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6.26.26 Brian Fitzherbert WOND Radio · Seth Grossman – Liberty and Prosperity

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  - Ann Baker is on News Talk 14 hundred
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  - 92 point three w o n d. Wanna
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  - 927-1100.
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  - Good morning, everyone. This is Ann Baker on
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  - Talking with Ann, and I'm with Brian Fitzherbert
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  - on Fitzherbert Friday. Good morning, Brian. How are
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  - you?
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  - Good morning, Anne. I'm doing well. Thank you
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  - for having me. No. Thank you for being
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  - here.
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  - You know,
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  - there is,
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  - lots to talk about, but
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  - I want to ask you your thoughts
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  - on the Phillies
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  - and then on the WNBA.
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  - What do you make of those fills? Dear
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  - lord almighty, I gotta stay up for hours
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  - to watch them finally come through in the
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  - ninth inning?
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  - Well, you know,
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  - sometimes teams take a little bit longer to
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  - be turned on Mhmm. To get their groove.
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  - And sometimes they come through, sometimes they don't.
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  - And, you know, baseball has adjusted quite a
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  - bit in the last few years. Obviously, having
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  - the pitch clock, trying to make things,
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  - go a little quicker, faster, and then, obviously,
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  - what whether or not that's a detriment to
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  - the safety of the players and the pitchers,
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  - etcetera.
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  - But, you know,
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  - sometimes it takes longer. Sometimes you can do
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  - it quick, and sometimes it's not the outcome
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  - that you want.
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  - Well, it's the outcome I
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  - want. I'm telling you. I'm I'm really excited
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  - for them. I don't know whether there are
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  - five or six games now out of the
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  - out of number one, but,
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  - I'm I'm looking forward to the rest of
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  - the season now. I'm wishing that I actually
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  - had tickets, but,
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  - this is this is very exciting to watch
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  - sports. And I know that you love ice
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  - hockey. That's probably number one on your list
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  - of sports
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  - to embrace.
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  - But,
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  - did you ever play baseball?
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  - I did. Growing up, I, you know, I
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  - did all the typical, you know, childhood sports.
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  - I did soccer. I did baseball,
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  - you know, basketball, etcetera. And then, you know,
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  - when hockey became,
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  - my sport, it was hockey and only hockey.
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  - So but I do enjoy watching,
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  - competitive sports, whether it's, you know, it's funny.
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  - When it comes to baseball and or basketball
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  - and or football, I'm more of a watch
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  - it when it's the playoffs because it's the
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  - best of the best. And they put they
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  - put everything they possibly can,
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  - into their athletic ability to try to win.
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  - So that's I'm I'm kind of that
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  - with regard to, watching professional sports. But to
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  - your your other comment with regard to the
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  - WNBA,
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  - I suspect,
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  - it runs along the same idea of,
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  - you know,
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  - the the political aspiration
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  - or the political accusations, I should say, as
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  - well as what's actually unfolding.
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  - The ironic thing is, what do you always
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  - hear when it comes to WNBA? Ugh. Women's
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  - basketball players don't get paid what the NBA
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  - basketball players get. Why? Well, guess what? The
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  - NBA actually subsidizes the WNBA because the WNBA
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  - on its own is not a profitable business.
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  - And why is that? Well, because people don't
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  - want to watch it. And truthfully, the number
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  - one culprit
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  - is
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  - women.
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  - Women
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  - should be the biggest and the front row
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  - and the biggest supporters of the WNBA, but
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  - they're not. Because guess what? They'd rather watch
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  - other things that are more,
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  - in line with their interest, and there's nothing
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  - wrong with that. It could be, you know,
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  - whatever, Bravo TV or I don't know. Fill
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  - in the blank what what women decide to
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  - do, but it's not anyone else's,
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  - problem
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  - with regard to the WNBA. And, again, if
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  - you had an entity and or business or
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  - organization, let's say WNBA,
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  - all of a sudden was very profitable. They
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  - could sell advertising. They could sell out
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  - games. They could make money. Then guess what?
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  - As a result of the operations of that
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  - business enterprise,
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  - then you would pay the players more money
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  - because it's more valuable. This is why NBA
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  - players, NFL players, MLB players, NHL players get
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  - millions and millions of dollars a year, and
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  - even more so if you're
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  - a good player, great player above the rest.
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  - And even further, if you bring championships
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  - to the city, which also generates economic,
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  - revenue and interest. So that's what cracks me
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  - up about the WNBA. And even now, you're
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  - seeing what's in the news. With some of
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  - these games and and Caitlin Clark, I think,
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  - who's who's become kind of a a mini
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  - rock star because she is attracting talent, but
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  - the other players
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  - seem to have a massive jealousy issue,
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  - and they're being overtly physical. I mean, you
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  - see some of these highlights where there's an
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  - overt punch to her throat when she is
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  - on the ground
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  - or a pushing of her throat when she
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  - is on the ground. I mean, all that
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  - does is hurt, and it's like, well, nobody
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  - wants to watch this trash if that's how
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  - players
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  - and or athletes operate when there's competition that's
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  - beating them that's outshining them. Yeah. And and
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  - yet,
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  - men have always played like that. I mean,
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  - you're watching them fight on the basketball court
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  - anymore,
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  - and it's almost being allowed unless it's the
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  - most blatant foul that, that occurs.
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  - But when I looked at, the same thing
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  - that you were just
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  - talking about,
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  - the fist to the throat,
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  - and I thought to myself,
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  - this shouldn't be allowed to happen. And certainly,
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  - I think it was
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  - Alyssa Thomas.
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  - I'm not sure. But, she was the one
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  - who did that, and she has,
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  - she's got to sit out, I believe, the
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  - next the next game or two. But Caitlin
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  - Clark
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  - is in fact a rock star,
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  - just like Elvis brought,
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  - people,
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  - teenagers from the fifties
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  - into that genre of music
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  - selling hundreds of millions of of records,
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  - Caitlin Clark
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  - has brought people
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  - to the TV set to watch her.
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  - She's that
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  - good. She is the rock star of the
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  - WNBA.
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  - And, you know, the NBA
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  - must be run by
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  - idiots
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  - because this is the thirtieth anniversary of the
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  - WNBA,
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  - and they didn't put Caitlin Clark's face in
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  - the middle of all of these previously,
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  - you know, generating some degree of of,
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  - being famous.
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  - They didn't have Caitlin Clark's picture there in
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  - the very middle of all of these women.
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  - And she, in fact, is now the face
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  - of the WNBA,
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  - and she should have been there. And every
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  - single person that had anything to do with
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  - this poster celebrating the thirtieth anniversary
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  - should be fired
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  - for that. Oh,
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  - totally. Look. And it's an easy answer. It
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  - comes down to jealousy.
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  - If someone
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  - else is outshining you or someone else has,
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  - I don't know, limelight or is smarter than
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  - you or or is better than you, more
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  - athletic than or fill in the blank. Better
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  - in some form or fashion that is not
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  - objective.
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  - Right? That is well, actually, in this case,
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  - it is overtly objective that, yep, I can
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  - look at two players and Caitlin Clark is
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  - the better player. Caitlin Clark nails more three
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  - pointers. Caitlin Clark brings more assists to the
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  - etcetera, etcetera
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  - in the game. People are just and those
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  - that are tied of it, especially if Caitlin
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  - Clark is younger,
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  - then I would say likely everyone who is
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  - participating in that thirtieth,
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  - anniversary ross roster that didn't include her, that
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  - she's accomplishing attention that they never could. Because
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  - I'm I imagine that there's a bunch of
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  - alumni that are tied in with this. So
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  - there's a a visceral reaction, a jealousy factor,
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  - and this it does it's not confined to
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  - sports. It's in politics. It's in it's in
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  - professional,
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  - careers, etcetera. That's what it really comes down
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  - to. Could because it's not about what the
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  - best man or woman
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  - win anymore or lead
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  - or accept it. No. If there's a personal
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  - adversary
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  - or a personal,
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  - jealousy, that usually drives the king. Because, again,
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  - to your point,
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  - you have a lightning rod in Caitlin Clark
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  - and the WNBA that has brought attention
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  - to not only the league, but her team
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  - and her as a whole. But there's all
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  - kinds and there's there's clearly racism that's that's
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  - tied in with this because she's white, and
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  - it's a predominantly,
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  - you know, black sport,
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  - in the WNBA with who plays, etcetera. So
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  - there's all these factors, and it's as simple
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  - as that. It's jealousy. And it's unfortunate because
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  - that is what ultimately ends to costly
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  - costly mistakes. And, again, the WNBA
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  - is not profitable.
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  - It is subsidized by the NBA. So all
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  - these decisions,
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  - again, you would think you would want to
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  - get to net zero
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  - and then start making a profit by taking
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  - advantage of your golden goose. You don't stick
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  - your stallion in the stables
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  - when there's a chance to to make good
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  - on it. It's the same thing. We don't
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  - put, necessarily
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  - the best and brightest in terms of positions,
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  - whether it's, professional. It it could very well
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  - you put people in managerial positions because they're
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  - controllable,
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  - or you can park them somewhere so that
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  - they're not a threat. I mean, this goes
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  - on and on, and it's not confined to
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  - professional sports. And it is a massive, massive
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  - oversight and loss as a result of the
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  - WMB and Caitlin Clark. Total missed opportunity, and
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  - they'll suffer for it. Yeah. Yeah. Although if
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  - she's playing, people turn on the TV to
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  - watch.
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  - And she's that good that she draws the
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  - attention
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  - of probably hundreds of thousands of people
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  - that had never even watched the WNBA.
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  - But being curious about how good this young
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  - woman is,
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  - they turn to it. And all of a
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  - sudden, they're watching these women on the the
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  - court
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  - who are excellent athletes, all of them.
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  - But they're beginning to act like the men
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  - on the court anymore. And believe me, it
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  - is like a fight on the court whenever
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  - you watch the NBA.
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  - These guys are using their elbows. They're pushing.
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  - They're shoving. They're I mean,
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  - I don't know where the refs are.
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  - Well Because they're not they're not calling
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  - probably
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  - over 50%
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  - of the,
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  - rough tactics
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  - that are used on the, on the court.
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  - Yeah. And, you know, it's it's been it
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  - had been a while since I'd watched an
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  - NBA finals, and I watched the Knicks spurs.
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  - And the amount of fouls that were not
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  - called Yeah. The amount of flagrant fouls that
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  - were not called, or even more so, lack
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  - of calling a simple thing like traveling.
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  - I was like, where are the referees? I
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  - guess this is what the sport has become.
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  - And, again,
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  - it mutates, it changes, but, you know, I
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  - guess my funny is, I guess, all these
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  - athletes really wanna play hockey, which is the
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  - the most contact physical sport,
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  - the most driving athletic,
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  - competition that there is, but, you know, they're
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  - stuck in basketball or baseball or, you know,
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  - football. So
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  - That's from someone who loves ice hockey,
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  - and and is planning on having his son
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  - in the,
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  - yeah, in ice hockey as soon as he
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  - can
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  - get the age limit, you know? He he
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  - on skates. As soon as he can get
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  - into organized, I'll get him in there.
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  - Brian, I know that,
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  - you are as concerned as I am about
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  - some of the issues,
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  - that we're hearing about having to do with
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  - Iran,
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  - with the negotiations,
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  - with the fact that there was a ship
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  - that was attacked in the Strait Of Hormuz
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  - by the IRGC.
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  - What's your take on all this?
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  - So what I would say is, again, let
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  - this play out, and it's the the visceral
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  - reaction is very interesting because it's it's all
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  - about talk, talk, talk. And what I keep
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  - saying and and reiterating is because there are
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  - people that are that are ticked at the,
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  - the MOU. There are people ticked at the
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  - fact that Trump is is doing a deal.
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  - They're trying to delegitimize it by saying, oh,
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  - this is just like Obama's
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  - deal, etcetera, which couldn't be further from the
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  - from the truth, obviously. There are those that
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  - wanna continue doing pedal to the metal,
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  - and, you know, bomb Iran further and do
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  - a regime change and all this other kind
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  - of stuff.
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  - And all I keep going back to is,
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  - well, how did this happen now? Why did
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  - this happen in June? What was what was
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  - the driving or the forcing function? It was
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  - Iran because they could not withstand this anymore.
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  - Trump wants a world where Iran does not
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  - have nuclear weapons, which they've now since agreed
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  - to.
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  - Now with all this other stuff that's going
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  - on, there's gonna be some visceral reactions that's
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  - this. It's it's
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  - not good enough. Again, any negotiation
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  - or any deal
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  - is going to be a compromise. There's gonna
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  - be give and take. There's gonna be, okay.
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  - You asked for this. I can't do this,
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  - but I can do this for you. Or,
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  - you know, we're not gonna do that, and,
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  - you know, we're gonna stand firm, etcetera, etcetera,
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  - whether that's economic stuff, etcetera. But, again, ultimately,
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  - this comes back to Trump
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  - and having a very, very strong
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  - department of war
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  - secretary in HECSeth, a strong
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  - state, department of state,
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  - secretary
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  - with Rubio and ultimately
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  - Besson at treasury. So you've got a
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  - very, very strong triage that is supporting Donald
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  - Trump and by extension, obviously, JD Vance since
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  - he's leading the negotiations
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  - to drive this to a point where it's
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  - reasonable. Again,
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  - think about this. This has only gone on
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  - for four months, relatively speaking, relative to other,
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  - quote, unquote, wars and or conflicts. And yet
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  - if Trump is bombing them, he's called a
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  - warmonger.
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  - And if he's pulling back and negotiating, he's
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  - called Taco that he chickens out or he's
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  - this or is that. It doesn't matter. The
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  - fact is he's gone after one thing and
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  - one thing only, and it's nothing new. He
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  - said this for
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  - dozens of years
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  - with regard to Iran. They cannot have a
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  - nuclear weapon, and that is now what he
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  - has secured in writing that they will not
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  - procure, obtain, or build a nuclear weapon. Now
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  - when it comes to all the other weapons,
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  - everyone's, oh, we have to eliminate their ICBM
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  - and other weapons capabilities.
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  - Okay. Well, he also is very mindful of
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  - the fact that Iran
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  - should be able to defend themselves,
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  - in one capacity or another. And, you know,
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  - we're not gonna decimate
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  - every single asset. We decimated 80 to 90%
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  - of their military capability and their infrastructure,
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  - and we've basically minimized what they can do,
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  - with neighboring,
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  - Gulf states as well as where we have
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  - military installations.
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  - But, again, the main driver that Obama and
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  - the JCPO never achieved was no nuclear weapons
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  - for Iran, plain and simple. Because Iran has
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  - openly said, unlike the other nine countries that
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  - have nuclear weapons,
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  - that they're not using it as a deterrent
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  - to defend themselves. They're using it for an
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  - attack to go after
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  - individuals that they or countries or states that
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  - they don't like, I e Israel,
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  - I e any of Israel allies by sent
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  - to United States and their military installations. And
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  - that is a fundamental difference.
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  - So, ultimately, we'll see where this winds up
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  - with regard to the transition from the MOU
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  - to the deal. But, again, everyone's got an
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  - opinion. That's fine. But you're not in Donald
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  - Trump's position. You don't have the information that
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  - Donald Trump has. And, again, forget
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  - what everyone's saying. Watch the actions. And the
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  - biggest thing, where is the Ayatollah?
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  - The one that was
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  - replacing the previous one that Trump killed. Where
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  - is he? He's not on camera. He has
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  - not been seen.
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  - There has been no message from him, which
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  - means only a few things. He's either dead
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  - and they're not sharing it.
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  - He's either deformed and disfigured and on and
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  - not functional
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  - or something else that we don't know entirely,
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  - which has always driven the IRGC
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  - and the power structure in Iran.
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  - The is nowhere to be found. So, again,
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  - that to me is sending a serious message
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  - as to why Iran folded
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  - to do this MOU, get the straight open,
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  - and try to get things moving along. And,
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  - again, gas dropping like a rock because what
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  - happens? Iran had all this oil for the
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  - world market to be impacted.
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  - And as a result,
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  - the supply goes into the market, and there's
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  - not as much demand when you oversupply the
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  - market because they they have to get rid
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  - of it to continue their production, etcetera. So
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  - that is going to, affect the world market
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  - when it comes to gas, and it has
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  - been dropping like Iraq.
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  - Yeah. It has. And yet at the same
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  - time, I'm I'm watching Iran,
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  - get the monies
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  - that will allow them
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  - to purchase weapons
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  - from other countries, not our allies, to be
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  - certain.
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  - And that's a that's a really
• 16:59
  - worrisome
• 17:00
  - piece of these so called negotiations.
• 17:02
  - Yeah. So let me touch upon that. So
• 17:04
  - everyone keeps saying that, oh, yeah. Trump agreed
• 17:07
  - to effectively a Marshall plan for Iran with
• 17:09
  - this $300,000,000,000.
• 17:10
  - You know? He went after Obama for a
• 17:12
  - $150,000,000,000
• 17:14
  - in cash and all that kind of stuff.
• 17:15
  - And here's what it really amounts to. It's
• 17:18
  - nothing other than Iran's
• 17:21
  - well, there's two there's two facets here. So
• 17:23
  - there's the money that Besant
• 17:26
  - and Trump at his direction
• 17:28
  - basically froze. That was revenue from from their
• 17:30
  - oral, etcetera. That was Iran's money to begin
• 17:33
  - with. Right? That we know that they do
• 17:35
  - that they have in the past,
• 17:37
  - state sponsored terrorism, whether it was with Hezbollah,
• 17:39
  - Hamas, etcetera.
• 17:41
  - Right? So we've agreed to unfreeze that, but
• 17:44
  - there's a stipulation. We're gonna unfreeze that. But
• 17:46
  - guess what? You we're gonna direct you to
• 17:48
  - where you're gonna spend that money. Meaning, you're
• 17:50
  - gonna buy, obviously, some products from The United
• 17:52
  - States and other countries. So that's one piece
• 17:54
  - of it, and I get it. And then
• 17:56
  - the other piece of it is up to
• 17:58
  - the $300,000,000,000,
• 18:00
  - everyone's acting like we're gonna be spending money
• 18:02
  - to rebuild Iran after we just bonded to
• 18:04
  - oblivion. No. We're not doing that. We're allowing
• 18:07
  - the Gulf States, the neighboring states to interact
• 18:10
  - and to,
• 18:11
  - basically
• 18:13
  - do commerce
• 18:14
  - with Iran, which we've also had sanctions on
• 18:16
  - that they that they couldn't do, that we've
• 18:18
  - lifted to basically have an economic, you know,
• 18:21
  - carrot and a stick scenario. Yeah. Now I
• 18:23
  - am concerned.
• 18:25
  - Hold that thought because
• 18:26
  - my producer is in there making faces at
• 18:29
  - me like, we have to take a break.
• 18:31
  - We have to take a break. But when
• 18:32
  - we come back, we're go
• 18:34
  - Brian,
• 18:35
  - you, keep track of most things that are
• 18:38
  - happening around the world as well as in
• 18:40
  - your own community. But you mentioned the $300,000,000,000
• 18:44
  - that
• 18:45
  - is simply
• 18:47
  - unfrozen
• 18:49
  - monies
• 18:51
  - that were Iran's.
• 18:54
  - Is that is that correct?
• 18:56
  - So there's two pieces. So the $300,000,000,000
• 18:59
  - is basically the allowance of the commerce to
• 19:02
  - continue
• 19:03
  - between Iran and the Gulf States up to
• 19:06
  - $300,000,000,000
• 19:06
  - of The United States will lift sanctions around
• 19:09
  - Iran and
• 19:11
  - the the neighboring
• 19:12
  - Gulf states.
• 19:13
  - The the billions of dollars of unfrozen
• 19:17
  - assets, which is separate,
• 19:19
  - which again is tied to performance
• 19:22
  - based milestones that Iran has to do,
• 19:25
  - has to do with their own money
• 19:27
  - that they took from revenue from selling oil,
• 19:30
  - etcetera, that the treasury department froze.
• 19:33
  - Those are two separate things. But the $300,000,000,000
• 19:36
  - everyone's got, you know, their their hair on
• 19:38
  - a, you know, knot over is because they
• 19:40
  - think that it's a Marshall Plan type thing
• 19:43
  - or that The United States taxpayer is giving
• 19:45
  - Iran $300,000,000,000,
• 19:47
  - which we're not. We're just not spending 1
• 19:49
  - dime. We are lifting the allowance, the sanctions
• 19:53
  - for the commerce to continue between Iran and
• 19:55
  - neighboring Gulf states up to $300,000,000,000
• 19:59
  - for, quote, unquote, you know,
• 20:01
  - adjustments, etcetera. And, again, the strategy here, I
• 20:05
  - suspect from Trump and the team is,
• 20:07
  - Iran,
• 20:08
  - You're not gonna have a nuclear weapon. You've
• 20:10
  - now agreed you're not gonna have a nuclear
• 20:11
  - weapon. So get rid of this idea of
• 20:13
  - of killing the little Satan and the great
• 20:15
  - Satan in your view and enter civilization.
• 20:19
  - Enter the economy where, guess what, this can
• 20:21
  - make you very, very rich, and that is
• 20:23
  - a risk that we do have to anticipate
• 20:25
  - that if we do make Iran rich, what
• 20:27
  - are they gonna spend that money on? Are
• 20:28
  - they gonna continue to do state sponsored terrorism
• 20:31
  - through Hezbah, through Hamas, through the Houthis,
• 20:33
  - etcetera?
• 20:35
  - Or
• 20:36
  - which, again, is a violation of of where
• 20:38
  - we're going with a lot of these MOUs
• 20:40
  - in terms of,
• 20:41
  - these performance based initiatives, not withstanding nuclear. Are
• 20:44
  - they gonna build up their industrial base, military
• 20:46
  - base, etcetera?
• 20:48
  - Again,
• 20:50
  - we still need to see with regard to
• 20:52
  - that. But, again, we're trying a different approach
• 20:55
  - rather than Obama's,
• 20:57
  - and this nonsense soft power approach of, oh,
• 21:00
  - okay. We're just gonna delay
• 21:02
  - Iran's ability to get a nuclear weapon, which,
• 21:04
  - again, they weren't even agreeing to anyway. They
• 21:06
  - were already building nuclear weapons as we know.
• 21:08
  - They already they violated even before Trump canceled
• 21:11
  - the JCPOA.
• 21:12
  - They weren't even being, truthful. So the fact
• 21:15
  - that we have not only inspectors going in
• 21:17
  - there, we're actually,
• 21:18
  - arming the UN to do this for us,
• 21:20
  - which is ironic,
• 21:22
  - as well as the neighboring Gulf countries, as
• 21:24
  - well as
• 21:25
  - if they violate any of this stuff, then
• 21:27
  - the sanctions go back on, and we freeze
• 21:29
  - their assets, and they're screwed again. So the
• 21:31
  - only avenue for them to go, which is
• 21:33
  - why the action
• 21:35
  - of why did this happen now in June.
• 21:37
  - If Iran really thought they had an advantage,
• 21:40
  - they would make this last all throughout
• 21:43
  - the summer and into the fall so that
• 21:45
  - the elections would do maximum political damage to
• 21:47
  - Donald Trump, and then they could just wait
• 21:49
  - them out the final two years. They couldn't.
• 21:51
  - They couldn't. So that's why they came to
• 21:53
  - the table. And what we've advocated for as
• 21:55
  - The United States and what Trump is pushing
• 21:57
  - through this is economic
• 21:59
  - entry into civilization if you follow the rules.
• 22:02
  - And that's where that the $300,000,000,000
• 22:04
  - is the allowance of commerce
• 22:07
  - that has been previously sanctioned with neighboring countries
• 22:10
  - and neighboring Gulf states. And then the billions
• 22:12
  - of dollars,
• 22:13
  - I can't remember. I think it's, like, a
• 22:14
  - few tens of billions of dollars with regard
• 22:16
  - to their own money that we froze from
• 22:19
  - their own revenue from oil. So that's where
• 22:21
  - that is.
• 22:23
  - Well, you're talking about $300,000,000,000
• 22:25
  - that, perhaps will be their own or come
• 22:29
  - from the Middle Eastern countries
• 22:31
  - that would also like to see them behave
• 22:33
  - like a civilized,
• 22:34
  - country,
• 22:36
  - who wants to trade, who wants to treat
• 22:39
  - their,
• 22:40
  - members of their their population with dignity. And
• 22:43
  - I don't know what you're gonna do with
• 22:45
  - the IRGC
• 22:46
  - members
• 22:47
  - who are there and who are keeping these
• 22:49
  - people
• 22:50
  - under wraps, who are murdering anyone who dares
• 22:54
  - speak out.
• 22:55
  - I mean,
• 22:56
  - this is something that to me is untenable.
• 22:58
  - And yet, I think to myself,
• 23:01
  - the United Nations pretty much
• 23:04
  - tells us with every action that they do
• 23:07
  - with regards to Iran that they're in Iran's
• 23:11
  - backyard,
• 23:12
  - that they are with them rather than with
• 23:13
  - those countries that would like to see Iran
• 23:13
  - behave in a rational
• 23:14
  - way.
• 23:19
  - Rational
• 23:22
  - way. Yes. And, again, this is it's
• 23:25
  - why do we do things?
• 23:27
  - You know, if we,
• 23:30
  - or attack or anything, we're doing it for
• 23:33
  - only a limited number of reasons. Right? We
• 23:35
  - it's punishment,
• 23:37
  - it's behavioral change,
• 23:39
  - or it's justice and retribution.
• 23:41
  - Right? And all these things are still on
• 23:44
  - the table. You know? There's all these doom
• 23:46
  - and gloom,
• 23:48
  - situations with regard to,
• 23:50
  - you know, what we've expended United States has
• 23:52
  - expanded with regard to this war.
• 23:54
  - And there's some truth to it, but it's
• 23:57
  - not entirely
• 23:58
  - accurate because, again, we're not talking about the
• 24:00
  - entire military. We're talking about CENTCOM, and we're
• 24:02
  - talking about all these other things that obviously
• 24:04
  - we use as leverage to try and get
• 24:05
  - here. Again, what was the goal? The goal
• 24:08
  - was
• 24:08
  - a denuclearized
• 24:10
  - Iran that will never obtain
• 24:12
  - nuclear weapons
• 24:13
  - by manufacturer
• 24:14
  - or procurement
• 24:16
  - or any other means. That was the goal,
• 24:18
  - and that was what Trump has said from
• 24:20
  - the get go. The all the other stuff
• 24:22
  - in the grand scheme of things, and I'm
• 24:23
  - not trying to delegitimize any of it, is
• 24:25
  - just noise. And if this actually does pan
• 24:28
  - out, then that makes it safe,
• 24:30
  - not just for The United States, but for
• 24:32
  - the world with regard to that. Because then
• 24:35
  - our kids and their kids don't have to
• 24:37
  - deal with this theoretically, but it could easily
• 24:39
  - collapse. There is that risk. But Trump is
• 24:42
  - the only one in the seven presidents that
• 24:44
  - basically took a firm line, backed it up
• 24:46
  - with military and kinetic strikes
• 24:49
  - and accountability
• 24:50
  - and took out someone who was trying to
• 24:53
  - kill him
• 24:54
  - in the process to
• 24:56
  - to shift the paradigm,
• 24:58
  - basically
• 24:58
  - change the trajectory
• 25:00
  - of history and thus the world.
• 25:04
  - Well, I I think I think,
• 25:06
  - those of us who have watched what's happened
• 25:10
  - with Iran, watched,
• 25:11
  - the weapons that we've used against them and
• 25:14
  - they've used against
• 25:15
  - those countries in The Middle East,
• 25:19
  - aren't we worried? I mean, you're in the
• 25:21
  - weapons industry,
• 25:22
  - Brian.
• 25:23
  - Aren't we worried that The United States has
• 25:26
  - already depleted much of the weapons that were
• 25:29
  - meant to help our allies in fighting
• 25:32
  - these kinds of wars or skirmishes,
• 25:35
  - see what they are?
• 25:36
  - Certainly, we can look at Gaza, and then
• 25:38
  - we can see that Hamas is still there,
• 25:40
  - and they still have weapons.
• 25:42
  - I mean, what was it all for?
• 25:44
  - And are they still
• 25:45
  - supplying,
• 25:47
  - is Iran, in fact, still supplying Hamas and
• 25:50
  - other terrorist organizations
• 25:52
  - with whatever
• 25:53
  - monies they might still have.
• 25:56
  - Yeah. And those those are obviously real concerns
• 25:59
  - and whether or not there's accountability and tied
• 26:01
  - to our own weapons and stocks to apply
• 26:02
  - against. It's really confined to CENTCOM.
• 26:04
  - Trump has uttered
• 26:06
  - back in January and even recently as June,
• 26:09
  - he's he's huddled with the defense contractors.
• 26:12
  - Again, how do we speed up our production
• 26:15
  - capabilities when we just theoretically use sixteen years
• 26:18
  - of missile,
• 26:19
  - production, and that was assuming one shift. Now
• 26:21
  - we're talking second shift, third shift, weekends, overtime,
• 26:24
  - etcetera, to build this up and replace it
• 26:27
  - in eighteen months, two years' time. Now, yes,
• 26:29
  - for those missiles and those missile capabilities that
• 26:32
  - we use, but we have numerous
• 26:35
  - numerous other weapons
• 26:36
  - and other capabilities
• 26:38
  - that are probably more
• 26:40
  - devastating than the missiles that we've used that
• 26:42
  - we can utilize should
• 26:44
  - the need or the requirement
• 26:46
  - come into forefront. Now, again, Trump has taken
• 26:48
  - measured
• 26:49
  - approach to what weapons he's utilized,
• 26:52
  - and we have weapons that can up the
• 26:55
  - ante. We also have weapons that can do
• 26:58
  - less kinetic,
• 27:00
  - impact that can be utilized for other reasons.
• 27:02
  - So, again,
• 27:04
  - I think it's overblown in the grand scheme
• 27:06
  - of things. Yes. CENTCOM definitely needs to be
• 27:08
  - replenished. And what do we do? We use
• 27:10
  - the other command post to support that from
• 27:12
  - a weapons supply standpoint,
• 27:14
  - but the defense contractors,
• 27:16
  - it's not like they stopped. It's not like
• 27:18
  - they're not having the conversations of how do
• 27:20
  - we deal with capacity cash flow and and
• 27:22
  - building up production
• 27:24
  - because that's already happening. And
• 27:26
  - if they can't even do that fast enough,
• 27:28
  - then that's where Trump can activate,
• 27:30
  - the Defense Production Act to basically,
• 27:33
  - take over other production facilities
• 27:36
  - to expand that capacity.
• 27:37
  - So I'm not concerned from that standpoint as
• 27:40
  - well as if other things pop from a
• 27:42
  - military standpoint that require America to use weapons
• 27:45
  - and other forms of, military strength because we
• 27:48
  - have a lot of weapons we haven't used
• 27:50
  - that are a lot more devastating than what
• 27:52
  - we have used even with the bunker buster
• 27:55
  - bombs, Patriot missiles, Tomahawk missiles, THAAD missiles, everything
• 27:59
  - that's been used. We do have a whole
• 28:01
  - supply of other things that the world hasn't
• 28:03
  - seen on the in the public sphere on
• 28:06
  - a daily basis that could be utilized. I
• 28:08
  - hope we never have to use them, but,
• 28:10
  - you know, god forbid we do.
• 28:12
  - I I don't have a concern
• 28:14
  - about using them. You know, we we used
• 28:17
  - to talk, Brian, about,
• 28:19
  - concerns with Russia and with China
• 28:23
  - and how we are able to move then
• 28:25
  - to a country like Iran, as big as
• 28:28
  - it is with the millions of people that
• 28:31
  - they
• 28:31
  - have, that we
• 28:33
  - then switched over entirely. Our department of war
• 28:36
  - was pretty much focused
• 28:38
  - on that, and we don't hear anything anymore
• 28:41
  - about
• 28:42
  - the Russia Ukraine war. We don't hear anything
• 28:46
  - anymore about anything else going on in the
• 28:48
  - world with China,
• 28:50
  - and the island of Taiwan. They wanna take
• 28:53
  - over.
• 28:53
  - What do you think is gonna happen in
• 28:55
  - the next, let's say, three months, hopefully, after
• 28:59
  - this Iranian,
• 29:01
  - war is finished? What do you think is
• 29:03
  - gonna happen?
• 29:04
  - Well, you gotta remember, what we did last
• 29:07
  - June and what we've done what we've done
• 29:09
  - since March with regard to Iran was essentially
• 29:11
  - a muscle flex for the whole world to
• 29:13
  - see our weapons capabilities, our military might, etcetera.
• 29:17
  - And, again, Vlad Putin Vladimir Putin and, Xi
• 29:20
  - Jinping in China
• 29:21
  - are not stupid. They realize, guess what? Yeah.
• 29:25
  - I can wait this out. I'm gonna wait
• 29:26
  - Trump out for three years and hope hope
• 29:28
  - hope hope the Americans are stupid enough to
• 29:30
  - put a Democrat in office so that I
• 29:32
  - can do what I did when Obama was
• 29:33
  - in office, and I can do what Biden
• 29:35
  - did when Biden was in office because that's
• 29:37
  - that's their anticipation. Right? And that's why, again,
• 29:40
  - they're not gonna do any because at first,
• 29:42
  - they're like, well, is Trump crazy, or is
• 29:44
  - he really gonna do this stuff? Or is
• 29:45
  - he like Obama who's gonna say red blind,
• 29:47
  - don't cross, and then, you know, be a
• 29:49
  - word I can't say on radio and not
• 29:50
  - carry it out? They know that Trump's gonna
• 29:52
  - carry it out, that Trump has no business,
• 29:54
  - that has has no hesitation
• 29:56
  - carrying out his business with regard to military
• 29:59
  - might, and they don't wanna deal with that.
• 30:00
  - So their mindset, again, is, yeah,
• 30:03
  - Vladimir Putin and Russia, we're we're gonna continue
• 30:06
  - this Ukraine war,
• 30:07
  - and we're not gonna really engage,
• 30:10
  - with anything else because we we know Trump's
• 30:12
  - probably gonna get pissed off and,
• 30:15
  - you know, look at our look to what
• 30:18
  - we're doing. And I don't really wanna do
• 30:19
  - that right now. So their mindset, I suspect,
• 30:22
  - is let's just wait three years. I guarantee
• 30:24
  - you the minute Trump gets out and, god
• 30:26
  - forbid,
• 30:27
  - a Democrat gets in there, Newsom or whoever,
• 30:30
  - the Democrats put up, that the Taiwan situation
• 30:33
  - will become the immediate thing at the end
• 30:35
  - of the twenty twenties into the twenty thirties
• 30:37
  - from a supply chain standpoint, from a ceiling
• 30:40
  - standpoint, and from a geopolitical
• 30:42
  - nightmare standpoint because of the semiconductors.
• 30:44
  - So that's what they're that's what they're banking
• 30:46
  - on. And should a JD Vance or a
• 30:48
  - Rubio,
• 30:49
  - take over for Donald Trump, then they have
• 30:51
  - to recalibrate and, like, okay. Are these guys,
• 30:54
  - of the Trump mold, or what where am
• 30:56
  - I gonna press? And they're gonna test the
• 30:58
  - metal of of whoever that may be to
• 31:00
  - see if they can do that in that
• 31:01
  - four year period. But that's the unfortunate thing.
• 31:03
  - United States operates in two year intervals. The
• 31:05
  - rest of the world operates in decades and
• 31:07
  - hundreds of years.
• 31:10
  - Well, you know that better than anyone,
• 31:12
  - as a, as a weapons expert.
• 31:17
  - We're gonna be replenishing
• 31:18
  - all those weapons that we have used,
• 31:21
  - against Iran. That is coming.
• 31:24
  - What about, let's say,
• 31:27
  - Donald Trump,
• 31:29
  - is
• 31:29
  - he's our president to the very end, but
• 31:32
  - then the people choose to,
• 31:34
  - put in place a Democrat.
• 31:36
  - Who
• 31:37
  - has what it takes
• 31:40
  - to put in place with the weapons industry
• 31:42
  - all of the naval
• 31:44
  - weapons
• 31:45
  - we are going to need to fight against
• 31:47
  - China should they attack
• 31:50
  - Taiwan?
• 31:52
  - Yeah. So what you just raised is is
• 31:54
  - really where the military,
• 31:57
  - budgets are going to go, which is naval
• 31:59
  - because we own the skies,
• 32:01
  - we own the ground, and it really comes
• 32:03
  - down to naval and space. And that's that's
• 32:05
  - kinda where the next
• 32:06
  - of more or less theater frontier is going
• 32:09
  - to be and especially the geopolitical
• 32:12
  - forces here. So, again, we know from history,
• 32:16
  - whether it's Obama, whether it's Biden, whether it's
• 32:18
  - Clinton, that they cut defense budgets
• 32:21
  - significantly, which then create a
• 32:23
  - a threat to military readiness. We know that.
• 32:26
  - His history has proven that. And that, again,
• 32:28
  - is what our adversaries are counting on. Because,
• 32:30
  - again, the presidential budget,
• 32:32
  - is posted online. You can see this now.
• 32:35
  - They're not gonna post anything classified, and you
• 32:37
  - can you can surmise a lot of things
• 32:39
  - based on the products
• 32:40
  - by product
• 32:42
  - family of of where military,
• 32:44
  - spending is being done, etcetera.
• 32:46
  - But, again,
• 32:47
  - this is this is a strategic,
• 32:50
  - you
• 32:51
  - know, for, like, better terms, tap dance
• 32:53
  - that our geopolitical foes, specifically Russia and,
• 32:58
  - China are going to do because they're watching
• 33:00
  - what we did with Iran. Now you know
• 33:02
  - who else is quiet that you didn't mention?
• 33:04
  - North Korea. Mhmm. North Korea is a nuclear
• 33:06
  - force, but you don't see them messing around
• 33:08
  - anymore. Trump
• 33:10
  - neutralized that in his first term by developing
• 33:12
  - a relationship with their leader,
• 33:15
  - among other things.
• 33:17
  - And that was the biggest issue that Obama
• 33:19
  - said was going to be an issue for
• 33:21
  - Donald Trump. And yet Trump neutralized that through
• 33:24
  - what?
• 33:25
  - Through
• 33:26
  - a relationship
• 33:27
  - with that leader. That's impressive.
• 33:30
  - So when you talk about all these things,
• 33:31
  - you have to determine whether or not the
• 33:33
  - the leaders that come after Trump
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  - have this ability
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  - to to not only,
• 33:40
  - exert, you know, military might, but also how
• 33:43
  - to deal with adversaries in a different way
• 33:47
  - that may not be the political the political
• 33:49
  - nuance. So from a military readiness standpoint, if
• 33:52
  - a Democrat gets in, then we've got a
• 33:54
  - we've got a huge cause for concern, especially
• 33:57
  - since the bench is not very deep. And
• 33:58
  - the only two Democrats that I personally
• 34:01
  - would fear as being,
• 34:03
  - very effective at winning in 2028 will never
• 34:05
  - survive the nomination process. And that's,
• 34:08
  - Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, and Rahm Emanuel,
• 34:11
  - the former mayor of Chicago.
• 34:13
  - He was, I think he was an ambassador
• 34:15
  - under Biden. He was, chief of staff under
• 34:18
  - Obama, and he was something under Clinton.
• 34:20
  - And those two guys, unfortunately, because the Democratic
• 34:23
  - Party has become so anti Semitic, will never
• 34:25
  - survive a primary.
• 34:26
  - So the only one that would come out
• 34:28
  - on top likely
• 34:30
  - is a Gavin Newsom who obviously used California
• 34:32
  - as an example. He doesn't know how to
• 34:34
  - be an executive, doesn't know how to manage
• 34:36
  - a budget, he doesn't know how to carry
• 34:38
  - himself on world stage. I I mean, it
• 34:40
  - just looks bad. So that's that's a total
• 34:43
  - negative if any if the Democrats
• 34:45
  - are successful in winning in '28. I think
• 34:47
  - the the
• 34:48
  - the odds still favor a
• 34:51
  - a Vance and or Rubio,
• 34:53
  - ticket, whether one of them is at the
• 34:55
  - top or not or they go as a
• 34:56
  - team.
• 34:58
  - But, again, if a Democrat gets in involved,
• 35:01
  - we know what that looks like with regard
• 35:03
  - to what Biden and Obama don't have done
• 35:05
  - in the last twenty years.
• 35:08
  - So that's who you're you're considering
• 35:11
  - as,
• 35:11
  - probably the best candidates,
• 35:15
  - in the Republican Party
• 35:16
  - for the upcoming
• 35:19
  - what will happen in, '20
• 35:21
  - probably
• 35:22
  - what will happen right after the midterms
• 35:24
  - that people will begin throwing their hats in
• 35:26
  - the ring.
• 35:28
  - Oh, totally. Yeah.
• 35:29
  - Who do you who would you like to
• 35:31
  - see? I mean, I love
• 35:33
  - Rhonda Santis.
• 35:35
  - I also love Marco Rubio.
• 35:38
  - Mhmm.
• 35:40
  - I
• 35:41
  - I I don't know about JD Vance.
• 35:44
  - I I like him.
• 35:46
  - I think he is,
• 35:49
  - someone who knows
• 35:51
  - the American citizen sometimes better than we know
• 35:54
  - ourselves for everything that he went through
• 35:57
  - as a child and and through his life.
• 36:00
  - I'm not sure.
• 36:02
  - Who would you say would best personify
• 36:05
  - someone to follow in Donald Trump's footsteps?
• 36:10
  - Yeah. So that so that's a good point.
• 36:11
  - So there's there's
• 36:13
  - when when this conversation happens, right, because right
• 36:16
  - now, the only two names that are usually
• 36:17
  - at the top of the pack as well
• 36:19
  - as the polling
• 36:20
  - is JD Vance and Marco Rubio. Yes. I
• 36:22
  - agree with you with Ron DeSantis. He's a
• 36:24
  - great governor. He's a great executive.
• 36:26
  - He's a little weak on retail politics, but
• 36:28
  - that's okay. But he could very well be
• 36:31
  - a a powerful administration,
• 36:33
  - official in a JD Vance and or Rubio,
• 36:38
  - administration now. Again, it's still too early. We're
• 36:39
  - still two and a half years out, and
• 36:41
  - a lot of things can change. Because remember,
• 36:43
  - in 2008, everyone thought Giuliani was gonna be
• 36:45
  - the Republican nominee,
• 36:46
  - and Hillary Clinton was gonna be the nominee,
• 36:48
  - and it turned out it was Barack Obama
• 36:49
  - and John McCain. So things can change. And
• 36:51
  - JD Vance can make a decision because he,
• 36:52
  - you know, Usha has the second lady
• 36:55
  - is about to give birth to their fourth
• 36:56
  - child, and they may decide, you know what?
• 36:58
  - We we really wanna focus on the time
• 37:00
  - with our children, and I'll and I'll get
• 37:01
  - back to this. Because remember, JD Vance is
• 37:03
  - only about five or six years older than
• 37:04
  - I am. He's in his early forties,
• 37:06
  - and he's got time. He's got four decades.
• 37:09
  - However, the the iron is hot now for
• 37:11
  - him to be, the guy because he's effectively
• 37:14
  - Donald Trump's apprentice and, quote, unquote, next in
• 37:16
  - line, god forbid something happens to Donald Trump
• 37:18
  - anyway. So but JD Vance, again, to your
• 37:21
  - comments,
• 37:22
  - what are his,
• 37:24
  - applicable and transferable skills that require experience? Now
• 37:27
  - remember,
• 37:28
  - everyone seems to focus on, well, you gotta
• 37:29
  - check this box. You gotta check that box
• 37:30
  - in terms of experience when
• 37:32
  - our founders, who again remind reminder,
• 37:35
  - our founders, especially Thomas Jefferson when he wrote
• 37:37
  - the declaration of independence, was 33 years old,
• 37:40
  - and most of the founding fathers were in
• 37:41
  - their thirties and forties. Right? They weren't people
• 37:44
  - in their sixties and seventies and eighties, which
• 37:45
  - is what completely entrenches the the congress in
• 37:48
  - in terms of the house and the senate.
• 37:50
  - So
• 37:51
  - does he have the experience, or does he
• 37:53
  - meet the qualifications, or is he getting essentially
• 37:55
  - that on the job training by shadowing Donald
• 37:58
  - Trump and getting all that experience right now?
• 38:00
  - That's debatable. And Rubio, what? He was a
• 38:02
  - senator on the foreign relations committee, chaired it,
• 38:05
  - and in that and he's been a,
• 38:07
  - secretary of state. He's got a lot of
• 38:08
  - good experience. And the same can be said,
• 38:10
  - hey, Seth, as department of war. He now
• 38:12
  - has a firm understanding of that. He's not
• 38:14
  - been in elected politics. He's run for office.
• 38:16
  - He hasn't been successful, but he could be
• 38:18
  - another indicator. But at the end of the
• 38:20
  - day, whether it's polling, whether it's performance, whether
• 38:23
  - it's timing, etcetera,
• 38:24
  - I still believe that the nominee will be
• 38:27
  - either JD Vance or Rubio, and that only
• 38:29
  - comes to fruition
• 38:31
  - for Rubio is if JD Vance decides I
• 38:33
  - wanna focus on my family, my very, very
• 38:35
  - young family,
• 38:36
  - and focus on them rather than running for
• 38:39
  - president, then Rubio becomes the instant favorite.
• 38:41
  - Now
• 38:42
  - does DeSantis
• 38:43
  - consider running? I'm sure he does, but I
• 38:46
  - don't think he he could play on the
• 38:48
  - same,
• 38:49
  - field. I mean, he'll probably be at the
• 38:51
  - kiddie table relative to a Rubio
• 38:53
  - or JD Vance,
• 38:56
  - candidacy.
• 38:57
  - There's gonna be others that run. Ted Cruz
• 38:59
  - is gonna be in that mix. Again, I
• 39:00
  - think Ted Cruz is very smart. He wants
• 39:03
  - to be president. He'd be better supreme court
• 39:05
  - justice. He's not gonna do that, because he
• 39:07
  - wants to be president. He doesn't wanna be
• 39:08
  - a supreme court justice. But all these guys,
• 39:10
  - because we have such a deep bench, whether
• 39:12
  - it's Hegseth, whether it's Cruz, whether it's DeSantis,
• 39:15
  - whether it's these up and coming governors
• 39:17
  - like Huckabee down in Arkansas
• 39:20
  - or a few others that might, reveal themselves
• 39:22
  - over time could be great administration,
• 39:26
  - cabinet posts that can support a JD Vance
• 39:28
  - or Marco Rubio. But by and large, my
• 39:31
  - perspective, regardless, even if it's two and a
• 39:33
  - half years out, the nominee is going to
• 39:35
  - be JD Vance or Marco Rubio. And there
• 39:37
  - you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
• 39:40
  - And you're you're probably right.
• 39:43
  - They're certainly,
• 39:45
  - sounding
• 39:47
  - more presidential
• 39:48
  - the longer they are in their job positions,
• 39:52
  - although Marco Rubio certainly
• 39:55
  - he sounds like he could be president tomorrow.
• 39:59
  - I think you're right. I think that,
• 40:02
  - I'm certainly hoping
• 40:04
  - that you were correct in the strength of
• 40:07
  - these people who are going to no doubt
• 40:10
  - be running for president
• 40:11
  - because I can't see one Democrat
• 40:15
  - being strong enough,
• 40:17
  - tough enough,
• 40:18
  - smart enough
• 40:19
  - to be
• 40:21
  - president of The United States.
• 40:23
  - And,
• 40:24
  - you know, your lips to God's ears. Anyway,
• 40:27
  - Brian, thank you so much for being here
• 40:28
  - with us. I truly appreciate it. And, give
• 40:31
  - my love to family,
• 40:33
  - and have a wonderful weekend. God bless.
• 40:35
  - Thanks, Anne. Thanks for having me. Yeah. Take
• 40:37
  - care.