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Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm going Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: I want to thank my guest, Professor Ali Bano Azizi

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Speaker 2: of Boston College. UH. It's not often that we can

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Speaker 2: get academics of his qualifications to spend an hour with

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Speaker 2: us and take phone calls. I want to thank my

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Speaker 2: three callers, Rashid, Bob and Rhode Island, Rashid in Dorchester,

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Speaker 2: Bob and Rhode Island, and Will in Long Island for

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Speaker 2: UH cooperating. There were a couple of callers I couldn't

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Speaker 2: get to, and I'm going to get to one of

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Speaker 2: them right now. But what I want like to do

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Speaker 2: is start a conversation on what we should or should

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Speaker 2: not do regarding Iran. The President has made some Bellicoast comments,

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Speaker 2: which after the attack on the nuclear facilities in Iran

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Speaker 2: in June, are certainly going to attract attention from the

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Speaker 2: leaders of Iran. At the same time, we have not

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Speaker 2: had many successes. I mean, the Bush administrations, along with

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Speaker 2: the Obama administration and the first Trump administration kept with

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Speaker 2: a twenty year exercise in the Middle East, which did

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Speaker 2: not turn out very well for this country. So I

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Speaker 2: would love to hear from some of you, this is

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Speaker 2: a different sort of president. I keep saying to you

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Speaker 2: that I think this is a transformational president. I think

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Speaker 2: things are changing quickly and dramatically. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: he's going to be successful, but certainly, what took place

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Speaker 2: in Venezuela ten days ago or nine days ago now,

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Speaker 2: the capture of Maduro and his wife and their transportation

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Speaker 2: to New York, that would not have been contemplated by

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Speaker 2: most other American would not have been attempted by most

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Speaker 2: other American presidents of recent vintage. I can't think of

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Speaker 2: one that would have done anything like that. I would

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Speaker 2: I guess I'd have to go back to a simpler situation. Certainly,

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Speaker 2: the apprehension of Noriega in Panama was a lot easier

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Speaker 2: than what I think transpired in Caracas nine days ago

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Speaker 2: or ten days ago. However, you want to count it

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Speaker 2: either way. You know of what I speak. But my

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Speaker 2: question is what shoul we doing around You have people

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Speaker 2: in the streets. It would be amazing, It would be

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Speaker 2: amazing if the Iranian people were able to successfully overthrow

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Speaker 2: this theocracy. There's no question about that. I can't of

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Speaker 2: imagine that there's anybody in my audience who's rooting for

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Speaker 2: the Mullas. If you're rooting for the Mullas, please call

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Speaker 2: in six one, seven, two, five, four to ten thirty

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Speaker 2: six one seven, nine, three one ten thirty. If you

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Speaker 2: look at it differently and you feel that that there

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Speaker 2: should be some action taken, I'd love to talk with

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Speaker 2: you about that as well. This is a moment in

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Speaker 2: time that may not come again anytime within the next

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Speaker 2: several years. You have the confluence of an American president

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Speaker 2: who's different. Whether you agree with him or not, he's different.

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Speaker 2: Six one, seven, two, five four to ten thirty six

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Speaker 2: I appreciate your holding on I wish i'd gotten could

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Speaker 2: have gotten you on with Professor BONOWAZIZI uh, but you're

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Speaker 2: onside right now, Go right ahead, Lee.

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Speaker 3: Thanks. Then, I understand I wanted to ask him if

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Speaker 3: Arab Spring, and I was wondering what he would have

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Speaker 3: thought if that was a missed opportunity. I think there

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Speaker 3: was some resentment thereby the Iranian people that we didn't

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Speaker 3: ask him. But I did think I was disappointed what

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Speaker 3: he said. He thought we shouldn't use military power. He's

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Speaker 3: a professor in the United States fifty years, sitting in

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Speaker 3: his ivory tower, and I bet if you ask the

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Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you what it's a country of

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Speaker 2: He mentioned ninety two million people. Mind, is standing. It

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Speaker 2: has the fifth largest standing army in the world. Really, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's a big army. Okay, Now it's its air force

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Speaker 2: wasn't able to detect the stealth bombers who flew halfway

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Speaker 2: last June. I grant you that, But what type of

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Speaker 2: military action do you think would be conceivable and that

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Speaker 2: eighty second airborne in Tehran at this point. I don't think.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know about all the planning, but I

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Speaker 3: think massive power, massive power, bomb the crap out of them,

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Speaker 3: bomb his palaces, Bomb that revolution would crumble.

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Speaker 2: Keep it clean. We're on American radio here. You know that.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 2: Well, no, That's what I'm saying is that if it

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Speaker 2: was any other president, it was Joe Biden in office,

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Speaker 2: you would know that there would be no action taken.

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Speaker 2: And I keep using the phrase that I think Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump is proving to be a transformational president, similar to

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Speaker 2: the way that Franklin Roosevelt was a transformational president. Roosevelt

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Speaker 2: did things that a lot of people objected too, but

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Speaker 2: but but he felt were necessary to save capitalism. To

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Speaker 2: fascism and communism we're we're we're really burgeoning in other

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Speaker 2: parts of the world. I don't know. I think it's

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Speaker 2: a very interesting question as to what what we could do.

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Speaker 2: I mean, what what would our supply line even look like?

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Speaker 2: And how quickly? I don't think that, you know, do

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Speaker 2: I think Donald Trump make them up with something? Yes,

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Speaker 2: I have no idea what it might be.

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Speaker 3: To be really honest with you, how about the okay,

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Speaker 3: but Dan, what about the other countries? What about you know,

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Speaker 3: all those other countries, England, France. Why couldn't they this

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Speaker 3: together well first, because nothing gets done.

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Speaker 2: Well, I know, and I think that that is look

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Speaker 2: I think that that. I think it's complicated. I think

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Speaker 2: now I remember when when the American hostages were held

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Speaker 2: captive for four hundred and forty four days, if you remember,

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Speaker 2: there was there was and Jimmy Carter tried the rescue

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Speaker 2: effort with the helicopters in the desert that that went

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Speaker 2: badly okay when in sideways. So there's we think about,

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Speaker 2: you know, what we should be able to do again

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Speaker 2: what we did in uh Venezuela, both in terms of

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Speaker 2: distance and in terms of complexity, would would pale in

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Speaker 2: comparison to what we would have to do to really

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Speaker 2: have an impact. Would we go drop some bombs and around, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we could. Would that would would that embolden the the

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Speaker 2: Iranian people? Or would that basically cause them to support

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Speaker 2: their coverment? I think it's a lot of interesting questions.

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Speaker 2: Let's see what if other people have some thoughts. Lee,

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Speaker 2: You've got a good question started here for me and

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Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Thanks Jan, Thanks Lee, talk to you soon.

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Speaker 2: but they have to succeed uh. And part of it

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Speaker 2: leadership of the country. Feel free join the conversation. I

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Speaker 2: He's taught there for fifty years dealing with issues of

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Speaker 2: we will get him back, hopefully. But right now it's

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Speaker 2: up to you. You're an American, you're American citizens, whether

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Speaker 2: you support Donald Trump or not. I suspect everyone in

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Speaker 2: this audience would love to see the Ayatola and the

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Speaker 2: mulahs and the religious leaders of Iran overturned, overthrown I do.

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Speaker 2: I suspect most of you do as well. If you

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Speaker 2: can you imagine a truly democratic Iran in the Middle

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Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on you Bzy

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Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Well the way quickly. This is when the President was

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Speaker 2: asked over the weekend about what he would do about Iran.

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Speaker 2: This is cut number two, please Rob.

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Speaker 4: I think.

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Speaker 5: I know the starting it looks like, and there seemed

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Speaker 5: to be some people killed that aren't supposed to be killed.

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Speaker 5: These are violent If you call them leaders, I don't

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Speaker 5: know if they're leaders, are just they they ruled through violence.

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Speaker 5: But we're looking at it very seriously. The military is

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Speaker 5: looking at it, and we're looking at some very strong options.

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Speaker 2: We'll make a determination, he said, the military is looking

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Speaker 2: at it. I don't know. Let me go to Bill

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Speaker 2: and Danvers. Bill, what advice would you give the president

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Speaker 2: about what's going on and around this opportunity for overthrowing

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Speaker 2: that government comes along pretty rarely about once every ten years,

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Speaker 2: it seems. What's your thoughts?

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Speaker 6: Well, I mean, I wouldn't do anything major. I maybe

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Speaker 6: And then what I would do is, obviously we can

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Speaker 6: do some cyber stuff and they must be coordinating some

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Speaker 6: You could use drones or whatever we got. You don't

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Speaker 6: then I would probably I'm sure they have intelligence of

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Speaker 6: and you don't do all this violence and stuff, you know,

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Speaker 6: we'll think about giving you immunity. But if you start

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Speaker 2: Well that would be something that would have to come

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Speaker 2: out of the International Court, or it would have to

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Speaker 2: come out of at a minimum, the United Nations. I

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Speaker 6: But yeah, I think, you know, I would just say,

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Speaker 6: you know, put some heat on them, you know.

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Speaker 2: So you know, let I would like to see something done.

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Speaker 2: But at the same time.

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Speaker 6: I think they're doing making good headway, you know, but

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Speaker 6: I think it's just a little nudge. And I think

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Speaker 6: if you do a little bit of that and and

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Speaker 6: that may just be enough, you know what I mean

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Speaker 6: that they feel they have that that support rather than

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Speaker 6: being left out to dry. I think they rioted one

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Speaker 7: Welcome, welcome, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 8: Much to all these other people?

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Speaker 2: I know that many of my listeners are big supporters

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Speaker 2: pretty easy to figure out. I mean, it was pretty

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Speaker 2: me go to Joe and Lynn. Joe, what would you

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Speaker 7: I'm glad. I wish I could talk to your guests,

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Speaker 7: but there's always another time. I have mixed feelings. I

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Speaker 7: I don't think. I'm getting very disappointed in him. Dan,

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Speaker 7: Now what's going on? Like his brother Fred Trump? The

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Speaker 2: are you disappointed? And there's plenty that you could be

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Speaker 7: Okay, that's okay. Well, Maduro, I don't think he should

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Speaker 7: search those boats, Oh their drugs, you know what. But

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Speaker 2: But dumb, dumb question, But I'm going to ask it.

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Speaker 2: Would you like that, don't worry Joe Biden back in

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Speaker 7: No, No, I know you want us to vote.

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Speaker 2: Look, Joe, I always hope you vote because we always

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Speaker 2: that's always thank you. Thank you for calling, and next

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Speaker 2: a wealth of experience and he has immersed himself. While

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Speaker 2: you and I were, you know, rooting for the Red

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Speaker 2: Sox or the Patriots, or talking about any of a

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Speaker 2: number of other issues. This, this gentleman was really good

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Speaker 2: and people should should check him out, Professor, at least.

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Speaker 7: I say one thing, one thing before it leaves. If

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Speaker 7: I I'll get in touch with you off air and

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Speaker 7: let you know how things are going. I don't think

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Speaker 7: these cultures, Dan, are ever going to change. I really don't.

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Speaker 7: They've been doing this for a thousand years. Is your

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Speaker 7: husband right to defend themselves? Russia now has a hypersonic

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Speaker 7: missile twenty five thousand miles an hour, so if they

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Speaker 7: wanted to, and our radar can't pick it up, so

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Speaker 7: we I think we better be careful. I don't think

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Speaker 7: there's much we can do except help those people out

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Speaker 7: of the How we're going to help them stand up

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Speaker 7: against the Mullas, But I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's a well we'll see what others have

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Speaker 2: to say. Joe, Look, thanks here, bye bye, good night.

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Speaker 2: Let me go to Tom down at the camp. Tom

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Speaker 2: next time. Thanks for calling in, Tom, oh Dan trying

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Speaker 2: to figure out what Donald Trump should do or should

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Speaker 2: not do visa VI or on.

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Speaker 4: Question tennis speech.

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Speaker 2: You're on the beach, my goodness.

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Speaker 4: You gotta get the dogs out. I don't know where

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Speaker 4: this guy come up with a hypersonic weapon that goes

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Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty thousand miles an hour.

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Speaker 2: They do have what's called the hypersonic weapon.

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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, but it doesn't.

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Speaker 2: He said twenty five thousand miles an hour. That would

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Speaker 2: be able to circle the Earth at an hour. I

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Speaker 2: don't think so. But that's it.

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Speaker 4: But I think I think Donald Trump is doing what

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Speaker 4: Ronald Reagan said, strength piece by strength.

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Speaker 2: No question and no question.

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Speaker 4: He's just very simply telling them, if you don't, this

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Speaker 4: is what's going to happen. And very simple. It's very

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Speaker 4: simply for the balls in their court. Now. If they

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Speaker 4: want to start killing people for no reason, just killing

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Speaker 4: people outright, well he's going to have to do something because,

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Speaker 4: as people and said before, we're the world's police, whether

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Speaker 4: we like it or not.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but he did well, right, I'm with you on that. However,

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Speaker 2: I think that he when he said America first, I

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00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 2: think a lot of people interpreted that differently. I we

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Speaker 2: were the American police with George Bush and Dick Cheney.

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Speaker 2: That was that was the you know, the we could

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Speaker 2: have handled Iran in Iraq a little differently in retrospect.

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Speaker 2: I don't think we handled it well. I really don't.

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Speaker 2: Twenty years, you know, chasing shadows in the Middle East.

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Speaker 2: I agree, Yeah, I think that was a boomdoggle And

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's not that businessman instinct. And I

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Speaker 2: keep saying that. I believe he's a transformational president. Now,

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Speaker 2: if he is unsuccessful, he won't be a transformational president.

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Speaker 2: But if he is successful, I think he could be

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Speaker 2: a transformation president.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's he's you know where you standing with him,

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you that much.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Would could he deliver some uh, some strategic strike

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Speaker 2: at Iran? Yeah, I guess he could. He's he's, he says. Now.

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Speaker 2: He was asked on I want you to react to

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Speaker 2: what the president said. He was asked over the weekend

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Speaker 2: about whether or not there were any diplomatic conversations going on. Uh,

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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna have rob play cutting number one. This

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Speaker 2: was his answer, Like, to get your reaction to what

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Speaker 2: the president said over the weekend, cutt number one, robomatic

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Speaker 2: me with Iran?

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Speaker 5: They do they called yesterday, Iran called to negotiated yesterday

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Speaker 5: and the leaders of Iran called.

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Speaker 2: They want to negotiation.

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Speaker 5: I think they're tired of being beat up by the

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Speaker 5: United States. Iran wants to negotiate.

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Speaker 2: This.

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Speaker 5: We may meet with them.

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Speaker 2: I mean it's a meeting is being.

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Speaker 5: Set up, but we may have to act because of

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Speaker 5: what's happening before the meeting.

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Speaker 3: But a meeting is being set up.

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Speaker 2: Iran COO.

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Speaker 5: They want to negotiating, Thank you very much, everybody.

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Speaker 4: He's gonna be careful.

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Speaker 2: A lot of bumpus, okay, So assuming that that he

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Speaker 2: has accurate information. Remember, this is the president who walked

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Speaker 2: into North Korea to meet with Kim Jong mu. This

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Speaker 2: is the president who had representatives of the Taliban at

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Speaker 2: Kim David, you'll talk to anybody. He was talking to

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Speaker 2: Maduro before before he uh, you know, authorized the raid

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Speaker 2: that the captured Maduro.

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Speaker 4: Oh well, he'said, you know, he's a negotiator.

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Speaker 3: That's who he is.

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Speaker 4: He's in chief and he's he does. I don't think

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Speaker 4: he wants to go into Iran. I don't think he does.

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Speaker 4: I think he just wants them to stop. I think

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Speaker 4: he's willing.

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Speaker 2: I agree with you. I agree. You're the first caller

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Speaker 2: with whom I've agreed with. I don't think he has

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Speaker 2: any appetite for repeating all the mistakes of the Bush

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Speaker 2: administration and the Bush Cheney administration. And it's important to

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Speaker 2: emphasize that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think I don't think he's got any appetite,

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Speaker 4: zero nilt of putting boots on the ground at at all.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's the fifth largest to go and fight the

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Speaker 2: fifth largest army. You don't do that with delta force. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I mean it's it's it would be crazy, Tom, uh,

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Speaker 2: enjoy the beach. How cold is it out there tonight?

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Speaker 4: It is only thirty five degrees but it's bad. I'm

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Speaker 4: sitting in the cou The dogs are outside. I'm great,

542
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 4: I'm crazy, I'm stupid.

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Speaker 2: Get the dogs back of the car. All right. Thanks?

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Speaker 2: Tom is always great, Dear your voice.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate the coffee and we'll we'll get together for coffee.

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Speaker 2: I hope. So thanks, Tom, talks soon. Good night. All right.

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Speaker 2: My next call is coming up right after the break

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Speaker 2: is GEO and reading, And if any of you would

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Speaker 2: like to join the conversation, I'll try to get one

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Speaker 2: more in as well. Six one seven, two, five four thirty,

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Speaker 2: six one seven, nine thirty. I'm asking listeners and I

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Speaker 2: will ask Geo, what do you think Donald Trump will do,

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Speaker 2: if anything? As the revolution in Iran seems to be

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Speaker 2: picking up steam, this is a vicious uh tyrannical uh

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00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 2: group of Mullas who lead a theocracy. Uh. Where are

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Speaker 2: my liberal listeners who want separation of church and state

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Speaker 2: in America but do not want to speak out against

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Speaker 2: the Iranian Mullas and the iotola six one, seven, two, five, four,

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Speaker 2: ten thirty Back with Geo and reading right after this.

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Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Ray Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: All right, we're talking about what Donald Trump may or

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Speaker 2: may not do in relation to what's going on in

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Speaker 2: Iran and what he, in your opinion, he should or

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00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 2: should not do. Uh, Geo from reading, Geo one of

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Speaker 2: my favorite callers. You go right ahead, Geo, Jan Hi

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Speaker 2: Geo Dan.

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Speaker 8: Uh, you're a Catholic, but the essence of the situation

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Speaker 8: you haven't even begun to discuss. We live in a

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Speaker 8: capitalist country. You and I are are Catholics.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 8: We believe in Jesus and UH years ago we learned

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Speaker 8: in school, but nobody knows about usury usury. Jesus overturned

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Speaker 8: the table in the Temple of the money changes.

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Speaker 2: Used to be.

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Speaker 8: Tell me Catholics bail it was a Geo by the Muslims. No,

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Speaker 8: thank interest if you borrow one hundred thousand.

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Speaker 2: For me, please, Geo, I'd like you to try to

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Speaker 2: relate this to what we're talking about. I appreciate that

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Speaker 2: you've called, but I want to get us back on topic.

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Speaker 2: The question is what you're in your opinion Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: should or should not do about Iran? Why don't you

582
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 2: bring Geo back up, Rob? So? What what do you

583
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 2: think Trump should do about? Should or should not do

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00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 2: about what's going on in Tehran tonight? Uh? Today? Actually

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00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 2: it's daytime over there, Geo. You have people in the street,

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Speaker 2: people being shot down by the government of Iran. It

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00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 2: would be great, I think, and I don't know what

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00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 2: Jesus would say, but I would be I think it

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00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 2: would be great if the Mullas were not in power

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Speaker 2: in Iran? What do you think Trump should do? If anything?

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Speaker 8: It's not possible to answer that question because it's the

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Speaker 8: question depends upon boring the truth of what he were

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Speaker 8: on is so you wann't respond to what does respond?

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Speaker 4: Dan?

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00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 8: I can't respond to something that isn't true.

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Speaker 2: What is it true.

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00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 4: Your beliefs.

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00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 2: You can disagree with my beliefs. I'm asking you. The d.

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Speaker 8: Callers should look up and consider.

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Speaker 2: The fact that, please, Geo, do me a favor. Okay.

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Speaker 2: I respect you as a caller, and I respect you

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Speaker 2: as an intellect. But we're not talking about usury tonight.

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Speaker 2: I know what usury is, and there are laws in

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Speaker 2: the United States that that outlaw usury, even though credit

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Speaker 2: card companies can charge upwards of twenty twenty five percent,

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Speaker 2: which I think, is you serious? But that's not the

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Speaker 2: question I'm asking tonight, Leo Geo, And the question I'm

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Speaker 2: asking tonight is you have an opinion on what's going on.

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Speaker 2: I'm you're well read. You know what's going on in Iran.

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Speaker 2: If you don't want to talk about that, that's fine,

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Speaker 2: But that's what I'm trying to talk about tonight. I

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00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 2: don't want to talk about the Patriots. I don't want

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00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 2: to talk about the Super Bowl. I'd like to find

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00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:18,400
Speaker 2: out what you think about uh Roan and what, if anything,

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Speaker 2: the Trump administration will do respond.

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Speaker 8: The Delta Force took Maduro, they also took El Chappo,

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Speaker 8: and they arrived to take Osama bin Laden Delta Force.

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Speaker 8: They have the good guys they were.

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Speaker 9: It was actually the Navy Seal must get the Navy

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Speaker 9: series credit credit down, please Rob, it was the Navy

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Speaker 9: Seals that took out Osama Bin Laden.

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Speaker 2: Let's just not discredit. I don't want the Navy Seals

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Speaker 2: calling and tell him it was the Navy Seals that

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Speaker 2: took out Osama Bin Laden Seal Team six specifically, go ahead, GEO,

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Speaker 2: bring them back.

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Speaker 3: Dan.

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Speaker 8: I can't participate in your conversation because it's illogical and

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Speaker 8: not based on the actual truths of the world.

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Speaker 2: Well, thanks very much for calling and telling me that

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Speaker 2: you I appreciate your perspective. We'll look forward to our

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Speaker 2: next conversation. Ladies and gentlemen, if you don't think I

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00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 2: have a tough job, that should prove it to you.

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Speaker 2: You try to be respectful to a caller who doesn't

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Speaker 2: want to engage the topic. I could have said a

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Speaker 2: lot of things insulting to GEO. I don't That's not

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Speaker 2: my style. That's not my style. I will tell you

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Speaker 2: that tomorrow night, at nine o'clock, I am happy to

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Speaker 2: announce that we will have historical novelist Bill Martin. William

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Speaker 2: Martin if those of you who read, and I hope

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Speaker 2: some of you read Bill Martin, Cape Cod Backba, The

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Speaker 2: Lincoln Letter, Annapolis, all sorts of historical novels. He is.

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Speaker 2: Most recent book to be released is December of forty one,

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Speaker 2: a week ago, actually more than a week ago, now,

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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago. We had Bill Martin on

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Speaker 2: as a guest one night, and that was the night

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Speaker 2: a couple of nights after the shooting at Brown University

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Speaker 2: and at Brookline, the doctor in Brookline who was also

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Speaker 2: killed by this guy, this Portuguese national, and there were

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Speaker 2: news conferences about his They discovered his body if you remember,

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Speaker 2: up in a storage warehouse in New Hampshire. Anyway, we

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Speaker 2: had to cut short our interview with Bill Martin. So

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Speaker 2: Bill Martin's on tomorrow night at nine o'clock. I hope

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Speaker 2: you'll join us. Then. He's a great friend and a

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Speaker 2: great asset to our region and someone who actually makes

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Speaker 2: his life writing novels that combine history with fiction, historical novels. Okay,

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Speaker 2: done for the night. Uh, there will be no postgame tonight.

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Speaker 2: I want to relax a little bit. Six one thirty

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Speaker 2: is the number you're always welcome to call. It between

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Speaker 2: eight and midnight Monday through Friday. All dogs, all cats,

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Speaker 2: all pets go to heaven. That's why I'm peled. Charlie

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Speaker 2: ray Is, who passed fifteen years ago in February, That's

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Speaker 2: what all your pets are who have passed. They loved you,

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Speaker 2: you love them. I do believe you'll see them again.

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Speaker 2: We'll see again tomorrow night. On Night's side. Everyone, to

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Speaker 2: those who called, including GEO, thank you very much. See

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Speaker 2: you tomorrow night