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FTTxJT 062626 Let's Play "Who's in Charge Here?" · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Amaze your friends here at First Thing Today by Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 2: So the question one might ask if you're at the
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Speaker 2: State Department, actually probably more likely if you're at the
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Speaker 2: State Department, we would expect you to know who the
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Speaker 2: hell is in charge here. So we are again going
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Speaker 2: back to something that I said to you last week.
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Speaker 2: The problem in Iran right now is we're talking to
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Speaker 2: one group of people who, based on the votes of
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Speaker 2: the citizens of Iran, are in charge. The guys with
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Speaker 2: the guns, however, are the Iranian pardon me, the Islamic
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Speaker 2: Revolutionary Guard Corps, And like many other Banana republics, it
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Speaker 2: is devolved into, for the lack of example, the government
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Speaker 2: controlled army and the politician controlled militia squaring off for control.
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Speaker 2: The problem is the Revolutionary Guard Corps is the one
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Speaker 2: that's holed up around the Strait of Hormuz. This has
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Speaker 2: to be dealt with because we're dealing with Praseiki and
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Speaker 2: Masud Prajiki and the elected president of Iran. The Revolutionary
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Speaker 2: Guard Corps is a militia that only answers to mostly
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Speaker 2: the Ayatoli, but certainly the Mulla is in the Council
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Speaker 2: of Experts and they don't want you thinking about this.
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Speaker 2: I have scrolled through analysis after analysis after analysis, and
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Speaker 2: maybe it's because we think of everything in American terms
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Speaker 2: until Donald Trump comes along and Pete Hegsith and then
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, it's like, Oh, he's got his
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Speaker 2: own private army. Where's your conceptualization of private armies when
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Speaker 2: we're actually watching a private army shoot quote projectiles at
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Speaker 2: ships going along the Strait of Hormuz because they don't
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Speaker 2: recognize the authority of the Iranian president, because the citizens
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Speaker 2: don't have any guns. We have guns where the Revolutionary
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Speaker 2: Guard Corp, where the militia that the Iyatola sends out
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Speaker 2: to do his dirty work, were the brown shirts or
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Speaker 2: black shirts? Kareem got you know, you know in defense
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Speaker 2: of the Italians, felt like we were picking on the
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Speaker 2: brown Shirts of fascist Germany and left out the black
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Speaker 2: Shirts of fascist Italy. Hey, we like to be equal
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Speaker 2: opportunity offenders here. This is the problem that has to
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Speaker 2: be dealt with because it seems like JD. Vance and
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Speaker 2: the President's Administration Chosen are dealing with the president priseeking
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Speaker 2: the person that the Iranian population chose to preside over
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Speaker 2: their government. Seems like a legitimate thing, except when you've
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Speaker 2: got a rogue band of paramilitary theocrats who are running around,
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Speaker 2: probably believing they're doing God's work anyway, holding entire regions
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Speaker 2: of the country quote hostage or under their control like
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Speaker 2: some massive Middle Eastern chaz zone. Remember those in Seattle, Portland,
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Speaker 2: all the fun when people are we're just taking over
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Speaker 2: this block. That's what has happened along the Strait of Hormuz,
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Speaker 2: and this has to be dealt with. So what we
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Speaker 2: need from where I sit is a request from the
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Speaker 2: President of Iran for the Revolutionary Guard Court to stand down.
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Speaker 2: And when they failed, because they will fail to comply,
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Speaker 2: that's when the President of Iran calls the President of
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Speaker 2: the United States and says, this is not covered under
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Speaker 2: our ceasefire. These people are not our military. Can you
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Speaker 2: please help us with this as a sign of goodwill
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Speaker 2: and working towards the common good of the Iranian people.
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Speaker 2: Now you can say, Joe, you're smoking the devil's lettuce.
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Speaker 2: You must be Inhaling this morning. But this is what
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Speaker 2: has to happen next, because as long as this Islamic
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Speaker 2: Revolutionary Guard core is allowed to thug up and play
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Speaker 2: like al Capone, on the streets of Chicago. There's not
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Speaker 2: going to be any settlement of this. And they know
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Speaker 2: they're controlling the important bit. Oh, the President and the
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Speaker 2: rest of the Iranian Council. They can have the rest
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Speaker 2: of the country. We have the important bit, and they're
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Speaker 2: the ones talking about tolls. Just the same way Al
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Speaker 2: Capone and his boys would walk up to a store
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Speaker 2: owner in Chicago's South Side and say, hey, you get
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Speaker 2: a nice please here. Wouldn't want nothing bad to happen
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Speaker 2: to it. When let's say you're gone home for tonight.
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Speaker 2: For a little percentage, we can keep an eye. We'll
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Speaker 2: look out for you, like a neighborhood watch. You go
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Speaker 2: tell ox Mix that the Federation is moving in. So
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Speaker 2: that's what And mark my words, the rest of the
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Speaker 2: press doesn't want to cover this this way. They want
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Speaker 2: to act like this is all Trump's fall. Trump identified this,
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Speaker 2: and Trump has separated the Council of Experts from the
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Speaker 2: elected representatives of Iran. And I think this is going
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Speaker 2: to be the important part of whatever comes out of
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Speaker 2: the future is isolating this Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, making
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Speaker 2: it clear they are not the Iranian army, perhaps even
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Speaker 2: doing something with the Iranian army to reign in the
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Speaker 2: control because that's what's really at the end of the day.
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Speaker 2: The Iranian army that responds to the elected president of
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Speaker 2: Iran should be the ones going in right now and saying,
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Speaker 2: all right, you guys, give us the guns. They're not
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Speaker 2: right now. But if the US and think about think
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Speaker 2: of the profundity if the United States said, okay, at
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Speaker 2: the request of the President of Iran, we are going
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Speaker 2: to come in with the And I know it's playing
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Speaker 2: out a little bit Southeast Asian. You know, we're sending
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Speaker 2: advisors blah blah blah, but this with you know, and
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Speaker 2: you can draw your parallels to the Chemera Rouge, and
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Speaker 2: this is a paramilitary group that is only loyal to
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Speaker 2: the Ayatolas. And if we're going to break this theocracy down,
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Speaker 2: these are the people who are going to have to
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Speaker 2: put down their weapons. And they're not going to do
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Speaker 2: it because they're religious zelots, crusaders for their own holy cause,
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Speaker 2: and we need them to stop.
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Speaker 1: I say quick for you from Joe Thomas. It's first thing.
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Speaker 2: Today celebrating Pride months joined my hand clapping open air
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Speaker 2: rhythm band.
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Speaker 4: Now mister Joe Henry was a happy little man who
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Speaker 4: became a legend in our town of everybody who's a
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Speaker 4: lot of the spies to the happy sound that he
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Speaker 2: why waste time coming up with a cool name for
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Speaker 2: with mister Joe Henry. It seems like a pretty straightforward
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Speaker 2: name to me. White more cute than that. The House
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Speaker 2: is shut down today US House of Representatives. Finally somebody
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Speaker 2: again realizing that parliamentary procedure in a republican form of
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Speaker 2: government is there to make sure the minority voices are heard.
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Speaker 2: And Chip Roy, one of my favorites, though he's going
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Speaker 2: to be leaving at the end of the year, hopefully
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Speaker 2: become Texas Attorney General, leading the charge along with Byron
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Speaker 2: Donald's Congressoman Luna holding up on a procedural vote because
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Speaker 2: they needed to suspend a rule to vote on any
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Speaker 2: of the things that were on the agenda today, and
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Speaker 2: they won't do it until the save America Act is
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Speaker 2: brought to the House floor. So Mike Johnson sent out
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Speaker 2: one of his minions and said, yeah, we're going home today,
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Speaker 2: gabbled the house out yesterday afternoon, sent them all home
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Speaker 2: for the weekend. And considering what the weather's like where
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Speaker 2: a lot of these folks have to go home to,
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure they are going to feel like they
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Speaker 2: got the upside of that deal. But finally an example.
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Speaker 2: The Democrats do this all the time. This is why
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Speaker 2: it seems like Hakeem Jeffries is actually the Speaker of
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Speaker 2: the House. And if that you want to talk about
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Speaker 2: a tangent here just for a quick sidebar on this,
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Speaker 2: can you imagine everyone's saying, well, the House is gonna
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Speaker 2: flip and then Kareem Jeffries, Hakim Jefferies is going to
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Speaker 2: be the Speaker of the House. Have you looked at
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Speaker 2: some of the folks who just got elected out of
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Speaker 2: New York flipping all those seats the way AOC flipped.
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Speaker 2: Hers don't count on Hikeem Jeffries being the Speaker of
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Speaker 2: the House. If the Democrats take the majority. I'm betting AOC,
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Speaker 2: but that's me special. Given the Democratic Socialist March but anyway,
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Speaker 2: Hikam Jefferies has been able to hang up things and
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Speaker 2: hold up things until he gets what he wants because
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Speaker 2: he knows and isn't afraid to use parliamentary procedure to
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Speaker 2: do it. Republicans, I don't know. Oh no, we don't
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Speaker 2: want to be like that. Well not. Chip Roy learned
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Speaker 2: this at the University of Virginia. So proud here in
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Speaker 2: Central Virginia. Chip Roy. Ah, yeah, I know it's Texas,
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Speaker 2: but that's that's fine, well and good. He learned it
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Speaker 2: all here at the University of Virginia. I might have to,
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Speaker 2: you know, share the front seat with Chip Roy out
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Speaker 2: of you know, some of the greats that have come
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Speaker 2: out of Central Virginia for your conservative constitutional protections, you know,
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Speaker 2: since the Jefferson Fellow two hundred and fifty years ago.
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Speaker 2: Kareem is hanging on the line with us this morning
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Speaker 2: at four three, four eight eight two four two one seven.
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Speaker 2: Send text messages there as well. Good morning, Greem. How
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Speaker 2: are you doing the first thing this morning?
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Speaker 5: Joe? I'm doing pretty well for all this rain coming
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Speaker 5: down in Pennsylvania. Hopefully I'll come out pass over us
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Speaker 5: in a bit. But I'll tell you what New Jersey.
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Speaker 5: Those meadow lends yesterday were draw.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that's the thing. I mean, we had heavy
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Speaker 2: squalls down Louisiana where they're listening to us on Wgso
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Speaker 2: we've got high heat waves going through Texas right now.
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Speaker 2: There's just you know, it's the middle of that summer
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Speaker 2: simmer that happens you get these blasts of rain. We
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Speaker 2: had a couple of micro bursts here in central Virginia
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Speaker 2: just a couple of days ago that were you know,
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Speaker 2: seventy five eighty mile an hour winds in them as well.
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Speaker 2: I like the stories, of course, the stories out of
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Speaker 2: Europe are all about how well, I just wish it changed,
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Speaker 2: you know.
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Speaker 5: And Joe right, I'm right there with you about wanting
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Speaker 5: ship for wad to be to a jay.
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Speaker 2: I just wish you had won the primary. But you're right.
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Speaker 5: As far as conservative fighters go, they've got a couple
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Speaker 5: that they're proud of. They can hang their head on,
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Speaker 5: that's for sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but use the procedure it's supposed to be there
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Speaker 2: to make sure the minority voices aren't trampled, and that
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Speaker 2: works for Democrats. They don't have a compunction. Do you
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Speaker 2: know why do Republicans feel like, you know, if they're
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Speaker 2: in the minority, they can't even use procedures to make
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Speaker 2: sure their voices are heard.
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Speaker 1: Joe.
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Speaker 5: Honestly, I think it's because we've got a lot of
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Speaker 5: soft handed Republicans voted into Congress, and they like where
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Speaker 5: they are, and the people that put them there like
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Speaker 5: where they are too, and so nothing's going to change
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Speaker 5: until primaries get taken care of. And honestly, Democrats are
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Speaker 5: doing their side that they've got some fighters going in Joe.
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Speaker 5: Every time then my phone cuts out, So if I disappear,
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Speaker 5: my apologies to you and your listeners.
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Speaker 2: Well you're driving through Pennsylvania, go ahead. What's on your mind?
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Speaker 5: Oh well, I also wonder I found something thought was
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Speaker 5: interesting the IRGC. Whenever they put out a warning, they
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Speaker 5: say it to all the naval vessels. And I do
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Speaker 5: understand about you know, if we could just get the
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Speaker 5: side that we like most and are on to become
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Speaker 5: the side that rules it, that'd be a lot easier.
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Speaker 5: But there, even though the blockade it's not really there.
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Speaker 5: They just want people to go with their permission. They're
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Speaker 5: still uh in a at a level of heightened anticipation
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Speaker 5: of attack. Uh, And my understanding is that there's that
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Speaker 5: m ou that that pesky little thing.
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Speaker 2: There have been some stuff.
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Speaker 5: Going on in Lebanon that they were very unhappy about,
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Speaker 5: so that may be a little tent for tat going on.
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Speaker 5: So if we can get our side to tamper down
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Speaker 5: on those actions, maybe they'll, you know, well at least
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Speaker 5: some of the pressure on theirs.
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Speaker 2: It's the IRGC claiming authority that they don't have. So
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Speaker 2: this is this is what I was pointing out that
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Speaker 2: the IRGC is not the army of Iran. They are
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Speaker 2: the private muscle of the Iatolas. It's how they maintain authority.
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Speaker 2: Iran's government technically hasn't changed even from the Shas era.
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Speaker 2: They just the mullahs and this committee of experts moved
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Speaker 2: in and basically took the same monarchical power that the
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Speaker 2: Shah claimed and used the IRGC as their muscle to
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Speaker 2: push it around. What we're doing is by dealing with
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Speaker 2: Prjiki and the President and the Foreign Minister and all
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Speaker 2: of that. What we need to do is for them
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Speaker 2: to get the military to go, and they're far bigger.
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Speaker 2: The Iranian military is far bigger of a force than
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Speaker 2: the IRGC. IRGC are just a bunch of militants who
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Speaker 2: wanted afraid to fire the one rocket they have, or
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Speaker 2: I don't know, throw a trash can at a ship
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Speaker 2: and make everyone stop. Because you know, it doesn't take
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Speaker 2: a lot to make a freighter ship go boom, depending
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Speaker 2: on what's in it. So you have to understand that
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Speaker 2: these ship captains are a little flinchy about stuff just
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Speaker 2: flying out of the sky and hitting them, you know,
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Speaker 2: on the side of the bridge windows. So this is
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Speaker 2: what they're doing. So we need and this is what
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Speaker 2: I'm hoping happens next, is that we work with the
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Speaker 2: Iranian president to regain authority, the elected authority. It's not
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Speaker 2: just that we like them better, it's that they were
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Speaker 2: the ones that the Iranian people elected to be president
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Speaker 2: and the prime ministry and all of that. So let's
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Speaker 2: work with the people who the Iranian people want, not
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Speaker 2: the ones who you know, just moved in and took
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Speaker 2: over the palace from the Shah back in seventy seven. Well,
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Speaker 2: I hear you.
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Speaker 5: Joe, But the only time that people seem to be
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Speaker 5: uprising is when't we smuggle into starlinks and coordinate the riots.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I don't know if we're coordinating, Laura, but
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Speaker 2: we're certainly enabling them when we can get them some
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Speaker 2: internet service.
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Speaker 5: And we haven't given enough guns because we keep worrying
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Speaker 5: about the courts taking them all. So I hear what
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Speaker 5: you're saying about. We just need to, you know, tough
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Speaker 5: them up and make them actually seize power. But Joe,
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Speaker 5: once we killed the last committeean most of us family
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Speaker 5: in that strike, I can't really blame the allergy c
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Speaker 5: for not trusting us when we say we'd like to
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Speaker 5: negotiate guns.
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Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think we're trying to kept negotiators. Well, no,
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Speaker 2: we're not trying to negotiate with the IRGC. We're negotiating
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Speaker 2: the only way they understand stand down or get blown up,
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Speaker 2: and that's what they've got to understand. Have a good morning, Kareem.
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Speaker 1: Question for you from Joe Thomas. It's first thing today.
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Speaker 2: Four thirty four eight eight two four two one seven.
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Speaker 2: That is the uh. I didn't know this, so I've
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Speaker 2: made a big deal about being a trisc it, which
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Speaker 2: is the opposite of being a trisc at ecophobic. I
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Speaker 2: was actually born on a Friday the thirteenth, and therefore
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Speaker 2: it's it's very difficult for me to be superstitious. I've
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Speaker 2: never been a member of the Night's Templar, so I
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Speaker 2: really shouldn't have worried about Friday the thirteenth myself either.
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Speaker 2: But here's what I didn't know until about a minute
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Speaker 2: and a half ago. So you know, we all know
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Speaker 2: the songs of David Clayton Thomas, Blood, Sweat and Tears,
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Speaker 2: Spinning Wheel, et cetera, et cetera. Right, So I was just,
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Speaker 2: you know, going through flipping the page from Charlie Pride
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Speaker 2: songs to David Clayton Thomas ballads, and I found out
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Speaker 2: David Clayton Thomas, though no relation that I'm aware of,
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Speaker 2: was also born on September thirteenth, many twenty two years
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Speaker 2: before I was. But that's that's okay. He was celebrating
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Speaker 2: his twenty second birthday the day I was born. Passing on,
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Speaker 2: and it's a blessing that we've been able to record
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Speaker 2: and save these things for posterity. So back to and
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Speaker 2: this is going to sound like picking knits, but there's
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Speaker 2: a there's a movement in journalism to familiarize and to
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Speaker 2: use phrases that I think cheap in the overall understanding
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Speaker 2: of an event. So just and again I'm not picking knits.
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Speaker 2: I'm just saying that this is commonplace, and news anchors
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Speaker 2: do it, so it's certainly understandable that we all wind
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Speaker 2: up doing it. So if there's an international affair, news
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Speaker 2: anchors are told to say that, well, the the president
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Speaker 2: or Trump as he's referred to. Now, we don't refer
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Speaker 2: to him as the president, he's Trump. Trump likes the
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Speaker 2: Iranian president more than the ayatola, and the news anchors
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Speaker 2: are taught this phraseology because it's familiar. It's supposed to
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Speaker 2: sound just like you and your buddy hanging out at
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Speaker 2: the pub on a Friday happy hour. Hey, you know,
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Speaker 2: I understand Trump likes the Iranian president pretty good. And
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Speaker 2: that's why it's not a matter of that, because when
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Speaker 2: and the thing I worry about. I get why they
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Speaker 2: say that, because we all want to sound relatable. But
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Speaker 2: if you're dealing in information dissemination, what's wrong with saying
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Speaker 2: the United States is negotiating with the elected president of
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Speaker 2: Iran Masud Pruseikian. Oh sure, it doesn't sound like somebody
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Speaker 2: who came over to play Parcheesi with you, It would
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Speaker 2: say it, But you're reporting a news story. You're reporting
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Speaker 2: information that then can go into the parchesi playing neighbors conversation.
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Speaker 2: But it's important to have the root information, which is
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Speaker 2: not just that Trump likes massoud Prusiki and better than
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Speaker 2: Iatola Junior. It's that and again not picking nits, but
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Speaker 2: the way the Iatola is in this Council of experts
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Speaker 2: have been running around is they moved in to where
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Speaker 2: the Shah had been operating as this royal figure, claiming
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Speaker 2: rather than royal authority, lineage authority, theocratic authority. But Iran
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Speaker 2: still elects ministers to their government and presidents in the
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Speaker 2: same way they did in nineteen seventy five, and the
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Speaker 2: same way they did in nineteen Was it forty No,
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Speaker 2: it was fifty two when we decided we didn't like
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Speaker 2: the communists, the socialists that got elected, and funny, you know,
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Speaker 2: we're electing socialists like freaking going out of style, and
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Speaker 2: we didn't like the socialists that got elected prime minister
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Speaker 2: of Iran, and we had to munk around in there.
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Speaker 2: And again, as was pointed out, you know at the time,
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Speaker 2: you wanted to nationalize the oil and okay, so which
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Speaker 2: would have been in hindsight, because you're supposed to learn
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Speaker 2: from your hindsight. So socialist becomes prime Minister of Iran
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Speaker 2: and socializes or nationalizes the oil fields. Is that better
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Speaker 2: or war than where we are today. That's the point
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Speaker 2: I'm making about state craft. State Craft has to be
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Speaker 2: long view stuff. State Craft can't be like, well, I
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Speaker 2: don't like this today, and I want to do this
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Speaker 2: because this helps me today. So it just but please,
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Speaker 2: news anchors. Your job is to deliver information, and there's
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Speaker 2: nothing wrong with the thoroughness of actually giving us the
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Speaker 2: pedantic descriptions of what's going to going on. We can
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Speaker 2: colloquialize it later when we go over to the barbecue
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Speaker 2: on a Saturday afternoon and we say, hey, I heard
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Speaker 2: that Trump seems to like the president of Iran. That's different.
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Speaker 2: That's me talking to my neighbor. That's not me sitting
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Speaker 2: at a TV anchor desk saying, well, what's going on
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Speaker 2: here is Trump likes the president of And I know
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Speaker 2: it sounds like, you know, being slicing my bologny so thin,
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Speaker 2: it starts to look like presuit, but it really is.
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Speaker 2: It's important, and it's one of the places that we're
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Speaker 2: getting sloppy, and we're being herded through our sloppiness. I
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Speaker 2: don't want to dazzle you with complexity, but there are
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Speaker 2: things that need to be if we're going to have
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Speaker 2: a conversation on how the news of the day is
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Speaker 2: impacting you, well, I think it's only fair that we
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Speaker 2: know all the facts and we lay them out, even
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Speaker 2: This is why, you know, Cassidy probably could have kept
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Speaker 2: his seat in Louisiana if he had sat down and
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Speaker 2: had a conversation about what was going on in Iran
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Speaker 2: with Marco Rubio. But he didn't. And maybe it's Marco
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Speaker 2: Rubio's fault for not reaching out. But then you know,
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Speaker 2: he lifts his opposition. He was supporting this war powers
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Speaker 2: resolution and he called Tim Kane and said, Tara, sorry, Tim,
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Speaker 2: you didn't tell me everything, and flipped his vote, and
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Speaker 8: What goes up must come down?
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Speaker 2: Seems appropriate.
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Speaker 4: Spinning wheel got Tambo round talking about your table.
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Speaker 8: Let the spin and wheels.
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Speaker 2: Lunk check for some coin shop jcsgold dot com. And really,
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Speaker 2: this morning? James? How are you this Friday?
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Speaker 9: I'm doing well, Joe and Golden Soilber. We're trying to
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Speaker 9: find some support yesterday and that continues today. Gold is
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Speaker 9: up about half percent so far, up about eighteen dollars
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Speaker 9: four forty five dollars so broken back above that four
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Speaker 9: thousand dollars key level there, and we can see if
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Speaker 9: it can hold on into the weekend. Same story with
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Speaker 9: silver Solver is up a little bit over half of
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Speaker 9: percent this morning to fifty eight dollars and twenty five cents.
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Speaker 9: Silver really needs to get back above sixty, so we'll
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Speaker 9: see if silver can make that happen today.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's an opportunity for you to get
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Speaker 2: in before it does. Let's not forget all the you know,
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Speaker 2: and there were folks who were saying, oh gosh, I
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Speaker 2: wish I had bought silver when it was like eighteen dollars,
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Speaker 2: announced James, which doesn't seem like all that long ago.
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Speaker 2: But this is a chance to do that now. Don't
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Speaker 2: miss these opportunities. A friend of mine who's in the
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Speaker 2: investment gurrowness Guru ship says that if you jump in
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Speaker 2: and out of the markets, including I imagined gold and silver,
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Speaker 2: the odds are you will miss the biggest movement days
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Speaker 2: in the market. So if you jump out and then
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Speaker 2: you notice in the news that gold prices are going up,
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Speaker 2: by the time you jump in, you will have missed
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Speaker 2: most of the opportunity to realize gains on the gold
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Speaker 2: and silver that you own. So it's really about buy
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Speaker 2: and hold, isn't it.
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Speaker 9: You're exactly right, yeah, And bankers and financial advisors. You
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Speaker 9: know like to say that I've heard that exact thesis
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Speaker 9: before on the stock market, and I researched that with
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Speaker 9: gold and silver, and it's the exact same story. It's
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Speaker 9: not about trading and jumping in and out and trying
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Speaker 9: to time the market. It's really just consistently buying and
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Speaker 9: holding over time is the best performance that we've seen
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Speaker 9: in history. You can see that when you zoom out
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Speaker 9: on the long term chart of gold. You can see
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Speaker 9: that on our website to at jcsgold dot com. But
33:23
Speaker 9: when you zoom out, it really does start to make
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Speaker 9: sense as a clear picture of like, oh yeah, I really.
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Speaker 2: Shouldn't try to try to.
33:30
Speaker 9: Find the bottoms that you know, the all the movement.
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Speaker 9: Just consistently buy in stack gold and silver and do
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Speaker 9: it over the long term, and and you really don't
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Speaker 9: even have to think too hard about it.
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Speaker 2: This is the advice you get from a family business
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Speaker 2: There are no commissions, there's no quotas that people have
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Speaker 2: four three, four ninety seven. Nine coin. That's nine seven
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Speaker 2: nine two six four six. James. You have a great weekend, sir,
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Speaker 2: enjoy it, and uh, we'll talk to you again on Monday.
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Speaker 2: I show you too. Four three four eight eight two
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Speaker 2: four two one seven is the phone number. And doctor
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Speaker 2: Clark is hanging on with us on the news of
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Speaker 2: the day and triggering him in many ways? Am I
34:23
Speaker 2: wrong though, to point out that this Islamic Revolutionary Guard
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Speaker 2: Corps is not the Iranian army, and that there is
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Speaker 2: actually an Iranian army that responds to President Perusekian, and
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Speaker 2: that these guys just happen to occupy the land around
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Speaker 2: the Strait of Horror moves, and maybe, just maybe this
34:42
Speaker 2: is where we could see the very first inklings of
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Speaker 2: cooperation between the Iranian president and the US.
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Speaker 10: Clark, all right, look, remember Hogan Heroes.
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Speaker 2: Joe Hogan what oo woo what Hogan Heroes?
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Speaker 8: No?
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Speaker 2: I do not know the name is it was? Was
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Speaker 2: that Jimmy Carter's secretary, that.
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Speaker 8: That Colonel Klank Well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh Colonel Hogan. Yeah, Hogan's hero Oh Hogan's Heroes.
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Speaker 2: I thought you said Hogan t Rose. I thought Hogan
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Speaker 2: t Rose was like Jimmy Carter's Secretary of the Economy
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Speaker 2: or something I didn't know. Okay, Hogan's heroes, yeah, you know,
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Speaker 2: back when we could make fun of Nazis, you know,
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Speaker 2: and they could be a punchline, right, Okay, what's got
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Speaker 2: to lower.
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Speaker 8: Yourself to my level?
35:32
Speaker 7: So?
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Speaker 8: Look when General Berkholter.
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Speaker 10: Showed up Gestapo, Yeah that was the German Army, Major Hawkstetter,
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Speaker 10: the guy in the black uniform, the SS.
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Speaker 8: But yeah, he's GESTOPO. The Gestapo was not the.
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Speaker 10: Army Yep, that's a good that's a good example, not
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Speaker 10: Iberginian Army. If you can remember Hoven's heroes, you can
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Speaker 10: get that straight.
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Speaker 6: Cool.
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Speaker 2: What else on your mind this morning?
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Speaker 3: So?
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Speaker 8: You know you mentioned earlier the responsibility I guess or
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Speaker 8: the job of the news media, and then you brought
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Speaker 8: up the differing opinions on what's going on with the
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Speaker 8: reflection poll and is it left this sabotage or is
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Speaker 8: Trump not capable.
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Speaker 2: Of killing algae?
36:37
Speaker 8: I think, Joe, you know there was an ad campaign.
36:45
Speaker 8: Oh gosh, I don't know what twenty years ago, thirty
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Speaker 8: years ago.
36:49
Speaker 2: You are what you eat?
36:50
Speaker 8: Do you remember that?
36:51
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, yeah, I remember that now that's not.
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Speaker 8: I mean, you know, if I eat eggplant and chicken,
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Speaker 8: I will not turn into a chicken egg plant. But
37:03
Speaker 8: you know it's not completely untrue.
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Speaker 2: But pedantically you could say that they're both the same thing.
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Speaker 2: One's an egg plant and one's an egg plant. Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Oh, here's the thing, you are. Your mind is largely
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Speaker 8: a product of what you consume mentally. Now, if you
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Speaker 8: constantly consume filthy communist agit drop, which stands for agitating propaganda,
37:37
Speaker 8: sooner or later you will be an agitated, filthy communist.
37:43
Speaker 8: And you know, I guess the difference between most people
37:51
Speaker 8: in talk radio is you're not the shame to tell
37:56
Speaker 8: people I'm sharing my opinion, right right.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you know it's it's just the way I
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Speaker 2: see the story, the way I dice it up through
38:07
Speaker 2: my experiences, and I'd like to think that I've I've
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Speaker 2: consumed things that that lead me to these discussions Russell Kirk,
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Speaker 2: conservatism and the constitution and things like that. But go ahead,
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Speaker 2: real quick, we got a minute here. If you need to,
38:23
Speaker 2: I can hang on to you.
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Speaker 7: No.
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Speaker 8: So, so if you turn on the evening news, hey
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Speaker 8: they call it the news, and b they don't want
38:36
Speaker 8: you to know that their whole purpose is not to
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Speaker 8: tell you what happened, but tell you what to think
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Speaker 8: about what they chose to tell you what happened.
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Speaker 2: That's that's the whole deal. Ye in a nutshell, that
38:51
Speaker 2: is it. It is. It is opinion making and it's
38:56
Speaker 2: it is a Sirens song, but it's part of it.
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Speaker 2: And here I don't want to do anything about it
39:01
Speaker 2: because people have stopped tuning in. But the Internet is
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Speaker 2: full of this stuff.
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