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Speaker 1: And Hello, how are you welcome to the Big Podcast

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on this Friday. Today's the twenty ninth day of May,

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Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty six. My name is

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Tom Sullivan, last business day of the month. So we

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peeled this one off pretty quickly. I know it just

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they're going by faster in any case. So we were

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watching the world and let me see my list here.

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I've got the latest on Iran. I've got a bunch

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of people still reacting to doctor Jill Blue Origin. Oops.

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They were testing an end and the whole rocket ship

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blew up. We'll get into that. The spelling the cracks

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me up. I have I think they're making these words up.

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I've never heard of some of these words, and the

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kids are spelling them like they like it's how the

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fell cat or something. They're they're amazing. Got Pam Bondi

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showed up today in Washington. She was asked to come

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and testify. She has a bandage on her throat because

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she just had surgery a week or two ago. She

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has thyroid cancer. So we wish her well on that.

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But let's start with the war and Iran and the

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President has been meeting in the situation room with his

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people most of the day. I mean, he's been there

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for hours and he's trying to make a decision. And

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I I've got to tell you, I mean there's a

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lot of there's a lot of reaction to this that

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I I'm curious what the President's going to do. Will get

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to a barakravied in just a minute. He works for Axios,

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but it was yeah, it was Axios. He was the

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guy who broke the news yesterday about the fact that

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there was a deal. And yet The Hill, the big

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Washington DC newspaper, said Trump faces heavy lift on selling

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the Iran deal. And that's one of the things Barakravig

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gets into is the fact that he's meeting with his

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people and he's waiting to see what the reaction is.

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He's looking for everybody else's opinion, and that's I no, no, no, no, no,

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Make a decision, mister president. Don't look at your left

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and right, don't look at the people that are your critics,

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don't look at the people that are your fans. Do

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what's right. And I think he is facing a heavy

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lift on selling this deal because I'm looking at it

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and I'm thinking, this doesn't put this doesn't change. I mean,

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we went to war for next to nothing, so I'm

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not going to prejudge the president. We'll see what he says.

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But since Barack Revid was the guy who reported the

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fact that the deal had been semi reached yesterday, let's

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find out what he says today. Here's revied.

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Speaker 2: So I think that at least as of yesterday, the

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President was leaning towards signing off on this memorandum of understanding.

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I think there are two main reasons that President Trump

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is still waiting. The first reason is that he wants

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to make sure. He wants to see that the Iranians

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are not backing away from what has been agreed upon,

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because the Iranians, through the mediators, told the US on

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Wednesday already that they're ready to sign, and I think

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President Trump wants to see that they're not walking back.

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And at least now, there's been no official and public

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statement by any Iranian official that walks away from what

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has been published over the last twenty four hours. And

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I think this is something we haven't seen so far

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because in previous rounds, Iranian formulists are Rakji or his

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spokesman or other Ranian officials came out publicly, openly and

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officially and said this is not true. We do not

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see it this time.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's interesting.

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Speaker 2: Another thing that I think President Trump is doing, according

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to what I hear from US officials, he wants to

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see how this is playing out in domestic in the

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domestic political debate in the US, and I think we

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should look at for example, and the editorial board of

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the Wall Street Journal published yesterday and apped about the

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deal that had some criticism, but it was very, very mild,

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and I think it says a lot about where the

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hawks Iran hawks are at the moment. They're not attacking

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this deal with everything they got. They do criticize parts

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of it. And I think this is exactly what President

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Trump wanted to see, and I think there is a

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chance that in the next day or two he could

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Speaker 1: Well, he mentioned the Wall Street Journal editorial board and

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they wrote another op ed on it again today and

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they said, like it or not, US military threat becomes

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less credible the longer the talks drag on. Yeah, I agree.

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Nobody thinks the President's going to go back to military

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strength or military attacks at this point. And I'm sure

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that The Iranians are betting that Trump won't use the

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military again. That's what they're betting on. Wall Street Journal

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says ending the dual block kids would help. A good

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deal would remove the remains of Iran's nuclear program. The

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problem I have with all this is you have to

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change the regime. Could you imagine leaving Adolf Hitler in

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charge of Germany if we defeat them, said, okay, Adolf,

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if you get to stay, is the head of Germany. No,

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that's where we are. Where we're leaving the evil leaders

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of Iran in place. You have to change the regime,

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in my humble opinion, because everybody that ever knows anything

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about them, they lie, they cheat, they steal so they

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can promise oh no, no, no, we'll not we won't

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do nukes. No no, no, we won't. And you know

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they're going to be working triple time trying to put

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one of those back together again. Alex Plitus, he is

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a national security guy. Let's listen to him.

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Speaker 3: So, I mean, to Brock's point, nothing's officially been released.

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We haven't heard comments from the audience. We've got some

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leaks in, some comments from US officials. But at the

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end of the day. I think if we're going to

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talk about this, what does good look like?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 3: So that for the president that includes a that they're

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not going to have a nuclear weapon at the end

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of this. So what does that actually mean. There's four

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hundred and forty kilograms of highly enriched uranium. The discussion

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has been either about diluting that or taking out of

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the country, which is the US preference. There's been a

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discussion about enrichment and whether or not that's going to

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be a permanent moratorium twenty years, ten years, some sort

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of negotiation. Separate from that, there has been a severe

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degradation of the missiles the drones on the industrial base,

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at least according to Central Command. There's a bit of

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debate in the IC, but I was at Central Command

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headquarters last week and they affirmed that animal to Cooper's testimony,

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is in fact based at least on Sentcom's battle damage assessment.

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So for the President, if he were to grant economic

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relief to the Iranians and the Straits open up and

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we don't get anything else in return, it's effectively returning

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the Straits to a pre wark condition and giving the

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Iranians money for doing so. In order for this to

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be a holistic deal, it's beneficial to the United States,

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and for him to achieve the goals he set out,

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it would also have to address the nuclear program in

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a substanti way. So are we actually going to see

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that get a commitment from the Iranians on both those

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issues for Richmond and removing the highly enriched uranium. There

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really hasn't been much that's been publicly disgusted about what

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that means for the drones and the missiles going forward.

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the region, because if there's going to be a ceasefire

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in Lebanon, Israel is not one tonly attacking Lebanon as

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a country or the Lebanese on forces. This is you know,

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mainly going after Hesblo and Hesbela infrastructure inside the country.

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short of that, we also have the militias in Iraq.

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up to you know, up to maybe thirty thousand protesters

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or more may have been killed in Iran and we

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still have seen nothing about that in terms of justice

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for them or in terms of freedom for the Iranian

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people on the back end of this. So at a minimum,

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the nuclear program has to be addressed, and then we'd

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hopefully like to see something about the drones and the

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missiles as well. But until we see texts, you know,

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we're basically speculating on what's been leaked out.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, it just doesn't sound very promising to me. Like

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you said that they'll open the straight and we'll give

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them a lot of money for doing so, and it

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puts us right back to where we were before the

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war started. All right, let's get Jen Moteine in here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, let's first of all, I think when you

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look at it, we've got to remind ourselves, you know,

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who are the Iranians here? And certainly the administration is

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very clear right in who they are. In fact, I

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spoke to one of the negotiators earlier this week from

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a lengthy conversation, and there's no doubt in my mind

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that he's very clear ride of what we're dealing with here.

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What did we see after the twelve day war last June.

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The thing that got our attention and alarm does is

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how they recommitted to all of their original goals, recovered

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nuclear program, ballistic missile acceleration, continued support for the proxies.

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was going on, particularly with ballistic missiles precipitated and was

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the basic reason for why we had this combined operation

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against the Iranians this year, beginning back in February, and

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we've got further evidence. So my point is it's unlikely

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they're going to change no matter what deal we put together.

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recover everything that they're losing and go back to their

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original goal. So in the deal and our negotiators understand this,

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we've got to have the provisions in there to prevent

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as much of that as possible from happening. The second

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thing is we know they're going to cheat. Look at

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this right now. What's taking place just this week alone

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with the violation of the ceasefire and the straits of

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a moves. Who's doing that? The Iranians are doing that,

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and we had to react to it. Look what they've

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done in Lebanon. The ceasefire began on April the eighth,

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and since April the eighth, less than two months, they

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have fired rockets and missiles into northern Israel over nine

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hundred times. One two hundred plus drones have been fired

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into northern Israel all since April the eighth, and that

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is under the guise of a ceasefire. And the Israelis

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are in a defensive crouch because they're abiding by the

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terms of the deal, which is they can only conduct

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defensive operations. I point this out because it reminds us

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who we really are dealing with here. They are likely

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to want to cheat. Now we've got good leverage points here.

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of moves open. And I'm assuming the President is looking

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at the text and seeing what's in there, and I'll

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get back to that in a second. And the other

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leverage point is the money. We have the money their

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frozen access that we have sanctions, so we can meter

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that out based on how their behavior is changing and

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what their level of commitment is. And then the thing

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that you mentioned and the President mentioned also last night,

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in any interview, we can go back to military operations

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where the Iranians are they want to stress season negotiations

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out as long as possible, because then they think in

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their minds it's less likely the president go back into

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military operations. But they have miscalculated about this president before

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and that's dangerous on this part, and they would likely

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that you're talking about here, I think there's some issues

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that are likely we want to see in the text,

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and that may be what's the land And I don't know,

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we can I don't want to speculate about the text,

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but I think what we know the issues are, Iran

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has to d mind and that probably is going to

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take a few weeks to do that. Why because they

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don't know where all the minds are that they put down,

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so that has to happen. But the southern lane is

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open because we open it, and traffic will begin to

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flow right through there. So it'll be some relief immediately,

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but it'll take some time before it's all relieved. Number two,

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and you mentioned it, there can be no fees. They're

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not going to be any tolls, fees or whatever you

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want to describe it, none whatsoever. And the third thing,

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because they're organizing when and who is going to move

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through the straits, that's control. That's got to be off

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the books. They have their hands off of it. This

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is international waters, freedom of navigation. They don't have a

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say in any of it. Then there's the nuclear enrichment.

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the percentage. That's the fact, and that's got to happen,

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and that's the President's main objective for sure, and that's

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the reality of it. And certainly there are other things

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that are going to take place here. And the money

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to want money up front because the good will, and

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we're going to say no, we want to see what

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your behavior is like, and we're going to meet the

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money to you. I suspect those are the issues that

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we're dealing with and trying to get an agreement on

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this draft document.

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Speaker 1: So it sounds like the General is going to be

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surprised if this deal actually gets signed. There was an

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devastated Iran's regime, don't give it a lifeline now. A

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decimated leadership is weakened, vulnerable, and on the mat. So

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if you're going to be a wartime president, you can't

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worry about the politics, good, bad, or indifferent. You have

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to take care of the national security issues that are

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in front of you. Michael Allen, who was on the

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national security team for George W. Bush, this is what

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his thoughts are.

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Speaker 6: I think we're beginning to take smaller steps instead of

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trying to negotiate an entire agreement within a limited framework.

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It feels as if we're going for what some have

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described as the narrow deal, where we're just going to

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try and rescind our blockaded Iranian ports in exchange for

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the opening of the Strait of Hormuz. The part I

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like about the apparent agreement is is that it doesn't

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have to be declared to open immediately. It seems like

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each side could use baby steps, take intermediate steps along

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the way, and eventually get to a place where it's

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fully open. So what I want the most out of

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this is for the President to retain a maximum degree

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of leverage over this situation because what he can't ever

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agree to, and he has said as much, is letting

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Iran have a veto over the world's economy by holding

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up this very important international waterway.

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Speaker 1: All right, but again, I want to play a clip

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from what you just heard from from General Keen. This

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Speaker 5: It's unlikely they're going to change no matter what deal

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we put together. At the end of it, they're going

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to want to recover everything that they're losing.

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Speaker 1: So it doesn't matter what we put in front of them.

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The President can sign it and I'll sign it. They're

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not going to change. You have to change them. You

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have to take them out of being the leaders of

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that country.

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Speaker 6: It's going to be really hard, and of course General

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of the day, for them to totally quit funding terrorists

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and standing down on a nuclear program and helping their people,

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they're gonna it's gonna have to be regime change. I

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don't think we can force it from the air. Obviously,

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the Iranian people were upset enough earlier in the year

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to take to the streets. Eventually, it's going to be

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their job to do. But I think the General's right

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we have to, but we're in a different world where

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short of regime change, we're trying to do the best

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we can with the leverage that we have to be

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able to limit them as much as possible.

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Speaker 1: Okay, he's did short of regime change, we have to

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do what we can. No, just do the regime change

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and don't stop until you have finished. Finish the job,

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is my proclamation. Let's see what Kareem said. You're poor

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from Carnegie says.

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Speaker 7: Well, for context, the Obama nuclear deal was a deal

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that took around two years to negotiate, so two months

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is probably quite ambitious.

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Speaker 8: The other issue, Kate, is.

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Speaker 7: It you know, this has been a forty seven year

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ideological war between America and Iran, and you have a

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regime which doesn't really prioritize their country's national interests. So

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on our end, we're prepared to Iran offer Iran pretty

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significant sanctions, relief and economic incentives to conduct itself differently.

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But it's a regime that doesn't want to conduct itself differently,

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and it's thinking about its own regime survival, not the

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well being of its people, and that its nuclear material

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is a key part of its survival instincts.

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Speaker 1: So they don't want to give up their new material,

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so you're going to have to take them out. I

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keep repeating myself. All right, Yesterday I played a clip

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from Doctor Jill. She's been interviewed. It's going to air

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Sunday morning. She was being interviewed by CBS for the

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Sunday Morning Show and read A brave was the correspondent,

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and it raised a lot of hackles from Democrats and

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Republicans because she said that she never saw Joe like

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he was on the debate stage when he melted down,

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never saw him like that before or since. And she

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just got to go, are you kidding me? And the

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Democrats are mad because they're going, can we please move

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on from twenty twenty four? Can we please put that

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behind us? So here's Ari Fleischer. He was asked about

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it today and I thought his comments were pertinent.

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Speaker 5: None of this is credible.

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Speaker 9: Everything she is saying is because she and the rest

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of the top Biden team still haven't come to grips

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with the fact that their man was in decline, and

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of course they should have been. The first one is

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to see that decline, but she still kept bring herself

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to admit it and the reason and that she won't

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admit it. It's too big an admission to make everything

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would collapse. People really indicated we didn't think that he

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was healthy.

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Speaker 1: If you missed her comments from yesterday, He'll let me

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just play a little clip of it again today.

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Speaker 10: I was frightened because I had never ever seen Joe

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like that before or since, never since yes, or.

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Speaker 11: Why you haven't, I don't know what happened.

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Speaker 10: I mean when I as I watched it, I thought,

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oh my god, he's having a stroke, and it scared

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me to death.

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Speaker 1: All of us who are married or have a close relationship,

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you know how your partner's doing. But not Jill, right,

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she did, are you okay?

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Speaker 9: Are you is everything all right?

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Speaker 12: Are you?

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Speaker 1: Are you healthy?

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Speaker 3: Did you have a stroke?

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Speaker 11: No?

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Speaker 1: She really have to die.

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Speaker 9: And then she took him out on parade and took

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him to the waffle house and did the event where

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she's chanting four more years. This is all complete and

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total cover up, just as it has been, just as

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it was for all the years of Obiden's to.

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Speaker 1: Climb Melissa DeRosa, she was Andrew Cuomo's right hand age.

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She's a big Democrat. She's questioning this as well.

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Speaker 13: A few days after the debate, she graced the cover

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of Vogue magazine with a blurb that said, we will

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decide our future. She was leading the charge to keep

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him in that race. So a lot of Democrats privately

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are saying, you know what, Lady macbeth, exit stage right,

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and we don't want to hear it anymre like that.

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Speaker 1: The Democrats are not happy with her at all. And

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somebody commented, well, he's got plenty of money, and the

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response was no, he's not getting you know, used making

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former presidents get big speaking fees that run around the

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country giving speeches for a lot of money. And apparently

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that's not happening for Joe, So they are not bringing

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in money. Maybe she's a little panicked. Speaking of a

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little panic, you see what happened to Cape Canaveral last

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night Blue Origin, who's rocket company, Blue Origin was testing

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a rocket engine. There's the rocket sitting on top of

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the engines and they needed to test the rocket engines

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and the whole thing went kaplow. It blew up. It

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not only blew up and destroyed the rocket, but it

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also destroyed the launchpad at Cape Canaveral. Walter Isaacson, who

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is very close to elon Musk and rocketry and everything else,

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had this to say.

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Speaker 8: Well, it is a big deal for Blue Origin because

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they launched that launch pad and it was the only

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launch pad that can launch New Glen. So that's going

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to set them back quite a few months as they

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try to rebuild a launch pad. It's not great for

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NASA's mission to the Moon because you have both Blue

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Origin and Space Acts. We're both building the human landing system.

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Obviously space AX is now more likely to get it

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built first. Space is a very difficult thing. THATSI administrator

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Jared Isaacman said it after the blow up of the

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Blue Origin launch pad. He said, space is difficult, as

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been doing and SpaceX has been doing for a long time.

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Mississippi River at Blaine Kerns Marty Gorol World, and this

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ball In Shipyard. Were totally amazingly. They land rockets upright,

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but every now and then you have something like happened yesterday. Yeah,

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but they are now. One of the things that I

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was down in South Texas at the SpaceX launch facility

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for the latest Starship launch just last Thursday or Friday,

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and that's the biggest rocket ever made. It's the counterpart

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to the new Glen rocket that Blue Origin is doing.

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And it got all the way up and all the

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and the cargo. You need to have a landing system

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ready for a moon landing and a moon base. So

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we're seeing this is that launch last week was very

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good for SpaceX and it puts them way ahead in

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the race of doing communications satellites in low Earth orbit,

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which is what Blue Origin is trying to do. But

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SpaceX is way ahead, and the loss of this launchpad

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doing this task means that it's going to be harder

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for Blue Origin to catch up in the next two

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or three years with low Earth orbit communications out.

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Speaker 1: So big set back for Jet Bezos in Blue Origin.

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he's not going to go away. He's just going to

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have to recoup they got to rebuild the launching pad,

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which is apparently a big expensive item. So the spelling

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was nine rounds to get to the winner. And one

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of the kids was an East Coaster, one was a

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to come up with the answers. Let me play just

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a clip. This is the winner. His name is Shri Perakf.

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He's fourteen years old from Rancho Cucamonga in California, and

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he correctly spelled thirty two words in ninety seconds to

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beat Ishaan Gupta who's twelve from a Jersey City in

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New Jersey. So once again this gets into the cultural thing.

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from other from East, from India, that area of the

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of the world, and they just have a culture about

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spelling and they practice all the time. Apparently it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, and I did pretty well

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as spelling, but I don't think I recognized one of

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those words, let alone how to spell it. Some of

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those words I think they ever made. I think they

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were made up words. They had to be real because

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the kids spelled them. Anyway, It's always fascinating to watch.

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All right, let's get some some emails in here. Dan

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Lithgow sent me an email and he said comments for

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this week. Always enjoy listening to your show. Thank you

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for continuing to do it in podcast format. I was

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struck by a few things I heard this week, the

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doctor questioning President Trump's bruises on his hands and falling asleep.

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Where was this guy when Biden was president? Oh, And

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speaking of Biden, it was nice of you to have

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former First Lady Joe Biden comments on your show totally

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blatantly lying about her husband, President Joe Biden's health during

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the campaign and debate. Just after finishing the discussion of

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the perjury of Egen Carol Laws case. Then there's our

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next Senate candidate from Texas, Ken Paxton and his checkered past.

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You are correct in questioning character, just not in our politics,

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but also the reporting. Glad you're still keeping things honest.

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Dan Lithgow from Houston. Yeah, for all of you in Texas.

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I think Ken Paxson is going to win, and I

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think he's going to win handily because Taller Rico so far,

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the way that they're doing the campaign against Pacton is

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they're going up and down. His checker passed, but all

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the things that they can accuse him of being bad, this, bad, that,

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But that's what That's what Cornyan did and Paxton. Even

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though all the accusations it's all out there, people still

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overwhelmingly voted for Ken Paxson over John Cornyn. So I

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don't think Taal Rico unless they change their their campaign strategy,

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I don't. I don't see Taller Rico having a prayer.

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All right. I got an email from a truck and

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curmudgeon and he is always interesting. He said, as predicted,

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the market is improving back to the Trump numbers of

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four years ago. You will probably find overall economic numbers

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will be improving as the freight we are moving now

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will show up in stats later. So he sends me

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a market update from a research company that keeps track

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of truckers and they said the overall market conditions continue

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to improve. Some sectors still struggling, creating some uncertainty, especially

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in terms of fuel costs. But they're talking about the

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trucking market. Recovery is driven by capacity and there's a

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graph included here that brings it right back to where

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it was back in twenty twenty. So good, that's absolutely

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good news to hear trucking. And Art Chung sends me

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an email about Texas primary. He says, if the Democrats

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can vote for Republicans in the primary, then perhaps they

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voted for Paxton. Yeah, I look that up, Art, and

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they have a funny thing in Texas. Your registration, if

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you're registered as a Democrat, Republican, independent, it expires at

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the end of every year, and all you have to

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do is just go in and vote in the primary

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that you want and proclaim that you are in this case,

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proclaim that you're a Republican and you vote, and then

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your your registration ends at the end of the year.

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So maybe there was some of that funny business going

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on some of the phone calls this week. In the

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phone number if you need a reminder eight five five

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two nine five sixty six hundred. That is the comment

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line stame number. It's been for years. Eight five five

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two nine five sixty six hundred. Lawrence from the Bay

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Area chimes in.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Tom, Lawrence Lember, I've listened to your show every day,

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and I once again Trump has, you know, backed off.

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I was talking to the gentleman from the Vets again

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and as he say, and I agree, he's losing all

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confidence or power in the world. Everybody knows. He says,

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I'm gonna blow him down you nowhere, and then two

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days later he backs off. He just did again today

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and then I read tonight he's going to give him

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a big message. But anyway, he, in my opinion and

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these other Vets opinion and my friends that are very

523
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very mega, he's losing all face in the world. And

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maybe put that out there and maybe his people pay attention,

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but I'm sure he's getting the wrath of hell from everybody.

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But anyway, I just want to put it out there

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in great show, keep it up, and I'm listening every

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day take care of.

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Speaker 1: That was from a few days ago, so there's no

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big address tonight. But the president, it does seem like

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he's not willing to finish the job. He stopped the

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military campaign before it was finished. Things like that. There's

533
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a lot of I'm a hockeys kind of guy. I'm

534
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not pro war, but if you're going to do a war,

535
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do it right, do it the whole way, don't stop

536
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in the middle of it. And that, I think is

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what Lawrence is kind of referring to. Eric weighs in.

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Let's see what Eric has to say.

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Speaker 12: Here my last ten cents I got for the Joe

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Biden and doctor Biden or Gill about Kim's having the well,

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he has stroke at the stage when he was debating Trump. Really,

542
00:31:43,759 --> 00:31:48,319
why didn't she call the ambulance. He's the president of

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the United States. He has all access to the cat scans.

544
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They should have scanned his brain. Maybe he has to

545
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lose Desslin brain. Maybe that of course, Oh his crazy

546
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stuff he was doing. Get the cat skin of the brain,

547
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doctor Gill, Now your husband is dying from the stroke.

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Speaker 1: Run instead, she brought him to a waffle house where

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they had a big rally. And then sent him on

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the road after that, So I don't think she her

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accusation she thought he might have a stroke. Obviously that

552
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thought didn't stay long. Oh here's Q. We haven't talked

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to Q for a while.

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Speaker 15: Hi Tom, This is Q from California. Just want to

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touch base with you to see how you don't. Just

556
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want to see if you got your Travis Kelsey and

557
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:53,000
his wife's future wife's wedding anniversary or not anniversary, but

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there wedding invitation because I know you top on the list,

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so I know you should be. But it gives you

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an invite if pretty soon. Also, I want to tell

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you it's good to see that you're almost one year

562
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in with your podcast. Is rolling good right now? Maybe

563
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you can tell me some statistics on it, you know

564
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how many people you got coming on your.

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Speaker 11: Podcast.

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Speaker 15: So anyway, just want to say hi, let you know

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I'm still alive and I'll get back with you soon.

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Talk to you later.

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Speaker 1: Bye, bye, Thank you, Q. And no, I haven't received

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an invitation of Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift wedding. No,

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but yes. In fact, today is one year to the

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day of the last day of my radio show and

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I started a podcast on the first business day of June,

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which brings up which I don't want to give away

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the statistics because it's very competitive out there in the world.

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But I am well, well north way north of a

577
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:04,720
million people that listen to this podcast, So thank you.

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It's going. It's going very very well as far as

579
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my podcast goes. I also, I don't want to make

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this an announcement per se, but I want to pitch

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it out there. I've been asked many, many times about

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doing more like I used to do years ago. On

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my radio show. I had an hour where I would

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set aside for Financial Friday, and people would call and

585
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:36,760
ask questions from, what do you think about investing in bonds?

586
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,519
What do you think about I'm saving money for my

587
00:34:39,679 --> 00:34:44,280
children's college education. I'm I'm saving money for down payment

588
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:50,440
for a house. My father has a house that is

589
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:53,719
he doesn't know if he should sell it to the

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kids before he dies or should they inherit it when

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he dies, stuff like that. So I mean all kinds

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of questions, and they were all great. What about no

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interest rate loans? Zero interest rate loans? So I love

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doing those, and so I would like to start a

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separate podcast that I'll do once a week, probably on Fridays.

596
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But I need you to call with your financial questions

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00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:25,840
and the phone number again eight five five two nine

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00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:30,639
five sixty six hundred. If you have some financial situations

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00:35:30,639 --> 00:35:34,760
in your family and you're wondering about what to do what,

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I'm more than happy to give you my opinion. Eight

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five five two nine five sixty six hundred. I did.

602
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I ran a financial firm for it was thirty thirty

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five years. I think it was. So it's it's not rusty.

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It's like getting back on a bike to answer those

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kinds of questions. And then finally, we always like to

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finish with the comment line. Lady, let's see what she

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has to say.

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Speaker 11: Doctor Jill Biden, doctor of education, took her husband to

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waffle house when she thought he was having a stroke.

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I'm really surprised she wasn't named surgeon General during her

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husband's presidency.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so everybody's taken by the by the doctor Jill stuff. Yeah,

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I don't think it. I don't think most doctors would

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advise if you're having symptoms of a stroke, what you

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need to do is go to a waffle house. I

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don't think that's I don't think that's going to be

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the advice that most most medical professionals would give you.

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But again, investment questions, money questions, investing questions, mutual funds,

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open ended, closed ended, ETF's, all those things. I'm more

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than happy to tackle any of those. So call me

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with your questions. You can remain anonymous. The phone number

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is eight five five two nine five sixty six hundred

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eighty five five two nine five sixty six hundred. So

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we're going to try and fire that up in a week,

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So I look forward to your calls. In the meantime,

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let's check Wall Street today, and I know this sounds

627
00:37:20,519 --> 00:37:23,280
like a broken record, but once again, another record day.

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The Dow Jones industrials up three hundred and sixty three

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for the first time above fifty one thousand, fifty one

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thousand and thirty two, SMP up sixty new record, NAZDAC

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00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:40,840
up fifty five, gold up forty five dollars to four

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00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:44,320
thousand and five seventy eight, and oil down a dollar

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to close it eighty se just under eighty eight dollars

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now for one barrel of oil. So that's it for today. Again,

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00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:58,480
I look forward to your questions, your comments, your observations

636
00:37:58,519 --> 00:38:06,320
about money, investing, saving banks, mutual funds, insurance. You name it,

637
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,960
we'll tackle it. Phone numbers eight, five, five, two, nine,

638
00:38:10,079 --> 00:38:14,639
five sixty six hundred. Thank you for listening today and

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we'll be back on Monday. I hope to see you then,