YAFFEES MONSTER REWIND 8-3-26

Mike Drop, hosted by former Navy CEO, Mike Ridland. How would you characterize your prowess? I'd say my style is that I just kind of outwork everybody until I get there because I'm not a quitter. It's just you. It's yourself. Everything else is team-oriented. The motivation, it was a sort of anger at myself for being weak. That ends up being the driving factor. That anger, that pride, that ego, I think it's a muscle. It gets stronger. When you take that voice seriously, you start to change your life. Mike Drop, follow and listen on your favorite platform. Is the traffic finally moving somewhat there on I 24 years? It appears to be moving quite a bit better. Look at that. They've finally got it out of the way. It only took almost two hours. I was about to say pretty much this whole show. Maybe even more. I could walk down there and hook the record up by now. There we go. All right. So, yeah, if you were stuck on there, there was a tractor trailer in the way. It looks like they got it out of the way. Traffic is finally starting to move a little bit better. Some dummy will have a wreck if you're not careful. Yeah, knock on wood. Yes, you're right. I don't want to be, I don't want to jinx it or anything. Welcome back to Yaffe Live. We are here on the Talk Monster. Don't forget, we have our sweet deals of the week at the website, WGOW.com. Our latest sweet deals include Moves Southwest Grill. which sounds really good right now. Other sweet deals include Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies and more. So check it out the complete list at WGOW.com. We also have our final segment here of the Sunday news shows we get. All right, Max, since you're on cheer you up a little bit. I have cut sayer of Senator Joe Robert F. Kennedy Jr., again, from Louisiana. I like him. I like him. You know? Yeah. He's always got to use on Meet the Press. He's got common sense. He really does, especially when it comes with Iran. He talks about it here. I tend to, you know, we're in this weird, I don't even know what to call it. We had Project Pause, and I called it Operation Give Them Space the next time we paused. This is a. Operation, let's see what happens. And Iran is denying it. Iran has come out again and said, oh, yeah, we're not in talks about the straight. I don't know what the U.S. is talking about here. Okay, so I have said earlier on the show, and I'm curious what you think. You can weigh in on the text monster. I'm starting to get to the point where I think we just do one more major bombing campaign. We bomb any place that might have nuclear material as much as we can. And then we leave. That's kind of where I'm getting at. I don't think that's ideal, but it's better than a bad deal. And John Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he's a senator from Louisiana, I guess that was on Meet the Press talking about. Here's what he said. Do you believe a deal can be reached rapidly, Senator? Well, I hope so. I'm always willing to give peace a chance. Respectfully, I would remind President Trump of three things. Number one, the only reason that Iran is coming to the table, if indeed they are, is because Israel and the United States of America have torn them a new ashtray. Number two, no deal is just fine. Not preferred, but not preferable. But it's fine. A bad deal isn't.

Number three, he has to remember that the Iranian government learned to lie before they learned to talk. And they're more than mildly insane. Dealing with them is like dealing with son of Sam or Charles Manson. Whatever he does. Do not release the sanctions stopping their sale of oil or remove the blockade until we see Ron take firm actions to open the straight. That's my opinion. Well, the final. I tend to agree with them. Although, I don't even know if we should continue on with the blockade anymore or whatever it is. Just maybe bomb all of these areas. As much as we can make sure there's no chance I can build a nuke anytime sitting and maybe just get out. But I agree with one thing, John Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said. I'd rather have no deal than a bad deal. That's where I'm getting on this. I don't want a deal just for the sake of a deal. If we're going to do a deal, make sure it's a good one. But if not, just either keep bombing, keep the blockade, or just come home. Here's more from Senator John Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. Why would this time be different? Well, it may not be. But I think we have lost perspective a little bit on Iran. Do you know why Hezbollah and Hamas are degraded? Do you know why Iran is the furthest away it's ever been from having a nuclear warhead? Do you know why Iran doesn't have an Air Force or a Navy? Do you know why its weapons stockpile and launchers and weapons production plants have been substantially degraded? It's because Israel and America hit them so hard they coughed up bones. And I think... that it has made the world measurably safer as a result. Now, the straight is a problem. That's a big understatement. You don't have to be a senior at Caltech to know we only have three choices. Escalate, retreat, and come home, or maintain the status quo. I would maintain the status quo as long as I could. Sanctions, block aid. I would bomb Pickax Mountain and try to reach any fissile material and centrifuges underneath. I don't know whether the president should start a new bombing campaign again because I don't have the military intelligence. Now, that's a problem, too, because it'll cause a lot of pain. It'll cause energy prices to go up and a lot of inflation for the American people. They're all hellish choices, but for the moment, I'd maintain the status quo. So he's basically saying, look, every choice is a bad one. We can either bomb more, we can make a bad deal, or we just kind of maintain the blockade and the status quo until we break them economically. I still tend to think that our best options are this. Use our complete military power to...

pry the straight open from their cold dead hands. Focus on that. Let the Israelis bomb inside the country, take out the nuclear sites, maybe the leadership, and that should be the focus. Or we just bomb the nuclear sites and then we leave. Here's more from Senator Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. A warning that hackers are trying to disrupt critical water infrastructure, and intelligence officials say they are looking into the possibility that Iran might be behind all of this. What should the U.S. response be if Iran is, in fact, attacking America's drinking water supply? Well, we've got cyber experts, hit them back. Iran's done this before. I'm not saying it's not Iran, but it could be North Korea. We do it to each other all the time. And I'm sorry it happened. I'm glad we caught it. But if Iran's going to start this foolishness, I would hit them back. Just like we've done with the military strikes, I'd eat them up and spit the bones on the floor.

I eat them up there. I do like that, though. So do you hear about that, Max, by the way, that some of our water systems in this country were hacked, the computer systems of our water were hacked, and I think it might have been Iran? I had not heard that. I'm kind of surprised to hear that. Happened over the weekend, pretty scary. I'm starting to think when it comes to these water plants, maybe you just go back to pen and paper. Just unplug the computers. We go back to how it was done before. I know that's not going to happen, but dear God, it's a little terrifying. We go back to Wales. Yeah, I mean, I think you mean everyone gets a well? We don't even have a well. I just have a well. I won't have a water company. Okay. I really don't want to have to build a well in my backyard. I really don't want to have to do that. I think we should take sinks out and just have a pump, you know. A pump like in the olden days? Yeah, great. Wonderful. While we're doing that, take the water heaters out. We'll just, you know, take cold baths. No. Don't you ever say that. I have said that water heaters might be the best invention of all time. I'm just, yeah. I really, I've thought about it. I'm like, okay, what invention could I not live without? Like a lot of the technology, we love it, but could you live without it at the end of the day? Maybe. But without a hot shower, I don't know. Let me tell you how mean my wife is. I learned really quickly to lock the bathroom door when I take a shower. Oh, why is that? Because I would not lock the bathroom. She got a cold pitcher of ice water. Put ice cubes in it. and came in and poured it over the shower curtain. Why? Right down my back because she's mean. Just for fun? Yeah. Oh my gosh. She was having the fun and I was in a tizzy. That's pretty funny. That's your God, man. I thought maybe you were going to say she took all your hot water or something. That's even worse. No, no. Oh, my gosh. What I had wasn't doing any good. Did you deserve it? What'd you do to her? I didn't do anything. I married her. That's really fun. You know, I think you've told me she's a little bit of a prankster in the past. Yeah, yeah. So I guess that's what that was. Wow. And she's part of American Indian, and I keep thinking I'm going to wake up and, you know, part of my head laying on the thing next to me, you know. Okay, here is more from, on that note, here is more from Senator John Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. Let me ask you. I mean, do you think anyone who attacked police officers stormed the Capitol on January 6th should get taxpayer money as a part of that fund? No, I'd take them off the table. Okay. And you would put that in the legislation, Senator? Yeah. I just think, I'm not saying that everybody.

Well, strike that. Look, it's too emotional of an issue, and it's too important of an issue. And if somebody thinks they were abused by the federal government when they were punished by attacking the Capitol in a riot that got totally out of control, right now they have the right to file a federal tort, tort claim act against the federal government and a federal judge will decide. I tend to agree with them on that. They were talking about this whole fun that they're trying to get Todd Blanche put in writing that he wouldn't support. And he has put it in writing now. So they're trying to confirm Todd Blanche for Attorney General. More common sense there. Senator John Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. I bought his book, by the way. He's pretty sharp guy. He's got a new book. How it's like, I think it's like you can't fix stupid. It's I think what the book is called. I don't think my book's going to be really funny. Sometimes you can quieten it down, though. What is the name? You know, when it's convenient, when it's convenient, I've got something I want you to hear. So why don't we get to that? Why don't we take a break a little bit early here? Okay. And when we get back, I'm a little scared. Well. But when we get back, we'll hear what you want me to hear. This friend that I've got. Uh-huh. I'll just leave it at that. By the way, the title of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s latest book is How to Test Negative for Stupid. That's the name of the book. And why Washington never will. That's the other. Yeah, well, they don't want to know how stupid they are. They got us to tell them, but they don't listen. Exactly. All right, we'll be back in a moment on you after your life.

Mike Drop, hosted by former Navy CEO, Mike Ridland. How would you characterize your prowess? I'd say my style is that I just kind of outwork everybody until I get there because I'm not a quitter. It's just you. It's yourself. Everything else is team-oriented. The motivation, it was a sort of anger at myself for being weak. That ends up being the driving factor. That anger, that pride, that ego, I think it's a muscle. It gets stronger. When you take that voice seriously, you start to change your life. Mike Drop, follow and listen on your favorite platform.