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and then Oklahoma City go to JimmyDord.com for a link for tickets because that's where you're going to find the most affordable tickets. Welcome, we have special guests with a Scott Ritter here. Everybody knows him one time marine intelligence officer serves in the former Soviet Union implementing arms control agreements and from 91 and 98 he serves as a chief inspector for
the United States in Iraq. So welcome back to the show, Scott Ritter, hey Scott. Hey Jimmy, how are you doing? I'm doing good. Are you not to, I'm just telling you before we went to air that I'm feeling a little depressed about World War III that has started in the Middle East for
an absolutely over Israel? How are you feeling? Well, I'm maniacally depressed but hopeful. Are you? I'm hopeful and this may sound uncaid periodic to some people but I'm hopeful that the United
States is on the verge of a strategic defeat of massive proportions. One that will be behavior altering in the end.
βI think Donald Trump is in a very big bind.β
I think he's been not far more than the United States can chew and I think he's desperately looking for an off ramp. I'm hopeful that Vladimir Putin is the mature pragmatic patient leader that he appears to be. And we'll be able to help Trump find a way out of this without us going down the path of World War III.
And as an American, I think it's good for our country to finally realize that we can no longer
sustain the global hegemony that we've been doing so ignorantly for the last several decades and that we need to right size who we are globally. We need to become good neighbors, not bullies. So this is the hope of I'd be a pipe dream. People might accuse me of picking up a mushroom and eating one that I shouldn't have eaten
or something like that but I'm actually not as depressed as I was yesterday because I had sort of one of these what they call that moment when you have an epiphany. And they have a light bulb moment. I had a light bulb. I was Peter in the Damascus desert in the light went on and I saw the light and I actually
think that the Russians are the right people at the right time for this problem set. And I just see a lot of maturity there, a lot of pragmatism, a lot of realism and they're just positioned to actually help in both the conflict in Ukraine and the conflict in Iran.
βIt may take a couple of weeks but I think that we are in such a big trouble right now thatβ
I don't think Donald Trump realizes just how big a trouble is but once he does, you know, Carol Dimitri is meeting with with cough right now in Miami. A week ago, Carol Dimitri had no, you know, everybody, everybody hated him. They accused him of trader, he was a trader, he was betraying, you know, how dare you work with with, but because Putin didn't fire him, because everybody's question, why, why does Putin
still have curial to meet you or why does he fire him? Because you keep the diplomacy door open. And now at this moment, Dimitri is meeting with Whitkov, because they're trying to cut a deal, a deal that involves bringing an end to the conflict in Ukraine and an end to the conflict in Iran.
And I'm trusting that this is going to lead us in a good direction, not because Donald Trump's clever, because Vladimir Putin clever.
βSo, who is the negotiator that Putin has negotiating with Whitkov?β
What's his name? I haven't heard this name. Carol Dimitri, he's a former Goldman Sachs banker, I mean, he's a Russian, but he's, you know, American trained, you know, and he knows capitalism very well. He runs a Russian national investment fund, but he's a guy that, when, when Steve Whitkov
first went over, Putin needed somebody who spoke withkov's language.
You know, you don't take Sergei Lavrov and have him sit down with Steve Whitkov, because Whitkov doesn't speak diplomacy and Lavrov doesn't speak banker. So he brought in curial Dimitri, and they, and they both spoke the same language. They hit it off well. They get along good.
And, you know, he's the guy that helped put, make Alaska happen.
Now he might be the guy that helps bring it into these wars.
I, I, I was, I was very down on curial Dimitri over last week.
If you had talked to me about him last week, I wasn't going to say too much positive. But this week, I've just seen the Russians do things that, um, that just show absolute maturity. It shows patience. It shows, you know, the pragmatism and, and now Dimitri is in Miami, meeting with
Whitkov. And, um, that's a good thing if you want peace. And so what, so you think Russia is trying to bring a swift end to this war in the Gulf. Do you think that, that, that they have, what, will tell me what their interest is and what is their leverage?
βWell, their leverage is their the only thing that's keeping the American economy up rightβ
now. Why do you think Donald Trump lifted all the oil sanctions against the Russians yesterday? Oh, I didn't know he did that. Why did he do that? Because no oil is leaving the Middle East right now.
And so you need oil to come in on the market. So Donald Trump lifted all the oil sanctions and Vladimir Putin's economic problems have been solved.
And everybody who has critical and Vladimir Putin didn't understand that he was waiting for
just this moment. And, um, and now, you know, instead of selling, uh, the oil grid oil at $23 a barrel, this counted, um, he's now selling it to the Indians at 81 barrel of full price. Um, making a lot of money in the process, um, all the Asian purchasers of energy who used to purchase, uh, energy from the Middle East can't because the straight or most is close.
So Putin is literally diverting all of his resources down there, opening up securing those markets. Um, he, he, he isn't a solid position. And, um, and right now, Trump, uh, you know, Trump had, you know, taken some pretty hard-line stances on Ukraine that he's no longer to position to hold on to.
He needs Russia's help and they run. And so the Russians are going to say, we go back to the Alaska formula updated with, uh, the most, you know, the most recent information.
βYou have to get the Ukrainians to do this.β
And in exchange for that, we'll get the Iranians to, um, to moderate their demands. But I, and I think, you know, the United States is going to have to leave the Middle East. I mean, that's one of the things that's just a guarantee. We're not staying there.
The Iranians are going to make the same argument that Russia's always made that you can't
end this war without solving the root cause of the conflict, because that's what the Russians have said. You can't end the Ukraine conflict, uh, and leave unresolved the root causes of the conflict. Why we had this conflict? Because if you end it without solving those, we'll just have a conflict in five years.
So Russia's saying, when this thing ends, it's over-finished. And the Iranians are going to be saying the same thing. When this thing ends, it's over. It's finished. And the only way it can be over in finish is America's got to leave the Middle East.
βAnd I, I think there's a grand bargain to be had out there.β
This allows Donald Trump to call himself the greatest peacemaker in the history of all all time, because he's going to end two wars and he's going to take credit for him and want to get the Nobel Peace Press. And then he'll also tell the American people that I, I've ended the permanent Middle East conflict.
I got the American troops out of the Middle East. Now, smart people know that he got his ass kicked and had to retreat. But, you know, to the true believers, there's, there's a deal here in the making. It's, who knows how it's going to be finalized, but there's, there's something in the works right now, to meet you, it's meeting with Wittcock.
This is a huge thing for, for that's happening. Wittcock is both the Middle East negotiator, the one who is negotiating with the Iranians, and he's the guy who negotiate with Putin and, uh, and to meet you. So the fact that to meet you is meeting with the guy responsible for managing both of the big problems of Trump has right now means that there's a solution being worked out that
links both of these problems together. So, uh, just to make sure I'm following what you're saying. So you're saying that since the oil from the Gulf has been stopped, because Iran stopped this, the close-to-straight of Hormuz, so all that oil that usually goes to India usually goes to China, usually goes to Japan, other places is not getting there.
And now, so Trump sees that this could have a devastating effect on the world economy. And so he decides to lift the sanctions that he had against countries buying Russian oil. And so now it's okay for places like India to buy Russian oil, uh, because he doesn't want their economy to crash and then then be angry at the United States and all of us. So he's going to say go ahead, Russia, you can sell that oil anywhere you want now.
And so now all their economic problems are cured in Russia if they even had any. And now, but what he's going to ask Russia is to try to get Iran to accept a peace deal. That's because Russia, because Iran says they don't want to cease fire, right? Iran is like, "No, let's go, let's fight to the death, let's keep this going." And so Trump is going to be asking Russia to please intervene.
We're going to let you sell your oil everywhere without sanctions. Please intervene and get Iran to accept a cease fire in a peace deal.
That's what's happening, you think?
That's what I think.
I also think the Russians are going to say things like Trump's going to have to lift all
βsanctions against Iran. I think Russia is going to tell the Iranians you're going to haveβ
to open up your nuclear program to inspection. But I also think that Donald Trump's going to have to order the withdrawal of American troops from the Middle East. Now he'll disguise it as in a phased way, so he declares that he's the greatest peacemaker. But the United States lost this war, there's no doubt about that.
But what Russia doesn't want and what nobody wants is for this war to go to its awful conclusion, because right now the street war moves as closed down. But what happens if you take to the next level, and the Israelis are going to do their best to take it to the next level, they're going to start striking energy facilities. But last night, Iran's strike is really energy facilities.
Iran took out some gas and oil processing, then put the Israelis on notice that they're going to lose everything if they keep playing. So the Israelis are now calling up Trump saying, "You've got to end this thing. We can't do this again. We can't.
We can't. We're in trouble."
Right now for a deal, and so it's up to the Russians right now to get the right
deal.
βOne that would be acceptable to the Iranians, provide some political face saving forβ
Donald Trump, and constrains Israel's future actions. This will be a huge victory for Russia, because if Russia's got the oil sanctions lifted, so Russia's economy wasn't collapsing. All the people are calling, calling, but there were problems. There was inflation. There was a cash shortage overheated economy.
You had deficit spending and things of that nature, which Russia normally does in your Baltic. But now in one fell swoop, I mean, if they keep selling oil with this rate, I mean, they won't know what to do with all the money they're going to have, because they're literally selling oil at 23 bucks a barrel.
They're going to now they've gone to India, I mean, India made a huge mistake, buckling to American pressure, because India was buying Russian oil, walked in at 23 bucks a barrel, and then a United States told India, "Stop buying Russian oil."
And the Indians, like idiots, went, "Okay."
But now the United States said, "Oh, you can buy Russian oil." And they turned to the Russians, and the Russians went, "Yeah, that 23 bucks a barrel. That deals not on the table anymore, guys. Now you really need the oil. You're paying full market price."
And India has to pay full market price, because there is no alternative. They can't turn to the Saudis and say, "Well, you cut us a deal. Saudi's can't ship oil." They can't turn to the Quadies and say, "Well, you sell us. They can't ship oil.
United Arabians can't ship oil." Nobody can ship oil. Russia can ship oil, and Russia's selling it full market value, making money. Meanwhile, all the Asian markets used to buy that stuff, too, Indonesia, Philippines, etc. They got to buy it, too.
And Russia's going into fill that. Russia was sending liquid natural gas up to Europe. Believe it or not, Europe still bought around 27% of their liquid natural gas from Russia. Putin, some Asian watchers, trackers, tankers immediately pivoted and started heading to Asia.
Putin's like, "We're not going to sell Europe any energy anymore," because they don't need to. And Europe's now screwed. And now there's a greater 30% chance that by the end of the month, Europe's going to have to start buying Russian energy.
The thing they don't want to do, because it funds the war in Ukraine. But Europe has no choice now, because there's no energy coming out of the Middle East. None. So Europe is either going to die or they're going to have to start buying Russian oil. So Russia's in a very, very strong position right now.
And the United States is in a very desperate position. We're running out of ballistic missile interceptors. We're going to be totally defenseless, very soon. And it's a very embarrassing for us. We just stripped the Pacific clean.
We took our fads, our pack, our patriots, and send them to the Middle East to help Israel. The Gulf Arab states are like, "You screwed us. There's a band in us. Why should we have a trust you again," which is another reason why the United States will leave.
So there's a deal to be made here, because Donald Trump has screwed up so badly. But I'm still depressed. I share, you know, 186 kids died, and now we know that we murdered them. There's no question now. Pete Hanks at the Donald Trump tried to play at stupid game of saying that, you know, wasn't
our cruise missile, wasn't our Tom Hock. Well, now the Department of Defense had to admit it was ours. We killed them. And that's depressing, because what it means is we're not in control of the targeting. 5,000 targets have been hit by the United States.
And I can guarantee you right now that we don't know what we're bombing. We're just blowing up buildings, and we're killing a lot of Iranians. And this is one of the reasons why the Iranian government's so furious at us.
βBy the way, we killed their most important religious men, the LFM and A, it's like killingβ
the Pope, if you're Catholic. If you're a Catholic who still believes in the Pope, but the point is, they killed a very senior religious man. And the Iranians are outraged, they're furious, they're, they're, they're seeing blood red.
And, you know, it's going to take a lot to talk them down. But if, if there's a deal out there where you can tell the Iranians, all sanctions will
Be lifted, your economy will be functioning for the first time in 47 years, f...
time in 47 years, you're going to have a fully functioning economy. That will go a long way, and putting salab on the wounds that they've suffered. Well, could you put a percentage on the chance of this actually happening, the good news that you just gave us? A hundred percent.
And the reason why I'm saying that is that nothing's ever 100 percent, I shouldn't have
said that. But I'm very confident. And the reason why is this, this straightforward move thing is going to spin out a control. You know, Trump can only lie so many times.
You saw what happened when the Iranians first shut it down. We saw a Brent spike to 115 bucks a barrel. Then Trump came out and lied and it brought it down to 81.
βBut now the fact is, we're not, the US Navy said we can't escort ships.β
And we said, we're blow up all their minds, we, well, they don't use ships to mind them. Nobody's sailing through the straight, and no one's going to be sailing through the straight. And the United States can threaten the bomb and bomb and bomb, but we know that the bomb is not doing anything because all we're doing is blowing up empty buildings.
And there's going to be a crunch in a week's time.
You're going to see the global energy market go, there's no solution there.
There is no alternative. We've got nothing. And prices are going to go crazy. When Americans start paying, because I mean, right here, I already might, my gas prices over $3.50, so it was $3.11 in 11 since I'm Monday.
It's already gone up. I anticipate by the end of next week, we're probably going to be looking at, you know, gas in the Ford quarter range, and it'll keep climbing and it'll go insanely high because there now will be a global energy crisis. Diesel, the diesel is the big driver, where are we going to get diesel from?
And if we don't have diesel, the trucks don't drive, and if trucks don't drive, that's what's don't get to market. And now we have a food issue. We have a supply issue. Warmarked shelves are empty.
And the American people aren't going to put up with this. They're just not going to put up with this, especially from a president who promised peace in delivered war. So Trump is going to be desperate for a solution. He's already desperate for a solution.
He's already making fun calls. He called Vladimir Putin. Putin didn't call him. He called Vladimir Putin, because Trump is in a bind.
And again, the key takeaway from this is that to Beatriz meeting with Whitkoff right now,
that is a huge thing, because that means that the United States is desperate for a deal, a desperate for a deal. And Demetrius, the economic guy, he's not, he's not the diplomat. He's the economic guy. He's the guy that talks about lifting sanctions, getting the, so the economy is a big
part of what they're talking about right now and how to prevent the globally economy from burning up in hell.
βSo that's why I say 100 percent, because there's no way we win this war.β
There's no way we reverse where we're at right now. We can't win this war. We have lost this war already, and it's only going to get worse. The question now is, how do we get Iran to play ball? That's the key.
The Russia comes in, and this war Russia can make the argument to the Iranians. Again, if our Vladimir Putin had say, hey, are economy was going through a tough time. We're going to start to tighten the belt here, it was going to get tough. But sanctions are lifted now, and we're doing okay. There's markets share out there right now.
So let's get your, let's get your sanctions lifted, let's get your energy to market, we'll get the Chinese to lock in, we'll get the Indians to lock in. And now you've got hard currency flowing in, and we'll come up with some package with the United States to, you know, about reparations and rebuilding. It will be modest, it won't be what you want, but it'll be face saving.
But we'll get things turned around here. And I think the, you know, the, the irradiant president who I had the honor to meet. This is what he wanted. This is what he wants. He doesn't want permanent conflict with the West.
He wants sanctions lifted. He wants to be doing business. Iran is a member of BRICS. The Russians have invested. It's interesting Iran, they have the North South economic court, or that they were
working on the Connect St. Petersburg with Chava Har, which is a southern Iranian port to allow stuff move to move into the Indian markets.
βThat's what Russia strategic goal is, they don't want permanent war here.β
The Chinese have just built the new Silk Road connecting China with Tehran through rail. That opens up the irradiant market, this central Asian market, that's where Iran can make a lot of money, dip it into that. This is where they need to be. This is what BRICS is all about.
And I just think there's a deal to be made here, because it's just a win, win, win for everybody. But the United States has to, has to be in a position where there's some desperation. And right now there isn't enough desperation for the United States to, to make the concessions that are necessary.
But in a week or two, there will be nothing but desperation. And I think you'll see in the United States making the concessions that the Russians are going to mad.
One of the consequences of shutting down the oil coming out of the Gulf throu...
Strait of Hormuz is that the Gulf countries don't have the money to invest in our stock
market like they were. And so I've had a guest on our show who predicted that once that happens, that our stock market will collapse and our economy will collapse. So do you think that this, that we'll get back to something normal, will they, where the Gulf States will start to reinvest in our stock market again?
Or why do you see it playing out? Again, this is why Carial Dimitri of Is the right guy. I'm sorry if I'm seeing his praise, but you, you don't realize how much I was down on him a week ago. I view him as a trader to Russia, I view him as a man who was selling everybody out.
But you, what you just raised, to be true of knows this, he was a Goldman Sachs banker. He knows the role.
And so that he's looking at, you know, a broad spectrum economic deal.
βBecause what you have to do when you cut this deal, remember you can't ignore the Gulfβ
Arab States. You've got it. So they have to be convinced not to abandon the American market once this war ends. Because they've got to be convinced to invest. They're going to be pretty angry, they're going to feel betrayed.
And so part of the deal has to be, you know, that they aren't going to allow the American stock market to collapse, they will continue to invest in the American market. And again, this is why having a Carial Dimitri of in a Steve Whitkoff, you know, having these conversations because these are the details that matter, not the geopolitics of nuclear disarmament and ballistic missile counts and all that, it's the economy.
Because this is what's going to make or break Donald Trump in the upcoming midterm elections, is the economy. And right now, he's looking to disaster in the face. But if he can pull this off, he might be able to fool enough people to prevent a democratic sweep.
But, you know, it's going to require, we don't Trump's a natural foreign liar. And the American people are natural-born dupes and it's a perfect combination. And that makes me depressed because I'd like to see some accountability, but what I'd really like to see is this word, and I'd really like to see a stop killing Iranians. I'd really like to see a stop bombing people who did nothing.
I'd really stop like to see a stop killing children.
β186 kids, some of whom bodies were so badly burned and the only way the parents knewβ
that they were in there is because there was a remnant of the backpack that they put on their daughters back the morning when they sent her to school. And then we killed her. I'd really like to see Pete Hicks have held accountable for the crimes he's committed. But, you know, it was hard to articulate a way out of this because everything led to escalation
escalation. But when I heard that Dmitriya was meeting with Whitkoff, I went, that's a game changer right there. These are the right people at the right time to be having this conversation. So let me just real quick, you said you, the economic pain is coming, do you think?
So I see it coming too. Do you think that it can be stopped or mitigated if this negotiation works out with Russia? Do you think that we could stop some of that economic pain coming our way?
The key thing here is to prevent this war from destroying energy infrastructure, meaning that
we have to prevent the Israelis who are the problem here and blown up Iranian oil fields. Because if they blow up Iranian oil fields, Iran is going to blow up Saudi oil fields, blow up Kuwaiti oil fields. And now even if you open the strait or remove, nothing is going to get produced. As it is, you know, for instance, Kuwait has shut down oil production.
I'm not, I mean, I'm not an oilman, I've watched the landman a couple times, so I think I'm an oilman. But I do know this that oil fields have to be managed.
βYou don't just pump oil out, as you pump there's pressure issues, you have to keep theβ
pressure on, you have to keep water from coming in. And so Kuwait is shut down their oil fields, and it's a gradual shutdown. That means to open them back up, you have to gradually open them back up. So Kuwait's out of the oil manufacturing business for weeks, it's not months. Qatar is shut down their liquid natural gas, liquidification plant.
That's not going to open for weeks. So even if the war stopped today and the strait or harm was opened up, it's still going to take a lot of time for these oil production people to get back up to speed and get the stuff moving out. And it's only going to get worse.
But as long as we're not destroying production, it will eventually recover. But we have to keep these rallies from committing global suicide. If Israel continues to attack Iranian energy infrastructure, Iran will destroy regional infrastructure and then no matter what happens for the strait or almost, there won't be recovery.
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And if you haven't, you're missing out. We give you lots of bonus content. Thanks for your support. I got a couple of videos I'm going to show you about how the Iran has decided to overwhelm our billions and billions and billions of dollars we'd put into anti-missile technology.
So the whole idea, the iron dome that we've been billions of dollars around Israel, it's supposed to be able to so you can't shoot a missile into Israel, because they have anti-missile missiles that will shoot down your missile or your rocket or your bomb. But they actually did beat it, and they went low tech. Here's how Iran beat our billions and billions of dollars trying to stop them from bombing
Israel. Here's how they did it. How did Iran actually bypass the iron dome using wooden stealth drones? The advanced defense system is perfectly tuned to track fast heavy metal rockets.
powerful radars easily spot steel casings and highly reflective electronic parts.
To bypass this shield, engineers completely abandoned modern military materials. They built a new swarm of kamikaze drones almost entirely out of balsa wood. Wood and thin fiber glass absorb radar waves instead of bouncing them back. Instead of hot engines, they use tiny electric motors with zero heat signature. The drones were programmed to fly at extreme low altitudes hugging the terrain.
The dome's smart sensor simply filtered them out as flocks of birds or static noise. The AI didn't trigger interceptors until the wooden swarm was already diving in. In 2026, the world's smartest shield was pierced by the most primitive technology. How did Iran actually bypass? So that's how they did it.
Do you think jokes? Yeah. So just to summarize, we're at Iran can beat Israel's missile defense systems with paper airplanes.
βThat's what balsa wood is, it's wide notch and I don't even give it that much above a paper airplane.β
So you're saying that we could launch all the social media influencers who support the war and radar wouldn't pick them up because of their wooden performances on camera. That's exactly the right, should be that's exactly what I'm saying. So here's another here's Canada's going to tell you about these drones. Here's here's Canada's broadcasting company. Iran's Shah had attacked drones have been hitting targets across the Middle East since the start of the war.
And there a bigger problem than the US was anticipating. That's what Trump administration officials told lawmakers during a closed-door meeting on Iran. Here are the facts about the drones.
Their unmanned aircraft that can carry powerful explosives as far as 2,000 kilometers.
Their program to hit specific targets and they explode on impact. Iran was the first country to develop them but they've also been used by Russia in its war against Ukraine. Their cheaper to make than the missiles that are often used to shoot them down. One Shah had drone cost between $20,000 and $50,000 US depending on the model. The missiles used to intercept them can cost millions.
The drones are roughly three and a half meters long and have a wingspan of two and a half meters. Their small enough to be mounted on the back of a truck.
βShah had drones fly low and slow up to 185 kilometers per hour and they can have erratic flight paths.β
That makes it difficult to track them on radar and shoot them down. They make a loud buzzing noise that some compare to the sound of a moped or a lawn. This one hit a Bahrain high-rise building on the first day of the war. While most of the drones have been intercepted, some have reached their targets despite billion dollar defense systems.
Iran's Shah had attacked.
Despite so billions of dollars against toy airplanes, basically,
where's all that military money actually going? And we besides the Epson client list of feds fund. It's got to go somewhere. So here is a who's this to I forget who this is that we got. We got more news people telling you about this drone.
Detonates, okay. Oh, here we go, here we go. So when they get up off the ground anyway from their particular lawn share, they will climb and they will dive quite quickly. And then what will happen is there will overload systems on the ground.
So the chances are that a lot of them will get through. Sorry, some of them will get through, but some will be knocked out by the anti-aircraft. Can you look? Let's have a look at the size of these. So that's three and a half by two and a half meters. That's tiny, isn't it?
Yeah, and that's the whole thing about it as well as the term. You've put a huge missile up there. It's got more of a template, so at the end of the day it can be detected as well with this one here. You probably hit on the noise before with this particular propeller.
This is just a motorbike engine. Are you kidding? No, it's just a motorbike engine. It's a 550cc or whatever. But that's the thing about it is it actually kind of pushes the actual thing through.
Yeah, what's in the noise.
This, the GPS systems around about here, the nose itself, is 50 kilos of high-explosive, okay. And what happens is the percussion cap on the front there needs to hit something to detonate, okay? So it's unmanned on programmed.
They just put the GPS system in there and they send it through. But what we've actually got here on the nose as well is metal bars. They actually slice through everything. I like how he says that's unmanned. Yeah, really the tiny bolsa wood toy airplane is unmanned.
Boy, that guy's good.
βBecause I think that's why I think that's why he shaped his headβ
so no one could pull the wool over his eyes. But anyway, what are you going to say? Yeah, but can it order pizza with my mind like our high-tech systems can do Jimmy? That's my question. So, uh, Jackie, you got to miss Jackie.
It is Jackie. Iran's drones cost a fraction of the US weapons shooting them down. What to know about Iran's cheap, noisy, shahid drones and the expensive defense systems trying to stop them. How much do Iran's drones cost?
Well, first of all, uh, and let me just say this about Iran making their drones. It's almost like they make weapons that will actually win a war instead of just maintaining an endless war to extract wealth from their own citizens. Isn't that interesting?
So, they're building $30,000 drones instead of a million dollar out.
See, that's a difference. You see the difference there? Wow, they doge their military or something, Jimmy? They must have dodged it. They must have dodged it.
Is there some kind of lemon law for American weapons technology so that we could get our tax money back? Because that's why I feel like we need. Anyway, how much do Iran's drones cost? Built with off-the-shelf commercial electronics.
βEach shahid, or is that, I don't know how you pronounce it, is it?β
Shahid? It's because you're a shahid. That's right, when it tells you, yeah. Between 20 and 50 grand to manufacture, depending on the model, Russia mass produces a version of the shahid for use against Ukraine.
Iran may have manufactured many thousands of them. Of the shahid drones. How much, how much does it cost to neutralize Iranian drones? Well, the gold standard and missile defense, the Patriot air defense system uses interceptors
that costs more than $3 million per shot.
So, what's that good either? And they have a very limited supply. For instance, Lockheed Martin delivered just 620 pack three interceptors in 2025. That's it. Which broke a record for production.
So, if they have to shoot like three, four, or five of those to knock down one drone. So, now we're spending 15, 20, 30 million dollars per $20,000 drone. We are to knock one out. Whoa, these are the people who invented chess, it sounds like Jimmy. Sounds like it.
We have pushed every counter UAS system forward, spiring, spiring no defense, said Pete Higgs at a press brief and acknowledgement of the punishing math behind successful interception. Yes. Yeah.
βClearly, we just met, I think we misread the instructions.β
And we were, and anyway, see, we're not making hypersonic missiles. It seems like we're making hypersensitive missiles. They react poorly to loud noises and flashing nights. So, it doesn't really work out that well shooting DSA missiles, Jimmy. We've officially changed.
Iran has fired off more than 2,000 one-way drones since the United States and Israel started attacking it on Saturday.
And some reached their targets despite billion dollar air defense system.
It's a looming problem, not just in the Middle East, but everywhere. In a world where attack drones are cheap and defending against them expensive, the bill could be, come unsustainable over time, anything. Right now, it's not though. But not now.
Really? Actually, it might be a problem. What's our date, then? Okay, just as you. So, we've officially changed the name of the defense system from the Iron Dome to Ironic Dome.
As an American and Israeli strikes increasingly obliterate Iran's drone production facilities, many are watching to see if Russia provides Iran with reinforcements of the shaking potentially escalating the war further. Russia right now has the larger manufacturing facilities. After Iran offered production support during the Ukraine war,
is Russia going to return the favor. I'm going to ask you a question. What? Have there's Iran even broke out a hypersonic missile yet? I don't think they've even broken out a hypersonic missile yet.
I think they might. They might have started using them so far. Yeah. So, they use their lower level missiles to deplete all of our patriot missiles and the Iron Dome missiles.
They've done that and I'm to understand now that they are using those hypersonic
missiles on Tel Aviv and they are wiping out Tel Aviv.
Well, that's a real shame. So, they got, they got Netanyahu's home, they killed his brother. They bombed his home. A guy braver than Netanyahu clearly killed Netanyahu's flight and the arrow would touch.
βAll right, so that's how they're doing it with the low tech wooden drones.β
It turns out a meta has these smart glasses. I actually have a pair and what they do is they're hooked up to the meta servers, right? So, what it is is you can videotape things with your glasses and it's kind of clandestine. And I've got them because I wanted to start doing restaurant reviews because I eat at restaurants, almost every day because I don't have kids and that's one of the benefits and not having
kids is you get to eat at restaurants and the bad side is you don't have anybody to bury you. So, I got to adopt somebody to bury me but here's a problem with the called smart glasses.
And the problem is they're spying on you. Meta smart glasses now have built in facial recognition,
so nobody is anonymous anymore. Plus all the footage that being captured, including sensitive material like people going to the bathroom and dressing, or having sex is being reviewed by contractors in Kenya, fully un-sensored, come on. Come on. Well, congratulations Mark Zuckerberg, you finally figured out how to take watching someone taking a dump and make it unsexy. Even in Germany,
βcan we just act like all the celebrities on Epstein Island and have ourselves redacted?β
So here our friend James Lee, he's in a short video on it. Is your address for the whole valley? Mark Zuckerberg has just added facial recognition to its smart glasses, and hopes the public is too distracted by political turmoil to care. With an internal memo reading quote, we will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused
on other concerns. To use it, you can split the glasses on, then as you walk by people, the glasses will detect when somebody's face is in frame. This photos he's to analyze them, and after a few seconds, their personal information pops up on your phone. Whoa, Roberts can you watch? What the hell? Wait, are you on? That's the f***!
βOh, okay, I think I meant you feel like the Cambridge community foundation, right?β
And not only are they identifying people through the glasses, if you're one of the people wearing the glasses, you are being watched as well. Well, the investigation found that much of the footage captured by menace smart glasses of which more than 7 million pairs have reportedly been sold, is being reviewed by contract workers at a Kenya-based company called Sama. They say that sensitive and personal footage captured by the devices, including people going to the bathroom,
getting dressed and having sex is being reviewed by contractors who see all of it uncensored.
Well, whoa, oh my god, there's always going to be one guy who only sees the bright side.
Well, thank god, it's not Americans watching me beat off. That's all I can say. Hang on, what could possibly go wrong? You all can possibly go wrong. So, exactly as predicted, met as smart glasses are drifting toward something far more useful to corporations than sunglasses with a camera, a wearable surveillance network. Reports now show facial data collection features
being enabled across devices, turning everyday users into walking data collection collectors, whether they realize it or not. None of this should surprise anyone. Americans have been slowly surrounded by this infrastructure for years. For years, flock safety cameras. They're called flock FL OCK, flock safety cameras, track license plates across cities. Did you know that? Ring doorbells, build neighborhoods or valence grids. Did you know that? That's just like that
Superbowl commercial. Alexa speakers sit quietly in living rooms listening for commands while collecting behavioral data. Met as glasses just take the next logical step and put the cameras directly on your face. Mass surveillance with walking legs. So now, somebody wearing smart glasses is like the new smoker. They're not welcome anywhere. Not even outside. So that's, I guess that's good. I got to, I got to feeling people wearing those glasses. I'm going to be keeping dentists in business.
If you know what I mean. How are they going to be keeping dentists in business? Because if you've ever seen those videos of the people who are called auditors and they hold up a camera, they got them asked. Yeah. And on YouTube, and they're just trying to get you to do something
Aggravated and you know, breach their rights.
the amendment auditors. Yeah. It's going to be the same people that go to punch those guys once they find out glasses.
You're going to have just your style of glasses. And my, I better not wear thick lanes glasses. They're going to assume I'm wearing a camera now. I'm going to catch one in the face. Oh, so you're saying that so not me in the noodle. They're keeping dentists in business because
βpeople are going to be smacking them. That's what you're saying. Well, I think they're going to getβ
into a situation where the same people that don't like being videotape because they're holding their phone are going to not like anyone wearing glasses that look like it could be. So they're going to have to go to lens crafters and come up with new style. It doesn't trigger it.
So here's this is from the tech cabal. Kenyan workers training met as AI glasses.
Say they see users most intimate moments. And this is from right now March 4th, 2026. What? Yes, an investigation by Swedish newspapers, Venska Daglamet. That's what I'm telling. Has revealed that contract workers in Kenya hired by Samach, that's a Kenyan outsourcing firm that provides data annotation services to help train metaplatforms AI systems are deeply exposed to personal images and videos captured by users
βof the company's Ray Band smart glasses, which is of which I have a pair. The report publishedβ
on February 27, shines a light on the hidden human labor behind metas pushing to wearable artificial intelligence and raises fresh questions about data protection across border data transfers and the psychological toll on content moderators working for Samach in Nairobi. This is this is all real. Metas Ray Band smart glasses developed in partnership with this other company are marketed as AI powered assistance that can translate languages, described surroundings,
capture hands free photos and videos and answer questions about what the user's seeing. So when you were wearing these glasses, whatever you're looking at, you just have to say, hey, Meta, what am I looking at? And it'll take a picture of it and it'll go on the internet and figure out what that is. And if you look at a person, it'll find out who that person is and tell you what their name and address is. However, beyond the futuristic pitch interviews with
Samach and Metas current and former employees revealed that footage recorded through the glasses ends up thousands of miles away in Kenya where data annotators review and label it to improve the systems performance. Several Kenyan workers told the sweetest newspaper that they regularly encounter sensitive material in the course of their work, including ordinary household scenes to intimate moments that users may not have realized were being captured. In some cases,
footage includes financial information such as bank cards, visible in the frame, or recordings made in private spaces like bedrooms or bathrooms. Wow. Smart glasses are what stupid people think. Make them smart, but they don't make you smart. The glasses are just smarter than you. That's all. In some videos, you can see someone going to the toilet or getting undressed. I don't think they know because if they knew,
they wouldn't be recording another contractor. You think another contractor claim they reviewed footage showing the wearer of the glasses, setting them down on a bedside table, only for their wife to walk into the room and undress, presumably unaware she was being watched. Other footage reportedly showed the wearer watching porn or even recording themselves having sex. According to the investigation, there was little transparency for the wearables.
Retailers in Europe reportedly gave inconsistent information about whether data captured by the glasses remains on the device or is transmitted to metas servers. So it turns out it is transmitted to metas servers. Independent testing cited in the report indicated that many of the glasses AI features require cloud connectivity. So I've been trying to figure out how to use these and you have to like, you have to, if you take a video of something, it gets uploaded
to metas cloud server. And I was like, what? Why can I just put it in the glasses and then
βdownload it from my glasses to my computer? That's what I want. No, you have to upload it to aβ
metacloud server. So that's why I haven't been doing it. Meaning images and voice inputs can be processed remotely rather than locally on the device. So you have to upload it to their cloud. That's exactly right. Metas states in its privacy policies that users content may be subject to human review to improve products and ensure safety for here. They
always care about your safety. Yeah. Yeah. Just like Chris Christie worries about over eating at a
Buffet for your safety.
responsible for compliance with the European Union's general data protection regulation. However,
βthe investigation raises questions about how the data collected in Europe or the United Statesβ
is transferred in processed in countries such as Kenya, which do not have a European Union adequacy decision, recognizing their data protection regimes as equivalent. While data annotation content
moderation and AI training have become critical to Nairobi's tech ambitions, these jobs
primarily for college students and young graduates come with very low pay, heavy workloads, and exposure to disturbing material. Meta has defended its practices in previous public statements saying it invests in privacy safeguards and minimizes the amount of data used for training. Still, the accounts published by the Swedish paper suggests that the line between automated intelligence and human oversight is blurrier than many consumers assume.
No kidding. Hey, guess what? Polymarket says breaking meta is being now is now being sued over their AI smart glasses after it was revealed that workers allegedly review intimate personal footage. Wow. But when you think about it, that's kind of what they were designed for all the long, right? Nothing that is supposed to be this big of a convenience for you is not going to
βserve the establishment. That's what this thing. Wow. So I was excited about my meta,β
the way fair glasses that video tape stuff and I found, I was like, what I can't just try to use it and I'm like, oh, it's got to go up to their cloud. I don't want that to happen. I don't want to be uploading everything that I look at up to the cloud to their cloud. I wanted to upload it to my glasses and then download it to my computer and then I would use it in my videos. That's what I can't get, you can't get to them to anybody you know because they'll be
looking at you. That's right. So this is, this is the dystopian future we all worry about. It's here and it's being brought to you by Mark Zuckerberg, the environmentalist who has a 454 yacht. He's a 454 yacht with four giant diesel engines. But I'm sure it has an electric stove. I somebody in the chat just mentioned that their glasses that don't have that. So you can get camera quick glasses that store data locally and usually built in memory card or via a direct
USB connection. What is the, what, well, no Wi-Fi, no app camera glasses. What, what, oh, yeah. So what is the brand? I have BQXX BQXX or O, O, O, O, O, O, H, O, Sunshine camera glasses. I will, I wish I was on a test roll. I wish I would have known. I'll get that. I'll get those. So just so you know, that can you write that down so I can look it up. Okay. All right. So again, the good news is there is no good news. That's the bad news.
So do you remember how we told this is a former Prime Minister,
βNufftali Bennett of Israel. And I think I showed you this before I'll show it to you again.β
He, the greater Israel project involves Israel going into Saudi Arabia, going into Iraq, going into Egypt and going into Turkey. They're out and going into Syria. So they've already taken
a third of Syria. Israel. We already did Iraq for them. And now they want to do Turks.
So they've already bombed Saudi Arabia. Israel did. They already tried to bomb Carter. Israel did. And now here's the former Prime Minister tell you that they want to bomb Turkey. Listen, a new Turkish threat is emerging. I want to be very clear. Turkey and Qatar have gained influence in Syria are seeking influence elsewhere and everywhere throughout the region. And from here, I warn. Turkey is the new Iran. So he said this just a few weeks ago. Iran is sophisticated, dangerous,
and he seeks to encircle Israel. And while some senior, I thought that was Iraq. Then I thought that was Libya. I thought that was a shot, a sod. I thought that was Iran. Now it's Turkey. They're seeking to encircle everybody. It seemed like strong applause for his eyes. It was not strong
applause. It was like his wife, go. First release. We're on Qatar's payroll. Qatar and Turkey are
Nourishing the Islamic Brotherhood monster that is growing.
might become as dangerous as the one created by Iran. Turkey and Qatar are gaining influence
βnot only in Syria, but also in Gaza through the front door and everywhere. And trying to createβ
a new choke ring. Turkey is trying to flip Saudi Arabia against us and establish a hostile Sunni access with nuclear Pakistan. So that shows you how crazy Israel is. They want to attack everybody. They want to attack Saudi Arabia. They want to attack Qatar. They want to attack Turkey. They want to, they've already attacked Syria, Libya, Iran. They don't want to do it. Right. They want to stop us, go ahead. Right. So it turns out, so this is already come true.
So Israel has attack Turkey. And here's our friend, Nico House, to tell us about it. If it wasn't obvious that Israel was trying to get NATO powers involved in the square against Iran before, it should be now. A ballistic missile was launched at Turkey out of nowhere in NATO
βshot it down. And of course, the blame was immediately put on Iran. Once again. Now, I'm sure there'sβ
a lot of proof to validate that claim because if you're going to claim that Iran is firing at one of its regional allies, I hope you guys may have been supported. Yeah, there actually isn't any evidence. In fact, the only material that have been shown publicly is the breeze, which Turkey says comes from the intercepted missile from the NATO systems. In other words, there's no proof whatsoever that Iran launched the attack and yet the world is once again pretending as if it did.
And of course, once again, Iran acknowledging, yeah, we've been a lot of damage to a lot of US allies, but this was not us once again. We'll be right back with more of this story after a brief message from our sponsor. Hey, the next pandemic, according to the experts, isn't a virus? It's antimicrobial resistance or when antibiotics no longer work. But here is what they're not talking about. The real damage isn't just resistant bacteria.
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to conclusions that Turkey was attacked by Iran? And of course, the answer is Israel. You see,
Turkey is a part of NATO. And when a NATO power is attacked on provoked, it triggers what's called Article Section 5, which, to make a long story short, is basically all of NATO being on your goddamn head. Now, the logical question will be, well, then, why isn't all of NATO jumping in right now considering that the US is part of NATO? It's because Iran is only responded to the attacks from the US. They did not initiate those attacks, but Iran was also accused of attacking another
NATO country early on. The UK, because the UK has a sovereign base in Cyprus and attacking that base, is actually akin to attacking the UK directly. And with the news that the Kurds would be sitting to Iran by the CIA and armed to try to take over the government, you would want to do your best to make sure that Turkey is on your side and not Iran's side because Turkey and the Kurds do not get along. So we see an attack on Azerbaijan and Iran said they didn't do it.
Then we see an attack towards Turkey where the missile was intercepted and Iran also said they didn't
Do it.
relationship, so this is Azerbaijan and Iran for the most part. So, how do you ensure
βTurkey stays on your side despite the fact that you plan on armed with the people that theyβ
most dislike? You have the country and question attack Turkey directly. This way you kill three birds or one stone. You open up a direct route through Turkey and Azerbaijan to attack Iran. You potentially convince all of the NATO powers to join because of Article 5. And if Turkey
truly believed that they were attacked by Iran, they would likely put their feelings about
the Kurds to the side like they didn't Syria in deal with the country that just attacked them.
βDespite the fact that they thought that they were allies and the fact that Turkey condemnedβ
the attacks on Iran since start of this war. And you convince one of the countries closest to Iran to start using its weapon systems against Iran as well. All the signs are there people.
Just pay attention. Israel literally revealing their plans in real time. It's just up to you.
That's the weather not you went up believable. Because after all this time and all this history and all the examples we have from the bath, I definitely believe it. They ain't got to convince me no more. It's all they got to convince. So great work. So we've also showed you video tapes of Tucker Carlson
βsaying that they caught Mossad inside Carter trying to plant bomb Carter and I think Saudi Arabia,β
but we know that Israel bomb Saudi Arabia is one of their oil refineries. So we know this. So water being the country that delivered the money to Hamas on behalf of BB net and y'all. That's right. We paid for Hamas in the false flag that they use as a pretence to do a genocide. That is correct. So it's no secret that Israel wants to attack, wanted to attack Carter, Saudi Arabia, Turkey. They've done it. And so this is their and so yeah, they're trying
to drag NATO into this war for sure. We'll see what happens. Israel is the cancer. Israel is the stabilizer of the Middle East and having a destabilized Middle East as bad for the entire world except it's good for Israel. I have some super giant fan on the Durber show that keeps telling me that according to the Bible code already I'm like we're not in. BB gets slime in July, which I'd look up that meant, but that they get sick of BB in July. So you know,
it's probably nonsense, but wait, what a fun thing with that happened. And it was like, oh, it was in a Bible code. Wow. Hey, become a premium member. Go to jimmydoorcomedy.com. Sign up. It's the most affordable premium program in the business. All the voices performed today are by the one and only the inimitable Mike McCray. He can be found at Mike McCray.com.
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