Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar - 8/7/25: GHF Whistleblower Exposes Gaza Starvation, Trump Mysterious Answer On UFOs, Krystal Ends Cory Booker, US Labor Leader Kidnapped By Israel

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

Krystal and Saagar discuss GHF whistleblower exposes Gaza starvation, Trump mysterious answer on UFOs, Krystal ends Cory Booker, US labor leader kidnapped by Israel.     To become a Breaking... Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: www.breakingpoints.comMerch Store: https://shop.breakingpoints.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:14 All right, let's get then to the next part here with Anthony Aguilar. So GHF whistleblower, former Green Beret, Anthony Aguilar, who we had on this show, just recorded another interview with Tucker Carlson. It was in person. It was longer than the first portion that he put out. I really recommend you go and listen to it. He reveals a lot of stunning things. He also just has
Starting point is 00:02:35 so much experience in the field, the way he can describe the issues that he saw there. To me, was quite striking. But one of the pieces that I think needs to be explored more is what GHF is, who is this leader, quote-unquote Reverend Johnny Moore, evangelical leader and entrepreneur who's at the head of it. Where has the funding been coming from? There are just so many basic questions around GHF and what it even is that I think it requires a lot more digging in. He gets into some of that with Tucker.
Starting point is 00:03:07 Let's go ahead and take a listen. Gaza Humanitarian Foundation with Johnny Moore, who, you know, if he wants to say that I am a liar, I think that that's not fair. He has said that you're a liar. He has said that I'm a liar. And that's unfortunate because I served in the Army for 25 years, answered the call not just once twice, three, four times, but 12 to fight in battle for the
Starting point is 00:03:28 ideals of this nation. So for him to call me a liar, I think that all veterans and all Americans should take pause and think about who's calling me a liar, someone that has spent his entire life self-serving with PR firms and selling Bibles and whatever else it is he does on the side. So what's interesting is that this entire time that this operation has been going on now for you know operating since the 26th of may till now so breaking 70 days um he's only been there one time for a photo op i find it appalling he doesn't work out of gaza absolutely not he's i should say we put in three interview requests for johnny more he's not even in israel oh so how is he running the gaza humanitarian foundation from uh from his flas
Starting point is 00:04:22 Latin Virginia, I guess. What it feels like to me is that the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is a side project resume item for Mr. Johnny Moore. It's not something that he's dedicated to and it's not something that he has the expertise and the acumen to understand how to run. Does he have any background in distributing humanitarian relief that you know of? No, it's so many things that the that experts within the United Nations that are educated, that spend their lives to become experts in are very, very, very good at doing. So to think that we can just take that on and do it
Starting point is 00:05:04 is it's a very arrogant way of looking at. And one of the things that he said in that interview to soccer is that in all the members that and all the meetings he had with members of Congress, they asked the same thing. So now there's been $30 million. from the State Department that has gone in, that's all we know of the funding. Johnny Moore, who is the leader, this evangelical Christian leader of GHF, who took over after the original head, Jake Wood resigned before the thing was even operational, basically was
Starting point is 00:05:36 like, I'm not going to be associated with this. So Johnny Moore got asked about the funding, refused to reveal what the sources were, and said that to the best of his knowledge, it was not being funded directly by the Israeli government. Which they've now acknowledged is not even true, but yes. And so, and Tony, what he tested to attested to as well is that functionally on the ground, they consider the IDF the client. They do whatever the IDF wants them to do, down to here's how many trucks, here's what time you're opening the distribution center.
Starting point is 00:06:07 And then when he was asking about, hey, what are the operating for like, how do we operate in this arena? Oh, we'll just do what the IDF is doing. And he was told directly, they are the client. So you have American mercenaries with zero legal protection coming in on a tourist visa being handed fully automatic weapons, which another extraordinary part here is he talks about how nobody, they never qualify on these weapons. They're handed these guns that they've never used before and it's just like, yeah, just do what the IDF is doing out there. Yeah, it is absolute. So that part increasingly, I remember it struck me in our interview. I was like, wait, what?
Starting point is 00:06:44 I was like, you're on tourist. What did he say? He was like a J1 visa. And then he's like, next thing I know, I'm in an up-armored Humvee with a fully automatic weapon, with a uniform. One of the things actually we talked about a little bit with Tony afterwards is that he was in his uniform. They had American flag patches that were put on them. He's not an American soldier. It's like, what's going on here?
Starting point is 00:07:02 Wanted them intentionally to look like, and it was the Israelis who insisted on the American flag on the fake military uniform. So they're flagging that. I mean, they're basically trying to dress them up in all of the uniform of the U.S. military. And then he talked previously about the IDF being the client. You know, that was one of the revelations that came out of that. I think this is a very important interview for people to just understand how absolutely insane it is. And especially as we continue to talk about Israel occupying Gaza, Trump gave the green light yesterday. He's like, Israel can do whatever it wants to do.
Starting point is 00:07:32 It'll be up to them. It's like, well, this is what it looks like when it's up to them. Yeah. This is what it all looks like. Well, and not to mention, go ahead and put C4 up on the screen. So Bezaliel Smokritch, is one of the most extreme members of an extraordinarily extreme government in Israel. previously was completely opposed to any aid going into the Gaza Strip. He was opposed to the Gaza humanitarian fashion, opposed to any and all aid going in,
Starting point is 00:07:55 and was so outraged by it that he was extracting concessions from Netanyahu after he was put under pressure to allow a little more aid in. He was, you know, extracting concessions from Netanyahu to, you know, allow that plan to go forward. He's now done a 180 and says, well, actually, I now understand that the, quote-unquote, Gaza humanitarian foundation, this isn't about feeding the population. He says, quote, it's not money for humanitarian aid. It's money for winning the war. Had we controlled the humanitarian aid to Gaza, we would have won the war a while ago.
Starting point is 00:08:29 This fits directly with what Aguilar has been attesting to, which is that this is not an aid operation. This is a shaping operation. And these are designed intentionally as death traps to lure people in, to control them, to force them into, you know, dangerous situations. I mean, of course, we know about the outright massacres that are occurring on a near daily basis in the context of the so-called distribution of aid. But this is all about pulling and pushing the population and controlling them. That's what this is.
Starting point is 00:09:01 And that's what Smotrich is just saying now out in the open. Oh, you know, actually, now I get it. This isn't money for humanitarian assistance. This is money to win the war. So that's what they're saying, which again, wholly and completely backs up. what Anthony Aguilar saw when he was on the ground. He also made a really interesting comment about what he thinks is likely to happen. And again, remember, former Green Beret served 12 different tours of duty, nine combat tours, like has seen everything you can see in, I don't know
Starting point is 00:09:33 how many countries around the world. And he says, they need to think about, okay, there's a difference between when you're in an offensive military position versus when you are in a permanent occupation. And what you're likely to see once you shift to permanent occupation is actually much more violence, much more of the guerrilla warfare, and that that's, you know, exactly what happened in Iraq that he experienced directly. Let's go ahead and take a listen. This is C2. Let's go ahead and take a listen to what he had to say about that. In the coming days and weeks, as this operation, as Operation Gideon's chariots has ended, and the Israeli army has to refit into this restructuring for occupation, which is a whole new ballgame. Occupational Army, U.S. Army World War II, U.S. Army post-invasion
Starting point is 00:10:22 of Iraq, that's when things get really nasty. That's when things get really gray. We think that things are complicated and complex now. Wait until you put an occupation army under the streets of Gaza City. So right now, if I were Hamas, while the active war is going on, the offensive, I'm laying low. I'm hiding. I'm going to come out and get killed. When the occupation begins, that's when the insurgency presents itself in armed violence. Yeah, that's when you have permanent bases that can be blown up. Violent and it's going to get deadly and as the, well, more deadly. And if the United States doesn't set a firm tone of what's acceptable and what's not,
Starting point is 00:11:06 no longer can we have this IDF, do what you will and we'll just kind of, we'll play backup. no we cannot the president of the united states needs to set clear firm expectations and boundaries with our ally because this occupation two things will happen one it's going to become extremely violent grotesquely violent marcova tanks being blown up on the saladine road going into gaza the israelis won't like it but then also when forces begin to go into gaza city and people, other people, start to see the amount of starvation and destitute and destruction. It's going to bring the world to its knees. And it's not going to be a year from now.
Starting point is 00:11:58 It's not going to be months from now. Days from now. It's going to bring the world to its knees is what he says. And, you know, the point he makes there about the occupying force and the level of violence that's likely to spike. It's incredibly obvious. It just wasn't something that I had really thought through
Starting point is 00:12:16 as a civilian. But of course, that would follow the pattern of past invasions that we've seen unfold. Yeah, it is true. Well, I mean, part of the reason why
Starting point is 00:12:23 I'm not so sure is that the Israelis have never behaved this way in so far in their conduct of Gaza. They just have determined that starvation and mass bombing is easier. So when they say occupation,
Starting point is 00:12:35 is it going to be the type of occupation that a normal Western Army would pursue? Or would it just be complete mass expulsion of from whatever area they're so-called occupying. I think that's part of the problem. And my baseline assumption is that considering the way they've conduct themselves now over the last two years, that's probably the way they would go just to minimize
Starting point is 00:12:55 their own casualties. But it would, of course, be the most barbaric and the horrific. But I think Tony's point broadly about what people will see as that happens is already materializing with the pictures of the aid drops. With the pictures, I mean, what else? Like the pictures of the A drops, with even some of the photos of the aid distribution and others that's coming out, it's already stomach turning. I mean, it's already to the point where, you know, I have never seen anything like the collapse of support around the issue just in the last two weeks. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:27 It's extraordinary, shocking. And that's just from the images that are coming out and because of people like Tony. Yeah. It's just a question of, like, the public is repulsed. The world is horrified. But is anyone going to do anything? And that's the question. And that's where I'm not hopeful.
Starting point is 00:13:43 I mean, Trump has said Israel, Trump has apparently given the green light for the complete occupation, invasion, expulsion plan. He's been giving it publicly for however long he's been in office at this point, talking about, you know, the Gaza Lago plan. And at first, we were like, oh, you can't take him seriously. Like, clearly you should take him seriously. And that is exactly what's being effectuated now. Today, in the Israeli security cabinet, they are voting. on the complete annihilation plan on the okay we're going to just occupy the whole thing that's happening today so again when people try to play plausible deniability oh no they're
Starting point is 00:14:22 really trying to feed them they're just you know they've just in over their heads and they don't know what they're doing no they have a plan they are effectuating that plan and they are doing it quite expediently they are accomplishing exactly the goals that they want to accomplish and it is not an accident whatsoever. Zateo also had a scoop regarding some of the leaders involved in this whole Gaza humanitarian foundation and contractor ecosystem. We could put C3 up on the screen. And this was candidly, this was something that Tony had mentioned to us off camera when we were in studio and Zateo was able to chase down the details here. So they say contractor leading security for Gaza AIDS sites is part of the infidels biker group
Starting point is 00:15:05 that seeks to fight Islamic extremism. And basically, this is like an Islamophobic motorcycle club. And this guy's involved with it. And now he's the lead of one of the contractors that is under the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Tony also pointed out that this dude had been temporarily debarred from contracting with the U.S. military at all.
Starting point is 00:15:26 According to military documents, he was debarred in June of 2005 after he received nonjudicial punishment pursuant to USCMGA Article 15, for conspiracy to commit bribery, larceny, and making false official statements. Just to give you a sense of some of the characters who are involved with this supposed aid distribution. Let's go ahead and put C5 up on the screen.
Starting point is 00:15:50 This speaks to what I was just talking about, about what they're voting on in the Israeli security cabinet today. And DropSight pulled this, and you've got the translation on the screen here. But I'll just read you a little bit of what this Israeli reporter. is saying. So this is Amit Siegel on Channel 12. He reports Israel's preparing to occupy Gaza City in a phased operation beginning with a mass evacuation of its residents currently estimated at roughly a million people. Plan will be presented to Israel's security cabinet today. He says they're going to issue an advance evacuation notice, delay combat for several weeks to allow construction of camps
Starting point is 00:16:27 and field hospitals in central Gaza. Gaza City is described as the symbol of the strip. Its capture is the first step in what Siegel calls a good few weeks of operations, not months. Trump is expected to give a speech in parallel announcing an increase in GHF aid centers. As for the Israeli capted Siegel claims most are no longer in Gaza City and that Hamas has previously moved captives when IDF forces approach, that's attempt to assuage the logical conclusion that, oh, probably a lot of captives are going to end up dead here. Plan stopped short of a full Gaza reoccupation for now but is intended to bring Hamas to surrender after the fall of Gaza City. So that's what we can expect to unfold here shortly.
Starting point is 00:17:05 Yeah, it's really, I mean, it's just, it's one of those where we just, we don't fully know yet what's going to happen, but I just think it's going to be completely insane because Trump continues to give the blank check. And, I mean, in some ways, like have, the way that it was currently being sold with Gaza Lago and all that, it would be horrific. But the current policy is to basically just give Israel a blank check and total freedom of action. And that actually could lead to the worst outcome, where obviously we'd have,
Starting point is 00:17:33 no journalists who are inside of the country, no scrutiny for looking at it, a total blank check from America. So it would be all the devastation and no even like small D Democratic check from our own government over what's going on. Yeah. And just to be clear, there are, I mean, there are plenty of Palestinian journalists on the ground. It's just they're routinely disbelieved.
Starting point is 00:17:55 And so, you know, unfortunately, and also routinely murdered. I mean, we've had hundreds, hundreds of Palestinian journalists targeting. and murdered with scarcely a word from their colleagues in the Western press. Except, yeah, so Trey Yankst and a few people at the Committee of Professional Journalists. Yeah, that's about it. That's about it. Oh, and by the way, Fox News just put out this whole GHF propaganda piece. Guess who wasn't the reporter on that?
Starting point is 00:18:20 Yeah, I know. Was not Trey Yinks. I know. I saw it. Very noteworthy there. Yeah, of course. I think they had Bill Hemmer go and, like, tow the Israeli propaganda line with regard to what's going on there. But in any case, unfortunately, because the Palestinian journalist,
Starting point is 00:18:33 are just so routinely invisibleized, slaughtered, and, you know, disbelieved, I do think it will matter if Western journalists were actually allowed in. And the fact that we've gotten these few aerial photos, aerial videos, the fact that you have this former Green Beret coming forward in shock and horror at what he's seeing on the ground there, I do think that it is starting to, you know, break through in terms of the public consciousness. But it's also like, you know, here we are with them voting on the complete annihilation, complete ethnic cleansing, like final solution plan. And, you know, Trump certainly doesn't seem, he embraces it.
Starting point is 00:19:10 You know, they're not at odds. He embraces it. He supports it. He is told Baby that he can do whatever he needs to do. So that's where we are. Yep. It's not good. Tomorrow, yeah, as you said, we'll cover. So there's some great Bill Ackman posting where Ryan got him to back down, which is pretty fantastic. Ryan's so good. Ryan is, Ryan is the go. Yeah, we can agree certainly on that. It's AZ Fudd. You may know me as a gold medalist. You may know me as an NCAA national champion and recent most outstanding player.
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Starting point is 00:22:18 recently sat with Donald Trump and with Tulsi Gabbard, and to her credit, actually followed up on the New Jersey drone situation and got some very mysterious answers from the two of them. Let's start with Trumps. I wanted to ask you about drones. You know, we had the issue in New Jersey before the election where there are all these people thought UFOs or an attack of the killer drones. And I believe you're doing something about what are you doing?
Starting point is 00:22:46 Well, I know I can't tell you who it was and what it was, but I can't really tell you. I'd love to tell you, actually, but it's not a big deal. It's not something frightening. No, but I just, you know, so obviously it's something that I know about and it's not a problem at all. It was legal. Oh, yeah, that was legal. So, as you can see... Just overwhelmed by the transparency of this administration.
Starting point is 00:23:10 Well, UFO people are mad because, you know, here's the thing that I've realized what the Trump people did, because this fits with Epstein. They winked at large parts of the Internet, and they made people very excited. Yeah. And then they came in, and it's the same old crap, right? So here he says, I can't tell you what it was. I'd love to tell you, actually, but it's not a big deal. It's not a problem at all. Okay.
Starting point is 00:23:31 I mean, you can't take a hole out of that to them. bank, but I actually thought that Tulsi Gabbard's comments were the most interesting. Obviously, she's the director of national intelligence. Here's what she had to say. Strange objects over New Jersey were drones. I still have a lot of questions around that. Yeah. You know, I've heard, I've heard what the public official line is. I just personally still have a lot of questions that are unanswered. Yeah. Because it wasn't just New Jersey. It was happening in different parts of the country. Oh, really? Yeah. Happened in different parts of the country. It wasn't just New Jersey. I mean, you'll remember, we covered it here. Remember we had rich, by the way,
Starting point is 00:24:07 for the skeptical, as I know you are, remember what Rich McHugh had to say here about how the state hops, local police were all freaked out. The orbs, the drones, whatever they were, then it eventually came out from Trump and what did he say? He was like, oh, well, we knew what they were all along. We couldn't just tell you. I don't believe that for a second. There was also, what was it, an Iranian mothership was off the coast at one. point, which was floated by a Republican congressman, yes, the Iranian military, which, you know, really proved itself during the 12-day war. If he put that all together, we still have no idea. I mean, listen, everyone I know is going to the Black Project theory, you know, the secret government
Starting point is 00:24:51 and all that. It is theoretically possible. I remain deeply skeptical just because, again, of the way that we saw movement, of the way that the federal government also initially reacted. it was incredibly sketchy. There was no like FAA guidance or anything that had been issued. Also just in the way that the drone, whatever, the objects, the way that they operated whenever they were approached, you know, by the state and local aircraft and by law enforcement, it remains one of the craziest episodes. I think, you know, in more recent, like a UFO memory. And of course, you know, it just gets totally put under the rug. What do you think? Yeah, and to your point about winking at the internet, you know, with Epstein, specifically with Trump, it was more of a wink, because he always was like, well, I don't know, and privacy, and maybe not. UFOs, he was explicit. Yeah, I know. I pulled up the quote from 2024, Lex Friedman podcast. He promised if elected, he would push the Pentagon to release more UFOs footage.
Starting point is 00:25:47 He stated, oh, yeah, sure, I'll do that. I would do that. I'd love to do that. I have to do that. So this isn't one where he was kind of, and people around him were more pushing it. No, he, whenever he got to ask this question, he was very direct. And so here we are in August of 2025 and August 7th of 2025. And now it's, well, I can't tell you, but trust me, there's nothing to worry about here.
Starting point is 00:26:12 I mean, one of RFK Jr.'s advice, do you remember Bob Malone? He was on the RofK podcast, or sorry, on the Joe Rogan podcast. He's the guy who did the mass psychosis. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The inventor of MRNA, whatever. All right. So he's a, I believe he was appointed to a position by RFK Jr. So he recently said on a podcast that RFK Jr.
Starting point is 00:26:32 had, quote, received a classified briefing on UFOs, UAPs, and whether they could be interdimensional beings or time travelers. Malone said that a federal investigator told him, quote, alien encounters are ramping up and confirms that they are real. Listen, you can, you know, I don't know whether that's true or not. RFK Jr. has come out. He has himself, we could take a look at his credibility, but he's definitely somebody who was in the room on the issue. And if I put it together with the public comments, it still remains one of total mystery just in the way that it has, they ran on the issue, they said they would release it. There has not been one thing that has been released yet. We got the MLK files before we got
Starting point is 00:27:13 the UFO and the Epstein files. So we're all aware. And there is still, you know, quite a lot of movement at the whistleblower and other level inside of Congress. There has been multiple pieces now of legislation. We're just supposed to compel the Pentagon. By the way, I've been checking up on this. I haven't heard yet whether Pete Hagsath or anyone on their team is doing really much on the UFO issue. I don't think that. And you have to dig deep on this stuff, as we're all showing. You know, with the Epstein files, it took hundreds of FBI agents, weeks, if not months, to compile all this stuff from everywhere. And then apparently they were finding things in different areas. That's what they're claiming about Russiagate, too. And that's, you know,
Starting point is 00:27:50 surface level political scandals. So just imagine on this particular issue. But anyway, I mean, I think it's an issue for transparency. The vice president recently was on a podcast talking about as well. Here's what he had to say. There are stories that I am particularly focused on, in part just because you talk with your buddies about it. Like, I'm obsessed with the whole UFO thing. What's actually going on? What were those videos all about? What's actually happening? I haven't gotten to the bottom of yet, but we're only six months in. We've been to say, very busy. That's actually the August recess is, in part, me going to try to dive to the bottom of the whole UFO thing yesterday. I mean, you got to have us back. Okay, I'll let you know.
Starting point is 00:28:27 I'll let you know. So will we ever hear about it again? I'm still, you know, remain a bit skeptical. One of the reasons why, and I've talked about this before, John Podesta, who was the White House Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton, a huge UFO guy. He actually tried to figure it out. He writes about it in his book. Basically, at every turn, they were like, don't worry about it. And Bill Clinton, He even said it himself. Bill Clinton was like, I'm embarrassed to say. I tried to find out. And they basically didn't tell me what was going on.
Starting point is 00:28:53 You too, good Bill Clinton. How are I just learning this? Well, I don't do it very often. It's been, you know, we're not on the 90s. Imagine if we were broadcasting on Lewinsky. He's like, oh, embarrassed to say, I couldn't find out what was going on. But that's what he said. Obama, remember, in his interview on it, and he was like, well, I can't tell you, you know,
Starting point is 00:29:09 in terms of what he had to say about the issue. And now we have Trump and basically every successive person, even the vice president, top-level political appointee. You genuinely do need, like, a strike team of people. Plus, you need more people in the government to come forward. I like Tulsi. Tulsi's my favorite. She's literally the director of national intelligence, and she's like, I still have a lot of questions.
Starting point is 00:29:29 See, I hate when they do that. See, it pisses me out too. Because now you have power. This is so common. Not just the Trump administration with all sorts of politicians who I had, oh, gosh, I wish someone in power would do something. It's like, that's your job. This is your freaking job. Like, what are you talking about?
Starting point is 00:29:43 You still have good. Then go ask the questions. Go get the answers. That's the whole reason. and you were supposed to be put in there. And yet there she is just playing helpless. Like she has no power, no ability to do anything, which maybe she doesn't.
Starting point is 00:29:55 I don't know. But if she doesn't, then she should admit that, too. I was going to say, though, she remember she said that about the Epstein thing as well. Whenever, I think it was Charlie Spearing, shout out, who asked her, he's like, do you have any information that Epstein is an intelligence asset? And she's like, well, I haven't seen anything like that.
Starting point is 00:30:10 It's like, well, have you looked for it? You know, have anybody asked about it. I don't know. I haven't seen anything. It's like, why didn't look for it? Wouldn't look for it, right? It's like, well, yeah, you're not going to know unless you try to look for it. And, yeah, anyway, I mean, if you just look at the history and the way that they're all talking about the issue, they're winking, they're nodding.
Starting point is 00:30:29 And I don't know whether it's to drive up. Actually, I don't think so, because they are not volunteering the information. It's Miranda Devine who pressed on two of them. Both of them basically gave cover-up like answers. JD has always had kind of an interest in the UFO issue. But also, we have to be honest, it's like the vice president doesn't have the power. Like, you need a full-on commitment from the DNI, from the, you know, from the sect-def, you know, who knows what Pete Heggseth has going on in his building right now? Would his generals even tell him the truth?
Starting point is 00:30:57 I do not have any confidence, basically, in the way that he is running in his building right now. Yeah, he's got way big problems in terms of how he's operating inside. So anyway, I think that's really all we unfortunately have. I would ask, you know, people in the White House and others, if you do have public pressure or, you know, a few different. hearings, things like that. I know that there's some rumbling about that, but almost all of them really have been stopped in their tracks. And there are well-meaning people in Congress who have been trying on the issue. But an individual member of Congress, as we've shown repeatedly, they have no power. Little power, yeah. Very little, you know.
Starting point is 00:31:31 You know what I think they should do, Saugger, if they really want to put this to bed. What? I think they should issue a two-page memo that says there's nothing to see here. Well, they've done it before. They've already done that. They should put out a video that they claim his raw footage, but is actually highly edited and missing key portions of the video. and lie about that as well. I think that will really tamped down public interest. What you're describing is literally what they have done on the UFO issue. They did that before with the Pentagon.
Starting point is 00:31:53 Remember the headline? They do it every time. No evidence of aliens. It's like, well, there's no evidence is not. There's no evidence of what the fuck it is, all right? It's like, so you can't tell us what it is. And they're like, well, there's 14 incidents or whatever, which we can't explain in any way whatsoever.
Starting point is 00:32:07 But there's no evidence that it's aliens. And it's like, well, what is the evidence of what it is? Finally, God, what is the name of the James Fox documentary? I always want people to watch this one. Is it moment of contact? I think that's what it's called. Moment of contact, yeah. If you, I dare you to watch that
Starting point is 00:32:25 and not believe in UFOs. I dare you. That's the one about Brazil, right? Yeah, the Brazil, Virginia. I'm serious, you cannot, you cannot watch it and tell me that UFOs are not real. You can't, you can't, all right? And then he's got multiple follow-ups,
Starting point is 00:32:39 the phenomenon, so many others. All of James' films are absolutely incredible. So that's my last plug. Go ahead and watch it. for yourself and you make up your mind. Hey guys, it's AZ Fud. You may know me as a gold medalist. You may know me as an NCAA national
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Starting point is 00:35:21 Well, in a Senate that is full of amoral, psychopathic monsters, it can be difficult to choose among the various odious figures who should truly reach the S-tier of villainy. You've got your proudly genocidal types like John Betterman, you've got your Islamophobic pro-crypto sell-ounce like Kirsten Gillibrand. But in terms of the Democratic caucus, at least, in my humble opinion, Cory Booker is the worst. He is just the fucking worst. Booker combines theatrical vacuous preening with corporate slavishness, with moral horrors for a total package that is thoroughly and completely repugnant. Please, for the love of God, someone decent, primary this man. So the problems with Cory Booker, of course, they're nothing new. I actually attended a wedding
Starting point is 00:36:06 that he officiated once, and I swear to God, the first maybe 20 minutes of the ceremony he spent describing his own personal faith journey. Leave it to Cory Booker to make a wedding about himself instead of, I don't know, maybe the bride and groom. I'm also old enough to remember when Booker went and Meet the Press as a top Obama surrogate to decry that campaign's attacks on Mitt Romney's Bayton Capital private equity record, this was really something. As far as that stuff, I have to just say, from a very personal level, I'm not about to sit here and indict private equity. It's to me, it's just, we're getting to a ridiculous point in America, especially that I know I live in a state where pension funds, unions and other people are investing in companies like
Starting point is 00:36:47 Bain Capital. If you look at the totality of Bain Capital's record, they've done a lot to support businesses to grow businesses, and this to me, I'm very uncomfortable. This kind of stuff is nauseating to me on both sides. It's nauseating to the American public. Enough is enough. Stop attacking private equity. Stop attacking Jeremiah Wright. This stuff has got to stop because what it does is it undermines to me what this country should be focused on. It's a distraction from the real issues.
Starting point is 00:37:14 It's either going to be a small campaign about this crap or it's going to be a big campaign in my opinion about the issues that American public cares about. Nauseating. Okay. The Obama campaign and Democratic-based backlash against Cory Booker was swift after those comments. I remember a sweaty nervous Rachel Maddow interview he did in the aftermath of those comments to try to clean it up, but he never really fully recanted. It was a very revealing episode because it broadcasts that he was willing to take the heat,
Starting point is 00:37:39 even against Obama, the most beloved figure in the Democratic Party, in order to defend the honor of capital. His mentality is donor first through and through, but wrapped in a shoddy veneer of supposed progressivism. Booker's not stupid, though, unlike some of his duller compatriots who thought that there was political advantage to be gained from playing footsie with MAGA, like let's say Gavin Newsom, having Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon on his podcast or all of the Doge caucus people. Booker recognized pretty quickly in Trump 2.0 that the Democratic base was desperate for figures who would stand up and fight the Trump administration. So what did Cory Booker do? Well, he strapped on an adult diaper and took to the floor of the Senate for an epic filibuster,
Starting point is 00:38:19 boldly speaking truth to power for hour after hour after hour, excoriating the Trump administration, promising to fight their power grab at every turn, eventually breaking the record for the longest ever floor speech. Maybe we thought this man has turned a page. Maybe he's decided to rise to the historical moment to put grassroots democracy over donor-driven capitulation. But even in this speech marathon, the red flags were pretty clear. First of all, it wasn't actually a filibuster as it wasn't blocking any actual action. Second, he used some of his time to embrace abundance, the big money-backed neoliberal
Starting point is 00:38:55 rebrand dedicated to putting a glossy new sheen on status quo politics. Finally, he swiftly moved from declaring all-out war on the Trump administration to voting to confirm justice-involved person and Trump family relative, Charles Kushner, as ambassador to France demonstrating just how committed Booker really is to actually fighting Trump administration nepotism and thuggery. The Kushner vote was particularly egregious, given that he was convicted of some pretty wild crimes in Booker's own home state of New Jersey. You guys can go and look that one up. In fact, only a handful of Senate Democrats have supported.
Starting point is 00:39:29 more Trump nominees than Corey Booker has, the man who theatrically pledged to fight the Trump administration relentlessly. Booker is apparently all resistance in the streets, but capitulation in the sheets. The dude is also utterly shameless, too. When the Newark mayor and New Jersey congressional members were arrested attempting to examine an ICE detention facility, Booker, of course, nowhere to be found. When other members were flying to El Salvador to demand the release of innocence from a slave labor camp, Booker was reported to be planning a trip, but seemingly quashed it when Hakeem Jeffries told Democrats that they needed to back off the case. So while substantive action has ranged from non-existent to outright complicit, theatrics have certainly continued. Most recently,
Starting point is 00:40:11 Booker got into an intentionally noisy spat with Senator A.B. Klobuchar. Apparently, Booker was looking to grandstand over some provisional policing bill. Klobuchar was pissed off and disgusted with this little performance because he actually couldn't be bothered to show up for the committee vote when said provision was actually being discussed and voted on. So here is a snippet of Booker's outburst. I was just called out by name and I want to respond. I don't need somebody implying in any way
Starting point is 00:40:37 that this is not vital to me and my state that we have resources for our police officers. But what I am tired of is when the president of the United States of America violates the Constitution, trashes our norms and traditions, And what does the Democratic Party do? Comply?
Starting point is 00:41:01 Allow him? Beg for scraps? No, I demand justice. It's time for Democrats have a backbone. It's time for us to fight. It's time for us to draw lines. And when it comes to the safety of my state being denied these grants, that's why I'm standing here.
Starting point is 00:41:18 Don't question my integrity. Don't question my motives. I'm standing for Jersey. I am standing for my police officers. I'm standing for the Constitution, and I'm standing for what's right. Standing for what's right, you say? Well, it will surprise no one to learn
Starting point is 00:41:32 that shortly after this tort of force of moral preening, I believe, in front of an empty chamber, by the way, Booker would once again vote to ship offensive weapons to Israel so they can continue their campaign of terror against starving Palestinian children. What clarity, what courage,
Starting point is 00:41:48 what incredible moral leadership. And truly, it is with Israel's genocide in God, where Booker has reached his final most despicable form. It will not surprise you to learn that he is a top recipient of Israel lobby funds and he votes and acts accordingly in seemingly every instance. He's been enthusiastic in efforts to criminalize criticism
Starting point is 00:42:07 and boycotts of Israel. He goes that extra mile by attending APAC policy conferences. He even gushed in leaked audio about how he texts back and forth with APAC's president like there are a couple of teenagers. Part for the course, I guess, for someone with an apparent multi-decade close friendship with the utterly reprehensible Rabbi Shmuli. Here they are together, horsing around at a porum party at Oxford in 1993.
Starting point is 00:42:32 By all accounts, the two were extremely close friends for decades, falling out, according to Booker, over Shmooley being so self-promoting that even Cory Booker couldn't quite take it. I guess the man does have some limits, apparently. But Booker's ironclad commitment to Israel has outlasted his Shmooley bromance. In fact, perhaps nothing. so accurately encapsulates the putrid essence of Corey Booker. As this photo, with wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu back when he was in town just a few weeks ago, Corey has the intellect to know a photo op with baby probably a bad look while babies are literally being starved,
Starting point is 00:43:08 so he hides his face. But he lacks the integrity to actually buck his donors. So there Corey is in the photo, lamely trying to hide behind someone. Now, he claims the photographer positioned him this way. Okay. Now, it goes without saying you'd be hard-pressed to identify a more monstrous and destructive figure in the entire world than Netanyahu. And yet here is self-anointed moral warrior, Cory Booker, meeting with modern-day Hitler.
Starting point is 00:43:35 So he can hear the latest Husbar talking points about how children with pre-existing conditions don't really count as starving or how American Jews voting for Zoran are actually Hamas. Speaking of Zoran, guess who refuses to get behind? the Democratic nominee for New York City in spite of a resounding 12-point victory. You guessed it, Mr. Courageous himself, Corey Booker. About Mom, Donnie, are you going to support him? I have learned a long time ago.
Starting point is 00:43:59 Let New York politics be New York politics. We got enough challenges in Jersey. I got a governor's race. I'm supporting Mikey Sherrill. I got legislative races. That's where my energy is going to go going into November. New York City, I love you. You're my neighbor.
Starting point is 00:44:13 You're about 10 miles from where I live. You guys figure out your elections. I'm going to focus on mine. Would you be surprised if I informed you that his don't endorse in New York rule is not some consistent Booker anti-metaling policy? In fact, for years, Cory Booker ran a PAC that endorsed Democrats in races across the country. And he currently sits on the board of the PAC Democrats for Education Reform, a group founded by billionaire and former mayoral candidate Whitney Tilsen, and which endorses candidates who are against teachers' unions and generally in favor of charter schools. He's got no problem endorsing candidates in New York or in any other state, by the state.
Starting point is 00:44:47 way, he just doesn't want to support this particular candidate. Given Corey's delight at texting like a teenager with APAC and his close association with billionaire Zionist Whitney Tilson, who made his whole mayoral campaign about Israel, I think we all know why the supposed progressive just can't bring himself to support the progressive Democratic nominee from mayor. To top off all the self-congratulation and cash grab and really wrap it all in a bow, Booker has decided to turn his 25-hour speech into a book called Stand. On the publisher's website, they describe Stand as, quote, a celebration of the Americans who chose to get up in the face of injustice,
Starting point is 00:45:26 who champion the uniquely American values central to making our nation a more perfect union, despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles. It's also, they say, a guide for today. Leadership is not derived from position or title. It comes from action and example. Action and example, really? Booker's actions have been grandstanding, his example has been support for a genocide, co-opting progressive language to run cover for a rogue ethno state. For these reasons, and so many more,
Starting point is 00:45:55 I do hereby declare that Cory Booker is just the fucking worst. Watching him out there, still doing his little Obama impersonation, moral preening, and then turning right around and voting for an offensive weapons package to Israel. You've been. Got to be kidding me. Well, remember his, his big filibuster. I mean, this is, this is the problem with these guys. This is what they're all about. And if you just scratch the surface a little bit, it's like the pro is, I mean, listen, obviously I know the pro is real thing that's big for the left, but look at the money stuff that goes back now for decades. Oh, yeah. Like with his connection. Oh, the private equity thing. That's what I'm saying. That was, what, 2012.
Starting point is 00:46:32 I've been a long time Cory Booker haters for the record. But it's, it shows people, that is what it takes the superficiality to be beloved by the media as some sort of democratic star, or at least was for years. I'm hoping there's a corrective. Here's the thing that Booker exposes. It's not an accident, but the very same people who would be the type to go on and be like, these attacks on Bain Capital, I just can't, are the same people who would be voting still to send offensive weapons to Israel.
Starting point is 00:47:01 Like, they are the same people. And the reason is because they put donors first. And so wherever the most amount of money is for campaign contributions, that's where their positions are going to align. And so Cory Booker, I don't know that it was his unique innovation, but he follows the model of he really wants to position himself as like he's some sort of progressive. But then if you scratch underneath the surface and you say, oh, well, when the progressive values don't align with what the donors want, which direction do you go? Yeah, that's right. We know which direction he goes. That's well said. That's very true. Yeah. And somehow his veganism also fits into this.
Starting point is 00:47:34 Like the personal, like, I'm just saying, it's like, for me, there's something about the pro-Israel vegan. Like, that is a guy. And specifically, it just fits with Cory Booker. So I don't know what that is. That's an interesting point. Well, it's about the person, you know, like, if you're vegan, which, I mean, there's not really a health reason to be vegan, but, like, if you want to be vegan, a lot of it is about, like, stopping the suffering of the world and all of that, right? And so then, you know, to be pro-Israel, especially now today, and suppose, progressive on top of that like that just fits yeah well for yeah let you you won't
Starting point is 00:48:09 slaughter a cow but you'll right exactly allow you know thousands of babies to be you you won't even you know eat cow based products yeah milk or anything but yeah exactly will you slaughter a red heifer so we'll get ryan on that i'll eat a heifer burger somebody sent it i'll eat it today is that sacrilegious i'm not sure for for hindus i guess it is for jews i don't know all right okay guys all right let's get to chris malls so as you likely know, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition has been trying to break the siege in Gaza. They've sent a number of ships at this point. One had Greta Tunberg on board and other activists attempting to bring in basic aid and break that siege. Both ships have at this point been the activists were
Starting point is 00:48:50 kidnapped off the ship and were now joined by Chris Smalls, who many of you longtime viewers of the show, will know, is the founder of the Amazon Labor Union. He was on board that second flotilla and was not only arrested, essentially kidnapped off the high seas, but was beaten and detained in Israeli prisons for a number of days. So first of all, Chris, welcome back, welcome home, welcome back to the show. It's nice to see your face. Good to see you, man. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:49:14 Thank you for having me. Of course. So just take us through why you wanted to be a part of this and what your experience was. And we've got time. So take your time and explain to the audience what happened. Yeah, absolutely. Well, I want to definitely just touch on this, this, this mission was actually
Starting point is 00:49:31 this was actually boat number 37 I know a lot of people gravitated to the Madeline they thought it was like the first mission they've been doing these flotillas since 2008 this only in the last two decades really only
Starting point is 00:49:48 five flotillas actually made it to the Gaza Strip so it was very important for me to join this last mission on the Hyundai as a labor activist as an American taxpayer and citizen And I wanted to take a stance that was more direct. I've done a lot of protests. I've been to a lot of student encampments.
Starting point is 00:50:08 I've been heavily involved with the pro-Palestine movement since the very beginning. And as a labor leader, once again, labor unions in America and the U.S. specifically have been very complicitive, not participating in this genocide with shipping arms and manufacturing weapons still with no resolution since October 7. And once again, as a tax-paying citizen, we all need to be outraged of where our money is going. You know, the killing and slaughtering of half a million Palestinians in less than two years. It's just inhumane. So for me to join this mission, I hope that it spread awareness. It seems like it did.
Starting point is 00:50:48 Of course, the legacy media didn't touch on it. Certain politicians, you can name them. They didn't touch on it. But, you know, I'm hoping once again that the awareness that we have, on the left and the awareness that we have in the community will get this story out there and also help push the narrative like you said to break their illegal seeds that israel has imposed for the last two decades so chris as you said you're an american citizen describe your treatment after you're detained by the israelis well of course i'm not just that i'm a black man from
Starting point is 00:51:21 america and um there there um there's been a history there for a very long time and um as one of the only black passengers on the hundella i was kind of aware of what situation i was going into prior to going but uh you know what um i said it doesn't matter people need to see the truth and unfortunately they they bit the bullet they um as soon as we were transferred over from the i oaf to the immigration court authorities um i didn't consent to their propaganda stories um i put my hands up over my face to cover my face from the camera crews that they have um they had pretty much a camera cruise the entire time trying to film propaganda like they did with greta thunberg with the sandwiches and things like that and when i did that um i was attacked by seven authorities
Starting point is 00:52:13 they threw me to the ground they put their knee in my back they twisted my arms behind my back and they had three guys on each side they levitated me and um one of them was pulling my hair and using my change that's a noose to choke me until i couldn't breathe Then they took me to a separate room. They threw me against the wall a few times. And they were saying some racist remarks in my ears saying that they're the furthest thing from my brother and, you know, nowhere close to being brothers. And they kept me isolated from the rest of the passages and volunteers for the whole time. They guarded me with five guards.
Starting point is 00:52:48 And, yeah, once again, I was treated differently from the rest of the crew. Were there any while you were arrested? after you have been assaulted? Were there any American politicians who intervened to try to get you back? Talk to us about the, yeah, because, I mean, you are an American citizen. You would think this would be something that this administration that various politicians would care about. Did anyone speak out?
Starting point is 00:53:13 Did anyone intervene on your behalf? No, not to my knowledge. I did, when I returned home, I did see that the only rep that really spoke out was Summer Lee, and I believe Rashida Taleb, of course, who I spoke to on the Hyundai on a live stream. But as far as the embassy, the U.S. Embassy never showed up for us. I was one of seven Americans. We were one-third of the crew, which was, you know, that was unprecedented by itself to have so many Americans on board. The embassy didn't do anything. I spoke to the consulate while I was in custody. He promised that he was supposed to
Starting point is 00:53:55 take care of my safety, but he failed at that. I was already assaulted by then. And every other embassy, for all the other countries, that was with us, they showed up in person, and they made sure that their people got home. The U.S. did not. Wow. I mean, so nobody at the consulate, nothing was ever, they did not assist you. Incredible. That's crazy. Chris, what was your goal? What was the goal of the, you know, bringing the aid? What did you have on board? And did the Israelis have any legal authority to intercept this ship? Yeah. So, you know, we know we didn't have enough aid. The goal was never to
Starting point is 00:54:38 deliver humanitarian aid. The goal is to break the illegal siege. The aid that we had was very minimum, but we had prosthetic parts. We had medical supplies, baby formula, baby diapers, women care products, and a whole bunch of hope and solidarity. You know, we knew that. We knew that, we can never feed everybody in Gaza, but once again, to break the seed is what the message is about and the goal is about. And as far as Israel's jurisdiction on international waters, they have none. The ICJ ruled over a year ago with the case versus Israel in South Africa, that humanitarian aid can continue to be delivered to the people of Gaza.
Starting point is 00:55:18 They cannot block that in any way, whether it's land or sea. So we were in our legal right-ass civilians to deliver this humanitarian aid. In Israel, fake maritime blockade is not a real thing. They have no jurisdictions on international waters. This is why it's deemed a kidnapping. And Chris, just broadly, you know, reflecting on your experience, you know, what does it tell you about your own treatment and the silence from here, politicians here in America? Because we hear a lot about hostages held in Hamas, which is a lot. is fine. Some of them were American citizens, and of course, we should care about them. But you
Starting point is 00:55:56 were effectively held hostage, you know, by Israel, and you received no contact from anybody in our government. Well, once again, this is, you know, silence equals death. And that's exactly what our American government has shown us, is that they rather be complicit and participate in the genocide than actually stand on the right side of history. And it's not just the government. It's these labor unions who pass zero resolutions. It's these corporations like Amazon who invested $7.2 billion into the Nimbus project. They essentially are the Iron Dome. I mean, it's all of them.
Starting point is 00:56:33 All these dots are connected. And, you know, I hope the people paid attention to who exactly, who they call their so-called progressive politicians. They were silent, completely silent. You can't tell me that they didn't catch wind of what was going on. especially with me. As you know, Crystal and y'all, y'all've been reporting on me for the last five years ever since I was fired. I've been in major headlines. I've made every major publication in the country and the world. So there's no excuse for why they've been silent, but the fact that they are complicit. And finally, Chris, you know, I think a lot of people who see these images
Starting point is 00:57:16 and are horrified, I think a lot of people struggle with what their moral responsibility is in this moment. How do you think about that question? We all have a role to play, and that's exactly what I'm doing. As a labor leader, I chose to take more direct stance. I'm not encouraging everybody to do that because it's not meant for everybody to join these flotillas. We shouldn't have to put our lives on the line. This was a life-of-death situation, and I have children of my own. I wanted to return home and make sure that they have a future to live in.
Starting point is 00:57:48 And that's what people need to think about, especially American citizens, once again, who taxpaying dollars are going towards this. We all need to be outraged. And whatever way you feel like showing your activism is the time. The time is now. And that's what we have to do. We have to hold these entities accountable. And we have to hold these people in power accountable right now.
Starting point is 00:58:12 Wow. Chris Smalls. Always great to see you. Great work here. You know, incredibly courageous, as you said. I mean, you put your life on the line for something you believe in. And that is truly to be commended. So thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for the work you're doing. Good to see you, Chris. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, thank you. Thank you guys so much for watching. We appreciate it. Great Friday show for everybody tomorrow. See you then. Ah, come on. Why is this taking so long? This thing is ancient. Still using yesterday's tech, upgrade to the ThinkPad X1 Carbon, Ultra light, Ultra Light, UltraPra. powerful and built for serious productivity with Intel Core Ultra processors, blazing speed, and AI-powered performance. It keeps up with your business, not the other way around. Whoa, this thing moves. Stop hitting snooze on new tech. When the tech search at Lenovo.com. Unlock AI experiences with the ThinkPad X1 carbon powered by Intel Core Ultra processors so you can work, create, and boost productivity all on one device.
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