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The Ron Verb Show - 5pm Hour Tuesday, July 22, 2026 · Ron Verb

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Speaker 1: Now, Ron Verb on News Radio 570 WKBN.
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Speaker 2: 506, it's 78 degrees, Tuesday, July 21st. Ron Verb from
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Speaker 2: the Kingdom of Mahoning, you're on the air. G2, hello.
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Speaker 3: Good evening, Ron. How are you?
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Speaker 2: I am well, sir. Thank you for calling. Comments, please.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's kind of a topsy-turvy world. I've got your...
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Speaker 3: I caught your discussion about the library, which is interesting
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Speaker 3: to me because it's another microcosm of the bigger problem
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Speaker 3: we have, which is that these government-funded entities don't seem
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Speaker 3: to be very responsive to the voters and the taxpayers
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Speaker 3: who they should be responsive to. And that's kind of
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Speaker 3: part of the whole Sovietization of the country. When you
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Speaker 3: think about the important things happening in Congress right now,
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Speaker 3: there are there are two things that are happening right now. Three,
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Speaker 3: I guess. One is that they just passed with a
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Speaker 3: supermajority this housing bill. And just like the infrastructure bill
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Speaker 3: wasn't about infrastructure and the Inflation Reduction Act accelerated inflation,
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Speaker 3: this affordable housing bill just put out giant piles of
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Speaker 3: money for all these connected groups like the economic development
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Speaker 3: groups and everybody else to just go do paid research.
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Speaker 3: It's just money swarming across the country. And the end
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Speaker 3: goal is that they now, now the government is going
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Speaker 3: to have to have at every level, some kind of
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Speaker 3: a plan for developing your community. Well, that sounds kind
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Speaker 3: of logical until you realize it's really not the government's
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Speaker 3: job to figure out where we build things and how
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Speaker 3: we build them. and what they are. It's really up
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Speaker 3: to us. And there could be some zoning and stuff
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Speaker 3: that we now have to deal with. But the truth is,
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Speaker 3: the reason one of the, you know, the great exchange
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Speaker 3: between Gorbachev and Thatcher, where he said, how do you
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Speaker 3: decide where everybody lived? And she said, well, I don't.
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Speaker 3: They figured it out by themselves. And he was astonished.
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Speaker 3: He said, that's the number one thing I spend time
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Speaker 3: on is figuring out who gets what apartment, right? And
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Speaker 3: they all ended up in those Stalin-esque apartments. And what
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Speaker 3: are they trying to do to us? They're trying to
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Speaker 3: push us into high-density housing. So the outcome of this
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Speaker 3: bill is going to be densified suburbs, right, urbanized, and
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Speaker 3: expansion into rural areas. They're going to be annexed or
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Speaker 3: going to be developed. And if somebody has an empty
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Speaker 3: lot in a town, the government is going to have
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Speaker 3: a plan for that lot, which, again, is simply not
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Speaker 3: the role of government. And so we're Sovietizing, right? More
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Speaker 3: and more the government has to take control. And then
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Speaker 3: you look at the Save America Act, which we've talked
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Speaker 3: about now for months. They aren't passing it. They don't
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Speaker 3: seem to have any interest in passing it. Donald Trump
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Speaker 3: did an extraordinary speech a week and a half ago,
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Speaker 3: a week ago, about election fraud. He talked about the Chinese.
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Speaker 3: He didn't hit everything because that would take four hours.
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Speaker 3: But he hit the Chinese involvement. He hit the manipulation
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Speaker 3: of data. He hit the risks of the machines. He
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Speaker 3: hit the problems with mail-in ballots, one of the greatest
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Speaker 3: vectors of fraud. But the other great vector of fraud,
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Speaker 3: no ID required at the polling place. So anybody can
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Speaker 3: show up and vote in anyone else's name. No way
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Speaker 3: to control that. That may seem strange to Ohioans because
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Speaker 3: you have to show an ID in Ohio. But next
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Speaker 3: door in Pennsylvania, they don't. So the Pennsylvanians could just
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Speaker 3: show up and say, sure, I'm Don Jacobs. and vote
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Speaker 3: for Don Jacobs, and their name might be Betty White.
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Speaker 3: So there's a huge problem with election fraud. It is
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Speaker 3: the singular most critical existential threat to the country. And
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Speaker 3: even though the President of the United States just went
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Speaker 3: through this hour and a half dialogue on it, Congress
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Speaker 3: isn't reacting, the media is burying it, and I've got
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Speaker 3: people that I know that are smart people telling me, oh,
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Speaker 3: it's not really an issue. Oh, there were 65 court cases.
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Speaker 3: All the lies that media have told have now soaked
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Speaker 3: into many of the people that are paying it. So
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Speaker 3: the Save America Act, it has multiple elements with north
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Speaker 3: of 70% popularity among all likely voters, not just Democrats
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Speaker 3: or Republicans, everybody. That can't get passed. But you know
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Speaker 3: what it is going through? Right now they're putting through
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Speaker 3: the National Defense Authorization Act. And in the House, they
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Speaker 3: just had this come out of committee without debate. What
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Speaker 3: did they want to avoid the debate on was this
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Speaker 3: Section 219, which changes our relationship with Israel. So unlike
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Speaker 3: everyone else that we are allied with, Israel now will,
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Speaker 3: by legislation, be incorporated into our defense budget and will have,
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Speaker 3: by dictate of Congress, not by the command structure or...
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Speaker 3: In response to threats, it's going to be dictated by Congress,
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Speaker 3: the last people you want doing this. They're going to
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Speaker 3: have an officer that's responsible for making sure that this
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Speaker 3: integration happens, and they're going to list several areas of integration.
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Speaker 3: So the people that are opposed to this say you're
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Speaker 3: merging the Israeli military into the United States military, and
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Speaker 3: certainly budget-wise you are. Operationally they say, but you're not
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Speaker 3: doing that because you're not transferring command and control. You
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Speaker 3: realize they couldn't possibly do that, right? They couldn't actually say,
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Speaker 3: we're going to let Israel decide where our soldiers fight,
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Speaker 3: what ship goes where, what plane flies there. They couldn't
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Speaker 3: quite go that far. But there is a reason that
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Speaker 3: they're giving Israel this treatment that no one else gets.
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Speaker 3: And the reason is to more tightly bind our militaries
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Speaker 3: so that these excursions we go on happen more easily,
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Speaker 3: and most importantly... so that whatever we spend on Israel's
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Speaker 3: military isn't disclosed, because it's all now going to be
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Speaker 3: rolled up into the $ 1. 5 trillion war budget. $ 1. 5 trillion.
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Speaker 3: So what they're proposing is to increase, where we're running
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Speaker 3: more than $ 2 trillion deficits, $ 40 trillion of debt, they're
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Speaker 3: going to increase our spending on war by $ 500 billion
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Speaker 3: a year. to $ 1. 5 trillion, a number that's just incalculable. Now,
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Speaker 3: of course, that drives inflation, right, all this money printing.
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Speaker 3: That has all kinds of other problems. For example, it's
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Speaker 3: been since September 10 of 2001 we've known that the
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Speaker 3: military can't manage money because that was the day that
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Speaker 3: they came out and announced the first $ 2 trillion that
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Speaker 3: they couldn't account for, $ 2 trillion lost. Can't account for it.
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Speaker 3: Now we're going to go to a trillion and a
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Speaker 3: half dollar a year expenditure, a $ 500 billion increase, and
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Speaker 3: we're going to bury Israel in there. And the argument is, yes,
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Speaker 3: but they're not going to get foreign aid anymore.
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Speaker 4: We're only getting.
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Speaker 3: $ 3 or $ 4 billion in foreign aid. We give them
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Speaker 3: money a lot of different ways. The foreign aid thing
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Speaker 3: is not the offset. Now they can get as much
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Speaker 3: money as they can get Congress to give them, as
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Speaker 3: they can get earmarked in that budget, or as they
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Speaker 3: can get the military to give them. And these people
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Speaker 3: have tremendous powers, as you know. Why are we doing this?
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Speaker 3: Why are we effectively merging it? Again, if you want
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Speaker 3: to split hairs and say, well, you know, command structure
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Speaker 3: and all that, fine. Use a different phrase, but nobody
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Speaker 3: else gets this treatment. So why are we doing this?
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Speaker 3: Why didn't Netanyahu call Marlon Stutzman and say, hey, why
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Speaker 3: don't you write me up a bill? Because I don't
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Speaker 3: want to be exposed to the unpopular nature of foreign
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Speaker 3: aid anymore. I want to be baked in to the
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Speaker 3: defense bill. And by the way, I'd like it to
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Speaker 3: go up by $ 500 billion. Why didn't Netanyahu call Stutzman
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Speaker 3: and have him draft that bill or that amendment to
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Speaker 3: the NDA? I mean, if it's not a merger, then
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Speaker 3: what is the point? So what's going to happen tomorrow, apparently,
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Speaker 3: is there's going to be a vote unless something gets upturned.
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Speaker 3: There's going to be a vote on the $ 1. 5 trillion.
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Speaker 3: So Congress will have voted on this Israeli element plus
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Speaker 3: the rest of the $ 1. 5 trillion bill, at least the
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Speaker 3: House will. they will have passed the Soviet Affordable Housing Act,
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Speaker 3: and the SAVE Act is still dying on the vine,
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Speaker 3: and just in case we're paying attention, they're not talking
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Speaker 3: about aliens again. I mean, the constant distraction. Every time
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Speaker 3: they whip out the aliens, we know there's something going
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Speaker 3: on in D.C. we need to pay attention to, and
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Speaker 3: they just want to distract us with the aliens. So
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Speaker 3: I will tell you, I think we're in great distress,
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Speaker 3: but if you look at the microcosm of the library...
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Speaker 3: And all these questions that are had, it's clear the
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Speaker 3: communications they have. Remember, they have an investor's relations guy
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Speaker 3: or person. They have a stakeholder relations person. I find
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Speaker 3: that it's a library, for God's sakes. And yet the
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Speaker 3: stakeholders have tremendous numbers of questions that can't get answered,
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Speaker 3: and their answer is kind of like, hey, how dare
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Speaker 3: you ask us? I read the article in the Vindicator.
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Speaker 3: And then on the other side, you roll all the
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Speaker 3: way up to a military with $ 1. 5 trillion spending, and
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Speaker 3: it's all black box. There's no way to know. There's
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Speaker 3: an intelligence bill coming next that's going to take the
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Speaker 3: same approach with Israel. Now, I don't care if you're
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Speaker 3: a Zionist Christian or a Zionist Jew or not a Zionist.
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Speaker 3: I don't care. I don't understand how any of this
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Speaker 3: makes sense for a sovereign nation to do. Of course,
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Speaker 3: in response to this, there's been a lot of talk
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Speaker 3: about Zionism, and there's a video floating around of Barry
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Speaker 3: Goldwater explaining how he views Congress as occupied territory because
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Speaker 3: the Zionists have taken control. That was Barry Goldwater. He's
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Speaker 3: been dead a while. So I think, you know, again...
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Speaker 3: We just simply can't get back to the place where
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Speaker 3: the American people are being represented by Congress, where Congress
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Speaker 3: is implementing the America First agenda we sent them there
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Speaker 3: to implement, and where we're moving the country back onto
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Speaker 3: the path of normalcy. Meanwhile, you've got this Democrat Socialist
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Speaker 3: of America rising up within the Democrat Party. We're to
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Speaker 3: believe that's organic, by the way. I suppose we're supposed
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Speaker 3: to think that's just a popular movement. There's no chance
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Speaker 3: that's a popular movement. That's a funded mission. That is
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Speaker 3: an organized, structured, and funded group that has a mission.
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Speaker 3: And the mission, of course, is to move us ever
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Speaker 3: further down that Soviet path. Now, at a time when
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Speaker 3: they basically stripped us of capitalism because the government's dictating everything,
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Speaker 3: funding everything, you know, you think of people on the
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Speaker 3: dole as the people that are getting SNAP benefits and,
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Speaker 3: you know, Medicaid. The people on the dole are the
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Speaker 3: people that are sitting up in a sports arena, billionaire,
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Speaker 3: that had the taxpayers subsidize his store, his arena. The
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Speaker 3: people that are on the dole are the people that
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Speaker 3: live on government contracts and make $ 2 million a year
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Speaker 3: or $ 700, 000 a year or whatever number on government contracts
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Speaker 3: because there's no independent markets. The people that are on
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Speaker 3: the government dole, the people that use regulatory burdens put
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Speaker 3: on small businesses to maintain a vast moat around their
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Speaker 3: company because small businesses can't handle the regulatory burden that
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Speaker 3: they lobby for. People are going to say, well, why
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Speaker 3: would that company want to have the burden of regulations
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Speaker 3: on their own industry? Well, because that keeps anyone else
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Speaker 3: from entering their industry. If you don't have an army
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Speaker 3: of attorneys and consultants, you can't deal with the regulations.
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Speaker 3: So the conclusion is... Somehow we have to find our
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Speaker 3: way out of this Sovietization path and back to a free, prosperous,
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Speaker 3: safe and secure country where freedom isn't just political, it's
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Speaker 3: speech and it's economic freedom. And you can't have economic
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Speaker 3: freedom if you've got distorted capital markets and you've got
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Speaker 3: distorted regulatory markets and you don't have a healthy small
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Speaker 3: business environment. So, you know, we got to get something
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Speaker 3: done here. And I just don't see any movement in
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Speaker 3: Congress at all.
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Speaker 5: None.
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Speaker 3: So I'm troubled.
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Speaker 2: What's your thoughts about the situation in Iran?
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Speaker 3: Well, look, if you look at the activity over the
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Speaker 3: last 24 hours, they've been lobbing missiles and drones back
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Speaker 3: and forth. The United States released a– the Pentagon released
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Speaker 3: a video. If you haven't seen it, you should. It
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Speaker 3: is the most stunning– battlefield video I've ever seen. It's
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Speaker 3: about 12 minutes and 58 seconds long, something like that.
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Speaker 3: And in that video, you'll see rocket launchers being taken out.
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Speaker 3: You'll see individual infantry on the ground being taken out.
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Speaker 3: And these things are being attacked from like 30,000 feet
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Speaker 3: in some cases by aircraft. It's incredible, the capabilities. So
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Speaker 3: the United States continues to hammer away. Iran continues to respond.
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Speaker 3: The Gulf countries, their neighbors are getting, I think, you know,
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Speaker 3: well past the point of wanting to be on the sidelines.
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Speaker 3: I think you're going to see more pressure there. And
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Speaker 3: that doesn't necessarily have to only be kinetic. It could
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Speaker 3: be just, you know, stopping them from doing things that
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Speaker 3: we wouldn't be able to know about, you know, like
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Speaker 3: moving cargos through rail lines or trucks. You know, their
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Speaker 3: neighbors know everything, right? So I think this thing is...
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Speaker 3: is far from decided. Trump is going to have to
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Speaker 3: just smash and break everything he can find over there.
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Speaker 3: He's going to have to do that until the, specifically
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Speaker 3: targeting the IRGC, until that IRGC is really on its back. Now, remember,
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Speaker 3: the IRGC controls, I think it's like half of the economy,
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Speaker 3: let's say, roughly, over there, just the way the People's Republican,
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Speaker 3: or the People's Revolution, the PRC in China controls. runs everything.
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Speaker 3: The army in China runs everything. Just like that, these
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Speaker 3: guys are running a lot of the economy. So he's
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Speaker 3: got to keep this economic pressure on. And I know
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Speaker 3: I said this before, but the folks that say that
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Speaker 3: Iran is getting stronger every day, go figure. Explain that.
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Speaker 5: How?
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Speaker 3: Because they can't ship oil. They don't have any revenue.
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Speaker 3: They can't get free flows of arms in to resupply
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Speaker 3: because they can't use their airspace or their ocean. They
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Speaker 3: can't use the strait. That's making them stronger because they
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Speaker 3: have growing unrest in their own cities, because food is
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Speaker 3: now tight, because their infrastructure is being degraded. Now their
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Speaker 3: IRGC is being degraded. That's what's making them stronger. Iran
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Speaker 3: isn't getting stronger by the day. So Trump has to
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Speaker 3: keep the pressure on now at maximum push until he
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Speaker 3: gets them to finally come to some agreements. Now, a
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Speaker 3: lot of folks are talking about preparing for a ground invasion.
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Speaker 3: I've talked to some people about this who have done
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Speaker 3: ground invasions.
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Speaker 2: Stand by.
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Speaker 3: All right, stand by.
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Speaker 2: Back with G2 in a minute. News Radio 570, WDKVN
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Speaker 2: All right. I'll tell you something when you're talking about
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Speaker 2: this situation, and I'll just let you respond. I think
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Speaker 2: that this is a disaster. I'm just going to tell
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Speaker 2: you right up front. I mean, this thing has just
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Speaker 2: been dragging on and on and on, and I don't
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Speaker 2: see any end in sight. I mean, I've listened to
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Speaker 2: what you've been talking about. I mean, obviously, there's no
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Speaker 2: point in talking about it. It was a mistake from
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Speaker 2: day one, whether he got into it because of Israel
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Speaker 2: or not in Yahoo, but... It was a mistake from
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Speaker 2: day one, but I don't see any end in sight
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Speaker 2: of this at all. And I just, I'm here to
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Speaker 2: tell you, as, as you see, uh, I think major
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Speaker 2: problems with our oil supply. And I think you're going to,
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Speaker 2: that this is going to create more inflation and higher
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Speaker 2: energy costs. And there's no end in sight to this.
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Speaker 2: It is, it's just a mess and he can continue
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Speaker 2: to bomb them. And so we'll see what, what happens with,
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Speaker 2: with that scenario. Uh, it didn't work before. I'm not
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Speaker 2: so sure it's going to work now. And I just
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Speaker 2: think that, uh, that they do have some cards to
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Speaker 2: play as far as, uh, as far as, um, waiting
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Speaker 2: it out to them, to the midterms, as far as
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Speaker 2: destruction of, uh, oil, the oil supply in other countries.
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Speaker 2: I don't think anything good is going to come from this.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. You can, you can go bomb and bomb
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Speaker 2: and bomb and bomb and bomb, uh, I think when
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Speaker 2: the dust settles, we're going to be paying more for
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Speaker 2: a gallon of gasoline, we're going to be paying more
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Speaker 2: for oil, and we're going to have horrible inflation as
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Speaker 2: a result of this stupid move.
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Speaker 3: Well, there's no question that the– so we went through
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Speaker 3: this with an oil industry expert. And who isn't like
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Speaker 3: these emotional guys that hate Trump?
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Speaker 2: I don't necessarily think they're emotional guys who hate Trump.
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Speaker 3: I think we have a bunch of them who are
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Speaker 3: clearly on a mission simply to be negative. Their analysis
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Speaker 3: is garbage.
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Speaker 2: I think there's a lot to be negative.
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Speaker 3: But I'm emotional, so my analysis is garbage. I've heard
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Speaker 3: plenty of it. But I don't.
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Speaker 2: Think anything good is going to happen here. I mean,
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Speaker 2: go ahead and bomb them some more. Let's see what happens.
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Speaker 2: What do they say? Insanity is doing the same thing again,
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Speaker 2: expecting different results.
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Speaker 3: When you get down to the finer parts of this
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Speaker 3: and you start looking at it, obviously having the straight
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Speaker 3: closed is a problem. What I'm never able to understand
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Speaker 3: is why it's only a problem for us and not
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Speaker 3: for Iran. That part I don't get. Because if they
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Speaker 3: can't ship oil, they are denied a critical lifeline of
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Speaker 3: revenue that they need to keep this thing together. They
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Speaker 3: are not without internal pressure. Remember, long before this happened,
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Speaker 3: a year ago, we were talking about how their military
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Speaker 3: was predominantly focused on internal suppression rather than outward projections
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Speaker 3: of power.
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Speaker 2: Well, do you see them buckling? I mean, do you
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Speaker 2: see them saying, okay, we give up?
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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know what you expect. I mean, you
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Speaker 3: expect them just to come out with a white flag?
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Speaker 3: I mean, look. These people are facing increasing pressure in
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Speaker 3: their own country. Their IRGC resources have been largely focused internally.
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Speaker 3: That's why they can throw out missiles now and again.
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Speaker 3: But really, in terms of a country of that size
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Speaker 3: and power being able to project outward, it hasn't been
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Speaker 3: very impressive. But they're facing an existential threat. They've lost
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Speaker 3: complete control.
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Speaker 6: Of their airspace.
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Speaker 2: I'm facing a threat, too. I'm facing $ 4 a gallon
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Speaker 2: and potentially more than that.
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Speaker 6: More than that.
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Speaker 2: I think you're taking more than that.
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Speaker 3: There's no question. All right.
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Speaker 2: And I don't think that in a war that we
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Speaker 2: really didn't have a say-so on, and I don't think
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Speaker 2: the vast majority of people approve of, as you get
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Speaker 2: closer to the midterms. I mean, you think people are
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Speaker 2: going to sit back and say, let's go to $ 5
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Speaker 2: a gallon again. Let's go to $ 4. 50 because of some situation.
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Speaker 2: that he created, that Trump created this situation. And he
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Speaker 2: created it. And it is a mess. And inflation very
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Speaker 2: well can come back and higher oil prices are coming back.
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Speaker 2: You think that's a win?
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Speaker 3: So let's try to break it down. I understand your argument. right?
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Speaker 3: I haven't been happy this war started either. I think
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Speaker 3: we spent a lot of time on that. I'm simply
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Speaker 3: saying we are where we are. So now the question is,
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Speaker 3: what is the best course of action to get out
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Speaker 3: of here? What is the best course of action to
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Speaker 3: get to a resolution?
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Speaker 2: Do you double down on a mistake? Is that the
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Speaker 2: best course of action to say, we're going to double
20:28
Speaker 2: down on this thing and we don't give a damn
20:31
Speaker 2: if we run out of oil or gas goes to
20:33
Speaker 2: five bucks a gallon or six bucks or jet fuel
20:36
Speaker 2: or diesel? Is that a good direction to go? Because
20:42
Speaker 2: that seems to be the direction we're heading.
20:46
Speaker 3: So there are a whole lot of things here that
20:49
Speaker 3: are very, very difficult to perceive.
20:51
Speaker 2: All right. Well, hang on. Right after the break, you
20:54
Speaker 2: can talk about them. I think it's a disaster. We'll
20:58
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22:44
Speaker 2: coming up here momentarily with G2 at 535. I just...
22:51
Speaker 2: I'm not optimistic on the outcome of this situation, and
22:54
Speaker 2: I sure as hell am not optimistic on what's happening
22:56
Speaker 2: with the economy. And that's the reality of what's going on.
23:06
Speaker 2: I mean, gas prices are going back up. Oil prices.
23:09
Speaker 2: We shall see as time goes on. Keep bombing them.
23:13
Speaker 2: Let's just keep on bombing them. You know, let's see what.
23:16
Speaker 2: We've done a lot of that. He kept telling us, oh,
23:19
Speaker 2: we got him on the ropes. They want a deal.
23:21
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know what to believe anymore. But
23:24
Speaker 2: I'm not believing a lot of what he's telling me.
23:27
Speaker 2: He being Trump.
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
23:30
Speaker 2: I mean, it's all bull crap. They want a deal.
23:33
Speaker 2: They want a deal. We did all this bombing. We
23:35
Speaker 2: got them on the ropes. Well, they didn't throw up
23:38
Speaker 2: the white flag. They didn't give in. They didn't do anything. Oh,
23:41
Speaker 2: we got this memorandum of understanding. Well, that didn't go
23:44
Speaker 2: too well either. Well, what makes you think if we
23:47
Speaker 2: do more that all of a sudden it's going to
23:48
Speaker 2: change that? We just keep on going. You want to
23:52
Speaker 2: do this for a year? How long do you want
23:54
Speaker 2: to do this? I'm asking you.
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Speaker 3: So with regard to the war, right, that side of it, again,
24:05
Speaker 3: I understand that we're being told all the time how
24:07
Speaker 3: great this is for Iran, how well they're doing, how
24:09
Speaker 3: they're kicking our ass. This is not a great time
24:13
Speaker 3: for them. They are not prospering. Their infrastructure is being degraded.
24:16
Speaker 3: This is not.
24:17
Speaker 2: But I counter that by saying it's not a great
24:19
Speaker 2: time for us either.
24:20
Speaker 3: Fair enough.
24:25
Speaker 2: I mean, it just isn't. I mean, the market's up
24:30
Speaker 2: and crashing and comes down one day. Oil prices are down.
24:34
Speaker 2: They're way back up. I mean, where do you want
24:36
Speaker 2: to go with this? I mean, what's the strategy here?
24:40
Speaker 2: What's the plan here? I mean, it seems so, I
24:44
Speaker 2: don't know how to describe it, just so damn half-assed
24:46
Speaker 2: at this point in time to me.
24:51
Speaker 3: Go ahead. I don't think it's that. I mean, you know,
24:56
Speaker 3: You look at the execution of this. These guys have
24:58
Speaker 3: done a fantastic job, and they are extraordinarily effective in
25:04
Speaker 3: using the tools they're using. The question is, are those
25:06
Speaker 3: tools enough? Well, it depends. The most important weapon we're
25:10
Speaker 3: using right now is economic pressure. And one of the
25:16
Speaker 3: pressures that they're facing that is significant is increasing internal pressure.
25:20
Speaker 3: It is absolutely the case that certain elements within Iran
25:23
Speaker 3: would like to do a deal, and certain elements within
25:25
Speaker 3: Iran will never want to do a deal. But as
25:29
Speaker 3: the pressure grows, that's going to change. Now, will that
25:32
Speaker 3: happen in time to save the midterms? I don't know.
25:35
Speaker 3: But we got bigger issues with the midterms before this came.
25:39
Speaker 3: I don't know if they're bigger issues, but we have
25:41
Speaker 3: significant issues with the midterms just in what Johnson and
25:44
Speaker 3: Thune are doing. They are significantly harming the Republican Party,
25:48
Speaker 3: and they will not stop. So by passing things like
25:53
Speaker 3: the housing bill, but not the bills that the people
25:55
Speaker 3: care about, they're not helping. Now you add on top
25:58
Speaker 3: of that high gas prices and a war. All right,
26:01
Speaker 3: we voted for Trump because he promised no wars. We
26:04
Speaker 3: did not vote for wars. So, yeah, I don't think
26:08
Speaker 3: this was a good idea. I think we established that
26:10
Speaker 3: with great clarity. But now we're here. So there are
26:13
Speaker 3: two choices. Continue the pressure, continue the economic pressure, or
26:19
Speaker 3: walk away... And what comes after that is going to
26:23
Speaker 3: be ugly because they're going to get whatever path they
26:27
Speaker 3: were on before. I do not think they had a
26:28
Speaker 3: nuclear weapon before, but they certainly want one, and they
26:31
Speaker 3: will be renewing that effort. You've got Israel over there
26:34
Speaker 3: who's never going to stop telling us we've got to
26:36
Speaker 3: go destroy Iran, and they'll do whatever they have to
26:39
Speaker 3: do to make that happen. If they've got to do
26:41
Speaker 3: a false flag, they'll false flag it. So you've got
26:45
Speaker 3: a problem that whether or not this is the right
26:48
Speaker 3: time to handle it, we're now engaged. So it's either
26:52
Speaker 3: fight through it or quit. And I just don't see
26:55
Speaker 3: how quitting is going to work right now. It's just not. Now,
27:00
Speaker 3: in the oil markets, if you look at specifically what's
27:04
Speaker 3: going on, yes, they drew down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
27:09
Speaker 3: from the time Biden took office until he left office.
27:11
Speaker 3: They drew that thing down hard, far more than it's
27:15
Speaker 3: been drawn down as a result of this war. So
27:18
Speaker 3: we came into the war, and by the way, you
27:21
Speaker 3: and I talked about this and warned about this in 22.
27:26
Speaker 3: We warned about the fact that they were drawing down
27:29
Speaker 3: the Strategic Patrolling Reserve to help them in the midterms,
27:32
Speaker 3: and that's not what it was for. It wasn't to
27:35
Speaker 3: offset bad energy policy in advance of an election. Well,
27:40
Speaker 3: now we're here. And they took far more of the
27:43
Speaker 3: Strategic Patrolling Reserve was drawn down by the Democrats protecting
27:48
Speaker 3: themselves in the midterms than by Trump in reaction to
27:52
Speaker 3: this war. That said, we're getting to a point where
27:56
Speaker 3: we're hitting a level that we can't continue to draw.
28:00
Speaker 3: There was damage done to this, the infrastructure for that
28:03
Speaker 3: reserve before Trump took office. Well, now you're drawing it
28:07
Speaker 3: down to a point where if you keep going, you're
28:09
Speaker 3: going to have other problems. So we're running out of
28:11
Speaker 3: our ability to draw down. It is not as clear
28:14
Speaker 3: where China is. So far, they've had plenty of material
28:18
Speaker 3: to draw down. They've been able to buy some. You know,
28:20
Speaker 3: they've been making it work. But, yeah, it's absolutely the
28:23
Speaker 3: case that we could be looking at much more, at
28:28
Speaker 3: big increases in oil prices between now and November. And
28:32
Speaker 3: that's going to be a disaster. But the die is cast.
28:36
Speaker 3: Pulling out isn't necessarily the option here. But remember as
28:42
Speaker 3: well that with the Saudis, with UAE, we've talked about
28:44
Speaker 3: that a lot. With what's happening down in Venezuela, they're
28:47
Speaker 3: now up like 700,000 barrels a day. It's a remarkable
28:50
Speaker 3: turnaround in Venezuela. You've got Brazil and others pumping out
28:53
Speaker 3: more and more. That has taken off some of the
28:57
Speaker 3: pressure on the energy markets. But, of course, what's happening
29:00
Speaker 3: in Russia is going the other way. Because the Europeans,
29:05
Speaker 3: and to some degree us, continue to feed the war
29:08
Speaker 3: in Ukraine, and now they're launching these long-range drones specifically
29:13
Speaker 3: at oil and gas infrastructure inside Russia. So if you
29:16
Speaker 3: look at Russia, it was an exporter of jet fuel.
29:20
Speaker 3: They've canceled that. They were exporting gasoline. They stopped that.
29:24
Speaker 3: They were exporting diesel fuel. They stopped that. I'd say,
29:28
Speaker 3: I don't know, between April and July they stopped those,
29:31
Speaker 3: or June maybe they stopped all of that. So they're
29:35
Speaker 3: now conserving their own supplies because these lunatics in Europe won't.
29:40
Speaker 3: allow this war to end. Remember Boris Johnson went over
29:42
Speaker 3: and stopped it? And that's now beginning to affect their
29:45
Speaker 3: ability to refine petroleum inside Russia. Well, we were counting
29:49
Speaker 3: on Russia exporting more to keep the markets in check.
29:52
Speaker 3: That's a factor no one's counting because it doesn't help
29:55
Speaker 3: the narrative against Trump. But that's the reality, right? And
30:01
Speaker 3: so I would really like to see Russia get back
30:04
Speaker 3: in shape to repair its refining capacity and then begin
30:09
Speaker 3: exporting again. We really could use that. That would be helpful.
30:12
Speaker 3: But I guess we've got to keep the coke head
30:14
Speaker 3: in Kiev stoused up with cash. So then you look
30:20
Speaker 3: at this energy market globally. Yes, we're headed for rougher
30:23
Speaker 3: waters until this thing gets solved. But I don't understand
30:26
Speaker 3: how people are seeing with such clarity what's happening in
30:28
Speaker 3: the country of Iran, because what I'm hearing from people
30:32
Speaker 3: that study such things is that this is a country
30:36
Speaker 3: under increasing pressure internally because they have a tremendous amount
30:41
Speaker 3: of stress. If they aren't paying the IRGC, the IRGC
30:46
Speaker 3: isn't necessarily going to do what they want them to do.
30:49
Speaker 3: They've got to have the cash flow to keep the
30:51
Speaker 3: tyranny going. This is a, this is not, this is
30:55
Speaker 3: a group that's extremely popular with us with one set
30:58
Speaker 3: of Iranian people and not with some others. It's not
31:02
Speaker 3: a homogenous singular group. So, so, um, so I think
31:07
Speaker 3: the strategy that Trump is, is employing is to continue
31:11
Speaker 3: to degrade their infrastructure and their ability to export and import,
31:15
Speaker 3: you know, on the rail lines on the backside by
31:17
Speaker 3: Turkmenistan and, and, uh, continue to degrade their infrastructure, continue
31:24
Speaker 3: now to work down the IRGC, and when you see
31:28
Speaker 3: them hitting these military units, obviously our capabilities as a
31:33
Speaker 3: nation are just incredible. A trillion dollars does that. But
31:38
Speaker 3: they've just got to keep that going, keep the pressure on,
31:41
Speaker 3: and then get the rest of the Gulf countries to
31:43
Speaker 3: also add their pressure to it, And here's one of
31:46
Speaker 3: the things that no one seems to understand, or at
31:48
Speaker 3: least isn't giving any recognition of. No one's coming to help.
31:54
Speaker 3: China isn't rushing in there to help them. The Russians
31:56
Speaker 3: aren't rushing in there to help them. They have no
31:59
Speaker 3: external forces that are rushing in to help. Which, you know,
32:04
Speaker 3: if you think about the Korean War, right? The Korean
32:09
Speaker 3: War was over. The U.S. and the Allied forces had
32:12
Speaker 3: pushed all the way up to the Chinese border almost.
32:16
Speaker 3: And then 900,000 Chinese troops came across the border, and
32:19
Speaker 3: all of a sudden we had the Chosin Reservoir fight.
32:23
Speaker 3: And so you just don't see that here. They just
32:27
Speaker 3: don't have the outside support that they need to keep going. Now,
32:31
Speaker 3: I still say it would be an absolute disaster to
32:33
Speaker 3: do a ground invasion. I don't think... that our military
32:37
Speaker 3: fails to understand that. I don't have some unique insight
32:41
Speaker 3: into the fact that this, both from a terrain standpoint,
32:43
Speaker 3: a population standpoint, a density standpoint, this is a huge
32:47
Speaker 3: piece of ground that you would have to control. I
32:51
Speaker 3: just don't think they're going to do that. Now, maybe
32:53
Speaker 3: they try to do something around the Strait. I don't know.
32:56
Speaker 3: But we do not have, as far as I can tell,
32:59
Speaker 3: the kind of infrastructure there from a military standpoint that
33:03
Speaker 3: would support any significant ground invasion. That's great news. So
33:08
Speaker 3: I understand your frustrations. I don't disagree. But, you know,
33:12
Speaker 3: they bombed them enough in the first round that they
33:14
Speaker 3: did tremendous damage and brought them to the table. Now
33:18
Speaker 3: they're at them a second round. It's getting deeper. They've
33:21
Speaker 3: gone past the first-tier targets. Now they're in the second-tier targets,
33:25
Speaker 3: then the third-tier targets. They're working down the list to
33:29
Speaker 3: an ever-deeper penetration into that country, and it is going
33:33
Speaker 3: to be a problem. So let's see if they can
33:36
Speaker 3: get them back to the table, and maybe this time
33:38
Speaker 3: some more moderate people, you know, win. And maybe Israel
33:43
Speaker 3: doesn't spend so much time trying to disrupt the negotiations. So,
33:49
Speaker 3: you know, I don't think you're wrong. This is a situation. But,
33:56
Speaker 3: you know, it's gone as far as a military exercise
33:59
Speaker 3: being executed. This has been stunning.
34:02
Speaker 6: Right.
34:02
Speaker 2: Listen, I don't disagree with that. All I'm saying is
34:06
Speaker 2: if it's a mistake from the very beginning, which it is,
34:09
Speaker 2: and you don't think it's going to inflict economic harm,
34:13
Speaker 2: which it already is doing on this country, which could
34:16
Speaker 2: get a lot more severe, then I think people are foolish.
34:22
Speaker 2: I just think they're foolish. It's... The oil situation is
34:26
Speaker 2: not in a good situation. The gasoline situation, I don't
34:30
Speaker 2: care if it's diesel fuel or gasoline. And inflation. I mean,
34:36
Speaker 2: it is just, this very well could be a disaster,
34:41
Speaker 2: I think, economically. And if he loses the midterms, he
34:45
Speaker 2: has no one to blame but himself. Period. No one
34:48
Speaker 2: to blame but himself.
34:50
Speaker 3: I would expand the group a little further because there
34:52
Speaker 3: were trouble for the midterms before this war started. And
34:55
Speaker 3: I have been since, I don't know, since around March
34:59
Speaker 3: of 2025, I've been putting this on these traitors in
35:03
Speaker 3: Congress who refuse to respond.
35:05
Speaker 2: Well, it's the economy, stupid. And I think it still is.
35:09
Speaker 2: And if you've got high inflation, those gas prices determine
35:13
Speaker 2: how people vote.
35:14
Speaker 3: Let's take some calls.
35:14
Speaker 2: You're on the air.
35:20
Speaker 3: Hi, Ron. How are you doing, Vladimir? Listen, have you
35:24
Speaker 3: been to Taco Bell?
35:26
Speaker 6: Have you been to Taco Bell recently?
35:27
Speaker 4: Because I think you've got diarrhea in the mouth. Everything
35:30
Speaker 4: you say is lies.
35:32
Speaker 3: You know, the thing is that... All right, hold on, JJ.
35:35
Speaker 3: Take one and say it. Just give me one and
35:39
Speaker 3: say it. We are becoming weaker. One point. What do
35:44
Speaker 3: you mean one point?
35:45
Speaker 8: Don't tell me what to do.
35:46
Speaker 4: You come on here all the time and all you
35:48
Speaker 4: do is flap your lips and you lie. First of all,
35:51
Speaker 4: the 2022 election was not rigged. Everything that he put
35:55
Speaker 4: out the other day went against him. China didn't get
35:58
Speaker 4: any of that information for 2022 after the election. So
36:01
Speaker 4: knock it off. Everything that he missed about it by
36:03
Speaker 4: saying that the election had been rigged was only the
36:06
Speaker 4: one that he lost.
36:08
Speaker 6: Any moron can understand that.
36:10
Speaker 4: And second of all, he got us into a position
36:12
Speaker 4: right now that if we walk away, we're in trouble.
36:15
Speaker 3: If we stay, we're in trouble.
36:17
Speaker 4: I don't think anybody really realizes how bad this is.
36:21
Speaker 4: Because we don't.
36:22
Speaker 3: Have any allies either, Vladimir.
36:25
Speaker 4: They might not have any allies, but we don't. And
36:27
Speaker 4: I'm telling you, man, when people like you continue to talk,
36:30
Speaker 4: how do they listen to Bubba Canoosh than listen to you?
36:34
Speaker 4: Because at least he's kind of genuine in a way.
36:36
Speaker 3: You're just lying.
36:37
Speaker 2: Okay?
36:38
Speaker 4: Ron called you on I don't know how many things,
36:41
Speaker 4: and you were like, like me. You sound like me.
36:43
Speaker 4: Enough is enough. He needs to be taken out.
36:48
Speaker 6: He needs to be taken out of office.
36:49
Speaker 3: Can you be more specific? Can you pick? I know.
36:51
Speaker 3: Can you just make a specific point that we can address?
36:56
Speaker 3: But can you say something meaningful that we can address,
36:58
Speaker 3: like a question or a point?
37:00
Speaker 4: Let's just say something that's meaningful instead of it's just
37:02
Speaker 4: a bunch of diarrhea.
37:03
Speaker 2: Coming out of your mouth. Well, that is going to.
37:06
Speaker 2: It's the lettuce thing. All right. Thanks, JJ.
37:08
Speaker 6: It's the lettuce thing.
37:09
Speaker 3: All right.
37:09
Speaker 2: You're on the air. Hello.
37:13
Speaker 8: For one minute. I guess Trump thought that they wouldn't retaliate.
37:18
Speaker 8: They've retaliated every time. I said that from the beginning.
37:22
Speaker 8: I said, they're going to retaliate. You think they're just
37:24
Speaker 8: going to sit there and say, okay, just bomb the
37:27
Speaker 8: hell out of us. That's okay. Right or wrong?
37:31
Speaker 3: Unbelievable.
37:33
Speaker 8: And Ron, I want to say this to you. Ten
37:36
Speaker 8: days ago, I said, gas prices are out of the world.
37:41
Speaker 8: Grocery prices are out of the world. The stock market's taken,
37:44
Speaker 8: and we're in a war. And you know what you said?
37:48
Speaker 8: You know what you said, Ron?
37:50
Speaker 2: What did I say?
37:51
Speaker 8: You hung up on me. And now today, you're saying
37:55
Speaker 8: exactly what I said.
37:57
Speaker 2: No, I've been saying it for a while. You're on
37:59
Speaker 2: the air. I mean, no offense to you, but I've
38:01
Speaker 2: been saying it for a while. You're on the air.
38:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've been saying it for a while. Hello.
38:05
Speaker 5: Hello, Ron?
38:06
Speaker 3: Yes. I've got a point to make.
38:09
Speaker 5: You know, we took out, basically, they have, Iran has
38:13
Speaker 5: no Air Force, and they have no Navy.
38:16
Speaker 3: Other than maybe a few.
38:18
Speaker 2: We know that.
38:20
Speaker 5: But here's the thing. And they continue to hit our
38:25
Speaker 5: bases and whatever with drones and some ballistic missiles. My
38:30
Speaker 5: question is this. If you look at a map of
38:33
Speaker 5: the Middle East, is it all possible that they may
38:36
Speaker 5: be getting some supplies, help from Russia to Afghanistan or,
38:46
Speaker 5: you know, Pakistan?
38:48
Speaker 3: Or Turkmenistan or through the Caspian Sea?
38:51
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. I mean, there's a lot of, I mean,
38:55
Speaker 5: you know, I mean, unless we have planes up there
38:59
Speaker 5: that are basically covering that area. to see if they're
39:04
Speaker 5: getting equipment, you know, because they seem not to be
39:10
Speaker 5: grinding out of equipment. Well, what do you think?
39:15
Speaker 2: All right, quick comment.
39:16
Speaker 3: All right, so there was a tanker that was pulled
39:19
Speaker 3: over the other day that turned out to be full
39:20
Speaker 3: of equipment that was being shipped in in a cargo truck,
39:24
Speaker 3: in a truck that was supposed to be weathered.
39:26
Speaker 2: Hold that thought. Hold that thought. Back in a minute.
39:29
Speaker 2: Stay tuned.
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39:55
Speaker 3: Well, there's no question that they could be getting some material.
39:58
Speaker 3: They've got a lot of border area or a lot
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Speaker 3: of ground to bring material in. There's no question they can't.
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Speaker 3: The question is how much, what volume, how sustained can
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Speaker 3: it be?
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Speaker 2: All right. I've got to take some more calls. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: You're on the air. Hello. Hello? Yes, go ahead. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Hey, Ron.
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Speaker 4: First-time caller.
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Speaker 5: Go ahead.
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Speaker 4: Hey, I... I sit back, you know, I'm a 70-year-old
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Speaker 4: white Republican, okay, voted for Trump. I'm telling you, I
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Speaker 4: see things that just tell me the Republican Party is cooked.
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Speaker 4: And my frame of.
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Speaker 6: Reference, remember 10 years ago when.
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Speaker 4: Bernie ran under the Democratic ticket and he was ousted
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Speaker 4: by Hillary. At that point, 18 to 29-year-olds, 71% were
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Speaker 4: for Bernie. 50% of the 30 to 44-year-olds were for Bernie.
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Speaker 2: The years.
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Speaker 5: Why?
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Speaker 4: Because they weren't included in prosperity. And what has happened
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Speaker 4: since then? They're still not included. We have a K-shaped
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Speaker 4: economy where the top 20%, the people that can afford.
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Speaker 6: To invest in hard assets, their value goes up with inflation.
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Speaker 4: And the bottom 80 is sitting there worse off than
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Speaker 4: they were in uh... two thousand twenty six or two
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Speaker 4: thousand sixteen.
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Speaker 6: You know housing prices have doubled since then mortgage rates
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Speaker 6: have doubled uh..
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Speaker 4: Inflation rate has gone through the roof there's no out
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Speaker 4: here i think the republican party was cooked then they
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Speaker 4: missed the opportunity to say why do all these people
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Speaker 4: want bernie and what can we do to get that
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Speaker 4: group under our wing they did nothing you know instead
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Speaker 4: is on television surrounded by his billionaires.
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Speaker 6: He made over a couple billion.
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Speaker 4: Last year with a rug pull crypto scheme like they
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Speaker 4: have no clue what we go.
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Speaker 2: Through the rest of us go through i gotta i
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Speaker 2: gotta cut you off only because i'm running out of
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Speaker 2: time but i agree with your statements i i think
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Speaker 2: that you you are correct you call me again when
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Speaker 2: i have more time okay I think he's identifying a
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Speaker 2: huge problem that's going on out there, and it will
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Speaker 2: exacerbate as inflation goes up more. Comment?
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Speaker 3: Well, we've talked about it at length. We gave the
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Speaker 3: Republican Party a path to long-term victory, and that was
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Speaker 3: this American agenda, which would have done everything he's talking about.
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Speaker 2: And he got away from it.
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Speaker 3: No, they got away from it. Instead, they blocked it
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Speaker 3: at every turn. More tomorrow.