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Speaker 1: A lot of fundamental crystals, ido last, self interest, and
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Speaker 1: an individual loss. This is the show. Oh right, everybody,
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Speaker 1: welcome to you. One book show on this Thursday, May eighth.
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Speaker 1: I hope everybody is having a great week. Great week,
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Speaker 1: find a week of May. Monday will be June. We
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Speaker 1: will be entering the summer months. It's pretty crazy fast fast.
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Speaker 1: Time is flowing, all right. Let's see. So you know,
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Speaker 1: every morning I'll wake up, read the headlines and look
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Speaker 1: at the news and stuff like that, and this is
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Speaker 1: what I read pretty much every day. It's pretty much
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Speaker 1: the same thing. All prices fall after report a breakthrough
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Speaker 1: in US Iran talks scoop US and Iran reached deal
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Speaker 1: but need Trump's final approval. Officials say, all prices pull back. No,
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Speaker 1: that was yesterday, all right, this is let's see what else.
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Speaker 1: Fourteen minutes ago, Iran worldlive, US in Iran drafts fire
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Speaker 1: extension pending Trump approval. It's on his desk. Iran in
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Speaker 1: US trade attacks after Trump rejects report of Almo's agreement.
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Speaker 1: What so, yeah, anyway, there's a deal. It's it's on
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Speaker 1: Trump's desk. We know the details because because basically Axis
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Speaker 1: has told us what the details are. And I mean
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Speaker 1: here's the deal, right, it's it's it was agreed on
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Speaker 1: Tuesday by Whitcar and the negotiator on the Iranian side.
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Speaker 1: IWON claims it has approvals, although that's coming to question
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Speaker 1: that as the Iranian team claims that the Supreme Leader
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Speaker 1: and ILGC have all signed off on this. But that
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Speaker 1: is dubious, and memorandum of whatever of some kind of
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Speaker 1: agreement right states shipping through the Straits of Homos will
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Speaker 1: be quote unrestricted, no tolls, supposedly, no rastment minds removed
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Speaker 1: within thirty days. This is all according to axious. The
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Speaker 1: US naval barcade lifts proportionally as commercial shipping is restored.
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Speaker 1: Here's the most important section. Iran commits No. I mean
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Speaker 1: they really do commit. They swing the pinky swear whatever
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Speaker 1: whatever you do to really commit. And you know anyway,
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Speaker 1: they commit not to pursue a nuclear program, not to
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Speaker 1: pursue a nuclear weapons, sorry, not to pursue a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 1: I mean that's better than the you know, the Obama deal,
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Speaker 1: because I don't think they committed in Obama d new
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Speaker 1: after sixty day window the first issue to be negotiated.
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Speaker 1: So this is only well, no, in the sixty day window,
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Speaker 1: not after. In the sixty day window, the first issue
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Speaker 1: to be discussed negotiated is how to dispose of the
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Speaker 1: highly enriched uranium, right, I mean Yuan hasn't agreed to
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Speaker 1: do it. They just agreed to talk about it. And
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Speaker 1: according to this, the US commits to discussing sanctioned relief
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Speaker 1: and release of frosen uranium funds during the next sixty
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Speaker 1: days of negotiation. So that is that is what Actius
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Speaker 1: says the deal is. In other words, the deal leaves
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Speaker 1: you on and control of these states of homos and
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Speaker 1: supposedly with unrestricted shipping, no tolls or environmental taxes. But
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Speaker 1: they could change their mind at any point in time. Right,
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Speaker 1: what's stopping them? They're in control. IOLOGC is still running things.
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Speaker 1: There be a graduate lifting in the US blockade. Everything
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Speaker 1: is deferred for two months, but again Trump hasn't signed
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Speaker 1: off on it, and by some accounts, neither of the Iranians.
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Speaker 1: Nothing about Arab country joining the Abraham Accords that was yesterday,
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Speaker 1: pray it's all gone by now. And nothing about the
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Speaker 1: missile program that was a month ago. Yeah, we've forgotten
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Speaker 1: about missiles. Who cares, right, nothing about proxies, funding proxies,
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Speaker 1: and at least this version of the access thing nothing
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Speaker 1: about Lebanon. So the Israelis are relieved. I guess the way,
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Speaker 1: I'm supposed to confirm that they do have an understanding,
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Speaker 1: this draft memorandum of understanding with Iran, but that Trump
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Speaker 1: is not signed off on it. So he also says,
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Speaker 1: Trump says he's in no rush. He's no rush, so
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Speaker 1: we won't know. We won't know. On the other hand,
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Speaker 1: if you look at other newspapers, other sources, so for example,
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Speaker 1: the Telegraph, this is a headline for the Telegraph right now,
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Speaker 1: Iran will sign peace deal only if US releases twenty
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Speaker 1: four billion of frozen assets. That's the ultimatum, no compromise.
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Speaker 1: So that is according to Tehran's chief negotiator. You know,
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Speaker 1: they were in Kutaut and they delivered this ultimatum. Right
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Speaker 1: half the frozen assets need to be released immediately, as
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Speaker 1: soon as it's announced, and the other half another twelve
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Speaker 1: billion within the first sixty days. And they want it
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Speaker 1: right now. They say no negotiations are possible without depositing
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Speaker 1: Iran's blocked funds. Remember these are funds that because the
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Speaker 1: sanctions have been frozen. These are funds in accounts in
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Speaker 1: Qatar and Uee and Asian bank accounts, maybe in European
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Speaker 1: bank accounts. But and the total of all fozen accounts
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Speaker 1: is about a hundred billion dollars one hundred billion dollars. Uh. Yeah, anyway,
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Speaker 1: that's according to the Telegraph, not according to Axias. So
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Speaker 1: go figure. Oh, some of the funds in South Korea,
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Speaker 1: in Katar, in Iraq, in Japan, in Luxembourg, Bahrain, Turkey
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Speaker 1: and Germany. That's where the funds are. UH. To wait
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Speaker 1: to release it, Washington would actually have to waive sanctions
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Speaker 1: and then ensure cooperation with foreign governments and then create
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Speaker 1: a mechanism to guarantee the regime does not use the
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Speaker 1: money to rebuild this nuclear program or fund proxies. But
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Speaker 1: I don't think that's in the memorandum of understanding proxies
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Speaker 1: or anything. So anyway, you know, we will see. I
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Speaker 1: suppose the the parties, the US and the Uranians are
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Speaker 1: discussing a complex mechanism to stop the money from being
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Speaker 1: from going directly to the regime, so it helps old
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Speaker 1: the economy but not the nuclear program or whatever. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: this is Uh, this is kind of the latest news.
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Speaker 1: We also so yesterday a new strikes by the US
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Speaker 1: on southern Iran. Uh. They were supposed to attack drones
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Speaker 1: were heading towards uh A some ships. They were knocked
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Speaker 1: out of the sky and then the United States bombed
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Speaker 1: the the ground control station where the and the and
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Speaker 1: the ground operating unit that launched these drones. So these
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Speaker 1: were in southern Iran, Uh, the US official set on Wednesday, UH.
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Speaker 1: These were described as self defense strikes in southern Iran.
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Speaker 1: For the second time in three days, United States knocked
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Speaker 1: down for one way attack drones the official city Iran
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Speaker 1: had launched over the Straits of Omors, threatening US forces
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Speaker 1: in the region and what little commercial maritime traffic is
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Speaker 1: going through the straits that Iran has effectively blockaded. The
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Speaker 1: military then conducted strikes against the drone ground control station
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Speaker 1: in the city of Bata Rabus before Iran could fire
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Speaker 1: a fifth drone, said the US officials, who spoken condition
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Speaker 1: of anonymity to discuss operational matters. So yeah, I mean
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Speaker 1: some fighting continues in a kind of a in a
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Speaker 1: kind of sporadic way. Anyway, about a hour ago this
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Speaker 1: hits and again I don't know this stuff, but it's
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Speaker 1: it's This is exactly the kind of fog of negotiations
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Speaker 1: that we get, not fog of war. This is fog
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Speaker 1: of negotiations breaking. Iran rejects today access is report claiming
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Speaker 1: a US Iran deal or MoU has been reached, saying
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Speaker 1: acxios is fake news, and Iran will not sign any
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Speaker 1: agreement that the not aligned with our interests, explicitly rejecting
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Speaker 1: the common Deal terms. Ion also does not accept the
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Speaker 1: proposed sixty day CIEs fire extension due to continued violations
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Speaker 1: of it, and will respond to any further violations of
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Speaker 1: the cease fire. Put two members inside the negotiations. Ian
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Speaker 1: Supreme Leader Hamini has also not approved or agreed to
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Speaker 1: the proposed agreement and terms, which doesn't exist according to
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Speaker 1: the same sources. Anyway, this is where we are. You know.
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Speaker 1: In the meantime, the United States has sanctioned another Uranian entity.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know. I thought all the Iranian entities were
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Speaker 1: sanctioned by this point. But I think the Iranians are
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Speaker 1: waiting for Trump down conditionally surrender. I don't think they're
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Speaker 1: accepting anything short of that. However, this is the reality,
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Speaker 1: right I mean, I mean, Trump is pathetic, and this
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Speaker 1: is all pathetic. But here's the reality. The reality is
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Speaker 1: that Iuon is more pathetic. The reality is that if
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Speaker 1: not for Trump's weakness, this regime is holding on by
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Speaker 1: its fingernails. Its economy is decimated, Inflation is double maybe
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Speaker 1: triple digits. The Ranian real has is an all time
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Speaker 1: low visa vfon currencies. Unemployment is through the roof because
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Speaker 1: a lot of factories, a lot of industries were destroyed
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Speaker 1: by the Israelis primarily during the war. Iwan Koog Island
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Speaker 1: is not loading up ships because of the blockade. No
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Speaker 1: oil is going out of Ian or very little. Maybe
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Speaker 1: they sneak a few shifts by here and there, but
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Speaker 1: they have no revenue, no money coming in. Now. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure that they are being resupplied by the Chinese and
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Speaker 1: by the Russians, and that they are sending out oil
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Speaker 1: by truck and by other mechanisms through the eastern border,
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Speaker 1: eastern border with Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the northeastern borders
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Speaker 1: with Tajikistan and maybe even the Caspian Sea which takes
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Speaker 1: them to Russia. So you know, there's still some stuff
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Speaker 1: going in and out of you on. But the main
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Speaker 1: way in which stuff goes in and out of you
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Speaker 1: on the main way in which you won participates in trade.
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Speaker 1: The main source of revenue for the Iranian economy and
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Speaker 1: for the Iranian government is by boat, is through its ports,
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Speaker 1: and that is blocked, that is located. So it really
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Speaker 1: is this competition between you know, Trump's kind of has
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Speaker 1: this political beliefs. He has a political necessity to sign
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Speaker 1: a deal. He does not want to re engage in
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Speaker 1: the war. You know, he's too busy right now, you know,
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Speaker 1: building a ballroom and redoing a what is it that
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Speaker 1: the reflecting pool, and you know, and suing his enemies
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Speaker 1: and trying to get the one point seven seven six
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Speaker 1: billion dollars to his allies, and you know, there's way
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Speaker 1: too many lucrative things on his mind right now. And
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Speaker 1: he doesn't want to go back to the war, so
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Speaker 1: he is, but he also doesn't want to sign a
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Speaker 1: deal so bad that his base, what's left of his support,
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Speaker 1: will throw up their hands and give up on him.
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Speaker 1: Right So he needs a decent deal, but he's desperate
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Speaker 1: not to re engage in fighting, and he's desperate to
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Speaker 1: get prices down. We'll get to the economy a little bit.
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Speaker 1: He's despert to get all prices down. He's desperate to
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Speaker 1: find a way to come out of this in a
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Speaker 1: way that he can enter the elections of the midterm
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Speaker 1: elections with some positive news. The Iranians, on the other hand,
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Speaker 1: have a decimated economy. They have you know, their forces
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Speaker 1: have been shredded. They're in deep, deep trouble, and they
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Speaker 1: know it that people hate them. By the way, the
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Speaker 1: Internet is now being moderately freed up in Iran and
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Speaker 1: we're getting more and more videos out of Iran of
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Speaker 1: the demonstrations in January. Those videos couldn't get out because
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Speaker 1: of the block and those demonstrations were really impressive, and
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Speaker 1: the violence against them, which is now documented and these
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Speaker 1: leaked videos are coming out and you can see them,
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Speaker 1: is truly horrific. So the Ranian people hate these people.
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Speaker 1: The regime is under siege. The Ranian people are much
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Speaker 1: poorer now than they were before the war started, and
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Speaker 1: they were already poor. Then. Remember that the demonstrations in
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Speaker 1: January were not so much around theocracy and stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: They were about the economy. The economy was terrible, and
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Speaker 1: it was the shopkeepers who started the big demonstrations that
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Speaker 1: the bizarre, and you know, this regime is struggling. This
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Speaker 1: is why, in my.
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Speaker 2: View, a little bit of help, a little bit of push,
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Speaker 2: a bit more bombing, you know, cleaning up, a little
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Speaker 2: bit more of the of the leadership of the regime,
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Speaker 2: a weakening.
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Speaker 1: Of the IRGC and the bessiage. You know, maybe a
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Speaker 1: little bit of bribing of the regular military. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: whatever whatever a military. You know, Cia and Moussad think
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Speaker 1: this regime could fall. It could fall, but it needs
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Speaker 1: it needs more. So the blockade is great. I don't
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Speaker 1: understand why the blockade wasn't imposed the day won of
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Speaker 1: the war. But more is needed. More is needed. And
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Speaker 1: it's pathetic that Trump is sitting in his hands and
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Speaker 1: not doing anything. So really, there's no news other than
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Speaker 1: axious claims there's a deal. There's no news. It seems
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Speaker 1: like some people in the Trump administration confirm it, but
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Speaker 1: the Iranians are not. Some people are you know, who
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Speaker 1: knows what's going on. There's no deal. Trump does not
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Speaker 1: seem to know how he did cut a deal because
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Speaker 1: he needs the deal to appear to be good. And
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Speaker 1: in the meantime, the Iranian economy is spiraling out of
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Speaker 1: control and descending and in real big trouble. So who
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Speaker 1: gives first? I think the Iranian ability to suffer in
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Speaker 1: the name of Allah is greater than Trump's ability to delay.
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Speaker 1: So I think Trump will k first. But we'll see,
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Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens, all right.
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Speaker 1: As I said, the thing that will bail us out
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Speaker 1: from a bad deal. Of the Iranians are not willing
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Speaker 1: to give an inch, and Trump will just keep compromising
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Speaker 1: and compromising and compromising. All right. In the meantime, on
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Speaker 1: another front, in the Caribbean, not far from me, the
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Speaker 1: U s has a masked the second largest Navy fleet
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Speaker 1: that it has the second largest concentration of Navy assets,
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Speaker 1: and not just Navy air Force as well. Right close
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Speaker 1: to here, I mean, basis here in Puerto Rico have
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Speaker 1: US Force planes. The Navy is more active now out
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Speaker 1: of Puerto Rico, but generally we have we have a
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Speaker 1: whole Navy array in the Caribbean sea. Really right now,
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Speaker 1: it was if you remember positioned vis A vive Venezuela.
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Speaker 1: That is now done. And now this is clearly clearly
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Speaker 1: positioned Visavi Cuba. It really you know, it looks like
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Speaker 1: the military is preparing for military operation in Cuba. Now,
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Speaker 1: whether that med military operation is a seizure of leading
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Speaker 1: politicians within Cuba, including Castro, who has been now indicted,
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Speaker 1: right indicted by the Trump administration for a nineteen ninety
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Speaker 1: six shootdown of planes operated by humanitarian group Brothers for
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Speaker 1: the Rescue. I mean, they were looking for something, so
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Speaker 1: I think Castro is what ninety four, he's ninety four,
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Speaker 1: he's no longer the president of Cuba. But of course
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Speaker 1: the brother Fidel Castro, and of course connected to very
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Speaker 1: much to the existing regime. Anyway, they you know, they
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Speaker 1: might send in special forces to get roal Castro, They
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Speaker 1: might send in special forces to get the actual political leaders.
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Speaker 1: It is hard to tell. Or alternatively, they could just invade.
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Speaker 1: They could just do an amphibious landing and invade the assets.
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Speaker 1: For either scenario or in place not far from the
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Speaker 1: Cuban coast. According to Rubio, Cuba is in a lot
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Speaker 1: of trouble, and he says having failed, having a failed
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Speaker 1: state ninety miles from our shores is a threat to
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Speaker 1: the national security of the United States. The fact that
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Speaker 1: the United States has A is not allowing any oil,
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Speaker 1: any any gasolina oil onto the islands. Has caused a
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Speaker 1: massive blackouts. There's very little electricity. Even further decline in
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Speaker 1: the stand of living, in quality of life of Cubans
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Speaker 1: is who win, horrorable poverty even you know before this
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Speaker 1: embargoing and the fact that you know the US is
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Speaker 1: not letting anything through. So again another economy that is
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Speaker 1: in deep, deep trouble waiting for figure out what the
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Speaker 1: United States actually wants. Uh. The AMANA in the region
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Speaker 1: is a little smaller than it was in January when
21:01
Speaker 1: they went after Maduo, but they have a the Nimetz
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Speaker 1: aircraft carriers there with its strike group right and they
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Speaker 1: have several guided missile destroyers and cruisers that can launch
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Speaker 1: precision missiles at targets on short The USOS has an
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Speaker 1: array of advanced American drones and surveillance aircraft that have
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Speaker 1: been circling Cuba for months, and they have an amphibious
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Speaker 1: ship Usskissage and amphibious ships and escort which carry about
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Speaker 1: twenty five hundred marines are just off the coast of
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Speaker 1: Virginia and they are likely they are likely to be
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Speaker 1: heading towards the Caribbean, So there are a lot of options.
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't think that Cuba has much of
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Speaker 1: a military be forced to stand up to the United States,
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Speaker 1: so that you know, it wouldn't be it wouldn't be
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Speaker 1: a major fight. Of course, it all depends on the goal.
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Speaker 1: Just to pick up a few of the leadership, that's
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Speaker 1: one thing, or to kill them, or to kidnap them,
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Speaker 1: it's one thing. You know, if actually occupation of the island,
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Speaker 1: that would require a lot more troops. But of course
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Speaker 1: you could get the troops in once you take a
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Speaker 1: landing strip or something like that, a military operation in QB.
22:26
Speaker 1: I think the chances of that keep rising as we
22:33
Speaker 1: have a you know, this stalemate in in in Iran.
22:40
Speaker 1: Trump would love a distraction, would love to flex muscles,
22:45
Speaker 1: would love another Venezuela where you can show overwhelming success. Now,
22:54
Speaker 1: you know, just to give you a sense of how
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Speaker 1: this is all shaping out. It's kind of weird, right,
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Speaker 1: the US is doing all this, it's blockading the island
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Speaker 1: at least from US from oil. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: the CIA director John Radcliffe went to Cuba, met with
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Speaker 1: this Cuban counterpart, the equivalent of CIA in Cuba. You know,
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Speaker 1: in Havana, the US also made an offer of one
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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars of aid to ease the effects of
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Speaker 1: the oil blockade. So you know who knows, you know.
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Speaker 1: So we're blockading them, and we're threatening them with war
23:42
Speaker 1: and waffering them one hundred million dollars at the same time.
23:44
Speaker 1: It's an interesting kind of strategy. Suppose the I think
23:53
Speaker 1: they're trying to negotiate some deal where maybe the Cuban
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Speaker 1: leadership leaves and you know, they they in the United
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Speaker 1: States relieves all this pressure on them. I think that's
24:13
Speaker 1: that they want the Cubans to surrender. I suppose he
24:17
Speaker 1: had this meeting with the CIA director was rou Rodriga
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Speaker 1: Rodriguez Castro, who is the grandson a Roau Castro, right,
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Speaker 1: and he is the head of Cuba's intelligence services. It's
24:33
Speaker 1: all in the family, the Castro family. Anyway, you know,
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Speaker 1: we will see. But I wouldn't be surprised. Wouldn't at
24:44
Speaker 1: all be surprised if if the US went into Cuba
24:48
Speaker 1: as a distraction. I mean, I think they want to
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Speaker 1: do it anyway, bet timing a distraction a win midterm elections.
24:58
Speaker 1: I think that all is it consistent, so we will see.
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Speaker 1: Of course, the Chinese and the Russians upset and at
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Speaker 1: the United States for even suggesting this. We will see.
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Speaker 1: But I think I think Marco Rubio for a long
25:16
Speaker 1: time has been a big supporter of regime change in Cuba,
25:20
Speaker 1: and it would be a good thing. I'm not against
25:21
Speaker 1: the regime change in Cuba. If they can do it,
25:23
Speaker 1: they can do it without putting American troops in farm's way.
25:27
Speaker 1: If they can do it without American troops getting hood,
25:30
Speaker 1: it's probably worth a bucks to do it and get
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Speaker 1: it done with. Suddenly, it's you know, it wouldn't have
25:37
Speaker 1: any concerns about Cuba's sovereignty. All right. Before we talk
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27:20
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27:23
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27:26
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27:52
Speaker 1: today there was a slew of economic data that came out.
27:57
Speaker 1: Uh and uh, we got we got some numbers. And
28:00
Speaker 1: the first thing to hit was a revision of first
28:04
Speaker 1: quarter GDP. Again, GDP is a measure of economic growth,
28:11
Speaker 1: and the original number had come in at an annual
28:15
Speaker 1: rate of two percent. That his first quarter GDP grew
28:18
Speaker 1: at an annual rate of two percent. Not great, far
28:22
Speaker 1: from great. Remember Lutnik and and and bestent Lutnik, just
28:28
Speaker 1: like you know, not that long ago, said I mean this,
28:33
Speaker 1: This were his predictions last year twenty twenty six GDP
28:36
Speaker 1: growth will be six percent because of how great Donald
28:41
Speaker 1: Trump is and how amazing is tariffs are, and that
28:44
Speaker 1: Q one twenty six would be four percent over four percent.
28:48
Speaker 1: Well it was two percent, so not great, not to
28:50
Speaker 1: four percent, not over four percent. Half of that about
28:54
Speaker 1: two percent in a stagnating world like we have right now.
28:57
Speaker 1: Not bad. Well that was revised downwards today, not up down,
29:04
Speaker 1: and it is one point six percent, one point six percent,
29:10
Speaker 1: so not great. It's going We're not in a recession.
29:14
Speaker 1: We're not shrinking, we're still growing. Recession technically is two
29:18
Speaker 1: quarters of negative growth. That is the definition of a recession.
29:23
Speaker 1: Not always, but usually that's how they find a session
29:27
Speaker 1: one point six is growing definitely, and what is the
29:31
Speaker 1: source of the growth? Almost all of it, Almost all
29:35
Speaker 1: the growth in GDP is a result of, you know,
29:40
Speaker 1: high tech investment in AI. Almost all of it the
29:44
Speaker 1: bigconstruction projects of the data centers, the servers or whatever
29:50
Speaker 1: computers they put insight of there. The investment in AI
29:53
Speaker 1: that is driving this economy right now. But given that
29:56
Speaker 1: it's still a small piece of the economy as fast
29:59
Speaker 1: as that is going over twenty percent or something that
30:03
Speaker 1: only grows the economy at one point six percent. So
30:07
Speaker 1: that was one piece of news. Another piece is that
30:17
Speaker 1: the PCE personal personal consumption expenditure, which is the Fed's
30:27
Speaker 1: preferred inflation measure inflation meaning price inflation here, that rose
30:32
Speaker 1: a three point eight percent, three point eight percent. That's
30:38
Speaker 1: the highest level in three years. It was two point
30:41
Speaker 1: five percent in March, two point eight percent in February.
30:45
Speaker 1: Three point eight percent. You know, the purchasing power of
30:48
Speaker 1: your dollar is declining on an annual basis as three
30:52
Speaker 1: point eight percent. That's the rate of decline. Now, note
31:01
Speaker 1: that the Fed's target, the FED supposed he has an
31:05
Speaker 1: inflation target, its target for PCE or CPI or However,
31:11
Speaker 1: then want to measure inflation this month is two percent.
31:14
Speaker 1: This is double the target. And indeed it's been sixty
31:18
Speaker 1: two months I think. I think that's right, over five
31:22
Speaker 1: years since inflation met the Fed's target. One has to
31:29
Speaker 1: conclude that the outgoing chairman of the FED did a
31:37
Speaker 1: lousy job by his own standard, by his own measure,
31:42
Speaker 1: his measure is two percent inflation. I mean, the number
31:46
Speaker 1: one responsibility of the FED is price stability. Supposedly, right,
31:52
Speaker 1: according to the according to its charter, according to the
31:56
Speaker 1: law establishing it, price stability is not priceability, but okay,
32:01
Speaker 1: it is. The target is two percent. It's been over
32:04
Speaker 1: two percent for last sixty two months, and now it's
32:07
Speaker 1: double almost double three. So yeah, everything's getting more expensive
32:15
Speaker 1: core PC, which excludes food and energy, energy or prices,
32:21
Speaker 1: all of that. You know, you on war stuff like
32:23
Speaker 1: that's food and energy, food affected by fertilizer, energy, affected
32:28
Speaker 1: by all prices. Even that rolls by three point three
32:33
Speaker 1: percent in April. So everything is going up in price,
32:42
Speaker 1: not everything, but everything they measure is going up in price,
32:48
Speaker 1: which is makes life difficult for Americans. It makes life
32:55
Speaker 1: difficult for Americans. So that was the other number that
33:02
Speaker 1: came in, but that wasn't the end of it. Let
33:06
Speaker 1: me just see, uh that is that? Yeah, here's the
33:11
Speaker 1: here's the thing. They also reported personal saving. This is
33:16
Speaker 1: the amount of money you earn minus the amount of
33:19
Speaker 1: money you spend in consumption. So this is what you're saving,
33:24
Speaker 1: what you're putting away for rainy day. Saving is plunging.
33:33
Speaker 1: A year ago, personal saving rate was five point five percent.
33:38
Speaker 1: Five point five percent. Right now personal savings two point
33:44
Speaker 1: six percent. This is the second lowest rate that we've
33:49
Speaker 1: seen in decades, in decades now. Some of this is
34:03
Speaker 1: more baby boomers retiring. When you retire, you don't save,
34:06
Speaker 1: You consume, right, You're pulling money from saving and you consume. Me.
34:09
Speaker 1: Some of it is that, but that's not all of it.
34:13
Speaker 1: This is partially prices going up and you and you know,
34:17
Speaker 1: income not going up quite as fast. And so if
34:27
Speaker 1: your income is not going up as fast as prices,
34:30
Speaker 1: then you're spending more of your income on the stuff
34:33
Speaker 1: you buy, and that ultimately results in the fact that
34:38
Speaker 1: you have less to save. So people are saving less,
34:45
Speaker 1: they're earning less. The economy is growing slower, prices is
34:53
Speaker 1: going up faster, just as an aside, farm bankruptcies up
35:00
Speaker 1: forty this year over last year, and profits and farms
35:06
Speaker 1: of plummeting. Generally, things are not going well. So the
35:10
Speaker 1: economy might be, you know, still going up, and primarily
35:16
Speaker 1: because of AI. AI related activities are powering the economy ahead.
35:22
Speaker 1: And at some point we might even get productivity benefits
35:26
Speaker 1: from AI, which will power the economy even more. So.
35:31
Speaker 1: The economy is growing because of AI and companies, the
35:37
Speaker 1: big companies, big businesses, you know, the tech companies, but
35:42
Speaker 1: also the companies that are connected in one way or
35:44
Speaker 1: another to the AI boom. They're all doing fine, so
35:47
Speaker 1: earnings are good. Americans are still consuming like crazy. They're
35:53
Speaker 1: still buying stuff, but they're depleting their ability to continue
35:58
Speaker 1: to buy stuff given how little they're saving. At some
36:01
Speaker 1: point Americans will have to cut back on the consumption
36:05
Speaker 1: in order to beef up their saving when would think so.
36:14
Speaker 1: Stock market continues to go up because those companies continue
36:18
Speaker 1: to do well. The part of the economy that's not
36:22
Speaker 1: doing well is small to medium sized businesses. The big
36:25
Speaker 1: business in America is doing fantastic, and that's why the
36:29
Speaker 1: stock market keeps reaching record highs. And every time there
36:33
Speaker 1: is a hint that maybe there's some kind of deal
36:37
Speaker 1: between Iran and the United States, and stock market goes
36:40
Speaker 1: up even more because they want low all prices, they
36:45
Speaker 1: want geopolitical stability. They're not you know, they're taking an
36:53
Speaker 1: anti or position. Basically, stock market is the war is
36:55
Speaker 1: not popular. Maybe if they believe the United States would
36:59
Speaker 1: win the war fellow ly, systematically, quickly, decisively, maybe then
37:05
Speaker 1: the stockhol could to respond positively to the war. But yeah,
37:08
Speaker 1: right now it's not so. Economy not doing well now, No,
37:13
Speaker 1: you know, if if we compare the Trump administration's performance
37:19
Speaker 1: to Biden, you know, everybody says, oh, but at least
37:21
Speaker 1: Trump is good for the economy. Here's the thing. This
37:26
Speaker 1: is in real terms, So this is a you know,
37:29
Speaker 1: price inflation adjusted. The economy grew in twenty twenty three
37:33
Speaker 1: at two point nine percent twenty twenty three to nine.
37:38
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. Not not phenomenal, particularly coming out of
37:42
Speaker 1: uh COVID. You'd expect to even higher growth. But two
37:45
Speaker 1: nine percent is respectable. Right in twenty twenty four hit
37:51
Speaker 1: two point eight percent. Still not super fast, four to
37:56
Speaker 1: six percent growth, which I would like to see and
37:58
Speaker 1: I think it will do you US economy is very
38:01
Speaker 1: very capable of achieving, but given the stagnation, not bad,
38:07
Speaker 1: not bad above stagnation level. Twenty twenty five Trump's first year,
38:15
Speaker 1: it only grew at two point one percent and first
38:19
Speaker 1: quarter of this year annualized one point six percent. Now,
38:24
Speaker 1: it could recover and it could be a gang buster year,
38:27
Speaker 1: but there are no signs of that actually happening. And two,
38:33
Speaker 1: Trump will blame on you know this is this is uh.
38:37
Speaker 1: I don't know. He'll blame it on Biden. But when
38:41
Speaker 1: Biden was president, GDP growth was higher. Now, I don't
38:45
Speaker 1: like attributing these kind of GDP numbers or stock market
38:50
Speaker 1: performance to a president. I don't think the presidents have
38:54
Speaker 1: that much influence in the economy, except when they screw
38:59
Speaker 1: up royally, and in this case, the big screw up
39:03
Speaker 1: for Trump or tariffs b E sign be excite. You
39:08
Speaker 1: think they have no consequences. You think it's a small
39:11
Speaker 1: part of the economy. Yeah, as I told you at
39:15
Speaker 1: the time, it wouldn't drive us into recession, but it
39:19
Speaker 1: definitely definitely tampa the economic growth, and that's what you see.
39:30
Speaker 1: And the war without keeping the states of homos open,
39:35
Speaker 1: the idea of going to war without focusing on keeping
39:38
Speaker 1: the states of homos open has raised the price of energy.
39:42
Speaker 1: I'm shocked, surprised. Nobody could have predicted that except all
39:47
Speaker 1: of us who did predict it, All of us who
39:50
Speaker 1: did predict it. All right, that, oh, that is where
40:01
Speaker 1: we are. By the way, if you look at inflation
40:04
Speaker 1: numbers in twenty twenty four, two point nine percent now
40:08
Speaker 1: three point eight percent, same measure, it's worse under Trump
40:13
Speaker 1: than Underbiden. Wages in twenty twenty four they were rising
40:18
Speaker 1: faster than inflation. As of this report, they're rising slower
40:23
Speaker 1: than inflation. Unemployment rate's about the same twenty twenty four
40:27
Speaker 1: four percent, twenty twenty six, four point three percent. Jobs
40:30
Speaker 1: added per month twenty twenty four over one hundred and
40:33
Speaker 1: twenty thousand on average, so fine twenty twenty six, only
40:37
Speaker 1: seventy six thousand on average. National debt thirty five point
40:43
Speaker 1: five in twenty twenty four, thirty nine in twenty twenty six,
40:47
Speaker 1: and the year is still young. Deficits about the same,
40:52
Speaker 1: close to two trillion, and gas prices twenty twenty four
40:57
Speaker 1: to three dollars a gallon today four point ons for
41:00
Speaker 1: three dollars a gallon again that is not just a
41:04
Speaker 1: consequence of a war. That's the consequence of the fact
41:07
Speaker 1: that Trump did not strategically prepare for the war. That is,
41:10
Speaker 1: he didn't do the thing that was necessary to keep
41:12
Speaker 1: the straits of home was open, which would kept out
41:15
Speaker 1: prices down. All Right, this one is kind of a
41:22
Speaker 1: funny story. We're past the economy. There's nothing funny about
41:27
Speaker 1: the economy. This is a funny story. Okay. So there's
41:31
Speaker 1: a CIA, a former supposed the former CIA official who
41:36
Speaker 1: the CIA has come to suspect, you know, basically lied
41:45
Speaker 1: about his education when he applied when and while he
41:52
Speaker 1: was on the payroll of the CIA, So he misled
41:57
Speaker 1: his supervisors. It says, we don't have a lot of
42:00
Speaker 1: details about this case, right because it's the CIA, But
42:03
Speaker 1: he misled his supervisors about his education and his military service.
42:08
Speaker 1: He claimed college degrees he didn't have, and seventy seven
42:12
Speaker 1: thousand dollars in military leaf pay he wasn't entitled to.
42:17
Speaker 1: So the CIA somehow found out about this, and they
42:21
Speaker 1: asked the FBI to investigate. The CIA can't investigate in
42:24
Speaker 1: the United States, so the CIA investigates, and as part
42:28
Speaker 1: of the investigation, the FBI raids this guy's home, and
42:36
Speaker 1: during the raid of the home, the FBI stumbles upon
42:43
Speaker 1: forty million dollars worth of gold bars, three hundred and
42:48
Speaker 1: three gold bars stashed away in the guy's house, in
42:55
Speaker 1: addition to feign common sees and all kinds of other
42:58
Speaker 1: stuff that is unreported, but that it clearly he wasn't
43:04
Speaker 1: supposed to have. Now it turns out the threeandom and
43:08
Speaker 1: three gold bars were stolen from the CIA. I mean,
43:19
Speaker 1: this is one of the weirdest stories. I mean, I
43:22
Speaker 1: guess you'll ever read. Somebody should make this into a movie. Right.
43:29
Speaker 1: Supposed to Rush worked for the CIA Directorate of Science
43:32
Speaker 1: and Technology, which develops high tech tools for the agency
43:37
Speaker 1: espionage missions. Maybe he discovered how to turn lead into
43:41
Speaker 1: gold and that maybe that's where it's from. The ci
43:49
Speaker 1: FI in a in a statement said quote, they arrested
43:53
Speaker 1: an individual following a reform from the CIA after CIA
43:57
Speaker 1: in total investigation identified potential violations of the law. That's
44:03
Speaker 1: all they're saying. The FBI is working closely with our
44:08
Speaker 1: partner's CIA and the partner of Justice as we continue
44:11
Speaker 1: to investigate this matter. Fully. Three hundred and three bars
44:17
Speaker 1: of gold, according to again, this is from the FBI
44:22
Speaker 1: press release. During the search, FBI agents seized approximately three
44:26
Speaker 1: approximately I don't know what that means, three hundred and
44:29
Speaker 1: three gold bars, each of which weighs approximately one kilogram.
44:33
Speaker 1: Based on counter prices of gold, the estimated value exceeds
44:36
Speaker 1: forty million dollars. Finally, FA agents seized the approximately thirty
44:41
Speaker 1: five luxury watches, many of which were Rolex band. Now
44:47
Speaker 1: are these CIA watches that have like super Dupa all
44:51
Speaker 1: kinds of things inside of them, spy stuff or they
44:55
Speaker 1: just watches that are used on the gold bars to
44:57
Speaker 1: buy rush. The CIA agent formacy agent is being held
45:05
Speaker 1: by US Marshal Services. He's got a detention hearing schedule
45:09
Speaker 1: for June fifth, and so this is bizarre on a
45:14
Speaker 1: number of different levels. Right one, it turns out the CIA,
45:22
Speaker 1: of all places, it doesn't do very good background checks.
45:26
Speaker 1: This guy worked for the CIA, I think for over
45:29
Speaker 1: twenty years. He worked to the CIA for a long time,
45:34
Speaker 1: well maybe not that long. So you worked for the
45:37
Speaker 1: CIA for a decade or so, and they couldn't do
45:43
Speaker 1: a background check to get it right. So that's one
45:48
Speaker 1: The fact that the background check that they originally did
45:51
Speaker 1: on him was wrong. I mean, it's not that hard
45:54
Speaker 1: to check educational references or discharges from military. And the
46:02
Speaker 1: second one is, this is a biggie. How the hell
46:05
Speaker 1: did this guy get three hundred and thirty three buzz
46:08
Speaker 1: of gold supposedly from the FBI? From the CIA, sorry,
46:14
Speaker 1: from the CIA and the role UXes and the money?
46:20
Speaker 1: What the hell? Anyway? It should it should be interesting,
46:28
Speaker 1: you know. Rush claimed that he got a degree from
46:31
Speaker 1: Clemson University and a master's from Renssell Yeer Polytechnic Institute.
46:36
Speaker 1: The FBI found no record of him in either institution.
46:40
Speaker 1: How come the CIA didn't see that? So because it's CIA,
46:44
Speaker 1: we don't know. We don't have a lot of information,
46:47
Speaker 1: but the old story is weird and does not reflect
46:50
Speaker 1: well on the CIA and the CIA. He has a
47:01
Speaker 1: little bit more information. From November through March, Rush made
47:04
Speaker 1: several requests for funds from the CIA, including for feign
47:08
Speaker 1: currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars.
47:13
Speaker 1: Why did was that received? Why did they give it
47:15
Speaker 1: to him? In a storage space near his office, investigators
47:22
Speaker 1: found a portion of the funds. On May eighteenth, federal
47:25
Speaker 1: agents searched Russia's home and sees three hundred gold bars
47:29
Speaker 1: with more than fifty forty million. Agents also seized about
47:32
Speaker 1: two million dollars in US currency and thirty five luxury watches.
47:40
Speaker 1: So anyway, who gives this guy three? I mean, what
47:45
Speaker 1: operation was he conducting that he needed three hundred bars
47:49
Speaker 1: of golds and the CIA's stash of gold bars? All right,
48:04
Speaker 1: let's see. So as of now, we have one question
48:07
Speaker 1: for the Q and a portion of the show. So
48:08
Speaker 1: this is going to be a short show. If you'd
48:10
Speaker 1: like to ask questions, now's the time. Twenty fifty hundred
48:15
Speaker 1: and fifty three hundred, five hundred dollars. Questions are particularly welcome.
48:20
Speaker 1: We will you know to an extent that there's more
48:22
Speaker 1: interesting public information about the CIA gold thing. I will
48:27
Speaker 1: let you know all the United States government, the Trump
48:32
Speaker 1: administration continues to socialize American business, i e. Own the
48:37
Speaker 1: means of production by taking ongoing investments in American companies.
48:44
Speaker 1: It looks like the latest shopping list for the United
48:50
Speaker 1: States government has to do with drone manufacturers. So first,
48:56
Speaker 1: Pentagonism talks with you as drone makers to try to
49:02
Speaker 1: produce more drones. The negotiating funding deals with several use
49:07
Speaker 1: drone companies uh, you know, to to create facilities that
49:14
Speaker 1: make it possible to build large quantities of low cost drones.
49:21
Speaker 1: This is a this is part of a push the
49:22
Speaker 1: Pentagon has for it's a one point one billion dollar
49:27
Speaker 1: drone dominance program aiming for three hundred thousand low cost
49:31
Speaker 1: attack drones by the end of twenty twenty seven, at
49:35
Speaker 1: a price target for each drone at five thousand dollars. Now,
49:39
Speaker 1: notice that three hundred thousand lo cost drones the Ukrainians.
49:50
Speaker 1: Ukrainians build four million drones a year, and the Chinese
49:57
Speaker 1: have the capacity to build hundreds of millions of drones
50:00
Speaker 1: a year. So I'm not sure what three hundred thousand
50:05
Speaker 1: is going to get you. The Pentagon is requesting fifty
50:09
Speaker 1: four billion dollars it's drone nerves center, up from two
50:13
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five million this year. So that is
50:18
Speaker 1: a what one hundredfold increase, one hundred x increase, two
50:23
Speaker 1: hundred x increase, sorry, two hundred x increase. Right now,
50:28
Speaker 1: the United States can only build one hundred thousand drones
50:31
Speaker 1: a year, supposedly, so the Pentagon is saying it understands
50:39
Speaker 1: is that future war will depend on drones, and we're
50:43
Speaker 1: way behind, way behind Ukraine again, which produces four million
50:50
Speaker 1: drones a year, and our ambitions are at three hundred thousand.
50:55
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope that. I hope the the Chinese
51:01
Speaker 1: do not read, are not reading this, this this article
51:07
Speaker 1: in the Walls Sea Journal. Now suppose see the United
51:13
Speaker 1: States wants to fund the production of these drones. That
51:15
Speaker 1: makes complete sense to provide funding for it, and as
51:21
Speaker 1: loans or as even just what do you call it,
51:25
Speaker 1: gifts or advance I think the best way to do
51:29
Speaker 1: it is advanced purchase agreements among the companies the Pentagon
51:33
Speaker 1: has identified for possibly funding our Performance Drone Works, which
51:37
Speaker 1: won a contract to supply the army with Econnasists drones
51:41
Speaker 1: unusual machines, a drone components supplier that of course counts
51:47
Speaker 1: Donald Trump Junior as a shareholder and advisor, and he's
51:52
Speaker 1: also an advisory board member. And Neros Technology, which is
51:56
Speaker 1: a Sequoia Capital, the big venture capital group backed startup
52:00
Speaker 1: building small first person view drones. Right. Uh, so they're
52:08
Speaker 1: looking to do this, but part of this is going
52:13
Speaker 1: to involve, uh, the US government actually taking an equity
52:17
Speaker 1: position in these companies, an equity position in the companies. Uh,
52:26
Speaker 1: So the US government is now going to own more
52:29
Speaker 1: businesses in the US, which is you know, pretty pretty
52:38
Speaker 1: pathetic and socialist. Socialist socialists believe in the government owning
52:43
Speaker 1: the means of production. You can you can incentivize these
52:47
Speaker 1: companies to build you drones advanced purchase agreements for example,
52:51
Speaker 1: without literally owning shares in them the government. There should
52:57
Speaker 1: be a constitutional ban on the US owning private businesses
53:02
Speaker 1: constitutional ban. Anyway, it's going to be interesting to watch
53:15
Speaker 1: as the United States tries to catch up. I mean,
53:17
Speaker 1: this doesn't even discuss This article doesn't discuss some of
53:21
Speaker 1: the other drone startups that did you hear a lot
53:24
Speaker 1: about the drills. What's his name? La a Pammy Palmer
53:31
Speaker 1: Lucky's Company and the other one with the twenty four
53:35
Speaker 1: year old ceo whose name I forget ethan something nobody's
53:40
Speaker 1: even the article doesn't even discuss them. So again, the
53:44
Speaker 1: US government, you know, choosing winners and losers. Now, why
53:50
Speaker 1: not have a bid for certain specs, you know, a
53:55
Speaker 1: certain price point and future purchasers of gazillions of dollar.
54:03
Speaker 1: In the meantime, Ukraine it has become a dominant player
54:06
Speaker 1: in the drone space. They as I said they built
54:09
Speaker 1: four million drones a year. The drones are the cheapest,
54:13
Speaker 1: most sophisticated drones out there. At the beginning, when Ukraine
54:18
Speaker 1: built drones mostly drones, almost all their drones use Chinese parts.
54:24
Speaker 1: Today they don't, and they are probably the leading in
54:31
Speaker 1: the world in terms of drone manufacturing, both in quantity
54:34
Speaker 1: and drone defense technology. And these drones dominating the battlefield
54:42
Speaker 1: and causing massive losses to the Russians and basically have
54:46
Speaker 1: stopped the Russian offensive because of the drones. In the meantime,
54:54
Speaker 1: Ukraine is also trying to beef up its air force.
54:58
Speaker 1: It would like to be able to take out the
55:00
Speaker 1: megs that are launching the ballistic the kind of missiles,
55:06
Speaker 1: they're gliding missiles that are devastating Kiev and other Ukrainian cities.
55:15
Speaker 1: But then I look into the US, it looks like
55:19
Speaker 1: Ukraine is going to be buying one hundred and fifty Gryffins.
55:24
Speaker 1: Griffin is a Swedish I think fourth generation airplane. Fourth
55:29
Speaker 1: generation would be like the F sixteen, F fifteen S Christine,
55:33
Speaker 1: not an F thirty five, which is fifth generation. They
55:38
Speaker 1: you know, there's a photo of Zelensky in front of
55:43
Speaker 1: in a Swiss Many factory where they're building this with
55:48
Speaker 1: the Griffins. The Griffins will come fully loaded with weapons systems,
55:56
Speaker 1: and the hope is that these planes will allow the
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Speaker 1: Ukrainians to push the Russian jets which use the glide
56:06
Speaker 1: bombs further away into Russian territories. They can't reach Ukraine,
56:11
Speaker 1: so this will help Ukraine establish it dominants above Ukraine
56:18
Speaker 1: and then start pushing against whatever the the you know,
56:23
Speaker 1: Russians have over Russia. You know't note how easily it
56:28
Speaker 1: all takes care of Russian air defense systems. There's no
56:32
Speaker 1: reason to believe that the Sweden has doesn't have somewhat
56:36
Speaker 1: similar technology. And these Griffins are not loaded up with
56:39
Speaker 1: the latest best technology to defeat Russian airplanes. I think
56:43
Speaker 1: the Griffin could take on the nigsh and defeat their
56:47
Speaker 1: defense systems as well. All right, let's see, yeah, I
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Speaker 1: mean I've said this often over the years in many contexts,
57:00
Speaker 1: like said that the UN is maybe one of the
57:02
Speaker 1: most evil institutions have accreated by man. The United Nations
57:08
Speaker 1: is truly evil. The United States should exit it. And
57:10
Speaker 1: it's one of the shocking things is the extent of
57:13
Speaker 1: which the UN has always been, or not always, but
57:17
Speaker 1: certainly over the last fifty years, has been anti Israel consistently,
57:22
Speaker 1: and you know the fact that Israel continues to participate
57:27
Speaker 1: and continues to play the game even though this organization
57:31
Speaker 1: is you know, just you know, single mindedly anti Israel,
57:39
Speaker 1: more anti Israel than anti anything else in the world truly. Anyway,
57:47
Speaker 1: the States, the United Nations yesterday or this week decided
57:52
Speaker 1: to include Israeli entities in the annex to the you
57:57
Speaker 1: know some report where it is that where it is
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Speaker 1: listed as let me just find the exact Yeah, this
58:13
Speaker 1: isn't a list of offenders, offended entities, offended governments accused
58:21
Speaker 1: of sexual violence in conflict zones. Israel is listed on
58:26
Speaker 1: this list. Now this appears to be you know, one
58:33
Speaker 1: step two far for Israel and these really Foreign Ministry
58:38
Speaker 1: officially announced today that Israel has decided to sever all
58:42
Speaker 1: ties with the UN Secretary General's office. Now that's pretty
58:48
Speaker 1: amazing because it should sever all ties with the United Nations.
58:52
Speaker 1: But it's only seven ties with the United Nations Secretary
58:55
Speaker 1: General's Office. And we'll wait until the new UN Secretary
58:59
Speaker 1: General is appointed. The UN is a political and biased
59:04
Speaker 1: organization that has abandoned as fundamental principles and systematically focuses
59:09
Speaker 1: on Israel. That is true, but why is it going
59:12
Speaker 1: to change with the new secretary that has been its
59:15
Speaker 1: DNA for decades. It was always a biased, anti civilizational
59:22
Speaker 1: institution and it's very founding. It was essentially immoral. Stalin
59:29
Speaker 1: had a seat at the Security Council with the Americans.
59:34
Speaker 1: No organization to put Stalin in the Americans an equal
59:37
Speaker 1: footing each a veto power is a moral organization by
59:42
Speaker 1: definition that is an immoril entity. And then maw got
59:46
Speaker 1: a seat. Not all not legit as though should walk away,
59:53
Speaker 1: should have walked away a long time ago, long time ago. Right. Finally,
1:00:00
Speaker 1: few stories from our human Achievement section. This is the
1:00:04
Speaker 1: new section that we have of the Yran Brooks Show.
1:00:08
Speaker 1: Here's one that is a pretty astounding. Some mobile phone
1:00:15
Speaker 1: subscriptions in sub Sahmman, Africa, the poorest region of the world.
1:00:21
Speaker 1: It was basically about a decade ago. A decade ago,
1:00:27
Speaker 1: it was basically zero. There was just no cell phones
1:00:30
Speaker 1: in Africa as of you know, two thousand and four,
1:00:36
Speaker 1: two thousand and five, and landlines hold only reached about
1:00:42
Speaker 1: two percent of the region's population right now sub Sahan,
1:00:54
Speaker 1: Subsabon Africa basically guess eighty five cell phones, one hundred people,
1:01:01
Speaker 1: eighty five cell phone, eighty five percent coverage. Eighty five
1:01:05
Speaker 1: percent of people have cell phones. Nigeria is basically one
1:01:09
Speaker 1: hundred percent. Bangladesh not in Africa, it's in Asia. It's
1:01:14
Speaker 1: still a poor country that had nothing zero zilch as
1:01:17
Speaker 1: of two thousand and four is over one hundred percent
1:01:21
Speaker 1: of one hundred and ten percent. That is the more
1:01:23
Speaker 1: cell phoned people. India only at eighty but South Saharan Africa,
1:01:30
Speaker 1: you know, close to ninety percent coverage. That is pretty amazing.
1:01:36
Speaker 1: By adopting cellular attack, poor countries were able to leap fog.
1:01:42
Speaker 1: You know, again, only two percent had landlines. Land lines
1:01:46
Speaker 1: were very expensive to put in place, required you know, government,
1:01:53
Speaker 1: eminent domain, all this stuff. Cell phones easy, put up
1:01:56
Speaker 1: a bunch of towers, microwaves and antennae and you have coverage.
1:02:03
Speaker 1: And this is just one example of you know, however
1:02:06
Speaker 1: poor Africans are they have cell phones. You know, nobody
1:02:14
Speaker 1: in the world had cell phones fifty years ago and
1:02:17
Speaker 1: now almost everybody in Africa, even the poorest of the
1:02:20
Speaker 1: poor have them world is overall from a material perspective,
1:02:26
Speaker 1: getting dramatically better, dramatically better AI just as a ice story.
1:02:37
Speaker 1: So an open source AI called Atlas has you know,
1:02:44
Speaker 1: is a tool or basically for protein discovery anyway, this
1:02:53
Speaker 1: they have a tool called Alpha fold is that you know,
1:02:58
Speaker 1: designs proteins. It's an over soce model and it has
1:03:03
Speaker 1: now reached the point where it can put it is
1:03:06
Speaker 1: predicted the shape of one billion proteins. One billion proteins.
1:03:15
Speaker 1: Now this is this is crucial because much medical science,
1:03:20
Speaker 1: uh and healthcare stuff involves how proteins work, what do
1:03:24
Speaker 1: they do, how they affect a body, how do they
1:03:26
Speaker 1: connect to the cells, what effect do they have?
1:03:33
Speaker 2: Uh?
1:03:35
Speaker 1: Which are you know, uh crucially important. Here's one of
1:03:40
Speaker 1: the scientists. What this atlas does is it shows the
1:03:44
Speaker 1: totality of protein biology and especially the parts that are
1:03:47
Speaker 1: mostly unknown. We think it's going to be really powerful
1:03:52
Speaker 1: substrate for the discovery of new biology, which means also
1:03:56
Speaker 1: new drugs, new treatments. So uh the term they can
1:04:10
Speaker 1: use this to design new antibodies and other proteins. They
1:04:15
Speaker 1: can strongly attach to proteins implicated in cancers. In you
1:04:20
Speaker 1: immunological conditions. And again they can they can test and
1:04:26
Speaker 1: predict all this virtually before they actually put it into
1:04:31
Speaker 1: a human being. So again they have now one point
1:04:37
Speaker 1: one billion predicted protein structures as well as information on
1:04:42
Speaker 1: the sequences of six point eight billion proteins. I mean,
1:04:49
Speaker 1: this is just the beginning, the type of the iceberg
1:04:53
Speaker 1: of what AI is going to make possible and pretty
1:04:56
Speaker 1: much every realm of human activity, in every realm of
1:05:00
Speaker 1: human knowledge. It's we're just at the very beginning of
1:05:05
Speaker 1: one of the most dramatic, you know, revolutions of human knowledge,
1:05:12
Speaker 1: human industry, human productivity that human beings have ever seen.
1:05:17
Speaker 1: I mean, the next twenty years, if we don't really
1:05:20
Speaker 1: really really mess it up big time, are going to
1:05:23
Speaker 1: be some of the most exciting, interesting in human history
1:05:30
Speaker 1: because of what AI makes possible. Yeah, and it's you know,
1:05:39
Speaker 1: it's only gonna get better, faster, and more accessible. Finally,
1:05:46
Speaker 1: this is from my new Scientists dot com. NASA has
1:05:50
Speaker 1: revealed details of its plans to build a permanent base
1:05:53
Speaker 1: on the Moon. Now, I don't know when NASA is
1:05:57
Speaker 1: going to get the money for this, given our debt
1:05:59
Speaker 1: and given out we're going bankrupt, but Anyway, it's pretty
1:06:02
Speaker 1: exciting that there's still people out there imagining doing stuff
1:06:06
Speaker 1: on the Moon. So it's inspirational, even if I don't
1:06:11
Speaker 1: think gum should be doing it, and certainly I don't
1:06:14
Speaker 1: think the United States can afford it right now. Initially,
1:06:18
Speaker 1: this will see astronauts rovers and hopping drones scouting out
1:06:23
Speaker 1: the new the lunar surface. Down the line, the plan
1:06:27
Speaker 1: is for astronauts to build the future lunar home, slated
1:06:30
Speaker 1: to be hundreds of square kilometers in size. Plans for
1:06:35
Speaker 1: a lunar base been part of NASA's Automist program for years,
1:06:39
Speaker 1: but its main focus has been landing astronauts on the
1:06:42
Speaker 1: Moon for the first time since the nineteen seventies. The
1:06:45
Speaker 1: human space flight part of the project has been successful
1:06:48
Speaker 1: so far, with the automous two missions sending for astronauts
1:06:52
Speaker 1: on a path around the Moon and back to Earth
1:06:54
Speaker 1: in April, but until recently, NASA had released few concrete
1:06:58
Speaker 1: details about the tight timeline for building a moon base.
1:07:05
Speaker 1: Two days ago and announced that the first three missions
1:07:09
Speaker 1: to build a lunar base will be targeted for this
1:07:12
Speaker 1: year this year, and at least a further nine to
1:07:16
Speaker 1: be announced before twenty twenty seven. The overall program will
1:07:21
Speaker 1: consist of three phases, with the first lasting until twenty
1:07:24
Speaker 1: twenty nine to secure public reliable access to the Moon's surface,
1:07:31
Speaker 1: not public, just to secure reliable access to the Moon surface.
1:07:35
Speaker 1: The second phase will last until twenty thirty two for
1:07:39
Speaker 1: the initial moon base operating capabilities. An actual base itself
1:07:43
Speaker 1: will be built near the Luna South Pole in the
1:07:46
Speaker 1: third and final phase, lasting up to twenty thirty six.
1:07:50
Speaker 1: So that's still on the corner ten years from now.
1:07:52
Speaker 1: But you're actually gonna see people on the Moon. I
1:07:54
Speaker 1: don't know from this it's hard to tell, but maybe
1:07:56
Speaker 1: this year or early next year. Oh so, no, not
1:08:02
Speaker 1: this year. This year's missions won't be crude, and we'll
1:08:06
Speaker 1: look to study the lunar surface in detail in order
1:08:08
Speaker 1: to reduce the risks for future land missions, as well
1:08:12
Speaker 1: as to test out autonomous rovers to help guide the
1:08:15
Speaker 1: design of future Moon vehicles. The first of these missions,
1:08:18
Speaker 1: moon Base one, will launch towards the end of this
1:08:21
Speaker 1: year and will feature a lander built by Jeff Bezos,
1:08:24
Speaker 1: a space company Blue Origin, which hasn't yet tested a
1:08:27
Speaker 1: lunar landing. Moon Based two and three also planned for
1:08:31
Speaker 1: launch this year, there was no launch window yet, and
1:08:36
Speaker 1: each will involve a lander from two different private companies
1:08:40
Speaker 1: Astro Robotic, which will launch its Griffin lander and an
1:08:45
Speaker 1: autonomous rover, and Intuitive Machines, which has already attempted two
1:08:50
Speaker 1: land lunar landings, neither of which were fully successful. They're
1:08:58
Speaker 1: also looking at two companies, Astro Lab and Luna Outpost,
1:09:02
Speaker 1: will each be given more than two hundred million dollars
1:09:05
Speaker 1: to develop future Luna to Rain vehicles as part of
1:09:08
Speaker 1: the agency's Commercial Luna Payload Services program. So a lot
1:09:12
Speaker 1: of this is going to be done by private enterprise,
1:09:16
Speaker 1: by private businesses. But so far I read nothing here
1:09:22
Speaker 1: to suggest when they can actually put a human being
1:09:26
Speaker 1: on the moon, so to be seen. But exciting that
1:09:30
Speaker 1: human beings are going to be back to the Moon
1:09:32
Speaker 1: after a very long time. All right, guys, I don't
1:09:36
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Speaker 1: got a few, not many, Paul. Isn't that a cooperating
1:13:09
Speaker 1: with other countries for its moon landing or is that
1:13:12
Speaker 1: against the by American principle? You know, I don't know.
1:13:17
Speaker 1: I assume that they are on certain issues, on certain strategies.
1:13:22
Speaker 1: But this is a very much beat the Chinese kind
1:13:25
Speaker 1: of project. That's part of the motivation to go to
1:13:27
Speaker 1: the Moon. But I wouldn't be surprised if they're cooperating
1:13:31
Speaker 1: with the Europeans on some technology, maybe with these Ralies
1:13:35
Speaker 1: and some technology. Both Europeans and the Israelis have space
1:13:40
Speaker 1: programs that have space startups that are doing this. But
1:13:43
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know the details of this, Michael,
1:13:50
Speaker 1: there's most evil that is sophisticated enough to capture power
1:13:54
Speaker 1: wrap itself in moral superiority. Well, I think most evil
1:14:00
Speaker 1: just wraps itself in more superiority. It's how evil justifies
1:14:05
Speaker 1: itself to itself and how it gains power by justifying
1:14:09
Speaker 1: itself to the rest of the world. So I think
1:14:13
Speaker 1: basically all evil, in all evil that is trying to
1:14:17
Speaker 1: capture power, has to present itself as more has to
1:14:21
Speaker 1: present itself as good, partially to convince itself. I don't
1:14:25
Speaker 1: think you can actually hold that you are evil and
1:14:29
Speaker 1: to convince the rest of the world so it can
1:14:30
Speaker 1: attain the power. Johnny Mauiez, thank you for the sticker.
1:14:35
Speaker 1: Really appreciate it. Okay, Rob says, these latest economic numbers
1:14:43
Speaker 1: underscore your thesis that Trump may not be maybe that
1:14:47
Speaker 1: Trump may be our top socialist president. Yeah. I mean,
1:14:50
Speaker 1: I think the thing that makes him the most socialist
1:14:54
Speaker 1: is the fact that he's buying American companies. That he
1:14:58
Speaker 1: is the first president not in a world war, to
1:15:03
Speaker 1: basically be taking significant equity stakes in large numbers of companies.
1:15:12
Speaker 1: I just don't I think that's unprecedented. Yeah, there were
1:15:15
Speaker 1: periods in which you know, the government took stakes and
1:15:20
Speaker 1: the auto companies to bail them out, but it was
1:15:23
Speaker 1: short term, it was quick, and it was turned around
1:15:24
Speaker 1: and wasn't widespread in five six seven different industries and
1:15:29
Speaker 1: dozens of companies and a lot of them small startups.
1:15:34
Speaker 1: So this idea of the government becoming a venture capitalist
1:15:36
Speaker 1: and not just lending them money equity investments, it just
1:15:41
Speaker 1: doesn't get more socialist like than that. But yes, I
1:15:46
Speaker 1: think the tariffs, the tariffs and the just the conyism
1:15:53
Speaker 1: and the tariffs are really what's right. And so coneyism,
1:15:58
Speaker 1: taffs and high interest rate tig interestrates you do by
1:16:00
Speaker 1: the deficit. So spending out of control and and then
1:16:05
Speaker 1: tarrys and cronyism are the things that are slowing down
1:16:07
Speaker 1: the US economy. Jason, Even if mister Scooge holds billions
1:16:16
Speaker 1: of cash and is safe, isn't he effectively holding a
1:16:19
Speaker 1: zero interest central bank liability giving the government perpetual interest
1:16:25
Speaker 1: fee financing? Well not if he's literally holding gold bars
1:16:30
Speaker 1: in his you know, it's gold bars. So it's not
1:16:37
Speaker 1: he's not getting a tune on it, he's not getting
1:16:39
Speaker 1: interest on it. Uh, it's it's you know, it's not
1:16:43
Speaker 1: being deployed for any kind of productive purpose. He's not
1:16:46
Speaker 1: buying government securities. I guess, uh. You know, the comments
1:16:54
Speaker 1: used the gold to buy the gold bus is sucilling
1:16:57
Speaker 1: the economy, but he has not used it for productive purposes.
1:17:05
Speaker 1: So if he was buying bonds, then yeah, but he's
1:17:07
Speaker 1: not buying bonds. Anonymous. If America is purely capitalist country,
1:17:13
Speaker 1: would entity such as CISA et cetera be necessary? Yeah,
1:17:17
Speaker 1: I mean absolutely, a capitalist country still has enemies. You
1:17:23
Speaker 1: still have to protect yourself from foreign invaders, from terrorists,
1:17:28
Speaker 1: for people would lob ballistic missiles at you and developing
1:17:33
Speaker 1: nuclear weapons or biological weapons or whatever. So absolutely you
1:17:37
Speaker 1: still need a military and affiliated with the military, you
1:17:40
Speaker 1: still need intelligence agencies that provide intelligence regarding one safety.
1:17:52
Speaker 1: So in the name of protecting individual rights, absolutely you
1:17:54
Speaker 1: need those entities. Anomalous. Do I have a right to
1:18:01
Speaker 1: privacy in general? And it's specific when when I when
1:18:05
Speaker 1: I'm out in public? What about government cameras such as
1:18:09
Speaker 1: in a city. I mean, it's not clearly what I
1:18:14
Speaker 1: write to privacy is you certainly have a right to
1:18:17
Speaker 1: the use of your own image. You know, in a
1:18:22
Speaker 1: truly capitalist society. The road, there is no such thing
1:18:25
Speaker 1: as being out in public. The roads, the malls, the
1:18:28
Speaker 1: parks are all privately owned, and the rules are going
1:18:31
Speaker 1: to be determined by the private owner owner. As long
1:18:35
Speaker 1: as you are made aware of the fact that cameras
1:18:38
Speaker 1: are watching, you get them to choose whether to go
1:18:41
Speaker 1: out into the public or not in when the government
1:18:45
Speaker 1: owns it, I think it's a violation of your rights.
1:18:49
Speaker 1: You have a right to go where you please without
1:18:52
Speaker 1: the government monitoring your movements, knowing what's going on, where
1:18:56
Speaker 1: you're going and what you're doing. Again, the government is
1:18:59
Speaker 1: the agency a force. Do you really want them to
1:19:03
Speaker 1: be knowing all of your transactions and all of your
1:19:06
Speaker 1: movements and everything you do? And I think the answer
1:19:09
Speaker 1: is no. So I do think it's the right violation
1:19:12
Speaker 1: for the government to just have cameras that are being monitored. Now,
1:19:14
Speaker 1: if the cameras are there but are not being watched,
1:19:18
Speaker 1: they're just Therefore when there's a crime, maybe that's okay. Right,
1:19:25
Speaker 1: there's an explicit we don't look at the cameras unless
1:19:28
Speaker 1: there's a crime. Maybe that's okay. So, for example, there's
1:19:34
Speaker 1: a camera that register your license plates for toll road.
1:19:38
Speaker 1: That's okay. It's for particular purpose and that's what it's useful,
1:19:44
Speaker 1: as long as the gunman is not using it to
1:19:45
Speaker 1: track where you are and what you're doing and where
1:19:47
Speaker 1: you're going. Neo, did you watch the Enhanced Sports Tournament?
1:19:53
Speaker 1: I remember you saying it would be cool so long
1:19:55
Speaker 1: as it's safe. No, I did not watch it. You know,
1:19:59
Speaker 1: I didn't see like it was serious. It wasn't clear
1:20:03
Speaker 1: what kind of enhancements they were actually engaged in, and
1:20:05
Speaker 1: a lot of the winners were not enhanced at all.
1:20:08
Speaker 1: But I didn't even know what was happening. I wouldn't
1:20:10
Speaker 1: have known where to watch it, and so no, I didn't.
1:20:13
Speaker 1: I just read about it after the fact. Shane, have
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Speaker 1: you seen the Waiters article Pentagon spas with SpaceX over
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Speaker 1: stalling price hike during Iran War presuming the Departum of
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Speaker 1: War didn't activate direct to sell internet in Iran during
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Speaker 1: hostilities due to costs. Yeah, I did see that, so
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Speaker 1: Starling wanted, you know, jacked up the price. It's not
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Speaker 1: clear exactly exactly what happened there in terms of what
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Speaker 1: it was used for what was not used for, and
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Speaker 1: it's hard to tell from the sources how accurate this
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Speaker 1: all is. But what is clear is that Musk definitely
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Speaker 1: jacked up the price of stall Link over Yon during
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Speaker 1: this period, which this is right. He is the sole
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Speaker 1: provider of it, so you know you have one supplier,
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Speaker 1: you what they beck and call. But for the Pentagon
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Speaker 1: not to use it because of the cost seems ridiculous
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Speaker 1: given how much money is being spent on all kinds
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Speaker 1: of garbage that would have been a productive use. How's
1:21:32
Speaker 1: then asked whether I knew a song review this weekend.
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Speaker 1: Actually no, I thought I was because I didn't realize
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Speaker 1: this weekend was AMA weekend. But this weekend is AMA weekend.
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Speaker 1: So I will probably do some reviews. I won't be
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Speaker 1: able to do all of them, but I'll do some
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Speaker 1: reviews and maybe the song will be part of it
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Speaker 1: or maybe not. We'll see. On Monday show. Monday show
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Speaker 1: will be probably have two shows on Monday. We'll see.
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Speaker 1: I'll let you know exactly what's going on on Monday,
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Speaker 1: but I might have two shows on Monday News show
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Speaker 1: at three pm each coast time, and then a a
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Speaker 1: longer analysis of nuclear energy which is a sponsored show
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Speaker 1: on Monday evening, and then as part of that show.
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Speaker 1: I might do some of the reviews. So sorry about
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Speaker 1: the confusion about the weekend, and Ollie says it's Ollie,
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Speaker 1: not Oily. Sorry Oily, sorry Oli. I'll try to remember
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Speaker 1: that and U and actually use that in the future.
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Speaker 1: All right, guys, thank you, thank you all the super shattas,
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Speaker 1: thank you to all the stickers. I will see you
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Speaker 1: again tomorrow, same time, maybe four pm, three or four
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Speaker 1: pm tomorrow definitely, so I'll see you then. Bye, everybody.