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The Josh Hammer Show - Iran, Islam, and the Circle of Life · Salem Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: Iran, Islam, and the circle of life. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: going on. It's a big day here on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Stay around, and you will find out why that is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Josh Hammer, and this is The Josh Hammer Show.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Hope that everyone had a great weekend. So
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  Speaker 1: the situation in Iran is where we're going to begin
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  Speaker 1: today's show. There is activity, kinetic activity, for the first
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  Speaker 1: time in some weeks. Recall that last we checked in
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  Speaker 1: in our ever-winding saga, our Treasury Secretary Scott Nibesan announced
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  Speaker 1: that the economic aspect of the United States' broader campaign
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  Speaker 1: against the Iranian regime was going to be the path forward.
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  Speaker 1: In other words... It seemed for a period of time
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  Speaker 1: that this economic D-Day, which was the rhetoric and terminology
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  Speaker 1: that we discussed in the show last week, it seemed
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  Speaker 1: for a time being that economic path forward, in other words,
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  Speaker 1: sanctioning the crap out of Iran, sanctioning the crap out
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  Speaker 1: of international financial institutions that are trying to launder and
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  Speaker 1: to house Iranian assets, Iranian currency, ultimately perhaps going after
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  Speaker 1: the Chinese Communist Party. And Chinese institutions, because they are
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  Speaker 1: the largest purchaser of Iranian oil, all of that, not
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  Speaker 1: all of which was announced, a lot of which was
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  Speaker 1: left on the table and some of it was just
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  Speaker 1: overtly teased, all that seemed to be the path forward.
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  Speaker 1: But now, as of this weekend, that is no longer
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  Speaker 1: the case because what we saw was in the overnight
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  Speaker 1: hours Sunday into Monday is the U.S. military struck Iranian
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  Speaker 1: military targets yet again. This happening in and around the
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  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz. They took out some rockets that looked
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  Speaker 1: like they were about to lay mines across the straits.
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  Speaker 1: As Axios reports, this is the first known U.S. strike
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  Speaker 1: inside Iran in about a month since late July. At
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  Speaker 1: that time, Trump paused a two-week U.S. military campaign, which
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  Speaker 1: had been going on at the time. Iran responded by
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  Speaker 1: trying to fire rockets at U.S. bases in Jordan. Those rockets, thankfully,
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  Speaker 1: were intercepted. unlike, as you may recall, a horrific instance
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  Speaker 1: where those rockets were intercepted and resulted in U.S. military
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  Speaker 1: loss of life earlier in this conflict. So one of
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  Speaker 1: the questions that we are facing today is, what the heck?
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  Speaker 1: I thought, we thought that the military aspect of this
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  Speaker 1: campaign seemed like, at least for now, that it was over.
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  Speaker 1: And now, all of a sudden, it is not over.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a decent chance for us just to reiterate
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  Speaker 1: some of what I've been saying about this conflict, essentially
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  Speaker 1: since the conflict began, or really since Even the pre-conflict
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  Speaker 1: era began back in late December, early January, when Iran
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  Speaker 1: started plowing down tens and tens of thousands of its
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  Speaker 1: own unarmed civilians in its population. Now, when the war commenced,
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  Speaker 1: what we said consistently, and in theory, in theory, in theory,
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  Speaker 1: we still believe that today. The four goals of this
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  Speaker 1: conflict should be as follows, in no particular order. First
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  Speaker 1: and foremost, a truly clear, free, and open Strait of Hormuz. Two,
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  Speaker 1: the full cessation of all Iranian regime funding of all
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  Speaker 1: of their proxies throughout the region. Three, the end of
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  Speaker 1: Iran as a ballistic missile threat. And four, the end
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  Speaker 1: of Iran as a nuclear threat. Now, the goalposts have
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  Speaker 1: shifted so much, and we are realists on this show,
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  Speaker 1: if nothing else, that, nonetheless, what I have more recently
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  Speaker 1: been saying is that, at a minimum, what the commander-in-chief
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  Speaker 1: should do is articulate in very clear, digestible fashion for
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  Speaker 1: the median voter, the median swing voter, the suburban mom,
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  Speaker 1: the moderate independent, whoever, whatever— Just say exactly what a lower,
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  Speaker 1: more easily achievable goal is. You want to define it
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  Speaker 1: down as just a clear straight? That's fine. Clearly, military
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  Speaker 1: option is down the table to achieve at least that end,
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  Speaker 1: a free and clear and open straight. But let's get
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  Speaker 1: a little more clear articulation as to what exactly the
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  Speaker 1: goal is and how you'll know that this thing is
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  Speaker 1: accomplished on its own terms. Because, listen, Labor Day is
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  Speaker 1: coming up real soon. Congress will be back in session.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be the rush to the midterms. There's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a lot to talk about trying to
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  Speaker 1: keep the government open after September 30th and the annual
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  Speaker 1: fiscal year. The CRs, the continuing resolutions, all that's going
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  Speaker 1: to start to dominate the headlines very soon. But we
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  Speaker 1: deserve to know what is happening nonetheless in this war.
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  Speaker 1: The American people have invested a lot of blood and
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  Speaker 1: treasure and emotions and all of the above, frankly. So
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  Speaker 1: I'd like a little more clarity on that front, if
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  Speaker 1: nothing else. J.D. Vance today, the vice president, on that note,
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  Speaker 1: is speaking behind closed doors, interestingly, to the Republican Jewish
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  Speaker 1: Coalition Conference, which is having their annual meeting in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: He's getting some blowback. from what I can tell on
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  Speaker 1: social media, for speaking behind closed doors. I presume someone
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  Speaker 1: will probably have a cell phone out. Frankly, the notion
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  Speaker 1: of a politician speaking to a large gathering, a large
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  Speaker 1: conference convention behind closed doors, no cameras, no record, strikes
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  Speaker 1: me as a little anachronistic, a little outdated. I'm frankly
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  Speaker 1: not entirely sure why the vice president's team insisted on this.
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  Speaker 1: I presume there will be some leak, there will be
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  Speaker 1: some reporting, so I don't know why you wouldn't just
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  Speaker 1: want to get ahead of it, but hopefully he will
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  Speaker 1: announce some policy that places him on the same page
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  Speaker 1: as President Trump, because this has been one of the
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  Speaker 1: things to watch over the broader course of this conflict,
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  Speaker 1: is the Vice President and the President actually, are they
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  Speaker 1: actually on the same page when it comes to Iran,
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to foreign policy, frankly, actually when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to a number of questions. I expect And my
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  Speaker 1: guess that the reason that the speech was behind closed
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  Speaker 1: doors is because the vice president and his team are
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  Speaker 1: perhaps scared of some more hostile questions, perhaps, from folks
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  Speaker 1: in the audience, maybe even a moderator or an interlocutor
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  Speaker 1: on stage, about the vice president's relationship with Tucker Carlson,
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  Speaker 1: which is famously a longstanding one, as Tucker has drifted
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  Speaker 1: ever further and further into the abyss, not just of anti-Semitism,
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  Speaker 1: but also of anti-Americanism and anti-Westernism. So we will read
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  Speaker 1: up more about that, but it's a good opportunity, I think,
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  Speaker 1: for the Vice President to really make clear where he stands,
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  Speaker 1: not just on Iran, but also, frankly, on the issue
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  Speaker 1: of Ted Carlson and even getting, quote-unquote, further out from that,
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  Speaker 1: the Fuentes, Gruyper crowd, and all of the above as well.
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  Speaker 1: So in other international news, there's also been some updates
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  Speaker 1: for you on Venn as well. This is probably the
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  Speaker 1: biggest news of the past few days. Donald Trump announced
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  Speaker 1: him that he has secured what he calls the, quote,
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  Speaker 1: biggest oil deal in the world. It is a historic
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  Speaker 1: agreement with Venezuela, and that it definitely is. It is
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  Speaker 1: definitely a historic agreement that will give the United States
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  Speaker 1: a pretty shockingly high percentage of the oil and petroleum
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  Speaker 1: resources that are being tapped in Venezuela today. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: actual mechanics of how this works is part of the
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  Speaker 1: reason that it's– been a little more controversial than I
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  Speaker 1: think the administration perhaps anticipated. So according to the Wall
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  Speaker 1: Street Journal's reporting, the way this is actually structured is
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  Speaker 1: the Pentagon has an Office of Strategic Capital, which is
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  Speaker 1: an office built to make national security loans. And the
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  Speaker 1: Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital, they are taking a 35%
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  Speaker 1: equity stake in a private company called North American Blue
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  Speaker 1: Energy Partners Group. And then they get the right to
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  Speaker 1: buy a fifth of the production at cost. In exchange,
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  Speaker 1: we the people here in the United States, in the
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  Speaker 1: good old U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Of A.
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  Speaker 1: we get 17 oil fields, 65 billion barrels of oil
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  Speaker 1: and rights, mineral rights for a century. The company will
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  Speaker 1: actually be run by a Venezuelan businessman by the name
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  Speaker 1: of Alejandro Betancourt. who, for what it's worth, according to
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  Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal, has been investigated for money laundering
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  Speaker 1: in Spain and Switzerland and is very close to Delcy Rodriguez,
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  Speaker 1: the somewhat checkered current president of Venezuela. So the outlines
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  Speaker 1: of the deal raise a number of questions. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: bottom line conclusion, just to kind of cut to the
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  Speaker 1: chase here, I believe to be this. This is indeed
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  Speaker 1: a very good deal for the United States. Energy is
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  Speaker 1: absolutely foreign policy. It is absolutely economic policy. It is
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  Speaker 1: the number one cudgel, the number one wedge with which
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  Speaker 1: the United States conducts itself on the world stage in
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  Speaker 1: the year 2026. The United States' foreign policy now in
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  Speaker 1: the 2020s is markedly different for the shale revolution, for
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  Speaker 1: the fracking revolution, for all of the above than the
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  Speaker 1: alternative if we had not had those amazing technological innovations
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  Speaker 1: here on the home front. We are able to exert
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  Speaker 1: so much more pressure on people like Vladimir Putin, on
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  Speaker 1: regimes like the Iranian regime. And now, when you add
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  Speaker 1: Venezuela into the mix, just to put some numbers on
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  Speaker 1: this for you, I actually didn't even know. This is
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  Speaker 1: pretty astonishing. So they have metrics on this. By the
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  Speaker 1: end of the year 2025, which is the last full
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  Speaker 1: year by definition of which we have metrics, Venezuela had
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  Speaker 1: the most barrels of proven oil reserves in the world.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be honest. I did not know that. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is actually number two.
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  Speaker 1: Iran is three, Canada four, Iraq five, et cetera, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: The United States is currently eighth. I expect that that
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  Speaker 1: will only go up and up as we get more technology,
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  Speaker 1: more fracking, more shale to get us further up the list.
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  Speaker 1: By some metrics, the United States has more unreachable, untappable
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  Speaker 1: oil and natural gas than any country in the world.
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  Speaker 1: But this is measured in proven oil reserves. Venezuela is
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  Speaker 1: actually number one ahead of all the Middle Eastern countries,
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  Speaker 1: which again, I find actually to be quite fascinating. I
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  Speaker 1: did not know that. But the structure of this deal
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  Speaker 1: is definitely different. raising some eyebrows. I think it's a
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  Speaker 1: good reminder for us to kind of go back to
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of Economics 101 as well. When there
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  Speaker 1: is a compelling national security interest, These are the moments
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  Speaker 1: where I think it is most justifiable. It is most
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  Speaker 1: easily explainable. Indeed, it is most easily sellable to the masses,
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  Speaker 1: to we the people. In those contexts, that's where it's
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  Speaker 1: easy to sell a true public-private partnership. We have these
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  Speaker 1: states going hand-in-hand, call it state capitalism whenever you want to,
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  Speaker 1: with private investors. The United States has already done that.
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to taking an equity stake in Intel,
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  Speaker 1: which is the closest thing America has to a rival
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  Speaker 1: to Taiwan's semiconductor manufacturing company when it comes to chips,
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  Speaker 1: and frankly, Intel can't reach what the Taiwanese are doing,
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  Speaker 1: but when it comes to 3 nanometer, 4 nanometer, 5
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  Speaker 1: nanometer chips, it's the closest we can get. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the kind of investments where I think a public-private partnership
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  Speaker 1: makes the most sense, where there is a compelling, overwhelming,
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  Speaker 1: collective commitment We, the people of interest, in the name
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  Speaker 1: of the common good, the common wheel, the general welfare, etc.,
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  Speaker 1: do actually have a collective stake. Is oil that? Your
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  Speaker 1: mileage may vary. The slippery slope here is that does
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  Speaker 1: this lead to the United States trying to then nationalize
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  Speaker 1: parts of or the entirety of ExxonMobil or Chevron or
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  Speaker 1: a company like that? I don't know the answer. I
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  Speaker 1: suspect that the answer is no. No, I hope the
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  Speaker 1: answer is no. But if nothing else, it's a very thorny,
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  Speaker 1: interesting question. But again, the bottom line conclusion, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want this to get lost here. Energy policy is foreign
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  Speaker 1: policy might. It is what you need in the 21st century,
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  Speaker 1: and this is a very, very good deal. Again, Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump making moves in our backyard. This is the Donro Doctrine,
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  Speaker 1: the Monroe Doctrine, updated for the 21st century at work.
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  Speaker 1: Kudos to the administration. Some legitimate questions, but overall a
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  Speaker 1: huge win of it as well. And Iran, again, my
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  Speaker 1: only request is keep us informed, articulate a goal, let
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  Speaker 1: us know what's happening, and when we can expect what. Folks,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have to go to a quick break.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be right back with more on the other side.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. So I want to return to one of
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  Speaker 1: these big themes, which we'll come back to later on
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  Speaker 1: today's show, about the circle of life. We saw the
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  Speaker 1: circle of life end in Venezuela when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: the Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro regime. With an asterisk,
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  Speaker 1: to be clear. Delce Rodriguez is of that ilk. But
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  Speaker 1: she is essentially just a puppet, as this latest oil
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  Speaker 1: deal proves. When it comes to Iran, the circle of life,
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  Speaker 1: the natural... the natural way that these things unfold, indicates
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  Speaker 1: that the Mullahs, too, will one day fall. Iran, at
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  Speaker 1: some point, will not be under the jackboot of this horrific, tyrannical,
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  Speaker 1: despotic regime of 12th Imam immunitizing eschatological Shia supremacist thugs.
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  Speaker 1: The only question, again, is when. The Circle of Life
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  Speaker 1: also brings me to an event that is coming up
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  Speaker 1: now in just a week and a half, in less
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  Speaker 1: than two weeks. It is really hard to believe. The
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  Speaker 1: 25th anniversary of September 11th, 2001 will be coming up
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  Speaker 1: here in, again, in less than two weeks' time, in
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  Speaker 1: just 14 days. Excuse me, in 11 days. And it's
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  Speaker 1: just an astonishing situation. For numerous reasons. One is that,
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  Speaker 1: like many of you I presume, I recall that day
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  Speaker 1: oh so very vividly. It was a day that for
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  Speaker 1: me changed many things, frankly. It really awakened me to
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  Speaker 1: the world of politics and the world of current events
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  Speaker 1: in general. My impetus to start following current events, start
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  Speaker 1: developing opinions. And one of the things that has struck
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  Speaker 1: me the most when I speak to college students on
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  Speaker 1: campuses over the past few years is I talk to
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  Speaker 1: students who were not alive when 9-11 happened. And I
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  Speaker 1: find that just wow. It's one of those moments where
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  Speaker 1: unless you were there and lived it, I can easily
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  Speaker 1: see why you might not understand or at least have
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  Speaker 1: a harder time understanding or empathizing or sympathizing with certain
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  Speaker 1: instincts and certain values and goals that those of us
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  Speaker 1: who lived through that horrible, horrible day experienced. So it's
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  Speaker 1: with that in mind that I saw a few things.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk a little bit here about Islam.
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  Speaker 1: which is related, of course, to the Ronnie Molas, to 9-11,
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  Speaker 1: and so much else that is happening in America today.
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  Speaker 1: So the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, you might have
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  Speaker 1: seen this. They announced one of the dumbest things I
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  Speaker 1: have maybe ever seen in my entire life. Like, really
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  Speaker 1: that dumb. There is so much dumb crap that comes
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  Speaker 1: out on a day-in, day-out basis in the day of
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  Speaker 1: social media. that used to be pretty freaking rock-bottom dumb
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  Speaker 1: to get the moniker of one of the dumbest things
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  Speaker 1: that I, at the age of 37, have seen my
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  Speaker 1: entire life. This actually was that. This really was that.
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  Speaker 1: So the CBC comes out, and they had an internal
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  Speaker 1: memo that was leaked. They said that we will stop
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  Speaker 1: referring to September 11, 2001, as a terrorist attack. This
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  Speaker 1: happened in the context of Donald Trump's renaming Lake Ontario
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  Speaker 1: to Lake America, which is, your mileage may vary. I
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  Speaker 1: was personally more excited about the Gulf of America. This
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  Speaker 1: one seems a little tacky to me, to be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you. Ontario is actually an Iroquois name. The Iroquois
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  Speaker 1: were natives of New York State more than probably anything else. So,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, your mileage may vary. But in the
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  Speaker 1: context of this, the back-and-forth tariff debate between Trump and
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Mark Carney, the CBC podcast which is basically
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  Speaker 1: the NPR, if you will, or the PBS of Canada,
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  Speaker 1: said we won't refer to 9-11 as a terrorist attack.
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  Speaker 1: And now they are reversing course. And what they are saying,
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  Speaker 1: this is from the senior director of standards there, someone
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  Speaker 1: by the name of Bassem Boshra, put out a blog
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  Speaker 1: post on Friday afternoon, quote, clarity and understanding are at
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  Speaker 1: the heart of journalism. The leaked excerpt without context explanation
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  Speaker 1: has raised more questions for the public that we must
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  Speaker 1: now answer. After reviewing our current language guidance, we've decided
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  Speaker 1: to adjust it to clarify that direct attribution is not
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  Speaker 1: required for describing the event as terrorism. So in other words,
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  Speaker 1: you can't just call it terrorism. You know, as if
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  Speaker 1: we needed this, as if we needed the whole league
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  Speaker 1: memo and then the standards ethicist coming in and says, ah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, actually you can just go ahead and say it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how about we just act normal? How about
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  Speaker 1: when a 737 blows up the tallest building on the
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  Speaker 1: eastern seaboard in the United States for that matter of
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  Speaker 1: the time? That's a terrorist attack. When a plane flies
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  Speaker 1: into the Pentagon, that's a terrorist attack. Unbelievable stuff. But
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  Speaker 1: speaking of 9-11, it actually gets even worse from there,
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  Speaker 1: believe it or not. The governor of New York State
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  Speaker 1: is Kathy Hochul. Kathy Hochul is crazy. How do I
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  Speaker 1: know that? Because she went to a certain mosque. over
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  Speaker 1: the past few days, and donned a certain attire. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: she put on the hijab. This is part of New
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  Speaker 1: York State's apparent lead-up to 9-11. Here was Kathy Hochul. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so your eyes are not deceiving you. That is Kathy
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  Speaker 1: Hochul wearing a hijab. She is now the second major
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  Speaker 1: Democrat politician to put on the hijab in the year 2026. Actually, technically,
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  Speaker 1: going back to December 2025, but in the past 12 months,
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  Speaker 1: let's say. The other was Peggy Flanagan, who is the
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  Speaker 1: sitting lieutenant governor of Minnesota, where she has been ground zero,
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  Speaker 1: no pun intended, for the Somali fraud scandal there alongside
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  Speaker 1: her boss, the disreputable Tim Walz. Peggy Flanagan, unlike her boss,
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  Speaker 1: Tim Walz, resigned as a result of this scandal. Peggy
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  Speaker 1: Flanagan has no such compunctions. On the contrary, she is
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  Speaker 1: actually now running for U.S. Senate against Michelle Tafoya, the
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  Speaker 1: former sideline reporter. So we'll see if the people of
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota have anything to say about that. So Kathy Hochul
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  Speaker 1: puts on the hijab, I guess out of solidarity with
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  Speaker 1: what exactly? Out of solidarity, I suppose, with the ongoing
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  Speaker 1: Islamic takeover of America, it seems to me. But interestingly,
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  Speaker 1: the mosque where she went to, the mosque where she
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  Speaker 1: went to, the Islamic Center of New York, the imam
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  Speaker 1: of this mosque on 9-11 was a man by the
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  Speaker 1: name of Sheikh Mohammed Gemiaha. After the 9-11 attacks, so again,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: this is the mosque where Kathy Hochul just donned the hijab.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: The dude who was the imam at the time of
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the al-Qaeda attacks reacted to it, By blaming the Jews
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: for 9-11. Yes, that is really, really, really a thing
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: that happened. So, this interview that this guy did, Sheikh
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Mohammed Gamahia, at the time of 9-11, explained that, quote,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: only the Jews were capable of destroying the World Trade Center. Center.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: And he said, quote, if it became known to the
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: American people, they would have done to Jews what Hitler did. So, yes,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: he really said this. He really, really said this, actually,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: back in October 17, 2001. By the way, he fled
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to Cairo around this time. He got the heck out
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: of Dodge. He left New York City and fled to Egypt.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure why. Maybe he didn't really stand by
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: his words. But that is the mosque where Kathy Hochul
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: just spoke at. What message are you trying to send exactly?
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: And then it's actually even worse than that. It's even
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: worse than that, isn't it? Because who's the mayor of
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: New York City? It's Zor Mamdani. Zor Mamdani is the
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: mayor of New York City. This is a guy who
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: throughout the entire campaign repeatedly said, let's globalize Intifada. What
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: does that mean? That means more jihad on the streets
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: of New York City. More Islamic terror. That is what
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Intifada is. We didn't even cover this in the show,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: but the Catholic League for Religion and Civil Rights, which
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: is basically... the CARE for Catholics, except for unlike CARE,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: it's not a terrorist organization. So the Catholic League, which
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: is basically the civil rights work for American Catholics, led
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: by a man by the name of Bill Dodvin, if
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken, they put out a statement. This happened
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. It was in early August. Essentially,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: an open letter to Ma'am Donnie saying, you know what?
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Please don't come to Ground Zero 9-11. We don't want
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: you here. It would be a disrespect to to those
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: who died on that day, who were killed on that day,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: who had their own circle of life come to an
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: end on that day. In fact, there's actually a petition
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: now on change.org that has almost 100,000 signatures, 96,000 plus
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: as of now. Please sign to support honoring the memory
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: of those lost on September 11th with dignity. And the
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: issue is, explains the petition on change.org, is that having
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Mamdani there would desecrate their memory. So people are speaking up.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I'm not really sure how Mamdani gets out of this one.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: But listen, apparently this is what New Yorkers wanted. Apparently
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: they wanted Kathy Hochul, who dons the hijab in solidarity
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: with the Islamization of the country. Apparently they want Mamdani
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: as their mayor, a guy who refuses to condemn and
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: oftentimes seems to support the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, and their offshoots.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: They apparently want him there on 9-11. We will see
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: if he shows up. Much more on this Borough theme
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: and much more on today's show. Folks, we're going to
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: have to go to a quick break. We'll be right
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: back with more after this. Welcome back. So it's not
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: just New York State and New York City that are
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: right in the middle of the Islamic takeover of the
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: United States. It's also the state of California. So it's
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: both on the East Coast and the Left Coast. Frankly,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: it's also, as you know, in Dubois, Michigan, Minneapolis, Minnesota,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: North Texas, and elsewhere as well. So there's an astonishing bill,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Assembly Bill 2017, that is heading to Gavin Newsom's desk today.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: You will see these signs. It is a bill that
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: recognizes two Islamic holidays as state of California, as a
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: golden state, formal state holidays. It recognized Eid al-Fitr and
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Eid al-Adha in state law. in the process of heading
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: to his desk, it's not technically past the state Senate yet,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: expected to pass in the landslide. After all, it apparently
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: passed the California Assembly, the lower legislature, the lower house,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: by a 64-1 tally, which is just crazy. California Family Council,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: which is a socially conservative organization in California, they are
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: speaking out against this. They are saying that This is
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: crazy because we don't do this for other religions. You know,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Christianity doesn't get any official holidays under California law. You know,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Good Friday, Palm Sunday, etc., Judaism, the Jews don't get
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: official holidays. There's no state of California recognized Passover, Yom Kippur,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: or so forth. So why would California be doing this,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: asks the California Family Council in a very reasonable fashion,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: why would they be doing this for Muslim holidays? Well,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: it's the exact same reason that Kathy Hochul is wearing
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the hijab, and Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota before her, for
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: that matter. Because they think this is the future of
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. And here's the really scary part. They
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: think that this is the future of the country. Because
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: they want that. Because that's what they've been planning for
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: and hoping for for a very, very long time. You
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: can literally go back as far as the 1980s, 1990s.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: You'll find some very, very old Al-Qaeda imams, some sheikhs,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: some truly radical, sordid types, who famously said, that immigration
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: is here, there, and everywhere the greatest, most effective form
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: of soft jihad, of soft taking over of a country,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: and by extension, of a civilization. There are countless examples,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: there's an endless paper trail of radical clerics, radical Muslim
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: leaders who have been saying this for decades and decades.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Some of them here are actually just in my own
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: proverbial backyard here in the sunny state of Florida, much
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: to the chagrin of our governor, Ron DeSantis, on that front.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: But in choosing to take the opinion and place a stake,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: a wager, on the future of their party, politicians like
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Hochul and Newsom are also just reading the current tea leaves.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Look at Hassan Piker and Abdu'l-Sayed, their best buds. Abdu'l-Sayed
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: is by the way, went to a Jewish Democrat conference
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: yesterday on Sunday in Michigan, trying to make good with
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the crowd. We'll get to that in just a second.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: But he's got a Hassan Piker problem, and he can't
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: seem to get his way out of it. Because even
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Hakeem Jeffries, the leader of the Democrats in the House,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: has condemned Piker. Make no mistake, Hassan Peker at this
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: time is the face of the Democratic Party. He is
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the absolute spitting face of this party. The guy, speaking
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: of 9-11, who said that America deserved 9-11, the guy
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: who said that Mao Zedong was a great leader of
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the 20th century, who has said just unspeakable things about, well,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: a lot of issues because he's a pretty unspeakable and
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: horrific scummy scumbag of a scumbag of a person. This
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: is who they are at this point. There's unfortunately really
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: just absolutely no way of getting around that. Part of
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: it is intentional. Part of it is the immigration. Part
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: of it is just this really weird, at times inexplicable,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: notion of wokeism and intersectionality as this coalition of the oppressed.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: This coalition of aggrieved interests. Frankly, I don't really know
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: how Islam... sees itself as a press when it is
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: very much always on the offensive. It is an evangelizing creed,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I think would be an understatement. There's reason, after all,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: why the sword is still in the flag of even
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia to this day. But that is why they
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: are fanning the flames of this from sea to shining sea.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: And the party, in general, just continues to go further
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: and further away And further left. So, for instance, on
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, you had Jim Clyburn,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: the Democrat kingmaker in South Carolina, who continued to press
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: to pack the U.S. Supreme Court. Yes, he really went there.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Here was Jim Clyburn on Meet the Press.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Former Vice President Kamala Harris shares some of your criticisms. Clearly,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: she's called for expanding the Supreme Court from nine justices
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: to 13. Do you support adding four more seats to
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: the Supreme Court, Congressman?
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: Yes, I do. I think that we are in a
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: position now that calls for some significant actions taken by
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: the Congress. And we ought to expand. In 13, there's
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: a pretty good number. A biggest dozen will be a
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: good number to have on the court.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: What? They're still hitting this. They're still beating this drum.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: You know, in 1937, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: pack the U.S. Supreme Court, Democrats at the time absolutely
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: dominated the U.S. Congress. It was very high of the
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: New Deal. FDR's Democrats were absolutely dominant. Hoover's Republicans were
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: very much downtrodden. And yet, Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats wrote
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: a letter to President Roosevelt saying that they emphatically reject this.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Because they want the court to be independent and not browbeated.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: And yet here we are, and they are still beating
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: this drum. Ah! It's just so crazy. On the one hand,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: you hate it. On the other hand, it's such easy
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: campaign fodder to campaign against a society that on the
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: other hand, you kind of just sort of love it.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Speaking of campaign fodder to oppose the craziness, Donald Trump
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: is actually on Fox News talking about how the Democrats
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: are just moving further and further to the left. Here
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: was President Trump over the weekend on Fox News.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: We have communists, we have a party that's been infiltrated
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: by bad thought, by bad policy. I used to talk
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: about socialism, but this isn't socialism. This is largely communism.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: This is very dangerous for our country. I'm not saying
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: good guy, bad guy. I'm just saying this is big,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: big trouble for our country. Likewise, many others. And what's
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: happened is you're seeing Democrats, of which there are fewer
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: and fewer, are forced to vote in a way that
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: they would not vote. And they don't even believe in
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: their vote. But if they don't vote that way, they
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: lose power.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: And he's right. This is not your father's or your
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: grandfather's Democratic Party. It's just not. Now, I mentioned Assam
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Piker and Abdul Sayyed. I mentioned how there was this convention,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: I guess, among Jewish Democrats in Michigan on Sunday. Pretty
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: much all of whom in the primary went for Haley
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Stevens over Abdul Sayyed. And now they're grappling with whether
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: or not they endorse Abdul Sayyed. So all eyes at
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: this conference were on Dana Nessel, who is the Jewish–
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: attorney general of the state of Michigan, who previously had
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: not endorsed Abdul-Assad and was very opposed to him because
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: of what he said about how hurt people do hurt
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: things when a lunatic Islamist tried to massacre Jewish preschool
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: children in Bloomfield Hills in the suburbs back in March.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: So here is a real thing that Dana Nessel said.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: This is a woman who refused to attend the statewide
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Michigan Democratic Conference this year because she was afraid of
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: the anti-Semitism. She's the sitting Attorney General. It's that bad
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: from the Dearborn Caucus in the state of Michigan. It's
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: that freaking bad. And yet here is what Dane Nessel
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: said in this conference just to Jewish Democrats, according to
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: a recording that was reviewed by the Detroit News. The
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: private event, and what she said was, What do your
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Jewish values tell you to do? It's actually even worse
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: than that. She said, We have a moral imperative to
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: place the needs of the world above even our own
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: self-interest and, yes, even our own survival. She really said that.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: As Ben Shapiro correctly notes, this is the exact opposite
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: of what the book of Esther famously teaches. Esther 4,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: verse 14 says, says, and this is Mordecai speaking to
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Esther in Akashvili's court in Shushan in ancient Persia, says
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: to Esther, quote, if you remain silent at this time,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: relief and rescue will arrive from elsewhere, and you and
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: your father's household will perish, and who knows whether at
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: a time like this you were born. In other words,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: when you're in a position to demonstrate power, you use power.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: That's the lesson. Dana Nessel, maybe you missed your Hebrew
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: school a little bit because this is not the right lesson,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: but I've got a lot more on this and so
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: much more. We're going to go back to the circle
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: of life as well, folks. We'll go to a quick break.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: We'll be right back with some closing thoughts after this.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. So just to finish this line of thought,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: the Attorney General of Michigan saying to her fellow Jewish
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Democrats in Michigan that you should prioritize the well-being of
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: the world over your own survival. which is a pretty
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: extraordinary statement, and I'm not really sure how she thinks
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: that electing Abdul-Assad to the U.S. Senate advances the interests
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: of the world, but again, just a total reversal of
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: the most famous message from the Book of Esther, which says,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: who knows if you were born for a moment like this,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: for a time like this, to stand for your people
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: in what is right and true over the evil workings
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: of the regime, of the government, of the monarchy, etc.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: etc.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: etc.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Well, we here in the Hammer household have not forgotten
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: the lessons of the Book of Esther, which is why
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: we named our oldest daughter Esther. She is now just
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: a little under two years old. As I shared on
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: the show last week, we recently welcomed the birth of
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: our second child as well. Our baby is named Leah.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: And it's a time that I'm thinking about the circle
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: of life a little bit more as well, because I
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: actually just learned this morning that my– Beloved grandmother has
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: passed away. Beverly Hammer, formerly Beverly Kalish, has returned to God,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: who crafted her. She was an absolutely extraordinary woman. She
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: was 97 years old. Just had her 97th birthday. Seemed
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: to defeat all the illnesses and sinuses time and time again.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: She had extraordinary courage and also just a very, very
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: very funny person. Someone who brought laughter and joy to
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: every single room she was in. She touched a lot
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: of people. She lived to have many grandchildren, and as
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: of our most recent baby being born, three great grandchildren.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: She was an extraordinary person, and I almost did not
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: even believe it when I saw the news this morning
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: because it seemed like she was just beating death time
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: and time again. But But she, my grandmother, is now
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: returned to my late grandfather. They were married together for
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: 66 plus years. Their 50th wedding anniversary actually was just
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: after 9-11. I remember it very well. My grandfather passed
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: in 2017, so they would have been married 66 years.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Incredible stuff. Goals, as they say. And now my grandmother
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: will be reunited. with my grandfather, it's a reminder of
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: just the nature of a nation, society, a civilization. All
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: these life events, I had a baby being born, grandmother
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: passed away, this is the circle of life, it's not.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: And this is what monotheism is predicated upon, is this
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: notion of the circle of life. Frankly, that's what American
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Constitution was based upon, is the circle of life. Same thing, actually.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Perkei Avot, which is a tractate of the Talmud that
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: translates roughly as Ethics of Our Fathers, is a popularly
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: quoted tractate that's really just about ethics, not about the
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: law and legalisms. It begins, the very first teaching in
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: the entire tractate is instilling this notion of intergenerational continuation. Quote,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Moses received the Torah at Sinai and transmitted it to Joshua.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Joshua to the elders and the elders to the prophets.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: and the prophets to the men of the great assembly, etc. Well,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: that same notion is actually right there in the preamble
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: of the Constitution, which says, quote, Now, the key word there,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: key phrase, I should say, is secure the blessings of
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: liberty to ourselves and our posterity. You see that? And
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: our posterity. That's this notion from Perkei Avot of intergenerational succession.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Of how no one, no thing, is immortal other than
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: God Almighty himself. And that therefore, you have to lay
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: the seeds for what comes next. Whether that is a society,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: whether that is a family, whether that's a country or civilization,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: whether that is something more professional as well. And it's
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: just a lot happening all at once for me on
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: a personal note, professional note, just a lot happening all
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: at the same time and it can be a little
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: a little overwhelming. Thankfully, God is good. And there's always
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: him to fall back upon and to take consolation and
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: comfort in. But ultimately, when it comes to my grandmother,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: may her memory be a blessing, will be a blessing
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: to all who knew her. She was just a unique
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: and delightful human being. Just a wonderful, radiating soul. Special
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: shout out to a person that the folks listening and
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: watching might know, Leo Terrell, the former former commentator and
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: lawyer who is now a lawyer for the DOJ. I
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: put Leo in touch with my grandmother years ago because
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: my grandmother was very impressed by him on cable news.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: And they had numerous lengthy phone calls. I remember Leo
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: texted me, we had spoke for an hour. What a
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: wonderful woman. So I texted Leo this morning to share
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: the news. He sent me a very nice message back.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: So thank you, Leo, for what you did. And... Yeah,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: my grandmother, Beverly Hammer, just a beautiful, wonderful, wonderful soul.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: So speaking of the circle of life, there is an
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: additional circle of life update for you as well. You know,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: I've been with Newsweek now for over six years. Hard
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: to believe, really hard to believe. I joined on May 1st, 2020.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: And it kind of came out of nowhere. I probably
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: have not shared the details publicly as to who exactly called.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: It's not really worth explaining. But it came out of
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: absolutely nowhere. I... was done with my previous employer, The
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Daily Wire, and looking for a new job. And for
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: a while at Newsweek, I was the op-ed guy. I
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: was the opinion editor. I eventually hired out a team
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: of deputy editors, Wadia Ungar-Sargon, Bill Jeffrey, Romson Shimon, Jason Fields,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: among them over the years. And then for the past
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: few years, I've been the senior editor-at-large and the host
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: here of this program, The Josh Hammer Show. which started
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: as an audio-only program that we record essentially whenever we
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: wanted to. And then, over the past year, year and
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: a half or so, became what it has been for
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: the past, well, year or so, which is a daily
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: video program for which Newsweek has had Salem Media as
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  Speaker 1: its partner. That's how you see it on the Salem
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  Speaker 1: News Channel, across the Salem Podcast Network, and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: So today will be the final iteration, the final episode
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  Speaker 1: of this current iteration of the Josh Hammer Show. My
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  Speaker 1: time with Newsweek will be coming to an end as
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  Speaker 1: of tomorrow. And Salem, as the junior partner in this relationship,
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  Speaker 1: is also along for the ride. The show will not end.
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  Speaker 1: So make sure to stay tuned to me on social media.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on X, at Josh underscore Hammer, Instagram, Josh B. Hammer, Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: real Josh Hammer. I'm not ready to share the details
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  Speaker 1: of that. The show will come back within a few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a pretty quick turnaround. And frankly,
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  Speaker 1: the timing is actually pretty great because, again, we have
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  Speaker 1: a new baby in the house, Jewish holidays coming up,
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  Speaker 1: lots going on. So not bad timing, all things considered.
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  Speaker 1: But the show will come back with a different network. Again,
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  Speaker 1: stay tuned to my social media for updates on that.
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  Speaker 1: But today is the final episode. of this version of
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  Speaker 1: the show, the circle of life of this specific current
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  Speaker 1: version of the show has come to an end. And
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of people to thank. There is no
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  Speaker 1: sadness or bitterness or regrets. Just a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: in general to thank. First of all, I thank Newsweek
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  Speaker 1: for welcoming me as an employee for this time. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty hard to believe, frankly, that someone with my political
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  Speaker 1: beliefs has been at this company for this long, but
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  Speaker 1: to Newsweek's great credit, That has been the relationship. We
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  Speaker 1: are grateful also to Salem for being our partner for
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  Speaker 1: the past year or so. A lot of individuals to
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  Speaker 1: thank as well. I'm particularly grateful to the producers who
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  Speaker 1: worked on the show for the past few years. Above all,
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  Speaker 1: Jesse Edwards, Tim Berg, and Billy Black for doing some
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  Speaker 1: fantastic work behind the scenes. You don't see them, but
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  Speaker 1: they're the ones who make the magic happen. And again, folks,
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  Speaker 1: I am not going anywhere. I will be back giving
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  Speaker 1: a regular show with a different network, so stay tuned
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  Speaker 1: for that. I will have some more career plans to
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  Speaker 1: share with you imminently as well. That's not going to
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  Speaker 1: happen on today's show, but it will all be shared
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  Speaker 1: in due time sooner than later on my social media.
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  Speaker 1: But for now, this is the end of the circle
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  Speaker 1: of life of this particular iteration of The Josh Hammer Show. Folks,
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  Speaker 1: we're wishing you a great evening. Stay tuned for much more.
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  Speaker 1: But for now, Josh Hammer signing off this particular circle
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  Speaker 1: of life.