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Speaker 1: This is a podcast from WR. Back now to the

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Speaker 1: WR Saturday Morning Show.

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Speaker 2: With Larry MINTI. Welcome back to Prime Minister of Japan

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Speaker 2: visited the White House and Donald Trump cracks a pearl

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Speaker 2: Harbor joke. And guess what, Curtis liked it. He really

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Speaker 2: liked it.

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Speaker 1: I don't care you went to public school. You were

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Speaker 1: a booker boy, you know, in religious school, Catholic school,

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Speaker 1: private school. It doesn't matter what school you went to.

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Speaker 1: You were taught. December seventh, nineteen forty one, the day

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Speaker 1: of infamy. And then remember we saw the black and

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Speaker 1: white speech of FDR in front of both Houses of

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Speaker 1: Congress calling for a vote to go to war. And

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Speaker 1: then we were told this was all in a farious

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Speaker 1: pot because just a few days later we were neutral.

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Speaker 1: Hitler declares war on US. AH, So this was all arranged,

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Speaker 1: you know, with General Tojo and the Emperor and America galvanized. Yep,

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Speaker 1: America galvanize. That's the difference now between our children, my sons.

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Speaker 1: I have three sons, so we're going to public schools.

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Speaker 1: They don't get taught about nine to eleven. Again, that's

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Speaker 1: the Pearl Harbor of the new generation, the millennials, they

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Speaker 1: don't get taught about because it might hurt people's feelings,

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Speaker 1: which she said, He what are you talking about?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's weird. It is absolutely bizarre. And we're talking

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Speaker 2: about Pearl Harbor today because of course, the media really

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Speaker 2: grabbed on to the fact that Donald Donald Trump made

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Speaker 2: a joke. He made a joke because he was meeting

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Speaker 2: with the Japanese Prime Minister Takichi and she was sitting

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Speaker 2: there and there was Japanese press in the room. You

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Speaker 2: know how he allows the press in the office, in

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Speaker 2: the meeting room, into the east room sometimes she's Yeah,

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Speaker 2: she's very conservative, very conservative, wants to build up their military.

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Speaker 2: So a reporter from Japan asked Donald Trump, why you

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Speaker 2: didn't tell Japan about your intention to go into a run,

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Speaker 2: and this is what he said.

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Speaker 1: One thing, you don't want to signal too much.

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Speaker 2: You know when we go in, we went in very

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Speaker 2: hard and we didn't tell anybody about it.

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Speaker 1: Because we wanted surprise.

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Speaker 2: Who knows better about surprise than Japan.

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Speaker 1: Okay, why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 1: Right, he's ask me, Uh, do you believe in surprise?

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Speaker 2: I think much more so than us. Oh, the legacy.

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Speaker 2: Media went crazy, Oh Donald Trump, Oh my god, he

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Speaker 2: broke relations with Japan. Did you see the two of

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Speaker 2: them afterwards? They were laughing together, they were taking a

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Speaker 2: tour together. She didn't mind that at all. But my

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Speaker 2: biggest surprise in all of this, as much as people

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Speaker 2: were surprised that he said that, I'm not I've gotten

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Speaker 2: used to it, was your reaction to it. To me,

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Speaker 2: I was shocked by what you thought about.

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Speaker 1: Well, because he's the only person in the world who

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Speaker 1: could pull that off, or would even try to pull

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Speaker 1: it off. Remember, this is a front. This is not

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Speaker 1: like he's had adversarial meetings. You know, Zelenski, the South

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Speaker 1: African president, you know where it's like you could tell,

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Speaker 1: it's like ammoniably. He loves her, She loves him. She

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Speaker 1: is a conservative, as you said, she believes in the

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Speaker 1: battle flag of Japan that was manned for a while,

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Speaker 1: the battle flag, you know, you just had the regular flag.

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Speaker 1: And so they have great discourse, great relationship. He likes

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Speaker 1: her also because she stands up to Red China. Previous

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Speaker 1: prime ministers are like, we don't really want to enrage

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Speaker 1: the Red Chinese because they hate us because of World

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Speaker 1: War Two. Along with the Koreans who hate us because

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Speaker 1: they slaughtered masks in the She has tariff issues to

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Speaker 1: deal with, business issues that are vital to Japan, so

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Speaker 1: she knew what was going on, but she just let

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Speaker 1: that go. But when he said that, the reason I

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Speaker 1: had such a belly laugh over that is because I said,

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Speaker 1: he's of our generation that was drilled into us. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we never saw it coming. They use the term. You

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Speaker 1: can't use it anymore. I'm gonna use it for the

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Speaker 1: purposes of description in fighting. Oh, you japped me, which

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Speaker 1: meant you hit me from behind. I didn't see it coming,

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Speaker 1: but that was the term. Generations grew up with that.

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Speaker 1: And so I know Trump at that point because he

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Speaker 1: was jousting with the reporter. Oh, you all said, you

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Speaker 1: know that I didn't sit down and meet with NATO

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Speaker 1: and the Asian Allies, South Koreans and Japanese and let

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Speaker 1: him know what was going on. Well, what about Pearl You.

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Speaker 2: Didn't let us know about Pearl Harbor, did you? And

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Speaker 2: that was amazing. But the first thing you said to

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Speaker 2: me about it. Yeah, first thing was that was a

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Speaker 2: great line.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I remember. I love lines, as you know, I

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Speaker 1: love to drop lines. Whether I agree with you or

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Speaker 1: disagree with you. That was unexpected, unbelo believable line that

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Speaker 1: was not taken negatively by his guest, the new Commission

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Speaker 1: of Japan.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. And that's the most important point. I gotta

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Speaker 2: tell you.

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Speaker 1: I can't stop thinking about how that was drilled into us.

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Speaker 1: Remember the pearl? And it just came right And you know,

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Speaker 1: there was no the President didn't. That wasn't a prepared line.

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Speaker 1: That was like improv He dropped it and I said,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, he's taken us back in the time machine.

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Speaker 1: I felt it was like Ron Serling an episode of

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Speaker 1: the Twilight Zone. We were all back in the classroom,

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Speaker 1: the Assembly, the American Legion talking to US veterans of

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Speaker 1: Foreign War, Jewish War veterans, going out on Flag Day,

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Speaker 1: waving the flags in the community. Remember the pearl, Remember

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Speaker 1: the pearl.

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Speaker 2: Well, I am so thrilled that you agree that Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump said the exact right thing at the exact right moment.

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Speaker 2: That is really heartwarming to me. And I think that

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Speaker 2: you're growing, well, I think you're growing.

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Speaker 1: That's momentary.

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Speaker 2: We'll see, that's momentary. We'll see.

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