Tuesday, Mar 18

this is the barry richard show wbsm on demand without further ado wbsm presents the barry richard show streaming live on wbsm.com and the wbsm app call 508996500 text us using app chat on the wbsm app now the barry richard show this is for all lonely people thinking that life has passed them [Music] by don't give up until you drink from the silver cup and ride that high all right welcome back to the program 7 minutes after 1:00 now on a tuesday afternoon 5089960500 so the phone call between trump and putin is now officially over and um the call has ended we've gotten no information yet about what was said and what was accomplished and um we'll watch for i guess trump is going to be on tonight with laura ingram at 700 p.m on uh on fox so maybe we'll learn more then um uh hopefully there'll be some statements between now and then um again i would not i wouldn't look for anything too huge to be announced today you never know though i mean things can happen that you don't anticipate you know generally the it's kind of meetings or phone calls or you know like the first uh opportunity for them to feel each other out on this this issue i they've spoken about ukraine and and um other issues back during the first administration but um uh this is the first time that they've actually spoken uh to my knowledge since the um since the war began so i i wouldn't expect any major announcements i wouldn't expect them to come out and say "well war is over." u you might get a couple of uh positive things but we we'll see we'll as soon as we i get some information i'll pass it on to you um i don't know if you heard but trump has now officially ended the taxpayer funded secret service details for um hunter biden and his sister ashley biden that's it you got to pay your own security if you want security and [Music] um which is normal by the way i know before everybody jumps up and screams that biden's kid should get well you know no they shouldn't because it's not uh what normally happens uh trump um this a story from [Music] um elizabeth weeble wyel hope is wyel wii bl oh my god i am so horrible with this stuff you know that so you do maybe she's a weeble weebles wobble but they don't fall down remember that but elizabeth weeble of wyel wrote this morning on breitbart president trump announced that hunter biden the son of former president joe biden who is currently vacationing in south africa would no longer receive secret service protection [Music] um in a post on truth social trump also announced that ashley biden the daughter for joe biden and former first lady jill biden would no longer receive secret service protection trump revealed there were as many as 18 people on hunter biden's detail while ashley biden had 13 agents on her security detail wow hunter biden has had secret service protection for an extended period of time all paid for by the united states taxpayer trump wrote "there are as many as 18 people on this detail which is ridiculous." he is currently vacationing and of all places south africa where the human rights of people has been strenuously questioned because of this south africa has been taken off our list of countries receiving economic and financial assistance please be advised that effective immediately hunter biden will no longer receive secret service protection trump added likewise ashley biden who has 13 agents will be taken off the list the united states secret service which was founded in 1865 is a branch of the us treasury department protects people such as the president the vice president or other individuals next in order of succession to the office of the president the president-elect and vice presidentelect according to the secret service website immediate families of the above individuals along with former presidents and their spouses and the children of former presidents up until the age of 16 are also among the people who receive um protection and we learned last summer that the protection for a former president is considerably less than it is for a um for a pre a current president remember when trump was was uh was shot at the two assassination attempts on trump remember that we found out that he was still uh receiving only [Music] um i i hate to say minimal protection but not the the full protection that he should have been receiving when he was a former president visiting heads of foreign states of government and their spouses traveling with them and other distinguished foreign visitors also receive protection trump's announcement comes as a um as conservative activist laura loomer has been posting updates on acts of hunter biden in south africa in a post on march 17 luma wrote that the younger biden dined with trump hater ellen degeneres in cape town south africa adding that he was seen with a full us taxpayer funded secret service protection detail despite telling the federal court in los angeles that he is broke on 3525 tonight hunter biden and his wife melissa cohen were spotted by loomer unleashed investigators on the ground in south africa having dinner at an expensive brush done at cape town south africa with the ellen shows ellen degeneres yeah i mean seriously if hunter biden's got enough money to be in south africa on vacation eating in fancy ass restaurants he should pay for his own protection right why should we be paying for it but he says he's broke sell some paintings i guess the market for crackhead artists who used to live in the white house i guess um yeah i guess the the market for paintings from those folks just when you don't have influence anymore right i mean this this it's so funny talking about ukraine but i mean this all hearkens back to that when you've got influence everybody wants to give you money when you've got the right connections when you're not connected anymore nobody wants to buy your ugly dirty stupid artwork but they do when you're connected to the vice president and you're living in the white house right 5089960500 is our phone number back to the phones thanks for calling in you're next in nwbsm hey barry happy birthday thank you my friend appreciate that steve thanks you bet well you know it's not whether you have influence but in the case of the bidens it's when you have leverage so influence is when someone comes to you and says "oh i want you know can you do me a favor?" in the case of the bidens they actually went to people and said "hey you're going to do this or you're going to lose your money you're going to do this." so they they're you know i think it's funny you just pointed out i didn't you know i heard just heard that uh he was complaining about a week ago that he's going to go broke because he's suing somebody for liel and he's running out of money with his lawyers and uh and so here he is in south africa he's probably trying to shake down somebody there and say "you owe me or or else uh because he's looking for money now." but um you know it's it is kind of crazy that like this is an elitism thing too ashley biden with 13 uh secret service agents i'm and i'm not sure if that's to protect her because she's been out of the line letter to keep her father away from her because he's kind of he kind of perved out in the past she wrote it in her her memoirs about dad taking showers with him so maybe it's to keep joe away i don't know but uh yeah i it's yeah this is it's an abuse and uh they should uh definitely uh you know have that taken away i mean uh it's not necessary at this point yeah i mean you know i mean there's a limit i can see if the the child um you know was was a youngster like young baron or or young um uh amy carter when amy carter i think amy carter was still a kid when when they left the white house right she was probably under 16 at that point i know she was giving dad nuclear advice when when she was 13 but um you know any small kids you know the obama kids or whatever yeah absolutely they should but when you reach a certain age i mean hunter biden is like what 55 56 somewhere around there right right so yeah so you know it's uh no he he doesn't you know i i think that again this is an elitism thing i mean how many secret service agents do you really need to move around and like you're an individual what do you need four people maybe to look over here look over there and you know they're not preparing for motorcades or crap like that so 13 is maybe they have to rotate them and then maybe that's the case they got 13 on but it yeah to end that crap so awesome truck saving us uh saving us money uh you know one a one secret service agent at a time there you go yeah absolutely well no i mean your point is well taken i mean i was thinking just in general but what your point was 18 i mean that's a little absurd i mean even if they had one two three guys watching them you know you can maybe maybe make a case for it although it's not called for in the secret service guidelines but i mean you know 18 secret service people on this guy i don't know maybe he's they're afraid somebody's going to steal his his paint i don't know you never know yeah well listen you have a great birthday today and uh and thanks for everything thank you my friend 5089960500 is the number and you are next on wbsm thanks for hanging on hi how you doing good how are you pretty good happy birthday to you thank you my friend appreciate it you're more than welcome uh i'm going to run for governor what was that again i'm going to run for governor of you're going to run for governor okay what's your platform going to be well i'm not going to run on the democrats because they're too far right okay even the even the far-left advocates are too far right for me i'm going to run on the future great american people party oh okay tell me more okay one first we're going to award award the uh illegal immigrants with naturally citizenship a new car and a new house wow yeah well you should take those houses though from people who already have too much take their house from them and give them to the illegal immigrants right that'll kind of settle the score a little bit good idea i'll have to put that in the flash yeah yeah yeah all right i had more but i forgot what it was so i'm getting old so have a good day all right my friend appreciate it 5089960500 no that's true i mean if you're going to give the illegal immigrants houses you got to take the houses from people that already have you know i can remember you know a lot of people that would call in and talk about their white guilt back when all that was in style i don't think that's in style anymore is it i haven't heard anybody call me with white guilt in a while i haven't seen white guilt anywhere but you know people would call in and oh i'm got white guilt so i think what you do is you go to the people with white guilt and take their house from them and say "okay you surrender your house give me your keys give me your mortgage and we're going to hand it over to uh manny and maria that just arrived with a jackass and a and you know a cloth bag over their shoulder." i think that would even things up a little bit don't you seems to me i think the gentleman is right he's on to something here all right we got to get the first breaking and then we're going to come back after this junior listening to wbs [Music] all right welcome back out to the program 122 on a now partly sunny tuesday afternoon 5089960500 is our phone number and you know i got to tell you i said this just briefly before the news but it's worth repeating i think um this is a day to be so proud of our country and um you know not only is our leader on the phone with the the the leader of the soviet union trying to negotiate a peace and a war that has lasted for three years that has resulted in so many deaths and so much destruction um something that the former administration couldn't do the the former president and vice president uh for three years went without speaking to putin and um trump's been in what eight weeks he's already been on the horn with him um but also i'm you know i'm watching these updates on the uh the um the astronauts coming home the uh spacex capsule and i i now have a time it's going to be it's actually today they're going to land today and um 557 they're due to land splashdown off the coast of florida the east coast of florida i think it's east coast yeah be the east coast of florida right maybe the west coast i'm not sure off the coast of florida anyway and um so 5:57 this afternoon and um the astronauts sunni williams and butch wilmore stranded on the international space station uh for 286 days the return is thanks in no small part to the combined drive of and the ambition of president's trump president trump and elon musk uh the pair decided to accelerate the astronaut's return and laid the blame for their troubles on the uh the biden administration the replacement crew's brand new spacex capsule still wasn't ready to fly so spacex subbed it with a used one hurrying things along by weeks the [Music] um the upi reports the pair of astronauts along with crew nine members nasa astronaut nick hey and russia cosminaut alexander golvangh were aboard the spacex capsule as it detached from i from the international space station at 15 105 this morning putting them on a 17-hour flight back to earth space x dragon expected to splash down off the coast of florida at 557 this afternoon following months of delays and trump last month asking ally and spacex ceo musk to go get them the 286 days williams and wilmore spent in space is among the longest single space missions in nasa history but well behind the record of 371 days held by astronaut frank rubio the successful return of the astronauts both retired navy captains will mark another milestone for musk's spacex and his close working relationship with the president both astronauts have thanked musk and trump for their efforts the company has been instrumental in providing reliable transportation to and from the space station ensuring the continuity of human space flight missions now he's a nazi made a nazi salute here we go those are the people that i was referring to in the last hour that can't think beyond a certain um ceiling can't think beyond a so immediately name calling and all that kind of stuff yeah nazi salute that's it it's a nazi salute musk is a nazi the jfk files supposed to be out today i don't know if they've been released yet i haven't heard uh whether they're out but today is the day uh trump said that the files related to the assassination of jfk would be released today without any redactions jeb said his administration will be releasing 80,000 files though it's not clear how many of those are among the millions of pages of records that have already been made public we have a tremendous amount of paper you've got a lot of reading trump said he also said he doesn't believe anything will be redacted from the files i said just don't redact you can't redact he said "many who have studied what's been released so far by the government say the public shouldn't anticipate any earthshattering revelations from the newly released documents but there is still intense interest in details related to the assassination and the events surrounding it." um so i haven't heard i don't know if they'll condense it into a paperback book 80,000 pages yikes there is um something interesting it's a lot of interesting i'm trying i'm just trying to uh weed through here um [Music] yeah see keep saying i want to pull this one document up and look at it and and then i see the next one below i say i got to do that one too um speaking about the coast of florida the [Music] pentagon i don't know if you've heard this yet but the pentagon has announced that it is deploying a us navy destroyer to the gulf of america it's part of its mission to secure the southern border according to a chief pentagon spokesman shan parnell the uss gravely departed naval weapons station yorktown for a scheduled deployment to the gulf of america it's not only vital for the united states to have control of our border via land it's equally important to control our territorial waters and this deployment directly supports us northern command's mission to protect our sovereignty the gravely is deploying under northern commander air force general guilot's authorities for maritime homeland defense missions and lieutenant general joint staff director for operations lieutenant general alex grinkowitz uh who briefed alongside pornell grinkowitz is known as the grinch i like that that's easy to say um and grinch added that she will deploy the uh to the gulf of america and surrounding areas and be involved in the interd interdiction mission for any drugs and elicit goods heading into the united states if you remember back during trump's first term he um ordered the coast guard to do some of that work and was roundly criticized of course right but doesn't it make sense that if you are going to secure the border and the vast amount of fentinel that's coming into this country that is being uh pedled to our kids is coming over that border you've got to you not only seal the border but you've also got to u make sure that it's not safe to come in by marine vessel either right so i mean it just makes total sense to me she will be partnered very closely with the united states coast guard we won't share of course her actual scheme of maneuver here but know that that's a mission that she's going down there for and we look forward to seeing what she can do parnell emphasized the importance of the mission to secure the southern border president trump and secretary hegath have been very very clear that the border security is national security we spent decades defending foreign nations borders while our own us border has been invaded by criminal illegal aliens human smugglers drug traffickers and transnational gangs the department of defense is proud to defend our homeland and the territorial sovereignty of the united states although we've seen a 93% decrease in illegal border crossings we will not stop until we have 100% operational control of our southern border he added but also there are close to 10,000 troops deployed on the border we're surging a striker brigade combat team down there to reinforce the land border as well but there's a sea component to this as well and that's part of the mission of the uss gravely to secure the water routes and defense of our southern border brunell also noted that making history or the making uh history by using the term gulf of america for the first time at a pentagon briefing this is the first time we've recognized the gulf of america in the pentagon b press briefing room which is kind of cool he said president donald trump renamed the gulf of mexico to the gulf of america within his first week of his second administration so what do you think about that deploying [Music] um the navy as well i mean it makes sense to me doesn't it doesn't it to you i mean it should if you were going to make a um if you're going to make a uh an effort to defend our border i mean it's got to be a full court press and um so i think yeah i think we need to do this and i think it's great i think it's absolutely fabulous this would also help with [Music] um between drugs and guns and illeg illegal stuff coming in it'll keep um it'll certainly discourage um illegal aliens from trying to come in by water i mean if you seal the border the land border might give rise to um sea-based efforts to gain access to our country so that's a good thing um president trump is uh also i don't know if you've seen this yet it's it's it just popped up last night i saw it last night for the first time these new videos that are coming up um with president trump calling on illegal immigrants in this country to self-deport clips president donald trump is urging illegal immigrants to self-deport from the us using a newlyannounced app from the department of homeland security uh trump this according to axios trump will send the message in a video that has been released on social media platforms this week calling on illegal immigrants to use the cbp home app to announce their departure from the country and this is an interesting this is an interesting thing uh the dhs unveiled the app earlier this month after removing the biden era cbp1 app which was used to allow migrants into the country people in our country can self-epport the easy way or they can get deported the hard way and that's not pleasant trump said in the video i don't know if you've seen this i saw this last night for the first time goes on to say "the biden administration exploited the cbp1 app to allow more than 1 million aliens to illegally enter the united states now my administration is launching the cbp home app to give people in our country illegally an easy way to leave now and self-deport voluntarily if they do they will have the opportunity to potentially return legally at some point in the future but if they do not avail themselves of this opportunity then they will be found they will be deported and they will never be admitted to the united states ever ever again trump adds chimp goes on to say that using the cbp home app is the safest option for both illegal immigrants and law enforcement in addition to allowing law enforcement to focus resources on apprehending and deporting illegal immigrants convicted of violent crimes the app also allows illegal immigrants to submit intent to depart and submit information regarding their intent to leave the us they can also provide information to verify they have left the us a function limited to those who are parrolled into the us using the biden era app i mean that's an interesting message um leave now on your own and you will be able to apply to come back if we have to catch you and haul you out of here you'll never be you'll never be able to come back again so i mean that is um that's a very interesting approach and it might work with some folks it might work for some folks and and and i i would you know i i would encourage people to use that and do it i mean if you want to come back here to this to the country look up the app cbp home and see how it can work for you because you know the last uh we we hear these weepy stories about how you know people on a christian avenue are afraid to go out and oh my god they might get rounded up and the the jack boots are going to kick down score school doors and haul kids off and well look if if you don't want to face that here's a chance to um to man up to woman up and uh and do the right thing say "okay here i am i'm here illegally what do i have to do to come back here legally?" and what trump is suggesting here through this message on the app is that if you go to this app cbp home turn yourself in and say "i want to i want to i want to deport myself i want to self-epport go back home fill out the paperwork and then come back legally." then you don't have to hide in shadows anymore you don't have to uh you know you don't have to uh worry about school doors being kicked down and so on and so forth i mean if you are worried about stuff like that that's your problem you put yourself and your family in that position we didn't do that we didn't put you in that position we didn't pluck you out of the middle of a you know the mud hole and and bring you here and say "okay haha here you are you're in a cushioning avenue now you got to hide and freak out every time you see a cop car go by." we didn't put you in that position we didn't put you in a position to have to worry about whether your family gets gets separated or whatever you put yourself in that position so you have a chance to rectify the situation and be able to come back and do it legally see how many people do i'm sure a lot will 5089960500 is the number you're up next to wbsm good afternoon hi barry happy birthday thank you appreciate that yeah listen i think this is a pretty damn good birthday for you today you've got the landing the people from space are finally coming home yes thank god yep nine months so i mean that's huge and they're landing today on your birthday that's huge and then that navy ship going out to once first time ever being called gulf of america today on your birthday and trump is talking to putin hopefully there's going to be resolution this looks like a great day for you and kennedy files are are going to be available as of today y um yeah and i i think it's a great day for america to be honest with you i as i said earlier i'm proud to be an american i love when things like this happen you know it's just yeah no it is a great day for america so i was thinking um if you remember what time you were b born if um you don't know maybe you have your birth certificate home i don't remember the exact time but it was it was early in the morning it was around 6ish in the morning oh i was going to say wouldn't it be funny if you were born at the same time frame as the um capsule landing i was born a few hours after the irish pubs closed on st patrick's day i know that yeah a day after the st patties yeah what is that what so what do is it a spacecraft that's like what do we call it that's bringing them actually in what i'm sorry what do we call what is it a capsule that they're coming home in or is it a space a space it is a capsule yeah it's a capsule they're going to remember the old days when they used to plunk down in the ocean with the the water with the parachutes it's same same kind of situation so um um the navyy's going to go pick them up yeah and bring him home one one of the astronauts the the woman is from massachusetts oh i did not know that yeah she she grew up i believe in felmouth oh no wait oh how about that wow well i i know um she's got a record now by 5 days i believe they said uh for maybe a woman there was somebody actually in space o over 100 days more or almost 100 days longer than this crew um but she they've been up there held a long time anyway i think it would be neat if we gave them a parade right here in massachusetts you know we got a a woman from massachusetts yeah let's have a parade that yes i remember in the old days when we used to we used to welcome our our astronauts back to earth with parades and stuff we did a lot of parades back in the day we really did well i mean they were nice we were proud of those people those were the people that were our heroes you know we hung i remember having neil armstrong and mike collins and buzz aldrin's picture hanging on my bedroom wall at home and we were proud those are our heroes you know they weren't they weren't stupid rap stars and actors and stuff like that and and basketball players no i know right no you're right you're so right but i think we i think um things might turn back to that way you know i really believe that and i also want to say i think that's a great idea that people can choose to use that app you know just do that and then when you come back you can maybe like trump said you can come back and apply legally so i think um that's good that you you know i hope other um hosts keep reiterating that that yeah i i hope folks are listening out there that are in that position right now and if you are cbp home and just download it look at it and it might be inconvenience to you but you know what you're you're being here is an inconvenience to the rest of us so you know inconvenience yourself think of your children think of you know your future here and you want to be you want to be here in america do it the right way go home and apply and come back and then you don't have to worry about it anymore but then you got to assimilate you don't want to get caught you've got to assimilate when you come back and you've got to learn english and you got to teach your kids english and you got to you got to be part of the system and stop draining from the system right right i mean because the worst thing would be to be caught in a crosshairs and then maybe end up um you know with the wrong people being put in jail or whatnot you know so i think it's like you know this a great way cuz it's got to be scary for the good people so just i hope um like i said i hope they they take advantage of it but happy birthday barry thank you my friend i do appreciate that very much 5089960500 is our number and i got to hit a break so stay right there your calls and extra here on wbsm don't go far back to barry richard on wbsm call 5089960500 if you're going to san francisco be sure to wear some flowers in your hair if you're going to san francisco you're going to meet some gentle people 146 on a tuesday afternoon 5089960500 is our phone number let's get back to work and you were next in wbsm good afternoon good afternoon to you sir hey how are you i didn't realize i didn't realize it was your birthday until i heard other people calling in so happy birthday to you thank you appreciate it and uh yeah no problem and i just wanted to uh you know i listen to the music you play during the breaks and obviously you spent some time as a dj cuz you really you pick some really good tunes you do that's how i started out in the business as a top 40 dj back in the 70s yeah well you can tell i mean i don't want to be insulting but uh some of the stuff you pick and play um like me you're not a spring chicken you like a lot of the stuff that i like as well awesome i'm glad you know i just i just wanted to mention to you because you're talking about this uh these people coming back from space which is incredible hats off to uh to trump and elon musk for for bringing him home i was watching a guy on the news this morning that um i don't remember his real title or what his field effects he got something to do with nasa and um and he was explaining that you know when you're in space that long um he said the first thing they're going to have to do is like learn how to walk again and and just simple things like sitting in a chair because they've been floating around he said he he said the average person if you're not prepared for it um the average person in space for that long would suffer severe psychological damage and uh and i can understand that that's not hard to believe but the point the point of the call was you're talking about a great day for america yeah and and i was thinking about the very first space shuttle that that landed and um and i'm not going to lie i was actually sitting in a bar not too far from where i live now and there was only about a half a dozen of us and i believe it was back in the 80s i want to say 87 or 88 something like that um and we watched that thing land i believe it was in the salt flats like somewhere in utah and my memor is a little fuzzy about exactly where it came down but i think because it was going so fast and it was so big i believe it was like out in the salt flats the yucka flats or something like that and uh and there was a little well it's not little it it was there was a fighter jet escorting it into the runway and the fighter jet was flying above the space shuttle and it was the very first one they sent up and and brought back and the fighter jet looked like a mosquito above this thing i mean that's that's how big the shuttle was but the the point is is there was only maybe six or eight of us watching this it's a back in the 80s it's one of them old big square tvs bolted to the wall you know and and and it was so great i mean we were like clapping and clanging glasses and and and it was just so cool to watch that thing come down and uh safely obviously and um and that was one of those days it was like damn we're americans you know and and i i think today's a day where where is that sense of pride in in americanism where where is that i mean we seem to have lost away from that and even for the longest time we stopped even caring about going to space somebody actually when the uh when the rescue mission the dragon lifted off the other day uh somebody actually said to me "why are we going into space anyway what's the point of that?" and you know it's such a turnaround from when we were kids and we understood space it was like you know um it was like pon stillion it was like christopher columbus it was like you know all of the explorers that set out on their ships to go out and find new things and and and discover and um and that's why we're in space and i mean not only are we looking for a place to land in case this place gets blown apart but you know we up in space we do experiments and we we've established medicines that we weren't able to create here on earth and other things you know the experiments but the sense of pride just i feel when i see that i remember back john glenn you know i remember the damn monkey that flew around in the in the the world remember the first day wasn't wasn't that like a a phrase from some show or something to uh to go where no man has gone before you know i but but i don't remember the show i don't know if that was like rod sterling or actually i think that was yeah i don't remember either it might have been from wide world of sports i don't remember yeah yeah the guy going down to down the the ski jump and wiping out yeah yeah yeah but you know what it was i mean we had a great sense of pride in the accomplishments of our country and you know today people i you mentioned the shuttle and i've only got a second or two here i got to hit the break but um you mentioned the shuttle i remember i was on the air the day the um shuttle challenger blew up there's been two challengers that blew up and the first one that blew up was the challenger and i was with christine mcauliffe the teacher from space and yeah from new hampshire right yeah and and there was a a teacher from new bedford that was a runner up he almost got to go dick matia and he got he got bumped for whatever reason and she wound up being uh the the teacher to go up in space but that was the first time in a long time that people were actually watching the liftoff of a rocket because there was a teacher so kids were brought into auditoriums and schools to watch it and there was an interest in it and the damn thing blew up um but after that we we just totally lost interest in the space program and and now it's gotten to a point where it should be we're working it's a public private thing you know you got elon musk's company spacex and you got others um he's got a lot to do with it he's got so much to do with it and um well i don't even know if you're aware but we just landed an american company just landed a uh um a scientific module on the moon uh this week last week yep and i'm sorry about that yeah yeah so i mean this is all stuff that we would needs competition when more people get interested and and and then other people get interested and and it's u you know it's not i don't mean to make it sound like it's competitive i'm not saying competitive but once you show interest then other people start to say h you know maybe maybe he's on to something you know let's check this out i mean when he built that thing that actually catches the rocket when it comes back my god unbelievable i mean come on that's incredible i mean that's beyond incredible that's ridiculous really um but he's a smart guy i watched that interview when when trump said you know i tried to find somebody smarter but i couldn't and i i believe that i really do i i believe that he's a smart guy and he's fearless and he's on our side and that drives people nuts and i don't understand why oh he's a nazi oh he's this you know it just i i don't get that i mean again i talked earlier about how certain people that their ability to reason and think reaches a ceiling and they can't get beyond that so they resort to the name calling and um you know and i think that's the case with with uh with folks with elon musk i got to hold you my friend i appreciate the birthday wishes and a good conversation about space i got to get a break in we're going to come right back after this stay tuned you are listening to wbsm on a tuesday afternoon um in any event the white house has just issued a statement on the phone call between trump and putin today and it uh reads as follow today president trump and president putin spoke about the need for peace and a ceasefire in the ukraine war uh both leaders agreed this conflict needs to end with a lasting peace they also stressed the need for improved bilateral relations between the united states and russia the blood and treasure that both ukraine and russia have been spending in this war would be better spent on the needs of their people the conflict should never have started and should have been ended a long time ago with sincere and good faith peace efforts the leaders agreed that the movement to peace will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire as well as technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the black sea full ceasefire and permanent peace these negotiations will begin immediately in the middle east the leader spoke broadly about the middle east as a region of potential cooperation to prevent future conflicts they further discussed the need to stop proliferation of strategic weapons and will engage with others to ensure the um broadest possible application the two leaders shared the view that the that iran should never be in a position to destroy israel uh the two leaders agreed that a future with an improved bilateral relationship between the united states and russia has huge upside uh this includes enormous economic deals and geopolitical stability when peace has been achieved so um you know you're gonna get a lot of positive talk and a lot of positive feedback