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Hello, good morning. Welcome. I am
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Samuel Trap. This is International
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Flavor. You are listening to DAM Radio
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coming to you live this morning from the
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Lake Ozark Real Estate of the Arts
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Studio. Feel free to call in 5737468020
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if you have the urge. Although I got a
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lot to talk about. Um
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I want to start with the fact that I
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love rain. Okay, let's let's go there
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first because that's of course the most
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important. Here we are at the Lake Ozark
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real estate of the art studio and the
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rain has been beautiful all weekend. I
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just you know what? I don't want to
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leave the house when it's raining. Not
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because I'm going to get wet. Not
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because of any of that stuff. I you know
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I understand the function of an
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umbrella. I get it.
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I just like hanging out in the house
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putting on I don't know uh you know I
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use the one cup coffee deal you know
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with push the button on the top. I got a
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whatever that thing's called. I have a
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curig. I have a Nespresso. My favorite
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is the Nespresso uh tasty little milk
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frother there. You know, get a little
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bit of that going on. You sit and you
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get all warm and you put a blanket on
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even if it's not cold
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and you hang out and you watch, I don't
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know, reruns of,
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I don't know, Bob Barker, you know,
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whatever. Doesn't matter. Whatever
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floats your boat. And uh yesterday I
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took a drive out to my sister's uh
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doicile out to her residence to take
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some photos. selling that. By the way,
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if you want any uh you know, you'd like
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to buy it, we got some uh [sighs]
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some uh very beautiful uh four four.6
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something like that acres of pasture, a
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brand new uh steel building um with two
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tall drive-thru on either end, and
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another tall garage door. So, you could
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drive a large tractor trailer through
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there if you wanted. You could park it
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inside if you wanted. It's uh like a I
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think it's a 40 by60, might be a 30 by
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60. There's another piece attached to
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it. That one has a 40 by 80. So, I get
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confused um which one's which, but
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there's a a parcel with 4 acres of
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farmland and 7 acres of woods across the
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street across the road. And uh it's
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pretty cool spot. And uh if it was uh
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somebody looking for a project, that
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would be a pretty damn cool project
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place. Put some cows up. My sister's a
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cow lover. And I I love cows, too. You
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You drive down the road. What cows? You
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get cows? They They have cows. And cows,
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I mean, what better life could you have
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than being a cow? All you got to do is
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wander. Of course, there is the danger
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of getting hacked up and eaten by
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people.
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Well, maybe it's not such a good idea to
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be a cow. Who knows? But it but look at
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the life they get. They get to hang out
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in the grass. [snorts] Of course, they
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get rained on all the time. It is
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pretty. Maybe I don't like cows anymore.
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I don't know. Maybe I've talked myself
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out of it. But anyway, you slice it.
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It's been a raining. There's positive
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things going on on the planet. Uh well,
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some places on the planet. And I'm going
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to start feeding some of them to you. I
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finished up. No. So, last week I also
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had to issue an apology. I was engaged
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in family drama
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uh all last week for the most part. Had
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to go to Idaho, Idaho. I ain't a hoe.
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Idaho. And uh uh and and Utah.
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There's a cure for boredom, right? We're
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we're off to Utah. No, I I went to a hot
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springs with my sister and her husband.
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That was pretty cool. And I appreciate
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them taking me out uh to places in the
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Salt Lake airport. It's different from
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when I remember it as a kid. Um I
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haven't uh so I I in my very early years
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I lived in a little uh suburb of Salt
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Lake called Midvil, Utah. Went to
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Midvail Elementary up until my fifth
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grade year. And uh that is where uh I
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remember you know some of the childhood
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nonsensical nonsense that uh went on out
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there and
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uh the place is you know vastly
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different than it was then of course and
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I've been back a couple of times mostly
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just passing through
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you know uh I do like the Bonavville
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Salt Flats. I like Great Salt Lake. I
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remember they going for, you know,
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little kids and stuff when I was in Cub
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Scouts or whatever I was doing out
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there. [clears throat] And it was uh
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there was there was some entertainment,
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but I didn't I don't recall much of that
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cuz I was too young. Okay. But uh going
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back there now, my sister took me around
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some places and uh was her and her
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husband pretty cool people telling me
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about the bears, you know, and I'm not
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I'm not going jogging out there. Are you
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kidding me? Of course, I don't do that
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much anymore anyway. I'm a bicyclist and
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I did manage to get my fat rear end on
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my exercise bike this weekend and I'm
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really not fat. It's just I'm flabby,
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you know, and I'm tired of being flabby.
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So, we're going to do something about
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it. It's a very positive week coming up.
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All I wanted to do was talk about a
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little tiny bit of my spot in Utah and
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Idaho and the the cure for boredom and
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the prices for gas out there. Freaking
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ridiculous.
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Uh $480
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a gallon.
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$480. $479. You know, you can't quite
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lie about that cuz $479 you save that
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penny, right? And in my truck could be
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35. I'd save 35 gallons.
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35.
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But wasn't it was only in February that
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old Sammy paid $2.39
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a gallon. Friends and neighbor
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neighbors. Uh I have more than one
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neighbor, I guess. Friends and neighbors
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right here in beautiful downtown Lake
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Ozark.
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$2.39
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freaking.
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And it couldn't have been that was
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February then. So February 28 come along
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instantly. We're paying $4.
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Yeah. Wonder who's profiting off of
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this. Sure as hell isn't us. We're
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getting fleeced again. And how do we
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fleece it? We blame it on some obscure
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thing that nobody understands, nobody
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cares about anyway when allegedly we're
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supplying all our own oil over here. We
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got our own. Where? Well, if we got our
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own, why you charging me the global
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price for oil and not our own, right?
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Cuz we don't use our own friends and
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neighbors. Or they're screwing us.
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There's only one of two possible
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equations there, right? They're either
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screwing us and taking advantage of the
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whole deal. No, no, no. Sorry. You got
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to pay the global amount even though
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ours is only traveling from down in
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Texas. You got to pay that global price
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because we control the global price and
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you Americans got the most money. So
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since everybody else getting boned, why
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not bone you, too? Because we need our
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billions.
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And I'm not one of those people who's
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against the rich. I'm not. I'm against
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being fleeced continually. How many more
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millions do you need? I swear to God if
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I had two million bucks in a bank. I
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would live very well the rest of my
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life. Of course, maybe I don't have
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enough yachts in my uh in my backyard.
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Maybe I don't have seven homes, you
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know, each one. One in Dubai. Of course,
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you got to have the Dubai home. If
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you're really going to be somebody, you
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need a house in Dubai. Uh right. Anyway,
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I'm just Now I've turned it into a
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bitching morning. It wasn't. It was a
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beautiful morning. It's going to be a
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beautiful week. And now I'm angry over
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people fleecing me for the price of
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gasoline. See what the price of gas will
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do to you friends and neighbors. There
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was a boat bub bomb. Now I saw a story
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on this. I'm going to try to find it for
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you. Saw a story on um
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uh
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uh let's see. There's some some really
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racist stories out there, but there was
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a Here you go. Here's the issue. Listen
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to this story. This is great. Uh, and I
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have a theory on it, but let's get there
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first and then we'll get to my my
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theory. A US fighter jet fired a missile
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at an Iranianbound cargo ship. Okay, now
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remember that US fighter jet fired a
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missile at an Iranian-bound cargo ship,
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disabled the vessel, attempting to
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breach the blockade. Right. A US
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aircraft fired a missile at a cargo ship
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in the Gulf of Oman while enforcing the
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blockade of Iran. US Sentcom has said
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according to Sentcom, the Gambian
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flagged MV
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Leon Star ignored more than 20 warnings
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on Friday while sailing toward an
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Iranian port. So the US aircraft
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disabled the vessel by firing a Hellfire
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missile into the ship's engine room
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after Lean Star's crew failed to comply.
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The ship is no longer transing
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transiting to Iran. Sentcom said on X on
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Saturday. AP reported citing a US
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official that the vessel remains a drift
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and US forces did not board it. So now
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we're bombing commercial vehicles and
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we've made that okay for Ukraine months
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ago. You know, it's okay. We don't we
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don't worry about that stuff. We now
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attack civilian vessels. Period. Okay.
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The latest military action near the
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straight of Hormuz took place as peace
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talks with Iran of course failed to
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produce a breakthrough despite optimism
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expressed by US officials last week.
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That's only to get us that's only to
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keep the price of oil somewhat lower and
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to keep us shut up and uh and uh uh you
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know what do you what what do you want
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to call it? Sub u submissive. We need to
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be we need to be just submissive and say
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this is a right idea. Kill those people
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in the engine room. Kill them. They're
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going to Iran.
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This is stupidity all the way across the
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board. Iran closed the waterway which
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normally handles 25% of the global
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seaborn oil trade, 20% liqufied natural
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gas shipments to ships from hostile
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nations in response to the USIsraeli air
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strikes launched beginning February 28
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and thus my displeasure at the price of
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gasoline. The US imposed its own
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blockade on Iranian ports a week after.
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The US has since disabled five
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commercial vessels and redirected 116
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while enforcing the blockade. President
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Trump has since threatened to resume
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military operations.
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The army of the Islamic Republic stands
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firmly and resolutely against any
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hostile move by the enemy, said Admiral
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Habibbah Sari. the deputy commander of
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the Iranian army for coordination said
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Saturday as cited by Press TV trying to
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get to Iran. Okay, so here's the funny
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part. Here's the part that I find
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if it wasn't so sad. It is very sad that
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this is what we've come to. You know, we
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the Straits of Hormuz were open on
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February 27th. They were all open.
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Everything was just peachy, right? But
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but but but
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Iran might get a nuclear bomb. Who gives
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a rip? I don't. If Israel's got one, God
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bless it. Everyone should have one.
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Everybody can throw them at each other.
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Great. You know, like we should control
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that. We're the only ones who's ever
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used one. Israel's going to be the next
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one. Virtually a guarantee from Samuel
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Edward von Trap. What What am I the
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third? I don't remember. JR comes up
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with that. But that but that's it. The
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the next people to lob uh a nuclear bomb
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at each other is uh it'll begin with
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Israel. They will do it. They already
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feel blessed in it. There's another
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article I want to read to you about that
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stuff. But here's the funny part for me.
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Must we blow these people up? Okay. Why
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Why are we regularizing just like we did
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in Venezuela, by the way? Just like we
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are now doing in Cuba and now we've done
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it in Iran. We've made we've made force
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the preferred method of of diplomacy.
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Force. We're going to bomb the crap out
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of you. Period. We're going to This is
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This is the only tool we have left in
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the bag. That's it. And when that
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becomes the only tool you have left in
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the bag, you're failed. There's a
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decline of of Europe. I was going to
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read about, but you could almost as
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easily apply it to the United States.
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Okay? And uh but the funny part to me
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about this whole thing, and this is what
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struck me initially, maybe this will put
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some inkling of you how how weird I
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think or how strangely, maybe it's not
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strange, maybe you think this way too,
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but what I first thought when I read
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this is very first thing, US fighter jet
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fires a missile at an Iranianbound cargo
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ship. Why? Okay. So, the the the first
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question in your mind is why? And then
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we know the answer. And the answer is is
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because you can't stop the ship with
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your navy because your navy will get
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bombed. So, you can't Why didn't we
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board them? Why didn't we board them and
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force them to stop? Why didn't we do
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that? Because we can't.
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The US Navy will be bombed and we would
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suffer losses. So, the best bet is to
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have the Air Force come in or maybe it's
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a fighter jet from from one of the
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planes in the Gulf, you know, that they
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got all this huge billions of dollars
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being wasted out there when you could
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probably just take one off from one of
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the uh Arabic uh GCC countries over
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there and fly over and bomb these
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commercial vehicles should you feel the
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urge. and all you're doing is opening up
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the uh the
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um conflict to further destruction like
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this. For example, Iran retaliates after
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US strikes and says next time we're
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going to get even harsher. Okay, this
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came out this morning. The uh IRGC said
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it carried out retaliatory strikes on an
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air base
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uh used by the US after American forces
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attack targets in southern Iran over the
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weekend, including the ship. The latest
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exchange has strained a fragile
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ceasefire reached in April after more
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than a month of fighting triggered by
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Israel and the US. Washington and TRAN
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are currently attempting to negotiate
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anou
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that will extend the truce for another
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60 days and restart talks on Iran's
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nuclear program.
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That's good coffee. US sentcom said in a
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statement Monday that it conducted
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measured and deliberate strikes on
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Saturday and Sunday in response to
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aggressive Iranian actions that include
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the shooting down of an MQ1 drone.
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That's aggression. You're We're not
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going to allow you to spy over our
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territory. So that's aggression. Shot
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down an MQ1 drone Reaper that was
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operating over international waters. It
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accused Thran of unwarranted
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aggression during the ongoing ceasefire.
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Yeah, like we bomb a ship. We bombed a
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ship. You answer by destroying a drone
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and you're to blame. Of course you are.
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Iran announced the downing of the UAV on
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Sunday, saying it was hit due to
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violations of the country's airspace
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over the Persian Gulf and bombing of
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ships headed for Iran. According to
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Sentcom, the self-defense
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strikes, this is self-defense, right? By
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US fighter jets targeted Iranian radar
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and command and control sites for drones
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in Goric and Kisham Island. Okay. So,
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you're allowed to take out their
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observation like the Reaper for
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observation, right? The Reaper is for
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intelligence gathering. That's it, you
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know? and they they uh can bomb ships
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commercially. Those are those are okay.
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But by God, it's self-defense.
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If somebody takes out, you know, the US,
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all they did was all we did was take out
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Iranian radar and command and control,
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right? That's it. Later in the a uh in
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the day, the IRGC
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said it responded to what it described
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as an American strikes on communication
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towers on Sirk Island. The Iranian
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military targeted the air base from
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which the US attack originated and the
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predetermined targets were destroyed.
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The statement did not identify the
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location of the base, although Kuwait's
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Kuna News Agency reported that the Gulf
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Nation's air defenses had attempted to
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intercept incoming missiles and drones.
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The IRGC warns that if the aggression is
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repeated, their response will be
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different and the US would be to blame.
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>> [clears throat]
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>> I have a hard time with this blame game
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myself personally because if you're out
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if if if if Donald Trump in company, if
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old uh Put me in coach is out there
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telling his telling his people, look, go
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out there and bomb these places where
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they get radio. Bomb these places where
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they um can launch drones. Bomb these
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people during a ceasefire.
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I I don't see that as anything else but
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aggression. I don't see that as
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self-defense. I mean, [laughter]
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that's that's self-defense. So, I think
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you're going to hit me. So, the next
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day, I walk up and punch you in the face
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and go and you go, "Wait a minute. Why'd
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you just Well,
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you know, you're going to hit me." So,
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you know, I'm just defending myself.
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That's all. This is the length of logic
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of the Trump uh uh well, put me in coach
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and company. Put me in coach. Come on. I
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want to go to war. We need We need a war
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department. That guy. Um, [laughter] so
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Dron's been making changes to the
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draftou memorandum of understanding
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after reports of US President Trump
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sending a tougher proposal to Iran on
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Sunday.
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The exchanges on the text of theou are
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ongoing with both parties regularly
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proposing amendments. So at least
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they're uh passing stuff back and forth
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through Pakistan. You know, God forbid
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you speak to each other or treat each
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other with some modicum of diplomacy.
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Top Iranian negotiator Moameid Ber
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Galibbuff previous might be Galibuff
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previously stressed that Tehran has no
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trust in promises made by the US. Well,
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why should they? and they will not
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approve any agreement till we are sure,
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say the Iranians, that we have upheld
20:11
the rights of the Iranian nation.
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According to Trump, you're not even
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allowed to have an Iranian nation. you
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you we need to blow the crap out of
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everybody according to him and Israel
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that uh your nation's not allowed the
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only nation allowed to exist
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unencumbered unimpeded un uh uh you know
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un
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uh what do you call it well not able to
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perform their own
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uh expansion is Israel that's it they
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are the only ones entitled to do
20:46
whatever ever they want, anytime they
20:48
want, with whatever force they want, and
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we, the lap dogs, just follow along
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behind.
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That's how it's supposed to work in the
20:59
world. And apparently, we never figured
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that part out, but that's the way the
21:05
world goes.
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But the UK is talking a little bit
21:10
differently. Here's what the UK says.
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Israel's Lebanon escalation must end.
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The UK says the British foreign
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secretary has said that uh their attacks
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are killing civilians. Israel's attacks
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in Lebanon are killing civilians and
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must end. UK foreign secretary Ivet
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Cooper after the Jewish state stepped up
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yet again military activity to its
21:38
northern neighbor. The IDF has
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intensified air strikes in days, recent
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days, and moved deeper into Lebanese
21:46
territory despite the ceasefire
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agreed to in midappril. On Sunday,
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Israeli troops seized Bowfort Castle, a
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900year-old
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crusader fortress, while Prime Minister
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Netanyahu said he instructed the
22:03
military to expand its ground maneuvers
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against Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.
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No. Well, let's finish this first.
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Netanyahu's order will complicate
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indirect talks between the US and Iran
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with peace in Lebanon being around among
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Thrron's key demands for prolonging the
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truth with Washington. Nobody is
22:26
watching out for Lebanon. Nobody. And
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over here, they train you that you're
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just supposed to equate uh Lebanon with
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Hamas or Hezbollah, whoever. You're
22:36
supposed to you're supposed to equate
22:37
that. And that's it. They are not
22:39
people. Just like Russia are not people.
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Those are not people. We can do whatever
22:45
we want over there because they are not
22:48
people. And they are all lumped into one
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category.
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One category bad. Why Russian?
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Why Iranian? That means bad, doesn't it?
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Why Chinese? Those are bad people,
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right? Why? Because put me in coach says
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so and because Netanyahu says so and
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because the Green Goblin says so. That's
23:18
it. And there's nobody thinks for their
23:20
own or on their own goes back and you
23:23
know tries to say wait a minute this is
23:25
not supposed to happen. All sides have
23:28
to respect the ceasefire. German German
23:30
foreign minister Johannes Waldipul said
23:33
in a statement Sunday that the Israeli
23:35
advances are a cause for serious
23:37
concern, but nobody will do anything
23:39
about it. You know, and they'll condemn
23:40
them in the UN. They'll condemn them at
23:43
the Security Council. They'll put arrest
23:45
warrants out for Netanyahu and nothing
23:48
ever happens.
23:50
This is will exacerbate, according to
23:53
Mr. Waldupool the already tense
23:55
situation and trigger new waves of
23:57
displacement within Lebanon. Of course,
24:00
so that Israel can seize more territory.
24:04
That's what this is all about. That's
24:05
what it always has been about. And
24:07
that's that. 12 civilians were killed at
24:10
least by IDF strikes on Sunday.
24:13
According to Al Jazzer News, data from
24:16
the Lebanese authorities suggest that
24:18
more than 3,400 people have been killed
24:21
and 10,000 wounded and 1.6
24:25
million
24:27
displaced since Israel launched its
24:31
military operation against
24:34
Lebanon in early March, just days after
24:39
they attacked Iran. So tell me that the
24:43
attack in Iran wasn't so that Israel
24:46
could displace 1.6
24:49
million people and take that land over
24:52
for themselves.
24:54
All 1.6 million aren't terrorists,
24:59
but according to uh everybody here,
25:02
that's it. and net and here's Rubio
25:05
who's just completely impotent spoke
25:08
with both Netanyahu and Lebanese
25:11
President Joseph Woon Bifon over the
25:13
weekend in an attempt to push through a
25:15
new proposal for a gradual deescalation.
25:19
Yeah, we got to get rid of that other
25:20
million first. That'll be, you know, if
25:23
we gradually deescalate, we can keep
25:26
seizing 900year-old fortresses. We can
25:30
take all these old places and then just
25:32
push these people out permanently and
25:34
it'll be all Israel all the time and we
25:38
expand our border. That is what you're
25:40
supporting if you support the war
25:43
against Iran. Support the war against
25:45
Israel. Support the morons in our u uh
25:50
uh what do you call it? Legislature.
25:54
you know your your your geniuses like
25:57
put me in coach that guy.
26:01
[sighs]
26:03
This will create space for gradual
26:05
deescalation
26:07
and an effective sessation of
26:09
hostilities, said the genius Rubio. As a
26:12
first step, the genius Rubio, his plan
26:15
calls for Hezbollah to halt drone
26:17
attacks on Israel. Why don't you call
26:20
for Israel to stop blowing up
26:23
everything? Nobody's worried about
26:26
Hezbollah hitting Israel.
26:27
[clears throat] Not remotely. They're
26:29
worried about the opposite going on in
26:32
Lebanon. That's what's going on. So, but
26:35
Rubio, his first step is no, we support
26:38
Israel. Period. Because we have to
26:40
because I get a lot of money from those
26:42
guys and I won't be president if I
26:45
don't. [laughter]
26:47
So, there you go. Um, let's see.
26:51
The Israelis with with with
26:54
vigor. Here's what they do with vigor.
26:56
Get this. Here is your latest.
27:01
Senior Israeli diplomat mocks France for
27:06
calling for United Nations Security
27:08
Council meeting on Lebanon. Okay. A
27:11
senior Israeli diplomat is mocking Paris
27:13
after it summoned an extraordinary UN
27:16
Security Council meeting over West
27:18
Jerusalem's action in Lebanon, pointing
27:21
at France's domestic own domestic
27:23
troubles. Over the past few days, Israel
27:25
has intensified its bombing campaign in
27:28
the country and advanced deeper into
27:30
Lebanese territory. Despite
27:33
the alleged ceasefire announced 6 weeks
27:36
ago, which Israel has never honored
27:40
the Israeli troops I told you about the
27:42
seizing of the castle and Netanyahu said
27:45
he instructed the military to expand its
27:47
ground maneuvers in Lebanon. Yeah,
27:49
there's a ceasefire for you. On Sunday,
27:52
Paris requested an emergency meeting of
27:54
the UN Security Council, the impotent UN
27:56
Security Council over the latest
27:59
develops. And the only reason it's
28:00
impotent is because the US will not
28:03
cross Israel. Never.
28:06
All the other they will veto any
28:09
decision that comes up. Any decision. I
28:13
don't care if it said, you know, we
28:15
strung up so so many people on camera
28:19
and put it up and Netanyahu personally
28:21
did it. The US would not condemn it.
28:24
They can do whatever they want and
28:27
everybody knows it. So, uh, Israel's
28:30
political adviser to the permanent
28:31
representative of Israel on the United
28:34
St nations, Wed Godban, took to X to
28:38
mock mock France's request. He shared
28:42
footage from the celebrations in Paris
28:44
after the local football club PSG won
28:48
the Champion League. Implied that par
28:50
Paris should focus on its uh own
28:53
domestic affairs. He said meanwhile in
28:55
Paris they're having all kinds of uh you
28:58
know fires and stuff like that post the
29:00
other one. And uh so uh why don't you
29:04
quit worrying about us while we destroy
29:06
our neighboring uh countries and then um
29:12
then you might be able to say something
29:14
about it. Isn't that crazy?
29:18
Of course, they did injure 57 police
29:21
officers.
29:22
So in France over this victory, but
29:27
victory was theirs and they should be
29:30
able to win. So now we're going to
29:35
Where'd my beautiful stuff go? Here we
29:38
are. We're going to share with you a
29:43
a bit of a a bit of a music break.
29:48
And this is the final goodbye. very very
29:52
uh interesting. I like it a lot.
29:57
That was the long version. I didn't mean
30:01
to do that, but uh [laughter] I did.
30:04
That was a 78 minute one. So, sorry
30:06
about that. I only meant to play the
30:08
3minut one, but I let it go anyway cuz I
30:10
like it. Um, at any rate, that um, final
30:15
goodbye is what that's called, as you
30:17
might have surmised from the review
30:22
of it. Let's see. We've already shared
30:24
that nonsense. I've got a list of more
30:27
things to share with you. Other
30:28
stupidity going on on the planet. I um
30:34
um
30:36
wanted to there there's one here [gasps]
30:39
that uh there's Sarah Wagen
30:45
has accused the chancellor of Germany
30:48
merits of applying double standards to
30:51
Moscow while damaging their own economy
30:55
with sanctions. So there's been a lot of
30:57
talk over the weekend. I've been paying
30:58
attention to a lot of the places uh that
31:01
uh normally opine on these sorts of
31:03
things. Lot of attention talking about
31:05
sanction against Russia the uh forced uh
31:09
maximum price for Russian oil in Europe.
31:14
Um there was uh so Japan called
31:16
apparently Japan called Russia and Japan
31:20
loves the sanctions you know they're
31:22
they're
31:24
used to doing what their western masters
31:26
tell them to do kind of like Europe
31:28
right and uh so they do what the US
31:31
tells them to do if you you know you put
31:33
in sanction or well and they create
31:36
themselves however many packages of
31:38
sanctions we are on in uh Europe we
31:41
don't even remember anymore it was 23 3
31:43
might be 24. I mean, I think we'll be at
31:45
30 by the end of the year. We always got
31:48
to have some new sanctions against
31:49
Russia, right? But they're um
31:52
[clears throat]
31:53
pushing them to the side. These
31:55
sanctions aren't so critical these days
31:59
because holy crap, we're paying for gas.
32:02
We're old Sam's paying $4 a gallon for
32:05
gas and his sister in in Utah in Idaho
32:09
is paying $4.79
32:14
a gallon to fill up the old, you know,
32:19
four-wheel drive pick them up truck and
32:21
haul around some cows and whatnot. Um,
32:25
that was kind of entertaining. They they
32:27
haul around a lot of a lot of livestock
32:29
out there. Um, at any rate, um, [snorts]
32:33
Sarah Wagenneck has accused the
32:36
chancellor of applying double standards
32:39
because everybody's trying to get Russia
32:41
now to deliver
32:43
cheap gas. And guess what Russia's
32:45
doing? So when this is pretty comical
32:48
actually, and I hope to do the same to
32:49
Europe, just because to send the correct
32:52
message, you need to do this because
32:54
diplomacy is dead. It's all about force.
32:57
It's all about benefit. It's all about
32:59
uh it's the deal. I'm It's the art of
33:02
the deal. We're we're we're we're make
33:04
we're we're always winning. You're going
33:06
to win so much. You're going to be sick
33:08
of winning. And so Europe is very sick
33:10
of winning right now. And uh they're
33:13
just so sick of winning. And Japan is so
33:16
sick of winning that they're calling
33:17
Russia to go, listen, we can't pay for
33:20
all this gas. There are shortages
33:22
because somebody somebody clogged up to
33:24
straight to Hormuz and we don't you know
33:28
we don't know what to do here. We can't
33:29
get any gas. How about we How about
33:31
Vladimir Vladimir? How about you give us
33:34
some?
33:36
And Vladimir Vladimirovich apparently uh
33:40
through his office, you know, not him
33:42
directly, but somebody on his behalf
33:45
when the the foreign uh whichever it
33:49
was, commerce or the foreign secretary,
33:51
whoever it was, whatever interim guy
33:53
called up to the Kremlin says, "Listen,
33:56
we need to make a deal to get some some
33:59
Russian gas over here in Japan cuz we're
34:01
hurting. We're hurting just like the
34:03
rest of the world is over the old uh
34:06
Israeli bombarding of Iran and with US
34:09
support and old put me in coach is
34:12
making it tough on us all by this
34:14
stupidity. Uh so how about Vladimir
34:18
Vladimir you do us a solid and send us
34:20
some uh some of your gas and the
34:23
question back in response was
34:26
are you going to play pay market price
34:29
or you're ridiculous no one can buy
34:31
Russian fuel unless they pay the market
34:35
cap imposed by sanctions. So Russia
34:40
can't get the US, they can get the
34:43
global market rate even though remember
34:47
we supply all of our own, but we're
34:49
still applying the global rate, right?
34:52
The global rate of oil is what? Well,
34:55
wait a minute. It's we're just doing
34:57
what everybody else would do to make
34:59
their money. Yeah, but we're we're
35:01
supposedly all in it together, right?
35:03
No, we're not. We're in it for the rich
35:06
and the powerful to continue to make all
35:08
their big piles of cash and the rest of
35:10
us in the United States get the shaft.
35:12
That's how it works. And then [snorts]
35:14
now Russia has said, "Well, Japan, you
35:17
get the shaft, too." You know, but but
35:20
but you can put sanctions on Russia and
35:22
go, "Nah, most you can get for your oil.
35:25
You can't get the global rate. All you
35:27
can get is whatever the amount was. I
35:31
think it's $64." And they've been trying
35:33
to lower it steadily. They've been
35:35
keeping on pushing it lower and lower.
35:36
We'll let you buy it, but you can't buy
35:38
it for more than $60 a g a barrel, you
35:42
know, and so Russia loses all this money
35:45
on the barrels because of these
35:46
sanctions, and it's still profitable for
35:48
them. So imagine how profitable it is in
35:51
the United States who isn't limited by
35:53
this. And according to certain people,
35:55
they aren't importing at all anyway. We
35:58
supply that all here, right? So we pay
36:01
the global rate because to blow global
36:04
price and so we get shafted just as much
36:07
as the rest of the world and just as
36:10
much as Russia because we're just
36:12
people, right? So we shaft everyone and
36:16
the and the same old people get, you
36:19
know, Elon Musk gets to be a
36:21
trillionaire soon if he's not already,
36:23
right? And uh uh I mean seriously,
36:26
what's he ever going to do with that?
36:27
Seriously, never going to happen.
36:30
Anyway, the Russians told the Japanese
36:34
guy, "Well, if you're not willing to pay
36:35
the market rate, kiss our hairy white
36:38
behind. See you later." And uh that was
36:41
the end of that negotiation. Europe is
36:43
in the same same scenario right now.
36:45
they want to um reduce sanctions, put
36:50
them on hold for a month, you know,
36:52
whatever [snorts]
36:54
while or until the end of the Iranian
36:57
conflict.
36:58
So, you create your own conflicts all
37:00
over the world. blame other people for
37:03
it all and then try to force the people
37:06
that you're blaming to accept your
37:09
framing of how you how the world is
37:12
supposed to be so that the same old
37:14
people can make the same old huge piles
37:17
of cash. you want to talk about um uh
37:20
the proper advertising for the global
37:23
order
37:25
and the blood. You know, uh several days
37:27
ago, I was watching, you know, in my
37:29
travels sitting on a plane. I was
37:31
watching one of the Tom Cruz ones, I
37:34
forget which one, which Mission
37:36
Impossible, there's like 80 of them, but
37:38
uh you one of the Mission Impossibles.
37:41
And uh one of the bad guys was talking
37:43
about um the destruction of the of the
37:46
global world order and tearing it down.
37:51
Well, that appeals to those of us who
37:53
are normal. We're tired of this crap.
37:56
That's what we thought Donald Trump was
37:58
doing. There's still people out there
38:00
who believe that's what's going on is
38:02
Donald Trump is destroying the world
38:04
order. I was always skeptical of that
38:07
and I'm even more so now, especially
38:09
with putting me in coach and and uh and
38:12
company in charge and the uh same old
38:15
neocons in charge that have been in
38:18
charge all along. There was a little bit
38:22
of a hiccup there for a while, but
38:24
Trumpster is not going to be around
38:25
forever. And as soon as he's gone, we go
38:28
straight back to where it is. And
38:29
arguably, we're right back there now.
38:32
And and I don't know. I could be
38:34
convinced Jr.'s of the planet who I I I
38:38
just think the guy is awesome.
38:41
JR, I mean, [laughter] I don't want to
38:44
go too far. I know JR. J.R. is just a
38:47
good dude. Okay. And uh uh the but these
38:51
other people I don't have the same faith
38:53
in. Let's put it that way. And uh uh I
38:56
try to convince Jr. and I know he tries
38:58
to convince me, but you know, I respect
39:00
his opinion. I'm pretty sure he respects
39:02
mine or at least allows me to have it
39:05
without ridiculing me too much. I think
39:07
he did last week on his show and I
39:09
called him on it cuz I heard it, but I
39:11
was only half listening cuz I have him
39:13
on in the background, you know, whilst
39:15
I'm working doing some other stuff and
39:16
he put something in there about um I
39:18
forget what it was, but I I I said
39:20
something about Trumpster getting us
39:23
into world wars and not being able to
39:24
get out of them or something like that.
39:26
He's going to have us at a war with
39:27
every and I stand by my words. These are
39:30
my words. I make them up and I
39:32
[laughter]
39:33
make them up. I don't make them up. I
39:35
consider things and put together my
39:37
theories on them. And I believe we're
39:40
headed for the destruction of the same
39:42
old world order anyway. I just don't
39:45
think Trump's the one driving the train.
39:47
That's what I don't believe. I believe
39:49
over here we're on the last throws of uh
39:52
of uh globalism and we're trying hard to
39:55
keep it in place. And uh what's going on
39:58
in Hormuz is one of those things that is
40:02
uh the last of the uh we're in charge of
40:06
the planet sort of thing. I I believe
40:09
that be you know what happened in China
40:11
between uh Trump and Xi Jinping wasn't
40:15
necessarily positive for the United
40:16
States.
40:18
And uh uh it wasn't negative. I mean it
40:21
wasn't a bad trip. But what did we get
40:23
out of it? Nothing. some more money for
40:25
a couple of big money people, but
40:27
nothing else. You know, when uh I always
40:31
say this, but when Putin goes to China,
40:33
they always come out with a couple of uh
40:36
deals between countries, not between
40:39
companies, you know, company deals. Elon
40:42
Musk gets to go and get a cheaper uh I
40:45
don't know, widget. Elon Musk gets a
40:48
cheaper widget. Elon Musk and company
40:51
get to make something a little bit
40:53
cheaper going to China. Great. Boeing
40:56
gets to sell 200 instead of 400 planes.
40:59
Okay. Also great. Um but what did the
41:03
countries get? Okay. Trump's focus is
41:07
always on the deal, today's deal. He
41:11
still equates success with deals between
41:15
companies, financial deals amongst his
41:19
allies, his money people and uh Elon
41:23
Musk and all that he he's still in that
41:26
category. Okay? But it's all individual
41:30
money and that little money it might
41:32
trickle down to some of you. Maybe you
41:34
should invest in Pantier, you know,
41:36
whoever everybody else is investing in.
41:39
But trust me, your money that you make
41:41
off it is minuscule compared to theirs.
41:44
And that is not so on the Russian people
41:49
versus and the Chinese people. They get
41:51
large infrastructure projects that will
41:54
be like I explained to you about all the
41:56
uh crossing the the river between well
42:00
the border I mean beat some of it's over
42:02
a river between uh Russia and China
42:04
which is some 4,000 kilometers. It's
42:08
lengthy and uh there's all kinds of
42:11
commerce going on there and that for
42:13
generations will
42:16
be a positive scenario because they're
42:19
building trade connections. Real trade
42:22
connections, not company to company, but
42:25
people to people, culture to culture.
42:28
That's what's building over there. and
42:31
uh they're trying to change the entire
42:33
face of Southeast Asia
42:36
or or the Far East and and having been
42:39
there personally and really really
42:42
loving it. The countries and I I want
42:45
Mongolia that's on my list and I should
42:48
get my passport back anytime. I hope um
42:51
you know I sent it away a week or so ago
42:54
and they said it would take 2 3 weeks to
42:56
uh uh finalized so I get my visa for
42:59
Russia because I'm going back and uh I
43:02
want to get in and and my favorite place
43:05
is over there. I'd love to go to the
43:06
Chinese border and see some of this
43:08
stuff next year. The BRICS conference in
43:10
China this year it's in India. I'm
43:12
trying to figure out the September
43:14
October uh visit to go to bricks and get
43:17
that arranged to go to uh where is it at
43:21
um New Delhi I can't remember and uh to
43:24
go into India but they're creating
43:28
they're creating long-term structure so
43:32
um when
43:34
the double standards of the economy that
43:37
happen everywhere when you talk about
43:39
sanctions uh you know this is what we're
43:41
doing to Iran too. Iran came unglued on
43:44
the brick stage not long ago, a couple
43:47
of weeks ago. They went for the foreign
43:49
minister's appearances at bricks and the
43:51
Iranian foreign minister went ballistic
43:54
on these people on all the BRICS
43:56
countries.
43:58
In fact, the west took great pleasure in
44:00
saying look brrics is dying, brrics is
44:03
dead. BRICS is not dead. BRICS is not a
44:08
defense organization. bricks is an
44:11
economic structure and it's an economic
44:14
with a new bank the new development bank
44:17
they have new payment pro projects where
44:20
people are allowed to have other places
44:22
that's why Iran it's so important to
44:24
them and why they're so pissed off about
44:26
it but they take most of their payments
44:28
in yuan and in ruble and rupee and so
44:30
does everybody else in that entire area
44:33
and they are shortch changing the dollar
44:36
and this isn't this is what Trump is
44:38
pissed off about you don't want that you
44:41
don't want people what if what if to
44:44
cross the straits of Hormuz and I can
44:46
imagine and I know it's part of the
44:48
terms is um all of the uh Iranian things
44:53
have said listen that is not
44:56
international water the Straits of
44:58
Hormuz are not international waters and
45:00
they're not you know it's a it's a
45:02
definition and that does not meet the
45:05
definition of international waters
45:07
international waters are 23 mi across.
45:12
This is only 21 or something like that.
45:15
And uh and your own international border
45:18
stretches something like 12 miles out,
45:21
right? So Oman on the one side at the at
45:24
the narrowest part, Oman on the one side
45:27
and Iran on the other. Between the two
45:30
of them, they have 24 miles. Well, it's
45:33
only 23. This is a joint sliver in the
45:36
middle that is a mile that is owned by
45:38
both, you know, that is actually on the
45:41
territory of both Oman and Iran.
45:47
That is your own country. Why can't you
45:50
block it off? I'm not saying I'm all for
45:52
blocking it off. I'm saying it's it's
45:54
always been open. And if you continue to
45:58
uh to torment and treat people this way
46:01
and uh uh you know bomb them
46:03
indiscriminately for Israel, somebody's
46:06
bound to uh do something about it and
46:10
they don't like it. And by the way, many
46:13
other countries have similar straits
46:17
where people have to pay to get out of
46:19
the Red Sea, right? You got to pay there
46:22
to get out of uh uh to go around where
46:25
where is it in South Southeast Asia? I
46:28
forget the name of the straight but uh
46:30
uh [gasps]
46:31
uh now I can't even remember the name of
46:34
the country [laughter]
46:36
but but the the name of the country over
46:38
there uh New Zealand. Yes, there you go.
46:41
Outside of New Zealand uh you try to get
46:44
outside of there and you got to pay. You
46:46
can't just go through you you must pay.
46:49
And that's and many other places in the
46:51
world where you got to pay and uh uh
46:54
it's between the countries and the
46:56
countries make money off of that. That's
46:58
part of their deal. And so
47:01
why you know it cost you a million bucks
47:03
plus to get your ship through the Panama
47:05
Canal. Million bucks and that place
47:09
falling apart. It's old, you know, and
47:11
and it needs some upgrades. And so China
47:13
went to do it. in the very first part of
47:14
his term. old Trumpster said that ain't
47:16
remember he tried to boot him out or he
47:18
did boot him out of the eastern end of
47:20
the Panama Canal um China get him out of
47:24
there and uh made it you know then he
47:27
did the same thing in Venezuela he's
47:28
doing that you know has stolen the
47:31
Venezuelan oil from China and you know
47:35
he just made no bones about it first it
47:38
was naroterrorism remember that so all
47:40
these economic victories I I I wonder
47:43
how long they're going to be victories
47:45
because the the day is coming where the
47:48
uh and it's not going to be in my
47:50
lifetime even probably and I still got I
47:52
don't know some time left few days uh
47:55
you know I got something and uh so but
47:57
in but in my lifetime it's not going to
47:59
change from where it is but our children
48:02
are going to see it our children are
48:04
going to see a new world order that
48:06
isn't dominated by the United States
48:09
maybe they can figure out how to get
48:10
along they can figure out that diplomacy
48:14
is really an art that has been lost and
48:17
force and the art of the deal aren't the
48:20
way to run the planet. You know, um at
48:23
least not the art of the deal of a
48:26
company and several guys making the big
48:29
fortunes and everybody else losing their
48:31
ass. You know, maybe we should long for
48:33
the uh Star Trek Next Generation, you
48:36
know, oh, we don't need money anymore.
48:38
We got rid of all those disputes as they
48:40
as they claim. But everywhere they talk
48:43
about the double standards and most
48:45
recently the veteran German politician
48:50
Sarah Wagen tore into Mertz's Russian
48:53
policy. Germany's policy on Russia is
48:57
full of contradictions says Sarah. She
49:02
accuses Berlin of punishing Moscow over
49:04
alleged violations of international law,
49:07
but excusing similar accusations against
49:12
the United States.
49:15
Quite true. And damages its own economy
49:19
in the process. Speaking at a public
49:22
appearance in Berlin this week,
49:25
Wagenneck took aim at Chancellor
49:27
Friedrich Mertz's support for the
49:30
Western sanctions on Russia and his own
49:32
stance on international law. And I, you
49:36
know, I wonder if this is in English. I
49:38
should play it for you. I think it is.
49:40
Let me see if I can hear it first and
49:42
then we will see if it is in uh in
49:45
English. No, it's only in um it's only
49:48
in in German, so I can't do it,
49:51
unfortunately. But I could read the uh
49:53
the the actual for you. But her speech,
49:56
there's a good block of it I'm going to
49:58
read off for you. Ready? Russia's oil
50:00
and gas sell like hotcakes all over the
50:04
world, and we act as if we could end
50:07
this war simply by stopping our own
50:10
purchase of that oil. People say that
50:13
because Russia has violated
50:15
international law, we must impose
50:18
sanctions. But when the US violates
50:21
international law, Mr. Merittz stands in
50:24
front of the camera and tells us that
50:27
international law is actually outdated.
50:31
So for the US, it's outdated. But when
50:34
Russia violates it, we have to
50:36
completely ruin our own economy because
50:39
we have to impose sanctions. Nothing
50:42
adds up with this policy. [laughter] And
50:46
she's absolutely right. Since the
50:48
escalation of the Ukraine conflict in
50:50
2022, the EU has imposed 20 rounds of
50:54
sanction. More than that, 20 I thought
50:56
it was we're up to 23. So I don't this
50:59
reporting. Uh whoever I think they're
51:01
Well, maybe I'm wrong. Who knows? But
51:03
the EU has imposed 20 rounds of
51:05
sanctions targeting Russia's economy and
51:08
energy while seeking to phase out
51:10
Russian fossil fuels. Russia has
51:14
redirected its energy exports to Russia
51:17
as we follow here all the time.
51:19
According to US Energy Information
51:21
Administration data, Asia and Oceanana
51:24
now account for 81% of Russian crude
51:28
exports
51:30
in 2024.
51:33
and China and India have emerged as
51:35
Russia's largest customers. And rightly
51:37
so, by the way, instead of Europe, I
51:40
mean, they're right there. They got
51:41
pipelines going through. Meanwhile, and
51:43
and we blow up the pipelines, you know,
51:46
Joe Biden, maybe he was the art of the
51:48
deal guy. Joe Biden encourages the
51:50
Ukrainians. I don't even know that I
51:52
believe that story, but they blow up
51:54
Nordstream 2, which was going to provide
51:57
cheap gas to Germany for a very long
52:00
time. And now they're trying to purchase
52:02
it for nothing. You know, the West is so
52:05
I forget the guy's name, but uh uh he
52:08
was was it Bloomberg? I can't remember
52:09
who was going to buy it. Some extremely
52:12
wealthy guy over here wanted to buy
52:14
Nordstream, too. For pennies on the
52:16
dollar and then do what? Buy Russian
52:19
gas, but he's got to buy it from Russia.
52:21
But, you know, Russia owns like 49% of
52:24
it or something. And uh uh but but I
52:26
can't remember. The details on that are
52:28
still crazy. But you should uh take take
52:31
charge of it. Uh somebody Oh, maybe
52:34
Trump will just take charge of it and
52:36
you know say, you know, we're the
52:37
biggest. We'll take it and we'll put
52:39
USLNG in it. We'll finish that pipeline
52:43
all the way into Canada cuz Canada is
52:45
our 51st state. We'll go through
52:47
Greenland. You know, there's supposedly
52:49
some talks about the US taking southern
52:51
Greenland, by the way. And boy, I'm all
52:53
over the map today. Uh let me finish
52:55
this story. Gene uh Germany has entered
52:58
a recession in two 2023 as industries
53:00
grappled with higher energy cost after
53:03
the loss of Russian gas. Much of it
53:06
replaced by more expensive, far more
53:09
expensive United States LNG imports.
53:12
Western governments accuse Russia of
53:14
violating international law in Ukraine,
53:18
a charge that Moscow of course rejects.
53:21
Wagen neck contra contrasted this with
53:23
western responses to US military actions
53:28
including Venezuela, including Iran. In
53:33
March, Meritz declined to question the
53:35
legality of US actions in Iran. Well,
53:38
you don't even question Greenland
53:40
anymore. Allegedly, there's something
53:42
the US is in talks to take the southern
53:44
chunk of Greenland and that they say
53:48
it's actually going to happen. um
53:50
arguing that it was not the time to
53:52
lecture allies about international law.
53:55
This is Merritt's opponent sees on his
53:57
remarks as evidence that Berlin applies
53:59
different standards to the US and
54:02
Russia. Well, they do. They all do.
54:04
Wagenck leads the Sarah Wagan Alliance,
54:06
which has become an influential voice in
54:09
German debates over Russia, sanctions,
54:11
immigration, energy policy despite
54:13
narrowly missing entry into the
54:15
Bundistag in 2025 federal elections. But
54:19
they're very influential and this stuff
54:21
is is coming and getting larger are the
54:25
jokes of the United States uh and Europe
54:29
on all of this. It's still still the
54:32
same. Still the same. Um let's see here.
54:38
We want to play one more song whilst we
54:43
take a bit of a break. How do you feel
54:45
about that? Um, what are your thoughts
54:48
on that?
54:50
Yeah, I like this one, too. This one's
54:53
pretty cool. Enjoy.
54:57
I like that. Good stuff, Maynard. Okay.
55:00
Um, that was a long play song, too,
55:02
though, sadly for us because you don't
55:04
get to hear me as much as that beautiful
55:06
music, which I truly enjoy. And I could
55:10
listen to that stuff. In fact, I do
55:11
often listen to that type of music in
55:13
the background and just uh leave it up
55:15
and running. Kind of good stuff.
55:17
Maynard. So, uh there's something I
55:20
wanted to share to you just because I
55:22
compl there are two stories that I'm
55:24
hoping to finish and I think I can do
55:26
this and and one has to do with Cuba and
55:29
Scott Ritter. It's an opinion piece.
55:31
It's pretty long and then the other one
55:34
is a much shorter one, but I have some
55:36
commentary to add on it. So over the
55:39
weekend,
55:41
Candace Owens posted
55:46
pictures of her uh something on Red
55:49
Square where she was and she talked
55:51
about the unbelievably beautiful Moscow
55:56
and frankly uh it's only there you know
56:01
Ben Shapiro said that what she had done
56:03
is an act of ideological subversion.
56:08
Oh, no. Russia, Russia, Russia. You got
56:10
to punish Russia, right? Everybody. And
56:13
I'll bet you 100 bucks Shapiro hasn't
56:15
been there or he wouldn't say stuff like
56:17
that. I am telling you and I challenge
56:20
any one of you. I have a very good
56:22
friend who uh I'm getting my uh my
56:25
Russian visa renewed. This will be my
56:28
So, I had a bunch of visas back when I
56:30
was uh uh traveling on a diplomatic
56:33
passport that were taken care of by the
56:36
State Department. And the first one they
56:38
screwed up, I told you that story
56:40
already on this channel, how they not
56:42
the first one, but well, no, it had to
56:44
be the first one because they screwed it
56:46
up and but no, it couldn't have been the
56:48
first one because I Well, it doesn't
56:49
matter. But either way, you get them for
56:51
a period of time. You get them for, I
56:53
don't know, six months. But the big
56:55
entrance on the bottom is uh noa versus
56:59
yadrata which is um
57:02
basically one time versus many times. Uh
57:06
you get a uh uh
57:10
I don't the word in Russian is more than
57:13
once basically and and I can't remember
57:15
multiple entry. There you go. It's a
57:16
multiple entry visa in America. So you
57:19
can have it a single entry or multiple
57:20
entry, right? and uh uh but you don't
57:24
want to say many entry. That's not the
57:25
right word. So, I was having trouble
57:27
struggling to translate it to English.
57:29
Anyway, it's a uh multiple entry visa.
57:33
And uh I've had uh and I had one in when
57:35
I was a diplom had a diplomatic
57:37
passport. I had one when I had a a uh uh
57:41
you know, I had a um one-time entry also
57:44
when I got a diplomatic several times
57:46
with a with a a visa and that one way
57:49
back when in the early 90s. So when it
57:51
was still Soviet Union even I had some
57:53
and then I got them again when it was
57:55
Russia and then uh over the last
58:00
I don't know 8 years it's been uh I've
58:03
had a bunches of them. My passport was
58:05
filled. I told you that story last week.
58:07
My I got a passport in 2019. I had one
58:10
in the other passport before that had a
58:12
couple of them but this one on the 2019
58:15
passport that I got is still valid till
58:17
2029. I didn't have enough space and all
58:20
of my spots were full of being where I
58:22
wanted to travel and I couldn't travel
58:24
and Russia wouldn't take my passport
58:27
because they had no room left to put my
58:29
visa. And so they put a full a full
58:32
picture photo. You got it's a process to
58:34
get a Russian visa. And you know, I've
58:37
had to do that uh for single entry
58:40
several times and then multiple entry. I
58:42
got the last one I got was a three-year
58:44
visa and I was damn glad to have it.
58:46
Okay. So, I've applied for another
58:48
three-year visa this time so I can go
58:50
when I feel like it. And Russia is
58:52
freaking beautiful. So, I want to share
58:54
this story with you because this is
58:56
here's a Candace Owen things can and and
58:58
and I challenge any one of you. You want
59:00
to call me up and say, "Sam, schedule me
59:02
a trip to Russia. We'll go to some
59:04
fantastic spots. There are hunting
59:06
places. There are lake by call where I
59:08
still haven't been. There are
59:09
sanatoriums where people can go and get
59:12
medical treatment for several weeks.
59:13
We'll have to get you an interpreter for
59:15
that where I don't need one. But it's a
59:16
lot of fun and it's cheap and they they
59:19
take care of you and they they I mean
59:20
it's it's it's beautiful. It's
59:22
fantastic. And uh so um and it's
59:27
believe it or not high dollar,
59:30
especially in Moscow and you go to
59:32
Moscow, these people are living well.
59:36
And uh and trust me, there is there is
59:40
nothing wrong with Moscow. And Moscow is
59:42
clean. It is beautiful. It is safe. Now,
59:45
every c every place has a place where
59:48
you don't want to go. But tell you what,
59:50
you don't want to wander around at night
59:52
anywhere else, but in Moscow, it's it's
59:54
always been, you know, safe at night.
59:56
Even in the '9s, I didn't feel like I
59:58
was going to be murdered on a street
1:00:00
corner, you know. But, uh, uh, it's
1:00:02
different than New York. Hell, I
1:00:04
wouldn't go out in New York. It's
1:00:05
disgusting and nasty. I saw a guy take a
1:00:08
dump on the sidewalk.
1:00:11
Literally, he dropped TR right there and
1:00:14
squatted and let it fly. And there was a
1:00:17
cop standing 30 feet away. And I was
1:00:19
like, "Hey."
1:00:21
The cop didn't [laughter] do anything.
1:00:24
He just And I was like, "Nothing."
1:00:29
Nothing. I watched a guy take it. I
1:00:31
didn't watch, but I I saw the initial uh
1:00:35
that boy had some problems. [laughter]
1:00:37
And he just like I said, he dropped
1:00:40
Trowin right there. He joked did it in
1:00:44
the old trousers around the ankles and
1:00:46
the the the the dual moon rising. It was
1:00:49
not good. Or the dual moon setting,
1:00:53
however you want to put it. But but uh
1:00:55
that was disgusting. You wouldn't see
1:00:57
that in Moscow. No freaking way. And uh
1:01:01
so anyway, ever since that time when she
1:01:05
posted these things, she's been uh
1:01:07
Candace Owens has been subject to
1:01:09
accusations of Russian collusion.
1:01:14
Tucker Carlson is guilty of what? Is a
1:01:18
puppet for the Kremlin.
1:01:20
Oh my god, he's a puppet.
1:01:25
US political conservative commentator
1:01:29
Candice Owens has brushed off the
1:01:32
criticism of her recent visit to Russia
1:01:35
after posting photos from what she
1:01:38
described as an unbelievably beautiful
1:01:40
Moscow. [snorts]
1:01:42
Owens described her trip to her 6
1:01:45
million YouTube subscribers as a family
1:01:49
vacation, but fellow commentators
1:01:51
criticized the visit visit with Daily
1:01:55
Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro labeling
1:01:59
it an act of ideological subversion.
1:02:03
Now, why? Cuz you disagree. You don't
1:02:07
think Don't tell me you don't think
1:02:08
Russia's beautiful. That means one
1:02:11
thing. You haven't freaking been there.
1:02:14
Uh, I'm starting, Here's her quote. I'm
1:02:16
starting to understand why the talking
1:02:19
heads panic and shout and lie about
1:02:22
Russian collusion when they learn an
1:02:25
American with a platform is traveling
1:02:27
here. Owens wrote on X on Sunday,
1:02:30
sharing a photo of herself on Red
1:02:33
Square. It is genuinely shocking how
1:02:36
clean, beautiful, and orderly this city
1:02:39
is. It is so far from moved so far
1:02:42
removed from media depictions, she said.
1:02:46
And [snorts] uh it's I mean it's nuts
1:02:49
because she's absolutely right. And the
1:02:52
metro stations, the subway, which is
1:02:55
enormous, and you can get in this
1:02:57
anywhere in the entire city of Moscow,
1:03:00
completely safe, completely clean, and
1:03:03
unbelievably beautiful.
1:03:06
Unbelievably, it is. I I you know I tell
1:03:09
you what if you have just go to Moscow
1:03:11
to visit the subway to be impressed
1:03:15
because it's freaking fantastic. And
1:03:17
here's Laura Loomer. Laura Loomer posts
1:03:20
on May 31st. Get this. Ready?
1:03:25
Candace Owens is 100% in communication
1:03:28
with sanctioned individuals. she said on
1:03:31
X.
1:03:33
As I reportedly recently, Dugan says he
1:03:36
wants Russia to sell nuclear weapons to
1:03:38
Iran to destroy the United States. The
1:03:41
State Department DOJ uh really need to
1:03:44
investigate at real Candace O with the
1:03:48
backing of millionaire financeier
1:03:50
Constantine Malfev. Dugan has even built
1:03:53
alliances with several Trump surrogates
1:03:55
to help him amplify his message in
1:03:57
America. Dubbed by the Russian media as
1:04:00
God's oligarch in 2014, Malafv launched
1:04:03
his own channel, Tarsgrad TV, and named
1:04:06
Alexander Dugan its chief editor. And
1:04:09
here's another one. Ryan Muaro, Russian
1:04:12
state directed Targard TV, sanctioned by
1:04:15
the US government. Oh, that means
1:04:17
something. Hell, you ought to wear that
1:04:18
like a freaking badge of honor.
1:04:20
announces that Candace Owens has been
1:04:23
interviewed by a spokesman for the
1:04:24
Russian Orthodox Church, Mos Moscow
1:04:27
Patriarchet,
1:04:29
Putin Controlled, they say, and it will
1:04:32
soon be released on Spas TV. Uh-oh. At
1:04:36
Laura Luma podcast, Aia Compius Nova at
1:04:41
it means the podcast in the Avio company
1:04:45
set itself apart again. Copy everyone
1:04:47
else. And here she is on Red Square. And
1:04:50
there's her picture. Owens also shared
1:04:52
photos from a theater and a church. I'm
1:04:55
not sure what I was expecting, she said,
1:04:57
but it wasn't this. Moscow is an
1:04:59
unbelievably beautiful city. And if you
1:05:02
don't think so, you're a freaking idiot.
1:05:04
And not only a a Russian u what do you
1:05:07
call it? Propaganda artist, I suppose.
1:05:10
Republicans and Democrats alike along
1:05:12
with numerous media figures sim
1:05:15
similarly criticized journalist Tucker
1:05:17
Carlson for going to Moscow in 2024 to
1:05:20
record interviews with uh uh Russian
1:05:23
President Vladimir Putin and foreign
1:05:25
minister Sergey Lavrav Carlson said he
1:05:29
found Moscow to be so much nicer than
1:05:32
cities in the US. Well, it's true. and
1:05:35
argued that American media coverage of
1:05:37
Russia and the Ukraine conflict is
1:05:39
heavily biased. It is. He dismissed his
1:05:42
critics as professional liars. They are.
1:05:46
Owens initially rose to prominence in
1:05:48
the late 2010s blah blah blah. We don't
1:05:51
care about that. She joined Ben
1:05:52
Shapiro's Daily Wire in 2020 where her
1:05:55
podcast reached millions of viewers, but
1:05:58
she was fired four years later following
1:06:01
a public dispute with Shapiro over
1:06:03
Israel's war in Gaza. Owens later broke
1:06:07
with President Trump over his support
1:06:09
for Israel. Lots of people are you you
1:06:14
it's it's funny how they justify the one
1:06:16
and condemn the other when the same
1:06:19
rules are allegedly being broken. It's
1:06:21
nonsense.
1:06:25
Little tiny coffee break. Following the
1:06:28
launch of her own show on YouTube, the
1:06:30
podcaster drew criticism for her
1:06:32
controversial statements, including
1:06:34
suggestions that Israel could have been
1:06:36
involved in the assassination of
1:06:38
conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Last
1:06:41
year, French President Emanuel Mcronone
1:06:43
and his wife Bridget filed a defamation
1:06:46
lawsuit against Owens after she
1:06:49
suggested that France's first lady was
1:06:52
born a man. It's quite the suggestion.
1:06:56
It's hard to uh ignore the similarities
1:06:59
to manhood
1:07:01
um with old Bridget there, but I don't
1:07:04
make any uh comment one way or the
1:07:07
other. People might look at me and say,
1:07:08
"Oh, that's a feminine dude." Well, you
1:07:11
know, that's a way. Maybe I just dress
1:07:13
well. What does that mean? I don't know.
1:07:16
But I really don't dress well either.
1:07:18
And the final story, which I think we
1:07:20
can get to, is Scott Ritter. Okay. Now,
1:07:23
I interviewed the old Scott Ritter uh
1:07:26
once on my show. I might have to contact
1:07:27
him again because it's good stuff. And
1:07:30
he's a former US Marine Corps
1:07:32
intelligence officer, same agency that I
1:07:34
worked with. And then he went to the UN
1:07:36
afterward. and uh author of disarmament
1:07:39
in the time of pirista, arms control and
1:07:42
the end of the Soviet Union. He served
1:07:44
in the Soviet Union as inspector
1:07:45
implementing the INF treaty as did I. He
1:07:48
was on General Schwarzkov's staff during
1:07:51
Gulf War and from 1991 to 98 was a US UN
1:07:56
weapons inspector. Uh here's the story
1:07:59
and I think this is this is written by
1:08:01
Mr. Ritter. Okay. With much of the
1:08:04
world's attention on the still
1:08:06
unresolved conflict between the US and
1:08:08
Iran, the average consumer of news may
1:08:11
be forgiven if they had forgotten that
1:08:13
the US had on January 3rd of this year
1:08:16
launched a mini invasion of Venezuela
1:08:19
which resulted in the death of scores of
1:08:21
people including a number of Cuban
1:08:23
security personnel and the capture of
1:08:26
Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and
1:08:28
his wife. The US justified this action
1:08:31
by noting that Maduro was in its books a
1:08:34
fugitive from justice, having been
1:08:36
previously indicted in a US federal
1:08:39
court on narcotics trafficking.
1:08:42
the ease with which the US orchestrated
1:08:44
the collapse of the Majuro regime and
1:08:47
facilitated the transfer of power to a
1:08:50
more than compliant vice president Deli
1:08:53
Rodriguez helped the administration of
1:08:55
Trump protect project an aura of
1:08:58
invincibility when it came to the
1:09:00
implementation of what the president and
1:09:02
his advisers were calling the Donroe
1:09:06
doctrine take their take on the 19th
1:09:09
century Monroe doctrine which declared
1:09:11
declared the Western Hemisphere to be
1:09:13
the exclusive domain of the United
1:09:16
States. A little more than a week later,
1:09:18
on January 11, President Trump posted on
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his true social account what amounted to
1:09:24
a direct threat against the government
1:09:26
of Cuba. This is true, by the way. Cuba
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lived for many years on large amounts of
1:09:31
oil and money from Venezuela. the
1:09:33
president wrote stating there had been a
1:09:36
direct relationship between a Venezuelan
1:09:38
economic support to Cuba and Cuban
1:09:40
security support to Venezuela. Venezuela
1:09:43
now has the US of America, the most
1:09:45
powerful military in the world by far to
1:09:48
protect them and protect them there. We
1:09:52
will there will be no more oil or money
1:09:56
going to Cuba. Zero. I strongly suggest
1:10:00
they make a deal before it is too late.
1:10:03
The president then set off a firestorm
1:10:05
of speculation on American social media
1:10:08
when responding to a joke post that was
1:10:11
made on X late in the week. He said,
1:10:14
"Marco Rubio will be the president of
1:10:17
Cuba." He said, uh, somebody posted that
1:10:21
and he said, "Sounds good to me." Regime
1:10:24
change in Cuba was in the cards. A month
1:10:27
later, President Trump met with Israeli
1:10:30
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the
1:10:32
White House, where the decision was made
1:10:34
to attack Iran. The US and Israel
1:10:37
launched a surprise attack on February
1:10:40
28, starting a 37-day campaign that saw
1:10:43
the US and Israel fail to achieve any of
1:10:46
their stated military and geopolitical
1:10:48
objectives and which left Iran in a
1:10:51
position where it dictated the fate of
1:10:53
the global economy by controlling the
1:10:55
flow of oil and gas through the strait
1:10:57
of Hormuz. An invasion of Cuba is no
1:11:00
longer a top Trump administration
1:11:03
policy. But overnight, the calculus
1:11:06
changed. On May 21st, Marco Rubio
1:11:09
declared that Cuba was a leading sponsor
1:11:12
of terrorism in the entire region. His
1:11:15
comments came the same day the US
1:11:17
Department of Justice unsealed an
1:11:20
indictment against Cuban foreign uh
1:11:22
Cuban President Ro Castro. And I read
1:11:25
that to you, the ridiculous indictment.
1:11:27
Same old crap. They're taking
1:11:29
jurisdiction. They do not have If you
1:11:31
don't understand jurisdiction, one day
1:11:33
I'll give you an entire jurisdiction
1:11:35
response or book on this. I'm not going
1:11:38
to make it through this entire article,
1:11:40
unfortunately. But I suggest to you that
1:11:42
you go out and find the Scott Ritter
1:11:45
Cuba could be the bite Trump cannot chew
1:11:50
that comes out. Uh let's see if I can
1:11:53
we'll try to get through it, but I don't
1:11:55
read that fast. Rubio's painting Cuba as
1:11:58
a state sponsor of terrorism carries
1:12:00
about as much intellectual weight or
1:12:02
factor as saying that Maduro was engaged
1:12:05
in narco terrorism because that ain't
1:12:07
what it was about. Bottom line is that
1:12:09
the Trump administration is laying the
1:12:11
groundwork for a military invasion of
1:12:13
Cuba. The imposition of an even more
1:12:15
stringent campaign of economic
1:12:17
strangulation against them or both. The
1:12:20
impetus for such action rests not with
1:12:22
any inherent threat posed by Cuba and
1:12:25
its government, but rather the need for
1:12:27
the Trump administration to chalk up
1:12:29
another win on its national security
1:12:33
scoreboard following the embarrassing
1:12:35
setback with Iran. Midterm elections
1:12:38
loom on the horizon. Although Trump has
1:12:40
declared his foreign policy actions are
1:12:43
formulated and implemented independently
1:12:45
of the political pressure brought to
1:12:47
bear that by the consequence of the
1:12:49
Republican party performing poorly at
1:12:51
the polls. In short, the likely event
1:12:54
that the Republicans lose control of the
1:12:56
House of Representatives, the remaining
1:12:58
two years in office will be subject to
1:13:00
political paralysis brought on by
1:13:03
endless impeachment proceedings that
1:13:05
will make the final two years of Trump's
1:13:09
uh first term in office will be similar
1:13:12
[snorts] where he was subjected to two
1:13:14
separate impeachment efforts pale by
1:13:17
comparison.
1:13:18
But impeachment is the least of Trump's
1:13:21
problems. Void of a Senate conviction,
1:13:23
the impeachment proceedings are simply
1:13:26
brushed off by Trump and his supporters
1:13:28
as politically motivated action by
1:13:30
embittered Democrats. Probably true. The
1:13:34
real threat to Trump comes if the
1:13:36
Republicans lose control of the Senate,
1:13:38
especially by a margin significant
1:13:40
enough to raise the spectre of
1:13:42
conviction, with at least 60 of a 100red
1:13:45
senators must vote in favor. Here is
1:13:47
where Trump is making a huge
1:13:49
miscalculation when it comes to the
1:13:50
issue of Cuba and domestic American
1:13:53
politics. Trump is taking guidance from
1:13:55
Secretary of State National Security
1:13:57
Adviser Marco Rubio, a man who has a
1:14:00
lifetime of anti-Cuban angst built up
1:14:03
inside him, which colors his world view.
1:14:07
I wish I could finish this, but I'm not
1:14:09
going to be able to. Perhaps we'll come
1:14:10
to it tomorrow, and I shouldn't have
1:14:12
started. I didn't think I had enough
1:14:14
time. I'm Samuel Trap. This is
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International Flavor. Join me tomorrow
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