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  Speaker 1: A lot of fundamental principles.
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  Speaker 2: I'll readout self interesting and an individual ones.
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  Speaker 1: This is the show, all right, everybody, welcome to your
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  Speaker 1: one book show on this uh Wednesday, March eighteenth. Hope
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  Speaker 1: everybody is having a a great week so far. And
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  Speaker 1: uh ready for another episode the your on book show.
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  Speaker 1: All right, We're gonna jump in with the with an
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  Speaker 1: update on Iran, on the warn Iran. And it's like
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  Speaker 1: every day there's something new going on there and important
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  Speaker 1: no video, thank you?
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  Speaker 2: All right, there we go.
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  Speaker 1: All right, but let's let me stop by by saying
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  Speaker 1: I was wrong about something yesterday. Uh, you know on
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  Speaker 1: thern book show. We'd like to correct. I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: correct my mistakes when I make them. Uh and and
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  Speaker 1: uh so we're going to do that first. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think and I think the mistake coming yesterday is
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  Speaker 1: related to the fact that there was no video.
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  Speaker 2: A minute ago.
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  Speaker 1: I have to admit I'm you know, I'm I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: taking I'm taking drugs to deal with these uh massive
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  Speaker 1: attack of.
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  Speaker 2: Sand flies on me.
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  Speaker 1: Uh and that that is having maybe having an impact
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  Speaker 1: anyway yesterday I said yesterday, I said that the Czecher
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm laughing now, because it's kind of funny
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  Speaker 1: that I said this, that the Czech Republic in Austria
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  Speaker 1: was sending were sending ships to the Straits of Homos,
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  Speaker 1: And of course that's ridiculous. The Czech Republic and Austria
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  Speaker 1: a landlocked countries with no poets and no navies and
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  Speaker 1: no ships, and I know anything else like that. And
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  Speaker 1: I read it online and I didn't think and I
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  Speaker 1: just reported to you.
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  Speaker 2: So I apologize for that.
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  Speaker 1: It was a stupid mistake, mistake, something I should have
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  Speaker 1: known a boat. I should have known that it was ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: And today I saw another one. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: it's not for the same source, but another thing about
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  Speaker 1: Poland sending two aircraft carriers.
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  Speaker 2: But here I knew Poland doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Have two aircraft carriers, doesn't have one. I doesn't have navy,
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't have aircraft carriers. And I remembered the
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  Speaker 1: I made yesterday, so I didn't do it again. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm learning from my own mistakes. I will try. It
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  Speaker 1: really happens, But once in a while it does happen
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  Speaker 1: where I say something that was completely wrong, that one
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  Speaker 1: was ridiculous, you know, because I mean to Austria. I
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  Speaker 1: know Austria. I know where check republic is. I know
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  Speaker 1: that landlocked all right, fog of war and all of
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  Speaker 1: that mind fog of war, I guess, and all of that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, they are testa means are maybe doing
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  Speaker 1: the trick on me a little bit, that is. And anyway,
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  Speaker 1: let's let's keep going on Iran. And this is all
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  Speaker 1: the stuff I'll say today, for the most part, is verified.
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  Speaker 2: The stuff is not verified.
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  Speaker 1: I will say that it's not verified, so that we
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  Speaker 1: are all on the same We're all on the same page,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Is all this morning a confirmed elimination of
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  Speaker 1: Ismail Katib in Tehran. The Israelis assassinated.
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  Speaker 2: Him last night.
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  Speaker 1: Katib was basically the head of the Ministry of Intelligence
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  Speaker 1: of Iran. Ministry was a post he was appointed to
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one by al Kamini. He's held several
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  Speaker 1: key positions within the Stomic Revelutionary God Corpse. He is
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  Speaker 1: both a Mullah and a member of the Islamic Revolutionary
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  Speaker 1: God and Core not Corps Core Core. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why in English you put a pee there when
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  Speaker 1: you're not supposed to pronounce the p it's very confusing.
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  Speaker 1: People fix your English spelling that it really is bizolved anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I tell you to phonetically say words, and then phonics
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  Speaker 1: is out the window and doesn't mean anything. Let's see. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: head of the ad Ministry of Intelligence played a significant
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  Speaker 1: role in directing arrest and killing of demonstrators during the
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  Speaker 1: Goals Revolution and during the recent protests you know this January.
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  Speaker 1: But again to remind you, also he ran the intelligence
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  Speaker 1: department during the Mashamini protests, the Goals Revolution in twenty
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  Speaker 1: two twenty three. He's got a lot of blood in
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  Speaker 1: his hands. Guy. And of course you also oversaw intelligence
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  Speaker 1: operations against Israel against the United States, including potentially the
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  Speaker 1: operation that was aimed at trying to assassinate Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: So he was assassinated last night. And basically Israel is
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  Speaker 1: going through, one by one, really everybody in positions of
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  Speaker 1: significance within the administration and.
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  Speaker 2: Eliminating them.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you have to take an account that
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  Speaker 1: this is really unprecedented. It really is unprecedented for during
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  Speaker 1: a war to go after the political leadership of the
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  Speaker 1: opposing country. Military leadership, okay, but the political leadership. It's
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  Speaker 1: very very rare. And suddenly kind of having the systematic
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  Speaker 1: approach of taking leader after leader after leader of a
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  Speaker 1: supposedly according to the United Nations sovereign country. I can't
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  Speaker 1: think of a single war where this is happening, and
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  Speaker 1: I think this is making a lot of people around
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  Speaker 1: the world pretty uncomfortable and fearful. Usually the idea is
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  Speaker 1: you don't want to take out the other party's political leadership,
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  Speaker 1: because then they could take out yours. That are legitimizers
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  Speaker 1: taking out yours. But here is All doesn't care. You know,
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  Speaker 1: is All doesn't care about that legitimacy. It is going
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  Speaker 1: after the people truly responsible for the attacks on it,
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  Speaker 1: truly responsible for the nuclear program, for the ballistic missile program,
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  Speaker 1: for all the sins, the terrorism, the support of Ramas,
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  Speaker 1: the supports Bala, all the sins of the Iranian regime.
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  Speaker 1: They're going after the people who are most responsible for
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  Speaker 1: those and maybe in the first time in history a
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  Speaker 1: military conflict, Israel is directly punishing, directly punishing those who
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  Speaker 1: are most responsible. They're not going to walk away from this.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to get asylum in Russia. They're not
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  Speaker 1: going to continue living their lives. They're dead and Israel's
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  Speaker 1: now killed a significant number of the people responsible for
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  Speaker 1: the Islamic Republic's sins from the last four years, and
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  Speaker 1: it continues. Indeed, yesterday's elimination of Ali Lomi Johnny, you know,
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  Speaker 1: is stunned the Iranian elites, at least according to intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: It's stunned the Ranian elites because, you know, everybody knew
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  Speaker 1: that is always trying to kill him. He had taken
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  Speaker 1: all the protective measures, he had you know, hidden, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, okay, how many everybody knew who he was
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  Speaker 1: or assumed they knew where he was but here, and
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  Speaker 1: everybody assumed Israel would never go after him. But after
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  Speaker 1: how many was taken out, the assumption was, yeah, they're
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  Speaker 1: going after the leadership. They did the same thing in
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  Speaker 1: the Twelve Day War, and they're going after people hide
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  Speaker 1: and they did hide. And so this is after all
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  Speaker 1: the security precautions, and there's still got to him. And
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  Speaker 1: according to according to this you know story, I think
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  Speaker 1: according to the story, there's a widespread feeling of anxiety
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  Speaker 1: that Israel would not stop until all Uranian leaders are
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  Speaker 1: killed and the Islamic Republic falls. I hope that's true.
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  Speaker 1: You know, officials are calling each other. They don't know
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  Speaker 1: what to do, they don't know how to keep themselves safe,
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  Speaker 1: they don't know who's the next target, they don't know
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  Speaker 1: who to trust.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody is leaking information.
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  Speaker 1: Then this is exactly the kind of stuff that you need,
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  Speaker 1: that kind of this uncertainty, this distrust, this who's leaking,
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  Speaker 1: who's next, what's going to happen? This is exactly what
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  Speaker 1: you need in order to create the environment, in order
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  Speaker 1: to create the possibility of regime change, of the internal
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  Speaker 1: crumbling of the regime itself.
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  Speaker 2: And this is, if you will, what Israel.
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  Speaker 1: Is achieving now to boast of this, to bolster this,
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  Speaker 1: These Raelis are actually calling up some of these i
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  Speaker 1: GC commanders and you know, and and and kind of
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  Speaker 1: egging them on. This is This is from the Wall
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  Speaker 1: Street Journal. According to Wall Street Journal, is there any
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  Speaker 1: intelligence officials began placing calls to individual commanders, threatening them
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  Speaker 1: and their families by name if they didn't stand aside
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  Speaker 1: in the event of an uprising? According to people familiar
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  Speaker 1: with the matter, The General reviewed the context of one
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  Speaker 1: call between a senior Uranian police commander and an agent
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  Speaker 1: of the Mossad. Can you hear me a Masad agent
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  Speaker 1: can be heard speaking in Fossey. We know everything about you.
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  Speaker 1: You're on a blacklist and we have all the information
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  Speaker 1: about you. Okay, the commander said in the recording, I
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  Speaker 1: called to warn you in advance that you should stand
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  Speaker 1: with your people's side, and if you will not do that,
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  Speaker 1: your destiny will be as your leader. Do you hear me? Brother?
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  Speaker 1: I swear in the Qur'an? I'm not your enemy, the
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  Speaker 1: commander said, I'm a dead man already. Please just please
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  Speaker 1: please come help us. So this you know he's pretending
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  Speaker 1: to be. You know, I guess one of the oppositions.
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  Speaker 1: Who wants help? Who wants to get out of there?
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  Speaker 1: Article continues. Documents reviewed by the Journal show that the
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  Speaker 1: strike's targeting everything from Thalara, the Revolutionary Guard unit responsible
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  Speaker 1: for protecting the capitol, down to neighborhood police stations into
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  Speaker 1: Heron is all aimed for sites where Israeli intelligence that
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  Speaker 1: determined the regime personnel were present. The targets then broadened.
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  Speaker 1: Israeli intelligent to learn that Iran had a fallback plan
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  Speaker 1: for its internal security forces in the event that facilities
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  Speaker 1: were destroyed, mustering at local sports complexes. Is or watch
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  Speaker 1: the sites fill up and then hit them. Before the
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  Speaker 1: end of the first week. Those strikes, according to battle
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  Speaker 1: damage assessments seen by the journal, were among the deadliest
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  Speaker 1: of the war, killing hundreds of members of the security
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  Speaker 1: services and the military, the vast majority at Azadi Stadium,
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  Speaker 1: a large venue for soccer games. I mean, you got
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  Speaker 1: to be amazed at the quality of the intelligence and
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  Speaker 1: the willingness of Israel to follow through and execute and
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  Speaker 1: just eliminate these people, right. I mean, the only more
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  Speaker 1: radical and more radical thing that they could have done
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  Speaker 1: is like take Arii Khameni's wedding or the event the
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  Speaker 1: other day, the Jerusalem Day where masses of people came
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  Speaker 1: out into the streets and senior leadership was among them,
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  Speaker 1: bombing that. But you can only imagine the world's response
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  Speaker 1: to that. People would have freaked out completely at bombing
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  Speaker 1: mass gatherings. Now remember these math gatherings of regime supporters,
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  Speaker 1: the people who make the regime possible.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't expect Israel.
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  Speaker 1: To do that.
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  Speaker 2: It would be nice, but I don't expect them.
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  Speaker 1: To do that.
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  Speaker 2: But the.
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  Speaker 1: Fact that they're willing to follow these people around, kill
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  Speaker 1: them wherever they are, kill large numbers of them and
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  Speaker 1: kill them. While technically right, the defense less against israel
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  Speaker 1: Is als just controls the sky shoots at anything they
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  Speaker 1: want to shoot at. Is pretty amazing. Did I say wedding,
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  Speaker 1: I'm in funeral. Did I say wedding? There you go,
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  Speaker 1: Antiestames again, I'm in funeral. So that was the latest assassination.
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  Speaker 1: I expect others as the war goes on, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't expect it to end in the next few days.
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  Speaker 1: You know, maybe in the next few weeks, but not in
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  Speaker 1: the next few days. Let's see.
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  Speaker 2: In addition, this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Is all struck on shore processing facilities for natural gas
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  Speaker 1: in the Luya zone. This is like this is the
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  Speaker 1: main natural gas field in Iran and and and really
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe the biggest in the world because part
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  Speaker 1: of it sits in Yuan and part of it sits
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  Speaker 1: underneath the Gulf and and follows into the UEE. So
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  Speaker 1: these are these are the field is is is connected.
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  Speaker 1: It's a massive field. It comprises seventy percent of Iwan's
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  Speaker 1: natural gas. Uh is all hit the processing facility in
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  Speaker 1: the field itself. Uh you know this is this is
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  Speaker 1: how Ewan gets it money by selling energy. Well, the
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  Speaker 1: natural gas or oil. It's the first time really that
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  Speaker 1: Israel or the United States have hit the economic you know,
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  Speaker 1: heart of the Iranian regime. They've hit something that is
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  Speaker 1: at the at the essential for the economy of of
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  Speaker 1: of the regime, that is the petrochemical plants, both oil
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  Speaker 1: and natural gas. It's signaling to the Iranians, we can
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  Speaker 1: go after economic targets. We can destroy your lifeline. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this this attack was cleared with the Americans as far
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  Speaker 1: as we know right reports art was cleared with the Americans.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it'll be surprising. I guess if if we
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  Speaker 1: hear later today or tomorrow, did the Americans say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you shouldn't have done that as well. Now maybe they
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  Speaker 1: will just to protect themselves. But now this is a
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  Speaker 1: big deal, of course, because the Iranians are really pissed
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  Speaker 1: off and now saying that now that they'll definitely close
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  Speaker 1: the Homo Straits and now they're going to attack all
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  Speaker 1: the Gulf States. They're gonna attack they oil, the natural
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  Speaker 1: gas facilities.
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  Speaker 2: Everything's on the table.
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  Speaker 1: But is Tho's purpose here, and I think back by
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  Speaker 1: the United States is to tell the Uranians the opposite
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  Speaker 1: of that. It's basically to tell the Uranians, look, you
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  Speaker 1: can close the Homo straight. You can do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of damage to the US economy and the global economy,
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  Speaker 1: and we will basically bomb you into the Middle Ages. Right.
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  Speaker 1: We will take away your entire economic lifeline. We will
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  Speaker 1: make it impossible for you, impossible for you to have
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  Speaker 1: any revenue in the foreseeable future. We will destroy your
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  Speaker 1: economic and your economic capabilities. You will not be able
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  Speaker 1: to rebuild your on and you will have no economy.
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  Speaker 1: You're struggling already. Your people are poor, already, have inflation already.
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  Speaker 1: You know people are there's not enough water already. Your
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  Speaker 1: economy is in shambles already. We can really make it shambles.
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  Speaker 1: We can really devastate it. And the idea is keep
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  Speaker 1: the Homemos straits open or else. So the whole purpose
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  Speaker 1: of this was to signal to Iran if it continues
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  Speaker 1: destructing all supply through the states of Homos, there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be escalation and Israel in the United States are
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  Speaker 1: going to talk about the energy facilities and basically destroy
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  Speaker 1: the Ranian economy whether it works. Again, Remember, this is
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  Speaker 1: a regime that is suicidal. It's a regime that is
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  Speaker 1: clearly suicidal, So who knows, they might say, go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and bomb us to oblivion. Now, you know the attacks
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  Speaker 1: of the Iranians on Golf State oil facilities that already
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  Speaker 1: have happened, already have happened. And in addition to that,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the Homost Straits are closed is really
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  Speaker 1: pissing off the Gulf States, you know, quit even Iraq,
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  Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia, Uee, Bahrain, Oman maybe because you know, they're
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  Speaker 1: basically saying, look in the saying this to the Americans,
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  Speaker 1: if you leave this regime alive and well, if you
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  Speaker 1: would draw at this point without opening the Homos Straits,
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  Speaker 1: they will keep using this as a weapon against all
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  Speaker 1: of us. And indeed, what's happened is that the Golf
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  Speaker 1: States now want the United States make sure there's either
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  Speaker 1: regime change or Iwan is completely crippled economically if they're
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  Speaker 1: going to end the war. Here's a Sultan al Jabara,
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  Speaker 1: the UAE Minister of Industry quote. Any long term political
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  Speaker 1: settlement must address the full spectrum of threats, including euon's
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  Speaker 1: nuclear program, ballistic missilese capabilities, and the network of regional proxies.
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  Speaker 1: Let me make it very clear, since the Ranian attacks
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  Speaker 1: have started on Katau. The threat and attacks on civilian
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  Speaker 1: targets have not stopped. This is actually that was actually
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  Speaker 1: the Katau's prime minister. He says. By taking Homo's hostage,
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  Speaker 1: Iwan is committing global economic warfare. This is a global
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  Speaker 1: economic issue. It is not a regional problem. The disruption
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  Speaker 1: is going to increase inflation, It will slow economic economies,
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  Speaker 1: It will affect everyday lives. Families will end up paying
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  Speaker 1: more for food. Notice how they are blaming you. They're
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: not blaming the West, They're not blaming isol They're not
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  Speaker 1: Traditionally they would have blamed Israel for all their problems
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  Speaker 1: and for the global problems, they would have blamed the
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  Speaker 1: United States. But here they are clearly blaming you on
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: if nothing else, that's a huge shift in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 1: A professor Daha University for Graduate Studies in qataro again says,
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  Speaker 1: leaving you around in control of the states are forms.
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  Speaker 1: Once the gun falls, silence would be a disappointment for
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  Speaker 1: all the Gulf states. Once the constant concludes, he says, quote,
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  Speaker 1: we will be in a position to quickly turn around
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  Speaker 1: and ramp up production to go back and reach our
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: capacities the brutal Iranian aggression will not break us, but
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  Speaker 1: victory is essential. And indeed, more and more reports are
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  Speaker 1: coming out that Trump. One of the reasons Trump is
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: is staying on this and not doing what he often does,
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  Speaker 1: which is retreat, changed his mind en it in is
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  Speaker 1: because the Golf States, who I think he respects and
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: listens to, all telling him you have to finish this,
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  Speaker 1: you have to finish this regime, you have to go
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  Speaker 1: all the way.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see if that happens.
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  Speaker 1: But having the Golf States on the Israeli side, who
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  Speaker 1: also are constantly saying we have to go the whole way.
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  Speaker 2: Is a big, big, big plus.
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  Speaker 1: So this.
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  Speaker 2: Is good again.
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  Speaker 1: I expect expect us to continue for another few another
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Can't tell exactly how long it'll take,
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  Speaker 1: but really it depends on how the United States and
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: when the United States really solves the issue of the
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  Speaker 1: straits of Homo's. One step in that direction finally happened
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  Speaker 1: this morning. I think it's this morning, and that is
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  Speaker 1: yes this morning, and that is that, or maybe it
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  Speaker 1: was I think late yesterday and that is that the.
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  Speaker 2: United States started.
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  Speaker 1: Bombing, I mean using big bombs. Five thousand pound bombs,
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  Speaker 1: not the thirty five thousand you know, mother of all whatever,
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  Speaker 1: but five thousand bunket busting bombs. They started dropping five
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  Speaker 1: thousand pound bombs on Uranian missile sites. These are not
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  Speaker 1: the ballistic missile sites. These are the anti ship missile sites.
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  Speaker 1: So they are now bombing along the coast of the
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  Speaker 1: Persian Gulf. They are bombing sites that they know hold
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  Speaker 1: the anti ship weapons that the Ranians have, and they're
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  Speaker 1: using five thousand pound bombs because these are all in bunkers.
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  Speaker 2: In Iuan along the coast, and so.
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  Speaker 1: The United States last yesterday, i think last night, attack
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  Speaker 1: these five thousand pounds deep penetrative munitions. This was dropped
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  Speaker 1: on hard and Iranian missile sites on the coastline near
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: the Straits of Foremoes with the idea of clearing the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: threat of land to see missiles from obstructing, obstructing traffic
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and damaging ships and primarily now damaging the warships. They
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: escort the commercial ships out of there. The missiles all
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: underground where you know, the missiles are stored, drones are stored, boats,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: small boats are stored underground. And the United States is
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: now trying at least the systematically destroy destroy those so
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: good step. I mean this goes back to my recommendation,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: which it seems like the administration's picked up on, which
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: is basically to bomb that coastline and into oblivion, to
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: destroy everything along that coastline that could be used against ships,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: to to to make it not impossible because you know,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: but they it diminished the capabilities of disrupting shipping as
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: much as possible and then started escorting UH and escorting
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: UH strategy UH and UH. And while it's true that
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: the that the CHECK and the UH Austrian navies are
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: not coming to the rescue, it does seem like it
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: does seem like Europe maybe is going to change his
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: mind and and and support this effort. I mean, they
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: have to think this through, right, I mean, Uh, if
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the UPS say this is not our war, Trump is
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: very prediculibly going to say, and maybe has already said
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Ukraine isn't our war either. I think strategically it makes
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: complete sense for the Europeans to engage in defensive activities,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: defending shipping lanes, defending the straits of Homos at the
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: American requests. I think they'd make a huge mistake. If
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: they don't do that, I think ultimately they're going to
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: come around. I think the French supposedly already committed to
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: doing it. I think the Brited, British Bits and others
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: who actually have navies, not the ones who don't have navies.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: The ones who have navies will ultimately send ships to
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: help with this. And as I said before, I think
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the Japanese are interested. India's already doing it. They already
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: have boats in the in the Gulf and escorting ships out.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: And I think you might see other countries as well.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: And then of course the United States, the United States
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: will will enter with its own ships. Is also qud
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Baba says, check Republicans landlock.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: I'm confused. Yes, you're right.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I was kidding. I was kidding because I made that
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: mistake yesterday. Check Republicans landlocked. Austria's landlock can get they
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: don't have a navy. So but the countries that do
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: have navies I think will ultimately uh uh send over
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: and help you know. And and then if you look
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: at just a few minutes ago, really yeah, about two
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: hours ago, NATO Secretavid General Mark Route it says that
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: allies are quickly finding a way to secure the Straits
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: of Homoes. This is a quote from him. I have
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: been in contact with many allies. Straights have to open.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Allies are discussing how to do that. They're working to
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: find a way forward. So I think you'll see. I
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: think you'll see that NATO countries will ultimately send troops.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: I think Route has a decent relationship with Trump, and also,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: as the command of Secretary General of NATO has kind
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: of a broad up perspective. He knows what it means
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: to piss off Trump. And given the Europeans still want
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Trump support over Ukraine, I think they're going to step
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: forward here. But we'll see, you know, I'm not convinced,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: but we will. We will see. In the meantime, again,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I read conflicting stories. I don't know it really is
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: how to get objective information about what exactly is going
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: on in the Straits of Homos to what extent traffic
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: is blocked with this latest post I saw and I've
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: seen some corroboration of this, but again, how to confirm
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: how to find objective information about this? But supposedly the
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: traffic going through the States of Homos is increasing now
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: this is before the Israeli struck the gas facility. So
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know what happens then, but the fact is
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: that it's now a twenty five percent of the pre
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: war level.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: And suppose the increasing.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: If you look at all prices before is Or struck
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the gas facilities, they had come down to about ninety
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: one and ninety one is still significantly higher than it
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: was before the war, but still far away from the
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty two hundred, two hundred dollars a
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: barrel that people talked about. And even after the strike,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: gas is now cud oilers now ninety seven dollars of bous.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: It went up almost ten percent with the news that
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: that is all struckt the gas facility. But there's no
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: panic in the market. The market is not saying yeah,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I mean, we're expecting just to stay close forever and
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: gas prices or prices going to be at.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: One hundred and fifty.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Enough is flowing out of the straits of Homoes Sadi Arabia,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: as I told you, it shifted oil to its west coast.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I read today that Iraq has re re what's the word,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: restarted pumping oil through a gas line that takes the
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: oil from South yok all the way to through Turkey
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: to a port in Turkey. It's more expensive for the
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Iraqis to sell all that way, but it means they
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: can get a certain percentage of the oil they would
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: normally ship out to get the revenue, but also supply
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the world with oil markets. UAE has a pipeline that
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: goes around the Straits of Homos, and I think if
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: you add all up together, it's still you know, in
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: the constriction of the straits, it's still a problem for
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: world market. It's been a problem at ninety seven or
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: ninety one dollars a barrow, not yet a problem at
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty dollars a barrow, which is what
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: everybody's panicking about. One hundred and fifty would the real
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: disaster for the global economy. So it hasn't reached that level.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: It seems like Iran is going to allow movement of
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: what they call friendly tankers. It's also true that you know,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Russia is at full capacity trying to get as much
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: oil out there and selling it. Because Trump has eliminated
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the tariffs, so temporarily lifted the tariffs, they're trying to
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: get as much oil sold while the tariffs are being lifted,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: so they can generate as much revenue as they can.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Because Russia is in deep, deep, deep trouble financially. So
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe this oil catastrophe is not going to
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: be such a catastrophe as everybody claims it is. It
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: is worth noting that it's not just oil that is
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: the problem. It's we talked about this fertilizer. It's a
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: huge problem for fertilizer, fortilizer prices arising dramatically. It's also
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: the case that this effects of all things chip production,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: micro semiconductor production. It turns out that michael semiconductor production
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: relies on helium. Helium is a byproduct of natural gas processes.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: Processing. The kataries.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Produce about thirty a third of the global helium supply. Well,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: that has gone up down a lot, you know, to
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: zero because Katar says they've shut down their natural gas
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: facility for now. As a result, helium prices have gone
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: up more than one hundred percent since the run war began.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: So there's some prices out there.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: While oil has gone up around fifty percent, helium has
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: gone up one hundred percent. There are it appears lots
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: of kind of consequences to the closing of the Homo
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: straits and the UAE shutting of its It's was the
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Katago or the UAE the shutdown, the KATAU shutting down
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: their natural gas facility.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: We will see how long that happens.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Now, the world has a inventory of about forty five
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: days of helium, So if the war ends within forty
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: five days, nothing really will happen. But for now, for now,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: prices are through. The helium is essential for semiconductor manufacturing
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: and myrine machines, fiber optics, space exploration, and there is
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: no viable substitution. Another way in which your life is
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: so so, so, so so dependent on fossil fuel. Just
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: more ammunition for alex Epstein's theory. You know, alex Epstein's book,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: alex Epstein's advocacy around for south heels. We cannot survive.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: We cannot survive without farsouth fuels. Oh, somebody mentions that
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: helium is needed for jennifersis for balloons, for making funny voices.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Helium is necessary to make that squeaky funny voice when
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: you inhale it, when you inhale it. So I don't
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: know how the world will survive without funny voice balloons.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: All right, I suppose he Samsung and South Koreans and
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: as well as the Taiwanese all TSMC are looking for
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: alternative sources. South Korea gets sixty four percent of its
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: helium from Qatar, so they're looking for other places that
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: might process natural gas, you know, LNG facilities to get it.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: I wonder if they're if the US produces helium as
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: a byproduct of the LNG facilities, and I just don't know,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: but maybe they could ramp up, Maybe the United States
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: could ramp up production.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Finally, well not finally, but one of.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: The the Marines on their way, so somewhere between twenty
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: five hundred fire we know marines on their way right
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: now to the combat zone. The USS Tripoli Amphibious Group
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: just passed through the Malacca Straits and it's on the
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: way to the Iranian Arena. Uh. The Tripoli is a
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: light aircraft carrier. It has twenty vertical takeoff aircraft helicopters,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: large landing ships and as part of its entourage at
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: large landing ships at destroyer and it has with it
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: twenty five hundred marines. Now this Amphibious Group could be
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: the group that will be responsible for the taking of
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Kakh Island. We've talked about the island, which is used
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: for ninety plus percent of all the ex Iranian exports
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: of oil and I think natural gas. And of course
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the United States is really bombed island and taking out
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: its military facilities. This Amphibious Marine group could be there
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: to basically provide boots on the ground on the island
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: with the idea that the Americans take the island, use
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: that to force the Iranians to open up the straits. Right,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: you want your island back, you want your oil to flow,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: open up the straits. Just a few more things about
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: the war. More and more reports are coming out and
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: they seem to be more and more credible that Russia
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: is providing significant intelligence reports support to the Iranians. This
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: is not surprising at all. I don't know why people
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: seem to be shocked about this. The Russians are providing
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: them with satellite imaging, targeting, intel and even some upgraded
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: drone tech. The Russians got their original drone tech from
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: the Iranians, and I think that they've improved on the
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: drones and they're sending it, they're sending it back. The
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: data supposedly includes data on US military positions across the region.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: And that's why to the extent that the Iranians are
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: being successful in targeting US facilities, it's a lot of
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: it is due to intelligence they're getting from the Russians.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Now this again is this next story is again fog
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: of war had to tell impossible to verify, at least
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: for now. But this is this is video of supposedly
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: an Iran of a car driving by a besiege like
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: roadblock and the passenger in the passions of seed, taking
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: out a some automatic weapon and basically shooting down, mowing
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: down the besiege guards while driving and continuing to drive off.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: And supposedly there are several there are more and more
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: reports are these kind of drive by shooting attacks against
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: the besize militia checkpoints in Ion. Now this is great
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: news if it is true. Now it's not clear are
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: these Iranians that it may be been on by these
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Raelis or maybe have weapons anyway, or maybe being on
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: by the Kods or whoever, the Cia, or is this Mosad.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: I think it's unlikely to be the Masad, but maybe
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: it's the Mosad, but it really does seem like the
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Aians are armed or there are weapons in the streets,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: and that at least somebody is standing up to the
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: repressive forces of the regime, not just in the EBB,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: but on the ground. Reports also indicate that many more
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: and more of the besieged militia members are just a
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: few years refusing to go to work, to work and
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: refusing to show up. This is also you can this
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: is also related to the fact that they're not getting
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: paid because Israel bombed the data center of the bank
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: that provided them with checks and they haven't got that
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: up and going yet, and so most of military an
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Iran is just not getting paid all right. So that's
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: kind of what's happening on the ground. A few more
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: related stories that you know, uh, the kind of ongoing
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: that we've discussed before, but worth highlighting again. It just
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: stuns me that the amount of negative negativity there is
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: out there again about the war and among Americans, among
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: American intellectuals. There's another guy, you remember we talked about
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: at Meisch Meisch meis Meisch Maya Meisch and Maya Mysen
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: something like that, Musha Maya. Anyway, that guy. The guy's
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: horble on in Ukraine and and just awful on Israel
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: and Iran, just a clueless and he is a University
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: of Chicago professor political science and very well known Mushmaya.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: And how completely wrong and immoral and dishonest he is.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: He was dishonest about Ukraine and wrong about Ukraine and
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: and just a putent puppet on Ukraine.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: And now he's Yeah.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Muscheimer, Okay, Muscheimer, I got it.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: I got close enough.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: You all knew who I meant Muscheimer or Muschhead as
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Jennifer sis much hit.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: I like that mush Head anyway.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: There's another guy, Robert Poppe Pape, and shockingly, he's also
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: a professor of political science at the University of Chicago.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: I wonder if Mushima hired this guy.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know he hired mushrom Oh, but they're both there,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: and they're both losers. This guy specializes in security affairs.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: He's the founding director of the Chicago Project and Security
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: and threats sounds impressive, he writes. Ewon is not losing
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: it's gaining power. Since February twenty eighth, Ewon has exported
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: over ten million bottles of oil, earning one billion or
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: more as price of oil has soared and shock waves
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: hit the region and Western economies. So you know, this
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: is a guy who again Iran is winning somehow because
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: all prices have gone up. Remember, the Indian regime is devastated.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: They've lost many, many, many, many, many, many, many many
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: many of their leaders. They lost all their warplanes, all
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: their missile launchers. They're losing their nuclea facilities slowly. They've
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: lost their weapons, arsenals. They've lost over one hundred boats.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Of the navy. They have no navy to speak of anymore.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: They've lost the capacity to produce drones and missiles. They've
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: lost hundreds, if not thousands of drones. I mean, the
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: entire regime is on the verge of collapse. The economies
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: in tatters. And okay, they made money on the oil,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: but what are they do with that money. They're completely
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: under siege and the competing incapacitated. Yet a professor at
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: the University of Chicago University I used to have a
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: huge amount of respect for, and yet now I have
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: two political scientists who are ignorant, stupid, IMO. All of
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: the above pretty stunning, pretty stunning of course there were
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: also all these all these reports that there was a
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: deal on the table, and uh, basically Euon was willing
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: to do everything that Trump wanted, and what was the
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: point of the diplomacy.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: It was just a facade.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: And of course Jon didn't want to do everything the
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: United States wanted. It wasn't willing to disable its ballistic missiles,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: it wasn't willing to stop funding Isabella and the Hooties
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: and the rest, and it wasn't even willing to hand
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: over the the uranium. So but the story is among
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: both left wing and this is all coming from left
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: and right, far left, far right, all agree of the
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: immorality and the wrongness of the of this war. And
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: uh and uh yeah, and of course this is a
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: story that basically Israel has dragged the United States.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Into this war.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: This war is completely Israel's fault.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: We'll get to that in a minute.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: But one more and this is Timothy Sneider, who is
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: a professor at University of Texas. I guess, yeah, I
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: remember as a professor Atto, but I guess he's emiratus
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: professor at Yale. I mean, he's very good in Ukraine.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: He's written a lot of really really good books, very
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: very knowledgeable, and yes, on this he is completely Here's
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: what he wrote. He says he took the greatest military
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: force in world history, lost the war in a middle
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: into a middle power in a week, begging the world
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: to save him, and demanded that the media lie about.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: This and everything else.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: So it's basically saying Trump has lost this wall and
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: begging the rest of the world to save him and
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: the middle power is i Wan is winning? I mean,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: what world is he in? What is he looking at?
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's absolutely no question that Iwan as last night.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: You can argue Trump Americasm won, but you can't say
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: I won won. You can't say he lost to Iran.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, if anything, Trump, the only way Trump can
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: lose this is to lose his own short sightedness and impatience.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: But I won, he lost the IVON.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, if Timothy Snyder has seen what's going on,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: the complete and other dominance that Israel and the United
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: States have over Iran, that that the fact that the
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Ranians can do anything. They've killed maybe a little of
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: a dozen people in Israel because they send these missiles
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: blind to massively dense population centers, killing civilians on purpose.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: That gets no condemnation.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: The fact that the Iranians are bombing residential towers in
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Bahrain and Yue, and of course Israel nobody condemns them. Right,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: it's all American Israel's fault, and of course it's all
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: assigned that the Iranians are winning somehow. Now, this idea
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: that it's all Israel's fault and Israel dragged the United
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: States into the door is not It's not a new idea.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is the kind of antisemitic anti Israeli
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: rhetoric that's existed for decades. For example, in the nineteen sixties,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: The Weather Underground on the far left described Israel as
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: a Nazi state and a racist atrocity. The klu Klux
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Klan wizard David Duke on the far right, accused the
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: Zionists of controlling the US government. He literally said they
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: control it, lock stock and battle An. The idea that
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Jews manipulate American leaders into going to war is being
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: around for a century. Henry Ford blamed the outbreak of
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: World War One on German Jewish bankers, and before America
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: entered World War II, Charles Lindberg, associated with the American
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: right singled out the Jews for quote, pressing the country
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: towards war that didn't determine policy. Now everybody blamed the
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: Israel and the Jews and the neo khon Jews. A
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: lot of the neocons were Jews for the Afghan War
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: and for the Iraq war. You know, Professor Professor Stephen
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: Walt said, virtually all neo conservatives also deeply committed Zionists
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: who believed that the United States would used the military
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: power to promote.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: Israel is 's interest.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: It is no accident that nineteen ninety eight the neo
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: conservatives started pushing for the war for war against Iraq,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: not against Afghanistan or North Korea. So it just continues.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: It's always Jewish complicity, it's always the Jews, it's always
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: Israel manipulating American presidents are completely unable to say no. Now,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: all the examples of which I've given in past shows
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: all the examples of where the United States and the
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: United States presidents of hampered the ability of Israel to
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: defend itself, hampered the ability of Israel to win, hampered
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: even to some extent, the existence of the state of Israel.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: That all goes ignored. That doesn't count. According to Carson
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: candae On and many many, many, many, many many many
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: on the far right and the far left, Israel is
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: behind every calamity, every calamity, and Israel eight pac and
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Israel hold the American government left or right, Democrats or Republicans.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: They control it completely. They control it completely. So you know,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: that didn't prevent the United States from having a arms
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: and bogo on Israel from nineteen forty eight until nineteen
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: sixty seven, almost sixty seven, early sixties. They allowed some
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: arm sales, very little to Israel. It didn't stop them
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: from stopping the Israelis in nineteen seventy three from finishing
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: off the Egyptian Third Army, or from moving forward towards
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Cairo and Damascus.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: It didn't stop.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: It didn't stop the Americans from stopping Israel from killing
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: yes or Off in nineteen eighty two when he got
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: a guarantee of safety from Ronald Reagan and prevented Israel
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: from occupying West bay Wood. You know, on and on
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: and on and on and on, killing as Aphad in
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: the early two thousand year, in the Second Intevada twice
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: alk Schean who was Prime Minister of Israel at the
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: time was on the verge of killing Alphad and Jeorge
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Bush told him not to. It didn't stop the United
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: States from imposing its will and Israel to allow Hamas
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: to run in the elections in the Palestinian Authority in
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: the mid two thousands, thus guaranteeing Hamas victory.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: And control over the Gaza Strip.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Now, I mean the United States and Israel. Most of
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: the time, the United States is reigning Israel. In most
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: of the time, the United States is acting in opposition
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: to Israeli interests. In Israeli once, particularly when it comes
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: to blowing to actually, you know, defeating the enemies, and
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: even in Gaza, one could argue that cease fire and
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: cease fire deals were not in Israel's interests. Israel interest
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: was the complete occupation of Gaza Strip and the annihilation
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: of Ramas. So no, as well as the United States
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: is not in Israel's pockets in spite of all these claims.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: But they ignore reality. People easily freely ignore reality and
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: perpetuate lies, perpetuate lies, and and don't forget it's all
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: I wanted to continue the Twelve Day War, and Trump
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: stopped them. Trump stopped him. All right. That is basically
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: the newse of you on for today. I'm sure there'll
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: be more tomorrow, we'll see, but that is basically, uh,
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Trump is literally Jewish, though really, how's how's Trump Jewish? God?
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: That's bisult. He's got a Jewish son in law. That's
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: about as Jewish as he is. All right, so we
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: will go on to other news.
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: Give me one less than a minute.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: All right. One of the consequences of rising or prices
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: or prices in the nineties is Trump is looking for
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: ways to lower those prices while the straights of homores
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: are blocked, or at least partially blocked. And you know,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: they're releasing or from the strategicalserve, and they're trying to
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: find other ways to deal with rising or prices. And
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: one of the ways in which they're trying to deal
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: with rising.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: Or prices is by uh it is.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: It happened today when Trump issued a sixty day waiver
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: sixty day waiver of the of the Jones Act, a
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: temporary suspension of the Jones Act, which is pretty amazing.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: It's an interesting admission by the administration. They're doing it
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: with the Jones Act. Actually will reduce prices. We all
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: know that. But the Jones Act, one of the more
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: destructive regulations on the book from nineteen twenty, requires the
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: transportation of goods between any two US ports be conducted
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: by US flag, US manned, US built vessels.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: There are very few of those, so very.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: Little transports between American ports and at high prices because
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: the very few boats of this very little competition. In particular,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: when you look at things like natural gas or fertilizer coal,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: their very vue boat few boats that can do that.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: There's only one LNG boat that is I think one,
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: maybe zero that is.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: Actually Jones Act approved.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: What this will allow is any foreign vessel to come
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: and transport stuff between Boston and Maryland and Baltimore. They
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: harbor in Baltimore, a lot of they have an LNG
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: I think terminal in Baltimore. They have LNG terminals in
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Houston where they can transport or in Texas where they
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: can transport.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: Oil to the.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Northeast, or in natural gas or natural gas to the Northeast.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: You know, California doesn't now have to buy its oil
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: from the Bahamas, who got it from Texas, all in
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: order to go round the Jones Act. They can just
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: buy directly from Texas. A ship can leave Texas, go
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: through the Panama Canal and show up in California, so
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: all these goods will flow a lot freer. Now, that
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: as a huge impact on Puerto Rico because Puerto Rico
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: can only use Jones AC ships to get stuff from America,
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: which means the stuff coming in from America from the
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: US is expensive and a lot of stuff just doesn't
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: come because it's too expensive to ship it. You know.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: The lowest pass just after World War One, it was
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: intended to grow the domestic shipping industry. The shipping industry
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: has only shrunk since then, you know. And this is
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: one of the stupidest, dumbest, most obviously harmful, straightforward regulations
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: that just like that could be eliminated with no real
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: consequences because there's so few JONESAC ships anyway, and the
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: ship building industry in the United States is almost non existent.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: And yet no president will do this, not a Democrat, Republican,
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: and it's bewildering. They all use national security as an excuse,
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: but there is no national security issue because the fact is,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: with the Jones Act, the shipping industry has basically gone
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: to close to zero. So it's going to be interesting
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: to see if this has an effect on all prices.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see what can affect this has
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: on other prices. You know, you would hope, but it's
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: unlikely that once they see that repealing or doing all
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: with the Jones X for sixty days actually works the
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: lower prices, increase efficiency, reduce the number of trucks in
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: the ninety five, and a lot of other good things,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: that maybe.
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: It would be repealed completely.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: That would be pretty damn amazing, but very unlikely that
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: that will happen. But I'll take the sixty days better
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: than nothing, all right. This is a pretty, I don't know,
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: a horrifying story, I guess about Caesar Chavez. I don't
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: know how much you guys know about Caesar Chavez, but
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: he is a civil rights and labor icon. He basically
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: organized farm workers in California, originally the United farm Workers Union,
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: which became a national union. He co founded it, and uh,
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: you know, he you know, fought for workers' rights and
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: minimum wages and for for for farm laborers and became
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: a massive hero for both the Latino community as well
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: as just the left more broadly, and the labor movement
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: and everything.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: And you know, I don't know.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: There are one hundred over one hundred cities around the
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: United States that have Hugo Chavez, not Hugo Shavis, says Chavez.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: Roads.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Many many, many roads around the country are named after him.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: There are you know, there's a in California, there's a
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: Caesar Chavez official state holiday named after him. Uh. And
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: and their festivals or festivities in a number of different
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: states around the country. Who got his day again as
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: a state holiday on March thirty first, Uh and uh,
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: I mean literally the legislature, state, county, and city offices
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: are closed.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: There's a march.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: Uh, there's a there's an annually sis of march in
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: in Sacramento, but also in other places all around the country. Uh.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: There's a Shovis.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: Foundation which works for again farm workers quote rights and uh.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: And so anyway, this guy is huge, looked up to,
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: worshiped by by the left. Uh. Uh you know Obama
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: and uh and I mean everybody for decades of of
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: he praise on him, giving him awards, medals, uh. Uh
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: you know, lavished him with praise. Now he he died,
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: he died in nineteen ninety three at the age of
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: sixty six. But even after his death, he's been showered
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: with accolades and compliments and again awards and all of
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: this and considered a real, a real Latin you know,
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: hero of both workers and the Latin community in the
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: United States. Well, today, I guess today the New York
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: Times bocus story in Today's New York Times. And this is,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: by the way, this is the kind of journalism it's
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: rare to get outside the mainsteam media because these guys
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: have actual reporters. They actually go and investigate and do
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: this stuff. There's not a lot of this other than that. Anyway,
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: today they boke a story that basically shows that Caesar
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: Shavez was abusing young goals as young as twelve and thirteen,
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: sexually abusing them. That he committed rape on a fifteen
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: year old, committed rape on a woman with whom he
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: co founded the Workers' Union, and you know, he raped
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: her when she was thirty six. Committed rape. These women,
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: the young goals, at least two of them, have cut
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: forward and extensively interviewed by The New York Times, and
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: this story's verified. They're now in their sixties, So this
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: happened in the nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies, and you know,
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: it seems to be that there was a wide pattern
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: of sexual misconduct by mister Chavez four years and that
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: many women stayed silent for the because of you know,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: women often internalize the sexual abuse as guilt and stay
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: silent because of a sense of shame, which is tragic
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: because it's.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: Not their fault.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: It's the fault of the abuser, clearly, but it's a reality. Psychologically,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: many women internalize this, the abuse and take and view it.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: One was statue to you ape.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: The other was actual rape, right rape, rape of a
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: thirty six year old, so physical force. But you know,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: what these girls describe is real grooming. But anyway, the
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: women stays side of them because of shame, but also
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: because a fear of tunishing the image of a man.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: This is lot of the New York Times, a fear
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: of tunishing the image of a man who became the
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: face of Latino civil rights movement, his image on school
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: mules and his birthday estate holiday in California. Again, this
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: is not who goes shove is this says shove is uh.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: This is kind of the this uh, you know, as
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: a consequence of these allegations, the you know, festivals are
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: being canceled. There is going to be pressure to uh
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: do away with a holiday after his name. Many of
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: the events are being canceled. A lot of people are
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: distancing themselves fondness. The woman who, together with mister Chavez
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: created the United farm Workers, the the co founder who
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: was raped, has not come out and talked about the
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: rape and and discussed it. But many of his old
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: colleagues distancing themselves, condemning him and and uh and trying to.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: You know, most of them in shock.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: Uh. He's been this hero and it's it's it's going
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: to be interesting to see what kind of ultimately what
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: the response is. So far, the response has not been
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: to try to deny any of this. So far, by
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: pretty much by everybody, has been to condemn him, to
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: condemn his actions, and to start moving away from the
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: kind of veneration that both the Latino community and the
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: again the workers' unions have had for him. He clearly,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: you know, groomed these young goals starting at age twelve,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: to the point where you could have you know, you
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: could have sex with him at age fifteen.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: He manipulated them.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: I mean miss Rojas, one of his victims, said, I
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: had love for him. He did his grooming very well.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: He should get an Academy Award for all he did.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: You can find the story that covers all this in
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: the New York Times today. It's been covered across the
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: board by police Eco, by the New York Post in
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: a different in different in additions to the Times, but
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: the basic reporting was done by the Times. You know, everybody,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, Obama, Biden, everybody celebrated him. And I mean
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: literally there was a bust of uh Chavez in the
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: White House during the Biden administration as part of that celebration.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: So a icon of the left.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: And and really this is a I mean, the biggest
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: phenomena here is I think, sadly if you combine this
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: with what we've learned from jeffy Epstein is I don't
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: know the fact that you know, powerful man uh man
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: in positions of power have through the decades used that power,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: used their.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: Position to abuse women.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: And this is kind of the this is the context
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: in which one should understand kind of the kind of
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: the women's movement, if you will, over the last few decades.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: This is not isolated. This is not one of a kind.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: There's a pattern here of of abusing women, of grooming
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: young girls of sexual manipulation, of rape that goes undetected
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: and unspecified.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: And it's it's you know, I think.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: You know, whether it's cult leaders, whether it's politicians Clinton
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: comes to mind, or whether it's left people on the left,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: of people on the right, or just just wealthy individuals.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: Power can go to people's heads. Power can go to
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: people's heads. And so uh, something two remember and this
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: is you know, and there's something to remember, something to
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: kind of to put into context for for a lot
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: of what of the way women respond to what is
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: going on in the world. You know, I think the
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: me too well, I think me too went too far.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: And the idea that women should always be believed is
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: way going way too far. Uh. This is in the
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: context of abuse of of lots of abuse.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: Of many power.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: Was that movie producer, the famous movie producer who yeah,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: you know who molested and sometimes raped and uh and
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: clearly exploited, used the power he had to gain sexual
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: favors from from the women whose careers he had in
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: his hand. Now you could say they they did it
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: it was voluntary, sure, but you could still judge him
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: as a sleeve bag, as a scum, as a horrible
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: human being. Weinstein, you know, Weinstein, truly hollow, truly to
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: spic up with behavior.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: And again across.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: What unites the man who typically accused of this is
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: power and it goes to their heads. All right. Now
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: for something completely different. Robots, you know, the uh we're
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: getting to the point, were humanoid robots making massive advances,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: massive advantage, in particular Chinese robot manufactures making huge advances,
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: and it really leaves and bounds a head of the competition.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: You know, Unit Tree Robotics, a Chinese company, you know,
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: creating these humanoid robots, and it looks like they will
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: dominate the space.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: They're they're making them better than anybody else.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: It appears the Chinese robotics manufacturers ahead of the United
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: States American robotics manufacturers, even though American companies like Boston
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: Dynamics being working on robots for decades, for decades, China
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: has just advanced.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: And this is alarming a lot of people.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Who is it alarming in particular, Well, in particular, it's
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: alarming Boston Dynamics and another company goes scale AI. These
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: are companies in the United States who are being out competed,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: who are not keeping up. Of course, the combination of
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: robotics plus AI scares a lot of people, but it
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: also has we uh you know, Boston Dynamics and and scaled.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: It also has national security consequences. Of course, whenever your
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: competitors do something better than you, one way to get
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: them regulated is to claim national security.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: And that's exactly what is going on today.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: There is a.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: I guess yesterday.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: Yesterday there was a quing by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: Protection Subcommittee of the House Committee on Homeland Security, who
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: they have subcommittees of committees, of subcommittees, whatever. And the
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: idea is, how do we come up with strategies policies
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: to counter Chinese firms dominance. So basically the industry is
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: asking for either subsidies or regulations or trade restrictions to
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: allow them to catch up, which is horrible and exactly
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: exactly the kind of policies that are incredibly destructive. Instead
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: of trusting the ability of competitive markets and American ingenuity
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: and the brain power of Americans and the immigrants, we
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: attract less and less, so I guess these days to
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: catch up with the Chinese and beat them and ultimately
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: beat them, as we do in almost everything and certainly
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: everything that has the potential for national security, we are
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: just succumbing to, oh no, we can't beat them. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: let's subsidize, please get government involved, and let's stop them,
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  Speaker 1: and let's it really really, really is sad and pathetic.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where American businessmen are groveling before government
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  Speaker 1: for help instead of being out there and competing. Interestingly, Tesla,
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  Speaker 1: which is also building humanoid robots, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: Tesla was at hearing.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see them mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: They seem to believe that they have a competitive product
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  Speaker 1: with the Chinese, but you know, let's have competition.
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  Speaker 2: Chinese are doing this.
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  Speaker 1: If the Chinese are as controlled by government and regulated
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: by government, it would be very hard for them to compete. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's true, China is the world leader in electric cause,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: but that's postially because electric cars don't yet make economic
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  Speaker 1: sense in the West, in the United States, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: and it's cause it's not an a security issue. Robots
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: might be, but then you have to carve out the
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  Speaker 1: specific national security issue, and it's not clear, you need
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  Speaker 1: humanoid robots in the battlefield, something particularly advantageous about looking
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  Speaker 1: human in the battlefield. You need unmanned vehicles who can
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  Speaker 1: transverse terrain, move super fast and can I mean MASSI
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  Speaker 1: fire power. Probably not humanoid. Maybe it turns out walking
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  Speaker 1: is better than you know, driving, I don't know. Bids
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  Speaker 1: cannot charge in nine minutes yet they claim they will
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  Speaker 1: be able to, but that has not been proved, and
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  Speaker 1: it's dubious from a physics perspective if they can actually
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  Speaker 1: do that. I mean, who has better better EV Tesla
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  Speaker 1: bid not obvious? Not obvious?
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  Speaker 2: Who's better?
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  Speaker 1: I think for most people the Chinese have better evs
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  Speaker 1: than Tesla. It could be that Tesla has better self
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  Speaker 1: driving technology than the Chinese, but that even that's not
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  Speaker 1: clear because we don't have access to that self driving technology.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's right now just in China, So not clear
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  Speaker 1: for Tesla's better than than by D or any other
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  Speaker 1: or many of the other Chinese electric vehicles. They partially
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  Speaker 1: because we don't have them. Uh and uh so we
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  Speaker 1: can't do a direct compositor to other people are doing
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  Speaker 1: it in Europe and choosing the Chinese. And there's real
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: competition in China, right, so they cause are improving it
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: a massive rate, massive rate. All right, let's see. Uh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: mrn A. So we all know mRNA from the COVID
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: vaccines and people are freaking out. And we know the
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  Speaker 1: HSS is basically banned work on on kind of immunology
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  Speaker 1: vaccines using mRNA.
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  Speaker 2: The it just will not support that.
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  Speaker 1: But the reality is that one of the most promising
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  Speaker 1: areas of m r n A is UH. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's incredibly promising for influenza like diseases, for these viruses
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: that could take a huge toll on us UH, covid
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: like viruses that might be even more deadly or significantly
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: more deadly. And the fact that we've killed that line
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: of research in America is just like putting a bullet
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: through your brain. It's just insane and suicidal. But one
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: of the other promising areas of m RNA vaccines is
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: in cancer. And there's massive evidence that m r and
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: A vaccines can reverse H and and and and be
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: used to treat cancer. They stimulate the body to find
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: the cancer by itself and UH and it's an immunotherapy
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: that basically cannavascerate cancer.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: By itself, right, and let's see.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: So so there's plenty of evidence suggests even to the
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  Speaker 1: point where they can create.
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  Speaker 2: An mrn E vaccine that is personalized.
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  Speaker 1: For your DNA for you, which is mind boggling and
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: amazing and stunning. And anyway, there's now an effort to
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: raise two hundred million dollars which is going to be
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: public and private in a public private partnership, so sell
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: the money to come from the National Cancer Institute, which
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: is UNDERAGHS, which is surprising because they've been so anti mRNA,
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: but it seems like even they have come around. So
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: maybe one hundred million dollars from the National Cancer Institute
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: and one hundred million dollars from private private entities to
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: engage in clinical trials of vaccines to spark an immune
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: attack on cancer humans. These vaccines there's a good chance
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: can ward off cancer patients who will be treated for
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: the disease but a high risk of recurrence. So this
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: is kind of the final bang, the final layer to
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: eradicate the cancer and make sure it doesn't come back.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: The National Cancer Instry director has said he wants to
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: finance large trials of vaccines that have in small trials
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: shown potential.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: And this is going to be crucial.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: So I think this is again this is great news.
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  Speaker 1: You know, well, HSS terminated mr NA vaccine program under
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  Speaker 1: the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority for upper respiratory
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: diseases like COVID. It is now embracing vaccines for the
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  Speaker 1: treatment of cancer, which is incredibly promising and potentially it
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: can be a major tool in the fight against cancer.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: So this is in a good news category. A lot
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: of what we talked about today is in the good
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: news category. The Jones Act the what you want and
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: so you know, we will see we will see how
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: this how this goes, But it does look like we're
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: going to get We're going to get the We're going
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: to get at least research into the mr and A
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: cancer fighting abilities. Cancer vaccines are going will be paired
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: with medications known as checkpoint inhibitors to make them more effective.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: The inhibitors have already been approved by the FDA. They've
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: been around since twenty eighteen. They put it and they
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: remove a break on the immune system, so they again
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: courage the immune system to act anyway. This whole area
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: of immunotherapies, which are therapies that guide or stimulate that
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: your own body to fight cancer instead of pumping chemicals
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: into your body to fight the cancer. Is incredibly promising,
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: is already being used and already showing maybe not without
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: mrn A yet, but already showing incredible results. Adding m
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: RNA to the toolkit is slowly systematically going to erode
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: Uh you know cancers?
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: Would you would you say it?
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: You know cancer's.
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: Deadliness and and give doctors many, many more tools to
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  Speaker 1: be able to fight it and beat it all right. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: gear being pledge. Giving pledge is this pledge. It was
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  Speaker 1: initiated by one Buffet and Bill Gates years ago and
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: it was basically, uh a pledge that billionaires made it.
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  Speaker 1: It was the idea is to go to millionaires and
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  Speaker 1: have them pledge that they would give away a majority
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  Speaker 1: of their wealth to charity at the end of their
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  Speaker 1: life or during their life. An idea was to convince
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  Speaker 1: the world's richest people to commit over half of their
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  Speaker 1: money to nonprofit charity causes. And this was incredibly successful.
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  Speaker 1: You know, many many, many a billionaires shined out signed
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  Speaker 1: out for the Giving Pledge. I think a lot of
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: it had to do with getting I think it kind
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  Speaker 1: of a virtue signing, letting the world know that they
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  Speaker 1: were good altruists in a sense they were willing to
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  Speaker 1: give their money away, that they were giving back all
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: the kind of altruistic symbolism involved in that. I know.
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  Speaker 1: I know at least one billionaire who, in spite of
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: you know, being an advocate of finemans and at the
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  Speaker 1: shrugs and all this stuff, ultimately wrote a pledge and
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: they wrote these letters pledging this money, and those are
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: all on the website of the Giving Pledge thing. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we've got hundreds now of families that are pledged to
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  Speaker 1: give away more than fifty percent of their.
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  Speaker 2: Wealth to charity.
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  Speaker 1: And yet over the last couple of years this has
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: gone kind of out of fashion. Many entrepreneurs are no
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: longer considering embracing the.
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  Speaker 2: Giving pledge, and indeed some of them.
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  Speaker 1: Are backing out of the pledge they already made with
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  Speaker 1: the idea that they don't want to be funding more
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  Speaker 1: kind of causes, you know, that are going to be
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: guided by after they're dead, by people they don't know,
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  Speaker 1: or guide it towards causes they don't believe in and
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: so on, right, and some of them even are saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe investing my money or putting my money into profit
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: seeking activities, maybe that is more valuable than just giving
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  Speaker 1: it away. And you're seeing more and more billionaires rejecting
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: the idea of giving pledge and spending the money on
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: R and D, maybe kind of university stuff, spending the
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: money on elections, spending the money on things while they
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: were alive. That that you know they're committed to, but
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: that do not kind of qualifying the kind.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: Of the charity that the Giving Pledge encouraged.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: And many of them just saying, I want to invest
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  Speaker 1: my money. I don't want to be locked in to
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  Speaker 1: how much I'm giving. I don't want to be locked
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: in to these kind of commitments. One of their people
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: pushing against the Giving Pledge and advocating against it and
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: has been for a long time is Peter t O.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: Pter Tl has been influenced by Ironman, but is now
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  Speaker 1: a kind of a national conservative and politically I think
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  Speaker 1: pretty bad, but you know, still has maybe a little
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: bit of the influence of Ironmand is one of the
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: big advocates against the Giving Pledge right now, He's calling it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, part of it was you were supposed to
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: you know a lot of people pledged to give the
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  Speaker 1: money to the Gates Foundation, and uh, you know, Peter
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  Speaker 1: teel Is calling that, you know, an Epstein Foundation because
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: of Bill gates connection with Jeffrey Epstein. Uh, and the
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: Gates Foundation is struggling because of Bill Gates's connection to it.
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  Speaker 1: So uh, you know, Peter TiO Is has said, you
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  Speaker 1: know that that he.
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  Speaker 2: Talks to billionaires. He says, most of the ones I've
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: talked to.
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  Speaker 1: Have at least expressed regret about signing it. And uh,
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: there seems to be a real move away from this,
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  Speaker 1: away from this and uh, you know, there's a backlash
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  Speaker 1: right now against a lot of charitable giving and there's
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: a focus much more on.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: Investment.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, think about Elon Musk. Elon Musk is a
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: signature to the giving pledge. He's committed to giving half
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: of his wealth to to uh you know charities. I mean,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: is that really what he wants to do? Is that
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: what really he's passionate about. One can imagine he wanting
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: to keep investing in even after he dies, keep that money,
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  Speaker 1: keep investing in the project of building maws. Why would
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  Speaker 1: he Why would he wanted to go to miscellaneous and nonprofits.
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  Speaker 1: So it's good. It's good to see a backlash. Not
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: it's not principled and from a proper moral perspective, at
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: least it's not articulated in the right self interested moral terms.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: But at least it shows that there's a there's a
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: new young class, a billionaires who are not as tempted
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: by altruism, at least that we can see as the
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: previous generation not as eager to just sign away their wealth. Now,
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: the pledge is not legally binding, so nobody's really monitoring
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: this to see if they actually give half away. But
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: it is public, so there is I assume public pressure
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: to do so. But there are a number of people,
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: a number of people who have walked away or signaled
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: that they might not follow through with their pledge. All right,
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: I think that too is good news. It's good news again.
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  Speaker 1: Story in the New York Times, not particularly well written
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: story and doesn't go to the heart of it, doesn't
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  Speaker 1: really go to the core of it, but interesting that
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  Speaker 1: it's being walked back. And at the forefront of it
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  Speaker 1: is Peter Teel. All right, that is the news for today, Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: We've got two fifty dollars questions, so we'll start with those,
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  Speaker 3: all right, Let's start with the rational ip to what
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  Speaker 3: extent are toxic work environments a reflection of broader cultural
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  Speaker 3: values where conformity, approval seeking, and favoritism are rewarded over
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  Speaker 3: competence and passion, as embodied by characters like Peter Kidding
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  Speaker 3: looking forward to Porto.
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  Speaker 1: Great, I'm glad you're coming and it'll be good to
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  Speaker 1: see you. I mean, there are absolutely a reflection of
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  Speaker 1: the culture, if you will, and of the ideas and
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  Speaker 1: the culture of the cultural values as you say, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and and it's it's it's a reflection of the psychology
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  Speaker 1: also of the people who be shaped by that culture
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  Speaker 1: to be envious, uh, to be to not be objective
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  Speaker 1: or rational in how they deal with other people. So
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  Speaker 1: it's we live in a culture that encourage envy, that
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  Speaker 1: encourages the idea that it's a zero sum world, and
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  Speaker 1: they for their conflict between people, and you know, that
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  Speaker 1: kind of culture is the culture that is going to
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  Speaker 1: result in the kind of toxic behaviors that you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: It's very much a peeda keating world. It's a secondhanded world.
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  Speaker 1: It's you know, imagine working in a place where people
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  Speaker 1: are really all guided and fully integrated with the ideas
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  Speaker 1: of rational self interest, of no conflict between rational man
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  Speaker 1: of you know, treating people based on their degree of
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  Speaker 1: rationality and competence. It would be a very very different
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  Speaker 1: work environment, and it's very rare today define places like that,
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  Speaker 1: and because I think the culture is so opposed to
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  Speaker 1: it that even when you try to do it, it's
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  Speaker 1: very difficult. It doesn't take many people within an organization
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  Speaker 1: to create a complete toxic environment culturally throughout the organization.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, very much. The consequence of bad ideas in
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  Speaker 1: the culture are going to pollute the culture within an organization,
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  Speaker 1: any organization, and you have to fight against that. Savanos,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Silvano's fifty dollars. Hey Ron, thanks for ongoing
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  Speaker 1: updates on Iran. I see a division between objectivists and
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  Speaker 1: the Iran war. Cet a comment on possibility that it's
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  Speaker 1: pragmatic to support it when it had such dramatic impacts
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  Speaker 1: worldwide as well as the legal consequences. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: why it's pragmatic to support it. It's I view it
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  Speaker 1: as principle to support it if you believe in the
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  Speaker 1: principle of self defense. If you believe in the principle
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  Speaker 1: that the enemies of the United States, active enemies of
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  Speaker 1: the United States, need to be destroyed, then it is
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  Speaker 1: a principled stance which by the way, I and LETNI
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  Speaker 1: peakoff from there, and an institute of being advocating for
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  Speaker 1: for decades, not just a diswar, but way before. It's
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  Speaker 1: a principled stand to take to, you know, destroy the
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  Speaker 1: enemies of the United States, the people scheming and trying
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  Speaker 1: to destroy Americans. It's absolutely an act of self defense.
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  Speaker 1: The Iranians have showed a willingness, an eagerness to kill
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  Speaker 1: Americans wherever they can. The only thing that has prevented
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  Speaker 1: them from killing more Americans and from attacking America's soil
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  Speaker 1: is their capabilities, but they were trying to fix that
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  Speaker 1: by working on ICBMs. This is an absolutely unequivocal war
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  Speaker 1: of self defense if they ever was one. This is
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  Speaker 1: a country that declared war in the United States on
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  Speaker 1: November fourth, nineteen seventy nine, by taking the American embassy.
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  Speaker 1: It's a country that killed two hundred and forty four
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  Speaker 1: Marines and in Beirut bombed the American embassy in Beirut.
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  Speaker 1: This is a country that tortured and killed the CIA.
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  Speaker 1: What do you call a chief of station in Beirut.
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  Speaker 1: This is a country responsible or that helped the bombing
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  Speaker 1: of the Corbo towers in Saudi Arabian which Americans died.
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  Speaker 1: This is a country that has pursued death to Americans
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  Speaker 1: wherever they could, wherever they thought they could get away
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  Speaker 1: with it. This country that funded terrorist organizations. Why did
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  Speaker 1: they take the embassy. They took the embassy because they're
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  Speaker 1: theocratic thugs and because they view America as the enemy.
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  Speaker 1: That's why they took the embassy. The thugs and the enemies,
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  Speaker 1: and America is their enemy. And they know that death
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  Speaker 1: to America every Friday is not an accident. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: this is a This is a regime that is at
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  Speaker 1: war with America and has been since its founding in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine.
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  Speaker 2: And as a consequence.
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  Speaker 1: Of that, they are war with the United States. And
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  Speaker 1: you want to argue that the war was started in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty something because of something that CIA did, which
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  Speaker 1: is you know, generously I would say, is bullshit. But
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  Speaker 1: even if you want to say that, it still doesn't
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  Speaker 1: change the fact that they're at war with the United States.
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  Speaker 1: We have to respond. You can't just sit back and
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  Speaker 1: lay down. And if you do, you know, lay down,
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  Speaker 1: they will have nuclear weapons. They will really be at
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  Speaker 1: war with the United States. Remember the ideology that is
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  Speaker 1: a behind the Iranian regime. This is not a secular ideology,
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  Speaker 1: and they have secular complaints about America. This is a theocracy.
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  Speaker 1: This is a theocracy. Even if it's you know, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, even if it is America's fault because of some.
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  Speaker 2: History, it's still this is a wolf self.
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  Speaker 1: Defense because the reality is that America now could say, whoops,
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  Speaker 1: we're sorry, We'll sign a peace deal with you, will
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  Speaker 1: be nice to you, we'll send you money, we'll do
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  Speaker 1: this stuff, and the Uranians will still build the bomb,
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  Speaker 1: still get an ICB AUB, and still want to kill
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  Speaker 1: as many Americans as they want. So what are you
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  Speaker 1: supposed to do? Hide in a bunker somewhere because some
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  Speaker 1: CIA operative way back, some American administration way back did
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  Speaker 1: something that the Iranians offended by, unjustifiably offended by it,
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  Speaker 1: but nevertheless offended by. So even if you take the
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  Speaker 1: most generous account of it's our fault, we created it all.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter at this point. Now they're a theocracy
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  Speaker 1: committed to destroying America, and we won't redeem ourselves by
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  Speaker 1: committee suicide. The only way to redeem ourselves is to
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  Speaker 1: destroy this regime and allow Iran to have a secular government.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, if Iran had a secular government,
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: what is the first thing they will do? If they
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  Speaker 1: had a secular you know, I don't know what, call
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: it a liberal democracy. The first thing you won would
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: do is established relationship with Israel, you know, re established
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  Speaker 1: relationship with the United States, you know, and they have
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  Speaker 1: a friendly relationship with the United States. That tells you
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  Speaker 1: that the Uranian people don't think it's America's fault. So
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  Speaker 1: let's be very clear. This is a wolf self defense
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  Speaker 1: that the American government must had to engage in, otherwise
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  Speaker 1: it was setting itself up to be destroyed at some point.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, you know that doesn't even count the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you know, Israel, by the way, did nothing
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  Speaker 1: to to Iran. Israel did nothing to the Ranians, no
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  Speaker 1: no excuse to hate Israel. And yet Iran funded supported
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  Speaker 1: all of Israel's enemies, all of them Ramas, the seventh
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  Speaker 1: was with Iranian Knowledge and Training and Technology Risbala, which
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  Speaker 1: had one hundred and forty thousand missiles before this was
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  Speaker 1: started or supplied by the Iranians. I mean, on the
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  Speaker 1: part of Israel, it's just an equivocal that this is
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  Speaker 1: a wolf self defense. But both countries this is an
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  Speaker 1: absolute act of self defense. Now, would I have preferred
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: Trump go to Congress and get Congress's permission, you know,
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  Speaker 1: authority to use force. Absolutely, that would have been the
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  Speaker 1: right constitutional thing to do. But the reality is that
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  Speaker 1: presidents have not done that now for decades. So this
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: is some precedent that is going to lead to the
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  Speaker 1: rule of law going out the window. The rule of
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: law is already out the window. It's not like in
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  Speaker 1: every realm of American governance, the Constitution has followed to
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: the t and then out of no way. Trump said,
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  Speaker 1: I mean growing the Constitution on this one thing. So
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  Speaker 1: if that were the case, yeah, it would have been horvable.
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  Speaker 1: But the reality is that the Constitution is ignored on
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  Speaker 1: a daily, minute by minute basis by the governing authorities
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  Speaker 1: of this country. Joe Kant is a maga idiot. Joe
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  Speaker 1: Cant just resigned. I talked about him yesterday. Is an
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  Speaker 1: anti Semitic mega fool who is friends with the demon
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: obsessed Tucker Causon. So the fact that he was in
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: the administration says a lot about the ways in which
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump appointed people, which is horrific and irresponsible.
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  Speaker 2: He should have never been in government.
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: He has no qualifications for the roles he had, So
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: I'm glad he's gone. So you want to take Joe
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: Kent's word of a mind gophert you'll get what you
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: deserve in life generally. So yeah, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: see I don't see a dramatic impact on the world.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: All prices at ninety one. They've been at ninety one
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  Speaker 1: in the past, They've been in ninety five in the past.
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  Speaker 1: Israel does not think he levan is am alech, as
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  Speaker 1: well as not killing civilians in Iran as weel as
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: not you know, destroying everything Iranian. You're another you know,
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: you're another idiot who has no clue. Sorry, nobody is
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: at once a whitebout Iranians. I mean quite the country.
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  Speaker 1: The Iranians have more respect for the Israeli flag than
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: you do. The Ranians have more respect for Israel than
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: you do, the Iranians will be Israel's friend to a
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  Speaker 1: greater extent than any other country in them at least
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: if this regenus toppled a. Certainly a liberal democracy in
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: Iran will be massively friendly, amazingly friendly with Israelis that
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 1: much more in common with Israel than any of the
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  Speaker 1: Arab states do. And you know the idea that Israel
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: used them as am like is complete and utter, complete garbage.
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  Speaker 2: Southern Lebanon.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: Well, of course Israel should invade southern l again, this
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: is an act of self defense. The Isabela is launching
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: rockets against Israel. Israel that nothing that isbel and the
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: launching missiles into Israel. Israel's has to go into Lebanon
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  Speaker 1: in order to protect itself.
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  Speaker 2: It is an absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Unequivocal act of self defense. Israel should occupy every piece
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  Speaker 1: of every piece of property up to the Litani River
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  Speaker 1: in Lebanon, and if Risbela can't be stopped, then then
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: it should cross the Litani River and go further into
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  Speaker 1: Lebanon and do whatever is necessary to stop Risbela from
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: firing me rockets into Israel. Again, very simple, very easy.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: Somebody wants to kill you, you kill them first. And
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: somebody's not just wants to kill you. Somebody is shooting
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: at you. You go and stop them from shooting, you
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 1: kill them. So Israel has the capacity to go all
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  Speaker 1: the way to be roots. And if the circumstances are
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: such that it needs to go to be roots in
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 1: order to win the war, then it needs to do that.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it's a complete and utter act of
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  Speaker 1: self defense. Israel Act October. Haven't told Risbela not to
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: get involved. Prisbela chose to get involved, and since then
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  Speaker 1: it has suffered the consequences. And I suggest that it's
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: going to continue to suffer the consequences in uh In in
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: quite a horrific way. But you know it, you know,
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: only only very very you know, disturbed people would accuse
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: Israel of anything to do with going after the Amalik,
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: which is a biblical story and uh but Iran is
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 1: Amalik is bizarre. Jews, indeed, in the Old Testament, have
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: a real soft heart for the Uranian people, for the
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: Persian people, because there's the Persians that returned the Jews
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  Speaker 1: to the land of Israel after the Babylonians has exiled
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: them to to uh You know to UH to Babylon,
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: and it is the Persian king Cyrus who actually allowed
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: the Jews to return to Israel and found the Second Kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: So they Israel has and always have Jews have had
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: a real soft, soft, you know, positive feelings towards the
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: Persian people, just on the basis of that history, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And there's even you know.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: There's a there's a there's a holiday that we celebrate
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: UH is celebrating UH celebating poem which celebrates UH, the
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: decision by a Persian king not to kill all the
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  Speaker 1: Jews in his land. So yeah, there's a lot of
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: relations and contact and UH and and the history between
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: the Jewish people UH and the Uranian people, and to
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: to to to talk about them like that is just
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: just ignorant. Anyway, Savannahs. Hopefully that answers your question, including
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: the legal consequences, which are basically, yeah, I mean, if
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: I wish the Constitution was abided by in this case
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: and in every other case that it's not. But would
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: I rather have a war with Iran that is in
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: violation of the Constitution given the world in which we live,
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: where the Constitution is violated by most of what the
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 1: government does or no war because because there's no request
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: to Congress. You know, wait until the Uranians develop a
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: nuke and an ICBM and have a drop on the US.
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: I'll take the I'll take their strike first option any day.
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: And that's not from the perspective of pragmatism, that is
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: the perspective of self defense. I'm not going to wait
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: around and sit around for the people in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 1: To finally figure out there's a constitution they have to
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  Speaker 1: abide by it. I want them to act to defend me,
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: even when it means, you know, even if I know
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: that in acting to defend me, they will not follow
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: the Constitution to the letter.
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  Speaker 2: As sad as that maybe, Jamie.
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: I feel you underestimate Americans willingness to part with their guns.
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  Speaker 1: And isn't and isn't promoting a Second Amendment a safeguard,
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: not certainty, but at least a barrier to some, not all,
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: forms of authoritarianism rising to begin with, Look, what can
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: I tell you, I'm skeptical that it's a barrier. That is,
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: when the American people reach the point where they're willing
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: to accept an authoritarian government.
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  Speaker 2: My point is.
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  Speaker 1: That my point is that the Second Amendment at that
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: point is not relevant. So you can argue for it today,
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: but today it doesn't matter. And yes, it's true that
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: some people, if there's an authoritarian government, might rebel against
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: it and launch a war against the state state as
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: tanks and F thirty fives and big weapons.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: You're sixteen is going to save you from the destructive
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: effects of such a rebellion. So my view is.
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  Speaker 2: Fine.
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they keep your guns, that's okay,
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: but that is not what's protecting us against the thebatarianism.
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: The only thing that can protect us against the tbetarianism
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: is our ideas. And instead of you know, focusing on
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: guns and Second Amendment, I'd rather focus on liberty and
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: freedom and individual rights and those kind of arguments and
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: hope that we can knock enough sense into Americans that
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: we never get to the point where they have to
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: use their guns to try to defend themselves against the state,
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: because they most likely.
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 2: Lose that battle.
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, you're seeing what the American military is capable
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: of right now. Not you haveage algorithm is the educated
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: productive center left? Is the educated productive center left? That
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: be first significant segment of society to embrace objectivism. Have
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: you been wasting our time on the right all along? Well,
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think anybody's wasted the time
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: on the right because I don't think we've been focused
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: on the right. I think we've been focused on whoever's
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: will need to think. And I don't think there's going
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: to be a significant segment of society. There is no
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: such thing. All there is is individuals. And what you know,
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: in what way am I appealing to the right or
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: appealing to anyone? I'm putting my stuff out there. I
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: talk to any group that invite me pretty much. And
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: you know, one person at a time, one mind at
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: the time. It's not a segment, it's one mind at
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: a time. I mean, as I've said before, the best
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: results I've ever got, and I've said this years and
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: years ago, it was when where Dave Rubin was center left.
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: That's when I get the most people subscribing. And I
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: still get people who saw me back then or from
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 1: what's his name the podcaster that I did whose name
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: eludes me now anyway, Yeah, I mean, I've got a
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: lot of the people who've come over to Iran to objectivism,
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 1: or to the Iron book show have come from the
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: center left, but some have come from the center right,
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: and some come from far right. Some have come from
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: the fall left. Nikos came from the fall left. So
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: you never know where somebody is going to come from.
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: You put your content out there. You hustle to get
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: in front of as many people as you can. You
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: talk talk, talk, talk, talk right right, right, right right, teach, teach, teach, teach,
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: and you hope that you've reached the minds that need
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: to be reached. Now, we got some people in destiny.
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 1: No I was thinking of it'll come to me anyway,
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter, Liam, Why is hatred of self interest? So
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: pathological and homicidal communist purges in the Nazi Holocaust were
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: driven by this ferocious desire to stamp out selfishness and
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 1: human nature. Well, because that is Lex Friedman. Yes, Lex
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: Freedman was the name I was struggling with. Because that
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: is Christianity, that is the dominant ideology of the last
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: two thousand years. That is collectivism, That is the idea
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: that the individual doesn't matter. What matters is obedience God,
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: the community.
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 2: You know God.
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: So collectivism has been an incredibly powerful force in the world,
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: and that incredibly powerful force has led people to do
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: unbelievably horrific things. And why is it sowing grained I
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: think because of the power of religion, because the altruists
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: and the religion is subdominated dominated the world for such
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: a long time. They're they're they're they're in every one
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: of our institutions. And even the people who rebelled against them,
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: the philosophers of the eighteenth and nineteenth century ultimately adopted
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: the morality of Christianities.
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 2: They couldn't even give that up.
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: So the collectivism, the morality, the virtual sacrifice, the seeking,
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: you know, striving for a higher good.
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 2: Whether the higher good is.
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: The politarians, utopia, or God and heaven, it's all the
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: same thing. It's all in or the arian races, utopia
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: and haven't. It's all basically the same same thing and
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: same ideology. And that ideology is, you know, because it's
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: inculcated from when we're very very young through every institution
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: that we have, has a very powerful hold on people.
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: And it's that hold we have to break. And it's
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: hard to break that hold. And that's why it's so hard.
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: It's why it's so hard to do because they have
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: a real moral hold on people from when they're very,
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: very young. So our job is to break that. And
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: it turns out it's really hot, really hot, and they
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: destroy selfishness because selfishness isn't a fund to them. It's
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: in a fund to the altruistic collective as a view
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: of the world. When they see somebody successful, when they
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 1: see somebody productive, when they see somebody happy, that's a
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: fund to the idea that our purpose in life is
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: to sacrifice for the masters, for something for God.
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 2: Thomas Schubottom Chavez.
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: Wow, he also majorly screwed over the Filipino labor community.
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 2: Didn't know that. I don't know anything about that.
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: That's great that, that's yeah. I'm not surprised, Hugh, I'm
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: not surprised.
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 2: He was not a not a good human being.
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: Turns out, James, many dictators were pressed homosexuals. Homony is gay.
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: Hitler may have been gay. Homosexuals were pressed in religious
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: cultures channel their self outred into a power lusting drive
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: for vengeance. I am I doubt that very much. I
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: really doubt that. I don't know. None of us know that.
• 1:54:36
  Speaker 2: How many is gay?
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: The Sun that is rumor and speculation. We certainly have
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: no evidence that Hitler is gay. Maybe somebody is speculating
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: Stalin wasn't gay. So as I can tell, Mout's tomb
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 1: wasn't gay. The guy ordered thanks paying ordered the so
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: just a fire, and the students and gentlemen square wasn't gay. No,
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: there's no. I can't see any correlation between gayness, homosexuality
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: and dictatorships. You know, was Saddam Ogadaffi gay? I don't know,
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 1: but I have no evidence to suggest that.
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 2: On that end.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: We have strong evidence to suggest that many of the
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: most creative.
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 2: People in history have been gay.
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: Suddenly, Leonardo DaVinci and Nick who was not repressed about
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: it I think, and Michaelangelo, who was repressed about it,
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: were probably gay. And you know, a lot of the
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: creative people over the last five hundred years were probably gay.
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 2: So very dangerous to try to.
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: Draw conclusions like that, And I just don't think it's true.
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: And I don't think there's enough evidence, and certainly not
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: enough evidence to suggest that that's what drove them towards
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: being dictators, that that's the power lust is some kind
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: of vengeance. I don't think that's true. It could be
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: in an certain individual's case, but I don't think there's
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: a phenomena of that that I that I can see.
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: Phenomena none like that, all right, Jennifer Joan. Did you
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: hear about the guy from Deerborn who drove a car
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: into a Jewish school in West Bloomfield? Everyone, okay except him?
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: You and I drove very near that school once coming
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: back from Northwood. Yeah. I did read about it. I
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: saw it, I think while I was gone. Yeah. I mean, look,
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: you're going to see more of that, and it's.
• 1:56:37
  Speaker 2: Going to be more and more.
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: The community is going to tolerate it because of the
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: growing anti Semitism, And it doesn't surprise me coming out
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: of Deerborn. I guess it was a Muslim who did it,
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: but it's not only going to be Muslims.
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 2: You're going to see more tax on Jews, right, So.
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: I guess it's not surprising in that sense, but really
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: horrible for the people at the school and for the
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: people in that community. Yeah, the security guard shot shot
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: him and saved him from doing real harm and killing kids. Thanks, Jennifer,
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: thought criminal is USA going to clear the strait by itself?
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 1: I mean maybe, but maybe not. Maybe they will get
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: some support. Again, there's mixed signals from various allies. It
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 1: does look like this afternoon that the NATO NATO countries
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: might send some ships. It did look earlier this week
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: that Japan was going to send some. India's already escorting
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 1: some ships out, So it might not be by itself.
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 2: You know, you might get UAE.
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: Maybe they have some boats that they can escort the
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: ships out. So I don't think it's going to be
• 1:57:57
  Speaker 1: America alone. But if it has to be America alone,
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: so be it, so be it.
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 2: It's worth it.
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: Mary Elane, I think the First Amendment is far more
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: important than the second, which they value more. Which they
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: value more, tells me something about a person.
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts? Yeah, completely.
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: I think it's all about ideas, And if it's all
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: about the First Amendment, it's all about the ability to
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: express those ideas, to argue for those ideas, to write
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: about those ideas, to challenge other people's ideas. The First
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: Amendment is the most crucial amendment when it comes to
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: changing the world and protecting us from from from tyranny.
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: So so yes, I think it's absolutely the uh it's
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: absolutely the First Amendment supersedes all others when it comes
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 1: to that issue, right, when it comes to protecting us. Right,
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: I'm just checking to see all prices ninety nine, so
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: they're getting close to one hundred. Gold is down a lot,
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 1: which is you know, it's it's the way these The
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 1: way all this moves, particularly gold and bitcoin, is really fascinating, Right,
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: Why would gold go down during this war when you
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: know geopolitical instability is rising, you'd expect gold to go up,
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: but it's already so high it already reflects all those risks.
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: So a lot of this trading is basically just speculation.
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: The same with silver. Silver is down like six percent today,
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: down to seventy five, way way down from its peak
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: of one hundred and fifteen in January. Why is it?
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: Why is that?
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: And gold, of course is down from fifty four hundred,
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: but or even fifty fifty four hundred in January, and
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: and well over five thousand just a few weeks ago,
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: just when the war began. So why why is war
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 1: driving the price of gold down? All kind of interesting phenomena.
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, I.
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: Think these are primarily speculative assets. I think SMP is
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: down a lot. Nastik's down a lot because they're afraid
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: that because of Israel bombing the gas facilities, that this
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: is going to create even more of an energy crunch.
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: And that energy crunch is that energy crunch is going
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: to raise prices and they're going to drive America and
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: the world economy into recession.
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 2: That's what's being priced.
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: But if you overall, if you look at that SV
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: five hundred kind of year to date, it's down three percent,
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: and you know, so it's it's it's not like even
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: investors think this is a major economic catastrophe. Yet now
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: it could go down a lot more. It's gone down
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: a lot less because of this war than it did
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 1: in April when Trump announces tariffs last April. In the
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: last month, Yeah, the SMB fund is down three plus
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: seventy three percent. It's just it's just underwhelming in terms
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: of the negative response.
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 2: Half of that, by the way.
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: Just today is just today, all right, Jamie Elan. This
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: is a quote from Milan. I guess if a national
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 1: draft ever becomes necessary, Tesla will not be usable to
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: flee the country. Hopefully it never comes to that, but
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: technology shouldn't be used to avoid civil duty. Your thoughts, Yeah,
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: I mean Alan has become a kind of a nationalist.
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: This is that's authoritarian. Why shouldn't it be used to fly,
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: not civil duty, to flee the the the abuse of
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: rights by the state. So you know that that quote
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: right there, if it's a real quote from a lun musk,
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: would would mean that I will never buy a tesla.
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, all of you who own tessellas, think about it.
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: If a lawn musk is saying I won't let people
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: use teslas to flee the country when there's a draft,
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: that means a lun musk is willing to flip a
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: switch and disable your car because.
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 2: He disagrees with you about some govern action I don't want.
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 2: I don't want.
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: Anybody having that kind of control over my car. So
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: I mean that alone, that quote alone will prevent me
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: from ever buying a tesla. I mean, I know he
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: has that capability, but his willingness to use it in
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 1: the name of nationalism and the name of states is
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: them is so is just despicable.
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 2: And it starts with the draft.
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: But what if I'm just a I disagree with the government,
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: I'm using my car to go to events where I
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: talk against Trump. Will Tesla stop me from using my
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 1: car for those purposes in the future, not Trump, JD
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 1: vents or whatever could possibly it could possibly be. So yeah,
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: I'm buying a Tesla. Thanks Elon for clarifying where you stand.
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: That's a pretty fascist thing to say. Uh, all right,
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: why do you believe Trump's operation Venezuela is a positive?
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: Isn't it just more arbitrary thugary? Yeah, but thugary can
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 1: sometimes work, and in this case it looks like it has.
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: That is. Look, the job of America is not to
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: establish democracies or free liberal democracies around the world. The
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: job of America is to take regimes that are hostile
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: to the United States and if possible and at low cost,
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: make them friendly towards the United States. And if that
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: friendly towards the United States happens to be a dictator,
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: so be it. You know, the United States has functioned
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 1: this way in farm policy forever. And in this case,
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: you got rid of Maduro. You've got a replacement thug
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: in Venezuela. But it's a thug that's willing to not
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 1: be hostile to the US. The consequence of that is
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: they're willing to do what we want them to do
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: visa the oil. They're willing not to support Cuba, which
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: might lead ultimately to the fall of the Cuban regime.
• 2:04:38
  Speaker 1: And it basically signals a real shift in Latin America.
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: And hopefully over time there is you in Venezuela itself
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: will change. That is, the thuggish regime that exists there
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: will be replaced by a more freedom loving regime. So,
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: you know, sometimes Trump does things that turn out to
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 1: be good, not because he's good or thought is thoughtful
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 1: or considerate, or you know, have a strategy in plans,
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 1: but just sometimes the world is even worse and things
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: you don't work out.
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 2: Sometimes that happens.
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 1: What did I want to do? I was going to
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 1: gift five memberships and see who gets the Who gets that?
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 2: All right? So you got gifted a membership, See what
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 2: you do with it?
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: All right? Thank you?
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 2: Michael Natchavi j Algorithm Part one.
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 1: We are the Republican parts of the country tend to
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: be cleaner, more well kept. They don't have the smart,
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 1: creative minds, the very bland, cookie cutter areas, while leftist
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: cities have the smart, creedive people they have all the
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: riff raff, all the homeless, the graffiti on the walls,
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: and decaying infrastructure.
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 2: Why does disconnect?
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm not even sure that's true. I don't know.
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what how you define? I mean,
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: there are there are there any Republican cities in the country.
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: What's the Republican city? Is there Republican controlled city? Is?
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: You know, is Mississippi cleaner than Mississippi cleaner than California?
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: Is Miami cleaner than I don't know, Dallas that was
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: is run by a Democrat. I don't know how you
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: come to I don't know how you come to these
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 1: conclusions about cleanliness and riff raff. I don't see. I
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: don't see the correlation. There's riff raff everywhere. You know.
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 1: Cleanliness has a lot to do with the riff. Evertosa
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: has a lot to do with how new the city is,
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 1: rather than whether it's a democratic Republican mayor. There are
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 1: almost no Republican mayors in cities. The big cities all
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: run by Democrats. But why are more creative people tend
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: to be creative? People tend to be in cities A
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: because cities was where the action is cities is where
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: civilization happens. Creative people tend to be on the left
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: because the left at least nominally claims to stand for
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: reason and thought and enlightenment. Again not the far left,
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 1: but conventional left, and the right stands for going out
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: back to twelve twenty. If you're an engineer, do you
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: want to support people who want to go back to
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 1: twelve twenty?
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 2: Do you want to support.
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: People who think creationism and reject evolution? I think part
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 1: of the reason is the rejection of science by the right,
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 1: which causes creative, productive people to shun them. Remo says,
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: value for value. Thank you, Remo.
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
• 2:08:25
  Speaker 1: We're only ninety one dollars short of our third hour goal,
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 1: and indeed we are into the third hour.
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 2: So ninety one dollars is you know.
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: Three three to thirty dollar questions, four and a half
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 1: twenty dollars questions.
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 2: It's all doable. It's doable.
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: Were'sley Lopez. Why are people in favor of intervention against
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: Iran generally against sending US ground troops. What's the principal
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 1: argument here? I mean, there is no principal argument. It's
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: a pragmatist dogument. They they want somehow magically for America
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: to win, but they don't want to over commit. They
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: don't want you know, they don't want to see body bags.
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 2: They don't want actual fighting on the street.
• 2:09:16
  Speaker 1: And primarily that is because they view war through the
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: prism of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, which the
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 1: United States basically lost. So it's you know, people don't
• 2:09:40
  Speaker 1: want ground forces because they are unfortunately shaped by you know,
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 1: since Vietnam, America's not woner war, their fate. They won't
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: win it again, and they'll be boddy bags and people
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: will die. Americans will die. An a campaign seems clean, us,
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: safe of very few people die, easier to comprehend, and
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 1: not as entangled and not you don't stay as long,
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 1: whereas ground troops you stay long.
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 2: I have no objection to ground troops the world.
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: We short end quicker and then a better outcome if
• 2:10:13
  Speaker 1: we had ground troops on the road, on the ground.
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: But that's not going to happen. Maybe on the island,
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: the one island, but not a significant number of ground troops.
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 2: They're not going to be deployed. Christian.
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: If Europeans don't stand up for their own interests like Homo's.
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 2: They are truly lost. I am disappointed.
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: The rationale seems to be, let's give it to Trump
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: and cripple ourselves. Yes, I think you're absolutely right, and
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: I think that it's a disgrace that Europeans are not
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: doing this. I'm not joining it's not Yeah, yeah, I
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: get that they don't want to support Trump because Trumpy
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 1: mean to them and Trump didn't support them with Ukraine.
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 1: But it's still suicidal. It's still crippling for themselves. The
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 1: fall of the Iranian regime will be a huge benefit
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: to the Europeans, huge benefit to the Europeans, and they.
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  Speaker 2: Should support it.
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  Speaker 1: But europe is not particularly good at pursuing self interest. Wesley,
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  Speaker 1: if the Ranian regime is still standing several months from now,
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: would you support a full ground invasion. I would. Granted
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 1: I've supported a full ground invasion for a long long time,
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I think you can get regime changed from
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: the air. But they'd have to they'd have to keep
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 1: doing it for a while, for weeks and weeks, and
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  Speaker 1: I hope they have the stamina to do it. I
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 1: will bet you guys anything that if if the United
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: States Europe and whoever else joins them decide to accompany
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: ships out of the Home Moost straits. Less than five
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: ships will ever be you know, very very few of
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: the Allied ships will be sunk. The Iranians are incompetent.
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  Speaker 1: They cannot They won't be able to deal with these ships,
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: and they won't be able to They don't have the
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: resources to sink these ships. Iran is the ultimate paper tiger.
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 1: They have a big war, they talk big stuff, but
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 1: look at what they've done. They've done nothing to Israel.
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 1: They barely scratch the surface of Israel. Yeah, about fifteen
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 1: people are dead. Fifteen civilians are dead. No military facility
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: has been touched, no military command, and no political leader. Nothing.
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 1: They can't do it. Yeah, they bombed some of some
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 1: facilities and what eight American soldiers are dead. Eight not
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: a single ship and the Gulf of Oman has been hit.
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is supposed to be a mighty eraate navy.
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  Speaker 1: One hundred of they both have been sunk. One hundred
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 1: are they both have been sunk. They are pathetic, I
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: mean military experts, I mean wrong in these things from
• 2:13:16
  Speaker 1: the beginning. So if done properly with the right softening,
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 1: and already we've seen the destruction of the Iranian navy,
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 1: and today, oh, yesterday they started bombing the shore and
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 1: bombing the missiles and everything else. But the reality is
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 1: that people are always fearful that somehow the bad guys
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 1: are somehow going to cause massive damage to good guys.
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 1: This so incompetent. The Ranian you know, ig are so incompetent,
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 1: and has been so incompetent for so many years. It's
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 1: time we learned the fact that they are very, very
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 1: risk averse. Generals in the American Army or navy or
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 1: whatever does not impress me at all. I don't have
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 1: any of their intelligence briefings, but again, based on my knowledge,
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 1: which is limited, I will take the bet the very
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 1: few of whatever they've got will actually I mean, I
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 1: wouldn't do it tomorrow. You've got to keep bombing the
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: show line, you've got to take out their fast boats.
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 1: You've got to still do some work. But when they
• 2:14:34
  Speaker 1: you know, within a week, within ten days, they could
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: be escorting ships out.
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 2: There with very very little damage being taken, if you will.
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, right on military issues, over the last few
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: years since the Ukrainian invasion, somebody should do a prediction
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 1: thing of my predictions versus reality. I'd say ninety of
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 1: the time. I predicted what happened to Russians in Ukraine.
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 1: I predicted Israel in Gaza. I predicted Israel Lebanon, and
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 1: how easy and how few casualties were taken. I predicted
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 1: all those things, and I predicted what would happen in
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 1: the first days of this one, in the twelve day
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 1: will so at some point a gain some credibility maybe
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 1: with some people, All right, Jeffrey, People arguing Israel forced
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 1: America's hand in Iran never seemed to identify the mechanism
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 1: of coursion used by Israel. Epstein. It's Epstein. See Epstein
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 1: was an Israeli agent. And the Israelis have tapes of
• 2:15:49
  Speaker 1: Trump with young goals, and that's how they get Trump
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 1: to do everything that they want that they want, and
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 1: it's not your Trump. They probably have tapes on everybody.
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 1: That's the story these people tell themselves. They come up
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 1: with other crazy stories as well. Tommy Tommy, Tommy Tommy
• 2:16:15
  Speaker 1: is Well stole the Goland Heights. He really need to
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 1: study up on your history a little bit and study
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 1: up on actually what happened in war the Golden Heights
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 1: was Yeah, I mean was taken in a wolf self defense,
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 1: not stolen nineteen sixty seven, not today sixty seven. Thomas,
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 1: how much gold should you hold for global catastrophe? Why
• 2:16:45
  Speaker 1: that am out? Why would you use it? And what
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 1: would you do once it runs out? You know you
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 1: have to wait. What's the publicity of a global catastrophe?
• 2:16:54
  Speaker 1: It's not high, so you don't hold a lot of
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 1: your assets in gold. I will put ten percent to
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 1: ten percent of my assets in gold. And it's an
• 2:17:06
  Speaker 1: end of the world scenario where banking systems collapsed and
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 1: you need the gold and ought to buy weapons and food,
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 1: and you buy weapons and food with it. But the
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 1: probability of such a world occurring is very very small.
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 1: See put a small amount of your wealth in it, Christian,
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 1: I am. I am also fed up with the media
• 2:17:26
  Speaker 1: being so negative about the warld I agree with you.
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 1: Today I put some names on my Facebook wall one
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 1: should rather consult as experts on this topic. Your name
• 2:17:38
  Speaker 1: was part of that recommendation. Great, thank you, Christian, I
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 1: appreciate that. Yeah, I'm not the only one. There are
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 1: other people who know exactly what's involved, keep stealing land
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 1: from your millions of Arab neighbors. The reality is Israel
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: stolen no land. You know you don't want us to
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 1: take your land. Don't attack us. It's very easy. You know.
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 1: Israel has only taken land when it's being attacked, and
• 2:18:04
  Speaker 1: when peace has been negotiated, Israel is returned land like
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 1: the Sinai desert. We tak your turn. So don't attack.
• 2:18:13
  Speaker 2: Don't attack Israel, and Isoel won't take your land.
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 1: But if you attack Israel, then is Or will take
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 1: enough land to be able to defend itself.
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 2: Very very simple and straightforward.
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 1: All around self defense, all around the principle of non
• 2:18:28
  Speaker 1: initiation of force and the principle of defending yourself. Remo.
• 2:18:34
  Speaker 1: So many people in the West want to see Israel
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: and the US lose This war just disgusting. I know,
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 1: it just is evil. It really is evil, or even
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 1: God there it is. Are you going to debate having
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 1: a conversation with Michael labor Rich on Iran? I think
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 1: it would be interesting. I mean maybe, I don't know.
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 1: I'm really busy, really really really am busy. I'm traveling
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 1: a lot, I've got I'm teaching at the institute. I'm
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 1: doing a show every day. I cover all these topics
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 1: on the show. All you get from the debate like
• 2:19:12
  Speaker 1: that is Gotcha's. I mean, I don't know any argument
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 1: that he's made that I haven't responded to on this show.
• 2:19:17
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I think it could be interesting, but the
• 2:19:21
  Speaker 1: benefit of it is marginal, and it's time consuming, and
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 1: so if I have the time, I'll do it, but
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not committing to do it because I know what
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 1: my schedule's like. I'm way way behind on a number
• 2:19:37
  Speaker 1: of projects that I deem much more important than that,
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 1: and until I catch up with those things, it's unlikely.
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 1: And it's basically targeted at an insider audience. The inside
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 1: the audience listens to Michael, listens to me, and you
• 2:19:50
  Speaker 1: guys can make up your own mind. I don't think
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 1: us debating it adds that much to it beyond you know,
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: and I respect Michael and respect I think he's wrong,
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 1: but I was spect him and and listen to him,
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 1: listen to me and decide uh. And read what Lennapeecup
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 1: has written about this, Read The Winning Unwinnable War, What
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 1: Elon Juno's written about it, Read all the all the
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 1: content and make up your mind. I don't think it's
• 2:20:16
  Speaker 1: that hard anyway, that that's that's my main view. But
• 2:20:21
  Speaker 1: I don't have anything against it. It's just it's just
• 2:20:25
  Speaker 1: time consuming. God, I'm so behind.
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 2:20:31
  Speaker 1: Newly, Dan, is the duty is the duty to God,
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 1: the Bible or whatever ancient book.
• 2:20:37
  Speaker 2: A duty to hate life?
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 1: No? I think often the consequence is h hating life.
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 1: But I don't think it's explicitly a duty to hate life.
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 1: And I think hating life is much more of a
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: Christian thing than a than an Old Testament Jewish thing.
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 2: It's a New Testament thing. Uh.
• 2:20:56
  Speaker 1: But so I don't think the duty to sack of
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 1: to sacrifice for God. To sacrifice your life for God
• 2:21:06
  Speaker 1: is a is an expression of a hatred of life.
• 2:21:10
  Speaker 1: But I don't think there's any duty to hate life.
• 2:21:18
  Speaker 1: Walkout baj of Vivaldi. If you had to choose one,
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 1: probably Bach, I mean, there's essentially which I prefer the
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 1: music of Vivaldi, but Bach has more and richer and
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 1: more variety. So Bach is the real genius there. So
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 1: I think probably Bah. But I'm not a you know,
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: not my favorite error in music, right, So I'm not
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 1: a huge fan of either. Vivaldi is easier to consume. Uh,
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey says, fingers crossed. The OPAH course. There's another one
• 2:22:00
  Speaker 1: that I and another thing that I'd like to do
• 2:22:04
  Speaker 1: and can't figure out where I'm going to have the
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 1: time to do it. I'd love to do the OPA
• 2:22:08
  Speaker 1: course or the op HOP study group, but where am
• 2:22:11
  Speaker 1: I going to find the time to do it? So
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of polls on me, and I have
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 1: to admit that the debate with Michael is not higher
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 1: on my poerty list. Okay, Adam there ru is preventing
• 2:22:25
  Speaker 1: Oborn from becoming a permanent dictator of Hungry?
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 2: Is it the EU?
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 1: Is this a good reason to support a federal level
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 1: government structure and to be against more local sovereignty. Yeah,
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think the fourteenth Amendment, I think it's
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 1: the fourteenth is good. That is, I think you need
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 1: a strong federal government to prevent local governments, like state
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 1: governments in the United States, from massively violating individual rights,
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 1: so you know, for example, instituting slavery or something like that.
• 2:23:06
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, I think that if Europe became
• 2:23:11
  Speaker 1: a federation, it should it would be ultimately good for Europe,
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 1: it would have to be I have to have a
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 1: real constitution, a proper constitution, which it doesn't today. But well,
• 2:23:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, we'll see what happens to Oban. Oban is
• 2:23:33
  Speaker 1: going to face an election here soon and there's a
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 1: good chance he loses, and the EU is probably I'm
• 2:23:40
  Speaker 1: going to force him to uphold the election, to to
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 1: accept the results, where he would probably prefer not to,
• 2:23:49
  Speaker 1: and the Russians would probably help him not to. So, Yes,
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 1: federal power is important. I'm big on federal power. I
• 2:23:57
  Speaker 1: think federalism is great, but it's own within certain bounds.
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 1: The federal government has to make sure that individual rights
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 1: fundamentally are being protected. Roman should we trade with Chinese
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 1: companies taxes for the pla versus more capitalism in China?
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 2: Does it depend on how important Taiwan is to us?
• 2:24:19
  Speaker 1: I think it's It's ultimately depends on your evaluation. Is
• 2:24:23
  Speaker 1: China a real military enemy of the United States? Is
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 1: it a a is it a threat? Is it an enemy?
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 1: And my view is that it's not yet my valuation
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 1: it's not yet. It might be, but it's not yet,
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 1: And therefore I don't think the government should get involved
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 1: in telling us not to trade with China. Now, you,
• 2:24:49
  Speaker 1: as an individual might decide not to trade with China
• 2:24:52
  Speaker 1: because it's an authoritary regime and it might be an
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 1: enemy one day, and in some reasons China they use
• 2:24:58
  Speaker 1: the equivalent slave labor. You might decide you just I'd
• 2:25:01
  Speaker 1: rather not deal with China. But that's an individual moral decision,
• 2:25:05
  Speaker 1: not a decision the state should make unless they define
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 1: it as an enemy. And I don't think we have
• 2:25:10
  Speaker 1: enough grounds to define it as an enemy yet.
• 2:25:15
  Speaker 2: Clock what causes aging?
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 1: Does reverse aging violate laws of physics of entropy? That's
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 1: why it hasn't been done. I don't know what causes aging.
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not a scientist. I mean, obviously you know the
• 2:25:31
  Speaker 1: the just like with a machine, use erodes and and
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 1: and uh and and and you don't. Everything is less
• 2:25:42
  Speaker 1: smooth and less efficient, and ultimately it all falls apart
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 1: if you run it for long enough. And I think
• 2:25:48
  Speaker 1: the human body is very similar. There are probably lots
• 2:25:52
  Speaker 1: and lots and lots of causes for aging. The aging
• 2:25:56
  Speaker 1: process is unbelievably complex. I don't think reversing aging is
• 2:26:02
  Speaker 1: a violation of the laws of physics, but I do
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 1: think that reversing aging is really, really, really difficult problem
• 2:26:12
  Speaker 1: in biology because I don't think there's one cause, so
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 1: there's not going to be one cure, one way to
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 1: reverse it. I think it's just an issue of the
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 1: complexity of the problem, and over time, over many, many decades,
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 1: I think it will be solved. Sadly, I don't think
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 1: it'll be sold before I pass away, but I think
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 1: it will be solved one day, and you might even
• 2:26:34
  Speaker 1: get to a point where you can reverse aging, where
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 1: you can become younger, you can be rejuvenated. But I
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 1: just don't think it happens quickly because the level of
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 1: science that needs to still be discovered. There's so much,
• 2:26:52
  Speaker 1: in other words, and still needs.
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 2: To be discovered.
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 1: Rafael, how you on I'm upset Timothy didn't get didn't
• 2:27:01
  Speaker 1: win the Oscar with this performance? On Maudi Supreme? Did
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 1: you watch the movie?
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 2: What do you think of it? I haven't watched the
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 2: movie yet.
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 1: No, I will when it comes to streaming, but I
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 1: haven't and I didn't watch Oscar.
• 2:27:14
  Speaker 2: So who did win?
• 2:27:15
  Speaker 1: I don't even know who won Best Actor, or if
• 2:27:19
  Speaker 1: I know, because I haven't seen many of the movies
• 2:27:21
  Speaker 1: this year. Roman says he's going to keep me alive.
• 2:27:27
  Speaker 1: That'd be great. I appreciate that. I mean, I want
• 2:27:31
  Speaker 1: I don't want to just be kept alive. I want
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 1: to be kept alive in good shape, like don't connect
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 1: me to machines and keep me alive. I actually have
• 2:27:38
  Speaker 1: it in writing that you shouldn't do that. Let me die,
• 2:27:41
  Speaker 1: but in good shape. I'd like to live for a long, long, long, long,
• 2:27:46
  Speaker 1: long long time. All Right, guys, thank you to all
• 2:27:50
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  Speaker 1: all the supporters.
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  Speaker 2: There's a show.
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  Speaker 1: In whatever way you support the show, I really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I think I thanked all the stickers, so
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that as well.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I got to Gail and Raphael.
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  Speaker 1: And the stickers. Maybe I didn't thank them, but thank
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 1: you Gail and Rafel and Jack and Yestinger Bell. I
• 2:28:18
  Speaker 1: remember thinking, all right, thanks guys, I will see you tomorrow.
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