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610 CKTB| The “YMCA” Anthem A New Symbol for a Free Iran · Kvetch & Release

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  Speaker 1: Speaking of what is happening in the Middle East over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. Another great voice here on the show is
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  Speaker 1: joining us, and he advocates for Jewish groups all over Canada.
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  Speaker 1: He is a former newspaper publisher and a broadcaster. A
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  Speaker 1: good friend, John Litkey, joins us here on a Monday morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning. Okay, so it has started.
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  Speaker 1: It ran you know they when the bombs started to fall,
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  Speaker 1: they started bombing Israel. Then all of a sudden, it
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  Speaker 1: is Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, you name it, Katar.
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  Speaker 1: What a mess in the Middle East. What's your initial take?
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's where you lived, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I spent months in Dubai doing a contract.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I mean I can only imagine Dubai spent
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  Speaker 3: what three decades building up an image that they were
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  Speaker 3: a safe enclave from the middle of you know, a
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  Speaker 3: pretty pretty dangerous place, I suppose, yes, and that was
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  Speaker 3: all destroyed. Are not able to rape? Did you ever
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  Speaker 3: fly in gene to terminal.
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  Speaker 2: A yeah, yeah, I guess, yes, yeah, absolutely, And.
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  Speaker 3: Now that now, now the pictures the videos of you know,
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  Speaker 3: smoke billowing throughout that terminal, and that that changes everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had lunch in the in the Fairmount Hotel
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  Speaker 1: where the where the Iranians managed to get a missile there.
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  Speaker 2: So the urge.
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  Speaker 3: Al Arab right was struck.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it was just briefly. It wasn't too seriously.
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  Speaker 3: But I mean the point being is, like, I don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing that I thought when the regime in
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  Speaker 3: Iran decided to strike the external parties was essentially the
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  Speaker 3: you know, this was the this is like the abuser syndrome.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to hit you so much, you're going to
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  Speaker 3: ask us to stop. And in this case, it was
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  Speaker 3: we're going to ask you to ask the US and
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  Speaker 3: Israel to stop. Yeah, but that's a crazy situation because
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  Speaker 3: obviously they have to defend themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think anybody saw that coming. And although
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  Speaker 1: the US flotilla has been there for a while, there
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  Speaker 1: was still a bit of an element of surprise based
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  Speaker 1: on the CIA collecting all that knowledge and the Ayatola,
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  Speaker 1: the leader and all of his cabinet and senior military
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  Speaker 1: officials were taken out just like that. You know, a
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  Speaker 1: ran keeps talking, you know that they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: hitting back bigger and better. And Trump is now saying
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  Speaker 1: that this is probably going to last for five or
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  Speaker 1: six weeks. As a Jewish Man, how do you see
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  Speaker 1: the whole conflict.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's a good thing. Anytime that a genocidal leader
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  Speaker 3: is destroyed is a very positive thing. On like right
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  Speaker 3: off the straight off to that. Two. I love the
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  Speaker 3: fact that when it comes to Israel combating its offenses
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  Speaker 3: that it has, they always do monumental biblical book ends.
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  Speaker 3: This is the weekend this was entering into Perham. Perham
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  Speaker 3: is a very minor Jewish holiday, if you will, but
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  Speaker 3: it talks about how a genocidal Persian leader tried to
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  Speaker 3: kill all the Jews. Persian leader, of course, being Iranian,
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  Speaker 3: and the Jews won three thousand years ago, and the
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  Speaker 3: Jews won again today. And that's a positive, positive thing.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, nobody expected that to be the way that
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  Speaker 3: it was. No one expected this to unfold the way
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  Speaker 3: it did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I was watching video online of an
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  Speaker 1: Iranian Canadian demonstration outside the US Embassy in Toronto and
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  Speaker 1: University Avenue. Now, normally when you see people protesting outside
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  Speaker 1: of the US embassy, it's the usual suspects and it's
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  Speaker 1: death to the USA.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, well you know what.
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  Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Iranian Canadians were chanting US Army, thank you, Trump,
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  Speaker 1: thank you outside the US Consulate in Toronto and placing
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  Speaker 1: flowers on the building. So Iranians outside of Iran are
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  Speaker 1: very very happy this is happening, you know.
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  Speaker 3: It's all It's interesting, right because we know for a
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  Speaker 3: fact that the vast majority of the pro I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to venture into this, Gene, but I guess I will.
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  Speaker 3: I'm on the radio right now. The vast majority of
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  Speaker 3: the pro Palestinian protests that we've seen on campuses, in
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  Speaker 3: our streets, going into residential neighborhoods have been largely funded
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  Speaker 3: and organized by Iranian if not Iranian proxy proxies that
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  Speaker 3: have you know, created these things. We know that for
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  Speaker 3: a fact, we know that has be the Hoho thies.
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  Speaker 3: We know that the vast majority of the terror proxies
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  Speaker 3: are funded by Iran, and so it's not surprising that
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  Speaker 3: there weren't the same level of protests that we've seen
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  Speaker 3: over the past two years, but it was. It feels
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  Speaker 3: like a high water mark, maybe, Gene. Do you agree
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  Speaker 3: with that that we've reached a point that, oh, maybe
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  Speaker 3: we're on the other side of this, I hope. So
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  Speaker 3: maybe I'm just being, you know, euphemistically optimistic.
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  Speaker 1: I think the big question is Trump said, this is
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  Speaker 1: to the Iranian people, this is your chance to take
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  Speaker 1: your country back, and it may be the only chance
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  Speaker 1: you have in a long long time, or maybe the
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  Speaker 1: only chance period. So the top leadership has gone and dead,
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  Speaker 1: but there's still firing missiles. I don't I'm like, how
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  Speaker 1: how how do Iranians who haven't been executed because they
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  Speaker 1: were protesting? How do they form a government? How do
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  Speaker 1: they take over?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Gene, that's a hard w ask. I'd imagine violence.
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  Speaker 3: I'd imagine violence. You just you take control. You you
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  Speaker 3: go and overthrow the government through physical means. And the
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  Speaker 3: ideal is that, you know, the the security forces decide
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  Speaker 3: to lay down their arms.
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  Speaker 1: Now you you always throw me a curve and the
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  Speaker 1: curve this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Was you?
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  Speaker 1: The last couple of times you've been on, you've presented
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  Speaker 1: some propositions which I thought were like what and then
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  Speaker 1: they completely completely makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: And today you were talking about the YMC song.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, that's a funny one. I always I
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  Speaker 3: hated it. I can't stand Trump putting on the YMCA song.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's the silliest thing. It's just what a joke.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't make any sense, Like I wasn't quite sure
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  Speaker 3: like what he was trying to achieve, other than maybe
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  Speaker 3: he just really liked the song. But when I've seen
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  Speaker 3: images and videos of people dancing in the streets of
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  Speaker 3: Los Angeles with the YMCA being streamed loudly or in
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  Speaker 3: New York Man, that guy did it. He did it well.
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  Speaker 3: That is now the anthem of a free Iran. People
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  Speaker 3: were dancing and singing and doing his really stupid and
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  Speaker 3: silly gyrations that he does with his hands going up
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  Speaker 3: and down in front of him. But I mean, like God,
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  Speaker 3: God bless them. These people are now looking at being freed.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think that the history historical record is
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  Speaker 3: going to be one of you and me, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just chiding because that's what we get paid to do,
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  Speaker 3: and it's very fun and we enjoy ourselves. But I
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  Speaker 3: don't think it's going to be that way. I think
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be YMCA. That's the anthem of free Iran.
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  Speaker 3: Who would have thought, Who.
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  Speaker 1: Would have thought, Well, there's a lot more work to go,
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  Speaker 1: and thanks for popping on and chiming in for us
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  Speaker 1: on this Monday morning.
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  Speaker 3: Any day, Ginea, and I'll talk with you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: You got it?
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  Speaker 1: There he goes another voice on the show, John led Key.
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  Speaker 1: He always has a thought, and he always throws me
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  Speaker 1: a curve. And yeah, maybe y MCA is going to
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  Speaker 1: be the song of freedom for a brand new event.