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F-15 Downed; Generals Fired; Straights?; Macron; Jobs; Fraud Czar; Trump | Yaron Brook Show · Yaron Brook Show

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  Speaker 1: A lot of them undamental principals, i'd actual little self
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  Speaker 1: interest and an individual wis.
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  Speaker 2: This is the show?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Everybody, welcome to your one book show on
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  Speaker 1: this Friday, April third. I hope everybody's having a fantastic
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  Speaker 1: week and a good Friday. Actually, it's a good Friday today,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it something like that. I don't know what happens
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  Speaker 1: in good Friday. Is this way he gets crucified or
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  Speaker 1: when he rises from the cross, Like, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 1: I you don't hope it's when he rises, because otherwise
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  Speaker 1: it wouldn't be good Friday. You think being crucified not
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  Speaker 1: a good thing anyway, Hopefully if you had, if you
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  Speaker 1: had some time off for you taking advantage of it.
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  Speaker 1: I know the markets are closed, so can't fill you
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  Speaker 1: in on where the markets are heading or the price
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  Speaker 1: of a price of oilers, because all of that is closed,
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  Speaker 1: at least in the US. All right, let us let
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  Speaker 1: us start with the news out of Iran, which is
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  Speaker 1: that Yon has, for the first time in this war
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  Speaker 1: a shut down an American plane. It has been I
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  Speaker 1: think confirmed that the Iranians shut down in their fifteen
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  Speaker 1: e over the south of the country and earlier, earlier
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  Speaker 1: today or earlier this morning, you won time after finding
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  Speaker 1: thirteen thousand sorties and epic fury so far. Therefore, by
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  Speaker 1: the US Air Force and Navy, and if you include
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  Speaker 1: the Israeli Air Force, that would be twenty thousand, so
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  Speaker 1: teas twenty thousand flights of combat operations, we have one
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  Speaker 1: one plane hit that I think, by any standards, makes
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  Speaker 1: us the most successful air campaign in human history. Never
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  Speaker 1: has anything even close to this happened before. If you
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  Speaker 1: look at the First Golf War, I think we talked
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  Speaker 1: about this on the previous show, but the First Golf
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  Speaker 1: War in nineteen eighty one, the United States lost fifty
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  Speaker 1: two fixed wing aircraft, well more than the United States allies.
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  Speaker 1: The United States plus its allies lost fifty two fixed
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  Speaker 1: wing aircraft, thirty nine of them in combat. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure where the other you know, thirteen were, but thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine in combat. And that was supposed to be the
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  Speaker 1: most successful air campaign in history. So we've just the
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  Speaker 1: United States, is just and Israel have way outdone that,
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  Speaker 1: medically outdone there. So first put it into perspective, right,
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  Speaker 1: you'll hear a lot of a lot of things about oh,
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  Speaker 1: This is horrible. This is a sign you on is winning.
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  Speaker 1: The Rania will make a big deal out of it,
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  Speaker 1: but the reality is that there is They've shut down
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  Speaker 1: one plane, one plane, which is unbelievable and unusual, given
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  Speaker 1: given award of this and given the the investment the
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  Speaker 1: Ranians are made over many, many decades in their air
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  Speaker 1: defense systems. Now both pilots ejected supposedly from the flight,
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  Speaker 1: but only one of them at least there's been confirmed
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  Speaker 1: to have been found, actually not confirmed, but solid rumors
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  Speaker 1: if you will, that one of their men have been found.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately once the plane was shut down, search and rescue
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  Speaker 1: operations started, which manned helicopters, uh, you know, scanning the ground.
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  Speaker 1: There's a there's a pretty amazing photograph actually out there
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  Speaker 1: circulating of a retanking one of these big tanking airplanes
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  Speaker 1: refueling two helicopters while the search and rescue is going on,
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  Speaker 1: really really low to the ground. So the United States
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  Speaker 1: is unbelievably confident in their ability to fly very low
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  Speaker 1: to the ground targets that are big and easy to
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  Speaker 1: shoot at, like a big refueling plane and helicopters and
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  Speaker 1: a tens all of which were participating in still law
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  Speaker 1: as far as I know, participating in search and rescue
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  Speaker 1: for the for the two pilots. Uh. So you know
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  Speaker 1: they're sending black hawks the hookulers is what they're refueling
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  Speaker 1: was about. They're going deep into Iran. They know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what they're looking for. They got the one pilot out,
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  Speaker 1: I suppose he's getting medical care and Uranian TV they
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  Speaker 1: came on and they asked local tribes to go capture
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  Speaker 1: the missing pilots. They offered them a big monetary prize.
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  Speaker 1: And the Urnians out there searching for the pilots. I
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  Speaker 1: would argue that those are legit targets and and and
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  Speaker 1: and should have been taken out by the A ten.
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  Speaker 1: But more importantly is let's hope that they found that
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  Speaker 1: they have found the second pilots. While all this is
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  Speaker 1: going on, it does appear that one of the helicopters
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  Speaker 1: was hit during these operations. During getting the pilot out
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  Speaker 1: and get and finding a second pilot. It was hit
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  Speaker 1: but not destroyed. It managed to fly back and land
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  Speaker 1: in Iraq. And as far as I can tell again
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  Speaker 1: from from the reports that we're getting all the all
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  Speaker 1: the men are safe. As a consequences. Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Iran is really hailing this as as a big victory,
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  Speaker 1: and but the fact that helicopters and't rescue crafts, the
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  Speaker 1: flying so low suggests that it's even worse for them
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  Speaker 1: than they thought. For the Iranians that in terms of
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  Speaker 1: air defenses, and if they can get both pilots out
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  Speaker 1: there would be a huge win for the Americans and
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  Speaker 1: of course really really important to get for the lives
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  Speaker 1: of those soldiers. You don't want to be prisoner in Iran,
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully hopefully they weren't killed. I guess the pilot
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  Speaker 1: has been rescued. The navigator the is behind the pilot
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  Speaker 1: has not yet again, at least last time I looked.
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  Speaker 1: That could be changing any moment now or any minute now.
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  Speaker 1: All in terms of the rest of the war, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: bombing continues all over Iran. Again, it's not being reported
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  Speaker 1: as much. People have kind of as Robert told us
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  Speaker 1: a few days ago, there's war fatigue, so there's just
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  Speaker 1: a lot less reporting about targets and who's being targeted.
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  Speaker 1: Quite a few IRGC commanders were killed, for example, last night.
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  Speaker 1: There's a whole list of them out there. None of
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  Speaker 1: the very senior ones, but a bunch, i'd say, of
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  Speaker 1: mid rank IRGC, the important ones, the ones that are
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  Speaker 1: actually commanding troops in the field, were taking out last
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  Speaker 1: night in a in a significance in continued attacks over
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  Speaker 1: over that. So there's there's a real sense that the
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  Speaker 1: main big targets I mean hit uh and to some extent,
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  Speaker 1: at least at least military targets, right, there's still a
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  Speaker 1: lot of civilian targets and which at least the United
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  Speaker 1: States has hessitant to attack and is not letting Israel attack. Yet.
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  Speaker 1: It's also come out now clearly that whatever negotiations were
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  Speaker 1: going on laid by the Pakistanis, they were supposed to
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  Speaker 1: all meet in Islamabad. Those that failed. The Pakistanis have
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  Speaker 1: basically said there is no deal. The Uranians have basically
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  Speaker 1: rejected all of Trump's demands, and so basically, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's there is no there's no negotiated settlements anytime
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  Speaker 1: soon coming out of you on It was all a
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  Speaker 1: fantasy to begin with. It was all kind of Trump
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  Speaker 1: talking to somebody inside his head, but not really anybody
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  Speaker 1: of significance, significance.
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  Speaker 3: In uh.
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  Speaker 1: In Yuan. To really talk to Robin says, I'm waiting
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  Speaker 1: for you on mentioning Robert has war fatigue. Fatigue. There
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  Speaker 1: is a fatigue in the war fatigue. The war fatigue
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  Speaker 1: is fatiguing. So yes, that that is all a real phenomena, Robert.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you're not taking this series personally. I am
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  Speaker 1: just kidding. Of course, I appreciate I appreciate Robert immensely,
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  Speaker 1: and I do think there's war fatigue. It kind of
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  Speaker 1: got you know, when I prepare for these shows, I'm like, God,
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  Speaker 1: what am I gonna say today about the war? And
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a war. There's always stuff to say,
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  Speaker 1: there's always actions going on that are of interest. But yes,
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  Speaker 1: even I suffer from war fatigue, all of us do,
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  Speaker 1: I think. And it's good because God, you don't want
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  Speaker 1: war to be interesting anyway. Negotiations breaking down. Trump has
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  Speaker 1: of course promised the Stone Age, to bring the Stone
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  Speaker 1: Age to the Iranians that I don't know that it
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  Speaker 1: is happening, you know that. So yeah, we will see
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  Speaker 1: how Trump responds to the fact that now Pakistan is
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  Speaker 1: basically saying it's over the ceasefire. The negotiations for ceasefire
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  Speaker 1: have hit a dead end. They're not going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: What is Trump Trump takes out as a green light
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  Speaker 1: to go all in on his threats or doesn't he now,
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  Speaker 1: So targeting continues, bombing continues. I mean, there's no question
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  Speaker 1: that one of the things that has been surprising is
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  Speaker 1: the inability of the Americans in Israel leis to stop, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the Iranian missile attacks and and most of that has
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  Speaker 1: to do with the fact that these missiles and the
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  Speaker 1: missile launches a deep, deep, deep into these tunnels that
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  Speaker 1: have been dug into mountains, and it's just it just
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  Speaker 1: really isn't possible to penetrate. And I guess what's surprising
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  Speaker 1: is that there wasn't a real plan on what to
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  Speaker 1: do about that. You know, I don't know, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a military expert, but you think that there would be
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  Speaker 1: some plan uh to uh to deal with that. Do
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  Speaker 1: you remember that movie? It was a based on a
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  Speaker 1: book by Alistair McClain. Is it The Guns of Never Owned?
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  Speaker 1: Has anybody seen the Guns of NEvAr Owned? Or or
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  Speaker 1: even better read the book? The book was excellent. So
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  Speaker 1: Guns of Neverroone this is about a World War two.
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  Speaker 1: It's about these guns that sit on a cliff, had
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  Speaker 1: I think on a Greek islands somewhere that the Nazis
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  Speaker 1: are using to stop to attack chips. Based on a
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  Speaker 1: true story. But the book is excellent by Alistair McLain,
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  Speaker 1: whose books I read. I read every single one of
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  Speaker 1: his books, everything that he ever wrote when I was
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  Speaker 1: a kid. They were excellent. Anyway, the guns are never
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  Speaker 1: on a route. About these guns that are in the
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  Speaker 1: side of a cliff. They're in They're in a cave
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  Speaker 1: that cannot be penetrated by bombers. That is, they they've
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  Speaker 1: tried to vomit. They've tried to vomit over and over
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  Speaker 1: and over again. They can't vomit. They can't destroy the guns, right,
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  Speaker 1: and so they land up putting together special forces team.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's with Gregory Peck, is that right? Gregory
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  Speaker 1: Peck is in the movie. And they they basically paratroote them,
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  Speaker 1: I think, or they landed my boat on this island
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  Speaker 1: where the guns are, and they have to infiltrate and
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  Speaker 1: they put they basically put you know, explosives on the
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  Speaker 1: bombs and they get out and they blow the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing up. And it's considered kind of you know, in advance,
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  Speaker 1: like almost like a suicide mission and but they get
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  Speaker 1: rid of the guns and it's a it's a good movie,
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  Speaker 1: so check it out.
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  Speaker 2: Check out.
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  Speaker 1: I mean again, the book is even better. But I know,
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  Speaker 1: you guys, I know people don't read anymore. And Aliston
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  Speaker 1: McClean is like, well, you're gonna find Alistair McClean book.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, those books are It's interesting how most authors disappear.
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  Speaker 1: They have their big peak, everybody reads them and then
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  Speaker 1: they're gone, right, they're gone. And uh, you know he
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  Speaker 1: was one of my He was my favorite, together with
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  Speaker 1: Enid Blyton. If you if you're British, you know Enid Blyton,
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  Speaker 1: Enid Blyton, those are my two favorite authors when I
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  Speaker 1: was a teenage I guess anyway, it was those are
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  Speaker 1: good books. Gregory Pack, David Niven, Anthony Quinn. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. What a cast. That's a fun movie. So
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  Speaker 1: check out the movie at least when you have a chance. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: you think that if some idea special forces something, some
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  Speaker 1: new penetrating drone, I don't know, you know, somebody said
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  Speaker 1: I said, fly drone in there. Somebody says they have doors. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 1: well bomb the doors and then fly in. I mean
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  Speaker 1: there has to be a way, you know, send a
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  Speaker 1: cruise missile to blow up the doors and then fly
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  Speaker 1: the drone in once the doors are gone. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know it just come up with a way to do it.
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  Speaker 1: You'd think there'd be a solution. But again so according
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  Speaker 1: to American intelligence. And this I guess was published today
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  Speaker 1: in CNN. So take you for what it's worth. Half
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  Speaker 1: of you on missiles launchers are intact. They buried deep
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  Speaker 1: in mountain tunnels, and together with a large number of
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  Speaker 1: missiles themselves, are still buried deep under those tunnels. Now
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  Speaker 1: many of them, as much as fifty percent of the
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  Speaker 1: fifty percent are not accessible. They can't get to them
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  Speaker 1: because all the bombing has collapsed the entrances. But it
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  Speaker 1: does mean they could excavate and get to them later on,
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  Speaker 1: unless Israel and all the United States keep bombing and
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  Speaker 1: prevent them ever excavating those drones. But you know they
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  Speaker 1: could be deployed. And you know, Juan has these vast
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  Speaker 1: networks of underground tunnels and caves. And again these tunnels
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  Speaker 1: and caves are in mountain, so you've got a whole
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  Speaker 1: mountain on top that you would have to penetrate to
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  Speaker 1: get to these unless you find a way in some
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  Speaker 1: other route. But this has been a major issue. This
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  Speaker 1: is why the Udians can still lob missiles. They keep
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  Speaker 1: blocking the entrances and they get they excavate some of them,
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  Speaker 1: or they there are other entrances. They have lots of
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  Speaker 1: lots of exits from these tunnels where they can exit, launch,
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  Speaker 1: bring it back in into the tunnel to protect it.
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  Speaker 1: So all of that, you know, constantly, constantly, constantly going on.
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  Speaker 1: But you know this is this is going to be
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  Speaker 1: It's very hard to completely neutralize these and because of
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  Speaker 1: how the Ranians are built it. Remember they've had forty
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  Speaker 1: years to figure this out. They've spent hundreds of billions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars. I'm not exaggerating on this. Much of the
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  Speaker 1: oil revenue that they've achieved has not gone into improving
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  Speaker 1: the quality of life stand of living of the Iranian population.
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  Speaker 1: It has gone into building up these inventories of ballistic
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  Speaker 1: missiles and and tunnels in the mountains. The good news
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  Speaker 1: is the ballistic missiles are doing relatively speaking, little harm.
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  Speaker 1: They also have a lot of drones supposedly left also
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  Speaker 1: inside these mountain depots. The drones are more dangerous than
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  Speaker 1: the ballistic missiles in many respects. But I think even there,
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  Speaker 1: the different countries around the Gulf are getting better at
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  Speaker 1: defending against those drones, of figuring out how to do
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  Speaker 1: it cheaply, getting weapons systems that can help them do
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  Speaker 1: it cheaply, whether they're getting in them for Ukraine or
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  Speaker 1: European countries, or the Americans are providing anti drone technology
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  Speaker 1: to these countries. So even though the Uranians have this
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of these weapons, they're not particularly efficacious at
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  Speaker 1: this point during the war. Right, Let's see, in the
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  Speaker 1: meantime in Iran itself, let me read you a message
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  Speaker 1: from somebody in Iran, one of the people who participated
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  Speaker 1: in the demonstrations. You know, again, I can't vouch for this.
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  Speaker 1: This could be all made up, this could be AI,
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  Speaker 1: but it seems like credible source for this, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is from an Iranian inside Iran. He says,
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  Speaker 1: today I was roaming around the city for about nine hours.
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  Speaker 1: The number of checkpoints has decreased significantly, and the people
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  Speaker 1: inside the checkpoints have all changed too. Their parents are
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  Speaker 1: shifted from that of military card rays to a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of ragtag terrorists and mismatch closed with kafirs wrapped faces
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  Speaker 1: and kalachnikovs in hand. Almost no professional forces were visible,
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  Speaker 1: and most were either elderly and overweight folks or underage
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  Speaker 1: kids and fledging besieges. Besieged is the crowded suppression troops
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  Speaker 1: of the IOGC. The state of the equipment and logistics
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  Speaker 1: is disastrous. From twenty twenty six, Hillocks's down to rusty
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  Speaker 1: War era land cruisers from the eighties and nineties that
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  Speaker 1: will mostly decayed and retired. In short, the stomach who
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  Speaker 1: Republic scraped the bottom of the bell. Its lifespan is
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  Speaker 1: shrunk to twenty four hours, and it has no clue
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  Speaker 1: about what the next forty eight will bring, so you
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: know how to tell. But this is good news if
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  Speaker 1: you want regime change, if you believe in regime change,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of those roadblocks
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  Speaker 1: were being manned not by Iranians but by and the
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: fact that they way in kafirs might suggest this, But
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: by Sheites from Iraq. We've seen pictures and videos of
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of these entering into Iran from Iraq, coming into
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  Speaker 1: bolst of the regime. They are much more likely to
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  Speaker 1: shoot Iranians than our local even IRGC and besiege forces
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  Speaker 1: who have taken a lot of hits and who are
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  Speaker 1: massively demodelized, these fresh forces outside potentially and and the
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  Speaker 1: fact that they're rag tagged, they're out wiving uniforms, that
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  Speaker 1: they're were in kafirs, which is not typical of the Iranians,
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  Speaker 1: would suggest that these are maybe Iranian militias that had
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  Speaker 1: been brought in to kind of suppress, suppress and oppress
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  Speaker 1: the local population. So, you know, I think this is uh,
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  Speaker 1: this is a good news in the sense of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the the ability of the Iranians once this has quite
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  Speaker 1: down or the bombing has stopped on a regular basis,
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  Speaker 1: to uh take advantage of that and and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, try to take over the regime. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: we will see, uh, well long, I think we're still
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  Speaker 1: a long way from that. I think Israel in the
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  Speaker 1: US still have some bombing to do. I'm hoping that
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  Speaker 1: Israel will return to what it was doing earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the war, which is taking out those forces that were
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  Speaker 1: directly responsible for repressing the demonstrators, So taking out besieges,
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  Speaker 1: taking out checkpoints, you know, just harassing them and demodelizing
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  Speaker 1: them and killing them. I also wish that the United
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  Speaker 1: States would deploy one of those A tens when you
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  Speaker 1: see these Shiites crossing the border and they pickup trucks
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  Speaker 1: with weapons and crossing into Iran. I mean, an A
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  Speaker 1: ten would basically destroy those people, would kill all of
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  Speaker 1: them and destroy all their ammunition, you know, in minutes.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a shame that the United States is not
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  Speaker 1: pursuing that path. That's what should be done, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the reinforcements should be should be killed. So I've not
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  Speaker 1: given up on an idea of regime change. I think
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  Speaker 1: it is still possible. Uh and you know, we'll wait
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  Speaker 1: and see how it all plays out. But but I
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  Speaker 1: think the it's hard to it's hard to project how
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  Speaker 1: you know, how depressed and how unmotivated IOLGC must be.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they've lost so many of the commanders, so
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  Speaker 1: many of these fellow soldiers, and they've lost them while
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  Speaker 1: being completely ineffective. Other than being able to lob missiles,
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  Speaker 1: they they can't engage people are raining missiles, you know,
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  Speaker 1: raining bombs in the sky. They can see the airplanes
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  Speaker 1: that are killing them, can't do anything about it. It
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  Speaker 1: must be super frustrating. You know, once in a while
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: they'll they'll knock down a drone from the sky, but
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: that's about it, and they take all pride in it.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Although half the time that they put up on the
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: on the web, on you know, video of them, Oh,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: shut down a drone. Look at the drone. It turns
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: out to be an Iranian drone, not an American or
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Israeli drone. So we're talking about somebody, you know, we're
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: talking about a military military group that is has been infiscerated,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: that has suffered huge amounts of casualties and completely demoralized,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: leader less in many respects, or new leaders and substitute
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: leaders really at all levels. The leadership has been crushed.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: A supreme leader that doesn't even show up, a political
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: leadership that is in total conflict and unclear who is
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: running things. Yeah, I mean, this is a real opportunity
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: for something, for something to give, and let's hope that
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: that actually happens. I want to talk a little bit
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: about the Straits of Homoes, the States of Homos where
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: shipping this is really the strategic key now to the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: war the United States and is it's basically won the war.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Now it's a question of what happens. Uron's perspective really
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: is now, if you think about it, we don't need
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: an atom bomb. All we need is to block the
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: States of Homos and the world economy shutters and the
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: US flips out and everybody panics, and we've got this
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: right now. It's true that over time the Gulf States
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: will figure out ways to get stuff out without the
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: States of Homos. It's not a good solution though. You
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: can get oil and natual gas out, but they still
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: fertilize on helium and it's way, way, way too complicated
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: to find alternatives to all of that. Shipping has to
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: open up in the States of Homos one way or another.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Of course, Iran now is discovered. This is their leverage
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: and what they've discovered it is. The United States seems
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: to be, now we don't know if this is real
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: or not, seems to be at least so far, unwilling
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: to devote the kind of resources necessary to open up
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: the Straits of Homos completely. Now there's signs that maybe
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: things are shifting. That is that the US is willing
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: to commit. So, for example, the United States has doubled
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: its commitment to providing reinsurance guarantees the ships, because, as
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: we've noted in the past, part of what's blocking the
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Straits of Homos, why ships are not traversing, is the
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: fact that nobody will insure them. Insurance rates have gone
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: through the roof, so they're not buying insurance, they don't
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: have war insurance, and if they're not willing to take
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the risk because it's not covered.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Right, but.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: The the UH but the United States is now saying
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: they will re insuring. Now we'll see whether this works
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: or not. Supposedly they've teamed up, the US government's teamed
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: up with AIG and books are Hathaway to provide cheaper
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: insurance that'll encourage ships to maybe try to exit the
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Homo Straits. And indeed the numbers seem to suggest maybe
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: that's working. It's hard to tell. So before the war
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: in febru twenty sixth and twenty seventh, about one hundred
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: and thirty ships were exiting were passing through either in out,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: but one hundred and thirty ships were passing in and
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: out of the Homo Straits right February twenty eight I
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: think that was the first day of the war. Ninety
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: eight went through. Then it dropped to eighteen, and then
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: it went basically to one to zero, one to zero.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: That was it, I mean, And it continued like that
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: until later in March. It picked up a little bit
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: starting in March twenty third, four five, six ships, you know,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: and then on March twenty eight we got to eleven
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: nine eight, eleven nine ten. So if you'll get averages
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: between March twenty second and between March second and twenty sevenths,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: two point one ships a day came through the Homost
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: straits two point one, that's it. Two in the last
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: six days, the last six days, including today, nine point
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: seven ships a day, nine point six. So you know,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: it's gone up by four fivefold, almost fivefold. That's pretty good.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: It's still a fraction ten less than ten percent of
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: what it was before. So a lot of work is
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: still needed. And you know, we'll see, we'll see if
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: he's willing to We'll see if Trump is willing to
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: do us as necessary what is necessary to you know,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: actually open the streets. Let me just see something here,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: give me one minute, okay, yep, Trump did tweet earlier.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: With a little bit of more time, we can easily
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: open the homost streets. Okay, I'll give you a little
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: bit more time. Let's see what happens. Take the oil
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: and make a fortune. It would be a gusher for
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the world. So you know you wrote that at eight
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: twenty two am this morning. We'll see what a little
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: bit more time means. But I agree, I think the
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: states can't be opened, and it could be a gusher
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: and the United States could take over the oil if
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: they really wanted to. The question is do they have
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the will and will they deploy ground troops, will they
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: do what is necessary to do it, how to tell
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: how to see it happening. But the fact that there
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: are a few ships coming out nine a day, ten
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: a day is better than zero. Also, note that you
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: know Saudi Arabia is now at full capacity on that
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: pipeline going west to do At Sea, so it is
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: now much of the oil that from Saudi that would
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: have come out of the Straits of Homos is now
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: going to the rit Sea and is coming out. So
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: that is you know, reducing the I guess the panic
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: out there. And the UEE is still funneling oil to
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Oman bypassing the States of Homos. Again, those are measures
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: to reduce the impact. But they don't. They don't solve
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the problem. They they just reduce how bad it really is.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: So waiting to see what Trump's solution is to the
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: opening of the Straits of Homos. A lot of talk
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: about this first European ship today to passive Straits of Homos.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: It was a French ship. It seems like maccorn might
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: have kind of deal with Iranians. This particular ship might
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: be owned by somebody who's also friendly. So it's it's
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: a complicated story, but it's it's a ship that is
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: owned by friend, by a Frenchman, transversed the Straits and
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Formos without incident, and nobody knows if this is a
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: deal that mccorne is signed behind Trump's back with the
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Iranians or not. We'll get to McConney in a little bit.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: He's he's becoming very very vocal about his dislike of Trump,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: but more than that, you know, vocal about his dislike
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: of this war in particularly stupid ways. Anyway, we'll review
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: his we'll review his the video of mccorn discussing that.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: All right, somebody says Trump more on in chief, Yeah,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: but but he hasn't even bigger mora as as Defense secretary. Anyway,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: in the middle of a war, when there are significant
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: considerations to putting boots in the ground, that is, getting
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: the Army involved beyond the air Force and and UH
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: and the UH in the Navy, UH Secretary of Defense
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Pete Hegsath decided to fire UH the you know, basically
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: the chief of staff, the head UH, the head honcho
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: of the U. S Army, the most senior officer in
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: the US Army. This is unprecedent to do so in
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: the middle of the war. So General Randy George, a
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: highly decorated combat veteran, UH you know, chief the chief
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: of the you know, chief of the of the army,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: four star general UH, was fired. No explanation was given
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: to his firing. No explanation was given. And indeed, uh
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: hegseeth is I guess one of his military attaches or
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: advisors is going to take his place at the head
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: of the army, but nowhere near as decorated and successful
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: and as as this guy, Randy George. Now this in
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: addition two other well one other four star General, David
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: haunt Hodnet from the Army was also was also fired
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: as well. As Major General William Green, who is the
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: top Army chaplain, was fired as well. Now, of course
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: this this is again in the middle of a war,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: but this comes after the firing of dozens of other
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: senior commanders within the Army, Air Force, and Navy that
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Hegseth has been responsible for. Initially claiming that this was
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: done because of all the DEI hires, But look, he
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: pushed out and removed the Chairman of the Joint Steve Chiefs,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: c Q Brown when he came into office, when Higseth
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: came into office, because and I don't think accidentally, and
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: this is a pattern. The TQ bound was black. Here's
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: a fighter raft of female military leaders, replace them all
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: with men, and as systematically replaced people throughout the military.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Both Trump and Ecseeth have tried clearly to politicize the
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: US military, to turn it into an extension of them
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: under complete their control. Who knows for what you can
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: speculate more than that. Hegseth has involved himself constantly with
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: various promotions in the various parts of the military. Promotions
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: are all at different ranks. You know, with the idea
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: that you know the I guess they're not worthy of
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: the promotions that the rank and file or the senior
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: officers consider appropriate. In the case of the army, is
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: recently called four colonels, not accidentally. I think two of
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: them were black and two of them were women. He
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: stopped them from being advanced to brigadier general. It might
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: be that it is this, you know, the fact that
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: he keeps interfering in promotions within the army that led
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: to this confrontation with the Chief of Staff of the
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Army and led to his firing. Ultimately, it's hard to tell.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Could be that the army was telling him, giving him
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: a you know, suggesting that whatever operation Hecxseth was coming
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: up with in terms of Iran and putting boots on
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: the ground was not a good plan or or shouldn't
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: be done. It could be that he didn't like bad news,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: didn't like disagreements. Whatever it is, you know, Hecseth is
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: in the middle of a war again, firing the head guy.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Hecseth constantly pothestizes, you know, his evangelical beliefs he has
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: if you remember, tattoos representing the the Crusades and and
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: his his you know, deep religious views. He's also, for
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: some reason in real conflict with the Secretary of the Army. Now,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: typically the chief of Staff of the Army wouldn't be
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: fired by the Defense Secretary, but would be fired by
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: would be fired by the Secretary of the Army. Driscoll.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Dirisco supposedly is is quite close to gd Vans. But
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Hickseth and Driscoll butt heads. They do not get along.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Not exactly why, but they don't. And it does seem
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: like a Trump is about the fire Driscoll as a
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: secretivity Army. Maybe because of Hickseth, maybe because of other stuff,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: not clear, but as you can tell, I think or
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of talk about Trump reshuffling his cabinet,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: and and you know, he got rid of Bondy, he
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: got rid of of Gnome, and this talk of him
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: getting rid of kash Patel and getting rid of Driscoll,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: and and who knows who else he might be getting
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: rid of. But yes, not only is the Chinese military
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: going through a massive purge of senior, very very senior officers,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: the US military is going through such a purge. And
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: and it's quite possible that both of them are occurring
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: not because of corruption, but because of issues of loyalty.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Issues of loyalty. Now, you know, he Seth and I
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: don't know how much weight to put on this, but
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: the fact is that Hegseth. He is not happy with
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: how he was treated he was, of course in the army.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Not happy was how he was treated when he was
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: when he left the army. You know, I don't know
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: if they attribute how much of this to attribute to him,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: but yeah, there's a the Pentagon. The people in the military,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: I don't think particularly happy with this Secretary of Defense. Remember,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: what are hex seth qualifications? He was a really good
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: talk show host. I guess that's what I'm told on
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Fox Fox. Yes, he wasn't in the military, Okay, so
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: was I Does that make me qualified to be Secretary
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: of Defense? Probably more so than Hexath, I can actually think.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: But you know, here he is firing experienced generals, people
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: who've you know, Now, maybe they're real reasons, maybe they're
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: justified reasons.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Why is he firing the chaplain, head of the chaplain
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: of the army. What's that about? Some dispute about into
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: biblical interpretation. You know, that would be interesting. Anyway, he
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: has a talk show host firing some of the most
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: experienced people in the American military. What's for what seems
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: like on a whim. Overall, he has fired twenty six
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: generals and admirals in fourteen weeks. That's pretty amazing. Twenty
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: six generals and admirals in fourteen months, fourteen months, I
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: say weeks, fourteen months, and noe that not one of
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: those fired for mist conduct, not a single one of
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: them from misconduct. He fired the Joint Chiefs Chairman, he
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: fired the Army Chief of Staff. He's fired the command
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: of the Army Transportation and Training, a chief of chaplains,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: and twenty two other senior officers for the most powerful
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: military in the world that is engaged right now in
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: a war. Missing twenty six experienced senior people. Anyway, this
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: is not an administration that I'm excited about, you know,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: them going to war, right. I'm all for this war.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: I've been advocating for this war for over twenty years.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Why did this administration have to be the one to
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: execute it? Anyway, I don't know that we'll ever know
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: why they will fired. I think it's about these promotions,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: and I think there's something to do with a certain
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: level of you know, racism and sexism on the part
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: of Hexath. All right, let's see you got that. Yeah,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: I mean most of the stories are claiming that the
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: reason this has happened is because of promotions, his unwillingness
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: to promote blacks and women to senior ranks. All right,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: let's see. Uh we did General's fire. Okay, let's uh.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Let's watch a video of of the president of France Macron.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: He's speaking in English, so don't worry. I wouldn't I
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: wouldn't show you him speaking in French. He's speaking in
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: English talking about the Iran Wall. And I think I
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: think he makes I think what he says is is
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: really worth commenting on. Uh, it's it's it's a common
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: what he's what he's arguing a common views that are
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: often cited. They are really really bad. He's he's a
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: president of a country. He's considered a smart guy.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: Uh and uh, all right, all right, you can all
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: see that.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Let me put it here so I can monitor it,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: and as you know, I'll stop him every few seconds
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: when I disagree with what he is actually saying. Here's
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: mccron speaking about Levon Will.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: So there you say, I don't like your regime. I
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: don't like your organization. I consider you are threatening your neighbor,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: so I will intervene and bomb you. You open a
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Pandora box.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: You open a Pandora books. So if you say the
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: regime I don't like you, you're threatening your neighbors. I
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: don't like what you're doing, so I'm gonna bomb you. No, no, no,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: no objective assessment. Is the Rainy regime really really bad?
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Is the Rainy regime really really threatening its neighbors? In
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: what way? Is it threatening? Is your neighbors? Is it
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: developing nuclear bombs that could really threaten this neighbors including
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: Europe itself? Is it got thousands of a list missiles?
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: And as a consequence of that, you know, So we're
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: not going to make any objective assessment. It's just any country.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: It's Pandora box because now any country I don't like,
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: I can go in and bomb you. Well, this is
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: not about some subjective feeling. It's about is are they
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: really a threat? And is the only way to deal
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: with the threat military force? And given Yuan's history over
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: the last forty years, the answer is yes, they're a threat. Yes,
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: the only way to deal with it is military force.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: Because nobody. Why shouldn't the author does the same.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Well, partially because there's a big difference between good and evil,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: between those fighting for freedom and those fighting against it.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: But they those who initiate force and those who act
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: in self defense. So it's not extrapable. Every time I
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: don't like a regime, I can attack it. There's a
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: reason not to like a regime, and there's a question
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: of who's doing the attacking and why they're doing it.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: There's no measure of their evil, the real threat. They've
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: killed a people, they continue to kill a people. We
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: need to stop them.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: I just I don't. I mean, this is the way
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: he presented. I just don't happen to like this regime.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Look, part of it is the fault of Donald Trump.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump presents everything as just a subjective thing. You know,
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: I didn't like the Iranians. I bombed them. Donald Trump
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: didn't give a speech at the beginning of the war
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: laying the case out in an objective way. But McConn
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: is just being you know, a This is a caricature
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: of a realist and farm policy. Everybody's equal morally, everybody's
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: equal in terms of claims and Therefore, you know, the
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: good guys are no better than the bad guys. And
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: who you know was a bad no matter where you know,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: who's going after whom. All regimes are equal, all regimes
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: a sovereign. We'll get to that.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: You running is a very bad regime. No, no discussion
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: about that.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Very bad regime, not evil threatening, very bad regime.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: I disagree with them on a lot of topics.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: He disagrees with them on a lot of topics, like
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: killing their own people, like you know, like funding Hamas
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: and encouraging terrorism throughout the Middle East, like killing Americans
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: all over the Middle least. He disagrees with them on
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of topics. It sounds like like an academic disagreement.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: They always sit down and have coffee, and we'll disagree
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: over coffee. There's no moral assessment, there's no fire, there's
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: no moral condemnation, there's no These are evil, bad people,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: evil bad ideas that are destructive to pretty much everybody else.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: There's no the funding terrorists inside my own country, France,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: the funding the worst kind of Islamists inside France. None
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: of that. No, no, I disagree with But we could
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: have coffee, and we could we could we can forgive
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: it out of a coffee don't worry about it. It's
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: so banal, it's so uh, you know, it's as if
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: it's just a disagreement about about you know, I don't
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: know what coffee shop we should go to, not disagreement
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: about whether people are going to die or not.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: But I don't believe that we will fix the situation
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: just by bombings or by a midi dye operations.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: So he doesn't believe you can fix the problem up
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: bad bombing and military operations. So are you going to
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: fix the problem by negotiating with the regime dedicated to
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: your destruction? And they are dedicated to the destruction of France.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: They were a regime dedicated to the exploitation of Islamist
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: ideas throughout the world and the rule of Islam over
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: the world, and they are dedicated to this. They are
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: this is These are not rational actors. This is the
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: fallacy of the realists. They assume everybody's rational. These are
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: you know, religious fanatics. But you can't can't deal with
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: the militarily, can't do it by bombing them. You're gonna
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: have to talk to them. You have to negotiate with them.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: You can't negotiate with radical, crazy militant you know, religious fanatics.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: It just won't.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: What happened with this type of operation in the art
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: in Afghanistan, in Libya.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's learn from all those you know failures
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: and do it right. We never delivered, Yes, he never delivered.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Is that a reason not to keep trying? Why didn't
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: you deliver.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: Even after twenty years? So you have to respect the
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: sovereignty of people.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: You have to respect the sovereignty of people. Now listen
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: to this.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: But it wants to change the regime. They want to react,
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: step up. They can do so, They can do so,
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: they can do so.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: Thirty thousand people will killed trying to do that just
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: two months ago, three months ago. They can do so.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's it's unbelievable. People want to
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: change the reem. He has no shame in saying this.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: People want to change thea tam They can do so,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: they can do it themselves. We have to respec respect
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: the sovereignty. No, we don't. Countries that don't respect the
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: sovereignty of the individuals who live in that country, don't
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: respect their rights, have no sovereignty. Sovereignty comes on the people.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: If a regime, a government doesn't respect the rights of
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: its citizens, it is an illegitimate regime. It has no sovereignty,
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: no sovereignty. And yes, the people should replace it. And
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: the people of you on have shown their willingness to
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: replace it. And somewhere between the seven thousand people that
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: the Ranians seem to have admitted to and forty five
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: thousand people that Trump mentioned yes in a speech the
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: other day, somewhere between that and a number of people
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: who the Ranians shot pavillions unarmed, mostly kids. And by
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: the way, they're still hanging, you know, they during this war,
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: they've hung like six hundred and something of those civilians.
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: Having such an agenda shared by Korea friends and bringing
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: with us the OLSO, Europeans, Canada, Japan, India, Brazil, Australia,
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: you start having a sort of third way those who
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: don't want to be dependent on China or aligned by
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: definition with the us SO.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Mcron is calling for a third way, for an alliance
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: of nations that is not associated with the United States
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: or China. I mean, he is basically arguing for the
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: United States not to be a member of NATO. Why
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: should the United States be a member of NATO if
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Europe is not going to align itself with the United States.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: He's calling for a third way of you know, a
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: bunch of relatively economically failed states in Europe and Canada
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: were some successful states in Asia, but who also would
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: struggle immensely without the United States. Remember, you know, South Korea,
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: which you mentioned, has thousands of American troops there to
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: try to defend it against the North Koreans. South Korea
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: has no nukes. North Korea does. Japan has American bases
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: and is a close American ally because it's a fate
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: of China. So you know, I understand everybody's you know,
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: real reluctance because the American president is Donald Trump. I
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: get that, get the hatred of Trump, I get the
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: distrust of Trump. But what is this third way You're
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: going to do? Exactly appease all the bad guys. And
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: you think that appeasing all the bad guys does not
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: play into China's hands. I mean, what happens when China
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: invades Taiwan and Macon says, well, you know what can
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: we do? We have to fight the Russians in Ukraine.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: That we have to do but and that's maybe not
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: going to survive in terms of France because when when
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: Marie La Penn comes to power or who underling comes
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: to become president of France, it's not clear France will
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: stay on the Ukraine's side. But you know, we'll side
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: with Ukraine. But yeah, Taiwan, that's far away. And you know,
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: the Chinese, they're basically good people. We don't want to
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: we don't want to offend the Chinese. Right, So, yes,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: McCain is now president of a failed state. The debt
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: in the French debt is completely out of control, completely
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: out of control. And yeah, I mean I'm fine with
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: the US leaving leaving uh uh, leaving Japan and and
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: and and leaving Korea. I don't think South Korea would last.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: I mean it would. It would be engaged in a
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: war with North Korea, which it would maybe win, but
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: but the casualty numbers would be astronomical. In Japan clearly
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: wants US troops in Japan, could is clearly worried about
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: the Chinese. Again, Chinese have nuclear weapons, Japanese don't. Maybe
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: they should have nuclear weapons, maybe that's a solution to it.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: But no, there's no question South Korea and and Japan
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: are far safer by having American troops in indeeds, so
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: is the Middle East, the Gulf States. I mean, if
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: there were no if America wasn't there, then what would
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: stop you on? What's nothing? You know, what would stop
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: you on from taking parts of Yui, taking parts of
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: of Quait, Quait as close uh, even Saudi Arabia. I
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: mean remember the Remember what Saddam Hussein did to Quait.
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: He just ran them over, took him in the date
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: it took quit in the date it took the United
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: States to kick him out of Quate, to recreate the
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: country equate. You could ask, why did he even do that?
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Why did we even do that? What's the point? That's
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: a good question. But the Uh, the the Quitus could
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: not defend themselves without the US. None of the countries
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: can defend themselves. And if you don't stand up to
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: the bullies, if you don't stand up to the evil
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: people in the region, they will win. Israel should have
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: learnt that by not standing up for Ramas for years
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: and years and years, by not standing up to Risabella
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: for years and years and years, and letting them grow
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: and grow and grow more and more powerful. That is
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: what led to October seventh. That October seventh would have
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: never been possible if Israel had done what we're supposed
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: to do in its function of defending its own citizens
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: twenty years ago, fifteen years ago, ten years ago, five
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: years ago, seven years ago, whatever, when it was clear
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: what Ramas was intending, because Tramas is always clear about
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: what it was intending, the destruction of the state of Israel,
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: and therefore they should have never been allowed to control Gaza.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: All right, let's move away from the war and was
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: generally Job reports came out today. It was really good
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: news visa VI the US economy. One hundred and seventy
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: eight thousand jobs were created, which is a decent number,
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: not a great number, but a decent number, but way
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: way way higher than expectations, which were close to sixty thousand,
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: So much more than fifty nine thousand was what economists expected,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: so beat expectations significantly. Unemployment rate actually went down to
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: four point three percent, although that's somewhat artificial because four
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: hundred thousand people basically took themselves out of the market.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: So actually job what do you call it participation rates? Right,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: the share of Americans working or looking for work slipped
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: to sixty one point nine percent, which is actually the
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: lowest level since the fall of twenty twenty one. You
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: want a high level, a low level from you know,
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: from kind of fro an economic perspective. Now, one hundred
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: and seventy eight is a good number, but it is
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: interesting that recently there's been a lot of revisions downwards
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: are previously good numbers, And even today they revised the
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: February job numbers. So previously they had estimated in February
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: the economy lost ninety two thousand jobs. Well now they're
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: saying that the February the US economy actually lost one
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three thousand jobs. So, you know, who
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: knows if this one is seventy eight thousand will survive
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: the month, never mind the year in terms of downward
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: resversions or upward resersions, who knows? What we can say
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: is all told. Over the last six months, the US
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: has created on average fifteen thousand jobs a month, which
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: is pathetic, really pathetic. Now, part of that is a
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: lot of illegal immigrants leaving the country, jobs disappearing, if
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: you will, But that's not good from an economic perspective, right.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: Not good from a mall perspective either. If you go
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: back to a year earlier, under the Evil Bidend administration,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: the economy was adding seventy eight thousand jobs a month.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: We've dropped them seventy eight thousand to fifteen thousand. That's
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: a big drop. Not healthy, not healthy for the US
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: economy at all. The US economy has lost jobs in
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: five of the last twelve months. Again, these are aggregate numbers.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: You might have gained a job, somebody over there might
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: have lost a job. These are net aggregate numbers, and
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: they're all estimates. Almost all the jobs are being created
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: in one sector. That's true for the last year, one sector, basically,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: and that's the healthcare and social assistance sector. Most other
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: sectors have seeing declining jobs, particularly manufacturing. Know any other
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: sector that sees increasing is lesion hospitality, So lesion hospitality
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: and healthcare are the two sectors that see significant increases.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: But that's it, with healthcare dominating. So yeah, a pretty
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: good job report. We don't have the market open today
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: because it's good fighting, so we don't know a bad
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: fighting whatever you want to call it, So we don't
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: know how the market would have responded to this. On
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: the one hand, good job report, good economy, stock markets
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: go up. On the other hand, good job report means
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: the Fed is unlikely to reduce interest rates. The market
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: likes interestrates to go down. Bad for market. Stock prices
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: go down. So who knows? Right? Who knows? So? Yes,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: the the US economy is doing okay, I guess okay,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: all right. We've talked a lot about fraud in the
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: show in the last few months weeks. We talked about
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: Smalley fraud fought in other states, in California, but also
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: in Mississippi and other places. And we know that Trump
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: is very serious about combating fraud except his own, and
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: so he has now appointed a fraud zaw, a fraud za.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: So here I'm going to read you directly from Donald Trump.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: Vice President JD. Vance is now in charge of fraud
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: in the United States. It is massive and pervasive, and
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: the job he will be doing, in conjunction with many
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: great people within the Trump administration, will be a major
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: factor in how great the future of country will be.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: We will call him the fraud Czar, and his focus
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: will be everywhere, but primarily and this is the key
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: to the whole fraud issue, but primarily in those blue
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: states where crooked Democrat politicians like those in California, Illinois, Minnesota,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: Somalis Beware, Maine, New York, and many others have had
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: a free for all in the unprecedented theft of taxpayer money.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: The numbers are so large that if successful, we would
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: literally be able to balance our American budget. Raids have
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: already started in La good Luck JD. Trump has said
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: we would balance the budget on several occasions, caused by
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: several things. It is impossible. The deficit is so large.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: No amount of fraud, no amount of dodge pretending to
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: cut spending, is going to close the budget deficit. Trump
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: will not balance the budget. I don't care how for
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: d chess you believe he's playing. Not the tariffs, not
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: the fraud, not the doge, not any of these things
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: you can check. Here's one of my predictions. You can
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: check me in three years. None of them will actually
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: significantly dent the budget deficit, and certainly not balance the budget.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: So Trump will not balance the budget between now and
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: when he leaves office, and indeed, the federal government will
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: be spending a lot more money when Trump leaves office
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: than when he came in. So anyway, yes, uh, I
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: just got a question for Moulton. Moulton's splendor that made
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: me laugh. We'll get to it, all right. I want
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: to you know, I'm tracking trump craziness or trump moral character.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: He's just making statements recently that it is just so
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: indicative of who he is as a human being. Forget
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: about president, just who he is as a human being.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: And in particular, this is for all those people. I
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: think Robert asked me a question at some point, what
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: about those objectives who think Donald Trump is is great
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: and an objective is president and and and and a
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: and an egoist and all this stuff. So this is
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: really to combat that perspective. So I'm gonna show you
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: another clip and think about where that this is something
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: a hero or villain from Ironman's novels will say. There's
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: nothing to do with policy, has nothing to do with
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: the war, has nothing to do with politics. It has
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: everything to do with just his character, what kind of
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: a human being he is. So just just listen to this.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's amazing. This guy's president of the United States.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: My friend, great show. I love this guy. He's so nice.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: To me every time I watch, and I appreci You know,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: we're not supposed to be seduced the way, right, but
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: I am. When somebody's nice to me, I love that person.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: Even if they're bad people, I couldn't care less. I'll
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: fight to the end for them, so I appreciate it.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: But you know, if somebody is nice to him, he
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: loves them, even if they're bad people. Even if they're
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: bad people, he'll fight for them just because they're nice
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: to him. So good or bad doesn't matter to Trump.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: The only thing the matter to Trump is are you
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: nice to me or not? Now, a lot of people
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: around him and around the world have figured this out,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: and that's why they're constantly being nice to him, and
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: certainly Putin must have figured this out. But this is
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: his character. This really is his character. And you can
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: call it loyalty, but that I think diminishes the value
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: the positive connotations of loyalty. This isn't loyalty, loyalty to what, certainly,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: not loyalty to values, certainly, not loyalty to anything good,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: certainly not loyalty to your own life. You love people
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: who are bad because they're nice to you. This is
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: one hundred percent second handed and and you know, explicit,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: unequivocal narcissism. It's completely narcissistic.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: And.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: It's it's pretty amazing. So this is the president of
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: the United State. It's another point of character. I mean,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: somebody being nice doesn't eviscerate them all characters on doesn't
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: change the fact that they might be good to me
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: for me or bad for me. Is them all character
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: will more tell us about that. But no, he is
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: so self centered, so narcissistic. It's all about how people
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: relate to him. That's only thing that matters. Only thing.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, Zelensky when they first met, didn't kiss his ass,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: so he was treated like shit. Now Zelensky is very
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: nice to Trump, and Trump like Selin, it treats him
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: nicely somewhat. Putin is super nice to Trump, I guess,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: but Putin's strong. See, this is the thing with Putin.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter because Trump views Putin as a step
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: above himself. Here's the problem from a policy perspective. One
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: of the things this causes is that nobody wants to
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: give Trump bad news. Nobody wants to tell him that
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: maybe things that aren't going that well in a war
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: or maybe we're not achieving, or maybe we have to
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: do more. Maybe maybe what he said is wrong, maybe
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: he gets no bad news. So right now there's a
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: story out that his chief of staff, I forget her
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: first name, Wiles, is you know, telling everybody, telling his advisors,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: telling cabinet members to start telling him the truth. That
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: the more they hide the state of the economy and
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: you know, the consequences of his tariffs from him, the
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: more he will like them true, but the more dangerous
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: it is for the country. Susie Will was, thank you,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: Susie that you know, they've got to start telling indusud
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: and I don't think that's going to work. But you know,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: right now, my guess is he's trying to figure out
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: why this was taken longer than he thought it would
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: take and who he's going to blame for that, Who
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: is going to blame for that? And then finally, I
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: wanted to read you a tweet he put out just
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: again on the character side. I mean, there's a war
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: going on. The economy is doing so, so is tatifs on,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: unmitigated disaster from manufacturing in this country, a lot of
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: problems in the world, and he is of course, the
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: leader of the free world is President of the United
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: States of America. This is what he tweets this morning,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: seven fifty eight. Well, actually yesterday morning. I missed this yesterday.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: This is what he tweeted yesterday morning at seven fifty eight,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: because he's gotten nothing else to think about and nothing
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  Speaker 1: law in twenty twenty five prohibited residential property developers from
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  Speaker 1: creating sharia law compounds. Are you with any other states
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  Speaker 1: passing similar laws? No? No, And look, you have to
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  Speaker 1: be very careful. There shouldn't be such laws. If sharia
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  Speaker 1: law with regard to these communities violates any particular property
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  Speaker 1: To the extent that you know, what do you call it?
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  Speaker 1: They have something going on in these communities there's in
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  Speaker 1: violation of again federal state law that should be shut down.
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  Speaker 1: But to say to community you can't run things the
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  Speaker 1: way you want to because we don't like you is
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  Speaker 1: just is wrong. I mean, if if they want to
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  Speaker 1: do within their own community, if you know so, I've
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  Speaker 1: always said, if you want to be a communist under capitalism,
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  Speaker 1: you can get a bunch of friends together, you can
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  Speaker 1: start a commune. You can manage the commune from each
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  Speaker 1: according to his ability, to each according to his means,
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  Speaker 1: As long as you know to try to impose communism
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of us, and you're not trying to
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  Speaker 1: and you don't curst anybody to participate, You're fine if
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  Speaker 1: you want to have a community which is governed by
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  Speaker 1: Sharia law, but nobody is cursed to be part of it,
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  Speaker 1: and no violence is used against any member of that community,
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  Speaker 1: even when Sharia law is implicated. So you're not trying
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  Speaker 1: off thieves hands, and you're not doing honor killings, and
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  Speaker 1: you're not stoning adultresses. State law, federal law governs all
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  Speaker 1: those things. But in the number of prayers you do
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  Speaker 1: or whatever you practice sarial law, why is it the
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  Speaker 1: state's responsibility? Now, if you're using this as a platform
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  Speaker 1: to try to replace state law with sharial law and
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  Speaker 1: you're going to impose it under the people, then yeah,
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  Speaker 1: then you can't do that. But you know, and if
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  Speaker 1: you're violating, if, for example, a woman who wants to
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  Speaker 1: leave such a community is barred from doing so, then yeah,
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  Speaker 1: send in the FBI. That's a violation of rights. If
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  Speaker 1: the husband is beating up his wife, send him the police.
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  Speaker 1: That's a violation of rights. So the key here, and
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  Speaker 1: this is really really important, what they're not doing in
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  Speaker 1: Europe is you've got to adhere to the law of
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  Speaker 1: the land. There is. You can do stuff anywhere you want,
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  Speaker 1: any combination you want. You can have four wives fall
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  Speaker 1: I care, but you cannot use force, you cannot use
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  Speaker 1: cosion among each other, and if you do, the police
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: will come down on you like you have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look at the Amish, look at other groups,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: the ultra orthodox in Brooklyn. I mean, they live their
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: own lives separate, but they follow state and federal law.
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  Speaker 1: And if they don't, but within their communities, stuff happens
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  Speaker 1: that they resolve internally.
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  Speaker 2: Fine.
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  Speaker 1: So the key is to not let them get away
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  Speaker 1: with any violation of rights, not let them get away
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  Speaker 1: with any kind of violence, not let them get away
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  Speaker 1: with any coercion, particularly in this case given to Cheria
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: with regard to women and goals, that cannot be allowed.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Let's see Michael says Trump is a statist
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: in a sense, he doesn't want anyone stopping him from
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: doing his whims, But he also hates government regulations. Is
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: he more pragmatic than ideological? No, I don't think he
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  Speaker 1: hates government regulations. I mean, when he was a real
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  Speaker 1: estate developer, he used em in a domain to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of people. I don't think he hates goverment regulations.
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  Speaker 1: He hates the goverment regulations to get in his way.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, he's appointed people who hate regulations. But
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't care one way or the other about government regulations. Again,
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  Speaker 1: unless he feels like they are impeding him. If you,
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  Speaker 1: if you are nice to him, he might actually increase
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  Speaker 1: regulations in some cases if it helps the people that
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  Speaker 1: he wants to help. So I don't think, I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: I think again it's whims. I don't think he has
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  Speaker 1: any view with regards to regulations. Do they help the
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  Speaker 1: people he likes, he's for them? Do they hurt the
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  Speaker 1: people he likes he's against them. That's the only standard
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  Speaker 1: any he basically, so that's the only standard he has.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: Michael says, Oh, we living in a pandemic of self deception. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: in a sense, so we're living through a pandemic. If
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  Speaker 1: you will live evasion. Evasion is the is, that is
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  Speaker 1: what's important, of unthinking, of of missing links, and and
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  Speaker 1: we're governed by, you know, really a missing link, a
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  Speaker 1: man who cannot think and who evades constantly. But that
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  Speaker 1: is that's the state of our if you will, our world,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: state of our culture. Alexander says, keep up the good work.
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  Speaker 1: a lot of questions today, so all right, let's see rab.
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  Speaker 1: Under the two thousand and one Authorization to Use Military
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: Force law, Trump faces faces an April twenty eighth deadline
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: to get congressional approval or extension on the count war.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: Iran knows this what should Trump's strategy for this dead life?
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  Speaker 1: By I mean, his strategy should have been from day
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  Speaker 1: one to get congressional approval. He should have gone to
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  Speaker 1: approval to engage in combat activities in Iran way before this,
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  Speaker 1: without giving any specifics, just getting a general thumbs up
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  Speaker 1: to be able to engage in it. The earlier he
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  Speaker 1: does it, the better. But you know, Trump could also
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  Speaker 1: ignore it completely. What will happen if he ignores it?
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: Will Congress impeach him, which is what they should do. No,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: so he's likely to just ignore the whole thing and
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: make it irrelevant for the Iranians, make it irrelevant for
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: the war. So yeah, he should get it now, get
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: it whenever he can and you don't have that under
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: his belt, and get it done with. But unlikely to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Molten Splendor says, I can't believe he took the seriously
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  Speaker 1: molten Splendor fake use Please verify whether or not the
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  Speaker 1: Mossad is the largest contributor to AOI. I think this
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  Speaker 1: If true, I love it. It's a complete and unequivocal joke.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way that would be true. And I was
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  Speaker 1: completely kidding. I thought it was clear that I was kidding. No,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely not. The Mosad is not only not the largest
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  Speaker 1: contributor to the AIRRI, it gives zero zilch not a
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  Speaker 1: money to air I or to me. Now, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think the ARII would take money for the Massad, even
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  Speaker 1: if they gave it. Right now, of course people are saying,
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  Speaker 1: first you say that, of course it's a joke. Air
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  Speaker 1: I would, But air I wouldn't. I is mission, it's
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  Speaker 1: that has a clearly a clear interest, a specific one
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  Speaker 1: sided interest. So even if offered, uh, the air I
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't get any and I don't get any If
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  Speaker 1: there's anybody out there from the Masade hearing this, I'm
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: open to conversation. But no, no, all right, Robert Nasius,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: says Jennifer Amy Meana and I just listened to the
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  Speaker 1: Yuhan Yukon limb performance of Rachmani's third piano Concerto, maybe
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  Speaker 1: my favorite piano concerto of all of them. It's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone needs to hear and see this. Yes, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: Now I don't know that particular performance. I'll check it out,
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  Speaker 1: but anybody decent. I've heard a number I've I've heard
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  Speaker 1: lots of performances, including Rakhmanov. There is a recording Vakhmanov
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: playing the juani Enov second and third piano concertos, but
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  Speaker 1: the best, according to Rachmaninov, the best interpretation of his
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: concertos was done by Vladimir Howitz. Horowitz uh so uh
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: Uhmaniinov lived to hear Howitz do it perform it? Howartz
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  Speaker 1: I think married pets married Tuscanini's daughter. But anyway, uh
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: Rajwani lived to hear Howitz do perform his second and
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: maybe third as well piano concertos and thought him to
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  Speaker 1: be the best performer of them ever. Check those out.
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  Speaker 1: Those also available in disc well on streaming somewhere. Uh
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  Speaker 1: Ego skater, thank you, Ego skater. Opinion on the AI
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: companies using web public content to train models, well, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if it's public content, I think that's fine. I think
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  Speaker 1: the challenge really is when these companies do things like
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  Speaker 1: and things like that. So if they're just taking publicly
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  Speaker 1: available information, yeah, they's no problem. But when it's not
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: publicly available information, when they're getting around the system somehow,
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  Speaker 1: that's when I think it's inappropriate, and that their lawsuits
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  Speaker 1: out on that and the courts will decide on those,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that's appropriate, no sense. Hope you do
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  Speaker 1: a show on chapter don't let it go? In philosophy?
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  Speaker 1: Who needs it? Is that American sense of life writes
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  Speaker 1: about in that book still prevalent today or has it
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: almost vanished? Any traces of it in Trump? I think
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  Speaker 1: it's almost vanished. There's a pseudo sense of life in Trump.
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  Speaker 1: It pretends to be that, but it's way too vulga materialistic,
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: whim worshiping, and the very fact that he has these
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: great relationships with people like Putin and the Buddhle dictator
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  Speaker 1: of North Korea suggests that he doesn't really have it right,
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't really have it. So no, I don't think
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: there's any of that in Trump, and I think in
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: the American people it's almost gone. And part of that
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: is now. I think the remnant of it is part
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: of what led them to vote for Trump. But it's
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: in such a bad shape right because they view Trump
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  Speaker 1: as the anti establishment, you know, they've been so trampled
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  Speaker 1: on by the mixed economy estabsablishment, by the mixed mixed
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  Speaker 1: economy of the soul of the establishment, that they voted
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: for Trump and and and that's it's a form of rebellion,
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  Speaker 1: but it's so shallow that it is the consequence of
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: the of a very very small remnant of that sense
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: of life. I will do that essay at some point. Yes, Uh, Josh,
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Harper and Katherine, thank you guys. I really appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the support. Thanks. All right, let's continue with the questions. Michael,
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: is entrepreneurship almost impossible in Europe? Most wealth and industry
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: has passed down through wealth. I mean it's not almost impossible,
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: but it's it's a lot less than the United States.
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  Speaker 1: The best country for entrepreneurs I think in Europe is Sweden.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: A fewest regulations and the most entrepreneurial culture. Scandinavia generally
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: is good for entrepreneurs relative to France, let's say, and others.
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  Speaker 1: But there's still entrepreneurs, and certainly in Scandinavia there's a
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 1: lot of wealth created to entrepreneurial activity. It's just if
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: you look at it per capita, a lot less than Israel,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: or a lot less than Silicon Valley. But I wouldn't
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: write all of you off completely. There's still they wouldn't exist.
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  Speaker 1: They would they couldn't grow, they wouldn't have any economic growth,
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: never even the poetry that they have if there wasn't
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: any entrepreneurial activity. There's just a lot less, a lot
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: less for a lot of cultural and economic policy reasons. Michael,
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: what was your best year for YBS revenue? Show growth? Well,
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: so growth, it was the first year because that's when
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: I got most of the most of the people. In
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: terms of revenue, I think it was total revenue, it
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: was twenty twenty four. So there was a decline in
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five for a variety of reasons of revenue,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's rebounding in twenty twenty six. So
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: the first three months of twenty twenty six were the
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  Speaker 1: best three months we've had ever, So it seems to
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: be rebinding. That's in super chat. But you know Patreon
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  Speaker 1: last three years or so. So yeah, so it's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's been flat. I'd say twenty three, twenty four, twenty five,
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: those three years were mostly flat, with twenty five being
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  Speaker 1: down a little bit. So yeah, let's make twenty six
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  Speaker 1: the best year ever. Yeah, I mean what really matters,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what not really means. What makes a disproportional
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  Speaker 1: impact is you know, for example, people who can do
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: one hundred dollars to fifty or five hundred on Patreona PayPal,
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I captured a lot of those early on,
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: and I haven't seen many additions of that. Right anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that's where we are, Michael, Will these well Texas in
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  Speaker 1: California and Washington get reversed once the people who matter
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: start leaving. I doubt it. These things don't typically get
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  Speaker 1: reversed because of those kind of consequences. There has to
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: be a cultural shift against taxes in some significant way.
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  Speaker 1: Nicos and Augustina out well not out leaving within a
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  Speaker 1: month coincidence. Yeah, I think basically. I mean, Augustina got
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: a job offer for somebody that was really, really lucrative
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  Speaker 1: and kind of a job that she really wanted, and Nicos,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: for a variety of reasons, decided he wanted to try
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  Speaker 1: and do this by himself. So yeah, I don't. I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't read I wouldn't read too much into it,
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: wouldn't read too much into it. Matt says, if you
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: were made president after Trump, what if anything, would you
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  Speaker 1: do to bring justice to what he and others like
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: Hesaith have done to the country. I mean, I think
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: not much. I think that's not what the focus should be.
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  Speaker 1: The focus should be on the positive, on restoring the rule.
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 3: Of law, on.
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: Shrinking the scope and scale of government, on doing what's
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: right rather than going after the people who did wrong.
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: I'm less interested in that, and I don't think it's helpful.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: I think what's really helpful is to do it right,
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: is to focus on positives. James, do you think we
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  Speaker 1: have too many generals and admirals? How will tactics change
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  Speaker 1: after they're fifteen being shut down? Do you think the
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  Speaker 1: pilot was too low? I don't know about how many
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: generals we have. I don't know if we have too many.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: The US military is very, very big. We probably have
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: too much bureaucracy. I think that's true. I'm glad they
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: went after DII and things like that in the military.
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: They don't belong there. They don't belong anyway, but they
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: certainly don't belong in the military. So but I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if they're too many generals and animals. I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea. I don't think the tactical change. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that that fifteen was too low there. Fifteen is
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: not a stealth fighter. It is pretty amazing that Israel
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: has not lost a single pilot or a single plane,
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 1: even though they're flying at fifteens and F sixteen's, which
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: are not stealth. Was he flying too low? Probably not.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably some fluke. You know, they'll look at it
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: carefully and they'll analyze it. But I don't think this
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: will prevent the US from flying at fifteens again. The
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: Israelis have flown at fifteens into Iran and out of
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: Iran without taking any hits. You know, Look, the reality
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  Speaker 1: is really fighter pilots are the best in the world.
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  Speaker 1: It really is. I mean, the most experienced and they
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  Speaker 1: I think ultimately they have the best tech in the world,
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: partially because they've needed it. The US has fought opponents
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: where it hasn't been needed. What was the last times
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: really needed high tech? You know, Afghanistan? Nobody was shooting
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: air planes in Afghanistan, even the I rock Wall, there
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: was really no way defense systems. So Israel needs them regularly,
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: and the pilots are the best practiced and they are
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: the best pilots in the world. James, I'm hearing mixed results,
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: mixed results that in A ten were shot down as well?
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: Did you hear that? Why are people forgetting that over
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: ten thousand targets have been hit? Because people love bad news.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: They love to they relish bad news, they jump on
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: bad news, and they want to celebrate, and particularly if
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: it's Trump, they want to celebrate his failures. And A
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: ten was probably hit but made it back to base.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: I think the basis in Jordan, which is pretty far away,
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: so it couldn't have been hit pretty really badly. So yeah, again,
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: A ten flies very very low, very easy target to hit,
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: and they're going to be hit once in a while,
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: and the fact that they're not destroyed suggests the extent
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: of which these are robust airplanes, and extent to which
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: the pilots are good pilots, and they fly them back
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: to base. That's my understanding. We'll know more later today.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: How do you so this is, James? How do you
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: fight a war when IRGC has no rules or models.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: IRGC is launching missiles from residential areas that the US
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: and israela afraid to hit. Well, we should stop being afraid.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: We should teach them well, we're just not a fraid.
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  Speaker 1: We'll hit them with ever they are. I mean, that's
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: the only way to fight it war. I think the
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: reason this war is taking long, the reason that it's
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: that it's longer than it needs to be, the reason
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: I just might survives this is because we will. We're
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: not fighting to win in a sense of doing everything
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: necessary to win, targeting whatever's necessary to win the war.
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: That's what we should be doing. Steven, Happy Easter, Happy Spain.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 1: You're on, thanks to the show. Is appreciate it, Thanks
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: for the support. Stephen Roland. So the Mossade gives zero.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: I guess in that case, I'm already behind them. Between them,
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. I need new goals please,
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: Oh we need a new goal, need a new goal,
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: need a new goal. Well, I mean, I don't know
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: you could match what everybody else is giving on a
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: different in a given show. Kim can celebrating East to
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: be secular fun? Or is this an inherently religious holiday?
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: I mean rabbits and eggs and you know, eggs finding
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: eggs in the backyard hidden? How is that religious? What
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: does Jesus have to do with that? So obviously this
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: is a holiday that has a huge secular aspect to it.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: So yeah, enjoy it, celebrate it from a secular perspective. Stephen,
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: have you ever seen the movie Meet Me in Saint
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: Louis with Judy Garland, depicts a family in nineteen oh three,
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: I think a good example of Aneman's description of the
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: benevolent sense of life in the late nineteenth centy. Yeah,
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: I mean I saw it a long long time ago.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: It's wonderful, and I agree about the benevolence. I mean,
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: you'll find a lot of movies. I mean, what this
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: movie wasn't made in nineteen oh three. It's made in
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: the fifties, I think, which you'll find a lot of
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: movies made in the forties and fifties that have that
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 1: kind of incredibly benevolent American sense of life. It's a
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: lot of fun to watch. Romans should so just be
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: free to choose which missions to sign up for, as
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: in basic training and everything else, voluntary choices like gigs
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: no no. Once you sign up, you're accepting that you
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: will be ordered to do things you might not like,
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: and you are committing to doing it. It's part of
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: signing up to the military. If you don't want it,
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: don't sign up. That's part of what it means to volunteer.
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: All right, guys, thank you, appreciate the supports. Thanks to
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: all the super chatters. Oh one more. I was trying
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: to write the past tense of beat, but YouTube wouldn't
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: let me. Oh so it wouldn't let you do beat?
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I mean I'm the benefit Shwie of
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: the fact that you two wouldn't let you and you
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  Speaker 1: had correct So thank you. I got an extra five
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: Swiss Franks. Thank you Orland, Thank you all the super chattas.
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: Thank you guys for listening. I will see you all tomorrow.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the topic will be, but there
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  Speaker 1: will be a show tomorrow. And enjoy your weekend. Bye everybody,