Hegseth hit and Iranian drones (12-11-2024--Hour3)

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[00:00:55] Oh, well. Larry, welcome to the program. Hello, Larry.

[00:01:01] How you doing, sir?

[00:01:02] Hey, I am doing well.

[00:01:03] Well, I was listening to that lady ranting and raving about House Bill 382 and how they're taking power away from the governor.

[00:01:12] The thing about it is she may not know about or realize, or maybe she's just ignoring it.

[00:01:17] When I was in the legislature, we did the same thing on some issues with Pat McCrory.

[00:01:23] Correct.

[00:01:23] And he sued us over it.

[00:01:25] It's not just a Republican-Democrat thing. Those powers are not given to the governor by the Constitution.

[00:01:32] The Democrats, when they were in charge, kept giving their governors all these powers.

[00:01:37] And when we had the majority, we weren't too thrilled with what Pat McCrory was doing with some of those powers.

[00:01:44] And so we took them back.

[00:01:46] And, you know, they had the authority to give them to the governor if they wanted to.

[00:01:50] We had the authority to take it back.

[00:01:52] And that's all it is.

[00:01:53] We felt like the governor was overstepping and misusing some of those powers.

[00:01:57] And we just felt like it was better to take some of that back away from them.

[00:02:00] So we did.

[00:02:01] If they get back in the majority, they can do the same thing.

[00:02:04] You know, so she's ranting and raving over something that's supposedly a Republican-Democrat issue when it isn't necessarily so.

[00:02:11] Right. And this is the Pat McCrory instance is not the only one.

[00:02:18] I mean, you had was in 1972 Governor Jim Holzhauser, Republican, had power stripped.

[00:02:24] Jim Martin, Republican governor, 1984.

[00:02:28] Lieutenant Governor Jim Gardner, 1988.

[00:02:31] The Democrats did all of the power stripping against those guys because, like you said, the legislature had been giving power to, you know, Democrat governors that they liked and were popular.

[00:02:44] And so all was fine.

[00:02:45] And then when somebody got in there that they didn't like, they took the power away from them.

[00:02:49] And so this is not new.

[00:02:51] There you go.

[00:02:52] Well, I just want to make that point because I'm sure some listeners maybe don't know the history of that.

[00:02:59] You know, and I want to just set that straight.

[00:03:01] This is not clearly, you know, just a Republican-Democrat issue.

[00:03:05] This is how the governor using these powers.

[00:03:08] If they don't belong to him in the Constitution, the legislature has the right to give them or take them away.

[00:03:13] Right. And this is legislative supremacy versus executive branch supremacy.

[00:03:19] And in this state, the legislature is supreme.

[00:03:23] It has more power.

[00:03:24] It is the wellspring of the power and the authority.

[00:03:26] So it's not a new fight.

[00:03:28] We have a very weak executive.

[00:03:30] And that's based probably around the Civil War.

[00:03:33] I would imagine, from what I remember at least, is that the legislative bodies did not want to have a strong leader, a strong governor in this state.

[00:03:42] And that goes back also probably to some colonial era thinking.

[00:03:46] We don't want a king.

[00:03:47] We didn't want a king in this state.

[00:03:49] We didn't want one for the country either.

[00:03:51] Yeah.

[00:03:52] And, of course, I don't want to get into a whole other discussion.

[00:03:54] But since you pointed that out, a big reason for secession was the rejection in the South of federal tyranny.

[00:04:06] That's what that was really all about.

[00:04:07] Well, and also, I mean, you talk about that.

[00:04:10] Like, you have your legislature in the in the state.

[00:04:14] And the governor at the time, Vance, he wasn't a proponent of secession.

[00:04:21] But the legislature did it, if I recall correctly.

[00:04:24] And so then he went along with it.

[00:04:26] Like, that's there isn't like there's this fight.

[00:04:29] This is not a new fight.

[00:04:30] And the and people tend to look at this stuff through the Democrat Republican lens only.

[00:04:35] But there is this other lens by which to view it through.

[00:04:39] And you can disagree that the legislature should have the power to do this.

[00:04:43] That's a different argument.

[00:04:44] But the Democrats are not making that argument here.

[00:04:46] Well, even before North Carolina seceded, Lincoln asked Governor Ellis for troops to go against those who had seceded.

[00:04:56] And he refused.

[00:04:58] So we just were not a state that was willing to put up with tyranny.

[00:05:02] You know, we have a legislature.

[00:05:04] Let them deal with things.

[00:05:05] Let the governor do what he's given to do.

[00:05:08] And, you know, basically, as you say, the legislature more clearly represents the people.

[00:05:15] And they should be the ones making those choices.

[00:05:17] Larry, good to hear from you.

[00:05:19] I appreciate the call.

[00:05:20] Yes, sir.

[00:05:20] You take care.

[00:05:21] You too.

[00:05:21] Take care.

[00:05:24] Yeah.

[00:05:24] John Hood wrote about this.

[00:05:25] I covered this a couple of days or a couple of weeks ago, I guess it was.

[00:05:29] Four times in modern North Carolina history.

[00:05:32] I just ran through them.

[00:05:34] 1972, 1984, 1988.

[00:05:37] All three of those were Democratic legislatures stripping power from Republican governors.

[00:05:45] And so when Democrats are out there saying that, you know, this is some sort of an unprecedented act or it's contempt for democracy or Republicans are being sore losers.

[00:05:57] The only thing, as John Hood says, all the Republicans heard was hypocrisy because that's what it is.

[00:06:04] This is why I say hypocrisy is a charge.

[00:06:06] The charge carries no purchase anymore.

[00:06:08] It doesn't matter.

[00:06:09] People don't care if their team is engaging in hypocrisy because they know the other team doesn't care when their team is doing it.

[00:06:19] So this is a consistent application of the standard, which is what I support.

[00:06:25] I do not support the hypocrisy, but I support there being a unified standard.

[00:06:31] If this is if this if these are the rules that we're playing by, then we all get to play by these rules.

[00:06:37] Right.

[00:06:37] Both teams get a turn at bat.

[00:06:40] And there are a lot of people that think that they get to take all of their swings and then the other team doesn't get any.

[00:06:46] And that's not how it works.

[00:06:48] Not how it works.

[00:06:50] Not in a democracy, at least.

[00:06:54] One of the one of the other things that's being said by Democrats about the Senate Bill 382 is that it doesn't do anything.

[00:07:06] For Helene relief and recovery efforts, it's not enough or doesn't do anything or whatever.

[00:07:13] Now, I got to I was talking about this the other day and I got a message from somebody in Raleigh, I will just say.

[00:07:22] Who gave me a breakdown of Senate Bill 382 because we were also discussing.

[00:07:30] The building codes that are preventing shelters from being either built or delivered onto properties for people that are sleeping in tents to get them out of tents and into these shelters.

[00:07:43] And in a lot of cases, they're being blocked by code, by government regulation.

[00:07:50] Because it's a shelter.

[00:07:51] It's not a even though it's temporary and it's a disaster area.

[00:07:55] Like, no, no, no.

[00:07:56] Got to have you know, check these boxes.

[00:07:57] We can't approve it.

[00:07:59] State law says this or whatever.

[00:08:00] So there's a bunch of stuff in Senate Bill 382 that will actually address some of this.

[00:08:07] The Office of the State Fire Marshal.

[00:08:11] There's a provision in there that allows the office to adopt emergency rules for the placement and installation of temporary manufactured and modular dwellings.

[00:08:21] They could be rapidly deployed to provide safe shelter for families displaced by disasters, helping them stay warm and protected during harsh winters.

[00:08:30] The right to connect temporary housing to wastewater treatment systems.

[00:08:34] That allows homeowners to connect a temporary housing unit to existing wastewater systems.

[00:08:40] There is a waiver of sedimentation pollution control plan submission.

[00:08:46] So it lets critical land disturbing activities to begin immediately while still requiring the installation of erosion control measures prior to initiation of the land disturbing activities.

[00:08:58] And then you got to have a plan done within 30 days.

[00:09:01] So it'll accelerate the rebuild effort by months.

[00:09:06] It also extends the validity of state and local development approvals and permits to ensure that projects delayed by disasters can proceed without costly renewals or reapplications.

[00:09:17] That'll reduce the burden on not just property owners, but also local governments.

[00:09:23] There's temporary public water system approval, temporary pump and haul wastewater permits.

[00:09:31] There's a simplified regulatory framework.

[00:09:35] So until July 1, delaying the implementation of the updated building code provides local government.

[00:09:41] So they have delayed the implementation of the updated building code until July 1.

[00:09:48] And the tree ordinance restrictions in disaster areas provision will prohibit local governments from enforcing tree ordinances on private property more than 10 feet from the property boundary.

[00:10:04] So this is like in in Charlotte.

[00:10:06] We have a tree ordinance.

[00:10:07] And if you got big, fat old trees, you want to take them down or something.

[00:10:11] You got to get permits and all.

[00:10:12] And, you know, oh, that's a certain kind of tree.

[00:10:14] Can't do that.

[00:10:15] Whatever.

[00:10:15] If you're trying to take down trees, you're trying to clear land because you're trying to rebuild.

[00:10:22] This will give you a workaround if you are in a disaster declared county.

[00:10:29] So there are a bunch of things in Senate Bill 382 that actually could help.

[00:10:35] I'm sure there are tradeoffs here, but there are things that could help in the recovery efforts.

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[00:11:43] All right, so a couple of things that happened while I was running my mouth.

[00:11:48] Maybe we'll call that a new segment.

[00:11:50] It's a benchmark segment.

[00:11:52] Things that happened while Pete was blabbering.

[00:11:57] Apparently, ProPublica, a left-wing publication, was trying to do a hit piece on Pete Hegseth and whether or not he actually was accepted to West Point.

[00:12:11] Hegseth found out that they were planning to publish this story and so released a copy of the letter that accepted him to West Point, his acceptance letter.

[00:12:25] And so ProPublica now had to go out and explain why they were working on this story.

[00:12:33] Here's what they said.

[00:12:34] We asked West Point Public Affairs, which told us twice on the record that he hadn't even applied there.

[00:12:43] We reached out.

[00:12:45] Hegseth's spokesperson gave us his acceptance letter.

[00:12:48] We did not publish a story.

[00:12:50] That's journalism.

[00:12:56] Actually, no.

[00:12:58] Journalism would then mean you go and find out why West Point, their public affairs division, lied to you.

[00:13:10] That's the story now.

[00:13:11] See, that's journalism.

[00:13:13] I understand not doing a story.

[00:13:15] I've said for years, sometimes the best stories you do are the ones you never cover.

[00:13:18] Like, because you just, they, they, you're able to get something done simply by asking questions or making some phone calls and some, some good comes of it.

[00:13:30] And, and it never turns into a story for whatever reason.

[00:13:35] Um, this is not one of those cases.

[00:13:38] Why did West Point Public Affairs Office go on the record?

[00:13:44] And ProPublica hasn't identified who these people are.

[00:13:47] So I'm not sure how you go on the record unless like you're an actual person that's being quoted.

[00:13:53] You're supposed to go on the record, give your name and rank and your position, right?

[00:13:58] Your title.

[00:13:59] And then you say, we don't have any record of him ever applying, let alone being accepted.

[00:14:05] But he's got a letter.

[00:14:08] He has the letter, the acceptance letter.

[00:14:10] So why did you tell us that didn't exist?

[00:14:13] What's going on?

[00:14:14] And now West Point has to go back and figure out why they don't know why Hegseth has that acceptance letter.

[00:14:23] Now, maybe Hegseth made up the letter.

[00:14:24] I doubt that, but see, that would be the, those are the next steps you do in the investigation.

[00:14:30] You don't just abandon the story when it's not going to shape up as a nice hit piece for you.

[00:14:36] Um, so there's that.

[00:14:37] Then, uh, something else that happened while I was blabbing.

[00:14:41] Um, New Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew, uh, he's an illustrator, uh, as I recall.

[00:14:49] He, uh, claimed today that the mystery drones over the Garden State are from Iran.

[00:14:56] Or, as he said, very possibly could be from Iran.

[00:15:00] Which, it's not as definitive of a statement.

[00:15:04] There's some wiggle room there.

[00:15:07] Very possibly could be from Iran.

[00:15:09] Iran.

[00:15:11] He said the drones should be shot down.

[00:15:14] And I concur.

[00:15:16] I concur.

[00:15:17] Did we learn nothing from this balloon?

[00:15:20] Right?

[00:15:21] The Chinese spy balloon.

[00:15:23] As it floated its way slowly yet gracefully across the country.

[00:15:31] Just riding the winds and then sometimes turning against them in order to get better shots of the military installations.

[00:15:36] And then drifting out into the ocean where it was then shot down.

[00:15:39] After it had collected all of the intelligence it needed for China.

[00:15:44] Did we learn nothing from this balloon?

[00:15:46] Why do we have drones flying around over New Jersey?

[00:15:49] Look, I didn't know what to make of these reports either when I first heard them.

[00:15:52] They were coming from, you know, uh, New Jersey area.

[00:15:56] And people were saying they saw all these lights in the air.

[00:15:58] But it's New Jersey.

[00:15:59] And it's like, guys, they're probably just drunk, you know?

[00:16:02] Because that's Jersey.

[00:16:04] But no, it turns out they are actually drones up in the air.

[00:16:08] And now there's apparently, some of them are moving in, like, formation.

[00:16:13] And the government says it's not, these are not hobbyists.

[00:16:17] It's not the federal government.

[00:16:19] So, okay, well then who the hell is it?

[00:16:20] If you don't know who it is, shoot them down.

[00:16:23] What are we doing?

[00:16:24] What if they do have a payload of some kind?

[00:16:26] Is there?

[00:16:27] So he claims, Jeff Van Drew says, there's some boat, some mothership, where they're launching

[00:16:33] from off the coast.

[00:16:36] Why is that thing still floating?

[00:16:39] All right.

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[00:17:09] So in case you were wondering if a foreign power could launch a whole bunch of drone strikes

[00:17:17] on American soil.

[00:17:19] They can.

[00:17:21] That we failed that test.

[00:17:23] We're failing it apparently right now as we speak.

[00:17:27] Here is Congressman Jeff Van Drew on Fox News earlier in the afternoon here, I guess like an hour ago,

[00:17:39] explaining what he has learned about these drones that have been flying around over New Jersey.

[00:17:44] In focus now, Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, member of the House Judiciary Committee

[00:17:50] on the Hill right now.

[00:17:52] How do you how do you address this at this point?

[00:17:56] Well, here's the real deal, Harris.

[00:17:58] You know, I'm also on the Transportation Committee on the Aviation Subcommittee.

[00:18:01] And I've gotten to know people.

[00:18:03] And from very high sources, very qualified sources, very responsible sources.

[00:18:09] I'm going to tell you the real deal.

[00:18:12] Iran launched a mothership probably about a month ago that contains these drones.

[00:18:18] That mothership is off.

[00:18:20] I'm going to tell you the deal.

[00:18:21] It's off the east coast of the United States of America.

[00:18:24] America.

[00:18:24] They've launched drones.

[00:18:26] Everything that we can see or hear.

[00:18:28] And again, these are from high sources.

[00:18:29] I don't say this lightly.

[00:18:31] Now, you know, we know there was a probability it could have been our own government.

[00:18:35] We know it's not our own government because they would have let us know.

[00:18:38] It could have been some really glorified hobbyist or hobbyists that were doing something unbelievable.

[00:18:45] They don't have the technology.

[00:18:47] But let's pretend that's possible.

[00:18:49] The third possibility was somebody, an adversarial country doing this.

[00:18:53] Know that Iran made a deal with China to purchase drones, motherships, and technology in order to go forward.

[00:19:02] The sources I have are good.

[00:19:04] They can't reveal who they are because they are speaking to me in confidentiality.

[00:19:09] These drones should be shot down.

[00:19:11] Whether it was some crazy hobbyist that we can't imagine or whether it is Iran, and I think it very possibly could be, they should be shot down.

[00:19:21] We are not getting the full deal, and the military is on alert with this.

[00:19:25] Look, you've given us some pretty dire information just here, and I want to make sure that our viewers are digesting this.

[00:19:34] Iran has the capability to pull up along our eastern seaboard and launch drones the size of an SUV into the skies of several states,

[00:19:44] particularly New Jersey, where we know the incoming president has a large home, also in the same county or nearby where some of these drones in New Jersey have been seen.

[00:19:55] That capability exists.

[00:19:57] It's possible some of those drones are here.

[00:19:59] So I have two questions.

[00:20:00] How are they fueling them?

[00:20:02] They have to land somewhere.

[00:20:03] Drones don't fly forever.

[00:20:05] Why don't they close down the airspace?

[00:20:07] Yes, it's inconvenient.

[00:20:08] Yes, it's the holidays.

[00:20:09] Shut it down.

[00:20:11] But if you start shooting things and you don't know how they're fueled, that's going to be mass explosions.

[00:20:16] This isn't like one spy balloon.

[00:20:18] Congressman, this is serious.

[00:20:21] We've got to bring them down, and we've got to find a way to bring them down.

[00:20:24] I don't know exactly where they're landing, obviously.

[00:20:27] I have some information.

[00:20:28] And again, this isn't just Jeff Vandruo.

[00:20:31] Let's get on Harris Faulkner's show and say something outrageous.

[00:20:34] I'm telling you, a straight deal from very high-positioned individuals who are telling me this.

[00:20:41] And the bottom line is they're launching them.

[00:20:43] They are across the country.

[00:20:44] We don't even have anything like this.

[00:20:46] Our government and also certainly our hobbyists don't.

[00:20:50] So think about it.

[00:20:51] Not only do I have the information, but it's also common sense.

[00:20:54] We've got to get them down.

[00:20:55] We've got to determine how they function, what they do, make sure that we can get them.

[00:20:59] And you're right, in a safe way.

[00:21:01] When I say shoot them down, get them down any way that you can.

[00:21:04] But right now, they're probably extracting information.

[00:21:07] This is a clear and present danger to the United States and to our president-elect.

[00:21:12] And it's a serious business.

[00:21:13] Well, if one of them happens to fall.

[00:21:15] Yeah, what if they're armed?

[00:21:19] What if they're armed?

[00:21:25] I'm thinking big butterfly nets.

[00:21:31] I'm thinking we get some drones or fishing nets.

[00:21:35] We can get some drones because I don't know if we've got big enough drones that could carry a butterfly net and then swing it necessarily, you know?

[00:21:41] So maybe you get just like six or eight drones and they each take a part of a big fishing net.

[00:21:49] And then you just fly around and you just kind of catch these guys in the nets.

[00:21:55] I did think it was interesting there that Van Drew is saying that we don't even have this technology.

[00:22:03] Now, I don't know if that's sort of like that's the public-facing posture that we adopt, you know?

[00:22:10] Sort of like Israel.

[00:22:11] We don't have nukes, but we'll totally nuke you kind of thing.

[00:22:14] But so that means China has technology that has surpassed ours.

[00:22:22] And does that mean then they have like some sort of air superiority?

[00:22:26] Because that's what this indicates to me.

[00:22:29] That they've got some air superiority if they can get a, quote, mothership, which is where all of these drones dock into.

[00:22:35] And if what they say is correct, that a drone, these drones are like the size of an SUV.

[00:22:42] How big is this mothership?

[00:22:43] Where's the mothership?

[00:22:44] Somewhere off the coast?

[00:22:48] Like kill that thing with fire.

[00:22:52] I don't know.

[00:22:53] Maybe they're in international waters.

[00:22:55] That's a really long way to go.

[00:22:59] Because now what's going to start happening is everybody's drones are going to get shot out of the sky.

[00:23:04] I mean, they generally already do like in some parts of the South here.

[00:23:09] That's just for different reasons altogether.

[00:23:15] Okay.

[00:23:16] Kenny, welcome to the show.

[00:23:17] Hello, Kenny.

[00:23:19] Hey, how you doing?

[00:23:20] Hey.

[00:23:20] By the way, I listen to your show every day.

[00:23:22] Thanks, man.

[00:23:23] So I've been hearing about this drone thing all day.

[00:23:26] But last night, I hadn't heard really nothing about it.

[00:23:29] And I work in the Cameron Woods South Mech High School area.

[00:23:32] Okay.

[00:23:33] And I was coming home and coming in the neighborhood.

[00:23:36] It was dark and I saw something flying above.

[00:23:38] And it caught my attention immediately because it wasn't too high, but it wasn't too low.

[00:23:44] And the lights were, you know, odd.

[00:23:47] And I was like, is that a helicopter?

[00:23:48] So, and it was kind of humming along at a good little pace.

[00:23:51] And it was odd because it was, like I said, not too high.

[00:23:56] So I'm trying to follow this thing.

[00:23:58] And I roll my window down and I hear nothing.

[00:24:01] It's total silence.

[00:24:03] And then today, I'm hearing all about these drones.

[00:24:06] And by where the lights were, you could tell it was about the size of a good-sized kitchen table or something.

[00:24:13] And I'm telling you, that was a drone.

[00:24:16] And I didn't think nothing about it when I got home.

[00:24:18] I said, whatever.

[00:24:19] And then all day, I'm hearing about these drones.

[00:24:22] And I said, that's one.

[00:24:24] I know it was for a fact.

[00:24:26] It had to be.

[00:24:27] And it was dark, you know.

[00:24:29] But I just had to share that today.

[00:24:31] I had to tell somebody.

[00:24:33] Well, I mean, why not here, right?

[00:24:36] I mean, if they're scoping out areas, if they're collecting information, I imagine they would be all over the place.

[00:24:43] We obviously do not have control over our airspace.

[00:24:47] Yeah, I thought I heard something on the East Coast.

[00:24:49] And I'm telling you, man, that was a – I don't know if it was there, but it was definitely a drone.

[00:24:54] It was like just the speed of it and everything wasn't too fast, wasn't too slow.

[00:25:00] You know, not a – and I said, oh, that must be a helicopter.

[00:25:03] So I rolled my window down, nothing but silence.

[00:25:06] And I was going about 20 miles per hour, and it was coming across me, you know.

[00:25:11] And I was trying to follow it, and it was kind of cruising along.

[00:25:15] I said, man, what was that?

[00:25:18] Yeah.

[00:25:18] Yeah.

[00:25:18] And I know it was a drone.

[00:25:20] But, hey, man, you have a great day.

[00:25:22] I love your show.

[00:25:22] All right, Kenny.

[00:25:23] I appreciate it.

[00:25:23] Thanks for being out there.

[00:25:24] Yeah, I don't even know who you report this stuff to.

[00:25:27] Maybe – I mean, I don't know if you call local law enforcement and report it on a non-emergency line or something.

[00:25:33] But if we're in data collection phase, I mean, it's sort of like the – it's like the spy balloon all over again.

[00:25:40] It's like we got reports of this stuff happening, and it's like, oh, we don't really know.

[00:25:44] We can't really say blah, blah, blah.

[00:25:46] And then all of a sudden it's like, oh, it's, you know, a Chinese spy balloon.

[00:25:48] Oh.

[00:25:49] Okay.

[00:25:51] No, we would totally take a – it's not doing anything.

[00:25:54] I mean, except transmitting, you know, all sorts of information back to China.

[00:25:57] But other than that, Congressman Van Drew's startling claim comes as officials have continually told Americans that the drones over New Jersey pose no threat,

[00:26:07] even as the FBI has admitted they have no idea what they are or how to stop them.

[00:26:14] Remain calm.

[00:26:16] All is well.

[00:26:19] The large drones have been spotted flitting across the night skies across Jersey for weeks,

[00:26:25] baffling residents with mysterious arrays of flashing lights and seemingly aimless movements.

[00:26:34] Not Joe Biden, just for the record.

[00:26:36] It's a different kind of aimless movements.

[00:26:41] Mike.

[00:26:42] Hello, Mike.

[00:26:42] Welcome to the show.

[00:26:44] Hey, Pete.

[00:26:44] How's it going?

[00:26:45] Hey.

[00:26:45] All right, man.

[00:26:46] What's up?

[00:26:47] Hey, man.

[00:26:47] You know, we can track this little fella in his range all the way across the world.

[00:26:51] Yeah.

[00:26:52] But we can't – we can't –

[00:26:53] That mothership.

[00:26:55] Yeah.

[00:26:56] I don't understand it.

[00:26:57] Right.

[00:26:58] I mean, and if we can take shots at Santa –

[00:27:00] I mean, errantly so.

[00:27:02] But, yeah.

[00:27:02] Like, why can't we –

[00:27:04] Like, we should try.

[00:27:05] Like, we should track them down to where they're going offshore,

[00:27:08] and when they get close wherever, then shoot them over the water, like we did this balloon.

[00:27:12] I mean, I think there are options available.

[00:27:14] Mike, I appreciate the call.

[00:27:16] Let me go over here to David.

[00:27:18] Hello, David.

[00:27:19] Welcome to the show.

[00:27:20] Hey, thanks.

[00:27:22] Question.

[00:27:22] Question.

[00:27:23] Why are these things lit up?

[00:27:25] Why is China or Iran putting lights on their drones?

[00:27:29] Safety first, man.

[00:27:32] Safety first.

[00:27:33] Well –

[00:27:34] Safety first.

[00:27:35] Right, right.

[00:27:35] Well, you're – so, no, but you're assuming, though, that those are all of the ones that

[00:27:40] they have put in the sky.

[00:27:41] The ones with the lights that are showing us lights, that those are the only ones up there.

[00:27:47] Right?

[00:27:47] Those are the only ones being reported, right?

[00:27:49] Well, those are the only ones that we have seen.

[00:27:51] Those are the only ones that people have seen and then reported, right?

[00:27:55] So there could be others that we haven't seen, that regular people have not videotaped with their – or, you know, caught on camera with their cell phones.

[00:28:04] So there could be others that are not lit up.

[00:28:06] But it still begs the question, why?

[00:28:09] Right.

[00:28:10] Well, so people can see them.

[00:28:13] So what would be the benefit?

[00:28:15] Like, let's assume that it's a foreign entity, Iran or China.

[00:28:19] Let's assume it's a foreign entity.

[00:28:21] What would be the value in alerting citizens to their presence?

[00:28:29] I can't think of a good one.

[00:28:31] I can.

[00:28:32] Okay.

[00:28:33] It is a message to us.

[00:28:35] There's sort of – there's two layers.

[00:28:37] Number one is that the government doesn't know what they are and the longer the government doesn't announce that these things are present, then when people come forward and they identify, hey, what's going on up there?

[00:28:48] And the government doesn't have any answers.

[00:28:50] It undermines faith in the government.

[00:28:51] But also, I think more importantly, it sends the message to the citizens that somebody else is in control of your skies.

[00:29:00] We have air superiority.

[00:29:03] That's what – that's the message it sends to me.

[00:29:05] We're flying all around your head and you can't do anything about it.

[00:29:09] Okay.

[00:29:10] I'll follow what you're saying.

[00:29:11] Don't know if I agree, but I'll follow it.

[00:29:13] No, I mean, that's – I mean, that's what I can think of.

[00:29:15] I don't know if that's true, you know.

[00:29:17] I mean, I'm just speculating.

[00:29:18] But, like, that would be – there would be some value in that.

[00:29:23] But otherwise, I don't know why this operation has been going on for as long as it's been going on and nobody has any of these answers yet.

[00:29:29] Very disturbing.

[00:29:30] But it's pretty much on brand for the Biden administration.

[00:29:33] All right.

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