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Speaker 1: A lot of fundamental principles of freedom, national self interest,
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Speaker 1: and individual wats.
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Speaker 2: This is the Uran Book Show.
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Speaker 1: All right, everybody, welcome to you on book show on
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Speaker 1: this Friday, March twentieth, almost at the end up March.
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Speaker 1: It's Betty, amazing, thanks for being here, Thanks for joining
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Speaker 1: me today. All right. So we're going to get into
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Speaker 1: discussion about the strategy in the war and you on
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Speaker 1: and in particular addressing some the legitimate concerns that are
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Speaker 1: being raised about the war.
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Speaker 2: And we'll talk about that.
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Speaker 1: And we've got a bunch of other topics to cover
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Speaker 1: after that, but we will definitely, we will definitely start
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Speaker 1: with that. So let's let's I've got edo here that
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Speaker 1: was published in the New York Times by David French,
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Speaker 1: who is a conservative, never Trumper, never Trump is. But
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Speaker 1: I think this is this is a good editorial because
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Speaker 1: I think it strikes the right balance and the right
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Speaker 1: tone in terms of critiquing the war. And I think
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Speaker 1: it has I think it needs to be addressed. And
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Speaker 1: let me just say everything I'm seeing, everything I'm seeing
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Speaker 1: from Trump will get to this in a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Everything I'm seeing from the military preparations, what the military
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Speaker 1: is doing. Everything I'm seeing suggests that I have been
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Speaker 1: right for the last two plus weeks in that Trump
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Speaker 1: and the military went into this campaign with no strategic
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Speaker 1: plan on dealing with the Straits of Homos. Now they're
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Speaker 1: dealing with it now because they have no choice. But
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Speaker 1: they don't have the assets in place, they don't have
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Speaker 1: the the what they need in place, because they didn't
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Speaker 1: have a strategy, because they didn't plan, because they didn't
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Speaker 1: prepare for this. And that comes from the top. So
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Speaker 1: I don't blame I don't blame the generals, you know
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Speaker 1: at the top. H So Straits of Homos ultimately going
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Speaker 1: to be the key to this, to this war, and
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Speaker 1: to the consequence of it, and to really the fate
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Speaker 1: of the global economy, including the United States economy, over
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Speaker 1: the next over the next few months years. Uh and
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Speaker 1: and and the reality is that that this administration had
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Speaker 1: no plan for there, nothing, nothing, nothing, all right. So
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna read you from the other too, because I
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Speaker 1: think it's well said, well written, might as well, might
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Speaker 1: as well, we'd.
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Speaker 2: Permit, and then go from there. This is David French.
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Speaker 1: President Trump has created the conditions for another quagmire in
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Speaker 1: the middle East, and the question is whether American military
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Speaker 1: excellence absolutely can rescue him from his own impulsiveness and incompetence.
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Speaker 1: I completely agree.
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Speaker 2: Here is the present situation in a nutshell.
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Speaker 1: The United States and as well have established absolute air
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Speaker 1: dominance over the nation of Iran in a few short days.
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Speaker 1: Our combined forces have destroyed i Wan's ability to project
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Speaker 1: its own airspace to protect its own airspace, having killed
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Speaker 1: much of Iran's senior military and civilian leadership, and have
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Speaker 1: sunk much of Yuan's navy. At the same time, the
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Speaker 1: United States and as well are damaging Iran's nuclear program
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Speaker 1: from the air, and they're destroying Iran's ability to manufacture
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Speaker 1: and deploy ballistic missiles. They are also attacking the internal
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Speaker 1: security forces that maintain the Iranian regimes hold on the population.
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Speaker 1: The intention of the air campaign is clear to destroy
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Speaker 1: the region teams capability to harm its neighbors, while also
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Speaker 1: creating the conditions for revolution on the ground. If that's
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Speaker 1: the extent of the military mission, the military is accomplishing
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Speaker 1: it with remarkable efficiency. Absolutely, Iran is being badly battered.
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Speaker 1: Even if the war ended today, it would take years
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Speaker 1: for the Iranian military to fully recover from those losses
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Speaker 1: it has suffered so far. While Iran's drones and missiles
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Speaker 1: and inflicted damage and American forces and allies that damage
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Speaker 1: is far less, far far less than what the United
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Speaker 1: States and Israel inflicted on Iran. There are no confirmed
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Speaker 1: reports of Uranian shooting down any American or Israeli aircraft.
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Speaker 1: It has destroyed a number of drones and maybe one airplane,
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Speaker 1: and it hasn't yet sunk a single American al Israeli warship.
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Speaker 1: So why then, and this is the key I think? So,
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Speaker 1: why then is Trump lashing out in American allies?
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Speaker 2: Why has he shot?
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Speaker 1: Why was he shocked that Iran struck Saudi Arabia, Kataran,
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Speaker 1: United Arab Emirates and quite in response to American attacks?
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Speaker 1: Perhaps the answer lies in a wellsee Journal report from
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Speaker 1: last fighting. According to the Journal, General Dan Kine, the
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Speaker 1: chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, warned Trump that
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Speaker 1: he won might attempt to close the straits of Homos
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Speaker 1: and Trum. Trump shrugged off the threat and launched the
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Speaker 1: attack anyway. He told his team that Tehran would likely
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Speaker 1: capitulate before closing the streets, The journal wrote, and even
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Speaker 1: if you Won tried the US military could handle it,
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Speaker 1: but no strategy was put in place, I add, but
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Speaker 1: i Wan did not capitulate. There's no real sign the
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Speaker 1: regime is in danger of falling. Eh, maybe there's some science. Instead,
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Speaker 1: it has effectively closed the Strait, and it's reportedly done
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Speaker 1: so without choking off its own oil exports. In other words,
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Speaker 1: while other nations can't ship all through the Straits, Iwon
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Speaker 1: still is Iwon may not be able to seriously damage
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Speaker 1: as well with its missiles, though a few missiles have
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Speaker 1: gone through Israel's defenses and kill Di Israeli citizens, very few,
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Speaker 1: I would add. And it may not be able to
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Speaker 1: think American ships. But it can't potentially plunge the world
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Speaker 1: economy into a state of crisis. It could well damage.
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Speaker 1: It could well emerge in the conflict with its regen
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Speaker 1: intact and perhaps even more hardline, and its power over
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Speaker 1: the world economy undiminished.
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Speaker 2: So yeah.
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Speaker 1: In a recent post, the Institute for the Study of
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Speaker 1: War described the problem well quote, A weakened regime that
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Speaker 1: remains in power after this war would be able to
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Speaker 1: disrupt shipping whenever and for however long it pleases, with
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Speaker 1: little effort. If its current relatively limited strike campaign on
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Speaker 1: shipping proves sufficient to cause the United States and Israel
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Speaker 1: to surrender. A failure to damage state the will and
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Speaker 1: ability to deny Iran's ability to disrupt traffic, it wrote,
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Speaker 1: will make it enormously harder to deter Yuan from future disruptions.
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Speaker 2: That's the logic that lead to a quagmire.
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Speaker 1: If America declares victory now, when the Iranian regime is
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Speaker 1: still in power and the Strait is closed, and Iran
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Speaker 1: perversely can claim it wont it took a huge punch,
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Speaker 1: absorbed the blow, and still forced America to climb down
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Speaker 1: and employed its ultimate weapon closing the strait, and America
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Speaker 1: had no effective answer.
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Speaker 2: And this would.
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Speaker 1: Commit to opening the strait and keeping it open by force,
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Speaker 1: and the US may well find itself and yet another
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Speaker 1: open ended, costly conflict with at least some American soldiers
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Speaker 1: on Iranian soil. This would be a war on our
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Speaker 1: enemies terms and terrain, with the potential of slowly but
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Speaker 1: surely inflicting casualties and costs on the American military until
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Speaker 1: we grow tired of the conflict and leave. Now, that,
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Speaker 1: in my view, is just straight out defeatism. Right, But
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Speaker 1: he's right, no strategy and this is a choke point
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Speaker 1: that has massive consequences. And this was not hard. This
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Speaker 1: is not how to figure out. During the run of
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Speaker 1: Rock War, the Iranians closed the Straits of Homos, and
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Speaker 1: the United States under Reagan, Uh was it Reagan?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Under Reagan, uh, established a convoy where the US Navy
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Speaker 1: escorted chips out of the States of Homos, you know,
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Speaker 1: in order to deliver oil and natural gas. Well there
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Speaker 1: was no I don't think it was natural gas in
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Speaker 1: those days, just oil to the world. But the United
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Speaker 1: States almost lost one ship when it hit a mine. Uh.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's it's a whole uh, you know, damage,
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Speaker 1: the sailors were injured. I mean, it's a it's a
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Speaker 1: major operation and it's a very difficult one. And Iran
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Speaker 1: is in terms of the the the weapons it has
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Speaker 1: available to do damage in the Homo Straits is far, far, far,
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Speaker 1: far far more.
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Speaker 2: Advanced than it was back then.
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Speaker 1: So you know, this is this is a challenge to
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Speaker 1: take French on. The only way to cut the gold
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Speaker 1: of your knod is with a military miracle.
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Speaker 2: I don't think it's a miracle.
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Speaker 1: A fast campaign with minimal casualties that can quickly epen
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Speaker 1: the straits, minimize harm to the international economy, and leave
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Speaker 1: Iran almost entirely toothless, unable to inflict military economic damage
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Speaker 1: on its foes. Trump's recklessness has left the United States
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Speaker 1: with few good options. Indeed, the dilemma American now faces
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Speaker 1: is a perfect illustration of why Trump should have taken
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Speaker 1: his case for war to Congress and the American people
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Speaker 1: before he fired the first missile. I've had friends ask me, well,
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Speaker 1: if he didn't think Congress would approve.
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Speaker 2: What do you expect him to do? Sit on his hands.
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Speaker 1: The answer is simple. The Constitution doesn't give the president
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Speaker 1: the power to disregard Congress.
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Speaker 2: So no, don't go to war if you can't get
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Speaker 2: Congress to approve.
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Speaker 1: And if Republican presidents can't get a Republican Congress to
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Speaker 1: support this war, perhaps that provides even more reason to
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Speaker 1: doubt the wisdom of the conflict. Now again, I disagree
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Speaker 1: with French on the wisdom of the conflict. What you
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Speaker 1: need is a strategy. Had he made the case for
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Speaker 1: he could have prepared the people for potential economic cortship.
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Speaker 1: He would have been forced to precisely define our war
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Speaker 1: aims and means he choose to pursue those these aims.
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Speaker 1: He had he not alienated key allies through economic warfare, tariffs,
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Speaker 1: and threats to seize Greenland, it could have been easier
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Speaker 1: to assemble in advance and ally forced to protect the
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Speaker 1: states of Homos. Instead, Trump launched a major war in
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Speaker 1: his own initiative, while announcing competing and potentially contradicting warriams.
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Speaker 1: The Stomic regime, by contrast, has a single, simple theory
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Speaker 1: of victory survive. Yeah. I mean, I'm not he goes
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Speaker 1: on and on and on. I'm just going to say,
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Speaker 1: you know, I basically agree. I think this was still salvagable.
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Speaker 1: Uh and this could still be one and it needs
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Speaker 1: to be one, and I think it can be one.
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Speaker 1: I think it ultimately will be one, but at a
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Speaker 1: cost of the global economy, at a cost of the
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Speaker 1: United States, at a cost that is absolutely ridiculous, and
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Speaker 1: a consequence of the fact that Trump is Trump. He's reckless,
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Speaker 1: he's not very smart, he doesn't think things through, he
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Speaker 1: is not strategic. I mean, what needs to be done
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Speaker 1: now is you know, a single minded focus on the
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Speaker 1: straits of home wars, complete focus on getting our allies,
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Speaker 1: getting our allies to help with opening up the.
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Speaker 2: Straits of home wars.
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Speaker 1: That involves mind sweepers from various countries, and it involves
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Speaker 1: bringing in other countries navies. It involves what is happening,
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Speaker 1: which is bringing in marines. But think about it, It's
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Speaker 1: going to take the marines from California three weeks to
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Speaker 1: get there. The first batch of marines is going to
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Speaker 1: be there next week, but there are three groups of
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Speaker 1: marines that are being sent to the Middle East. The
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Speaker 1: rest won't get there until about mid April. Shouldn't they
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Speaker 1: shouldn't they have been positioned there in advance. You remember
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Speaker 1: all the positioning of anti aircraft batteries and sorry yeah
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Speaker 1: I MISSOUF batteries and all that those being done in
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Speaker 1: the weeks before this war was launched. Why weren't the
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Speaker 1: marine sent there as well at the same time? If
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Speaker 1: the States of fore Moores was strategically planned for, I
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Speaker 1: know all of you, all the Trump lovers, all the
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Speaker 1: people wanted to defend Trump. No, no, no, of course
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Speaker 1: they thought about it. What do you think they go
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Speaker 1: to war without thinking about this? Only you, Yuron thought
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Speaker 1: about this, Not only me. I'm sure a number of
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Speaker 1: strategies out they thought about this. But it turns out
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Speaker 1: now that that Trumpet administration jumped into this without planning,
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Speaker 1: without taking into account the closing of the straits and
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Speaker 1: hoemoes and the economic consequences of it all, and without
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Speaker 1: placing the necessary troops, the necessary military assets to deal
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Speaker 1: with it. Now again, it can still be dealt with,
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Speaker 1: and the way the author is let me just clean
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Speaker 1: up the chat a little bit. All right, that's the beginning.
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Speaker 1: We'll see what else, right, Well, Trump's an idiot. Trump's
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Speaker 1: Trump's lack of strategy and and and you know the
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Speaker 1: fact that he's not very smart, as I said, caused
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Speaker 1: him to think this would be a quick war. These
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Speaker 1: Raelies didn't think this would be a quick war. They
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Speaker 1: planned for this to be a week's, many weeks long wars.
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Speaker 1: They had no illusion that killing Harmony would bring a
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Speaker 1: quick end to this. And I'm pretty sure the Israeli
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Speaker 1: probably prepared the Trump administration for the fact that this
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Speaker 1: would be lengthy. Trump, who wasn't listening to anybody, Trump
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Speaker 1: not listening to anybody, Trump marching ahead, you know, ignoring
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Speaker 1: the warnings. Now, if you look at door market, and
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Speaker 1: if you look at the stock market again, you know,
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Speaker 1: everybody is still it's still pretty optimistic about you know,
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Speaker 1: the ability, the ability.
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Speaker 2: Of solving this issue.
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Speaker 1: Although as we speak, Kudol is going up again, back
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Speaker 1: up to ninety eight zero point five. Gold continues to plummet.
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Speaker 1: It's down to forty five hundred. Silver is now below seventy.
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Speaker 1: So much for the gold and silver, you know, can
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Speaker 1: only reach the status spheres and can never go down.
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Speaker 1: The dollar keeps strengthening as wow as ten years yields
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Speaker 1: up to four point four and the market's down. NASDAK
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Speaker 1: is down two percent today, so the market continues.
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Speaker 2: To go down.
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Speaker 1: So you know, everybody is sea sawing between. All right,
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Speaker 1: the US military, you will pull out that miracle.
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Speaker 2: Or this is going to be this is going to
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Speaker 2: be an unmitigated.
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Speaker 1: Disaster. It's all about the states of homos at this point.
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Speaker 1: Now there is another possibility, right, there is another possible.
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Speaker 1: We just think Israel is working hard to bring to reality,
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Speaker 1: and that is that the regime does fall. There's indication
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Speaker 1: that IRGC personnel are crossing the border into Afghanistan to
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Speaker 1: escape the really the slaughter that is happening to IRGC
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Speaker 1: troops all around all over Iran, even in the most
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Speaker 1: eastern borders. You can see them. There's video of them
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Speaker 1: crossing the border from Iran into Afghanistan. There is, you know,
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Speaker 1: some evidence that there is fracturing in the Islamic Revolutionary
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Speaker 1: God and it is all continues unabated to kill Islamic
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Speaker 1: Revolutionary God leaders. Just overnight it killed four Ali Muhammad Nani,
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Speaker 1: the IRGC spokesman, they killed the besiege besiege intelligence chief,
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Speaker 1: they killed an avospace forces commander and a special forces commander.
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Speaker 1: Earlier today there was assassination attempts in Tehran. Not clear
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Speaker 1: who they were going after, but clearly bombs were being
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Speaker 1: threaded through windows of apartments. Somebody was being targeted. Is
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Speaker 1: A will continue to do that. They will also continue
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Speaker 1: to kill besiege. These are the people who oppress the
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Speaker 1: Uranian people. Basis militiamen soldiers all over Tehran and all
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Speaker 1: over Iran, thus providing impetus for the Iranians to rise up.
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Speaker 1: There's also a reason to believe I have no intelligence
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Speaker 1: about this, I just knowing how is Israel operates. There's
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Speaker 1: reason to believe there are special operations forces, maybe both
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Speaker 1: Israeli and American certainly Israeli on the ground in Iran,
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Speaker 1: assisting opposition, maybe arming them, maybe just providing encouragement, taking
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Speaker 1: out strategic assets, so you know, the war continues. From
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Speaker 1: the perspective of demolishing Iran's capability to wage war, this
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Speaker 1: is a massive success in terms of weakening the Iranian regime,
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Speaker 1: the Islamic revolutionary God.
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Speaker 2: This is a massive success.
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Speaker 1: But all you have to do is forget, is ignore
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Speaker 1: one strategic, an important point, states of homos in this case,
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Speaker 1: in a war, and you might have massive success somewhere
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Speaker 1: and still fail to achieve your goals and provide your
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Speaker 1: enemy with I wouldn't call it victory, but at least survival.
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Speaker 1: And remember, if we back off on the streets of
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Speaker 1: Homos as Daniel, as David Franz says, they will forever
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Speaker 1: know that they can close those straits whenever they want,
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Speaker 1: and the US can do nothing to them. It is
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Speaker 1: now a must, non optional that the United States with allies,
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Speaker 1: hopefully destroy Iran's capability to close the Homo straits. And
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Speaker 1: that might very well require might very well require troops
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Speaker 1: on the ground. And indeed, that's why I think the
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Speaker 1: marines are heading there. Probably eight thousand marines total, No,
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Speaker 1: it looks like twelve thousand marines total. Maybe will be
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Speaker 1: somewhere in the region. They'll be with amphibious so they'll
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Speaker 1: be able to land on the beaches if you will,
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Speaker 1: to take Crog Island, maybe to take other islands, maybe
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Speaker 1: to disman or from land whatever whatever. The Iranians facilities have.
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Speaker 1: Supposedly the United States bombed command control centers of the
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Speaker 1: Ranian forces that are blocking the straits of home Wares.
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Speaker 1: These are very deep, they are bunkers, and it might
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Speaker 1: be possible that they did not actually, you know, destroy
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Speaker 1: them completely. It does look like they will be start
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Speaker 1: to use what do you call it the bunk of
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Speaker 1: busying bobs, the big bombs. And indeed the United Kingdom
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Speaker 1: has just given Trump the green light to use British
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Speaker 1: bases where you've got the B two S b ones
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Speaker 1: B fifty two stationed use British bases to strike targets
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Speaker 1: in the Straits of Homos. So what this suggests to
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Speaker 1: me is that the United States is going to start
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Speaker 1: using bigger bombs and more intense bombing of the islands
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Speaker 1: and the caves and the bunkers all along the coast
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Speaker 1: and on the islands that are protecting that, are you know,
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Speaker 1: closing the Homo Straits the right now. Ships are exiting
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Speaker 1: the Homo Straits if they're approved by the Iranians, and
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Speaker 1: they're doing that by reaching a certain island, getting certified,
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Speaker 1: if you will. And continuing on how i Wan is
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Speaker 1: being allowed to operate any kind of scheme from any
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Speaker 1: of those islands, from anything on the Homo Straits is
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Speaker 1: bizarre to me. Every facility the Ranians have on the
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Speaker 1: shore and on these islands should be destroyed, uh, and
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Speaker 1: they should be made to pay the full price. I
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Speaker 1: mean the fact that the fact that Trump is taking
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Speaker 1: off economic that he won't attack economic assets in Iran
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Speaker 1: is against such a sign of weakness. Make them pay.
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Speaker 1: Make them pay. Instead, Trump is lashing out at at
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Speaker 1: the Europeans, calling him cowards they won't come to help him.
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Speaker 1: This should have been an asked before the start, before
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Speaker 1: the wolf started. This should have been prepared for before
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Speaker 1: the war started. All right, let's see, Uh, you want
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Speaker 1: to still believe to have vasked stockpiles of mines, cosmossiles
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Speaker 1: on trucks and hundreds of undamaged boats and hidden facilities
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Speaker 1: with deep dug tunnels along the coast of Nine Islands.
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Speaker 1: This is exactly what you need B fifty two s
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Speaker 1: b ones to take them out. I don't know that
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Speaker 1: you need to use B twos because you don't need
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Speaker 1: stealth at this point, but you need the big bunker
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Speaker 1: busting bombs to take them.
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Speaker 2: Out and to destroy them completely.
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Speaker 1: There are a lot of articles out there about are
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Speaker 1: we winning?
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Speaker 2: Are we losing?
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Speaker 1: You know? Here's here's one again. This one is written
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Speaker 1: by who's more optimistic?
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Speaker 2: By?
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Speaker 1: Uh?
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Speaker 2: This is what's his name?
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Speaker 1: A guy named Mark Montgomery says there are two actions
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Speaker 1: that would subvert the victory. The first is President Trump
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Speaker 1: prematurely calls off the operation before the necessary targets have
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Speaker 1: been hit. He did this last summer, forcing an early
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Speaker 1: end to Israel's military campaign against Ivan. Another week of
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Speaker 1: operations by these Raelies might have prevented Tehran from responding
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Speaker 1: as forcefully as it did in the first days of
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Speaker 1: this conflict.
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Speaker 2: They would have taken out more of those ballistic missiles.
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Speaker 1: The second failure would be if the United States allows
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Speaker 1: Iran to maintain control of the Straits of Homos, should
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Speaker 1: the regimes survive the war with the power to close
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Speaker 1: homos at will, disrupting the transit of fossil fuels and
24:21
Speaker 1: other crucial commodities. Any declaration of victory by the United
24:24
Speaker 1: States will ring hollow. A tense struggle is underway between
24:29
Speaker 1: what's required for success and the enormous financial stress the
24:32
Speaker 1: war puts on energy and stock markets. Victory is possible,
24:37
Speaker 1: but only if the United States endures the financial strain
24:41
Speaker 1: until it can gain control over the Straits and reopen
24:44
Speaker 1: flow of trade.
24:47
Speaker 2: Opening the streets won't be easy.
24:49
Speaker 1: Iran can threaten shipping with aerial drones primarily Sha had
24:53
Speaker 1: drones loaded with explosives and unmanned fast attack boats. It
24:57
Speaker 1: also has cosmosos, and that especially danger because the Straits
25:00
Speaker 1: is just twenty one miles wide and its narrow point
25:04
Speaker 1: and narrowest point, which means American warships have thirty to
25:07
Speaker 1: forty seconds thirty to forty seconds to employ defensive measures.
25:12
Speaker 1: Iran's missiles, drones, and unmanned attack boats have already been
25:16
Speaker 1: severely degraded by air strikes and will continue to be
25:19
Speaker 1: hit hard.
25:20
Speaker 2: So the greatest obstacle.
25:22
Speaker 1: To reopening the straits are now Uranian mines about some
25:26
Speaker 1: about the size of a washing machine lying silently at
25:29
Speaker 1: the seafloor.
25:31
Speaker 2: American attacks have put.
25:33
Speaker 1: Sixteen of Iwan's mind laying vessels out of commission, but
25:37
Speaker 1: Iran probably maintains hundreds, perhaps thousands of mines. Let's see
25:46
Speaker 1: today's Mister Trump is reportedly, oh these mines, just you
25:50
Speaker 1: know the mines. Some of the mines set of the
25:53
Speaker 1: seafloor or are tethered to it. Still, others could be
25:57
Speaker 1: programmed to count ships American minesweeper could run the route
26:02
Speaker 1: and another ship could follow before the mine would detonate
26:06
Speaker 1: and bring down the third ship. Mister Trump is reportedly
26:10
Speaker 1: desperate to start having Navy ships escort tankers through the Straits.
26:15
Speaker 1: The lessons of operation Earnest Will this is the one
26:19
Speaker 1: from the nineteen eighties, is to avoid trying to pass
26:23
Speaker 1: the straits free maturely before American force can remove as
26:27
Speaker 1: much of the threat as possible. If they are mines
26:30
Speaker 1: in the water, it is essential to complete the painstaking,
26:33
Speaker 1: dangerous and slow walk of d mining. The President should
26:38
Speaker 1: remember the China's watching. If pressure in the oil markets
26:42
Speaker 1: is enough to break America's resolve and lead mister Trump
26:45
Speaker 1: to pull out of the war. Chinese leaders are that
26:49
Speaker 1: much more likely to conclude that our commitments to defending
26:52
Speaker 1: Taiwan on nothing but bluster. If the United States can
26:56
Speaker 1: hold firm in the next few weeks, it can only
27:00
Speaker 1: degrain he runs war making apparatus. This could usher in
27:03
Speaker 1: a multi year interval of calm of the kind that
27:07
Speaker 1: neither sanctions nor diplomacy has been able to produce in
27:11
Speaker 1: over four decades. In that window, a better regional order
27:16
Speaker 1: could emerge. The president has reached the decisive points. Decisive points.
27:21
Speaker 1: He cannot both end the war immediately and claim victory.
27:27
Speaker 1: It is one or the other. I think that's absolutely right.
27:33
Speaker 1: Victor Davis Hansen is writing about the war. He's basically
27:37
Speaker 1: very positive about the war and thinks that you know
27:44
Speaker 1: that if Trump sees it through again, he's emphasizing if
27:47
Speaker 1: Trump sees it through, and Victor Davis Hanson believes he will,
27:52
Speaker 1: the regime falls not in years, but falls pretty soon.
27:56
Speaker 1: I agree with Victor Davis Hanson on military matters hand
28:00
Speaker 1: and is really good. Cultural stuff not as much all right,
28:07
Speaker 1: Uh that is.
28:14
Speaker 2: Uh, that is uh, what are we doing here?
28:23
Speaker 1: It's a thousand dollars a show, not five hundred dollars
28:25
Speaker 1: a show, thousand dollars a show. Yeah, Victordam's ans sensor
28:33
Speaker 1: Ian says, Victoria Censor was so so positive in the
28:35
Speaker 1: York War, and he was justifiedly positive about the Yuck Wuo.
28:39
Speaker 1: From military perspective, it was a massive success. It failed
28:44
Speaker 1: in the nation building component, it failed in the in
28:49
Speaker 1: the uh what do you call it? A suppression of
28:52
Speaker 1: the of the of the terrorism that came after, but
28:59
Speaker 1: in some of a military operation, a huge success. But yes,
29:04
Speaker 1: Victor Davis Hansen is often too favorable to these situations.
29:10
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about what is going on on
29:14
Speaker 1: the grounds again. It's all about the Homost Straits. I
29:18
Speaker 1: am vindicated. There's no question that the Trump administration had
29:22
Speaker 1: no strategy for them. So what I've told you all
29:26
Speaker 1: these weeks, what I told you before the war, it's
29:30
Speaker 1: basically all true. A strategy seems to have developed, but
29:35
Speaker 1: only after the war started, maybe a week into it,
29:38
Speaker 1: did they start thinking about a strategy. Only two weeks
29:42
Speaker 1: into it did they start executing on the strategy when
29:44
Speaker 1: they should have been executed on it day one. It
29:49
Speaker 1: might have been that other than the ballistic missiles the
29:53
Speaker 1: number ones. The cheesy target for the US should have
29:57
Speaker 1: been the mind laying equipment, the mining mining boats of
30:03
Speaker 1: the Iranian Navy.
30:05
Speaker 2: But that was not the calculus. That was not the priority.
30:09
Speaker 1: Sadly, right, Let's see, I don't think the war can
30:17
Speaker 1: be lost on non military grounds. I think it's all
30:20
Speaker 1: about it's all about the military. A victory, a true
30:24
Speaker 1: military victory over Yuan, that is such a huge shift.
30:31
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think there's much that you could
30:34
Speaker 1: do to ruin that or to lose that. If you
30:37
Speaker 1: really do win, if you really get regime change, no
30:40
Speaker 1: matter what regime comes about, regime change away from an
30:44
Speaker 1: Islamic republic, good flows from that. Whether Trump tries to
30:51
Speaker 1: mess around and screw up afterwards, you know, he can't
30:54
Speaker 1: ruin that.
30:56
Speaker 2: I don't think.
30:56
Speaker 1: I mean, he might be able to. He's very creative
30:59
Speaker 1: about these things. All right, Let's go through a little
31:02
Speaker 1: bit of what's actually happening on the ground. Israel in
31:06
Speaker 1: the meantime has been widening. It strikes set inside Iran,
31:11
Speaker 1: it's hitting regime infrastructure in Tehran and other cities, and
31:16
Speaker 1: it strikes to cities like Pashin, Iraq, Khmen, Istafan, Bundo
31:22
Speaker 1: Linge and as I discussed yesterday, the northern maritime infrastructure
31:28
Speaker 1: and destroyed basically the Iranian fleet on the Caspian Sea,
31:32
Speaker 1: which makes it very difficult for them to be importing
31:36
Speaker 1: weapons systems from the Russians over that route, so they're
31:40
Speaker 1: probably getting it by land from to Kommunistan. Iwan continues
31:46
Speaker 1: to send missiles, particularly to Israel. The strategy right now
31:51
Speaker 1: seems to be by the Iranians to send small numbers
31:55
Speaker 1: of missiles, but lots of times every couple of hours
31:58
Speaker 1: to maybe to try to demobilize these Raelis, to try
32:03
Speaker 1: to force them, you know, to run to the air
32:05
Speaker 1: age shelters all night. I know.
32:10
Speaker 2: A lot of.
32:10
Speaker 1: Israelis, particularly Israelis who don't have safe rooms in their
32:13
Speaker 1: apartments and have to go outside to an air aid shelter,
32:17
Speaker 1: actually sleeping in their clothes because they're woken up so
32:20
Speaker 1: many times during the night in order to do it.
32:22
Speaker 1: So this is not causing much damage, indeed very little damage.
32:27
Speaker 1: They hit. They hit something in the Port of Haifa,
32:32
Speaker 1: but it's you know, I think a number of containers
32:34
Speaker 1: caught fire again yesterday they hit the refinery, but they
32:38
Speaker 1: didn't hit the refinery itself. They hit an electrical substation
32:44
Speaker 1: that will be fixed. I mean, nothing dramatic and nothing
32:47
Speaker 1: that is going to damage as well. They again, they
32:50
Speaker 1: haven't killed many people. They killed a number of people
32:53
Speaker 1: in the West Bank. They managed a bomb, managed to
32:57
Speaker 1: kill fragment of the bomb, managed to kill four Pestinians
33:01
Speaker 1: at a headdresser's place. They're also it seems that the
33:08
Speaker 1: Iranians are targeting the luxA Mosque in Jerusalem because Jerusalem
33:13
Speaker 1: has had a lot of sirens. One of the missile
33:18
Speaker 1: fragments or one of the missiles, I think it was.
33:21
Speaker 1: I think it was a fact. One of the missiles
33:23
Speaker 1: landed in the Jewish quarter of the Old City not
33:27
Speaker 1: far from Alexa Masque, causing some damage, but nothing seriously.
33:32
Speaker 2: Nobody heard.
33:33
Speaker 1: But if they hit I think maybe people are speculating
33:37
Speaker 1: online that Iran might be trying to hit the Alexa
33:39
Speaker 1: Mosque with the idea that if they do, they blame
33:41
Speaker 1: it in Israel and get out a Pan Islamic uprising
33:47
Speaker 1: because Israel destroyed this important big.
33:50
Speaker 2: Mosque in Jerusalem.
33:52
Speaker 1: So who knows what they're thinking, but it seems desperate
33:56
Speaker 1: to me if that's what they're trying to do. See,
34:00
Speaker 1: they can't they can't deal. They can't cause any damage
34:05
Speaker 1: to Israeli significant economic assets or any significant or not
34:12
Speaker 1: military assets at all. Let's see, Israel, as we said,
34:19
Speaker 1: has hit a number of of of I O GC
34:24
Speaker 1: commanders in various at various levels. They continue to try
34:30
Speaker 1: to assassinate as many people as possible. Indeed, it seems
34:33
Speaker 1: like in the last few days they've intensified the level
34:37
Speaker 1: of assassination attempts and and to take out to take
34:41
Speaker 1: out these people. Last night there were eight waves of
34:45
Speaker 1: attack against Israel with missiles. Again small numbers, most of
34:50
Speaker 1: them don't make it, but it gets people into the bunkers,
34:53
Speaker 1: It gets people into the into the safe rooms. It
34:56
Speaker 1: is more harassment than anything else, than any hells right.
35:02
Speaker 1: The thing is you have to remember with the Iranian bombs,
35:05
Speaker 1: ballistic missiles is not particularly smart, whereas Israel everything is pinpoint,
35:10
Speaker 1: the threading missiles through windows. The Iranian ballistic missiles are
35:17
Speaker 1: not accurate at all. Their drones are more accurate. But
35:20
Speaker 1: the drones can't reach Israel. It's such a long distance
35:23
Speaker 1: that they get shut down on the way easily. The
35:27
Speaker 1: only thing they can do is lob these dumb ballistic
35:31
Speaker 1: missiles that are basically targeting residential areas at Israel with
35:36
Speaker 1: a hope to harass the Israeli population into begging the
35:40
Speaker 1: government to stop, which is not going to happen. The
35:42
Speaker 1: Israelis are ready and committed. I don't know if you
35:46
Speaker 1: saw this video online of the Tel Aviv beach. Israelis
35:50
Speaker 1: are going as going to the beach. There a bunch
35:54
Speaker 1: of people kite surfing on the Israeli beach. It's not
35:57
Speaker 1: exactly whether to swim, but they are kite Sophie, they
36:00
Speaker 1: must have.
36:01
Speaker 2: They're wearing wetsuits.
36:02
Speaker 1: They're hanging out at the beach. If you look at
36:06
Speaker 1: if you look at the pictures of the coffee shops
36:10
Speaker 1: and tell Avis streets, they are packed Israeli's living life.
36:15
Speaker 1: Israel Is very accustomed to this. Sadly, they know how
36:20
Speaker 1: to deal with it. They know that this war has
36:25
Speaker 1: to be finished. The Israeli public.
36:29
Speaker 2: Does not want to settle with this war.
36:31
Speaker 1: They want it to be finished however long it takes,
36:35
Speaker 1: and they're willing to take the blows in the meantime,
36:37
Speaker 1: and the blows again mainly inconvenience, lack of sleep and
36:42
Speaker 1: things like that, and some property damage and you know,
36:46
Speaker 1: once in a while tragically somebody dies.
36:50
Speaker 2: Firmness.
36:52
Speaker 1: But again this is dumb stuff. In the meantime, Israel
36:56
Speaker 1: is moving further north in the of Lebanon. Tanks of
37:01
Speaker 1: rolling into Lebanon. They are trying to dismand Ramas from
37:06
Speaker 1: the ground. Supposedly they've killed over five hundred Ramas fighters
37:11
Speaker 1: so far. Israel is not taking any casualties. Let's hope
37:15
Speaker 1: that continues. They continue to bomb Risbela bases and headquarters
37:21
Speaker 1: and facilities all over Lebanon while they're also dealing with Iwan.
37:27
Speaker 1: And they even bombed some Syrian bases yesterday because or
37:31
Speaker 1: this morning, because the Syrians were threatening the Jews minority,
37:36
Speaker 1: the Jews minority that Israel has committed to protecting in
37:40
Speaker 1: Southern Syrias. Israel is fighting right now on two maybe
37:44
Speaker 1: three fronts and so far handling it all pretty easily
37:49
Speaker 1: with very minimal, very normal damage their self or casualties. Again,
37:58
Speaker 1: the Gulf States not so much. The Golf States are panicking.
38:03
Speaker 1: There's real damage, particularly to Kato. Couldn't happen to nice
38:07
Speaker 1: of people. I can't say I'm upset that Kata has
38:11
Speaker 1: suffered damage. I wish the damage was more and the
38:14
Speaker 1: world found a way to not rely on Katari LNG.
38:18
Speaker 1: I mean, that is one evil regime that has a
38:22
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of.
38:24
Speaker 2: Blood on their hands.
38:26
Speaker 1: They are the number two funders of terrorism in the
38:28
Speaker 1: world over the last ten years, fifteen years after ran
38:32
Speaker 1: and so I.
38:34
Speaker 2: Don't feel particularly sorry for them.
38:36
Speaker 1: All right, what else? Oh, just in terms of the
38:39
Speaker 1: oil market, you know, there's some positive science here Argentina.
38:46
Speaker 1: Argentina has become a significant and growing exporter of oil
38:54
Speaker 1: and natural gas.
38:56
Speaker 2: Just not that long ago.
39:00
Speaker 1: You know, as of twenty twenty three, Argentina is a
39:03
Speaker 1: net importer of oil and natural gas. It is now
39:09
Speaker 1: a significant exporter. Partially this is me Lay. I mean,
39:14
Speaker 1: this is me Lay basically opening up the oil fields
39:17
Speaker 1: and the gas fields for phone investors, fone investors feeling
39:21
Speaker 1: comfortable enough to do it. Melay securing property rights for
39:24
Speaker 1: those investors. So you know, Argentina is selling oil. By
39:30
Speaker 1: the way, they're using dollars. Melay is a pretty smart economist.
39:37
Speaker 1: If the dollar is about to collapse and dollar is
39:39
Speaker 1: not going to be a global councy. I don't think
39:42
Speaker 1: Melay would be using dollars, but they are anyway. This
39:47
Speaker 1: year they're expected to export twelve billion dollars worth of
39:50
Speaker 1: oil and natural gas. So there is more sources and
39:54
Speaker 1: more sources will come online. That is, the market will
39:58
Speaker 1: adjust and the market will find alternatives.
40:02
Speaker 2: Here's another one.
40:04
Speaker 1: Egypt is a big player in Egypt and Israel both
40:07
Speaker 1: have significant natural gas. Is cannot do LNG, but Egypt can.
40:14
Speaker 1: Is can't pipe natural gas, its oil from its gas
40:19
Speaker 1: fields to Egypt. So here's a formula. If Israel can
40:25
Speaker 1: continue supplying gas in the Devanthian field this is the
40:27
Speaker 1: field in the Mediterranean to Egypt without disruption, Egypt can
40:32
Speaker 1: then release around twenty four LNG tankers to the global market,
40:37
Speaker 1: mainly to Asia. Egypt will profit from the price increase
40:42
Speaker 1: and Asia will get the lergy it needs for chip
40:44
Speaker 1: production and everything else. So there are other sources of
40:49
Speaker 1: natural gas out there and oil out there that suddenly
40:53
Speaker 1: become economic. Some suddenly become profitable. And what you're going
40:57
Speaker 1: to see is realignment of the oil industry and the
41:02
Speaker 1: natural gas industry. As markets adapt markets now there will
41:07
Speaker 1: be pain. Markets can't adapt instantaneously. Oil fields cannot be
41:13
Speaker 1: or wals cannot be tapped immediately.
41:16
Speaker 2: You know, LNG terminals cannot be built.
41:19
Speaker 1: But if you remember when the Russian when Russia attacked Ukraine,
41:24
Speaker 1: invaded Ukraine, everybody was convinced that the following year Europe
41:30
Speaker 1: was going to have no natural gas, no energy, that
41:34
Speaker 1: it was going to just be destroyed. And the reality
41:37
Speaker 1: is that markets adapted while not getting gas from Russia,
41:41
Speaker 1: Europe adapted and got gas from Kuta in the United States.
41:46
Speaker 1: There are solutions, There are solutions. The oil is unsure
41:53
Speaker 1: in Argentina.
41:54
Speaker 2: It's not offshore.
41:55
Speaker 1: Brazilian oil is offshore, but Argentinian oil, as far as
42:00
Speaker 1: I can tell, yes, it's it's they've got a whole
42:03
Speaker 1: base in there that is unsure.
42:06
Speaker 2: Uh all right, Uh.
42:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about that. We talked about Yeah, I
42:15
Speaker 1: mean looking at kind of the missile attacks on Jerusalem, uh,
42:20
Speaker 1: and where they are targeting. It's all around the the
42:26
Speaker 1: Alexa mask it's not far from the Alexa masks. So
42:30
Speaker 1: they're trying to hit some kind of they're trying to
42:32
Speaker 1: do something. You can see, Uh, there's video of of
42:36
Speaker 1: of one of the missiles hitting inside inside the Old
42:40
Speaker 1: Wall inside the the the inside the Old Wall of Jerusalem.
42:47
Speaker 1: I'm also seeing stories that is that the United States
42:50
Speaker 1: is increasing the number of special forces in Baghdad, and
42:54
Speaker 1: and that there's a threat supposedly in Baghdad uh that
42:58
Speaker 1: the Iran backed the rock backed forces will try to
43:03
Speaker 1: try to bring about a coup and overflow the Rocky government,
43:08
Speaker 1: and that the United States is bringing in special forces
43:13
Speaker 1: into Iraq in order to try to prevent that and
43:17
Speaker 1: stop that. The United States is also selling more weapons
43:23
Speaker 1: systems to the Gulf States. The US State Department released
43:27
Speaker 1: a number of congressional notifications for fund military sales the
43:30
Speaker 1: Golf nations totally about sixteen point five billion. This includes Jordan,
43:35
Speaker 1: UAE and QUAIT. The weapons to UAE include advanced medium
43:43
Speaker 1: range A missiles, F sixteen munitions and upgrades, long range
43:48
Speaker 1: discrimination radar with terminal high altitude Area defense integration. That's
43:53
Speaker 1: the THAD fixed site, low slow, small unmanned aircraft integrated defeats.
43:59
Speaker 1: This this is to you know, anti drones and other stuff. QUAIT.
44:07
Speaker 1: It includes low tier air and missile defense sensor radars
44:12
Speaker 1: and to Jordan includes aircraft repairs and ordinance support. So
44:15
Speaker 1: the United States are selling more weapons systems into the
44:18
Speaker 1: Gulf States. Oh and by the way, you should have
44:23
Speaker 1: said this earlier. A big, you know, kind of a
44:26
Speaker 1: short term winner of what's going on right now is
44:29
Speaker 1: US natural gas industry, which is benefiting from higher, significant
44:34
Speaker 1: higher prices. LNG production in the United States is on steroids.
44:40
Speaker 1: It's that, you know, they're pumping out of LNG and
44:42
Speaker 1: setting it all over the world. They're setting it much
44:45
Speaker 1: higher prices. It's very, very profitable right now to be
44:49
Speaker 1: in the LNG business, and the Americans are trying to
44:53
Speaker 1: fill in as much as the gap as possible. US
44:57
Speaker 1: exported more than fifteen billion cubic feet of ellage a
45:00
Speaker 1: day in twenty twenty five, and that was up from
45:04
Speaker 1: ten point two billion in twenty twenty two. So the
45:08
Speaker 1: United States has increased its capacity to ship LNG dramatically,
45:11
Speaker 1: and my guess is they're frantically trying to find ways
45:14
Speaker 1: to increase that capacity right now so they can take
45:17
Speaker 1: advantage of these higher prices again markets adapt. On the
45:23
Speaker 1: horror side of all of this, well, this is all
45:26
Speaker 1: going on. The Iranians have started systematically executing the civilians
45:36
Speaker 1: from the demonstrations in January. They are killing their own citizens,
45:47
Speaker 1: many of whom are teenagers. They just hung, They just
45:52
Speaker 1: publicly hung a teenage athlete, nineteen year old who.
45:57
Speaker 2: Was protesting in in January.
46:01
Speaker 1: I'll note that while they're hanging these civilians and hanging
46:05
Speaker 1: these heroes, really, Amnesty International is silent, The United Nations
46:11
Speaker 1: is silent. Human Rights Counsel is silent, The Red Cross
46:17
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46:26
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46:30
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46:33
Speaker 1: of course, is silent.
46:34
Speaker 2: And you could go on and on.
46:36
Speaker 1: And on of all the bleeding heart leftists and include
46:39
Speaker 1: Tucking and Candice and that, all the bleeding hard leftists
46:41
Speaker 1: who will jump at you know, to defend, you know,
46:46
Speaker 1: to claim those genocide in Gaza or whatever cause they
46:50
Speaker 1: are eager to support. But when the Iranians are killing
46:53
Speaker 1: their own citizens, say absolutely nothing, absolutely thing. All right,
47:04
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Speaker 1: what we do. A lot of shows have super chats,
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Speaker 1: but they don't answer every question, right, They answer a few,
48:52
Speaker 1: and then they just take the money. I answer every
48:54
Speaker 1: single question, even if it's one buck. I answer every
48:57
Speaker 1: single question. I'll stay here for three hours if that's
49:00
Speaker 1: what's necessary to answer every single one of them. But
49:03
Speaker 1: that means you need to ask questions, and you can
49:06
Speaker 1: ask on anything, and they can be as insulting as
49:09
Speaker 1: you want them to be. Get more value that way,
49:14
Speaker 1: all right, A few words in Ukraine. I think I
49:20
Speaker 1: told you I met the former Minister of the Economy
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Speaker 1: of Ukraine when I was in honduas he's now the
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Speaker 1: president of a university in Kiev, and really fascinating guy,
49:37
Speaker 1: really really interesting guy. We talked a little bit about Ukraine,
49:40
Speaker 1: but really, if you really think about it, what's going
49:44
Speaker 1: on in Ukraine is truly stunning. It really is truly stunning.
49:50
Speaker 1: Ukraine was invaded in February twenty twenty two by what
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Speaker 1: was considered the second most powerful military in the world
49:56
Speaker 1: after the United States, much larger, dramatically larger in the Ukraine,
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Speaker 1: a military with supposedly some of the most sophisticated weapons
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Speaker 1: systems in the world. A military with you know, not
50:13
Speaker 1: only lots of soldiers, but lots of tanks and and
50:17
Speaker 1: UH and special forces and UH and air force and
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Speaker 1: ballistic missiles and of course nukes standing behind all of it.
50:27
Speaker 1: And in much of Ukraine. The Ukrainians, which had a
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Speaker 1: very small military which was doubted, did have some Western
50:37
Speaker 1: weapons systems, but really what they mostly had was a
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Speaker 1: real commitment to fight, beat them back in almost in
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Speaker 1: most of the fronts, everywhere except in the south and Dombas,
50:50
Speaker 1: and even in the south, much of that was taken
50:53
Speaker 1: back from the Russians. Indeed, Russia today occupies, you know,
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Speaker 1: less than what it occupied much less than what it
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Speaker 1: occupied at the peak of that war, at the peak
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Speaker 1: from their perspective, and has taken a beating in terms
51:12
Speaker 1: of casualties somewhere between one point three and one point
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Speaker 1: four million Russias Russians. Have you even been killed or
51:19
Speaker 1: injured during that war? But what is uh now? This
51:25
Speaker 1: didn't surprise me, partially because I never thought Russia was
51:28
Speaker 1: the second most powerful military in the world, or even
51:30
Speaker 1: the third most powerful military in the world. Generally, I
51:33
Speaker 1: think Russia is a weak, pathetic has a weak and
51:36
Speaker 1: very pathetic military. It has nukes, that's the only thing
51:39
Speaker 1: that makes it a superpower. But it's military is weak,
51:42
Speaker 1: It's equipment is shoddy, Its tanks are pathetic, it's it's it's.
51:47
Speaker 2: Years the time.
51:48
Speaker 1: Military equipment and percorment system is just a disaster, as
51:55
Speaker 1: as somebody who first hand fought against that equipment in
51:58
Speaker 1: the past and a scene at you know, being officiated
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Speaker 1: in every conflict in the world. I wasn't surprised by
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Speaker 1: the ability of the Ukrainians, even with a little bit
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Speaker 1: of Western technology, to beat them back, and they have
52:12
Speaker 1: beaten them back. But what is truly amazing about Ukraine
52:16
Speaker 1: is the fact that not only did they beat back
52:20
Speaker 1: the not only were they were they able to beat
52:27
Speaker 1: back to the Russians, but they have developed over the
52:29
Speaker 1: last what is it now almost it is four years,
52:33
Speaker 1: they have developed one of the most advanced, sophisticated, entrepreneurial
52:40
Speaker 1: and reactive, that is, defense industries in the world. They
52:47
Speaker 1: are now at the point where they are the most
52:50
Speaker 1: advanced nation in the world in terms of building drones
52:54
Speaker 1: and defense systems against drones, maybe with the exception of
52:58
Speaker 1: Israel's laser system, which might be cheaper and better than
53:03
Speaker 1: what the Ukrainians have. But other than the Israelis they
53:09
Speaker 1: are deploying, they are capable of deploying systems, of changing
53:14
Speaker 1: them on a fly. I mean the heroism, the ingenuity,
53:19
Speaker 1: the entrepreneurship, the creativity, you know. The lack of a
53:24
Speaker 1: rigid command structure where people can go directly into the field,
53:28
Speaker 1: test out technology, make changes and immediately hand it to
53:32
Speaker 1: units that are using it to fight without having to
53:35
Speaker 1: get approval from general in general in this general and
53:38
Speaker 1: that general and so on is truly astounding. This is
53:41
Speaker 1: a military that has learned on the fly how to
53:45
Speaker 1: become innovative, creative and create a culture that can defeat
53:55
Speaker 1: the mighty or.
53:56
Speaker 2: At least mighty in terms of sheer numbers, the Russian.
53:59
Speaker 1: I mean, the last couple of months, the Ukrainians have
54:02
Speaker 1: started to make you know, to make progress on the
54:06
Speaker 1: ground as well, actually to take territory back from the Russian. Slowly, small,
54:11
Speaker 1: but they're doing it now. When the Gulf States need
54:19
Speaker 1: technologies to deal with drones that Iran is sending to them.
54:25
Speaker 1: And remember the Golf States are very close to Iran,
54:27
Speaker 1: so the drones get there very fast, not like Israel,
54:30
Speaker 1: where they get there very slow and could easily be
54:32
Speaker 1: shot down on the weight. In the Golf States, it's
54:35
Speaker 1: difficult because they get their pretty fast. The United States
54:40
Speaker 1: is not, you know, it is shocking, right, The United
54:44
Speaker 1: States is best technology to feed the drones of Patriot missiles.
54:49
Speaker 1: Patriot missiles are like three million dollars each. And one
54:56
Speaker 1: of the things that that is going on is these
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Speaker 1: Golf States are shooting like eight Patriot missiles at one
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Speaker 1: drone of one ballistic missile. Drone of costs maybe thirty
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Speaker 1: five thousand dollars is being shot down by eight three
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Speaker 1: million dollars. It's completely mind blow buggling and it's no
55:16
Speaker 1: wonder they're running out of Patriot missiles because they're just
55:20
Speaker 1: shooting them with no thought. The Ukrainians what the Golf
55:25
Speaker 1: States has asked us, the Ukrainians to come and help
55:27
Speaker 1: them defend against drones, and the Ukrainians is just shocked
55:31
Speaker 1: at what they what they're finding, you know, Ukrainian officer says,
55:36
Speaker 1: I don't understand what they were doing, what they want?
55:44
Speaker 1: Were they watching what we did at war over four years?
55:54
Speaker 1: So it's you've got a an American military and these
56:02
Speaker 1: these Golf State militaries that are just not equipped, not
56:06
Speaker 1: equipped to deal with drones. And look the Chinese are watching.
56:09
Speaker 1: Chinese can build more drones than anybody right now. This
56:15
Speaker 1: is again the Ukrainian military, this is uh.
56:21
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Not only were they launching eight Patrion missiles for one target,
56:27
Speaker 1: they often use the ship based SM six missiles worth
56:31
Speaker 1: about six million dollars to shoot down a Shahad worth
56:34
Speaker 1: seventy thousand dollars. Why an't aren't the American ships you know,
56:40
Speaker 1: why don't they have the laser systems on board? Why
56:45
Speaker 1: don't they have the Ukrainian developed anti drone drones? He says,
56:54
Speaker 1: the US and the Allies often literally shine their radars
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Speaker 1: like beacons without proper camouflage. Ukrainians worked differently mobile radars,
57:04
Speaker 1: constantly changing positions. For example, just three cheap Shahad drones
57:10
Speaker 1: destroyed in FPS one thirty two, which is an early
57:15
Speaker 1: warning radar worth about a billion dollars. Another air defense
57:19
Speaker 1: radar worth about three hundred million was was standing in
57:23
Speaker 1: one place for months and you know, the Russians gave
57:27
Speaker 1: them targeting and was was was destroyed easily by drones.
57:35
Speaker 1: Ukrainians have been fighting this for four years. You think
57:39
Speaker 1: we would have learned. Trump is not asked, It is
57:47
Speaker 1: not asked for the Ukrainian help we're dealing with the drones,
57:52
Speaker 1: not asked for Ukrainian technology, although they're you know Andrewill,
57:57
Speaker 1: which is the United States a drone maker US drone
58:00
Speaker 1: Meka is in Ukraine testing their drones, learning from the
58:04
Speaker 1: Ukrainian drone industry, working together with them. So the knowledge
58:08
Speaker 1: exists in the United States, it's just not being applied
58:11
Speaker 1: in this war, and it's not being applied by the
58:13
Speaker 1: US military. Uh it is. So the Ukrainians in the
58:20
Speaker 1: Gulf woking with the Gulf States, not because the United
58:25
Speaker 1: States asked them to come, but because the Gulf countries asked.
58:28
Speaker 2: Them to come.
58:31
Speaker 1: Uh, it's pretty pathetic the way the Trump administration has
58:36
Speaker 1: dealt with Ukraine, treated the Ukrainians and ignored the Ukrainians
58:42
Speaker 1: when they could be a real asset in this war.
58:46
Speaker 1: Ukraine has intercepted thousands of Shahad one thirty six and
58:50
Speaker 1: Shahad two thirty eight drones since twenty twenty two. It's
58:53
Speaker 1: developed detenction detection protocols, jamming techniques, acoustic tracking, small arms
59:00
Speaker 1: interception methods, and integrated a defense coordination that no training
59:05
Speaker 1: manual is going to teach you, and and and nobody
59:10
Speaker 1: in the US military has access to the Golf States,
59:15
Speaker 1: purchased patriot batteries, THAD radars, and anti drones systems that
59:21
Speaker 1: are super expensive and not very efficient, not very effective
59:26
Speaker 1: in terms of downing these uh, these drones again that
59:30
Speaker 1: the Ukrainians have.
59:31
Speaker 2: Figured out completely.
59:35
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean it Isral supports Ukraine helping their
59:38
Speaker 1: Golf States because that's another shield before the drone ever
59:42
Speaker 1: gets to the to Israel. Uh. But and I'm sure
59:47
Speaker 1: these Raelis on the ground with the Golf States as well,
59:50
Speaker 1: And I'm sure that Israel and Ukraine are co operating,
59:54
Speaker 1: you know, in the background, in silence over all these things.
59:58
Speaker 1: But yeah, there are two hundred and one experts from
1:00:02
Speaker 1: Ukraine in the Gulf stage right now, trying to fix
1:00:06
Speaker 1: again a massive strategic era by the Trump administration and
1:00:11
Speaker 1: the US military ignoring Ukraine's abilities and ignowing the lesson
1:00:18
Speaker 1: learned from the war in Ukraine and you know, in
1:00:24
Speaker 1: the war with Russia. All right, Islam, this is really
1:00:33
Speaker 1: about Australia. So I don't know if you saw the story,
1:00:36
Speaker 1: but I think it was earlier today. Australian Prime Minister Albanesi,
1:00:41
Speaker 1: who is, as you know, a leftist, very very appeasing
1:00:46
Speaker 1: of the Islamic community, very very anti Israel, very friendly
1:00:53
Speaker 1: towards the Islami community in Australia. Anyway, alban Aze went
1:00:58
Speaker 1: to a Sydney mosque for prayers. This is the end
1:01:03
Speaker 1: of the fasting month, right, so he went for prayers
1:01:09
Speaker 1: to end for the end of the Ramadan. And he
1:01:13
Speaker 1: went there because he wanted to stand up against what
1:01:17
Speaker 1: people call Islamophobia. Yeah, Islamophobia, that irrational fear of Islam.
1:01:24
Speaker 1: I think it's a pretty rational fear in my view.
1:01:26
Speaker 1: But anyway to stand against Islamophobia. He goes into this
1:01:31
Speaker 1: mosque and he sits down and the people at the
1:01:33
Speaker 1: moss start yelling at him, threatening him, screaming a.
1:01:38
Speaker 2: Lakebar at him. God is Great.
1:01:42
Speaker 1: And he sits there terrified, not knowing what to do.
1:01:45
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to leave it, doesn't want to stay.
1:01:48
Speaker 1: There's Mayhem in the audience. Is I guess security detail
1:01:52
Speaker 1: is really really worried the video. The video shows them.
1:01:56
Speaker 1: It's this is not pleasant. People are yelling at him.
1:01:59
Speaker 1: He's obviously to pro Israel for them, right, and he's
1:02:05
Speaker 1: being harassed. Soon he gets up and leaves right because
1:02:10
Speaker 1: he can't stay and he's disrupting the prayers, So he
1:02:16
Speaker 1: leaves the mosque. Right, He's heckled, you know, as he's
1:02:22
Speaker 1: leaving the masque, he's called a dirty dog and a pig.
1:02:27
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a guy who wants to show
1:02:29
Speaker 1: solidarity with the Muslim community and he almost gets lynched. Now,
1:02:39
Speaker 1: this is what happens when you appease. This is what
1:02:42
Speaker 1: happens when you stick your hand in the head in
1:02:44
Speaker 1: the sand. This is what happens when you ignore the
1:02:50
Speaker 1: real threat to human life, the real threat to a
1:02:56
Speaker 1: way of life. The real threat to our systems of
1:02:58
Speaker 1: government ah v Islamists.
1:03:05
Speaker 2: If you appease them, they.
1:03:06
Speaker 1: Will spit all over you. I mean, it's worse in Europe,
1:03:14
Speaker 1: or just as bad in Europe, but it's bad in Australia.
1:03:18
Speaker 2: This is the headline of the newspaper this morning.
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Speaker 1: Australia's PM called a putrid dog and chased out of
1:03:25
Speaker 1: mask morning A prayer turned in a high speed exit
1:03:29
Speaker 1: for Anthony Albanezi as his attempt to gardner the multicultural
1:03:33
Speaker 1: vote was met with booze. I mean, there's a photo
1:03:38
Speaker 1: of him sitting there and you should see his expression.
1:03:41
Speaker 1: The guy is so freaking scared. He is convinced. He
1:03:45
Speaker 1: is convinced he's going to be lynched. I'm happy he's
1:03:48
Speaker 1: scared because he deserves it. He is a real, real,
1:03:51
Speaker 1: real piece of work, a real bad guy. Oh we've
1:03:58
Speaker 1: got to suffer. Who's here to fendy Slam? How cool
1:04:01
Speaker 1: is that? God?
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Speaker 2: I this soe is.
1:04:09
Speaker 1: On the more of the Trump is Nuts entertainment section.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've heard about this, but you
1:04:16
Speaker 2: know Trump.
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Speaker 1: Handpicked in arts commission, and the purpose of the art
1:04:23
Speaker 1: commission was to approve a design to choose a design
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Speaker 1: and so you know they have guessed what they've what
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Speaker 1: design they've approved. The handpicked Art Commission voted on Thursday
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Speaker 1: to approve a commemorative twenty four carried gold coin bearing
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Speaker 1: bearing mister Trump's image. Mister Trump's image on the coin.
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Speaker 1: So Trump leaning on the desk, having one of those
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Speaker 1: stern looks.
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Speaker 2: There's a photo of it.
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Speaker 1: You can find it in newspapers, on the web, on
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Speaker 1: the web. We now have a trump coin gold coin.
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Speaker 1: The governor is going to issue it with Trump's image
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Speaker 1: on it. Remember that the founding fathers were fiercely against
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Speaker 1: government officials appearing like kings on government issued coinage. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's only much later that our president started appearing on
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Speaker 1: our currency, on our banknotes. But the founders objected to that.
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Speaker 1: They were not happy with it. Indeed, when America's founded,
1:06:00
Speaker 1: the government did ni issue bag notes, it only coined coins. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: this is this is what you get. This is Trump's
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Speaker 1: you know, narcissism, narcissism manifest trump coin. Enjoy here's one
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Speaker 1: for the horror file, I mean, the real horbo file.
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Speaker 1: A woman in Georgia has been charged with murder after
1:06:34
Speaker 1: taking abortion pills, going to the hospital with severe pain,
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Speaker 1: and in the hospital it was discovered that the fetus
1:06:46
Speaker 1: was was not you know, in in the first six weeks,
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Speaker 1: but maybe as late as twenty two to twenty four
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Speaker 1: week old fetus.
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Speaker 2: This is a Georgia. Georgia has a law.
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Speaker 1: That bans all abortions, all abortions after week after six weeks,
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Speaker 1: and considers this murder to actually about a fetus after
1:07:16
Speaker 1: six weeks, so you know, this is it's after rovers's
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Speaker 1: weight is being repealed. There's really been effort in Red
1:07:29
Speaker 1: states to criminalize abortion, criminalize abortion, turn women and doctors
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Speaker 1: who might facilitate them their abortions with murder. I wonder
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Speaker 1: if the people supplying the pills might be roped into
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Speaker 1: this as well.
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Speaker 2: The woman.
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Speaker 1: Is being held in jail in Kemden County, Georgia, and
1:07:55
Speaker 1: she's been appointed a public defender. It's this happened, I
1:08:06
Speaker 1: guess in late December. It's coming, it's coming. Uh, But
1:08:08
Speaker 1: she was arrested, you know, but she was arrested recently
1:08:13
Speaker 1: once they discovered that, you know, uh, this is what
1:08:19
Speaker 1: this is what happened in addition to murder, police also
1:08:23
Speaker 1: charged more with possession of a schedule to controlled substance.
1:08:26
Speaker 1: She in addition to the abortion pill, she also took
1:08:30
Speaker 1: some oxy cotton. I guess because of the pain and
1:08:34
Speaker 1: position of dangerous drugs. Anyway, this is this is how
1:08:44
Speaker 1: rich states are really trying to make all trying to
1:08:49
Speaker 1: make abortion everywhere basically a crime a cry. Now, Americans
1:08:58
Speaker 1: in polls don't support criminally charging women who have had abotion.
1:09:03
Speaker 1: There is a very small percentage of people in America
1:09:07
Speaker 1: who thinks that they should actually be charged, less than
1:09:11
Speaker 1: twenty percent. But that is in the state of Georgia.
1:09:17
Speaker 1: The government is doing it. In spite of that. Wes
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Speaker 1: Wes just came in with one hundred dollars sticker. Thank you,
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Speaker 1: thank you, Thank you, Wes.
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Speaker 2: That is great.
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Speaker 1: That puts us kind of back on track into the
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Speaker 1: reaching our goal. We do still have to make the
1:09:33
Speaker 1: five hundred goal because we're in our second hour, so
1:09:36
Speaker 1: still looking for a one hundred and seventy dollars to
1:09:38
Speaker 1: make that goal. So please please consider that given the
1:09:43
Speaker 1: number of questions, we probably won't go into the third hour,
1:09:46
Speaker 1: but we're definitely going to go into a definitely going
1:09:48
Speaker 1: to go well into the second hour. So thank you, Wes, als,
1:09:51
Speaker 1: thank you. Let's see Darlene and Larson and Nature Observer
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Speaker 1: and friend Harper and Roland all for your stickers. Really
1:10:01
Speaker 1: appreciate that. But again especially for Wes who did one
1:10:06
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. With a few hundred dollars stickers, we could
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Speaker 1: get our goals very very very quickly.
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Speaker 2: Two of them indeed, would cover it.
1:10:14
Speaker 1: But you know, fifties, twenties and questions, questions. You can
1:10:17
Speaker 1: ask questions and I'll answer them, answer all of them,
1:10:21
Speaker 1: unlike many out there who do not. All right, let's
1:10:27
Speaker 1: see that is abortion, all right, this is an interesting
1:10:30
Speaker 1: story that actually Jeffrey Miller, who is a chef, Jeffrey
1:10:34
Speaker 1: Miller is a Michelin starred chef in New York, you know,
1:10:44
Speaker 1: asked about two days ago, but just the show had
1:10:46
Speaker 1: ended by the time.
1:10:47
Speaker 2: He asked it.
1:10:48
Speaker 1: Let me read you Jeffrey Miller's question. Have you been
1:10:51
Speaker 1: following the news regarding Noma and Renee. I can't pronounced
1:10:57
Speaker 1: this guy's name, Red Zippi, he said, not in a
1:11:01
Speaker 1: favor of misfeating employees, but I'm wary of public takedowns. Yeah,
1:11:06
Speaker 1: all right, So for those of you who do not know,
1:11:10
Speaker 1: Noma has been considered the world's number one restaurant for
1:11:17
Speaker 1: you know, at least the last decade. It was in Copenhagen.
1:11:24
Speaker 1: It was in Copenhagen, the restaurants in Copenhagen. It closed
1:11:29
Speaker 1: at the end of last year, but it opened up
1:11:31
Speaker 1: like a pop up in La It's done that in
1:11:35
Speaker 1: the past. They've opened up pop ups in a variety
1:11:38
Speaker 1: of places around around the world. And again he is
1:11:44
Speaker 1: considered red Zeppi is considered one of the great innovators
1:11:50
Speaker 1: in food. In restaurant food, you know, Noma is considered
1:11:56
Speaker 1: again in the top fifty restaurants, which is a something
1:12:00
Speaker 1: that is published regularly. He often has taken the place
1:12:06
Speaker 1: of number one. Right now, if you get to number one,
1:12:10
Speaker 1: you can never get into number one again. You're bumped
1:12:12
Speaker 1: into a all star category and you're not You're not
1:12:17
Speaker 1: ranked anymore. He is in that category. The restaurant Noma
1:12:22
Speaker 1: also had had two Mission Stars and they received three
1:12:25
Speaker 1: Mission Stars. So it's it's considered, if not the best
1:12:29
Speaker 1: restaurant in the world, one of the best restaurants in
1:12:31
Speaker 1: the world. However, you know, he has a temper, And
1:12:38
Speaker 1: if you've ever seen shows about great chefs and great
1:12:42
Speaker 1: restaurants and what happens in the kitchens of great chefs
1:12:45
Speaker 1: and great restaurants, it gets.
1:12:48
Speaker 2: Really really intense in there, and.
1:12:51
Speaker 1: It gets loud and intense, and it's hot, so you're
1:12:58
Speaker 1: dealing with flames. So there's it can be dangerous. And
1:13:04
Speaker 1: many of these chefs, many of these world class chefs,
1:13:07
Speaker 1: have tempers, and they yell a lot, and they get
1:13:13
Speaker 1: super angry. Now, Zeppie has been accused now by several
1:13:20
Speaker 1: employees over the years, but particularly recently, of abusing them,
1:13:27
Speaker 1: mostly abusing them verbally verbal abuse, but in one case
1:13:34
Speaker 1: at least that's been filed, he has been accused of literally,
1:13:40
Speaker 1: you know, punching or hitting somebody using physical force. It's
1:13:48
Speaker 1: also true that in twenty twenty two. Before twenty twenty two,
1:13:51
Speaker 1: Noma used interns in the kitchen. That is a significant
1:13:56
Speaker 1: part of their staff was unpaid. People will willing to
1:14:01
Speaker 1: go unpaid to work in his kitchen.
1:14:04
Speaker 2: Because why would they do that?
1:14:05
Speaker 1: Why would they do such a ridiculous, stupid thing is
1:14:08
Speaker 1: to go work in the kitchen without getting any pain,
1:14:11
Speaker 1: Because if you worked in that kitchen for months years.
1:14:17
Speaker 1: You could basically write your own ticket. After that, people
1:14:21
Speaker 1: would pay you a lot of money to come and
1:14:23
Speaker 1: work in their kitchens or come and open your own restaurant.
1:14:27
Speaker 1: The reputation of having to having worked at Noma would
1:14:31
Speaker 1: guarantee you a clientele almost instantly. And indeed that's true
1:14:36
Speaker 1: of all the top restaurants in the world. People go
1:14:39
Speaker 1: work there, and then they go on to have successful
1:14:43
Speaker 1: careers using the fact that they worked in these other
1:14:46
Speaker 1: kitchens on their resume. It's what provides investors with confidence
1:14:50
Speaker 1: and and and what's get some hired maybe in another
1:14:54
Speaker 1: top restaurant. Again, Ridzepi might be an asshole, but he
1:15:01
Speaker 1: was a great teacher and he yelled at people and
1:15:06
Speaker 1: verbally abused it. Now, look, I'm not big on yelling
1:15:11
Speaker 1: at people and verbally abusing them. I don't think that's
1:15:13
Speaker 1: a good strategy generally, but I know a lot of
1:15:17
Speaker 1: managers who do, and you know a lot of brilliant managers.
1:15:21
Speaker 1: Steve Jobs has been accused of yelling at people, was
1:15:26
Speaker 1: accused of yelling at people. Never physically false physical force
1:15:29
Speaker 1: is crossing a line. But note that almost all these
1:15:32
Speaker 1: people yelled at and even I think the person who
1:15:35
Speaker 1: was physically supposedly, we don't have confirmation physically abused. All
1:15:40
Speaker 1: go back.
1:15:41
Speaker 2: Why did they go back to work.
1:15:43
Speaker 1: I don't think it's because they're psychologically traumatized into doing it,
1:15:46
Speaker 1: But I think because it's they value the experience and
1:15:50
Speaker 1: the knowledge that they are gaining for the same reason
1:15:53
Speaker 1: that people we yelled at by Steve Jobs went back
1:15:56
Speaker 1: to work. I have said in the past that I
1:15:59
Speaker 1: would consider it an honor to be yelled at by
1:16:02
Speaker 1: Steve Jobs. I think that some people who work up
1:16:07
Speaker 1: in as chefs might consider it an honor to be
1:16:10
Speaker 1: yelled at by, or at least considering it a great
1:16:13
Speaker 1: opportunity to be yelled at by. It can go overboard,
1:16:18
Speaker 1: it can go over the line, but you know, his
1:16:23
Speaker 1: success suggests otherwise. Anyway, all this spoke about a month ago,
1:16:31
Speaker 1: and it's been all over the press, and uh, you know,
1:16:35
Speaker 1: people are mouthing off and and and it's it's it's
1:16:38
Speaker 1: created a huge public storm. Uh uh and and and
1:16:43
Speaker 1: a public takedown of this guy. Nobody nobody's been there.
1:16:47
Speaker 1: They weren't there, They didn't see what happened. They don't
1:16:49
Speaker 1: have the details. But at the end of the day
1:16:52
Speaker 1: all of this got to Zeppi and I guess it
1:16:58
Speaker 1: was one morning last week he quit. He basically resigned,
1:17:05
Speaker 1: stepping down from Noma. I don't know if Noma as
1:17:08
Speaker 1: an entity can continue to exist without him. He was
1:17:11
Speaker 1: Noma is Noma, but he quit. He's walking away. He's
1:17:16
Speaker 1: walking away again. One of the most innovative restaurants in
1:17:22
Speaker 1: the history of restaurants, a restaurant that has been copied
1:17:27
Speaker 1: by many, is going away because of these allegations. It's
1:17:36
Speaker 1: been a month now, former employees going online telling a
1:17:40
Speaker 1: past abuse that they suffered in the kitchens. It's interesting, though,
1:17:45
Speaker 1: that all of this is tinged with the political agenda.
1:17:51
Speaker 1: It's tinged with other motivations, right, a certain resentment of
1:18:00
Speaker 1: high end restaurants.
1:18:03
Speaker 2: Uh you know, I saw a number.
1:18:05
Speaker 1: Of people talking about the fact that, uh, you know,
1:18:12
Speaker 1: what is this normal thing? It caters to the very rich.
1:18:17
Speaker 1: Food should be democratic, democratized. We want change. What does
1:18:26
Speaker 1: change mean? Change means cheaper restaurants, restaurants that everybody can afford.
1:18:33
Speaker 1: And we resent the fact that they are kitchens out there,
1:18:37
Speaker 1: chefs out there. They're only cater to the to the wealthy. Yeah,
1:18:45
Speaker 1: so a lot of this is tinged with kind of envy,
1:18:49
Speaker 1: tinged with egalitarianism. Uh, you know, the this criticism of
1:18:59
Speaker 1: the Michelin system, of the fact that Michelin Michigan gives
1:19:03
Speaker 1: stars to the restaurants where the chef might be abusive.
1:19:10
Speaker 1: You know, he says, So this is one of former
1:19:14
Speaker 1: Noma's interns, right, one of former interns who who you know,
1:19:20
Speaker 1: who didn't didn't get paid in twenty eighteen for working there,
1:19:25
Speaker 1: but who today I guess is a chef in Turkey.
1:19:29
Speaker 2: Right, So this is a he says, quote.
1:19:32
Speaker 1: We should be talking about what mischionline stars really represent,
1:19:35
Speaker 1: what rich people want to eat. They wanted to eat
1:19:38
Speaker 1: plastic when a Bully was number one, El Bulli, famous
1:19:42
Speaker 1: revolutionary restaurant in Spain. El Bully was number one, and
1:19:46
Speaker 1: Cod Spum when Noma was number one. So you get
1:19:51
Speaker 1: a sense that there is a lot of glee in
1:19:53
Speaker 1: watching this amazing innovatives, just amazing chef being ripped down,
1:20:01
Speaker 1: torn down, brought down into the muck and into the money.
1:20:08
Speaker 1: You know, and and so they are people are you know,
1:20:12
Speaker 1: we need to rethink restaurants, right, we need to rethink
1:20:15
Speaker 1: the culture of restaurants. You know, we we can change.
1:20:20
Speaker 1: This is another another intern form intern we can change
1:20:24
Speaker 1: so that the food isn't gate kept and marketed for status.
1:20:28
Speaker 1: The people that cook and handle the food should be
1:20:30
Speaker 1: acknowledged and the toil shouldn't be glamorized on glossy TV
1:20:36
Speaker 1: shows like Nice Edge and Chasing Michelin, Stars and The
1:20:40
Speaker 1: Bear and things like that. So that's what they really resent.
1:20:44
Speaker 1: They resent the success, they resent that achievement. There isn't
1:20:49
Speaker 1: the fact that people with money eat at these restaurants
1:20:53
Speaker 1: and that only people with money can afford them. There
1:20:58
Speaker 1: isn't the fact that these chefs are hailed as superstars
1:21:02
Speaker 1: because they are they have TV shows. It's you know, look,
1:21:12
Speaker 1: if the guy really did physically abuse somebody, then I
1:21:17
Speaker 1: hope that the police got involved in any stuff as
1:21:20
Speaker 1: the consequence of that. But if it was just verbal abuse,
1:21:27
Speaker 1: you know, don't work for him. If you can't handle it,
1:21:30
Speaker 1: don't work for him if you don't like it, you know,
1:21:36
Speaker 1: As a former Noma chef in Portugal wrote on Instagram,
1:21:41
Speaker 1: kitchens were never meant to be easy places. But on
1:21:48
Speaker 1: the other hand, other people are saying things like I'm
1:21:50
Speaker 1: so disappointed in our industry. You still take talking about
1:21:54
Speaker 1: this false idol.
1:21:55
Speaker 2: Why is he false?
1:21:56
Speaker 1: Exactly, He's a genius who create it. Arguably.
1:22:01
Speaker 2: This is the same guy who just called him a
1:22:02
Speaker 2: false idom. This is what he writes.
1:22:04
Speaker 1: He's a genius who created arguably the greatest restaurant of
1:22:08
Speaker 1: our time. But what is his legacy? Is it his
1:22:14
Speaker 1: legacy the greatest restaurant of our time? Isn't his legacy
1:22:19
Speaker 1: that he changed the way restaurants think about food forever?
1:22:26
Speaker 1: I mean, one of the things that Noma is known for,
1:22:30
Speaker 1: known for is its emphasis focus on local ingredients, only
1:22:38
Speaker 1: using local ingredients. How many restaurants do you know that
1:22:41
Speaker 1: today advertised local we only use local ingredients. That's because
1:22:51
Speaker 1: of Noma. Noma also, I think once served its customers
1:22:58
Speaker 1: life ants other restaurants, and I'm mimicking that, although I
1:23:05
Speaker 1: have eaten at a number of restaurants, dead ants, you know,
1:23:10
Speaker 1: flavored appropriately, they can be quite delicious and crunchy. So
1:23:14
Speaker 1: you know, one of my great culinary regrets. Jeffrey knows
1:23:19
Speaker 1: this because he tried to remedy this, but one of
1:23:21
Speaker 1: my great culinary regrets is the fact that I never
1:23:27
Speaker 1: got to eat at Noma. Never, never, managed to get
1:23:32
Speaker 1: a reservation whenever I was in Copenhagen. Either I didn't
1:23:36
Speaker 1: have time or I couldn't get a reservation. But I
1:23:39
Speaker 1: never got to eat at Noma. But you know I was.
1:23:42
Speaker 1: We were still trying late last year. Couldn't make it happen.
1:23:47
Speaker 1: Couldn't make it happen anyway. I would have loved to
1:23:50
Speaker 1: eaten the Noma. I'm not rich by rich standards, I think,
1:23:57
Speaker 1: but I'm willing to spend a lot of money once
1:23:59
Speaker 1: in a while. WoT to eat a once in a
1:24:02
Speaker 1: lifetime meal, once in a lifetime meal. So yeah, I
1:24:14
Speaker 1: know you think that it sounds like modern arts or
1:24:18
Speaker 1: whatever until you actually go and experience these restaurants. Don't
1:24:22
Speaker 1: judge them until you actually go and experience this aesthetic value,
1:24:27
Speaker 1: the taste, texture, just the interesting things that they do
1:24:32
Speaker 1: with food. It's an experience. So I'm a big fan
1:24:37
Speaker 1: of these kind of restaurants, big fan. I didn't watch
1:24:41
Speaker 1: the movie that was called The Menu because it sounded
1:24:45
Speaker 1: like the whole point of that movie was to knock
1:24:47
Speaker 1: people like this down, right, And so I love this
1:24:57
Speaker 1: food right, and I love these restaur rants, and I
1:25:02
Speaker 1: searched them out all over the world, and I think
1:25:05
Speaker 1: it's tragic.
1:25:07
Speaker 2: That a chef has drawn through the mud like this.
1:25:09
Speaker 1: Again, you know, maybe he's not a nice guy, but
1:25:12
Speaker 1: recognize the genius and you know if you don't want
1:25:15
Speaker 1: to go to work for him. He had this reputation
1:25:16
Speaker 1: for years. Everybody knew this. You don't have to go
1:25:19
Speaker 1: to work for somebody like that. Plenty of restaurants in
1:25:21
Speaker 1: the world. You don't have to go to the one
1:25:23
Speaker 1: restaurant known for having a chef who loses his temper.
1:25:28
Speaker 1: And by the way, many chefs, not all, obviously, but
1:25:32
Speaker 1: many chefs are like this. So it's an intense, super
1:25:36
Speaker 1: intense if you've ever watched any shows about chefs, super
1:25:40
Speaker 1: intense business. All right. Finally, in the category of good news, Tesla.
1:25:47
Speaker 1: Tesla is finally releasing about to release later this year.
1:25:52
Speaker 1: It's first semi truck. It's first semi truck. Some of
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Speaker 2: Scenter driving position.
1:26:04
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1:26:19
Speaker 1: Molten Splendor asks, have you tried Eliana in Chicago.
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Speaker 2: It's amazing. It truly is amazing.
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Speaker 1: One of the best restaurant experiences my wife and I
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1:27:00
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1:27:10
Speaker 1: I pretty shure Jeffrey's been I'm curious what Jeffrey thinks
1:27:13
Speaker 1: of Elinaire, but I really enjoyed it all right. Anyway,
1:27:18
Speaker 1: the semi truck is getting good reviews from truck drivers
1:27:24
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1:27:35
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1:28:09
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1:28:13
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Speaker 1: So we're looking at the companies expecting to deliver five
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1:28:49
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1:28:59
Speaker 1: battery elects trucks. This could be a huge industry for Tesla.
1:29:04
Speaker 1: And imagine this is a step towards self driving trucks
1:29:09
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1:29:14
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Speaker 1: to freedom, lip service to capitalism, it doesn't even do
1:38:01
Speaker 1: that anymore. It really just doesn't care. And much of
1:38:07
Speaker 1: it doesn't even care about American national self defense, which
1:38:09
Speaker 1: it used to be again the hawkish power, you know
1:38:12
Speaker 1: a party, the party that advocated for self defense. Much
1:38:18
Speaker 1: of the Republican Party now supports the leftist agenda of
1:38:22
Speaker 1: non intervention, non intervention, even when it's clearly an American.
1:38:26
Speaker 2: Self interesting intervene.
1:38:29
Speaker 1: Just look at their attitude towards Ukraine, and look at
1:38:32
Speaker 1: many on the rights attitudes towards this war. All right now,
1:38:38
Speaker 1: youavir algorithm says, do most people have trouble registering the
1:38:42
Speaker 1: truths presented in objectives because there is so much junk
1:38:47
Speaker 1: epistemology floating around in their minds? All that toxic software
1:38:52
Speaker 1: prevents truth from latching on. Yes, I think that's right,
1:38:56
Speaker 1: but I wouldn't just say it's bad epistemology real sense
1:39:01
Speaker 1: in which they rationalize a way whatever objectivism comes their
1:39:09
Speaker 1: way because of altruism. So it's a combination of bad epistemology,
1:39:15
Speaker 1: really bad epistemology, that kind of because look, they use
1:39:20
Speaker 1: good at perstology at work, they use good at pustemology
1:39:23
Speaker 1: when they do science or tack, but when it comes
1:39:27
Speaker 1: to philosophy, it's out. And to a logic extent, it's out.
1:39:31
Speaker 1: Not because they don't can't do good at pistemology, not
1:39:34
Speaker 1: because they can't use that, but because they are. They
1:39:40
Speaker 1: cannot handle, they cannot comprehend, they cannot deal with right,
1:39:51
Speaker 1: they cannot deal with the fact that objectivism is against altruism,
1:39:55
Speaker 1: that objectivism advocates a rational long term self interest, that
1:39:59
Speaker 1: objectivism a advocates for selfishness properly understood it just can't
1:40:05
Speaker 1: imagine that, and avogive capitalism. So they're willing to throw
1:40:10
Speaker 1: away their rationality in order not to come to certain
1:40:17
Speaker 1: conclusions because the conclusions are too upsetting. Author you are
1:40:32
Speaker 1: either rich or your life sucks torue or false false.
1:40:37
Speaker 1: I mean does that mean that you know, two and
1:40:41
Speaker 1: fifty years ago, nobody had a meaningful life. Everybody's life
1:40:44
Speaker 1: sucked because nobody was rich in comparison to today, What
1:40:50
Speaker 1: does even rich mean? Rich relative to other people in
1:40:53
Speaker 1: your society, A rich relative to history or rich relative
1:40:58
Speaker 1: to the future. What does it even mean to say
1:41:00
Speaker 1: you're rich? I used to be poor, My life didn't suck.
1:41:08
Speaker 1: Money is not the measure by which to determine happiness,
1:41:12
Speaker 1: flourishing success. And what do we mean how rich? I mean,
1:41:19
Speaker 1: by some measures, everybody in American society today, even the poor,
1:41:23
Speaker 1: are rich as compared to the past. They all have refrigerators,
1:41:28
Speaker 1: they have air conditioning, they have automobiles. That's pretty rich.
1:41:35
Speaker 1: So yeah, absolutely, unquestionably false. I know a lot of
1:41:42
Speaker 1: people are rich whose life sucks. So rich is neither
1:41:48
Speaker 1: sufficient nor necessary to lead a happy, successful, meaningful life.
1:41:54
Speaker 1: Some level of economic well being is necessary. But and
1:42:02
Speaker 1: at what stage in your life when you're young? How
1:42:05
Speaker 1: can you be rich when you're young you haven't built anything,
1:42:07
Speaker 1: you haven't created anything. When you're old. Yeah, hopefully by
1:42:11
Speaker 1: then you've accumulated some money. But what is how much
1:42:14
Speaker 1: is enough? How much makes you rich? So no, completely wrong?
1:42:21
Speaker 1: Author Again, do some humans lives have no value but
1:42:26
Speaker 1: still have rights?
1:42:28
Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely.
1:42:30
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people who produce nothing, do nothing.
1:42:35
Speaker 1: The people who are leeches in society, people who are takers,
1:42:41
Speaker 1: not makers, As long as not criminals, they still have
1:42:44
Speaker 1: rights even though their lives have little, if no value,
1:42:51
Speaker 1: to no value. But the human therefore the rights that
1:42:56
Speaker 1: you know. You can't steal from them. You can't take
1:42:58
Speaker 1: from them, you can't beat them up. You can treat
1:43:00
Speaker 1: them as as if they don't exist, as if they're
1:43:04
Speaker 1: not human. Orthosis is what does America look like after
1:43:13
Speaker 1: one generation of Lazofia capitalism? Wow? I mean it's hard
1:43:18
Speaker 1: to imagine, right, because it looks incredibly successful, and it
1:43:23
Speaker 1: looks really really rich, way beyond our imagination. Rich, happy
1:43:30
Speaker 1: people are inspired, happy, energized, excited about their life, about
1:43:36
Speaker 1: their work, about the other people they engage with. It'll
1:43:40
Speaker 1: be the most benevolent place on planet Earth, the friendliest
1:43:43
Speaker 1: place on planet Earth. Innovation through the roof, and everybody
1:43:57
Speaker 1: relatively wealthy, right, so they'll be huge inequality. And yet
1:44:02
Speaker 1: even the Jenatin and the street sweeper would be relatively wealthy.
1:44:08
Speaker 1: Robots will do a lot of the work we don't
1:44:10
Speaker 1: want to do. I will be you know, helping us
1:44:16
Speaker 1: create the next great innovations. But you know the main
1:44:22
Speaker 1: effect is just the level of flourishing happiness satisfaction.
1:44:30
Speaker 2: That people will will.
1:44:31
Speaker 1: Have, particularly if it's not just imposed on them the
1:44:36
Speaker 1: less of Fay capitalism, but comes as a consequence of
1:44:40
Speaker 1: their adoption of the objective philosophy, which I think is
1:44:43
Speaker 1: the right sequence. First you adopt the philosophy, then you
1:44:45
Speaker 1: become las fa capitalist. It will be pretty damn great, Jennifer,
1:44:58
Speaker 1: is it understandable that even if a food might taste
1:45:02
Speaker 1: good mentally, it just grosses you out and you don't
1:45:06
Speaker 1: want to eat it? For example, Rocky Mountain oysters, testicles. Sure, yeah,
1:45:14
Speaker 1: things can gross you out. I mean, any thing about
1:45:18
Speaker 1: why the groceries you out, and and and whether it's
1:45:21
Speaker 1: important or not, whether you want to put the energy
1:45:23
Speaker 1: into thinking about it or not. It's this is not
1:45:26
Speaker 1: pretty big. But you know, there's certain bugs I wouldn't eat.
1:45:32
Speaker 1: I'm grossed out by by roaches and rats, and there
1:45:37
Speaker 1: a few things that gross me out that I wouldn't
1:45:39
Speaker 1: want to eat. But I'm pretty open to eating pretty
1:45:43
Speaker 1: much anything else, so I don't but I but yeah,
1:45:49
Speaker 1: I mean I'll eat ants, I won't eat many other
1:45:55
Speaker 1: you know, bugs, some of the bugs. But yeah, eyeballs
1:46:01
Speaker 1: could be cool. I don't know, they'd have to taste good.
1:46:06
Speaker 1: But I'll try almost anything once almost probably more queasy
1:46:14
Speaker 1: a little bit now than I was in the past.
1:46:16
Speaker 1: But yeah, absolutely it is understandable, right, I mean, it
1:46:20
Speaker 1: just is right. If it grosses you out, you can
1:46:24
Speaker 1: overcome the grossness if you can still somehow enjoy it.
1:46:29
Speaker 1: I would eat a spider, I would eat a snake,
1:46:33
Speaker 1: would eat spider, I would eat snake. But it's understandable.
1:46:38
Speaker 1: So it's just a question of whether it's worth trying
1:46:40
Speaker 1: to overcome it or not. And most things are not
1:46:44
Speaker 1: that interesting flavor wise to overcome you being grossed out bite,
1:46:48
Speaker 1: it's just not worth it.
1:46:49
Speaker 2: Oh.
1:46:49
Speaker 1: I love oxtail. Oxtail is like one of the great
1:46:53
Speaker 1: delicacies of all time. Oh. I love tongue. My mother
1:46:58
Speaker 1: used to make tongue. It's one of the few things
1:47:00
Speaker 1: that my mother made that I really liked. Tongue is amazing.
1:47:04
Speaker 1: I know Americans don't like liver, right, Liver is so delicious,
1:47:08
Speaker 1: particularly if.
1:47:08
Speaker 2: It's fogras.
1:47:11
Speaker 1: And uh. But but liver in all its forms chopped
1:47:14
Speaker 1: and fried and and and uh you know, see it
1:47:21
Speaker 1: like fharguar, which is duck or goose liver. Uh. Yeah,
1:47:25
Speaker 1: I mean, don't let So there's suddain foods. Here's the thing,
1:47:31
Speaker 1: there's sudden foods that you shouldn't let being grossed out
1:47:35
Speaker 1: by them stop you from eating them because they're so good.
1:47:39
Speaker 1: Like liver, particularly in the fog Graah film Ducco or
1:47:43
Speaker 1: goose liver see it or pataid, it's so good that
1:47:50
Speaker 1: it is worth any grossing out you might feel about it.
1:47:53
Speaker 1: So some things you just need to overcome and make
1:47:56
Speaker 1: the effort right. Sushi now you know like it, that's fine,
1:48:01
Speaker 1: but you should at least try it, because it's good
1:48:03
Speaker 1: enough to be worth trying, to be worth trying. So yeah,
1:48:08
Speaker 1: I mean there's very little. I mean the things that
1:48:11
Speaker 1: are gross me out, but they usually not served in restaurants.
1:48:13
Speaker 1: Most of what's served in restaurants. Almost everything served in
1:48:16
Speaker 1: restaurants I'm willing to eat.
1:48:21
Speaker 2: I'm willing to eat. Yeah.
1:48:23
Speaker 1: Liver was particularly a chopped liver, and fight liver was
1:48:27
Speaker 1: in a fring pan with onions. With fight onions was
1:48:30
Speaker 1: pretty much a basic food in you know, in our house,
1:48:38
Speaker 1: as was tongue was a delicacy. Once in a while
1:48:42
Speaker 1: we had tongue. But the tongue is amazing I mean,
1:48:46
Speaker 1: you have to cook it right, right. But somebody here
1:48:48
Speaker 1: in Puerto Rico we owe the tongue and literally it
1:48:51
Speaker 1: came out like a tongue, you know, usually it's sliced
1:48:55
Speaker 1: and you get these thin slices of it.
1:48:57
Speaker 2: It came out like a steak, like a piece of.
1:48:59
Speaker 1: Tongue, which was it didn't gross me out, but it
1:49:03
Speaker 1: was it was not as good. I don't know, it
1:49:06
Speaker 1: didn't taste as good as they're kind of went sliced
1:49:09
Speaker 1: and just done right, you know, cooked right. I'm sorry
1:49:12
Speaker 1: Jeffrey isn't here to give us advice about all this
1:49:16
Speaker 1: amazing food. We need Jeffrey's input on how to do
1:49:20
Speaker 1: this stuff right. All right. Reminder, we are really really
1:49:24
Speaker 1: really really really really good. If we made the five
1:49:27
Speaker 1: hundred today, we are eighty eight dollars short, so four
1:49:32
Speaker 1: twenty dollars questions would really help get us there, or
1:49:34
Speaker 1: for twenty dollars stickers would get us there. But that
1:49:36
Speaker 1: would be great. We've still got a way to go
1:49:39
Speaker 1: this month where we have to stay on the monthly schedule.
1:49:42
Speaker 1: I like Cavia, I don't love it enough to pay
1:49:45
Speaker 1: the kind of money that some people are willing to
1:49:48
Speaker 1: pay for Cavia. Cavea is really good, but it's not
1:49:51
Speaker 1: worth the kind of ridiculous amount. I like oysters. I
1:49:54
Speaker 1: like all kinds of oysters.
1:49:55
Speaker 2: I like them more. I like them cooked and different oysters.
1:49:59
Speaker 1: Taste which is which is.
1:50:01
Speaker 2: H which is great?
1:50:02
Speaker 1: Uh ooh. John says he had tongue sandwiches for a week.
1:50:09
Speaker 1: That sounds really good. That sounds really good. Steven says,
1:50:14
Speaker 1: thanks to the show, value for value appreciated. Steven, thank you.
1:50:17
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, value for you guys one hundred and fifty watching.
1:50:21
Speaker 1: How many of you have done a super chat recently
1:50:24
Speaker 1: or sticker? You could jump in with a sticker a
1:50:26
Speaker 1: super chat and I will answer your question. And uh uh.
1:50:31
Speaker 2: Greg says he does not care much for sea urchin.
1:50:34
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I love sea urchin. Sea or chin
1:50:37
Speaker 1: is so good. It's got that smooth texture, It's got
1:50:41
Speaker 1: that amazing flavor. Love seachin love sachin. Yeah, I mean,
1:50:48
Speaker 1: uh yeah, we could go on and on with all this.
1:50:50
Speaker 1: Uh uh, you know you guys eaten monkfish liver, monkfish liver.
1:50:58
Speaker 2: That's really good. I forget what it's in Japanese.
1:51:02
Speaker 1: All right, James, do you think Russia's nuclear weapons have
1:51:06
Speaker 1: even work. Probably some of them. Maybe most of them don't,
1:51:12
Speaker 1: but some of them do. And who wants to take
1:51:15
Speaker 1: the risks that just in case one or two of
1:51:16
Speaker 1: them do work. It's some of them probably do work. Yeah,
1:51:24
Speaker 1: lobster's amazing. I mean there's tons of good food, tons
1:51:29
Speaker 1: of good food. Yeah, a mon Ficks liver is really good. John,
1:51:37
Speaker 1: if you run laze minds in homoes, how can their
1:51:40
Speaker 1: own or go to China? If Uranians keep a certain
1:51:43
Speaker 1: corridor free of the mines for their own ships, could
1:51:48
Speaker 1: other vessels use the same channel? Say more about mines, Well,
1:51:54
Speaker 1: I mean the number of things that happen, right, So
1:51:56
Speaker 1: the mines, some of the mind some of them.
1:51:58
Speaker 2: My technology is there.
1:52:00
Speaker 1: They're placed at the bottom of the of the of
1:52:03
Speaker 1: the of the sea, and they released them through remote control,
1:52:09
Speaker 1: so they could release them only when pallenships were there.
1:52:13
Speaker 1: I don't know how good those are. I don't know
1:52:15
Speaker 1: how accurate those minds are. I guess you're right. If
1:52:19
Speaker 1: there's a clear channel where there are no mines, then
1:52:23
Speaker 1: you could travel through that channel. That if you only
1:52:28
Speaker 1: use one channel, though, it becomes easier than for them
1:52:32
Speaker 1: to attack you with drones and other things. Because they
1:52:34
Speaker 1: know the exact location, it's easy to target. Moving around,
1:52:39
Speaker 1: changing schedules, changing roots is probably better. So look, I'm
1:52:45
Speaker 1: not a mine expert, but you're right that if they
1:52:50
Speaker 1: just lay mines like floating on the water. Uh, the
1:52:55
Speaker 1: Ranian ships would have a problem as well. But they
1:52:57
Speaker 1: probably have more advanced technologies than that. Whether they will
1:53:00
Speaker 1: or not, I don't know how good they are. I
1:53:02
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't think anybody knows, and I think
1:53:05
Speaker 1: the best deal is to get mind sweepers in as
1:53:08
Speaker 1: quickly as possible. Other countries have mind sweepers. The United
1:53:11
Speaker 1: States just decommissioned old mind sweepers. They've got some new ones. Ideally,
1:53:17
Speaker 1: you have robotic mind sweepers. You have a technology that
1:53:23
Speaker 1: finds the minds and you robotically take them out. But
1:53:29
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know that much about the technology
1:53:32
Speaker 1: and the ways in which they can it can be defanged.
1:53:38
Speaker 1: James cantas Own and Techer Carlson seem to think the
1:53:42
Speaker 1: Mossad is behind the death of Chuck Nawis. Oh, I'm shocked.
1:53:47
Speaker 2: I'm shocked.
1:53:48
Speaker 1: I think because Chuck Nawis was going to go to
1:53:50
Speaker 1: Trump and tell him to stop the war.
1:53:53
Speaker 2: So the Mossad killed him, even though he was a.
1:53:55
Speaker 1: Huge, huge, huge friend of Israel's and pall of N'itanielle
1:54:00
Speaker 1: and everything. So it's obvious that Massad must have killed them.
1:54:03
Speaker 1: I mean, anybody who dies these days must have been
1:54:05
Speaker 1: killed by the Mosart. Anybody, anybody who might have Trump's
1:54:09
Speaker 1: ear was killed by the Mosart. It's pretty funny, but
1:54:14
Speaker 1: it can all on in. Tucker Cosson wacko, completely whacko.
1:54:18
Speaker 1: I had some videos of tucka that I was going
1:54:21
Speaker 1: to show you. Maybe I'll do that another time. I'm
1:54:24
Speaker 1: trying to think what was on the videos. I forgot
1:54:26
Speaker 1: already what crazy things he was saying. But people are
1:54:30
Speaker 1: starting to call him out. He's starting to go, oh yeah,
1:54:34
Speaker 1: oh you got it. Yeah, let me tell you about this.
1:54:36
Speaker 1: Might as well tell you. I won't show you the video,
1:54:37
Speaker 1: I'll just tell you so. Teker Cosson has this video
1:54:40
Speaker 1: saying the Churchill during World War Two imprisoned the opposition,
1:54:46
Speaker 1: put them in jail with their families. And this is
1:54:51
Speaker 1: an opposition leader who had fought in World War One
1:54:55
Speaker 1: on the bitty side of a great patriot. Now of course,
1:55:02
Speaker 1: the opposition in Britain was not jailed. Everybody who was
1:55:07
Speaker 1: in parliament was in parliament. There was you know what's
1:55:12
Speaker 1: his name at Churchill's Conservatives, and there was the Labor Party,
1:55:15
Speaker 1: and they actually formed a coalition government during the war
1:55:20
Speaker 1: and became rivals after the war. And nobody was in prison.
1:55:23
Speaker 1: Who was in prison. The guy was in prison was
1:55:28
Speaker 1: the head of the English Nazi Party. He was not
1:55:33
Speaker 1: the opposition because he was not in parliament, he had
1:55:35
Speaker 1: never been elected to anything, but he was a Nazi.
1:55:42
Speaker 1: He literally married his wife in Gobbels's home in Germany
1:55:50
Speaker 1: and he was let go in nineteen forty three because
1:55:54
Speaker 1: they figured by that point he had imposed no threat.
1:55:59
Speaker 1: But earlier than that it was deemed that he was
1:56:02
Speaker 1: would be cooperating with the enemy. And during a time
1:56:05
Speaker 1: where English England Britain was struggling for its survival, fighting
1:56:10
Speaker 1: tooth and nail just to survive. Yeah, it kind of
1:56:20
Speaker 1: makes sense to imprison him. But that's not that position.
1:56:24
Speaker 1: It's he you know, he's so sly and deceptive but
1:56:31
Speaker 1: fundamentally deeply dishonest. He's Tucker is the most dishonest person
1:56:37
Speaker 1: in the media right now.
1:56:39
Speaker 2: Him and Candas.
1:56:40
Speaker 1: But Candas is crazy, Tucker, I think is just just
1:56:43
Speaker 1: calculatedly dishonest hop up as a general rule, should you
1:56:48
Speaker 1: investment for four year be eighty stocks twenty bonds?
1:56:52
Speaker 2: No, No, there is no.
1:56:54
Speaker 1: General rule you should if you're young, you should have
1:56:57
Speaker 1: all stocks. As you get older, he should have more bonds.
1:57:05
Speaker 1: So there's no one rule, you know, the governstad and
1:57:09
Speaker 1: it also depends on the environment. But generally the older
1:57:14
Speaker 1: you are, the more bonds you should have. The younger
1:57:15
Speaker 1: you are, the most stocks you should have. I like numbers.
1:57:20
Speaker 1: How does he both have no strategy.
1:57:23
Speaker 2: And using yours?
1:57:26
Speaker 1: Well, No, he had no strategy at the start of
1:57:29
Speaker 1: the war, so he wasn't prepared. You know. He figured
1:57:35
Speaker 1: out he needed a strategy about a week to ten
1:57:39
Speaker 1: days into the war, and then in week two he
1:57:44
Speaker 1: came up with a strategy that is very much what
1:57:47
Speaker 1: I said it should be. So I don't know if
1:57:49
Speaker 1: he took it from me or he took it for
1:57:51
Speaker 1: somebody else, but he did develop a strategy. It just
1:57:54
Speaker 1: took him two weeks to do it where and it's
1:57:58
Speaker 1: going to take him months. It's going to take a
1:57:59
Speaker 1: week implement it. And if he'd had a strategy at
1:58:03
Speaker 1: the beginning of the war. He would have implemented it
1:58:06
Speaker 1: from day one. Helper Campbell, has the military not turned
1:58:12
Speaker 1: on Trump because he hasn't asked them to do anything
1:58:16
Speaker 1: that unethical What he tried to pull with Ice, the
1:58:20
Speaker 1: public diffused fairly quickly. Well, I mean, what's going on
1:58:23
Speaker 1: with Ice is still going on. It's that it's not
1:58:25
Speaker 1: that it's stopped. There's still stuff going on with Ice.
1:58:29
Speaker 1: It's just not quite as egregious. But I don't know.
1:58:34
Speaker 1: I don't know if the military would turn on Trump
1:58:37
Speaker 1: if he did something unethical. I hope they would. I
1:58:41
Speaker 1: assume they would, but I don't know that they would.
1:58:44
Speaker 1: I just don't know enough about who serves in commanding positions.
1:58:48
Speaker 1: I think the military, particularly after what's happening now, is
1:58:52
Speaker 1: pretty skeptical of Trump. They know they won't capabilities, and
1:58:56
Speaker 1: I think the skeptical of his command of in chief
1:59:00
Speaker 1: Strategy Richard Richard said, I stepped on a sea or
1:59:07
Speaker 1: chin in Puerto Rico a long time ago. Keep eating them, yes,
1:59:12
Speaker 1: eat them, say so, not on the shore. They don't,
1:59:14
Speaker 1: they don't. Nobody will step on them. All right, We
1:59:19
Speaker 1: are sixty eight dollars short guys sixty eight three more
1:59:23
Speaker 1: twenty dollars questions and one eight dollar questions and we're there.
1:59:26
Speaker 1: It's not that hot, just a you know, and stickers.
1:59:33
Speaker 1: If you do two dollars stickers and one dollar stickers
1:59:35
Speaker 1: right now, we could really chip away of this, really
1:59:38
Speaker 1: chip away with this value for value, all right, Jonathan.
1:59:43
Speaker 1: Would limiting US experts help prices here? Oh god, I
1:59:48
Speaker 1: mean it would be. It would really really be a
1:59:53
Speaker 1: bad thing. And you can't really do it. Again, our
1:59:57
Speaker 1: refiners cannot just use US oil. We'd have to import
2:00:03
Speaker 1: some oil from like Venezuela and Canada, which in a
2:00:06
Speaker 1: global market. And look, markets are good things. Markets send
2:00:12
Speaker 1: market signals which change behavior in a good way. You
2:00:18
Speaker 1: want right now, you want gasoline prices to go up
2:00:21
Speaker 1: significantly so that people use less.
2:00:25
Speaker 2: Of it.
2:00:28
Speaker 1: And so that the incentive to go out and make
2:00:31
Speaker 1: more of it rises. So no, limiting US exports would
2:00:37
Speaker 1: be a massive mistake. It would be it would be
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Speaker 1: an attempt to get around market signals, which I think
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Speaker 1: would ultimately blow up in America's face. Look, you shouldn't
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Speaker 1: intervene in markets. Just leave markets alone. Uh ha, con
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Speaker 1: says your conversation with Destiny was nearly a year ago.
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Speaker 1: He had a good rapport with him. Round two sometime soon. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think so.
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Speaker 2: I think.
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Speaker 1: So. There's so many things that you know, there's so
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Speaker 1: many stories that he about Destiny that discredited him completely
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Speaker 1: as a human being, not just his ideas that make
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Speaker 1: me weary. But I'll probably do it, Clark will Iran
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Speaker 1: and Cuba both begin morphing into Western liberal democracies because
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Speaker 1: of Trump's actions, even.
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Speaker 2: If it was never his intention.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they would have anyway, but it would
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Speaker 1: have taken a lot longer in terms of time. So
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Speaker 1: I think what Trump has done, if he's successful, and
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Speaker 1: he hasn't shown to be successful yet, but he's successful,
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Speaker 1: is dramatically accelerated the pace at which you on Cuba
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Speaker 1: and maybe even Venezuela will move towards becoming more free places.
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Speaker 2: Friend Harper says.
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Speaker 1: Psa tats Fani's book Secrets of a Passionate Life is
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Speaker 1: now available on audible read by tatz Fani himself fifteen bucks.
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Speaker 1: I plan on getting it soon and listening and reading
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Speaker 1: along in the physical copy.
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Speaker 2: I got it okon excellent.
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Speaker 1: Plus she'd work a good headline on Earlich's demise would
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Speaker 1: have been today, Paul Erlich achieved for himself his life
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Speaker 1: flung dream for humanity.
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Speaker 2: I like that.
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Speaker 1: So it turns out fast she'd work does have a
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Speaker 1: sense of humor when he's not hiding it in, you know,
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Speaker 1: floating with merriments, and all of us get it. It's
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Speaker 1: pretty funny. He's pretty funny. So yes, that is a
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Speaker 1: good I like that.
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Speaker 2: I like that a lot.
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Speaker 1: All right, if you plan on trading with me value
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Speaker 1: for value, then you've probably got less than five minutes
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Speaker 1: to do so, because I've only got full questions left,
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Speaker 1: and then we'll call it a day. Steven curious if
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Speaker 1: you started rereading Who Goes ninety three?
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Speaker 2: Yet? No, I haven't.
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Speaker 1: Messiness in war physically and morally seems to be one
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Speaker 1: of its themes. No, and the chapter on the loose
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Speaker 1: cannon on the ship is fascinating thoughts. Oh God, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to have to pass on this question until I
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Speaker 1: read it again. It's been a long, long, long time
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Speaker 1: and all I have is impressions, not a not a
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Speaker 1: real memory of the details. So when I read it again,
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Speaker 1: I will answer. I need to do that. I need
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Speaker 1: to pause all my non fiction books and read Who
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Speaker 1: Goes ninety three again? Neo. Should governments withhold information about
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Speaker 1: the progress of a war when communicating with the public
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Speaker 1: is not is to not give away anything to the enemy.
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Speaker 1: So you have to make that assessment basically, is the
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Speaker 1: information you are making public helpful to the enemy or not.
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Speaker 1: If it is helpful to the enemy, you probably should
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Speaker 1: withhold it. But if it's not significantly in any way
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Speaker 1: to the enemy, then no you should. Actually you should
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Speaker 1: actually be pro information, Ran. But governments work for the people,
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Speaker 1: so the people should know how the war is going,
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Speaker 1: and releasing information to them is the way in which
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Speaker 1: you inform them of that. So I think they need
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Speaker 1: to release more information rather than less, unless it is
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Speaker 1: threatening the progress of the word itself. Adam. I often
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Speaker 1: enjoy the lectures of the historian Sarah Paine, and I
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Speaker 1: seldom find anything inaccurate. Does she have any known connection
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Speaker 1: to objectivism? Not that I know of, Not that I
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Speaker 1: know of. Is she ever mentioned Rand or objectivism, omnis
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Speaker 1: parallels or anything like that in her history lectures?
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Speaker 2: But no, I don't know it.
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Speaker 1: Am glad you enjoy her, and it's fantastic that they're
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Speaker 1: good people out there, Stephen, I don't Reko ran talking
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Speaker 1: about food in romantic manifesto. It is a sense, a
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Speaker 1: recreation of reality based on values of the artist. The
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Speaker 1: shift is it art? No, it's not odd. Art is
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Speaker 1: an end in itself. The purpose of food is eating,
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Speaker 1: is to eat it. So it's not art, but it
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Speaker 1: is aesthetic. It has an misthake dimension to it, you know,
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Speaker 1: as a lot of useful things do. So it is,
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Speaker 1: but I wouldn't call it art. It is though metaphysical
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Speaker 1: value judgments I don't think are being reflected in it.
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Speaker 1: But again it's you know, even architecture is not really
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Speaker 1: odd because it has a purpose. It has a use
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Speaker 1: which dictates everything. And here what dictates the art is
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Speaker 1: the large extent flavor, it's palette, how it tastes. It
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Speaker 1: is a selective of creation, no doubt about that. Flawda Nick,
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Speaker 1: thank you for the stick up, she Flada Nick just
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Speaker 1: did abut ninety nine and it helps. And Benjamin just
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Speaker 1: did ten Swiss Franks that also helps. And we've chipped away.
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Speaker 1: We've only got thirty three dollars left, but time time
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Speaker 1: it's running out. Cabook Tower. Why is management in the
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Speaker 1: private sector usually not educated, and they don't know that
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Speaker 1: my about what they are managing, and they make poor decisions.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean is that true?
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Speaker 1: I mean, if that were true, how is it that
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Speaker 1: they create such values? How can they create such amazing products?
2:07:15
Speaker 1: When was the last time an airplane fell out of
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Speaker 1: the sky? I mean, it's really, really, really rare, And
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Speaker 1: look at those are businesses.
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Speaker 2: Managers must be making good decisions.
2:07:28
Speaker 1: The same is true of almost you know, managers who
2:07:32
Speaker 1: build diaphones. I mean, so, I don't know that that's generalizable.
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Speaker 1: There are some managers that are not very good, but
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Speaker 1: most managers are pretty damn good and they know what
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Speaker 1: they're doing, and that's what allows the world to function.
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Speaker 1: If managers as bad as you suggest, the modern world
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Speaker 1: could not function, it would be everything, literally everything would
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Speaker 1: be falling about.
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Speaker 2: And it's not. Things are pretty.
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