I'm guessing, though, you're going to get a flood of gift packages containing Walmart Timex watches from people who say you don't know what time it is or something like that.

Of course.

And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.

Well, I'm not a crook. It's the Rickishay podcast with Charles C.W. Cook and Stephen Hayward on James Lallax. Today, we're going to be talking about misery. We'll have none of that here. Thank you. Let's have ourselves a podcast. The objectives I've outlined to, again, I repeat them, because I see these reports. Like, as you know, it's not clear on what objectives are. We've been as clear as you can possibly be from the very first night of what the objectives of this mission are. We're going to destroy their factories that make missiles and rockets and drones. We're going to destroy their Navy. We're going to destroy their Air Force. And we are going to significantly destroy their missile launchers so they can never hide behind these things to get a nuclear weapon. Well, welcome, everybody. It's the Rikoshae podcast episode number 782. Why don't you just moseying on over at Rikoshae.com and be a member? You can be part of the most stimulating conversations and community on the web. That place you've been looking for, that's ricochet.

I'm James Lillings in the place that I was looking for and found in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And it's a beautiful, cold, crisp day out there. It should be a little bit more spring-like. But, you know, we had 75 degrees two days ago, and today it's spring all the flowers in because it's below freezing. And then Stephen Hayward in California, I presume, in his book line study, with his skylight

above him, if you're watching the video, it's kind of funny. It just looks like there's this sort

of angelic beam of heaven coming down into it, illuminate your noggin and explain your insights and the rest of it. Charles Cedle your cook will be along in just a second. We'll have to upgrade him for his tardiness and make him. We'll be like the class, you know, when the, when the, you know, the bad kid comes in late and the teacher gives him the look and the rest of it. And he has to put a piece of paper down explaining his absence. But before he gets here,

let's settle the Iran war. So Stephen, the president says, going to unleash hell, end quote,

on Iranian energy infrastructure. Maybe a good idea if we want the state to thrive post-liberation.

But he said five-day halt on strikes to open negotiations about the

straight and the rest of it. Everyone's saying contradictory messages. Everybody's saying backing

off. Everybody's saying failure. I just think that we ought not to believe anything that we hear

because it's entirely possible people are saying things in public that actually don't comport

with what's going on in private. There's smoke and misdirection and the rest of it. That would seem to be the canny thing to do in war. No? I mean, there's several scenarios you can play out that are quite plausible. And yeah, I don't know anything either. I'll just say I have a general rule right now, which is, well, I'll put it this way. How can we tell that we are winning

this war very strongly, as someone might say? Because the media says it's a quagmire, right?

I mean, really, I think you can't go too far wrong saying whatever the media says the opposite

is probably closer to the truth. Now, I do think that this sort of day-to-day bouncing ball, maybe it's Trump trying to calm the markets.

Maybe he's playing for time until the 82nd Airborne gets in position so they can do a serious landing to take Carg Island.

I think Carg Island is, again, I don't know anything about this really.

I don't have deep expertise, but never stopped any of us before.

Of course not.

That's right.

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