does restart this war and starts hitting civilian targets inside Iran again. Um, what what do you think will happen if Trump does restart this war and starts bombing Iran again?
41:25>> Well, I think if you follow this Jeff Cury, he writes uh excellent work for the Carlilele group on oil and gas. He's tracking every conceivable trend that you can imagine. He says that by July, we'll have pretty much run through what's left of our petroleum reserve.
41:44will be close to the bottom of the tank.
41:47I think the the whole world is in a lot of trouble right now and is running out of petroleum products. This morning I received a note from a friend in India who says it's $118 a barrel for oil right now in India and I guess uh jet fuel is up to $250 a barrel. Uh surprise surprise that so many uh you know aircraft are sitting on the ground that are not flying. nobody can afford it. Uh I think we're in a lot of trouble and you know diesel is extremely problematic now to develop and everybody talks about uh well you know we have fracking but they don't understand that what we frack we can't actually refine so we sell the
42:32results of the fracking overseas and then it's refined as a special form of oil into gasoline or something else. You know, we've got 70% of our farmers that say they can't afford to buy fertilizer.
42:46We've had a 50% spike in fuel prices across the country. I I I think we're talking about disaster as it stands now.
42:54Now, if we go back to bombing, I think instead of recovering within the next two to three years, we won't see recovery for at least a decade. And what Curi is saying, and I'm hearing this from many, many people, we're going to head into a global depression. If we have another phase of bombing, we won't. Right now, we're going into a recession. Our recession is probably going to be very deep, but the world is facing depression as well as famine and a lot of other things. So, how how much of a catastrophe do you want? You've got a catastrophe already. We're not going to recover from this very quickly. all the
43:31tankers that left the Persian Gulf that that were full of petroleum and other products, fertilizer and so forth and and uh aluminum, you name it, they've already arrived. So now we have a permanent disrupt disruption if we restart this war. And I see no evidence that we're not going to do it. And it doesn't seem to me that President Trump understands the global consequences of what he's doing.
43:58>> So no, no one's telling him. I mean, I know that most of the people in the room when they he decided to to start the war in the first place were against it except for Hegsth. Even Marco Rubio was against it. The the head of the CIA was against it. General Kaine, everybody JD Vance, everybody was advising Trump to he only listened to BB Netanyahu. Do you think there's he's listening to anybody else now except EB? Well, I I don't want to rain on your parade, but I I think you ought to consider the possibility that these people who claim that they said they were opposed to something may have said something along the lines,
44:35"Well, boss, if that's what you want to do, we got it. We'll go with it. You know, I I might you might think about something else. I'm not sure this is the this is the right move, but you know, I'm with you." I think that's what people said. you know, this business of standing up and telling somebody that's a disastrous idea, don't do it. Nobody does that. The when when Ian Briner flew into uh Baghdad in March of uh 2003 and he announced, "Well, whatever else you've heard, forget it. What we're going to do is we're going to dismantle the Iraqi army, dismantle the Iraqi state, dismantle the Iraqi bureaucracy,
45:15stand down the police. We're going to rebuild this country from the ground up.
45:19It's going to become the first liberal democracy in the Arab world. It's going to be friendly to Israel and all this sort of business. Only one man in the room said, "I I'm I'm concerned, Mr. Bremer."
45:33And he said, "What are your concerns?"
45:35He was a full colonel in the chemical corps. He was the only man that said anything. Everybody else sat there and said, "Well, you know, okay, this is tough." And Dave Petraeus famously said,"Well, you know, downsizing is hard to do." And everybody walked out of the meeting. And after the meeting was over, everybody stood around outside and told journalists, "Oh, I think this is a really bad idea. This is something we shouldn't do." But when it was their turn to stand up and take a firm position, they didn't do it. So, I'll be frank with you. I don't believe most of that. I I think most of the people in
46:12the White House live in fear of Donald Trump.
46:15The people that are working over there have told me that they're they're afraid of him. He blows up. He doesn't like facts that get in the way of his preferences.
46:25And and so my theory is that um what Iran has promised and what Scott Ritter has also said that if Trump restarts this war that they they're not going to respond proportionately as they have been so far that they're going to go for the jugular and they're going to go right after the desalination plants inside the Gulf States. And as we know that's where 70% of their water comes from if not more. And so do you think Iran will do that? And will will the result of that be the complete desertion of those countries because in 72 hours without water you have a humanitarian crisis. So they're going to do you think
47:09that a Iran will do that hit their desalination pro uh plants and will there be a mass migration from the Gulf States if that happens?
47:19>> The short answer is yes. When this war began, there were 67 million people living from the Iraqi border all the way down to the border with Oman in the Gulf States. Think about that. And Saudi Arabia, 67 million people. I don't know how many people are living there now.
47:38But you don't necessarily have to destroy the desalination plants if you've already destroyed the power grid and the source of the power and the oil infrastructure. You can't run a desalination plant on thin air.
47:52it it needs to be fueled. You have to have power sources. So if you destroy the power sources, it doesn't make any difference.
48:00So I think that's exactly what they will do. Now if we are also attacking their oil infrastructure, their power grid and their desalinization plants, then I guess the Iranians will respond with the the destruction of the desalination plants. But basically, if you don't have power, it doesn't make a great deal of difference. So, it's the it's the same out outcome either way. If Trump So, now Trump must must know this. No. Or do you think there's a chance he does not know this? And if he does know this, does he just not care? I mean, the the Gulf States Okay, just answer that. Let's let's let's take it one step at a time.
48:43Do you think Trump knows this? And if he doesn't know this, does he don't know this, does he not care?
48:49He may have been told something like this and he may have said I don't believe it or I think you are exaggerating.
48:57I mean those kinds of things are quite possible. Uh people that in the Soviet uh hierarchy in the Soviet general staff before they went into Stalin were always told never tell him how many casualties we sustained.
49:12Don't bring it up. So nobody ever said the Soviets had x number of casualties.
49:16They only reported German casualties.
49:19You have that kind of atmosphere is what I'm told. You can't go in there and tell him things that he absolutely does not want to hear. And you're still dealing with uh Roy Con's student and remember what Roy Conn told him. You know, you attack attack, you deny, deny, deny, and then whatever happens, you declare victory and take credit for it. So this is not somebody who's pre predisposed to to listen to the hard facts and certainly doesn't want to admit that any decision he took could have been flawed in any way.
49:53>> So what I I've mentioned this before is it not in the Gulf state the Gulf States must know this, right? So wouldn't they be the one heranging Trump and getting in his ear about this? Like hey, we're going to get wiped out if you start this war again and don't do this. Well, the GCC already warned him what could happen, so he's aware of that. But I think what he's told them is, look, we'll come, we'll be back. We'll win this. You'll get everything back. We'll help you rebuild. On and on and on. I think that's what they were told. And I think uh there's not much they can say in response to that. I think the UAE was
50:30a little different than the rest because the UAE has actually encouraged him to do everything in his power to utterly destroy Iran.
50:40>> Um, is is is that because the UAE is the closest Gulf state with Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu?
50:47>> Yes.
50:48>> Yeah.
50:49>> Yeah. Very much so. And you know, they've also >> they've also signed up for dollar swaps.
50:55remember they stepped out of the out of OPEC, >> correct?
50:58>> Very recently. I think all of these things were part of the deal. We'll we'll rebuild everything. We'll fix everything and so forth. The truth is, you're looking at 10 years uh of total, you know, no recovery for 10 years of this entire region as a result of this war. If he goes forward with another massive air and missile campaign, that's a foregone conclusion.
51:22Everybody says that. and Larry, we're not going back.
51:27The 27 plus bases in the region that are completely destroyed, as the Washington Post has now finally admitted, I guess the CIA told them to tell the truth. Uh, as a result of that, we can't rebuild all those things. We don't have the money for it. We can't afford it. And why would anybody living there want us to come back? We've turned ourselves and them into a magnet for attack.
51:52We can't defend them. that's been aly demonstrated.
51:56>> Uh and and as I've pointed out here on the Jimmy Door show and um said on social media that you would think the people like at in you know the money people in the United States, the bankers, the Wall Street people, um even Silicon Valley now a great amount of that oil money that comes out of the Gulf States goes directly into our stock market. And now if they get wiped out um and well they're already not able to make money off oil currently and so the money that would have gone into our stock market is not going in which will probably cause some kind of a crash on our stock market soon and if it's wiped out for 10 years
52:40what so I guess my question would be wouldn't the money people and the and the uh tech people in the United States along with the Gulf States be screaming at Trump and do you do you agree with what I what I just laid the scenario I just laid out?
52:55>> Uh I think your scenario in terms of the outcome is is accurate, but I don't think you've accurately evaluated the people in Wall Street or in the tech community. What do these people know about military power? What do they know about warfare? The answer is nothing.
53:14>> And what do they listen to? They listen to Donald Trump. We have the greatest military in the world. We can do anything. There's nobody that can compete. Okay. In some areas that's going to be true. In a lot of areas that's not true. They don't understand that with the weapons at our disposal, with the forces that we have that are really forces that were designed to refight some version of World War II are not the right answer to the problem that we confront.
53:45We can't fix this with military power.
53:47I've had people say, "Oh, you're wrong.
53:48The Navy and the Marines, they'll go they'll they'll take that straight.
53:51They'll occupy it. It's all done." How do you explain to someone that the Iranians don't have to occupy anything?
53:59If you move a ship into the straight that they do not want to move through the straight, they're going to pick that up instantaneously thanks to persistent surveillance from space-based intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance. That data will be sent instantaneously to missile systems, cruise missiles, tactical ballistic missiles, unmanned systems. Those will be launched and that that ship will be damaged or if necessary sunk. They don't understand what's going on. There doesn't have to be a little Iranian man standing on the edge of the waterway with an AK-47 and an RPG telling you to stop. That's not necessary. That's not
54:42how this works. We're not prepared to deal with this. We haven't been prepared for this for 30 years. Back in 1997, I published a book called Breaking the Fails. It talked about exactly this kind of thing happening, saying your off offshore naval power will be driven hundreds of miles away from the shore because if they come too close, somebody's going to launch a missile and it's going to be very difficult to to defend against the missile. I used at the time uh oh gosh it wasn't Ewim, it was Okinawa.
55:16I used the example of the kamicazis at Okinawa. And I said, "How many ships were damaged? How many were sunk? How many thousands of people were killed or wounded?" Well, it was enormous. You had 26 27 ships that were badly damaged, 23 sunk, so forth. Thousands of people. And this was a these were just manned cruise missiles flying at relatively slow speeds. Now you're dealing with missiles traveling at hypersonic speeds in many cases and you're dealing with large numbers of them. How do you defend yourself against that? You don't have enough missiles to fire in response to defend yourself. So what does the Navy
55:52do? The Navy very intelligently goes out into the sea. It moves 300 400 miles offshore because it doesn't want to be tanked.
56:03But people don't understand this. So they think we can do things we can't.
56:09>> So um China and Russia. So again, if he restarts this war, it will lead to a global depression which there's also already a global recession happening as you mentioned, >> right?
56:21>> Um and Putin had a hour and a half phone call with Trump just a couple of days ago. And then so what what can Russia and China do to make this not happen?
56:36>> Well, I think President Putin called him with that goal in mind. I don't know the details.
56:42>> Okay.
56:42>> I've gone through the translated material that I have from the Russian press.
56:48I think the only way to know the details what really happened is to get someone in the Kremlin to leak it. And I think the chances of that happening are about zero. But I think according to what is in the Russian press, Putin tried very hard to make it clear to him that if he went in there, it would not succeed.
57:06The situation would become much worse.
57:10And he urged him to to not even seriously consider it. Find another way.
57:15And he offered his help and and support.
57:18He offered to take in whatever enriched uranium there is, plutonium, and store it. He once again weighed in to do whatever he could to persuade President Trump not to go. I think what what people don't understand is that right now Russia, Iran, and China are in fact allies, >> right?
57:39>> This is very important.
57:41Beijing and Moscow have finally concluded. You know, if we let Iran fail, not only are we destroying this great project, this infrastructure project of rail and road transport all across Central Asia called the Belton Road, we're next on the menu. This is a rogue state led by a rogue personality.
58:03We can't trust these people to go any further. We have got to make a stand. So if it gets bad, in other words, if if there is any danger of this Iranian state collapsing, they're going to intervene to stop it. Now, there are various ways to do that. What would we do if a squadron of Russian uh Mig 31s suddenly flew into the airspace and landed on air strips in Thrron? What would we do if suddenly the Chinese sent a flotillaa of say 40 or 50 surface combatants and submarines to the Indian Ocean? I mean, you don't have to you don't have to have a direct uh confrontation and try to kill each other
58:48to make a point. And I think that is behind the the scenes being discussed in those capitals. And by the way, keep in mind neither China nor Russia won a war with us. Absolutely not. They don't want it. They've gone they've bent over backwards to avoid a confrontation with us. But if it comes to it, that's where we're headed. And I think he tried to politely articulate that point.
59:15>> So, is this what all empires do when they're in decline? They they they overextend uh and they become rogue states militarily and attacking everyone and trying to use their mil. Is that is that what's happening here? Or is this just because Trump's a maniac who's controlled by Benjamin Netanyahu?
59:35>> Well, I think that's a great question.
59:37First of all, I wouldn't go back too far in history because circumstances hundreds of years ago were very different from the day. I think the best analog for us is probably the British Empire. And in that sense, the British Empire overreached beyond reason and did itself in it. It it engaged in wars it didn't need to fight. The most significant one, of course, is World War I.
60:00I think there's something else to this, though, and that is that we have to understand that President Trump is not alone.
60:08He has a lot of support on the Hill. Oh, I'm sure that there are lots of Democrats say, "Well, I didn't support this. I don't like this." Well, they had an opportunity to demonstrate that during the State of the Union speech.
60:20They demonstrated the opposite.
60:22>> Yes.
60:22>> They gave him a standing ovation. They endorsed what he wants to do, >> right?
60:27>> They're all part of the problem.
60:30>> Yeah. Especially Chuck Schumer, who's also a one of the most uh ardent Zionists. And so he's the leader of the Democrats in the Senate. So I'm sure he's uh you're right. And Trump knows he's got his support. Uh let me let me move on to uh this item. Uh this just in USS Gerald Ford is departing and heading back to the United States.
60:54uh reports of the USS Gerald Ford carrier strike group departing the Mediterranean through the straight of Galar and reportedly heading back to the US. Uh America's 13 billion dollar flagship super carrier is steaming out of the Mediterranean, slipping through the straight of Gibralar and heading straight back to the United States.
61:14Official story for the Ford's problems, a laundry room fire that raged for over 30 hours in March. smoke damage that displays 600 sailors from the racks and the ship's chronically cursed vacuum toilets that clog like clockwork, forcing expensive flushes to get. So, but the timing is no coincidence. The sudden withdrawal comes exactly as Iranian sources tell Tasmin that the whole US deal narrative around project freedom is pure spin and not serious.
61:45Tyran sees the pause for exactly what it is, a retreat dressed up as diplomacy.
61:52The truth is simpler and far more humiliating for the empire. The age of the super carrier has gone the same way as the battleship. One well-placed Iranian strike or even the credible threat of one. And even the Navy's newest, most expensive floating airfield has to turn tail and run. The fort is heading home. Iran is still standing tall in its own waters. natural consequences. Don't care about how billions how many billions you spent on the ship that can no longer operate uh with shakedown impunity. And um the truth is far more humiliating for the empire. The age of super carrier has gone the same way as the so um what's
62:34your what's your response to that?
62:38>> Well, first of all, we know that there were some strikes that found their way to carriers. There's no doubt about that. But I think we need to understand, especially in the case of the Ford, the Ford was originally in the Mediterranean. Then it was jerked suddenly from the Mediterranean all the way down to the Caribbean. It sat in the Caribbean for months until Trump finally decided to stage his kidnapping and abandon any military assault on Venezuela. Then the carrier was jerked back up to the Mediterranean again.
63:12By the time it gets home, it will have been at sea, I think, for at least a year.
63:17>> Wow.
63:18>> Now, that's too long.
63:21And the sailors on board the the Ford are human beings. I've seen material come back from from the Ford that was passed to me, people were just exhausted. They were worn out. People are saying, you know, I'll never reinlist. This has finished the Navy for me. I'll never do this again. I think that you had sailors that stuffed up toilets and caused the backup. It was deliberate. I think there are a lot of really miserable people on board that ship. Now, the other thing is, and this is eminently possible, but I don't know for a fact, the leadership in the surface fleet is toxic. The Navy doesn't treat people very well. And I wouldn't
64:04be surprised if people were tired of being treated badly because that seems to be the average condition.
64:12Now, that's not true in the in the aviation arm. It's not true in the submarine arm, but in the surface fleet, it's rough. So, you put all of that together, I don't think it's a question of a retreat because the carriers that are there now replace the two that left.
64:27Remember, the Lincoln went home, too.
64:30So, you've got two new carrier battle groups and hopefully they will not keep them there for a year. I'm sure there's a lot of pressure right now inside the defense department to say, "Look, if you're going to use these forces that we've assembled, Mr. President, we need to use them. If you're not going to use them, then let's disengage." I mean, you reached that point because we're operating 6 or 7,000 miles from home.
64:53Remember when we blockaded Cuba, we called it a quarantine. We did that with 180 ships. We have nothing near that right now. And we did it in the Caribbean, which is practically a lake that belongs to the United States, right?
65:09>> It was very close to our home station.
65:11So was easy to sustain, easy to resupply. It was not an exercise and unnecessary self-inflicted misery. So I would take all of that into account and I wouldn't necessarily sign on for the retreat. That's that's inaccurate.
65:28>> So, let's move on to one more subject.
65:30Uh, this is Mark back to Marco Rubio.
65:33Uh, according to our friend Furkan, he is visibly panicking. He's literally begging Beijing to step in and save the collapsing economy. Uh, let's listen to what he says.
65:44>> On the first point about the visit, um, it's fine. I hope the Chinese tell him >> because Trump is scheduled for a visit in just a few days in China. So, this is what he's referring to. on the first point about the visit. Um, it's fine. I hope the Chinese tell him what he needs to be told, and that is that what you are doing in the Straits is causing you to be globally isolated. You're the bad guy in this. You what you you guys should not be blowing up ships. You should not be putting mines. You should not be holding hostage the global trying to hold hostage the global economy. I hope the Chinese bring whether it's done
66:12privately, but I hope it's done directly that that's the message they deliver to them. As I outlined earlier today, China is an export-driven economy. Okay? I'm not here to speak on behalf of what's in the best interest of China, but it's obvious China is an export-driven economy. That means they depend on other countries to buy from them. Well, you can't buy from them if you can't ship it there. And you can't buy from them if your economy is being destroyed by what Iran is doing.
66:36>> So, just to let you know, uh, chording to reports, Chinese oil tankers are passing the straighted formoose daily and the United States hasn't said a word about it. What's your reaction to Marco Rubio and to this report?
66:50Everything that Marco Rubio said the Chinese should uh communicate to Iran will be communicated to President Trump when he shows up in Beijing.
67:01>> Yes, >> Iran isn't going to tell or rather China is going to tell the Iranians that President Xi understands exactly what's happening. He knows who started the war and he knows why and he takes the position, I'm sure, in private, what are you doing? Why are you going to war on behalf of Israel? This makes no sense.
67:24This is destructive. That's what President Xi will probably say in private. But uh otherwise, he's going to give him exactly that message. He's going to say, "President Trump, you need to stop this before the entire world economy is destroyed." But he's not going to turn on Iran. Iran is defending itself. He's helping Iran to defend itself. So is Russia. So I think I think uh Secretary Rubio has turned everything on its head and that's not surprising.
67:53That's what he's being paid to do, I guess.
67:56>> And do you have any information on the this report that Chinese oil tankers have been passing through the straight of Formoose daily?
68:04>> Well, I don't know about daily, but I know that the Chinese went quickly to the Iranians and the Iranians made it clear that they would allow all the Chinese tankers to pass through unmolested.
68:15By the way, similar arrangements have been made with the Japanese and similar arrangements are in progress now with the Koreans and I think we're going to see more and more nations particularly in Asia who are sympathetic to Iran's position who are going to reach similar agreements. That's why Secretary Rubio's comment is not headed in the right direction. It's China that needs to be very straightforward with President Trump. But let me let me go a little bit further because people don't understand how important China is. If if President Trump thinks he can go to Beijing and make demands and expect President Xi to
68:53comply, he's lost his mind. Beijing recently announced that Chinese companies will not observe and abide by US sanctions.
69:03>> Correct.
69:04>> Not on private refiners. Certainly not linked to the Iranian oil trade.
69:08absolutely will not hinder or limit heavyweight Hangley pro chemical refinery company. Th this is a sea change in Beijing's relations with Washington. Beijing is normally always trying to accommodate. They tried to accommodate us on tariffs and other things. They're not going to accommodate on energy. China is now tightening its grip on trade with us. They're expanding export controls on critical minerals.
69:38They're reinforcing their own supply chains. Uh in addition to cornering Washington on trade, Beijing is also reducing its holdings of our treasuries.
69:49They are reallocating the reserves toward harder assets like gold and reducing reliance on US debt.
69:58Let me tell you, if he goes there with anything other than an attitude characterized by cordiality and humility, he's going to be embarrassed.
70:07He's going to be shown the door pretty quickly.
70:10>> So if if if what you say happens, if what you say is true that Korea, Japan, China have a deal with Iran to let those ships go through the straight of Hormuz according to Trump, uh they're going to stop it, right? Um do you think that they will? Do you think that they that that means them attacking China, Korea, and Japan? Do you think that will happen?
70:32>> No, I don't. But I do think you're right. And I think within the next 48 hours, whether it's the 7th of May or the 8th of May, we're going to restart this air and missile campaign. That will in fact do the same thing as stopping trade period. Because as soon as the missiles and bombs start to fall and strike targets, that's over. Everyone in the Gulf is going to batten down the hatches and try to ride this thing out.
70:59There will be no movement through the straight of war moves. So, he'll accomplish his blockade by going back to war. The problem is that that's going to permanently alienate most of the world against us and especially China.
71:15>> Okay. Well, uh you've been uh you've been very gracious with your time. I appreciate you accommodating our schedule as always do and uh >> you're back to the Napoleono routine.
71:27>> We appreciate your insight as always.
71:28You have uh great knowledge and I appreciate you sharing it with us and I look forward to talking with you again soon. Uh Douglas McGregor, thank you very much, sir.
71:38>> Hey, thanks. Good to see you again.
71:40>> Good to see you. Over to Steph.
71:43>> Thank you, Judge Npalitano. Thank you, Colonel McGregor. That was fantastic interview. Much appreciated. All right, here we go, ladies and gentlemen. Um, you know, at some point, uh, Top Feed Coco said, "Tell Jimmy to stay the hell away from my wife. She said he looks good today, but I know what's really going on." Damn it. That's from Top Feed Coco. Thank you, Coco.
72:08I love Mike and think that UFOs are probably a scup, but tons, and I mean tons of commercial pilots have seen them. Steve, will knowledge of UFO aliens freak out the rabbis? Change Israel Israeli goals if it turns out that burning bush was really aliens who didn't deed the Holy Land to them or choose them? H active guardian.
72:32This is costing American children their offspring future. LOL. My username rocks. What's the LOL part exactly? The Nick Depollo show rated the Jimmy Door Show. Oh, Nick Depalo, hilarious comedian.
72:46>> Uh, soundchaser. They're closing in on a one-word memorandum. Never mind.
72:53Uh, lifting bales. Hey, Jimmy. Have you heard of the Islamic escal esctologist?
73:02Esquetologist.
73:04Shik Imran Hussein. He's been talking about Gaza genocide, AI, greater Israel, Iran war, and digital currency for 30 years. Well, thank you, Lifting, for the recommendation. We'll look him up. Thank you very much. All right, put that to the side there. Now, it's official >> for coming.
73:23>> You should interview him. I think you'd be amazed. Thank you for that one.
73:27Lifting user, people really need to start some food rotation practices. A famine is already locked in from nitrogen phosphate shortfalls missing the peak fertilizer season. user uh fully laden swallow. You heard on Sab show that RFK and his son has ties to Palunteer. I looked it up and it looks like uh his son may have had these tangential connections to Palunteer once upon a time. But currently I don't find any evidence to show connection. Maybe you do. I can't find it. All right, but thank you very much Fully. Here's the lesson for everyone. One big bully can't do against a million mosquitoes.
74:11Soundchaser.
74:13Thank you, Jimmy, for popping my cherry of obliviousness. Matthew, how's your cherry? I love Mike. Thank you, Steve.
74:23Fun fact, the day the people who created Israel and the dancing Israelis on 911 also created modern medicine and co 19's dancing nurses.
74:33Huh? Andrew, I don't know what you mean.
74:35Ask Colonel McGregor about ad Astra program.
74:39Thank you. That was uh from Andrew again.
74:44All right.
74:46Israel and Netanyahu. No. Israel and Roth Shields. Yes. Correction. The Larry Door Show. The Amazing Black.
74:55>> He kept calling me Larry because I brought up Larry Johnson. That's that's why I had to say it. You know, I sat here on the Jimmy Door Show. I don't know if you heard me slip that in. So it reminded him he was talking to Jimmy.
75:05>> I missed the first Larry that he called.
75:07>> He said it twice.
75:08>> Yes, >> he said it twice. Larry, >> the the chat was going crazy with the Larry show. You know, >> I noticed it for sure. I tried to gently stare him back on course.
75:18>> It was gentle.
75:19>> All right, come to me. We got I can't wait for Kurt. Is Kurt here?
75:22>> Kurt is here.
75:25>> Hi, Kurt Mezer.
75:27>> Hey, good to see I hate this Zoom auto thing. It's like it's like I'm seasick or something when I see my >> Yeah. I I think your background is very uninspired today. But anyway, >> really?
75:37>> Yeah. I like when you always have, you know, Cardi B or Nicki Minaj or something.
75:41>> Oh, we could switch it over to that right now if you want.
75:43>> Oh, look at you in technology.
75:45>> Yeah. Very, very uninspired. Kurt, you you look like Duncan Trussell.
75:53I got a show coming him called uh Mystery Boys coming out finally after the longest negotiation of podcasts in history for a contract for podcasting.
76:02>> Um well I I wish you good luck on that show Kurt. I I >> we already did like 15 of them like they just hadn't come out but uh yeah that's where the Duncan Trussell influence came from. But the idea that uh a Hollywood talent agency is able is going to be able to uh successfully navigate the independent media space is I I think a fool's errand.
76:26>> Yeah. Well, it's not my >> even with talented people like you, I I think it's a I think it's a it's a fool's errand.
76:33>> Uh well, I mean, I wouldn't do it unless I was >> I just walk into, you know, >> I know. I totally understand. I would I wouldn't turn it down either. It's a smart move on your behalf. You know, it's like when they started that radio network about 20 years ago. Do you remember that? Everybody had a radio show and and people got their money and that thing and got out because the thing was destined to fail. So, Mike, advice to you, get your money while CIA is spending it.
76:58>> Well, we we own the show.
77:00>> Okay.
77:00>> Even better.
77:01>> Yeah, even better. Hey, guess what?
77:03Speaking of failed media enterprises, Ben Shapiro at the Daily Wire has fired half his staff in mass layoffs. No.
77:11>> Uh, yeah, because they've lost 85% of their YouTube audience since last year.
77:16I wonder why. Maybe Ben Shapiro should come out and tell people, "Fuck you. You don't get to live in your own neighborhood you grew up in anymore, you asshole." And uh, you shouldn't be able to retire. He should tell them more stuff like that. that this and you should tell them that the United States needs to be a better ally to Israel as as they crack down on our free speech rights and uh all the stuff and and tell students to shut up and uh but you know uh >> never win a debate with an adult only >> never win a debate with an adult but they have lost 85% of their viewers but the consolation prize is Ben Shapiro's
77:53eyebrows have grown 85% they've grown 80% to compensate Hey, isn't that nice?
77:58>> He's got a greater eyebrow project.
78:00>> He, you know, once the rest of his audience is bailed on the Daily Wire, he's going to be a fur covered wolf man in a Ukrainian zoo where he can finally start making some real money. Am I right? Come on.
78:12>> Guy's got Hitler mustaches for eyebrows.
78:15>> Uh Ben, this is from the rap. Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire hit with layoffs across numbers of teams largely from Nashville's headquarters.
78:25Uh Ben Shapiro right-wing media company confirmed the layoffs saying that they impacted staffers span a number of teams and that the layoffs were largely concentrated at its Nashville headquarters. Today the Daily Wire made a difficult decision to restructure the organization which in you Yeah. Yeah.
78:44The reason why is because you're a failing enterprise, right? Uh the the idea that they were going to be able to make it without Candace Owens is like the idea that TPUSA is going to be able to make it without Charlie Kirk. Okay.
78:56>> I mean, how about that great Snow White that they were supposed to make that never came out, the traditional nonLGBT.
79:02>> That's right. Uh so I like at the end he says, "We are deeply grateful to those impacted. Their contributions were instrumental in building the Daily Wire into what it is today. what it is today is a failing media empire spiraling spiraling in the wrong direction. The statement continued, "The cuts were largely concentrated at our Nashville production office as the company has invested in new Oh, yeah. They're just they're just switching their focus, Kurt. It's not that no one's watching them anymore because everyone has turned against his favorite country, Israel, which which he cares more about than the
79:40United States." Over the last year, we have added production staff in DC, the Northeast, and Florida. This step allows us to focus our resources on the ambit.
79:49This is the double CK and ambitious slate new entertainment project. Yeah, we're going to do, you know, now that the old ones have failed, we're going to try new ones. So, they're running on fumes and donor money because no one's watching their show. They went >> Did you see what happened? They were making an action movie with that guy from Marvel that got run out for beating his girlfriend and then they picked him up. that he got brutally injured crashing through a plate glass window because they don't have union safety standards.
80:17>> Oh, no kidding. I didn't know that.
80:19>> Like, we don't like unions here. So, like the guy's all messed up now from crashing through it wasn't the fake glass. It was like the real glass or something. uh you know but at at you know just at to show Ben Shapiro's gratitude towards the teams the people he's had to lay off he has in a symbol of gratitude for them he has agreed to do personalized gag answering phone messages for each fired employee >> bench barrel is absolutely ridiculous >> uh Candace Owens who worked at the company until 2024 also commented on the layoffs of her former employer she hinted that at least 50% of the company's staff wasffected ffected. Uh,
80:56here it is. Hearing that the Daily Wire laid off 50% of their staff today, as much as I am positively despise what their execs put me and my family through, there's a lot of good people that work there in their family's feet, they could use our prayers. Okay. All right. These cuts at the Daily Wire are the latest for the company. The last round of layoffs at the media company came in March of 2025. The layoffs at the Daily Wire are just the latest in the entertainment and media sector. A couple of weeks ago, Disney announced layoffs totaling a thousand people across Marvel, its PR division, and home
81:31entertainment. Axios and Netflix also announced layoffs in March. And Netflix, too. Oh, I thought they were doing so good just a couple of years ago. You know, as long as they don't lay off all the brand new comedians with 15minute specials of com comedy material that they can milk into a half hour special.
81:51Am I right?
81:54Uh, the Daily Wire is a case study of why personalitydriven media companies can't compound.
82:03Peak in late 2023, Shapiro's YouTube alone pulled in 170 million monthly views. Daily Wire Plus subscriptions, Nashville studio operations, Berkeley Kids streaming, and an e-commerce arm with razors and chocolates and cigars.
82:18The company was running a billion-dollar conservative Disney bet. Then they made the studio bet bigger. Pen, that's just what you were talking about, right? The Pentreagon cycle.
82:29>> The Pen Dragon Cycle.
82:30>> Pen Dragon Cycle and Arththerian Fantasy series of the kind that has bankrupted larger production houses.
82:37>> Yeah.
82:38>> Uh Bent Key, >> they all want Game of Thrones. They all want their own Game of Thrones.
82:41>> Bent Key trying to compete with Disney for kids attention. Daily Wire Plus chasing Netflix. Running a newsroom, a film studio, a children's streaming platform, and a private label consumer goods business simultaneously requires either limitless capital or an extraordinary discipline. Some of it worked. Matt Walsh's Amiracist was the top grossing documentary of 24, but most of it didn't work.
83:07>> No kidding. I didn't know that was the top grossing documentary of 2024. No kidding.
83:12>> I didn't know it either. In March of 24, they parted ways with Candace Owens. She talked uh she walked into the open market and built a show that competes with theirs. In fact, blows theirs away.
83:24She's the number one audio puck. Uh today we have 5.5 million YouTube subscribers and added 10.9 million followers across all her platforms since January 2025, generating roughly 805 million views in that window. Daily Wire converted its biggest distribution asset into its largest competitor. Kind of like what the Young Turks did with this show. Early 2025, co-founder Jeremy Boring stepped down as CEO and launched a solo podcast outside the company he co-founded. Bend Key was shuttered the same year the entire team cut. Then the audience math hit Shapiro himself.
84:09170 million monthly YouTube views in late 23 to roughly 22 million in early 25. An 85% collapse in 18 months.
84:19Another 60,000 subscribers gone in the last 90 days. Layoff hedge.com estimates cumulative workforce reduction above 60% over the past year. Wow. Wow.
84:33>> Why did he call it the Greater Boring Project?
84:36>> No kidding.
84:37Tucker Carlson left Fox in 2023. He kept his audience, runs his shop with a fraction of the headcount. Megan Kelly's network drew 138 million YouTube views in February alone. The personalities figured out they don't need the platform. The platform discovered the opposite, which is what I was telling Chris Hedges all along and he finally took my advice and started his he's killing it now. I told him you don't need a billionaire funding your your voice on independent media and he figured it out. Uh Daily Wire built a billion dollar valuation on names that can walk take the audience with them and run a competing show from a laptop the
85:19next morning. 170 million views to 22 million. The company kept the overhead.
85:25The audience left with the people. Uh so Candace Owens tweeted this out. Very good read. I would only add that the Daily Wire also suffered in the end from a Ben Shapiro problem. Any plan to save the company would have had to include him stepping away as the public face of it. That's just the reality. His brand has become toxic to growth. 100%. No kidding.
85:51>> Uh what about VC Pastani as a replacement?
85:53>> How about it? He's going to be the new governor in Ohio so he can screw over workers even harder. reports that the Daily Wire has fired half of its staff because no one wants to watch their lay mass propaganda. Ben Shapiro Shapiro and the Israeli Wire are reporting financial difficulties and cratering viewership.
86:11They were selling Israeli wire memberships for 50% off. You couldn't pay me to watch that garbage. And there it is. There's Cis Owens given the sign above his grave.
86:24Fantastic.
86:26Did you see the New York I was in the New York Post I think about the Jesus phone which is a phone that blocks pornography or something for Christians.
86:33But here's the thing. It's run by Israeli security programs.
86:37>> Oh no.
86:38>> So basically just giving Israel your porn viewing habits.
86:41>> And uh I mean aren't Zionists the biggest porn producers in the world anyway? They own all the >> They own both sides of the of the war usually. Yeah.
86:50>> Yeah. There you go. You you you you create the problem and you sell the solution to it. Isn't that that's the that's kind of what they did with the co >> Fouchi invented the virus and then he sold you the vaccine. Isn't it? So that's called a success.
87:04>> That's called a scam.
87:06>> That's called a scam. So Ben Shapiro um good to see him sucking a big bag of dicks.
87:14>> He really is unlikable, isn't he?
87:16>> He's he's he may be the most unlikable.
87:18He is he he makes Erica Kirk look like a good time.
87:24>> Kyle when he would do impressions of him and Kyle's not like really you know he doesn't know all the ins and outs of these people like that but he just like he's just so twerpy. He is he's got this little twerpy absolutely he's the worst dude and his eyebrows I don't know do whatever with him but I don't think it's helping.
87:41>> I don't know what what what do you do?
87:42Let's let's see let's see his eyebrows again. There. They I don't >> Those are his war eyebrows. And now he's back to ceasefire brow.
87:51>> You see his plumage extends when he's under threat from Iraq.
87:54>> Yeah, that's >> all right. Uh we're going to bring on our favorite uh climate change denier.
88:06>> Oh.
88:06>> Uh but uh Tony Heler is coming on. But first we're first we're going to switch over to Rumble, ladies and gentlemen.
88:14So, catch us over on Rumble with our favorite uh climate change denier, Tony.
88:20>> Glide and hide today. I bet.
88:21>> Oh, I bet. I bet.
88:23>> All right. I'll see you guys later.
88:24>> Okay. Bye.
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