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Speaker 2: In the home stretch, we are now right over the year. Basically,
we're in the home stretch of the year. Not only
is it the time of year that we look back
on things like we just did with James Rosen, Newsmax
Senior Washington correspondent, it's also the time of year four resolutions,
right among the most popular is to eat better and
get healthy. There was a new disturbing report yesterday on
child obesity in America. Not only are we fat, our
kids are fat. The country has a serious doctor. Jessica
Duncan is a certified obesity medicine doctor at IVAM Health
and makes the argument for more nutrition education in medical schools.
Apparently people that go to medical school are not getting
that much education on nutrition. Doctor Jessica, good to have you.
Can you walk us through this and talk about some
of the changes that are being made in this area
by the Maha movement.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, thank you so much for having me. Yeah, I
think you know. The Maha movement is really all about
looking at some common sense ways to get back to
treating chronic disease, really starting at the childhood level. So
as we know, there's so many reasons why obesity is
such a problem in this country, but really some of
the initiatives mostly focused on food quality and what we're
feeding our children, and the way in which we teach
children to eat and the lifestyle that we teach our
children to follow is soch an important part to lifelong
health and preventing obese down the line.
Speaker 2: Is it more the quality of food or just you know,
the amount of food or the types of food that
we're eating or the quality of the food.
Speaker 3: I think it's actually both. But if you look at
something like ultraprocessed food, which is a big focus of
the Maha initiative, studies actually show that with the ultraprocessed food,
it actually drives you to want to eat more because
it sort of sets off these or work pathways in
the brain, these jogamine pathways that actually give you more craving.
So it's almost a vicious cycle on the kind of
go hand in hand. We really have to kind of
handle both the quality and the quantity.
Speaker 2: Uh huh. So the MAHA movement, I mean, for people
that aren't paying that much attention, you just hear all
the negative stuff about it, right, and it's I mean,
it's a lot more than people that may be against
vaccines or not against vaccines. So as a doctor, you
think a lot of what they're doing is moving in
the positive direction.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. I think there's a very common misconception that the
Maha movement is anti medicine or it doesn't work with
traditional medicine.
Speaker 2: I actually, right, that's that's that's what I'm saying. They think, right,
they think it's like they think it's it's anti medicine.
And obviously r RFK Junior is not a doctor, but
he does seem to know a heck of a lot, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I really think when you think about the
chronic diseases that we're facing in our country, there's so
many that are linked to specifically what we're eating so
why would we not want to kind of focus on
things outside of just medication, So really looking at those
causes and really kind of getting into figuring out why
is this such a problem historically and what can we
do to change things? So, you know, if you think
about it, there's certain cancers are linked to diets, low
and fruit and vegetables. So really, now is the time
to kind of work hand at hand. It can't be
all about the medication. And when we talk about me
making changes, it can't just be about writing a script.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: We have to give you our patients the opportunity to
change their lifestyles, to make these changes stronger and more
long lasting. To me, it just makes sense as a doctor.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you mentioned medications because now with all the
easy weight loss options and I'm just going to pick
one randomly that you know, because I hear it all
the time, like wagov is is this a good thing
or a bad thing in your opinion? I mean, obviously
it's good that people can lose weight, but down the
line there has to be some side effects to these medications.
Now we have so many people just injecting themselves and
bypassing diets because they can lose a quick ten to
fifteen pounds.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: So I'm an OBC medicine position, so I'm always going
to tell you that it's a good thing to treat obesity.
But I think you really have to kind of readjust
your framework to consider these medications as one tool and
a toolkit. It cannot be the only tool. So the
idea is for some patients, medication treatment may need to
be long term, you know, for whatever reason they have
kind of genetic predispositions or other reasons why they may
need long term medication management. But when you think about
it as one tool and the toolkit, you have to
think about all the other tools that you have, and
that's nutrition, lifestyle changes, exercise, sleep, managing stress. All those
things have to come together. And if you can slowly decrease,
you know, if you need to have somebody on medication,
maybe slowly decrease the dose while ramping up lifestyle modifications.
I think there's a really good pathway for getting patients
off medications and more reliant on lifestyle modifications. But I
think you have to look at the whole picture. It
cannot be the only tool. Cannot be just using medications.
Speaker 2: For sure, okay, so that is good advice. You know,
as I mentioned at the open, we're coming up on
the end of the year. People are making their New
year resolutions, which is often to get in shape or
eat better or both. And what's this is something that
every TV show, every radio show discusses every year. You know,
What's what's a real key to having success in that arena?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely, And I think you know, it's really never
too soon to get started. I think, you know, focusing
on looking at your lifestyle and seeing opportunities to make
those changes, even small changes, every day. So I know,
I'm always talking about ultraprocessed foods. So if you can
just start with one substitution for an ultraprocessed food, so
something that's made in a factory, goldfish, maybe, you know,
whatever that may be, chips, and talk about just making
one substitution a day for something that is not made,
you know, something that's the whole food that is not
ultra process usually things that are grown from the earth,
you know, carrots, whatever the case may be, whatever you
enjoy carrots and helms. Making just one substitution a day
and then building on that positive change is really the key.
It doesn't have to be January First Hits and my
entire life changes. Just making one small change, and maybe
you're not ready to make a change in how you're eating.
Talk about your sleep, think about how to change your
sleep routine, get whatever you need, eight hours of sleep.
That's gonna help with hormone levels, hunger hormones. It's really
going to have a huge impact. So one small change
and build on that is always my party line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. My own personal doctor told me one time,
the more the more time you spend sleeping, the less
you're eating. And it kind of clicked, you know, I
mean that made sense. I'm like, I'm like, yeah, that
makes sense. You know, the more you're sleeping obviously the
less you're eating. But yeah, just simple things that I did.
See Bobby Kennedy Junior in an interview one time when
they asked him about his own personal diet, he said, basically,
if it doesn't grow or come from the earth, you know,
he doesn't eat it. And for most people that's pretty extreme.
But yeah, maybe you know, instead of a bag, instead
of a bag of doritos or potato chips, have a
banana or an apple, and that could be a start
exactly exactly.
Speaker 3: I love that advice. I talk to my patients about
that all the time. One thing, ideally everything would be
grown from the earth, but it's really hard to do.
Just one small change can really have a big impact.
Speaker 2: Okay, and apparently you have a very popular substack House
and Habit, which I'm assuming is all about nutrition.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I was a guest contributor to the House and
Habit substack, and really there was focusing on talking about,
you know, the importance of educating physicians on nutrition. As
you can see, I'm totally passionate about it, but had
to do a lot of learning on my own. Was
not taught in medical school. So really I focused there
on the reasons why I think it's such a great idea,
and which is also part of the Maha initiative, which
I love.
Speaker 2: Is there a short answer to why they don't teach
medical students more about nutrition.
Speaker 3: I really think that medical school curriculum is so packed full,
and when you do get nutrition education, a lot of
that focus is on vitamin deficiencies. I would love to
see even the small amount of time that physicians do
or physicians and training do get I would love to
see the focus more on how food is medicine and
how changing food for certain into these processes can make
a big difference, rather than focusing on vitamin deficiencies, which
are so exceedingly rare. It's much more common to se
chronic diseases like obesity and diabetes in practice, and learning
how to talk to patients about that and come up
with customized plans is really the key. So I'd just
love to see more time dedicated to nutrition, less time
dedicated to kind of the more rare things that we
don't see more commonly.
Speaker 2: All right, Doctor Jessica Duncan, Certified Obesity Medicine doctor at
IVAM Health. Doctor Jessica, thank you very much, appreciate all
that great information and hopefully going into the new year,
it'll help people.
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Speaker 2: You may or may not remember when I was the
morning news anchor here at WBT a few years back.
And I know Bo and Beth have their annual favorite
Christmas song. I don't want to call it any a segment, right,
every year they do this segment about famous Christmas songs.
So you can call in and let us know what
your favorite Christmas song is. If you like seven oh
four five, seven oh one, O seven nine. That's also
the same number for texting. I know we're at the
point where a lot of people like or prefer they
prefer you may prefer texting over actually colleagues seven oh
four five to seven oh one oh seven nine. If
you're a regular listener of the Morning Show, you might
have heard the annual segment about favorite Christmas songs. If
you didn't participate in that, you can participate now. Let
us know your favorite Christmas songs. There's people that loved
the classics like that. There's people that you know, like
the funny Christmas songs like Dominic, the Italian Donkey, or
some of the newer, more rock and roll ish kind
of stuff. Most people are surprised when I tell them that.
I mean, it's really hard to pick one, right, But
most people are surprised when I tell them that. Basically,
my favorite Christmas song, one of my favorite Christmas song
songs side of the real classics is Christmas in Dixie
by Alabama. Absolutely love that song. So if you were
with us a little bit earlier, we spoke with newsma's
senior Washington correspondent James Rosen, who mentioned he is I
kind of forced him into mentioning it, but he's coming
up on twenty nine years. I think it is twenty
eight or twenty nine years of covering Washington, d C.
He's seen multiple presidencies. Before he got to the White House,
he was on Capitol Hill, so he's covered many of
House speakers, he's covered many of Congresses, and he's been
covering the White House for years, So multiple presidents and
all that. And I mentioned he also has a fantastic
book on former Supreme Court Justice the late Antonin Scalia, Right,
And that got me thinking about something I heard a
few days ago, which is it's funny. Okay, I'm about
to play it's funny, but at the same time, it's
also kind of sad. Nick is uh gonna cue this up?
And I guess I'll give you a little hint that
it started out asking people to name Supreme Court justices.
A Supreme Court justice? Can you name a Supreme Court justice?
Because they couldn't name a Supreme Court justice, not any
other nine Like what about the Kardashians And what do
you think happened? Hit that cut?
Speaker 5: Nick, Kendall, Kylie, Kim, Chloe and Courtney, Chris and Caitlin
too Supreme Court justice?
Speaker 1: Now let's stop, don't know any Oh, we got Chloe,
we got Kim we got robbed Jim, Chloe, Courtney, Chris, Kylie, Yeah, Courtney.
Speaker 4: Chloe, Kim, Kendall, Kylie You rob Chris.
Speaker 3: O j O O J lawyer, lawyer, Kardashian, Chloe, Kendall, Kylie.
Speaker 1: Kim, Kim, Chloe, Courtney, Courtney.
Speaker 5: Ro Kim, Chloe, Courtney, Chris all.
Speaker 1: Them, Kaitlyn Kendall, Kate, Caitlyn.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Is Chloe as Courtney's son Mason.
Speaker 2: I do like the Kardashian, so put that on the record.
Supreme Court Justice in the United States remembers, Oh my.
Speaker 6: Gosh, I know I should know this because I entered
in DC.
Speaker 1: If you know something about give me some about basketball.
Speaker 6: This is where I tap out.
Speaker 4: She's a lawyer.
Speaker 7: So we got Clarence Thomas, we got the Kennedy's not
a more.
Speaker 2: We got so to my arm. We got Katanji Jackson Brown,
Katanji Brown, Clarence Thomas.
Speaker 1: The guy that starts with a C.
Speaker 2: I can't believe you don't know this.
Speaker 7: I looking at his face.
Speaker 2: He got accused him, he got accused of rape. Very
stereotypical white Kavanaugh break Kavanaugh. Yeah, yeah, she got me picked.
I don't know he can skip that I just failed it.
Three branches of government.
Speaker 1: Oh, we got your judicial legislative, an executive.
Speaker 6: Branch, yeah, judicial executive, legislature, legislative.
Speaker 2: I'm on juditial executive legislatives. Who is this.
Speaker 1: That looks like, oh, that's all I want to say this?
That is it who just passed?
Speaker 2: That's not the governor of uh Pennsylvania got me? Yeah, yeah,
Pete Bota, the governor of Pennsylvania. And I could even
let that one slide, all right, I mean it's just
Pete Budhajetch, Okay, not a you know, if you're not
really tuned in, you may not know who he is
other than looking at his face. You're like, yeah, that's
that politician. Okay. But there was one guy that rattled
off several Supreme Court justices. Other than that, even the
woman who her friend said was a lawyer couldn't name
a Supreme Court justice. Had the one guy named Clarence Thomas,
who's been a Supreme Court justice longer than anybody else.
And they only knew Brett Cavanaugh because of the date
rape thing. Oh yeah, the guy, the guy that was
charged with date rape. That's that's how they identified Brett Kavanaugh.
Only because he was in the news and had a controversy.
They knew of his name, and they said the guy
with the CEA as you know, Kavanaugh spelled with a K.
All right, real quick before we go to the break, Mark,
is uh holding on Mark? Good afternoon?
Speaker 8: Hey, I speaker phone, So I don't know. A few
weeks back after Thanksgiving, my wife turns it on. I
won't mention the name as station, but it plays nothing
but Christmas music, okay, Thanksgiving till Christmas. And I got
to thinking about it. I said, you know, I just
pulled out my double live Leonard Skinnered and wants to
call it. I'm looking at it one more for the road.
It's got Freebird, the live song. Yeah, I probably haven't
listened to that album in ten years. And I got
to thinking, at my age, if I if I had
that rate, it'll be two more times I get to
hear that. Yet I hear Perry Cueomo sing Chestnuts or
whoever sings it like ten times in a week. And
I said, something intrinsically wrong.
Speaker 2: Does Leonard Skinner have a Christmas song? Is that what
you're saying now?
Speaker 8: I'm just saying the music that I would love to hear.
Speaker 2: Uh huh.
Speaker 8: You know I don't get to you know, creak up
the old record player that much.
Speaker 2: I got you, I got you. Let me let let me,
let me ask you because I have to go to
a breaks. So what, so what is your favorite Christmas song?
Speaker 8: When she starts playing them, I don't think I like
any of them, really, just nuts. I used to imitate that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know what you mean, and we're not going
to say that on the radio, but so so you
don't I mean old school like the class you don't
you don't.
Speaker 8: Like the class music kids is called Leroy Anderson's Christmas
Medal or something.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right.
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Speaker 2: I am Tony Marino in for the vacationing Pete calender.
More than a pleasure for me to be back here
on the Mighty WBT. I used to be the morning
news anchor here a few years back. Loved it back
in Florida. Now I live in Orlando. Phone lines are
open seven oh four five, seven oh one, seven nine.
Ron has been hanging on, as in Ronnie van zandt
Ron what's up?
Speaker 4: Hey?
Speaker 5: How you doing? I just wanted to add the previous
color was talking about Leonard skinnerd and they actually have
a really good Christmas CD. It's been out now for
it's like around twenty years, but it's really good. A
lot of people don't know about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm not a Leonard skinnerd expert by any means,
but I am a big fan of Leonard Skinner. In fact,
the very first time that I saw Leonard SKINNERD in
concert was actually at the Charlotte Motor Speedway a few
years ago, and then I've seen them numerous times since then,
just because they're so good. So if it's about twenty
years old, that's going to be Johnny van zand singing right,
this is oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: And then I just want to add I'll say thirty
eight Special has a good Christmas CD as well as
re Re Speedwagon.
Speaker 2: Oh really yeah, I mean almost almost every band, and
I mean Leonard Skinner is not you know, what you
would call mainstream music, but almost every band that has
that had mainstream top forty ish kind of music, you know,
at some point put out a Christmas album. I was
not aware of Leonard Skinner having a Christmas album. I
am going to have to check that out. Rio Speedwagon,
I you know, Kevin Cronin is just I think probably
one of the best, the best vocalists ever. Whether you
like that band or not, I'm just a fan.
Speaker 5: One thing I like about Yeah, he's really good. But
one thing I like about the CDs, And there's there's
several more, like you said, by other bands. But all
of these bands they put they put some originals in
there and put a little different twist on it, so
you get a little different version, you know, something a
little bit different, you know, for holiday music.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's I mean, it's literally the easiest way
for any singer to make money, right. Uh, it doesn't
matter how many albums you have or or if you're
a one hit wonder, you put out a Christmas song
or a Christmas album. I mean, it's the easiest way
to possibly make money. But if it is a if
it is an artist that you like or a band
that you like, you know you're going to you're going
to enjoy it. And like you said, they take some
of the classics and they put their own spin on it.
It's always it's always fun. So what's your what if
you had if you had to pick your favorite Christmas song,
would it be one of those or would it be
one of the classics.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean I like a lot of the classics,
you know, but I mean we've just we've heard those all,
you know so much, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, our whole life, right right.
Speaker 5: I mean all right, but but yeah, I mean, like
I said, a lot of the a lot of these
versions are are different ones. I will I will add
this real quick one interesting And you might think this
band would have it, but the old eighties band Twisted
Sister actually has a really good Christmas c D H.
Speaker 2: Yeah that.
Speaker 3: They do.
Speaker 5: Oh come, oh you faithful and the music sounds just
like we're not going to take you.
Speaker 2: Oh really? Yeah? That yeah, D Snyder D Snyder really different.
I I I bet it is. And that and that
that goes to your point as well. There are you know,
there are so many bands that have put out Christmas
albums with their own version of the classics or their
own or in some cases original Christmas music. And unless
you're a real big fan of that band, you know,
you just don't know about it. All right, Ron, thanks
for the phone call, really appreciate it. Yeah you have
on you too. Merry Christmas to you and your family,
and enjoy the music. Ron makes a valid Ron makes
a valid point that you know, we've been hearing the
same classics for decades, but fortunately we only hear them
for you know, like a month out of the year,
so they don't ever seem to get worn out. I'm
not sure of the name, but I know somebody Jerry Jerry.
Good afternoon, Sarah. Thanks for calling.
Speaker 7: Hey, Tony, I just wanted to say that I think
it's gonna be great for all those kids that got
those bikes from the John Hancock Bike Drive that on
Christmas morning they can go out ride their bikes all
day long.
Speaker 2: Oh, without a doubt. You know, when I worked at
WBT a few years ago, the very first handcock Bikes
for Kids event that I participated in was one of
the best, one of the best holiday events or children's
Christmas events that I had participated in among you know,
many radio stations that I had worked at over the years.
It is. It's a fantastic event, and out of all
the things, right, there's nothing, there's nothing better than getting
a bike for a kid.
Speaker 7: That's right, That's exactly right. I'm sixty five. I remember
getting a bike as a kid and it was just
I grew up up north and it was snowing all
the time. But the kids down here, I've been here
forty years. I'm very happy they get to go out
and ride their new bikes on Christmas Day.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for the call, Jerry. Thanks for reminding
everyone of the Hancock Bike for Kids event. It is
a phenomenal event. I don't know how many bikes were
collected this year, but I know it's, you know, in
the triple digits, and that does so so much for
so many kids in the community. And of all the
toys you can get, especially now, you know with video games,
if you ask ten kids what they want for Christmas,
like eight or nine of them is going to be
some kind of video game or computer game or something.
But nothing like getting a bike and getting out there
to ride. And it's sort of even, you know, he
mentioned Jerry mentioned he was from up north. If you
get a bike for Christmas and it's freezing cold, you
can't ride it for a month or two, that kind
of builds the excitement for it as well. You can't
wait to get out there and ride your Christmas bike.
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Speaker 2: Offer and I we're gonna go right back to the phones.
Seven oh four five seven one, seven nine. Susan has
been holding on since the break. Susan, good afternoon, Hello,
Merry Christmas to you. Thanks for calling.
Speaker 4: Oh do we have a bad connection.
Speaker 2: I don't think so, It's just that I'm not actually
in the studio. You may have a slight delay on
your end of the flow.
Speaker 4: You're very faint, Okay. All I was gonna say is,
like a lot of Christians, I appreciate all of the
old charrels that we've all grown up with, but the
ones that I don't hear anymore is a modern one
that was called War Is Over by John Lennon. I
haven't heard it in years, and it's a really great
song for the world. I think I am.
Speaker 2: I am somewhat familiar with that song, and I I
can't place the last time I've heard it, but I'm
gonna say it's not that maybe last Christmas season or
the season really Oh that's great.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think it's also called War is Over
to some people.
Speaker 2: I guess it's right, right, right, But it's a great song,
so would you say that's your favorite Christmas song, or
you're just disappointed you don't.
Speaker 4: Get to hear the favorite modern Yeah.
Speaker 2: Right, okay, and that's what we were talking about. See
you said that's your favorite modern Christmas song. That's what
I was saying. Or yeah, that's what I was saying earlier.
It's too hard to pick just one. You have to say,
what's your favorite from the classics, and what's your favorite
you know, like you can roll Christmas song or what genre.
You know, you have to go by genres.
Speaker 4: Just the old you know, white Christmas and carols of
bells and all of those. Right, those are all just
their standards. I mean, they really are.
Speaker 2: But I don't know if you were listening a little
bit earlier. Did you hear the story earlier in the
program about the mayor of mullin South Carolina, If you're
familiar with that small town, South Carolina, the mayor. The
mayor told the people in charge of the city's Christmas
decorations to take down the Nativity scene. Oh no, yeah,
because he thought that other residents in the community of
other religions might be offended.
Speaker 4: He's got to be kidding me. That's what I scale
Christian civilization. I mean, at least in the Western hemisphere
as far as final unless they change something while I
was asleep.
Speaker 2: Well, not not only that, but you know here in America,
you are you are welcome to celebrate whatever, whatever you celebrate.
You know, you're exactly You're welcome to follow whatever religion
you follow, and celebrate whatever you celebrate. And this is
the mayor. This is the mayor of the town. They
have a committee that's in charge, like they call it
the beautification committee.
Speaker 4: Oh, he should be glad I don't live there. He vote.
Speaker 2: Well, well, he's been getting pretty well jammed up in
the media and you know from from residents of the county,
from the city's wonderful.
Speaker 4: But remember that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they refused, they refused to take the woman
that's in charge of it all. She refused to down
the Nativity.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at least he's not in Charlotte and putting up
for the stuff we have to put erate.
Speaker 2: Right, even Vye Lyles wouldn't do that, right.
Speaker 4: Don't like don't like that rocket under me? No, I
got about a million pounds of thrust where.
Speaker 2: She's Oh okay, all right, you and me, both you
and me, both thank you for the thank you for
the phone call. Susan great speaking with.
Speaker 4: Oh, welcome, have a blessed holiday and you.
Speaker 2: Okay, you two, thank you so much, all right seven
four five seven one seven nine seven o four five
seven oh one oh seven nine uh. In the news casts,
Brandon Dixon has been playing the story about the announcement
that President Trump made yesterday concerning the aircraft carriers. I'm
going to play the the the entire announcement that he made.
The president is we and the White House calendar, the
official White House calendar had no scheduled events on the calendar,
as it does again today Tuesday, December twenty third. President
has no public events scheduled. There is out of town
media at marra a Lago, which is always the case
when he's there because you never know when he's just
gonna pop up with a surprise news conference like yesterday.
And this is what he had to say in.
Speaker 6: Full, and these are the best in the world. It
will be the fastest, the biggest, and by far one
hundred times more powerful than any battleship ever built. So
if you look at the Iowa, the Missouri, Wisconsin, Alabama,
and others, but they were similar in size. Some are
a little bit bigger than the others, but if you
take the biggest one, it's one hundred times more powerful.
Speaker 2: They are longer by.
Speaker 6: A little bit, and they're bigger. They're bigger ships, but
they hold much more.
Speaker 2: They use the word lethality.
Speaker 6: Battleships are the largest, sturdiest, and most armed vessel built
specifically for naval combat. While America has built many new
warships over the years, they've they've tended to be smaller
and much smaller and not conducive to where we are
and where we're going and peace, restrength. But including we've
been building aircraft carriers, we're going to be upping that also.
We're going to be going to a superior aircraft. We
have the Ford class.
Speaker 2: We're going to be upping that to a.
Speaker 6: Different class of aircraft carrier.
Speaker 2: And we haven't built the.
Speaker 6: Battleship since nineteen ninety four. These cutting edge vessels will
be some of the most lethal surface warfare ships. It
will be actually the most ever built.
Speaker 2: Other than our submarines.
Speaker 6: We have submarines, which we'll have in many ways even
more lethality, and we have many of them under construction.
Each one of these will be the largest battleship in
the history of our country, the largest battleship.
Speaker 2: In the history of the world ever built.
Speaker 6: And again it's one hundred times more powerful than the
previous Iowa class it's called. Those are the big ones
that you'd see on a show Victory at Sea. I
don't know if anyone seeing Victory at Sea, but it.
Speaker 2: Was a classic.
Speaker 6: They'll help maintain American military supremacy, revive the American shipbuilding industry,
and inspire fear in America's enemies all over the world.
Speaker 2: We want respect, We're going to have it.
Speaker 6: We already have it more respected now.
Speaker 2: Than we ever were. A year and a half ago,
they laughed at us.
Speaker 6: Now they respect us again at levels that they've never
respected us. We envisioned that these two ships. We're talking
about ten, but we're going to start with two, and
we're going to quickly morph into ten, and ultimately we
think it's going to be anywhere from twenty to twenty
five of these.
Speaker 2: To twenty five aircraft carriers. He didn't indicate how many
billions of dollars. At this point, it's got to cost
a billion, couple of billion maybe to build an aircraft carrier.
I don't know, but uh, with Secretary of War Pete
Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio by his side.
That was President Trump in a surprise news conference from
Mara a Lago yesterday and again no scheduled events today,
but I'm guessing that Rubio and Hegseth are still there
at Mari A Lago with him, so you never know
what's going to come out.
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