In addition to window technology, this episode takes a hard look at global security measures. John offers his perspective on recent international security operations, outlining why decisive actions were taken over the weekend. With an emphasis on protecting national security and assessing threats from international players, John debates the necessity of proactive measures in a world where some state actors fund terrorism. This candid look into the American stance on global threats highlights both the moral and strategic reasons behind these decisions.
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All right, happy Monday. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. Hopefully you all had a fabulous weekend. We’ll get into the weekend events here in a moment. Before we do that, Dave from Veteran Windows and Doors is with us. Dave, good afternoon.
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Yes, good afternoon.
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Almost evening, not quite.
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We’ll get there.
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We’re gaining on it. Although anymore with the long daylight days right now, evening seems a long way off.
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I know. It’s been nice.
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I love it. Sunset at 830. I’ll take it. Yeah, me too. So speaking of all of that, every time, I don’t know why, just when the sun changes in the sky and different things. And I was saying to my wife on Friday that this will be the – keep in mind that from this point – forward now the sun starts going back to the south. So and then in that in that particular context, I always think of you because of the windows and how that works. And where does your house face and what kind of windows do you need and all of that because all of that has a factor in that.
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Absolutely. That’s really what we look at. What is the exposure, not only from the sun, but what type of exposure does it have with all this rain? Really, you can kind of assess each wall independently, and you can either do the same glass throughout, or if you don’t need a UV inhibitor on a north-facing basement window.
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Yeah, if it’s not getting a lot of sunlight anyways, why spend all the extra dough when it’s not necessarily needed? And that could even, you know, Dave, same thing could follow suit with smaller, I’m assuming like smaller bathroom windows. And depending upon, again, what direction do they face? How far up are they? Things along those lines. I mean, there’s a lot of factors that come into this where the majority of companies out there, it’s sort of a, I don’t want to say it’s one size fits all, but depending upon who you’re dealing with, it kind of is. Yeah.
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I think a lot of them are. You know, they have access to a certain glass pack, and that’s kind of what they promote. It’s readily available.
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And they just do the measurements, and this is what you’re going to get.
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That’s it, yeah. It’s not worth it, you know, from a time perspective for them to go through each window, each individual window, yeah.
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The sales guy is not doing that. No. Doesn’t want to do that.
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Doesn’t want to do that. Yeah. Typically, I mean, unless it’s a rarity, they’re really not trained in that. It’s not. They’re trained sales reps.
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They’re trained to sell this particular product, go push it.
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That is it. Yep. That is it.
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Okay. Last time you were on, we were talking about some of the standards that might be changing first of the year. Any more update on that, or what are you hearing there?
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No real change. It’s still projected to move forward with that.
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And that’s the Energy Star for elevation and so on, right?
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Yeah. They’re requiring that you adhere to what they’re calling an Energy Star 7.0. And it really is not advantageous to those in Colorado. It’s more suited for sea level or things like that. One of the aspects that they’re looking at is what’s called your solar heat gain coefficient. And you want that number to be as low as possible to make sure you’re blocking all of that solar heat and everything. And they’re actually requiring that it be higher. you know, in anticipation of like passive solar heating, something like that. But you really, it’s not what you want in Colorado.
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It doesn’t necessarily work for us.
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No, it has the adverse effect. Now your AC is coming on every 15 minutes to keep the house at a reasonable level, and you’re actually increasing your carbon footprint as opposed to the whole effort there is to minimize.
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To decrease, right. Yeah. Okay, so given all of that, what’s your recommendations to folks on if they’re thinking about doing windows, they’ve maybe even talked to you in the past but didn’t pull the trigger for whatever reason, what should they be doing right now?
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I would definitely, again, I think we said it last time, if you were on the fence, now would be a great time to purchase because it allows us to really engineer the window properly for your windows.
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Before those mandatory changes were made.
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The mandatory, ridiculous, yeah, sea level. They just don’t care about us over 4,000 feet.
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No, you’re right. No, you’ve said it well. We used to run into that in the car, you know, in the automotive industry when you got into the higher elevations and so on. You know, rarely did a manufacturer think much in that regard. And I guess now the same is true when it comes to windows.
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Yeah. Well, particularly when you do get higher up, you know, when you are over at the 7,500 foot mark and above, because they’re now requiring essentially that it be a gas filled, you would not believe the optical issues because your glass is pillowing now. And so it’s almost like a funhouse mirror. Oh, geez. And it just really is not going to be.
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And that is going to be a mandate where you won’t have any workaround around that, correct?
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If they follow through with it, there will be no workaround.
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Because once that’s installed and that gas is filled in there, it is what it is.
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That is it.
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If you break that seal or do anything along those lines, you’re avoiding the warranty, I’m guessing.
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Well, that’s it. Well, and the gas is in there because they’ve coated with thin layers of nickel to refract some of that radiation. And nickel, when exposed to the air, will powder, will oxidize.
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Okay.
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So when you see that powdering in between the windows, that’s telling you that your seal has already failed and you’re actually seeing the oxidization of that soft coat. So there’s more to it than meets the eye.
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Absolutely.
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And it really, I think a lot of this stuff should be considered.
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Yeah, and as typical with government, they’re not. No. They’re just going to… Run forward. Now, again, things could change. Keep in mind, for all of you listening, yes, there’s a new administration, and yes, there’s probably more than just Dave out there telling the administration, guys, you’ve got to fix some of this stuff. There is some time. I mean, we’re not even into July yet, although it’s just next week, so we’re getting closer, and it’s something they’re going to have to get done. fairly quickly although you know and this has been known to happen and you just don’t know though i mean could they pull the trigger on a change you know on the 11th hour well they could but i don’t know that i would be somebody that would be wanting to wait on that to determine whether i’m going to buy windows you know in other words if i know i need windows i’m not going to wait for that i’m going to go and get them done now and stay ahead of it
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Yeah, well, and that’s the issue with manufacturing as well. Do you alter your manufacturing effort right now in anticipation of that going into play?
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Well, I think as you get into the fourth quarter, you’re going to start looking at that, absolutely, which is only a quarter away. Yeah, that’s it. You’re not that far off to where you’re going to start thinking that way.
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Yeah, yeah.
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For those of you listening, again, if you’ve thought about doing Windows and it’s something where maybe even you’ve had Dave out and you’ve kind of been on the fence, not sure what to do, don’t know whether to pull the trigger or not, I would say personally my recommendation would be get that done sooner than later.
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Yeah, now is definitely a good time, you know, either way. I mean, cost-wise, come January 1st, it is going to be more expensive for a less efficient.
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Less quality window. Yeah, that’s it.
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You’re going to pay more for less. It makes no sense.
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Again, guys, this is sometimes what government does. They think they’re doing things that help when at the end of the day they are not. So right now the deal is up to three windows, 35% off. Four or more, you get 40% off. So by all means, call Dave. Again, klzradio.com is the place to find Dave. If you’re on my website, rushtoreason.com, you can find Dave there. as well, and that’s the easiest way to do it. A lot of you that are out driving and so on, just go to one of our main two websites. Dave’s number is all over the place. You can call him from there and make it really easy. What’s your lead time, Dave, right now, roughly?
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It depends on overall style, but I think the windows right now are about a four-week manufacturing process, and then we’re installing probably about six to eight weeks out.
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Okay, so some of you listening are thinking, man, I’d like to get this done before winter. you better get going now because it’s not as far away as you think. I know, it’s crazy. We’re going to be in the middle of summer here. I mean, I get it. Summer just started, but the way the Colorado weather works, we’ve already been into summer for a little bit, and we’ll roll through. It starts cooling off, as you guys all know. Mid-late September, things start to change and cool off, and we go the other direction then, and daylight gets a little shorter, and all that starts to happen then. That is it. If you’re going to pull the trigger, get it done. Dave, I always learn from you. I appreciate you very much. Yes, sir. Thanks for taking care. And I get tons and tons of comments from listeners that talk about what a great job you’ve done for them and so on, and I appreciate that greatly as well. I haven’t had a single person complaining or anything along those lines. They all rant and rave about how well you do and how you take care of them and so on. I appreciate that as well. I appreciate that greatly, so thank you.
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Outstanding, yeah. You’re very welcome.
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All right. Again, Veteran Windows and Doors, klzradio.com. And Roof Savers of Colorado coming up next. And Dave is looking not only to take care of your roof, get out, get things handled, don’t wait for the storms to end. I think there’s some folks out there that maybe have had some damage. whether it’s windows, siding, roof, whatever the case may be. Don’t wait any longer. Get that handled sooner than later. And then on top of that, if you’re somebody that’s got a sales background and you’d like a job, Dave is looking to hire in that area as well because of his growth. So that’s Dave Hart, Roof Savers of Colorado, 303-710-6916.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Question of the day from Friday, how many hearts does an octopus have? The answer would be three. And that’s also a consequence of having blue blood. So there is your answer to how many hearts does an octopus have. Now, today’s answer, or question of the day, which I knew this answer when I was not very old, and maybe that’s a little bit of a hint to some of you because of the background I have. What is the natural color of rubber? What is the natural color of rubber? And it’s not what most people think. Yeah, and Charlie got the answer correctly. Yes, that is. Most people don’t know the actual color. So answer that on the RushToReason.com or RushToReason Facebook page. Do that there, and I would appreciate it. Okay, several things happened over the weekend, of course. You all know, and I’m getting a few text messages even that have come through, not only since I’ve been on air, but even prior to that. You all saw in… I really felt like, and I had said this last, I think, either Monday or Tuesday, that if Trump was going to do something, he’d do it by the end of the week. Now, I guess when I said end of the week, I was thinking Friday, and as it turned out, it happened Saturday. I think it started actually Friday, but ended up being the news on Friday. Saturday and I don’t have a crystal ball. I didn’t know that was going to happen. My gut feeling on it just was if he’s going to do it now is the time. And I realized that and I was hoping that maybe things would pause. And we talked about that on Friday a little bit, that maybe things would pause for a couple of weeks. That was really, I think, a ploy on Trump’s part to to if you would be a decoy or, you know, getting the. the attention off of us in regards to Iran, and then, of course, we did what we did over the weekend, which I’ll talk again more about that, not just now, but probably throughout the show, and we’ll get feedback from all of you listening as well. And there was some feedback that I even received on Friday along these lines, not on this show, but on Ready Radio. But bottom line, yes, we I think not only did we take care of the problem that was in Iran. This is where I think there are times where this is OK. And I know there’s a lot of folks out there listening, including those that are on our side that feel like this is something that we shouldn’t have done. We need to stay out of it. It’s none of our business, blah, blah, blah. Well, I disagree. And I’ll give you several reasons as to why. But the biggest reason, number one, is you cannot let a madman have a nuclear weapon. I talked about that on Friday during Ready Radio. You just can’t. You can’t let terrorists have a nuclear weapon, especially these type of terrorists. Second of all, I do think what happened on Saturday, which we haven’t done anything like this as a country for quite some time, not to this level, not as strategic and as planned out as this particular mission was, what we actually accomplished, the targets that we hit, how streamlined everything went and so on. Bottom line, we showed the entire world, don’t screw with us. Yeah, I mean, pardon my French, but basically that’s what we sent the message to the entire world is, you know what, for all of you that attack us and don’t think we’ve got any kind of a backbone and don’t think we know what we’re doing and we’re just this awful country and we have no clue and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, what do you say now? We do know what we’re doing. We do have an immense amount of firepower to really accomplish anything that we would set out to do as a country. If anything, I think what Saturday showed is we once again, and it hasn’t been this way all along, by the way. Depending upon who’s president, especially underneath Obama and Biden, we now just send a message to the world, again, don’t screw with us. We’re a country not to be reckoned with. Leave us be. If you want the wrath of the United States of America, come on, and you can see what happened on Saturday. So if there’s anything that I think we accomplished on Saturday outside of shutting down a bunch of nuclear facilities inside of Iran, we send a message to the world that, you know what, we mean business, and we’re not here to dink around. So you know what? If you’re thinking that you can kind of push us around like has been done under previous administrations, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, I can go down the names of some of these particular countries that I think feel that way. I don’t think they’re feeling that way today. Let’s just say that. In fact, there’s been some comments from some of those countries, and of course some of those countries, Russia included, didn’t like what we did. But you know what? Who cares? Vladimir. If anything else, Vladimir, it shows you our capability. And, again, don’t mess with us. So, again, there’s going to be people out there that don’t, and I’ve seen the posts. There’s people out there on our side that don’t agree with what we did. I think they’re knuckleheads. I don’t think they’re thinking clearly. They’re thinking that, you know, we’re doing this for all the wrong reasons when, in fact, we did it for all the right reasons. And no, I don’t think anything outside of Iran itself provoked this. Keep in mind, they are the largest, and I’m not joking when I say this, they are the largest funding of terror around the world, period. They’re it. They fund more terrorist organizations than anyone. So I got a text message a moment ago that am I worried about, you know, sleeper cells. It’s funny. Things that the Democrats are today worried about because of what happened Saturday, which, by the way, they’re the ones that have let all these knuckleheads in, and yet they’re the ones worrying about sleeper cells now being awakened, if you would, because of what happened in Iran. And some asked me, you know, am I worried about that today? No, actually I’m not. No. In fact, again, I don’t have a crystal ball. And I could be wrong. Don’t think I’m going to be in this case. I believe what you saw today in regards to Iran going after our military base in Qatar, which there was total forewarning on. Qatar knew exactly what to do. They scrambled planes, intercepted things, no casualties, no real damage to speak of. At the end of the day, to me, that was Iran basically getting back at us. Sort of like being on the baseball diamond when, you know, the catcher maybe, you know, kicks his cleat and shoves dirt all over the umpire. That’s kind of what Iran just did. That’s about the extent of it. Won’t change anything at the end of the day. Trump even said, we’re not doing anything about it. We’re not going to retaliate. And I believe he’s right in that we’re not going to retaliate. I think we’ve already shown Iran what we can do if they carry this forward. We literally could wipe that country off the map. In a short order. It wouldn’t take us long, is my point. We showed that on Saturday. So do I think Iran’s going to do any more than what’s already been done? No. No. No. Now, could there be some rogue outside of Iran sleeper cells that do some things? Folks, that’s always a chance. That can always happen. Somebody asked me, too, about how about Candace Owens? She really has gone the wrong direction. Candace Owens is off on Never Never Land. I don’t know what happened to Candace. At one time, I had a lot of respect for Candace Owens and even the likes of Tucker Carlson and so on. I don’t know what gets into some of these people. I’ve talked about this in the past. I talked about this with Candace, by the way. And I do think in some cases, in this case in particular with Candace, I think, number one, she’s not that old. Now, Tucker doesn’t have any excuse because he is. But Candace isn’t super old. She’s still, in my opinion, fairly young. And doesn’t have the same life experience that people twice her age have. So, unfortunately, and I was this way, so I feel like I can say this. I’m 60. But I will tell you that when I was in my, you know, late 20s, early 30s, and keep in mind, I was a pretty old soul considering how early I started working and what I did and how old I was when I started a business and so on. So, I mean, I was a pretty old soul even at age 30. And yet, did I know the same things at 30 that I know today? No, not even close. Would I make the same decisions then that I would make today? No, I would not. would I do things the same way then that I would do today? No. You learn. You grow. You age. Lots of things happen, and maturity sets in, and does it make you wiser? Yes, I believe it does. I think it’s also why we, when you’re younger, and I had a lot of this. I purposely sought out older people, not just my dad and uncle and others that I was close to, but even others outside of that. I always sought out older folk, that I could hang around with and learn from because they had wisdom far beyond what I had. And I purposely sought some of those individuals out. I would purposely take them to breakfast or take them to lunch or even as an older couple even, going to dinner as a couple, things like that. Yes, I did that purposely because I could learn from those older folks, from the elders if you would, I could learn from them things that I didn’t know. And I still am to this day very respectful of those that are older than me. Now, as I age, that gets harder and harder to find, but there are still some that are out there that are older than me that I still respect greatly, that I still think of in that way, and I probably will do that until I go to the grave. So what’s happened to Candace? I just think she’s gone astray. She does not think as clearly as she should. She, I believe, is getting a lot of input from a lot of the wrong people. And unfortunately, the other thing that happens when you’re in a Candace or a Tucker Carlson situation, I think this applies to both of them. And let me say it this way. And sorry for my scrambled words at times. My brain’s going way, way, way faster than what my mouth is able to keep up. So I’m trying to slow down and say this as concisely as I can. I think when you’re a Candace Owen or a Tucker Carlson and you get so big on regular media that then something happens and you’re no longer in that same media. and you now are, quote-unquote, on your own, and you now have to, quote, find your own way, unfortunately, because you don’t have those other people around you that you once did, they were kind of guiding you and in some cases probably directing you on what you should or shouldn’t do, and maybe that’s good, maybe that’s bad. In the case of Tucker and Candace, I will tell you that their previous roles were better than what they have right now. Because they’ve lost their way in what they’re doing now. And my point is, they still have to make money. They still have to have views and clicks and so on. And so by doing things the way they’re doing it, they end up with that, and it ends up… That’s how they make money at the end of the day. In some ways, the more… the more shock value you can present, the more money you can make at the end of the day. All right, let me take a quick break. We’ll come back here. Dr. Scott Faulkner coming up next. Great doctor. Scott wants to take care of you, your entire body, your entire mind. He is not beholden to big pharma. He’s not beholden to big anything. He is there to take care of you and your health alone. 303-663-6990.
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All right, really quick. Somebody asked me also, should we stock up on ammo? And there are some conservative influencers that say they have received threats from Iranians. So let me really quick address the ammo. I wouldn’t stock any more ammo than what you normally would. Do I feel like anything’s different today than it was Friday? No. I don’t. Maybe I’m being coy. I don’t think I am. I think I’m being very rational when I say that. So, no, I wouldn’t do anything more ammo-wise than what you currently would do in any other situation. And as far as the influencers receiving threats from Iranians, highly doubt it. I highly doubt that. Now, could there be somebody posing as an Iranian and trying to get in their grill and trying to do some things to rattle them? Potentially. Potentially. Could they also be doing this for the shock value, the click value, and so on? Absolutely. Sure. Anytime they can catch a crisis and do something with it, will they? Absolutely. Some of these influencers live and die by the clicks and will do anything they possibly can to get you to click, view, watch, like, share, and so on when it comes to their videos. I’m not saying they have or haven’t. What I’m saying is be careful with some of these things that you hear and read and see, especially on social media, because most of those guys, I’ll just be straight up honest, are total knuckleheads. Marty, go ahead.
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Okay, John, a couple of thoughts here real quick. You can’t do what you did to Iran and think we can now make peace. John, in your opinion, is Iran’s greater – impact or resource or value? Do you think it’s more in their oil reserves and those capacities or was in this nuclear sort of threat or ambition? Which do you think was the greater of the two? from the world’s view, and then Iran sort of, you know, what cards they’re holding.
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I’m not sure I’m following you, Marty. So, in other words, where’s their biggest wealth, or where’s their biggest resource? I don’t know what I’m following.
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Well, their greatest asset, meaning their greatest asset to them, I believe, was their nuclear ambitions.
SPEAKER 05 :
Why? Because When it comes to their terrorist goals and so on, absolutely, because as you know, their oil end of things, while they have great reserves, they’ve been sanctioned for so long and have so little development in that particular area that they’re only producing a couple million barrels a day at most. I mean, most people don’t realize. Most people think they’re pumping millions and millions and millions of barrels a day, and the reality is, Marty – They are not. They are very, very low on the scale player when it comes to oil when it’s all said and done. So, no, that is not their biggest asset.
SPEAKER 16 :
Exactly. And so it’s the threat of nuclear, meaning we wouldn’t even be paying attention to Iran if they said, well, we don’t want to do it anyway. So we know that you just took away from a country who doesn’t have a lot of friends, doesn’t have a lot of outside resources.
SPEAKER 05 :
I want to stop you for a moment there because I think you’re stating something very true. If you look at even what Saudi has said, what Qatar has said, what some of the other quote-unquote brotherhood has said about Iran even today, yeah, they have no friends, Marty.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. And so now you’ve taken away the single thing that allows them to keep pressures at bay and sort of an ongoing feud. You’ve removed that. What we did to Iran, John, is essentially me coming to your house, shooting your dog. Taking your wife and kissing in your living room. That’s what we just did to Iran. And what we also did is say, oh, and if you do anything about it to me, we’re going to kill you.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, no, Marty, what we just did to Iran, really quick, no. What we just did, maybe you feel that way, I don’t feel that way. What we just did to Iran is we neutered them. We now have given their people even, which this is one thing about social media I do love, is there is a ton of people that have now come out and basically talked about what it’s like to really live in Iran under this particular dictatorship and how many of them would love to see a change there. What we’ve really done, Marty, is given hope to the Iranian people that they didn’t have prior.
SPEAKER 16 :
Kind of. Not kind of, Marty.
SPEAKER 05 :
We have given them that.
SPEAKER 16 :
Obviously.
SPEAKER 05 :
We have given them that, especially, Marty, when you look at what you just said a moment ago about the fact that they have nobody else coming to their aid, meaning that as a regime, I mean, Marty, at this point in time, what do they have left other than oil? Nothing.
SPEAKER 16 :
Exactly my point, John. Exactly my point, John. So to think that we have this sort of. you know, half-assed strike in Qatar, and that’ll be the end of this. They have no reason to do nothing but their worst, John. You took everything from them. They have nothing left. And the idea that we’re going to make peace with this same regime, because remember, John… I didn’t say we’d make peace, Marty.
SPEAKER 05 :
Those words didn’t come out of my mouth.
SPEAKER 16 :
Trump is now saying, let’s be peace.
SPEAKER 05 :
He has to. Marty, he’s the president of the United States. What else is he going to say? Of course he has to say that.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, okay. But that’s also a bold-faced lie. So hopefully every American now knows that there’s no capacity for peace left. I mean, everybody on Fox News and establishment said, well, this country has screamed and cheered. What did they say? Death to America. We hate America. That was before we destroyed the nuclear. Do you think they like us more or less now? That’s a no-brainer, right, John?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, the people at the top, I don’t think, Marty, at the end of the day, it hasn’t changed their view. They hated us yesterday. They hate us today. It really hasn’t changed their hatred one way or the other. What we did, though, Marty, is we— What we did, though, Marty, is we cut off a certain amount of their resources that they could have had to do that destruction that they would love to do. Does that mean that you’re not going to see them running around the world and doing some of the terrorist things they’ve done in the past? Of course not, Marty. That same risk existed yesterday. It exists today. Now, one thing, though, Marty, about that that I wanted to add, so I’m glad you brought that up because this is also my belief. When you take those folk and you send them to, let’s say, you know, in this case, America, and you allow them now to live and breathe and sleep among us, there’s something, Marty, that also starts to happen with those individuals. Now, that’s not to say that this happens to all of them. But I do believe there’s a portion of them that this will change. They look around and see the utter richness of America and the fact that they could partake in that if they wanted to. Believe me, Marty, that alone has influence upon some of those folks that enter this country as well.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay, that’s fair, and I know that we’re still the great destination.
SPEAKER 05 :
The whole point is… Let me follow that up. You take a terrorist that has come to this country to terrorize, but he lives here for a while, and he starts seeing that, you know… Well, you know, it’s funny. These people really aren’t the people that everybody said they were. In fact, there’s people that can protest. There’s people that can either like the protest, not like the protest. At the end of the day, they’re kind of free to do whatever they want to do. And no, nobody’s out in the streets attacking them for doing the things that they’re doing and blah, blah, blah. I mean, I can go down the list, Marty, of the things that people see here that they can’t see in their home country. And pretty soon they’re thinking to themselves. geez, this isn’t what I was told. I mean, at some point, Marty, and it won’t happen to all of them, but you’ve got to believe there’s a certain amount of them that will start looking at that saying, crap, I’ve been on the wrong side.
SPEAKER 16 :
I can’t say that across the board. I’m sure in some cases, yes, they were victims in their homeland, and this is like dream come true. I get it. Others know that we’re responsible for the million dead Iraqi, and they’ll never have the change of heart. So I get that it might be out there. I would never play that game with the American people on our conduct in the Middle East. John, I just want to touch on the Candace Owen side of things and sort of where you sought wisdom or sort of the… I want to be super clear, just because age alone does not cause wisdom, wisdom comes from God, and that’s how you obtain, you know, higher levels of spiritual connection.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, from him, and of course Marty, you know, even in Christendom, age… How do I want to say this correctly? There’s something to be said about having experience. Experience only comes with age. It doesn’t mean that there aren’t some really, really smart, intelligent, you know, 20 year olds or 30 year olds. I mean, you’ve heard some of my boys come on air and talk. So I won’t say that there’s not some really intelligent young people because there are, Marty there. especially those that seek out those that are older and they will listen to them and they will apply those things. I mean, it’s what the Bible even talks about, you know, gathering that wisdom from those that have gone before. And that’s very biblical. And a lot of young people, by the way, I feel I’m going to talk about some of this today, Marty, when it comes to young people and why they feel so alone and empty at times. I think there’s a lot of them that don’t do the things that you and I are talking about. But I agree with you. No, age does not mean that you’re automatically going to be wise. No more than if you’re young means you’re automatically stupid.
SPEAKER 16 :
totally right. And so when we filter in, like example, George Bush is in his 80s or 70s or whatever age, and I wouldn’t take guidance from him on how to eat a cheeseburger. You understand? I would defer to pandas. breakdown of 9-11 than I would George Bush, right? And so that’s where we begin to filter. And I think this is where, John, we’re moving in the MAGA movement. This is what I anticipated, is that you had one massive MAGA unit. You and I were both a part of that same body, MAGA against the demonic left, the trans, the whole thing. We knew it. Now that we’ve entered White House, and the america first is sort of on hold okay on pause you’re having split you’re having division and maga you’re going one way with trump i’m going a very different way and i guess that brings us back to last week how much slippage can maga afford before we got to get into some really serious stuff because you already have chaos on the left you’ve got now middle east turmoil and that’s not done by any means any stretch It will be after 4th of July.
SPEAKER 05 :
Here’s my other prediction, Marty. All of this will be in the rearview mirror week after next.
SPEAKER 16 :
Oh, my. Now, that’s very naive, John.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, it’s not.
SPEAKER 16 :
To suggest that the temperatures have all cooled down.
SPEAKER 05 :
I’m going to say the temperatures are cooled down. What I’m saying is everything you and I are talking about right now will be in the back window. Yes, we’re still going to deal with some repercussions when it comes to terrorism, just like we always have, Marty. This hasn’t changed prior. It’s not going to change after. Everybody still needs to be diligent, just like we always have been in the past, whether you’re flying, you’re at the mall, you’re at the ballgame, whatever the case may be. None of that has changed from then till now. And so my feeling, though, Marty, when it comes to this particular scenario and what just happened in Iran, it’s in the rearview mirror. We’re moving forward. So is Trump.
SPEAKER 16 :
If Iran touches Israel, game on. They’re not going to.
SPEAKER 05 :
I mean, they already have, and Israel’s already responded. Keep in mind, Marty, that the longer Iran tarries with what they’re doing to Israel, and it’s already started to wane on them, they eventually run out of resources. The other countries are not supplying them. Maybe China is to a small degree, although I don’t think it’s very much. At the end of the day, Marty, once they run out, they’re done. They’ve got nothing left, and they’re close to that right now.
SPEAKER 16 :
Exactly. So that’s, I guess, that cat backed in the corner, the wild animal. This is the wild. If Iran is as scary as everybody says, everybody’s wetting the bed, can’t sleep at night because of Iran. Iran backed into a corner with no resources, no threat of retaliation, no, they have nothing left. I can’t imagine a more frightening scenario. And the whole point of that is when you do what you did on Saturday, John, don’t you agree the intent was this was always to end the in a very volatile regime change that wiped out a lot of people. How can you pick a fight like that and not finish it, John?
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s already finished, Marty. It’s done. We did it Saturday. It’s done.
SPEAKER 16 :
Keep our eyes on it. We’ll stay tuned.
SPEAKER 05 :
We’ll see if I’m right, Marty. Let’s just say that. We’ll find out in a couple of weeks. Fair enough, man. Appreciate you very much. I think I am. And I can’t say that confidently. I don’t know what’s going to happen in the next couple of weeks. A lot of you, though, are texting and asking me, you know, am I changing my own safety protocol coming to and from the station, things along those lines? No, folks. No, I’m diligent every day. Anyways, I still have always looking over my shoulder watching. Is there somebody following or doing something or acting weird? Is there somebody out in the parking lot when I leave that shouldn’t be there? I mean, I’m that person all the time anyway. So am I changing anything today from what I did on Friday? Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Am I changing how I live my life? No. Am I going to stop going places, going to dinner, going on vacations, things along those lines? No. I’m going to do everything just like I did before. I am not, and nor will I ever allow fear to control me. Now, back to some of Marty’s comments a moment ago about everybody fearing and wetting the bed over Iran. I’ve never been that person, by the way. Iran’s never bothered me that much. Do I want Iran to have nuclear weapons? Of course not. Would it concern me a lot more if they had nuclear weapons versus the way it is today? No, it doesn’t concern me. I’m a lot less concerned today than I was, let’s say, a week and a half, two weeks ago. Having Iran with the capability, and I’ll talk a little bit about this when it comes to what it takes to actually create a bomb and so on and where I feel, and I’m by no means a nuclear expert, but you can read a lot of things on this. There’s a lot of experts out there, by the way, that have talked about how close Iran was. And there’s a lot of naysayers that say, yeah, no, they weren’t even close to that. You know, those that say they weren’t close, evidently haven’t read any of the reports that even in 2015 10 years ago they had spun up to 60 purity they were already at 60 that’s enough for a low level bomb even at 60 now i can’t do as much as of course one where they get it enriched to 90 but when they start getting into that 60 and above they’re pretty darn close as is and they were there 10 years ago now part of the problem that iran has had to my reading and my knowledge of what they’re doing is Let me just say it this way. I don’t think they’ve had the best and the brightest when it comes to scientists helping them accomplish the things they need to do to get things spun up to actually then make a nuclear weapon. They haven’t had the best and the brightest. I’m sorry to say they just haven’t had that. Because the reality is they could have done what they’re doing in a lot less time if they’d have really known what they were doing. They didn’t. Now, with every trial and error, just like any other scientist that’s out there, eventually you learn enough that you start to grow and you start to learn more and you start to have that ability. And I think that’s exactly where they got. And I think they were very close to being able to spin things up and have that happen. Now, there’s a lot of also conversation out there about all of the trucks and things that were lined up outside of the plant. And did they I’ve seen memes on this. Did they move the nuclear material? The stuff that they were spinning. Yeah, no. That’s another thing that did a lot of reading over the weekend in what it actually takes to spin up and do the separation on the molecular level that they’re trying to do to get from, you know, one. How do I want to say this? One dimension. See if I can explain this correctly. One dimension when it comes to uranium to where they need to have it pure. In other words, to get to that U-238, which is about 99% where they need to be, to do that takes time. They’ve got to spin at about 90,000 RPMs. To do that, it’s a very delicate process. Even the material used to actually do the spinning has to be done just right. They have to do it in such a way that the container itself is not touching anything. They do it through a magnetic… array where that container is, in a way, floating. And that’s where, and if you think about it, that’s where when it’s balanced and it’s floating and it’s spinning at 90,000 RPM, if something happens, power goes out, anything along those lines, and that thing now has to spin down, it has to be very controlled in how it spins down. And there’s estimates out there that that spinning down, if done correctly, can take up to 10 days because you don’t just shut it off. You have to lower it, keep it balanced, lower it, keep it balanced, lower it, keep it balanced. There’s a time frame that has to happen to be able to do that. You don’t just shut it off and move it. So, you know, could they have been slowing it down to the 10 days prior and had everything all ready to go and then moved all of that out on Thursday or Friday? I highly doubt it. I highly doubt it. Now, I want to make sure that I’m careful in how I say this as well. Because there’s smart people all around the world. Every type of race creates, you know, smart people, period. So I’m not trying to say that some are smarter than others based upon their race. But I will say this. Where they are located and how they are free to do things has a lot to do with their intelligence level. And I’ll explain further. I’ve said many, many, many times that you look at a country like China and you look at how many actual inventions come out of China, it’s very small, if any. The reason for that is because when you have no freedom to think outside the box and enjoy the fruits of your labor, you don’t. Human nature just is, why would I do that? There’s not going to be anything in it for me, so why would I bother? So they don’t. Well, the same would be true inside of Iran or any other type of a country like that where North Korea and others whereby, where’s the incentive to invent and to think and to be smart and to grow and so on? There isn’t any, folks. So I’m sorry to say, but you take a country like Iran, and unfortunately, the best and the brightest aren’t there. I’m sorry. These are guys that’ll strap on a suicide vest and blow themselves up. That’s how brilliant they are. Not real bright. capitalism, the freedom that we have in this country, creates free thought. It creates innovation. It creates smart people, high IQs, things along those lines because you’re free. Your human being itself is free to do things that you wouldn’t otherwise do. It creates that. It’s why we are the best country on the planet because we incentivize that. And any time we have somebody that controls the White House that de-incentivizes that through wrong taxation, through too much regulation, through on and on we go, we get less innovation. We as a country have always innovated the most when we’ve been the freest. So my feeling on part of what happens in places like Iran is it takes them. I’m not I don’t think I’m exaggerating. It takes them 10 times longer to develop something that we could develop. Because of all of the factors I just mentioned a moment ago, they don’t have the same capabilities to do that that we have. It’s just plain and simple. Those are the facts. And by the way, what I just said, no one in media will talk about because those are taboo things of what I just said. Just like I’ve always said that China especially, they don’t ever create anything. They recreate lots of things. They take an idea, and they might even make it a little bit better, but they never create anything because, frankly, there’s no incentive there to do so. John and Cheyenne, we’ve got a few minutes. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 15 :
So let’s go back just a little bit. It’s 46 years since Iran was overthrown and taken over by religious nut jobs.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 15 :
That’s all I can, right? Right. And I’m going to call it what it is.
SPEAKER 05 :
Evil took over. It’s a good way to say it. Evil took over.
SPEAKER 15 :
An evil cult took over.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 15 :
That believes that death or submission.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. Eight presidents. have dealt with them over that time. Right. Seven politicians, and it took a businessman to finally say enough is enough. And I keep hearing all these people say, well, it’s Trump’s fault because he pulled out of that treaty, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
It has nothing to do with it.
SPEAKER 15 :
No. He pulled out of that treaty because since the day they signed it, they’ve done nothing but renege on it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Violated it. That’s right. They violated it.
SPEAKER 15 :
Every chance they get, even the National Atomic Energy Commission, whatever they’re called, they censured them a half a dozen times. But there was no teeth to it. At some point, somebody had to stand up to the bully. And that’s what Iran was in the Middle East, the bully, and punch him in the nose. And that’s, yeah, I know that’s a little naive, but that’s exactly what we did. So at what point now do we have to smack him in the nose again? Does he try to shut down the straight to whore moves? Is he going to take on the U.S. Navy?
SPEAKER 05 :
No.
SPEAKER 15 :
I don’t think so.
SPEAKER 05 :
Hasn’t happened yet. My feeling on that, John, if that was going to happen, I think even oil futures will give you my answer and what I’ve been saying, or what I will say is no, because oil prices are actually down $10 a barrel from yesterday.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, and here’s the other thing, John. China, who gets most of their oil from Iran, would not allow it. Correct. Because all China has to do is say, You shut down the oil flow coming out of the Persian Gulf, and we’re done.
SPEAKER 05 :
So really quick, along those lines, Sean, last night, Brent was at $78 a barrel. It’s now at $70. WTI was at about $75 a barrel. It’s at $68. It continues to drop throughout the day. I’ve been watching it all day today just to see what it would do, and it’s done nothing but go down all day long. Exactly the opposite, by the way, of what a lot of so-called quote-unquote experts, including Mr. Global, said what happened today, John.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, I know. And I didn’t see what the market… Did the markets, they say… They were up in futures this morning. Did they close up? Because I didn’t have a chance to look.
SPEAKER 05 :
They were down in futures early this morning, although the S&P and NASDAQ were actually trending upward in futures. I’m trying to pull it up right now. Sorry, my Internet’s a little bit slow. As soon as it pulls up, I will tell you. I looked about halfway through the day, and we weren’t off by much. That was at about noon, and I haven’t looked since. I will do my best to pull that up. It’s coming. Yeah. Slowly but surely it’s coming. By the way, I’m sure that some of these websites are getting hit on a regular basis, so I’m not blaming that on Internet connection. It could just be the websites themselves that are taking a long time to load because people are out there trying to check things out. And as soon as it loads, I will tell you. But as of noon today, John, it was about even.
SPEAKER 15 :
yeah that’s what I was I heard that the markets were gonna not be down a whole lot this morning I was listening to the radio on the way to work it’s been a crazy day work but just I was listening to Marty and he thinks that Iran is gonna do like craziness and they have nothing left in the tank to do with correct because they were never the ones who actually did it they paid other people to Hamas, Hezbollah to strap on the vests and go blow themselves up.
SPEAKER 05 :
Actually, market was up 0.89%. 42,581 is what it closed. So they’re all up. S&P, so Dow Jones up, NASDAQ up, S&P up, Russell 2000 up. The 10-year is up a tad, which we knew the dollar strengthened today as well as part of that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right. So what’s going to happen here? Iran is going to have to come to the table now and try to get a deal that or they’re going to be starving in six months because with everything gone, that’s the biggest thing.
SPEAKER 05 :
And really quick, John, I guess to answer Marty, and I know I’ve got just about 15 seconds to say this. I’m sorry, John. That cat in the corner, when you starve to death, it’s not much of a cat anymore. No, it’s— I’ll leave it at that. Have a good one, Josh. Thanks, John. Appreciate you very much. Coming up next, Cupcake Keegan air conditioning. If you had really bad struggles over the weekend with high temps in your air conditioning, give Cupcake a call today. Find him at klzradio.com.
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