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All right, it is party time. It is Monday. Welcome to another episode of the chat. Break their show back in the ever glorious mothership studio 22 back here in the in the presence of the boys. Joe.

Brandon, what's up, fellas? I'm glad you guys survived without me. Yeah, it feels sort of like it feels sort of like the same look is what we had when I was in Nashville. I mean, except you're just right there. Yeah, we can just make eye contact. Yeah, I can actually look over there at you guys. I'll be honest with you when I'm doing that remote stuff like that in Nashville. I don't it's not a comfortable thing. Yeah, sitting in that room all by myself just staring at a camera.

I like knowing you guys are there. Yeah, you need the human presence. Yeah, I need that. I'm not I'm not built to be alone. Not built to be alone. So, you know, that's why trust me. I mean, if there was if there was a way to believe in Islam in such a way that, you know, you go out martyred and you get 72 virgins like that's the heaven for me. Yeah, that would be the heaven for me. It's a good sales pitch, but I just can't get myself convinced of the truth of the matter on that one.

You know, but Hamas just pulled a red dawn Saturday morning on on the Sabbath for the Jews in Israel. Everybody's seeing the attacks now. Everybody's seeing the social media clips. Everybody is seen. You know, that's that's the one thing. It's we can play them. We can replay them. And maybe we will play some of them. I don't know.

But you've seen the clips and it's horrific. It's tragic. It's amazing to see people's responses to these types of things when they happen.

The other incredible thing and I'm going to I'm going to go out on the limb here. I'm going to say a couple of controversial things today and I know you come to expect that for me. But it's interesting that in 48 hours since that has happened. I've seen more war footage and more footage of violence and things like that in 48 hours than I have in the last year in Ukraine.

Interesting kind of thing. I mean, I'm just saying that's my observation. Now, maybe you guys are watching all kinds of war footage in Ukraine. I haven't been seeing it myself and I'm pretty adept at what's going on in the world in terms of the clips and the videos and the stuff that's out there, especially on social media. I tend to see those things, but I haven't seen a lot.

What's going on in Israel though? We're seeing that a lot. This morning, apparently or at least morning early morning in Israel in Jerusalem.

I heard there were reports of more bombings even this morning. The response, of course, is going to be swift and massive if Benjamin Netanyahu has his way based on what he said.

You hate to see. It's one thing. When it comes to the government of the world and you want to try to pick a good guy, it's hard to do. I don't stand with Russia. I don't stand with Ukraine. I don't stand with Israel. I don't stand with Palestine. When it comes to their governments, I don't stand with America as far as their government. I don't hate government. I just hate this particular government.

It's standing with these governments who are willing to make billions and trillions off of the loss of human life and tragedy and the loss of innocence.

These governments are just showing that that's what they get off on. We're going to see more and more of it. It's a sad situation when you have civilians that are caught in the middle of these types of things.

I wholeheartedly would certainly condemn this attack. We'll see what happens. Again, it's your sons and your daughters that ultimately are going to suffer from all of these things. Over these ideologies, over these differences in policy and politics.

Again, ideologies are great word because so much of this is based in religion. It's based in thousands of years of history. There's atrocities that have been done to people from both sides.

And you can make that argument. Now, again, Hamas is certainly a terrorist organization. They're funded by Iran. Iran is in every way the enemy of everything that we value. They want to fill the world with your blood.

That's their words, not mine. They want you dead. And of course, Hamas being that long arm of terror that they tend to utilize has struck again. And they're not done. They're not done. So we'll see more and more of this.

But it's amazing to me, one of a couple of things, one that our CIA, tell me how, well, I'm going way out on the limb here, Brandon.

You know, our CIA, you would think they would have a warning. They would know. Maybe our CIA was in on it. I'll go ahead and float that out there.

You know, they would never, why wouldn't they do? Of course, they would. Absolutely. They would. They create things like this all the time. In fact, I'm come to the place of believing that that's why they exist is to create this type of turmoil because it is the industrial war complex. It is the way they make money. So where these governments do things. And it's a sad situation. And so I'm not, you know, I'm not some foreign policy expert. I'm like you, I get the news. I try to decipher through what I'm seeing what I'm reading. And it's hard sometimes to come up with that.

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