20:04 So all of this is working very, very well because you've got Marjorie Taylor Greene going on Tucker saying, oh, I'm sick and tired of Israel and Trump is, you know, what happened to him and it's all over. It is, it is, he, President Trump needs to come out and just say it. This was about China. And thank you to the Israelis, not Israel, not BB Netanyahu, thank you to the Mossad, you should say it, thank you to the Mossad because they helped us send the message loud and clear. And luckily I can find some compatriots in this. Mike Baker has a podcast and he had Stephen Yates on. I have a Mike Baker podcast clip today. Oh wow, okay. Well I'll play mine.
20:51 Well, mine is about, mine is a look when you're done with this little thing you're doing. Yes. Your little thing. My little thing I'm doing here. Your little thing. I'm gonna talk about the spooks on the podcast and the deconstruction of that phony baloney DIA memo. Oh, excellent. Which to me was also Complete DIA propaganda. Hey, we need to have more bombs. You gotta have more stuff. Gotta be worried. Oh sleeper cells, sleeper cells everywhere. Bull, bull crap. And by the way, Iranians really warm up to American culture.
21:33 Very much so. I'm reminded of an old Saturday Night Bit where these sleeper cells, this is from years ago, during, I forgot what period of terrorism it was, but the Saturday Night Bit was these sleeper cells were sitting, they were in Armonk, New York or someplace. Armonk. In a suburb and they got a call. Okay, it's time to take action. I got my wife and kids, I gotta go to a Little League game this afternoon. What are you doing here with me? Oh dude, remember when, was it just before Christmas? They were worried about a dirty bomb exploding and the guy was filming me for some Bitcoin documentary and he was calling up his kids and like, oh, I gotta get him out of New York. I gotta get him into the center of the country because of the dirty bomb. I don't remember what hoax that was.
22:29 And by the way, when you go after the Jews and Israel slash the Jews, you automatically go after the Christians. You see, because that's exactly what happened between Tucker and Ted Cruz, who was ill-prepared. No kidding. And the American church is weak. It's weak. They won't stand up and say, no, that's bull crap. It's weak. I would agree with that. Yes, it's very weak. There's people trying to... In fact, this recent Supreme Court's justice showed how weak the American church is. It was a Muslim
23:07 that pulled the plug on all the porn in grammar school. Yeah, I know. It was the Muslims that had the nerve to do it. The Christians didn't do anything about it. They're very confused and they've been beaten down by, you know, stuff like the separation clause, non-existent separation clause. So there's all kinds, we have a spiritual problem in America. There's not a political problem. So now I want to play, thank God we have Mike Baker and Stephen Yates to talk some sense into everybody about what really took place, which was China got a wake-up call from President Trump. In the immediate aftermath, we've heard very little from China.
23:49 What do you make of the Chinese reaction and mindset towards what's happened regarding Iran? Well, my first assumption is that they, like most of the world, including a lot of Americans, did not realize this was actually going to happen. And I think that they were probably thrown a bit when they saw the B-2s going to Guam. That is getting close to the area they like to operate in. And then all of a sudden, before they really get any other news, some things go boom, boom in Iran from another area. So a little bit of a head fake probably made them spin a bit.
24:27 But they also were a little high on their own supply in giving Pakistan some weapons and they thought that the recent skirmish between India and Pakistan saw Pakistan maybe besting some technology the Indians had. And all of a sudden, the world sees that American stealth technology actually works, that we can actually have an operation without leaks. And I think that probably put a pin in one of the balloons of China is on the rise, inevitably the next boss on the block, America's on decline, and you better make a deal with the new boss. So I bet they had a big, big, deep breath to contemplate what just happened.
25:09 And I mentioned, I think, four or five shows ago, be on the lookout for the term multipolar world because that's what this is about. And I will, I remain as an American, I'm glad because I don't want the Chinese running the show. Call me a douchebag, call me an imperialist, whatever. Best price is not my culture. So what is the relationship between Iran and China? Talk to me if you could about the extent, the nature of the relationship between Iran and China, and then also in context with China's response in the aftermath of the attacks. Are you surprised at their reaction? Which I mean, to me or to anybody who's not an expert on China, we look at it and go, that's pretty hands off from their perspective.
25:54 Well, yeah, because they have been giving a political narrative out to the world that together with Moscow and Tehran and maybe Pyongyang and a few others, they were trying to create this alternative universe that was going to be multipolar and balance against the bad Americans. And it was going to, they were going to have their own currency be a reserve currency, all this pie in the sky stuff about what they were going to do in the world. And so if you believe that narrative, and there's some truth to their trying to at least stoke those ideas, then this does look like conspicuous pulling back from someone who's supposed to be an ally getting walloped and you're like, whoa, you're on your own. I don't really know who you are.
26:38 But Iran's response by threatening to shut off the Straits of Hormuz, that was definite no-go zone for China because they are still very dependent on a lot of energy from the Gulf, not just buying a lot of Iranian oil, which they have done. But from other sources too. And so my guess is they were conveying that privately to Tehran. And I think that they did have a national interest in there not being a wider conflict because it would have a material impact on their economic forecast. They can't be the manufacturing supply platform for the world without that dose of natural gas and oil from the Gulf.
27:20 And so when President Trump comes out and says, hey, thanks to the IDF and the Mossad and BB and whatever. Yeah, he's right. It's always seemed that the Chinese regime has been giddy any time the US gets mired in some sort of overseas conflict. You know, again, if you go with the theory that the regime, the Chinese regime, always acts in its own best interests, they looked at it and said, well, it's not in our best interests if this thing escalates. Well, and I think they'll still play some politics, but basically they are a chaser, not a maker in this.
27:57 So, they see a situation... What do you mean by that? So, they're not driving events, they're chasing events. And so, when this breaks out, number one, Israel proves capable to do nearly miraculous things to the Iranians. That has to freak the Chinese out because Israel is not a major power Israel's not one of these poles in this balancing act that they thought they were going to try to Come out on top with this multipolar world And you know of course if the Israel has advanced technology they have been fighting they know how to fight they also Know how to do real intelligence
28:39 I think stunningly effective intelligence in the way these things played out. And all of that, I think, has to freak China out because if you look at what the Ukrainians were able to do with drones deep into Russia, and then you look what the Israelis were able to do deep into Iran, not just with drones, but human intelligence, placing people in vital positions. They had basically Tehran's complete playbook And they were striking with unbelievable precision where there's just a burnt black hole in one flat, in one building, killing one top military advisor. That's the kind of stuff that creeps the Chinese out that someone could do to them at some point. Exactly.
29:23 And I wish President Trump would just do a Ross Perot, come out, draw with your sharpie, say, look here, look people, here's what the world is like right now. Here are the options. This is what we're doing. Instead, and yes, you either have the military force or you don't. And all your reference to Ross Perot is lost on half the audience, but you're absolutely correct. Well, hello, Boomer talk on the eights. Explain what Ross Perot used to do. I'm still amazed that no one else has ever done this. Yeah, he used to buy half an hour of airtime on the networks when he was running as an independent.