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Hamas/Israel “Deal”? Iran Threat, Tariffs, AI & China’s Rise | Yaron Brook Show · Yaron Brook Show

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  Speaker 2: with the news, and I guess the big item in
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  Speaker 2: the news right now is the agreement between Israel and
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  Speaker 2: Hamas for the release of the hostages and the withdrawal
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  Speaker 2: at least a posture withdrawal of Israel from parts of
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  Speaker 2: the Garza strip.
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  Speaker 1: So this was an agreement that was.
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  Speaker 2: It's a phase one of the twenty point proposal that
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  Speaker 2: Trump pushed it to a NYAO to accept, and then
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  Speaker 2: rallied all these Arab nations to rally behind. It seems
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  Speaker 2: like a huge amount of pressure was put on the
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  Speaker 2: on the on Ramas by the Katari's, the Egyptians, the
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  Speaker 2: Tooks to accept these deals. They all have of something
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  Speaker 2: from that they want from Trump, and Trump basically made
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  Speaker 2: this support of this deal a condition for receiving whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is that they want from him. If you want,
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  Speaker 2: we can go over each country and what actually they
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  Speaker 2: want from from Trump or what Trump has actually promised him. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: this is a phase one. We don't know and it
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  Speaker 2: hasn't been negotiated anything about the phase two. The phase
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  Speaker 2: one involves the Israeli government approving the plan, which it
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  Speaker 2: did about half an hour ago. An hour ago, so
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  Speaker 2: the plan has been now approved by the Israeli government.
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  Speaker 2: That means that tomorrow morning, first thing you will see
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  Speaker 2: Israel retreat from current lines.
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  Speaker 1: Two lines that are being agreed upon. It will still.
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  Speaker 2: Maintain control over just over fifty percent of the Gaza Strip,
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  Speaker 2: including strategic locations like the Philadelphia Corridor.
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  Speaker 1: The Philadelphia Corridor, that is the.
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  Speaker 2: Border with Egypt, will remain under Israeli control, which has
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  Speaker 2: always been something Israel has insisted in negotiations. Ramas has
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  Speaker 2: always turned that down, but other strategic locations will also
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  Speaker 2: stay under Israeli control. Seventy two hours after that retreat
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  Speaker 2: to those lines by the Israeli forces is complete, the
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  Speaker 2: Ramas will release the twenty live hostages and as many
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  Speaker 2: of the bodies of the twenty eight that they have
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  Speaker 2: and can locate by that point, and they will continue
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  Speaker 2: releasing the bodies after that. At the same time, Israel
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  Speaker 2: will release two hundred and fifty terrorists murderers from prison. Supposedly,
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  Speaker 2: they will be released but immediately flown out of the country.
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  Speaker 2: That is, they will not go to Gaza or to
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  Speaker 2: the West Bank. They will they will be deported. Learning
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  Speaker 2: something from Trump, I guess they'll be deported outside of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: And then another seventeen hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Gazans that have been detained during this war, so seventeen hundred,
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  Speaker 2: probably mostly Hamas members, that have been in Israeli in
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  Speaker 2: Israeli detention since the beginning of the war. I think
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  Speaker 2: that israel Is insisted that none of the seventeen hundred
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  Speaker 2: people who actually participated in the slaughter of October seventh,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't know, We don't have final details on that.
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  Speaker 2: We also do not know the final names of the
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty prisoners that Israel will release, whether
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  Speaker 2: they include some of the worst murderers, or whether the
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  Speaker 2: kind of worst of the worst are going to stay
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  Speaker 2: in Israeli prisons. But the next level down will be
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  Speaker 2: of murderers will be will be released.
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  Speaker 1: At that point.
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  Speaker 2: Once all of that happens, Israel is guaranteed or the
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  Speaker 2: United States is guaranteed that it will not allow Israel
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  Speaker 2: to reoccupy a territory within Gaza, to re engage in
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  Speaker 2: the war as long as negotiations continue in as long
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  Speaker 2: as Ramas is abiding by the agreement, whatever that agreement
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  Speaker 2: is at that point in negotiations will command.
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  Speaker 1: On phase two. Phase two is the phase.
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  Speaker 2: That it will involve disarming commas supposedly and the the
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  Speaker 2: bringing in of an international peace keeping force, the establishment
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  Speaker 2: of a governing body to govern Gaza, and then I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure they're phase three and four that evolved the long
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  Speaker 2: term kind of the long term outcome, the long term
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  Speaker 2: outcome for Gaza and how it will be ruled and
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  Speaker 2: governed over the long run, So that is the story.
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  Speaker 2: Israelis are ecstatic. They are super happy about this, primarily because, certainly,
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  Speaker 2: for the last year, the number one priority of the
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  Speaker 2: Israeli public certainly has been the release of the hostages,
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  Speaker 2: and those hostages will be coming home, particularly the twenty
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  Speaker 2: live hostages.
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  Speaker 1: I know that my.
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  Speaker 2: Sister's son's best friend has been a hostage since October seventh.
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  Speaker 1: He was at the music festival.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed, my nephew was supposed to be at the music
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  Speaker 2: festival and at the last minute didn't go.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, they will be released, and.
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  Speaker 2: Israeli's my family included a super excited about that fact.
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  Speaker 2: Garzens out into the streets. They're celebrating because the bombing
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  Speaker 2: is going to stop, the the many of them will
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  Speaker 2: be able to go back to their homes if if
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  Speaker 2: the buildings in which their homes still exist, and and
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  Speaker 2: and they anticipate a rebuilding and.
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  Speaker 1: A period of relative peace.
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  Speaker 2: Some gardens are pretty afraid because they're worried, and I've
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  Speaker 2: seen a number of reports on this where the gardens
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  Speaker 2: are worried that the Hamas are going to use this
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  Speaker 2: period between now.
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  Speaker 1: And Phase two or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: The Phase two is going to be you know, between
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  Speaker 2: now and and when they supposedly are disarmed. Uh. Basically,
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  Speaker 2: Comas is going to clean house, kill its enemies, kill
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  Speaker 2: anybody who stood up to them, anybody who they can
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  Speaker 2: blame or argue that helped these Raelis are going to
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  Speaker 2: be killed. So a lot of Garzens are afraid of what
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  Speaker 2: comes next. I don't think the gardens really believe Hamas
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  Speaker 2: is going away, but it's also true. It's also true
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  Speaker 2: that many gardens were celebrating in the streets of Gaza
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  Speaker 2: as a Hamas victory. That is, we're celebrating the two
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  Speaker 2: years to October seventh, celebrating and saying, you know, Israel,
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  Speaker 2: we haven't finished with you. In a sense, this was not,
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  Speaker 2: as far as we can tell, fundamentally changing the nature
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  Speaker 2: of or the orientation of the Palestinian people, particularly in Gaza,
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  Speaker 2: but even most so maybe in the West Bank. The
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  Speaker 2: Palestinian authority is claiming that it is engaged in the
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  Speaker 2: process of reforming based on Trump's plan, so that they can,
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  Speaker 2: as a reformed entity, whatever the hell that means, be
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  Speaker 2: able to gain control over Gaza at some point in
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  Speaker 2: the future, as.
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  Speaker 1: As the twe A plan envisions. So so here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: There was no question that this is not an ideal plan.
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  Speaker 2: The ideal plan would have been for Israel to occupy
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  Speaker 2: all of Gaza and destroy Ramas and directly be responsible
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  Speaker 2: for the disarming of Haramas, the destruction of the tunnels,
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  Speaker 2: the destruction of the infrastructure, and and and and directly
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  Speaker 2: responsible for security of Gaza moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: But the reality is.
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  Speaker 2: That that would have probably meant the death of the
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  Speaker 2: the hostages, and it probably uh and and it and
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  Speaker 2: there's no indication that Israelis were willing to actually do that,
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  Speaker 2: to actually defeat Ramas and actually do as necessary. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they've had the opportunity to do that for two years now,
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  Speaker 2: and they've chosen not to repeatedly actually occupy Gaza and
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  Speaker 2: defeat Ramas and and do whatever was necessary.
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  Speaker 1: Israeli public is not willing to do that.
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  Speaker 2: The Israeli military has has certainly in the last few months,
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  Speaker 2: has resisted doing it. There's just there's no political or
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  Speaker 2: cultural will to engage in that kind of war, given
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  Speaker 2: that this is not a you know, this is not
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  Speaker 2: a good outcome, and it's not a horrific outcome either.
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  Speaker 2: The reality is that Israel has bought probably decades of peace.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the last two years, Israel has reshaped the
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  Speaker 2: Middle East. I've talked about this over and over again.
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  Speaker 2: It faces a dramatically, I mean dramatically weakened enemy in
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  Speaker 2: the north with Isabella, and Isabella has been eviscerated, its
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  Speaker 2: entire leadership, destroyed, its infrastructure, crippled its positions in the
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  Speaker 2: south of Lebanon threat the Israel directly don't exist or
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  Speaker 2: been weakened dramatically, and it hasn't launched a missile into
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  Speaker 2: Israel in a long long time. And indeed, the Lebanese Army,
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  Speaker 2: at least as flexing muscles, haven't done anything yet pretending
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  Speaker 2: that it will disarm Grisbela and positioning itself as the
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  Speaker 2: opponent of Grisbelah, which is a positive move for Israel.
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  Speaker 2: Syria has changed hands, and at least it appears that
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  Speaker 2: the Newish Humian Syria does not want trouble with Israel,
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  Speaker 2: wants to leave Israel alone, and has indeed thrown out
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  Speaker 2: the Iranians, thrown at Chrisbelah and eliminated many of Israel's
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  Speaker 2: enemies that were positioning themselves in Syria for potential action
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  Speaker 2: against Israel that border will probably be peaceful for the
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  Speaker 2: next decade plus. The Shiite militias in Iran have been
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  Speaker 2: quite They've done nothing. They have been completely subdued, giving
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity, hopefully for the Iraqis to.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, control over them and maybe move forward
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  Speaker 1: in a healthier direction in Iraq, shrugging.
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  Speaker 2: Off kind of the violence and the you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think that they're going to state tribal and I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to be overly optimistic, but at least they do
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  Speaker 2: not oppose the threat to these Raelis. Iran, of course,
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  Speaker 2: after twelve day devastating war, has been crippled, weakened, It
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  Speaker 2: has almost no agents outside of Euron itself and iiron
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  Speaker 2: ballistic missile program has been weakened dramatically, and it's hard
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  Speaker 2: to imagine that anytime soon they can resurrect the nuclear program.
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  Speaker 2: They are now also under global sanctions UN sanctions, the
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  Speaker 2: most via sanctions, the sanctions that were in place before
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  Speaker 2: the Obama.
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  Speaker 1: Nuclear deal.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just America, it's the Europeans that are also
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  Speaker 2: involved in this. Iran is struggling, is suffing significantly, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to some good news coming out of Iran
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  Speaker 2: in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: The Hooties a week.
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  Speaker 2: They're still there, there's still a pest, but they've been
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  Speaker 2: weakened significantly.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And of course their supply lines from Iran have been weakened,
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  Speaker 2: and the Iranians can't afford quite a bank roll the
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  Speaker 2: Hoodies like they used to do. And of course Hamas
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  Speaker 2: Hamas is a shell of itself. Even if Ramas survives,
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  Speaker 2: and and and it probably will survive underground, it'll take
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  Speaker 2: it decades years, probably a couple of decades to rebuild,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not clear if it'll ever be able to rebuild.
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  Speaker 2: It is now under much greater scrutiny, primarily by Israel
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  Speaker 2: and Israeli intelligence. It is unlikely that Israel will go
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  Speaker 2: back to an error in which it lets Haramas do
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  Speaker 2: whatever it once in the Gaza Strip. Much more likely
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  Speaker 2: Israel will take the stance that it has like it
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  Speaker 2: has in Lebanon, where it might stay behind its own borders.
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  Speaker 2: But any any attempt to build the tunnel, any attempt
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  Speaker 2: to gain new weapons, involves an air strike from the Israelis,
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  Speaker 2: and and a mitigation of that effort. Israel has the
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  Speaker 2: technological military superiority is such that it can suppress Hamas
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  Speaker 2: indefinitely as long as it's stay's committed to doing so,
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  Speaker 2: and it seems like it probably will be.
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  Speaker 1: The memory of October seventh will last for a very
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  Speaker 1: long time. Now.
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  Speaker 2: If Hamas has actually disbanded, I don't think that'll actually happen.
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  Speaker 2: They'll stay in the background, They'll continue to from it dissent.
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  Speaker 2: But if there is an international peace keeping force, if
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  Speaker 2: the tunnels and infrastructure are indeed destroyed, if there is
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  Speaker 2: a if there is a rebuilding effort that brings in
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  Speaker 2: foreign money and foreign interests that have an interest in
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  Speaker 2: not seeing that money wasted and that money, you know,
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  Speaker 2: sunk into tunnels, there's a real chance that something better
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  Speaker 2: is built in Gaza. And then, in spite of the
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  Speaker 2: fact that Ramas will still be around and probably engage
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  Speaker 2: in terrorists attacks in the future, it will never ever
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  Speaker 2: ever regain the kind of military strength that it has
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  Speaker 2: on October seventh. Just like Isabella will probably never return
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  Speaker 2: to the days of Nzuela, Iran will probably never regain
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  Speaker 2: the military strength it had, not that it was that great,
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  Speaker 2: but that it had before this war started. All of
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  Speaker 2: that is good news. All of that is worth celebrating.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, I would have liked to see Ramas completely crushed.
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  Speaker 2: I would have liked to see the Palestinian people, you know,
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  Speaker 2: on their knees begging for peace. I would have liked
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  Speaker 2: to see the Palestinians understand unequivocally that they had been
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  Speaker 2: defeated and that they were surrendering.
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  Speaker 1: All of that would be.
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  Speaker 2: Great, and and and and and there would have been
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  Speaker 2: a chance for lasting peace. I think what we have
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  Speaker 2: today is maybe not so much a chance for lasting piece,
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  Speaker 2: but suddenly a chance for Israel to gain a peaceful
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  Speaker 2: existence for a few decades.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a lot. That is a lot, and that
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  Speaker 1: is quite an achievement.
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  Speaker 2: Is those whole dominium, and is those whole positioning, and
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  Speaker 2: and and and and and I'd say, uh, the way
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  Speaker 2: in which it fought the war changed completely after the Beepers. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: The Beeper attack on Risba really reoriented Israel became much
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  Speaker 2: more aggressive, much more forward thinking, much more uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: taking the initiative now, not being under defensive, not waiting
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  Speaker 2: for the others to strike, but striking take you out
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  Speaker 2: Inzraala immediately afterwards. I mean, that set off a chain
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  Speaker 2: reaction that has brought us to where we are today.
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  Speaker 2: And of course I think I think at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, Trump will take credit for this, and
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  Speaker 2: Trump putting a lot of pressure on Arab countries to
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  Speaker 2: accept this deal, and good for him for doing that.
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  Speaker 1: He also put pressure on Israel not to.
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  Speaker 2: Engage more aggressively militarily, bad for him on that.
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  Speaker 1: But the real credit for.
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  Speaker 2: This deal, good for whatever good has come from this deal,
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  Speaker 2: is the fact that Israel did two things over the
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  Speaker 2: last few weeks. One, it actually did enter Gaza City.
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  Speaker 2: It surrounded it, it entered it. It was slowly taking
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  Speaker 2: Gaza City. It had evacuated most of the civilian population,
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  Speaker 2: and it was going in and Haramas was being strangled.
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  Speaker 2: Haramas had nowhere to go. It had a very little
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  Speaker 2: areas that it controlled. Those areas were being squeezed, and
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  Speaker 2: it could see that within a few weeks it risked
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  Speaker 2: being thoroughly defeated. And even though it kept threatening the hostages,
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  Speaker 2: the idea kept advancing, kept moving forward. So the military
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  Speaker 2: pressure was crucial to whatever's been achieved right now. Second,
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  Speaker 2: and I think crucially was the bombing of Qatar, the
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  Speaker 2: bombing of the Hamas gathering in Katal. Even though the
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  Speaker 2: mission failed in that it didn't actually kill the Hamas leadership,
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  Speaker 2: which is sad and unfortunate that did not succeed in
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  Speaker 2: doing that. This was a real wake up call for
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  Speaker 2: the Qataris and I think a wake up call for
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  Speaker 2: the entire leadership of the Middle East, the Saudi Is,
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  Speaker 2: the even though they all condemned us, they were scared.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly, Yeah, before they could see.
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  Speaker 2: Israel's capabilities visa the Iran, they could see Israel just
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  Speaker 2: crushing the Uranians. Uanians, who were the supposedly the strongest
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  Speaker 2: military folks in the Middle East, were being just eviscerated
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  Speaker 2: by Israel. Then they had no answer. Iran had no answer.
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  Speaker 2: So that kind of put them on their back leg.
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  Speaker 2: But they were always felt protected by the fact that
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  Speaker 2: Israel would never attack them. Among other things, they are
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  Speaker 2: allies of the United States, they have a big military
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  Speaker 2: base of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: And Qatar Israe would never attack Kato. And then it did,
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  Speaker 1: and that was the game changer. That was the game changer.
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  Speaker 1: I think the Kataris came to the conclusion that it
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  Speaker 1: just wasn't worth it.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't want to see what happened to on happened
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  Speaker 2: to them. They had no intention of having all their investment,
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  Speaker 2: the beautiful infrastructure, their buildings, the economy, everything else.
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  Speaker 1: They had no intention of putting that.
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  Speaker 2: At risk when it was clear that the Israeli Air
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  Speaker 2: Force could access them easily and effectively and at any time.
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  Speaker 2: And the reality is, in spite of their attempt to
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  Speaker 2: deny it, the Trumpet administration almost suddenly knew about that
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  Speaker 2: attack in advance and let it happen, which sent another
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  Speaker 2: message to Katari's even though Trump condemned it afterwards, Americas
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  Speaker 2: was willing to let the Israelis kind of manhandle them
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  Speaker 2: at least, and that scared them, and that's the point
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  Speaker 2: in which Trump could use leverage against them. He gave
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  Speaker 2: them a security guarantee, which I think is nuts, but
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  Speaker 2: there you go. You gave them a security guarantee. But
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  Speaker 2: the condition for that security guarantee was pressure on Hamas.
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  Speaker 2: And also supposedly changes in El Jazeera.
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  Speaker 1: Rumors have it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have confirmation and haven't seen anything in the
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  Speaker 2: in the reporting to suggest this is true, but rumors
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  Speaker 2: have it that there's major shake up going on in
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  Speaker 2: Al Jazeera.
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  Speaker 1: El Jazeera is going to be moderated.
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  Speaker 2: There's also major investigations in the Katari money in the
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  Speaker 2: United States that are being initiated by Congress. I think
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  Speaker 2: the whole Katari operation of influence in the United States
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  Speaker 2: is going to is going to be put on a
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  Speaker 2: lower flame.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be reduced. It's just gotten too much press,
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  Speaker 1: too much notoriety.
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  Speaker 2: Congress is paying attention, and and and and I think
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  Speaker 2: and I think they've got the security guarantee with the
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  Speaker 2: US I think they're going to.
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  Speaker 1: Go into a little bit more quiet mode.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they are the number one spender in the
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  Speaker 2: United States for influence in terms of education, in terms
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  Speaker 2: of our universities, and in terms.
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  Speaker 1: Of UH political lobbying. So I think that the security
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  Speaker 1: guarantee came with.
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  Speaker 2: The commitment to reducing that, reducing the influence of al Jazeero,
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  Speaker 2: reducing the radicalness of el Jazeero, and you know, also
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: UH putting pression ramas. And it turns out and then
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: of course the elder One. It came to the White House,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: was it last week or the week before last? And
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: and Trump loves ed of one. He has he liked
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: him in the first administration.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: He likes him. I mean ed One is a is
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: a is a what do you call it?
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: An authoritarian thug, exactly the kind of person that Trump likes.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: And I mean Trump was joking with him about the
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: fact that, you know, Odwan knows how to really steal
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: an election, and he wasn't kidding. But Edyone came to
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: the White House wonting F thirty fives. Everyone wants F
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: thirty fives. He realizes that he made a bet a
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: few years ago on Russian technology. He actually bought s
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: four hundred defense systems from Russia, and as a consequence
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: of the United States prohibited him from getting F thirty fives.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: He's just seen what Israel did to Syria and to Iran.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: He's just seen what the Ukrainians did to Russia. Nobody
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: in the world today is exactly excited.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: About what Russian weapons systems.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Another one realizes he made a big mistake and what
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: he really needs if he wants to build a a
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: legit military force in Tokey, what he needs is American
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: weapons systems. And what he needs in particularly F thirty
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: five is to be able to match Israel and match
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: some of the other countries like Saudi Arabia and Egypt
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: and other countries in the region.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: In terms of the air forces.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: And I think Trump said you want f thirty fives,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: put pressure on the on Hamas and then finally the Egyptians.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: The Egyptians are struggling economically. CCI's under a lot of
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: pressure internally they are, you know, they are also struggling
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: because they're at peace, supposedly at peace with Israel, and
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: yet their population does not like Israel. And there's a
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: lot of pressure on Egypt intervena on the behalf of
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: the Palestinians. CCI in the military don't want that. They
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: don't want to be humiliated by the Israelis. They also
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: are using American weapons systems. They can't go to war
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: with Israel without American permission really, so uh, you know,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: CEC basically wants favors from Donald Trump, and again Trump
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: told him, you want, you want anything, put pressure on Hamas,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: and Hamas basically capitulated from its position. Look, this deal
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: could have been achieved months and months ago. If Hamas
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: would have accepted it, it's all suddenly would have is
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Ael repeatedly has said control the Philadelphia, call it on.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: You released the hostages and everything's good. So What changed
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: was that Hamas was willing to do it and eager
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: to do it, and willing to do it fast because
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: it's allies that all turned their back on them, and
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: it's the allies all pushed them into doing this. So yeah,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: it's uh, that is kind of the dynamics of what happened.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: It appears Trump is gonna fly to Egypt early next week,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: I guess, to witness the release of the hostages, also
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: come to Israel.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: So he'll go visit CECI. He'll he'll live up this.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Commitment to support CEC, which which is valuable, you know,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: given the CECIS has done his.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Part of the deal. He will he will then go
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: to Israel.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I suppose he wants to see the hostages released, and
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: he will supposedly address uh these reely kinnesseed these really parliaments,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: h and uh next week next week at some points.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: So yeah, A few things that are worth noting about this.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Who's really really really unhappy about this deal?
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: The River to the Sea crowd, I mean, the pro
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Haamas demonstrators all over the world are super depressed. The
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: number one issues being just taken out from under them.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: They never wanted peace, they never wanted to cease fire.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: They wanted to be able to keep going after Jews
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: in Israel Hamas has capitulated hamasas the heroes. They didn't
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: want to see that. So all these people claiming they
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: wanted to cease fire and peace are the ones most
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: depressed right now, because what they really wanted is result
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: to be defeated somehow, and they haven't been. Interestingly, too,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: the United Nations has now announced that it has enough
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: food on its way to Gaza in Gaza for the
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: entire population of the Gaza.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Strip for the next three months. So you know, what
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: do you call it?
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Famine is just evaporated proof, all at once gone away.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: There's no hunger, there's no uh, there's no famine in
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: the gods of the strip.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: It's interesting.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: They were showing guzlans handing out baklav you know, baklava
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: sweet uh today in celebration of the deal, and uh.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: You know, people who are starving under conditions of famine
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: don't have bucklover. Greta will have to find a new
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: cause or you know, I don't know, some yeah, she'll
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: have to find a new cause somebody else.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: They hate it.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Now the Palestinians out there, uh chewing for we will.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Kill Jews, we will kill Jews.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: That is that is their big lesson learned from all
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: of this that they haven't killed enough Jews and they
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: want to they want to start over again. Now I'll
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: just I'll just end with this. It's not clear what
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: happens now once or not now. But let's say ten
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: days from now, let's say the hostage is released. Trump
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: has been the Middle East, he's gone home, he loses
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: interest a little bit, and now you have to negotiate
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: the the the dissolution of Hamas. Haramas doesn't want to
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: give up its arms, it doesn't want to go away.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: It is quite happy controlling the areas of Gaza that
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: they can control.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: It's quite happy trying to rebuild from there.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Israel, you know, America is preventing Israel from re entering Gaza.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: So Israel suppose he's not going to re engage in war.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: What is the motivation to cut a phase two deal?
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: What is the motivation of Ramas to disarm? Well, the
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Katawis and the Egyptians and the Tooks continue to put
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: pressure on.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Hamas.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: What actually happens once the hostage is are released and
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: we we just don't know. We just don't know. And
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: it's not clear if there will be a phase two.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: It's a clear way Israel.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: What Israel will do, It is not clear what Trump
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: will allow Israel to do. What will happen on the ground. Uh,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: it's likely I think that nothing will happen. That is,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Hamas will not disarm, there will be no international peace
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: comping force, there will know new governance.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Israel will then just.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Uh, you're not in a case by case basis, go in,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: bomb particular locations, destroy particularly Hamas units, and come back
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: primarily used. The air force, aid will flow in, Roll
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: will go back in, the UN will go back in.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: But it is weel will treat gas are like a
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: to each Labin, and it will keep them kind of
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: in place.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: It would be.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Much better if if the negotiations continued, you actually got
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: a disarming of Hamas and he actually got a rebuilding
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: and actually got a a a.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Peace keeping force in there.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: But I just don't see I don't see Ramas's incentive
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: to keep going.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: I'm surprised at how eager Hamas was to give up
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: the hostages at this point. Maybe there's a lot more
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: pressure going on in the background that I than I
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: even than I even thought. Just as an aside, tomorrow,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: I think the Norwegians are announcing the Noble Peace Peace Prize.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: I think Trump is going to be probably disappointed. I
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: can't imagine the Norwegian giving giving it to him, But
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: who knows. Stranger things have happened, uh, And Trump is
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: gonna flip out because he won't. He doesn't, he won't
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: get it. You know, the Norwegians think that they're going
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: to get increased tariffs and all kinds of other stuff
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: happening as off tomorrow, but we will see.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: You know, who knows, you might get an end or
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: you might get in next year.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: I certainly think, given again, given the history of Nobile
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: peace prizes, I mean, he's not any less less uh deserving,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: if you will, deserves the right wood then than Kissinger
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: or Obama or Yes or our Fat or any of those.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Other horrible people. All Right, I think.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: That's all I have to say as of right now
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: about this deal. I mean, it's a short term, medium term,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: very good for Israel.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Long term hard to tell. You know, it could be bad,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: could be good, but you know, it's it's we're definitely
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: is All.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: At the end of this deal is in a dramatically
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: better security position than it was October sixth, twenty three.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Ramas Iran and it's Iran Iranian.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Backers, you know, in a horrorable position as compared to
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: October six So, yeah, there is some justice in the world.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: And uh I'll add that there is a chance now
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: that Israel will that if if for the negotiations happened,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: and if Hamas is disarmed and there is progress in
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: a Gaza, that is Oh will established kind of peace
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: relations with the Saudis, maybe the Katari's, maybe others, who knows,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: but you know, Syrians.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: And there will be some at least again medium.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Term peace in the Middle East, at least for now,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: until until we see the next inflection point.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: All right, I'll.
• 34:00
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• 34:07
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• 34:10
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• 34:28
  Speaker 2: All right, it's some good news out of Iran, or
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: at least what seems like good news out of you on.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: And this is backed up by photographs and video coming
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: out of you on. And that is that Urania's authority
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: of announced not just being leader, but certain authorities have announced.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: So this is in this case is Muhammad Reza Bajo
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: now the secretary General of the Front of Followers of
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: the Line of the mom and the leader and a
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: member of the Iranian.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Expediency discern Council. You make sense of that.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: I have no idea anyway, some senior official in Yon
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: now have now announced and this is true.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: The president of you want announced this about a.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Week ago, that the current general position of the system,
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: the Uranian system, is that the law mandating the wearing
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: of the hijab is no longer mandatory. And if you
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: notice this decision is being used to violate regulations in
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: post fines, that is, if anybody is trying to force
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: waymen to wear.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: The hijob, you should call it in the President of.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Yon, Musud Pezeshkian, in an interview with NBC News earlier,
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: says people have a right to choose. Wow, that's pretty radical.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: I mean even American conservatives don't believe that. He said
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: that in response to a question about the hijab. And indeed,
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: pictures out of Tehran are showing more and more women
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: just walking around uncovered or with very minimal covering of hair.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Women in pants and in in uh dress, in brousers,
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: in dress that you know that are basically basically just
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: a few weeks ago would have been considered horrific and
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: could be grounds for arresting these women.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: So there is a real change, it seems now.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Maybe some of you have contact in Iran will correct me,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: but it really seems like a change now. It's not
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: a change in the law, and the Supreme Leader is
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: not ruled on this, so it is very much possible
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: this could be reversed on a dime. But I would
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: say this is another consequence of the Twelve day war
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: with Israel. It's also humiliated this regime, so put them
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: on their knees, so viscerated their confidence in their military
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: that the last thing they want right now is an
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: internal conflict about the h job. And again, this is
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: what happens when the good, when the West stands up
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: when it confronts evil, even if it doesn't go all
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: the way is should have as Trump should have allowed
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: them to do, even if there was no regime changes
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: in Iran. The very fact that somebody stood up to
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: these bastards, the very fact that they were defeated, the
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: very fact that they were humiliated, has a positive resonance,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: a positive resonance and as positive outcomes, and I think
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: this is a job is part of that. Now. It's
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: also a consequence of of all the protests and and
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: the wariness of the regime in fighting its own people,
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: particularly given the humiliating defeat by the Israelis. So another positive,
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: small but positive change in the Middle East.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: I hope this change gets institutionalized, made permanent by a
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: supreme leader ruling or ideally supreme leader would drop dead,
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: that is the ideal scenario and and not be replaced
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: by another supreme leader. And Yuan morphs slowly into a
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: more secular western country with with real elections, not fake
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: ones like it's had to date. So here's to hoping.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Here's to hoping he's hoping that this is indeed, this
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: is indeed what happens, all right. Uh, yeah, this is
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: kind of a funny story. I guess funny. I don't
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: know funny story would, but maybe it's a funny story.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: I think I've talked on this channel before about Hassan Pika.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, let's be clear, Hassan pikap he is one
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: of the worst scumbags.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: In in the United States.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is a a man who is a
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: big advocate of socialism.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Uh. He is an inspiration to Mom Donnie. He is.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: He's about a most nihilistic person I've seen speak anywhere.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: He is advocating for the killing of capitalists in the streets.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: He has called for bloodshed towards uh, you know, CEOs
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: and and and capitalists and financiers.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: He is a hater of Israel. Uh.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: A man who is who has celebrated October seventh, you know,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: refuse to condemn what happened on October seventh, said he
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: didn't really care if rape and murder happened on that day.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: You know, he is one of the one of the
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: worst anti ISRAELI, uh, you know, voices out there in
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: the world that celebrates Islamic terrorism and and believes in
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: treating anybody who is pro Israel as if they were
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: neo Nazi. He has literally said, it doesn't matter if
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: rapes happened on October seventh, it doesn't change the dynamic
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: for me, he said, you know, you know Israel's comedy, genocide, famine,
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: the whole story. He is the worst of the worst,
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: the worst of the worst. And he has a massive following.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: He's like on twitch or whatever, a massive following. I mean,
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: this guy has huge amounts of people who follow him.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: He has been I think, really instrumental in rallying young
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: people around the Palestinian cause, you know, he he he
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: has interviewed people from from what do you call it,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: the juties in Yemen, and you know he's he's uh,
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: he's played Huti propaganda. I mean, this is about as
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: vicious and ugly and disgusting as human being.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: As you can find.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: And he's been doing this for years, I guess, getting
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: almost no criticism.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Nobody kids right in a country. He's got a massive following,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: massive following.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: But last week it turned out that while he live streams,
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: there's a dog in the background, and it turns out
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: that this dog is kept on the control in the
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: background not to interfere with ha Son's life streaming by
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: with an electronic electric color a son zaps him every
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: time he gets up, or he gets thro roudy, or
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: he gets the point where he might interfere. And this
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: was discovered by viewers of us on Piker's show, and
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: they flipped out. This guy's cool to animals. This guy
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: should be reported, he should be deplatformed. He should be
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: people should listen to him.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: He's a monster.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Not for not caring about rape, not for calling for
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: the murder of people in the streets, not for supporting
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: a terrorist organization, not for his anti Semitic views, No,
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: none of that. Because he zaps his dog. Now, I mean,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: how what he does his dog, But in the big
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: scheme of things, it really is the least of his sins.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: This guy is a monster that deserves that nobody watch him. Ever,
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: not because he SAPs his dogs. Because his ideas are evil,
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: and he for advocating those ideas, for holding those ideas,
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: for being spoken to these ideas is evil.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Hassan Pika is an.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Evil human being, and the fact that he treats animals
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: poorly or badly is just part of the cause.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: That is not suppose he shouldn't surprise.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: Anybody given his opinions of human beings and what he
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: would like to inflict on them. Uh So, I don't
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: know that the dog thing is going to become a
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: big deal.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: But I hope it does. But isn't it Isn't it
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: interesting that.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: This is what people care about. This is what gets
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: I'm excited. I mean, the world is a really shitty place.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, people really horrible. The very existence of Hassan
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: Pika's in the world, who have huge influence, huge followings,
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: is one of the most depressing features.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Of the modern world.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: By the way, as he was zapping the dog, he
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: was yelling into his microphone how.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Much he hates America. He could leave.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: I think he's got Turkish he's got a Turkish past.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: But he could go to Turkey. He could go spew
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: is disgusting hate and vitriol and evil somewhere else.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: That would be good. God it we're going. Oh, yes,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: we're going. We're going. We're going from that to hmm,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know what happened something something.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: We're not organized here, all right, I need to do this.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: H all right, Let's go and talk a little bit.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Give you an update on tariffs.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: We haven't talked about tais in a while, you know,
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: to have some of my my one of my favorite
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: topics to talk about. Uh and uh and son me
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: one of the one of the all right, there we go.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: All right, so let's find the tarff story. I mean
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: a few a few, a few updates on taraffs. First,
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: I want you to know, I I know a lot
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: of you have been very concerned about the the fact
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: that uh, you know, what do you call it, cabinets,
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: cabinets and sofa and and and and things like that
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: and not being built in the United States. And I
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: know a lot of you are concerned because this is
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: a clearly a national security threat. This is a clearly
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: a national security risk. The fact that the United States
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: does not make its own cabinetory. You know, you want
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: to buy a kitchen, usually you're inputting the cabinetry.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: And sofas.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: We don't make sofas sofas. China and Italy and places
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: like that make sofas. No sofas, And this is. This
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: is again a dramatic, significant military national security issue. Anyway,
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: don't worry because Trump is on it. As of next week,
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: the US is imposing twenty five percent tariffs on cabinets
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: and sofas. So while no new cabinets and sofas will
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: be built in the United States, the cabinets and sofas
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: you do buy will now carry a twenty five percent tariff.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: And insanely, Trump is using a national security provision in
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: order to impose these tariffs.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: So these areas not.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: Being imposed under the IEE p A or whatever the
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: emergency economic thing which stream called might overturn, this is
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: under the national security thing. Were suppose he has the
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: authority t imposed these tariffs.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: So don't worry, be happy. You will be paying.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Much more for cabinets and sofas starting next week. But
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: this is all for your own good and this will
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: make America safe and America stronger, and you know, all
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: the national security stuff, don't worry about it. I'm sure
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of ray oath materials in these cabinets. Yeah, so,
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: you know, I just want to make sure that you
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: were aware of that, you know, A Trump announced a
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: tweeted today, I think it was yesterday ten nine.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Tariff's are only good, he says.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: If you want your country to be rich, influential, and powerful,
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: if you want your country to be a third world country,
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: you should vote against tariffs, which is fascinating given a
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: list of all the countries with high tariffs. So you know, basically,
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: if you look at the countries with tariffs that are high,
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: you're talking about countries like Cambodia, Brazilian, Zania, cut the Ivory, Senegal, Togo, Guinea, Mauritius, Grenada, Ghana, Burindi, Uganda, Liberia, Siri, Leon, Nepal, Bangladesh,
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: the Gambia, India, Kabo, Verde, Kenya, Chad, Gabon, Cameron, Congo.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: And so on. You know.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: And in other words, if you look at the actual
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: empirical evidence, you can see that the United States at
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: fifteen percent, is now somewhere near Kenyan.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: Chad in terms of the level of tariffs. In other words,
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: there seems to be a their.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: Correlation between how hygyotaras are and how much how third
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: world you are, how poor you are. So if you
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: want to be rich, influential, and powerful, at least according
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: to that data, low tariff seems to be their strategy
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: in spite of what Donald Trump says. But here's the thing,
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: reality doesn't matter. All that matters is what Trump says.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: Trump says they're good, and therefore they are good. There
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: is no logic check, there's no thinking. There's nothing going
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: on here. Pure pure Trump makes stuff up.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: Tarifts make you strong, when TAFs actually make you weak. Poor.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: Now, I don't know if this cause of relationships day
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: it's it's not only causal. It's one of the many
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: causes that may make these countries poor. And if you
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: look at if you look at America's trading partners we
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: now have, I don't know twenty point six percent, fifteen
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: percent depends on how you measured.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Hong Kong as zero, Singapore has zero, zero, tells zero.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Australia one percent, United Kingdom one percent, Vietnam one point one,
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: Switzerland one point three, Belgium one point three, Germany one
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: point three, France one point three, Island one point three,
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Italy one point three, United States two years ago, A
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: year ago one point five, Japan one point six, China
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: China China two point two. Where would you rather be
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: with these countries? With Kenya and Gabon and Chad. I
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: guess Trump believes that they're the powerful ones.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: They're the strong ones. Anyway, it's just just for fun.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: Retail prices, you know, and now you can you can
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: actually now we've got a bunch of data and monthly
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: data in this retail prices on a bunch of goods
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: have increased significantly since in position of ten in April,
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: not just imported goods. Imported goods have gone up a lot,
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: and they were actually, you know, so if you look
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: at price trends, they were all trending down, they were
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: all getting cheaper, and as of April, everything is up,
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: all imported goods. And what's interesting is domestic goods. I've
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: always also spiked, not quite as much as imported goods,
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: but almost as much.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: And the trend for both.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: Domestic and imported goods, which was downward treading, they were
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: all getting cheaper. In twenty twenty four into twenty twenty five,
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: that trend is completely reversed and everything, everything is getting
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: more expensive. This is out of a Harvard Business School
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: working paper, so where they're their tracking prices. So yeah,
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: it's every imposition of tariffs.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Prices go up domestic and imported.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: So it's not like if only by American I won't
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: be exposed to the price increases.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: No, American goods are going up.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: In price as well because the competition is going up,
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: So why would they keep their prices low.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: They're facing less competition.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: Today, And Jesus is yesterday Trump was talking about, you know,
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: the horrible lawsuits that have been filed against the tariffs,
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: and what a disaster would be if the courts overturned
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: his tariffs.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: And he would say, you.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: Know, I would say many of the things I've done
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: could be eradicated if the traff's overturned. And then he
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: goes on to say the people who suit him, these
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: are small businesses who sued him, saying he doesn't have
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: the constitutional authority he'd impose the cheffs. He says, these
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: enemies of the country.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: There they're pursuing that lawsuit.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Again, anybody who disagrees with Trump, anybody who challenges Trump,
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: is an enemy of the United States. Now that is
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: a precursor to going after them, to persecuting them. And
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: they're persecuting them, which is all fine and good, because
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: their enemies of the United States.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: The cheminy, treason. His president is truly unbelievable.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: And then finally, one of the reasons taffs are not
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: having a bigger impact negative impact on our economy is
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: because Trump keeps carving out whole sections that are not
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: going to be tariffs because he knows, like everybody, the
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: tais caused prices to go up, so when he doesn't
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: want prices to go up, he eliminates the tariffs on
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: certain things.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: So, for example, Trump.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: Is excluding generic drugs from the Big Farmer tariff plan.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: This is a reversus a campaign pledge.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: And is a consequence of internal discussions within the Trump
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: team about the potential price increases or even drug shortages
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: as a consequence of tariffs on generics. Remember generics, Americans
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: actually pay significantly lower prices.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: Than other countries overall. I've told you this in the past.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: Americans pay less for drugs than Europeans and Canadians. We
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: pay more, a lot more for brand name, but ninety
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: seven percent of all drugs sold in the United States
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: are generic, and there we pay a lot less. So
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: on average we pay a lot less. But nobody wants
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: to tell you that that would actually say things are
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: pretty good.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: And we can and have that. We need emergencies. We
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: need emergencies to convince you the things are really, really,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: really bad. We here's an example of something good.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: Refrigerators. You like refrigerators. Refrigerators are good, well, it says out.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: The New York Times actually ran a story called the
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: Incredible Growing Refrigerators. And what it shows is that refrigerators
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: in the United States.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: Keep growing.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: They keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger. Also consume
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: more and more and more electricity. Well no, actually less
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: and less electricities. They keep getting bigger, consuming less electricities. Actually,
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: refigerous today consume eighty percent less electricity than refigereaders fifty
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: years ago. So in nineteen ninety, not that long ago.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: I remember nineteen ninety capacity, you know, cubic feet capacity
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: of refrigerators was twenty point forty five cubic feet. In
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: two thousand and six it was twenty two, up almost
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: ten percent. By twenty ten, you know again, twenty ten
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: is twenty to twenty. It really starts accelerating. Twenty fourteen
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: goes up to twenty four, twenty twenty one, twenty five
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: point eighty two. In other words, refrigerator capacity on average,
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: has gone out from nineteen ninety. We were poor in
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety, we had big refrigerators in nineteen ninety. Went
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: from twenty cubic feet in nineteen ninety to twenty six
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: cubic feet in nineteen twenty twenty one, thirty one years.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: Think about the fact that nineteen twenty eight, when the
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: first consumer refrigerators came out, they were they had seven
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: cubic fees of space.
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: Seven.
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the little refrigerator you have beer in
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: your TVU to watch the Super Bowl, right Your real
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: refrigerator as twenty six cubic feed and consumes eighty percent
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: less electricity than that ninety ninety refrigerator.
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: Some refrigerators have thirty to thirty you know, much more
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: than this inter as a cubic feed. And they're massive.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: There's seventy inches tall and they're thirty six inches wide.
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: And so.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: You know, all those all those measures of standard living,
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: quality of life, da da da, what poora things suck?
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Everything's bad.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: It was you know, everybody wants to be live in
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: the fifties and life was great then you could live,
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: you know, and with your little refrigerator and on one
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: salary and have five kids and three dogs and a
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: station wagon.
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but nobody's willing to give up that refrigerator.
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: So, by the way, Europeans, I don't know if there
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: are any today on the show right now because it's
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: late in Europe right now, But Europeans have notch smaller refrigerators.
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: It's another way in which American much richer than Europeans.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: America stand up living, quality of life is much higher.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: And by the way, these refrigerators are mostly not made
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: in the United States, so and certainly parts of them
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: are not made in the United States. These massive refrigerators
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: that consume very little electricity are products of globalization. Remember globalization,
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: that thing you hate. One other piece of good news.
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: I know it's terrible, you don't like this. There one
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: more millionaires in America. I know being a million is
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: not what it used to be, but you know, the
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: more million is eighteen percent of households eighteen almost twenty
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: percent of households as of twenty twenty.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: Three, which meant twenty four million.
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: Households in the United States had a net worth of
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: at least a million dollars and given the perments of
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: the stock market in twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five,
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: that number has to be. My guess is it's above
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: twenty percent. Twenty percent of Americans today a million is
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: so yeah, life doesn't quite suck as ch much as
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: people would like you to pretend it does. And you know,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: sometimes it sounds like I'm telling you it does, because
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: you know things are so negative and so bad.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna switch gears a little bit.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: I want to I want to talk about China, and
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: this is gonna be I'm gonna say some positive things
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: about China and.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: Take it for what it is in this sense, and
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: it's a negative. It's a positive aout China and a
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: negative about the US.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: We'll say there was a story in the Free Pass
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: and Barry Wise's Free Press a title China builds America blocks.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: China builds America blocks. And I've seen a number of
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: videos in the last few days that we're really striking.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: I'm going to show you some of them.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: But first I want to remind you that about eighteen
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: months ago, eighteen months ago, the bridge in Bolt remember,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: ship hit the bridge and the bridge collapsed really horrible.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: I think a couple of people a few people lost
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: their lives, really horrible incident, and the bridge collapsed, and
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: it's eighteen months and it's still nowhere near to being built.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: It's just not even close. It's there's a gap, that
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: whole section of highway has been shut.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: There's just nothing. And I want you to.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: Contrast that fact, that idea, that reality. They did that
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: in eighteen months, we couldn't build a bridge. We can
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: fix a bridge. To what is going on, what is
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: going on in China over the last twenty years, and
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: just the kind of building boom that they've experienced, I
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: mean trying to build its first expressway in nineteen ninety.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: By twenty eleven, they had a bigger interstate highway network
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: than the United States. By twenty twenty, it has built
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: a second batch of expressways that again total of the
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: length of the United States system, so they have.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: Double what the US has.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: The first expanse of highways took eighteen years to build,
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: the second nine years. They built the entire US highway
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: system in nine years. From two thousand and three to
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: twenty thirteen, Shanghai added as much subway track as the
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: entire system in New York City. Now they're building an
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: extension in New York City, what a long third avenue
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: or something like that, which is taking decades In Shanghai
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: ten years. They built the entire New York system in
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: ten years. In twenty twenty five, fifty one Chinese cities
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: had subway lines, eleven of which were longer than New York's.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: China has a longer high speed rail.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: Network than the rest of the world combined put together.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: I'm not even talking about the fact that the United
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: States has no high speed rail at all, and that
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: the one project that it has building high speed rail
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: from nowhere to nowhere in California is nowhere. I mean,
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: the high speed rail in China is amazing. China has
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: amazing bridges, it has amazing architecture, it has amazing buildings.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: It's truly stunning. China builds nuclear power plants. The US
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: has just one Ukli power react on the construction today.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: China has thirty one under construction.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: The only US nuclear plant built in the twenty first
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: century took fifteen years to build the thirty billion dollars.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: In August twenty twenty four, China's Nuclear Authority a proof
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: construction of eleven new reactors, all eleven total will cost
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: about thirty billion what it costs one. China has built
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: massive quantities of housing, massive quantities of housing. The United
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: States we can't build houses, we can't build condos. We
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: can't build I mean.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: The bridges, the infrastructure.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, so the highest bridges, the sallest bridges, the
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: most beautiful and modern and biggest airports in the world,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: all in China. I mean, when I was in China,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: it's beIN a Washington Sabina by far the most beautiful airports, stunning, stunning,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: stunning airports or Chinese airports. Now, let me show you
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: a couple of videos. These are means so killing. I'm
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: showed by Chinese bots to show how amazing China is.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: You know, look at this.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: This is let's see.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: Let's see if I can get this better position for
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: you guys to see it.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: All right, this is a.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: This is the tallest bill tallest bridge in the world.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: It cuts a trip they used to take two hours
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: down to two minutes.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: It has as part.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: Of this bridge there's a theme park, there's a glass walkway,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: there's a restaurant built into the bridge, a high speed
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: glass elevator, and a waterfall.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: You'll see the waterfall in a minute, a waterfall dropping
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: off on the edge of the bridge.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: You can also jump bungee jump off of this bridge
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: right now. The bridge is above the wang Jung Grand Canyon.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: It is twenty and fifty feet above the river and
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: it spans forty six hundred feet over the river. And
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: just look at this video. I mean, I mean, this
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: is you can know the music.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: Look at that.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's gorgeous. There's a restaurant up there. I mean,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: there's the waterfall. There's a waterfall coming out of the bridge.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: They're just dumping water down in there. I mean, that
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: is magnificent. It should be in America. And you saw
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: there's a walking path there. There's the restaurant again with
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: an elevator that comes up there. There's the walking path,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: there's the there's the there's the waterfall.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's ambition, that's civil engineering. This is this
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: is amazing and it says something, you know.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of problems in China, and
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: I talk about them a lot, and they've got a
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: lot of economic problems and for central planning and social
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: social scores and all of that, but there's something about
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: a culture that that's that ambitious. That can be all bad.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: It can be all bad when when you're that ambitious.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: And this is not the kind of ambition I think.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: I think, this is not the kind of ambition that
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: built the pyramids. These are not maasoleums. This is not
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: buildings to commemorate the dead and to bury kings in them.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: These are functional, uh projects that make people's lives better
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: and that ordinary people, all of us, can enjoy their beauty,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: their aesthetic quality. That they're stunning, you know, amazing. Now
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: what's this? This is This is the largest high speed
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: train station in China, right, the Chongquin East Railway station.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: Just just look at this. You're coming down the escalator.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: Look at that. Where in America? Where where? Anyway?
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: So anything like this, nothing even close. I mean it's sad.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: I mean the closest thing I know that that is
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: Singapore Airport is stunning. Airport in Singapore is stunning, Hong
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: Kong Airport is stunning. But all the rest is China.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: And look at the scale of it.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: I mean it's beautiful and ambitious and grand scale and
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: and beautiful architecture on modern it's not trying to do
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: their Chin dynasty like you know, it's not like Donald
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: Trump architectural requirements of all federal buildings have to have
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: Greek columns and Roman whatever facades. This is this is modern, beautiful,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: amazing architecture. This is what America should be aspiring to.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: And it's China. Oh here's one other one. Hopefully you
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: can see you'll be able to see this. This is
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: a project to reclaim the desert. This is reclaiming the desert,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: turning it into farmland.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: Look at that. Those are dunes. That's not Ai.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: Those are real photos.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: The what do you call it that?
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: I forget the name of the desert in Vortis Mongolia.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: But yeah, this is this is what we used to do.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: We claim desert, rice swamps, build, build, build baby. Instead,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: can't build anything in this country. And when we do
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: build something, it has to it has to be you know,
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: by architectural standards of five hundred BC.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: The Gobi Desert, that that was at the Gobi Desert.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: Now granted, a lot of the stuff that's been built
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: in China over the last particularly over the last fifteen years,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: has been drilled with massive amounts of debt that they
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: now cannot pay off. A lot of it has been
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: built while people unbelievably poor and starving, and yet they're
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: these big, massive civil engineering programs instead of actually liberty
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: in the economy and allowing for private entrepreneurs and the
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: capital to flow into private entrepreneurs who would actually build
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: stuff that has sustained economic economic success over time and would.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: Raise people, help raise people out of poverty.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, there are a lot of problems, and there's
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: a lot of I'm sure they're bridges that are too
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: beautiful for their own good that were built in places
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: where nobody's going to use them, like bridges to no
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: way type things. But I'm just trying to give you
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: a sense of what we've lost, what the environmentalists and
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: the conservatives and the conservationists or whatever you want to
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: call them, have destroyed in this country, the ambition, the grandeur,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, civil engineering projects a beautiful, amazing things, and
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: they inspire people, and they reflect a nation's ambitions. They
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: reflect the people's ambitions, they reflect where they would like
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: to go and what they would like to do, and
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: kind of the kind of world they would like to
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: live in. And again, we want to live in a
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: world with no new buildings, no new housing, no new bridges,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: no tunnels.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: God forbid, you build a tunnel.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: We want to live in a world with where if
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: you get to build a building, it's going to look
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: like ancient Greece or ancient Rome.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: It's such a poverty, poverty of vision is what we
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: have in this country.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: And yeah, it's it's just pathetic and sad. Pathetic and
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: sad and and and this is what I loved about
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: China when I was there.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: I love the ambition, I love the spirit.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: I love the gyscrapers, the architecture. They're shooting for the
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: stars and and and and and just just wanting to
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: succeed and wanting to succeed big, not settling for for
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: small and and that used to be America, and that
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: should be America. And it's, you know, full of flaws
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: when it's Chinese, because it's government run and it's government centered,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: and it's status and it's all the problems in China.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: And yet there's a spirit there that I think suggests
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: that there's something in Chinese culture, something in that people.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: It's worth watching and hoping that they're somehow liberated. Imagine
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: that country free, liberated. Uh, that would be quite quite amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Let's start with Hopper Campbell can AI still make us
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: rich and prosperous despite the rise of authoritarianism throughout the
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: West for narcissistic reasons. Is the Trumpet administration protecting AI
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: allowing to grow largely unobstructed. Yeah, it certainly can create
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: wealth in spite of authoritarianism.
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  Speaker 1: Look at China.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: China has become, you know, much wealthier in spite of
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: the authoritarianism.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: It depends how the authoritarianism has.
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  Speaker 2: Applied, where they keep their hands off, what they allow
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: and what they don't allow.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: You can't become as rich as you would otherwise, but
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: you know, but you still can become quite rich, quite rich.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: I think I think Trump anniversation is proticting II, you know,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: partially because a lot of its supporters a tech part
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: the tech guys and and the tech people have have
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  Speaker 2: encouraged them to keep their hands off.
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  Speaker 1: Of AI and and UH and and to leave the
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: industry alone. And I think that has worked so far.
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  Speaker 2: It's also the case that Trump has found different ways
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: for his family to make money off of crypto and
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: AI and all kinds of initiatives like that, and I
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 2: think they would the hands off is part of making
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: that possible. But yeah, I think it's purely pragmatic. There's
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: no principle behind it.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: Clark.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: When I studied the Holocaust in school, I remember thinking,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: how did Hitler get tens of tens of millions of
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: Germans to follow him with hardly any opposition. Then I realized,
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: I'm watching my fellow Americans take the same path.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think that's right.
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 2: I think you're watching the kind of tribalism, the kind
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: of personality worship, the kind of mindlessness, mindlessness that we
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: saw in Germany in the nineteen thirties. I don't think
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: it's quite as extreme. I don't think we're hitting in
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: that direction, But suddenly it's in the same direction.
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  Speaker 1: You're also seeing it on the left.
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: Think about how many people are going out to the
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: Poor Master demonstrations and mindlessly just following what their professors
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: told them. It's the same phenomena on the left, and
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  Speaker 2: you're seeing it on left and right. You're seeing a
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: mindlessness and a tribalism that is shocking and un American,
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: and you know, really disappointing. But it helps you understand
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 2: what happened back then, because it's the same phenomena. Clark says,
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: to be fair, I think the Holocaust education in Germany
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: is very good. Germans understand what happened and how it happened,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: and are always on the lookout for what they call
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: the early signs, Yeah, of anti Semitism and so on. Yeah,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: it's why they're so upset by the rise of the
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 2: right wing. But yes, I think the Germans have taken
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: taken the Holocaust to heart. Whether they fully understand the causes,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: I don't think they do. I don't think anybody does.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: You'd have to read the Ominous Palelos. You'd have to
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: read Leanna Peacock to truly understand what happened in Germany
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: and understand the real causes of it.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: And I don't think anybody has that.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: If they would, you know, the philosophy of the world
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: would be dramatically different. Because the fact is the philosophically,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: as if you read Dominant Powellos you discover philosophically, we
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: don't hold the dramatically different philosophy than the people held
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: in the thirties in Germany. This is why it can
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: happen again, because the philosophy is not that different. The
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: oceanists Hi, you on, I mean a look on the
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: channel for a while. I remember you said you were
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: a socialist at some point until you had at La Schrug.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: What part in the book changed your mind? Oh, I
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: It was the book, It was the totality of it,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: It was everything about it.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: But I mean.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 2: What really got to me was the idea of egoism.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: What really got to me was the idea of self interest.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: That is what really shattered my beliefs and altruism and socialism.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: Remember I was sixteen, so but it was the whole book.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's any particular passage. It just kept
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: building and building and building, and it just became clear.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: That this is true, and.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: What I believed in and what I was holding, and
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: what the culture believed in and what was prevalent in
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: the culture was just wrong and it just didn't make
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: any sense.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: And her critique was spot on, But.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: It was the positive point, the positive points about life
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: about self interest that really got to me.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: It really got to me, Andrew.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: Can the objective's virtual pride be adapted to an altruistic framework?
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: Don't altruistics also stress moral ambition albit towards entirely different
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: aims than we do, Or does model ambition in for selfishness,
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: well it movel ambition implies a morality that is attuned
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: to reality, a morality.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: That is achievable to some point.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: In having moral ambition if you know in advance, and
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 2: the morality is set up to fail.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: The morality is set up to make it.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: Impossible for you to be perfect, you to be ambitious.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 2: You can try, you can push, but you can't, you
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: can't succeed. The whole point of altruism is failure. I mean,
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: the ultimate altruism would require death and and and that's
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: not what they peach right.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: So.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: The pride is only possible if mall ambitiousness leads tom
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: all success, and that success leads to positive things in
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: the world for you.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: To reinforce.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: The practicality of the morality. So an impractical morality is
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: incompatible with pride. It's incompatible with moral ambitiousness because you're
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: failing constantly.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: Wes.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: Wes just came in with fifty dollars sticker. Thank you, Wes,
• 1:25:33
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  Speaker 2: It's good to see you here. That is really helped
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: make a dance.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: You know our target in achieving our target?
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: All right, Andrew, all the conservatives and hippies are of
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: unspoiled nature. I'll take that high speed rail station me too.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 2: Don't you think it says something about a sense of
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 2: life being anti building. Ran once describe New York City
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: as like a garden.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean it's a sense of life, of smallness,
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: of meekness of.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: I don't belong in this world. I just need to
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: fit in with nature.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: You know. I don't want to command nature. I just
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: want to fit in. I don't want to spoil it.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 2: I don't want to touch it. That is such a meekness, smallness,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: smallness of status to smallness of mind, a small mentality,
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: and unambitious.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: Sense of life.
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: A sense of life I think much more focused on fear,
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: fear of nature, fear of reality, fear of the world,
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: than on conquest, conquest of nature, which is what you know,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: people starting from the age of Discovery on into the
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: twentieth century, I think felt.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: The people who really built the world. But not you
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: have a j algorithm.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 2: How is a secret service agent taking a round for
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: the president not an altruistic job. Well, it's not an
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: altruistic job because you recognize, first of all, you have
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: to enjoy the profession itself, what's involved in it, the
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: physicality of it, the intelligence of it, the challenge of it.
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  Speaker 2: But then you realize that your job is necessary the
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  Speaker 2: preservation of liberty. It's no different than being a soldier.
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  Speaker 2: It's no different than fighting for freedom. Part of that
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  Speaker 2: is protecting the person that is in charge and preserving
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  Speaker 2: that freedom, and so helping protect him, doing whatever's necessary
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  Speaker 2: to part him, because by protecting him, you're protecting your
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  Speaker 2: own life, you're protecting your own family, You're protecting your values,
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  Speaker 2: You're protecting.
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  Speaker 1: Freedom, which is a value.
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  Speaker 2: So it's not altruistic if you understand the abstract values
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  Speaker 2: that you're fighting for. Liam says, it's Kint defeated the
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  Speaker 2: Enlightenment in the United States. Well, I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: he's defeated it, but it's certainly on the ropes. But
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  Speaker 2: the battle continues. I don't think it's over. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: look at the progress in AI and look at the
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  Speaker 2: excitement about technology. That's still the Enlightenment, but it's getting desperate.
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  Speaker 2: It's getting desperate. Clock once the intelligentsia. Make enough people mindless,
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  Speaker 2: they'll huddle together and follow anyone with a strong enough personality.
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  Speaker 1: Attila and the Witch Doctor knew what they were doing. Yep, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and we're getting there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think I think a significant number of
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  Speaker 2: our population now is mindless and followers and unthinking.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the challenge we face. This is the challenge.
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  Speaker 1: How do you how do you snap them out of it?
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  Speaker 1: How do you snap them out of it? Docianist Jan
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  Speaker 1: I think you should.
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  Speaker 2: You should have to try to go on stitch An
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  Speaker 2: Adams show and talk about tariffs. One of the hosts, Adam,
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  Speaker 2: seemed somewhat supportive of them. Look, I think the best
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  Speaker 2: way to get me in shows like that is for
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: you guys to ask the hosts, say invite me me.
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  Speaker 2: Approaching them usually does not work, but when their audience
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: members talk to them about it, that's when they respond.
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  Speaker 2: So I encourage you to write to them or post
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  Speaker 2: a super chatow whatever it is that they do, and
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  Speaker 2: encourage them to invite me on the show. Andrew idea
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  Speaker 2: for spinoff for the Rules of Life. It could tea
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 2: of Christian virtues in practice, how not to live rules
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  Speaker 2: for the lifeless, maybe too negative, but I picture you
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  Speaker 2: contrasting it with the positive. Yeah, I mean I've done
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  Speaker 2: shows like that. I've done the Seven Deadly Sins. I've
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  Speaker 2: done a couple of two or three shows about Christian
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  Speaker 2: vice virtues and Christian vices and what they stand for.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll look at what I've done and what more
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  Speaker 2: I could do. Neo, is China's development mostly state led?
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  Speaker 2: And does that provide government prove that government can manage
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  Speaker 2: economies well?
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  Speaker 1: Socialists off in site China as a model.
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  Speaker 2: I mean a lot of this civil engineering projects of
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  Speaker 2: state led, often local governments, not the federal government.
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  Speaker 1: But they haven't done well.
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  Speaker 2: I mean again, they're ambitious, the architectures are amazing, they spend money.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have all the regulations and all the mental controls,
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  Speaker 2: so they can get these things done quickly. But it's
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  Speaker 2: also true that, as I said earlier, it's not clear.
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  Speaker 1: They can pay for it.
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  Speaker 2: They're deeply in debt, the economy is struggling. People in
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 2: China are poor, or at least there's a significant number
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  Speaker 2: of them that are still poor. This doesn't help them,
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  Speaker 2: so they are real problems in a government managed the
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  Speaker 2: economy that manifest themselves in China, and of course the
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  Speaker 2: socialists are wrong, because China in that sense is a failure.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a success.
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  Speaker 2: It has certain successes, most of them when they leave
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  Speaker 2: the private sector alone.
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  Speaker 1: In the case of these.
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  Speaker 2: Civil engineering projects, is often private sector projects that are
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  Speaker 2: funded by the government, but they're left alone to build.
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  Speaker 2: But their progress in tech and elsewhere is a private
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  Speaker 2: sector success.
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  Speaker 1: It's where the government is backed off though she honist Jan.
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  Speaker 2: If Israel didn't have conscription, would you have joined the
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  Speaker 2: IDF Y or why not?
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  Speaker 1: Well, at the time, I probably would.
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  Speaker 2: Have because I was still not completely free of all
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: the collectivism and everything else.
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  Speaker 1: Would I today? I mean possibly, certainly.
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  Speaker 2: If I was planning to make a life in Israel,
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  Speaker 2: I would if I was planning to spend a significant
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  Speaker 2: time there. I really believe that if you're going to
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: live in a country, you should contribute to its defense
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 2: if it's being threatened, if war was a real option,
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: if people want to try to kill me while I
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 2: live in Israel, I should contribute to defending myself, defending
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  Speaker 2: my values, defending my ability to live there.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if I was committed to leaving quickly, then probably
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  Speaker 1: not but.
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  Speaker 2: If I was going to stay there, if I had
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  Speaker 2: family there, or if I was going to stay a
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  Speaker 2: period doesn't have to be the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 2: With a period, then yes, I think I would serve
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  Speaker 2: in the military because it's an issue of protecting myself,
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  Speaker 2: protecting my values, protecting my ability to live while I'm there,
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: and protecting my family and the things that.
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  Speaker 1: I care about. String of bell.
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  Speaker 2: Hello you on any thoughts on the secret Handshake statute.
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  Speaker 1: Statue?
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  Speaker 2: What I don't know the secret Handshake statue. How much
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  Speaker 2: impact does satirical art have on the culture? Well, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know the sculpture, but.
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  Speaker 1: Satia in a.
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  Speaker 2: Modern life has a lot of I think a lot
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  Speaker 2: of impact, most of a negative because most satire is
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  Speaker 2: kind of cynical.
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  Speaker 1: And undermining and undercutting of values. And I think almost
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  Speaker 1: all of our.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of our arts today is skeptical and cynical
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 2: and in that sense detrimental to real value pursuit. But
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: you have to send me a photo of what you're
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: talking about so I can evaluate. Enwick, what's you take
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  Speaker 2: in private equity debt placed on Joan Fabric and put
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: them into bankruptcy. It was quite successful beforehand with loyal customers.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 2: Joanne Fabric. I don't know the particulars of the case,
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  Speaker 2: but look, sometimes companies take on too much debt that
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 2: drives them into financial distress. Sometimes a company is successful
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 2: and then something changes in the marketplace that makes them unsuccessful.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 2: In the fact that they have a lot of debt
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 2: accelerates the decline. I don't know enough about this particular
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  Speaker 2: case to say what actually happened, but look, markets are
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: not are not infallible. Private equity is not infallible. Again,
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 2: markets are not infallible. Fact that maybe they took them
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  Speaker 2: too much of debt, maybe they did something bad, maybe
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 2: they restructured the company in.
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  Speaker 1: A way that was not wealth creating. All of that
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: is possible. Mistakes happen all the time.
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  Speaker 2: It's not in the nature of private equity. Lah, How
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 2: does stay positive when radical islam is seemingly conquering the
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  Speaker 2: West with pot Palestinian rallies every weekend and support for
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: terrorism going unchecked by weak governments, Well, I mean, the
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 2: reality is the Islamists are still weak. The Islamists do
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 2: not control any significant place where they do control, like
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 2: in the Middle East. They're getting weak and out stronger.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 2: The fact is that Israel Is crushed the Iranians and
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: crushed Risa, Balan, crushed Ramas, and that has to have
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 2: an impact on the energy that the Islamists in Europe
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: have because as they're seeing that their causes all being
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: crushed by a small web Eastern country, their confidence in
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: their own cause must must dwindle. And the reality is
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 2: that many of the countries in the Middle East it
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 2: used to be more orients towards Islamism, like Saudi Arabia
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: and thee And maybe maybe we'll see a.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: Transition in Qatar.
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  Speaker 2: Moving away from Islamism and banning the Muslim brotherhoods and
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: taking money away from them. So it's not all good
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 2: news for them. It's actually a lot of bad news.
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  Speaker 2: And the real wai is how weak how Western governments are.
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  Speaker 1: But remember Islamism is unbelievably weak.
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  Speaker 2: Look at what Israel did to them, which means any
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 2: Western country can eviscerate them in no time. They're really
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: an insignificant threat in the big picture of things. They
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 2: are a nuisance. They will cause damage, but they're not
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 2: gonna win. They can't win. They're way too weak, way
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  Speaker 2: too primitive, way too barbaric. They're just not in a
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 2: position where they're gonna win.
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  Speaker 1: Cults.
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  Speaker 2: On a related note, I finished Dominus Parallels. I've noticed
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  Speaker 2: a lot of similar themes between now and you are
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 2: predicted some of and you predicted some of this years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, I meanness.
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  Speaker 2: Power is a brilliant book. Everybody should read it. Of course,
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 2: the next book to read is Damn the diym I Process.
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  Speaker 2: But he shows philosophically exactly what happened that caused the
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: collapse in Germany, and how that the trends going back
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 2: to the nineteen seventies were already happening in the United States,
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 2: and what inevitably that will lead to, and what inevitably
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 2: that has already led to.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks colts, Michael. The ominus Poalerlos is basically a.
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  Speaker 2: History book written before the historical events actually unfold. Well,
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 2: it's half that and half the history book, right, half
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  Speaker 2: explanatory about something that did indeed happen in history.
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  Speaker 1: All right, guys, thank you for all the supports.
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  Speaker 2: I really really appreciate it. I will be back tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: You know, my voice still has not completely returned. I'll
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  Speaker 2: be back tomorrow. We'll do news, probably around three pm.
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not traveling, so there'll be shows tomorrow and through
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  Speaker 2: the weekend, and yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I have a great rest of your Thursday and I
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  Speaker 1: will see you, see you all tomorrow. Bye, every buddy.