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In the image of God, He created them: male and female. He created them.
Women and men were created by the Great God Jehovah in HIS image and there were simply two of us, two sexes:
MALE AND FEMALE
MAN AND WOMAN
No more. And we were like Him, created in His IMAGE. So much for the issue of gender identity. And so much for LGBTQIA+. There was at the BEGINNING a man and a woman and no more and that is the way it is now.
Such a creation was confirmed by our Lord Jesus Christ who said in the book of Matthew:
“HAVE YOU NOT READ THAT HE WHO MADE THEM AT THE BEGINNING MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE.”
So, my fellow Christians and fellow Americans, there were male and female at the beginning of creation and there were male and female only as confirmed by Jesus Christ. So much for gender identity.
Women are special, every bit as much as any man. Examine the lives of Sarah, Hannah, and Mary in scripture, fantastic, exemplary women in every sense and more. There was Deborah, a woman of incredible strength and wisdom. There was Esther, full of determination and as brave as any woman could be, straight and honest. And then there was Ruth, a woman with incredible endurance and perseverance. And then there was Lydia, entrepreneurial and aggressive, as competent as any man. If you are a woman, created by God to be a woman, and never to even think about the ridiculous subject of transgender you should be proud, grateful, and live the life of the woman as God intended and make the world a better place. If you are a woman, you were created by God to be special, to live a life full exemplary and extraordinary and energetically and gratefully and you should know that we men salute you, honor you, and respect you.
Our President Donald Trump agrees. He now goes about the task of defending women from Gender Ideology and in his words:
“RESTORING BIBLICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND FOR ALL AMERICANS.”
President Trump echoes Genesis 1:27 and Matthew 19:4 and averse that the policy of the United States of America will now be:
“TO RECOGNIZE TWO SEXES, MALE AND FEMALE.”
And no more. Trump further states that FEMALE means “a personal belonging at conception to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.” So that, one of the very highest purposes in life is the reproduction of another human being by a female and every woman who becomes mother should understand that the birth of another male or female is the highest possible calling she could have so says the Great God Almighty.
But it seems, sadly, that our culture demeans women and seems to devalue their ability to birth and nourish life. It discredits the decision of a woman to choose family values and birth and raise children of their own. It fosters gender identity in so many ways, indoctrinates the young and students especially, affirms and celebrates gender-altering procedures such as surgical mutilation, puberty blockers, and damaging hormone-blocking therapies. It honors biological males who have tried to transition to a female identity and it champions their right now as so-called transgendered females to enter into girl’s bathrooms, locker rooms and other traditionally female-only areas. It champions the right of these transgender men to participate in girls sports and it seeks to redefine the definition of a WOMAN in every way possible. All of that is wrong, absolutely wrong, immoral, unscriptural, and the whole new world of gender identity and transgenderism if not defeated will radically change if not destroy America itself. We should be grateful for the aggressive STAND of President Trump who, at least for the next four years, will make certain that gender identity will recognize two sexes, and only a biological male and female as both the world of scripture and biology so indicate.
Listen to the words of one male who underwent hormone therapy and sex-change genital surgery. This man lived as a woman for eight years, but he finally faced the truth and testified:
“HORMONES AND SURGERY MAY ALTER APPEARNANCES, BUT NOTHING CHANGES THE IMMUTABLE FACT OF YOUR SEX.”
NOTHING!
There is no higher calling than to be a woman, a real woman. That real woman who decides to become life, and mother, and raise a child in the nurture and admonition of the Lord should have the deepest respect from other women and all men, and especially a husband and father. Each year, we celebrate Mother’s Day. Next year, we should really, really celebrate mothers’ day, honor the women who are mother’s and all women with an understanding, respect, admiration and love as never before. You, the female created by God Almighty are special, to a man, a child, a family, and to all. You are one of two, only two:
MALE AND FEMALE.
Join us as we dissect the controversial Operation Midnight Hammer, an effort to incapacitate Iran's nuclear capabilities. In this episode, we hear various perspectives on the military action, from political insiders to national security experts. Explore the debates surrounding this bold move and the implications it holds for international relations, global security, and the future of nuclear arms control.
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Operation Midnight Hammer. The United States bombs Iran's nuclear sites. Promises made, promises kept. This is a special edition of the Mike Gallagher Show. Here's Mike.
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It was described as President Trump's finest hour. Do you know who called it that? A former Clinton and Biden administration official. Yes, even Democrats are hailing President Trump's fulfilled promise to prevent Iran from getting their hands and finishing the development of nuclear weapons in order to take out Israel and possibly Iran. the United States. Welcome in to this special edition. Monday, June 23rd, over the weekend, we were, of course, all riveted by the news that the United States military pulled off an extraordinary, extraordinary feat. It was called Operation Midnight Hammer. And B-2s left the airfield in the middle of the country. Missouri flew all those hours over to Iran, undetected, completely catching them unprepared for what followed. And what followed, of course, were these military operations that rendered their nuclear program, well, incapacitated. How much damage? We're going to find out. Pay close attention to those who are opposed to stopping Iran's ability to develop their nuclear abilities. Because that's what this comes down to. I am genuinely confused and intrigued and sort of in awe of the skepticism and the negativity that almost every Democrat and some Republicans have expressed over stopping Iran from their nuclear ambitions. What is the argument in defense of opposing Operation Midnight Hammer? Do you want Iran to have nukes or not? It's that simple. It really is. I mean, you can get into all the bluster of Thomas Massey and the back and forth and MAGA and regime change. But ultimately, it all comes down to a pretty simple question. Do you want Iran to have nukes or not? That's all it is. Trump didn't bomb. We didn't bomb Iran. civilian targets. We didn't take out hospitals or food markets or shopping centers. We didn't kill civilians. We struck the three nuclear facilities that Iran has been using to advance their nefarious agenda. I'm not trying to be naive here. I'm not trying to be Pollyanna. I mean it as an American to other Americans. Real simple. What's your argument against stopping Iran's nuclear ambitions? Because if you're against the strikes, if you're opposed to Operation Midnight Hammer, you must be okay with Iran developing nukes. And you can say it. Look, just say it. You don't mind. You know, some of the bad guys have nukes. We have nukes. You're okay with Iran having nukes. Just say it. Because I suspect that's how you feel. Maybe that's what Congressman Tom Massey feels. It's okay if Iran has nukes. But for some reason... When Trump promised a million times to stop Iran from being able to develop nuclear weapons, they didn't say a word. They just nodded their head in agreement. Then when he does it, they want to push back. And they're pushing back. Hakeem Jeffries, oh, he should have been consulted. This is impeachment. Tim Kaine, this is terrible. Congress should have been. They want Congress consulted with all the bombs that fell in the Biden or Obama administrations. But when Trump does it, Congress needs to, you know, invoke the Congressional War Powers Act. It's not this is that's it's nonsense. Absolute nonsense. It's just political posturing. But let's just, with all the stuff we're going to break down today, and I am so glad to do this with you and welcome in. We're in the Relief Factor studios. Our number is 800-655-MIKE. We're streaming the show on X. We hope you follow us there. Follow me at GallagherShow, MikeOnline.com, our clearinghouse for all things Team Gallagher. And, of course, we welcome you on the Salem News Channel and the Salem Radio Network on hundreds of stations across the country. This is a caller-driven show. If you're new to what we do... I like you as our talking heads. I don't really like authors and guests, and I like Americans. That's what this show is about, Americans talking with Americans and trying to figure it all out together. I want you to help me figure out if indeed the objection to Operation Midnight Hammer leaves you to say you are perfectly fine with Iran doing possessing and implementing a nuclear program. Are you okay with that? You know what Iran is, right? You know what they've promised and threatened to do. You know how they feel about us. You know how they feel about Israel. If you're against what Trump did, you must be, I think, okay with Iran having their nuclear ambitions. Now, am I oversimplifying this? Let's figure it out together. 1-800-655-MIKE. One number does it all. You can text us on the MyPillow text line. I want to put your voice front and center, and I want to get your reaction to all things Operation Midnight Hammer on the Monday after. Let's do some Monday morning quarterbacking, and let's find out what you think about my question. And I'm not trying to play politics here. I'm really not. We're all in this together. If Iran retaliates and we have to be all concerned about sleeper cells and we've got to pray for our troops in the Middle East, they might retaliate. They probably will to some degree. A simple question. Not hard. If you're against the military action of Saturday night, You must be in favor and you support Iran possessing nukes. And that, to me, is hard to understand. So straighten me out. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Off and running to your calls in just a moment. Ph.D. weight loss has changed my life. And I've got a little secret for you. You know Big Pharma and semaglutide and the shots in the belly. You've seen the story recently about the study that shows that a lot of people that are getting this... You don't want to do this. You want a program to lose weight that's centered around science and nutrition, a proven roadmap that has helped over 8,000 clients lose weight and keep it off. 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Operation Midnight Hammer. The United States bombs Iran's nuclear sites. Promises made, promises kept. This is a special edition of the Mike Gallagher Show. Here's Mike.
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I think it's time to ignore naysayers and just sit back and revel in the greatness of American military might. I know as a talk show host there's a tendency or an inclination to sort of gravitate to the people who want, I guess, the attention, the clicks, the buzz over pushing back. Why did we do this? Oh, we're at war with Iran. Trump needs to be impeached. He's lost his marbles. And that's the attention they seek. And I'm not sure it's very productive to spend much more time on them. I think we ought to look at the greatness of Operation Midnight Hammer. I think we ought to acknowledge the bravery, the cunning, the shrewd, and calculating and brilliant way we decimated Iran's nuclear capabilities. It is a great, great day to be an American. It is a great time to celebrate America's greatness. It is such a great, great time. We need to be careful. We are facing many challenges together. But I am so sick of anti-American sentiment in this country. And I'm at a point right now where I just want to ignore it. I am so tired of listening to people gripe and bellyache and second-guess anything that's virtuous and righteous. It is a righteous mission to prevent Iran from from getting the tools to obliterate the nation of Israel. It is a righteous responsibility to stop evil. It is righteous to support a president who has said over and over and over again, if elected president, I will prevent Iran from to fulfill their promise to take out their enemy with nukes, And when he does it, we've got people who are perfectly content to harp and chirp and chip away. And I've had it. Let's listen to the president. I can play the whole speech. And I can't often say that about President Trump's speech. This is probably the first time ever that I can say, you know what? We can take a couple of moments and play President Trump's address to the nation. uncharacteristically on time at 10 p.m. Eastern Saturday night, and uncharacteristically brief.
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Here he is. A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier. For 40 years, Iran has been saying, death to America, death to Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs. That was their specialty. We lost over a thousand people and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate. In particular, so many were killed by their general, Qasem Soleimani. I decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen. It will not continue. I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before. And we've gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel. I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they've done. And most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight. and all of the United States military on an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades. Hopefully, we will no longer need their services in this capacity. I hope that's so. I also want to congratulate the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Raisenkane, spectacular general, and all of the brilliant military minds involved in this attack. With all of that being said, this cannot continue. There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days. Remember, there are many targets left. Tonight's was the most difficult of them all, by far, and perhaps the most lethal. But if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed, and skill. Most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes. There's no military in the world that could have done what we did tonight, not even close. There has never been a military that could do what took place just a little while ago. Tomorrow, General Kaine, Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, will have a press conference at 8 a.m. at the Pentagon. And I want to just thank everybody and In particular, God, I want to just say we love you, God, and we love our great military. Protect them. God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel. And God bless America. Thank you very much. Thank you.
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You don't often hear President Trump have a little catch in his voice. And I don't know about you, but I detected some emotion when he thanked God for for blessing our troops and our country. I detected a sense of relief that not one hair on one member of our military, these brave men and women who flew, what, 30-plus hours from the middle of the country, our country, over to Iran after a decoy They sent planes out west to the west. They were detectable. They sent our B-2s out east. They were undetectable, and it was a brilliant mission. And incidentally, people from all walks of life are, I mean, all ideological perspectives are praising President Trump. From people saying it was his finest hour, to former Biden officials saying Kamala would have never had the guts, the fortitude to have done this. I am tired of dealing with people who are rooting for America to fail. I want to embrace America's victories. And this was a major victory. for the United States of America. Is everything perfect? Of course not. Are the mullahs going to play ball? Probably not. Is Iran going to retaliate? Quite possibly. And we have to be prepared for what comes next. But stopping Iran's nuclear ambitions is a righteous, just, correct thing to do. And it's time we stand up and cheer for the United States of America. Welcome in. We're the Relief Factor Studios, 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Glad you're here. Got a lot to cover. I want to put your voice front and center, as we always do. We hope to talk to our friend and colleague, former colleague, now in the White House, Sebastian Gorka, to get his pitch-perfect assessment of Operation Midnight Hammer and the role that he plays in the Trump White House. We just got a lot to do. 800-655-MIKE. I hope you join us. Portions of our show brought to you by MyPillow and Big Deal. Two sales in one. First, they're having a closeout sale on the percale bedsheets. Any size, any color, $25. You can get Queens, Kings, Split Kings, California Kings, any size, any color, $25. It's a crazy sale from MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. The second sale, Mike Lindell has introduced a brand new energy drink called Rev7. It's a premium energy drink that's good for you. It tastes great, gives you energy all day. I sampled it yesterday for the first time. It is delicious. No sugar, no caffeine. Rev7 is so special because it's powered with a premium nootropic that helps fuel your mind. MyPillow is so confident you're going to love Rev7 that for a limited time you can try their introductory three-pack absolutely free. Now, these offers aren't going to last long. So go to MyPillow.com. Use the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Sing along with me. For the best night's sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. We're flying blind a little bit here. Maybe we're a little bit like the pilots because we think we have audio and video. This is a guy who means a lot to me. In fact, he and I got to co-host a trip to Alaska. a year or so ago. Sadly, he's going to be too busy this time around. Larry Elder is taking his place on the second annual Patriots-Alaska cruise. But maybe I can take Katie. Maybe I can take Julia. Maybe I can take the family. Sebastian Gorka serves as deputy assistant to President Trump, senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council. I don't know, Seb, if you could hear before you joined us, but your friend and, of course, colleague Pete Hegseth is saying, look, when President Trump speaks... The world ought to listen. He fulfilled that Saturday night, didn't he?
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I'm really shocked by those who pretend that they were MAGA voters and for all those with Trump derangement syndrome who are surprised that we pulled this off. I was in the White House Situation Room on Saturday evening. And everybody who was surprised by it has been asleep, has been a Rip Van Winkle for the last decade. God bless Caroline Leavitt, who just last week from the podium here at the White House said, you do know that even before he ran in 2011, President Trump, as a private citizen, said Iran should never acquire nuclear weapons. And then... If you go back to that momentous occasion, Mike, I know it's seared on your cerebellum in that beautiful golden tower in Manhattan when he came down the escalators and he gave that speech where he declared, I'm running for the presidency. Part of that speech. was exactly this. He said, we will never permit Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. Why? Because it's a fascistic, theocratic regime that calls for the destruction of America every single Friday. So now he's the commander-in-chief. It's just another promise kept. And can I just go to that little clip you played of my friend Pete and the amazing Chairman Kaine? There is... Tom Clancy doesn't come close to this. I'm sorry that the TV shows, the movies, the Jason board doesn't touch this. The idea that we had this package of stealth bombers fly halfway across the world. Nobody knew they were coming from here. as opposed to Diego Garcia. And the fact that they did this mission without one shot, Mike, being fired, without one Iranian interceptor, one fighter plane getting off the launch pad. Why? Because we are the greatest military force the world has ever seen. And as Pete said, you better listen to the commander in chief, the president, Donald J. Trump.
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You know, you're one of the strongest straight shooters I've ever met. I want to get your wisdom, your common sense reaction to those who are second-guessing Saturday night's military success. Whether it's, you know, the Democrats and Hakeem Jeffries or all the Democrats are lining up. This was awful. This is an impeachable offense and all this other stuff. Does that mean, Seb... that they actually support Iran's nuclear ambitions? I posted that question on social media over the weekend. I thought, well, look, this is kind of a binary choice here. If you don't like stopping Iran from being able to advance their nuclear aspirations, does that mean you want Iran to have nuclear aspirations? Is that oversimplifying things, or is that how you see it?
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No, it's very simple. I mean, what is Iran? Go back to the photographs of our 50-plus hostages taken in the embassy in 1979. Go back to the Beirut bombing where hundreds of U.S. Marines were killed by an organization that was funded and controlled by the regime, the proxy masters in Tehran. Go back to just the nature of the regime. I mean, really, the party that says they're for the small guy, for ethnic minorities, for LGBTQ, LMNOP, this is a regime that throws people off rooftops if they're homosexuals. This is the regime that beats women and sometimes shoots them to death if they take their headscarves off their heads. So... It's worse than what you said, Mike. If you're against Operation Midnight Hammer, the most exquisitely sublime, perfect military operation of the modern age, then not only are you on the side of Iran, you're also in favor of them acquiring nuclear weapons. It truly is that simple, my friend.
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You know, it's your job to study the bad guys, and you've done it for many, many years. In your role as Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council, you, I guess, have to sort of inhabit the brains, the mindset of what the evildoers want to do to us. There's, of course, a big concern about retaliation. From your perspective, Seb, what does that look like for the American people? There's clearly a presence of sleeper cells, one would imagine, on American soil. There's an expectation that they might try to strike our military bases in the Middle East. From your perspective, what do you think they do in terms of retaliation?
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So, Mike, I can't go into the specifics of what we've done in theater, but let me just assure you that our forces are protected. Secondly, I can't go into what I receive every morning, which is my intelligence briefing. But I'll say this. And, Mike, you've heard me say this for the last six and a half years when I had my Salem show and my Newsmax show. You have to understand you. A private citizen listening to this show are on the front line of the war with global jihadism. It's not just those brave B-2 pilots. It's not just our tier one operators in theater. It is you. Why? Because this is what the enemy is. It's a global jihadi movement, whether it's Sunnis like al-Qaeda and ISIS or whether it's Shia-backed militias. like those supported by Iran. So always have your head on a swivel, watch your six, take responsibility for your safety. But at the same time, let me reassure you of this. You know I served in the first Trump administration. We're back here now. It's... Let me put it this way. It's a little bit different, OK? We have the A-team, not just the alphas, but the A-team. The fact that friends of mine are driving every element of the president's team, whether it's Kash Patel at the FBI, his deputy, Dan Bongino, a friend of mine, whether it's Pam Bondi, whether it's Governor Noem, whether it's the guy straight out of central casting, Tom Homan, whether it's Pete Hexeth, these are the people who are there for one reason and one reason alone, to make sure you, your listeners, their families are safe. So rest assured, America first means you will be safe and you will prosper, and our enemies will be in trouble.
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Amen. And, you know, you said something that's the understatement of the century. Things are different this time around. I just opened up a media site that is no friend to conservatives. Headline, and this is not written by a friend of the Trump administration, you know, an anti-Trump journalist who writes, The Iranian nuclear strike was Donald Trump's finest hour. He writes, One thing is clear. In his finest hour yet as commander-in-chief, Donald Trump greenlit a well-developed plan to carry out a righteous operation to make the world a safer place. We're grateful for him, and we're grateful for you. And I'm excited because I just got a text from your family. They're all set. Their bags are packed. So I'm loading everybody up for the Alaska cruise. So we'll send you a postcard. Well, I don't think anybody sends postcards. We'll send you a selfie from the Euro dam. How about that? And I'm kidding. They're not really going, but I wish they would. Seb, we're honored. I know how busy you are. Thanks for taking a couple minutes to join us on the Mike Gallagher Show. Keep fighting the good fight, my friend.
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That's the plan. God bless you and all the listeners and viewers. Thank you, Mike. Keep crushing it.
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You bet. Dr. Sebastian Gorka joining us on the Mike Gallagher Show. That is true, right? I mean, this does come down to sort of a binary choice, does it not? Is this not a decision that comes down to whether you want Iran to have nukes or not? Isn't it that easy? Am I oversimplifying? And I don't want to discourage dissent. You could be a little apprehensive. You could be concerned. Is it the right step? Don't you agree that if you knock, we didn't kill any civilians in Iran. Trump didn't start war with Iran. Our military obliterated, destroyed, decimated the three nuclear sites in order to prevent Iran from achieving their nuclear desires. You're against that? Okay, so are you then okay with Iran possessing nukes? It's a simple question. Let's do a little bit of a lightning round of calls. Do you have a simple answer? 800-655-MIKE.
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I think it's fair to say that the majority of Republicans and Trump supporters completely agree with his promise. And I'm genuinely curious about something, and I mean this. For anybody who's objecting to Operation Midnight Hammer, What exactly is the argument in favor of furthering Iran's nuclear ambitions? In other words, what do they think, regardless of what they think of Trump, what do they believe a state sponsor of terrorism would do with nukes? So if you're opposed to stopping their ability to get their hands and create nukes, well, then what are you saying? You want them to have nuclear weapons?
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Here's the answer you usually get, and that is that... And it's sort of wishful, adolescent thinking. It's naivete and short-sightedness and weakness. Diplomacy can do it. If only we tried harder to talk to the Iranian regime, to sort of convince them through the sheer force of our will, we could get them to stop. If Joe Biden just looks into the camera and says, don't. Don't. That'll magically at some point happen.
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Well, the simple answer is Trump tried. He tried and tried and tried. He practically begged them to come to the negotiating table. Homanet went into hiding. They couldn't even find him. They were trying to get to the negotiating table, and he's buried in a bunker somewhere, hunkered down. And I guess they don't have cell phone coverage down there in the bunker, wherever the Ayatollah was. Look, what fascinates me about the opposition is they didn't say a word the thousand times that Trump has promised to do this for years. They didn't even notice. Okay, well, good. You know, he said we can't get our hands on Obama. And then he does it. And I do... I have to say that it was a little depressing for me to watch some of the Democrat response. Kind of shocking that you're really ultimately sort of against you're siding against the United States instead of a moment of. I mean, look what they pulled off Saturday night, Mark, was, you know, you want to talk about a Herculean Herculean task. The head fake, the deke, they sent bombers off to the west so they could be tracked. No, we're not going to Guam. Where are we going? Where are they coming from? And not one shot fired upon any of our men. Not one or one woman, apparently. Don't forget, the New York Times wants to remind you, there was a woman, apparently, a part of the mission. So that awful misogynist Pete Hegseth said, our boys. No, no, no, there was a girl. There was a girl, don't forget. So that's fine. And we honor the men and women of the U.S. military who pulled off this magnificent feat. And I appreciated seeing people like like the former staffer for Clinton and Biden. You know, this. A guy named Jamie Metzl, he served in the National Security Council staff during the Clinton administration and was a Senate staffer under Joe Biden. He admitted Kamala would have lacked the courage to do this. Do you think Kamala Harris would have been willing to bomb Iran, bomb these nuclear sites? Nope. Never, never. And incidentally, let's be careful when we talk about bombing Iran. No, no. I don't think anybody died. I'm not sure that there were any casualties. In fact, there's reports that they kind of knew what was coming. They cleared out. These were the nuclear facilities. This wasn't a civilian population.
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In a remote village.
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In the middle of nowhere.
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You hit it with a big enough munition. There might have been a sheep herder next door who might have gotten a little bit of a burn. Might have left a mark. Did you see who... leapt to Twitter to say, our thoughts are with the victims of the bombing of Iran. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department had that up for about five minutes before somebody went, whoa, and took it down.
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We are issuing this statement to formally apologize for the offensive and inappropriate social media post recently posted on our department's social media platforms. Somebody's getting fired. Because the original statement, I mean, I know people are listening to you thinking, well, Mark has had a minor stroke. There's no way the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Surely they wouldn't have done that. No.
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Do you have the original in front of you?
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Our hearts go out to the victims and families impacted by the recent bombings in Iran. While this tragic event occurred overseas, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is closely monitoring the situation alongside our local, state, and federal partners. At the moment, there are no known threats to Los Angeles County. Somebody actually thought that would be a good idea, Mark. Yep. And then I got a funnier one for you. You see Minnesota? Tim Walz did the same. This is actually very funny. Well, what's funny is somebody's response to it. So Tim Walz does the same stupid posturing. Oh, because of Trump's recklessness, Minnesota is on high alert. We are looking. We are monitoring the situation. So somebody posted, breaking news, Tehran cancels their Minneapolis invasion plans after hearing that Tim Walz is monitoring the situation. I mean, Mark, Hakeem Jeffries, they're irrelevant now. Who's paying attention to any of them? None of them said a word about Obama bombing all the places he bombed and everybody else. Biden bombed, and Trump does a military action like this. We're not at war with Iran. We have entered, I guess it's fair to say, in a powerful way, the war between Israel and Iran by continuing to support Israel. But we're not going to have boots on the ground in Iran. Nope. But we better be ready. We better have our heads on a swivel. You saw what happened at the church in Michigan. You see, the person that, now, again, unrelated to this, apparently, this is some lone nut that had some grief or beef or whatever. But a guy, you know, tries to kill a lot of people at a Sunday worship service. One of the parishioners ran him over with his F-150 pickup truck, and then the other parishioner got out his legally concealed weapon, and neutralized him. Works for me. Americans aren't playing anymore, Mark. And you know what? I am pretty confident that where you go to church, where I go to church, where most of our audience goes to church, somebody's going to be prepared to defend that congregation. Because in Michigan, here we go again. A good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun. And we and everybody and Charlie Kirk said that over the weekend, be prepared, be armed, locked and loaded, be ready for anything that can happen.
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So what is your level of expectation? Because I really believe that most of this is driven by Trump hatred, the gloom and doom. Oh, America's in severe danger now. What are the Chinese going to do that? Putin is going to be welcoming some key Iranian official. Of course, they've been longtime BFFs for a long, long time. I'm not going to sit here and say, I guarantee you nothing will happen. I wouldn't do that. I'm not going to sit here and say, I have zero expectation of a retaliatory strike of any kind over there or over here. I wouldn't say that. I can't say that. But I think it's being wildly overblown and wildly overestimated. And maybe, and this is what depresses me, maybe in a sick, twisted part of the left, desired. They would love for something bad to happen in America so that they could go, Ha! Trump did that to you.
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Well, perhaps. I mean, my gut tells me that they're going to try to strike some of our military bases in the Middle East. I think the intelligence suggests that they're going to try to retaliate. They're going to do something. I don't think they're going to just roll over. I would hope that they could... Do some bluster and they could strut around and say death to America a few more times and then knock it off and realize that the world, the world is not going to let you have nukes. You're not to a to a nation that is committed to the destruction of Israel and the United States. It's just isn't going to happen.
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Join Dana as she dissects the action-packed world of 'Ballerina,' a new addition to the legendary John Wick universe. This spirited review is accompanied by Dana's insights into the effectiveness of Ana de Armas as an action star, seamlessly fitting into the 80s female action hero mold. Wrapping up with a sports highlight, the podcast explores the rise of Sophie Cunningham in the WNBA, applauding her as a modern-day enforcer on the court. With insights, laughter, and sass, the podcast offers a dynamic listen that covers news, entertainment, and sports with a unique perspective.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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Hmm. Trying to figure out how to... There's a couple of things here. All right, first up... A Florida man was arrested after he, like a moron, decided to taunt Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd online. Grady Judd lives to make criminals' lives miserable. And Lakeland Police Department, they said they had the back of Polk County. He posted online that the Polk County Sheriff couldn't find him, so Lakeland found him, and then they gave him over to Polk County. I love it! Not because he was because he literally actually has a he's like an accepted repeat or he's a repeat offender. And he said they were challenging him. He goes, you all didn't catch me when I left my grandma's house today. You should have been wait. You should have waited longer because they want to go serve a warrant. And so they got him. They said, yeah, challenge accepted. We got you. So they got him. And then they posted a photo with him in cuffs and he's smiling and they're smiling. It's actually hysterical. Do you see the photo where he's like, they're all smiling at each other? It was hysterical. But he had multiple felony warrants.
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And the law totally won. But yeah, they and you know, he didn't fight or he didn't resist arrest or anything. I'll give him that. You know, he goes, maybe you're going to need a horse or a helicopter. Level up. Hashtag level up. Hashtag I'm gone, Grady. And they caught him anyway. But I love how they all took photos with him. And he's smiling. He didn't resist arrest. He went willingly. He's like, okay, you got me. You know, I guess games got to recognize game. Okay. Let's see here. Got a box cutter attack. Oh, I can't read this one. This one I don't understand. A Florida man broke into a random house because he was trying to get away from his angry wife. Dang. Right? This poor man. Apparently, a 44-year-old Florida man just snuck into a random house. He did not want to go home to his wife, who was mad. And he broke into the house. He stayed there for several days. He cooked several meals and had a luxurious bath. A neighbor tasked with watching the house while the homeowner was away noticed, like, there's some stuff going on. They said, there's a dude here in your house making dinner, and he just had a bath. It's like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, right? He just comes on in, sits in all the chairs and all that. So he didn't have any idea who owned the house. But when the police were asking, how did this happen? He's like, I did not want to go home because my wife is very angry. He did not want to go. I wanted to be like, what is happening to you?
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How bad is she to him?
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you all need to go and see ballerina the movie the latest in the john wick series okay so let me just get it out of the way some people are like i don't know female action figure first off i guess you forget ripley and i guess you forget sarah connor it is very much in that 80s vein I am, as someone who loves action movies, I'm not a rom-com girl. I'm actually horror and I love thrillers, murder mysteries, and I love action. And this is very much in the vein of Ripley and Sarah Connor. It is not like, you know, the modern day Mary Sue. It is not. And she's not a Mary Sue. In this film, Ballerina, directed by Lynn Weissman, my friend Taryn Butler did all the gun fu on it. She was spectacular. She was a belief. She's an action star now. She was spectacular. The stunts were spectacular. And I am really harsh on movies. I will not go to a theater and sit and see a movie unless I know I'm going to be engrossed by it because I can't stand being captive like that. I am such a fidget. I can't sit still from start to finish. This was compelling. And they address the Mary Sue stuff early on. Early on, they're like, this is not no Mary Sue movie. Okay, first and foremost, it's not. She gets hit. She gets hit a lot. She bleeds. I don't want to give anything away, but let's just say John Wick can still, in a blink of an eye, make her disappear. There is a difference and it is well explained and it is done with respect to the audience. They are not telling you to suspend all disbelief and just, you know, and just embrace this full on. It is believable and she is powerful and she is vulnerable and identifiable. So you understand the whole revenant concept to John Wick, right? The spirit of vengeance. It's one of the things that drives John Wick and makes him absolutely unassailable. And you see that develop in her. And it is a phenomenal thing to watch because it is expressed differently. John Wick had it. He dealt with loss and he had pain power him. And she dealt with loss and has pain power her. And it's very, very... It is so artfully explained in the male and female. It is not woke. It is not woke at all. So you can enjoy it. I mean, it's, you know, again, it's like a John Wick series. So there's people getting, you know... Getting told right and left. Let's just put it like that. Oh, my gosh. The stunts are fabulous. The soundtrack's good. The casting is superb. I mean, you've got Ian McShane and Gabriel Byrne in the same movie. It's just fabulous. And, yes, Keanu Reeves makes an appearance. That's all I'm going to say. I'm not going to give anything away. It is a must-see, and I never tell you that. Rowoney Kenshin, that series, I said that was a must-see. This is a must-see. It is... It fits in perfectly with the John Wick universe. It's part of that. There's so many different stories that they can tell with all of these other characters. It is so well done. Go see it. Go see it this week. Go see it next before it's out of theaters because it is well worth it. And I think Ana de Armas, she is an action star. I did not know what to expect with her. But remember, she was also in, what was she in? Not James Bond, but she was in the movie with, did she do a film with Tom Cruise or something like that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she was good in that. And I thought, okay, well, I can foresee her being, you know, doing the action in this. And it is phenomenal. She does such a good job. The stunts are amazing. And when you think, okay, well, they can't get any more inventive with the stunts after, you know, John Wick 1, 2, 3, 4. Oh, yeah, they can. And it's fabulous. It's just a really great story. And it sets up for a sequel. It sets up for a continued – I hate saying sequel – It sets up for a continuation of the story. I loved it. I thought it was a great film. And, you know, I always go in and I harbor a little bit, you know, I'm like, let's see. It's fabulously done. And I think you're going to like it. But I can't say enough how much I appreciated how they addressed. the female as an action lead especially after we went through about two decades of nonsense right and this really gets back to what we loved about 80s female action stars like sarah connor and ripley the vulnerability which was erased by third and fourth wave feminism talking about women in action films is absent here it is it is very much in that old school spirit which is one of the reasons why i immediately loved it and they make that clear clear in the first like 15 minutes. It is so great. So I was so happy with this. This is a female, I would say, chaos neutral that you can get behind. I think that's the best way to describe her. So good. So good. My whole house loved it. And my whole house never loves a movie all at once. It's very rare that we all do. And they loved it. And we all thought the same thing. And I have a house of dudes, you know, and I have young men in my house that are very they're very critical of because they they were raised with these Mary Sue kind of characters. Right. And girl power and girl boss. There is none of that in this film. So do not go in thinking that, oh, well, you're a dude. You may not be able to appreciate it. This is not girl boss BS. It is none of that. If you like Ripley, if you like Sarah Connor, if you loved that vein of female action star, you're going to love this movie. I want to go see it again. I can't believe I have never. John Wick is the only time I've ever gone to the theater to see the same movie before. Yes. Oh, I love action movies. I would see this in the theater again. Absolutely. It's that good. It is that good. Oh, my gosh. I so badly want to spoil one scene for you so bad because the stunt was so good. I'm the person who's like in the theater. I'm so annoying. But I was trying to play it down. It's really good. So you guys got to go see it. Ballerina, all the stars. So good. 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 United States. has finally opened up all lawmakers' eyes. 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, And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. Nancy Pelosi raked in millions last year. Her portfolio outperformed every large hedge fund with stunning returns. Now, if you think it's just because she's a savvy investor, I have a bridge to sell you. Same thing with Marjorie Taylor Greene. Like she walked in there with, you know, I think what, a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank and she walks out with 20. She's like currently has 22 million. Either she's the savviest investor ever or there's insider trading going on. Sorry, but that's true. I don't care how sanctified you think some of these people are. They are trading stuff out with information used that you and I would go to jail for. Totally unfair. I think every single one of these rat bastards, right or left, has got to be audited because that's insane. So this is what I think they're thinking she made. Listen to this. anywhere between seven or no sorry eight to 42 million last year Pelosi is she just a savvy investor guys dude she would be she'd be richer than uh uh oh my gosh who am I thinking of the Nebraska guy I can't think of that stop it she's drunk every day she's not making those decisions She's just a savvy investor. Robotic surgery performed remotely from the United States on a patient in Africa. Now, robotic surgery is not new, but remotely? That's pretty interesting. I think that that's actually kind of pretty cool. It was a robotic prostatectomy surgery that was performed remotely from Florida on a patient in Angola, and it was an FDA-approved clinical trial. Telesurgery. That is actually amazing. And also think of all of the different ways that you could actually be training people. Like, you know, hand-eye coordination, motor skills. I'm telling you, video games has been training people forever for the future. Forever. It really has been. Speaking of which, Art Bites is now out today. Dark Tide 40K. I will be nowhere near the internet tonight. I just want to let you know. I'm going to get all huffed up on like Mountain Dew Zero, and I'm going to play Dark Tide all night. I'm going to be probably, I know it's professional lady radio. This happens once in a blue moon. Not even going to lie to you. New classes out, all kinds of new stuff. That is the big thing today. It's like Christmas for Dana, Christmas part two. Eight dead after a hot air balloon accident in southern Brazil. I will not get into a hot air balloon. Because we have invented other ways to travel the air. Just like I don't pretend to be homeless, I'm not going to get in a hot air balloon. I don't find it romantic. I don't find anything about it, you know, nothing. No, it's not. It's not. Sweltering heat is expanding because it's summer. And everyone's like, oh my gosh, it's a heat wave. Yeah, because it's summer.
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If you've gained, I think, 500,000 followers and such and your jersey's selling out, how cool is that for your... Yeah, you know, it's cool.
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It's funny what kind of people are attracted to. You know, I'm just trying to keep the main thing. The main thing is that's basketball, trying to win games, sticking up for my teammates. That's all part of it. I think all that stuff is, it's fun and whatnot, but at the end of the day, we need to win some basketball games.
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that you played in front of your packed house a few nights back the other night, the energy in San Francisco. Tomorrow, you're on the Las Vegas Strip. What can the Las Vegas expect from you?
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Oh, you know what? I'm just going to be me. I don't go in there trying to predetermine anything. You know, I'm dialed in. I need to focus on hitting my shots, making sure I'm executing the schemes right. I'm not focused on the extracurricular activities. And you know what? During that, it was just part of the game. I think the refs had a lot to do with that. It was a buildup for a couple of years now of them just not protecting the star player of the WNBA. And so at the end of the day, I'm going to protect my teammates. That's what I do. And I'm a team player.
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Golly, can we just give her a medal already? Jiminy Christmas. She's America's best friend. Sophie Cunningham, America's best friend. She is the the the new a new star, a new star in a WNBA. And like I said last week, all the race lesbians are all real mad over that. They're all real mad at her because they just did not want her. They they didn't like Caitlin Clark. Now they're not going to like you got all these. They got race hustlers involved that are mad about it. Just play ball like all the only ones that are like making this a divisive thing. Just play ball. This is not an issue. It's so simple. Just play ball. And that's what she she she corrected a problem that was obstructing their ability to play said ball. Just saying. I can't like her enough. Her jerseys are sold out. I never wanted to win. Well, I did. I like I did a couple cards jerseys I had. Right. But. Never wore anybody's basketball jersey. Now I'm like, man, I'd wear Sophie Cunningham's basketball jersey. That's America's best friend right there. The enforcer. She's WNBA's Tony Twist. Equalizer. That's right. I'm just saying. Love it. And she's all like, I'm just focusing on the game. They're not focusing on the game. The people that are causing, the ladies that are causing all these, the women that are causing all these problems on the court are not the ones focusing on the game. And I get it. I think the WNBA, they're like, it's a double-edged sword because this is bringing them attention and they like it. But at the same time, is it best for your teammates to allow this stuff to happen on the court to that extent i mean you're you're always going to have some you're always going to have aggression i i mean it's part of the sport but to that extent is what we're talking about right to that extent and the idea she got fined 400 sophie cunningham that apparently caitlyn clark paid for god love it everybody was already like we're gonna go fund me for sophie cunningham She gets fined and she got ejected. And the other, I mean, Sheldon didn't get ejected. And she's the one who stuck her finger in her eye. How do you not get ejected for that? Did you see, I put it up on Instagram. Did you see that? There were two photos of that. You can see how deliberate it was in one photo. And in the next photo, you see Sheldon smirk. Yeah. Yeah, how happy she was. So yeah, Sophie Cunningham. Sophie, I didn't see, I didn't, that was fair play what I saw. I didn't see none. Did y'all see anything in that? I didn't see anything. I just saw Sophie Cunningham playing ball. I don't know what y'all talking about.
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Join us as we navigate the complex geopolitical landscape that unfolded over the weekend, focusing on military actions in Iran and speculations on the country's alliances, particularly with Russia. Learn about the legality and implications of recent military strikes, the role of the United States, and how historical precedents are shaping current strategies. With insights from Dana Lash and other analysts, the episode challenges prevailing narratives and encourages listeners to consider the broader questions around conflict, security, and the protection of national and international interests.
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Kind of had some big news over the weekend. I don't know if you guys were aware. I was headed to my husband's birthday dinner, and literally as we were walking out of the door, it just kicked off. Everything kicked off. And, you know, we had some people who work in D.C. who are at dinner. So there was some work to be had. It was I mean, I didn't think it was that unexpected, if I'm being honest about it, because this has been building for a long time. So one of the things that we're going to do this hour and next hour, actually throughout the show at the top of our next hour, we're going to go through the specificity of the legality or illegality. And the history of it, I'm inclined to believe based on everything I've read, everybody I've talked to, that acting in such a way is legal. And I'm going to explain that. I also understand the concerns that everybody else has. Believe me, I get it because we lived under Obama, Biden, and Obama was droning Americans overseas. So I get it. So we're going to explore all of that and kind of, and get it up on the table for you. In addition, all of the latest, and then what happens next? Because The biggest criticism that a lot of people have is predicated upon a fear realized, what, over 10 years ago, longer than that, under Bush and under Obama, the nation-building aspect of any kind of injury into conflict like this. And I get it. And so there's that historical precedent. But I think in order to maintain that fear, you're... even whether or not you're saying it, you're verbalizing it, you're arguing that this administration is the same as the previous. And I don't think that that precedent exists. Therefore, I don't think that that analogy is legitimate. So we got a lot to explore today. And we are going to get into the weeds on the legality of it because there's a lot of debate. And I want people to understand, you know, exactly what, You know what? What gives the president the authority to do this? Where may he not have the authority? What is Congress's role? And then where it concerns the authorization in the use of military force or the war powers? All of this. We're going to explore it. And I think that there's a lot there. Some there that people are misinterpreting and some that they're overlooking. So we're going to dive into all of that. Welcome to the program. Dana Lash here with you. So the strikes, now that everybody's full aware of them, that were carried out on Iran. This was over the weekend. In fact, it was Saturday evening when it all kicked into gear. And it apparently was years in the making. Well, I can understand that. I mean, you go back in recorded history and you can see how we've had how many troops. I was talking to a couple of friends of mine and they're like, oh, my gosh. Basically, they were saying basically every IED between a certain span of years was essentially Iranian manufactured and can be traced to Iran. So you can add all of those soldier injuries and casualties, etc., There's a lot there. And the Ayatollah is cowering. He was begging Russia for help. And Russia has pretty much left them out on their own. There was this, I think, maybe perhaps a misunderstanding by some. And I saw some on the right say, well, you know, now Russia is going to get involved in this. Russia is going to get I don't they're not not they're actually not because Iran is now not a worthy ally. Iran is a worthless ally. I'd actually argue whether or not they were an ally ever to begin with, because think about it. They had to rely on Syrian air defense. They had to rely on Russia for a lot of resources. They I mean, they've had to rely on everybody except, you know. So I'd even question whether or not they were a legitimate ally in the first place. But the latest is Russia's Russia told them to pound sand. They sent an official to Moscow to meet with Putin and Putin sent him right back. and said, yeah, well, good luck because it's not happening. They had this agreement. This is where some on the right, I think, are mistaken. They had an agreement between Iran and Russia. It was not a mutual defense treaty, though. In fact, any kind of mutual defense in this agreement that they had had prior did not include mutual defense, which, by the way, is why you never saw Iran get involved with Russia and Ukraine. And to that point, That apparently is one of the reasons why Russia essentially told them to go pound sand. That's kind of one of the reasons why, because there was no backup from Iran. Russia is not going to get involved in this simply because they don't have the ability to. They don't have the resources. They're already stretched so unbelievably thin. with Ukraine. It's just never going to happen. So they were sent back. The official was sent back to tell the Ayatollah, yeah, well, good luck. There you go. That's it. It's not going to happen. Now, there's also the argument over the Strait of Hormuz. And this is something I think maybe perhaps to watch because you are probably going to have a lot of these related proxy groups like the Houthis, et cetera, that Iran has used over the years, they're probably going to bring to bear a lot of pressure on these groups to make the Strait of Hormuz as absolutely chaotic as possible. There's been a lot about that. Now, that's when you're going to get dicey with a lot of nations beyond the United States. I can't imagine Iran doesn't have the capability. They lack the capability. They lack everything at this point. I just I don't see that as being even if they were to try something, that's not anything that they could sustain. And there there would be so many there would be so much force brought to bear upon them by not just the United States, but tons of other tons of other nations as well. So a lot of stuff that we're watching, including China claims that their Persian Gulf ships navigations are jammed and they've warned Iran. Now, you saw right before we went to air, there was I'm going to pull this up. This notice that went out that is demanding they're saying that shelter in place in Qatar. So other nations are telling their citizenry in Qatar to shelter in place. And Qatar has closed their airspace to all commercial air. So this is something to watch as well. What does that mean? Does that mean they're expecting some sort of Iranian strike? We have the largest military base in that area in Qatar. But apparently a lot of the resources that we have had there were moved out far in advance of the strike Saturday night to limit any kind of damage, etc. So apparently so I'm not I'm not quite sure what Iran thinks that they're going to be able to do. But this is something we'll keep an eye on because you also had Israel that continued to strike sites in Iran. And continued to I mean, we've taken out what three other nuclear sites at this point, the four now being one of them. And that was the big question as to whether or not Israel had the capability to do it. The reports are that they didn't not to penetrate that deeply. Only the United States apparently had the assets to be able to penetrate. I mean, it's like just straight granite. How many feet did they say? I mean, it was like unimaginably impenetrable. Like straight granite. So, I mean, you know, you probably get some cut prices on some granite if you're redoing your kitchen right now. Anyway, so... The United States apparently were the only the we were the only nation that had the capability to do that. There's a lot to discuss because I get it that people are very hesitant about military conflict. But I also I think we got it. We have to rephrase the question with this, because if you're against military conflict, are you against conflict in this aspect because you think it's going to prevent all other further conflict? I think that's really nobody's asking the question the right way. Nobody, nobody on talk radio, nobody in podcasting, nobody in TV, none of the commentary. No one is asking the question properly. Is the concern that if you engage or if we had not struck and if we maybe continued what people call diplomacy, I don't know how you can have genuine diplomacy when every response is a lie. But is the was the refusal to engage in a strike based on the notion that it would prevent all future conflict? Is that the positioning? Because I'm curious, is that what they really believe? And if it's about avoiding conflict. I think you're arguing then that they would never progress to the point... Now, based on all intel, if all intel is accurate, they would never progress to the point of being 100% fully enriched with uranium. Everything that they had now was 60%. Apparently, according to multiple international reports, the enrichment percentage was 60% and over, which there's no way you get to that point and you don't have some sort of nuclear capacity. And... So I get it. But the idea that to prevent conflict, you wouldn't be able to issue any strike. Well, that presupposes that that they were just developing nuclear weaponry for peaceful purposes. Does anybody believe that? Do you believe and I'm not I'm not. Well, I have a position, but I'm not there yet. I want to walk everyone down this legitimate line of questioning. Is that the presumption that there would be no reaction on Iran's part? Because if it is, then the secondary question is, are you not simply prolonging that deep breath before the plunge then? Are you not simply prolonging war or conflict? Nobody wants conflict. And is there a better way to reduce casualties and damage depending on the moment that you strike? I mean, I just think if it's about limiting any kind of loss... You have to look at it very strategically, very mathematically. And based on available intel, and again, this is all predicated upon whether or not that intelligence that is claiming that they were not just years away, they were days away, is accurate. I think that we're losing sight of the right questions to ask here. We're going to explore this more. Summer is all about making great memories, backyard barbecues, road trips, lake days, even just relaxing in a hammock with a good book, spending time with friends and family, catching sunset views. But if you're living with pain. Those future memories can be stolen from you. 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Nancy Pelosi raked in millions last year. Her portfolio outperformed every large hedge fund with stunning returns. And if you think it's just because she's a savvy investor, I have a bridge to sell you. Same thing with Marjorie Taylor Greene. Like she walked in there with, you know, I think what a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank. And she walks out with 20. She's like currently has 22 million. Either she's the savviest investor ever or there's insider trading going on. Sorry, but that's true. I don't care how sanctified you think some of these people are. They are trading stuff out with information used that you and I would go to jail for. Totally unfair. I think every single one of these rat bastards, right or left, has got to be audited because that's insane. So this is what I think they're thinking she made. Listen to this. anywhere between seven or no sorry eight to 42 million last year Pelosi is she just a savvy investor guys dude she would be she'd be richer than uh uh oh my gosh who am I thinking of the Nebraska guy I can't think of that stop it she's drunk every day she's not making those decisions She's just a savvy investor. Robotic surgery performed remotely from the United States on a patient in Africa. Now, robotic surgery is not new, but remotely? That's pretty interesting. I think that that's actually kind of pretty cool. It was a robotic prostatectomy surgery that was performed remotely from Florida on a patient in Angola, and it was an FDA-approved clinical trial. Telesurgery. That is actually amazing. And also think of all of the different ways that you could actually be training people. Like, you know, hand-eye coordination, motor skills. I'm telling you, video games has been training people forever for the future. Forever. It really has been. Speaking of which, Art Bites is now out today. Dark Tide 40K. I will be nowhere near the internet tonight. I just want to let you know. I'm going to get all huffed up on like Mountain Dew Zero, and I'm going to play Dark Tide all night. I'm going to be probably, I know it's professional lady radio. This happens once in a blue moon. Not even going to lie to you. New classes out, all kinds of new stuff. That is the big thing today. It's like Christmas for Dana, Christmas part two. Eight dead after a hot air balloon accident in southern Brazil. I will not get into a hot air balloon. Because we have invented other ways to travel the air. Just like I don't pretend to be homeless, I'm not going to get in a hot air balloon. I don't find it romantic. I don't find anything about it, you know, nothing. No, it's not. It's not. Sweltering heat is expanding because it's summer. And everyone's like, oh my gosh, it's a heat wave. Yeah, because it's summer. Stick with us. It's the folks over at Super Beats. You guys know the Super Beats hard shoes. Now you're also familiar with Super Boreen. It's one of their latest products. And Super Boreen, it's a plant-based, doctor-formulated, and it has a unique form of berberine. And this berberine that they use, this is about metabolism and healthy blood sugar support. The berberine that they use, it's not just, you know, like, you know, standard old everyday berberine. They've done clinical studies on this. It delivers actually 10 times higher absorption than the standard berberine that you get in these other wannabe supplements. There's a lot of copycats out there, but only one actually has this. The best ingredients that's clinically studied to deliver the highest absorption and the best results. Now, this higher absorption means that you're getting metabolism and healthy blood sugar support in one highly concentrated, easy to swallow capsule. And for those who are concerned about GI distress, the Super Barine includes grapeseed extract, and that provides greater tolerability. Now, you can find both the new Super Barine and the number one best-selling Super Beats Heart Juice at Sam's Club. Restock your heart health support with Super Beats Heart Juice and expand your routine with the Super Barine for healthy metabolism and blood sugar support. Start today and get on the road to better cardiovascular health support.
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Do they have a right to be concerned?
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Good morning, Brian. Unfortunately, they do have a right to be concerned. As you said, Joe Biden had a wide open border policy for four years. We know that terrorists tried to enter our country. Iran has a long history of terrorizing America going back 46 years to include here in the United States.
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So that's Senator Tom Cotton saying, yeah, there are some terror cells here. And, you know, that's something to be worried about. Something to be worried about indeed. I'm going to tell you something. Terror cells need to be worried about law-abiding Americans who are not only trained, but capable. And, oh my gosh, make a Christmas for those people by trying to get silly and trying to do something. They will go glock-a-clock on your ass faster than you can blink. What time is it? Glock-a-clock! Just sayin'. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. It'd be like the Gummers. Let me just set the table for you. It's a stereotype for a reason, right? You all remember one of the best movies to exist out there is a little movie called Tremors, okay? Don't you dare insult this cinematic masterpiece. Some of the best movies that have ever been created are Roadhouse, Godfather, and Tremors. If you don't believe that, you can go get out of the country. Go on. But I'm from the country. Self-deport somewhere else. But there's a reason why the stereotype is a stereotype. Because it's not just a few people. There is a lot. How many of us, who among us, did not watch Tremors? And when it went to Bert and Heather Gummer's basement, You were like, man, that is a mighty fine. It wasn't a he cave, man cave. It wasn't a she cave. It was a nice den, an American family den, right? I mean, you had all your ammo. They did all the reloads. They did everything right there in their basement. Everything that they needed was right there, right? And they had an elephant gun, for crying out loud. Bert and Heather Gummer, the unsung heroes of Tremors, because nobody would have been able to do nothing without the Gummers. A lot of people in these United States are like Bert and Heather Gummer. They just like to be ready because, right, because they like peace and quiet. And they realize that sometimes you hear this, you know, that's like a meme that's online. They're really peaceful people. That's a different thing from ineffective people or. People who pose no threat. They are people capable of great violence in defense of innocent life, in defense of liberty. They are capable of brutal things. But they don't want to do it unless they have to. They choose to live peaceful, law-abiding lives. You know, they want to be able to go and harvest from nature. and be able to cook what they harvest. They want to be able to live their lives free, unobstructed from big government. They don't want busybodies peeking into their business. They don't want any of that happening. They just want to be able to watch a ball game, right? They want to be able to go on evening walks. They want to be able to just enjoy the good life here in these United States of America. And then, you know, you've got Iran, which thinks that I guess If you know that because we know that there's like what I think over a thousand at least illegal Iranian. Yeah. So we have this this threat like, oh, well, we have terror. There's terror cells in the United States. Oh, that's quaint. Do you know how many Bert and Heather Gummers we have in the United States? You know how many kids Gummer kids we got in the United States? I mean, my gosh, in our house, we ran drills. We ran, run drills. I mean, we know what's up, right? Kids hit the floor, boom, boom, ready to run. I mean, we've, okay, sidebar. Because, you know, we have a weird industry that we work in, right? And there was some, we went through a period where there were a lot of threats and the circumstances at the time, you know, necessitated for us to have certain plans of response right and we just enjoy it there was one time right after we moved in our house and it was gosh when was this it was uh end of february going into march it was a really uncharacteristically cold night in texas it was freezing and apparently something in the magnet on some kind of sensor tripped the alarm and our alarm went off And when you run through these scenarios enough, you kind of just like do it on autopilot. Everyone's always like, oh, you rise to the occasion. That's nonsense. You are going to immediately act on your highest skill level in your underwear. That's what happens. And it's all on video, which we'll never see the light of day ever. It's because we have cameras everywhere. So we're like, oh, my gosh. And roll out. You know, Chris is he's going the first floor and I'm going up to the second floor and we're clearing everything. And the kids just very sleepily would just hit the floor, roll under the bed like they know the program, like in the blankets and all sleeping under the bed. They just won't roll under the bed. And we run through and clear everything. And then we realize, oh, my gosh, it's a stupid magnet. You know, like law enforcement had already reached out. We're like, everything's cool. It's just, you know, this trip, the alarm, etc., Do you know, that's not unusual. Maybe some people think it's unusual, but there are a lot of people who have scenarios about what they would do in terms of response. There's a couple of memes that are that circulate online that talk about what men how many times men think about fighting off certain things during the day right and i was giving this scenario to kane like what you know dudes when they go on like a hike for instance which is glorified walking but you know they go on a hike and they're out there with like their girlfriends their wives their spouses their friends whatever their kids whatever And everyone else is like, nature is so pretty.
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Like the ladies are like, oh, my gosh. Look at this flower. It's so pretty. Everything smells so good. Is that a bee? That's a honeybee. Oh, my gosh. Look at the squirrel.
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Men are like, I'm going to think of three different ways right now that I could rip a bear's arms off and beat the bear with its own arms if it attacked me from the brush line. This is what guys think about. They think about this stuff. You know I'm right, right? How many times do you think this?
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I don't think I've ever thought of ripping a bear's arms off. Well, you know what I mean. That's one scenario.
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You've got two others, right? Like I'm going to shoot the bear.
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Because, yeah, we're in nature as guys. It's natural for us to assess the immediate area.
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Always. It's just the way it is.
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And they think about this stuff. You'll be in the supermarket. Yeah. And the women are like, oh my gosh, is that a new sugar-free ice cream? Yay. And the men are thinking, what happens if someone just punched their arm out of the bread in the bread aisle and it had a gun in it? How many different ways could I just completely disable this dangerous threat? It's how men think. And that's fine. That's great because women are the nurturers and we should be thinking of stuff like this. Although we also have to be, you know, you think of defense too. My whole point in relaying this is, is to paint for you a picture. We hear about terror cells from Iran and the United States. Well, you have peaceful American cells. Americans who are capable of great violence, but they're legitimately peaceful because they choose peace. It's nothing if you're incapable of violence and you choose peace. It's just that you're completely, what am I thinking of? You're innocuous. You're benign. You are a non-entity. You didn't choose peace. You're just ineffective. These are people who are capable of great violence, but they choose peace because they're truly peaceful. until pushed to the point when they have to defend their lives, their liberty, their loved ones. And like I said, from the start of this segment, those people have no issue with going glock o'clock. It's like, well, in one of the most helpful segments ever, Kane, Fargo, in one of the most helpful segments ever, yeah, we got to make sure this up, because it's a key and peel skit. And it's one of the most insightful skits. One of the most insightful scenes. Like with Roundhouse, right? You know how you were told it's a time to not be nice? Well, you also have to know when to... We gonna drag some sklouts. You know, gotta know when to drag some sklouts. That's my whole point. You just gotta know. Dana, when do you know? You know. I ain't talking about no Terry Bradshaw. And we ain't talking about no Terry Cloth.
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Just saying. There are a lot of people that will have no problem in doing that. So, you know, they got a lot of ammo saved up. They got a lot of training under their belts. They love their liberty and they love their families and they love their nation. That would be the stupidest thing for a terror cell to do. Honestly, one of the dumbest things ever. About as dumb as the Ayatollah crying to Russia for help. Just saying. So terror cells in here. I just this is why I think the Second Amendment is important. And this is why I think it's always smart to train and be prepared. And that's not living with paranoia. Oh, I'm not scared. I'm not paranoid. Because I know that I am completely capable. And I know that my family around me are completely capable. My kids are trained. My husband's trained. Everybody who steps in my house has some kind of knowledge of firearm. And if they don't, we'll take them to the range. That's just the way it is. It's incredibly important to do. So it's not about being paranoid. It's just about being aware. Like you're aware when you're driving. Are you a paranoid hot mess when you're driving your car? Okay, then. You've got to ignore all this stupid stuff from people on the left who are like, why do you want to live such a paranoid life? Oh my gosh. You're not paranoid when you're driving your car. You're aware. You're just calm aware. No different than when you're being out in public and you're just kind of looking around and you know. No different from that. You're a home goods ladies, you know. You're looking at some stuff from home because you don't need anything in there, but you're looking at it anyway. You know, just be aware of some stuff, right? You're just kind of aware of the comings and goings. That's just all there is to it. Men, you're out there mowing your lawn. You know, you're like, a lot of men, they like to go out, they call it looking at the lawn, and really they're just scoping out their neighborhood, and you all know this is true. God love you for it. But you know that you go out there, it's the dad look where the dads walk out on the lawn and they just, you know, look over their kingdom. They're also checking the streets, right? They just do it in a different way from the ladies. That's my whole point. You just be aware. But yeah, don't tear cells, tempt anybody with a good time. Do not. It will be your undoing. Now coming up, some of the other stuff that we gotta touch on, and we're gonna dive into this. The legality, there's a debate over the legality of these strikes. Well, what does the law actually say? What is the actual precedent? What are the arguments that are against it? And what are the arguments that are for it? We're gonna explore this. You're gonna have all that on the table in front of you so you can go forward in the week and be informed. So we're gonna touch on all of this stuff. And we also have some culture for you as well to get into, not just all this stuff with Iran. We also got to talk about this. What was it? The sheriff's office in L.A., what they tweeted out and then promptly deleted L.A. County Sheriff. We're going to dive into that. Oh, if you didn't hear about that, you're going to want to. So we have a lot of stuff to hit the people who help bring you the program. It's our, wait, who do we have?
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If you've gained, I think, 500,000 followers and such and your jersey's selling out, how cool is that for your?
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Yeah, you know, it's cool. It's funny what kind of people are attracted to. You know, I'm just trying to keep the main thing. The main thing is that's basketball, trying to win games, sticking up for my teammates. That's all part of it. I think all that stuff is it's fun and whatnot, but at the end of the day, we need to win some basketball games.
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that you played in front of your packed house a few nights back the other night, the energy, and said, just go tomorrow. You're on the Las Vegas Strip. What can the Las Vegas expect from Shelby?
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Oh, you know what? I'm just going to be me. I don't go in there trying to predetermine anything. You know, I'm dialed in. I need to focus on hitting my shots, making sure I'm executing the schemes right. I'm not focused on the extracurricular activities. And you know what? During that, it was just part of the game. I think the refs had a lot to do with that. It was a buildup for a couple of years now of them just not protecting the star player of the WNBA. And so at the end of the day, I'm going to protect my teammates. That's what I do. And I'm a team player.
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Golly, can we just give her a medal already? Jiminy Christmas. She's America's best friend. Sophie Cunningham, America's best friend. She is the the the new a new star, a new star in the WNBA. And like I said last week, all the race lesbians are all real mad over that. They're all real mad at her because they just did not want her. They they didn't like Caitlin Clark. Now they're not going to like you got all these. They got race hustlers involved that are mad about it. Just play ball. Like all the only ones that are like making this a divisive thing. Just play ball. This is not an issue. It's so simple. Just play ball. And that's what she... She corrected a problem that was obstructing their ability to play said ball. Just saying. I can't like her enough. Her jerseys are sold out. I never wanted to wear... Well, I did. I lied. I did a couple cards jerseys I had. Right. But... Never wore anybody's basketball jersey. Now I'm like, man, I'd wear Sophie Cunningham's basketball jersey. That's America's best friend right there. The enforcer. She's WNBA's Tony Twist. That's right. I'm just saying. Love it. And she's all like, I'm just focusing on the game. They're not focusing on the game. The people that are causing, the ladies that are causing all these, the women that are causing all these problems on the court are not the ones focusing on the game. And I get it. I think the WNBA, they're like, it's a double-edged sword because this is bringing them attention and they like it. But at the same time, Is it best for your teammates to allow this stuff to happen on the court to that extent? I mean, you're always going to have aggression. I mean, it's part of the sport. But to that extent is what we're talking about, right? To that extent. And the idea, she got fined $400, Sophie Cunningham, that apparently Caitlin Clark paid for. God love it. Everybody was already like, we're going to go fund me for Sophie Cunningham. She gets fined and she got ejected. And the other, I mean, Sheldon didn't get ejected. She's the one who stuck her finger in her eye. How do you not get ejected for that? Did you see, I put it up on Instagram. Did you see that? There were two photos of that. You can see how deliberate it was in one photo. And in the next photo, you see Sheldon smirk. Yeah, how happy she was. So, yeah, Sophie Cunningham. I didn't see... That was fair play, what I saw. I didn't see none. Did you all see anything in that? I didn't see anything. I just saw Sophie Cunningham playing ball. I don't know what y'all are talking about. Anyway, so right now, Iran has chosen to escalate, and they're now striking our base in Qatar, which we knew when everyone was told to shelter in place that this was going to happen. And we also saw two... We had moved out apparently a lot of resources from that base in Qatar. We're going to have all of the latest on this and the debate on legality. This and so much more. Stick with us. 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 United States. has finally opened up all lawmakers' eyes. 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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The president's posture and our military posture has not changed. The president was just simply raising a question that I think many people around the world are asking. If the Iranian regime refuses to give up their nuclear program or engage in talks, we just took out their nuclear program on Saturday night, as you all know, but if they refuse to engage in diplomacy moving forward, why shouldn't the Iranian people rise up against this brutal terrorist regime? That's a question the president raised last night. But as far as our military posture, it hasn't changed.
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So I disagree with her on that in terms of any even hinting about a regime change. That needs to be something that the Persian people in Iran decide. And I just I don't think that remark should be made about that right now. Welcome back to the program to analyze with you. Top of the second hour. The chats at Rumble Channel 347 is how you can watch the radio program as well. Trump is in the situation room as we speak with his defense secretary, joint chiefs of staff. as Iran has launched some missiles towards our bases in Qatar, Iraq and Kuwait, six at the base in Qatar. It was anticipated with us having moved our resources out of that base, according to multiple reports. I don't know how errantly they are being fired. And this was from earlier. This was kind of like our last night, basically, but hours ago. But I don't know how errant they are because at this point it seems like they're just kind of throwing stuff at the wall. They have no real way to – they're not able to be – there's no precision guidance. There's not really anything to that effect because they don't really have a lot left. This could be them just trying to save face. However – You know, how will it be interpreted by the international community? And so that is the latest. And also in Iraq, like I said, in Kuwait, we also have pulled this up. There was a national terrorism advisory that was issued by the Department of Homeland Security. It expires September 22nd. They said the ongoing conflict is causing a heightened threat environment within the United States. They talked about cyber low level cyber attacks. Things of that nature. And then, of course, there's warnings about terror cells, which we talked about last hour as to whether or not there needs to be a regime change. That is not for the United States to decide. We cannot have even if it's like reverse Carter, we cannot have another Carter regime. issue like another another reaction or involvement from the United States at that level, because that's why we're in this position in the first place is because it is precisely because of Jimmy Carter and continuing it with Barack Obama, you know, literally sending them pallets of cash, appeasing the Ayatollah. installing the Ayatollah. This is a battle at its heart of Marxism over non-Marxism as well, because you had the non-Marxist Shah who was squaring off against the Marxist and completely insane, you know, mullahs regime in Iran. And that's who Jimmy Carter ended up pushing with the CIA to install. Oh, yeah, it was. That's not it's not hyperbole. It's not. It's history. So now there is discussion, though, for what happens after. What is because the the Ayatollah, the quote unquote supreme leader, this guy wants to martyr himself. But isn't he? Does he have cancer? Isn't he already dying of cancer? Isn't it terminal from the last thing? There wasn't a lot about it. But from what I read, it was terminal. And so he is it's not a big thing for him if he martyrs himself, essentially, you know, or is martyred. But he apparently his other successor was one of the ones that was killed in the earlier strikes from Israel. But now they have a three man committee from a top clerical body per Reuters that are Reuters that trying to identify another replacement. So they had like, you know, your A choice, your B choice and your C choice. the Ayatollah, he's on the run, essentially, changing location place to place with regularity. Some of them thought that, you know, his son would be, you know, maybe a stand-in. He's 56. Now they're thinking maybe it's his grandson who could take over regardless, that whole family. I mean, Trump said that he's an easy target. If I'm being honest, I think it should happen from within and I think the Persian people should take out that whole famed family. That's my thought. I think the whole family has to go. All of them. Everyone. Not by our hand. By somebody else's. But it would not be any great grief to the world for the entire family to go because they're just trying to prop up a continuous succession and a de facto monarchy. That's exactly what they're trying to do. So if it's not going to be his son, then he's getting his grandson ready to go. That's how they look at it. So it's going to be really interesting to see how this progresses. Now, the tensions have also slowed tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, according to a trade group. This is brand new from the New York Post. And this was something that I don't think Iran has the capability. They can create chaos, but they don't have the resources to hold anything up, really. But they're already trying to to try to cause chaos through that checkpoint because the straightforward moves links the Gulf of Oman to the Persian Gulf. And everything had been, you know, pretty, everything was going, you know, pretty regularly. They have, we have our naval assets up there to protect our trade and gas, et cetera. About 20% of gas and petroleum product consumption. This is according to U.S. Energy Information Administration from 2024 and early this year, 20% of worldwide oil and petroleum product consumption has ships through the Strait. And it's also the primary export route for Qatari liquefied natural gas, LNG. And apparently one fifth of all global LNG passes through that once per year or passes through that all through a year. And so the traders have been trying to downplay the risks of anything to disrupt it. But we'll see how this goes. Now, what does Qatar do? How does Qatar respond? Because this is Iran attacking Qatar at this point. Now, remember, Qatar gave safe harbor to Hamas leaders. Hamas leaders live in Qatar. Qatar is kind of an issue as well. So we're going to see how this goes, and watch gas prices as well, which again comes to my point of why we need to be more self-sufficient in terms of not just production of oil and gas, but refinery, refining these things. We need more refineries. That's one thing Democrats have been hell-bent against over the past 20 years is expanding and upgrading our refineries. They do not want any refinery expansion. It's almost like they try to make us subservient to every other oil-producing nation, every other one. They have not wanted to expand that productivity here domestically, which is something that I hope the administration continues to press the gas pedal on, lifting those restrictions so we can have quick implementation, I think would be key to do, because we don't know. I mean, think about it. So you have in this, just give you an idea of the Strait of Hormuz, because again, it links the Gulf of Oman to the Persian Gulf, right? You have to go around like this little hook in UAE to go around. You have over 20 million barrels of petroleum that is transported through that daily. It's 20%. Actually, I think it's a little over 20%. Now, the width of the straight at the narrowest point is 21 miles. The narrowest point, the width of this is 21 miles, the Strait of Hormuz. Now, the shipping lane width in each direction is two miles. And then you have a buffer zone of two miles that separate the shipping lanes. So when you consider not just the transport ships, but when you consider the military vessels that are needed to protect those ships, That's a lot of activity for that narrow area. Now, when you start putting all that together, then it starts, oh, yeah, that is a lot of activity for that area. Because you have Bahrainian, you have all different sorts of paramilitary vessels. You have private contractors. You have military. We have our naval assets. There's a lot of stuff that happens there. And so any kind of disruption at all whatsoever happens. any kind of disruption uh is it's not gonna it wouldn't be a good sign and the last thing that we need right now as we're trying to extricate ourselves from the uh inflation and the disastrous biden harris economic policies i mean we're still technically kind of climbing out of the pit that was coveted financially the last thing that we need right now is that sort of disruption Particularly when we are not yet back to full strength concerning domestic production and refining capability because I want to again just going back to the refinery point It's real quick It's real easy for us to boost up our production because we're just talking about suspending certain ridiculous regulations and restrictions But the problem is always refining that because we just don't have enough facilities to do that as fast as we need to for ourselves So that's one of the things that must be expanded so this Iran's parliament was reported. Let me pull this up. they said they're going to close the Strait, but they don't really control it. It's not just them. Just because you share the sea with it, again, share being the operable word here, doesn't mean you control it because you have UAE right there. You have a number of nations right there. You have Bahrain, you have Qatar, and then you have UAE, which is like right there, right across that 21 mile at the narrowest, you know, straight from Iran. So it's not just them. And you've got to think one of those. I mean, and they're a signatory on the Abraham Accords. So this is all very, very interesting and something to watch as this proceeds. Now, we have just some of the latest as we if you're joining us that they they responded. There were no reports of impacts. Apparently, this is what is being reported in Qatar. No reports of impacts at any of the U.S. bases. because apparently missile defense systems intercepted all of these. Now there's a couple of different ways to look at this. You know, you could look at it as though, well, this is Iran trying to save face. This is Iran trying to look like it has a show of force. This is, you know, this is them trying to fulfill, you know, some sort of media narrative with this. I mean, it could be all of those things. And then you have to decide if that's, you know, if that's the response, if that's what if that's how this is interpreted. I mean, do you really need like a heavy handed military response to this? I think this is when, you know, discernment is really going to come into play here. Right. This is really going to come into play here. Not everything needs to be hammered, but it also depends. And especially since there was no impact by anything, there was no negative impact. I'll say, too. I've heard a lot because there's been a big debate over the legality of this. And when you look back, for instance, the number of attacks that Americans have endured at the hands of Iran over the years has been pretty stunning, pretty stunning, considering the number of attacks that I mean, they actually first off, this whole thing kicked off because Iran started it. They started it on April of 2024. They fired. And remember, at the time that this happened, I told you this is different because they bypassed the little terror proxies that they normally use. And they fired over 300 drones and missiles. On October 1st, they fired 200 drones and missiles. So this isn't just, that wasn't in April of 24. That wasn't just the first time. They also did it the second time, October 1st. They fired over 200. They fired 300 in April of last year. And they bypassed all these groups to do it. Normally, they would use the Houthis to attack their adversaries. They did this themselves. They so for all the people who are talking about international law, I would like for them first before we begin this discussion here coming up. What international law did Iran violate by not once but twice themselves sending over missiles and drones to Israel? What international law did they violate by starting it? That was the first act of aggression. And then Israel responded. We're going to let that sit on the table for a bit. We have headlines coming up. The folks that help bring you the program. It's the folks over at Burn a Gun. I am always going to tell you to carry a gun and throw lead in defense of your life and in defense of your loved ones. I think there are certain situations, though, where you have to be creative in your response. Because I would love to say that I only go where guns are allowed, but you know what? I got to be a big girl and put my big girl britches on sometimes because I got to go and earn a living for my family, right? You do too. 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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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So we had the one name of an athlete, the codest to ever do it, which I think is actually, if you're an athlete, you can't do anything else if you have that name. You have to be a football star. Now, what if your middle name is this? Bowling Green State University linebacker. His name is Gideon. I hate pop-up ads. Gideon Lampron. And he has a middle name. It's very unique. His full name is Gideon ESPN Lampron. For real. Dayton Daily News. His dad said the inspiration came after he tried naming his firstborn son the dad after a different sports icon. He said he has a brother 10 years older named Gabriel. He goes, I went for months trying to talk my wife into letting me name him Larry Bird, and it didn't go well. His name literally is Gideon ESPN Lampron. Not making it up. So, you know, who's him versus Dakotas ever do it? I don't know. Just saying. Let's see. A third of non-Trump voters think the U.S. is a dictatorship. So basically, two thirds of non-Trump voters think we aren't. How do I do math? I am a progressive. I don't know. That is why I am a Marxist, because I don't know how to do math. That headline does do heavy lifting. High costs have ended America's love affair with cars. Actually, this story should have been written a long time ago. Also, I think it's more than just cost. I think people are driving less. I love cars. I love loud cars. I love cars with big engines. That, to me, is still a thing. And I just don't... Fine. More for me. More for me. Like, I just think if you can get an obscenely ridiculous daily driver, do it. You know what I'm saying? Like, pull up with, you know, $11 million Himikuta, whatever. Right? Do it. I don't care. But I just... I don't know. They're like, you know, repairs and everything is expensive for replacement and... I don't think it's ended, but I think that it is evolving. I'll say that. Also, let's see here. FedEx, the guy. What is this? The FedEx guy? I don't even know. Who is that guy? The founder of FedEx. The founder of FedEx. Okay. Okay. So the founder of FedEx. He's... Oh, wait. No. I messed something up. He's passed away. Angry beekeeper sets bees on police during a routine traffic stop. Don't do the bees like that. Do not do the bees like that. He's a 70-year-old Spanish beekeeper. He got mad and he literally, I guess it's like attack bees. That seems like a special. I feel like I'm watching anime. Legality, the debate. Stick with us. So let's be real. Medical freedom isn't just a catchphrase. It's your right. Your health decisions belong to you and not the government, not big pharma, and definitely not someone elected bureaucrat. So that's why I'm all in on what All Family Pharmacy is doing. They're putting medical power back where it belongs, and that's in the hands of you, Americans. Through the end of June, they're making it even easier to take back control because when you control your health, you protect your family, your future, and your freedom. Get 20% off site-wide. No insurance? No problem. No insurance needed. And licensed doctors in all 50 states. You'll also receive fast shipping straight to your doorstep. This isn't just about convenience. It's also about freedom. You can get ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine. You can get Methyl in Blue, emergency kits, antibiotics. Whatever you need to be prepared, proactive, and protected. So visit allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana and use promo code Dana20 to get 20% off your order. That's allfamilypharmacy.com slash Dana, code Dana20. Don't wait for permission. Own your health and take your freedom seriously.
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So is regime change off the table, Mr. Secretary? And to the Chairman, you said the battle damage assessment is still ongoing, but do you believe that some nuclear capability in Iran remains?
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This mission was not and has not been about regime change. The President authorized a precision operation to neutralize the threats to our national interests posed by the Iranian nuclear program and the collective self-defense of our troops and our ally, Israel.
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So that is from Sekhdev Hegseth, who has said that this is, I mean, this is, it's not about regime change. This is about, you know, going after specifically these assets. And of course, if you're just joining us, we're also following the situation of Iran now sending strikes over at U.S. air bases in Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait, apparently also looking at Bahrain. They confirmed that they targeted the base in Qatar, but the Qatari air defenses thwarted all of that. They took all of it out. Now, what's interesting, too, with this is that Iran gave a statement per WAPO where they said that their attack on Brotherly was the word that they used, Qatar, was aimed solely at the US military base. Qatar, they condemned the attack and they said that their air defenses thwarted it. So it looks like Iran was, you know, kind of indicating what they were going to do because they wanted to look, they want to hit back, but they don't want to hit back so much that the United States goes, okay, that's an act of war. So they want to hit back in a limited response that really is kind of meaningless. That's what I'm getting out of this, if you're my two cents, because it looks like they were trying to manage how much this was going to get escalated. Welcome back to the program. Channel 347 is how you can watch the radio program, the chats at Rumble. The legality. Can I just make a very obvious, nuanced statement? You can still dislike everything that's happening and separate that from the legality or illegality of the issue. Okay? Because they are two different things. Yes, they end up later on the path intertwining. But specifically right now, the legality of this issue, and this has been cause of a lot of debate. A lot of people have been saying, well, what authority gives POTUS the legal permission to strike Iran. And there are several things that are cited. Because you have the self-defense powers of Article Two. Then there's also the authorized use of military force from 1957. And that I think has to do with like a Cold War thing. And then you have the post 9-11, the 2001 authorized use of military force. And then there's the whole discussion of war powers and what Congress needs to do in order to contain it. And then there are people who say that even just the parameters of the War Powers Act is itself unconstitutional because there should be no limitations on the commander in chief. There's a lot to that. Excuse me. A lot of this has come from AOC saying that this is, it is an impeachable offense, which I disagree with. I think that it is absolutely not an impeachable offense. First and foremost, I think the 73 War Powers Act completely eliminates that as a possibility. I have to tell you, Saturday I was sitting at a dinner with some members of Congress. I got there right when the strikes were announced. One of those members of Congress sits on the, basically the military committee, the committee for that, the name slips me right now. So this idea, because they're always like, well, sorry, the House Armed Services Committee. One of the members sits on the House Armed Services Committee. There is protocol for this, and there's also a lot of precedent for this. I want to add, too, that at any point, if Congress did not like the War Powers Act, they could have repealed it. Multiple times throughout decades, and they have not. So when Congress says we need this, we need to be informed of this, please keep in mind Congress also determines that process. And they have chosen not to change that War Powers Act of 1973 literally at any point. So I think that's incredibly important to note, because if we're talking about Congress in one regard, you also have to talk about Congress's responsibility in the other, particularly as it relates to governing the process by which it is notified ahead of any kind of conflict. That being said, I'm inclined to think that everything that he is doing is in keeping with constitutional authority right now, right now. Now there's nuance there, there's a caveat. If you are striking, if you are issuing a strike, if you are responding in that way, it must be a threat based on, you know, intelligence that you later have to make available to Congress of a very clear and very immediate threat. And the reason layman's terms, so we don't sit here for five hours and discuss this, is that there is a very long process and there needs to be that nimbleness and flexibility of the executive to be able to act quickly to deter an immediate threat to national security, thus why they have some of this authority. But afterwards, they have 48 hours to notify Congress. They have 48 hours to debrief Congress and bring them up to speed. And that is, that's, and apparently that's already happened and that's already been done. So I want to just kind of put that in some perspective here. The idea of the legality of it, and again, you don't have to like it, but the authority by which the president is able to respond to certain immediate acts is something that is actually defended by current. I'm inclined to believe that it's all legal. I have not read anything in the resolution. I've not read anything in previous authorized use of military force. I get that there's some debate, but here's where, from what I have taken in the debate, this is where the divide is happening. It all comes down to intelligence. Do you believe the intelligence that they were days away is correct? Because if you believe it is correct, then you're going to be inclined to agree with POTUS's actions. If you believe that the intelligence that they were not days away is incorrect, then you are going to believe you're going to be predicated to you're going to be inclined to think, no, it's not. He did not act with any kind of legal authority. The crazy thing is that time will tell on that. And we will get an indication of that in seeing how Congress reacts. Now, the separate thing that kind of dovetails into this is whether or not Iran was a threat in the first place. If you do not believe that Iran has maimed and killed thousands of American soldiers or Americans, and including many American soldiers, that they have not paid for, financed, and completely facilitated even through well-known proxy groups that are just acting as formalities, attacks on U.S. interests over decades, then if you don't think those things have happened, then you don't think that this is any kind of geopolitical threat. If you realize that those things have happened and that this has been a constant escalation for the past 15 years from Iran, then you're gonna be inclined to think that, yeah, they do pose a threat. So there's a lot of things that come into play here. Someone like me who's grown up with hearing that they're moments away, they're moments away, they're my entire life. I'm pretty cynical about things, but also simultaneously in debating with myself on it, my question was, if this intelligence, depending on whether or not it's accurate or inaccurate, Are we safer with them having this capability or are we not safer with them having this capability, especially considering that they have increased hostilities towards the United States in recent decades and recent decade, I could say. And I think that's the lens through which it's best to view it. It's always tricky because no one. It's very difficult to once you once you pop that cork, it's very difficult to manage the outpour. It's very difficult to manage escalation. And that requires a lot of a lot of preplanning and a lot of thought ahead of time. You're you're you have to be like five steps ahead of everybody. it can be very difficult to manage that escalation. But there are a lot of things that are in our favor that are in the favor of it not escalating to that point. No, I don't think that there's gonna be a World War III. No, I don't think that any other hostilities are gonna be involved because You have the Abraham Accords. You already have. I told you this last week. You know, the regime change in Syria, Syria's air defenses are no longer going to be on call by Iran. They're not able to use their airspace. They do not have that buffer. Russia has already abandoned the regime. China has abandoned the regime. In fact, they've noted it was I can't believe they cited that they even had their ships comms jammed in the Persian Gulf. This was right before these attacks occurred. were were fired by iran were fired towards qatar and the base in qatar so all of their allies are gone uh any statement that's condemned any kind of strike etc has just been um a rattle the saber a little bit just you know so we can maintain the op for the arab community that's literally it that's all it is they have been utterly abandoned because they are not an ally to anyone Russia does not view them as an ally. They're not a reliable one. China does not view them as a reliable ally. Literally, no one views them as a reliable ally. Ever since the United States installed this regime in Iran, it has been an absolute mess for national security, not just for the United States, but for our allies and people who could be prospectively our allies. It has been a disaster from day one. So This and Iran is toothless now. You're seeing just they're toothless, but you're also seeing the nuclear proliferation agreement has to have teeth. Otherwise, what good is it if there is no consequence? Especially in the hands of that kind of actor. So that being said, I'm inclined to think that he is acting legally. Now, do I believe the United States needs to commit a Carter 2.0 faux pas by installing another regime? Absolutely. Hell to the no. No, absolutely not. For people who say, well, the United States should nation build and let them decide there. Iran is in this position precisely because of nation building. Democrat President Jimmy Carter. People need to go. I'm just stunned at the lack of connection to this. This is why I was abhorred that this man, he got the full honors when he kicked the bucket, the full state honors, funeral befitting a president. This is his legacy. This is Carter's all over this. Obama is all over this. He pumped steroids into the Carter legacy. Everyone says it's Obama's legacy. It wasn't Obama's legacy. Obama borrowed Jimmy Carter's legacy and modernized it for himself. Obama is Jimmy Carter 2.0. So it's weird to hear people say, well, we shouldn't be involved. And I'm not. I don't think we should change it. The Persian people need to do this. But the Persian people were suppressed because the United States nation built in Iran. That's indisputable. I'm like I said, I'm inclined to think so far I have not seen a decent argument to the contrary that his actions, that what he's doing right now are legal. escalating beyond that? No. And by the way, there is a requirement even with the actions that he's already undertaken. You've got to go back to Congress. They have to be brief, 48 hours. And then you have to work from within the point of Congress. And I, as someone who, and I've quite explained, I think war is always a last resort. I also think, too, that This is not even before even before then we've had issues with, you know, radicals and threats in the Middle East. All of this really exploded, though, after the regime change in Iran. And I'm going to tell you something else. I don't want to hear a damned Democrat. lecture about this especially after what they did in Libya after what they tried to do in Egypt let me remind you that Hillary Clinton went to Egypt and backed the Muslim Brotherhood which was a party that was a terror group that was banned previously she backed them in elections and then afterwards all hell broke loose that is when that you you saw the riots in Egypt That is when you saw what Lara Logan, that's when she was attacked in Egypt. All of the stuff that was happening happened as a result of the destabilization that Hillary Clinton and Democrats brought to that country. That was after the destabilization they brought to Libya. They went after Muammar Gaddafi, who at that point was basically lying prostrate before the United States saying, I saw what happened in Iraq. I don't want that to happen here. I'll keep everything under control. Don't murk me. Hillary Clinton and all of the Clinton Democrat cronies went in and they were going to nation build in Libya. Democrats have no position of authority to say a word about this unless it's to say, learn from our mistakes and don't do what we did the first time in Iran, in Libya. They tried to do it in Venezuela as well. They tried to do it in a number of other countries, including Egypt. They have no authority here. We have more in store. We have Florida man coming up. As we move our partners that help bring you the program. It's our friends over at Patriot Mobile, the only Christian conservative cell phone service in the program and or in the country. And Patriot Mobile wants to save you money. They want to save you money. And they also do that by not spending your hard earned dollars that you pay for your service on things that you vote against. When you're going to the ballot box, so you can get super affordable cell phone service for your whole family. 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Mr. Netanyahu has long wanted to fight Iran because that way he can stay in office forever and ever. He's been there most of the last 20 years. But I think we should be trying to defuse it. And I hope President Trump will do that. I hope anybody there will do that. We've got to stop. We've got to convince our friends in the Middle East that we'll stand with them and try to protect them. But choosing undeclared wars in which the primary victims are civilians who are not politically involved one way or the other, just want to live decent lives is not a very good solution. Wow, you bombed an aspirin factory.
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What the hell are you talking about? Bill Clinton, who's trying to rewrite history. That is, I remember one time I was on Real Time with Bill Maher, and I think it was Paul Begala, and I just spit that out right in his face. Like, you bombed an aspirin factory, and it made him so mad. It was the Al-Shifa factory. It was the largest factory over there. It had over 300 workers, and he bombed it. He bombed it. And it was utterly destroyed in 1998 because of an attack that Clinton launched. And they're like, no, no, no. They kept saying that they were actually processing a nerve agent there, but they never substantiated that. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. We're at the top of this third hour. I just do people forget this stuff? Apparently. I mean, it's kind of rhetorical. Of course they do. Of course they forget this. I mean, he Clinton launched military strikes in Bosnia, in Iraq, in Sudan, in Afghanistan, in Kosovo, in Somalia. What the hell is he talking about? Why are all of these? Why are all of these Clinton simps writing that Marxist neocon? off of writing him off and pretending that none of that happened on his watch. Are you kidding me? Oh, my gosh. Jiminy Christmas. By the way, he also declined to get bin Laden the first time, if you remember. Oh, yeah. I mean, literally, who was Operation Desert Fox under? You guys remember? Oh, Bill Clinton. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, the... Clinton absolutely declined opportunities to pursue bin Laden. But then he would be bombed all this other stuff. Yeah. The Al Shifa factory is just one of them. And this them writing history on this so they can try to criticize POTUS is pretty rich. Well, that's just some of the precedent on this, by the way, you know, to say nothing to Bill Clinton's wife. Can you imagine? That's just the damage that the Clint. That's just the damage that I was mentioning last segment that Clinton that Hillary Clinton did as secretary of state. Never forget, they went over there and I'm not a Gaddafi fan, right? I'm not sitting here like defending Muammar Gaddafi. But what people need to get out of their Tupperware fresh, never been out of the country perspectives. And that's a lot of these people on the left. Some of these people have literally never left the states. They have no concept of a policy in these regions. They think that you can just project democracy anywhere. Now, yeah, they're all the nation builders. No, you can't do that. Some areas just truly don't live like you. They don't believe in democracy like you do. Certain things are going to work. Libya, case in point. After and there was a lot of lot of no one's denying the past with Gaddafi, but after everything happened with Iraq. And Saddam Hussein was gone. Gaddafi realized, oh my gosh, I could be next on the chopping block. And so he started being a lot, he started being pretty lovey-dovey. towards the United States. He didn't want to make the United States mad. And you had, before Gaddafi was out, you had all of these, you know, other wannabe warlords running around there. And he was a brute. He dealt with things brutally. And you have to have the biggest brute to regulate the other lesser brutes. And that's kind of the balance of power there. That's how that worked. And then Hillary Clinton, they decided they wanted to get involved with nation building. And so under Barack Obama, they take out Muammar Gaddafi and then they leave a power vacuum in his place through which ISIS and everyone else can infiltrate. And that's exactly what happened. They created that problem in Libya. They almost created that problem in Egypt. Muslim Brotherhood's banned once again. She literally endorsed them. They almost created that problem there, too. They made a mess of stuff in the Balkans. I mean, the Clintons were absolutely disastrous. It was like Hillary Clinton was trying to one-up Bill. It's the weirdest thing. But people are forgetting the precedent on this stuff. And these people, they didn't just do like one and done. They got over there and they got entrenched and they wanted to stay for forever. Look what happened to Libya. Libya is still a wreck. And then, of course, you had the terror attack on the consulate there, which ultimately ended up becoming infamous. And that was all because that Clinton Democrat, that was the resolution or that was the end result of their intervention. They always wanted a nation build. By the way, we know a lot about that and the nation building and the design because of a lot of the WikiLeaks stuff. And I'm not sitting here. Look, I don't believe I was really mad at some of the WikiLeaks stuff that compromised security for our soldiers. But I will say the stuff that came out about the Clintons really highlighted some of that. I mean, that's how we know a lot of that stuff. We kind of suspected it anyway, but a lot of those emails and those cables came out. You remember the emails where Sid Blumenthal, her right-hand man, was calling Chelsea Clinton a brat and all this stuff? That's all that came out of those. But they absolutely were looking at it like, oh, here's an investment opportunity for us. We're going to get in this. They absolutely viewed it that way. So there's a lot of Democrats don't have the greatest record. And that's one of the precedents I wanted to talk about. They're the first ones to sit here and say, you know, illegal, illegal, illegal. Like I told you last hour, as far as the legality, I'm inclined to believe everything that I've read. The 73 War Powers Resolution, the previous authorized use of military force that he is currently acting within the within the confines of the constitution now here's the other thing congress can bitch and moan and say what and and they they they set up democrats included they set up the structure through which this happens if they did not like this process they've had since 1973 to change it and they haven't at all ever So do they have a problem with it or is it just them trying to stunt? Theater. Speaking of theater, Qatar condemns the Iranian air attack, the attack on the air base, says they reserve the right to respond. I think that this was Iran says that they did the same number that we did, but I think it was actually more. And they also telegraphed this. to Qatar in advance. Iran is trying to find an off-ramp right now. And that's good. They should. But the off-ramp, they, up until this point, and still they have given no indication, they have refused to stop pursuing nuclear ambitions. They have refused. And the proliferation agreement should have teeth. I mean, they should have it to where their people demand that the regime goes. But then what's in its place? That's something for to discuss in coming days. The Supreme Court. And this is what's interesting, too. When it comes to POTUS's use of power, there was an immunity ruling. I'm going to pull this up last year where he where they were talking about J6 and limited, you know, the immunity that he has. But they actually were kind of approving his his use. And with its immunity ruling last year, they kind of underscore the authority that he has as the executive and not just Trump, but just the office of the executive period. And it's within the enumerated powers in the Constitution. In the Federalist Papers, Madison actually had argued for this, saying that the president can use force if needed to, quote, repel a sudden attack on the United States. And so some people say, well, you know, it's not applicable to Iran. Going back to what I said in the first hour, if you think that the intelligence is not accurate, then you are going to think that this is not that it's inapplicable to this instance. If you think that the intel that they were days away and thus posed an immediate threat on national security was accurate, then you are going to think that he is within acting within the confines of the enumerated powers of the Constitution. So it comes down to the veracity of the intelligence used. And. you, I mean, you can, can't you read this stuff from space? I was looking for this piece that I had Kane. I can't find it, but I read before that. I mean, they can actually measure this stuff even from space and they can determine, you know, exactly in terms of nuclear materials, exactly kind of how much you have and to be enriched to 60% already. Keep in mind that they've never allowed as part of the agreement, the UN was supposed to be able to go in and, uh, Inspect their facilities, which has never been allowed. They've I think they've what they've only visited less over the past 20 years It's been less than 13 percent from what I understand So we I mean, you know, we were supposed to just go on the honor system with it all Which do you trust them with the honor system? I don't necessarily I don't so it It comes down to whether or not you depend you you find that intelligence to be truthful And I will say too, discussing precedent, when has Trump ever committed to some kind of long-term conflict? Look at his first administration, he didn't. Taking out Soleimani, no. I mean, there were actions that he undertook in his first administration that did not commit us to any kind of long-term conflict. And even already, right at the start of his second term with the bombing in Yemen, that wasn't committing us to any kind of long-term conflict. I think a lot of those are weird. I think it's kind of like a goofy thing. I mean, and it does not necessarily mean that it's not always war, right? It's not always war. I don't know. I tend to think, I don't think that Trump has given any indication at all whatsoever of war. conflict and i think that he is acting within the authority granted to him by the constitution as the office of the executive now time is going to tell as to whether or not that intel is accurate it will time will tell i mean we as a people we vote certain ways and we invest with the authority of our vote uh the ability of these people to carry out these uh actions and also to make these determinations. It's not just about also enacting our will, but we are, I mean, you're kind of endorsing their thought-making process in a way, saying, okay, well, we're trusting you to make these decisions in this difficult time, even if we may not know everything up front immediately, which is not a comfortable place to be. That's why records and history are so incredibly important. But he hasn't committed us to any kind of long-term conflict, and I don't think In order for the intelligence to be bad, you would have to say that Trump was that he and everyone else that works with Trump would have to have bad intel. And I don't believe so. By the way, case in point, he is he is completely opposite from Tulsi Gabbard on this issue. And I got to say, she went out and did what I read was an unauthorized video where she was talking about Iran. We're going to talk about this more. I think if that's the case and if that she was this wrong, why is she in that job? 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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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So apparently Beavis and Butthead are coming to Call of Duty Season 4. Black Ops 6 Warzone Season 4 is going to feature Beavis and Butthead. I don't know about that. I mean, there's already images that have come out, so... Do they have white privilege in this game?
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I could probably play it.
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I mean, I think it's funny. I mean, they're going to try. I mean, I like Mike Judge. He's very, you know, very like-minded. So, you know, we'll see how this goes because I've been a little mad at COD lately, you know, and I've been mad because they've sucked. Yeah, I'm not going to lie. They've been bad. By the way, did I tell you Darktide 40k, Warhammer 40k, our rights are out today? I'm literally like... I'm not coming up for air except to do Jesse Waters tonight and then I'm like back. So, you know, the world could end and I just am not going to care. I'm not going to know. I'm not going to care. Let's see here. Also, more shutoffs this year for California. Yay! Love those rolling brownouts. Why? Because they don't have any power. That's why. They have no power. They're not able to do anything. That's why. Hotter, drier. Everyone's like, it's so hot. Prepare for the hotness. It's summer. It is summer. It is the end of June. Guess what happens at the end of June?
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It gets warm.
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Stop. What in the world? People are freaking out like they've never had anything over 90 degrees before. There is a rideable robot. It's a man-made horse. Powered by hydrogen. Are you? I mean, I've ridden a regular horse once. And I like to look at them and touch them, but they're giant dogs. They're super smart.
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I don't want to replace horses. I just want this one.
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I mean, wouldn't you call that a motorcycle? There's no wheels. Yeah, but it's a motorcycle. You just would ride that instead of a robot horse. Why would you need a robot horse? I've got questions. Apparently, you're significantly more likely to die on your birthday. I don't know. It's the thing from Science Focus. And they explained why. And I'm like, I don't want any of your stuff. So I didn't read all the way because I didn't want to have to give them all my intel. But they said there's a 13% or almost 14% rise in the number of people age 16 and older who kick the bucket on their actual birthdays compared to other days. And they think it's maybe celebrations or terminal illness. I don't know. Stick with us. We've got a lot more in store. We've got some culture.
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But he made a decision to veto this bill very late without even giving us the courtesy of a call to say, hey, can you clarify this for me? So I just need to let you all know that here's the box he created. If we don't pass a bill, if we don't pass a bill that regulates hemp and marijuana, then the status quo continues in those 8,000 shops and they keep selling all this poison and kids keep getting sick and parents keep losing their children.
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But liquor's okay because they give me lots of money to fight for their interest in Austin. Liquor's okay. You know, drunk driving's the number one, you know, cause. But hey, hey, liquor's all right. If your kid eats one... marijuana bear they get brain aids and die uh science according to dan patrick welcome back to the program dana lash here with you i am reluctant to give praise to politicians you guys know this because i mostly don't like any of them but i have to say to governor greg abbott well done Well done to Governor Greg Abbott, because not only did he read the room, but he's not a moron. And he's like, OK, first off, look, I don't care if you don't. I'm not a pot smoker and I'm like, would I say THC taker? I have CBD oil that I like use for my cuticles and things like that, you know, and I give my dog CBD treats.
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Dog's a hippie, too.
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Well, because it calms him down because he's, you know, so I give him some CBD treats. But at the same time, I'm also smart enough to realize that this is the gun control argument with a different variable. The products that were being sold have been legal. They just decided on a whim to make them illegal. I think because they were trying to ban all competitors to any potential big pot establishment in Texas. I've seen this happen in a number of other states. So they it's not marketed to kids. It's strictly regulated and it's been legal. All of this stuff is made up by people have no familiarity with this at all. If your kids doing drugs, then check your parenting. OK, it's like if your kids underage drinking, check your parenting. Well, kids can also get liquor and cigarettes and all this other stuff. They're not advertising this stuff to kids, and they're not making it available to them. That is such a moronic argument. I'm sorry, but it is. I'm not sorry. It is a moronic argument, and I do not feel bad at all, and I will not apologize for being honest in observation. I just think that, I don't know, Dan Patrick, for him to go out and say the stuff that he did was asinine. And Greg Abbott was like, this is big government. He recognized it for what it was, and he vetoed SB3. And my hat's off to Governor Greg Abbott. Well done, Governor. He did the correct thing. Well done. And that's not the only thing Governor Greg Abbott did. I mean, he also went after red flag law. Oh, what? Yes. SB 1362 banning the red flag, the gun confiscation law that was signed in by Abbott. So now all of that red flag is prohibited in Texas starting September 1st. So that was fabulous. Two great things done by Governor Greg Abbott. Now, I would like to see my property tax go away. Waiting for that. But these were two great things that Governor Greg Abbott did. So well done, Governor. So and he signed he I mean, he signed every pro gun bill. I mean, he was doing it real. I mean, he did it. He did it. So good job. Very, very pleased with my governor right now. Very pleased. And I think this is great. I mean, you can have Dan Patrick see they're still in poison. But he has no problem with alcohol. He has no problem with tobacco. What this this is, it's not about for people who don't know. Let me just don't even. First off, let me say this is not about skiing pot. This is that's not what this is about. About smoking pot. It's not about any of that. They're not. It's illegal now to go on smoke pot everywhere. That's literally not it at all. It is about a strictly regulated element that is used in. How would you put it? Can like consumables. Yeah.
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Yeah. Adult consumables.
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And it is similar to like cigarettes and alcohol. It's not for kids.
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Right.
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And so I reject that argument like, well, kids are getting it. Kids are also getting, I mean, they're literally going to the square in my town and selling cigarettes. So like they're involved. That just means you do a better job as a parent and you don't expect the government to step up and do what you're too damn lazy to do as mom and dad. Thank you. I've never had an issue with my kids doing any of that stuff, but I was a present parent in addition to working an ungodly amount of hours and traveling for work. So I don't want to hear no excuses from nobody. And most of you all get it. I mean, there's some drive-bys that don't. But honestly, I'm going to tell you, there were some more ulterior motives at play here. There there's always special interests that want to use the government to ban their competitors so that they can come in and try to establish a safeguarded market for themselves. And I think that Abbott was reading the room and I think he could see what the deeper is at play here. And so he acted accordingly. And that is a good thing because there's several issues wrapped into one. And it's not doesn't legalize anybody smoking anything. It doesn't legalize, you know, don't legalize any of it. It is strictly about a very highly regulated element in something that is only available to adults. And all of the accusations, there's no evidence. All of the stuff that they're saying is unscientific rubbish. It is embarrassing. It is embarrassing. Some of these arguments, I'm embarrassed for these lawmakers that are making them. So he can get out there and he can, you know, do all that. He would not come on this program. And I remember that. So I remember when politicians need help, they always want us to hawk their stupid books and their other issues and all this stuff. I can't tell you every damn day I get a pitch from some politician who's got another book that he wants us to he wants free airtime on, you know, buy an ad. We don't owe you nothing. Right. Go and advertise on the network. Go and advertise on our local affiliates. They could use that ad revenue. Go give it to them. But oh, my gosh, when they got to answer questions on legislation or policies that you all have questions about, it is like pulling teeth to get these suckers to come on the show. So I'm remembering this. It's also very important to note that the lieutenant governor went against the governor. I think the lieutenant governor, he's like, oh, he was silent. He has every right to be. He has every right to have all of the lawmakers, the lieutenant governor and people in Austin make these arguments and then he can decide. And that's exactly what he did. He was waiting to see what the people said, lieutenant governor, unlike you. He was waiting to see what the voters wanted, unlike you. He was waiting to act on behalf of science and fact, unlike you. So we're going to remember that. You all need to go and see Ballerina. The movie. The latest in the John Wick series. Okay, so let me just get it out of the way. Some people are like, I don't know, female action figure. First off, I guess you forget Ripley. And I guess you forget Sarah Connor. It is very much in that 80s vein. I am, as someone who loves action movies, I'm not a rom-com girl. I'm actually horror and I love thrillers, murder mysteries, and I love action. And this is very much in the vein of Ripley and Sarah Connor. It is not like, you know, the modern day Mary Sue. It is not. And she's not a Mary Sue. In this film, Ballerina, directed by Lynn Weissman, my friend Taryn Butler did all the gun fu on it. She was spectacular. She was a belief. She's an action star now. She was spectacular. The stunts were spectacular. And I am really harsh on movies. I will not go to a theater and sit and see a movie unless I know I'm going to be engrossed by it because I can't stand being captive like that. I am such a fidget. I can't sit still from start to finish. This was compelling. And they address the Mary Sue stuff early on. Early on, they're like, this is not no Mary Sue movie. Okay, first and foremost, it's not. She gets hit. She gets hit a lot. She bleeds. I don't want to give anything away, but let's just say John Wick can still, in a blink of an eye, make her disappear. There is a difference and it is well explained and it is done with respect to the audience. They are not telling you to suspend all disbelief and just, you know, and just embrace this full on. It is believable and she is powerful and she is vulnerable and identifiable. So you understand the whole revenant concept to John Wick, right? The spirit of vengeance. It's one of the things that drives John Wick and makes him absolutely unassailable. And you see that develop in her. And it is a phenomenal thing to watch because it is expressed differently. John Wick had it. He dealt with loss and he had pain power him and she dealt with loss and has pain power her. And it's very, very it is so artfully explained in the male and female. It is not woke. It is not woke at all. So you can enjoy it. I mean, it's, you know, again, it's like a John Wick series. So there's people getting, you know, getting told right and left. Let's just put it like that. Oh, my gosh. The stunts are fabulous. The soundtrack's good. The casting is superb. It's I mean, you've got Ian McShane and Gabriel Byrne in the same movie. It's just fabulous. And yes, Keanu Reeves makes an appearance. That's all I'm going to say. I'm not going to give anything away. It is a must-see, and I never tell you that. Rowoney Kenshin, that series, I said that was a must-see. This is a must-see. It is... It fits in perfectly with the John Wick universe. It's part of that. There's so many different stories that they can tell with all of these other characters. It is so well done. Go see it. Go see it this week. Go see it next before it's out of theaters because it is well worth it. And I think Ana de Armas, she is an action star. I did not know what to expect with her. But remember, she was also in, what was she in? Not James Bond, but she was in the movie with, did she do a film with Tom Cruise or something like that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she was good in that. And I thought, okay, well, I can foresee her being, you know, doing the action in this. And it is phenomenal. She does such a good job. The stunts are amazing. And when you think, okay, well, they can't get any more inventive with the stunts after, you know, John Wick 1, 2, 3, 4. Oh, yeah, they can. And it's fabulous. It's just a really great story. And it sets up for a sequel. It sets up for a continued – I hate saying sequel – it sets up for a continuation of the story. I loved it. I thought it was a great film. And, you know, I always go in and I harbor a little bit, you know, I'm like, let's see how it's fabulously done. And I think you're going to like it, but I can't say enough how much I appreciated how they addressed The female as an action lead, especially after we went through about two decades of nonsense. Right. And this really gets back to what we loved about 80s female action stars like Sarah Connor and Ripley. The vulnerability which was erased by third and fourth wave feminism talking about women in action films is absent here. It is it is very much in that old school spirit, which is one of the reasons why I immediately loved it. And they make that clear. clear in the first like 15 minutes it is so great so i was so happy with this this is a this is a a female i would say chaos neutral that you can get behind I think that's the best way to describe her. So good. So good. My whole house loved it. And my whole house never loves a movie all at once. It's very rare that we all do. And they loved it. And we all thought the same thing. And I have a house of dudes, you know, and I have young men in my house that are very they're very critical of because they they were raised with these Mary Sue kind of characters. Right. And girl power and girl boss. There is none of that in this film. So do not go in thinking that, oh, well, you're a dude. You may not be able to appreciate it. This is not girl boss BS. It is none of that. If you like Ripley, if you like Sarah Connor, if you loved that vein of female action star, you're going to love this movie. I want to go see it again. I can't believe I have never. John Wick is the only time I've ever gone to the theater to see the same movie before. Yes. oh i love action movies i would see this in the theater again absolutely it's that good it is that good oh my gosh i so badly want to spoil one scene for you so bad because the stunt was so good i'm the person who's like what in the theater i'm so annoying but i was trying to play it down it's really good so you guys got to go see it ballerina all the stars so good
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Welcome back to the program. Make sure you go sign up at Chapter and Verse. Lots of good stuff that comes up there. The newsletter daily. Lorene's been watching all of the latest developments with Qatar. Iraq and Kuwait have now both closed their airspace. They announced that they were closing their airspace after the attack from the missiles fired towards Qatar. Kuwait Airways also suspended flights. And they're grounding all their planes for a little while. So and it does look like, you know, everything, you know, we knew everything in advance, like we knew this stuff was coming in advance. So it's I kind of demonstrates that. to me at least, that Iran is trying to have a managed response. Responding in a way that, actually responding to our response, responding in a way that makes it look like they're responding but not enough to tick off the U.S. Because there was nothing to hit. And the Qatari air defense, their system took out all the missiles in Qatar. So that's the latest. We'll continue to follow it. In the meantime... We got today in stupidity.
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Yeah, and this one stuck out because there's like two stupid people in this one. Juan, this is cut 16. Jasmine Crockett is somehow awarding Don Lemon with the Social Impact Award. This is stupid. Listen to this. Or watch this.
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Don Lemon.
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Can you imagine awarding him anything?
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Yeah, why would he get?
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Like anything. I couldn't even imagine what the award would be that would be real that you would actually really award him with.
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I feel like that stage setup is like real basic.
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Oh, it is.
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It's a basic. I mean, just real basic. I'll be on Waters World tonight, TBA on Facebook. So check it out then. In the meantime, find us on YouTube, Facebook. Like and subscribe. I'll be back with you tomorrow.
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From the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, D.C., bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and soundbites into conversations with our nation's leaders and newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview, Washington Watch with Tony Perkins starts now.
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This was a complex and high-risk mission carried out with exceptional skill and discipline by our joint force. Final battle damage will take some time, but initial battle damage assessments indicate that all three sites sustained extremely severe damage and destruction.
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That was Air Force General Dan Cain, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, discussing Operation Midnight Hammer, U.S. targeted strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. Welcome to this June 23rd edition of Washington Watch. I'm your host, Tony Perkins. Thanks for tuning in. Coming up on today's program, how complex was the U.S. mission to neutralize Iran's nuclear capabilities? We'll be joined by retired Air Force General Rob Spalding, a former B-2 stealth bomber pilot and vice wing commander, for insight into the operation's execution. And yesterday, Iran warned it reserved the right to retaliate against the U.S.
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Even though Iran reserves its full and legitimate right under international law to defend itself against this blatant U.S. aggression and its Israeli proxy, the timing, nature, and scale of Iran's proportionate response will be decided by its armed forces.
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That was Iranian Ambassador to the UN, Amir Saeed Irvani. Earlier today, Iran followed through, launching both short and mid-range ballistic missiles at the US's largest air base in the Middle East, located in Qatar. But retaliation may not be limited to overseas. The Department of Homeland Security is sounding the alarm. Over 1,500 Iranians were apprehended entering the U.S. illegally during the Biden administration, with almost half of those being released into the U.S. Officials are concerned these illegals could be part of Iranian terror cells here in the U.S. We'll talk with North Carolina Congressman Pat Harrigan in just a moment.
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That was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the Israeli people following the U.S. strike on Iran's nuclear infrastructure. We'll get an on the ground report from CBN Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell from Jerusalem a little later in the program. But before I bring in our first guest, let me remind you that Washington Watch is made possible by people like you who support the work of Family Research Council. This program receives no government funding, only contributions from listeners like you. And right now, through June the 30th, your gift will have double the impact thanks to a $1.5 million challenge match by some generous supporters that want to see the work of Family Research Council continue. Now, this limited time opportunity is available only this week. So to double your contribution and to partner with us, simply text the word FAMILY to 67742. That's FAMILY to 67742. And support the work of Family Research Council. Following US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, President Trump indicated that he is open to the idea of regime change in Iran. However, many members of his cabinet have since clarified that this is not the goal of the strikes. Still, is regime change in Iran possible? And what are the likeliest results from these strikes? May we see escalation as we've seen earlier today? We're here to discuss this and more. Congressman Pat Harrigan, who serves on the House Armed Services Committee. He also serves as a member of the U.S., also served as a member of the U.S. military, deployed as platoon leader in Afghanistan. He represents the 10th Congressional District of North Carolina. Congressman Harrigan, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks so much for joining us.
SPEAKER 10 :
Tony, always great to be with you. Thanks for having me.
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So your response to the weekend strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities?
SPEAKER 10 :
I'd say, wow, what a turn of events, right? I mean, a week and a half ago, we thought Iran was going to come to a nuclear deal. They obviously had no intention of doing that. President Trump gives an ultimatum after Israel decides to come in and attack and kind of shift the thought paradigm of Iranian leadership. They just completely push that off to the side, don't take any single diplomatic off ramp, and then President Trump makes the bold move over the weekend of deciding to just remove their nuclear chip from the table. and completely change the nature of the discussions. Obviously, Iran retaliated, but that retaliation was very much scripted, as I think we all know at this point. And now they are looking at taking the diplomatic off ramp. You know, America is just in an incredibly strong position right now. Israel's in a strong position. Iran is obviously in a very weak position. Putin's got his head on his desk, and Xi's probably got his hands up wondering what on earth he can possibly do. But right now, this is a huge win in the direction of the good guys, and that's exactly what we needed in this country.
SPEAKER 12 :
You mentioned a diplomatic off-ramp. What's that look like?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I think Iran said that they want to come to the table today. And why wouldn't they? They have no other cards that they can possibly hold here other than just get completely blown into oblivion by Israel, picked apart and systematically taken out of power. And that's fundamentally what Israel has the capability to do. That's what they've been doing over the last week and a half. At this point, the Iranian regime is looking at the strengths that they have to bring to the negotiating table, and they really don't have any. And so I think they're looking at an existential crisis with their continued existence in power, or they're going to fall on their sword and die on the hill. And I don't think that they're going to want to do that. And so I imagine that Iran and the negotiations that will play out over the next several weeks should be fruitful for our side.
SPEAKER 12 :
In that it'll be fruitful for them, I think, in that it could spare their regime, I think, a little more time and we could see the toppling of that regime, could we not?
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It's very possible. I mean, the terms regime change have been thrown around over the last week and a half. But I will tell you, there's two different types of regime change. There's one that I'd be completely for, and there's one that I'm 100% totally against. The type that comes from an internal upwelling within a population that says, we're done with these guys. The last 50 years of sponsoring terrorism and oppression and being behind this incredibly militant form of Islam, we're done with that. Obviously that would be fantastic. But the other type of regime change where we effectuate that regime change, if we have not learned anything from the last 25 years of the global war on terror, the color revolutions that we've sponsored, any of the interventions that we've had in the Middle East is that forced regime change just does not work. And oftentimes the devil that we don't know ends up being a lot worse than the devil that we do know. And so keeping a very narrowly tailored focus on what our key strategic objectives are with respect to Iran is absolutely key and paramount. President Trump has kept that in focus from the very first day that this kicked off, going all the way back to before when he gave Iran 60 days to come to the table and make a deal. And I expect that he'll continue to keep it in focus. He will absolutely put America first, and we're gonna start seeing the benefits of that absolutely fantastic decision-making that our president has, and leadership that our president has shown.
SPEAKER 12 :
Pat, I would agree with you. I think that's well stated. An internal uprising that would replace that regime has staying power, and it's more likely to bring in something that's reflective of the people. And it has to be ripe. I think we may be at that point. It's different than what we've seen even in Syria. That regime change was a little more forced from the outside. I think we could see something from the inside. But I want to ask you this question, Congressman. You mentioned Putin. You mentioned Xi. Russia is reaching out, having conversations with Iran. Could they play a factor in the resolution here or whatever the outcome may be?
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I personally never took seriously Putin's offer to help negotiate some sort of de-escalation between Iran and Israel and the United States. I don't think that that was ever real. I think Putin and Xi very much have their hands up in the air right now. This is a five alarm fire for them. They are witnessing the strategic weakness of one of their greatest allies in the new axis of evil. And so, no, this is a significant emotional event for both Russia and China. It significantly complicates their desire to perpetuate chaos around the globe that ultimately degrades everything that we believe and stand for in the West. And this is not a good development for them, which means it's a great development for us.
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You didn't mention Kim Jong-un, leader of North Korea. He's got to be considering his moves at this point, does he not? Well, he seems to move as part of a block.
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And I think very much, if he's paying attention, he finds himself in a very similar position to Iran, isolated, held out to dry. I mean, really, where was Russia and China when Iran needed them most? They weren't there. And I think that's very telling about what type of alliances on the other side of our ally base. It is a fractured one. It is one that is regionally capable, but not globally capable. And I think that these would be wise notes for Kim Jong-un to take as he decides what his next steps are moving forward.
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let's pivot now former special forces you fought these these terrorists on foreign soil there's concern alarms being raised by homeland security that during the bite administration you know at least 1500 were apprehended at the border iranians trying to come into the country we don't know how many got through undetected but half of those 1500 were released into the country is there concern of potentially Iranian terrorist cells operating in the U.S.?
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Yes, there's absolute concern. And I think that you've got to look not just at the known Iranians that came across the border. You have to look at all the known gotaways that occurred during the Biden administration. You got to understand there was 1.5 million known gotaways. That's the government number. Some estimates say that that number really should be more like 2 million. But let me put this into perspective for you. During President Biden's tenure, we had a wide open southern border policy. That means if you showed up at a port of entry and you wanted to claim economic asylum, you wanted to claim political asylum, whatever you wanted, you were going to get released into this country. So think about what it means when the border patrol chases you down, not at a known port of entry, And you are actively running away from them when you know that if you get apprehended by them, you're just going to get released into the United States of America. Put that into perspective. What does it mean to the intent of those 1.5 to 2 million individuals that are running around our country right now? They are absolutely up to no good. How many of them are affiliated with Iran or any of their proxies is an unknown number. It is a huge strategic risk for the United States of America right now, which is why President Trump's policies of getting illegal aliens out of this country is so important.
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Pat, we just have about a minute left. Let me just tell me if I'm right or wrong. When we see how quickly over the last year that Iran has basically their bluster has been the curtain has been pulled back on their capabilities. I would say their terrorist activity is more of a threat than what we've seen them in terms of their national security and their capabilities.
SPEAKER 10 :
I wouldn't disagree on the surface, Tony, but I always think that we should have great respect for the capabilities of our adversaries. One of the worst things that you can do is underestimate the capabilities of your adversaries. And I don't think that we should do that in this point in time. I think that keeps us very level-headed and even keel. It prevents us from getting prideful about the successes that we have had, and it lets us focus on the vulnerabilities that we need to address in order to provide for the safety of the American people.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right, Pat, thanks so much for joining us. Always great to see you.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thanks for having me, Tony.
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Pat Harrigan from North Carolina. All right, when we come back, we're actually going to talk about the details of the significance of this strike with a retired B-2 bomber pilot. So don't go away. We're back after this.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks so much for tuning in on this Monday. All right. The U.S.' 's targeted strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities has been hailed by President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth as a huge success. Information from the Trump administration suggests the strike not only hit its target, but also retained the element of surprise during the operation. So here to discuss the strategic aspects of this strike is retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding. He flew B-2 stealth bombers and served as the vice wing commander of the squadron. General Spalding, welcome to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us. Thanks. Great to be on the show. So General Kane, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, described the mission as complex and high risk. Can you walk us through it?
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Yes, we've been training for this for over 10 years. You know, there's a tremendous amount of operations, maintenance, logistics that goes into it. Over 30 hours in the air, six or seven air refueling. So it's very complex. You have all kinds of support aircraft. But that being said, this is our business, what we train to do. And, you know, it's executed flawlessly.
SPEAKER 12 :
What effect do you believe that, I mean, we're still waiting for the reports in terms of the damage done to the nuclear facilities. The early indications are it was successful. What do you think this will do in terms of setting back the nuclear ambitions of Iran?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, assuming our intelligence was correct, and I believe it was, the centrifuges at Fordow have been destroyed, which means that even though they have 60% enriched uranium, essentially they can't get to highly enriched uranium that they could use for a nuclear weapon. So I think we've stopped them at 60%, which means that essentially they can't create a bomb.
SPEAKER 12 :
Now, the Pentagon says the strike was carried out without any known detection from Iran. Walk us through that process, how you would think they could just take off, but there was a lot of stealth involved in flying these stealth bombers.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, it's operational security, making sure that you don't tip your hat with any of the things that you're doing at the base to let the adversary know what's going on. There's so much collection now because of smartphones, which track all your data. So it's really complex and complicated in terms of creating that diversion, but I think they handle it flawlessly.
SPEAKER 12 :
President Trump has characterized the strike as a defensive action. That's garnered some criticism. How great do you think the threat that Iran posed to the U.S. based upon what you know?
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, it's incredible. You know, they have not only the intent, but soon we're going to have the capability to kill a lot more Americans than they've already killed. You know, we talk about if we strike their nuclear facilities that they may attack us. They've been attacking us. They've been killing Americans. We know this. And they've been doing it either directly or through their proxies. And so it's not something that we have to imagine. If they had a bomb, You know, they have threatened to use it against both Israel and America.
SPEAKER 12 :
Now, their proxies, as you mentioned, have been degraded significantly over the last year since October the 7th and their engagement with Israel. What capacity do we know that Iran still retains to strike back at the U.S.? We saw the short and mid-range missile attack today. What other capacities do they still have?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, they still have missiles, but as you saw today, they let the Qataris, and it sounds like us, know that they were going to launch a strike. So what they wanted to do was look bold and strong in front of their population, but ultimately they gave pre-warning so that their launches would be ineffective. You know, that's pretty much all they have now, and even that is not effective because of Iron Dome and the Patriot batteries that we have, you know, around our facilities in the region. So I think, you know, they're going to be limited in terms of what they can do damage-wise. Now, they could create terrorist attacks here in the United States. That's not an existential threat, but certainly something we should be concerned about.
SPEAKER 12 :
I was just talking with Congressman Pat Harrington about – about that, that we have reports from Homeland Security that over 700 Iranians who were detained at the border were released into the United States during the Biden administration. In some ways, they're very effective at terrorist activity, more so, I would think, than fighting a head-to-head war with the United States.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. And that's what makes nuclear weapons so dangerous in the hands of the Iranians. You know, they've shown a proclivity to use whatever they can to kill Israelis and Americans. And quite frankly, having them have a weapon like that means that, you know, it could literally be used at any time. And so I think that was a danger the president was unwilling to allow to continue.
SPEAKER 12 :
Any concern as Russia has apparently alluded to providing support to Iran, might they give them weapons that they could use?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, you know, again, we go back to the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is essentially what the Russians were doing, or Soviets at the time, sending nuclear weapons into Cuba. And that ended up in a standoff when Kennedy was president. And so I think the Russians know very well that giving nuclear weapons to the Iranians would be tantamount, particularly if they got used, to inviting nuclear war on Russia itself, which it does not want.
SPEAKER 12 :
What other installations of the US overseas could be at risk?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I think any installation can be at risk for a terrorist attack. And, you know, as you know, many Iranians came across our southern border, but there's also Iranians throughout Europe. You know, we have a base in Turkey. We have bases all over the Middle East. So, you know, I think really there's no place on earth right now that we can't let our guard down for Iranian-backed terrorists to try and attack us.
SPEAKER 12 :
General, we just have about 30 seconds left, but ultimately, is it going to require a regime change to remove this threat?
SPEAKER 14 :
I don't think so. The regime, whether it changes or not, I think the important thing here is we want to take away the capability to do massive harm, and that's what nuclear weapons can do. And I think the president did exactly that.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right, General Spalding, thanks so much for joining us today. Appreciate your insights. Absolutely. All right. In addition to striking U.S. military establishments in the Middle East, Iran has threatened to shut down the Strait of Hormuz. Why is that important? We're going to talk about that next with Washington Stan's Mark Tapsco. So don't go away. More Washington Watch straight ahead.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks so much for joining us. One way that Iran could possibly retaliate for American strikes on three of its nuclear sites, analysts say, would be to shut down the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route for oil and gas. If they did, it would not be the first time. Washington Stan Senior Congressional Analyst Mark Tapscott joins me now. Mark, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining me. Good to be here, Tony. All right. Not only are you our congressional analyst, but since you've been around a while, you're going to be our historian, too. Let's talk about this, because back in 1988, we saw something similar.
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Yes, indeed. Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, and they also took some military actions to threaten our transports through the area, oil transports and our military ships. President Reagan didn't put up with that. His response basically was to virtually put the Iranian Navy back into port, sank several of their ships and inflicted a pretty serious attack on them, injuries on them. You would think they would remember that, but we are dealing with the Iranians, so probably not.
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So the Strait of Hormuz, this is a critical waterway. About almost a quarter of the world's oil moves through that region. So we're already seeing fluctuation in gas prices, oil prices, which obviously will filter its way down to gas prices as well. How significant of a threat do you really think this is on behalf of the Iranians?
SPEAKER 07 :
To be honest, I don't think it's that serious. I think it's primarily rhetorical boasting, if you will. One of the key facts about the Straits of Hormuz, yes, the world relies on oil and liquefied natural gas coming through the Straits. But 80% of what Iran ships is in the way of its oil and liquefied natural gas goes through the straits. So they effectively would be shutting themselves off from one of their most profitable markets. So I really don't think they're going to do that.
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The regime really, I think, is is against the ropes. You know, they're now very much they want to have a we're talking earlier with Congressman Pat Harrigan that they're looking for a diplomatic off ramp. I think that's the only way they could possibly save the regime. I think any other confrontations with the direct confrontations with the United States could very well be the end of the regime.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, Tony, one of the things that I think we should bear in mind anytime we're dealing with the Iranians, we shouldn't assume that they are as logical and rational about these things as we are. um you know they do have we don't know how many but we can be pretty certain as congressman uh aragon was just saying and i think general spalding did as well some number of sleeper terrorist cells in this country and elsewhere around the world that could threaten our interest pretty much anywhere they decide to do it and Once these folks get on the point of, hey, what have we got to lose now? We're going to be kicked out of here anyway. That's when I think we should really fear. what they could do with these terrorist cells. I remember very distinctly in 2023, one of those Iranians that was released into the U.S., looking into the camera and saying, you don't know my name now, but you will. That guy is probably still here.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. I mean, that is, I think, that was a point I was making earlier with Congressman Harrigan. And I think the greater threat for them is their terrorist activity. In fact, I think what gave them the sense of strength were their proxies. I think once we got beyond, not we, but Israel got beyond their proxies, we saw how weak they really were. And I think terrorism is their strength. That's their strong suit. Absolutely. And so I do think that it is a threat, you know, having worked in the anti-terrorist field when I came out of the Marine Corps, you know, 35 years ago, a little different times back then. But nonetheless, the Islamic terrorism really hasn't changed. that said there's not the the terrorism is more of a a front to protect the mothership there's really nothing left of the mothership to protect um i i would i'm in favor of regime change led by the iranian people not not the us uh not israel but the iranian people to throw off this repressive regime and i think plant a flag of uh You know, I don't know if we can get to democracy, but let the people choose over there. Let them do it. I don't think we should be into the nation-building phase that we tried before. Not we, but the Bush administration tried in Afghanistan. That was an absolute failure.
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Absolutely. You know, I think one of the biggest mistakes President Obama made in the foreign policy area was – ignoring the green revolution in iran in 2009 yeah right because it was very clear there was a strong popular uprising that could have affected some big changes right as i was talking earlier in the program when it comes from within when it's a uh um indigenous um
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move. It has staying power. And it's not fake. It's real. And it can bring the changes that are needed to remove this regime. Mark, out of time. Thanks for joining us. Always appreciate the insights. All right, folks, when we come back, we're going to go to Jerusalem, and we're going to talk with the CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief, our good friend Chris Mitchell, who's on the ground there in Israel. So we're going to talk about what's happening there and how they're responding to this weekend's attack by the U.S. on Iran. So don't go away.
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Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.
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The U.S. is decisive strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend brought the U.S. into direct military action against Iran and potentially into a wider war with the Islamic Republic and its proxies. And while the U.S. warned Iran not to respond, it has done so. Earlier today, Iran retaliated by striking U.S. bases in Qatar and Iraq. Iran has continued to fire missiles into Israel as well over the weekend, inflicting more damage. Here to discuss this and more, Chris Mitchell, the Middle East Bureau Chief with our friends at CBN News. Chris, welcome back to Washington Watch. And as always, thanks for staying up late and joining us.
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Great to be with you again, Tony.
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So how has the Israeli government and the Israeli people reacted to America's strike on Iran's nuclear facilities?
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Tony, I would say it would be a great sense of relief and gratefulness that the US has come in with Israel to attack Iran, this major, the leading state sponsor of terror in the world and the nemesis to Israel for decades. So I think great relief, thankfulness, and that the US is helping them hit probably the one nuclear site called Fordow. They were buried under a mountain in Iran that Israel, despite its major military successes, was probably unable to hit because it needed what they call a massive ordnance penetrator. A 15-ton bomb, a bunker-busting bomb. So very, very thankful, very grateful, Tony, that the U.S. has joined Israel in its fight against Iran.
SPEAKER 12 :
Now, Israel has kept up its attacks even since the bombing of those nuclear facilities by the U.S. They've been going after a different set of targets. Not only they have continued to hit, I think, the entrances to some of those nuclear facilities, but they've also gone after some of the institutions that are linked to this notorious regime. For instance, they've been hitting one of the prisons where political prisoners are being held. They've been going after the morality police, those who have been repressing and suppressing the people. What's going on?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, these are immense political targets that the IDF is going after. And it represents, I think, some people believe it's almost as important to what the U.S. did on Saturday by bombing Fordow. What it is, it's hitting, as you said, the Evin prison, the notorious prison where thousands of political prisoners have been tortured and persecuted, sometimes executed throughout the years. They've targeted the Bejes. Now, these are the thugs that go out and suppress many of these protests that we've seen throughout the year, throughout the years 2009, 2022. They've gone off what's called the destruction clock, the clock that Iran has set up that would finally destroy Israel. I think the year was 2040. So these are significant political targets and they represent it. It appears that the way that the Israel is undermining the regime so that if there is and many people expect there will be a time when the Iranian people will protest that these the infrastructure, the political infrastructure of Iran that has been used to keep the population suppressed and oppressed and intimidated, that these are going to be weakened enough Who knows? It could be that regime change that many people are hoping and praying for. But these targets are very, very important, Tony, to undermine the Islamic regime.
SPEAKER 12 :
Chris, that's how I see it. I've read press reports here in the States that call these symbolic. I think it's more than symbolic. I think it is undermining the intimidating infrastructure that's there. You know, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the regime as weak. And he has urged the Iranian people to rise up against it. And it appears that there may be some things on the ground because the Mossad has been operating there in Iran. I'm wondering if there is a so far we've seen everything from the air. I'm wondering if there's anything on the ground there to help encourage a movement by the Iranian people.
SPEAKER 08 :
with all the activity of the Mossad, with people there on the ground, you would have to imagine that there is some sort of plan in progress, communications, relationships that would help foster a possible uprising, possible regime change. I know the saying is that regimes like the Islamic regime are brutal, but they're brittle. And so maybe this is the time of cracking. We also have had that post on True Social where President Trump said, you know, it's not politically correct to talk about regime change, but if this regime can't make Iran great again, what's the problem with the regime change? Carolyn Levitt kind of explained more about that today. So it seems like it's this idea of regime change is being more and more accepted. Prime Minister Netanyahu, as you said, now President Trump, even today in Paris, Reza Pahlavi, he's the son of the late Shah. He's calling for regime change. Some people see him as a potential, at least interim leader, of if there's a regime change and going to a democratic Iran. So the fact that the idea of is hitting these targets, they're real targets, they're real buildings, real people that really had been used by the regime to keep the population under their heels. They seem to be hitting those targets purposely with the idea of maybe this could change things on the ground.
SPEAKER 12 :
They've also been very careful to warn the civilian population when these attacks are coming and to avoid these civilian, potentially civilian targets.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, they have, exactly. And it's something the IDF does regularly. They've done it in Gaza throughout the years. They've done it in Lebanon in the recent war with Hezbollah. And now they're doing it with Iran. They tell people, literally, get out of this, get out of military harm, get out of these targets that we're going to come against. They literally telegraph to the enemy exactly what they're going to be doing. On the other hand, Iran has been firing indiscriminately and targeting residential areas here in Israel. Yesterday, I was down in northern Tel Aviv. That's when one of their Iranian missiles hit a neighborhood there, made significant damage. Thankfully, no fatalities and only about 20 injuries But unlike Israel, that really protects civilians inside Iran, Iran is going out of its way to hit residential buildings, apartment buildings. Sadly, there's about 30 fatalities here so far. But if you consider what has happened, what could have happened, You know, those fatalities are significantly lower. Some call it miraculous the way that that Israel has suffered so little damage despite the hundreds of missiles that have been fired at it by Iran.
SPEAKER 12 :
Chris, let's talk about the frequencies of those attacks. Are we seeing a declining number of missiles coming in from Iran?
SPEAKER 08 :
Definitely. There has been, I think, maybe one alarm today, earlier today, I think it was around 930, but nothing since then. But those number of attacks have been going down quite substantially. What's happening, Tony, is that the idf is targeting the missile launchers and they have more than apparently more than 50 of those launchers have been destroyed by the idf so even if iran has 1 000 2 000 ballistic missiles left in their arsenal it really doesn't do them any good if they don't have the launches to go ahead and fire those at Israel. So that is the battle going on, and Israel seems to be tipping the balance to the number of launchers that they're destroying. And they're actually moving them eastward, so they're getting further and further away from Israel. So it's reducing apparently significantly the number of missile attacks coming here against Israel.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, also, Chris, I think if you look at the precision of the Israeli attacks on these missile sites, missile launchers, do you really want to be driving one of these missile vehicles or do you want to be pushing the button on one of them? I mean, you you're going to make yourself a target because it appears that Israel has become very good with intelligence and targeting missiles. these launchers.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. And the the intelligence of Israel on the ground since the very beginning of Operation Rising Lion is is just incredible, not only on the missile launchers, the ballistic missiles on the air defense systems, And particularly on the command structure of the IRGC and the Iranian army, you know, the number of senior leaders that have been eliminated is just staggering. It's very similar to what happened with Hezbollah and Hassan Nasrallah, but even more so, I know, So it must be this intelligence by the Mossad, along with apparently Iranian operatives inside Iran, is just stunning.
SPEAKER 12 :
So we've got about three minutes left, and I want to get to kind of a prayer focus before we close. But I want to go back for just a moment to the regime change idea. You know, Syria – We saw that regime fall. And I'd like you to compare the two, because from my perspective, Syria had a little more support from the people than I think Iran, the Iranian regime has from its people.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think so, yeah. The regime changed there. It went actually quite quickly, but they had more support, as you say. Less so here with Iran. It seems like the overwhelming majority of the people despise the regime. They don't like, they've been fed up with this brand of Shiite Islam that they try to export to the world. So it looks like perhaps ripe for, you know, some people call it revolutionary.
SPEAKER 12 :
And I would think so after they've literally spent hundreds of billions of dollars into a nuclear program that is now in ashes. And the people in the meantime have been suffering with high inflation, lack of access to resources. I would think they're a little tired of all this.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, Tony, a historic catastrophe, all the money and the treasure that the Iranian regime has put into its proxies throughout the region to its ballistic missile program, its nuclear program. And it's all within a few weeks. It's almost all gone.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, that's good for the world, the rest of the world, but I think makes Iran ripe for a change of government. All right, we've got about just a little less than a minute and a half left. Two things, Chris. How should we be praying? And then secondly, you actually have a podcast on Pray.com with all the latest news from Israel. So give us prayer points and tell us about Pray.com.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, they can go to pray.com slash Chris Mitchell, a weekly podcast on many things that we've had you on it, Tony, and many other people like Anne Graham Lotz or other folks, and also an analysis of what's happening here. In terms of prayer points, I would say pray for the Iranian people. that they could have the freedom that they are longing for. Pray for the underground church that is, believe it or not, one of the fastest growing churches in the world, if not the fastest growing. Many come to faith through dreams and visions. Pray for them and pray for wisdom for President Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu, and so that they can make the wise decisions they need that are literally changing history.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, we're going to continue to pray for them and pray for all of our friends like you there in Israel for your safety and well-being as well. Chris Mitchell, always great to have you on the program. Thanks for taking time to join us today. Thanks, Tony. So, folks, I do encourage you to pray. We live in a very volatile time. It's a very... I would have to say exciting time because I believe we're seeing the words on the pages of scripture come to life. And we need to be vigilant, watchful, and prayerful. So join us in praying. All right, out of time for today. You can join us tomorrow for our prayer event. So text PRAY, that's P-R-A-Y to 67742. Until next time, just keep standing.
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Join Logan Sekulow and an esteemed panel—including Jay Sekulow and Rick Grinnell—in a critical analysis of President Trump's audacious military action against Iran. This episode delves deep into the implications of the United States' decision to target Iran's nuclear capabilities. As tensions rise and the international community watches closely, the panelists navigate through the geopolitical strategies at play and the probable reactions from nations like Russia and China. Gain insights into the potential ripple effects on global security dynamics and domestic responses, with keen observations from figures like Pete Hegseth and analysis of Iranian threats against U.S. interests. Listen in as the team addresses concerns about potential war, evaluates the broader political narrative, and reflects on the United States' defense policies in modern history. A must-listen for anyone keen on understanding the complexities of international diplomacy and conflict.
SPEAKER 04 :
I guess President Trump wasn't bluffing as he drops the midnight hammer.
SPEAKER 06 :
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SPEAKER 04 :
And now your host, Logan Sekulow. Happy Monday, everybody. Welcome to Sekulow. This is Logan Sekulow. Will Haines in studio with me. We got a packed show. My dad, Jay Sekulow, is joining us. Rick Grinnell is joining us as well. And possibly my brother, Jordan. We're going to see how things go. Looks like he's scheduled to. Still at our European Center for Law and Justice. So you're not going to want to miss this show. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. Obviously, we're going to talk about the big news over the weekend. And Will, knock, knock. Who's there? I told you. Ayatollah who? Ayatollah once, you son of a gun. One of the best it's ever been. That's right. We did this one for Charlie Daniels. We did this one, I feel like, for Toby Keith. We did this one for all of your country music stars. It does feel a little bit like we are in that sort of war on terror moment again. As, of course, President Trump, after saying two weeks, said, ah, I said within two weeks. Right. Within 24 hours. drops the midnight hammer, as they're calling it. And look, I'd say I'm incredibly impressed with this. Watching the rollout of it, watching, look, it's not that it doesn't make me nervous, not that I don't have feelings and thoughts about whether we are at war or not with Iran. Obviously, the main line here is saying we are not at war with Iran. We just went in and we took out three of these top enrichment sites. And that's good. Again, very Top Gun maverick that this happened here. However, I was very encouraged once I heard not only the statement from President Trump, which we'll play a little bit later, but the press briefing the following day when they kind of outlined exactly what went on in this operation. Incredibly impressive, incredibly impressive from this team. I really think when you have somebody like Pete Hegseth, when you have Marco Rubio, and you even have J.D. Vance, but you have those two, I think those two together are people who have been through it, who understand it. and clearly can execute a mission that again, there were no leaks, no one knew it was happening. It happened before we knew it, it was over. Even so much so that the news wasn't even covering that there was this sort of major attack in Iran.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and after that statement of within two weeks that we got at the end of last week, the mainstream and liberal media decided to have a field day with that. They were writing story after story and having monologue after monologue about how when President Trump says two weeks, that means he's trying to get out of something. In fact, the Atlantic. published a piece around 9 a.m eastern time on Saturday the very day that then a few hours later we discovered and were told that these strikes had happened by David Frum that says what Iran knows about Trump the mullahs of Iran join the bet that Trump always chickens out and we saw that that wasn't the case on Saturday you know even if he hadn't done it
SPEAKER 04 :
To say chickening out when you're talking about dropping bombs, I don't think it's chickening out. I think it's negotiations. It's going to the table. But of course, that is not what happened. You did have these precision strikes that happened. Sorry, I'm pumped up this morning. And now the outcry has switched. Of course, now those that were protesting with their Palestinian flags are now running around with Iranian flags. Again, fundamentally missing no one. I mean, you can't find even a Democrat that would probably tell you they may not like that we did this, but saying, man, Iran is the beacon of freedom. No, of course not. They've been under a terrible regime for many, many decades. Look, great people, great history, great legacy in Iran. I would love to see it turned back into what it was, if not better. And maybe that's where we're headed. We're not sure. But look, if it was to take out the imminent threat of nukes and war that could happen, look, we'll have to see how this plays out in a week. We'll see if it plays out in a month, in a year. You know, hindsight's always 20-20. But I do think this was the right move. My dad, Jay Sekula, is going to be joining us here in the next segment. And I want you to be a part of that conversation as well. Because we have such a packed show, we're going to take calls throughout the show instead of just waiting until the end. So 1-800-684-3110. Again, President Trump made a pretty bold move here. And this is a big move in support of Israel. You can be a part of that team as well, becoming an ACLJ champion at ACLJ.org. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Sekulow. Phone lines are open for you. 1-800-684-3110. Of course, we are covering the news over the weekend. We had to. We're bringing in some specialists today. My dad, Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel here at the ACLJ. Rick Grinnell and Jordan, my brother, will be on from Europe. Dad, though, it was a big weekend. I was at dinner, I believe it was, on Friday night. And someone said, hey, what do you think about this two weeks thing? Do you think it's really two weeks? What's it going to be like? And I said, I don't know. You know, it could be that it is two weeks. We wait and see. And it could be that stuff happens tomorrow. This could be something just throw them off the scent a bit. And of course, by the time we had made it home, I feel like from dinner, the answers were there.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, well, look, I mean, the scope and nature of this is is very significant. And that is, number one, the president acting under Article two authority is the commander in chief. authorized a military strike that had been well thought out for over a decade and well executed. And a huge thank you to our men and women in the military that were involved in this. What a tremendous victory for the United States military. But also, this is a world-changing moment. And I think the thing to reflect on right now is that this moment in history is the world will change and it will change because it has the real potential now for the first time in certainly in your lifetime and i think mine as well that we could see a total reshaping of the middle east we saw the beginning of that with the abraham accords we've seen the continued security cooperation between uh middle east countries including israel The Arab world, for the most part, wanted to see an end of the Iranian regime. That nuclear threat was not something that anyone in the region would tolerate, but it took the Israelis initially and the United States ultimately to conclude a military exercise that literally makes the world safer for my grandchildren. And I will tell you that's what I've communicated to our leaders, that they have changed the world with God's guidance. And President Trump got the credit for this. With God's guidance, we saw a sea change move here that I think, Logan and Will, we don't even know the extent to where this could go.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, absolutely. And I think there has been this sort of push over the weekend. And they're pulling up a lot of old clips showing, hey, look, pretty much every president has said Iran was the threat that they could not get nukes. This is from Obama, from Biden, from even from Kamala Harris. They said, who's the number one threat to America? And she said, I think your first one you'd have to say is Iran. But of course, now it's people taking to the streets because President Trump did it with Iranian flags.
SPEAKER 08 :
you how absurd this is. First of all, the Iranian people by and large, they don't want to carry the regime's flag. I mean, that's not where they want to be. I read a lot of data last night, just political data from inside Iran, because the Shah of Iran's son is the crown prince, the crown king, really, of Iran. He said it's going to be up to the people of Iran what the government should look like. But he's the leading force for the opposition. And they reported that upwards of 80% of the populace, not just people under 45 or 50, but the populace, of Iran want the Ayatollahs out, want the theocratic regime out. So I think you could see, I mean, the Iranian people are going to have, the Persian people are going to have to be the ones that mobilize. But that's how you ultimately see a real regime change. When the people are behind that regime change, it makes all of the difference. They were 14, 15 years ago during the Green Revolution. Unfortunately, President Obama would not back those students. But this is a different president and a different time. And again, huge thank you to President Trump for making the difficult decision to execute this operation.
SPEAKER 05 :
You put out a statement over the weekend that called this a Churchill moment, the decisiveness by the president and obviously the outcome that can come from this. But one thing I think that makes this different and why it's easy for those that want to criticize the president have the luxury of doing so is that typically American foreign policy, when it's come to bad actors like this, have been reactionary, waiting until after They have done something like Pearl Harbor, or you think of even 9-11, where threats were known, but then we waited to confront the evil until they had carried out something that cost a heavy price on American lives. This is a threat that every president, regardless of power or party, have said cannot happen. And it is just now that a president decided to do something about it. Could you talk a little bit about that? Sure.
SPEAKER 08 :
But it wasn't simply the president deciding to do something about it. This president said he will not allow in his watch a nuclear Iran. And they were very, very close. Even the IAEA, as you all have talked about on the broadcast, the International Atomic Energy Commission's. All of those organizations recognized that Iran was enriching uranium for weapon purposes. So that's number one. Number two, the president has been crystal clear on this. I listened to some of the media on the left and said the president was deceptive. He was deceptive by saying within two weeks, he was deceptive by sending out the – Other B-2s towards Guam. Deceptive. That's called military tactics. That makes our men and women safer when you're executing a mission-critical event, which this was. But you know what? Here's the good news. Iran's nuclear capacity has been, if not totally eliminated, so significantly crippled, it will not come back. No one's going to allow it to come back. And I think you could see, again, I think regime change, if it arises within the people of Iran, the great Persian empire, if it can arise there, you could see a real change for the betterment of the entire world.
SPEAKER 05 :
We also know that Iran has said they will retaliate. We're seeing them also rush to the international bodies like the UN. We know that it's a different FBI than it was just even a few months ago that will focus on protecting the homeland, keeping Americans safe. But I want to get your thoughts on the international bodies, places that The ACLJ is active and working as now we see the Iranians rushing to the UN Security Council. I can only imagine they may want to start reaching out to places like the ICC and things of that nature to try and go after America. What is the role of even organizations like the ACLJ at a time like this?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, number one, we've already been, first of all, Danny Danone, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, was unbelievably great on the floor of the UN. He gave a great statement of what was really at stake to the world. We're already activated. As people know, when it came to the attack on the, when Iran attacked the civilian hospital in Israel, we immediately engaged our team. We're working very closely on the ICC matter at the highest levels. uh with professor dershowitz and you know we'll see what moves take place but we've got our teams are already reviewing everything as it relates to what the next move here but i think the un is going to be hard-pressed to frankly will and logan i think the un is going to be hard-pressed to do anything but we've mobilized our teams of course you're getting this broadcast i just encourage everybody support the work of the aclj it is it also is mission critical
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely, Dad. I'm going to let you go here because I think we've got such a packed show and I want to hear from everyone who's calling in as well. So give us a call at 1-800-684-3110. As you said, it is a very important time to support the work of the ACLJ. There's got to be the voices that are allowed on this topic. And look, I saw some of the comments coming in. Of course, we're going to always have people who are on both sides of these kind of conversations. We always want to be honest with you, tell you the truth, tell you when we agree or when we disagree, and we do that. Maybe unlike a lot of people, we don't just do things for clicks. And I think that's why, and I'm very happy to announce, we have hit over 500,000 YouTube subscribers alone. Because we are telling you not just what you want to hear, not just tickling your ear, We are actually going in there and giving you the truth and the honest perspective. And a lot of commentators won't do that. But because of our expertise in the law, because of our expertise in media, we know that you're smart enough to understand the truth, to understand where things can actually go good or bad. Understand where, yes, you may have a feeling that something should be legal, but then it's not. But there are moments like this that are very decisive. And I saw a lot of Christian influencers. I saw a lot of conservative influencers who have issues with this strike in Iran. And I'm not talking about, by the way, having concern for going into war. I can respect that. but it really comes down to what ends up becoming anti-Israel and anti-Semitic bias. So many of these people I saw posting started all talking about, well, you know, those Jewish people aren't really the Jewish people, and now we're supporting Israel, which is not the Israel you think of from the Bible. That Israel is this Israel, and we're now the Jewish people, so why do you... This is absurd, and it's not even worth having... the conversation because it's not really about that it's about what's going on what's right and wrong and sometimes you can actually look at what is right and wrong not just from a biblical perspective which of course is the number one but also from a humanitarian perspective and if you have a country who has spent years and decades and decades saying we are going to wipe you the united states of america off the map when we can and they're close to having a nuke Well, you know what? Sometimes things have to get done. Do I hope this is the end that doesn't lead into a bigger global conflict? Yes, also as well. I also had to tell many people I know they were not going to be drafted and I had to tell them they would not be drafted because I don't know, they were 40 years old and out of shape. You know, maybe that could we start there. All right. So let's just go from there. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110 and become an ACLJ champion if you can. That's a recurring monthly donor. Go to ACLJ.org right now. We really could use your support. We're not funded by major sponsors or anything like that. We only are supported by you, the ACLJ champion and donor. We'll be right back with more. My brother joining us later, Enric Grinnell. Welcome back to Secular. We are going to take your phone calls in this segment and the next segment. So I want you to call in because in the next segment, Rick Grinnell is going to be joining us a little harder to get to calls than my brother. Jordan will be on at the end. We'll be able to take some calls during that segment, but I wanted to make sure we get some of them in right now. So let's just kick this off. Let's go to Robert, who is calling in Maryland on line one. Robert, go ahead.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I wanted to say thank you to our men and women in uniform, as well as President Trump, for taking this bold, decisive action to destroy the enrichment facilities in Iran that are one of the major components to develop nuclear bombs. Although I agree with your father, it doesn't completely eliminate them being able to do it. It badly, badly degrades them and sets them back. My question is, where does the United States go from here? What do we need to do politically, militarily, economically and diplomatically? to continue to put pressure on Iran. And if those things don't work, what may we have to do militarily in terms of going to war with this regime? They still want to destroy America, even with this defeat.
SPEAKER 04 :
Robert, I think that those are very good questions, and I think a lot of that is going to play out over the next few weeks. We'll see how things go, but... In light of that, there's also some news that has come out, and it does involve Americans. It does involve American airspace and American military bases, and I think we need to cover that as we head into this. This is breaking news that's just coming out. That's right.
SPEAKER 05 :
The U.S. Embassy in Qatar has put in place a shelter-in-place order for Americans in Qatar. There are a lot of them. Right, exactly. There's a lot of business interest there. There is one of the largest air bases of the U.S. military in the Middle East is in Qatar. Another one is in Bahrain. But in Qatar, they have said shelter in place Americans. The Qatari government has put in a ban on their airspace, shut down the airspace for the time being. So you're seeing flights that were supposed to be landing in Doha that are being diverted to other places. So it seems like that could be a potential target of an Iranian retaliation shortly. One, we pray for Americans and the troops that are there if that is the case and that the defenses that the U.S. has will be able to ward off any such attack. But I think to Robert's point, that's the short term right now is securing our military personnel and our bases in the region, right? from an Iranian retaliation and hoping that it doesn't harm or kill U.S. assets. Now, this would not be the first time that the Iranians have killed American service members. If you speak with any veteran that served in the global war on terror, they know that Iranian militias, Iranian IRGC themselves, were fighting them. They were fighting U.S. in these theaters and killing many thousands of Americans. So this is not something that, although we weren't at war with Iran, Iran was at war with the United States and has been for decades and have a lot of American blood on their hands. So I think how this develops in the short term is the first thing. But I also think it is important that President Trump has continued to talk about peace and negotiation. This wasn't a shock and awe Baghdad bombing like we saw with the war in Iraq. This was precision strikes on targets, not in major city centers or anything like that. And then what did the bombers do? They turned around and went home. No infantry invading, no other airstrikes. This was very targeted at the nuclear program.
SPEAKER 04 :
I was actually glad that people hopefully tuned in and saw President Trump's statement. I think we have some of those sound from that as well because... I actually had my kids watch it because they were all hearing about the news started to rumble around. I go, hey, this could be very much a historical moment. You probably need to be in the room. You probably need to hear what's going on. I'll explain to you the situation. And then I think President Trump came in definitively, strongly made the statement. And it actually brought a little bit more comfort to my family to hear what he was saying. Again, not saying we're going into war, saying we were going in to stop war, essentially. Let's hear from President Trump by 16.
SPEAKER 01 :
A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.
SPEAKER 04 :
A spectacular military success. Now, we are still awaiting sort of the full damage. We've seen some of the overhead images. You definitely see that tunnels were taken out. A lot of things were taken out. Some of the buildings may still be standing. But again, at least we know they went in and took care of things. And of course, Iran has has responded. They've started to make some moves that we've obviously seen some issues in Israel already kind of. uptick once again in israel and that's unfortunate but we kind of knew that that was probably going to come
SPEAKER 05 :
And once again, those three nuclear sites, Fort Doe was the most fortified. That was the one that was the one we knew the name of 200 or 300 feet down in the mountain built in a very specific way to try and shield it from someone trying to take it out. That one will be the one that takes the longest to assess what damage it did to the actual vault that is underground where they carry out these nuclear.
SPEAKER 04 :
I saw Marco Rubio was like, yeah, we know that because why would they be building this all underground? Right. Exactly. If you didn't think it was being used for nefarious reasons, why do you think they decided, hey, we need to build this hundreds of feet down?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and once again, Iran has an operating nuclear power plant. in in that provides a large amount of electricity to their people you know how much of their enriched uranium from this program they spent billions of dollars on and all these secret bases and all these sites how much of that enriched uranium is used for that nuclear power plant How much, Will? Zero. Not a single bit. It all comes from Russia with an agreement. And then Russia takes the depleted cores back to Russia. So they're not even trying to do it for civil purposes, creating a better energy grid for their people. No, they are doing it for one reason, one reason only, to get to 90%, to put on a warhead, to get to the United States or Israel or anyone else they feel like they need to blow up. And they are crazy enough to do it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and look, I think that that is an okay thing to think about, be concerned about too, which is what Russia does, what China does. They are more friendly to Iran. So what does that look like into the future? That was my son's first question. He's a middle schooler who's kind of in this sort of global world of global politics and history. And he kind of said, OK, well, this is Iran. Now, what is Russia going to do? What's China going to do? Those are the logical questions that I think a lot of people will be asking. And those will be whether this escalates to a point of, sadly, a no return kind of point for a war. But it
SPEAKER 05 :
As of right now, it doesn't feel that way. Well, we know that the Iranian foreign minister has gone to Russia to try to meet with the Russian regime. There's also been some interesting comments from Vladimir Putin where he's like, well, you know, there's two million people in Russia that are Russians. Sorry, in Israel that are Russian speaking. It's almost a Russian speaking country in some ways. So do with that what you will. of why maybe Russia has kind of sat on the sidelines a little bit. Yes, they do have a good relationship with Iran, but they also, in ways that maybe the world doesn't even look at, they have a pretty decent relationship with Israel as well.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, we got a second half hour coming up, and I want you to join us to be part of the conversation as well. Rick Grinnell is going to be with us, I believe, in the next segment or one more after that. He'll be in middle segment, and then my brother Jordan is going to be ending the show with us. So if you want to call in, this is a great time to do it. But as we just have about a one minute break here, I want to encourage you because, look, you should know that being an ACLJ champion is also having your voice heard. We saw a lot of people who we've had on the show over the years come out and say this was the right move. And a lot of that is because they see how big our influence is. And again, at YouTube alone, we just crossed 500,000. And again, we'd only started using YouTube a few years ago. So it's been amazing to see that new audience come in. So thank you so much. Go to ACLJ.org. Also, if you'd like to donate and become a champion, we'll be right back. Less than a minute.
SPEAKER 06 :
Keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever. This is Sekulow. And now your host, Logan Sekulow.
SPEAKER 04 :
Welcome back to Sekulow. Second half hour coming up and it's jam-packed. Rick Grinnell is going to be joining us in the next segment and my brother Jordan Sekulow at the European Center for Law and Justice will be joining us as well. We are also monitoring any breaking news that's coming out of the conflict in iran of course israel we know president trump will be making some statements later this afternoon so we'll be following that today and tomorrow on the broadcast but will i do think we should give an update for people who are just joining us right now because there has been some developments uh some of them have to do with americans that are overseas right now in different areas of the country and it could at least give us an indication of where things are headed
SPEAKER 05 :
that's right so within the middle east obviously the united states has a lot of people that are there for business that are there for uh military because we have a lot of bases there and what we're hearing now is that in cutter the government of cutter has shut down their airspace at least temporarily as well as the u.s embassy there has uh told people that they need to shelter in place. If you're an American, shelter in place. Basically, just stay where you are. Don't go on about your business. And that the potential that the U.S. air base there, which I believe is either the largest or the second largest in the region with the air base that we have in Bahrain being up there with it as well, that it could be a target for retaliation from Iran. And one other thing that we'll get to with Rick Grinnell as well is that reporting has come out that just days before President Trump sent the order to go while he was at the G7, it appears, Iran sent a private message to the president saying that if the U.S. were to attack, they will respond by unleashing terrorist attacks on U.S. soil carried out by sleeper cells. Now, one, that threat alone is enough to trigger military action by the U.S., saying we have operational sleeper cells of terrorists in your country. That is a threat that you, out of Article 2, you can act out of self-defense of the country. So they almost gave the president a wonderful gift of, Here's your rationale for attacking Iran is that they are threatening to unleash. And that fact alone, the fact that these are potential things, the Department of Homeland Security has also issued a new bulletin about a threat to the United States about that.
SPEAKER 04 :
That is one of the things that we know we've been covering. I told you that one o'clock today, Eastern Time, President Trump's supposed to be meeting with his national security team. And what has come out so far, this is per Fox News, President Trump has assimilated his national security counsel in the Oval Office. As they are saying, again, this is Fox, this is me, saying Iranian attack on a U.S. airbase in Qatar is imminent. So again, that is coming from Fox News. Now, if that starts to happen, the world starts to change a little bit more and more because there's a difference between a precision strike on nuke enrichment areas that, so far as we know, have had very little casualties.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. Any. I haven't seen any reported numbers. Obviously, anyone that would be there would be considered a military target of sorts because these are military programs. So it's not the same as striking, I don't know, a cancer research center in the middle of Tel Aviv like the Iranians did with their hypersonic missiles. There was no military value to that target other than just sowing terror on the Israeli people and actually hurting a lot of people in the world personally. because a cancer research center was struck and severely damaged by those ballistic missile attacks by Iran. So we're going to talk a lot about this with Rick in the next segment. We're going to talk about what it looks like, as well as you are seeing hypocrisy from those on the left that celebrated when President Obama... launched airstrikes on Libya, which was not a great threat to the United States at the time, and did not get approval from Congress, are now saying, how dare he? This is unconstitutional.
SPEAKER 04 :
We're going to hear next from former Director of National Intelligence Rick Grinnell. Again, because of you, we're able to have these kind of voices on this show. I don't believe there's anywhere else where you can tune in and hear So many incredible points of view, whether that's from our commentary team, whether that is from our legal team, like my dad, Jay Sekulow, my brother, Jordan Sekulow, again, Rick Grinnell, former director of national intelligence. If anyone could weigh in on these situations and give you a real lay of the land, it's these people. And of course, we couldn't do that without you. At 1-800-684-3110, you can call in, but you can also support the work. And I encourage you to. Your voice needs to be heard, and it is at ACLJ.org. Welcome back to Secular. I always make sure we have all the voices that we can when there are this incredible breaking news that happened over the weekend. And when we have someone like Rick Grinnell, who is a former director of national intelligence, who's been ambassador, who's been involved in so many different things, runs a Kennedy Center. It is important to hear from all the voices that we can, because, Rick, there are obviously a lot of people who are concerned when they hear that we're going into some sort of conflict with Iran. Now, again, this was a precision strike. I'm very pleased with the decisions that was being made and how and I was really impressed with how it was taken care of. But there is a concern that over the last handful of years under the Biden administration, so many people have been getting across the border. So many issues have been happening. that there could be these, you know, quote unquote sleeper cells, I guess you'd say, inside America that could get activated. And of course, it's a little bit more calm now in terms of that with President Trump. But we did have kind of an unfiltered multiple year run there where people are concerned.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, look, I think this is one of those situations where a lot of people are kvetching about a lot of Uh, issues that, that they don't need to be, uh, kind of etching on. This is a serious situation where president Trump has decided that this was a threat to us national security. He did a one and done, uh, incredible take out of the three nuclear facilities. Uh, we've set it back or destroyed it. We're waiting for more evidence, but the, the, the individuals who are trying to say, you know, this, this immediately means we're going to go to war. There's a forever war. And, and all of those arguments, I understand their concern, but what they're missing is, is that Donald Trump rose to power without buying into the usual. uh, Republican party. I think we have to admit that Republican party idea that we can somehow, uh, export democracy. And and yet President Trump in the primary in 2015 and 16 and in the general election made it clear that he doesn't view our role in the world that way, that he wants to put America first. But putting America first sometimes means that you do limited targeted precision strikes to protect America. And that's what he did.
SPEAKER 05 :
Rick, another thing that we're starting to see as well is, one, obviously, the Democrat members of Congress are towing their party line. And even though they've supported unilateral action by President Obama, whether it be in Libya or in Pakistan, now they're obviously saying this is unconstitutional. How dare he? But you are starting to see... liberal and Democrat voices on places like X that are not afraid to speak out and say when something was the right decision. You had Jamie Metzl, who was on the National Security Council for President Clinton. He worked for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for Joe Biden. And he put out a very strong statement where he said, I didn't vote for President Trump. I think Kamala Harris would have been a better president for democracy, society, our economy, et cetera. But he just said, I also believe Vice President Harris would not have had the courage or fortitude to take such an essential step as the president took last night. Could this be a moment where we start to see not maybe support for President Trump in the way that politically would happen, but that real honest voices, even on the traditional Democrat Party side, can speak out and say, this is good for the world, that this is done not after Iran has dropped a nuclear weapon on an American city or on Israel.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, look, put me down as a supporter of the individual senators who from time to time speak their mind, step out against the party and that they're a member of and and share some thoughtful, courageous points. I never mind that. Um, I'm not somebody who just thinks, you know, every Republican has to just vote like, um, you know, the, the, the group. And so I think when you look at the situation, many Republicans do that. Now we've got lots of senators, who are not always doing group things. They're stepping away. They're making some thoughtful arguments. I don't see the same thing in the Democratic Party. It is starting to break well, as you say, a little bit. We're seeing some people step away. But the usual, you know, kind of Trump derangement syndrome is what I see mostly. I see people who just Whatever Trump says, you know, they're going to take the opposite view. And it makes them literally look radical and crazy. They have to defend things like biological men in sports because Trump is against it. They just, they can't help themselves but take on the opposite issue of Trump. And that means they're screaming about Trend de Agua, illegal aliens in our country and wanting to bring them home from El Salvador, simply because Trump wants the opposite view. And so I think the Democratic Party is in shambles, both financially and emotionally. And the reason why is, is because they have too many people who are in leadership that have Trump derangement syndrome. No matter what Trump says, they have to take the opposite view. And Trump is getting the last laugh on this because they're literally articulating some of the craziest, most radical fringe ideas simply to own Trump.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, Rick, I think that becomes the answer that's a little too on the nose. You have people now, it seems like the flags have changed and now all of a sudden they're waving Iranian flags in the streets. And I'm seeing a lot of those posts start happening. And it's clear that they have no idea what they're talking about because even the people in Iran have issues, a lot of issues of how their government has been run since the 70s, since the revolution. But history doesn't seem to matter if President Trump is involved.
SPEAKER 02 :
That's a great way to put it because they, they just are racing towards some of the most radical ideas and groups and whether it's, you know, supporting Hamas. I just saw a video where this protester was literally trying to say things positive about Hamas, just in order to be the opposite of Trump. And this seemed like an educated woman from the suburbs. I think we're in a dangerous situation when we don't allow individual voices to step out. And again, I think, you know, David Hogg as the deputy at the DNC until recently, he was the one that was saying, you know, we have to have a purest Democratic Party, no contrary voices. And if they do, if you step out of line, then he was going to primary you. And that type of thinking, I think, makes America less safe because we need to be able to have thoughtful opposition and situations where whether it's a Republican agreeing with something that the Democrats do that that's filled with common sense. Or the opposite, when President Trump does something that is good for the nation, having Democrats compliment it, I think is exactly where we need to be striving for and pushing our political system towards.
SPEAKER 04 :
Rick, we do want to cover a little bit of breaking news that is happening right now. As expected, there has been a report that Iran has launched six missiles towards U.S. air base or u.s bases in cutter we've been talking about this will for the last hour but now they said there there's noises or explosions it's it's it's happening right now as we speak again these are reports but they are reports that are happening uh in real time if you're watching this live know that we're covering it that's right and rick we've like got about a minute and a half left but obviously very strategic location for the u.s a lot of americans in cutter uh what's without obviously as this is just unfolding what's kind of your first thoughts as you hear this
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, first of all, we're trying for peace. Donald Trump wants peace. He's saying that we need peace. But when the regime in Iran is now launching attacks into Qatar at U.S. bases, I think they're just plain stupid. That is not going to end well for them. They have limited capacity. Certainly, it's very dangerous. They could kill American troops. And it's the wrong decision. It's the wrong reaction. But from this regime, I'm not surprised that they're reading the whole situation erroneously. So I think what we need...
SPEAKER 04 :
to be doing is thanking god that we've got donald trump who wants peace but will absolutely respond in a way that protects america yep we'll keep you updated thank you rick for joining us if you uh want to stay tuned everyone we're going to keep updated on this live breaking news again as explosions have been heard over the capital of cutter of course as we've said we believe these are attacks on american bases uh It may become a game-on situation. We're going to see what happens. My brother, Jordan Sekulow, is going to be joining us in the next segment. He is in Europe right now, so a little bit closer. There at the ECLJ, the European Center for Law and Justice. He's doing some great work there. And it's always important to make sure that we have a global presence because when these kind of moments happen, we have to have people mobilized all over the world. And again, we can't do that without your support. We're fully engaged in Europe, at the UN, and you know it's going to get crazy. We have to be there. We have to have your voice being heard. So my brother's going to be joining us. You already heard from my dad and from Rick Grinnell. It's a packed show, but this is why it's important that we're live each and every day. Welcome back to Secular. We are covering this really breaking news that's happening as we speak as there have been explosions reported, missiles reported headed towards American bases in Qatar. We've been covering since the beginning of the show that those threats were coming and now it seems like it is happening again. we speak we don't want to make light of this we want to make sure that you stay informed but we're also going to be joined right now by my brother jordan seculo who's at the european center for law and justice and jordan even when president trump was speaking the other night my son was like are they you think that over around the world would everyone's listening to president trump they're hearing it and i flipped over because we have that access i flipped it over to the news uh in europe and yes president trump uh was there live because this is a global issue
SPEAKER 03 :
Of course, because now wherever there are Americans, there is a target. Now we will see. I think one thing we want to discuss, Logan, is the air travel is much more closely watched here because it's only about a six-hour flight away, so not very far. And those flights are going nonstop back and forth because this is just like flying across the United States of America, basically from coast to coast. And you could be right in the heart of the conflict that's going on. And I use conflict carefully because about an hour ago I saw, so right as you were going on air, that Qatar had closed down their airspace. So it makes sense that Iran has reacted this way. I do want to highlight to people, I don't want anyone to forget, that so far, as the United States pointed out yesterday in the briefing with Secretary Hegseth and the general in command of the mission, that Iran did not fire one time at our airplanes as they entered Iranian airspace and targeted those three nuclear sites. Iran did not fire while they were leaving. So what does that tell me? It tells me that Iran as a country, not as a terror group, by the way, as a terror organizer and a terror sponsor, but Iran as a military has the ability to continue these shorter range attacks now they are trying to bring the u.s a little bit deeper into this but what have we seen so far logan no support from the outside world so we've we know that this is crushing to china and russia to some extent but now that they've fired on a u.s air base i can't imagine those countries continuing to try and at least publicly say more than just words because if they get caught actively funding a military operation against the united states the consequences are dire for them and i think what we saw with the bombing raid is how strong of a military we have thank god we have donald trump because i don't know how many times on this broadcast and basically my entire career has been lobbying in Washington, D.C., different nations to stop a nuclear Iran so that we didn't have to get to this point, but that we knew that at some point there would be a president of the United States that had to make this call. And it was President Trump. Our military executed a flawless mission. But let's not forget, Iran is the number one state sponsor of terror. So while I know our military bases can be protected, We all need to be just as cautious as well, go about our lives. I don't want to sound warning signs, but there is a travel warning for all Americans all over the world. So right now, it's not that, again, most people have no interest in harming you, but we know Iran is more capable about carrying out smaller attacks than they are obviously responding to large-scale military operations.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and Jordan, when you bring up also the fact that this is an action that many presidents have given the warning about, saying they cannot have a nuclear weapon, and yet they continue to march up and cross red line after red line and show their cards. President Trump had the courage and the advisors and the plans to actually do something about it. But as you look at this, we know that... People will have to be vigilant. Our Department of Homeland Security will be vigilant. Our FBI will be vigilant here in the homeland. But I want to go back to what was either completely stopped forever or delayed for such an unforeseeable amount of time by these strikes. For one of the first times, the United States has been proactive at stopping what would draw us into a much worse war if we let happen. Imagine the difference if we had stopped 9-11, if we had gotten into World War II before Pearl Harbor and stopped the atrocities of the Imperial Japanese and the Nazi Germans. Right now we stopped us having to get into a much worse deadlier conflict than if we had waited until they actually dropped a nuclear bomb on Israel or a base in the Middle East that killed countless people.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, and you cannot let theocratic dictatorships with an in-times theology, and their in-times theology being that they have to destroy the nation of Israel and the United States of America. And to destroy us in modern times would take a nuclear weapon. You know, conventional warfare is not going to do that. You're not going to outrun us by numbers. But I do want to just underscore this moment for people. This is why we do pay taxes. Okay, this is why we do have a federal government. This is why I'm happy that we have the largest defense budget in the world. Because if we could send these B-52 bombers in, in and out of Iran, and all these different covert operations, and all of the planning that had to go into this for months, just if the president decided to order it, and not a single shot was fired at any of our aircraft, that tells you the strength of the United States of America. So on the one hand, you can sleep very well at night long term. Second, we are not going to allow psychopaths and psychopathic dictatorships to have weapons that can kill millions of people if they are actually active and number three this is not a war and as you saw with the bombings by the united states we don't want a war with the people of iran whatever u.s media they are seeing i hope that we repeat it as much as possible we know the iranian people have been living under a horrendous dictatorship for decades now for all of our lives for all of our lives as long as we know they have they have been living under the islamic republic of iran and the leadership of an ayatollah We do not want war with the Iranian people. But I hope that they seize this moment. Not because we want to lead regime change. We've seen that backfire too many times. But the people themselves... which is what these moments allow, can certainly, can certainly, if they were looking for a moment in those protests that we've covered since the 2000s and the Green Revolution, this is the moment. The regime is weak, the regime is scared, and its so-called allies are not coming to assist, which is why you can't let up. And I have a good feeling that, again, let's pray for our troops that could be in harm's way as we speak right now. But I imagine the response to that attack, as President Trump said, will be worse and more catastrophic for Iran than what we already saw with the bombings on the three nuclear sites.
SPEAKER 04 :
I think if there was any question on Pete Hegseth and his role in this, that all changed over the weekend. And I think him coming out and making such bold statements and hearing the strategy that went involved, clearly the right guy for the job. Jordan, we only got a minute left. I did want to give you, maybe just give us 20, 30 seconds, because we were going to talk about all the amazing work you've been doing there at the ECLJ, but maybe give people a tease. We'll have you on a bit later on in the week to discuss that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, this issue is huge because, of course, in Europe, nuclear Iran is still a major issue. It's why the calls for, you know, let's get to a ceasefire, let's calm this down, of course you're going to hear that from leaders. You're not hearing massive condemnation. Actually, inside Europe, the German leader praised Israel's initial attacks. So in many ways, we are stepping in once again. And it was Israel first, the United States leading with the technology and the capabilities, of course, that no other country on Earth has to protect our interests, which is what's most important. But when we protect our interests, it's oftentimes I say about our cases, when we protect our interests, we are protecting the entire world.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. That is going to do it for today's show. Thank you, Jordan. We'll talk to you soon. ACLJ.org for more information.
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SPEAKER 01 :
Welcome to the good news with Angie Austin. Now with the good news, here's Angie.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey there friend, Angie Austin, Jim Stovall with the good news. And today we are talking about success and significance. Hello, Jim Stovall.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, hello, Angie Austin. Always good to be with you.
SPEAKER 07 :
So success and significance. This is right up your alley, I think, since you've had quite a bit of bulls.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I've been very fortunate and, uh, You know, this week's column comes out of an experience that just recently, one of my books that I wrote 25 years ago, which is hard for me to believe, just popped up on the bestseller list again. And it was on the bestseller list when I first wrote it, entitled The Ultimate Gift, and then And then it was made into a movie and had great success there and became part of a movie trilogy. And then it got on the bestseller list again. But then several times since then, for reasons that my publisher nor I understand, it will just jump back up on the bestseller list. And I'm very grateful for this. And, you know, I think it happens because, you know, the number one reason anybody buys a book is because... someone recommended it to them. That's the number one reason people buy books. And, you know, when the movies make the rounds again on cable or in one of the streaming services or whatever, it has a tendency to catch momentum again. And I'm very grateful for that. But because of that, I, you know, a number of reporters called and interviewers and the You know, and they always ask these questions with a little bit of a hidden tone behind it. You know, do you write books to really help people, or do you just want to make money? You know, or success or significance? What is it? And, you know, I always tell them the answer is yes to both. I... I can't separate the two because the more books I sell, the more success I have, but the more people I help. I always try to explain to folks there's only one way to succeed at anything you do, and that's to create value in the lives of other people. There's no other way to succeed long-term other than to create value in the lives of other people. And so, you know, this comes around every time, and they act like there's something wrong if you make money doing something. You know, and I always point out to these reporters, I'm sure you go to work and call people like me for free, but, you know, no, there's nothing wrong with getting paid for the work you do. And to the extent it helps other people, it's a blessing to be able to do the work and to help people and to be successful all at the same time.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, it's interesting. The other thing that came into my mind about, you know, why people are buying the book, I know that surrounding that book there have been good works and groups and maybe churches, boys groups. Would you talk about that, like what has sprung up out of the book?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, one of them, I actually wrote a book about it late last year called The Young Men's Service League. I wrote a book called Giving the Ultimate Gift, and you know, when the movie first came out, there was a single mom down in Dallas, and she had two teenage boys, and she took them to the movie, The Ultimate Gift, and they decided they were going to do a community service project for each year they were in high school. Well, a couple other single moms and their kids joined in, and then a couple others, and they formed a little club called the Young Men's Service League. And the next thing you know, it grew in popularity, and the Today there are 168 chapters in 39 states, and last fall they had 11,000 boys across the country doing these ultimate gift projects. And, you know, there are many, many examples like that. And, yeah, I mean, things like that can catch a hold, and the next thing you know, a whole group or organization that's been impacted, you know, they're buying books. But, you know, I... I just feel grateful that it happens. And I feel grateful that I get to be a part of writing the book. And people say, oh, you should be very proud of what they've done. I didn't do anything. I wrote a book. That's black on white, ink on paper. It's these moms and their boys that went out and actually did something. And we live in a world, Angie, when it's all said and done, there's way too much said and not nearly enough done. And these young people went out and they do it on a daily basis. And for that, I'm very grateful.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, I was listening to someone really wise talk yesterday and it was someone young asking him a question and I was on Instagram or something. watched the little videos, and he said, you know, a lot of people, young people have, you know, depression and anxiety, and what can you say to our generation, which I think he was referring to Z, you know, so pretty young people. What can you say for people to do, you know, to get out of themselves? And it's what you always say, to do something when you're feeling low about yourself or when you're yourself, you're feeling low, get out of yourself and do something for others. And that's what he talked about. He talked about altruism. And he said when he feels low, instead of getting full of himself because he's very famous and well-known in religious worlds and spiritual worlds, he said he gets out of himself. And he talked about altruism. And, you know, basically it's just, you know, volunteering, helping others, doing something good for your grandmother, helping your mom with something, your kids, you know, whatever it may be. It doesn't have to be a formal like this project per se. But, you know, doing something for others. And I think it's just the – People don't do it oftentimes because it's a hassle. And I'm not just saying it's a hassle to do it, to find the right fit for you. But I think sometimes you just need to put your toe in the water and try something, you know, and then, you know, keep trying things until you find something that resonates. One of my friends, Jim White, he worked for Volunteers of America for many years. And it's funny because whenever I see him, I recognize him immediately because he has this full head of white hair, white, white hair and thick hair. We don't see older guys with that much hair, but it's that white. So anyway, Jim said he was a little bit low when he left Volunteers of America because he was so involved in all the different projects. I remember my family, we'd see him at Thanksgiving because we'd deliver these big baskets of food and beautiful Thanksgiving baskets for Volunteers of America, which is a Christian organization. And a lot of people, I think, don't know that either, that they are faith-based. Anyway. And then we did Meals on Wheels a couple of times, and then we volunteered at a few of their shelters, a senior shelter. We did several seniors, and then we did a couple of events at a women's shelter. And I thought they'd be younger homeless women, but they were really older homeless women. I was surprised. I couldn't imagine these women being on the streets with women. Some of them had walkers. Anyway, he said I was feeling really low, and he said I just had to then figure out what to do next, and I was at an ARC event, and that's where my son works. I think I've told you they help people with cognitive deficits, differently abled people. They have over 500 ambassadors at their thrift stores who maybe would have a more difficult time getting work, but ARC specializes in hiring these ambassadors who are So unique to their organization and wonderful. So he said every day of the week now he has something and one of the big ones. So every day of the week he does a different volunteer activity with one he was really proud of as he goes to this ARC sorting center and he goes through children's books. And he said, Angie, I have repurposed over 400,000 books. children's books and I believe they get given out with like some of the lunch programs like in the summer when kids that don't get enough to eat at home can come to locations and get food and just in general underprivileged kids that might not have the same access to children's books and just himself over 400,000 he said I sort through so many books in this one day but every day it's a different activity but this is just his kind of alone that he came up with his thing and it was just neat to see how proud he was and how happy he is and He didn't really retire, if you think about it, Jim.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, we don't retire. We kind of repurpose. And, you know, over the weekend, I went and did a speech for law enforcement, an annual convention of police officers and sheriff's deputies and everything. And, yeah. You know, and it's part of my community service. The one thing I can do is show up and make a speech and give them a few books and all this. And so I try to do one of those for free for everyone I get paid for. I know. And one of the police officers asked me, why would you come here for free? And I said, because you guys make everything possible. I mean, you're running toward the things we're all running away from. And because you guys do what you do, I can get up and go to work every day and not worry about everything. And, you know, you guys are what makes the world go round. I mean, there was somebody standing on the wall for every one of these. And, you know, sometimes you just have to say thank you to folks. And, you know, while you're looking for the, you know, the formal thing you want to do to help others, Don't forget, every day, every way, everything is an opportunity. You hold the door for somebody, a kind word, you know, just whatever the case may be. It doesn't have to be a big deal. Sometimes the littlest things make all the difference. And, you know, you start doing those random acts of kindness, and the next thing you know, I mean, we have an outbreak of this happening, and it's pretty, pretty amazing.
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You know, you also talked about another award for the book that has started these service groups, getting others to do good things. I love it that a single mom got her boys together for that. But there was another time you mentioned to me it wasn't just the bestseller list, but all-time bestselling, like, faith-based book was it?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, yeah. Tell me about that. Well, that's something, as a faith-based person myself – I really try to do. I try not to make Christian films. I love Christian films. They're wonderful. But I try to make films that resonate with the general public, that then have a faith-based meaning and principle that people will start their journey toward faith. And And so what we really strive for here is, you know, it's one of the top five faith-based film projects and books of all time. But I have, you know, there's over 2,000 public schools that use that book in their curriculum. And let's be honest, if it's anything Christian or faith-based, somebody on the school board will kick it out of there. But what's amazing is people of faith recognize these faith principles, but people on school boards see it as just a secular message. And when you think about the parables that are in the New Testament, there's nothing... Christian or religious or anything, there's nothing about the Good Samaritan. It's a story about we are our brother's keeper, and we have a responsibility to take care of one another. So those are the kind of messages I like to share with people.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, this is interesting because I've known you so many years now, and I kind of know, Miss, that you do this because I knew that you were a Christian. You know that I'm a Christian, but we don't talk about that specifically that much in our interviews because your column, you're right. And I never knew exactly how you did that, how you got all your principles across, but it's really pretty easy. You just don't bring up the Bible so that you won't get kicked out of it. anything involving school or for that matter your corporate speeches you might be overlooked if you were specifically faith-based but you can still talk about all of the same principles about honesty and integrity and respecting your parents and you know respecting your spouse and all of these things you can very easily talk about because they're very commonly accepted uh but you don't uh you don't mention the Bible, and then somehow you can get away with talking about all these faith-based ideas that also are concerned ethics.
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Yeah, I did a lot of work when I first started as a speaker with Robert Shuler, the great pastor of the Crystal Cathedral. And what was amazing, I said, what's the difference between your sermon and And this corporate thing. He said, in a sermon, I start with the Scripture, and that's the basis of what I'm going to talk about. In a corporate deal, I tell them what works, how I know it works, examples of where it works. And then I talk about, you know, I first found out about this from reading the Scripture. But by then, they were already sold on the deal. So it's a matter of what do you lead with in the beginning. And truth is truth, and it holds up and it speaks for itself.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow. I mean, you can still really get all of your ideas across and be socially acceptable in almost all circles by doing that. That's so interesting. And I guess I kind of knew you did this, but now it's so simple. It just completely makes sense to me. All right. If you want to find Jim and all of his books, including The Ultimate Gift, you can still stream that movie as well. I just looked it up the other day. It is jimstovall.com, jimstovall.com. Thank you, friend. You're welcome.
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Hey there, Angie Austin here with the good news. I have something really cool coming up. It's innovative. It is a great way to generate green energy. And we can all pass on this info. And it's something I've never really heard of doing before. And also, Dr. Cheryl Lentz joining us first. And we are talking about some good news. Hey there, friend.
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Hello. Very nice to be here with Summertime. It's awesome.
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Yeah, I guess your neck of the woods is quite hot there in Chicago today.
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It is. It was yesterday. It is going to be tomorrow. But then we should get things into normal summer stuff right now. We're getting August early for a couple of days and nobody's happy about it. Oh, my goodness.
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Yeah, we had a little heat wave here in Denver getting a little reprieve. So that's kind of nice that we're getting that. All right. So I had some good news that it's a little chillier, but I you and I like to talk about positive topics and good news. And this to me is kind of mind blowing. You know how this, all right, you're a big outdoorsman. Like you like to outdoors woman. You like to go out and, you know, get in the kayak and do a lot of outdoors stuff, right?
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. Exactly. Exactly. Got to be commune with nature.
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Absolutely. And you, sometimes the water is a little chilly, right?
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It can be, and I've been known to put a wetsuit on there if it's below 60, yep. Oof, oof.
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Okay, so this particular guy, he was up in Alaska, and what happens was, and this is like everything aligning to not go right, but then everything aligning to go right. So it does have a happy ending, of course. It's the good news. So rescuers are describing it as an avalanche of boulders. Kel Morris, 61 year old, was hiking with his wife in the Alaskan wilderness south of Anchorage. This is just last month when a single step set a succession of rocks crashing down the terrain. OK, well, that's terrifying. But he started falling with the boulder so he could hear, you know, what boulders falling sounds like, you know, when they're as big as like 700 pounds. It's pretty loud. Right. So as he's falling, he can hear these boulders crashing next to him. And he fell into a creek. And he was sliding right along with him. He said it was just kind of a blur. And, you know, listening to all these rocks. And then a rock hit him. So he lands face down in the creek. All right. And you can imagine what the anchorage was. water is like in an icy creek right we're talking hypothermia within minutes right right so he felt a boulder hit him in his back and pin him down and his leg and his hip were pinned tightly to the rocks and it was a 700 pound boulder so nothing that his wife could lift off of him unfortunately his shoulders were still above the water But other rocks were, you know, kind of kept him from getting completely flattened the way that he landed. So his wife, Joanna Roop, she was she is a retired Alaskan state trooper. So she was used to emergencies and she sprung into action. And thank goodness that, you know, he had her there because this would not have been survivable without her. She had to get a cell signal. So she's wandering around trying to get a cell signal. She gets one about 300 yards away. And she calls emergency crews with GPS coordinates to organize this rescue attempt. Well, a firefighter, Sam Paperman, he was near. He has like a tourism job and he was in a nearby helicopter and they diverted over to the scene. So he was there within minutes and then they got some more rescuers there. But it's 700 pounds and the water was rising because of the way that the boulders fell. So the wife is holding his head up. He's losing consciousness because he's got hypothermia. It's already setting in. The emergency crews are like, well, how are we going to get this 700-pound boulder off him? They had these airbags that they typically use, you know, for vehicle extractions. Have you seen those?
SPEAKER 06 :
I've seen them. My ex-husband was in search and rescue, yes. No way. Yeah, mm-hmm.
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Okay, so they used these airbags, and then they said it was brute force with the airbags, that they had seven guys and the airbags, and that's what they needed to get this 700-pound boulder off him. But here's the part you're not going to believe. He went to the hospital for two days just for observation. There was nothing wrong with him.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, how is that possible?
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I know. I said every star was aligned, said the chief, the fire chief, with the good weather, the number of rescuers, the cell service that the wife was able to get, the private helicopter tour company that was willing to help and divert their tour, and that that guy was also a trained rescuer. Are you kidding me?
SPEAKER 06 :
Wow. That is, I mean, God has got to have plans for this one. I'm telling you, that is a perfect storm to have all of that go right. The odds of that are astronomical.
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All right. I'm sorry our segment was so quick today, but I'm going to have you back this week as well, Cheryl. DrCherylLentz.com. You've heard her on the show for years now, probably about a decade. But something really cool, Cheryl, stick around for this one. It's something innovative that I've never really heard of before, and it really is a good news topic, definitely. Joining us is Elliot Abel, Senior Vice President of Corporate Clean Energy Solutions for Pivot Energy. Welcome, Elliot.
SPEAKER 04 :
Angie, thanks so much for having me. Glad to be here.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm glad to have you. I read a little bit about you in the Denver Business Journal. I know you got the 40 under 40. And I know that you are very active in energy and have been for decades. This is such a cool idea. So kind of give us an overview of what Pivot does.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. So Pivot Energy, we're an experienced turnkey commercial renewable energy developer. and owner operator projects. We've been a leader in developing solar projects since our founding in 2009 and we're headquartered here in Denver.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right. So my understanding is that I love real estate. I've never gotten into corporate, but I'm super into real estate. And I love I'm always looking at it. And it's been the way like when I grew up very poor. And so it's kind of the way that I educated myself out of poverty and I live in low income housing. But the very first opportunity I bought my first property, which I don't even know, to be honest with you, is on the oceanfront in Marina Del Rey because I worked for NBC in L.A. It was my first job. Yes. And I don't even know if I could buy it back right now. It did so well. But when it comes to corporate real estate, I know that during COVID, my husband, his company let go of a lot of their offices. And I know that Denver, that they are really down in terms of their rentals. So what you are doing with some of these office buildings is fascinating to me that you're finding a way to make money off of them, but also to help Mother Earth, per se. And this involves green energy. So can you explain how you're doing this?
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. And you mentioned it, right? I mean, we saw corporate real estate vacancy rates in downtown Denver reach over 35% in March of this year. And that's this year. And office vacancies. That's this year. Right. And office property values have declined between 10 and 25 percent from just two years ago. The effect is real. You know, we're still recovering from the pandemic in the real estate space. And what we're offering is. is really an opportunity for property owners to have an easy solution to generate long term low risk revenue increase the value of these properties help recover some of these losses and that's by leasing unused space so think rooftops parking lots. to develop much needed solar and energy storage projects. So as demand for electricity increases in cities like here in Denver and across the country, this is a way to meet that need and also really help commercial property owners recover.
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So a commercial office building, even if it's being used, I mean, the rooftop space that you would need to generate solar power, that could be used anyway, right? I mean, it doesn't have to be an empty building or partially empty building. You can still rent out your roof and empty parking lots. I mean, you're going to have more empty spaces if you aren't renting, if you know 35% of these buildings aren't rented anyway. Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. I mean, listen, the building can be completely full of tenants, which is great, fantastic situation to be in and still lease out the rooftop or still lease out a portion of the parking lot to earn additional rent to increase the value of property to help, you know, attract and retain great tenants to these properties. So it really is a solution for all kinds of property owners, regardless of the specific situation of their properties.
SPEAKER 07 :
So what properties would be a good fit for this particular pivot model?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, you know, Pivot Energy is able to develop solar projects on lots of different kinds of commercial buildings. It could be retail, industrial, manufacturing offices. Really, as long as there's some flat, underutilized space, like a large rooftop or, like you mentioned, a parking lot, those are all good candidates for solar and battery energy storage projects.
SPEAKER 07 :
Now, in terms of, you know, what Pivot's doing, I'm always interested, you know, all these years I've been in TV and radio news, I love to find out, like, where you got started in this. So, like, how Pivot came up with this, but how you also got into this area of expertise, because it's a pretty, it's a niche, you know, I don't often meet people that are like, hey, I'd love to rent your rooftop and do some solar power. When I'm out in California and I see all these innovative things or I go by a wind farm or a huge field outside of Vegas filled with a whole solar power setup, I'm like, who did this? Where did you get this idea? I mean, it obviously costs a lot of money, too. So how did you and how did Pivot come up with all of this?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, well, Pivot Energy has been doing this for a while, has been a leading developer of solar projects since being founded in 2009. And personally, you know, my career in this renewable energy space starts around the same time, a few years earlier, actually. And it was about, you know, really trying to solve a problem, you know, solve the problem of how do we get the energy and electricity we need in a better, cleaner way. And I don't know, for me personally, and it's been this way for a long time, every time I, you know, fly into a city, I see all these white unused rooftops that are just the perfect canvas. They're the perfect canvas to be used to generate power where it's needed. So that's been a motivator for a long time for me personally.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, it only makes sense. It seems like kind of a no-brainer. Like, why aren't we doing this? You know, I saw something the other day. It was some documentary on, you know, the way that you're supposed to farm that doesn't ruin the land, right? And I looked at my brother because he's like, oh, you've got to see this stock. So anyway, we're watching it, and I'm like, my brother's a genius. And so I'm like, why aren't other farmers doing this? Like, I saw the dude that was doing this, and he was like your bib overall wearing Kansas kind of looking dude, you know, with, you know, a little bit of dirt on his face, balding, you know, chubby. And I'm like, he's like your average farmer, right? And he travels all over the world like you do talking about solar power. And he's trying to get people to farm correctly. And it's not just digging up the dirt and replanting every year. And I'm like, but it seems so much more cost effective. But some of these things that are no brainers, we just do it the old way because we're used to doing it. But the new way wouldn't be that difficult for somebody to lease their roof to you and be part of the new way, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. You're right, Angie. I think the biggest challenge is just getting the information out there, you know, so that people are aware of it and they know where to find out more and to see if their property would be a good fit. That's been our experience. Once people learn about it, you know, they're generally pretty excited about the opportunity and want to move forward. It's about learning that it's out there and it's an option.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. And like this setup for like a person for like me, if I wanted to get into solar or whatever, that's different. They're just leasing to you and then you guys do the setup. So how do they go about doing this? How do they reach pivot? How do they explore this opportunity?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, absolutely. You know, the best the best way to do it is really to visit our Web site. There's lots of good information there. It's www.pivotenergy.net. And there's also a way to reach out, give us some information about the property, and then we can take a look and make sure it's a good fit for solar.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, thanks.
SPEAKER 04 :
The one other thing I'd add here in Denver, yeah, just the one other thing I'd add here in Denver people will be aware of is property owners are also, you know, many of them are worried about how to comply with this Energize Denver policy. It's a building performance standard, energy efficiency for commercial buildings over 25,000 square feet. And a lot of these properties that have vacancy issues are thinking, how am I going to spend money to meet that? I'll just say that this is also an option for how to comply with Energize Denver without having to come out of pocket, make any investment. Pivot Energy takes care of that, and it still meets those regulations. So this is another good thing to be aware of here locally.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that completely makes sense. To meet the regulations, you don't have to put any money out of pocket. You might be able to do it with Pivot, not lose money, but actually make money by leasing out your roof or parking lot. Love that. All right, Elliot, great info. It's the first time I'd ever heard of this when I read about you and about Pivot. So thanks for giving us the good news today on The Good News.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, happy to give the good news. Thanks so much for having me, Angie.
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Thank you for listening to The Good News with Angie Austin on AM670 KLTT.
Join John Rush as he welcomes Daniel Turner for a deep dive into the volatile world of energy markets. This episode of Rush to Reason offers a compelling narrative on the geopolitical events affecting oil prices and the role of the US government in steering energy policies. With a ceasefire announced with Iran and fluctuating fuel costs, the conversation turns to the importance of energy dominance and the resilience of the American energy sector. Daniel Turner brings seasoned insights into how political narratives can shift markets and the importance of maintaining robust domestic energy policies. From the implications of refining capabilities to strategic proposals for economic stability, this discussion is a must-listen for understanding the present and future landscape of energy in America. Don't miss their expert analysis and the candid debate on energy policy's impact on everyday consumers.
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All right, Hour 3, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Daniel Turner joining us now. Executive Director, Power of the Future. Welcome back, Daniel. How are you? Hey, it's always great to be on the program. Thanks for having me back. A lot has happened even since we got you booked. Early this morning to come on this evening, a lot of activity today. There was a ceasefire, as you know, that was announced, which I just read a moment ago on Twitter at the top of the hour, that according to Reuters, Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister, Mohammed bin al-Tahani, secured Iran's agreement to a U.S. and Israel ceasefire. That was on a phone call that he made. So big brother called little brother, Daniel.
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You know, to quote George W. Bush, when are people going to stop misunderstanding President Trump, right? They said... they said there was going to be huge inflation if we had the tariffs there was no inflation they said that there was going to be you know endless bloodshed uh trump unilaterally declared war and two days later we have a ceasefire and so you know people don't like the president uh politics is a vicious world i totally understand it but his track record on deliverables is pretty exceptional, and not just the track record, but the speed in which he delivers. And yet there is an entire political party who would never for a second acknowledge it.
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You're right. You're 100% correct. And I talked a little bit in the last hour, and I wanted to get your feelings on this, with Iran and, of course, people over the weekend. I watched Oil last night, Daniel, at 10 o'clock my time, so mountain time last night. It was about... Brent was at about $78 a barrel, roughly inching up towards $79. West Texas Intermediate was down around $74, $75. I can't remember exactly. I was watching Brent more than I was WTI. And I looked just a little bit ago. I should bring this up again right now, but I believe it was in the 60s. Yeah, $65 for WTI, right? Right now, 71 for Brent crude. So it's come down a ton from where it was last night. Because, again, last night everybody was predicting that the straits of Hormuz would be closed and Iran was going to go there next and you wouldn't be getting any oil around. And there's even a guy that I follow a little bit. He's a lefty, but he goes by Mr. Global on social media. And he was predicting that insurance rates were just going to skyrocket for Iran. all the tankers, and they wouldn't be able to afford to carry the oil around, and there'd be a huge markup on oil overnight and blah, blah, blah. In reality, Daniel, less than 24 hours later, none of that came true.
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No, another thing that's absolutely remarkable, and it shows the power of energy dominance and the resilience of our energy markets right now. I mean, if you're a believer in the free market, which I know you are, and you understand what Adam Smith called the invisible hand, right, these forces that are at work that are not centrally planned, anyone 10 years ago looking at the scenario would have said oil will skyrocket to $130 a barrel. I went to bed last night, as you did, looking at reports that were saying, estimates say that oil is definitely going to reach $130 a barrel by the end of the week. That's the standard playbook.
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Right. I was reading the same things last night, and I'm just thinking, hang on, guys. You guys aren't really looking at things the same way that I am. I mean, and the way I was looking at it, and still do, Daniel, is number one, even if this conflict would have continued, which now it looks like it's not going to, Iran still needs revenue. Their revenue, granted, they don't produce a ton of oil a day, but a couple million barrels a day, China being the largest buyer, which, by the way, I don't think China wants to be cut off from that cheap oil because they get that at a reduced rate, as you know. So at the end of the day, that's their lifeblood. China nor Iran was going to give that up, Daniel.
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No, they weren't. And it's China's great vulnerability that they import all of all of their oil. But it shows just the dominance or the importance of of of proper energy policy and what it means to markets. So if you go back to the election, November of last year, when Kamala Harris had the talking point that we have hit record oil production, and she was not lying. We did hit, we've surpassed it since then, by the way. But the question is not that you produce the most, but if you hit record production, why is it still $88, $90 a barrel? And the reason why is because that invisible hand, all those forces at work look to the future and they say, but we're screwed. Right. We don't have a bright future because we have no leasing. We have no permitting. The Wall Street is being punished if they lend to the fossil fuel industry. SEC rules that Gary Gensler and the Biden administration put in place. So the markets looked at all that and said, we're producing record amount. But the future is bleak. Oil was at roughly $90 a barrel. We're producing just a little bit more now, but oil has dropped $30 a barrel. Why? Because they look at the future and they say permitting is coming, lending is coming, access, pipelines. So there's no reason to panic. It doesn't even matter what happened in Iran. Don't panic. We're fine. Remarkable, remarkable difference in a half a year.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's funny. I was reading on oilprice.com. I've got this for tomorrow for an article that I'll get into, but I'll just briefly share it here. Guys, you can turn in tomorrow, and I'll talk a little bit more about it. But banks last year, number one, they're following the money to your point, Daniel. And in 2024, knowing what was coming, most likely with the election and so on, to your point, they're looking to the future. And you could pretty much tell even through 2024 who was most likely going to win. It wasn't a slam dunk, but you could see where things were trending. $169 billion into fossil fuels.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. To your point.
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And this is where you have government that decides, we think this is what you should be giving money to. We think this is where you shouldn't be giving money to.
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Right.
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If banks were free to make good financial decisions. It'd be larger than that. Oh, absolutely. They would put money into stocks that are domestic, that are not subject to trade wars, shipping lanes, tensions in the South China Sea. That's the vulnerability about a lot of transnational stocks, not American energy, because it is thoroughly, thoroughly domestic. But the Biden administration didn't want that. Nope, they didn't. So they punish you if you lend to the fossil fuel industry, and then they get the talking point, fossil fuels are so bad that not even Bank of America will lend them money. And you say, really? You're not telling the whole story. If they lend you money, you would punish them. It's so frustrating the way... the big-handed government of the Biden administration just treated us like perpetual children.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and despite that, as you know, because, you know, power of the future, despite that, our energy, you know, dominance here in America has even grown, even in spite... of the Biden regime, and it'll get better now under Trump. And Daniel, we're not that far. I don't think people really understand this. We're not importing that much Middle Eastern oil. It's 600,000, roughly 600,000 barrels a day. And that's only because of some of the refineries and what we have to refined with and so on and that's a whole nother that's probably a conversation in and of itself at some point in the future daniel but we're not that far away as a country from at least north america standards go coming from mexico or canada and then what we produce ourselves and again folks for all of you listening some of that oil we take and use because it's the way some of our refineries are set up for example here in denver we have suncor that's a canadian company That's oil coming out of the tar sands. It gets pumped down here. It gets refined. And all types of oil, Daniel, as you know, require a different type of refining depending upon where it came from. And it's very expensive for that refinery to reset up for a different type of oil coming into it. But we're not far away, Daniel, is my point, of being able to be completely non-dependent upon anybody other than ourselves.
SPEAKER 10 :
No, and that's a glorious day for America, for sovereignty, for economic stability, for prosperity of Americans. And the point you're raising on refineries is so important because people think, well, you know, you bring the crude to the refinery, they refine it, you get gas. But there are literally hundreds of products and hundreds of blends.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 10 :
have four, five, six, seven, eight different types of blends that the politicians decided they needed. So people say in California, why is gas $6.50 a gallon? It's because you told this refinery to shut down, recalibrate, and make us this specific blend for the day. And they'll say, sure, we'll do that to you, but it's going to cost you a pretty penny. This is when politicians make energy policy, not people who know the industry.
SPEAKER 03 :
I'm glad you brought that up because I have said for the longest time that we as a country could regionalize our blends. We could literally – Daniel, I feel I'm a car guy, so I know this part of it probably better than most. We could literally get down to four, maybe six blends total coast to coast. We would be just fine with that. Yeah, we need to do a little bit of different things in the winter versus summer. But the reality, Daniel, is we could literally lower fuel prices overnight by just going down in blends and not putting those same requirements on the refineries you just mentioned.
SPEAKER 10 :
I think that is a brilliant proposal that I've never thought about, and I think that is something that you should package up and we should bring to the White House Domestic Energy Dominance Council, because that's exactly the type of proposal that only outsiders of the free market will think about, people like yourself who are car guys and experts. You know, the great thing about having Chris Wright as Energy Secretary is that, besides being a great son of Colorado, he's actually from the industry and knows it inside and out. The previous Secretary of Energy was the governor of Michigan, and before that she was a trial attorney. She had no damn idea.
SPEAKER 03 :
No idea.
SPEAKER 10 :
And we saw the result of that. Well, I'm game.
SPEAKER 03 :
You tell me how we proceed with that, and I'm all in. I mean, today's vehicles, the way they're made, the... How should I say it? The power control end of things on modern vehicles, Daniel, what we're producing coming out of the factory and have been now, the average age of the fleet is about 13, 14 years of age. We've been doing this since the early 90s. The reality is we don't need that many different blends to make the cars run properly. They're doing that on their own with the way they're engineered and manufactured today. This whole game of what we're doing with blends, to your point, is all coming from the politician's point of view, not from real world.
SPEAKER 10 :
And wouldn't it be great that your average American doesn't have to pay these exorbitant gas prices? I mean, you look at, again, the people of California, it's miserable. New York, my home state, miserable. What I pay in Virginia is pretty darn good. Last I saw it was $3.09. Trump got it down to $2.05 on average nationwide. We're headed in that way. But energy policy, if it were made by people who understood energy, electricity should not be expensive. Gas should not be expensive. Utilities. It shouldn't be expensive. And now that we're in agriculture season, every farmer who's driving a diesel tractor that you pass down on the highway, you are paying for that diesel one way or another. And if these are worth $3 a gallon, you'll have cheaper bread in a couple months.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's exactly right. Daniel, I always enjoy it. You tell me what I need to do next to help. I'm all in. You know that. Power of the future. How do folks find you?
SPEAKER 10 :
PowerTheFuture.com, or they can shoot me an email at Daniel at PowerTheFuture.com. But I know how I can get a hold of you, and I really want to talk about this idea.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right. I'm game. I'm game, Daniel. I'm all in. All right. Talk to you soon. Appreciate you very much. Great guy, by the way. I've had him on many, many times in the past, and I would recommend you guys follow him any way you can. He's one of the brighter guys in that world. Not that we don't have a lot of bright guest, but he's one of the guys, as you can tell, that really understands how this works and how to get some things done on the politician end of things. Golden Eagle Financial coming up next. Great interview that Al Smith just did recently. Listen in. We'll be right back right after that.
SPEAKER 09 :
This is TJ with KLZ Radio, and I've got Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial here in the studio with me. Al and I were just talking about how in retirement he helps his clients to stretch the time in their retirement. Al, what do you mean by that? Tell us a little bit more about how time works in retirement.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, when you think about leaving the working world, you think about, well, it's still going to take money to live on once I'm retired. And that nest egg, whatever that is, that's going to permit you to do what you want to do with the time that you have sort of earned for yourself. So the nest egg is not only in dollars, but it's also in the time that you have to do the things that you believe will be fulfilling in retirement. And when I have a conversation with people, I think it's equally important to think about how they're going to be spending their time as it is to accumulate a nest egg.
SPEAKER 09 :
You've got to have some pretty good examples of things that people do in retirement. So open the door for us. What sort of things can we expect?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, sure. I have one gentleman who is very much into aviation. He owns his own small plane. He actually works on that small plane. He's within a few years of retirement. He's retirement age. But right now, while he's working, he takes his small aircraft, flies to locations where he investigates air disasters. I also have some people who spend a lot of time with their grandkids, some of whom live nearby and some are a little farther away. I have some who are incredibly involved with their churches and go on missionary trips and so forth.
SPEAKER 09 :
How do people get in touch with you if they want to stretch that time out in their retirement?
SPEAKER 17 :
They can reach me at 303-744-1128, and if they're driving when they hear this, you can contact KLZ, and they'll put them in touch with me.
SPEAKER 09 :
Of course, as always, you can find Golden Eagle Financial on klzradio.com slash advertisers, and get right in touch with Al if you're driving and can't write that number down. Al, thank you so much for joining us today.
SPEAKER 17 :
You're welcome.
SPEAKER 06 :
This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thank you all for listening. We appreciate it very much. And the Suncar Refinery in town, somebody just texted in and said that we refined some from not only Canada, but some of the local sources as well. Thank you, by the way, for the update on that. I appreciate that. And that's a refinery, by the way, that's at high risk. of not making it. That is another thing that here in Colorado don't talk much about that we probably should talk more about it because they get so much flack from some of the local communities around the refinery that keep in mind the refinery has been there since I was a kid. I can't remember a time when it wasn't there. And yet all the development comes in around it, and then they start whining and complaining and moaning and groaning and so on. And now all of a sudden it's the refineries' fault that they're there, and they are at high risk. We are at high risk in this area of not having one, and we would not want that. We would then have to have all refined product shipped into Colorado that would raise our prices literally overnight. And we do get some refined product that comes in a pipeline already, but we would require all of it to be done that way. And bottom line, we need a refinery because keep this in mind as well. As Daniel said, it's not just diesel and gasoline that we get out of the refinery. There's all sorts of other products that come out of the refinery, including the oil and all of that that it takes. for you to drive on asphalt roads. So don't forget that part of it as well. There's all sorts of other products that come out of that refinery that we need locally to keep our prices down that we don't want to give that refinery up. I know there's some in the state, even some of those folks that are on the state level, even politicians, especially politicians that would love to see that Suncor refinery get shut down. We need to be doing every single thing we possibly can as conservatives to make sure that that thing stays online and does not go offline. So thank you, by the way, for that update. I appreciate that. And any more info along those lines, please keep sending me those things. That helps me out immensely. So one thing, I was going to mention this. I'll get into some more of this other stuff that we were just talking about in regards to oil and all that in a moment. But there's a story that came out over the weekend that is not getting much coverage. and I haven't heard about it hardly anywhere, and that is a gunman opened fire at a church. It was at the Vacation Bible School that they were leading some worship and doing some different things, and there was a gentleman that had only attended the church a couple of times. This is in Michigan. attended the church a couple of times, that people were noticing had pulled up, and as he got out of the car was in full gear and had a couple of weapons and so on, and fortunately these churchgoers were on target, literally, Johnny on the spot. Somebody in the parking lot actually struck this guy with their vehicle, and then they fatally shot, the security guys at the church fatally shot this guy, killed him. Game over, and you're not hearing much about that anywhere because, again, good guys with the gun got the bad guy with the gun. Case closed. all the more reason why we should be carrying and doing these things on our own and not relying on 911 to protect us. This is a great example of where an armed church and the folks there were on guard, if you would. They basically had their heads on a swivel, which we should do at all times, notice something wasn't right, paid attention to it. One parishioner got shot in the leg. That was the only other injuries that happened, and everything I've read, that particular individual will be just fine. But this was at the Crosspoint Community Church, in Wayne, Michigan. That guy picked the wrong day to go to that church, let's just say that. And he had been a couple of times in the past, I believe, what the story says, with his mother, but that's not a story you're going to read much about. In fact, I doubt heavily whether even Joe in Jersey saw that story, because it's probably something that was, you know, not spread about greatly. Maybe Joe did see it, but I picked that up, and I have not seen it listed in too many places. Charlie, did you hear about that one over the weekend at all? Charlie said he did have to dig for it. So, again, those are not stories that you're seeing on the front lines, again, because that's not a narrative that the left wants you to see, by the way. Oddly enough, this is going to shock some of you. Oddly enough, that was on 9 News today. I picked it up in a very, very small portion. I was reading through the website and kind of buried away. I had to dig for it, and I picked that up, and I'm like, oh, wow, this isn't something that's being talked much about. I get it. Iran, everything happening there and so on, that's the big news. Oil, oil prices, I understand all of that, but that was big news. That was a situation where that could have ended much more differently. You know, much differently is what I should say, use proper grammar. That could have ended differently, been a lot more severe, had those folks at the church, A, not been armed, B, not had been paying attention and watching even the parking lot. I got to hand it to whoever the guy was that ran the guy with his car. I mean, holy cow, that is thinking. That's really thinking. You know, I'm in the car. I'll just take care of this right here and now and just run over the guy. Awesome. Awesome. kudos to those guys at that church, guys and gals both, whoever's on the security team, but kudos to them for paying attention, which this goes back to the 3 o'clock hour where we were talking about what's going to happen with Iran. Are they going to retaliate? Are there going to be these sleeper cells? And what's really funny about the sleeper cells is you see a lot of Democrats talking about that, and I'm thinking, yeah, you guys are the ones that let them in. You bozos. You're the ones worried about it, but you let them in. Anyways. Point being with this story, folks, we have to worry about all sorts of things when we're out in public, when we're traveling, when we're going to church, school, work, different things along those lines. You have to be aware of everything going on around you, not just because of Iran, but because of everybody. All the knuckleheads that are out there, all the wackadoodles that are out there. Why do these people do some of the things that they do? I have no idea. They're loony. I'm sorry, but they just are. In some cases, we've raised this. We've built this into society, I hate to say. And it's good versus evil. This is an evil person doing evil things. So I wanted to bring that to you guys' attention just because there is still some good that comes out of some of this. You're not going to hear much about that story because the good guy with the gun took – and the guy with the vehicle, by the way – the good guy with the gun and the vehicle took out the bad guy with a gun. So one thing I was going to talk about, and I promo'd this, and I'm going to take a break and come back – and do this is in the title of this particular story this is one that actually Charlie sent me last week a silent number of American men are struggling and as I read through this I a my heart goes out to these particular individuals but then you dovetail that into I read another article today talking about how Gen Z which I got to look at what that age group is but young people And because of social media and where they get their news and so on, they are just utterly upset with what's going on in Iran. They're beside themselves. They don't know what to do. They can't sleep. They can't eat. They're just so upset over this conflict that's gone on over there. And then us doing what we did on Saturday has really set them off. And I just have to think to myself, get a grip, young people. A, turn your phone off. Turn the TV off. Live your life. Yes, you need to be aware of your surroundings at all time, like I just mentioned. But holy cow, you're that upset? I haven't lost an ounce of sleep over what's going on in Iran. Not an ounce. Again, during the 3 o'clock hour, some were even asking if I stocked up on extra ammo and things along those lines. Folks, if you're not stocked up already, you're in trouble. You should be doing that no matter what. So in my case, no, I didn't order anything extra Saturday. I haven't ordered anything extra for quite some time. I keep a pretty good inventory of things. You guys know me. I have Foro. Fear of running out. I know that's not a real term, but that's what I have. My wife will tell you that. My kids will tell you that. Yeah, I have full row. I'm one of those guys where, you know, if we're down to just one pack of toilet paper left, you know, we better buy two cases. We never get to one pack, by the way. I might get down to one case and I've got another case or two on the shelf. That's me. And by the way, that was that way prior to covid. I wasn't one of those guys during COVID that created that. I've done that forever. I have this, again, I have Foro, fear of running out. It's a disease. Now, I'm not a hoarder. So I'm not one of those where I just have to hang on to something to hang on to something. But when it comes to consumables and things along those lines where it's things that you would need in case of whatever kind of an emergency might come along, yes, I have Foro, so I keep good inventory on all sorts of things. For example, you guys will all laugh at this. Charlie will as well. I don't buy shaving cream a can at a time. I buy shaving cream a case at a time. So it comes in a 12-pack. I don't just buy one. I buy 12. And when it gets down to, by the way, when I get down to two, I order another 12-pack. Yes, I have full row. When I buy, you know, my wife, when we buy toothpaste, I don't buy one tube. I buy the six-pack. That's just who I am. So when it comes to ammo, no, I didn't run out over the weekend and buy extra ammo. I already have it. I'm done. I keep a good supply of all of those things that are needed, again, because of my condition called Foro. So we'll be back in a moment. I want to talk about this silent number of American men that are struggling. Geno's Auto Service coming up next. They have an AC special as well when it comes to vehicles. So much like Cub Creek will do your house, Geno's will take care of your car, your truck, your van, your SUV, whatever it happens to be. Just go to genosautoservice.com, and Geno starts with a J.
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SPEAKER 03 :
All right, we are back. Going to the phones. Dave and Thornton, go ahead.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, John, you know, everything that you've been talking about, you know, the Middle East and... now with the oil production and everything else, it really does all tie together with how this president is operating. He's looking at it totally from an outside perspective. A businessman, as opposed to someone who knows how to make deals, as opposed to a politician looking to make the best deal for them, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
That's true. Good point. Yeah, great point, actually, Dave. Yeah, that's a really great... perspective, and I'll be honest, I've not really ever heard it put that way. Donald Trump is looking at what's best for everyone because he's a business person and understands how things work on a collective basis. The politician's looking at it for what's best for them.
SPEAKER 07 :
Exactly. He's looking at it as the CEO of the United States of America Incorporated.
SPEAKER 03 :
Great point.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's exactly how he's looking at it. And, you know, this thing with oil production and what we need, like you're pointing out, you know, if we can remove it, I could say we can do that with a lot of parts of our lives. We can remove government over-regulation. I'm not saying all regulation, but the over-regulation. Sometimes the stuff that's even pushed forward through just pure emotions. They're the first ones to talk about the science, but they're the first ones to ignore the science if it doesn't fit their needs.
SPEAKER 03 :
A great example of that, Dave, was what happened here in Colorado. Luckily, Governor Polis vetoed that particular bill that passed, and that was the Uber-Lyft restriction thing that was really going to make everything in Colorado when it came to Uber and Lyft and ride-sharing so burdensome that those companies would have pulled out. And that was literally done... based upon emotion in fact the lady that actually ran that legislation that became a politician became a politician because she wanted to run that bill because she had been assaulted inside of a lyft vehicle and the whole story was it wasn't even the lyft driver somebody had shared the app long story and she wanted to cure that problem strictly for emotion's sake dave and at the end of the day we at least i'm not saying governor polos is smart on everything but at least he was smart enough to know that if i don't let this you know if i don't kill this bill
SPEAKER 07 :
lift an uber won't be here anymore and then everybody loses out at least he was smart enough to recognize that absolutely and that's what i'm talking about you know you get it you got to remove yourself i would hope when you get into that kind of position i don't care if it's you know uh governor you know president you know head bottle washer remove yourself from your own personal interest your own ideas they don't Dave they don't I just gave you a great example here in Colorado where the opposite was true they took what happened to them and made that their mantra as a politician you can't do that Dave to your point well exactly and you know I'm not sure I know what the story you're talking about I just don't know the exact time frame but I would venture to guess that I wonder if this happened during that whole time that they were talking about defund the police you know and when they elected soft-on-crime district attorneys. That kind of thing. She may have gotten relief through the court system. had it not been subverted and corrupted as they've done so far over the last six or eight years.
SPEAKER 03 :
You make a great point. I'd have to go back and check all that, check the dates and so on. But you're correct. I mean, that's a great example. And I just gave you an example of what you were talking about, where a politician is looking out for what's best for them. And that's the case in this particular lady here in Colorado. That's one of the representatives. She was looking out what was best for her. her and not what was best for the state. Because what was best for the state is leave Uber and Lyft in place like they're doing right now.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. Another good example would be the whole Wilson.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep. Great example.
SPEAKER 07 :
It makes you feel good in downtown Boulder, downtown Denver. It makes you feel warm and fuzzy. Well, guess what? Your livelihood doesn't depend on those spring calves that are being slaughtered by the wolves that you brought in. Great point. Just because that makes you feel good in the metro doesn't mean that's good for the state. That should be looked at in that perspective as if we're going to pass a statewide initiative, then, you know, it should be good for everyone in the state, not just make you feel good in the metro area. And my nice argument back then was, if it's such a good idea, well, why don't we put some wolves downtown Denver down into Central Park? You know, City Park.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right, right. Not to get off track here, Dave, but I just keep wondering, and I see this more and more, and it drives me crazy. The homeless thing that we've got going on in a lot of parts of Colorado, it's not just Denver. It's happening in the suburbs. I was driving down 287 on Saturday. It's up in Lafayette. We saw encampments right along the edge of the Walmart wall there on 287. And, Dave, I just have to keep asking. Why? You know, these cops and others have to drive by these encampments and so on. Why are we not clearing those things out? Why do we allow that to happen?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, they've allowed it because the thing is that over the last 30 years, and I can't remember who it was, but I'm going to go ahead and steal that line from them. They called it the homeless industrial complex. There's so much liberal money and liberal jobs that are tied into perpetuating that system, making those people dependent upon government and government funds, that that will never go away. My current girlfriend right now used to work for the Colorado Coalition of the Homeless. And I asked her one time, you know, a couple months back specifically, and she's not, you know, hardcore right-wing or anything else. She's just, you know, a typical American woman, you know, with things with her emotions. And even her, after 10 years at the Colorado Coalition of Homeless, I said, what is the solution? What would we need to do to actually make this thing stop? She says, nothing. Because those people don't want to get off the streets.
SPEAKER 03 :
Interesting.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's the life that they want to lead. And the thing is that what we're doing is we're enabling it. And if those people have a drug or alcohol problem, all we're doing, as some other guy said, was we're killing them on the installment plan. We're not helping them one bit.
SPEAKER 03 :
Great point. Great line. I'm going to use that line in the future. That's a great line. We're killing them on the installment plan. Great point.
SPEAKER 07 :
It was a great thing. What I really want to see is how I haven't had a chance to sit down and run through it, but see how CNN and MSLSD and all those other stations are trying to spin this new key steel. I have not seen it either.
SPEAKER 03 :
I'll look tonight once I'm off, but yeah, I haven't either yet, Dave. Again, being here, I haven't had an opportunity to look at that. That all just came out as I've been on air, so I have no idea how they're spinning it. It'll be interesting to see.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's a great thing, and I'll tell you what, probably the strongest president that we've had, not even since Reagan, I don't think Reagan, even because he was so controlled by the neocons within his own cabinet, was able to do something as muscular as this president has done. Go over someplace, bomb the heck out of them, and then get them to the negotiating table 24 hours later.
SPEAKER 04 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 07 :
Give him that offer and, hey, you know what, do you guys want some more or do you want to sit down and talk?
SPEAKER 03 :
And along those lines, too, and we've been talking throughout the show, Dave, about this, and this is where those of you that are in the anti-Trump because he did what he did Saturday to Iran, you guys really need to rethink your whole position on Donald Trump and what went on because, Dave, to your point, He's looking at things in a much different way than anybody else is. And even though there's some that are on our side of the aisle criticizing him, those people really need to check themselves, Dave.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah. Like I said, he's looking at it as CEO of USA Incorporated, not Donald Trump and his select group of cabal of friends and what it means for them and their business and their interests. No, it's what's best for the United States.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I'm talking about, Dave, like the Marjorie Taylor Greens of the world and so on. She's another one of those that was basically accusing Trump of bait and switch and so on. And while I like her on a lot of things, she's a nut job at times. I mean, she needs to check herself. She is not correct in this particular area at all. She's not looking at things on the whole like you just talked about, Dave.
SPEAKER 07 :
Or, like you're always fond of saying, and I tend to agree with you, don't jump to conclusions yet. We haven't got all the facts in. Even those folks that are sitting in Congress, they don't have all the facts in. No, they don't. And the fact of the matter is that, you know what, as Pete Hegseth was telling some of them, we're not going to telegraph to our adversaries, much less to you and the Congress, who might be inadvertently releasing information to our adversaries. We're not going to telegraph that information, and guess what? They don't owe them an explanation. They don't owe me or you any explanation.
SPEAKER 04 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wait till all the facts come out. And even when the facts come out, I'll guarantee you, we don't know all the facts.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and the other thing, too, that I think is really important, and this is where I struggle with certain parts of the party, the MTGs and so on, Dave, they're calling what Trump did Saturday a war. It's not. In fact, I'm going to throw this back to them. What Trump did, and it's proving it right now, what Trump did Saturday ended a war, Dave. It didn't get us into one. It was the complete opposite. And these people are absolute knuckleheads that think anything different.
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It's sort of like that teacher that walks out onto a school playground and breaks up a fight. Back in my day, the teacher would smack you both. Knock it off, or this is going to go someplace you don't want it to go. And generally, that's what it was. To put it in simplistic terms, I know, but I think that's kind of what the president did. He just went over there, smacked a couple people out, and said, knock it off already. We're going to sit down and do this deal? You guys want to sit down and be prosperous and bring something to your people?
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Yep.
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Or do you want to waste your national treasure on nothing? Something that's not ever going to happen.
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Yep. Good point.
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And this is the thing, the great thing about the internet, somebody had sent me this, uh, link or, um, a video, video montage and, uh, about, um, no powers act and how they're saying it's unconstitutional, but yet the last president who was engaged in all this, at least for this video was Barack Obama. And him going out there and making this announcement on the news, today I announce an attack on the Houthis. Today I in unilaterally announce an attack on this and that. Today I did, you know, by executive order. Nobody was accusing him of violating the Constitution. Nobody was accusing him of starting wars. Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
Great point.
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That's one of the great things. I mean, as much as the Internet can do bad, it can really do some good if you sit down and research it. Thankfully, there's those folks out there, like you were talking about, that create those memes, you know, who can get out there and set the time to actually research this stuff and put it out for, you know, mass consumption. Dave. Anyway. Nope. Good.
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This isn't Rage Radio. This is Real Relatable Radio. Back to Rush to Reason.
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All right, so back to this article that Charlie sent me where there is a silent number of American men that are struggling. And they did a survey, and I don't know exactly how many men they surveyed and all that. I didn't get into all that. But a new survey found that 36%—that's a lot. by the way, struggle to understand their place in society. Three in 10 don't feel they have somebody to talk about when it comes to mental health challenges and future research will dive into causes, possible policies, actions to help and so on. Well, I have an answer. You don't have to go to any research and do any bunch of that nonsense. Here's the answer. Get to work, guys. Men find fulfillment in their work. Women get fulfillment in the family that they build, how well their kids do, so on and so forth. Women are different. Some women find fulfillment in their tasks and their accomplishment, but typically women find their fulfillment in how well their family does, and men find fulfillment in what they accomplish. This isn't rocket science, folks. So men, sorry to yell, but literally men, if you're struggling to find your place in the world, get to work. Get after it. Find something you're good at and go do it. Quit watching television. Quit playing video games. Quit dinking around on the Internet and go get a job. It's not hard, folks. Good gravy. A third of the men are struggling to find their place. Yeah, because we haven't taught them how to work. How hard is this? Literally, I know I sound harsh, but good gravy. Get a job. Go find your fulfillment in what you do. It's how we're designed. It's how God made us. Go figure it out. And quit lollygagging around and feeling sorry for yourself. Holy cow, man, buck up. It's not that hard. Yes, there's always times in every man and every person's life where things can get tough. I've had them more than once. It's called life. Stuff happens. I mean, I have been literally so broke. You didn't have a pot to pee in. You didn't know how you were going to put groceries on the table. You didn't know how you were going to survive the next day, but you do. And you keep on and you forge ahead. It's what we men do. It's called leadership. It's called fortitude. It's called working hard. It's called providing for your family. You do what you got to do, guys. And that's where you find your fulfillment is overcoming some of those things I just mentioned. Not sitting around feeling sorry for yourself, twiddling your thumbs. If you're struggling to find your place, you're not working hard enough. I can tell you that right now. You don't have to go to a clinic. You don't have to go fill out some survey. You don't have to go get therapy. You spend about an hour with me and I'll get you all straightened out. It's not that hard. If you're struggling to find your place in life, you're not working hard enough. It's that simple. It's one sentence. Guys, honestly, it's not that hard. If you're a dad or you're a neighbor of somebody and you know somebody that's struggling along these lines, I just gave you the answer. Now, you can probably say it in a lot kinder words than I just did. Okay, fine. Say it however you want to. But at the end of the day, if a man is struggling to find his place in life, he's not working hard enough. He's bored. He's not doing enough. He needs a job. He needs a hobby. He needs something. Because it's not that hard. They're literally struggling to understand my place in my community or in a broader society. And I'll tell you where that's coming from is because we have feminized men to the point they don't know who they are anymore. Shame on us. Shame on society. Well, by the way, that's Marxism at its best. They've got men screwed up now to where they don't even know they're a man. That's Marxism. That's what it does, folks. That's what they're doing in the public schools. It's what they do inside of a lot of churches, inside of a lot of other organizations, and so on. They don't want men to be men because if they're not, then they flounder around like this, and now we've got 36% of men don't know who they are, don't know their place. I can tell you what your place is. Again, if you're struggling, call me. I'll meet with you. I'll spend an hour with you, and I'll get you all straightened out. It's not that hard. It really isn't. Every man enjoys doing something. Find out what it is and then go do it. And then like I always say, what are you good at? You may not even enjoy it, but are you good at it? If you're good at it, go do it. Whether you like it or not, go do it. Because you don't always make money doing what you love. In fact, you could suck at it. Go do what you're good at and then make it fun. And by the way, when you start making money at what you're good at, it becomes fun. It's just how life is. And I know I sound really harsh. And for a lot of you listening, I'm not trying to be harsh. I understand. Some people really struggle mentally with certain things and so on. And I get that. I understand that. And I'm not trying to minimize anybody that's struggling with mental illness and depression and so on. But at times I have to wonder, why are you? If you were busy and you were working hard and you were worried about your next project or your next task or the next thing you had to get done, you wouldn't have time to worry about your depression. It wouldn't exist. It'd be gone. You wouldn't be depressed. And by the way, you'd have more money. And I'm not saying money cures everything, but it sure helps at times. If you're not having to worry about struggling, running out of money before the month ends versus the other way around to where there's more money than month... It makes a huge difference. And you do that by working. This whole idea that, you know, we work too much is a bunch of gobbledygook. We don't work enough, in my opinion. We've got a workforce now that doesn't know the meaning of the word. We've gotten soft. We don't know how to put in 80 hours a week anymore, which at one time was standard for a lot of people and a lot of families. We don't know how to do that anymore. We're upset if we have to work 40 hours. Folks, there's a whole lot more time than 40 hours to work. That I can guarantee you. I've done it my whole life. Trust me, there's way more than 40 hours to work. Living proof right here. So, again, I read these articles and I just want to pull my hair out because the answer isn't that difficult. We make it a lot harder than it needs to be because we don't want to talk about the realities. And men need to work. It's how they get their worth and their accomplishments and their longing. It's how they get their validity. They work. It's how we're designed. It's how God made us. Veteran Windows and Doors coming up next. 35% off up to three windows, 40% for four or more. Give Dave a call today. He was on with us at 3 o'clock, and there's some changes maybe coming first of the year on the Energy Star end of things. Get that done prior to that. Find Dave today. Just go to klzradio.com.
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Suck it up, buttercup. Back to Rush to Reason.
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All right, that's going to wrap it up for today. Have a great rest of your evening. A little cooler, by the way, so a little weather coming in tomorrow, so be careful. Tomorrow's, by the way, going to be one of those days where you want to park in a garage if possible. So have a great night. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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.
SPEAKER 05 :
We're gaining on it. Although anymore with the long daylight days right now, evening seems a long way off.
SPEAKER 10 :
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.
SPEAKER 05 :
They're trained to sell this particular product, go push it.
SPEAKER 10 :
That is it. Yep. That is it.
SPEAKER 05 :
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.
SPEAKER 05 :
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.
SPEAKER 05 :
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.
SPEAKER 10 :
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, 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. 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SPEAKER 05 :
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.
SPEAKER 16 :
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.
SPEAKER 05 :
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.
SPEAKER 16 :
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.
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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.
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That believes that death or submission.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right.
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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.
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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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All right, we talked about a lot of things there in that last hour. There's a lot more to talk about. I've got another guest joining us here. We're going to talk about the Fed and who might succeed Jerome Powell, but after that we'll get back into my son Richard is on vacation, so I've got plenty of time to talk in the next hour about some of what we just talked about a moment ago. So plenty of time. Never fear. We'll be back here in a moment. Hour 2 is next. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. We'll be right back.
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Average Guys. Average Guys. Average Guys.
In this power-packed episode of Rush to Reason, John Rush sits down with Bruce DeTore of the American Small Business League to expose how the federal government is failing small businesses despite its promises. From the shocking truth about how less than 3% of federal contracts go to actual small businesses, to the SBA’s alleged deception, the gloves come off.
Then, John dives into the Fed’s stubborn interest rate stance, the housing market gridlock, and whether Trump should fire Jerome Powell. Callers chime in with fiery opinions on Social Security taxation, Trump’s picks, and the Republican Party’s internal battle for unity. John doesn’t hold back when discussing Massey, Murkowski, and the rise and fall of political influencers. The show closes with insight on how oil markets reacted to the sudden ceasefire between Iran and Israel, and what it all means for everyday Americans.
This episode is a must-listen for small business owners, politically engaged citizens, and anyone who wants to understand how politics, economics, and media intersect in the real world.
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Hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Bruce DeTore is joining us now, Director of Communications for the American Small Business League. Bruce, welcome. How are you today? I'm great, John. Nice to be here. Thank you for joining us. I am a small business owner myself outside of what I do here. I do some things in that world, even coaching small businesses as well. What goes on with the Fed and so on has a huge impact, far more impact than I think even they realize when it comes to our economy and small business. So in light of all of that, in my notes it says that Besant might be the possible contender to succeed Jerome Powell, who, by the way, I have no love for.
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I looked into that, and it was quickly denied all around. So it didn't get a lot of traction. I don't even remember if the source. This was maybe three weeks ago or something like that. And so far, even currently, President Trump sometimes indicates he might name a successor way in advance because Powell will be there until next May in almost a year or so. A year too long, in my opinion. Well, so there. Yeah. But there really isn't a lot behind that claim. You know, it was maybe who knows why it was floated out. So it got picked up. Of course, it would make news because what? You know, so it doesn't seem to be tons behind it now.
SPEAKER 03 :
OK, so we'll see, I guess. And again, at the end of the day. As I said earlier, Bruce, I look at what the Fed does and knowing not only what impact it has on the country and our debt and how we're paying that and so on, but you look at small business and what they have to do to fund things. And the real estate market, that's a whole other conversation in and of itself, even outside of small business. Some small business, of course, is involved in the home building end of things and so on. But the reality is, and this is, again, this is my take, although I don't think I'm I'm wrong in this case. The Fed has waited too long to lower rates, and we're way behind, if you ask me.
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Yes, and unfortunately, it's part of a pattern that is not helping small business. I'd love to take, you know, 60 seconds, John, and give you my basic feel, because you can't make America great unless you make our small businesses great, because Yeah, 99.9% of all businesses in America are small businesses. Most people don't come close to knowing that, okay? 98% of all businesses in America have less than 100 employees, okay? Now, here's why we're in business as a little advocacy group, okay? The law says every year 23% of all federal contracts About $345 billion in business must go to small businesses. Every year, the SBA, which oversees this, says, we did it. We passed the goal, actually. How about a loan? But 35 years ago, our founder, Lloyd Chapman, started suing to get the truth about these things. And what he found blew his mind. And he actually inspired a number of congressional investigations. and also studies by the SBA's own inspector general. For the last 35 years, it has come out. Sometimes it made the news, and now it's buried this fact, John. The SBA falsifies compliance with that goal. In reality, about 97% of the contracts go to the one-tenth of 1% of businesses that are big businesses, and small businesses are really getting about 3%. Yep. of federal contracts. Now, that is a rip-off, not only in that of investment, $345 billion in business, but here, crucially, the big businesses that get all those contracts, they're already big. They don't create one new job to perform those contracts, whereas small businesses, John, would create about 2 million new jobs every single year on top of the 2 million jobs America typically creates every year. Right. and the city s p a is being demonized just had it having its staff cut by forty three percent it being relocated out of very important cities we uh... we accuse administration of being anti small business for all the nice rhetoric that comes from kelly law for the administrator the head of the s p a so this is a huge problem
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, in a way, to my knowledge, and being a small business owner myself and even competing on some of the things that you're talking about, for those of you listening, this is what I have seen, Bruce. A lot of those bigger businesses, those bigger companies, they can go start a quote-unquote small subsidiary that makes it look like it's a small quote-unquote family-owned business when it's anything but.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, that's a great example of the many, many, many, many, many layers of obfuscation, flat-out fraud, bad policies, lax oversight that has for decades let the SBA say, oh, we met the goal. Because with some digging and looking at those reports and those investigations I mentioned, you see that many of the agencies... have the right to set their own criteria. And many of the industries have different criteria. So the official definition of a small business is up to 500 employees. It really ought to be just up to 100. I agree. Right. But many of the agencies, and because of the industry codes, can give a contract to a company with 1,000 employees, 2,000 employees, 5,000 employees, and say... We met our small business contracting goal. Got our quota done. Got our quota done.
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So what's the fix to this? For those listening and even some that are listening, like begets like, as you know, Bruce, since I'm a small business owner, there's a lot of them listening as well because we all kind of flock together, as you know. So how do we fix this? What's the answer?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, verify it, because if you Google it or go to any official website, they're going to say the opposite. And you're not going to get conferred. You're not going to believe what I... You're not going to see the evidence that I'm saying. So at our site, ASBL.com, start clicking around, see the documentation there. And lobby from, you know, you want to start... small you're you want to start big start the white house start kelly loffler right and call her and say is this true it is possibly true can you show us the small businesses you say you're getting the contracts because we have to sue to get that information because they don't want you to know they won't tell you what small businesses got contracts for some plausible reason so it'll give them a competitive disadvantage blah blah blah but now they don't want you to see that it's boeing it's lockheed it's verizon it's a giant corporation that's right Then we could target the chairs of the Senate Small Business Committee and the House Small Business Committee. And then all, you know, 20, 30 members on each of those committees. That's what we're doing. And we're also writing and emailing. We've made a list of a couple hundred people who are running for Congress next year. And we're saying, hey, you want to win? Broadcast this. Make a big noise about this. Because to help our small businesses... is the nonpartisan. Everyone will get behind it. Because let's say you're a hairdresser. Well, maybe you can't apply for a contract. But if real small businesses are getting all that work and creating all those jobs, your neighborhood's going to balloon and flourish.
SPEAKER 03 :
You're going to have a lot more heads to cut. Absolutely. Absolutely. No, I agree. Everything you're saying, spot on. I can't disagree with that. One other thing I would add to that is, and this is a big one for me, Bruce, I... I have a soft spot, of course, for small business owners, and my biggest frustrations with the majority of politicians is very, very few, and I mean very, very few, have ever written a paycheck.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Aren't they mostly lawyers? whatever. And the reality, Bruce, is, you know, I'm sorry to say they've never written a paycheck, never worked a real job in their life, unfortunately.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's right. So they don't relate at all. And they're trying to impress, you know, their mentors, the people who are 10, 20 years older than them, you know, whose suitcases that they carry. You're making a great point. That's a whole reality that really keeps us entrenched.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, it does. And the reason I know some of that, Bruce, is I, over the past decade plus... have interviewed a lot of politicians, some that are just running, some that have been there for a while. And some of the things that I ask them go along the lines of what you and I are talking about right now. And the reality is very few of them could have a conversation with you and I on these lines because they've never done it.
SPEAKER 07 :
They've never done it. They would be probably afraid to talk about it. They would default to their party's talking points, which is generic and sounds all nice and lovey-fluffy. That's right. They would be terrified of it because they wouldn't know.
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That's right. Spot on. I appreciate what you guys are doing. You can tell you're in good company. You're welcome any time, any announcements, anything you want to talk about, anything you need help with that we need to get the word out. We're here. We'd love to help, Bruce. Thank you so much, John. What a pleasure. Thank you. Appreciate it very much, Bruce. Have a great rest of your day. I appreciate you joining us. Vector and Windows & Doors, speaking of small business, that is Dave. He was with us at 3 o'clock. He's got a great deal right now when it comes to Windows & Doors. Big changes potentially coming when it comes to the energy rating on Windows after the first of the year, 2026. Get done before that and talk to Dave today, 303-529-0720.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Okay, kind of dovetailing into last hour, we were talking about, you know, Iran, what happened over the weekend. A couple of you texted me and asked about, you know, what are my thoughts on Candace Owens and so on. And I gave you my thoughts along those lines. And I've got a few text messages that have come in since. And some of you are really spot on. One of you said, trust no, capital N-O, trust no influencer. You know... I think unless it's a influencer that has got a really solid track record of really being solid in the areas that they're an expert in, and there are some of them out there, and I follow some. I follow some car guys that are kind of in that world. And here's what I've learned. The really good, solid influencers have no shock value, meaning they probably don't have as much quote unquote influence and may not have the same following that their competitors quote unquote have because they don't have the same. You know, they're not a shock jock. They don't have that same shock value. So it would be interesting – it's interesting to watch some of these folk and then realize where some of them are coming from. So in my world, again, I only follow a few, I guess what I would call influencers or people that I see in media that I feel have really – Good, solid information. And I don't follow too many people, period, just because I don't want to be tainted by anyone. And it was funny, you know, Mr. Global is one of those guys that I follow. He's in the oil end of things. He's called Mr. Global because he's sort of an expert when it comes to oil and gas. Now, what I will also say is Mr. Global is a really smart guy. in the technical aspects of oil, oil extraction, fracking, all of those things. He's very smart in that realm. Where he's dumb is he puts too many politics into all of that, and then he gets all sideways, like he did this weekend. He predicted this morning that we'd be at almost $100 a barrel in oil prices, and actually we've come back down to where we were even prior to Friday. So he's been completely wrong in that aspect. By the way, not the only time in the last month I've talked about him being wrong. This is his second time he's been wrong in the last month. He's really, in my opinion, losing a lot of credibility because he's adding too much in the way of politics into his decision making, into his influence, quote unquote. And, yeah, he's preaching to a particular part of the crowd that are very much on the left side of the aisle, and he's got a solid following. And, again, he's a guy that's making money off of what he's posting and so on, and that's all great. But he's losing people like me that I actually thought he was a pretty good, solid resource when it came to certain mechanical things along those lines. But I'm even losing – he's losing me even as a follower along those lines because he's too heavily involved on the political aspect of things. Brad, go ahead.
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Yeah, in a lot of ways, I think Trump's great. I voted for him three times, but at times I think he has some extremely poor judgment. I'm talking about he's going after Thomas Massey, and that's going to create three major problems.
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Massey's an idiot, though, Brad. He's a guy, honestly, he needs to go bye-bye. He has gotten so out in left field on a lot of this stuff that he's going to find himself not winning election. That's Massey's own fault. That has nothing to do with Trump. He's created his own bed. I'll say that straight up.
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I think... But if we don't promote unity, it's going to infuriate the massive side of the party.
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Well, I hate to say it really quick, though, Brad, on Massey's side of the party, they're dwindling. I hate to say that, but they really are. That hardcore, it's got to be my way or no way, we learned in this last election that they started to be diminished. We saw here in Colorado what happened to that side of the party with the last election in regards to the GOP chair. Reality, Brad, is they're losing their foothold, and they're not as relevant as they once were, and they don't even realize it.
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But what about the people... the money that we could be sending to help elect other candidates. Now we're going to be sending it to help people. We send it to help Massey. And then that's less money to help elect other candidates. So I think Massey is elected to represent his district. And I agree with you. You're never going to get 100 percent of what you want. But at the same time, I don't think Trump should be attacking Massey. I mean, he's only one member of Congress this year. learn to deal with what you like and what you don't like. Personally, I still like Massey. I like Trump, but I like Massey at the same time as well.
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Well, and that's where you and I are a little different. I've lost a lot of respect for Massey. I feel like he gets so dead set on certain things that he allows for no room for any kind of compromise. No room for error, I guess, is what I should say, Brad. And the reality is you can't do politics that way. As much as we would like to and as much as in an ideal world that would be awesome... We live in a day and age, Brad, where that's impossible. You just can't do that this day and age. I'm sorry, you just can't.
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Yeah, I tend to see your point on that one, but in other words, you can't let the perfect become the enemy of the good.
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No, and there's a lot of good people. He, Rand Paul, others, and I like where they come from. And I am them on the true letter of the law and what I would like to see us do with our budget and what I'd like to see us do with our spending and what I'd like to see us do with the debt and so on. Brad, I'm right there with them. I mean, I feel and think exactly the way they do. But I also know that it's unrealistic. It's not going to happen. I mean, the reality is for us to get done what they want to do, there's not enough support for it. There's not enough discipline, I guess is what I should say, Brad, throughout every district, throughout every senator's state and so on. There's just not enough discipline for. for us to get what we want at the end of the day. So what you have to do is figure out, okay, if I can't get 10 out of 10, can I get 6 out of 10? Can I get 7 out of 10? You know, where's my compromise, and how can I still get some of what I need to move that needle?
SPEAKER 08 :
In other words, it's like Amy Coney Barrett and Barrett and Kavanaugh made disappointments from time to time, but Elise Baird and Kavanaugh for right half the time.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's still better than Sotomayor and some like her. Or Kajani, even. Let's throw her into the mix. I'd rather have them than her than two more of her.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I agree.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I'm with you. I don't like either one of them. I think Trump could have even done a little bit better on those picks, as it's turned out. But, you know, hindsight's 20-20. When he was nominating them, even at that time, we all thought that both of them would be pretty good, solid picks, and they would be hardcore on the Constitution and so on. The problem is they, like a lot of people, Brad, start pulling their personalities and their personal feelings into things that they shouldn't.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, personally, I think we would better off with Barbara Lagoia of Florida and Mike Lee's brother Tom out of Utah. But right now we have to do the best we can with what we have to work with.
SPEAKER 03 :
Precisely. Precisely. And really quick, and while you're here, I can tell you as well, this just came out. Donald Trump just posted this. It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a complete and total ceasefire in approximately six hours from now in Israel and Iran. have wound down and completed their in progress final missions for 12 hours at which point the war will be considered ended officially Iran will start the ceasefire and upon the 12th hour Israel will start their ceasefire and upon the 24th hour an official end of the 12-day war will be saluted by the world during each ceasefire the other side remain peaceful and respectful on the assumption that everything works as it should which it will I would like to congratulate both countries Israel and Iran on having the stigma the stamina, courage, and intelligence to end what should be called the 12-day war. This is the war that could have gone on for years and destroyed the entire Middle East, but it didn't and never will. God bless Israel, God bless Iran, God bless the Middle East, God bless the United States of America, and God bless the world. That was just put out.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I just got done reading that on True Social. Now, Trump had made this promise about no tax on Social Security. Now it turns out to be a $4,000 credit. If you're single, you make less than $75,000, married $150,000. And personally, I don't think Trump should have been a little bit more clear on that. He should have said, I'll do the best I can to remove the tax. But now people are getting upset, wondering why they still have to pay that tax on Social Security. Do you think... President Trump could have been a little bit more clear on that, or why did he say? I don't know.
SPEAKER 03 :
That one, Brad, I don't have any answer to. I mean, here's the reality, and all of us know it, and Trump's not going to do it, and I don't think any other Republican will as well. If we don't do something really solid about Social Security and changing either when benefits start, how much you put in it, to what dollar amount, and so on, raising the cap, I guess is what I should say. Brad, if we don't do some things seriously about Social Security, it ain't going to be there.
SPEAKER 08 :
Do you think Elon was correct in saying there's like all these millions of people over the age of 120 collecting Social Security? There's no way to prove that one way or the other.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't know that they were collecting. They very well could have been on the rolls. But here's my take on it, Brad. And the real issue, we don't know. Until somebody starts doing some investigative work to figure that all out, we don't know. And the reality is even if they are on the rolls, they shouldn't be.
SPEAKER 08 :
Another story is Social Security was at a private trust until 65 and Lyndon Johnson took it out and put in a general fund. So either I don't know if that story is true or not. I've heard different stories.
SPEAKER 03 :
I have, too. I don't know that that's totally true. I don't think it's totally true. They claim there's a big IOU inside of it. I mean, here's the reality, as you know, Brad. Anytime you have any kind of an organization, could be the government, could be the church, could be a school, could be a business, money's fungible. It really doesn't matter at the end of the day anyways. It's all fungible.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and a lot of people on the Republican side of the aisle seem to love to double-tax Social Security, too, because as Reagan said, who gave two speeches in 64 and 62 talking about the misleading returns. All he did was raise age and raise the tax in 84. Reagan signed a bill in the law saying if you made more than 25 grand a year, they would tax it on a federal level. And I got burned this year because my CDs did real good. But they haven't adjusted that $25,000 since 1984. And it's not Reagan's fault all by himself because Congress actually voted into the law. So it seems to me there's a Plenty of people on both sides of the aisle to blame, and Massey's introduced that H.R. 1040, but Jason Smith, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, won't bring it up for a vote. So it seems to me we're going to continue to pay a tax on Social Security if you make more than $25,000 a year, and it will continue to be double-taxed. Now, Trump's plan of the $4,000 credit is a step in the right direction, but I'm not optimistic.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and I'm not optimistic on really any of this because we still don't have the final version of what the Senate wants to do. Whatever that is has to go back to the House. And as you know, it's this back and forth. And I don't know that we'll see a final version until later in July.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. So why don't they just do the Trump test cuts on a standalone bill? And they could have done that like three months ago. And then they could have worried about the rest of it later. Because we need those Trump cans.
SPEAKER 03 :
And that is one where I am not an expert in this, but from what I've read, Brad, is because of the amount of votes it takes to get something passed, that's not as easy as it sounds.
SPEAKER 08 :
So in other words, there's no guarantee we would have got 220 votes.
SPEAKER 03 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 08 :
And then we'd have to get at least 51 in the Senate.
SPEAKER 03 :
Correct. That's what I've read. Now, again, I am not an expert in the procedural end of things to say that firmly, but that's what I've read.
SPEAKER 08 :
And now Lisa Murkowski is threatening to quit the Republican Party.
SPEAKER 03 :
Go independent. I read that, too, just a little bit ago. I mean, the reality there, Brad, is that's just a title change. She already is.
SPEAKER 08 :
But the R helps. Agree.
SPEAKER 09 :
Agree.
SPEAKER 08 :
As much as she annoys me, we need that R. And as far as I'm concerned, she stole from Joe Miller back in 2010. And Joe Miller would have been every bit as good as Mike Lee and Ted Cruz.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and that's one where if we could get somebody back in, you know, somebody to replace her would be awesome, but you've got to find somebody that can primary her out.
SPEAKER 08 :
And they have that rank choice.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's right. That's what gets really hard in Alaska.
SPEAKER 08 :
And they're trying to get rid of her a second time, but it's going to be hard to get rid of her a second time as well.
SPEAKER 03 :
I agree. I agree with you, Brad. That one baffles me. That's one I can't wrap my head around coming from Alaska. I don't get at all.
SPEAKER 08 :
Do you think we're going to be able to hold the House in 2026? I'm getting kind of nervous about that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, it depends. I'll be honest, Brad. I think that one comes down to, I mean, this has been a good feather, I think, in Donald Trump's cap. If all of this turns out like I think it will, where this will be in the rearview mirror here after we even get through Fourth of July, a lot of what's going on here will be in the rearview mirror. He can come back in and start concentrating on the economy. I know that there's this separation, or supposed to be, between the Fed and him. But if he could get the Fed to actually chip in lower rates, get some of the housing stuff going again, if we don't do something along those lines, it's going to be a really rough summer and fall on the housing end of things, which will then carry into winter, which will then have an effect upon us next summer heading into the midterms. And I don't like that part of it. If we can somehow get through that Because that's a big one, Brad. Everybody looks at that, whether you own a house or not. People are looking at that, and that's something that I feel, if we're going to win in 2026, that has to get solved. That's the biggest one I see.
SPEAKER 08 :
And the housing sales are starting to slow down because of my condominium complex. A few years back, the condo would sell the first day on the market. No, we've had three for sale. They've been for sale for like three or four months.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and that's not just condos, Brad. That's everything. That's townhouses, houses, single family. I mean, that's pretty much across the board. And that's because of the interest rate end of things. There's a lot of people out there even predicting, again, I don't. Follow influencers and don't care for some of these guys because they have predicted a crash in the housing market now for years. And is there going to be some areas in the country – I just was reading that Las Vegas now has like an all-time high all the way back to 08 of houses on the market. Their pricing hasn't been – greatly affected yet. That will come. But if we can get interest rates to tick down ever so slightly, Brad, I think you're going to see things change on the housing end of things. But the Fed's not participating. Jerome Powell doesn't care. He does not care about middle America at all. He's proven that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Doesn't care. From my point of view, I like the high interest rates. I know. I got a fair amount of money in CDs, and my CDs are doing real well.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and for you, that's great. And that's great, and there are folks out there like you. The problem is, Brad, you're unique. You're not like the rest of America, and the rest of America is looking at this saying, gosh, I can't buy my first home. I can't even move. I'd like to get my kids in a different place. I'd like to upsize. I'd like to downsize. There's all sorts of things I'd like to do, but I'm not going to do that when interest rates are at 7%.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I agree, we've got to look at the overall picture. It's not just what's good for me, it's what's good for the entire country.
SPEAKER 03 :
Correct, and for the entire country right now, we need lower rates.
SPEAKER 08 :
Do you think that's going to happen? Do you think Trump will really fire Powell?
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't know. I think, just my own opinion, this is a little bit off of what we were talking about with Iran, but I think Trump, had it not been for all this Iran stuff that just went on, I think his focus would have been on some of what you're talking about. I don't think he would go as far as to say, Fire Jerome Powell, but I think there needs to be a serious come-to-Jesus meeting with Jerome and say, listen, Powell, we've got to get some things rolling along. You're now coming into the second half of this year. You've not done any cuts under my administration at all. You did it with the prior one. This is really looking like you're playing politics. Knock it off.
SPEAKER 08 :
Didn't Trump appoint Powell, though?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep, he sure did. Another mistake he made, by the way.
SPEAKER 08 :
Have we confirmed any judges since we took office?
SPEAKER 03 :
That I don't know. I have not been following that at all, Brad.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and you try to call Charles Grassley's office and they never answer the phone. So it's extremely frustrating when you continually call these people up and they never answer the phone. And maybe if they receive that many phone calls, they need to hire more help. But I don't think it's a case of They're receiving too many phone calls. I think certain people just don't want to answer the phone.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think it's that, too. I would agree with you there. Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
And Rand Paul hasn't picked up his phone for three or four years. I basically gave up trying to call Rand Paul's office.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's sad. Shouldn't be that way.
SPEAKER 08 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 03 :
Brad, I've got to run. I appreciate you, though. Thanks for calling in, sir, as always.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, thank you.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive. This is John Rush.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right. We are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Reading some text messages. I'll get into some of those here in a moment. Joe, go ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
John, have you seen the news in the past 20 minutes about the ceasefire?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I just read it. I just read it on air, actually, a minute ago.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, well, great. So hopefully that will hold. So at 12 o'clock Eastern time tonight, which is only five hours and 20 minutes away, the two respective ceasefires will begin, and if both ceasefires hold...
SPEAKER 03 :
they agreed that that will be the end of the war end of the 12-day war so that's great that'd be yeah in fact that's what trump is now calling it that would be it and and by the way for both sides i think that would be a win uh and i talked earlier in the three o'clock hour joe how uh and i've had all sorts of people asking me you know what am i doing am i changing anything with my security protocol and blah blah blah blah blah and the reality is no i'm not changing a single thing nothing's going to happen At the end of the day, this will be in the rearview mirror in a week or two at most. It might even be sooner than that now that all this was just announced. And at the end of the day, Joe, no, I am not losing any sleep. I'm not worried about anything. I am not changing a single thing in the way that I handle things. The other thing, too, about this, Joe, and I said this during the 3 o'clock hour, this can't go much longer because Iran, I feel, and this is my take on things, no one is aiding them at this point. Most of the countries that were their quote-unquote friends have distanced themselves. They really, I think, blew it, even though it was all announced and everybody knew on the front side what was going to happen with Qatar. Not a smart move on Iran's part, given that was one of their quote-unquote, you know, cousins or brotherhood or whatever you want to call it, Joe. They've made some really dumb decisions, and I think they're at the end. They're grasping for straws. They don't have much left in their arsenal, and they've got a long row ahead of them.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. And, John, when people are saying, well, they could blockade the Straits of Hormuz.
SPEAKER 03 :
They're not going to do that. They need the oil revenue too much.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, even if they didn't need the oil revenue, John, their Navy – is about 100 ships max, and about a quarter of those are supply ships, not even armed ships. You only need one cruise missile per ship to take them all out. If the Iranians did attempt to blockade the Straits of Hormuz... In about 90 minutes, every ship that was part of that blockade would be on the bottom of the ocean.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and again, they know that. They're not bright by any means, Joe. There are some things they do where you just shake your head and think, man, you guys just don't have very much IQ, do you, at the end of the day? You're just not very bright. But they're not that dumb, Joe, to do that. And as I said right now, I mean, here's the reality. Especially given everything that's just happened to them over the past couple of weeks, they need the revenue, Joe. That's their main source of income. They need it.
SPEAKER 11 :
They're hurting. And speaking of revenue, John, interesting, this morning oil opened at about $75 a barrel.
SPEAKER 03 :
Last night, I was watching it, Joe. It got all the way up to Brent was last night at about 10 p.m., $78 a barrel.
SPEAKER 11 :
And I'm looking at West Texas. Yeah, West Texas was a little less.
SPEAKER 03 :
And for those of you that are listening, West Texas is our kind of benchmark because that's what comes out of the Permian Basin and all of that, and it's kind of what our standard is. Brent is the worldwide standard is the way to look at that.
SPEAKER 11 :
And the reason for the difference is that Brent is a richer oil than West Texas Intermediate. So, you know, there's, so you get more, you know, there's less waste.
SPEAKER 03 :
Different makeup of it, basically, yeah. It's refined differently the whole, yeah, the whole nine yards, yes.
SPEAKER 11 :
So typically, you know, there'll be about a 10% difference between Brent and West. But I'm looking at the graph.
SPEAKER 03 :
And right now, I just looked, WTI is all the way down to 65 a barrel. That's where, that's less than what it was a week ago, Joe.
SPEAKER 11 :
And look what happens at 6 o'clock when Trump announced the ceasefire. The price chart drops straight down, like somebody dropped a rock off a building.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's amazing. It was starting to crater around, oh, 12.30, 1 o'clock.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep, I was watching it then as well.
SPEAKER 11 :
And then at 6 o'clock, Trump made that announcement at 6.02. In the 30 minutes between 6.02 and 6.30, it fell like another $4 a barrel.
SPEAKER 03 :
I was arguing with some folks last night, kind of not really online, but just some text things that were going on late last night where some folks were nervous about what was happening and what's going to happen with, you know, stock market and the futures and this, that and the other. And I'm like, stop your worrying. There is there is nothing here worth worrying about. This is all going to be in the rearview mirror in the next few days. So quit worrying.
SPEAKER 11 :
I heard that somebody was arguing with you, but I'm 100 percent correct. It's going to be a nothing burger in a week. Unless Irene does something really, really stupid.
SPEAKER 03 :
They're not that dumb. I mean, they're dumb, but they're not that dumb, Joe.
SPEAKER 11 :
Not dumb. By the way, a little trivia, and I think you know the answer to this, but, John, most people think that a barrel of oil is 50 gallons, like a 50-gallon drum. It's 42 gallons, and the reason it's 42 gallons is back when they first discovered oil in Pennsylvania, they wanted to put it in the barrels. The only barrels they had were wooden whiskey barrels. And the wooden whiskey barrels were 42 gallons.
SPEAKER 03 :
And then they were that size because that's what fit between the wheels on the wagon back then that was drawn by a horse.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. And then Congress said, OK, well, we're going to start taxing oil by the barrel. And, of course, it was back then the barrel was 50.
SPEAKER 03 :
42 gallons right and once you put once government puts something in it never changes joe it never changes so to this day a barrel of oil is 42 gallons hilarious actually so i mean we laugh but it is hilarious and and yeah and i'm watching it i'm watching oil even as we speak joe it's now down uh wti is 25 cents less than it was when we first started talking yeah it's just uh it's amazing unlike this yeah and it's it's called after hours trading of the
SPEAKER 11 :
And by the way, people think the oil companies control the price of oil. They don't. It's commodity traders.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep, all traders.
SPEAKER 11 :
Same thing with wheat and soybeans and rice. If you're a farmer, you don't set the price of your grain.
SPEAKER 03 :
Nope, the commodities do.
SPEAKER 11 :
There's commodity traders, and they're out there saying, okay, well,
SPEAKER 03 :
you know, today we're going to give you $6 a bushel for your... And they all base that on, you know, supply and demand, and I'm going to say this really quick here, Joe. We don't need it to go much below $65 a barrel. That's actually a nice sweet spot. Our folks here in America can, you know, the U.S. can make money on that. They can keep developing and do the things they need to do, and I know people don't want to hear that because they want to see $2 a gallon gasoline. Joe, we're not going to see $2 a gallon gasoline ever again. So be happy if it's in the high twos or the low threes and suck it up and quit worrying about it and move on because at 65 a barrel, we're all good.
SPEAKER 11 :
You're all good. Oil companies are making, you know, kind of a decent profit. But once it goes below 58 or so, you're getting to the point where things slow down. You slow down. It doesn't make sense.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 11 :
What happens is first they stop drilling new wells. And then they stop fixing. People think once you drill a well, it just goes on and on and on.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, no.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oil wells need continual maintenance. That's right. And if you don't maintain your well after 18 months, well, it's going to start to degrade. And after 18 months, you might only be getting 60% of what you're getting. In fact, if something breaks downhole, one of the rods, it just stops automatically. But even if nothing catastrophic happens... The output of that well will break, and that's why they do things like acidizing and refracting and whatnot. So as the price goes down, oil companies simply stop maintaining. Well, again, first they stop drilling new ones, and then they stop putting money into, and they just start shutting down wells that are not producing or stop fixing wells. So that's how they kind of manage the supply side of that.
SPEAKER 03 :
And the other thing, too, with all of this, Joe, that I want to throw in there, too, why you're seeing oil doing what it's doing is because as a country, we are producing more oil than any other country ever. on the planet does today. We've got the ability to even produce more than that. These other countries, Joe, also know that. In other words, we've cut into the profits of a lot of these other countries, and that's a good thing because when things like what we just saw happen, you don't see $100 a barrel oil like a lot of people predicted.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and I never thought it was going to go that way. And the other thing is that oil is a global commodity, like people's soybeans. Well, China's not buying our soybeans. Well, if China's buying all of their soybeans from Russia... the countries that used to get soybeans from Russia have to go somewhere else. So it's just, it's like squeezing a balloon, John. You know, it's a global supply and global demand. It's not U.S. supply versus U.S. demand.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, but we are to the point, and people don't realize this either, we have gotten to the point now, Joe, where Middle East oil, we only import about 600,000 barrels a day. We ourselves use 20 million barrels a day as a country. So if you look at the comparison there, for everybody that's out there that's on the other side of the aisle that thinks that, you know, we bow to the Saudis all the time because that's where our oil comes from, yeah, think again. No, that ain't how it works anymore, Joe.
SPEAKER 11 :
And if we needed to up our production, we could up our production.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's right. Almost overnight.
SPEAKER 11 :
Almost overnight. Yep.
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We inform you. Now, back to Rush to Reason. All right, we are back. And some of what I do love about the Internet and things that happen along those lines is... They can be pretty funny. I will admit they can be pretty funny. I saw a meme a moment ago because I had looked up Candace Owens, and so immediately I see this meme that comes up with the ceasefire announcement that was just made. It shows Candace and the Ayatollah hugging and crying. How they put all this together, they get AI to make these pictures. No, it's not really her hugging, of course. It's all an AI-generated image, but it's funny. I mean, you have to admit, those things, agree with it, disagree with it, whatever. It's still funny when people take the time or they do whatever to generate this stuff. I've always wanted to know, who's the meme maker? Who makes all the memes? Who is that guy or who is that gal or is it a collective? I mean, where do they come because at times some of them you look at it and you just you have to chuckle. Now, you may not agree with it. You may think, oh, well, you know, but you still chuckle at times because they are pretty funny. And that one was one of those where, yes, I did, in fact, have to laugh just because it's you know, it is funny. And. Again, folks, where do some of these folk get so sideways? And by the way, it was a tweet that I saw that with Candace and the Ayatollah crying. And where do folks like Candace even get so far off? Folks, I wish I had that answer. I don't know these people personally. I've never known anybody along those lines, although I've known some. I guess I can use this example. I've known some that have been very down to earth and even got their start here. literally here on Rush to Reason, and then they get involved in bigger adventures, and they go here, and they go there, and before long, they've gone sideways. It's almost like the stardom affects them somewhere or another, and they just get off track, and they become loony. I don't know how else to say it. All Charlie and I can ever figure, we talk about some of this stuff off air, is just the notoriety, the stardom, the whatever it is, just takes them away from their roots, and they forget what their foundation was, and somehow that gets all screwed up, and they're all off track, and they're no longer who they used to be. And I don't get that. I don't understand why that happens. Now, I will say this. Typically, it happens in those that aren't as mature. I'll leave it at that. We'll be right back. Hour number three is next. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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