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Wayne Allyn Root’s WAR Zone 12-15-25 Hour 1 · Wayne Allyn Root’s WAR Zone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Warning!
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  Speaker 2: The Root!
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  Speaker 3: The Root!
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  Speaker 1: The Root's on fire!
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  Speaker 4: You're about to experience the most high-octane, pedal-to-the-metal controversial show
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  Speaker 4: of your life. Please buckle up and hold on tightly.
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  Speaker 4: This station is not responsible for injuries. This is Wayne
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  Speaker 4: Allen Root, direct from the entertainment capital of the world,
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  Speaker 4: Las Vegas. What time is it? It's time for War!
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  Speaker 4: Here's your host, 100% raw truth, 100% American made, the warrior,
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  Speaker 4: Wayne Allen Root.
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  Speaker 1: All right, here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome, welcome, welcome to day 15 of December 2025. My
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  Speaker 5: name is Lee Elsie, the voice of freedom filling in
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  Speaker 5: for the one and the only Wayne Allen Root.
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  Speaker 1: I think Wayne told you.
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  Speaker 5: Where he was going tonight. If not, I guess I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to I'm going to let you in on a
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  Speaker 5: little secret.
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  Speaker 1: So Wayne is not with us tonight.
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  Speaker 5: He'll probably be back tomorrow night, but he is hanging
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  Speaker 5: out with President Donald J.
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  Speaker 1: Trump tonight.
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  Speaker 5: At a big fancy get-together in Washington, D.C. at the
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  Speaker 5: White House. So it's kind of great. He's been going
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  Speaker 5: there quite often, so kudos to Wayne Allen Root for
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  Speaker 5: doing that.
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  Speaker 1: So you get me, yours truly.
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  Speaker 5: I do have a couple of great hours of broadcast
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  Speaker 5: for you. So here's where you can watch us. You
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  Speaker 5: can watch us on thegatewaypundit.com. Patriot TV, which, as I say,
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  Speaker 5: every time I fill in, I get a chance to
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  Speaker 5: morning from 6 a.m. to 9 at 6 a.m. to
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  Speaker 5: hear tonight or any time. You can always tune in
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  Speaker 5: to me on Rumble each and every morning and get a.
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  Speaker 1: Hold of us that way.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, there's apps, there's radio stations that are holding us. There's, again,
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  Speaker 5: Patriot TV, Gateway Pundit, Wayne's Rumble, Wayne's X, Wayne's Getter.
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  Speaker 1: They all have, again, some.
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  Speaker 5: Video slash audio that is being thrown out there. The
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  Speaker 5: great folks behind the scenes making it all go. And
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  Speaker 5: I want to thank them for making it happen. So
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  Speaker 5: a couple of things. Before the show started, I was
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  Speaker 5: paying very close attention. Brown University literally is, you know,
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  Speaker 5: 40 miles from where I'm sitting right now, less than that,
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  Speaker 5: probably 30 miles from where I'm sitting right now. And
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  Speaker 5: students at Brown University are now sharing information with other
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  Speaker 5: students and other folks that the person who.
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  Speaker 1: Who was involved in the shooting allegedly yelled before he
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  Speaker 1: started shooting.
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  Speaker 5: And if you don't know this story maybe you're paying
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  Speaker 5: attention to what had happened in australia which we'll get
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  Speaker 5: to in a second but apparently a professor was shot
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  Speaker 5: and killed the professor was was jewish This chilling detail,
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  Speaker 5: emerging eyewitness accounts amid all the chaos, the massacre in
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  Speaker 5: Rhode Island where a couple of students perished and I
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  Speaker 5: think nine were wounded. Now, it's, you know, it's young kids, man.
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  Speaker 5: This is never any good. But I ran across a video.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to just play it. It's 60 seconds, not even.
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  Speaker 5: It's 40 seconds of audio. And You know, before I
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  Speaker 5: get to some of the other stuff, this is the
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  Speaker 5: Brown students in the library. They're all huddled together, scared
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  Speaker 5: to death. Right.
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  Speaker 1: Noises on the outside.
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  Speaker 5: And they had just heard some maybe witnessed a shooting.
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  Speaker 5: You know, a shooting in one of the classrooms in
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  Speaker 5: one of the buildings. And they're sitting there hunkered down.
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  Speaker 5: hands buried in their faces, and they're thinking the worst
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  Speaker 5: possible thoughts. And I'm just saying, as I'm watching this,
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  Speaker 5: I'm thinking to myself, what if that was my family member?
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  Speaker 5: What if it's your family member who is going through
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  Speaker 5: all this? And it sounded a little something like this.
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  Speaker 5: The banging that you hear is the state police, the
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  Speaker 5: SWAT team, you know, getting into that room.
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  Speaker 1: But nonetheless, these kids are scared to death.
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  Speaker 3: Police!
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  Speaker 1: Promise police!
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  Speaker 2: Hands, hands, hands!
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  Speaker 3: Hands up, hands!
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  Speaker 6: Hands!
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  Speaker 7: Promise police!
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  Speaker 3: Hands, hands, hands, hands!
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  Speaker 2: Hands, hands, hands! Everybody get your hands!
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  Speaker 8: Hands, hands, hands!
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  Speaker 1: Hands, hands! Just keep your hands up for us.
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  Speaker 6: Obviously there's something going on.
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  Speaker 2: We're here to help you. Just listen to what we
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  Speaker 2: have to say, okay? Alright, breathe. Anybody hurt?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 2: Alright, just listen to our commands.
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  Speaker 6: We will get you out of here safely.
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  Speaker 3: Is this it?
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  Speaker 8: Is this the group?
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  Speaker 7: Guys, if you have your bags, your phones, go grab
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  Speaker 7: it now.
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  Speaker 3: Quickly.
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  Speaker 7: Go, go, go.
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  Speaker 4: Get orderly fast.
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  Speaker 7: Let's go.
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  Speaker 5: All right, so there you got a bunch of kids
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  Speaker 5: huddled together, scared to death, banging on the door.
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  Speaker 4: Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like shots. It wasn't. It happened to be
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  Speaker 1: the cops coming to the rescue. But here are kids. Now,
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  Speaker 1: their hands are up.
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  Speaker 5: Basically, they have rifles on. Not pointed at them, but
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  Speaker 5: every cop is in the room now. And there's that
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  Speaker 5: just sense of dread. And this is just happening way
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  Speaker 5: too often in school settings across the country. But in
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  Speaker 5: this case, it's got a different angle to it. Because
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  Speaker 5: this particular act of senseless violence, campus tragedy, is again
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  Speaker 5: a a potential harbinger of jihadist fury that is happening
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  Speaker 5: across the globe. The world is at war with radical
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  Speaker 5: Islamist lunatics. The venomous force that twists this faith into
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  Speaker 5: some freakish fantasy that unleashes hell on innocent people. We
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  Speaker 5: can no longer afford the denial of this. It's got
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  Speaker 5: to be confronted head on. We must rally with unyielding
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  Speaker 5: resolve on this. The time for basic turn-the-other-cheek types of conversation,
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  Speaker 5: they're gone.
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  Speaker 1: That's ended.
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  Speaker 7: Gone.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm convinced now, more than ever, as it seems like,
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  Speaker 5: it's almost like a weekly occurrence where you have another
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  Speaker 5: terror attack perpetrated by Muslim extremists against people of a
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  Speaker 5: Judeo-Christian faith, for the most part, or Jews.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a weekly occurrence. And look at Sydney.
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  Speaker 5: Just yesterday, I guess the nation's deadliest terror outrage happened
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  Speaker 5: at a fun festival by the sea in supposedly the
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  Speaker 5: beginning of Hanukkah, where two monsters, a father and son duo,
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  Speaker 5: shot 15 people, well, shot more than that, killed 15
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  Speaker 5: souls and injured dozens more. I mean, killing a young girl,
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  Speaker 5: a Holocaust survivor, rabbis, over 40 lay wounded, including some
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  Speaker 5: of the law enforcement officers. So again, This is constant,
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  Speaker 5: absolute constant anti-Semitic abomination. And it's just, it's happening again,
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  Speaker 5: one after another, after another, after another. Today on my
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  Speaker 5: morning show, I read a list of atrocities that have
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  Speaker 5: happened just within the last few years. And in some cases,
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  Speaker 5: you're talking about dozens dead. 50 dead, 40 dead, 30 injured,
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  Speaker 5: 12 dead, 15 injured.
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  Speaker 1: Over and over and over again, all Islamic attacks.
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  Speaker 5: And as I pointed out today, earlier, you know, we
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  Speaker 5: only see what the bias media allows us to see.
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  Speaker 1: We don't really see all of the true facts. We
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  Speaker 1: see what they let us see.
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  Speaker 5: Or we see at least what some news outlets are
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  Speaker 5: able to expose, right? And others want to try to
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  Speaker 5: make a story up to try to protect, for some reason,
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  Speaker 5: this or these godforsaken acts of insanity. So, with that
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  Speaker 5: being said, I mean, you realize, guys, that there is
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  Speaker 5: a genocide going on.
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  Speaker 1: Literally, a genocide going on in Africa right now.
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  Speaker 5: Where Muslims are wiping out village after village after village of...
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  Speaker 5: people who consider themselves Christian. And it's some of the
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  Speaker 5: most awful. I've seen the video footage. It's some of
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  Speaker 5: the worst video.
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  Speaker 1: Footage you can possibly imagine.
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  Speaker 5: Just literally laying waste to an entire town or an
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  Speaker 5: entire village of people. And there's videos out there. Some
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  Speaker 5: of them are not quite dead. And what do they do?
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  Speaker 5: They walk up, execute them, bang, like nothing, like they're
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  Speaker 5: not even like killing an animal.
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  Speaker 1: It's worse than that.
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  Speaker 5: So this is just another stark reminder that this craziness,
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  Speaker 5: this Islamophobia, The Islamic nation fortifying itself for this holy war.
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  Speaker 5: You can call me Islamophobic all you want. I've been
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  Speaker 5: screaming about this for the better part of a decade.
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  Speaker 5: And nothing at all seems to be done about it.
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  Speaker 5: And I'll go back to something that I.
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  Speaker 1: Often talk about. How many Muslim nations... And Muslim.
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  Speaker 5: Entities actually come out and speak out against any of
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  Speaker 5: this stuff. Saudi Arabia usually, but that's because most of
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  Speaker 5: the folks in the Muslim Brotherhood and some of these
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  Speaker 5: other organizations hate Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 1: But so far in this past.
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  Speaker 9: Calendar, so far in the past calendar year, there have
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  Speaker 9: been over 7,700 around the globe deaths because of the
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  Speaker 9: Islamic religion.
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  Speaker 5: 7,700 people have died. That's on the short side of
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  Speaker 5: it because of these fanatics.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not random. It's a holy war against infidels.
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  Speaker 1: That's how they carve it out. That's how they justify it.
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  Speaker 5: Whether it's ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, they brand anyone that's
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  Speaker 5: not with them as harmful side effects that need to
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  Speaker 5: be erased. And now they use social media. They have
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  Speaker 5: the ability to come, have had the ability until President
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. This is the award zone. I got to,
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  Speaker 1: I got to share something with you.
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  Speaker 5: So here I am yelling and screaming in the studio,
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  Speaker 5: wrapping up my monologue.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm thinking to myself, I've been doing this forever.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, where's the music?
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  Speaker 5: Because I'm supposed to get music, and it's got to
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  Speaker 5: kind of take me to the break.
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  Speaker 1: And when is the break going to come my way?
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  Speaker 1: And I didn't hear any music.
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  Speaker 5: And then I'm getting like an avalanche of text messages
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  Speaker 5: from all the boys saying, hey, yeah, we're in commercial break.
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  Speaker 1: So you can stop talking and stop yelling.
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  Speaker 5: Nobody's listening anymore because we had to go to a break.
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  Speaker 1: So I was in the middle. I don't know what happened.
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  Speaker 1: My headphones must not have been plugged in all the way.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: This has been one of these.
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  Speaker 5: These last couple of days, man, for me, have been
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  Speaker 5: the weirdest vibe.
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  Speaker 1: I literally, I'll share it with you guys. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to talk a little bit more about it.
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  Speaker 5: Some of the Muslim fanatics in a little while. I'm
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  Speaker 5: gonna get some more information I wanna share. But like
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  Speaker 5: the last couple of days, I literally wrecked this table
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  Speaker 5: at the house, broke my snowblower. We had snow and
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  Speaker 5: then I took the snowblower out I accidentally ran over
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  Speaker 5: an outside rug and it got caught up.
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  Speaker 1: In the snowblower blades.
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  Speaker 5: And in doing so, there was a table on the rug,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it was sitting on a table or the
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  Speaker 5: rug was sitting on the rug on the patio.
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  Speaker 1: And the whole thing flipped up in the air.
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  Speaker 5: And this, I don't know, it's a, to me, it's
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  Speaker 5: a piece of crap table made in Vietnam, but apparently
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  Speaker 5: it's expensive.
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  Speaker 1: And I broke it.
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  Speaker 5: Right. And then I had to dig the remnants of
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  Speaker 5: the rug out. out of the snowblower, which wasn't any fun.
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  Speaker 5: That took me a couple hours. I'm serious about that.
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  Speaker 5: I was supposed to go to like a political. I
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  Speaker 5: couldn't go.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to be late.
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  Speaker 5: So anyway, it was like, but then for like the
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  Speaker 5: rest of the last 24 hours, everything I touch, I break,
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  Speaker 5: I'm breaking stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So I got to be careful what I touch and
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  Speaker 1: some stuff that, uh, I certainly don't want a break. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: nobody cares about any of that.
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  Speaker 5: But I was talking and I was screaming and yelling
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  Speaker 5: with my big finale and my big finish to the
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  Speaker 5: super great opening monologue. And apparently I was just yelling
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  Speaker 5: and screaming at myself. So we'll go back to that
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. And my headphones are
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  Speaker 1: falling out. It's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 5: and jump in the snow. And when we come back,
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  Speaker 5: we're going to talk to my very good pal. His
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: name is Hans Despain, and he's been out with me before.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: He's an economic professor at UMass Amherst, and we'll lean
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: on him to talk a little bit about the economy.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: But I also want to get his opinion on.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Some of the stuff that I already mentioned, talking a
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: little bit about terror and some of the things going
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: on around the world. He is a great person. a
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: person to talk to and bounce stuff off. So he'll
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: be coming up right after the bottom of the hour.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: Keep watching on the Gateway Pundit, Patriot.TV, and all the
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: other great outlets right here on War, the War Zone.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Lee Elson, the voice of freedom filling
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: in for Wayne Allen Root, who is partying like a
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: rock star with the president of the United States tonight
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: in Washington.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: He should be back tomorrow. Joining us right now, one
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: of my great friends that comes on the show. Not enough.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: We would love to have him on a lot more.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: He's a smart character. And of course, Amherst. He's an
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: economics professor at UMass Amherst, and we love to have
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: Hans Despain on.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Hans, how are you, man? Hang on.
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: I think your mic is muted. Sorry about that.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I was muted.
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: You know, it's just like you usually do on your show.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Well, welcome, buddy.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: How are you?
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I'm doing well.
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: How about yourself?
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: We're doing good.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: So I guess before, if we have time, we'll do
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: the economics part of this, maybe later in this first
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: segment or in the second segment.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, thank God.
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: I would rather not do the econ.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: Well, I would like to just get your... I mean,
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: we've got a world that seems like it's upside down, brother. And,
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: you know, I know you... you see the kids every
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: day and, you know, you're in class every single day.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: And what's the feeling when the kids see a shooting,
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: you know, like at the Hanukkah festival or even closer
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: to home, a shooting right down the road in Brown
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: at Brown.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: What's that crazy.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: You know, it's the, we're, we're, we're in finals week
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: right now. So I haven't had a lot of interaction
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: with students, but, uh, I've had some and, uh, you know,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: people get anxious, uh, You know, we've got a lot
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: of political tensions. I haven't seen any commentary on what
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: motivated the shootings at Brown.
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: Have you?
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: Well, there were some rumors circulating that, you know, the
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: shooter did say the the Allah Akbar, but there's been
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: no confirmation of that. And so I'm not, you know,
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: I'm not ready to go with that, but that was
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: some of the rumors that have been floating around out there.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: And who knows?
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I, I, yeah, I heard the rumors, but I,
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: you know, yeah, but who knows?
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: But yeah, definitely. It gets good.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: It always gets me a little bit nervous, you know?
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: I think there's reasons for people to be upset and, and,
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Of course, it should never turn to violence like that.
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: That's crazy, but it happens. And the shootings in Australia also.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: Have you ever had to get to a position in class?
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: I mean, you've been teaching for a long time. Have
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: you ever had to sit down with the kids after
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: something like this happened and just sort of talk it
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: out with them over the course of.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: A week or even longer?
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: You know, I point to Sandy Hook, although those kids
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: were smaller, but there have been, you know, been mass shootings.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: It's like a weekly occurrence now across the country. So,
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: I mean, have you ever sat just sat down and
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: talked to these guys?
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, I'll share you, you know,
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: two stories. One incidental event. The other, one of the
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: generation's most significant events. Not at UMass Amherst. I won't
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: name the college that I was employed at, but you
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: know which one. People can look it up if they want,
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: I guess. But there was an accusation of hazing. And
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: it was a baseball team, you know, near and close
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: to your heart. And I asked, and, yeah, you know,
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: people got transported to the hospital, freshmen. But I just
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: started talking about it, and, you know, where's the leadership
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: is what I asked. You know, other sports teams, I
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: followed the basketball team and soccer teams.
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: No way would that ever happen. No way. They insisted
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: it wasn't hazing.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Anyway, the point of that story is, you know, when
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: I left the classroom, I went back to my office
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: and there was an email to.
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: All the faculty not to talk about it.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: And immediately I just, you know, I was very upset that,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: you know, this is a community moment.
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: You talk about these things.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: And that discussion, you know, we had the captain of
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: the basketball team and a soccer player in that class.
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: I knew them both well.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: And they immediately said this, you know, they just echoed
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: what I said. They said, you know, that's ridiculous. You know,
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: somebody on the baseball team should have made sure that
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: that didn't happen.
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: That one's incidental. The more serious.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: One is 9-11.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: And I was at UMass Amherst. As you know, Lee,
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: I was there and left and came back. But I
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: was at UMass Amherst in 2001.
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: And I spent several days.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: All we talked about was, you know, that event and
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: issues related. And again, we were not prohibited to talk
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: about it. But we did receive an email suggesting that
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: we don't. I thought that was a mistake. I think
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: you talk about these things, you know.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I think you're right. I think you talk it out.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: In particular, those kids are— and I say kids, but those
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: students are— are searching for someone to hear them out.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: And, you know, you're a perfect guy to do that.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: And, you know, as far as the hazing goes, man, I,
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: I've been on a lot of teams, Hans, I never
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: understood that. And I think it's, I was always, I
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: always pushed back against that. Any team that I was on,
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: we never did anything like that, but I could never
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: understand that.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: It made no sense to me. It doesn't build any camaraderie.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: All it does is build animosity.
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: And it's what the baseball player said. in that particular incident,
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: you know, was that there was no hazing. What happened
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: is a couple of freshmen that got transported thought they
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: were going to be in big trouble, so they told
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: the medical personnel that it was a hazing incident.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: That's why they got so drunk. Right.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: But including one of the freshmen that got transported but
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: was in the class, I found that out like six
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: months later, he confessed it.
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: He said, I wasn't going to say anything.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: He said, I didn't accuse anybody of hazing, but I
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: was one of the kids that got transported.
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: It was just an over-drinking.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: And the upperclassmen encouraged it, but it was not hazing.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: But just a general sense of hazing, I've always hated that.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: Never made any sense to me.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: I think hazing happens, but I think that there's a
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: lot of things that bring teams together. And sharing a drink,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: whether you're legal or not, is something that happens. I'm
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: not saying it's right, but I'm just saying it happens.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Among other things, I think teasing each other is an
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: incredibly important thing to do.
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: If you want to call that hazing, I just think
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: you're wrong.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: No, I don't think that's hazing at all. That's different.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: That's completely different.
• 29:13
  Speaker 11: Exactly.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: When I tell your listeners that you have big feet
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: and big ears, I mean that and all the affectionate.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Warmth that I can muster. But you're not lying about
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: that kid. Exactly.
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: That's it.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: It's not hazing.
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: To me, it's expressing an affection, you know, honestly. Yeah,
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: that's what builds team.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: To me, that's what guys do. You know, it's they
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: just do it.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: I mean, the better the better you can break stones,
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: the probably closer friendship you have with that person.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: That's just the way it is.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: And it's you know, it's the it it.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Articulate something else when when you tease one another or
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: whatever you know and it can turn serious uh and
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: you know we need to learn to be conscientious about
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: it anyway yeah these are important events and we need
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: to talk about them and um i i do it
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: all the time.
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: You know All right, Hans Despain, again, economics professor at
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: UMass Amherst.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: All right, so we'll switch gears.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: We only have a couple minutes left here, and then
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: we can come back and do five or six minutes
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: more if you don't mind. But I'll ask you the
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: very generic 30,000-foot view since we haven't talked in a while.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Hey, Hans, how's the economy right now?
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: Well— You know, I think the fundamentals are good.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: And I think the Trump administration needs to be very
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: careful not to commit the same error that the Biden
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: administration and then and then candidate Harris did, which, you know,
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: telling an American public things are perfectly fine.
• 30:56
  Speaker 7: There's a number of things you can look at.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: You know, with the government shutdown, we're missing a lot
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: of the most recent data. But unemployment is low. Inflation
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: is under control for.
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: Sure. Stock market is doing fine.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: But Job creation based on some private data that has
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: been collected, because BLS, again, doesn't have the most recent data,
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: is definitely weakened. I don't think we'll see any more
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: rate cuts, in fact, because of worries about inflation. So
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Trump administration needs to be very conscientious about it. The
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: bigger problem, Lee, for me is one important statistic I
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: follow is consumer sentiment from University of Michigan is the
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: best source for consumer sentiment. It's at a historical low,
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: not an all-time low, but it's an index that usually
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: averages 90 is the measure.
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: You know, it's like a quarterback rating, right? It has
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: whatever in it.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Who knows? But right now it's at 55, you know,
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: so well below its historical average of about 90.
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: It's been followed since 1946.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: That's significant because that has been a strong indicator of
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: predicting a forecoming recession. So, you know, and as you know,
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: President Trump's numbers are down, in particular, his handling of
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: the economy is And surprisingly, you know, when you look
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: at it in terms of Republicans, Democrats and independents, It's
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: down the most with Republicans. It's down 10 points with Republicans,
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: about two or three points. Democrats only have a 10
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: point approval rating when he entered. You know, now it's
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: down to seven. So, you know, it doesn't have far
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: to go. But nonetheless, independents have only gone down by
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: five or six.
• 32:55
  Speaker 10: All right, Hans.
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: I hear the music, so I know what that means.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: We got to take a short break and we'll do
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: that when we come back. We'll keep Hans around.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: If he's kind enough to do that, we'd love to
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: have him for a second segment.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: So we'll talk a little bit more specifics.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: I got a couple specific questions about the economy.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Listen, you can watch what's going on at the Gateway Pundit.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: You can watch Patriot.TV.
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: You can listen on all the great radio stations from
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: one coast to another. You can also go to Root
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: for America. Email me, leelcradio at gmail.com. If you've got
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: a question for me or even Hans, I'll try.
• 33:24
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  Speaker 1: Filling in for Wayne Allen. He'll be back. At least
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: we think.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: He'll be back tomorrow, although he is partying with the
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: president of the United States tonight, so who knows.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Anything is up for grabs.
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: My guest this segment is Hans Despain, and we always
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: appreciate him, economics professor at UMass Amherst. So Hans, you've
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: written extensively on how corporate greed and monopolies contribute to
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: price gouging. And I, you know, at first when you
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: taught this or talked about it, I was pushed back
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: a little bit, but I think I'm sort of I'm
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: moving in a little bit. The needle's moving a little
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: bit more for me in your direction. Corporate profiteering, monopoly power,
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: it seems to be driving inflation.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: So what say you to all that? Oh, my goodness.
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: You always, I mean, you know, for just on your show,
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: it's fine, Lee, but holy moly, you know, you need to...
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: Ask Mr. Root if this is going to be OK. Look,
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  Speaker 3: first of all, let me just say any article you
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  Speaker 3: ever come across that has it say corporate greed in
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  Speaker 3: the title of it written by me, that was the
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  Speaker 3: editor that made that title, edited it himself or herself.
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  Speaker 1: Which is fine.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if they believe that we'll get more readers,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the folks I work with, I trust them.
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  Speaker 7: But nonetheless, I wouldn't necessarily call it corporate greed.
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  Speaker 3: What happens is, well, specifically, look, The inflation that we
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: had happened, and let's go, remind me to talk about
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  Speaker 3: Vice President Vance on a related issue. But about 2%
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  Speaker 3: of the 7% peak of inflation, about 2% of it
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  Speaker 3: was demand side. You know, the COVID checks that Trump
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  Speaker 3: and then Biden, Trump twice and Biden once set out.
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  Speaker 3: About 2% of it from the economic studies I trust.
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  Speaker 7: Those are the best estimates.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, there are also supply chain bottlenecks, and that's
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  Speaker 3: actually what initiated the uptick in inflation. But what made
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  Speaker 3: it persist and drove it for the last at least
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  Speaker 3: 18 months is was corporations took advantage of the fact
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  Speaker 3: that they could look at the data. They have economists
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  Speaker 3: just like me that they hire to look at these things.
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  Speaker 3: And they looked at inflation expectations, not actual inflation, but
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  Speaker 3: what do Americans believe?
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  Speaker 7: Inflation will be in the future?
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  Speaker 3: And it was coming in around 4% or 5%. So,
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  Speaker 3: of course, they recommend to the executive team, if you're
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  Speaker 3: big enough and powerful enough, increase your prices. It's an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to increase your prices because Americans are expecting prices
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  Speaker 3: to go up. And so there's some good— one of my
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  Speaker 3: colleagues at UMass Amherst, Isabella Weber, I think has a
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  Speaker 3: definitive study on this. And this is what drove it
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  Speaker 3: those last 18 months.
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  Speaker 7: In particular, if you.
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  Speaker 11: Look at— I' m.
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  Speaker 3: Not picking on any company, but FedEx had an all-time
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  Speaker 3: record— level of profits in company history in 2002. They
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: raised their prices in 2023. Because again, they knew they
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  Speaker 3: could do it. They were a big enough and powerful
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  Speaker 3: enough company. So there's a lot more studies being done now.
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  Speaker 3: Economists always have some disagreements about But most are coming
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: around to the idea that that's what made the inflation persist.
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  Speaker 7: Can I say something about President Van?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, go.
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  Speaker 1: Please, go ahead.
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  Speaker 7: No, it's a pet.
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  Speaker 3: Peeve of mine that happened recently is that back in
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  Speaker 3: the earlier this year, I've forgotten exactly what month, maybe
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  Speaker 3: late spring, early summer, Vice President Van said that the
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: price of homes had nearly doubled.
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  Speaker 7: Since Biden had taken office. And about a week.
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  Speaker 11: Ago, factcheck.org, that website, they fact-checked that statement.
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  Speaker 7: And they said, highly exaggerated.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: And they said, home prices have gone up by 37%.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: But this is the mistake the Biden administration made.
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  Speaker 7: It is true.
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  Speaker 3: The price of homes on average across the nation went
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  Speaker 3: up 37%.
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  Speaker 7: I fully embrace that fact. But what Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Vance was referring to is the 30-year lifetime of the
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  Speaker 3: mortgage with the interest rates going up from 3% to 7%.
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  Speaker 7: When you include that, it more than doubled. More than doubled.
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  Speaker 3: He understated how much the price of homes had gone up.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and they're going through the roof. I mean, the
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  Speaker 5: average price is now over $ 440, 000, and the average owner,
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: the first-time buyers are 40 years old, I mean, when
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: they're buying a home.
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  Speaker 10: Correct.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: Average interest rates are 6%, and the price of the
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: home after 30 years is.
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  Speaker 7: Almost $ 1. 1 million, $ 1, 100, 000.
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  Speaker 11: Crazy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: More than half of it going to interest.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 7: So that's, that's the, that's the issue.
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  Speaker 1: Non-desperate. Listen, I wish we had more time, buddy. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you carving out some time for us tonight.
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  Speaker 7: One more thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: You have a Dr. Nagel coming on today. Here's a book.
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  Speaker 3: I just finished it. So, you know, people should stay
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  Speaker 3: tuned in. I should have told them, if you only
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: have time for one segment, cut me off.
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  Speaker 2: Watch Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Neville. I appreciate that. He's coming up in a little
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  Speaker 1: less than a half hour. We'll be right back. You're
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