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Iran - U.S. War Expanding | What's Next: Iran Leadership · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're list Saints k i AM six forty the bill
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  Speaker 1: forty bill Handle here on Tuesday morning, March third, and
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  Speaker 1: te Well the latest. I'm we're going to talk about
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  Speaker 1: what's happening in the Middle East. This is the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of day four of the attack, the Israeli American attack
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  Speaker 1: on Iran. I'm going to cover some of that right now. Also,
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  Speaker 1: today is a primary day in Texas and a few
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  Speaker 1: other states. Big big issues is to who's going to
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  Speaker 1: move forward in those primaries, particularly the Republican primaries. And
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  Speaker 1: this is going to bode well or ill for the midterms.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's not going to do well for the
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  Speaker 1: Republicans and the midterms. Okay, here's the latest of what's
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  Speaker 1: going on. Iran struck the US embassy in Saudi Arabia's
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  Speaker 1: capital Riad with a drone early today as they kept
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  Speaker 1: hitting targets around the region. This again is I do
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  Speaker 1: still don't understand why Iran is targeting and hitting the
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  Speaker 1: other Gulf states, Why they've all declared neutrality and now
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  Speaker 1: they're under attack. The US and Israel keeps on pounding
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  Speaker 1: Iran with airstrikes, and the President yesterday said this was
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  Speaker 1: just the start of this campaign which could last more
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  Speaker 1: than a month. He said four to five weeks. And
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  Speaker 1: the attack on the US embassy and riod two drones
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  Speaker 1: caused quote limited fire and limited or minor damage. And
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  Speaker 1: according to Saudi Arabia's Defense Ministry, the embassy has urged
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  Speaker 1: Americans avoid the compound, stay away from the embassy. And
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  Speaker 1: this followed an attack on the US embassy in Kuwait
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  Speaker 1: and it announced that it's closed until further notice. The
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  Speaker 1: State Department order the evacuation of non emergency personnel and
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  Speaker 1: family in.
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  Speaker 2: Kuwait, as well as the evacuation.
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  Speaker 1: Of the families at the embassy's in Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, Jordan,
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  Speaker 1: the United Arab Emirates.
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  Speaker 2: As a precaution.
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  Speaker 1: Why, because those countries are under attack by those crazy
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  Speaker 1: ass Iranians. I can certainly understand. Attacking Israel got it.
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  Speaker 1: Attacking the US got it. I mean that's retaliation because
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  Speaker 1: they were attacked those other Gulf states.
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  Speaker 2: They had nothing to do with this war.
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  Speaker 1: Now, American bases are there, but they have been there forever.
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  Speaker 1: So far, the conflict killed hundreds of people, the vast
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  Speaker 1: majority in Iran and the United Nations. A nuclear watchdog,
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  Speaker 1: the International Atomic Energy Agency, said that Iran's nuclear Enrichmond
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  Speaker 1: programmed the site Natans, which had sustained damage in the
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  Speaker 1: last fight last in June where it was the Twelve
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  Speaker 1: Day war. As even with the attack now no radiological
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  Speaker 1: consequences expected.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so far, so good. In Lebanon, more.
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  Speaker 1: Strikes on hes Blah, which has joined the Fray because
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  Speaker 1: Hesbelah whenever there is a war anywhere there there Hesbla
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  Speaker 1: joins Iran because Hesbla is a proxy of Iran.
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  Speaker 2: So why does it all happen?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we know the attack and then the killing of
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  Speaker 1: the Iranian Grand Puba Ayotola Ali Jumeni, and we don't
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  Speaker 1: have an exit plan. That's the problem as of right now,
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  Speaker 1: haven't heard one. And now they're looking at or we
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  Speaker 1: or they or all of us are looking at a
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  Speaker 1: conflict where we really don't see and ending here or
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  Speaker 1: what kind of ending. Iran has hit countries that were
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  Speaker 1: deemed safe havens in the mid East, Amazon Data centers
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  Speaker 1: in the United Arab Emirate Bahrain. Iran has hit Qatar,
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, several ships in the Strait of horror moves,
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  Speaker 1: Straight of Horror moves closed down Boom. Straight of horror
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  Speaker 1: mooves is closed according to Iranian Brigad General Ibrahim Jamadi,
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  Speaker 1: who advises the Revolutionary Guard, and Iran did have and
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  Speaker 1: does have the ability of shutting down the straight and
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  Speaker 1: that's why oil has spiked, and that's why overnight eleven
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  Speaker 1: cents a gallon more. And that's why, as Amy has
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  Speaker 1: said earlier, reported that even oil that is in that
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  Speaker 1: immediate area, there is no insurance for tankers and everything
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  Speaker 1: is ground to a halt, and so when war in
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  Speaker 1: the Mid East breaks out, that becomes really serious stuff.
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  Speaker 1: The bottom line is that hole Middle East has no
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  Speaker 1: significance internationally at all to American interests except for the oil.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and it used to be until oil was
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  Speaker 1: discovered in the late twenties and thirties, it was just
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  Speaker 1: a pile of sand, and all of a sudden, now
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  Speaker 1: you have these countries that have tremendous international influence. So
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  Speaker 1: is it gonna last four or five war weeks? Yeah? Probably.
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  Speaker 1: The President said that we're prepared to go to war
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  Speaker 1: far longer than that the US had. I'm quoting out
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  Speaker 1: virtually unlimited supply of munitions. Don't know about that, and
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  Speaker 1: high grade weaponry. True wars can be fought forever. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: when you think about it, they can be We are
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  Speaker 1: in Afghanistan for twenty years and can be fought very
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  Speaker 1: successfully using just these supplies. So far, seven hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eighty seven people have died in Iran according to the
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  Speaker 1: Red Crescent their Red Cross Israel eleven people, fifty two
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  Speaker 1: people in Lebanon strikes against Hasbollah and the part that
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  Speaker 1: concerns us the most six Army soldiers were killed when
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  Speaker 1: it looks like a drone hit a logistics unit in Kuwait.
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  Speaker 2: These were not combat forces.
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  Speaker 1: And this is another one when you talk about the
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  Speaker 1: chaos going over there. Kuwait mistakenly shot down three American
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  Speaker 1: fighter jets F thirty Five's because Kuwait was being attacked
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  Speaker 1: by a couple of Iranian Soviet fighters. That's what they buy,
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  Speaker 1: and so friendly fire knocked down the three American fighter
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  Speaker 1: jets and the good news is at all of the
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  Speaker 1: pilots in fact survived. The President has said the objectives
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  Speaker 1: are to one destroyer Ron's missile capabilities wipe by the Navy,
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  Speaker 1: preventing it from obtaining a nuclear weapon and ensure it
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  Speaker 1: cannot continue to support groups like Hezbollah. And if you
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  Speaker 1: remember a few days ago, we talked about regime change
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  Speaker 1: and people of Iran come on up and take over.
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  Speaker 1: That didn't fly very well as a reason for doing
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  Speaker 1: this with the American.
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  Speaker 2: Public, especially the MAGA followers.
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  Speaker 1: Why because the president ran on, let we're not going
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  Speaker 1: to get intagled in foreign wars. We will not have
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  Speaker 1: anything to do with foreign wars. We're in America. First,
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  Speaker 1: guess what this is. It's a foreign war. The argument
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  Speaker 1: that is, we cannot let Iran have nukes, right, fine,
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  Speaker 1: nobilistic missiles, absolutely, it is the supporter of terrorism has
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  Speaker 1: to stop.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. I'm for that.
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  Speaker 1: The regime change not so much. Is it worth going
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  Speaker 1: to war for regime change? Unfortunately no. So I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to move over to a little bit of analysis and
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  Speaker 1: comparison about what's happening, because as a result of what's
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  Speaker 1: happening over there, the comparison instantly comes up with, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: what happened during the Iraqi War that was launched by
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  Speaker 1: President George W.
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  Speaker 2: Bush.
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  Speaker 1: Now we do know the weapons of mass destruction, it
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  Speaker 1: really didn't exist. And the argument that was best intelligent
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  Speaker 1: of the intelligence at the time, and it wasn't And
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  Speaker 1: it was Saddam Hussein a threat to US, not particularly
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  Speaker 1: certainly less than what I think Iran is. But let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about the difference. Okay, the US invades Iraq. Now
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  Speaker 1: Iraq is a multi institutional state.
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  Speaker 2: It is more resilient.
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  Speaker 1: It makes the change in government far more complex unpredictable.
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  Speaker 1: It turned out the Saddam Hussein's Iraq was easy to determine.
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  Speaker 1: One guy was in charge.
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  Speaker 2: That was it.
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  Speaker 1: There was no leadership vacuum. There were you know, Udi
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  Speaker 1: and Uzi or Upi or whatever, Droopy, whatever the hell
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  Speaker 1: the name of his sons were Sneezy, grumpy. I don't
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  Speaker 1: remember the two names. But they weren't ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: As far as leadership said, I'm Hussein never said if
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  Speaker 1: I'm gone, here's going to be leader because he was
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  Speaker 1: never going to be gone. So if you remember back
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand and three, President Bush lands on the
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  Speaker 1: deck of the aircraft carrier less than five weeks after
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  Speaker 1: he orders the invasion and declares the end of major
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  Speaker 1: combat operations. You remember that big banner proclaiming mission accomplished.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that worked out for him.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't it well, The invasion became a meat grinder, thousands
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  Speaker 1: of Americans, more than a million Iraqi dead, and it's
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  Speaker 1: still fell today in the region and throughout the world
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  Speaker 1: even today. Now here we are two decades later, and
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  Speaker 1: the president, our President Trump attacks another Persian Gulf nation
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  Speaker 1: and again promising rapid success and we are or this attack.
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  Speaker 2: Is going to remake the region.
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  Speaker 1: Now, President Trump and the rest of the administration vehemently
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  Speaker 1: reject any comparison between Operation Epic Fury, that's today's operation
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  Speaker 1: to Iraqi Freedom.
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  Speaker 2: If you remember that on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, yesterday Pete Hexith Defense Secretary,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, War secretary said straight out several times, this
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  Speaker 1: is not Iraq, this is not endless. That's maybe true,
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  Speaker 1: but it's certainly not going to just end in four weeks.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: Most people don't because you have the far reaching changes
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  Speaker 1: that happen after that. If there are changes, so the
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  Speaker 1: assault on Iran could very well and will spread beyond
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  Speaker 1: the borders. And this is what I think is going
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  Speaker 1: to happen is I thought that immigration was going to
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  Speaker 1: be the defining role of the president and prices. That's
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  Speaker 1: only an election issue, but immigration was going to be
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  Speaker 1: the big one. Now we have a war in the
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  Speaker 1: Mid East and boots on the ground are off the
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  Speaker 1: table right now. You can't win a war without boots
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. You can't do it. You can't win
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  Speaker 1: a war just by air power. It's basically never been done.
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  Speaker 1: So in nineteen seventy eight nineteen seventy nine, the Islamic Revolution.
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  Speaker 2: There was a Supreme Leader.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time when the Supreme Leader came in,
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  Speaker 1: they also established an assistant Grand Puba. They also have
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  Speaker 1: a President of Parliament, governmental, military, religious, hierarchies. There's a
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  Speaker 1: depth up and down the leadership and the governance of.
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  Speaker 2: Iran. It didn't happen with Iraq. Again, Iraq was one
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  Speaker 2: guy that controlled all of it.
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  Speaker 1: He leaves or he's killed, overthrown, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: you have vacuums like crazy. Now we don't even know.
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  Speaker 1: We know there are people in place, we know that
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  Speaker 1: there is. Now we're told that there's a three member
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  Speaker 1: governance board and they will select a Supreme Leader.
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  Speaker 2: So it's very very different. And the way it works
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  Speaker 2: with a Supreme leader.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you knew that but they've taken
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  Speaker 1: a page out of the American Arbitration Association, where you
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  Speaker 1: have Iran choosing one person, the Israel choosing another, and
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  Speaker 1: then the United States choosing another, and the three of
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  Speaker 1: them actually actually choose a supreme leader. No, those are
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  Speaker 1: the rules of arbitration. I got that one wrong. Got
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  Speaker 1: to get everything confused so much. All right, back we
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  Speaker 1: go to what's happening in the war, and people are
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  Speaker 1: comparing this to the war in Iraq. We've attacked two countries,
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  Speaker 1: in this case Iran than Iraq. And the problem is
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  Speaker 1: is that is two very different animals, which means that
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  Speaker 1: the war in Iran may even be more complicated and
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  Speaker 1: have more far reaching areas.
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  Speaker 2: And issues than the Iraqi War. And why, well, here
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  Speaker 2: we go.
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  Speaker 1: We're two decades later and the President says, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to end this quickly. George W said, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: end it quickly. Guess what, it didn't end quickly. We're there,
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  Speaker 1: We're still there. Then you now have the Iranian war.
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  Speaker 1: So President Trump says, this operation at a fury going
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  Speaker 1: to end very quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Hegseeth said, this is not endless. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Well, here's the problem. You've got Iran. That is a
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  Speaker 1: lot more complicated. We took out Sadam Hussein very quickly,
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  Speaker 1: or the iraqis dead. This one not so quick because
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  Speaker 1: you have the Ayatola Jomini who was killed, and you
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  Speaker 1: have the senior leadership, maybe four people killed. There are
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  Speaker 1: people that take their place. They have prepared for this
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  Speaker 1: for years, if not decades. They have prepared for this
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  Speaker 1: kind of attack. Look at the number of ballistic missiles
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  Speaker 1: they have. Look at the number of drones they have
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  Speaker 1: in the thousands. And the problem is or in the
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  Speaker 1: missiles in general in the thousands. And so this is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a war at least that part of it.
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  Speaker 1: That is far reaching, far reaching. And now you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about other member states, other Gulf states, which did not
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  Speaker 1: happen in Iraq. As a matter of fact, what you
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  Speaker 1: had is the Gulf States all becoming allies and going
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  Speaker 1: after Saddam Hussein Iraq.
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  Speaker 2: Not in this case.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, the Gulf states are all neutral, and now
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  Speaker 1: they're all in a defensive posture. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why Iran. No one knows why Iran attacked those states.
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  Speaker 1: They were neutral, they were stay out of it, and
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  Speaker 1: so are they going to coalesce and join America and
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  Speaker 1: join Israel.
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  Speaker 2: At this point, we don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Also, you have a situation during the Arab Spring of
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  Speaker 1: twenty eleven, protesters all over the Middle East.
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  Speaker 2: Went to the streets.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that, by the way, those efforts did not leave
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  Speaker 1: to significant reforms, and in many cases, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: in some countries got even worse. And then you had
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  Speaker 1: iraqis almost universally or jumping up and down with the
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  Speaker 1: fall of Saddam Hussein.
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  Speaker 2: He was so hated.
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  Speaker 1: The demonstrations that are going on in Iran, how many
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  Speaker 1: of them do you think are pro revolutionary guard and
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  Speaker 1: pro the existence of the mulas and the government that
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  Speaker 1: stays right now. And by the way, the Humani, who
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  Speaker 1: was basically not particularly popular, is now a martyr. Saddam
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  Speaker 1: Hussein was never a martyr, Whomini is a martyr and
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  Speaker 1: that becomes problematic. So at this place, we don't know
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  Speaker 1: who's going to take over. We do know they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be people taking over.
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  Speaker 2: For those.
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  Speaker 1: Pundits who said that as soon as this attack happens
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  Speaker 1: or thought when this attack happens, the government would literally
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  Speaker 1: almost collapse, and initially the military parts of the military
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  Speaker 1: were not talking to other parts of the military. The
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  Speaker 1: command structure was destroyed. A lot of the Irun's ability
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  Speaker 1: to fight has been degraded as weaponry, etc. But I
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  Speaker 1: got to tell you it's far and it's deep. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this government is still in place. There are always members
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  Speaker 1: of the hierarchy that are willing to move up. When
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  Speaker 1: the top, the top administrators, the top clerics, the top
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  Speaker 1: leadership is gone, which is what happened. So what's going
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  Speaker 1: to what's going to happen. I happened to think that
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  Speaker 1: it was a good move personally. I happen to believe
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  Speaker 1: that Iran is going full blast at creating a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 1: I think they are a bunch of liars when they
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  Speaker 1: said that it's only for peaceful purposes, that their ballistic
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  Speaker 1: missiles and their missile industry is only for defensive purposes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if you believe that, I'm Rex the Wonder Horse. These
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  Speaker 1: are bad, bad guys, and we'll see what happens as
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  Speaker 1: a result of this.
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  Speaker 2: Will they still be the government? Yeah? Probably.
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  Speaker 1: Will they still oppress protesters? I think the protests have
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  Speaker 1: been weakened to the point where they are non existent.
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  Speaker 1: You see a few going out there, But the only
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  Speaker 1: reason that they have not been the protesters have not
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  Speaker 1: been mowed down like they were last time a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks ago, is simply because the Revolutionary Regard and
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  Speaker 1: other members of the military are too busy trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out what to do with the Irania, with the
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  Speaker 1: American in these ways the attacks. But as soon as
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  Speaker 1: that's done, at which it has to end, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it is not gonna go on forever, then they're going
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  Speaker 1: to go right back to shooting protesters and killing them
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  Speaker 1: in mass and you'll only see demonstrations that scream kill America,
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  Speaker 1: Death to the Satan.
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  Speaker 2: That's the other reason.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you've got a government, you have a country.
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  Speaker 1: The destruction of Israel is one of its primary goals.
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  Speaker 1: Killing Americans is another primary goal. Hey, at what point
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  Speaker 1: do you take these animals out? At what point do
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  Speaker 1: you say it's it's time Israel. It's real issue Israel.
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  Speaker 1: There's no issue. If Iran gets hold of a nuclear weapon,
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  Speaker 1: Israel believes that it will be destroyed or on the
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  Speaker 1: verge of being destroyed because Iran will use it or
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  Speaker 1: give it to one of his proxies to use. Now, granted,
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  Speaker 1: if that happens, all of Iran becomes a parking lot.
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  Speaker 1: There's no question about that. Now the issue is to
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  Speaker 1: the bull is in charge? Care more well? Gold in
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  Speaker 1: my ear said it and put it perfectly. There will
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  Speaker 1: never be peace in the Middle East. There will never
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  Speaker 1: be peace between certain Arab states until these states love
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  Speaker 1: their children more than they hate us. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that said it all. So as a result of what's happening,
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  Speaker 1: of course, how does that affect us? Well, the big
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  Speaker 1: one is oil prices have exploded far more than the
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  Speaker 1: experts said overnight eleven cents. They've gone up, and all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden you're looking at highbred cars and electric
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  Speaker 1: cars looking a whole lot better. So who gets hit
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  Speaker 1: the most Those people who obviously have cars that run
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  Speaker 1: strictly on gasoline. Kono is the most affected one of
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  Speaker 1: our group because Cono drives three hundred miles each way
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  Speaker 1: from his house to the station, and prior to the
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  Speaker 1: p of his new car, Cono, you were saying it
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  Speaker 1: was seven hundred dollars a month that you were paying
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  Speaker 1: in gasoline.
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  Speaker 2: Is that correct? Yeah? Yeah, that's insane.
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  Speaker 3: Especially gas around four and LA is much more expensive
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  Speaker 3: than where I live. It's probably like thirty cents cheaper.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's still very expensive.
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  Speaker 1: And now gasoline is going to even be more, and
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  Speaker 1: I think precipitously more because of the fact that Gulf
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  Speaker 1: of the Strait of horm Moonves has been shut down
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  Speaker 1: completely by the Iranians. Twenty percent of the world's oil
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  Speaker 1: is shipped via the Strait of Hormuz from the Persian
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  Speaker 1: Gulf and then go through the Straits. On one side
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  Speaker 1: it's Iran, on the other sides it's Oman. But Oman
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have anywhere near the military capability because they're not
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  Speaker 1: nearly as crazy. They don't want the destruction of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: They're not as interested in taking over the entire world
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: and supporting all of these terrorist organizations the way.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Ron does so.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Now, because you got a new car, which I assume
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: is better mileage, Cono Cono says, how much would your
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: gas be prior to what just happened per.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Month before this happened a week or just on a
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: fill o a week a week week before, it would
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: probably like ninety a week ninety bucks.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, so you have cut what's ninety times for it's
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: what three hundred and sixty dollars is out about right
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: nine times for yeah, three hundred and sixty bucks a
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: month from seven hundred yeah on that's yeah, okay, but they.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Look at it, but look at the.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Cost of gasoline where he is saving three hundred or
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: more a month, And now it's going to explode and
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: we are My electric car all of a sudden looks
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: a whole lot better. Amy, you have a gas car.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: How much do you spend per month on gas?
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Depends on how many trips to Disneyland I make. No,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: it's probably about two fifty really close to the here.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but even that is too fifty a month. And
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: will what do you spend a month on gas?
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Probably probably about that much.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Oh no, that's true. And uh how much do you
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: spend on gas? Amy's running around someplace, Neil gas prices
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: for you.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: I couldn't even tell you. I just don't go anywhere, Okay,
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: I really don't, probably less than will.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, And I spend and I spend nothing on
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: gas because I have an EV although I don't although
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I don't Nanner, Although I don't know what energy cost
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: is because it sucks up. Those evs cost a lot
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: of money in electricity to charge. Yeah, I've never I
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: have the only place I have charged, and I've had
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the car it'll be three years in August. I have
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: never charged in a public charging station.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Is getting expensive?
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the only place I've ever charged is here at
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the station, which is ridiculously expensive, and at home, and
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I have a solar system as well as a battery
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: system at home.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: So well, thankfully, by using electricity, you're not using natural gas.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: Oh wait, wait, yeah, that's true. Yeah, it's our natural gas,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: but far cheaper. Yeah, but far cheaper. And in terms
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: of the emissions, the national gas the natural gas plants
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: cause a lot less emissions than the equivalent power that
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the cars that the cars produced.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: So there's a.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Wind but for a living, and give more carbon in
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: the air than you would have if you, yes, used
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: a gas car and you didn't talk for a living.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Okay, but I do when you're out of luck.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: All right, coming up, Americans leaving the US and record numbers.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: And at the bottom of the hour, we're gonna go
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: back to retro radio. We started it yesterday and it's
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: great fun something that hasn't happened what thirty years maybe,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: And I'll explain all that to you when we come back.
• 24:13
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• 24:16
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