Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Hey, good eaven than Chris Merril KFI AM six forty
Speaker 2: more stimulating talk. As we keep talking about what's happening
Speaker 2: in Iran or happened in Iran? We we mean the
Speaker 2: United States wrapped the bombs on the nuclear facilities, three
Speaker 2: nuclear facilities in Iran.
Speaker 3: Question is is that all of them?
Speaker 2: Did we get everything? Are they still enriching? Do they
Speaker 2: have more stuff going on elsewhere? These are all questions
Speaker 2: that are unanswered, and we're hoping that our intelligence.
Speaker 3: Is good and that we don't have to worry about it.
Speaker 3: They executed what they called Operation Midnight Hammer. Hey, Heather Brooker,
Speaker 3: Ry Show.
Speaker 4: Heather, Hello, happy to be here.
Speaker 3: Are you familiar with Operation Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 5: You know, I was just writing a story about that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's such a like that's such a dramatic name like that.
Speaker 3: I know, it's so good.
Speaker 4: It's so good.
Speaker 5: It's like, are like this is going to be a
Speaker 5: movie one day, Operation Hammer.
Speaker 3: We're just good at naming things. We are.
Speaker 4: We really are.
Speaker 6: Operation Midnight Hammer, starring Sylvester Stallone as President Trump.
Speaker 3: No President. Yeah, Oh that's very good.
Speaker 4: Yes, John Cina as Pete Hagsatt.
Speaker 3: Oh, I love the casting.
Speaker 4: This is so good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 4: It's who else we got in there?
Speaker 3: Who who plays Marco Rubio?
Speaker 4: I was just thinking that.
Speaker 3: I was like, Michael, Sarah, Michael, just throw a.
Speaker 4: Little little stunt cat little twist in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just like a hey, guys, we're really serious about this.
Speaker 3: Guys, it's totally serious. I must see.
Speaker 2: Definitely blowback in Congress from both sides. And this is
Speaker 2: one of the things that Trump had to weigh as
Speaker 2: far as the calculus of, you know, how much political
Speaker 2: capital can he use? The president is so good at
Speaker 2: not expending political capital. Here's a guy that can say
Speaker 2: one thing and then say the exact opposite thing, and
Speaker 2: somehow people.
Speaker 3: Are like, oh, he's so good at that.
Speaker 2: Here's a guy that can endorse two people in the
Speaker 2: same race when he's when he's handing out these endorsements,
Speaker 2: and people are like, uh, it's a brilliant move.
Speaker 3: He just picked the winner. Well he also picked a loser. Ah,
Speaker 3: he's so smart.
Speaker 2: He doesn't burn through political capital. Nobody goes, my god,
Speaker 2: he's he's just endorsing willy nilly. They don't say that
Speaker 2: they go, he's so smart, So does this burn political capital?
Speaker 2: Because he said, We're not going to get involved in
Speaker 2: foreign wars. We're not gonna get involved in anymore endless
Speaker 2: war in the Middle East. He took on a more
Speaker 2: isolationist polysinist campaign. He was backed by Tucker Carlson and
Speaker 2: by Steve Bannon and others who are very isolationists, and
Speaker 2: then he was proactive in dropping bombs in in Iran.
Speaker 3: Tucker Carlson if you missed it. This week he ripped into.
Speaker 2: Ted Cruz on his own podcast because he's got a podcast.
Speaker 2: Everybody he's got a podcast. He's one of the he's
Speaker 2: one of the rare people that have their own podcast.
Speaker 2: And he was ripping Ted Cruz because he said, Ted Cruz,
Speaker 2: do you even know what the population of Iran is?
Speaker 2: And he's like, I don't know what the population. He goes,
Speaker 2: how could you not know that? You're so stupid? And
Speaker 2: Ted Cruz goes, I don't need to know. I just
Speaker 2: need to know that they're riching uranium. And he goes,
Speaker 2: you know what you need to know about the country
Speaker 2: that you're bombing? Uh, And then we've all learned it
Speaker 2: was ninety two million people that live in Iran who knew.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: Trump actually fired back at Tucker Carlson. And now there's
Speaker 2: this question of uh, oh, are we pro Tucker Carlson
Speaker 2: MAGA or we pro Trump MAGA.
Speaker 3: So Trump said that the Tucker Carlson was, uh, what
Speaker 3: was a freezy? Kookie said he was cookie? He said
Speaker 3: he's Kookie Tucker.
Speaker 2: Uh, somebody, this was on his he was on his
Speaker 2: truth socials. He said, somebody please explain to Kookie Tucker
Speaker 2: Carlson that Iran cannot have.
Speaker 3: A nuclear weapon.
Speaker 2: He says, I don't know what Tucker Carlson is saying.
Speaker 2: So he's not happy with Tucker Carlson. But Tucker Carlson
Speaker 2: has been a voice of MAGA for a decade except
Speaker 2: when his uh private tweets come out and then we
Speaker 2: find out he's not a huge fan. As far as
Speaker 2: the Democrats, who all keep saying, well, you have to
Speaker 2: have congressional approval, How could you do this without congressional approval?
Speaker 2: That seems to be the Democratic message right now. The
Speaker 2: Democrats are all concerned that they didn't have congressional approval.
Speaker 2: They're not necessarily opposed to what happened, but they're opposed
Speaker 2: to Trump doing it right. So they have to figure
Speaker 2: out how do we make Trump wrong in this and
Speaker 2: so they said, well, he did this without congressional approval
Speaker 2: and that was just wrong.
Speaker 3: Well, we all know.
Speaker 2: That's not how it works. We've been around, we know
Speaker 2: that's not how it works. We know that we've had
Speaker 2: presidents from both sides of the Aisle that have taken
Speaker 2: unilateral action without consent of Congress, which hasn't happened since
Speaker 2: World War Two. And yet somehow we had Korea and
Speaker 2: Vietnam and Iraq one, Iraq two, Afghanistan, all the other missions,
Speaker 2: Syria during Trump's first term, everything that Clinton got involved
Speaker 2: in Obama.
Speaker 3: It's all happened. It's all happened.
Speaker 2: And so now the Democrats are sort of saying, well,
Speaker 2: you can't do that without approval. Rocanna Democrat California. Of course,
Speaker 2: we need to immediately return to DC and vote on
Speaker 2: Representative Thomas Massey mass He's a Republican, Thomas Massey's and
Speaker 2: my War Powers Resolution to prevent America from being dragged
Speaker 2: into another endless Middle East war. Massi's a libertarian. He
Speaker 2: breaks with Trump oftentimes. Trump said he wants to primary
Speaker 2: Massy and Massey said this is not constitutional. They're all
Speaker 2: worked up over the Constitution now as far as is
Speaker 2: it constitutional. Senior Justice Department officials saying President to Trump,
Speaker 2: in consultation with the White House Counsul and the Justice Department,
Speaker 2: conducting the strikes against Iran under his Article two constitutional powers.
Speaker 2: They state the president had has broad authority to order
Speaker 2: the use of military force and advance other national interests
Speaker 2: under Article two of the Constitution, but Article one gives
Speaker 2: Congress the authority to declare war. In other words, you
Speaker 2: can do a little bit, but you can't go full
Speaker 2: out war, unless, of course, you just keep calling it
Speaker 2: a conflict, and then you're allowed to keep doing as
Speaker 2: much as you want, which is what we've done.
Speaker 3: For the last eighty years. Hey, Chris, enjoy the show.
Speaker 8: It's always a good time.
Speaker 3: This from our talkback.
Speaker 2: By the way, if you're on the iHeartRadio app, you
Speaker 2: just click that talkback button and it was your thoughts
Speaker 2: on what you're hearing. You think this is a one
Speaker 2: and done situation that Iran knows better than to retaliate,
Speaker 2: or are you afraid this is just the beginning.
Speaker 3: That's my concern.
Speaker 8: Hey, one thing you haven't really commented on was the
Speaker 8: cost of this operation. This isn't really a complaint. I'm
Speaker 8: just throwing it out there. The rough estimate from what
Speaker 8: I'm reading is about six hundred million, and the Bunker
Speaker 8: Busters alone or five hundred million. Wow, So it's pretty wild.
Speaker 8: It's a good thing we're out in debt or anything.
Speaker 8: All right, take care, all right, thanks man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, warrying cheap. But here's what I want
Speaker 2: you to keep in mind. We just fired a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of people. So look at I mean, Elon Musk
Speaker 2: just saved us two trillion dollars, so we got plenty
Speaker 2: of spare now.
Speaker 9: One and done for three and a half years, and
Speaker 9: then if a Democrat gets in office, it'll be like
Speaker 9: the late seventies when Jimmy Carter was in office. The
Speaker 9: Iranian has just walked all over him. He screwed up
Speaker 9: the rescue of the embassy hostages. And then as soon
Speaker 9: as Reagan was inaugurated, they let him go because they
Speaker 9: knew Reagan was gonna be like Trump is now. They
Speaker 9: were gonna basically have their butt handed to him.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's one theory on how that whole thing
Speaker 3: played out. Okay, all right, uh more from the talkback.
Speaker 10: You know what, Chris, I think what is most scarious
Speaker 10: about all this. Everyone thinks that the United States is untouchable.
Speaker 10: No one could come and get us until we're touchable.
Speaker 10: And what Trump just tweeted out or whatever. The betues
Speaker 10: just landed in Missouri. Now everyone knows where he marked
Speaker 10: these things.
Speaker 2: Oh that's never been a secret. I mean, it's like
Speaker 2: the worst kept secret. I think that's a major shoot.
Speaker 2: Everyone thinks no one could touch us and till we're touched.
Speaker 3: God. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now they've been at wit An Air Force Base for
Speaker 2: a long time. Anybody in the Missouri area Midwest, they
Speaker 2: know where those are parked.
Speaker 3: I maybe was.
Speaker 2: It one of those things where you weren't supposed to know,
Speaker 2: but everybody knew. I worked there, everybody knew. It was
Speaker 2: not really a secret.
Speaker 11: Hey there.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm not worried about this Middle Eastern thing at
Speaker 12: all because the moas over there are insane and the
Speaker 12: people are not. They will capitulate and uh yeah, and
Speaker 12: it won't be a thing.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 12: Obama put boots on the ground. Clinton put boots on
Speaker 12: the ground. Trump has never done that yet. So there's
Speaker 12: that and touching on ice real quick. Remember when the
Speaker 12: Newsom shut down the entire economy and put all those
Speaker 12: people out of business.
Speaker 7: Uh huh uh.
Speaker 3: That felt like a detour there at the end, didn't it.
Speaker 3: It felt detoury, didn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 2: No way, okay, but yeah, maybe you're right. Maybe you're
Speaker 2: right about boots on the ground. Maybe you're right about
Speaker 2: not escalating. Maybe you're right. I hope you are.
Speaker 13: Papa uh Mau Mau is the beach boy.
Speaker 5: Papa mao kayla, Papa u mo Papa.
Speaker 4: I thought it was the Oakridge Boys.
Speaker 3: There's another Papa mo mo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of.
Speaker 3: That's it. That's the Oukage Boys.
Speaker 4: I thought a little bit about our Operation Midnight Hammer. Okay.
Speaker 4: Jason Statham as Stephen Miller.
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, that's all they got.
Speaker 4: Close, No, all right?
Speaker 6: Nick Nolty as Steve Bannon, Yes, one hundred, yes, that's good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then we gotta do I get I can't make
Speaker 5: myself lap. Melissa McCarthy as Caroline Lovett.
Speaker 4: Uh, just we gotta have some comedic something in there.
Speaker 4: Come on.
Speaker 2: Uh, by the way, a surfing bird and that's a
Speaker 2: trash man Okay.
Speaker 4: Too much, You're a trash.
Speaker 2: I'm confusing everything right, Yes, that's my thank you for
Speaker 2: saving us on the bad music thing.
Speaker 3: I still love the ochreage boys. Uh yeah, back to
Speaker 3: Melissa McCarthy and Susan Wilds. I'll give you that.
Speaker 4: Oh all right, we can do Susan Wilds.
Speaker 3: I was just thinking Canon maybe is uh cal.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I would watch this, guys. This movie is gonna do
Speaker 5: Gangbusters fire. This is the next blockbuster of twenty thirty.
Speaker 3: I can say he's gonna bring this is gonna bring
Speaker 3: filmmaking back to LA That's what it's gonna do.
Speaker 5: Listen, so Trump listens to KFI, so I know he's
Speaker 5: listening right now, going hold on, are they reading my mind?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because this is brilliant.
Speaker 4: This is brilliant. I would like a writer.
Speaker 3: No one's come to me with a script this good
Speaker 3: in forever. Very excited about it.
Speaker 4: One big beautiful movie.
Speaker 3: I that of the other poster. Yeah.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 2: More of your thoughts on the talk back and if
Speaker 2: many of you have lots of thoughts and I can't
Speaker 2: wait to hear what else you're thinking here? Do you
Speaker 2: think this is a one and done situation with the
Speaker 2: bombing in Iran, or do you think perhaps just the beginning.
Speaker 3: That's my concern and my other concern.
Speaker 2: I've mentioned this a few times during the program tonight,
Speaker 2: if you're just joining us. My other concern is this,
Speaker 2: we have a couple of very high profile events coming
Speaker 2: to the United States. Specifically, we have the Olympics coming
Speaker 2: to LA That feels like a target. But I also
Speaker 2: know that our own security understands it's a massive target,
Speaker 2: and I know security is big lead around these massive events,
Speaker 2: and that's why we haven't seen anything go awry at
Speaker 2: a super Bowl. We did have an issue at the
Speaker 2: Olympics in Atlanta in ninety six. I don't think that
Speaker 2: that's going to be a situation that Iran can can replicate.
Speaker 2: Totally different scenario when you had a lone wolf whido
Speaker 2: and Eric Rudolph versus, you know, state sponsored even if
Speaker 2: it's clandestine. I don't think it would be the same situation.
Speaker 2: But it's still fresh in our minds for us old people.
Speaker 2: Kayla wasn't even born yet. She doesn't remember that, but
Speaker 2: I do. And so these are the things that I
Speaker 2: worry about based on experience, but also more recent experiences.
Speaker 2: All of these events have been incredibly safe. It doesn't
Speaker 2: take that fear out of the back.
Speaker 3: Of my mind. Cares about your thoughts.
Speaker 2: On the iHeart Radio, I hit that talkback button and
Speaker 2: we are live everywhere on the iHeart Radio APPPP.
Speaker 3: This is not the oom Papa mau Mau. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: Chris Marril pou more stimulating pub boom popa mau mau.
Speaker 3: We're talking about. We're talking about the Oakridge Boys.
Speaker 2: We have the Olkreage Boys on next week, right five
Speaker 2: point thirty next week, join us for the Oakreage Boys.
Speaker 3: And there's this question about the the Papa.
Speaker 2: Come to find out everybody was doing a song about
Speaker 2: Papa um mau mau or um Papa mau mau or
Speaker 2: Papa Papa mout whatever it was.
Speaker 3: This is what I'm talking about. Yeah right, yeah, here
Speaker 3: it is ba boom.
Speaker 4: Yes fingers song.
Speaker 3: Isn't that great? That's a classic cat never heard that?
Speaker 5: Who can Well, she's young, she's a young and I'm
Speaker 5: an oldie from the Midwest, so like that.
Speaker 4: I feel like was a staple on the radio.
Speaker 2: This is what I told Cale, I said nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 2: Chris is very excited about this, about having the Okraage
Speaker 2: boys on.
Speaker 4: Wait.
Speaker 5: Wait, that's how the conversation came up. I must have
Speaker 5: missed why you're talking about them.
Speaker 3: They're gonna be on with us next week.
Speaker 4: You stop it right now.
Speaker 3: You're gonna have to be here for it.
Speaker 4: That's amazing.
Speaker 5: While I'm not Brigitta will be back next week. I'm
Speaker 5: getting the boot, but that's so awesome.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 5: Wait I get the war and protest in La burning
Speaker 5: and Brigitta gets the Oakridge boy.
Speaker 4: I mean, bump, this is not fair, not.
Speaker 3: Fair, Brigita. Yep, all right?
Speaker 2: Uh hey Brooker uh more from the talk back line
Speaker 2: and some people had some other thoughts too about your
Speaker 2: movie casting.
Speaker 3: For Operation Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 2: So that's still to come here, but briefly, your thoughts
Speaker 2: on what's happening with the bombing and Iran. You think
Speaker 2: it's a one and done situation, like Iran knows better
Speaker 2: too than to retaliate, or is this just the beginning.
Speaker 7: I believe Iran will be more than determined to follow
Speaker 7: the North Korean model and develop a Adam Baum.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think maybe right for.
Speaker 7: Deterrent, they'll never want to be attacked again.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Secondly, we've never won a war just with their power alone.
Speaker 7: We've always had to put boots on the ground. And thirdly,
Speaker 7: where's our coalition of allies in case that does happen?
Speaker 7: Or are we only depending on.
Speaker 2: I think right now we're depending on Israel. I think
Speaker 2: that's that's the concern. Yeah, good questions, really good.
Speaker 11: Questions, Chris. It's urned in Redondo. Hey listen.
Speaker 15: Yes, we do know that Iran violated their nuclear treaty.
Speaker 15: The IAEA pointed their violations out to the UN many times,
Speaker 15: but the UN never did anything. And then Obama put
Speaker 15: that deal together with the seven year Sunset, and then
Speaker 15: forty five came along and put an end to that
Speaker 15: the first time.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, more of your thoughts on the
Speaker 2: talkback if you're listening on the iHeart radio app.
Speaker 3: Just hit that talkback button, Hey.
Speaker 11: Burn in Redondo.
Speaker 16: Oh, So forty five comes along and says, nope, we're
Speaker 16: not having any more of that because the UN would
Speaker 16: do nothing to sanctioned Iran. So forty five sanctioned Irene
Speaker 16: and crippled them economically so that they couldn't have the
Speaker 16: military that they were able to build under Biden.
Speaker 11: Right, and then a long times forty seven and said, I'm.
Speaker 4: Sorry that must let the crats. He did it at
Speaker 4: the very end too, multiply.
Speaker 3: At the end.
Speaker 11: Yeah, from New Hampshire.
Speaker 3: Sorry from New Hampshift.
Speaker 11: Hopefully it's a one and done.
Speaker 2: But if it's not, and any keliate, I'm getting it'll
Speaker 2: be a true is done.
Speaker 3: All right? Kind of with you on that.
Speaker 2: I do think tactically speaking, it would not be wise
Speaker 2: for a Ran to retaliate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 11: Hey, Chris, it's Vern and Reeve Dondo.
Speaker 2: Okay, Vern, I can't keep doing it, Okay, Caylee know more, Vern,
Speaker 2: he swears.
Speaker 13: Here's my thoughts about Iran. I feel that it's not
Speaker 13: wanting done. I think that they will want to say
Speaker 13: face to their citizens and not stand down. But I
Speaker 13: also think that we don't know what other bad fellows
Speaker 13: they may have. That's true China, Russia, we really don't.
Speaker 3: Know, You're right, Sore.
Speaker 13: I just think we have to take it day by
Speaker 13: day again, great show.
Speaker 3: Thanks, I appreciate that. I think you're right, we don't know.
Speaker 2: I should I should rephrase that I don't know who
Speaker 2: they're bedfellows are I'm relying on our intelligence community to
Speaker 2: know that stuff, and I have more faith in them
Speaker 2: than I do with whatever I can glean from the internet.
Speaker 2: You know, I have far more faith in our intelligence
Speaker 2: gathering community. But also I know that the intelligence gathering
Speaker 2: community can't catch everything. We know this because we have
Speaker 2: you know, lone wolf attacks, or we have assassination attempts
Speaker 2: on the president.
Speaker 3: I mean, these things do slip through the cracks.
Speaker 2: I just know that the intelligence community has far fewer
Speaker 2: cracks for things to slip through than.
Speaker 3: My own limited knowledge of what's going on.
Speaker 2: More of your thoughts on this, and again, if you're
Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app, just click that talkback button.
Speaker 3: Let us know.
Speaker 2: You got thirty seconds unless you're the dude from Redondo
Speaker 2: and then you're banned for the week. Wow, that's the
Speaker 2: first time we banned anybody.
Speaker 3: Kayla, Yeah, messed up everybody, that's right. Let's forget your
Speaker 3: back on that.
Speaker 2: If they ask what happened, I'll say, Kayla did it,
Speaker 2: but we banned the guy as a result.
Speaker 3: So thanks Chris saving me. Yep? All right?
Speaker 2: Is it a one and done or is this just
Speaker 2: the beginning? Your thoughts next? Chris Meryl Cafi AM six
Speaker 2: forty were live everywhere in the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2: Chris Meryl Cafi AM six forty more stimulating talk, can
Speaker 2: I demand anytime and the iHeartRadio app. Will we see
Speaker 2: any sort of retaliation from Iran after the United States
Speaker 2: sends our stealth bombers there and we wipe out three
Speaker 2: of their nuclear facilities? Iran says, oh, this can't go unanswered.
Speaker 2: The United States says, that would be a tragic mistake
Speaker 2: on your part if you did.
Speaker 17: And while the President says he believes the bombing will
Speaker 17: effectively lead to an end to the war between Israel
Speaker 17: and Iran, Iranian leadership says every American soldier and sailor
Speaker 17: in the region is now a target. Joint Chiefs Chairman
Speaker 17: Dan Kane, speaking at the Pentagon this morning on what's
Speaker 17: ahead for the US.
Speaker 18: Our forces remain on high alert and are fully postured
Speaker 18: to respond to any Iranian retaliation or proxy attacks, which
Speaker 18: would be an incredibly poor choice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2: The proxy attacks are worried about, are some of those
Speaker 2: terrorist groups from Austin Hesbal.
Speaker 18: We will defend ourselves. The safety of our service members
Speaker 18: and civilians remains our highest priority.
Speaker 17: Several members of Congress on both sides of the aisle
Speaker 17: are questioning the legality of the president's move to launch
Speaker 17: an attack on a run.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Democrats and one Republican.
Speaker 17: So I'm suggesting it was unconstitutional for him to initiate
Speaker 17: an act of war without congressional approval.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't.
Speaker 2: That's going to go nowhere. It's going to go nowhere.
Speaker 2: Your thoughts, and we're always curious about what you think,
Speaker 2: and that's why we've got to talk back.
Speaker 19: What's Trump going to do when Putin gives Iran nuclear weapons?
Speaker 3: I don't know. That's a big question. Yeah, that needs
Speaker 3: to be answered.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't know if it's gonna be Putin.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's gonna be Kim Jong Un.
Speaker 2: I don't know if anybody who's gonna be bold enough
Speaker 2: to give nuclear weapons to Iran, and then would Iran
Speaker 2: actually be bold enough to try to use a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 3: These are the.
Speaker 2: Fears that we have ever since Oppenheimer came up with
Speaker 2: this brainbuster idea to let's create there's a massive weapon.
Speaker 3: Uh, it was inevitable.
Speaker 2: I don't know that anybody is gonna be bold enough
Speaker 2: to use it, but if there is, it's somebody who's unhinged,
Speaker 2: and somebody.
Speaker 3: Who deeply, deeply hates us.
Speaker 2: The Western world deeply hates the Western World and believes
Speaker 2: that we are not only an existential threat, but a
Speaker 2: threat to all things in the afterlife as well. They
Speaker 2: see us not as just a threat to them and
Speaker 2: their civility, but a threat to all the things that
Speaker 2: they hold greater to a greater degree than their own lives.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: It's sort of like when the United States was fighting
Speaker 2: for freedom or Braveheart was fighting for freedom. In either case,
Speaker 2: it wasn't about my life. It was about the greater cause.
Speaker 2: And that's where I get concerned. If you have these
Speaker 2: people who say this isn't about us, this isn't about
Speaker 2: the survival of Iran. This is about the greater cause,
Speaker 2: the destruction of the evilest empire that is the United States.
Speaker 3: That's what worries me.
Speaker 1: Hey, Chris Robin NOSEI I feel you.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say ding dong, how about for you?
Speaker 7: You go banga ray.
Speaker 3: Bangor ray how's that bangeray?
Speaker 11: For Chris?
Speaker 3: A great job buddy, Thank you, pal. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you missed it earlier, someone gave me a
Speaker 2: ding gong, and I love that.
Speaker 3: We're sealing Tim Conway's tagling.
Speaker 11: Hey, Chris, you don't that's great, He's for you. This
Speaker 11: is angela.
Speaker 20: I don't know much about politics, but follow the money.
Speaker 20: Followed the money always always. Defense is the third item
Speaker 20: on the budget, more expensive after Medicare, Medicaire, social Security,
Speaker 20: and then defense.
Speaker 15: Uh this is uh yeah, yeah, So you think we
Speaker 15: got to spend the money because we we allocated it.
Speaker 7: Maybe I believe that Iran is going to use the
Speaker 7: North Korea model of developing nuclear capability so they're never
Speaker 7: attacked again. Secondly, we've never won a war yet just
Speaker 7: with air power.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, deterrence. And then do we want to have
Speaker 2: boots on the ground. Do we want to actually put
Speaker 2: people in harm's way? Not so sure we want to
Speaker 2: do that. That would be very much to the contrary
Speaker 2: of everything that Trump ran on in the campaign saying
Speaker 2: we're not going to be involving ourselves in foreign wars,
Speaker 2: more isolationist, which is why he's had a lot of
Speaker 2: people questioning this decision. The Tucker Carlson's, the Steve Bannons,
Speaker 2: the Marjorie Taylor Greens have said, this isn't what you promised,
Speaker 2: but he says, no, No, what I'm promising is America First.
Speaker 2: I will protect and defend America, and that means making
Speaker 2: sure the Ryan doesn't have nuclear weapons?
Speaker 3: So can you have both things? I mean, isn't that
Speaker 3: isn't what he's saying.
Speaker 2: Ultimately, what every president has said that has intervened internationally
Speaker 2: is that I'm doing this for our own security. And
Speaker 2: yet the isolation is say, don't right.
Speaker 11: Here, here's my pitch.
Speaker 3: Okay, Tom Cruise, Oh this is for you, Heather. This
Speaker 3: is for your Operation Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 19: The movie Tom Cruise, Top Gun three, Operation Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 3: Perfect. There you go on that Love.
Speaker 2: It wasn't the wasn't the Top Gun, Maverick. Wasn't that
Speaker 2: a target in Iran?
Speaker 4: I believe it was?
Speaker 5: And they had to do like this, Stell. It was
Speaker 5: literally almost like what we just did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, except that the weird thing was that they had
Speaker 2: to use antiquated equipment in order to do it certain
Speaker 2: they wouldn't be detected.
Speaker 5: A weird We only have these old planes that can
Speaker 5: maneuver these these tiny, these tiny mountain.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like Scorsese saying, listen, guys, I got
Speaker 2: an idea. I'm only gonna shoot on VHS. It's the
Speaker 2: only way that we can pull this off.
Speaker 4: And everyone's using a newsy.
Speaker 11: Chris.
Speaker 21: We're good at naming things. Have you forgotten Operation wet Back?
Speaker 3: No, I don't think that was a very good name. No,
Speaker 3: thank you.
Speaker 2: You're right that one did not stand the test of time.
Speaker 2: You are correct on that very good, which.
Speaker 3: Is why we went to cooler names, Operation Midnight Hammer.
Speaker 19: I'm not sure there is a cost that becomes too
Speaker 19: expensive to protect the United States of America from Iran
Speaker 19: having nuclear weapons.
Speaker 3: I mean, I hear you, I do, I hear you.
Speaker 2: But then we also complain about the war in Afghanistan
Speaker 2: costing US two trillion dollars or four trillion, however much
Speaker 2: it cost us. What did we get out of it?
Speaker 2: So that's the question, like what is the endgame with Iran?
Speaker 2: If you're going to spend the money, and you say, well,
Speaker 2: to stop them from having a nuclear weapon, it's going
Speaker 2: to keep us safe. I mean, that was why we
Speaker 2: did Afghanistan, Like, well, we have to root out to
Speaker 2: el Kaieda and then we'll be safe. But last I
Speaker 2: checked al Qaida, still round ice infecty've grown And what
Speaker 2: do we got to show for two trillion dollars? A
Speaker 2: lot of caskets with American flags draped over them. So yeah, there,
Speaker 2: we do have to start weighing the cost and the
Speaker 2: goals and all those other things.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, Chris, get it right.
Speaker 15: Oh it was Willy Wonka and the chocolate fact.
Speaker 11: Come on, everybody knows that.
Speaker 3: There you go, I got that wrong. You're right? Was
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Speaker 22: Charlie Daniels volunteer, Jam okay, good dudes, good singers.
Speaker 3: Well, good news.
Speaker 2: They're going to be on with us next week. So
Speaker 2: I'm excited to have the Oakreage Boys. Well, Okreage boy
Speaker 2: William Lee Golden is gonna be on with us next week,
Speaker 2: so I'm pretty excited about that. All right, a couple
Speaker 2: of your final thoughts and then we'll talk with the
Speaker 2: Great Doctor Wendy Walsh and we'll find out if this
Speaker 2: is causing strife, the latest Middle Eastern what does somebody
Speaker 2: call it an event? The latest events in the Middle East?
Speaker 2: This is causing strife in the home?
Speaker 3: That is next.
Speaker 2: Chris Merrill k IF I am six forty were live
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Speaker 3: Herey pleasure hanging out with you. Appreciate everybody that participated
Speaker 3: with the talkback.
Speaker 2: You guys have been fantastic, really kept the conversation going,
Speaker 2: so thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Been an absolute to educational experience.
Speaker 2: I think talking with you and many of you will
Speaker 2: open up different avenues that I hadn't even considered yet.
Speaker 3: So thank you for that.
Speaker 2: Whether it was talking about the signal we're sending to
Speaker 2: China and they're they're messing with the with the Taiwan,
Speaker 2: or the political ramification. Some saying that this was a
Speaker 2: Trump is a distraction, and they're saying, no, he's a
Speaker 2: he's a great leader. I appreciate all that input, and
Speaker 2: for the most part, you guys were civil, except for
Speaker 2: Vernon Redondo and he swore at me and so he
Speaker 2: got banned just for today, but we'll let him back
Speaker 2: next week.
Speaker 4: But he did apologize. I saw where he called back
Speaker 4: and he apologized.
Speaker 3: No, he's dead to me until next week. He was
Speaker 3: dead until next week.
Speaker 2: It was funny because he did say he didn't apologize,
Speaker 2: and he said, I thought you guys were gonna bleep that.
Speaker 3: Well, normally we would, but Kayla didn't do her job.
Speaker 3: So you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 4: You leave Kayla alone. She has nine thousand jobs here
Speaker 4: I know, and she really.
Speaker 3: Did a good job. Kayla needs to chill. Cayla did really,
Speaker 3: I tell you this, friends, I give Kyla a hard time.
Speaker 3: She did a really good job behind the scenes.
Speaker 2: She was fielding phone calls, she was scheduling interviews, she
Speaker 2: was delaying other interviews that we had scheduled for today.
Speaker 2: She she really did. She earned her keep this week
Speaker 2: as a producer. So I give her full credit on
Speaker 2: everything she did.
Speaker 3: Thank god. I don't know you were in the room.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes I'm here.
Speaker 21: Sometimes i'm here and I'm quiet. My mic doesn't go there.
Speaker 21: It is Hey, I'm in the room too.
Speaker 2: The great Doctor Wendy Walls joins us Doctor Wendy after
Speaker 2: dark and doctor Wendy, I was thinking about this stuff
Speaker 2: going on in the Middle East.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not Goodding, No, it's not good.
Speaker 2: And I think that there's a lot of us that
Speaker 2: we internalize some of what we're seeing in the news
Speaker 2: and it makes us very nervous and it makes us
Speaker 2: a little bit anxious.
Speaker 21: I'm going to be talking about that on my show.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, good.
Speaker 2: Then I feel like this is a really effective tease
Speaker 2: for your program because what I as I'm getting old,
Speaker 2: I'm noticing that anytime I get short tempered, it's never
Speaker 2: about what it is that my wife is doing or
Speaker 2: that my kids are doing.
Speaker 3: It's always something else.
Speaker 21: Well, that's I'm getting old. That's just about being a human.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But I realize it as I'm getting old.
Speaker 14: Now you realize, oh, you're getting mature and gaining some insight.
Speaker 21: I love it.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm trying.
Speaker 2: And I also think that it helps when my wife
Speaker 2: and I are arguing, if we can go I don't
Speaker 2: know what the problem is, I go, I don't know
Speaker 2: what your deal is, but it's not me.
Speaker 3: But she does that to me too, so.
Speaker 2: But the truth is, it's not right. What do they
Speaker 2: always say? It's never about loading the dishwasher. Wrong, It's
Speaker 2: always about somewhere else.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's always some unmant I always say that every
Speaker 14: conflict that a couple has is about care or credit.
Speaker 14: They want to get credit for something, or they're asking
Speaker 14: to receive care, right, and so something from one's childhood
Speaker 14: gets triggered that they're not being cared for enough with
Speaker 14: the loading the dishwasher or whatever, or they want to
Speaker 14: get credit for doing it.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, all right, so is there This is fascinating
Speaker 2: because I want to go down that avenue, but also
Speaker 2: I know I can't because I'll get wrapped up on
Speaker 2: how to load a dishwasher correctly. There's only one way
Speaker 2: to do it, and it's my way. I'm just thinking
Speaker 2: of the what people are witnessing on the news right now,
Speaker 2: and this this has been a particularly excited a new cycle,
Speaker 2: I suppose, with protests going on and ice raids going on,
Speaker 2: and it feels like it always feels like the world
Speaker 2: is collapsing. As Billy Joel said, we didn't start the fire.
Speaker 2: It's always burning. However, sometimes the fire burns a little
Speaker 2: hotter than other times.
Speaker 21: Yeah, the fire's burning real hot right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, So does this have potentially an impact
Speaker 2: something that I can watch for if I'm feeling stressed
Speaker 2: and just don't take it out on the people around me.
Speaker 21: Well, you've got it.
Speaker 14: First of all, everyone needs to hear this. We have
Speaker 14: to limit our exposure. We have to think about our
Speaker 14: lives today. While it's obviously very human and nice to
Speaker 14: have empathy for those that may be suffering around the world,
Speaker 14: or follow it like some kind of sports game where
Speaker 14: you're a winner or a loser, this is not going
Speaker 14: to help you in your day to day. Who do
Speaker 14: I have to talk to my children, my spouse, my coworkers.
Speaker 14: How can I work on just being connected with them?
Speaker 11: Right?
Speaker 14: And the other thing is, like I just will say
Speaker 14: this about any kind of crisis, is that so many
Speaker 14: people are not good at naming their own feelings right.
Speaker 14: When you can give your feelings a name, like I'm
Speaker 14: feeling frightened. I mean, I'll tell you I felt in
Speaker 14: the last you know, twelve hours or so, like or
Speaker 14: fifteen hours, we might have a nuclear bomb land in
Speaker 14: La Right, So I said, I'm feeling afraid. And as
Speaker 14: soon as you say that, it takes away a lot
Speaker 14: of the power of the emotion. When it works in
Speaker 14: the background, it just you know, gets you on edge
Speaker 14: and you know why. But if you can learn to
Speaker 14: name your feelings whatever it may be, that can be
Speaker 14: very very helpful too.
Speaker 3: And why what is.
Speaker 21: That no awareness?
Speaker 3: Right, you can deal with it.
Speaker 14: We have two brains, right, we have our conscious brain.
Speaker 14: And Sigmund Freud said that our conscious brain probably makes
Speaker 14: up about ten percent of all the activity happening in
Speaker 14: our brain, So what we're aware of is about ten percent.
Speaker 14: Imagine he loved to use the metaphor of the iceberg.
Speaker 14: If you ever seen the picture of the iceberg, which
Speaker 14: is a little bit above the surface, and this giant,
Speaker 14: hulking mass.
Speaker 21: Below right, that's our unconscious.
Speaker 14: So when feelings are in our unconscious, sometimes there are
Speaker 14: things like our automatic memories that you know, our unconscious
Speaker 14: doesn't want to bother our consciousness with things like how
Speaker 14: to beat a heart or how to breathe, or how
Speaker 14: to ride a bike or drive.
Speaker 3: That's automatic, right, involuntary.
Speaker 14: Involuntary's instinctive stuff. But also buried in there are all
Speaker 14: our memories that programmed us. That memories that we have forgotten,
Speaker 14: memories we don't remember that have taught us certain things.
Speaker 14: So when you can take a feeling and put it
Speaker 14: into your consciousness, you're now filtering it through your prefrontal cortex,
Speaker 14: which is the newest part of the brain, the most
Speaker 14: evolved part of the brain, and you can see it
Speaker 14: and examine it. You can create a gap between its
Speaker 14: ability to create behavior and your ability to analyze is
Speaker 14: this valuable? What should I really do?
Speaker 4: Et cetera.
Speaker 14: So naming feelings and having language for feelings can help
Speaker 14: us understand and give the feelings less power.
Speaker 3: I am going to try that this week.
Speaker 21: It is very good.
Speaker 2: I think it's very Now I have to remember to
Speaker 2: do it when I'm feeling something, but I think that's
Speaker 2: I'm going to try that. Okay, that's my Sunday resolution.
Speaker 21: Name your feelings.
Speaker 14: That's a great thing for parents to do with kids,
Speaker 14: by the way, around the dinner table is when they
Speaker 14: instead of saying how's your day, ask the kids to
Speaker 14: name two feelings they had that day, and then they
Speaker 14: can tell the story that went with the feelings.
Speaker 3: You should be a parent.
Speaker 14: I was about to say I was, because the thing
Speaker 14: is they launch and then you're kind of like, am
Speaker 14: I still a parent?
Speaker 21: Like there's no job for me right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah? No, you're still stuck with them. Yeah, if you're
Speaker 3: like me, they just keep moving back in.
Speaker 21: I'm trying to shake them off. Believe me.
Speaker 2: Doctor Wendy Walas and doctor Wendy after Dark, you are
Speaker 2: the best. Also shout out to Heather Brooker, love it
Speaker 2: when you're here girl. We'll miss you next week when
Speaker 2: we're talking to the Okage boys and you don't get
Speaker 2: to And then Sam was in for Raoul this week
Speaker 2: and Sam did a great job except that he he
Speaker 2: misidentified the um Papa mau mau and no, I got
Speaker 2: it right, pop out um malmu versus um Papa mal
Speaker 2: mauur two different things.
Speaker 3: You're killing me right now. You're killing me.
Speaker 2: Love it, Sam, look forward to working with you the
Speaker 2: next time. And Michael Krozer, who was in earlier, love
Speaker 2: Crow and I hope that we get to hear more
Speaker 2: Crow on Sundays. Have a great week. I'll talk to
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