BTLS | 7AM Wed. Apr. 8 - One-Bite Whoppers, Mendoza’s Draft Moment, and Iran’s Human Shields
74 min
•Apr 8, 202611 days agoSummary
The episode covers Gene Lasker's weight loss journey and a dramatic one-bite Whopper story, followed by an extended discussion of the Trump-Iran ceasefire agreement, the Strait of Hormuz toll system, and international humanitarian law in warfare.
Insights
- Personal discipline narratives (like Lasker's diet) resonate as relatable content that can drive engagement and listener loyalty through authentic storytelling
- Geopolitical agreements involving revenue-sharing mechanisms (Iran's $2M per-ship toll) represent a shift from pure military conflict to economic partnership models
- International humanitarian law enforcement remains ambiguous and unenforced, creating skepticism about war crime accountability among audiences
- Ceasefire agreements with short timelines (2 weeks) require credible follow-through or risk undermining negotiator credibility and future diplomacy
Trends
Shift from military-only solutions to hybrid economic partnerships in Middle East conflict resolutionGrowing public awareness of Geneva Convention rules of war and their practical enforcement gapsInformal toll systems (Tehran Tollbooth) becoming formalized in international maritime commerceTwo-week ceasefire windows as a negotiation tactic to finalize longer-term peace agreementsProxy militia groups (Hezbollah, Houthis) remaining as unresolved conflict vectors despite state-level ceasefiresRevenue-sharing models between adversaries as post-conflict economic integration strategyAudience skepticism about international institutions' (NATO, UN) enforcement authority in real-time conflicts
Topics
Iran-US Ceasefire AgreementStrait of Hormuz Maritime TollsGeneva Convention EnforcementNuclear Enrichment NegotiationsHezbollah and Proxy MilitiasInternational Humanitarian LawRules of War and Civilian ProtectionMiddle East Peace TalksPakistan's Role as MediatorWeight Loss and Diet DisciplineBurger King Product MarketingAutonomous Weapons and DronesWar Crimes and AccountabilityOil Supply Chain SecurityTrump Administration Foreign Policy
Companies
Burger King
Featured in extended anecdote about Gene Lasker's diet-breaking Whopper purchase and one-bite consumption story
Volkswagen of Wesley Chapel
Sponsor offering financing as low as 0% APR on new VWs with $1,000 Bubba Army discount
PayPal
Mentioned as listener support payment method for the show
Venmo
Mentioned as listener support payment method for the show
Cash App
Mentioned as listener support payment method for the show
People
Gene Lasker
Co-host discussing weight loss journey, diet discipline, and viral Whopper anecdote
Bubba the Love Sponge
Primary host leading discussions on Iran ceasefire, international law, and personal anecdotes
Seth
Co-host providing analysis on NFL draft, Iran negotiations, and international humanitarian law
Lummi
Co-host contributing to discussions on war strategy, ceasefire details, and geopolitical analysis
Donald Trump
Central figure in Iran ceasefire announcement via Truth Social; negotiated 2-week bombing suspension
Fernando Mendoza
Projected #1 overall NFL draft pick; declining to attend Pittsburgh draft to stay with family in Miami
Clint Kubiak
New Raiders head coach; first-time HC from Seattle offensive coordinator role; son of Gary Kubiak
Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli PM stating Israel will continue war against Hezbollah despite Iran ceasefire agreement
Prime Minister Shabazz Sharif
Pakistani PM who requested Trump hold off bombing; key mediator in Iran ceasefire negotiations
Field Marshal Azam Munir
Pakistani military official involved in ceasefire mediation with Trump administration
Quotes
"I took the burger. And, man, those Whoppers feel big and nice, don't they? Oh, it was heavy, like 10 pounds."
Gene Lasker•Early segment
"The juices going down my throat was like crack. I'm going to go to the hood by crack."
Gene Lasker•Whopper anecdote
"I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double-sided ceasefire."
Donald Trump•Truth Social statement, 6:29 PM
"Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two-week period will allow the agreement to be finalized and consummated."
Donald Trump•Ceasefire announcement
"The Strait of Hormuz carries nearly 20% of the world's oil supply. Around 100 ships pass daily. That means Iran could earn nearly $20 million per day."
News report excerpt•Iran toll discussion
Full Transcript
Check it one, two, BubbaTheLoveSponge.com. Say it. The Bubba The Love Sponge Show. Listener supported via PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, all of the Bubba Army. Now returns. Blaster just stumbled on, potentially, you know, we got the Go Report and I have gone... Dude, this guy's brilliant, man. He's white trash brilliant. He might think that maybe we're joking sometimes or kind of playing it up, but there's a lot of things that he says that are very funny. Could be TV shows, could be series. I mean, just his normal life and the things he does, it's not like he's doing TikTok trends. He's doing Gene Lasker. He didn't document any of this. But he's a trendsetter. Like fat people, not this, not Gene, but fat people would love this. They could adopt what Gene did here because it gave him what he needed. And I need to get better back on my food reviews, but I'm in the process of a huge move and building a studio. My life is in shambles until probably another month or so. So I'm every day got in the afternoon trying to get stuff done. But Lasker was describing now, Lasker, are you in the 40s yet? Yes. Today, for the first time in my life, well, not in my life, but first in my diet life, I am. Hold on, when do you think the last time you were in your 40s, if you were to go by age? Five years ago. Eight years ago. Maybe the Sirius XM days? Yeah. You were like 225, 230. 225, 230 then. That was perfect. Yeah. You looked good. I was very good. You could wear jeans and like a... Yeah, I was wearing 36s with an extra large shirt, and I was a man. Yeah, he was wearing... He was the kind of guy that wore the rhinestone jeans with an affliction T-shirt. Dual earrings in both ears. That's him. So anyway, you got on the scale. Were you 49? Yeah. And I went to go pull my phone and walk into the bathroom and take a picture for you. But my wife looks at me like disgust. And I go like, what? All the noise you're making? No, because she says, who are you calling in the bathroom? I'm hiding something. I'm trying to take a picture of my weight. She goes, you're losing weight. Shut up. I like a stiff Sarah. She's a stiff Sarah because, I don't know, she thinks I'm trying to be something I'm not. Back to being beautiful. Well, I don't know. I think you can probably, I think you can probably, I think that you're, how much you love her and that you would, no matter what type of shape and how good, better looking you would get, you found your angel and you found your... Man, I wish I would have found her a long time before this. Yeah, well, I'm just saying, you found her. Right. And you're not looking, there would be... Dude, I don't even look at butts anymore. Like when you got Publix and you roll by the... Oh, I still do that. I don't. I do. And I say to myself, you didn't turn to look at that butt. Yeah, I love that. You didn't look at that butt. Wait, now why are you off butts? Because you're skinny? No, I like butts. He just loves his wife so much that he doesn't even look. I'm not going to look at that butt. It's going to be better than the one I got. Right, I get that. So why look? I feel you. I feel you. But back in the day, I looked at every single one of them. Oh, yeah. Just to look at them. And maybe even talk to them. Maybe. But I'm just saying, I don't even look at them. So today, you're in your 40s. and it looks at me point four now what did you weigh when we went go-karting that one day uh 285 290 285 and today you're 249 yep i'll be a little bit faster and so gene was talking about how he's like super strict on his diet you know he's kind of doing the low carb and i'm doing it and i promise folks that i ain't lying dynamic john ten dollars gene nobody nobody could ever say you're lying by if you just because i'm losing weight right no just you're on camera twice a week we can pull footage of what you look like and when you first started coming in on oh yeah we want to do that i mean i'm just saying like i mean you look great you're you're you're not lying about nothing you look i mean the camera doesn't lie and so gene was talking about how yesterday he got out of horn blasters and he was driving down the road and he saw this burger king and Burger King. I didn't see it. I smelled it. You know, Burger King sometimes. Got the smoke going out of the chimney. The way they charbroil their hamburgers, the smoke will come out and get it kind of, you can smell it in your car. Yeah, they got a fan up there, blows it right to the traffic. And Lasker says, I smell Burger King. And I was just like, you know, listen, I could just roll in there, get one Whopper. And I know that it's kind of going against my diet. but I'll take the top bun off and I know I'm going to have to work harder but man, that thing smells... I have to eat with your burger. I had to. So he pulls up and says one Whopper with cheese, please. And they go, you know, do you want fries? He goes, I don't want fries or a Coke. Just a Whopper with cheese, please. So he goes and... Well, I'll let you take over the story. So the lady comes out and she goes, one Whopper, you didn't want a drink? And I said, no, ma'am, I'm on a diet. And she goes, okay, handed me that burger, you know, looking like you're an idiot. And so I take the burger. And, man, those Whoppers feel big and nice, don't they? Oh, it was heavy, like 10 pounds. I'm holding that Whopper. As I'm pulling, making a right, and I'm going towards the rope, towards Dale Mabry, and I'm weighing the Whopper with my left hand, like kind of bouncing it down like it's a little baby. And I'm going like, I'm just smelling it, smelling it. I open up the wrapper a little bit, and I smell it with the wrapper open. Yeah. So when I pull out the Dale Mabry, I make a right. Now I'm stuck at the light. So I open it up. I take the bun off the top and I look at it to find the best bite spot. Now, where the onion and the ketchup and the mayonnaise and the cheese and everything touches together in that spot. Where I can take a bite and get everything at one time. All seven flavors. Now, how big of a bite was it? A regular bite. Not a being stupid, try to shove it down my throat bite. It was a big bite, but it was a bite. Right. Just a bite. what did you do with that bite well I savored it I did it and I looked down and I looked up at my mirror one bite four miles it took me four miles before I swallowed you just keep it in your mouth I kept it in my mouth and then I chewed one time a little bite and you get a little smash area a little liquid going down your throat I'm going oh my gosh so I see I hit 55 mile an hour I'm going right past the stadium and I whipped the burger out the window because, man, let me tell you something. The juices going down my throat was like crack. I'm going to go to the hood by crack. Okay, same thing. I threw the burger out, and I watched it in my mirror bust all over the road. And, you know, you really weren't littering because a bird or something. Yeah, someone's going to eat it. Yeah. So someone. Yeah, there's some homeless people. There's a homeless guy. Some of them could have got it. But I wanted to make sure that I didn't turn around and pick it back up. Some homeless guy in Al Lopez Park, Lummi, is going to go. That's right. I zipped in and I'm headed north, you know, and it's in my mouth. And I chew a couple bites. I say, stop chewing so much, man. It's going to be gone. And I chew a little bit. Just leave it there. And then kind of like, I want some water, but I don't want to ruin the burger in my mouth. You don't want to dilute the deliciousness. So then by the time about two miles goes, it's small enough so I can put it in my cheek. I stick it over in my cheek like it's a lollipop. Like a big water. And it's over there. So I pull the water in there and I kind of like make the water go to the right side of my mouth and go down my throat and not touch the burger on the left side. I even almost had to stick my finger in my mouth to keep the water from touching the burger. Man, that's a lot of mouth Olympics. I'm going to tell you this right now, man. The diet, it's killing you. It's killing me. No, it's making you stronger, Gene. It's making me better. And you look good as hell. I know, but I'm psychiatrically going crazy. Yeah. But Gene, I whacked off to one of your news pictures last night. I mean, you are the definition of a man these days. The two things that were talked about at the shop, as they say, the shop, you know, Bobby, all his guys, all his guys, was Gene Lasker's hamburger story and your shop vac story, which I think they talked about that for about 30, 40 minutes. I know Bobby called me and goes, Hey, did you hear the radio, man? Tell him about the vacuum. I've heard that before. Oh, no, you ain't heard this one. I pulled in, and one of his guys goes, What's up with that shop vac? Doug Clem junked it. I went to the actual dump and was just a defeated, I was a defeated eighth grader. You went to go find it? Yes, I went. Oh, yes, I did. So I went to the Warsaw Dump was. So anyway, hold on. Back to the Lasker story, then over to my dump story to close out Lasker story. So Seth comes up with a thing saying, Lasker, one bite, four miles. Dude, I mean, that's something I could see people doing is going to get their favorite. You literally just go in and just get one big bite, Seth, and then you drive with it for four miles as you savor just the one bite. Yeah, you just go get whatever you're doing, donuts, fast food, whatever, milk, whatever you're into, and yeah, just hold it, and then you get rid of it. Yeah. If you can't get rid of it, maybe some people won't be able to throw it out the window. Yeah, some people are like, man, you know what? I'm just going to take one. It really shows the strength of the internal fortitude of that person, right? Yes. I'm going to be honest with you. I don't know if I ordered my favorite hamburger that I could stop. It's hard to do, man. You know, I'm probably more addicted to food than you are. I'm probably more food aggressive obviously look at me than you are and I don't know Gene that I could do that way back in the day when I started on my diet leaving out bread and leaving out white stuff and trying to find me a comfort spot that I could eat and still lose some weight I bought a Whopper and I took the bread off and ate the center part and what a mess you can't drive and eat the center of a Whopper because you can't do it Well, you got to. You don't eat the pickle at one time or the other one time. You got to be. The whopper is made to eat seven things at one time. You got to be stopped in a parking lot. And I got time to stop. And have both hands on that deal. So I have taken a couple of bites and then throw the burger back into the bag, crumble the bag up, throw it in my floorboard. So what happens is a couple of miles down the road, I pick that bag back up. Yeah, and you just dig in there. The next time I did it, I smashed a burger like I hated it. Turn that burger into a ball. I got mad at that burger. And then I put it in the bag and threw it in the floor. You know what happened? I took a bite of that regular baseball burger. I looked around and found a spat and took another bite of it, man. I had to throw it out the window. It couldn't be with me. I squeezed that burger like that Texas politician's balls. That's right. Like his balls. Like his balls. And got rid of it, man. I mean, I'm here to tell you. If you ever not want to eat a Whopper ever again, take it home, put it in the fridge, let it chill, take it back out and look at it. And it's as hard as a hockey ball. It's covered in white grease. White grease. Macho man, I used to know this guy in Milwaukee when I was in Milwaukee, circa 1990. And I went to this kind of this gym that was closest to me. It was when I was still working out. But it was one of those gyms, like it wasn't a gym where like a lot of chicks went. It was kind of a hardcore, you know, free weight bodybuilding gym. A loud yell. Like real dudes that are, you know, really working out, really dieting, really, really on the gas and the whole nine yards. And there's this one dude, his name was Jeremy. And he was a little taller than you, but much probably as jacked and as vascular. And he would get ready for shows. He was actually going for Mr. Milwaukee or something like that, and he would bake. He would make food. His favorite was lasagna or brownies or anything, and Gene, all he would do would just sniff it. He would sniff it. Oh, man. He literally, and then he would bring it into the gym, and he was a great cook. He was a really good cook. And so one day, this is when I was with Holly, she actually went to the gym with me. And we go there, and Jeremy is like, hey, do you want some lasagna? I wasn't really dieting, you know, that much back then. And I go, what do you mean? And he goes, I made a whole tray of lasagna. It's my mom's famous lasagna. And I've had it now for a day, and I've sniffed it. but now it's time to either throw it away or section it up and put it in the microwave and heat it up for somebody who wants it. And so I'm like, yeah, I'd like, hell yeah, I'd like to have a sliver. So I got me a nice corner piece of lasagna, warmed it up in the microwave and ate it and it was so damn good and all he did was just sniff it. He would sniff, he wouldn't eat any food, he would just sniff. Well, that's better than nothing. That would drive me insane. Yeah, but it's insane not to have the smell, too. I mean, you don't have nothing. That's even worse than saying. Like being locked in a Sagittarius. Anyway, Gene, to reiterate my shop vac story, when Doug Clem threw the shop vac away and the Warsaw garbage, you know, the garbage truck came and got. Because my dad, well, no, my dad put it in that dump trailer. And he went and dumped a bunch of stuff to the, he didn't put it in the trash. So you just have to find the right pile. So I went to the Warsaw Dump, and they had this little back entrance that we used to go in. Because we were looking for – Plastic parts? Well, we were looking for Playboys and things like that. Nuh-uh. Yeah. We'd go right to the – Jeez. And the dump had like four sections, a metal section, a paper section, a plastic section. Oh, okay. So I went to the metal section, and it was like literally the pile was the size of this room. and I just looked on the outer edges thinking maybe that that little shop vac had kind of fallen. No. Trying to make its way home. And I was defeated. And at that point, I just had to masturbate by hand. And I just always, you know, never, I could never find or emulate that shop vac, lack of suction. Is that why you've been married so many times? No, I've been married less than you. Oh. you say stupid stuff sometimes you don't even know you don't even know no i my shop back affection of my my um affection for my for a shop back when i'm in eighth grade has nothing to do with with with my well i thought you were saying you never got that feeling ever again no i didn't you know started looking for a gene gene then i they make they make milwaukee's man you bring It's too much. You have to get one. You've got to get a Milwaukee that's been used for seven years, and it's on its last leg, and it has about 25% suction left. That's what you've got to get. You've got to get a broken down one. Well, that's the thing, though. So not Bobby said that he'll bring it down for you Sunday, but they have one that's like a test leg. Listen, guys. Once I got the real thing, like real oral. They make sex robots now. We don't need it all. Okay, so when you got real oral, you was fixed. Yeah, once I got, you know, like. Oh, I thought you were trying to say that nothing ever came to that. No, no, meaning like, you know, like my first oral was like my junior year in high school. Oh, okay. I finally got some oral from a girl. And I was like, you know, this is the way to go with it. They did ask if you really named it Vic the Vacuum. No, I didn't name it Vicki the Vacuum. I just, it was. Was your first blowy double barrel action with Larry Plummer and she accidentally put your tips together? No, no. I got my stories mixed up. It was with this girl who was kind of a bigger girl in my dad's garage on his creeper. I was laying on my dad's creeper. For those that are familiar with automotive, you know what a creeper is. And I was laying on my dad's creeper, and she was going to town on me. She was kneeling on the ground? Yep. and I had never had that before and so I lasted probably a minute. You know, I mean, like, can we all... I'm good for a minute, minute, done. I'll see you later. No, but like the first time you got some, it was so over sensory, if you will, that none of us were, you know, long-lasting, you know like i like almost as soon as she started doing it i gotta i was gonna say piss it in her miss but i'm just saying like like almost the minute she started uh doing it like within probably 40 seconds i i my i had already had my party she got i got a lot of heat with her because I didn give her the courtesy gimmick and it went right down the gullet and I don think that she ever done that before I think that she had maybe given a guy oral, but she had never, you know, non-recycled. Do you think that... Never messed up with her again. Actually, on Seth's point, have you ever had what Seth described happen? What? A double barrel? Yeah. What do you mean? How'd you describe it? I've had threesomes. Well, you're getting double barrel action with you and Larry Plummer, and she's doing you and him, but then you're both in her mouth at the same time, you sicko. No, let's leave. I'm actually... Ew, you got a touch, man. Yeah, I know. It's gay. It's gay. I'm not... No, it's not gay. It's gross. We're going to move on from this topic. I dumped it. Well, can you just give us an answer? And the answer is no. I've never been double-barreled. Please don't lie. If Seth's description of what, quote-unquote, a double... Seth's hugely right. Thank you. He's probably right on what a double-barrel is, but I've never participated in a double-barrel. i'm so proud of you don't try to you are the baddest dude that i know to get yourself with words out of trouble quickly no one's like you i've never been double barreled i've had a girl you know go back and forth oh okay well i've had a girl with my proxy So I've had a girl, you know, work on me for a little bit, then go work on somebody else and then come back to me. You know, in my college days, I haven't done that probably since the 80s. Yeah, Candy. Candy with me and Jeff Bird. And Jeff Bird, he was such a hill. He's like, golly, thick. I never thought this kind of stuff happened. But it really does. We're a couple of rednecks, man. That's the dream. We're laying on these twin beds, and I'm laying on one bed, and Jeff Bird's laying on the other. Because I had a room all to myself because my roommate flunked out. Nice. And so I didn't bunk the beds. I just had them in both sides of the... And dorm rooms are teeny tiny. Yeah, they are. They only have twin beds in there. So literally, there's just enough space, probably three foot between the two beds. Just that. So she could just go from, I was laying on one bed, Jeff Bird was laying on the other, and Candy was taking care of Jeff and come back over me. And then Jeff went, damn thick, I never thought this sort of thing really happened. I'm on top of the world. And so that was, Candy was like one of my top first five experiences. That's the first time that I'd ever done anything like that. And that was just because she was a groupie and she couldn't believe I was rocking Bubba Clem from 103 PFR and could get her free Long Island iced teas at the bar promotion we were doing. Do you think that she's changed the story that she was whacking off Larry Bird and Howard Stern? Yes. Yes. I hope Candy has so that she could add some really much needed credibility to her sluttiness. Yes. Wait a second. What did I miss there? How did Howard Stern get into the picture? No, no, I switched out Jeff Bird, Larry Bird's brother, and Bubba to two more popular, socially acceptable people. I'm just saying, if she's telling the story, Gene, she's not going, hey, I was with some. If she's having a double up, she'd double up on it real quick. I was with Larry Bird's brother, who's not famous, and Bubba the Love Sponge, who is famous. Oh, Larry Bird. I'm thinking the Birdman, the basketball dude. No, that was his brother. It was his brother. But nobody knows who his brother is, Jeff. No. I know who he is because of you, but when you were saying Bird, man, I'm thinking you were hooked up with the Bird. Me and Larry Bird never did anything like that. I wouldn't even brag about that story. It was just Jeff Bird, and then he farted on her. You and the Bird, man. Then I farted on her, and Thick goes, damn Thick. Jeff Bird used to call me Thick. That was my name, Thick, Thick Neck. And he goes, damn Thick, you farted in her face. Oh, no. And you hung out with this guy a lot? He was my friend, man. He was your best friend. Yeah, absolutely. Wow. So anyway, man, back to our original story. A couple stories ago, projected number one overall pick, Fernando Mendoza, has informed the NFL that he will not be planning to attend the NFL draft in Pittsburgh this month, per sources. Mendoza wants to share the draft experience with his family in Miami. It's also reported that his mom can't travel. She has MS. And so this is really the wholesome kind of, you know, right thing to do. Nobody's going to ever blame him. And if the Raiders are going to take him number one, they're going to take him number one, whether he's on the stage or with his mama. You talk about potentially working with a young quarterback, you said. It's not automatic that it's Fernando Mendoza. It's not. It's not automatic. As you said, it's not a shoe-in that you have to take a quarterback number one. It's not a shoe-in. Now, Seth, are these Raiders personnel? The guy on the end, I believe, is, I don't know if that's their new GM, but this is the press conference for Clint Kubiak, the new head coach. Okay, now is Clint in here? I don't know if one's Clint or if that's Spitech, their GM. I think that's Spitech. Spitech? I think so. You have to hold on to the number one pick, because there's a lot of needs on this roster from top to bottom. How much do you balance and work with Clint Kubiak with that philosophy? Because that's a tough choice. So obviously Kubiak's not there because they're talking about working with him, right, during this pick. So this is probably Tech, right? Yeah, it's Tech. The far right is the new GM. Yes. As a GM. Tom Brady's buddy. Yep. Yeah, it's... Now, Seth, at this point, are they just playing grab-ass games with the NFL to not tip their hand when everybody really knows that they're going for Mendoza? You know we are. Yes. Yeah, it's... I mean, do you think there's other teams that potentially are calling them and maybe offering a trade? No. Or is this much like the Bears and Caleb Williams where everybody knew it was not a big secret where Caleb Williams was going? It's probably more like, because that was a really deep quarterback class. I would probably say this is more like Cam Ward last year where it was pretty locked in that he was going and there wasn't really anybody that was close. There wasn't a lot of activity with regards to getting him off that pick or getting that pick or anything. No, no. Moving down or anything like that. No, now this press conference was from two months ago, so they have made a lot of moves since then. They've signed a ton of players and it's even more so locked in. Including Kirk Cousins. Yeah, it's even more so locked in that they're getting Mendoza. I think it's to the point where he probably has a playbook already. So, yeah, they can say whatever, but it's as locked in as you can get. To make as a GM. Yeah, he's going to be a great partner in it, and we're going to trust each other through it, and we're going to talk through all of it. And we're not going to begin with the end in mind. We're going to go through it. Who's the new coach? Clint Kubiak. He's the offense coordinator for Seattle and son of Gary Kubiak. But this is his first head coach job, isn't it? Yes. our entire process. This isn't like a collecting of talent job or field. It's build a great football team. And there's a lot of different ways to do it. We saw Seattle just build a fantastic defense, but still sign a really good, high-priced quarterback in free agency and make it work. There's a lot of different ways to do it. And so, Clint and I are just going to sit together once he gets back from this parade tomorrow and devise our plan for the best way to build the Raiders. And we'll go forward with that in mind. Yeah, I mean, Kubiak's, I mean, I'm sorry. Mendoza's a lock, right? I mean, he's an absolute lock. Yes. To the point where, like Seth said, he probably, they can't, because of tampering and things and things like that, they can't have him at the facility throwing any type of passes to any organized by the Raiders. I don't know if there's tampering when you have the first pick. Yeah, maybe there's not. You can negotiate with his agent. I just don't think he can be at the facility under an organized practice. No, they gave him his playbook. They said he already knows it. Or he's already learning it. You know what would be a good look? And I don't think it would be tampering. And I think we talked about it about a week ago. And Seth said that some players have done this where if you're the number one overall guy, some of the wide receivers and running backs or tight ends or things like that will sometimes get with you outside of Las Vegas or outside of the city, maybe they all meet in Miami. Miami is always a big destination point because of the weather. And he'll throw to existing people on the Raiders roster just to get timing and just to get some camaraderie and things like that. That would be super cool. That's teaming. Who is their number? Well, their one-wide receiver is in jail, right, for vehicular manslaughter. Yeah, Brock Bauer is their tight end. That's their guy. He's pretty elite, so I'd say he's the top dog. Who's WR1? Is it Renfro? I don't know. Jack Besh? I mean, I don't know. Are they probably looking for that in the draft? Yeah. Yes. They're looking for a lot. I mean, no one's going to be better than Brock Bauer. What's the number one wide receiver in this year's draft? It would be either Carnell Tate from Ohio State, Lemon from USC, or Jordan Tyson from Arizona State. I see getting mentioned a lot. Top three. And what are the top three quarterbacks? Mendoza? There's really Mendoza and then Ty Simpson and then everybody else. That's it. Next year is the year that everybody is clamoring for. When we return, we're going to break down the Trump ceasefire gimmick a couple different ways. One from people gathered around, I guess, the Iranian government, whoever's running it. I did see that the Iranian country, the country of Iran, has 1% Internet capabilities. They're running on 1%, so it's been tough for them to get messages out, but they did get a message. And I do have a story of people gathering around power plants. They were asking people to gather around and create human chains around various power grid infrastructures, and they really wanted kids out there. So we won't bomb them. So it's more of a war crime if we have satellite imaging of – How is it our fault if you put yourself in the predicament that you're in? Because, Gene, oddly enough, and you're not going to be able to understand this, but oddly enough, there's our rules of war. Okay. And the rule states, we're going to be blowing up that bridge. The rule states this. And 65 kids think they're going to save it. The rule states, Gene, if before you blow up a target and before you blow up anything, there's some things that are off limits. Like hospitals. Like hospitals and children's daycares and children's schools and things like that. But they do have rules on the books that before you blow up. Who enforces that rule? NATO. I thought you said NATO had nothing to do with this war right now. Now they're going to step in? Maybe they're stepping in. Maybe the head of NATO is at the White House today because we are that close to blowing these people up. And he wants to make sure that we're following the rules. It would have been a war crime had Trump bombed these facilities that had four or five, six thousand kids there. It's brilliant on Iran's part to do that. It is. Yeah. Now, they can't probably have a gaggle of kids on every one of them, but it would probably have deterred us from blowing up a percentage of stuff that they've served last minute through a bunch of kids and women in there. Could you do it, Gene? Could you blow it up? Well, this is what Gene do. Tell me. Say King Gene. King Gene. I would fly my... Hold on. That even sounds North Korean, doesn't it? That's right, King Jean. King Jean. That does, Scott. Yeah, actually, really. I did think about that. King Jean-O would take a crop plane and put them side by side so everybody could say, wave to the crop plane, and they'd drop some pepper spray on you. And we'd douche the whole four acres right there with pepper spray. Everybody leaves. Gene. And then we vomit. If I rash the whole four acres right there with pepper spray, everybody leaves. Gene. And then we vomit. If Iran has the capabilities of shooting down one of our F-15s, you don't think that they can quickly make target practice out of a couple of crop planes? And what I would do there is I would have the biggest bombs on them crop planes. We're not going to use them, but they're on them. You shoot that plane down, it blows everything up. Including your pilot. Okay, so I'll sign up for that job. So now you're killing an American. I'd sign up for the job. You can kill me if they hit me and I get to blow everything up. Gene, you can just do it on one of those drones so that we don't lose anybody. Oh, there you go. I forgot about technology. So pepper spray drones? Pepper spray drones. Drones. So you go in and you pepper spray them all. They leave. Yep. And then you come in. Smoke it. The Bubba the Loves Fun Show will be back after this. Check it one, two. BubbatheloveSponge.com. Say it. Say love! Say love! Bubba Army! Hey, it's Bubba the Love Sponge. If you're looking for a Volkswagen or any quality used vehicle, it's Volkswagen of Wesley Chapel. You can get financing as low as 0% APR on new VWs and as low as 1.9% APR on certified pre-owned. Over 200 new VWs in stock. Over 200 used vehicles in stock. You're looking for a specific car or truck or something they don't have? They'll find it for you. Mention Bubba Army. Get an additional $1,000 off new or used. No questions asked. Ask for my boy Rolo. For more information, go to VW of WC.com. Volkswagen of Wesley Chapel. They're like a bunch of sharks circling in the water, searching for blood or any sign of weakness. They're ready to strike. This is the Bubba the Love Sponge Show. Johnny K. The Steel Slinking Madman Val Barrazo, Indiana. 200 on the PayPal. I love Gene's logic. It's radio gold. Thanks, man. But I'm going to tell you something, bro. You freaked me out there for a minute. Who did? You. Why? Because you yelled that out. And I thought we were because me and Lummi and Steph was talking. And we were mad because we were talking. And you weren't able to pay attention. Or something. I thought you yelled at me. No, I just yelled at Johnny K. You yelled it out, though. Johnny K. Johnny Costica. Shut up. Nico Costeca, it doesn't matter. Thanks, Johnny K, but I thought you said shut up. P1, love him. Thank you. Fellow Hoosier. Hey, the rest of you little Chattamongos, speak up. Speak up at a couple five or 20 spots, man. You Chattamongos. Greg D, $20. We got to pay the bills. We got rent coming up on the 15th, you Chattamongos. What else can you call him? I don't know. Johnny K is the head of the Chattamongos. He's ahead of the Chetamongos? The Chetamongos? So appreciative, Johnny K. Let me, so Gene, this kind of goes to what you're asking about. If this was King Gene, there would be no war, rules of war. War is just war. You know, it's like when you got there in the feature. You put yourself in that predicament and the game's on. And you don't check up and you take both of you out. That's it. Part of the game. So war is a lot like racing. You know what I'm saying? How big your balls are. Are you going to stuff it in there and lift? That's the truth. You're speaking the perfect truth. You're going to be a Biden feeder and just go slow and get lapped. How about it? Right. Get out of the way. Since the beginning, humans have resorted to violence as a way to settle disagreements. Seth, don't you wish that war was just this easy right here? Hold on. Humans have resorted. The way caveman's... That's me on the left with the mullet. Okay, but just think about it. Just getting back to our most primitive early times, if somebody had a problem with you, there were no countries. There were no airplanes. There were no... This is how it went. Governance is a way to settle disagreements Oh I won too Exactly Yet through the ages people from around the world have tried to limit the brutality of war See, so, now, Gene, each one of these tells a story. Now, do you see what this story tells? Yeah, see, don't kill my wife and baby. Exactly. See, you got it. Don't kill my wife and baby. See, back in the day, right here, hold on. Since the beginning, humans have resorted to violence. There were no rules. Smack head. Just whoever. It was the who was the baddest. Who was the baddest. There was no rules. There was a way to settle disagreements. No rules. Here, I don't know what. I don't think there's really any rules there either. Well, no, it's because he's surrendering. Because he's surrendering. Oh, okay. We've got more humanitarian there. Right. So since I'm surrendering, I'm not going to cut your head off. I'm not fighting you. people from around the world have tried to limit the brutality of war you've infiltrated my area but you cannot kill my wife and child it was this humanitarian spirit that led to the first gen and then that was like okay if there's a wounded guy we're going to allow your soldiers to take the wounded guy and not kill them guys carrying right yeah because like if you have like a soon as you let him down i'm popping your head off well okay i got you on my sniper uh uh scope right now and i see that red armband that says you're medical but the minute you drop that guy off and i'm gonna go ahead and have to pick you off ...eva convention of 1864, and to the birth of modern international humanitarian law. Oh, now we got NATO. Setting the basic limits on how wars can be fought. These universal laws of war protect those not fighting. As well as those no longer able to. Okay, you know, the injured. You know, in Idaho, when that whipping little whipmaster winds come, what do you call them? Tornadoes? Yeah. When the tornadoes come. Hold on, hold on. For those scoring at home, Seth, whipmaster. When the whipmaster. You know, when the Cat 5 whipmaster comes. In Idaho? Yeah. Okay. I mean, tornado. You know, what do you hear? Sirens. You hear that, and then you go into your bunker. Yeah. Okay. So when Iran and Iraq will get into a war and you hear that, all the people go south. We won't bomb there. A distinction must always be made between who or what may be attacked and who or what must be spared and protected. Most importantly, civilians can never be targeted. To do so is a war crime. But they're going to grow up to be militants anyway. Well, Gene, I've got to clear them out. Yeah. But let me ask you a question. And the women, they're letting the military guys hide out in there. Let me ask you a question. Did we violate the Geneva Convention and the rules of war, Lummi, when we bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima? And it was predominantly all civilians. Well, they changed the rules of war after that. Since then? Yeah. Like 1949, I think, is when they came up with the newest treaty. You've got to have a NATO approval to drop a bomb. No, I just don't think you can drop it on an entire city. Because, I mean, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, I think, what was it, over 200,000? If you're the city that put them people in the orchestration of being the boss, you all need to die, too. Well, that's kind of why they didn't just nuke Vietnam or Korea. when they drove into our village they shouted that they were going to kill everyone i was so scared i ran to hide in the bush that's what trump did on twitter last night was saying it's gonna kill everybody yeah you're exactly right like completely a violation of just war in itself when trump goes i'm just gonna tell you right now the entire country will be obliterated everybody will die well i think that international court or whomever it is that i don't know if it's in sweden or switzerland the actual court but i i think that they have like if putin goes somewhere they can arrest him if netanyahu goes somewhere they can arrest him i mean i don't think that it ever actually happens but there are are there are people that they're they're ready to snatch up for war crimes but so uh bb and putin and and trump might have to watch where they travel I don't know. I don't think Trump has. So they don't get yoked up. Well, I'll tell you. King Gene smokes the whole country, and he's a war criminal. Now I take my best guys and smoke NATO. Well, Gene, I mean, you can't. I pick them all off at their death. King Gene's ready to just not. I'll put my own NATO people in there, and it makes King Gene. You are so flawed. You are so flawed. NATO's not really in charge. They're just like a, you know, they're kind of a watchdog. They're a group, a defense group. They're kind of a referee, right? So they're part of the other countries that ain't even got nothing to do with the war. No, each country has representatives that are on the NATO board. Who's our NATO guy? I don't know. I don't know who our NATO guy is. Hold on here. No. I don't know who our NATO guy is. I don't know why that keeps doing that to me. I'm sorry. Sounds good. I thought I would never see her again. Every possible care must be taken to avoid harming civilians or destroying things essential for their survival. Like a bridge. Cows. Cow. They have a right. Their crops. To receive the help they need. Man, they've really watered down war, haven't they? They sure have. Man. Is that all you can really hit is maybe the buildings that the leaders may be in? I'm ready to stand down. What do you mean about that girls' school that got hit at the start of this whole thing? It was an accident, though. Not good? Not good at all? No, no, I'm just saying, but that's not watered down for you. No, that's a real massacre. How many girls died? I think 106. Yeah. Wow, that's going to stop the population from growing. All right, so these would be like prisoners of war, detainees. Yep. The conditions prisoners lived in never used to bother me. Watch the BRN right there. People like him were the reason my brother was dead. He was the enemy and was nothing to me. But then I realized that behind bars, he was out of action and no longer a threat to me and my family. The laws of war prohibit torture and other ill treatment of detainees, whatever their past. They must be given food. It looks like dog food. Does it not? Literally, it looks like kibbles and bits. I'll tell you something. Right now, it looks like a gravy train for Gene Lasker. Yeah, it looks like, you know, something good. Graduating from Big Whoppers to kibbles and bits. I see my dogs down there eating kibbles and bits. My dogs eat better than me right now. They do. Because I know that every Sunday is dog day. That's where you cook like 15 pounds of chicken. Every Sunday, my butt, it's every day they get lamb or they get chicken. What I'm saying, it's my understanding that Sarah told me that on Sundays, you cook for the dogs. I barbecue. Like 15 pounds of chicken. Skinless, boneless breast. And lamb. And lamb chops. And vegetables. Yeah. And all that. And the pumpkin. And you do all this. You food prep for the dogs on Sunday. Yeah. So if you let me finish my thought and quit interrupting me, I was right. Sunday is dog cooking day. And they don't eat dog food. They eat like $150 worth of humans. So you know what she did last night? How much is your food bill? $750. A month. A month. For the dogs. Without the, what do you call it? little specialty things little treats treats without treats treats can be anywhere from 100 to 150 bucks how to communicate with loved ones this preserves their dignity and keeps them alive oh yeah so let me they're saying you're allowed to send letters yes dear phoebe i'm really stressing i'm a prisoner of war over here i can't do a break i haven't seen a baseball card in two months uh and i've not really been big in the u.s postal delivery you know i like to text and what have you but i'm sending you this letter send me a card break send me a send me a mega blaster i don't know i don't know if packages get accepted when you're a prisoner i don't maybe i don't know if you can get a mega blaster in in iranian you could probably get a letter out but i don't know how many presents you're getting in Yeah. Medical workers save lives, sometimes in the most dangerous conditions. Fighters from both sides were wounded in a deadly battle. We were taking them to the nearest hospital. You got blowed up. If I'm in war, Lummi, I'm painting a big red X on my Jeep. It is. It's on the top. That's what they say the Iranians do. Yeah. At the checkpoints, a soldier threatened us to treat his men only. We were running out of time, and I was afraid that now all of them were going to die. Well, I mean, you've got to do that. That's got to be part of the convenient extension. You're used to being a getaway driver. You could be an ambulance driver in the war. Well, I mean, you could smoke them two guys without just running into them. Must always be. They're just not two guys right there, Gene. There's about 15 of them. allowed to do their job and the red cross or red crescent must not be attacked the sick or wounded have a right to be cared for regardless let me i try to get shot the first day in the arm or something if i shoot you would you shoot me yes okay i'll shoot you in the leg you shoot me in the arm we can both go to the hospital together the whole entire hospital is protected from bombing and it looks like we can i mean just laying up in the bed all day and not you know being in a foxhole getting shot at and just having a bullet wound in our legs is not that big a deal. Friendly fire. Have you shoot me like in the calf, the back half of the calf or something? All right. You know? Shoot me in the back of the calf. Maybe just shoot off. Don't ask me that. Just shoot off one of my toes or something. Because I'm going to feel that, you know, you are not going to be a team player. You're going to be a nuisance to my arm and I'll shoot you between the eyes. We're going to have to take out. You can't run for more, bro. If you've signed in, you've got to go. Let me do it. Get it done. If we're in the same battalion, hey, Lummi, I know you and I got a deal, and I know you'll hold your end to the deal. Don't let Lasker know. But Lasker's a loose cannon. That's right. We need to get him in the back, like a Pat Tillman-friendly fire kind of deal. Send him out there now, and let's hit him. Hey, Gene, Gene, you need to go out there in that field, and there's some important documents out there in the middle of that field. You need to go out there. And then, Lummi, we beat on him. That's right. And he gets, oh, man, we thought that was a bad guy. And then we Pat Tillman. Didn't Pat Tillman die of friendly fire? Yes, he did. Advances in weapons technology have meant that the rules of war have also had to adapt. Because some weapons and methods of warfare... I think war should go back to, like, cannons and horsebacks and, you know, like, take all the technology out of war and take it back to the old school days. Well, we're kind of the problem from the Revolutionary War. We're the ones who kind of broke that. Because the British were saying that you had to pretty much go to an open field and shoot at each other. That is the craziest thing that they sit there and talk about. And here's the other thing. Tomorrow at 4.30 we're going to meet in the middle. That's where we... Tomorrow at 4.30 we're going to meet in this football field like Meadow. And you guys are going to be on one end and we're going to be on the other. and we're just going to shoot the hell out of each other until the last guy's standing. Well, you know the front row is dying right away. I know. And then sometimes they would have the front row charge the other dudes. I'd be like, are you kidding me? You cannot be in a worse predicament than having me run down a field with my bayonet trying to get to the other side to stab that guy. I'm going to get picked off. Well, that's why the British were mad because the George Washington and the French and the Indians, they were hiding in trees so when the british were marching to the next city or the next battle we start picking them off we start picking them off now that's just kind of and that's you know what because we were white trash that's right we were resourceful but we were women yeah don't distinguish why trash usually wins good wish between fighters and civilians limits on their use have been agreed oh they don't want kids playing a soccer field and you say you can't set up any mines on the soccer field, Lummi. In the future. I don't even know. Like, this guy is telling me what the future is going to be. I think it might be like this. I think it's going to be all controlled by drones, where drones just swarm you. Lummi, we went to the Yankees-Baltimore Oriole game, and they did a full-blown drone show above the stadium that was unbelievably tech. So can you imagine if they can do just an entertainment drone show, they can turn every one of those drones into attack drones, and they could have been going into the stands killing people. That's right. Wars may be fought with fully autonomous robots. Robots and drones. Will such robots ever have the ability to distinguish between a military target and someone who must... Yep, the old girl's going to get it. never be attacked. No matter how sophisticated weapons become. Dear robot, I don't care what you think it is. It moves. Shoot it. Shoot it. It is essential. Here's the thing, Lummi. If your robot shoots another one of your robots, who cares? You're just down a robot. You're not down a real human. They are in line with the rules of war. International humanitarian law is all about making choices that preserve a minimum of human dignity in times of war. And make sure... Yeah, we've gotten soft. You can't even war it up anymore. So you're with Gene then. Just nuke every place you go into. No, but I mean, I'm... I give him fair share time. Move or get moved. Hi, this is King Gene. On behalf of the United States of America, I'm President 48. I put a lot of people in business. I just want to let you know, for you Iranians over there, they're thinking you're putting together this human chain around the nuclear power plant. And whether it's kids or women, I'm bombing it tomorrow at 1 o'clock. So, like, you know, I don't think I'd be there. Everybody be away from there. I don't think I'd be there if you. Because I'm going to bomb it. Whether it's a human chain or a teddy bear or a little girl. Giving you a whole day another. Casualties of war. I'm giving you a whole day notice. Sorry. Here are the human chains that were formed yesterday. You know, again, the ceasefire agreement, I don't think, came down until like 6, 630, 6, something like that. I mean, I think there was only like an hour and 40, like an hour and 20. These were only the people that worked there. I heard about it at 6.53. What time was it efficient? And Fox broke into special programming. but like what time is there an official time when trump tweeted because because they were reading from his social you know let me send me the uh the truth social post of him making this announcement okay because he he did it via via truth social i mean look at all those people and technically i mean if we were to bomb that place you know it could be not cool with regards to the you know rules of engagement i'm taking hazel with me to the nato table what's that i'm taking hazel with me to the nato table hey nato this is my guy kevin hazel he's got me out about 16 times that i've done stupid stuff and he's going to go ahead and negotiate this for me. There you go. I said it to you. I got a flow racing sprint car race to watch. David Gravel is my favorite. So I'm just, or Rico Abreu. Yep. Pulling for that little 24 guy. All right, so this came down at, boy, Lummi, 654. Brent Baird, is it Brent Baird? Yeah, Brent. Brent, whatever his name is. On Fox. And he's on. Brent Baird. He's after the five. he's on from six until seven he broke it within the minute 6 30 6 35 is when he broke it who did bread and bear more before it was posted on truth social no this is 654 no no see like this is like the repost this was posted on Twitter Yeah So this is a screenshot of True Social That just the truth Oh okay So Seth this isn the time that Trump put it on True Social No. This is a screenshot of it. Yes. Right? Yes. All right. What time did it post up on True Social? Do you know, Lum? 629. 629. So it took Baird about 18 minutes to get it to us. Based on the conversation, this is the official statement from Donald J. Trump, our president of the United States. 47, if you will. Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shabazz Sharif and Field Marshal Azam Manir. Yeah. Which of Pakistan, see, I think Pakistan, Lummi, was one of the most concerned about this because they're neighbors of Iran and they feel as if they could be a target, too. No, they were open about asking Trump to hold off on the destruction for a couple weeks. So they, you think maybe. They sent over, it was a letter, a proposal or an offer or something yesterday to President Trump. So the Pakistanis were part of this potential asking Trump to cease fire. Yeah, Pakistan, I think it's some of their oil from Iran. And wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent to tonight to Iran. and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to complete immediate a safe opening of the Strait of Hormuz. I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double-sided ceasefire. So, Seth, does that mean us and them, correct? Yes. Okay. and that is that now do we speak for israel at this point like does bb have to uh abide by these i don't know i read that i read that they were still bombing each other as of this morning so we probably need to call bb up and go bb we're trying to we're trying to but bb's like well they're sending stuff over here so i gotta send stuff over there and at that point you can't blame them the reason for doing uh doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all military objectives and are very far along with a definitive agreement concerning long-term peace with Iran and peace in the Middle East. We received a 10-point proposal from Iran and believe it is a workable basis to which to negotiate. Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two-week period will allow the agreement to be finalized and consummated. On behalf of the United States of America and President, and also representing the countries of the Middle East, it is an honor to have this longtime problem close to resolution. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. Now, if this does go down and this does happen, I think it's great. Yeah, it's all good. I mean, I think it's all good. Here's a news report basically reporting what I just said. Iran, the United States, and Israel say they have reached a temporary ceasefire in the war that swept across the Middle East. But there are big questions that still remain. Top of mind is the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which 20% of crude oil and natural gas passes. Which, by the way, Seth is right, and I found an article, and I'm going to play next, that it looks like there is a $2 million per ship bounty that's been put on all ships that go through there payable to Iran. Smoke Iran, too. He's time. Gene, Iran is the target. It's not two. We can't smoke them. We've agreed not to smoke them for two weeks. and part of the agreement is probably allowing them to charge for people to use the strait or homoose that's how they're going to rebuild their country and that's how they're going to you know abide by some of the stiff stuff that we want including uh not having the capabilities to produce nuclear warheads and so in doing that we have to give them something iran insists that its military is still going to control access through the strait and we've heard from one diplomat that It says Iran and Oman, whose territorial waters formed the strait, would still be collecting fees from passing ships. This is a big departure from where it had been before. The world largely considers the strait an international waterway that should be free for all. Meanwhile, we're seeing discrepancies from Iran. Like, how do they pull a ship? Seth, how do you pull the ship over and charge him $2 million? Like, I mean, do they have, like, a guy out there and he's got, like, a little swipe machine? I mean, you could pay $2 million, they could keep it closed, or they could open it up and threaten to blow you up. I mean, to me, I'm paying the $2 million. No, I know, but how do they actually collect the $2 million? Do they just bill the company? Cash app, Venmo, PayPal. Hey, listen, Captain, sorry we've boarded your boat, but it looks like you haven't paid us. Hold on, let me just pull over here and I'll Venmo you with the Wi-Fi. You've got literally a 900-foot tanker the size of three football fields in there, And you got the Strait of Hormuz, Iraq, Iran police in a little dinghy pulling you over with a credit card swipe machine wanting to know what your Venmo number is. And it's language about the 10 points it's put forward on. Let me just pull this thing over like you can pull those things over. Ending the war. In its Farsi language version, it included that it wanted to continue to enrich uranium. That's something that U.S. President Donald Trump has said is a non-starter. Trump fears that Iran's nuclear program could allow Tehran. Now, does that mean that we have to go in and get all of their uranium? Does that mean we have to go in and take all of their – they can't because uranium is the absolute base of nuclear warhead. You cannot create a nuclear weapon without uranium. They've got to get it. So you've got to go in there. Do they have it? Do they mine it and the country has uranium and we have to take it out of the ground? or do they just have it stockpiled for a possible nuclear weapon? Supposedly they have it stockpiled underground. ...tentionally develop a nuclear weapon should it choose to do so. And we also saw the Iranians continue to launch missile barrages even after the ceasefire was announced across the Gulf Arab states and on Israel in the United Arab Emirates where I am. They said a fire broke out at a facility at a natural gas field there after one missile barrage was sighted. Now, the Iranians as well have a lot of other questions, and particularly over what's going to happen to their so-called axis of resistance, those militia groups in the region that support Iran. Pakistan had said that Israel was going to immediately stop its attacks against Hezbollah and Lebanon, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while saying that he would honor the ceasefire with Iran, said that Israel's war against Hezbollah would continue. That's a major sticking point. And it remains unclear when these talks would stop. So we, or Israel, or just we, representing all the Middle East, or the world for that matter, we could be cool with Iran, give them what they want, we get what we want, but then you got the sleeper cell of Hezbollah, and you're always fighting them, so it might not ever end. Right? I mean, Seth, am I right? Like in the fact that we can have an agreement with the country, but these sleeper terrorist cells continue to wreak havoc. Yeah, I would imagine that if Iran falls in line, though, that they'll be pulled back on some of the proxies. Right, because Iran might help us get rid of them. So now they're allowed to do things freely in Iran. under... I mean, Hezbollah's in Lebanon. I mean, you got the Houthis. You know, everybody's all over the place. The Pakistanis, who are one key mediator, said they could start as soon as Friday in Islamabad, but we have not heard from Iran or the United States who it would be sending or when these talks would start. So all this put together really shows how shaky this ceasefire is and the future of the Middle East hangs in the balance now as we try to sort out what will happen next. Now, what happens if it goes two weeks and where lummi where we were yesterday and that's a bombing i mean i don't think you can you can cry chicken again like i don't think i don't cry wolf i don't think you can cry wolf trump cannot allow them to ask to renegotiate or more time like this this two-week window that he's given them that's it or we look or we look stupid and weak if we don't follow through we you know it went down to the 11th hour it went down to you know 90 minutes before all hell was supposed to break loose and they came up with this agreement now if they start playing cute games and start you know wanting more and less and you know still not you know not abiding by you know possibly the nuclear what i think that's i think that's the most you know one of the things that we're most most worried about but i think at that point we have to we got to kill them i sent you this looks like it came down about 20 25 minutes it looks like uh trump has said that they're talking about doing a joint venture with Iran to safeguard the strait. Based on conversations with Prime Minister Sharif and Field Marshal Munir of Pakistan and wherein, they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran, agreeing to the complete, immediate, and safe opening of the Strait of Wormuz. I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double-sided ceasefire. The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all military. I mean, this is already everything I covered. No, it was just a wording. It looks like they were talking about doing a joint venture. In peace in the Middle East. I'll tell you what, we're going to collect. We'll be the collection guys when we get a million of it. The workable basis on which to negotiate. Almost all of the various points of past contention. We might be from being in war with these guys to being in bed with them and being business partners with the two million a ship, and we get half of that. So we went from wanting to blow you up to now we're buddies and we're partners in the two million a ship game over there in Hormuz. And I could see where, you know, Trump, who is really, you know, told people how and really, really, really made it a point of contention as to how frustrated he was in Italy and France and Great Britain and other countries, Turkey, that have not stepped up and help us, you know, helped us with this, you know, Strait of Hormuz. these countries who get their oil from that area and region and how they've not stepped up and kind of taken a back back approach to the point where we can't. Don't we have like 50,000 troops in Japan or something like that, that they've not allowed us to. Japan and Korea. They've not worked with us. And so I can see where Trump was like, OK, listen, Iran. Yeah, we're going to help you police the two million a tanker. And we're going to be and we're going to get one million and you're going to get one million. And yeah, we're going to start charging people. And the reason why we're going to start charging you is because none of you guys stepped up and you're going to get one million. and yeah, we're going to start charging people. And the reason why we're going to start charging you is because none of you guys stepped up and helped me when this was all sketched out. Nobody helped me. So now you're going to pay. I like that. What better way to turn an adversarial person into now you're working with them? Yeah, win-win, right? Forever. Donald Trump claims he has secured the opening of the Strait of Hormuz. But here's the catch. Iran is now charging up to $2 million per ship to pass through it. So is this really a breakthrough or a strategic win for Iran? Trump announced a ceasefire-style arrangement, framing it as Iran agreeing to ensure safe and open passage through the strait. In return, the United States pauses strikes. But the reality is far more complex. this deal actually incorporates key now is this the 10 point deal i've not seen it because i'm right let me i don't think any of us has seen it no iran's 10 point conditions that the u.s has accepted as workable the u.s is fundamentally committed to non-aggression this is this is what we're committed to right continuation of iran's control over the straighter homo or or moose acceptance of enrichment lifting all primary sanctions lifting all secondary sanctions, termination of a U.N. Security Council resolution, termination of a IAEA Board of Governor resolution, payment of compensation to Iran, withdrawal of U.S. combat forces to the region, and succession of war on all fronts, including against the heroic Islamic resistance of Lebanon. It's got to do a two million foot straight. Yeah, it does. Where? Well, it says the continuation of Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz. Within that, that just means we could still cut a deal where we're getting some money on that. But let me, it looks like we're pretty much kind of laying down on this deal. Sure. Right? It looks like a little bit. Now, here's what I'm including against the heroic Islamic resistance of Lebanon. Is that the old regime or is that the new people? I'm not sure. Secession of war on all fronts, including, won't you look up, Lummi, the Islamic resistance of Lebanon. And is that the old regime or is that the new people we're talking with? elements of Iran's own proposal, including some. I don't like I don't like a lot of this stuff. It looks like we're being a bunch of pussies here. Unless we're in on the money, Vig, with Hormuz. That's Hezbollah. And people are saying in chat that this is this is what they wanted, but this was not this is not what was agreed to. Oh, OK. This is what they threw at us and we've we've whittled it down from there. Yes. OK. Unprecedented transit fees. Iran, along with Oman, can now formally charge ships passing through the strait with reports suggesting fees of up to $2 million per tanker. And this isn't entirely new. During the conflict, Iran had already begun informally charging select ships, creating what analysts called a Tehran Tollbooth. Now it's official. And the numbers are staggering. The Tehran Tollbooth. The Strait of Hormuz carries nearly 20% of the world's oil supply. Around 100 ships pass daily. That means Iran could earn nearly $20 million per day. Per day? No. Smoke the whole country. Per day means, do you know how much you can rebuild with $20 million a day? Yeah. I mean, you can build. Teef your money, smoke the hospital. King Gene said, quote, I tell you what I would do. I would smoke the whole country and give it to somebody like who I'd sell that country to another country that they wanted to buy it. OK, OK. I like that. You know, we got problems in America with the with the with the with the with the ice people, with the illegal immigrants. Yeah. How about give you your own country? That's a pretty big. That's a pretty big piece of land. That's one of the largest pieces. That's one of the largest countries in the Middle East. Good. Grow. Prosper. So you're saying go through America. So put all the immigrants in Iran. Anybody who tries to burn the flag. Anybody who tries to protest Trump. We're shipping you over to Iran, which now is officially United States Far East. You can burn the American flag all the way you want over there. This is America Middle East. The kids that don't know if they're a girl or a boy. It's the land of misfits. All back to the same. All right out of the box. Kind of like on Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, where they set up all the defective toys, the land of misfits. Yeah, they got their own island. Yeah, we got their own island. So far, we've got the island. We've got illegals. We've got transgenders. What about flag burners? Bad criminals? Flag burners. We could just send them over there like they sent the criminals over to us. Criminals, flag burners. Have a good life. Transgenders. I'm giving you free property. Just come. Yeah. You're listening to the Bubba the Lovespun Show. The Bubba the Lovespun Show will be back after this.