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EP765: TL Nuggets #229 - Nicky Billou joins Larry Elder · The Thought Leader Revolution Podcast

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  Speaker 1: - And I wanna make a distinction
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  Speaker 1: between the Iranian nation and the Islamic Republic, okay?
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this regime the Islamic Republic,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna call Iran the Iranian nation
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  Speaker 1: and the Iranian people.
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  Speaker 1: The Islamic Republic has been at war
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  Speaker 1: with the United States and the West
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  Speaker 1: ever since it came into power in 1979.
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  Speaker 2: - I am Larry Elder.
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  Speaker 2: We are Salem News Channel.
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  Speaker 2: My guest hosts two podcasts,
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  Speaker 2: the thought leader revolution podcast and the sovereign man podcast
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  Speaker 2: he's a new york times a best-selling author
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  Speaker 2: he has made something like over a thousand guest appearances
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  Speaker 2: on various shows the past three and a half years
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  Speaker 2: many on
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  Speaker 2: iran and its future
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  Speaker 2: he graduated from georgetown university
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  Speaker 2: was born in tehran iran to christian prep apparents
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  Speaker 2: when he's a teenager he and his family immigrated to canada for their safety
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  Speaker 2: please welcome to the program
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Nicky Balu.
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  Speaker 2: - Good to be here, Larry.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me on the show.
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  Speaker 2: - Nicky, thank you so much for coming on.
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  Speaker 2: A thousand podcast appearances,
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  Speaker 2: and it's your first one coming on my show.
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  Speaker 2: What am I, chopped liver?
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  Speaker 1: - Man, you're the best of the best.
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  Speaker 1: It took me a while to earn the right to be on your show,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm honored to be here.
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  Speaker 2: - Well, Nicky, obviously so much to talk about
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  Speaker 2: what's going on right now in Iran,
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  Speaker 2: but first tell us about your experience
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  Speaker 2: growing up in Iran as a Christian.
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  Speaker 2: What was that like?
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  Speaker 1: - Larry, that's a great question.
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  Speaker 1: During the time of the Shah,
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  Speaker 1: it was an incredible experience being a Christian in Iran.
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  Speaker 1: But once the Islamic revolution took place,
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  Speaker 1: things went to hell.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just tell you a brief story.
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  Speaker 1: There were literally gun battles going on
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  Speaker 1: in the streets near my home.
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  Speaker 1: And one day, my parents' level of concern
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  Speaker 1: for me and my two brothers' safety
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  Speaker 1: just shot up by a thousand fold.
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  Speaker 1: There was this crash through our living room window
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  Speaker 1: and there were glass shards flying everywhere
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  Speaker 1: and something landed next to my feet.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm 11 years old, I don't know what the heck it is,
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  Speaker 1: but my dad did, it was a Molotov cocktail, right?
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  Speaker 1: So he pulls out that burning wick
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  Speaker 1: and as a result, the thing doesn't blow up
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  Speaker 1: and that's the only reason I'm here alive
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  Speaker 1: to talk to you today.
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  Speaker 1: That's when my parents decided, that's it,
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  Speaker 1: this isn't a place to raise a Christian family
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  Speaker 1: and they got me and my two brothers out of there
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  Speaker 1: and brought us to the free West.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you, it's the greatest single thing
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  Speaker 1: they did for us because they took us
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  Speaker 1: from a legacy of tyranny to a legacy of freedom.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe Larry, like you,
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  Speaker 1: that inside every human breast
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  Speaker 1: beats the living heart of freedom.
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  Speaker 1: Every man and woman on this planet yearns to breathe free,
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  Speaker 1: to chart their own course,
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  Speaker 1: to march to the tune of their own drummer.
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  Speaker 2: - Nicky, I spent several months in Jerusalem in 1973,
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  Speaker 2: around six years or so before the fall of the Shah.
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  Speaker 2: and I roomed with someone from Tehran.
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  Speaker 2: He hated the Shah.
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  Speaker 2: He hated the secret police, Savak.
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  Speaker 2: His teeth had been knocked out
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  Speaker 2: because he was involved in protesting
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  Speaker 2: an increase in bus fare.
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  Speaker 2: Got arrested, got beaten up, despised the Shah,
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  Speaker 2: despised America, although he made an exception
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  Speaker 2: for this American he was rooming with.
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  Speaker 2: But his contempt for the Shah was just visceral.
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  Speaker 2: How popular was the Shah?
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  Speaker 1: - Look, at the time of the revolution, okay,
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  Speaker 1: there were plenty of people who felt as this man did,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't think the Shah's support was ever as low
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  Speaker 1: as the Islamic Republic's is right now.
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  Speaker 1: There were a lot of people who'd been educated
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  Speaker 1: by the Shah's government in the West,
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  Speaker 1: and they thought, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Iran should be just like the West.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we should have freedoms here.
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  Speaker 1: there shouldn't be a secret police.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the truth, the Iranian people
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  Speaker 1: weren't like the people of the West,
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  Speaker 1: and there was plenty of people in Iran
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  Speaker 1: who wanted to assassinate the Shah,
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  Speaker 1: assassinate his key ministers, overthrow the government.
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  Speaker 1: So he had a secret police,
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  Speaker 1: he arrested mostly communists and Islamists, okay?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: the Shah was a force for good in Iran.
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  Speaker 1: He took Iran from a backward nation
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  Speaker 1: that was several centuries behind
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  Speaker 1: to one of the top 20 powers of the world.
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  Speaker 1: Women in Iran got the vote before women in Switzerland.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that, Larry?
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  Speaker 2: - By the way, Nicky, the moral to the story
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  Speaker 2: is this man I told you about who despised America,
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  Speaker 2: immigrated to America, became a college professor,
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  Speaker 2: got tenured, and far as I know,
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  Speaker 2: retired with a nice pension,
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  Speaker 2: despite the fact that he told me at that time
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  Speaker 2: he hated America.
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  Speaker 2: You talked about the government under the Shah.
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  Speaker 2: Now, is it or is it not true that you had a democracy
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  Speaker 2: and the CIA was somehow involved in toppling that democracy
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  Speaker 2: and installing the Shah?
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  Speaker 2: What's the story about that?
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  Speaker 1: - That's not true.
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  Speaker 1: So, first of all, Iran under the Pahlavis
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  Speaker 1: was governed under the constitutional monarchy
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  Speaker 1: that was established in 1906.
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  Speaker 1: Essentially, the Shah of Iran had the right to choose
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  Speaker 1: who he was gonna install as prime minister
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  Speaker 1: and also to remove them.
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  Speaker 1: You're talking about Mohammad Mossadegh.
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  Speaker 1: Mossadegh was installed as prime minister by the Shah.
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  Speaker 1: He decided that he did not wanna be subservient to the Shah.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted to be the man in charge himself.
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  Speaker 1: He started to arrogate more and more powers to himself.
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  Speaker 1: And at one point, the Shah decided
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to remove him from power.
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  Speaker 1: And that was allowed under the Iranian constitution, okay?
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  Speaker 1: So there was no, Mossadegh was popularly elected.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, he wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: He was chosen for his role as prime minister by the Shah,
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  Speaker 1: and he was removed from his role as prime minister
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  Speaker 1: by the Shah, which was at the time legal
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  Speaker 1: under the Iranian constitution.
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  Speaker 1: So it's absolutely false that Iran had
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  Speaker 1: a Western-style democracy that was somehow violated
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  Speaker 1: by the Shah and by the CIA.
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  Speaker 1: That's not true at all.
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  Speaker 1: - What did your parents do for a living?
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  Speaker 1: - My mother had been a nurse at a hospital in Iran,
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  Speaker 1: and then she managed the bookstore
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  Speaker 1: at the American Community School
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  Speaker 1: where my brothers and I attended.
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  Speaker 1: My father was a businessman.
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  Speaker 1: He was involved in importing medical equipment
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  Speaker 1: to equip hospitals in Iran at that time.
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  Speaker 2: - Did you guys lose everything
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  Speaker 2: and have to start all over again in Canada?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if we lost everything, but we lost a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and we did definitely have to start over.
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  Speaker 1: My dad was able to get some of his assets out of Iran,
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  Speaker 1: but not the vast majority of them.
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  Speaker 1: - Have you been back to Iran?
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  Speaker 1: - I went back once in the year 2000.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't been back since.
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  Speaker 1: Since the dawn of social media,
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  Speaker 1: I've been pretty vocal about my opposition
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  Speaker 1: to the Islamic Republic,
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  Speaker 1: and it would have been foolish for me to go back.
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  Speaker 1: I'd have been arrested and probably killed
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  Speaker 1: because of my anti-regime views.
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  Speaker 1: when you were there in two thousand what was it like
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  Speaker 1: brother was bittersweet i mean it was wonderful to be back in my homeland in
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  Speaker 1: the land of my birth it was great to see so many historic sites and to be with
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  Speaker 1: family members because the majority my family
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  Speaker 1: is still in iran
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  Speaker 1: it was horrible to see what they've done to the country was horrible to see that
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  Speaker 1: women didn't have any rights women have to cover themselves up from head to toe
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  Speaker 1: and should or is
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  Speaker 1: it people in iran
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  Speaker 1: Were not as wealthy. They were not as prosperous
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  Speaker 1: They were not as free and open as they had been during the time of the Shaw
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  Speaker 2: Now is a horrible thing to see and you could tell they were not as happy. Oh
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, man Larry if you've been in an unfree country and I believe you have you can tell I live in California
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  Speaker 1: But I mean you I'm sure you visited countries that are not free and you can tell there's a major difference between how people
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  Speaker 1: are and how they act, how careful they are with what they say and what they do, versus,
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  Speaker 1: for example, someone living in the free West.
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  Speaker 2: Are you surprised that epic fury has happened?
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  Speaker 2: Are you surprised that finally an American president has done something about the regime
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  Speaker 2: in Iran?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you and I have had this conversation about Donald Trump in the past, but he's the
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  Speaker 1: best American president since Ronald Reagan.
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  Speaker 1: And when it comes to taking action and backing up what he says he's going to do, he's maybe
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  Speaker 1: the best American president since Abraham Lincoln.
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  Speaker 1: What he's done is in keeping with what he said he was going to do.
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  Speaker 1: Back in early January, Donald Trump said to the Iranian people that, hey, help is on the
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  Speaker 1: way.
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  Speaker 1: He also told the regime, if you go around killing your people, we're going to do something
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 1: And he followed through on what he said.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the truth, the Islamic Republic, and I want to make a distinction between the
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  Speaker 1: Iranian nation and the Islamic Republic, okay?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to call this regime the Islamic Republic, and I'm going to call Iran the Iranian
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  Speaker 1: nation and the Iranian people.
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  Speaker 1: The Islamic Republic has been at war with the United States and the West ever since
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  Speaker 1: it came into power in 1979.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, most American presidents refuse to acknowledge that fact, and they stuck their heads in the
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  Speaker 1: sand, particularly Barack Hussein Obama and Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 1: Gayrach was saying, and Joe Biden decided the best way
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  Speaker 1: to deal with Iran was to act like they were our pals
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  Speaker 1: and give them all this money so they could go
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  Speaker 1: and force multiply their terroristic activities.
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  Speaker 1: And because of that, October 7th happened in Israel.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm telling you right now,
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  Speaker 1: the most important thing that Americans need to realize
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  Speaker 1: is they should thank God that Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: is their president, because Donald Trump sees
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  Speaker 1: in a very clear way the threat presented
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  Speaker 1: by the Islamic Republic, and he's decided to do something about it.
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  Speaker 1: He has degraded the Islamic Republic's capacity
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  Speaker 1: to menace the United States, to menace the people of Iran
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  Speaker 1: and occupied Iran, and to menace Israel and the free world.
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  Speaker 1: And he's decided, I'm going to take this threat out.
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  Speaker 1: Taking this threat out is going to give the Iranian people a chance
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  Speaker 1: to do what they very much want to do,
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  Speaker 1: which is to overthrow the Islamic Republic and to bring
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  Speaker 1: in as their transitional leader Reza Pahlavi,
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  Speaker 1: the son of the late Shah of Iran.
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  Speaker 2: - If I'm not mistaken, the Shah went to Brown University
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  Speaker 2: where I attended.
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  Speaker 2: He was there a little bit before me,
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  Speaker 2: but went to the same school.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen him on TV, very dignified man.
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  Speaker 2: He says he does not want to be the president,
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  Speaker 2: does not want to be king.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to be involved in a transitional government.
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  Speaker 2: How does that happen when 20, 30,000 Iranians
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  Speaker 2: have been slaughtered by their own government?
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  Speaker 2: There's no second amendment.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have firearms.
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  Speaker 2: with really severe gun control in Iran.
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  Speaker 2: So how does the citizenry rise up
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  Speaker 2: and as Donald Trump says, take back your government?
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  Speaker 2: How do you do that?
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  Speaker 1: - Well, Larry, here's what I wanna say to you.
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  Speaker 1: The Iranian people are the best
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  Speaker 1: and the bravest of humanity.
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  Speaker 1: If you followed what happened in January and February,
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  Speaker 1: these people went out there in the streets
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  Speaker 1: with nothing but their bodies
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  Speaker 1: and they marched into the guns that were firing at them
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  Speaker 1: and they died by the thousands and the tens of thousands.
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  Speaker 1: Over a hundred thousand Iranians died,
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  Speaker 1: demanding their rights, demanding their freedoms
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  Speaker 1: from this evil regime.
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  Speaker 1: And while they did so, the name that was chanted,
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  Speaker 1: the name that was on their lips was that of Reza Pahlavi.
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  Speaker 1: Here's some of the chants that they made.
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  Speaker 1: They said, (speaking in foreign language)
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  Speaker 1: which means this is the last battle,
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  Speaker 1: how have you will return job each other job each other job each other long live
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  Speaker 1: the king
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  Speaker 1: eighty one percent of the iranian people in iran
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  Speaker 1: support result how many
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  Speaker 1: you name me one world leader
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  Speaker 1: you know legitimately free sense of polling in elections
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  Speaker 1: that wouldn't chill for that level of support
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  Speaker 1: the support he has is broad
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  Speaker 1: and it's deep and the reason is simple
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  Speaker 1: the iranian people look back on the reign of his father the late mohammed
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  Speaker 1: was a pilot e
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  Speaker 1: an unbelievable level of nostalgia.
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  Speaker 1: They see that Iran was one of the 20 great powers
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  Speaker 1: of the world.
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  Speaker 1: The women in Iran were wearing mini skirts.
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  Speaker 1: People in Iran were able to be free and live life.
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  Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra came and did a concert in Tehran.
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  Speaker 1: Iran was an incredible place back then,
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  Speaker 1: and they wanna bring that back.
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  Speaker 1: And let me tell you,
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  Speaker 1: the Second Amendment is a beautiful thing,
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  Speaker 1: and I hope that the new government in Iran
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  Speaker 1: will allow something like it in Iran.
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  Speaker 1: But Reza Pahlavi is the support of the people.
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  Speaker 1: On January 8th and 9th, he told the Iranian people,
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  Speaker 1: go out into the streets.
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  Speaker 1: Larry, Iran has 90 million people,
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  Speaker 1: 35 million of them obeyed him and went into the streets.
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  Speaker 1: 35 million, that's 40% of Iran's entire population
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  Speaker 1: went into the streets in order to ask for this regime
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  Speaker 1: to be set aside and overthrown.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm telling you this,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump has done a great thing.
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  Speaker 1: He has degraded the Islamic regime's capacity
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  Speaker 1: to kill its own people.
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  Speaker 1: He's degraded its capacity to hurt its neighbors.
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  Speaker 1: He's degraded its capacity to come up with nuclear weapons.
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  Speaker 1: When the United States military has finished
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  Speaker 1: with its rescue operation and has destroyed the IRGC and members
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  Speaker 1: of Iran's regular military start defecting to the side
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  Speaker 1: of the people, it's my belief that at that point,
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  Speaker 1: the Iranian people are going to rise because President Trump
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  Speaker 1: and Reza Pahlavi will tell them to.
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  Speaker 1: They'll take over their government.
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  Speaker 1: and Iran once again will be out of the clutches of this evil, occupying, Nazi-like regime
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  Speaker 1: and in the hands of Iranian patriots that actually love it.
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  Speaker 1: And Reza Pahlavi is the man to do it.
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  Speaker 1: He has the support of the people.
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  Speaker 1: He's someone who's taken the time to come up with a transition plan, and we're there
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  Speaker 1: for him.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to win this, Larry.
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  Speaker 1: This is our time.
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  Speaker 2: Nicky, how long will this take, and can this happen without American boots on the ground?
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  Speaker 1: The boots on the ground are the Iranian people.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need American boots on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: We are the boots on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: It'd be nice if President Trump would drop some weapons down to the Iranian people because
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  Speaker 1: that would help us fight back any remnants of the regime.
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  Speaker 1: But we haven't even asked for that.
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  Speaker 1: And we're willing to go out there into the streets.
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  Speaker 1: My compatriots are.
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  Speaker 1: It's my belief it'll be done in under a month.
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  Speaker 2: We have 60 seconds left in this segment, Nikki.
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  Speaker 2: You gave two numbers.
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  Speaker 2: One was 100,000, when a lot of people are saying there were 20 or 30,000 people killed.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you get the 100,000 number?
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  Speaker 2: Where do you get the number that 81% support the son of the Shah?
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  Speaker 1: The 100,000 number, my friend, has been reported by many organizations that have contacts in
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  Speaker 1: Iran, including Mihan, means Motherland Media.
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  Speaker 1: They have an IG channel.
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  Speaker 1: And the 81% figure is something that I'm quoting from a lot of Iranian-based news outlets that
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  Speaker 1: have done some of their own private polling inside the country.
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  Speaker 1: That's where I've gotten those numbers from.
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  Speaker 2: Nikki Bailou is my guest.
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  Speaker 2: the number is 888-971-7243, 888-971-SAGE,
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  Speaker 2: do not leave town.
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  Speaker 2: 888-971-SAGE, 888-971-7243,
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  Speaker 2: I am Larry Elder, Salem News Channel,
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  Speaker 2: my guest is Nicky Billou, born and raised in Tehran.
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  Speaker 2: Nikki, what does unconditional surrender mean?
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  Speaker 1: - I think it means what it's always meant,
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  Speaker 1: which means that you surrender and there's no conditions to your surrender
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  Speaker 1: just like the germans in the japanese did at the end of world war two
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  Speaker 1: that's what donald trump's looking for
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  Speaker 1: i believe he's going to get that
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  Speaker 2: from whom will he get it will it be the the man that they have
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  Speaker 2: uh... chosen to succeed to the ayatollah will he
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  Speaker 2: stand up and say uh... we give up
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  Speaker 2: uh... the what they call the the gang of experts or whatever is called the
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  Speaker 2: council of experts
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  Speaker 2: who is it who's going to
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  Speaker 2: offered this unconditional surrender
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  Speaker 1: that's a great question
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  Speaker 1: the person who's been chosen to be the successor to
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  Speaker 1: by a total of the home in a is his son which double home in a
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  Speaker 1: but i just got a report from my contacts in iran
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  Speaker 1: that he's badly injured
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  Speaker 1: in fact he's in the hospital
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  Speaker 1: he's uh... in a coma
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't even know that he's been selected as the leader so i don't think
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: it's going to be him
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: the assembly of experts
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: perhaps
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: be the Iranian military because most of the IRGC is going to be destroyed or dead.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: There's going to be some general there who's going to say, "Okay, we're ready to surrender."
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know who, but I think it's going to happen. And as soon as it does happen,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: that's when the Iranian people can go and reclaim their nation and reclaim their government.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: - I think I asked you this already, maybe I just didn't pay attention. How long do you
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: think it'll take for the Iranian people to rise up and take back their power?
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: I think it's going to take less than a month.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Why do you suppose we have heard so few voices from the Democratic Party,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: particularly those who are all involved in the Me Too generation,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: given the suppression of Iranian women? Where are they?
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Larry, I got to tell you, the Democrat Party, I believe, is no longer the Democrat Party
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: that you knew when you were growing up.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: That's the party of John F. Kennedy, of Scoop Jackson.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: That's the party that loved America
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: and was for a robust defense of free speech
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: and American values.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: The Democrat Party today really ought to rebrand itself
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: and call itself the new fascist and new communist party
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: because that's what it really is.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: It doesn't love America.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: It doesn't believe in America.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: And frankly, it seems to be doing everything in its power
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: to destroy everything that's made America great.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter, if you recall, a Democrat, was the one who back in 1978 and '79 decided
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: to pull the rug out from under the shawl, America's most reliable ally in the Middle
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: East, because he thought that creating a religious belt would make it easier for America to contain
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: communism in the region.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Boy, was that a huge mistake, because bringing in the Islamic Republic has led to the rise
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: and proliferation of terrorism throughout the world.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Islamic jihad is a direct result of the Democrat Party's malfeasance under Jimmy Carter.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: And I got to tell you, I've got meme after meme that I can send you of Democrats claiming
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: to be for women, but actually when it comes time to stand up for real women, Iranian women
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: that are asking for their rights, they're eerily silent.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: It's bizarre, but it's not surprising.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: If you're an American, this is what I have to say to you.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Maybe your father was a Democrat.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Maybe your grandfather was a Democrat.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Maybe your mother was a Democrat.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Maybe you have fond memories of people in the Democrat party, like JFK, like RFK, and
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: people like Martin Luther King, who stood for real American values.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: That is not the Democratic Party of today.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: You need to either become an independent or become a Republican.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Otherwise, you're going to see your country go up in smoke the way Iran did back in 1979,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: when the unholy alliance of the Islamists and the Marxists took down the greatest leader
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: the Middle East had ever seen, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: We have two minutes left in this segment, Nicky.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: I have a couple things I want to ask you.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: First is, what's the deal with attacking 12 countries in the Middle East, including the
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Gulf countries that were, I thought, on the side or neutral?
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Why did Iran do that?
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Because they are stupid.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Because they felt that if they did this, some of those nations would side with them, or
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: at least not side with the United States.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: that the impact has been the exact opposite
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: of what they expected.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: They got Saudi Arabia to come out and say
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: they were ready to go in on America and Israel side.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Larry, did you ever think you'd see Saudi Arabia
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: say they were gonna go in on Israel side in the conflict?
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Did you think that was possible in your lifetime?
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: 'Cause I sure as heck didn't.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: - 45 seconds left in this segment, Nicky.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: My impression is that the Iranian war
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: is very unpopular in Canada.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Am I wrong?
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Among the Iranian people in the diaspora, the rescue mission for Iran is extremely popular.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Among the general population, I don't think they have very strong opinions one way or
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: another, but the 750,000 Iranians, 90/10 in favor of the United States and Israel's rescue
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: operation of the Iranian nation and the Iranian people.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Tell us more, Nicky, about this man who's been chosen to succeed the supreme leader.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: His name is Mojtaba Khamenei.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: He is the son of Ali Khamenei.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: He's regarded among Iranian circles as a bit of a lightweight.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: He's not regarded as any man with intellectual heft.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: And at the moment, he's lying in a hospital bed with severe injuries to his abdomen and
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: his legs, and he's in a coma.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: So that's all I can tell you about him.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: He's not someone who's going to be in that role very long.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: He's going to be like Carl Donitz back in World War II, succeeding Hitler, but without
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: the intellectual capacities of Carl Donitz.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: So Niki, who's running the country?
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Brother, there is no central authority running the country anymore.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: That's why we're so hopeful that the Islamic Republic is going to fall.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: There are elements of the regime that have control of various parts of the economy.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: The IRGC has control of some of the security services, but there is no guiding central
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: authority anymore.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: The United States and Israel taking out the leadership of the Islamic Republic has basically
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: taken a hammer blow to that regime.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: And that's why I'm so confident it's going to fall.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: And Nikki, you anticipate there'll be some general, general or generals, plural, that
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: will stand up and say, this doesn't work.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: We're losing.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Let's give it up.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: You got it.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: That's what I think is going to happen.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: from the mainline military, not the IRGC, are going to stand up and say, "That's it.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: We surrender and we're ready to hand over the country to a transitional government."
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: There is a debate among a lot of people who oppose this war about whether or not Iran
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: posed a quote-unquote "imminent threat."
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: When you hear that, what's your reaction?
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: They're out to lunch, Larry.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: These are Democrats who lie for a living and leftists who lie for a living.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you're very familiar with that.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I've said a lot of lies about you over the years, right?
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Including calling you quote unquote,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the black face of white supremacy,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: which is the most ridiculous thing
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I've ever heard in my life.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: These people lie for a living.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: You can't trust a word that comes out of their mouth.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: How do you know they're lying, Larry?
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: 'Cause their bloody lips are moving.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: That's my reaction to these people.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: They don't know what they're talking about.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: This evil regime killed 100,000 of my compatriots.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: 500,000 of them have been badly wounded.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: They've killed children as young as two and three years old.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: They bragged to Steve Whitkoff that they had enough enriched uranium to create 11 dirty
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: bombs.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Believe them when they tell you crap like this.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Do not believe idiot leftists who lie for a living and whose entire rationale for being
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: is to attack America, is to attack Donald Trump, because they haven't got a brain, because
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Because they're insecure leftist idiots who honestly should be ignored and assigned to
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the aspen of history, as the great Ronald Reagan said about the Soviet Union back in
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the 80s.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about the Iran deal that the Obama administration negotiated.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: The guy that did that, the architect, was Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security advisor.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: After this deal was done, Nikki, as you probably know, he gave an interview to the New York
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Times, don't ask me why, where he all but bragged that, "I sold this deal on a narrative
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: that was a fake narrative, "ha ha ha," he said, that there were hardliner ayatollahs
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: and moderate ayatollahs, and if we want to give the upper hand to the moderates, we need
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: to do this deal, "ha ha ha."
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: There's no difference between any of these ayatollahs, he said.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: But that was a narrative that I used to sell the deal.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: I was shocked that he said it.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: I was shocked that he admitted it.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Republicans were angry.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: They wanted him to come to Congress and testify.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: The Obama administration, not too surprisingly, did not make him available.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: But I see him still popping up on CNN, giving his opinion about what's going on right now
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: with Iran.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: He's the one that did this deal that put them on a glide path to a nuke that had nothing
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: to do with their missile program, had nothing to do with their exportation of terror elsewhere.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: And yet here he is popping up as an expert on CNN.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: It drives me insane.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Look, man, he's dumber than a dog post.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you that right now.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Ben Rhodes is directly responsible for Iran having fissile nuclear material.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: He's also responsible for the October 7 attacks that killed so many innocent people in the
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: state of Israel.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: And if you want to go a little further than that, he's responsible for the current conflagration,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: the rescue mission happening in Iran, because if he hadn't done that, Iran would naturally
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: be weakening on its own.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Hundreds of thousands of lives would not have been lost if not for the idiot Ben Rhodes.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Ben Rhodes is a moron.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Ben Rhodes is an idiot.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Ben Rhodes is a lightweight.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: He shouldn't be taken seriously by anybody.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: But that's something you can say about anybody who worked in the Obama administration.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Barack Hussein Obama and the people that worked for him were not exactly intellectual giants.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: There were midgets.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: They were lightweights.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: And it's a good thing that they're out of power right now.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: And it's my belief, Larry, that we're entering a period of 20 years of Republican dominance,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: just like the Roosevelt years starting in 1932 were 20 years of Democrat dominance.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: We're going to have Donald Trump followed by two terms of JD Benz, followed by two terms
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: of Marco Rubio.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: And there's going to be a major case of Pax Americana around the United States and the
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: globe.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Talk to us about the role of Russia and China and what's going on right now in Iran.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: So China is worried to death because China imports 70 percent of its energy needs.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: And Iran was the biggest supplier of those energy needs.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Right now, they're not getting any oil from Iran.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: So this was a major power play move by the United States.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: They're not really able to do much for Iran.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: And the weapons that they provided to the Islamic Republic, the air defense systems
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: were no match for U.S. military might.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: You saw how American and Israeli fighter jets were able to own the skies at will.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: So we've shown that China's military prowess is not anywhere near what people think it
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: is.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: That's one thing.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of noise, but their hands are full with Ukraine.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: There's not a lot they can do.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: They were relying on Iran for supplying them with drones, but those drones aren't available
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: to them anymore.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: So this is actually going to make Russia's life harder, and it's going to make it easier
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: for the president to impose a settlement in the Ukraine conflict.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: So this is all fantastic news.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump has pulled off a chess masterstroke, my friend.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I'm very impressed, actually.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Great.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: In June, Trump takes out three nuclear sites, and he says, "We set back their program indefinitely."
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Did they immediately restart the plan, or did Donald Trump underestimate how much damage
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: was really done?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: No, he didn't underestimate the amount of damage done at the particular facilities he
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: hit.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: But Iran immediately, under the Islamic Republic, decided that they were not going to stop this
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: nuclear program, and they started recreating it elsewhere.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: had contingency plans for this is what some of my contacts have told me.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: So Trump had intelligence that they were way further ahead than we thought when it came
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: to uranium enrichment.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: And that was the main reason that he decided now was the time to end the war that the Islamic
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Republic had declared on the United States back in 1979.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: It's a 47 year old war.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Only until Trump, no American president acknowledged it.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: - Nicky, did they not understand what commander in chief
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: they were dealing with?
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Did they not understand this was not Obama,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: this was not Biden?
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Did they not understand that?
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: - They really didn't, brother.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: They believe that Americans are soft and they're weak.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: And I can tell you this as someone who lived there,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: they don't get that Donald Trump is made of different,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: sterner stuff.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: But I think the whole world right now gets
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: that he's made of different and sterner stuff.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: - Did you happen to watch that exchange with Adam Schiff
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: and Bill Maher when Bill Maher read him a quote
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: that Schiff thought came from Trump,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: in fact, came from Obama, because Schiff supported the attack against Iran, against Libya, even
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: though Obama didn't get congressional approval.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: And now Trump has not gotten congressional approval, but Schiff is calling this one illegal.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: So he was busted.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Pure hypocrisy.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: What was your reaction when you saw that exchange?
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: It was entertaining.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I broke out the popcorn, brother, because Adam Schiff is a lightweight.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: You know, Trump calls him pencil neck.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I think it's being charitable.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Adam Schiff is such a moron.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: And he got caught out and he had nothing to say.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: He was like, "Oh, oh, oh, oh."
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: He was so flustered when Bill Maher
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: had that gotcha moment with him.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: And you know, Bill Maher is kind of not
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: a completely brain dead liberal these days.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: So I appreciated him doing that.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: It was really important.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: The Iranian people appreciate
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: what the United States has done.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Listen, I live in Toronto, as you know.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I've been to rallies.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I was there when Khamenei got killed and they announced it.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: 250,000 people around me started dancing spontaneously.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I was in front of the US embassy on the weekend,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: and I'm telling you, people were saying,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: "Thank you, Trump.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Thank you, BB.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Thank you, USA."
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: And they read the names of the American servicemen that died,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: and there was a moment of silence for each of them,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: because we believe these are our allies,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: and we consider the United States
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the ally of the Iranian nation.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: - Nicky, if people wanna contact you,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: get in touch with you, how do they do it?
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: - Well, I'm the only Nicky Ballou on planet Earth.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: So if you go on social media,
• 30:09
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• 30:13
  Speaker 1: and I'll be happy to connect with you.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: If you're a business owner,
• 30:16
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• 30:18
  Speaker 1: and there's contact information there as well.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: - Nikki Bellou, B-I-L-L-O-U, the only one on planet Earth.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Nikki, thank you for taking the time, God bless.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: - God bless you, brother, thanks for having me on.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: - My pleasure.
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