1 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: This is America's Truck and Network with Kevin Gordon. 2 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 2: Welcome aboard, Thanks for tuning in on this Friday morning. 3 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 2: I cannot believe that next week we are going to 4 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,959 Speaker 2: be heading down to Louisville to the Mid America Trucking Show. Already, 5 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:28,880 Speaker 2: it seemed like just two days ago it was three 6 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 2: weeks away. 7 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 3: This year is flying. 8 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 2: Ever since Christmas, it seems like everything has just been popping. 9 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,159 Speaker 2: There's just been a lot of economic activity. There's been 10 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:40,280 Speaker 2: a lot of stuff going on in the news and 11 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,199 Speaker 2: keeping up with that, and then of course now all 12 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 2: of a sudden, well not all of a sudden, but 13 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 2: beginning at the beginning of the month, we had the 14 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 2: war beginning in Iran and what that's done to the 15 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 2: market in terms of not only the stock market, but 16 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 2: the oil markets and what's been going on as far 17 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 2: as energy prices can and I want to talk a 18 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 2: little bit about that. I want to start off talking 19 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 2: about that. But we did get some great economic news 20 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:09,039 Speaker 2: that we'll talk about a little bit later on. But 21 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 2: what is going on in the Middle East, and it 22 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:16,919 Speaker 2: has been brewing for years. I mean, we talked about 23 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,399 Speaker 2: this right at the beginning the first day We were 24 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 2: on the air after the attack on the weekend talking 25 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 2: about how forty seven years ago that our embassy was 26 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:32,320 Speaker 2: overrun and forty seven hostage, forty four hostage, forty seven 27 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,559 Speaker 2: hostages were kept for four hundred and forty four days. 28 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 2: Originally there were fifty six hostages, but somewhere around there, 29 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 2: but several of them women were released and minorities, and 30 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 2: one person was released later on because of health reasons. 31 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 2: But for four hundred and forty four days, our American 32 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,920 Speaker 2: hostages were there. And hearing the stories now from those 33 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 2: people which really haven't been talked about much, and the 34 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 2: experience that they went through, the beatings, the solitary confinement, 35 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:07,840 Speaker 2: the fear of getting killed at any one time over 36 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 2: more than a year period of time, four hundred and 37 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 2: forty four days, and then since then all of the 38 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,320 Speaker 2: disruptions in the Middle East has been by Iran. And 39 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 2: you know, I've been talking about what has been going 40 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 2: on in the Middle East. 41 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:22,839 Speaker 3: Now I've been on the air. 42 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 2: I've been doing radio since the beginning of around two 43 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 2: year two thousand and from having been a recovering accountant 44 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 2: and getting into the radio and talking about what's going 45 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 2: on in the Middle East talking about Israel. The number 46 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 2: of attacks on Israel right from the beginning in nineteen 47 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 2: forty seven when the British finally gave them their independence, 48 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 2: and then the very next day all of those surrounding 49 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 2: Arab countries tried to attack them and wipe them off the. 50 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:53,919 Speaker 3: Face of the earth. 51 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 2: Egypt, Syria, every one of those countries, and every year, 52 00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:59,839 Speaker 2: and it seems like every four or five years there's 53 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 2: a attacks on Israel. They had a six Day war, 54 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 2: we had the Suez Canal conflagration, and I could go 55 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,239 Speaker 2: through the entire timeline for you. You know, beginning in 56 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 2: nineteen forty seven, their independence, Suez Canal Crisis, in nineteen 57 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 2: fifty six, Six Day War, nineteen sixty seven, Yan Kapor 58 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,239 Speaker 2: War nineteen seventy three. They have always been under attack, 59 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 2: and even without the attacks themselves, between Hamas, Hezbollah and 60 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 2: the various Arab countries firing rockets after rockets into Israel, 61 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 2: up to one thousand a month in some cases. And 62 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 2: they have put up with this. They have fought back, 63 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 2: they have taken land. They have and keep hearing these 64 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:44,240 Speaker 2: conversations about their occupied land. No, it has conquered land 65 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 2: in a time of war, a buffer zone, if you will, 66 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 2: between them and their Arab neighbors, to give them a 67 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 2: little bit of warning if somebody is trying to attack them. 68 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 2: So this has been going on and predominantly now led 69 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 2: by Iran over these years. Going back to Jimmy Carter, 70 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 2: even Egypt finally decided, you know what, we can't defeat 71 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 2: these people, we might as well learn to live with 72 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 2: them and signing peace of cords. Many of the countries 73 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,840 Speaker 2: in the Middle East have signed peace accords with Israel 74 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 2: except for Iran, and all along it's been death to Israel, 75 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 2: death to the United States ever since nineteen seventy nine, 76 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 2: at least as far as America is concerned. 77 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 3: That's what led to the oil and barrio. 78 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 2: If you remember the oil embargo back in nineteen seventy four, 79 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,159 Speaker 2: it was at the end of one of the wars 80 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 2: in the battles of the Arab countries. As far as 81 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:42,840 Speaker 2: Israel is concerned, and because we supported Israel, they punished 82 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 2: us as far as oil is concerned, and did the 83 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 2: embargo which led to gas lines out of control, inflation, etc. 84 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,320 Speaker 2: In the nineteen seventy four which led to us being 85 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,280 Speaker 2: more and concentrating more and being energy independent, and so 86 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:02,360 Speaker 2: as that's continued, Iran has always been a problem over there. 87 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,799 Speaker 2: And I go back to one of the first times 88 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 2: I was on the air. I was filling in and 89 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 2: spending some time on our sister station WKRC. The host, 90 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 2: I'll kind of give you a little bit of setup here. 91 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 2: On that morning show, they used to have a conservative 92 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 2: and a liberal and they would go at it back 93 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 2: and forth every day, and it was very entertaining, and 94 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:34,280 Speaker 2: you'd hear the liberal perspective and you hear the conservative perspective. 95 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 2: When the conservative would go on vacation, he would go 96 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:39,600 Speaker 2: on vacation could he have been with the station for 97 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 2: thirty plus years, had a lot of seniority, and so 98 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,039 Speaker 2: he would go on vacation for an entire month, and 99 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 2: then it would be up to the liberal host to 100 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:52,440 Speaker 2: actually do the show for that month. And quite honestly, 101 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 2: it was almost like an NPR skit type of thing. 102 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:59,479 Speaker 2: He always had all his liberal friends on it, and 103 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 2: so they try to, I guess, mash it up a 104 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 2: little bit and kind of spark it up a little 105 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,159 Speaker 2: bit and would invite people in. I got invited in 106 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 2: to spend an hour and one of the interesting things 107 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 2: was is I said, you know, I'm not going to 108 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 2: go in there. I'm not going to be you know, 109 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 2: very shy and everything. We're going to talk about things. 110 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 2: And it was very interesting to the point where they 111 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 2: after the show was over, they said, well, you know, 112 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:26,279 Speaker 2: we need fill ins from time to time. 113 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 3: Are you interested in? 114 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 2: So I started filling in and it was I believe 115 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,280 Speaker 2: in like twenty twenty three or something like that. I 116 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 2: was asked to fill in for a period of time 117 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 2: when the Conservative went on. 118 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 3: Vacation. And I specifically. 119 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:46,479 Speaker 2: Remember one time he had on the program a guest 120 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:50,920 Speaker 2: Deepak Chopra, And if you're not familiar with him, Deepak 121 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 2: Chopra is an Indian physician, a new Age alternative medicine 122 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 2: guru type of person, always talking about how people need 123 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 2: to get along in peace and how you can, you know, 124 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 2: through meditation and whatever, improve your health and basically a 125 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 2: new age person. I mean, according to Wikipedia, they're talking 126 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 2: to the Indian American new Age guru, alternative medicine, new 127 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 2: Age movement and so on. And this was a big 128 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 2: hero of this particular host. And we're talking and he's 129 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:30,400 Speaker 2: talking about how nations need to come together and react 130 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 2: and behave and all this sort of stuff, and it's 131 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 2: just through you know, this non violent peace movement and 132 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 2: so on. And I said, you know, that's all well 133 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,320 Speaker 2: and good, but let's take what's going on in the 134 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 2: Middle East again, looking at Israel and the way that 135 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 2: they have been attacked by Iran and the way they've 136 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 2: been attacked by their Middle East neighbors. How do you 137 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,840 Speaker 2: sit at a negotiating table with somebody who sits across 138 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 2: the table from you and says I want to kill you. 139 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 2: It's not a matter of we want to defeat you, 140 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 2: we want to beat you in terms of economics. It 141 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 2: is flat out I want to kill you. I said, 142 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 2: how do you start a negotiation from that? And in 143 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 2: this Indian accent, he said, where do you know? Being 144 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 2: a physician, I realize that sometimes when you have a cancer, 145 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 2: you must cut it out. And I swear that the 146 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 2: liberal talk show host, I thought his jaw was going 147 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 2: to drop to the desk. And we talked about how 148 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 2: you know, at some point in time you just have 149 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 2: to take action. And during the break he turned to 150 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:45,439 Speaker 2: me and he said, I can't believe that you had 151 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 2: Deepak Chopra basically admit that at some point in time, 152 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 2: you have to cut out a cancer, in other words, 153 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:55,560 Speaker 2: go to war. And so this is back in twenty 154 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 2: two thousand and three. And every year or every couple 155 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 2: of years, there's always something going on in the Middle East, 156 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:05,760 Speaker 2: most of the Abraham Accords, during the first Trump administration, 157 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 2: all of these Arab countries said, you know what, piece 158 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 2: is a lot easier than war. We can have economic activity, 159 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 2: we can grow our economy, we can be there for 160 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 2: our people. 161 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:17,559 Speaker 3: And they started cooperating. 162 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:21,680 Speaker 2: Except for Iran, it was still death to Israel, death 163 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 2: to America. And so they've declared war on us back 164 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:28,839 Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy nine. They have declared war on Israel 165 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 2: since the beginning of their existence in nineteen forty seven. 166 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 2: And finally somebody has come along and said, all right, 167 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:41,559 Speaker 2: after all these attacks, the IEDs in Iraq, Afghanistan, all 168 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 2: of the bombings during back during the Kobar Towers and 169 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 2: the Marine barracks and during the regular administration, somebody has 170 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 2: finally stepped up to the plate and said, we need 171 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 2: to end this threat. They keep trying to develop a 172 00:09:56,080 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 2: nuclear warhead, trying to develop nuclear weapons, and if they 173 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 2: get that, not only will Israel be wiped off the map, 174 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 2: but the entire Middle East as well, and what we're 175 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:11,000 Speaker 2: seeing from what their reaction has been is proving that out. 176 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:12,240 Speaker 3: We'll pick this up coming up. 177 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon America's truck a Network seven hundred WLW 178 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:21,800 Speaker 2: an America's truck of network seven hundred WLW. In the 179 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 2: previous segment, I kind of set all this up in 180 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,920 Speaker 2: terms of, you know, you go back through and all 181 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 2: this talk about how Donald Trump is being led by 182 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 2: a net Yahoo dragging him into a war. You hear 183 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 2: these things about Donald Trump being controlled by this. Well, 184 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:44,960 Speaker 2: wasn't it just six months ago that we kept hearing 185 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 2: that Donald Trump wants to be a dictator. They had 186 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 2: the No King's Rally and all this sort of stuff. 187 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:54,319 Speaker 2: And yet then you get Gavin Newsom that's trying to 188 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 2: go for president or on the campaign trail and say, 189 00:10:58,160 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 2: you know, tell. 190 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 3: Over and Davos overseas not talking. 191 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 2: I mean, you know, politics in this country used to 192 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 2: end at the at the border, at the at the 193 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:14,240 Speaker 2: ocean that you battle back and forth, but when you 194 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 2: were overseas, you never talked down the country. This began 195 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 2: with Obama back in his times when he did his 196 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:25,319 Speaker 2: apology tour two thousand and eight, two, you know, when 197 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:29,680 Speaker 2: he became president. And so this has continued on Gavin 198 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 2: Newsom over and Davos talking down the American economy, talking 199 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 2: down Donald Trump to the that that group of idiots 200 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 2: over there that want to control everything. You know, the 201 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 2: whole idea that you know that you don't own anything, 202 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 2: that you just rely on government completely, just a total 203 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 2: a socialist haven for these people, talking about green energy 204 00:11:55,920 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 2: and all this sort of stuff, and you know, the 205 00:11:57,960 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 2: whole New World. 206 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:00,439 Speaker 3: Order crap that we keep here about. 207 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 2: So he's over there and he's criticizing Donald Trump and 208 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 2: saying to the people over there, well, you know, he's 209 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:10,120 Speaker 2: just temporary, he'll be gone in three years. Well wait 210 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 2: a minute, you were just saying two months ago that 211 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 2: he's a king, he's a dictator. He's going to do 212 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 2: away with all the elections, and he's going to try 213 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:18,079 Speaker 2: to stay in power. 214 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 3: He's going to go for a third term, all this 215 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 3: sort of stuff. 216 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 2: And yet they then they go overseas and say, well 217 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 2: he'll be gone in three years. They don't worry about it. 218 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 2: You know, everything everything will be back to normal. We'll 219 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 2: be okay with you guys, and and we'll be back 220 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:38,040 Speaker 2: among the socialists and the communists that want to rule 221 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 2: this kind of the world and control thing and control 222 00:12:40,760 --> 00:12:43,720 Speaker 2: everybody so that nobody owns any property and all that crap. 223 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:47,559 Speaker 2: So anyway, then we have now all of a sudden, 224 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 2: he's being led around by Net and Yahoo. I thought, 225 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:52,000 Speaker 2: if he was a king and a dictator and he 226 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 2: was trying to control the world, how is Net Yahoo 227 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 2: leading him around? How is he Putin's puppet? How is 228 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 2: he How is he beholden completely to Putin? You know, 229 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 2: it was under Obama that Crimea was invaded, that Russia 230 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 2: invaded Crimea, which is part of Ukraine at the time. 231 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 2: It was during Biden that Russia invaded Ukraine in twenty twenty. 232 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 3: Two, So who is the puppet? 233 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:24,559 Speaker 2: You know, they did not do anything to stop Putin, 234 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 2: and Putin got everything he wanted from Obama and Biden. 235 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 2: So how is it that all of a sudden Trump 236 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 2: is the puppet. So none of that crap ever made 237 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:39,800 Speaker 2: any sense. And I've talked about that before and so on. 238 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,199 Speaker 2: But what we're seeing as far as Iran is concerned, 239 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 2: the fact that an eminent threat was there that they were, 240 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:49,680 Speaker 2: you know, developing nuclear weapons and so on. And I've 241 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:52,160 Speaker 2: seen all this crap about people saying, well, you need 242 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,679 Speaker 2: to present the evidence to the American people, and what 243 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 2: information did you have that this was an eminent threat? 244 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:01,839 Speaker 2: Where was the evidence? We're entitled to know that. No, 245 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 2: you're not, because some of this was probably gathered by, 246 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 2: you know, somebody standing next to Komyne who might have 247 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 2: been a spy, either for Israel or for the United States. 248 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 2: And you don't want to reveal if you say that, well, 249 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 2: we got this information from this, well, that would dictate 250 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 2: because if there's only like three people that knew that, well, 251 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 2: in the process of elimination, you could figure that out. 252 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 3: That person's life would be in danger. 253 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 2: So the government to see, all these groups have different 254 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 2: information that they accumulate through different sources Israel, et cetera. 255 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 3: And this is available. And what we've seen. 256 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 2: As a result of the attack on Iran and how 257 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 2: they have attacked their neighbors who had nothing to do 258 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 2: with any of this, we see what a cancer they 259 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 2: are and have been in that area. And it's a 260 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:55,040 Speaker 2: high time that they got eliminated. And this is what 261 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 2: is going on because when you see. I mean every 262 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 2: so often you see oil price is spiking because something 263 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 2: going on with Iran, the straight of Hoar moves or 264 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 2: the Uti rebels or Hesba Lah attacking Israel, and of 265 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 2: course that day thinking that's going to go to a 266 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 2: wider you know, Middle East crisis and so on. So 267 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 2: oil prices spike up, spiked down, and this is all 268 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 2: created by Iran. And so to end that and to 269 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 2: end that threat and to get back to a situation 270 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 2: where there is prolonged peace instead of these prolonged protracted incursions. 271 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:39,440 Speaker 2: Here an attack, here Hamas attacking Israel in twenty twenty three, 272 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 2: killing twelve hundred, more than twelve hundred people, taking hostages, 273 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 2: and so on, all these little proxy wars coming from 274 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 2: Iran and the stirring up in the Middle East. Time 275 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:51,960 Speaker 2: for that to end and peace and prosperity can break out. 276 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 2: I mentioned this because we're I think, you know, and 277 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 2: if I look at Phil Flynn's energy report today or 278 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 2: yesterday rather, it was interesting the approach because we saw gas, 279 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 2: we saw oil prices spike up considerably in the morning 280 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 2: yesterday and where they had settled down. Let me talk 281 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,880 Speaker 2: about that before I get to Phil Flynn's Energy report. 282 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 2: West Texas Intermediate crewed currently is at ninety five dollars 283 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 2: and seventy three cents a barrel. That is up only 284 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 2: twenty seven cents from yesterday. Brent krewde currently is one 285 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 2: hundred and nine dollars and thirty seven cents. That's up 286 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 2: a dollar ninety nine since yesterday and the beginning of 287 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 2: the day. Oil prices spiked because there was an attack 288 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 2: on cutter. There was an attack on all these different countries. 289 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:44,240 Speaker 2: Brent crude up off of high Let me see Brent 290 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 2: up but off highs. According to the headline from Reuters, 291 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:52,440 Speaker 2: Brent crude was up on Thursday, but well off season 292 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 2: highs of one hundred and nineteen dollars a barrel, while 293 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 2: US CREWDE futures briefly turned negative after hitting a session 294 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 2: high of over one hundred dollars a barrel. 295 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 3: Trading was volatile as. 296 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:07,160 Speaker 2: Iran attacked energy targets overnight in the Middle East, leading 297 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 2: the US government to take steps to expand supply as 298 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 2: Donald Trump looked towards November midterm elections. So anyway, there 299 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 2: were attacks on all these different countries UAE. They have 300 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:26,479 Speaker 2: taken something like two thousand missiles that they have been 301 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 2: attacked on Cutter their liquid natural gas field, something like 302 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 2: seventeen percent of that is now knocked offline and destroyed 303 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 2: and won't be back probably for several years. So United 304 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 2: Arab Emirates getting attacked, Saudi Arabia getting attacked, and they 305 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 2: had nothing to do, and it was Israel and US 306 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:50,640 Speaker 2: attacking Iran back on February the twenty eighth, but instead, 307 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:54,080 Speaker 2: in the throes of this, they've decided that a scortched 308 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:57,160 Speaker 2: earth policy is the way to go. That if they're 309 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,439 Speaker 2: going to go down, they're taking everybody with them. And 310 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 2: this just proves what a cancer they are in that 311 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,879 Speaker 2: region and needed to be eliminated and should have been 312 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:11,760 Speaker 2: eliminated years and years ago. Phil Flynn and what was 313 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 2: interesting about all this, and Phil Flynn has an interesting 314 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 2: perspective on this. Oil prices as well as diesel and 315 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:24,760 Speaker 2: gasoline spreads are surging after Iran attacked energy infrastructure following 316 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:30,440 Speaker 2: the issuance of warnings. They actually warned these countries that 317 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 2: they were going to attack. Now, his theory is that 318 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:38,359 Speaker 2: this is kind of like their final Haurrah type of 319 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:41,880 Speaker 2: thing that they want to tell people. So that they 320 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 2: just affect the energy sources as opposed to killing civilians, 321 00:18:48,680 --> 00:18:52,440 Speaker 2: because all of their attacks have been not military targets, 322 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:56,880 Speaker 2: most of have been civilian locations. And so if they 323 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 2: don't care about that, the fact that their upright a 324 00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 2: little bit of protests in the streets back in January 325 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 2: and according to reports, up to thirty five thousand Iranian 326 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 2: citizens have been murdered because they protested shot down in 327 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 2: the streets. If they don't care about their own people, 328 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 2: what do you think they care about the people their 329 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 2: neighbors and the other countries. And then when you take 330 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 2: into consideration the fact that they put their military facilities 331 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 2: next to schools, and oh, by the way, this story 332 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:38,320 Speaker 2: about US hitting a girls' school there in Tehran, I 333 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 2: question that considerably because you look at the damage that 334 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 2: was done to that and the pictures of that. 335 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 3: You see a classroom that was destroyed. 336 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,000 Speaker 2: When you see these attacks in Israel, when you see 337 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 2: the attacks on Hamas, you saw the after effects. You 338 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,679 Speaker 2: didn't see the bodies, but you saw bloodstains everywhere. This 339 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:03,399 Speaker 2: classroom was destroyed, no blood. Is this a fake school 340 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 2: that they wanted to claim because it was right next 341 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:08,480 Speaker 2: to a military establishment. If they don't care about their 342 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,439 Speaker 2: own people and use them as human shields, do you 343 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 2: think they give a rip about their neighbors. I'm Kevin Gordon, 344 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:19,720 Speaker 2: America's trucking Network. Seven hundred WLW. 345 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:22,119 Speaker 1: Here's your trucking forecast to the Try State and the 346 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: rest of the country and the Try State overnight mostly cleared, 347 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,360 Speaker 1: the low down to forty seven, partly sunny, Friday high 348 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,199 Speaker 1: of seventy four, mostly klaudy sky's early Saturday, and then 349 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,520 Speaker 1: gradually becoming sunny high of seventy three, mostly sunny Sunday 350 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,280 Speaker 1: high of eighty two, but temperatures back into the fifties 351 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 1: by Monday nationally and early in record breaking he wave 352 00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:42,920 Speaker 1: continuing over the weekend while expanding eastward into the southern plains, 353 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:45,639 Speaker 1: a clipper system bringing snowfall to upstate New York and 354 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: the New England states and a chance for locally strong 355 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 1: storms across the Ohio Valley Friday. A critical risk of 356 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:53,879 Speaker 1: fire weather likely Friday and Saturday from the northern plains 357 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 1: into the inter mountain West. 358 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,439 Speaker 2: Seven hundred w l W IM Kevin Gordon. This is 359 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:06,360 Speaker 2: Americastructor Network kind of picking up where we left off 360 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 2: talking about Phil Flynn's energy report, and you know, going 361 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:12,280 Speaker 2: through and doing a lot of the reading that I've done, 362 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 2: either either through Reuters or CNBC or whatever. It's it's 363 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 2: interesting when somebody who is a student of their craft, 364 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 2: which Phil Flynn is price UH Price Futures Group senior 365 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 2: analysts and a frequent guest on this program, he is 366 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:32,480 Speaker 2: quoted by He's been on CNBC, he's been on Fox 367 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,919 Speaker 2: Business News, He's been on Fox Weather Channel talking about 368 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 2: how you know when things happen and as far as weather, 369 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 2: how that's going to affect the markets. And so an expert, 370 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:45,639 Speaker 2: he's been quoted and usually re Reuters from time to 371 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 2: time will UH interview him and quote and get quotes 372 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:52,199 Speaker 2: from him as to what's going on. So he's well respected. 373 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 2: But somebody that's a student of their their craft and 374 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 2: a student of what their their business is, he digs 375 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:02,520 Speaker 2: into the the whys and wherefores of these things, and 376 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:07,160 Speaker 2: some of his interpretations have been very incredible. The fact 377 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,879 Speaker 2: that he's pointing out that you know, after the attack 378 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:15,440 Speaker 2: on the South Pars energy infrastructure in Iran, they decided 379 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 2: to retaliate against their neighbors, not against Israel, not against 380 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,480 Speaker 2: the United States, but against their neighbors. And this fact 381 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 2: that they actually warned everybody that this was coming. Phil 382 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:30,719 Speaker 2: thinks that this is a clear sign that they are 383 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 2: on their last leg, that they are just kind of 384 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 2: thrashing out as much as they can to try to 385 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:41,439 Speaker 2: reach I guess some sort of a ceasefire. And again 386 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 2: in terms of trying to open that straight of Horror 387 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:47,920 Speaker 2: Mouz and trying to get a national or world coalition 388 00:22:48,119 --> 00:22:52,920 Speaker 2: for that, that has been extremely interesting from the standpoint 389 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:57,720 Speaker 2: that you know, we don't depend on except for fertilizer 390 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,040 Speaker 2: coming through that area, but there other routes that can 391 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 2: be done as opposed to the Red Sea that we 392 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 2: have alternatives. You know, if you look at our prices 393 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 2: in terms of Brent crude, in terms of West Texas 394 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 2: Intermediate we are, which is West Texas Intermediate right now, 395 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 2: is about twelve dollars cheaper than Brent crude, which indicates 396 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:27,040 Speaker 2: that you know, our resources, the oil that we drill 397 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 2: for is a lot cheaper. You know, there is a 398 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 2: fourteen dollars spread at this point in time. Because we're 399 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 2: not as dependent on Middle East oil as we had 400 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 2: been in the past. We're ramping up a lot of 401 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 2: activity as far as Venezuela is concerned, which is heavy 402 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 2: crude which then can be processed here in the United 403 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,680 Speaker 2: States and start bringing those diesel prices down, which would 404 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:53,480 Speaker 2: certainly help the trucking industry. But when you figure that 405 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 2: Japan is reliant on the Middle East oil to about 406 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 2: ninety some percent South Korea the same thing, how much 407 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 2: China is reliant on that oil, you would think that 408 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:08,159 Speaker 2: they would be concerned about traffic going through that. This 409 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:12,719 Speaker 2: Iran was supposed to be an ally of China and 410 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:18,120 Speaker 2: because of you know, conflagration and stopping oil flow through 411 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 2: the straits before moves, that's hurting an ally of theirs. 412 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,439 Speaker 2: That gives you an indication there too that these people 413 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,719 Speaker 2: just don't give a rip about the rest of the world. 414 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 2: It is all about, I guess, destruction, you know, destroying 415 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,920 Speaker 2: Israel some way, somehow, some manner of fashion, and they're 416 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:39,159 Speaker 2: avowed and determined that they are going to do that 417 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,320 Speaker 2: no matter what. To the last man, I don't know, 418 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,119 Speaker 2: but this has to be stopped, and they have to 419 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,240 Speaker 2: be that at least that regime has to be eliminated. 420 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:49,399 Speaker 3: And again, as he's. 421 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 2: Talking about who who telegraphs where they're firing. You may 422 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:59,840 Speaker 2: recall a few months ago that when they were h 423 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:04,480 Speaker 2: it as a retaliation as a result of the Hamas 424 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 2: and Hezbollah, they then telegraphed that they were going to 425 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,639 Speaker 2: fly these missiles into a certain location, kind of warning 426 00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 2: them ahead of time, I guess, so that they could 427 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,199 Speaker 2: prove to their people that they were reacting. But to 428 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,880 Speaker 2: the rest of the world it was like, Okay, they 429 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 2: want to, I guess, bluster a little bit, but they're 430 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,400 Speaker 2: not really intent on doing much damage. It just wants, 431 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,600 Speaker 2: you know, they just want to be that thorn thorn 432 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 2: in the side. So again, it's it's very interesting to 433 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 2: see and the fact that these this coalition trying to 434 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,679 Speaker 2: put together to open the Strait of Horror moves to 435 00:25:39,119 --> 00:25:42,560 Speaker 2: escort ships through that, the fact that Britain and France 436 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 2: and all these countries that rely more on the Middle 437 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 2: East oil than we do are failing to step up 438 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,879 Speaker 2: to the plate. And Phil Flynn in his energy report 439 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:55,439 Speaker 2: earlier in the week, it was it was interesting his 440 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:02,120 Speaker 2: oil report on Saint Patrick's Day, he talked about an 441 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 2: old Irish proverb that goes, always remember to forget the 442 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 2: friends that proved untrue, but never forget to remember those 443 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 2: that have stuck by you. And that is really telling 444 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 2: because when you see that NATO. We are a part 445 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 2: of NATO North Atlantic Treaty organization, which was put together 446 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:31,439 Speaker 2: in order to prevent USSR at the time from attacking 447 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 2: their neighbors, and it was a situation where an attack 448 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:38,040 Speaker 2: on one would be an attack on all. We now 449 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 2: see how weak NATO is. There has been an attack, 450 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:46,879 Speaker 2: missiles flown or shot at Turkey and at Cyprus, and 451 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:51,640 Speaker 2: yet the NATO allies still aren't interested in joining the fight. 452 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 2: And then we see this yesterday, a joint statement from 453 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,040 Speaker 2: the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the 454 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 2: Netherlands and Japan on the Straits of Hormuz. I wish 455 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 2: I could do the Monti Python voice on this, because they. 456 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,440 Speaker 3: Sent a sternly warded letter. 457 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 2: We condemn in the strongest terms recent attacks on Iran, 458 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:26,639 Speaker 2: on unarmed commercial vessels in the Gulf, attacks on civilian 459 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 2: infrastructure including oil and gas installations, and the de facto 460 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:34,679 Speaker 2: closure of the Strait of Hormus by Iranian forces. We 461 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:39,440 Speaker 2: express our deep concern about the escalating conflict. We call 462 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 2: on Iran to seize immediately its threats, laying of minds, 463 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,439 Speaker 2: drone and missile attacks, and other attempts to block the 464 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:50,479 Speaker 2: strait and commercial shipping to comply with UN Security Council 465 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 2: Resolution twenty eight to seventeen. Freedom of navigation is a 466 00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:01,040 Speaker 2: fundamental principle of international law, including under the United Nations 467 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,240 Speaker 2: Convention on the Law of the Sea. 468 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:04,880 Speaker 3: These people don't give. 469 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,639 Speaker 2: A rip about resolutions, they don't give a rip about 470 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:08,880 Speaker 2: the laws of the sea. 471 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:10,399 Speaker 3: And this sternly one. 472 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,199 Speaker 2: I'm sure that the Iranians are going to read that 473 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 2: and they're gonna say, gosh, you know what, that is 474 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,520 Speaker 2: quite a stern letter. I guess we're going to open 475 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 2: the strait of horror moves that we're gonna We're just 476 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 2: gonna lay down our arms and become peace loving people. 477 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:28,800 Speaker 2: Unbelievable to tell you how weak these countries have become. 478 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 2: And the fact that you know, like him or not, 479 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,159 Speaker 2: the one thing that Donald Trump has pointed out is 480 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:39,400 Speaker 2: just how to talk about things that people have not 481 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 2: talked about. And speaking of Donald Trump, you know, as 482 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 2: I mentioned, you know, I've been talking about Israel and 483 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 2: all this crap going on in the Middle East for 484 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,680 Speaker 2: at least twenty some years now. There were a bunch 485 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 2: of clips that came out the other day of him 486 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty talking about what should happen with Iran, 487 00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:59,920 Speaker 2: talking about any tie ups in the Strait of Hor 488 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,640 Speaker 2: nineteen eighty eight, talking about what should happen to Carrik 489 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 2: Island when they started firing missiles and attacking Israel and 490 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 2: disrupting the Middle East flow. He said that that island 491 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 2: should be attacked. So he has been on record for 492 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 2: thirty plus years talking about these various issues, and now 493 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 2: that he's in a position to take care of it, 494 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 2: he's taking care of it, and it's long overdue. One 495 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 2: of the things that has been so remarkable about the 496 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 2: fact that all these different presidents over the years, every 497 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 2: one of them, from Obama, Biden when he was in 498 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 2: the Senate, even Chuck Schumer, all these people talked about 499 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 2: how Iran needs to be stopped, Iran needs to be 500 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 2: under control, and all this sort of stuff. And yet 501 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,040 Speaker 2: because it's Donald Trump, all of a sudden, the hatred 502 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 2: of Donald Trump, they would. 503 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,280 Speaker 3: It's to the point now where they would like to. 504 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 2: See the country completely fail because Donald Trump, if something 505 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 2: positive happened, would get the credit for it. I mean, 506 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:05,239 Speaker 2: this is to me is just absolute insanity. What we 507 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:09,720 Speaker 2: are experiencing. Department of Homeland Security unfunded, The people are 508 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 2: going TSA going out without paychecks, the people going on 509 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 2: spring break, they are tied up in lines for four 510 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,040 Speaker 2: four and a half five hours just to get through 511 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 2: a baggage check. TSA agents having to quit their jobs 512 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,200 Speaker 2: because they're not getting paid. They're not getting a paycheck. 513 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,720 Speaker 2: And they people, you know, they're in danger of losing 514 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,680 Speaker 2: their homes. So the Democrats, now when the congressman they 515 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 2: go to the airport, they are escorted through the airport 516 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 2: to the airplane and get on board. They don't have 517 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 2: to wait and check their bags. They don't have to 518 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,440 Speaker 2: wait in these lines. So the hell with the people. 519 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 2: I'm going to get on that plane no matter what. 520 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 2: So I don't care. And so Department of Homeland Security, 521 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:55,240 Speaker 2: when we're at war with Iran and disrupting the flights 522 00:30:55,280 --> 00:31:00,280 Speaker 2: and putting the citizens that they supposedly care about. They 523 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 2: aren't they supposed to care for the little people, aren't 524 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:07,960 Speaker 2: they supposed to? What we had the affordability crisis that 525 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,560 Speaker 2: that that everybody kept talking about, Well, where is the 526 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 2: if you're not getting a paycheck, you're going to have 527 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 2: an affordability crisis. But they don't care because they want 528 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 2: to They want to hurt Donald Trump. 529 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 3: Unbelievable. 530 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:22,640 Speaker 2: Anyway, talking a little bit more about this coming up, 531 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon. America's Struck a network seven hundred w 532 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:30,080 Speaker 2: l W about the Middle East, and quite honestly, I 533 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,840 Speaker 2: had planned on talking a little bit about it. But 534 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 2: you know, when you really get into it and you 535 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 2: start peeling back that that onion the peel. There is 536 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,440 Speaker 2: so much to talk about and so much information to 537 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 2: get out there that I am not hearing from the 538 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:49,959 Speaker 2: spoon fed regurgitators of the mainstream media, and for that 539 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:54,760 Speaker 2: matter of fact, from some of the conservative press and 540 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 2: so on. I'm even starting to see crap from people 541 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 2: that I thought were rock solid. There's even been some 542 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 2: some disruption as far as the conservative movement is. They've 543 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 2: been listening to well certain politicians that talk about, well, 544 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,000 Speaker 2: we need to enforce this War Powers Act, because you know, 545 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 2: the Constitution says that this should be done by the 546 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:24,000 Speaker 2: only the only people that can declare war is the Congress, 547 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,520 Speaker 2: and the president must come to Congress in order to 548 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 2: declare war. Well, okay, where was the declaration? The last 549 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 2: time a war was declared was against Nazi Germany back 550 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:36,600 Speaker 2: in what nineteen forty one after. 551 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,240 Speaker 3: Pearl Harbor was hit. That's the that's the last time 552 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:39,840 Speaker 3: it war was. 553 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 2: So We've had Korean War, Vietnam War, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Iraq. 554 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:50,120 Speaker 2: So where was the congre Where was Congress talking about 555 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 2: War Powers Act during that period of time. But now 556 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 2: all of a sudden, because it's Donald Trump, now, all 557 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 2: of a sudden, even the conservatives are saying, well, you know, 558 00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 2: we need to stick to the constitution. You know, get 559 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 2: a understand what is going on. You were focusing on 560 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:10,720 Speaker 2: the hatred of a particular person as opposed to peace 561 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,480 Speaker 2: breaking out throughout the entire world. How much better would 562 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 2: things be if there was no conflict in the Middle East? 563 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,720 Speaker 2: You know, you had the elimination of a conflict between 564 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:26,520 Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia and Israel, Libya, Syria, all these different United 565 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,760 Speaker 2: Arab Emirates, Bahrain, all this sort of stuff, and yet 566 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 2: you have these still thorn on the side, the cancer 567 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,280 Speaker 2: that is in the Middle East, and it's high time 568 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 2: that got cut out. So again, taking a lot of 569 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:39,920 Speaker 2: time talking about that. And by the way, if you 570 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:42,080 Speaker 2: missed any of that in the previous segment, hit up 571 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,600 Speaker 2: that iHeart Radio app. And if you miss any of 572 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,080 Speaker 2: our other shows, hit up that iHeart Radio app. Brought 573 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:48,960 Speaker 2: to you by our friends at Rush Truck Centers. But 574 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 2: I'm talking about this now because we're not going to 575 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:55,000 Speaker 2: be on the air until Tuesday morning. And it appears 576 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:57,760 Speaker 2: to me in terms of what is happening with this 577 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:02,560 Speaker 2: flashing out and like the final Hurrah, that something could 578 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,760 Speaker 2: very big happen and actually peace could break out by 579 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,400 Speaker 2: the end of the weekend, so you know, talk about 580 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,640 Speaker 2: March madness. That would be absolutely incredible if that were 581 00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:16,680 Speaker 2: to happen. But it appears to be heading in the 582 00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:20,080 Speaker 2: right direction. Phil Flynn seems to think that way. I'm 583 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:22,440 Speaker 2: not hearing that from some of the other people, but 584 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,919 Speaker 2: I just want to be on record as saying that 585 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:26,480 Speaker 2: this is what I think's going to happen. 586 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:26,959 Speaker 3: Tyger. 587 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,560 Speaker 2: We got to get to a little bit of economic 588 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,920 Speaker 2: news today because again some very good information based on 589 00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,560 Speaker 2: you know, when we listen to Jerry Powell said line 590 00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,600 Speaker 2: Jerry Powell talking about the economy and talking about well, 591 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,759 Speaker 2: we don't know which direction to go. We don't know 592 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:42,960 Speaker 2: about this. We don't know about this. All he knows 593 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,760 Speaker 2: is to sit on the interest rates and not decrease 594 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,960 Speaker 2: tho this even though he talks about the housing market 595 00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 2: and that the economy needs to be a little bit stimulated. Well, 596 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,800 Speaker 2: best way to stimulate the economy is lower interest rates. 597 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,399 Speaker 2: But apparently he can't catch that connection either. But it's 598 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:04,160 Speaker 2: interesting what happened as far as unemployment rate. Yesterday headlines 599 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:09,920 Speaker 2: initial unemployment claims down eight thousand, lower than expected. Unexpected 600 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,560 Speaker 2: decline in the US weekly job as claims signals stable 601 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:14,800 Speaker 2: labor market. 602 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:16,760 Speaker 3: Now, what we were hearing when. 603 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:21,520 Speaker 2: We had that, when we had what was new jobs 604 00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:26,759 Speaker 2: decreased by ninety two thousand. We basically lost ninety two 605 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,000 Speaker 2: thousand jobs. But then when you take in consideration the 606 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:34,120 Speaker 2: numbers and realized that because of the winter weather, because 607 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:39,760 Speaker 2: thirty thousand people were striking from what is it kaiser 608 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,359 Speaker 2: parminente that they were out on strike, that that affected 609 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,279 Speaker 2: the jobs during that period of time, that the number 610 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:49,200 Speaker 2: of jobs created that month went down by ninety two thousand. 611 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,879 Speaker 2: So rather than talking about that, they talked about, oh, 612 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,440 Speaker 2: we lost ninety two thousand jobs. We lost ninety two 613 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 2: thousand jobs. Well, you know, when thirty eight thousand people 614 00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,640 Speaker 2: are out on strike and that's counted as part of 615 00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:02,000 Speaker 2: the deployment, that's going to be a problem. So we 616 00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,880 Speaker 2: kept hearing about the labor market. The labor market's not steady, 617 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,680 Speaker 2: the labor market's going to hell in a handbasket, all 618 00:36:07,719 --> 00:36:10,319 Speaker 2: this sort of stuff. And yet, as I pointed out 619 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,040 Speaker 2: on this program, the unemployment, the initial claims have been 620 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,120 Speaker 2: all within that range of where they talk about one 621 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,440 Speaker 2: hundred and ninety five thousand up to two hundred and 622 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:23,319 Speaker 2: fifty thousand. And here we have a situation again this 623 00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,240 Speaker 2: week where with all the talk that they're talking about 624 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:30,320 Speaker 2: talking down the economy because of the GDP not coming 625 00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,799 Speaker 2: in as strong and so on. So let's get to 626 00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 2: the information here. Number of Americans filing new applications for 627 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:41,360 Speaker 2: unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, pointing to stable labor 628 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:45,960 Speaker 2: market conditions and a rebound in jobs growth in March. 629 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,640 Speaker 2: The number of people filing for unemployment was down eight 630 00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:55,839 Speaker 2: eight thousand to a seasonally adjusted two hundred and five 631 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,960 Speaker 2: thousand for the week ended March fourteenth, according to the 632 00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:04,000 Speaker 2: Labor Department. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast two hundred 633 00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:07,680 Speaker 2: and fifteen thousand job losses, so they were off by 634 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:11,759 Speaker 2: a full five percent in their prediction. The government introduced 635 00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:15,520 Speaker 2: new seasonal factors for twenty twenty six, the revised and 636 00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:18,840 Speaker 2: seasonal factors from twenty one, twenty twenty one through twenty 637 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,719 Speaker 2: twenty five. Because they're adjusting how they come up with 638 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:25,160 Speaker 2: these seasonal adjustments based on data that they've had and 639 00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:29,839 Speaker 2: analyzed over a number of years. Layoff has remained relatively low, 640 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:33,880 Speaker 2: even as business has been reluctant to increase headcount because 641 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,560 Speaker 2: of what economists said was uncertainty because of President Donald 642 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:43,280 Speaker 2: Trump's sweeping tariffs, the Trump's administration immigration crackdown, which reduced 643 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:48,080 Speaker 2: labor supply and also hampered job growth. Now, if our 644 00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:52,040 Speaker 2: unemployment rate is around four point three percent, they say 645 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:52,960 Speaker 2: it's four point four. 646 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:54,640 Speaker 3: I think it's close to four point three. 647 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,080 Speaker 2: Again, because we talked about the other day about all 648 00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:02,640 Speaker 2: of these government data that has been disrupted as a 649 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:06,279 Speaker 2: result of the Schumer's shutdown from October the first through 650 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:10,200 Speaker 2: November twelfth, that they're still trying to get their act 651 00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:13,480 Speaker 2: together in terms of what these numbers mean and what 652 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,400 Speaker 2: the actual numbers are so when they talk about the 653 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:20,080 Speaker 2: GDP unemployment rate, they're still talking about we end the 654 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,360 Speaker 2: story yesterday that they're still trying to with this disruption 655 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:26,960 Speaker 2: of this data flow, trying to get all the numbers accurate. 656 00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,919 Speaker 2: Well we're talking four months after this shutdown and they're 657 00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,400 Speaker 2: still trying to get this together. So again, you know, 658 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,080 Speaker 2: my guess is as good as theirs. If I say 659 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:39,560 Speaker 2: unemployments around four point three percent, which it probably will be, 660 00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,000 Speaker 2: and they keep trying to talk about four point four 661 00:38:42,960 --> 00:38:46,480 Speaker 2: it's interesting. But what is even more interesting, And as 662 00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,359 Speaker 2: I was talking about this and thinking about this and 663 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:54,120 Speaker 2: what the numbers are saying, they keep talking about disruption 664 00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:57,920 Speaker 2: of employment as a result of the crackdown on illegal 665 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:02,160 Speaker 2: immigration or as they call it, just immigration. But this 666 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,840 Speaker 2: is a crackdown on illegal immigration. And so if this 667 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:15,120 Speaker 2: has been disrupted, if employees or employers have had fewer employees, 668 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:22,640 Speaker 2: which is causing disruption in terms of their businesses, why 669 00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:27,480 Speaker 2: isn't this being reflected in the unemployment numbers. Could it 670 00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:31,720 Speaker 2: possibly be that these people were being paid off the books, 671 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:35,680 Speaker 2: paid under the table, Because if it's not affecting our 672 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,279 Speaker 2: employment rate, and if it's not infecting because you know, 673 00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:43,040 Speaker 2: they talk about, what is it hundreds of thousands, thousands 674 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:52,319 Speaker 2: of people have either uh self self redeployed back to 675 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:58,720 Speaker 2: their homes. What wouldn't this be reflected in the numbers 676 00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:04,080 Speaker 2: if the this disruption in the labor market, So where 677 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:07,239 Speaker 2: is the disruption from this they keep talking about this 678 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,080 Speaker 2: immigration crackdown? 679 00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:10,280 Speaker 3: Deporting? 680 00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:12,120 Speaker 2: Is the number I was looking at the thing I 681 00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:16,280 Speaker 2: was looking for self deporting. So if this isn't isn't 682 00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:20,319 Speaker 2: showing up in the unemployment numbers, then how are these 683 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,360 Speaker 2: people or where are these people getting paid? And it 684 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:27,640 Speaker 2: isn't an interesting that in order to sacrifice American jobs 685 00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,880 Speaker 2: and not give a living wage to American workers, that 686 00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:35,160 Speaker 2: they're willing to pay people from other countries under the table. 687 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,879 Speaker 3: Just absolutely amazing. Didn't get a chance to get to 688 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:39,880 Speaker 3: new home sales. 689 00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:43,200 Speaker 2: They were down considerably, But there's a bunch of reasons 690 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:43,600 Speaker 2: behind that. 691 00:40:43,760 --> 00:40:46,160 Speaker 3: Well, folks, we're up against clock here. Stay tuned for 692 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:47,520 Speaker 3: REDI Radio Top of the Hour. 693 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:52,320 Speaker 2: I'm Kevin Gordon, America's Struck A Network seven hundred WLW