Tune in as we explore the latest shockwaves through the geopolitical landscape involving Israel and Iran. Operation Rising Lion has left few Iranian military leaders standing, thanks to Israel’s strategic strike targeting nuclear facilities and air defenses. Discover how regional alliances are changing, the impact of Iranian retaliation, and the global implications of these recent developments. Plus, stay tuned for our segment on the importance of diversifying your investment portfolio with GoldCo.
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Moments ago, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel’s very survival. This operation will continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat. For decades, the tyrants of Tehran have brazenly, openly called for Israel’s destruction. They’ve backed up their genocidal rhetoric with a program to develop nuclear weapons. In recent years, Iran has produced enough highly enriched uranium for nine atom bombs. Nine. In recent months, Iran has taken steps that it has never taken before. Steps to weaponize this enriched uranium. And if not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time. It could be a year. It could be within a few months. Less than a year. This is a clear and present danger to Israel’s very survival.
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So this is what kicked off last night. We’re going to recap some of this and bring you up to speed with where everything is precisely. Welcome to the show. Dana Lash with you. We’re at the top of this first hour. It’s audio only because Juan’s out celebrating a joyous family occasion. Skeleton crew. So take it up with the first. I’m just joking. But if any questions, direct to them. But so we’re audio. We’ll be back to normal Monday. What happened yesterday? It looked like it was years in the making. I’m not even joking you like literal years in the making. So I was reading earlier this morning about the incredible level that Israel went to, that Mossad went to in order to carry this out. And it is pretty amazing. I don’t know if you’ve been, you know, if you followed exactly how these attacks took place. And they were retaliation because remember, Iran had hit Israel with missiles just months earlier. Don’t forget that. And so just because Israel decided to wait doesn’t mean that they forfeit their right to defend themselves because they’re waiting and taking their time to do it smartly. Right. So that that should be just to throw that out there immediately. But this was you guys remember the the planning that went through the pager attack. Right. You guys remember the pager attack that or the beeper. What was it? What did they call it? It was like something like Operation Grim Beeper or something like that. I swear. I think that’s what actually what it was. But they apparently they were releasing footage showing the actions that they were taking because they took out the ballistic missile launchers. They took out the a lot of the sections of Iranian air defenses, including the command in Tehran. And apparently Mossad built a secret explosive drone base in Iran. They had infiltrated the country and they built a secret base. And then they launched these drones from them yesterday morning. And they were used to strike these ballistic missile launchers at one of the bases near Tehran. And I think that might have been one of the bases at which they were firing projectiles at Israel the last time when they struck them. They also had vehicles that were carrying weapon systems that they smuggled into Iran. And these systems… Completely just took out their air defenses and gave Israel planes total air supremacy over Iran. Then, because it’s not done, they had a third covert effort. This is coming from a military correspondent at Times of Israel. A third covert effort involved Mossad commandos deploying precision missiles near anti-aircraft sites in central Tehran. By the way, this also makes me really nervous about Chinese farmland near military bases. But I just, I digress. We’ll come back to that. I was really thinking about that this morning, Kate. I’m like, oh, wait a minute here. What about that CCP-owned farmland that we have near some of our bases? Can we have our administration maybe just kind of reevaluate that? I think that might be a decent thing to do. The Iranian media announced the death of the IRGC commander. That’s the Iranian Guard. Their commander in chief, Hassan Salami, Brigadier General Muhammad Bagheri, and then their chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces. So basically, everybody that would meet today to discuss this attack is dead. With the exception of like two people. And I think and I was trying to confirm that I think one of the I think one of those two that was not. Yeah, I think they are they were kidnapped by Mossad. So, yeah, they’re they’re all of the people who would who would meet about this are dead. When you look at the Iranian regime chain of command, when you look at who the chain of command is, you have the head of the emergency command and central headquarters, Golam al-Rashid. He’s dead. Major General. Major General Mohammed Bagheri. He’s the chief of staff, armed forces, senior most military officer in Iran. He’s dead. You have Ali Shamkhani, who is the secretary of Supreme National Security Council, blah, blah, blah, advisor to their supreme leader. He’s dead. You have Major General Salami. He’s the IRGC commander. That’s the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. And they’re supposed to guard the Ayatollah. By the way, it’s the IRGC that sniped NIDA. To death. Remember that activist during the Green Revolution? I wrote about this. If you subscribe to my sub stack, you got that information. She was the one who was sniped during those peaceful protests. Nita Agha Sultan. They shot her on a live stream because she just got out of a car to see what the protests were about. She wasn’t even participating. Anyway, that guy’s dead. Brigadier General Amir Hajzadeh. I can’t even say his last name. Hajzadeh. He is the commander of the IRGC Air Force. He’s dead. Brigadier General Davoud Chakan, deputy of operations for IRGC Air Force. He’s dead. Brigadier General Tahir Pour, commander of UAV Air Force, IRGC Air Force. He’s dead. So you only have like a couple of dudes that are still alive. I mean, I’m not joking you. Everybody that would meet today to talk about this is dead. Except for like two dudes. That’s it. So they had 60 days. To make a deal. And I think, you know, obviously I support Israel defending Israel because Israel, again, let’s not forget, Iran attacked Israel with missiles months ago, a couple of months ago. It was like at the start of spring. We all remember this. Well, we talked about it on the show quite a bit. One of the reasons I talked about it on the show quite a bit is because it marked an escalation. It was Iran directly attacking Israel, not attacking them through a proxy group like the Houthis or Hezbollah or Hamas. They support all these groups. They’ve tried to keep the appearance of their hands being clean to avoid further worldwide condemnation. And so they always use these proxy groups. Well, they didn’t that time. And that’s when Israel said, we’re going to strike you back. And then and then you had Iran and Russia. Oh, well, let’s not go crazy. Well, they need to defend themselves. You would defend yourself, correct? Especially if you had an angry neighbor saber rattling with a potential nuke. Now, I don’t know. I mean, it was a gamble to see how this was going to turn out. And I wrote this last night. I was very cautious in writing about this last night because it’s I mean, there was some trepidation originally want to bring this piece up. There was a little trepidation originally within the administration. So this was per Axios. Trump’s envoy told Senate Republicans that U.S. U.S. concern was concerned that Israel’s air defenses might be overwhelmed by a retaliatory attack involving hundreds of ballistic missiles. And Steve Woodcoff was very concerned about this. Now, this is one of the reasons why I think one of the first things that they took out were those missile sites. They took out those missile sites. And it was, I mean, they had been planning this for a while. Not only that, but I want to remind you something, too. And again, I also touched on this on Substack. Now, remember… When Bashar al-Assad was still in power in Syria, Iran had some air cover because they relied on Syrians air defense. They relied on Syria’s air defense. Well, after Assad’s fall, remember, there was a new regime that came in and we were all wondering. I mean, you know, not that Bashar al-Assad was an angel, but you have to pick who is the lesser of the devils. Right. And this guy was an ISIS member. He was a legit jihadi. And Trump met with him and was talking with him. And we were wondering, well, how is this going to turn out? What’s happening here? The new regime, if you remember, you may not have known this. They banned Iranians from flying over their country. They banned them. Not just civilian either. I mean, they banned military. They banned everything from flying over their airspace. Now, that’s incredibly important. Because if you think of where Iran is and where Syria is, Iran used Syria’s airspace heavily. And when Syria blocked that out, because remember, Syria is right to the north of Israel. Iran is to the west of Syria. Israel, or sorry, east of Syria. Israel is to the southwest of Syria. So Iran would have to bring things over Syrian airspace. And Syria said, no, they’re not going to allow it. The new regime said, absolutely not. And a lot of people were questioning. They thought, wait, that’s interesting. Ahmed al-Sharah, who was the leader of the new rebel regime in Syria, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Julani, he stopped Iranians from flying over Syrian skies. And that included even withdrawal of forces of Syria. They had to stay on the ground. No airspace. And remember, Trump met with him and they had an along with an envoy. So that was interesting. And this was one of the things that Wyckoff was very concerned about was whether or not Israel might be overwhelmed in terms of airspace. Well, that came out real quickly. Now, the only thing that Iran had left to defend itself was these missiles. So they took out these missile sites. They also took out a couple of nuclear facilities. Apparently, a number of nuclear scientists were also killed in this attack. And these were targeted strikes. I don’t know if you saw some of the photos. It is actually pretty amazing. And we have this military capability. We actually use this previously in Iraq. And we’ve used it elsewhere. Targeted strikes that literally can choose the floor and limit the burst. It’s unbelievable. And there’s these photos that have emerged. All of these guys. Here’s the other thing. Let me put this out here. All of these dudes were in penthouses. Now, Cain, let me ask you something. How long have we been seeing of stuff might go sideways here with Iran? I mean, we’re all on social media. We all see stuff happening. We all see that Trump started ordering evacuations of embassies in the Middle East, in Bahrain, in Kuwait, in Iraq, all over, only leaving, in some instances, emergency personnel. If you’re one of these commanders who lives in a penthouse in Iran, are you going to stay in that big, giant penthouse?
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No, I’m not.
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I mean, I don’t know if you all seen some of this, but these were absolutely targeted strikes. And in the photos that you can see in these penthouses, only their floors were damaged. Only their floors.
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That’s precision.
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I mean, in fact, some of the engineers were saying that there actually was no compromise of structural integrity of the building. And you can see in these photos, the blackest scorch marks are where the dude was. And that’s like his entire, because some of them had like two and three stories in these penthouses. That’s literally where they live. Now I’m just thinking, you cannot be the smartest people on earth if you’re staying in a giant penthouse that’s easy to hit with a missile in Tehran. Right? Right? Like you don’t see this stuff that’s happening on social media? Like we saw it. I mean, hell, people are like, we’re going to leave these embassies that are nowhere near Tehran, and they’re not even in the IRGC. As we move, our partners that help bring you the program, it’s our friends at GoldCo. GoldCo Precious Metals. GoldCo knows. I mean, they understand. Smart investors get it. And they understand the market through and through. And they want to help you add actual gold and silver to your portfolio because they’ve stood the test of time. Hard assets offer real security. It’s not like paper, right? They’re not tied to the performance of the stock market or government debt. They offer a tangible way to safeguard what you have. And you can get educated before you invest. They have a free 2025 gold and silver kit. Breaks down everything you need to know about how precious metals can fit into your financial strategy. And you can also unlock exclusive bonus silver. And if you qualify, Goldco is going to match your investment with unlimited bonus silver. No taxes or penalties. This is confidence in uncertain times. Visit danalikesgold.com and join the thousands of people like yours truly who have called Goldco the number one rated gold company. And right now you can get a free copy of their 2025 gold and silver kit and qualify for and get unlimited bonus silver. That’s danalikesgold.com.
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I keep seeing these stories about salaries for some of the talking heads at like CNN and MSNBC. So Anderson Cooper, he makes $18 million annually. I actually thought that, can I be honest? I know that to me, that’s a ton of money. That actually seems lower than what I thought. Yeah. But did he take a pay cut, though, like some years ago, like willingly? I think so. And I actually personally, Anderson Cooper’s always been very nice to me. I have nothing negative to say about him. But I actually was shocked about that. But they’re having trouble right now over at CNN. And I actually saw this with this is a New York Post piece. And I saw a separate piece a couple of weeks ago with Adweek. They’re struggling right now to maintain some of their top dollar rates. because the ratings have taken a nosedive, particularly in prime time. And when that happens successively in numerous, you know, with numerous quarters, they’re not able. I mean, when you cannot command those top dollar ad rates, how are you paying those top dollar salaries? They already are experiencing this at MSNBC and now CNN, which is kind of their executives have been in crisis talks lately. They’re now struggling with the same thing that MSNBC has already been dealing with. So it’s kind of interesting. Let’s see here. Oh, goodness. Did this headline come from Steve? It did, didn’t it? Justin Bieber could be placed in a conservatorship by his wife if she can prove three points to the court. Apparently, he’s acting bizarre, and that whole thing is weird. I get nervous about this stuff because they’re a younger celebrity couple, and there are a lot of other younger people that look up to them, and this stuff is not normal, right? It’s not normal. Also, stop dressing like a slob. If your wife is dressed up to go out, if your girl is dressed up to go out, you’ve got to match that girl’s energy, okay? Otherwise, you’re not a package deal. And you know what that telegraphs to everybody else out there? That there is some like disconnect and, you know, she might be up on the market. I’m just saying. I’m just saying. Those are the optics. Those are the optics. A CEO says AI is going to replace so many jobs that it will cause a major recession. I agree. I think that this, if we do not, if we are not flexible and we don’t acclimate to this, that’s exactly it. It’s Klarna. It’s the CEO of this startup called Klarna. They’re saying that AI is coming for all white collar jobs and that people got to be prepared for this. I get it. I believe it. We have a lot more in store, including Democrat reaction to the strike. Stick with us. I always carry and I have no problem using lethal force to protect myself. The issue, though, comes from the places that do have issue with you protecting yourself. And heaven forbid they offer any kind of armed security to protect you too, right? Talking about private property restrictions, municipal restrictions, or college kids that are old enough to live on their own and go to school, but they’re not old enough to carry a handgun for protection. This is where the Burna gun comes in. So most stun guns have one or two rounds. Burna gun has five. It shoots chemical irritant projectiles that can deter threats from up to 50 feet away. There’s no recoil. Target acquisition is super easy. And the big thing is that Burna is legal in all 50 states. There’s no background checks. There’s no waiting periods. There’s no permits. They ship it right to your door. It’s accessible for everybody. So you still have a means with which to defend yourself. This is why diversity with your weapons array is important. You carry different calibers. You carry rifles and pistols. You have blades. Something like this in those instances is also incredibly helpful. Now, they have rifles, but I think for this explicit purpose, the Berna SD, which is their most popular selling model, and then the Berna CL. The CL stands for compact launcher. That’s 38% smaller than the SD. Everything’s made right here in the U.S. of A., And you can go and look at the different projectiles. You can actually go and look at how it works. Different projectiles, different accessories, the whole nine yards. But you have an effective deterrent still. And you also have the legal access. Visit Burna.com slash Dana and get your hands on the new Burna CL. That’s B-Y-R-N-A dot com slash Dana. Burna, ready when you are.
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And he responded by saying, quote, we, of course, support Israel, obviously, and supported it like nobody has ever supported it. And then he went on to say this. Iran should have listened to me when I said, you know, I gave them I don’t know if you know this, but I gave them a 60 day warning. And today is day 61. And then he said they, meaning Iran, should now come to the table to make a deal before it’s too late. And then he said something. really noteworthy. He said, the people I was dealing with are dead, the hardliners, to which I just wanted to underscore. So what you’re saying is Israel has now killed the people who you were dealing with. And he said very sarcastically, they didn’t die of the flu. They didn’t die of COVID. It was a brief conversation, but my takeaway was twofold. Number one, they are really hoping that instead of escalating the situation, which is what most people are terrific reporters. I just like that soundbite.
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I thought that soundbite was great. Well, you can almost hear the way he said it. Well, they didn’t die of COVID. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. That’s Dana Bash over at CNN. She was reiterating her conversation that she had with POTUS just a little bit ago. I have to tell you, too. So we were laughing hysterically about this on break. I didn’t realize how often Iran did this. So they they they officially raised their red flag of revenge. Did you know that they had a red flag of revenge? I did not know that, but they do. Let me explain. So they have like literally a little red flag of revenge. And that’s what they raise. Like someone actually takes the time to go out there and switch it out. And they raise it whenever they have the intent to retaliate. So they did it after Soleimani’s assassination. They did it in 2024 after the Kerman bombings. They did it again in April of 2024. They did it in April 2024 right before they attacked Israel. July 2024, after Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s killing. And they’ve done another, and it’s like a Shia thing. It’s like a Shia tradition where they do this. Oh, we got a call, a symbolic call for revenge. So someone literally, so I just want to make this clear. While they’re getting bombed to death, missiles, well, while they’re, since it’s precision strikes, while their regime’s leaders are getting bombed, sniped by missiles, someone ran out there and was like, I’m going to change up the flag. You know what this reminded me of? It reminded me of that episode of Tiger King, Joe Exotic, when he had a staffer who was cleaning one of the tiger cages and she literally got her arm bit off by a tiger. And Joe Exotic, in the middle of all of this, runs to his trailer and goes and throws on an EM, like a paramedics jacket. Someone said the drip never takes a backseat. It’s the same thing. It is legit the same thing. It’s that equivalent of him putting on that jacket in the middle of all of that. My gosh, we’re going to put up a red flag. Now, they did respond to this, by the way. They did respond. They sent out some drones to Israel because they can’t send any missiles out because that all got blowed up. I don’t even know who they would have that makes the call anymore because all those dudes are dead. You know, I don’t know. A reminder, too, for everyone. The Pentagon, in a revised casualty estimate, figured out that Iran has killed 608 American troops in the war in Iraq. One of our friends, Johnny Joey Jones, he doesn’t have a leg because of Iran, because of their IEDs. So I’m just throwing it out there for the people. They’re like actual Iranian simps on social media defending the Ayatollah and all of this. Now, this is not the United States’ war. Now, here’s where I’m pretty hardcore about it. I don’t think we need to spend our blood and treasure in fighting wars for Middle Eastern countries in the Middle East. But I do think totally fine with aiding Israel and Israel TCB completely fine with it because they can clearly as they’ve proven. I mean, it was a genius move. They raised the bar after Operation Grim Beeper. They raised the bar. I mean, to literally create a an explosive drone base within Iran and to be to have be so infiltrated. That’s pretty amazing. But I think we should. And they and remember, and I gave you the dates. They were attacked in July 2024. Iran then also threw some more missiles their way directly. And that was the escalation, not through a third party terror group. So Israel had every right to respond. And the fact that they took longer to respond than you might have does not mean that they’re forfeiting their right to respond in self-defense. That’s a weak argument. So the I don’t know what else that that regime has to go. Jimmy Carter’s legacy is now done. That regime has to go. Now, I will say this there. I’m really I’m weirded out by a lot of the some of the talk that I see on the right, because there’s some friends of mine, even people that I think of as friends that I’ve known for a long time that, you know, they’re all Trump is committing us to an act of war, et cetera, et cetera. I disagree with that. Trump didn’t commit us to any kind of act of war. Trump didn’t do anything more in terms of aiding Israel than Russia has done in terms of aiding any other geopolitical foe against the United States. so whenever i see people take that that position and they’re they’re citing any kind of aid i mean look trump you can’t tell me trump didn’t know you can’t tell me that the administration didn’t know you they probably did hell they probably even use american plan i don’t know but what’s the point of of trying to what’s the point of solidifying all of that the bottom line is that The United States keeping its hands clean and having Israel be, you know, basically the avatar for it. That’s fine. Totally fine. But this position that these people have taken is curious to me. They’re saying that Trump committed us to some sort of act of war and that Trump’s going to – and these are – it’s the woke right. It’s what I call the woke right. The woke right consists of anti-Semitic Jew haters and people who pretend to be trad, but they’re not trad. They’re actually progressive men that have the exact same positions as progressive dudes. They’re progressives that play in identity politics and they want to wrap themselves in the veneer of republicanism. And it’s really easy to call out when you actually have consistent principles. You can see these frauds coming from a mile away. But I’ve seen some of these people and a couple of people I’m somewhat friendly with. That aren’t all the way like anti-Semites. You know, I don’t like anti-Semites because it’s identity politics and that’s anti-Christian and it’s un-American. But it is. I mean, I’m happy to beat people up with the scripture on that if we want to go there. Anyway, my whole point is that they have this. It’s almost like a self-defeating position. They’re saying that Trump has gotten us involved in a war and is committing us to an act of war. How? With what? Just simply by aiding Israel? And if so, how is that any different? than Russia aiding any of the proxies that have gone after us before. There’s no criticism there, but there’s only criticism for the United States. Typically, when people don’t criticize your geopolitical enemies and they only criticize you, they’re on the side of your geopolitical enemies. I find that very interesting. So I tend to discount those people because their logic is inconsistent. And when their logic is inconsistent, that typically means that the premise upon which they’re placing their positions is faulty and they’re wrong. Here’s the other interesting thing. So Saudi Arabia came out. Oh, we condemn these attacks. Wink, wink. I don’t know if you’ve seen that. Saudi Arabia hates Iran. I mean, the Sunni Shia balance of power, all of these, Bahrain, UAE, all of these nations would love nothing more than to see Iran have their knees capped. Nothing more. So they released a statement and they were, oh, we condemn these. Oh, it’s so mean. Condemn these attacks. Oh, so bad. Please don’t. No. The statement that they came out with and this statement is full of wink wink so much. They said, oh, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Oh, we condemn and have a strong denunciation of these attacks that targeted Iran. It violates the sovereignty, blah, blah, blah. Violation of international laws and norms. Oh, and then this is where, you know, oh, well, we condemn it. And we emphasize the U.N. Security Council. They bear responsibility to cease aggression, et cetera. Wink. It’s like the lamest statement, the most toothless statement you could put out on purpose. They’re not doing it because they are wishy-washy. They just hate Iran. They want to keep all the rest of the Arab world happy. And so they released the statement. And all these other nations are the same thing. Here’s something to keep in mind. There are a lot of Arab leaders are very happy about this because Iran is a threat to the entire region. And so when you have Israel act to remove Iran from the chessboard, all of these other nations, they can pretend to condemn it while privately celebrating. And that’s exactly what this is. Think about it. All of the all of these other Arab nations, they were going to they were ready to kind of pull Iran back if Iran tried to get dicey with them. I already explained to you last segment how that was working. The new regime in Syria. I’m not praising them or saying they’re allies. This is a you have to realize this is a balance of power. There’s a big difference in noting that they are acting in their own best interest, which happened to coincide with our best interest at the time. But Syria’s new regime banned Iranians from using their airspace for anything. Not only that, but after the fall of Assad, Iran lost their additional air defense. So that’s huge. And remember, they are in tight with Saudi Arabia. Because Trump said some things about meeting the new regime when he was speaking in Saudi Arabia just a couple of weeks ago. And Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince, he stood up and was applauding it. saying that they were going to open it to investment, et cetera, so that these Arab nations, because there had been sanctions on Syria prior, these other Arab nations were not going to anger the United States by making investments or doing business and then risking related sanctions themselves by doing so. So they were applauding that. They like the new guy that’s in charge. And the new guy is like, I’m not a jihadi anymore. I’m doing this. I mean, again, it’s not how we do things, but not everybody does stuff how we do things. And you have to realize that sometimes someone who’s working in their best interest, it might coincide with your best interest at the time. Doesn’t mean your allies. It means you’re a strategist and you have to start thinking strategically. So that was your first clue that these other Arab nations were not going to tolerate this stuff. The Abraham Accords and the fact that Saudi Arabia is more and more inclined to sign on to them. These are all significant indications. They were not going to if Iran was going to get dicey, they already had their chance to get dicey in return. Now, a lot of people were saying and I made mention of this, you know, oh, well, what about what about BRICS? Because Iran officially became a member of BRICS. That’s Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. They became a member of BRICS a year ago. And so they were all about… It’s all about, like, boosting economic relations, trade, you know, political, whatever, all this. And it’s, you know, kind of… And Iran became a member of this. And it’s kind of sort of like… The weird equivalent, not equivalent, but it’s like weirdly similar to NATO. And some were wondering, is this does this mean that, you know, Iran has some more powerful allies? I don’t think so. I was thinking about this a lot last night. I wrote about this on Substack as it pertains to BRICS. And I’m like, well, you know, they are a member of BRICS. I don’t think I dove too into it. I just like linked it. But they were a member, you know, becoming a member of BRICS. There was a lot of discussion as to whether or not that makes Iran a more formidable geopolitical opponent. And I don’t think so. I mean, Brazil is not going to do anything like Brazil can do anything. China’s economy is garbage. And they I mean, they could risk a war of attrition if they decided to get saucy. But their economy wouldn’t be able to support it. I mean, that’s not even up for discussion. I mean, we’ve talked about this extensively with Steve Yates. You know, these other countries, not really so much. And with the Arab countries. World essentially not being on Iran’s side because of the way that they’ve done stuff and the Shia Sunni power struggle. Yeah, it’s just, they’re not, this was really, if Israel was going to do something, if their intel was correct, this was the time for them to do it. And that’s the big question here. And that’s one of the things we talked about in Substack. You know, if their intel was correct, then Iran was growing closer to nuclear capability. And that’s what Netanyahu had said that, you know. We don’t have any choice but to act swiftly. Now, remember, I told you yesterday, even the United Nations, which has not been historically favorable towards Israel, by the way, they ruled that Iran was not abiding by their nuclear proliferation agreement. Of course, it took several decades for them to come to that point. That was huge. That’s your other signal that they have dwindled alliances in the world. So you have the Syrian airspace being closed. UAE and Saudi Arabia, the last time that Iran did this, they actually were aiding Israel with this. There’s no support for them in the Arab world on this. 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We need to hold the leaders who are making this chaos and creating this chaos. Donald Trump knowingly is doing this. He is knowingly provoking chaos. And at the end of the day, he has to answer for everything that has happened.
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If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, if this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they’re doing to farmers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country.
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Oh, that’s Senator Alex Padilla, who decided to crash the press conference. This was like in our last hour of our program yesterday. He decided to crash the press conference that Kristi Noem was holding about the ICE raids. And they actually had to like shove him out of the room. He was shoving, though. He was shoving his way to the front. He shoved a bunch of ICE agents. And that’s one of the things that the media has left out. And then he ended up getting kind of pushed back himself and they handcuffed him. And it was, I mean, obviously from the beginning, it was a stunt. Absolutely a stunt. And he acted like it was all organic, but he’s a horrible actor. And yeah, he also was trying to insist that He showed up to ask a question and he was insinuating that it was a press conference where they were taking where they were asking questions. And she was actually just like updating the press as to what what was happening. And that’s not what happened. He like shoved into the room, shoved towards the podium and he began yelling over her. Where’s that one broad that was in the hearing the other day? Plaskett? Was it her? Who was like, I mean, you can interrupt me, but I am a woman. I know I’m a woman. OK, but now what about this with Padilla interrupting? No, she’s a woman. So Secret Service started pushing him back towards the exit. And he acted like he’s lying because he says that he actually wears this audio. Let’s come in with this. This is audio soundbite five. Play this because this is a lie. Outright lie. Absolutely.
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I just couldn’t accept the rhetoric anymore. So I had the audacity to try to ask a question. I introduced myself. Senator Alex by the end. I have a question. No, we didn’t. All of maybe a second for multiple agents to forcibly remove me from the room to pin me on the ground and handcuff.
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He didn’t identify himself to anyone until after they put handcuffs on him. And that’s captured on video. So whatever they were, whatever they’re trying to say there, that was a lie. Whatever he’s trying to argue is a lie. He did not come in. He lied and said, I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions. But the video doesn’t show that. And it’s actually I mean, when I was watching the video, I had to put my earbuds in and turn it way up and listen to it because it’s kind of hard to hear. But he just came in and started yelling at no point in the audio with any video that I have seen. Does he at all identify himself as a senator until after this? They pushed him back and put cuffs on him. And then he’s like, I’m a senator. I’m Senator Alex Padilla. He didn’t at all say that. Now, can I just like also throw this out there? Nobody knew who he was. Right. And nobody knew who he was. That’s kind of interesting. I mean, Bill Mellugian was there and he also had video and he confirmed he was like, no, he didn’t identify himself as a senator. He just came in and started yelling. In fact. He himself, Bill Malugin himself, thought that Padilla was just some random protester. And it wasn’t until he saw him after he was detained by law enforcement. It wasn’t until he saw him and he realized, oh, that’s Senator Padilla. How insane is this? I mean, there’s already, and you have Adam Schiff demanding that Noem resign. Look, I’m not a Kristi Noem fan, but she didn’t do anything wrong here. She did not do a single thing incorrect. She was answering. She was she was presenting the latest about ICE enforcement. And they immediately he like Padilla came in and decided to crash this. Now, here’s the other thing. What building was this at in L.A.? It was at because so they had this in Los Angeles, right? They had this. What building was it in? Give me a moment. Because wasn’t it like one of their government, like whatever safety facilities, something like this? And they were, okay, sorry. It was a federal building. So it was a federal building. And it was in Los Angeles. Can I just point out that is Alex Padilla, so MIA, that in a federal building in his own district, nobody knows who he is? Does that not strike anybody else as weird? Right? Right. I mean, he’s not like some municipal leader. He is an actual United States senator. He’s a senator. And they didn’t know who he was here? There’s a lot of media there, too. Yeah, as Steve notes, so Padilla took over Kamala Harris’s seat. No one there knows who he is? Isn’t that weird? This is his district. He was born in Los Angeles. This is Alex Padilla’s district. And nobody knows who he is. I’m just trying to wrap my mind around the fact that the senator of that district, born and raised in that city in which the federal building that they are holding this press conference is being held, that no one recognizes him when he enters. What does that tell you? Isn’t that weird? Cain, what does that tell you?
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Well, most senators I know, they will travel with at least one other person, right? Or with maybe even two other people and one security person. But he was by himself, apparently.
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Well, at least when he went into that room.
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Right.
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And definitely when he was.
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And when you have a room full of media who are covering local politics all the time, you would think that they would know who the U.S. senator would be for that district. But no one seemed to know.
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Now, not everyone is on Adam Schiff’s side. Not everyone is. Audio soundbite eight. This was actually discussion on CNN. Listen to this.
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no doubt about it. I mean, she was holding a press conference and doing a press statement. He’s not a member of the press. It wasn’t like a hearing where it was an open forum for senators to ask questions. He clearly showed up to a public event to create a moment and do what you’re saying, sort of show his constituents, not just Democrats, but that he’s fighting from his perspective. Again, I think the question is, was this the appropriate response of how it got dealt with in that moment and how that plays to your point, though? I mean, what we’re seeing politically is a very divided country over the support and opposition. It’s almost evenly divided in a Washington Post poll today.
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The other funny thing about this, too, is Noam. And again, you know, I think Noam didn’t do anything wrong here. Audio somebody to she. Did you hear she was still talking the entire time this was happening? And I was wondering, I’m like, is she just like ignoring him and focusing strictly on her remarks out of spite? Or did she not know what the hell was actually going on? Listen.
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Why was that the action you decided to take? I’ll let the law enforcement speak to how this situation was handled, but I will say that people need to identify themselves before they start lunging at people during press conferences.
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I think his statement is… Yeah, I mean, he didn’t acknowledge himself. He just rolled in and we played some of that audio yesterday. Literally, he rolled in and started yelling and he didn’t identify himself at all. And in fact, none of the local press that was there covering it, none of them actually said that he ID’d himself. They all were saying that he… He just came in and started yelling. And only after he was in handcuffs did he say that he was a senator. Right. Very interesting. But that’s not how I mean, what did you know? He pulled a stunt. It was a stunt. And it wasn’t designed to get any other. It wasn’t designed to get any kind of attention for the issue. He wanted attention for himself. Right. He was appointed to his seat when Harris was elected vice president and he won a special election to complete her term. So he was first appointed in 2021 and then November 2022, they had a special election and he ran to complete her term. So he was appointed, but then he did in a special election. He did win. I don’t know by I don’t know by what margin or if there was any challenges or anything, because he’s not really he’s not somebody that I ever he’s never he’s not done anything, which kind of goes to my point that nobody in that building knew who he was. That’s crazy. He’s been there since she’s been in office. Since she since Harris has been since Harris went into the vice president’s role, he’s been in that seat. And nobody knew who he was. I just find that amazing. But also, doesn’t that kind of signal that he’s like one of those guys who’s a show horse? He doesn’t do any of the legwork. Do you ever see his name attached to anything proposed? I did a quick search. And that was a quick search. Granted, maybe, you know, I’ll find something if I deep dove. But he doesn’t really do anything. He just did this to get attention for himself. And then everyone’s like, oh, well, she’s got to be replaced. For what? For what? The cricket in the gravel pit was more, that actually was a thing for me. This is nothing. What? So stupid. Absolutely stupid. So we’ve been talking about what the reaction is after these strikes. We’re not going to be in World War III. And anybody who’s telling you that is a moron. I’m sorry. I’m not going to pretend to be nice about it. You need to go back and listen to our last hour in the podcast archives because I broke down for you how Iran does not even have the support of other Arab nations. how Syria closed their airspace to Iran, the new regime there. They closed their airspace to Iran months ago. Even how Jordan and Turkey and UAE and Saudi Arabia, all of these other, they want this power shift to happen. There were all of these signals that indicated that they did not have the support that everyone thought they might have. They don’t at all. Remember, Shia versus Sunni, and they don’t like the balance of power over there. They want it tipped back away from Iran. And Russia is not going to do anything either. You can’t tell me that Russia didn’t know about this in advance either. I think that they knew about it. I think that China knew. And they weren’t going to do anything to get because Iran is sort of like Iran’s the friend that is not really helpful. Does that make sense for them? They’re not really helpful. They run their mouths too much. They sent a little swarm of drones over to Israel after in a response, but that’s not anything. At this point, the whole regime has to go. The whole regime needs to leave. But that’s going to take the will of the people, though, to make that happen. And it’s going to take the will of the people to rise up with that. And remember, their regime is not the Persian people. Think back to that sniping death incident. of Netta Sultan. And she was the young woman who, 26 years old, she was not political at all. And she was in a car with her dad and they were on a side street and they saw that there was a protest ahead, a march on the street that they were approaching. And they pulled their car over and she got out to look. And that’s when somebody in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard shot her from a rooftop. And it was all on live stream. Someone was behind her that was live streaming the scene as they were approaching to join the march. And they were just almost past her. And all of a sudden you could see her in the on the left side and like the video scene around the world drop and blood everywhere. They shot her right in the head and she became a symbol of the resistance against the regime. And it was the Islamic Revolutionary Guard that did it. So because they were all on the rooftop. That’s you could hear the shot and then she dropped to the ground. And the last thing that she said was, quote, it burned me. she could feel the burn in her head as the IRGC shot her. 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So Sam Altman with OpenAI thinks that we may have already passed the point at which AI surpasses human intelligence. Singularity is what it’s called. The point of singularity where AI has surpassed that of the intelligence of humans. He says that where it’s effectively no longer under our control may have already passed. He said that we’re past the event horizon and the takeoff has started. And he goes, so far it’s been much less weird than it seems like it should be. That totally freaks me out, dude. Oh, my gosh. I’m sorry. Your Roomba’s going to kill you. I’m just that really… I don’t like that. It makes me feel… We went all crazy. There was a guy driving a minivan into a crowd during a downtown L.A. riot. I’m not going to say protest because they were in the streets. And the guy in a minivan was there like, oh, he’s a repeat offender. Even repeat offenders are tired with these douchebags blocking the roads. Say he. But he went a little bit above and beyond. He did donuts in an intersection and drove in reverse. I think he was done. He was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. He also had apparently because he is a felon, he was in illegal possession of a firearm. So he got a hefty charge for that. And apparently he also had meth. So you can’t be doing that. Can’t be having all that in there. All right. You came on. A man was arrested and accused of releasing a raccoon in a business. Okay. His mugshot is hysterical. He looks like a beaten-up garden gnome, and he’s smiling pleasantly at the camera. It’s crazy. Murray Police Department. This is in Kentucky. He apparently released a raccoon into an open business and left the scene. Jonathan Mason. He was pulled over, refused to cooperate because he wouldn’t roll down his window. The raccoon apparently went crazy in the business, bit somebody, and they had to get wildlife rescue out there to get the raccoon out. No motivation. There’s no report on why he did it. Stay with us because we have a lot more in store. Recently, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis legalized gold and silver as acceptable currency, meaning that Floridians cannot make transactions in gold and silver, thus creating an alternative to the U.S. dollar. So I guess all the inflation and national debt that’s spiraling out of control, not to mention the recent credit downgrade for the The writing has been on the wall for a long time, and it’s time to protect yourself against the declining value of the dollar. And that’s exactly why I partnered with Goldco, the top-rated precious metals company. to help you take a step towards protecting your financial future. And right now you can get a free 2025 gold and silver kit that breaks it all down for you. And if you qualify, you could receive unlimited bonus silver, real silver, matched to your account with no taxes or penalties. It’s a smart move that could help you feel more secure in what lies ahead. Visit danalikesgold.com to get started. That’s danalikesgold.com and move forward with confidence.
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So I’m very hopeful this order puts that in perspective and hopefully Donald Trump will immediately back down. The courts have ruled on the guard. They will be back under my command and he’ll be relieved. Donald Trump or believed of his command at noon tomorrow.
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Well, no, that was after U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer issued a temporary restraining order against the administration about this. Well, now it’s done. There you go. It happened pretty quickly. This was they had a. The three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the enforcement of that temporary restraining order pending a hearing. And it was funny because Newsom pinned that post and then he unpinned it. He pinned a post of himself. It was him on MSNBC saying this. And he he tweeted, the courts have ruled the guards going to be back under my command. Then he unpinned it after that three judge panel for the Ninth Circuit decided, no, we’re going to have a hearing. We’re going to block enforcement of this. And it’s the Ninth Circuit. That was kind of interesting. So that’s fascinating. They granted administrative stay of Breyer’s ruling. So Trump gets the guard in there for a few more days and a three judge panel is considering the case. Now, Breyer apparently thinks that the he he thinks that Trump’s actions violated federal law because and that’s that statute that Article 10, that statute from when was it like nineteen hundred something? That allows you to federalize the National Guard under threat of foreign invasion or a rebellion, things like that. Or if the president is not able to implement or execute federal laws. And Breyer says that none of those conditions were met. And that doesn’t constitute a rebellion under the law’s historical meaning. Oh, what words have meanings now? Actually, I think it does. And then he also added that it was a procedural violation because all the orders have to go through the governor. But the administration said that, no, no, no, they complied. They argue that they complied. And the court, Breyer didn’t. And that’s the younger Breyer from that circuit court. Yes, he’s related to Stephen Breyer. And then they said that it was a constitutional violation because it violated 10th Amendment. Because they should be combating fentanyl trafficking and fighting wildfires, the National Guard. I just don’t think that that’s – yeah, I don’t think that that’s going to hold because I absolutely – I think that what you saw particularly violated – I think that constitutes rebellion and foreign invasion. I do. Absolutely. Absolutely. Because what do they think that foreign invasion looks like? Do they think that because foreign invasion that everybody wasn’t in the same uniform and then they all didn’t, you know, have banners that that doesn’t constitute? That’s such an antiquated view of this, isn’t it? It’s such an antiquated view. We’re we’re in a different reality, different reality with this. So, yeah, they had Mexican flags for crying out loud. Mexican flags everywhere. So a couple of other things to note. I don’t know if you saw this. They had a riot at that ICE facility in Newark and inmates went missing. Did you hear about this? This was last night at that ICE facility in the Delaney Hall in Newark. This was the facility where what’s her face? Who is that house member that’s now been indicted? She was beating up ICE agents. So apparently some of the detainees that the Democrats were apparently going to visit were And this is from the New York Post. This is pretty crazy. At least four of the illegal immigrants that were unaccounted for because they had a riot. So they had a riot at the prison. This is why Democrats went there. They went to incite all of this. So they had a riot and then four illegal immigrants that were detained there broke out. And they are unaccounted for. They think that they escaped them. They said as many as 50 staged a rebellion and they pushed down a wall of a dormitory room inside of Delaney Hall. And they apparently were mad over the quality and timeliness of the meals. That’s what happens when you enter a country illegally. You may not get your crappy meal on time. Like you’re owed something. You grifting welfare thugs. I’m so throw them in the DMC. I’m so done with this stuff. I’m so done with entertaining this crap. This is so stupid. They made a rope out of bed sheets and they literally descend like a comic. They descended from their third floor dormitory per New York Post and were able to like escape. We shouldn’t even be holding them there anyway. Send their fat backsides back home. I noticed that all these chunky dunks are real well fed. You know, these illegal aliens coming in, acting like they’re fleeing something. They ain’t fleeing nothing. I’m so tired of this stuff. Nobody owes them a damn thing. And so now, look, good job, Democrats. Look what you did. You incited a riot. I was told, Kane, this was an insurrection. Yeah. The mayor, the guy who was one of the Democrats that was there trying to start trouble, he released a statement. We’re so concerned about reports of what has transpired at Delaney Hall. Withholding food and poor treatment. Who cares? I don’t care. Look, emotions have no place in this, guys. There’s a law. Follow it. The end. The end. Did you follow the law? Yes or no? It’s a real easy flow chart. Oh, you didn’t follow the law? Go. Get out. You did? Okay. None of these people follow the law. Not a single one. They have these people. You know, one of my friends, Carol Markowitz, had a piece in the New York Post where she was discussing because she came to the country legally. She was talking about what it means to come to the country legally. And all of the hoops that you have to jump through and, you know, all of this stuff. And I get why, you know, you have so many people who came and joined this great American country and became Americans. And they followed the law. They did everything that they were supposed to do. I understand their rage at the people who didn’t. Her piece, it’s I’m a legal immigrant. Don’t you dare lump me in with border jumpers. She was pretty mad about it. And she immigrated legally. She came into the country legally. You have to have sponsors. There’s all this stuff that you got to go through. Yeah. I mean, not to, you know, the waiting period and, you know, all of this stuff. She says it’s galling. She said her mother’s sister lived in Russia until her recent death. She was denied a tourist visa to come visit her family here, presumably due to concern that she would stay once expired as so many do and become a public burden. My mom watched the deluge at the border with sorrow and fury, knowing my aunt could just hop a flight to Mexico and walk in. But that would be illegal and something we would never consider. And I love how everyone who comes here illegally and they become part of the American family, they’re like, we’re Americans and you follow our laws. I love that. That’s what it’s all about. That’s what it’s all about. Now, we’ve been following, there’s a couple of other things I want to hit here. These strikes that took place in Iran on behalf of Israel were responding. They were retaliating, by the way. Trump told the New York Times, I’m still waiting to negotiate, but you should act quickly because my friend BB is C-R-A-Z-Y. Looking forward to talking to you. What? That’s actually hysterical. Is that real? Yeah. Looks like it. Looks like it. I mean, sometimes when you, look, I’m not against him sounding like this. Because when you’re dealing with crazy, sometimes you’ve got to be a little unorthodox. Crazy isn’t scared by sane. Crazy is scared by crazier. That’s the lesson today, kids. So that’s why I don’t dislike his approach here. If they think that he’s crazier than they are, that kind of scares them. That’s why I said I want all of our enemies to think that our guy in the White House is nuts and will press that button out of spite. I want them to think that. I have no problem with it. So I’m not mad. So what? That’s actually hysterical. Can you imagine? You’re one of those mullahs over there and you’re like, what the hell? And you’re reading this comment. I’m still ready to negotiate a peaceful end to your nuclear program. And you might want to go there fast because my friend BB is C-R-A-Z-Y. I’m not joking you. This is literally from, we’re looking at it now. I’m waiting for your call. God love it. God bless America. Now, I approve of that. Two, three thumbs up. Three thumbs. Mm hmm. Three thumbs up for it. Yeah, you kind of like, you know how he was with. Oh, who’s that short stack? Kim Jong Un. When he’s like, oh, you little rocket man. I mean, sometimes you got to be a little unorthodox because crazy guys, you know how it is. Crazy does not get scared by saying if crazy thinks you’re crazy or that’s when crazy backs down. Right. That’s the only time crazy backs down. Only time. So I’m just saying, this is the way it is. That’s applicable at any stage in life, any stage in life, with any issue in life. So we’ll see. They had 60 days, guys. Iran had 60 days and they were farting around. They had no interest at all whatsoever with trying to resolve this. And you guys know it. They had no interest, no interest in resolving this. Now, what makes me nervous? And we’re going to talk more about this coming up next hour. Can we talk two things? I’m nervous about all this makes me really reconsider the communist Chinese owned farmland near military bases. Doesn’t it you? When you think that Mossad, think about it. They had infiltrated Iran. This was years in the making. They were sitting ready to roll on this. They had an explosive drone base that they constructed inside of Tehran. They took out Tehran’s air, any remaining air defense that they lost. They took the rest of it out. They maybe have like a handful of missiles left. They took out most of their missiles. They took out their air command in Tehran. They took out a number of nuclear facilities. I made the comment first hour that all the people who would meet about this this morning to discuss a response are dead with like the exception of two. And I think one of them was already kidnapped by IDF. So, but I’m a little nervous about the CCP owning a farmland. I’m also a little nervous about the Trump card. For $5 million, you can get access and become a citizen. Who’s wealthy enough to pay that? Especially with some of these third world countries. Baddies. I don’t like that. And I don’t like the deal with China includes just allowing students from China to come into colleges and universities. This was after and this was a House hearing where it was discovered that as a prerequisite for getting permission from the CCP to come to a college or university in the United States, they have to report intel back to the CCP. So we need to have a big discussion about this. Summer is all about making great memories. 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It’s his life mission to make bad decisions. It’s time for Florida Man.
SPEAKER 22 :
Man, I got some weird stuff today. Hold up. This is some weird. I got some weird Florida man. All right. First and foremost, can you let me know if you think this is a good way to honor somebody? So this dude, right? His uncle is a metalhead, right? And he’s a Tampa-based musician known as Prince Midnight. His uncle passed away, and he turned his uncle’s skeleton into a fully functional guitar.
SPEAKER 19 :
What?
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
What?
SPEAKER 22 :
A fully, actually fully functional guitar. Just gave you the Lincoln slack. I mean, it is the rib cage and then the spine and then it goes into the pelvis. And it’s called the Skelecaster.
SPEAKER 20 :
I didn’t even know this was legal.
SPEAKER 22 :
Also me. Don’t know if that’s legal, but… Uh, it’s a very, they, it came, uh, it was noted in guitar world, Prince Midnight. He wanted to honor his uncle, Philip, who was killed in a motorcycle accident in Greece in 99, in 1996. His skeleton was donated to a medical school and used in anatomy classes for years. But when they no longer needed it, the, uh, they gave it to the family and the responsibility, uh, because his parents passed away, his parents passed away. So he got the responsibility of it. And, uh, they they’re greek orthodox so they don’t believe in cremation and so they either could pay to have it store store to purchase a burial plot and he was like nah i’ll take care of it and so he navigated the red tape it involved funeral homes in the state department he had the remains shipped here and then he had his friend help build this into a custom instrument and Dude, I don’t know. And I like his response. He said his mother apparently didn’t like it because she goes it was sacrilegious and the work of the devil. You know how moms are, he said. He goes, when asked whether Philip would rather be in the ground or shredding, she admitted, well, probably the guitar. So he attached it to parts of an old Fender Telecaster. Really, a Telecaster? And added red and blue wiring to mimic blood vessels. He goes, it’s got some quirks and there are limitations, obviously, but you can play it. It’s awkward because the ribcage limits movement and the sound is heavier. That’s actually insane. And I wouldn’t pick it up, dude. I don’t think I could pick it up and play it.
SPEAKER 20 :
I’m curious enough to pick it up.
SPEAKER 22 :
Really?
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 22 :
So like where the neck would be is the neck of the guitar, the front that goes up. And then the, the, the strings and where it would be open is like right at the bottom of the rib cage. And I, the, I don’t get the, um, I, do you really, I don’t even know. Do you really need like the pelvis and all that at that point? I mean, he’s got some of the electronics plugged in. Where you plug in for power is right at the top of the pelvis.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, like the hip bone?
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, it’s… I don’t know, man. It’s a little different.
SPEAKER 20 :
It shreds, though, huh?
SPEAKER 22 :
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But I think there was at least an attempt to be somewhat of the arbitrator in this. We saw President Carter do it with Begin and Sadat. We’ve had certain wins along the way that were actually mutually beneficial both ways. Now I ask who that is. And I mean, consistently over and over again, we’re gonna have to face the reality, It might be the Chinese. And that goes against everything they say they’re trying to do in terms of the balance of power. So I would just have to say my heart goes out for this. Ukraine continues to go on. Gaza continues to be a humanitarian disaster. And now it’s expanded even further.
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, leave it to Tiananmen Tim there to hat. Yeah, exactly. Hat tip China on this. That’s insane. I just you’re not I’m not surprised with any of those. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Top of this third hour. Remember, he had a secret fling with the daughter of a top Chinese communist official when he was teaching in China. He had a romance with Jenna Wang. She was the daughter of a CCP official. It happened in 1989. and uh he remember he kept going there he kept he loved going to china he loved it uh and uh he um apparently sent her all kinds of gifts and uh he and his like his like his staff they all wooed her yeah it was wild he just is obsessed with communist china he’s obsessed with communists i think And oh my gosh, there was this she did an interview during the when this story came out during the campaign. This is this is you’re going to cringe to death, but I’m going to share with this with you anyway. She gave an interview to the Daily Mail. This is an actual quote. Are you ready? Tim was very passionate and so romantic. I can still remember dancing with him to our favorite song, Careless Whisper. We all are dead now. Are you okay? Let’s revive Kane. He’s dead. Kane’s dead. Oh, you’re back with us. Don’t die again. It’s so bad. That’s so… He loves them CCP ladies. He’s like Eric Swalwell. I wonder who scored more with the commies. The commies got a type, apparently.
SPEAKER 20 :
Their favorite candle scent.
SPEAKER 22 :
Oh, burning tires. That’s right.
SPEAKER 20 :
Exactly right.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, that’s right. Absolutely. That’s so crazy. Tiananmen Tim. So wait, if if I’m curious, because so he thinks that that they’re going to have the moral high ground. That’s what he said. Who is the voice in the world that can negotiate some type of agreement, hold the moral authority? It might be the Chinese. Why is it the first thing that he thought of? Oh, it’s the Chinese, I guess. Yeah, I’m wondering. I just think that his relationship with China makes it entirely makes him it just disqualifies him from any kind of like high level, any kind. Just no. So we’ve been following these strikes. So apparently there was the IDF and has been bombing the absolute hell out of Iran all day. Well, specific sites, targeted precision strikes. So they took out one Iranian nuclear site in one area. There’s like two sites at least that they hit another, like a missile silo, they hit another nuclear site, and then they hit a separate nuclear facility as well. And they’re saying that the Houthis are preparing a massive attack against Israel and retaliation. What are you guys going to do? Because from what I understand… And one of the pull this up real quick. One of the things that I was reading and it’s a speculate when it’s speculation on like military reporting sites. I’m like, it’s probably actually because they were talking about Saudi airspace because you have to think of the Houthis where they’re going to be down in Yemen. And or unless they’re they’re getting close enough to like Sinai to be able to shoot from, you know, see. But. Apparently, from what the speculation I’ve been reading is that neither Jordan nor the Saudis have any issue with Israel shooting down any kind of air, you know, missile or anything like any kind of missile or anything in their airspace from the Houthis. That’s very interesting. Is it not? Is it not? I think so. So that’s this is going to be we’re in. Also, we’re in a new era of war. Everybody’s noticed that, right? I think Operation Spiderweb kind of everybody woke up to that. That was the I think that was a huge wake up call for everybody as to the future of warfare. And I have some tinfoil about this as well. These drone attacks, the drone attacks are terrifying. You want to hear my tinfoil? Okay. So, you know, there was all this discussion about like, you know, like DOD and maybe even CIA involved in the development of certain video games, particularly COD and others to get everybody acclimated to like that kind of maneuvering so that if we ever enter this type of warfare, that we would have a lot of people that would be actually qualified to be able to do it. I’m just saying, I’m just going to throw that out there.
SPEAKER 20 :
Makes sense.
SPEAKER 22 :
I would totally, I’m just going to say I volunteer. Don’t even pay me. I totally volunteer to like joystick the hell out of some drones and go after some baddies. Can you imagine instead of like playing like cod or dark tide or anything else? Like, I’m just going to go up and hook a strap in and I’m going to know how much you’d charge for that. I would charge zero dollars. I would actually pay you to do it. I would pay. I would pay for the software to install to do it myself.
SPEAKER 20 :
I’m seeing a service opening up.
SPEAKER 22 :
I’m saying I got to take a sip of my brand new coffee that I’m trying out.
SPEAKER 20 :
I know it’s pretty good. I’ve seen a service where people pay to take drones out.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 20 :
For the U.S.
SPEAKER 22 :
I would do that. Would you do that?
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah. Yeah, I would.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 20 :
I would do it even at times like, man, what is it? Two thirty in the morning. I can’t hardly sleep. Let me hop online and take some drones out real quick.
SPEAKER 22 :
I like doing this. So like, I like video games because I get very involved in like, you know, I’m always like reading stuff and as Kane can tell you, I don’t have like a lot, I don’t run off notes. Like I have a speech to give tonight to the Turning Point USA Young Women’s Leadership Summit and I never walk out with notes. If I do, it’s like bullet points to keep me from talking for five hours. But I’m very like, very type, you know, on 11, I’m type A, I’m like, I’m always wired. And it is literally one of the quickest ways to like chill my mind out and like kind of almost tire me out. I’m like a working breed, you know, you got to tire me out. And that is like one of the only ways because it’s so involving and it can be so mentally taxing and you get so into it and then you feel satisfied after. So I totally agree with your assessment. I would do that. Oh my gosh, I would do it right now.
SPEAKER 20 :
If a notification popped up on my phone, I’d be like, would you like to take out a couple drones? I’d be like, clicking that notification right now.
SPEAKER 22 :
Right? I’m telling you. Oh, my gosh. Hey, Gray over there, you would do that, too, wouldn’t you?
SPEAKER 20 :
He says yes. He’s just not paying attention.
SPEAKER 22 :
No, he’s not even paying attention. Smack him for me. He’s not even paying attention. Our researcher for Chapter Inverse, Gray, you would do that, too, wouldn’t you? Yeah, you would totally do that if you had a notification that popped up.
SPEAKER 20 :
Thumbs up. You notice the thumb he put up was the thumb he would take drones out with.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah. Or, wait a minute, though. Like, what platform are you on? And then, like, what’s your controller look like?
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, you got the triggers, like, so it’s Xbox. You got those triggers there.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, I’m at least the Xbox style.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah. You can assign whatever.
SPEAKER 22 :
Although, I grew up on PC. I grew up, like, with Doom and things like that on PC. So, I mean, I’m ambidextrous is what I’m saying to you. So it doesn’t matter.
SPEAKER 20 :
Direction, buttons.
SPEAKER 22 :
Holy cow.
SPEAKER 20 :
Spacebar.
SPEAKER 22 :
I just, you know how amazing that would be? I mean, it’s not my birthday for a long time. But a girl can dream, right? It was Mother’s Day last month.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yes, true.
SPEAKER 22 :
So Father’s Day this weekend.
SPEAKER 20 :
Should be Mother’s Day every day.
SPEAKER 22 :
Father’s Day this weekend, y’all. You know, a lot of dads would love to go pop some Terry’s, like using that. Just deputize us. Come on. It’s like that. I swear to you, that Key and Peele skit, which is one of the funniest skits I’ve ever seen in my entire life, where they’re on a plane and they’re like, yeah, I want to go drag that scouts. I can’t.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, that would be a great Father’s Day gift if you think about it. It’d be like, hey, get dad the gift of destroying drones.
SPEAKER 22 :
Grace says that they’re hard to operate. It would require drone training. I could do that. Hey, hey, hey, we do training. When I got the new quad, I had to go through a little training just to get used to some of the new things. I could do that. He’s laughing at me. I could totally do that, though. We could all do that. I would learn that. I know it’s not the same, but it could be.
SPEAKER 20 :
We’re in the age of AI. We could really make this easy. We just let AI do all the aiming. We just do the button pressing. Yeah. That’s all.
SPEAKER 22 :
Would you like to take out this Terry? I would like to take out this Terry. T-O-T, take out Terry’s tot. Click A for yes. I’m going totting. That’s taking out Terry’s. That’s what we’re doing. Just saying, man. I’m just saying. That’s going to be like a bumper sticker. It’s going to be like a shirt.
SPEAKER 20 :
And have tots. We can all be on Discord. While doing tot, you’re eating tot.
SPEAKER 22 :
Gray’s over here going, but Amos just can accidentally target a civilian. Well, what’s that civilian doing around them Terrys?
SPEAKER 20 :
These are drones we’re targeting, not humans.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah. Well, I mean, no, we can also use some drones to take out some Terrys. I’m not talking about going full Obama.
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, man.
SPEAKER 22 :
You know, I’m not doing that. Terry, what are you doing? Terry, back up.
SPEAKER 20 :
Seems like there’s enough known terrorists in the world where this service could go on for quite a while.
SPEAKER 22 :
Golly, do you know how amazing that would be? Just in case the CIA is listening, I completely so hardcore volunteer. I don’t have enough hands to raise.
SPEAKER 20 :
You even committed to paying.
SPEAKER 22 :
Dude, I would pay to do it. I don’t even, I can’t even raise enough hands. That would be amazing. Please, it’s Father’s Day this weekend for the dads. Let’s make it happen. Let’s make that happen for the dads. I’m just saying. By the way, I said for Father’s Day we should get Chris a Datsun. He doesn’t want another dog, so I’m trying to think of ways to get him. He can’t turn down a gift, right? Just saying. That’s a good point. Yeah. So the, let’s see here. Where’d it go? Yeah, Trump’s statement. Oh, my gosh. I got to read this statement because it’s hysterical. This one came this this one was like it because he doesn’t sleep. I don’t think ever. He this was like at five something in the morning. East Coast time. when he posted this on True Social. Can I just read it and it’s full? It’s just a short graph. Okay, he goes, quote, I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them in the strongest of words to just do it, but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done. I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told, and that the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the world, capitalized by far caps lock, and that Israel has a lot of it with much more to come, and they know how to use it. Certain Iranian hardliners spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all caps lock dead now, and it will only get worse. There’s already been great death and destruction, but there’s still time to make this slaughter with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal. Come to an end. Iran must make a deal before there is nothing left and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. No more death. No more destruction. Caps lock. Just do it before it is too late. God bless you all. Oh, my gosh.
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I already ripped it up to my veins.
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I can still like all this and not want to go to war, send the United States assets to war. I don’t want to send our people to war. And I got to tell you, I got real ticked off at Lindsey Graham. We’ll talk about that after the break.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It’s time for Dana’s Quick Five.
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All right. So police in China arrested female authors of novels that in a crackdown on a fiction genre. They don’t like if you’re if you’re homosexual, you get arrested over there. If you write something about Xi Jinping, you get arrested. If you like tell him that he looks like Winnie the Pooh, you get arrested. If you do anything that’s not CCP approved, you get arrested. There you go. Most overpriced grocery store chains in the U.S. Guess who makes the list again? It’s Whole Paycheck. Oh, I mean Whole Foods. The Economic Research Service. They’re saying that food prices are going to increase by 2.9 percent. And that’s as inflation is because we’re still we’re still trying to get out of all that. We’ve got to cut government spending. That’s the way it is or it’s never going to go away. But they said that, yeah, the Italy is at the top. Italy is one of them. It’s not an actual grocery chain. It’s more like an Italian market restaurant. There is that now I will say there are times for holidays if I want a certain type of Italian meat. I get it at Eataly because there’s certain, like when I have family in, there’s certain, I can’t get some of that anywhere else. And so I will get some of that at Eataly. But otherwise, it’s been pretty. Whole Foods though, can I just be real? I think Whole Foods is kind of overrated. Except for their fish. Sometimes they get really good fish in. We will do actual sushi at home sometimes and they can get like sashimi grade tuna in and they’ll hold it for you. That actually, that’s on instances like that or like young coconut if you’re doing a really, you know, like certain meringues and that. Oh, I know. I get real weird with this. But those are like real niche items that you need for stuff you don’t do every day. I reserve Whole Foods for that. But your everyday shopping, what the heck? Like it’s $11,000 to go shop there. Dana, don’t even do that. Let’s see here. A woman was caught making a PB&J sandwich during a Zoom court hearing. The judge scolded her because she was also in a bathrobe. She was in a bathrobe. This is in Atlanta. Making a PB&J sandwich. And the judge is like, you’re late and you’re not even dressed. What the hell? And you’re making a sandwich? She literally had the phone on the counter and she was looking down at it. And you can see the peanut butter jar. I don’t even know. What in the world? And China’s turning to robots for elderly care with a national pilot program. Sure. Elderly care. And a woman was beaten to death by a robot. Stick with us. We’ve got more in store.
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Okay, this is some short range systems. Stay here, Yaniv. Pull out a little bit. Okay, there’s just a massive amount of fire coming to Tel Aviv right now.
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Really crazy sights.
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Yaniv, get ready to pull it off the sticks. Get off the sticks. All right, let’s go. Time to go. Guys, come on. Everyone move. Everyone move now. Stay with us. Stay with us. Pick up the gear. Let’s go.
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So that’s Trey Yanks, and he was literally on a mezzanine, like a balcony level of a building in Tel Aviv. And about, they said, 100 Iranian missiles have been inbound, impact for Tel Aviv. And as they were… Because they were getting some… And the Iron Dome is… been enacted and some of them started coming into Tel Aviv airspace. One of them, the one that he was talking about right there. I don’t know, Cain, I was watching that video. It looked like it was coming to the building right next to them. No joke. No joke. I got to be honest, like I’ve never seen that perspective of an incoming rocket before. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. Iran has launched dozens of ballistic missiles towards Israel. Defense systems are operating to intercept. You have the Iron Dome, like I said, kicking into gear. Can you imagine how much more this would be if you had Israel not decimate the missile capability of Iran? Think about it, because they took out a number of missile sites, a number, with a plan that made Operation Grim Beeper look like child’s play. They created an explosive drone base within Iran, and they took out one of the air command centers in Tehran. They struck, I think, three to four nuclear facilities, a number of missile facilities, silos, et cetera. But obviously, there’s still some left, and I think it would have been a lot more. But they have a lot. They had a lot that they took out. So I can only imagine how much more this would be if they had not decimated that missile capability. And they have made impact in Tel Aviv. Some of Israel’s air defense system failed to intercept all of the missiles. Residents have been told to remain in bomb shelters. And a number of folks that we know here at the program who are actually in Israel right now, some of them in Tel Aviv, they’re in… In fact, one friend of mine who writes for Daily Wire is apparently multiple… Floors underground in Tel Aviv. And as this as this shelter notice went out and even then you can still hear no matter how many floors you are below, you can still hear some of the stuff from up above. It’s just wild, just wild. So we’re watching this and pretty, pretty amazing. The video that’s coming out and we’re seeing I mean, this is all happening real time right now. Five to seven of these missiles made it through Israel’s layered missile defense system. Now, that’s pretty good. That’s a pretty good ratio, considering that it was apparently about 100, maybe a little more ballistic missiles that they fired into Tel Aviv. And then so about five to seven made it through their defense system. So far, zero casualties in Israel have been reported. And there’s a lot of video of the interceptors that have been confronting the latest salvo of these missiles. So this has been. Pretty, I mean, pretty wild. They were wanting to use maximum pressure to cripple Tehran’s ability. Now, I want to lay this out right now as we analyze this. You can believe that Israel has every right to defend itself and they need to go take care of business while also opposing American boots on the ground. and American involvement in escalating this into a wider spread conflict. So that should go without saying. I know you guys are smart people and you can juggle multiple thoughts at once, but we got drive-bys out there who clearly are not up to your speed. So we say that for them. But the logic that Israel was using, going on their intel, and it was a gamble. And it was whether or not their intel proved correctly. was that they were apparently right on the cusp of going full-on nuclear. And that’s what they were trying to prevent from happening. There was a short window, according to their intel, that they could act. Now, let me go back and lay this puzzle out for you. If you remember the fall of Bashar al-Assad, when that regime fell in Syria… he ended up uh running to russia and exiled russia and they lost that air defense they lost well they lost that hedge of protection in syria with the sierra al-basad being having to leave and so the new regime and i’m pulling this story up because you know uh That Trump met with him, the guy who came in, we were always like, oh, is it going to be, you know, because you have Bashar al-Assad and he was kind of have to look at the lesser of two devils there. And then the new guy who came in, he closed airspace. for Iranian use not just for uh military and commercial but even like civilian they are not allowed to use Syrian airspace anymore Iran really Iran really needed Syrian airspace because that’s how they got a lot of munitions in and also previously when they would strike Israel etc etc uh they closed all of that and so they lost that hedge in addition to that uh The they they’re not getting support from Arab nations. It’s the Shia versus Sunni balance of power. They’re not getting that support from anyone. Some people said, well, you know, their entrance into BRICS. Yeah, Brazil, China, whatever. You know, it’s not going to happen. China. You can’t tell me China wasn’t aware of this or that Russia wasn’t aware of this. Here’s the thing. These Arab leaders are celebrating this because Iran is the problematic person that nobody wants at the table. They would love a regime change that the one that Jimmy Carter and Democrats and the CIA put in with their op when they got rid of the Shah and they put that they put the Ayatollah in there. That’s all on Carter. That’s all on that party. Happy to recommend you one of the seven books that I’ve read that that detail. It’s fascinating when you realize how blatant it is. It is one of the craziest things I’ve ever read about in history. It is insane. how blatantly ridiculous they were and how high on their own supply they were to think that this was going to end up in any way peaceful or not a threat to American security at some point in the future. That being said, so this Operation Rising Lion, this There was some trepidation within the administration on behalf of Steve Witkoff per Axios, where they were concerned about having a successful outcome that doesn’t lead to all-out war. And they were a little bit worried about the air response to Israel. They were worried about whether or not Israel would be able to either manage or withstand an airborne assault from Iran as a response to this. And that’s one of the reasons, obviously, why they were very quick to take out a lot of these, you know, the air command, the missile facilities, etc. Because it looks like, you know, right now, I mean, they got air raid sirens going on. You know, they got the Iron Dome kicked into gear. They’re intercepting things. So far, no casualties. So far, it looks like they’re managing it. But I can’t imagine how much worse it would be had they not decimated again the the missile capability, the air capability of Iran. And so this and looking at this. Even back, this was a couple of weeks ago, the United Nations, which I don’t like, I think it’s a corrupt joke, and they’ve not been historically favorable at all towards Israel. They even finally ruled, how many decades has this been, Cain? They even finally ruled that Iran was not abiding by the nuclear proliferation agreement. to not pursue nuclear capability. It only took several decades. So all of their cover in terms of optics is gone. And Israel is not escalating anything. They are responding. If you have forgotten… Iran bypassed. Normally, they’ve gone through Hezbollah or the Houthis or Hamas. They always go through a proxy group so they can pretend that their hands are clean. They hold up their hands to the world. We didn’t do anything. Israel’s so mean. Well, if you remember. And I think it was back even in July 2024. They just decided to strike outright from Iran. They didn’t go through a proxy. And Israel responded. Iran responded. So this idea that a response is escalation is nonsense. That’s like saying that the United States escalated by responding to Pearl Harbor. It’s like saying that Britain escalated in responding to the Nazi blitzkrieg. It’s asinine. It’s illiberal. So this is the latest state of things. It’s pretty – I mean to see all this, it’s – but no, we’re not going to get into World War III. This is not going to be World War III. Anyone who tells you this is a moron. And I’ll be the first to tell you – The reasons that I gave you Syria closing their airspace, Saudi Arabia issued a little response, a winky wink, nudge, nudge response with like, oh, we condemn it. Oh, no, don’t stop. They don’t. They don’t like Iran. UAE, Bahrain, everybody. They don’t like Iran. Nobody likes Iran. Jordan, you’re not going to see any of these countries rush to Iran’s defense. They’ll issue like little statements here or there, but that’s it. Abraham Accords are in effect. That is it. Iran has lost all footing, all support to the point where even Russia and China don’t even want to touch them. So, no, this is not going to be World War Three. It isn’t that there is not a single one of those ingredients that are that are kicking in the stew that’s going to make that happen. It’s just not going to happen. I think that there are some people like Lindsey Graham who would love for that to happen. Can I just address what he said yesterday? Rarely do I get really mean on social. Really, really mean. This is one of those times where I did. He tweeted out, and this was yesterday, right as all of this started kicking off, and I put it up on Instagram as well. He had kicked off, and he tweeted out, game on after this happened he tweeted game on pray for israel and that made me mad his tone and language i said you think it’s a game because you’ve never seen combat that’s true he’s a pencil pusher he never saw combat it’s not a game it’s it’s a serious thing because lives are always on the line And it’s always these people that have no skin in the game that want to go to war. The people who have never been in a fight are always the most eager to get in it without exception. And I have spoken to hundreds of veterans in my career and just excluding family and friends. And I’m going to tell you the one thing that every single one of them has has expressed is that nobody wants war. And it’s a last resort. And when you get into it, you want to get the job done. And sometimes in order to get the job done as efficiently as possible, as expeditiously as possible, limited loss of life and resource, you have to be brutal. And it changes people. It changes you. Even the best of us. It changes you. Everybody comes home different. A lot of my friends that have been in multiple tours and had sought treatment for PTS and all of this, they’ve all talked about it as much as they can. And it is always, even to hear from their wives or their moms or dads or their siblings about how much it changes them. And I’ve noticed too that no one gets angrier at reckless talk like that more so than these guys. And they have every right to be because they know the true cost of it and they know what it means. And they also know the toll that it takes on families, not just during time of deployment, but after when they come home and they’re trying to acclimate to civilian life and they’re trying to regain what does normalcy look like? You know, it reminds me of Frodo and the Shire. When after he goes on this epic quest, Frodo, like one of the most wholesome people, goes on this epic quest and And at the very end, when it matters most, and he’s about to throw the ring in the fire, as you know, finally his discipline fails him. And Sam, who’s a real hero of the story, kicks into gear, but that’s another issue. Frodo comes back after the success of this epic quest, even though it was successful, even though they got rid of evil, even though they got rid of Saruman, they got rid of the darkness that was plaguing Middle-earth. He told Sam, he goes, we saved the Shire, but not for me. He could not, he couldn’t recapture what he had prior. So he was going to go to the Undying Lands with the elves. And I think that’s a great description of what a lot of these guys go through. And that is why they react so angrily when you have people like Lindsey Graham talk so recklessly about this. And I get mad because I’ve talked to these guys so much. And, you know, as an American and as a wife and a cousin and a friend and a mother, you know, it hurts your heart for these people to see that. what they’ve gone through reduced down to reckless talking points by somebody like Lindsey Graham. So that’s why I got so mad about it. We’re going to continue following this as well. And you can also see this on Substack.
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And we are watching all of this unfold as well. This latest with Iran sending some missiles over striking Tel Aviv. And there’s a lot of video about that. And we’re going to continue following it up over on Substack chapter and verse. I also have to share this real quick. Somebody stole ice cubes. iPad at TSA. He goes, TSA stole my iPad out of my bag tonight. United flight 2615. Either LAX or O’Hara. I need my ERP back ASAP or it’s a problem. Somebody is about to find out the hard way, I got to say. Would not want to be that person. Quick note for Father’s Day. Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there. We appreciate you. We are grateful for you. The ones who, the dads who, you know, you guys are underappreciated. And the dads who stepped in. Maybe you weren’t a dad, but you stepped up to become a dad. God love you. We’re so grateful for you. And I hope you have a wonderful weekend. And I hope you get some steak. You get some steak, you should have a cold one and a steak, and you should be able to go out and survey your yard or stand over your grill with your hat and your socks pulled high. God bless you. All right, today’s stupidity came.
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And the double-duty dads, the ones that have to do mom and dad stuff.
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That’s right, single dads. All right. What, what?
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Sandra Cuomo for crying out loud.
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crisis-tested executive, been through COVID, obviously, but some people have criticized your leadership during COVID, specifically when it comes to the nursing home crisis. How do you answer that question? First of all, New Yorkers, New Yorkers are going to criticize whatever you do. On nursing homes, it became a political football four years ago.
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So instead of address the issue.
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He’s never going to take responsibility. Ever. Happy Father’s Day, Cain. Thank you. Happy Father’s Day, dads. Happy Father’s Day, the dad in my life. Thank you, Chris. And God bless you guys. I’ll be back with you. Normal show on Monday.
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